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EDIT; Since we don't have a thread about rumors I'm changing the name of this thread to 2010 Pre-Draft Trade Rumors.
Lots of Pacers stuff here.
Trade Winds starting to Swirl
By Chad Ford
Doing mock drafts this far ahead of the draft is always a challenge. Teams are still working out players, gathering info and for the most part, still a few weeks away from making a decision on who they'll draft. To complicate things, there has been an abundance of trade talk surrounding draft picks this year.
Per sources in the league, the Philadelphia 76ers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder have all had discussions about moving up, down or out of the draft.
The Pistons, Spurs and Thunder have been the most aggressive about moving up.
The Pistons have been searching for a big and would love to get their hands on either DeMarcus Cousins or Derrick Favors. The Spurs and Thunder are also in the hunt for a big and have targeted a number of teams in the lottery to move up a few spots. The Thunder have multiple picks to offer. The Spurs have Tony Parker or George Hill. While the Spurs aren't necessarily shopping either player, they're not untouchable either. If the Spurs can get another big man to help prolong Tim Duncan's career, they'll do it.
Tony Parker may not saddle up for the Spurs next season.
The Wolves continue to look in all directions. They have interest in moving up to the No. 2 spot to grab Evan Turner and have also shown interest in perhaps trading one or two of their first-round picks for a player like Anthony Randolph.
The Pacers and Raptors are in the same boat as the Wolves. They would like to move up in the draft and have inquired about the Sixers' and Nets' picks. They also wouldn't mind moving out of the draft if they got the right pieces in return.
A new twist with Turner
I may have jumped the gun a bit when I put Favors at No. 2 in my latest mock draft. As I wrote last week, I had sources disagreeing on which direction the Sixers were leaning. Some suggested Favors, others Turner and one said Cousins. However, I decided to lean toward a source who said they had direct knowledge of Doug Collins' thinking and that Collins liked Favors.
Since the mock draft I've gotten a number of strong signals from inside the Sixers organization that Turner is the guy they'll take at No. 2.
While the signals certainly could be legit, I take some of those indications with a grain of salt. Since Turner is the consensus No. 2 pick in the draft, the Sixers want other teams trying to trade up for him (the Wolves and Pacers seem to be the hottest suitors) to believe that they're taking him. If teams think he's slipping, they'll begin dealing with New Jersey instead.
For what it's worth, the Sixers are still asking teams to take basck Elton Brand's contract in a deal for the No. 2 pick. But virtually every GM I've spoken with believes the Sixers would soften their stance as we get closer to the draft.
The Sixers are also exploring other trade possibilities. The team had Andre Iguodala on the trade block in February and may look to put him back on the market this summer. If Iguodala goes, suddenly Turner looks like a better fit in Philly.
The Jazz and the Monroe Doctrine
The Utah Jazz historically don't do a lot of workouts, often targeting a few players in their draft range and then selecting from that group. But when they do workouts, they do them right. Over the past few days they've examined some of the best prospects in the draft.
Monroe's workout in Utah was a one-man show.
On Friday they brought in Georgetown big man Greg Monroe for a solo workout. Monroe's agent, David Falk, will only let Monroe work out against Cousins or Favors. Since neither player is projected to be available at No. 9, Monroe went at it alone in Utah.
On Sunday the Jazz brought in Gordon Hayward, Luke Babbitt, Xavier Henry and Al-Farouq Aminu for a head-to-head workout of the four best swingmen in Utah's draft range.
The Jazz don't have any other high-profile workouts scheduled. Glean from that what you will, but I think it's safe to say that those are the five prospects the Jazz are considering at No. 9. Monroe fits a big need if Carlos Boozer leaves this summer. Henry, Babbitt, Hayward and Aminu all fit a void left by Kyle Korver hitting free agency.
From the sound of things, Monroe is still atop the Jazz's list. But it seems like Babbitt is strongly in the running too. The Jazz have been higher on Babbitt than most all year. The rest of the league is playing catch-up to what Utah was saying in January.
The interest in Indy
Picking right behind the Jazz are the Pacers at No. 10. The Pacers also got to work early last week and had virtually every player they'll be considering in for workouts. On June 1 they brought in Daniel Orton, Ekpe Udoh, Hassan Whiteside, Lance Stephenson and Derrick Caracter. The next day, they watched Avery Bradley, Eric Bledsoe, Sherron Collins, Willie Warren and Jordan Crawford.
Much like the Jazz, I think you're looking at the key players the Pacers will be considering at 10. If they go big, Orton, Udoh and Whiteside are the three guys they'll likely consider. Obviously Ed Davis or Monroe would be in the picture too if they were to fall, but neither player is expected to be there at No. 10.
If the Pacers go with a guard, it most likely will be Bradley or Bledsoe. While 10 may be a bit high for both players, point guard is the Pacers' biggest need and both players have sufficient upside.
Other prospects like Collins, Warren, Crawford, Stephenson and Caracter would be in the mix for the Pacers' pick at No. 40.
It's too early to say which way the Pacers are leaning. Of the bigs, Udoh seems like the safest choice, but Orton and Whiteside have more upside. As far as point guards go, I think Bradley has the edge over Bledsoe at the moment.
Knee knocks
Last week I reported that there were no medical red flags coming out of the physicals at the draft combine. A week later, after each team's medical staff has had a chance to look at the results, it the top prospects still appear to be clear.
However, a few teams have privately expressed some concerns about Orton's left knee. While the issue hasn't risen to the point that a team would seriously consider not drafting him, there are worries that his knee is still weak and may have some structural issues.
Orton tore cartilage in his left knee in November of 2008 and ended up missing his senior year of high school. This past February, Kentucky head coach John Calipari noted to the media that he felt like Orton was still hobbled by the knee -- though Orton, at the time, claimed it was 100 percent.
While the teams that had the information stressed that the concerns have not scared them away from drafting him, they do muddy the waters a bit when you factor Orton's sparse playing time last year and that he lacks the production of other big men in the draft.
The other player with injury questions swirling around him is Memphis guard Elliot Williams. Williams suffered a minor knee injury after a workout with the Spurs and skipped the combine. He hasn't really been heard from since. Several NBA teams say that he has turned down multiple workouts.
There are two possible interpretations. One is that Williams' injury is worse than he's letting on and he can't work out. The second is that a team somewhere in the first round has promised to pick him and he is sitting out the workout process. Of the two, the second scenario seems more likely. Williams has been working out in L.A. for the past few weeks and I'm told through sources that he's fine.
So where is the promise? The Memphis Commercial Appeal speculates that San Antonio might be the culprit because he's worked out there. The Spurs do have a history of making such promises and the 20th pick isn't out of Williams' range. I'd also pay close attention to the Memphis Grizzlies. After passing on Memphis guard Tyreke Evans last year, they may have decided that they're better off taking a hometown kid with one of their three first-round picks this year.
There's no place like home
Finally, this year's international crop is looking weaker and weaker by the day. Forward Donatas Motiejunas withdrew from the draft on Friday. Motiejunas was the only international player in the draft that projected as a potential lottery pick.
Last week we got more news that Kevin Seraphin (currently the only international player we have in the first round) had injured his knee and would be out the next few weeks. His agent, Bouna Ndiaye, insists that Seraphin hasn't withdrawn from the draft, but if the injury is serious enough, he may have no choice. Ndiaye told me he's looking for a first-round promise for Seraphin. If the right team commits, he'll stay. If no one does, he'll pull out of the draft.
If Seraphin withdraws we could be facing the first year without an international player in the first round since 1995.
If a player or two creeps in, keep an eye on two prospects -- Tibor Pleiss and Miroslav Raduljica. There are five teams with two or more first-round picks. Someone's going to want to stash one of these guys overseas.
Pleiss is a 7-footer from Germany. He's a hustle player who gets things done on the defensive end, despite lacking strength and offensive polish at the moment. While he's still a year or two away from being an impact player in the NBA, he's a nice developmental pick.
Raduljica is the other guy that could get some love. The Serbian big man posted solid numbers in the Adriatic league this year and he has the size and strength to make it in the NBA. Raduljica didn't endear himself to several NBA executives when he bailed at the last minute on a workout at the Eurocamp. However, I'm told by a source inside the camp that a team representative may have convinced Raduljica to shut down the workout. That could be a sign that a team already has him locked up late in the first.
First I heard about George Hill. Would/should we offer the 10th pick for him?


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Dakota County's portion of property tax bills is expected to drop in 2013 because commissioners reduced the levy to help combat an increased tax burden caused by a decline in the county's tax base.
A median-valued home of $187,300 will see a reduction of $29.62 in the county portion of its property taxes next year, and that amount may be reduced even more if commissioners make further levy reductions, a possibility Commissioner Kathleen Gaylord said Tuesday commissioners may pursue.
Local governments can reduce the preliminary levy but cannot increase it in December when the final levy will be set.
Overall, property values are expected to decline 4.6 percent in 2013, cutting the county's taxable base and causing the county portion of property taxes to increase if the levy remained the same.
At an Aug. 28 budget workshop, commissioners directed staff to reduce the 2013 levy by $250,000, from $129,402,073 this year to $129,152,073 in 2013.
County commissioners also proposed the Regional Rail levy stay the same in 2013, setting a preliminary levy of $1.6 million.
County workshops are set Nov. 6-9, and a public hearing on the county budget and levy is set for Nov. 27.
The county's final budget and levy will be adopted Dec. 11.

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Report says Japanese panel manufacturers working on ultra-thin 6 inch screens for Q3
ultra-thin 6 inch displays for large sized smartphones. These are expected to be on new phones as soon as the third quarter of this year. Last year, Samsung sold 8 million units of its GALAXY Note series. The current version of that phone, the Samsung GALAXY Note II has a 5.5 inch screen while the next iteration of the phone is expected to carry a 5.9 inch glass. Acer expects global sales of more than 10 million large screened smartphones this year, ranging in price from $399 to $499.
According to the Taiwan based component suppliers, the 6 inch size is one that is not yet mobbed by competitors as the under 5 inch category is for smartphones and the 7 inch size is for tablets.
source: DigiTimes
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1. XperiaUser (unregistered)
2. lyndon420 (Posts: 5002; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
Get rid of the bezel and replace these lame capacitive (off screen) buttons with on screen ones like a true Nexus.
7. vincelongman (Posts: 5068; Member since: 10 Feb 2013)
For phablet they should use on screen buttons, but for large 4.7"-5" phones about the size of the HTC One and Galaxy S4 I'd still prefer capacitive or physical buttons. The S4 still could be small, like if the moved their logo to the home button, reduce the empty space and even smaller bezels for example. Through I also like the idea of dual front speakers.
3. HDShatter (Posts: 1021; Member since: 17 Jan 2013)
Could be for the intel phones coming out too. I think quad core baytrail is going to be the end of arm in flagships, the quad core baytrail is like 2x the power of a15.
4. AasifMalik (Posts: 2; Member since: 07 Apr 2013)
Toshiba already done it with whoping 2560x1600. Hope to see in Galaxy Note III. Buh it dint happen
5. AasifMalik (Posts: 2; Member since: 07 Apr 2013)
Why not Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Lg, Sharp and Panasonic join forces to work together? I hope to see something great if it happen ever.
6. darkskoliro (Posts: 1090; Member since: 07 May 2012)
Used the Note and Oppo, have the Butterfly, felt the Z.
All I can say is: I miss the palm-fitting OneX+ I bought for my mate :(
8. EXkurogane (Posts: 863; Member since: 07 Mar 2013)
Even with no or minimal bezels, still too big. I know there's a market for such devices, but no thanks. Of course I can still use it but impossible for single handed operation.
9. iluvsmartphonexpdx (Posts: 48; Member since: 26 Mar 2013)
5 inches is big already... with Note around its still okay...but 6 inches? Really do we have to go that far??
10. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Next year, phablets will be going up to 7 inches, let's see how can our hands and pocket suffer from the PAIN!!!
11. EXkurogane (Posts: 863; Member since: 07 Mar 2013)
In 2 years you will see people holding a 10 inch 'phablet' by their heads when making phone calls and looking like a douchebag.


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The weak demand for office leasing creates challenges for the thousands of Australians who own a small office building or strata office suite.
The downturn has brought a vital property lesson: make sure you know, and look after, your tenant.
Business is tough for many of those office tenants. They are cutting costs and downsizing their space. Last year was one of the weakest on record for office leasing.
In the major city centres, the amount of space leased went backwards in 2013. Tenants gave back 240,000 square metres more space than they leased according to real estate group Jones Lang LaSalle.
On JLL's numbers, near 12 per cent of the CBDs was empty at year-end, the highest vacancy since the 1990s.
The Property Council numbers, which include suburban office precincts such as Parramatta and the Gold Coast, are due this week but the story will likely be the same.
The number of empty offices is rising. The competition for tenants is fierce. Rents are falling and lease incentives, such as rent-free periods or a contribution by the owner to the new office fit-out, are on the rise.
A number of the country's most influential landlords, like DEXUS Property Group chief executive Darren Steinberg, say the cycle troughed in 2013, with signs of improved demand particularly from industries like health, private education and IT. At the same time little new office supply will be finished this year, putting a cap on supply.
Keep the leaser
But the advice from office leasing experts is simple. If your building has space to lease, or space coming up to lease, don't wait for the market to improve. Do everything you can to hold the tenant. Offices and strata office suites are usually bought by investors for several reasons.
Some are acquired to accommodate the owner's business. Others are bought as set-and-forget investments promising much higher yields than residential property and none of the hassles of a housing tenant.
But few investments are set-and-forget, in particular, office tenants. Unlike housing, tenants are harder to find and don't queue at the first inspection. Real office rents, as many owners are now discovering, can fall substantially.
And when the rent falls, or premises become vacant, the value drops and financiers become less accommodating.
Paul Byrne, the managing director of LJ Hooker Commercial Bankstown, in Sydney's south-west, says that office tenants who signed leases five years ago, and have then had regular annual rental increases, would now be paying an above-market rent.
"Most tenants don't want to move because it is disruptive and it costs money," he says. "They only move if the space no longer suits them, or if it is too expensive."
His advice is to talk to the tenant. If the space is too big for them, sub-divide it and make it smaller. A sub-division does not cost much. If the space is too expensive, talk to the tenant about what they would pay.
"Make every effort to hold the tenant," says Byrne. Even if you have to drop the rent or allow a rent-free period.
It is these rent-free periods, which on some big CBD leases equates to 30 per cent of the total value of rent for the term of the lease, that surprises many owners.
But the alternative in lost rent, in the cost of building upgrades, and the pay out for a new tenant, is substantial.
"It always takes longer than people realise says Byrne. "I tell owners to allow for six to nine months to re-lease."
Thinking ahead and building relationships
The story is the same in Brisbane, says Nick Comino, a principal of the 25-strong Raine & Horne Commercial group on the city's southside.
"To be honest, you have to meet the market," he says. "Because it's competitive out there. If you don't meet the market, someone who has a vacant office to fill will take your tenant at a cheaper rent."
Some owners have dropped the rent by 20 per cent to hold their tenant, he says.
"If you have a tenant, you should value them. Otherwise you will be paying commissions and advertising. And how long will it be vacant?"
Simon Hunt, the national managing director of office leasing for real estate group Colliers International, says owners should not wait till the lease expires or the tenant has to make a decision on a renewal."The first rule is to proactively manage your investment," he says. "Talk to the tenant 12 month ahead to understand their needs."
Many big landlords and tenants sign new leases well ahead of current expiry.
"Build the relationship with the tenant and future-proof your investment," says Hunt.
Owners can be proactive in other ways, by looking for other, expanding tenants, in the area or by finding alternative uses.
Hunt says the owners of small office buildings should look at the potential for residential development.
On Sydney's lower north shore, several small office buildings are being knocked down for apartments.
But owners need to be in a position to move, with approvals in place, well before the lease expires.
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Watford claim their former owner Laurence Bassini's company Watford FC Limited owes the club more than £1.5m but says "there is a possibility" they will not receive that money.
It is claimed Bassini's Watford FC Limited borrowed £1.61m in the name of the club but the funds were "never directly received" by the Hornets.
In the report and financial statements for Watford Association Football Club Limited (the club) for the year ending June 30, it is claimed the £1.61m consisted of two amounts – a £606,302 repayment of advanced money relating to Danny Graham's transfer and a £900,000 repayment of advanced receipts relating to the Football League Award.
The financial statements read: "The amounts were borrowed in the name of the club, but the funds were never directly received by the club – the amounts are provided for as potentially being due to the original lender by the club, but are also considered to therefore be owed to the club by the previous owners ultimate holding company, Watford F C Ltd.
"A provision has been entered for the possibility of non-payment of this debt."
The club's annual accounts claim Bassini's Watford FC Limited received £2.13m from WAFCL, with payments "made for and on behalf of the holding company" (Watford FC Limited) totalled £50,814.
There was also a sum of £568,267 which the financial statements describe as the total of "cash amounts" advanced to Bassini by the club for the renovation of the Yellow and Red Lion pub in Vicarage Road for which it claims "no invoices were received".
Bassini was given ownership of the pub by the Pozzo family following their takeover of the club on June 29, which was the day before the account year ended.
However, the report states: "The actual transfer has not occurred and is under review, but the accounts include a provision for loss on disposal of the Red Lion pub of £464,358, which represents the net book value as at 29 June 2012."
The document also states WAFCL were charged £242,000 during the financial year by Watford FC Limited for consultancy invoices.
The directors' report adds that a provision of £269,000 has been made due to a "prior year" income tax and national insurance liability.
Watford made a pre-tax loss of £2.65m for the year ending June 30 according to the accounts.
For the year ending June 30 2011, the club made a £9.65m pre-tax profit but that figure was hugely distorted because of the £13m inter-company debt waiver between the club and the former parent company Watford Leisure PLC, which needed to happen for the secured bond issue to take place in 2010. Without the £13m, WAFCL made a pre-tax loss on ordinary activities of £3.35m for last year's accounts.
The Hornets once again relied heavily on player sales. The club reportedly raised £6.4m from the disposal of player registrations for the year ending June 30, compared to just £869,000 in the last set of accounts. The majority of this year's sum was from the sales of Danny Graham and Marvin Sordell.
These sales were crucial as it is claimed Watford made an operating loss of £6.79m – which was £2.74m worse than the previous year.
claimed there was a £1.09m increase in general operating expenses. The accounts include a reduction of £407,000 in other operating income.
The accounts state players' salaries went up £681,000 to £7.13m and other football-related salaries, such as academy management and scouting, increased by £90,000 to £1.5m.
This resulted in the club saying their wages to revenue ratio increased from 85 per cent to 90 per cent.
The financial statements stated total turnover increased slightly by £189,000 to £11.18m, which was largely due to the FA Cup income and television money from the fourth round tie with Tottenham Hotspur.
The Spurs tie generated £130,000, which contributed to media revenue increasing by £231,000 to £5.42m.
Watford's non-match day functions reportedly created £142,000 more than last year.
However, reductions of £58,000 in retail income and £36,000 in 'other' commercial sponsorships mean commercial revenue as a whole was only up £28,000, it is claimed.
Ticketing overall reportedly decreased by £197,000 as season ticket income fell by £115,000 and match day ticket revenue was down £82,000. Match day corporate sales was up £23,000 and public catering receipts improved by £22,000.
In the Report of the Directors it reiterates the club's intentions to pay suppliers within 30 days of receiving an invoice. But it adds: "Overall, the ratio expressed in days between the amounts invoiced to the company by its suppliers (excluding transfer fees payable) and the amount owed to its creditors at 30 June 2012 was 64 days."
Hornets Investment Limited is now the 'immediate parent company' of the club and the 'ultimate parent company' is Hornets Management S.a.r.l, which is registered in Luxembourg and has Gianpaolo Pozzo as the majority shareholder.
As of June 30, the financial statements say WAFCL owed Hornets Investment Limited £8.38m but the parent company "will not seek repayment of the loan if to do so would jeopardise the club's ability to continue as a going concern".
The independent auditors report, which was written by Myers Clark who replaced Chartered Accountants this year, states that as of June 30 2012, the club's liabilities exceeded its total assets by £3.96m.
It added: "The validity of the going concern basis is dependent on the assumptions underlying the financial projections being accurate, the financial projections being substantially realised and the company's ability to raise sufficient new capital to the extent it may be required.
"These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern.
The financial statements do not include the adjustments that would result if the company was unable to continue as a going concern."
The company's bank has said they will regularly review the £1m overdraft facility and extensions will be considered.
The accounts state the club's net debt increased by £292,000 to £9.97m.
Saracens' rent for playing at Vicarage Road was £630,000 last season, an increase of £67,000 on the previous year.
The club may have to pay £1.7m in additional clauses for players the club have signed in the past but £1.28m of that figure relates to promotion to the Premier League and international appearances.
Since June 30, a number of players have left the club, with Adrian Mariappa, Scott Loach and Martin Taylor being sold. The report states the club are likely to receive £2.42m in net income this financial year as things stand.
Director David Fransen has agreed to change the terms of his loan agreement with the club and will now be paid the remaining £250,000 of his £500,000 loan, which was made in January 2010, on June 29 next year.
- Today, solicitors acting on behalf of Laurence Bassini said the club's former owner had only just seen copies of the final accounts.
They said "an initial consideration of those accounts raise a number of queries" and that Bassini was "surprised" to read Watford Association Football Club Limited believed Watford FC Limited owed the club money.
Bassini also took issue with the accounts statement regarding the "cash amounts advanced" for work on the Yellow and Red Lion pub.
In a letter, the solicitors state: "Our client has instructed his accountants to consider the issue and an approach will be made to the club for amended accounts to be prepared and filed.
"You will appreciate that until this issue has been resolved with the club's legal and accountancy advisers, our client cannot make any further response to the matters set out in the accounts."


text: Politics 19 July 2013 Don't stop donating blood just because the government's sold the plasma service The company doesn't have anything to do with UK donor blood. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML The UK government has announced that PRUK, the group which handles donations of blood plasma for the NHS, is to be sold to Mitt Romney's former venture capital private-equity firm Bain Capital. The company is paying £90m up front for an 80 per cent stake in the firm, and then a further payment (expected to be worth around £110m) will be made in five years' time. In addition, Bain will be investing an extra £50m in the firm to create a "UK Life Sciences Champion". The deal is hugely controversial, beyond typical disagreements over privatisation of national assets, because blood transfusions in the UK are voluntary; if donors think that someone is going to make a profit from their donation, they may well not give blood at all. But they should carry on doing so. Due to fears over vCJD (the human form of mad cow disease), British plasma has not been used for donations for almost two decades. Instead, plasma is imported from the US, and "fractionated" into blood proteins such as immunoglobulins, clotting factors and albumin. That's the job of PRUK, the company which has been sold. Dr Dan Poulter, the health minister, clarifies: It is important to be clear about the Government's plans to sell all, or part, of the state-owned plasma company PRUK. This company is completely separate to NHS Blood and Transplant and plays no role in blood donations or organ supply - there is no intention to sell NHS Blood and Transplant. Ministers have made clear the huge debt of gratitude owed to all those who freely donate blood to the NHS. UK blood donations are not used to make PRUK products. Ever since the emergence of vCJD ("mad cow disease") the medical advice is not to use UK blood in manufacturing for plasma products. PRUK is already a commercial business and the majority of its staff already work in the private sector. We are taking this action to secure a viable future for the company and its employees in the long term and to ensure that patients will continue to have access to high quality medical products. That doesn't leave the government entirely in the clear, however. Firstly, this exact situation was warned by many before the sale even went ahead. Selling PRUK always carried the risk of negatively affecting donations, and that risk was increased by the shoddy way the Government released the news. Secondly, it merely puts off the problem, because at some point, vCJD restrictions will be lifted. When that happens, people's donated blood will start to be used by the profit-making PRUK. A bad sale, badly handled, sure. But not a reason to stop giving blood. › The Paxman strategy: why Labour should keep asking Cameron the Lynton Crosby question A woman donates blood in 1944. Photograph: Getty Images Alex Hern is a technology reporter for the Guardian. He was formerly staff writer at the New Statesman. You should follow Alex on Twitter. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles Our union backed Brexit, but that doesn't mean scrapping freedom of movement We're racing towards another private debt crisis - so why did no one see it coming? What is 'good work', and can it be encouraged? Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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LONDON (Reuters) - After years ushering VIPs to their seats in Wimbledon, David Spearing has himself become a minor celebrity at the tournament, in a black hat that has earned him the nickname "General Custer".
At 78, Spearing is Wimbledon's longest serving steward, working at the London grand-slam fortnight for 41 years, the last 17 of which have been on Center Court, looking after players' relatives and prestigious guests such as former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and rapper Jay-Z.
The hat earned Spearing a little fame of his own when a prominent presenter on British radio asked on air who was the mystery man in the VIP box.
"(Presenter) Terry Wogan is a very keen tennis player so he's watching and commenting and he was saying, 'Who is this guy wearing the black hat in the players' box? Looks like General Custer to me' - because that was a flat-rimmed hat," Spearing told Reuters.
"Then people started phoning in and said, 'It looks like Colonel Sanders' - all these kind of jokes," said Spearing, whose white goatee gives him more than a passing resemblance to the fried chicken icon.
The hat, it turns out, was never intended as a fashion statement, he says.
When he went to buy a standard parti-colored panama from his social club in Abu Dhabi, where the London-born engineer spends most of the other 50 weeks of the year, it only had a black one, and let him have it as a gift.
Spearing is on his second black hat, which sports the club's logo and whose label says it is made of "100 percent pure paper".
"So I've got to watch the rain with this one," Spearing said. "It'll last another five years but I'm not so sure how long I'm going to last."
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Regret (also called opportunity loss) is defined as the difference between the actual payoff and the payoff that would have been obtained if a different course of action had been chosen. This is also called difference regret. Furthermore, the ratio regret is the ratio between the actual payoff and the best one.
Minimax regretEdit
The minimax regret approach is to minimize the worst-case regret.[1] The aim of this is to perform as closely as possible to the optimal course. Since the minimax criterion applied here is to the regret (difference or ratio of the payoffs) rather than to the payoff itself, it is not as pessimistic as the ordinary minimax approach. Similar approaches have been used in a variety of areas such as:
One benefit of minimax (as opposed to expected regret) is that it is independent of the probabilities of the various outcomes: thus if regret can be accurately computed, one can reliably use minimax regret. However, probabilities of outcomes are hard to estimate.
This differs from the standard minimax approach in that it uses differences or ratios between outcomes, and thus requires interval or ratio measurements, as well as ordinal measurements (ranking), as in standard minimax.
Maximin exampleEdit
Suppose an investor has to choose between investing in stocks, bonds or the money market, and the total return depends on what happens to interest rates. The following table shows some possible returns:
|Interest rates rise
|Static rates
|Interest rates fall
|Worst return
|Money market
|Best return
The crude maximin choice based on returns would be to invest in the money market, ensuring a return of at least 1. However, if interest rates fell then the regret associated with this choice would be large. This would be −11, which is the difference between the 1 received and the 12 which could have been received if the outturn had been known in advance. A mixed portfolio of about 11.1% in stocks and 88.9% in the money market would have ensured a return of at least 2.22; but, if interest rates fell, there would be a regret of about −9.78.
The regret table for this example, constructed by subtracting best returns from actual returns, is as follows:
|Interest rates rise
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Therefore, using a minimax choice based on regret, the best course would be to invest in bonds, ensuring a regret of no worse than −5. A mixed investment portfolio would do even better: 61.1% invested in stocks, and 38.9% in the money market would produce a regret no worse than about −4.28.
Regret theoryEdit
Regret theory is a model of choice under uncertainty. Developed by Graham Loomes and Robert Sugden, it generalizes the minimax regret approach.[2] Choice is modelled as the minimising of a function of the regret vector, defined as the difference between the outcome yielded by a given choice and the best outcome that could have been achieved in that state of nature.
Example: Linear estimation settingEdit
What follows is an illustration of how the concept of regret can be used to design a linear estimator. The regret is the difference between the mean-squared error (MSE) of the linear estimator that doesn't know the parameter , and the mean-squared error (MSE) of the linear estimator that knows . Also, since the estimator is restricted to be linear, the zero MSE cannot be achieved in the latter case.
Consider the problem of estimating the unknown deterministic parameter vector from the noisy measurements in the linear model
where is a known matrix with full column rank , and is a zero mean random vector with covariance matrix , which models the noise.
be a linear estimate of from , where is some matrix. The MSE of this estimator is given by
Since the MSE depends explicitly on it cannot be minimized directly. Instead, the concept of regret can be used in order to define a linear estimator with good MSE performance. To define the regret here, consider a linear estimator that knows the value of the parameter , i.e. the matrix can explicitly depend on :
The MSE of is
To find the optimal , it is differentated with respect to and equated to 0 getting
and using the Matrix Inversion Lemma
Substituting this back into
This is the smallest MSE achievable with a linear estimate that knows . In practice this MSE cannot be achieved, but it serves as a bound on the optimal MSE. The regret is defined by
The minimax regret approach here is to minimize the worst-case regret as defined above. This will allow a performance as close as possible to the best achievable performance in the worst case of the parameter . Although this problem appears difficult, it can be formulated as a convex optimization problem and solved definitely. For details of this see Eldar, Tal and Nemirovski (2004).[3] Similar ideas can be used when is random with uncertainty in the covariance matrix. For this see Eldar and Merhav (2004), and Eldar and Merhav (2005).[4][5]
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Savage, L.J. (I95I). The theory of statistical decision. Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 46, pp. 55-67.
- ↑ Loomes, G. and Sugden, R. (1982), 'Regret theory: An alternative theory of rational choice under uncertainty', Economic Journal, 92(4), 805–24.
- ↑ Y. C. Eldar, A. Ben-Tal, and A. Nemirovski, "Linear Minimax regret estimation of deterministic parameters with bounded data uncertainties," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 2177–2188, Aug. 2004.
- ↑ Y. C. Eldar and Neri Merhav, "A Competitive Minimax Approach to Robust Estimation of Random Parameters," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 52, pp. 1931-1946, July 2004.
- ↑ Y. C. Eldar and Neri Merhav, "Minimax MSE-Ratio Estimation with Signal Covariance Uncertainties," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1335-1347, Apr. 2005.
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Logan Stott is barely old enough to drive.
But the St. George, Utah, high school star can drive-block like an old pro. He can pull, too, and seal off defenders with a strength rarely seen in players his age.
So maybe it isn't surprising that Stott verbally committed to Arizona last week, becoming - at age 16 and a high school sophomore - the youngest football player ever to choose the program.
Stott, 6 feet 3 inches and 300 pounds, plays guard at Pine View High School. But he could best be suited as a center in the Wildcats' 2013 recruiting class.
Stott said with a chuckle that his recruitment happened "rapidly," which isn't true. The UA has unknowingly been recruiting the offensive lineman since birth.
Stott's father, Dale, played football at Amphitheater High School and holds undergraduate and medical degrees from the Arizona. His grandfather, Gerald, taught in Arizona's dairy science department from 1960-83. And a half-brother, Bryant, is an assistant football coach at Tucson High School.
"I would have made (the decision) at any time in my career, as soon as I was offered by the University of Arizona," Stott said.
Scouting services have yet to rate Stott, in part because he's so young. Dale, who also serves as the offensive line coach at Pine View, describes his son as a strong player with a nasty streak. Logan Stott can already bench-press 405 pounds; he put up 225 pounds 20 times during the team's NFL combine-style workouts this spring.
Stott started 21 varsity games in his first two high school seasons but is best known for finishing.
"He finishes every play; he's very violent. You like that in an offensive lineman," Dale Stott said. "A lot of times, offensive linemen are jovial pacifists. He's not. He's on the attack. He can really move.
"Physically, he's the strongest player I've ever coached. If he's able to get his hands on you, you're pretty much done."
TCU, Oregon, Oregon State, Utah, Utah State and BYU all showed interest in Stott before UA offensive line coach Robert Anae received Stott's highlight tape earlier this spring. Anae offered a scholarship May 2, and Stott accepted.
The timing did not surprise Dale, who describes his son as decisive.
Stott, a tech junkie who plans to major in art at the UA, will visit the UA this summer. He plans to graduate from high school a semester early and enroll in college in January 2013.
Until then, Stott said he knows he will face questions about committing so early.
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"My commitment's strong," he said. Decomitting "would be letting down more than just my commitment, honor and trust. It would also be breaking bonds of trust and honor with my family, both here and in Arizona, and the city of Tucson.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Maurice Jones scored 25 points, Dewayne Dedmon had 14, and Southern California had its best scoring output of the season in beating TCU 83-59 on Monday night.
The Trojans never trailed and led by as many as 20 early in the second half. They shot 51 percent and committed only five turnovers.
Byron Wesley scored 13 points and fellow freshman Alexis Moore added 12 for USC (5-7), which entered Monday averaging 54.2 points per game.
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The Secretary of State for Communities has said he will look into what can be done to prevent flooding in Watford after the River Colne burst its banks last week.
Eric Pickles' comments come after he was questioned by Watford's MP Richard Harrington in Parliament on Monday.
Mr Harrington asked the government minster: "What plans do the Government have to provide an assessment of local authorities' plans for flood prevention in the years to come, particularly asking Hertfordshire what plans it has to stop the River Colne flooding and causing disruption to my constituents?"
Mr Pickles agreed to take a personal interest in the River Colne and what actions are taken in the town.
Following days of torrential rain across the county last week, roads were left flooded and residents raced to save their properties from the encroaching water.
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'Jersey Shore's' JWoww Talks Vegas Wedding, Says Snooki's a 'Perfect' Mom (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)
And while one has a new baby – the other is definitely planning on it. "Hopefully in two years," JWoww told Celebuzz's The Daily Buzz about her baby plans this week.
"As long as I'm married for a year and get my bucket list out of the way, I'm good," she continued.
JWoww and boyfriend Roger Matthews were engaged in late-September when he encouraged her to skydive with him. As the frightened (and unsuspecting) reality star was landing, Matthews was there to meet her on bended knee with a sign that read, "Jenny, Will you marry me?"
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While the final season of Jersey Shore is airing now, Snooki and JWoww's spin off series returns on Jan. 8.
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Los Angeles, July 13 (IANS) Scientists have found that nerves play a crucial role in both the development and spread of prostate tumours - the second most common form of cancer in men, says a study.
The findings by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, using both a mouse model and human prostate tissue, may lead to new ways to predict the aggressiveness of prostate cancer and to novel therapies for preventing and treating the disease, says the study published online in the July 12 edition of 'Science'.
Prostate cancer is second to skin cancer as the most common cancer in men.
The National Cancer Institute estimates that 238,590 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in 2013, and 29,720 men will die from the disease, reports Science Daily.
The study was led by stem-cell expert Paul Frenette, professor of medicine and of cell biology and director of the Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research at Einstein.
Nerves are commonly found around tumours, but their role in the growth and progression of cancer has not been clear.
"Since there might be similarities between the haematopoeitic stem cell niche and the stem cell niches found in cancer, we thought that sympathetic nerves might also have a role in tumour development," said Frenette.
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Laurie and Lee Rubin of Lafayette Hill announce the engagement of their daughter, Beth, to Kevin Heaphy, son of Linda and John Heaphy of Webster, N.Y.
Beth is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in sociology. She is currently working in recruiting for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Philadelphia.
Kevin graduated from Grove City College with a bachelor's degree in finance. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Robert Morris University. Kevin is a financial analyst with Viasys Healthcare in Conshohocken.
Beth is the granddaughter of Evelyn Robinson and the late Charles Robinson, and Margaret and Haskell Rubin. Kevin is the grandson of the late Maria and Emil Kayser, and the late Margaret and John Heaphy.
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How much more Scola does Vogel need to see before he gives Copeland some burn?
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Anyone still think that wasn't a good deal?
Is it just me, or is what we expected from Granger in this rotation making Turner look a LOT quicker than he actually is.
Change is neither good or bad, it simply is.
Oh this fun narrative. Besides sentimental reasons, did anyone say that was a bad basketball deal?
That play for Turner for that mid range J is pretty similar to what he was getting run for him in Philadelphia.
Scola did not like Lance trying to muscle in for that rebound.
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Then again I may be mixing up conversations with friends and PD posts up.. Dunno.
Lance is thirsty for those rebounds.
Anybody else do the "NO NO NO YES" on that Ian shot?
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Turner may have learnt the offence quickly but still lots of work still to do on D.
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Cape Town - A Western Cape High Court judge has sharply criticised the Oudtshoorn municipal council for allowing its political jockeying for power to distract it from its duty to citizens.
Judge Owen Rogers also warned councillors that they could be held liable for costs in terms of the Municipal Finance Management Act if they raised meritless claims in court.
He was handing down judgment in two applications, brought by the DA and heard simultaneously earlier this month, relating to the expulsion of the town's DA and Cope councillors by the municipality's disciplinary committee in February.
The judgment is the latest step in a year-long saga which began when a DA-Cope alliance won a majority in a by-election last August, effectively giving them the majority in what had been an ANC-led governing coalition.
Using a number of questionable stratagems, including expelling the DA-Cope councillors, municipal Speaker John Stoffels blocked the DA's attempts to take control of the council.
Judge Rogers said: "It appears to me that, once again, the ratepayers are being asked to foot the bill for ongoing battles between political factions.
"In future litigation, the court may request full argument on why councillors and their parties, rather than the ratepayers, should be ordered to bear the costs of litigation. I cannot but think that over the past several years, the political factions in this municipality have allowed their unseemly jockeying for power to distract them from the mandate laid down in… the constitution… the Structures Act and the Systems Act. They exist for the community, not the other way round."
The first application related to the expulsion of 10 DA councillors and one Cope councillor for missing three consecutive council meetings.
After terminating their membership of the council, the acting municipal manager immediately declared vacancies with the IEC.
A second leg of the application related to the expulsion of another DA councillor, after he also missed three consecutive council meetings, allegedly in contravention of the Local Government Municipal Systems Act.
The two applications were heard together.
Judge Rogers set aside the DA councillors' expulsions, as well as that of the Cope councillor, and ordered the municipality to pay costs.
He also interdicted the municipality, its officials and the IEC from taking any action or calling for by-elections in respect of the seats held by some of the councillors.
Welcoming the judgment, Local Government MEC Anton Bredell said Judge Rogers confirmed that in terms of the constitutional framework of government, only he in his capacity as MEC of local government had the power to remove councillors.
"It is time that democracy starts winning in Oudtshoorn. I expect that the minority coalition in Oudtshoorn will this time abide by and respect the decision of the high court. In my view, it's now time that the council concentrates its energy on upholding democracy and the will of the residents of Oudtshoorn."
The MEC noted that in terms of the judgment, the "expelled" councillors had at all times remained members of the council.
The Oudtshoorn municipality said it was studying the judgment and would comment when proper legal advice had been considered.
The judgment opens the way for the DA-Cope councillors to once again bring a vote of no confidence in the municipality's executive - the mayor, the deputy mayor and the Speaker - and so take control of the council.
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On the Boston ferry, I'm most like that guy by the rail—I mean we share a vocabulary of forms, being froglike both of us, and fifty some. His grimy motorist's cap is pushed down to his popped eyes; his yellow shirt is buttoned to the wattles at his throat; and tenderly, palm up, he holds a chewed cigar. Its leaf is only a shade darker than his mackintosh.
And I would talk to her, the ponytailed weight lifter on the rail. In a sweater shirt, the depth and breadth of her shoulders are sexy. Her waist is tiny.
I feel like a dynamo, too, on the shuddering varnished bench over the ferry's grinding engines. I'll try to slow down. I'm under orders to try. The September sun has burned a hole in the dawn haze and laid a hot white path behind the ferry, a burning wake.
Painted on an orange channel marker, which swirls in our charge in the drab water, is the block numeral "2."
I've been alone for over a month now, deserted. Or, not exactly deserted, for what has happened to me is more an act of justice; "marooned" is right.
Matte-black birds race the ferry, coursing so low their wing tips nearly beat water.
The jetliners prowling Logan have finned tails that look like gliding sail craft from where I sit.
I think how Boston, massed terribly off the bow, looks judgmental after the holiday space of the bay.
I'm trying to organize. My faraway wife once told me, "Don't talk all at once, Sam. Start at the top and go to the bottom. Remember to indent ."
Later, on the subway to Cambridge, I'm between a brooding man in a leather trench- coat and a woman with a poodle haircut and a lot of face paint. I would like to talk to her. Her lips and eyes are all art and drama—greenish—but she's down to business already, reading printout sheets in the crush of riders.
At work, Edna Rudd's newest secretary has this memo delivered to me: "Could you move a touch more quickly on your contribution to the Procedures Manual?"
"I could, Marta, but I probably won't" is my answering note, which I sign "Slacker," and give to Interoffice.
Lunch I take behind a newspaper, in a coffeehouse on Mt. Auburn Street. The cramped rows of tables are like game boards on poles—they're that small.
A middle-aged man in a turban gets seated diagonally across from me. He wears a blue wool sports jacket and a floppy shirt the color of cantaloupe flesh. He has a wispy beard, many moles, and steel-framed spectacles. Crowding me on the left, his companion is too close to be glanced.
"Today, no more tea," says the man in the turban.
"So you're fully entertained," says the companion.
My food comes. I try to read. The two have a kind of lovers' quarrel.
"Last week Washington, next week Washington, and no, I didn't try to call you," says the unseen man. His accent has the South in it, and sophistication of a type.
"I don't care what I eat," says the turban.
"Listen, don't you move."
The waitress takes their orders— literally over my head. I twist to see the man at my shoulder. He turns out to be a black man in a hacking jacket and a toffee sweater.
"Anything good in the paper?" the waitress asks me.
"I wasn't chasing you out," she says, when I have told her no, and looked away.
After she delivers their meal, I hear the black man say, "I've never seen anyone do
that. Salt in your orange juice?"
"Delicious," says the other.
"Are you serious? And pepper now?"
"It's very good. You should be open to new things, Henry."
"You want some ketchup?" says the black man.
What I have been studying, since turning over my paper, is a line of copy on a full-page ad for beer. "You've done what you set out to do," it says. The irony is not very biting— toothless, really. I know I've done nothing.
So I don't go back to work but to the reading room at the Widener Library. I mean to finish making my letter.
Working at the library, I'm stared at. I look up from my long table. The starers, caught, look away and readjust their features. They're merely thinking, I know—distracted by thought. They don't, of course, see me when they stare. Or they do.
The very difficult letter I'm composing has me swamped, just as whatever trials of composition or tabulation or memory they are enduring have the starers swamped. But when I'm hunting a phrase, sorting possibilities, some part of me takes in a college girl. She's like the young Jean Arthur, if that actress had ever worn her hair in such a full-blown, leonine manner. While I'm deciding whether or not to use the word "adore" in my letter, I see the shaped curve of her blouse collar, her stingy green sweater, the silver fountain pen she uses. Sometime in the future, if this letter is successful, I will have a chance to reread it, and when I discover the phrase that does or does not contain the word "adore," I know I will see this girl or feel something of her in the words, and maybe the weight lifter, too, and maybe the green-lipped woman, and the man in the turban.
Across from me at the table, a young man with a bad skin stabs out his Parliament cigarette. A Cartier watch is strapped to his wrist. 'Without hesitation, he pencils "D-minus" onto the front page of an exam booklet he has been reading and slaps shut its cover.
It's only three. I cut my job altogether, take the subway to the Government Center, choose, near Quincy Market, a hash place, an unhappy space. It's narrow and just below street level. There's very little light, but it's right for me. I'm out of breath and mean to set myself aside for a bit.
My view from the back end of the serving counter is of abandoned food machines, their steel furry with grease and dust. The working grill, the tanks of hot water, the little aquariums of fruit drink are at the front of the place, near the street window.
The counterman comes to me, apparently not to take my order but to carve up a brisket of corned beef. He calls to his crony, a round man in an Eisenhower jacket, "Do you know how many days we gotta wait to see that 'Hill Street Blue'?"
"What's that? Dirty?"
"No, that show won all those Emmys. Nine days we gotta wait. Ricky, you have a man here."
Ricky, a waitress—maybe his daughter or his wife—says to me, "Sir?"
She's bucktoothed. The line from her underlip to the base of her throat is nearly straight.
"And Ricky, don't heat the plates with real gold in the microwave," the owner says.
"Sure, I know," she says and holds herself.
"It's too hot for gold."
"It's not too hot," she tells me. "It just makes everything black. It's broken." She serves me my coffee in a pudgy cup and gives me a lustreless spoon.
"Serve him, with that, the real cream," the owner says.
On the ferry home, between gray flattish islands that are here and there rusty with autumn trees, I see a landless lighthouse. It's like some sunken skyscraper with just the tower showing, looking both dainty and stubby in the sliding bay.
I take the car my wife has left me, an old Maverick, into the village. The village is standard: hardware, jeweler's, package store, travel agent, bakery; on the corner is a pharmacy. I find a meter in front of the bakery, but Lois Mencke, our former car-insurance person, is in the bakery, pointing into a lighted glass showcase. The tiny blonde who works there is collecting corn muffins for Lois. I slither into the pharmacy.
Inside, Billings, my neighbor, our mayor, is at the magazine rack. He holds a perfume bottle—the kind with an attached rubber squeeze bulb—and a gift box of Scotch. He's in survival wear tonight: a camouflage shirt, Army-looking trousers.
'Lo, citizen. How's yourself? How's Olive?" he says.
"Olive's away," I say.
"Pat McClery, where are my drugs?" he calls. Pat is the pharmacist.
"Kickbacks," I hear Pat mutter.
"So where is Olive?" Billings asks me.
I tell him our story. I blurt it out, really. My romance, I tell him, that I had to have but didn't consummate, did not hurt my wife so much as terrify her. She ran. Nothing happens in my story, but it's too much for me. My knees are going watery.
Billings' head is very large. His big face is blond, florid. His skin is polished-looking. He's unmoved.
"You know Bob Kavanagh?" he says. "His father-in-law has a cranberry bog down the Cape. Bob raises these guard dogs. A bitch from this latest batch was a wolf, a real wolf, and they're an unstable bunch. Very volatile. Bob names them, you know— Nitro or Omen Three. We bought one for the heavy-equipment garage. Kids fool with the Cat and the backhoe, so we want to scare them off. Only the one Bob sells us has a one hundred-and-twenty-decibel bark and yellow eyes, but he's a sweetheart, see —so friendly he can't scare off the parkers who smooch there in the lot, see. Man, there are your tax dollars at work."
"On this other," I start.
"Maybe check that out with your clergyman?" Billings says.
On the sidewalk, I see Lois Mencke is out of the bakery and moving up Water Street. I go in for breakfast pastry, for tomorrow. The tiny bottle blonde is waiting counter. She does not look sixteen and her crinkled hair drizzles around her face like bleached tinsel. Her eyelashes are boldly fake.
"Hey, hi," she says. "Monkey tails, I bet."
My wife has left me the dog—a collie named June. When I arrive home, June and I are very happy to see each other. June weeps, ecstatic with greeting. She stands on two legs to fill my ear with enormous chuffling noises.
"Kisses me," I say.
Dinner is a sandwich and a pale bourbon. Waiting for my coffee water to boil, at the kitchen table, I wonder about the finished letter in my attaché case. On the phone last night, our first talk for two weeks, Olive sounded a little softer than before.
"You may write me," she said. "But just say what you're doing. Go slow, please. Contain yourself."
And beyond working, what have I been doing? Too much. Not enough. When you are suddenly alone, I think, you take of other people's lives whatever you can. I mean, what's not given I guess you just steal.
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I wanted to create a narrative that could be best diagrammed by a straight line. No ascending nor descending action, no gathering complexity, almost no dialogue.
Originally published in The New Yorker, August 30, 1982. Read the LINE BREAKS intro at http://blog.fictionaut.com/2010/02/01/line-breaks-the-line-by-jim-robison/
Thanks for posting quality work like this. Very nice.
Great work.
This is so good. I'm printing it out to read again and again. Love, oh, every line, but this especially:"matte-black birds race the ferry, coursing so low their wing tips nearly beat water"....
The last paragraph turned me over and flogged me.
Really wonderful. Your descriptions are vivid, dead on and original.The conversation between the turbaned guy and the black man/and the observation of the two–perfect!
I read "The Line" in Rumor and Other Stories and admired it for the images, voice and mood, not fully realizing at the time that this quiet story would be so powerful as to return to mind now and then over the years as only the best stories do. This story is remarkable for the way it is told and for the way it haunts.
"Start at the top and go to the bottom. Remember to indent." We should all heed this advice.
The interaction w/ the mayor ... wonderful stuff, watery knees first then the brush-off (see your clergyman). wow.
Man. this is the real thing, nailed down by an expert practitioner. One can only read and admire the steady hand, the regal eye. Give us more, please.
Congratulations on having your story published in The New Yorker!
A wonderful evocation of a man suddenly adrift, emotional skin scraped raw and everything suddenly apparent to him. What does it say about him that everything is now about the surface of things? What he notices are external things, turban, hacking jacket, poodle haircut. Seems to me he is triangulating himself in these multiple observations, and still hasn't quite found his own coordinates. The ending is pretty close to magnificent.
Love all the little overheard conversations. I wasn't sure how you were going to make a "straight line" story work, but you did. It all adds up when you get to that ending.
The structure and language begs a metaphor, like Key Lime Pie, each fork full almost too tart, but the sweetness takes over and you go for another, and another, and then it's all gone. What's left of your willpower says go out and take a walk. Maybe there'll still be some left tomorrow.
I was in a class with Gary Lutz and he taught this story. It was one of the first times it clicked for me what a sentence could do.
really enjoyed reading this from first to last line, with coffee in the morning, glad not to be alone.
Now that's what I call packed with imagery. I really like this. It had this quiet somber mood, which was justified in the end. Thanks.
Boston in the NYer. Boston at work in 1982. Thick action and character. A strategic look at the other character in the opening par. as a way to the narrator. Thought in motion. Meta-epistolary. When I first read "line," I thought vertical line. Now I see an A --> C horizontal diagram without waves. Thinking of us, young in Madison, sophomores, me hearing of NYer fiction for the first time (after J.S. Marcus heard of his acceptance, his life in motion, an agent, an editor), of viewing and not getting cartoons in it as a child and later peering at them at a glance. "That was because I have a cut. Sorry,/I said, meaning it, but it was nothing/to make up for. Next time try taking it."
Jim, I found this story so absorbing, full of that ultra-reality often experienced during a period of loss. Like this piece very much
It's true what Morgan Harlow, above, says about this -- I read "Rumor" in 1992 or so, and certain things have returned to me from time to time -- such as the line about Boston "looking judgmental after the holiday space of the bay."
I like "I'm out of breath and mean to set myself aside for a bit" -- the observation of an honest human moment.
the things the ex-wife says to him are the meanest things i've read in a long while.
and you know what the funny bits are already.
"On this other," I start.
"Maybe check that out with your clergyman?" Billings says.
this here?
has stayed with me across three decades?
ya know?
This is first-rate writing. Loved the mood, the urban disaffection. Too many good things to list, but this one was particularly good: I'm trying to organize. My faraway wife once told me, "Don't talk all at once, Sam. Start at the top and go to the bottom. Remember to indent ."
P.S. I should have read your Author's Note up front. But I'm not at all surprised that The New Yorker liked it, too.
An eye for language, an eye for detail, an eye for speech, an eye for feeling, an eye for life. The ayes have it!
Masterful. A how-to manual. A pleasure.
I'm on the bandwagon. Thank you. Fav.
I love this story. Weak in the knees for ferries. The channel marker gives me the wistfuls; I can smell the brine. Always adored a collie. Wattles,a stingy green sweater,furry grease, chuffling, boldly fake lashes, check-out with the clergy, matte-black birds: only a bit of the brilliance at the tip of the iceberg; (yeah, wish I could steal). Last line is the bomb.
I'm so pleased he got the real cream.
so very much with so little.
this is the first story i read in a book and then online within the same week and there are certainly different satisfactions in each presentation. it suits both forms.
i love being left with that giddy feeling of needing to steal. the starving for connection and the shame of it.
Had not read this before and will surely read it again. Thank you so much.*
New to your work, enjoying greatly. So much good stuff in this- And the ending is killer. *


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80 Year Old Son Saves Fisherman
March 17, 2012 by staff
80 Year Old Son Saves Fisherman, 80 year old son saves fisherman-80 year old son saves fisherman, air sea rescue. A 64-year-old rock fisherman fell up to six metres from the top of Australia's Yamba breakwall last month, suffering injuries to his head and body.
He was rescued by an 80-year-old retired navy seaman Les Cook and his 55-year-old son Kevin. The 64-year-old had packed up his fishing gear when he slipped and fell backwards over the eight-metre-high break wall. Waves battered the man against the rocks.
Within seconds, Kevin, squeezed his "10 stone" frame through a crack in the wall and dived into the ocean. Kevin grabbed ahold of the man, who had "half his face smashed open." Cook remained holding the injured man for about 15 minutes until the dramatic air sea rescue by the Northern Region Westpac Rescue Helicopter.
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There is plenty of fun to be had in Newhaven during the summer holidays thanks to Wave Leisure from Thursday July 24 to Wednesday September 3,
An opening ceremony will be held at the Fort Road Recreation Ground on Saturday July 26 from 1pm to 3pm where they will be free sessions, a bouncy castle and barbecue.
Throughout the rest of the holidays Shakespeare Hall and the Fort Road Rec will host dance, karate, tennis, cricket, football, the green gym and NIPPERS.
There will also be healthy eating workshops for three Saturdays in August.
Seahaven Swim and Fitness Centre will offer swimming throughout the week, as well as scuba sessions, fun sessions, sea scooters and a six week water safety course.
A spokesperson for Wave Leisure said: "In partnership with Newhaven Town Council we are delighted to be able to offer subsidised swimming at just 80p on Mondays and Fridays between 9am-11am.
"Plus, there are a variety of other activities including youth drop-in sessions at Denton Island Community Centre, Lewes Road Hut and Denton Social Club."
Newhaven Fort is offering artefact handling every Monday afternoon, and the brochure includes a two for one voucher to be used before the end of the holiday.
For the full programme, visit www.waveleisure.co.uk/timetables, find Wave Leisure on Facebook or Twitter or pick up a copy of the programme from the leisure centre, pool or tourist information.
If you would like to speak to someone, either call Seahaven Swim & Fitness Centre on 01273 512498, Shakespeare Hall on 01273 510784 or Newhaven Town Council on 01273 516100.


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Loan growth is losing pace and $10bn short-term capital has left Turkey since the start of its new interest rate policy in December, central bank governor Durmus Yilmaz said Friday. Despite this, the current account deficit – one of the principal targets of the measures – will continue to rise in the first quarter due to base effects. Mr Yilmaz added he did not foresee a change in policy when his governorship ends in April.
The statements add up to declaration of success – but there was a caveat. Oil prices, driven higher by events in Libya, created a "new situation", Mr Yilmaz admitted. Turkey's rate-cutting, reserve-requirement-raising policy has so far been possible thanks to falling inflation and fairly high unemployment. (Rate cuts in an inflationary environment would have been far more dangerous.) If oil prices were to remain high, they would create an inflation risk that might constrain Turkey's monetary plans. For now, as long as Saudi Arabia and its oil reserves stay out of the current turmoil, many believe the oil price shock will be short-lived.


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Archive for Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Martial arts academy to hold benefit for St. Jude
Tonganoxie Martial Arts instructor Rex Hutton hopes his students can do their part next month to help terminally ill children.
The group will hold an exhibition March 3 in its building, 801 E. Fourth, with proceeds going to St. Jude Hospital. The fund-raiser is part of the national Martial Arts for St. Jude campaign.
"It's hard to turn down something, especially when you're talking about terminally ill kids," Hutton said. "So we're going to try to do something."
All proceeds will go to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. The hospital was founded in the 1950s by actor Danny Thomas, who died in 1991.
Hutton's martial arts students will be asking local residents for donations during the next month. And, residents also may donate money during the March 3 event, which will include three-round full-contact fights.
Martial arts students will participate, including two of Hutton's top students, Colten Weaver and Jessica Carlton, who have state titles to their credit.
The event will start at 1 p.m. Hutton expects it to last between two and three hours.
"All you can do is put it on and see how it turns out," Hutton said.
The martial arts academy also teamed up last summer with the Tonganoxie Sonic Drive-In restaurant for a fund-raiser that benefited breast cancer research.
"We're always doing something," Hutton said. "We've been called on and we're going to do our best."
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Akron, not doing so badly (relatively speaking)
Sometimes one needs to put things in perspective. Akron's high unemployment isn't so terribly out of line with Ohio and not all that much more than the national level. What this means is the unemployment is likely mosly cyclical and not structural. Another great graph from FRED.


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Music Review: Denise King & Olivier Hutman - Give Me the High Sign
Published 9:46 am, Friday, May 17, 2013
As the biographical sketch on Denise King's website explains, the Philadelphia-born singer has had no formal vocal training, but "it's apparent that Denise was born to sing." And although she dabbles in different genres, her real love is jazz. As a singer she sees herself as following in a great tradition. In a real sense, she is an heir to the great ladies of the past: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, and Carmen McRae-these are the divas she looked to for models, and they served her well.
In Give Me the High Sign, she rejoins with pianist/composer/arranger Olivier Hutman. A follow-up to their 2011 trio album, No Tricks and after a few years of touring together, the new album builds on their success with a powerful set of original compositions and a standard or two that highlight the singer's rich voice and spot-on phrasing. The trio, Hutman on piano and keys, Darryl Hall on double bass and Steve Williams on drums, is supplemented on the new album by the trumpet of Stephane Belmondo and Olivier Temime's saxophone.
Eight of the songs are Hutman compositions. Three have lyrics by King and the rest are by Viana Wember-Hutman. It is interesting that the King tunes-"Mellow Mellow," "Can You Do It?" and "Give Me the High Sign"-all seem to have a definite swinging bebop vibe, while the dominant modes of the others are more often the torchy love ballad and rocking blues. Indeed throughout most of the album, the singer seems to alternate between a kind of sultry sexiness and some upbeat modern bopping. It makes for an engaging stylistic mix. From the intensity of "I Lost My Way" which opens the album to the very catchy melody of "Mellow Mellow" and the dramatic "The Things We Don't Want," King is equally at home in all styles.
She handles Hutman's arrangements of the standards with creative respect. They do a killer take on "I Only Have Eyes For You" that is no doubt the diamond on the album. But their versions of "Blame It on My Youth," "Save the Children" and "Daydream" aren't far behind.
If your list of jazz divas includes Ella and Sarah and Nina, listen to this lady singing "Blame It on My Youth," and you may want to add the name Denise to that list.


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Old Mill General Sold to Casey's General
Store owner of 30 years decides to change careers.
ELK POINT, S.D. -- Old Mill General Store, an independent convenience store located almost 25 miles northwest of Sioux City, was sold to Casey's General Stores Inc., operator of more than 1,400 convenience stores in the Midwest, through GW Equity, a middle market merger and acquisition firm.
"I've been in the store for 30 years; I was ready for a career change," Old Mill General owner Joyce Bortscheller told CSNews Online. She is now handling her own interior decorating and landscaping venture, which serves a community of 2,000.
"Interior decorating [is something] I've always had a passion for," she added.
The Old Mill General Store began in September 1977. Bortscheller was selling real estate when the property came up for sale. "I bought it, and started out as a liquor store, expanded and added gas. As the trends changed, I changed with them," she said.
The independent operator became a GW Equity client in winter 2005, when it approached the company for assistance on the sale, said GW Equity managing director John Poythress. GW Equity performed due diligence and put together an offering for the Old Mill General Store.
There were several interested parties, but Casey's offered the most for the store, according to Bortscheller. "They were a very nice company to deal with," she noted.
Along with Poythress, GW Equity's Mike Murzyn, Art Berry and Lori Galloway led the negotiations on behalf of the client.