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* Condo developers still keen on Toronto, despite warnings
* Canada's central bank worries about pace of development
* Increasing density strains the city's infrastructure
By Russ Blinch
TORONTO, Dec. 19 (Reuters) - Barry Fenton walked to the bank of floor-to-ceiling windows in his 30th-floor uptown Toronto penthouse suite and declared, "This is the best view of the city."
To the south, a mass of steel-and-glass skyscrapers glinted in the bright autumn sun. Several cranes were in motion on unfinished buildings, a common sight in a city in the midst of a residential building boom.
"If you look around the core, every building you look at has a different look to it, a different ambience," said the energetic co-founder of Lanterra Developments, one of the city's most active builders. "That's important."
Fenton, 56, says he is confident the city's condominium market will remain strong -- despite warnings that it is all moving too far, too fast -- and has an ambitious lineup for future development. And he is not alone in his optimism.
Toronto's seams are bursting with new condo and hotel towers designed by star architects like Frank Gehry and built by famed developers like Donald Trump.
But Fenton and others who see Toronto emerging from its "pokey" past -- as a columnist in the Globe and Mail recently described it -- face some formidable obstacles: an infrastructure buckling under soaring density rates, the laws of supply and demand and preservationists who says too many new towers are destroying the city's character.
Canada's central bank drew a bead on the city of 2.6 million this month in its weighty "Financial System Review," warning of "potential future supply imbalances" in the condo market.
The Bank of Canada noted that the number of unsold condominiums in pre-construction has doubled, to 14,000, over the past year.
Greater Toronto home sales have slowed after years of steady increases. Sales fell 16 percent in November from the same month a year ago, according to the Toronto Real East Board. So far, however, prices are flattening, not falling, as some analysts have predicted.
In defiance of warnings by the central bank and economists, two mega-projects were unveiled within days of each other in October -- a three-tower condo complex to be designed by Gehry and a multi-tower office project that includes a massive casino.
More skyscrapers -- 147 of them -- are being built in Toronto than anywhere in North America, according to Emporis, the German data provider. That is twice as many as in New York, a city with about three times the population.
Toronto is getting taller fast. Fifteen buildings that will be more than 150 meters (492 feet) high are under construction, more than anywhere in the western hemisphere.
The recently completed Trump International Hotel topped out at 277 meters, just shy of Toronto's tallest skyscraper, the 72-story First Canadian Place, which is 298 meters. That height could be exceeded by a couple of major projects on the drawing boards, including the Mirvish project.
(The city's tallest freestanding structure, however, is the CN Tower, which soars over Toronto at 553 meters.)
"Toronto is creating a very sustainable future by building condos downtown," said Daniel Libeskind, the American architect, who was in Toronto in October for a ceremony for one of his latest projects, the 57-story L Tower, with its sweeping, curvaceous, design that rises above the city's modernist Sony Center for Performing Arts.
"It fights urban sprawl and brings people into the heart of the city."
While building in big American cities and in Western Europe cratered following the financial crisis four years ago, Toronto never stopped booming. Demand for residential space has been strong, and while the office market has also been healthy, most of the new developments have been for condo projects.
Lanterra's Fenton said his company has built some 9,000 condominium units in Toronto over the past 10 years and now has "in the hopper" up to 6 million square feet of property in downtown Toronto that is being rezoned for new projects.
Lanterra gained prominence over the past five years for the development of Maple Leaf Square, which included two condo towers, a hotel and office space, near the city's hockey shrine, Air Canada Center, on land that had sat vacant for years.
Now it is "one of the hottest places to be," said Fenton.
Some worry that Toronto can't handle much more development.
"We have accumulated a serious infrastructure deficit," wrote Ken Greenberg, a Toronto architect, in the Globe and Mail in October. " W e have failed to make the investments in public transit that are urgently needed. Our narrow sidewalks and poorly designed streets are already jammed."
He criticized the city officials and developers for a lack of coordinated planning. "One tower leads to another," he said.
Despite decades of debate about transportation policy, Toronto has just two subway lines, a fleet of charming but lumbering streetcar lines and crumbling roadways.
Commuters in Toronto spend at least 80 minutes in traffic a day, on average -- worse than what commuters face in London or Los Angeles -- according to the Toronto Board of Trade.
Toronto's City Planning Department did not respond to numerous requests for comment.
There is also concern about soaring neighborhood density rates. The city's waterfront area has seen the most growth. Its population has soared 134 percent in a decade and is up 66 percent in the past five years, to 43,295, according to city data.
Toronto's aging energy grid is strained. In July, downtown Toronto endured an eight-hour blackout after a transformer blew due to high demand. There was a similar outage last January.
Now two of the most ambitious projects the city has ever seen are being floated.
First out of the gate was theater impresario David Mirvish, who with his father, the late Ed Mirvish, helped create Toronto's vibrant arts and theater scene.
In early October, Mirvish unveiled a plan for three condominium towers, with up to 85 floors each, that would be the city's tallest buildings.
A podium at the buildings' base would house two museums, including one for the Mirvish family's contemporary art collection.
The Mirvish buildings would be designed by Gehry, the celebrated Canadian-born architect whose 76-story 8 Spruce Street residential tower was just completed in New York.
"These towers can become a symbol of what Toronto can be," the 83-year-old Gehry said at project's unveiling. "I am not building condominiums, I am building three sculptures for people to live in."
Two weeks later, Oxford Properties Group, a Canadian developer with a $20 billion global real estate portfolio, announced a $3 billion makeover of the downtown convention center, just south of the Mirvish and Gehry project. It envisions a casino, two hotel towers and two office towers that would be among the tallest in the city.
Adam Vaughan, a city councillor whose district would encompass both projects, said a lot more planning is needed. He had kinder words for the Mirvish proposal -- "it's a transformative and astonishing proposal" -- than for Oxford's project, which he called "all out of proportion."
"It's time to have a really smart conversation about how we are building this neighborhood because there is a hell of lot of density arriving not just with this project but with all the projects that have been approved," he said in an interview.
Al Carbone, owner for the past three decades of the Kit Kat restaurant, doesn't think people like Vaughan are listening to him, as the councillor and other politicians are not heeding the growing concerns about the rapid pace of development.
He said buildings are springing up too close to lot lines, creating jammed sidewalks and alleyways. And the sun does not shine on the streets like it once did.
He supports the Mirvish project, which would preserve his street, known as Restaurant Row. But he is battling a separate 47-story building that would go up steps away from his restaurant.
The plan, which still must be approved, would retain the historic facades of buildings on the street, which Carbone believes will destroy the character of the row.
"It's a tough battle," said Carbone, who launched the website SaveRestaurantrow.com to drum up support in opposition to the project. "You can't have a condo on every corner."
Some believe Toronto is at a crossroads as developers, politicians and citizens debate the rapid changes the city's urban landscape.
The Globe and Mail's Marcus Gee dismissed the idea that the development was somehow bad for the city in a column in October, saying the condo boom "has transformed our once-pokey downtown into a vibrant, around-the-clock urban community."
David Lieberman, an architect who also teaches at the University of Toronto's architectural school, agrees the new developments have been good for the city, but he is not sure the city's citizens are ready for it.
"We have such an excellent opportunity to get things right, but there is the Canadian conservatism," Lieberman said, sipping coffee in his studio in an old downtown Toronto house. "Canadians in their city building are not risk takers." (Reporting By Russ Blinch. Editing by Janet Guttsman and Douglas Royalty)


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drum style
hey i really liked the drum style in this one, actually you use this feeling with the drums in a few songs and it works well with the synth and moving parts.
i also thought it was kind of short, just when i really start getting into it it was over, but none the less it is a great song, with a great feel
I usually prefur the trancey kind of drum style... but when im makin techno sometimes this shit works better
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nicely done it sounds refreshing.... compared to most of the crap here thats basicly the same sound that just has a dif pitch.... good job
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Well, repetitive but another goodone still!
Yeah, bit repeditive, but keep goin man your doin good :P
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Cool. Not bad. But maybe a little repetitive. Still, good job.
ye it is a bit samey... I tried changing it up but w/e

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While Hugo Chávez may be rubbing his hands together with glee as he officially confirms on Wednesday plans to borrow $4bn from China, now by far Venezuela's biggest foreign source of financing, state oil company PDVSA has less to celebrate.
For needless to say, the fact that China has lent more (now $32bn) to Venezuela than any other country in Latin America comes at a cost – and PDVSA is bearing the brunt of the burden. Read more


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2. In a large salad bowl, toss the romaine with the dressing and season with black pepper. Garnish with pecorino shavings and anchovy filets and serve right away.


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The cost of the books I read is nowhere near the costs you are showing.
The books I want to read in hardback are around £19, the paperback drops a few quid - £9/15. and the ebook is often about £2 less than the paperback and ditto for the hardback.
It's a red herring to include the price of the eReader into the total cost of the procuct because that is as long as a piece of string.
When the book is now encapsulated in its digital/electronic form from author to production point the handling costs of any book is virtually nil until it comes to plate and printing. And when it comes to ebooks the download is almost its total cost. There is more effort required in producing the Bible/Shakespierre than there ever is in producing a modern auther for ebook
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break in a barrel
Is it ever necessary to "break in your barrel" on a new gun?
Does anyone know how to do this?
Yes, you should break in a new barrel. Usually the manufacturer of the rifle will tell you, or you can check several barrel makers websites.
Loosely it follows something like this... One round, clean, then another for the first 10 rounds. Then 2 rounds, clean, for the next 10 rounds. Then 3 and clean for the next 20 rounds. and so forth out to about 200 rounds.
If it is chrome lined, then it is abbreviated.
If you break in your new barrel it will make it easier to clean for one thing. If you make no effort to break it in it will everntiall smooth itself out on it own, but you will have a harder time cleaning it.
There are about as many ways to break in a barrel as the are people to tell you how. Min. I would fire at least 5 shot cleaning after each one with powder soulvant and a copper soulvant. If your not getting any copper, blue on the patches, you need not use the copper soulvant every cleaning. Then shoot 5 shots and clean. You should be able to feel the difference in the way the patch slides through the barrel. If it keeps getting easier you can keep doing it or just keep cleaning it after every hunt or trip to the range. It also helps to use JB bors past or a similar product when breaking in a barrel.
I'm sure I'll start something with this, but a high quality aftermarket bore needs no break in. It is Match ready from the manufacturer. Thread, chamber and crown it, then after a couple fouling shots to foul the bore, it is ready to shoot for score. That is part of what hand lapping a bore as the final step in the manufacture of a barrel will do.
A non-hand lapped bore should be broken in, with the number of rounds per string between cleaning, and the number of strings shot to be determined by the condition of the bore after slugging it and measuring the slugs, and visual inspection of every inch of the bore with a borescope. A non-hand lapped bore will have all kinds of machining flaws that will be readily visible to the eye when the bore is scoped. And when you slug and measure a bore like this, it is a very rare bird when you find one with consistent bore dimensions, and - heaven forbid! - the bore being perfectly round (versus egg shaped), and the bore dimensions (bore diameter and groove depth) being within 0.0005" of what they should be. I won't even get into the straightness issues of stock bores as no one wants to believe a 0.012" warp in a barrels bore. I have seen damn few stock bores run true when put between centers on a lathe.
When a factory bore is properly broken in they are usually a little more consistent, and foul a little less than if it is not done. The worse the bore is, the more important it becomes, to properly break in the bore.
My preferred method:
!0 rounds, single shot - clean, single shot - clean, all 10 that method.
30 rounds, 3 shot group - clean, repeat to completion.
50 rounds, 5 shot groups, and you get the picture.
After completing this drill , fire 3 or 4 fouling shots, and shoot for record. At this point determine the accuracy and consistency of the rifle.
My new RRA AR15 was lapped at the factory - the instructions said no break in was necessary. My DPMS .308 AR on the other hand had detailed instructions which boiled down to clean after every round for the first 25 rounds, then after every 10th round up to the 100th round. That was a long, long day! And it was a lesson in patience too since the first thing any new gun owner wants to do is shoot his new gun! But after spending over $900 I guess it would have been stupid not to do it. Now it shoots 1" groups and I'm happy! An recent article in Rifle Shooting suggested cleaning a gun over a three day period after the initial cleaning!
I recently went with a Kreiger match barrel on one of my rifles. When I asked about breakin I was told the above.
They did tell me to not get the barrel to hot and clean after every 15 shots. But other then that nothing out of the ordinary.
Good stuff!
I don't meen to hijack the thread, but i was wondering if you should break in a pistol barrel? I have always heard about this for rifels, but what about pistols?
There is no need to break in any barrel. You are just burning up worthwhile bullets and good powder. just shoot that darn thing.
Bolosniper is 100% correct. As to factory barrels, it's absolutely necessary to break them in for best results IF you're NOT going to handlap them. I prefer to handlap all my barrels except for those high end aftermarket rifle barrels done so at the factory. There's no way in hell I would EVER consider Tubb's final finish firelapping kit as I've had to replace 2 barrels from customers that treid it and messed them up. To me,firelapping is the lazy way to TRY to handlap barrels but don't get nowhere near the same results as you cannot feel burrs or rough spots as when hand lapping.
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"AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society."
What is AVID?
AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a college readiness system for elementary through higher education that is designed to increase schoolwide learning and performance. The AVID College Readiness System (ACRS) accelerates student learning, uses research based methods of effective instruction, provides meaningful and motivational professional learning, and acts as a catalyst for systemic reform and change.


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Most couples love to decorate their weddings with two contrasting colours and brides could take forever choosing a colour scheme but why just stick to one? Its all about the colours of the rainbow so if you love colour go big and bold! Adding rainbow themed objects is a great way to add bursts of colour into your day without going over the top and can look very stylish. For the bridesmaids dresses choose plain white but then accessorize with different coloured shoes and flowers, this looks very elegant but with a quirky twist and will look effective in the photographs.
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Marco Botti is concerned about the prospect of forecast showers materialising ahead of Joshua Tree's run at Longchamp on Sunday.
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Newmarket trainer Marco Botti fully expects Joshua Tree to improve for his return in the Prix Vicomtesse Vigier at Longchamp on Sunday.
The five-year-old was only narrowly beaten by Opinion Poll in Dubai on his first attempt over two miles but Joshua Tree has since been pleasing Botti at home although the Italian believes he normally takes a run or two to warm up to his best.
He said: "Joshua Tree has had a break and he takes a lot of work.
"In the past his first run back after a break hasn't been his best and he gets better with racing.
"I'm very pleased with him, he looks well and seems in good order but the ground would be a bit of an issue if it went soft - some showers are forecast for Sunday.
"He's proved he stays the trip and we've booked Olivier Peslier, who is a top-class jockey."
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Mourinho wants Ashley Cole to solve his left-back problems
The 31-year-old Cole has been Chelsea's first choice left back since he joined the Blues from Arsenal in the summer of 2006 but is unlikely to stay at the club beyond this summer.
José Mourinho is looking to one of his former clubs for the solution to his left-back problems.
According to the 'Daily Mirror', the injury to Marcelo has lead the Madrid coach to enquire about Ashley Cole, one of his favourite players during his time at Stamford Bridge, and whose contract runs out at the end of the season.
The 31-year-old Cole has been Chelsea's first choice left back since he joined the Blues from Arsenal in the summer of 2006. However, it is unlikely he will sign a new deal with the West London club, who are only offering him an extra year on his contract. Therefore, the club may look to sell him in January in order to make some money on him before he leaves for free in the summer.
Madrid are not the only club interested in signing Cole, with PSG reported to be chasing his signature, and the player's mother declaring on Facebook that her son was going to a club "easily accessible by the Eurostar"
PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti also managed Cole at Chelsea, between 2009 and 2011, and if the left-back did move to Paris he would be reunited with former Chelsea centre-half Alex.


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THERE is still an increasing need to help families in Haslemere which are struggling financially, so a food bank has been set up.
A food bank has been set up in Haslemere to help those in need and a collection point established at St Margaret's Church in Fernhurst.
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This week's NATO summit on the future of the war in Afghanistan probably did not get to the matter of burn pits or abandoned latrines.
These are the details of hell. They are also our legacy, in Afghanistan, in Iraq . . . wherever we employ our military to pursue our geopolitical self-interest. Strip away the propaganda, strip away the politics and the pursuit of strategic advantage, and what American/NATO policy amounts to is burned, buried, dumped and abandoned waste, some of it radioactive, most of it toxic.


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Budget figures show deepening housing crisis
Treasury projections in the Budget predict worsening housing affordability and rising interest rates outstripping wage increases, underlining National's abject failure to address the housing crisis, says Labour Leader David Cunliffe.
"Within five years, it will cost 63 per cent of the average full time wage to service an 80 per cent mortgage on an average home. Right now, it costs 49 per cent of the average full time wage.
"By failing to announce anything that will tackle the housing crisis, National has lit the fuse on a time bomb.
"These projections guarantee that home ownership rates will continue to fall, and a generation of young New Zealanders can kiss goodbye to the Kiwi dream of home ownership.
"Budget projections show the average Kiwi will gain around $2,600 a year in real wages, about $1,800 after tax. Real mortgage payments are slated to go up by around $2,900 over the same period based on Treasury's data.
"Rising housing costs will hollow out household incomes in middle New Zealand, and drive struggling families deeper into poverty.
"This crisis is also being driven by surging migration figures. Tinkering with tariff duties and planning rules is nowhere near enough.
"National might be willing to sit on its hands while home ownership becomes a distant dream but Labour is not.
"The Labour-led Government I lead will build 100,000 affordable starter homes, will implement a Capital Gains Tax to take the speculative heat out of the market, put a stop to offshore speculators bidding up prices, and give the Reserve Bank the option of raising savings rates rather than interest rates.
"Affordable housing is a top priority for New Zealanders and will be so for the incoming Labour-led government," says David Cunliffe.


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K-State Hoops Records "Never" to be Broken
It was 48 years ago this past weekend that Wilt Chamberlain broke the all-time NBA scoring mark held by Bob Pettit. Before his retirement, "The Big Dipper" would pile up another 10,000-plus points to end his 14-year career with 31,419.
It was certainly a mark never to be touched... right?
Today, Chamberlain ranks only fourth in NBA history behind Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The story got me thinking about the top-10 Kansas State men's and women's basketball records that will never be touched. Yep, 'never' is a long, long, long time, but here's to say that these Wildcat standards are written in permanent ink.
Here we go, and you're encouraged to put your memory cap on to come up with some historical records/moments of your own that would top these.
Oh, the order is only sort of 1 through 10. Every time I piddled with a 1 through 10 order, it changed, so at least after the first two records, the list is in pencil and full of eraser marks.
62!!!! - On March 24, 1994, in a postseason NIT game against Fresno State, Askia Jones rewrote the K-State record book with the marks of 20 years ago standing sturdy today. Just for your information, Jones played in only 28 minutes of the 40-minute game, but still found a way to produce these astounding numbers:
- 62 points in a single game: a K-State record that is 15 points more than Chuckie Williams' 47 points in 1975 against Holy Cross in the NCAA Tournament.
- 14 three-pointers in a single game: a K-State record by six over the eight netted by Steve Henson in 1990 and Cortez Groves in 2000.
- 45 points in a single half.
- A single-game Bramlage Coliseum record by 21 points: Steve Henson scored 41 against Iowa State in 1990.
392 FROM 3 - Laurie Koehn's 392 three-pointers scored between the 2001-02 and 2004-05 seasons still ranks as not only a K-State record, but an all-time NCAA record. As great of a sharp-shooter as Britany Chambers was, her 350 makes were 42 shy of Koehn's mark.
WHEN 75 WASN'T ENOUGH - It was in 2008 that Michael Beasley netted 44 points and fellow freshman Bill Walker added 31 points against the Baylor Bears. That was 75 points out of Kansas State's total of 86.
And now the rest of the story: K-State lost to the Bears in Waco, 92-86.
It's hard to believe there will ever be another 75-point performance by two players in a K-State loss.
THE AMAZING MR. BEASLEY - Michael Beasley chose to be a Wildcat only one season, but what a year it was in 2007-08. The 6-foot-10 standout averaged 26.2 points during a 33-game season, which is 4.3 points better than any other K-State player. Oh yes, Beasley also holds the school record of 28.4 points per game in league contests in a single year.
Beasley scored at least 30 points in 13 games, which is six more than any other Wildcat.
WECKER NO. 1 - No Wildcat will ever match the point-rebound-assist production of Kendra Wecker. From 2001-02 to 2004-05, Wecker totaled 2,333 points, captured 1,087 rebounds and dished out 379 assists for a grand total of 3,799 in the three categories.
As sensational as Nicole Ohlde was, her point (2,241), rebound (995) and assist (367) total of 3,603 was 196 shy of Wecker's point-rebound-assist numbers.
For the record, Jacob Pullen tops the men's chart with 2,909 - 2,132 points, 322, rebounds and 455 assists.
800 DISH OUTS - Shalee Lehning shared the basketball like no one else in K-State history. Between the 2005-06 and 2008-09 campaigns, Lehning handed out 800 assists, which tops second-place Megan Mahoney (589) by 211 assists.
By comparison, Steve Henson owns the men's record with 582 assists.
While we're talking about Lehning, she also owns the Big 12 record for triple-doubles in a single game - twin figures in points, rebounds and assists - with three during the 2008-09 season.
AUTOMATIC FROM THE STRIPE - Steve Henson made 92.5 percent of his free throws for the entire 1987-88 season. That was 111 makes out of 120 attempts. For his four-year career, he was 90 percent from the foul line with 361 makes out of 401 attempts.
By comparison, Laurie Koehn made 89.5 percent from the charity stripe in 2001-02 and 87.7 percent for her career.
Today, if one hits over 70 percent he/she is considered a marksman from the line.
HALL WAS EVERYWHERE - David Hall was just 6-foot-7 and weighed a modest 200 pounds when he snared 27 rebounds against Oklahoma in 1971 for a Kansas State single-game record. Only Michael Beasley in 2007 has flirted with the record since 1970 with 24 boards against Sacramento State.
The women's record for one game is 20 shared by Lehning, Wecker and Carlisa Thomas.
HARD TO BEAT PERFECT (on at least 10 attempts) - Priscilla Gary torched Cal State Fullerton on 13-of-13 shooting from the field in a 1982 game.
Coming close on the men's side were Joe Wright in 1985 against Oklahoma State and Eddie Elder in 1985 against Colorado with 11-of-11 accuracy from the field.
OF ALL THE GREAT GUARDS, FRAZIER NO. 1 FOR A NIGHT - In a 1976 game against Central Missouri, Keith Frazier handed out 16 assists in a single game. Tim Jankovich ranks second on the list with 14 against Kansas in 1981. No Wildcat has handed out more than 11 assists in any game since 1990.


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The two camps don't seem to talk to each other much. Maybe that's because this is a hard issue to even talk about, in part because of a lack of agreement on what "evolutionary psychology" even means. But if there's any authoritative source for what evolutionary psychology is, it's probably the anthology The Adapted Mind, edited by Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby. And here's how they define their project in the introduction:
The central premise of The Adapted Mind is that there is a universal human nature, but that this universality exists primarily at the level of evolved psychological mechanisms, not of expressed cultural behaviors. On this view, cultural variability is not a challenge to claims of universality, but rather data that can give one insight into the structure of the psychological mechanisms that helped generate it. A second premise is that these evolved psychological mechanisms are adaptations, constructed by natural selection over evolutionary time. A third assumption made by most of the contributors is that the evolved structure of the human mind is adapted to the way of life of Pleistocene hunter-gatherers, and not necessarily to our modem circumstances (p. 5).
I know a lot of people will object to assuming that what the editors call "psychological mechanisms" are adaptations, and I plan on dealing with that issue in a future post. But what actually sticks out at me as the weakest point in this set of three assumptions is the third assumption, about the Pleistocene. There's a slight nod to doubts people might have about it when the editors say it's made by "most of our contributors," a qualification they didn't make with the first two assumptions. Furthermore, recent studies showing an increase in the rate of human evolution (see here and here, for example) may seem to contradict this assumption.
Similarly, they say, "If selection had constructed complex new adaptations rapidly over historical time, then populations that have been agricultural for several thousand years would differ sharply in their evolved architecture from populations that until recently practiced hunting and gathering. They do not." Again, this doesn't rule out subtler differences between those human populations as a result of changes in lifestyle (think ability to digest lactose).
Okay, simple issue gotten out of the way. Feel free to use this as a thread for evo psych bashing, but if you're going to make a claim of the form "evolutionary psychology says X" or "evolutionary psychologists do Y," tell me whose work you're referring to. Cosmides and Tooby's? Donald Symons'? David Buss'? Steven Pinker's? Robert Trivers'? Geoffrey Miller's? Whose?


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many of the verses quoted in the article above have nothing to do with clothing appropriate to any specfic gattering as in this case worship. Since so many verses were quoted, why leave out this one?ReplyDelete
Matthew 22:11 "But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12 'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.
13 "Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
the wedding clothes represent salvation. its not aying if you dont dress nice God wont let you into heavenReplyDelete
Matthew 22:11-13 is referring to salvation when speaking of wedding clothes, not clothes that one wears on the outside. That scripture don't even add into this situation at all. Someone is getting tossed into Hell at the end of 13...ReplyDelete
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,1 Corin 4:9-10ReplyDelete
MINISTER: Short, No its not the finest clothes nor is it the poorest clothes that defines your heart. NO MAN should judge u of what u have on, unless it reveals naked skin or your clothes so tight that it shows the print of your body parts. Romans 12:1-2, 1 Corinthians 6:19,ReplyDelete
Now if your clothing is properly presented as a respectful man or lady there should be no problem. Even your clothes is dirty or smells as long as it is presentable. But rememer someone of the pastoral staff may address the dirty and smelling clothes with you on a private matter to help you to get clean clothing.
also; look at it from another stand point we do today have lots of Christians, people young and old wearing clothes thats is not presentable because of showing nake skin, dress to short, mems and women pants and shirt to tight, i think you get my point. so we as GODs leaders and His children must understand a dress code that is petesrntable and a dress code that is not.
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I believe the Holy Spirit can reveal this to you if you seek His interpretation of scripture for you. If you pray for understanding when you read the Bible, you just may see it come to life in a different way than just black and white text. Spiritual things require spiritual understanding. "You will seek Me and you will find Me when you seek Me with all your heart." It doesn't say with all your mind, or with all your friends, or with all your online resources. But if you invite Him into your heart, He can speak to you in your thoughts, in any way He chooses, through anything He chooses, and you will find that there is more to His word than what the human mind sees when reading the Bible.ReplyDelete
As for what to wear to church, if He reveals to you that you should dress a certain way, then you should dress accordingly. I am far from perfect, so don't take my understanding to heart unless it fits with what the Lord reveals to you personally, but my spiritual understanding so far is this:
Clothing represents the deeds that we have done. Therefore, nakedness represents a lack of good deeds with good intent from the heart. There are seemingly good deeds, which look good to man, but if they are done with the wrong heart (or intent) then they appear as rags (sack cloth) to God. Dressing yourself in good deeds is about having a relationship with God, which directs your heart through communication with the Holy Spirit (prayer), and brings forth fruit of His kind (your truly good deeds), which are like spiritual clothing for you when you stand before God.
Again, pray about this, and see if He will confirm it to you, or confirm to you that my understanding is wrong or incomplete.


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Dual EC DRBG or Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual EC DRBG) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and a crypto toolkit from RSA is thought to have been one main way the crypto ended up in hundreds of vendors' products.
Because Cisco is known to have used the BSAFE crypto toolkit, the company has faced questions about where Dual EC DRBG may have ended up in the Cisco product line. In a Cisco blog post today, Anthony Grieco, principle engineer at Cisco, tackled this topic in a notice about how Cisco chooses crypto.
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"Falling Skies" won't return until the next two weeks, but fans can now watch the first 5 minutes of the season 4 premiere. The extended clip shares a gleam of hope for the 2nd Mass as they arrive in Charleston, but it doesn't last long.
"Home sweet home," Pope says while Tom and the group pause to enjoy the scenery of Charleston from afar. "We don't all have to die here," says Lexi to the confused Tom before the aliens come and attack them, separating the group with grids.
"Falling Skies" season 4 premieres Sunday, June 22 at 10/9c on TNT. Cartermatt reported that Lexi "is going to continue to shock, as if becoming an adult in a tiny amount of time was something that was not insane enough."
Moon Bloodgood who plays Ann has confirmed that Scarlett Byrne would play the grown-up version of her daughter, Lexi. Co-star Seychelle Gabriel chimed in, "She's part alien."
After the attack that separates them, Maxim would be in "a military reform school for children" and Drew's "in the camp" on his own. Bloodgood also said that Pope's with Tom, "but Tom's alone for a while. And then, he and Drew get reunited."


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Robert Morris men's basketball team gains 1st win
Robert Morris men's basketball coach Andy Toole knew it was going to sound bizarre after a 29-point loss to Lehigh on Monday, but he felt like he got his team back despite the lopsided score.
Robert Morris (1-2) got its first win of the 2012-13 season Tuesday, beating Fordham (0-3) in the NIT Season Tip-Off tournament, 74-58, at Petersen Events Center.
"I think what I meant by that was getting their attention," said Toole, whose team went 26-11 last season. "We're battling success. Hey, we were good last year, we've got everybody back, we're just going to be good again, and that's not how it works. Once they see that they need each other and they need to buy into what we're doing, now you can start to make strides."
Senior guard Velton Jones led Robert Morris with 18 points and added five assists. Junior guard Karvel Anderson scored 16 points off the bench and had seven rebounds. Sophomore forward Lucky Jones just missed a double-double with 15 points and nine rebounds, and junior Coron Williams scored 13 points.
Fordham junior guard Brenden Frazier led all scorers with 21 points, and he contributed seven assists.
Robert Morris led at halftime, 37-29, but Fordham tied it, 39-39, three minutes into the second half. Toole called a timeout. For the next five minutes the two teams jockeyed, with Robert Morris going up by five, and then Fordham cutting it to two. The Colonials went up by five again on a Velton Jones jumper and a free throw by Lucky Jones, only to have Frazier cut it to three again.
But a 12-0 run helped put the Colonials on top for good, and Fordham got no closer than six points.
"We were just following our defensive details and staying in the game," Velton Jones said of the run.
Robert Morris' first game of the season, a 79-54 loss to Rider, was a disjointed effort in which Toole said everyone was trying to do everything on their own. Toole believed that Monday night was more of a team effort, and they built on that Tuesday.
"A lot of the stuff we didn't do in our first two games, it's not like we changed our game plan overnight," Toole said. "Sometimes things start to change when people get tired of the result. You lose two games, all of a sudden guys are getting sick and tired of what's going on and maybe they're a little more tuned in to what we do."
Karen Price is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-320-7980 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Activity note: Hotel check-in from 4:30 p.m.
Afternoon: Program Registration. After you have your room assignment, come to the Road Scholar table to register with the program staff and get your welcome packet containing your name-tag, up-to-date schedule that reflects any last-minute changes, other important information, and to confirm when and where the Orientation session will take place. If you arrive late, please ask for your packet when you check in. After registration, we will take small buses holding 15 passengers to the Cosmosphere and learn about the awe-inspiring facility from the staff which, among many other craft, houses a flown SR-71 Blackbird spy plane in its lobby.
Dinner: At the Cosmosphere, we will enjoy a plated dinner including lasagna, salad, and breadsticks, plus coffee, tea, water, and soft drinks.
Evening: Orientation. The Group Leader will greet everyone and lead introductions. We will review the up-to-date program schedule, discuss roles and responsibilities, logistics, safety guidelines, emergency procedures, and answer questions. Periods in the daily schedule designated as "Free time" and "At leisure" offer opportunities to do what you like and make your experience even more meaningful and memorable according to your personal preferences. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions. Program activities, schedules, personnel, and indicated distances or times may change due to local circumstances/conditions. In the event of changes, we will alert you as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding. This is a Road Scholar intergenerational program. Grandparents are responsible for their grandchildren. If/when separate age group activities are conducted concurrently, program staff will supervise. Children are never to be left unsupervised. After Orientation, we will continue with a team naming activity before returning to the hotel.
Activity note: Getting on/off buses. Walking inside Cosmosphere.
Breakfast: At the hotel, we will enjoy a buffet meal, plus coffee, tea, water, juice, and soft drinks.
Morning: After breakfast, we will ride by small bus to the Cosmosphere where we will break out into smaller groups to learn about the four forces of flight from staff, practice in Air Force-grade flight simulators, and learn about flight planning and conduct a pre-flight inspection of the Cessna 172. Especially for Kids: With grandchildren at the controls, we'll take our first hands-on lesson in the air with a certified flight instructor.
Lunch: At a local restaurant, we will enjoy a buffet lunch, plus coffee, tea, water; other beverages available for purchase.
Afternoon: Returning to the Cosmosphere, we will continue with our flight activities, as well as experience the world class space museum, the Hall of Space.
Dinner: At a favorite local restaurant, we will enjoy a plated dinner from a set menu, plus coffee, tea, water; other beverages available for purchase.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: Getting on/off the small buses. Walking inside Cosmosphere.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: Returning to the Cosmosphere in our small buses, we will experience Dr. Goddard's Lab, and see how rockets work in the midst of amazing explosions and the findings of Robert H. Goddard, led by Cosmosphere staff.
Lunch: At a local restaurant, we will enjoy lunch from a set menu, as well as the choice of over 100 milkshake flavors. Coffee, tea, water, soft drinks included.
Afternoon: We will have one packed afternoon at the Cosmosphere. First, we'll get a shot at the Falcon III Shuttle simulator, a multi-axis Trainer Simulator, before entering a full-scale Soyuz Module, built to train American astronauts. Especially for Kids: We will also get to have our pictures taken in an Apollo spacesuit mock-up, as well as put to use what we learned from Dr Goddard's Lab as we build model rockets!
Dinner: At a local restaurant, we will enjoy a buffet meal of Mexican cuisine, plus coffee, tea, water; other beverages available for purchase.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: Walking and standing about 1 hour. Getting on/off motorcoach; approximately 1 hour drive to Wichita.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: For decades, Wichita has been known as the "Air Capital." We'll find out why as we visit an actual aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita and witness the effort that goes into building airplanes.
Lunch: At a local restaurant, we will enjoy a set menu of real Kansas barbecue. Coffee, tea, water, soft drinks included.
Afternoon: We will return to Hutchinson to spend time at SpaceWorks, the Cosmosphere's world premiere space craft restoration facility, and view their current restoration project. After returning to the Cosmosphere, we will view a movie in our digital dome theater.
Dinner: At a nearby restaurant in the Amish Community of Yoder, we will enjoy traditional home-cooked Midwestern fare from a set menu, plus coffee, tea, water, and soft drinks.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: Getting on/ off small buses. Walking and standing under 1 hour at Strataca, walking inside Cosmosphere.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: We will take buses to Strataca, a salt mine museum, where we will descend 650 feet underground to see how real miners work and learn the history of salt. We will return to the Cosmosphere for lunch.
Lunch: At the Cosmosphere café, we will enjoy a meal, plus coffee, tea, water, soft drinks.
Afternoon: We will complete our mission with one last practice in the Falcon III shuttle simulator. We will then enjoy some time on our own at the Cosmosphere, with further exploration of the museum.
Dinner: At the Cosmosphere, we will enjoy grilled hamburgers and hotdogs; coffee, tea, water, soft drinks included.
Evening: Especially for Kids: We will travel by bus to a location just outside of town to launch rockets, eat s'mores, and observe the night sky through a state of the art 11" reflecting telescope.
Activity note: Hotel check-out by 12:00 Noon. Early 8:00 a.m. check-out is recommended to avoid rushing for noontime check-out.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: Grandchildren will enjoy a robotics challenge while the adults enjoy a presentation by our curatorial staff. We will conclude the morning with a short graduation ceremony.
Lunch: At the Cosmosphere, we will enjoy a lunch catered from a local restaurant, plus coffee, tea, water. This concludes our program.
Afternoon: We hope you enjoy Road Scholar learning adventures and look forward to having you on rewarding programs in the future. Please join our Facebook page and share photos of your program. Visit us at www.facebook.com/rsadventures. Best wishes for all your journeys!


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Banking customers hoping for higher interest rates on savings accounts and deposit certificates got another bonk on the head Tuesday from the Federal Reserve, which said it plans to keep a key interest rate at the current level for another two years.
The Federal Open Market Committee decided to keep its target range for the federal funds rate at zero percent to one-quarter percent and said in a statement that economic conditions were "likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate at least through mid-2013."
That was a major departure from the Fed's longstanding guidance that economic conditions are "likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate for an extended period."
The decision wasn't unanimous. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and six committee members voted for the statement while three other committee members wanted to stick with the usual wording.
In its statement, the Fed explained that economic growth has been "considerably slower" than expected. The labor market has deteriorated, unemployment has risen, household spending has flattened out and housing remains depressed. On the flip side, business investment in equipment and software continues to expand and inflation has moderated, with longer-term expectations remaining stable.
Earlier this week, the Fed, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a joint statement noting that Standard & Poor's had lowered its long-term rating of U.S. government debt from AAA to AA+ and saying the risk weights for bank risk-based capital purposes "will not change."
The hold-steady policy applies to Treasury securities and other securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, government agencies and government-sponsored entities. That last category refers primarily to Fannie Mae and Freddie, the two mortgage securitizers operating under government conservatorships.
In effect, the regulators disregarded the rating agency's downgrade and stuck with the story that U.S. debt hasn't become a riskier asset for banks to hold as capital.
On the one hand, they may be well be correct. On the other hand, it's not altogether surprising that the government believes the government itself is the paragon of creditworthiness. If there were a third hand, skeptics might suggest the whole debate has been academic or politically motivated.
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Gang member arrested in Colo. corrections killing
DENVER — A white supremacist prison gang member was arrested and another was being sought for questioning on Friday in the death of Colorado's prisons chief as authorities investigated whether the gang had any ties to the killing.
James Lohr, who has the words "Hard" and "Luck" tattooed where his eyebrows would be, was taken into custody early Friday in Colorado Springs. He was wanted for questioning in the slaying of Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements.
Authorities believe Lohr was in contact with gang associate Evan Ebel days before the killings of Clements and pizza delivery man Nate Leon. Police said they believe Ebel killed Leon and Clements less than a week before he died in a Texas shootout, but the motive is unclear.
Clements was shot to death March 19 in Monument, just north of Colorado Springs. Leon was killed two days earlier. His body was found in the Denver suburb of Golden.
Colorado Springs police arrested Lohr after a short foot chase that started when officers tried to stop the car he was driving, according to a statement. Lohr was booked on felony evading charges and also held on three separate outstanding arrest warrants unrelated to the Clements case. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday.


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In this second episode, I explore the Washington D.C. Capital Bikeshare program and examine how sustainable travel can be user friendly and available to the community at large. The program makes available over 1100 bicycles across 110 stations to anyone in the D.C. Metro Area. Similar programs are run across the United States and in the UK.


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Bored of being called controversial: Salman Rushdie
It seems like Salman Rushdie, winner of the Booker of Bookers, who has battled fatwas, been the target of death threats, and whose hard partying and choices in women have filled numerous tabloid pages, has decided to play safe. Manjula Narayan reports.delhi Updated: Jan 23, 2013 01:51 IST
Salman Rushdie turns up at the Hindustan Times office minus Deepa Mehta, the director of the Midnight's Children film, which he is in town to promote. While Mehta has been held back by an asthma attack, the author has made time for the Unplugged at HT session in between interviews at television studios.
"It feels like I'm closing a big circle begun when I was very young; like I'm bringing the film of the novel back home," he starts off. He is content talking only about the project, with an occasional crack about actor Soha Ali Khan's nose making her the perfect person to play Jamila, but the conversation soon turns to whether he would attend this year's Jaipur Literature Festival.
It seems like the winner of the Booker of Bookers who has battled fatwas, been the target of death threats, and whose hard partying and choices in women have filled numerous tabloid pages, has decided to play safe. "I'm bored of being called controversial," he says, alluding to the drama around the making of the Midnight's Children film, but he could just as well be referring to his own life.
"Nobody invites me to literature festivals anymore," he says with mock sadness. Does he think, given the ominous demands both Hindu and Muslim groups have been making, that this year's event would also be embroiled in trouble? "I hope not; how many groups of people can demand that other groups be excluded," he says half jokingly. "I hope this time around, people will hold their nerve."
That said, his resolve to sidestep controversy seems to weaken when asked to comment on Rahul Gandhi, whose grandmother sued him for a line in Midnight's Children in 1984. "I don't have much of an opinion because there is not much to have an opinion of. I don't know what Rahul Gandhi does," he says.
Prodded about the 'death of the novel', he says, "You should ask Sir Vidia (Naipaul) that. Vidia is the one who says the novel is dead… and then writes novels."


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Arizona company that processes the red light violations for Clay County and dozens of other communities in Florida that have installed red-light cameras has released staggering statistics about how successful the cameras are at cutting down on accidents.
"The number of crashes, violations and fatalities have decreased since cities have been using red-light safety cameras," said Charles Territo of American Traffic Solutions.
But not everyone is buying American Traffic Solutions numbers, saying they're skewed. That includes State Rep. Janet Adkins, R-Nassau County, who supports banning the cameras. She doesn't trust the company's statistics.
"When you have such a small data sample, to say that it's due to red-light cameras, I believe it's disingenuous, and I believe it's fraud," said Adkins.
Adkins says she supports a bill being discussed in the legislature this year to ban the cameras. She says she's heard from too many constituents who are getting the $158 citations in the mail, and they and can't afford them.
"I received an email from a constituent saying, 'How is it possible I receive a ticket, I didn't even go through a red light. (I) loan my car to someone and receive a $158 bill in the mail,'" said Adkins.
Adkins says one reason she didn't trust the company's numbers is because they showed decreases in crashes the year after there was a high number of accidents, so there was an unusually large drop.
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THE shareholder machinations at oil and gas vessel outfit Miclyn Express have the market wondering if a takeover offer is just around the corner.
Miclyn was floated by Macquarie Bank in 2010, with Macquarie keeping a 33 per cent stake. The float struggled initially but the stock has got a wriggle on, rising 38 per cent in the past 12 months. Macquarie recently agreed to sell its stake to private equity group Champ for $2.15 a share. Within days of buying the holding, Champ agreed to on-sell close to 10 million shares in Miclyn to Singaporean private equity group and existing Miclyn shareholder SEA6. This means SEA6 and Champ each have about 30 per cent of it.
Champ rarely holds its investments in listed vehicles. This leads to the conclusion that SEA6 and Champ are preparing to take the company private by mopping up the 40 per cent they don't own. With a hive of offshore oil and gas activity scheduled in south-east Asia in the next five years, an unlisted company could take on more debt and accelerate capital expenditure on vessel purchases. With demand strong, this approach would dramatically propel earnings, in preparation for a sale of the asset in about three years.
Miclyn is trading on a price-to-earnings multiple of nine times forecast earnings, so it is feasible a takeover could be launched at $2.80, well above today's $2.25.
Ingenia Group stapled
MENTION retirement villages and many professional investors shudder with memories of stories such as Prime Life. This negative view is justified given the complex financial structures retirement village management companies operate under. That said, we shouldn't shut the door on a stock just because the industry is circumspect. Ingenia is an old ING trust that got into trouble by over-gearing its balance sheet from 2005 to 2007. Under the leadership of former Aevum boss Simon Owen, the group has been selling assets to pay down debt, the stock tripling over the past three years.
The company's stapled security is trading at 26¢, a 23 per cent discount to the stated net tangible assets (NTA) of 34¢. The group is awaiting regulatory approval to consummate the sale of its US assets. Once this is completed, the company has said it will use the cash to buy up to 10 per cent of its stapled securities back, and is happy to purchase them at up to a 20 per cent discount to the NTA.
At first blush the share price suggests the market has already factored the benefits of the buyback in. The dynamics change, though, if you believe the stated NTA is understated. The sale of the US business will add 3¢ a share to the NTA, taking it to 37¢. Plus, the group is edging towards selling its education accommodation in New Zealand, which has the ability to push the NTA to 40¢. This would mean the group could buy units up to 30¢-32¢, closing the discount to NTA. Ingenia also believes there are opportunities to buy aged-care facilities in Australia. If it can get the stapled security price up to NTA of 40¢ it will be in a much stronger position to take advantage of this opportunity.
Banking sector
THE big banks have emerged as the market leaders since the market bottomed in early June. The All Financials Index has piled on 20 per cent compared with a more moderate 12 per cent by the overall market.
The four majors traditionally have their best month in October. Investors searching for fully franked dividends zero in, with three of the four paying half-yearly dividends in early November. Since the government introduced the 45-day holding rule for franking in the 1990s, the banking sector has on average gained slightly more than 3 per cent in October. In this month the banks traditionally make almost half their gains for the year.
The four majors have already posted an average gain of 4.25 per cent this month, despite 13 days left in the month. The overall market has gained less than 3 per cent. The performance has been driven by super funds hungry for fully franked dividends. Adding to the demand has been funds in the northern hemisphere looking for any yield. The alternative is receiving close to zero on cash.
All this adds up to a crowded trade. It also means there is a higher level of risk holding banks through the dividend period. It may be wise to sell in the days leading up to the stocks going ex-dividend and reassess afterwards.
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