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I will be 6months post-op in February and was hoping to get my belly button pierced. Would that be ok?
Can I Get my Belly Button Pierced After a Tummy Tuck?
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Tummy tuck and belly button piercing
It would seem that you are plenty far from your procedure to have this done. You will note that there is a yo-yo effect on the abdominal skin that was redraped with it being more full as the day goes by. However, in the morning is the time you want to get the most accurate point of entry for the pierce because of the tissue being less swollen and representing a better image of what your piercing site will be after a year or so.
Belly button piercing after a tummy tuck
As long as your incision is well healed, you can get your belly button pierced six months after a tummy tuck. If you are concerned at all regarding how your incision has healed, please consult with your plastic surgeon prior to the actual piercing.
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Wait Until Healed Before Getting Piercing Following Tummy Tuck
Umbilical piercings have become very popular amongst younger patients. It's not unusual for abdominoplasty patients to request this procedure following tummy tuck surgery.
This is a relatively simple procedure, but should be delayed until adequate healing has taken place. In most cases this takes about six months to occur.
It's important to understand that wound healing varies from patient to patient. For this reason it's important to consult your surgeon before proceeding with this maneuver.
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At 6 months your incisions should be healed, making it safe to have your belly button pierced at this point. However, if you've had complications and delayed healing then you may need to wait longer. Ask your surgeon what their opinion is.
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Can I Get my Belly Button Pierced After a Tummy Tuck?
Yes, you should be able to get your belly button pierced 6 months after a tummy tuck. By this stage your incision should be completely healed and the scar maturing well.
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Generally yes, although you should obviously clear this with your plastic surgeon. At this stage (6 months) you are well-healed, and that certainly appears to be the case based on the photo you sent. So - from that standpoint - go for it. My only hesitation (and not that you asked...) is that if your BB stretches out a bit, or the piercing catches on something, or whatever...you may undo all the work you've done. I have seen more than a few patients who look down at their newly renovated BB and decide never to do anything else to it...and a few who did and who regretted it. But that's not for me to say - the bottom line is that you appear to have an outstanding result, you've healed well and you should feel free to go ahead and do what you want!
I hope that this helps, and good luck,
Dr. E
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At 6 months after a tummy tuck and you have healed without complications, then you are pretty much able to do anything. A piercing should be fine.
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Jon McCarthy doesn't have revenge on his minds as he prepares to take his Chester side to struggling Maidstone United tomorrow.
Jay Saunders' Stones are two points from safety after a run of just one win in nine matches, but they did emerge from Chester with a 3-1 victory back in August, a match which saw Blues' striker James Alabi score before getting sent off late on.
Chester lie 12th in the National League table ahead of tomorrow's long trip to Kent following a run of six defeats in eight, but denies the clash at the Gallagher Stadium is 'must-win'.
"Maidstone have had a big wake up call in playing in the National League. They've done well, it's difficult to come up and I think they will be alright," said McCarthy, who saw Ross Killock, Jordan Chapell and Matty Waters all get through over 60 minutes in the 3-2 behind-closed-doors friendly defeat against a Wigan XI on Tuesday.
"There's a big change in squad and personnel from the first time we played them. They've had a good look at it, had a good start, and they've found the harsh realities and they've brought in competition and experienced midfielders to try and get them across the line.
"They will see this as a big game, they look at Chester losing three games and think it's a chance to win if they are to achieve their priorities.
"We want to win every game, but it's not a must-win game. People thought we'd have 10 less points on the board at this stage, there's a mini-league at the bottom and those were the pressure games for us. Guiseley (2-0) and Braintree (1-0) at home, they were games I have to win.
"That's when I was under real pressure, not now. It's two away games, Southport and Maidstone, we don't have to win those away games. Maidstone took points off us at home and that hurt so I'd like them to see we're better and to take our fair share of the points.
"I feel that one still, we'd had an up and we were on our way having beaten Dagenham but actually we had a long way to go. It hurt and they were still on that ride from getting promoted.
"Now they've had a harder patch and in their past five games, I've watched them lose to Aldershot and draw with York where I thought they did well. It's not outstanding form but it's the sort of form that will keep them up, but we're not on a good run so it's big for us.
"The 3G pitch is no different from what we've trained on since October, grass is different for us as strange as that sounds."
Chester have lost their past three outings and McCarthy is looking for a response from his squad after the disappointing 2-1 home reverse against Gateshead last weekend.
"Previously we had a stranglehold in that game and we needed to take advantage at that point," he continued.
"When Gateshead got a grip on the game, they took advantage of it, there's a couple of moments of concentration and things positionally that we didn't get right and that's disappointing.
"There was a general flatness about the performance. How much of that is down to us and how much is down to coming up against an experienced team with good players? I am disappointed but I've got to guard against complacency setting in given the position we had put ourselves in earlier this season.
"There's always an element of defensive work. I'll get together with a small group of players and go through a few things where we can improve. They have to perform individually and they will stay in the team. I have to get more of the players at that level this weekend."
McCarthy revealed the club have taken three youngsters on trial with a view to signing permanent deals in the summer. Jamie Morgan (ex-Crewe), Lucas Dawson (former Stoke trainee) and Liam Davies (ex-Tranmere) are currently training with Chester, while full-back Theo Vassell has returned to parent-club Walsall for treatment, after suffering a hamstring strain against Gateshead.
"I get 20 emails and requests every week from clubs and agents, that's no exaggeration," McCarthy said.
"We've got Jamie Morgan from Crewe, he's trained with us for quite a while. Lucas Dawson and Liam Davies have got good pedigree and fit our template. We don't judge them on one session, I trust myself to see it if there's something there."
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Lacing is still offered by several custom makers and is rarely seen because it is expensive compared to stitching. El Paso Saddlery offers it and I think that rawhide whipped lacing is very attractive on a traditional holster.
Firstly, I recommend going to the Tandy website and watching ALL their free videos. You'll learn a lot just watching.
I would recommend a good awl and doing a saddle stitch, rather than lacing because it's easier to do. Good looking lacing takes practice but a straight stitch is easy. A stitching groover is recommended not only as a bed for your stitch but also to keep it straight and it provides protection for the thread. Make your stitch about 3/16" from the edge.
A good, sharp, diamond shaped awl is easy to use and unlike drilling, removes no material. The holes close up once completed and the stitching is much less obvious than even machine stitching.
You also want an overstitch wheel and set it to 5-6 stitches per inch. This is a cogged wheel that sets your stitch marks.
Saddle stitching needles are blunt and will not cut the thread as you do your stitching.
Most holsters are made from 8-9oz vegetable tanned leather. Marketed as "tooling leather" at Tandy, which is still a good source for leather, tools and supplies. As you get more involved, you'll probably want better tools like those from Barry King, BearMauls or Osborne but the Tandy stuff is plenty good enough to get started. Avoid the cheap chrome tanned leather because it does not work well, hold its shape or finish as nicely. Don't be afraid to dye your own work.
Glue is not "necessary" but most commercial and professional makers use it for a reason. It makes for a stronger seam, a much neater looking seam and it makes it much easier to stitch. As noted, it also keeps your edges held together and won't separate over time. A well done, glued and stitched seam is a thing of beauty all by itself.
Rivets are certainly not a sign of cheap leather. They are very useful for reinforcing stress points but shouldn't really be necessary on the mainseam of a holster. They are, however, quite often used on belt loops, small pouches, belts and bags. I prefer to use traditional #12 copper rivets instead of the modern plated variety.
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Even in an age of rapid draft information dissemination, thousands knew that Justin Kea had been picked in the NHL Draft before he did.
Kea opted to watch the draft from his home in Woodville, Ontario Saturday. He had the television on when the Buffalo Sabres announced that they had taken him with the 73rd overall pick -- but the broadcast was showing analysts, not announcing picks.
Kea didn't find out he'd been picked until his agent called him with the news a few seconds later. And he was pleasantly surprised to hear he'd gone higher than his personal best-case scenario.
"I thought third would be the highest I could go," Kea said. "I thought late third round. To go 73rd is a lot higher than I expected, so I was happy about that."
Kea was the first of three Saginaw Spirit players picked in Saturday's NHL Draft, held at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh.
Goaltender Jake Paterson went in the third round to the Detroit Red Wings, No. 80 overall, seven picks after Kea. Garret Ross went two rounds later, No. 139 overall to the Chicago Blackhawks
After having four players picked in last year's draft, the Spirit have now had seven players picked in the last two NHL Drafts. That's as many as in the four drafts before that combined.
Spirit General Manager Jim Paliafito said he hopes the Spirit's last two draft showings have established Saginaw as a place that develops young talent well.
"It just shows you that, with them taking guys like Kea, (Paterson) going, they like the development and where the organization is headed," Paliafito said. "A lot of positives."
Kea made himself an NHL Draft prospect by playing a solid two-way game while anchoring the Spirit's third line, and his 6-foot-3, 212-pound size made him stand out to pro franchises.
"It was exciting to know that I've been drafted, and it's a relief that all my hard work has paid off," Kea said. "I'm just glad that I'm a property of somebody."
Paterson is the first Spirit player to be picked by the Red Wings while on Saginaw's active roster in the team's 10 seasons of existence. Three other Red Wings draft picks have played for Saginaw: Zack Torquato, Jan Mursak and Tyler Haskins.
Paterson told the Detroit Free Press that he grew up following the Red Wings and former Wings goaltender Chris Osgood, who scouted Paterson on several occasions last season.
"It's a surreal experience for sure," Paterson said. "To be picked by the Wings is just an unbelievable feeling right now.
"I've always like Osgood, being a goalie. He's always been one of my favorite goalies."
Ross' selection came in his third year of draft eligibility, after he put up a 25-goal season last year.
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Romney had his faults, and I have spilled my share of ink on those faults — both in the 2008 campaign and in the 2012 campaign. For instance, I think his approach in the second and third debates with Obama was tragic.
But, oh, the virtues! Romney is one of the brightest, most capable, most admirable men ever to run for president. He would have been an excellent and pivotal president, I believe — the "turnaround artist" we needed. But, in a democracy, the people get what they deserve. They now have what they deserve, or at least a majority does.
"Hang on, Nordlinger, are you saying that Romney was better than the country?" Yeah, I guess I am. Not being a politician, I have the luxury of not having to flatter The People. He was also better than most of us who sit, scribble, and crab.
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Fr. Meyendorff's Interview
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Tuesday, June 15. 2010
Fr. Meyendorff's Interview
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Meyendorff, was of course, accurate in his observations. The creation of the OCA was the way to solve the problems in N. Am., but some hierarchs were too narrow-minded to see this. The concept of an indigenous, canonical, autocephalous Orthodox Church in N. Am. comprised of ALL the ethnic hierarchs sitting in sobor. Electing their own metropolitan and acting in unity. This is what SCOBA called for and Fr. Schmemann delivered. Both + Iakavos & + Philip failed to follow through and join the OCA resulting in continued disunity in N. Am. since 1970. Now, with + Bart's attempt, he will only accept unity under HIMSELF. Pope Bart - all hail!
Anonymous on 2010-06-15 13:44
How good to be reminded of Father Meyendorff's voice, his broad cultural references, weighty knowledge and perception. Thanks for this Mark.
Anonymous, I wonder if you aren't too cynical about the role of the EP at this moment in history. Meyendorff himself said:
"F.J.: We have much to learn... within the framework of universal ecclesial institutions, the Orthodox are very afraid when it comes to the papacy to which they react negatively with regards to any manifestation of unity or primacy, as when it comes to Constantinople. Its a pity. It would be necessary to acquire a healthier approach.
It is evident that we need an Ecumenical Patriarch, but he must be truly ecumenical and that he knows how to accomplish this ministry of primacy. If it is a matter of an institution which remains monopolized by an ethnic group based on historical reasons because of the Turks then this is not a solution In the past several propositions were made for the Ecumenical Patriarchate to have an international staff and that located close by would be a headquarters for a permanent committee representing the other autocephalous Churches, in a word to have installed a dynamic and permanent conciliarity; but presently this does not exist."
Patriarch Bartholomew might in fact be balancing gingerly on a tightrope we Orthodox in the West barely see. There is, of course, Turkey's desire to enter the European Union, and its lures the return of Halki and Hagia Sophia. But the recent economic crisis in Greece and surrounding territories clouds the affair.
In the meantime, ++Bartholomew made a spendid visit to Russia, where the vast church and underground hall of Christ the Saviour Moscow revealed themselves to him as the obvious locales of any future Pan-Orthodox Council.
Various sites on the 'Net and Orthodox blogdom would have it that there was a simple tradeoff: EP eased off on Ukraine in exchange for MP's looking the other way concerning the treatment of OCA's autocephaly in the New York Episcopal Council. I really don't think it can be that simple.
A week before the EP visited Moscow, the brilliant young MP Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, in charge of External Affairs, was in Italy to kick off a vast media event, the month of Russian-Italian culture exchange. His major coup as a churchman was to present a concert of Russian music--including a choral piece of his own composition--in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, before the Pope, and thousands of international dignitaries. He gave a speech, in which he underlined that the Russian Orthodox Church was ready to join forces with the Roman Catholic Church in safeguarding the Christian Culture of Europe.
Hardly anybody blinked over here. But go back to Meyendorff for a moment. How can the young theologian-composer +Hilarion Alfeyev --he is forty-something, doctorates from St Sergius, Paris, and Oxford--have presented the idea that Russia should be involved in preserving European Christian culture, unless he heard it first from the likes of Meyendorff?
Patriarch Bartholomew has a doctorate from the Pontifical Oriental Institute, which in his day was run by the Jesuits, who also ran the "Russicum", the Russian College in Rome. It is a tired cliché that when the wind blows on his exorasso, one can see the scarlet lining: that is, that the EP is a secret cardinal and working as an undercover for the Vatican.
So, who, really, was pulling the strings in New York? One thing is certain, +Metropolitan Jonah, bless him, played it very cool, very wise.
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hierodeacon Amvrosi on 2010-06-15 17:54
In what can only be described as either a case of mistaken identity of the present situation, and the contemporary reality, or a case of blatant self promotion, Fr. R.M. Arida has provided us with another and excellent translation of Fr. John's interview. For which we, no doubt, owe him a debt of gratitude!
But here, Fr. R.M. Arida has along with all the others, failed to grasp the reality of the moment. Fr. Arida talks about using this as an historical and theological backdrop for evaluating the EA. He speaks of a vision for future resolution, and the solving of ecclesiogical anomalies. All this, as though the EA was about sobornost, solution and salvation.
The priests of this generation and no less responsible for the death of this Church thn are these robber bishops, it is the body of clergy. For with their reliance on the science of the Church, and the the lip service they pay to the gospel, while plunging the laity deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit of monastic piety, they mock God and bring ruin to the Church, and harm to his little ones. Can anyone spell MILLSTONE? It is a shared condemnation, it is their inheritance, their gift and offering to all of us. It is what has brought us to this point, and what will bring them all to regions dark and deep.
In their myopic vision of what the Church is, and how she is to be revealed, taught and lived, they have in this small place, and at this brief moment in the expanse of time, brought about a slow suffering, painful, drip.. drip.. drip.. of poison that brings only death in its wake. If hell is the absence of God, they have delivered, or rather brought about a condition of hell in the American Church. For this broken condition, only punishment remains.
Fr. John's words are as true today as they were when spoken by him, that is not the issue, and he needs neither the approval of an Ecumenical Patriarch, an Arida or a Jonah to mark his place in history or to recommend his holiness.
The issues surrounding the EA are not what is to be, it is not about a future resolution, the life of the Church, history or theology. It is about what has been decided, about a contemporary reality, the moment of truth. The American Church has been subdivided and sold off. Lots of high priced real estate in the US belongs to foreign corporations and governments, and now the American Church does too. Had we been responsible stewards of the gift, this day might not have come. These clergy squandered and plundered the gift, played with souls and played church with their funny vestments and their silly icons, all the trappings that they failed to breath life into, to save souls and love God through their love of his people.
Those still practicing the true believer-ism of the 80's are done for, and glory be to God for that. They brought us nothing worth saving. The bishops of the old world have seen this and have intervened for the sake of the global Church, and for the salvation-future of God's people.
His All Holiness, is who he is, the Ecumenical Patriarch, and no rant, no bitching, no theological or historical explanations or vision will change that. Like you cannot unmake Christ, the EP is the EP. Some consideration to that fact must be made, and we must presuppose that he is a man of wisdom and prayer and that in him, God reposes trust for his historical see and his position as the first among equals. The will and conclusions that he and the other Patriarchs have arrived at, must be seen in the light of their responsible stewardship, authority and administrative ministries and talents. Maybe our country has brought about a plainer speaking, bolder and more conciliar version of the Church, but for THAT to become THE CHURCH here, is a process that may take several more centuries to become an organic and spirit-tried reality. Until that time, when I will long be dust, I am content now, to rely on my betters, the bishops, and not the fools, bums, idiots, and devils we have cloned here. I will rely on bishops of the historical Churches, and if, they too are frauds, then God will burn them, and raise the Church up again at another time and in another place.
no name on 2010-06-15 19:49
Dear "no name:" Please NEVER forget what happened at the Council of Florence. The Pat. of Constantinople got all the Orthodox bishops & patriarchs to sign this union, except one. + Isidore (a Constantinople flunky sent to Kiev/Rus) was thrown out by the people upon his return. The people of Kiev/Rus rejected this "False Union" and thus was the beginning of Kiev/Rus proclaiming itself "autocephalous." In reality, the Kiev/Rus were the ONLY ones who preserved Orthodoxy and the idea of the "Third Rome" was appropriate. What the Pat. of Istanbul now proposes with his flunky bishops is the "UNITY" of Orthodoxy, but only under himself - Papism. The Russian Church must reject these machinations or it too will fall into "ecclesiastic heresy." The only autocephalous church then left not to enter such heresy would be the OCA - "Fourth Rome."
(Editor's note: LOL. )
Anonymous on 2010-06-16 05:57
What people must understand, is that Fr. Meyendorff was your quintessential Byzantine politician. He didn't compromise his principals nor positions, but he knew what to say when and when not to say anything. This is why the Greeks loved him, yet he could tell them, the OCA's autocephaly was canonical and proper - in their own language. He could discuss with all the Greek bishops their own theology, policies & politics and yet, he could also tell them where they were wrong. He knew the problem was the Phanar. Hubris, hubris & more hubris!
Anonymous on 2010-06-16 08:19
I wish somebody could translate the beautifull article fr Alexander Schmemann wrote on the role of the ecumenical patriarch back in the 1940's. It was recently translated in the Messager Orthodoxie (N°148: http://www.acer-mjo.org/html/acer.html).
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It was not an ecumenical council that designated the the Patriarchate of Constantinople as the Ecumenical Patriarchate. It was the Patriarchate herself who did so--like Napoleon crowning himself.
You may wish to follow suit but no Orthodox Christian has the same obligation to oblige this patriarchate whose legal name is "Fener Rum Patriarhanesi" or the Phanar Roman Patriarchate. The reason I bring this up is to highlight the fact that most of Constantinople's power has been derived from her association with the Roman and Ottoman Empires. The association with the Romans goes back to Saint Constantine the Great. Her association with the Turks goes back to that day in 1453 when the conquering Sultan Mehmed II himself vested Georgios Kourtesios Scholarios as the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Millet Bashi (or Etnarch) of all non-Armenian Christians in the Muslin Ottoman Empire.
After 1453, the Patriarch of Constantinople indeed became the quasi-Pope over the Christians and Christian Churches under the Ottoman yoke, to include the venerable Churches of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch and Cyprus. Like the Roman Pontiff who ruled over the Western Roman Empire, the Patriarch of Constantinople had both secular and religious powers in the East. Therefore, I understand why this see sees Herself as some having some sort kind of ecumenical jurisdiction. However, the Ottoman Empire ended after WWI; the Patriarchate of Antioch has liberated herself from Greek rule; Constantinople's sway over the Orthodox world has been cut drastically and she leads only Greek-led and Greek speaking mostly tiny churches. Therefore, I do not think that Constantinople has any kind of justification to maintain the charade any longer; she should be satisfied by the esteem everybody gives her as the First among Equals in Orthodox Christianity.
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LARGO — There is one question City Commission candidate Michael Smith says he hears more than any other as he seeks to unseat incumbent Seat 1 Commissioner Mary Gray Black.
The question: "There's an election this year?"
Yes, one City Commission seat is up for grabs in the Nov. 8 city election. (Seat 2 Commissioner Robert Murray's seat would have been up, too, but no one filed to run against him.)
Registered voters in Largo who requested mail ballots started receiving them this week. Voters interested in mail ballots can request them online at www.votepinellas.com, or by calling the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office at 464-VOTE (464-8683).
Anyone who hasn't registered to vote has until Oct. 11 to do so.
The Largo election pits Black, 72, who has held the seat since 2005 and served stints on the commission in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, against Smith, 30, a senior library assistant at the Pinellas Park Public Library.
Voters get their first, and potentially only, chance to see the candidates together in public Tuesday at a Central Pinellas Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Black and Smith will each give five-minute statements, then take questions from the crowd. The luncheon ($20 for chamber members, $25 for nonmembers) is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Palms of Largo.
The city government will not conduct a televised candidate forum this year.
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"It's looking good," she said of her campaign. "I'm happy with where I am at this time."
Smith is going door to door throughout Largo, introducing himself and asking for support. The Largo native has already earned the support of Largo Professional Fire Fighters, who endorsed the political newcomer last week. A press release from the firefighters' political action committee lauded Smith's "stance on the importance of public safety" as well as his "determination in getting things done and his commitment to working to re-prioritize Largo's budget."
This will be the last odd-year election for Largo City Commission. The Seat 1 winner and Murray, who will each earn an annual salary of $13,125.46, will be the last city commissioners to serve three-year terms. In a 2010 referendum, city voters approved lengthening terms for Largo city commissioners to four years. The three-year term is being kept for 2011 winners so terms end only in even-numbered years, lessening the frequency of elections.
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With key stock indices in the US closing the year near historical highs and many pundits predicting stronger growth rates both in the US and globally going into 2014, one would think bargains would be hard to find this year. January's volatility, however, proved just how unpredictable markets can be. The recent market gyrations may be somewhat painful for many investors in the short-term, but the silver lining is that corrections can serve up buying opportunities, particularly for long-term, value-oriented investors like Cindy Sweeting, director of portfolio management at Templeton Global Equity Group. Despite the recent deterioration in market sentiment, she points to a number of trends and themes that are potentially supportive of continued economic and market strength. She and her team remain focused on finding individual stock values with good potential for cash generation that have previously been overlooked or unduly punished by market skepticism.
After a strong year for developed market equities in 2013, the general market consensus appears to be that developed markets will likely continue to outpace emerging markets and that the US is overvalued somewhat but that growth will likely be steady. Additionally, worries about Europe have generally taken a back seat to worries about China. Whether something detrimental will develop in equity markets this year is a coin toss, but if so, in our view, it will probably be connected to a big deterioration in earnings growth, given the expansion in valuation multiples we have seen over the last year. As bottom-up investors, we are less worried about the macroeconomic debates; we are primarily focused on determining where companies are in their earnings cycles, what will likely unfold in the way of normalized earnings and cash flows over the next five years, and where we think the market has mispriced that earnings and cash flow stream.
In the US, we believe the key is whether the economic recovery will be self-sustaining in the absence of the excessively easy monetary policy that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has been providing via its longstanding Treasury asset purchase program known as Quantitative Easing (QE). Can the Fed orchestrate a steady, manageable rise in interest rates? Will employment and wage growth gather strength and create a virtuous growth cycle without Fed support? And will corporate earnings continue to come through as anticipated by the steady expansion we have seen in valuation multiples? These are all unknowns, but will likely be important parts of the equation for the US market.
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In our view, US earnings have already reached or exceeded previous highs, and valuations are relatively stretched as the Fed begins to taper QE. We believe we can find some good values at the individual stock level, but not wholesale value in the US, as equity prices have built in a fair bit of optimism that all will be well. I think it is important to recognize that there are a number of positives in the US that could provide tailwinds to support economic growth in the absence of ongoing extraordinary monetary support.
Inflation has been subdued in the US, and weakness in China has been a contributing factor. One can think of lower oil and commodities prices as a sort of tax cut for US consumers, helping to free up disposable income. A US energy renaissance has been taking place, led by a boom in shale oil and natural gas. By 2015, the International Energy Agency predicts the US will become the world's top oil producer.1 This energy revolution, the result of technological advances related to the extraction of oil and gas from existing wells, is leading to both rising production and a falling trade deficit; and the generally strong dollar that's accompanying that falling trade deficit supports import purchasing power for consumers.
Households have done a lot of deleveraging since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, which has been helped by both a decline in absolute debt and an increase in asset prices. US household leverage is lower than it has been in at least a decade, so we think there is some scope for credit expansion, which could support risk assets. However, debt and asset levels matter less than whether people have jobs and whether personal income is growing. So we do need to see that nascent signs of the latter improve further.
US corporate balance sheets are generally in good shape, according to our research. Two decades of falling interest rates have allowed a gradual shift toward a longer-term debt structure, so there is a reduced risk of constantly rolling debt. And, consumer and corporate America are producing free cash flow of more than 8.5% of GDP, which is not that far from a 60-year high.2
US market bears note that US equity valuations are now above their long-term average and that profit margins are at record highs. We would note that much of the expansion in profit margins has come out of the gross margin lines of manufacturers that have benefited from globalization. And even with the further steepening of the yield curve, we expect this could add to earnings overall, because the net interest income of the financial sector is almost three times the interest expense of the rest of the US economy.
Where are we finding values right now? One area is in oil services, where a recent period of oversupply in the industry weighed heavily on these stocks globally. The pharmaceutical industry offers more mature value holdings, which we acquired at low multiples amid concerns about patent expirations. These stocks have generally done well and are being complemented in our portfolios by innovative biotechnology firms with undervalued drug pipelines as well as selected specialty pharma and medical technology firms.
Financials were hit extremely hard during the 2008–2009 financial crisis, and US and European bank valuations plunged to levels only seen twice before in the past 120 years, notably during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Inflation Crisis of the 1970s. Over the past few years, many banks have rebuilt their balance sheets, altered their business mixes and cut costs. Financial valuations have tracked returns very closely, and both have recovered from the lows reached in mid-2011. We do not believe return on equity (ROE) will likely recover to prior peaks, but our analysis shows that bank holdings have potential to improve further, particularly as business conditions begin to normalize and lending activities (at some point in the cycle) resume.
Of course, there are always risks to even the most sanguine of outlooks. The biggest risk in the US, as we see it, is probably a significant back-up in longer rates. Fortunately, the starting point of inflation is low. Regardless of the macro environment, we will continue to do what we've always done – uncover individual bargains. We continue to look for stock opportunities in the US and around the globe where we see low valuations, improving fundamentals, and good prospects for sizeable return of capital to shareholders.


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Lisa wrote that scrapbooking is a lifestyle. I completely agree with that. As a scrapaholic, every time I go shopping I see new ideas. Some of these are designs, but others are items not intended for scrapbooking. "How can I use that on a page?" often comes to mind, especially when there's a sale going on. It was at one of those sales that I discovered body art. No, I would never wear it, partially because finding my belly button would be an exercise in itself, but more because we teach our girls that inner beauty is paramount. That didn't … Continue reading


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Brett Eldredge Gives Brad Paisley a Car!
Some buy flowers to show their appreciation, others a round of drinks, but newcomer Brett Eldredge shocked his tourmate Brad Paisley with a surprising (and funny) gift of another kind.
Brett was asked to take part in a few dates of Brad's H2O II: Wetter & Wilder summer tour, a kind gesture that the 'It Ain't Gotta Be Love' singer felt should be repaid. He noticed while touring alongside Brad that the country superstar's go-to ride, besides a huge tour bus, was a red Chevy Corvette. During Sunday's show in Columbus, Ohio, Brad stepped off the bus to hop in his favorite ride when he discovered a child-size, yellow Camaro with custom "Paisley" plates in its place.
"I want to trade my brand-new Camaro straight up for this guy's Corvette … Any takers before he takes it?" Brett tweeted with a photo of the two cars parked together. (See the photo below.)
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Sure, it came against an Angels lineup whose centerpiece, Albert Pujols, has yet to get untracked, but it was difficult not to be impressed with Bartolo Colon's eight shutout innings last Wednesday. For one thing, it marked the 38-year-old Oakland righty's second consecutive scoreless start; he had tossed seven scoreless against the Mariners on April 13. For another, he reeled off a streak of 38 consecutive strikes, running from the second pitch of the fifth inning through the seventh pitch of the eighth inning, a span that included balls in play; he allowed only a single and a double during that time. Pitch-by-pitch records only go back to 1988, so there's no definitive account of whether Colon set a record, but via the San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser, the next-highest known total was 30 in a row by Tim Wakefield in 1998.
Since reemerging with the Yankees last season after five years in the wilderness due to shoulder woes, Colon has done nothing if not pound the strike zone. Relying heavily on a mix of two- and four-seam fastballs that he can pump as high as the mid-90s, he struck out 135 and walked 40 in 164
Colon emerged from that stretch—which saw him post a 5.18 ERA in 257 innings from 2006-2009 and bolt both the Red Sox and White Sox in midseason before sitting out 2010—thanks to a controversial, cutting-edge medical procedure in which he had stem cells from his bone marrow injected back into his elbow and shoulder in an effort to help repair ligament damage and his torn rotator cuff. So successful was that effort that the similarly aged C.J. Nitkowski tried it in a bid for a comeback with the Mets this spring, and Kiko Calero has considered it as well. More damaged pitchers of a certain age will doubtlessly ask their doctors about such a procedure if Colon continues to thrive.
For further evidence of just what a rare breed Colon is, consider that pitchers aged 35 and over who miss full major-league seasons for any reason rarely return to the big-league scene, and when they do, they tend not to last long. Since 1993—a timespan that has included more opportunities than ever for pitchers to extend their careers thanks to the creation of four expansion teams, pitching staff enlargement due to specialization, and the increased use of the disabled list—just 14 have done so. Half of them accumulated less than 25 innings upon returning. Colon already ranks second in post-comeback innings and WARP:
To the extent that these pitchers were able to return to action, their performances took a relatively modest hit collectively, in part because they were were on such short leashes that if they underperformed drastically, they were likely to wind up back on the disabled list or the waiver wire. Collectively, their ERAs rose 0.28, while their FIPs rose 0.38 (from 4.05 to 4.43) and their Fair Run Averages 0.22 (from 4.54 to 4.76). Their strikeout rates actually rose as well, from 6.7 to 7.1, but that oddity owes disproportionately to one pitcher you'll read more about below.
Four of these pitchers missed full seasons due to Tommy John surgery. Not coincidentally, all were lefties: Rhodes, Franco, Mercker, and Moyer. All had the fortune of undergoing a procedure that has become relatively routine in terms of recovery time, and because of their handedness, all had a pretty good inkling that a job would await them if they could rehab their way back despite their advanced ages. If you're left-handed and can throw a baseball 60 feet, your phone will ring. Moyer, of course, is the one in the headlines these days, in the midst of a remarkable comeback at age 49 after missing the last two months of 2010 and all of 2011 due to TJS. After two mediocre starts for the Rockies against Houston and San Diego, he became the oldest pitcher ever to notch a win when he threw seven shutout innings against the Padres on April 17, this despite not throwing a single pitch that broke 80 mph.
Rhodes, who spent most of his career as a LOOGY, rates among the most positive stories here, as he was more effective upon returning in terms of both ERA and FIP (3.94 pre-absence, 3.51 after). After post-season disappointments with Baltimore (1996-1997) and Seattle (2000-2001), he reached October again with the Reds in 2010 (after making the All-Star team for the first time), and last year not only made the World Series for the first time in his 20-year career, but he also had the distinction of spending time with both Series participants. He began the year with the Rangers but was released on August 8, then got picked up by the Cardinals and sparkled in the postseason, retiring nine out of 10 hitters and yielding just one walk. He told reporters last fall that he wanted to play one more season, but he didn't go to camp this spring and may have decided that helping his team to a Game Seven win by getting a key out is a pretty good way to ride into the sunset.
Franco had already been to a World Series and had saved 422 games over the course of an 18-year career with the Reds and Mets when he underwent surgery. He was reasonably effective upon returning in 2003 at age 42 (2.62 ERA in 34
Nomo didn't have Tommy John surgery, but he didn't last long after coming back from an elbow cleanup. He had pitched his way out of the major leagues in 2005, getting torched for a 7.24 ERA in 19 starts for the Devil Rays before being released, then failing to convince the Yankees he was worthy of a recall after a stint at Triple-A. He missed all of 2006-2007 at the major-league level and made just one minor-league appearance in the White Sox organization in the former year before going under the knife. He pitched in the Venezuelan winter league in late 2007, but didn't make it through the following April in his return with the Royals.
Nomo's pattern is more typical of the pitchers who missed full seasons due to shoulder surgery, most of whom have generally fared less well than the elbow gang. Saberhagen had actually undergone two prior surgeries before missing the 2000 season. He lasted just three starts when he came back in 2001. Stottlemyre was a victim of multiple surgeries as well, but all of them piled up at once. He missed 2001 after undergoing elbow, shoulder, knee, and hernia surgeries, and was also battling a thoracic nerve problem. He continued to have so much trouble that he made just one appearance after May 1, 2002. Leiter missed most of 1999 and all of 2000 due to rotator cuff surgery; he was active for the first six weeks of 2001, and then hit the DL until rosters expanded in September, though at least he appears to have walked away on his own terms after a busy month.
Jackson was something of a success story in that he actually returned from not one but two missed seasons late in his career. He lost 2000, his age-35 season, to surgery to repair a torn labrum, struggled with Houston in 2001 (4.70 ERA, −0.2 WARP in 69 innings), pitched well with the Twins in 2002 (3.27 ERA, 0.7 WARP in 55 innings), then cooled his heels in 2003 after being cut by the Diamondbacks at the end of spring training. He returned in 2004 and threw 46
The enigmatic and seemingly ageless "El Duque" Hernandez holds the record for the most innings pitched and the highest WARP following a late-career full-season absence. He alone accounts for 39 percent of the post-absence innings to date, 64 percent of the starts, and 52 percent of the WARP. After occasionally dazzling during his 1998-2002 stint with the Yankees, he was traded to the Expos in a three-way deal in early 2003 but ended up missing the year due to rotator cuff surgery. Re-signed by the Yankees the following spring, he rehabbed his way back by midseason and gave the team a strong 15-start stint (3.30 ERA, 2.3 WARP in 84
Interestingly, it's Hernandez to whom the higher post-absence strikeout rate owes. He was particularly able to miss bats once he moved to the NL, where he whiffed 8.5 per nine in 310 innings, compared to 7.1 per nine during his days in the AL. Take his contributions away from the before and after groups and the K rate drops from 6.7 to 6.5, this during an era when strikeout rates have consistently been on the rise.
Tomko may not have written his last chapter yet. He missed 2010 due to thoracic outlet syndrome, and then made a brief return to the Rangers early last year before spending most of the season in Triple-A. He's currently pitching for the Cardinals' Triple-A Louisville affiliate, awaiting one more call.
Stieb and Cone both came back after retirements. The former was considered one of the majors' best pitchers in the 1980s with the Blue Jays, making seven All-Star teams from 1980-1990, and finishing as high as fourth in the Cy Young balloting. He was perhaps most famous for his near no-hitters, four of which he took into the ninth before giving up hits, including back-to-back starts in 1988 when he was one strike away from finishing the job. Fortunately, he did complete a no-hitter against the Indians in 1990. He was still around during the 1992 season when the Blue Jays won a world championship, but back troubles shut him down in August of that year, and he made just four appearances with the White Sox in 1993 before retiring due to continued problems. He mounted a comeback in 1998 at age 40, spending the second half of the season mostly pitching out of the Blue Jays' bullpen without recapturing his former glory.
Cone's retirement and return were both even more short-lived. After enduring a gruesome 2000 season with the Yankees in which he was lit for a 6.91 ERA, he had salvaged his dignity with a solid season in Boston in 2001, then sat out the 2002 season, effectively retired. He mounted a comeback with the Mets in spring 2003 and broke camp as the team's fifth starter, but he hit the disabled list for five weeks with a hip injury after four starts and made just one more appearance before retiring due to arthritis in his hip. Ironically, the Mets used his roster space to activate Franco in his return from Tommy John surgery.
Speaking of ex-Yankees, there's one more pitcher who's likely to reach this list in the coming weeks. Forty-year-old Andy Pettitte is in the midst of a comeback attempt for the Bronx Bombers after sitting out all of last season; thus far, he has made two starts for the Yankees' High-A Tampa affiliate and is scheduled to start for their Double-A Trenton affiliate on Wednesday. Though he lost most of the second half of the 2010 season due to a groin injury, Pettitte had been pitching at a high level when he retired, posting a 3.28 ERA in 129 innings and taking a pair of strong turns in the postseason. As odd as it sounds, he nonetheless faces a steep uphill battle to provide the kind of comeback contribution that Colon has.
Last year, Colon wore down during the second half, with his ERA climbing from 3.20 to 4.96 as his home-run rate crept upward, his strikeout rate dipped, and his batting average on balls in play shot from .279 to .335. Then again, he had pitched winter ball prior to the season, so it's not surprising he hit the wall, so to speak. With a winter off and a chance to pitch in a pitcher-friendly ballpark in a particularly pitcher-friendly division for a team that isn't likely to contend, he's in the early stages of positioning himself as an attractive deadline acquisition for some team. Who knows where else his unlikely comeback will take him?
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The Input Box
The input box is located just beneath the scientific pad.
There are different ways to insert a problem; The scientific pad, Latex or via copy-paste. All of the above eventually lead to your problem being displayed within the input box. This helps to check if it was inputted and understood correctly.
After the problem was inserted, you can hit "enter", or click "go".
Using the Keybaord + Keyboard Shortcuts
For many cases, you will not need anything but the keyboard. Trigonometric functions, basic arithmetic operations, letters and numbers can be written regularly.
Multiplication, Superscripts and Subscript are three commonly used signs that are not explicitly present on the keyboard. They can be inserted, though, using simple keyboard-shortcuts:
Multiplication is inserted with the "*" character ("shift"+"8").
Superscript can be inserted with the "^" character ("shift"+"6")
Subscript can be inserted with the "_" character ("shift"+"-")
All of the other mathematical elements can be inserted with the keyboard as well, with a language called Latex. Latex is a widely used form of writing mathematical scientific expressions. To learn how to write a specific expression, present on the pad, with Latex, just hover over it and a window will appear with the Latex form.
The Scientific Pad
The Scientific pad enables to insert elements that are not in the keyboard, without having to know Latex.
The pad has two states. The first is the default, or compact state. The pad is in the compact state when you first enter the solutions page.
This pad covers the great majority of common symbols that are not present on your keyboard. Click the sign you want to insert and it will immediately pop up in the text box.
If there is a symbol, or a short expression, that isn't in the default pad, chances are that it can be found in the full pad. In order to open the full pad, press the full pad link on the top-left of the basic pad.
The full pad is...well... fuller.
On the top tabs you can see the different groups of signs that Symbolab supports. Each tab contains symbols representing that particular group.
Another important aspect of the full pad is that the first row doesn't change between groups.
The reason being is that these symbols are prevalent in all groups.
Let us go over the different tabs:
The basic pad has a few extra symbols, like absolute value, and a few basic trigonometry signs. These, together with the compact pad, cover whatever you need for Algebra and Calculus.
The rest of the pad is for either symbols used in advanced math or for common expressions that contain basic symbols numerous times (A triple integral, for instance).
Lower Case Greek Letters
Upper Case Greek Letters
Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions
Comparison Operators:
Advanced Accents:
Complex Calculus Expressions
Differential Equations:
Physical Constants:
Chemistry: Coming soon...
Some of you may know Latex. If that is the case, you can make great use of it in Symbolab. The input box supports nearly all of the Latex symbols.
In order to insert a Latex expression, just write it into the input box. Don't forget the '\' character preceding each Latex expression. When you are done, hit the space bar, or any non-letter key on the keyboard. You can also copy chunks of Latex from a document and paste it into the input box (more on that in the copy-past section)
If you want to learn how to insert a sign from the pad using Latex, hover over it for a second.
Caution: Since we want to show any part of the Latex input the instance we understand it, you should look at the input box after each symbol is entered.
The following links provide great sources to learn Latex:
Copy Paste
Sometimes the problem you want to solve is already written somewhere else. In that case you can copy and paste it into the text box. Symbolab supports Latex completely. It also supports less formal forms that are used in various forums. In the later case, though, especially when the text isn't written very meticulously, you sometimes need to modify it after pasting.
Using Templates
For some problems, you need more than just entering expressions. You have to specify what it is you want to do with the expressions. If you want to do a certain operation on the expression, state it in the beginning of the textbox. For example, if you want to compute the slope of a function, start the input with the word "Slope"
If you also want the operations to be done at a certain point, or value, add ", at" and specify the wanted value.
Regardless, there is no need to remember or start experimenting if you're not sure. You can find the appropriate topic in the topic menu, located on the left side of the screen, and the template will automatically be added in the text box.
Moreover, when reaching a topic from the menu, you can use the examples to get a better understanding of both the extent of coverage, and the input forms being supported. Bellow you can see an example of entering a derivative at a point problem.
Inserting Conditions and Multiple Expressions
In order to insert a system of equations, insert a comma (',') between each expression.
Adding conditions, or additional data into a problem varies between topics:
To specify a value, or a point, for which an operation is done, add ", at" and the point.
When adding initial conditions, it is enough to add them at the end of the main expression with a comma separating each part.
There are a few ways to specify the wanted range of a trigonometric equation. Generally speaking, all the scientifically acceptable methods
for stating a range are supported by Symbolab, as long as a comma separates the main expression and the wanted range.
If you are not sure how to input a certain problem, go to the appropriate topic in the topic menu, located on the left side of the screen. There you will find examples of different conditions inputs.