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The Corporation that is wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and that owns and operates several websites, among many other things.
One of the websites owned and operated by FamilySearch containing genealogical references, sources, digitized images, videos, and a user submitted family history information.
One of the categories of links on FamilySearch.org that searches both user submitted information and original source information.
Family Trees
A term used by FamilySearch to refer to lineage linked genealogies submitted by users of the website currently and in the past. Here is the Family Search definition:
Family Trees contains millions of lineage linked genealogies. These pedigrees come from Ancestral File, the Pedigree Resource File (PRF) and other patron submissions.Ancestral File (AF)
Here is the definition of the Ancestral File from the FamilySearch Research Wiki:
Ancestral File is a computerized collection of genealogies that links families into pedigrees, showing ancestors and descendants. It contains information about 40 million people from throughout the world. It shows individuals' names; family relationships; and dates and places of birth, marriage, and death. Ancestral File was created from thousands of user submitted pedigree charts, family group sheets, and GEDCOM files. Submissions were merged to eliminate duplication and submitted corrections were applied to eliminate errors.Note, the part about duplication is not entirely accurate. Here is another statement about the Ancestral File from FamilySearch.org:
- The current site contains 40 million, 5 million more than the previous website.
- Information is not displayed for living individuals, including submitters.
Ancestral File is a collection of genealogical information taken from pedigree charts and family group records submitted to the Family History Department since 1978. The information has not been verified for accuracy. These patron submitted pedigrees were merged into one tree. Sources and notes were not preserved. Users can draw from this database for help with their family history research. Since the information in Ancestral File was contributed by the public, it is the responsibility of those who use the file to verify its accuracy.Pedigree Resource File (PRF)
Here's where things start to get a little complicated. This is the accepted definition of the Pedigree Resource File, again from the Research Wiki:
Pedigree Resource File (PRF) is a growing collection of user submitted genealogies. It shows individuals' names; family relationships; and dates and places of birth, marriage, and death. No merges, corrections, or additions are made to genealogies submitted to Pedigree Resource File.Here is another statement from FamilySearch.org about the PRF:
The Pedigree Resource File (PRF) is a collection of lineage-linked names submitted by users of FamilySearch.org. These pedigrees include notes and sources from the original the submissions. No merges, corrections, or additions were made to the original data submitted to the Pedigree Resource File. Users can draw from this database for help with their family history research. Since the information in Pedigree Resource File is contributed by the public, it is the responsibility of those who use the file to verify its accuracy.International Genealogical Index (IGI)
A huge index of genealogical records, mainly from the United States and England.
New FamilySearch
This is the name usually associated with a website called New.FamilySearch.org. This is a compilation of the user submitted family tree information already in the Ancestral File, the Pedigree Resource File, the International Genealogical Index, and Church membership and ordinance information. It is in the process of being replaced by a program called Family Tree. Largely only open to members of the Church.
Family Tree
A recently introduced part of FamilySearch.org that essentially tries to repair the shortcomings of New FamilySearch. So far it does a pretty good job. Already open to everyone whether or not they are members of the Church.
OK, now I am probably in a position to talk about how you can still submit GEDCOM or genealogical data communications files to FamilySearch for safe keeping.
Originally, the PRF was the only method of submitting user generated files directly to FamilySearch. Once submitted, the files could not be changed or deleted. A huge number of files were submitted, some with multiple copies of the same files in different states of finality. Unfortunately, many of these files ended up in the New FamilySearch database. For example, I submitted two overlapping files. Subsequent research showed that the files were incomplete and in some cases, inaccurate. But there was no way to either correct the information or remove the files.
Theoretically, it was always possible to submit files, but only recently has an easy way to do this been again instituted. A major change has been offered; a way to remove old files. These submitted files also go into the part of the FamilySearch.org program searchable with the link to "Trees."
The reason for the long explanation above is simple. We now have
- New.FamilySearch.org
- FamilySearch.org
- Family Tree
- Trees
- Family Trees
This is part one of the explanation because all this got really complicated.


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hopandsolo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 355 diseños de 87 diseñadores freelance.
Life Consulting
Life Consulting is a new start up social research, market research and data analysis company. We will mainly be looking to do work related to social issues that inform government in relation to policy decisions. For example a recent project I have worked on was a study of the working and living conditions of Irish artists. The results of this study will be used to influence government policy in relation to artists. Previous research has been across a wide range of areas including; education, disability, tourism, travel, health customer and employee satisfaction.
Our work will be mainly collecting and analysing survey related information from the general public or specific subsets such as artists, people with health insurance, pregnant mothers, people with a disability etc.
You can see more about me and my skills here http://weedle.com/peter.ross
Government funded bodies such that commission social research such as the Higher Education Authority, the Arts Council, the National Disability Authority, Irish National Tourism Agency
Large private companies that commission research, such as Bank of Ireland, Vodafone, Ireland's biggest Tour Operator.
Other consultants and research providers that require complementary services.
Require a logo that can be used on website, email, business cards, letterhead, reports and presentations.
I require the logo to convey attributes that relate to research such as;
high quality,
The nature of our work is the research of people and their behaviours, to collection and interpret information about people.
The definiton of Life that most closely matches this is: 'Human existence, relationships, or activity in general'
It would be good if the logo can convey this in some way.
I require a unique, clean logo, the simpler the better.
http://www.socialsignal.com like motif and font
http://www.neurofocus.com/ like font
Irish or Celtic motifs
basic check box motifs such as this http://www.socialmarketresearch.co.uk/
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Talk:World Archives Project: USHMM - Poland, Jews Displaced from BiaÅa Podlaska to MieÌdzyrzecz Podlaski, 1942
Extra Keying Helps
Stuff to watch for:
- Every so often the children will have a different surname (usually a spelling variant). Look inside the "Dzieci" header for a surname. That will apply specifically to the children.
A Summary of polish grammar can be found here.
Common Keying Errors Found by Reviewers
- Over-reliance on the drop-down lists. The place name lists are missing most of the diacriticals. Do not trust them. A large proportion of the errors I see are omitting the Å in BiaÅa.
- Not keying childrens' details in Dzieci box at bottom of page 1.
- Omitting records (we do key the crossed off children)
- Not keying as seen (no expanding abbreviations), key exactly as written, in exactly the amount of detail as written; don't forget the street address or province when it is present.
- However, we do omit periods (full stops)
- The yes/no questions. The directions for Military obligation, marital status, and child remarks should be read carefully. As the correct input depends on who the question pertains to. The three yes/no questions on page two should always be filled out.
- Nationality is NOT a yes/no question (key as seen)
- Roman numerals: some people have just been automatically replacing every roman numeral they find with the name of the month. That is not correct for the non-month fields. If the field wants plaintext, roman numerals should be keyed as seen.
- V and W: Polish does not use v (with the exception of roman numerals and some foreign words) w makes the v sound. David is a common English name, But in Polish, the name will be spelled Dawid.
- Key years as seen. Do not expand, if it says 37 key 37 not 1937.
- Keying Miedzyrzeca instead of Wysiedleni do MiÄdzyrzeca (and its various spellings) on page 2
- Omitting ów from end of mothers surname when there.
- Omitting diacriticals
- Wrong diacriticals, the most common are below
|correct character
|mistaken for
|t or l
|Ä (e-ogonek)
|È© (e-cedilla) or g or j
Questions and Answers
If you have a keying question that is not answered on the project page or in any of the information above, click 'EDIT' and ask it here. (If you click on Rich Editor you won't have to worry about formatting your entry.) Then click 'WATCH' at the top right on this page and you will be notified via email when an update has been made.
How are roman numerals being keyed in plaintext fields as X11 or XII etc? For consistency can that info be added to the instructions please?
X11 is wrong (Romans used letters), XII would be correct. All the ushmm stuff is protected from editing. I'll have to ask about getting it updated. --Paulmd199 20:52, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
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Emilyy1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 120 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
YS Palooza
Youth Specialties is a 40 year old organization that puts on large events for church staff who work with teenagers. Our national conventions draw between 3,000 and 5,000 people http://www.nywc.com http://www.youthspecialties.com.
We are launching a new event called YS Palooza, this event will bring in nationally known speakers and bands, to put on a two day event for church staff and volunteers who work with teenagers. This is not a dry training event, but rather an extravaganza and is a deep dive into the world of youth ministry. Participants will leave spiritually refreshed and equipped. They will attend motivating general sessions and in-depth seminars where they will get trained and inspired. These regional two day events will take place in Dallas, Philadelphia, and Orlando.
• Men and Women age 22-52
• Hang out with teenagers – funny, understand pop culture
• Interested in - coming up with crazy games for teenagers, leadership training, spending their free time with youth
• Passionate about their faith
• Want to learn how to do their job better
Our aim is to create a logo and brand that is fun, energetic, retro, innovative, professional and sophisticated. It should be clean cut but also encompasses the YS from our Youth Specialties logo.
The YS that's attached must be part of the logo design. Please have the color and look of the "Palooza" compliment the YS from our existing logo.
Some examples of our competition are - http://conference.youthministry.com/ - http://www.catalystconference.com/ https://www.davidcrowderband.com/fantastical/
Things we don't want: Nothing kiddie, no circus look, no pot smoking, or party type stuff, no crosses, nothing "christian" "religious" or "spiritual"
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Report: FreeNX at LinuxTag 2005
One of the "missing LinuxTag stories" should be telling about the FreeNX presentation
During the full hour of live demoing, not only did they showcase very fast remote GUI
Other demos included the new
Kurt mentioned the fact that one of the accepted Google Summer of Code Bounties
The release
Kurt hinted at the fact that (Free)NX servers (or peer-to-peer NX sessions in
NX is an amazing product
I installed it on my gentoo computer at work several months ago, and let a co-worker connect in order to use some programs that he didn't have. The performance was unbelievable. We were utterly unable to tell that he wasn't working on a local machine, as far as the responsiveness goes. That was never the case with X, VNC, or remote desktop. Unfortunately I haven't been able to try it out over the internet yet, though, since our company firewall apparently blocks the necessary ports...
By Ellis Whitehead at Wed, 2005/06/29 - 5:00am
Re: NX is an amazing product
This stuff is promising! I have tried it several times, and it is fast. Over T1, it works very well, and, over DSL, it is quite fast (on par with using an older local computer). But, with the free servers, there are kinks to be worked out. For me, most noticable was a broken (or hard-to-use) suspend feature that made accessing the same session difficult if I switched computers throughout the day. (The only other limitation is that of the X server used: a few months ago, an x.org version of X11 was hard to find for Windows, and I think not bundled with the NX client.) This is amazing work for what is (or was?) Bash script glue!
By d w at Wed, 2005/06/29 - 5:00am
Re: NX is an amazing product
"[...] free servers [....]. For me, most noticable was
This has improved dramatically over the last 2 releases. You must have used an older FreeNX version then.
"[....] a few months ago, an x.org version of X11 was
The NoMachine NX Client for Windows installs a Windows X server to be used by the NX sessions. It is currently based on the Cygwin XFree86 X server. (And yes, it therefor installs the cygwin.dll too...)
"[....] I think not bundled with the NX client."
Not bundled with the Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X NX Clients. Because there you have the native, or "shipped by the OS vendor" X servers already. But it *is* bundled with the Windows NX Client.
"[....] what is (or was?) Bash script glue!"
It still is ;-)
By ac at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: NX is an amazing product
>> ...our company firewall apparently blocks the necessary ports... <<
You should only need to have port 22 (the SSH port) accessible from the inside to the outside world (or vice versa, if you want to connect from outside to the inside NX server). If you check the "Enable SSL encryption for all traffic" in the NoMachine NX Client, this is the only port ever used by NX. If you un-check that option, NX may use multiple ports for file sharing, printing. audio forwarding, etc.
But it is still very frequent that network administrators block access of outgoing connections to port 22 (after all, it *is* a security risk, given the fact that you could create a reverse tunnel with it.)
So there is another option: make the NX server's SSH daemon to also listen to port 443 (this is usually the HTTPS port). Just add the line "Port 443" to the sshd_config file. Then, in the NoMachine NX Client configuration make it use that port 443. Because fact is, most company networks allow outgoing connections to port 443 without any additional check and interference (talk about the actual security skills of those very same admins who nevertheless block port 22 connections... )
And no, kNX (the proof-of-concept type of KDE NX Client didn't support the "Enable SSL encryption for all traffic" reliably, last time I checked....
By Kurt Pfeifle at Wed, 2005/06/29 - 5:00am
Re: NX is an amazing product
> But it is still very frequent that network administrators block access of
Note that this is not only a technical question. Doing this may get you fired in some organisations, for circumventing the security measures (well, after all that's exactly what this trick is about). Be sure to read your organisation's security policy.
By cm at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: NX is an amazing product
Well, if the network admins do not want to allow connections to port 443 with any protocol, they should block it. After all, they do it already with port 22 in this case, no?
By ac at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: NX is an amazing product
Then you'd move to port 80. Nothing is gained. They can't block that if web access is to be allowed (except with a smarter firewall that inspects the traffic -> that would need many more €€€).
As I said, this is not only a technical problem and not about competent or incompetent admins. There's no such thing as 100% security and it's always a tradeoff (security, cost, convenience, level of service). But circumventing the security measures that *are* there is acting *actively* against the security interests of the organisation and I can see why some have regulations in place that get you in trouble if what you're doing is noticed...
BTW: I *am* allowed to use port 22 from where I work, but other things are blocked and we do have such a non-circumvention policy.
By cm at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
ssh tunneled
Hi Ellis, nice to read you again.
Try fully ssh tunneled (there's a config option available). If you have ssh opened at all in your firewall, it should work.
By Inorog at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: ssh tunneled
Hi Christian ;) Nice to read you again too. In fact, a couple days ago I remembered an old interview with you by Tink. ;)
SSH is open on our firewall, so I went to try out the tunneling, but found that the NX server isn't working right now. Anyhow, I'll check it out soon. Thanks to you and Kurt for the tip.
By Ellis Whitehead at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
QEmu (KQemu)
Just compiled and installed QEmu, wow a good free (open source) PC emulator. I was surprised to see my own System boot up in the emulator too while it's already running ;). One can also boot from CD and setup Linux or Other (Windoze) OS! cool.
To boot from CDROM:
To boot from hardisk (replace /dev/hda with your partition like /dev/sda):
And KQemu is a good frontend to do that configuration! wow, opensource rocks!
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Solaris X success story?
Lately I've been trying to revamp an old SunBlade with NX. After several compilations to satisfy FreeNX dependencies and some modifications of FreeNX scripts (e.g. pgrep for pidof) I came to the point of no error message but also no NX session. Somehow nxagent or whoever could not start a session or a terminal on the NX server machine. Did anyone succeed in doing this? (Installing Linux on this machine is not an option because of licensing issues of programs I want to run on the Sun machine.)
By Jochen Puchalla at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: Solaris X success story?
There is a Solaris patch in BerliOS Patch Tracker, which is important to add for Solaris. I did not make it into 0.4.1, because I just "forgot" it :-/.
I think you did not patch the "getparam" functions in nxnode/nxserver, but those are very important for functioning of FreeNX.
The patch can be found at:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/freenx/ -> Patch Tracker(Currently seems to be down ... :-( )
By Fabianx at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: Solaris X success story?
Fabianx, maybe you can then make a 0.4.2 release with that fix included?
Also, another Solaris related question: is there already a Solaris packaging for the "pkg-get" tool (as created by the www.blastwave.org project) in the works?
By courious reader at Fri, 2005/07/01 - 5:00am
Great talk -- and rather 2000 visitors!
Just some nitpicking: The talk at LinuxTag (no pun intended) was in the great hall with roughly 2000 seats, which were almost completely filled. So there were rather some 2000 visitors to that talk and they all enjoyed this really much.
Especially when Kurt started playing Solitaire inside the WinXP that was running on the IBM mainframe lpar accessed through the NX client, and how he explained what Internet Explorer is ("for those of you who don't know: This is just like Konqueror").
(I noticed these numbers because I gave a talk in that very same room right after this one but with much less audience. Sigh.)
By cstim at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
how stable?
How stable is this supposed to be right now? I've been playing with it a bit and the client segfaults allmost every time. And if it doesn't, connecting takes forever.
By michael at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Ferret bugs anyone ?
By ac at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Kubuntu debs
What is the deb src for the kubuntu version being used? I only see:
0.3.1-2~5.04ubp1 0
By Joseph Reagle at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: Kubuntu debs
I've built the deb for kubuntu FreenNX 0.4.0/NX-1.4 and described it here http://stateless.geek.nz/2005/06/27/building-freenx-04-on-ubuntu-hoary/. Quite straight forward and works very very well.
FreeNX 0.4.1 based on NX 1.4 is straight to built. Just copy the debian/ directory over and add an entry to the changelog (debchange -v 0.4.1). Building NX 1.5 debs are tricky. I'm hoping someone else comes out with a diff soon, and saves me the effort of trying it myself.
By Nicholas Lee at Sat, 2005/07/02 - 5:00am
Does FreeNX work with Gnome too?
Does FreeNX work with Gnome too?
From what I read, this cool application seems to be occupied by KDE hackers. I am (still) a Gnome user myself (I am just much more familiar with it), but I have deep respect and admiration for what KDE does in its amazing offensive for innovation. But couldn't the FreeNX developers take into account other desktop environments too? Please?
By ac at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: Does FreeNX work with Gnome too?
It should work with Gnome too, there is nothing KDE specific apart from user interface integration.
By Leandro DUTRA at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: Does FreeNX work with Gnome too?
Works fine with Gnome for me. Just as blisteringly fast. KDE, Gnome and CDE are the predefined options, and there's also a custom option if you want to run something else in specific.
By CK at Sat, 2005/07/02 - 5:00am
Amazing show + Printing confusion
I was at the show, and it was really great. I enjoyed it very much, and came out convinced that now that this NX stuff works reliably, KDE could really gain big wins on the overall computer workstation/desktop market, by teaming up with companies that sell hardware for "server based computing" (IBM, HP, Intel -- maybe even Sun).
However, I am a bit confused by this bit in the report:
# "(....) the new 1.5.0 NoMachine NX core libraries' (GPL'd) snapshot
Are you saying that the secret of the "seamless printing" demo is hidden in the NoMachine 1.5.0 NX lib source code?
From what I understood during the talk, that is not the case. The showcased seamless printing for FreeNX was not dependent on the NoMachine 1.5.0 snapshot, and is different from NoMachine's own current printing implementation.
FreeNX's way to do it seems to be based on a "socks" proxy library, pre-loaded with the "LD_PRELOAD" mechanism, that transparently re-writes all "ipp://localhost:631/(...)" URLs/accesses to a different port. (And each NX user gets an SSH-portforwarding from his local NX client computer with a different port for each user; say this is 10631 for one of them....) On the forwarded port a NX session "sees" the printers for its respective NX client machine. Every time a user accesses seemingly "localhost:631" the pre-loaded socks proxy lib in reality re-directs to "localhost:10631" where the real CUPS daemon from the NX client was forwarded to...
* Is my understanding of the demonstrated seamless printing correct?
* Is this feature includeded in the 0.4.1 FreeNX release?
* Will this concept also be used by NoMachine and their commercial NX server?
By Sascha at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: Amazing show + Printing confusion
>> * Is my understanding of the demonstrated seamless printing correct?
>> * Is this feature includeded in the 0.4.1 FreeNX release?
(BTW, this socks based NX re-direction library was proposed as a Google Summer of Code Bounty. It is very unfortunate that it wasn't accepted :-| ... It looks like the bounty selection committee just didn't understand the value of it -- but I bet every single one of their members will be using it with great joy and benefit in the near future nevertheless. The fact that Fabian now can earn himself that bounty will probably slow him down considerably as he now has to look for other paid student jobs to work on...)
>> * Will this concept also be used by NoMachine and their commercial NX server?
Be aware that this NX printing concept currently only works in CUPS <--> CUPS environments (i.e. were CUPS is present on the NX client as well as on the NX server: Linux, Mac OS X and possibly Solaris -- but not MS Windows, where there will still be the need to use other print paths, most importantly SMB/Samba). But here, it promises to be *much* superior, more stable and more easy to handle than everything known from the proprietary world of Terminal Services (MS WTS, Citrix/ICA or Tarantella).
By Kurt Pfeifle at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
OpenUsability and FreeNX? How does that go togethe
Daniel reports that "currently the OpenUsability project uses NX technology for its support of various Open Source development efforts".
Could someone elaborate on that, please? I can not find any hint on NX when visiting the www.OpenUsability.org website....
By courious reader at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: OpenUsability and FreeNX? How does that go tog
Its quite easy:
Imagine having to compile and install the newest KDE CVS on several computers to do some usability tests on the software.
Jan (from Relevantive) told me something like: "You know, you have to reinstall the computer everytime you want to do new usability tests. And then you want to test another (older) KDE Version and then [...]"
Imagine now some KDE enthusiasts managing several KDE versions including a nightly for the Usability people (and perhaps even Translators) ...
You can share the work through one or several central servers managed by people who know their stuff, which can be used by people who do for example usability. Or by other people that might be not so technically inclined to compile KDE HEAD CVS every day ;-).
Or imagine looking if a Bug still exists, looking at newest Features / Interfaces / ...
Hope it got a bit clearer.
By Fabianx at Fri, 2005/07/01 - 5:00am
Possible to run Freenx as normal user
Is it possible to make a freenx setup without root privileauges?
By Mee at Fri, 2005/07/01 - 5:00am
Re: Possible to run Freenx as normal user
Not only is this possible.
This is even the default setup.
By Kurt Pfeifle at Fri, 2005/07/01 - 5:00am
Re: Possible to run Freenx as normal user
Ok, but according to this root access is needed, right?
Am I not understanding things correct?
By Mee at Fri, 2005/07/01 - 5:00am
Re: Possible to run Freenx as normal user
* To *install* FreeNX, you need root privileges, yes.
* Once it is installed, setup and working, FreeNX does not run with root privileges.
I hope I understood your question now.
By Kurt Pfeifle at Fri, 2005/07/01 - 5:00am
Almost perfect
FreeNX is incredibly fast, tunnels over SSH, and can even theoretically forward sounds.
Only, two issues:
-it's a little bit unstable. No biggie, it's getting better.
These two things are all that is left holding it back from being a Windows Terminal Services killer.
By GDorn at Tue, 2005/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Almost perfect
Both your points are not true, according to my book.
* First, it is quite stable for me.
* Second, I can suspend and resume sessions on the same client
Maybe you are using an older version??
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Btw. it would have been nice if you had /msged me asking for my reasons (before or after making the thread), and indeed I may have been wrong here...wouldn't be the first time.
If this had been meant as some sort of personal indictment, kutsu, I would have. The fact is that this sort of thing happens pretty regularly and I've seen it many times in the couple of years that I've been coming here. You just happened to be the person to do it this time. And it just happened to be this time that I decided to speak my mind.
I think that people's eagerness to help simply gets in the way sometimes. And, unfortunately, many people often vote "edit" or "delete" on considerations without actually considering anything themselves.
As for bland and boring, I care about function more then most else, so for the most part I care not if something is bland and boring as long as that something works
Firstly, they aren't mutually exclusive. Secondly, I maintain that the author's original title was better than yours from the functional standpoint as well. You are correct in saying that someone with the same problem probably won't search for "trashed by HTML" but on the other side of the coin, someone searching for "HTML comments" would likely have no interest in this node.
Moreover, it would be better if something would be found in the case that a user actually does come along and search for "trashed by HTML". A search for "HTML comment" already returns several results. If someone used that phrase in a title once, then someone else is likely to search for that phrase later.
I'll toss out the suggestion here that searchability isn't the end-all-be-all for a node title in any case. The vast majority of nodes here won't ever need to be visited again. The same questions are answered time and time again and this is another Good Thing™ because dusty sprawling FAQs aren't nearly as effective as a personal response. (And they do nothing to enroll anyone in a community.) And since the answers are so abundant here, it is also true that most of them serve their purpose and then can be safely forgotten. There is little or no added value in every answer to a question popping up in a search. As I pointed out above, it's far better that something will come back for any search. Finally, the simple search isn't meant to be a fine-grained control. There is Super Search for when you really need to find something specific.
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Gaming is usually a lean-back situation, with hands on a controller and back against a cushion. With 60-Beat's plug-in controller, the iPad just got "gamier."
The controller uses the headphone jack to control one of two available games: Aftermath and Bugdom 2. For sound purposes, it comes with a splitter. So, it does take away the touch-screen capabilities of the iPad, but it also offers that lean-back, hands-on controller experience.
For $50, that may not be enough games to cause critical mass for sales, but, as The Next Web points out, you can't stash an Xbox 360 in your backpack and play on the train.
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Herba epimedii is an herb that's been used for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which refers to it as yin yang huo. Loosely translated, yin yang huo means "horny goat weed". Horny goat weed is a very popular supplement both by itself and in various libido formulas where it's combined with other herbs and nutrients. With a name like 'horny goat weed' it's hardly surprising that it's best-known and most widely-used as a libido and sexual tonic. But the name also makes it hard for people to take the herb seriously. The name too easily lends itself to jokes and makes many otherwise interested customers uncomfortable talking about it or purchasing it. That's a shame because it's now clear that horny goat weed is useful for much more than boosting libido. Find out more about the herb with the unfortunate name in today's AllStarHealth.com blog.
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LONGMONT — Longmont's city manager told the Longmont Area Economic Council's board of directors Monday morning that he wants the city to play a more proactive, rather than reactive role, in economic development, and his goal is to have his entire organization "move at the pace of business."
"Economic development is important to the long-term future of this city because that is what's going to produce the additional revenue" needed to sustain city services, said Harold Dominguez, who took over the city manager position in April.
Appearing at the LAEC's annual retreat at the Xilinx Conference Center, Dominguez said that his goal is for the city to be seen as an ally to businesses, adding that cities everywhere often have to fight the perception that they are a hindrance to business, rather than an ally.
He said that he wants to "reinvigorate" the relationship between city staff and the LAEC beyond just the city's economic development department. He said he wants all departments in the city to be engaged with the LAEC's core mission, which is to recruit and retain primary employers.
Primary employers are those that produce goods and services locally and sell them elsewhere, bringing new money into the community.
"To a certain extent anything we do as an organization is economic development," Dominguez said.
The city of Longmont is the LAEC's largest source of funding at $180,000 for 2013, as well as another $20,000 for marketing. The organization also receives funding from its private sector members, both primary employers and non-primary employers.
Andy Bade of Amgen, the 2013 LAEC board president and a person who has handled site selection for the world's largest biotechnology company, said he has worked with other communities and appreciates the effort put out by the city of Longmont.
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Keynote Speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, at the OECD 3rd World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy
27 October 2009, Busan, Korea
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are here to talk about progress. We have often associated it with increasing economic connections between people, businesses and countries, with international dialogue, co-operation and alliances. In other words, with globalisation, as a driving force for progress. But have we achieved a real and lasting progress? What does progress mean in the 21st century?
Globalisation creates great opportunities, but has not benefited everyone. Globalisation also has important social consequences and creates, as any process of change, new risks and tensions. The OECD recently issued a report addressing the question: are we growing unequal? This is a crucial issue, because persisting or growing inequity in income and wealth disrupts social cohesion and can make society worse off. This is true within countries and also internationally, with some developing countries being left further and further behind.
A major challenge we experience today is the gap between what official statistics say about economic performance, and people's perception of their own living conditions. We are now hopefully approaching the end of the recession, but the gap was already evident during the years of "good" economic performance and may be widening further today. GDP was growing but most people did not necessarily feel better-off.
Now, the problem is even more critical. There are large fall-outs from the crisis, people losing their jobs, pensions and houses. And things may get worse before they get better. Unemployment will continue to rise in most OECD countries throughout 2010. Last but not least, the emergency rescue package that many countries put in place are often perceived as having mostly benefited the lucky and undeserving few.
Going forward, there is a major risk that people will lose confidence in markets and institutions, and in the capacity of governments to address their problems. This is a major political challenge: we have to restore trust and we can only achieve this if policy action has tangible impacts on people's life.
In these challenging times, the gap between measurement and people's perceptions does not result from low quality of official statistics, but from their inappropriate use. This can lead to biased analysis, wrong policy targets and can be damaging both to the credibility of political action and to the very functioning of democracy.
Statistical systems produce indicators for various purposes. And statistics designed for one purpose may be misleading if used for other purposes. For instance, GDP measures mainly market production.
However, it has been increasingly considered as a metric for households' consumption possibilities and even as a proxy measure of well-being – a purpose for which it is ill-suited.
Today two significant trends attest to the increasing need for "going beyond GDP":
Already in 2004, the OECD provided a network for the many ongoing initiatives. The OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policies", held in Palermo (in 2004) and Istanbul (in 2007), led to the Istanbul Declaration on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies. It was jointly agreed by the European Commission, the OECD, the UNDP, the World Bank and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. Since then, progress was achieved in a number of ways:
A political momentum for change is also building, with a strong demand for a new generation of statistics. The most salient expression of this demand is the international commission set up by French President Sarkozy chaired by Joseph Stiglitz, the Communication of the European Commission on "GDP and Beyond".
Both the Istanbul Declaration and the Report of the Stiglitz Commission propose to move from the current measurement system, based on the metrics of production, to a system that genuinely focuses on societal well-being and progress.
Economic resources are not the only thing that matters in people's life. To duly capture well-being we have to measure the expectations and level of satisfaction of individuals, how they spend their time, their paid and unpaid work, their capabilities, the relations they have with other people, their political voice and their participation in public life. We have to measure capital stocks as much as capital flows. We need to expand the concept of stock to include sustainability issues, such as, the state of our biosphere and metrics related to "green growth". We should also measure various forms of inequalities (in income, wealth, health, education and political voice), with particular emphasis on those that result from the accumulation of weaknesses or handicaps.
The process launched by the OECD in 2004, the recommendations of the Sitiglitz Commission and the call of G20 leaders are opening an ambitious agenda. The way forward will require political will. It will require an international setting in which concepts and methodologies will be defined and harmonised. It will prompt co-operation between different key players: national statistical offices, regional and supranational organisations, policy makers and civil society.
We stand ready to heed the call of the G20 to "encourage work on measurement methods so as to better take into account the social and environmental dimensions of economic development". We are also ready to meet the request of the French government and act as the international focal point of the follow-up to the recommendations of the Stigliz-Sen Commission.
The OECD is planning an ambitious work programme to deliver on the mandates it received. We are ready, as an Organisation, to continue to provide leadership and contribute to this ambitious agenda. We are currently establishing an OECD roadmap for measuring and fostering well being and progress. This roadmap will be presented to you on Thursday by Deputy Secretary-General, Pier Carlo Padoan.
The OECD stands for lasting progress and we are not alone. We have built an alliance for change. We have a historic opportunity and duty to build a more inclusive vision for the future of our societies. I trust the Third World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy" will be a milestone for lasting progress.
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Georja: Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at LA Opera is an operatic and cultural phenomenon. It stays with you like the intrigues of a Shakespeare play, rings through your senses like a Tibetan gong, evokes the catharsis of a Greek tragedy, and makes you swoon and twitter with the high-stakes emotion of first love. There is so much to love about this piece and this production that I don't know where to begin.
Gerald: This nearly three-hour opera of Verdi's is not well known and has been seldom performed. In our generation, Jose Carreras starred in it at La Scala in Milan, and then Domingo revived it again in a Royal Opera House production at Covent Garden, which has traveled here, literally, sets and all. (But we provided our world-class chorus, about which I will have more to say later.)
Georja: If you are partial to testosterone-exuding deep bass voices, you will not be disappointed with the major villain Jacopo Fiesco, played hauntingly by Ukrainian bass Vitalij Kowaljow. We were introduced to Kowaljow's clear authoritarian bass when he played Woton in the Ring Cycle. Here his voice opens up with the Italian fervor and deep emotion to give an unbelievably beautiful and expressive tone. In the prologue he fights with the hero Simon Boccanegra, played to the hilt by our dear master Placido Domingo. Just this duet is worth the price of admission and more. The prologue is populated by deep resonant voices also including that of Paolo Gavanelli as Paolo Albiani, another great villain. We saw him as the wonderfully comic husband Don Geronio in Rossini's The Turk in Italy, and here he stretches into a conniving and evil fellow. Robert Pomakov as Pietro adds to the wonderful bass mix.
Gerald: Apparently, Verdi was always conflicted about how to treat this dark story. He loaded it up with voices in the low-end register as a creative choice, but then when the piece failed to gain popularity after its premiere in 1857, he fretted that it might be just too gloomy.
Georja: In Act I we are introduced to the one major female voice, a young soprano, Ana Maria Martinez as Amelia. Her voice is such a contrast with the men when it goes into very its very high tones, it is almost a shock from the masculine world of the prologue. And yet as the story progresses and she sings with the male voices, she is perfectly matched and her voice is just the opposition in the mix that makes everything come together in beautiful balance. Her teaming with her young love, tenor Stefano Secco as Gabriele Adorno, is lovely. However, when Domingo takes the stage as her long-lost father, he rules the stage. Never have I witnessed in literature or stage the unbridled emotional scene of a reunion of father and daughter. This, too, is a stand-out scene which has stayed in my heart. The utter beauty. The longing from both sides and the pure love. Perfectly executed by Domingo and Martinez. This is what opera is all about. It brought back to me longings for my own long deceased father. Domingo is such a sweet tenor. The idealism in this role suits him to a tee.
Gerald: Boccanegra's character arc is at the heart of the story, but it took Verdi awhile to get it right. After the disappointments of 1857, he stuck the opera on the shelf. He dusted it off twenty-four years later in 1881, just ten years before his own death. In the rewrite, Verdi added the resounding Council of Genoa scene at the end of Act I, and he emphasized the gentle "philosopher-king" side of the old Doge.
Georja: Other superior idealistic moments are sprinkled throughout when you see the Domingo as Boccanegra, the once murdering pirate now benevolent and kind ruler. Accompanied by the chorus, he sings of peace and love, and he is sublime. It is a peace activist's dream. He puts himself second to the good of the people, for the sake of trust, for the unification of Italy. We love him for his altruism, and we're rewarded by his superstar voice.
Gerald: Let's not forget. This benevolent king started out as a pretty bad guy. Boccanegra literally means black mouth – call him Blackbeard and you get the idea. He was a vicious killer, and he was, in effect, tricked into becoming Doge because he thought he'd be able to turn an old illicit love affair into a politically sanctioned marriage. In his choice of this piece for our opera, Domingo once again finds resonance with today's headlines. With his last breath, Boccanegra is still pleading for reconciliation with his enemies, and we love him because he is finally fighting the good fight.
Georja: Another aria which must be mentioned is when Secco as Adorno is being torn apart, confused by his deep love for Amelia and his deep hatred for the murderer of his father. As an actor as well as a singer, Secco portrays the inner conflicts and contrasting feelings which arise in him from moment to moment.
Gerald: I thought Secco's aria, alone on the stage, staggering from doubt and worry, was a melodic high point. Unaccountably, Verdi gave his leading man no conventional arias in this dark opera. Boccanegra is always contending with his powerful male opponents, consoling his tormented daughter, or addressing the chorus as council or mob. Domingo justifiably steals all these scenes. But Secco, in his LA Opera debut, gets this set-piece all to himself. Gavanelli, Kowaljow, and Martinez also get their chances to deliver powerful solos. They are all spectacular.
Georja: The production is top notch. With conductor James Conlon, we are so accustomed to the perfection of the orchestra. Same with Grant Gershon, chorus master and the wonderful LA Opera chorus. Boccanegra is produced in association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The director is Elijah Moshinsky, known for staged productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and especially the Royal Opera and for directing many classics for TV.
Gerald: The chorus of an opera is its soul. We can never praise our own LA Opera chorus enough. As in so many productions we've seen them in, in Simon Boccanegra they are a starring character in their own right. I mentioned previously Domingo's counterpoint with them, when they play alternately the Council of Genoa and the boisterous plebian street fighters. Under Gershon's direction, they spar with the Doge, presenting a mellifluous tone and a powerful force.
Georja: There is only one moment in the production that doesn't seem completely fulfilled – when Boccanegra discovers the corpse of his love, in shadow, it is clearly a mannequin, and the reaction is more subdued than one might expect. I would have liked to see more outrage and sorrow in that one moment. However this is quickly passed by and greatly overshadowed by the innumerable thrilling scenes and moments which follow.
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Gerald Everett Jones is the author of the Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels.
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posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 7:58 am
what is your view on the use of a single shape factor, and when can you use it? I read a paper, I believe by DUncan that posited shape factors are useful when the value of the intercept is not significant. However, in LGM with categorical variables, the baseline value is standardized to zero. Would that suggest a single shape factor is useful?
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It sounds like by "shape factor" you mean a slope growth factor. I am not familiar with papers on this topic. I don't understand why you would not want an intercept growth factor, or why you would want to fix its mean to zero. The fact that with categorical outcomes Mplus fixes the intercept growth factor mean to zero has no substantive meaning but is merely because the mean of the outcome is instead picked up by a threshold parameter.
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The chapter I am thinking of is in the Duncan et al. book "An introduction to latent variable growth curve modeling," 1999. They have a chapter on testing interaction effects on LGM. They propose two possible methods. One method involves the use of a single shape factor in place of intercept and trend random effects. Essentially, it looks like a simple CFA, as the factor loadings are freely estimated except one for sclae (constrained to 1). They say it is useful when the intercept factor can be eliminated. I guess it gives one less parameter to estimate?
posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 8:03 pm
I see; yes, I am aware of that approach. The factor is then a combination of an intercept and a slope factor where the factor loadings capture the shape. In my opinion, the interpretation is clearer when you work with the intercept and slope factors as in regular growth modeling.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond to this question.
posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 1:41 pm
If the mean of slope parameter is not statistically significant, can we explain this way: the average score at different time point are the same? So there is unnecessary to test the affect of the time-invarying variable to slope variable? Thanks
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Yes on the first question. Re the second question, you might still be interested in seeing how time-invariant covariates explain the slope variance, but there is probably less interest in that in this case.
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When Zane Lamprey travels, his version of sightseeing involves barhopping and trying out the local specialties in beer and cocktails.
Lamprey is the host of "Drinking Made Easy," a travel show on HDNet that does for bar crawls what Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" did for dining and Brooke Burke's "Wild On!" did for international partying.
In each episode, Lamprey explores the drinking traditions of an American city, and in an episode that airs Wednesday, he finally explores Baltimore, where he visits Abbey Burger Bistro and Mr. Rain's Fun House, among others.
It's the second time in the last year that a travel show has filmed in town — an IFC show, "Young, Broke And Beautiful," about traveling on a budget shot an episode in April that featured musicians Dan Deacon and Ed Schrader.
Lamprey said he came to Baltimore because over the course of two seasons — the show premiered last year — he had already visited major destinations such as New York, New Orleans, and even Maui.
When the producers shot an episode in Washington, "obviously Baltimore made sense next," Lamprey said.
For local residents, "Drinking Made Easy" will offer more a sense of pride than any insight; Lamprey doesn't visit brand-new bars or off-the-beaten-path dives. Instead, he likes to go to bars that will make good television.
"We have to make sure that when we go to these places, there's something to talk about," he said. "The place needs to have specific drinks, a specific culture."
After all, a city has to be summarized in 30 minutes.
In Baltimore, he went to the cocktail bar Bad Decisions and the long-standing Horse You Came In On Saloon, both in Fells Point; Mr. Rain's Fun House at the American Visionary Art Museum; and Abbey Burger Bistro in Federal Hill, where Lamprey had one of its trademark alcoholic milkshakes.
He also visited the little-known Distillery Lane Ciderworks, which produces cider just outside Burkittsville.
"We don't just pick random places," he said. "We picked these places because there was something different about them."
Before shooting in Baltimore, which took place over the summer, Lamprey hadn't spent much time in the city since he was young. He didn't have much of a sense of its drinking traditions or history of brewing.
Natty Boh? "I'd heard of it, but I never had it."
He said he prefers to learn about a city when he shows up; that way, "viewers learn along with me."
So in Baltimore, the bars he visited gave him a crash course on local color.
At the Horse You Came In On Saloon, he was told the story that that it was one of the last bars where Edgar Allan Poe drank at before he died.
At Mr. Rain's Fun House, he sampled the Crushed Velvet, a cocktail made out of absinthe and rosemary-infused cachacha, a popular Brazilian beverage.
At Bad Decisions, Lamprey mixed a cocktail with Sloop Betty, the signature spirit of Maryland's first distillery in 40 years, Blackwater, and tried the ominous-sounding Zombie Island.
Afterward, he tweeted that coming to the bar was one of his better decisions, but "Chugging the Zombie Island cocktail, however, was not."
He did finally try Natty Boh and learned how it was made by the Orioles … or drunk by the Orioles … or something.
"I forget the story because I was drunk," he said.
That, in a nutshell, is the spirit of the show. Lamprey doesn't pretend to be a connoisseur like Bourdain, or a neutral observer like Burke.
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There are dog shows, and then there are dog shows. The "Magnificent Mutt Show" was my kind of competition. Okay, call me partial. I adopted my dog Oliver eight years ago from the Baltimore SPCA, and he's been my best friend ever since. Consequently, I can't help wondering about people who spend money to buy purebred dogs when there are perfectly wonderful dogs just waiting to be adopted from the pound.
This mutt show, held Sunday, October 20, at the Keswick Hunt Club, was a great opportunity to show that our "not so pure"-breds can sing, and jump, and basically outmaneuver canines with pedigreed bloodlines any day.
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The $150 fee includes a buffet lunch, golf, prizes and appetizers/wine/beer after play. The format will be a four-person shamble.
All proceeds will be used to fund programs at PAL's Adoption Center in the Riverwalk Business Park.
Register online to play or to purchase a hole sponsorship "in memory of" a beloved pet at www.palgolf.golfreg.com, email email@example.com, or call Wendy Schlegel at 843-815-3011 or Bob Elliott at 843-706-9015.
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- Potato starch (for dusting cake pan)
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup matzoh cake meal
- 3/4 cup potato starch
- 8 extra-large eggs, separated, at room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- Juice of 1 large lemon
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated orange zest
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- For strawberries:
- 3 pints strawberries, stemmed, washed, and thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 9-inch springform pan with the oil and dust with potato starch.
- 2. Sift the cake meal and potato starch together over a piece of foil and set aside.
- 3. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the egg yolks on medium speed for 3 minutes, until golden yellow and thick. Add the sugar slowly. Continue to beat 3 minutes more.
- 4. With the mixer on low, gradually add the orange juice, lemon juice, orange zest, and lemon zest. Add the vanilla and almond extract. Gradually add the matzo meal mixture to the batter. Mix gently until well blended.
- 5. In a clean bowl, beat the egg whites with the whisk attachment of the electric mixer until foamy. Add the salt and beat until the whites hold glossy peaks. Gently fold the egg whites into cake batter with a spatula. Pour the batter into the springform pan and bake for about 50 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool the cake in the pan, then loosen the sides. Cool completely.
- 6. Cut the cake into 12 wedges, or carefully slice the cake in half horizontally with a serrated knife and cut into 6 wedges to make 12 total wedges.
- 7. Toss the strawberries with the orange juice and sugar 30 minutes before serving the cake. Spoon the strawberries over each cake wedge and serve.
Cook's Tip:
Gild the lily by serving the cake with whipped cream or ice cream.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories249
- Carbohydrates44 g(15%)
- Fat6 g(9%)
- Protein7 g(14%)
- Saturated Fat1 g(7%)
- Sodium124 mg(5%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber3 g(10%)
- Monounsaturated Fat2 g
- Cholesterol167 mg(56%)


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John18 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de tema de wordpress y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 83 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
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We want to emphasize that this is text messaging... it's viral... and it will get them more customers.
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This beautiful technology gives you a growing database of people our service text messages with weekly/monthly promotions for you."
It needs to look sexy, but crisp and sharp. It needs to have power behind it, while being very elegant and rich. It's viral... it's alive... but it's a tamed beast that you can command to bring floods of new customers. It's better than cash to a company... it's oxygen for a business to truly grow with.
We have a site up @ http://www.TextItForward.com. We are also posting a 99designs contest for a new logo.
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The growth in usage and assets of exchange traded funds has been both steady and spectacular. While ETFs can be used by active traders and buy-and-hold investors alike, advisors are increasingly using ETFs in client portfolios.
In its June 27 monthly report, the ICI counted $1.48 trillion in ETF assets in May, up from $1.1 trillion in May 2012, a rise of 37%, invested in 1,200 different ETFs (the first ETF, the SPDR, was introduced in January 1993).
While the cost- and trading efficiency of ETFs, and the ability to expose clients to broad or narrow swaths of the markets is well known, what's less widely understood is how advisors can build efficient portfolios that meet client needs. According to a Cerulli survey released in May, advisors expect to increase their average allocation to ETFs this year. The survey found that of those advisors using ETFs, most use only a couple of ETFs at most for their clients, and the survey authors warn that even for those advisors who do adopt ETFs, it's "highly unlikely that they will move to solely using" ETFs and abandon other investing vehicles totally in their client portfolios.
That's why the editors of AdvisorOne and Investment Advisor and Research magazines are presenting our first ETF virtual conference on Tuesday, July 23. This free event (advisors must register to attend) has already attracted nearly a thousand registrants, with featured speakers like Gary Gastineau, Rick Ferri, Skip Schweiss and keynote speaker Ron DeLegge (left), along with ETF experts from Morningstar, New York Investing and AdvisorShares.
Moderating each of the six sessions (attendees can attend one or all of the sessions, as they wish) throughout the day will be editors from AdvisorOne, Investment Advisor and Research. Moreover, since this is an advisor event programmed by editors, we're also including a number of your advisor peers who will share with the audience how, when and for which clients they use ETFs (CFPs can also earn up to five hours of CE from the conference, preapproved by the CFP Board of Standards).
So what is the state of the ETF industry, and what is its future? What are advisors doing right, and wrong, when it comes to using ETFs for their clients' portfolios? Is it a question of either/or when it comes to ETFs or index mutual funds?
We asked keynoter Ron DeLegge, editor of ETFGuide.com who has written about ETFs for Research magazine for nearly a decade, to set the stage for the conference and to describe the environment in which advisors are using ETFs for clients.
Q. Could you give us a sneak preview of your keynote speech? What will you focus on?
A. What I want to focus on is the dynamics of how ETFs have revolutionized the way we manage investment portfolios, but also how advisors can manage their businesses for the next phase of asset growth by building a consistent approach to portfolio building—like Starbucks has done for coffee and McDonald's for hamburgers.
There's no reason for advisors to be inconsistent, while being efficient cuts operational risks, creates business efficiency and allows advisors to grow their practices by being in front of prospects instead of being in front of a computer screen, hand-constructing portfolios.
Q. What is the current state of the ETF industry? What can we expect in terms of new products? Will iShares, SSgA, Vanguard remain the dominant players?
A. There are almost 1,300 listed ETPs, managing $1.5 trillion across 18 different managers. Yes, there's been an increase in ETF upstarts, but 83% of ETF assets are controlled by the big three. That means 35 sponsors are competing for the remaining 17%, including most active [ETF] managers. The ETF marketplace has been focused too much on the next great vehicle; it's good to be an innovator, but the real money is in distribution.
ETFs are a microcosm of what's occurred in the mutual fund business where, driven by marketing, there are too many mutual funds. The number [of ETFs] is too many, but that won't stop product developers.
For advisors, we've seen asset growth in ETFs for nine out of the past 10 years. So ETFs are now a mainstream movement, and clients are much less likely to look at them oddly when the advisor talks about ETFs, but there's also more confusion today than there was a few years ago.
Q. How are advisors using ETFs, and how are they misusing them, in client portfolios?
A. I think advisors are successfully using ETFs as individual stock and active mutual funds replacements. They're also [using ETFs] to capitalize on major investment themes, such as faltering performance from [emerging-market] stocks; we've seen that play out this year.
Some advisors are using ETFs effectively, but not enough advisors are using index-based ETFs as core positions, rather than satellite. It's befuddling to me; look at performance in the last five tumultous years. Look at core mutual funds, which have been devastated by ETFs; over 75% of large-cap actively managed mutual funds have underperformed the S&P over the past five [years]. Mid-cap funds? 80%. Small-cap mutual funds performed even worse; 90% have underperformed. The last five years have totally debunked the claim that active managers outperform the markets, especially in smaller-cap funds. Advisor have to align portfolios with the facts, rather than fairy tales and myths perpretrated by fund marketers.
Q. Is that behind your dispute with John Bogle?
A. No, that's a separate issue. He's blaming ETFs for behavioral reasons, [saying] the problem with knives is that they cut too many people, or water is dangerous because people drown, or let's eliminate cars because of car crashes. His argument is that because of the massive trading volume of ETFs, it hurts buy-and-holders. He has since admitted that there are ways to use ETFs in portfolios. And by the way, you can't buy and hold forever; we don't live forever. ETFs give you intraday liquidity, a flexible option — we shouldn't demonize the feature of that product. Bogle and I still disagree, but our philosophies about indexing — we're 100% on the same page on that. Our disagreements are completely respectful.
Q. Finally, when will we see adoption of ETFs in defined contribution plans like 401(k)s? What will be the catalyst?
A. The catalyst will be similar to the development of the e-reader and the e-book. We've had tablets since the 1980s, but it was only recently that breakthroughs with ipads and Kindles upended the publishing business. So who are the biggest beneficiaries of this movement? The ones who are early to the curve.
The lesson for ETF-focused advisors is be five minutes early rather than 10 minutes late; now is the time to prepare your businesses for this trend, to team up with technology providers and forward-thinking TPAs who are embracing this movement, rather than defending this dying legacy; align your businesses with ennablers who embrace this movement.
The catalyst is to educate yourself as an advisor as to who these technology providers are, how to plug your businesses into theirs and vice versa. Advisors can't do this alone; you'll need to plug into partners, a team of enablers, like technology and fund companies.
Q. Will advisor custodians have a role to play?
A. Custodians are important to the mix. Schwab has been planning it for the last couple of years—an ETF(k) platform, which might force other custodians to come up with a solution. Schwab could be like Apple with the iPhone and iPad. They've got their own branded ETFs, so it's a natural fit. I'd like to see Schwab take their time and get it right, rather than rush and get it wrong, but they'll be a force to be reckoned with. It could be the same thing they did with the [OneSource] mutual fund marketplace by applying the same methodology to the ETF market.
To register for this event, we invite you to visit the virtual conference home page, ETFs: What Advisors Need to Know for Successful Portfolio Building, or go directly to the registration page.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 321 diseños de 96 diseñadores freelance.
Carbon Coach
Carbon Coach is a start up Australian business with a new service model to help organisations conduct their own carbon footprint. The web domain will be http://www.carboncoach.com.au
This is the first step of a three part design process. Once I have selected the winning logo from this competition I will commission a web design and a document/powerpoint/business card design. Please note there is no affiliation with the business at http://www.carboncoach.com, and the service offering is quite different.
The objective is to not look like a startup or just a one man band! The culture is about accuracy, transparency and quality in carbon footprinting. I would like to think that Carbon Coach can help to raise standards of carbon footprint assessment whilst also making the process more accessible, so more businesses can start to understand then address their emissions.
Carbon Coach will target organisations voluntarily conducting or looking to conduct a carbon footprint. The bulk of clientele are expected to be small (not micro) to medium private businesses where decision making will rest with a sole or few owners. Carbon Coach is going to be a lower priced service offering than most consultancies in this space and our aim is to educate our customers so that they become more self-sufficient.
I am looking for a simple, crisp, clean logo with a corporate feel. This is a business to business consulting service and so the logo needs to brand the company as trustworthy, accurate and reasonably serious. The service offering is not currently available in the Australian market.
I am flexible on whether the name (or the acronym) is embodied in the logo or whether the logo is merely a symbol that appears next to the name. I would however ideally like to have two versions – the core version and a second one incorporating the full name (if not in the core) and the tag line.
Having just said that, I'm still deciding on the tag line. For the moment please work with "Guidance for carbon footprinting".
On colour:
Green dominance usually seems a bit too obvious in the environment field but complementing other colours it can work ok. When it comes to the web site I'll be looking for lighter shades rather than a black or dark background so the logo will need to bear this in mind. Otherwise the logo will lead the colour direction.
Some don'ts:
I don't want anything based on trees, leaves, water, cooling towers or smokestacks. This is an Australian startup so if you're thinking of some planetary image make sure it doesn't have Europe or the US in the foreground of the globe as this won't be viewed favourably.
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There are a total of 70 nominations for 37 films across a dozen Golden Globes categories this year. Here are the nominees, who we think should win, and here's who we predict actually will win Sunday night:
"The Descendants"
"The Help"
"The Ides Of March"
"War Horse"
Who should win: "The Help"
U.S. & World
Who will win: "The Help"
Analysis: We're still puzzled by the adulation for "Hugo," "The Descendants" and "War Horse," and as much as we liked "Ides of March," it's not Best Picture material. So that leaves us with "The Help" vs. "Moneyball." While the latter has Brad Pitt, the former has Emma Stone, double the box office and an important message. Advantage: "The Help."
Glenn Close – "Albert Nobbs"
Viola Davis – "The Help"
Rooney Mara – "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"
Meryl Streep – "Iron Lady"
Tilda Swinton – "We Need To Talk About Kevin"
Who should win: Tilda Swinton
Who will win: Viola Davis
Meryl Streep has earned 26 Globes nominations, winning seven times, making it hard to gamble against her. But Viola Davis gives a emotionally charged turn in "The Help" as a maid who finds the courage to tell her story. That said, Tilda Swinton gave the most moving performance we saw among the women on this list, playing a mother struggling with the realization that her son is a sociopath--but it's hard to begrudge someone as talented as Davis.
George Clooney – "The Descendants"
Leonardo DiCaprio – "J. Edgar"
Michael Fassbender – "Shame"
Ryan Gosling – "The Ides Of March"
Brad Pitt – "Moneyball"
Who should win: Michael Fassbender
Who will win: George Clooney
Both Pitt and Gosling won't win if for no other reason than the fact that they both gave better performances in other films. DiCaprio won't win because despite his great turn as Hoover, "J. Edgar" was a mess and a bore. Fassbender won't win because no one saw "Shame," and because the film was a huge bummer packed with enough sex to get an NC-17 rating. George Clooney will win because people love him.
"The Artist"
"Midnight In Paris"
"My Week With Marilyn"
Who should win: "Midnight In Paris"
Who will win: "Midnight In Paris"
Only a win by "My Week With Marilyn" would be a disappointment in this category, as the other four films were all very good to excellent. The HFPA has shown a willingness to acknowledge all manner of humor, so "Bridesmaids" is not to be dismissed, and "50/50" deserved a far bigger audience, but this one's gonna fall to Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris."
Jodie Foster – "Carnage"
Charlize Theron – "Young Adult"
Kate Winslet – "Carnage"
Kristen Wiig – "Bridesmaids"
Michelle Williams – "My Week With Marilyn"
Who should win: Charlize Theron – "Young Adult"
Who will win: Michelle Williams – "My Week With Marilyn"
Foster and Winslet will cannibalize each other, Wiig is grateful for the nod, and Williams will walk away the winner because her transformation into Marilyn Monroe was mesmerizing, even if the film was only meh. But Theron was brilliant, giving everything she has to create a grown-up version of the girl we all hated, loved and or wanted to be in high school.
Jean Dujardin – "The Artist"
Brendan Gleeson – "The Guard"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – "50/50"
Ryan Gosling – "Crazy, Stupid, Love."
Owen Wilson – "Midnight In Paris"
Who should win: Jean Dujardin
Who will win: Jean Dujardin
Gosling took a stock role and turned it into something with real depth and wit, informing his Lothario with a self-awareness and a wink that let you know it was OK to laugh. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt made it OK to laugh at cancer. But Dujardin's rubber face somehow manages to express more emotion and thought in 30 seconds than some folks can muster in an entire film career.
"The Adventures Of Tintin"
"Arthur Christmas"
"Cars 2"
"Puss In Boots"
Who should win: "Rango"
Who will win: "The Adventures of Tintin"
With the help of Peter Jackson's FX wizard's, Steven Spielberg's "Tintin" was a breathtaking visual achievement, but it lacked heart, an unprecedented turn of events for the prolific director who's collaborated with John Williams to cook up lots of schmaltz. Writer-director Gore Verbinski's "Rango," however, was a clever and witty ode Spaghetti Westerns and old Hollywood masquerading as a cartoon about a chameleon suffering through an identity crisis.
"A Separation" (Iran)
"In The Land Of Blood And Honey" (United States)
"The Flowers Of War" (China)
"The Kid With A Bike" (Belgium)
"The Skin I Live In" (Spain)
Who should win: "The Skin I Live In"
Who will win: "The Skin I Live In"
This is Pedro Almodovar's seventh GG nomination, and he's already got two wins under his belt, making it hard to pick against, as, like Allen, 2011 found him achieving some of his past glory. But with Angelina Jolie's "In The Land Of Blood And Honey" lurking in the weeds, anything can happen.
Berenice Bejo – "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain – "The Help"
Janet McTeer – "Albert Nobbs"
Octavia Spencer – "The Help"
Shailene Woodle -- "The Desendents"
Who should win: Shailene Woodley
Who will win: Shailene Woodley
We would happily pay $12 to watch Berenice Bejo smile for two hours, possessing, as she does, a radiance that jumps off the screen. Octavia Spencer was fierce and hilarious in "The Help," but will get overshadowed by Davis, leaving the door open for Shailene Woodley, who was the real star of "The Descendants," making Clooney look so good in the process that he got nominated as well.
Kenneth Branagh – "My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks – "Drive"
Jonah Hill – "Moneyball"
Viggo Mortensen – "A Dangerous Method"
Christopher Plummer – "Beginners"
Who should win: Christopher Plummer
Who will win: Christopher Plummer
This is tough--Brooks was brilliant playing against type as a murderously knife-wielding, but somehow charming mobster in "Drive," but Plummer was simply amazing as Ewan McGregor's cancer-stricken father who comes out of the closet in his '70s. It's a shame only one of these guys can we, but this one's gonna go to Plummer, who, let's be frank, won't have that many more chances to be nominated for anything.
George Clooney – "The Ides Of March"
Michel Hazanavicius – "The Artist"
Alexander Payne – "The Descendants"
Martin Scorsese – "Hugo"
Who should win: Michel Hazanavicius
Who will win: Martin Scorsese
Woody's 0-for-4 as a GG Best Director nominee, Clooney's 0-for-1, Payne's 0-for-2. Hazanavicius is a newbie, but Scorsese is 2-for-6, so we'll give him the edge. Though we found "Hugo" to be a crushing bore, and it featured the most amateurish rendering of a trampling we've ever seen, Hazanavicius probably did the best job of the nominees. Plus, to give you a sense of how the HFPA feels about "Hollywood" vs. "Foreign," they didn't give Roberto Benigni's "Life Is Beautiful" a single nomination for anything.
Michel Hazanavicius - "The Artist"
Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, Jim Rash - "The Descendants"
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon - "The Ides Of March"
Woody Allen - "Midnight In Paris"
Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian - "Moneyball"
Who should win: Woody Allen
Who will win: Woody Allen
"The Artist"? Throw in some dialog and we'll talk. "Descendants," 'Ides of March" and "Moneyball" are all adaptations. This leaves only Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," his best film in 20 years, as the only original story among the nominees that had, like, dialog, and, as we've noted before, the best ending of any film of the year.
Ludovic Bource - "The Artist"
Abel Korzeniowski - "W.E."
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"
Howard Shore - "Hugo"
John Williams - "War Horse"
Who should win: Ludovic Bource
Who will win: Ludovic Bource
No film leaned more heavily on music than "The Artist," and Ludovic Bource's score was up to the job of adding depth to the great performances of stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo. From the film's joyous heights to its trenchant lows, Bource helped drive the action and set the tone every beat of the way.
"Hello, Hello," Elton John & Bernie Taupin from "Gnomeo & Juliet"
"The Keeper," by Chris Cornell from Machine "Gun Preacher"
"Lay Your Head Down," Brian Byrne & Glenn Close from "Albert Nobbs"
"The Living Proof," by Thomas Newman, Mary J. Blige, Harvey Mason, Jr. and Damon Thomas, from "The Help"
"Masterpiece," by Madonna, Julie Frost and Jimmy Harr, from "W.E."
Who should win: "The Living Proof"
Who will win: "The Living Proof"
We don't pretend to understand the musical tastes of Globe voters, but we'll guess Mary J. Blige takes this prize. She's a legitimate R&B legend singing a song from a hit film with a good and decent message that received mostly positive reviews. Each of the other nominees have a strike or two against them: crap film, lousy box office, has-been singer...
The Golden Globes will air at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT Sunday Jan. 15 on NBC.


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NC Senate offers big teacher raise for tenure loss
North Carolina senators are offering veteran teachers a choice between a double-digit pay raise or keeping the job protections a court says lawmakers can't strip away.
State senators on Wednesday announced their proposed budget will include pay raises of more than 10 percent for teachers who have earned career status after four years.
Giving up tenure rights would raise the state-supplied salary of a teacher with five years of experience from almost $31,000 this year to $35,000 next year. That teacher would get no raise if he or she kept their job rights.
A state Superior Court judge this month ruled a new law was unconstitutional because it stripped veteran teachers from job protections that barred their firing or demotion except for reasons that include poor performance, immorality and insubordination.


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[The following has nothing to do with politics in a traditional sense, either mine, yours or Mr. Cain's. It's more about how people make the major decisions in their lives.]
Herman Cain is a great story, but we all know he will not get the nomination, let alone the presidency. He will never fit the mold of expected conventionality the way a Perry or Romney or even Obama does.
It's too bad that someone with once-in-a-generation bravery and imagination isn't working for Cain, because this video below - back when Cain worked for the pizza industry, is goofy, inoffensive, and funny, but more than that, holds the one small sliver of out-of-the-box thinking that might get Cain to "stick" in people's minds the way that is necessary to get elected in the new world.
I am telling you with 100% sincerity that Herman Cain should start singing at all his campaign appearances. It would defy everything we know. It would make him a laughingstock, a source of constant late-night derision, angst and troubling echoes to a sordid racially charged past for American Entertainment and politics.
And it just might make Herman Cain the next president.
I know, you don't agree with me. I barely agree with me, and I'm a genius. It's almost impossible to wrap your head around it. It's so counter-intuitive.
People, the president is not your Mommy. He's not your Daddy, though that's what people seem to think, what they hope for. The president has never had the control over the Economy that people think. Read the Constitution: it's not even in his job description.
If the past 20 years have taught us nothing else - and they haven't - it's that the president cannot solve your problems, no matter how much you want him to. At some point people will grasp this on an unconscious level, even if they do not agree.
So what does that leave?
In the modern world, people need their president to give them something else, something different, not forced down their throats on the advice of marketing experts, but a part of who they are, a part that sticks out, gives people something else to think about. This is why the myriad low-grade controversies that followed Clinton actually helped him, they made him memorable and interesting. People don't want to consider the idea that they pick their president in the same way that they pick what to watch on Thursday Night TV, but they do.
Whatever politics and priorities a candidate says he has change once he becomes president, and is forced to deal with the reality, not the theory of his lofty goals. Whatever is left gets compromised - sometimes out of recognition, with his opponents, with the changing needs of the country and public zeitgeist, and that which does get put into Law never acts according to how it was drawn up.
In other words, the practical, real-world relationship a person has with their president is by far most influenced by the quality of the four-year reality show that the modern presidency is. The jokes. The family. The controversies. The scandals. The Fashion. The president's hobbies, his hopes, his tone of voice. How he ages in front of us, how he handles the big moments, how he handles disappointment, how he is able to surprise us, stir us, and simply stay on our minds.
Herman Cain could be that man. He won't do it and who could blame him? He wants what every candidate wants, to be taken seriously. No one running for president, particularly an African American, wants to be seen as a sideshow, Tonight's Entertainment.
But ironically, whether they admit it or not, that's what people are looking for. Imagine that.
Lyrics to Herman Cain's Pizza Beatles montage:
Imagine there's no pizza
I couldn't if I tried
Eating only tacos
Or Kentucky Fried
Imagine only burgers
It's frightening and sad
You're lucky you have pizza
To feed for kids for you
Only frosting or cookies
And no dishes you must do
Imagine eating pizza
Each and every day
You may say that it's junk food
But to me it's so much more
It gives my life its meaning
And it makes a lot of dough
Imagine mozzarella
Anchovies on the side
And maybe, pepperoni
Rounds out your pizza pie
Imagine getting pizza
Delivered to your door
You don't have to give up now
On my skateboard I will go
I'll be back in 30 minutes
I just bought Dominoes
All I am saying
Is give pizza a chance
All I am saying
Give pizza a chance!
All I am saying
Is give pizza a chance
All I am saying
You've got to, got to give pizza a chance!