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On the drive to an abbreviated New Year's Day poker session (which yielded +$1K in two hours, a good omen for the year ahead), an FM radio DJ presented the following stats:
- 45% of Americans make new year's resolutions.
- Only 8% successfully keep them (however that's defined).
Who knows how valid those numbers are. If they are in the ballpark, though, the picture is a bleak one. (A speculation: Your local gym sees bigger spikes in January membership revenue than any other month of the year, with corresponding lapse / cancellation spikes in March and June.)
This type of thing is worth remembering when considering investing advice directed at the general public. Typical investing dogma assumes "you have no discipline" because, well, in aggregate it's a reasonable assumption. To the degree you look like the average investor, you need serious help (and need to be protected from yourself).
And yet, as Nietzsche wrote, "The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." The more you do to set yourself apart, the less that one-size-fits-all advice for the discipline-challenged masses need apply.
In that spirit, a Mercenary Trader new year's resolution for 2013: Maximizing FLOW.
Our version of flow has a more nuanced meaning than the usual…
The succinct definition of flow (via Wikipedia) is "complete absorption in what one does."
A little more expansively, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – a pioneer of the subject – roughly defines flow as an optimal configuration of the challenge / skills balance, or CS Balance.
If the challenge is too high relative to skill, anxiety and worry result.
If the challenge is too low relative to skill level, boredom and apathy result.
Hitting the sweet spot, when the challenge is engaging but appropriate to skill, results in flow.
In respect to work, performance and life fulfillment, we want as much time in flow as possible.
This requires "pushing the envelope," cultivating new skills, exploiting opportunities while maintaining balance, and so on.We have a deeper definition of flow, which incorporates another layer of ideas (and accommodates our taste for acronyms).
FLOW = Fluid Local Optimum Winship
Along with Mihaly C.'s idea, we see FLOW as "Fluid Local Optimum Winship." So let's dig into what "Fluid Local Optimum" means.
The essence of Fluid Local Optimum as a concept is maximizing total fulfillment (via correct strategic focus) at any given moment. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, there is a course of action that provides the most advantageous result in terms of work, play, and life in the context of a coherent whole.
When working, you are giving 100% and laser-focused on taking the best strategic action. When playing with your kids, you are 100% focused on them. When enjoying a romantic dinner by candlelight, you are totally immersed in the person across the table from you, and so on.
The "fluid" aspect relates to a natural and powerful flexibility: The ability to "pay attention," as the old zen masters extol, and to compartmentalize in a healthy way as such that your forces are concentrated appropriately at any given moment. Competition is total competition. Relaxation is total relaxation. Shifting fluidly from one mode to another, furthermore, is a specific life-enhancing skill that improves with devotion and practice.
"Fluid Local Optimum" also has specific application to poker and trading — and any competitive endeavor involving wins and losses, really — where total performance is the result of cumulative actions across a spectrum of engagements (the net of accumulated results).
As lovers of the game, there are plenty of reasons to play beyond money. And yet, profitability – net accumulation of dollars, dosh, shekels, benjamins – is the ultimate measure of success for what we do. Risk-adjusted profitability is what it's all about.
As such, consider the following poker and trading principles:
Net profitability = inflow minus outflow.
A well managed loss trumps a poorly managed win.
It's not how often you win or lose, but the net ratio of wins to losses that counts.How does this relate back to the Fluid Local Optimum?
Profitability should not be considered over a single session, but rather over a statistically significant series of sessions, comprising a month, quarter, or year.
Some of these sessions will be winning sessions. Others (unless you are Bernie Madoff) will be losing sessions.
Because your net profitability comprises winning sessions minus losing sessions, or inflow minus outflow, how you handle the losing sessions becomes paramount. The manner in which you lose will deeply determine how much you win, because your losses are subtracted from your wins.
To further underscore the point: It often takes more skill (and emotional control) to minimize losses than it does to maximize wins. As a result, there is a greater skill differential — a greater ability to set one's self apart — through the handling of bad runs versus good runs.
To wit, anyone (maybe almost anyone) can win big when they are flopping straights and full houses left and right. But bad players will consistently lose $3,000 on their bad nights, where a good player will only lose $500, and so on. The art of winning is inseparably intertwined with the art of losing, because minimized losses contribute to larger net cumulative wins.
In trading the idea is the same. The trader who runs up huge gains on a hot streak, then blows it all out when markets turn against him, fails to understand the net profitability concept.
The resulting reality is counter intuitive to the average trader, let alone the typical undisciplined American who can't even keep a new year's resolution:It is possible to win even while losing, by losing more optimally than one's peers. In poker and trading this means losing less than average (often much less), in the context of a minus sum game, where competitors would have lost more.
The goal is still absolute profit over the full range of sessions, of course.
But the total amount of that profit is maximized by minimizing outflow (losing as little as possible) when losses are required.
This brings us back to the "fluid local optimum" concept: If your goal is winning over the long haul of accumulated sessions, then there is never a situation, or even a moment, when less than optimal decision making is desirable.
On a technical level, the "fluid" part relates to the fact that:The optimal course of action can change from moment to moment (for example, from one street to the next, or one inflection point to the next).
The focus shifts seamlessly (fluidly) between maximizing profit and mitigating loss (as appropriate to situational context).
If you let yourself tilt, you suck…
Now let's get gritty for a quick minute.
Poker players have a condition known as "going on tilt." There are different kinds of tilt: Rage tilt, self-pity tilt, revenge tilt, and so on. The central feature of tilt is throwing strategy out the window – or letting one's game degrade at the margins – as emotional response to adverse events takes over.
Traders and investors go on tilt too. Losing X trades in a row… getting emotional as the market continues to act "irrational"… getting angry at the idiots who refuse to see the value in that brilliant stock investment, as the share price drips down day after day… markets are very much a place for emotions to rein and tilt to creep in, leading to financial losses of moderate to severe amount (or in some cases, total blowout).
Here is the gritty part:
There is no excuse for tilt. None. If you let yourself tilt, you suck. Sorry, but it's true.
The good news is, suckage is not a permanent condition…
Many commentators on the poker and trading game are friendly and accomodating to various levels of tilt. "Oh, everyone tilts once in a while." Nope. Not everyone. It may be true that most competitors tilt, but it doesn't take away from the fact that tilting is a weakness that dilutes and devalues one's performance like nothing else.
Have we ever gone on tilt? Of course. Lots of times in fact… but in the past, while learning the game. Tilting is something you do as you are growing… while you are in the process of honing and perfecting your craft.
There is not, in otherwords, a permanent divide between those who tilt and those who don't. There is only a separate class of traders and poker players who tilted at one time – perhaps for an extended length of time – but then figured out how to stop doing it.
Understanding FLOW – Fluid Local Optimum Winship – is a recipe for transcending tilt.
Managing losses (and bad runs) is as critical to total performance as managing wins.
The skillful player can differentiate moreso in periods of adversity than periods of good fortune.
What matters is cumulative net. To bring home the maximum, you must be a competitor all the time.
This is also a recipe for living the best life…
It's mind blowing how sloppy so many poker players and traders are. They put the time and energy in… they put their hard-earned capital at risk… and then they shrug at half-assed efforts or give themselves a pass on immature (and costly) responses to unremarkable adverse excursions. Why???
Now let's get big picture zen for a minute. FLOW is not just about winning in markets and at the poker table. It's about big picture winship in everything.
To make money in poker and trading, you must occasionally lose money (manage drawdowns and hopefully minimize them). This is not just a "sad fact," it is a simple reality that is embedded in the existence of opportunity itself. (We laugh at those who lament the reality of occasionally having to lose. If you were able to devise a strategy that never lost, who would play with you? And if others were able to do the same, who would play with them?)
Life is similar in that, while poker and trading require drawdown management, life requires "undesirable activity management." Put plainly, sometimes you have to do shit you really don't want to do.
Now, as Steve Jobs once said, if you wake up too many mornings in a row and don't like what you are doing, you should change something. But as a general principle, even if you have the best job in the world – and the Mercenary setup comes pretty damn close! – there will still be grind activities, blah tasks, undesirable shit to get done etc. that necessarily contributes to maximizing life on the whole.
And this is where FLOW contributes to living the best life. If you have some nasty project to get done, just get it done. If the reality of your afternoon is that it isn't going to be so hot, then go ahead and immerse yourself in whatever the task is at hand. Think about the full picture, including the net cumulative benefits (future benefits) of getting XYZ done efficiently and smoothly with minimal resistance.
We forget who said it first, but concentration is like sunlight. When you marshal your resources of focus, it's like using a powerful magnifying glass. In contrast, all too many people take diluted half-assed approaches to things: Half at work but half day dreaming. Half committed to a course of action but half sulky and resentful. Half maintaining a healthy perspective but half angry. Half committed to being a true competitor but half lazy / holding back. And so on.
Maximizing FLOW, then, means understanding that 1) there is always an optimal decision to make; 2) managing losses, and adversity in general, is a key aspect of winning; and 3) the more of a true competitor and life maximizer you become, the closer you can come to living the best life, however you choose to define it.
Here's to kicking out the FLOW jams in 2013…
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Democrats of all ages gather at the Governor's Mansion for holiday cheer
What's not to celebrate when you're a young Democrat? Your president won re-election and your party controls the governor's mansion and both chambers of the state legislature.
There were smiles all around Tuesday when the Denver Young Democrats held their annual holiday party, attended by Democrats of all ages and other folks, too. Party-goers were asked to bring a toy for the Boys and Girls Club of Metro-Denver.
Among those present: Rep. Dan Pabon, sleep-deprived but madly in love with his 14-day-old son, Denver clerk Debra Johnson and members of the University of Colorado Board of Regents. Gov. John Hickenlooper addressed the crowd before dashing off to another event.
The Denver Metro Young Republicans are holding their holiday party Friday night at the Colorado Auto Dealers Association at 290 E. Speer Blvd. Attendees have been asked to bring an unwrapped toy for the U.S. Marines Toys for Tots program.

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From a technical standpoint, BP has botched nearly every aspect of the Gulf oil spill — from malfunctioning equipment and lax operational protocols to undeployed booms, failed containment attempts, and banned dispersants. Even the act of simply cleaning up the oil was called into question when BP hired untrained fisherman, provided no safety gear and then asked them to sign liability waivers.
There are almost a hundred reasons to hate the oil giant. But it's in the arena of corporate communications that BP has astonished with a list of epic foot-in-mouth insertions:
The company continues to misinform the public about the quantity of oil leaking into the Gulf; they said Americans are to blame for driving too much; they rejected help from scientists; they blocked journalists from documenting the spill; they made moronic statements like "the ocean can absorb a lot," then colluded with local sheriff's offices to threaten photographers with arrest documenting the oil — all textbook examples of how NOT to handle a corporate communications "situation" like the Gulf spill.
And then there are the repeated gaffes by BP CEO Tony Hayward — his jocularity at the initial Congressional hearings, out-of-touch sentiments like "I want my life back" and now a horrendously timed $50 million ad campaign aimed at making the soulless corporation appear caring (when it should be spending funds on immediate aid to a region in crisis).
It's not surprising that an entire nation has been brought together in unified condemnation of BP, giving birth to a bipartisan, anti-BP movement that has many different expressions. Here are the top 10 protests — both online and real-world — that are gaining the quickest traction:
1.1 Million Strong Against Offshore Drilling
Shortly after the Gulf spill occurred, 350.org — a leading international climate advocacy group — started a Facebook page calling for a full moratorium on offshore drilling. They are growing steadily with 135,000 fans and counting.
Unquestionably the fastest-growing online movement, Boycott BP started as a Facebook group and is now expanding to multiple international websites. The ask is simple — boycott all BP stations including Castrol, Arco, Aral and AM/PM. Last week they had 350,000 followers, this week they're at 450,000. (Photo: Johann Lammer, New York)
They say the fiercest weapon is a sharp wit and in this case, the satirical twitter feed @BPGlobalPR may be one of the best (and certainly the funniest) online protest against the evildoing oil giant. With tweets like: "Taking the day off to go fish fighting with the boys. Tony Hayward punched a dolphin so hard it puked!" how can you not feel at least a little vindicated?
On June 4, a coalition on nonprofit organizations including Public Citizen, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Energy Action Coalition, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, 350.org and the Center for Biological Diversity gathered in D.C. to make a "citizen's arrest" of an effigy of BP CEO Tony Hayward. They are now calling for a three-month boycott of BP.
June 12 will mark a worldwide protest of BP and the corporate irresponsibility they have come to represent. Also being organized on Facebook, the group now has commitments for a march in 33 cities. They have recently aligned with Boycott BP and will be endorsing the boycott.
You have to love the brave, nude and impassioned Code Pink Women for Peace. On May 21, they led a colorful and bawdy march at BP headquarters in Houston, Texas, and are calling for a boycott of BP and ARCO stations.
7.Seize BP
One small group of activists has gained international press attention for promoting the strongest (and most outlandish) demand — they want the U.S. government to seize all of BP's assets and use them to pay back the damages from the oil spill. Not likely … but they make their point! Seize BP rallies are happening all week long.
8. Change.org's full debarment plan
Change.org is putting forth a less histrionic put infinitely more strategic call to action: push the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recommend a full "discretionary debarment" of BP, which means no more U.S. government contracts, no new leases in the U.S., and all existing leases cancelled. Due to BP's lengthy criminal record, the EPA was already investigating the possibility for debarment and it is expected the agency will open the issue to public comment in the near future.
For some reason the big environmental nonprofits like NRDC, Nature Conservancy, WWF, even Al Gore's well-funded Alliance for Climate Protection have been noticeably quiet about the oil spill for reasons that elude even the most astute political observers. Finally, the Sierra Club has issued a "wake-up call" — that it is time to get off oil now, before it is too late. Michael Brune, the new head of the Sierra Club, gives a firsthand account of his trip to the Gulf and what we can do to loosen Big Oil's grip on American energy policy.
A simple idea dreamed up by a Florida resident several months before the Gulf oil spill, Hands Across the Sand is growing into a full-fledged movement of people from nearly every state who are sending a plea to President Obama and to Congress: it's time for a full moratorium on offshore drilling with funding for safe, renewable alternatives. The poetic imagery of thousands holding hands in a protective embrace of our oceans will emerge on June 26, the national Hands Across the Sand day of protest.
I'm sure there are many more. If you find ones that I've missed, please include the links below.


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Archive for Saturday, July 12, 2008
Chat with, meet the candidates
For Leavenworth County residents deciding how to vote in the upcoming Aug. 5 primary elections, the time to start asking questions is now.
Voters are encouraged to participate in several upcoming, open-forum Web chats The Mirror staff has arranged with candidates involved in local contested primaries (check www.tonganoxiemirror.com/chats) and to attend several upcoming candidate forums being held throughout the county.
On Thursday, July 17, 3rd District County Commission candidates Dave Taylor and Francis Hurla and Leavenworth County Attorney candidate Todd Thompson will field questions - which readers can submit online at www.tonganoxiemirror.com/chats - about their candidacy for public office.
A Web chat for Taylor is scheduled for 11 a.m.; Thompson will chat with voters at 1 p.m. and Hurla is set for 5 p.m.
Other discussions scheduled so far include Leavenworth County Attorney candidate Debra "Deb" Snider at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 23, 42nd District state representative candidate Ted Ingerson at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, 3rd District County Commission candidate John Flower at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 31, and 42nd District state representative candidate Connie O'Brien at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 31.
All contested candidates for county attorney, 42nd District state representative and 3rd District county commissioner have been invited to host a Web chat.
Look for more of the open forums - which will be moderated and screened by The Mirror staff - leading up to the Aug. 5 primary.
Area political and civic organizations have also arranged various candidate forums and "meet the candidates" opportunities from now until Aug. 5.
Those forums include:
¢ A candidate forum from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 19, at the Riverfront Community Center hosted by the Leavenworth County Republican Party.
Jim Ryun and Lynn Jenkins, the Republican candidates for Kansas' 2nd Congressional District seat, have been invited to debate and take questions from the audience, as have Republican candidates for 42nd District State Representative Connie O'Brien and Ted Ingerson, Republican candidates for 40th District State Representative Laura Janas Gasbarre and Charlie Gregor and Republicans Todd Thompson and Debra "Deb" Snider, who are vying for Leavenworth County Attorney.
Republican candidates running unopposed in races in the county will also be in attendance.
¢ A Leavenworth-Lansing Area Chamber of Commerce-sponsored symposium at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, at the Lansing Community Center, 800 First Terrace, Lansing, featuring the two Democratic candidates for the 5th District Kansas Senate seat, Gilstrap and Kultala.
¢ A candidate forum at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Tonganoxie VFW Hall, 910 E. First St., hosted by Tonganoxie VFW Post 9271.
Republican candidates for Kansas' 2nd Congressional District (Ryun and Jenkins), 42nd District State Representative (O'Brien and Ingerson) and 3rd District County Commissioner are expected to attend, along with any other candidates running unopposed in state and county races.
¢ A breakfast and "meet the candidates" opportunity from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Tonganoxie Historic Site, 201 W. Washington St., hosted by Tonganoxie resident Dennis Bixby.
Bixby has invited 42nd District State Representative candidate Connie O'Brien and Leavenworth County Attorney Candidate Debra "Deb" Snider to attend.
¢ A "meet the candidates" night Monday, July 28 at 7 p.m. at the Bob Wiley Memorial VFW Post, 2806 N. 155th St. in Basehor sponsored by the Basehor Chamber of Commerce.
All contested candidates for 3rd District County Commissioner and County Attorney have been invited to attend.
For more information on candidate Web chats and community forums, continue reading The Mirror or check back online at www.tonganoxiemirror.com.
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An absolutely wonderful story came out today. The issue is the Swiss National Bank (SNB), its policy of pegging the Swiss Franc to the Euro at 1.200 and the huge reserve increase this has caused. More broadly, this is a story of Central Banks, their inventions in the markets, and the negative blow back results that these interventions cause.
This matter has been discussed in a number of newspapers/emags:
1) FTAlphaville
2) Telegraph
A quick summary of this fast moving story:
Standard and Poors (S&P) came out with a paper that said that the SNB had bought Euro 80Bn of core EU country bonds the past few months. S&P went on to blame the SNB for the unusual activity in the EU bond market that followed. Two-year debt instruments of Germany, Austria, Netherland and Finland went into negative territory. At the same time, bonds in Italy and Spain tanked. S&P flat out point the finger at the SNB:
SNB bond-buying is "exacerbating" the gap between borrowing costs for stable countries like Germany and the rest of the 17-nation euro zone.
Some perspective on this. What is the largest single economic threat the globe faces today? The clear answer is the funding market in the EU. Extraordinary steps have been taken by the ECB to contain the problems. More extraordinary measures are being introduced over the next few months. In spite of all that has been done, it is by no means clear that the problems can be contained. If they are not contained, the global economy is headed into a very nasty spell. And the Swiss National Bank is adding to the problem. According to S&P, its actions are directly undermining the entire global financial system.
In an extremely unusual move, the SNB fired off a response to the S&P report within hours of it being issued. Not surprisingly, the SNB denied all of the accusations by S&P:
I think this was a very dumb move by the SNB. By issuing a denial, it has opened the door. I (and dozens of others) are all going to cry:
"Prove It!"
The SNB does not break out its bond holdings. The numbers are bunched with central bank deposits. At this point no one knows if S&P is right in its assertions about the SNB bond portfolio. But that doesn't really matter. If the SNB was loading up on deposits at the Bundesbank, it had the same consequence as direct purchases of government debt; it drove interest rates down. In this case rates went below zero in Germany while they soared in Spain.
The S&P report is an accusation that the SNB facilitated capital flight from the periphery to the core. By its actions, the SNB exasperated the problems. This is a very serious charge. I don't think we have heard the last of this. The SNB has to step-up and prove that it is not contributing to the monetary problems in the EU. A formal announcement has to follow. Information has to be provided that attempts to blunt the S&P accusations. I believe that another SNB response is likely, as S&P has called its bluff. After the SNB refuted the information, S&P quickly came out with a response that they were standing by its numbers:
We stand by the conclusions of our report. We believe the assumptions underpinning our analysis are reasonable.
I don't think the SNB can prove what it wants to prove. I think the evidence will show that the SNB absorbed huge amounts of capital flight from the south, and then passed it along to the north.
There is a lot at stake here. The conclusion from the SNB affair is that Central Bank policy in one country has negative consequences to other countries. This is an old story. But this time the EU is faced with a big problem with Switzerland. They are going to the mats to save the Euro, and the Swiss are scrambling their eggs. Something has to give.
The solution is simple. When the SNB gets another E10Bn from Spain or Italy, they have to put the money back into the bond markets of the countries where the money came from. That would address the EU complaints that will be forthcoming. Of course, that would put the SNB in a pickle. I don't think the SNB (or the Swiss people) is willing to buy Spanish sovereign debt. The "Peg" policy would have to come into question under these circumstances. I don't think the Swiss will fund Spain.
I have one gripe with the S&P report. It said that the issue with the SNB was "unnoticed":
Largely unnoticed, Switzerland's decision to stem the appreciation of the Swiss franc has led to a de facto recycling of funds from the eurozone periphery to its core, via the Swiss National Bank (SNB).
Unnoticed you say? I said exactly what S&P said today way back on August 7: (Link)
The SNB invests its hoard of Euro reserves in short-term German government paper. They have avoided holding their reserves in debt instruments of Italy and Spain. This has influenced market rates in Germany; two-year yields have been at or below zero for months as a result of the Swiss. This has mucked up the European bond markets as it results in a huge spread between German and Spanish yields. The Swiss intervention is adding to the stress in Euro funding markets.
Izabella Kaminska, at FTAlphaville, said much the same on September 7. (Link)
You can't get no respect.


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Google this week is extending an invitation to developers to try out its new Google Play Developer Console, which is centered on developing and publishing applications to the Google Play online store for Android applications.
The Play Developer Console, according to Google, is faster and easier to navigate, and it lets developers track how well their apps are doing. "You'll see new statistics about your user ratings: a graph showing changes over time, for both the all-time average user rating and new user ratings that come in on a certain day. As with other statistics, you'll be able to break down the data by device, country, language, carrier, Android version, and app version," said members of the Google Play team in a blog post.
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A revamped publishing process enables developers to start with an APK or an app name. Developers also can see differences between old and new applications. Listings for applications can be published in 49 languages.
The upgraded console, however, still lacks multiple APK support as well as support for APK expansion files; developers can switch back to the old version of the console to use these features. Google Play previously had beenn known as Android Market, but Google changed the name of the store in March. The store also offers music, books, and movies.
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text: Show Hide image Politics 25 July 2012 The world on a plate, all in one city What takes your fancy? If you've got the time and hunger, you can sample every style of cooking known to man in the Big Smoke. From Jamaican jerk and Southern ribs to Turkish kebab, London is the place to be. Sign-up As you may be sick of hearing, due to the puff surrounding the little sporting event that's kicking off, London is the nation's melting pot: a third of its eight million residents were born abroad and the city is home to some 270 nationalities. The "food vision" for the Games waxes lyrical on the diversity of the culinary culture here – before (like any true Londoner) plumping for a burger and fries instead. It's true that, import restrictions aside, you can eat your way around the world in London. Various food bloggers have attempted to, though they inevitably give up on delicacies from Djibouti, or a taste of Tuvalu. No doubt there are people cooking up nightly feasts from these countries somewhere in the capital's teeming streets, but they don't seem to be selling seats. If you want to find out about the city's different peoples, the best way in is always food. You may not get through the door at Dalston's many "members only" Turkish social clubs, but you can try some of the best beyti kebab west of Istanbul at the ocakbasi restaurants that perfume the air around them. No wonder Joël Robuchon, a proudly French chef whose restaurants have 28 Michelin stars between them, has called London "very possibly the gastronomic capital of the world . . . because it's only in London that you find every conceivable style of cooking". There's a hunger for novelty here that sustains endless food festivals, supper clubs, street markets and general gastronomic tomfoolery, and embraces all tastes and budgets, from the £175 tasting menu in the glass box currently perched on the roof of the Royal Festival Hall to the shiny trailer parked seven floors below, selling pulled pork and pickles for a tenth of the price. Such was the enthusiasm for the Pitt Cue Co trailer's brand of Southern barbecue that it has just opened a restaurant in Soho. This comes hot on the heels of the hugely successful burger van Meatwagon. Both businesses are the brainchild of amateur obsessives. Yianni Papoutsis, the patty fanatic behind Meatwagon and the MEATliquor restaurant, claims to have tried more than 1,000 cheeses before he found one worthy of gracing his burgers. Despite the greasy bones that litter the city's pavements (less wholesomely, London also seems to be the fried-chicken capital of the UK), it is quite possible to find fast food here that's every bit as much of a labour of love as the perfectly prepped dishes in its 55 Michelin-starred restaurants. Plum pudding Although we eat out more than any other region of the UK, London is also a plum place to be a home cook. We have more than our fair share of supermarkets, but there is also the volume and range of population to support thriving street markets (mine offers five peaches for a pound – that's four more than you'd get at the Waitrose down the road, even if they are so obscenely ripe they won't last the night), proper butchers and bakers, and the kind of absurdly specialist shops (sushi-grade fishmongers, Iraqi delicatessens) that wouldn't survive elsewhere. It's a pleasure to shop here – as long as you've got the time and patience to criss-cross the capital with your bags. Some of the produce is even local; as London experiences go, tucking into freshly laid eggs and home-made sausages in the shadow of Canary Wharf, as you can at Surrey Docks City Farm, takes some beating. There are beehives on top of Fortnum & Mason's Piccadilly store and a Norwegian smokehouse in Hackney. Supper clubs and street food stalls pop up like wild mushrooms to feed our inexhaustible appetites. From jellied eels (yes, you can still find them) to Jamaican jerk, London is a feast. Felicity Cloake is the New Statesman's food columnist. Her latest book is The A-Z of Eating: a Flavour Map for Adventurous Cooks. Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 30 July 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The London Issue SUBSCRIBE More


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I'm a sucker for a kitschy diner...so when I was on my daily walks with a coworker - I ran across Hathaway's! It's in Carew Tower next to Radio Shack...on the street level.
Inside - it's got the diner counters and that's the best! It's like the Echo in Hyde Park...or like you just walked into 1950! The aqua color is carried throughout the entire diner...that is definitely fun. The waitstaff is also right out of 1950! The women all have the dresses - it's like walking into Mel's Diner!
But the food - how was it? Well my friend Denise got a club sandwich as recommended by the staff. She asked for wheat toast - that's not. She seemed to like it fine - but didn't quite finish it.
I got the grilled chicken with mushroom, peppers, onions, tomato and lettuce. It came with a side of cole slaw and fries. The slaw was very tasty - the sandwich was good as well. Chicken juicy, etc... I asked for a side of BBQ sauce as opposed to mayo - Boot Camp Trainer would be proud!
So here's the deal - the food was fine. The service was decent. The restaurant was extremely clean. There just wasn't any wow factor...and I don't know that I expect that from a diner. BUT I would hope for cheaper prices. I came out of there with a soda and that chicken sandwich/fries and it was $10 plus tip.
If you're downtown and you want a quick bite at a sit-down stop - then Hathaway's is a great choice.
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Sadly, obsolete gadgets have to be replaced. Happily, change is good. This is what happened to Jerry Seinfeld's ever-present classic Macintosh which, after all these years, has been replaced by a new iMac.
It happened in the "Seinfeld reunion" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The iMac seems to be from the previous generation, not the 16:9 model. Jerry's classic Mac was only replaced once before, during the last season, with an Apple Macintosh 20th Anniversary.
It wasn't the only wink to the Cupertino company during that episode, but it certainly was the most significant sign of time change.
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The $300 million yacht that's been sailing up and down the coast of California spent part of the weekend in the beautiful Monterey Bay. The visit was a brief one. By the time reporters got to the wharf Sunday morning, she had already set sail south.
By late Sunday we started getting reports of the 390-foot super yacht known as "A" in Santa Barbara.
A is the aquatic toy of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko.
With a $300 million price tag, the boat isn't short on perks. According to a profile in the Wall Street Journal, she has 23,600 square feet of living space, three swimming pools, three speed boats and a 24,000 horse power engine. She also comes with some high security features such as bomb-proofed glass and a fingerprint security system
The blog "Yacht Pals" highlight some of the other amenities:
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In addition, it has all the latest entertainment systems, blinking lights, bells and whistles one would expect on a billionaire's mega yacht. Unlike most yachts, however, which usually sport several spacious decks for lounging in the sun and taking in the sea air (or allowing throngs of nude "models" to do same), A's streamlined design is almost entirely enclosed, which suits her reportedly paranoid (but maybe only A-goraphobic?) owner quite well.
"A" started the month of August in San Diego before heading to Malibu and then under the Golden Gate where she hung out near Sausalito for a few days.
The boat got lots of attention from locals and tourists alike along the Monterey peninsula who spent a little extra time gazing toward the bay.
Below is some raw video of A's visit to the San Francisco Bay.
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Five people -- three alumni, a faculty member and a respected former faculty member -- have been selected for annual awards recognizing their achievements and contributions to the College of Communications, the University and their professional fields.
The College of Communications Alumni Society Board selected the individuals who will be honored during an awards dinner Nov. 3 on the University Park campus.
Those selected were: the late Michael Chobot, a freelance sound editor and mixer; Gene Foreman, who serves as a visiting professor of journalism; Steve Kraycik, director of student television and online operations; Kathleen Pavelko, president and CEO of WITF Public Media; and Chris Wheeler, the longest tenured member of the Philadelphia Phillies' broadcast team.
Chobot, who earned his bachelor's degree in film-video in 2009, is being honored posthumously with the Emerging Professional Award. He died Aug. 6, 2013, after a 22-month battle with leukemia. Chobot, 26, made a lasting impact during his brief career and life, though.
"He was one of the most generous and good-hearted students that I've known, and he was a pleasure to have in the classroom and on the set," said Richie Sherman, an associate professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies.
Chobot, a sound engineer and mixer for DuArt Film in New York City, was nominated for a national Emmy Award for his work on "An Original DUCKumentary" in the category of Outstanding Music and Sound.
As a student, Chobot worked in the College of Communications equipment room and also served as a counselor at the high school film camp conducted each summer on the University Park campus.
The Emerging Professional Award is presented annually to an alumnus who has graduated in the past 10 years and recognizes professional achievement and/or distinguished community service.
Pavelko earned a bachelor's degree in history (1975) and a master's degree in journalism (1979) from Penn State. She was selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award, which is presented to a graduate of the college who has demonstrated excellence in the field of communications, contributed significantly to their profession and gained an exemplary reputation among colleagues and students within his or her community.
Since 1999, Pavelko has served as president/CEO of WITF Public Media in Harrisburg. Under her leadership, WITF's total assets and have quintupled and it has earned many journalism honors, including the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, which honors excellence in broadcast and digital news. Before joining WITF, she served in production and management at Penn State Public Broadcasting, was executive producer for West Virginia Public Broadcasting and was president of Prairie Public Broadcasting, based in Fargo, N.D., where she created North Dakota Public Radio -- the state's first statewide public radio network.
Pavelko has extensive experience in non-profit management and governance and has served on two statewide commissions, as well as several boards. She presently serves on boards for the Harrisburg Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Salvation Army.
Wheeler earned his bachelor's degree in broadcasting in 1967 and worked for radio stations in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia -- where he was a news writer and reporter and also provided traffic reports from an airplane -- before joining his hometown Philadelphia Phillies as assistant director of publicity and public relations in 1971.
He was added to the broadcast team in 1977 and was named director of the team's community relations department in 1982. In 1991, he also became director of the team's speakers bureau, a position he held until 1997. Additionally, Wheeler was camp coordinator for "Phillies Dream Week" from 1983 to 1999.
In the past 37 years, Wheeler has worked games on radio and TV, doing both play-by-play and color commentary. Having just completed his 37th season, he's the longest-tenured member of the Phillies' broadcast team.
He was selected for the Alumni Achievement Award, which is presented to a College of Communications graduate or friend of the college whose significant contributions to the college and/or university, in terms of time and talent, have brought distinction to themselves, the college and the university.
Kraycik, who joined the College of Communications in 2012, bringing with him 27 years of TV news experience, was selected for the Excellence in Teaching Award. It is presented to a member of the faculty who has demonstrated excellence in teaching, contributed significantly to the growth of students' learning and gained an exemplary reputation among colleagues, students and alumni.
With his extensive background in news management and production, Kraycik teaches television news and serves as the supervisor of "Centre County Report," the student-produced newscast that airs in 29 Pennsylvania counties.
Before joining the faculty, Kraycik spent a decade as a top-20 market news director at stations in Sacramento and Seattle. Among Kraycik's memorable experiences in TV news are field producing coverage of two Super Bowls and a presidential inauguration, and producing a governor's debate moderated by NBC's Tim Russert.
Foreman was selected as recipient of the Douglas A. Anderson Communications Contributor Award. The award, in just its second year, was created to honor people for their achievements in the field as they apply to the College of Communications, the University and/or Commonwealth. Those considered for this award need not be Penn State alumni.
Foreman joined the Penn State faculty in 1998 after retiring from The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he managed newsroom operations for more than 25 years. During his tenure, The Inquirer won 18 Pulitzer Prizes. At Penn State, he was the Larry and Ellen Foster Professor from 1999 until his retirement from full-time teaching in December 2006. He taught courses in news editing, news media ethics and newspaper management.
As a visiting professor, Foreman continues to direct a conference of distinguished writers. The conference was originally the Foster Conference of Distinguished Writers but was renamed the Foster-Foreman Conference in 2011.
Foreman spent 41 years in newspaper journalism and was the managing editor of three different newspapers: the Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial, the Arkansas Democrat in Little Rock, and The Inquirer. He also worked as a reporter and assigning editor at the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, as a copy editor at The New York Times and as the senior editor in charge of news and copy desks at Newsday on Long Island.
He was president of the Associated Press Managing Editors in 1990 and in 1998 he received a career achievement award from the Philadelphia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Foreman is a journalism graduate of Arkansas State University at Jonesboro. While at Arkansas State, he earned an Army Reserve commission through ROTC, and after active duty in the field artillery he spent 11 years in the Reserve, ending his military service as a major.
The Douglas A. Anderson Communications Contributor Award is named for the dean of the College of Communications. Anderson arrived at Penn State in 1999 and under his leadership the college has enjoyed a period of unprecedented growth and success, becoming the country's largest nationally accredited mass communications program.


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The Center for American Progress has
released a letter it, along with three other groups sent to the Federal Housing
Finance Agency (FHFA) regarding its plan to create a new securitization
platform for the secondary mortgage market.
The letter, sent on December 3, was in response to FHFA's request for
comments on the plan and was co-signed by the Consumer Federation of America,
the National Council of LaRaza and the National Housing Conference collectively
referred to as the Mortgage Finance Working Group (the Group.)
The letter says that any effort to
responsibly wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) and bring private
capital back into the mortgage market must be guided by five principles:
The proposed securitization platform
could serve as a critical piece of infrastructure to achieve these goals for
mortgage market reform the Group said, and can potentially lower barriers so private
capital can return to the market. Additionally,
if designed carefully to preserve the "To Be Announced (TBA)" market, the
platform can help bring liquidity, stability, and transparency to the market
and ensure that all borrowers have access to safe and sustainable mortgage
products. The TBA market is important to
any future system of mortgage finance because it supports a highly liquid and
transparently priced market, lowers rates, and enables consumers to get "rate
locks" when shopping for a mortgage.
With those goals in mind, the Group
submitted several broad recommendations:
1. Maintain the
securitization platform as a government rather than privately owned utility,
keeping strong oversight from the FHFA in coordination with other federal
FHFA "appears
to be agnostic about who controls the securitization platform in the long term,
stating that it could 'possibly [be]
offered to the market as a form of utility.' We strongly recommend that the platform be
maintained as a government utility, meaning the government would allow private
actors to use the platform in exchange for a fee. This would facilitate active and responsible
management by an impartial and empowered intermediary, avoiding conflicts of
interest and ensuring that all rules are being followed."
The letter
points to the recent housing crisis as evidence "that private financial
institutions are poorly suited to regulate themselves in the mortgage-backed
securities market." FHFA, with
additional resources and authority, could expand the infrastructure and
expertise used to oversee the utility for the GSEs to play a similar role with
respect to private issuers.
2. Require that
all mortgage-backed securities offered in the public securities market be
issued through the securitization platform
all securities through the platform, regardless of the issuer, would promote an
efficient, stable, and liquid mortgage market and prevent the development of a
"shadow banking" system that could circumvent the standards set for the
platform. It would also help level the
playing field among large and small issuers of private mortgage-backed
securities, promoting responsible competition.
3. Charge users
two separate fees: one to cover administrative costs and another to fund
programs that expand market access
The proposed
securitization platform has the potential to be a very valuable asset and could
bring significant savings to stakeholders by offering uniform contracts,
reliable bond administration, advanced data management, and responsible
monitoring. The federal government must
be adequately compensated for these services and a fee should be charged all
participants to cover administrative and other costs, ensuring that the
platform is self-sustaining and does not depend on congressional
Insuring access
to affordable and sustainable mortgage credit must be a primary goal of any
reform effort the Group says and proposes the creation of a Market Access Fund
to help test new products and promote access for traditionally underserved
populations. The fund could be capitalized through an assessment on all
mortgage-backed securities issuances with a separate, small strip on all
mortgages bundled through the platform.
4. Adopt strong,
loan-level disclosure requirements for the mortgage-backed securities market
To avoid
repeating the hidden risks that led to problems during the housing bubble the
future market must have available more granular and reliable information on
product pricing and loan-level risk. The
group commends FHFA for proposing more robust security- and loan-level
disclosures as part of the securitization platform, and urges loan-level
disclosures whenever feasible and that they be available to the first-loss
entity at the time of or as soon as practically possible after delivery of the
The Group
also recommends that information on borrower race, gender, nationality, and
geography be collected and that regular reports eventually be made available at
no cost to the public or at least to researchers upon request. This will help
regulators, researchers, and concerned citizens track whether market
participants are creaming, discriminating, or otherwise denying mortgage credit
to certain creditworthy borrowers.
5. Ensure that
the new infrastructure can facilitate advanced loan monitoring and
loss-mitigation activities
When FHFA rejected
the Treasury Department's offer to help pay for principal reductions on Fannie-
and Freddie-backed loans it cited system limitations as a key factor. Many of
the systems related to these operational complexities will be revamped as part
of the proposed securitization platform and since the agency is already
planning to make these investments, it should devote any additional resources
necessary to addressing the aforementioned system and operational limitations,
with a particular focus on loss mitigation.
burden should no longer be able to serve as an excuse for neglecting critical
foreclosure prevention activities. The proposed platform is a promising
opportunity for the agency to take steps to meet its stated conservatorship
goal to "maintain
foreclosure prevention activities and credit availability for new and
refinanced mortgages."
conclusion, we believe that the Federal Housing Finance Agency is on the right
path with its plan to establish a single securitization platform, and we
appreciate the agency's stated goal
to design a platform that is "consistent with multiple states of housing
finance reform" and "capable of working well with or without various degrees of
government involvement." It is crucial for the Federal Housing Finance Agency
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No, they don't have creepy thin mustaches like Wayne Newton (although it would be really cool if they did).
And they don't take all my money and leave me sad and depressed (turns out what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… especially when my money is involved).
But every year I get the same feeling from the brand new crop of 5 year olds.
They are so excited.
Their parents are thrilled to finally have them in school (no more paying for babysitting!!!). Those aren't tears of sadness from mom and day, they are tears of joy.
These kids love to color.
And count.
And play.
And they love to look at picture books about dogs and cats (why are they always dogs and cats???).
And evidently go to the bathroom, because it seems that's where they're always headed (if I had a dollar for every kid who forgot to zip his pants…).
It's a commonly known school administrator practice to go down to the kindergarten room anytime you're having a bad day.
They cheer you up. And if they can't, who can?
Their smiles and laughter.
Their happiness and joy.
When I see these kids learning to read or shoving Play-Doh up their noses, I always wonder who in this esteemed group will be valedictorian or prom queen.
One of these youngsters will no doubt be the starting quarterback. Several will earn college scholarships.
There might even be a doctor or lawyer in the group.
But with good always comes bad.
I've done this long enough to know for every success there is going to be struggle.
Which makes me think. Who in this group will have difficult challenges as they work their way through life?
There will be learning disabilities. Divorced parents. Financial difficulties.
The truth is some will face challenges I don't even want to think about.
That's why every kindergarten class reminds me of Las Vegas.
On the surface, everything is wonderful. But just underneath things aren't quite so perfect.
In the course of writing(?) this blog, I depressed myself. First thing in the morning, I'm going to visit the kindergarten kids. They always make me happy.


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The trailer inspectors showed up today--three of them in fact. They walked around the trailer, noting and photographing all the irregularities that I have been posting about for years.
I made sure to point out the exposed electrical box, the windows that no longer open and the lack of fire bells and PA system. My trailer buddy pointed out his holes in the walls, his constantly running faucet and the rails falling off the ceiling. We both forgot about the leaky ceiling but luckily I ran into these guys in the cafeteria and told them about it. I also forgot to mention the fetid puddle in front. I hope they noticed it. There was no water in it today, but it was full of mud and old leaves.
The kids enjoyed my little tour of the classroom. I bet the administration wouldn't like it and I have a feeling, the custodian with these guys did not like it either. TOO BAD!!! NYC kids deserve to learn in a decent environment.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
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4 comments:
- Anonymous said...
It is horrible that you and your students are working under these conditons. I hope the inspection brings positive results.
- 9:02 PM, January 08, 2008
- Pissed Off Mom said...
It is to bad that the DOE really does not give a rats behind how our children are educated as long as they pass the test
- 9:05 AM, January 09, 2008
- Dawn said...
Oh my. I'm pretty sure that if a social worker walked into my house and saw my house in that kind of condition, he'd be leaving with my kids. That's sad.
- 9:23 PM, January 10, 2008
- IMC Guy said...
Now the big question, what's going to happen now?
- 11:51 AM, January 17, 2008
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Shawn Luke Barnes being held on $7500 bond
Fayetteville police arrested a man early Sunday morning on suspicion of attacking another man with a skateboard.
Police said Shawn Barnes hit the victim in the head with a skateboard so hard it knocked him unconscious. Police found they found the victim unresponsive with injuries to his head, left side and chin.
Police have not released the victim's name.
According to a police report, Barnes and another witness saw the victim trying to slash car tires in front of 1560 North Dawn. When the victim tried to run back to his house a few doors away, Fayetteville police said Barnes grabbed a skateboard and hit him in the back of the head.
EMS transported the victim to Washington Regional Medical Center Sunday.
Deputies are holding Barnes on suspicion of aggravated assault and second-degree battery. His bond is set at $7500.