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DETROIT – A college student suspended for writing an essay called "Hot for Teacher" has no First Amendment right to express his sexual attraction to his instructor, a judge said Tuesday.
Joseph Corlett's lawsuit was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan, who ruled in favor of Oakland University in suburban Detroit.
When Corlett referred to his teacher as "'stacked' and graphically compared her to a sitcom character he fetishized in a writing assignment, he brought a pig into the parlor," Duggan said.
"Such expressions, while possibly appropriate in some settings, need not be tolerated by university officials," the judge said.
Corlett, 57, was suspended in 2012 after writing about his writing instructor. He compared her to the sexy starlet Ginger from the 1960s TV series, "Gilligan's Island" and described her as "tall, blonde, stacked," among other things.
"Kee-Rist, I'll never learn a thing. … I'll search for something unattractive about her. No luck yet," Corlett wrote.
He titled his essay "Hot for Teacher," the name of a Van Halen song. Corlett said students in the English 380 class were told to write honestly and that no topic was off limits. Oakland said the work was clearly inappropriate.
"This is a case that never should have been brought, and justice has been served by its quick and decisive dismissal," the university's attorney, Len Niehoff, said Tuesday.
Corlett, who now lives in Sarasota, Fla., is a home builder who pursued a college degree because of the weak economy. He enrolled full-time in 2011 after earning an associate degree from a community college.
His lawyer, Alari Adams, said she was disappointed by Duggan's decision and was "exploring the next step" in the case.
Corlett's suspension requires him to undergo sensitivity counseling if he ever wants to return as a student.


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Tyr is the original Germanic god of war and the patron god of justice, the precursor of Odin. At the time of the Vikings, Tyr had to make way for Odin, who became the god of war himself. Tyr was by then regarded as Odin's son (or possibly of the giant Hymir). He is the boldest of the gods, who inspires courage and heroism in battle. Tyr is represented as a man with one hand, because his right hand was bitten off by the gigantic wolf Fenrir (in old-Norse, the wrist was called 'wolf-joint'). His attribute is a spear; the symbol of justice, as well as a weapon.
At the day of Ragnarok, Tyr will kill the hound Garm, the guardian of the hell, but will die from the wounds inflicted by the animal. In later mythology, "Tyr" became to mean "god". He is also known as Tîwaz, Tiw and Ziu.
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For 30 years since the development of a balloon-tipped catheter to dilate coronary arteries, now known as PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention), it has been revealed truth from "experts", most of whom paid their mortgages by doing PCI's, that all significant coronary narrowings should be dilated to prevent a heart attack. In spite of overwhelming evidence that heart attacks are caused by rupture or early, unstable, non-obstructive plaques, most cardiologists still believe that heart attacks (sudden complete blockage of a coronary artery) occur at the site of the largest plaques. Patients are shown angiograms and told they have a "widow maker" or are "sitting on a time bomb". I refused to do angioplasties until there was some proof for this superficial but very lucrative theory. Again, it turns out I was right. Even in patients with major narrowings and symptoms, PCI does not prolong life or prevent heart attacks. Chronic symptoms were slightly more improved in the PCI group but most medically-treated patients had symptom improvement just with pills.
All cardiologists give lip service to the necessity for lifestyle change as the ultimate cure for atherosclerosis, but in this study there was no attempt at lifestyle change. Most patients were overweight or obese, gained weight over the five year study. 20% smoked and did not stop. While the authors claim to using "optimal" medical therapy, they did not even try significantly changing lifestyle, the obvious cause of the patients' atherosclerosis. No doubt even better results that could have been obtained with just lifestyle change, without pills or PCI, as Dean Ornish showed many years ago.
If you want an explanation for why, except for a feeble attempt to raise HDL by exercise, NO attempt was made to change lifestyle meaningfully before using statins or PCI you need look no further than the source of funding and the disclosure statements of the authors. Those who recieve substantial income from drug dealers are not keen on proving that cost-free lifestyle change alone will do the same or better than expensive drugs.
Now, why has it taken 30 years to finally prove the futility of PCI in patients with stable or stabilized coronary disease? Unlike new drugs, there are no rules and no government agency mandating that surgical procedures have to undergo clinical trials before being done on the general population. Any surgeon can develop some operation that seems superfically rational and he and his colleagues can do many thousands of those operations, costing millions or billions of dollars and risking many lives until someone gets around to actually testing it to see if the outcome is really as advertised.
Doctors profess to want to practice "evidence-based medicine" but when change negatively affects bank accounts habits change very slowly if at all. Angioplasty in stable CAD can always be rationalized by the classic, "my patient is different than those in the controlled trial". We can predict that angioplasties in patients with stable CAD will not decline significantly until most of those trained in the procedure have retired. The system could save a lot of money by giving each of them $one million and a house in Mexico to retire to.


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Another round of wintry precipitation is taking aim at a wide swath of the nation.
A storm system stretched Sunday morning from western Oklahoma into western New York, carrying a range of weather woes -- from freezing rain and sleet to heavy snow.
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Universal Design for Public Programs (Recorded)
August 22, 2012
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The workshop will focus specifically on the NISE Net's Universal Design Guide for Public Programs. Workshop facilitators will give a brief introduction to the guide, look at some examples of universal design in programs from the NISE Net website, and will have an expert advisor on hand to answer questions. If you are interested in learning more about developing or implementing public programs (such as interpretation carts, stage demonstrations, and science theater) that are inclusive of the wide range of museum visitors, including those with disabilities then please join us. See the attached brief agenda for more detail.
We're also testing out using the Adobe Connect online platform for short web-based trainings and conversations. This is a bit of an experiment, and we'll be interested in hearing your take on the system!
What is Universal Design?
Universal Design (UD) is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design.
You can find and download the guide online at
Agenda at a Glance
Two important notes: the captions start up at about two minutes in, so don't panic if you don't see them right away. The recording also stops midway through the "UD Programs Concept 3 – Provide physical and sensory access to all aspects of the program" section due to technical difficulties.


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You too will have stood in awe, marvelling at a bathroom finished entirely in marble. Marble often has a calming effect. Marble is like a solid rock facing the tides, a stone that lasts. There's something very noble and timeless about it. How fitting, then, that marble furniture has become a trend in furniture again in recent years. You too can create stylish accents when furnishing your home with new furniture accessories.
The origin of marble furniture accessories
Marble, a naturally occurring stone, has been hewn out of rock with great effort for over 2000 years and turned into true gems by talented designers. Marble furniture was as popular in Ancient Greece as it was in Ancient Rome where it was used in the Pantheon. Marble can be divided into many different colours, structures and grades of hardness. Coloured marble can often be found in baths, floors and wall panels, creating a special, elegant look. Michelangelo's David was sculpted out of very popular, pure white Carrara marble.
An extremely versatile material
Due to the material's crystalline structure, marble furniture can seem both turbulent and fine and soft at the same time. Modern technologies such as computer-guided CNC milling also make it possible to conceptualise furniture accessories out of marble which fit different furnishing styles. This is where the material gets its marked versatility.
Furniture Trend Marble
Marble furniture wasn't particularly sought-after for a long time. Many people think of ostentatious decadence when they see marble furniture; it was often used for opulently tiled bank foyers. The use of marble in fine ashtrays and for grave stones also didn't help its image. But in recent years, it has experienced a definite turnaround.
Since 2015, marble furniture and accessories have been considered modern and stylish once again, particularly in combination with copper, brass and wood. In interior design, this is due not least to the marble print furnishing trend. Meanwhile, thanks to the print's optical illusions, almost anything can be turned into soft marble: lamps, tables and even bed linen.
Furnishing with marble
If this new furniture trend seems a little too opulent, you can also opt for subtle marble accents instead. Due to modern processing methods, there is a large variety of marble design objects by this point. Benjamin Hubert from London has, for example, designed marble lampshades. This works because the material is translucent up to a thickness of seven millimetres. "One of our principal approaches, perhaps, is shaped by our desire to work with static, old and romantic materials in this fast-paced age", says Bjoern Berger, designer at Supergrau. "The opulence of the material stands in contrast to the minimalism of the design. This creates really interesting objects." Marble furniture is therefore perfectly suited to the popular and current Scandinavian minimalist design trend.
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An early start to the growing season was followed by a very cool summer. Temperatures remained cool which led to slow and steady flavor development. To compensate for the cool year, leaf pulling was implemented across the fruit zone to increase sunlight to the berries. Several weeks of warm temperatures in September and October brought ideal ripening temperatures. Fruit in the vineyards showed good flavors and balanced acidity all with lower sugars.
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a video post on family blogging balance (see the full sized video here). While my son stole the show in the video a little one of the main questions I was asked after posting the video was 'what camera did you shoot it with?'
This prompted me to shoot this video – one that answer the question. The camera I'm now using (and I switch to it halfway through the video) is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1. It is a still camera but the video it shoots is lovely.
The main thing people seemed to like about my original video was the depth of field (or the out of focus background) – something that is made possible with the GF1's 20mm lens large aperture (f1.7). It also is a HD camera and the glass on that particular lens is a high quality. I'll let you check out the comparison of the video for yourself.
Watch this video at its full size at Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1.
PS: for a review of this camera see it at Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 Review on my photography blog.
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I've had this video transcribed below for those who prefer to get it that way. The transcription provided by The Transcription People.
Darren: Hi there. It's Darren from ProBlogger here. Over the last couple of weeks I've been experimenting with a new camera for these video posts. You're actually not viewing video taken with that camera right now because I want to show it to you in person. The camera is a Panasonic Lumix DMCGF1, the Lumix GF1. The reason I'm talking about is … is the amount of people that emailed me after I put up my first post with it, asking me what the camera was. Obviously the video that it was producing was a little bit clearer, and thing that people were commenting about, particularly with the video and I'll link to it, was the depth of field. What you will notice with this camera on the video and perhaps I'll insert a little bit of it into this clip, is that the background was really out of focus in comparison to this video released on … assuming this video will be.
The reason for that is that this camera comes with this lens. It's a prime lens in that it doesn't have a zoom. It's a 20 mm lens so it's a reasonably wide-open lens so you get quite a wide angle on it, but its aperture is 1.7. The aperture is how big the lens opens up and really this lens is a very fast lens, what they call a fast lens because it allows a lot of light in at once, and when you open up the lens that big, it actually makes the depth of field a lot shallower, so what I am here, I'm in focus but what's back there will be out of focus when you're shooting with this lens.
The lens I'm shooting with now, this camera that you're viewing me on now, is a Canon S90 and it's aperture I think is, let me have a look here, I think it ranges from 2 to 4.9 depending on the focal length. So it's not as fast and as a result you'll find that the depth of field is less shallow and so you get more in focus back there, which is fine if you want to keep everything in focus, but to get everything out of focus back there actually makes you as the subject stand out a little bit.
I am now shooting on the Panasonic GF1. This, the camera that I was shooting with before, much smaller camera – a Canon – and really does take a reasonable quality video. But the other thing that I like about the Panasonic is because you've got this really wide aperture it lets a lot of light in. You can actually shoot video in a darker room, without quite as much light. At the moment I'm shooting and it is sunny outside so I've got a fair bit of light coming in, but the video that I first shot this on, it was on quite a gloomy day and I wasn't sitting in really open light situation, and yet because of that nice wide open lens it let a lot of light in. So hopefully you can see a bit of difference between this video and the one that I shot before on this. Both, personally I could go with either one. This one to me is just a little bit nicer and like I said before it's a little bit sharper and that depth of field gives it a nice effect as well. So I hope you can see a bit of the difference now so I might just go back to the other video.
So anyway, it's a Panasonic Lumix DMCGF1. It's not the cheapest camera out there. It's what they call a "micro four thirds" camera so it's a new type of camera sort of in between the point and shoot and the digital SLR. It takes a really nice still shot as well. It's a little bit smaller than a full sized digital SLR but it has a little bit more power than something like the Canon that I'm shooting this on at the moment.
I personally prefer to have a still camera that takes good quality video over having a good still camera and a good video camera separate, I like to have them in the one thing so I can just carry the one thing around. The good thing about this camera is that it's got detachable lenses so you can add other ones.
The reason I've got this one is … is because it is so fast and really all the reviews that I've read of all of the other lenses that fit on this, this one leaves them for dead. It's the 20 mm 1.7. So you can get this as a kit together. It's not the cheapest camera in the world but the quality of it is really great.
Anyway, that's the camera I'm using at the moment. I'd love to hear what sort of camera you use in the comments below.


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Tahoe City, CA…
Placer County Planning Services Department staff briefed the Board of Supervisors Tuesday on progress made toward updating the Tahoe Basin Community Plans. Primary efforts include consolidating the nine current Tahoe Basin Plans with one overarching community plan and 4 local area plans. Staff provided this briefing during the Board's regular Tahoe meeting, held at Granlibakken in Tahoe City.
In 2011, at the direction of the Board, planning staff began efforts to re-work the plans that would also encompass the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Regional Plan, which covers the entire Tahoe Basin. In consolidating the existing community plans into a single policy document, the update is addressing planning documents developed 20 years ago by the county and the TRPA. The single document will be the overarching Tahoe Basin Community Plan.
To obtain public participation in this effort, 4 regional planning teams composed of community members were formed. Each planning team is tasked with reviewing specific issues related to one of the four main planning areas. Each planning area has its own distinct zoning ordinance and community-specific design guidelines.
The four consolidated planning areas are:
North Tahoe East, which covers Kings Beach and the Stateline community;
Greater Tahoe City, which includes Tahoe City, Tahoe City Gateway, Lake Forest, and Dollar Hill;
North Tahoe West, which includes Carnelian Bay and Tahoe Vista; and
West Shore, which includes Sunnyside, Homewood and Tahoma.
The next steps will include preparation of the actual documents that will be used in the updated community plan. Staff will conduct a three-day public workshop – called a Charrette – in late June in Kings Beach. The Charrette will focus on the beach and commercial core area behind it and information gathered will be integrated into the policy document.
Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery, whose Fifth District includes Placer County's portion of the Tahoe Basin said, "It's important we have the discussions that include our governmental partners. This will help finish the vision so well laid out by the public working groups."
In addition, a meeting will also be held for the Greater Tahoe City plan area team on Wed., May 8, from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the Gaterkeeper's museum, 130 West Lake Blvd., Tahoe City.
Meetings for the North Tahoe West and North Tahoe East planning area teams will be held on Tue., May 14. Both meetings will be held at the same location and time, from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the North Tahoe Event Center, 8318 North Lake Blvd., in Kings Beach.
The West Shore plan area team will meet on Thurs., May 16, from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at the Placer County Tahoe City Offices, 775 North Lake Blvd. in Tahoe City.
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It's mathematical.
When one sees as many plays as I do (between 60 and 70 a year), it's only logical that a certain number of those shows will end up among my favorites for that particular year. I keep all of my ticket stubs in a box and review them each December as the year comes to a close. It is to be expected, of course, that some of those shows will have disappointed me, either because my expectations were too high or because the production simply failed to achieve its potential. Next week, I'll be presenting my list of the top 10 torn tickets of 2010, my favorite shows of the year. But first, in a tradition that began in 2008, I shall take a look at the five theatrical productions that, in the year 2010, disappointed me the most.
'The Taming of the Shrew' (Marin Shakespeare Company) Pirates are without a doubt among the most theatrical of characters, so when the Marin Shakespeare Company announced it was putting a Pirates of the Caribbean spin on its summertime staging of Shakespeare's Shrew, the very notion seemed a recipe for delight and high-spirited Shakespearean fun. Not that the Shrew-pirate connection was new or anything, the Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival having put Kate and Petruchio in pirate pants a couple years ago. But as word spread that a pirate ship was being built on the stage of the Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, anticipation likewise built higher and higher: one of the Bard's funniest plays combined with swashbuckling bad-asses. It just had to be good, right?
What a disappointment, therefore, to see the actual production, in which director Bob Currier slashed the text and stuffed what was left with his own lines, most of them silly gags that would have worked better as a Saturday Night Live routine. Petruchio, supposedly our hero, was turned into an uncharming, flippantly cruel sociopath, hacking off hands (all so the actors could make bad, non-Shakespearean puns) and sending people to their deaths left and right. What might have been an illuminating and delightful revisioning, all guns blazing, was instead a chaotic (though certainly energetic) misfire.
'Peter Pan' (SRT) More pirates. More letdown. The disappointment of this nonmusical Peter Pan, directed by James Newman from the original script by J. M. Barrie, was mainly in how close it occasionally came to brilliance, while so much of the rest was . . . not brilliant. Though I shall remember forever the gorgeously lovely dance of shadows that ended the show, I shall not soon forget the sad, empty lack of impression made by Claire Perry as Captain Hook. The promise of a rock-'em, sock-'em female Hook evaporated the minute she uttered her first anemic line, deflating my hope for a Hook with teeth and claws. The staging by Newman was so unfocused and full of activity that pivotal moments (such as the gobbling of Hook by the otherwise ingenious ticking Crocodile) were lost amid all the action and visual clutter.
'A Christmas Carol' (The Sonoma County Repertory Theater) Jon Tracy, who wrote this adaptation of Dickens' classic feel-good ghost story, made a major misstep in choosing to have a repentant Scrooge narrate the story from the vantage point of an already changed man. Gone was the necessary tension that makes us hunger to see the crotchety Scrooge finally reformed. In this case, it's the first thing we see, making the story sadly superfluous.
'Dead Man's Wake' (West Side Playhouse) Larry Klein's original play was staged with great actors (William Elsman, Tyler McKenna), telling the dramatic true story of a Mill Valley author who took his own life, thus plunging his surviving family into despair and destitution. The script, though, is self-indulgent, rambling and ultimately incoherent, burying the truly good play that still hides somewhere beneath all those words.
'Happy Now?' (Marin Theatre Company) In a year where nearly every show MTC put onstage wound up among my favorites, this overlong letdown about a woman's search for happiness failed less because of its own lack of significance (though other plays have told the same story far better), but because MTC chose to market it as a scathingly hilarious skewering of modern life. While it occasionally did scathe, Happy Now? was rarely even amusing, let alone hilarious.
Stay tuned next week for David Templeton's Top 10 favorite shows of 2010.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJRT) -(05/13/14) – The sun is beating down, temperatures are near 90 degrees, and sweat is pouring down everyone's face – but for the owners of Cops and Doughnuts Bakery, Tuesday is a great day.
For the first time ever, these cops brought their doughnuts to Washington, D.C. They are spending Police Week selling Cops and Doughnuts gear and bonding with officers from across the nation.
"It gives us a chance to get together and meet each other," said Greg Kolhoff, who is a Cops and Doughnuts Bakery Cop-Owner. "We all do different things, but when it comes down to it, we are all just brothers and sisters."
The bakery came about in 2009, when nine officers in the Clare City, Michigan police department pitched in to save a local bakery that was going out of business.
"All we wanted to do was save the bakery," said Alan White, another Cop-Owner. "And people love this story. It's a feel good story: it's a bunch of cop brothers getting together and saving an important part of Clare."
The cops said when they bought the doughnut shop, there was only one part-time employee. Now, the shop employs 43 workers and brings nearly half a million visitors into the small city of Clare.
But it's not just doughnuts the officers are selling. They have their own line of coffee, plus coffee mugs, shot glasses, T-shirts and hats. The owners are celebrities in their own right, too.
"One of the guys just came walking by and he stopped and he looked at me and he said 'You're the guy on the billboard' and so he had to take a picture of me like we're posed up there," said Brian Gregory, Cop-Owner.
Thanks to the success of their business, the officers have donated $300,000 to the city of Clare in the past 5 years.
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Noriatsu Osaka hit three homers and tripled, and Japan limited Tennessee's potent lineup to two hits in a 12-2 victory Sunday in the Little League World Series title game.
Starter Kotaro Kiyomiya struck out eight in four innings and added an RBI single for the boys from Tokyo. The game ended in the fifth after Osaka's third homer made it a 10-run game.
A day after pounding out a 24-16 win over California in the U.S. title game, the Goodlettsville, Tenn., sluggers could only muster two hits -- solo shots by Brock Myers and Lorenzo Butler.
The teams exchanged the customary postgame handshakes at the plate before Japan received the World Series championship banner and took the traditional victory lap around Lamade Stadium.
Carrying the flags of Japan and the United States with wide smiles on their faces, the players finally stopped in front of Japan's giddy cheering section as proud family members and friends stood shoulder-to-shoulder to take pictures through the infield fence.
There were many highlights, including five home runs off Tennessee pitching. Rintaro Hirano's three-run shot made it 10-1 in the fourth.
That was more than enough offense for 13-year-old ace Kiyomiya, who had a fastball clocked in the high-70s. The right-hander with the hitch in mid-delivery pitched like a big-league ace in allowing just one hit.
Regardless, this is still a banner year for Goodlettsville after its exhausting victory Saturday over Petaluma, Calif., for the U.S. championship. That game set a record for most combined runs in the World Series.
The thrilling victory kept the Tennessee players and their families up late into the night.
"We knew we would be flat today -- their parents and these kids," manager Joey Hale said.
Tennessee lost a 10-run lead in the bottom of the sixth before scoring nine times the next inning to finally put away Petaluma in a Little League classic. Even more impressively, Butler had three homers and a record nine RBI -- a feat so unique the 12-year-old's name became a trending topic on Twitter.
Butler went deep again off reliever Osaka in the fifth -- Butler's fourth homer in two days -- to cut the lead to 10-2 and give Goodlettsvile some home hope. Tennessee's mini-mashers have proven they can break out any time at the plate.
"It felt good, it felt really, really, good," Butler said simply about his hitting exploits.
Its pitching depth sapped, Tennessee turned to right-hander Justin Smith to start against Japan -- the first time the 12-year-old had pitched in the World Series or in Southeast regional tournament.
Leadoff hitter Osaka, 12, didn't waste any time with a first-pitch triple to the right-field corner in the first. Kiyomiya delivered his RBI single two batters later to get the scoring started.
Osaka then homered in the second to left-center, just in front of the "Little League" sign above the fence, before leading off the fourth with his second homer, this time to center, for a 6-1 lead.
Osaka finished a perfect 4 for 4 on the afternoon with four runs and four RBI.
The Kitasuna league all-star team from Tokyo won Japan's eighth Little League title and second in three seasons.
Smith pitched admirably in a tough spot, allowing five runs and seven hits over three innings while striking out three. His team was trying to make history as the first squad from Tennessee to win youth baseball's biggest prize.
Goodlettsville also was the first Tennessee team to advance to South Williamsport since Morristown in 1987. The suburban Nashville crew counts among its fans Rays ace David Price, who is from Murfreesboro.
They might be done with baseball for now, but the celebration is just beginning back home. On Tennessee's social calendar is a visit to the Vanderbilt season opener Thursday night against South Carolina.
"When we get home, it's going to be a carnival," Hale said.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- Bradley Smith had two doubles and three RBI, and Logan Douglas struck out six in five innings of relief to lift Petaluma, Calif., past Aguadulce, Panama, 12-4 Sunday in the third-place game.
Douglas added two hits.
California took an 8-2 lead after two innings.
Edwin Nieto went 2 for 4 with two runs to pace Panama, while Edisson Gonazlez went 2 for 3 with a homer.
Manager Luis Gonzalez encouraged his team to be proud of becoming just one of 16 teams to get to the World Series.
"Most people in Panama didn't think we would be here," Edisson Gonzalez, 12, said through an interpreter. "We are very pleased to be the fourth-best team in the world."
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Noriatsu Osaka hit three homers and tripled, and Japan limited Tennessee's potent lineup to two hits in a 12-2 victory Sunday in the Little League World Series title game.


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GRAETTINGER – The Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire track teams ran at the John Larsen Relays in Armstrong Thursday.
The Titan girls finished with 17 points. GT/RA got a second in the shot put as Cassy Olesen threw 32'6.5″ and Marly Barken was third with a toss of 31'5″.
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Opinion: A Return to Authoritarianism in Egypt?
Hudson Institute Research Fellow Samuel Tadros on Egypt's new protest law and Gen. Sisi's political future. Photo: Associated Press
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Excellent largemouth day last Friday. Several 5+ lbs. fish were landed and released:
Steve with a 6+ lbs. fatty:
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Good night action too. That's when the smallmouths started to bite.
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Excellent largemouth day last Friday. Several 5+ lbs. fish were landed and released:
Steve with a 6+ lbs. fatty:
Bonus time:
Good night action too. That's when the smallmouths started to bite.
Nice bass and evening sky JimG.........
My buddy Steve has been complaining I've been catching all the big fish this season (which is not really true). Anyway, fortunately the fishing gods muzzled him this past Friday:
We missed getting soaked by heavy rain by the slimmest of margins.
Nice Fish!
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Been a few weeks since I've posted. The last half of August is when bass start to get more picky. Diving plugs work great in the spring and plastic worms cleanup in July and early August. But at this point in the season it gets harder to figure out the best lure to use.
3 weeks ago I did a solo trip to the East Branch. I caught a bunch of nice smallmouths on plastic worms but also had some good surface action using floating plugs:
That second smallie was a nice 4 pounder.
A week later I went back to the East Branch and the fishing was different. The smallmouths were not attacking the plastics as vigorously; they were not hitting on the drop but rather on the retrieve which made them almost impossible to hook well. But the largemouths were hitting the worms really well. At the Little Island, one of my go to spots at the EB, I hooked and landed 7 fish in the space of an hour. 2 were nice smallies that threw my hook but I did manage to land 5 decent largemouths:
Yesterday I went out on Rye Lake with Steve and Chris and the fishing was again different. Smallmouths were not biting at anything. But the largemouth action was pretty good:
Both worms and plugs were effective. If past history is an indication, smallmouth action will wane until mid-Sept at which point plugs will be the ticket. Largemouths will continue to hit worms until late Sept. and then disappear until next spring.
Hard to believe that in only 6 weeks I will hang up the freshwater bass gear for the season.
Got out on Rye Lake last Friday and the Fall is here. Plastic worms produced nothing but any floating plug twitched gently on the surface produced good action. A few fish took on the retrieve also. Steve and I landed a few nice smallmouths:
They're a PITA to hook when they take on the surface so we lost quite a few. Amazing to think I'm hoping for some skiing in 3-4 weeks or so.
Last post for 2017.
The warm October and early November kept the fishing alive. We did well with smallies right into the first week of November:
Even more ridiculous were the largemouths which stayed very active to the very end of October. This is not a particularly big fish but look how fat he is (that's my buddy Chuck with the photobomb):
I voted for him but not sure he won:
Until next spring!
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By Jill Becker, Special to CNN • Published 9th July 2012
We've all been there. At the end of a long flight, you get to your hotel and check in, only to find that your room is right next to an ice machine that sounds like it has a severe case of whooping cough, or it's the only one on the floor not occupied by members of a high school marching band practicing through the night for a major competition.
Yes, a bad hotel room can ruin anyone's trip, but when you're traveling on business, the stakes are even higher. If it's not up to par or presents too many distractions, you may not be able to finish that big presentation or you might not be rested enough for that important client meeting.
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-- Smoking rooms. Although smoking rooms are becoming more rare, it can be annoying to find yourself in a smoking room if you check in late and they are the only rooms available. Another potential pitfall to avoid are rooms in a hotel recently converted to nonsmoking. The lingering smoke can permeate every fabric and is very difficult to eradicate. Be ready to point this out to the front desk staff and request an alternate room if available or have the hotel provide an air cleaner unit, which many hotels have on hand unbeknownst to guests.
-- Beware of hotels that allow pets. Although it is trendy for high-end and boutique hotels to accommodate travelers with pets, the wear and tear on furnishings, as well as the pet dander and pet accidents, can quickly destroy a room. And you don't want to attend your next business meeting in a suit covered with pet hair.
What questions should a business traveler ask to getting the best room?
-- Are there any conferences or conventions taking place at the same time as my stay? Groups that take up a large portion of the hotel typically overwhelm the facilities and reduce the quality and levels of service for the individual traveler.
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-- Do you have rooms available on higher floors? The upper floors of a hotel are typically reserved for individual travelers or members of the hotel's frequent-stay program and are usually quieter, being farthest from street noise, late-night bar or restaurant activity and large groups with three to four guests occupying each room, especially on weekends.
-- Does the hotel feature rooms with special configurations or amenities designed to enhance the guests' stay?
These room types offered at some hotels include:
Clean air or PURE rooms.
These rooms have special filtering devices installed to maintain very low levels of pollutants, pollen, dust and eye irritants to which some travelers are sensitive.
Fitness rooms.
Some brand and boutique hotels offer fitness equipment in some of their guestrooms, making it convenient and also offering privacy for the guest's daily workout routine.
"Outfitted for business" rooms
Many hotels are configuring a portion of their guestrooms with specific "high-productivity" arrangements such as multiline speaker/conference phones, fax/copy machines, secure Internet access for high security (government employees frequently require this) and expanded workspaces. Connectivity dataports that allow plug-and-play functionality to flat-screen monitors and TVs using laptops and iPads to review or display presentations and other media in-room are also often available.
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What about security?
-- A room on the first floor, if offered, is not always the best choice when considering safety, as unwanted access from the exterior street level outweighs the advantage of a speedy exit.
-- Google's Street View feature allows you to get a 360-degree view of the hotel at street level, which may provide a stark and daunting contrast of the actual surroundings versus a pretty website photo of the hotel entrance alone.
-- Ask the hotel if they have 24/7 security officers touring the building. If the hotel has surveillance cameras but no one is monitoring them, they're only good for reviewing recordings of crimes already committed. Also ask if the security force is made up of hotel employees or an outside service.
In almost every case, you're more secure in a hotel with its own security officers, as the "rented" officers are rarely motivated to truly care for the hotel guest in the same way as a professional employed directly by the hotel. This becomes less significant outside of city-center locations, but even suburban hotels have vandalism and crime issues.
-- Research whether the hotel has in-room safes, which today accommodate laptops and several other items with ease.
-- Female business travelers should consider booking a room at the growing number of hotels with a women's only floor. Rooms on these floors are typically accessed via a special keycard and sometimes even have added security.
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Trainer's Notebook: The Feng Shui of Good Teaching and Learning
Instructional Design, Trainer's Notebook
All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I'm also doing a lot of training of other trainers. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.
Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed many years ago in China. The practices are intended to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it. This is a very important concept for instructional design -the way the room is set up effects how people learn. I strongly believe that a workshop, panel, master class, or even a keynote that is interactive is more engaging, people pay attention, they make connections to what they already know and are far more likely to apply it. Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not.
Last week I designed and facilitated a day and half session for the Nonprofit Leadership Institute co-sponsored every year by Pepperdine University Nonprofit Management program and Ventura County Community Foundation. The event kicks off a semester long internship for students working with nonprofits. The design was intended to create an opportunity for cross-generational learning, peer sharing, and lots of interaction and it was exciting to work with faculty members to design the lesson plan. The first day was a master class included content and interactive exercises for the nonprofit develop a network strategy, integrated marketing strategy that incorporate social media, measurement, and culture change. The second day was for the students and nonprofit mentors and focused on thinking about a career path in the nonprofit sector. It kicked off with a keynote, followed by a world cafe.
I had my ideal training Fung Shui — roundtables in a room with space to move around, projection, the ability to move the group outside for some of the sessions, and wall space to showcase the products of learning.
You don't always have flexibility in room set up and I have found myself "hacking" the physical space (moving around furniture) to create an environment that invites interactivity, peer learning, and engagement. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week. While the room was set up as theatre or "military" style, there was enough room for people to do small group interactive exercises without feeling chained to their seats with attention totally on the instructor.
The room also accommodated small groups to go more in depth on topics discussed during the workshop and since the seats were not fixed, there was not a barrier to peer learning.
I did a measurement workshop at SXSW and we were in a traditional college lecture hall – fixed seating that rises, desks on the seats, and no room for small group interaction. It takes a little bit of hacking to create some interaction, but it was a challenge.
How does the room set up support or fight your instructional design?


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Treatment of Classical Non-HIV-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma With the Antiviral Drug Indinavir
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00362310
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 10, 2006
Last Update Posted : April 14, 2008
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Recent studies have described a reduced incidence or the regression of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in HIV-infected patients treated with the highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) that contains at least one inhibitor of the HIV protease (HIV-PI) such as Indinavir. Experimental studies have shown that part of the anti-KS actions of HIV-PI are not related to their antiretroviral actions, but, at least in part, to their capability of blocking angiogenesis and tumor growth.
This study will be conducted on HIV-negative (classical) KS patients to prove that Indinavir has anti-angiogenic and anti-KS effects in humans independently of its antiretroviral activity.
|Condition or disease
|Classical Kaposi's Sarcoma
|Drug: indinavir
|Phase 2
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a rare vascular tumor affecting elderly individuals from Mediterranean countries (CKS), post transplant patients and, with increased incidence and aggressiveness, HIV-infected individuals (AIDS-KS). No definitive cure has been established for KS and all conventional therapies result in low response rate, high toxicity and tumor relapse.
Antiretroviral therapies including a HIV protease inhibitor (HIV-PI) have reduced AIDS-KS incidence and induce KS regression in treated patients. This cannot be explained solely with drug-mediated HIV suppression and immune reconstitution. We have shown that HIV-PI such as Indinavir or Saquinavir block KS-like lesions in mice by inhibiting angiogenesis and tumor cell invasion through a blockade of matrix metalloprotease 2 (MMP2) proteolytic activation.
Based on these data, a proof-of-concept clinical study on HIV-negative (classic) KS (C-KS) patients was planned to prove that Indinavir has anti-angiogenic and anti-KS effects in humans independently of its antiretroviral activity.
Recent concepts in the evaluation of non cytotoxic anti-cancer drugs such as anti-angiogenic agents suggest novel criteria for the design of clinical studies due to the specific mechanism of action of these drugs. In particular, the use of the conventional evaluation criteria based on cytotoxic actions may mislead the interpretation of the therapeutic efficacy of non cytotoxic agents. The study was therefore designed to compare the clinical response to Indinavir in early-stage vs. late-stage KS and by relating it to key biological endpoints and plasmatic drug concentrations. This was also motivated by the rareness of C-KS and by ethical reasons which prevented the inclusion of a control group.
Patients will be treated per os with 800 mg x 2/daily of Indinavir for 12 months. Follow-up will be one year.
Primary objectives:
Evaluation of the tumor response rate (complete response, partial response, improved disease and stable disease) to indinavir in the treatment of mild or severe classical KS patients; Evaluation of the duration of response in indinavir-treated patients.
Secondary objectives:
Evaluation of Indinavir safety in classical KS population; Determination of the pharmacokinetic profile of Indinavir; Evaluation of key Kaposi's sarcoma biological endpoints including markers of angiogenesis and tumor invasion, Th1 and Th2 polarization of the immune response, immunoactivation, and immune responses to HHV8, herpesviruses and common pathogens.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|28 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Trial With the HIV Protease Inhibitor Indinavir for the Treatment of Classical Kaposi's Sarcoma
|Study Start Date :
|June 2003
|Study Completion Date :
|July 2007
- Assessment of clinical response every 3 months during treatment and every 6 months during follow-up based on the recommendations of ACTG.
- Monthly evaluation of toxicity and of biological endpoints every 3 months and their correlation with drug plasma levels
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Have a documented diagnosis of classical KS
- Be HIV-negative
- Be 18 years old and over
- Have one or more of the following: a minimum of 3 measurable progressive lesions; all stages of complicated KS, i.e. showing functional impotency of the affected limbs, lymphedema, lymphorrea or pain; visceral disease; lack of response to conventional therapy (radiotherapy, chemotherapy); contraindication to conventional therapies-
Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of life-threatening lesions or other concomitant illness, neoplasia or any other clinical condition threatening the health of the patient or his compliance to the treatment
- Inability to provide informed consent
- Concomitant treatment (within 30 days of initiating study treatment) with systemic immunomodulatory agents (e.g., glucocorticoids as immunosuppressive agents, interferons) or chemotherapy
- Pregnancy
- Impaired clinical conditions (Karnofsky's index <60
- Diabetes, history of nephrolithiasis or monolateral nephropathy
- Difficulty swallowing capsules/tablets
Any clinically significant laboratory findings obtained during screening, including:
- Alkaline phosphatase (AP) >2 fold upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)
- Alkaline aminotransferase (ALT)
- Gamma-glutamyl transferase (gamma-GT) or total bilirubin >3 fold the ULN
- Serum creatinine >1.2 mg/d for women and >1.4 mg/dL for men or creatinine clearance > 100 +/- 25
- Pancreatic amylase >1.5 folds ULN
- Hemoglobin <10.0 g/dL for males, <9.0 g/dL for females
- Platelet count <75.000/cubic millimeter (mm3)
- Neutrophil count <850/mm3
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00362310
|Centro di Riferimento Oncologico (CRO),
|Aviano, Italy
|Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cagliari
|Cagliari, Italy
|Dermatologic Clinic, Ospedale S. Anna
|Ferrara, Italy
|Ospedale Maggiore, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, IRCCS,
|Milan, Italy
|Ospedale Civico Benfratelli
|Palermo, Italy
|Department of Dermatological/Venereal Diseases and Plastic Surgery, University "La Sapienza"
|Rome, Italy
|Istituto Dermatologico S. Gallicano-IRCCS
|Rome, Italy
|Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata-IRCCS (IDI)
|Rome, Italy
|Dermatology Clinic, University of Sassari
|Sassari, Italy
|Study Chair:
|Barbara Ensoli, MD, PhD
|National AIDS Center, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|August 10, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 14, 2008
|Last Verified:
|April 2008
classical kaposi's sarcoma
HIV protease inhibitor indinavir
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents


text: At Gun River Labs & Training we offer an assortment of services catering to the special needs of dog owners and their canine friends including consultations and workshops. Our services are available for all breeds of dogs. While we train all breeds of dogs in obedience and as companion dogs, we also train retrievers for hunting. We have trained and titled numerous retrievers for AKC hunt tests. In addition to training we are responsible Labrador Retriever Breeders, committed to breeding quality not quantity. Our goal is to breed classic, attractive, nice working, stylish retrievers with excellent dispositions and high degrees of trainability. We want a dog that is able to stand up to the tests in the field and be a friend and livable companion at home.


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Singer/pianist who has absorbed the musical gumbo and mardi-gras from the Crescent City – expect gritty vocals and hot piano. TJ and his band will performing a heady mix of jazz, blues and swing influenced by Ray Charles to Dr John and beyond
TJ Johnson is widely considered to be one of the UK's most charismatic highly revered jazz and blues singers. He is also a hot piano player, drummer and a respected bandleader. Always a true ambassador of the soul, TJ sings songs of love lost and gained, of life wholesome and corrupt, songs of hope and despair, songs of the night, all with the true passion and boozy swagger of only a man who has been there and knows.
Backed by his group of top London based musicians TJ plays an extraordinary blend of music that transcends the boundaries of jazz, blues, soul, country and gospel and is influenced by some of the greats such as Ray Charles, Dr John, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Cash, BB King, Nina Simone, Alberta Hunter, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Witherspoon and many more. His distinctive voice and unique personal stage manner always brings both the band and the audience together to create an intimate yet exciting atmosphere that is rarely equalled.
TJ and his band have toured extensively both in the UK and overseas for over twenty years and now while still maintaining a high profile at international festivals and venues he is also very involved in the vibrant London music scene. TJ's style and mix of music seems to be very popular with the young trendy in-‐ crowd and older jazz and blues fans alike.


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The Boy Scout Handbook Appstevejb68 on April 14, 2012 in Advancement, Film & Books, Gadgets, National
Last month I finally broke down and bought an iPad (the newest version). I have been having fun with it. It looks great and works well. I have to admit, playing Angry Birds on an iPad is a lot more fun then playing on an iPod Touch. I have downloaded dozens of books that are in the public domain, especially all the fictional novels I can find written about Boy Scouting during the early years of the movement. Most of the stories about Pee Wee Harris, Roy Blakely, and Tom Slade are waiting on my iPad's hard drive waiting to be read.
I have also downloaded a couple of Scouting related apps.The first one was MyBadges, written by Kevin Butler. It is an app which quickly puts the requirements for Boy Scout ranks, merit badges, and other awards on the screen. I have used this app while sitting on a board of review and found it to be quite handy, although one Boy Scout may not agree with me since I found a current requirement that was not listed in his handbook which was about 5 years old. Kevin has been doing a pretty good job of keeping his app current with the latest BSA handbook.
Which brings me to a problem I found. I was going to download the Boy Scouts of America app of The Boy Scout Handbook. After all, I am still involved with Scouting and thought it should be on my new gizmo. I went to the App Store to download it and stopped dead in my tracks. I have not purchased it, and will not purchase it. Here are the reasons why…
First of all, The B.S.A. has not updated the Handbook App since November 7, 2009. Yes, you read that correctly. 2009! For an organization that wants its members and volunteers to stay up to date they have really dropped the ball here. Heck, they come out with a new printed handbook every year. Why should I pay $9.99 to download a handbook that does not even contain the latest requirements for ranks and training?
And the price of $9.99, which just happens to be the same price as a physical handbook, but yet does not let me (or a Boy Scout) write in it and keep track of things like we can in a real physical copy? I think the price should be a couple bucks cheaper but I think I understand the reasoning behind it. After all, I was going to buy it until I started looking closer at it.
Third, the app is only available as an iPhone App. Really? Come on B.S.A., get with the program. Over 50 million of these devices have been sold. I am sure I am not the only Boy Scout volunteer that owns an iPad. I had thought the B.SA. was trying to be more modern and catch up to current technology. It seems to me they have been dropping the ball in a major way with this app.
Fourth. And speaking of dropping the ball, have you read the reviews about the latest version of the e-hanbook? (Which, keep in mind, came out in 2009.) They are not glowing, I can tell you that. The main gripe seems to be that it is not much more then a pdf version of the handbook. Excuse me national office, but if I am going to pay for an ebook, I would like it to be an ebook with at least a fair amount of accessible features. The book should be interactive, like the B.SA. says a Scouting program should be for its boy members.
So, I will not be purchasing the B.SA.'s Boy Scout Handbook app. At least not yet. I would like to, but the national office needs to work on this program and at least update it, if nothing else. Or could it be that this app is not a big enough seller for the B.SA. to care about? That would be a shame.
I would be interested on hearing from you if you use the Boy Scout Handbook app. Do you think it is useful? What is your general impression of it. Write a comment and share your user experience with us.


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Pipe connection between the suction and discharge side of a booster set in order to bypass water when the pumps are not in operation.
A bypass connection is a pipe diversion consisting of a manifold, two isolating valves and a non-return valve. The diversion is placed between the suction and discharge manifold of a booster set.
The bypass connection allows water to bypass the pumps from the suction to the discharge manifold.
The bypass connection is mostly used in applications where the inlet pressure is positive, so that it is possible to supply water from the water supply piping if the booster set is out of operation.


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Charles Ellis, author of "Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing" and chairman of the Whitehead Institute, doesn't think much of investment fees as they are currently structured. The reason? Although clients might think investment fees are low, when they're based on investment returns as opposed to assets under management, they're shockingly high.
"When stated as a percentage of assets, average fees do look low—a little over 1% of assets for individuals and a little less than one-half of 1% for institutional investors," Ellis writes in Financial Analysts Journal, the publication for Chartered Financial Analysts. "But the investors already own those assets, so investment management fees should really be based on what investors are getting in the returns that managers produce."
Think of it as taking a car in for repairs; he argues that investment fees are akin to paying the mechanic for simply having the car, not for the actual improvement in performance.
"Calculated correctly, as a percentage of returns, fees no longer look low," he explains. "Do the math. If returns average, say, 8% a year, then those same fees are not 1% or one-half of 1%. They are much higher—typically over 12% for individuals and 6% for institutions."
But even this recalculation substantially understates the real cost of active investment management, he adds.
"Here's why: Index funds reliably produce a 'commodity product' that ensures the market rate of return with no more than market risk. Index funds are now available at fees that are very small: 5 bps (0.05%) or less for institutions and 20 bps or less for individuals. Therefore, investors should consider fees charged by active managers not as a percentage of total returns but as incremental fees versus risk-adjusted incremental returns above the market index."
After a brief history of management fees—with a particular focus on 1960 to the present—Ellis concludes that "extensive, undeniable data show that identifying in advance any one particular investment manager who will—after costs, taxes, and fees—achieve the holy grail of beating the market is highly improbable."
"Yes, Virginia, some managers will always beat the market, but we have no reliable way of determining in advance which managers will be the lucky ones," he colorfully states, channeling the famous New York Sun editorial from 1897. "Price is surely not everything, but just as surely, when analyzed as incremental fees for incremental returns, investment management fees are not 'almost nothing.'"


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The body of the passenger who reportedly fell out of a small plane into the ocean has likely been found, according to Miami-Dade Police.
Police said they believe a body found in a mangrove area just south of SW 184 Street at 10:30 a.m. Saturday is 42-year-old Gerardo Nales, but authorities said they are waiting for official identification from the Medical Examiner's Office.
Nales fell out of Piper PA46 Thursday about eight miles southeast of Tamiami Airport with no parachute, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The search for his body went as far south as Turkey Point near Homestead.
The pilot was identified to NBC 6 as Felipe Fons, who received his commercial and instrument certifications when he attended Dean's International Aviation flight school at Tamiami Airport.
In the mayday call Fons made to air traffic controllers, he described the bizarre incident.
"I have a door ajar, and a passenger that fell down. I am six miles from Tamiami," he said.
A little later, the air traffic controller asks: "So you said you had a passenger who fell out of your plane?"
"That is correct, sir. He opened the back door, and he just fall down the plane," the pilot said.
The plane took off from a local airport, located at 12800 SW 137th Ave. in Miami.
Police have not indicated any evidence of foul play and the pilot was very cooperative with the investigation, authorities said.
"There's a lot of questions that need to be answered because of the fact that the detailed involved in the incident of course raise a lot of questions," Miami-Dade Police Spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta said.
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