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CHICAGO, IL(May 3, 2012) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced Thursday that the club has renewed its partnership with Youth Elite Soccer (YES) as its official camp and training program partner.
Youth Elite Soccer will continue to operate the club's Camps & Training and Emerging Talent Programs in soccer communities across the Midwest and through Chicago Fire Juniors programs nationwide.
"We are excited to continue our partnership with Youth Elite Soccer," said Chicago Fire Vice President of Soccer Operations Gui Petrei. "Youth Elite Soccer is an integral part of our player development pyramid. We know that the quality of their staff and the consistency of their curriculum will give players a well-rounded soccer education."
With the overarching principles of "Train Like A Pro, Play Like A Pro" and "Think Less, Imagine More," Youth Elite Soccer utilizes a research-based, age appropriate instructional method and curriculum which transcends soccer and positively affects player development.
To better engage the local communities that YES currently serves, YES has created the position of Community Development Officer (CDO) exclusively for the Fire Juniors. The CDOs will visit schools and recreation departments with the mission of promoting and raising the profile of the Fire in the community.
"Youth Elite Soccer is proud to continue helping the Chicago Fire Soccer Club reach more young players at a grassroots level," said YES President and Owner H.B. Mertz. "That's where we thrive. With our unique approach to developing young talent, we're looking forward to working closely andcollaborating with the Fire in the coming years."
This summer, the Chicago Fire and YES will unveil two dynamic training programs to help young players develop their skills. The National Talent Center (NTC) is an intensive 5-day training week for advanced soccer players ages 10 through 18. This residential program will be held on the campus of Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Ill. Information on the NTC program can be found here.
Also launching this summer is the Elite Performance Center (EPC) at Toyota Park. The EPC offers elite travel players ages 12 to 17 with a unique seven-week summer playing experience. Through a combination of week-long camps, weekly practice sessions and Super-Y games, players will receive over 70 hours of structured programming. Participants will be selected via try-outs which will be held on May 19 and 20. Information on the EPC can be found here.
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THE CT WATCHDOG: Buying electricity: A volatile plan for consumers?
One of the largest alternative suppliers of electricity in Connecticut says it is confident that Gov. Malloy's proposal to auction off more than 800,000 electric customers would raise at least $80 million for the cash strapped state budget.
Direct Energy spokesman Chris Kallaher said in a telephone interview with CtWatchdog that the $80 million was "a conservative figure" based on what acquiring companies have paid when purchasing other suppliers.
He said each customer is worth at least $100 to a supplier, but declined to say how much more.
Kallaher was responding to claims by AARP and other critics, who doubted that suppliers would pay as much money as the Malloy administration claimed in its controversial proposal.
Direct Energy, which sells electricity in 17 states and in Canada, has between 80,000 and 90,000 customers in Connecticut.
As part of his budget proposal, the governor is asking the General Assembly to fully deregulate Connecticut's electric market and at the same time help raise revenue.
Now customers have a choice between purchasing their electricity from the two major utility companies - CL&P and UI - or from more than a dozen alternative suppliers like Direct Energy.
Slightly more than half of Connecticut electric consumers receive what is known as the Standard Offer from CL&P or UI. That rate is set by the state and the utilities are not permitted to make a profit. The remaining customers purchase their electricity from the alternative suppliers, whose rates for the most part are more volatile than the Standard Offer.
The governor's proposal would auction off - in groups of 100,000 - those who now receive the Standard Offer without asking for their permission.
Kallaher disagreed with statistics provided by AARP which showed that in Texas - which is largely deregulated - the electric rate is higher than the national average while prior to deregulation it was lower.
Data provided by Kallaher shows that in deregulated areas of Texas the price of electricity dropped significantly since deregulation 10 years ago.
Kallaher said the Connecticut proposal needs to have consumer protections in place for it to be viable.
For instance, he said Direct Energy is in favor of keeping a Standard Offer and permitting any of the 800,000 to "opt out" from the auction and remain with the utilities.
However, if the pool of customers who don't want alternative suppliers is small, the Standard Offer would become more volatile and rates could change monthly as opposed to yearly.
"We don't see volatility as a particular bad thing," Kallaher said because it would pressure consumers to be more careful with the use of their electricity.
"A certain amount of volatility" is needed, Kallaher said. "People should know that if you run your air conditioner in August it is more expensive than" in the cooler months.
AARP sees volatility as something that will hurt the elderly and low income who would have trouble budgeting for rate spikes.
Kallaher says that a fully deregulated market, combined with smart meters that measure when electricity is used, would usher in a new era of innovation and conservation.
These measures could mean that consumers could be guided to use electricity more on days or at times when demand is lower. That could be accomplished by charging less for electricity when demand is low and charging higher prices when demand is high.
He said the purpose is to prevent the need to build additional power plants which would only be needed and used at peak demand times.
The governor's proposal also calls for setting maximum rates for the first year at 5 percent lower than the Standard Offer.
To further protect consumers, Kallaher said his company is in favor of setting a ceiling on how much rates could increase in the second and third year of deregulation.
Kallaher said "there is a lot of concern about after the 12 months...the suppliers jacking the prices up."
He said it is not enough to tell customers that competition will prevent rate spikes.
And he said it would be important to permit customers to switch from one provider to another without having to pay a termination or exit fee.
"The last thing we would want is to go forward and have people think that it (deregulation) was a bad thing," Kallaher said. "We want to see this as a success so we can replicate in other states."
Kallaher said he is "cautiously optimistic" that the proposal "will survive in some form" and Connecticut will become a fully deregulated state.
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JERRY WOLFFE: Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius inspired the disabled, but proves fallible
The "Blade Runner" may have slashed the hearts of millions of people with disabilities.
Oscar Pistorius, known as the "Blade Runner" because of the carbon-fiber artificial legs he uses in world-class sprinting, is charged with the Feb. 14 shooting death of his girlfriend. model Reeva Steenkamp, 29, at his home in Pretoria, South Africa.
He became the first double amputee to compete in any Olympics, doing so in track in London last summer.
Pistorius finished second in his opening heat of the 400-meter race against able-bodied runners and reached the semifinals, but then finished eighth and was eliminated. He also competed in the 4x400 relay with his South African Olympic teammates.
In Paralympian competition, he was without equal.
He won the 400-meter and 4x400 relay races at the 2012 Paralympics in London and took silver in the 200-meter event.
To many of us with disabilities who competed in Paralympic events and dreamed of being the best in a sport, we felt pride and could identify with what he had done. His accomplishments deserved the worldwide publicity they received.
But all of that now is at peril if prosecutors prove he intended to put four bullets into his girlfriend's body. He said he thought she was an intruder in his posh neighborhood.
Pistorius is "assisting the police in their investigation but there will be no further comment until matters become clearer," his spokeswoman Kate Silver said after Pistorius was charged.
Pretorian police spokeswoman Denise Beukes said there was no signs of forced entry at the home, CNN reported.
Beukes also said there had been "previous incidents" at the home, "allegations of a domestic nature."
Police are aware that Pistorius claims his girlfriend was an intruder but Buekes said "those reports did not come from police."
A pistol was recovered at the scene.
As for his neighborhood, Buekes told CNN it was a "very quiet area and this is a secure estate."
To the estimated 1.4 billion people in the world with a disability, it never mattered if Pistorius won a medal in the Olympics.
The fact that he got to the Olympics was the equivalent to some of us of May 29, 1953 when Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Mt. Everest or of the first human, American Neil Armstrong, setting foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.
For the sake of those of us who are disabled and hope for a better life and equal opportunity, let's hope this tragedy was a case of mistaken identity and Pistorius is the champion we all believe he had become.
But then again, Pistorius unfortunately may be like so many great athletes or any human and show it's easy to run outside of the law.


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Send a celebrity valentine with Cameo Stars on Facebook
If you're one of those unfortunate people with a celebrity obsessed significant other, you can still earn some bonus points on Valentine's Day. Valentine's is usually a day reserved for heartwarming, thoughtful and unique gifts, but for the celebrity crazed, the Facebook app "Cameo Stars" will probably do just as well.
The app allows users to send Valentine's greetings made by celebrities to their Facebook friends. The list of celebs includes internet craze-worthy folks like Tony Romo, Kim Kardashian, and the ubiquitous Carmen Electra. Read the rest of this entry »
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On opening day of the 2012 National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) annual conference in Chicago, outgoing chairwoman Susan John named Ron Rhoades to succeed her as head of the fee-only planners group.
In addition, John told the audience of about 500 planners that NAPFA will celebrate the group's 30th anniversary next year with a national conference in Las Vegas.
Rhoades, a certified financial planner who serves as assistant professor and program chair for the Personal Financial Planning Program at Alfred State College, Alfred, N.Y., will assume his new NAPFA role on Sept. 1. He said after John's announcement on Tuesday that he just completed a hectic first academic year at Alfred, but expects that his schedule will be more manageable in his second year, thus allowing him to devote more time to NAPFA once he takes over as chairman.
Previously, Rhoades was chief compliance officer at Joseph Capital Management. He is also president of ScholarFi and was named one of Investment Advisor magazine's Top 25 Most Influential people in the advisory profession for 2011. Rhoades is the author of several books and numerous white papers and is known as an advocate for the fiduciary standard as applied to registered investment advisors (RIAs) and financial planners.
Rhoades (left) will continue to advocate for the fiduciary standard as NAPFA chairman. As a member of the Financial Planning Coalition, NAPFA joined in an April 25 coalition statement opposing legislation that would create a self-regulating organization (SRO) for investment advisors. In response to the introduction of the Investment Adviser Act of 2012, sponsored by House Financial Services Committee chairman Spencer Bachus and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, the coalition argued that enhancing existing oversight is a better and more cost-effective option than creating an added layer of regulation.
"Creating an SRO for investment advisors would unnecessarily burden small business owners with additional costs," the coalition said in a statement. "While we agree with Chairman Bachus that better oversight of investment advisors is needed, we oppose the legislation introduced in the House of Representatives. As a recent Boston Consulting Group study found, outsourcing SEC oversight to a new SRO would be twice as expensive as directing adequate resources to the current SEC oversight program."
The NAPFA national conference 2012 is taking place May 8 through May 11 at the Hilton Chicago. For those who can't attend the event, NAPFA National 2012 can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/NAPFA, or at #NAPFA2012.
Check out further coverage about the NAPFA national conference 2012 at AdvisorOne.
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Falling short of filling unmet medical needs
March 2012
It seems that as ddn's focus on oncology research continues its upward trend, so too are the incidences of cancer affecting the people around me. While just a few years ago, I wrote from the floor of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR's) 100th Annual Meeting that I had never personally known anyone diagnosed with cancer, I can now saywith great sadnessthat cancer has affected many people in my social circle in various ways.
The most recent case of this is Mihaela, the wife of a high school chum. Last month, the 32-year-old wife and mother of two beautiful little girls was diagnosed with classical Hodgkin's Lymphoma, lymphocytic rich type, stage 3A. The diagnosis came as a surprise to Mihaela and her family, as she found an enlarged lymph node on her neck a few months ago, but didn 't think it was a serious concern, and postponed having it checked out as she focused on graduating from dental hygiene school.
Bravely documenting her journey with Hodgkin's Lymphoma on a blog, Michaela has noted that her prognosis is promising, and her doctors are committed to treating her disease while maintaining a healthy body during the process. But her diary has also called attention to a growing trend in the pharmaceutical worldnot just in oncology, but in medical conditions across the boardof widespread drug shortages.
Mihaela will need eight to 12 chemotherapy treatments, but her physicians cannot guarantee that the medications she needs will be available.
"There might be a problem with the chemo meds in the long run," Mihaela writes on her blog. "There is a national shortage of various drugs, even simpler ones. We want to make sure they preorder or ensure the meds will be available. They cannot guarantee it, but did say they will do all possible, of course. I guess time will tell."
That's a frightening possibility for someone in Mihaela's position to face, and she is not alone, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that the number of reported drug shortages annually tripled from 61 in 2005 to 178 in 2010. Of the 127 studied shortages in 2010 and 2011, 80 percent involved drugs delivered to patients by sterile injection, including oncology drugs, antibiotics and electrolyte/nutrition drugs, the FDA says.
The leading reasons for the reported shortages are problems at the manufacturing facility (43 percent), delays in manufacturing or shipping (15 percent) and active pharmaceutical ingredient shortages (10 percent), according to the FDA.
A recent Wall Street Journal report noted that the number of suppliers of generic drugs has also dwindled due to industry consolidation. For example, there were 26 U.S. vaccine makers in 1967; today, there are only six.
These issues have garnered serious concern by the U.S. government, as President Barack Obama last fall issued an executive order directing the FDA and the U.S. Department of Justice "to take action to help further reduce and prevent drug shortages, protect consumers and prevent price gouging." Government intervention has also been cited as part of the problem, as the government's tight price controls for generic drugsespecially when purchased by Medicare and Medicaidare seen by some as the cause of many drugmakers either exiting certain markets or adjusting their manufacturing capacities toward more profitable pharmaceuticals.
The prognosis for this diagnosis is not promising: "We expect that reports of potential and actual drug shortages will continue to increase in the next months to years," says the FDA, "requiring that the FDA allocate more resources to mitigate drug shortages in a timely manner to protect public health. In doing so, we will continue to focus on assuring a multifaceted approach, including close collaboration of all stakeholders within and outside of the agency, including industry, regulators, payers, Congress and others."
This is not a uniquely American problem, by the way, as reports continue to arise that doctors and patients in Canada and Australia are also battling this crisis.
While the problem is indeed multifaceted, and the solutions thus varied and complex, shouldn't addressing drug shortages a top priority for an industry that claimson every press release that crosses my desk and in most of the stories we writethat its very reason for existence is "to address a high unmet medical need?" Is there any higher unmet need right now for patients? What must happen in order for pharmas and biotechs to hunker down and resolve this crisis?
Don't we owe Mihaelaand the millions of other patients in her situationmore?
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Now that Jon Gosselin has drained almost all the money out of their account I have been thinking about other dick moves he could make.
I mean, I think that the money thing was out of line. He's gonna have to give that back.
But you know, using the California "HALF" rule.....I was thinking these are some things he COULD take.
- Half the dishes. (take cups not saucers, cuz that's funny)
- Half the sheets- top or bottom but not both
- Half the food - bring Tupperware to dump out the bit you are taking with you Jon
- Half the curtains - I say depending on if you are right or left handed, choose the curtains on that side and take those
- Half the books and half the records/tapes/CDs
- Half the Wagon Wheel Coffee Table (see when Harry Met Sally)
- Half the kids- just take the 4 that don't sass
See it goes on and on. Just split that shit up. Like King Solomon and the baby, divide it in two and to the victors go the spoils. That works really well right? RIGHT?
In all seriousness, these are like the two sorriest people I have ever had the media keep forcing down my throat. Can't Paris Hilton do a porno film or pose naked with a snake or something?


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In this section we describe some applications of our study of pseudorandomness.
We begin with a notorious open problem from learning theory, that of learning juntas. Let $\mathcal{C} = \{f : {\mathbb F}_2^n \to {\mathbb F}_2 \mid f \text{ is a } k\text{-junta}\}$; we will always assume that $k \leq O(\log n)$. In the query access model, it is quite easy to learn $\mathcal{C}$ exactly (i.e., with error $0$) in $\mathrm{poly}(n)$ time (Exercise 3.36(a)). However in the model of random examples, it's not obvious how to learn $\mathcal{C}$ more efficiently than in the $n^{k} \cdot \mathrm{poly}(n)$ time required by the Low-Degree Algorithm (see Theorem 3.36). Unfortunately, this is superpolynomial as soon as $k > \omega(1)$. The state of affairs is the same in the case of depth-$k$ decision trees (a superclass of $\mathcal{C}$), and is similar in the case of $\mathrm{poly}(n)$-size DNFs and CNFs. Thus if we wish to learn, say, $\mathrm{poly}(n)$-size decision trees or DNFs from random examples only, a necessary prerequisite is doing the same for $O(\log n)$-juntas.
Whether or not $\omega(1)$-juntas can be learned from random examples in polynomial time is a longstanding open problem. Here we will show a modest improvement on the $n^{k}$-time algorithm:
Theorem 36 For $k \leq O(\log n)$, the class $\mathcal{C} = \{f : {\mathbb F}_2^n \to {\mathbb F}_2 \mid f \text{ is a } k\text{-junta}\}$ can be exactly learned from random examples in time $n^{(3/4)k} \cdot \mathrm{poly}(n)$.
(The $3/4$ in this theorem can in fact be replaced by $\omega/(\omega + 1)$, where $\omega$ is any number such that $n \times n$ matrices can be multiplied in time $O(n^{\omega})$.)
The first observation we will use to prove Theorem 36 is that to learn $k$-juntas, it suffices to be able to identify a single coordinate which is relevant. The proof of this is fairly simple and is left for the exercises:
Lemma 37 Theorem 36 follows from the existence of a learning algorithm which, given random examples from a nonconstant $k$-junta $f : {\mathbb F}_2^n \to {\mathbb F}_2$, finds at least one relevant coordinate for $f$ (with probability at least $1-\delta$) in time $n^{(3/4)k} \cdot \mathrm{poly}(n) \cdot \log(1/\delta)$.
Assume then that we have random example access to a (nonconstant) $k$-junta $f : {\mathbb F}_2^n \to {\mathbb F}_2$. As in the Low-Degree Algorithm we will estimate the Fourier coefficients $\widehat{f}(S)$ for all $1 \leq |S| \leq d$, where $d \leq k$ is a parameter to be chosen later. Using Proposition 3.30 we can ensure that all estimates are accurate to within $(1/3)2^{-k}$, except with probability most $\delta/2$, in time $n^d \cdot \mathrm{poly}(n) \cdot \log(1/\delta)$. (Recall that $2^k \leq \mathrm{poly}(n)$.) Since $f$ is a $k$-junta, all of its Fourier coefficients are either $0$ or at least $2^{-k}$ in magnitude; hence we can exactly identify the sets $S$ for which $\widehat{f}(S) \neq 0$. For any such $S$, all of the coordinates $i \in S$ are relevant for $f$. So unless $\widehat{f}(S) = 0$ for all $1 \leq |S| \leq d$, we can find a relevant coordinate for $f$ in time $n^{d} \cdot \mathrm{poly}(n) \cdot \log(1/\delta)$ (except with probability at most $\delta/2$).
To complete the proof of Theorem 36 it remains to handle the case that $\widehat{f}(S) = 0$ for all $1 \leq |S| \leq d$; i.e., $f$ is $d$th-order correlation immune. In this case, by Siegenthaler's Theorem we know that $\deg_{{\mathbb F}_2}(f) \leq k-d$. (Note that $d < k$ since $f$ is not constant.) But there is a learning algorithm running in time in time $O(n)^{3\ell} \cdot \log(1/\delta)$ which exactly learns any ${\mathbb F}_2$-polynomial of degree at most $\ell$ (except with probability at most $\delta/2$). Roughly speaking, the algorithm draws $O(n)^\ell$ random examples and then solves an ${\mathbb F}_2$-linear system to determine the coefficients of the unknown polynomial; see the exercises for details. Thus in time $n^{3(k-d)} \cdot \mathrm{poly}(n) \cdot \log(1/\delta)$ this algorithm will exactly determine $f$, and in particular find a relevant coordinate.
By choosing $d = \left\lceil \frac34 k \right\rceil$ we balance the running time of the two algorithms. Regardless of whether $f$ is $d$th-order correlation immune, at least one of the two algorithms will find a relevant coordinate for $f$ (except with probability at most $\delta/2 + \delta/2 = \delta$) in time $n^{(3/4)k} \cdot \mathrm{poly}(n) \cdot \log(1/\delta)$. This completes the proof of Theorem 36.
Our next application of pseudorandomness involves using $\epsilon$-biased distributions to give a deterministic version of the Goldreich–Levin Algorithm (and hence the Kushilevitz–Mansour learning algorithm) for functions $f$ with small $\hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1$. We begin with a basic lemma showing that you can get a good estimate for the mean of such functions using an $\epsilon$-biased distribution:
Lemma 38 If $f : \{-1,1\}^n \to {\mathbb R}$ and $\varphi : \{-1,1\}^n \to {\mathbb R}$ is an $\epsilon$-biased density, then \[ \left|\mathop{\bf E}_{{\boldsymbol{x}} \sim \varphi}[f({\boldsymbol{x}})] – \mathop{\bf E}[f]\right| \leq \hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1 \epsilon. \]
This lemma follows from Proposition 13(1), but we provide a separate proof:
Proof: By Plancherel, \[ \mathop{\bf E}_{{\boldsymbol{x}} \sim \varphi}[f({\boldsymbol{x}})] = \langle \varphi, f\rangle = \widehat{f}(\emptyset) + \sum_{S \neq \emptyset} \widehat{\varphi}(S) \widehat{f}(S), \] and the difference of this from $\mathop{\bf E}[f] = \widehat{f}(\emptyset)$ is, in absolute value, at most \[ \sum_{S \neq \emptyset} |\widehat{\varphi}(S)| \cdot |\widehat{f}(S)| \leq \epsilon \cdot \sum_{S \neq \emptyset} |\widehat{f}(S)| \leq \hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1 \epsilon. \qquad \Box \]
Since $\hat{\lVert} f^2 \hat{\rVert}_1 \leq \hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1^2$ (exercise), we also have the following immediate corollary:
Corollary 39 If $f : \{-1,1\}^n \to {\mathbb R}$ and $\varphi : \{-1,1\}^n \to {\mathbb R}$ is an $\epsilon$-biased density, then \[ \left|\mathop{\bf E}_{{\boldsymbol{x}} \sim \varphi}[f({\boldsymbol{x}})^2] – \mathop{\bf E}[f^2]\right| \leq \hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1^2 \epsilon. \]
We can use the first lemma to get a deterministic version of Proposition 3.30, the learning algorithm which estimates a specified Fourier coefficient.
Proposition 40 There is a deterministic algorithm which, given query access to a function $f : \{-1,1\}^n \to {\mathbb R}$ as well as $U \subseteq [n]$, $0 < \epsilon \leq 1/2$, and $s \geq 1$, outputs an estimate $\widetilde{f}(U)$ for $\widehat{f}(U)$ satisfying \[ |\widetilde{f}(U) - \widehat{f}(U)| \leq \epsilon, \] provided $\hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1 \leq s$. The running time is $\mathrm{poly}(n, s, 1/\epsilon)$.
Proof: It suffices to handle the case $U = \emptyset$ because for general $U$, the algorithm can simulate query access to $f \cdot \chi_U$ with $\mathrm{poly}(n)$ overhead, and $\widehat{f \cdot \chi_U}(\emptyset) = \widehat{f}(U)$. The algorithm will use Theorem 30 to construct an $(\epsilon/s)$-biased density $\varphi$ which is uniform over a (multi-)set of cardinality $O(n^2 s^2/\epsilon^2)$. By enumerating over this set and using queries to $f$, it can deterministically output the estimate $\widetilde{f}(\emptyset) = \mathop{\bf E}_{{\boldsymbol{x}} \sim \varphi}[f({\boldsymbol{x}})]$ in time $\mathrm{poly}(n, s, 1/\epsilon)$. The error bound now follows from Lemma 38. $\Box$
The other key ingredient needed for the Goldreich–Levin Algorithm was Proposition 3.40, which let us estimate \begin{equation} \label{eqn:gl-key2} \mathbf{W}^{S\mid\overline{J}}[f] = \sum_{T \subseteq \overline{J}} \widehat{f}(S \cup T)^2 = \mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{z} \sim \{-1,1\}^{\overline{J}}}[\widehat{f_{J \mid \boldsymbol{z}}}(S)^2] \end{equation} for any $S \subseteq J \subseteq [n]$. Observe that for any $z \in \{-1,1\}^{\overline{J}}$ we can use Proposition 40 to deterministically estimate $\widehat{f_{J \mid z}}(S)$ to accuracy $\pm \epsilon$. The reason is that we can simulate query access to the restricted function $\widehat{f_{J \mid z}}$, the $(\epsilon/s)$-biased density $\varphi$ remains $(\epsilon/s)$-biased on $\{-1,1\}^{J}$, and most importantly $\hat{\lVert} f_{J \mid z} \hat{\rVert}_1 \leq \hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1 \leq s$ by Exercise 3.6. It is not much more difficult to deterministically estimate \eqref{eqn:gl-key2}
Proposition 41 There is a deterministic algorithm which, given query access to a function $f : \{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\}$ as well as $S \subseteq J \subseteq [n]$, $0 < \epsilon \leq 1/2$, and $s \geq 1$, outputs an estimate $\beta$ for $\mathbf{W}^{S\mid\overline{J}}[f]$ which satisfies \[ |\mathbf{W}^{S\mid\overline{J}}[f] – \beta| \leq \epsilon, \] provided $\hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1 \leq s$. The running time is $\mathrm{poly}(n, s, 1/\epsilon)$.
Proof: Recall the notation $\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f$ from Definition 3.20; by \eqref{eqn:gl-key2}, the algorithm's task is to estimate $\mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{z} \sim \{-1,1\}^{\overline{J}}}[(\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f)^2(\boldsymbol{z})]$. If $\varphi : \{-1,1\}^{\overline{J}} \to {\mathbb R}^{\geq 0}$ is an $\tfrac{\epsilon}{4s^2}$-biased density, Corollary 39 tells us that \begin{equation} \label{eqn:gl-det-est} \Bigl| \mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{z} \sim \varphi}[(\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f)^2(\boldsymbol{z})] – \mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{z} \sim \{-1,1\}^{\overline{J}}}[(\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f)^2(\boldsymbol{z})] \Bigr| \leq \hat{\lVert} \mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f \hat{\rVert}_1^2 \cdot \tfrac{\epsilon}{4s^2}\leq \hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1^2 \cdot \tfrac{\epsilon}{4s^2} \leq \tfrac{\epsilon}{4}, \end{equation} where the second inequality is immediate from Proposition 3.21. We now show the algorithm can approximately compute $\mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{z} \sim \varphi}[(\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f)^2(\boldsymbol{z})]$. For each $z \in \{-1,1\}^{\overline{J}}$, the algorithm can use $\varphi$ to deterministically estimate $(\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f)(z) = \widehat{f_{J \mid z}}(S)$ to within $\pm s \cdot \tfrac{\epsilon}{4s^2} \leq \tfrac{\epsilon}{4}$ in $\mathrm{poly}(n,s, 1/\epsilon)$ time, just as was described in the text following \eqref{eqn:gl-key2}. Since $|\widehat{f_{J \mid z}}(S)| \leq 1$, the square of this estimate is within, say, $\tfrac{3\epsilon}{4}$ of $(\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f)^2(z)$. Hence by enumerating over the support of $\varphi$, the algorithm can in deterministic $\mathrm{poly}(n,s, 1/\epsilon)$ time estimate $\mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{z} \sim \varphi}[(\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f)^2(\boldsymbol{z})]$ to within $\pm \tfrac{3\epsilon}{4}$, which by \eqref{eqn:gl-det-est} gives an estimate to within $\pm \epsilon$ of the desired quantity $\mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{z} \sim \{-1,1\}^{\overline{J}}}[(\mathrm{F}_{S \mid \overline{J}} f)^2(\boldsymbol{z})]$. $\Box$
Propositions 40 and 41 are the only two ingredients needed for a derandomization of the Goldreich–Levin Algorithm. We can therefore state a derandomized version of its corollary Theorem 3.38 on learning functions with small Fourier $1$-norm:
Theorem 42 Let $\mathcal{C} = \{f : \{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\} \mid \hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1 \leq s\}$. Then $\mathcal{C}$ is deterministically learnable from queries with error $\epsilon$ in time $\mathrm{poly}(n, s, 1/\epsilon)$.
Since any $f : \{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\}$ with $\mathrm{sparsity}(\widehat{f}) \leq s$ also has $\hat{\lVert} f \hat{\rVert}_1 \leq s$, we may also deduce from Exercise 3.36(c):
Theorem 43 Let $\mathcal{C} = \{f : \{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\} \mid \mathrm{sparsity}(\widehat{f}) \leq 2^{O(k)}\}$. Then $\mathcal{C}$ is deterministically learnable exactly ($0$ error) from queries in time $\mathrm{poly}(n, 2^k)$.
Example functions which fall into the concept classes of these theorems are decision trees of size at most $s$, and decision trees of depth at most $k$, respectively.
We conclude this section by discussing a derandomized version of the Blum–Luby–Rubinfeld linearity test from Chapter 1.5:
Derandomized BLR Test Given query access to $f : {\mathbb F}_2^n \to {\mathbb F}_2$:
- Choose ${\boldsymbol{x}} \sim {\mathbb F}_2^n$ and $\boldsymbol{y} \sim \varphi$, where $\varphi$ is an $\epsilon$-biased density.
- Query $f$ at ${\boldsymbol{x}}$, $\boldsymbol{y}$, and ${\boldsymbol{x}} + \boldsymbol{y}$.
- "Accept" if $f({\boldsymbol{x}}) + f(\boldsymbol{y}) = f({\boldsymbol{x}} + \boldsymbol{y})$.
Whereas the original BLR Test required exactly $2n$ independent random bits, the above derandomized version needs only $n + O(\log(n/\epsilon))$. This is very close to minimum possible: a test using only, say, $.99n$ random bits would only be able to inspect a $2^{-.01 n}$ fraction of $f$'s values.
If $f$ is ${\mathbb F}_2$-linear then it is still accepted by the Derandomized BLR Test with probability $1$. As for the approximate converse, we'll have to make a slight concession: we'll show that any function accepted with probability close to $1$ must be close to an affine function — i.e., satisfy $\deg_{{\mathbb F}_2}(f) \leq 1$. This concession is necessary: the function $f : {\mathbb F}_2^n \to {\mathbb F}_2$ might be $1$ everywhere except on the (tiny) support of $\varphi$. In that case the acceptance criterion $f({\boldsymbol{x}}) + f(\boldsymbol{y}) = f({\boldsymbol{x}} + \boldsymbol{y})$ will almost always be $1 + 0 = 1$; yet $f$ is very far from every linear function. It is, however, very close to the affine function $1$.
Theorem 44 Suppose the Derandomized BLR Test accepts $f : {\mathbb F}_2^n \to {\mathbb F}_2$ with probability $\tfrac{1}{2} + \tfrac{1}{2} \theta$. Then $f$ has correlation at least $\sqrt{\theta^2 – \epsilon}$ with some affine $g : {\mathbb F}_2^n \to {\mathbb F}_2$; i.e., $\mathrm{dist}(f,g) \leq \tfrac{1}{2} – \tfrac{1}{2} \sqrt{\theta^2 – \epsilon}$.
Remark 45 The bound in this theorem works well both when $\theta$ is close to $0$ and when $\theta$ is close to $1$. E.g., for $\theta = 1-2\delta$ we get that if $f$ is accepted with probability $1-\delta$ then $f$ is nearly $\delta$-close to an affine function, provided $\epsilon \ll \delta$.
Proof: As in the analysis of the BLR Test (Theorem 1.31) we encode $f$'s outputs by $\pm 1 \in {\mathbb R}$. Using the first few lines of that analysis we see that our hypothesis is equivalent to \[ \theta \leq \mathop{\bf E}_{{\substack{{\boldsymbol{x}} \sim {\mathbb F}_2^n \\ \boldsymbol{y} \sim \varphi}}}[f({\boldsymbol{x}})f(\boldsymbol{y})f({\boldsymbol{x}}+\boldsymbol{y})] = \mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{y} \sim \varphi}[f(\boldsymbol{y}) \cdot (f * f)(\boldsymbol{y})]. \] By Cauchy–Schwarz, \[ \mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{y} \sim \varphi}[f(\boldsymbol{y}) \cdot (f * f)(\boldsymbol{y})] \leq \sqrt{\mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{y} \sim \varphi}[f(\boldsymbol{y})^2]}\sqrt{\mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{y} \sim \varphi}[(f * f)^2(\boldsymbol{y})]} = \sqrt{\mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{y} \sim \varphi}[(f * f)^2(\boldsymbol{y})]}, \] and hence \[ \theta^2 \leq \mathop{\bf E}_{\boldsymbol{y} \sim \varphi}[(f * f)^2(\boldsymbol{y})] \leq \mathop{\bf E}[(f * f)^2] + \hat{\lVert} f * f \hat{\rVert}_1 \epsilon = \sum_{\gamma \in {\widehat{{\mathbb F}_2^n}}} \widehat{f}(\gamma)^4 + \epsilon, \] where the inequality is Corollary 39 and we used $\widehat{f * f}(\gamma) = \widehat{f}(\gamma)^2$. The conclusion of the proof is as in the original analysis (cf. Proposition 7, Exercise 1.28): \[ \theta^2 - \epsilon \leq \sum_{\gamma \in {\widehat{{\mathbb F}_2^n}}} \widehat{f}(\gamma)^4 \leq \max_{\gamma \in {\widehat{{\mathbb F}_2^n}}} \{\widehat{f}(\gamma)^2\} \cdot \sum_{\gamma \in {\widehat{{\mathbb F}_2^n}}} \widehat{f}(\gamma)^2 = \max_{\gamma \in {\widehat{{\mathbb F}_2^n}}} \{\widehat{f}(\gamma)^2\}, \] and hence there exists $\gamma^*$ such that $|\widehat{f}(\gamma^*)| \geq \sqrt{\theta^2-\epsilon}$. $\Box$


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New products introduced over the last week include Brown Brothers Harriman's new ETF Connect suite of products specific to ETFs and Wasatch launched its new Emerging Markets Select Fund.
In addition, the Power Dividend Index was launched by W.E. Donoghue together with Standard & Poor's and Euro Pacific Capital introduced market-linked CD offerings, and PowerShares is praised for a low-volatility ETF.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) PowerShares Wins Sharpe Award for Volatility-Focused ETF
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management, which recently dropped fees for some of its ETFs, said its PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (SPLV) recently received the William F. Sharpe Award for ETF Product of the Year. Listed on May 5, 2011, SPLV represents the first and largest low-volatility weighted ETF available to US investors, according to the ETF provider. The ETF recently surpassed $3 billion in assets under management.
This year's award was presented at the 2012 Global Indexing & ETFs Conference held in Phoenix in early December. SPLV was recognized as ETF Product of the Year for having the most significant impact on the ETF market over the previous 12 months.
This is the second consecutive year a PowerShares ETF has received this prestigious award, following the PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio (PHB) as the 2011 recipient.
Since inception through November 30, 2012, the PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio had a total return including dividends of 18.31% vs. a total return of 9.91% for the S&P 500 Index, and it has done so with about 30% less volatility, according to the ETF provider.
2) Wasatch Launches Emerging Markets Select Fund
Wasatch Advisors, the investment manager to the Wasatch Funds, announced Thursday the launch of the Wasatch Emerging Markets Select Fund (WAESX). This no-load mutual fund invests in a select portfolio of 30 to 50 geographically diversified emerging-markets companies of all sizes and is managed by Ajay Krishnan. He is joined by veteran international manager Roger Edgley, director of international research at Wasatch Advisors.
While WAESX can invest in stocks of all sizes, many of the companies are likely to be those that have "graduated" beyond small-cap size. Krishnan said of the strategy, "We generally seek countries with attractively valued stock markets and growing consumer economies driven by domestic (home-country) demand and an expanding middle class." He added, "Unlike many emerging-markets funds, we aren't as heavily weighted in countries such as China, Korea and Taiwan. Instead, we usually try to uncover attractively priced companies whose fortunes are based on local economies rather than on exports to foreign countries."
3) W.E. Donoghue Launches the Power Dividend Index with S & P
W.E. Donoghue & Co., Inc., in partnership with S & P and S-Networks, announced the launch of the Power Dividend Index (PWRDXTR). This pure yield index isolates the top 50 dividend-paying stocks from the S & P 500 Index, equally weights them across the 10 GIC sectors, rebalances quarterly and provides a tactical overlay to reduce exposure during a major market decline. As global markets reset, PWRDXTR adapts and improves a traditional investment strategy to deliver the potential for a better risk-adjusted return.
The Power Dividend Index Portfolio tracks W.E. Donoghue's Power Dividend Index, which is calculated by Standard and Poor's Custom Indexes and is predicated on the SDOGX Index of 50 stocks derived from the S&P 500 Index. The strategy uses a tactical overlay to determine a bullish or defensive posture. In a bullish posture, the index methodology selects the five stocks, equally weighted, in each of the ten GICS sectors that make up the S&P 500 that offer the highest dividend yields as of the last trading day of November. Technical indicators will shift the strategy to a defensive position, should market conditions warrant, and when in a defensive position the index will be invested in 90 day T-bills.
4) Euro Pacific Capital Introduces Market-Linked CD Offerings
Investors who wish to protect principal while still maintaining some exposure to the markets can now choose Euro Pacific Capital's market-linked certificates of deposit (MLCDs). MLCDs, new in 2012, offer principal protection when held to maturity, with up to $250,000 insured by the FDIC. They also offer potential returns based on the performance of various market measures, such as gold, silver, equities, commodities, or a basket of foreign currencies.
MLCDs offer the opportunity to participate in upside performance of an underlying market measure, subject to the terms of each specific MLCD. They are available for a minimum investment of $25,000 and increments of $1,000 thereafter, and the estate feature allows for redemption of the full principal amount at par, without interest, upon death or the adjudication of incompetence of the beneficial owner under certain circumstances, subject to the terms of the specific MLCD.
Three MLCDs are being offered for the month of December. The first tracks a basket of 10 commodity indices; the second, a proprietary long/short commodity strategy; and the third tracks a basket of the four BRIC currencies (Brazil, Russia, India and China). They are open through investment through the third week of December. Other new products will be available on a monthly basis.
5) Brown Brothers Harriman Launches ETF Connect Suite
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has announced the launch of its new suite of ETF-specific products, ETF Connect, where ETF sponsors, authorized participants (APs), and administrator and custodian BBH can manage ETF operations through a single platform. Through ETF Connect, users have the ability to access new and enhanced ETF products including the recently launched APEX (AP Exchange).
APEX, specifically built for ETFs, provides workflow automation based on client specified creation/redemption order requirements that take place between the ETF sponsor, APs and BBH. Further, the tool supports custom baskets, as well as restricted securities at time of order placement. APEX is fully integrated with BBH's global custody, accounting and transfer agency (TA) systems to enable streamlined and efficient processing of transactions.
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Hey ya'll. So, I've been shopping around at T-Mobile.com for a new ringtone. I have a few contenders...but I have a question. I don't know who to ask this to...so I am just gonna put it out there for the whole wide world to read (as if everyone reads my blog--ha ha) but anyway, and see what ya'll think.
Would it be bad or sound conceitful if I have the song "Brick House" as my ring tone?
To be totally honest with you, I have never known what that song was talking about...I've just always loved its groovy tune. So, I looked it up at www.wikipedia.com and apparently the term "She's a brick house" refers to a woman who is very voluptuous. "Hmmm...," I thought, "I sorta fit that category." so I almost downloaded it but then I thought..."Hmmm..., I wonder what other people will think about me thinking that about myself?" So I hesitated.
This question is almost an oxymoron considering my current ringtone is "This is why I'm Hot". Even that one, I downloaded because I think it's such a fun song and I really hadn't considered what other people might think about it (like that they'd think I am saying that I, Me, Jennifer is hot).
Another question I have...what do ya'll think about using songs for ringtones that you like the sound of...but don't necessarily agree with the lyrics? I am referring to songs like Carrie Underwood's song about bashing her boyfriends car and stuff like that. There is another song out right now that I like but when I pulled up the lyrics and read them, there were parts of the song that mentioned drinking and had some sexual connotations and I didn't know if that would be "bad" for me to have for my ring tone. Now, mind you, the part of the song that would be the ring tone has none of that in it...but still...the song does. And when I say "bad", I am meaning as a Christian, married woman.
I guess what I am really trying to ask in synopsis is: How much does your ringtone really say about YOU? It is just a fun song you like to listen to...or is it supposed to be indicative of what you believe or how you live your life? I'm sure a good portion of that answer would be "it depends on each individual person" but I am just asking in general, what do ya'll think?
By the way, since I mentioned Wikipedia, I thought I'd explain what that is for those of you who don't know because it is SUCH a cool online resource. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia and it is mostly used to define or explain slang words. It is written by the public. So when a word is made up...for instance...when people started saying things were "the bomb"...someone could go to Wikipedia and put what they thought that meant. As many people as want to can enter a definition...but...you also vote on what you believe to be the correct definition and the one with the most votes will be listed first and as the strongest definition. As you know with slang words, there isn't an actual "correct" definition necessarily, but it is nice to know what the general public thinks they mean before you go off using them. Anyway, this is important to you and me because at some point our cute little kiddos are probably going to come home from school and say some word that we've never heard and we are gonna need to know what they are talking about. Hooray...now we can find out without ever having to ask them. Although, there's a good chance even they won't know what it means too! When Brooklyn was only 4 years old, she came home from preschool telling me, "Mom, I had fun today at school playing with all my peeps." I was like, "your what?" As far as I knew, "peeps" were those little sugary bunnies you get at Easter time. However, apparently, "peeps" also now refers to your friends, your buddies.
Okay, so if you've never been there, go check out that website and see what some of the words the kids are using today really mean!
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
I feel dumb asking this, but.....
Hey ya'll. So, I've been shopping around at T-Mobile.com for a new ringtone. I have a few contenders...but I have a question. I don't know who to ask this to...so I am just gonna put it out there for the whole wide world to read (as if everyone reads my blog--ha ha) but anyway, and see what ya'll think.
7 comments:
- mr zig said...
I say go with Brick House. I think don't think people will really think about the meaning of the song when they hear it... in most cases they will think - Hey, cool song! - or Hey, I remember that song! -
Currently I have a ringtone that sings "I got my Mojo Working Babe, and i'm going ta try it on you...." - See, I'm a married man, and no, i'm not going to try to work my Mojo on anyway, and I don't think people think that... its just a cool song as my rington. Having said all that I am not about to have "gangster rap" with swear words as my ringtone because THAT probably would say something about me that I wouldn't want it to say.
Sometimes I think as christians we can just enjoy songs for songs and we don't always have to agree with the "lifestyle" of the artist, or even with the message of the song.
Thats what I think :)
- Jenelle said...
If you wouldn't want your kids singing the lyrics, I wouldn't use it. That's my test.
- Unknown said...
Hmmm... I never really thought much about it before. I've always just used the ring tones provided. But, I did feel pretty special when my husband chose Johnny Cash "Because you're mine, I walk the line" for his ring tone. So, I guess, without realizing it, the ring tone does mean something to me.
I've always used Wikipedia to look up information about famous people. Never even thought of looking up slang words... thanks for the heads up! :)
- Logzie said...
Girl...I think...you think TOO much! HA! *smile*
I say you do what you want to do. The Holy Spirit will convict you if you are doing something you shouldn't. Who cares what others think?
I agree with Zig that we can enjoy songs for songs and don't always have to agree with the lifestyle of the artist etc. and then couple that with what Jenelle said about watching what your children listen to...just like movies. You wouldn't watch a nasty violent movie but you would watch something that maybe your children shouldn't but that's ok b/c your an adult.
I don't know...I don't do anything with ring tones...just don't have the time...but I would say you chose whatever song you want to and enjoy it!
- KC said...
I just always use the ring tones that come with my phone. I have never even thought about "buying" a ring tone. I did hear someones the other day and it was "Bad Boys, Bad Boys, whatcha gonna do?" I thought, "That's cool!" (Especially with Stephen's profession).
But I would be afraid that I would forget to turn my ringer off before church and be sitting there, and all of the sudden some song start playing out of my purse! haha
Ok, am I just old fashioned or what? You have me filling really "out dated"! haha Yes I know, that big 3-0 is less than a month away now! haha
- KC said...
sorry, forgot something!
Girl, if you want "Brickhouse", go for it. That is a fun upbeat song. If I heard that one someone's phone, I wouldn't think "who does she think she is?" I would think "Cool! How do I get that on my phone?!" haha :)
- Jen said...
thanks ya'll! I went with Brick house and I love it! You guys are the best!
Love, Jen


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Photograph of the Everett House. Built 1745 by Robert Oliver. He was a West India Merchant, and had African slaves for sale on this estate. It was also the birthplace of the Honorable Edward Everett. Published in Official Program, Dorchester Day, Saturday, June 7th, 1913.
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CHAPEL HILL, NC (AP) — Chicago Bears defensive end Julius Peppers has donated $250,000 to the University of North Carolina for scholarships.
The school said Monday that Peppers' donation goes to a fund that supports African-American students.
The donation comes after Peppers' transcript was posted on a school website. The transcript showed Peppers was barely academically eligible while he played football in Chapel Hill from 1999 to 2001.
Peppers last week confirmed the transcript was his but questioned why it was released. School officials have not confirmed it was his, but are investigating how the transcript was posted on the website.
Peppers had made a $100,000 donation to the same fund in 2009.
Peppers was an African and Afro-American Studies major who did not graduate, leaving school after the 2001 football season.
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In a recent wide-ranging interview with AdvisorOne, two of the top executives at the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Marv Tuttle, executive director and CEO, and Paul Auslander, FPA's president, talked about the top issues facing advisors.
They focused on the SEC's attempts to put brokers under a fiduciary mandate, the aging of the profession and its lack of diversity, the importance of practice management and succession planning, as well as how the younger generation of planners hold the key to moving the industry forward.
Regarding whether the Securities and Exchange Commission's attempts to write a fiduciary rule will eventually be unveiled, Auslander says he's confident that the train has "already left the station;" now "it's just how it applies." SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro has said she is hopeful the SEC can release a fiduciary duty proposal this year.
Says Auslander: the debate now is "how [a fiduciary duty for advice givers] is going to be applied—and there are many different iterations."
A fiduciary duty "for all business models is the big challenge, but I think we can get it right," Auslander said. "At the end of the day, [serving in a fiduciary capacity] is compensation neutral. You can be a fiduciary if you're a commission broker or a fee-only planner. All forms of the profession have a potential for conflict."
Both Auslander and Tuttle agreed that two pressing issues for the industry are practice management and succession planning. The FPA, Tuttle said, is putting "a greater focus on practice management, from A to Z" as well as how succession planning plays into that. Tuttle said an area where FPA "can excel" is in practice and business management. "That's where we're spending a lot of time to put some shape to being a go-to resource for financial planners and maybe others that can benefit from a professional standards standpoint."
Auslander lamented the fact that FPA is "tackling these issues of succession planning and practice management within our association maybe later than we should have."
While the advisory industry as a whole is still unprepared to hand their practices to a successor, "there are a few cases where some folks have really thought it through," Tuttle said, "but that's the exception rather than the rule."
Tuttle conceded, too, that the industry is still in the early stages of "examining and seeing where we can make a difference in the diversity of those who practice financial planning and those who are receiving financial planning."
The industry is still predominantly made up of white males—with only 23% of FPA's members being women. "If we want to be seen as a profession, we have to figure out how to deliver this [financial planning] benefit to various segments of society," Tuttle said. The ratio of male and female financial planning practitioners needs to be closer to "50-50."
Auslander added that while more women are entering the industry in the U.S., Japan and China have the U.S. beat in that "most of their planners and CFPs are women."
With the average age of FPA members being 56, Tuttle also noted the importance the younger generation plays in shaping the profession. "The younger generation is the one that is going to make financial planning stick," he said.


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Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich will buy a stake in miner Norilsk Nickel to end a long-running feud between two fellow oligarchs.
Rusal, the aluminum producer owned by Oleg Deripaska, and Interros, an investment vehicle of Vladimir Potanin, said in a joint statement on Tuesday that they have resolved their 4-year feud over its cash flows by inviting Roman Abramovich in as a partner. Abramovich would buy 7 percent for an unspecified amount from Norilsk subsidiaries.
Deripaska owns 25 percent in Norilsk while Potanin holds 28 percent in the world's largest nickel producer. The two also agreed for Potanin to take over as chief executive, replacing Vladimir Strzhalkovsky whom Deripaska has strongly opposed.
Deripaska and Potanin would call an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to elect a new board.


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The Source of Perfect Peace
February 17, 2015
"You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." - Isaiah 26:3
If you are not careful, when you think about perfect peace, you may think, "What must I do to be peaceful?" This is the wrong way to think. There is only one way you can have true genuine peace. It is not found in your position, in your possessions, or in your popularity, it comes from a person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
We know that scripture proves over and over again that God is exactly who He says He is and He will do everything He says He will do. If you will think of God as living inside of you, you will have His peace because He is inside of you and He is your peace.
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Venture with Tata group competitive collaboration: SIAMonday, June 09, 2014 l Source: PTI
Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA), which is in the process of launching a full service carrier in a 49:51 joint venture (JV) with the Tata group, has said its partnership with the latter is a competitive collaboration. "I think there is some compatibility obviously in the relationship... There is competitive collaboration and adversarial competition," SIA senior vice-president for product services Tan Pee Teck said.
He was responding to a question as to what kind of synergy does the SIA look at its JV partner Tata, which has also invested in no-frills carrier AirAsia India. Noting that Tatas have seen an opportunity in new areas of business by collaborating with SIA, Teck said, "I think you probably know who our adversaries are in the aviation world. Everyone is looking for growth in their businesses." It may be noted here that domestic airlines body Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) has opposed the entry of the new carrier and has moved the Delhi high court, seeking quashing of approvals being granted to commence its air transport operation.
Teck said the Tatas have their own business plans as far as the domestic operations of the proposed airline is concerned, and at this stage, the SIA on its part was "extending its expertise" to the venture. The Tata-SIA airline submitted its application for the grant of air operator's permit (AOP or flying licence) in April to aviation regulator the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The AOP would enable it to provide scheduled air transport services in the country. After receiving the application, the DGCA had last month issued a public notice seeking objections, if any, to the grant of flying permit to Tata-SIA.
The airline, which would use A 320-200 aircraft and A320-200 (Neo), proposes to start operations by September and plans to operate from Delhi as its hub to Mumbai, Goa, Patna, Chandigarh, Srinagar, Hyderabad and Bangalore in its first year of operations. Initially, the carrier plans to operate two flights a day to Mumbai, with one of them going further to Goa. The initial phase would also see two flights a day each to Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. Besides the major metros, the proposed airline would also connect Srinagar, Patna, Chandigarh and Jammu.
Under its aggressive expansion plans, the Tata-SIA JV proposes to add destinations like Chennai, Pune, Lucknow, Varanasi, Jaipur, Kolkata, Amritsar, Bagdogra, Indore and Cochin within the first four years of operations. Tata-SIA has also disclosed its four-year operational plan to the government. In the first year of operations, it will mount 87 flights a week to 11 destinations.
This will be gradually scaled up to 301 flights and 21 destinations in the fourth year of operations. In its filing before the DGCA, the airline said it would initially engage in domestic and eventually launch international air services, apart from cargo handling, renting and leasing (except financial leasing) of aircraft and other services incidental to air transport services.


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Within the past four or five years, there has been an alarming number of instances where citizens come into contact with police officers that leads to arrests based on misinformation regarding Texas failure to ID statutes. More surprising is the lack of training for law enforcement officers on the specific instances in which they can make a valid arrest based on a citizen's refusal to produce a valid form of identification.
What this article aims to do is provide a statutory analysis for the instances in which a Texas citizen is required to produce identification to law enforcement, and the specific instances in which law enforcement may make a justifiable arrest based on a citizen's failure to produce identification under the current Texas failure to ID statutes.
Background of Texas Failure to ID Statutes
From a statutory standpoint, Section 38.02 of the Texas Penal Code is fairly simple. Section 38.02(a) provides that if a law enforcement officer places a citizen under arrest and they fail to provide their name, date of birth, or residence address, the law enforcement officer can additionally charge the citizen with a Class C misdemeanor for failure to ID. See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 38.02(c)(1).
Now, the caveat is the failure to ID charge can be raised to a Class B misdemeanor if the citizen being lawfully arrested has outstanding warrants. Remember, "outstanding warrants" includes traffic warrants, such as failures to appear on traffic tickets. See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 38.02(c)(2). What this means is that if you forgot to pay a speed ticket two months ago and you get pulled over again, it's better to identify yourself and not pick up a Class B misdemeanor for failing to ID.
Looking to Section 38.02(b) of Texas Penal Code, a citizen can be arrested for failure to ID if the citizen intentionally gives a false name, date of birth, or residential address to a law enforcement officer when the citizen is lawfully under arrest or under lawful detention. The penalty for this charge is a Class B misdemeanor if a citizen does not have active warrants. See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 38.02(d)(1). So, if you get pulled over and decide to give a fake name and you don't have active warrants, you'll likely get charged with a Class B misdemeanor for failing to ID because you gave false information.
Again, the caveat is the failure to ID charge based on giving false information can be raised to a Class A misdemeanor if the citizen has outstanding warrants. See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 38.02(d)(2).
Current Issues With Texas Failure to ID Statutes
As an attorney, charges pertaining to Section 38.02(b) are the most common our office encounters. Typically, a law enforcement officer will initiate contact with a citizen and the citizen will give the identifying information of a friend, family member, or a completely false name due to the fact that they have active warrants. Once again, this causes more trouble than it is worth for the citizen, especially if the warrants are for traffic violations only, as the citizen will then be facing an additional Class A misdemeanor.
One would think that this statute is fairly clear. However, the number of false arrest claims for failure to ID are alarming and unfortunately an element of contact with law enforcement in the state of the Texas. It appears that some police officers in Texas believe they have the universal right to identify anyone, at any time, for any reason, whether or not they have a reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
In the past, the language of Section 38.02(a) was vague enough to render a conclusion that law enforcement officers could request identification from citizens at any time and for any reason. However, in Brown v. Texas, the Court ruled that Texas Penal Code Ann. Section 38.02 (a), as enacted by the Texas legislature in 1974, was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment because it allowed an officer to stop and demand identification of an individual without any specific basis or reasonable belief that he was involved in criminal activity." See Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47 (1979). See also Weddle v. Ferrell, No. 3:99-CV-0453-G, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2659, 2000 WL 256891 (N.D. Tex. 2000).
Still, in 2017, police officers often demand identification and threaten to make arrests (and often do) without any valid statutory basis. However, Texas courts have repeatedly struck down this incorrect application of Texas failure to ID statutes as a violation of the Fourth Amendment in both the civil and criminal context.
In 1981, the Southern District of Texas ruled that a defendant was arrested and subsequently convicted due to their refusal to answer an officer's questions regarding identification. The Southern District went further to state that this type of behavior by law enforcement is "impermissible even in the context of a lawful investigatory stop." See Spring v. Caldwell, 516 F. Supp. 1223 (S.D. Tex. 1981), reversed on other grounds 692 F.2d 994 (5th Cir. 1982).
Fail to ID and the Rights of Passengers
But, you may be asking, does a police officer have the right to require identification for passengers in a vehicle? In 1984, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that a police officer cannot require identification of an occupant of a vehicle, who is not the driver, without a legal basis for demanding it. See Lewis v. State, 664 S.W.2d 345 (Tex. Crim. App. 1984).
To further clarify the rights of passengers, in 2007, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that, "Officers have the right to conduct an investigation of a driver following a traffic violation, but do not have authority to investigate a passenger without reasonable suspicion." See St. George v. State, 237 S.W.3d 720 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007) (holding that arrest of passenger for failure to identify not valid absent legal detention).
Are You Required to Show ID While Driving?
So, this brings up a final question: do you have to provide identification if you are driving a vehicle? Based on the previous case and statutory language in the Texas Transportation Code, you must provide identification if you are driving a motor vehicle, or risk a criminal penalty for failing to ID. Specifically, we need to look at Sec. 521.021 and 521.025 of the Texas Transportation Code for guidance.
Breaking the Transportation Code down, Sec. 521.021 indicates that we can't drive on a Texas highway without a driver's license. Sec. 521.025 provides the criminal penalty for failing to either have a driver's license and/or failing to show it to a police officer or magistrate. Essentially, it is a crime for either not having a driver's license or failing to ID if requested by a police officer or magistrate.
According to the Transportation Code, it is a Class C misdemeanor for the first and second occurrence within a year if you fail to provide an ID if you are driving and stopped by law enforcement. Furthermore, if you have a third occurrence where you fail to provide a driver's license, you can face up to 6 months in jail and a fine, a Class B misdemeanor.
However, a defendant has a valid defense under Sec. 521.025(d) if they had a valid driver's license at the time of the traffic stop and bring the identification to court. But remember, you will still be charged an administrative fee if you fail to ID and choose to exercise this defense at your court date.
So, how does the Texas failure to ID statutes in the Penal Code coincide with the Transportation Code? Technically, you can still be charged under the Texas Penal Code's failure to ID statutes if you are pulled over for a traffic stop (a lawful detention) and give false information to the police officer.
Additionally, the Supreme Court in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista has affirmed that a police officer may arrest a defendant for a Class C misdemeanor. See Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, 532 U.S. 318, 319 (2001). However, Section 543.002 – 04 of the Texas Transportation Code indicate that an officer may not arrest a person charged with speeding or a violation of the open container statutes in Section 49.03 of the Texas Penal Code.
What this essentially means is you can refuse to ID as a driver of a motor vehicle, get cited AND arrested for Failing to Produce a Driver's License (Tex. Trans. Code – Class C). Furthermore, if you continue to fail to ID after the officer has lawfully placed you under arrest (either via citation or actually taking you before a magistrate) for the aforementioned charge, you can be subsequently charged for failure to ID under Texas Penal Code Sec. 38.02(a). Basically, you'll be charged for the failure to produce a driver's license (Class C) AND charged with Failure to ID under Sec. 38 of the Texas Penal Code (Class C if you don't have warrants, and Class B if you do have warrants).


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QUACK from album: OVATION
OVATION is MK-O debut album
Released in December 2006 by Hitch-Hyke
Μουσική: Μαρίνα Καναβάκη & Oannes [Σωκράτης Παπαχατζήςς
Music composed, arranged and performed by Marina Kanavaki & Oannes [MK-O]
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MK-O is Marina Kanavaki & Oannes The acquaintance of the two musicians in 2000, led to a fruitful collaboration. The first outcome of this was the rearranged version of Marina's first album "Pote & Tipota" , in 2004 . Today, as a duet [MK-O], are working on a series of albums, first of which was OVATION, their debut album, released in December 2006 by Hitch-Hyke. The multitude of musical influences and the broad working field creates an adventurous listening, hard to categorize. Extended instrumental arrangements coexist with lyrical songs. Rock, classical, techno, psychedelia, industrial, acoustic, electric and electronic instruments as well as a palette of samples varying from from Cesar Franck to Son House, Pink Floyd and Ministry, give a brief idea of the sound of this album. Ovation has been welcomed enthusiastically by the greek press & audience. Their second 2CD album UNREEL was released October 13th 2008 by Hitch Hyke. BLUES FOR THE WHITE NIGGER is their third album, released April 2011 by Puzzlemusik. 4th album, ΑΙΘΕΡΑΣ [Ether] was released March 2015.
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Why is it that the best rap songs, always, are ones where lady rappers talk back to guy rappers on the track? Ones where the women show up the men? My favorite is probably 'Don't Fight The Feeling' by Too $hort with two girls from the Danger Zone label, Entice and Barbie.
Basically, Too $hort gets to do his playboy persona, and then the two girls cut him down for it. You almost never get this kind of act on rap tracks, and it's a shame.


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Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk
On View: February 1-April 28, 2006
Reception: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 5:00 PM
Lecture: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 6:00 PM with Irvin Ungar, Szyk Society Curator
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum presents...
Artist's Panel: April 26 at 7 pm
Moderator: Arie Kaplan, MAD Magazine writer & screenwriter
Panelists/Graphic Artists: Joe Kubert, Peter Kuper, James Sturm
The Jewish Graphic Novel
March 7-June 30, 2006
The Jewish Graphic Novel, an exhibition where image and text are linked in a powerful form of contemporary art, features the original works of three generations of pioneering graphic novelists, from the late Will Eisner and Joe Kubert, to second generation artists Peter Kuper and James Sturm, and the newcomer J.T. Waldman. Graphic novels represent an important genre in artistic expression and assert the intensity of word and image in conveying narratives that speak eloquently to the contemporary viewer. Reflecting the Jewish heritage of many of the founders of the American comics and cartooning art forms, this exhibition focuses on artists whose works are based on Jewish historical experience or Jewish literary sources and who tackle the themes of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, belief, and survival. Their visual narratives of human experience and historical jeopardy are gritty, realistic, and raw. Humor, irony, and fantastic imagination trigger a visceral reaction from the viewer.
The Jewish Graphic Novels highlighted in this exhibition have been selected for their intense visual elucidation of Jewish historic and literary events," explains Laura Kruger, Curator. "The artists combine intense illustration with searing social issues. Each of these artists reveals an aspect of Jewish social history, literature, traditional text, and mythic heroism through their own unique work."
The late Will Eisner coined the term 'graphic novel.' He used the phrase 'sequential art' to describe the visual flow of ideas across the page. A master of the graphic novel field and mentor to generations of comic book and graphic artists, he authored A Contract With God, Fagin the Jew, The Name of the Game and The Protocols of Zion. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, he touched every nerve of social consciousness and Jewish history.
Joe Kubert, has been working for more than 50 years in both the comic book industry and the graphic novel genre. He is featured in this exhibition with four searing works. Yossel, April 1943, depicts the life of a young boy in the final days of the Warsaw ghetto. In Jew Gangster, Kubert traces the history of Murder, Inc. in Brooklyn circa 1930. Growing out of the despair of the depression he creates a retaliatory aggressor rather than the meek victim. Currently, Kubert has revived a comic book creation of his, Sgt. Rock, who together with his troops goes into Vilnus, Lithuania in 1940 to bear witness to the atrocities and to rescue the Rabbi who will tell the true tale of the victimization of the Jews.
Peter Kuper uses The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and other of Kafka's short stories as the bases for his own landmark graphic work. Kuper's darkly-humored comics express adaptations of Kafka's works into graphic novels that merge American cartooning with German Expressionism. Kuper adapts the nine tales of paranoia and alienation in Kafka's Give It Up: And Other Short Stories to black-and-white comics. Kuper is challenged by the complexity of human decisions and in The System, he quotes from William Blake, Alexander Pope, and Darwin to create a 'flow chart' of the parallels, coincidences and interconnections of urban life.
James Sturm has taken the historical episode of an evangelical group of baseball players from the early 1920's who play under the team name of The House of David. When these players fall into a losing streak they bring to life a 'golem,' a mighty hitter, in hope that they will be delivered, like the 19th century Jews of Prague, to victory.
JT Waldman's interpretation of the biblical story, Megillat Esther, or The Book of Esther, is the basis for his just-published graphic novel of assimilation, oppression, self-defense, and vindication. Throughout the ages artists have illustrated the story of King Ahashverosh, Queen Esther, her Uncle Mordechai and their enemy Haman. Visually translating the text into dramatic, often violent, images, Waldman contributes to this continuing tradition.
Published works by the artists will be available for purchase in the exhibition or by contacting Rachel Litcofsky at firstname.lastname@example.com or 212-824-2205.
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum The Brookdale Center One West 4th Street New York 10012-1186 (Broadway and Mercer)
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