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I'm getting this by:
a. Loading a project (and doing nothing else)
b. Saving the project after it has loaded
2.0.0. build 341
OSX Lion 10.7.3
Is there anything I can look into to figure out what the offender might be? A bit harrowing, as I'd entrusted the creation of a soon-to-hit-production app to the designer (despite the warnings of course, which I understand).
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3HO Yoga Center Partner, PranaShanti, won the 2010 Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Award. The Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Awards is an annual celebration of the best of the best that the Ottawa business community has to offer. It is an honor to win this prestigious award and be included as one of the outstanding businesses in Ottawa.
For Devinder Kaur, being named as winner felt like a moment in Hollywood. "I felt like I was winning an Oscar," enthuses Devinder Kaur, who received the 'New Business of the Year 2010 Silver Award' on November 25, 2010 for her business, the PranaShanti Yoga Centre. "It was a big celebration - there were about 600 people at the gala dinner and as a winner, I was presented with a really beautiful crystal award." PranaShanti Yoga Centre was selected out of a wide variety of business based on performance in a number of areas, such as financial growth, job creation, community involvement, and environmental practices. Located at 52 Armstrong Street in the Hintonburg area of Ottawa, the PranaShanti Yoga Centre offers 70+ different yoga classes per week. "My thinking in offering so many classes is 'Why limit ourselves?", says Kaur, who has practised yoga for over 15 years. "If it's uplifting, it's going to touch somebody."
PranaShanti Yoga offers yoga classes for all levels, from beginner to advance, in over 26 different yoga disciplines. As a full service yoga centre, PranaShanti Yoga offers a variety of classes, specialty workshops and Yoga Teacher Training Program throughout the year. With fully certified and internationally recognized yoga teachers, students begin their yoga practice from the moment they walk through the door.
"PranaShanti Yoga Centre opened October 6, 2008 to serve the community through professional health and wellness services," says Devinder Kaur. "PranaShanti quickly established itself as one of the largest Yoga Centres in Ottawa, offering 70+ yoga classes and events per week. Providing internationally recognized Yoga Teacher Training programs, PranaShanti is a Yoga Alliance registered school, and a certified private educational institution by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). PranaShanti is eco-friendly with 3 yoga rooms, change rooms, tea/juice bar, boutique, parking, bike racks and bus access. PranaShanti employs 35 Teachers, 1 full-time Manager, 6 part-time Receptionists.
"The advice that I received that proved to be invaluable when I was establishing my business was that when making decisions, be neutral and not emotionally attached to the outcome. This has allowed me to look objectively at how my business needs to operate and to be patient, evaluate the results, and make the right changes only when needed. This advice was given to me by one of my mentors, a long time friend and self-employed business entrepreneur. Mentoring is very important to me because it provides a way to share wisdom on an ongoing basis. I have learned many skills from my mentor that would have taken me much longer on my own. We never stop learning and having the support from a mentor is invaluable for personal and business growth and evolution.
"The biggest hurdle I had to overcome to successfully launch my company was in the initial staffing of receptionists and teachers. I place a strong emphasis on offering a high level of customer service and creating and fostering relationships with our customers in order to build community. Prior to opening PranaShanti I knew it was going to be challenging to locate reception staff and teachers that were skilled and willing to sign on with a new business. Over the course of the last 2 years I have continued to refine my recruiting approach, I have developed a three week on the job training program for receptionists and created a method to screen teachers to ensure they have the skills our customers have come to expect and enjoy.
"PranaShanti Yoga Centre is a very social business and an active and important part of my business is creating and building relationships. The majority of our customers visit the virtual PranaShanti first before coming to take a class or participate in an event. The online presence and use of social media is a natural communication medium for my business. The use of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Constant Contact and other social media applications in my marketing strategy has allowed for the expansion of my existing marketing tools and to reach, communicate and connect with existing and new customers more easily and frequently. The result is more customers through the door attending classes and events."
Devinder Kaur (Alison Finney), Owner and Director
PranaShanti Yoga Centre
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- Mercedes news
Wolff joins Mercedes and invests in F1 team
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Toto Wolff has become an executive director of the Mercedes Formula One team and is set to become a shareholder.
Wolff has left Williams, in which he is also a shareholder, to join Mercedes where he will acquire a "significant minority interest". He will become executive director of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd and will complete the F1 team's management line-up alongside Ross Brawn and three-time champion Niki Lauda, who is also set to become a shareholder in the team.
Wolff will take over the coordination of all Mercedes-Benz motorsport activities, a responsibility previously held by Norbert Haug.
"As an entrepreneur, investor and motorsport manager, Toto Wolff has proven that this sport runs in his blood; at the same time, he is also well aware of the economic necessities of the business, "Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars said. "With Toto Wolff, we have gained for our Formula One team not only an experienced motorsport specialist, but also a longstanding enthusiast of the Mercedes-Benz brand. Together with him and Niki Lauda, we will further develop our motorsport activities and guide our Silver Arrows into the next era."
Wolff is also a shareholder in HWA, which runs Mercedes' DTM team, and said he is looking forward to upping his involvement in Mercedes' motorsport activities.
"Mercedes is one of the most important participants in motorsport worldwide," he said. "I am not only a big fan, but also a longstanding friend and enthusiast of the brand. I am looking forward to the challenge and, along with preparing for a successful racing season, also want to focus on the targeted promotion of new talent.
"I am leaving Williams on good terms and I will miss the team and friends I have made there. I'd also like to wish Frank and the whole of Williams the best of luck for the future."


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Oklahoma to Opt Out of PARCC Common-Core Tests
Oklahoma state Superintendent Janet Barresi signaled yesterday that the state will not use the common-core assessments being developed by the PARCC testing consortium and will work on its own with a testing company to develop tests pegged to the math and literacy standards, the Tulsa World reports.
The news comes several months after Alabama announced that it was withdrawing from both state testing consortia that have been working, supported by more than $350 million in federal dollars, to develop assessments aligned with the common-core standards.
Oklahoma, however, may well remain a member of the PARCC consortium. It became a "governing state" in 2011. It still has the option to remain a "participating state."
"We do not anticipate withdrawing from the consortium altogether but those details are still being determined," said department spokeswoman Tricia Pemberton in an email. There are still benefits to remaining a participating member, including access to information and expertise from the consortium.
Including Oklahoma, PARCC, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, now counts 21 state members, plus the District of Columbia. (All but three are governing states.) The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium currently has 25 member states, according to its website.
In addition, Florida, another PARCC member state, has signaled in recent months that it's looking at alternatives to the PARCC assessment system.
As my colleague Catherine Gewertzwho usually covers the common-core testing work for EdWeekhas written, steps such as that just taken by Oklahoma are likely to be of deep concern to both testing consortia as they seek to maintain the viability of their joint testing programs. For example, ACT Inc. is developing an alternative common-core assessment. (In fact, Alabama is going with this option.)
Barresi made clear that Oklahoma's action would not push back the timing for her state's common-core testing, the Tulsa World reports. It is still expected to begin with the 2014-15 academic year.
"We came to this decision after many months of deliberation, listening to classroom teachers, curriculum directors, superintendents, and visiting with legislative leadership and the governor's office," Barresi told the Tulsa World.
She cited concerns about the lack of capacity of many districts to handle technological demands of the assessments, as well as the time and costs involved.
"If we move ahead with this, we are going to be asking the state to drink a milkshake using a cocktail straw," she told the Tulsa World.
She also made reference to some of the recent technical problems that temporarily brought to a halt standardized testing in Oklahoma this spring.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this blog post incorrectly stated that Oklahoma is planning to withdraw from the PARCC consortium.


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WSJ's Photos of the Day - March 29, 2013
In today's pictures, men bathe in Berlin, rescuers search for survivors in a collapsed building in Tanzania, and people pray in the streets of Bangladesh, and more.
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The nature of the Daily Dose dictates that I write just about every word after all the games are over, but I'll admit that it seemed like today's edition would be a little different.
You see, I wanted to make this my opus about how NHL teams are wildly undervaluing backup goalies - and competition in general - after seeing Pekka Rinne go out for a month with a hip infection (yeesh), giving way to green newcomers Carter Hutton and Magnus Hellberg. So somewhere in the Google Drive universe, there's a 1.0 version of this column that will never see the light of day.
(Oh, the parenthetical asides that you'll never read. Tragic, I know.)
That situation is still going to be one of my primary focuses tonight, but so many bad things happened to goalies that a sweeping statement seemed poorly timed. That being said, I think my message for general managers should apply to reeling fantasy owners of Pekka Rinne, Cam Ward and Josh Harding:
Embrace competition and greed; acknowledge the undeniable instability of the goaltending position while others become irrelevant and stagnant. Chew on this truth from 2013:
All four goalies in the Stanley Cup Final - Corey Crawford, Tuukka Rask, Ray Emery and Anton Khudobin - were fighting for new contracts and solidified roles. The 2013 Vezina winner (Sergei Bobrovsky) was also in a contract year last season, plus he was traded from a team that's been desperate for goaltending for decades. That represents the most extreme example of such motivation driving goalies, but generally speaking, guys with a lot to gain have gone deeper in the playoffs that workhorses who knew they'd retain big contracts and starting jobs whether they won or lost.
Actually, if you want more food for thought on that, click here.
Let all of that soak in when you think that you either a) have all the "sure-things" in net or b) feel hopeless. The most important position in hockey also tends to be the least predictable, so be flexible.
Editor's Note: Rotoworld's partner FanDuel is hosting a one-day $2,500 Fantasy Hockey league tonight (Friday). It's just $10 to join and first prize is $500. Starts at 7pm ET. Here's the link.
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Oh, and there's still plenty of time to join a Yahoo! Hockey Pool, so get on that.
You never know when a team will do a 180, but it sounds like the Predators are going to stick "in-organization" with their Rinne replacement, which opens up quite the head-scratcher between two relative unknowns in Carter Hutton and Magnus Hellberg. Here's a quick rundown of both goalies' merits and questions.
Hutton (17 percent owned) - Wow, I guess Yahoo owners are already stocking up on Rinne replacements like an apocalypse prepper stocks up on water in weird ways. I know 17 percent isn't THAT much, but when you consider how desirable-yet-ignored a gem like Marcus Johansson is (only 19 percent owned … seriously, wake up), my confidence in how proactive fantasy owners tend to be is a bit low.
Anyway, coming into Thursday night, the impression I got from Predators bloggers/onlookers on Twitter was that Magnus Hellberg might be the guy to get over the long haul of the month, but Hutton's doing some amazing things with his chances. So maybe it's a tossup.
In some mop-up duty in a loss to the St. Louis Blues plus two wins against the Winnipeg Jets, the 27-year-old has stopped 93 out of 97 shots, giving him a 2-0-0 record with a .959 save percentage and 1.37 GAA. His sample size is profoundly small, yet he's at least nailing his audition so far.
You'd have to think that Hutton has the edge on Hellberg in the short-term.
Hellberg (1 percent) - The reason people are excited about Hellberg - aside from the fact that he boasts a name that could work for a James Bond villain - is that he's excelled at other levels so far:
2010-11 (Almtuna IS): .935 save percentage in 31 games
2011-12 (Forlunda HC): .904 in 17 games
2012-13 (Milwaukee, AHL): .924 in 39 games
That's pretty good stuff, but the organization originally determined that he wasn't quite ready for the NHL in 2013-14. He's enough of an unknown quantity that I definitely wouldn't add him right now - while Hutton is worth at least a temporary spot behind that fantastic Predators defense and that hot start - but he could be interesting to watch.
I'd wager that both goalies will face some ups and downs because of a schedule that will ramp up in difficulty in a big way soon. The Predators host the challenging St. Louis Blues in Nashville on Saturday and then go through a seven-game road trip and nine of 10 games away from home through Nov. 21.
My guess is Pekka Rinne would even struggle in that span - I like the big Finn, but he hasn't played like a $7 million goalie since getting paid that way - so imagine two guys who've barely faced NHL shooters at this point in their careers facing such a run? Trial by living-from-a-suitcase fire.
Overall, I'd circle back to Hutton being a good short-term add, but make no mistake about it: the Predators approach a stretch as uncertain as they can probably remember.
If I were the Carolina Hurricanes, I'd either spend double on my training staff or hire an exorcist.
This team keeps getting ravaged by injuries, and the goaltending position is no exception; Cam Ward either re-injured his knee or suffered a different lower-body injury, but he's now out three-to-four weeks. That's a pretty brutal break since strong backup Anton Khudobin's been banged up for a while now and isn't expected to be back until late October/early November.
Khudobin (7-percent owned) is listed as on the IR right now, so if you have an open spot, I'd recommend stashing him. Khudobin's slender NHL resume is no-doubt bolstered by playing for the Minnesota Wild and behind Zdeno Chara, but he had a nice start in Carolina and has a .932 career save percentage. Time will probably flatten that mark out, but why not see if he's the real deal for a couple weeks before Ward comes back? I'm not saying you should sacrifice a different player if you have someone else on the IR, but if you're lucky to be free there, go for it.
As far as Carolina's other two options - Justin Peters and Mike Murphy - I don't see much potential in either as a short-term add. The Hurricanes are a middle-of-the-pack team, so it's tougher to encourage you to bring a guy in just for filler. Why not get better filler?
(Granted, the lesson of this column is that you never really know with goalies - Steve Mason has a .930 save percentage,* for goodness sakes - so don't ignore them, either.)
How cruel is it that Josh Harding suffered a mystery lower-body injury on the same night that the Minnesota Wild were promoting his charity? Harding's been an absolute gem - a great sight considering his seemingly lost potential due to MS - and now his health is a question mark again.
The Wild have been pretty dominant when it comes to puck possession, though they haven't exactly put the puck in other teams' nets another to provide much margin of error, so the Harding/Niklas Backstrom situation can move the needle quite a bit.
This development cracks the door open that little bit more for Backstrom to reestablish himself as the true No. 1, rather than a threatened starter/platoon mate. The Wild's next injury update is a big deal.
After the jump: quick hits and injury bits.
* - Why not see if Steve Mason can keep up his diamond in the rough act in Philly if you're goalie-needy? He's only owned in 37 percent of leagues. Remember, you can mock the Flyers for putting their eggs in a hole-filled basket goalie-wise while adding Mason because the bar for "third fantasy goalie" is dramatically lower than it is for "No. 1 goalie who is a Hail Mary attempt to save a fledgling general manager's job."
The Kings scored seven goals after juggling their lines, most notably sending Dustin Brown down to the third line for Dwight King, who collected his first career hat trick skating with Anze Kopitar and Justin Williams … I'm surprised to see that David Clarkson ownership only went up from 32 percent to 35, but I expect that to change today as people realize his suspension's over. Grab this 20-30 goal, 200+ SOG and 100+ PIM power forward before it's too late … Alex Ovechkin has 10 goals in 10 games and it's not based on insane puck luck; he's firing away like the guy who was once a no-brainer top pick in fantasy formats as a rarely unstoppable winger (Ovi vs. Crosby is a great debate again, and I consider that delightful) … Kari Lehtonen is back and should be a solid performer until his next lower-body injury … Jonathan Toews got the credit for Tampa Bay's own-goal last night. A gift from the fantasy gods, no doubt (I wonder if this column will come up in Dallas Eakins' "hockey gods" Google Alert feed now) … San Jose lost thanks to David Krejci's fluke goal, but looked absolutely dominant. Jarome Iginla continues to heat up for Boston while Brad Marchand indeed got bumped back up to the Bruins' second line with Loui Eriksson hurt … After a performance like last night's loss to Roberto Luongo's Canucks, I'll have a hard time beating up on the Devils for taking a start from Cory Schneider and giving it to Martin Brodeur. On the bright side, at least the Patrik Elias - Jaromir Jagr combo looks dangerous … Jonas Hiller's struggles are legit. Viktor Fasth should probably get an extra start or two when he's ready to go; we'll see … So, Dany Heatley can at least still score into an empty-net. What a freefall … It's tough to argue with what Alex Chiasson (20 percent owned) is doing in a small sample size of games for the Stars; he has 16 points (including 11 goals) in 16 NHL games. His puck luck has dropped from insane (46.2 in 2012-13) to above average (15.2), so his production seems more legitimate … Brad Richards continues to be a rare bright spot for the Rangers.
INJURIES (full list)
The Bruins confirmed that Loui Eriksson has a "pretty severe" concussion and is out indefinitely. Ugh ...Meanwhile, John Scott will be suspended for "not long enough" ... Lauri Korpikoski is day-to-day with an upper-body injury ... Vincent Lecavalier returned to action. For now ... Joffrey Lupul's day-to-day with a foot problem ... All kinds of issues for Canucks forwards: Jannik Hansen is on the LTIR while Dale Weise and David Booth were injured during Thursday's game.


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A few disappointments this week :
- I was asked for help to teach a former housemate how to play a song for his girlfriend. I thought it was kinda sweet on his behalf. Only thing is.. he dissed me pretty badly on his blog some time ago.
I was willing to do it if he removed my full name from the post. He said he thought of me as a different person now, but he STILL has refused to take it off! Not cool..
- The next biggest downer was that I found some really amazing discounted fares to Australia for about 37,800 yen RETURN.
What's so bad about that? HQ won't grant me leave for the time I want.
It's really disappointing because since I have been in Japan (since 2007), I haven't requested any days off, using four ALP days only when I was sick. Makes one feel like just a number 'round here.
While I have a little reprieve that they have let me taken this Saturday off, giving me a four day weekend, I really wanted to take that time off before Golden Week. It would have helped me even to bring some of my music gear back home.
- That lazy Japanese lard-ass who sold me the Frogskins on Yahoo Auctions still hasn't reciprocated the feedback I promptly gave him to his profile. The sunglasses though are fantastic. No more squinting for me!
- I brought in my Swiss watch for repair once more last Saturday. I can't wait to find out how much they're going to rip me off for that.
The Blues coffee in the vending machine seemed strangely appropriate as I walked home from the station tonight.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Blues Coffee
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New Variable Stars Discovered by the APACHE Survey. II. Results After the Second Observing Season
Photometric Analyses and Spectral Identification of the Early-Spectral Type W UMa Contact Binary V444 Andromedae
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Russell Robb
University of Victoria, Department of Physics and Astronomy, P.O. Box 3055, Station CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada; and Guest Observer, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
Danny R. Faulkner
The Curious Case of ASAS J174600-2321.3: an Eclipsing Symbiotic Nova in Outburst?
Stefan HümmerichStiftstr. 4, Braubach, D-56338, Germany; American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO), Cambridge, MA;
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Recent Maxima of 67 Short Period Pulsating Stars
Gerard Samolyk
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Received January 8, 2015; accepted January 8, 2015
Long Term Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of Semiregular Variable Stars
Robert R. Cadmus, Jr.
Department of Physics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 50112
Received September 12, 2014; revised December 8, 2014; accepted December 9, 2014
Revised Light Elements of 78 Southern Eclipsing Binary Systems
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Jeff Byron18 Albuera Road, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Joint Meeting of the Society for Astronomical Sciences and the American Association of Variable Star Observers, Held in Ontario, California, June 12-14, 2014


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W&M alums present their original work at the Capital Fringe Festival
Working hand-in-hand with College faculty, two groups of students and alumni from William & Mary will premiere their artistic talents on stage at the nation's second largest Fringe Festival. The two plays, Shrewing of the Tamed and Every Night I Die, are both written by alumnae and will run throughout the month of July at the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C.
Francesca Chilcote '11, who received her B.A. in theater with a concentration in acting, along with Laurie Wolf, associate professor and director of William & Mary Theatre, created what they describe as a feminist adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Chilcote, who has been working on the play since September of 2010, also has the starring role as Kate in her take of the play called Shrewing of the Tamed, which premieres on July 13.
"What makes this show special is it was created by just a student and a teacher, and everyone in the show are my closest friends." said Chilcote. "I edited these roles with them in mind. If they weren't in my head in the beginning, they were in my head by the end of the process."
Everyone involved in Shrewing of the Tamed is a Tribe alum. "Everyone down to the guy doing the lighting went to William & Mary," she said.
The message Chilcote wants to send in her play is specific. Rather than changing the way the audience thinks about the original Taming of the Shrew, Chilcote wants to change the way people think about women and men in general after seeing her adaptation.
"I am looking forward to giving people a different perspective on Taming of the Shrew, but hopefully there will be some bleed over into real life as well," said Chilcote.
Amanda Andrei '10, who graduated with a degree in anthropology, wrote the other W&M affiliated play also showcased at the Capital Fringe Festival. Andrei is of Filipino heritage and also participated in a six-month study abroad in the Philippines, which in turn gave her the inspiration to write Every Night I Die.
"When I first wrote this show, I was concerned that the Philippine folklore and culture might render the show inaccessible to audience members," she said. "However, I found out that that is what makes the show unique and special. It turns an otherwise universal story of a broken family and broken souls into an enchanted and symbolic tale. The Philippine culture and land is an integral part of the story, one I hope that enriches people's imaginations and brings new energy and life to the stage."
The cast and crew as well as volunteers for Every Night I Die span an age range from undergraduates, to recent alumni, and include professional performers from the DC-Baltimore area and New York. The shows director, Associate Professor of Theatre Francis Tanglao-Aguas, has been commuting almost daily to D.C. as they rehearse for their premier performance on July 9.
"I am thrilled with this project because it exhibits a pinnacle experience when W&M students collaborate with faculty and an outside territory such as the Philippines," said Tanglao-Aguas.
The Capital Fringe Festival will be going on from July 7-24. Tickets can be purchased at www.capfringe.org.


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Det. Ray Langston Must use Deadly Force for the First Time on "CSI"
Gibbs Is Forced to Make a Decision that Sends Shockwaves Through NCIS
Red John Strikes Again on "The Mentalist"
Horatio Fights to Save Yelina While Delko's Life Hangs in the Balance on "CSI: Miami"
Melinda and Jim Renew Their Wedding Vows on "Ghost Whisperer"
Amita's Kidnapping Leads the "Numb3rs" Team to a Charismatic Sociopath
Danny and Elena Take Their Relationship to a New Level on "Without a Trace"
The "CSI: NY" Team Loses a Member and Another Is Threatened
While the BAU Team Tracks One Serial Killer, Another Returns to Exact His Revenge on a Two-Hour "Criminal Minds" Event
A Killer Commits a Shocking Act Against Det. Rush; the Music of Pearl Jam Is Exclusively Featured in the Two-Part "Cold Case" Finale
"The Unit" Must Locate Nuclear Bombs Targeting Three U.S. Cities
The Laughs
Leonard and Penny Reconsider Their Feelings for One Another on "The Big Bang Theory"
Ted Encourages Barney to Profess His Love to Robin on "How I Met Your Mother"
Mia's Return Makes Charlie Question His Relationship with Chelsea on "Two and a Half Men"
Jeff and Audrey Try to Perk Up Their Sex Life on "Rules of Engagement"
Christine Learns Some Shocking News at the Wedding of New Christine and Richard on "The New Adventures of Old Christine"
Gary and Allison: In the Bedroom Again? on "Gary Unmarried"
The Reality
The Remaining Three Teams Race to the Finish Line in the Season Finale of
"The Amazing Race 14"
The Ultimate Survivor Is Crowned on the Special Two-Hour Finale of
"Survivor: Tocantins"
CBS in May will feature unpredictable season finales, edge of your seat cliffhangers, weddings and relationships hanging in the balance along with the finales of THE AMAZING RACE 14 and SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS.
Guest-starring in CBS's season finales are Daniel Baldwin, Jesse Plemons, Joe Penny and Jessica Tuck (COLD CASE), Cynthia Watros and Gerald McRaney, (CSI), James Callis and Lou Diamond Phillips (NUMB3RS), Martin Landau (WITHOUT A TRACE), Craig T. Nelson (CSI: NY), Scott Bakula, Constance Zimmer and James Lesure (THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE) and Brian Austin Green (CSI: MIAMI).
The following are CBS's May season finales and cliffhangers.
Sunday, May 10 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) THE AMAZING RACE 14-The final three teams race
from Beijing to Maui for the final leg and the chance to claim the $1 million prize. Phil Keoghan hosts.
Sunday, May 3 and Sunday, May 10 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) COLD CASE-The music of Pearl Jam will rock
throughout the two-part sixth season finale episodes. This
marks the first time the series has exclusively showcased
the music of one artist in more than one episode and the first time Pearl Jam has permitted a program to use selections from their entire catalog of music. In the episodes, Rush (Kathryn Morris) and the team delve into the 2005 murder of the first female cadet of a local military school who didn't live beyond her first semester. In Part Two, the stakes of the case are raised after the cadet's unknown killer commits a shocking act against Rush designed to thwart the investigation. Daniel Baldwin ("Homicide: Life on the Streets"), Jesse Plemons ("Friday Night Lights"), Joe Penny ("Riptide") and Jessica Tuck ("Judging Amy") guest star. (Season Finale)
Sunday, May 10 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) THE UNIT-The Unit must locate and diffuse three
sets of dirty bombs headed for unknown locations across the U.S. Meanwhile, the team prepares for a wedding of one Unit member and the end of a marriage for another. (Season Finale)
Monday, May 11 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT) THE BIG BANG THEORY-As he prepares for a three-
month science expedition, Leonard (Johnny Galecki)
and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) reconsider their feelings for one another. (Season Finale)
Wednesday, May 13 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT) THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE-
Christine (Julia Lous-Dreyfus) learns some shocking news about New Christine's father after the two of them rekindle their romance at Richard (Clark Gregg) and New Christine's (Emily Rutherford) wedding. Scott Bakula ("Quantum Leap") returns as Papa Jeff, New Christine's father and Christine's old flame. Constance Zimmer ("Entourage") returns as New Christine's sister. James Lesure ("Las Vegas") guest stars as a wedding guest and potential hook-up for Barb (Wanda Sykes). (Season Finale)
Wednesday, May 13 (8:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT) GARY UNMARRIED-Gary (Jay Mohr) and Allison's
(Paula Marshall) frustrating personal lives lead them back into the bedroom...repeatedly. (Season Finale)
Thursday, May 14 (9:00-10:01 PM, ET/PT) CSI-The CSIs investigate a series of murders tied to a
scam involving valuable poker chips from a long-gone casino and Det. Ray Langston (Laurence Fishburne) must use deadly force for the first time in his career as a CSI. Cynthia Watros ("Lost") and Gerald McRaney ("Jericho") guest star. (Season Finale)
Friday, May 15 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) GHOST WHISPERER-When a ghost pays Melinda
(Jennifer Love Hewitt) an unexpected visit, she worries for her unborn baby. Wedding bells ring for Melinda and Jim (David Conrad). (Season Finale)
Friday, May 15 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) NUMB3RS-When Amita (Navi Rawat) is abducted, Don
(Rob Murrow) and the team's frantic search leads to a charismatic sociopath, but it is up to a distraught Charlie (David Krumholtz) to discover what's behind the suspect's bizarre plans for her. The situation causes Charlie to reassess his relationship and future with Amita. James Callis ("Battlestar Galactica") guest stars as the cult leader. Lou Diamond Phillips ("La Bamba") returns as Agent Ian Edgerton. (Season Finale)
Sunday, May 17 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS--The special two-hour finale
begins with four remaining castaways vying for the $1 million prize and title of "Ultimate Survivor." The finale is followed by a one-hour live reunion show hosted by Jeff Probst.
Monday, May 18 (8:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT) HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER-Ted (Josh Radnor) gives
Barney his blessing to finally profess his love to Robin (Cobie Smulders). (Season Finale)
Monday, May 18 (9:00-9:30 PM, ET/PT) TWO AND A HALF MEN-Charlie (Charlie Sheen)
starts to question his relationship with Chelsea (Jennifer Taylor) when he hears that Mia (Emmanuel Vaugier) is back in town. Meanwhile, when Judith (Marin Hinkle) goes into labor, Charlie, Alan (Jon Cryer) and Herb (Ryan Stiles) rush her to the hospital. (Season Finale).
Monday, May 18 (9:30-10:00 PM, ET/PT) RULES OF ENGAGEMENT-Jeff (Patrick Warburton)
wonders if he and Audrey (Megyn Price) are lacking spontaneity in the bedroom. (Season Finale)
Monday, May 18 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) CSI: MIAMI-Horatio (David Caruso) fights to save
Yelina (Sophia Milos) while Delko (Adam Rodriguez) goes against Calleigh's (Emily Proctor) pleas and helps his dangerous father with life threatening consequences. Brian Austin Green ("Beverly Hills, 90210") guest stars as an alleged carjack victim. (Season Finale)
Tuesday, May 19 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) NCIS-Ziva's (Cote de Pablo) homecoming to Israel with
Gibbs (Mark Harmon) leads to a tense reunion with her father, the enigmatic and powerful head of Mossad. As this delicate situation escalates, Gibbs is forced to make a decision that sends shockwaves through NCIS. Michael Nouri ("Damages") reprises his role as Ziva's father, Mossad Director Eli David. (Season Finale)
Tuesday, May 19 (9:00-10:01 PM, ET/PT) THE MENTALIST- Lisbon (Robin Tunney) suspects that
serial killer Red John is drawing Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) into a trap when the CBI team investigates the murder of a young girl and the abduction of her twin sister. (Season Finale)
Tuesday, May 19 (10:01-11:00 PM, ET/PT) WITHOUT A TRACE- The team searches for a man who
disappears after a late night ocean dive that includes stolen drugs and three dead bodies. Meanwhile, Danny (Enrique Murciano) and Elena (Roselyn Sanchez) take their relationship to another level. Academy Award winner Martin Landau ("Ed Wood") reprises his role as Frank Malone, Jack's father. Adam Kaufman, Poppy Montgomery's real-life boyfriend, reprises his role as Brian Donovan, the father of Samantha's son, Finn. (Season Finale)
Wednesday, May 20 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) CRIMINAL MINDS-The BAU tracks a serial killer who
chooses junkies, prostitutes and the homeless off the streets of Detroit and takes them across the border into Canada. After solving that case, another killer returns to exact his revenge. (Season Finale)
Wednesday, May 20 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) CSI: NY-A member of the team is murdered after a
(Craig T. Nelson) son while he is being transferred from prison to court. And, if that loss isn't enough, the life of another CSI is threatened. (Season Finale)


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This year, during the traditional hand-wringing about the meaning of the season and unbridled materialism, let's mull another thorny question about modern American life: why, in a country whose freedom can be said to be founded on the First Amendment bedrock right to "peaceably assemble," is the realm of our public spaces so impoverished?
Human beings are social creatures. We seek out those with whom we share values and build places where we can learn, worship and play together in community.
At sporting and arts events, we sometimes experience an almost mystical sense of union. And when tragedies befall us we gather to grieve and to create makeshift memorials.
On a local level, when we celebrate, we head downtown to the public square or the plaza to join the crowd. Even so, most spaces we share are graceless and many barely functional. Walking or biking in some parts of San Antonio can be life-threatening, for example, and the most common deployment of landscaping and green space is as useless buffers where no one is tempted to toss a ball or have a picnic.
The presence of people in these places is an afterthought. They are engineered for access (typically by automobile only) and efficiency, not for delight.
But once every 12 months, this all changes. Think of your holiday traditions. Attending the lighting of the tree in Alamo Plaza? A barge ride along the River Walk? Santa at the mall or department store? Los Pastores at Mission San Jose? Shimmering trees on the University of the Incarnate Word campus? Touring decorated yards in Windcrest?
At this time of year, the spaces that we share with others, whether parks, shopping centers, front yards or town squares, play a big role in our celebrations, and we attend to them with diligence.
Most times it can be difficult to engage those outside the fields of architecture and planning in discussions about creating great public places: the issues don't seem pressing, and it is often difficult to make the case that design matters. Questions about scale, rhythm, motif, and massing can seem affected, or trivial.
But during the holidays, even hardened cynics can become converts to the importance of design. We labor over the creation of, and flock to enjoy, temporary environments that capture the beauty, whimsy, majesty and message of the season.
And, as we saw last year when a new approach was taken to the traditional River Walk lights, design does matter, and people do care. Imagine if we could harness this intense interest and bring it to bear on the everyday decisions affecting our public spaces.
"Pedestrian friendly design" and "placemaking" sound jargon-y and complicated to most ears. Their aims are simple though, and recognizable to anyone who has ever illuminated a tree with a strand of lights: to welcome a visitor, to entertain and delight the senses, to create a shared space where magic can happen.
Leilah Powell is the executive director of the Brackenridge Park Conservancy.


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Police ID gunman in deadly Santa Monica rampage
Photo: AP
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Police have identified the gunman who went on a shooting rampage in Southern California that left five people dead.
Santa Monica police Sgt. Richard Lewis says Sunday that 23-year-old John Zawahri killed his father and older brother at their home Friday before going on a shooting spree in the streets and at a nearby college.
The violence ended after the gunman was shot to death by police in a chaotic scene at the Santa Monica College library.
Authorities did not immediately name the shooter or the two men found dead in the house because next of kin was out of the country and hadn't been notified.
Lewis said his name was released Sunday after his mother cut her trip short and came back to the country.


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If you want "more freedom" than the GPL (ie. the freedom to deny equal freedom to other, downstream users), that's fine -- but in that case, you'll have to 'acquire" your base code from people who use a license that lets you deny downstream users those very same rights to the code which you yourself received with the code that you "borrowed". (Or otherwise -- you'll just have to write all "your" code yourself.)
Was someone bitching about "free-loaders"?


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Little Red Genetic Hood
Once upon a time there was a little girl named Little Red Genetic Hood who lived on the edge of a large forest full of endangered male of the species and the rare parthenogenesis.
"Red Genetic Hood lived with a nurture giver whom she sometimes referred to as 'mother', although she didn't mean to imply by this term that she would have thought less of the person if a close biological link did not in fact exist."
On her way to her great-great-great-grandmother's house, the one who had had a brief encounter with some stray DNA, she ran into the Big Bad Ethics Wolf. The Wolf lived in Hill Country, a community deep in the forest. He was on his way to the Carnival to stop the proliferation of DNA testing and return the forest to those days of yesteryear, when love triumphed over all.
Red was recognized by the Wolf as the product of an obsolete sperm donor, the antithesis of all he found wrong with the proliferation of unchecked unfettered genea-genetics.
"Where are you going and what do you have in that basket?" asked the Wolf.
"Why, it's a Maternal Lineage DNA test from Ancestry.com. I'm taking it to my great-great-great-grandmother's house to see what I can find," said Red.
"DNA, Mendelian genetics, mtDNA, nuclear DNA, parthenogenesis, genea-genetics, XX phenotypes, bioethics," the Wolf snarled at Red.
"Oh my, what big words you use," said Little Red Genetic Hood to the Wolf.
"All the better to put the genie back in the bottle," he replied. "Skip Grandma Red, I'm off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of DNA. He's at the Carnival. Perhaps if we go together he can settle all the questions about DNA and Genetic Genealogy that have come out of the forest."
So the Big Bad Ethics Wolf and Little Red Genetic Hood headed hand in hand into the uncharted path of just because you can doesn't always mean you should. See them at the Carnival!
Labels: Big Bad Ethics Wolf, Carnival of Genealogy, Genetic Genealogist, Hill Country, Red Genetic Hood


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***1/2 (out of four)
Listening to Earl Sweatshirt rap sometimes makes it easy to remember all of the garbage that came along with being a teenager. Earl, the youngest member of Odd Future--the one who suddenly disappeared to a Somoan boarding school when he was 16--has always been able to talk [bleep] with the best of them, but since his return early last year his lyrics have often veered toward the personal.
Now 19, Earl has finally released his debut album "Doris," a melancholy collection of 15 songs with mood swings that fit the young emcee. One minute he launches into OF's punky sadism; the next he convinces his mom that he's doing OK and, yes, he's taking this seriously.
Sonically, it might not sound that way: Earl's delivery is slow and slouched, his rhymes somber and his production, mostly done on his own, sounds stilted, uneasy like that of DOOM or Madlib. In that sense, it almost sounds like a mixtape, especially with the way he avoids hooks. But Earl's lurchy boom-bap has never lent itself well to that approach. His growth stays obvious on tracks like "Burgundy," the gorgeous, Pharrell-produced cut that features what Earl has called his favorite verse ever: "Grandma's passing/ But I'm too busy tryna get this f*****' album cracking to see her/ So I apologize in advance if anything should happen/ And my priorities f***** up, I know it, I'm afraid I'm going to blow it."
Other times, when just shooting it with his buddies, like Tyler, the Creator on the screeching "Whoa," or pitched-down stoner raps like "Guild" with Mac Miller, Earl's prodigious rapping talent is flashiest. However, he's never shied away from vivid vignettes of nastiness and can get a little rap-rappity at times for those too twisted by a line like, "The description doesn't fit, if not a synonym of menace, then forget it/ In turn, these critics and interns admitting the [bleep] spit/ It just burn like six furnaces writ it."
"Sunday," a tremendous but lighter cut with Frank Ocean, focuses on the dark side of their L.A. home. Earl's struggling with his work (music), and Frank is slamming Chris Brown, but the song's outro captures "Doris"'s essential attitude--a special kind of youthful, defiance that beautifully struggles with the world around them as much as their place in it: "What good is West Coast weather/ if you're bipolar?/ if I'mma need this sweater, I'd rather be where it's cold."
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From Openmoko
opimd is a PIM suite for FSO.
To get some help, check this mail: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-May/048064.html
At the moment main developer of opimd is dos1. You can find him at IRC on #openmoko-cdevel freenode channel.
Reference client implementation
[1] pim.py is general script which can be used for testing, and to understand how it's done (code) :) ATM it supports querying, adding, editing and deleting contacts, and querying messages. I hope --help say everything about usage :)
Test scripts
opimd-resolve.py is simple script which can resolve given in arguments phone numbers to names from contacts.
pimm-gui.py is ATM some kind of playground for me. It displays messages in elementary Bubbles.
At the moment SIM backends has to be inited manually. You can do it by InitAllSources method ("./pim.py c init" or "./pimm-gui.py init")
API listing
Contact Fields
[3] (obsoleted, needs to be done again)
Message Fields
[4] (obsoleted, needs to be done again)


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As one of two rookies in the starting lineup for New England's season-opening 1-0 loss in Los Angeles on Saturday night, Revolution defender Seth Sinovic felt the weight of opening his professional career in the starting lineup.
He just didn't let the significance of the occasion impact how he performed on the field.
"I got through it in warmups," Sinovic told reporters after the game. "Once the game got going, I knew what I had to do and knew that I couldn't let any nerves get in my way."
Sinovic earned the call at left back as Revolution coach Steve Nicol shuffled his back four to accommodate for the absence of Darrius Barnes (right hip flexor strain). Sinovic built on an impressive training camp by registering a solid performance in his first MLS appearance, though he said he wished his side had managed to figure out a way to snatch some points from the match.
"Obviously we're a little disappointed with the result, but in the second half we started to play a little more and we created a few more chances," Sinovic said. "Personally, it was just exciting being out there."
Fellow rookie starter Zack Schilawski shared those sentiments after playing the full 90 minutes up top. The former Wake Forest striker said he thought the Revs improved considerably after easing their way into the match and finding their feet.
"I think that looking back, it was fun," Schilawski said. "Obviously, we're a little disappointed in the result. It was frustrating at times, but I think that once we settled in, moved the ball around and had a little more possession, it was good."
Second-half substitute Zak Boggs made it a trio of rookies on the field after replacing Sainey Nyassi on the right wing in the 58th minute. Boggs said he relished the opportunity to begin his career in southern California.
"For me personally, it was about just getting my feet under me," Boggs said. "This was my first official game so that was cool and it was a great atmosphere. Hats off to all those other rookies that made their debut. I'd also never played at the Home Depot Center, so that was cool."
In addition to handing three rookies their professional debuts, Nicol selected Joseph Niouky for his first MLS game in central midfield. The Senegalese midfielder earned the call with Shalrie Joseph (right hip flexor strain) sidelined and played the full match in the center of the park.


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Mass Effect Movie
Did Universal just announce the Mass Effect movie's release date?
Universal announced a 2016 release for a "secret" movie today, and it's just possible it might be the long-awaited Mass Effect movie.
Mass Effect Movie headlines
Uncharted movie going well, Metal Gear Solid film 3 years away, Mass Effect 5 years, says producer
Producer Avi Arad has discussed his hand in the Uncharted, Mass Effect and Metal Gear Solid movies at an event in Beijing, and has explained that while games haven't transitioned to film that well so far, he's looking to change that in his upcoming work.
Mass Effect writer offers advice for upcoming movie adaptation
Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn has said filmmakers should focus on the story of humanity's search for a place in the galaxy, which much more intrinsic to what the franchise is than, say, Tali or Garrus. Don't shoot the messenger.
Mass Effect movie "going to be really special", says Hudson
Just a little blip out of BioWare's PAX East panel: Mass Effect series executive producer Casey Hudson made a brief mention of the upcoming Legendary Pictures film adaptation.
Mass Effect movie handed over to new scriptwriter
Legendary Entertainment has given a Mass Effect fan the chance to pen the script for its upcoming adaptation of the BioWare sci-fi epic.
Mass Effect movie will be all about (male) Shepard
In completely unsurprising news, Legendary Pictures has confirmed that yes, the Mass Effect movie will be all about Commander Shepard. It's also (unfortunately) confirmed that the character in the starring role will be John, and not our beloved FemShep. That aside, it's still good to have some news about the film adaptation, right?
Saturday Shots: DCUO, Shiva, Minecraft, sales, Shatner
It's time for small things, funny things, and weird things. Get your fill below.
Mass Effect Movie latest
Did Universal just announce the Mass Effect movie's release date?
Uncharted movie going well, Metal Gear Solid film 3 years away, Mass Effect 5 years, says producer
Mass Effect writer offers advice for upcoming movie adaptation


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Merrill Lynch Wealth Management doesn't want clients to stuff down or shrug off their emotions about money. Instead, in a push that gives new meaning to buzzy behavioral finance, the wirehouse is coaxing folks to put their feelings right on the table.
The idea is that, by deeply exploring whatever is personally meaningful to clients, advisors can better recommend solutions that merge psychological needs with monetary goals.
Behavioral finance, a field that blends psychology with economics, has dwelled chiefly on exploring emotions-based biases that cause investors to make bad decisions. Merrill, in contrast, is zeroing in on clients' total and unique investment personality to reach better outcomes. En route, behavioral change may or may not be in order.
Leading the initiative is Michael Liersch, director of behavioral finance. He has an A.B. in economics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology — the study of how people think, perceive and learn — from the University of California, San Diego. Liersch's effort revolves largely around helping advisors learn how to synthesize clients' qualitative goals, stemming from emotional concerns, and quantitative investment goals to reach desired outcomes.
It's all part of Merrill's five-step Goals-Based Wealth Management strategy. Though this was in place when Liersch joined the firm almost three years ago, the brokerage is now codifying clients' thoughts and feelings about money to build a set of best practices and create a structured process.
The approach uses tools such as a 27-question Investment Personality Assessment, wherein clients write down their feelings about money and investing, and the firm's Wealth Management Outlook, which determines whether a client has sufficient resources to meet goals.
A member of Merrill's client solutions and segments team, Leirsch, 37, a native of Stanford, Calif., travels the country training financial advisors in practical applications of behavioral finance. For ultra-high net worth clients and corporate executives with concentrated stock positions, he even participates in client-advisor meetings to foster dialogue and promote collaboration.
A former visiting professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, Liersch joined Merrill as part of its investment analytics team. He was previously head of behavioral finance at Barclays Wealth for North and South America as well as research director at Behavioral Research Associates. Earlier, he served as a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and, in the dot-com era, consulted to startups.
ThinkAdvisor chatted recently with the New York City-based Liersch about how Merrill is redefining, and refining, behavioral finance.
ThinkAdvisor: Why do investors make lots of errors and irrational decisions, known as behavioral biases?
Liersch: I would challenge that notion and say that when investors are behaving in a particular way, typically there's a cause. Being judgmental by calling it rational or irrational isn't productive. Focusing on the behavioral biases isn't the key; focusing on the behavior is.
How do advisors use Merrill's behavioral finance approach in working with clients?
By finding the underlying concern, need and goal that's driving a certain set of behaviors, then evaluating whether or not they need to change. Many times they do not. So instead of talking about rationality and irrationality, we're talking about behavioral change, if needed. This tends to be a more productive conversation that gets clients to better outcomes.
But there's been a great deal of behavioral finance research showing that people make bad investment decisions based on emotions. Isn't this something you try to help clients avoid?
How is it possible for an investor to completely divorce themselves from emotion? We're all human. The idea of not being human isn't a possibility. Instead, we say that we want you to bring your humanity, your emotions, to the table. We want to talk about them to understand why you feel the way you do. At the end of the day, what's perceived to be emotional may be completely sensible based on the client's experiences and situation. Investing in a way that's human can help clients stay invested and get better outcomes than if they try to be robotic investors, something we know isn't possible.
But advisors don't usually go into financial services because they are "feelings"- oriented. Generally, they're oriented to numbers and sales. So, are you trying to coach FAs to key into what makes clients tick?
In a conversation about what matters most, many people, including advisors, clients and the media, bundle the investment selection — the quantitative — with the qualitative: thoughts and feelings. Many even talk about quantitative concepts and qualitative concepts in the same sentence. For example, the client may say, "I want a large return, and I never want to be down." "Large return" is the quantitative piece; "never want to be down" — thoughts and feelings — is the qualitative piece. The idea is to separate those two [initially].
What's a real-life scenario?
In our recent research on sustaining family wealth, 23% of wealthy individuals said they could distribute 10% or more from their investment portfolio and have that portfolio last forever. Here we see a disconnect between the qualitative concern, or desire to sustain family wealth, and the quantitative — what can actually get you there. That disconnect is the opportunity to focus on.
Some advisors say that discussing personal needs and anxieties with clients makes them feel like therapists – and that's not what they "signed up" for. How can they get into the mode?
The focus is the process, not the notion of being a therapist. It's preferable to have a structured process for clients to write down — codify — things like their primary intent and priorities, and evaluate whether their goals are feasible. The next step is to establish a set of expectations around the tradeoffs they may need to make, and then move to the [appropriate] investment selection, followed by managing the investments ongoing.
Can behavioral finance help advisors to a more profitable practice?
A structured, goals-based approach is a win-win both for the client and the advisor. By starting with what's personally meaningful to the client, advisors can more effectively utilize the most relevant and broadest set of products, solutions and services to [meet investment goals]. What else is the upside for advisors?
A clear, structured process where everyone can communicate about data, and thoughts and feelings, can create efficiencies and help advisors have more capacity to serve clients in a differentiating way. It can lead to opportunities to serve clients more broadly or perhaps even serve a greater number of clients by increasing referrals.
Do you educate Merrill advisors about behavioral-finance investor biases, such as overconfidence, herd instinct and loss aversion, among others?
We certainly do. But instead of concentrating on, say, overconfidence as an error, we focus on what the opportunities are when you're very confident versus the drawbacks. Underconfidence can also drive a certain set of behaviors. The idea is to collaborate on what confidence creates to make sure it's driving toward the right set of decisions.
What's a specific example?
Women tend to say they know less about investing than the average investor; men tend to say they know more. If a female client [part of a couple] expresses this — even if it's not true — it can cause her to lean out of the conversation, when in fact she should be leaning in. It helps if the advisor says, "Even though you may feel you don't know a lot, you certainly know enough to participate. But if you feel that you don't, there's a seat open for you at the table; and we want you here." So rather than focusing on the bias, we're focusing on the client's perspective and what will get them to productively engage in the best way.
Another bias is called the "bird-in-bush paradox." What's that, and where are the opportunities?
It relates to the idea of loss aversion — specifically, letting go of an item that someone values. It's another name for the asymmetry between people's willingness to sell an item they value and the market clearing price. That is, the minimum selling price may be higher than the maximum purchase price. This effect presumably exists because the individual is adding a premium for "giving up" — or losing — the item.
Can advisors use this to help investors?
It's an opportunity to collaborate with the client to identify a set of investments aligned with personally meaningful goals. That way, "giving up" the investment may be less likely because the investor has not only assigned value to it but to the approach itself. This may help them stay the course in both bear and bull markets. Behavioral research suggests that sticking with a well-designed strategy is a key to positive investment outcomes.
Other research indicates that men's and women's brains are physiologically different and that therefore the genders think differently, which affects their attitudes toward investing. Where do you stand?
Individuals are individuals, and basing client-advisor interaction on assumptions and generalizations isn't productive. Having clients [discuss] what's on their mind is the most productive approach. In one of your studies, you found that about half the women were "very concerned" they would outlive their money. I've seen other research suggesting that even quite wealthy women are worried about becoming "bag ladies." What's behind this, and how should advisors handle it?
If the individual spends a lot, that fear of running out of money can be well founded, even when someone has a lot of money. So it's not necessarily about the amount of resources they have but [money] in the context of spending patterns, the way they're investing, the time horizon and risks they're comfortable taking.
What tack should an advisor take in that case?
Evaluating the feasibility of the client's goal in today's dollars can be critical to either validate or invalidate that concern of outliving their assets. Find out what's on the client's mind when they're thinking about running out of money. Get it down on paper. Evaluate the feasibility of the goal in a structured way. Talk about time horizon and what's actually needed in terms of dollar amounts. Will their spending needs grow or decrease? Is the client comfortable spending down principal?
What's critical for advisors to know when working with couples who are at loggerheads? For example, one wants to invest aggressively; the other, conservatively.
It's common for couples to disagree on many things. Disagreement is normal and is actually extremely productive. We know in behavioral finance that healthy levels of conflict lead to better decisions. Setting the right framework can empower couples to articulate their true thoughts and feelings, and discuss what's going to get them where they want to go.
What's Step No. 1 for advisors in dealing with this situation?
Starting with similarities and then moving to differences can be very critical. If the couple has a common perspective, such as placing a priority on family, a discussion around their thoughts and feelings about that — i.e., coming together on a topic — can be a great starting point. Then move to a difference: lifestyle, for instance. How much would they like to spend in retirement?
Background plays a big role, doesn't it? If one spouse comes from comfortable means and the other doesn't, that informs their attitudes.
You've hit the nail on the head! It [depends] on the individual's experiences, and also who holds the wealth. There are many contextual differences that drive a lot of what we perceive to be gender differences or age differences.
Speaking of age, what do millennials want from their advisors?
There's a misconception that millennials have a different set of values from older generations, particularly their parents. In our research, the majority of millennials identified with their parents' values — from investing to philanthropy and [beyond]. They wanted one-on-one engagement, just like any other human being, and to understand in their terms and at their life stage, what will constitute good investment decision-making. This means approaching the client with an open mind and hearing directly from them what they're trying to accomplish. But you surveyed 18- to 35-year-old millennials with $1 million or more in investable assets. Can the findings be extrapolated to millennials who don't have that much money to invest?
Yes. Millennials are human beings, and that creates a common thread about how people like to interact with others. This is what behavioral finance is all about: acknowledging that we all have thoughts and feelings. Also, you can extrapolate [their wanting] that one-on-one interconnection and that having someone who can talk to them about their needs is very, very important.
Your study and those of others, suggest that millennials are skeptical, even suspicious, about the financial services industry. What challenge does that bring to advisors?
The notion of trust is critical to any client interaction. Our research with millennials shows that the financial crisis didn't set a lower trust level; it reconfirmed the low level of trust they already had in institutions around investing. This challenge highlights the need for advisors to connect with millennials on a one-on-one basis and in their language. They need the advisor to educate them about what investing can and cannot offer, the pros and cons of a set of decisions, the framework in which they can think about their future, how investing can help them reach their goals — and what the risks are, because transparency helps build trust.
It's my understanding that Millennials aren't too interested in meeting with their financial advisors face-to-face. They prefer to communicate by email and texting.
Our research shows that millennials certainly do like face-to-face meetings. But electronic technology can be an enhancement as a way to facilitate communication. For example, using a Web-based tool — versus traditional paper-based statements — Millennials can provide advisors with data about their wealth. So when [the advisor] meets with the client, they've already evaluated the assets and the context in which the accounts are set up. That way, the advisor is [all prepared] to provide advice and guidance around the total picture.
What new research do you plan to conduct?
It focuses on the theme of creating a set of decision-making best practices and connecting them with the wealth structures and strategies that will get clients to [desired outcomes]. That's a huge theme in our business and what a lot of our clients are asking for: setting the framework for how they can look at opportunities and options and then selecting what resonates most.
What's the behavioral finance team's ultimate goal?
The exciting part is collecting a set of best practices about how advisors can help individuals, families and even institutional investors based on their thoughts and feelings about what they're trying to accomplish. The goal is to build a structured process and an investment strategy.
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Voting is now closed. We'll announce the results of the first-ever EContent 100 list chosen by the people!
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Mar 10, 2004
The dawn of the printing press in 1452 ushered in an era of transposing movable type to paper that continues to this day. The emergence of desktop publishing in the mid 1980s as a viable alternative to traditional printing techniques may have diminished demand for those methods, but it hardly hindered the cachet associated with being published. If anything, the more immediate accessibility of publishing tools fed a desire among all writers to make their ideas available to the masses.
By the early 1990s, however, anyone with something to say could conceivably share it with the world via the Internet, which ultimately gave countless writers-in-search-of-publishers a forum in which to share their work with others. Known as "self-publishing," the process has turned the traditional publishing paradigm on its ear.
While much of the content published on the Internet is far from valuable (or only valuable to a very few), a growing number of Web sites are purveying content that, in business applications, is considered mission critical and, in academic contexts, furthers understanding of the discipline for which it was generated. Unlike traditional book and academic publishers, who reject millions of manuscripts each year, online publishers are more inclined to publish content—at considerably less cost and with far fewer strings attached. Indeed, writers of all kinds of content are now finding an audience online who may never have seen their work otherwise.
The academic world has been particularly traumatized by the rising costs of the traditional publishing paradigm. Because institutions of higher learning are fueled by the pursuit of knowledge, their need for access to research is unparalleled: faculty cannot advance scholarship if their research efforts are not made available to colleagues and other interested audiences, and students cannot grasp difficult concepts within their chosen disciplines without having access to a broad selection of resource materials.
Every university and college is constrained by these challenges, but few have attempted to reinvent the wheel. The University of California is one of those few.
Paradigm Revisited With 100-plus libraries on 10 campuses housing more than 31 million items, the University of California reportedly operates the world's largest research collection. As digital technologies evolved and campus budgets constricted in the 1990s, UC librarians, researchers, and administrators began acknowledging three challenges that could not be ignored: the economics of publishing were changing rapidly; scholarly communication needed to innovate; and sustaining comprehensive collections was becoming increasingly harder to do.
With these challenges in mind, UC representatives began conceptualizing a plan "to harness the system's resources at a time when the budget was very bad and the possibilities of technology seemed endless," explains Catherine Candee, director of scholarly communication initiatives for UC's California Digital Library. "The whole notion from the start was, 'Let's improve the capacity of the library to support the university's mission, which is research and teaching.'"
Conceived in 1997 as UC's 11th library and launched in 1998 to help realize one library vision, CDL leverages the intellectual and cultural resources of the University of California, supporting the assembly and creative use of scholarship and knowledge for all UC libraries and the communities they serve. Opened to the public in January 1999, CDL's current mission is to provide a centralized framework to efficiently share materials held by UC, offer greater and easier access to digital content, and join with researchers in developing new tools and innovations for scholarly communication.
"What was unique about the way CDL was formed was the recognition that the capacity of libraries was being extended considerably because of the Digital Age," Candee continues. "A new element of these libraries' missions, therefore, was to support the production and dissemination of research output. One piece of that mission for CDL was concentrated in the launch of eScholarship, which was a vehicle for branching out into this new realm of publishing and access.
"Through very close consultation with the faculty," she adds, CDL discovered "a real hunger to put all of UC's knowledge in one place and to make sure that someone would take care of it. We had a good sense of the technical possibilities, but we needed to find out what faculty members were doing already [in terms of publishing their own research and accessing the work of others] and what they wanted to be able to do."
The goal, she continues, was "to support faculty and researchers' needs for faster, cheaper, and more reliable communication of research findings. We ended up with about a dozen projects spanning all disciplines and all manner of technologies. We found by the end of a year-and-a-half of work that we were going to be pulled in a dozen different directions. Nothing would be scalable or financially feasible without 'genericizing' it a bit. That's how we arrived at the repository—we had to come up with a new publishing paradigm that would work for 8,000 faculty."


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*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~idsrfhc/ Idaho Falls Regional Family History Center], Idaho Falls, Idaho
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~idsrfhc/ Idaho Falls Regional Family History Center], Idaho Falls, Idaho
*[http://www.familyhistorylv.org/ Las Vegas Regional Family History Center], Las Vegas, Nevada
*[http://www.familyhistorylv.org/ Las Vegas Regional Family History Center], Las Vegas, Nevada
*[Logan Utah Regional Family History Center], Logan, Utah
*[http://www.londonfhc.org/ London Family History Centre], Hyde Park, London, England
*[http://www.londonfhc.org/ London Family History Centre], Hyde Park, London, England
*[http://www.larfhc.org/ Los Angeles Family History Library], Los Angeles, California
*[http://www.larfhc.org/ Los Angeles Family History Library], Los Angeles, California
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The following is a list of "Library Class" branch libraries of the LDS Family History Library. These are Regional Family History Centers and Large Multi-stake Family History Centers that are "Library Class."
Most of these used to be known as "Regional Libraries" or "Regional Family History Centers." They are not to be confused with the 4,000 plus smaller ward and stake FHCs.[1] In 2010, the regional branch libraries were redesignated as "Large Multi-Stake FHCs" on the FamilySearch website.
"Library Class" is defined as having a larger facility and are generally complete with a dedicated internal computer server and a library catalogs or card catalogs for their collections. These branch libraries have dedicated book collections in the thousands, microfilm & microfliche in the tens of thousands, dozens of internet connected computers and microfilm & microfliche readers and some digital scanners. All have dedicated servers with DSL, cable or T-1 internet access. In addition all had at least one multi-use classroom, and several research areas.
These branch libraries have a dedicated non-paid full-time director (usually a husband/wife team) and dozens of volunteer staff. In many cases non-church member volunteers serve from the community. Local genealogy groups often support these library facilities seeing non-LDS patron use higher than local LDS usage.
- BYU Family History Library, part of the Harold B. Lee Library, at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. The BYU Family History Library was one of the original planned FHCs and is now independent of the FHC system.
- Idaho Falls Regional Family History Center, Idaho Falls, Idaho
- Las Vegas Regional Family History Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Logan Utah Regional Family History Center, Logan, Utah
- London Family History Centre, Hyde Park, London, England
- Los Angeles Family History Library, Los Angeles, California
- Mesa Arizona Regional Family History Center, Mesa, Arizona See also Mesa Arizona FamilySearch Library
- Oakland Regional Family History Center, Oakland, California
- Ogden Regional Family History Center, Ogden, Utah
- Orange Regional Family History Center, Orange, California
- Pocatello Regional Family History Center, Pocatello, Idaho
- Riverton FamilySearch Library, Riverton Utah [2]
- Sacramento Regional Family History Center, Sacramento, California
- St. George Regional Family History Training Center, St. George, UT. Click here. [3]
- San Diego California FamilySearch Library, San Diego, California
Sources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Allen, James B.; Jessie L. Embry; Kahlile B. Mehr. Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah. Provo: BYU Studies, 1995.
- ↑ Family history centers in Salt Lake area will be consolidated, Shill, Aaron, Mormon Times, Deseret News Publishing Company, accessed June 7, 2010
- ↑ Utah Main web site under construction.
External links[edit | edit source]
- FamilySearch.org for information on smaller family history center locations.
- Family History Library research wiki
- New York FHCs representing ward, stake and other Family History Centers.
- Los Angeles Family History Library formerly known as the "Los Angeles Regional Family History Center" is now designated as a "Large Multi-Stake Family History Center" by the LDS Church, but not by its supporting genealogical organizations and patrons (members and non-members).
- Family History Library Official Site
- FamilySearch Indexing


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The Furby is a Holiday Hit
Hasbro's updated version of the Furby appears to have sold well over the Black Friday weekend. The toy is now out of stock at Walmart.com and Furbys in various colors including black, white, blue and aqua are in short supply on Amazon.com.
Laurie Schacht, co-publisher of industry publication The Toy Insider, however, told The Wall Street Journal that she doesn't think the Furby will inspire the mania that Tickle Me Elmo and Zhu Zhu Pets did in previous holiday seasons because of the toy's $54 price tag.
Hasbro announced in July that it was exhuming the Furby. Among the upgrades this time around: A more agile body and the addition of LCDs to replace the toy's classic white eyes.
However, much of the features of the original remain including the ability to communicate with other Furbys. When Furby speaks, and another is nearby, it can apparently discern the "Furbish" language and respond. The toy can also respond to human voices, and even pick up on tone. There's even a Furby iOS app, which sends inaudible sound codes to the toy.
Another way the new Furby is like its predecessor: There's no off switch. The only way to get him to shut up, apart from completely isolating him, is to remove one of the four AA batteries.


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Some Customers Are Sticking With Sun
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IBM and HP have been crowing about how they have been luring away customers from Sun Microsystems, but they haven't pitched a shut out. Some loyal Sun customers are hanging in there in the hopes Oracle will make something of the battered firm.
At an investor's conference this week in New York, Roy Vallee, chairman and CEO of electronics distributor Avnet said executives are delaying replacing older servers in their datacenters for as long as possible, with Sun being delayed the most because customers want to see what Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) will do once it finally gets regulatory approval to close the purchase of Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA).
"Customers are wondering what the product roadmaps are going to be and if they commit new capital, are they confident where Oracle is going to take the company post-acquisition. So I think there's going to be a little bit of pent-up demand in the server space," he told the audience. His comments were Webcast as well.
Avnet distributes servers and other technologies, and he was commenting on the tendency of companies to stretch out the lifespan of their servers for as long as possible. He said Asia/Pacific was picking up the fastest of the global markets, followed by the U.S. He was not ready to say Europe had hit bottom yet.
Oracle is starting to make moves it hopes will maintain the loyalty of current Sun customers and even win some new ones. Over the weekend, Oracle announced plans to introduce a new product this week. Oracle said it plans to unveil "the world's first OLTP Database machine with Sun FlashFire Technology."
The Tuesday Webcast will feature Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Executive Vice President John Fowler.
"Don't miss this opportunity to learn firsthand how the partnership between Oracle and Sun can benefit your business now and in the future," says an invitation to join the Webcast.
The news comes at a good time for Sun, which has been in a state of flux for months. Its sales hit the skids along with the rest of the economy, then came the aborted merger attempt with IBM (NYSE: IBM) before finally it found a suitor in Oracle.
The deal has dragged on painfully long, more than five months now, as first the U.S. Department of Justice examined it carefully and now the European Commission has opened what could be a four month investigation, stemming from Sun's ownership of MySQL.
In the mean time, IBM has been unbridled in its attempts to steal away Sun customers, boasting of the number that are coming to IBM and asking for help migrating. HP and Dell have also made efforts to steal Sun customers as well.
The most recent data from IDC shows Sun's revenue from server sales fell 37 percent in the second quarter over the same quarter a year earlier. Overall, the server industry dropped 30 percent.
Bill Calderwood, president of The Root Group, a Sun reseller in Boulder, Colo., said he attended an Avnet function a month ago and there were no signs of discontent or impatience and people were still positive on the company.
"Some see it as a very good story for Oracle, but if they don't execute on it, then that could be bad news," he told InternetNews.com. "But I think for now they are giving them the benefit of the doubt until they see otherwise. The largest customers feel Sun has over the years provided some innovation and has some technologies that are leading the market."
He has heard of some larger end-users putting a freeze on purchasing any more Sun equipment until they see what Oracle is going to do, but until then, they aren't going to bail on Sun. They will just wait.
Next page: Contradicting IBM's claims


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ALBANY -- A buzz saw of opposition sharply attacked a proposed pawn shop law during a public hearing Thursday night. Led by a vocal contingent of local jewelry store owners who said the proposal would apply an economic squeeze to their hard pressed businesses, the opposition picked apart the legislation, known as Local Law G, which narrowly passed the Legislature by one vote in early November. Under the legislation, second hand dealers would be required to provide police comprehensive records of the merchandise they purchase from customers walking in off the street. They would also be required to hold those items for 10 days before reselling them. Supporters of the measure say these restrictions will protect crime victims by making it easier for police to get back items that have been stolen as a result of break-ins. The City of Albany already has similar legislation in place but the county's suburban communities do not. The hearing is just the latest stop on a long journey which has lasted more than a year as the legislation has wended its way through several revisions and a previous veto by County Executive Dan McCoy. McCoy, who has yet to announce whether he will veto the latest version of the proposal, remained quiet through much of the session but sought several clarifications from the speakers. Throughout the hour long hearing, the critics contended that the measure was just the opposite of what was needed to combat burglaries and other property crimes. Saying that the law's requirement that second hand dealers supply local police with detailed records of all of the items they purchase from walk-in customers, opponents said it would create a paperwork nightmare for area law enforcement. Dennis Connolly, the owner of Connolly's Diamond Gallery in Newton Plaza, said: "How is a detective going to look through these miles and miles of data?" "Not to throw you on the hot seat, but do the police give you a weekly or monthly report (of stolen merchandise?)," McCoy asked Connolly. "No, nothing," he responded. Another local businessman with a jewelry store on Everett Road criticized the law for being "punitive." Saying that he has bought and sold jewelry in the region for more than four decades Vincent Kendrick said, "I've never been a pawnbroker and I am not a fence." He also said that legitimate businesses are hurt when they purchase jewelry that's been stolen. "It's two crimes -- not one," he said.
Jewelers say Albany County's proposed pawn shop legislation is flawed
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