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Green Class are greatly enjoying reading We All Go Traveling By, our current class book. This is a story that contains many new sounds. It is perfect to help Green Class to build upon their existing phonic knowledge as we introduce new sounds. The pupils have using the opening phrase "I hear…" to describe what they can hear around them.
This transport theme will also continue across other areas of the curriculum for Green Class this term. Our science and geography work will also be transport related. Central to all of this is phonics, and how we can improve our own speech and language.

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Four men formerly held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq today filed lawsuits against US private security firms CACI and L-3, accusing the companies of torture and war crimes.
The lawsuits, filed in the US states of Washington, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio, allege that the four detainees were subjected to frequent beatings, caging, electric shocks, and threatened with dogs.
One of the plaintiffs, a 36-year-old shopkeeper named Sa'adoon Ali Hameed Al-Ogaidi, claims he was a "ghost detainee" hidden from the Red Cross during his year at Abu Ghraib, the site of a now-infamous prisoner abuse scandal in 2003.
"Private military contractors and the individuals they employ cannot act with impunity," Katherine Gallagher, an attorney assisting the men through the non-profit Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR), said.
"Contractors must act within the bounds of law and must be held accountable for their participation in the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and the other facilities in Iraq."
In addition to CACI and L-3, formerly known as Titan, the lawsuits accuse two individual interrogators and one translator of destroying documents that would prove their complicity in the alleged torture of prisoners.
The lawsuit filed by another plaintiff, farmer Suhail Najim Abdullah Al-Shimari, refers to an anonymous US soldier who testified to military investigators that he tried to prevent defendant Timothy Dugan from torturing prisoners.
"I have been doing this for 20 years and I do not need a 20-year-old telling me how to do my job," Dugan, then a CACI contractor, was quoted as telling the soldier.
The path for the four lawsuits was cleared last autumn when a federal judge rejected CACI's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit brought by more than 200 Iraqis held at Abu Ghraib.
Judge James Robertson of US district court in Washington said the company might be held liable for damages if it could be proven that private contractors operated outside the military chain of command at Abu Ghraib.
The same judge also found in favour of L-3 in a legal dispute with former detainees, meaning that some of the prisoner lawsuits filed today may face quicker dismissal than others.


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By Erinn Casazza
Have you met Jamison Reynolds? If you have, you know that Jamison Reynolds has been blamed for many things. Here is something else he can add to his list: I blame Jamison Reynolds for how utterly happy I am right now! Weird, right?
Here's how it happened:
In the fall of 2010, through the wonders of Facebook, Jamison discovered that I am a Zumba instructor and he asked me to help him fundraise for a running team he had joined. Jamison is on a running team? Huh? We had not kept in touch much since college, but I did not remember him being a runner. He may have run to Sheetz for more beer, but running on a team? Really?
He sent me a link to a video of a wonderful lady named Deb Wills with information about what she does in the fight against breast cancer. Not that Jamison had to twist my arm to do him a favor, but hearing Deb's story and seeing all the change she has inspired helped me say "yes" more quickly.
After raising $250 at the Zumba event, I decided it was silly to give that money to Jamison when I could raise money, run and go to Walt Disney World myself, so I signed up for Team AllEars 2012!
Clearly, it was all Jamison's fault.
I am not a runner, but what better excuse to become one? Sure I would be helping others by raising money for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, but I would get to go to Walt Disney World too! As a former cast member who has been itching to get back to Orlando, that reward motivated my untrained feet and calves.
I started the Jeff Galloway training program and tried to enjoy it. I cannot lie. It is hard to enjoy running on the hills of Morgantown, WV. But I did feel a sense of accomplishment when friends and family would look at me in amazement when I explained what I was doing and why.
It is hard to explain the emotions and thoughts running through my head while I traveled solo to marathon weekend in Orlando. My husband had been in Miami covering the Orange Bowl and we didn't get to see each other before I left for Florida. I was without my immediate support team and freaking out a bit over what I had signed on to do. I couldn't stop chatting with my fellow travelers about running, meeting new friends, raising money, and West Virginia's 70 point victory at the Orange Bowl!
Luckily, strangers were spared more of my nervous chatter when my friend Kristy picked me up at the airport and we headed to Port Orleans to take in YeeHaw Bob and meet up with Team AllEars. I have to be honest. I felt nauseous. I was nervous, happy, exhausted and excited, all at the same time.
I tackled Jamison upon arrival and received the sweetest hug from Deb. I relaxed. We were seated with two of the hippest chicks in running shoes: Libby Goldberg and Julie Olsen. We quickly got to know each other and then laughed and sang together with good ol' Bob. I decided that night that I could maybe start to forgive Jamison for what he had gotten me into.
Race day came a little too quickly with a 2:30 am wakeup call after I had fallen asleep at 11 pm. Nerves, people. Nerves.
My one-woman cheering squad, Kristy, drove us to the team meet and I found my corral buddies Libby and Julie. It seemed like we were in Corral F and ready to go within minutes.
I kept having thoughts of "I can't believe I'm doing this!" and "I can't wait to see the Christmas decorations at MK!"
Again, I felt nauseous.
Libby, Julie and I started the race together but we eventually were separated by our running speeds. In the few miles when I was alone with my thoughts I was overwhelmed with how extremely cool this half marathon is, and how lucky I felt to be part of it and a part of Team AllEars. I felt a sense of pride in what I was doing for others and for myself. I felt a sense of excitement because, if for only those 13.1 miles, running was fun. I felt humbled by those running around me with shirts proclaiming "Survivor" or "I run because they can't" or "I'm 80 and you're behind me." I felt warm and fuzzy because I knew I was part of an amazing family that instills the feeling that you can do anything. This is when I forgave Jamison a little bit more.
I caught up with Libby in time for her to see me cry like a baby when we hit Main Street in the Magic Kingdom. This was why I initially signed up to run. This was why I had trained on the hills of Morgantown.
This was what made every stair on Law School Hill worth it. I finally got to see Christmas in the Kingdom! Seeing our Team cheering us on at the top of Main Street was much appreciated (Here's looking at you, Dan "I ran a marathon!" Rajnik).
The remaining miles were a blast, even the slow, boring ones when my feet felt like they might fall off. Libby and I were able to keep each other going and we were encouraged by Team AllCheers and the thing-a-ma-jigs on the sidelines. I laughed at the "hill" at Mile 10 and cried when my right calf got a cramp. Then Julie found us so we could all finish the race together!
One thing I will always remember is the three of us stopping for our photo shoot at Mile 13. Jamison, Dan and others were urging us to finish, but we could not be bothered with that. Kristy had a camera and we were celebrating – leg cramp and all. Why? Because that is what this whole marathon weekend and Team AllEars seems to be about: Celebrating.
We celebrate our triumphs. We celebrate people. We celebrate the bonds we have created through helping others and ourselves. We celebrate life. And we keep running – or hobbling – to the next party.
Ok, Jamison. I forgive you.
Erinn would like to take this opportunity to officially claim she is Going Goofy in 2013!! Bring it on you silly dog!


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It's been 10 years since I started design work on my original Bane Curved saber based on the character of Darth Bane as written by Drew Karpyshyn. Since that time it has become my most popular and most iconic saber design.
I'm now pleased to present an updated and refined design for Bane's saber which I call "Bane Legend". It retains an almost identical look to the original with a few exceptions. I has slightly new lines in the Krayt Bone grip section, a new heavy duty gear section, and a severely upgraded crystal chassis.
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- Fine tuned with 16 colours, 7 blade profiles and over 18 sound fonts!
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Adapting WAN Optimization
Over the past few years enterprises have become more responsive in delivering better performing and highly visible applications over the web. With the rapid involvement of Cloud in transforming the technology arena, most of the software applications are being converted to web-based versions, where WAN plays a vital role.
Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization or WAN acceleration includes the strategies and techniques to maximize the data flow efficiency across a WAN. The ever evolving user requirements, growing IP sector is influencing the WAN optimization trend. Moreover, the increasing demand for WAN optimization-as-a-service is driving the WAN optimization market with its efficiency and flexibility. A recent report by marketsandmarkets.com states that, "WAN Optimization Market worth $12.1 Billion by 2019."
MarketsandMarkets also reports that the market is expected to grow to $12.1 billion by2019. This represents an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.8 percent from 2014 to 2019. The report also states that in the current scenario, North America is expected to be the biggest market on the basis of spending and adoption of the WAN Optimization hardware and services, and APAC is the highest growing region with a CAGR of 21.2 percent in this market. The notable players in this market, who contribute to the major share, include Array Networks, Aryaka Networks, Blue Coat Systems, Citrix Systems, Exinda, Ipanema Technologies, Riverbed, and Silver Peak.
WAN optimization is a set of strategies and techniques to increase the data transfer efficiency across a network. The hardware and software components that are used to perform WAN optimization are known as WAN optimization controllers. The data transfer efficiency of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are measures of throughput, bandwidth requirements, protocol, the latency and the network congestion based on the packets dropped. These applications are commonly used for business applications like email, database applications, content management systems, and web delivery systems. However, the huge initial investment is one of the major challenges that the vendors are facing in installing a WAN controller.
The WAN optimization technology is deployed at both the ends of a WAN link that can be hardware, software or a software client. Take a look at some of the benefits in adopting WAN optimization technology.
Organizations can consolidate branch connectivity and services into the WAN optimization controller that is known as Branch Office in the Box. This can consist of applications, connectivity, as well as security.
Application Acceleration
As WAN optimization speeds and improves the overall efficiency of the WAN, it gradually improves the application response time as well as transfer speed over the WAN.
The advanced form of WAN optimization called as the Next generation WAN optimization that enables more efficient mapping and support for data signals including the Ethernet and the internet Protocol. The upcoming technology is expected to enhance the overall performance of WAN optimization deployment for efficient and flexible optimization.
Faster File Access
With the file caching technique, frequently accessed files can be accessed faster as the full document need not be retrieved every time the user requests. Moreover, as WAN optimization improves network speed between remote locations, file transfers as well as network-based communications becomes faster.


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Leading Australian paceman Mitchell Starc needs rest rather than surgery for his injured foot and may return for the February series in New Zealand, team bowling coach Craig McDermott said yesterday
Adelaide: Leading Australian paceman Mitchell Starc needs rest rather than surgery for his injured foot and may return for the February series in New Zealand, team bowling coach Craig McDermott said yesterday.
Australia's injured pacer Mitchell Starc in crutches at the Adelaide Oval yesterday. Pic:AP/PTI
Starc limped from the field on Friday's opening day of the day-night Test against the Black Caps in Adelaide with scans later revealing he had stress fractures in his right foot. He came out to bat in Australia's first innings and hit an unbeaten 24, but was unable to run freely on his injured foot. "He (Starc) has obviously got a crack in his foot," McDermott told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "The good news for us is it's not going to be as long as we thought.
"He's in a (protective) boot for three weeks and we'll start working from there. "So hopefully we can get him up for the (return) New Zealand series and the World T20 where he's ranked number one in the world. "He'll be very important for us in both series so we'll look forward to getting him back."
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McDermott said it was "only a rest period (for Starc) at the moment", but that it was a wait and see situation. The series in New Zealand begins in February, with the World T20 in India the following month.
McDermott said Starc, who has taken over as leader of the Australian pace attack following the retirement of Mitchell Johnson, had been bowling in pain for the past year. "For the last 12 months he's done a wonderful job. His bowling's improved every game and his stature as a bowler is growing in world cricket, now on the Test match side of it as well which is great to see," he said.
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We here at I'm With Stupid have decided to do something a little different this week and indulge our inner critic, so we're going to review a concert we saw recently: George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic at the annual Snowmass Chili Pepper and Brew Fest. We're also going to drop the whole "we" thing at this point because, well, there is no we. It's actually just me. I know you're all shocked that one man could do so much by himself.
Anyway, back to P-Funk. You would be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of Parliament/Funkadelic than yours truly. I was splanked by the bop gun years ago, freeing my mind and behind from constipated notions. (That actually makes sense in P-Funk parlance. Look it up if you don't understand.) I've been a devoted funkateer ever since. Those who have seen me dance might think I'm lying about my behind being freed, but they never saw how stiff I was before getting splanked.
The last of the four times I saw George Clinton was probably 14 or 15 years ago. George was an old man then, so I was very interested to see how he'd aged in the last decade and a half. Bear in mind that this is a man who was arrested for smoking crack in Tallahassee just a few months ago. I made sure to lower my expectations accordingly.
The band, 13 people strong, came out first and launched into a stirring rendition of "Bop Gun." They followed that up with a couple more Parliament tracks and a killer version of Funkadelic's "Cosmic Slop." During these intro songs I could hear the people around me wondering aloud which one was George Clinton. There was an old guy with a fuzzy gray beard and another guy wearing a crown, but it was pretty easy to tell that neither was George. They both seemed too functional.
Finally, after about six songs, a heavyset guy in a long-sleeve black T-shirt and an odd headdress that vaguely resembled a chef's toque ambled out onto the stage. He wore no rainbow ribbons in his hair, and his beard was close-cropped and neatly trimmed. Still, his shuffling gait and inimitable smile made it clear this was the man we'd all come to see. If there were any lingering doubts, they were erased when the young contortionist playing the part of Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk (look that one up too) unfurled a banner reading "F–k George!"
The years seemed as though they'd been treating George well, the crack smoking notwithstanding. He appeared robust and healthy for a man of 69, even bouncing up and down on stage to get the crowd fired up. I began to think my lowered expectations were unnecessary. Then he opened his mouth and sang.
Actually, "sang" isn't exactly the right word for what George did. "Sang" would imply that there was some musicality to the sounds emanating from his mouth. Trust me when I say there was nothing of the sort. This was more like the sound a pig with a terminal case of bronchitis would make if it tried to squeal while a large person stood on its throat. It was terrifying.
Still, this was George Clinton, the living legend, and I loved him anyway. And, to be honest, the barking he did during "Atomic Dog" never sounded better. His screams were spot-on, too, for what it's worth.
As always, Parliament/Funkadelic proved a democratic outfit, with nearly everyone getting a turn in the spotlight. One female back-up singer got to shake her ample rump to the delight of the crowd, and the original "Kidd Funkadelic," guitarist Michael Hampton, performed a blistering version of "Maggot Brain."
The most intriguing part, though, was when George brought out his grandchildren during an extended "Flashlight" and let them rap. His granddaughter, Sativa, started off by chanting "Something stank and I want some," a very thinly veiled endorsement of marijuana, and then followed that up by rapping "Hard as steel and still getting harder," an overt reference to her sexual appetites. I couldn't really picture myself rapping about similar subjects in front of my grandparents, but then my grandparents didn't smoke much crack.
George's grandson, Ric Smoov, was more subdued than Sativa, and his rap was so quiet I couldn't make out most of the words. I did, however, hear him say something about "George Clinton's my grandpa, and it don't get funkier than that." Agreed, Ric. It don't get funkier than that, even if the old man can't sing anymore.
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The old saying "every marine is a rifleman" still holds true in the Alliance. Every marine enlistee, from clerk to sniper, goes through a period of infantry training. As a result, the 103rd Marine Division is Earth's largest collection of Special Forces soldiers. Officers from notable battles such as the Skyllian Blitz and the First Contact War, run harsh training exercises in a variety environments, insisting the marines be prepared to storm any beach, on any planet. This training has been useful in the Reaper War, as the 103rd can be fighting in an arctic desert one week, crawling through jungles the next.
- If the player has located Special Ops Team Zeta:
Nicknamed the Bridge Burners, Team Zeta are combat engineers who specialize in destroying enemy fortifications in hostile territory. This tight-knit group of men and women are respected for their knowledge, renowned for their tenacity, and infamous for their enthusiasm.
- If the player rescues the students from Grissom Academy, and elects for them to go into support roles:
Biotic students from the Grissom Academy have joined the 103rd Marine Division as a support unit. The students focus their biotics into barriers that shield the marines and help control the flow of the battlefield.
- If the player schedules the first interview with Diana Allers aboard the Normandy.
Commander Shepard's interview with Diana Allers about the attempted takeover of the Citadel noted Cerberus' tactical missteps, which improved the morale of Alliance ground forces.
- If the player locates the Alliance Marine Reconnaissance Unit War Asset.
The Alliance Marine Reconnaissance Unit flies recon drones and occasionally puts live recon teams into play. AMRU works hard to ensure information is up-to-date, using VIs to disseminate intel as quickly as possible.


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In simple terms, market positioning strategies dictate where consumers' position companies based on their pricing, brand and of course, product.
Effective market positioning places your brand exactly where you want it to in the target market. Companies typically use perceptual or positioning maps to create market positioning strategies.
What is a Positioning Map?
A positioning map is used to create a marketing positioning strategy for products and services. Since most of this is based on the perception of the consumer, it is often referred to as a perceptual map.
With the help of this map, companies are able to determine what position existing products and services currently hold in the market. This information is then used to help companies decide where they'd like to position new products and services.
Once a firm has a mapped out a positioning map, they typically have two options to choose from. They can either choose to fill a gap in the current market or position their product to compete with other existing products in the market.
What is Brand Positioning?
Similar to market positioning, brand positioning is the conceptual place you want your target audience to position your brand in. Basically, the goal here is to create a distinct image so that consumers are able to distinguish your brand from others in the market.
How to Develop a Market Positioning Strategy
Developing a market positioning strategy may seem complicated at first but it's in the best interest of your company. Here are some steps that you ought to follow:
Conduct Market Research
Now, this is perhaps the most crucial step of all. Start by gathering information about your buyers and figure out what features they would like to see in your product. Understand that this research phase deals with product features in general. So you don't have to focus on features that are offered by other brands.
Make a List
After highlighting the best product features, it's time you figure out how customers rank each product. This'll become much easier once you have compiled of those features.
Create a Positioning Map
The next step is to develop a positioning map displaying the best product features. Keep in mind that you also have to list down the names of competitors that offer these features. For better clarity, we advise you also place your product on the map. This'll allow you to compare how well your products will do as opposed to your competitor's
Once you have positioned competitor products, it's time you start looking for ways to position your product now.
Figure out a Price Point
The price point greatly impacts how consumers view your products and services. Sure, a more expensive product is typically viewed as high-quality but that strategy might not always work. Especially if you try to trick consumers into paying a higher price for low quality.
The best strategy would be to decide a price based on its feature, the brand's overall strength, and other benefits.
Cost Leadership and Differentiation
When it comes to market positioning, companies can choose between two broad categories. This includes cost leadership and differentiation strategies. A company can choose from either of these strategies for optimal results according to the products and services they offer.
Cost Leader Strategy
A cost leader strategy is better suited for companies that offer products at a lower price point compared to their competitors. Because of the low price, consumers don't hold very high expectations and expect a basic product.
With no bells and whistles, consumers are only concerned about the product meeting their basic needs and requirements.
Differentiation Business Strategy
On the other hand, a differentiation business strategy is when a company sets its mind to introduce unique products. By doing so, it aims to create a distinct place in the market. Since the company is working to introduce something that's new, consumers will hopefully be willing to pay a higher price for it.
Market Positioning Examples
Here are a couple of great market positioning examples that will provide you a clearer idea on the subject:
A couple of years ago, Tesla was one of the first automobile companies to break into the electric vehicle marketplace with luxury sports cars. You see, Tesla could have chosen to compete with brands such as Toyota and Chevy but instead, it decided to go after a high-end market instead.
For several decades now, Taco Bell had retained itself as the cheapest fast food joint for Mexican cuisine. Because of this, consumers sought out to Taco Bell for cheap takeaways. Then entered Chipotle that focused on quality instead. From its great marketing approach to its quality menu, Chipotle has managed to build stellar brand equity.
Wrapping it Up: Market Positioning Strategies
All in all, developing a positioning map is vital for creating a market positioning strategies. Have something to add, tell us about it in the comment section below!
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Fishermen and others use trolling motors when they want to move quietly around a body of water. While trolling motors can be attached to and used on a wide variety of boats, the size of the boat and the length of the trolling motor shaft, which is the area of the motor between the head and the prop, must be in line. Measuring the length of the trolling motor shaft is necessary before anglers can properly determine which trolling motor fits on their boat.
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Place the trolling motor on the ground so the shaft faces upward. This should be done on a dry, hard surface.
The shaft is the part of the trolling motor between the head and the prop. Using a tape measure, measure that distance.
Record the distance, noting that the length of most trolling motor shafts are in increments of 1 foot (such as 36 inches, 48 inches or 60 inches).
- To determine the shaft length a trolling motor needs to be to fit the various sizes of boats, measure the distance from the surface of the water to where the trolling motor will be mounted. Adding 18 to 24 inches to this total, then rounding to the nearest foot, tells you the necessary shaft length.


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WASHINGTON — Fears of bird flu are receding and sales of the anti-flu drug Tamiflu have slumped. Now its maker is offering a deal to U.S. employers: Pay an annual fee and reserve enough to protect every worker if a new super-flu strikes.
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The plan announced Thursday comes as the federal government also begins a new effort to encourage many businesses to stockpile anti-flu drugs in case of a pandemic. Those private stockpiles would supplement a national stockpile that contains enough doses to treat only a fraction of the population.
But stockpiling is a big upfront investment for a threat that may never arrive — and requires replacing supplies whenever drug doses expire. Roche Holding AG says its new plan would remove some of those barriers for companies otherwise interested in Tamiflu.
The U.S. government, in an unusual move, congratulated Roche on the program and helped to publicize it.
"We applaud them," said Tevi Troy, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which directs the nation's pandemic flu preparations. "Preparedness is a shared responsibility that extends across all levels of government and all levels of society."
Pandemics can strike when the easy-to-mutate flu virus shifts to a strain that people have never experienced. There is concern that the Asian bird flu known as H5N1 might trigger one if it acquires the ability to spread easily from person to person.
It would take months to custom-brew a vaccine against a new super-flu. So the government has stockpiled enough antiviral drugs, mostly Tamiflu, to treat 50 million people, and is urging states to purchase enough for 31 million more.
The antiviral drugs can also be used to prevent infection before a vaccine arrives. Until recently, federal health officials didn't recommend employer stockpiling for fear that there wasn't enough Tamiflu being produced to satisfy global demand during regular flu seasons, and build up the pandemic stockpiles of the U.S. and other governments.
But Roche increased global production 15-fold — and U.S. guidelines proposed earlier this month not only say that employer stockpiling is feasible, but encourage businesses to set aside enough antiviral drugs to help their workers ward off infection and stay on the job.
"Businesses that provide goods or services essential to community health, safety, or well-being have an obligation to plan and prepare for continued operations in the event of a pandemic," say the guidelines.
Roche already has sold varying amounts of Tamiflu to more than 300 U.S. businesses, said George Abercrombie, chief executive of Hoffman-La Roche Inc., the company's U.S. arm.
Under the new program, others companies could reserve Tamiflu instead of buying and storing it themselves. They would pay a yearly fee of $6 for every 10 capsules to be set aside in Roche storage and delivered within 48 hours of demand.
Upon delivery, companies would pay the going wholesale price. If a pandemic had begun, the price conceivably could spike. But Abercrombie rejected that as "a bit of a cynical view," adding, "that is not the way our company operates."
Why 10 capsules? That's the dose to treat a single ill person. To prevent infection requires a capsule a day as long as someone is potentially exposed to the virus.
In estimating how much to reserve, participating companies would have to decide how many employees they wish to cover, for either treatment or prevention — and if they'll also provide Tamiflu to workers' families. Roche has said the program requires a minimum order of 2,500 10-capsule packs, but Abercrombie said he was willing to work with smaller companies.
In January, Roche announced that sales of Tamiflu had dropped 19 percent to $1.92 billion, as government stockpiling in wake of bird-flu fears eased. Abercrombie said Thursday that production has been scaled back because of abundant supply — governments around the world had ordered 215 million courses of therapy out of 400 million available — but could ramp up again if necessary.
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I'd love to do a driving tour of Namibia and then Angola in a camper van. Namibia is currently my favourite tourist destination in Africa. Angola could be even better.
Dan spent 6 weeks driving Angola. Loved the nation. Felt very safe.
Read his trip report starting here – Angola Awaits
Angola's tourism industry is relatively new, as much of the country was destroyed during the post-colonial civil war which ended in 2002. Unlike most countries in the region, which generally give US, EU, and many other citizens a visa on arrival or require no visa at all, Angola has complicated and onerous Soviet-style visa requirements (official letter of invitation, documents concerning purpose of travel, copy of travel itinerary, proof of funds, etc., all of which are sent back to Luanda for approval). This antiquated attitude to tourism places the country at a disadvantage in a competitive market for international tourism.


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1. A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.
2. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. While in the park I sing, the listening deer attend my passion, and forget to fear. (waller)
3. A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, hyde Park in london; Central Park in new York.
4. A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc, when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.
5. A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
Alternative forms: parc Park of artillery. See Artillery. Park phaeton, a small, low carriage, for use in parks.
Origin: AS. Pearroc, or perh. Rather fr. F. Parc; both being of the same origin; cf. LL. Parcus, parricus, Ir. & Gael. Pairc, W. Park, parwg. Cf. Paddock an inclosure, Parrock.


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Editing help
- 1 Basic text editing
- 2 Display an email address link
- 3 Adding Google Maps
- 4 Displaying images
- 5 Display an image with a caption
- 6 Displaying image galleries
- 7 Displaying wide images
- 8 Supressing Table of Contents
- 10 Adding YouTube or Google videos
- 11 Adding an RSS news feeds to a page
- 12 Display Skype address with online or offline status
- 13 Adding a comments box on a page
Basic text editing
Some HTML tags are permitted in wikitext. The vast majority of fancy formatting seen on wikimedia sites is achieved using these limited tags (e.g. tables with CSS styles). See HTML tags in wikitext
Display an email address link
The following code:
[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com]
... will display as:
Adding Google Maps
To create a new or edit an existing Google map, click on the map button above the edit box.
Find the region to display, set the various size and display options and thereafter copy the generated Google map code into the edit box and save the page.
Various display options include satellite view, map view, adding of place markers, drawing lines etc.
Additional information:
- 3 minute instructions video in Quicktime format (part 1).
- 3.5 minute instruction video in Quicktime format (part 2).
- Google Maps Extension syntax documentation.
Displaying images
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Display a left aligned image with a caption.
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For further info on image display, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_markup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images_linking_to_articles
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Using <gallery> ... </gallery> tags to display a thumbnail gallery with images which link to the larger versions of the uploaded images.
Images can also be individually captioned and wiki-markup can be used within captions.
Links can be placed in captions.
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Displaying wide images
To display an image that is usually wider than typical screens in a sideways scrollable box, typically a panorama, the syntax is:
- {{Wide image|name|image width|caption|box width|alignment}}
The below example is done by the following code:
{{wide image|Angkor_panorama.jpg|1800px|Example panorama}}
To display the same image but without a caption, simply omit the caption:
{{wide image|Angkor_panorama.jpg|1800px}}
To right-align the image while taking up 45% of the paragraph width:
{{wide image|Angkor_panorama.jpg|1800px|Example panorama|45%|right}}
Or define a fixed width for the scrollbox, eg. 250 pixels:
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Supressing Table of Contents
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Adding YouTube or Google videos
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Then simply place the ID in the following tag:
Adding an RSS news feeds to a page
RSS means Really Simple Syndication. It's a standard code format for feeding various news reader applications (including web browsers) with news summaries and corresponding links to articles. For example, do a Google news search at http://news.google.com for any given keyword or phrase. Thereafter scroll to the bottom of the page and find the RSS symbol . Follow the link to the URL of the raw RSS feed.
The web browser may automatically display the news items of the raw RSS feed in a tidy HTML format as well as offer to add the newsfeed to a browser's Live Bookmarks and various social bookmarking applications, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo, Bloglines etc. Alternatively, the browser may display the raw RSS feed in XML source code. Either way, copy the location of the page (URL) and place it within the <rss>...</rss> tags, like the following example:
The output of this, which is a news search for the phrase Tuol Sleng, becomes:
Note: Not only Google News offer RSS feeds but many major as well as niche portals do. Wherever you see the familiar RSS button, it should be a compatible news feed that can be displayed on any page as described above. For additional usage and customisation of the output of news items on a page, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS#Usage
Display Skype address with online or offline status
It is possible to display a Skype address with a button that will launch Skype and call or start a chat. First configure your Skype account to allow its status be shown online, which can be done within the Skype application itself. Simply go to Tools->Options->Privacy and tick the checkbox "Allow my status to be shown on the web".
For further information, see http://www.skype.com/intl/en/share/buttons/status.html
Thereafter, the following example can launch a chat window when the Skype button is clicked:
<skype style="style_name" action="chat">YourSkypeName</skype>
<skype style="style_name" action="chat">cambodiavoyage</skype>
The available styles are: balloon, bigclassic, smallclassic, smallicon, mediumicon
The available actions are: add, chat, call
Adding a comments box on a page
To add a blog style comments field below an article, such as this one: ...
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Many have looked at the concept of WWE's latest Pay-per-view, Bragging Rights and called it stupid. The idea of a pay-per-view almost solely dedicated to the rivalry between Smackdown and Raw does seem overplayed and rather dull.
However, the match on this card that seems to have gotten the most criticism is the 7-on-7 match between Team Smackdown and Team Raw.
I will admit when I first heard the idea I was amongst the many criticized it believing the idea to be rather stale. We already had Survivor Series, why have another pay-per-view even remotely similar?
Then the qualifying matches for Team Smackdown and Team Raw came. These matches ranged from being passable to good, but when the final teams were together...I thought what I saw was just terrible booking. I mean just look at them:
Team Raw: Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Mark Henry, Big Show, Cody Rhodes, Jack Swagger, and Kofi Kingston.
Team Smackdown: Jericho, Kane, Dolph Ziggler, Cryme Tyme, Drew McIntyre and Eric Escobar
Team Raw is made up of two established Main Eventers, two established mid-carders, and three of the youngest and brightest talents in WWE right now.
Team Smackdown is made up of one former main eventer that is currently sitting in the upper mid-card, one underused mid-carder, a just starting mid-carder that has been impressive the last few months, a tag team that has lost every tag team title match they've ever been in and has just now found a team they can consistently beat, and two wrestlers that just debuted in the last month, one of which has only had one televised match and the other had a PPV match that was so boring I've actually put a psychological block on it!
Put that on paper and the match looks like classic poor WWE booking. We are expected to believe that Team Raw, whose members have been involved in feuds with each other in some capacity in the last few months, is supposed to work together to beat Team Smackdown, a team of mostly newer or less established guys, for no purpose other than "bragging rights"? Not a chance!
The Genius of this booking shows however when one thinks past the paper and looks at the opportunities this match carries.
Speaking story wise, it immediately plants the seeds for the break-up of Jerishow, who have been dominant since they formed. The outcome a possible storyline between the two.
But on a grander scale, this match can create stars, but of course it would need to be handled correctly.
Considering Team Raw is made up of mostly fairly established stars, the wild cards of team Smackdown (Drew McIntyre, Dolph Ziggler, and Eric Escobar) need a decent amount of time to perform and show off what they can do, Escobar locking up with Triple H, McIntyre locking up with Shawn Michaels, etc. Good performances will easily give them credibility in seeking titles and will show what both can do.
On the opposite side, it may be wise to have Cody Rhodes lock up with Jericho. Jericho can bring the best out of just about everyone and that will help Cody, who is often overshadowed by Ted DiBiase Jr. Seeing Swagger mix it up with Kane would be interesting as well.
The match to get the full effect should ultimately end with Team Smackdown getting the win. A clean win would be preferably, but it may end with a cheap one considering that five of the seven members of team Smackdown are heels.
A victory for Team Smackdown is even beyond the scope of believability considering the possible discord between members of Team Raw.
Altogether the match has interesting prospects, but it will not matter if WWE doesn't handle this one right. There will be other chances to create stars but considering the young talent involved in this match, this may be the best one.
I will be tuning in to see Bragging Rights next week. It will be then we can decide if this match was simply bad booking or genius in disguise.


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Bon día Wanderers! If you follow my Instagram or Facebook, you already know that I recently traveled to Aruba (ok-so I've been home for over a month). While I generally prefer to do my wandering in colder climates, I enjoyed visiting Aruba very much.
Aruba is a desert, which makes it an adventure. It is also considered Dutch Caribbean so I also got to experience some Dutch culture. Everyone I encountered spoke English fluently however, in Aruba they primarily speak Papiamento and Dutch (so I did have a chance to practice my Dutch). The entire island is only about 20 miles. The south side of the islandis where the beaches and resorts are and the north side has mountains and desert.
I didn't stay in the resort area. I actually stayed in an apartment near Oranjestad and the airport. It was a more residential area. It was a great experience and if I could do it all over again, I'd stay in the same place. I spent most of my time on the residential beach: Surfside Beach but I did take a bus to Palm Beach one day and I did have a good time. I also took a day tour on the north side of the island and saw several points of interest including: Aruba Aloe, Rock Formations, the Natural Bridge (the original collapsed in 2005 but there is a baby one still standing) and the California Lighthouse. I did not get to see the Natural Pool or Arikok National Park, which I really wanted to see. I wanted to climb the mountain but maybe next time. I have an intense fear of reptiles and while for the most part I could handle the lizards running around everywhere, I decided I could not handle the possibility of encountering bigger, scarier ones on a mountain. I really regret not facing that fear because I missed out on an amazing opportunity. I am trying not to beat myself up over it though. Next time I find myself in Aruba, I am for sure going to embrace that opportunity.
Aruba was absolutely one of the most fun places I have ever been and hands down, has the best food I have ever had. I would 100% go back if I had the chance.


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Social networks are a rapidly growing part of the Internet and a big part of how people spend their time online. Recent reports show Facebook has 1.4 billion users; Twitter has 320 million; YouTube has 1 billion, and those numbers are only increasing[i].
Those who engage in social networking are also more likely to turn to these outlets for treatment and diagnostic information. Recent data shows that 55% of patients trust hospital social posts and, overall, patients are more likely to share information about their health with hospitals on social media[ii]. With this in mind, becoming active on social media has never been more important for hospitals and healthcare facilities.
Thanks to the Internet and social media, information can now be disseminated at an extraordinary speed and reach more people faster than was ever possible prior to social media. This rapid sharing of information offers a unique opportunity for providers to prevent, diagnose and treat more diseases. Not only that, but it's extremely cost effective.
Though beneficial in many aspects, there are reasons for hospitals and healthcare facilities to be apprehensive about social media, particularly as it pertains to HIPAA and HITECH. Some common hospital social media violations include[iii]:
- Posting verbal "gossip" about a patient to unauthorized individuals, even if the patient's name is not disclosed.
- Sharing photographs or any form of protected health information (PHI) without written consent from a patient.
- Mistakenly believing that posts are private or have been deleted when they are still visible to the public.
- Sharing of seemingly innocent pictures, such as a workplace lunch, that could contain visible patient files.
Employees need to be aware of the potential risks associated with posting comments on social channels. Healthcare professionals are warned to never post pictures of patients inside the facility or when they are receiving treatment within their home. These photographs could be interpreted as an invasion of privacy or unauthorized sharing of PHI.
If you decide your hospital will join social media then it's essential to develop a social media policy for employees. All employees should be thoroughly trained on this policy – even non-employed physicians with hospital privileges.
Some items that should be addressed in your policy include[iv]:
- Following all applicable policies regarding sharing confidential or proprietary information.
- Writing in the first person – make it clear that the employee/user is not speaking on behalf of the hospital or healthcare organization.
- If the social media user identifies their connection with your organization, the user should uphold the high standards of conduct applied to your organization's page.
- Use good judgment and be professional, accurate and honest. Be respectful to fellow employees.
- Avoid connecting with patients on social networks. Normal boundaries between healthcare professionals and their patients must be maintained.
- Discourage management/supervisors from initiating friend requests with employees they manage.
- Social media activity should not interfere with work commitments.
There can be no doubt that when used effectively and appropriately, social media has the potential to be a great tool for hospitals. With the right parameters set, including a contingency plan in case something does go wrong, hospitals should feel comfortable using social media to connect with their peers, patients and the larger medical community.
Further reading: American Medical Association. Opinion 9.124 – Professionalism in the Use of Social Media. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion9124.page?. January 19, 2016.
[i] MagMutual Insurance Company. Learning Module Social Media and HIPAA Compliance. http://www.magmutual.com/social-media-and-hipaa-compliance-risk-management-guide?page=1. January 15, 2016.
[ii] Id.
[iii] Id.
Mayo Clinic. Sharing Mayo Clinic: Stories from patients, family, friends and Mayo Clinic staff. http://sharing.mayoclinic.org/guidelines/for-mayo-clinic-employees/. January 18, 2016.


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The Memphis Vampires Series
When smooth continental vampire Rudolfo Zginski is staked in 1915, it should be the end of him. But he resurrects in Memphis sixty years later to find a world he must quickly master, and more peril than he ever expected. In addition to the automobiles, polyester fashions and racial tensions of 1975, he encounters four new vampires who know their nature only from the movies. He must learn about this new time, help his allies understand their true natures, and battle those who would destroy him, and his kind, forever.
Blood Groove
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter of Blood Groove.
When centuries-old vampire Baron Rudolfo Zginski was staked in Wales in 1915, the last thing he expected was to reawaken in Memphis, Tennessee, sixty years later. Reborn into a new world of simmering racial tensions, the cunning nosferatu realizes he must adapt quickly if he is to survive.
Finding willing victims is easy, as Zginski possesses all the powers of the undead, including the ability to sexually enslave anyone he chooses. Hoping to learn how his kind copes with this bizarre new era, Zginski tracks down a nest of teenage vampires. But these young vampires have little knowledge of their true nature, having learned most of what they know from movies like Blacula.
Forming an uneasy alliance with the young vampires, Zginski begins to teach them the truth about their powers. They must learn quickly, for there's a new drug on the street–a drug created to specifically target and destroy vampires. As Zginski and his allies track the drug to its source, they may be unwittingly stepping into a fifty-year-old trap that can destroy them all….
Whitley Strieber, New York Times bestselling author: "I love vampire stories, and when one's as new and fresh as Blood Groove, it's just plain delicious, one very sweet read."
E.E. Knight, bestselling author of Vampire Earth: "Hot and sticky and tangy as a slab of Memphis ribs. A trippy vamp-noir seventies feed fest, complete with the requisite sex, drugs and vintage rock."
Jeri Smith-Ready, award-winning author of the WVMP series: "An edgy, visceral page-turner that had me laughing one moment and shivering the next."
The Girls with Games of Blood
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter of The Girls With Games of Blood
"Listen to what I tell you, son, every word is true
The sisters haunt the night, and might fight over you
Nothing can steal your soul and stamp it in the mud
Like being the new play-pretty for the girls with the games of blood…."
The old song warns of the beautiful Bolade sisters, Patience and Prudence, whose undying rivalry in love was said to extend even beyond the grave. Unfortunately for Baron Rudolfo Vladimir Zginski, he has never heard of the song. A suave Continental vampire staked to death more than sixty years ago, he's resurrected in 1975 to stalk the Southern nights of Memphis. Although new to the modern world, he quickly develops a taste for its hot blood, fast women, and high-speed automobiles.
Zginski instantly falls in love with a cherry 1973 Mach 1 Ford Mustang, but the purchase soon brings him into conflict with a legendary redneck sheriff with a short temper and a big baseball bat. Adding to the trouble, Zginski is also equally attracted to, and fascinated by, an enticing undead chanteuse and her equally seductive sister. But this temptation threatens not only his own ageless existence, but that of the small group of modern-day vampires he has grudgingly taken under his wing. Zginski has already escaped limbo once, but can he free himself from the tangled web of the girls who play games of blood.
Adrian Phoenix, author of Beneath the Skin and A Rush of Wings: "Bledsoe weaves another dark, sexy and breathtaking tale full of mesmerizing atmosphere and quiet, escalating horror. You won't be able to put the book down until you've read to the end. Just because a monster's heart awakens, doesn't make it any less of a monster."
Fangoria: "Full of mesmerizing characters and escalating horror, THE GIRLS WITH GAMES OF BLOOD is difficult to put down. With this one, Bledsoe has delivered a fresh and mature take on the vampire mythos."
BookLove: "The pacing is superb and just when you're sure you know how the plot will unfold, Bledsoe gives it a twist to keep you engaged."
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review: "The Girls with Games of Blood is what True Blood can only aspire to be, a vampire romance that leaves you in no doubt that you've been bitten."
The Story Behind the Dedication
Who is Duncan Browne and why is Blood Groove dedicated to him?
Sometime in the early 80s, I was prowling the 99-cent cassette bin at Old Hickory Mall (the only one) in Jackson, TN. These were always crap shoots: aside from the total unknowns, many tapes by known artists had no songs you'd ever heard of. This time, though, in the midst of the tightly-packed rows of rectangular plastic spines, I spotted a familiar title: Streets of Fire.
As a diehard Bruce Springsteen fan, I recognized this as the title of a song from his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. I did not know the tape's artist, though: Duncan Browne. Still, if he covered a song by the Boss, he might be worth checking out. For a dollar, it was certainly worth the risk.
Alas, it wasn't the Springsteen song. "Streets of Fire" was a seven-minute instrumental at the end of side one. But by the time I got to it, I already realized the music gods had smiled on me. Duncan Browne had a full-blown, distinctive style in 1979 that sounded awfully close to the one Dire Straits used five years later on their huge Brothers in Arms album. I'm not saying Mark Knopfler ripped off Browne: Knopfler's tunes were much jauntier and lighter. I do think Browne was ahead of his time in placing loose, jazz-flavored guitar work in a pop setting. And since his music reeked of dark, wet streets and moody clubs behind unmarked doors, it failed in a market where "Walk of Life" and "Money for Nothing" later became huge hits.
The album kicks off with "Fauvette," a song about a "street-level Joan" (as in "of Arc," I've always presumed) who is a "Fauvette," apparently a French word for nightingale. The tune is moody, and Browne sings with a simple, dark conversational voice. But his guitar-playing is phenomenally spare and gripping. I'm no musician, so I have no idea if it's technically difficult, but it draws you in as much with the spaces between the licks as the notes themselves. I was hooked by the end of the first chorus.
(An aside: For probably twenty years, I had the misfortune of owning cars with unreliable cassette decks. This meant that usually I had only one working speaker channel at any given time. On most songs it didn't matter, but sometimes it presented little gems I would've otherwise missed. On this album's second song, "American Heartbeat," after the line "Outside a streetcar named Desire it's a one-way flight," you could hear Browne laugh at himself, as if shaking his head at this lyric. That's lost completely in the full stereo mix.)
I won't bore you with a track-by-track synopsis. Instead, go buy the MP3 download here. You won't be disappointed.
When I began writing Blood Groove, I had a central idea (old world vampire takes younger American ones under his cape), a hero I'd created for a previous short story and a vague plot concept about the danger these vampires would face. What I needed was an atmosphere, a vibe, to slide into while I wrote. It's an intangible thing, to be sure, but it's crucial to the process, or at least to my process. For The Sword-Edged Blonde, it was the Fleetwood Mac song "Rhiannon." For Blood Groove, it was side 1 of this album. That's why I named my heroine Fauvette, and why the book is dedicated to the memory of Duncan Browne, who left us in 1993.
I don't know how he'd feel about inspiring a vampire novel. I hope he'd be tickled that his music helped someone else create something. I know that I can't imagine this book, these characters, without his music accompanying them.


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Security Analysis of Equities
- Fundamental Analysis Technical Analysis
- Market Anomalies
- Active and Passive Management
Fundamental Analysis
- Compare market price with "correct" price Determine "correct" price by using models
- Ratio analysis
- Gordon's growth model
- Market model
- Capital asset pricing model
- Cap M Model << to determine the expected return and if you have BETA
check with historical values to see if past values of the share price are correct
Technical Analysis
Study past share price movements to identify a pattern
Economic analysis:
- Global economy – political risks, exchange rates, etc
- Domestic economy – GDP, employment, inflation, interest rates, budget deficit, consumer sentiment, etc
- Supply / demand shocks – government spend, tax rates, oil prices, foreign export demand, etc
- Government policy – fiscal policy, monetary policy, supply-‐side policies
- Business cycles – economic indicators
All decisions depend on expected cash flows for the firms, as market as a whole are not doing well e.g. middle east crises, government spendings. if the government does not spend it sends a signal that they might increase unemployment and investment in infrastructure.
- Defining an industry
- Sensitivity to the business cycle – types of good and service sold
- Industry life cycles – stage of business development and sensitivity to economy
- Industry structure and performance , competitive strategy and profitability (Porter's five forces)
Firm-‐specific analysis:
- Financial statement analysis Future cash flows generated
- Dividends
- Profits
- Liabilities
Technical analysis
- Concentrate on recurrent and predictable patterns in share prices
- Does not discount the importance of new information on future prospects of the firm
- BUT, if prices respond slowly enough the analyst can identify a trend that may be exploited during an adjustment period
- Such trends have been found to exist in equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, and other classes of financial assets
analysis believe that past events will happen again, this approach tries to identify a trend in a period of time because there is a delay in data coming in and out of the market and because of this delay it could be possible to beat the market.
Dow Theory
Charles Dow is widely regarded as the grandfather of most technical analysis, the market is affected by:
- Primary trend – the long-‐term movement of prices, lasting for several months or years
- Secondary / intermediate trend – caused by short-‐term deviations of prices from the underlying trend line.Such deviations are eliminated via corrections when prices revert back to the trend value
- Minor trends – daily fluctuations of little importance
The primary trend
Intermediate trend
Head and shoulders topping pattern:
Head and shoulders topping pattern:
- A head and shoulders pattern typically appears after an upward primary market trend
- By early February the neckline has been set at the previous low from mid-‐December
- High trading volume in the decline of the right shoulder and low volume in the formation of the head are taken as signals of the pattern
- Once the neckline is broken the price is expected to further decline by the difference between the top of the head and the neckline
Trend/Tram Lines
- The support trend line is formed when a share price decreases and rebounds at a pivot point that aligns with at least two previous support pivot points
- A resistance trend line is formed when a share security price increases and then rebounds at a pivot point that aligns with at least two previous resistance pivot points
Moving average trading rules
- Simple moving average trading rules are built on the basis of taking the arithmetic average of the share price over a specified number of days:
- The market price is higher than the moving average price, so there is a momentum for it to further increase in the near future
- The market price is lower than the moving average price therefore the trend is for the market price to reduce in the near future
As the price is lower then the moving average then sell
Efficient Market Hypotheses
Information efficiency
Identified by Fama in 1960's
- Three forms
- Weak form
- Semi-‐strong form Strong form
Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH):
- The market price of a security reflects 'all available information' about the stock
- The expected return on the security is related to its risk
- So you can not make any abnormal returns in the long run.
Assumptions of EMH
There are a large number of profit-‐maximizing market participants who, independently of one another, analyze and value stocks
New information on securities comes to the market in a random fashion
Profit maximizing investors adjust security prices rapidly to reflect the effect of new information
The outcome of the EMH is that share prices should follow a 'random walk'
- Current prices reflect all available information
- Changes in prices occur in response to new information, which is random and unpredictable
- Under the random walk hypothesis, the best prediction for tomorrow price is today price.
Weak form market efficiency
Share prices reflect all information that can be derived by examining past market trading data: past share prices; trading volume, etc.
έt represents new information hitting the market, and is assumed to be random.
- Tradingstrategiesthataimtoexploitinformationonpast share price data cannot be used to make abnormal levels of profits
- Abnormalreturnscanonlybeearnedwhere:
Investors have public or private information about the firm's present / future performance
Can be expressed as: Pt = Pt-‐1 + έt
Semi-strong form market efficiency
- Stock prices reflect all publicly available information about the company
- Past share price data; trading data; financial statements; forecasts of future firm, industry and economic conditions
- Trading strategies that aim to exploit information on past share price data AND publicly available data cannot be used to make abnormal profits
- Abnormalreturnscanonlybeearnedwhere:
- Investorshaveprivateinformationaboutthecompany'spresent/ future performance
- Can be expressed as: Ωt-‐1 represents the publicy available information set at t-‐1
Pt = Pt-‐1|Ωt-‐1 + έt
Stock prices reflect all available information relevant to the firm, including private information
Past share price data; trading data; financial statements; forecasts of future firm, industry and economic conditions; insider information
- Trading strategies that aim to exploit information on past share price data, publicly available data, AND privately held data cannot be used to make abnormal profits
- Abnormal returns cannot be earned based on any of the information highlighted above:
- Even company directors left unregulated to trade would not be able to make abnormal profits in their
own company's shares
Evidence on the EMH
Strong-‐form market efficiency:
- Insiders (such as company directors) have been found to make profits when they trade in their own company's securities which rejects the notion that financial markets are strong-‐form efficient
Semi-‐strong and weak form market efficiency:
- MIXED evidence that technical trading rules (weak form) and fundamental (semi-‐strong) trading strategies have been used to make abnormal returns in the past
EMH forms and abnormal return
Market anomalies
- Overall, current evidence suggests that financial markets are less than strong form efficient. Markets are generally taken to be semi-‐strong efficient, but with some anomalies to this.
- Anomalies to the EMH suggest a form of market inefficiency:Mainly relate to the semi-‐strong form of the EMHTheoretically allow investors to systematically earn abnormally high returns from trading
Types of anomalies:
- Firm anomalies
- Small firms Vs Bigfirms
- Value firms Vs Growth firms
- Winners Vs Losers Market anomalies
Seasonal anomaliesJanuary or April
- Event anomalies << Dividend before or after
- Accounting anomalies
- Earning momentum: Firms with reporting unexpectedly high earnings outperform firms reporting unexpectedly low earnings.
- Accruals : firms with relatively high (low) levels of accruals to total assets experience negative (positive) future abnormal returns.
Active or passive fund management?
Passive Investment Management:
- Buy-‐and-‐hold management strategy
- No attempt to outsmart financial markets
- Setting up a well-‐diversified portfolio with no attempt to identify mispricing of securities
Active Investment Management:
- Bottom-‐up type approach to portfolio selection
- Regular trading of assets based on perception of under or overvaluation in financial markets
research as shown that passive approach is expected to gain more in the long term
EMH and asset management:
If the (semi-‐strong) EMH holds then there is no value to active investment management
- Regular trading incurs high transaction costs
- Implications of Market Efficiency
- The market cannot CONSISTENTLY be beaten
- Market has no memory
- All shares are the same
- Correct return for given level of risk
- Share price is good indicator of the future
Implications for Financial Manager
- There are no financial illusions
- Shares will be correctly priced by the market, nobetter time to issue new shares
- Current share price reflects current public knowledge
- To increase value of company undertake +NPV projects
What Makes Markets Efficient
- Large number of analysts
- Availability of information
- Company reports
- Legal, accounting and stock market requirements
- Credit agencies


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Volume 5 Issue 4/ Winter 2009
Images on the cover are top left: detail of Noelle Hamlyn Snell: hand embroidered gampi tissue paper (detail from wall installation "A room remembers" at Gladstone Hotel) Marci Simkulet knitting Faces in Disguise for 1oth street Bridge, part of the Calgary Bridge Banner Project. Student preparing a screen at the Centre design & impression textile de Montréal. center image Gunnel Hag's small repeat screen printed Silk


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International Arrangements:
- Paris Union (from 28 September 1976)
- WIPO (from 28 September 1976)
- PCT (from 15 September 2005) - Please note that the law in Libya has not been amended to recognise the PCT. Convention patent applications are recommended at this time.
Types of Patents Available:
- Patents of Invention
- Patents of Addition
Novelty Requirements:
Local novelty only is required. Specifically, novelty is destroyed if, less than fifty years before the date of the application:
- the invention has been publicly used or published in Libya so as to make the exploitation thereof possible by persons skilled in the art; or
- the invention is described in a patent filed in Libya before the filing date, or where applicable the priority date, by a person other than the inventor or his assignee.
Inventions relating to foodstuff, medicines or pharmaceutical preparations (excluding the process for making these preparations) are not patentable.
Filing Requirements:
Patents of Invention:
- Power of Attorney (legalised) (copy of a notarised Power of Attorney required on the day of filing and legalised Power of Attorney can be late filed within two months).
- Specification, claims and abstract in English (required on the day of filing)
- Specification, claims and abstract in Arabic (can be late filed, within two months)
- Formal drawings, if applicable, without labelling (can be late filed, within two months)
- Formal drawings, if applicable, with full labelling (can be late filed, within two months)
- Assignment of Invention (legalised) (can be late filed, within two months)
- Certificate of Incorporation (legalised) (can be late filed, within two months)
- Priority document (simple copy) with verified English translation (can be late filed within three months)
The term of a patent is ten years for patents in respect of chemical processes relating to foodstuffs, medicines and pharmaceutical preparations and fifteen years for all other patents. For the second mentioned category the patent may in certain circumstances be extended for a further period of five years. A Patent of Addition expires with the main patent.
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Lately the notion of "greatness" has been on my mind, as in making America great again. I've been looking for signs of greatness as well as lack thereof. As a South Dakotan who loves our rural state, I have also pondered over making South Dakota great again. Of course the "again" implies that both America and South Dakota have lost at least some aspects of "greatness".
For two years I have been a lobbyist in our state capital. Don't nuns belong in churches, Catholic schools and hospitals? What was I doing in the halls of the capitol building? But there I was, sent by my religious community, the Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen, to do what I could to assist in creating law that is characterized by justice and respect for the needs of all. I went with the hope that our SD legislature was working to make South Dakota great. And much of the time they do.
Testifying on certain bills or resolutions in the legislative process found me teaming with folks new to me: Muslims, the American Civil Liberties Union, NARAL, Protestant ministers, Chambers of Commerce and corporate executives from around the state. Dogmatic and other differences were shelved as we joined together to influence issues of injustice for trafficked children and adults, pregnant moms in the work place, greedy payday loans, concealed weapons; for immigrants and our elders; for education and other issues.
I was chagrined to find bills rather cleverly designed to wall off South Dakota from the desperation of refugees and immigrants, going so far as to accuse Lutheran Social Services of self-interest in their resettlement work for these folks. Some legislators believed the SD legislature should vet every immigrant and refugee, implying the two-year, twenty-step vetting by the federal government is insufficient. As I thought about this movement, I wondered why the Native Americans did not vet our European forbears who invaded Dakota Territory, nor require them to learn Lakota and be enculturated into the Lakota ways.
I noticed various occasions when testimony in committees and on the chamber floor was impotent from the outset, since it was obvious decisions on a bill had already been made behind closed doors. I noticed consistently closed caucuses preceding chamber deliberations, which raised doubts about respect for and commitment to "we the people" housed in SD and American constitutional law. I wondered if walls and exclusions and secrecy have something to do with "greatness". Sometimes it appeared that justice and respect for the good of fellow human beings were left out in the halls of the capitol while the notion of 'deliberation' was being mauled to death inside the committee rooms and the two chambers.
Following the legislative session a group of us formed the SOUTH DAKOTA VOICES FOR PEACE out of concern for some obvious signs of deterioration of what has made America, America. SDVP's vision is, A South Dakota where everyone is welcomed and valued. It's mission is, Empowering South Dakotans with accurate information about Islam, Muslims, immigrants and refugees to nurture informed, inclusive and civically engaged communities.
Lately not only sexual harassment, but evidence of white privilege and white supremacy are emerging in America as well as in South Dakota. Hundreds and hundreds of our people are patronizing imported presentations which are spewing fear, suspicion and hate especially for Muslims and for the Islamic faith. I have listened to 'prophets' of doom tell an audience of 400 of our rural citizens the mosques in Sioux Falls are covert covers for the Muslim Brotherhood who are strategizing to take over South Dakota and America. The plan is to impose an oppressive hierarchical system which is being labeled "sharia law". I have been told by these same prophets that we "interfaith people are being deluded" by Muslims in our midst who are covertly posing as good citizens until such time as their coup materializes. I have listened to these 'prophets' cast our local government officials in Aberdeen, Sioux Falls, Rapid City and the state of South Dakota as inept and ignorant of the covert strategies metastasizing in the woodwork of our cities and our state. And I think about the greatness of our founding fathers and mothers. Perhaps Lady Liberty who holds high our American beacon and her expression of the largess in our American character… "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…" perhaps she should be dismantled, for this will make American great again.
No, we need to shove ourselves off our pedestal and put our white privilege/white supremacy on a rummage sale, thereby making space for real greatness to happen. The source of justice and respect is not republican nor democrat; not Catholic nor Muslim; not Native American nor Russian; it is not even American. Justice and respect are the design and gift of our Creator, are at the core of personhood; are constitutive of what it means to be a human person.
When we work to form inclusive communities, then we are great. When we listen to opposing viewpoints, seeking what needs to change for the common good, then we are great. When the pain of others concerns us enough to generate helpfulness, then we are great. When we recognize at our human core, there is no color line, then we might aspire to greatness.
There is no hope for peace until there is a society that works for all. God loves Jews and Christians and Muslims; God cares about Buddhists and atheists, believers and the unwashed. Who among us presumes to improve on that?
– Sister Lynn Marie Welbig, PBVM, SDVP Board Member


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Hi Stamping Friends,
Have you made a shaker card lately? Stampin'Up has come out with a new product that makes it so easy to make fun shaker cards. The product is called Shaker Frames #124155 which can be found in the Holiday Mini Catalog. You get 36 frames for only $5.95.
I stamped my image from Patterened Party on Whipser White card stock and placed a Skaker Frame over top. I added some Mica Flakes #124115 $4.50 to the frame. I covered the frame with a Window sheet.
Here's the Recipe:
Stamps: Patterned Party
Paper: Real Red, So Saffron, Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper
Ink: Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Baja Breeze, So Saffron Stampin' Write Markers
Accessories: Window Sheets, 1/4" Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon, Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, 1-3/4" Circle Punch, 2-3/8" Scallop Circle Punch,Decorative Label Punch, Mica Flakes
I hope you try to make one. They're fun!!!
Happy Stamping,


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The BLOG: Voices
Why do we have academic standards in K-12?
Sandra Stotsky | January 20, 2016
There seems to be much confusion about why we have academic standards at all.
Some folks want them because they want uniformity across schools. It doesn't matter whether the standards are low or high so long as they are the same for all kids.
And then there are critics of Common Core's standards like me. I'm not a libertarian. I developed first-class standards for Massachusetts in all major subjects when I was deputy commissioner in the department of education from 1999-2003. I am in favor of the same standards for all kids but only if they are high standards — demanding standards — standards that stretch kids' minds — standards that spell out the general content that kids should learn in K-12. If the standards aren't first-class, why have them at all?
That's why I have been a persistent critic of Common Core's standards since 2009. They weren't designed to do or be any of these things. We are told they will raise academic expectations for all kids, but that was the sales pitch. How could Common Core's standards have been sold to state boards of education if its members, state legislators, parents, school administrators, and teachers were told the truth about these standards, and if one very rich man's money wasn't behind the project?
That is why complicit commissioners of education and state boards of education don't dare to put college teachers of undergraduate courses in mathematics, science, and engineering on the committees that governors have often mandated (as in Indiana and New Jersey) to review and revise their adopted Common Core standards. They know that experts in their own higher education institutions will recognize the fraudulent standards their mathematically illiterate boards adopted.
So, what are first-class standards good for, if we had them?
1. They guide the classroom curriculum a teacher teaches.
2. They guide the development of sound textbooks.
3. They guide teacher training. A good teacher preparation program makes sure it admits or graduates prospective teachers who know enough about the subject of the standards to teach to them knowledgeably.
4. They guide professional development for teachers and administrators. The professional development industry needs a lot of guidance about what to do in workshops for educators, and a first-class set of academic standards in every subject gives them the backbone they need.
5. They provide the basis for tests for prospective teachers and for K-12 students. We tend to forget that prospective teachers must pass a licensure test showing they are capable of teaching the subject they hope to teach. That licensure test for subject matter knowledge should be based on first-class content standards in that subject. The tests that K-12 students take, to show how much they are learning in K-12, should also be based on first-class content standards. Otherwise, why bother developing statewide tests based on shabby standards?
Sandra Stotsky is a former Senior Associate Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Education.


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It's Blogmas Day 2!
Yesterday I had a day out with my family to celebrate my 23rd birthday.
We went for a drive through the New Forest and had lunch at an old pub in Burley.
The Queen's Head pub was built in the 16th century and was well known for smugglers and highwaymen.
Now it's a cosy place to eat and at the moment it's all decorated for Christmas so it looks extra lovely! Plus the food is delicious so we'll all definitely be going back there soon!!!
Then we had a little look in the shops and spotted some deer before heading back to mum's house for the evening.
We got to see the most beautiful sunset along the way!
Finally, we honoured tradition and decorated the Christmas tree together whilst dancing around to Christmas songs with the cats!
It was a perfect day for birthday celebrations and festive fun 😀
I hope you are having a lovely start to December
Shannon x


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Franz Spohn – Sweet as Art!
Have we got a special treat for you! This winter, several murals by Franz Spohn (American, b. 1950) will be on display at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. These large and colourful murals are not made from the typical materials that one might expect. Instead, the murals are made from tens of thousands of gumballs carefully arranged in transparent acrylic tubes. Together, the gumballs and tubes reveal recreations of some of the most recognizable paintings in the world including Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night (1889) and Claude Monet's Water Lillies.
Over the past year, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery has been collaborating with Franz Spohn on several sweet murals. To celebrate the temporary closure and rejuvenation of the Gallery last winter, we held the events Off the Walls and BRB, where hundreds of visitors participated in the creation of three murals, using more than 60,000 gumballs. This past August, we brought the colourful and sugar-filled creative activity to other areas in the province, visiting Florenceville and Edmundston, so that participants there could share in the fun. The exhibition Sweet as Art! will be the culmination of these projects by displaying all of the gumball murals together for the first time.
Franz Spohn earned his M.F.A. from the Ohio State University in printmaking and drawing in 1975. Since then he has continuously taught at a variety of institutions ranging from Washington State University, the Walla Walla State Penitentiary in Washington State to the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. He is currently among the tenured art faculty at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania where he teaches printmaking. Spohn has been a visiting artist at numerous institutions across Canada and internationally, notably The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, University of Lethbridge and The Banff Centre, National Science Museum, London, England; Franklin Institute of Science, Philadelphia; National History Museum, Philadelphia; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH.
Spohn has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally in both museum and commercial gallery venues including the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary; Pacifico Gallery, NYC and the Marian Lockes Gallery, Philadelphia.
Organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and curated by Jeffrey Spalding


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The speaker does not need to wait for the interpreter but speaks at a normal rate of speech allowing the interpreters to professionally present to the listeners.
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For a small group of listeners the audience employs small personal headsets while the interpreter speaks softly into a microphone. This type of interpreting sometimes interferes with the audience who is not wearing headsets and should only be used in an informal setting. Additionally, the presenter should pause occasionally to allow the interpreter to present their ideas effectively.
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Taitan Homes Design provides one-stop interior design and renovation services. Taitan Printing Services specializes in all kinds of printing services such as business card, banner, flyer, etc. Taitan Hair Salon provides professional hair cut and hair care services.
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You've heard of a drive-in theater, but have you ever been to a cycle-in cinema?
We'll meet at Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge Park and ride through Brooklyn, with a stop at the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
The ride will be followed by an indoor screening of Chasing Ice (admission: $10) at UnionDocs, with proceeds to benefit Bike New York, a local nonprofit cycling organization.
Stick around after the screening for a dialogue with leading environmentalists, filmmakers and cycling enthusiasts, including Beth Heyde of Bike New York and the Council for Responsible Sport, Cyndi Steiner of New Jersey Bike and Walk Coalition,and Erica Schlaikjer of Benevolent Media.
Chill out with chilled drinks from Honest Tea, frozen treats from Blue Marble Ice Cream, and an auction of gift certificates from the Brooklyn Farmacy, Yoogler and cycling accessories from Cleverhood.