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The Legend of Zelda Exploring the Wild Part 2: Mystery of The Old Man
Welcome back to my new column properly named "Exploring the Wild" where I explore all the mysteries behind the new Zelda.
Last time, we jumped head first into the nature-filled wilderness we call The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. From now on, I will be touching on different subjects regarding the game and see what we can discover. Today, let us identify, or at least try to, the Old Man we see first thing in the game.
In Breath of the Wild, the first thing that hit is not only how expansive the world is, but how it lacked civilization. Link finds himself in the Grand Plateau with no city, village or town in sight. The only person you see once leaving the Shrine of Resurrection is an old man. This Old Man seems to have been put in as the first NPC you see as a reference to the original game on NES, as hinted by producer Eiji Aonuma during the E3 Nintendo Treehouse broadcast.
However, that isn't enough to explain what or who this man is. There is a lot of speculation on this man's identity and today, I am going to pierce through all the buzz going around and pinpoint what are his possible connections throughout Hyrule's history. Only then, may we begin to understand a little more on the mystery behind this wise figure.
In the Demo:
After the initial meeting in the beginning of the game, the Old Man tells us about the origins of the kingdom of Hyrule as well as the Temple of Time's state. However, the interaction goes beyond this meeting. The Old Man continues to reappear throughout our exploration of the Grand Plateau using his Paraglider. He informs Link about the towers and the Shrines of Trials located across Hyrule. It is also important to note that the Old Man is the one who informs Link about the creature looming over Hyrule Castle and declares it to be named the Calamity Ganon.
"That… is the Calamity Ganon. It brought ruin and corruption upon the kingdom of Hyrule 100 years ago." – The Old Man
Hyrule's Old Man Hall of Fame:
This Old Man bears resemblance to a number of wise men in past Zelda games and I will explore each connection and highlight what is the link (get it?) between them and this mysterious man we meet first thing in Breath of the Wild. Without further ado, let us begin:
- King Daphnes Nohansenn Hyrule, King of Hyrule (Wind Waker)
Say hello to the king himself! King Daphnes Nohansenn Hyrule was the last king of Hyrule before it got flooded by the three Goddesses in the Adult timeline. His spirit is the one who lingered on with the kingdom and took the form of the King of Red Lions, a red sailboat that assists Link in the Wind Waker. He also acts as a guide for the hero of winds throughout his adventure across the Great Sea.
He is the first to talk about because many have noticed that the Old Man from the Breath of the Wild looks pretty similar to the King of Hyrule. The serious look, epic mustache and strong nose are hard to be ignored. Here is a picture of the comparison.
This could simply be a coincidence in character design or there could be a connection there. If so, is the Old Man perhaps a descendant from the last King before the kingdom's demise? The Old Man is not there in spirit form as he seen paragliding and all. His knowledge of the whereabouts of the kingdom is also peculiar as well.
- Rauru, The Sage of Light (Ocarina of Time)
The second man we will explore is none other than Rauru, the Sage of Light. Rauru has done to protect the land of Hyrule and plays an important role not only in Ocarina of Time, but in the events before it as well. Rauru is the one who built the Temple of Time that we see in Ocarina of time and Twilight Princess, located nearer to the current Hyrule Castle compared to the original temple in the Lanayru Desert seen in Skyward Sword. This Temple of Time acts as the only link to the Sacred Realm left and can only be accessed through the Master Sword.
In Ocarina of Time, this is the first person Link, the Hero of Time, sees after waking up from a seven-year slumber in the Sacred Realm. Rauru also takes the form of Kaepora Gaebora, an owl who serves as a guide to Link ever since he first leaves Kokiri Forest as a child. He takes this shape in the real world since he no longer retains his original body as it has long past since the days of the Era of Chaos; when the Temple of Time was built. He only reveals his true form in the Chamber of Sages since it is located in the Sacred Realm, where the Light Temple, the source of his power, resides.
- Gaepora, Mayor of Skyloft's Knight Academy and Zelda's Father (Skyward Sword)
Gaepora is the Mayor of Skyloft's Knight Academy in Skyward Sword. He also seems to act as the town's leader to a certain extent. This man is also the first ever confirmed character to be a family member to Zelda; he is Zelda's father. Gaepora plays a major role in the protection of Skyloft, which is the patch of land on which the Temple of Time Rauru will build centuries later. He is also the sworn Guardian of the Goddess Sword, the Master Sword before tempering.
Throughout his adventure, Link, the Hero's Successor, often returns to Gaepora in search of knowledge as he is the keeper of Skyloft's legends. It is also important to notice how Gaepora's name and appearance is very similar to Kaepora Gaebora, the Light Sage Rauru's owl form.
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Now, through the roles and relations of these three men, we can find odd similarities and unique traits to each of them. They all play a major role in assisting the Hero, especially with advice and knowledge on the hero's quest as well as the history and legends of the land. In short, they are all crucial Link's development and finding his way.
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Furthermore, some of these men share certain traits which could lead us to believe that although they may not be the same people, they may be represented in similar patterns. For example, both King Daphnes and Gaepora are family related to Zelda in multiple eras. King Daphnes may not be Zelda's father in the Wind Waker, but may be the father of her ancestor as seen in the portraits of the submerged Hyrule Castle.
Rauru was never confirmed to be related to anyone and not much is known of his origins as he lived in a time where there was no game in that period of time in Hyrule's history. As he is an important figure from the time when the kingdom of Hyrule was first formed, it isn't out of this world if it turns out he has a link to the Royal Family. It would definitely explain his immense affinity to the Light; as all Sages are aligned with their origins.
- Rauru, Hylian: Sage of Light
- Impa, Sheikah: Sage of Shadow
- Saria, Kokiri: Sage of Forest
- Nabooru, Gerudo: Sage of Spirit
- Darunia, Goron: Sage of Fire
- Ruto, Zora: Sage of Water
Men with Multiple Faces and Epitome of Knowledge:
Rauru needed to aid Link in Hyrule but lacked the physical manifestation of his original body and has thus taken the form of an owl. Likewise, the King took the form of a sail boat and helped Link travel the Great Sea. They both also served as a guide to the hero throughout his quest.
The guides aided the hero with advice, but not all of them needed to transform to offer this kind of help. Gaepora and the Old Man from Breath of the Wild are both alive and thus have no need of an alternate appearance to help the hero. Also, all of these men were known for their immense knowledge of the land and its history.
The Old Man in Breath of the Wild has proven to be more than just a call to the franchise's roots. This man clearly knows of the land's history and its troubles and instructs the hero to get his quest started. He offers knowledge and advice and this puts him on the same pedestal as the old wise men of the past.
If this Old Man will share any of the characteristics of these men, then we can safely assume that his identity may be linked to the Royal Family that ruled Hyrule 100 years prior to Link's awakening. He is also very knowledgeable about the Sheikah Slate and we know that the Sheikah have always served the Royal Family and very few know of their secrets. Also, his lack of red eyes excludes him from being a possible Sheikah elder of some sort. So, a link to the Royal Family remains the most plausible conclusion.
This will also explain why he is sitting there waiting outside the Shrine of Resurrection near the ruined Temple of Time, this same temple Rauru had built all those centuries ago. He also probably knows of Link's awakening and was simply waiting for him… to prepare him for his quest.
I believe we are nearing the end of our leads and as of now, it is most probably the case where this Old Man may be linked to Royal Family or even the Sage of Light. The final evidence needed to back this is when the Old Man would remove his hood and show us his ears, proving if he is a Hylian or not. This is would make his affinity to Light definitive.
That is all for the Old Man fellow adventurers. Next time, I will dive further into the current state of the Temple of Time seen in Breath of the Wild and finding out why their rusted Guardians and the like. If you haven't had the chance, I invite to read my first step in this long exploration into the world of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Stay tuned to IMGMR for the next part!


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I've been running on four hours sleep a night for some time now, and I took the day off and simply crashed for over twelve :)
Anticipation for Metal Gear Solid 4 is steadily ramping up. Pundits and fans alike are tracking its progress like magi staring at the horizon looking for a star to follow. I have little doubt that it'll be the best selling PlayStation 3 game to date, but the series is seriously overrated. The control scheme is unnecessarily obtuse, the story is an amateurish junior high writing project (if you're a fanboy, don't even start with those delusions of allegorical grandeur), and the overwrought cutscenes are a crime against cinema and gameplay. Metal Gear Solid 3 had over three hours of that garbage - you'd be far better off watching the third Matrix film. And up until the "special edition" Subsistence edition of Metal Gear Solid 3, the static camera kept the series stuck in an ancient, clumsy, decades old, essentially 2-D view.
I am interested in the advancements Hideo Kojima is making in the series, and I will be buying a copy of Metal Gear Solid 4. But it's still Metal Gear Solid which means that it'll still be full of the Metal Gear Solid bullshit. That doesn't ruin the games, which are still fun, but once again, the series is totally overrated.
PlayStation 3 owners should instead be whipping up into a frenzy over Resistance 2. In addition to single player campaign and multiplayer adversarial modes, Resistance 2 will feature a full separate 8 player cooperative mode, designed to force each participant to tackle distinct objectives in order for the group to advance through.
Xbox Live buddies should note that I recently changed my gamertag to "Vawce".
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A Receiver-Centric Transport Protocol for Mobile Hosts with Heterogeneous Wireless Interfaces
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Numerous transport protocols have been proposed in related work for use by mobile hosts over wireless environments. A common theme among the design of such protocols is that they specifically address the distinct characteristics of the last-hop wireless link, such as random wireless errors, round-trip time variations, blackouts, handoffs, etc. In this paper, we argue that due to the defining role played by the wireless link on a connection's performance, locating the intelligence of a transport protocol at the mobile host that is adjacent to the wireless link can result in distinct performance advantages. To this end, we present a receiver-centric transport protocol called RCP (Reception Control Protocol) that is a TCP clone in its general behavior, but allows for better congestion control, loss recovery, and power management mechanisms compared to sender-centric approaches. More importantly, in the context of recent trends where mobile hosts are increasingly being equipped with multiple interfaces providing access to heterogeneous wireless networks, we show that a receiver-centric protocol such as RCP can enable a powerful and comprehensive transport layer solution for such multi-homed hosts. Specifically, we describe how RCP can be used to provide: (i) a scalable solution to support interface specific congestion control for a single active connection; (ii) seamless server migration capability during handoffs; and (iii) effective bandwidth aggregation when receiving data through multiple interfaces, either from one server, or from multiple replicated servers. We use both packet level simulations, and real Internet experiments to evaluate the proposed protocol.
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TRENTON � Gov. Chris Christie is expected to deliver his proposal for a 2014-15 budget Tuesday, but already Democratic leaders are casting doubts on the state�s ability to afford any type of tax cut.
Christie has been calling for an income tax cut or credit for the better part of the past two years, and during his State of the State speech last month, he promised to again present some choices for �changing the state�s tax system.�
�You�ve got to be kidding me right now,� Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-3rd of West Deptford, said Monday during a Statehouse news conference in advance of the governor�s budget address.
Sweeney, who was joined at the news conference by Senate Budget and Appropriations Chairman Paul Sarlo, D-36th of Wood-Ridge, said the state can�t afford to cut taxes given its other commitments, notably an expected $2.4 billion payment into the public employee pension that Christie promised to make in 2011, when he signed a pension and health benefits overhaul into law.
The bill required most public employees to contribute more toward their health benefits and pension, but it also required the state to make annual payments into the system, rather than skipping them, as was done in the past.
During the news conference, Sweeney reiterated his position that the Democratic-controlled Legislature would not support any spending plan that fails to make the full scheduled payment during the upcoming fiscal year.
In his State of the State speech, Christie said that the rising pension payment � which is scheduled to increase from $1.7 to $2.4 billion for the upcoming fiscal year � is putting a squeeze on the state�s ability to fund other programs, and that additional reforms need to be discussed.
He later clarified on his monthly call-in radio show that he never meant he wouldn�t make the state�s payment, and that he would work with actuaries to make the �appropriate payment.�
Sweeney and Sarlo said they were troubled by Christie�s choice of the word �appropriate.� Although both lawmakers said they favored negotiating a final spending plan with the governor, they said there would be no negotiations on the pension payment.
�We�re going to have the pension payment funded or we�re not going to have a budget,� Sweeney said. �The only commitment we had was that we�d make our payment. We made that promise. I can�t break that.�
Sarlo also warned that the coming fiscal year budget would likely be the most difficult one Christie has faced. Revenues from the current fiscal year are lagging at least $400 million below what he projected, and the state has continued to rely on borrowing to keep the state�s Transportation Trust Fund solvent.
The trust fund, which is used to pay for road and bridge repairs as well as other transportation improvements, relies on revenues from New Jersey�s gasoline tax and other motor vehicle fees. But after decades of borrowing, all those revenues are now needed to cover the fund�s debt payments.
�You�ve got a billion-plus problem on our hands,� Sarlo said. �We need to hear a plan on how to fix this.�
Sweeney said the best budget solution is to speed the state�s economic rebound. He said New Jersey�s recovery continues to lag other states.
�You�ve got to find ways to produce revenues without picking the pockets to pensioners,� he said.
Short term, Sweeney said that reinstating an income tax surcharge on millionaires that expired in 2010 would be one way to generate more tax dollars, but that he doesn�t see a �willingness� from the governor to go along with such a proposal, even with a four-year sunset.
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How To Look For The Martial Arts Class For You
If you are thinking of enrolling in a martial arts class, you have definitely come to the right article because here, we will provide you with tips in looking for the right martial arts class for you.
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The Belmont's former homeland of Wallachia now lays in ruins; bereft of people and overrun with monsters. The enemies are fairly weak and there are no real jumping hazards. This is a chance to get used to the controls and combat.
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Not only is the town square is completely empty, but you can fully charge your whip and get a couple of hearts and a Dagger.
- Notes
- While the Dagger is rarely the best weapon, it is the only one available now, so grab it.
- Get both of these big hearts, otherwise you won't get a second whip power-up from the last candle.
- In the Second Quest, there will be endless Zombies and Bats.
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- It is here that you first encounter Dracula's undead hosts. The basic skeletons will crumble with a single hit from a powered-up whip. Take the powerups from the candles and ascend through the church.
- The next area scrolls upward, but the scrolling is one-way; you can still fall off the bottom if you do not watch yourself. Deal with the occasional bat that flies your way. Near the top, you can switch out your dagger for Holy Water, which will be much more useful against your mostly ground-based enemies. Ascend the stairs at the top.
- Be careful as you emerge in the next area, as the skeletons here are much tougher; not only are they much faster and can jump about, but they occasionally lobs bones at you. They will harass you as you try to climb stairs and jump gaps. Near the end you will find one candle very high up. This and a few others in the game contain high-value prizes but can only be obtained on a second playthrough. Descend the stairs.
- This next area contains flipping platforms. As long as you simply walk across them, they don't move. But land on them in any way from above (this includes jumping, falling, or being knocked back by a hit), and the platform will flip, and if you're not quick, it'll dump you. To make things trickier, the flying Medusa heads make their entrance here, and their wavy flight patterns will test your ability to avoid an unwanted drop. You must navigate the upper path without being dumped in order to reach the door to the next area. In Second Quest, there will be flying skulls without a predictable movement.
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- Whip your way past the zombies. Near a gap will be an Axe: a good weapon for the coming boss battle. Also don't be afraid to take the Cross near the stairs down. This simply wipes out all the on-screen enemies, giving you a clear run down.
- Going down, you may notice a candle you can't reach at first, but a block at the bottom can be broken with your whip, allowing you to reach both the candle and some meat hidden in blocks in the corner. Ahead, watch out for some hunchbacks; you may wish to stay towards the bottom so you can handle them more easily. Guarding the door is a twin-headed statue. It always spits fireballs in threes. The bad news is the fireballs will be too low to duck and tricky to jump; the good news is they're exactly at whip level, so you can whip the fireballs away. The statue itself will take numerous hits, even with a full-power whip.
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- Deal with the initial rush of zombies and bats by finding the nearby Cross. Then make your way across the graveyard (you may wish to avoid the dagger) until you finally reach the Skull Warrior. Defeat the Skull Warrior and retrieve the first crystal to clear the stage.
Fork In The Road
Upon clearing this stage, you will come to a fork in the road. You must choose your next course.
Take the upper path to attempt the Clock Tower of Untimely Death. Take this path if you wish to recruit Grant Danasty.
Take the lower path to proceed to the Mad Forest. You will eventually go here no matter what, so take this if you are not interested in Grant.
Items checklist[edit]
- Dagger
- Holy water
- Stopwatch
- Axe
- Cross necklace
- Food (inside wall)
- Cross necklace
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Pandora Charms President for ANZ Brien Winther lauded the move as part of Pandora's commitment to give customers a seamless experience in the physical and digital retail environments.
"While our focus is on delivering a world-class in-store experience, the time has come for us to provide a way for people to purchase Pandora on a convenient, digital platform," said Winther. "Our online store is an important milestone for Pandora in Australia, and will allow us to complement our store network and strengthen the wonderful experience we provide consumers by giving them new ways to interact and engage with Pandora."
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
This time last year
This time last year I was trying to think of something to give my youngest daughter for her third birthday. She didn't seem to need anything, so something handmade seemed to be in order. I already had some basted hexagons and a couple of hexagon flowers with this quilt in mind ....
...from this book;
I used an old business shirt of my husband's for the background, scraps from my stash for the flowers, and two more business shirts arrived in time for the backing and binding.
The quilt measures 13 1/2"x 15". The hexagons are 2" across (straight side to straight side). It is hand pieced using English paper piecing, and hand quilted.
August in Italy is not a great month for sewing - luckily this was small. All the same, it is not my best stitching as my eyes got rather foggy. I am not sure how interested my little one was in the quilt - she seemed more interested in unwrapping her presents than what was inside. In any case, it looks lovely in the girls bedroom and I enjoy it every time I walk past.
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What a sweet little gift! Having just pushed myself to finish a quilt in extreme heat..I can really appreciate your efforts. :)ReplyDelete
As we work on gifts for loved ones we go through an emotional "bonding" journey, and hope the recipient feels the love? I hope in time your Daughter realizes what she has. Sometimes it's not until we are grown and ARE the Mama that realize the sweet things that were done for us?
If this isn't your best stitching, I'd like to see what is! I zoomed in on that little quilt (thanks for making the photos nice and big), and your stitching looks wonderful. I also love the subtle colors you used, and the dress shirts are perfect as background and binding.ReplyDelete
Ann said it so well -- you daughter is just a little girl, but some day she's going to really appreciate this sweet quilt, and all the others you are going to make for her.
It's really cute, what a neat gift, I love the look of the book too. It's hard to do much of anything in the heat.ReplyDelete
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I have that book too. There are some lovely vintage quilts in it that serve as great inspiration. There seems to be a resurgence in popularity of hexagon quilts in blogland of late. Yours is lovely.
I think I might have to make the odd doll quilt - a way to get a completed project for a change.


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We Will Homes offer for sale this immaculately presented two bedroom property in Mount Pleasant with views towards the city and over Swansea Bay. Ideal for a first time buyer, the property offers spacious accommodation with living room and separate dining room with an opening to the kitchen which has solid oak floor throughout. To the first floor, there are two double bedrooms and a contemporary shower room with large walk in shower. The property also benefits from new Upvc double glazing throughout and combination boiler. Offered with no onward chain, please call We Will Homes to arrange your viewing on 01792476226.
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In an action brought by a patron against a tavern for negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress arising from the patron's having been beaten and raped by nonpatrons after the tavern served her alcohol when it knew the patron was intoxicated, the judge correctly concluded that the plaintifFs injuries were not sufficiently foreseeable, in the circumstances, to wan-ant the imposition of liability and correctly ruled in favor of the defendant on motions for summary judgment. [145-146, 148]
Discussion of cases in which criminal or tortious behavior by others has been sufficiently foreseeable to warrant a proprietor's liability to a patron. [146-148]
CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Superior Court Department on August 9, 1995.
The case was heard by Carol S. Ball, J., on motions for summary judgment.
H. Ernest Stone & Mark W. Griffin for the plaintiff.
Andrew D. Myers & Robert J. Carnevale for the defendant.
ARMSTRONG, C.J. After consuming between ten and a dozen twelve-ounce bottles of beer in the course of a day, the plaintiff went to a local package store at approximately 7 P.m. and bought two additional bottles of beer. She was drinking them outside the store when she met an acquaintance who invited her to accompany him to the defendant's tavern, Gus and Paul's. She arrived at about 8 P.m., highly intoxicated, and remained there for the next three or four hours, consuming two drinks of hard liquor and five twelve-ounce beers. She was visibly drunk: she had difficulty walking, kept falling down, appeared depressed
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and sleepy, and had slurred speech. When she left at approximately 11:30 P.m. she could barely walk and had to be helped to the door.
As she began to walk home, two men in a van, Ronald Cremin and Richard Mavilia, saw her staggering down the street and offered her a ride home. She accepted, although she was later to assert in an affidavit that she would not have done so if she had not been intoxicated. The men refused to let her out of the van when they arrived near her home. Instead they drove her to a friend's trailer, beat and raped her, and left her in the woods, nude and injured [Note 1]. The next morning she was taken to a hospital by the Groton police. Her blood alcohol content was .248. [Note 2]
Westerback sued the tavern for negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress, contending that her injuries resulted from its having served her alcohol knowing that she was intoxicated, in violation of G. L. c. 138, s. 69. While awaiting trial, both parties moved for summary judgment. The defendant's motion was allowed, and the case is before us on the plaintiff's appeal.
The issue is whether the judge was correct in ruling that the plaintiff's injuries were not proximately caused by the defendant's serving her alcohol while she was intoxicated. "Generally, the act of a third person in committing an intentional tort constitutes a superseding cause of harm to another resulting therefrom, even though the actor's conduct created a situation which afforded an opportunity to the third person to commit such a tort or a crime. However, liability will be imposed where the actor realized, or should have realized, the likelihood that such a situation might be created, and that a third person might avail himself of the opportunity to commit a crime." Gidwani v. Wasserman, 373 Mass. 162, 166 (1977). "The specific kind of harm need not be foreseeable . . . provided it was foreseeable that there would be violence toward others." Carey v. New Yorker of Worcester, Inc., 355 Mass. 450, 454(1969).
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Questions of reasonable foreseeability are ordinarily left to the jury, but the judge may properly decide them as a question of law where the harm suffered, although within the range of human experience, is sufficiently remote in everyday life as not to require special precautions for the protection of patrons. Barnes v. Geiger, 15 Mass. App. Ct. 365, 367-369 (1983). Glick v. Prince Italian Foods of Saugus, Inc., 25 Mass. App. Ct. 901, 902 (1987). See, for example, Whittaker v. Saraceno, 418 Mass. 196, 196-201 (1994), in which a commercial landlord, alleged to have provided inadequate security, was not held liable for an intruder's rape of the plaintiff because the attack was not sufficiently foreseeable in the low-crime area. In our view, the judge here ruled correctly that this was not a case in which the rape should have been foreseen and guarded against by the proprietor of the tavern.
There have been two major groups of cases in which criminal or tortious behavior has been held sufficiently foreseeable as to warrant imposing liability on purveyors of alcoholic beverages. One is where injuries result from the acts of drunken patrons on the premises, whether the drunk inflicts the injuries, as in Wood v. Ray-Al Cafe, Inc., 349 Mass. 766, 766 (1965); Carey v. New Yorker of Worcester, Inc., 355 Mass. at 451-452; and Sweenor v. 162 State St., Inc., 361 Mass. 524, 525-527 (1972); or is himself the injured party, as in O'Hanley v. Ninety-Nine, Inc., 12 Mass. App. Ct. 64, 68-69 (1981). The second group is where a drunken patron inflicts injuries on others by negligent driving after leaving the premises. See Adamian v. Three Sons, Inc., 353 Mass. 498, 499-501 (1968); Cimino v. Mitford Keg, Inc., 385 Mass. 323, 328-334 (1982) [Note 3].
In contrast, we are aware of no Massachusetts appellate decision holding that a tavern owner may be found liable for an intoxicated patron's injuries that were caused by a criminal act perpetrated off the tavern premises by individuals with no connection to the tavern. Most decisions in which proprietors have been held liable to their patrons for criminal acts of others are those in which the proprietor fails to provide reasonably needed security precautions in or just outside the premises, thus laying patrons or their property open to injury or loss. Such decisions include Morse v. Homer's, Inc., 295 Mass. 606, 609-610 (1936)
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(jewelry store that had been robbed twice before was negligent in failing reasonably to protect a valuable, consigned diamond ring from theft by armed robbers) [Note 4]; Gidwani v. Wasserman, 373 Mass. at 166-167 (landlord liable for burglary of tenant's clothing store after disengaging burglar alarm); Mullins v. Pine Manor College, 389 Mass. 47, 54-55 (1983) (failure of college to provide adequate security against intruders, liable in rape of student); Sharpe v. Peter Pan Bus Lines, Inc., 401 Mass. 788, 791-792 (1988) (bus line and municipality that operated terminal could be liable for unprovoked stabbing at the terminal of patron that might have been deterred by uniformed security officer); Fund v. Hotel Lenox of Boston, Inc., 418 Mass. 191, 192-194 (1994) (murder of guest in hotel located in a high-crime area that had inadequate security to discourage intruders); Poskus v. Lombardo's of Randolph, Inc., 423 Mass. 637, 637-638, 640641 (1996) (foreseeable in some circumstances that leaving keys negligently in vehicle's ignition will lead to theft and negligent driving of vehicle by thief; not foreseeable, however, that policeman chasing thief on foot would injure himself arresting thief); Magaw v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Authy., 21 Mass. App. Ct. 129, 131-135 (1985) (MBTA liable in mugging of female patron in unlighted tunnel that passed under the tracks at the Ashmont station); Flood v. Southland Corp., 33 Mass. App. Ct. 287, 296-299 (1992), S.C., 416 Mass. 62, 71-73 (1993) (foreseeable that drunken youths, one armed with a knife, loitering outside convenience store, might stab a patron).
In all of those cases, the crime that injured the patron or his property took place on or just off the premises of the proprietor found to be liable, in circumstances where the nature or condition of the premises called for security to ward off foreseeable criminal activity. Factors that have been cited as supporting a finding of foreseeability include a history of prior criminal episodes (Mullins, supra; Sharpe, supra; Fund, supra; Whittaker, supra; Magaw, supra), the unruly behavior or drunkenness of one or more persons on or just off the premises (Carey, 355 Mass. at 452-453, and cases cited; Flood, supra), a display of weapons (Flood, supra), failure to provide adequate lighting in secluded areas of the premises (Magaw, supra), or a failure to provide security, such as guards, locks, alarms, or surveil-
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lance, in places where such precautions are the norm (Gidwani, supra; Mullins, supra; Sharpe, supra; Fund, supra). There is nothing in the evidence in this case to suggest that the rape of the plaintiff by a predator was reasonably foreseeable, see Whittaker v. Saraceno, 418 Mass. at 200-201, unless one can draw the inference, simply from the general vulnerability of drunks, that they will likely be targeted by criminals - perhaps muggers or, as here, a rapist. A real difficulty with permitting a jury to draw such an inference is that most persons who drink alcoholic beverages are, to some extent, temporarily impaired, even if only slightly; the question of how impaired would inevitably be one for the jury; and owners and managers of taverns and licensed restaurants and clubs would in effect become the insurers of their patrons against criminal attacks. "There must be limits to the scope or definition of reasonable foreseeability based on considerations of policy and pragmatic judgment." Poskus v. Lombardo's of Randolph, Inc., 423 Mass. at 640. Barnes v. Geiger, 15 Mass. App. Ct. at 368-369.
The judge correctly allowed the defendant's motion for summary judgment.
Judgment affirmed.
[Note 1] Cremin testified in a deposition that he was indicted for, and pled guilty to, aggravated rape, kidnapping, and mayhem for the attack and was sentenced to two and one-half years in prison.
[Note 2] These facts were alleged by the plaintiff and stipulated to by the defendant for purposes of its summary judgment motion. The defendant asserts that, if the case were tried, it would endeavor to show that the plaintiff was not visibly drunk while in the tavern and that she left in a taxicab.
[Note 3] Contrast Barboza v. Decas, 311 Mass. 10, 13 (1942) (assault with intent to rape is not the natural and probable consequence of furnishing intoxicating liquor to the perpetrator).
[Note 4] Contrast Bellows v. Worcester Storage Co., 297 Mass. 188, 194-197 (1937) (warehouse not liable for fire started by deranged truck driver of whose mental condition the proprietor had no notice).


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Islamic Dua For Love
Islamic Dua For Love is in which Ayat comes from the word of Ayah ,dua to improve increase love between husband and wife wazifa is formulae for solving any types of problem which can't be solved in easily way Through which we obtained our result in Islamic Dua For Love Work Like Fire is the Islamic Dua/Prayer for Lover Who want to their lost love back,want to marry with lover, Love someone and make them own they may read this wazifa only for Marriage Purpose not for other relations. For More Wazaif Like very simple way through which we can create or origin of any things is we think I start with name of the Allah then the work is hard or easy able to succeeded as soon as possible similarly the Islamic Dua For Love back is accepted by the Allah because Allah is the most beneficent and the most merciful for all .
Islamic Dua For Love is that In which love is the best procedure through which there is deducting of misunderstanding, misbehavior, lack of trust, lack of confidence, lack of honest due to which there is not creating of problems in the mind of couples through which their life become longer or long which comes from the positive thinking between them. Love creates attraction and affection between couples or partners and through which want to get him/her back by using any ways.


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Patterns and instability of grannular flow
Description: Dense granular flows are often observed to become unstable and form inhomogeneous structures in nature or industry. Although recently significant advances have been made in understanding simple flows, instabilities are often not understood in detail. We present experimental and numerical results that show the formation of longitudinal stripes. These arise from instability of the uniform flowing state of granular media on a rough inclined plane. The form of the stripes depends critically on the mean density of the flow with a robust form of stripes at high density that consists of fast sliding plug-like regions (stripes) on top of highly agitated boiling material -- a configuration reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect when a droplet of liquid lifted by its vapor is hovering above a hot surface.
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(Late reflections for Mother's Day)
Of all the made-up commercial holidays, Mother's Day, for me, is the least irritating. After all, if I was going to be guilted into blowing money on cards, flowers, and the obligatory brunch, at least it was going to be for Mom. So to moms everywhere, y'all rock.
And this goes double for the moms we do not celebrate on Mother's Day — the ones who get painted as fiscally and sexually irresponsible, the deviant mothers who are subjected to discipline and sanction.
For decades, the deviant mother has served as a convenient scapegoat for state ills. As Anna Marie Smith has observed, "the State lays the blame for poverty at the door of the deviant mother who is ideologically constructed as black, heterosexual, unmarried, and sexually precocious." These are the mothers who are somehow painted as undeserving.
When American celebrates Mother's Day, we don't always include mothers like Shirley Tan, a Filipina mother of twin boys who faced deportation after twenty years of residency in San Francisco. Under the current laws, Tan's committed relationship with her female partner—a United States citizen—remains unrecognized. After much community advocacy, Tan was eventually granted a reprieve, an exception-based solution that fails to address the roots of the problem.
We don't celebrate mothers like Elvira Arellano, an immigration activist who sought sanctuary in a church in order to being deported and separated from her eight-year-old son.
Nor do we celebrate other immigrant mothers, whose very reasons for coming to America center around their families and their children.
Laura Pulido* has criticized mainstream, liberal feminism for its blind eye to the predicaments of Shirley Tan and Elvira Arellano, who are emblematic of "racially and socially despised" mothers. The politics of motherhood is such a potentially powerful framework, one that could link diverse constituencies of women. It's a pity how this potential still gets thwarted by racism, nativism, and xenophobia.
*Laura Pulido, "Immigation Politics and Motherhood," Amerasia Journal, Spring 2009.


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Welcome to the Web Home of the USS SELLERS (DDG 11)
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We are an Association that connects all of our SELLERS shipmates and their family members together. The Association coordinates activities related to our group, maintains a database of our shipmates, and sets up our SELLERS Reunions every two (2) years. Your participation in the Association is a necessary key in keeping the memories of the SELLERS alive for our group, our families, our friends, and the generations of sailors to come. You may join our Association and help keep the memories alive for only $15.00 per year (send to our Treasurer).
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Health & Safety at work is a major issue for workers across the Asia Pacific region. Poverty forces workers to take any job, no matter how dangerous. Dangers come from unsafe machines, unsafe production methods and from chemicals, dusts and explosions. Hazards to workers include heat, cold, falling from high places, confined spaces, radiation, vibration and noise. Hazards at work also include violence, assaults and bullying against workers.
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AAWL has developed the Regional Health & Safety Project to support workers and unions organising for health & safety. The project aims to link activist networks and union to support workers organising for health & safety in the Asia Pacific region.
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We have helped to promote a body mapping workshop, which is a method of organising a Health & Safety discussion at work without needing documents, books or written reports.
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Contrary to the Federal Government's declaration that Nigeria is currently undergoing recession, a Macro Economics expert has said what the country is facing is mere structural problem. In this interview with Yemi Akinsuyi and Donald Tseen, Professor Olaniyi Oyinlola of the Department of Economics, University of Abuja, prescribes solutions to get the Nigerian economy working again.
Sir, what is your assessment of the current economic situation in Nigeria?
The situation is that the Nigerian economy has been going through some problems and which in the last two, three years was triggered off by financial crises arising from short fall in the sale of crude oil. Nigeria economy is a one – legged economy, in the sense that it only relies on the sale of crude oil and it is through the sale of crude oil that generates about 90% of foreign exchange to import raw materials for industries, to import spare parts for maintenance of machines, and to service the taste, the highly bloated taste of Nigerians for consumption of foreign goods and services.
It is also through the sale of crude oil that government generates revenue that is used to service the needs of government, paying salaries and doing infrastructural projects and all other things. So, when there was short fall on crude oil sales and which came into two forms: short fall in sale, and reduction in price and so the revenue generation came down seriously. It started in the last quarter of 2014. It has been there but became problematic under the previous administration and the price went down as low as $29. I think 2015 from $100 and something dollars and coupled with that the new destruction in Niger Delta, which now further reduced production. So the price has fallen and we were not able to meet up with our quota sale and production also reduced. So all these compounded the problem and that is why there was always this debate of recession. I would have said I don't think we are in recession.
What have we done wrong? what has led to this particular problem of recession in our economy and what can we do that will right the wrong?
I don't think we are in a recession, technically, talking about recession, we are talking about a negative growth in gross domestic product (G.D.P). When you have a negative volume in two consecutive quarters, then it signals that something is wrong. But the main problem why you are afraid of recession is that it reduces employments and unemployment increases but the question is when the economy was growing it was not producing employment. So the problem of unemployment did not start with the negative growth of G.D.P the problem of unemployment has been there before the negative growth of the G.D.P when the economy was growing at 10%, unemployment was still rising, so the economy was not doing well. When the economy is doing well, the growth produces employment so when growth reduces, unemployment increases.
But now we have growth that was not producing employment because the growth was happening in sectors that were not employment elastic. Like in petroleum industry, crude oil production is not employment elastic. This grows in sectors with increase in foreign exchange earn and increase in money available to import and export. We have growth in trade and trade is not employment elastic. I have a big shop, I have goods worth five million Naira
and my trade bought and I sold the goods worth N10 million, there is growth, my sale has doubled but I am still the only person using the same setup so it has not created employment. Increasing my sale from 5 million by a doubled sale of 10 Million is not that elastic. The actual area that supposed to generate employment is manufacturing sectors and probably solid mineral development and these areas have been neglected for years. Manufacturing has been in comma. It has been lying down. If you look at the GDP it is at 6%, 7%, 8%. Then solid minerals has always been less than 1% for a long time. So, these are areas that generate employment. Agriculture can be employment elastic but the kind of employment agriculture produces is not employment that brings the nation out of poverty. So the kind of employment made is only when you move from primary to secondary production i.e. when you increase agricultural output and you begin to convert those output into manufactured goods that you get employment that are poverty alleviating. Now we have produced tomatoes, you increase production from 100 to 200 tones, and you don't have means of preserving the tomatoes, so after few days, half of the tomatoes got rotten. But in this process of converting raw tomatoes into tomato paste, you now generate employment. Somebody is going to work in the factory, the owner is going to employ accountant, employ an engineer and expand transport services. That is when agriculture is in its next stage. If it is hiring more laborers and paying them N500, N1000 or N1500 per day you have not given them the kind of employment that will lift them from poverty. We have not looked at that for a long time in this country, Each time we have financial crisis and we are not able to do those things that we used to do, we shout that the economy has a problem.
And we now look toward these areas but when fortune smiles on us again and oil begins to sale at 100 dollar per barrel, we forget that we do not have an economy. So our economy is literally depending on what happens outside- whether China is growing and buying more crude oil, whether India is growing at 8% and buying more crude oil, whether there is crisis in the Arab World and one important plant has shut down. So if Iran and America are not seeing eye to eye and America refuses to buy their oil. International communities have refused to buy Iran's oil. Or there is a scarcity in the international market and the price of Nigerian oil will go up. We are just walking on chances rather than engineering our economy in a such a way that it is what happens within the Nigeria economy that makes the country vibrant and makes us to be able to generate employment and be able to provide necessary goods and services for our people.
Could all the problems you have listed be the main causes of Nigeria going through recession?
Yes; the main cause, like I have tried not to use the word recession because I don't think that the problem we have is recession.
If the problem is not recession, what then do we have?
We have a long structural problem. I said initially that the economy is one legged. So when somebody is walking on one leg and suddenly the person who is walking on one leg is not holding something to support himself, he is bond to fall flat.
So what you are trying to explain to us now is that we should not use that particular word recession. Is it because of the problem that has been piling up that led to this economic hardship we are facing now? So what is the way out of all these problems?
Yes, you know like I said initially that the situation is when we have negative growth in gross domestic product (G.D.P), on a certain number of times you begin to define it as we have been in recession. So we are in a technical recession. We have a semblance of recession but the cause of the crisis we have is not the same as what we went through when we have a recession. Our cause is structural; the crisis is a structural problem in the sense that the economy is not properly structured. The manufacturing sector that promotes and generates employment is weak. Solid mineral sector that promotes and generates employment is zero, agricultural sector, it is good to have food security, but beyond producing food, agriculture generates employment by providing raw materials for industries. If industry is not using the raw material for agriculture, there is a problem. The linkage between agriculture and industry is not there. We have not created and developed it. So what we need to do is to develop that linkage between agriculture and industry so that agricultural products can be made, can be used, and can be preserved. The process of preserving agricultural product is income generating and we can use it for our benefits. It reduces the cost of raw materials. We are making soap from the palm oil seeds and we have palm oil. Even Malaysia that they said is the world producer came to collect our seeds. We have palm oil so why can't we develop it to the point that we can use it to make soap and not as if is a fantastic technology. In every village in Nigeria, they make traditional soap which means we need to pay attention to agricultural industries. We need to pay attention to solid minerals development and so link solid minerals to industries. Even the petroleum product should be linked. Why should we be selling it as crude oil. We have tried public sectors for so many years we have been building refineries we cannot manage it, so why can't we give the private sector a chance to manage the refineries?
What is the impact of the delay in the passage of the budget on the nation?
Yes the federal government is the greatest employer of labor, is the biggest purchaser of services in the economy and if the budget is not passed or a situation where it is not signed there is a lot of uncertainty. The capital projects cannot be implemented beyond the level of the previous year, a lot of businesses and people that rely on contract from government cannot move forward. But when you have a budget in place, private sectors can plan. Each person will target what he is going to do within the budget but without the budget, such planning would not be there. Again without the budget it slows down the implementation of capital projects, of course, salaries will be paid but it will further reduce our speed of addressing the issues that have brought us into economic down turn. Because key to the under development of manufacturing sector is infrastructural deficit particularly electricity. If we don't have electricity and every manufacturing concern is generating electricity then the cost of production will be high. It is cheaper to get electricity from the public source than to generate your own. The cost of production is higher and reflects on your own goods and it makes you not competitive. So imported goods become cheaper than locally made goods because over head cost for the industries is very high.
In the absence of all these, how do you visualize the economy of Nigeria in the next ten (10) years?
We have all the ingredients that can make Nigeria one of the best economies in the world. It is one of the countries with a very high Gross Domestic Product (GDP) because we have the natural resources. We also have the human resources
With more than 100 universities and colleges, we have the capacity to produce human resources to meet the needs of the economy. We have the cultural diversity that generates different type of product ideas. Our diversity is supposed to generate products that we can sell and export like the biscuit and other foods culture, the biscuit is the traditional delicacy of some of these people, and that is why they decided to convert them for shopping, so we are attracted and we buy them. if we too can package some of our delicacies and sell them, we can equally be productive. We have the potentials but the problem is how can we access these potentials ten years is not far for us to achieve that.
Sir, how can achieve that?
One, let us fix the issue of power and let us pay attention to forging a linkage between agriculture and industry, mechanizing agriculture and improving productivity per month and per hectare so when we produce these foods, we make sure we preserve them and in the process of preserving, we turn it into generating employment that alleviates poverty.
This problem of multiple taxation by government agencies, the process of starting up a business such as going through CAC and the rest, don't you think it contributes to the down slope of the economy?
Yes it contributes to it. It does because we are competing with international economy. We are competing with other countries in the world. If it is easier to make business in other places and make the same profit to benefit them and us. We look at the legal process, the rule of law, the bureaucracy, infrastructure, and make sure that we are in good order. In those days, communication was a problem but now it's no longer a problem. We pray that one day electricity will no longer be a problem.
Sir, what of the problem of corruption?
We will not be able to do what it takes to effectively fight corruption in the next 5 years. But if we reduce the deception in the sense that if people are caught and punished it becomes less attractive. We cannot do what Jerry Rawlings did in a military administration. It can't be done in a democracy that is why Rawlings almost killed corruption in Ghana. Apart from collecting people's money they lost their lives, That is difficult to do in a democratic setting. But let's reduce the incentives.
How do you rate the current fight against corruption and what is the impact on the nation's economy especially how are the masses going to benefit?
This is an economy in which people rely on handouts. Government is the highest employer and purchaser of service. When government is thorough with the purchase of service then all these issues of corruption will come to an end. When government wants to buy toilet tissues and the toilet tissues is (100) One Hundred Naira, government buys it (1000) one thousand naira per row. Somebody got a contract to get it and he goes to church or mosque to do thanks giving that God has opened a way for him. Ironically people believe that through corruption, money circulates in the economy. Unless you are able to replace that source of income with another source of income, the economy will continue to go on deficit. People will continue to say that if you kill corruption you are also killing their livelihood. When a big man steals One billion Naira and he comes out to share one million naira to people and they believe that is how they get their own money. This is stopping people from being productive on activities that generate money. Unfortunately, this is happening at the same time money is not flowing.


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The Council's Decent Homes Project underway in Woodley is providing new kitchens and bathrooms in council-
For the last two weeks, the Liberal Democrat councillors for Loddon ward, Phil Challis and Sue Smith, have been working hard with council officers to resolve residents' issues with the way the Decent Homes Project is being mismanaged.
Phil Challis explained: 'I was contacted by residents in Drovers Way telling me about the disruption they have suffered as a result of delays in the work. Work that they were told would take three weeks is taking more than six weeks. This is leaving elderly and vulnerable people to live for weeks in turmoil with their lives packed into boxes.
'Residents also expressed concerns over the safety of some installations, the extended periods without services such as gas and toilets, and the length of time it is taking within each property. Seven hours without a toilet is no joke for anyone and can be much worse for the many elderly residents.'
Sue Smith said: 'After Phil and I brought this issue to the attention of the Manager of Tenant Services, a sub-
Liberal Democrats were shocked, therefore, to find that the Executive Member of Social Care (and Housing) could not answer a question on the subject at last Thursday's Council meeting, explaining that this was the first he heard about the issue.
Phil Challis said: 'I think residents have a right to expect the Executive member to know that things are going seriously wrong in departments under his control, rather than take the Special Responsibility Allowance each month without taking any responsibility. We want the Executive Member to ensure that the Council receives value for money from the contractors and that residents, many of whom are elderly or vulnerable, receive the decent home that they deserve with an acceptable level of disruption.'


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On my last post I discussed some of the characteristics of our RandomForest classification model for the prediction of OS success and why this model is able to improve average out-of-sample returns in testing sets despite being a rather mediocre classifier in its own. Today we are going to go a bit deeper into this model and how using a threshold parameter can change the specificity, sensitivity and how effective the model predictions are in actually improving average returns. We will talk a bit about what these variations mean and why what apparently might be a more solid classifier does not actually constitute a better choice for the actual improvement of the average return in the OS. Thanks to Fd for suggesting this topic and for sending me relevant links about the relationship between these variables and probability thresholds.
When talking about classifiers there are usually two variables that are very interesting to study. The sensitivity is how likely your classifier is to classify something as positive which in reality is positive while the specificity is how likely you are to classify something as negative if it indeed is negative in reality. In the case of classifiers used to predict trading profitability a high sensitivity means that you have a very high chance to classify things that are profitable as profitable while a high specificity means that you are able to classify things that lose money as losers. Usually you can't have the best of both worlds in complex problems, either you classify almost everything that is positive correctly and you end up with a lot of errors classifying negative outcomes or the other way around.
In general we can tune the relationship between the sensitivity and the specificity by changing the probability threshold that a classifier uses to make a decision. Classifiers like random forests can give us the probability that a solution is placed within a specific class and we can tune this decision boundary in order to affect the specificity and the sensitivity. For example instead of assigning a system to "profitable" if the probability to be profitable is 50% we can make it so that we only assign it if the probability is above 55% or 60%. This means that we have effectively moved the decision boundary such that we will tend to classify more profitable systems as unprofitable. This means that we will tend to have a lower sensitivity if the probability of classifying correctly remains constant as we will have less samples from the overall population within the profitability class.
The first image above shows you what happens when we perform this exercise. If we vary the threshold from 0.3 to 0.6 we can see how the sensitivity and specificity changes and we can also see how the relative improvement in the average daily return changes as well. It is evident from this that having a high sensitivity is not useful for our classifier – as this leads to very small improvements – while going above the 95% mark in specificity also does not provide us with any improvements. From this curve it is evident that the best improvement in OS returns happens at a threshold of 0.5 which is where we have a sensitivity close to 8% and a specificity of about 93%.
What this means is that improving returns relies more strongly on classifying losers correctly than on classifying winners correctly. You have a better chance of improving your returns if you are able to avoid losers rather than if you're able to correctly place winners. The reason for this seems to be that avoiding the worst false positives is more important since these bring very significant losses that cannot be compensated by the increase in the number of profitable systems that are classified correctly as such. When you have low sensitivity values with high specificities it seems that you are able to cut the worst part of the distribution of bad returns, which in turn allows you to have a big improvement in your overall out-of-sample returns. It is also no coincidence that the highest posterior probability is also at this threshold (at 0.5) this is also the point where our accuracy is the highest.
However note that increasing the specificity further – to close to 100% – actually tends to decrease your returns because at this point you are reducing the sensitivity so much that you barely have anything to trade and this as well makes your posterior probability drop significantly and sharply from its high near 50%. Of course the above are the results applied to testing sets but we have yet no idea if these statistics will really hold when we take them to live trading under completely new conditions. If you would like to learn more about this sort of model and how you too can use it for trading decisions please consider joining Asirikuy.com, a website filled with educational videos, trading systems, development and a sound, honest and transparent approach towards automated trading.strategies.


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'Aravindha Sametha': Things are going on in parallel
It's known that NTR joined the sets of 'Aravindha Sametha' on Saturday. After the personal tragedy that had struck him last week in the form of his father's unfortunate demise, the actor gathered inner strength to resume his routine.
The news is that the big-ticket film is well on its way to be released on October 11, now that production works, and post-production works like dubbing and background score works are going on simultaneously. Recently, Pooja Hegde started dubbing her voice. SS Thaman is fast completing his tasks and even announced that audio updates are expected soon.
At this rate, Haarika & Hassine Creations will be able to wrap up the much-awaited movie by the end of September, says a source.
So, the Trivikram Srinivas directorial is on its way to entertain the audience in a big way the coming festival season.


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■ Telecom
AT&T faces takeover
AT&T Corp, the company that brought telephone service to US homes a century ago, will probably be the target of a takeover bid, Newsweek magazine reported, citing unidentified sources. Several former AT&T executives are working with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co (KKR), the world's biggest buyout firm, which in the past year approached AT&T about purchasing the company, Newsweek said. At least one other private-equity firm offered to buy Bedminster, New Jersey-based AT&T in the past year, the magazine said. AT&T and KKR declined to comment, Newsweek said. AT&T last week said it will stop advertising and marketing to attract local and long-distance customers, while still providing service to existing users.
■ Petroleum
IPO for PetroChina?
PetroChina, China's largest oil company, is planning
an ambitious US$3.6 billion to US$4.8 billion domestic listing to fund expansion plans overseas, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The amount is by up to four times the biggest initial public offering so far in China and comes as the country's ailing stock markets are sapped of liquidity, the newspaper said, quoting unnamed officials close to the company. However, its success will turn on the market's ability to absorb the listing depending on its pricing, especially in relation to the valuation of PetroChina's listed company in Hong Kong, the news-paper said. The application has not yet been approved and neither has the timing nor the size of the offering. "The application is in but nobody really knows when or if it will be approved by the regulators. There is really no timetable," the newspaper quoted one official as saying.
■ Banking
Abbey National accepts bid
Management of British mortgage bank Abbey National announced yes-terday that it had accepted a friendly takeover bid by the biggest Spanish bank, Santander Central Hispano, in a deal creating one of the biggest banks in Europe. "Further to its announce-ment on Friday ... Abbey National plc confirms that it has reached agreement with Banco Santander on the terms of a recommended cash and shares offer to be made for the whole of its ordinary share capital," the British bank said in a statement to the London Stock Exchange. Abbey said a full announcement of the terms and conditions of the offer would be made later yesterday. British press reports have put the deal at ?8.5 billion (US$15.6 billion). A deal between the two institutions would create the fourth-biggest bank in Europe by market capi-talization, behind HSBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS, the largest in the eurozone and the eighth-biggest worldwide.
■ Telecom
Asian IC standard in sight
Telecommunications ministers from China, South Korea and Japan agreed yesterday to work toward an "Asian standard" on IC tags -- tiny computer chips with antennas which can be used to track products by radio. IC tags can store
data that can be used
for inventory, product distribution and tracking other movements of items. The three countries have been meeting regularly in recent years to try to agree on a single standard for Internet and other telecommunications technologies.


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L-3 Awarded Contract to Build Additional AVCATT Suites for U.S. Army
Contact: Cynthia Swain
Contact: Rick Oyler | L-3 Link Simulation & Training | 817-619-3536
NEW YORK, NY, December 17, 2007 - L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) announced today that it has been awarded a follow-on production contract from the U.S. Army to build three additional U.S. Army Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer (AVCATT) suites. This award calls for L-3 to build AVCATT suites 21 through 23.
Since 1999, L-3 has been the prime contractor and system integrator on AVCATT. To date, L-3 has delivered 15 AVCATT suites that are enabling U.S. Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve aircrews to execute complex, combined arms missions within contemporary operational environments.
This new order calls for L-3 to deliver AVCATT suites to U.S. Army active and reserve component training sites at Hammond, LA; Fort Bliss, TX; and Fort Campbell, KY. In January 2009 the first of these newly ordered AVCATT suites will be delivered. Follow-on installations will occur in March and May of 2009.
"Over the years AVCATT has proven its value in preparing Army aviators to effectively operate as teams and achieve mission success," said Lenny Genna, Vice President of U.S. Army programs at L-3 Link Simulation and Training. "The training capabilities offered by AVCATT not only have increased the skills of Army aviators, but also have contributed to the development of effective commanders responsible for making critical mission decisions"
AVCATT enables multiple suites - each consisting of six reconfigurable simulators - to be networked. Collective training exercises involve simulated attack, reconnaissance, utility and cargo helicopters, in addition to friendly and opposing intelligent semi-automated forces. AVCATT also can be networked with the U.S. Army's Close Combat Tactical Trainer system and other virtual simulators, providing an unprecedented level of training realism involving both rotary wing and mechanized forces.
Each AVCATT suite consists of two mobile 53-foot trailers that house six reconfigurable simulators, a battle master control room and an after-action review theater. The simulators can be reconfigured to represent any combination of AH-64D, AH-64A, OH-58D, UH-60A/L and CH-47D platforms.
AVCATT's battle master control station, home to the battle master, training unit observer controller, semi-automated force controller and role players, provides the capability to monitor and record each unit's mission performance. Four role player stations in the battle master control room enable individuals to serve as artillery, joint air support, ground, engineer or logistics force commanders.
When a mission is completed, the recorded data and video is presented in the after-action review theater. During this mission debrief, aircrews review their performance and determine which skills or tactics need to be further honed. The after-action review theater can also be used to view training in progress.
L-3 Link is a systems integration organization that delivers and supports training systems and equipment to enhance operational proficiency. L-3 Link's services include conducting front-end analysis, program design, simulator design and production and field support. L-3 Link has major operations in Arlington, TX, and other key bases of operation in Binghamton, NY; Orlando, FL; Broken Arrow, OK and Phoenix, AZ.
Headquartered in New York City, L-3 Communications employs over 63,000 people worldwide and is a prime system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems and government services. L-3 is also a leading provider of high technology products, subsystems and systems. The company reported 2006 sales of $12.5 billion. To learn more about L-3 Communications, please visit the company's web site at www.L-3Com.com.
Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements. Statements that are predictive in nature, that depend upon or refer to events or conditions or that include words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "will," "could" and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements set forth above involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any such statement, including the risks and uncertainties discussed in the company's Safe Harbor Compliance Statement for Forward-Looking Statements included in the company's recent filings, including Forms 10-K and 10-Q, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made, and the company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.


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I'm an adventurous eater. Sure, I have my food hangups (I like to eat even numbers of things) and personal food rules (meat should not be cooked in a ball or loaf, sliced tomatoes are horrifying, olives are grody), but I won't let any of it get in my way of enjoying a good meal or expanding my palate. But I do have one exception. One thing I have cooked and eaten once that I will never eat again.
Liver Pudding.
Liver Pudding, or Liver Mush, as they call it in some parts of North Carolina, is a horrible, horrible foodstuff that smells like burning hair when you cook it and tastes even worse. It's a "sausage" made of liver, spices, head meat and a binder, usually cornmeal. It comes in wax-paper-wrapped bricks or long, sausage-style links, like kielbasa. Below is a picture of one of the long, sausage-style links. Once you see what it looks like I'm sure you'll steer clear too.
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