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This happened way back on Thursday at the Illinois shootaround leading up to the Illini's game with Michigan game on ESPN. Meyers' older brother, Bailey, surprised Meyers as he returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. It was the first time the brothers had seen each other since last summer.
"Meyers, who thought Bailey might only have a chance to see him play in the Big Ten Tournament, was completely caught by surprise."It was a great moment,'' said team spokesman Derrick Burson. "It was very emotional."
Meyers has recently discussed foregoing the rest of his college career for the NBA in part because he does not want his brother to have to go back overseas. Nice story, even better picture.
Illini's Leonard gets surprise visit from brother at Assembly Hall [State Journal-Register]


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Bank of America will sell most of its remaining shares in China Construction Bank as it raises cash and shores up its capital base.
The latest sell-off in the Chinese bank, announced Monday, is expected to generate an after-tax gain of about $1.8 billion. Last month Bank of America posted a $3.6 billion third-quarter gain by selling shares of China Construction.
Bank of America had owned about 10 percent of the bank's shares before it announced plans in late August to cut its stake. After the latest sale of about 10.4 billion shares closes this month, Bank of America will own about 1 percent of China Construction Bank Corp.'s common shares. The shares are being sold to a group of private investors in transactions managed by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Bank of America, like others in the financial sector, is making changes to comply with new international regulations. The bank has recently been selling off non-core assets and businesses. That includes its recent sale of a stake in HCA Holdings Inc. for an after-tax loss of $1.2 billion. Like many peers, Bank of America has also recently been cutting jobs.
Chief Financial Officer Bruce Thompson said the latest sale, supplemented by a related realization of deferred tax assets, will generate an additional $2.9 billion to bolster Bank of America's capital base.
With the sale, a strategic assistance agreement between Bank of America and China Construction Bank will remain in place. That pact covers cooperation in specific business areas.
Shares of Bank of America rose about 0.5 percent in premarket trading. The shares have lost about half their value this year. Bank of America posted lower revenue and income in its credit card, real estate and investment banking businesses and ceded its spot as the largest bank in the U.S. to JPMorgan Chase .
Bank of America, based in Charlotte, N.C., has faced numerous problems stemming from its 2008 purchase of the nation's largest mortgage lender, Countrywide Financial, but the bank says that becoming smaller is part of its strategy.

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CHON BURI, Thailand -- Charl Schwartzel increased his lead to four strokes at the Thailand Golf Championship with a second straight 7-under 65 on Friday.
Schwartzel was at 14-under 130 after the second round at the Amata Spring Country Club, where play was delayed due to bad light. Daniel Chopra moved into second place (67), one stroke ahead of Masanori Kobayashi (67).
"I seem to play better on courses which are narrower," said Schwartzel, the 2011 Masters champion. "I concentrate better and better and I'm just hitting pretty good off the tee and giving myself good chances.
"I've put two great rounds together. I hit the ball really nice and gave myself a lot of chances."
Chopra took over second place with a second straight 67.
"I wasn't quite sure how my body was going to react with the jet lag and all that, but I woke up just before my alarm and came out here and warmed up in the dark and off I went," Chopra said. "I birdied the first hole and it was easy after that."
Japanese star Ryo Ishikawa (66) moved up the leaderboard into fourth, two strokes ahead of 2012 Masters champion Bubba Watson (70), Sergio Garcia (69) and Scott Hend (68).


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Bingham Farms Vlg Real Estate
Originally settled in 1823 by John Daniels of Rutland, Vermont, the tiny settlement in what was soon to become Southfield Township in 1830 would stay isolated and small until Telegraph Road was brought through the area in 1928. In the early 1950s, citizens in the southern part of the township sought to have the entire township incorporated as a city. Seeking to retain their individual characters and guard against annexation, the settlements in the northern end raced to incorporate as villages. Bingham Farms was incorporated on October 4, 1955, named after a prominent family present in the village since 1880. All roads in the village remained unpaved until 1984 to discourage intensive development.
Bingham Farms Vlg Listings Summary
Bingham Farms Vlg - Town vs. County Stats
Avg Price in Bingham Farms Vlg: $619,600 / County Avg $510,000
Avg Taxes in Bingham Farms Vlg: $5,900 / County Avg $7,000
Avg Sq. Ft. in Bingham Farms Vlg: 2,998 / County Avg 2,339
Avg Price per/ft2 in Bingham Farms Vlg: $207 / County Avg $218
Avg Walkscore in Bingham Farms Vlg: 17 / County Avg 34
Avg Year Built in Bingham Farms Vlg: 1979 / County Avg 1976
Avg Days on Website in Bingham Farms Vlg: 141 / County Avg 93


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Financial advisors faced with low yields and market volatility have grown "spineless" over the last four years as they let nervous clients tell them how to invest, says Bob Auer, a former Morgan Stanley (MS) broker who now runs his own mutual fund.
"Advisors have become spineless, and clients are leading the conversations. After four years of bad markets, advisors are just in survival mode," said Auer, who founded Indianapolis-based SBAuer Funds LLC along with the Auer Growth Fund (AUERX) and now serves as its lead portfolio manager.
As an RIA himself, Auer (left) says he thinks like an advisor, so it disturbs him to see his friends at both wirehouses and independent shops giving in to clients when they should show leadership in bringing clients to sound, long-term portfolio strategies.
Advisors Are 'Beaten Into Submission'
"Today, the pressure is so great to preserve the client's capital. Advisors want to do what's right, but they're not going to do that. The clients hear about the fiscal cliff, Europe and the Middle East, and they're bombarded. Advisors play along. They've been beaten into submission."
(Auer's willingness to be an outspoken opinionator may stem from the fact that he was a stock market columnist for the Indianapolis Business Journal and wrote a weekly full-page column for eight years from 1996 to 2004.)
The U.S. stock market is at a five-year high, but clients' satisfaction with advisors is at an all-time low, according to Auer, who added that the stampede into bond funds has created an overcrowded trade, "or advisors have given up and are just investing in exchange traded funds."
Auer warns that advisors who lack leadership are ultimately setting themselves up for a fall.
"When the market does turn around, advisors will be in passive mode, and they'll lose their clients anyway," he said.
To be sure, Auer is sitting in the catbird seat because he left Morgan Stanley at the perfect moment. He departed his position as an investments vice president on July 19, 2007, at the top of the market when the Dow Jones industrial average hit its penultimate all-time high of 14,000, just behind the all-time high of 14,165 on Oct. 9 of that year.
"I typed up my resignation on that day, when every account I had was at a record high," Auer recalled Thursday during a visit to New York.
During the next couple of weeks after his early retirement, Auer distributed his 600 clients among his Morgan Stanley colleagues. One of those colleagues decided that the widow he now worked with had too much stock, so he put 80% of her portfolio into bonds – a move that confirmed for Auer that he had made the right choice in reassigning her account.
Auer Growth Fund Struggles
Another somewhat unusual choice for Auer: he has made no attempt to sell his fund to his former Morgan Stanley clients. Rather, he lets investors find the fund themselves.
The Auer Growth Fund, started in December 2007, uses an actively managed strategy that identifies fast-growing companies at what Auer calls "ridiculously low" prices, meaning companies that are up 25% in profits, up 20% in sales and with a P/E ratio of 12 or under. While AUERX is about three years old, Auer tested his strategy in a separately managed account for more than 20 years.
According to Morningstar data, the long-only domestic U.S. equity fund has $73.6 million in assets, a "high" fee level of 1.71% in expenses and a one-star rating of a possible five stars. Over three years of annualized returns, the growth of a $10,000 investment in AUERX would be negative, at $9,258. Within its category of mid-cap blend stocks, the fund scores poorly – in the 98th percentile of the 425 funds in the category, year to date.
Auer spoke openly about his frustration with the fund's performance, saying that since the beginning of 2008 his fund hasn't seen a single period of beating the market for the day, week or month – since last week, when he saw hopeful signs that small-cap growth is doing better than index funds.
Despite the fund's performance, Auer remains faithful to his strategy, as does MicroCapClub founder and private investor Ian Cassel in an April 8, 2012 blog post:
"The Auer Growth Fund launched at probably the worst time for any long only fund in recent history," Cassel writes. "Since going public, annual returns have been inconsistent, -54.48% 2008, +32.31% 2009, +3.16% 2010, -4.16% 2011. So overall, $1 invested in 12/2007 would be worth 62c today. Even though the fund has gone through a choppy patch, I'm very interested in the investment strategy and look forward to tracking the performance over the next decade."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misrepresented the Auer Growth Fund's 98th percentile ranking within its Morningstar category. It should have been stated that the fund scored poorly, not well.


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Just Exist Victoria Ave in Ventura, go south, and turn right on 5th Street. Oxnard Shores is right at the end of 5th, Going down several miles.
DistanceIn the city
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
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Wave qualityNormal
ExperienceExperienced surfers
FrequencyDon't know
DirectionRight and left
Normal lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good day lengthLong (150 to 300 m)
Good swell directionWest, SouthWest, South
Good wind directionEast
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 2.5m+ / 8ft+
Best tide positionLow and mid tide
Best tide movementRising tide
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There is absolutely no question that Oxnard Shores picks up a south swell bigger and often better than any other spot in Ventura County. When a summer-fall south swell mixes with a slight NW swell, the result is a series of hollow, A-frame bowls spanning the entire beach. It's not unusual to see the barrels spittin'. It's best at low or medium-low tide. Sometimes at high tide the waves under 5 feet back down because the sandbar is narrow (accounting for the quick pitch and rapid jacking up nature of the place) and there is deep water between the bar and the beach. It's the hollowest, south wave in Ventura County. Be prepared to get worked regardless of the size. It breaks hard, or it does not break! A weird thing is, that durring the summer, the Silver Strand, located just a few miled south, goes virtually dormant, while Oxnard Shores comes alive. During recent years, many new huge beach mansions have filled in the vacant beach lots. This has seemed to keep the crowds down lately. There really is no local scene here anymore. Sometimes it's so good and there is nobody out, weird!!! It also gets huge NW swells in the winter but often it's too closed out unless there is a strong offshore Santa Anna wind. In that case, go to the "Strand" or up to Ventura Point. Oxnard often gets some early onshore winds, so I'll often just go up to Ventura Point
Rarely anyone around. If so, find another peak. It breaks everywhere.
Try the waves near Neptune Square. Best peak there in 2001.
Its good, but there are better spots nearby...
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By bry , 27-11-2009
the valley - long time friend bryan kranz says hello
By Anonymous , 02-04-2008
trash - pick up your trash.
don't trash the beach.
don't trash the street.
don't throw your butts on the ground.
By Anonymous , 12-02-2008
its really sad - I was driving to rincon after surfing strand driving by shores, I saw a huge new development being built right by mgrath, this used to be a place where you could come and enjoy a beach all to yourself, too bad in a few years the whole place will be like the southbay or huntington. At least there is still point conception on up.
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Shootout: Three Mid-Price A/V Receivers
For most people, flagship A/V receivers costing $4,000 to $6,000 are just too much: too much size, weight, complexity, and, for sure, money. But the cheapest models are too limited in connections and, more often than not, too flimsy. The result? Many enthusiasts find the receiver that's j-u-u-s-t right in that $1,000-$1,500 range: one with lots of power, all the most important features, and, usually, some premium looks, fit, and finish.
The three mid-price A/V receivers assembled here list at $1,300 to $1,400 and street for less. Each promises more than 100 watts to seven channels, the latest 7.1 surround-sound processing, and automatic speaker calibration and equalization. And all three also proffer a pair of switchable HDMI digital inputs (and an HDMI output) for making pristine digital video connections to HDMI or DVI-equipped sources such as a high-def digital cable box. Additionally, they all accept XM Satellite Radio's Connect & Play option, a $50 antenna/tuner add-on that ices the cake with fully integrated XM-ability.
Setting up any A/V receiver is far from simple these days, even with an auto-setup routine, but none in this group presented any real problems. The same can't be said for my Comcast high-def cable box, a Motorola model whose HDMI output wouldn't play nice with any of the three units.
The box correctly recognized each of the receivers as an HDMI "repeater" that sits between it and the TV, transparently passing along the video signal. But Motorola's current software "does not support HDMI repeater," an onscreen message reminded me. So, for test purposes I settled for analog component-video from the cable box to the receiver and a digital HDMI connection from my Panasonic upscaling DVD player, whose HDMI signals the receivers switched perfectly.
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|Denon AVR-3806
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|A superb performer with impressive power, but its awkward remote was a handicap.
|Fine performance from a pleasingly simple design, though it lacked the high-power grunt of its competition.
|An outstanding all-around receiver with top-drawer surround modes and the best video flexibility in this lot.


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Ga. debates relaxing gun laws for mentally ill
Lawmakers also consider allowing guns at churches, bars and campuses
While some states push to tighten gun control laws after the Connecticut school massacre, some lawmakers in gun-friendly Georgia want to ease rules preventing some mentally ill people from getting licenses to carry firearms.
Legislation up for a vote in Georgia's House on Thursday would allow people who have voluntarily sought inpatient treatment for mental illness or substance abuse to get licenses. The same bill also attempts to make it easier for officials to check on whether applicants have ever received involuntary treatment. Georgia also may change its laws to allow people to carry guns in churches, bars and on college campuses, contrary to what's happening elsewhere in the United States.
Judges in Georgia now have discretion over whether to grant a license to carry a weapon to anyone who has received inpatient treatment at a mental hospital or substance abuse treatment center in the last five years, whether it's voluntary or not.
"Simply being hospitalized doesn't make a person a criminal or a threat," said Rep. Rick Jasperse, R-Jasper, the bill sponsor, in a statement.
That change is part of a larger package showcasing the local Republican philosophy on guns. The plan, backed by a gun owners group called GeorgiaCarry.Org, would allow people to carry weapons in churches, bars and college campuses – despite the objections of higher education officials. In response to a shooting rampage that killed 26 people in Connecticut, it would allow school officials to arm their employees.
Democrats planned to fight the proposal, although they conceded it would likely pass in the GOP-dominated House of Representatives.
"More than anything in the wake of not just one, not just two, but a series of tragedies, for our reaction to be an expansion of the places where people can feel unsafe, to increase the efficiency of evil, I find that be just a flabbergasting decision to make as a Legislature," said Rep. Stacey Abrams, the Democratic majority leader.
The law may make it easier for judges to check on some mental health issues. Right now, judges can require that people seeking a license authorize the release of treatment records and allow the judge to get a recommendation from treatment providers. Because there is no single clearinghouse for treatment information, judges would have to send waivers to multiple hospitals or treatment centers to get that information.
By contrast, Jasperse's bill would require that courts submit involuntary treatment orders to a database that would be consulted before judges issue licenses to carry weapons. The legislation would also ban people whom law enforcement officials hear making threats against others in the last five years from carrying weapons. Those represented by guardians or conservators because of mental illness or drug abuse would also be disqualified.
One prosecutor said he was concerned about the provision because not everyone with serious mental illness is forced to receive treatment, meaning they would be eligible to carry weapons.
"My concern would be there's got to be people who voluntarily seek inpatient treatment who wouldn't be any less dangerous than if they're sent there involuntarily," Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds said Wednesday.
Federal law prohibits giving or selling guns to anyone who judged to be "mentally defective" or those committed to a mental institution. States set their own standards on who can carry weapons. Some states use the same mental health threshold when deciding whether someone should be prohibited from carrying a gun.
Other states like Georgia have gone further. For example, Massachusetts allows authorities to deny people a license to carry if applicants have been confined for mental health treatment, according to a survey by the National Conference of State Legislatures. Mississippi will deny licenses to people who have been committed, voluntary or otherwise, unless a psychiatrist testifies they have been free of mental illness for five years. Texas considers psychiatric hospitalization grounds for being refused to carry a concealed weapon.
The legislation is backed by GeorgiaCarry.Org, a gun owners group that has been more aggressive about expanding rights to carry weapons in Georgia than the National Rifle Association, which supports a more limited slate of changes.
Jerry Henry, executive director of GeorgiaCarry.Org, said the original law was too restrictive and could, for example, deny a license to military veterans voluntarily seeking help for stress-related disorders.
"If he seeks health treatment on his own it should not be held against him," Henry said.


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Wash. firefighters rescue man stuck in chimney
Firefighters chiseled a hole through bricks early Tuesday to rescue a man who had gotten himself stuck inside a 20-inch wide chimney space at a Washington home that had been converted to apartments.
The young man was not hurt and was not suspected of a crime, but it's unclear why he apparently climbed into the unused chimney, Tacoma Battalion Chief Dyre Fudge said.
"Stories range from `hide and seek" to `repairing the ceiling. Nobody was able to get the straight story," Fudge said.
"I'm in my 35th year, and it's something different every day. You can't make it up," he said.
Firefighters were called about 1:30 a.m. to help the young man who was wedged at the second-floor level of the three-story house. A technical team trained in confined-space rescues was called in to rip through a wall and use power equipment to cut a hole in the chimney.
Firefighters lowered a rope to the man to hold him in place until he was able to step out about a half-hour later.
"He was never very panicking and had no real respiratory distress," Fudge said.
There were other people living in the house, but no one seemed to know why the man apparently climbed into the chimney at the third-floor level and slid down like Santa Claus.
"No real clue," Fudge said. "Just one of those stupid pet tricks, maybe."


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Water monitoring saves lives
Reliable process control is essential to achieve the right "fingerprint" of water.
Water is increasingly being considered a valuable product in most countries. Therefore, the acceptance for water wastage is continuously decreasing and the need to control the water quality is rising. This requires better and more reliable control of our drinking water.
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Proved and tested, used in many solutions
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At 'critical control points' (CCPs) the water is checked to ensure the highest quality at the customers taps. CCPs are usually located at the most relevant points in the plant's process, at the outlet and at dedicated positions in the distribution network, and used to detect hazardous situations in water production and distribution in order to begin countermeasures if necessary. Example: Water of high quality typically shows low turbidity and therefore less risk of diseases caused by germs.
Easy and reliable with drinking water analysis panels
When monitoring drinking water, reliability and high measurement performance is essential which is exactly what you will benefit from when using Endress+Hauser's drinking water panels. Combine any measurement parameters as needed, e. g. turbidity, free chlorine, pH or conductivity.
Profit from the advantages of the Memosens technology
The intelligent and robust Memosens technology provides traceability, documentation of measurement quality as well as maximized availability. The multi-channel and multiparameter transmitter Liquiline CM44x manages all sensors simply and safely thanks to the uniform operation concept of all Memosens sensors.
Sensors for safe drinking water
Drinking water analysis panels typically contain sensors in hygienic design as follows:
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Nitrate / SAK: Viomax CAS51D
Dissolved Oxygen: COS21D
Keep in mind: Improved plant safety by monitoring the quality of critical control points in the plant and process can be obtained with reliable analysis panel solutions from Endress+Hauser.


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Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Halt the zone to be moved, db-zone in this procedure.
global# zoneadm -z db-zone halt
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Afternoon Delight
by Mickey Miller
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Mickey Miller is getting ready to release Afternoon Delights, a collection of short stories guaranteed to heat up reading device. Be sure to add it to your TBR today. Can't wait until next week, enter to win an ARC. See Giveaway below.
This short story collection has hot athletes, sweet first and last kisses, steamy encounters with bad boys, secret small town romances, hot boss encounters, and much more!
The coolest part? These stories were developed based on suggestions from Mickey's READERS. And he's letting his readers VOTE on the short story they would like developed into a full length novel Mickey will write this year!
After you read the book, there will be a survey where you can choose which of the stories you'd like to see developed into a novel!
Story #1: It's Between a Bad Choice and a Worse Choice
Story #2: Starlight
Story #3: A Deleted Beach Scene from The Casanova Experience
Story #4: Early
Story #5: Fireflies
Story #6: Innocence
Story #7: Last Kiss
Story #8: National Kiss-A-Stranger-Day
Story #9: A Deleted Scene from Playing Dirty
Story #10: Same Old Faces
Story #11: Sweet Surrender
Story #12: The Soldier
Story #13: More Wine Please
Story #14: Jealousy
Story #15: Deleted Scene from Professor with Benefits
Story #16: Dreams
Story #17: Who's the Boss?
Now, for some teasers…
ARC Giveaway
Do you want to win an ARC of Mickey Miller's new book? All you have to do is pick out your favorite teaser from this blog post and comment below or mention your favorite teaser on Twitter. You must tag @read_wine_blog and @TheMickeyMiller on the tweet.
Three lucky winners will receive exclusive ARC's. No purchase necessary to win. Winners will be chosen via random.org on Sunday, 1/7/18 in in the morning.
You can also go directly to https://www.facebook.com/authormickeymiller/ for a chance to win there as well.
Good Luck!
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Darvish, A's differ on 'head games' delay
Donaldson not bothered by Texas ace uttering 'fastball,' throwing curve
ARLINGTON -- Rangers ace Yu Darvish and the A's have contrasting stories on what started a brief delay in the sixth inning of Saturday's game.
Darvish was caught on the broadcast uttering, "Fastball," on a 2-2 pitch to Josh Donaldson to lead off the inning, but threw a curveball. Despite Darvish's attempt to throw him off, Donaldson managed to get a single on the pitch.
"If he wants to do that, fine, it doesn't bother me," Donaldson told the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday. "I kind of like the head games."
Coco Crisp, however, wasn't pleased and began yelling from the dugout right before Jed Lowrie's at-bat. He had to be restrained from the dugout as play temporarily stopped. Crisp did not comment on the situation.
"I think there was a part in the game where there was a lot of excitement between both of us," Darvish said Saturday. "I heard a lot of people saying something from the Oakland dugout, I said to myself, 'It's just the heat of the moment, what's at stake?' I looked at it as maybe they were trying to make me lose my concentration. But I just understood that [and] I worked to maintain my focus and pitch my game."
Darvish and Donaldson also played mind games in the first inning. Donaldson swung threw a 90-mph cutter to bring the count full in an at-bat that started with three straight balls. Just before the sixth pitch, Donaldson stepped closer to the plate just as Darvish was set. He stepped off the rubber after Donaldson made the adjustment, then walked him on a 94-mph fastball. Donaldson scored on Brandon Moss' double to account for the only run in the game.


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So far so good. Easy to install although the clips were loose and wouldn't stay in place very well. In hind sight I guess I could have bent them a little to fix that issue but I just kinda held them in while I pushed each side in place. After install they stop smooth with no noise. Time will tell but I expect them to do well. I have a Tahoe that will need brakes soon and I will be buying these for it as well.


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Consider the Koch curve $G \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$. Clearly $G$ is the invariant set (IS) of the iterated function system (IFS) $\lbrace \phi_1, \phi_2, \phi_3, \phi_4 \rbrace$. Where (not wanting to jump between $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{C}$ but doing so for ease):
$\phi_1(x) = \frac{1}{3} x$, $\phi_2(x) = \frac{1}{3} (x \exp(\frac{i \pi}{3}) + 1)$, $\phi_3(x) = \frac{1}{3} (x \exp(-\frac{i \pi}{3}) + 1 + \exp(\frac{i \pi}{3}))$, $\phi_4(x) = \frac{1}{3} (x + 2)$
However can we do better? i.e. can we find an IFS consisting of fewer contractions such that its IS is $G$?
In this case, yes. The IFS $\lbrace \psi_1, \psi_2 \rbrace$ also has $G$ as its IS where:
$\psi_1(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} x \exp(-\frac{5 i \pi}{6}) + \frac{1}{3} (1 + \exp(\frac{i \pi}{3}))$, $\psi_2(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}} x \exp(\frac{5 i \pi}{6}) + 1$
And as we know that an IFS consisting of a single contraction has a single point as its IS, we know that this is the best that we can do.
But what about in general?
If $G \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ is the IS of the IFS $\lbrace \phi_1, \phi_2, \ldots, \phi_m \rbrace$ when can we tell if there exists an IFS with $G$ as its IS and consisting of strictly less than $m$ contractions?
As a specific example: how about the Sierpinski gasket / carpet? Can we do better that the obvious 3 / 8 construction IFS?


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The global Corrosion Inhibitors Market size is anticipated to grow beyond USD 8 billion by 2024 on account of the growing metal processing, construction, and power generation sectors.
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The global market is categorized as end-uses, products, applications, and regions. The end-use sector includes oil & gas, power generation, pulp & paper, metal processing, and chemical processing. Power generation was the dominant sector in 2015. It is further expected to grow due to the increasing government investments for various power generation projects in order to fulfill the rising energy needs. Oil & gas is estimated to become the fastest-growing sector.
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David Guetta: 3/29 & 3/30 at Echostage
Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 5:06pm. (Updated: 3/31/13 at 3:55pm) Add comments
David Guetta Returns to Washington DC on March 29 and 30!
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Please call 202.503.2330 to ask about VIP Packages.
Limited tickets will be available at the door.
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The man who brought dance music to the American mainstream (and chose Glow as his favorite party worldwide in the process) is back! It's been a while since David Guetta filled The District with nothing but the beat, and we've been patiently waiting. There's no one more fitting than David to kick off the first Glow event at the newly renovated Echostage. Prepare yourselves! And please, please, PLEASE!!! Do not delay buying tickets!Tweet
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I am a Backstage EchoStage member but I did not receive a promo code for the limited Guetta ticket sale tomorrow at noon. Can you please help me resolve this issue?
Thanks so much!
The backstage tickets got sold out in less than 23 minutes. Will there be more available? or full priced backstage tickets coming out?
What is the promo code for the presale tickets?
Where can I get the prom code,??!???
So are there anymore backstage tix? Or no?
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what's the age limits for the show???
So are the 3/30 tickets completely sold out?
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Who else will be preforming that night?
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a q hora empiesa el show de guetta ? what time star the show of david?
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What's the nearest metro station to Echostage? And will there be shuttle service from the metro? How is parking?
Uhh…the tickets for sunday the 30th literally just went on sale at ticketmaster. There are tons left. Apparently the echostage staff wasn't informed how their ticketing works.
Woah, nevermind. This is for last year. Concert is for the same days just a year later. Sorry!


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It's my birthday, so what better time to share a bit of good news? If I had my way, Nebula Rescue would be out yesterday, but I am still tweaking and adding the last details. But while you wait for the game, here is the freshly released soundtrack! The two tracks featured in the game are now a mini digital album, including an extended version of the menu track, "Making Choices".
Listen to the whole thing using the embedded player, and get a copy of the entire soundtrack for $1.99 (or more) via Bandcamp.
As for the game itself, it's really down to the final details now. I had one persistent bug that took two full days to hunt down, but the game plays the way it's supposed to now, and the difficulty level is balanced how I want it. I still need to add a few sound effects, and Nebula Rescue will be ready to head to the App Store for approval.
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It's another Magical Monday over at Paper Cupcakes! This week over at the Paper Cupcake's Challenge Blog the challenge is brought to us by Jennifer Schull and she wants us to use use any type of animal image and go wild on our creativity. I used the image "Sea Horse" and "Deco Hello" by Paper Cupcakes. I used my Souffle Opaque 3D Ink Pens to color my images. It really gave it such a soft feel to the overall image. I used some different Cats Eye colored chalks for the image's edge. My go to color for a touch of pop is always black. I am not sure why but even when I draw or paint I always put a punch of black in. It just makes things pop and since this was so much pastel in color I thought a punch of black would be nice and I must say I like how it turned out. Added all the black doodle with a thin marker.
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Mets top Phillies for third straight win
PHILADELPHIA >> For once, Zack Wheeler was able to smile after a start. The rest of the Mets were pretty happy, too.
Wheeler struck out nine in 6 1-3 innings and Chris Young hit a two-run homer to lead New York to a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night in the opener of a rare five-game series.
Wheeler (2-5) looked nothing like the pitcher who entered with a 4.63 ERA and one win in 10 starts this season. Mixing a fastball that hit the high 90s and a slow, knee-buckling breaking ball, the right-hander retired eight of the first 10 batters via strikeout.
Wheeler had sent down 14 straight batters until Marlon Byrd lofted the first pitch he saw with one out in the seventh over the wall in right for his seventh homer. That was the end of the evening for Wheeler, who matched his season high in innings while giving up the lone run and four hits with no walks.
"It feels really good, obviously," Wheeler said. "I can actually smile after a start now. I knew I had it today. I could locate all my pitches. It's easy when you can locate all your pitches and everything's working."
Mets manager Terry Collis said Wheeler "pretty much took control of the game. He really was throwing well. Tonight he dominated this game."
The Mets, who opened an 11-game road trip, matched a season best with their third straight victory while beating the Phillies for the sixth straight time at Citizens Bank Park.
The Phillies set a season high with 15 strikeouts against four Mets pitchers.
"Wheeler had real good stuff and we just couldn't pull the trigger on his fastball," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said. "We couldn't get anything going."
The series originally was scheduled for four games, but the teams will make up their April 30 rainout on Monday, which originally was a day off for both teams.
Jenrry Mejia struck out the side in the ninth for his fifth save in as many chances. Mejia hasn't allowed an earned run in nine relief outings since being moved to the bullpen on May 12 after making seven starts.
"The entire pitching tonight. . You're just sitting in the dugout saying, 'Wow!"' Collins said. "Good stuff, good location, really a well-pitched game."
David Buchanan (1-1), who was making his second career start in place of injured left-hander Cliff Lee (15-day DL, left elbow), left after giving up four runs — three earned — and seven hits with two strikeouts and walks. The righty earned the victory in his major league debut with a five-inning, two-run outing in Saturday's 5-3 win over the Dodgers.
Young, who entered with three hits in his last 35 at-bats, put the Mets in front 3-0 with a drive to left in the fourth. Both Collins and Young hope it's a sign of better things to come for the outfielder, who entered batting .220.
"He's got to get on track, and the home run was really big for him," Collins said. "He's hit some balls hard with nothing to show for it, so I think tonight's a big game."
Said Young, "I felt like I was aggressive all night. I felt good about the pitches I did swing at, even the outs I had. That's a good start. Today was probably the best day I felt, not going by the results but simply the pitch selection."
New York added an unearned run in the fifth when Curtis Granderson walked with the bases loaded in an inning that was extended by third baseman Cesar Hernandez's throwing error.
Ryan Howard, who hit a walkoff homer in Wednesday's win over the Rockies, went 0 for 4 with four strikeouts. Howard entered with a hit in 12 straight games against New York, batting .417 with four homers and 13 RBIs over the stretch.
NOTES: New York C Travis d'Arnaud went 0 for 4 in his first game since being activated from the 7-day DL due to a concussion he sustained May 13. ... Mets 3B David Wright went 1 for 5 with a single. His 19 career homers at Citizens Bank Park are the most of any visiting player. ... Granderson went 0 for 2, extending his hitless streak to 0 for 16. ... Mets RHP Rafael Montero (0-2, 4.96) opposes Philadelphia RHP A.J. Burnett (3-4, 3.51) on Friday.


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A brief questionnaire attached to the end of an exam gives both instructors and students valuable feedback. Instructors gain a better understanding of how students are preparing for an exam, and they get information for making future exams more effective in terms of assessing student learning. Conversely, students share their perception of the exam and reflect on their role in the exam process, which, in itself, is a learning experience.
To act on this teaching tip, develop two to five questions, such as the following, prior to administering a significant exam:
- How well did the test questions reflect the course content and what was emphasized in class?
- Were you clear about the meaning of the questions? List the numbers of those questions about which you were unclear.
- Which questions challenged you to think and why?
- How much time did you spend studying for the test?
- Will you spend more or less time studying for the next test? Why?
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A word of caution, only ask questions about things you are willing to consider addressing. Also, compile the results and "close the loop" by sharing appropriate information with your students such as, how long most students studied, what questions they found challenging, etc.
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MOSCOW (AP) ? In an emotional closing argument to a court Friday, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny vowed to keep on opposing President Vladimir Putin's rule, even if prosecutors succeed in convicting and imprisoning him on embezzlement charges that he dismisses as politically motivated.
Navalny, a lawyer and anti-corruption crusader, was a major driving force behind massive protests ahead of Putin's return to presidency in 2012. He has been charged with heading a group that embezzled 16 million rubles ($500,000) worth of timber from a state-owned company while he worked as an adviser to the provincial governor in Kirov in 2009.
The 37-year-old, who also faces other investigations, has declared he wants to run for mayor of Moscow and even the presidency. He insists the allegations have been drummed up by Russian authorities who are exacting revenge for his political activism and his exposure of high-level corruption.
Prosecutor Sergei Bogdanov on Friday asked the court to sentence Navalny to six years in prison and fine him 1 million rubles ($30,000), calling his crime "common" and "banal." But Navalny said no matter what the court decision, it would not halt his crusade against government corruption and lawlessness.
"My colleagues and I will do our best to destroy a feudal state that's being built in Russia, destroy the system of government where 83 percent of national wealth is owned by half a percent of the population," he said in a live webcast from the courtroom in Kirov.
"If somebody thinks that upon hearing this threat of six years, I will run away abroad or go into hiding, they could not be more wrong," Navalny said. "I don't have any other choice and I don't want to do anything else. I want to help people of my country, work for my compatriots."
Also on trial is Pyotr Ofitserov, a businessman who ran a timber trading company in Kirov during Navalny's time in the northwestern Russian region. Prosecutors asked the court to sentence Ofitserov to five years in prison and a million ruble fine.
Navalny, however, described Ofitserov as a "hostage" in this case and apologized to him, his wife and five children, saying they fell victim to a "political trial."
Navalny's lawyers argued that prosecutors had failed to provide any evidence that he was involved in embezzlement, or that this embezzlement ever happened. Navalny said the absurdity of the case was supported by Kirov officials' decision not to sue him and Ofitserov for damages in an arbitration court.
Vyacheslav Opalev, a key prosecution witness whose testimony triggered the charges, got a suspended sentence in an expedited trial in December after pleading guilty to conspiring with Navalny to steal timber from state-owned company Kirovles.
Navalny insists Opalev is framing him out of revenge: Navalny had recommended that Opalev, who was the Kirovles director general, be fired and that officials investigate potential corruption in his company, which had incurred 200 million rubles ($6 million) in losses by the time Navalny arrived in the region.
Throughout the trial, testimony of prosecution witnesses clashed with the core arguments of the indictment that claimed Navalny's work in Kirov led to the embezzlement. None of the managers at Kirovles who appeared in court, except for Opalev, were able to confirm that Navalny defrauded the company.
The verdict for Navalny and Ofitserov will be announced on July 18, Judge Sergei Blinov said on Friday.
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DURHAM — Drifting toward sleep while behind the wheel was the inspiration behind WAKUP, a new antifatigue hydrogel that provides an all-natural burst of energy without the sometimes negative effects of stimulants such as caffeine.
According to Jeff Rapson, director of business development for WAKUP, the sixth startup company from the University of New Hampshire, Shaw Yao, a chemistry student at the school, entrepreneur and one of the founders of the company, had his own scare falling asleep behind the wheel.
"It really hit him that he needed to figure out how to reduce the fatigue," Rapson said.
Yao, a student in the Laboratories and Chemistry Department at UNH, began developing a formula to include ingredients such as water, peppermint, lemon, menthol, and a little bit of glycerine, among others but leaving out ingredients found in energy drinks and shots like taurine, caffeine and guarana.
"For some it's more invigorating than others," he said of WAKUP's effects and scent.
The gel, called "smart-hydrogel, Rapson said, evaporates when it touches skin. Currently marketed in a small lip balm-like canister, it is intended to be put across the upper lip where its aromatherapy effects will give the user a little nudge of alertness.
Rapson said the effects last about 15 minutes to a half-hour, long enough to help get through a commute, but not lasting long enough to deter sleep later on.
Whether a drowsy driver or a student looking to get an extra hour of study out of their day, WAKUP will do the trick, Rapson said.
"It's to get that last little bit out of the day. That's where we fit," he said.
Those clients are currently their target audience, but Rapson said the creators are hoping to also appeal to anyone looking for an alternative to the energy drink and caffeine-fueled offerings on the market.
All ingredients in WAKUP are classified by the FDA as "Generally Regarded as Safe," unlike some other quick solutions.
"We're not anything like a five-hour energy drink," he said, products he suspects may have now had their "day in the sun."
Rapson said WAKUP, Inc. is looking to take a "little slice of health" from other companies that market health-conscious items such as sports drinks.
"We want to take a little slice of all those markets and say, 'Hey we're not going to juice you up to the point that you can't get the sleep when you want to,'" he said.
One of the earliest customers was a heart patient unable to ingest products with caffeine, which could prompt heart palpitations. This type of product would be ideal for someone who, such as this customer, had a busy work day that included lots of driving time, but had limited options for enhancing energy due to health conditions.
"Whether you're an Ironman running or a commuter, this is, I think, a more satisfactory solution," Rapson said.
Since it was created at UNH, the university owns intellectual property rights to the product and Rapson said the school will be getting a share of its profits. That will help give back to students like Yao, whom he described as a "classic entrepreneur," continue their studies at the research university.
"We're hoping that will take pressure off them and put money back in the student body," he said. Through shares and royalties from WAKUP, the hope is that a benefit to the school will be the ability "to potentially dig out" from its funding slump.
In a press release announcing the product and partnership, Tristan Carrier, licensing manager in UNH's Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization, described Wakup as the "most recent example of the innovative and creative research at UNH being used to address a market need. We are eager to work with our researchers to keep growth opportunities like these local and create jobs in the state."
Rapson said the process is still in its very early stages. WAKUP can be purchased for roughly $5 online at www.wakupinc.com, and in quantities of one to three sticks. Customers can also provide comments and feedback in the "testimonials" section.
As more testimony comes back to the company, work will be done to determine other ways to package the product and improve on it.
"We're still playing with the formulation," Rapson said.
Right now he, Yao and marketing director Mark Esterly are actively seeking development and seed money for the project. He said other applications will also be explored such as a similar product that would help people fall asleep.
"There are lots of potential uses for the smart gel technology," he said, explaining that it's already used in shampoos and things like contact lenses.
"Down the road we can probably come up with ways to use it as a lipstick or skin conditioner," he said.
If all goes well, Rapson said they are hoping to have a viable company in about six months to a year.
"In any case we're excited about it. It's still in the early stages," he said.


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China trumpets 'human rights action plan'
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Posted in Government, 4th November 2008 12:32 GMT
China has declared that it will instigate a "human rights action plan" over the next two years designed in part to "expand democracy and strengthen rule of law".
According to Xinhua, the document will be formulated with contributions from the courts, parliament and non-government groups. Wang Chen of the government's PR department, the State Council Information Office, said the plan "showed the ruling Communist Party was committed to improving citizens' rights".
He insisted: "Respecting and protecting human rights ... is an important objective and principle of the Chinese Communist Party and the government."
Wang didn't give a release date for the document, and didn't mention any input from "the powerful ministries of public security and state security, which oversee the government's sweeping powers to detain citizens", as Reuters puts it. ®
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A lot of people ask me how they should set up their dining table when they aren't using it. Runners, candle sticks, flowers?
There are a lot of different ways to stage a dining room table. The arrangement should depend on the look of your room, but also on how often you use your table. If you use it every night for dinner, it would be very irritating to have a lot of different things to remove every night!
This is the dining room of designer Kelly Wearstler. They must not eat here often!
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Sometimes one chic vase or sculpture is enough to carry the whole room.
Create a grouping of vases or objects. You dont even have to put flowers in those.
A tray helps to unify objects that dont seem to be related. It makes them look neat and intentional as opposed to a pile of stuff that you just left somewhere. A tray with tea service, candle sticks, glasses, vases or a stack of dishes will look chic in the center of a table or on a sideboard.
Some other things to consider:
1. Books
2. Potted plants
3. Use what you have! Your serving platters, cake stands and cloches could look great when artfully arranged.
And remember to change it up and experiment!


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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Coffin Invitations
Posted by Rot at 6:11 AM
Labels: casket, coffin, halloween party, invitation, skeleton, spider web
2 comments:
- Leslie said...
Great blog!!! Thanks for featuring the coffin invites. They were fun to make! All of this Blog halloween talk makes me want to decorate.
- September 9, 2012 at 7:35 AM
- Shani said...
Love that!!! Reminds me of what some of the peeps on the Halloween forum come up with for their invites. Amazing stuff!
- September 9, 2012 at 8:53 AM
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Many people don't know this (guess they will now), but in my early 20s I was diagnosed with a serious "woman" issue. I went to see a world-renowned fertility doctor in Omaha, Neb. That doctor, for me and for my future, was nothing less than an angel. What has always stuck in my mind about his practice was that when I visited his office he didn't have any of his myriad diplomas or honors up on his walls—anywhere. Instead, all along the lengthy hallway from the reception area back to the examining rooms were hundreds and hundreds of photographs of mothers and families with the children that he and his team had made possible. Thinking about it still brings tears to my eyes. A nurse told me: "This wall is a constant reminder of why I come to work every day."
I thought about that wall again, recently, as I've been summarizing everything I've learned over the years about what makes advisory firms great. One of the key things about great firms is that the owners and their employees have passion for what they do. The good news is that virtually every independent advisor I've ever met has passion to provide his or her clients with the best financial care possible. They fully understand the importance and the responsibility of what they do for their clients, and their clients' dependents: That children and grandchildren will go to college, the sick will get the health care they need, the elderly will get nursing care, and clients will live and retire with peace of mind, all because of what their advisor has helped them to do.
Unfortunately though, as good as most independent advisors are at taking care of their clients, in my experience they are equally bad at communicating and transferring their passion to their employees. In fact, the ability to instill their sense of passion for what they do in their employees is one of the keys to creating great practices. Because, without passion, employees will never be great, and great employees make great advisory firms.
One of the biggest challenges that independent advisors have today is that the vast majority of firm owners were never employees in an independent advisory firm themselves. Most of the time they were stockbrokers, insurance agents, or accountants who, because of their passion for their clients, decided to make the leap to creating their own independent firm. They have no idea what it is like working in their firm, and working for someone else in an independent firm.
Consequently, owner/advisors tend to make assumptions about what working in their firms is like. For instance, firm owners typically assume that their employees will automatically have passion for their jobs and expect their employees to have that passion. What they don't understand is that coming to work everyday in your own firm, working with your own clients, and seeing the tangible results of the advice you give are all easy things to have passion about.
On the other hand, coming to work in someone else's firm, having little or no direct contact with the clients, and infrequently or never seeing the results of what you do is a lot harder to feel passionate about. Instilling passion in firm employees requires a concerted effort on the part of owner/advisors.
Most owner/advisors' solution for a lack of passion in their staff is to try to hire passionate people. This is another example of the "hire great employees" syndrome that I've written about before. It is doomed to failure for two reasons. First, it's very hard to spot passionate employees in the screening and interviewing process. Everyone knows that you want to appear passionate and motivated in a job interview, so almost everyone does. In my experience, that rarely carries over for the long term once the job is offered and accepted.
One group of prospective employees that you can count on to be passionate is young advisors fresh out of university financial planning programs. Most of them started out in business school or accounting programs, and migrated to financial planning because they were attracted to the idea of helping real people and real clients—even though planning programs have less prestige on campus.
Here comes hiring failure No. 2: In my own tracking of the people I went to financial planning school with, and the many young planners I've met and stayed in contact with over the past 11 years, over 40% are no longer in the financial industry. "That's because most of them went to work for brokerage firms or other non-client-centered financial institutions," I hear you say. In the old days, that might have been true, but in my generation over half of the college graduates went straight to independent advisory firms.
Again, according to my tracking, the drop-out rate at independent firms is about the same as institutions: 40%. Which means that not only do independent advisory firms fail to instill passion in their employees, many of them actually take already passionate young advisors and squeeze the passion out of them to the extent that they leave the industry. Rare indeed is the employee who can maintain their passion for the job in a non-passionate environment. If you can't even maintain the passion of young advisors, how can you hope to instill passion in other employees?
Passion is one thing you can't hire. Great advisory firms create what I call "a culture of passion." That is, a culture that motivates, encourages and inspires employees to be passionate about their jobs and their firm. Then, it doesn't matter if you hire passionate new employees or not: They will become passionate simply by working at your company.
I know this may sound idealistic, but believe me, it's not. In fact, it's a lot easier than you think. That's because advisory firms are already doing good things for their clients—things that most people can get passionate about—and their owners are already passionate about it. So, it's largely a matter of communicating and demonstrating that passion and value to one's employees. In my experience, great advisory firms instill three kinds of passion in their employees, each of which will translate directly into increased motivation and job performance:
1. A Passion for the Job. As I said earlier, financial advisors understand how important what they do is: They need to make their employees understand that, too. I'm not a big believer in owner/advisors making grand speeches, but if that's your inclination, a heartfelt description of why you became an advisor certainly couldn't hurt.
Of more importance, in my view, is to frequently point out that what you're all doing at your firm is important: that you're providing real value to real people. You don't have to beat your employees over the head with it. Subtle and frequent reminders can be very powerful—like the pictures on the wall of the doctor's office. In fact, a similar wall in your office, with pictures of your clients and their families (with their permission) would go a long way to connecting employees' jobs with real people. So how would owner/advisors regularly share what makes it all worthwhile? One client's son just got into Harvard because we helped them put aside the money 20 years ago. Another client's mother can stay in her house thanks to the LTC policy we got for her. You get the picture.
2. Passion for the Firm. It's also important that employees understand that all those wonderful things you do for clients couldn't get done without them, too. This is not a one or two person show with a supporting cast. Make sure that everyone at your firm knows how even the seemingly small tasks they do in some way enables your firm to make your clients lives better. One of my clients got copies of all his staff's diplomas and mounted them on the wall of the conference room where he does his client meetings. The message: There is a lot of talent here, all working to take care of our clients.
3. Passion for the Team. When things get really tough, as they did at many advisory firms during the past few years, it's easy to start to lose the passion for the firm, or even the job. But the one thing that's always in front of your employees is the people they work with. They are just as dependent upon each other to get the job done, as are the clients. At the end of the day, the success or failure of the firm and its ability to help the clients depends on everyone working together. To instill this kind of passion, be sure that everyone knows what everyone else does and how it affects their job. Get their input when designing their job, so they can own it. Everyone has a stake in working together to help the clients.
The success of every advisory firm depends on each employee being just as passionate about their job, their firm, and their co-workers as the owner/advisor is. Creating that kind of passion is usually as simple as letting the employees see why you are so passionate about what you all are doing.


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Meanwhile, using an electric mixer, combine the granulated sugar, eggs, lemon juice, orange juice, remaining 1 teaspoon lemon peel, remaining 2 tablespoons flour and the baking powder and mix for 1-1/2 minutes. Pour the filling into the crust and bake until the top is golden, about 40 minutes. Let cool completely. Cut into bars and dust with confectioners' sugar.


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Cut the Rope Creator ZeptoLab Plans Four New Games in 2013, TV Show in 2014
ZeptoLab CEO Misha Lyalin doesn't play cards, except for bridge. His Moscow-based games company, though, is playing a more random card game.
"We're fortunate enough that we got dealt an amazing card, and it's called Cut the Rope," Lyalin said of ZeptoLab's hit series. "But we still have to build up everything else. With one card, you go into the game, and everybody has a hand, and you have nothing."
That "everything else" includes two other games, Parachute Ninja and Pudding Monsters, which combined with Cut the Rope's three titles have generated more than 300 million downloads across all platforms since 2010. The company also licenses enough merchandise to choke even Cut the Rope's voracious star, Om Nom: Toys, apparel, food, board games, a digital comic book and an ongoing animated Web series.
And that list is growing. In an interview with AllThingsD, Lyalin said ZeptoLab is planning four new games for this year: Two new Cut the Rope games and two completely original titles. The company is also working with Sony Pictures Television to develop a TV show, to start airing in 2014.
(Also coming soon to a TV near you: A half-hour animated TV series based on Zynga's social game FarmVille, not to mention Rovio's Angry Birds TV shorts, a few of which have already aired on Nickelodeon. Whether the new generation of videogame-related shows can live up to the artistic excellence of the "Super Mario Bros. Super Show" remains to be seen.)
The CEO declined to go into detail about the TV show, other than to say that it would be Cut the Rope-themed.
Lyalin said these sorts of licensed products are now a part of the expected path for game companies that have a hit on their hands.
And that's telling. Once, the iconic games that were able to command extensive lines of merchandise were only available on a few devices approved by their publishers (think Mario on Nintendo's consoles or Sonic on Sega's). Now, stuffed Om Noms are both an extra revenue stream and a form of advertising for the Cut the Rope brand, which freely follows users across different devices and different operating systems.
However, Lyalin stressed the need to keep releasing new games above all else.
"We're a gaming company, first and foremost," he said. "That is where our strength is from."
So, where are those games headed? With its fans primarily on mobile devices, ZeptoLab hasn't yet tried to break into the troubled home-console market, but Lyalin said he hasn't ruled it out. In particular, he said, Android-based game consoles (such as the forthcoming Ouya) are "a given," since the company's games are already on the Android OS.
His bigger philosophy, though, is refreshingly frank, if not terribly complex: A lot of platforms where ZeptoLab might go won't survive. But, Lyalin said, if they can attract an audience in the short term and potentially expand Om Nom's reach, then that's enough.


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The music was something I was surprisingly capable of doing well. I had the idea set in my mind from the very beginning that I would do all of the sound for the game on my cello, because I thought it would sound cool, and because I thought it would save time and allow me to focus more on the other aspects of my game. The thing was, I hadn't played my cello for a good 2 and a half years, having given it up partway through my eleventh grade of highschool. Luckily my 7-8 years of training flooded back to me and I did a job that I'm proud of, even though I couldn't get the looping to work perfectly.
The sound efects were something I struggled a lot with at first, after recording all of the music I decided to test sound effects by randomly playing them over the looping music tracks. This sounded absolutely HORRIBLE, like stab-myself-in-the-ear-with-my-cello-bow bad. At first I thought it was because the sound effects were note-based as was the music, and the dissonance was causing it to sound terrible. So I decided to try an experiment, I went online and watched a bunch of videos of classic games known for having great music (Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda and Sonic the Hedgehog are the three most recognizable ones I watched) and found that there sound effects weren't much different from mine in that they were off-key, out of time and just generally clashing very much with the music. But they sounded good. But then I turned off the monitor and re-watched (listened?) the videos. And they sounded terrible. So, I concluded, that when you know that a sound effect is coming, when you know what it will sound like and what causes it, the brain is capable of filtering it onto a different track then the music, making them separate entities. Basically, you are capable of listening to the tune uninterrupted in your head, even though what is really coming out of the speakers is a cacophony of unspeakable ugliness. So I kept my sound effect as they were.
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The level design was hindered by the coding. This was my biggest failing and the one that could have most easily been avoided. Before the competition I was set on the theme of Self-Replication and a Legend of Zelda-like game where your character only lived for thirty seconds and then respawned, leaving the world as it was when he died, needing you to go back over and over again to set up the world to be conquered in thirty seconds or less (or whatever amount of time). When the theme of Escape was announced I was thoroughly unprepared. I had, gone through the list of themes and made ideas for each of them, but the theme of Escape was one of the few (along with Espionage, Castles and others) that didn't have any idea to its name. So I tried to adapt my Self-Replication idea to the Escape theme and started coding a whatever you would call a Legend of Zelda style game. By the time I wizened up and decided to go with my final idea, so much base code was written that I wouldn't have time to rewrite that I was severely limited in mechanics I could add to my puzzler. The "engine" I had created did not allow for dynamic npc objects, something that could have been implemented into my level design had I had more foresight.
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The movie '12 Years a Slave' is supposed to be one of the best films of the year. It's a film that teaches us a valuable lesson about our nation's horrific past.
It's also a film I can't bring myself to see.
Surely I'm not the only movie lover fighting this internal battle: You love and even feel enriched by great movies, but the fair amount of ugliness in those movies may be too upsetting. In which case, one starts to ask, 'Why would anyone purposely upset him or herself?' Isn't there enough in the present-day real world to upset us? Don't we watch the news?
Maybe the real question is: Can't we admit a film is great while also admitting we don't enjoy it?
Films that rip apart your insides emotion aren't supposed to be 'enjoyable.' Good art is supposed to strike an emotional chord, but that doesn't mean it's pleasant. 'Silent Running' and 'Old Yeller' taught us that when we were kids.
A month ago, I was horrified to discover one of my 11-year-olds watching 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,' starring a young Asa Butterfield from 'Ender's Game.' The film takes place in a concentration camp and contains one of the most heart-wrenching endings I've ever seen. Moving to turn it off (too late: The last scene was already happening), I asked why she was watching this instead of a benign cartoon or something rated G. It was no big deal, she said - she'd already seen it once, and it was a great movie.
When I stopped feeling guilty for the psychological damage I'd likely caused my child by letting this film slip through the parental filter, I realized she was right. It was a great movie that taught a valuable lesson - and I will never it watch again because I've become a big, sissy, softhearted parent.
Things have changed in the 20 years since I fancied myself a pop-culture know-it-all. Back then, living three years in Hollywood among other 20-somethings with sophisticated tastes, I had no problem seeing seriously depressing films, as long as someone somewhere deemed them worthy of being real 'art.'
The last depressing movie I enjoyed was 'Leaving Las Vegas.' (While I can say, for example, that 'House of Sand and Fog,' was a very good movie, it also made me want to go to bed and pull the covers over my head for a couple days after seeing it.) Shortly after watching Nicolas Cage drink himself to death in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I became a father and suddenly found myself crying during cellphone commercials.
Well, maybe it wasn't quite that bad. But no longer was it easy to watch child characters suffer during movies. I simply reached a point where life was too short to watch terribly sad movies. I couldn't watch Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, trying to save thousands of Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust in 'Schindler's List.' I missed Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, trying to rescue his country's citizens from genocide, in 'Hotel Rwanda.' I planned to see Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood in 'Million Dollar Baby,' until someone let slip the ending.
The post-apocalyptic tale of a father and son's journey in 'The Road' wasn't an option either - reading the book nearly had me in hysterics by the end.
But sometimes the pull of good art is too hard to resist, so I may end up seeing 'The Road' after all. I'll just have to retoughen myself and find a way to brace myself for the ending.