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Hans Joachim Einsiedler was born in 1966 in Ravensburg, Germany. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994. He worked at the Zurich Research Laboratory, at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He joined Deutsche Telekom in 1999. Since then, he was leader of EU and EURESCOM R&D projects. He joined the Telekom Innovation Laboratories on May, 1st, 2004 and is responsible for the Seamless Network Control team within Telekom Innovation Laboratories. His topics are next generation control platforms and Internet Protocol control plane topics. Hans is the Deutsche Telekom responsible for the European Technology Platform Networld2020-ETP, the ETNO R&D task force, and the Future Internet and 5G Infrastructure Public-Private-Partnership initiatives.


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|KANT IN THE CLASSROOM Materials to aid the study of Kant's lectures
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Table: Full Professors employed in German Universities
This table is based on Eulenburg's data [1904, 319] and shows the number of full professors (ordentliche Professoren) [glossary] at German universities during the years 1758 (left-hand columns) and 1796 (right-hand columns) — thus, near the beginning and near the end of Kant's teaching career. Eulenburg provides data for more schools than shown here; this graph includes only those schools for which there was a complete data set. He also provides totals for the four faculties for 1796 (the most complete data set): theology (184), Law (174), medicine (159), and philosophy (274), with a total number of 791 full professors (this includes the Austrian universities).
Eulenburg elsewhere [1908, 9-11] estimates a total of 86 associate (ausserordentliche) professors and 38 lecturers (Privatdozenten) in all the German-speaking universities, and in 1796 these numbers had grown to 141 associate professors and 86 lecturers (which together constituted one-fourth of the total teaching staff; by 1840 they would constitute one-half).
A list of the philosophy faculty at Königsberg (as well as timelines of the philosophy, theology and medicine faculties) is provided under the Professors pages. When comparing that information with the data for Königsberg listed here, one immediately notes a discrepancy: sources other than Eulenburg indicate that there were nine full professors in the philosophy faculty at Königsberg in 1758 (the normal eight, plus C. C. Flottwell), and seven in 1796 (Mangelsdorff was professor of both Rhetoric/History and of Poetry).
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Pacific Opera Project's (POP's) Marriage of Figaro is playing just two weekends, one in Pasadena at the Porticoes Art Space and one in Santa Monica at the Miles Playhouse. With alternating casts, it is a jewel, due to outrageous creative directing of Josh Shaw, Artistic Director, vibrant musical directing of Stephen Karr, Musical Director, and unbridled singing and comedic talents of two complete casts.
Having seen and greatly delighted in POP's productions of Cosi Fan Tutte last season and Barber of Seville recently, I can say there is in this company a steady stream of American performers who are often overlooked at bigger venues in favorof bringing in better-known international names. While it is fun to experience the foreign perspectives and grander staging in large, established opera settings, there is something to be said for having a cast of "locals," especially when it comes to comedy. There are nuances and gags which can be sneaked in to enhance the fun. There is an easy chemistry and cameraderie at POP which can be counted on, especially since there are limitations of time and space to be dealt with.
POP's mission is to keep prices low, to encourage everyday people to appreciate the opera experience and open it to new audience members. We are reminded by Shaw before the show begins that the low price of tickets does not really cover the costs of producing opera. Donations are requested and appreciated. (One hopes Pacific Opera Project will soon receive some greatly deserved grants to help enhance their mission.) The venue in northern Pasadena is not ideal (especially for Westsiders) and a bit musty, and the creative sets are sometimes not as sturdy as they could be. But the essence, the vibrance and fun of comic opera, is firmly rooted here. And besides, every affordable seat is an orchestra seat!
In Marriage of Figaro, (we saw the second-night cast), the heavenly and masculine baritone voice of lead character Ryan Thorn as Figaro, and that of the Count Luvi Avendano are very pleasing and strong. Their comic chops help carry the show. Avendano especially has many moments of torment and evil to portray, and as the frustrated meanie, he is always entertaining. E. Scott Levin as Bartolo is also hilarious.
What I found to be most sparkling was the array of sopranos, one more lovely than the next, who brought their voices into their bodies and souls and exuded humor as well. (Sometimes I find sopranos to be too lyrical for my taste, and here the sounds were vibrant and dramatic.)
First is our heroine Susanna, played by Sara Duchovnay. She is fun to watch as she prances and teases and pouts and angers, all without missing a note. Then we are treated to the hilarious and charismatic Stephanie Sadownik as Marcellina, who among her bag of tricks, has sex while singing. Up pops Julia Aks in the trouser role of Cherubino. She is perfectly cast as the gawky young boy who loves women. She captures the character's every move. When we are introduced to ultra- lovely heartbroken Countess played by Bridgette Gan, her vibrato voice billows through her body and excites the audience even more.
Certainly I hope to see more of them in the future. Kudos to Stephen Karr not only for his directing a wonderful ten piece chamber orchestra but also for his humorous supertitles. While Marriage of Figaro is fun and full of twists and turns, it is not as outrageous and over-the-top as were POP's productions of Cosi Fan Tutti and Barber of Seville. There was more slang and more liberties taken with the translations there. I found the translations this time to be more straightforward with the actual Italian--and although the piece is set in a different time and place, the setup fit in more handily.
Shaw's interpretation takes place in 1980s Florida and concerns a drug lord and group of mobsters. In the traditional Figaro, set in 17th Century Spain, the opening scene finds Figaro measuring sizes for his marriage bed. Here he is still reciting the same numbers, but they are in relations to money being counted. There are several little vignettes inserted among the big scenes to further help the audience understand the story, convoluted as it is. The very opening sets up the play with a mob scene of interrogation so that we immediately know who these characters are.
The music wins out. The Mozart arias, duets, quartets and chorus numbers are all so beautiful, many of them could be show-stoppers in themselves. It is great to know we have so many wonderful operatic talents in the United States, and that we have a savvy director who can spot them and creatively use their talents.
Shaw and Karr are clever in every way, putting their greatest energies into the operatic arts and doing amazing work with limited budgets.Pacific Opera Project is surely a company to watch and enjoy.
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Total TimePrep: 1 hour + cooling
- 1 to 2 cans vanilla frosting (16 ounces each)
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- Clear decorating sugar
- Miniature silver dragees, optional
- Nonstick foil or parchment paper
- Blue, clear and/ or white hard candies
- Additional vanilla frosting
- Blue decorating sugar
- Frost cupcakes, reserving some frosting for decorating as desired.
- For star cupcakes: Place clear decorating sugar in a small shallow bowl; stir in miniature dragees if desired. (Dragees are not edible and are for decorative use only.) Roll top edge of each cupcake in sugar to form a decorative rim. Set aside.
- Line a 15x10x1-in. baking pan with nonstick foil. Crush candies in desired color to yield about 1 cup. Place in prepared pan, spreading candy to about 1/4-in. thickness. Bake at 350° for 3-5 minutes or until melted. Meanwhile, coat 6-8 metal star-shaped cookie cutters with cooking spray.
- Remove pan from the oven; press prepared cutters into melted candy. Let stand until just before candy is set; remove cutters. (Reheat scraps in the oven if desired.)
- Add frosting to a small resealable plastic bag; cut a small hole in corner of bag. Pipe frosting around edges of stars; top with decorating sugars and miniature dragees as desired. Press stars onto top of cupcake; secure with additional frosting if needed.


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Sandy Doty
Photo courtesy of: Ohio University Lancaster
Apr 2, 2014
By Cheri Russo
LANCASTER – For Ohio University Lancaster | Pickerington Associate Professor of Physics Sandy Doty, science is more than just a subject. It's a way of learning that students of all ages should be able to access and embrace. In 2010, Doty approached an area museum about creating a local science fair for children in kindergarten through eighth grade.
"There's been a lot of discussion on how to improve science education for our children – specifically, education used to focus on memorizing. Being a smart person meant you knew a lot of facts," said Doty. "With the onset of Google and other easily accessible information sources, the knowledge of particular facts is not nearly as important as using information, being adaptive, being what we now term as a 'deep learner.' A deep learner takes an entirely different approach to learning. They look for connections and build models of how things work. That type of learning is exactly what science fair promotes."
Doty and The Works museum in Newark created the Licking County Local Science Fair. This science fair, open to all children residing in Licking, Perry, Pickaway and Fairfield Counties, provides a chance for elementary-level students to experience hands-on science and create experiments. For middle school-age students, they also have the opportunity to qualify for District Science Day. The Works was selected as the venue since it is an interactive learning center designed for children (and adults) to learn about the science, technology and historic accomplishments of the region. Science fair helps the museum meet one of its key missions – making science accessible.
"When Sandy approached The Works with the idea to start and support a local science fair at the museum, she provided all the background information and knowledge to plan a fair at our site. We agreed that if she would be a science fair chair, we would move forward and would love to add science fair as something we supported at The Works," said Rori Leath from The Works.
"The idea of creating a community-wide, open access, local science day sprang out of my deep concern for kids and for our future. I feel strongly that every kid needs to understand the fundamental truths about science, specifically, and education, in general," said Doty. "Too many kids, and adults, think that education is about memorizing what the teacher wants you to write on a test. The truth is that education is not about 'Googling' the right answer. Education, and particularly science, is about learning how to ask and answer your own questions. It is about developing the confidence that comes from that exercise of asking and answering, and from the realization that 'even a kid' can be an expert. The idea to create this local science day experience came about because I wanted every child to have the chance to learn that way, and because I know that learning in the way that naturally occurs with science fair is important to being able to take proper advantage of any opportunity."
Projects that receive a "superior" at the Licking County Local Science Fair are eligible to participate at the District 8 Science Fair. That competition is held at Ohio University Lancaster in March each year. Doty said another goal of the local science fair is to provide a way for students to qualify for District Science Day when their school district either cancels or no longer supports a science day.
"This year is a good example of meeting that second goal. A friend from a local school district asked if one of her former students could attend the Licking County fair. Their high school had dropped science fair due to a variety of reasons. This meant that a high school senior who had participated in state science day five times, had won national honors for his work and had presented at the national meeting of the Junior Academy of Science lost his opportunity to qualify one last time" said Doty. "Fortunately, because our local science day was already in place, this deserving young man, who has done some amazing work investigating the DNA of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, had an opportunity to present his work at a local science fair and so he was able to qualify for district and state. Knowing that the little net we have created was able to serve such a wonderful purpose is gratifying beyond words."
"Students are gaining life skills that are truly important. Over the years of offering this program we have watched children grow in their knowledge, understanding and abilities. This year we had four students move on to District Science Day from our fair and three of these students have been with us since the beginning of Science Fair," said Leath. "You can see the changes in their work and commitment to science as they grow through the program. As I see students throughout the year, many ask about Science Fair and when they can compete again. Science Fair participants are becoming driving forces for their own education and that is one of the biggest accomplishments we could ever hope to see."
During the spring meeting of the Southern Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Doty was invited to give a presentation titled "Science Fair: Creating Adaptive Experts and Deep Learners." The focus of the meeting was on student participation in scientific research at all levels of education, extoling the benefits of research for students and outlining best practices for engaging students in research.
"In my presentation, I defined what I mean by a 'well run' science fair, reported on the benefits of science fair participation, described how my model for expanding science fair outside of school is implemented, why such expansion is important, and the successes and challenges of my model," said Doty. "I described science fair as both a training ground for professional scientists but more importantly as critical to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) literacy and 21st century learning objectives. Students who have participated in science fair are more likely to pursue STEM careers, begin research early in their undergraduate years, and more easily transition to professional scientific careers either as research scientists or industrial scientists. Moreover, anecdotal evidence exists to suggest that students who participate in science fair – even if they discover that they are not interested in science as a career – develop confidence in their academic and social skills which translates as improved performance in social and academic measures.
"What we're really trying to do with the local science fair is help young children understand that learning means being able to ask your own question and answer your own question, figuring out how to do that on your own," said Doty. "That's what science fair is all about."
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If you are looking to re-evaluate how you do discipleship in your ministry, then this is the perfect resource for you! Even if you are already actively engaging in discipleship, but need to recast the vision to your leaders, parents, and students then check this download out!
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1. Discipleship Leader Training (volunteer leader training)
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3. Helping Students in Crisis (volunteer leader training)
These two messages could be delivered to students or adults to cast the vision of what discipleship looks like in the local church.
1. The Priority of Discipleship (word-for-word manuscript)
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These are tools that you can provide for your leaders to either help in their volunteering or to setup discipleship relationships.
1. How to Counsel a Student Visualization (leader handout)
2. Counseling a Student (leader handout or lesson)
3. Fast Tips on Discipleship (leader handout or lesson)


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On March 28th, 2009 I gave a lecture to the Northwest CCI Traders Club on Market Profile. It was my aim to introduce the concept of using market-generated information. This is a concept quite the opposite of what other traders in this group, as well as most traders in general, use to make trading decisions. I've been involved in trading for a very long time; in fact I passed my Series 7 exam in 1974 and worked for major Wall Street brokerage firms, as well as working as a CTA in the early 1980s. From the length of time I've been involved in the markets I've been able to see just about every possible trading methodology out there. The one constant that I see, whether among brokers or wannabe traders include the following traits:
1 – The constant search for someone to give them a trading methodology or trading signals.
Currently this seems to take the form of finding the current hot chat room that has the answers. In the past it was a market letter or advisory service, or someone promising the secret to trading by selling an expensive trading "school." It is natural to want to believe that someone out there holds the secret to the markets, and that they want to give away or sell that knowledge. It is also a comfort to want to belong to a larger group of like-minded traders. Seeking this type of comfort almost always works against trading success. Expecting someone else to provide the answer is unrealistic. Chat room moderators present themselves as expert and experienced traders. The truth is quite the opposite. Very few have been successful as traders. Some may indeed mean well, but most just want to get into your wallet one way or the other.
2 – Holding on to the belief that a certain indicator or methodology will produce profits even after rigorous objective backtesting proves that profitability is an illusion. It is amazing to see traders that are invested in a particular methodology stubbornly adhere to the claims of great profits if only they just have a little more screen time or take additional classes. It is difficult to give up on an idea when much time and money have already been invested. A key part of becoming a successful trader is knowing when to cut a loss short. No amount of screen time will create a winning approach from an unsound methodology.
3 – Looking outside of market generated information for the answer. I see many traders turning to approaches to timing the market that come from information that has nothing to do with the markets. Many believers of Gann, Elliot, and Fibonacci and those who turn to the moon and tides fall into this category. These traders must know at some level that chat rooms and indicators are not working for them. Instead of turning toward the market, they turn away and try to find a correlation between price action and unrelated causes. This type of approach is as old as there are markets, and has never, ever worked. And it never will, but traders will keep falling for the false claims until common sense returns, or their money runs out.
4 – Forming a belief that a market must reach a certain objective or move in a certain direction. This is actually a result of the first three items. Often an opinion will be formed based on some old tired chart pattern or indicator set-up, and the trader forms the opinion that a certain result must occur. Or it could be an Elliot wave count, or fibonacci retracement level with great confluence of support from past chart points. The market doesn't really care about any of this. Markets look forward to discount the future. The market can and will do what it wants to do, regardless of the position of the moon, a CCI divergence, or what George Soros says will happen next week. These patterns and formations are there for all to see. The gurus and forecasts on CNBC are all over the internet and known by all. What all can see cannot create an edge. The trader cannot tell a market what it must do. The job of the trader is to listen to what the market intends to do.
The antidote to the conditions above, in my opinion, is to try to understand and to interpret what the market is trying to communicate. And the best way to achieve this is to use the information the market is generating, rather than relying on derivative indicators, useless opinions, or non-market related events.
Refer to the graphic above courtesy of Linda Raschke. The vast majority of traders focus only on #3 – Indicators and Oscillators. Indicators and oscillators can be useful tools, but they cannot predict where a market will go, at least not with enough consistency to generate trading profits over time.
When I first purchased a PC in the early 1980's, I purchased Compu-Trac software and a huge database of commodity and stock index data. I tested every indicator I could get my hands on, and every trading system that could be programmed into the software. Nothing worked. I could not find any entry/exit rules and indicator combinations that would produce enough profit to overcome trading costs. I tested systems that were being sold for very high prices, systems that were under management at major brokerage firms, systems of my own development, and anything else I could get my hands on. I sought the advice of gurus. I went to trading conference after trading conference to get ideas. I finally met George Lane, the creator of the stochastic indicator, at one of the trading conferences. I talked with him and decided to fly to Chicago to study with him. At the end of the study he said that price was the most important consideration. Volume followed. The indicator, which we had been studying for a week, was last and least in importance, and was only used for confirmation.
This at least had me consider viewing indicators from a more realistic perspective. It is easy to attach greater significance to indicators than they deserve. Most indicators have relatively simple code and can only do, or indicate, so much. It is unrealistic to think that a simple formula derived from price can actually lead the function from which it is derived. It is silly to think it can. It is also a mathematical impossibility. As much as I've tried to convince other traders of this, I get disbelief and an argument to the contrary. It is difficult to argue a mathematical fact to those who believe in the tooth fairy. Now I just smile and hope they don't give away all their money to those who know better. To be fair this concept of leading indicators had to have a basis for its origin. I believe that many think certain indicators can lead because at times, when the market is in a very cyclical mode, and if an indicator such as a stochastic has the correct input parameter, it can turn ahead of price. But it is important to remember that the indicator is not leading price. It is derived from price. It is to assume a lot that the market is trading in a nearly perfect sine wave, and that the indicator happens to have the perfect lookback period to track and turn up at its half cycle to give the appearance of leading. If the market were cyclically as stable as a light wave, then one could use an indicator with great success. In the real world, in real markets, this approach is doomed to failure. To believe otherwise is to believe in fantasy. Markets are constantly changing. They do not represent a stable sine wave. The cycles are constantly changing, and at times disappearing as trends develop. With that being said, indicators can still be a useful tool just like a hammer can be useful if you are building a house. But a hammer cannot build a house by itself, and a hammer isn't of much use in laying the foundation.
If one were to accept some of the concepts as stated above, then what is the best method to gain insight into what the actual market is trying to communicate? Most traders would probably agree that volume might have some importance in the overall picture of market structure. But how does one look at volume? A bar chart will show the total volume of trading during the trading session. It can be useful to know if overall volume is increasing or declining. But how does one know what the volume represents? Is it just a large fund buying or selling for some reason unrelated to the developing structure? Is it shorts covering or new longs entering? Is it earnings related? Is it arb activity in the pits or new money entering long term positions? One can look at intra-day price bars such as on a five-minute chart, with volume bars under the prices. But every day will show a similar pattern of heavy volume at the beginning and end of each day, with a dip in the middle, drawing a pattern similar to the shape of a bowl. How does this help?
Peter Stiedlmayer developed a method of representing the distribution of volume during the trading day. He attempted to create a visual representation of the thought process of traders in the trading pits. Instead of using actual trade volume, he displayed a representation of volume as price over time. This is an important distinction. As price movement is displayed over time, a bell curve develops, and the areas of price acceptance and price rejection are readily apparent. Areas of market balance and imbalance become clearly visible. Changes in the direction of value provide more insight than changes in the closing price.
Refer to the graphic above. The yellow bars are 30-minute price bars of the S&P 500 ETF, or SPY. Each half-hour period is assigned a letter. As each period is completed, the next 30-minute period is assigned the next letter in the alphabet. Some vendors start each trading instrument with the letter "A" while some vendors fix each half-hour increment to the same letter. In the latter case, if a market started the trading day later, such as the grains, the first time period would be the letter "C." I doesn't matter which method is used as long as the letters increment. Next, if you collapse all the price bars to the left, you would have the bell curve graphic as shown on the left side of the chart. You can see that the prices that were revisited the most during the day will have the thickest part of the bell curve, and those that were spikes at higher and lower levels were represented by thin rows of letters. The purple line to the left of the graphic represents where approximately 70% of the volume took place. In Market Profile terminology, it is called the value area. This is close to where one standard deviation of the activity took place. The thicker dot in the middle of the purple line is called the point of control. This is the closest point to the middle of the value area where the most activity took place. The blue row of letters is the opening price, and the red row is the closing price. The first two time periods, in this case A and B, are referred to as the initial balance. Different vendors will display these concepts in slightly different ways, but all market profile graphics will contain these basic elements. Some vendors will display an actual count of the letters above and below the point of control. I prefer to keep my profiles as lean as possible. Scaling can be changed to allow the entire group of profiles to display within the size of the chart. Obviously each letter cannot represent a one-penny price change on a high-priced stock trading in one-cent increments, or you would need a monitor ten feet tall to encompass the complete profile. Changing scale does little to alter the use of the profile, although some timing sensitivity can be lost if the resolution is set with too large a price increment.
Above is another graphic explaining the concept of price over time with the resulting standard deviation bell curve. Graphic courtesy of Markets in Profile.
It might be helpful to think of the developing bell curve in terms of an auction, which is really what the market is. Picture an auction for a rare automobile with hundreds of bidders representing volume. Actual volume in this illustration would actually be one, as there is only one car being sold, but for the sake of argument, visualize volume being the number of bidders. If the auctioneer starts the bidding at $20,000 for the rare car, every hand would go up. Everyone in that room would be willing to purchase the car at that price, which everyone would believe to be far below value. As the price increases, at some point some of the hands go down. There is less volume at the higher prices, as some of the bidders perceive price is getting ahead of value. As price continues to climbs, more and more bidders drop out. Therefore, the high prices begin to shut off activity. At a certain price the transaction is complete with the seller responding to the high price by selling the car, with the buyer paying higher than anyone else was willing to pay. Value was probably established at some point in the middle of the bell curve, but the winning bidder had to pay far over what the auction determined to be fair value. If the auctioneer had suddenly put a price far too high, all activity would have shut off and prices would have had to come back down in order to facilitate the trade. Of course, in stock and commodity markets the trade is more two sided than a traditional auction, but the concept of the markets being an auction is still important to keep in mind.
Stiedlmayer created categories for various types of trading days. It is often the case where a particular trading day won't match a particular category precisely. There is often overlap between various day structures. But it is important to try to understand what type of structure is developing and what the implications are of each.
Please click on the thumbnail to the left to blow up the chart. (Note: chart will open in separate window so can be arrange by the side of this text.) The first and most basic day structure is the Normal Day. It is characterized by a wide-ranging initial balance, or first two time periods of the day. It is thought that the initial balance was the pit locals trying to establish value for the day. On a normal day the bell curve will develop generally within the range of the initial balance, with little outside influence to tip the market much beyond the initial balance. When a market extends beyond the established range development up to that point in the day, it is called range extension. On a normal day there is often limited range extension, that is the market may extend beyond the initial balance by a small amount, and then return back into the value area. Some days will show little or no range extension. In current markets that often have around-the-clock trading with much of the trading activity from computer terminals rather than in a trading pit, some concepts seem to require some updating. However, the trading implications of these concepts, even if not precisely accurate in the current market, still seem to be valid. I wide range in the first hour of the day session still seems to imply a normal day.
If you click on the thumbnail to the right you'll see another example of a normal day. You can see a wide range in the A and B periods. There was a small range extension in the D period, but prices quickly returned back into the value area. The bell curve formed with a skew to the lower part of the range. The implication of value developing lower might make the trader watch out for weakness the following day, which is exactly what happened in the case. One subtle but important distinction in that last section are the words "watch out for." Notice I did not say "predict." If you trade markets long enough you will become disenchanted with any sort of predictions. The Market Profile does not predict. Rather, it communicates intention. One must be open to trying to interpret the clues for possible scenarios. A prediction implies a scenario where the traders is telling the market what it must do, rather than listening to the market and following what it is telling the trader what it is trying to do. This might seem like a trivial point, but it is a very important point and key to successfully using the Market Profile.
The thumbnail on the left (please click to enlarge) shows the next day structure. It is called a normal variation day. This day structure is characterized by a still wide, but somewhat smaller initial balance. In this case the initial balance represent closer to half the finished profile, with range extension early enough in the day to create a fairly normal bell curve. When watching this day structure develop, it is not known that the day will result in a normal variation day until it is well into development. But there are some clues. If you notice the open in the A period. It is well below the value area of the previous day and prices quickly rejected those lower prices. The range of the A period and subsequent B period was fairly wide, however there was little rotation and development, as prices were quick to reject the lower prices and prices started to build value in the range of the previous day value area. When range extension occurred in the D period prices quickly moved to the upper range of the previous value area and began rotating, thus building a value area encompassing the initial balance as well as later time periods. In fact in this case the value area was built without any of the prices from A period. The rejection of the lower prices and the building of value higher in the day structure and slightly higher than the previous day value area had implications for continuation higher the next day. Again, not a prediction of higher prices, but a reason to be watching for continuation.
The graphic to the right, when you enlarge it will show the next day structure. This appears similar, at first glance, to the normal day structure. However, there are differences that make this a neutral day. The main difference is that the initial balance is somewhat smaller, similar to the normal-variation day. However, the range extension does not extend far enough to allow development of the bell curve above or below the initial balance. Instead, prices return into the initial balance, and most often will try a range extension on the opposite end of the developing structure. Again prices will fail to extend far enough to allow rotation to change the developing value area. Thus, a normal shaped bell curve begins to develop in the middle of the range, with only moderate range extension on either side. This example is quite symmetrical. No two profiles are the same, so there will always be some variations and possibly overlap with other types of day structures. Another characteristic of the neutral day is the close proximity of the open and the close. A candlestick chart would often show a doji, perhaps with similar implications depending on where the doji occurred within the price trend. However the market profile graphic contain much more useful information than the candlestick. One more important characteristic of the neutral-day is that quite often the value area will overlap with the previous day. In this example the value area of the following day also overlapped, which would not have been apparent by looking at a price bar. As the name would suggest, there is little forward price implication from the neutral day.
The chart to the left shows the next day structure. It is the non-trend day. This is characterized by a narrow range day with a fat profile. There seems to be random rotation with little price movement on either side of the profile, thus developing a short and fat profile. These days can occur prior to a fed announce, prior to long weekends or holidays, or at market exhaustion points. Most traders will simply complain that the market is choppy and untradable on these days. They will often look for excuses to leave the market alone and focus on something else. This is often a big mistake. On non-trend days the Market Profile trader, in other words, the aware and astute trader, should be on the lookout for clues and ready for a breakout. It is when the market is making a narrow range that a large range, and possibly trend day, will occur in the next day or two. If you study enough charts it will become evident that small range days often precede large range days, sometimes with major trends following. And conversely, large range days often exhaust the buying or selling power, and smaller range days are seen the next day. Often the direction of the breakout of the non-trend day is difficult to anticipate. However, since a range expansion is likely, it is best to be ready with a plan for when the breakout occurs, which is often the very next day.
The next day structure is the trend day. A trend day will usually begin with a small initial balance, much the same in appearance to the non-trend day. However, early in the day structure range extension occurs. This range extension does not allow a value area to develop in the initial balance, and the range extension continues throughout the day. There are often periods of single prints on the profile. Most important, there is very little rotation from time period to time period. In other words, each half-hour segment drive prices further in the direction of the trend. Sometimes one of the time segments will have a bit of rotation in the opposite direction, but price usually will resume the trend. The range of a trend day is wide and the profile, absent rotation, is thin. Obviously the open will occur at one end of the trend day, and the close will be near the opposite end. Often a bar on a candle or traditional bar chart will appear to resemble a trend day, but often these days, when viewed with the Market Profile, will actually not be a true trend day. An example would be a day that rotates back and forth all morning, developing a fat profile, and then some news enters the market late in the day extending the range. This type of day would have a different implication than a true trend day.
It is easy to spot a trend after the fact. But during the early stages of development, it is often difficult to determine whether the developing structure is that of a trend day or a non-trend day. A non-trend day wills often have range extension, with what might look like the start of a trend day, but prices fail to extend and return back into the initial balance. If enough rotation occurs and the profile begins to become wide, especially with small range extensions on either side, a non-trend day is usually forming. But one clue to anticipate the greater likelihood of a developing trend day is to look at the prior days. If range has been contracting, and the prior day is a neutral day, or even a non-trend day, range expansion is a likely consequence. Range extension following such contraction should be monitored closely. The market may have been in balance, but it is possible new information is causing the balance to be upset. The market will then drive to a new price level to facilitate trade. That drive to a new price level can often be persistent, thus causing the one time frame price movement, and the long, thin profile.
On the other hand, if a narrow initial balance begins to form after a large trend day, the power behind the move may have exhausted or overshot. The developing price structure could be one of pause and regaining balance. In that case a non-trend or neutral day could develop. The are no specific or mechanical rules to follow. There is an art to trading and much study and experience should improve ones ability to judge the developing day structure.
A variation on the trend day is the double distribution trend day. This day starts off much like a trend day, however there begins to be rotation with a bell curve beginning to develop during much of the day. It appears that more of a normal variation day will result. But then new information enters the market and range extension occurs and drives prices to a new area. At some point the move is shut off, usually overshooting, and then another bell curve begins to develop. The resulting profile will have two areas of price rotation, which are usually separated by an area of single prints. These days can often occur on Fed days, or days where a surprise announce or event occurs. The market goes from balance, to imbalance as the news drive the market to a new level, and then back to some sort of balance as the news is digested.
Another important market profile concept is to define the type of buying or selling in relation to the previous value area. This is especially important when trying to position a trade in the early part of the trading session. If a market opens above the previously established value area, buyers are said to be initiating buying. They are taking charge and trying to propel prices to a higher level. Those selling to the initiating buyers or said to be responsive sellers. In other words, they are responding to higher prices. And conversely, if a market opens below the previously established value area, the sellers are taking charge and the activity is called initiating selling. There must be buyers to take the other side of the trade, and that activity is called responsive buying. Both scenarios are illustrated in the slide to the right, that is if you click the thumbnail to enlarge.
An important point to keep in mind, and is apparent on most profiles, is the concept of price rejection at the extremes. On both ends of the middle two profiles are areas of single prints. On the profile to the left showing responsive selling, it is clear that prices in A period rejected the attempt to move higher. Buying activity was shut off, and the responsive sellers took the lead. This area of single prints at the top of the profile is called a selling tail. Candlestick people might call this an upthust. It means the same. It has bearish implications. On the same profile, but later in the session, there was a small area of single prints in the N period. Prices overshot just a bit to the downside, with prices closing just a bit up from the lows. This would normally be called a buying tail, however in strict Market Profile terms, a buying tail cannot happen on the last time period of the day. Had those single prints occurred during M period, those prints would have been a buying tail. You can see an example of this in the profile to the right where initiating selling occurred with a buying tail in M period. Price, in this case, drove to a level low enough to shut off selling and attract some responsive buyers, thus creating the buying tail, confirmed by subsequent prints in the next time period.
Along the same lines as buying and selling tails is the open drive. Often when a market opens, price will make a large range, directional move in the first time period. You can see on the chart to the left that A period opened with a gap up, and price quickly shut off any further buying activity, and responsive sellers took charge right from the open to drive prices back into the previous value area. The open drive can be either responsive or initiating. It seems more examples are responsive, as prices often overshoot on the open from overnight news, and then quickly go the other way. It seems with 24 hours trading that any news causing gaps would be handled by the constant trading activity rather than pent-up demand from the market opening after being closed when the news was announced. However, many of the concepts of Market Profile that were formulated long before 24 hours trading still seem to be true. The profiles in this article were from data in 2009.
The slide to the right displays about eight full day profiles for your study. I have included notes of some relevant points on the chart. Notice how the five days in the middle of the chart show overlapping value areas, with prices generally in balance and not moving in a directional way. The first day in that five-day series, February 20th, saw price close higher than the open. Bar or candlestick traders might have viewed the higher close as rejection of the attempt at lower prices. Market Profile traders might have viewed the lower value area with caution, despite the late day strength. The gap higher into the area of the previous price rejection might have been reason to attract responsive sellers. Once price range extended down in C period, also driving down through the previous days value area, it was clear that the day structure would be bearish. Value areas tried to move back up toward resistance in subsequent days until market finally gave up late on the 26th.
Again, this slide shows about eight days of profiles with notes on the chart. The bottom of this move was interesting. On March 6th price tried to drive down, bringing the value area lower, however there was a late day rally with a close back up near the open. Price was able to close above the previous point of control and well into the previous value area. The following opening, if higher, could have set up a bullish day. However the following day, March 9th, price opened lower, but still into the value area. There was no drive lower. In fact, price rallied all through the initial balance and drove the value area higher despite price being mostly negative for the day. A late day sell-off created a weak close. A bar or candle trader would have most likely viewed the day as negative, especially being an inside day during a longer term market decline. However, Market Profile traders would have seen the higher value area and have been on alert for the next opening to see if there would be initiating selling or buying. The market opened higher, right above the previous value area and point of control, and the initial balance became an open drive higher to kick-start a substantial move higher.
The last slide to the right again has eight days of profiles with commentary on the chart. Some additional points on the chart: notice on March 12th that price opened right at the previous point of control, and A period had a buying trail, which was evident once B period pushed higher. This buying tail reaffirmed the buying tail in J period in the previous profile. On March 13th price tried to regain balance during the session, with value area driving higher. On March 16th the value area continued to push higher despite the lower close. The responsive buying tail in A period on March 17th indicated that this market has more work on the upside. The overlapping to slightly lower value area would be sign of caution depending on the next days open. In this case the value area and point of control held with a narrow initial balance, range extension higher, and a buying tail in C period. See additional notes on the chart.
The preceding overview of the Market Profile is only meant to be an introduction to the methodology. It is by no means intended to be a complete trading approach. Much time and study is required to learn this approach. It probably requires more time and study than most traders are willing to spend. One would not read a short summary on the principles of aviation and then try to fly solo in a single engine airplane. The results would certainly be disastrous. The same applies to trading, although far too many traders begin a trading approach without adequate preparation and without a plan.
In summary, the Market Profile is one way, and one of the best ways in my opinion, to listen to and interpret the market's intention. Many traders may prefer to view the market with traditional bar charts, or to simply read the tape, or trade from the action in the pits. In fact, many of the most successful traders of all time did not have the advantage of the computer and the market profile graphic. However, the concepts and thought process that the Market Profile represents were still in use by many of these traders. The concepts that Market Profile illustrates so well is the important consideration, even if one prefers a different method to display market activity. Market Profile often does not give specific entry and exit points. That is probably why the vast majority of traders rely on indicators. It is difficult to backtest objectively the Market Profile concepts. Indicators can easily be put into a formula and numbers can be crunched on past data in seconds. But remember that the vast majority of traders lose money. The greatest traders have a market understanding that goes beyond the obvious. Again, there is no edge in what everyone knows. For those who rely on indicators, chat room gurus, and non-market generated information, I wish you good luck in your trading. You WILL need it. For those willing to pursue the difficult path of market understanding, you have a much better chance of creating your own luck, with a much better chance of success.
Additional Notes:
I was going to include a large reference section, but decided against it. If one wishes to pursue this direction of study, one will find many resources. I just Google Market Profile Charts and came up with over 19 million hits. Of course many of those entries may be unrelated to trading, but many are. Two names to include in your searches are James Dalton and J. Peter Steidlmayer. Both are good. Dalton is probably the easier and more skilled educator. The person I studied with was Steidlmayer, the originator of Market Profile. They both have excellent books on the subject. Another excellent resource is the CBOT website. There you can download and print out for free the Market Profile Handbook, which expands in great detail many of the concepts in this article.
For TradeStation users, the code for the Market Profile, along with instruction, is easy to find in the Easy Language forum. It is not the same as the TradeStation activity bars. It is not included with TradeStation, but is a separate indicator, with several versions in ELD form. Market Profile should not be considered an indicator, but in TradeStation it must be inserted as an indicator. There are also third party plug-ins. Ninja Trader also has a plug-in that can be purchased. CQG was the first vendor that offered the profile, and was the platform that Steidlmayer preferred at least when I studied at his Market Logic School in 1987. Many vendors offer superior profiles to what is available in TradeStation, but the TradeStation profile suits me.
Here are links to a few books from Amazon:
Mind over Markets: Power Trading With Market Generated Information
Markets in Profile: Profiting from the Auction Process (Wiley Trading)
Steidlmayer on Markets: Trading with Market Profile, 2nd Edition


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THE SPORTS DOCTOR- Ring of tears: Warner can't compete with Rourke
If any Arizona fans cried on Sunday night, chances are they won't admit it. Sports fans don't readily weep about games, even if they want to. No matter how dismal the outcome or how crushing the disappointment, cursing and arguing are always more respectable than crying. Besides, sports fans have better reasons to shed a tear this season: The Wrestler.
Who among us hasn't broken a promise to remain dry-eyed during Rudy? What about Friday Night Lights? Even the most hard-hearted can't watch the last scenes without a box of tissues at the ready. Almost anyone would admit that when a sports movie is done right, there's no better illumination of the human condition, with all its triumphs and tragedies. But a movie about professional wrestling? With Mickey Rourke? Seriously?
You may have heard The Wrestler is an excellent movie. You may have heard Mickey Rourke won the Golden Globe for his portrayal of Randy "The Ram" Robinson, and is on the short list for the Oscar as well. You may have heard it's the comeback performance to trump all others. If you decide to see what all the hype is about, prepare yourself.
The Wrester is neither a movie for the faint of heart nor the faint of stomach. Shot in classic independent film style (Steadicam-free), the opening scenes are so close and jumpy that you'll need to take a Dramamine a good half-hour before heading to the theater. If you make it past your initial seasickness, you've only just begun to fight.
In a word, this movie is devastating. Anyone who has ever watched professional wrestling can't help but recognize how sad and pitiful a spectacle it really is: the costumes, the tricks– it's little more than an old-timey freakshow come to town.
The Wrestler doesn't argue this point or attempt to validate wrestling in any way. If you're one of the thousands who pay $30 a pop to watch a cage match on pay-per-view, The Wrestler will strip the scales from your eyes. If you're among the millions who think professional wrestlers are a joke, you'll be no less enlightened.
Randy "The Ram" Robinson is a wrestler on the wrong side of a 20-year career. His body is broken, his bank account empty, his fame a distant memory. The first ten minutes of the film find Randy locked out of his trailer, stocking groceries for minimum wage and spending his hard-earned money in a seedy strip club. It sounds like a classic tale of a washed up has-been who has nowhere to go but up.
So it could have easily been a feel-good movie, complete with a kind-hearted stripper and a second chance. But it's not.
There's nothing feel-good about a man who has to adjust his hearing aid while stuffing dollar bills into a stripper's garter. There's nothing feel-good about a man who spends his Saturdays trying to sell old VHS tapes at the American Legion. There's nothing feel-good about a man who counts cutting his forehead with a razor blade as a job requirement.
There's absolutely nothing feel-good about The Wrestler, but there is brutal and unrelenting honesty. What makes this such an excellent movie is the pain, the steroids, and the falseness. Everything that makes professional wrestling so unreal is what makes its reality so poignant.
It's true the matches are choreographed, but thank God for it. A scene in which two wrestlers go over their moves before a match is horrifying. The leg is cheap, go for the neck. Your knee hurts? Don't worry; I'll land on your back.
The razor wire and the staples? They don't hurt going in, it's the removal that really gets you.
In many ways The Wrestler is no different than most sports movies– the lost opportunities, good intentions, high hopes, crushing setbacks. Where The Wrestler differs from Rudy or Rocky or even Pride of the Yankees is the lack of peaceful reflection and honorable resignation.
Perhaps more than in any other sports movie, there's nothing but the gritty reality of trying and failing, the truth of doing one's best and still falling far, far short of the dream. And that's where The Wrestler finds its excellence.
When the made-for-TV movie about Kurt Warner's life finally hits the airwaves, I've no doubt it will be a heartwarming story of one man's triumph over adversity. But if Arizona fans want to shed a tear for the little quarterback who could, they'd better not see The Wrestler. They might not have any tears left.


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$\newcommand{\Cov}{\operatorname{Cov}} \newcommand{\E}{\mathbb{E}}$
I realize that $\Cov(X,Y) = \E[(X-\mu_X)(Y-\mu_Y)] = \E[\Cov(X,Y|A)] + \Cov(\E[X|A], \E[Y|A])$. But I am not sure how this is applied to functions of random variables conditioned on another random variable belonging to the same probability space.
Let $g(X,Y) = X / (X+Y)$ and $h(X,Y,Z) = (X+Y) / (X+Y+Z)$ , where $X, Y, Z$ are independent Poisson random variables with rates $\lambda_X$, $\lambda_Y$, and $\lambda_Z$, respectively, and where $X + Y + Z > 0$ and $g(X,Y) = 0$ if $Z=N$.
Suppose we know $N = X + Y + Z$.
What is the conditional covariance of $g(X,Y)$ and $h(X,Y,Z)$ given $N$ and how does one go about finding it?
Possibly this helps (?): For a known $N$, $h(X,Y,Z|N) \sim Binom(N,p) / N$ , where $p$ is the probability of success. This can be shown by recognizing $X+Y$ to be a sum of independent Poisson random variables, and thus also a Poisson random variable with rate $\lambda_X + \lambda_Y$. Conditioned on $(X+Y) + Z = N$, $(X+Y)$ is binomial with $p = (\lambda_X+\lambda_Y)/(\lambda_X + \lambda_Y + \lambda_Z)$.


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Since I have been away from home for almost a year now, there are lots of things that happen in the lives of my friends and family which I have inevitably missed. I have known about the baby born or the announced engagement, but it is difficult to celebrate over the phone or e-mail. So this week I have spent some time celebrating. Not only am I celebrating the end of exams and my first year of seminary, but I am celebrating being with family! I have missed them so much and am especially happy to be able to spend some good time with my grandparents. I am also celebrating with my friends; the addition of babies to families, the changes in vocations, or even a good hug after a long absence.
I have made this cake four times in the past month. The first time I made it was a trial run; the successful cake was shared with several different friends from school. I then made it at an engagement celebration for two of our friends who are getting married this summer. I made it again almost as soon as I arrived home, and I made another today for some friends who recently had a baby.
Lavender Amaretto Pound Cake
1/4 cup sliced almonds
3/4 pound (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 cups sugar
2 teaspoons lavender flowers
6 large eggs, room temperature
3 cups all purpose flour, sifted
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon amaretto liqueur
1/3 cup water, boiling
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon amaretto liqueur
Preheat the oven to 325. Butter and flour a 14 cup bundt pan. Sprinkle the 1/4 cup of almonds in the bottom of the pan. In a mini food processor or a blender, blend the lavender flowers with 1/2 cup of the sugar, until the lavender flowers are finely chopped. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and cream cheese. Add the lavender sugar and remaining 2 1/2 cups of sugar, and beat on medium-high speed for seven minutes. Add the eggs, one at the time, beating until well combined. Add the flour and salt and beat on low speed until just combined. Add the almond extract and 1 teaspoon amaretto and mix until combined. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan.
Bake for 1 hour, 20 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Meanwhile, combine the boiling water, sugar, and 1 tablespoon amaretto liqueur in a small bowl. Stir until the sugar is dissolved.
When the cake is done, let it cool in the pan for 20 minutes. Turn it out onto a wire rack with a plate or parchment paper below. Baste the top and sides of the cake with the amaretto syrup, leaving the crusty bottom of the cake dry.


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This is raw footage from "The Bunkai Bash" in June 2013. For our DVDs, we film in studios with professional cameramen, soundmen, directors and editors. This was done with a pocket camera in a field at the height of the British "Summer" :-)
The sound is not great due to the strong wind, an emergency helicopter landing in an adjacent field, and mobile phone interference. Hopefully you'll be able to follow it though.
This clip shows my take on some of Gichin Funakoshi's nine karate throws as shown in his book, "Karate-Do Kyohan". The throws shown are Katawa Guruma ("Cripple Wheel"), Kubiwa ("Neck Ring") and Byobu Daoshi ("Topple a Folding Screen"). I also briefly touch on Tani-Otoshi ("Valley Drop"); both the technique shown by Funakoshi and the throw that more commonly has that label.
As Funakoshi wrote, "There are many different ways and variations for executing throwing techniques" so what we have here is my variations on the throws. While the throws themselves are largely as Funakoshi shows them, one significant difference is that I teach them firstly from a grip, as opposed to from a blocked punch as Funakoshi does. Enjoy!
All the best,
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Verizon has completed a real-world field test of its fiber-optic FiOS system in which it pumped nearly a gigabit of data per second from one lucky customer's business out across the Internet. According to the company, the test "was intended to demonstrate in a live network setting that currently deployed FiOS equipment can support higher bandwidth services and can deliver 1Gbps without major change to the network."
In theory, this should be a cakewalk. Verizon's GPON (gigabit passive optical network) technology currently provides a 2.4Gbps download pipe—though it's one split between all the subscribers on a local node.
To test the system's ability to push 1Gbps, Verizon ran a second fiber line from its local office in Taunton, Massachusetts to one lucky business user who already had FiOS. The new line was connected to a separate fiber optic terminal and setup for a 1Gbps speed tier. The new link was then speed-tested using both a local server and one 400 miles away that required a journey over the Internet.
Verizon claims that the link topped at a 925Mbps to the local server and 800Mbps to the remote server. The 1.4Gbps of bandwidth remaining on the fiber meant that the existing FiOS users on the local node didn't have their own bandwidth affected.


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"Drawing in Scotland can be cold. Apart from that, it's a great way to really get to know a city and it's people — hearing fragments of conversations and taking in how the architecture was stuck together. I almost always use a 0.4 pilot Hitec-C in a moleskine. Having lived in Osaka for 3 years where I rekindled the love for drawing and got infatuated with overpasses, Edinburgh's gothic streets are a dramatic departure."
• Stuart's blog.
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The Perfect Family Until--
When this compelling novel starts, Mary Beth Lathem's biggest problem is taking sass from her truculent teenaged daughter, Ruby. The narrative starts at the beginning of Mary Beth's busy day as she goes through the house waking up her three children, the eldest daughter and two twins, Alex and Max. Mary Beth owns a landscape business but soon you can tell that her family is the center of her life and passions.
Alex is a soccer jock, immensely talented and popular while Max, his fraternal twin, is a computer nerd with social anxiety problems. Glen, Mary Beth's husband, is an extremely practical and thoroughly unromantic eye doctor--solid as hardwood--though Mary Beth is not necessarily aware of that.
Ruby breaks up with her boyfriend Kiernan who used to live next door when the children were babies and whom Mary Beth has mothered through the years. She's against the break-up at first, but after Kiernan starts leaving a ring under Ruby's pillow and notes for her throughout the house, Mary Beth agrees reluctantly that he should stay away from the family.
Mary Beth cooks for her children's friends and invites them to stay over and to parties. She's very connected to them. Meanwhile, Max's situation goes downhill. He becomes very depressed--so much so that Mary Beth finds a shrink for him to visit.
No other author captures contemporary family life as well as Quindlen does. The dialogue in Every Last One captures contemporary speech. And her characters worry about the world and try to live as morally as possible in a way similar to Barbara Kingsolver's characters.
About halfway through this book, violence erupts, and Mary Beth's life changes dramatically. Now her other son, Alex, visits that same psychiatrist. Quindlen's mom died when she was young, so she has written often about grief and about how much trouble young people have dealing with it in other places.
This rich, evocative novel with its strong believable characters will stick with you. I love how Quindlen develops the bonds of friendship in this novel, particularly between Mary Beth and her close friend Alice and between Ruby and her two friends, Rachel and Sarah. All three wear a friendship bracelet that they promise not to remove unless they all do at once.
For another bittersweet novel with a tragedy at its center try Anne Packer's nuanced The Dive from Clausen's Pier.


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The Pitter-Patter of 16,000 Chinese Feet
"Dey Comin'!!!" says Shackie, the character from Stan Burnside's 'Sideburns' cartoon in the Nassau Guardian. Possibly up to 8,000 Chinese workers may be coming to New Providence to work on Baha Mar.
Many Bahamians have expressed their concerns. But according to accountant Raymond Winder of Deloitte and Touche, the deal is one of the best things that has ever happened to The Bahamas.
Mr. Winder says it would be impossible for Bahamians to complete the project on their own.
"One of the problems that The Bahamas has is that it doesn't have a workforce that we can be proud of. I don't think that there are many Bahamian construction companies that are building Bahamian homes that don't have at least one immigrant as a part of their labour team. We don't [even] have sufficient Bahamians to build Bahamian homes."
Phillip Smith, a former High Commissioner for the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, questions the ratio of Chinese workers to Bahamian workers, which is the highest ratio of foreign workers we can ever remember.
"Foreign construction workers building hotels, roads, docks, industrial plants and even private homes is not alien to our economy – just look around you. Chinese construction workers are not a bad idea in and of themselves but between 5,000 and 7,000? This does seem to be the wrong ratio – one Bahamian job for each three Chinese workers?
"Will the House of Assembly be asked to review the individual files for every applicant with the attendant Ministry of Labour report, as one expects is done before a decision on whether or not to provide a work permit? Or, will the government give the employer what will effectively be 7,000 blank work permits and say 'fill in the blank'?
"In the future, when the farm operator applies for work permits for a few hundred farm workers will the government bring the files to the House of Assembly for the review of members and their approval? Will the government bring the files of applicants for work permits in the hotel industry and financial services sector for review and approval by the members of the House of Assembly?"
Good questions. What kind of a precedent does that set for future work permit applications?
Is this a one-off occasion or just the first until another similar circumstance pops up?
Meanwhile, PUNCH columnist Nicki Kelly shared Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham's concerns about the viability of the Baha Mar project.
Mr Ingraham has expressed doubts about whether the company had the financial resources to meet its commitments as prescribed under the terms of the agreement.
What Baha Mar cheerleaders have forgotten is that the company still owes over $200 million to the Bank of Nova Scotia.
The money was borrowed to purchase the govemment-owned Radisson/Sheraton hotel ($39 million); the Wyndham and Nassau Beach hotels ($165 million); and for refurbishment of the Sheraton ($90 million). Plus, accrued interest of $50 million.
Some arrangement would have to be reached with the Bank to free the development of any prior encumbrances, before construction can begin.
Ms Kelly sums it up this way, "In view of Baha Mar's shaky history, Mr Ingraham is understandably cautious about this latest undertaking, because the last thing the Bahamas government and the Bahamian people need is the blight of another failed development, this one in the heart of Cable Beach."
After witnessing the slow pace of construction for the National Stadium, many Bahamians are concerned that the Baha Mar project will put Cable Beach out of commission for years.
With extensive port holdings in Grand Bahama, coupled with the massive Baha Mar investment in New Providence, others wonder whether The Bahamas will become a Chinese colony.
Real Estate broker Pat Strachan had this to say:
"With reference to the proposed $2.6 billion project, it seems as if this proposed project was doomed from its inception. The original partners were run out of town. It was criticised by the government. Not one government minister was present at the signing in Miami, or at the announcement in China. I've also heard that the Chinese government wants the Bahamas government to guarantee the loan for the development.
"One vital question I must ask is what exactly is being proposed for Cable Beach?
"How will our access be honestly affected in the Cable Beach area?"
And, after initially saying the prime minister would be "on his own" in making the controversial decision regarding Chinese workers for Baha Mar, Perry Christie and the PLP had a change of heart.
Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly Tommy Turnquest, confirmed that the Ingraham administration intends to bring the labor resolution to Parliament on September 8.
Now may be a good time to let others, including your MP, know how you feel about the project, specifically the Chinese worker component.
Where do stand on the issue? Please leave your comments below.Baha Mar, construction, immigration
28 Comments on "The Pitter-Patter of 16,000 Chinese Feet"
we all can seat back an talk i have read most of the comment and no one are talking about their Behavior the Chinese behavior is the nasty i have seen i live in Canada I see this all the time they don't know how to talk to people they spit every where,can you see what Nassau would look like if you have 8000 Chinese spiting all over the place.↓
I have read all of the above comments and hear a frustration that echoes across the Bahamas.
Here in Exuma 120 miles SE of New Providence talk is the same. What appears to escape most of us is that while we talk about the government and what it is doing to our country we seem to forget that in the final analysis WE are the government. Nothing can happen in this country unless the Bahamian people condone it. And what HI or PC do, they do with our consent. We are so satisfied with that "potential" JOB that we are willing to settle for anything.
Look, why do we need the Chineese to build Bah Mar? Because years ago we closed the trade schools that would have produced the necessary tradesmen… the very same skills that now have to be imported. And don't fool yourselves.. if you are going to build anything of this magnitude you need to bring in these skills. Ask any contractor who has to build a home or anything for that matter….from laying blocks to tiling…. there are few Bahamians who can do quality work in any kind of time frame, if at all. The Hatian labourers have surpassed the Bahamian because when one tries to teach the Bahamian he says "I Know" and refuses to learn. He feels entitled to the "JOB" even though he has no idea what it takes to do the job. We have become "know it alls" and lazy to boot. So don't blame the government for allowing these skills in. Even at the lowest level we pale when compared to other nations. We simply can't cut it. That is why our country is being taken over by anyone who has a desire for our beautiful country. As the old saying goes:"If you don't use it …you loose it." DON'T BLAME HUBERT OR PERRY.
We should know our system does not work for us. But we are reluctant to change it. Blaming the politicians is an escape that won't fly. In other countries today persons are giving thier lives for not even a tenth of what we have. Yet we sit here and complain and do nothing. Dress up and drive a big car, owe the bank and live far beyond our means in an economy that is so false. Let's face it. If foreigners pulled out of the Bahamas today we would not have a country. Sad but true.
The Chineese are coming because the Government can't do any better!!!! If the Bahamas is to maintain its position in the golbal economy it has to become more productive and since Bahamians are reluctant to shoulder this responsiblity elected officials are doing what they have to do; sell BTC for more efficiency, sell BEC, sell all our land. Why could not a couple of wealthy boys on Eastern Road buy Emerald Bay….. now we complain about Sandals being here. It's high time Bahamians stop complaining and get involved in our country. Politicians are forced to build on sand because there ain't no BAHAMIAN ROCK. I am not a politician although I am considering it for survival because we only seem to heed politicians.
On another note I agree with those who question the validity of the Bah Mar project but for another reason. Why do we continue to force major development on New Providence when we have so many other islands that need help and development. When we can answer that question perhaps we'll understand why we continue to get the crumbs from the table and are never asked to sit in council.
So the Chineese are here. In Abaco, in Exuma, in Grand Bahama and now Big Time in New Providence. They will come to stay. We invited them. I guess if they can lend monies to the great US of A then they certainly can lend to tiny Bahamas. The difference is when America can't pay, the Chinese will negotiate… when the Bahamas can't pay the Chinese will domesticate. By the time they are through we may all look like the original Lucayans.
Meanwhile, if this is not what we want then lets put in place positive planning for our future. I have contended for a long time that we don't need these major developments since they only serve to further remove the Bahamian from participation in the trade. We should be building a Bahamian Tourism industry that is sustainable; owned and operated by Bahamians. In order to do this we have to have a paradigm shift in thinking and change the way we do business in our country. I ungently suggest you read Dr. Roger's "Is it really Better in the Bahamas…for Bahamians". It should get you started on the right path to understanding what it is we need to do to have a truly Bahamian Tourism Industry. It's not enough to just 'get a job man'. It's high time we create the jobs.↓
So let's see… Atlantis has problems filling it's own rooms… Baha Mar already owes $200 million dollar loan to BNS… there will be an importation of 8,000 Chinese slaves into a country whose history is based on slavery… and BahamaGov has no problem with this? People, your government sold you down the peverbial river. Your unique culture has forever been changed right before your unbelieving eyes. Every Bahamaian should pick up signs and picket this project.↓
why you do have to bring the slave card into it?? your forefathers were blessed by being bought to the bahamas you live in a beautiful country…you could still be in africa in war and strife and starving..irritating when i hear or read that its old news↓
you spelled PROVERBIAL wrong which irritates me but I agree with you. it's simply to much risk and there's way more benefit to the Chinese than to Bahamians. that's not fair. This is our country this is our land. It's desirable land and we could get top dollar for it if the government were so inclined. But like dogs they run after the first bone that is thrown their way, even if its barely enough to satisfy them.↓
If the Bahamians want to sit down and allow the Government to sell the land in the Bahamas then shame on them. I left the Bahamas 36 years ago, because of the Government, couldn't get a job because my Mummy and Daddy wasn't Mr or Mrs So & So, I saw it coming, and I took my baby and run like hell. I love my birthplace, but the way that people are treated by the Government is out right sinful. The Bahamas is a beautiful country, but the people in power. God help my people and allow them to stand firm for our Bahama land.↓
Can we bring in 1,000 skilled Chinese and train the other 7,000 Bahamian needed for the project? I'm sure we have lots of unemployed Bahamians that will benefit greatly from this project whose skills will remain at home ready for the next project (hopefully in Andros where we have much land and good water).
Maybe there is no deal without offloading all 8,000 Chinese – take it or leave it package deal. We really need to look at the effects on the nation not just good numbers and braggin rights for Politics.↓
If the Chinese want to invest, make sure the construction work is done by Bahamians alone. Exhort the labor force in Bahamas before bringing in a single Chinese contractor.
Respect must be given for other business entities to verse there concern as to there prosperity and the effects of such a massive undertaking.↓
Be careful of bad Chinese working habits.. bad ethics. For example, Chinese drywall applications used to rebuild homes affected by Katrina in the southern states of America rot at the hint of moisture – thus creating long term health problems for society, the environment, and HUMANS. On an unrelated note, another example of bad ethics is that the same protein substitute (which is not even real, it's manufactured) that Westerners allow in dog food are now being allowed in baby formulas (lol, and you wonder why doctors are NOW telling our mothers that breastfeeding is the better solution for healthy growing babies. Even scarier, what measures will the Bahamian Gov't take to effeciently monitor 8,000 labourers – who are no doubt skilled in all forms of evasive/boot-leg identification technologies. And even if most do not have access to things like that, some will seek asylum eventually, some will disappear throught the cracks, some will have new Bahamian-born Chinese babies, some will look for entitlement. I'm sure there are construction companies in England, USA, and Canada who have crews sharing the mentallity of working and leaving as soon as their scope of the work is complete – they want to get back home to their families, to hunting, to skiing, to living the dream, etc. – they have nothing to run from (Chinese Gov't, personal living conditions, but everything to go back to). Even more scarier, the speed limits in Bahamas are very high, and we all know "Asians" can't drive or park for that matter. I'm just saying↓
If the Bahamian goverment is not careful, they will become slaves of their own greed, enslaving you as a people.
Why can't you lease your land and not sell it.
Do you think the Chinese would sell their land to you, Oh! no, it's good when you can remember your past, it should help you avoid the same mistakes. Who gives up surety for unsurety. You Bahamians need to wake up and and take control of your destinies, or your Prime Minister and his greedy followers are going to sell your entire country out to the highest bidder, and you will become the minority in your own country without a voice.
Don't allow the Bahamas to become BahChina right under your noses. Remember your Pime Minister and many others have the means (MONEY) to relocate, do you?
Think Bahamians don,t fall for the banana in the tale pipe. The BAHAMAS Is your country treat her that way.
DON'T LET THEM SELL her OUT FROM UNDER YOU↓
Agreed. The land is your land.↓
Why would you sell out the land thats being stupid.i would never sell land to foreigners,i would lease the land to them becausein doing so the country will always have an income off of land because the amount of structures that i see flying up so quickly in Nassau man u blink to fast and you will miss it.Bahamian people talk to your MP`s you put them there for a reason, its the people`s concerns that matters most and if they want to dictate to you then just have a re election.↓
The 8,000 jobs is secondary issue only if we allow this project to continue. The issue here is the project itself, again we must ask ourselves, can New Providence ( The Bahamas) substain this large injection of additional 6 large hotels? And the primary issue we Bahamain need to consider, the transfer of our land to foreign investors (persons). WHY? Must we gave our land away? Why can the Govenment lease our land in partnership to this project. Think People Think!!!!!!↓
I believe that's exactly what is being done. About 5,000 Chinese are being brought in, with the full agreement of the union – which admits that there are not sufficient Bahamian workers to complete the job. Meanwhile the BCA is looking to train Bahamian construction workers if they can ensure funding for the programmes from the Baha Mar developers.↓
agreed cartwright & to add further..when negotiating projects of these magnitudes such as atlantis, road projects,albany,bahamar,etc..govt
should have a clause to make investors put funds
into engineering and or alternate energy programs or the like to educate/train bahamians
to prevent scenarios of this sort to happen in the furture; school or full pledged programs @ c.o.b and or btvi↓
What do we need 8,000 Chinese for. Bring in half that and give Bahamians some work too.↓
We really need the work to be done, however that a lot of Chinese.May be just over half will be sufficent along with Bahamian. We must put our people in the front line,also the person heading this project must look out for there countrymen, this is the only place we have as home.↓
Look like? What's it going to smell like? The Cable Beach area already stinks like a sewer all the time. Just think what will happen when you have thousands of additional flushes flowing into the already overworked sewer system every day.↓
I can't imagine what Nassau is going to look like with 8,000 Chinese added to the population. The scenery will change I can tell you that.↓
The claim that there are no/not enough skilled or trained constructions workers in The Bahamas is nothing more than the haves trying to control the haves'not. It is a filthy lie and they know it! The minority 2%-5% has gotten its way with all things Bahamian for far too long. You mean to tell me that only the 'professionals' have the training/skills? I am sick n tired of the manipulating rhetoric of the 2%-5% in this country; they need to be exposed for their corruption, lies and deception.
Ain't long now!↓
Well, some one has to be brought in… there are simply not enough skilled workers in the Bahamian workforce for this project and the Chinese labourers that Baha Mar is bringing in are highly skilled workers with experience in major construction projects like this one and bigger. Baha Mar needs to be a top notch quality job. Don't worry fellow Bahamians, once Baha Mar is constructed it will open up plenty jobs for us all. I am honing my skills now for the job I want to apply for when they are ready to hire.↓
yes i agree with you to a certain extent that there will be plenty of jobs,but do you realize how long it will be before six major hotels are constructed?Bahamians need work A.S.A.P..Yes there are not enough labourers to take on this major job,but still,why not hire who we have and make up for the rest in chinese people.let our contractors work along with the chinese contractors. Things that we cannot do let the Chinese do and by far i know that their is very little that Bahamians do not know,We Bahamians are one set of people that learn very quickly and for that i am proud to call myself a BAHAMIAN, aren`t you????↓
Sure you can say you will be replying for job when the hotels are done but guess what? We will still have another problem and that is foreigners….they will have first preference to the jobs like always. they will be hired first then what ever is left then they will hire Bahamians.If our Bahamians have obtained a high position at any establishment there is a foreigner who is above them WHY??????↓
Should have been the "thunderous roar" of 16,000 Chinese feet. lol↓
I think it is a disgrace….disgrace…With the current economic crisis i would think that one can find Bahamian workers. Maybe no one is looking hard enough to do so….. I remember the hassle everytime my husband's permit was up for renewal what a hassle the government put us through and I am a Bahamian citizen and we have three children. finally it was just too much of a hassle and we finally left. Now we have the Asian invasion! Disgrace bigtime. Why don't we just sell the Bahamas over to them and all the Bahamians just pack up and leave?
All comes back to what the bible says: The yellow race shall govern us. We are having th same problem here in Greece. the invasion of the Asian, illegally of course and no one seems to be able to do anything about it all.↓
Go ahead, debate in Parliament, but what's Plan B?↓
I don't think 8,000 workers sounds like an overdose considering the magnitude of the Baha Mar project. I wonder how many were involved in the Atlantis project. I think it is a shame, though, that a larger portion of the Bahamian workforce is not prepared to benefit from this opportunity.↓
8,000 workers? If they need that many workers to complete construction within the published time frame, then they must be planning on using low-tech construction processes, which are ideally suited for untrained workers. We have plenty of unemployed, untrained workers. Let's use them instead. Or, are the Chinese trying to dump a load of "undesirables" on us while their trained workers work on high-speed trains back at home?↓


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FC Dallas vs. Chivas USA | MLS Match Preview
FC DALLAS vs CHIVAS USA
TOYOTA STADIUM, Frisco, Texas
March 22, 2013 (WEEK 3, MLS Game #24)
7:30 p.m. CT (TWCSN-TX)
Two teams who have made undefeated starts to the new campaign meet when FC Dallas take on Chivas USA on Saturday evening at Toyota Stadium. FC Dallas hit the road for the first time last weekend, and came away with a dramatic 1-1 draw at Sporting Kansas City. Chivas USA have also started the year with a win and a draw, holding out for a 1-1 result with Vancouver Whitecaps FC last weekend after going a man down.
REFEREE: Fotis Bazakos. SAR (bench): Corey Rockwell; JAR (opposite): Brian Poeschel; 4th: Jair Marrufo
MLS Career: 23 games; FC/gm: 25.1; Y/gm: 3.3; R: 3; pens: 7
SUSPENDED: CHV: Agustin Pelletieri (through March 23)
DISABLED LIST: none
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
ALL-TIME (25 meetings): FC Dallas 11 wins, 33 goals … Chivas USA 6 wins, 28 goals … Ties 8
AT DALLAS (13 meetings): FC Dallas 5 wins, 13 goals … Chivas USA 2 wins, 10 goals … Ties 6
RETURN MATCHES: 5/17: FC Dallas vs. Chivas USA, 7:30 p.m. CT; 8/3: Chivas USA vs. FC Dallas, 7 p.m. PT
3/10: CHV 3, DAL 1 (Agudelo 68; Minda 76; Casillas 93+ -- Ferreira 57)
8/21: CHV 1, DAL 3 (de la Fuente 43 – Perez 71; Ferreira 86; Nunez 90)
- Chivas USA haven't won in Frisco since 2009, when they defeated FC Dallas 2-0. Since then, FCD is 2-0-3 at home vs. Chivas, with three consecutive draws, including last year's scoreless result on July 4.
- The 3-1 Chivas USA win in Carson in the first meeting a season was their first vs. FC Dallas at home since the 2009 season.
- Coaches record: Wilmer Cabrera vs. DAL: first game … Oscar Pareja vs. CHV: P6 W4 L0 T2
FC Dallas maintained their undefeated start to the 2014 season, getting a late equalizer for a 1-1 draw with Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening at Sporting Park. FC Dallas are one of four teams tied atop the Western Conference with 4 points from 2 games.
- Sporting took the lead in the 81st minute. After a Chris Seitz save on a Jacob Peterson led to a corner kick, center back Aurelien Collin headed home Benny Feilhaber's offering for the opener.
- But in the 90th minute, from Michel's free kick six yards outside Sporting's penalty area, Matt Hedges snapped a header of his own past SKC 'keeper Eric Kronberg to force the draw.
- FCD head coach Oscar Pareja made two changes to the team that claimed a 3-2 win against the Montréal Impact at Toyota Stadium. Stephen Keel came into the back four for Moises Hernandez, and Adam Moffat started in midfield in place of Hendry Thomas.
- FC DALLAS (4-2-3-1): Chris Seitz - Kellyn Acosta (Andres Escobar 61), Matt Hedges, Stephen Keel, Jair Benitez - Andrew Jacobson, Adam Moffat (Michel 87) - Je-Vaughn Watson, Mauro Diaz (David Texeira 78), Fabian Castillo - Blas Perez.
- FC Dallas remained undefeated on the season with a crucial road point; a season ago, they were just 2-9-6 on their travels.
- "Our team showed a lot of character, started to wake up and have some control. We got some options, handled the game and at the end of the first half, we found a game that was both ways. We started to gain more control of the game," said Pareja. " … In the second half we looked very organized. As I said, FC Dallas has very good discipline and a lot of shape. We knew that Kansas City was going to throw bodies in and it's a characteristic for them to play aggressive, but I thought we controlled that."
- For the second consecutive week, FC Dallas scored a goal from a set piece, getting the equalizer on a free kick. They've also scored one goal from the penalty spot.
- "We are a really dangerous team on free kicks. Any time we get one, we have a chance to score especially with Michel in there. He serves in some great balls and we have a good understanding of where I need to be and where he is going to put the ball. I just need to put it in the net when he does it," said center back Matt Hedges.
- It was the seventh goal in three seasons for Hedges; not surprisingly, five of those have come on set pieces, and four of those from headers.
- The goal was set by Michel, his first of the season. In his first MLS season last year, Michel had eight assists – six of those coming from deadball services.
- "You're always going to have new coaches and new systems to play, so you just have to be flexible. With Oscar coming in, he's playing a system that a lot of the players really enjoy. I think everybody's really happy about it and it's exciting for us," said Hedges.
- After Moises Hernández was given the start in central defense in the season opener, veteran Stephen Keel took his place in central defense alongside Hedges.
- "You saw us go for attack when we could. Obviously they are a good team and they break out, so we try to clog the middle a bit and try to make them play to their weaknesses," said goalkeeper Chris Seitz. "For us, we created some chances, probably not as much as we are used to. But, at the end of the day, we finished what we had and now we'll go home happy with it."
Chivas USA remained undefeated to kick off the 2014 campaign, holding out for a 1-1 draw with Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Sunday afternoon at StubHub Center. Chivas USA sit in a tie atop the Western Conference with 4 points from 2 games.
- Chivas USA went down to 10 men after just 13 minutes when midfielder Agustín Pelletieri drew a red card from referee Ramon Hernandez for a for a late challenge on Pedro Morales in the center circle.
- But the hosts took the lead on the stroke of halftime when Erick Torres fired a shot on the edge of the box that deflected off Whitecaps captain Jay DeMerit on its way towards goal, catching goalkeeper David Ousted out of position and unable to stop it.
- Whitecaps FC finally broke through for the equalizer in the 81st minute, when Kekuta Manneh slotted home Darren Mattocks' cross from the left wing to give them a share of the points.
- Chivas USA head coach Wilmer Cabrera made no changes to the team that defeated the Chicago Fire 3-2 in the season opener at StubHub Center.
- CHIVAS USA (4-4-2): Dan Kennedy - Eric Avila, Bobby Burling, Carlos Bocanegra, Tony Lochhead - Mauro Rosales, Agustin Pelletieri (ejected 13), Oswaldo Minda, Leandro Barrera (Matthew Fondy 71) - Thomas McNamara (Daniel Fragoso 80), Erick Torres (Kris Tyrpak 87).
- Despite playing a man down for 87 minutes, Chivas USA were able to hold out for the draw, now undefeated in two consecutive games to start the season after ending last year with a five-game losing streak.
- "If we're going to compete for a playoff spot, if we're going to get into the playoffs, it's important that we get results here," said goalkeeper Dan Kennedy. "With that being said, after these two games we should have a lot of belief going into Dallas that we can get another result. We're going to go there and we're going to go there and fight and give it our best and make sure we improve. ... If we can continue to on this path where we get results like [vs. Vancouver], we should have that opportunity."
- Erick Torres scored for a second consecutive match in the Vancouver draw. He has scored nine goals in 17 MLS games since coming to the league at midseason a year ago.
- "There is no doubt that when you score a goal being a man down that is important, it was positive for us. It gave us the possibility to rest, to recover and see what we were going to do for the second half," said Chivas USA head coach Wilmer Cabrera. "As we saw, they were focused, concentrated during the second half, we just made one mistake and we got punished. That's part of the game, but we have to continue moving forward."
- With the sending off of Pelletieri, rookie Thomas McNamara was shifted into a midfield role, and he lasted to the 87th minute. Torres figured as the lone attacker.
- "Obviously with 10 men we had to adjust a little bit, he dropped back inside. I thought he did a good job, Minda, Mauro and Leandro did an excellent job in front of us running and chasing and breaking up plays, and really making it difficult for Vancouver to penetrate us and win in our back line, which makes a huge difference and makes us look a little bit better," said defender Carlos Bocanegra.
- Mauro Rosales collected an assist for a second consecutive game and now has three assists on the season to lead MLS, all coming on the last three Chivas USA goals. Rosales has 37 assists in 88 career MLS league games.
- "Mauro coming in, he's been great for us, with the experience, on the ball and keeping possession. Him and [Eric Avila] have done a good job, Leandro [Barrera] being able to get at people on the wing opens up the game so people can't just focus on [Erick Torres]," said Bocanegra. "There has been some good additions, as far as talent-wise, and everyone has been working hard, and when everybody works hard and you have athletes in this league, you can compete."


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