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SFWoA - A Trip Report With My First "Pictures"

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Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:19 AM
Hey All,

I would like to post my trip report and a link to my first (notice I say FIRST) digital pictures. Here goes.

I decided that we should get our passes processed, and we ended up leaving the house at 5:45. We took the LONG way instead of the highway, figuring we would run into traffic along the highway. I was REALLY excited to go since I haven't been there since October. I was ready to take some pictures! Only problem, I thought, was that it was dark, and you will notice the darkness in some of my pictures.

So... we're going down that road, looking at S:UE's spikes. Then, I get my first real life glimpse at X-Flight. Oh, how magnificent it is! We pulled into the parking lot while my mom says, "Let's hope there is actually someone at the center." She has a grudge against how SFWoA is run.

So we get our passes processed, and I pick up a little brochure with the schedule. Guess what? May 4 is not highlighted in ANY color except white, meaning it's closed. Is this true? If so, opening day is May 5, from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. I really hope this is not true!

Onto the picture taking. I took a lot of pictures of X-Flight while the crew was working on the brake run before the lifthill. I didn't get any good photos of the brake run before the station because it was TOO dark, and you wouldn't be able to see any of it. Sorry guys.

We traveled around the park twice and I took some photos from the Sea World side, also.

So, it's getting darker and I finally stop. We then leave and I review my pictures. Quite dark, frankly. Fortunately, they turned out okay.

Well, that's my TR. I enjoyed it, and so did my family. My dad asks, "How DOES this thing work?" I told him, "Let me put it this way. You WON'T like it." Note: He HATES going backwards and upside down... so, you get the picture why I said that.

So, I hope you enjoy the pictures I've uploaded.

Chris B.
AOL IM- CoasterChris2000 *** This post was edited by Chris B. on 3/28/2001. ***
Friday, March 30, 2001 4:16 PM
Great pictures!! Keep em' coming!Outside must have been cold:)
The kid formally known as Al!! :) *** This post was edited by CanyonBlaster on 3/30/2001. ***
Sunday, April 8, 2001 7:35 AM
The pictures were great. I went a week ago and took some pics, but I have no way of posting them. I have about 20 of X-Flight. I got some close ups. I wish I could put 'em on, but I don't have a scanner.

Spread your wings and fly away!! X-Flight '01

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Coast Guard crewmember goes above and beyond at Air Station Clearwater

Coast Guard District 7 Newsby Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael De Nyse.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Performing consistently as a good shipmate, role model and overall go-to guy is easier said than done. A Coast Guardsman stationed at Air Station Clearwater is doing just that on a daily basis.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Jon Savage, an aviation maintenance technician at Air Station Clearwater, is raising the bar in his department. As a recent Coast Guard Achievement Medal recipient for superior service at his previous unit, Savage has not skipped a beat and brought his work ethic and great attitude cross-country. Whether it’s the most mundane task in the shop or the most challenging, Savage makes it look easy and his enthusiasm is contagious.

Savage has hit the ground running since his recent transfer to Air Station Clearwater. He routinely completes all tasking to a superior level without any direct supervision.

“Savage has always been one of those guys you can always go to get the job done,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Lamb, an Air Station Clearwater member and Savage’s shop supervisor. “His positive attitude reflects on the rest of his peers and his work ethic is infectious to the rest of his crew.”

Savage, a 35-year-old native of Raymondville, Texas, has been in the Coast Guard for eight years. After being laid off from his civilian job, he was ready to do something with his life with a little more meaning.

“I think my good work ethic is something that just comes naturally, but if I was to credit someone for my inspiration it would my grandfather, who just passed away last year,” said Savage. “He was a devout Christian, World War II veteran, loving husband of 65 years, father and grandfather, and a person I would say had true grit. He always put family first, and never knew the meaning of give up.”

With an infectious smile and great work ethic, Savage influences his shipmates to keep a positive attitude especially during less than desirable tasks and blistering working conditions. In the short three months since Savage reported to Air Station Clearwater, he has demonstrated a vast knowledge in aircraft systems and maintenance procedures, proving to his shipmates he can be relied upon at any time.

“Savage is the type of guy you don’t have to keep under a microscope; you can give him a task and let him go to do it,” said Lamb. “You don’t have to check back with him until the job is done. That to me is huge. We have $20 million worth of aircraft out there, and if you have to keep your eye on somebody all the time, it takes away from what you’re doing as a supervisor for everybody else.”

Savage has been a self-proclaimed ‘grease monkey’ since he could remember.

“I always wanted to get dirty working on tractors, cars, trucks, and now – aircraft,” said Savage. “I love being a mechanic; I like working with my hands and always challenging myself to learn more.

A Coast Guard AMT has a plethora of responsibilities at any given time. AMTs inspect, troubleshoot and repair almost everything at an air station. They service and repair aircraft fuselages, wings, rotor blades, fixed and movable flight control surfaces, and also bleed aircraft air, hydraulic and fuel systems. AMTs also fill aircrew positions such as flight engineer, flight mechanic, load master, drop master, sensor-systems operator and basic air crewman.

“Savage makes it look easy,” said Chief Petty Officer Michael Ethridge, Savage’s senior enlisted supervisor. “On a daily basis we make something that appears to be monumental and we turn it into an easy task to get it done.”

It’s not all about work for Savage. When off duty he prefers spending as much time with his loved ones as he can.

“I enjoy exercising, fishing, shooting, but most importantly spending time with my wife and two boys who joyfully take up most of my free time,” said Savage. “I am blessed with a job I enjoy, even with the ups and downs of it. Blessed with a beautiful wife and two beautiful boys and I owe it all to the grace of God.”

Savage also has great advice and mentoring skills. When asked what he would tell the new Coast Guard non-rate reporting aboard, Savage had this to say: “Everyone has been where you’re at, make the most of it and learn all you can. Even if you’re only in for four [years], take all the knowledge and experience you can out of every day, because you may find yourself using it again at some point in your life.”

Savage demonstrates what it takes to be a good shipmate, leader and all-around Coast Guardsman because of his exemplary adherence to the Coast Guard’s core values of Honor, Respect, and Devotion to Duty. His actions speak louder than words and because of that, his shipmates follow his lead.

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The Coast Guard received a call at 2 a.m. reporting the Star II aground.

Wildwood Fire and Rescue arrived on scene and transported the three people aboard to shore.

A commercial salvage company has been hired by the owner of the boat to remove 200 gallons of fuel aboard and Sea Tow is scheduled to tow the fishing boat from the beach on Monday.

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The Standards Program is a set of shared standards for charities and nonprofits designed to strengthen practices in five fundamental areas. The Program’s goals are to build excellence within Canada’s charities and nonprofits through common standards of practice and to strengthen confidence in the sector. Those five fundamental areas are:

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Kasko2go is launching the markets first blockchain-based auto insurance application. The swiss-based company use military grade AI tech and telematics to provide safe drivers with a decentralized  app that accepts cryptocurrency payments for their car insurance.

Swiss-based blockchain startup kasko2go uses military grade AI technologies, advanced telematics and a  experienced team of professionals to offer new low-cost driving insurance. The company have perfectly tailored their blockchain technology to develop an application that offers driver a simple, safe and affordable insurance solution with unprecedented transparency.

The first blockchain-based auto insurance app kasko2go will start accepting payments in cryptocurrency beginning April 30th, 2018.  The Kasko2go application is an innovative insurance solution on-demand. The mission of the application is to create a safe driver community and promote the idea of safe driving in society. Belonging to ax usage-based Insurance family, kasko2go app provides an individual approach to every customer, better risk management, improved fraud analysis, and overall safety of the driver.

The technology in the  kasko2go app leans on the experience and technologies from Israeli counter-terrorist service. Based on Israeli military grade AI the quintessential tech brings together disciplines such as Link Analysis, Open Source Intelligence, Visual Intelligence, Signal and Image Processing, Photogrammetry, Text Analytics and etc. This is the world’s most accurate technology that can eliminate fraud, enhance the entire driving culture, and make the insurance sphere smarter.

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The Kasko2go team has elaborated mathematical model implying limited quantity of tokens in blockchain turnover. The demand for currency grows due to tokens turnover within encouragement program. Thus, token becomes an attractive asset on the stage of demo version usage of the app. Growing demand for tokens will gradually shorten the engagement program meanwhile the number of users will reach the point of 1 million.

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US launches new measures against tax evasion, money laundering, and terrorism in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal. Time to switch to Bitcoin to maintain your privacy.

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Lovely Professional University (LPU) is a private semi residential university in North India created under Punjab State Private University. LPU nvites application in  its LLB Course  for session 2015-16.

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LL.BPass with 60% aggregate marks in Graduation (any stream) or equivalentORPass with 50% aggregate marks  in Graduation (any stream) or equivalent subject to valid score in LPUNEST- 2015/ LSAT3 years
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More Thoughts on Coaching, the Humanities, and More Things We Can't Measure

If you read this blog regularly, you know I used to swim and coach swimming. I received news the other day that one of the swimmers I coached in the past got a head coaching job. This past year, a girl I used to coach (when she was, like, 6) qualified for the the World Championships. I felt a tiny little bit a pride in seeing these two swimmers succeed in swimming. Here are two very, very successful swimmers in two different areas of the sport.

But, looking at it, that's two swimmers out of, how many? A couple of hundred? By that measure, I've been an absolutely horrid failure as a coach. I guess no less of a failure than I was as a swimmer; I've never came anywhere close to making Nationals, let alone a national team. My parent and I spent thousands of dollars on training, equipment, swim camps, and trips to swim meets. I don't even want to count the number of hours I spent in the pool, at the gym, in the weight room, training. For what? To what end? And all the time I spent on pool deck as a coach, breaking down video, planning workouts, organizing swim meets, and holding swimmers hands through nerves and disappointment.

These two swimmers are not the only swimmers I take pride; I am friends with many of my former swimmers on Facebook, and they are all successful people in their own right. They almost all do something other than swimming, although some have gone on to become lifeguards and coaches themselves before embarking on their chosen career. Many of them still swim, for fun, or run, or cycle, or play soccer, or some other form of physical activity. I'd like to think that their success is, in part, because of my influence as a coach.

I feel pretty confident in this assumption because despite my "failure" as a swimmer, I wouldn't trade my experience for anything. I learned so much more than just how to swim from one end to the pool to the other over and over as fast and efficiently as possible. I learned how to be a part of a team. How to deal with failure. How to persevere. How even the smallest success can be overwhelmingly satisfying. How important health and fitness are to my well-being. These are lesson that will stay with me the rest of my life, that I can call on when I need them.

While I teach writing, which is possibly the most practical and necessary of skills in this information age, my "training" (ugh, I hate that word) is in comparative literature, often seen as one of the most superfluous and decadent of majors. I don't miss the days of going to undergrad recruiting fairs and answering indignant parents when they ask, "What can you do with a degree in comparative literature?" While I never appreciated the question, "Are you going to the Olympics?" when I revealed I was a swimmer, I was never asked, what are you going to do with that? The (gag) return on investment on my years of swimming is negligible if you use any sort of objective metric (my best times, success of the swimmers I've coached). But no one expects those sorts of returns. So why are we so resistant to seeing the biggest picture of the value of the humanities?

The skills and experiences I had studying literature will also stay with me, regardless of my career. There are books that have literally changed my life, and books that have also literally saved it. In the same way that I can go to a pool, throw on a pair of goggles, dive in, and immediately feel better, I can pick up a book and have the same experience. My life is richer for having swam and for having studied the humanities. But only I have to explain and justify one of them.

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A huge thanks to Nathaniel Rateliff and Mark Shusterman of Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats for taking some time to join The Colorado Sound today.

Margot hosted them for a DJ Takeover in which they showcased a diverse set of soulful grooves and inspirational protest songs. A Spotify playlist of the songs played during the DJ Takeover is below.

Tearing At The Seams is out today on Stax, starting a very busy 2018 from here on. Up next, the band will be on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday before embarking on a massive tour that sees them coming to Red Rocks on August 22 and August 23. Nathaniel Rateliff will appear alongside John Prine November 10 at Buell Theatre.

Here are some highlights during their interview with Margot:

On Nina Simone’s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free”

Nathaniel Rateliff:  “It’s kind of been our conversation a lot recently about what we’re trying to do as a live band, not trying to use our platform in a political way, but really to try to bring people together. There’s a lot of people that don’t have a voice and I feel like there’s a lot of people that are alienated, and I don’t want to be a part of that. It’s strange that we are still struggling with the same issues that we did during the Civil Rights Movement.”

On How Ray Charles’ live version of “A Fool For You” Inspired the band

Nathaniel Rateliff:  “This is what a live band is suppossed to sound like. How can we continue to push ourselves to be like this?”

Mark Shusterman:  “Listening to this is like doing homework. We all would just put it on in the van, listen to it over and over again and take notes on it on how to put together a show because that man knew how to put together a show.”

On “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” by The Band

Nathaniel Rateliff:  “I always related to it, growing up in Missouri. One of the guys in The Band sounds exactly like my father. It just made me think the hardships of his family, growing up poor, and the pressure you have in the South and the Midwest as well.”

Mark Shusterman:  “I’ve always been moved by that song, just musically. And the lyrics are also beautiful.”

On Kevin Morby’s protest song “Beautiful Strangers”

Nathaniel Rateliff:  “It’s a song we’re trying to do a cover of live. He brings up this thing about the shooting in Paris and he’s talking about how we don’t need guns to protect ourselves from these other people. What if we all care about each other enough we won’t need that anymore? And he talks about thinking of others and being their cover. It makes you wonder what you would do in that situation when someone storms into a school or an office building or a show and opens fire. What do you do? Do you actually become the hero and protect the people around you and sacrifice yourself, essentially? I would like to think that’s what I would do.”

Mark Shusterman:  “If we all love each other consistently and throughout maybe we won’t be creating those type of people either.”

The interview ended on a humorous note, as the band discussed “The Rubberband Man” from The Spinners.

Nathaniel Rateliff:  “I think I was having a hard time on tour and I listened to only that song repeatedly for a couple of days.”

Mark Shusterman:  “Oh dude, I’ve done that… “Many Rivers To Cross”.

Nathaniel Rateliff:  “I listened to that Ted Hawkins record (Cold And Bitter Tears) for a whole tour.”


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Audiobook short: Darth Bane Trilogy, pt. 3

In my fourth Audiobook Short I’m sharing my impressions of Dynasty of Evil, the final installment of the Darth Bane trilogy, a Star Wars novel series from the so-called Expanded Universe, written by Drew Karpyshyn and narrated by Jonathan Davis. Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins.

For the spoken version of the below review go to Episode 466 of the Spirit Blade podcast, time stamp 48:52.

Publisher’s summary:

Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Bane’s acolyte, Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat and prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that the Sith dream of galactic domination will not die with him, Bane vows to learn the secret of a forgotten Dark Lord that will assure the Sith’s immortality – and his own.

A perfect opportunity arises when a Jedi emissary is assassinated on the troubled mining planet Doan, giving Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding mission – while he himself sets out in secret to capture the ancient holocron of Darth Andeddu and its precious knowledge. But Zannah is no fool. She knows that her ruthless Master has begun to doubt her, and she senses that he is hiding something crucial to her future. If she is going to claim the power she craves, she must take action now.

While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Master’s downfall by choosing an apprentice of her own: a rogue Jedi cunning and cold-blooded enough to embrace the Sith way and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.

But Zannah is not the only one with the desire and power to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal family is haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith soldier who murdered her father and tortured her when she was a child. Bent on retribution, she hires a merciless assassin to find her tormentor – and bring him back alive to taste her wrath.

Only a Sith who has taken down her own Master can become Dark Lord of the Sith. So when Bane suddenly vanishes, Zannah must find him – possibly even rescue him – before she can kill him. And so she pursues her quarry from the grim depths of a ravaged world on the brink of catastrophe to the barren reaches of a desert outpost, where the future of the dark side’s most powerful disciples will be decided, once and for all, by the final, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.

©2012 Drew Karpyshyn (P)2012 Random House Audio

My thoughts: “Alas, the trilogy has ended!”

I actually started and finished this audiobook in only one day, that’s how gripping it was. We follow Darth Bane and his apprentice Zannah, but also some new characters, just like in the previous two parts. This time I found these new characters actually interesting in their own right, so this is an improvement compared to parts 1 & 2.

The action scenes are fantastic, read perfectly thrillingly by Davis and enhanced even more by tracks from John Williams’s original soundtrack. The plot kept me interested in between action scenes as well, although it did ask me to suspend a lot of my disbelief in terms of consistency of character & skill set (can’t say more, otherwise I’d spoil it).

The sound effects were awesome as always, with one minor criticism: at one point the alarms are going off for a LONG time, it got on my nerve a bit since you can’t tone it down without losing the narration.

The final confrontation had me at the edge of my seat, the action climbed and climbed and climbed to a climax, which when it finally arrived however left me wondering “Wait. What happened?!” So not entirely as satisfying as I’d hoped, especially after such a thrilling ride to the top.

The epilogue is a definite cliff hanger, leaving me again dangling in the void of Wanting More, but this time there’s no more sequels to quench that thirst! Not so cool.

But those are only minor peeves, and not worth subtracting any stars. All in all this trilogy was absolutely thrilling, exciting and totally awesome. Jonathan Davis is a fantastic narrator, with a huge range of voices without overacting.

This third part of the series tempted me to listen to Darth Plagueis again even though I finished that not too long ago, because it is the next novel in the long, long list of the SW Expanded Universe novels and this trilogy left me really wanting some sort of continuity fix :-).

Again, highly recommend!

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Audiobook short: Darth Bane Trilogy, pt. 3

In my fourth Audiobook Short I’m sharing my impressions of Dynasty of Evil, the final installment of the Darth Bane trilogy, a Star Wars novel series from the so-called Expanded Universe, written by Drew Karpyshyn and narrated by Jonathan Davis. Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins.

For the spoken version of the below review go to Episode 466 of the Spirit Blade podcast, time stamp 48:52.

Publisher’s summary:

Twenty years have passed since Darth Bane, reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, demolished the ancient order devoted to the dark side and reinvented it as a circle of two: one Master to wield the power and pass on the wisdom, and one apprentice to learn, challenge, and ultimately usurp the Dark Lord in a duel to the death. But Bane’s acolyte, Zannah, has yet to engage her Master in mortal combat and prove herself a worthy successor. Determined that the Sith dream of galactic domination will not die with him, Bane vows to learn the secret of a forgotten Dark Lord that will assure the Sith’s immortality – and his own.

A perfect opportunity arises when a Jedi emissary is assassinated on the troubled mining planet Doan, giving Bane an excuse to dispatch his apprentice on a fact-finding mission – while he himself sets out in secret to capture the ancient holocron of Darth Andeddu and its precious knowledge. But Zannah is no fool. She knows that her ruthless Master has begun to doubt her, and she senses that he is hiding something crucial to her future. If she is going to claim the power she craves, she must take action now.

While Bane storms the remote stronghold of a fanatical Sith cult, Zannah prepares for her Master’s downfall by choosing an apprentice of her own: a rogue Jedi cunning and cold-blooded enough to embrace the Sith way and to stand beside her when she at last wrests from Bane the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.

But Zannah is not the only one with the desire and power to destroy Darth Bane. Princess Serra of the Doan royal family is haunted by memories of the monstrous Sith soldier who murdered her father and tortured her when she was a child. Bent on retribution, she hires a merciless assassin to find her tormentor – and bring him back alive to taste her wrath.

Only a Sith who has taken down her own Master can become Dark Lord of the Sith. So when Bane suddenly vanishes, Zannah must find him – possibly even rescue him – before she can kill him. And so she pursues her quarry from the grim depths of a ravaged world on the brink of catastrophe to the barren reaches of a desert outpost, where the future of the dark side’s most powerful disciples will be decided, once and for all, by the final, fatal stroke of a lightsaber.

©2012 Drew Karpyshyn (P)2012 Random House Audio

My thoughts: “Alas, the trilogy has ended!”

I actually started and finished this audiobook in only one day, that’s how gripping it was. We follow Darth Bane and his apprentice Zannah, but also some new characters, just like in the previous two parts. This time I found these new characters actually interesting in their own right, so this is an improvement compared to parts 1 & 2.

The action scenes are fantastic, read perfectly thrillingly by Davis and enhanced even more by tracks from John Williams’s original soundtrack. The plot kept me interested in between action scenes as well, although it did ask me to suspend a lot of my disbelief in terms of consistency of character & skill set (can’t say more, otherwise I’d spoil it).

The sound effects were awesome as always, with one minor criticism: at one point the alarms are going off for a LONG time, it got on my nerve a bit since you can’t tone it down without losing the narration.

The final confrontation had me at the edge of my seat, the action climbed and climbed and climbed to a climax, which when it finally arrived however left me wondering “Wait. What happened?!” So not entirely as satisfying as I’d hoped, especially after such a thrilling ride to the top.

The epilogue is a definite cliff hanger, leaving me again dangling in the void of Wanting More, but this time there’s no more sequels to quench that thirst! Not so cool.

But those are only minor peeves, and not worth subtracting any stars. All in all this trilogy was absolutely thrilling, exciting and totally awesome. Jonathan Davis is a fantastic narrator, with a huge range of voices without overacting.

This third part of the series tempted me to listen to Darth Plagueis again even though I finished that not too long ago, because it is the next novel in the long, long list of the SW Expanded Universe novels and this trilogy left me really wanting some sort of continuity fix :-).

Again, highly recommend!

Also follow my reviews on! (where I am Katarina – if you’re an Audible listener, simply bookmark my Listerner page once you’ve found me)

Audiobook short: Darth Bane Trilogy, pt. 2

Rule of Two is the second part of the Star Wars: Darth Bane trilogy, written by Drew Karpyshyn. The audiobook version is narrated by Jonathan Davis and is 10 hrs and 12 mins long. In this Audiobook Short I’ll share my impressions.

For the spoken version of the below review go to Episode 461 of the Spirit Blade podcast, time stamp 22:00.

Publisher’s summary:

In the New York Times best-seller Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn painted a gripping portrait of a young man’s journey from innocence to evil. That man was Darth Bane, a twisted genius whose iron will, fierce ambition, and strength in the dark side of the Force made him a natural leader among the Sith – until his radical embrace of an all-but-forgotten wisdom drove him to destroy his own order…and create it anew from the ashes. As the last surviving Sith, Darth Bane promulgated a harsh new directive: the Rule of Two.

Two there should be; no more, no less.
One to embody the power, the other to crave it.

Now Darth Bane is ready to put his policy into action, and he thinks he has found the key element that will make his triumph complete: a student to train in the ways of the dark side. Though she is young, Zannah possesses an instinctive link to the dark side that rivals his own. With his guidance, she will become essential in his quest to destroy the Jedi and dominate the galaxy.

But there is one who is determined to stop Darth Bane: Johun Othone, Padawan to Jedi Master Lord Hoth, who died at Bane’s hands in the last great Sith War. Though the rest of the Jedi scoff at him, Joshua’s belief that there are surviving Sith on the loose is unshakeable.

As Johun continues his dogged pursuit of the man who killed his master, Zannah, faced unexpectedly with a figure from her past, begins to question her embrace of the dark side. And Darth Bane is led by Force-induced visions to a moon where he will acquire astonishing new knowledge and power – power that will alter him in ways he could never have imagined….

©2012 Drew Karpyshyn (P)2012 Random House Audio

My thoughts: “Even better than Part 1!”

I started listening to this book right after I finished Path of Destruction, for that first part of the Darth Bane trilogy left me wanting for more. And ‘more’ is exactly what I got with Rule of Two!
I found it even more gripping, it was (even) better paced and narrator Jonathan Davis gives a truly masterful performance.

Following Darth Bane as a full-blown dark lord of the Sith was a thrilling ride. Especially since he now has an equally intriguing apprentice in Zannah, a young woman strong in the dark side, whom Bane teaches a lot but who also has a unique talent of her own: Dark Force magic!
Darth Bane continues to be the villain you root for inspite of yourself. Zannah is a strong female character with her own voice and her own gifts, strengths and ambitions. Together, they are too strong to defeat…

As with the first part of this Star Wars Expanded Universe trilogy I was so completely wrapped-up in the story I could only sit on the couch listening, doing nothing else. Which kind of totally defeated the purpose of listening instead of reading (i.e. multi-tasking!). So, on the couch I stayed… again…!

Unfortunately I finished this novel far too soon and again found myself wanting still more…. Fortunately there’s a third part! 🙂

Highly recommend!

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Audiobook short: Darth Bane Trilogy, pt. 1

This, my second Audiobook Short, is again about a Star Wars novel from the so-called Expanded Universe: Path of Destruction, which is part 1 of the Darth Bane trilogy, written by Drew Karpyshyn and narrated by Jonathan Davis. Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins.

By the way, the spoken version of the below review is part of Episode 457 of the Spirit Blade podcastgo to time stamp 18:26.

Publisher’s summary:

Once the Sith order teemed with followers. But their rivalries divided them in endless battles for supremacy – until one dark lord at last united the Sith in the quest to enslave the galaxy and exterminate the Jedi. Yet it would fall to another, far more powerful than the entire Brotherhood of Darkness, to ultimately realize the full potential of the Sith and wield the awesome power of the dark side as never before.

Since childhood, Dessel has known only the abuse of his hateful father and the dangerous, soul-crushing labor of a cortosis miner. Deep in the tunnels of the desolate planet Apatros, endlessly excavating the rare mineral valued throughout the galaxy, Dessel dreams of the day he can escape – a day he fears may never come. But when a high-stakes card game ends in deadly violence, Dessel suddenly finds himself a wanted man.

On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army and ships out to join the bloody war against the Republic and its Jedi champions. There, Dessel’s brutality, cunning, and exceptional command of the Force swiftly win him renown as a warrior. But in the eyes of his watchful masters, he is destined for a far greater role in the ultimate Sith plan for the galaxy – if he can prove himself truly worthy.

As an acolyte in the Sith academy, studying the secrets and skills of the dark side at the feet of its greatest masters, Dessel embraces his new Sith identity: Bane. However the true test is yet to come. In order to gain acceptance into the Brotherhood of Darkness, one must fully surrender to the dark side through a trial by fire that Bane, for all his unquenchable fury and lust for power, may not be strong enough to endure… especially since deception, treachery, and murder run rampant among the Sith disciples, and utter ruthlessness alone is the key to survival.

Only by defying the most sacred traditions, rejecting all he has been taught, and drawing upon the long-forgotten wisdom of the very first Sith can Bane hope to triumph – and forge from the ashes of that which he must destroy a new era of absolute dark power.

©2012 Drew Karpyshyn (P)2012 Random House Audio

My thoughts: “Hours on the couch doing nothing but listening!”

This is a gripping story about the rise of Darth Bane. The author allows the reader/listener far more than a mere glimpse of the dark side of the Force when telling the origin story of one of the great Dark Lords of the Sith.
Darth Bane is the one who will eventually instate the Rule of Two, which we know from the movies and which says that there can only be two Siths at one time. Which means that for most of this novel, the Rule of Two isn’t there yet, hence there are a multitude of Siths and dark side Force wielders!

The story is read brilliantly by Jonathan Davis, and of course enhanced with awesome Star Wars audio effects.

In conclusion, I literally couldn’t bring myself to do anything but sit on the couch and listen for hours on end – which is an absolute first for me for usually I do all kinds of stuff while listening to audio books.
If you like this book as much as I did, beware: for you’ll find it an absolute MUST to lay your hands on parts 2 and 3 of this trilogy as well!

Highly recommend!

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So my first was a nightmare with day and nighttime sleeping so I have nothing to compare to.

How much is your 3 week old sleeping in the day. Mine will pretty much sleep after a feed, sometimes not for long and ten he'll want another feed and sometimes for a good couple of hrs. He does have some awake time but not much still. Just curious what others are doing. Should I be encouraging lots of day sleep still? X

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pci voltage of ML350 600Mhz?

Nathan Stipe
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pci voltage of ML350 600Mhz?

I want to add a 532 array controller to a 1st generation ml350 with 600Mhz processer. I understand this controller only goes in 3.3 volt 64 bit 66mhz slot.

Can anyone tell me if these first gen ml350 with 600Mhz have 3.3 volt PCI slots?

I have perused the web and compaq website and cannot find answer.

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Janine Bertolo
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Re: pci voltage of ML350 600Mhz?

Hi Nathan;

Here's a roundabout answer to your question:

The 532 controller is a supported option for the ML350 G1 server.

Refer to the quickspecs at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10492_na/10492_na.HTML

That means the server has either 3.3V or universal slots that will definitely take that controller.

Hope that helps!

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Push ahead with the Destination profile in Lab wizard

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Push packaging

The Destination profile provides information for push packaging.

Some Destination profiles are off-the-shelf profiles with names like Akamai, Limelight, (both Origin/CDN vendor names), and ATS (Standard for vendor packaging). They come with a host of locked specifications, designed by Harmonic engineers.

When clicking on a Destination profile, the profile definition screen appears. It has been split into two parts:

The Panels - Located on the left, contains all packages included in the service profile.
The Fields - Located on the right, contains all fields for each package. These fields are the detailed settings for each package.

NOTE: We recommend that if you consider changing the profile, to change the packages only.

Figure-1: Sample Destination profile

You can use the Lab wizard app to preview, customize, and delete a Destination profile.

When you log in into VOS, VOS Cloud Service Profiles are available for you, based on the information you have provided during the initial VOS setup. The profiles can be previewed, customized, and deleted in the Lab wizard app.

The workflow described here is a common workflow on how to customize a Destination profile. In this workflow, you are presented with the Akamai profile.

NOTE: If you do not make changes to the profile, go to step 5 and continue with the testing (recommended) and validation.

  1. From the Launchpad or drop-down list, click the Lab wizard app icon.
  2. Click the Destination profile that you want to customize.
  3. Click +.
  4. Select MSS
  5. After making all changes, click Save As Version and the customized version with a new version number is created.

Validate a customized Destination profile to certify that a correct package of video/audio streams can be sent to your customer.

The workflow described here is a common workflow on how to validate a Destination profile.

  1. In the customized Destination profile, click Validate the profile. The profile shows the word "Validated".

The next step is to configure a service, using the validated profile.
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Bananas have so many great health benefits, and of course they taste so yummy–naturally sweet and perfect for just about any dessert, smoothie, or even some savory recipes. Here are 8 great simple sweet banana recipes you’re sure to love. At the end I added in the nutritional breakdown of one medium banana. Enjoy the banana deliciousness!

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Free Annual National Park passes for AD military

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Conservation Officer – Melbourne/SE Gippsland

Full-time permanent position

As the Conservation Officer, you will be responsible for the promotion and coordination of volunteer engagement within the region and have full responsibility for leading some practical conservation team based activities. To be successful in this role, you will have several years demonstrated experience within the volunteer sector, combined with skills and experience in leading team activities.

In doing this you will be contributing to the achievement of our Mission Statement:  “To attract and manage volunteers to participate in projects which protect or enhance our environment and heritage”.

For success as a Conservation Officer, you will need:

  • Effective presentation skills in order to create and maintain strategic community involvement networks and recruit volunteers
  • Experience in working with community groups
  • Ability to maintain statistics, record information and provide reports as required
  • Professional phone manner, broad experience in database management and Microsoft office suite
  • Organisational and prioritisation skills to ensure the office functions in an ordered but friendly manner
  • Knowledge and experience in the application of OHS policies and procedures
  • Interest in practical conservation work and the ability to lead projects

Essential Qualifications & Attributes

  • Excellent communication skills, including writing and grammar skills, and ability to deliver Volunteer Information Sessions to potential new volunteers
  • Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
  • The ability to motivate and inspire people
  • Demonstrated capacity for providing good customer service
  • Valid Full Drivers Licence (mandatory)

In this role, it will be necessary to lead teams from time to time and to work outside normal office hours to assist and organise volunteers.  This position would ideally suit a local candidate and preference will be given to applicants already living within the region.

For further details about the position read the Conservation Officer position description

Applications Close Date:  Thursday 24 May 2018

Applications for this job addressing the Key Selection Criteria (in the relevant position description) and CV to be submitted via the application form below.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

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USEA signs US $500,000 MOU to boost solar energy

USEA signs US $500,000 MOU to boost solar energy

Uganda’s off-grid solar expansion programme has been granted US $500,000 by the US government-funded initiative, Power Africa Uganda Accelerator to boost solar energy access solutions after a Memorandum of Understand was signed between Power Africa and Uganda Solar Energy Association, USEA.

The agreement states that the USEA will help in ensuring solar energy dealers comply by availing high quality products and services to their customers. Power Africa will financially support USEA in training its staff, dealers and promotion of solar energy solutions to the general public.

Also Read:SEDA-E to introduce new standards for small scale solar home system

Three year strategic plan

The USEA consists of more than 95 private companies providing solar energy solutions to consumers especially in rural areas.USEA chairman Emmy Kimbowa, said that the support deal is a timely boost to the sub-sector as the government pushes for increased uptake of solar energy solutions for off-grid rural communities.

The government wants off-grid consumers to access clean modern energy services in a bid to improve social services, economic growth and welfare to achieve its ambitious 2030 middle income status.

Kimbowa says they have developed a three-year strategic plan from 2018 to 2020 in which the association will focus on recruiting more members to cover every district at the sub-county level.

By 2020, Kimbowa is optimistic that 60% of households in Uganda will have access to solar energy products or services. Launched in February this year, USAID’s Power Africa Uganda Electricity Supply Accelerator is expected to add 1,000MW and one million new connections by 2020.


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Pitfalls New Bloggers Should Avoid

You’ve followed your favorite blogs for years and are convinced you can do just as well. With nothing holding you back except for lingering insecurities, you’re prepared to try your hand at blogging. If you want the effort to turn into an enjoyable and possibly profitable hobby, there are things you’ll need to keep in mind as you get started.

Lifehack.org offers these recommendations for newbie bloggers:

* Don’t make it all about you. Maybe you’re a fascinating person and a lot of amazing things happen to you, but don’t expect others to instantly agree and flock to your online diary. Choose a topic others are interested in and stick to it.

* Don’t be too formal. You’re writing posts, not research papers, so be willing to bend conventional writing rules to stay conversational and approachable. Avoid large blocks of text and break things up into short, manageable chunks.

* Get social. Give readers a taste of your blog via social networks. A nominal amount of link-whoring is acceptable, but you’re better off enticing readers with your personality rather than commanding them to click on links.

Starting A Blog in 2012? Avoid These 7 New Blogger Blunders [Lifehack.org]

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Oklahoma City Tornado 2013

May 21, 2013–Residents of the city of Moore, Oklahoma took a deadly hit of an E4 tornado which tore through the area on Monday afternoon, May 20. As daylight was breaking on the morning of May 21, there were at least 24 confirmed deaths, hundreds of injuries, and massive property damage. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped off the map in this suburb of Oklahoma City.

“This is a tragedy of epic proportion,” said Heartland Administrative Bishop Darrell Rice. “Many have called and inquired about Pastor Greg Garvie, his family and the RiverLife Church of God in Moore. I have not been able to get in touch with him; however, someone sent this text: ‘Just heard from one of the Garvie’s members and they’ve talked to them! They are okay! It came really close to them. The church was hit a little, but still intact. Please continue to pray.’”

Once the tragedy in Moore became apparent, Operation Compassion an independent benevolent organization with roots in the Church of God, began to formulate a strategy for relief efforts. It was not long before their disaster relief partners were contacted and plans were made to mobilize as quickly as possible. Warehouse employees began to stage 25 semi-trailers of bottled water, blankets, food and cleaning supplies as the first semis began moving early Tuesday morning.

In addition, Chaplains are ready to go with them to help survivors navigate the emotional upheaval to their lives. Heavy equipment, clean-up crews and building partners are ready to leave on Wednesday. Also, several mobile canteens and cooking crews capable of cooking thousands of meals a day will begin to leave on Thursday.

Operation Compassion Responds to the Victims of Hurricane IsaacTwo churches and a five acre plot of land have been secured for disaster relief. Southern Hills Church of God located about seven miles from the hardest hit area, Riverlife Church of God located in Moore just three blocks from the epicenter and five acres of land for the heavy equipment at the intersection of Interstate 35 and 240.

Operation Compassion will be able to work out of the Riverlife Church once access is gained to the devastated area. Because of the on-going search and rescue happening in the hours following the devastation, there will be limited access to disaster relief agencies.

Also headed toward the disaster site is God’s Pit Crew. According to Bishop Tim Nuckles (Louisiana Administrative Bishop and chairman of the God’s Pit Crew Board) and Randy Johnson (founder and Executive Director), GPC is committed to coordinating with Operation Compassion by bringing at least three semi-trucks loaded with food, water, tools and heavy equipment to assist in the recovery.

Pastor James Jones has agreed to have all the teams designate the Southern Hills Church of God (1029 W. I-240 Service Rd Oklahoma City, OK 73139) as the initial staging area for Operation Compassion and the Church of God’s response.

“Many have called wondering how they can help,” Bishop Rice said. “First of all, we need dozens of volunteers to assist in unloading the trucks and distributing the goods when they arrive. We’ll send out information and post it on our website the best times for volunteers to show up and assist.”

There are several ways to give to the relief effort, both through Operation Compassion and the Church of God. The important thing is that all donations will go toward Oklahoma disaster relief. Visit the Church of God website ( and click on the disaster relief graphic, or visit

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Building the McLaren 720S Super Series

We visit the pristine headquarters in Woking to discuss the design behind the impressive supercar

Everything McLaren does, it does fast. Not only can its latest model—the 720S Super Series—clear 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds, the company builds its cars quickly, too.

In the seven years since it began building ultra-luxury performance cars for a niche market, McLaren has delivered new nameplates in record time, introducing at least one new model or derivative annually starting with the 12C in 2011. Case in point: the 720S—which costs $285,000 and is the car McLaren calls its most opulent ever—zipped from concept to pavement in just three years, compared with the typical five-year process most automakers require.

McLaren’s racing heritage gives it a leg up in the development process. Though the company has a short history making cars for customers, it has decades of experience developing some of the world’s lightest, fastest, and most dynamic cars for some of the most skilled drivers on the planet. Beginning in the early 1960s as Bruce McLaren Motor Racing, the company founded one of Formula One’s most successful teams while honing its skills for decades. McLaren has been strengthening its position at the nexus of performance and technology since eponymous founder Bruce McLaren won his first Grand Prix.

Now it’s churning out supercars for enthusiasts at its pristine Foster + Partners designed, glass-walled headquarters in Woking, 30 miles outside of London. For the company’s latest creation, the 720S, designers and engineers continued to take their cues from McLaren’s F1 legacy, recasting the majority of its components and adding a larger, twin-turbo 4.0-liter V8 that delivers 710 horsepower. Boasting aluminum bodywork wrapped around a carbon fiber skeleton, the mid-engined sportscar is hailed as lighter, faster, and more capable than the 650S coupe it replaces.

“Form, for me, is inspired by Formula 1 cars,” says McLaren Design Director Rob Melville, “The way we take the high-energy air in here and the turbulent air into the body side. But the main thing is, and this is where the connection with nature comes in, we have an architecture under here. Imagine that architecture is like the bone structure, and then you have to optimize the panels around that bone structure.”

It shouldn’t look like a body builder, it should look like a sprinter

Underpinned by McLaren’s Monocage II carbon fiber foundation, the 720S is marked by a bull-nosed profile, double-skinned dihedral doors, and a tapered teardrop canopy that affords wide visibility. “It looks lean,” Melville says. “It looks muscular. It shouldn’t look like a body builder, it should look like a sprinter—a 100-meter sprinter.”

Seat time inside the low-slung, two-seat supercar justifies its moniker as McLaren’s most opulent machine. Luxurious and leather clad, the coupe’s interior can be customized with materials such as Alcantara suede, Bridge of Weir leather, aluminum, and carbon fiber that blend the sensory appeal of McLaren’s dual worlds: performance and technology.

McLaren’s speed—on the track and to the market—will serve it well. The young company has ambitious plans to introduce 15 new models, which started with the 720S, by 2022. And already since then, the 570S Spider and McLaren Senna. The company, which doubled sales to 3,286 cars last year, aims to ramp up to between 4,000 and 5,000 annually.

But there’s more to developing a new model than specs and comparison testing. “You can measure the hell out of everything,” Melville says. “You can have the statistics. It can be the best car on paper, but ultimately it has to feel like the best car as well. It’s like a relationship, and the same way with people, if they make you feel great, you always remember them. And I think the same with the products, it has to make you feel great. It has to make you feel special.”

Additional reporting by Evan Orensten

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Washoe Starts the 6th Grade Basal Alignment Project

Under the stewardship of staff from Curriculum & Instruction and the Striving Readers Grant, Washoe County has started a 6th grade version of the Basal Alignment Project. The process is just beginning with a completion date of December 2012 having been set.

In the short term, as we wait for the rewrites to be finished, educators should continue to emphasize the importance of asking questions that are text-based and requiring responses that include evidence.

You can access the 6th grade BAP by following these directions and using code 4k33tz.

About Aaron Grossman

I am a 5th grade teacher at Roy Gomm Elementary in Reno, Nevada. I started working with elementary students as part of the Montana Reads program and AmeriCorps. In 2001, after graduating from the University of Montana and moving to Reno, Nevada, I student taught at Rita Cannan Elementary before receiving a 6th grade position at Veterans Elementary. I moved out of the classroom to be a Literacy Coordinator, then an Instructional Coach, and finally a School Improvement Program Coordinator. In 2011, I began working on the Nevada Academic Content Standards in the district’s Curriculum & Instruction Department. I returned to the classroom for the 2015-2016 school year to teach 4th grade at Huffaker Elementary. Before returning to the classroom, I helped develop the Core Task Project that has been featured by National Public Radio, the Gates Foundation, American Radio Works, Eduwonk, the Fordham Institute, Vox, and the Center for American Progress. In 2014, I received the Leader to Learn From Award for my teacher-centered initiative and work to bring college, career, and civics ready outcomes into Northern Nevada classrooms (here). In 2015, I was appointed by Governor Sandoval serve on the Statewide RPDP Council. The same year, Nevada’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction Steve Canavero placed me on the state’s State Improvement Team. This year I will be part of the National Council on Teacher Quality’s Teacher Advisory Group. I am Google Certified Educator and a Nevada Teacher Ambassador. I believe strongly that teaching content is teaching reading and I make sure my students have ample opportunities to work with social studies, history, science and art outcomes. I do what I can to blend the learning for my students and this blog is part of that effort. You can contact me at coretaskproject@gmail.com
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Changes in CEO Stock Option Grants: A Look at the Numbers

Vasiliki Athanasakou is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics; Daniel Ferreira is Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics; and Lisa Goh is Assistant Professor of Accounting at Hang Seng Management College. This post is based on their recent paper.

In our paper, Changes in CEO Stock Option Grants: A Look at the Numbers, we look at changes in stock option granting behavior towards CEOs. We find that, on average, the number of stock option grants to CEOs changes over time, and that such changes can be predicted by CEO corporate investment decisions; CEOs of firms that have very high or very low levels of investment subsequently receive fewer stock options.

We focus on the number of stock options granted to CEOs. We know relatively little about how the number of options granted changes over time, and how this varies across firms, even though regulators and investors often focus their attention on the number of stock options granted. For example, under current NYSE listing requirements, companies need only to obtain shareholder approval for the total number of options to be granted, and not for the value of these options. Consistent with this focus, patterns in option pay, such as the rigidity of annual stock option grants, and the high correlation of CEO pay with stock market indices (Shue and Townsend 2017), suggest that boards also think of option compensation in terms of numbers of options granted. It is natural for boards to focus on the number of options granted, as this is the main item over which they can actually exercise control. Nevertheless, academic research mainly focuses on the dollar value of stock option grants. Our paper examines option-granting behavior using the number of options granted as the main outcome variable. Do boards grant the same number of options to CEOs each year, or do they revise their granting behavior? What factors drive changes in stock option grants?

Most of the existing research on CEO compensation contracts is based on some form of the standard principal-agent model with moral hazard, in which boards design optimal compensation contracts to align CEO and shareholder interests. However, this assumes that boards know the preferences of the CEO. But what if CEOs’ preferences are not known (Ross 2004)? In such cases, boards have to learn about CEOs by observing their decisions, and then adjust compensation parameters accordingly (see e.g. Gibbons and Murphy (1992)). Learning about CEO preferences thus implies compensation structures that are always changing.

We find that CEOs who make either very high or very low levels of investment receive fewer stock options in the subsequent period. Regardless of the reasons, boards seem to adopt a cautious approach by reducing the flow of stock option grants to the CEO. Why might that be? To interpret our results, we consider theories of corporate investment decisions.

The traditional agency view suggests that a rational self-interested CEO may either overinvest (e.g. empire building) or underinvest (e.g. prefer a “quiet life”) relative to the optimal investment level if she is not sufficiently incentivized through equity-based compensation. However, in one variation of the traditional agency view, high-powered equity incentives can instead induce CEOs to prefer short-termist actions, which may lead to either underinvestment, or overinvestment. In this case, overinvestment or underinvestment is a consequence of too much equity-based compensation.

A second family of theories emphasizes CEO behavioral traits. For example, consider a CEO who is overconfident about his or her abilities. An overconfident CEO may place too much weight on his or her own information, and typically overinvests or underinvests relative to industry norms. According to this hypothesis, both overinvestment and underinvestment may reflect a CEO who is over-incentivized.

In light of these different theories, a board of directors that is imperfectly informed about its CEO’s preferences—a board that doesn’t know the strength of the CEO’s bias, risk aversion, or information acquisition costs—may learn about the CEO’s preferences by observing his or her investment choices. If it sees either underinvestment or overinvestment, a board that subscribes to the traditional agency view may increase CEO equity incentives to restore optimal incentive levels. A board that views high or low investment as evidence of CEO short-termism may reduce CEO equity incentives to rebalance the compensation package. Finally, a board that views high or low investment as evidence of CEO overconfidence should decrease CEO equity incentives. These theoretical views are neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive, but represent three key possibilities that help us interpret our empirical results. Our findings that We propose and implement two different approaches for dealing with generated regressor problems. CEOs of firms making either high or low levels of investment receive fewer stock options in subsequent periods is not consistent with the traditional agency story, in which under-incentivized CEOs become either slackers or empire-builders. Rather, our findings are more consistent with boards being concerned about CEO short-termism or CEO overconfidence, and the potential detrimental effects of high CEO equity incentives. Boards may prefer to err on the side of caution when adjusting CEO compensation in response to evidence of either high investment or low investment.

We further find that CEO overconfidence (using Malmendier and Tate’s (2005) measure) is associated with fewer option grants, lending support to the overconfidence hypothesis. We also find that CEOs who overinvest subsequently receive more cash-based compensation (salary and bonus), suggesting that the reduction in stock options is part of an attempt to rebalance CEO compensation.

Our paper documents changes in compensation patterns after periods of overinvestment and underinvestment. Our evidence can inform theoretical discussions on the topic, and can be used to impose discipline on different theoretical frameworks. Our paper also helps to improve our understanding of re-contracting in executive compensation. While efficiency in the design of compensation schemes is a central theme in recent governance debates, there is little empirical evidence of feedback effects from firm outcomes, such as investment, to compensation design. By looking both at investment and CEO overconfidence, we show that alongside the “hard” evidence of corporate investment, boards also consider dynamic changes in the “softer” nature of CEO characteristics.

The complete paper is available for download here.

Gibbons, R, and K. J. Murphy. (1992). Optimal incentive contracts in the presence of career concerns: Theory and evidence. Journal of Political Economy 100(3): 468-505.

Malmendier, U., and G. Tate. (2005). CEO overconfidence and corporate investment. Journal of Finance 60(6): 2661-2700.

Ross, S. A. (2004). Compensation, incentives, and the duality of risk aversion and riskiness. Journal of Finance 59(1): 207-225.

Shue, K., and R. R. Townsend. (2017). Growth through rigidity: An explanation for the rise in CEO pay. Journal of Financial Economics 123(1): 1-21.

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Standard Deviation

A useful tool to quantify an investment's riskiness

What is Standard Deviation?

From a statistics standpoint, the standard deviation of a dataset is a measure of the magnitude of deviations between the values of the observations contained in the dataset. From a financial standpoint, the standard deviation can help investors quantify how risky an investment is and determine their minimum required return on the investment.

standard deviation diagram

Calculating Standard Deviation

We can find the standard deviation of a set of data by using the following formula:

Standard Deviation Formula

Ri – the return observed in one period (one observation in the data set)

Ravg – the arithmetic mean of the returns observed

n – the number of observations in the dataset

By using the formula above, we are also calculating Variance, which is the square of the standard deviation. The equation for calculating variance is the same as the one provided above, except that we don’t take the square root.

Standard Deviation Example

An investor wants to calculate the standard deviation experience by his investment portfolio in the last four months. Below are some historical return figures:

Standard Deviation Example Table

The first step is to calculate Ravg, which is the arithmetic mean:

Standard Deviation Example (1)

The arithmetic mean of returns is 5.5%.

Next, we can input the numbers into the formula as follows:

Standard Deviation Example Solution

The standard deviation of returns is 10.34%.

Thus, the investor now knows that the returns of his portfolio fluctuate by approximately 10% month-over-month. The information can be used to modify the portfolio to better the investor’s attitude towards risk. If the investor is risk-loving and is comfortable with investing in higher-risk, higher-return securities and can tolerate a higher standard deviation, he/she may consider adding in some small-cap stocks or high-yield bonds. Conversely, an investor that is more risk-averse may not be comfortable with this standard deviation and would want to add in safer investments such as large-cap stocks or mutual funds.

Normal Distribution of Returns

The normal distribution theory states that in the long run, the returns of an investment will fall somewhere on an inverted bell-shape curve. Normal distributions also indicate how much of the observed data will fall within a certain range:

  • 68% of returns will fall within 1 standard deviation of the arithmetic mean
  • 95% of returns will fall within 2 standard deviations of the arithmetic mean
  • 99% of returns will fall within 3 standard deviations of the arithmetic mean

The graphic below illustrates this concept:

Normal Distribution

Hence, standard deviations are a very useful tool in quantifying how risky an investment is. Actively monitoring a portfolio’s standard deviations and making adjustments will allow investors to tailor their investments to their personal risk attitude.

More Resources

CFI offers the Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)™ certification program for those looking to take their careers to the next level. To learn more about related topics, check out the following resources:

Financial Analyst Certification

Become a certified Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst (FMVA)™ by completing CFI’s online financial modeling classes and training program!


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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Bookmark Collecting

Collecting bookmarks

With so many varieties, shapes and sizes, collecting these can be fun and they don't take up much space.  Your collection could focus on decorative, advertising, vintage, or even a specific type of material.  The possibilities are endless!

According to the Guinness world book of records, Frank Divendal has the largest bookmark collection of 103,009!  He has been collecting since 1982 and his organized system is pretty amazing.  He first sorts them by country and then by theme.

Some bookmarks can be worth quite a bit of money.  I found this set of 7 vintage like new strawberry shortcake bookmarks that went for over $100 on Ebay!  This 1903 coca-cola bookmark also sold for $100!

Here are a few websites we found that can help you get started on your collecting!

Have you already started your collection?  Show us a picture in the comments!  We would love to see them!

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Friday, February 9, 2018

History of the Bookmark

History of the Bookmark

Bookmarks have been around for centuries! The earliest bookmarks were used mostly for bibles or prayer books. These were ones that we are all familiar with even today.  They were made of a narrow silk ribbon and bound into the book at the top of the spine. They were made very delicate so they would not damage the delicate pages of the book.

In the 1880's they started producing bookmarks in paper and other materials.  During the war, they would often print messages promoting the war and  public service messages on bookmarks.

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Now a days,bookmarks are produced using many different types of materials including paper, wood, brass, leather, metals, plastic, cord and more.  The designs are endless and offer a way to really personalize the bookmark.

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Master Plan

Countesswells in Aberdeen is a wonderful and sought after place. It will be an exciting new destination to live, offering an inspirational way of life. It is a rural environment designed with varied lifestyles in mind, combining great homes with great recreational and business opportunities.

Countesswells Overview

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Craft Lands 1

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Craft Lands - is a mix of action and survival game.

Here you can create your own things move on cars to play in cooperative mode with friends.

Players should look for supplies, build fortifications, and also have the opportunity to shoot not only a zombie, but also other players.

Advantages of the game:

- Multiplayer, Single player, co-operative mode

- Large open world

- Craft and inventory system

- Many weapons

- Survival

- Day and night (beware of the night, use the day for research)

- Excellent graphics and audio support

- Automobile

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Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Craft Lands is a free trial software application from the Action subcategory, part of the Games & Entertainment category. The app is currently available in English and it was last updated on 2015-07-30. The program can be installed on iOS.

Craft Lands (version 1) has a file size of 117.44 MB and is available for download from our website. Just click the green Download button above to start. Until now the program was downloaded 5 times. We already checked that the download link to be safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded software with your antivirus.

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Pollution ‘nearly as bad as smoking’ during pregnancy

Scots findings drive call to speed up fumes ban.

Expectant mothers who live in Britain’s worst air pollution hotspots risk causing almost as much harm to their unborn child as those who smoke, according to Scottish scientists.

A study by Edinburgh and Aberdeen universities found that Scottish babies exposed to toxic gases and particulates, such as those belched out through car exhausts, were born with smaller heads and shorter bodies.

A similar outcome was observed in babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy but were exposed to less pollution.

Dr Tom Clemens, who led the study, has called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the EU to urgently review their definition of “acceptable” emissions levels amid concern they are still too high.

He said the findings are particularly worrying because the study — the largest of its kind so far conducted — only examined the effects of pollution in the northeast of Scotland, where air quality is relatively good compared with congested areas such as Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.

“Our findings suggest that there may not be a truly ‘safe’ level of exposure during pregnancy,” said Clemens. “A foetus with a non-smoking mother exposed to high pollution levels is only slightly better off than one with a smoking mother exposed to low levels of pollution. This implies that the effect of exposure to the highest levels of pollution may be almost as bad as smoking.”

Ministers recognise that poor air quality is the biggest environmental risk to public health in the UK and have pledged to ban diesel and petrol cars by 2040.

It has been estimated that 59% of the British population are living in towns and cities where nitrogen dioxide pollution breaches the lawful level of 40 microgrammes per cubic metre of air. The Labour party has described the air pollution crisis as a “national scandal”.

The Scottish study, published in the scientific journal Environment International, has prompted calls for the ban to be enforced earlier.

“Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, outdoor air pollution has been recognised as a problem and the evidence we need to tackle it continues to pile up. It is time to do something about it,” said Steve Turner, a co-author of the study from the University of Aberdeen.

Data on foetal growth was gathered from ultrasound scans and maternity records for almost 14,000 pregnancies in northeast Scotland between 2002 and 2011. Lifestyle factors, such as smoking, were considered. Air quality at postcode level was determined using dispersion models based on UK government data.

Unlike previous air pollution studies, the investigation by Clemens and his team looked at the effect on developing foetuses of PM2.5 particulates — microscopic specks of dust and soot that can enter the lungs and bloodstream.

They detected average concentrations of 7.2 micrograms per metre cubed — well below the annual average of 10 micrograms per metre cubed that is deemed acceptable by WHO.

Nevertheless, they found that particulates were “consistently related” to babies born with heads that were almost 3mm smaller than those exposed to lower levels of pollution. There was strong evidence that PM2.5s stunt a baby’s growth.

Clemens stressed that smoking will always result in poorer pregnancy outcomes “no matter what else is going on”, but Chris Dibben, a co-author of the study, added: “Although most parents will be aware that their smoking may be harming their unborn child, we wonder whether there is an equal awareness that air pollution can have a similar level of impact on the growth of the child in the womb, even in a relatively unpolluted region like northeast Scotland.”

In February, the European Commission admitted that air quality laws had been flouted in more than 130 cities across 23 of the 28 EU member states, including the UK.

Scottish ministers have said that Scotland’s air “is among the best in Europe” but admit that hotspots of poor air quality remain.

According to the UK government’s Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants, poor air quality in Scotland reduces average life expectancy by three-four months (compared with six-seven months in England and Wales).