More power and more range than the car with which it shares most of its name.
At February's National Auto Dealers Association convention in Florida, Mitsubishi sought to reassure dealers of its continued commitment to the U.S. market, citing plans for future products to flesh out its atrophied North American portfolio. But the reassurances weren't backed by any specifics concerning those future products, and Mitsubishi's two headline properties at this year's Geneva show—a hybrid system wrapped in a pickup truck concept known as the GR-HEV concept, and this CA-MiEV—don't seem likely to build dealer confidence.
The CA-MiEV was billed as a concept, but, more than anything, it provides a preview of Mitsubishi's replacement for the i-MiEV subcompact electric. The concept reveals several improvements over the current car. The CA received a lithium-ion battery pack with more capacity (28 kWh versus 16), more power (107 horsepower versus 66), an improved range (186 miles versus 62), and the introduction of a magnetic resonance wireless-charging system.
Not only does the CA-MiEV provide vastly improved performance over the i-MiEV, it's also substantially bigger. The concept shares the current production car's 100.4-inch wheelbase, but is 7.5 inches wider and, at 159.4 inches, is 14.6 inches longer. Mitsubishi didn't specify curb weight.
If the CA-MiEV reaches production, and its performance specifications are anywhere close to the concept's claims, it clearly would have a stronger appeal with electric-car shoppers. But it's hard to imagine Mitsubishi's North American dealers bursting into spontaneous hosannas about this car, as its bottom-line impact probably would be minimal. The i-MiEV recorded just 588 sales in 2012. It seems far more likely that Mitsubishi's dealers already are looking past Geneva, peering into the murky future in search of more-compelling products—and more of them.


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We didn't want our flares looking like the next guys, so we decided to try something different. Instead of putting the flare right at the wheel well opening, why not flare the entire fender. We started by making a cut, the length of the fender, just before it makes the upward transition to the outer crease. Small perpendicular slits had to be made every couple inches to allow the sheet metal to bend along the crease. Next we used a small hydraulic jack between the shock tower and the inside of the fender to help give us the curve we were looking for. We tack welded and checked to make sure we were satisfied with the overall shape before custom fitting the sheet metal used to fill the gap. Using this technique we were able to create a 2 1/2" flare while maintaining the key body lines and curves. It almost hides the flares when looking at the car from the side.
The rear fenders would be styled in much the same fashion as the fronts. However this posed the additional challenge of the solid inner wheel well. This would require us to add a 2" strip of sheet metal to the inside and change the angles on the bottom side of the rear quarter. The lower portion of the job was tackled first. We then moved on to the upper half of the quarter panel. Additional vertical cut outs had to be made in order to shorten the length of the top lip. This helped us get the nice smooth curve to match the front fenders.


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Q: How to set base address of a matrix? I want to set the base address of a matrix of float at a precise place in my memory (embedded DSP development)
I'd like to do something like this, which is not working :
// volatile because of the DMA filling the array automatically
// base address is 0x80000000
volatile float example_two[100][2] = (volatile float *)0x80000000;

I know I can do it for a pointer like this, but I'll loose the array size ([100][2]):
// volatile because of the DMA filling the array automatically
// base address is 0x80000000
volatile float *example_one = (volatile float *)0x80000000;

Is it possible ?

A: If you want to allocate memory at a fixed address, you must use non-standard ways and also modify the linker script. This is compiler/linker specific.
If the memory is already allocated at that position and you know for a fact that it is of type float [100][2], or of no type at all (untouched by compiler), then you can do use an array pointer:
volatile float (*example_two)[100][2];
example_two = (volatile float(*)[100][2]) 0x80000000UL;

In case of gcc, always disable strict aliasing in embedded sytems, just to be sure the compiler won't go haywire when for example reading a DMA buffer. gcc -fno-strict-aliasing.

A: Consider:
volatile float (*example_two)[2] = (volatile float (*)[2]) 0x80000000;

This declaration allows you to use example_two as if it had been declared with float example_two[100][2]. For example, example_two[i][j] refers to element j of row i. By creating a pointer to arrays of two elements, this omits the [100] information from the type, but that is generally not needed.
Another option is to write:
volatile float (*example_two)[100][2] = (volatile float (*)[100][2]) 0x80000000;

This includes the full type information, but then it must be dereferenced to be used, as in (*example_two)[i][j]. This is more cumbersome.

A: If you take these statements as in c language,
volatile float *example_one = (volatile float *)0x80000000;
here you make a pointer point to a location that you specify.
where as the following statement,
volatile float example_two[100][2]
creates an array. there is a memory allocation happening. So they are different statements.
You can create a pointer to an array in this case and try as,
volatile float (*example_two)[100][2] = (volatile float *)0x80000000;
You need to access the data then as (*example_two)[i][j]

A: Try (or don't try) this ugly #define trick
#define example_two (*donttrythisathome)

float example_two[100][2] = (void*)0xDEADBEEF;
example_two[42][0] = example_two[42][1] = -0.42;

See working example on https://ideone.com/7c6dJ9

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Q&A regarding BPA SVHC identification
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Questions & Answers about BPA being identified as SVHC and listed on the REACH Candidate List
Since January 2017, Bisphenol A (BPA) has been included in the REACH Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) for Authorisation based on its classification as reproductive 1B substance. In July 2017, following the respective ECHA Member State Committee (MSC) agreement
to identify BPA as a SVHC based on alleged endocrine disrupting (ED) properties for human health (HH), the Candidate List entry for BPA was updated to also include the ED HH identification. In January 2018, the 3rd SVHC identification of BPA was added to the Candidate List, this time based on alleged endocrine disrupting (ED) properties in the environment.
This document is intended to provide further information to interested stakeholders and to answer questions about the processes and possible implications. BPA is included in the Candidate List for Authorisation with three SVHC identifications.
What does this mean for downstream users?
The communication and notification obligations related to a listing of a substance on the Candidate List apply as soon as the substance is included in the Candidate List for the first time. In practical terms, it makes no difference whether a substance is listed once or several times – the obligations to be fulfilled remain the same. (For more details about the obligations please see page 2.).
Does the identification as an SVHC mean that the use of BPA is dangerous?
SVHC identification is a hazard-based approach. That means it is based solely on the intrinsic properties of a substance, without considering its actual use, real-life exposure and respective potential risk. The inclusion of BPA in the Candidate List as such therefore does not mean it's uses are unsafe. The identification as SVHCs is the formal first step which could ultimately lead to Authorisation requirements under REACH.
Can BPA continue to be used in food contact applications for consumers?
Yes. Generally, food contact materials (FCMs) are regulated by the Framework Regulation for all food contact materials (EC No 1935/2004) and the use of BPA as monomer for plastic FCMs is explicitly permitted by the Regulation (EU No 10/2011).1 In order to assess the safety of substances used to manufacture food contact materials, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carries out safety evaluations and risk assessments. In its most recent comprehensive scientific opinion on the safety of BPA (published January 2015), the authority concludes: "EFSA's comprehensive re-evaluation of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure and toxicity concludes that BPA poses no health risk to consumers of any age group (including unborn children, infants and adolescents) at current exposure levels. Exposure
from the diet or from a combination of sources (diet, dust, cosmetics and thermal paper) is considerably under the safe level (the "tolerable daily intake" or TDI)." http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/150121
Despite this, in France a law is in place, suspending the use of BPA in food contact materials, which is in conflict with
existing EU Food Contact Regulation.
The SVHC-identification and inclusion in the Candidate List does not impact compliance of BPA-based food contact materials with the respective legislation.
Does the inclusion in the Candidate List mean that BPA or any of its current uses is now banned – or could eventually lead to such a ban?
In the context of REACH, the inclusion of a substance in the Candidate List in itself does not imply an immediate ban or a restriction of any uses of the substance. It could however lead to Authorisation under REACH.
ECHA regularly assesses the substances on the Candidate List in order to determine which ones should be prioritised for inclusion in the Authorisation List (Annex XIV of REACH). The prioritisation recommendation by ECHA is based on information on the reason(s) for inclusion on the Candidate List, the type of uses and the volumes of the substances on the EU market that would fall within the scope of the Authorisation requirement. Substances finally included in the Authorisation List are then subject to Authorisation: these substances cannot be placed on the market or used after a given date, unless an Authorisation is granted for their specific use, or when the use is exempted from Authorisation.
What would a potential later REACH-Authorisation of BPA mean for the industry?
BPA is predominantly used as an intermediate to manufacture polycarbonate and epoxy resin (polymeric materials). Intermediate uses are exempt from potential later Authorisation under REACH. Therefore, a potential later Authorisation of BPA should have no direct regulatory impact on BPA-based polymers like polycarbonate or epoxy resins.
Non-intermediate uses of a substance, such as e.g. additive uses of BPA, are not exempt from REACH Authorisation. Such uses would therefore have to comply with the obligations under REACH Authorisation.
What are the obligations resulting from inclusion in the Candidate List?
The identification of a substance as SVHC and the inclusion in the Candidate List triggers
communication and notification obligations for companies2. These obligations refer not only to the listed substance on its own or in mixtures but also to its presence in articles, pursuant to Article 33 of REACH:
Suppliers of articles which contain substances on the Candidate List in a concentration above 0.1% (w/w) have to provide sufficient information to allow safe use of the article to their customers or upon request, to a consumer within 45 days of the receipt of the request. This information must contain as a minimum the name of the substance.
Producers or importers of articles have to notify ECHA if their article contains a substance on the Candidate List. This obligation applies if the substance is present in those articles in quantities totalling over one tonne per producer or importer per year and if the substance is present in those articles above a concentration of 0.1% (w/w). Of note, a notification is not
required when the producer can exclude exposure of humans and the environment during the use and disposal of the article, or when the substance has already been registered for that use.
With respect to BPA:
It is important to note that the overwhelming amount of all BPA produced is converted into polymers such as polycarbonate and epoxy resins. Only technically unavoidable trace levels of unreacted BPA may remain in the polymer matrix, which are usually far below the levels that would trigger SVHC-related communication or notification obligations. Therefore, for the vast majority of BPA-based polymers, specifically polycarbonate and epoxy resins, no direct obligations are expected following the SVHC identification. Nevertheless it is the responsibility of each company in the value chain to evaluate, if their products (articles) fall under these communication and notification obligations of REACH.
Is BPA an "endocrine disrupter"?
The PC/BPA Group provided comprehensive comments opposing the French and German proposals to identify BPA as SVHC due to alleged endocrine disrupting properties for human health respectively the environment. These comments are based on the legal interpretation of the REACH Regulation for identifying BPA under Article 57(f) and on the non-conclusive scientific evidence and the weakness in the scientific argumentation brought forward in the dossiers. The decision of the MSC is in contrast with the industry's own thorough assessment of the scientific data on BPA. With respect to human health it is also not consistent with the recent assessment of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), published in 2015. EFSA evaluated BPA against the widely accepted WHO definition of
endocrine disrupters and "concluded that scientific knowledge of how BPA behaves in humans was still unclear and there was no single explanation for how BPA potentially affects humans. Therefore, based on the WHO criteria, it was not considered possible to conclude that BPA is an endocrine
disruptor." http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/bisphenolactiveTab=5
WHO defines an endocrine disrupter as follows:
"An endocrine disruptor is an exogenous substance or mixture that alters function(s) of the endocrine system and consequently causes adverse health effects in an intact organism, or its progeny, or (sub) populations."
The WHO criteria served also as a basis for the definition of the European Commission criteria to determine endocrine disruptors under the Biocidal Products Regulation.
Jasmin Bird, PC/BPA-Group PlasticsEurope
jasmin.bird.consultant@plasticseurope.org
https://www.echa.europa.eu/candidate-list-obligations

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Kevin & Bryttney's wedding was amazing! As I put the finishing touches on the images and upload the selections to their private gallery, I'm reminded of how blessed we are. Wonderful couples, beautiful locations and heart felt moments. Here are a few of our favorites from the wedding set to music. Enjoy!


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After Snowden - Book Outlet
After Snowden
by Goldfarb, Ronald (Edt)
Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor? Just how far do American privacy rights extend? And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security? These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath of the NSA's domestic surveillance program.
In these seven previously unpublished essays, a group of prominent legal and political experts delve in to life After Snowden, examining the ramifications of the infamous leak from multiple angles:
Washington lawyer and literary agent, Ronald Goldfarb, acts as the book's editor and provides an introduction outlining the many debates sparked by the Snowden leaks.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Barry Siegel, analyses the role of the state secrets provision in the judicial system.
Former Assistant Secretary of State, Hodding Carter, explores whether the press is justified in unearthing and publishing classified information.
Ethics expert and dean of the UC Berkley School of Journalism, Edward Wasserman, discusses the uneven relationship between journalists and whistleblowers.
Georgetown Law Professor, David Cole, addresses the motives and complicated legacy of Snowden and other leakers.
Director of the National Security Archive, Thomas Blanton, looks at the impact of the Snowden leaks on the classification of government documents.
Dean of the University of Florida Law School, Jon Mills, addresses the constitutional right to privacy and the difficulties of applying it in the digital age.
Published Date: May 19, 2015


Gary L. Steele, a performer, composer, and artist, brings the creative evolution of music composition to three-dimensional design in plain and 3D surface drawings. As a classical trained performer and composer, my art presents the transition of a composition form, sounding two melodic lines simultaneously. This method is called counterpoint. The word comes from the Latin punctus contra punctum, meaning "point against point". Contrapuntal music is that which has two or more melodic lines sounding simultaneously, in contrast to one another, essentially linear music. That is, the composer intends for the listener to perceive these sounds as concurrent melodies-horizontal lines of music. The sounds are not to be thought of vertically as chords, even though the harmonies are produced as the counter point progresses.
The compositions are created upon acid free paper, utilizing a wide variety of mediums, ink, water-media, and wax pencils. The early compositions on music manuscript paper show the beginning stages of the music notation to the graphic line in the creative process. As the drawings evolved from a prismatic and conical surface to helicoids and convoluted, a high degree of content also developed in the creative evolution of the process.
Since melody and rhythm preceded other musical elements, counterpoint was an earlier invention than the melody-plus-accompaniment that is so common today. The use of several pitches sounding as a unit requires a higher degree of musical sophistication than the mere addition of another melody, as it would be logical to assume the same would be true of multiple graphic lines.
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The 8th edition of the Women's World Cup will take place from June 7 to July 7 in France (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Rennes, Montpellier, Le Havre, Reims, Valenciennes and Grenoble). This is the first time that France has hosted a women's world cup.
The objective? Give the best to 11 on the field to be world champions and qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. That reminds you of something, doesn't it?
The competition will start on June 7th at 9pm, with singer Jain performing a few minutes before the kick-off. The first teams to launch this World Cup are France and South Korea, at the Parc des Princes in Paris.
For the first time in history, video assistance to refereeing will be used during women's football finals matches.
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The Blues, who have not yet won a title, are hoping to change that this year by making it through to the qualifying rounds against South Korea, Nigeria and Norway.
But after the success of the French men's team last year and hosting the competition at home puts pressure on the girls of the French team. Fans expect a lot from the Blues, who in major competitions have never gone further than 4th place.
The French team is considered one of the most powerful nations in the world, as shown by its FIFA ranking (3rd), it has participated in the last four European cups and has qualified for the last three world cups.
The fans are confident: in recent years Corinne Diacre's players have posted a series of good results, including a 3-0 win over the Germans last year.
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There's a charm to short stories that novels may not always have. It expresses a tale in very few words, and to make sure no threads are left hanging is a challenge. I took this set of short stories as I felt that the collection would give me a welcome change from reading novels. The title A Perfect Murder also appealed to the crime fiction lover in me.
Perhaps it was the title, but I began reading with the assumption that it was a collection of short stories in the crime fiction genre (which is rare). The book has fourteen short stories, but they don't stick to a particular genre. From the fourteen, there were few favorites, and there were stories that didn't appeal to me as much.
My favorite story from the collection was iPad. The story is perhaps the shortest one in the book, but it ranks right at the top because of the emotional ending. That the ending was also quite unexpected only added to the quality of the piece.
Salma's Fate is another story I liked. There might be a Salma we know or whose story we may have read in the news. But this story, thankfully, has a positive twist to it instead of a negative one.
The story Visa for America felt familiar, like I had read it before somewhere. But it ended unlike how I thought it would. The love story still had a chance for a happy ending, and I was thankful for that.
Other stories that I liked were The Soothsayer, The Grandson, and Seema.
The stories not only cover a variety of genres, but also many themes that are quite common to see. There's a mother-in-law who wants a grandson, and doesn't accept the granddaughter though she had daughters of her own too. There's a man who divorces his wife over the phone because she went against his father. There's a lovelorn man who still wants to be with the old "crush" even though he's married. These are characters that seem familiar or real. The author puts each story across quite well.
I like stories that leave something to the imagination. But most of the stories here had an enormous amount of detail. Though that helped to bring the scene to life, it didn't quite manage to engage me as a reader. The title story, I felt, was a bit too long (though a perfect murder would need planning, I suppose). There aren't many twists either. You know what might happen, and more often than not, that happens.
I'd read the collection to enjoy some simple, almost realistic stories. It's a one-time read, but not a quick read. I took longer than I thought I would to finish it.
I thank the author for sending me a copy to peruse and review.
That's cool...It's always interesting to read stories which seem real. It's recently I found out that short stories are not of much appeal when it comes to publishing. This saddened me. Because I have read many wonderful short stories. I am really not sure whether it's the trend in Indian publishing scenario . I will try to get Mr. Nair's book.


Ayutthaya was a former capital of Ayutthaa kingdom. This city was founded in 1350 by King U Thong and was destroyed by the Burmese. Since there are lots of heritage here, the ruins was recognised as a UNESCO WORLD HETITAGE SITE.
We drove from Bangkok in very early morning in order to avoid the traffic jam. After an hour, we arrived our first stop, Wat Niwet Thammaprawat, a Western style Gothic architecture Buddhism Temple located in an island near Bang Pa-In Palace.
Since this Wat (Temple) is located in an island without any road, a monk used a cable car to deliver us to the island. It's quite exciting and special to visit a temple needed to across the river.
Before arrived the main "cathedral ", there are lots of Western gardens and houses.
After visited this morden Temple, we then went to a pit-stop to buy some drinks as this place is really really hot!!!! We shopped in 7-11 in the Ayutthaya city.
We then continued our journey, after passed by the downtown, we visited the Wat Yai Chai Mongkol. This Wat was built for the monks backed from CEYLON ( SRI LANKA) many years ago and famous for the Sleeping Buddha.
Actually, except for the outdoor Sleeping Buddha, the other Buddha statues and Tower were also special and unique.
Although Ayutthaya was a former capital, however, all the ruins in the Ayutthaya are not far away. After a short ride, we then arrived the second Wat, Wat Chaiwatthanaram. This Wat is a bit like Ankar Wot and this architecture shown the art and building skills of ancient Thailand.
Again, it was very hot and sunny in Ayutthaya, I am not understood why the Tourism Board of Thailand was recommended tourist to borrow bicycle to visit these wats. I think it is better to rent a tuk tuk car or join the local tour for the journey.
We bought a special coconut ice-cream with durian favor in Wat Mahathat. Wat Mahathat is famous for the "Buddha head tree". I was thought it's a small wat and only have a "Buddha head tree". However, it's a big wat with many wat.
After visiting this wat, it was time to have lunch and got rid of the sun shine. We went to the Ayutthaya Floating Market.
This Floating Market is a modernize market and actually the hawkers are not selling food and souvenirs in the boat. The boat is just a decoration and the boats are mainly for sight-seeing.
But other than that, this location is a good place to having a lunch.
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Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett
Released on 2008-09-14 by Categories - Business & Economics
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Category: Business & Economics
"A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years." --From the Foreword by Warren E. Buffett First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, "the father of value investing," have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes. This new sixth edition, based on the classic 1940 version, is enhanced with 200 additional pages of commentary from some of today's leading Wall Street money managers. These masters of value investing explain why the principles and techniques of Graham and Dodd are still highly relevant even in today's vastly different markets. The contributor list includes: Seth A. Klarman, president of The Baupost Group, L.L.C. and author of Margin of Safety James Grant, founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, general partner of Nippon Partners Jeffrey M. Laderman, twenty-five year veteran of BusinessWeek Roger Lowenstein, author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When America Aged and Outside Director, Sequoia Fund Howard S. Marks, CFA, Chairman and Co-Founder, Oaktree Capital Management L.P. J. Ezra Merkin, Managing Partner, Gabriel Capital Group . Bruce Berkowitz, Founder, Fairholme Capital Management. Glenn H. Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chieftain Capital Management Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School David Abrams, Managing Member, Abrams Capital Featuring a foreword by Warren E. Buffett (in which he reveals that he has read the 1940 masterwork "at least four times"), this new edition of Security Analysis will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing—more relevant than ever in the tumultuous 21st century markets.
Security Analysis: The Classic 1940 Edition
Released on 2002-10-31 by Benjamin Graham,David Dodd Categories - Business & Economics
Author: Benjamin Graham,David Dodd
"Graham's ideas inspired the investment community for nearly a century."--Smart Money "Graham's method of investing is as relevant today as it was when he first espoused it during the Roaring Twenties."--Investor's Business Daily Benjamin Graham's revolutionary theories have influenced and inspired investors for nearly 70 years. First published in 1934, his Security Analysis is still considered to be the value investing bible for investors of every ilk. Yet, it is the second edition of that book, published in 1940 and long since out of print, that many experts--including Graham protégé Warren Buffet--consider to be the definitive edition. This facsimile reproduction of that seminal work makes available to investors, once again, the original thinking of "this century's (and perhaps history's) most important thinker on applied portfolio investment."
Released on 2013-07-24 by Roger Lowenstein Categories - Biography & Autobiography
Author: Roger Lowenstein
Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business Week bestseller lists. Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the twentieth century—an astounding net worth of $10 billion, and counting. His awesome investment record has made him a cult figure popularly known for his seeming contradictions: a billionaire who has a modest lifestyle, a phenomenally successful investor who eschews the revolving-door trading of modern Wall Street, a brilliant dealmaker who cultivates a homespun aura. Journalist Roger Lowenstein draws on three years of unprecedented access to Buffett's family, friends, and colleagues to provide the first definitive, inside account of the life and career of this American original. Buffett explains Buffett's investment strategy—a long-term philosophy grounded in buying stock in companies that are undervalued on the market and hanging on until their worth invariably surfaces—and shows how it is a reflection of his inner self.
The Essays of Warren Buffett
Released on 2013-03-15 by Lawrence A. Cunningham,Warren E. Buffett Categories - Business & Economics
Author: Lawrence A. Cunningham,Warren E. Buffett
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
In the third edition of this international best seller, Lawrence Cunningham brings you the latest wisdom from Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. New material addresses: the financial crisis and its continuing implications for investors, managers and society; the housing bubble at the bottom of that crisis; the debt and derivatives excesses that fueled the crisis and how to deal with them; controlling risk and protecting reputation in corporate governance; Berkshire's acquisition and operation of Burlington Northern Santa Fe; the role of oversight in heavily regulated industries; investment possibilities today; and weaknesses of popular option valuation models. Some other material has been rearranged to deepen the themes and lessons that the collection has always produced: Buffett's "owner-related business principles" are in the prologue as a separate subject and valuation and accounting topics are spread over four instead of two sections and reordered to sharpen their payoff. Media coverage is available at the following links: Interviews/Podcasts: Motley Fool, click here. Money, Riches and Wealth, click here. Manual of Ideas, click here. Corporate Counsel, click here. Reviews: William J. Taylor, ABA Banking Journal, click here. Bob Morris, Blogging on Business, click here. Pamela Holmes, Saturday Evening Post, click here. Kevin M. LaCroix, D&O Diary, click here. Blog Posts: On Finance issues (Columbia University), click here. On Berkshire post-Buffett (Manual of Ideas), click here. On Publishing the book (Value Walk), click here. On Governance issues (Harvard University blog), click here. Featured Stories/Recommended Reading: Motley Fool, click here. Stock Market Blog, click here. Motley Fool Interviews with LAC at Berkshire's 2013 Annual Meeting Berkshire Businesses: Vastly Different, Same DNA, click here. Is Berkshire's Fat Wallet an Enemy to Its Success?, click here. Post-Buffett Berkshire: Same Question, Same Answer, click here. How a Disciplined Value Approach Works Across the Decades, click here. Through the Years: Constant Themes in Buffett's Letters, click here. Buffett's Single Greatest Accomplishment, click here. Where Buffett Is Finding Moats These Days, click here. How Buffett Has Changed Through the Years, click here. Speculating on Buffett's Next Acquisition, click here. Buffett Says "Chief Risk Officers" Are a Terrible Mistake, click here. Berkshire Without Buffett, click here.
F Wall Street
Released on 2009-05-18 by Joel Ponzio Categories - Business & Economics
Author: Joel Ponzio
"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it." —Warren Buffett Investors shouldn't hate the market because of its up and downs. They should capitalize on it—and give a middle finger to those brokers wasting their time (and money) buying and selling, viewing investing as just buying stocks and not taking ownership of a company. In this book, Joe Ponzio gives an "f-you" to Wall Street and teaches you how to become a sharp value investor who uses economic downturns to your advantage. By buying into companies you believe in—but that may be selling for less than their intrinsic value, like high-end retailers in a weak market and discount retailers in a strong one—you will profit from their long-term performance. It's the perfect guide for anyone fed up with Wall Street's bull.
The Warren Buffett Way
Released on 2013-09-13 by Robert G. Hagstrom Categories - Business & Economics
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Warren Buffett is the most famous investor of all time and one of today's most admired business leaders. He became a billionaire and investment sage by looking at companies as businesses rather than prices on a stock screen. The first two editions of The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind Buffett's spectacular success. The new edition updates readers on the latest investments by Buffett. And, more importantly, it draws on the new field of behavioral finance to explain how investors can overcome the common obstacles that prevent them from investing like Buffett. New material includes: How to think like a long-term investor – just like Buffett Why "loss aversion", the tendency of most investors to overweight the pain of losing money, is one of the biggest obstacles that investors must overcome. Why behaving rationally in the face of the ups and downs of the market has been the key to Buffett's investing success Analysis of Buffett's recent acquisition of H.J. Heinz and his investment in IBM stock The greatest challenge to emulating Buffett is not in the selection of the right stocks, Hagstrom writes, but in having the fortitude to stick with sound investments in the face of economic and market uncertainty. The new edition explains the psychological foundations of Buffett's approach, thus giving readers the best roadmap yet for mastering both the principles and behaviors that have made Buffett the greatest investor of our generation.
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue
Released on 2010-06-10 by David Einhorn Categories - Business & Economics
Author: David Einhorn
A revealing look at Wall Street, the financial media, and financial regulators by David Einhorn, the President of Greenlight Capital Could 2008's credit crisis have been minimized or even avoided? In 2002, David Einhorn-one of the country's top investors-was asked at a charity investment conference to share his best investment advice. Short sell Allied Capital. At the time, Allied was a leader in the private financing industry. Einhorn claimed Allied was using questionable accounting practices to prop itself up. Sound familiar? At the time of the original version of Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story the outcome of his advice was unknown. Now, the story is complete and we know Einhorn was right. In 2008, Einhorn advised the same conference to short sell Lehman Brothers. And had the market been more open to his warnings, yes, the market meltdown might have been avoided, or at least minimized. Details the gripping battle between Allied Capital and Einhorn's Greenlight Capital Illuminates how questionable company practices are maintained and, at times, even protected by Wall Street Describes the failings of investment banks, analysts, journalists, and government regulators Describes how many parts of the Allied Capital story were replayed in the debate over Lehman Brothers Fooling Some of the People All of the Time is an important call for effective government regulation, free speech, and fair play.
Benjamin Graham and the Power of Growth Stocks: Lost Growth Stock Strategies from the Father of Value Investing
Released on 2011-11-11 by Martin CFA,Nick Hansen,Scott Link,Rob Nicoski Categories - Business & Economics
Author: Martin CFA,Nick Hansen,Scott Link,Rob Nicoski
Use a master's lost secret to pick growth companies bound for success In 1948, legendary Columbia University professor Benjamin Graham bought a major stake in the Government Employees Insurance Corporation. In a time when no one trusted the stock market, he championed value investing and helped introduce the world to intrinsic value. He had a powerful valuation formula. Now, in this groundbreaking book, long-term investing expert Fred Martin shows you how to use value-investing principles to analyze and pick winning growth-stock companies—just like Graham did when he acquired GEICO. Benjamin Graham and the Power of Growth Stocks is an advanced, hands-on guide for investors and executives who want to find the best growth stocks, develop a solid portfolio strategy, and execute trades for maximum profitability and limited risk. Through conversational explanations, real-world case studies, and pragmatic formulas, it shows you step-by-step how this enlightened trading philosophy is successful. The secret lies in Graham's valuation formula, which has been out of print since 1962—until now. By calculating the proper data, you can gain clarity of focus on an investment by putting on blinders to variables that are alluring but irrelevant. This one-stop guide to growing wealth shows you how to: Liberate your money from the needs of mutual funds and brokers Build a reasonable seven-year forecast for every company considered for your portfolio Estimate a company's future value in four easy steps Ensure long-term profits with an unblinking buy-and-hold strategy This complete guide shows you why Graham's game-changing formula works and how to use it to build a profitable portfolio. Additionally, you learn tips and proven techniques for unlocking the formula's full potential with disciplined research and emotional control to stick by your decisions through long periods of inactive trading. But even if your trading approach includes profiting from short-term volatility, you can still benefit from the valuation formula and process inside by using them to gain an advantageous perspective on stock prices. Find the companies that will grow you a fortune with Benjamin Graham and the Power of Growth Stocks.
The Investment Checklist
Released on 2011-09-20 by Michael Shearn Categories - Business & Economics
Author: Michael Shearn
A practical guide to making more informed investmentdecisions Investors often buy or sell stocks too quickly. When you baseyour purchase decisions on isolated facts and don't take the timeto thoroughly understand the businesses you are buying, stock-priceswings and third-party opinion can lead to costly investmentmistakes. Your decision making at this point becomes dangerousbecause it is dominated by emotions. The InvestmentChecklist has been designed to help you develop an in-depthresearch process, from generating and researching investment ideasto assessing the quality of a business and its management team. The purpose of The Investment Checklist is to help youimplement a principled investing strategy through a series ofchecklists. In it, a thorough and comprehensive research process ismade simpler through the use of straightforward checklists thatwill allow you to identify quality investment opportunities. Eachchapter contains detailed demonstrations of how and where to findthe information necessary to answer fundamental questions aboutinvestment opportunities. Real-world examples of how investmentmanagers and CEOs apply these universal principles are alsoincluded and help bring the concepts to life. These checklists willhelp you consider a fuller range of possibilities in yourinvestment strategy, enhance your ability to value your investmentsby giving you a holistic view of the business and each of itsmoving parts, identify the risks you are taking, and much more. Offers valuable insights into one of the most important aspectsof successful investing, in-depth research Written in an accessible style that allows aspiring investorsto easily understand and apply the concepts covered Discusses how to think through your investment decisions morecarefully With The Investment Checklist, you'll quickly be able toascertain how well you understand your investments by the questionsyou are able to answer, or not answer, without making the costlymistakes that usually hinder other investors.
Modern Security Analysis
Released on 2013-05-07 by Martin J. Whitman,Fernando Diz Categories - Business & Economics
Author: Martin J. Whitman,Fernando Diz
A legendary value investor on security analysis for a modernera This book outlines Whitman's approach to business and securityanalysis that departs from most conventional security analysts.This approach has more in common with corporate finance than itdoes with the conventional approach. The key factors in appraisinga company and its securities: 1) Credit worthiness, 2)Flows—both cash and earnings, 3) Long-term outlook, 4)Salable assets which can be disposed of without compromising thegoing concern, dynamics, 5) Resource conversions such as changes incontrol, mergers and acquisitions, going private, and major changesin assets or in liabilities, and 6) Access to capital. Offers the security analysis value approach Martin Whitman hasused successfully since 1986 Details Whitman's unconventional approach to security analysisand offers information on the six key factors for appraising acompany Contains the three most overemphasized factors used inconventional securities investing Written by Martin J. Whitman and Fernando Diz, ModernSecurity Analysis meets the challenge of today's marketplace bytaking into account changes to regulation, market structures,instruments, and the speed and volume of trading.
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According to Forrester, business agility is the quality that allows an enterprise to embrace market and operational changes as a matter of routine. Forrester views agility as a way of thinking that requires both awareness and execution.
The need for business agility drives engineering agility. While agile has spread as businesses demand more flexibility and responsiveness from IT systems, it has also become a huge economic powerhouse. It is a massive industrial complex—the frameworks, tools, certifications, coaches, consultants, trainers, service providers, and more around which millions globally make their living. Yet, many times, because of these very forces, the focus of agile software development shifts away from where it should be, affecting customers and the engineering teams.
This shift in focus can push organizations through the dark tunnels of cookie-cutter agile frameworks, methodologies, coaches, and certifications. At the start of the agile adoption journey, rituals and ceremonies provide a cadence and a feel-good factor. However, without a focus on genuine software engineering, programming excellence, and creating technology solutions based on customer need, teams drown in a sometimes meaningless process of simply going through the motions.
A quick look at the Agile Manifesto reminds us that adopting agile should never be about blindly following prescribedframeworks, methodologies, and tools, and it's certainly not about courses and certifications. The focus must be on following the agile principles that guide technical excellence.
Agile should be about using tailored practices, techniques, tools, and team organizations that fully align to a customer's business context. But the drivers of the cookie-cutter world strongly influence businesses and their IT teams to follow their one-size-fits-all frameworks, methods, and tools. Such an approach often introduces many risks, so beware of the following symptoms that may indicate that your agile team has gone astray.
Agile is about people centricity in an environment that is committed to software quality, team productivity, and continuous improvement. While teams are encouraged to be self-organized, it does not mean that projects do not require some level of project management.
Some vendor frameworks and methods leave the impression that a role as critical as a project manager is not required; they only advocate a servant leader role. Likewise, these vendor frameworks leave an impression that team structures must conform to what they prescribe. This, more often than not, leads to suboptimally leveraging individuals' and team's capacity and capability.
Experience in projects and programs has shown that a lot of care and attention is required in shaping teams that are aligned to a context, including in an outsourced scenario.
The reliance on agile certifications often lowers the quality standards of agile software development. Two-day training and certification workshops have mushroomed, but most of the methods they teach do not factor into the realities of the practitioner world. It has resulted in a plethora of "training schools" and "certified folks" floating in the market who do not have the experience and academic credentials to perform the required duties to foster technical and business agility.
A symbiotic relationship exists between cookie-cutter agile frameworks and vendors of agile products and tools. The tight binding in the product and tool features with an associated framework does not easily lend itself to ease of customization when an agile-based delivery framework is tailored for a project, program, or an enterprise.
Such occurrences are common, especially in outsourced and offshored engagements. Usage of the tool quickly tapers, and effective adoption of agile engineering practices takes a beating. Enterprises may also be forced to invest in custom tools to make the rigid, uniform frameworks and tools come close to meeting their business needs.
The scenario above becomes even more chaotic and painful when outsourcers are onboarded to deliver projects or programs using their own, proprietary agile-based methodology. In many cases, outsourcing contracts drafted by vendor management teams are structured with an anti-agile governance mindset. The verbiage and spirit in outsource contracts still remain tightly aligned to the controls and checks and balances of a traditional software methodology, such as waterfall. The principles and values of agile software development do not find a place in such contracts.
Blind adherence to a particular agile approach is fraught with risk and provides no way for teams to self-manage their work. Such contracts and governance greatly contribute to stifling the spirit of agile. It has a direct negative impact on business agility and engineering agility—the very fulcrum on which agile software development rests.
You first should be mindful and responsible in deciding whether agile software development is applicable and beneficial in your context, be it a project, a program, or an enterprisewide initiative. Then develop tailored ways of workingfor successfully embracing such a change.
In order to make agile work, you must stay on high alert, reason logically when anti-agile patterns raise their ugly head, and take purposeful decisions and actions that make sense for your business.


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Former government agent Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader) has eluded capture for decades. But he suddenly surrenders to the FBI with an offer to help catch a terrorist under the condition that he speaks only to Elizabeth "Liz" Keen (Megan Boone), a young FBI profiler who's just barely out of Quantico.
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A 75-year-old Japanese man has died after the ambulance he was travelling in was rejected 36 times by several hospitals over a period of two hours.
Paramedics rushed to the man's house in a city north of Tokyo after he complained of breathing problems. The ambulance went the rounds of hospitals in the area but 25 of them said they could not accept the man because they did not have enough doctors or any free beds, a local city official said.
The ambulance eventually brought the patient to a hospital 20 minutes away in neighboring Ibaraki prefecture but the man was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
The cause of death has not been made public, AFP reports.
One of the paramedics told Jiji Press they had never experienced "a patient being rejected so many times".
Public healthcare in Japan is heavily subsidized and generally of a high global standard, according to AFP.
Japan's ageing population, drawn out by longer life expectancy, could put a strain on the country's healthcare over the coming decades.


WatchFit - How to find motivation to exercise when you don't feel like it!
How to find motivation to exercise when you don't feel like it!
You know you want to have the motivation to exercise, but you just don't feel like it. Well, I'll let you in on a secret that those of us who do psychotherapy know, but gets past many people. Don't wait for motivation to exercise; just begin doing the thing you choose to do and motivation will soon follow.
But wait, you intuitively already knew that, right? Many times you've talked yourself into the pool, onto the bike, or out on a run, and discovered that once you began, you felt like going the full distance.
Whether we are seeking motivation to exercise, or facing other life stressors, getting active is one of the best interventions to succeed. You have to trust that motivation to exercise will follow action. As you will be aware, before action it's very common to simply not feel like exerting ourselves.
Evolutionarily speaking, it makes sense to conserve calories for those terrifying moments when we really need to burn them (e.g., a saber-toothed tiger nearby). When danger approached, our ancestors acted without waiting for motivation. Today, we sometimes make the mistake of waiting for it.
"Fake it 'til you make it" is really good advice at times. I trust that action will be helpful when my clients are sceptical that exercise will help lower their anxiety or lift their depression. They tell me that they can't muster the motivation to get out the door.
When they talk about their anxiety, I tell them to go into it. Approach the thing they fear, marinate in the situation they believe they can't tolerate. By doing it anyway, their anxiety decreases as they habituate, or get used to it. It's simply not as bad as they had imagined.
They are able to get through the workout, the tense holiday party, the cramped airline trip. A common intervention for depression is also to encourage clients to exercise, to get their heart rate up. Depressed people usually don't feel like exercising, but when they do their mood lifts and they are able to see their problems a bit more clearly and with a bit more optimism.
Mood and exercise are directly related. Don't let your lack of motivation to exercise derail you. If you think you should exercise, but you don't feel like doing it, then tell yourself that you'll just get started. Give yourself permission to only do a lap around the block. The thing is, it is very likely that after that lap you'll feel like continuing for the full run.
Being aware of this dynamic is empowering. Still, test it out. See if it works for you (and I think it will, since you are human like the rest of us, and this is simply how we are "wired."). So the next time, trust that motivation will follow action!
I'll talk about other influences in future articles. What motivates us to self-improve, to lose weight, or to compete? Some of the influences are our genetics, family of origin, birth order, peers, religion, region of the world and era we live, and culture. What are the psychodynamics. What is the interrelation between the unconscious and conscious forces that determine motivation? They matter. Big time!
Until then: how to find motivation to exercise? Don't wait for it – go get it!
P.S. Check these trendy new exercise ideas that might just be the right thing to get your enthusiasm back on track!
Timothy M. Tays, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. He was a semiprofessional distance runner and is the author of "Wannabe Distance God: The Thirst, Angst, and Passion of Running in the Chase Pack" (2013), available at Amazon.com/books and many other online sites.


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How to Navigate the Impact Investing Landscape
Impact investing is a catch-all term to encompass investing in any company casually doing "some good".
March 19th, 2017 | By: Victor Grau Serrat
The term Impact Investing was coined in 2007 to refer to "investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social and/or environmental impact". Less than a decade later, impact investing now boasts $77B in assets, with $15B invested in 2015 alone — a 30% increase from the previous year — and is expected to grow by a factor of ten over the next ten years. For comparison, $141B was invested in venture capital worldwide in 2015, but experienced a decline of 10% in 2016 in total deal funding.
With such growing interest in this approach to investing from a great variety of stakeholders, impact investing inevitably means different things to different people ranging from investments in luxury car manufacturer Tesla, to pay-for-success contracts to reduce recidivism or products and services that benefit people living in poverty in developing countries.
Impact investing then becomes a catch-all term to encompass investing in any company casually doing "some good" in detriment of those intentionally seeking to affect measurable positive change for society and the environment.
One space where impact investing has started to affect social change and can become transformational is in addressing global development challenges. The landscape depicted above highlights the slice of impact investing that focuses on global poverty, social inequality and economic growth in the developing world. And just to be clear, impact investing is *not* the silver bullet that will end poverty, but is a complementary approach to philanthropy, government interventions and others that can foster much needed economic development and prosperity.
The segment of impact investing that addresses issues of global poverty is thriving, but much like the rest of the impact space, there seems to be a mismatch between capital supply and demand. The majority of investors are looking to invest in growth or mature companies, but report a shortage of quality investment opportunities. The lack of deals is especially acute for institutional investors at the end of the pipeline. On the other hand, dynamic and thriving small and growing enterprises suffer from the 'missing middle': the financing needed for companies to scale their businesses and their social impact; right in the middle between micro-finance and commercial loans.
How to navigate this landscape?
If you are a social entrepreneur, you may start refining your idea through an incubator or grow through the formation stage of your venture through an accelerator. You'll find them in major cities with a broad focus (Atlanta, Melbourne, New York, Seattle or Singapore), or in specific geographies (Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico, South Africa). While most are on-site, some are also online (GSBI, B4B).
As an entrepreneur, you'll gain additional visibility through competitions, awards, and fellowships. While you can apply to some, others are by nomination only, so get to know this space and build your network over time.
If you are an accredited investor, there is no shortage of investment opportunities to get involved, and many funds are actively fundraising at any given point. As of this writing, ImpactBase reports 150 open funds with existing commitments and another 50 that have just started fundraising. If you want to invest directly, take a look into the Investing Marketplaces in captured in the landscape.
This vibrant and expanding landscape is where Colorful Ventures operates, focusing on early-stage companies with built-in impact. Our vision is to grow the number of successful companies that make a lasting positive change in this world, and catalyze a vicious circle that attracts more capital, resources and talented entrepreneurs working for a more just and equitable world. While we acknowledge that impact investing alone is not the panacea to end global poverty, we believe that market-based approaches have a big role in alleviating poverty, and we work hard to realize this potential.
Find an interactive version of the above landscape here.
Also shared on the Startups.co Medium Publication.
Victor Grau Serrat
Founding Partner at Colorful Ventures. Former co-director of D-Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned investor to support audacious social entrepreneurs — I'm on twitter @victorsays
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Latinos who are exposed to pesticides in their workplaces are twice as likely to have cardiovascular disease compared with Latinos who are not exposed to pesticides at work, according to a new study published in the journal Heart.
The study looked at survey questionnaire responses from 7,404 employed Latinos ages 18 to 74 years old enrolled in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) regarding occupational exposure to pesticides, metals and solvents — substances known to have a negative impact on cardiovascular health. The HCHS/SOL is the largest epidemiological study of Hispanics/Latinos and includes more than 16,000 participants from Chicago, San Diego, Miami and the Bronx in New York. Participants were asked whether they had been exposed to metals, solvents or pesticides at work.
"Recent studies have linked certain chemicals found in solvents and pesticides and metal dust to cardiovascular disease, but none of those studies looked specifically at Hispanics/Latinos — a group that is especially vulnerable to exposure to toxins at work," said Maria Argos, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics in the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and corresponding author of the paper.
About 5 to 9 percent of employed Latinos reported exposure to solvents, metals or pesticides in the workplace.
"While our study didn't involve objective measures of exposure to toxic chemicals or metals in blood or urine samples, we observed significantly increased cardiovascular disease, most strongly for atrial fibrillation, among those who self-reported occupational exposure to pesticides," Argos said.
The researchers found that participants reporting occupational exposure to pesticides were twice as likely to have some form of cardiovascular disease compared with those who didn't report pesticide exposure.
Participants reporting exposure to pesticides at work were twice as likely to have coronary heart disease, a type of cardiovascular disease where cholesterol-based plaques accumulate on the walls of the arteries, causing stiffness and increasing the risk for blood clots and stroke. When the researchers looked specifically at atrial fibrillation — a type of cardiovascular disease characterized by an irregular, often rapid heart rate that can cause poor blood flow — they found that participants reporting occupational exposure to metals were almost four times as likely to have the disease, and those who reported occupational exposure to pesticides were more than five times as likely to have the disease compared with participants who did not report having these exposures at work.
Catherine Bulka, Dr. Victoria Persky, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu and Dr. James Lash from the University of Illinois at Chicago; Tali Elfassy, David Lee and Dr. Alberto Ramos from the University of Miami; and Wassim Tarraf from Wayne State University are co-authors on the paper.
This research was supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute grant T32-HL125294, and contracts N01-HC65233, N01-HC65234, N01-HC65235, HHSN268201300003I, N01-HC65236 and N01-HC65237.


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Eduard Khil was born on September 4, 1934 (age 77) in Smolensk, Russia. He is a celebrity opera singer. Eduard Khil's Life Path Number is 3 as per numerology. His full name is Eduard Anatolyevich Khil. His successful album is Музыка Победы. His popular songs are Trololo Song2010, ZimaBudet zhit' lyubov' na svete · 2012 and Чему Учат В Школе2002. He died on June 4, 2012, Saint Petersburg, Russia. He had 1 child Dmitri Khil. His spouse is Zoya Pravdina  ( m. 1958) .
Award-winning Russian singer who gained internet fame for his rendition of "I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home," known as "Trololo" to internet users. He performed in many operas, such as The Marriage of Figaro. More information on Eduard Khil can be found here. This article will clarify Eduard Khil's Age, Songs, Family Guy, Trololo Song, lesser-known facts, and other information. (Please note: For some informations, we can only point to external links)
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He was married to Zoya Pravdina from 1958 until his death in 2012, and they had a son named Dmitri Anatolyevich Khil.
Eduard Khil Before Fame
Eduard Khil was born in 9-4-1934. That means he has life path number 3. In 2023, His Personal Year Number is 2.
He performed for injured Russian soldiers during World War II.
The Numerology of Eduard Khil
In numerology, Life Path Number 3 is associated with creativity, inspiration, and communication skills. Eduard Khil was born with a Life Path Number 3, he has the gift of charisma as well. Life path 3s are amazing and unique! They are a social butterfly, with a skill set!
Success of Eduard Khil
He received the People's Artist Award of the RSFSR.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sang Khil's praises after his death, offering condolences to Khil's family. Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, and Mirella Freni were also His acquaintances.
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Facts About Eduard Khil
● Eduard Khil was born on September 4, 1934 (age 77) in Smolensk, Russia
● He is a celebrity opera singer
● His full name is Eduard Anatolyevich Khil
● His successful album is Музыка Победы
● His popular songs are Trololo Song2010, ZimaBudet zhit' lyubov' na svete · 2012 and Чему Учат В Школе2002
● He died on June 4, 2012, Saint Petersburg, Russia
● He had 1 child Dmitri Khil
● His spouse is Zoya Pravdina  ( m. 1958)


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Joe commenced his career as a hairstylist, training in both Sydney and abroad. After a successful stint in London, Joe helped launch the first Toni and Guy salon in Australia. Having quickly established himself as one of Australia's leading hairstylists, Joe made the transition into session styling.
Joe's work has appeared in a number of national and international publications including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire and Oyster. Alongside various television and magazine appearances, Joe's published work has included a regular Makeover Column for The Sunday Telegraph.
Joe remains a key player in Sydney's fashion scene, working with high profile models and actors in campaigns for such brands as Myer, David Jones and Marcs. He has also provided hair direction for a number of clients including Alex Perry, Leona Edminston, Wayne Cooper and Collette Dinnigan.
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Joe Gibara is a fourth generation haircutter and his unique hairstyles have earned him an outstanding reputation both here and overseas.
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Any validated programme leading to an award of the University of Wales will operate in accordance with the Academic Regulations, Protocols and Procedures of the University.
These documents contain rules determined by the Academic Board of the University which relate to the admission and assessment of students and the rights of students.
Having rules in place which are the same for all University of Wales programmes of the same level means that the University can be assured that the standards of its programmes are the same regardless of where in the world they are delivered.


Check out the latest equipment, research a bargain ski vacation or watch an Olympic medalist go big off an indoor jump. Attending an autumn ski show is one way to get pumped for the upcoming ski season. Another way is to save big bucks. The shows include discounts on gear, lift tickets and travel packages. At many of the events, there also will be Learn to Ski & Snowboard Centers, designed to help rookies get on snow. Here are a few regional picks. For a complete show schedule, go to skimag.com and search for "ski shows."
Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colo.; www.aminews.com/bewi.
Portland Expo Center, Portland, Ore.; www.aminews.com/bewi.
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Ill.;www.chicagoskishow.com.
Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Conn.; www.aminews.com/bewi.
Bayside Expo Center, Boston, Mass.; www.aminews.com/bewi.
Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, Calif.; www.skidazzle.com.
Listen to the farmers and you might get a hankering to buy a pair of fat skis this season. The 184-year-old Farmers' Almanac, based in Lewiston, Maine, predicts "a rough winter" with "precipitation expected to be above average and temperatures somewhat colder in all regions, except the Northwest." The Almanac derives its forecasts from a secret model that uses factors such as sunspot activity, moon phases and other astronomical conditions. "I told people to buy two snowblowers last winter, but the drought never ended," says Almanac editor Pete Geiger. "This winter I'm saying buy one snowblower and a can of gas. You should be busy."
Some people are weekend skiers; others strive to reach the magic 100-days-a-season mark. A few individuals, however, change the sport itself: The 2002 inductees into the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming, Mich., for instance.
A mountain guide with a strong entrepreneurial bent, Hans Gmoser, now 70, came up with a novel idea for a ski lift in 1965: the helicopter. For $260 per person, his new company, Canadian Mountain Holidays, transported 18 adventurers deep into the Bugaboos for a week of "heliskiing," forever changing the fantasy content of every skier's dreams.
Other inductees include: Indefatigable racer and teacher Georgene Bihlman, who has won more than 800 trophies and awards, starting in the 1950s; 10th Mountain Division veteran John Litchfield, joined by Friedle Pfeifer and others, founded Aspen's first ski school in the mid 1940s, before bringing his innovations to Sun Valley; From 1960 to 1980, Dr. Robert Oden was the medical advisor to the U.S. Olympic Committee, working to promote race-course safety; Carroll P. Reed took over the failed Saks Fifth Avenue store in Jackson, N.H., in 1937 and started his own eponymous retail empire, offering one of America's first mail-order catalogs in the late 1930s.
Nikki Stone was the first freestyle competitor in the world to win every major title, including Rookie of the Year, National Aerial Champion, World Cup Aerial Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist.
After joining the U.S. Ski Team in 1991, she became one of its most successful skiers. Stone, 31, retired from competition in 1999.


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Alchemy, Innovation, and Learning, in 2025
John Cavanaugh
Leadership and Professional Learning
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it is about the future.
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Dawn breaks on a gorgeous morning in summer 2025. Peter has been waiting for this for months. It's New Student Orientation Day at My University, Peter's customized version of four formerly separate independent colleges that functionally merged several years earlier. He readies himself quickly and by 8:30 a.m. carefully opens the box he recently received from Student Life. He takes out the virtual reality (VR) visor, adjusts it, and touches the switch. Instantly, he is on campus, being welcomed by Perpetua, his personal orientation leader. VR has made it possible for each student to have a fully individualized campus that is populated with other students (also in VR mode) who may be physically located anywhere but whose lived experience is in the VR university. Perpetua escorts Peter to the session, where she introduces him to several other students. All of them will get to know each other well, as they all will be enrolled in the same set of courses and will participate in many other activities together. Peter's small group joins other students for the program. Several skits and presentations that cover the usual topics for new student orientation provide virtual interactive roles for new students to play. After the orientation session, Peter and his friends are told to check their Personal Learning Space for important updates. Peter discovers that while he was orienting, the smart registration and student information system had identified him through a visor-based retinal scan, analyzed his academic file, and already handled registration and filed all his course materials in his personal cloud storage. Bidding Perpetua and his new friends goodbye, Peter leaves the VR campus and goes about his day.
Two days later, Peter is ready to attend class. He finds that the learning experience is equally immersive. Through state-of-the-art real presence, each student interacts with other learners and the faculty member. It's as if Peter's living room has turned into a holodeck. Course content is fully immersive, so he is virtually present during the building of the pyramids, or the Gettysburg battle, or Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. In a real sense, the classroom has become his green screen. Peter's competency evaluations will also take advantage of VR when possible, and so they may entail running virtual what-if scenarios of alternative outcomes to famous historical events, or doing careful real-time comparisons of artifacts that reside in different museums, or performing with musical players in virtual orchestras at a level of sophistication that the composer Eric Whitacre can only dream of today. Peter often attends class while standing or sitting on a mat that allows him full range of motion to physically engage in the learning by walking around each virtual set.
The experience of Peter's faculty in 2025 is equally transformed. Georgia Tech's nearly decade-old experiment with a robotic teaching assistant based on the IBM Watson platform has morphed considerably. Only the most diagnostic data about each student is transmitted to faculty on dashboards organized by course. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems handle the routine interactions. Monitoring student achievement is more akin to monitoring key telemetry in an intensive care unit or a jumbo jet: underlying smart analytic systems process the data and report only a handful of key essentials. Faculty can measure the level of difficulty of the content in real time depending on how quickly students master the material. (One can almost imagine an individualized Star Trek Kobayashi Maru test within each discipline or course.) Faculty concentrate their individualized interactions with students on a combination of teacher/tutor, mentor, and case manager communications.
Farfetched? Impossible to achieve in the next eight years? Maybe. But consider that computer-based teaching assistants were already in limited use in 2016. The New York Times distributed cardboard VR viewers as a way to immerse its readers into a storytelling experience. My vision of such rapid innovation, far from being the result of some blue-sky process gone wild, is grounded in experiences we have already had and approaches already adopted. Let me explain.
For the most part, what we have today in our emergent digital learning environment is roughly a digital analogue of what we have always had, but more of it: (more) original source material and a core text or equivalent; (more) samples of student work; a (login-based) attendance monitor; (threaded) discussions of key points; and so on. This is not all that surprising, given that the underlying design must maintain contact with processes and approaches faculty already know and do well. Furthermore, any radical design or process change must first have a bona fide proof of concept before moving to substantive qualitative change. We must show that we can turn formerly discrete pieces of tangible data into a digital, sometimes real-time data flow and that the transformed approach is equally reliable and valid to the approach we desire to retire.
For example, all of us can relate to how we moved, in financial record-keeping, from paper processes to our present reconceptualized approach. First, we duplicated the by-hand processes and forms into a digital format, including all the checking and rechecking by people. Only when we had convinced ourselves that a digital world was possible, that it was reliable, and that the output was valid did we rethink the process of what needed to be done and for what purpose. Only then did we redesign the approval process, for instance, to include human checking only when required by best practice under audit standards. At that point, true reconceptualization (reengineering, disruption) occurred.
That's where we are now with the student experience. In 2017, we are deep into the proof-of-concept stage. We are either on the verge of true transformation (if you are a believer) or on the edge of the abyss (if you are not). Now that we have put the proof of concept through repeated testings in numerous learning platforms and content delivery modes and have shown that it remains unbroken in student data analytics and early warning systems and that it handles all forms of electronic content, let the alchemy begin. Let us spin the 2017 question—"Can we create the tools for (and can we trust) a true virtual learning environment?"—into a 2025 question: "What do we do with the gold that results?"
To me, the most important "2025 gold" that will be created from the "2017 base elements" is the use of technology to create fully immersive learning environments. This will entail moving from a still largely passive online learning environment in 2017 (i.e., students log in, watch captured videos, write notes, take quizzes and exams, upload papers, participate in threaded and generally asynchronous discussions) to an environment in which student-faculty and student-student interaction occurs for all students at any time due to the AI-based platforms underlying the learning environment. Each student has his/her personal teaching assistant to provide coaching and intervention, along with other support functions. Joint projects are completed in immersive simulated labs that provide true sensory feedback (again, think flight or surgical simulators). Neuroscience research and centuries of pedagogical explorations clearly indicate that interactive methods in general, and those that add the body back into the process whenever appropriate, result in better learning.
At present we remain constrained, even trapped, by the need to stay close to traditional approaches. Intellectually, we understand the need to bend the innovation curve that implements cognitive neuroscience and related research to a nearly vertical climb, but we are nervous about doing so based on the pointed and determined resistance from accreditors, evaluation systems, and/or internal constituencies. Collectively, our behavior is at times reminiscent of toddlers who want to head off on their own and explore but who stop every so many feet and turn to check in with an adult to make sure that things are still okay. It takes us a while to get comfortable heading off into the greater unknown, even when we know we must.
The sooner we let imagination become, as the Walt Disney Company would put it, imagineering, the better off we will be. Immersive learning will surpass active learning, which in its day surpassed passive learning in effectiveness. Campus leaders should support bold, visionary efforts at creating new learning models. Imagineered innovation will not always work perfectly, and sometimes it will not work at all. Niels Bohr's point about prediction is well taken. But vastly improved student learning is at stake. Using our base elements of today, we can make gold and improve the lives of our children by 2025. That would make Sitting Bull proud.
John Cavanaugh is President and CEO of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Previously, he served as Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, President of the University of West Florida, and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
© 2017 John Cavanaugh. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
EDUCAUSE Review 52, no. 1 (January/February 2017)
Future of Higher Education Presidents and Senior Executives


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2020-21 English Premier League
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Man City drop points at Leeds after Ederson error
Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw against Leeds United in an enthralling match at Elland Road on Saturday.
Raheem Sterling opened the scoring for the visitors before Rodrigo punished Ederson's mistake from a corner to equalise.
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City dominated the early stages of the game and deservedly took the lead after Sterling scored with a curling shot after 17 minutes.
Leeds fought back and almost levelled before the break but Ederson denied Luke Ayling.
Rodrigo was brought after half time and made it 1-1 after 57 minutes when Ederson's failed punch landed at his feet to score.
The goal was Rodrigo's second Premier League goal and first since January 2011 when he scored for Bolton Wanderers while on loan -- nine years and 272 days ago. It is the second longest gap between a player's first two goals in the competition.
The goalkeeper made up for the mistake with a brilliant save from Rodrigo moments later while Illan Meslier denied Sterling at the other end.
"That was good, huh?," Guardiola said. "When both teams want to attack, it's a good game. We made an incredible first 30 minutes when we could have scored the goals we needed.
"It's not easy to play against them. They've showed how good they are."
The result leaves Leeds in fifth place on seven points from four games ahead of City in 10th with four points from three matches.
"It would not have been fair if we won this game," Bielsa said. "It was possible to win the game but it would not have been fair.
"We had to put in an immense physical effort to be on even terms with City. We played our part for the game to be a beautiful one."
English Premier League Standings
6 Everton 17 +7 32
7 West Ham United 19 +5 32
8 Chelsea 19 +10 29
9 Southampton 18 +5 29
10 Arsenal 19 +4 27
11 Aston Villa 16 +11 26
12 Leeds United 18 -4 23
14 Wolverhampton Wanderers 19 -8 22
15 Newcastle United 18 -12 19
16 Brighton & Hove Albion 19 -7 17
19 West Bromwich Albion 19 -28 11
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Southampton striker Danny Ings could play in Saturday's FA Cup fourth round tie at home to Arsenal after missing the last two games because of a COV
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Gab Marcotti explains why Chelsea signing Kai Havertz over Declan Rice might be keeping Lampard in a job.
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Mikel Arteta says he has an idea who revealed the training ground clash between Dani Ceballos and David Luiz.


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[LIFE] Interview with Riley Urquhart - Manager of Below the Belt and MMA Circuit Fighter
This reporter recently sat down with Riley Urquhart of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) circuit fame and who's now Manager of the Below the Belt Boxing Gym in AP's Theater district.
Born to a Scottish Father and Irish mother near Loch Ness, Scotland, Riley and his family then moved to Canada where he was the fourth child out of five boys. This dynamic family was one of the things that drew him to wrestling, boxing and MMA style fighting in the first place.
"My Pa always used to say 'Never start a fight, but if you are in a fight, never finish 2nd.'" Riley explained, going on to state that it was also "the entertainment and athleticism of the Wrestlers" that attracted him to what would eventually lead him into a career in this sport.
His bid for a title shot ended in Boston, which then led him to settle here in AP while he gets back into shape for a comeback in Spring of this year.
When asked about influential 'heros' in his life, Riley had this to say: "I respect George St Pierre's perseverance in the MMA Circuit to never give up and adored Randy "Macho Man" Savage's colorful and unique nature (in the WWE), proving (that) you did not have to be a Goliath like Hulk Hogan to be a headliner. I (also) like Boxing Legend Sugar Ray Leonard...the lad was the definition of smooth."
Now as Manager of the Gym, Riley explained that he "... hopes to make things like Fitness and self defense part of folks regular routines. Being in shape is necessary for a long, fun life - and a great sex life too!"
This goal is being promoted especially right now, as March is Muscle Month. From now until the 31st, the Gym will be giving away free memberships and hosting events like MMA matches and Wrestling cards.
Riley has also been in talks with The Bite Restaurant, sponsoring a new item on their menu - the "Muscle Dog" - with such slogans as "So big it won't all fit!" and "Our meat makes bun's spread!"
When asked if there was anything else that he wanted to share with our readers, Riley added, "Members are reminded that the Gym is open for them 24/7 - and we will be striving to make the place much more active - both with staff and with classes - in the days to come."
The Below the Belt Boxing Gym can be found at #16 2nd Street, across from the Police Station.


To begin with, Lohri is a festival which is traditionally associated with the harvest of the crops in Punjab, and it is also celebrated to mark the end of peak winter season across the northern belt of the country. Coming together to sing and dance to the tunes of Lohri songs in front of a crackling fire – that's how we celebrated Lohri at the office.
Preparation to celebrate Lohri initiated in the morning. As it is the festival to spread the warmth of love and happiness among all employees in the crisp, cool air, so arrangements were done for a huge bonfire and Dhol.
At DigiMantra Labs, we have employees from all over India and it was a great pleasure to see everyone wearing Punjabi ethnic dress, that said, it has really brought the cultural vibes at the office. With the setting of the sun, a bonfire was lit and all employees gathered around to offer prayers by throwing til, popcorns and puffed rice into the flames and then distributing among all.
Celebrations continued with great enthusiasm and fun, everyone get-together to singing folk songs, and perform Bhangra/Gidda to the beats of Dhol.
The day ended with sumptuous Lohri snacks, delicious dishes have curated the menu to celebrate this festival. Eating together with the team was fun.