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Legions Of Fire – Snippet 18
by Drak Bibliophile | Mar 10, 2010 | DrakeSnippet, Snippets
Varus wore the ivory head around his neck on a thin leather thong. Though he didn't reach under his toga while he listened to Piso's class exercise, his fingers curled with memory of how the talisman had felt.
"You were a prostitute!" Piso said. His left arm was crossed over his chest, while he swept his right out to the side as though he were pointing at a meteor plunging toward the Forum. "You say that you remained chaste and begged for alms instead of surrendering your body to your clients, but the only evidence we have is your word. The word of an admitted prostitute!"
Piso was declaiming from the rostrum in front of the Temple of Julius Caesar, facing his teacher and the remainder of the class in the Forum below. Pandareus and some of the students — Piso's friends and sycophants, at least — had notebooks out, either waxed boards or thin sheets of wood to write on with a brush.
Varus didn't need notes to remember clever twists that his fellow classmates came up with. Besides, in Varus' estimation, the chances of Piso doing so were slim to none.
The subject set for Piso's speech was whether a woman who remained chaste after being captured by pirates and sold into prostitution could legally become a Vestal Virgin. The situation was improbable, but it taught logic and technique as clearly as an ordinary case of legacy-fishing.
"Your children would be barred from becoming priests . . . ," cried Piso. He clapped his right arm to his chest now and flung the left one outward. Like his voice, his gestures attempted by enthusiasm to make up for their lack of grace. "Because their mother had carried on a sordid occupation. Are we therefore to say that you are worthy of becoming a priestess yourself?"
The varied business of the Forum went on untroubled by the declamation. At least three other classes were going on nearby, though the babble of business was enough to drown the speeches in the general noise.
Occasionally passers-by would glance toward them, but the exuberant gestures had probably drawn their eyes. Piso looked enough as though he were hurling things from his raised vantage point that a prudent man would take heed.
"Should the Consul give way to you if he meets you as priestess in the street?" Piso bellowed, changing the angles of his arms yet again. "To you, a woman whom a crippled Levantine properly approached if he still had two copper sesterces in his begging bowl!"
There were cheers and stampings of applause from behind Pandareus and the semicircle of his students. Though the Senate was in session, the Emperor hadn't made his appearance yet. Piso's father and his political cronies had chosen to attend the boy's declamation, doubtless planning to rush into the session if the glittering progress of a guard detachment warned them that the Emperor was on his way. The session was being held in the huge Julian Basilica today; the entrance was within fifty yards.
What did the senators really think of the declamation? Perhaps they were impressed by it. This wasn't an age which valued subtlety, and Piso certainly displayed the present virtues of noise and color to an impressive degree.
"Do you say, 'The pirate who captured me can attest my virginity'?" Piso demanded. He'd initially shown some variation in his gestures, but now he seemed to have settled on mirrored pairings of one arm crossed, the other extended. "Perhaps, but your witness won't be able to visit you in your temple should you become a priestess!"
Saxa had never come to one of Varus' declamations. He'd attended early classes occasionally, though he wasn't an orator himself and didn't pretend to care about technique or about literature more generally.
Varus had never cared for argumentative declamations like the present one anyway. They were the stuff of courts and public assemblies, where a bold lie which couldn't be uncovered was more effective than any amount of calm reason.
Philosophical declamations were far more attractive to him. Varus had been quite pleased with the way he'd brought his audience to consider whether Alexander should sail from the mouth of the Indus River and turn east, attempting to cross the globe-girdling Ocean. He'd summed up on the one hand that water was the First Element and should not be conquered by any man, even Alexander; and on the other that this would be the longed-for moment when human civilization and the world should have the same boundaries. Pandareus had spoken highly of some of his figures of speech, and even Piso's claque had jotted notes.
But Saxa hadn't been present. Varus smiled with rueful affection. For as far back as he could remember, his father had been an antiquarian: a man who enjoyed unearthing odd scraps of knowledge. He had a great deal of information, but he hadn't been able to organize it in any fashion more complicated than a vertical stack.
More recently, though, his researches had descended into what could only be described as blatant superstitions, sillinesses that were unworthy of the attention — let alone the belief — of an educated man. And Saxa did believe in them. He not only practiced magical rituals himself, he let a self-proclaimed Hyperborean wizard lead him in the gods knew what directions.
Though Varus no longer saw the twelve dancers, they chanted in his mind as their demon companions hissed in unison. It was a dream, but it haunted his waking hours. It was a dream!
"You wheedled would-be customers to give you as alms what they had intended to pay as the price of your body!" said Piso. "Well and good — you remain a virgin. But is this the art which a priestess uses when speaking to the goddess of the hearth? Surely not! Yours was a whore's trick and a whore's manner. Your very demeanor is an affront to chaste Vesta!"
Corylus stood to Varus' left. His notebook was out for courtesy's sake, but he wasn't jotting anything down. Varus knew that his friend disliked Piso even more than he himself did, but he was unfailingly polite when they interacted.
On the frontier where Corylus had been raised, life was harsh and weapons were never far to seek even in the most civilized surroundings. As the chant seethed in his blood, Varus realized for the first time that his friend was always courteous because he was constantly aware of violence, not despite the fact. Varus didn't doubt what Corylus was capable of if the necessity arose, but Corylus understood better than the other students the difference between what was necessary and what was simply possible.
Corylus' declamations were forceful and closely reasoned, but he didn't gesture nor did he use the flourishes and allusions that would have made his speeches more striking. His wide reading — he wasn't as widely read as Varus, of course, but given the limited opportunities he would have had on the frontier, his knowledge was remarkable — would have allowed him to sprinkle colorful passages from the great poets and historians whether Latin or Greek.
It didn't seem to bother Corylus that Piso and his cronies sneered — behind the backs of their hands — at what they called his lack of erudition. As a Knight of Carce Corylus wasn't eligible to enter the Senate, and he'd been bluntly dismissive when Varus had asked if he hoped to make his name as a lawyer.
Corylus spoke as a military officer would when suggesting a course of action to a superior or explaining it to his juniors. Varus decided that if the sneers didn't bother his friend, he could learn to ignore them also.
"This court, this goddess –"
Piso thrust out both arms to point at the round temple of Vesta beside where his audience stood. He looked like a bad statue of Phaethon dragging on the reins as the horses of the Sun ran away.
"– this sacred sky of Carce –"
He pointed straight up, though his face still glowered at his audience.
"– allow only one answer: you must be barred from the priesthood!"
Piso's father and his fellow senators called, "Huzzah!" and stamped their feet loudly. The other students applauded also, ranging from the enthusiasm of the speaker's cronies to the polite tap of Corylus' right foot. Even Pandareus gave a nod which could be taken as approving.
Piso stepped down from the rostrum and bowed at the waist, sweeping his arms back to the sides as though he were about to dive into a swimming pool. He was smiling with triumph; the neck of his broad-striped toga was as wet as a used towel.
There's never only one answer, Varus mused, lost in his own thoughts. There are often thousands of answers, and all of them may be wrong.
In his mind the dancers whispered Nemastes must die. They had no other answer, and their voices were compelling.
Hedia's chair rocked to a threatening halt. The hired bearers looked scrawny compared to Saxa's team, but they were fit and they got much more experience than the household slaves did. They hadn't slipped once on the way to Corylus' apartment on the Viminal Hill. Judging by Alphena's cries from the following vehicle, the girl hadn't been so lucky.
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PSA maximizes use of 3 platforms
Flexibility is key as Peugeot and Citroen preserve identities while sharing 'hidden' parts
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PSA/Peugeot-Citroen aims to build 85 percent of its passenger cars on three platforms - for small, medium and large cars - by the end of 2004.
PSA's platforms are highly flexible. For example, the wheelbase length and track - the width between the wheels - can be varied. Different body styles, ranging from classic three-box sedan to monobox, can be built on each platform. The Peugeot 307 station wagon, for example, has a longer wheelbase than the standard 307.
"The cars must share everything that the consumer does not see," said a PSA spokesman. "But the look of the cars must be as different as possible."
Those components typically include engines, chassis, suspensions, powertrains, air conditioning systems, seat structures and common electronic architectures.
Some components, such as engines, can be used across several platforms.
The savings generated by the platform-sharing policy have enabled PSA to step up the launch of new vehicles, from nine between 1997 and 2001 to 26 between 2003 and 2006.
PSA's platforms, which were devised in 1998, consist of the PF1 for small cars, PF2 for medium-size cars, and PF3 for large cars.
That does not include the small car that PSA is developing with Toyota in the Czech Republic for launch in 2005, or the full-size minivans - Citroen's C8 and Peugeot's 807 - that PSA produces jointly with Fiat.
Neither do they include light-utility vehicles such as the Peugeot Partner and Citroen Berlingo.
The Citroen C5 and Peugeot 307 were the first models to emerge from the French group's new platform strategy, using the large PF3 platform and the medium PF2 platform respectively. Both cars were launched in 2001.
Citroen's C3, which went on sale in the spring of 2002, was the first car built off the small PF1 platform. The C3's Pluriel leisure derivative went on sale last month.
Using a short-wheelbase version of the PF1 platform, Citroen will launch the C2 this autumn to replace the Saxo.
In 2004, Peugeot will use the modified PF1 Platform for the 107, a car larger than the C2 that will be equipped with sliding doors. It will replace the 106, a car that looks very similar to the Saxo.
PSA says these two vehicles highlight the benefits of its platform policy. The future C2 and 107 will have a very different body style but their inner workings will be similar, generating scale savings.
The successor to the Peugeot 406 will join the C5 on the large PF3 platform, although it will have a conventional suspension system and a longer body. It is due for launch in November this year. The group's future flagship, the Citroen C6, will use a long-wheelbase derivative of the PF3 platform.
The C4, the successor to the Citroen Xsara, will join the Peugeot 307 on the PF2 medium-size platform. The 307 is currently available in several derivatives, including three- and five-door hatchback versions and a station wagon. A coupe cabriolet will appear this autumn.
With the introduction of new platforms, PSA is using more modules. Drivetrain modules are similar for both PSA brands, but Citroen still has exclusive use of active hydro-pneumatic suspension.
The new platform policy marked a change in the responsibility of the program manager within PSA. The Peugeot 307 team, for example, had more accountability than before, with more decisions being made by the program manager and fewer by specialist departments.
Apart from the three main platforms, PSA has two other architectures, plus one under development.
The Peugeot Partner and Citroen Berlingo are car-derived vans that are also available as passenger - or "multispace" - vehicles. The Partner and Berlingo use many components and systems from the Citroen Xsara, but they have their own underbody sheet metal.
PSA leads platform development in its joint venture with Fiat Auto for full-minivans and medium-size light commercial vehicles. But Fiat provides the platforms for PSA's other joint venture that produces large light commercial vehicles.
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen
PF1 platform
PF1 is the small platform on which Citroen's C3 is based. Derivatives include the latest C3 Pluriel and eventually the successor to the Peugeot 206, which is still at least three years away. Citroen's Saxo replacement, the C2, will use a short-wheelbase derivative of PF1. But the coming Peugeot 107, due late 2004, will be based on the larger, C3 version of PF1. The new small car PSA is developing with Toyota will use a unique platform. Toyota is leading development of this platform.
Debut: Spring 2002
Plant: Aulnay-sous-Bois, France; Madrid-Villaverde, Spain
2002 sales: 132,519
Debut: Summer 2003
Plant: Aulnay-sous-Bois, France
2002 sales: New model, no full-year sales records
Plant: Madrid-Villaverde, Spain
Front-wheel drive, transverse engine
Peugeot's 307 was the first PSA model to emerge on the PF2 platform. The platform is highly flexible, with alternative wheelbases and widespread body applications. The 307 station wagon has a longer wheelbase than the standard 307. The 2004 Citroen C4 will be the next to use PF2.
Debut: March 2001
Plants: Mulhouse, France; Sochaux, France
The largest of PSA's three main platforms was first used for the Citroen C5. The Peugeot 406 successor will also use PF3, as will the 2004 Citroen C6, with an extended wheelbase.
Debut: Autumn 2000
Plants: Rennes-la-Jannais, France
Small-car platform
Front--wheel drive, transverse engine
This platform, also known as platform 106, may go on for several more years, as the Peugeot 206 and its coupe-cabriolet derivative continue to be hot sellers. The Citroen Saxo may be phased out next year; the Peugeot 106 in 2004 or 2005.
Debut: December 1995
Debut: August 1991
2002 sales: 65,846
Plant: Mulhouse, France; Poissy, France; Ryton, England; Porto Real, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Medium-size platform
PSA's medium-size platform will run out when the Citroen Xsara is replaced next year by a model based on the PF2 platform, to be called the C4. The Citroen Picasso compact minivan uses a long-wheelbase version of this platform and is expected to live on for at least another four years. The car-derived Citroen Berlingo and Peugeot Partner use a derivative of the medium-size platform, called M49.
Debut: July 1997
Plant: Rennes-la-Jannais, France; Madrid-Villaverde, Spain; Vigo, Spain.
Plants: Vigo, Spain
Citroen Berlingo and Peugeot Partner (M49 platform)
Plant: Mangualde, Portugal; Vigo, Spain; Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 sales: Berlingo - 167,980 vans and cars; Partner - 117,530 vans and cars
Upper-medium platform
The Peugeot 406 is based on PSA's old upper-medium platform but will be replaced late this year.
Plants: Sochaux, France
Plants: Turin, Italy (Pininfarina)
Large platform
Front-wheel drive, longitudinal engine
Peugeot's full-size 607 is the only PSA model to be based on the group's large platform. Any future large PSA vehicle will be based on a stretched version of the PF3 platform. But the 607 will be face-lifted in 2004, and will live on another four years.
Debut: September 1999
Platform U40
Joint-venture platform with Fiat Auto for full-size minivans. First-generation models (Fiat, Lancia, Peugeot, Citroen) were introduced in 1994; second-generation models were launched at the 2002 Geneva auto show. All except the Fiat Ulysse were renamed. PSA leads the platform development. All models are produced in one plant, Sevel Nord, in Lieu Saint-Amand, France. Citroen, Peugeot and Fiat also produce light commercial vehicle derivatives named the Jumpy, Expert and Scudo respectively.
Plant: Lieu Saint-Amand, France (Sevel Nord)
2002 sales (since market launch June 2002): 6,746 (plus 24,868 Jumper van)
2002 sales (since market launch June 2002): 12,210 (plus 29,500 Expert van)
2002 sales (since market launch June 2002): 8,629 (plus 1,873 Scudo van)
2002 sales (since market launch June 2002): 4,437
Platform U3
Front-wheel drive and four-wheel drive, transverse engine
Joint-venture platform with Fiat Auto for commercial vehicles one class heavier than those using the U40 platform. Original models date back to 1994; current range launched at the January 2002 Amsterdam commercial vehicle show. Fiat leads the platform development. All models are produced in one plant, Sevel Sud, in San Benedetto Val di Sangro, Italy.
Debut: 1994 (revised January 2002)
Plant: San Benedetto Val di Sangro, Italy (Sevel Sud)
Plants: San Benedetto Val di Sangro, Italy (Sevel Sud)
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Local transport consists of bemo's, minivan taxis.
There are bus connections to other parts of Bali.
The airport is located to the South near Denpasar.
At your request, we can arrange for a car to pick you up at arrival.


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Filipino Businesses in the Middle East and Beyond: Play Middle East, Dagaz Management Consultancy & Prime Group UAE
PLAY MIDDLE EAST
www.play-mebc.ae
Since: 2015
Founder: Edwin Duria
Managing over 250 high profile clients including Samsung, Pearson Education and JC Bamford Excavators Ltd, Play Middle East has maintained an excellent track record in its four years of Business Consultancy. Through founder Edwin Duria, the company has devoted its cause to assisting individuals and entire companies in their licensing ventures – providing registration, renewal, cancellation and amendment services. The company has been accredited through various government organizations in the UAE (DWC, DMCC, RAKEZ and Ajman Free Zone) and across the world – striking business partnerships within the UK, Gibraltar, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
DAGAZ MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY
www.dagazhr.harrisonassessments.eu
Founder: Cristina Calaguian
Spearheaded by Cristina Calaguian, Dagaz Management Consultancy excels in providing Human Resources consultancy, general business management consultancy, recruitment, events management, publishing and education training services within the MENA region. Through the years, Dagaz has functioned as a gateway for talent into the career world – a devoted supporter of career development and job opportunity, having lent its helping hand to commercial and governmental organizations, along with a handful of individuals and people with determination.
PRIME GROUP UAE
www.primegroup.ae
Founders: Abdul Latif Al Gargawi, Salah Ameen Al Awadi, Abdul Majeed Malek, Mary Jane Alvero-Al Mahdi
Founded in 2016 through the collaboration of various industry talents, Prime Group has evolved into a leading authority in quality and compliance solutions providing across Asia and the MENA region. Having over 400 staff members across its group of companies across the Middle East, Prime boasts a highly experienced team of multi-talented individuals capable of managing its wide range of services within the fields of testing, inspection, certification and training.
Focusing on certification, the group has had a profound impact on the halal food industry, acting as a catalyst and gateway for international halal food to the UAE. "We aim to raise the awareness of exporters on the opportunities within the Halal sector, both regionally and globally and to educate them on the halal system in the UAE." Co-founder Mary Jane Alvero-Al Mahdi says.
Since its official launching, Prime has certified over a hundred Philippine exporting companies not only to the UAE, but also the Middle East, Africa, Europe and America – and has worked in tandem with well renown brands across the world such as the San Miguel Food Group, Unilever, Nestle, Goldilocks and even Jollibee.
Prime's defining characteristic behind their reputation lies within their exacting service standards, further backed up by their technical expertise and knowledge of the market. The company has been recognized as one of the most outstanding certification bodies by the UAE government through the Sheikh Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development. "Our reputation is based on a consistent track record of punctual and meticulous service delivery; extremely cost-effective services; a very high level of technical expertise in giving customized solutions; and multiple awards won locally and internationally." Mary Jane shares. "The end goal of all our businesses is to ensure alignment with the best international standard practices. In doing so, we create an environment of trust."
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Eddie Olson is one of the very few American born boys to crack the higher echelons of Hockey. Born in Marquette, Michigan, he went on into the tough American League and while with the Cleveland Barons he led the American League on two different occasions in individual scoring and on another occasion was awarded the Most Valuable Player trophy. After leaving the Cleveland Barons, Olson joined the Victoria team of the Western League as coach. He is the only American born player who has ever been selected to coach a Canadian team in organized hockey. With a most successful season behind him, Olson left the Victoria organization to take over the Huntington team of the I.H.L. His record at Huntington is well known to hockey fans throughout the I.H.L. and his coaching ability gained the respect of the Komet management and a contract to lead the 1957-58 Komet squad.
We know that Eddie Olson will win your respect and your good wishes for a most successful season. Your solid support in back of Eddie will spur him on and on and prove to be a great lift for every man on the Komet squad.


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Q: Reading all new messages from my gmail using javamail I have an application which contains a GUI, it is using Javamail. When i open this Jframe I have to see messages that are sent to my mail on a jTextArea.
The problem is when i wrote my code it only shows just the last message sent.
How do I display all new messages in my inbox?
This is my code :
private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {

Properties props = new Properties();

props.put("mail.pop3.host", "pop.gmail.com");

props.put("mail.pop3.user", "mymail@gmail.com");

props.put("mail.pop3.socketFactory", 995);

props.put("mail.pop3.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");

props.put("mail.pop3.port", 995);

Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, new Authenticator() {
    @Override
    protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
        return new PasswordAuthentication("mymail@gmail.com", "mypassword");

    }
});

try {
    Store store = session.getStore("pop3");

    store.connect("pop.gmail.com", "mymail@gmail.com", "mypaswword");

    Folder fldr = store.getFolder("INBOX");

    fldr.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);

    Message[] msg = fldr.getMessages();

    Address[] address;

    for (int i = 0; i < msg.length; i++) {

        jTextArea1.setText("SentDate : " + msg[i].getSentDate() + "\n" + "From : " + msg[i].getFrom()[0] + "\n" + "Subject : " + msg[i].getSubject() + "\n" + "Message : " + "\n" + msg[i].getContent().toString());

    }

    fldr.close(true);

    store.close();

} catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println(e);
}

A: You repeatedly set the text of the jTextArea1 to the same contents in your loop over messages here:
for (int i = 0; i < msg.length; i++) {

    jTextArea1.setText("SentDate : " + msg[i].getSentDate() + "\n" + "From : " + msg[i].getFrom()[0] + "\n" + "Subject : " + msg[i].getSubject() + "\n" + "Message : " + "\n" + msg[i].getContent().toString());

}

You should build a StringBuilder with all the messages and then set the contents of the jTextArea1
final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < msg.length; i++) {

    sb.append("SentDate : " + msg[i].getSentDate() + "\n" + "From : " + msg[i].getFrom()[0] + "\n" + "Subject : " + msg[i].getSubject() + "\n" + "Message : " + "\n" + msg[i].getContent().toString());

}
jTextArea1.setText(sb.toString());

You can then make this a lot more legible by using an enhanced for loop and using the append method of the StringBuilder.
final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (Message message : msg) {

    sb.append("SentDate : ").
            append(message.getSentDate()).
            append("\n").
            append("From : ").
            append(message.getFrom()[0]).
            append("\n").append("Subject : ").
            append(message.getSubject()).
            append("\n").
            append("Message : ").
            append("\n").
            append(message.getContent().toString());

}
jTextArea1.setText(sb.toString());

A: final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (Message message : msg) {

    sb.append("SentDate : ").
        append(message.getSentDate()).
        append("\n").
        append("From : ").
        append(message.getFrom()[0]).
        append("\n").append("Subject : ").
        append(message.getSubject()).
        append("\n").
        append("Message : ").
        append("\n").
        append(message.getContent().toString());

}
jTextArea1.setText(sb.toString());


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Q: Populating a set of child objects in hibernate I am trying to populate a set of child objects in my parent objects.
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//parent class
@Table(name = "Retail")
public class Retail implements Serializable{

@OneToMany(mappedBy = "retail", fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
private Set<Address> address

//child class
@ManyToOne
@JoinColumn(name = "cId", referencedColumnName = "cId")
private Retail retail;

//service class
List<Criterion> criterionList = CriterionBuilder.buildRetailCritList(csr);
List<Retail> retailList = (List<Retail>)retailDao.getByCriteria(criterionList);

`
At first, this seems to work.  I can access the set of child objects in each parent object.  On closer inspection, however, there are more parent objects returned than I expected (in "retailList").  It looks like this happens because hibernate is doing a left outer join on the parent and child tables.  This was not my goal.  All I'm trying to do is return the original parent objects, but also have a set of child objects inside each of them.
Any hints or tips would be appreciated.  Thanks.


Time to Get Your Money off the Table. All of It.
The market has hit record highs. Time to move play money somewhere else.
On my way to work Wednesday, I listened to a guest analyst on a major financial network offer the opinion that with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting an all-time high, now was a good time to take a little money off the table.
He's got it almost right -- but he's not going far enough. Now is a really good time to get all your money off the table. Right now. And to decide never to put it back there.
Think about the imagery of owning stocks and having "money on the table." It's a not-so-subtle reference to being at the tables of a casino -- having more than you started with, perhaps, and taking a little of it off, putting it in your pocket, and making sure you leave ahead . or at least don't lose it all.
For anyone treating his or her investments as short-term "plays" -- gambles, speculations, wagers, games, all of the above -- with the market at an all-time high (as measured by the Dow, at least), there's a good chance you could be up. Now is the right time to pocket some "winnings" in your "game." This is the first high in a major market average in more than seven and a half years, after all. Next week or next month could just as easily be down as up.
What happens when you sell at "the high"?
In our Hidden Gems investing service, our team is focused on helping the small-cap investor, so we've got a lot of experience seeing how long-term investors fare if they stay invested after the market starts hitting new highs.
The Russell 2000, the most widely followed index for small-cap stocks, hit a high of 614 in March 2000. It didn't return to that level again for four and a half years, until November 2004. Was late 2004 a good time to take small-cap money off the table? For "home-gamers" -- perhaps. For committed long-term investors, though? Let's take a closer look.
The Russell hit new highs in seven out of the following eight weeks, following its November 2004 return to record highs. And after that initial burst of new highs, the Russell 2000 hit new highs in an additional 20 different weeks between January 2005 and today.
So investors -- those committed to prospering proportionately to the companies they own over the long term -- have done very well over that period, simply by holding on to what they already owned while the Russell 2000 index steadily climbed.
What's true in the aggregate was true in many specific instances as well. Selling out of companies just because they've hit new highs, rather than participating in the long-term rewards of stock ownership -- particularly small-cap ownership -- denies you the long-term rewards of owning the right companies, even if it may spare you some pain along the way.
Taking some money "off the table" might have looked like a good idea for investors in all of these companies at various times over the past decade -- and certainly would have made the short-term losses less painful. If you're treating the market as a play place for your money, you can do a lot worse than leaving the game while you're ahead. That puts you ahead of most gamblers, certainly.
But you would have incurred plenty of capital gains taxes and lots of commissions, and worst of all, you would have missed out on the best part of the story, which came well after the first time a high was hit. These are the rewards that the long-term investor has enjoyed lately, and historically. Speaking of history, it is always worth repeating that small caps have handily outperformed the total market, by about 2% a year on average.
At Hidden Gems, we're holding on to recommendations of a number of companies that are trading at their 52-week and/or all-time highs, and think their futures look even brighter than when they were first recommended. Take a free monthlong trial to the service and find out what companies are on our list.
Bill Barker owns shares of American Eagle, but no other company mentioned in this article. American Eagle, Best Buy, and Healthways are Stock Advisor recommendations. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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Archive: various countries
Algeria's regime: out on a limb that looks set to fall
Comment Is Free, 30 Aug 2011
By giving the Gaddafi family refuge, Algeria's gerontocracy is putting itself on the wrong side of history
Bahrainis cannot be subdued for ever
Comment Is Free, 17 Mar 2011
Saudi intervention has sectarianised the conflict even more, and thus may well have sealed the Bahrain regime's fate
British 'torture chief' quits
The Guardian, July 4, 2000
Why do the US media believe the worst about Iran?
Comment Is Free, 9 Nov 2011
In their eagerness to recycle flimsy scare stories about Iran, the US media have failed to absorb the lessons of Iraq and WMD
Comment Is Free, 15 Dec 2010
Comment Is Free, 24 Jun 2010
Comment Is Free, 6 Jan 2010
Comment Is Free, 20 May 2009
Endless suffering of chemical gas victims
Brian Whitaker in Tehran
Mohammed Nejad will always remember the day Iraqi planes dropped their chemical weapons and ruined his life. He was a soldier in the Iranian army during the bitter eight-year war with Iraq.
Inside the 'axis of so-and-so'
The Guardian, October 28 2002
It's not very often, I must confess, that women beg me to change seats on a plane in order to sit next to them.
Tehran sets its terms for US-led action
Iran - the wild card in Washington's Middle East calculations - said yesterday that it would accept US-led military action against Saddam Hussein if efforts to achieve a peaceful solution through the United Nations failed.
The Guardian, June 30 2006
Comment Is Free, June 30, 2006
It could be dubbed the handbag election. Kuwaitis are voting for a new parliament today - and not only are women taking part for the first time but some candidates are allegedly trying to buy their votes with designer handbags stuffed with cash.
The Guardian, January 30 2006
Uncertainty over the condition of Kuwait's new emir reflects a tendency to keep rulers' ill-health shrouded in secrecy ...
The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who has died aged 77, was, for the last 27 years, ruler of one of the world's richest countries, but it was for those seven terrible months in 1990 ...
The black desert
In the blazing heat of the desert, a lake ought be a welcome sight. But this lake has no palm trees around its edges, no camels watering. The sand here is a dark, sticky brown, turning to black at the lake's fringes.
Saddam casts long shadow on Kuwait
Today, the trauma helplines in Kuwait will be busy. It happens every year on the anniversary of the invasion, and the government-run telephone counselling service lays on extra staff to cope with calls.
Damage claims spiral into the realm of the futile
For nine years now 200 people in Switzerland have been totting up what promises to be the world's biggest bill: the compensation Iraq must pay for invading Kuwait. The final tally will not be known for three more years, but it is likely to be hundreds of billions of dollars.
The day Kuwait wants to forget
When the Iraqis invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990, Muhammad Ben Naji's first thought was to call the police. He was eating breakfast in a cafe when trouble broke out in the street. Hearing shots, the customers rushed to the window.
Women in Kuwait call for suffrage
The Guardian, June 27, 2000
(Articles about Libya are now here)
Oman's Sultan Qaboos: a classy despot
Comment Is Free, 4 Mar 2011
He may be a Britain-friendly, music-loving 'renaissance man', but Oman's Sultan Qaboos still tolerates no dissent
Al-Jazeera – how Arabic news channel became a key player in global media
Pioneering TV station credited with aiding Arab spring and opening up political debate in the Middle East
Comment Is Free, 3 December 2010
Tunisia is leading the way on women's rights in the Middle East
Comment Is Free, 10 Sep 2011
Tunisia is the first country in the region to withdraw reservations to the UN convention granting equal rights to men and women
Comment Is Free, 26 Jan 2011
Protests in Tunisia have sent shock waves across Egypt, Jordan and Yemen, where the appetite for ousting autocrats is strong
Tunisia's God-free uprising and the role of the internet; the growing trend of Saudi spinsters; Yemen's tribal politics
Tunisia analysis: Old guard, 'new' government
Many Tunisians are asking whether ousted president Ben Ali's old guard can be trusted with free and fair elections
Tweeting about the Tunisian uprising; Iran, Russia, and the shady morals of Putin's tiger, and the price of presidents
Can Tunisian protesters end the 'Arab malaise'? Will Egypt ever catch the people traffickers? What is a woman's life worth?
Comment Is Free, 9 Sep 2009
Comment Is Free, 9 Dec 2009
Comment Is Free, 29 Apr 2009
Comment Is Free, 16 Feb 2009
Comment Is Free, August 17, 2006
Comment Is Free, July 5, 2006
Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and a world-renowned owner and breeder of racehorses, died suddenly in Australia yesterday, aged 62.
Dubai opens ski resort
The Guardian, December 03 2005
Temperatures never rise above freezing and there is a fresh sprinkling of snow every day, but step outside and you will find a sunbaked desert.
'Gay party' guests face hormone treatment
The Guardian, November 30 2005
More than two dozen men arrested at an allegedly gay party could face compulsory hormone treatment, officials in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, said yesterday.


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Interrogating My Chandal Life, An Autobiography of a Dalit by Manoranjan Byapari. Translated by Professor Sipra Mukherjee.
Manoranjan Byapari has worked at many kinds of jobs and also been writer-in residence at Alumnus Software, Calcutta. He never went to school or university. He is a popular writer in the literary magazines and in 2014 received the Suprabha Majumdar prize awarded by the Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi. He was awarded the 24 Ghanta Ananya Samman in 2013. He and his writings are well known as he speaks about Dalit issues in Hindi, becoming proficient in the language while he was with the Mukti Morcha of the late Shankar Guha Neogi in Chhattisgarh.
Translator Sipra Mukherjee is Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University. Her research interests are religion, caste and power. Her interest in literatures of the margins began with research into early missionary journals of Northeast India. She has since worked on small religious sects and is presently trying to archive the local cultures of North 24-Parganas at her university. She has published with Brill, Oxford University Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, SAGE, Sahitya Akademi, Ravi Dayal, Routledge and Permanent Black.
SAGE India: https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/interrogating-my-chandal-life/book262370
SAGE UK: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/interrogating-my-chandal-life/book262370
SAGE US: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interrogating-my-chandal-life/book262370
Manoranjan Byapari – My experience of this book
(Translated from Bangla by Sipra Mukherjee)
J for jail.
J for Jijibisha.
J for Jivan.
At the same time, J is for 'jiddi' (ziddi= stubborn)
J is for 'jung' which means battle in Hindi.
J is also for Jai, that is victory.
Much in this way, my autobiography spans a wide range from the miseries of the jail to the thrill of a 'jai'.
Chandal refers to an untouchable caste, but at the same time, the word 'chandal' in Bangla is also an adjective used for a man who is filled with fury. The person who this book deals with is one who is both. Victim of the Partition of India, he begins his life as a goatherd. At the age when others go to school with books and pencils, he tended the goats and cows with a stick in hand. And then, shivering with cold, washing glasses and cups at a small shanty tea shop. When a little older, he worked as a coolie, as a rickshaw-wallah, driven by hunger snatching bread from the jaws of a dog. And then at a later stage, running through the streets of the city with a knife or a bomb in hand. – Such a life usually ends as a corpse spread out on the post-mortem table, or else in the darkness of the dungeon. It is such a man who tells his story in this book. The story can thus be described as the story of a man who was not supposed to have lived this long. A man who has clung to life with all his limbs in an octopus-like embrace, struggling to live in the hostile environment of poverty, starvation, exploitation, oppression. In the prison at the age of 24, learning the alphabet by etching the letters on the earthen floor of the prison house, and from there to University of Hyderabad, to Delhi University, to West Bengal State University, to Presidency University, to the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, the Paschim Banga Sahitya Sansad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and then to Jaipur Literary Festival. This book tells the tale of my struggle, from my boyhood to the publication of my first book. I had sat myself down on the field at the Calcutta Book Fair and sold my books. How is this any less of an achievement than the climber who ascends Mount Everest sans all life-support? It is unlikely that this book will help my readers with their examinations or interviews. But it may just help them to turn around and fight the injustices and despairs of life. I have indeed been fortunate to have readers who have said as much when they met me: "You gave me the courage to go ahead, to not succumb and commit suicide. If you could live despite such agony, then perhaps I can too."
I do not know what the aesthetic or artistic value of my work is, but I do believe that if my writing can give strength to those who are weak and downtrodden, then my book is successful. I have been writing since 1980 and so have been writing for the past 30 to 38 years. I have published about 12 or 13 books, and have written much for journals. Many manuscripts lie with me, incomplete. Yet I am hesitant to call myself a writer. I would rather call myself a person who has kept continuously writing, persistent 'lekha', to become a 'lekhowar', like those who practise their games persistently to emerge after the incessant 'khela' as 'khelowars'. I have raised my voice against oppression and injustice, against the arbitrary persecution of the poor and the weak. I believe myself to be a representative of resistant humanity.
It is for them that I write. It is on their side that I am. When I take up my pen it is for them and for their rights. For them I will write, I will join the michhils, I will shout. I do not believe in caste, religion, colour, sect. I know that there are only two kinds of human beings on this earth: good and bad, the oppressor and the oppressed, the dalak, the one who oppresses, and the dalit, the one who is oppressed. My life is dedicated to the latter of these. I have no weapon but my pen, and that too a cheap one, but I will fight as long as I can wield it. This promise marks every page of my book, Interrogating My Chandal Life
Professor Sipra Mukherjee – Translating Byapari's Chandal Life
Translating Manoranjan Byapari's book has been quite an experience. As a reader and translator, one moves from the agony of a young boy, haunted by hunger, to the thrill of a tipsy Manoranjan, impatient and irritated in Bastar, snatching the microphone from a political leader, to script a 'proper' speech for him. It is a tale that moves between the urban and the rural space, taking you through lows that are dark in their unplumbed depths, to unexpected highs that speak of the grit of the human spirit and the generosity of human nature.
Moving from East Pakistan just after the chaotic Partition, to the refugee camps in West Bengal, through the Food Riots, to the margins of the city of Kolkata still reeling from the impact of the bloody Partition and the influx of thousands of refugees, this is a story of Bengal that has remained largely untold. This statement may come as a surprise since Bengal and the city of (then) Calcutta are both subjects that have had tomes of works written on them. Yet this book, set in close proximity to the history of the mainstream: Partition, Communism, Naxalite movement, – narrates a story that amazes and shocks. It is for this reason that Binayak Sen said that "this incomplete history, which had for long assumed the partial to be the whole, the sectional to be the national, is sought to be completed through Manoranjan's pen."
Possibly the one experience that dominates the life of the boy Manoranjan who runs away from home, terrified by the prospect of facing daily hunger – is one of just that which he sought to escape: hunger. Hunger is the one persistent certainty that dogs his footsteps. The slightly older teenager with him who, like Manoranjan, lives off the streets, expresses surprise that Manoranjan neither smokes nor drinks. "So, what is your vice?" he asks Manoranjan. "Rice," answers Manoranjan after pausing to think, "Rice is my vice".
One feature of the language that made translation into the language of English simpler is the 'universality' of the language that Byapari uses. Rootless from birth, his language is only minimally rooted in the specificities of one urban or one rural locale. Moreover, this is the story of a desperate man, who is exploited, is pushed to the edge repeatedly, and who learns early that offence is the best defence. In circumstances such as these, language can be largely bare and unadorned:
There was a broken bit of a brick lying on the ground before me. Without stopping to think and with the speed of lightning, I picked it up and, gathering all my body's strength in my two arms, thrust the brick into the forehead of the boy with the knife. I aimed for the centre of the forehead, a spot which, if struck with force, usually kills. The knife fell out of his hand as he dropped to the ground with a groan. I pounced upon the Kanpuri and, with it in my hands, turned round at the remaining two.
'Come, who is it now!'
But they did not come. They ran away, into the darkness, leaving their moaning friend on the ground.
This is not to say that there is no sentimentality, a feeling difficult to put aside when one is recounting incidents in one's own life when one was helpless and victimized. But Byapari steers his way through this expertly by distancing himself, the writer, from his younger self, by naming that youth Jeeban, preyed upon by one wolf then another, and therefore making it a third-person narrative in these places.
Translating this book did not come with the usual difficulties that are recounted by translators of dalit prose. The language was not 'different', the words and terms used were not of another reality and unknown to me, an upper caste mainstream-educated translator. But in all likelihood, this is how many of the modern dalit narratives are going to be, with the earlier 'differences' between the Dalit and Upper-Caste literatures fading. With hunger, poverty and violence exploding the earlier comfortable distances between classes and castes, the erstwhile separation of narratives that had characterized earlier literatures will in all likelihood minimize. West Bengal may just be one of the provinces where this is easier to catch, with the Partition causing many to flee the more agrarian East Bengal into India.
© Manoranjan Byapari and Sipra Mukherjee


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