This article is a quick overview of setting up a Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC 2100) with various Cisco Aironet access points. The Cisco Aironets are the lightweight version.
Connect a console cable to the WLC and using hyper terminal/putty, run through the initial setup wizard.
Example output from the initial setup….
Note that if you are having different wireless networks for specific vlans then you can configure a specific interface on the WLC for this. The port that this connects to needs only to be setup for a specific vlan.
Set the date and time – it is import these are all in sync.
The Cisco Aironets are configured to pickup there IP addresses via DHCP and will automatically check in to the wireless controller.
Create a wireless network. Select the management interface unless you have created a specific interface.
As discussed above you can create a dedicated interface on the WLC if desired. The switch port this connects to needs only be setup in "access" mode rather than "trunk" mode.
Note make sure you specify the correct DHCP server address or this will not work. Below is example switch port configuration for this extra interface.
It is highly rmmoceended to NEVER put a trunk port in spanning-tree portfast to prevent broadcast storms and Cisco switches will not put a trunk port in portfast mode anyway so this line is useless in this case.


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This British-made aero jersey is perfect for long, hot summer days in the saddle. With its form-fitting cut, perfect-length sleeves (i.e. not too short) and striking design it took top honours in our jerseys grouptest back in June.
Costing £65 for that level of performance and sartorial correctness we decided the Lusso Shattered was just too good not to be included in Editor's Choice 2018.
Lusso has perfected the art of making kit for serious cycling at seriously good prices but the Manchester brand still infuses its clothing with humour.
The Shattered short-sleeve, with its carefully chosen name that describes cyclists all over the country come Sunday afternoon, is an aero summer jersey with a skinsuit-like fit. It's made from a lightweight fabric called TX2 that has micro perforations that are claimed to improve airflow over the rider's shoulders.
With the TX2 fabric's 90 per cent polyester/10 per cent Lycra mix, the Lusso Shattered is very figure hugging: if you've had a slightly overindulgent off-season be warned because there's nowhere to hide – but on the plus side it's very stretchy and will not restrict you even if you are still carrying a bit.
For those at their race weight the fit is flattering. The sleeves are another plus point for the Lusso Shattered: they have a good length and there's a silicone print insde the cuffs to keep them in place, reducing unaerodynamic and unsightly creasing at the top of the arm.
Lusso has also got the collar height right: it easily zips all the way up without restricting or pulling (or bagging).
At the back are the standard three pockets, which have a decent depth and sit at the right place – not so high that you can't easily reach for a gel mid-ride. Our only criticism is that it's a little too easy to induce pocket sag. Since the pockets are made of the same very stretchy, very lightweight material as the rest of the jersey they don't look or feel good when fully loaded.
We found the Lusso Shattered was perfect for the hottest days out on the bike. Breathability was very good – it never felt as if it was soaking up sweat – and it is very quick-drying. The zip works smoothly operated with one hand – you can't say that for all jerseys – and it's easy to adjust airflow to suit temperature and riding intensity.
At £65 the Lusso Shattered represents extremely good value for money: it has a premium look and is made in the UK clearly to a high standard. In a summer of use it wore well, with all seams staying intact and colours unfaded after a good few wash cycles.
The Lusso Shattered is as good as aero jerseys from the bigger global brands but is much cheaper and is made in Britain too.


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Jeff Bezos uses annual Amazon letter as antitrust antidote: 'Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly.'
7:46am, 11th April, 2019
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon is getting trounced by third-party sellers on its platform, has weathered some spectacular failures in the process of building its business, and "remains a small player in global retail." So says Jeff Bezos, believe it or not. Those are three of the takeaways from the Amazon CEO and founder's , released Thursday morning along with the . It's an annual tradition that this year seems directed as much to would-be antitrust regulators as it is to the company's investors. PREVIOUSLY: Bezos starts the letter with a two-decade chronology showing of the share of physical gross merchandise sales on Amazon by third-party sellers, a.k.a. the Amazon Marketplace business that is one of the targets of . That share of sales has risen from 3 percent in 1999 to 58 percent in 2018, Bezos writes in the letter. "To put it bluntly: Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly," he writes. "And it's a high bar too because our first-party business has grown dramatically over that period, from $1.6 billion in 1999 to $117 billion this past year." Over those two decades, he writes, third-party sales on Amazon have grown from $100 million to $160 billion, or a 52 percent compound annual growth rate, while eBay's gross merchandise sales grew from $2.8 billion to $95 billion, or a 20 percent compound growth rate. He asks, "Why did independent sellers do so much better selling on Amazon than they did on eBay? And why were independent sellers able to grow so much faster than Amazon's own highly organized first-party sales organization? There isn't one answer, but we do know one extremely important part of the answer: We helped independent sellers compete against our first-party business by investing in and offering them the very best selling tools we could imagine and build." The letter comes at a time of growing political scrutiny of big tech companies with strong market positions and large amounts of data at their disposal. Warren's , part of her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, would force big tech companies including Amazon to register as "platform utilities" and prevent them from operating as players on those platforms. It would also unwind previous acquisitions by the companies deemed anti-competitive. In the letter, Bezos doesn't address antitrust threats explicitly, but he repeatedly positions Amazon as the scrappy, innovative underdog — upending the "expensive, proprietary" commercial database market with new Amazon Web Services offerings; emerging from its Fire Phone failure to find success with Echo and Alexa; and taking on physical retail giants with new inventions. "Amazon today remains a small player in global retail," he writes. "We represent a low single-digit percentage of the retail market, and there are much larger retailers in every country where we operate. And that's largely because nearly 90% of retail remains offline, in brick and mortar stores." Here again, Bezos seems to be laying the groundwork for a pre-emptive antitrust defense. The definition of relevant market is a key consideration in any antitrust case. Amazon seems to want to define its market as global retail, not just e-commerce, where it would be a more dominant player. Addressing the issue of failure, Bezos writes, "As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn't growing, you're not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the right scale for a company of our size if we occasionally have multibillion-dollar failures." He adds, "Of course, we won't undertake such experiments cavalierly. We will work hard to make them good bets, but not all good bets will ultimately pay out. This kind of large-scale risk taking is part of the service we as a large company can provide to our customers and to society. The good news for shareowners is that a single big winning bet can more than cover the cost of many losers." As an example, he writes, "While the Fire phone was a failure, we were able to take our learnings (as well as the developers) and accelerate our efforts building Echo and Alexa." Noting that customers have now purchased more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices, he cites this as an example of the "power of wandering" to find a solution — guided by "hunch, gut, intuition, curiosity, and powered by a deep conviction that the prize for customers is big enough that it's worth being a little messy and tangential to find our way there." "No customer was asking for Echo," he says. "This was definitely us wandering. Market research doesn't help. If you had gone to a customer in 2013 and said 'Would you like a black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen about the size of a Pringles can that you can talk to and ask questions, that also turns on your lights and plays music?' I guarantee you they'd have looked at you strangely and said 'No, thank you.' " Bezos later touts the company's decision last year to , part-time, temporary and seasonal employees, and ratchets up the pressure on without calling them out by name. He writes, "Today I challenge our top retail competitors (you know who you are!) to match our employee benefits and our $15 minimum wage. Do it! Better yet, go to $16 and throw the gauntlet back at us. It's a kind of competition that will benefit everyone." Bezos concludes the letter with a copy of his first shareholder letter, from 1997, and his traditional confirmation, in case there was any doubt: "It remains Day 1." Read .
Amazon ends policy that prevented third-party merchants from selling products for lower prices on other sites
8:52pm, 11th March, 2019
(GeekWire Photo) Amazon made a key policy change on Monday, eliminating a rule that kept U.S.-based third-party merchants from selling identical products for cheaper prices outside of Amazon's marketplace. first reported the news Monday morning. Amazon declined to comment when contacted by GeekWire about the change. Amazon critics cited the "price parity provisions" as a violation of antitrust laws. This past December, Sen. Richard Blumenthal asked the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the policy. "I am deeply concerned that the price parity provisions in Amazon's contracts with third-party sellers could stifle market competition and artificially inflate prices on consumer goods that millions of Americans are planning to buy this holiday season," Blumenthal wrote in a to the U.S. assistant attorney general. In 2013, after facing regulatory pressure. The news comes less than a week after Sen. Elizabeth Warren to break up large tech companies including Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Amazon is currently over its treatment of third-party sellers. Last week of Amazon stopping its purchases from wholesale suppliers, who are instead being encouraged to sell directly to consumers via Amazon's third-party marketplace.


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*$7.95 Shipping - Mix and Match Bullets Only Up to 15 lbs will Ship USPS for Only $7.95. Click Flat Rate Bullets for More Information. Berger Bullets are not just for competition target shooters. They make Match Grade bullets for hunters and varmint shooters too. The secret to Berger Bullets accuracy is the exclusive J4 bullet jacket. These jackets have a wall thickness that's consistent to within .0003"... That's 3/10,000ths of an inch. This is a big part of Berger Bullets overall consistency and why they're able to achieve "Match Grade" accuracy from hunting and varmint bullets as well as target bullets. Another term you'll see here is "VLD". VLD means Very Low Drag... Bullets with high ballistic coefficient so they will fly with flatter trajectory and less wind deflection (videos below).
Berger Match Hunting Bullets - The VLD design incorporates a sharp nose that allows the bullet to penetrate up to 3 inches before it starts to expand. This delayed expansion results in a wound channel that is deep inside the vital area of any big game. After the bullet starts to expand it will shed 80% to 90% of its weight into the surrounding tissue traveling as deep as 18 inches. This results in a massive wound cavity that creates the greatest possible amount of tissue damage and hemorrhaging within the vital area (organs). This massive wound cavity results in the animal dropping fast.
Classic Hunter Hybrid Bullets - Specially designed to meet SAAMI specs for bullets where Cartridge Overall Length needs to fit a standard magazine length as well as the SAAMI standard chamber. The Hybrid shape (explained below) gives the best possible long range trajectory for rifles where ammo must fit in a magazine.
Elite Hunter Hybrid Bullets - These are Hybrid hunting bullets that are not restricted by SAAMI standards. (See Hybrids Below).
Berger Match Varmint Bullets - Designed specifically for the varmint hunter. The slightly larger opening in the nose allows the bullet to expand instantly creating the highest possible opportunity for an explosive, one shot kill. The J4 Precision Jacket that we use has a thinner wall at the nose to assist in rapid expansion while it also has a base that is thick enough for high velocity cartridges. Berger uses the same high-grade materials and techniques to make varmint bullets so you can expect the same tight groups you get from our target bullets.
Berger Match Target Bullets - Actually, ALL Berger Bullets are Match Grade, which means that they use the highest quality copper and lead available. The copper is made into the J4 Precision Jacket, which is recognized around the world as the bullet jacket with the best concentricity available (see above). All J4 Precision Jackets and bullets are made on one set of dies to insure that all of the bullets in each box are as consistent as possible.
Berger Match Target Hybrid Bullets - Less sensitive to seating depth than pure VLD designs. From the tip, these bullets curve with a Secant (VLD) ogive which blends into a Tangent (conventional) ogive as the curvature of the bullet surface approaches the tail of the bullet.
HYBRID Bullet Designs - High BC long range VLD bullets have a "Secant" ogive for low drag. That's good, but the VLD can be sensitive in seating depths close to the rifling. Conventional rifle bullets have a "Tangent" ogive which is less sensitive to seating depth.
Berger has introduced "Hybrid" bullets where the bullet nose starts with a Secant ogive and blends into a Tangent ogive further back. This makes for loads that are less sensitive to seating depth but still have the advantage of a high Ballistic Coefficient for long range.
We have a more extensive description and a nice video on the Hybrid bullet designs posted a little further down on this page.
The full specifications for Berger Bullets include G1 and G7 ballistic coefficients, sectional density, recommended rifling twist, dimensional and bearing surface numbers, meplat, OAL, weight, O-give, etc. Click Berger Quick Ref to see this info.
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A quick look at the table contents reveals the expertise and innovation Berger is famous for: A discussion of the variation from lot to lot of gun powder; Powder burn rates; G1 vs. G7 ballistic coefficients; An introduction to benchrest/competitive rifle shooting; Effects of Cartridge Overall Length (COAL) and Cartridge Base to Ogive (CBTO)... Of course there's a massive amount of reloading data on the most popular rifle cartridges (pretty much ALL of the 6.5mm for example). There's basic, beginner reloading instruction as well as advanced techniques of reloading.
Combining a tangent ogive with a secant ogive, the Berger Hybrid Bullets are easier to hand load for long range accuracy. Seating .015", .030", .045", and up to .060" off the lands gives pretty much the same excellent accuracy.
The video (left) explains how the front of these bullets has a secant ogive like high BC VLD bullets. Then further back, where the ogive contacts the rifling, it becomes a "tangent" ogive... This hybrid combination gives excellent long range ballistics like VLD bullets but is easier to handload for accuracy.
At right are two videos we think you'll enjoy. The first shows Berger 140 gr 6.5mm VLD bullets hitting a milk jug at 700 yards in a Model 97D Rifle and using a Ballistic Reticle Scope. The cartridge is 6.5mm BRM and the rifleman is Andrea Giambi.
The second video is specifically about Berger VLD Hunting Bullets. Extreme distance hunting shots with devastating results. If you have any doubts about using these bullets for hunting, watch this video!
The Hunting bullet line is proving to be the most lethal big game hunting bullets available. All of our Hunting bullets are made in the VLD design. The VLD design incorporates a sharp nose that allows the bullet to penetrate 2" to 3" before it starts to expand. After the bullet starts to expand it will shed 40% to 85% of its weight as shrapnel into the surrounding tissue (internal organ). The combination between the shrapnel and the hydrostatic shock produces a massive wound cavity within the vital area (internal organs) that will be 13" to 15" long. This massive wound cavity results in the animal dropping fast since most go into shock after such a tremendous blow. Those animals that don't go down immediately will soon succumb to blood pressure loss and/or organ failure producing a quick ethical kill. Our bullets don't poke through like an arrow (high weight retention, deep penetration bullets) but instead dump their energy where it is most effective, inside the animal. Using the Berger VLD will result in an animal that goes down fast so you can enjoy the results of your hunt without having to track the wounded animal after the shot. You owe it to yourself to see how accurate and deadly the Berger Hunting VLD will be on your next hunt. To order a free 30 minute video that provides more detail on the bullets, cartridge and velocity used to take several animals at a variety of ranges call 714-447-5456.
Our Tactical bullet line bridges the gap between functionality and the highest possible ballistic performance. Each Tactical bullet is designed with a specific cartridge in mind that is used most commonly in tactical competition and against bad guys. Bryan Litz analyzed the cases and the rifles shooting that case. He then designed the bullets so that they are functional in these rifle's magazines while still being capable of superior ballistic performance. Additionally, these bullets are made with thicker jackets allowing them to perform reliably under the most abusive conditions found in tactical competition, tactical situations and in combat. The ogive design for these bullets are optimized for their specific application and rifle, which means some have a Hybrid nose while others have a pure tangent ogive. The Hybrid design incorporates two shapes that work together to produce the best trajectory performance while at the same time they do not have to be tuned to a specific seating depth like the VLD bullets. Tactical bullets will be successful at either magazine feedable lengths or loaded long for single shot firing situations which can allow for more powder capacity and higher velocities. These bullets truly give the Tactical user the best possible results for whatever situation in which they find themselves.
Our BT Long Range bullets were designed for long distance competitive target shooters. These bullets are made with extra long tangent ogives. This gives these bullets the combined advantage of a high BC while at the same time, they are easier to make shoot than bullets with a secant ogive. The BT Long Range bullets are a recent addition to our line, but they have already proven themselves by setting records and winning major competitions all over the world.
The VLD (Very Low Drag) bullet design was born from a request made by the US 300 Meter Shooting Team. It was determined that they were dropping points late in the matches due to recoil fatigue. Bill Davis and Dr. Lou Palmisano were asked to design a bullet and case combination that shot flatter than the 308 case and 168 gr bullets the team was using at the time. After a design was created Walt Berger was approached to make the bullet. The 6mm 105 gr VLD was born and shot by the US 300 Meter Shooting Team using a 2" PPC (modified 220 Swift). This combination shot with less felt recoil and a flatter trajectory than the 308 case using the 168 gr bullet and higher scores were the end result. This successful bullet design soon found its way into all long range target competition and the VLD shape spread into all other calibers.
For years we have relayed that it is best to jam the VLD into the lands for best performance. This works for many rifles however there are many rifles that do not shoot the VLD well when the bullet is jammed. We have learned that the VLD can shoot best as much as .150 jump off the rifling. VLD bullets can be sensitive to seating depth and it has been found that these bullets shoot best in a COAL "sweet spot". This sweet spot is a COAL range that is usually .030 to .040 wide.
The quickest way to find this sweet spot is to load ammo at four different COAL. Start with a COAL that allows the bullet to touch the rifling. The next COAL needs to be .040 off the lands. The third COAL needs to be .080 off the lands. The last COAL needs to be .120 off the lands. One of these COAL will outperform the other three by a considerable margin. It has been reported that the VLD bullets don't group as well at 100 yards but get better as the bullet "goes to sleep" at further ranges. We have learned that by doing the four COAL test you will find a COAL where the VLD bullets will group well at 100 yards. Once the COAL that shoots best is established you can tweak +/- .005 or .010 to increase precision or you can adjust powder charges and other load variables. Frankly, those who do the four COAL test usually are happy with the results they get from this test alone.
Our Hybrid design blends the best of both worlds by incorporating two different shapes within the nose. As the bearing surface ends, a tangent ogive begins. This tangent section of the ogive results in the bullet being much less sensitive to seating depth. As you move forward along the tangent portion, the shape changes into a secant ogive (the shape used on the VLD bullets). This shape is very efficient in the wind and is why the VLD became so popular. The key to all this is not just the combining of these two shapes but also the partnership between the ballistician and the bullet maker. Berger's Chief Ballistician, Bryan Litz uses his expertise to combine the appropriate shapes for optimum performance.


Delta – the difference in volume between trades transacted at the ask price and trades transacted at the bid price – is one of the key considerations in analysing order flow. The Delta Snapshot indicator provides an easy-to-read indicator for use with Numbers Bars also incorporating information presented by the emoji trading Order Flow Suite indicators: Multiple Imbalances and Delta Divergence.
For each bar, the Delta Snapshot indicator presents a summary of the number selling and buying imbalances in the format: sell x buy. If the bar has positive Delta, this information is presented underneath the price bar. If the bar has negative Delta, this information is presented above the price bar. If a Delta Divergence condition is encountered, the information is presented as a buying or selling divergence and may be colored to highlight the divergence.
The Delta Sequence subgraph can be used to highlight situations when there is a sequence of rising or falling Delta values across consecutive bars. This can be indicative of a potential change in price direction or a weakening of the current trend. This can be used particularly effectively with the Sierra Chart 'Color Background Based On Alert Condition' study by directing this study to look for the the condition of Delta Snapshot Subgraph SG5<>0.
Delta Snapshot may be licensed for Sierra Chart on a Lifetime, 1-month or 3-month basis, or as part of the complete Emoji Trading Order Flow Suite. Licences include all indicator updates and enhancements during the license period.
Imbalance % The percentage level used for diagonal bid/ask volume imbalance calculations.
Enable Zero Diagonal Comparison? This input determines whether price levels where zero volume traded at the bid or ask (including the highest and lowest prices in within the bar) are evaluated for imbalance calculations.
Delta Sequence Allow Zero Cross? Specifies whether Delta sequential decline highlights a sequence of declines (Yes) or whether all Delta values must remain positive or negative (No).
Calculation Frequency Specifies whether the indicator is displayed in Real Time or At Bar Close. Use when applying the Delta Snapshot Text Display if you do not want the current bar to have a changing display of the Delta Snapshot indicator.
Signal Divergence at: Specifies whether Delta Divergence conditions are signalled only at the Daily High/Low or at the highest high/lowest low over the previous n bars specified by the Lookback Period input. Note! Signals at the Daily High/Low are only indicated for the current day when connected to a data feed or running a replay.
Lookback Period The number of bars back over which a recent high/low is considered.
Delta Specifies whether a Delta Divergence condition is indicated when Delta is opposing price, i.e. negative Delta at a high, positive Delta at a low, or weaker than previously, i.e. lower Delta at the current bar than at the previous high bar and higher Delta at the current bar than at the previous low bar.
Require Price Reversal? Specifies whether a high bar needs to close lower than it opened or a low bar needs to close higher than it opened in order for a Delta Divergence to be indicated.
Snapshot Display Offset (Ticks) Specifies the indicator's display position above/below the current bar.
SG1 Delta The Delta value for each bar. Using this subgraph with a Fill Rect to Zero Draw Style and Auto-Colouring Based on +/- enables a simple and clear presentation of Delta in another graph region as per the example above.
SG3 Delta Snapshot Set this subgraph's Draw Style to Text to enable the Delta Snapshot indicator (including sell x buy imbalance quantities) to appear above/below price bars.
SG4 Delta Divergence Snapshot Select the color used to highlight Delta Divergence conditions within the Delta Snapshot subgraph.


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Billionaire Rakes In 66% CAGR (Over 30 years) & Beats Record Of Warren Buffett, George Soros & Peter Lynch
Nov10th
2019 5 Comments Written by Arjun
Billionaire Jim Simon's Medallion Fund has raked in a mammoth gain of 66% CAGR over 30 years. He has heavily outperformed legendary investors like Warren Buffett, George Soros & Peter Lynch. His secrets are now revealed and can be emulated by us as well to rake in gains from the stock market
Jim Simons raked in a fortune of $23 Billion from the stock market
Billionaire Jim Simons is rightly described as "the most successful money maker" in the history of modern finance.
This is because since 1988, his flagship Medallion Hedge Fund has earned a mammoth average annual returns of 66%.
The return after charging fees to investors is 39%.
In sharp contrast to Jim Simons' record, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was able to eke out a return of only 22% or thereabouts.
The same is true for the record of George Soros and Peter Lynch.
While these living legends beat the S&P 500 Index and other benchmarks, their track record pales in comparison to Jim Simons.
The total trading profits that Renaissance rakes in annually is about $7 Billion.
In addition, even average employees of the Fund are making about $50 million each.
Several employees are Billionaires in their own right.
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Journalist studies modus operandi and decodes secret formula
A journalist named Gregory Zuckerman, who writes for the Wall Street Journal, has painstakingly studied Jim Simon's modus operandi and decoded the secret formula.
The entire formula is revealed in a book titled "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution".
"Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simons's secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods," it is stated in the introduction to the book.
If you have enough data, you can predict the market
We can gauge the extent of Jim Simons's genius level that he figured out the importance of data much before the advent of the internet and email.
His Renaissance Fund began digesting all kinds of information.
The team collected every trade order, including those that hadn't been completed, along with annual and quarterly earnings reports, records of stock trades by corporate executives, government reports, and economic predictions and papers.
Researchers in the Fund also tracked newspaper and newswire stories, Internet posts, and more obscure data – such as offshore insurance claims -racing to get their hands on pretty much any information that could be quantified and scrutinized for its predictive value.
The Medallion fund was a data sponge, soaking up a terabyte, or one trillion bytes, of information annually, buying expensive disk drives and processors to digest, store, and analyze it all, looking for reliable patterns.
"There's no data like more data," a researcher said, revealing the Fund's secret mantra.
Renaissance's goal was to predict the price of a stock or other investment at every point in the future.
"We want to know in three seconds, three days, three weeks, and three months," a researcher explained.
If there was a newspaper article about a shortage of bread in Serbia, for example, Renaissance's computers would sift through past examples of bread shortages and rising wheat prices to see how various investments reacted.
Some of the new information, such as quarterly corporate earnings reports, didn't provide much of an advantage.
But data on the earnings predictions of stock analysts and their changing views on companies sometimes helped.
Watching for patterns in how stocks traded following earnings announcements, and tracking corporate cash flows, research-and-development spending, share issuance, and other factors, also proved to be useful activities.
The team improved its predictive algorithms by developing a rather simple measure of how many times a company was mentioned in a news feed – no matter if the mentions were positive, negative, or even pure rumors.
"Simons solved the market, amassing a $23 billion fortune along the way, with a radical and pioneering investing style. He built computer programs to digest torrents of market information and select ideal trades involving mostly stocks but also bonds and currencies. Simons and colleagues at his firm, Renaissance Technologies LLC, sorted data and built sophisticated predictive algorithms years before the founders of Facebook, Google and their peers in Silicon Valley began grade school," Zuckerman has observed with deep admiration in his tone.
Scalping profits with High Frequency Trading (HFT)
Jim Simons was also the pioneer of High Frequency Trading ('HFT').
The game plan of HFT is to make multiple trades, lasting only a few seconds or minutes, and scalp tiny profits from each.
In the beginning itself, the Medallion Fund clocked between 1,50,000 and 3,00,000 trades per day.
Care was taken to ensure that the ticket size was small so as to fly under the radar and avoid alerting other nosy Hedge Funds.
Presently, when HFT trades are commonplace, the Medallion Fund places an incalculable number of buy and sell orders per day.
Index and Stock Options are a gold mine with limited risk and unlimited gains
Jim Simons was one of the first to recognize the potential of 'Options' when they were first introduced.
The best part about buying Options is that they have a limited risk because the maximum that one can lose is the premium paid.
However, the gains are unlimited.
In contrast, in buying stocks, one has the risk of 100% loss of the capital invested.
"Basket options are financial instruments whose values are pegged to the performance of a specific basket of stocks. While most options are valued based on an individual stock or financial instrument, basket options are linked to a group of shares.
If these underlying stocks rise, the value of the option goes up-it's like owning the shares without actually doing so," Gregory Zuckerman has stated in the book.
"The basket options were a crafty way to supercharge Medallion's returns," he added, explaining how the wily Billionaire used them to his advantage.
Apparently, there are restrictions on how much a hedge fund can borrow through traditional loans.
However, the options gave Medallion the ability to borrow significantly more than it otherwise was allowed.
While competitors generally had about seven dollars of financial instruments for each dollar of cash, Medallion's options strategy allowed it to have $12.50 worth of financial instruments for every dollar of cash, making it easier to trounce the rivals.
We have also seen recent examples of how rank-and-file investors like us have amassed a fortune through the judicious use of Options (see Trader Makes 14000% Gain In Two Simple Trades & Reveals Secret Technique).
Nifty Bank Call options up more than 10x today
30600 up 14x
30400 up 13.6x
— Jayesh Khilnani (@jayeshkhilnani) September 26, 2019
Rs.50K in Banknifty Call options would have fetched you 1Crore plus today.
— E. (@EngineeRoholic) September 20, 2019
Simple strategies work best and are scalable
Yet another of Jim Simons secret formulas is the "keep it simple" credo.
Most quant and normal traders bungle up because they adopt numerous strategies, leaving them without an easy escape plan when things go haywire.
ln contrast, Jim Simons used a single strategy for the Medallion fund.
Zuckerman has explained this in cogent terms:
"The beauty of the approach was that, by combining all their trading signals and portfolio requirements into a single, monolithic model, Renaissance could easily test and add new signals, instantly knowing if the gains from a potential new strategy were likely to top its costs."
Predict human behaviour and profit from it
The most brilliant "secret" of Jim Simon's formula is realizing that human behaviour is most predictable.
Humans are wired for a "fight or flight" response.
When the chips are down and there are clouds on the horizon, investors instinctively dump their stocks and bolt from the market.
This allows other sensible investors to buy stocks at rock-bottom prices and profit immensely (see I Told You To Buy The Fear: Sanjiv Bhasin Predicts More Gains & Recommends New Multibagger Stocks and I Bought Stocks During Crash & Made Hefty Gains: Sandip Sabharwal Explains Technique & Reveals New Stock Picks).
"Humans are most predictable in times of high stress – they act instinctively and panic. Our entire premise was that human actors will react the way humans did in the past … we learned to take advantage," a researcher at the Mediallion Fund revealed.
"What you're really modeling is human behavior," he added.
Forget the Why's and the How's: What works, works
A major reason normal investors fail is because we are obsessed with the rationale of the trade. We don't take the trade if we are not convinced with the reasoning.
In contrast, Jim Simons has no such bias because he does not come from any investing background.
He does not care about how or why something worked, just that it did.
He exploits trends and oddities which happen so quickly that they are unnoticeable to average investors. They are faint but repetitive in nature.
"The whys in the markets don't always make sense," he famously observed.
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Any Indian company specializing in such programs and market operations?
Why we Indians can't have such funds/companies?
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Remember Bernie Madoff, anyone ?
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Almost got the same vibes from the story..To good to believe
everyone is a fraud?
No, but not able to understand the link between the content of this post and Bernie Madoff. We all know that he ran ponzi schemes and has the distinction of running the largest financial fraud in the US history, is currently in jail with a sentence of 150 years (longest as per law in US), all his family members are either dead/divorced/separated. So the story of Bernie Madoff is of course chilling.
But do you think that having quant based trading or an investment scheme having quant based trading/investment is akin to a ponzi scheme running into fraud.
Btw, most of the trades (as per one estimate, in India, currently, about 60 to 70% trades) which take place on bourses today are basically quant-based computer generated trades only. Are all such trades frauds?
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A democracy of sound and image – Jacques Tati's Playtime
Introduction to Playtime (Tati, 1967) – Dukes cinema, Lancaster 19/9/13
Bruce Bennett, Lancaster University UK
(This was the introductory public talk I gave for a rare screening of Tati's film at the Dukes cinema in Lancaster)
In a famous essay[i] from 1954 the film critic (and later director) Francois Truffaut complained that French cinema was dominated by quality cinema that comprised 'faithful' literary adaptations and historical dramas made by film directors who were unimaginative hacks who made no creative transformations to the scripts they were filming – they simply added pictures. By contrast, Truffaut celebrated the existence of another group of film-makers that he termed 'men of the cinema' or 'auteurs' who understood cinema as an essentially audio-visual rather than literary or theatrical medium and Jacques Tati, who directed this film, was one of the directors he used as an example of the film-maker as artist. At that point Tati, who was heavily influenced by silent film comedy, had only directed two films, but he was already clearly an innovative and individual film-maker with a sense of the rich comic and narrative possibilities of film sound and the film image.
Playtime, released in 1967, was the fourth of Tati's six feature films and the third featuring M. Hulot, the Mr Bean-like character for whom Tati is best known. Having won an Oscar for his previous film, Mon Oncle, in 1958, by the time he came to make Playtime Tati was both critically highly regarded and commercially secure, and hoped that this film would be his masterpiece. He wrote to a friend as he was preparing it that, 'Playtime is the big leap, the big screen. I'm putting myself on the line. Either it comes off or it, or it doesn't. There's no safety net'.
Unfortunately, the film is probably best known as a commercial disaster for several reasons including an extremely protracted production process. Tati scouted for locations in factories, airports and cities throughout Europe but, unable to find a location he would be able to close off and shoot on for weeks or months, he decided the only solution was to build the massive city sets in a studio. Since there were no studios big enough near Paris, they decided to build a new permanent studio complex on the outskirts of the city, which could be used for other productions once Playtime was complete. This was a financially sensible move except that, as they later discovered, the land they bought was ear-marked for a link-road connecting the ring-road around Paris with a nearby motorway, and so it was compulsorily purchased after the film was completed.
Construction of the vast set, ironically dubbed 'Tativille' by journalists, began in autumn 1964. They built two huge soundstages to shoot the interior scenes, the largest in the country at that time and also laid out a road system so that the moveable tower-blocks, which were built as flats and empty frameworks, could be rolled around the location on railway tracks to create different street layouts. A few months into the construction of the set, it was destroyed by a storm – whereupon Tati discovered the film's financiers had failed to insure the production against acts of God, costing them weeks of time and over a million Francs.
Shooting continued until October 1966, during which time they had filmed on 365 days – perhaps the only film-maker who comes close to this excessive schedule is Charlie Chaplin who shot for 190 days while making City Lights. After the film wrapped, Tati then spent another 9 months editing the film and continued to edit it after the premiere in December 1967 in response to audiences' reactions at early screenings.
The slow pace of production was partly due to Tati's perfectionism – 'I like team-work', he quipped, 'as long as I'm in charge of the team.' – and partly due to financial problems: there were several periods when they shut production down due to lack of money. By the end of the film Tati and a number of family members had sold property and mortgaged their houses to bankroll the film whose cost is estimated to have been about 17m Francs (and whose initial budget was 2.4m), but Tati was bankrupted by the cost of the shoot and so much of this probably went unpaid.
In some respects, Playtime is a simple story. It takes place across roughly 24 hours in Paris during which a group of American tourists and M. Hulot, who is played by Tati, wander around the city, bumping into one another repeatedly. There are lots of characters in Playtime, but Tati is generally uninterested in complex characterization in this film – even the protagonist, M. Hulot is a cartoonish caricature rather than a fully developed character – and most of the characters represent types, rather than individuals.
He is interested in miscommunication and polite misunderstanding. Rather than being driven by aggression, determination and ambition, and a clear sense of goals, characters in his films frequently pinball through life, propelled by accidents, chance encounters and often becoming lost in the process. As a result the narrative structure of the films is at once quite complex and vague – chance and repetition are substituted for the progressive linear narrative development of classical Hollywood cinema.
This is quite deliberate. Tati said later in a 1973 interview that although it wasn't a commercial success, Playtime was the fullest realization of his intentions as a film-maker. Although he continued to make films he said that:
'Playtime will always be my last picture because of the dimension on the décor, regarding the people. There's no star, no one person is important, everybody is; you are as important as I can be. It's a democracy of gags and comics'.
Typically a film narrative is organized around one or two individual characters, who are given more time on screen and are treated differently in terms of sound and image from other characters. They're shown in close-up, their dialogue is clearly reproduced over background noise, they're presented as psychologically rich individuals. The intention with Playtime, by contrast, is that no character is more important than any other, but also, that the décor – the space in which the action takes place – is just as important as the actors. This is a radically unusual way of composing a film.
In practice it means that there are very few close-ups. Instead we have lots of long shots, and lots of shots that are on screen for a long time too, giving us time to study the image. This allows Tati to fill the frame with information. Whereas a film will usually make it very clear to the viewer where her attention is meant to be directed, leaving some areas of the image out of focus or less brightly lit, Playtime is full of shots that invite us to scan the frame searching out interesting and significant details – it doesn't tell us where to look
It is a film that demands sustained scrutiny, like a painting, and, as a result, the American critic Noel Burch said in a 1969 review of Playtime, 'Tati's film is the first in the history of cinema that must be seen not only several different times, but from several different distances. It is probably the first really "open" film'. By which he means that the film is open to a variety of interpretations or ways of seeing.
It was important for Tati too that Playtime was shot on 70mm film, which is very detailed and allows the film to be blown up and projected onto a large screen with no loss of resolution. It is a film format that was usually reserved for spectacular productions like Lawrence of Arabia or 2001 (which was released a few months later), but Tati was interested in using the potential of this spectacular format very differently. Thus, he said:
'What I like in wide-screen films are not cavalcades, gunfights, crowd scenes and so on, what I find extraordinary is that the device allows the viewer to have a fuller appreciation of a mere pin dropping in a large empty room.' (Bellos 2011: 259)
As well as paying a great deal of attention to the composition of the image, sound is also very important to Tati. The film was shot silently and the soundtrack composed afterwards and the principle behind the sound design seems to be equally democratic – there is a democracy of sounds in this film. Normally in a film the dialogue is always privileged on the soundtrack but in Playtime, the sound effects are just as prominent on the soundtrack as speech and there is also very little scaling so that sounds coming from the background are often as loud on the soundtrack as sounds coming from action in the foreground. There is quite a lot of dialogue but it is often mumbled and hard to discern and Tati is far more interested in the sounds that we don't normally pay attention to – the clicking of stiletto heels on lino floors, the hum of air-conditioning systems and crackle of neon lights, the squeak of vinyl and puff of air as someone sits on a chair in a waiting room. This is a fascinating film to listen to as well as to watch.
One of the other pleasures of watching Playtime, as with all Tati's films is the pleasure of seeing bodies dancing through space. Choreographed, repetitive movement is very important in his films and the result here is almost an urban ballet. It is a film about the mundane but delicate dances we all perform as we move through modern spaces, negotiating turnstiles, and revolving doors, escalators, lifts, pedestrian crossings and office buildings.
Finally this film explores a theme that is central to most of his films, which is that of modernity – Mon Oncle, Playtime and his next film, Trafic, are all films about a modern high-tech world in which our lives are reorganized by technology and transport systems. Cars, in particular, are one of the most visible motifs of this, and the films are full of grid-locked roads and vast car-parks. Although his first two films offer a nostalgic, seductive view of traditional, rural France, it is a France that is under threat from modernization and the subsequent films are about the ways in which France becomes cosmopolitan, modernized, and Americanized.
However, the films are very ambivalent in their treatment of this theme. On the one hand they make fun of the way in which fashionable, self-important people surround themselves with unreliable high-tech, consumer goods, but on the other hand they offer us an optimistic view of a utopian, futuristic world. Although Charlie Chaplin was one of Tati's heroes – and M. Hulot might well be named after the name the French gave to Chaplin, Charlot – there is little trace in Tati's films of the satirical anger at the modern world that we find in Chaplin's work.
As Alex Bellos, Tati's biographer puts it, 'Tati's use of gadgetry and innovation is remarkable for its ambiguity: especially in Playtime […] he exploits the new almost equally for its comic potential and for its aesthetic pleasure.' (253) So, for example, Playtime is a celebration of the minimalist visual beauty of plate-glass, stainless steel, black leatherette, grey lino and formica, tarmac, curtain-walled office blocks, autoroutes, roundabouts, lamp-posts and street-lights. Thus, concludes, Bellos, 'All Tati's work, […] is angled towards reconciliation, not revolt. Tati was not out to change the world, but to help us look at it with less horror.' (311)
Given that Playtime was released in France at the beginning of a period of radical social upheaval, not long before the general strike and riots in Paris, this may help to explain its lukewarm reception since it could have been perceived as being out of step with the spirit of the times. Although it was well received by film critics, it failed to turn a profit although this wouldn't have been helped by Tati's insistence that the film could only be shown in cinemas with 70mm projectors and stereo sound systems, refusing to allow the film to be distributed on a standard 35mm print (and, of course, until the popularization of large-screen TVs, the film was almost impossible to watch on television, limiting its subsequent accessibility – it is a film that is better known by reputation than exposure).
But it could also likely that audiences found the film confusing and frustrating to watch because it required them to adjust their expectations of what a film is, which is perhaps not what people look for on a night out. A French critic reviewing the film on its release declared it to be 'An Absolute masterpiece of confounding and vertiginous beauty […] Never, perhaps has a film placed so much confidence in the intelligence and activity of the spectator: the challenge was too great to find a commensurate response'.
So this is the challenge this film continues to pose to its audience: are you sufficiently intelligent and imaginative to enjoy the confounding, vertiginous beauty of this film?
Alex Bellos (2011) Jacques Tati: His Life and Art (London: Harvill Press)
Michel Chion (2002) The Films of Jacques Tati (Toronto: Guernica)
'Tati's democracy' – transcript of a 1973 interview with Tati by Jonathan Rosebaum http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=15628
[i] 'A certain tendency of the French cinema', published in Cahiers du Cinema (https://soma.sbcc.edu/users/DaVega/FILMST_101/FILMST_101_FILM_MOVEMENTS/FrenchNewWave/A_certain_tendency_traffaut1954_cashiers.pdf)
Tags Dukes cinema, film introduction, Jacques Tati, Playtime


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Q: Spinor representation and Clifford modules Let $V$ be an even-dimensional real inner product space. We denote the Clifford algebra of $V$ by $C(V)$ and the spinor representation by $S$.
For a finite-dimensional $\mathbb Z_2$-graded complex Clifford module $E$ the following facts are known.

Denote by $W$ the trivial Clifford module $\mathrm{Hom}_{C(V)}(S,E)$.

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*$E$ is isomorphic to $W \otimes S$ as a Clifford module.

*$\mathrm{End}(W)$ is isomorphic to $\mathrm{End}_{C(V)}(E)$.

Question: Why do the above statements hold?
The statements can be found in [BGV,§3.2] and [R,4.12] without any details. According to [BGV], the isomorphism $W \otimes S \to E$ is given by the evaluation. This is obviously a homomorphism of Clifford modules, but it is not obvious that the evaluation map is bijective.
References

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*[BGV] Berline-Getzler-Vergne, Heat Kernels and Dirac operators

*[R] Roe, Elliptic operators, topology and asymptotic methods

A: A good reference for that is the lecture notes of Nicolaescu "Notes on the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem", proposition 2.2.6

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Giochi d'Acqua
#fountains
(Fontana di Venere at Villa d'Este, Tivoli.)
In keeping with today's theme of antics and tomfoolery, above is an image of the Fontana di Venere at Villa d'Este, Tivoli, and below is an image of another fountain at the villa, the Teatro e Fontana della Civetta.
Made by Giovanni Francesco Venturini in 1691 and digitized by Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes, they are two of the best illustrations available online showing a giochi d'acqua in action.
Giochi d'acqua were water jets concealed between paving slabs, in benches, staircases and statues. Controlled by gardeners behind the scenes, these hidden little fountains would sprinkle unsuspecting visitors, catching them off-guard. One minute they're enjoying the genteel pleasantries of a garden walk and the next minute they're scampering about in their fineries, frantically searching for an escape, if there is one.
With the spigots in the hands of the lascivious, women could get a titillating squirt up their dresses or get completely soaked from a puti's simulated urine or other.
(Teatro e Fontana della Civetta at Villa d'Este, Tivoli.)
Replace the water with battery acid and you could have the penultimate setting of Indiana Jones V or Tomb Raider III. Not in the Mayan jungles of the Yucatan or steamy Angkor Wat but in a sun-drenched papal garden of Tuscany. It's an anxious space under constant threat of eruptions.
In any case, these whimsical water features — which really were an astoundingly complex network of hydraulics — were common in Mannerist Italian gardens, since they provided the element of surprise, an important feature of any mannerist work.
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April 2, 2008 at 2:59:00 AM CDT
This sort of thing always reminds me of that quote from Thomas Love Peacock's Headlong Hall:
"I distinguish the picturesque and the beautiful, and I add to them, in the laying out of grounds, a third and distinct quality, which I call unexpectedness."
"Pray, sir," said Mr Milestone, "by what name do you distinguish this character, when a person walks round the grounds for a second time?"
I expect it was called "damned annoying"
April 2, 2008 at 11:32:00 PM CDT
A hundred secret sprinklers at my command...stop, you're teasing me. What fun that would be.
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I may have not held vigil when my restaurant friend Phở Paradise closed in Providence, but I still shed a salty, soupy tear while sitting there in an empty parking lot, reminiscing of the bygone days of broth and banh pho.
My pity party was short-lived because Rhode Island maintains a rich and vibrant Asian American population that tops 34,000 strong, and represents 3.2% of the total population. That means that the likelihood of other Vietnamese restaurants proudly serving bowls of bliss are high.
Woonsocket to the East Bay, and as far south as Westerly, their Phở is worth the drive.
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Thanksgiving Pizza comes but once a year, and man is it worth the wait! Every November my anticipation for this delicious slice of turkey day wonderment grows until the day before Thanksgiving arrives when I can get my special fix of this comfort food. This special pie has been on the menu for 10 years and is so popular that folks order their pies days in advance to be sure they can get their hands on one in time for Thanksgiving Eve dinner. Lines begin at lunch and get so long at times that the friendly staff provides a large thermos of hot chocolate and cups on a table outside to make the wait more comfortable.
Although Fellini Pizzeria makes this special pie available only at Thanksgiving, they are also scoring it big with their over-sized thin crusted specialty pizzas such as the Kitchen Sink [ Penne pasta, garlic, parmesan, peppercorn, roasted red peppers, scallions, pepperoni & feta cheese], and the Turkey Club [ Smoked turkey breast w/ a creamy honey mustard sauce, topped w/ tomato, onion & bacon].
So even with this year's Nor'easter bearing down on Little Rhody, we made our way to Fellini's to wait in line with all the other loyal Fellini Followers to get our slice of heaven.
We arrived late in the afternoon and felt fortunate that the line was manageable. Surprisingly we were still able to order a pie, but shortly after we ordered, the line began to grow and they announced that only slices remained because whole pies were sold out for the rest of the day. Whew….
So what is Thanksgiving Pizza? It's whole wheat, thin crusted pie layered with all the holiday fixings that Thanksgiving dinner is famous for. First they spread a generous layer of mozzarella cheese onto the hand thrown dough. Next, they pipe just the right amount of mashed potato over the cheese. Then, chunks of oven-roasted turkey are spread onto the pie along with spoonfuls of stuffing, and topped with a generous drizzle of turkey gravy. Cranberry sauce is optional and provided once the pie is served.
Our large pie arrived hot and hearty. The cranberry sauce slathered on the slices was a sweet compliment to the savory flavor of sage in the stuffing along with the salty smoothness of the turkey gravy and mashed potatoes. The thin crust was perfectly crispy, with a great chew to it. It held up quite well considering the weight of the toppings. Fellinis figured out the perfect proportion of toppings considering the slices reheated perfectly later that night.
We asked if all the Thanksgiving Day toppings were scratch-made, but Fellinis graciously and humorously avoided answering our question by saying that it was a secret recipe. Regardless, the unique pie is a total holiday winner and I recommend making Thanksgiving Pizza a yearly tradition in November and the rest of the menu a tradition during the rest of the year!


Mr. Doris LaMare passed away unexpectedly Saturday evening, February 4, 2017 at the Adirondack Medical Center in Lake Placid.
Doris was born in Tupper Lake, NY on July 24, 1936, to Homer and Dezira LaMare of Tupper Lake (Faust), NY. Doris never married, but selflessly dedicated his life to the care for his mother and sister.
Doris graduated from Tupper Lake High School in 1955 and in 1957 joined the United States Air Force as a Reservist with Academic intentions and in 1961 was promoted to Airman First Class of the 7405th Support Squadron. His official title was Aircraft Reciprocating Engine Mechanic.
In June of 1960 he was awarded the Good Conduct Medal Clasp for demonstrating exemplary behavior, efficiency and fidelity during his service.
Doris returned to civilian life at 105 Washington Street Faust, N.Y. in June of 1961 and worked for Johnson Brothers and eventually Tupper Lake Supply. He was exceptionally talented and skilled when it came to improving efficiencies around the home and what stood out the most were his arts and craft skills.
Many may remember the intricate and fun Christmas displays of small towns, nativity scenes, and fun villages that even included town patrons and mountain skiers. It seemed like on certain days that whole town would come down to see what the clever Doris had put together. On top of that, Doris was also a skilled outdoorsman, enjoying the many wonderful opportunities the Adirondacks provided.
Doris is survived by his older brother Homer (Bucko) and wife Mae LaMare and sister-in Law Theresa LaMare of Tupper Lake.
Also survived are his many loving nieces and nephews.
Predeceased to Doris were his sisters Violet (Vi) and Dezira (Sis), brothers Lee (Pap) and Wilfred (Pete), mother Dezira and father Homer- all of Tupper Lake.
There will be no immediate calling hours or services. In the spring the family intends to have small service to pay respects at his final resting place at Holy Name cemetery.


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J'ai engagé un tueur () est un film finlandais, suédois, britannique et allemand réalisé par Aki Kaurismäki, sorti en 1990.

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L'action se passe dans les faubourgs de Londres.

Henri, de nationalité française, est employé dans une société qui va être privatisée. Tout le personnel qui n'est pas britannique est licencié. La direction lui donne une montre comme prime de départ. Il décide de se suicider, mais toutes les tentatives échouent : le crochet auquel il a fixé une corde pour se pendre cède ; la tête dans le four de la cuisinière, il attend la mort par asphyxie mais les ouvriers gaziers sont en grève. Voulant toujours mettre fin à ses jours, il contacte un gang qui accepte le contrat. Peu de temps après, il rencontre une jeune fille qui le dissuade de se suicider et le persuade de résilier le contrat. Il accepte et essaie de prendre langue avec le gang, mais une succession d'événements font qu'il ne peut empêcher le tueur de le localiser.

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 Titre : J'ai engagé un tueur
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 Réalisation : Aki Kaurismäki
 Scénario : Aki Kaurismäki d'après une idée originale de Peter von Bagh
 Production : Aki Kaurismäki
 Photographie : Timo Salminen
 Montage : Aki Kaurismäki
 Décors : John Ebden
 Costumes : Simon Murray
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 Format : Couleurs - 1,85:1 - Mono - 35 mm
 Genre : Comédie dramatique
 Durée : 80 minutes
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Film suédois sorti en 1990
Film britannique sorti en 1990
Film allemand sorti en 1990
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Comédie dramatique suédoise
Comédie dramatique britannique
Comédie dramatique allemande
Film réalisé par Aki Kaurismäki
Film en anglais
Film mettant en scène un tueur à gages

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#Canada#Tim Hortons#China
Tim Hortons agrees deal with Cartesian Capital Group to expand into China
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The Canada-based fast food restaurant, Tim Hortons, is set to expand its interest in the Chinese restaurant market after agreeing a deal with private equity company Cartesian Capital Group, Richmond News reports.
The agreement will see Cartesian open over 1,500 Tim Hortons restaurants over the next ten years.
Tim Hortons president, Alex Macedo, confirmed that the firm's two main priorities are to build and strengthen the brand in Canada and then to enhance and expand the company internationally.
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In a CNN Money article in July, Mr Macedo talked about Tim Horton's growing influence in China in a statement:
"We have already seen Canada's Chinese community embrace Tim Hortons and we now have the opportunity to bring the best of our Canadian brand to China with established partners who have expertise in the industry and the country."
The firm currently has over 4,700 chains in Canada, the United States and all over the world.
BMO Capital Markets has stated that the China expansion has created a growth opportunity for the company to maintain a steady increase in customers over the next decade.
Tim Hortons, which is owned by Burger King and Popeyes parent company Restaurant Brands, has seen already seen 900 new Burger King facilities open in China.


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All Your Heroes Become Villains by Ed Hale & The Transcendence Promo Video
All Your Heroes Become Villains by Ed Hale and The Transcendence Promo Video
Available on Dying Van Gogh Records.
Feature tracks on this video are "Blind Eye," "Solaris," "Waiting For Godot," "Here It Comes," "Indian Princess" and "After Tomorrow."
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The album from Ed Hale and the Transcendence, All Your Heroes Become Villains is certainly titled appropriately for the times we live in. And from the moment "the needle hits the record" it sounds like a forgotten classic, something beautiful lost and now remembered. Ed Hale and the band worked for over a year trying to bring the mammoth project under their control, bringing in other musicians when needed as varied as a gospel singer, a second drummer, a Los Angeles DJ, and various horn players. In the process, Transcendence became more of "a musical collective" rather than a traditional five-man indie-rock band.
The result is a mash of sounds but an album still recognizable as having "that Transcendence sound." Haunting melodies, bold sonic experimentation and Hale's richly layered and impassioned vocals all come together to create a highly memorable and moving listening experience. It's also easily the band's most mature and cohesive album to date. It is a stylistically and lyrically unified and thematic work of musical art that critics are calling their most ambitious to date. Like a shadow of the chaotic world we live in today, All Your Heroes Become Villains is dark, moody, heavy and yet, every now and then, it glimmers with hope.
The band's new label Dying Van Gogh Records announced that Hale and the Transcendence would release their full length new album to the public in 2011. Sounding more like a rock musical or a concept album, the songs both musically and lyrically tie into one another seamlessly in one cohesively bold brash and powerful listen more akin to Pink Floyd or David Bowie's Diamond Dogs. All Your Heroes Become Villains greets fans with a new path charted into new territories, only this time more dark, more heavy and more mysterious.
Ed Hale and the Transcendence first caught national attention in 2002 with their debut album, Rise and Shine by combining world music themes with an eclectic modern rock approach. Hale's consciousness raising lyrics and the fact that he sang them in five different languages added to the group's unique appeal. The album was a potpourri of musical styles that fans and critics found difficult to pigeon hole. Their second album, Sleep With You offered the world exposure to the band's music through songs being featured in films and TV like MTV, VH1, and the three major television networks. Their third album, Nothing Is Cohesive jumped onto the CMJ Top 100 and the Alt-Rock Specialty Show Charts reaching number 24. They performed at numerous music festivals, such as the CMJ Music Marathon, SXSW and the Florida Music Festival.
Transcendence had changed internally; founding bassist Stro Stroman was replaced by 18-year-old Roger Houdaille and founding drummer Ricardo Mazzi was replaced by 21-year-old Bill Sommer. Each member released a solo album. Hale recorded the aforementioned Ballad On Third Avenue featuring the single, "New Orleans Dreams" which hit the top 40 on the AC charts. Perdomo formed the prog-pop group Dreaming In Stereo and Houdaille released an album by a side group he formed called Ex Norwegian. All three albums made the Top Ten Best Albums of the Year list by New Times magazine.
During the nine years since their debut, they have released four albums and toured the United States, Europe and South America, gaining a reputation as "musical shape-shifters" for their inventiveness and willingness to assume whatever form and go in whatever direction their music demands of them.
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Gays at the Table
It just recently came to my attention that a retired and rather infamous, more than well respected at the least, reverend and ethicist in the Methodist Church — the Reverend Dr. Ogletree — has been castigated and may face trial for officiating at a same sex wedding between two men in New York late last year. Coincidentally the exact date of this particular wedding happened to fall on my birthday. The New York Times wrote an article about the details, which can be had by clicking here
Not being gay myself I admit I can make no claim to understand the full ramifications of either the positive or negative aspects of the controversy of same sex marriage. For people like me life in the realm of love and marriage is pretty cut and dried. Meet someone you want to start a family and spend the rest of your life with and get to it. The world will celebrate with and praise you to the point that you'll feel like a king or a celebrity for a few months. All because you've announced you're getting married. It's an odd phenomenon really. I've always postulated that this has a lot more to do with thousands of years of cultural indoctrination than anything else. Civil societies need women to be married. At least they believe they do. As well they prefer children to have fathers. Thus the brouhaha over someone's announcement of a planned marriage. You'd think they announced they found oil or struck gold.
Truth be told I was never a big fan of the marriage myth for most of my life. I understood its creation and origin from the anthropological viewpoint and never saw it as truly necessary in the modern world. Especially because so many muggles and mainstreamers had it so inextricably tied to religion in their minds and religion was another one of those "not for me" things as well. My first twenty-five years were all about truth; hence running fast and far away from anything that reeked of manmade indoctrination. Of course that mission statement and how it showed up in the real world changed as I got older and wiser.
As already established I eventually found a surprising joy and comfort through the practice of organized religion in addition to being "spiritual but not religious". There is something mysteriously satisfying and fulfilling about throwing in 110% with a church community to not only worship the great mystery of the beyond but also as a means to serve others and make the world a better place. Now don't let my overly optimistic take on it cloud your predisposed view of traditional Christianity as its currently practiced in America and the rest of the world.
I'll be the first to admit that for the most part the majority of Christians are bat-shit crazy and the last reason they think they're Christians is to "help make the world a better place." Most will tell you they're Christian because they "don't want to burn in hell" or some other nonsense about saving their soul in the afterlife. But I can safely assure any reader that there is sanity to be found within certain circles in the Christian community. Especially within the Methodist denomination. This is coming from a very committed former agnostic.
But before we jump too far into the Koolaid pitcher, I must admit that I find myself quite stymied and even angered by this recent so-called controversy over the good Dr. Ogletree presiding over his son's wedding. (Yes it was his son's wedding… Imagine that.)
See, the thing for me, for people like me, is that the ONLY way you're ever going to get me to even dip a toe in the water of any kind of organized religion is if its members and leaders are honest, rational, filled with integrity and a desire to make the world a better place AND super-badasses intellectually. Character traits that admittedly we do not normally associate with organized religion of any ilk, especially not the Big Four. I thought I had found such an oasis in Methodism. I truly did. In so far as the way it is practiced and preached at my particular church in Manhattan, a church I am proud to be a card carrying member of no less, by all accounts reason, kindness, rational thinking, tolerance and open mindedness are not only present, they are encouraged. I feel safe there. There's no obligation to leave one's brain at the door so to speak.
I felt honored and proud when the church's head pastor, Reverend Stephen Bauman, wrote an open letter to the entire Conference back in 2006 defending the view that homosexual people should be allowed to become ordained ministers and as well should be permitted to get married if they so desire. It's a logical, rational and loving viewpoint for the modern times we live and love in. Why not? Fear of "degradation of the traditional vows of matrimony between a man and woman…"? As any intelligent person would suggest, if two same sexers getting married can scare you into believing your own marriage is at risk you've got problems that no amount of "defense of marriage" bitching is going to fix. Truly the only thing that's ever going to challenge or degrade traditional marriage between man and woman is a sick heart or a weak marriage in the first place.
One of the things I've loved about being a Methodist over the last ten years is just how open minded, loving and inclusive the official doctrine of the denomination is. We are taught that "all are invited to God's table" and that "God loves us all". Some of us take these ideas seriously. And literally. We've read the Gospels and other stories of Jesus of Nazareth and we believe his heart was pure and true when he encouraged us to serve God with all our heart and love our neighbors as ourself. We find it a helpful discipline. Challenging. But beneficial to the spirit.
I can't tell you how many times I have heard so-called Christian ministers recount the lessons of the bible stories of Jesus at the well with the Samarian woman, or with the woman accused of adultery where he forgave her, said "go now and sin no more" and "let he who is without sin cast the first stone"; or Jesus supping with the deceitful tax collectors of his day. On and on the stories go, brainwashed ad nauseum into the minds of planet earth's youngest people as powerful lessons about how open minded and loving and forgiving this Jesus was.
It is needless to state here that as Christians we take the lessons of these stories seriously, as sacred, into our own lives as good examples to follow ourselves. We are either practicing the ways and means of Jesus or we're not. We follow him and his example because it makes sense to us intuitively. Not because of anything a church or a religion or any so-called leader says. Peons and cretins perhaps do what they're told because they are told to. But thinking people do only what they feel in their heart is right, the world be damned. There is more to the Ancient Greek movement of Solipsism than mere selfishness. It's a mentality that makes rational sense. Let no man tell another what truth is. Each unto ourselves belong our beliefs about what is good true right or righteous.
For that reason I cannot in good conscience blame my fellow Christian or Methodist brothers and sisters for their anti-gay views just because they don't agree with my own views. I don't expect them to believe as I do just because I say so. But I do hope to help show them a different way of viewing things, influence them towards a certain direction. One that is more kind, more loving, more inclusive; more like the one Jesus himself took. After all that's the tie that binds us all if nothing else does.
After everything else is tried and tested and shown to be mere window dressing, the hymns, the false hierarchy, the costumes, the stories myths and legends, all we really have left is the real heart of the matter: just what was Jesus trying to teach us? I believe it was and is to be as kind and loving, tolerant and inclusive in our feelings and actions towards each other as possible. And then do it even more.
Judging others to be "wrong or bad" because they don't sexually desire or love the same kind of people we do just doesn't match up with that mandate. Plenty of people already tried that in order to defend slavery years ago. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now in regards to homosexuality. It's time we faced this reality and lovingly welcomed all of our kind to the table, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes us.
There's real growth potential there for those who are willing to take it on. The Disciples did. Paul did. Jesus did. Are we willing to follow in their footsteps? Or are we just talking a good talk? That's the question each person who claims to be a Christian needs to ask themselves.
Strength in Challenges
Music Streaming is NOT Sales
ATTN ALL MUSIC ARTISTS: IODA & The ORCHARD have been attempting to secretly collect YOUR streaming royalties along WITH your digital sales royalties. No matter WHAT label you are on you need to contact SOUND EXCHANGE directly and fill out a bunch of forms telling them "We wish to collect our OWN digital streaming royalties DIRECTLY." It's a pain in the rear and it takes a few days of solid work to complete (and a lot of calls), but its worth it. Don't let the digital sales aggregators take your streaming $. It's YOURS. Not theirs.
Fight for this. Digital Streaming — Pandora, Spotify, YouTube etc. is one of our last revenue streams and is quickly surpassing digital sales (iTunes, amazonMP3, bandcamp, etc.) as our main source of income. Now that The Orchard has bought IODA there is only ONE main digital aggregator (the mechanism to get digital music online for consumers to purchase) in the world today. All the other systems actually run your songs THROUGH THEM. This monopoly is not necessarily a "bad" thing. But this should ONLY apply to SALES. Not streaming. Streaming should be paid directly to YOU or the label you are on.
Call Sound Exchange AND your label and let them know you'd like to be paid directly for ALL digital streaming of ALL your songs through all formats — audio and video. You'll have to write a legal letter. In addition demand that ALL BACK MONEY paid to someone besides yourself also be paid back to you.
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Music video for the song "Baby Bop" by Ed Hale and the Transcendence from the album THE GREAT MISTAKE
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Home National US News Scientology Volunteer Ministers Year in Review: Disaster Response Teams Reach Out With Help
Scientology Volunteer Ministers Year in Review: Disaster Response Teams Reach Out With Help
Jennifer Hedly
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan 14, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — For more than 40 years, Scientology Volunteer Ministers have responded to natural and manmade disasters. And this year was no exception. The year had no sooner started than a massive mudslide devastated Quito, Ecuador. The worst downpour in nearly two decades unleashed a torrent of water, mud, rock and debris that toppled houses, swept away motorcycles and cars, and left thousands stranded. Scientology Volunteer Ministers helped with the cleanup and provided supplies to those in need.
Volunteer Ministers responded to the refugee crisis in Eastern Europe, with more than 17 million fleeing Ukraine, most of them taking refuge in nearby countries. Working in coordination with aid organizations, volunteers from across Europe including Italy, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia and Germany raised donations and collected and transported urgently needed supplies, provided transportation to temporary quarters, worked at distribution points and manned shelters.
More than 3,000 miles away in Pakistan, Volunteer Ministers mobilized to respond to catastrophic floods that left a third of the country submerged. Thousands were stranded without access to first aid or needed medical care. To help remedy this, the Scientology Volunteer Ministers organized teams of doctors and nurses who traveled to remote regions and provided care. They also brought food, water and other emergency supplies.
More than 700 Volunteer Ministers responded to the devastation of the 150-mph winds and 13-foot storm surge of Hurricane Ian. Teams cut down damaged trees, providing access to communities cut off by the storm's destruction, helped locate valuables, shored up and protected homes and worked on the arduous muck out and cleanup of homes that could be salvaged. Others manned temporary shelters, and organized and distributed water, food, hygiene and baby supplies, and other urgently needed items.
Wherever they go, Volunteer Ministers care for the emotional and spiritual needs of the victims. They help them prevail over loss and grief, regroup, and confront the future. They use Scientology assists, techniques developed by humanitarian and Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard that address the emotional and spiritual factors in stress and trauma. And they share the Scientology Tools for Life, a series of online films and courses that train people in skills they can use to help others overcome the difficulties they are faced with in the aftermath of disaster.
The Church of Scientology Volunteer Ministers program is a religious social service created in the mid-1970s by Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard. It constitutes one of the world's largest independent relief forces. Scientology ecclesiastical leader Mr. David Miscavige, calling on Scientologists to use what they know to redouble their efforts to aid their fellow man, has inspired tremendous growth in the Volunteer Ministers movement.
A Volunteer Minister's mandate is to be "a person who helps his fellow man on a volunteer basis by restoring purpose, truth and spiritual values to the lives of others." Their creed: "A Volunteer Minister does not shut his eyes to the pain, evil and injustice of existence. Rather, he is trained to handle these things and help others achieve relief from them and new personal strength as well."
Their motto is no matter the circumstances, "Something can be done about it."
For more information on the technology used by the Volunteer Minister, watch Scientology Tools for Life on the Scientology Network at DIRECTV 320 or at www.Scientology.tv.
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