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A model of cubic core-shell grain with the distribution of the Curie temperature is proposed for simulation of the polyhedron core-shell structure to obtain the size related dielectrics. When the shell is a very thin layer with low dielectric constant, the shell has the grain-size effect: dielectric constant decreases and the peak moves to low temperature. When the shell is thick with different dielectric peak from the core one, the contribution of the core to the dielectric constant is a linear relation to the square of it size. The distribution of the Curie temperature will move dielectric peak to high temperature with dropping dielectric constant, and the temperature relation of im-permeability in paraelectric phase can not be expressed by the power-law. Ferroelectrics will have high stability of relation of dielectric constant with temperature for the combination of the shell in linear distribution and the core in Gaussian distribution. It is the square of spontaneous polariza-tion in ferroelectrics that has the same function as dipole in dielectrics for contribution to the complex dielectric constant, and therefore a temperature dependent dielectric loss of the distri-bution of the Curie temperature is derived.


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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:introduction}
\paragraph{}
Vietnamese belongs to the top 20 most spoken
languages and is employed by an important community all over the world. Therefore, research on Vietnamese language processing is an essential task. This paper focuses on three main tasks for Vietnamese language processing including POS tagging, chunking, and NER.

In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art system namely NNVLP for the
Vietnamese language processing. NNVLP toolkit outperforms most previously published toolkits on three tasks including POS tagging, chunking, and NER. The contributions of this work consist of:
\begin{itemize}
\item We demonstrate a neural network-based system reaching
  the state-of-the-art performance for Vietnamese language processing including POS tagging, chunking, and NER. Our system is a combination of Bi-LSTM, CNN, and CRF models, which achieves an accuracy of $91.92\%$, $F_{1}$ scores of $84.11\%$ and $92.91\%$ for POS tagging, chunking, and NER tasks respectively.
\item We provide our API and web demo for user, which
  is believed to positively contributing to the long-term advancement of Vietnamese language processing.
\end{itemize}

The remainder of this paper is structured as
follows. Section~\ref{sec:relatedWork} summarizes related work on
Vietnamese language processing. Section~\ref{sec:models} describes NNVLP toolkit architecture, API, and web interface. Section~\ref{sec:experiments} gives experimental results and
discussions. Finally, Section~\ref{sec:conclusion} concludes the paper.
\section{Related Works}
\paragraph{}
Previously published systems for Vietnamese language processing used
traditional machine learning methods such as Conditional Random Field
(CRF), Maximum Entropy Markov Model (MEMM), and Support Vector Machine
(SVM). In particular, most of the toolkits for POS tagging task
attempted to use conventional models such as CRF~\cite{Mai-Vu:2013}
and MEMM~\cite{Le:2010a}.~\cite{Mai-Vu:2013} also used CRF for
chunking task. Recently, at the VLSP 2016 workshop for NER task,
several participated system use MEMM~\cite{Phuong:2016},
\cite{Van:2016} and CRF~\cite{Huong:2016} to solve this problem.
\label{sec:relatedWork}

\section{NNVLP API and Web Demo}
\label{sec:models}
\subsection{System Architecture}
\paragraph{}
We implement the deep neural network model described
in~\cite{Thai-Hoang:2017}. This model is a combination of
Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM), Convolutional Neural
Network (CNN), and Conditional Random Field (CRF). In particular, this
model takes as input a sequence of the concatenation of word embedding
pre-trained by
word2vec\footnote{\url{https://code.google.com/archive/p/word2vec/}}
tool and character-level word feature trained by CNN. That sequence is
then passed to a Bi-LSTM, and then a CRF layer takes as input the
output of the Bi-LSTM to predict the best named entity output
sequence. Figure~\ref{fig:1} and Figure~\ref{fig:2} describe the
architectures of BI-LSTM-CRF layers, and CNN layer respectively.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.35]{cnn}
\caption{The CNN layer for extracting character-level word features of word \textit{Học\_sinh} (Student).}
\label{fig:1}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.15]{word_level}
\caption{The Bi-LSTM-CRF layers for input sentence \textit{Anh rời EU hôm
    qua.} (UK left EU yesterday.)}
\label{fig:2}
\end{figure}

NNVLP toolkit uses these architectures for all tasks including POS
tagging, chunking, and NER. Because each word in the Vietnamese
language may consist of more than one syllables with spaces in
between, which could be regarded as multiple words by the unsupervised
models, we, first, segment the input texts into sequences of words by
pyvi toolkit\footnote{\url{https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyvi}}. These
word sequences are put into NNVLP toolkit to get corresponding POS tag
sequences. Next, these words and POS tag sequences are put into NNVLP
toolkit to get corresponding chunk sequences. Finally, NNVLP toolkit
takes as input sequences of the concatenation of word, POS tag, and
chunk to predict corresponding NER sequences. Figure~\ref{fig:3}
presents this pipeline of NNVLP toolkit.

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.3]{nnvlp_0}
\caption{The Architecture of NNVLP Toolkit}
\label{fig:3}
\end{figure}
\subsection{NNVLP API}
\paragraph{}
NNVLP API is an API for Vietnamese Language Processing which takes input
sentences and outputs a JSON containing a list of sentences where each word in these sentences has POS tag, chunk, named entity attributes as shown in Figure~\ref{fig:4}.
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.42]{json}
\caption{The output JSON of the input sentence "Ông Nam là giảng viên đại học Bách Khoa." (Mr Nam is a lecturer of Bach Khoa University.)}
\label{fig:4}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Web Demo}
\paragraph{}
We also provide web interface\footnote{\url{nnvlp.org}} for users of NNVLP toolkit. Users can type or paste raw texts into the textbox and click \textit{Submit} button to get the corressponding POS tag, chunk, named entity sequences. Each label is tagged with different color to make the output easy to see. Users can also look up the meaning of each label by click \textit{Help} button. Figure~\ref{fig:5} presents the web interface of our system.
\begin{figure*}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.255]{nnvlp_1}
\caption{The Web Interface of NNVLP Toolkit}
\label{fig:5}
\end{figure*}
\section{Experiments}
\label{sec:experiments}
\paragraph{}
In this section, we compare the performance of NNVLP toolkit with
other published toolkits for Vietnamese including
Vitk~\cite{Le:2010a}, vTools~\cite{Mai-Vu:2013},
RDRPOSTagger~\cite{nguyen-EtAl:2014:Demos}, and
vie-ner-lstm~\cite{Thai-Hoang:2017b}.

\subsection{Data Sets}
\paragraph{}
To compare fairly, we train and evaluate these systems on the VLSP
corpora. In particular, we conduct experiments on Viet Treebank corpus
for POS tagging and chunking tasks, and on VLSP shared task 2016
corpus for NER task. All of these corpora are converted to CoNLL
format. The corpus of POS tagging task consists of two columns namely
word, and POS tag. For chunking task, there are three columns namely
word, POS tag, and chunk in the corpus. The corpus of NER task
consists of four columns. The order of these columns are word, POS
tag, chunk, and named entity. While NER corpus has been separated into
training and testing parts, the POS tagging and chunking data sets are
not previously divided. For this reason, we use $80\%$ of these data
sets as a training set, and the remaining as a testing set. Because
our system adopts early stopping method, we use $10\%$ of these data
sets from the training set as a development set when training NNVLP
system. Table~\ref{tab:1} and Table~\ref{tab:2}\footnote{For more
  details about these tagsets, please visit the demo website at
  \url{nnvlp.org}} shows the statistics of each corpus.
\begin{table}[h]
\center
{
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
 & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Number of sentences} \\
\hline
Data sets & POS & Chunk & NER \\
\hline
Train & 7268 & 7283 & 14861 \\
\hline
Dev & 1038 & 1040 & 2000 \\
\hline
Test & 2077 & 2081 & 2831 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\caption{The number of sentences for each part in POS tagging, chunking, and NER data sets\label{tab:1}}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[h]
\center
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
Data sets & Labels \\
\hline
POS & \parbox[t]{2.1in}{N, V, CH, R, E, A, P, Np, M, C, Nc, L, T, Ny, Nu, X, B, S, I, Y, Vy} \\
\hline
Chunk & NP, VP, PP, AP, QP, RP \\
\hline
NER & PER, LOC, ORG, MISC \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\caption{Labels in POS tagging, chunking, and NER data sets\label{tab:2}}
\end{table}
\subsection{Evaluation Methods}
\paragraph{}
We use the accuracy score that is the percentage of correct labels to evaluate the performance of each system for POS tagging task. For chunking and NER tasks, the performance is measured with $F_{1}$ score, where $F_1 =
\frac{2*P*R}{P + R}$. Precision ($P$) is the percentage of chunks or named entities found by
the learning system that are correct. Recall ($R$) is the percentage of chunks or
named entities present in the corpus that are found by the system. A
chunk or named entity is correct only if it is an exact match of the
corresponding phrase in the data file.

\subsection{Experiment Results}
\paragraph{}
We evaluate performances of our system and several published systems
on POS tagging, chunking, and NER data sets. Inputs for POS tagging
task are words, for chunking task are words and POS tags, and for NER
task are words, POS tags, and chunks. Table~\ref{tab:3},
Table~\ref{tab:4}, and Table~\ref{tab:5} present the performance of
each system on POS tagging, chunking, and NER task respectively. The
hyper-parameters for training NNVLP are given in
Table~\ref{tab:params}.

\begin{table}[h]
\center
{
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
System & Accuracy \\
\hline
Vitk & 88.41 \\
\hline
vTools & 90.73 \\
\hline
RDRPOSTagger & 91.96 \\
\hline
NNVLP & \textbf{91.92} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\caption{Performance of each system on POS tagging task\label{tab:3}}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{|l | l| r |}
    \hline
    Layer & Hyper-parameter & Value\\
    \hline
    CNN & window size & 3 \\
          & number of filters & 30 \\
    \hline
    LSTM & hidden nodes & 300 \\
    \hline
    Embedding & word & 300 \\
    & character-level& 30\\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{Hyper-parameters of our models}
  \label{tab:params}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[h]
\center
{
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
System & P & R & F1 \\
\hline
vTools & 82.79 & 83.55 & 83.17 \\
\hline
NNVLP & 83.93 & 84.28 & \textbf{84.11} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\caption{Performance of each system on chunking task\label{tab:4}}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[h]
\center
{
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
System & P & R & F1 \\
\hline
Vitk & 88.36 & 89.20 & 88.78 \\
\hline
vie-ner-lstm & 91.09 & 93.03 & 92.05 \\
\hline
NNVLP & 92.76 & 93.07 & \textbf{92.91} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}}
\caption{Performance of each system on NER task\label{tab:5}}
\end{table}

By combining Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory, Convolutional
Neural Network, and Conditional Random Field, our system outperforms
most published systems on these three tasks. In particular, NNVLP
toolkit achieves an accuracy of $91.92\%$, $F_{1}$ scores of $84.11\%$
and $92.91\%$ for POS tagging, chunking, and NER tasks respectively.

\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}
We present a neural network-based toolkit for Vietnamese processing
that is a combination of Bi-LSTM, CNN, and CRF.  The system takes raw
sentences as input and produces POS tag, chunk and named entity
annotations for these sentences. The experimental results showed that NNVLP toolkit
achieves state-of-the-art results on three tasks including POS
tagging, chunking, and NER.

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Going digital: 25th European Union Film Festival all set to open on 5th Nov
The European Union Film Festival (EUFF) is all set to go digital in its 25th year in India.
The festival will feature 41 award-winning European films in 37 different languages, across six different genres, curated by Veronica Flora, with Valerio Caruso, director of Cineuropa.
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The festival is a joint event hosted by the delegation of the European Union to India, its member states and partner countries. It celebrates and bolsters the EU-India cultural partnership.
"I am delighted to announce the launch of the 25th edition of the European Union Film Festival in India, in collaboration with our Member States. It will take viewers through a journey across Europe as retold by our storytellers. This landmark anniversary is also a testament to our long-standing cultural ties with India," said H.E. Ugo Astuto, Ambassador of the European Union to India.
He added that highlighting individual stories yet reflecting universal experiences, this year's special anniversary edition will offer a window into the heart of Europe and the power of cinema to negotiate both every day and extraordinary circumstances.
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Protesters said building on the green belt site would have 'catastrophic' effects on fauna and flora
By James Watkins
Artist impression of plans which have been formally submitted for 2,100 homes at Wisley Airfield
More than 120,000 people have signed an electronic petition against a proposed 2,100 home development in Wisley.
The signatures, some from people living as far away as Brazil, Venezuela, and Texas, states it is against developers 'destroying the UK's beautiful green belt'.
The petition comes as Wisley Property Investments, the group behind the plans to redevelop the former Wisley Airfield, claims that 46% of 1,002 respondents of a recent telephone survey support a new development in the area, with 30% against.
"If this plan goes ahead detrimental harm will be done to the rural landscape character of the area and the openness of this precious greenbelt," the Care 2 petition claims.
"Damage will occur to the habitats of the protected and endangered rare species in contravention of the EU Birds Directives and Habitats Regulation. Aside from the catastrophic effect this will have on our fauna and flora, these developers are ignoring the impact this new town will have on local residents. Major traffic issues will clog small village roads, which are at capacity already."
Comments attached to some of the signatures include suggestions that brownfield land should be used for developments instead, and that the green belt is what makes the area beautiful.
This week, 123,083 people had signed the petition, with a target set for 124,000.
The project, described by the applicant as a 'sustainable new community', features a range of one-bedroom apartments to five-bedroom family houses, and affordable homes.
As well as more than 2,000 homes, the application includes plans for a school, a care home and shops, and is now with the borough council's planning officers for consideration.
Initial designs for a town of more than 2,000 homes which could be built on the site of Wisley Airfield
The proposals have so far attracted more than 1,500 objections through the borough council's public consultation.
In Wisley Property Investment's survey, it asked: "How would you describe your views on the proposals for a community of 2,100 homes, of which up to 800 will be affordable, to be built at Wisley Airfield?"
A total of 461 said they were either strong or slightly in favour, with 309 people saying they were slightly or strongly against. The highest support was from the 18 to 34 year-old respondents.
Mike Murray, from Wisley Property Investments, said it was disappointed the petition has come forward.
"Guildford is in a housing crisis," he said. "With house prices 11 times above average earnings, and only 781 affordable homes built in the last 10 years, more housing is desperately needed.
"With more than 70 acres of concrete and hardstanding, a railway station within a six-minute cycle ride, and a consented direct access to the A3, Wisley Airfield is an obvious site for development.
"A telephone survey undertaken to strict Market Research Society rules of more than 1,000 residents across Guildford Borough in March 2015 found that 46% supported a sustainable new community at Wisley Airfield, with only 30% against.
"By contrast, this petition objecting to the building of up to 2,100 much needed new homes, together with a haven for people and wildlife, that doubles the valuable habitat on site, has been signed by many people who are not residents of the UK, never mind Guildford borough.
"This would indicate that many of the signatories have not been provided with the full facts and are not fully invested in the Guildford community."
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Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.2 percent in fiscal 2017 — a fourth straight year of decline — as the use of renewable energy increased, the Environment Ministry said Tuesday.
Emissions totaled the equivalent of 1.292 billion tons of carbon dioxide in the fiscal year ended March 2018, it said.
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The Real Time Regional Gateway (RT-RG) is a data processing and data mining system introduced in 2007 by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and deployed during the American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is able to store, fuse, search and analyze data from numerous sources, from intercepted communications to open source information. It was effective in providing information about Iraqi insurgents who had eluded less comprehensive techniques.

Development
The prototype of the Real Time Regional Gateway (RT-RG) was designed by the military and intelligence contractor SAIC. Instead of storing all data in centralized databases, as was NSA's traditional approach, RT-RG uses distributed computing, which means hundreds or even thousands  of individual computers work together on one task.

This is managed by the Hadoop software, that was originally developed by Yahoo. The NSA created its own version, called Accumulo, which can manage extremely large data sets and also includes granular access controls. The successor of the Real Time Regional Gateway is named Nexus 7 and is now under development at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

At NSA the driving force behind the system was former NSA director Keith B. Alexander, who initiated a massive search for every piece of electronic information that could be found, after the Iraqi road side bombings reached an all-time high in 2005. Alexander's "collect it all" strategy is believed by Glenn Greenwald to be the model for the comprehensive worldwide mass collection of communications which NSA is supposedly engaged in.

Origins and deployment in Iraq
Under the secret interception programs that were started right after the September 11 attacks, which were codenamed STELLARWIND, the NSA got access to foreign communications at the switching points where international fiber-optic cables entered the United States. This enabled NSA not only to monitor many communications from Iraq, but also to initiate cyber attacks against Iraqi telephone and computer equipment.

When the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 began, the NSA exported this all-encompassing way of intelligence gathering and analysing to Iraq. As its name describes, the Real Time Regional Gateway was a gateway through which all sorts of information related to one region (Iraq) became available to analysts and soldiers in real time and they could search the data similar to a search-engine like Google.

The RT-RG derived its data from all kinds of sources, like raids, interrogations, and signal intelligence collected from ground sensors, as well as by airborne platforms like the RC-135 Rivet Joint and C-12 Huron aircraft, and SIGINT drones and satellites. With the RT-RG, field commanders and intelligence analysts in the field were for the first time able to directly access NSA databases, making that intercepted data were ten times faster available on the ground than in the past. On a screen they were provided with "every type of surveillance available in a given territory" and they could also "get back a phone number or list of potential targets".

One of the developers of the RT-RG, was Pedro "Pete" Rustan from the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). In a 2010 interview he said that the system was designed to put together pieces from a different types of data sources, looking for patterns, and make this available directly to American warfighters on the ground.

The Real Time Regional Gateway contributed to "breaking up Iraqi insurgent networks and significantly reducing the monthly death toll from improvised explosive devices (IED) by late 2008". According to journalist and author Shane Harris, the RT-RG was "a rare example of successful collaboration within the byzantine federal bureaucracy" and eventually the key for winning the war in Iraq.

Deployment in Afghanistan
In 2010, RT-RG refocused on Afghanistan, where it was used to fuse and analyze even more types of data. Besides the more traditional military intelligence information, this included for example road-traffic patterns, public opinion and even the price of potatoes, because changes in the latter could indicate potential conflicts. Initially these data were gathered and analyzed for 30-day periods, but later this was extended to 90 days, as adding more data appeared to give better results. A former US counterterrorism official described the RT-RG as "the ultimate correlation tool" adding that "It is literally being able to predict the future".

See also
 Combined Information Data Network Exchange

References

External links
 RT-RG display at the National Cryptologic Museum

Mass surveillance
American secret government programs
War on terror
Iraq War
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
National Security Agency operations

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He fought with himself, but the truth he wanted to keep from her had to be told. It's tell her or lose her. "Julia knew how I felt about you. From the first moment I saw you, I wanted you. When I started to get to know you, I knew I wanted more. I fought it because I couldn't do that to Julia, and I knew if I hurt her I'd lose you. I'd rather get the short bursts of time with you than nothing at all." He cupped her cheek, tilting her head back. "Then she saw the picture I kept of you that day." His hands shook a bit as he recalled their argument.
"What?" she asked.
"I left my wallet on the dressing table. She found the picture I kept of you for my own pleasure. It's one of you smiling with the sun shining down on you. Julia started screaming at me for cheating." He didn't want to say anymore, but he started it. "I told her I never touched you and that you didn't have a clue how I felt. You two were going out shopping, and there wasn't any time to mend fences. She left with you, and it was only later that I felt real pain."
"The day of the accident, she found out you cared about me?" Tears were falling down her cheeks.
"I got a text ten minutes before your call. She asked me a simple question."
She opened her mouth and then closed it.
"Julia asked me if I'd be able to love her if you were dead."
April gasped. "No, Julia wouldn't do that."
"Ten minutes later you called, April. She was trying to kill you but killed herself in the process."
"No, you don't know that. Julia wouldn't do that."
He held her tightly as her tears fell harder than ever before.
His words made no sense, yet April knew he spoke the truth. That day Julia had been withdrawn, and she simply hadn't seen it. Her friend had been particular about her driving until that day.
"How do you even know this? It could have been a complete coincidence."
"I got an investigator to check out the crash site. There were cameras in the area. His investigation told me all I needed to know. Julia aimed for your side of the car. What she didn't anticipate was the pull of the curb that changed her aim so that she was the one who took the impact killing her instantly."
"Julia tried to kill me?"
She pulled out of his arms and started walking away.
"April, don't walk away." He went to grab her again, but she dodged his arm.
"No, you've just told me that the best friend I thought I had was going to kill me because her boyfriend had a picture of me."
"I'm in love with you."
"You don't know what love is. When you love someone you don't date another person who's their best friend."


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What Is Diversification?
Diversification is a risk management strategy that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. The rationale behind this technique is that a portfolio constructed of different kinds of assets will, on average, yield higher long-term returns and lower the risk of any individual holding or security.
The Basics of Diversification
Diversification strives to smooth out unsystematic risk events in a portfolio, so the positive performance of some investments neutralizes the negative performance of others. The benefits of diversification hold only if the securities in the portfolio are not perfectly correlated—that is, they respond differently, often in opposing ways, to market influences.
Studies and mathematical models have shown that maintaining a well-diversified portfolio of 25 to 30 stocks yields the most cost-effective level of risk reduction. The investing in more securities generates further diversification benefits, albeit at a drastically smaller rate.
Diversification is a strategy that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio.
Portfolio holdings can be diversified across asset classes and within classes, and also geographically—by investing in both domestic and foreign markets.
Diversification limits portfolio risk but can also mitigate performance, at least in the short term.
Diversification by Asset Class
Fund managers and investors often diversify their investments across asset classes and determine what percentages of the portfolio to allocate to each. Classes can include:
Stocks—shares or equity in a publicly traded company
Bonds—government and corporate fixed-income debt instruments
Real estate—land, buildings, natural resources, agriculture, livestock, and water and mineral deposits
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs)—a marketable basket of securities that follow an index, commodity, or sector
Commodities—basic goods necessary for the production of other products or services
Cash and short-term cash-equivalents (CCE)—Treasury bills, certificate of deposit (CD), money market vehicles, and other short-term, low-risk investments
They will then diversify among investments within the assets classes, such as by selecting stocks from various sectors that tend to have low return correlation, or by choosing stocks with different market capitalizations. In the case of bonds, investors can select from investment-grade corporate bonds, U.S. Treasuries, state and municipal bonds, high-yield bonds and others.
Foreign Diversification
Investors can reap further diversification benefits by investing in foreign securities because they tend to be less closely correlated with domestic ones. For example, forces depressing the U.S. economy may not affect Japan's economy in the same way. Therefore, holding Japanese stocks gives an investor a small cushion of protection against losses during an American economic downturn.
Diversification and the Retail Investor
Time and budget constraints can make it difficult for noninstitutional investors—i.e., individuals—to create an adequately diversified portfolio. This challenge is a key reason why mutual funds are so popular with retail investors. Buying shares in a mutual fund offers an inexpensive way to diversify investments.
While mutual funds provide diversification across various asset classes, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) afford investor access to narrow markets such as commodities and international plays that would ordinarily be difficult to access. An individual with a $100,000 portfolio can spread the investment among ETFs with no overlap.
Disadvantages of Diversification
Reduced risk, a volatility buffer: The pluses of diversification are many. However, there are drawbacks, too. The more holdings a portfolio has, the more time-consuming it can be to manage—and the more expensive, since buying and selling many different holdings incurs more transaction fees and brokerage commissions. More fundamentally, diversification's spreading-out strategy works both ways, lessening both the risk and the reward.
Say you've invested $120,000 equally among six stocks, and one stock doubles in value. Your original $20,000 stake is now worth $40,000. You've made a lot, sure, but not as much as if your entire $120,000 had been invested in that one company. By protecting you on the downside, diversification limits you on the upside—at least, in the short term. Over the long term, diversified portfolios do tend to post higher returns (see example below).
Reduces portfolio risk
Hedges against market volatility
Offers higher returns long-term
Limits gains short-term
Time-consuming to manage
Incurs more transaction fees, commissions
Diversification and Smart Beta
Smart beta strategies offer diversification by tracking underlying indices but do not necessarily weigh stocks according to their market cap. ETF managers further screen equity issues on fundamentals and rebalance portfolios according to objective analysis and not just company size. While smart beta portfolios are unmanaged, the primary goal becomes outperformance of the index itself.
For example, as of March 2019, the iShares Edge MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF holds 125 large- and mid-cap U.S. stocks. By focusing on return on equity (ROE), debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio, and not solely market cap, the ETF has returned 90.49% cumulatively since its inception in July 2013. A similar investment in the S&P 500 Index grew by 66.33%.
Real World Example
Say an aggressive investor who can assume a higher level of risk, wishes to construct a portfolio composed of Japanese equities, Australian bonds, and cotton futures. He can purchase stakes in the iShares MSCI Japan ETF, the Vanguard Australian Government Bond Index ETF, and the iPath Bloomberg Cotton Subindex Total Return ETN, for example.
With this mix of ETF shares, due to the specific qualities of the targeted asset classes and the transparency of the holdings, the investor ensures true diversification in their holdings. Also, with different correlations, or responses to outside forces, among the securities, they can slightly lessen their risk exposure.
Fund Overlap
Fund overlap is a situation where an investor invests in several mutual funds with overlapping positions.
Portfolio Management Definition
Portfolio Management involves deciding investment mix and policy, matching investments to goals, asset allocation and balancing risk with performance.
Smart beta investing combines the benefits of passive investing and the advantages of active investing strategies.
How to Use the Sharpe Ratio to Analyze Portfolio Risk and Return
The Sharpe ratio is used to help investors understand the return of an investment compared to its risk.
Mutual Fund Definition
A mutual fund is defined as a type of investment vehicle consisting of a portfolio of stocks, bonds or other securities, which is overseen by a professional money manager. Long a favored choice for retail investors, mutual funds have both advantages and disadvantages compared to other asset classes.
Benchmark Definition
A benchmark is a standard against which the performance of a security, mutual fund or investment manager can be measured.
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The Many Ways to Achieve Investment Portfolio Diversification
6 Popular ETF Types For Your Portfolio
Leveraged ETFs: Are They Right For You? (SSO, DDM)
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It was a fun weekend. A simple, but busy weekend. A visit to Winter Park/Lake Mary to see some of John's family (Winter Park is a lovely little town), a lovely cloudy white sky, a few fun meals (pig belly and lobster tacos), a trip to Ikea (not pictured), wedding band shopping (haven't made the purchase yet!), a birthday lunch with John's dad, cake tasting at Publix with my family, a trip to pick up a new-to-us kitchen table (Craig's List!), trip to the grocery store, the beginning of wall paper removal prep, and a SUCCESSFUL bathroom tile cleaner (hallelujah!). The weekend ended with a bang (literally), as last night brought torrential downpours and the comfort of a rainy evening. We are livin' this life!
Tell John Happy Belated Birthday, We didn't know his was last week. We'll remember next year..


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Breakthrough tech takes plant breeding to new heights
By Gerald Pilger | October 2017 | Technology
It's been described as the "biggest biotech discovery of the century" by MIT Technology Review and the "breakthrough of the year" by Science magazine. And its developers have already won the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, which honours "transformative advances made toward understanding living systems and extending human life."
The tech is called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR for short. It is a gene editing technology that is expected to revolutionize many areas of life, including agriculture. Huge investments are being made by plant breeders and seed companies for rights to use the technology.
Crops modified by CRISPR are already in the pipeline and may be available to commercial producers in some countries within the next few years.
CRISPR may even replace the genetic engineering techniques that gave the world GMO plants and foods. When asked if gene editing (of which CRISPER is one process) is a better technology than GMO, Dr.Dean Bushey, global regulatory manager for research at Bayer in Raleigh, North Carolina, says that gene editing is more efficient. "Gene editing enables scientists to make specific, targeted deletion, edits or insertions to the plant genome and know what will happen. It allows more precise changes to the plant."
Bushey describes gene editing as a natural progression in plant breeding. He explains how early farmers selected seed for the next crop by saving the seed from the biggest and best plants. Better scientific methods led to plant crossbreeding to achieve desired traits.
Most recently, transgenic insertions and genetic modification have been used to introduce new traits in plants such as herbicide and insect resistance. Today's CRISPER technology allows breeders to target and modify specific, individual genes. "Gene editing is the next evolution in plant breeding," says Bushey.
So just what is CRISPR?
Simply put, the use of CRISPR technology in plant breeding could be compared to the way a modern word processor allows writers to edit their work. Historically, when handwritten scrolls were the only available medium, making a mistake or any changes meant the entire scroll would have to be replaced. With the introduction of type, new information could be added or corrections made by rewriting only a portion of a book or newspaper. But even a small change meant re-typesetting the entire page in question before sending it to press.
Today, word processors allow writers to quickly and cleanly edit text by simply placing the cursor where they want to type in new copy, insert or delete a single letter, word or series of words, and even add effects, like italics and bullet points, to achieve the desired result before publication.
CRISPR works in a very similar way. If plant scientists can identify which gene (or genes) is responsible for regulating plant growth under drought conditions, for example, CRISPR allows them to target that specific gene and delete a gene segment, or edit it by enhancing or decreasing the action of that gene, or even insert a new section of DNA to make the plant more drought tolerant.
Instead of growing thousands of plants under drought conditions and hoping to find one that is more tolerant, CRISPR raises the bar so that all plants tested have more drought tolerance to begin with. However, Bushey points out that plant breeders still have to screen the offspring plants to make sure the changes they made to the genome does not impact any other growth factors, or that they don't overlook other genes that may impact drought tolerance.
Bushey predicts the biggest initial benefit from CRISPR will be a hugely expanded pool of scientific knowledge. "We are going to learn a lot more about plants," he says. "Plants have 20,000 to 30,000 genes and CRISPR will help us understand what each gene does."
Still, this technology will provide measurable, tangible benefits for farmers. Bushey points out that instead of taking 10 to 12 years to bring a new trait to market, it could be achieved in five or six years. It will lower costs of research and development and enable many more researchers and breeders to produce more new and better products.
There are already new advances on the horizon.
Chinese scientists have used CRISPR to create a strain of wheat that's resistant to powdery mildew. A U.S. company is testing drought-resistant corn and wheat strains. A new variety of corn is being grown which has unique starch properties. A new canola variety has been developed with a different mode of herbicide resistance. Penn State has created a non-browning mushroom. All of these developments have been done without transgenics, allowing the new plants to be classified as non-GMO. CRISPR is also being tested in rice, soybeans, potatoes, sorghum, oranges and tomatoes. Livestock producers are not being left out. In Scotland, CRISPR induced changes have given hogs resistance to a hemorrhagic virus. The technology has also been used to develop hornless dairy cows.
Regulation matters
Unfortunately, science is proceeding faster than regulation, or demand by consumers, for this new technology. As an industry, we run the same risk with CRISPR that happened with GMOs. A lack of knowledge about this technology, as well as a lack of acknowledgement and clarity by regulatory agencies around CRISPR could prevent farmers and consumers from reaping the benefits it offers agriculture. We need to learn a lesson from the introduction of GMOs that transparency is vital. Farmers need to understand and share the benefits CRISPR offers and how, by using this new technology, they can provide consumers with more, better and cheaper foods in the future.
Farmers need to proactively explain to consumers what they are doing and why. Farmers and researchers need to show that CRISPR derived products have been achieved through a process that mirrors the way nature changes the genome. All this must be done without making CRISPR developed plants and food products a special class.
Fortunately, this is the way CRISPR is currently being judged by regulatory bodies in North America. But this definition is under review, so now is the time farmers need to look at this technology, decide what it can offer, then tell researchers and regulators what they want this technology to do rather than simply accepting what is offered.
Further reading about CRISPR CRISPR Applications in Plants www.farmforum.ca/CRISPRapplications
Dirt to Dinner, Food Matters, CRISPR article: www.farmforum.ca/dirttodinner-CRISPR
CRISPR: A new toolbox for better crops www.farmforum.ca/CRISPRforbettercrops
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Agencies must now have a plan to make sure every project manager meets the qualifications set forth last month by the CIO Council.
In a July 21 memo to CIOs, Karen Evans, Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and IT, said plans should outline agencies' approach, milestones and schedule for complying with the council's guidance.
The memo follows earlier OMB guidance requiring agencies to ensure by Sept. 30 that all major projects have qualified project managers.
The CIO Council defined three project manager levels corresponding to project risk.
For the fiscal 2006 budget submission due in September, agencies also must identify the project management level required for each project and whether the assigned project manager is qualified at that level, Evans said.


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A traveller once said that peacocks were small in other realms… My dad says it's gibberish and I think so too…
The bonding years between a rider and his steed had been extended for Micheal by two more years. That meant that he and his Peacock that was already much bigger than him had to spend all day and every day together, the peacocks and the boy bond was one of the ancient leftover traditions that kept them atop the rider planet.
Their world had an assortment of large animals living in it so the various Clans had made several pacts with various animals. Some two, three or even more 'but we remain at the top because and only because we kept the stupid tradition of bonding with these peacocks' Michael thought to himself as he stared intently at his peacock who was working with his head held high.
Michael was so pissed and focused that he didn't notice the crater in front of him and tripped, the Peacock caught him saying 'Easy there'
Michael pushed his feathers away and continued on.
After walking around meaninglessly for a few hours his Peacock reminded him that they had a course to run before noon and Michael immediately brightened up.
Michael took off and started to run in the direction of the course while his peacock soared into the sky and tailed him to their destination. Arriving there first was Michael, he was the fastest boy in the village and the most physically fit all because he had chosen to never ride his peacock.
Michael was fast but she was what was bringing him here with such enthusiasm. He jumped into the bushes when he saw her then started to peek gently smiling like a creep, his peacock stood there waiting for him but he indulged him using his feathers to reflect the light around him and make himself invisible.
Michael never finished his course, this was the usual thing, the Peacock knew yet he never told his parents or his bestower.
Today again Michael followed Margaret around the course as she was continuously going in circles.
Margaret was a severed child, the people in the town upon their gloriously beautiful Birds always said that she wasn't linked, she was never bestowed a steed… Michael found it fascinating but it was a greater ordeal to speak to her than he thought and his peacock had no intention of spoiling his fun or helping him out.
As Margaret walked carelessly around the course, she eventually crossed Over The Borderline where envious riders awaited a chance at the glory, Michael noticed and ran to go draw her back into the safe bounds of their town. As he ran towards her slowly trying to get the jump on her and not alarm her in any way, he made a slight sound.
As she turned around with a big smile expecting to finally meet her stalker, a lizard rider crept out behind her, Michael noticed and started to run towards her but the lizard was faster and bit off her head… the Peacock immediately jumped in front of Michael and pushed him back into the borders. Michael fell on his back and stood up to scream but the sight froze him in place, he watched as lizards and all sorts of beasts jumped on his friend and devoured him.
This site reminded little Michael who was just 15 years old the cruel harsh world he lived in… all he had to take back home were the little feathers he grabbed as he was thrown back to safety.
The whole town ignored him that day, everyone felt it was his fault and couldn't hide it, his Peacock was magnificent, what a waste, it showed on all their faces.
That night, Michael laid in bed crying his heart out… she was there because he chased her, his peacock died because of him, their rankings shook for the first time because of the loss he caused today, all sort of emotions swirled around inside him and he cried and cried holding on to his last friend's feathers
As a tear dropped on the feathers it erupted in flames and Michael threw it to the ground beside his bed, it burned even more brightly and his peacock cloaked in blue flames stood in front of him
"You are next," he said to Michael and his heart sank realizing he had been chosen.
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Lateefat Bello
This is a beautiful read, a journey into the past indicating the bond between man and the animal kingdom and a lesson on the of the symbolic relationship between the two. I do like it!
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Thanks for the comment. I do appreaciate it


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Home Travel News Cheap Flights Airline Ryanair upsets passengers
Cheap Flights Airline Ryanair upsets passengers
Ryanair the leading cheap flights Airline have gained publicity today for all the wrong reasons leaving the low cost airline with egg on their faces.
The cheap flights airline that always pride themselves of being better and cheaper than their competition seen the anger on their customers when forty two of them were left stranded at Liverpool John Lennon airport on route to Belfast.
According to one of the passengers, they were told that the their departure gate was gate 30 but the gate was then changed at the last minute meaning the passengers had to rush to the new gate only to be told that the pilot of the cheap flight airline would not let them on board.
A spokesman for Liverpool John Lennon Airport said there had been a "breakdown of communications".
Passengers who had missed the flight due to the mix up were shocked to be told that they would have to pay to take another flight, which left some of the passengers saying they would never again use the cheap flights airline.
One Passenger who did not want to be named said "I cannot believe we were asked to buy another flight ticket when it was the fault of Ryanair that we missed our flight, I will never use this airline again"
Some of the angry passengers refused to take their journey by the cheap flights airline as they felt they could not trust Ryanair and felt disgusted at the way they were treated so they decided to travel by ferry instead.
The passengers said they had missed the flight through no fault of their own, but they were then told they would have to pay to take another flight home.
The head of public relations at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Robin Tudor, said the incident was under internal investigation.
"We often will put out tannoys as and when there are passengers delayed or missing from a flight, but that communication wasn't passed to us as an airport company in order to do that."
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Q: How to remove unwanted scrollable space in Tkinter window Assume a small Tkinter window with two frames, one having 20 buttons vertically and the other having 100 buttons vertically. These frames be one below the other. The window is small and so I create a scrollbar like this:
from tkinter import*

root = Tk()
root.geometry('200x100')

main_frame = Frame(root)
main_frame.pack(fill = BOTH, expand = 1)

main_canvas = Canvas(main_frame, bg = 'snow')
main_canvas.pack(side = LEFT, fill = BOTH, expand = 1)

vertical_scrollbar = ttk.Scrollbar(main_frame, orient = VERTICAL, command = main_canvas.yview)
vertical_scrollbar.pack(side = RIGHT, fill = Y)

main_canvas.configure(yscrollcommand = vertical_scrollbar.set)
main_canvas.bind('<Configure>', lambda e: main_canvas.configure(scrollregion = main_canvas.bbox("all")))

screen_frame = Frame(main_canvas, bg = 'snow')

main_canvas.create_window((0,0), window = screen_frame, anchor = 'nw')

frame1 = Frame(screen_frame, bg = 'snow').grid(row = 0, column = 0)
frame2 = Frame(screen_frame, bg = 'snow').grid(row = 1, column = 1)

for i in range(0, 20):
    Button(frame1, text = 'Button').grid(row = i, column = 0)

for j in range(0, 100):
    Button(frame2, text = 'Button').grid(row = j, column = 0)

root.mainloop()

So at this point, we will be able to scroll till the end of the second frame. But Now if I do the following:
for widgets in frame2.winfo_children():
    widgets.destroy()

Frame 2 becomes empty. But now the scrollbar doesn't end at the end of frame1. Rather there is an empty space below frame1 where 100 buttons of frame2 used to be.
So my doubt is, how do we remove this empty space?

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This walking stick is handcrafted by Brazos Walking Sticks located in Waco, from native sassafras wood. The distinct red colored bark is not lost but given a unique twist with this free-form style. This comes with a standard rubber ferrule for a secure grip, no matter the surface! The sassafras tree is often a host plant for the spicebrush swallowtail butterfly - be sure to watch for them while you're out and about with your walking stick!
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February 2014: Be Fearless-Form A Critique Groups
Every writer is in love with his or her ideas, but forming or joining a critique group gives dimension to a writer's work. It also pulls the writer out of solitary mode.
Analyzing and assessing another writer's work is a privilege. Another creative individual entrusts you to read their work and give them feedback. The information you the writer is dependant on the parameters of the critique group. "Parameters" is the key word.
Before you enter a critique group, read a document, consent to proofreading a paper or editing a manuscript, you need to draw up boundaries and limits to your review with your group or an individual. This step is important because it creates conversation between the writers who are in this group." This discussion defines the object of the author's writing and clarifies the type of critique being entrusted to you.
A successful critique group depends on a set of rules established by its members. This is a difficult hurdle. The objectives, schedule, and size of group needs to be established.
Step 1 - Introductions: Ask each potential member to not only to state their name. Ask each participant what is their work in progress (WIP).
Step 2 - Objective: Ask each attendee what they see as the end product or result of an authors' critique group.
Step 3 - Schedule: Establish whether members want to meet weekly, bi-weekly, monthly. What time of the day? Where to meet? Will there be food?
Step 4 - Size: The commitment, contributions, and the quality of critiques have a correlation to the size of the group. Potential members need to know that they need to show up and be prepared to participate.
Step 5 - Processes: How many pages to read and review by each member? Will members submit prior to the meeting in a community drop box or cloud? This interaction also evaluates the groups technology levels.
Step 6 - Legal Form: This is a tricky subject. Some critique groups (particularly online groups) ask participants to sign forms stating they will not plagiarize any one's work. It may seem harsh, but it depends on who is in your group. It is wise to know your candidates prior to the first meeting.
Step 6 - Critique Group Leader: Is it organic? Does the person who calls the first meeting becomes the leader or does the position rotate?
Yes, it is an agenda. It doesn't have to be your agenda. The first meeting has to set a tone of professionalism, after that your group will take on its own life and personality.
Be fearless, find like minded writers. CAUTION: Your group may not look like you. Members may not write the same genre as you, but don't think you failed. It is in the diversity of the group that richness blooms and ideas abound.
References for this blog:
http://www.critiquecircle.com/grammar.asp
http://lib.colostate.edu/writersontheplains/collaborate/writing.html
critique group formation expand your writing
Women's History Month: Inspiring Women
When we talk about Women's History Month we think of Pocahontas and Sacajawea who helped the explorers of this country. We think of Abigail Adams and Dolly Madison who were on the forefront of the beginning of this country. We don't want to forget the great suffragists who worked for and won the right to vote for U.S. women. We are reminded of "Rosie the Riveter" and all the brave women of America who took over the "men's positions" in the factories. The production numbers of these women are still noteworthy to this day. We honor the women who took those brave first steps to serve and continue to serve in the military. The first scientists, teachers, humanitarians, politicians, the list continues as we look for role models to inspire and encourage us. Is there a scientist, teacher, or humanitarian who inspired you ? Share these women with my followers, audience, and me. Sh
Be Strategic: Write A Holiday Memory
The momentum of the holidays propels us into a frenzy of cooking, shopping, wrapping, decorating, entertaining, cleaning, and overindulging. Writing becomes an after thought in the midst of multiple "to do" lists. BREATH . Schedule a break, whittle some time for your writing. Utilize these small chunks of time to "Write A Memory." Exercise your creativity with the keyboard or a paper and a writing instrument to describe a "who, what, where, or how" about the Holiday Season. Find a quiet place and expound on the following events of the season or better still, scribe about something you experienced that day or during the season "to be jolly." Cookie Exchange: Do you participate in this activity? Why or Why not? If you did, what was your choice of cookie? Who participates your exchange? Decorating the Outside of Your House: Who does it? How do you prepare for it? Describe the feelings and emotions of the participants of this outdoor acti
December 2016 Book Review: Maeve's Times
Warning to all writers who scribe thoughts on bits and scraps of paper and throw them in a box to rewrite later. Those bits and scraps may be published posthumously. Maeve Binchy's husband, Gordon Snell, found her "to do later" box. He built a biography of her life with her thoughts, articles, and ramblings. Maeve's Times is dated and referenced making it easy to follow. Thank you Mr. Snell for sharing insights into her professional and personal life. Her spirit lives on with her words. This author captured my attention with Copper Beeches. Maeve Binchy wrote about what she saw, lived, and felt. Her stories reflected both Irish country and city life. Each book made me feel better about people. She wrote about hard times and working through them. She wrote about love and love lost. Her book Minding Frankie demonstrates a community pulling together to help a neighbor. Any of her titles are a "goodread."
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The People's Court
The People's Court is an American arbitration-based reality court show currently presided over by retired Florida State Circuit Court Judge Marilyn Milian. Milian, the show's longest-reigning arbiter, handles small claims disputes in a simulated courtroom set. The People's Court is the first court show to use binding arbitration, introducing the format into the genre in 1981. The system has been duplicated by most of the show's successors in the judicial genre. Moreover, The People's Court is the first popular, long-running reality in the judicial genre. It was preceded only by a few short-lived realities in the genre; these short-lived predecessors were only loosely related to judicial proceedings, except for one: Parole took footage from real-life courtrooms holding legal proceedings. Prior to The People's Court, the vast majority of TV courtroom shows used actors, and recreated or fictional cases. Among examples of these types of court shows include Famous Jury Trials and Your Witness. The People's Court has had two contrasting lives. The show's first life was presided over solely by former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph Wapner. His tenure lasted from the show's debut on September 14, 1981, until May 21, 1993, when the show was cancelled due to low ratings. This left the show with a total of 2,484 ½-hour episodes and 12 seasons. The show was taped in Los Angeles during its first life. After being cancelled, reruns aired until September 9, 1994.
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First Air Date : Jan 01, 1970
Last Air Date : Jan 21, 2022
Runtime : 44 min.
Genre : Reality, Crime
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Charlie Fliegel: Staying healthy and on field is key to Nats' season
By Josh Land
April 06, 2016, 5:09am
There are plenty of things that really help swing a season one way or the other. For the 2016 Nationals, the answer is painfully obvious. Let's look at a few possibilities:
The bullpen - it stunk last year, except maybe not as much as you remember. The Nats ranked 10th in the majors in bullpen ERA. Mismanaged and maybe too much in its own head (a.k.a. mismanaged), but not necessarily what made 2015 bad. I have more faith in their free agent acquisitions, young talent and a dnew pitching coach than some, but even without that, they have enough ability to not be the single point of failure for 2016.
The defense - this team will be able to hit some, they should be able to pitch, but can they field? Poor defense has helped sink the Nats plenty of times. But they've also won 90-plus games more than once with pretty suspect defense. It won't come down to their defense, especially considering it probably beats that of their biggest division rival.
Any one player - Bryce Harper was the MVP and Max Scherzer was fifth in Cy Young voting last season, and that certainly didn't get them where they needed to be. It's easy to look at someone like Stephen Strasburg or even Trea Turner and think, "If they can just put it all together, that'll be it." But unless Harper has a 100-homer season in him, that ain't it.
No, it's more simple than all of that. It's health. Plain old staying on the field.
If they can keep the players who have a decent amount of injury history - Ryan Zimmerman, Strasburg and Jayson Werth, and for that matter Harper and Anthony Rendon - on the field, this team is going to be very good.
This isn't shocking news - and, yeah, it's essential for every team - but it's especially crucial for the Nats. Because they have more guys with health questions than most teams - and they have so much talent tied up in those guys, maybe five of their six potentially best players - it's what really matters.
Remember Zimmerman's awful 2015? After he came back healthy, he hit like an All-Star in 156 plate appearances, with an OPS of over 1.000. Healthy, he's a legitimate middle-of-the-order hitter. He did that the last two months of last season, so let's not dismiss it as ancient history.
Baseball Prospectus projects Werth to hit .254/.344/.410, and I just don't buy it. This is worse than what he did after he finally started playing well in mid-August last year. He had OBPs of .387, .398 and .394 in 2012, 2013 and 2014. A healthy Werth might not hit 25 home runs anymore, but he's still better than those projections.
Rendon, too, will certainly hit if he's healthy. Harper might not match 2015, but he's still spectacular - and he just might be what he was last season because maybe that's just Bryce now.
Throw in a solid-hitting Daniel Murphy, and decent production from Ben Revere and Michael A. Taylor. Add Danny Espinosa, who, as a shortstop with equivalent plate appearances, would have had higher value than the other starting shortstops in the division. All of that before you bring up Turner.
As for the starters, Strasburg managed an ERA under 2.00 after coming back from the disabled list last season, with a strikeout-to-walk ratio of roughly a billion to one. A healthy Strasburg plus Scherzer gives the Nats one of the best one-two punches in baseball, with solid Nos. 3 and 4 pitchers in Gio Gonzalez and Joe Ross, who looks like a really good No. 3 starter at worst. Questions remain with Tanner Roark at the fifth spot, but what team doesn't have those questions at No. 5, and his upside is incredible considering what we've seen out of him.
Every team has to worry about injuries, but the Nats have so many key contributors with health questions. One of them out of the lineup is no big deal, but three of them out for a significant time could be killer, like in 2015. And losing a starter is expected, but two at once is just scary.
But a healthy Nats team - one where Zimmerman and Werth play 130-plus games at mostly full health, where Rendon and Harper play 150-plus games, and where Strasburg makes close to 30 starts - is going to be tough to beat. Health of guys who haven't always been healthy is the Nats' key, and if they stay on the field, they will win the division.
Charlie Fliegel blogs about the Nationals for The Nationals Review. Follow him Twitter: @nationalsreview. His thoughts on the Nationals will appear here as part of MASNsports.com's season-long initiative of welcoming guest bloggers to our site. All opinions expressed are those of the guest bloggers, who are not employed by MASNsports.com but are just as passionate about their baseball as our roster of writers.
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Catskill Park
Ulster Co., NY
303 trail miles
Thirty-five peaks and ridges in the Catskills have elevations of 3,500 feet or more; 19 of them have maintained trails to their summits. Hundreds of miles of trails of all degrees of difficulty invite the hiker to this varied and delightful area.
Trail Alerts - Catskill Park
Click here to find trail alerts and updates for the Catskills.
North of the more familiar metropolitan hiking areas are the Catskills, whose high summits and steep climbs can provide especially rewarding hiking. The paved roads through the mountains of Catskill Park are well populated with hotels, bed-and-breakfast establishments, and private homes, but the higher, more rugged and remote parts of these mountains are unspoiled. From the summits and other vantage points, the views are magnificent. To the east, The Hudson River valley is spread out against a backdrop of New England hills, and in all directions lie the fir-topped peaks of the Catskills themselves, with little or no sign of human intrusion.
Thirty-five peaks and ridges in the Catskills have elevations of 3,500 feet or more; 19 of them have maintained trails to their summits. Hunter and Slide Mountains reach 4,000 feet in elevation.
Hundreds of miles of trails of all degrees of difficulty invite the hiker to this varied and delightful area. Although a great deal of the forest land in the Catskills can be explored using marked trails, hikers can find out what the wilderness is really like only by "getting off the beaten path." Trailless travel, or bushwhacking, often leads to interesting discoveries - a little-known waterfall, a balanced rock, or one of the remains of the mountain industries of the last century. Best of all, bushwhacking heightens the hiker's awareness of the environment.
Some of the trailless Catskill summits, such as Rocky or Balsam Cap, are thickly overgrown with spruce, making bushwhacking a physically demanding endeavor. Others, such as Halcott or Vly, are relatively open. All hikers - but especially those who plan to bushwhack - should let someone know where they are going before setting out, and their expected time of return.
Keep yourself informed about the latest Catskill news and trails opportunities by visiting the Catskill Trail News and Programs Page.
Opened in 2015, the Catskill Interpretative Center is "… a place where residents and visitors can learn about [the] unique natural, historical, and cultural resources" of the region.
The Catskill Forest Preserve is comprised of state-owned lands within the "Blue Line" boundary of the Catskills region. The Preserve contains numerous wild forests, wilderness areas and campgrounds managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation [DEC]. Many New York City watershed lands in the Catskills, managed by the NYCDEP, are open for hiking and boating. The Catskill Mountain Club provides a helpful overview with links to the NYCDEP site.
Catskill Park described on this page is not actually a single park but consists of public and private lands in the Catskills region open to hikers. This website subdivides the Catskills according to geographical location based on the Trail Conference "Catskill Trails" map set
Catskills – Northeastern (TC Map 141)
Escarpment Trail
Devil's Path
Hunter Mountain (current page to be revised)
Spruceton Trail
Overlook Mountain
Kaaterskill Falls
North/South Lake Area
Catskills – Central (TC Maps 142, 145)
Dry Brook Ridge Trail
Mill Brook Ridge Trail (Balsam Lake Mountain)
Pine Hill-West Branch Trail
Giant Ledge-Panther-Fox Hollow Trail
Panther Mountain
Belleayre Mountain
Catskills – Southern (TC Maps 143, 146)
Wittenberg-Cornell-Slide Trail (a.k.a. Burroughs Range Trail)
Peekamoose-Table Trail
Slide Mountain (page to be revised)
Catskills – Western (TC Map 144)
Trout Pond
Little Pond
Mongaup Pond
Each of these provides a description of the sub-region, trails overview, and directions.
Trails in the Catskills are marked with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation [DEC] plastic markers nailed to trees - blue for trails that run generally north-south, red for trails running east-west, and yellow for connecting trails or trails running diagonally.
Click to see a larger version of this map overview image.
The Long Path (aqua blaze) traverses the Catskill Park in a north-south direction for 94 miles,
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German Hollow Lean-to Crushed by Fallen Trees
Doug Senterman, volunteer supervisor of lean-tos in the Catskills for the Trail Conference reports on Feb. 23, 2010:
Some time over the winter (likely in the Jan. rain/wind storm) not just one but six trees came down and crushed the German Hollow Lean-to and it has been completely destroyed! The lean-to can not be used in it current condition and is dangerous to go around due to all the splintered wood and metal from the roof so please spread the word that it is gone and should be avoided.
Georgette Weir
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New York Times, Stephen Regenold, "2 Days, 3 Nights, on a Path Named for a Devil," September 25, 2009.
"NIGHTFALL came after the rain had stopped, and in the wet woods columns of fog twisted around dripping trees. It was 10 p.m. on a summer Friday, the forest moonless and still at the trailhead to the Devil's Path.
An opening in the woods off the parking lot looked like a dark door. Beyond, a small trail edged into the night, its route unseen. The Devil's Path, an east-to-west voyage along the spine of the Catskills, is often cited as the toughest hiking trail in the East. In 25 miles it ascends six major peaks, plunging into deep valleys between climbs.
'From end to end the Devil's Path is one of the more challenging trails around,' said Josh Howard, a director at the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, which publishes detailed maps of area trails, including the Devil's Path.
Backpackers hoping to complete the route face a total climb and descent of more than 14,000 feet. Steep ascents include cliff bands and traverse terrain that is vertical enough at times to be confused with a mountain climb.
'It's straight up and straight down, and then you do it over again,' said Mr. Howard, 33, who once hiked the entire trail in a one-day feat of endurance.
Most backpacking groups commit three days of hiking to complete the route, according to the trail conference. Backpackers can camp in lean-tos along the way and purify water from streams."
For the rest of the article, click on this link to the NYT.
Phil McLewin


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You will agree with me that stress is part of the human life. At one point in time, individuals will have to go through some stress. Stress is not only for the adults but is also experienced in children. Stress is a situation when you react to some situations. It may be evident through physical characteristics and emotions. At some point, stress is an important aspect of human life. It helps us to grow and adapt to different situations. The stress of a right level helps us to develop into a strong character. It prepares us for future threatening situations in life. This is when stress is not past some limit. When the pressure gets to another level, it does not build us anymore. This is the reason we need to know of the healthy and the best ways to deal with stress. Stress that is not controlled can be the beginning of great destruction for any human being. Many people have entered into the wrong company and did many that they live to regret because they were facing a mild level of stress that and did not get any help. Below are some theories to help one go through stressful moments in life.
The first thing that happens after a situation is that we get mixed up. We are not sure of what to do. In such situations, it is best for one to try and keep calm. There are various things that would help one relax and avoid actions that we regret in future. One can best avoid overreactions is by employing emergency stress stopping methods. These methods include taking time. You could count up to ten or take deep breaths to help you calm down. Then never be afraid to say that you are sorry. It is then important to avoid areas that have high risks of destruction. For example if you are driving, you could move to lanes that are not busy and then slow down.
As you try the above stress averting techniques, you should drift your mind to some meditation. At this time, you should avoid talking to yourself in a negative way. Never think of how doomed at that time. Make yourself believe that you can get out of the mess that you are in. Negative talking will only put you in more complex situations and aggravate your stress.


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text: Q: Adding Launch Screen Removes Autosizing Since Apple is requiring a storyboard launch screen in a few months I went ahead and tried to add one. Adding one is simple and it works just fine but it screws up the layout after loading the app. No longer does a larger screen automatically adjust the resolution, instead I'm left with an SE layout on an 8 Plus screen placed in the top-left corner with the background image repeating (like wallpaper from a 90s website). I'm not using constraints, but I'm not even sure if that's the issue. If so I have a feeling I have a lot of work ahead of me (keep in mind I've never had a need for constraints). A side thought though is, from what I understand, Apple wants all apps to look correctly on all devices... makes perfect sense. But my apps have always appeared correctly no matter the device. So it's ironic that adding the launch screen is breaking my apps' appearances. Is it the constraints? Is there an alternative solution? Or is there hopefully something simple in the launch screen that needs to be changed? Thank you!


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The last owner prior to it being exported to the UK was interested in the 911's 1960s sporting pedigree and was a particular fan of the London-born, 1967 European rally champion, Vic Elford. He decided that he wanted create a recreation of the 1967 Monte Carlo car. While looking for a suitable car for this project he came across a matching numbers, European specification, 911 S complete with factory limited slip differential which in 2005 had undergone a full restoration by The Vintage Motorcar Company in Atlanta, Georgia in its original colours to a 'Concours' standard and as a result, enjoyed much success on the Concours circuit.
This rare, SWB 1967 'S' offers a unique combination of both originality and motorsport character and could be easily returned to its original road-going form or, enjoyed in its current, iconic guise as a tribute to one of motorsport's greats.


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Music in the Western World: a History in Documents
2007, edited by Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin. "This classic anthology assembles over 200 source readings, bringing to life the history of music through letters, reviews, biographical sketches, memoirs, and other documents. Writings by composers, critics, and educators touch on virtually every aspect of Western music from ancient Greece to the present day."
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Filling your plate with a lot of colors is about so much more than a nice presentation. Eating a variety of colors provides different nutrients to help boost immunity, prevent illness, reduce risk of disease, support energy levels, and support the body's natural processes.
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Studies have linked the anthocyanins, ellagic acid, and lycopene found in these red foods with preventing or fighting cardiovascular disease and cancer, improving mental functions, or treating infections.
Anthocyanins: raspberries, strawberries, cherries, apples, beets, red pepper, kidney beans, cabbage, adzuki beans, red onion.
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Lycopene: tomato, watermelon, guava, grapefruit.
Carotenoids are thought to decrease the risk certain cancers and eye disease. Flavanoids have been linked with reduced risk of a number of chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders.
carotenoids (lutein, zeaxanthin): corn, honeydew melon, mango, summer and spaghetti squash.
Studies suggest that glucosinaolates help protect against cancers of the lungs and intestines. Chlorophyll is used for treating wounds and as an "internal deoderant." Isoflavones may protect against age-related diseases, like cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, cancer, and loss of cognitive function. Phytosterols reduce total blood cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels. Catechins are natural antioxidants that help prevent cell damage.
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Allicin can be useful as an antimicrobial substance, and to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. Lignans have long been associated with reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. And chlorogenic acid is linked to antibacterial, antioxidant, and anticarcinogenic activities.


I'm a loser, baby, fair and square.
Let's hear it for America's suithearts, I must confess I'm in love with my own sins.
America's Suitehearts - Fall Out Boy.
Now there's the reason I drive slow: That there in the middle of the road? Ya. That's a moose.
Unbreakable - Of Mice & Men.
Breathe me in, exhale slow. Take me to anywhere you wanna go.
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End of Me - A Day To Remember.


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