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Schroders Review
Topic: Fund Manager Reviews 20 August 2019
74% of Schroders funds received a poor 1 or 2 star performance rating for consistently performing worse than at least half of their peers.
The Schroder UK Opportunities fund ranked 215th out of 229 funds in the UK All Companies sector with 5-year growth of 15.56% compared to the 36.05% sector average.
Over the past 1, 3 & 5 years the Schroder Long Dated Corporate Bond has consistently been the top performing fund in the IA Sterling Corporate Bond sector.
Schroders is a global asset manager with more than 5,000 employees across six continents. They are currently responsible for more than £421 billion of client money. They have extensive investment resources and currently manage a range of 71 unit trust & OEIC funds and 6 Investment Trusts which have become some of the most popular choices for UK investors.
To identify how competitive their range of funds and investment trusts are, we analysed the performance of each fund over the recent 1, 3 & 5 years alongside all other competing same sector funds.
Schroders Performance
We compared the performance of Schroder's 71 unit trust & OEIC funds and 6 investment trusts alongside the performance of their peers over the 1, 3 & 5 year period up to 1st July 2019.
This analysis identified that during the periods analysed, only 2 of Schroders funds consistently outperformed at least 75% of same sector funds, and 45.5% of their investment funds consistently ranking in the bottom quartile (worst 25% of funds within their sector).
Amongst the funds that have struggled to compete in recent years was their celebrated range of Maximiser funds.
Schroder's Maximiser Funds
In 2005, Schroders launched the first of a new range of funds called Maximiser funds. Schroders' Maximiser strategy aims to deliver a sustainable high level of income from a stock-market based investment, and the range has proven popular with UK investors.
Schroder Income Maximiser
There are 3 Maximiser funds, the largest of which is the Schroder Income Maximiser fund, which was also the first to launch in November 2005. This fund currently manages £1.2 billion of client assets and its objective is to deliver a target income of 7% per year for investors by investing at least 80% in shares of UK companies.
The fund is heavily weighted in financial services companies with holdings in HSBC, Aviva and Standard Chartered, but it also has holdings in consumer services brands such as Morrisons and Tesco's.
Over the recent 5-years, the Schroder Income Maximiser fund returned growth of 29.00%, which ranked the fund 44th out of 78 funds and was lower than the 29.87% sector average for the period.
In the most recent 12 months the fund return losses of -3.85%, which was worse than 61% of same sector funds.
In comparison, the Neptune Income fund, which is also classified within the IA UK Equity Income sector, returned growth for the same 1, 3 & 5 year periods of 5.71%, 46.74% and 51.75%.
Over the recent 1, 3 & 5-year periods the performance of the Schroder Income Maximiser fund has been disappointing. But since its launch in November 2005 up to 1st July 2019, it has returned cumulative growth of 150.79% compared to the 122.22% sector average for the period, supporting Schroders recommendation that this fund is only suitable for investors who are prepared to whether market movements and hold their money in the fund for the long haul.
Schroder Asian Income Maximiser
The second Maximiser fund launched by Schroders was their Asian Income Maximiser fund, which has amassed funds under management of over £407 million since it launched in June 2010.
The fund aims to provide income and capital growth by investing at least 80% of its assets in Asian equities (excluding Japan) which Schroders believe have good long-term income and capital growth potential. Since its launch, this fund has returned growth of 124.80%, which was better than the sector average of 113.98%.
Over the past 5 years this fund has struggled. Its growth of 59.02% fell below the 67.74% sector average, and it was lower than 62% of same sector funds. In recent months the fund has performed much better with growth of 5.86% over the past 12 months ranking better than 79% of its rivals.
Schroder US Equity Income Maximiser
The most recent of the Maximiser range of funds is the Schroder US Equity Income Maximiser fund which launched in April 2017. The fund currently manages a comparatively modest £110.93 million of client assets and it is classified within the highly competitive IA North America sector. The strategy of this fund is to invest at least 80% of its assets in a passively managed portfolio from the top 500 listed US companies by market capitalisation.
Since its launch over 3 years ago up to 1st July 2019 it has returned growth of 23.84%, which was below the 28.26% sector average. Over the past 12 months it has ranked within the bottom 50% of funds in the IA North America sector with growth of 11.35%.
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The Best Schroder Funds
Over the recent 1, 3 & 5 years the Schroder Long Dated Corporate Bond fund has been an exceptional fund, and one of Schroders strongest performers. During these periods the fund returned growth of 11.44%, 25.39%, and 54.25%, which was higher than every other fund in the IA Sterling Corporate Bond sector. In contrast, the average returns within this sector over the same periods was 5.36%, 14.26% and 26.75% respectively.
Another fund to perform well was the Schroder Global Emerging Markets fund. This fund currently manages £943 million of client assets, and as the name suggests, it is an emerging markets fund classified within the IA Emerging Markets sector.
The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in equities of emerging market companies worldwide but currently it is primarily weighted in Asia Pacific and South Korean Equities. Over the past 5 years this fund has returned growth of 62.75%, which was above the sector average of 51.35% and better than three quarters of competing emerging market funds.
The £350 million Schroder Sterling Corporate Bond fund has also performed consistently better than at least 75% of competing same sector funds over each of the three periods analysed.
The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in bonds denominated in sterling (or in other currencies and hedged back into sterling) issued by UK companies and companies worldwide.
Over the recent 12 months the fund outperformed 93% of same sector funds with growth of 8.06% compared to a sector average of 5.36%. The fund also outperformed the majority of competing funds over the last 3 & 5 years with growth returns of 21.76% & 34.47% respectively.
Underperforming Schroder Funds
From the 77 funds and Investment Trusts analysed, 74% consistently performed worse than at least half of their competitors. Among the worst underperformers was the £150 million Schroder UK Opportunities fund which consistently ranked among the worst in its sector.
Over the recent 5 year period this fund returned growth of 15.56%, which was less than half the sector average and worse than 94% of competing funds within the IA UK All Companies sector. In the recent 12 months the fund returned losses of -6.87% which ranked the fund 210th out of 256 funds.
The Schroder MM Diversity Income fund was another fund managed by Schroders that has struggled for performance in comparison to other same sector funds. Since its launch in 2010 the Schroder MM Diversity Income fund has performed below the sector average. Over the past 5-years this fund returned growth of 15.27%, which fell well short of the 27.38% sector average and was worse than 97% of same sector funds. Over the recent 12 months this fund has not performed much better as its growth of 0.61% was not even a quarter of the sector average for this period.
Schroders Investment Trusts
Schroders are also a strong proponent of Investment Trusts, which they promote as "one of the investment world's best kept secrets". Schroders currently have a range of 6 investment trusts which vary in strategy and invest in a range of UK, Asia and real estate sectors.
Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company
The Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company is an investment trust that launched in 1987 and currently has a market value of £363 million. The objective of this investment trust it to achieve a high rate of total return primarily through investment in equity and equity-related securities in Asia Pacific companies (excluding Japan).
Over the past 5-years this fund returned growth of 126.93%, which was the highest performing funds in its sector.
Schroder Asia Pacific
Sitting alongside the Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company in the IT Asia Pacific sector is the Schroder Asia Pacific investment trust. With a market value of £785 million this fund has been a more popular choice for investors but it has consistently performed worse than the Schroder Asian Total Return I.T.
Over the past 1, 3 & 5 years this fund returned growth of 0.85%, 74.44% and 96.05%, which although better than the sector average they were below that of its sister fund.
Schroder Income Growth
The principal investment objectives of this investment trust is to provide real growth of income, or growth of income in excess of the rate of inflation, and capital growth as a consequence of the rising income. It is a UK focused fund with 1005 of its holdings in UK based companies which include Royal Dutch Shell, Glaxo Smith Kline, BP and Lloyds.
The IT UK Equity Income sector is a competitive sector which includes some of the most popular investment trusts in the UK. Over the recent 1, 3 & 5years the Schroder Income Growth IT managed to deliver moderately competitive returns of -0.61%, 31.74% and 30.45%. However, compared to the popular Finsbury Growth & Income IT, which has consistently been the top performer in that sector, its returns are small. Over the same 1, 3 & 5-year period the Finsbury Growth & Income IT returned growth of 13.93%, 63.91% and 94.80% respectively.
Schroder Japan Growth
The Schroder Japan Growth Investment Trusts principal investment objective is to achieve capital growth from an actively managed portfolio principally comprising securities listed on the Japanese stock markets.
This I.T is classified within the small and volatile IT Japan sector where it has consistently been one of the worst performers. Over the past 12 months this fund returned significant losses of -12.55%, and although all other competing funds returned losses for the period the Schroder Japan Growth trust sustained the largest.
Over the recent 5-year period this investment trust returned growth of 62.47%, which was the 2nd lowest in the sector and almost half that of the 120.44% returned by Baillie Gifford Japan IT.
Schroder Oriental Income
Launched in July 2005, the Schroder Oriental Income IT is classified within the IT Asia Pacific Income sector where its objective is to provide a total return for investors primarily through investments in companies which are based in, or which derive a significant proportion of their revenues from the Asia Pacific region.
Over the 1, 3 & 5 year periods analysed the Schroder Oriental Income Investment Trust has returned growth of 10.43%, 53.04% and 71.91% which were comparatively modest returns for a higher risk sector which saw the JP Morgan Asian IT, which is within the same sector, return growth of 10.36%, 87.95% and 109.62% over the same period.
Schroder UK Mid Cap
The Schroder UK Mid Cap Investment Trust aims to invest in financially strong medium-sized companies across the UK that they feel can offer higher long term returns than their larger counterparts.
Since its launch in July 1995 the Schroder UK Mid Cap IT has returned cumulative growth of 533.45% compared to the 496.27% sector average. However, over the recent 5 years its growth of 30.68% fell below the sector average of 37.31%.
Schroders Fund Review
Schroders manage some of the most popular funds in the UK. Their range of unit trust and OEIC funds hold £35 billion of client assets, yet despite their popularity, our analysis identified that a large proportion of Schroder funds have consistently performed below the sector average and worse than the majority of their competitors.
We also identified the proportion of Schroders funds that have continued to deliver excellent performance on a consistent basis. This selection of consistently top performing funds may make up a small percentage of their overall fund range, but they represent some of the top performers in their sectors and have demonstrated their quality on a consistent basis.
Over the recent 5 year period, the majority of Schroder funds analysed have struggled to compete with same sector funds. Although most of their funds ranked below their peers over the 1, 3 & 5 year periods analysed, many have outperformed the sector average since their inception.
Schroders recommend that only investors who are willing to invest for the long haul and ride out potentially long periods of underperformance should consider investing in their funds. For investors who fit this profile, investing with Schroders could still be the most suitable option.
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UNStudio is a global practice with a strong foothold in Asia. Caroline Bos, founding partner of the studio, was recently in Melbourne to present a proposal for Southbank by Beulah and opened up about changing technology and the changing gender gap in architecture and design.
Sweeping curves and repetitious, complex-looking structures are a common sight on an UNStudio project. These are the result of a continual exploration of digital fabrication techniques and is something the practice has become renowned for.
"For us, [digital technology] has been really at the core of our practice," shares Caroline Bos, co-founder of Dutch practice UNStudio.
Arnhem Station, by UNStudio. Photo by Hufton Crow.
"Right at the beginning we were using digital techniques to make things possible that would otherwise never have been possible. And even now it is still like that," she continues.
Sitting at the forefront of the impending digital revolution that hit the architecture industry in the nineties, UNStudio has continued to invest in and develop the practice's in-house talent.
Arnhem Station by UNStudio. Photo by Hufton Crow.
Raffles City, Hangzhou. Photo by Seth Powers.
Beyond the endless updates, technology sits closer to the soul of UNStudio. "The relevance of architecture is situated in the essence of what is so specific about our time. So this is also why we follow technology. We follow it and we try to understand it at different levels, not just for our own efficiencies, or just for design, but because of how it impacts architecture and society at large," says Caroline.
UNStudio has many ticks in its favour in this regard – most simply by having a high profile female co-founder and by being founded in a notably progressive country such as the Netherlands. "Naturally, we have a lot of women in the practice, also in the higher positions. We also have women who are mothers. We fully support gender equity. I think it's very important," says Caroline.
UNStudio's Board of Directors, April 2018.
An unlikely coupling – technology and gender equality – but both are in a state of flux and are a clear reflection of society. UNStudio is doing more than building towers, it is using its studio and its architecture to express the cultural impetus of our time.
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Manny Pacquiao delivers a blow to an opponent.
The prayerful pugilist
By Eric Marrapodi, Co-Editor CNN Belief Blog
Manny Pacquiao punches people in the face for a living.
He is pound for pound the greatest boxer in the world. An eight-time world champion, the 147-pound Filipino fighter has obliterated his way through weight classes on his way to becoming a national hero in the Philippines and an international superstar.
The southpaw has crushing punching power, and his team has worked hard to develop a right as devastating as his left. But Pacquiao is packing a secret weapon when he walks into the ring - a deep abiding faith.
"The most important thing is to believe in God," Pacquiao said during a recent train trip to Washington, D.C. With his wife by his side and his team taking up the entire private train car, Pacquiao spoke to CNN about his faith, politics and his upcoming fight.
He was heading to Washington to meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Last fall, Reid was down in the polls in a tough re-election fight, so he called in Pacquiao for a last-minute rally. On Tuesday in Washington, Reid said it was Pacquiao who helped put his campaign over the top. (Watch CNN's Carol Costello's report on the trip here.)
Pacquiao is cagey but diplomatic when talking politics but lights up when asked about his faith. It is a big part of his life as a boxer.
When the 32-year-old Catholic bounded into the ring before his latest pay-per-view match, a silver rosary bounced on his chest as he hopped in place getting ready for the fight. He looked skyward and crossed himself.
It's a familiar scene to those closest to him. "He crosses himself before each round," longtime Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said. "After every workout we end it with a prayer. He's very dedicated to his faith."
Pacquiao, left, receives communion during a Thanksgiving Mass at the Quiapo Church in Manila, Philippines, on November 20, 2010.
His publicist Fred Sternburg said while they are on the road Pacquiao always tries to duck quietly into Catholic churches for Mass. Sternburg said the quiet part doesn't always happen. One Sunday afternoon during a trip to San Francisco in 2009, Pacquiao tried to sneak into Mass on the way to the airport. He told the driver to pull over. Sternburg said he waited in the car and when he looked up a crowd of fans was chasing Pacquiao out of the church seeking autographs.
Pacquiao prays during a church service in Manila.
"Pacquiao lived on the streets in Manila in a paper shack and fought his way up on the streets. His story is a Cinderella story," said Bob Arum, his promoter at Top Rank.
And his story in the ring is one for the history books. His trainer thinks he may not just be the best pound-for-pound fighter today but the best pound-for-pound fighter ever.
"Eight world titles will never be duplicated. That makes him the best," Roach said. "That achievement will never be touched again, the caliber of fighters he's fighting, and his competition is great. And he's defeated all of them."
Pacquiao celebrates after defending his title.
Pacquiao is much shyer about his talents than his trainer. "I don't want to say I'm the best boxer in the world. I would say I'm a boxer who can fight a good fight against any fighter in the world. All my talent it all comes from God," he said.
Those talents have propelled him to be the face of boxing, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, according to Arum.
"His story has resonated because he's been able to fight his way out and become the person he is, and instead of turning his back on all that growing up, he embraces that," Arum said.
Pacquiao has taken home millions upon millions for his bouts. By some estimates, he has amassed more than $70 million from his boxing alone. That amount does not include his other business ventures or endorsements.
"(Pacquiao) gives so much money to charity and is such a caring person. And he does so many good works, most of which is not publicized so you don't even know about it," Arum said.
For Arum, that charity is a tangible example of Pacquiao's faith. "He's constantly calling me on the advances, on the upfront of his purse and so forth, because he spending the money on good things."
For Pacquaio it is clear he believes his success comes from God. "Everything that I have done, that is possible in my mind, He has made possible."
Arum and Roach both say Pacquiao's faith in God is as helpful to him in the ring as his lighting-fast fists and quick feet. Arum said Pacquiao sees himself as part of God's plan, laid out in front of him so nearly nothing bothers him.
"When he lost to (Erik) Morales he said he knew it was God's decision," Roach said. "He accepts it well." That was the last fight Pacquiao lost, in 2005. He went on to beat him two more times after that.
And that ability to move on quickly has paid big dividends.
As he looks ahead to his May 7 fight in Las Vegas against Sugar Shane Mosley, the expected boxing bravado and trash talk is noticeably absent from Pacquiao.
"I'm not going to say I'm going to win yet because the fight isn't done yet. I just need to train hard and believe in God," he said.
CNN's Carol Costello and Jeremy Harlan contributed to this report
Eric Marrapodi - CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
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ijreilly
Jeffrey Dahmer also prayed before he ate his victims. Saying that you pray and have faith doesn't actually mean anything.
February 17, 2011 at 11:54 am |
Wacky Jabber
Dahmer was an atheist when he committed those crimes. He became a Christian while in jail.
Dahmer: "...if a person doesn't think that there is a God to be accountable to, then–then what's–what's the point of–of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we–when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing..."
Stop making up stories. Then, again, there is no basis for morality if you believe you came from slime.
MarkinFL
Sociopaths need religion to be good. The rest of us do not need the threat of eternal dam.nation to be good to others. Do you?
Peace2All
@Wacky Jabber
What makes you say that there is no basis for morality...? In other words, you are saying, basically, unless you have religion or belief if god, then a person can't be moral...?
That is sheer and utter nonsense !
Peace...
Peace2All, God's teaches all truths. Without learning His truth, comprehending it and applying it to your life, man/woman if left to their own device will or will not make it to the finish line..
It then becomes a crap shoot.
Manny is awesome!
exudus19
Lets pray for all these people whose FAITH IN GOD ALMIGHTY are shaky. Yes, pacquaio is right that everything is laid upon or planned by God since he is a merciful and loving father that cares for us more than MAN will ever know or understand. Even problems in life are God given because he knows that its crucial for that child of his and with that, PEOPLE should understand that not all blessings comes in SUCCESS form like what others are questioning prior this heartfelt comment. May you understand and still have blessings from thy bounty because AGAIN, He is an INFINITE MERCIFUL & LOVING FATHER to us all whatever religion,race or even FAITH we have in this TEMPORARY world we live. GOD BLESS US ALL, AMEN
Unless you don't believe in him. Then you're screwed, right?
Yes, like that little adopted girl found in a bag in the truck of her "father". Very instructional lesson from god. I'm sure it will help someone else, she is past needing help anyway, so what the heck.
Tom C
"Yes, like that little adopted girl found in a bag in the truck of her "father". Very instructional lesson from god. I'm sure it will help someone else, she is past needing help anyway, so what the heck."
Interesting how God gets all the blame, but none of the glory, say, in Gabrielle Giffords case.
If God is responsible for evil, he's certainly responsible for good.
But that would mean that God isn't good all the time. 🙂
"Interesting how God gets all the blame, but none of the glory, say, in Gabrielle Giffords case"
OK, lets give god his props for the Giffords incident.
Thank for arming and sending that psychopath to kill all those people and permanently disabling Rep. Giffords. Nice work god, you doosh
Strange that in such an article that mentions trips to Washington DC and Harry Reid and whatnot... there is absolutely no mention that Pacquiao is an elected congressman in the Philipines.
rickmeister
Senator Reid introduced him as Hon. congressman Manny Pacquiao in the Senate.
Congrats to Watson and his triumph for computer science. Cognitive science was a fascinating topic and studying with a professor passionate in automata theory / human brain modeling was the basis for my pursuit in this research. To think that only athiest/agnostic people are the only ones in existence contributing to scientific research is absolutely silly. To think that all religious people have the capability to understand or accept complex scientific theories and research is just as silly. The truth is that the world is somewhere in the middle. It is these people who accept the reality of the world, not those who decide which group is dumber, who actually keep the world turning.
How great Pacman is! I mean look at the comments above..the Pacman really transcends the sport!
runinguy
SO WHAT HAPPENS IF HIS OPPONENTS PRAY FOR A WIN TOO?
God picks the one he bets money on.
Chinada
Pray he passes any drug testing before he fights Mayweather.
IF Mayweather finally grows a pair and faces Pacquiao in the ring, it would be Mayweather who needs prayers. That fight will never happen though because Mayweather is afraid and is content of making up excuses and fooling his gullible fans.
Many, many professional athletes are of the Christian faith (one demonination or another), why should a boxer be any different? Good for Manny! May he keep this faith, and may God bless his endeavors.
The world is in a sad place if these are the views of its ppl !!! no wonder the same bible that is supposed to be fictional says most ppl are gonna burn in hell !!!
Well, that's fiction for you.
I guess if it was for other performances without punching other, I will buy it. BUT knocking down others is not the right way to pray and thank our maker for giving us a strong body. You can use this strength by other means. It really hurt by just watching this folks knocked down. Sincerely
Do you feel the same about NFL players? It's the same thing...
The bottom line is, that when the bell rings, all the God stuff and race attributes and history go out the window. He has to take the challenger out using his skills. Mosley doesn't have a chance. It's a technical issue.
he's praying noone does a surpise drug test
I pray God will extend mercy to your stupidity. Since when is believing in God only limited to white collar jobs or jobs outside the ring. Many of you here will stand before God one day, maybe some sooners then others, days or months before you pass to the next life. Awake from your ignorance before its too late. Your hears are so full of evil that you cannot see good on anything. Your eye is evil so its your soul. Ask from God today refine God that your lampstands may have some light the day of your judgement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My lampstand? I get to bring that with me?
Yuman is an idiot
wow, jinky has some serious pair of racks.... makes me want to munch them...
are those products of Manny's hardwork? "bare hands" or "gloved hands"?
zukala
He pray for the guy he fight not to die during the fight.
Please god, let me pummel this guy's head in just beyond the point of unconsciousness, but no further...
Ah, and if the other guy dies, well then, "It was 'God's' will". How convenient.
@magic @godless
his last fight versus margarito he wanted to end because he didnt want to hurt him any more. he kept looking at the ref and stepping backwards. Linda Cohn of ESPN even mentioned how boxing has reached so low that they continued the fight, with hopes of a knockout. he just wants to do his job and "give a good fight for the people".
Really.... try going a round with him. You'll be praying pretty quick.
Fact: Religion is an indvidual choice.
Fact: Most Catholics are in fact non-practicing. When they become adults, most people decide to believe or not. He has made that conscious choice.
Fact: I can get you to pray by taking you sky-diving with me.
David and Bob, who are you before God's power. just face reality. He loves you. And don't waste your time trying FIGHT GOD'S EXISTANCE...NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY HE DOES EXIST...GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA...
First you say: just face reality.
Then you say: And don't waste your time trying FIGHT GOD'S EXISTANCE...NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY HE DOES EXIST...
That's pretty funny right there.
No more funny than saying the universe(s) created itself out of nothing or that matter created itself. If it's absurd to think God existing, I wonder how absurd it is to believe that the universe created itself out of nothing and that's how we 'got here.'
I'll take that being more absurd any day of the week over belief in God.
I believe in God. Trollolololol abound! JC, to impose you idiotic thoughts on others makes you look like an idiotic. It makes me look like an idiots. Thanks buddy.
> No more funny than saying the universe(s) created itself out of nothing or that matter created itself.
Umm, hate to rain on your ignorance parade, but the Big Bang doesn't say there was nothing before it. Maybe reading into the subject will assist you.
@Brian
You said: "No more funny than saying the universe(s) created itself out of nothing or that matter created itself. If it's absurd to think God existing, I wonder how absurd it is to believe that the universe created itself out of nothing and that's how we 'got here."
Ummm... Who created your god?
If you say your god is uncaused, then I claim this for my universe also!
Which god are we talking about? The Christian god, Allah? Zeus, Ra, Isis, The elephant god?
Do you realize that most religions have their own creation story?
What proof do you have for any one of them? They can't all be true.
You are explaining one mystery, with an even bigger mystery. Have you thought how extremely complex a god would have to be?
From a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, science can explain the formation of the universe. There are many theories about how the singularity came to be. Give science a few decades, and they well might be able to explain everything. New discoveries are being made every day. So far, science does not see any need for a god.
If we go about saying "God did it", we learn nothing. We stagnate.
Fact: he prays because he's from the Philippines. Fact: The Philippines was "colonized" by Spain. Conclusion: he prays because he is, along with most people in his country, the product of colonization. There's nothing strange about that. Now, does he have a winning streak because he's praying? I hardly doubt it.
That was a completely ignorant statement on your part. So the man cannot have his own beliefs, his own mind? What the heck is wrong w/ you?
your facts maybe. FACT: He prays because he is a CATHOLIC. He prays because he has faith in his God. Where he is from, or if Panama was colonized has nothing to do with his decision to have faith in God.
atheist much????
Looks like you're not a catholic Beto... Do you believe in GOD?
Sounds like you are an atheist. Should I not pray because I am an American or living in a prosperouse country? Please do not be ignorant! May God forgive you!
So what you're saying is that people native to a country do not pray in one way or another? I don't see how that is possible. Faith and prayer are a choice that people make. Even if they are subjected to faith and prayer at an early age, they still have the choice to not practice at some point in their lives. If peoples thoughts and beliefs are what keep them going, then I say why not.
" Even if they are subjected to faith and prayer at an early age, they still have the choice to not practice at some point in their lives. If peoples thoughts and beliefs are what keep them going, then I say why not."
@Pete: If people are subjected to faith and prayer at an early age, they are most likely brainwashed into doing that their whole lives.
Beliefs are what keep people praying; thoughts are what cause people to stop praying.
Lindsay,
"So the man cannot have his own beliefs, his own mind?"
Sure. But if he believed that wearing the same pair of 'lucky' socks for each and every fight caused him to win more often than not, I'll bet you would call him out on it.
civiloutside
Actually, Chuck, the fact that the Phillipines were colonized has quite a lot to do with why he prays. If it hadn't been colonized, he'd most likely be an adherent of native Filipino religion, and possibly may never even have heard of the Christian god.
civiloutside,
"If it hadn't been colonized, he'd most likely be an adherent of native Filipino religion..."
And if the Muslims had gotten there first, that's what they would be, like Indonesia. If the Hindus or the Buddhists were more into colonization, they would be those. Generalizations are tricky and are frowned upon; but the trend of their culture seems to be one of much superst!tious belief.

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Typhlorhinini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Cambefortinus – Cephalorostris – Hapactorrhynchus – Scrobops

References

 Kuschel, G. 1954: La familia Nemonychidae en la Región Neotropical (Aporte 15 de Coleoptera Curculionidae). Revista chilena de historia natural (Impresa), 54(9): 97–126.
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona.

External links

Entiminae
Polyphaga tribes

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Q: How would I get the sum of a result from a query? I want to know how I would be able to extract how many directors, directed a movie or how many movies a director has directed.  For example, I have Ang Lee directing two movies.  I want to know how to extract this information.  I want to know how to query that he directed two movies total.  Another type of information that I'm interested in is The Matrix has two directors.  How would I go about in querying that The Matrix has two directors.  This is my code:
CREATE TABLE MOVIE(
    MId INTEGER,
    Title VARCHAR(50),
    ReleaseDate DATE,
    Budget DOUBLE,
    PRIMARY KEY (MId)
);

CREATE TABLE DIRECTOR(
    DId INTEGER,
    Name VARCHAR(30),
    DateOfBirth DATE,
    PRIMARY KEY (DId)
);

CREATE TABLE DIRECTED(
    DirectorId INTEGER,
    MovieId INTEGER,
    PRIMARY KEY(DirectorId, MovieId),
    FOREIGN KEY(DirectorId) REFERENCES DIRECTOR(DId),
    FOREIGN KEY(MovieId) REFERENCES MOVIE(MId)
);

INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(1, 'Life of Pi', '2012-11-21', 120000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(3, 'Argo', '2012-10-12', 44500000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(7, 'The Dark Knight Rises', '2012-07-20', 250000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(15, 'Thor', '2011-12-10', 150000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(45, 'The Sessions', '2012-01-23', 1000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(65, 'Batman Begins', '2005-06-15', 150000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(86, 'Goodfellas', '1990-09-19', 25000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(95, 'The Departed', '2006-10-06', 90000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(103, 'There's Something about Mary', '1998-07-15', 23000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(123, 'The Matrix', '1999-05-31', 63000000);
INSERT INTO MOVIE VALUES(144, 'Lust, Caution', '2007-09-28', 15000000);

INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(4, 'Ang Lee', '1954-10-23');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(5, 'Ben Affleck', '1972-08-15');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(8, 'Christopher Nolan', '1970-07-30');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(9, 'Kenneth Branagh', '1960-12-10');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(13, 'Ben Lewin', '1946-01-23');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(23, 'Martin Scorsese', '1942-11-17');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(25, 'Christopher Nolan', '1970-07-30');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(33, 'Peter Farrelly', '1956-12-17');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(34, 'Robert Farrelly', '1958-06-17');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(45, 'Lana Wachowski', '1965,06-21');
INSERT INTO DIRECTOR VALUES(46, 'Andrew Wachowski', '1967-12-29');

INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(4, 1);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(5, 3);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(8, 7);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(9, 15);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(13, 45);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(25, 65);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(23, 86);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(23, 95);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(33, 103);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(34, 103);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(45, 123);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(46, 123);
INSERT INTO DIRECTED VALUES(4, 144);

A: You need JOIN, GROUP BY and COUNT() aggregate for this
SELECT d.did, d.name director_name, COUNT(*) number_of_films
  FROM director d LEFT JOIN directed r
    ON d.did = r.directorid
 GROUP BY d.did, d.name

Output:

| DId |     director_name | number_of_films |
|-----|-------------------|-----------------|
|   4 |           Ang Lee |               2 |
|   5 |       Ben Affleck |               1 |
|   8 | Christopher Nolan |               1 |
|   9 |   Kenneth Branagh |               1 |
|  13 |         Ben Lewin |               1 |
|  23 |   Martin Scorsese |               2 |
|  25 | Christopher Nolan |               1 |
|  33 |    Peter Farrelly |               1 |
|  34 |   Robert Farrelly |               1 |
|  45 |    Lana Wachowski |               1 |
|  46 |  Andrew Wachowski |               1 |

To get movies with more than one director
SELECT m.*, number_of_directors
  FROM
(
  SELECT movieid, COUNT(*) number_of_directors
    FROM directed r
   GROUP BY movieid
  HAVING number_of_directors > 1
) q JOIN movie m
    ON q.movieid = m.mid

Output:

| MId |                        Title | ReleaseDate |   Budget | number_of_directors |
|-----|------------------------------|-------------|----------|---------------------|
| 103 | There's Something about Mary |  1998-07-15 | 23000000 |                   2 |
| 123 |                   The Matrix |  1999-05-31 | 63000000 |                   2 |

Here is SQLFiddle demo

A: select Name, count(DId)
from DIRECTED d inner join DIRECTOR m on d.DirectorId = m.DId
inner join MOVIE m on d.MovieId = m.mId
group by m.Title

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!5/28347/4/0
select m.Title, count(DId)
from DIRECTED d inner join DIRECTOR m on d.DirectorId = m.DId
inner join MOVIE m on d.MovieId = m.mId
group by Name

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!5/28347/6/0

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Leaving Iraq a Soldier Yelled, 'We Won, It's Over, America We Brought Democracy to Iraq' ; Not Hardly
By Dave Lefcourt (Page 1 of 1 pages) (# of views) No comments
An American soldier upon leaving Iraq as part of a partial troop withdrawal convoy, (with television cameras on) was heard to yell, "We won. It's over! America we brought democracy to Iraq."
Needless to say, this writer was glad to see him and his buddies coming home. As to his exhilaration with all its well intentioned effusiveness, that unfortunately was more than slightly off the mark.
If ever there was a war that didn't need to be fought it was this one.
If anyone believes we have brought democracy to Iraq, where the ethnic and sectarian factions have miraculously been reconciled into a functioning democracy they are living in a fantasy world that does not resemble the reality. More than five months since an election was held to select a new prime minister and a new government, there is essentially a stalemate. The apparent winner, former Prime Minister Ayed Allawi has been unable to piece together a coalition that is acceptable to the other factions, particularly those connected with his primary challenger, outgoing P.M. Nuri al-Maliki who has questioned the election results. The resulting rudderless interim of a non functioning government is being exploited and has emboldened terrorist extremists to ramp up their indiscriminant bombings against innocent Iraqi's who are understandably distraught and sickened by the current lack of security. Many Iraqi's feel they were safer living under the regime of Saddam Hussein as opposed to the carnage they are forced to live under now.
Remember, we were the ones that are responsible for bringing in that carnage for we were the ones that invaded the country, disbanded the Iraqi military that instantly created the insurgency against us that became the catalytic agent that brought in the al Qaeda type crazies into the country to sow their destruction and chaos that didn't exist during Saddam's reign.
That is the legacy of our unlawful invasion along with our utterly incompetent occupation.
We brought the present tragedy onto the people of Iraq or more specifically Bush and Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz et al, the architects of this needless war who remain free and unburdened by their despicable actions, never being held to account for perpetrating the disaster that is Iraq today.
This is a stain on the U.S. that isn't going to begin to be washed clean by some partial withdrawal of our combat forces.
Fifty thousand troops remain in the country, so the "withdrawal" is a fantasy, a ruse that somehow brought the likes of Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann in as commentators and who allowed themselves to be used as cheer leaders during last week's withdrawal charade.
We haven't left Iraq. That won't be accomplished until we withdraw all our troops and shut that monstrosity of an embassy in the green zone.
Viet Nam is the lesson we need to heed. We left completely, the Communists took over (no "dominoes" fell) and the country eventually healed itself, reconciled with much difficulty (unfortunately not without reprisals against those who sided with us during the war) but that country was made whole again by the Vietnamese themselves, proving our war in Viet Nam was not only unnecessary but 50,000 American GI's died for nothing.
Nobody knows the eventual outcome in Iraq. That is still to be played out.
But one thing is clear to this observer, our presence not only has not only brought shame to us but it prolongs the time when Iraqis themselves can eventually try to make their country whole. However it turns out they will be the better for it, doing it without the American presence.
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From the DVR: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
February 14, 2017 August 20, 2017 igsjr
Mark Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published in this country in 1885 (it was introduced in the UK a couple of months earlier), is considered one of the great works in American literature. Both schools and libraries have either banned or attempted to ban the book practically since its publication (let's be honest—Finn features a generous use of the n-word, which sets off a lot of people's trigger warnings), which is a shame since the novel is nothing short of brilliant in its satirical examination of the mores and attitudes of that period (racism, the gullibility of human nature, etc.).
The satire in the book doesn't always translate well to the many instances The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been adapted for the silver screen. I'm sure many of us have their personal favorite version; mine is the 1960 adaptation directed by the Oscar-winning Michael Curtiz, a Warner Brothers veteran helming his first feature for MGM. (Curtiz would direct only two more films before his passing in 1962; his valedictory film, The Comancheros [1961], was mostly directed by star John Wayne…who insisted that Curtiz receive sole credit [Curtiz was gravely ill from the cancer that ultimately took his life].) It turned up on The Greatest Cable Channel Known to Mankind™ not too long ago, and I decided to DVR it as it had been a good while since I visited the film.
Eddie Hodges as Huckleberry Finn
In the 1960 movie, the titular hero (played by Eddie Hodges) decides to cut loose from a suffocating life of "sivilization" in Hannibal, Missouri…but also to escape his drunken father "Pap" (Neville Brand), who has a rather nasty tendency to bat the fruit of his loins around whenever he's had a snootful. The Widder Douglas (Josephine Hutchinson) looks after Huck whenever Pap is in his cups, and the elder Finn has agreed to let the Widow take care of his son on a permanent basis…provided she can come up with five large. To get the $5,000, she's going to have to sell her slave Jim (Archie Moore) …so, after Huck cleverly fakes his own death, he and Jim "light out" down the Mississippi on their way to N'awlins—with Huck's ultimate destination being South America. (Jim just wants to get to Illinois, a free state…particularly since he's become the chief suspect in Huck's "murder.")
Tony Randall, Archie Moore, Hodges, Mickey Shaughnessy
As they make their way down the Mighty Miss, the two comrades are embroiled in a series of misadventures…their paths continually crossing with a pair of con men passing themselves off as The King of France (Tony Randall) and The Duke of Bilgewater (Mickey Shaughnessy). These two hucksters attempt to swindle two sisters (Sherry Jackson, Patty McCormack) into believing they're lost relatives…and while Huck initially participates in their scheme (as a nephew named "Percy"), he ultimately spills the beans to the sisters (just about the time the real relatives show up). Later, Huck and Jim find themselves involved with a traveling circus…and eventually Huck must free his friend when Jim is imprisoned after being turned in by the King and the Duke for a $200 reward.
The movie differs a bit from Twain's novel in a few ways: the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud receives only a passing mention, and the book's sequence where Huck dons drag and learns of the reaction to his "death" from town newcomer Judith Loftus has been excised completely—instead, Huck's female masquerade is used toward the end of the movie when he's attempting to crash Jim out of jail. The Huck Finn character was introduced in a previous Twain novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and for Finn the author worked into its plot a reappearance from Tom—he's the nephew of Silas and Sally Phelps, who own the plantation where Jim is being held. (The Sawyer character does not appear in the 1960 film.)
Character great Burt Mustin draws a bead on Moore and Hodges
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was MGM's second adaptation of the Twain novel; in 1939, the studio released a version starring Mickey Rooney as Huck…and for many classic film buffs of my acquaintance, it remains their favorite of all the adaptations. (I tend to develop a case of hives even thinking about the 1939 film…for reasons you're no doubt familiar with if you stop by here on a regular basis.) I like the 1960 Huckleberry Finn because it features a cornucopia of great character actors: Neville Brand, Mickey Shaughnessy, TDOY fave Judy Canova, Andy Devine, TDOY idol Buster Keaton (as a lion tamer!), Finlay Currie, Josephine Hutchinson, John Carradine, Royal Dano, Sterling Holloway…and on and on and on. (OTR veterans/voice artists Roy Glenn, Henry Corden, and Parley Baer all have bit parts…as does TV stalwart Burt Mustin as a shotgun toting farmer.) Tony Randall gets top billing (with Patty "Bad Seed" McCormack second) in the credits, but the chief role of Huck is played by Eddie Hodges, a child performer (he played Ron Howard's role in the 1957 stage version of The Music Man) who had received good notices for his film debut in A Hole in the Head (1959).
Moore and Hodges, rafting
Hodges would later do work for Disney (Summer Magic, The Happiest Millionaire) but you might also remember him for his brief career as a recording artist with singles like Girls, Girls, Girls (Made to Love) and I'm Gonna Knock on Your Door (his biggest hit, peaking at #12 in 1961). (Billy "Crash" Craddock had an even bigger hit with a cover version of Door, cracking the Top Five of the country charts in 1972.) Eddie's on Facebook, by the way, in case you wanted to say hi-dy. He's very good in Finn, not the slightest bit cloying…and he has a great rapport with co-star Archie Moore, the ex-boxing heavyweight playing Jim. (Moore also made appearances in The Carpetbaggers [1964] and The Fortune Cookie [1966] …but we remember him best at Rancho Yesteryear for that incredible fight on top of a moving train he engages in with Charles Bronson in 1975's Breakheart Pass. Moore was fifty-eight at the time he made Pass, and did that fight without a stunt double. This also makes him a boss.)
There are four songs in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—owing to the fact that the movie had originally been planned as a musical at MGM in 1952, with Dean Stockwell playing Huck and the team of Gene Kelly and Danny Kaye as The King and The Duke. (Kelly put the kibosh on that project, but you can't deny it wouldn't have made for an interesting outing.) Huckleberry Finn turns up on TCM from time to time, but if you're not willing to wait that long it is available on DVD—either for purchase (it's back in print) or rental at ClassicFlix.
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The database has been split into an Array in previous Flash ActionScript tutorial, it's time to see how to get the total number of records in the database.
- split each record into an array.
Once the data are put into an array, they can be gotten easily. Therefore we need to know the total records in the database so that we can then loop through the records.
Now, we know how to get the total number of records in the database. In the next Flash ActionScript tutorial, we try to get the records of the database.


so said ellie: Do you know what heaven feels like?
It feels like being inside the Marimekko flagship store in Helsinki.
SO many fabrics, I wanted them all. I still do.
I love that you can go in and buy ready made things, fabric by the metre, or special orders with the fabric of your choice. It was like a cave of beautiful things, three levels and so nice and shiny.
Can you believe that Unikko is more than 40 years old? Festivo is even older, and yet, they remain modern and fresh.
Ellie loves. Ellie Wants. Actually, Ellie has, a big piece of Unikko, purchased from above Marimekki flagship store; I just can't decide what to do with it.


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Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy
Study abroad in Helsinki, Finland
Erasmus Code SFHELSINK41
#Helsinki #Finland Apply for Erasmus
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy is an educational institution that is located in a region known as Helsinki, which is found in the country of Finland.
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Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy gets a ranking of 83 out of a possible 100.
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy is considered an extremely disirable Erasmus location in Finland, and is a selection that many people recommend when choosing a study exchange placeeramus location.
The official name of this Erasmus listing is Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy.
The address is Myllypurontie 1, postcode of 00920.
It is located in the region of Helsinki in the country of Finland.
To apply to Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy, you need to consult your course coordinator, Erasmus manager or the International Office at your home school and follow these steps:
Note the Erasmus code: SFHELSINK41
Prepare a cover letter of why you desire to study at Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy.
Visit their website at www.metropolia.fi
Is Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy a top ranked university in Finland?
So, when it comes to comparing Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy with the rest, is it in the Top 10 Erasmus destinations in Europe? Well, the best way to find out is to check our Current Erasmus Top 100 Rankings and see if Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy makes the top of the list!
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It is certainly an exchange I look back fondly on.
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On March 16, the Technology Student Association (TSA) of Loganville Christian Academy (LCA) attended a statewide competition at the Classic Center in Athens, GA. They joined 2,754 registered applicants from high schools across the state of Georgia who participated in the annual event. The students were accompanied by Mrs. Sherry Morris, the Upper School STEM teacher at LCA, and Mr. Mark Davis.
Considering it was the first competition that LCA's TSA Team had ever participated in, the results were beyond expectations when they placed 3rd in the Engineering Design division, qualifying for Nationals in Washington, D.C. in late June. This project was designed and presented by Bryce Delong, Kade Smith, and Madeleine Tran, and they competed against seventeen other projects in the division. The theme of the Engineering Design project was how to cost effectively and efficiently use solar power in and around the house. The group proposed that to power an average home system forty-three solar panels would be needed. They demonstrated the use of two solar panels—one powered an electric car and the other ran the basic devices in the house like fans, lights, and AC.
The TSA Team at LCA also entered projects in two other events at the competition. Kayla Barry, Justin Morris, Madeleine Tran, and Kyle Winstanley placed 6th out of sixty-one total entries in the Music Production event. Students in this event were required to create a short song up to three minutes long that will be used at the National TSA Competition in June. Mr. Ryan Saltamacchio, LCA's high school computer teacher, recommended that the students create their song using EarSketch, a free program designed by the Georgia Institute of Technology, that allows you to write music entirely by coding. Each sound has a unique code, and that code is implemented into the whole song's code, sounding like actual instruments.
The final event LCA entered at the competition was the Board Game Design division. Austin Hall, Gavin Gonzalez, Justin Morris, and Kyle Winstanley had created their own original game—complete with the board, box, instructions, and game pieces designed in CAD and printed on the 3D printer in LCA's STEM lab. Though not placing in this division, the students displayed amazing creativity and collaboration in their project.


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MIND AVATAR | BODIES IN VIRTUAL PUBLIC SPACE | TREE OF [SECOND] LIFE, by Iota Ultsch
Filed under: ctrl shift 07 competition, iota ultsch, lebenswelt, virtual architecture
The following essay was submitted by Iota Ultsch.
"The Gestalt approach is a form of phenomenological field theory. Gestalt shares the concerns of phenomenology, which are to study the multiple possibilities of a given field or situation as it is experienced subjectively by the people cocreating it at any moment in time. It shares the phenomenological premise that it is not possible to establish a single objective or absolute truth but only to be open to a multiplicity of subjective interpretations of reality, for each of us experiences a uniquely interpreted reality – because people form highly individual impressions of situations and endow events with subjective meaning." Mackewn, 1997, p. 58-9
ZOOMING in and out of a SYSTEM facilitates the study of STRUCTURAL and BEHAVIOURAL hierarchies, yielding, in some cases, the key to understanding, otherwise seemingly CHAOTIC organisations at their most fundamental level. All systems, regardless of SCALE or degree of DETAIL apparent, contain values which can assist in their identification, and properties which allow one system to COMMUNICATE with another.
An example of these phenomena can be illustrated by the initial and sometimes final division of spatial configurations, within an architectural program for circulation into the binary zones of public and private. Here, the private zone and its associated behaviours can be identified as the primary node of a plan's system. Conversely, the public zone of a plan, allows REACTION and INTERACTION, between the primary inhabitants and external parties. The public zone can therefore be seen as a FORUM for changeability/mutability, as it allows external stimuli to penetrate its otherwise ordered realm.
Second Life presents opportunities to explore and observe the MUTABILITY of such systems with the paradigm of the blurring of the private and public zones becoming more relevant to the metaverse. An indispensable tool for studying human behaviour within various spatial and social contexts.
The MIND AVATAR begins its journey by creating an idealised physical representation of the ID within the virtual realm. The representative HOST BODY [BODY AVATAR] soon learns to manipulate cameras and movement in order observe, learn, communicate with other avatars and facilitate interaction with spaces.
Traversing the virtual environment via teleporting, flying, point-animating or simply walking, the AVATAR perceives and responds to virtual space as a series of perpetually distorting, texture-mapped surfaces offering everything from infinite vistas to jarring dead-ends, forcing the MIND AVATAR into a CHANGE IMPULSE condition. "Change impulse" is my term to describe both the cognitive and emotive; the involuntary responses to any environment, which occur as a result of the mind-avatar's degree of compulsion/repulsion to the spatial experience in question.
The "Tree of Second Life" build is part of a tripartite proposal. It was designed to interrogate the meaning of architectural practice in virtual space by challenging traditional [Real Life] architectural paradigms and establishing to what extent these paradigms are supported or simply collapse in a metaverse.
The build was designed to be visually permeable. An avatar can walk a bridge directly to the Tree of [Second] Life, fly through the mostly phantom space for a dynamic, phenomenological experience of the form, or sit and pose at various points, allowing for a more static special experience.
The build is composed of a series of interwoven orthogonal prims floating above the site. Textured with alpha transparency and rendered steel, the build is BODY MAPPED with deconstructed AVATAR body parts created in Poser and sculpted in MAYA, the fundamental 3D software for Second Life's avatars.
A narrow suspended internal bridge leads the avatar through the build and reaches a solitary tree in a concrete box. The displaced and interwoven body parts act as metaphor for the diverse sociocultural demographic of Second Life.
These images, relating to the human form have spatial significance due to our subliminal attraction to representations of ourselves. i.e. GESTALT. Form thus, FOLLOWS FORM.
Finally, the Tree of [Second] Life; a place where MIND + BODY AVATAR come to rest and reflect…perhaps a harbringer of sustainable solutions to REAL LIFE from the metaverse.
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UgoTrade's Coverage of Virtual Architecture
Filed under: keystone bouchard, lebenswelt, reflexive architecture, Theory Shaw, ugotrade, virtual architecture
UgoTrade has been doing some interesting research and reporting on virtual architecture, including a new post today (link) including coverage of the reflexive architecture installation, the Cntrl-Shift-07 competition, Theory Shaw, the Wikitecture progress, as well as the important work Eolus McMillan and the EOLUS One Initiative they have been working on.
Temporal Machinima
Filed under: lebenswelt, machinima, reflexive architecture, Theory Shaw
This machinima, this essay by Theory Shaw, and a visit to this SLurl tell the whole picture. A great example of reflexivity and responsiveness in virtual architecture.
Filed under: cross disciplinary, jon brouchoud, keystone bouchard, lebenswelt, machinima, piano, reflexive architecture
Here is a brief machinima that hopefully describes the Architectural Jazz concept a bit more clearly. The idea is to make the inhabitant an active part of both the musical and architectural composition. In real life, when we listen to music, or occupy a space, we generally play a passive role. The composition remains largely unchanged when we listen or observe.
In a virtual environment, we have a unique opportunity to make the architecture responsive, or reflexive. The buildings can 'know' that we're there, and react accordingly. They can even remember that we've been there, leaving visual or audio traces of our existence after we've left.
It isn't that these ideas are impossible in real life (example), but its a lot easier and far less expensive to prototype and experiment in virtual reality. Plus, opportunities for true collaboration are more readily available. Realizing this installation, for example, required collaboration and general brainstorming with several others, including Theory Shaw, Ordinal Malaprop and Fumon Kubo.
This installation is only a small step toward a much greater realm of possibilities available to us in Second Life, and hopefully part of a broader collaboration-based, cross-disciplinary movement toward a new language of virtual architecture.
And YES, thanks for asking, but I have been made aware of the similarities between my installation and this =) :
Architectural Jazz, by Keystone Bouchard
Filed under: architecture, collaborative, collaborative design, jon brouchoud, keystone bouchard, lebenswelt, screenshots, second life, virtual architecture
(This is Keystone Bouchard's essay submission to the Ctrl-Shift-07 competition on Lebenswelt Island – screenshots also by Keystone. Slideshow HERE.)
The cannon blast launching this competition triggered an architectural jam session!
The 'real-time evolution' called for by the competition brief started with a few entrants immediately rezzing elements that responded to the existing context, leading to more complex responses over time.
In the first few weeks of discovery and evolution, the dialogue between competitors seemed to be the most pervasive. I decided to document this phenomenon by charting avatar movement, architectural responses, and the informal discussions that were happening at the site. With this data, I wrote a piano score loosely based on these observations. Considering the brief's call for 'overlap between the real and virtual worlds', I recorded video of the subtle key movement on my real life piano and optimized it to play in Second Life.
After inserting this video as part of my composition, I observed the response, feedback and reaction to the installation. It became clear there was an opportunity to create an even more direct, real-time relationship between avatar movement and the musical composition. Instead of relying exclusively on abstracted avatar movement, I collaborated with a scripter who wrote a code enabling a sound to be played and the key to change color and size upon detecting avatar presence. I then recorded three chords that were in harmony with the original score, and when combined with the script, enabled avatars to actively participate in the creation of the music and the architectural composition, establishing a more immersive mind-avatar connection.
While my entry shifted shape over the course of the competition, starting off as a hyper-responsive and eclectic composition, it has evolved into a considerably refined piece, consistently relying on a steady stream of direct and indirect communication and collaborations with other contributors. Throughout the island's evolution, it became clear that a new language of virtual architecture seems to necessitate a collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach, where no single contributor can be isolated as exclusively responsible for the final composition.
It has been my stated desire from the first day of this competition to enable this emergence and dialogue to continue by maintaining Lebenswelt Island as a testing grounds and incubator for an ongoing, dynamic, and collaborative effort to derive a new language of virtual architecture in tune with the stated objectives of this competition. Given the time and a proper catalyst, truly profound concepts can emerge from this collaborative process, and I would like to see this dialogue continue indefinitely.
A Space to Occupy the Mind, by Alfredo Desideri
Filed under: alfredo desideri, ctrl shift 07 competition, lebenswelt, virtual architecture
(This is Alfredo Desideri's essay submission to the Ctrl-Shift-07 competition on Lebenswelt Island – screenshots also by Alfredo)
The building's origins date from the history of architecture: some architectural solutions therein originate from this starting point but new questions are also raised.
It is important to refer to the history of architecture, even in metaverse, because behind the avatars are human beings whose minds are used to managing their bodies in built and non-built space. The objective of architecture is always to provide and enhance pleasure in a space but also to stimulate the mind.
There are two human minds at the basis of modern life in a synthetic space: Vitruvio and Le Corbusier.
Many of their ideas still remain modern but sadly are rarely applied in real life. But could these ideas live again in the metaverse and demonstrate their full potential here?
The chosen architectural form is a temple: a place for philosophy, meeting, living and concentrating.
This is a new temple: somewhere that avatars can come together and be together.
It has cone-shaped columns that point at the ground rather than spring from it: gravity here is optional.
The walls are free-floating and their surfaces move and ripple like water.
The roof garden is a lawn that flows like a river. The triangular frontons are hedges of conical cypress and bend with the wind, just as the mind bends before external triggers.
The Modulor and the Vitruvian Man are placed at the entrances: they represent historical standards of proportions based on the human body. What purpose do they serve in the metaverse?
The plan of the fortified Venetian town of Palmanova is placed at the centre of the ground floor. It represents urban planning and could also serve as the foundation for the new metaverse architecture.
The Oculus of Mantegna, full of people and animals, is placed on the centre of the roof, with its real phantom clouds. The Oculus rotates and the avatar with it. And the avatar can sit in solitude and chat, meditate, watch the scenery and the neighbouring buildings.
The small, mobile light globes link the ground to the roof like a stairway for the mind, inviting the avatar to fly up to and through the roof, or leap towards the clouds. It is a transition from meditation to dialogue with others and vice-versa.
The Vitruvio's directions: Firmitas, Vetustas, Venustas run along the central cornices. A question mark is near the word Firmitas…
Finally, two coloured and transparent bells are juxtaposed and superposed, like a revolving stage light in a Disney cartoon. They convey the synthetic space and recall the opposition of the real and the virtual.
Social Collision Array: by Andrew Liebchen (Papp Peccable)
Filed under: andrew liebchen, ctrl shift 07 competition, lebenswelt, papp peccable, virtual architecture
(This is Andrew Liebchen's essay submission to the Ctrl-Shift-07 competition on Lebenswelt Island – screenshots also by Andrew)
"Privately owned user-created content is one of the dividing lines between Second Life and other forms of the Metaverse. A strongly encoded and enforced sense of private property within Second Life protects the Linden Dollar, property-holders, and the marketplace. Like contemporary real life capitalist democracies, the mass of land-less public exists as a mob that brings currency in-world to for night-club owners, pimps, real-estate speculators, in-world bankers, and (eventually) Linden Labs to scoop up. Look no farther than the economic metrics for the month of May 2007 to see the disparities of the second economy: of the 1,104,083 residents who logged in the during that month, only 39,215 had a positive monthly flow of Linden Dollars, and 53% of those users made less than 10 USD.
Second Life's mimicry of an ideal suburban American life does not stop at private property lines, it extends into the business baron's attempted control of the economy. A question: can Linden Labs back the Linden Dollar with currency on hand? In fact, the Lab has yet to turn a profit. Is this because of the hundreds of thousands of dollars they should keep on hand in case of a run on the Linden Dollar? It is doubtful, although real currency hasn't been backed by gold and silver for years. Fortunately, the value of the US Dollar is wrapped up in the complexities of the domestic and world economies, not a single entity like the Linden Dollar. To convert Linden Dollars to real currency for the few making a living in world, the Lab relies upon the masses consistently buying Linden Dollars.
Public spaces in world are created by Linden Lab (such as InfoHubs) are like civic spaces where public can gather to share the best place to buy clothes, gamble, find sex—places to spend their Linden Dollars. The formal content in these areas tend to be conservative, so most social activity occurs on private property. To combat the privatization of the public realm in Second Life, I propose that public space should be freed from the real life conventions of benches, pavilions, etc. Furthermore, public space must be an attraction that can compete with private casinos, nightclubs, and shopping malls. Public spaces should seek to empower the general public of Second Life with an activity not designed to enrich only the wealthiest users and the governing entity, Linden Labs.
The Social Collision Array proposes a new kind of public space for Second Life. First, it is modular; it is easily transferred, assembled, copied, and expanded as needed. While the form is mostly derived from programmatic needs, Second Life is a visual world, and so to lure users, the construct strives to be compelling, complex, and beautiful. Users choose to be randomly transferred from cell to cell by the Array, meeting other avatarusers. Social connections are made within the cells, avatars move through the array disoriented, each cell the same as the one before, only the contents of the cells—the
avatar-users—changes. Social connections are highlighted in an environment mostly devoid of the usual visual distractions. Users leave by randomly teleporting out, or navigating the maze of ramps down to their entry point. A sense of "analog" play is reintroduced into a world that tries to deny that its foundations are deep in digital computer games: Hide-and-Seek, funhouse mazes, Kick-The-Can."


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Is Interactive Content In Your Future?
If interactive content isn't already on your radar, it should be, explains columnist Arnie Kuenn, or you risk being left behind by your competitors.
Arnie Kuenn on April 6, 2015 at 9:04 am | Reading time: 7 minutes
With more than three quarters of both B2B and B2C marketers practicing content marketing, it's safe to say it has become a fundamental element to most online marketing strategies today. Businesses across verticals and industries are creating content daily — from whitepapers and e-books to blog posts and streaming media.
However, with more and more content being produced and published regularly, competition has become fierce, forcing businesses to become more creative than ever before in their content endeavors.
The result? An increase in interactive content — content that gets the audience involved, creating a more personalized and memorable experience.
Interactive content allows users to engage with a business or brand on a deeper level. Instead of just downloading a piece of content from a website and ending the engagement there, interactive content prompts users to share personal preferences and data in order to receive some sort of tailored result.
This additional engagement is great for both users and businesses. Not only does interactive content offer an atypical user experience compared with most content marketing initiatives involving a registration and download page, the personalized results received are often more valuable than a generic content download.
This higher-quality deliverable can help build brand loyalty and trust, resulting in stronger vendor and customer relationships.
Similarly, interactive content provides businesses with useful data, as companies are able to capture more insight from it than typical gated content assets.
Instead of just receiving personal contact information that a registration page would provide, interactive content exposes demographic information, pain points and challenges. Businesses can then use the information that users enter to better understand their audience and employ the findings for future marketing initiatives.
Types Of Interactive Content
Many different types of interactive content can produce a unique, personal experience for each user, including the following:
Quizzes have a number of uses — some allow brands to teach users about a specific subject or topic area, while others are for amusement, providing the user with an assessment based on the information collected.
For example, most quizzes found on Buzzfeed are purely for entertainment value, including "What Type of Canine Are You?" Other quizzes, like the American Heart Association's "Healthy Heart Quizzes" are for educational purposes, allowing users to test themselves on different aspects of heart health.
Quizzes can cover many different stages of the buy cycle, depending on the subject. Entertainment quizzes are likely going to appeal to users at the top of the funnel. However, a quiz based on industry pain points or a vendor's solution could attract more down-funnel users.
For example, IBM's quiz titled, "What is your AQ (Analytics Quotient)?" gives users a score that corresponds to where their organization ranks in terms of analytics practices and solutions. Recommendations, tools and resources are provided based on the score.
Because this quiz focuses on a topic that aligns with IBM's solutions and the results point to additional IBM resources, it may resonate with people closer to actually making a purchase decision.
Like quizzes, calculators have a variety of uses, too. For example, most banks offer mortgage calculators that allow users to calculate how much their monthly payment would be based on home purchase price, down payment and other factors — but calculators aren't just for banks anymore.
ROI calculators allow users to calculate the potential return on the investment with a product or service, which can effectively help move people through the buy cycle. For example, HubSpot's ROI calculator asks users for information about current website and business performance, and spits out the increase in revenue people can expect from implementing HubSpot's inbound marketing software.
Interactive Infographics and Whitepapers
Infographics and whitepapers are two of the most widely utilized formats in content marketing. The result? Markets inundated with the same content in the same format, published by different vendors over and over again. This saturation makes it difficult for businesses employing content marketing to break through the noise and effectively reach their audiences.
Luckily, interactive infographics and whitepapers can help businesses do just that. Rather than the typical content experience — filling out a registration form with personal information and receiving a piece of content in return — interactive infographics and whitepapers take the experience one step further.
For example, in an interactive infographic about Michael Phelps designed by Infographic World, users can click through to learn more about the swimmer and his various achievements.
In the frame above, users can click through different years to see which games Phelps competed in that year, as well as his age at the time, which events he participated in, his rank, and medals earned.
Interactive infographics and whitepapers can take on many collaborative elements with the content itself, including quizzes, assessments and self-selected content journeys — similar to "choose your own adventure" experiences. In addition to providing a unique experience, interactive infographics and whitepapers can be easily positioned to any stage of the buyer's journey based on the subject and messaging.
Using Interactive Content Successfully
While most businesses that practice content marketing today require users to fill out a contact form before downloading an asset, interactive content works best with a slightly different approach.
Gating content behind a registration page is one way to get leads — but it also stops some users in their tracks. Unfortunately, a lot of the content that businesses require a user to register for just isn't worth it — and users are becoming wearier of providing their information for any old download.
Instead of taking the registration-page approach with interactive content, consider using a "freemium" model. Allow users to take a quiz, use a calculator or interact with a whitepaper or infographic without asking for anything in return — yet.
By doing this, you build trust and credibility with the audience — both extremely important elements of content marketing. Once users have had a taste of what your interactive content can provide, offer an elective upgrade in exchange for personal/contact information.
For example, say you're a sunglasses company and you have a quiz about what shape of frame people should buy based on their facial features, likes and dislikes. Once you've provided the preliminary assessment of what shape works best for the user based on his or her answers, offer a buyer's guide using the results with additional calls to action.
To see success with content marketing, businesses need to cater it to the audience's wants, needs and pain points — and interactive content takes that sentiment to the next level.
Leveraging interactive content with the freemium model gives companies the opportunity to deliver content tailored to each user specifically, based on information gleaned from the interactive content experience.
What's Ahead For You?
So, is interactive content in your future? If it isn't already on your radar, it should be, because it is the future of content marketing.
While your current content marketing strategy with PDF and streaming content may be producing results, it's only a matter of time before a competitor starts using interactive content — best beat them to the punch.
What has been your experience with interactive content? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.
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Arnie Kuenn
Arnie Kuenn is the CEO of Vertical Measures, a content marketing agency with an SEO foundation, focused on helping their clients get more traffic, more leads, and more business. Arnie has held executive positions in the world of new technologies and marketing for more than 25 years. He is a frequent speaker and author of Content Marketing Works. In 2014, Arnie was honored as the Interactive Person of the Year in Arizona.
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