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Chasing Headlines
It's been an amazing start to the year. First the market cratered on slowing China economic concerns, domestic recessionary fears, deteriorating oil prices, and negative interest rates abroad. In response to all these worries (and others), stocks dove more than -11% (S&P 500 Index) in January, before settling down. Subsequently, the market has made a screaming recovery, in part due to dovish monetary policy comments (i.e., reduction in forecasted interest rate hikes) and diminished anxiety over a potential global collapse. Month-to-date stocks are up an impressive +5.4%, and year-to-date equities are flattish, or down less than -1%.
With an endless amount of information flowing across our smart phones and computers, it becomes quite easy and tempting to chase news headlines, just like a hyper dog chasing a car. But even once an investor catches up (or reacts) to a headline, there's confusion around how to profit from the fleeting information. First of all, every plugged-in hedge fund and institutional investor has likely already traded on the stale information you received. Second of all, rarely is the data relevant to the long-term cash generating capabilities of the company or economy. And lastly, the news is more often than not, instantly factored into the stock price. Chasing news headlines only eaves individual investors holding the bag of performance-shattering transactions costs, taxes, and worn-out pricing.
The heightened volatility in late 2015 and early 2016 hasn't however prevented investors and so-called pundits from attempting to time the market. Any battle-tested investment veteran knows it's virtually impossible to consistently time the market (see also Market Timing Treadmill), but this fact hasn't prevented speculators from attempting the feat nonetheless. Famed investment guru, Peter Lynch, who earned an average +29% annual return from 1977-1990, summed it up well when he stated the following:
"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves."
The Important Factors
As I've written many times in the past, the keys to long-term stock performance are not knee-jerk reactions to headlines, but rather these following crucial factors (see also Don't Be a Fool, Follow the Stool):
On the profit growth front, corporate income has been pressured by numerous headwinds over the last few years, including an export-shattering increase in the value of the U.S. dollar and a profit-squeezing collapse in energy sector earnings. As you can see from the chart below, the value of the U.S. dollar increased by about 25% from mid-2014 to early-2015, in part because of diverging global central bank policies (more hawkish U.S. Fed vs. more dovish ECB/international central banks). Since that spike, the dollar has settled into a broad range (95 – 100), and the former forceful headwind have now turned into modest tailwinds. This trend is important because an estimated 35-40% of corporate profits are derived from international operations.
Adding insult to injury, the roughly greater than -70% decline in forward energy earnings over the last 18 months has caused a significant hit to overall S&P 500 profits. The tide appears to be finally turning (or at least stabilizing) however, as we've seen oil prices rebound by about +30% this year from the lows in January. If these aforementioned trends persist, profit pressures in 2016 are likely to abate significantly, and may actually become additive to growth.
Source: Barchart.com
Profits are important, but so are interest rates. While incessant talk about the path of future Fed policy continues to blanket the airwaves (see also Fed Fatigue), absent a rapid increase in interest rates (say 300-400 basis points), interest rates remain unambiguously positive for equity markets, providing a floor for the oft-repeated volatility in financial markets. As long as stocks are providing higher yields than many bonds, and depositors are earning 0% (or negative rates) on their checking accounts, stocks may remain unloved, but not forgotten.
And speaking of unloved, the sentiment for stocks remains sour. One need look no further than the quarter-billion dollars in hemorrhaging outflows out of U.S. equity funds (see ICI Long-Term Mutual Fund Flows) since 2014. This deep underlying skepticism serves as a positive contrarian indicator for future equity prices. Right now, very few individual investors are swimming in the pool – the time to get out of the stock market pool is when everyone is jumping in.
And lastly, valuations remain very much in line with historical averages (approximatqely 17x 2016 projected earnings), especially considering the generational low in interest rates. Bears continue to point to the elevated CAPE ratio, which has been a disastrous indicator the last seven years (and longer), as a reason to remain cautious. The ironic part is that valuations are virtually guaranteed to improve a few years from now as we roll off the artificially depressed years of 2008-2010.
When you add it all up, zero (or negative) interest rates, combined with the other key factors of profits, sentiment, and valuations, equities remain an important and attractive part of a diversified long-term portfolio. Your objectives, time horizon, and risk tolerance will always drive the proportion of your equity allocation. Nevertheless, some bond exposure is essential to smooth out volatility. Regardless of your investment strategy, chasing headlines, like a dog chasing a car, serves no purpose other than leaving you with a tired, unproductive investment portfolio.
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DISCLOSURE: Sidoxia Capital Management (SCM) and some of its clients own certain exchange traded funds, but at the time of publishing SCM had no direct position in any other security referenced in this article. No information accessed through the Investing Caffeine (IC) website constitutes investment, financial, legal, tax or other advice nor is to be relied on in making an investment or other decision. Please read disclosure language on IC "Contact" page.
Confusing Fear Bubbles with Stock Bubbles
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average approaching and now breaking the 16,000 level, there has been a lot of discussion about whether the stock market is an inflating bubble about to burst due to excessive price appreciation? The reality is a fear bubble exists…not a valuation bubble. This fear phenomenon became abundantly clear from 2008 – 2012 when $100s of billions flowed out of stocks into bonds and trillions in cash got stuffed under the mattress earning near 0% (see Take Me Out to the Stock Game). The tide has modestly turned in 2013 but as I've written over the last six months, investor skepticism has reigned supreme (see Most Hated Bull Market Ever & Investors Snore).
Volatility in stocks will always exist, but standard ups-and-downs don't equate to a bubble. The fact of the matter is if you are reading about bubble headlines in prominent newspapers and magazines, or listening to bubble talk on the TV or radio, then those particular bubbles likely do not exist. Or as strategist and investor Jim Stack has stated, "Bubbles, for the most part, are invisible to those trapped inside the bubble."
All the recent bubble talk scattered over all the media outlets only bolsters my fear case more. If we actually were in a stock bubble, you wouldn't be reading headlines like these:
From 1,300 Bubble to 5,000
If you think identifying financial bubbles is easy, then you should buy former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan a drink and ask him how easy it is? During his chairmanship in late-1996, he successfully managed to identify the existence of an expanding technology bubble when he delivered his infamous "irrational exuberance" speech. The only problem was he failed miserably on his timing. From the timing of his alarming speech to the ultimate pricking of the bubble in 2000, the NASDAQ index proceeded to more than triple in value (from about 1,300 to over 5,000).
Current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was no better in identifying the housing bubble. In his remarks made before the Federal Reserve Board of Chicago in May 2007, Bernanke had this to say:
"…We believe the effect of the troubles in the subprime sector on the broader housing market will likely be limited, and we do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system. The vast majority of mortgages, including even subprime mortgages, continue to perform well."
If the most powerful people in finance are horrible at timing financial market bubbles, then perhaps you shouldn't stake your life's savings on that endeavor either.
Bubbles History 101
Each bubble is unique in its own way, but analyzing previous historic bubbles can help understand future ones (see Sleeping Through Bubbles):
• Dutch Tulip-Mania: About 400 years ago in the 1630s, rather than buying a new house, Dutch natives were paying over $60,000 for tulip bulbs.
• British Railroad Mania: The overbuilding of railways in Britain during the 1840s.
• Roaring 20s: Preceding the Wall Street Crash of 1929 (-90% plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial average) and Great Depression, the U.S. economy experienced an extraordinary boom during the 1920s.
• Nifty Fifty: During the early 1970s, investors and traders piled into a set of glamour stocks or "Blue Chips" that eventually came crashing down about -90%.
• Japan's Nikkei: The value of the Nikkei index increased over 450% in the eight years leading up to the peak of 38,957 in December 1989. Today, almost 25 years later, the index stands at about 15,382.
• Tech Bubble: Near the peak of the technology bubble in 2000, stocks like JDS Uniphase Corp (JDSU) and Yahoo! Inc (YHOO) traded for over 600x's earnings. Needless to say, things ended pretty badly once the bubble burst.
As long as humans breathe, and fear and greed exist (i.e., forever), then we will continue to encounter bubbles. Unfortunately, we are unlikely to be notified of future bubbles in mainstream headlines. The objective way to unearth true economic bubbles is by focusing on excessive valuations. While stock prices are nowhere near the towering valuations of the technology and Japanese bubbles of the late 20th century, the bubble of fear originating from the 2008-2009 financial crisis has pushed many long-term bond prices to ridiculously high levels. As a result, these and other bonds are particularly vulnerable to spikes in interest rates (see Confessions of a Bond Hater).
Rather than chasing bubbles and nervously fretting over sensationalistic headlines, you will be better served by devoting your attention to the creation of a globally diversified investment portfolio. Own a portfolio that integrates a wide range of asset classes, and steers clear of popularly overpriced investments that the masses are talking about. When fear disappears and everyone is clamoring to buy stocks, you can be confident the stock bubble is ready to burst.
DISCLOSURE: Sidoxia Capital Management (SCM) and some of its clients hold positions in certain exchange traded funds (ETFs), but at the time of publishing SCM had no direct position in TWTR, JDSU, YHOO or any other security referenced in this article. No information accessed through the Investing Caffeine (IC) website constitutes investment, financial, legal, tax or other advice nor is to be relied on in making an investment or other decision. Please read disclosure language on IC Contact page.
November 24, 2013 at 9:12 am 6 comments
Hammering Heads with Circular Conversations
This article is an excerpt from a previously released Sidoxia Capital Management complementary newsletter (July 1, 2013). Subscribe on the right side of the page for a complete monthly update.
Deciphering what is driving the markets on a day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month basis can feel like repeatedly hammering your head. In order to grasp the reasons why financial markets go up and down, one must have a conversation with your brain explaining that good news can be bad for asset prices, and bad news can be good for asset prices. Huh…how can that be? These circular conversations are what keep newspapers, magazines, media commentators, and bloggers in business… and what baffle many investors.
For example, headlines often reflect sentiments such as these:
"Unemployment Figures Disappoint…Dow Jones Rallies +200 Points on QE3 Continuation Hopes"
"Unemployment Figures Delight…Dow Jones Tanks -200 Points on QE3 Discontinuation Fears"
"Economic Figures Revised Lower by -0.2%…Dow Jones Skyrockets +200 Points as Lower Interest Rates Propel Stock Prices."
"Economic Figures Revised Higher by +0.2%…Dow Jones Plummets -200 Points as Higher Interest Rates Deflate Stock Prices."
On rare occasions these headlines make sense, but often online media outlets are frantically changing the headlines as the markets whip back and forth from positive to negative. News-producing editors are continually forced to create ludicrous and absurd explanations that usually make no sense to informed long-term investors.
It's important to recognize that if the financial markets made common sense, then investing for retirement would be simple and everyone would be billionaires. Unfortunately, financial markets frequently make no sense in the short-run. Stocks are volatile (often times for no rational reason), which is why stocks offer higher returns over the long-run relative to more stable asset classes.
Explaining the latest spike in stock/bond price volatility has been exacerbated in recent weeks as a result of the nation's banker (the Federal Reserve) and its boss, Ben Bernanke, attempting to explain their future monetary policy plans. In theory, bringing light to a traditionally mysterious, closed-door Washington process should be a good thing…right?
Well, ever since a few weeks ago when Ben Bernanke and the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) disclosed that the stimulative bond buying program (QE3) could be slowed in 2013 and halted in 2014, financial markets globally experienced a sharp jolt of volatility – stock prices dropped and interest rates spiked. Counter-intuitively, Bernanke's belief that the economy is on a sustained recovery path (expected GDP growth of +3.25% in both 2014 & 2015) spooked investors. More specifically, in the month of June, the S&P 500 index declined -1.5% in June; Dow Jones Industrial Index -1.4%; and the 10-year Treasury note's yield jumped +0.3% to 2.5%. Greedy investors, however, should not forget that the stock market just posted its 2nd best quarter since 2009 – the S&P 500 climbed +2.4%. What's more, the S&P 500 is up +13% and the Dow up +14% in the first half of 2013.
Bernanke Threatening to Take Away Investor Lollipops
Another way of looking at the recent volatility is by equating investors to kids and stimulative QE bond buying programs (Quantitative Easing) to lollipops. If the economy continues on this improvement trajectory (i.e., unemployment falls to 7% by next year) and inflation remains benign (below 2.5%), then Bernanke said he will take away investors' QE lollipops. But like a pushover dad being pressured by kids at the candy store, Bernanke acknowledged that he could continue supplying investors QE lollipops, if the economic data doesn't improve at the forecasted pace. At face value, receiving a specific timeline given by the Fed should be appreciated and normally people are happy to hear the Chairman speak rosily about the economy's future. However, the mere thought of QE lollipops being taken away next year was enough to push investors into a "taper tantrum" (see also Investing Caffeine – Fed Fatigue article).
With scary headlines constantly circulating, a large proportion of investors are sitting on their hands (and cash) while staring like deer in headlights at these developments. Rather than a distracted driver texting, investors should be watching the road and mapping out their future investment destinations – not paying attention to irrelevant diversions. Astute investors realize that uncertainty surrounding Greece, Cyprus, fiscal cliff, sequestration, presidential elections, Iran, N. Korea, Syria, Turkey, taxes, QE3, etc., etc., etc., have been a constant. Regrettably the fear mongers paying attention to these useless headlines have witnessed their cash, gold, and Treasuries get trounced by equity returns since early 2009 (the S&P 500 index is up about +150%, including dividends). Optimists and realists, on the other hand, have seen their investment plans thrive. While the aforementioned list of concerns has dangled in front of our noses over the last year, we will have a complete new list of concerns to decipher over the coming weeks, months, and years. That's the price a long-term investor pays if they want to earn higher returns in the volatile equity markets.
As strategist Don Hays points out, "Nothing is certain. Good investors love uncertainty." Rather than getting consumed by fear with the endless number of changing uncertainties, the real risk for investors is outliving your savings. Paychecks are being stretched by inflationary pressures across all categories (e.g., healthcare, gasoline, utilities, food, movies, travel, etc.) and entitlements like Social Security and Medicare will likely not mean the same thing to us as it did for our parents. Unless investors plan on working into their 80s as greeters at Wal-Mart, and/or enjoy clipping Top Ramen coupons in a crammed apartment, then they should do themselves a favor by taking a deep breath and turning off the television, so they can be insulated from the constant doom and gloom.
So as intimidating, circular conversations about good news being bad news, and bad news being good news continue to swirl around, focus instead on building a diversified investment plan that can adjust and adapt to the never-ending list of uncertainties. Your head will feel a lot better than it would after repetitive hammer strikes.
DISCLOSURE: Sidoxia Capital Management (SCM) and some of its clients hold positions in certain exchange traded funds (ETFs) and WMT, but at the time of publishing, SCM had no direct position in any other security referenced in this article. No information accessed through the Investing Caffeine (IC) website constitutes investment, financial, legal, tax or other advice nor is to be relied on in making an investment or other decision. Please read disclosure language on IC Contact page.
July 1, 2013 at 8:31 am 2 comments
Dow Déjà Vu – Shining Rainbow or Bad Nightmare?
Excerpt from Free January Sidoxia Monthly Newsletter (Subscribe on right-side of page)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is sitting at 11,577 points. Dick Fuld is still CEO of Lehman Brothers, AIG is still trading toxic CDS derivative contracts, and the $700 billion TARP bailout is a pre-idea about to be invented in the brain of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. Oops, wait a second, this isn't the Dow 11,577of September 2008, but rather this is the Dow 11,577 of December 2010 (+11% for the year, excluding dividends). Was the -50% drop we experienced in the equity markets during 2008-2009 all just a bad dream? If not, how in the heck has the stock market climbed spectacularly? Most people don't realize that stocks have about doubled over the last 21 months (and up roughly +20%-25% in the last 6 months) – all in the face of horrendously depressing news swirling around the media (i.e., jobs, debt, deficits, N. Korea, Iran, "New Normal," etc.). Market volatility often does not make intuitive sense, and as a result, many market observers have been caught flat-footed.
Here are a few basic factors that average investors have not adequately appreciated:
1) Headlines are in Rearview Mirror: News that everyone reads in newspapers and magazines and hears on the television and radio is all backward looking. It's always best to drive while looking forward through the windshield and try to anticipate what's around the corner – not obsess with backward looking activity in the rearview mirror. That's how the stock market works – tomorrow's news (not yesterday's or today's) is what drives prices up or down. As the economy teetered on the verge of a "Great Depression-like" scenario in 2008-2009, investors became overly pessimistic and stocks became dramatically oversold. More recently, news has been perking up. Previous recessions have seen doubters slowly convert to believers and push prices higher – eventually stocks become overbought and euphoria slows the bull market. I believe we are in phase II of this three-part economic recovery.
2) Ignore Emerging Markets at Own Peril: We Americans tend to wear blinders when it comes to focusing on domestic issues. We focus more on healthcare reform and political issues, such as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," rather than the billions of foreigners chasing us as they climb the global economic ladder. Citizens in emerging markets are more concerned about out-competing and out-innovating us through educated workforces, so they can steal our jobs and buy more toasters, iPods, and cars – things we Americans have already taken for granted. The insatiable appetite of the expanding global middle class for a better standard of living is also driving ballooning commodity prices – everything from coal to copper and corn to cotton (the 4 Cs). This universal sandbox that we play in offers tremendous opportunities to grasp and tremendous threats to avoid, if investors open their eyes to these emerging market trends.
3) Capital Goes Where it's Treated Best: Many voters are fed-up with the political climate in Washington and the sad state of economic affairs. The great thing about the global capitalistic marketplace we live in is that it does not discriminate – capital flows to where it is treated best. On a macro basis, money flows to countries that are fiscally responsible, support pro-growth initiatives, harbor educated work forces, control valuable natural resources, and honor the rule of law. On a micro basis, money flows to companies that are attractively priced and/or capable of sustainably growing earnings and cash flow. Voters and politicians will ultimately figure it out, or capital will go where it's treated best.
Today's Dow 11,577 is no bad dream, but rather resembles the emergence of a bright shining rainbow after a long, cold, and dark storm. The rainbow won't stick around forever, but if investors choose to ignore the previously mentioned factors, like so many investors have overlooked, portfolio performance may turn into an ugly nightmare.
DISCLOSURE: Sidoxia Capital Management (SCM) and some of its clients own certain exchange traded funds, AAPL, and an AIG derivative security, but at the time of publishing SCM had no direct position in GS, any security referenced in this article. No information accessed through the Investing Caffeine (IC) website constitutes investment, financial, legal, tax or other advice nor is to be relied on in making an investment or other decision. Please read disclosure language on IC "Contact" page.
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Six '1989' stories February 2015 - December 2015
Taylor Swift reveals 1989 World Tour film coming exclusively to Apple Music on Dec. 20
Seth Weintraub Dec 13 2015 - 11:08 am PT
Taylor Swift revealed today, her 26th birthday, via Twitter that an exclusive 1989 World Tour documentary will hit Apple Music on Dec. 20. The special is exclusive to Apple Music subscribers and is an example of the kind of exclusive content that Apple wants to bring in for its Music service. It won't be available for purchase though other channels, at least not initially. The concert will include a number of big artists, as well. A trailer for the documentary can be seen below.
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Taylor Swift says her album '1989' will be on Apple Music
Zac Hall Jun 25 2015 - 8:32 am PT
Taylor Swift has answered one of the last remaining questions about Apple Music before it launches: her popular album 1989 will be available on Apple Music when it launches on Tuesday. The development follows Swift's high profile letter to Apple over how artists would be paid during the streaming service's 3-month free trial. Apple later reversed its decision announcing it would pay artists during the trial.
Apple changes tune following Taylor Swift criticism, will now pay artists during free Apple Music trial
Mike Beasley Jun 21 2015 - 8:52 pm PT
Following Taylor Swift's public criticism of Apple's decision not to pay artists and labels for plays during Apple Music's three-month free trial period, Eddy Cue took to Twitter to announce a swift policy change. The executive assured Swift that music producers will now be paid for every play on the Apple Music service, including those that are part of a user's free trial.
Taylor Swift says '1989' is not on Apple Music because she is disappointed by 3 month free trial terms for artists
Benjamin Mayo Jun 21 2015 - 5:08 am PT
Update: Apple has responded to Swift's blog post.
Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Taylor Swift's latest album '1989' will not be available on Apple Music, Apple's streaming music service launching on June 30th with iOS 8.4. She has written a blog post on Tumblr explaining her position.
We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.
Swift explains that she respects Apple for their innovation but says the terms associated with the Apple Music free trial are 'unlike this historically progressive and generous company'. Swift says that under the 3 month free trial period, artists and rights holders are not paid at all for the duration and notes Apple has plenty of money to reimburse the artists for their work. Swift says that she is holding back 1989 not because she cannot support herself but as a retaliation for 'the new artist or band that has just released their first single'.
Apple Music will stream Taylor Swift's back catalog, but not her album '1989'
Chance Miller Jun 18 2015 - 4:26 pm PT
There has been a lot of speculation regarding what artists will be available on Apple Music. Earlier this week, it was reported that artists signed to indie labels, like Adele and the Arctic Monkeys, had still not signed on to appear on the service. BuzzFeed now reports that Taylor Swift's hit album '1989' will not be available on Apple Music either. This doesn't come as a huge surprise, though, seeing that '1989' is currently not available from any existing streaming services like Beats and Spotify.
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Taylor Swift announced last night that she is making the bonus tracks from her insanely popular newest album '1989' available on iTunes. This morning, Swift released the first bonus track, "Wonderland" on iTunes, with two more still to come. "You Are In Love" is the next bonus track on the album and was produced by Jack Antonoff of Bleachers and 'fun.' fame. The third bonus single still to come is entitled "New Romantics."
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Fighting malaria through metabolism
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
IMAGE: This is a computational analysis of the malaria parasites' metabolism aids in the understanding of observed phenotypes. Red fluorescent Plasmodium berghei parasites infect green fluorescent mouse erythrocytes. view more
Credit: V. Heussler (University of Bern; fluorescent malaria parasites)/ K.C. Soh M, L. Miskovic (EPFL; metabolic network)/ V. Hatzimanikatis, A. Chiappino-Pepe (EPFL; composite image)
EPFL scientists have fully modeled the metabolism of the deadliest malaria parasite. The model offers unprecedented tools for developing a new generation of antimalarial therapies to overcome drug resistance.
Many of the malaria parasites develop resistance to drugs. A promising strategy is to target the parasite's metabolism, but it has proven very complicated to connect to their genetics. EPFL scientists have now developed the first ever mathematical model of a malaria parasite that accurately integrates its genetics and metabolism, opening a whole new way of treating the disease. The model is based on the deadliest of the malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum, and is published in PLoS Computational Biology.
There have been intensive research efforts to map out and target metabolic enzymes of the Plasmodium parasites. But their metabolism has proven to be versatile and complex, and integrating all existing data on the parasites' genetics to their metabolism is challenging.
A new model of malaria parasites' metabolism
The lab of Vassily Hatzimanikatis at EPFL, with colleagues at Geneva and Bern, has now developed a new mathematical model of the malaria parasite P. falciparum. The model connects the experimental data from both genetics and metabolomics, which is the study of all the metabolic processes of an organism and maps out all of its metabolites.
Malaria parasites infect various cells through their life cycle, displaying different points of vulnerability at each life stage. However, there has not been a comprehensive attempt to investigate the enzymes that are consistently vulnerable.
The scientists studied P. falciparum but instead looked at the way the parasites produce and use energy for their metabolic reactions. This approach can help identify which metabolic functions are essential at each stage of the infection, and which are energetically coupled through key metabolites.
The scientists could therefore model, for the first time, the bioenergetics of the metabolism of P. falciparum, predicting with unprecedented accuracy which genes are indispensable for every biological function in the parasite.
By integrating metabolomics and genetics data, the model reveals the complex interactions between gene products, reactions, and metabolites in the parasite, and identifies potential mechanisms to target with drugs.
"The design of efficient antimalarial drugs that target the parasites and not the patient's metabolism requires an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms that make a particular enzyme essential," says Anush Chiappino-Pepe, the Ph.D. student who carried out the study at Hatzimanikatis' lab. "So mathematical modeling of the parasite's metabolism becomes a very powerful tool."
The EPFL scientists will continue to improve the model with genetics and metabolomics data generated by the MalarX.ch consortium, which involves the University Geneva and Bern, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. They aim to reveal the mechanisms behind host-pathogen interactions and gain insight into the physiology of the parasite while it is dormant.
This work included a contribution from the University of Geneva (Faculty of Medicine). It was funded by SystemsX.ch (MalarX), the Swiss
National Science Foundation (SNSF), EPFL and the University of Geneva.
Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Stepan Tymoshenko, Meriç Ataman, Dominique Soldati-Favre, Vassily Hatzimanikatis. Bioenergetics-based Modeling of Plasmodium falciparum Metabolism Reveals its Essential Genes, Nutritional Requirements, and Thermodynamic Bottlenecks. PLoS Computational Biology 23 March 2017.
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Ngozi Mwanamwambwa Asinga (born 25 February 1971) is a Zambian former sprinter. She competed in the women's 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics. She also competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She is the wife of Surinamese former athlete Tommy Asinga. She attended Principia College. A seven-time NCAA Division III All-American in track, Ngozi earned top-three finishes in the 100, 200 and 400 metres races, and was the 1992 Division III national champion in the 200 metres.

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Cooking for Health courses
Overweight and obesity among children is widely regarded as being even more serious than it is among adults, with a very rapid rise in prevalence in the last two decades. Child obesity is likely to continue into adulthood, and many of the problems linked to obesity are more severe if the obesity has been present for a long period. Adults with the highest risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, liver malfunction and orthopaedic dysfunction, are likely to have the most extreme levels of obesity and to have been obese since childhood[i].
Projections of child obesity based on trends from the 1980s and 1990s indicate that the annual increase in child obesity prevalence is itself increasing[ii]. By the year 2010, some 26 million school children in the EU are expected to be overweight, of which 6 million will be obese. The numbers of overweight children will rise by some 1.3 million per year, of which the numbers of obese children will rise by over 0.3 million per year.
At a conservative estimate, over a million obese children in the EU are likely to show a range of indicators for cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure and raised blood cholesterol levels, and to have three or more indicators of the metabolic syndrome[iii]. Over 1.4 million children could have early stages of liver disorder.
The costs of childhood obesity have not been estimated but should include lost educational opportunity. A study of children's quality of life found the psychological effects of severe obesity to be equivalent to a diagnosis of cancer[iv].
Behaviour, learning and mental health problems in children are rising as fast as rates of obesity and diabetes. Food affects brains as well as bodies, and early malnourishment can have devastating effects on both. Conversely, improving nutrition can help reduce antisocial behaviour as well as symptoms of ADHD, dyslexia, depression and related conditions[v].
The only pan-European estimates of children's food consumption patterns are from self-reported surveys of health behaviours of children aged 11-15 years[vi]. The most recent (for 2001-2002) found:
In virtually all countries fewer than 50 per cent of children ate vegetables every day. On average, 30 per cent of children said they ate vegetables daily, but the children in countries once famous for their Mediterranean diets reported lower than average levels, especially Spain, where vegetables were typically eaten daily by only 12 per cent of children.
In virtually all countries fewer than 50 per cent of children ate fruit every day. On average, 30 per cent of boys and 37 per cent of girls reported eating fruit daily, but in sixteen countries only 25 per cent of children were eating fruit more than once a week. Lowest levels of consumption were reported among children in Northern European countries.
Soft drinks and confectionery were consumed daily by about 30 per cent of children (over 40 per cent in some countries).
According to the last National Diet and Nutrition Survey in the UK[vii]:
92 per cent of children consume more saturated fat than is recommended
86 per cent consume too much sugar
72 per cent consume too much salt
96 per cent do not consume enough fruit and vegetables
Governments are trying to improve children's diets, but young people's exposure to marketing pressures in our time-poor, anxiety-ridden, media-driven society is at an all-time high.
Widespread action is needed to reverse current trends – and we all need to take responsibility for what we are feeding young bodies and minds.
In a Cooking for Health class focused on Healthy Cooking for Your Children, we look at:
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Easy steps to free your child from food traps
Simple, child-friendly recipes
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[i] Policy options for responding to obesity. Summary report of the EC-funded project to map the view of stakeholders involved in tackling obesity – the PorGrow project. Dr Tim Lobstein and Professor Erik Millstone. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/porgrow
[ii] Jackson-Leach R, Lobstein T. Estimated burden of paediatric obesity and co-morbidities in Europe. Part 1. The increase in the prevalence of child obesity in Europe is itself increasing. Int J Pediatric Obesit 2006;1:26-32.
[iii] Lobstein T, Jackson-Leach R. Estimated burden of paediatric obesity and co-morbidities in Europe. Part 2. Numbers of children with indicators of obesity-related disease. Int J Pediatric Obesity 2006;1:33-41.
[iv] Schwimmer JB, Burwinkle TM, Varni JW. Health-related quality of life of severely obese children and adolescents. J Am Med Ass 2003;289:1813-9.
[v] Richardson, A. They Are What You Feed Them. Harper Thorsons (5 Jun 2006)
[vi] HBSC. Young people's health in context: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children 2001/2002. Health Policy for Children and Adolescents 4. C Currie et al (eds) Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2004.
[vii] Gregory, J. et al. National Diet and Nutrition Survey: Young People Aged 4-18 years (The Stationery Office, 2000)
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Mediterranean diet reduces risk of heart attack and stroke
A new analysis of data from the Nurses' Health Study has shown that women whose diets most closely resemble a traditional Mediterranean diet are significantly less likely to develop heart disease and stroke [1].
Lead researcher Dr Teresa T Fung (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA) commented that many other studies have looked at the effects of this diet on cardiovascular mortality, but this is one of few with enough participants to look at nonfatal events and also is the first to examine stroke as a separate outcome. Fung and colleagues report their findings online February 16, 2009 in Circulation.
"What this adds to the existing literature is that it shows a reduced risk of nonfatal events as well," she notes. "My take on this is that all the data from different studies with different types of dietary patterns are pointing in the same kind of direction: a minimally processed, mostly plant-based diet, with an abundance–not just in terms of quantity but in terms of variety–of different plant foods and fish. I will single out fish because we included fish in our score. Oily fish seem to have a very strong relation in terms of being beneficial."
29% Reduced Risk of MI, 13% Reduction in Stroke Risk
Fung and colleagues used data on 74 886 women who participated in the Nurses' Health Study, and the current analysis averaged data from six different dietary assessments self-reported between 1984 and 2002. Previous studies have shown an association between the Mediterranean diet and a reduced risk of cardiovascular death in both men and women, they note.
They calculated the Alternate Mediterranean Diet (aMed) score, a measure constructed to assess US-based diets for their similarity to a traditional Mediterranean diet, for the women and divided them into quintiles. Relative risks for incident coronary heart disease, stroke, and combined fatal cardiovascular events were estimated and adjusted for cardiovascular risk factors.
During 20 years of follow-up, there were 2391 incident cases of CHD, 1763 incident cases of stroke, and 1077 cardiovascular disease deaths (fatal CHD and strokes combined).
Women in the top aMed quintile were at lower risk for both CHD and stroke compared with those in the bottom quintile (relative risk for CHD 0.71; p for trend <0.0001; relative risk for stroke 0.87; p for trend=0.03).
CVD mortality was also significantly lower among women in the top quintile of the aMed score (relative risk 0.61; p for trend <0.0001).
"These are dramatic results," says Fung. "We found that women whose diets look like the Mediterranean diet are not only less likely to die from heart disease and stroke, but they are less likely to have those diseases."
She stressed that these results–particularly the stroke finding–would need to be replicated in men, however.
An Easy-to-Follow Diet
Compared with a typical US diet, the Mediterranean-type diet requires a shift toward a more plant-based diet, which means eating less meat and getting more of the day's protein from plant sources such as beans and nuts. It also emphasises unprocessed whole grains and unsaturated oils, such as olive oil.
The typical US dietary pattern of fast food and red meat high in saturated fats may be replacing the traditional Mediterranean diet even in Mediterranean countries. Greece, for example, has one of the highest prevalences of obesity in Europe. A recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan suggested a link between number of fast food restaurants in a neighbourhood and the risk of stroke.
You can learn how to cook delicious and heart-healthy food based on Mediterranean dietary principles at Cooking for Health courses, held throughout the year in Somerset, UK.
Fung TT, Rexrode KM, Mantzoros CS, et al. Mediterranean diet and incidence of and mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke in women. Circulation 2009; DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.816736. Available at: http://circ.ahajournals.org.
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The coordinator of Iseki Food 4 is Prof.ssa Paola Pittia at the Università degli Studi di Teramo.
The project is an activity of the ISEKI Food Association. Link here.
ISEKI_Food 4 is supported by the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme (518415-LLP-1-2011-1-IT-Erasmus-ENW).


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Q: Nightwatch JS | Getting Next Sibling Text I am attempting to write a function that can acquire the text value of a nextSibling node underneath a label bracket. I need to be able to put that text into a global variable that I can reference later in the test, but my current function, while it is retrieving the webElementId, is not retrieving the text. Instead, my console.log function is outputting a blank value.
To give some context on the code in question, here is the HTML layout of the field I am attempting to parse.

<iframe> id=[some_id]
  #document
    <html>
      <head>
        <body>
          <div> id=[some_id]
            <form> id=[some_id]
              <div> id=[some_id]
                <div> id=[some_id]
                  <div> style=[some_style]
                    <label>[some text]<label>
                      [text field in question]

That's just the basic layout, but here is the code snippet that I am attempting to use to grab the sibling node, get the id, and then get the text of the webElementId.

.getNextSibling('div[id=popover_content] > form[id=perform_sub_task_form] > div[id=perform_task] > div[id=dialog_container] > div > label:nth-of-type(8)', function(dateObj) {
  let dateVal = dateObj.value.getId()
    console.log(`datevalue: ${dateVal}`)
    browser.elementIdText(`${dateVal}`, function(result) {
      console.log('\n' + result.value)
      initial_date = result.value
})
 })

I have already attempted to simplify this and run a callback function on just the .getNextSibling function using result.value.getText(), that just results in Nightwatch telling me that the function doesn't exist. Reading the documentation for the getNextSibling() function, I found that getId() can be added onto the callback, so I decided to use that to my advantage and attempt to use the provided webElementId and write the snippet above.
I know that my code works up to the first console.lg function, because the webElementId is successfully rendered in the terminal I'm running off of. But once it tries to log the result.value, a blank line appears in the terminal.
My question is, how can I edit this snippet above so that it stops giving me a blank value? Is there an issue with my browser.elementIdText() function?

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Q: How does the event: 'close' work in Node.js? I'm experimenting with the close event in Node.js. I'm very new to Node.js so I'm not sure if this is a decent question or a sad one.
Documentation for close event:
http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_event_close_2
I want to output to the console a message if the browser is closed before the end event is reached.
While the server ran and before it got to 15 seconds, I tried closing the browser and killing the process through Chrome Tools. No message is output to the console and if I open up other connections by visiting localhost:8080 with other windows, I quickly get a 'hello' indicating my node server thinks there are at least two connections.
I'm either not understanding how to kill processes in Chrome  or how the event close works.
Or if End and Close are the same - node.js https no response 'end' event, 'close' instead? - why isn't my "They got impatient!" message still ouput in the console?
How can you output to a console if the process was ended before the event end was reached?
var http = require('http'),
    userRequests = 0;

http.createServer(function(request,response){
userRequests++;

response.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type' : 'text/plain'});

if ( userRequests == 1 ){

    response.write('1st \n');
    setTimeout ( function() {
        response.write('2nd Thanks for waiting. \n');
        response.on('close', function() {

            console.log("They got impatient!");

        });
        response.end();
    }, 15000);
    response.write('3rd \n');
}
else {
    // Quick response for all connections after first user
    response.write('Hello');
    response.end();
}
}).listen(8080, function() {
console.log('Server start');
});

Thank you.

A: First - move the event handler for the close message outside the timeout function - you're not hooking up the close handler until after your timeout expires, and probably missing the event.
Second, you never decrement userRequests anywhere; shouldn't there be a userRequests--; line somewhere? This would be throwing off your logic, since it'll always look like there's more than one request.


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White wolf painting by Door County artist earns award in wildlife art competition
Jan Comstock earned a Meritorious Selection for "Alpha," which also will be included in the exhibit book sponsored by Richeson 75 International.
White wolf painting by Door County artist earns award in wildlife art competition Jan Comstock earned a Meritorious Selection for "Alpha," which also will be included in the exhibit book sponsored by Richeson 75 International. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/door-co/entertainment/2019/12/12/wolf-painting-door-county-artist-recognized-wildlife-art-contest/4412399002/
From Staff Reports, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 4:13 p.m. CT Dec. 12, 2019
KIMBERLY - An oil painting by Door County-based artist Jan Comstock received a Meritorious Selection in the "Animals, Birds & Wildlife 2019" art competition sponsored by Richeson 75 International and will be featured in a full-color, hardcover collectible book of the exhibit published by Richeson.
Comstock was recognized for "Alpha," her painting of a white wolf. She photographed it at a drive-through wildlife preserve in South Dakota and named the painting "Alpha" because this wolf watched her every move while the rest of the pack slept.
"Alpha," oil painting by Jan Comstock of Baileys Harbor, which received a Meritorious Selection in the "Animals, Birds & Wildlife 2019" art competition sponsored by Richeson 75 International. (Photo: Courtesy Jan Comstock)
Comstock worked for 37 years as a graphic artist and designer before spending 12 years managing and administering two different nonprofits arts organizations in Door County. She retired in 2008 to pursue her own artistic goals and since has exhibited her paintings in a number of invitational and juried shows in Door County and elsewhere.
For more on the artist, visit jancomstock.com.
Jack Richeson & Co. is a manufacturer and supplier of art materials, as part of its mission to support the visual arts. In keeping with the mission, it operates the Richeson School of Art & Gallery in Kimberly and created the Richeson 75 International Art Competitions, which are meant to offer a venue where established and emerging artists worldwide are able to expose their work to a wide audience. The competitions are capped off with the publication of a limited-edition, hardcover exhibit book.
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220,000 EV Drivers in California to Lose Carpool Lane Perk in 2019
September 21, 2018, 2pm PDT
The good news: the Clean Air Vehicle program for electric vehicles will be extended for at least three years. The bad news: not all EVs that have a decal now will be able to be renewed. Congestion on HOV and HOT lanes is a major concern.
Electric Vehicles to Lose Important Perk in Southern California
April 30, 2018, 9am PDT
One of the major reasons for purchasing an electric vehicle in California is the ability to use a carpool lane as a solo driver and use an express lane toll-free. The latter perk will soon disappear for solo-occupant EVs on two freeways.
Los Angeles HOT Lanes Have an Oversubscription Problem
March 27, 2015, 8am PDT
The 110 High Occupancy Toll Lanes, conversions of carpool lanes, appear to be a victim of their own success, writes LA Times transportation reporter Laura J. Nelson. An economist would say the solution is to raise the maximum per-mile toll. Or is it?
Congestion Pricing Debuts in L.A.
November 13, 2012, 10am PST
AP covers the opening of the first toll lanes in LA county: 110 Freeway Express Lanes that allow solo-drivers to use a carpool lane for a toll that varies with the level of congestion (i.e. congestion pricing). Shoup asks: "Why did it take so long?"
AP via San Jose Mercury News


When things – big or small – change at your company, it can be challenging to get the entirety of your team onboard with the adjustments. Especially if something that's been done a certain way for a long time is being altered, it is common for employees to resist.
By nature, humans aren't always big fans of change in their lives, let alone at work where they are embedded into a solid routine, filled with the processes they are used to following. The fear of failure combined with the tendency towards complacency makes it difficult for people to readily accept changes.
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No one likes to just have change thrown at them or to be told that they have to alter the way they do things. Instead of catching people off guard and making them feel out of the loop, involve them in making the decisions towards the change together.
The more invested your employees and teammates feel in the process, the easier it will be for them to accept the adjustment moving forward.
A huge change doesn't have to – and shouldn't – just happen overnight. When a process or way of doing things is being altered, it should be done gradually in small increments. This allows the team to get used to the change and not have to suddenly and abruptly change what they're doing from one day to the next.
Let people get the hang of – and on board with – one aspect of the change, and then introduce the next, and so on.
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Home Arts & Entertainment Arts Your Weeks Ahead: Aug. 29 to Sept. 10
Your Weeks Ahead: Aug. 29 to Sept. 10
John Thomason
[NOTE: This column covers the next two weeks ahead, to accommodate for a vacation next week.]
Mizner Park hosts a Brazilian bash, South Florida artists re-interpret the classic femme fatale, and Boca restaurants offer a month of prix fixe specials. Plus, Green Day, the Norton's "Earth Works," "Marjorie Prime" and more in the weeks ahead.
What: Opening night of "Femme Fatale" All Girl Art Show
Where: Howley's, 4700 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach
When: 7 p.m. to midnight
Contact: 561/833-5691, sub-culture.org/howleys
The archetype of the femme fatale—the seductive beauty from many a pulp novel and noir film, who ensnares a hapless male into a web of deception—is the subject of this diverse exhibition of work by 20 female artists from South Florida. The artists will reinvent, re-interpret and recontextualize femmes fatales, in a dynamic show curated by Kelcie McQuaid of Shangri-La Creations. At Tuesday's opening, in addition to the art, at least 10 vendors will be on hand selling their wares, and local singer-songwriter Lindsey Mills will perform an acoustic set. You'll want to stick around and order from Howley's extensive, classic diner menu—or come back another day to view the art in a less raucous context. The show runs through Sept. 25.
Photo courtesy of CNHVision
What: Grunge Fest
Where: Revolution Live, 100 S.W. Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale
When: 7 p.m.
Contact: 954/449-1025, jointherevolution.net
Those of us unlucky enough to have discovered Nirvana posthumously can experience the next best thing at this bargain-priced tribute concert. Orlando-based Nirvanna goes beyond the call of cover-band duty, re-creating the music, clothes and hairstyles of the grunge pioneers, perfectly imitating Kurt Cobain's distinctive howls and signature disaffected look. One listen to the music, either in a live setting or recorded, confirms the group's note-perfect commitment. Arrive early for Facelift, which memorializes the look and sound of another platinum-selling Seattle export, Alice in Chains.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 1
What: Opening day of Boca Raton Restaurant Month
Where: Participating area restaurants
When: Lunch and dinner!
Cost: $21 to $40 for prix fixe meals
Contact: 561/395-4433, bocarestaurantmonth.com
September is a great month to experiment with a new dish, or finally try that hot new restaurant in Mizner Park or Royal Palm Place. For the entire month, 23 restaurants will be offering prix fixe dinner (and sometimes lunch) specials, thanks to this initiative from the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce. The theme of this year's Boca Restaurant Month is "I Love New York," and each venue will offer, as part of its special menu, a New York-themed item, from Manhattan clam chowder to N.Y.-style cheesecake. Given the number of ex-New Yorkers that call the 561 area code their home, standards will be high. But with eateries like Max's Grille, Henry's, Morton's and City Fish Market participating, expect them to be exceeded. Visit the promotion's website for all restaurants.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 3
What: Green Day
Where: Coral Sky Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach
Cost: $27 lawn seating still available
Contact: livenation.com
For audiences of a certain age, Green Day became synonymous with adolescent awakening, channeling the anxieties and rebellion of the pre-college set on its 1994 breakthrough Dookie—still an awesome album, even by this 34-year-old writer's tastes. But the pop-punk trio has remained relevant three decades later, after many of its peers have shredded and snare-drummed into the dustbin of alt-rock history. American Idiot, from 2004, became a potent rallying cry for the antiwar, anti-Bush left, and was later adapted into a musical. Last year's Revolution Radio, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, has become a similar cultural touchstone for the anti-Trump resistance, which will be in full flower at next weekend's South Florida tour stop. Expect fireworks (literal and figurative), T-shirt guns, audience participation, imaginative cover medleys and a frenzied, eclectic set list spanning nearly the band's entire career.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 5
What: Opening day of "Earth Works"
Where: Norton Museum, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach
When: Noon to 5 p.m. Cost: Free
Contact: 561/832-5196, norton.org
Art and science share canvases in this collection of more than 30 environmentally alarming works by photographer Justin Brice Guariglia. The New York City artist flew over Greenland seven times during 2015 and 2016 as part of NASA's Operation IceBridge, which surveys the impact of climate change on the country's melting glaciers. The resulting exhibition, subtitled "Mapping the Anthropocene," is both a striking collection of abstract photo-paintings and a clarion call about sea level rise. Printed with an acrylic process Guariglia himself invented, the impossible-to-replicate aerial close-ups of "Earth Works" are both placid and tempestuous, astral and arctic, forcing us to look anew at the geography we're slowly losing.
What: Opening night of "Marjorie Prime"
Where: Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave., Lake Worth
When: 2 and 6 p.m. Cost: $6-$9
Contact: 561/296-9382, lakeworthplayhouse.org
This much-anticipated science-fiction movie arrives in theaters with an impeccable provenance: It's based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. It's set in the near future, where holographic projections of deceased loved ones are de rigueur, helping widows cope through the illusion of immortality. For the 86-year-old title character (played by Lois Smith), this technology becomes her link to the past and her crutch against Alzheimer's, manifesting in the form of John Hamm's virtual simulacrum of her late husband. A meditation on memory and mortality from the cerebral sci-fi auteur Michael Almereyda, "Marjorie Prime" co-stars Tim Robbins and Geena Davis, and it currently boasts a 93-percent "fresh" ranking from Rotten Tomatoes.
What: Opening night of "Dual Frequency"
Where: Art and Culture Center, 1650 Harrison St., Hollywood
When: 6 to 9 p.m.
Contact: 954/921-3274, artandculturecenter.org
Not all of the best local artists struggle financially, but the romantic cliché of the starving artist still carries a lot of truth. Hence the continued importance of grants to ensure their impactful, unifying work can proceed without extreme financial hardship. "Dual Frequency," an initiative/exhibition from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, showcases work from 14 preeminent South Florida artists pegged for 2017 grants of either $15,000 or $7,500. The diverse group show crosses many disciplines, with Art and Culture Center curator Laura Marsh stating in a press release that "this group of artists represents some of the most committed and community-engaged in South Florida." Catch the exhibition through Oct. 22.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 9
What: Brazilian Beat
Where: Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton
When: 6 to 11 p.m.
Contact: 561/367-7070, downtownboca.org
Brazil will celebrate its Independence Day Sept. 7, and for us in South Florida, that means it's a great excuse to party like we're South Americans. Downtown Boca hopes to draw thousands to Mizner Park for the sixth-annual Brazilian Beat, which has become the region's premier celebration of Brazilian culture. The evening will feature gourmet and authentic Brazilian cuisine, a Zumba showcase, a Capoeira circle, carnival dancers and samba drummers, along with a couple of outstanding music acts courtesy of Miami's Rhythm Foundation: national headliner Vanessa de Mata, the longtime Brazilian songstress whose reggae career included a stint with Jamaican legends Black Uhuru; and Batuke Samba Funk, an Afro-samba Big Band whose funk-influenced sound aims to bridge the gap between American and Brazilian music.
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Jubilant joins list of Indian drugmakers cited by the FDA
Dec 5, 2013 11:11am
A Jubilant Life Sciences plant has joined a growing list of Indian drugmakers' facilities that have gotten crosswise with the FDA lately. But this time it is for a plant in the U.S., the second Jubilant plant in North America tagged by the agency this year.
The drugmaker reported today that the FDA sent it a warning letter for problems at its Jubilant HollisterStier plant in Spokane, WA. According to Reuters, sales of drugs from the facility accounted for 7% of the drugmaker's revenues in the 6 months ended in September. The company told the news service in a statement that the warning could prevent the facility from applying for new drug approvals but that it didn't expect it to interrupt production of products currently coming out of that facility.
Indian companies produce about 40% of the generic drugs sold in the U.S., but some of the biggest have found themselves facing significant issues with the FDA. Just this week, the regulator posted a warning letter sent to India's Wockhardt, a company that now has two of its Indian plants banned from shipping products to the U.S. In September, the FDA took the same action against a Ranbaxy Laboratories plant in India, the third of its facilities there to be prevented from shipping to the U.S. All of the companies claim they are addressing FDA concerns. The agency is giving special attention to drugmakers in India, having beefed up its inspection staff there and named an Indian-born Ph.D. to oversee the operation.
It is not as if Jubilant has not been schooled in what the FDA expects. In February, the agency issued a warning letter to its Kirkland, Québec, facility where it manufactures sterile injectable products. That letter was tied to inspections done a year earlier. The inspectors said the facility had released lots from its plant even though some of the batches were out of spec.
- read the Reuters story


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title: Leetcode Problem 9 Summary
date: 2016-08-16
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tags: [study]

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# 题目

Determine whether an integer is a palindrome. Do this without extra space.

click to show spoilers.

Some hints:
Could negative integers be palindromes? (ie, -1)

If you are thinking of converting the integer to string, note the restriction of using extra space.

You could also try reversing an integer. However, if you have solved the problem "Reverse Integer", you know that the reversed integer might overflow. How would you handle such case?

There is a more generic way of solving this problem.

# 我的算法

题目要求不能使用额外空间,否则我会用Stack来做,check是否palindrome只能通过比较对应位大小,而前半部分无法在O(1)时间获得,提示我可以用一个数记录reverse后的数与原数进行比较。

# 代码

{% highlight java %}
public class Solution {
    public boolean isPalindrome(int x) {
        if (x < 0) return false;
        int palindrome = 0;
        int origin = x;

        while (origin != 0) {
            int digit = origin % 10;
            origin /= 10;
            palindrome = palindrome * 10 + digit;
        }

        return palindrome == x;
    }
}
{% endhighlight %}

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Ephemera, 1983
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The Prince Rogers Trio, circa 1940s; John L. Nelson on piano, Lawrence Griffin on saxophone, and Fred Anderson (father of André Cymone) on bass. Photo by John F. Glanton, stolen from the Hennepin County Library.
Director Albert Magnoli liked to call Purple Rain an "emotional biography" of Prince: An impressionistic mélange of the star's pet themes, anxieties, and obsessions, true to its subject in spirit if not in every detail. And of all the themes, anxieties, and obsessions Prince brought to the film, none loomed larger than his father, John L. Nelson.
John Lewis Nelson was born on June 29, 1916 in Cotton Valley, Webster Parish, Louisiana, the youngest child of farmers Clarence Allen and Carrie Nelson (née Jenkins). Not long after his birth, John's parents divorced; the reason, according to biographers Alex Hahn and Laura Tiebert, was because Clarence had become involved with another woman (Hahn 2017 50). By the 1920 census, writes historian Kristen Zschomler, Carrie was remarried to a man named Charles Ikner and living in Webster Parish with three-year-old John and his siblings: James (born 1915), Ruby (born 1908), Olivia (born 1904), and Gertrude (born 1903) (Zschomler 9). By 1930, she was widowed, and had traveled north with Gertrude, Ruby, and their husbands and children to a rented home in Southside Minneapolis, near where Olivia had settled with her husband, Edward Mason Lewis. The now-teenaged John likely followed between 1930 and 1935 (10).
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First Avenue, August 3, 1983; photo by Jim Steinfeldt, © Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.
Note: I was just over 1,800 words into the post you're about to read when I finally admitted defeat; there is, quite simply, no way that I can fit everything I have to say about "Purple Rain" into a single, digestible piece of writing. So, in the grand tradition of my "Controversy" three-parter from 2018, I'm splitting it into chapters. The first, and likely longest, will talk about the song's composition; the second will go into detail about its debut performance at First Avenue on August 3, 1983; and the third will delve into the final recording that appears on the Purple Rain album and film. There will probably also be a coda of some kind discussing the song's impressive (and ongoing) afterlife. Basically, just think of July 2021 as my unofficial "Purple Rain" month–and, for the next several weeks, sit back and let me guide u through the purple rain.
It's a sweltering August night at First Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. Prince and his band have just returned to the stage for the first encore of their benefit show for the Minnesota Dance Theatre: the local dance company and school, located just up the street at 6th and Hennepin, where the musicians have been taking dance and movement classes to prepare for their imminent feature film debut. Moments earlier, MDT founder and artistic director Loyce Houlton thanked Prince with a hug, declaring, "We don't have a 'Prince' in Minnesota, we have a king." Before that, Prince had run the group through a fierce 10-song set: sprinkling a handful of crowd-pleasers amongst the largely new material, and ending with the biggest crowd-pleaser of all, his Number 6 pop hit "Little Red Corvette."
No one in the sold-out crowd of around 1,500 recognizes the chords that now ring out from the darkened stage. Even the film's director, Albert Magnoli, hasn't heard the song before; it wasn't among the tapes he'd reviewed to prepare for his draft of the screenplay. But the chords–played by 19-year-old guitarist Wendy Melvoin, in her first public performance with Prince–are immediately attention-grabbing: rich and colorful and uniquely voiced, somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell.
A spotlight shines on Wendy as she continues to play, her purple Rickenbacker 330 echoed by her partner Lisa Coleman playing the same progression on electric piano. Prince begins to solo around the edges of the progression; he paces the stage, walking out to the edge of the crowd as he plays, then slings his "Madcat" Telecaster around his back and makes his way to the microphone at center stage. He holds the mic for an instant and backs away, as if suddenly overwhelmed. Then, he steps back to the mic and begins to sing: "I never meant 2 cause u any sorrow…"
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Dirty Mind, 1980
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Lipps, Inc., circa 1979; © Casablanca Records.
"MOJO: Growing up in Minne-wood, as it's been now called, simply because that is the hot point on this planet right now…
"PRINCE: Well, it's been called a lot of things, but it's always Uptown to me.
"MOJO: Uptown?
"PRINCE: Yes.
"MOJO: What was it like growin' up Uptown?
"PRINCE: Uh, pretty different… kinda sad, to be exact. (laughs) I mean, the radio was dead, discos was dead, ladies was kinda dead, so I felt like… if we wanted to make some noise, and I wanted to turn anything out, I was gonna have to get somethin' together. Which is what we did, we put together a few bands and turned it into Uptown. That consisted of a lot of bike riding nude, but, you know…it worked."
Interview with the Electrifying Mojo, Detroit Radio WHYT, 1986
"Uptown" is a real place: a commercial district in the southwest part of Minneapolis, centered around the historic Uptown Theatre at the intersection of Hennepin and Lagoon Avenues. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was a bohemian enclave, part of the city's burgeoning punk scene. The legendary record store Oar Folkjokeopus ("Oar Folk"), home of underground rock label Twin/Tone, was in nearby Lowry Hill East ("the Wedge")–as was the CC Club, a regular haunt for punk groups like the Replacements. "It was kind of like this exotic mixture between rock 'n' roll, comedians, entertainers, and then just hipsters that worked in the neighborhood," musician and author Paul Metsa told Minneapolis arts weekly City Pages in 2013. "A lot of writers and artists hung out there. And what I loved about it, it was very working-class, and still is. Everybody was equal in that place" (LaVecchia 2013).
But "Uptown," as Prince commemorated it, was also a product of the imagination. Before he recorded the song, Prince was not associated with the neighborhood, nor with its accompanying art and music scene. In fact, he'd played only two major solo dates in the Twin Cities: one at the Capri Theatre in north Minneapolis, and one at the downtown Orpheum Theatre; his gigs with Grand Central had been limited to the predominantly Black Northside. And his home in suburban Orono–credited, mythically, on the Dirty Mind inner sleeve as "somewhere in Uptown"–could scarcely have been further away, geographically or culturally, from the Uptown that existed in physical space. "Uptown," then, is a place that Prince turned into an idea: a kind of inverse to Paisley Park, his most famous idea turned into a place.
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