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IndyCar-Highlights from Kurt Busch Press Conference
May 9, 2013 John Olsakovsky
Here are some of the more pertinent quotes from today's press conference with Kurt Busch, who tested an IndyCar at Indianapolis Motor Speedway today and completed all three phases of the Rookie Orientation Program. Quotes courtesy Indycar PR/Amy Konrath.
MODERATOR: Kurt, first impressions? You spent two days here last week in a Cup car and today was a completely different feel. What are your thoughts?
KURT BUSCH: Just an incredible feeling to be able to drive at Indianapolis in May in and IndyCar and have the name Andretti on it. It was a dream come true, and to have, like you said, all the support of the engine, tires and team to put it together, I'm thankful for that chance.
And with the kid in the candy store feel early on, just getting settled in, that open cockpit is definitely a whole different game when bugs are hitting your visor instead of your windshield, that's just the little small differences. And then you quickly try to ignore those and focus on the racing line, where you need to be on the racetrack to find the comfort, and as we progress through the rookie orientation side of it, you can see why that's developed to help drivers get up to speed with the different phases of the mile an hour.
I couldn't asked for more from Ray, the lead engineer, and to have Michael standing there and then Hinchcliffe came and put in his advice, and to have a driver like himself sit there and try to put my mind at ease is one thing. And then you have a legend with Michael telling me what to do, I couldn't have asked for anything better, a treat that can't be equaled to say the least. Maybe an F1 car, but we'll stay right here.
On doing the double…
Honestly it's very difficult to run at your peak performance for the Coca‑Cola 600. I mean, a driver can race here at Indianapolis, give a full 500 miles. That needs to be the end of his day. To run 600 miles after that you've got to pace yourself. I honestly think I wouldn't be able to do it this year just with stamina, just with not giving my all for my Furniture Row team in Charlotte. I need to get more comfortable in the IndyCar because on a day like today, I'm white knuckle, my hands were tense and firm, and that was only after 10 laps.
And so then it started to settle in. So there's the mental side of it, there's the physical side, there's the sponsorship side that has to come together, and right now with Kyle Moyer looking sideways at Michael, Michael wants to do it, but they've already got five cars committed to trying to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 this year.
To crawl, then walk, and then walk and then run, I think the proper thing is to go out and experience this car at another oval track and get into a race and experience what the buffeting is and the movement of the car when all the downforce changes.
Today was an ideal day. I couldn't have asked for anything better as a rookie than to come to Indy to have the track prepped the way it was and then to have the perfect weather conditions.
Q. Following up on that a little bit, so if I heard you right, if you were considered with the names of Tony Stewart and the others that have done the double and somebody said Kurt Busch, you're somebody that could end up doing the double, that's something you'd like to try to do at some point?
KURT BUSCH: It's hard to answer. There's going to be a lot of swirling that goes on after a day like today. 218 on your first day is an achievement, but it's not going to get you anywhere when it comes to racing here. If I'm going to do something, I want to do it at the best level that I can, so I need more time. But if my name is mentioned with guys like Tony Stewart and John Andretti and Robby Gordon, it isn't a big feather in the cap, but it's something to try to go and achieve. It's something to try to just stretch yourself to the limits in the world of motorsport, and you have to do it with good teams. You just can't expect to go out there and find success right away when your whole life has been spent in a stock car. You've got to give it time in an IndyCar.
Q. In NASCAR you drive on Goodyears and here it's Firestone. Is there a big difference?
KURT BUSCH: That's a good question. When I ran at Sebring 10 years ago with a Champ Car, it took laps for the tires to gain temperature and to feel the comfort and the grip level in the car.
Here today Michael is telling me, hey, the tires will have grip right away, go for it, and yet in my mind I'm just still a little bit hesitant because it's an open‑wheel car and I need to ease into gaining the tire temperature.
And then the other thought from my stock car world is any time that I go back out on old tires I know I'm going to be a half a second slower here at Indianapolis, so your brain is taught to, okay, you're on older tires, you know you can't go run that lap time anymore, and then your IndyCar instincts come in, oh, wait, I'm supposed to hold it wide open, and then you've got to trust the downforce and trust the tire. So the Firestones are incredible with they don't drop off, even though this track is very abrasive on chewing up tires.
Q. Talk about how Turn 1 maybe looks different, feels different than in a Cup car, and did you have to convince yourself you had to go flat?
KURT BUSCH: Today that was the biggest transition. When you want to step into the real world, that's to hold it wide open, and when you do that, your brain says, wait a minute, you're not supposed to do that because in the stock car how heavy it is and the lack of downforce. So when I did hold it wide open I was off on my line, actually apexed too early, had a little extra wheel input on exit, and it changed the game. But then once I left it on the floor, the car started to come back to me and the pace started to slow down in my mind, even though the pace kept getting quicker with lap time.
Q. When you started with IndyCar, did you immediately recognize you have to drive a different race line like in a Sprint Cup or is it more or less identical?
KURT BUSCH: Each corner demands a later apex, and so you're hanging it out wider. Right where the marbles would be with a NASCAR car, that's where the right side tires are with the IndyCar and you just do a later apex each of the four corners.
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This year's Indianapolis 500 Mile Race doesn't sound likely, but I would not be surprised to see him at Iowa or Fontana. Pocono might be too tricky of a track to debut.


Done setting up my new scene. Will work now with Figurama Artist Tools.
some screen shots of my last scene. with the dark king..
Hi sir. andrej, This would be helpful to build my lightings . But for now I need to finish setting up my scene03 then I will deal again with it thanks.
Hi, Thanks sir. Andrej This would be my WIP set up for my scene 01. A BowMen leading A young warrior. Made with a simple environment and cute characters with a simple stop motion animation, hope you like it.
This would be my story and my entry for this challenge. "300 years of defending the earth from the demons of the underworld to protect the last element that keeps the portal of the earth close. The heavenly wariors is about to fall and face the last stand to save the human race from the growing powers of the demons army. Only a boy can save the human race" In this fantasy story I will use a lowpolygon style characters with a stop motion animation or static scene.


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Jonathan Taylor (American football)
This article is about the running back. For the defensive end, see Johnathan Taylor.
Jonathan Taylor (born January 19, 1999) is an American football running back for the Wisconsin Badgers. During the 2018 season he won the Doak Walker Award, the award for the top running back in college football.[1]
Wisconsin Badgers – No. 23
Wisconsin (2017–present)
2017 Orange Bowl
2018 Pinstripe Bowl (MVP)
Salem (NJ)
Salem, New Jersey
Doak Walker Award (2018)
2× All-American (2017, 2018)
AP Big Ten Newcomer of the Year (2017)
Big Ten Running Back of the Year (2018)
Big Ten Freshman of the Year (2017)
2× Consensus First-team All-Big Ten (2017, 2018)
All-time Freshman Season Rushing Record (1,977 yards)
Stats at ESPN.com
Taylor attended Salem High School in Salem, New Jersey. During his career he had 4,642 rushing yards and 51 touchdowns. As a senior, he set the New Jersey record with 2,815 rushing yards, which was held by former Wisconsin Badgers running back, Corey Clement.[2][3] His senior year he averaged 234.6 yards a game, while scoring 37 touchdowns (35 rushing).[3] His senior year of high school he was honored as the Jim Henry Award recipient as the high school area player of the year for New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.[3] Taylor was also an accomplished performer in track and field, his senior year he won two state titles in the 100-meter dash, with his best time 10.49 seconds.[4] He originally committed to play college football at Rutgers University but changed his commitment to the University of Wisconsin.[5][6]
When Taylor arrived at Wisconsin for fall camp he was fourth or fifth on the running back depth chart. Ahead of him were Bradrick Shaw, Chris James, Taiwan Deal and recent Pitt graduate-transfer Rachid Ibrahim. After Deal was injured it allowed Taylor to get more reps in practice. Taylor used these reps to showcase more and more of his abilities and the coaching staff gave him more reps accordingly. His first snap in scrimmage against the first team defense he ran for a 70-yard touchdown, later on that practice he caught a pass over the middle of the field and ran in for a touchdown as well. After his performances in fall camp Taylor opened his freshman year at Wisconsin in 2017 as one of the team's co-starting running backs, along side Bradrick Shaw and Chris James.[7][8] In his first career game he rushed for 87 yards over nine carries and a touchdown.[9] In his second game, he rushed for 223 yards and three touchdowns.[10] After Taylor ran for 249 yards against Nebraska in the fifth game of the season he entered the Heisman Trophy conversation and afterwards was routinely in the top 5 Heisman candidates.[11]
On October 21, 2017, Taylor reached the 1,000 yard rushing mark in his 7th game, matching the FBS freshman record for fewest games needed to record 1,000 yards. He joins Florida's Emmitt Smith (1987), San Diego State's Marshall Faulk (1991), Oklahoma's Adrian Peterson (2004), North Texas' Jamario Thomas (2004) and Wisconsin's P. J. Hill (2006).[12] Taylor rushed for 183 yards on 29 carries with a touchdown in Wisconsin's 45–17 win over Indiana November 4, 2017, winning his 5th Big Ten Freshman of the week award and setting a school-record fifth honor in a single season.
On October 30, Taylor was named as a semifinalist for the Maxwell Award.[13] On November 17, he was named a semi-finalist for the Doak Walker Award for the top running back in the country.[14] Just three days later he was named one of three Doak Walker Award finalists, along with Penn State's Saquon Barkley and Stanford's Bryce Love.[15] Following the final game of the season against Wisconsin's rival, Minnesota, Taylor won his 8th Big Ten Freshman of the Week award. In doing so he set a new Big Ten record as he surpassed Ohio State quarterback J. T. Barrett's record of 7 Big Ten Freshman of the week awards set back in 2013. Through twelve games Taylor rushed for 1,806 yards, placing him third on the list for all time FBS freshman rushing yards behind Ron Dayne (2,109 yards in 1996) and Adrian Peterson (1,925 yards in 2004).[16] Jonathan Taylor was listed as a Consensus First-team All-Big Ten pick by the Big Ten coaches and Media on November 27, 2017.
College statisticsEdit
Avg/G
2017 Wisconsin 14 299 1,977 6.6 75 13 141.2 8 95 0
College Totals 27 606 4,171 6.8 88 29 154.5 16 155 0
College accoladesEdit
Awards/honorsEdit
Unanimous 1st-team All-American (2018)[17]
2nd-team All-American (2017)[18]
Doak Walker Award Winner (2018)
AP Big Ten Newcomer of the Year (2017)[19]
Pinstripe Bowl MVP (2018)
Big Ten Ameche-Dayne Running Back of the Year (2018)
Big Ten Thompson–Randle El Freshman of the Year (2017)
2× Consensus First-team All-Big Ten (2017,2018)
4× Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (2× 2017, 2× 2018)
8× Big Ten Freshman of the Week (2017)
RecordsEdit
Most combined rushing totals as a freshman and sophomore: 4,171[20]
Most rushing yards in a season in FBS by a freshman: 1,997
Fewest games for a freshman to reach 1,000 rushing yards in FBS history: 7 games (tied with 6 others)[21]
Most Big Ten Freshman of the Week awards: 8[22]
^ Journal, Jason Galloway | Wisconsin State. "Badgers running back Jonathan Taylor becomes 4th Wisconsin player to win Doak Walker Award". madison.com. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
^ "UW freshman tailback Jonathan Taylor appears ready to play this season if needed".
^ a b c "Jonathan Taylor of Salem receives Jim Henry Award for record-breaking football season".
^ "Jonathan Taylor's maturity, skill remind former UW linemen of Ron Dayne as a freshman".
^ "Should Rutgers worry about RB commit Jonathan Taylor's Wisconsin official visit?".
^ "Rutgers RB decommit Jonathan Taylor picks Wisconsin".
^ "Wisconsin RB Jonathan Taylor the star of the show in Badgers' 31-14 victory against Florida Atlantic".
^ Galloway, Jason. "Badgers football: True freshman Jonathan Taylor named co-starter at running back for Wisconsin". Wisconsin State Journal.
^ "Jonathan Taylor's impressive Wisconsin Badgers debut". September 6, 2017.
^ "- The Washington Post". Washington Post.
^ Oates, Tom. "Tom Oates: Badgers freshman tailback Jonathan Taylor isn't caught up in Heisman buzz". Wisconsin State Journal.
^ "Wisconsin Athletics - Gm7_WIS_Postgame_Notes_UMD_171021.pdf" (PDF). www.uwbadgers.com.
^ "Maxwell Award misspells Wisconsin RB Jonathan Taylor's name in semifinal list".
^ "Two B1G running backs named semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award". saturdaytradition.com.
^ "Wisconsin RB Jonathan Taylor named finalist for Doak Walker Award". saturdaytradition.com.
^ "Jonathan Taylor highlights Week 13 Big Ten individual honors".
^ https://www.buckys5thquarter.com/2018/12/12/18138101/wisconsin-football-jonathan-taylor-unanimous-all-american-beau-benzschawel
^ http://www.nhregister.com/sports/article/2017-Walter-Camp-All-America-team-12414843.php
^ http://host.madison.com/wsj/sports/college/football/badgers-football-wisconsin-s-paul-chryst-jonathan-taylor-earn-ap/article_71e199d2-a636-598c-b561-a938bb258624.html
^ https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2018/11/19/badgers-jonathan-taylor-3rd-rb-to-go-over-300-yards-in-2018/38562071/
^ "Wisconsin's Jonathan Taylor ties FBS record for quickest freshman to 1,000 yards". October 21, 2017.
^ "Big Ten Official Athletic Site". www.bigten.org.
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Miley Cyrus Rides Blow-Up Dick, Tells Rape Joke at London Gay Club
Jay Hathaway
Filed to: Miley Cyrus
Inflatable Penis
Fans were reportedly "shocked" that singer Miley Cyrus, who spent Friday night at a London gay club riding an inflatable penis and telling her ex-boyfriend to "suck my fat cock," also managed to work a joke about date rape into her busy schedule.
Miley's Friday secret show at G-A-Y offered something for everyone: For the fans, "Wrecking Ball." For the gossip press, a rant about how she'll always love Liam Hemsworth, but he can suck her "fat cock." For people who love giant inflatable dicks, a giant inflatable dick. And for anyone who needed another reason to dislike Miley Cyrus, a casual date rape joke.
"Everyone's a little bit gay, that's the truth" she said, with a drink in hand, "All it takes is one cocktail. And if that doesn't work, sprinkle something in their drink. That's what I always do."
Oh, artist-formerly-known-as-Hannah-Montana. Look at your life, look at your choices.
Miley went on to deliver a totally sober rant about ex-fiancé and fortunate bullet-dodger Liam Hemsworth. "The best kind of revenge is to write a number one song about it," said the singer who does not have a writing credit on "Wrecking Ball."
... and every time you get in your car, you're going to hear my fucking song on the fucking radio, you piece of shit. That's right. And then I'm gonna take all my clothes off, I'm gonna sit on a big, giant dick—sometimes two—I'm gonna swing around, and then I'm gonna hold the record for the most-watched music video on Vevo. So then—you know, you can tell a lot about a person—I think you can tell how big their cock is by how much confidence they have usually, and if I was a dude I'd probably have a really big cock, 'cause I feel really good about myself now. So I'm gonna tell those motherfuckers that broke my heart, particularly one, to suck my fat cock and to enjoy hearing this song for the rest of your life. This song is called Wrecking Ball.
Somewhere, far away from Miley Cyrus and humongous inflatable dicks, Hemsworth felt an involuntary chill pass through his body, as if a dark cloud hanging over him had suddenly lifted, and went right on living his life.
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Q: Creating an Array that contains multiple arrays I have created two classes, one called "Bucket", and the other called "Player".
In "Bucket", I have a constructor method that creates a virtual bucket (i.e. small array) that contains three values - 1, 1, and 1. As well, I created a method to get the bucket array.
In the "Player" class, I have created a method that uses a larger array (I have called this larger array "ArrayOfBuckets"), which uses a loop to store a new bucket at each index value, up until a certain point (when i>NumberSticks). However, when I try to set
ArrayofBuckets[i] = bucketInstance.getBucket();
I get an error from Eclipse, saying that "Type mismatch: cannot convert from Bucket to int". I have spent an hour trying to solve this, to no avail. Any help would be really nice. Thanks a lot, and here is all the code that is used:
The Player Class:
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Player {

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
public String name;
private int pType;
private int[] ArrayOfBuckets;

public Player(String tempName)
{
    this.name = tempName;   //this. is unneccessary
}

public void ArrayOfBuckets(int NumberSticks) //this is a constructor method and creates the arrays that contains a
{
    ArrayOfBuckets = new int[NumberSticks];
    int i = 0;
    while(i<NumberSticks)
    {
        Bucket bucketInstance = new Bucket();
        ArrayOfBuckets[i] = bucketInstance.getBucket();//new Bucket();      //ADD THIS
        i++;
    }
}

and the Bucket Class:
import java.util.Random;
public class Bucket {

//  private int[][] largeArray = null; //WTF DO I DO HERE
private int AIChoiceStick;
private int[] bucket;
private Random random = new Random();
private int CurrentScore[] = new int[51]; //at max, if 100 sticks are initially chosen, then each player takes at max 50 sticks,
private int h = 0;                                                                         //^so why not have one more in case

public Bucket()
{
    bucket = new int[3];
    bucket[0] = 1;
    bucket[1] = 1;
    bucket[2] = 1;

public int[] getBucket()
{
    return bucket;
}

A: You're speaking about a two-dimensional array.
private int[][] ArrayOfBuckets;

Your ArrayOfBuckets (should be just buckets according to naming conventions) is an array of arrays, so it gets two sets of square brackets.
Then the initialization:
ArrayOfBuckets = new int[NumberSticks][3];

By the way, if you want to have room for 50 elements in an array, then initialize it new int[50] so it will have indexes 0 through 49.

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Tempera, chalk, on wood panel with two inset spines on reverse. Probably the most beloved Russian icon variant. Mary gently caresses the Infant Christ whose cheek is gently pressed against His mother's.
An extremely well-painted example with wonderful modeling of the faces. Overlaid with an intricate silver-gilt repousse and chased oklad with attached halo. Hallmarked 84, Moscow and dated 1888.
Makers initials in Cyrillic G. Zh.


The following is an edited transcript of a talk given at the Annual FACT Cancer/Nutrition Convention in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Ruth Sackman, President of FACT: It gives me great pleasure to introduce Greg Hagerty who will discuss his recovery from Hodgkins Disease. I think you'll find it a rather dramatic story.
Greg Hagerty: I suppose it is, though it doesn't seem so dramatic to me. It all started about 10 years ago. I was an undergraduate, living a typical student lifestyle: lots of pressure, neglect, etc. I was tired. I developed a cough, high white blood count and a mass in my lung. After all the tests - transbronchial biopsy - which kept me in the hospital for 3 months - I was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease.
With Hodgkins it's really hard to argue with your doctor because they talk about such high cure rates with chemotherapy. There's nothing you can really say. It seems like you're totally crazy if you go against your doctor, so I went through chemo for 2 years. I finished school undergoing chemotherapy and my tumor disappeared which was nice.
So I tried to continue with my life for about 6 months. Then there was a recurrence and things got a little fuzzier. It was a lot more unclear as to what I was supposed to do.
But the doctors said there was still some hope. They suggested I go to Johns Hopkins and try out a new treatment, bone marrow transplant. 'While it might not save my life, it had an 18% chance of success. Since then I was approached by my doctors saying bone marrow transplantation is much more effective these days. It now has a 30% chance of success.
But that didn't sound very good to me. It took a long time for me to get from listening to my doctor to where I'm at now which is listening to Ruth and taking a lot more control over my life. I guess what it really boils down to is taking more responsibility. Although at the time people did talk about positive attitude and taking responsibility, etc., its still overwhelming. You just can't do it all at once. What do you do especially when what you really should do is the opposite of what everyone thinks you should do? It takes a long time to figure things out.
The first step, I guess, was realizing that I had to try something different than what the doctors were offering. My mom was doing research and she said, look at this: "There's work going on in the Bahamas, with a Dr. Burton." Well, I pretty much threw the book at her. I threw the book across the room! How was I supposed to know what to do?
But finally I thought I'd give it a try. My doctor said he couldn't recommend it. We decided to try it for a few months. It's an immunology program. At first I hated the Bahamas. Being a cancer patient at the time I wasn't really in the mood for hanging out on the beach. But now I love it and I can't wait to go back there every 4 months or so for a "tune-up." I spend most of the time out on the beach despite the fact that the sun's not supposed to be good for you. Well, I guess you can't do everything perfectly.
I went for a blood test every morning to see what different levels of proteins were in my blood and then I got my shots for the day, generally 8-12 shots. They were pretty much spaced out, an hour apart in a couple of series. You just live by a watch for a long time. Fortunately, I've kind of graduated and I just know what time it is. I think in 1 hour intervals and I just give myself a couple of shots throughout the day.
I don't remember what all the proteins are. One of them is to de-block the tumor, the idea being that cancer puts up a blocking protein around the tumor.
I did really well on that for a while, although the Burton program is like letting someone else take care of you. It's great to be able to relax on the beach and eat all the garbage food that's down there. You can drink if you want. "Just take your shots and Dr. Burton will cure you!"
Anyway, those proteins work to signal the body that, hey, there's something wrong. A lot of cancer patients' bodies - or in any chronic illness - just don't respond to the idea that there's something wrong. The body gets tired. The proteins seem to stimulate your body to keep fighting. It's difficult for me to give a scientific description because it's so mysterious. All I know is, it works for a lot of people.
The Burton patients, generally speaking, are still trying to be cured by someone else, though there's more of an awareness about helping the body along and taking responsibility for the injections every day. Burton was trying to do research on immunotherapy; he wasn't trying to provide a wholistic cure. So down there, they say, "Eat whatever you like." Burton used to say, "Eat 6 eggs a day. Eat steak and all that"
They don't pay attention to detox either. They've got all these people on ultra-high tumor kill and they expect the body to deal with it. That's partly why it is tested and modulated everyday - because they don't want to boost your immune system so high that you overload your liver and kidneys.
Eventually I found that I should pay more attention to my nutrition and detoxification. I started using a colema board, improving my diet I had my irises checked by Dr. Bernard Jensen. I found I needed a more intensive detoxification and selected the Gerson clinic in Mexico.
I thought it was just going to be for a week or two, just for detox, but I got involved in their program. It's the kind of thing that once you start being aware, you realize that everything you put in your body matters. Gerson provided me with some structure, like drinking 10 carrot and apples juices a day with green juices (pressed greens) in between. Just about everything has a Granny Smith apple in it Lots of coffee enemas which I did for a couple of years until Ruth convinced me that that's still a drug. And supplements, too.
It seems everyone is always focusing on immune stimulation. No one seems to pay attention to doing what's really important which is keeping yourself in balance - eating right and detoxifying to get rid of the waste that's produced. A lot of people get in a lot of trouble if their immune system gets working and they don't take care of the detox.
The Gerson program is really pretty difficult to stay on. You definitely need help. It was great down there having someone make juices every hour, cook salt and fat-free food. I appreciated it while I was there and I appreciated it even more when I did it for 3 years for myself! Sometimes I hired high school students to come in to wash carrots, help me make my soup, make some juices.
The other thing about Gerson, it was interesting to see that you won't drop dead if you don't eat much animal protein. I was pretty much off protein for 2 years. Eventually I added a cup of yogurt a day. The body, of course, does need some oils, so you use some flaxseed oil. I guess an important principle for nutrition is that it's good not to heat oil for cooking. I'm still continuing with a lot of the Gerson principles because I'm used to it and it's good food. I make soup for a week long. It's just something great to have around. I still do the juices. I've reduced my juice intake quite a bit, trying for 3 juices a day.
Another thing I think is really important all along I've been doing psychotherapy which I think has really contributed to helping me grow up and has been part of this process of taking more responsibility for myself. I have this different attitude now. I'm not as worried as I was.
You need a lot of experience to realize that your body does work. You have to learn gradually to take control. I guess you have to get scared to do that, to realize your own mortality and know that what you do really can make a difference. People don't see that they really can make a difference. They don't see that what they're doing, or not doing, not being aware of pesticides - that you really can die from these things. You get scared into taking things seriously.
I used to have a frustration not being able to eat out. You don't want to just eat steamed broccoli, you know. I make such exciting food at home. But eventually, you can eat in places. As you get more familiar with the diet, even if you're on a structured program, you learn why you need certain things and you learn where you can cut corners if you're basically eating good things. I'm still picky when I eat out - but you get a little more flexible.
I think it's quite an accomplishment that I've been able to travel abroad to Japan. I brought my shots. I ate okay. In Japan they eat pretty good food, closer to nature, a little more aware than people here. Although I did eat a lot of raw fish, I'm sure people here will say, what about parasites and all that. Well, I think they pay a lot more attention to the quality there. I'm very happy to feel free enough to be able to travel and find a way to survive and be happy.
RS: I want to say something before the questions. It's interesting when I've been in touch with a patient for a long period of time to hear him tell his story. I think his story is so dramatic. Yet he's just making it sound as though this is an ordinary thing. He did a lot of work. He had an organic garden during the summers. He adheres to his program very well. It doesn't matter if on occasion he feels as though he wants a little change. He does it very seldom. He's a very conscientious patient. You have to understand that he was scheduled for a bone marrow transplant That's all that was offered to him at one time. He never had it. He had a tougher job to take care of than a lot of other people. So I think Greg should take quite a good deal of pride in what he has learned, how he has handled it and what he has accomplished.
All right, he's ready to take some questions. Q: How old are you?
GH: I'm 32. I was 21 when it started. I had had mononucleosis for 4 years before and that's why I was immuno-suppressed. The tumor could have been developing from then.
Q: Did you have surgery?
GH: I only had a lung biopsy which was almost just as bad as surgery. Nothing was taken out, so I'm glad of that.
Q: Are your lungs now tumor-free?
GH: I think my tumor's gone, although that's another point I could have made about the difference in looking at symptom and cause. Even the Gerson people and the Burton people say, "Get an MR!. We want to see what a good job we've done, etc." Ruth is saying, "what's the point of it? That's not what you're treating. You're not treating the tumor." I'm so much more concerned with the body. Well, some people might say that I'm afraid to see what's going on there, but I know what's going on there just because of my general health.
Q: Maybe it's more for their purposes, so they can show the medical establishment what can be done?
GH: Right. But it really won't tell me anything. Maybe I'm just too kind to my insurance company, because I could hit them up for $800 a couple times a year if I wanted. I'm not going to make treatment choices based on that. It turns out I do research in medical decision modeling and that's one of our principles--you don't do a test if you're not going to make a treatment choice based on the outcome.
Q: How did the diet change the tumor?
GH: I don't have quantitative measurements. I know the tumor was growing when I went to Gerson. Although I believe Burton was controlling things, different stresses just got out of control. I can't tell you quantitatively, but I know qualitatively my health has improved dramatically since then. Also if the lymph nodes got enlarged, Burton would just throw Prednisone at me and stuff like that I've since refined. Q: How long have you been working with Ruth?
GH: Since the beginning actually. Even though I went through chemotherapy, she stuck with us and tried to educate us.
Q: How often did you do the chemo?
GH: Every other week for about 2 years.
Q: Did you go to school at the same time?
GH: Yes, I tried to keep up. It kept my spirits up actually. I had a really great doctor. I know people talk about their oncologists, you know, "My wife died but we had a great oncologist" But I did have a real nice oncologist who took me under his wing and sort of adopted me. I was actually going to school in Pittsburgh while my mom was here in New Jersey. There were good support programs that would allow her to fly out for free. I think it was good for me to continue trying to live a life while going through that, to take my mind off things, although you can do without the stress.
Q: Did you have any radiation?
Q: How long were you on the full Gerson program and what kind of maintenance program did you follow?
I used to work on a computer on the colema board, but I decided not to. Playing piccolo is great on a colema board because your abdominal muscles relax. Sometimes I find when I read, I let go better, whereas if I'm just thinking about it, I hold things. I'm still working out how not to press too much.
Q: Did you have any Vitamin C drips?
RS: If he was in touch with me, I would discourage that I don't think Greg would have done it without talking with me. Am I correct on that?


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Interesting facts: Dachshunds were originally bred in Germany to hunt badgers and other hole-dwelling animals (rabbits and foxes, among others). In fact, the name "Dachshund" literally means "badger dog" in German. The dachshund is said to have the senses of a hound (hunting, tracking) and the temperament of a terrier, and we think that's a fairly accurate description of the breed.
Size: The Dachshund is bred in two sizes, Standard and Miniature - the main difference being weight. To be classed as a miniature, a dachshund must weigh 11 pounds or less at 12 months of age. A standard dachshund is usually between 15 and 32 pounds.
Coat: Dachshunds are bred in an amazing variety of coat types, and are available with either short (smooth), wire, or long hair. Red, creme, black, tan, chocolate, and wild boar are common colors, and are usually found in combinations of two or more colors.
Temperament: The dachshund is a very bold and confident dog. Always clever and discerning, the dachshund is also very protective of its family. It may be shy around strangers, but may become aggressive if a threat is apparent. Family watchdog notwithstanding, the dachshund still strives to maintain its independence.
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The British royals are keeping their lips zipped on whether or not Meghan Markle bullied palace staff.
The private company hired to look into the rumors has finished its investigation, Michael Stevens, the official in charge of the Crown's finances, confirmed Wednesday, but the results will not be made public, he said.
"I can confirm though that it was a review of the handling of the allegations aimed at enabling the royal households to consider potential improvements to HR policies and procedures," he said during an unrelated press conference, according to CNN. "The review has been completed and recommendations on our policies and procedures have been taken forward, but we will not be commenting further."
As Meghan and husband Prince Harry were in the middle of an ugly breakup with Buckingham Palace, unnamed sources told the Times of London that the former actress had driven out two personal assistants in tears during her time at Kensington Palace.
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Days later, her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey aired, full of allegations of racism inside the palace and postpartum depression she wasn't allowed to treat.
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Ghana Music Awards Foundation announces a virtual Concert in honour of Frontline Health Workers
Covid-19, as we all know, has stolen our right to free movement and social gathering, and in some cases, the very lives of our dear ones. The virus has thrown normal life out of the window, gripped man with immense fear and brought the leadership of a confident world to its knees, in search for answers.
Ghana's steps in combating the virus have been remarkable, demonstrated by the shutting down of our borders, mandatory quarantine, partial lockdown, contact tracing, and the securing of logistics to empower frontline health workers to adequately deal with the virus.
While great leadership, and our united effort as a people has brought us this far, one cannot help but recognize the selfless and fearless efforts of the frontline health workers whose continuous fight against the virus has restored hope to all. They stand tall as the real heroes, and as such deserve to be celebrated.
To this end, the Ghana Music Awards Foundation would like to honour the frontline health workers with a virtual concert, dubbed the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Covid-19 Heroes Concert. This program is slated for Sunday 17th May, 2020 airing live at 9:30pm on TV3 and on social media.
The program is also meant to inspire hope, support the fundraising effort of the Covid-19 National Trust Fund in support of the front-line health workers, and to lend a voice to the 'Wear A Mask' Campaign.
According to Robert Klah, PRO of Charterhouse, "Music is a force for good and on Sunday the 17th of May, we would like to use this music to rally a national applause for our frontline health workers. They are our heroes; we doff our hats to them".
The Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Covid 19 Heroes Concert, is a Ghana Music Awards Foundation initiative and it's brought to you in association with TV3, Vodafone Ghana Foundation, Image Bureau, Rhythms Africa, Big Ideaz and powered by Charterhouse.
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'It's even worse': Ellicott City, Maryland still recovering from 2016 flood, hammered again
Posted 12:49 pm, May 28, 2018, by CNN Wire
A state of emergency was declared on May 27 in Howard County as a massive storm drenched the Baltimore region, triggering flash floods in Ellicott City.
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — After the deadly flooding of 2016, Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman said Ellicott City was reduced to a "war zone" and likened it to the set of a disaster movie. On Monday, Kittleman said the flooding of 2018 was much nastier.
Authorities were still in the assessment stage on a soggy Memorial Day, trying to determine exactly how much worse. Particularly worrying, Kittleman said, is a 25- to 30-foot-wide hole just north of Main Street, where the ground and road appear to have buckled under the weight of the flooding.
"There are a lot of people whose lives are going to be devastated again, and they've been working so hard to come back and we just need to be there for them and to tell them … all of our resources are there to help them," Kittleman said. "I can't imagine what they're going through. I couldn't imagine what they went through two years ago, and now it's even worse."
The first concern is people. Emergency responders conducted 30 rescues Monday morning as they continued their search for a missing man, identified as Eddison Hermond.
Sarah Lopez was at a restaurant, attending a birthday party with Hermond when the flooding began, she told CNN. Hermond left to help a woman rescue her cat from a pet store. Witnesses returned and said Hermond slipped into the river and was carried away, said Lopez, whose husband met Hermond 20 years ago in the US Air Force.
As rescuers continue searching for Hermond, there were no reports of deaths or major injuries as of early Monday, Kittleman said. The 2016 flood killed two people, when floodwaters swept away their vehicles.
Gas and electricity have been shut down on Main Street, where water ran through buildings as if it were a tributary of the nearby Patapsco River, which swelled to record levels during Sunday's storms. The river is a major waterway that feeds into the Chesapeake Bay.
Baltimore Gas & Electric said it will need to survey the damage to its infrastructure before providing a timeline for restoring service.
Flooding claimed the old courthouse, Kittleman said, and there are homes on the west end of downtown whose foundations and basements are gone.
"A lot of the businesses, the first floors are gone, like they were two years ago," he said.
Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency for Maryland on Sunday.
The rains of 2016
Marked by quaint shops in the bottom floors of brick, stone slab and siding-clad buildings, the historic downtown is a major draw in this community of 66,000 people located about 12 miles west of Baltimore.
Main Street, also known as Frederick Road, was transformed into a waterway over the weekend, as brown water sluiced through town, destroying shops and upending cars. In some areas, the water rose above the buildings' first floors.
To understand what authorities were surveying Monday, it's perhaps helpful to understand what happened fewer than two years ago.
After 6 inches of rain fell on the flood-prone community in about two hours, residents say the flooding came from nowhere in 2016. In addition to the two people killed, more than two dozen buildings were heavily damaged or destroyed. Residents formed human chains to pluck their neighbors from the rushing waters.
Kittleman said at the time that it was the worst devastation in Howard County in 50 years, but the town rallied around the slogan "Ellicott City Strong" and got to the arduous work of putting their community back together again.
When the rain came Sunday, many residents remained in the throes of recovery. The county was working on stormwater retention ponds and preparing to install additional piping. Money from a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant had just arrived and was slated for repairs and construction, Kittleman said.
"There are things that we are doing. It just can't be done in less than two years," he said. "After the flood in 2016 and working on the recovery there, you can't get things done in a year or two. It just can't happen. And you saw, we get the money from FEMA two years later. That's how it works."
More than 8 inches in 15 hours
The river rose 17.8 feet in two hours Sunday afternoon, to 24.1 feet, a record from the previous high of 23.6 feet. The National Weather Service, which issued a flash flood warning for southeastern Howard County through early Monday, reported that parts of the greater Baltimore area got isolated rainfall of more than 9 inches. Three to 6 inches was common throughout the metro area.
In parts of Ellicott City, more than 8 inches fell between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. Sunday, the weather service said. The eastern portion of the community saw more than 7 inches in that timespan, while the southwestern side of town received more than 5 inches of the wet stuff.
There are possibilities that another inch could fall, the NWS said, and though that doesn't sound like much rain, it means trouble for the already saturated ground and burgeoning rivers. Aside from the Patapsco River, there are four other smaller waterways running through and around Ellicott City.
The Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services urged residents to evacuate downtown or move to higher ground while rescue teams fanned out through the area. They're being asked to stay away from Main Street until authorities can ensure buildings are safe to enter. The Roger Carter Community Center is open for those who need a place to shelter.
'It's just devastating'
Gov. Hogan toured the area Sunday with Kittleman. He lamented the destruction, noting that just two weeks earlier, he had visited the historic downtown and spoken with business owners about rebuilding efforts.
"The place looked terrific," he said. "It's just devastating because people have their lives tied up in this and went through a heck of a lot and came back and now they're starting all over again."
Kittleman expressed confidence Monday that Ellicott City could make another comeback.
"This is where we're one Howard again, and we'll be one Ellicott City," he said. "We will be stronger in the future. We really will, folks. This is not a place that gives in. We didn't give in in 2016. We're not going to give in in 2018."
Asked what he'd say to downtown business owners who have their doubts about reopening after being hammered twice in 22 months, Kittleman said he sees their side of things.
"I can totally understand what they're saying. If I was in their shoes, I'd probably be reassessing that myself."
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We have emerged from an impenetrable bank of fog and into a surrealist's setting. The perfectly flat cloud carpet is literally at our feet.
It extends for miles in all directions, so it is as though we are primordial creatures emerging from the mist onto the banks of an alien island world. The ridge top above is fire scarred and dotted with the skeletons of recently charred conifers. An impossibly-green carpet of thigh deep grasses and sedges has aggressively replaced the old growth. The brilliant, cloudless New Mexico sky accentuates the already dreamlike landscape. Other surrounding ridge tops appear to also be floating atop the sea of fog, like a conifer-studded archipelago.
Years ago, I could only imagine such a place. I remember standing at the fence line on Highway 4 looking at the elk rut in the big "Valle" the way a school kid looks at a favorite just-out-of-reach toy in a toy store.
Signs dotted the fencerow. Back then the Valles Caldera was privately owned and only moneyed folks could pay the hefty $12,000 price tag to hunt (or fish) this amazing parcel of land.
In the 90s, the ranch came up for sale, and with the help of the New Mexico delegation, a deal was brokered and the Valles Caldera Trust was created by the Valles Caldera Preservation Act of 2000 to preserve and protect the historic Baca Ranch of New Mexico's Jemez Mountains. The groundbreaking legislation that provided for the federal purchase of this 89,000-acre ranch nestled inside a volcanic caldera also created a unique experiment in public land management.
While the Trust has done an excellent job running the ranch in the years since then, a new model, more true to our North American model of conservation is being sought. The proposal seeks to place Valles Caldera under management of the National Park Service, a change that would benefit both the land and the public. What will happen with that proposal – only time will tell.
With the fog below us, Lane and I focus in on the herd we've been dancing around as we made our way to the ridge.
In the previous half hour, we had frenzied up close and personal call in encounters with four different satellite bulls and innumerable cows and spikes. They came at us like ghosts through the fog, milling about and plaintively calling to us, then disappearing again as quickly as they appeared.
At least a dozen thundering bugles still sound out within earshot. One in particular is deep and throaty. More bearlike than a sound an elk might make. I let out a series of cow calls and then chuckle into my bugle tube. The "grizzly bear" roars back at me somewhere right below the fog line. Apparently all the satellite bulls have scattered his cows and he's raging mad. He's closing in on us quickly now.
Lane scrambles behind a big charred Douglas fire and I scurry 75 yards up the hillside onto a crest of the ridge above, so the bull can't see where the calls are coming from. I let out another series of mixed cow and calf calls and a high pitched rag-horn bugle.
The bull roars again, much closer this time. His massive antlers appear out of the mist right below Lane. He stops and rakes a small tree, ripping it from the ground and tossing it aside. The massive bull trots up the hill and stops to roar at me not 5 yards from Lane, then saunters on another ten yards or so. Lane draws his bow and stops the bull with a cow call. The arrow smacks home and the bull bolts up onto the bench where I am hidden. I bugle at him again to stop him. He stands for a moment, then trots about 50 yards and piles up into a log jam. The bull of a lifetime. A world-class hunt of a lifetime in one of New Mexico's most iconic ecological and cultural national public lands treasures – the Valles Caldera.
Just more proof that intact habitat means better hunting and fishing opportunity.
And a real nice account of the hunt, Garrett. That's a heckuva bull.
I'm going to have to get out there myself. I haven't even crossed NM off of the list of states I've visisted. Now at least I know where to go.
This is the way it ought to be, life changing experiences available to the greater public can only be good for this country. Best of all, it's sustainable.


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Call up friends. If your child hasn't seen classmates from last year all summer, now is a great time to arrange a few activities with school friends. If you know students who will be in your child's class, encourage your child to reach out to them, too.
Get the home organized. Keep hooks near the entry door to your home where your child can keep the backpack, jacket and other school gear. Have him or her organize his or her desk or homework area. Take your child shopping to restock school and organizational supplies for the home and the classroom. Don't forget to buy a new planner for him or her to use to stay on top of all obligations and assignments.
Do some refresher work. The final few weeks of summer, incorporate a little school work into your child's daily schedule, using workbooks or worksheets from last year to brush up on math, reading and other basics. To practice writing, have your child keep a daily journal on the things he or she did this summer. As you bump up bedtime, include reading in the nightly routine-letting your child choose books from the library.
Sit down to talk about goals.
When it comes to preparing for back to school, a little can go a long way. "Back to school preparation is largely about getting in the right mindset," says Huntington. "Help your child prepare by talking positively about this coming school year and the good things to come. Remind your child of the best parts of school, and also let him or her know that you're always there to help problem solve when issues arise.


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Figures published today by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) showed the cost of tax relief on pension contributions rose by £950m over the last year to £41bn.
Other tax breaks on pension saving take the total cost to £55bn, Webb said, a figure the Treasury will be studying "with great interest".
Borrowing in the 2017/18 financial year to date is now running at £50bn, down from £56.7bn at the same stage in 2016/17 and the lowest to-date total since 2007.
The figure means Mr Hammond is on course to meet the target set by the Office for Budget Responsibility, the country's fiscal watchdog, of borrowing £49.9bn in the 12 months to the end of March 2018 - equivalent to 2.4pc of gross domestic product.
I know that it's not big and not clever to compare random items of taxation and spending; or to match the total deficit with individual items of spending (or tax breaks, or subsidies), but it puts it in perspective. We could, in theory, more or less eliminate the current annual deficit by getting rid of tax breaks for pensions (more accurately, people with spare income, more accurately than that, higher earners, and even more accurately than that, subsidies for the lads in The City who soak it all up in fees, charges and commissions).
Broadest shoulders, and all that?
Public sector borrowing in December dropped by £2.5bn, much more than had been expected, thanks to a £1.2bn credit from the EU. It was the smallest December borrowing figure since 2000.
As if this £1.2 bn were a) some sort of triumph by the UK government and not just a drop in the ocean compared to b) UK deficits/spending or c) the massive overall drain that the EU is/will be or d) a completely made-up number.
If you eliminate tax credit on pension savings then you'll also eliminate a lot of pension savings. This won't be a problem right away but punting down the road a few years isn't great. Also, any remaining pension investment would then result in an untaxed income in retirement (unless you want to double tax it) which is another problem in a few years.
The EU credit. So we send them £XBn that we have borrowed and they send us back £1.2Bn. What defeats me is why this looney tunes logic escapes anyone.
On the Pension tax breaks, broadly yes.
The bulk of pensions tax relief goes to higher rate taxpayers, and we can ignore all 'tax relief' on public sector pensions (see logic query above). And a whole lot did go to the 'lads in the city' aka sleepy insurance companies aka investment trusts with a hobby, but that is arguably no longer strictly the case. At least not as far as simple pension savings schemes go where typical total expense charges are now 1% at maximum and more like 0.25% on average or lower. Of that 1% fee (or lower) you must remember that 45% goes out in tax (tax freedom day being early June) and something in the region of 18% goes out in 'compliance' costs. A total of 63% ish. Get rid of compliance and reduce taxes and competition will drive pension fund manager charges even lower.
And also don't forget that pensions (as an annuity) are paid as income, you are taxed on the whole payment, unlike purchased life annuities where the only the interest element is taxed. Pensions are deferred pay. Has that been added back in the sums above?
However, in the great scheme of things it is true that all subsidies return to rents. In which case I would scrap all higher rate relief on pensions contributions. And I'd stop all the nonsenses of the The Pensions Regulator (utterly useless) and the levy they take from solvent schemes to prop up insolvent ones (or those considered 'insolvent' under their daft rules).
RA, why do you think people would stop saving? Do you have the slightest evidence for that? People put money into ISAs!
Future problems are future problems.
L, maybe. I glossed over the tax paid by all the middlemen.
If they got rid of pension tax breaks, would that not just bring forward future tax income? i.e. another mechanism for spending today and storing up a problem of less projected income tax for the future? I'm not saying that the 'lads in The City' would be worse off either way, it's just that the future income tax on their pension streams would be missing if they had no reason to save in pensions? Is my maths off? On 100K gross earnings taxed at 40%, put 60K in a pension and get the basic rate 20K added back, compound it at 5% for 20 years, and then tax the income from the annuity at 40% OR Tax 40% up front, meaning 60k compounding for 20 years at 5%, and then tax the lesser income from the annuity at 40%. The only way this is better for the high earner over their lifetime (so worse for Inland Revenue and society) is if income that would have been taxed at 40% today is part of a tax free allowance and 20% tax rate in the future. Assuming that any high earner will do enough planning to ensure that they have a basic income to retire on in future, any excess income saved away and not consumed today will always be taxed at the higher rate in future as well?
RA and OTOH, income tax on pensions in payment is £10 bn it so a year, which will dwindle to nothing over the next couple of decades. Chump change in the scheme of things.
MW Why will tax collected on pension payments dwindle.
BTW I am not all defending 'high charges' aka rents from subsidies. Some of us have been railing about this for years from within and outfits like Fitzrovia helped a lot by exposing the full costs of funds.
L, pensions are only taxed because people got relief on contributions.
In the absence of this pensions nonsense, people would save with ISAs, no tax relief on way in and no tax on withdrawals, although the investment income and gains are exempt. If there were no ISAs either, then people would just save, full stop, but again, no tax on way out.
if anybody were stupid enough to continue paying into an official pension with no tax relief, then would have to be treated like ISAs or normal savings.
It is only pensions deriving from "old" contributions that would be taxed on the way out, so tax collected from "pensions" in the narrow sense would fall every year as the "old' pensions cease when people die.
MW ah you meant once pensions have been scrapped. Then, of course.
Personally I'd scrap ISAs as well. And VCTs and EISs and all these opportunities for rent seeking.
Lola, the .25% management charges you refer to is perhaps a joke? A year long study completed in 2016 by the Transparency Task Force found over a hundred charges levied by asset managers, many of them hidden. Charges easily capable of swallowing up the lions share of the pension pot over a period of thirty odd years or so. In fact the real cost of these charges is several times the headline 'management' cost.
P156. Without any doubt pension funds are available with total expense ratio charges at 0.25% and lower. The TER figures take into account all those hidden charges (which were not actually ever hidden as such, just not included in the illustration methodology prescribed by the regulationists). As I said above this transparency agenda was pioneered by Fitzrovia among others many years ago. I was using their data in the late '80's early 90's. In fact today we can buy institutionally priced funds for clients which have nil initial charges and 0.15% TER / OCR. And with stock lending fees which all equitable managers credit to the fund, some fund managers now think that they will be offering positive TER's.
The Transparency Task Force is just another FCA prodnosery justification committee. The market has already dealt with issue in general over many years, not just one. FYI the TER is about 40% greater than the declared AMC. You should note that the AMC is the fee to the manager for managing the fund. The other expenses include other costs chargeable to the fund like custodian fees, audit costs, stamp duty and the like.
For high charges you need to be looking at EIS and VCT's or hedge funds with their standard 2 and 20 pricing (as was).
In regards to the Regulator the FCA etc , they are absolutely useless and functionally corrupt. It's the incentives see. None of them have any democratic legal or financial accountability and no skin on the game.
...and I didn't even mention churning. Until January this year fund managers have not been required to explain how much of investors' money (workplace pensions) they've spent on transactions. Forced, mind you. And charges buried in small print are effectively hidden charges.
P156. Haldane is a clown. The nonsense he is talking about is entirely the fault of clowns like him who have massively over-complicated pensions regulations. It has nothing to do with the underlying investments - it's the looney tunes rules. But he is sort of right about one thing, the rules - rules made by the likes of him - are so ludicrously complex that they are difficult to keep on top of. And then there's what the HMRC comes up with.
As to 'churning' it is not at all as rife as is made out. In any event low cost funds - of which there are lots - by definition cannot be adding costs. Furthermore churning of the underlying investments does not make money for the manager. It makes money for the broker.
Like all things you buy you have to do your shopping and you will find relative value for money. WE can argue the toss as to whether using a collective is worth the fees or not, but the fact is - and I can prove this - there are low cost efficient collectives out there that have delivered a fair return for the =ir buyers at low relative risk. Sure you can go and buy your own shares and make your own 'fund' but it is a practical impossibility for you to access, say, smaller companies stock at the price I can and with the degree of diversification I can.
One thing I do know is that 'active' management in the traditional sense does not overall add any extra return over the market rate of return. Most add no alpha over the beta of the market. And they cost more. Very few active managers are worth buying - and I mean very very very few. Perhaps five - and I can't reliably find out who they might be.
L, OK, let's accept that saintly pension fund managers restrict themselves to a 0.25% or 0.5% cut every year, what do they invest in? Unit trusts and investment trusts, which swipe another 1%, all of these pension schemes and unit trusts need "legal and professional" advice, statutory audits, tax returns, Pensions Regulator returns and reports, with some lads in the City earning themselves silly.
MW No! The 0.25% / 0.5% is the TOTAL charge. The TERs include all the stuff you mention.
L.You are deluding yourself. Funds can charge as little as that. Most do not. Like I said only this month pension funds have been forced to reveal their transaction costs which are in in addition to the fees levied. And frankly whether Haldane is a clown or not (whatever that means) if the chief economist at the bank of England can't bloody understand the crap info pension funds put out who the heck else is expected to?
Nor does it matter that brokers not pension fund managers benefit from excessive trading. The point is pensioners are only profiting at all from pensions largely BECAUSE of the taxpayer subsidising of city spivs! Without such subsidies returns would be trivial.
P156. FFS P156 this is my business. I have spent over 25 years finding ways to reduce prices for my customers, which is largely why I am not as rich as most of my peer group. The 'hidden' costs in funds have been known about and calculated for years. And I have acted on that information.
The recent regulatory intervention is way behind the curve and actually is more about deep state data collection than helping customers.
To stop this argument I will in due course assemble the information and write a post on this blog to prove it - with all the links and attachments and everything. (That won't be soon, I am very busy at work and Mrs L has pneumonia and is hospitalised).
Please note, that I am one of only small number of people in my trade who are as determined to reduce prices. Fat lot of good it does me though. I recently lost a client to St James Place - and you should see their charges - generally 5% initial (we are 0%) and up to about 2.0% annual (on a like for like basis we are about 0.9% annual - that includes some 'advice' charges). Those annual numbers are 'Total Expense Ratios', that is they include for everything, all of it, the lot, tutti, not just the AMC.
Re the rest of your post you are not listening. Haldane was not railing about the underlying funds, he was railing about the bureaucratic rules around pensions - which are the fault of him and his ilk. Get it through you bonce that there are two things going on (1) the looney tunes pensions rules and (2) the underlying investment funds.
And you know I quite agree that 'all subsidies return to rents' and that a lot of the tax relief ends up in the hands of the pension managers (or especially cash ISA providers) and I have been trying, professionally, to minimise that effect for my customers for 25+ years. I can tell you more horror stories than you can imagine (the St James Place one above is just one of many). But for an absolute fact I can get you a fund / funds plus the pension administration wrapper for about 0.35% / 0.40% all in, everything, varying a bit with quantum.
Stop trying to tell me about my business which I know inside out.
L. Not questioning your own high standards. Just your industry's standards.
Gina Miller (the same one who took the government to court over parliament vote on Brexit) was on radio 4 last week saying much the same as you.Her investment management business has lost out to competitors who prefer to keep charges and costs opaque since she reformed her own businesses approach. As for the costs and degree of opaqueness it's no use just pulling rank. Here's what actually happened to rail pen.
"Railpen's director for trustee accounting Victoria Bell says the costs,(which thry were unable to identify) included commissions, brokerage fees, stamp duty, due diligence fees and legal fees. Pension fund accounts for 2011 showed total costs of £90m, but the forensic search uncovered an extra £200m, some of it from layers of fees charged by funds investing in other funds."
They had to hire a forensic accountant to find that out!
You might want to give last week's radio four podcast on this subject a listen. I hope your wife has a speedy recovery.
"If you eliminate tax credit on pension savings then you'll also eliminate a lot of pension savings."
Despite knowing very little about pensions, (perhaps Lola can help here), I would have thought that the people most likely not to stop saving are also the people benefiting the most from the tax breaks, i.e. those paying more than the basic rate of tax. Thus the obvious first step would be to limit the tax break to the basic rate and see what happens, although there's fat chance of the Tories doing that.
P156. Nowhere have i claimed that there are parts of the FS industry thst are less than transparent. I have been saying that you can (a) quite easily find out tge 'hidden' costs of fund management and (b) you csn buy low cost funds.
In your example you stress it needed a forensic accountant to find these hidden charges. Well i am not one of those and i found them. And since they were findable they really weren't that hidden.
To make another observation from my own experience regulationism has aggravated the whole hidden charges (and costs generally ) issue.
Gina Miller is not reliable. Why has it taken ubtil now to do something i and my peer group have been doing for 25 plus years?
Thanks for your concern re Mrs L.
L, if there are pension funds with a TER of only 0.25% including all the endless layers of crap, then I am quite impressed. That seems fair enough.
MW. See my new blog post above.
Do you think you could break up the long paragraphs a bit? It's hard to read.


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Can we call Shah Rukh Khan the king of comebacks? Because we can't think of a better way to put it. The actor simply knows how to hog the limelight. His social media posts have the power to shake the Internet [in a good way, of course]. And, his latest tweet is a testament to this statement. FYI: it is related to his OTT app – SRK+. Shah Rukh Khan has asked Ajay Devgn if he will release the second season of Rudra: The Edge Of Darkness on SRK+ app instead of Disney+Hotstar. He wrote, "Toh… Season 2 Disney+ Hotstar pe nahin, SRK+ pe hoga…. Pukka? (So, season 2 of Rudra won't be released on Disney+ Hotstar but on SRK+… Promise?)." The reaction came in the backdrop of a post shared by Ajay Devgn on Twitter. "Sorry Shah Rukh Khan pehlebata dete, Rudra SRK+ pe hi release karta. Ab Thoda Ruk Shah Rukh [If you had told me about it beforehand, I would've released Rudra on SRK+. Now, wait a bit Shah Rukh]," this is what Ajay Devgn wrote.
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Scott Mechanic, 36, an emergency room nurse at the University of Chicago Medical Center, said the problems stem from widespread labor shortages throughout the health-care system and hospital leadership who are reluctant to provide assistance.
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The protests, organized by National Nurses United, a labor union boasting 175,000 members nationwide, was part of a day of action across 11 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. today "to demand the hospital industry invest in safe staffing, and to demand that President Biden follow through on his campaign promise to protect nurses and prioritize public health," according to the union. In Chicago, members are still working and the action was part of their bargaining process, but other branches are striking. The union planned to end the day with a candlelight vigil near the White House to honor the thousands of nurses who have died from COVID-19.
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Barcelona midfielder, Sergio Busquets, believes that teammate, Lionel Messi, has an edge over Juventus star, Cristiano Ronaldo, adding that the Argentine has been gifted with all round play.
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The Spanish midfielder also thinks having the best player in the side does not guarantee any success in Europe for the Catalan giants.
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"For me Leo is the best, he is much more complete [than Cristiano Ronaldo], participates more in the game, does things that nobody does. But Cristiano is a great player and we can see what he is capable of at the goalscorers level. Maybe he does not have as much quality or as much at stake, but at the level of ambition, goalscorer, winner, Cristiano is one of the best."
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