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Woman Reportedly Raped by a Chattanooga Police Officer Alleges Fourth Amendment Violations, Coverup
By Jarod Word on Thu, 06/06/2019 - 12:28pm
Attorneys representing a woman in a lawsuit against the city of Chattanooga who alleges former Chattanooga police officer Desmond Logan raped her filed an amended complaint on Wednesday alleging a coverup and Fourth Amendment violations, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. The updated filing contends that Logan has a history of "inappropriate sexual misconduct, including a previous rape incident" and that Chattanooga Assistant Police Chief Edwin McPherson conspired with retired Capt. Pedro Bacon to suppress records of that misconduct. At least three women maintain that they were raped by Logan since he began his law enforcement career in 2015. The city has not filed a response to the complaint and has declined to comment on the matter.
Brentwood Based Assisted-Living Conglomerate Sued by Residents
By Jarod Word on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 12:37pm
The nation's largest assisted-living provider, Brentwood-based Brookdale Senior Living Inc., is being sued by eight disabled and elderly residents who claim the company is responsible for financial abuse and violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, The Mercury News reports. The plaintiffs maintain in the complaint that the organization failed to provide services listed in its initial agreement and fostered "humiliating, frustrating and hazardous situations on a daily basis." The provider is no stranger to the courtroom, being party to numerous lawsuits over the years, including one case in which an elderly resident was killed by an alligator. The lawsuit will seek class-action status for the estimated 5,000 residents in Brookdale facilities throughout California.
Legal Battle Over Toxic Waste in Tennessee Town Heats Up
A rural community in west Tennessee continues its fight against a waste management company regarding a toxic substance that has polluted area water sources and devastated local vegetation, USA Today reports. In 1999, the town of Bath Springs contracted North Carolina corporation Waste Industries to assume operations of its landfill that was used for local waste in Decatur County. Subsequently, under new management, the landfill began to accept "special waste" characterized as being "difficult or dangerous" to contain, which is more profitable than household trash but when exposed to elements excretes an ooze called leachate that finds its way into the soil and ultimately the water supply. Waste Industries later announced plans to abandon the landfill and sued the county, maintaining the municipality was derelict in its responsibilities to "to provide for the disposal and treatment of the leachate" and is in breach of the initial agreement. The county filed its own lawsuit against Waste Industries, alleging violations of federal clean air and water acts. The lawsuit against the county is scheduled for a status conference on May 10 in Tennessee Western District Court, Judge S. Thomas Anderson presiding.
City of Memphis Denies Wrongdoing in Case of Dead Body in Police Impound Lot
By Jarod Word on Mon, 02/25/2019 - 12:24pm
The city of Memphis has denied any liability in the wrongful death case where the corpse of a man was found in a police impound lot 49 days after his death, The Commercial Appeal reports. Bardomiano Perez Hernandez was reportedly sitting in the vehicle drinking beer with his coworkers when they were approached by robbers who fired on the van killing Hernandez and critically wounding another passenger. In a response regarding the incident, the city claims that the people at fault for the death are the other men in the van and the accused robbers, also citing various legal protections it maintains limit liabilities for governments. Two men were eventually arrested and charged last June with first-degree murder in the killing of Hernandez.
Workers Involved in Bean Station ICE Raid Sue for Discrimination, Excessive Force
Workers detained by ICE after an immigration enforcement raid on a Bean Station slaughterhouse are now suing the agency, Newsweek reports. In the lawsuit filed last Thursday, the workers contend that ICE agents — along with officials from Homeland Security Operations, Enforcement and Removal Operations and the Tennessee Highway Patrol — used excessive force, berated the workers with racial slurs, punched one worker in the face and shoved firearms in the faces of many others. In total, approximately 100 workers were detained and 11 were arrested during the raid, making it among the largest worksite-enforcement operations in recent years. Read the complaint using this link. Additionally, executive council member Bruce Buchanan wrote a recent blog post regarding the lawsuit.
Defendants Ask for Dismissal of Lawsuit Involving Stalking by Dickson Police
By Jarod Word on Thu, 01/24/2019 - 11:57am
Defendants in a lawsuit in which two former Dickson Police Officers sued the city, alleging that they were "routinely followed and stalked" after being fired, are asking that the case be thrown out, The Tennessean reports. The dispute stems from the dismissal of Robert Peeler and Justin Walton, former officers with the department who were sacked for their handling of an altercation outside of a local restaurant and evidence tampering — for which they were ultimately convicted of a misdemeanor. The defendants, Dickson Police Assistant Chief Seth Lyles and Capt. Todd Christian, maintain that any observations of Peeler and Walton took place in public places and that no constitutional violation occurred because there was no "search," therefore the plaintiff's claim of invasion of privacy is unsubstantiated. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations and District Attorney's office in the 17th Judicial District investigated the allegations made by Peeler and Walton, and determined that there was no reason to pursue charges on the matter.
U.S. Supreme Court Considers Case Involving Tennessee Liquor Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court last week heard oral arguments in Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association v. Blair, considering whether states can pass laws with resident restrictions regarding the issuance of liquor licenses, Forbes reports. The dispute involves a family that owns a mom-and-pop liquor store, who moved to Tennessee from Utah and attempted to bring their business with them. Current Tennessee law requires license applicants to live in the state for at least two years. Additionally, the license expires in one year, and renewal requires residency of 10 consecutive years, effectively barring new Tennesseans from opening these types of businesses, which detractors claim stifles new business in favor of existing competitors. The Tennessee Alcohol and Beverage Commission recommended approving the license and declined to enforce the rule, leading the association to sue. The Supreme Court is expected to reach a decision sometime this spring.
Jury Leaves $4 to Family of Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputy
By Jarod Word on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 11:52am
A Florida jury last week awarded the estate of shooting death victim Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. $4 in damages: $1 for funeral expenses and $1 for each of his three children's loss, The New York Times reports. Hill was fatally shot by Christopher Newman, a sheriff's deputy who had responded to a noise complaint about music Hill had been playing in his garage. The garage door was eventually closed and Newman fired four times through it, striking Hill once in the head and twice in the abdomen. Hill had a gun in his back pocket, which the deputies said he had been holding it during their confrontation, though that claim is in dispute.
The wrongful-death lawsuit, filed in 2016, was asked to determine whether Hill's constitutional rights had been violated and whether his estate should be awarded damages. Jurors determined that Newman had not used excessive force and concluded, but the St. Lucie County sheriff, Ken Mascara, had been ever so slightly negligent given Deputy Newman's actions. A grand jury had previously determined not to bring criminal charges against Newman. The estate's attorney, John M. Phillips, said that he is drafting a motion for a new trial and if the motion is denied, he will file an appeal.
Southeast Complex Litigation Forum Set for Sept. 7
The Southeast Complex Litigation Forum, a TBA CLE offering four general credits, will be Sept. 7 at the Tennessee Bar Center in Nashville. The seminar will cover the latest developments in mass torts, class actions and multi-district litigation (MDLs). You will learn from national litigators about the latest in cutting-edge aggregate litigation, including emerging litigation involving opioids, medical devices, pharmaceutical drugs and consumer products. The discussions will also include litigation tips and best practices on how to approach discovery in the post-proportionality world. Learn more and register here.


Sushi lovers could feel the effects of an eel shortage on the international market.
MEMBERS of Maine's baby-eel fishing industry are expecting high prices for the tiny fish this year because of a shortage on the international market, and sushi lovers could end up feeling the pinch.
Maine is the only US state with a significant fishery for baby eels, or elvers.
The tiny, translucent eels are sold to Asian aquaculture companies to be raised to maturity for use as food.
They're a key piece of the worldwide supply chain for Japanese dishes such as unagi, and some eventually make it back to the US.
The eels sold for about $1300 per pound at the docks last year, about on par with an ounce of gold, and are already one of the most lucrative fisheries in the country on a per-pound basis.
Fishermen in Asia are seeing a poor harvest this year, and European eel fisheries are cracking down on poaching, said state Rep. Jeffrey Pierce, a Dresden Republican and consultant to the elver fishery.
That means Maine's elvers will be in higher demand, and prices could be higher for consumers.
"It was just a bad year in Asia," Pierce said.
"With Europe tightening up that market, and us already having tightened up, it should be a good year."
The elver fishing season begins March 22 and ends June 7.
They are fished by nets from rivers and streams and sold to dealers in a tightly regulated fishery that uses a swipe-card system to deter poaching. It takes more than 2000 elvers to make a pound.
"Eel prices are going to be really high this year," he said.


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Elements and Compounds
Atoms and Atomic Structure
What is the correct empirical formula for Styrofoam?
(C 8H 8) n
How does a buffer work
What happens in a neutralization reaction
What is a conjugate acid-base pair
Why is water considered to be neutral
Q: What is the correct empirical formula for Styrofoam?
Styrofoam is a trade name for polystyrene foam Styrene has an empirical formula of CH It has a molecular mass of 104 amu What is the correct molecular formula for styrene?
Is C8H20 an empirical formula?
Yes, it LOOKS like an empirical formula BUT it is NOT a correct one:Either C9H20 or C8H18 are correct (both are saturated alkanes) but not C8H20
Do C6H12 and C6h14 have the same emoiricual formula?
No. The empirical formula of a substance is the formula in which each atomic symbol has the lowest possible subscript that gives the correct ratio between atoms for the compound as a whole. For C6H12, the empirical formula is CH2, but for C6H14, the empirical formula is C3H7.
How do you spell styrofoam?
The correct spelling is 'styrofoam'.
What is the empirical formula of CuSO4?
CuSO4 is an empirical formula.
What is the empirical formula for C4H6O2?
C6H6O2is an empirical formula.
What is the empirical formula for C2N2H8?
C2N2H8 is an empirical formula !
Is the formula C4H10 empirical?
It is an empirical formula.
Is H2O a empirical formula?
Yes, this is an empirical formula.
What is the empirical formula for SO3?
SO3 is an empirical formula !
What is the empirical formula C12H6O3?
C4H2O is the empirical formula
What is the empirical formula for C2H10?
The empirical formula is CH5.
What is the empirical formula of H2SO4?
H2SO4 is an empirical formula.
Is HC2H3O2 an empirical formula?
No. It is molecular formula. Its empirical formula will be CH2O.
What is the relationship between a empirical formula and formula unit?
A formula unit is an empirical formula.
What is the empirical formula for the compound X39Y13?
X3Y is the empirical formula
What is the empirical formula for water?
what is the empirical formula for water H2O
Empirical formula al2br6?
The Empirical formula of Al2Br6 is AlBr3.
Empirical formula for tartaric acid?
The empirical formula is:- C4H6O6
What is the empirical formula for the compound C6H12O2?
The empirical formula is C3H6O.
What is the empirical formula for cortisol?
C5H6O is the empirical formula for Cortisol.
What is the empirical formula of Al2Br6?
C3H4O3 is empirical formula of C6H8O6
What is the empirical formula for C10H22?
C10H22 is the empirical formula of decane.
What is the empirical formula for C2H6O?
The empirical formula is CHO.
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Here, I interview Peter and Pam, a couple I know through some friends. Ironically, Josie Harris who I interviewed on my last 'Tales from the Antipodes' (see posting on 24th May 2010) is connected with this one – Peter is Josie's boss at Ballarat Secondary College and Josie told me what Peter and Pam had seen. I spoke to Peter and Pam back in March, and heard their story about the possible sighting of a Thylacine. Peter is a very intelligent, sensible man, who is rather a sceptic, so I can't help but understand his curiosity of this sighting – as far as I know he did not report it, probably because he did not think it credible enough.
Tania: So where was this?
Peter: This was on the West side of the Grampians, so that's the dry side, where the Grampians slopes down. The East side has the more lush steep cliffs. It was probably 1981. It was the end of summer, February, March, that time of year. It was late afternoon – not dark.
P: It was still light. Because it was summer, it was maybe 7pm. We'd been camping all weekend and were heading back to Ballarat.
T: Were you heading South?
P: No, We would have been heading north, up Red Rock Road to pick up the main road that goes from Zumsteins to Hall's Gap to Ballarat. It was a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, not one of the main Grampian roads.
Pa: I don't remember it being heavy with trees. It was scrub.
P: Yes, it was very open, the scrub wasn't thick. Scattered gum tress, She-oaks, boulders here and there, like the You Yangs Ranges.
T: Not a tall or dense forest?
P: No. The left was heading into farmland. We were heading north on this road, and then we saw this movement to my right, to the East. We saw this animal come running down across the grass, it wasn't hidden by trees, it was well ahead of us, we were driving 80Kms an hour. And then it crossed the road in front of us. It was not very distracted by us, but maybe the car had flushed it out?
Pa: We were not that close to it, how far?
T: So you recognised it?
Pa: No, we didn't know what it was.
P: We looked at each other coz we thought, the way it ran; it did not run like a dog.
Pa: It did not run like a fox, it did not run like anything we'd seen. It was really different. It was quite large, it wasn't small.
P: It was grey-ish. It would have been 2.5 - 3 feet long, big head, tail, dog shaped, but it did not run like a dog and that was what really attracted our attention.
Pa: First of all, I thought it was a strange pony, because it was that sort of galloping, very fluid motion, it wasn't trotting.
T: Was it a Tiger? I mean, a Thylacine, or a Big Cat?
P: No, it wasn't a cat. It was grey in colour.
T: Did it have stripes?
T: Didn't have a long tail like a cat?
Pa: No, not like a cat.
T: Stiff straight tail, stuck out the back?
Pa: Because of what we remember from later, and what you imagine.
P: Totally inexplicable. It's a very remote part of the Grampians. It's on a road where you might see only 2 or 3 cars on one day. It was late afternoon, just when the kangaroos were starting to come out.
P: We thought at the time 'We've just seen a Thylacine.' Had the big head. I can't remember now in detail the way it ran, loping would be the best description.
T: But it was still something you'd never seen before, the way it ran, and not since.
P: No, not since. And I've never seen a Thylacine run. If I did I could compare it.
Pa: We've been all over Australia on all sorts of remote roads and it wasn't something you'd ordinarily come across on an outback road. It was very pale sand coloured.
P: I saw it a grey sand colour. But it wasn't a cat, and we saw it for such a long time.
T: Did it run very fast?
T: But you saw it for a few minutes?
Pa: It came down at an angle, diagonally down the slope. We stopped to watch it.
T: So obviously it was so strange, it made you stop to watch it, and you thought of a Thylacine straight away.
P: Yeah. Had it been clearly a recognisable dog, I would not even have remembered it or be telling you this now.
Pa: Another story we've heard was our friend Ian Smith, who has passed on since. He was VERY positive he frightened one (Thylacine) out of his chicken shed in Mt Clear (Ballarat). He saw it clearly.
P: In the early 70's.
Pa: No, much earlier. The 50's, I think.
T: Wow! Mt Clear would not have really been much of a suburb of Ballarat then like it is now.
Pa: True. He was positive he saw one.
T: Thanks for your story!


Back in January, Kayla, from See Kayla Go, came to visit me here in SoCal. She was only here for two nights, but she managed to sneak out to the LA fabric district one afternoon and she came back bearing gifts. She picked up this gorgeous floral silk (for $2 a yard!) in two colors, so we each took a color and set off with the goal to make something pretty and report back.
The fabric sat in my stash, untouched, for about a month until I was looking through my pinterest DIY board for some inspiration and saw this dress from ModCloth and knew instantly that I wanted to recreate it with this fabric. This dress ended up taking way longer to make than I expected because I hit a few road blocks and ended up unpicking more seams than I'd like to discuss. The only positive thing about it taking so long is that Kayla had moved down to Huntington Beach by the time the dress was finished, so we were able to do a photoshoot together in our matchy outfits. It felt like elementary school matching with your friends all over again (and yes, people stared).
Step 1. Using a loose blouse as a pattern, cut out the top part of your dress. Add a 1/2″ seam allowance around the entire shirt. Also, note that the top part of your dress will only go down to your natural waist, so measure and cut the top length accordingly.
Now cut a large, slightly tapered toward the waist, rectangle for the bottom half of your dress. Make sure the shirt and skirt are the same width where they will connect at the waist. Mine was 19 inches, as seen below.
Step 2. With right sides together, sew up the sides of your skirt with a straight stitch with a 1/2″ seam allowance, and then serge or zigzag the raw edge. Next, lay your skirt out with the side seams on the top and bottom (as pictured below), and cut your high-low hemline to your desired length.
Step 3. With right sides together, sew the sides of your top with a straight stitch and a 1/2″ seam allowance. Trim and serge or zigzag the raw edges.
Step 4. Cut the front neckline to your desired depth.
Next, cut the neckline "ribbing." Measure your neckline front from shoulder to shoulder, but measuring around the scoop of the neckline, and then subtract an inch from that measurement. Now cut a 1″ thick strip of fabric on the bias (so it should be as stretchy as possible) in that measurement length.
Repeat for the neckline back.
Fold your two strips of fabric in half (wrong sides together) and press. They should now be two long strips, 1/2″ wide each.
Pin the "ribbing" strips to the front and backs of your necklines (as seen below), making sure that the ends of your "ribbing" match up with the shoulders. The neckline will be bunched to accomodate the "ribbing's" shorter length. Sew around the neckline, as close to the raw edge as you can, stretching the "ribbing" in between pins as you sew.
Press the ribbing flat and repeat for the neckline back.
Step 5. (not pictured). With right sides together, sew the shirt together at the shoulders with a straight seam and a 1/2″ seam allowance, and then hem the sleeves to your desired length.
Step 6. Now it's time to attach the top to the skirt. With right sides together, pin the top and skirt together (matching up the side seams) and sew around the entire waist with a straight seam and a 3/4″ seam allowance.
serge or zigzag the raw edge, but do not trim the large seam allowance since this will become the casing for your elastic.
Next, pin the large seam allowance up toward the top of the shirt and sew around the waistband again, 1/4″ above the previous seam. Leave two inches open at the end of this seam so you can insert the elastic.
Measure your natural waist and cut a piece of elastic in that length. Thread the elastic through your casing, then sew the two ends together to make a circle. Sew up the two inch opening in the casing.
Step 7. Hem the dress to your desired length and you're done!
That dress is beautiful! Great job on it.
Gorgeous! I am so impressed- way to push through the seam unpicking. I can't handle it and usually give up at that point!
Love. Can't wait to make my own…now if the northwest would only warm-up.
What an adorable dress! You are definitely a sewing rockstar, and your matching outfits are just too cute!
You are amazing. How you do this without a real pattern is beyond me. The dress is beautiful.
Love your dress. Gorgeous. You are very talented. I could never do that. YOu look very pretty in this dress.
I like this even better than the original! Gorgeous!
This turned out so cute, looks great on you!!
Love it! I've been looking for a high-low dress or skirt project. I like this one that I saw this one on c&c http://cottonandcurls.blogspot.com/2012/12/sheer-gathered-low-high-skirt-tutorial.html but I now I might have to make a dress too! Thanks for the tutorial!
Gorgeous! I have scads of fabric I've been hanging on to to make a dress with, I'm going to try it now!
Send me a picture if you do make one! I'd love to see it!
I'm glad we are friends so that when I attempt this and most likely fail, I can call you and be like "what did I do wrong!!!?" You look so cute and glamorous and the dress turned out so cute!
Cute dress and nice tutorial!
AHH you rock. Love this dress!
Everything you make looks amazing and so much easier than it really is!
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I love seeing a modest high low dress! Great work. You are beautiful!
Cute girl, and thanks for featuring see Kayla go.
oh I love this! So classy! I'd love to try this out to make a skirt! You and your friend look great!!
OMG HOW CUTE ARE YOU, MERRICK? Stop it, just stop it. It looks so good!
LOVE this!! I just featured it on my facebook page!
Thanks for sharing the post with us:).Love the "BOLD FLORALS: High-Low Dress Tutorial ". I found this "vintage plus size wedding dresses" Very good!
do you happen to have a picture of this -> "pin the large seam allowance up toward the top of the shirt and sew around the waistband again, 1/4" above the previous seam"? my brain won't allow me to comprehend this right now….
Thank you so much for your wonderful tutorial. I just made this for my tween granddaughter and she loves it. So easy from start to finish.


While working on Versus, the artist wanted to employ a prearranged situation to capture the moments that go beyond the predictable convention of sport rivalry. The camera uses tight framing and close-ups to watch a group of young men during a sport training. There is no moment of fulfilment, competing does not lead to victory, instead of manifestations of force and endurance the camera makes us watch moments of hesitation, suspended looks, involuntary, anxious gestures.


The following chapter is extracted from my book, Super Investing: 5 Proven Methods for Beating the Market and Retiring Rich. As a Wall Street professional, my job was to research and then create tested profitable investing and trading systems for stocks, bonds, currencies, gold and commodities. Having spent years testing every type of conceivable system, I discovered only a few will make you rich in the long run. This book is all about those proven methods, and the lessons I would teach teenagers and college students to set them on the path to being able to retire rich through investing. I was always fascinated by the goal of creating a means for creating generational wealth, and in this book I lay out all the proven methods you can use to fund that objective.
One of the most insightful books for creating investing systems is a little known classic, The Hedge Fund Edge, written by Mark Boucher. Within this book Boucher tells the story of how he met a very low key private European money manager, with failing health, who after many years in the investment business decided to teach Mark his highly secretive method for managing billions in client funds for extremely high returns.
The track record of this secret methodology should grab your attention, as should its basic set of rules since it was said to have worked for well over three decades. Few investing methods work consistently over long periods of time, and when they do it is usually because they have captured some sort of fundamentally sound approach to market investing. You won't have all the tools readily available to exactly duplicate this technique, but the lessons are so valuable that you will be able to immediately apply what you learn elsewhere to great advantage.
This highly secretive European manager reported extremely impressive returns with very low risk. His long term compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for managing funds was greater than 19% per year since the mid-1950's, and that's without ever having had a drawdown greater than 20% on the money he managed. Furthermore, in over thirty years of managing money he had only seen one negative calendar year on his investments (-5% in 1974)!
These are incredible results. Mutual funds would literally break down the doors with offers to hire anyone who could duplicate such returns. If you started with $100,000 and compounded your performance at 19% per year over thirty years, you'd be left with over $18 million before taxes. Clearly this is a method for creating generational wealth, and the return doesn't even factor in the possibility of adding funds along the way for greater wealth accumulation.
This is the type of performance that can build a financial dynasty if it is kept up over time while avoiding taxes, and the methodology he used to capture these returns was both extremely simple and extremely logical. When you remember that the large financial fortunes could only grow their own funds at a long run rate of return of around 7-8% over the generations, this is the type of method we want to use to grow our wealth over many years if we desire an active form of diversified investing.
The method concentrates on monitoring all the stock markets in the world and buying those that are currently advancing better than all others (as determined by a relative ranking), but only getting into those investments if there seems to be a fundamental basis supporting those advancing moves. You buy the world's best performing stock markets by rotating into a country's market when it starts outperforming everything else, and you get out of these investments when they fall out of the top tier of outperformers. Additionally, the basic rules of diversification and money management are also applied to protect the total portfolio from excessive risks and drawdowns.
In a sense, these rules are similar to those commonly used by commodity and foreign currency fund managers. These investment businesses typically use a trend following approach to manage billions in positions, and those methods make buy and sell decisions based on market price movements alone. These trend following models never stipulate that a price trend has to have a strong fundamental basis behind it and yet for many markets, just making trades based purely on the trending pattern of price movements can produce substantial profits. The trick is that you must trade enough markets together and then you can capture some big movements from within this pack.
The weakness of a pure trend following approach to investing is that when you trade on just price movements by themselves, without insisting that you verify there are fundamental reasons behind those moves, it opens you up to tremendous price gyrations and sharp reversals. Prices will often suddenly go against you, and then you must get out of your positions because your trend following systems will trigger a signal to exit the market ("go neutral" to a "risk off" condition) or reverse positions (go from long to short or short to long). Without a fundamental basis behind your investing, but just buying or selling based on the shape of price movements alone, you never really know if you are investing in a true long term trend. You are always subject to rapid whipsaw losses whenever you reverse your position, and you never know if it would be better to hold a position through extreme market volatility instead.
When I was in the business of creating computer rules to manage such funds, the way we avoided significant portfolio drawdowns (and catastrophic losses) was by diversifying ourselves into many different assets and by using many trading models. We would hold many positions in many different markets, most of which were uncorrelated to each other, and furthered our diversification by using multiple models to trade each single market. We also always used adaptive money management principles that continually adjusted the risks of our positions, and every rule for entering a market had a well defined rule for when we should leave that position. In other words, there was always a clearly defined exit strategy for each and every market position. These computerized rules not only helped us manage our risks but entirely eliminated emotions from the process of investing.
In commodities fund management, you are always trying to capture the short term, intermediate term and long term trends of the various markets you are in, and you want to layer the profits from various positions together. Sometimes you can capture gigantic upward or downward trends that last years, and sometimes a trend you thought had just started disappears almost immediately as soon as you enter the trade. Quite often with this type of trading you could accrue a sizeable chunk of unrealized profits from a steady trend that took months to unfold, but those "virtual" profits could disappear overnight due to a single adverse price swing. All you needed was a large price movement in the opposite direction suddenly appearing out of nowhere. The gold and silver markets, for instance, were famous for extreme one day moves that suddenly took away profits earned over many months, which is the same case today because those markets are very heavily manipulated.
As long as you had good asset allocation rules that prevented you from putting all your trading bets in one basket, and practiced prudent money management skills that had you adaptively managing risks, then when a big winner came along (or when multiple markets started making moves) you could usually capture a substantial portion of those profits and over-deliver in terms of portfolio performance. Big moves meant big profits, whereas small moves and choppy markets meant losses.
As mentioned, one of the keys to our long term profits was to follow automatic trading rules that determined clearly defined entry and exit points for all positions, and which eliminated all emotions from trading. While timing models and trading rules were important, a great deal of our outperformance came from applying very strict money management rules. In particular, our performance was greatly determined by asset allocation rules that put us into the big market movers for the year. Good money management and asset allocation rules, rather than buy and sell systems, almost always dominated the performance of our portfolios, and I find this principle to be true with most every fund manager I have looked at. You live or die based on the excellence of your money management systems.
Speaking frankly, when there is a big trend then most every decent trend following system will make money for you if you are a trend follower. Since you cannot predict the performance of individual trend following systems, you cannot anticipate which system will be the most profitable for you in a market, but if there is a strong trend they will all tend to make money. It is the large strong trends that make you most of your money in a year. Therefore, being in the right market is usually the most important thing to making the big money because you could have 97 markets that did nothing significant in terms of price movements all year long, and 3 markets that made large moves no one could even imagine! Having more money allocated to the 3 markets which made the big moves of the year would definitely separate you from all the other fund managers who were also using trend following rules, too, so your asset allocation had a bigger effect on your overall performance than the actual rules you used for trading. Generally speaking, how you manage your portfolio through your asset allocation and money management rules will have a bigger impact on your total profits than the accuracy of your individual trading systems, especially when you use several systems bundled together to trade separate markets.
If you have a large allocation to gold or oil in your portfolio and either makes a big bull run that year, you will usually have a fantastically profitable year compared to funds that gave them just a mild weighting in their portfolios. The same goes for stock portfolios that heavily invest in the best moving stock sectors of the year. That's the power of superior asset allocation. It always pays to be in the biggest movers with the strongest trend strength, but the question is how to determine which ones will be best that year. You cannot put all your bets on just one asset because if that market suddenly turns you could lose a significant portion of your funds. The best strategy is to have significant positions in the best performing markets, but you also want the diversification of having many other positions, too.
The investing approach of Boucher's elderly European friend had similarities to all this in that it basically used a version of "momentum investing," or relative strength investing, to secure positions in the strongest moving world stock market leaders. In momentum investing you are looking for an asset that is already strongly increasing or declining in price, and then you enter a trade that rides the coattails of that trend in hopes that the move will continue. The assumption is that any market movement will have continuing momentum or inertia that pushes it in the same direction, and you want to capture a good portion of those profits if you can. In short, you are basically hoping that a market surge, once identified, will persist long enough for you to make money by the time you get out. You cannot capture all the profits of a trend from low to high, but if you can capture just 30-50% of the trend, and do this over and over again, you can end up looking like a genius. Baron von Rothschild is famous for saying, "You can have the first 30% and the last 30% of any move, just give me the safe 40% in the middle," which captures this idea precisely.
The problem with momentum investing, which is betting on a trend to continue, is that it doesn't always continue. You might get in too late and you might get out too early. You must also often eat lots of little whipsaw losses, too, which are short trends caused by temporary volatility spikes that never turn into big moves. You must also try to keep as much of the profits you make from big trends as possible, rather than always lose them through sudden trend reversals that might take away most of your gains. In the aforementioned gold market, it was typical to slowly accumulate profits for months and then see them all suddenly erased in a single day when gold made a spikey move in the opposite direction.
Many markets are extremely volatile like this, especially with today's large price swings triggered by automatic trading robots. These sudden moves can kill an investor who overtrades with too much leverage, and who is not risk balanced with a number of diversified positions that helps dampen volatility. When these sudden moves happen, it's hard to tell anymore if a price drop is due to deteriorating fundamentals or just artificial market manipulations. You need clear exit rules to get you out of positions under both circumstances otherwise you face the potential of catastrophic losses.
For instance, one of my best friends, an experienced investor, had all his retirement funds invested in Citibank stock which had climbed in price for many years to make him a millionaire several times over. Without an exit rule, however, he just could not pull the trigger to get out of his Citibank holdings as the stock continued to decline throughout 2007 and 2008. After every drop he would say to himself that his long term winner was sure to go up again, so he kept holding onto his position. After all, how could Citibank possibly go bankrupt? Every time he got ready to bite the bullet and sell some shares, Citibank's stock price would suddenly collapse causing yet another round of waiting in hopes he might liquidate at a better price. He eventually lost 95% of his savings when Citibank, previously a $55 stock, fell to its floor and entered penny stock territory at $3-4 a share.
If a market advances slowly through a solid trend, as in this case study, you can make money on that trend as long as you exit before prices suddenly collapse and eliminate all the accumulated profits. "What the market giveth slowly, it quickly taketh away." When a particular market moves just a little, then you probably won't make any money at all on that investment and it would simply have been better to put those funds in some other investment that was moving more strongly. Momentum investors always try to put their money in the strongest trends, but they use explicit rules to define those trends and their entry and exit decisions.
The best type of momentum investing tries to sort out which trends are not flukes, but genuine movements with strong fundamentals that are therefore likely to continue. You don't have to get in at the bottom or out at the top of a big price trend to make substantial money. You do not have to pick tops or bottoms. All you must do is just capture a great enough portion of a trend to make money. Most of the time you cannot capture even 50% of a stock trend, and yet you can still do extremely well capturing a small fraction if the move is large enough. The key is to make money without risking too much and by minimizing losses when you are wrong. Since you can never predict how much you will make from the markets, you try to make as much as the market will give you (without risking too much) and minimize losses when they occur.
When will a moving asset stop moving in the same direction? It will keep moving until it stops moving. That's all we can say. Nonetheless, people use all sorts of methods to try to forecast the end of market movements. There are technical methods like cycles analysis, Elliott Wave analysis, and even seasonal analysis, but no method is consistently reliable. In short, no one ever knows for sure which market will be the biggest mover of the year, and when a trend will definitively start or end. A market could stay in the doldrums for years, or keep marching upwards well past anyone's expectations.
To get around this problem of the frequent uselessness of forecasting, in momentum investing you simply get into an investment after you identify that prices are making a trend and then hold that investment until some rule determines that the trend has significantly changed. Between getting in and getting out of the investment, you hope the trend continues long enough that you can make some exceptional money. Whenever the trend moves against you, you also must have rules to manage (adjust) your risks and profits so that they don't all suddenly disappear.
In this case, our European money manager never entered into investments simply because they demonstrated upward price action. Before investing in some foreign stock market, he always insisted that there was some fundamental reason behind its upward advance and for stock market fundamentals he focused on interest rates. Because he was investing in stocks, seeking that fundamental reason meant that he was always looking to see that there was a favorable interest rate environment to support the bullish trend. The underlying monetary conditions served as his confirmation indicator!
As we have already seen in discussing market timing models, over the long run the interest rate models are among the best you can use to tell if the stock market environment is fundamentally bullish or bearish. You can come up with sentiment models, economic models, valuation models and all sorts of other models to help time the market indices. However, except during periods of financial extremes called "end games," interest rate monetary models tend to best decipher the underlying fundamental forces moving stock markets and separate conditions into bullish and bearish environments. Hence, seeking a fundamental reason behind a stock market advancing trend, the interest rate explanation is what our expert European money manager chose to rely upon.
If a country's stock market was performing well—meaning it was above its 40-week moving average—this money manager assumed that it would continue to do so as long as there were fundamental reasons behind the advance. Thus, he was looking to invest in world stock markets that were already moving up and which also had a favorable interest rate environment, which he monitored by looking at a 40-week moving average of the bond and treasury bill (short rate) prices for each market. If a country's stock and bond markets did not have these two characteristics, he didn't even consider it as a possibility for his investments.
As with our earlier interest rate model, any time a country's stock index fell below its 40-week moving average, it was eliminated from his consideration. Anytime the bond and bill (short rate) prices for a country both fell below their 40-week moving average, he also eliminated the market from consideration as an investment. Both the market trend and interest rate trends had to be favorable to consider something a possible investment. This highly secretive manager combined these basic rules in the following model which he then used to achieve his exceptional returns.
First, he kept a 6-month relative strength table of world stock market indices that compared as many global markets as possible. He also produced a 6-month relative strength table of world interest rate trends, too. If some country's stock market was trading above its 40-week moving average then its trend was considered bullish, and bearish otherwise. This trending signal helped insure that prices were moving in the right direction. He only looked at rising markets to construct his table.
As to this world interest rate table, he created a 6-month world relative strength table for all 10-year bond markets and all 90-day short rate prices, and then averaged the two indices together for each country to come up with one final composite number. If 10-year bond prices were going up for a country (if they were greater than their 40-week moving average) it was considered bullish because it meant interest rates were falling. If short term interest rates were falling (if they were less than their 40-week moving average) it was considered bullish as well.
By looking at this table that evaluated as many world markets as possible, this European manager could compare all possible markets at one glance to see who was doing better or worse than everyone else, and then position himself in several of the top markets. By always investing in the top tier of favorable stock markets, he was hedging his risks by practicing international diversification. By investing internationally, this also gave him the chance to outperform everyone else who was just limited to investing in their home nation.
You can immediately realize that the idea of international diversification would allow him to find some country in the world where the stock market was moving up when others might be declining. This methodology capitalizes on your ability to put your money in widely different markets. As the story of my Nicaraguan college classmate illustrated, this ability to move your assets to other countries is sometimes essential to preserving your wealth rather than just increase it.
Remember that this money manager was not only looking for a positive momentum trend in each foreign stock market, but was looking for confirmation of a favorable monetary environment in that country by referencing the interest rate trends – his "fundamentals." Thus this method taps into my professed preference for combining technical and fundamental information together. Once he had the two relative strength indices, he then combined the stock market and interest rate relative strength index into a single index for each country, ranked them all in order from highest to lowest, and only considered investments in markets at the top of the list. Those were the markets already doing better than everyone else in terms of price movements and interest rate fundamentals.
With his massive relative strength table finished, now came the time for asset allocation. This manager simply took the top five markets from this list and put 20% of his money in each of those markets. If there were only four countries on the list, 25% of his investment funds would be allocated to each market equally. If there were only three countries on the list, 25% would go into each of the three markets, and 25% into T-bills or money markets to collect interest. If there were only two countries on the list, 25% would go into each of those two markets, and 50% would go into T-bills or money market funds. If there was only one country on the list, it would get 25% of his funds, and 75% would be put into T-bills or money markets.
If there were no countries with an advancing stock market and favorable interest rate environment, this ultra-successful money manager would simply park the funds in T-bills to collect interest until one or more advancing markets showed up. He put his money in cash, and this allowed him to sidestep large drawdowns during bear markets, which were usually accompanied by the unfavorable interest rate trends that his model had aptly captured. He never tried to get a quick gain in a market, but simply said that if the conditions were not right or the opportunities were not promising, he simply wouldn't invest in a country's stock market. Whatever the market would return him, after allocating his money to the strongest investments, that's what he would earn.
Every six months, on January 1 and July 1, he would then rebalance his portfolio to include the new top-ranking countries from his table. If he found that a country had dropped off from his combo relative strength table list, he would simply re-allocate those funds to another country that was now in the top tier rankings. Which country? To one that had the highest rank of any he wasn't already invested in.
These were his basic investing rules, and with the computational power of modern computers that is now available, there are lots of ways someone could try to improve on these results after doing some intensive research. He basically followed this simple plan with persistence and in time he achieved an extraordinary rate of return that harkens of Warren Buffett. The method was opportunistic in that it identified the best opportunities in the world and pursued them to the exclusion of all others, banking on the persistence of momentum when there was a fundamental support for the bullish move. He also diversified himself through asset allocation so that he was always protecting himself by hedging his bets.
Most momentum investors are usually perplexed as to when they should exit a market, but the periodic re-evaluation and then rebalancing of his portfolio made sure this happened automatically. Study after study shows that rebalancing a portfolio usually increases returns and reduces risk, but it requires discipline to do this. Rebalancing is equivalent to taking some profit off the table when a market has moved much higher, and re-allocating those funds to assets not performing as well. It forces you to take profits on a portion of your position.
In the commodity fund management arena, many funds are also designed to do automatic rebalancing, too. Many fund managers liquidate positions to harvest some profits when market volatility increases, and this procedure tends to reap far more gains than simply holding long term positions until their trends turn. The fact that you secure some degree of definite profits—by cashing out a portion of a strong position after extreme price moves send the volatility skyrocketing—ends up making you more money than if you are simply a pure trend following investor. Even William O'Neil who studied the largest market winners of all time, and famous stock trader Dan Zanger, both said that you should consider selling 20-30% of any new position when a stock moved up 15-20% from a breakout point because you never knew if the trend would falter and turn down again. Thus, the regular rebalancing of your portfolio from such enforced selling becomes an essential element of incredible outperformance and long-term investment success.
While the 6-month rebalancing period for this methodology might not be optimal, only testing can determine what rebalancing period would perform best. A 4-month or 3-month rebalancing period might be even better, but you'd have to perform extensive computer simulations to find out. The longer the holding period without rebalancing, the more you are exposed to risks that rebalancing normally helps to eliminate. Then again, the longer you hold a position, the less likely you will be prematurely thrown out of a truly advancing market because of temporary volatility. In any case, this manager also had a number of other strategies that also helped him cut potential losses, boost his performance, and achieve consistent results with very low risks.
There are lots of different ways to possibly improve upon this basic technique, and now that you know the general methodology, you might end up using some form of this strategy in the management of your own funds. For instance, S&P analyst Sam Stovall came up with his own version of this basic relative strength methodology which you can find in The Seven Rules of Wall Street. He would invest in the top ten industries that exhibited the strongest trailing 12-month price performances. He would rebalance his holdings at the end of every month, removing those which fell out of the top ten, and then buy the new candidates that came into the top tier. Over the last twenty years you would be swapping three industries per month on average, which is a lot of turnover but quite doable. There are lots of things researchers can test that might improve upon the basic method, and many principles revealed in this example about how to achieve both consistent and magnificent multi-year returns by internationally investing in world stock markets.
First, you want to follow a large number of potential investment vehicles, which in this example were the international stock markets. Today you might also add many more country, industry sector, commodity and currency ETFs as well as various no load mutual funds to your list of investment candidates. Having a larger list of investment options increases your chances of finding bull markets (or bear markets) to invest in, and the more markets you consider helps with the task of minimizing risks and diversifying your positions. Next, you want to produce a mega-list of all these candidates ordered by their relative strength and fundamentals.
It is easy to rank markets in order of their relative strength to determine the runaway markets moving the fastest at any point in time. Thus it is very easy to determine who is currently strongest in terms of current price movements. You can go to a website such as ETFscreen.com and do this immediately. The problem lies in figuring out which relative strength leaders have any fundamental power behind them because it is always fundamental "fuel" of some type that helps to insure a trend's strength and reliability for continual advancement.
In stocks, traders often try to get at this idea of fundamental fuel by determining if the volume is increasing in the direction of the trend, or if company insiders are buying shares. Some Wall Street houses go so far as to build complicated models for each stock, market segment or sector to estimate their bullish potential. Others screen stocks for various criteria to see if there are various fundamentals behind a breakout, such as quarterly sales accelerating at a pace of 40% or more, a return on equity of 17% or more, annual earnings up 18-20% or more, and continual quarter-over-quarter sequential expansions of company earnings and revenues. These are all examples of screening criteria that look for potentially explosive stock situations.
Rather than just getting into a stock, market index, ETF or other asset because the price is going up, you must remember this rule that there must always be some type of fundamental fuel, or fundamental causation, behind the market advance for you to safely get into that investment vehicle. Otherwise, you open yourself up to the potential of losing all your money by investing in some type of empty bubble. The Dubai real estate property bubble, the internet stock bubble, and various short lived collectible trends are a few examples that come to mind of upward price moves that had little fundamental strength behind them.
Our European manager looked for his fundamental support by referencing interest rate trends in every country he considered, and this determined the safest and most profitable periods for investing in those countries. He always wanted to be in stock markets when yields were falling for as we have seen, lower interest rates typically power strong stock market advances. In any case, whatever you choose to rely upon as your fundamental reason to invest, you must make sure it truly indicates that there is substantial, growing buying power behind an advance.
In individual stock trading, we already know that earnings increases and increasing trading volume are two types of reliable indicators which suggest some lasting power behind advancing stock prices. However, another indicator for trusting superior relative strength is that there are also other leading stocks in the same industry group demonstrating similar strong performance as well, which then suggests that the advance is an industry issue. A stock's price momentum is usually driven by the performance of its industry or sector rather than by the particulars of the stock, so when multiple stocks in a sector also outperform, this suggests that the trend is more reliable. However, this does not identify the actual fundamental fuel behind the advance. The big principle to understand is that you always need to insure there are valuations or fundamentals behind leading price movements and surging relative strength when using this particular momentum investment technique.
If you can restrict your investments in only the top performing (high relative strength) markets that have growing fundamental support, this is wisely concentrating your money where the top opportunities lie. Many of those investments will often turn into runaway markets that are likely to keep progressing into the far future. If you use asset allocation and money management rules on top of this to further diversify your risks, and periodically rebalance your portfolio to keep the monies concentrated in the best performers (and away from losers), you have the basics of an outperforming investing technique. These are the basic ideas behind this 19% per year system.
Quite a few researchers, including Ned Davis Research and AQR Capital, have found that simply partitioning stocks into large quintile, quartile or decile groupings based on relative strength rankings consistently differentiated the best performing from the worst performing stocks of the year. In other words, relative strength rankings definitely differentiate the best from worst stocks! This partitioning of stocks into a sliding scale of high to low relative strength rankings has become a staple of the investment community, and the idea has been incorporated in the famous Value Line rankings, IBD (Investor's Business Daily) rankings, and VectorVest rankings, among others. When you use ten deciles for ranking purposes, the higher relative strength groupings have always performed better than the lower in consecutive series; the top decile performs better than the second best, which performs better than the third best and so on. That's what you want to see if there is truly some fundamental relationship behind some particular investment technique.
Many research studies have shown that buying the top tier of stocks with the strongest relative strength rankings, and then selling those stocks when their rankings fell far enough, would greatly outperform the market. There are studies showing that portfolios that give their greatest exposure to high momentum stocks significantly outperform those with the lowest levels. When momentum (relative strength) is combined with stock valuation, the results are particularly beneficial because the two strategies are negatively correlated. When value stocks, for instance, have been long term losers but then move into high relative strength territory, they usually go on to outperform in spades. We will later see that this was one of the factors to the Walter Schloss value investing system.
Some relative strength research going all the way back to the 1920's (Mebane Faber) has shown that buying the top performing stocks can outperform the buy and hold benchmark in 70% of all years, and simple adjustments to the basic idea can improve drawdowns and volatility dramatically. Other research (Tom Hancock) has shown that a momentum stock selection strategy outperformed a broader market average by nearly 4% per year from 1927 to 2009, which is an incredible difference since it is both significantly large and consistent. James O'Shaughnessy found that using relative strength as a criteria for stock portfolios added an extra return of 4% per year as well. Another study using rolling 10-year time horizons, starting in 1940, showed that relative strength investing outperformed buy and hold portfolios in 100% of the time periods. From yet other studies we also know that these relative strength outperformance results hold when applied to various other asset classes, sectors, and international stock markets, but rarely for short time horizons. Strong relative strength performance can continue over weeks or even months due to inertia, so the most common profitable strategy has been to hold assets ranked highest by their relative strength and hold them until their ranking falls to some pre-determined level.
Another big lesson you should derive from this, besides the idea that relative strength rankings identify which markets are probably the best movers of the year that will possibly continue to outperform (so that relative performance often leads to absolute performance), is the idea of international asset diversification once again. If your worldview is consumed solely by U.S. equities, you dramatically cut your potential for superior returns. This technique and the experience of history both strongly suggest that you should always broaden your investment horizons to include international assets. "It's hard to set up different brokerage accounts to do international investing" is no longer an excuse to international diversification because the availability of ETF funds for all sorts of markets, asset classes and sectors now allows you to tap into foreign markets with ease.
Remember that relative strength, or momentum investing, is not a contrarian or value investment strategy that identifies an undervalued asset, takes a position and then sometimes waits years for it to go up in value. Relative strength ranking systems lock onto the correct side of the major leadership trends that are already moving. They are momentum-based strategies that are always invested in the best movers. What they are usually missing is the extra requirement that those asset movements are strongly supported by fundamentals, and yet even without that condition the various studies consistently show that this methodology still works wonderfully. Our European money manager's extra requirement for strong supporting interest rate fundamentals separates his methodology from a simplistic relative strength strategy of always investing in the market leaders until they fall out of the top leadership tier, and with these extra precautions this strategy is still an outperformer. You should therefore always look for a fundamental reason behind an advance, if you have a means to do so, because it helps put the odds in your favor that the trend is safe, reliable and will continue.
In The Hedge Fund Edge, Boucher stated that he performed extensive research on this basic system to determine various ways to make it better, and I'm sure you can see there are many things you might want to test. Today you can monitor the relative strength of many markets using websites like ETFscreen.com that indicate who's performing best at any moment in time. It's only the interest rate information backing each stock market that is difficult to find and match with the relative strength numbers so that you can easily duplicate the technique. However, on individual stocks the proxy for interest rate relative strength might be earnings relative strength, and that information is available from sources such as IBD which also publishes industry relative strength figures.
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Yankees History
Rollie Zeider: The most confounding Yankee captain
Aaron Judge being named Yankee captain and got us looking at that all-time list, which includes one very strange member.
By Matt Ferenchick@MattF15 Dec 31, 2022, 1:00pm EST
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Back on December 21st, during the press conference officially announcing Aaron Judge's return to the Yankees, he was officially named the team's captain. It was expected once the news broke that he was set to re-sign with the Yankees, but the confirmation was another notch on his belt in his place in franchise history. After all, especially in recent decades, being named Yankee captain has been a rare event. It's taken a combination of great player and beloved status to have received the honor.
The coverage of Judge being named captain featured plenty of looks at some of the other Yankee legends who had been bestowed with the status. That included tweets like this one from the YES Network, showing who Judge joined on the list.
Introducing the 16th Captain of the @Yankees, Aaron Judge. pic.twitter.com/bVUj3gGflZ
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) December 21, 2022
Everyone beginning with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig on the list should be known to every Yankee fan. While some of the ones before the Yankees started winning championships aren't quite as well-known, most of them were still fairly notable names for their era. However, there's one on the list that is confounding to me, even as someone who has read and written a lot about Yankees history.
Who on earth is Rollie Zeider?
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Born in Indiana in 1883, Zeider didn't appear in the major leagues until 1910 after several years in the minors. We don't have a complete history of his minor league stats, but of the ones available, they're not that impressive. In 1909, he was purchased by the Chicago White Sox and made his MLB debut for them the next April.
In his first year in Chicago, Zeider quickly established himself as one of the fastest players in the league, stealing 49 bases in his rookie year. He played all over, though mostly the infield across his first four years in the majors with the White Sox, never hitting much. Then in 1913 came a moment that would stick with him arguably for the rest of his career.
In a game against the Tigers, Zeider was spiked by either Ty Cobb or Sam Crawford (sources differ on who it was) during a play. Zeider had a bunion on his foot, and the spiking ended up causing a bout of blood poisoning. The incident gave Zeider the unfortunate nickname of "Bunions," which would come into further prominence after a trade to New York that happened a few weeks later.
Over in New York in 1913, the Yankees were in their first season under manger Frank Chance. While Chance had been a World Series winning manager with the Cubs, he was having a hard time with the Yankees. A large source of his frustration was coming from star Hal Chase.
Chase was often the target of game-throwing accusations over the course of his career, and was a bit of a handful to deal with, even if he had been completely innocent of game fixing. He would often stand behind Chance, who was deaf in one ear, and mock his manager's instructions. Eventually, after a 12-2 loss to the A's where Chase was alleged to not have given it his all, Chance and the Yankees decided they'd had enough. They next day, they traded their former star to the White Sox in exchange for Rollie Zeider and Babe Borton.
It's unclear exactly how or why, but at some point after the deal, Zeider was named captain of the Yankees, actually replacing Chance, who had appeared as a player-manager a couple times during the year. Whatever the reason was, Zeider got that distinction as the Yankees tried to salvage something out of the 1913 season.
That did not happen. The Yankees ended up with a 57-94 record for the year, avoiding last place in the American League by just one game. Zeider hit .233/.341/.245, which was worth a well-below-average 72 OPS+. With Borton struggling even worse, sportswriter Mark Roth balked about the previous trade, remaking that the Yankees had traded Chase for "a bunion and an onion." Making matters worse, Chase experienced a resurgence in Chicago.
Putting the cherry on top of everything, after the year Zeider jumped to the newly-founded Federal League, joining the league's Chicago Chi-Feds. When that league eventually went belly up, the Chicago Cubs purchased him.
Go back and look at that list of captains again, and know that alongside Gehrig, and Thurman Munson, and Derek Jeter is a guy nicknamed "Bunions."
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/z/zeidero01.shtml
"Legendary Locals of Auburn" by Chad Gramling
https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1913.shtml
"Hal Chase: The Defiant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball's Biggest Crook" by Martin Donell Kohout
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Voting on the Budget Deficit
27 Pages Posted: 4 Jul 2004 Last revised: 18 Jul 2010
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Guido Tabellini
Bocconi University - Department of Economics; Bocconi University - IGIER - Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research; Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research (CESifo)
Alberto F. Alesina
Harvard University - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Date Written: November 1988
This paper analyzes a model in which different rational individuals vote over the composition and time profile of public spending. Potential disagreement between current and future majorities generates instability in the social choice function that aggregates individual preferences. In equilibrium a majority of the voters may favor a budget deficit. The size of the deficit under majority rule tends to be larger the greater is the polarization between current and potential future majorities. The paper also shows that the ex-ante efficient equilibrium of this model involves a balanced budget. A balanced budget amendment, however, is not durable under majority rule.
Tabellini, Guido and Alesina, Alberto F., Voting on the Budget Deficit (November 1988). NBER Working Paper No. w2759. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=447203
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Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus er et bibelhåndskrift fra det 5. århundrede. Det har navn efter det genbrugsmateriale, det er skrevet på, langt
snarere end byen Alexandria i Egypten, der har lagt navn til Codex Alexandrinus.

Skriftet er på græsk og indeholder næsten hele Det Nye Testamente og størsteparten af Det Gamle Testamente. Det består af 209 blade; 64 i Det Gamle Testamente og 145 i Det Nye Testamente. Det er en palimpsest (dvs. på genbrugsmateriale).

Manuskriptet er et fragment.

Håndskriftet er i Bibliothèque nationale de France (grec 9).

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Eksterne link og kildehenvisninger

 Hatch, William Henry, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1939.
 Bruce M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1981.
 K. Tischendorf, Codex Ephraemi Syri rescriptus, sive Fragmenta Novi Testamenti, Lipsiae 1843
 K. Tischendorf, Codex Ephraemi Syri rescriptus, sive Fragmenta Veteris Testamenti, Lipsiae 1845

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Spies of the Sea – Submarines
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While most boats like to stay afloat, submarines like to stay hidden under the water. Submarines are the boats that can stay underwater and also float on the water. Since they stay more under the water their design is very different from the normal ships.
Of course, the first requirement is that it has to be airtight so that when it is underwater the water must not enter it and make a tiny swimming pool inside. Now the pressure of the sea water is very strong specially if you want to stay under the sea. So the hull of a submarine is made extremely strong otherwise the water will crush it. What is a hull? It is the main body of a ship or other vessel, including the bottom, sides, and deck excluding the masts, superstructure, rigging and engines. Submarines also use unique engines that do not require air to work as there is less air under water.
You must be wondering how does a submarine go under the water from a floating state. To do that it has sealed compartments that open up and fill with water. With so much water, the ship becomes heavy and sinks. In order to come up the submarine has to release the water in these compartments, so the boat is lighter again and floats back up!
How does he submarine see what is going on the top of the water. They use a unique device called the periscope that can be raised out of the submarine so that the submarine crew can see what is happening outside. Sonar is also used. It is a sound system that hears what is underwater by sending out sound waves. When the sound waves hit an object, they are reflected back with a sound picture of that object.
Well, now you know a lot about submarines, but can you guess why are they even required?
They were initially used by scientists to explore the underwater. The amazing marine life that would otherwise have stayed hidden in the sea. Later, the military realized that the submarines can be used as the spies of the sea. In times of war, they can stay hidden and launch a surprise attack. Smaller submarines that are also called submersibles are used to find sunken ships and treasures. In fact, the famous cruise ship Titanic was discovered by a submersible.
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Do you know what is a raised deck of a submarine?
When the submarine travels above the water, the officers can stand on it conning tower, it is called raised deck of the submarine.
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Hi Stacey, you need to check if there is another alarm in the room, maybe a CO alarm hidden in a drawer. Without the battery your alarm is unlikely to beep.
Let me know how you get on, please.
reset the alarm!! The same worked on mine!!!
my smoke detector ST-620 bleeps after five minutes. Any solution to stop it.
Check that your smoke alarm is definitely the source of chirping; make sure the noise isn't coming from another alarm (smoke/carbon monoxide/burglar/gas alarm) by process of elimination.
Check out http://fireangel.co.uk/support/smoke-alarms/st-620/ down load the user manual and as a last resort contact the manufacturer.
Hi. I have this alarm too an it's been beeping but now that I've taken it out, it has stopped. The alarm has been fitted for 5 years so far. Help?
You need a lot more information, manufacturer, type, which led,s are operating, what is certain the battery is flat or not working?
My alarm has been beeping. I have replaced the battery however it still continues to beep. What is your recommendation?
Do you know the model or can you send a photo, please, and I will try to help.
My SO-61 is beeping the low battery alarm and it's driving me nuts. My ceilings are too high for me to safely remove it alone. Is there any way to silence it while I wait for my landlord to sort it?
Hi, I am afraid, the only way to stop the low battery warning is to replace the batteries. For this the alarm's head needs to be twisted off the base to get to the battery.
Please make sure there is no other alarm in the vicinity. It would be unusual for the alarm to beep every 5 minutes. It is only beeping every 40 seconds when eg the battery is low, so there is probably a different alarm with low battery nearby. Maybe a carbon monoxide alarm.
Hi I have a fireangel ST-620 Thermoptek smoke alarm. It keeps beeping 3 times repeatedly until I silence it, every 5 or 10 minutes I think.
In the past it has beeped once every 40 seconds.
I've cleaned it as suggested but that hasn't worked. It's driving me insane!
The manufacturer's offices are closed.
Please does anyone else have any other solution other than for me to just sit next to it pressing the silence button every time?!
Hi, the battery is not working any longer. If the alarm is less than ten years old you can contact the manufacturer for a free replacement, as the alarms have a ten year warranty. If it is older you need to replace the smoke alarm unfortunately yourself. As the ST-620 production was stopped a few years ago you need to upgrade to the ST620 replacement alarm, which fits the same base.
My ST-750 alarm has been going off twice through night everynight for a week, its the short blast repeated signal thats going off. The bstch no is 14147-17442H and should last until september 2028. Is this a fault with the alarm? The alarm up the top of the stairs is fine.
Have you carried out the maintenance guidance in the user manual that came with the detector and if that was not sucessful return to Sprue Safety Products Ltd under the warranty.
Check out FireAngel ST-750 Manual.


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The vector of anti-GPC3 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) is constructed for the engineering of T cells to target human GPC3. The T cells are genetically modified through transduction with a lentiviral vector expressing scFv of anti-GPC3 antibody linked to a CD4 transmembrane domain and FcεRIγ signaling domains. And the vector product was designed for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).


The Care Quality Commission ('CQC') is an independent regulator of health and adult social care in England who monitors and inspects healthcare providers, such as GP Practices, Hospitals and Care Homes.
Currently there are over 7,500 GP practices looking after roughly 58 million registered patients through the UK.
The CQC conducted an inspection of 7,365 of these practices between 2014 and 2017. Each practice received two inspections; one at the beginning and one towards the end of this period.
Using their 'five key question' system the CQC rated these GP practices based on whether they were: safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs and well-led.
The GP practices were given feedback following the first visit with a list of improvements to implement.
The figures for GP Surgeries within the South East was much in keeping with the national pattern. London had the worst results with 17% of practices being rate as inadequate or requiring improvement. This contrasts with the North-East, the best performing region, where 98% of practices were rated good or outstanding.
Problems found by the review included: managing and dispensing medicines and vaccines, managing serious incidents, and having appropriate equipment and medicines available for emergency use.
Startlingly, one in seven GP practices, treating roughly 7 million patients, were found to be failing on safety, even after CQC inspectors told them to improve.
"These figures are worrying, with 644 GP practices in England not providing patients with an adequate level of care and over 1,000 presenting with serious safety concerns. Competent GP practices are important to ensure that everyone has access to a good level of primary care. Given the aging population, and the increasing number of people living with chronic conditions such as diabetes and dementia, GP practices are going to be subject to even further pressures in the future. We can only hope that the CQC's report will enable GP's to revise their practises and deal with the growing needs of their patients".


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DEER ISLE — Sunday was a great day to have a picnic along the shore of Eggemoggin Reach even without an excuse. The celebration for the launching of Stonington lobsterman Matt Shepard's new lobster boat Alexsa Rose made the party even better.
Shepard comes from a fishing family and has been lobstering since he was a tyke on a succession of ever larger boats. For the last several years, he fished on a 35-footer. Alexsa Rose, named for his daughter, is big step up.
The solid fiberglass hull and cored fiberglass top were built by the Kief brothers' Morgan Bay Boat Co. in Frankfort and it was just the third boat out of the mold for the new 43-foot model.
Audreyauna Shepard christens her husband's new boat under the watchful eye of the skipper's father, Mike Shepard.
In January, the hull was delivered to Eaton's Boat Shop in Deer Isle, where owner Jeff Eaton and his crew were lined up to finish off the boat.
The new boat is an enlarged version of Morgan Bay's fast, seaworthy Northern Bay 38 and has an overall length of 43 feet and an extreme beam of 15 feet.
Shepard, who fishes year-round with two sternmen, said he chose the Morgan Bay 43 because he prefers the rounded shape of a "built-down" hull to the flatter bottom of the "skeg-built" boat developed Downeast and popular in the lobster fishery right now.
"They ride easier," Shepard said.
He chose Jeff Eaton's shop to finish the boat for a couple of reasons.
"He pumps out some good looking boats," Shepard said Sunday as friends and family gathered at the town landing at the foot of the Sedgwick-Deer Isle Bridge for a celebratory picnic and introduction to Alexsa Rose. And those boats fit their owners.
Shepard had another reason for choosing Eaton to finish his boat besides his craftsmanship and attention to detail.
"I wanted to keep everything as local as possible," Shepard said, citing two reasons — the economic benefit to the Deer Isle boatbuilding community and proximity to his home.
Eaton's is located near Shepard's home, so it was easy to visit to the boat shop on the way home from hauling, or anytime, rather than having to spend hours on the road for every time he wanted to see how the project was progressing.
That proximity had another benefit.
"Every time I went into the boatshop I kissed the bow of the boat for good luck," Suzy Shepard, Matt's mother and also the wife of a fisherman, said Sunday afternoon.
Other credits, both said, should go to Thompson's Welding in Stonington and electrician Thomas McGuire, who has wired every boat to come out of Eaton's shop.
It took Eaton just under six months to turn the bare hull into a finished boat. Alexsa Rose was trucked from Deer Isle to Glendon Stanley's shop for awlgripping at the end of June but otherwise pretty much ready to go.
Alexsa Rose is powered by a 750-horsepower John Deere diesel that turns a 34-inch-by-34-inch propeller through a 2:1 ZF reverse reduction gear.
Based on readings from her two Furuno GPS units, the boat has a top speed of 28.6 knots and a cruising speed of 22 knots with the engine turning 1,850 RPMs. Electrically powered Zipwake trim tabs help keep the boat on her lines at speed.
Fuel consumption looks good, too. Sailing without much gear aboard, the boat consumes 24 gallons of fuel per hour at cruising speed, "and if you throttle back to 1,600 RPMs, it's 18.5 knots for 17 gallons," Shepard said.
Like most new boats, Alexsa Rose carries a full suite of electronics — Furuno radar, GPS chartplotter and VHF radio, Hondex color depth machines — with each piece of gear installed in duplicate.
Never forgetting purpose, the boat has a 14-inch Hydroslave hydraulic pot hauler at the helm and storage for 20 crates of lobsters beneath the platform.


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From the board chair
What an exciting time for Gettysburg College!
As you know, in late January, our Board of Trustees announced Robert W. Iuliano as the next president of our great College. Given the success he has achieved as a senior vice president at Harvard University and the stellar recommendations he has garnered, I am enthused to welcome President-elect Iuliano and his wife, Susan, to our Gettysburg College community, beginning this July.
I strongly believe that President-elect Iuliano's character, decision-making, and collaborative spirit will position Gettysburg for excellence in the years ahead and amplify the great work and legacy of President Janet Morgan Riggs '77.
Again, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to the members of our Presidential Search Committee, led by Board Vice Chair Charlie Scott '77, P'09, P'12, for their diligence and commitment throughout the nine-month process. In addition, I want to thank all of you who offered valuable insights for our Committee's discussions and consideration. It was your perspectives and support that made our presidential search a resounding success.
As we move forward, I have been thinking about where we are as an institution and where we want to go in the future. Certainly, we have much to be proud of and much to celebrate.
Our College's reputation is strong. We are consistently recognized among the best liberal arts colleges in the nation for our academic quality and the value of our educational experience.
Families believe in a Gettysburg education. We continue to reach or surpass our enrollment goals each year—and that's even in today's ultra-competitive higher education environment.
Lastly, our graduates are finding tremendous success out in the world. In fact, one year after graduation, 98 percent of our grads are either employed or attending graduate school—and over the last few years, three out of four graduates have reported that the Gettysburg Network helped them in some way. To me, this speaks to the exceptional learning experience we provide for our students, and the eagerness of our alumni, parents, and friends to lend a helping hand to their fellow Gettysburgians.
At Gettysburg College, we are advancing our mission and making a difference—a testament to our collective efforts and the innovative strategies we've implemented over the last decade. Now the big question is: How do we build upon this success and take Gettysburg to the next level?
I pose this important question because I believe our College, guided by the vision and leadership of President-elect Iuliano, is poised to realize our potential, to inspire a new generation of students, and to make an even greater impact on our world.
There is nothing our community cannot accomplish, but it is going to take all of us—together. May we keep this great momentum going in the year ahead and ambitiously pursue the "unfinished work" still before us.
With great pride,
David Brennan '75, P'00
Chair of the Board of Trustees
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In the cradle of aviation at the beginning of the Great War, France only had a few dozen military aircraft about which the general staff had limited knowledge. At the time of the Armistice of November 11, 1918, the French Air Force had become one of the most powerful in the world, bringing together 10,000 aircraft in nearly 300 squadrons. In four years, the French aviation industry had been able to produce 50,000, which had in turn been used to equip many allies, including Great Britain, Russia and especially the United States. This book, the first of its kind in French, provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the French Air Force from 1914 to 1918 through a historical narrative peppered with anecdotes and illustrated with many previously unpublished photos. Profiles of the most iconic aircraft constructed by France during the Great War are included and complemented by a full range of data on each piece of equipment.


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Joe Benigno returns to the WFAN midday show
WFAN radio host Joe Benigno on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Credit: Entercom
By Neil Best neil.best@newsday.com @sportswatch Updated September 10, 2018 7:28 PM
Joe Benigno returned to WFAN on Monday to co-host the midday show with Evan Roberts, nearly two months after he was placed on leave in the wake of a civil lawsuit that accuses him of sexually harassing a former CBS Radio co-worker.
"The outpouring of support has been off the charts," Benigno said in the show's opening. "Obviously this hasn't been an easy time for me at all. I can't comment on any of this, the lawsuit or anything like that. I just want to thank everybody. My wife, who has been behind me the whole time."
Benigno has been off the air since late July.
He also thanked Entercom, his agent Mark Lepselter, WFAN vice president of programming Mark Chernoff and callers who reached out to him.
"I've learned a lot about myself," Benigno said. "You do a lot of self searching. I played a lot of golf, I have to admit that, which helped me quite a bit.
"One of the things l learned the most is how lucky I am to be a part of this station, this show."
Former CBS Radio sales executive Lauren Lockwood, who was fired in July 2017, accused CBS Radio in a lawsuit filed in mid-July 2018 of fostering an environment in which employees drank alcohol while working and said Benigno spoke with her regularly about inappropriate sexual topics.
"As much as Joe loves golf, it's been a tough better part of two months," said Lepselter, Benigno's agent, who has represented him through the process along with attorney Arthur Aidala. "It's a lot of soul-searching.
"I said from Day One that we would figure this out, that if there wasn't any wrongdoing my goal was to help afford Joe the opportunity to come back and restore his good name. That's all I've been focused on."
Lepselter added, "It's been a tough time for him, his wife, his kids, and I think Joe is a very good guy who comes from a different time, a different generation . . . We play in a different world today, but I always felt that it would be best for all parties to wait until there was some clarity with regard to the facts."
The 39-page lawsuit, which seeks $5 million in damages, says Lockwood worked for CBS Radio from 2006 until July 2017 when she was fired following a physical altercation between her and other employees during an event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
Lockwood accuses Benigno, 64, of talking about his sexual experiences and fantasies, ranking female co-workers by their physical appearances and discussing his alleged sexual relationship with another co-worker.
A spokeswoman for Entercom, WFAN's parent company, said, "WFAN has determined that it is appropriate for Joe Benigno to return to the air. While we continue to vigorously defend ourselves in the appropriate legal forum, WFAN remains focused on providing great sports content for our listeners, advertisers and community."
"It's great to be back and talking sports," Benigno said. "The Sam Darnold era starts tonight. I guess I couldn't be back on a better day."
Lepselter dismissed the notion that Benigno's return might be a short-term, face-saving gesture. His contract runs through 2020, and he intends to complete it.
"Never been any other plan on our side," Lepselter said. "This is not some window-dressing, sign-a-one-day-contract-and-adios thing."
Lepselter declined to comment on any aspect of the lawsuit itself.
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Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
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