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Year 10 Day in the Life

Year 10 Day in the Life

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Daily Life of a Year 10 Student

The most frequently asked question about Christleton International Studio is what will the day be like for our students?

We have designed our day very carefully with our students in mind to ensure it is balanced and allow them time to lead their own learning experience and have lots of time for inquiry and curiosity. Our School Day integrates timetabled sessions and student directed timetabled sessions allowing for support, extension, maximum choice and pursuit and development of new skills and passions. Dedicated coaches, learning and professional experts support student progress across all elements of our school day.

In Year 10, students receive the following number of timetabled hours per week in each subject which allows plenty of time to ensure all students achieve and excel. This is just one of the advantages of having a longer day.

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The school day includes:

TIMETABLED STUDY Including lectures, tutorials and expert led group sessions.

SELF-SCHEDULED SESSIONS Students sign up for subject sessions of their choice to support, stretch and challenge.

ENRICHMENT ELECTIVES Allowing for pursuit of personal interests, students choose three enrichment electives each term.

It is a busy school day but as we support our students to complete their work in school with the subject experts, peer mentors and coaches, we want to ensure our students have their evenings and weekends to explore other hobbies, spend time with friends and family and to relax and enjoy their free time.

You can read about a day in the life for a Year 10 student below and you can find out more by coming to meet our team.

We look forward to sharing what we do.

Kate Ryan

A day in the life

8.30am - 9am Team meeting - I join my team to plan my week using my laptop from our 1:1 programme and I register for my self-scheduled lessons. This week, I have chosen the Mac Suite, a Maths session for extra support and Science for extension experiments.

9am - 10am English Lecture - Our lecture is interactive with quizzes and partner work and it is recorded so I can watch it online for revision and independent work. In the morning, instead of a timetabled break, we have a drink and snack when we choose.

10am - 11am Science lab - I am working on a project with my partner in Singapore and we are conducting water experiments from our local areas and comparing results. I upload a video of my experiment and results and I'll wait for my partner to send their results overnight.

11am - 12pm History group - I am researching and planning my essay. I ask my classmates their thoughts and my teacher is on hand to guide me when needed.

12pm - 1pm Lunchtime - I enjoy a delicious lunch in our dining area and then relax with my friends.

1pm - 1.30pm Spanish Tutorial - In our classroom, we work in pairs practicing our spoken Spanish in preparation for our visit to Spain during half term.

1.30pm - 2.30pm Self-scheduled lesson in Mac Suite – I am working on an IT project for my work placement working with the Studio’s app developer and graphic designer.

2.30pm - 3pm Coaching session - Once a week, I spend time with my coach working on my Individual Action Plan to make sure I am achieving all of my targets and preparing myself for upcoming events.

3pm - 4.30pm Enrichment Electives - Each term I choose three electives: sport, creativity and community and skills. Today, I am playing basketball. Later in the week, I have Robotics and Model United Nations. There is so much to choose from and I can change them each term.

4.30pm Time for home.


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Patrick Barkey: Smoking and the Economy

For those who have gone through life shying away from anything involving numbers, the demonstration of the principle of compound interest is usually an eye-opening revelation.

It’s quite simply, actually. Money set aside today accrues interest, if it is wisely invested. But so does the interest on what you set aside yesterday. Over a longtime span, this snowballing of interest on interest can build up to a sizable nest egg.

That’s why financial advisors always tell you to start saving for retirement while you are younger, even if the amounts you set aside are fairly small. It is also why tax policies that make investment income from retirement savings tax exempt can have such a powerful impact on wealth, even if the income you draw from those plans later in life is fully taxed.

It’s a story about numbers, so it takes a few to explain it. If you are in a 25-percent tax bracket, and set $100 dollars of your after-tax wages aside each month, after 40 years you would have about $134,000 in savings to spend as you wished. But if you saved with pre-tax dollars, in a tax-exempt account, your nest egg would be almost double that size, more than $265,000. Even after paying taxes on the income you draw out, you’d be well ahead.

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But the Relevance of the story of compounding is not limited to financial planning. The same phenomenon helps explain why Indiana’s dubious status as a state where people smoke more than average exacts such a heavy toll on productivity and output in the state’s economy.

If that sounds like a stretch, consider the following. We know that smoking and premature retirement and death because of smoking-related illnesses are closely linked. Formally speaking, we might say that the survival rate for a smoker of any age — the probability that they will remain alive until next year — is lower than that of a non-smoker.

In fact, the voluminous research that has been conducted on smoking and health has given us some fairly accurate estimates of these rates, which must take into account other factors affecting health, like weight and exercise habits, which may also vary between those who smoke and those who do not. And the differences in these survival rates, while small, can have an enormous impact on the workforce and the population, through the process of compounding.

Let’s take the optimistic scenario first. If we could wave a magic wand and turn our state’s population into people who had never smoked, we’d all enjoy higher survival rates. As a result, there would be more of us in every age category next year at this time. Applying higher survival rates to that larger group yields yet a larger increase each successive year.

Compounding forward into the future, we can see that a small change in survivability accumulates to much more significant increase in population over time. Many of those who would be added would be in the prime of their working lives.

Now it is back to reality. Indiana is a heavier-than-average smoking state. We pay the price for that in the form of lower, not higher, survival rates. And the compounded impact of that unfortunate fact over the decades of time that have already elapsed is that we have lost many workers and consumers throughout the economy.

That’s not the only way in which smoking impacts the economy, of course. But as we discuss whether or not smokers take more breaks, get sick more often, or require more cleaning up after than non-smokers, we should remember that the largest impact of them all may be the one we don’t see. That is the folks who are no longer with us.

Patrick M. Barkey is director of economic and policy studies at Ball State University’s Miller College of Business.

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"Ohio Valley Goodwill Receives Funding for Housing Efforts!"

In January, Ohio Valley Goodwill celebrated the continued success of its programs and services for people in need of housing when it received a renewal award of $172,000 from HUD for its longest running Permanent Housing for Persons with Disabilities grant. The grant makes up a small portion of the more than $1.5 million in federal funding Goodwill has received from agencies including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the US Department of Labor (DOL). In addition to the HUD renewal grant, the agency received word that its newest HUD housing project was funded with a two-year, $703,923 grant, with an expected start-up date of February 1, 2011. The permanent housing project is a housing and rehabilitation program that will serve persons with documented disabilities and connect them with rehabilitation services offered by Goodwill and by other local, state or federal funding sources. Ohio Valley Goodwill has secured $900,000 in Veterans Administration and Department of Labor funding for programs that help to serve homeless veterans. The agency operates two Transitional Housing Leasing Pool (THLP) programs, one of which is veteran specific. In addition, the agency runs a Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) program for veterans in Northern Kentucky, and operates an emergency housing program. “We are proud of the programs and services that we have been offering since the early 1990s that help to serve veterans, as well as of the successes that we have had in the area of housing and job placements,” said Grants Director Charlie Blythe. For more information about Ohio Valley Goodwill’s housing and veteran assistance programs, please contact Charlie Blythe at cblythe@cincigoodwill.org or Mick Fusco at mfusco@cincigoodwill.org.


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STC and Cisco to Further Expand Long-term Strategic Collaboration

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RIYADH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - 20 October 2014  The Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Cisco have announced that they have agreed to strategically collaborate on several high level projects to build joint solutions for the Saudi Arabian market. As part of the agreement, STC and Cisco plan to define opportunities for new solutions that will create increased customer benefits as we enter into the era of the Internet of Everything (IoE); create a joint go-to-market strategy to address the ICT market in Saudi Arabia and build 3 new data centers which will represent the largest Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) deployment in the Middle East to date.

Key technology market transitions including video, cloud, mobility and security, all fuelled by the Internet of Everything (IoE), will impact all areas of business operations globally including those in Saudi Arabia. As businesses evolve and the speed of change rapidly increases, communication and information will be crucial. Ciscos goal is to work with strategic partners, like STC, to solve customers most important business challenges by delivering intelligent networks and technology/business architectures built on integrated products, services, and software platforms.

The agreement will represent a major milestone in both companies already long-standing relationship because as a leader in providing integrated communications services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, STC is continuously striving to keep abreast of technology developments in telecommunications to meet the needs of its customers, especially in light of a changing world in terms of the role of telecommunications and its uses.

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  • Cisco defines IoE as bringing together people, process, data, and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever beforeturning information into actions that create new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunity for businesses, individuals, and countries. Cisco will work closely will STC to define opportunities for developing innovative technology solutions for customers in key vertical sectors in the Kingdom including Energy, Oil & Gas and Smart and Connected City deployments.
  • Cisco and STC are also planning to accelerate and streamline cloud adoption in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To that end, STC is already deploying Ciscos Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the first data center to offer full visibility and integrated management of both physical and virtual networked IT resources, and built around the needs of applications. The two companies will build three data centers at the district level in both Riyadh and Dammam in response to growing market needs making this STC deployment the largest Cisco ACI deployment to date.
  • Earlier this year, Cisco announced plans to build the worlds largest global Intercloud  a network of clouds  architected for the Internet of Everything thereby aligning with our Cloud vision. Cisco expects to invest over $1 billion globally to build its expanded cloud business over the next two years. STC fully supports Ciscos Intercloud vision and Ciscos Hybrid Cloud strategy and plans to work with Cisco as part of its partner ecosystem to deliver this vision in Saudi Arabia.
  • As part of this agreement, STC and Cisco will also sign a joint Marketing and Sales Agreement to create a go-to-market strategy to address the ICT market in Saudi Arabia. This strategic alliance is a key catalyst to help accelerate STCs transformation to becoming the leading information and communications technology (ICT) provider in the Kingdom. STC and Cisco plan to jointly invest, develop and market new innovative technology solutions focused on cloud services as well as establish a Center of Excellence and a training academy at STC.

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Eng. Abdulaziz A. Alsugair, Chairman and Managing Director, STC

“Cisco has been a longstanding strategic STC partner and we are delighted to be expanding our strong relationship. As a leading provider of ICT services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, STCs goal is to maintain its leadership position by continuously innovating to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. We are excited about the many mega projects that we will be undertaking with Cisco to ensure that we continue to deliver state-of-the-art network infrastructure to support the tremendous growth in fixed and mobile broadband bandwidth.”

Mike Weston, Vice President, Cisco Middle East

“It is an honor that STC has chosen to continue to work with Cisco in an era where the business value to be gained through the Internet of Everything is presenting a new level of opportunity for technology growth and innovation. Over the next ten years, the major opportunities will be for companies to evolve their organizations to thrive in the environment. The mega-projects that we will be jointly embarking upon demonstrate that STC is already at the forefront of delivering change in Saudi Arabia. Our joint goal is to continue to innovate and transform our technology solutions to meet the demands of our customers.”

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Support the struggling people of the POSCO project area

Police in Orissa Shunting local Communities Out - that's POSCO!
In a live update around 3.10 pm IST aired on 11th June 2011 by NEWSX (an English news television channel in India) the local superintendent of police shamelessly termed the peaceful protests against POSCO by people in Dhinkia, "immoral". Importantly, women and children braved the scorching sun to save their land. It is obvious that the government and others favouring POSCO are greedy cowards who will resort to worse methods to try to achieve their ends. "It is crucial for us to remember that the residents of Dhinkia are fighting to protect the commons", remarked Leo Saldanha, the co-founder of Bangalore based Environment Support Group (ESG). After visits and investigations at the proposed site of the POSCO plant, Saldanha, PUCL activist and lawyer V. Suresh and noted film maker K P Sasi shared Tales of Betrayal, Treachery and Subversion at a discussion titled POSCO Fiasco. This was organized in Bangalore on 19th June 2011 by the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and ESG.

In the interim, the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) is requesting everyone to express solidarity with the courageous people of Dhinkia. Here is its relevant appeal:

"On 10th and 11th June 2011, a thousand police besieged the Gram Panchayat of Dhinkia in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa to crush the resistance to the POSCO steel plant. On both days, for the entire daytime, thousands of people sat in the heat. Many people (including children) and even two policemen fainted. The Collector declared their protest "unlawful" and subsequently loudspeakers blared threats about use of tear gas, lathi charges, "those engaging in unlawful protests being dispersed", etc. continuously for four hours. Being unable to break the protest the police withdrew on both days. Meanwhile, demolition teams sneaked past the protesters from behind, trying to clear their betel vine sheds.

Dhinkia Gram Panchayat, where the crisis is occurring, contains around 2/3 of the land sought by the steel plant and the majority of those affected. Defeated for two days in a row, the police announced a suspension of operations until the 17th, ostensibly on grounds of a local festival. The people are rebuilding the destroyed sheds and maintaining a watch during this period.

It is worth remembering that this horrific attack comes at a time when two cases by the villagers are pending in the Orissa High Court, and when there is a criminal complaint against the District Collector for lying and fabricating the evidence that was the basis of the clearance to take the land. It also comes after three official committees found the land grab to be illegal and in violation of the Forest Rights Act. Further, international experts exposed that the project has no benefits for the local or national economy (while providing a minimum profit of Rs. 1,95,000 crores to POSCO). And, there is not even a valid memorandum of understanding between the government and the company, yet the attack is continuing.

In this situation it is vital that those of us who believe in democracy and justice in this country show our support for the just struggle of the people of the proposed POSCO project area. In particular, there is a need for people to go to the area to act as witnesses and supporters against the police operations. Therefore we particularly request that where possible, individuals and organizations consider:

a. Sending delegations to the area to visit and stay in the villages
b. Mobilize financial support for people to go
c. Publicize the issue and release statements of condemnation against the brutalities of the government".

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  1. "The Real Story Of The POSCO Project

    Today, Orissa police opened fire on peaceful protesters sitting on dharna for their lands and livelihoods. We join other democratic forces in condemning this atrocious brutality, in which at least 50 people have been injured, markets have been burned and many more are likely to be wounded or killed. We also wish to draw attention to the following facts:

    This is not just a “dispute over land acquisition for development.” The POSCO project is illegal and will not bring any benefits for the local population or the country’s economy. Rather, it is simply plunder of lives and resources:

    The POSCO project is illegal as it violates the Forest Rights Act of 2006. Under that law, no forest land can be given to anyone until 1) all the rights of the people in the area are recognised and 2) their consent is given to the project. This is the requirement of the law, acknowledged further by an Environment Ministry order of August 3, 2009. This has never been done in the area despite the people demanding it. The Central and State governments have no legal right to hand over this land to POSCO. In law, not just in public view, this is daylight robbery. Please see the attached timeline for more details. "


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Knowledge translation into policy is not automatic, it is political: Dr Binayak Sen

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"Translation of knowledge into policy is not automatic. It is a political process" said Dr Binayak Sen, a recipient of prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights in 2008. He spoke to Citizen News Service (CNS) at 22nd Cochrane Colloquium in Hyderabad, India, and remarked that "technical advancements in informatics and processing of information and the impulse towards democratization of knowledge structures have come together at this Colloquium. Coming together of these two processes will create an impulse for genuine democratization of medical knowledge. We are looking forward to the day when everybody will be able to access all the medical knowledge in the world. At least there should be no barrier for people who want to access knowledge from medical system."

Dr Binayak Sen is a noted paediatrician, senior health activist and Vice President of People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). He added: "We need to distinguish between state-based policy making and making information openly available. State-based policy making is once again the bureaucratization of decision making process. Genuine potential of this process of democratization will not be reached unless we are able to proceed beyond this bureaucratization to a process where knowledge becomes people-oriented, people-based, owned by the people and used by the people too."

Dr Sen paid his homage to another crusader for online information democracy: Aaron Swartz. "He committed suicide at 26 because he was hounded for his efforts for democratization of knowledge" said Dr Sen.

Dr Sen is seeing hope with Wikipaedia and Cochrane collaboration: "Most important learning for me at this Colloquium is the connection between gathering and information collection systems and processes of information dissemination. Wikipaedia and Cochrane Collaboration and use of social media at this Colloquium needs a particular mention. These are both important and exciting developments."

 Dr Sen added: "Malnutrition is an important established priority and important facet of our health scenario. Children’s malnutrition has come in discourses, but hunger has not got its due attention. 40% of our population is suffering from chronic hunger and suffering from the affects of chronic malnutrition. There is an award winning article that has just come in National Medical Journal of India, on association between tuberculosis and malnutrition. Lead author Anurag Bhargava and his colleagues did research on linkage of malnutrition and tuberculosis, and found that more than half of TB incidence in this country is due to effects of malnutrition. When we are not able to prioritise issues such as malnutrition in our policies, we need to ask in which way the knowledge flow is going?"

He also said that lot was left unsaid on roadblocks to knowledge translation. He said that a plenary speaker at this Colloquium, Dr Srinath Reddy, should have mentioned about the fate of a report he did as the chair of a high level expert group on universalization of healthcare. Planning Commission has been bundled up by the current Prime Minister, but previously the Commission had set up a high level expert group on universalization of healthcare, of which Dr Reddy was the chair. Montek Singh Ahluwalia was then vice chair of Planning Commission who said when presented with this report that he did not have the resources to implement those recommendations. "We should have had some reference to this issue in plenary which was talking about the effects of evidence  in decision making. This reference would have illuminated the importance of information and limitations of information too."

Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant
Citizen News Service (CNS)
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Jr. Titan Sports Camps offer specific skill-building fundamentals under the supervision of experienced and fun-loving coaches. Sports include: flag football, soccer, basketball, tennis, cheer, baseball and volleyball. These camps are the perfect complement to summer school in conjunction with our lunch ride program. Our campers end each day with fun at the pool. Don't forget to bring your swim suit and towel every day for swimming at the San Marino High School Pool. For ages 6 to 12 years old.

Registration for the Jr. Titan Sports Camps is accepted at the Recreation Office located at 1560 Pasqualito Dr. in San Marino.  We currently do not offer telephone or online registration, due to various Emergency Forms, Transportation Forms, and Liability Forms that are required prior to the program commencing.  Registration is accepted Monday – Thursday from 8am to 5pm at the Recreation Office only.  Upon registration, participants are placed on a roster and the roster is forwarded to the Camp Supervisor to ensure that adequate staffing levels are met.


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Angela Lansbury (aka Mrs Potts) sang ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 25 years on – and we are still crying

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By Tim Edwards

The 90-year-old actress voiced the character of Mrs Potts in the original 1991 movie. And her performance at the weekend took a generation of moviegoers back to their childhood.

Angela Lansbury drew whoops and cheers at an event to mark the 25th anniversary of classic Disney movie Beauty and the Beast when she sang the title song – accompanied on the piano by the composer Alan Menken.

Lansbury voiced the character of a Cockney housemaid who had been bewitched and turned into a teapot in the 1991 film. It has recently been remade as a live action film starring Emma Watson and will be released in 2017.

Lansbury even finished her performance at New York’s Lincoln Center at the weekend with a line from the movie: “Run along and get in the cupboard, Chip. Time you was in bed. Night love!”

No, we are NOT crying. It is just raining. Watch the video of Angela Lansbury's performance below.

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5 New Healthy Products We Love: Volume 14

By Stephanie Schoenster

This week we found ready-to-go, healthy snacks and brews for our busy lives. From completely raw cookies and bars to kombucha with a kick, we can’t wait to add these new, nutritious foods to our daily routine.

1. Pipcorn: Named one of Oprah’s favorite things, Pipcorn is all it’s popped up to be. Made from organic, non-GMO mini kernels, they are easier to digest than the traditional kind and less likely to get stuck in your teeth. Pipcorn comes in six fresh flavors with truffle being our favorite. (Available at stores nationwide or online; $20 for a 4-pack.)

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2. Elemental Superfood Seedbar: Are you wary of snack or protein bars because they can be packed with sugar? Look no further than Elemental Superfood Seedbars, which are low-sugar and contain raw, non-GMO ingredients for optimal nutrition. In addition, they are packed with fiber, protein, omega-3s and 6s. Buckwheat, almonds, flax, sunflower, and pumpkin seeds, Brazil nuts and coconut are sweetened with raw honey. Elemental comes in four mouthwatering flavors, but our favorites are the Peanut Butter & Chocolate and the Cranberry Almond Lucuma Superfood. (Available at stores nationwide or online; $29 for 12 bars.)

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3. Hungryroot: Veggie noodles have popped up on menus all over and are a great way to have a low-carb, high-fiber meal. When you don’t have time to make your own, Hungry Root is a great solution. These boxed veggie noodles come with tasty toppings and sauces delivered straight to your mailbox. Each can be prepared within minutes, making it a perfect solution for a fast meal at home, work or school. Out of its six yummy flavors, we especially loved the Carrot Noodles with Siracha Peanut and the Celery Noodles with Sweet Basil Gremolata. They also make a delicious vegan bean-based cookie dough that would fool even the most ardent bean hater. (Prices vary, view here.)

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4. Rawxies: These heart-shaped gluten-free and raw cookies are delicious and nutritious. Made with dates, coconut sugar, and oats, they come in six flavors, with the Lemon Poppyseed as our fave. (Available at stores nationwide or online; $24 for a box of 12)

5. Kombrewcha: You’ve probably tasted kombucha, the fermented tea chock full of probiotics, antioxidants, and vitamins. If you are a big ‘booch fan or a casual drinker, Kombrewcha (pictured, at top) is for you. Each bottle is under 65 calories, packed with probiotics and comes in four irresistible flavors including Hibiscus and Lemongrass. (Available at stores nationwide or online.)


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Stocks revisit August levels as government shutdown enters 9th day

The continuing government shutdown and the approaching debt limit deadline are taking their toll on U.S. stocks. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 are coming off their biggest one-day drops since August 27, and their lowest closes in a month. The Dow closed Tuesday at a 6-week low, with no visible progress on ending the ongoing DC deadlock.

Today brings another postponement of a government economic report, with the cancellation of the scheduled 10 a.m. ET release on August wholesale trade. However, we will get the minutes of latest FOMC meeting at 2 p.m. ET. The Energy Department will also be able to issue its weekly look at oil and gasoline inventories at 10:30 a.m. ET, and the Treasury will sell $21 billion in 10-year notes, with the results of that sale available shortly after 1 p.m. ET.

Non-government reports today include the Mortgage Bankers Association's regular Wednesday release on mortgage applications at 7 a.m . ET.

Retailer Family Dollar (FDO) is among the companies set to release quarterly earnings this morning, along with insurer Progressive (PGR) and industrial supplies maker Fastenal (FAST). Restaurant operator Ruby Tuesday (RT) will be on the short list of companies releasing earnings after today's closing bell.

Costco (COST) is a stock to watch today, reporting quarterly profit of $1.40 per share, six cents below estimates. September comparable store sales came in at a 3 percent increase, short of the 3.7 percent consensus estimate.

Alcoa (AA) reported quarterly profit of 11 cents per share, six cents above estimates, in its first quarterly report since being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Revenue was also above consensus, as auto parts revenue helped offset a decline in aluminum prices.

Yum Brands (YUM) earned 85 cents per share, excluding certain items, for its third quarter, missing estimates of 93 cents. Revenue also fell below analyst estimates, with the restaurant operator also warning that it will take longer than expected for sales in China to rebound.

Apple (AAPL) will hold an October 22 event to introduce a new version of the iPad, according to All Things Digital.

Men's Wearhouse (MW) is the target of a $2.3 billion takeover bid from rival clothing retailer Jos. A. Bank Clothiers (JOSB). The $48 per share cash offer is 36 percent above the Tuesday closing price for Men's Wearhouse shares. Jos. A Bank said Men's Wearhouse is currently reviewing its bid.

Wal-Mart (WMT) is ending its relationship with its India business partner, and putting plans for its own retail stores in that country on hold. Wal-Mart cites strict rules on local sourcing.

Starbucks (SBUX) is offering a free tall coffee to any customer who buys another person a beverage. It's part of a "come together" program that CEO Howard Schultz said is designed to send a message to the country's elected officials.

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) may reportedly cut back on lending to certain types of businesses, as it seeks to repair and protect its reputation. The Wall Street Journal said the bank has launched an internal review of its commercial lending clients.

H&R Block (HRB) is ending a planned sale of its banking assets to a unit of Republic Bancorp, because of delays in an approval decision from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The nation's largest tax preparer plans to discuss further details in a conference call this morning.


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We’re all data analysts now

"Big data" is more than a buzzword: it's a reality that's becoming increasingly prominent and important. In many ways, more data is a wonderful thing. We know more about everything than ever before, from medical conditions to consumer habits, climate change to entertainment options. But all this data is useless without reliable ways to analyze and understand it swiftly.

The traditional model for data analysis is to rely on experts to develop reports based on complex programming in large databases.

That model has rapidly become slow and cumbersome. While the expert is analyzing data and developing a report, the person who needs the information is finding that the results have become obsolete by the time they arrive on their desks. The pressing need to understand and act upon data quickly means everyone will have to become comfortable handling data. We all need to become data specialists -- no matter our current position or field of expertise.

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But the idea of confronting a world of dashboards, complex programming like SQL and Hadoop will fill most business people with dread. The answer is to embrace tools that make it easy to explore this new world of endless data without much more expertise than a basic understanding of Excel. Hence, the rise of a new breed of "data-discovery" whereby people can easily explore their data by creating an instant visual interpretation without a single line of code.

Sharing Your Expertise

Read MoreWhat is big data?

Increasingly, being fluent in big data is not just about finding the insights quickly, but being able to share and collaborate. Visualizations help people share their insights in ways that promote conversation and collaboration. When someone like Mark Bulling, business director at global media network Mindshare, uses live visualizations in a meeting and a question is raised by one of their thousands of clients, he can easily click and show the answer. In real time. This creates a natural,open flow of conversation that isn't stalled by having to go back and redo the chart.

Storytelling with Data

Interactive graphics tend to be effective, but their power is often diminished without developing a proper narrative arc for the presentation of your analysis. Robert Kosara, former University of North Carolina professor and current researcher at Tableau, calls this the "martini glass" effect. With a narrative arc, you start broadly (the bottom of the glass), then lead your audience step by step through the insights of your data (the stem of the glass), while giving them enough context and direction to open up the topic for exploration (the mouth of the glass).

Building a story for your data is a powerful tool to communicate your insight and make it more memorable. We spend so much of our lives telling and consuming stories - we need to take advantage of our narrative mindset when working with data.

The long and the short of it

The data era impacts all industries, from tech to finance to consumer brands. Every organisation has a tremendous opportunity to take their data and empower those individuals making decisions for the business. Those who embrace new, effective, quick tools for understanding data will thrive. Those who slog through data in old-fashioned, time-consuming ways, will fall by the wayside. This opportunity is in actual fact a necessity.

Read More10 game changers in cloud computing

We're all data analysts now. The only question is how quickly and wholeheartedly we embrace that role and the tools for performing it.

James Eiloart is a Vice President at Tableau Software, and is based in London, where he leads sales across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Disclosure: Tableau has worked with CNBC on an interactive graphic.


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What's 'Rich'? Depends on How Old (and Rich) You Are

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Defining "rich" is usually a numbers game. Is it $400,000 a year in income, or $5 million in net worth? Is $250,000 rich in New York? In Peoria?

But wealth is just a vehicle for greater ends. So when asked about their broader definitions of wealth, a majority of investors surveyed in a recent study by the Spectrem Group said wealth meant "greater security." Ranking a distant second place was "more happiness," followed by "more responsibility" and "more fun." Ranking last was "more stress."

The results, however, differed by age and net worth. Older respondents were far more likely to say that being rich meant security, while younger investors were more likely to associate being rich with happiness and fun.

(Read more: Where Do the Happiest Millionaires Live?)

Older investors were also more likely to say wealth brought more responsibility and a more complicated life.

The richer you are, the more likely you are to associate being rich with security and responsibility. And corporate executives were more likely to associate being rich with "more stress."

What does this all tell us? That Americans have a pretty good sense of what wealth can – and more importantly – cannot buy. Yes, it brings a certain form of security and fun. But it also brings more responsibility, stresses and complications. Wealth doesn't erase life's problems: it just replaces them with more expensive ones.

(Read more:Rich Want to Give Kids Values, But Spoil Them Too)

In my experience of reporting on the rich, being rich seldom means "less work." Except, of course, for lottery winners.

To me Warren Buffett just gave the best definition (and motivation) of being rich: "To allow me to do what I want to do everyday." Even if that means spending your days reading balance sheets and quarterly earnings reports.


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Bravo sets premiere date for Rihanna's 'Styled to Rock'

Singer Rihanna (third from left) will have a new reality series titled "Styled to Rock" on Bravo.

Story highlights

  • Rihanna's fashion show will now appear on Bravo
  • "Styled to Rock" had been slated for the now defunct Style Network
  • The grand prize includes a chance to join RIhanna's style team
A premiere date has been set for Rihanna's fashion competition series, "Styled to Rock."
Originally slated to air on the now defunct Style Network, the series will premiere Friday, Oct. 25 at 8 pm ET/PT on Bravo. Executive produced by Rihanna, the show will see 12 aspiring designers face off in weekly challenges, each tailored to a celebrity guest. Only half will earn the opportunity to actually show their design to the star guest, while the other half will face elimination.
Pharrell Williams, model Erin Wasson, and Rihanna's stylist ,Mel Ottenberg, will serve as mentors to the contestants, while the celebrity guest list includes Miley Cyrus, Carly Rae Jepsen, Khloé Kardashian, Kylie Minogue, Kelly Osbourne, Kid Cudi, The Band Perry, Ne-Yo, Big Sean, and Nervo.
Considering the cash and prizes the winner will receive, viewers can expect some fierce competition. The grand prize includes $100,000 in cash, a fashion feature in Glamour magazine, and a chance to join Rihanna's own design team.
Will you tune in to watch "Styled to Rock?"


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Southern ozone hole slightly smaller this year

By SETH BORENSTEIN | October 23, 2013 | 4:05 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Warm air at high altitudes this September and October helped shrink the man-made ozone hole near the South Pole ever so slightly, scientists say.

The hole is an area in the atmosphere with low ozone concentrations. It is normally is at its biggest this time of year. NASA says on average it covered 8.1 million square miles this season. That's 6 percent smaller than the average since 1990.

The ozone hole is of concern because high-altitude ozone shields Earth from ultraviolet radiation.

NASA chief atmospheric scientist Paul A. Newman says the main reason for this year's result is local weather. The upper air has been almost 2 degrees warmer than normal in the globe's southernmost region. That has led to fewer polar stratospheric clouds. These clouds are where chlorine and bromine, which come from man-made products, nibble away at ozone.

"It's just like watching the Pac-Man eating cookies, where cookies are ozone. The chlorine atoms are the Pac-Man," Newman said.

James Butler, director of the global monitoring division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Lab, said Wednesday that the new figures are "sort of encouraging news."

"It's not getting worse," Butler said. "That's a good sign."

Butler said it stopped getting worse around the late 1990s. But he added, "We can't say yet that it's a recovery."

Newman and Butler said they can't tell if the ozone hole changes are related to man-made global warming.

While warm upper air helped keep the ozone hole small, the surface of the Southern Hemisphere was also warm last month, with the second-highest average temperature on record for September, NOAA announced Wednesday. Records go back to 1880.

For the entire globe, last month tied 2003 for the fourth hottest September on record, with an average temperature 1.15 degrees higher than the average for the 20th century. September was the 343rd consecutive month that global temperatures have been higher than 20th century average.

This year, after nine months, is on track to be the sixth warmest on record globally, 1.22 degrees hotter than normal.

For the United States, this was the sixth warmest September on record, 2.5 degrees higher than the 20th century average. It was the hottest since 2005. But the nation's average temperature over the first nine months of the year is only the 28th highest on record.

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Ghost Hunters visit Sylvan Beach; episode airs on SyFy next week

Ghost Hunters visit Sylvan Beach; episode airs on SyFy next week

SYLVAN BEACH — Could it be possible that the haunts in the “Laffland” ride at Sylvan Beach Amusement Park aren’t entirely fake?  The cast and crew of the SyFy series “Ghost Hunters” visited to investigate.  Next week, they’ll reveal their findings on national television.

A spokesperson for Empire Attractions, which owns the amusement park and the adjacent Yesterday’s Royal restaurant, says cast members and a production crew visited Sylvan Beach last fall.  They combed the grounds, shoot video and looking for evidence of paranormal activity.  Their findings will be revealed next Wednesday, February 27, at 9:00pm Eastern.  SyFy is available to cable and satellite subscribers.

Doug Waterbury, who bought the two tourist hot-spots in 2007, says he was “intrigued by the frequent comments” from employees, customers and local residents, regarding an increasing number of ghost sightings and other paranormal activity.

In a press release he said, “It may be possible that the spirits are becoming more active due to the recent change of ownership, and I want them to understand that my intention for the future is to preserve the amusement park in every respect and to welcome their continued presence as we learn to peacefully co-exist.”

Park officials said SyFy producers told them Sylvan Beach was “among their favorite subjects due to the uniqueness of the park and surrounding areas, which offered an unusual historical twist.”

Coverage Elsewhere

  • Bob Neidt filed a report on, shortly after the “Ghost Hunters” crew wrapped up filming last September.
  • And apparently this isn’t the first time “Ghost Hunters” has visited Central New York — the above article led us to previous articles about episodes filmed in Cortland (earlier this month) and Oswego (last October).

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Say Cheese

Chloe & Capone, Cuddling On The Couch
Black and tan mini-Dotson, Chloe, snuggles up with her best pal, Capone. Sent in by Alanna Hunsaker of Jonesville.

Little Lady In Red
"This little lady does not think she is a dog. She only eats people food. She loves to go shopping and has never met a stranger," writes owner Joyce Harlow of Waynesboro.

Escape Goat
Two baby goats in the tub, belonging to Pam Atkins of Dry Fork. Submitted by Doris Oakley of Danville.

Friends In All Shapes And Sizes
Palmer Smith with her collection of a turtle, frog, and worms at her house in Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore. This three year old puts her menagerie in the basket on her tricycle. Photo submitted by Christy Smith of Cape Charles.

Cat In A Basket
JeanAnn O'Keefe, who will turn 6 months old in September does not like the heat of August. Submitted by Mike and Sandy O'Keefe of Disputanta.

Moses And The Brown Tea
"Moses can't resist iced tea on a hot day, " writes Jean Dunn of Doswell.

Ho, Ho....Woof. Move Over Santa!
Move over Santa--Greta, 2 year old Dobie, is coming to town! Submitted by Bob and Pam Hunter of Chatham.

Say Cheese!!
Patrick, a black lab mix, seems to be smiling. Submitted by James and Cindy Weatherford of Chesterfield.

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Many flavors of .net and the new .net standard library

For someone who is looking from the outside,  the many flavors of .net can be very confusing. This post tries to summarize the various .net implementations:

  1. .net framework:  The version of .net that most people are familiar with. .net framework is the Windows-only framework that can be used for Windows client apps using frameworks such as WPF and WinForms. This is also the version supported by prior web frameworks such as webforms and older versions of This version generally ships with windows and generally updated via windows update.
  2. .net core:  The new hotness that just hit version 1.0 in June 2016.  .net core is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, OSX), MIT licensed open-source implementation of .net from Microsoft.  .net core appears to be targeted more towards servers, web frameworks and cloud deployment.  .net core is meant to be shipped as part of/alongside your app and is distributed via nuget.  This release is also accompanied by “ core 1.0” which also runs on .net core and thus gains the ability to run cross-platform. Microsoft does not provide a GUI toolkit for client apps for .net core though third-party solutions may emerge. While .net core shares some underlying code such as GC and JIT compiler from .net framework,  the API exposed by .net core is not 100% compatible with .net framework.
  3. Mono:  Open-source implementation of .net framework that runs on many different platforms including Linux, OSX, BSD, Android and some game consoles such as Playstation 3.  This is under the stewardship of Xamarin (earlier and independent company and now a subidiary of Microsoft).  Mono was developed independently from Microsoft and has its own GC and JIT etc. So right now there are two different open-source .net implementations for Linux and OSX:  Mono and .net core!
  4. .net native for Windows 10/UWP:  The .net portion of UWP is based upon .net core. However, instead of running apps on top of the .net core CLR,  all UWP apps submitted to the Windows store for Windows 10 are compiled ahead-of-time into native code using a proprietary Microsoft tool.  This tooling is called “.net native” for UWP.  This tooling has some limitations. For example, F# cannot be used with .net native though Microsoft is working on fixing that.
  5. Mono for iOS:  An ahead-of-time compiled implementation of .net for iOS based upon Mono.
  6. Other misc targets:There are many more versions that are now irrelevant such as Silverlight,  .net for Windows Phone 8 and .net micro.

The API surfaces exposed by various implementations are not 100% compatible with each other.  This can be a big issue for library writers.  Currently, this is “solved” by “portable class library” (PCL) where the developer defines the targets the library is supposed to be portable to and then the compiler will expose the intersection of API surfaces exposed by the targeted platforms.  But what if there is a new platform X later on? PCL is tied to the targeted platforms and cannot be run on this hypothetical X even if X exposes all the APIs necessary for the compiled PCL.

Microsoft is trying to address the issue of library (and also programmer knowledge) portability by a new initiative called “.net standard library”. The idea is that there will be a versioned standard library definition. Each platform will advertise which version of the standard library it supports. The standard library will always be backwards compatible (eg:  a platform supporting .net standard library 1.3 will also support 1.1).  Portable libraries will compile against a particular version of the .net standard library and will then be portable to all current and future platforms that support that version of the library. Microsoft will also focus its own library development plans on this .net standard instead of tying them to a partiular .net implementation.

To summarize, it is amazing to see that .net is now available on almost every platform. Furthermore, many of the implementations of .net are open-soure and developed in the open. On the other hand, the API fragmentation across platforms was also an issue and hopefully .net standard library will make it easy to write cross-platform libraries in the future.

F# deep dives preliminary thoughts

I have been getting more into F# and the language does seem very elegant. It is not a small language with lots of ideas and concepts from both FP and OO worlds blended together, but somehow the blend chosen makes a lot of sense to me.  I don’t yet have experience of writing large programs in F#, mostly short snippets.  I feel that I have grasped most of the basic concepts though some advanced concepts are still a bit out of scope for me.  And I am not experienced enough to be able to see which language features make the most sense in various scenarios.

As it happens, an interesting F# book, called F# deep dives came out recently. This is a collection of case-studies of using F# in various domains. Each chapter is written by a different person, and they describe a particular problem in their domain and how they solved it using F#. This is not a hand-wavey software architecture book though. Each chapter comes with code and some discussion of the design decisions.  I was interested in the book from the perspective of learning about how various features of F# can be utilized in real-world scenarios.

I like the book overall.  I liked some chapters such as the chapters on MVC pattern for GUI development in F#,  the one on type providers and also the chapter about game development in F#.   However, the quality and style of of writing is very uneven as can be expected from a book where each chapter was contributed by a different author.  I feel that everyone will have their own favorite chapters and also chapters that bored them, depending on what they want to use F# for.  One annoying thing about the book is that there is no syntax highlighting at all.  It makes the code harder to read.  The book also seems to be very text heavy, with very few visual aids or diagrams presented.

Overall, I had high expectations for the book and it did not meet them. It is an interesting book for programmers who know at least some F# and has some good content but it is not a must-have.

Things I am going to play with

Some things I want to experiment with as a fun exercise:

F# : F# is an awesome language that I started experimenting with a few months back. While I know the basic syntax of many parts of the language now, I am nowhere near proficient. Even in my brief time with the language, I am enjoying it a lot. It is more productive than even Python and light years ahead of C++. Looking forward to playing with some of the interesting features such as async workflows and type providers.  Two books that I have on my radar are “F# deep dives” and “Purely functional data-structures” by Okasaki.

C# and .net ecosystem: Playing with F# actually has made me interested in playing with more .net technologies. From the productivity standpoint, C# looks a lot nicer than Java or C++ and does have some interesting technologies such as async construct and LINQ. On the performance side, CLR looks like a good JIT and a lot of innovation and pragmatic decisions seem to have been taken in the .net ecosystem. For example,  inclusion of value types, SIMD types introduced recently with RyuJIT and libraries such as TPL should make it possible to write reasonably high-performance code despite CLR being a managed runtime.  Recent open-sourcing of the .net core is also an interesting move.

ZeroMQ:  I don’t have much experience with message-queue based systems and ZeroMQ looks like a good place to start. Have heard a lot of good things about it.

C++11: I have read up on many of the features in C++11, and have a basic understanding, but have not used them in non-trivial ways so I am not confident about them yet. Overall I am not at all liking where C++ is going.  However, as a professional programmer who works a lot with C++ I feel I should keep myself updated because I expect to see more C++11 going forward.

OpenCL 2.0: I have read the specs and am familiar with many of the features theoretically but want to spend some time with features such as device-side enqueue and SVM to see the types of algorithms that are now possible on modern hardware.

Direct3d 11 and 12:  Well quite self-evident 🙂 Going with the .net theme might try out SharpDX perhaps instead of going the native route.

Tegra K1 power consumption

I was reading Anandtech review of the power consumption of Nvidia shield tablet. While at first glance the GPU performance looked very impressive, the battery life data provided by the authors Joshua Ho and Andrei Frumusanu gives very good insights. Consider the battery life of Tab S 8.4 (using Exynos chipset with Mali graphics) and Shield Tablet running GFXbench 3.0. We can get the average power consumption as (Battery energy in WHr)/(Battery life in hours).  They tested the shield tablet in two modes: Default (i.e. high performance) and capped performance. They reported observing GPU frequency of ~750MHz and ~450MHz in the two modes respectively.  The battery life for the capped mode is inferred from the graph at about 14000 minutes (3.88 hours). For a very rough comparison, we will also compare with phablets such as Galaxy Note 3.

This gives us the following data:

1. Nvidia shield tablet (default, ~750MHz): 8.8W
2. Nvidia shield tablet (capped, ~450MHz):   5.09W
3. Tab S 8.4 (default): 5.5W
4.  Galaxy Note 3:  3.1W

It is immediately obvious that in the default mode, shield tablet is consuming way too much power compared to Tab S.  Given given the massive power consumption difference by reducing the GPU frequency, and the fact that the shield tablet gives good results for non-GPU bound tests , it is clear that most of the 9W of power is being consumed by the Tegra K1’s GPU.

The power consumption data is for the device, and hence includes the power consumption of components such as the screen and those can be very different across display types and sizes.  We will only make very rough calculations here. To make very rough guesses, let us assume that the components other than the SoC and DRAM are consuming ~1.5W in the tablets and ~0.8W in the phone.

We get the following (VERY ROUGH) data for SoC + DRAM power consumption:

1. Tegra K1 (default, 750MHz): 7.3W
2. Tegra K1 (capped, 450MHz): 3.6W
3. Exynos 5420 (tablet): 4W
4. Snapdragon 800 (phone): 2.3W

Overall, I think it is quite reasonable to state that if Tegra K1’s stated GPU frequency targets of ~900MHz are not realizable in devices such as phones.  I get the feeling that the Shield Tablet has been built more as a showcase device where the maximum GPU frequency has been set a bit too high in order to win benchmarks.  I think  if Tegra K1 ever ships in phones, it is likely that the GPU frequency will not exceed ~450MHz, and the GPU will not perform any better than it’s current mobile competitors.  Perhaps Tegra K1 (particularly its GPU) is better suited in larger devices such as large tablets and ultraportable laptops where it can stretch it’s legs more.

F# microbenchmark study

Recently, there was some discussion about a set of microbenchmarks  reported in a study called Clash of the Lambdas which compared a simple stream/sequence benchmark using Java 8 Streams, Scala, C# LINQ and F#. I am learning F# and as a learning exercise I decided to re-implement one of the benchmarks (Sum of Squares Even) myself in F# without referring to the code provided by the authors.

The source of my implementation can be found on Bitbucket and binaries are also provided.  My interest was to test/compare various F# implementations and not cross-language comparison.  I implemented it in four different ways:

  • Imperative sequential for-loop
  • Imperative parallel version using Parallel.For from Task Parallel Library
  • Functional sequential version using F# sequences
  • Functional parallel version using F# PSeq from FSharp.ParallelSeq
  • UPDATE: I added a functional version using the Nessos Streams package as suggested by Nick Palladinos on twitter

I compiled using VS 2013 Express and F#3.1 with “Release” settings, Any CPU (32-bit not preferred) and ran it on my machine on 3 different CLR implementations:  MS CLR from .net SDK 4.5.2 running on Windows 8.1, MS CLR RyuJIT CTP4 and finally on OpenSUSE 13.1 using Mono 3.4 (sgen GC, no LLVM).

The results are as follows:

Imperative Functional
Sequential Parallel Sequential Parallel Streams
MS CLR 17 8 172 81 45
MS RyuJIT CTP4 18 7 168 76 44
Mono 88 23 240 797 97

Some observations for this microbenchmark:

  • Imperative version is far faster than the functional version, but the functional version was shorter and clearer to me. I wonder if there is some opportunity for compiler optimizations in the F# compiler for the functional version, such as inlining sequence operations or fusing a pipeline of operations where possible.
  • MS RyuJIT CTP4, which is the beta version of the next-gen MS CLR JIT, is performing similar to the current MS CLR. This is good to see
  • Mono is much slower than the MS CLR. Also, it absolutely hates F# parallel sequences for some reason.  I guess I will have to try and install Mono with LLVM enabled and then check the performance again.
  • Streams package from Nessos looks to be faster than F# sequences in this microbenchmark. It is currently sequential only but performs much faster than even PSeq.

These observations only apply to this microbenchmark, and probably should not be considered as general results.  Overall, it was a fun learning experience, especially as a newcomer to both F# and the .net ecosystem. F# looks like a really elegant and powerful language and is a joy to write.  There is still a LOT more to learn about both. For example, I am not quite clear what the best way to distribute .net projects as open-source. Should I distribute VS solution files? I am more used to distributing build files for CMake, Make, scons, ant etc. and looking more into FAKE. NuGet is also nice-ish though appears to be useful but not very powerful (eg: can’t remove packages) and merits further investigation.

Getting F# running on Linux

Getting F# running on Linux took a lot more effort than I anticipated. I am documenting the process here in the hope it may benefit someone (maybe myself) in the future. For reference, I am using OpenSuse 13.1.

  • F# is not compatible with all versions of Mono. For example, my distro repos have Mono 3.0.6 which appears to have some issues with F#. Instead, I found some people make new Mono packages available for various distros using Opensuse Build Service (OBS). For example, check out tpokorra repos for various distros such as OpenSUSE, CentOS,  Debian etc. I installed “mono-opt” and related packages. It installed mono 3.4 into /opt/mono directory.
  • If you install mono into /opt/mono, then ensure that you do append “/opt/mono/lib” into the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and /opt/mono/bin to the PATH variable. I did this in my .bashrc.
  • By default, /opt/mono/bin/mono turned out to be a symlink to /opt/mono/bin/mono-sgen. Now it appears that Mono has two versions: one using sgen GC and one using Boehm GC. I have had trouble with compilng F# using mono-sgen so I removed /opt/mono/bin/mono and then created it as a symlink to /opt/mono/bin/mono-boehm.
  • Now open up a new shell. In this shell, set up a few environment variables temporarily required for building F#. First, “export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/mono/lib/pkgconfig”. Next, we need to setup some GC parameters for Mono. It turns out compiling F# requires a lot of memory and Mono craps out with default GC parameters. I have a lot of memory in my laptop, so I set the Mono GC to use upto 2GB as follows: “export MONO_GC_PARAMS=max-heap-params=2G”. These two settings likely won’t be required after you have compiled and installed F#.
  • Now you can follow the instructions given on the F# webpage.

Specifically I did

  • git clone
  • cd fsharp
  • ./autogen –prefix /opt/mono  #Keep things consistent with rest of mono install
  • make  #Takes a lot of time
  • su
  • make install


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No “Common Policy,” as Europe Grapples over its Future ties with Cuba.

– Spain takes the lead in trying to adapt the EU to Cuba’s rapidly transforming role.

In January, Spain took over the presidency of the Council of the European Union. Despite being deeply affected by the global financial crisis, Spain confidently proclaimed ambitious objectives for its term at the head of the EU, including the cancellation of the EU’s “Common Position.” The latter defines the EU policy towards Cuba that has been in place since 1996. During his two-day visit to the Caribbean island last October, Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos stated that Spain wants “to give up the Common Position in order to obtain bilateral agreements.”

Undoubtedly the motivations behind Spain’s initiative are at least partially economic in nature. Moratinos explained that the Iberian nation has negotiated for Cuban authorities to pay their debts to Spanish companies. Cuba’s president Raúl Castro has promised to repeal the payment block of approximately $300 million due to the 280 Spanish companies currently operating in Cuba or have some other financial stake in the country. After strong opposition from Eastern European members, states such as the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, Spain eventually withdrew its initiative allowing the EU to maintain the Common Position for the present time. In fact, such acquiescence has little or no significance for the actual Cuba policy that will be followed by individual European states, as national interests tend to outweigh supranational positions. Spain has always conducted its policy toward the Castro regime according to its primary concerns such as economic desiderata, its colonial legacy and cultural kinship. This is in stark contrast to the anti-Cuban stance of the Common Position. From the beginning, the latter was more a reflection of a prudent compromise between Eastern and Western Europe than an actual formula fixedly guiding national policy. The EU has struggled to achieve the numerous objectives obligated by adopting the Common Position.

Hidden reasons for the “Common Position“
The two main objectives of the Common Position policy have been: (1) to “encourage a process of transition to pluralist democracy and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,” and (2) to contribute “to a sustainable recovery and improvement of the living standards of the Cuban people.” Thereby, the EU conditions its support of Cuban economic development to progress made in democratic reforms. Although the promotion of democracy has been the declared objective of the Common Position, its companion goal was economic engagement. At its heart, the Common Position was the European response to the United States’ Helms-Burton Act, which was passed by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Congress on March of 1996, shortly before the “Common Position” was implemented.

The Cuban Air Force shot down two American aircraft in February of 1996 flown by pilots of the Miami anti-Castro organization, “Brothers to the Rescue”. That same month, the Clinton administration passed “The Cuban Liberty Act,” also known as the Helms-Burton Act. Helms-Burton was aimed at tightening the already existing embargo against Cuba that was introduced under the Kennedy administration in 1960. Title III of Helms-Burton outlines that the U.S. intents to prosecute foreign companies “allegedly trafficking property formerly owned by US citizens but expropriated by Cuba” after the 1959 revolution. With this law, the Clinton Administration hoped to bring down the Castro regime as fast as possible, through a policy of extreme isolation and restricting access to resources. But at the same time, this policy of isolation directly threatened the trade between foreign countries and Cuba, thereby prompting retaliation action by critics of Helms-Burton in the EU member states. However, that legislation allowed the President of the United States to waive Title III every six months, so that foreign countries would not be prosecuted under its provisions. In July of 1996, Clinton aggressively encouraged Washington’s allies to accelerate change in Cuba by promising that the suspension of Title III would depend “upon whether others have joined us in promoting democracy in Cuba.” The Common Position, which was adopted by the EU member states on December 2, 1996, can be seen as an accommodative reaction to the Helms-Burton Act and the desire by Brussels to waive the appointment of Title III from being applied to its members.

Before the implementation of the Common Position, the European Union’s policy toward Cuba strived to foster constructive engagement with Havana. It sought to unconditionally promote democratic ideals and respect for human rights through informal, cultural and economic exchanges, as well as many other vehicles. The Common Position radically changed European policy by tying humanitarian aid and economic cooperation to democratic reforms and respect for human rights in Cuba. This EU policy more closely reflected the United States’ own policy on Cuba by stipulating that humanitarian aid and economic relations are dependent upon democratic change. The shift in policy had more to do with trans-Atlantic relations than with European-Cuban relations, and was primarily designed to protect business interests.

Ironically, Spain, the country that today wants to abandon the Common Position, was initially responsible for its implementation in 1996, during the incumbency of Prime Minister José María Aznar. Due to its historic close ties with Cuba, Spain has influenced European policy toward the island nation more than any other member of the EU. In 1996, Spain was Cuba’s number one European trading partner and was particularly exposed to the negative impact of the Helms-Burton Act. In response, it pursued a change in European policy toward Cuba to secure its own investments on the island. The conservative government under Aznar initiated the Common Position against the consensus of many European ministers. Spain initially based the Common Position on pragmatic objectives, not on any long-term ideological vision.

National interests outmatch supranational strategy
Although the “Common Position” implies a common European policy, there are different and even contradictory policies toward Cuba to be found within the EU. Germany and the United Kingdom maintain a similar stance toward Havana to that of the US. However, France, Belgium and Portugal favor a policy of stronger engagement. Due to Cuba’s historic, unflinching support of Moscow’s communist regime, the eastern states of the EU maintain an critical position toward Cuba. The Eastern states prefer to focus their policy on strengthening democracy and promoting human rights on the island, along with relying upon an assortment of anti-Havana diplomatic deployments.

After a short period under Aznar, in 1996-97, Spain began to ease away from backing the Common Position and since then has shifted its priorities by crafting policy more akin to its domestic economic interests. After Cuba jailed 75 dissidents in June of 2003, the EU decided, at Spain’s behest, to review its Cuba policy. This review resulted in a commitment to limit high-level government visits, reduce member states’ participation in cultural events in Cuba and invite representatives of dissident groups and spouses of political prisoners to national day receptions. Consequently, Fidel Castro boycotted all European-related diplomatic functions. As a result, a number of European countries moved to scale back their embassies’ interactions with Havana officials. In 2005, many European countries, again led by Spain, suspended the earlier 2003 diplomatic measures. By 2008, Spain was working to fully lift the various diplomatic restraints against Cuba by rejecting US pleas to maintain the status quo regarding diplomatic pressure on the island. During his visit to Havana, Spain’s foreign minister Moratinos carefully avoided meetings with Cuban dissidents. Now in 2010, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero has moved to cancel the “Common Position” altogether.

Human Rights in Cuba
Cuba is the only nation in Latin America lacking a cooperation agreement with the EU. Also, groups such as Mercado Común del Sur MERCOSUR, the Andean Community, The United States-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the Caribbean Community have already initiated regional agreements with the EU. Furthermore, the Caribbean countries have signed the Cotonou Agreement, a pact between the EU, African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states aimed at reducing poverty and promoting criminal justice in those regions, along with addressing trade matters. But any agreement between the EU and Cuba is not possible because of the Common Position, which demands a democratic transition and the respect of human rights in the country before economic assistance can be extended to the island nation.

This being said, not much has changed since the implementation of the Common Position; Cuba has not been transformed into a democratic society under the rule of the Castros, who have led the state for 50 years. In November 2009, the middle-of-the-road Human Rights Watch (HRW) published the report “New Castro, Same Cuba,” its first report on human rights in Cuba since Fidel Castro took leave of the presidency in June of 2006 due to illness. While observers hoped Cuba would become more democratic after Raúl took over in 2008, the report charges that, in fact, he has established new laws that restrict freedom of speech and criminalize any opposing opinions.
According to the report, individuals who are deemed a threat to Raúl Castro’s reign are imprisoned “before they have planned or committed any crime.” Human rights organizations such as HRW perhaps intemperately criticize Spain’s intention to give up the Common Position, as “it would send the signal that the EU does not care about the fate of political prisoners in Cuba. If the EU wants to improve the human rights situation in Cuba it must strengthen its present Cuba policy and make it more effective rather than dismiss it,” says Latin America director of HRW, José Miguel Vivanco.

No common policy
The Common Position’s impact on Cuban policy has been negligible. While Cuba remains the only Latin American country without cooperation agreements and a regular political dialogue with the EU, its unilateral trade and diplomatic lines to individual EU members is an adequate substitute for Brussels support.

Despite their ability to speak with one voice most of the time, ultimately, the interests in the bloc of 27 states are too diverse, pluralistic and multipolar to always be able to act as one. Although the Common Position is supposed to affect the national foreign policy of every European country, “there are many ways to undermine it,” said Prof. Philip Brenner, Cuban expert at American University. Over 20 bilateral agreements between Cuba and European states have been signed, indicating that although a Common EU Position formally exists toward Havana. In reality there is no common policy at least not on this issue.

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Abbegayle M. Dorn, a seven-year-veteran of the department who most recently patrolled out of the District 3 station in southeast Denver, was moved to an "administrative assignment" on Monday while the internal affairs bureau conducts its probe, said Lt. Matt Murray, a police spokesman.

He would not comment on the nature of the investigation.

Dorn could not be reached for comment Thursday.

She and another Denver officer, Vicki Ferrari, were Gladiator contestants in 2008. Two years later, Dorn was sued federally by Rohit Mukherjee, who said she and two other officers "tortured" him while responding to complaints of loud music during a party. The lawsuit claimed Dorn took several cellphones and dunked them in a bowl of water to destroy any evidence that could be used against the officers.

Mukherjee's attorney said the suit was settled in 2011 for $30,000.

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Slow Breakfast.
Happy Good Morning to everyone!

Did you sleep well? I am definitely not a morning person. At all. Maybe when I was six but as soon as I got close to being a teenager I gradually went to bed later and used to sleep longer. I usually go to bed very late/early (depends on your viewpoint, really) and therefore love to sleep in a lot. Luckily I was able to construct myself a very sleep-friendly schedule here in Japan which means I rarely have lessons before noon.

One thing I love though is slow breakfast. I hate to rush eating because eating food is very precious to me and should be endulged in consciously. When I have the time, meaning I don't have to work or be at university early, I love to get up, take a slower and prepare breakfast in a relaxed way. Also; the more time I have at hand the more healthy a breafast I can prepare for myself. Since I am not a big fan of cereals (I get cramps/weird feeling in my stomach easily when eating too much milk, although I am not intolerant to lactose) and cereals are really expensive and usually load with looots of sugar here in Japan and since there is no bread (in a German sense) I had to think of other alternatives.

Something I eat a lot since I've been in Japan is avocado and tomato on toast. I really wish they had full grain toast/bread here since I usually eat that for breakfast but since it's unavailable it's American whitebread for me. Not my usual choice, but you have to work with what you have at hands, right?

For 2 slices of bread I use half of an avocado, sliced cucumber, a sliced whole tomato, salt, pepper and sometimes cheese like camembert (I LOVE cheese just that much. Camembert is the only cheese that almost tastes like real cheese here in Japan... I heard rumors it's possible to get cheese from the Netherlands somewhere but so far I wasn't able to find anything decent. I miss cheese always so much here.)

I need something fresh in the morning, which is why I like cucumber and tomato so much due to their very high percentage of water content. (Also, tomato is basically good for everything in your body, I eat tomato everyday, either in the morning like this or in a salad for my lunch.)

People continue to tell me "You eat avocado every second day? Don't you know how bad that is? avocado is pure fat!"  Well, that's true. Partially. Avocado is basically a natural butter in form of a berry (yes avocados are berries! Looked that up.) Although it has a very high fat percentage of 25% this is good, natural fat as opposed to chemical, processed fat in butter or other processed foods.They contain high levels of monounsatured fats - these are good fats that are able to lower your cholesterol level. In addition to containing healthful fat, avocados are also high in beta carotene, fiber, folate (a B vitamin), and potassium (ounce for ounce, avocados have 60 percent more potassium than bananas!)

Also, what most people forget, is, that fat is not bad. Our body needs fat and if you have a day of 2000 calories for example, 50 to 70g should be fat in there. The thing is to consume the right fats, fats that do not come from meat, fish, milk or cheese but instead organic fats like in vegetable oils, nuts, seeds and for example avocados. I personally feel always very satisfied after such a breakfast and don't feel the need to snack in between so much. (I am a heavy snacker, it's a very bad habit.)

Fun fact: I didn't even touch avocados until I came to Japan the last time and my roommate then was obsessed with avocados, she ate them everyday for breakfast too. She was lucky I wasn't an avocado fan back then because we couldn't possibly have bought so many avocados to last both of us a week.

I'm thinking about making a post about healthy breakfast options, anyone interested in that? Oh and if you didn't already, you really should give avocados a try. They're awesome :)

Have a good day everyone! I'll spending it indoors (+30°C at the moment in Japan) and dedicate my time to university stuff. :)

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