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Share your love of poetry

Tomorrow is International Book Giving Day

What better day is there to share your love of poetry than on Valentine’s Day?

I’m sure you have a poetry book or two hidden between the couch cushions or under a bed that someone would love to read.

Here are some suggestions for how to celebrate and share your love from the International Book Giving Day website:

1. Give a Book to a Friend or Relative.

Celebrate International Book Giving Day by giving a child a new, used or borrowed book.

2. Leave a Book in a Waiting Room or Lobby.

Choose a waiting room where kids are stuck waiting and there are few to no good books available. Purchase a good book, and deposit your book covertly or overtly in your waiting room of choice. The goal here is to spread the love of reading to kids, so choose a fun book, nothing controversial.

3. Donate a Book.

Wrap up a box of children’s books that your kids have outgrown and get them in the hands of children who could really use a book or two. Donate your books to your local second hand store, library, children’s hospital, or shelter. Alternatively, donate your books to an organization working internationally to get books in the hands of kids, such as Books for Africa.

Check out the website. They even offer printable book plates, book marks. and posters like this:

I have oodles of books I could share. How about you?

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  1. I like to share my books with my writing group. Once every couple of months we bring 3 or 4 books to group and do an exchange.

    I’m on my way now to deliver 14 books to our Public Library. (None are poetry though, I keep those close and reread them). I must buy a duplicate of Pablo Neruda’s 20 Love Poems and donate that one next.

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The Ithaca Dixieland jazz band Casey Max and the DixieKats are releasing their latest CD, ‘Struttin’ with some BBQ’, with a party at Lot 10 in Ithaca on Mardi Gras.  We hear from bandleader David Plaine and percussionist Mark Sammo about the event and what makes Dixieland jazz different from other kinds of jazz, and David tells us about “the Big Dog”.

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Impey makes TDU history with victory

As Daryl Impey became the first South African to win the Tour Down Under, his young teammate Caleb Ewan came close to another stage win.
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Richie Porte has won his fifth-straight Willunga stage at the Tour Down Under and feels like he can have the best season of his cycling career.
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Three-time defending world road cycling Peter Sagan has won the People's Choice Classic in Adelaide.

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Tour Down Under officials were left scrambling after a truck loaded with hay crashed into the finishing line of the race in the Adelaide Hills.

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Adelaide will again play host to one of the best weeks in world cycling when the Santos Tour Down Under is broadcast exclusively across the Nine Network.

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Australian cycling stars Richie Porte and Caleb Ewan dominated this year's Tour Down Under.

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walking through the advent together: day 8

Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb. And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God. He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” (Luke 1:11-17)

Do not be afraid, for your prayer is heard.

These barren areas of our life, we all carry relentless shame and unshakeable sadness. These marks of our incapabilities that seem to be etched deep into our skin, that show the world just how much we are not — not a wife, not a mother, not a grandmother. Not able to work, not able to keep a home, not able to be a friend. Not able to make it through a day without crying, not able to make it through a day without help, not able to fight the darkness lurking in the corners.

Whatever the barrenness of yours is, beloved, do not be afraid. Your prayer is heard, those whispered prayers held in the hands that created you. You can let go now, trust that our Lord is able to make all things new — whether it means creating a new life completely or making a battered heart able to stand strong in the mighty winds.

Today, beloved, let us lift our eyes to our Maker and praise Him with all our heart — with all the barren, empty spaces offered for Him to fill to the fullest. Let us see each other just like we are; broken, barren people in need of grace.

Friends, I have created a Facebook page for the blog. Do go and like for an easy way to keep up with these daily posts, shown right there on your feed. There will be other major changes coming up in January — mainly in my life — which is one of the reasons why I created a Facebook page.

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Four men from Acrington have been arrested after a shotgun was fired through the window of an Accrington house.

The incident took place on Richmond Hill Street at around midnight on the night of Wednesday, June 28.

Police say a single shot was fired through the front window and no-one was injured.

On Friday they said that two men from Accrington, 20 and 24, have been arrested and released under investigation.

A 28-year-old-man from Accrington has been arrested and bailed and a 29-year-old man from Accrington remains in custody.

Bullet hole in the window of a house on Richmond Hill Street in Accrington

Police are linking that shooting to an earlier incident on Richmond Road in Accrington on June 5 where a 60-year-old woman was injured after a shot was fired at a house.

There were also a number of children present in the house at the time, police said.

Detectives believe the incidents are part of ongoing dispute between two groups who are known to each other.

UPDATE: Accrington shooting 'part of ongoing dispute' - police

They have said the behaviour shows a ‘blatant disregard for public safety’.

Two men aged 26 and 28, both from Accrington, a 25-year-old from Blackburn and a 30-year-old from Rossendale, have been arrested and released under investigation.

Three more men aged 22, 25 and 25, all from Bradford, were later arrested on suspicion of possession of firearms with intent and also released under investigation pending further enquiries.

A Lancashire Police spokesperson said: “Our first consideration is public safety and we will be doing all we can, along with our partner agencies, to make sure that anyone at risk, including children, is safeguarded.

“We have met with local community key contacts and will continue with these meetings. We have been invited to Friday prayers to provide an update.

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“A number of arrests have already been made and our investigations are continuing.

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A footballer has pleaded guilty to a serious assault at a 21st birthday party.

Former soldier Steven Mercer, of Chapel Street, Oswaldtwistle pleaded guilty to assaulting Alexander Lee Holt causing actual bodily harm and unlawfully wounding Brian Wakeling.

Mercer, 25, was not invited to the party at Clitheroe Social Club in Wellgate on April 29 but was let in as the party was quiet.

Mr Holt was injured after he was headbutted in the nose by Mercer after he accidentally bumped into the defendant at the bar.

Mr Wakeling then approached Mercer to ask him to leave but before he could say anything he was hit in the face with a glass.

He received four cuts requiring stitches and spent three days in hospital.

Mercer, who plays for Clitheroe FC, was arrested on June 6.

He pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court and was bailed to reappear on Tuesday, December 20 for sentencing.

As a condition of his bail Mercer is banned from entering Clitheroe except for playing in a football match or training.


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Slacking Off With Komodo

As a relatively new developer, and a complete lightweight when compared to the rest of the Komodo development team, I find myself sharing snippets, errors and diffs for review quite often. Since I like to share (Mom and Dad taught me well), I thought it was important to make it easier to share in Komodo. At one point, a Komodo user was limited to using to do this, and only in limited areas of Komodo. In 10.2, we've extended Komodo to allow our users to share more easily and in more ways.

We wanted to add more endpoints (more kopy.ios), allow users to share text from more aspects of Komodos (logs, diffs, files, etc.) as well as allow users to more easily add their own custom endpoints without having to touch any of Komodo UI. We did this with two major additions:

1) A new “Sharing” SDK (I’ll explain)
2) Komodo + Slack integration (uses the above SDK to post content to Slack!)

The Share SDK

var share = require("ko/share");
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The logical way to extend the existing UI with more "share points" (menu items to select an output) was to extend the existing module's UI integrations and move it into it's own SDK. Thus ko/share was born.

The share module now adds menus to the following source points in Komodo:

All of these interfaces have been augmented with a Share dropdown menu.

Register your Module

At this point you might be thinking "Hey neat Carey, you added another dropdown menu list to what?"

Good question! If it was just a drop down all over the place that would be boring, so next we needed to add items to this list for all output modules dynamically.

share.register(name, namespace, label);

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Enter share.register(). It takes a name (e.g. "kopy"), a namespace (e.g. "ko/share/kopy" in order to require your module.), and a label (e.g. "Share code on", which is the label shown in the menu list). Komodo uses CommonJS method of getting JS code and that requires a namespace (like the one mentioned above). A basic example you can follow to add your own namespace for your share implementation is as follows: require.setRequirePath("myShareProject","file:///abs/path/to/myShareProject"). The best method to do this would be to include your code in a Komodo Addon but that's to big a topic to cover here. Ask for help in our forums.

Komodo then checks to make sure you implemented a share function in your module that Komodo can call later (this is explained in more detail in the next section). It then cycles through all of the UI sources in Komodo we mentioned above and adds a new menu item for you.

Implement the Share Interface

require("ko/share/kopy").share(data, meta)
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Above I mentioned a share function that the share.register method looks for. This is the one and only requirement of your share module--it must have a share function. This is the interface we use to pass content to your module.

The Data

The function should take a string of data and an Object of meta information. The data string is the content that will be posted as text to the output source. For example, in the case of, data is the code displayed in the webpage:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
print "why is this broken??"
print("'s Python 3")

The Meta

The meta object holds basic meta information about the data you want to post. You can expect an object as follows:

var meta =
    langauge: "javascript",
    title: "MyFile.js"

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Your Share module can use this information as you see fit. For example, you can post a file to and leave it up to to figure out what your content might be (text, Javascript, Python?) or you can use the language property and send that along in the API call sent to

Since this module is so new, we are open to ideas for additional properties in the meta object, so please let us know if you have any suggestions.

var slack = require("ko/share/slack");
Sorry, no more source links. This stuff's not open sourced.

Now that we have the Share module, the next step was to add some share endpoints. was a breeze since our lead Komodo Developer, Nathan Rijksen, had already written most of the necessary code back in Komodo 9.2.

Since our team and MANY MANY others use Slack on a daily basis, we chose to add Slack.

This project was a lot of firsts for me. I got to augment a Django Python server with a new API endpoint, do funky window management and event handling (imagine having to program your website by starting at the browser window then trying to access the loading page in a particular tab to trigger your onload event...FUN!), and trying to streamline a 100% async user experience. I even got to take a new service for a spin that Nathan added while I was building the Slack integration, ko/simple-storage. Simple-storage allows you to persist information about your addon, Userscript, etc. and have it persist between Komodo restarts. This is the recommended way to persist information rather than the traditional require("ko/prefs") method.

Django API Endpoint

In order for Komodo to post content to your various Slack Teams and Channels it needs to authenticate users. Slack has a system in place which requires you to have a server in the middle of the process to actually send the final key request to the Slack Auth servers.

I started writing this in Node.js since that seems to be the go-to for API servers these days. In the end though, I decided to build it on Django. We already write so much Python in Komodo and we have a few other services built on a Django server. Besides, I've already written a Node API server in class and have never touched Django. Get moderately good at a ton of stuff and never become an expert at anything...that's my advice kids (with tongue firmly pressed against my cheek)!

Without going into too much boring detail, the server handles a request from Komodo with two temporary auth keys (one from Slack and one from Komodo), which are sent to another Slack authorization server that handles permissions. When that is returned from Slack, our server sends the new final auth key back to Komodo and it's encrypted and saved to disk.

The Slack Panel

The panel that appears after you've authenticated and you're picking a channel, message, etc. is plain. There doesn’t appear to be anything special about it. But that’s not true. What is of interest is that it's built completely from the ko/ui SDK, just like the Start Up Wizard (Help > Run first start wizard again). There is ZERO markup involved there.

Here's a sample of what it looks like in the backend. You can copy and paste this code into the Komodo console to try it for yourself (View menu > Tabs & Sidebars > Console, or Ctrl (Cmd on OSX) + Shift + B then click the Console tab):

panel = require("ko/ui/panel").create({
            anchor: require("ko/windows").getMostRecent().document.documentElement,
            attributes: {
                backdrag: true,
                noautohide: true,
                width: "450px",
                class: "dialog"
var options = { attributes:
            placeholder: "Title",
            col: 120,
            flex: 1
var title = require("ko/ui/textbox").create(options);

All the fields that you fill out in the Slack integration panel are saved for use later using the new ko/simple-storage I mentioned above. Let's have a look at that, then I think we should call it a day on this blog...oh ps. you can get rid of that panel I got you to create on your screen by just writing panel.close() in the JS console ;)

Simple Storage

ko/simple-storage is meant to replace anything ko/prefs does that is not actually “preference” related as the standard storage for application, addon, or userscript information. It's persistent and easier to use, which should make anyone customizing Komodo pretty happy.

Here's a small sample of how it works.

var my_SS = require("ko/simple-storage").get("mine"); = "It's so good it's scary, Carey!";
console.log("Is pizza good? ";

The storage object is saved to disk and can be reloaded after a restart by using the same code. And when you're done with it, you just remove it.

var my_SS = require("ko/simple-storage").get("mine");
console.log("Is pizza still good? " + " Stop asking stupid questions.");

Just open the Komodo Console(View menu > Tabs & Sidebars > Console, or Ctrl (Cmd on OSX) + Shift + B then click the Console tab) if you'd like to give it a try.

So that was a long blog...but I hope you found it useful and can take advantage of these great ways to share with Komodo. As my mother always said...sharing is caring!


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The ActiveState team has been relentlessly improving our Python distribution each month in 2017, and May is no exception! This time around we've bundled another 130 Python packages in our distro and we've also integrated the Intel® Math Kernel Library to add an increase in performance for the most popular computational libraries

Precompiling the Hard-to-Compile Packages

In this release, we've focused on bringing the difficult to build data science packages to all ActivePython users on Windows, MacOS, and Linux (contact us if you are looking for AIX or other platforms). In particular, this release features machine learning, data engineering, data science collaboration, and an increased focus on providing the strongest security packages available in the ecosystem. As the saying goes...but wait, there's more! Since machine learning requires serious performance, we’ve added some outstanding enhancements thanks to the performance experts at Intel.

Machine Learning

Machine learning is becoming an indispensable tool as businesses look to enhance the value locked up inside their data. And Python is becoming a BIG part of that. So in this release we’ve provided the University of Montreal’s theano project as well as Google’s TensorFlow. Some of these packages are very tricky to build and I noticed at the hands-on TensorFlow session at OSCON that those using Windows were struggling. Check out our TensorFlow build on Linux and Windows for an easy way to get it running.

Note: we’ve added these new machine learning packages on top of scikit-learn that we added in our last release. To round out our machine learning package offerings, we've included the keras framework which provides an easier way to build models with either TensorFlow or theano. Just as a caveat (as the python community is still migrating from 2 to 3), some of these libraries are available on only Python 2.7 or 3.5, and they aren't on every platform, so please check this page featuring our machine learning python packages.

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In order to feed the data hungry machine learning algorithms, having smooth running data pipelines are key. Data engineering is an important part of any data science strategy, and the use of data engineering frameworks such as luigi, Dask, or Apache Airflow can help to form a strong foundation. In addition, we already ship connectors and drivers to all popular database platforms, regardless of whether it is traditional relational databases, big data platforms, NoSQL and variants in between.

We realize that security is such an important component for web services and web applications, so we’ve added a number of packages that we feel are critical to developers. For starters, we always provide an updated version of OpenSSL with every new release. In addition, we provide a helper library for PyOpenSSL, called service_identity, which is a fairly unknown but very important package that is used to avoid man in the middle attacks during authentication. We’ve also provided a drop in replacement for the abandoned PyCrypto package, called PyCryptodome, which will require no changes are your part if your applications already using PyCrypto. As well we’ve added the bcrypt library to ActivePython which is another great encryption library that is used for storing sensitive data.

The Intel Math Kernel Library

ActivePython is now leveraging Intel's Math Kernel Library so when you're running ActivePython on Intel hardware, you will see faster processing times for SciPy and NumPy and any other packages that use these for their underlying computations. This also means that theano will enjoy these speed improvements, which is of considerable value when training your models, as will Dask with its parallelization and integration with SciPy and many more!

We hope you enjoy this release of ActivePython and as always don’t be shy to reach out directly to me with any feedback, or requests (yes we have that package too!) for our next version.

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“North America has become the most important export market for the U.S. corn industry,” Skunes testified. “Corn farmers export about 20 percent of our annual corn crop, and exports account for about one-third of our income. Today, the agriculture economy is experiencing its fourth year of a downturn marked by low commodity prices. I cannot stress enough how important export markets are to our ability to stay in business.”

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“Free trade has benefitted American farmers, and NAFTA has been extremely valuable to our industry,” said Skunes. “Twenty-three years of investment has led to a sizeable increase in trade. Since 1994, U.S. corn exports to NAFTA partners have increased more than seven-fold. Today, we export a record volume of more than 14 million metric tons of corn to Mexico and Canada, valued at $2.68 billion. In 2016, corn exports to these two neighbors supported 25,000 jobs, on top of helping support 300,000 U.S. corn farmers.”

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The USTR will continue its NAFTA renegotiation public hearings through Thursday. The public hearings follow USTR’s 90-day notification to Congress on May 18 regarding intent to renegotiate NAFTA as well as USTR’s Federal Register notice published May 23 requesting public comment.

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Day 3 Western Tour Report from Chip Flory

August 20, 2009 07:36 AM

Western Tour Report, Day 3 -- Another day, another good corn crop.

You know... it's kind of fun driving from one 180-plus corn field to another while admiring the handy work of some solid-planting and a favorable growing season. It was unbelievable driving through Iowa crop districts 7 (southwest), 4 (west-central) and 1 (northwest) in Iowa today. We saw excellent corn in the western part of Iowa... and the increase is the result of two key factors: Ear populations and grain length. We've still got a lot of Iowa to Tour tomorrow, so all I'll talk about tonight is the crop districts we're done with... which also means I've got a few more numbers to go over tonight (from three different districts)... so let's get right to it, working from south to north:

Crop District 7: The average ear count came in at 92.31, up 2.2% and the average grain length (look out!) was 7.53 inches, up 11.5%! The average kernel rows around was down 2.9% from year-ago and the average row spacing actually widened 0.7% to 30.31 inches. The average yield jumped to 183.53, a 9.7% increase from last year.

Crop District 4: The average ear count came in at 99.26, up 2.1% from year-ago and the average ear length was 7.01 inches, up 2.9% from last year. The average number of kernel rows around was 16.22, down 0.39% from year-ago. Row spacing narrowed to 29.86, and the average yield jumped 8% from last year to 189.79.

Crop District 1: The average ear count jumped 4.7% from last year, to 102.95 ears per 60-foot of row (seriously!). The average grain length was 6.86 inches, up 2.8% from last year and the average kernel row around was 16.39, up 0.7% from last year. That put the average yield at 184.97, up 5.5% from last year.

Simply put, it's a really (really) good corn crop in western Iowa. The 3-year average for corn yield in crop district 7 is 159.53 bu. per acre, the 3-year average for crop district 4 is 160.74 bu. per acre and the 3-year average in crop district 1 is 163.25 bu. per acre.

You know what... I don't want to get too excited about this Iowa crop until the rest of the samples come in from the OTHER 6 crop districts... thought process was just interrupted by a newswire reporter out here with the Tour. She asked if it was a valid comparison to figure an average of the three crop district results, and compare it to the average of the samples from last year. So... I ran the numbers. Here's what we came up with. The average of the three western crop districts in Iowa was 181.1 bu. per acre this year. Averaging the results from these three districts from last year, we came up with 171.7 bu. per acre. That means this year's crop in western Iowa was up 8.4% from last year. That number "rung a bell." USDA on Aug. 1 put the Iowa crop at 185 bu. per acre, up 8.2% from last year. That's the first time I've run that comparison (thanks Elizabeth!)... and it seems like a valid comparison.

Okay...soybeans: The average number of pods in a 3'X3' square in crop district 7 was 1282.66, up 10.5% from last year; crop district 4 was put at 1214.07, up 11.6% from last year; and the average pod count in crop district 1 was 1159.52, up 11.1% from last year.

The bean crop is generally healthy, has a lot of pods and it's got water to finish. There's one comment I always try to remember to mention on crop tour... and that's "If scouts boots are muddy on Crop Tour, DO NOT underestimate the potential of the bean crop. Water at this time of the year on a bean crop normally leads to a "good" bean crop.

That's it for tonight... we've had a long, wet day and the numbers pretty much speak for themselves. We'll make our way from Spencer, Iowa, to Austin, Minnesota, to wrap up the Tour tomorrow.

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Hedge Funds Go 12 For 12 In 2017

Hedge funds gained in December to end 2017 with positive returns in every month, the first perfect calendar year since 2003. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index® climbed +0.9 percent in December, topping the monthly performance of most equity markets, including the Nasdaq, Russell 2000, Nikkei 225, Shanghai Composite and France’s CAC 40.

The advance brings the FY 2017 performance to a gain of +8.5 percent, the best calendar year performance since 2013, extending the record Index Value to 14,054, according to data released today by HFR®, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry. Inclusive of gains in late 2016, the HFRI has advanced in 21 of the trailing 22 months, including each of the last 14 months.

Event-Driven (ED) and Equity Hedge (EH) funds led industry performance, driven in part by an improving M&A environment in Technology, Media, Healthcare, Retail and Manufacturing, as well as expectations for now-enacted comprehensive US tax reform. The HFRI Event-Driven (Total) Index advanced +1.1 percent in December, the best monthly return since January 2017, and brought the FY17 gain to +7.3 percent. ED performance was led by the HFRI ED: Distressed/Restructuring Index, the ED: Multi-Strategy Index, and the ED: Special Situations Index, each of which advanced +1.7 percent, respectively, in December. For the FY17, the HFRI Event-Driven Index (Asset Weighted) advanced +8.2 percent, topping the equally-weighted composite by 90 basis points.

The HFRI Equity Hedge (Total) Index climbed +1.0 percent for the month, bringing FY17 performance to a gain of +13.2 percent, the strongest calendar year since the Index returned +14.3 percent in 2013. EH sub-strategy performance in December was led the HFRI EH: Fundamental Growth Index, which was up +1.6 percent, bringing the FY17 return to +18.9 percent, surging past the HFRI EH: Healthcare Index to lead all EH strategies for 2017. The HFRI EH: Fundamental Value Index advanced +1.3 percent for the month and +13.3 percent for the year.

Risk Parity strategies also posted strong gains in 2017, with the HFR Risk Parity Vol 15 Index gaining +2.25 percent in December, bringing the YTD gain to +20.1 percent. Similarly, the HFR Risk Parity Vol 10 Institutional Index gained +1.6 percent in December and +13.5 percent for FY17. HFR launched the Risk Parity family of Indices in August (read here).

The newly-launched HFR Blockchain Index continued its meteoric surge with a gain of +88.5 percent in December, bringing the FY 17 parabolic return to +2,961 percent. HFR launched the HFR Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Indices in December (read here).

Fixed income-based Relative Value Arbitrage (RVA) and Macro hedge funds also had positive returns to conclude 2017, with the HFRI Relative Value (Total) Index gaining +0.8 percent, while the HFRI Macro (Total) Index added +0.7 percent for the month. RVA sub-strategy performance was led by the HFRI RV: Yield Alternatives Index, which climbed +3.3 percent in December. For the year, the HFRI RV: FI-Asset Backed Index led sub-strategy performance with a gain of +7.6 percent. December performance of the HFRI Macro Index was led by multi-strategy funds, as the HFRI Macro: Multi-Strategy Index advanced +1.0 percent. For the year, Macro sub-strategy performance was led by both the HFRI Macro: Multi-Strategy Index and the HFR Macro: Currency Index, both of which gained +5.5 percent, respectively.

“Hedge funds successfully concluded 2017 with positive HFRI performance in every month, extended the record HFRI Index Value and increased the record total industry assets throughout the year, as the US economy accelerated, global equities expanded to record levels, and investor tolerance improved,” stated Kenneth J. Heinz, President of HFR. “The powerful combination of surging global equity markets, dynamic M&A trends, commodity volatility and divergent interest rate cycles has created an exciting opportunity set for hedge funds coming into 2018. Developing opportunities in risk parity, blockchain and cryptocurrency trading, each of which have posted outstanding performance in 2017, are likely to further complement and contribute to record industry growth in 2018.”


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Recognising some of the UK offshore industry’s strongest talent, the shortlist for the 2015 Offshore Achievement Awards was announced yesterday.

Sponsored by TAQA in association with, the annual awards are organised and hosted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section and recognise exceptional performance across a range of categories. The 12 awards celebrate individual achievements, company performance and significant innovations in safety and technology.

Ian Phillips, SPE Aberdeen director and chief executive of the Oil and Gas Innovation Centre, said: “The 2015 Offshore Achievement Awards have again attracted an exceptionally high calibre of entrants and we are delighted to announce the very strong line-up of finalists this year. Once again, judges were impressed by the talent and performance demonstrated in the UK offshore industry.

“These awards are a great platform for companies and individuals to gain recognition and this year, we have had more entries than ever. There was a particular increase in nominations in the Emerging Technology and Small Company categories which is extremely encouraging. It is vital to the longevity of the energy industry that new technologies are continually being developed and new, smaller players often play a key role in this innovation.”

“We are also pleased to announce the shortlist for this year’s new category, Outstanding Graduate Programme, and are confident that the initiatives devised by each company will inspire others to ‘grow their own’ skilled personnel.”

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March 7, 2012- One Stop Green, LLC is proud to announce a new partnership with Urban Green Energy (UGE) to offer cutting-edge vertical axis wind turbines and hybrid wind/solar streetlamps which promote the standards of safety, reliability, and excellence that One Stop Green customers have come to expect.

Although wind has been harnessed for centuries, it has only emerged as a major part of our energy solution and over the last twenty years the cost of wind energy has dropped by more than 80%, turning it into the most affordable form of clean energy available today! Recent advances have allowed for sophisticated wind technologies to be developed into cost-effective, reliable solutions and UGE has become a world leader in small wind energy systems by developing the most innovative and cutting edge wind products available on the market today.

"The future of the wind industry is in small scale systems," says Sohail Hassan, founder and CEO of, "Due to the high cost of tall towers and strict local permitting requirements, small wind turbines are increasingly becoming the norm because they are typically placed closer to the ground and because wind at this height switches directions more frequently, vertical axis wind turbines are more appropriate for this application."

For a small wind turbine to be effective, it must produce energy across a wide range of wind speeds that are constantly switching directions. For residential customers especially, the wind turbine must also be very quiet, so as not to disturb neighbors and perhaps most importantly, it must also be aesthetically pleasing! UGE products meet all of these criteria's, which is why they have grown to be the world's leading manufacturer of vertical axis wind turbines and One Stop Green is proud to be an official distributor for the world's most advanced small wind turbines.

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Note: On January 13, 2017, the U.S. Department of Education announced a correction to its repayment rate calculations that resulted in changes to the final rate for most institutions. The error in the original rates undercounted the number of students who had failed to pay at least $1 of principal balance, thus inflating the numbers. Because its publication was before the department recognized and publicized the correction, this report uses the original, uncorrected repayment rates.

Getting students to apply to and enroll in college can require a lot of creativity at an institution without any brand recognition. Even so, FastTrain College’s recruiting tactics took the idea of an exotic approach far too literally. According to a 2014 complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Florida-based college chain allegedly hired strippers and attractive women to convince young men to enroll. Sadly, the school appeared to pay more attention to finding provocatively attired recruitment agents than following the law. Last November, a jury convicted the former FastTrain president Alejandro Amor on charges of stealing more than $6.6 million in federal financial aid by enrolling ineligible students, fabricating high school diplomas, and making false statements to the U.S. Department of Education. In May 2016, a judge sentenced him to 96 months in prison.

According to the Department of Justice complaint, FastTrain engaged in these fraudulent practices starting as early as 2009 and continued until the college closed about six weeks after a Federal Bureau of Investigation raid in 2012. These actions strongly suggest there were serious problems at FastTrain for years.

Somehow, despite all of these issues, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or ACICS—a nonprofit entity tasked with evaluating if FastTrain was of sufficient quality to participate in the federal student aid programs—seemed to find no major problems with the college. In fact, not only did ACICS fail to raise any public alarm bells about FastTrain, it named the school an honor roll institution in 2011 for its “excellent understanding” of the quality assurance process.

Sadly, this disconnect between fraud allegations and praise from ACICS regarding troubled colleges is far from a one-time occurrence. From 2010 to 2015, there were 90 instances where ACICS named campuses or institutions to its honor roll around the same time they were under investigation by state or federal government agents. And the 12 companies that own those campuses are just part of the 17 institutions or corporate entities under investigation that have accessed federal financial aid dollars wholly or in part due to ACICS’ decisions.

Allowing so many troubled actors to access the federal financial aid system has cost taxpayers billions of dollars. According to a Center for American Progress analysis, the 17 institutions, campuses, or corporate entities under investigation that ACICS approved have taken in more than $5.7 billion in federal funds over the past three years. That represents 52 percent of all federal aid dollars received by ACICS-approved colleges during that time period.

The substantial number of troubled actors with access to federal aid dollars thanks to ACICS is a symptom of a larger problem. A detailed review of ACICS policies, procedures, and student outcomes data paint a clear picture of a deeply troubled agency. Our review found that ACICS:

  • Accredits a large number of colleges or companies that have been subject to federal or state investigations or settlements
  • Takes minimal to no public action against colleges, even when outside investigations or peer agencies raise red flags
  • Uses weaker student outcomes measures to judge colleges and sets lower thresholds on these measures compared to other peer agencies
  • Produces the worst combined student outcomes of any major accreditation agency
  • Conducts inadequate job placement rate verification
  • Establishes weaker standards for areas such as recruitment and admission that are typically a source of problems for colleges

In total, these results strongly suggest that ACICS is incapable of acting as a sufficient assessor of college quality and that its repeated poor judgment leaves millions of students and billions of taxpayer dollars at risk.

Fortunately, there is an opportunity to rectify this situation. ACICS must be recognized every few years by the U.S. Department of Education so that the colleges it approves can participate in the federal financial aid programs. This June, a department panel known as the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, or NACIQI, will meet to decide ACICS’ fate. This committee, which is comprised of private citizens appointed by the House, Senate, and the U.S. secretary of education, can recommend that the department terminate ACICS’ recognition, presenting an opportunity to protect students and taxpayers in a manner that ACICS has proven incapable of doing.

In response to this upcoming meeting, ACICS is attempting to make a number of last minute changes. This includes replacing its executive director and creating new ethics standards. While attempting to improve is a laudable goal, these changes are, sadly, too little too late. The agency had a half decade to improve, stemming from its last negative NACIQI review in 2011. Changes made two months out from the meeting suggest desperation—not a serious commitment to change. And even still, the new proposals fail to address fundamental issues such as weak measures of student success, low thresholds for student achievement, and standards for recruitment, admissions, and job placement that fail to head off problems.

The failures of ACICS also raises questions about the viability and integrity of the overall accreditation system. Its challenges are illustrative of the issues plaguing accreditation writ large—insufficient accountability, overly close connections between accreditors and the colleges they approve, and an emphasis on process over outcomes. Failing to take action against the agency that typifies all of these problems will send an unfortunate message to the other accreditors that any level of poor behavior is acceptable.

Allowing ACICS to persist is simply unacceptable. For the good of both American students and taxpayers, its role as gatekeeper for federal financial aid must be terminated.

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