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Devansh's Portfolio - Advice needed for the long term

Hello everyone,
Long time lurker here.I was introduced to the idea of compounding in 2017 when I was just giving my 11th Grade exams.I started reading more about the markets and investing in general and fell in love with the idea.
I opened a account in late 2019 and bought my first ever stock just after the Corona induced market fall had begun.

My aims with investing are 3 primarily :

  1. Compound my capital at a rate of 18-22% to be able to double it every 3-4 years in a sustained manner.
  2. Valuations are of utmost importance so that I don’t end up paying a lot in the market.
  3. Long term wealth creation with the outlook of 15-20 years from now.

My current portfolio :

Investment Thesis :
Kotak Bank & HDFC Bank : These investments are a bet on India’s growth story rather than the Banking Sector.According to me these are the most well managed banks in India as of now.They are industry leaders with a very strong franchise and financials and have a long way to go.One concern I have is that HDFC Bank’s succession plans are not very clear as Mr Aditya Puri is due to retire in October 2020.

Titan : Industry leader.It is a very good way to ride the discretionary spending theme.Nicely managed company and has strong financials.The Jewellery business is the main driver but I will have to keep tracking the other segments.

ITC : Largest Cigarette manufacturer in India and has a very good distribution network.Is a Cash generating machine and as a result pays dividends consistently.Although the FMCG Business isnt as good as the Cigarette division it still has a strong brand presence.At the time I bought ITC,its valuation was favourable.

Reliance : This investment for me is a Debt Pay Down theme.Reliance has been emphasizing that they want to reduce their overall debt.At a P/E multiple of 16 it looked very cheap to me and hence I bought it.The recent investments in Jio also feel positive.I am not sure about the period I am willing to hold Reliance for - 1,5 or 10 years.This may very well be a situational investment.

I am looking at investing atleast 50% more cash now and was tracking Dr Reddys,Divis Labs and DMart among other stocks but I seem to have missed the bus on valuation front.

Your portfolio looks solid and these are some of the best names in their respective industry. With the age by your side you have a long way to go and you have tremendous advantage.

You can buy in staggered manner and also try to add some more names as of now only 5 stocks is little too less. If you have solid conviction in these then try to add it.All the best

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Try not to increase your exposure to banks more when deploying cash. I feel that you have bought all these companies at reasonable price. If you get allocation right you will be able to get good returns in long term. Consider slowly siping-in without waiting for the market to fall down.

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Thank you for the advice.Yes I am looking at SIPing in the market gradually but the valuations of most the companies I am currently tracking feel overstretched.A stock like DMart/Divis Labs which I am tracking since January hasnt really given me a good opportunity to go and allocate a chunk of my capital.Coming to my current holdings I am content with the allocation so far.Are there any other opportunities I can look at in the current market?

Few large-caps that I feel as reasonably valued are Hero Motors, L&T, Bajaj Auto, SBI, HCL, Airtel, and Marico. You can look into them

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Great to see someone so young think about investment and compounding. All the best to you on that journey.

Coming to your picks, all these companies listed are survivors with a long track record. So barring valuations, no other concerns on longevity or business quality or management quality.

If I were to add to the list, I would select Asian paints, Pidilite, Bata. All these three have a dominant position in their respective areas and are not too likely to suffer from disruptions in the near future.

Divis again barring valuations seems a good choice. With capex in place, growth should start in a few quarters.

I wish I had the same maturity and zeal for compounding when I was your age.:grinning: For someone who buys for very long term, time is their best friend and even expensive valuations are taken care of. And what better time to start a portfolio than now, when the whole world is reeling in an unprecedented crisis.

Thank you for the suggestions and comments Sir.Its always great when a Veteran like yourself is guiding us.
I will surely enter Asian Paints,Bata and Divis Labs if I can get a decent price and will buy more on declines. Its not really clear whether the Markets have bottomed out because of the uncertain situation India is going through.
As for starting early,I would thank platforms like YouTube which can be leveraged and used to learn some useful concepts.I watched a video where Mr Ramesh Damani was speaking about Compounding at 20% and that idea just shook me.
Hence I decided to start investing early to increase my chances at succeeding and for a large timeframe.

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What’s the best method of buying a stock? Unless a high conviction stock is available below my average price,should I average up the way if I am confident enough of it and feel that I won’t get a cheaper price in the future?

When buying a stock from your portfolio, avoid seeing the average buy price. You can take a fresh call whether this stock fulfills the buying criteria (fundamental or technical). This will avoid any attachment bias.

You can average up (preferably) or down depending upon your conviction level.

I prefer to use a technical indicator after a fall to prevent catching falling knives. For averaging up, I would prefer buying when the results are favorable and pe reduce due to increased earnings.

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Hey, the only thought I have is that you mentioned you missed the bus on divis, Reddy and dmart. generally when you feel like that they turn out to be the best stocks that one should have owned in the hind sight. Value is the biggest trap. if you have true patience of years even decades, never stay out of a great franchise. overall you are making a good start.

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Well done!
About missing the bus… there is always an opportunity, always a 52 W low…
Screen for ROCE… and try to get the MO report from 2012 or so.
All the best!

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Thank you.I am yet to learn a load of stuff about the markets and businesses in general but yes I have realised that a great franchise will never command cheap valuations in any market unless growth has come to a standstill or there is a economic crisis and everyone is in a frenzy.Keeping that in mind I have entered a few businesses where I think the valuations are reasonable and I will add them if they fall severely.

Portfolio Update : 11/7/2020

Initiated a position in DMart,VST Industries,Asian Paints and Bata.
DMart according to me is a great franchise,although I am a bit wary of the price I have got in.The performance will be impacted as the economy is gradually opening up right now. Q4 results were decent although the impact is visible due to the lockdown and sales restrictions imposed by the Govt.
Their expansion plans have also come to a standstill due to the pandemic.

VST Industries is a pure dividend play for me.The valuation I got is quite favourable so I am not too worried.

Bata and Asian Paints are proven,low stress,consistent compounders so not very worried here although like every consumer company Bata will face various challenges this year as footfalls will be low.

I also added to my positions in ITC and Reliance Industries.

Takeaways in the last 4 months :
1.Price is very very important in most cases and a market crash should be utilized efficiently.In order to do so one’s homework should be to the point.

2.Proper allocation is essential to a portfolios health.I bought into Reliance although my allocation was just 4.5%.It gave me 100% returns in 3 months but due to low allocation its overall impact on my portfolio wasnt very significant.

3.Maintaning emotional stability in a crash is very hard.Although I am a complete newbie,I was checking my portfolio everyday in April and May.

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I have a desire to raise my child bilingual but I am not.  Growing up as a child in Thailand Greece and Italy my parents told me I spoke all three languages fluently.  Since moving back to the states in the 3rd grade I learned a bit of spanish( we moved to Miami) but have never seemed to master it as a true bilingual person.  Is it easier to learn the languages I spoke as a child or is it something that you lose because you stop using it?  They say once you learn how to ride a bike you alway know.  What about languages? Do the connections in the brain that are made stay there or are they lost?

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It is easier if you heard the language(s) as a child.  I heard a lot of Dutch as a child (I don't think I ever spoke it), but I've been studying it and sometimes I'll come across a word.... I don't know why I would ever have learned it.... but my brain feels like "aha.. that's it.. why does that sound so right.. I think I've heard that before!"  The different word order of sentences isn't an obstacle either.... it sounds sensible to my ears just as English does.  And I think the most important advantage of hearing that language as a baby.... when I say anything in Dutch, other Dutch people say I said that well... they rarely rarely correct my pronunciation because it sounds Dutch.  When I try to say something in German to my husband, I have to try and try again and again and he still says it doesn't sound quite right... but I don't hear why!  He says I sound like a Dutch person trying to speak German.  You have a huge huge advantage because you heard (and even spoke!) those languages in your first few years.

I highly highly recommend the book "How to Learn Any Language" by Barry Farber if you are interested in 're'-learning your childhood languages (or any foreign language).  He is a polyglot (25? languages?!) with a very practicle, efficient, and effective method.  If you aren't interested in learning another language, you will be after you read the book.  There's a website with the same title too....
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  • 1. Mortals shouldn't be able to ignore the laws of the universe like say Newtons laws of motion unless under special circumstances and even then it would have a steep price to pay at the very least.

    2. They shouldn't be able to create something from nothing without giving up stamina or something like that.

    3. Mortals shouldn't have too much power like they should never be able to create stuff like the tower of ultimate wizardry or to just have something as powerful as Greater Pyroblast as a reguluar old spell.

    4. And of cource there's the basics like no immortality, insane longevity, creation magic, op insta-kill, omnipotence, logic manipulation, supersize, deadpool regeneration, omniscience, omnipresence, omnilock, omniarch, omni anything basically, and stuff like that.
  • the creation of spells i would say
  • edited November 2017
    I feel like only divines (and only some very unique cases, Sins, Powerful Characters, etc) should be able to communicate with the Old Gods in some type of way. Though, I feel like the way we Old Gods speak to these Divines would be in very cryptic messages that they can interpret in their own way.
  • A lot of the things people are putting are stuff you would expect from super powerful characters, but one thing I think would be cool is the possession of other beings, kind of like the puppeteer menta assault, but its like body hopping, so if someone is truly devout to you you can enter their body, giving them some of your powers and abilities, but obviously there would be negative repercussions. I also think divines should have the ability to use schools of magic that do not exist (I understand there is spells that are all six elements, but I mean like a pyroblast made of wind, or dark magic).
  • edited November 2017
    A divine should exist at a higher plane of existence, which would explain spacetime shenanegains and stuff. This would also allow divines to manupulate the laws of the realm or "create" new realms by manipulating dimensions and the access between them. However, they should not be able to inflict "true destruction" of a character (completely erase from the timeline). Only the Old Gods should be able to possess that power, if anyone should. Divines can cast creation magic, whereas mortals cannot do either. Mortals can learn legendary spells without use of a scroll, but can olny do so through being taught by a Divine (there's a lock on these spells that prevents mortals from casting them without a divine blessing or something) However, Divines should have control of life and death, and they could resurrect dead characters, lift the ageless curse, and destroy a character so they CAN'T be resurrected by any means, save for Old God interference. Divines should not be able to kill each other, but a mortal should be able to kill a divine, but for obvious reasons it should only happen for an extreme case either through power granted to a character by the Old Gods, or through some incredible sacrifice. After all, mortals place value on things such as life and family that divines would not consider important. It would also be a cool story to have a mortal kill a divine, something that has never happened that shocks all other divines. The divines start to fear the mortals since they have the power to destroy a being who was thought to be unkillable. A mortal, through some means, should also be able to become a divine, but similar to killing a divine, it should come as a result of a great sacrifice of from Old God intervention, or else there'd be divines running around everywhere.

    • Divines exist at a higher plane of existence, thus can manipulate spacetime and dimensions
    • Divines can resurrect characters, or destroy them so they can't be resurrected, but cannot completely erase a character from the timeline (only the Old Gods could do such a "retcon")
    • Only Divines can cast creation magic
    • Mortals can only cast legendary spells without a scroll if they're given the power to do so by a Divine
    • Divines cannot kill divines, only mortals could kill a divine through power granted by the Old Gods or through an incredible sacrifice of some sort
    • Mortals can become divines through a similar method to whatever killing divines would be
  • @Fyre But we don't even know if all the basic laws of phyics are canon in urealms, we have minecraft water physics for example (atleast in the tower of ultimate wizardry)
  • @Darnokthemage Well that's true but in Urealms there still are laws of the universe even if we don't know them and urealms has some similarities to our world like gravity and such so it must share some of our laws too.
  • I don't think any one mortal should be able to master all schools/types of magic. For example, even though Nisovin is a master wizard, he can't be a master of all the elements at once. You have to give some up to learn new ones. I think being a true master of all the elements at the same time should be reserved for gods.
  • @Fyre I think it's a bit unreasonable to assume URealms has Newtonian laws...
    Gravity may exist, as things stick to the ground, but it may be much lighter or stronger than our own. The moon is a dead dragon. Yet somehow we still have tides and such for pirates to sail the seas.

    We don't even know if Urealms is a planet, let alone if it is similar in size to earth.

     Plus, people break physics all the time, with no real harm. Wormhole, Levitate, Lascene, etc. Nobody is suffering whiplash or other terrible fates by manipulating space-time. LAG had Minecraft water physics in the tower. Likely not true for the rest of the Realm, but it leads to interesting possibilities.
  • I think it is difficult to focus on the ultimate powers that gods have because they are too impossible for us to grasp. Something to seriously be considered, that isn't necessarily a power but more a passive ability used almost solely for storytelling, is that most gods in any story have some sort of ultimate knowledge/understanding that humans, or elves, dwarves, etc, don't have. Therefore, the gods of the URealms universe should in terms of how their stories are told, always make the right decision even if it doesn't seem to be the right answer. By this, I mean if something happens like say the extinction of a race at the hands of one of the dragon aspects, it was that dragon's intention to do so regardless of if it was an accident due to a role made in game. Ultimate immunity from wrongdoing.
  • @alien_ant_eater The thing is, Virgo also had that happen, he rolled a 1 and his action was cancelled as opposed to anything bad happening.
  • @Rob unlimited limited spells
  • i also think actual permanent shape-shifting should be a legendary scroll.
  • @TheRagingPyro Dalfgan is divine not mortal ;)
  • @Mega_muncher lol yeah that's what was in my mind at the time!
  • I think that existence in Urealms has a hierarchy and I think that it could look something like this:

    Have access to absurd magic and incomprehensible powers and other such creation things.

    Divines/Spawn of powerful magic
    Have access to limited amount of absurd magic while able to endanger themselves to cast a God level spell. Magic at this level can be comprehended better and is similar to having mods in a game.

    Have the Basics of magic and can accomplish great feats with time, practice and understanding. With enough energy and risking/sacrificing lives a Mortal can cast a Divine level ability. For a mortal to cast a God level spell would be devastating with a 99.999999% chance to destroy the caster and drastically change the area around the spell breaking the normal rules of the world. Note: Much like the only way a mortal could cast a Divine spell a mortal can only cast a God spell with proper knowledge tools and a serious amount of energy (like that of a sun :wink: )

  • I Think the Divines would know of the old gods but not what we are.
  • Transmutation? maybe for 1 or 2 at lest
  • @Rob True omniscience is something that the only the gods should be capable of without madness.
  • I think whats really funny here, is we are old gods with a control over the realm so powerful, not even the divines of the realm could comprehend it. And yet we are mortals, incapable of understanding the divines power. Our power can't be explained in the realm without everyone who knows of it looking crazy. And we can't imagine the proper scale to a bunch of dragons that "created" everything.
  • Depends on your definition of Immortality. There is not able to die from natural causes for example, which I find OK, but if your just talking "Literally impossible to die though any means" Then yeah, not even the dragon "gods" where immortal so it wouldn't even make sense that a non-divine being could be.
  • I feel like the things mortal puppet masters have should be at least regulated to some extent, or brought down in power a little. As for aspects or gods, should they have that power, be able to use it a bit more than mortals, or let it have a stronger effect.
  • The Gods should be able to make characters well endowed. It was a gift from the gods not genetics
  • @Ninjathis But there must be something similar to Newton's laws in effect in the Urealms universe sense there universe still has gravity and etc plus the Urealms world must have some universal laws or else the entire world would be complete chaos with no gravity, no equal and opposite reaction, nothing.
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    Only the Divines and Dragon Aspects can truly Die. Mortals can be brought back through resurrection, the ageless curse, reincarnation or just simply living in the afterlife. Nor can their story live on through a Believer. When a God dies it is truly the end of their existence they don't live on in the afterlife, no magic can possibly bring them back and their soul does not carry on into a new entity. They simply cease to exist in all entirety.
  • @Rocksmasha Well that was depressing.
  • @Ninjathis Urealms definitely  doesn’t keep the exact same laws as our universe but they must keep some similar ones as like you said things still stick to the ground. Urealms also most likely has laws accounting for magic and its general insanity. So mortals shouldn’t be able to break these laws to much without some powerful costly magic. Because if it was easy then mortals could just ignore the costs of spells, fly at Mach 5, phase through walls without a care, and just snap the universe in two. So mortals really shouldn’t be able to break the laws of the universe bend yes break no
  • @Fyre Well, we have seen some ignore the cost of spells (if you wanna get technical, it happened a lot in season 1 before stamina costs were officially removed) and phase through walls without a care (just see James Briggs).
  • @UnluckyBimi While stamina costs were removed it’s obvious that wizards can’t cast spells infinity without tiring as seen with limiteds. Also what I meant by the phasing through walls is that mortals shouldn’t be able to just break the laws of the universe and then be allowed to do whatever they want without using magic and paying the price. Like they shouldn’t the. be able to use magic without a cost firing off greater pyroblasts every second and ignoring gravity and flying around at Mach 10 without even casting a spell
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Rocky: A Dose of Inspiration

How Rocky turned the odds in his favor

What makes this movie so enticing and engaging was that Sylvester Stallone who starred in this movie was also the writer and producer for “Rocky”.
The movie “Rocky” was responsible for catapulting Sylvester Stallone’s career to Hollywood box office stardom. For the young ones, you might not be familiar with this movie, since it was first shown in 1976. I’m not a 70’s baby, either, but after hearing about this movie, I’ve just got to watch it! When I got to, I understand how it became a timeless and classic movie, for its truthfulness and inspiration.

Sylvester Stallone starred as “Rocky Balboa” a.k.a “The Italian Stallion” in this film. But it’s not only the movie that captured the hearts of many, but also the story behind the making of “Rocky”.

Before “Rocky” was even shown in cinemas, Sylvester Stallone was a nobody who wrote his heart out in a script and believed in it that he accepted no less than to be the star of that film. He literally had nothing but a script in his hands.

I’ve got to say, before the world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao even existed, there was Rocky.

Yet, Rocky got a shot to fame and stardom. Just one last shot. And he grabbed it. How the wheels turned in his favor.

A nobody. An underdog. A small local boxer who waited long enough for a chance to prove his worth. Rocky gave it his all. That’s just what makes this film great and a “classic”. Wait, but there’s more to this movie.

As mentioned in the movie, “America is a land of opportunity” where everything is possible. Now, what’s one thing in common between Rocky and startups?

Startups want to be at the top of their game, just like Rocky who worked long and hard to became a world- class boxer. Also, Rocky who was pitted with an undefeated and famous boxer, boldly took that chance to became a World Heavyweight Titleholder. For startups, who have passion and enthusiasm for their craft and business, Rocky also had the burning spirit in him amidst negativity and discouragement. Not to mention that he was a nobody, but eventually, became somebody.

Among all sports, boxing is the most cruel and grueling. To become a world boxing title holder, like Manny Pacquiao, it takes not just talent but dedication, patience, and lots of sacrifice.

Like in business, you have to take risks, sacrifice, and work hard to take your business to the top. Don’t settle for mediocrity, take that chance, and work hard to become a world- class business.

What I learned from Rocky Balboa:

1. Go the distance.

As Rocky Balboa said, “All I wanna do is go the distance. If I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.”

Rocky didn’t mind being famous or rich; he just wanted to be a boxer. He just wanted to go the distance and be the one standing when the last bell rings. His life came at a turning point, and when the opportunity came, he was ready. His life and his future depended on it.

2. Stand up.

Just like in boxing, when life and competitors knocks you down a couple of times, you got to stand up and fight! You got to stay up and hold your head high when tough times roll in.

3. Have the heart of a CHAMPION.

It took Rocky 10 gruelling years of training and hardwork to get that chance of a lifetime. Who was he to think he’ll win? Because he is a winner. Long before that last bell was struck, he trained like a winner, fought like a winner, and had the heart of a champion. His journey was not an easy one, but it was all worth it in the end.

4. Choose the crowd you’re with.

There’s truth to the old saying, “Birds of the same feather, flock together”. It’s much easier to destroy your image, but takes time to build it again. When you want to be smart, hang out and be close to smart people. In business, be with business- minded people as often as you can.

5. Don’t forget the people who believed in you.

When your startup business hit it big, money and fame is just within reach. There will be people who would want to take advantage of you. But, remember, to step back and take a look on the long way you trudged, and how far you came in this journey. Most importantly, remember the people who were behind your back when you needed them, and who believed in you long before you became a success.

So, when you feel like the burden of the world is on your shoulders, don’t lose hope. Just take some inspiration from Rocky.

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ATLANTA — Herman Cain, a 2012 presidential candidate, has died at an Atlanta-area hospital after battling the coronavirus, according to a statement posted on his official Twitter account Thursday. He was 74.

Cain had been hospitalized at the beginning of July for COVID-19. Cain was one of the surrogates at President Donald Trump’s June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The former pizza company executive was an outspoken backer of the president and was a co-chair of Black Voices for Trump. At least eight Trump advance team staffers who attended the rally also tested positive for coronavirus.

Trump faced criticism for holding the event despite warnings from public health experts that it is not yet safe to hold mass gatherings. More than 6,000 people attended the rally in an arena that can seat more than 19,000.

Cain briefly rose to the top of polls during the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination by highlighting a plan to simplify the tax code with what he called the 9-9-9 plan. On the campaign trail, he spoke about being diagnosed in 2006 with stage 4 liver cancer and his doctors giving him slim hope for long-term survival.

More recently, he has kept involved in conservative politics as a commentator on Newsmax.

Dan Calabrese, editor of HermanCain.com, posted the obituary on Cain’s Twitter and website, saying in part:

Let me deal with some of the particulars of the last few weeks. We knew when he was first hospitalized with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight. He had trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. We all prayed that the initial meds they gave him would get his breathing back to normal, but it became clear pretty quickly that he was in for a battle.

We didn’t release detailed updates on his condition to the public or to the media because neither his family nor we thought there was any reason for that. There were hopeful indicators, including a mere five days ago when doctors told us they thought he would eventually recover, although it wouldn’t be quick. We were relieved to be told that, and passed on the news via Herman’s social media. And yet we also felt real concern about the fact that he never quite seemed to get to the point where the doctors could advance him to the recovery phase.

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Houston Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills was one of 87 people arrested following a protest march in Kentucky. A group of over one hundred people marched from Louisville's East End to the home of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police officers during a no-knock raid at her home in the middle of the night.

Authorities said that the protesters were ordered to disperse and leave Cameron's property. When they refused to leave, they were taken into custody. Stills and the other protesters were charged with a felony count of intimidating a participant in the legal process, misdemeanor disorderly conduct, and criminal trespass.

Stills was released from jail and posted a video on Instagram Live, defending the protesters.

"We just want justice," Stills said, according to ESPN. "We just want Breonna Taylor's killers arrested."

Taylor, a 26-year-old Black emergency medical technician, was shot eight times by plainclothes officers serving a no-knock warrant for illegal drugs at her apartment. They did not find any drugs during a search of her apartment.

One of the officers involved in the incident was fired, but the other two officers remain on the force. Cameron's office has been investigating the shooting, but none of the officers have been charged.

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Stewardship in 2018-19

In worship on Dedication Sunday, September 24, the church will celebrate God’s continued care. Each of us is part of the church, the congregation and the body of Christ. Ponder the materials that will be provided and listen to the upcoming stories. Prayerfully consider how you can be the body of Christ by sharing the gifts God has given you: your time, your talent, and your treasures.

We strive to handle all gifts, pledges, and inquiries with the utmost fidelity and discretion. If you have any questions or need more information about the church’s finances or your own giving, please feel free to contact Betsy Galliher at (423) 764-7176. The stewardship brochure and a printable pledge card are available in the column to the left.

Below is a link to the 2019 Spiritual Gifts Service Form

Here are links to previous and current Stewardship videos:

Pete Stigers’: Theology of Geography:

Task Force: What does stewardship look like to you?

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Originally published through Tone Deaf

If there’s one bad thing about releasing a widely popular, critically acclaimed debut album, it’s the pressure that comes with the follow-up. It seems all too common for bands to cave under the pressure, producing some kind of vague, freak-out record with none of the explosive force of their breakthrough.

Ball Park Music’s sophomore effort however, has thankfully emerged unscathed from the trials of ‘Second Album Syndrome’.

Museum is a logical step forward from the sugary indie pop of Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs, venturing into richer sonic territory. Talking with guitarist Dean Hanson, it’s obvious he and his band could not be clearer of what they were trying to accomplish; and what that is isn’t indie, so please don’t call them that.

“I think when we begun as a band we kind of got pushed into a corner of – ‘you’re an indie rock band, you know – indie-pop, that’s what you are, sunshine and lollipops, flash in the pan sort of crap’,” he says. “But we always knew that what we wanted to do, what we wanted to make, was a lot more substantial than your run of the mill indie-pop band. I think personally we kind of hate being labeled as that.”

“So I think with this record – or I hope – that it sets us apart from that indie-pop mold. For me it’s more of an alternative pop rock album.”

So how exactly does a band that’s been established as indie-pop make an album that isn’t of that genre? By drawing on influences that are further out of the – dare we say – ball park – than what listeners may expect.

“We’ve listened to a lot of Led Zeppelin for this album, mainly because we like to listen to the kind of mistakes that they made – and how great the mistakes really are,” Hanson says.

“We also listened to a little bit of Queen, mainly for Brian May’s guitar sound. I think it’s track number 11 – ‘Harbour of Lame Ducks’ – has a really good solo in the middle which is like, it’s self-indulgent almost, cock-rock stuff, but it’s awesome.”

“I don’t know if it actually sounds like that,” he admits, “but that’s the influences we were taking, and putting them through the Ball Park Music filter, and whatever came out, came out.”

Upon further inspection, it is possible to hear those influences on Museum – if not directly in the music, then in the longevity it can be predicted to have. While Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs was undoubtedly a great album, it was very much a product of 2011, whereas their latest seems likely to outlast musical trends.

There is a rather large melodic gap between ‘Stairway To Heaven’ and Ball Park Music’s ‘Surrender’ however, with the latter having more in common with the guitar-hook-heavy alt-rock of the nineties than seventies arena anthems. Which makes it appropriate then, that the five-piece have been selected to support Weezer on their upcoming Australian tour.

“I think we have a knack for writing songs that kind of have a nineties edge about them,” Hanson agrees.

“I think it’s because we were born in 1989, most of us, so we were there for the whole thing. Our knowledge of music – when we first realised that music was a thing – was just nineties music. We just have this natural, nineties feel to us, on our music and I think that people always draw comparisons to Weezer, we get a lot of comparisons to Pavement and bands like that.”

Are they comfortable with the comparison? “The nineties were a great time for music! You know? Like a lot of bands sit there and say ‘we’re trying to go for a sixties vibe’. The sixties was also a great decade for music, obviously. But there’s not too many bands realising that the nineties were so great. So many awesome, massive bands were spawned out of the nineties.”

The band also seem to have ‘the look ‘down, with Hanson stating that “Sam [Cromack, singer/guitarist] looks a little bit like (Weezer frontman) Rivers Cuomo, with his glasses, and he’s skinny and small.”

The Weezer tour will allow Ball Park Music to once again show off one of their greatest strengths, their much-commended live performance. They’re setting off on a headlining tour later this month – only having just completed one in March – along with an incredibly well-received billing at Splendour In The Grass.

Unfortunately however, following their latest tour, Ball Park Music went from a six-piece to five, with third guitarist Brock Smith leaving the band before work began on Museum. Hanson says the split was for the best.

“There’s not really much to it, other than it was not particularly practical having a third guitar player,” he explains; “and Sam as the songwriter wasn’t passionate about writing songs for a band with that many members.”

Hanson continues, “Sam’s a guitarist and has been for many, many years, and it was getting to a point where he would write songs and then not play the guitar in those songs, just because, you know, there wasn’t enough room for a third part and unfortunately that meant we had to lose a member.”

Fans needn’t worry about the lineup change. Listening to Museum, it’s certain that Ball Park Music haven’t lost any of their sound or gusto; besides Hanson finds plenty of good things to remember from their national trip as well.

“Our last Australian tour was so great,” Hanson recalls. “I think playing four shows at the Corner Hotel back to back was probably one of my favourite memories. I just remember the last time we played it, really great show, and after the show finished the curtains closed, and I just lay down on the stage on my back for like five minutes – just thinking ‘that was just awesome’. Such a great ride. That was just such a euphoric moment for me.”

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We were staying in a nomad camp in the middle of the steppe. There were about 10 bottles of vodka in the back of the van at at all times, and at each new camp we would produce two – one as a gift for our hosts (we also paid them money, of course, for the food and board), and one to share with them on the spot. Appreciation of vodka and mutual hospitality are deeply embedded into the culture of Mongolia, and it provided an easy way to bond with the generous families we met on our journey.

On this night, the wives and children had gone to the capital for a week, so it was just the local men in the camp, plus our backpacker crew. The men seemed glad of the novel company, and we all sipped our straight vodka out of bowls. However, our hosts had to excuse themselves relatively early.

“I’m sorry,” one of them said via our translator, “but we have to get up early to hunt wolves.”

We went to bed as well, and I woke up the next morning with the sun, slipping out of the ger for a dawn cigarette. One of the men was standing near our van, looking very chipper for the early hour, and also looking pretty pleased with himself. He saw me, smiled, and gestured for me to come over. And there it was – a dead wolf.

It lay unceremoniously on a matted carpet of thick straw grass, out in the open in the clear early morning light. Congealed blood had collected around its closed jaws, permanently frozen into a half-snarl. Besides this, though, it was in remarkably good shape for an animal that had just been hunted down. Its brown fur was elegant and clean. Its muscles were graceful, though obviously lax. It seemed too beautiful an animal to be thrown, drained of life, onto the steppe, reduced by death into becoming just one object of interest in the surrounding camp – the gers, the motorbike, the van and the recently extinguished wolf.

It probably goes without saying that I’d been exposed to a lot more death – and the general realities of human domination over animals – in Central Asia than I had in my sanitised life in Australia. I saw a herd of reindeers castrated: they were tied up at their ankles and forced onto the ground, staring upwards while a group of Mongolian boys held them down and busily flicked a knife around their insides. Bones, skulls and horns litter the streets of even the larger Mongolian towns, sometimes with bloodied clumps of skin and fur still attached.

In Hotien, I climbed out of the bus (which had become entangled in overhanging power lines) to the sight of a recently slaughtered sheep chopped up into easily transportable pieces in a motorcycle tray, its severed head staring almost comically at the unfolding scene. Meat here is found swinging in huge slabs that still clearly resemble the animals they once made up; you can buy live turtles in the seafood section of supermarkets and fresh intestines at roadside stalls.

I prefer this. It seems more decent to at least acknowledge the fact that so much of the way we live our lives is built upon the slaughter and use of animals; living things that think and feel and give birth. There’s no point getting squeamish about it, and it seems more honest to look the reality of the situation in the eye. I realise there is more exposure to the unpleasant parts of an animal product-based lifestyle here out of necessity, not as part of some noble intention, but a side effect of this is coming face to face with the blood and guts that is usually out of sight and out of mind. I think that’s a good thing. Watching the way animals are treated in the developing world can be confronting, but let’s be real – they are treated a lot better on the whole than those churned through factory farms in the West, hidden away where we don’t have to think about them.

The exquisitely beautiful sight of the hunted wolf left me feeling shaken and sad, but in a constructive way. Wolves here aren’t endangered; they are a threat to the herds, the families probably need the money (the carcasses are sold to buyers in China), and the nomads certainly know better than I do what is or isn’t good for their own natural environment. However, the sight of the blood bubbling out of the animal’s jaws is still an image that will haunt me for a long time yet.

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The intent of this paper is to discourse Case # 6 in the pupil text sing The Grand General Store. The Grande General Store is a household owned concern that has been in the household for several coevalss. The current owner-operators have grown kids; nevertheless. the kids are non interested in following in the household footfalls. Rocky and Anita Grande are acquiring up in age and are acquiring tired of running the shop. With no 1 in line to run the shop. they have decided to sell the concern. The Grande General shop is located on the outer borders of Denver. Colorado. The shop is good know and good respected amongst the local community. The current employees are besides dedicated to the shop and some have been with the company for over 10 old ages. Mr. and Mrs. Grande evidently care about the shop and want to see it win in the hereafter. They plan to let the purchasers to go on to utilize the Grande name. The Grande’s are known in the community for being honest and difficult working. The concerns and clients they do concern with have established relationships with the Grande’s. They are good trusted by their creditors; to boot. local contractors are more than willing to make concern with them alternatively of the larger and cheaper providers. Their clients are loyal.

The shop was established in 1948. Since so. the shop has been through some little alterations. The shop began as a true general shop. They sold everything from nutrient. vesture. farm supplies. penny confect. and even train tickets. In 1970. the shop transitioned into a hardware shop merchandising lawn and garden. pigments. electrical and plumbing. and general hardware. The shop boasts a broad 4. 200 square pess of selling floor infinite. Additionally. it is handily located following to a railway which allows their storage country to easy suit big cargos of ware to be stored for subsequently sale. In their storage infinite. they can easy house big points such as timber. Sheetrock. roofing and turnout. The shop is easy able to transport needful stuffs to local building sites. The Grande’s have done a good occupation of up maintaining the edifices and equipment. They have an upgraded fleet of bringing trucks and forklifts. The shop has a spirit of the original 1948 edifice outside; nevertheless. the interior is modern with a mix of the original fixtures. The income statement provided represents the financials for a five twelvemonth coverage period – 1998 to 2002. Income (Profit and Loss) Statement Summary: 1998 – 2002 (in 000s)

Gross saless $ 1. 100 $ 1. 215 $ 1. 500 $ 1. 800 $ 2. 200
Net Income $ 35 $ 66 $ 118 $ 181 $ 287

Net Cash Flow for Operationss: 1998 – 2002 (in 000s)
Net Cash Flow $ 69 $ 84 $ 110 $ 187 $ 236

Balance Sheet Summary: January 1. 1998 – 2002 (in 000s)
Cash $ 12 $ 19 $ 22 $ 23 $ 21
Owners Equity $ 686 $ 683 $ 647 $ 623 $ 613

The entire current Assessed value is $ 850. 000. During this clip. Denver is on a turning tendency and projected to go on. In the local country. new lodging. new vicinities. new promenades. and even schools are under manner or in the planning phases. The Grande belongings is big and there are plentifulness of enlargement options. The Grande’s have non come up with an inquiring monetary value. but the local Bankss have offered to supply a 15-year note for a soap of $ 624. 000. Question 1

Before make up one’s minding to buy a concern. in this instance one must weigh the pros and cons of buying an bing concern. If I were interested in hardware and building. this would decidedly be an chance worth looking into. Some advantages to buying a concern that is already established are lower start up costs and easy accessible hard currency flow. “There are many favourable facets to purchasing an bing concern such as drastic decrease in startup costs. You may be able to leap get down your hard currency flow instantly because of bing stock list and receivables. ” (U. S. Small Business Adminstration. 2012. p. 1)

On the other manus. a possible purchaser must be certain that the cost of the bing concern doesn’t outweigh the cost of get downing a new concern.
“There are besides some downsides to purchasing an bing concern. Buying cost may be much higher than the cost of get downing a new concern because of the initial concern construct. client base. trade name and other cardinal work that has already been done. ” (U. S. Small Business Adminstration. 2012. p. 1). In this instance. the community acknowledgment. client base and trueness of the employee staff would be deserving extra investing in the long tally.

Harmonizing to the income statement. the concern has had increased Gross saless and Net Income over the five twelvemonth period. Within the five twelvemonth period reported. the net income has increased well. Reviewing the net hard currency flow Numberss shows the hard currency in has besides increased. but so has the hard currency out. Overall. the net hard currency flow from operations has addition over the five twelvemonth period. The balance sheet shows a little lessening in hard currency in 2002 which could intend a little lessening in fiscal strength. (Katz & A; Richard. 2011. p. 405) Additionally. the net worth of the concern has continuously declined over the past five old ages. I think this concern would decidedly be deserving purchasing. If you were familiar with the hardware industry. you would hold a great pes in to loyal clients used to making concern at Grande. Additionally. this concern has a big shop and storage country. has a batch of land. and has the advantage of being close to the railway. The net worth has shown a diminution. but the belongings shows a batch of possible. I would do an offer to the Grandes in the sum of $ 613. 000. Question 2

In 2004. Denver is anticipating to see an addition in the economic system. The local economic system has been dead. “While Denver has historically relied on resource production and other cyclical industries. by 2002. the tube economic system had become more complex and diversified. During the 1980s and early 1990s. as dependance on agribusiness. excavation and fabrication declined. Colorado became more in melody with the national concern rhythm. ” (City and County of Denver. 2004. p. 6) The strongest growing is projected to be professional and concern services. followed by educational growing. Unfortunately. a significant loss in the fabrication industry is forecasted and a little loss in the building industry every bit good. Merely a 1 % addition is expected in these industries. (City and County of Denver. 2004. p. 8)

Overall. I would be nervous to buy this concern. The financials look ok. but the biggest concern is the bead in net worth. The concern as it is looks assuring. The belongings is in a good location and there could be a batch of chance to spread out. The narrative is good established and extremely regarded in the community. If the purchaser could be more advanced and bring forthing more concern chances. every bit good as keeping the high criterions the Grandes have established the concern could be really comfortable.

City and County of Denver. (2004. Septermber). Business Retention Study. Retrieved from Office of Economic Development: hypertext transfer protocol: /www. denvergov. org/Portals/690/documents/BusinessRetentionStudy_FullReport. pdf

Katz. J.. & A; Richard. G. (2011). Entrepreneurial Small Business. In Entrepreneurial Small Business (pp. C-6 – C-8). New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin.

Metro Denver. (2012. December 5). Monthly Economic Summary January 2007. Retrieved from Metro Denver: hypertext transfer protocol: /www. metrodenver. org/metro-denver-economy/monthly-summary/2007

U. S. Small Business Adminstration. (2012). Buying Existing Businesss. Retrieved from U. S. Small Business Administration: hypertext transfer protocol: /www. Small Business Administration. gov/content/buying-existing-business

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The Wrong Stuff: From Claustrophobia to the Cosmos

Director Damien Chazelle has had a meteoric rise in the Hollywood firmament. His 2014 hit Whiplash had a $3.3 million production budget and earned more than $13 million at the box office, while 2016’s La La Land cost $30 million. Presumably because that musical scored five times its costs, Chazelle’s latest movie, First Man, almost doubled La La Land’s budget. I usually don’t dwell on film finances and focus instead on cinematic aesthetics, social commentary, film history and the like, but in the case of First Man the movie’s money matters have impacted upon its style - and in a mostly negative way.

The film’s title character is Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling), the first man to step foot on the moon. Like Miles Teller’s wannabe drummer in Whiplash and Emma Stone’s aspiring actress and Gosling’s striving jazz pianist in La La Land, First Man’s protagonist is - in this case, literally - reaching for the stars, against impossible odds.

In addition to being a biopic about this astronaut, First Man is also about the space race that pitted Washington against Moscow in the competition to scientifically dominate outer space - and in doing so, to have ideological hegemony down here on Planet Earth during the Cold War. Although this is not what First Man concentrates on to its credit the movie depicts the U.S.-Russia rivalry, as well as the New Left’s opposition to the expensive space program, contending that money spent on the space race could be better spent on social problems at home, such as reducing poverty. (The movie doesn’t go into the whole “Space Force” issue of militarizing the heavens, although the aeronautics industry is part and parcel of the military industrial complex. Can you say: “Wernher von Braun”?)

However, just as the Great Society’s programs suffered from spending taxpayer dollars on war as well as on the expensive space program (which President Johnson had helmed when he was JFK’s veep), costs limit the scope of First Man. One would imagine that the space race and the first manned moon mission would be a colossal cinematic extravaganza laden with special FX and the like, and would cost in excess of $100 million. But budgeted at a relatively modest (by Tinseltown standards) $59 million, First Man is more of mid-level movie than a top tier production.

And the film suffers because of it. Much of First Man’s camerawork consists of close ups, when the subject matter requires many grandiose long shots on an epic scale. The first lunar mission should look something like Lawrence of Arabia set in outer space. Instead, much of the cinematography is as if Chazelle is standing too close to you, invading your personal space, instead of illuminating outer space. It is too often tight when it needs to be titanic.

To be fair, Chazelle is in part trying to make a personal movie about Armstrong and his family, which includes his wife Janet (Claire Foy) and their children. Armstrong’s tragic loss is an important part of the movie and helps to explain why he is so taciturn and reticent - at a press conference the only term he can utter to express how he felt upon learning that he was chosen to head the first manned lunar landing is that Neil is “pleased.” He comes across as an emotionally stunted, driven man unable to tell his little boys he loves them before he blasts off into the wild blue yonder and beyond - and may never return to them. It doesn’t help that as an actor, Gosling has a limited range - Brando he ain’t.

When the big screen opens up parts of the movie are briefly spectacular. But the close ups are often filler, repetitive and rather irritating in the huge IMAX format and I strongly suspect were shot in lieu of having the type of budget necessary for a movie about a mission of this cosmic caliber. It is as daft as Quentin Tarantino’s idiotically deploying the panoramic 70 mm widescreen format to show characters mostly in confined spaces - a stagecoach and cabin. Chazelle’s attempt to cinematically balance an indie-like character study with cinematic spectacle fails to launch. Thus much of First Man is ineptly directed and like Ava Duvernay, who jumped from 2012’s indie Middle of Nowhere to 2014’s Selma, about the epic battle for Civil Rights, Chazelle is way over his head here.

First Man has drawn the ire of rightwing snowflakes, throwing temper tantrums over the fact that, like much of the moonwalk stuff, Armstrong is not shown planting the Stars and Stripes on the lunar surface. Never mind that Old Glory is glimpsed in some of the movie’s rare long shots - these cry babies are the worst politically correct fanatics in America, just as white (trash) nationalists are the worst examples of identity politics in the USA. They get their panties into a twist over any perceived slights to their sacred cows - their make believe wrathful God, police and vigilante murderers of unarmed nonwhites, Penta-goon war criminals, sexual assaulters and above all, symbols like the flag. These reactionaries may love America, but they despise Americans, and like those neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, wish the Union had lost the Civil War and the U.S. had lost World War II to their fascist soul mates.

Along with winning WWII, the space program was the only good thing Washington was able to accomplish on the international stage since the despicable nuking of Hiroshima (another hallowed totem of mindless conservatives we’re not supposed to, you know, like use our Constitutional right of free speech to criticize). The space race definitely had, as First Man reminds us, a propagandistic purpose, as the Ruskies had beat us in space, from Sputnik to Laika, the first dog in orbit aboard 1957’s “Muttnik” to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in outer space in 1961 - before John Glenn circled the Earth three times in 1962. Shortly after the truly miraculous Apollo 11 mission served its ideological agitprop purpose by beating the Soviets to the moon, proving once again the sheer lunacy the capitalist class and its governmental minions who only pursue what they perceive to be in their immediate short term self-interest, the manned lunar missions were abandoned.

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Josh Singer, whose screen credits include the Pentagon Papers pic The Post (that completely downplayed Daniel Ellsberg’s role in exposing Washington’s Big Lies about Vietnam), Spotlight (about the Boston Globe’s expose of clergy child abuse) and the WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate, adapted James R. Hansen’s 2005 book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong for this movie misfire. Corey Stoll’s (Rep. Peter Russo in the Netflix series House of Cards) depiction of Buzz Aldrin provides some comic relief and rehabilitated my opinion of the second man to walk on the moon. Around 2000 I had an unfortunate personal encounter with a loutish Aldrin who was - well, buzzed - and Stoll’s portrayal of him - in contrast to the emotionally constipated Armstrong - made me rethink the astronaut who is, after all, only human, with our flaws and triumphs.

But this droll performance isn’t enough to balance Chazelle’s aborted movie moon mission, which is as if Stanley Kubrick had shot the optically opulent 1968 sci fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey consisting mainly of close ups of Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and HAL. In comparison to Kubrick’s sumptuous cinematography, Chazelle’s movie just looks cheap, even though Steven Spielberg - who is richer than god - exec produced this Dreamworks co-production. By the way, the image of a helmeted Gosling being used to advertise First Man walks that fine line between being a homage to or a rip-off of the far superior 2001. To paraphrase Jesus in Matthew 20:16, “the First Man Shall Be Last.” First Man is the wrong stuff and Chazelle should stick to making low budge indies - his real filmic forte. But maybe he has gone La La Land.

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New Toy: Notch

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Earlier this year, our lab got a lightweight IMU-based wearable motion capture system called Notch. The system is a set of six waterproof IMU sensors designed to be mounted on the body. The motion capture system does not use external cameras like Optitrack or Vicon which uses a group of infrared cameras to triangulate the position of retroreflective markers; instead, it uses Inertial Measurement Unit which combines an accelerometer to sense non-gravitational accelerations and combines a gyroscope to obtain orientation based on gravity sensing.

With the help of the straps and clip mounts that come with the kit, we can connect the sensors with a smartphone and conveniently obtain the position and orientation of the body parts the sensors mounted on. Due to the nature of the design, IMU-based motion capture is not as accurate as the marker-based motion capture. But it is much more convenient to use at home without the extra space and work for the installation of the external cameras.

Almost the major VR systems have a VR headset to track head and two controllers to track both hands. With the help of machine learning and/or IK, adding an IMU on each of the feet can achieve a full-body-rigged avatar to represent the user in VR. This could be a great solution for the next generation of VR systems.

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The Death Star and the Jedi Council

The Death Star and the Jedi Council

Yesterday, Ken and I were discussing the goals, ideas, and philosophies that drive the lab. In that discussion, there were two ideas that kept on coming up in our conversation: The Death Star and the Jedi Council.

Before you get worried (or excited), no, we are not planning to build a planetary destroyer. Nor are we thinking about how to develop an elite group of powerful people with space magic.

What we mean when we reference the two would be the technology required to recreate two iconic scenes in the Star Wars franchise.

The Death Star

In Star Wars Episode 6, the Rebels congregate to plan to destruction of the second Death Star. In order to do so, they pull up a hologram:

This object, the image of the Death Star, floats in the middle of the air, and it is shared by everyone. Everyone in the room can see it from their own perspective as though it were a physical object.

With a shared view of the object, the Rebels are able to collaboratively discuss how they plan to destroy the Death Star. The hologram can change views, overlay information, and run simulations.

The Jedi Council

In the Star Wars prequels, a recurring concept is a Jedi Council, which allows Jedi Masters to remotely appear in a common location and see each other as though they were physically there.

Each member can talk and move with each other, but they are not physically in the same location.

So why were we talking about these two scenes?

Both are forms of AR technology, envisioned in a world where these sorts of holograms are robust, commonplace technology — a world that is not so far off from our own (the lightsabers and spaceships might be a little bit further away).

However, these two ideas operate under different assumptions about where people are. In our first example, everyone was co-present, or physically located in the same room. In the second example, people from remote locations are beaming into a room to speak with others.

As a lab, we have decided that we are more interested in the first idea: We believe that the real power of AR comes from the interactions we have with other people. As such, almost all of our experiments have began with the idea of people collaborating in the same room.

This isn’t to say that telepresence, the concept behind the Jedi Council, is uninteresting or unimportant. A large amount of research and funding is being devoted into developing this sort of technology. The interests of our lab are simply better suited to ask the questions of “How can we see the Death Star?” and “What can we do once we can?”

Oh, and the original Star Wars are much better than the prequels, so I’m confident in our decision in inspiration.

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