Hello! It was cloudy today in Nagsaki.
Today, we had an early dinner and went to a restaurant with all five of us including grandpa, called, Ringerhut.
Kate had fried rice set, I had Sara Udon set.
I love the Sara Udon set. I love the Kikurage in the Sara Udon set. It is kind of like mushroom.
Fried Rice is pretty big for Kate, so she always asks grandpa to eat.
After we came back, we read Case Closed, Conan. It was super fun!!
We also played soccer for fun.
It's cloudy and rainy in Nagasaki.
I got an email from a fan the other day.
That person bought the same guitar I have!
I have been lucky that I have had a chance to borrow guitars and bass while I stayed in the US last year and one gave me 2 guitars and a bass to Kate in the past.
This is a different kind of surprise.
Kate Sensei has been watching Pokemon.
She is starting to watch different kinds of shows.
Oh, I feel like I am writing too long.
It's sunny/cloudy in Nagasaki today.
Just a while ago, we had an earthquake. It has been pretty scary.
Well, today, I don't know what to talk about but I will write abotu Kate.
Not about things she says but how she is different at school vs home.
First, as you know from her videos, she is pretty loud.
On the other hand, at school, lol.
She was the funniest last year when she entered school.
She kept nodding so much when the principal was talking….
But she had acutally fallen a sleep.
Also, while she was supposed to be practicing cheer for sports day, I guess she was a sleep too.
Now, she is at grandpa's house studying.
I guess the difference between being at school and at home is that she is loud at home, at school, she tries to be good but she does funny stuff.
Oh, here is my new flashlight!
地震怖かったのとプレゼント! EARTHQUAKE + GIFT BOX!
Last night, we had a big earthquake in Kyushu area.
Our house shook pretty bad so, I was really scared and I couldn't sleep so well.
Kate said she is scared but she started snoring away.
It looks like Kumamoto got hit really bad. It makes me sad.
Earthquake was not great but we had a great surprise!
We got a gift box from a fan again from Nagoya.
Kate Sensei got a bag full of LEGOS and I got a really nice pen set.
There were letters and also snacks in there too. Thank you so much!
So many nice fans! We are so lucky.
We will continue our journey with guitar, etc. Thanks so much for your support!!
My luck for today was #8 out of 12.
The other day, we went to get our haircut.
So, here they are, in case you haven't seen on twitter.
My hair used to be LONG!
It feels light and different.
Kate has been pretty happy to be a 2nd grader.
The other day, it was her first time to be at school until 6th period, so I thought she'd be tired but she was super happy.
after this, I am going to get a haircut!
Kate will too but she will just trim a little.
I will put the photos on the next blog.
Yesterday, it was stormy here with such strong wind.
All trains were delayed in the morning.
I became a 7th grader.
There wasn't so much to study just yet, so I spent time taking photos, etc.
Tomorrow, I hope to make a schedule of my day on a computer.
That way, I will know what to do every day and I can get used to using computers.
Anyway, I hope Kate sensei comes home soon.
She is till 6th period today. I hope she didn't fall asleep.
Hello! It's cloudy in Nagasaki.
We went to Huis Ten Bosch the other day.
It was so great!! Well, I guess that doesn't explain anything.
We left around 1pm with Kate and of course my mom, etc.
We slept great on the train.
When we arrived, we first got to HUIS TEN BOSCH Howl Forest.
There, we could see and touch REAL owls. They were so CUTE!
In the beginning, I thought it was just a gift shop but there were real owls, it suprirsed me!
I bought a plush there.
Afterwards, we went inside and walked around. It was so beautiful.
We had great dinner too. If I wrote all about it it will get long, so I will stop here.
Here are some stuff we go there.
So, did you read all I wrote?
me "I told you it will be on the test!!!!!"
Thought I uplodaded this yesterday but I hadn't.
Hi, everyone! It's sunny here. I played badminton outside under the blue sky. It was so fun but now I am really tired….
I am energized why? because today, we will go to Huis Ten Bois. I am so looking forward to it. After lunch, grandpa, uncle Nate, Kate, mon and I will get on the train to GOOO!!! SOOO EXCITED!!!
Today, I am the crazy one, not Kate?!
Too excited. I hope you have a great spring break too! ???? Oh, from tomorrow, Kate will be in 2nd grade. Do your best Kate Sensei!!!!!
Right now, it's rainy but I guess it will clear up later in the day.
Today, we will go to Ohmura but that's not the big news.
Tomorrow, we are going to Huis Ten Bosch!
I think I went when I was little but have no memory of going.
So, I feel like this is my first time.
I guess there's beautiful illuminations at night, etc, so we probably will be there until late.
Do you have some plans for the vacation?
I hope so. If you do, please let me know!
Yesterday was a surprising day!
It made us really happy!
One of our fans sent us a big package of goodies.
When we opened the box, there were so much yummy stuff in there.
There were Japanese Sweets I love and Kate loves candy, so we were so happy!
We won't stop writing or playing!!!!
Thanks so much for your support!!!!!!
Hello, everyone! I am not sure what to write this time.
It is a bit cloudy, rainy in Nagasaki.
Oh, I will talk about Kate Sensei's funny mistake in Kanji.
She was practicing, so I tested her.
I asked how do you read this?
Here are some that were pretty funny.
『見学』→『みがっ!』 means to "study by observing" Instead of Kengaku, she said MIGA!
Oh, Kate Sensei! Come on!!


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Laws of Thermodynamics as Related to Biology
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Regina Bailey
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The laws of thermodynamics are important unifying principles of biology. These principles govern the chemical processes (metabolism) in all biological organisms. The First Law of Thermodynamics, also known as the law of conservation of energy, states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It may change from one form to another, but the energy in a closed system remains constant.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that when energy is transferred, there will be less energy available at the end of the transfer process than at the beginning. Due to entropy, which is the measure of disorder in a closed system, all of the available energy will not be useful to the organism. Entropy increases as energy is transferred.
In addition to the laws of thermodynamics, the cell theory, gene theory, evolution, and homeostasis form the basic principles that are the foundation for the study of life.
First Law of Thermodynamics in Biological Systems
All biological organisms require energy to survive. In a closed system, such as the universe, this energy is not consumed but transformed from one form to another. Cells, for example, perform a number of important processes. These processes require energy. In photosynthesis, the energy is supplied by the sun. Light energy is absorbed by cells in plant leaves and converted to chemical energy. The chemical energy is stored in the form of glucose, which is used to form complex carbohydrates necessary to build plant mass.
The energy stored in glucose can also be released through cellular respiration. This process allows plant and animal organisms to access the energy stored in carbohydrates, lipids, and other macromolecules through the production of ATP. This energy is needed to perform cell functions such as DNA replication, mitosis, meiosis, cell movement, endocytosis, exocytosis, and apoptosis.
Second Law of Thermodynamics in Biological Systems
As with other biological processes, the transfer of energy is not 100 percent efficient. In photosynthesis, for example, not all of the light energy is absorbed by the plant. Some energy is reflected and some is lost as heat. The loss of energy to the surrounding environment results in an increase of disorder or entropy. Unlike plants and other photosynthetic organisms, animals cannot generate energy directly from the sunlight. They must consume plants or other animal organisms for energy.
The higher up an organism is on the food chain, the less available energy it receives from its food sources. Much of this energy is lost during metabolic processes performed by the producers and primary consumers that are eaten. Therefore, much less energy is available for organisms at higher trophic levels. (Trophic levels are groups that help ecologists understand the specific role of all living things in the ecosystem.) The lower the available energy, the less number of organisms can be supported. This is why there are more producers than consumers in an ecosystem.
Living systems require constant energy input to maintain their highly ordered state. Cells, for example, are highly ordered and have low entropy. In the process of maintaining this order, some energy is lost to the surroundings or transformed. So while cells are ordered, the processes performed to maintain that order result in an increase in entropy in the cell's/organism's surroundings. The transfer of energy causes entropy in the universe to increase.
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Cell Theory: A Core Principle of Biology
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An Overview of Thermodynamics
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First Law of Thermodynamics Definition
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What Is a Trophic Level?
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On 8th February 2018, took place the laying of corner stone of Goodman new facilities in Ullö, Budapest.
This project, the largest warehouse ever built in Hungary, is designed and built by GSE, the global contractor.
This facility of 88 000 m² of built area, is developed by Goodman and rented to Auchan for the storage of cold and dry products.
This event was attended by the senior executives of the 3 companies, as well as the Australian Ambassador to Hungary, Dr Brendon Hammer.
The project is expected to be handed over in august 2018.


The HITECH Stimulus program is in full swing, and many of you may be shopping for a new or replacement Electronic Health Record (EHR). While implementing EHR is important to the future of your practice, the health of your billing system is even more important. Cash flow is the lifeblood of your practice. Without efficient billing, your revenues will decline, and you will be unable to care for your patients.
EHR systems should exchange data with your billing system in two directions: importing demographic information to the EHR, and pushing charges into the billing system. Re-keying information into your billing system is not only time-consuming, it also leads to data entry errors. As you know, even the smallest error can result in denied claims.
Industry experts agree you should not change or adopt an EHR and switch your billing system at the same time. Slowing down your clinical volumes and your billing at the same time can result in a heavy financial burden. Not only will your billing slow down as the staff learns the new system, you may also have to set up all your insurance profiles again. In addition, you may encounter some delay in working with a new clearinghouse.
Next, you have to decide between a single vendor for EHR and billing or the "best of breed" strategy where EHR and billing come from different vendors. There are benefits and drawbacks to each. Using a single vendor is a popular choice for those who only want to call one number for support.
However, combined EHR and billing systems may still be separate systems joined together under a common graphic user interface (GUI). Combined systems usually start life as either an EHR or billing system, and the other piece is either developed later, or acquired through a merger. If the vendor's expertise was in EHR, the billing system may not be as good, or vice versa.
"Best of breed" is a good choice if you are happy with your current billing system. There is no reason to change your current system if it works well. More often than not, your new EHR will be able to integrate with your current billing system. Although you will pay a fee for integration, it will usually be more economical than purchasing a new system.
Best of breed is not without its problems. Make sure the maintenance, support, and updates for your billing system are paid in full. Otherwise, your system may not be able to interoperate with the new EHR. Also, be sure to consult your vendor to make sure they will work with another EHR system. In most cases they will, because they want to keep you as a customer.
If you have questions about billing system integration, please feel free to contact us at info@xlemr.com. We look forward to hearing from you.


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Don't underestimate this old 3 -speed Super Champion kit. Its Tourism French record is the same as today's famous SRAM, and also helped the driver to win the Tingle Championship twice.
Speaking of the transmission chain of highway bicycles, it was the invention of the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, which has been more than 100 years ago. In 1937, the transmission bicycle entered the Tanfa for the first time and won the championship that year. After that, the transmission quickly replaced the tradition in the Tourism Fa at that time. The way to get off the rear wheels before climbing the hill became the mainstream. Different forms of transmission win the survival of the fittest, which is finally set to modern front and rear chain design.
Although highway bicycles appear earlier, and various transmission appears first on highway cars, the 1X transmission system of modern significance is born on the mountain stadium. (What? You said that the Guanfa champion car in 1937 is 1x? Yes ... it is really ...)
In some XC competitions in the 2010 season, the two Olympic champions Julian Abu Salon realized that he did not need a small disk in the game. Disk, use 1*10 system to participate. At that time, the 2*10 system was just popular, and the positive and negative tooth plates did not appear. Later, the 1*10 XX1 single -disk transmission system released by SRAM later marked the official entering the 1x era.
It was not until the highway cross -country field in 2014 that the 1X system in the modern sense first debuted on the bicycle field. On the highway team, the Aqua Blue Sport team, which has just announced the use of the 1X system to recruit intercontinental events, is the first professional team to use the 1X system in the modern large group.
The 1X system that killed the Quartet in the mountain stadium finally entered the highway professional competition. However, it cannot be denied that the relative traditional dual -disk systems have the advantages of simple, lightweight, reliable, and brain -saving.
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Bensalem Twp, Bucks County, PA
Belmont Map
School District: Bensalem Township
Post Office: Bensalem
Belmont (3779 Bristol Road) is a private residence with approximately 4,500 sq. ft. of living space and it sits on about a one acre parcel. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Portions of the content of this web page were adapted from a copy of the original nomination document.
Belmont is a large circa 1850, stuccoed masonry, two and three quarter story, Greek Revival house surmounted by a slate, hip roof. The house is L-shaped and has two primary two and three quarters story, five bay facades of matching design which meet at the south corner of the house, making the house seem much larger than it actually is. A wide veranda protects the first story of the main elevation (southwestern) and a portion of the other major elevation (southeastern). The southeastern facade is extended by a two story masonry and clapboard kitchen wing added in the nineteenth century. Belmont is located along heavily travelled Bristol Road in Bensalem Township. While the house was traditionally associated with a 146 acre farm, it is currently situated on a three acre lot surrounded on three sides by a twentieth century housing development. A large regional shopping mall is located on the opposite side of Bristol Road. However, the building's location on a rise, its setback from the road, and its large lot with mature trees and extensive shrubbery still provides an appropriate setting. The property has a number of outbuilding ruins to the rear of the mansion, but since their construction date and relationship to the main house have not been proven, they are not included in the nomination.
An example of the Greek Revival form, Belmont is bold in silhouette, broad in proportions, and simplified in details. The roof has small brick interior end chimneys at the northwest, southeast, and northeast ends. The chimney on the southeast end has an octagonal, terra cotta chimney pot. The cornice is a relatively simple molded boxed cornice without the highly ornamented frieze associated with high style Greek Revival architecture. Instead, there is a pronounced drip course above the second floor windows. The area between the cornice and the dripcourse is punctured by regularly spaced horizontal four light casement frieze windows on the two main facades to form a simple frieze. The first floor on the main (southwest) facade of the house has a central wide entranceway with a transom and shouldered architrave trim and double doors.
There are four large 6/6 sash windows on the first floor. The second floor has five 6/6 windows which are smaller than those on the first floor. Located directly above the lower windows, above a pronounced dripcourse, are the five four light casement frieze windows. A low pitched hip porch with simple Doric columns spans the main facade and wraps around far enough to service a doorway on the southeast facade of the rear wing. The southeast wing windows match those found on the southwest facade in size and location. Although also having a transom and being ornamented by a frame with shouldered architrave trim, the doorway on this facade is smaller than the one on the southwest wing. It has only a single, standard width door and a three light transom.
Attached to the northeast end of the two and three quarter story rear wing that forms a portion of the main house is a two story, four bay, gable roof section. The cornice of this section matches the cornice of the main building. The first story of this section is masonry and matches the main sections of the house. The second story and gable are clapboard. The fenestration on the first floor main elevation of this section is irregular. The outer two bays have recessed doorways with simple lintels. The interior two bays consist of a double 6/6 sash and a single 6/6 sash window. There is no evidence visible to determine if this was the original pattern. The second floor has a regular four bay appearance with four 6/6 sash windows with louvered blinds.
The rear facades of both the main wings do not have regular fenestration. The rear of the main (southwest) facade has three visible bays with the doorway in the bay nearest to where the other wing attaches to this wing. Three second floor windows are located directly above these bays. The third floor has 3/3 sash windows in the outer two bays of the rear side of the southwestern wing.
The rear of the southeastern wing has two 6/6 windows on the first floor, a single 6/6 window on the second floor and a single 3/3 on the third floor. The rear of the kitchen wing is of a three bay design with a central door. All windows are of 6/6 design. The second story windows have louvered blinds.
Belmont is of central hall design. The central hall contains the house's main stairway. The main staircase does not go to the third floor. It is a dogleg design with a curved handrail wrapping around the landing and continuing to the top of the stairs and across the small second floor open hallway. On the first floor, to the northwest of the central hall, is a single parlor spanning the entire depth of the house. The fireplace in this parlor has a rather flat profile with simple square pilasters. On the southeast side of the central hallway on the main floor, the front room does not span the entire depth of the house. Since there is no wall between the two units forming the L-shaped house, the rear room on this side of the stairhall is incorporated into a very large room encompassing the remaining portion of the front section and all of the main portion of the rear wing. Since the second floor also reflects this design, this arrangement appears to be part of the original plan. There is a built-in, glass front cupboard in the outside wall of this rear first floor room that appears to be original.
In addition to the main stairs, there is a second, service stairway along the northwesterly wall of the large rear room. It reaches the second floor at the rear of the main block. A long hallway, with a small, curved sided closet near the head of the stairs, leads back along the stairway providing access to the second floor rooms along the southeast facade. The space above the northwest parlor is divided into front and back bedrooms. On the southwest side of the partitions are two closets, one servicing each room. The closet closest to the room entrance has a curved end, similar to the hall closet, to facilitate entry into the room. The third floor, with the exception of the northeast corner, is completely open. The northeast corner has been closed in with simple board partitions. The interior of the rear two story extension has plain plastered walls.
The interior of the house is not highly ornamented. The interior walls are plastered and there are no interior cornices. Panelling is virtually non existent. The moldings of the door surrounds and fireplaces have a wide, flat profile of the Greek Revival style, and is almost the only element that carries the Greek Revival styling of the exterior, and all of the windows in the house have curved plastered reveals rather than ornate frames.
The first and second floors have thin, regular floorboards. The floorboards on the third floor are wider than those on the more public areas. The major alterations to the building include excavation of the basement to make it more usable, the installation of a bathroom on the second floor, the removal of shutters and fretwork from the third floor windows, and the residing to the second story of the rear kitchen wing. The only documented changes have been made since the property's purchase by the present owner in late 1985. The bathroom on the second floor was put in a small already existing room. While the interior of this single room has been completely altered, these changes are minor in comparison to the overall integrity of the building and collectively do not detract from the nineteenth century appearance of the building. The remainder of the work done to the building has been the correction of problems caused by deferred routine maintenance.
Belmont's significance is in the area of architecture. It is an important representative of the adoption of a nationally popular style in Bucks County. It is one of only a few purely Greek Revival style homes in Lower Bucks County. In styling it represents a middle ground between vernacular houses with Greek Revival details in Bucks County and Andalusia, Bucks County's ornate Greek Revival style landmark.
Belmont is a blend between vernacular and urbane design. The house looks more like a free standing townhouse rather than a rural farmhouse. Most Greek Revival vernacular buildings in lower Bucks County represent traditional gable roof buildings with Greek Revival ornamentation. Unlike the large number of buildings that exhibit mere Greek Revival details, Belmont was built as a Greek Revival house. Belmont has the clean lines, large windows, and the low pitched hip roof of the Greek Revival style that make it stand out from other period buildings.
The majority of buildings that present a similar two and three quarter story facade are additive in nature, and none has the L-shaped hipped roof that makes Belmont distinctive. While there are other examples of vernacular Greek Revival buildings in central Bucks County, it is unclear why this style did not spread in the lower part of the county. For whatever reason Belmont is the only pure example of a residence built in this style in lower Bucks County.
At first glance, the house bears a striking resemblance to Trevose, the Grovden-Galloway mansion, located approximately three quarters of a mile to the east (listed in the National Register May 24, 1975). However, Trevose is a full two pile building with an added third story. The Trevose mansion dates to the eighteenth century and was extensively remodeled about the same time Belmont was constructed. In terms of architecture, Belmont cannot be considered in the same category as the Greek Revival landmark, Andalusia, also located in Bensalem Township. Andalusia, one of the earliest Greek Revival buildings in the County, also represents an earlier building with later Greek Revival additions. It was constructed by Nicholas Biddle, a man of national stature and importance.
Belmont was constructed by someone of local prominence using plans and designs that appear to be taken from a builder's guide book, rather than designed by a noted architect. The temple front style of Greek Revival architecture did not flourish in rural areas of the Delaware valley. This may be because conservative Quakers and other sectarians did not readily accept homes that resembled temples.
To date, little information has been uncovered about Belmont's first owner, Paul Townsend. It is known from a family genealogy that he operated a mill along the Poquessing Creek, near Mechanicsville (now part of Philadelphia), known as Townsend's Mill that had formerly been operated by his father, grandfather, and great grandfather. After his marriage in 1839, he took up residence on the farm of his father-in-law Samuel Jones, on the road leading from the Poquessing Creek to the Growden-Galloway farm, in Bensalem Township. After farming that property for a few years he purchased the Belmont property. The genealogy states that the first year after his purchase of the property, Townsend dug a cellar for the mansion house "roofed it over and brought his family there to live while he and his assistants hewed the timber from the woods for the remainder of the house, the barn and other buildings". Attributing the house to Townsend is supported by the fact that in a newspaper advertisement dated October 13, 1847, the property was described as having no buildings on it. Townsend owned the property until his death in 1890.
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The problem is when i try to open: example.com/examplecom/public ... it doesn't hide and return to example.com. It's redirecting to example.com/examplecom/public/en (the Laravel redirect).
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Companies known for innovation not only thrive on creativity and "out of the box" thinking, but also the processes that rapidly bring those ideas to life—challenging the veracity of the idea, identifying and testing key use cases, and (where practical and feasible) quickly scaling those applications to drive business success. Success is characterized not only by their bold vision for change, but also their ability to accelerate the latter stages of the innovation "process" to more quickly harvest value from those innovations.
Utilities have been talking about business transformation and innovation in one form or another for pretty much the industry's entire existence, though with a good deal more verve over the past couple of decades. Our industry today is certainly chock full of innovation trials and pilots, with many of these recently entering the stage at which programs can be fully integrated, scaled and harvested for their intended value. Some are there now, with many more looking poised to thrive in 2022.
Innovation Moments in Time
Whenever you're in the midst of big change, the final picture of success is rarely clear from the outset. It's so easy to get caught up in the exciting (and sometimes scary) things happening around us, that we fail to really appreciate the moments in time where change actually becomes more permanent.
Such is the case when entire industries undergo massive transformation. There are clear points when old industry models are seemingly put to bed, and new innovations take root and become the new standard. These "tipping points" are usually unrecognizable until after the fact when the pieces of the puzzle have fallen close enough together for the picture of "what success looks like" to come into focus.
For me, 2021 was, in effect, that "tipping point" for the energy and utility sector. Some of the areas I outline below are not new innovations, and most still have a long way to go. But looking from the inside out, most would agree that the collective picture of the future we see today looks quite different, and more in focus, than what many of us thought possible at the beginning of 2021.
Here is a look at some of the puzzle pieces (in no particular order) that have come together in 2021, and some thoughts on what lies ahead:
5-Star Digital Customer Experiences (The "New Normal")
Utilities have been talking about digital customer experience for several years now, and have no doubt had their fair share of successes. The percentage of transactions being completed via self-service was already at record levels for things like payments, outage information, and even new connections. But as the pandemic brought more customers into our digital customer experience ecosystem through necessity, we saw utilities tap into new segments of customers that may never have shifted into a self-service model (at least by choice). We saw innovative utilities going live in 2021 with new digital CX platforms, complete with state of the art portals and mobile apps—bringing to life that long-sought-after "Uber-like experience." Early in 2021, research firms who routinely benchmark utility web portals and mobile apps acknowledged the rapid narrowing of the gap between CX leaders outside the industry and utilities who are in striking distance of matching or beating that service delivery standard.
We are well past the question of "can" utilities achieve the kind of 5-star customer journeys exemplified by the likes of Uber, Apple, Amazon and others. It's now a question of how quickly such performance standards permeate the industry as a whole. Today's leading cloud-based CX platforms are accelerating that process, and literally taking companies from "worst to first" in a matter of months vs. years. Look for that to continue in 2022 as the industry finds new ways to leverage this newfound core competency.
Acceleration of eMobility
e-Mobility is a term that in 2021 became a common part of the utility vernacular. Of course, utilities have been considering how to ready themselves to deal with the electrification of transport for quite some time. How will we deal with the load growth that accompanies a critical mass of EV's emerging across the system? How will we keep that load managed and unconstrained from a resource and grid operations perspective? How will we upgrade infrastructure to accommodate accelerated demand for fast and distributed public charging networks and home-based systems?
Perhaps what wasn't as clear to many at the beginning of 2021 was just how quickly EV's would move into the mainstream and force real responses to these challenges. EV's quickly became some of the hottest selling models in used car markets, and leading manufactures began rolling out new EV models at an unprecedented pace. At the same time an ecosystem of vendors, hardware, and technology has emerged to support this new world order. And new business and revenue models for utilities are appearing with offerings that promise to turn our traditional infrastructure and retail business models on their heads.
2022 will be the year innovative utilities continue to refine and scale these new business models, positioning them to play offense rather than defense. Customers will see their utilities making new offers and providing services and support that look quite different than they do today. These include helping customers overcome EV concerns and navigate their buying decisions, as well as in-home managed charging, personal journey planning, integrating with public charging networks, common payment platforms, and more.
Utilities can, and should, be at the center of e-mobility for a host of reasons, not least of which is its impact on infrastructure reliability. It just so happens that being at the center of this change will likely bring massive new opportunities for new product and revenue growth that many will be ready to take advantage of.
Orchestrating a Decentralized Grid
e-Mobility is just the latest example of what a decentralized and complex network of infrastructure and devices means for our transmission and distribution networks. This is a challenge that has been emerging since distributed energy resources (DER's) started increasing in penetration. Solar rooftops, battery storage, and the myriad of controllable devices in the smart home, such as smart thermostats and water heaters, all guarantee that our resources—and for that matter our resourcefulness—will be heavily tested in the years to come. With these changes has come a dramatic expansion in companies aggregating and controlling these resources in 2021. The proliferation of operational DER's certainly hit an inflection point in 2021, but also highlighted the risk associated with an "unmanaged" body of market participants and connected devices, not to mention the complexities of an explosive uptick in EV's and charging infrastructure discussed above.
As the number of participants in the energy value chain grows, the difficulty of centrally controlling energy resources becomes clear, i.e., systems that can balance customer load flexibility created through multiple devices and aggregation models (sometimes with conflicting objectives), with the network constraints that need to accommodate those resources. Centralized "utility operated" DERMS (Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems) will be essential to this orchestration, bringing a level of "grid awareness", transparency, and central coordination to a market that has become increasingly decentralized and more risky.
Look for utilities to rise to that challenge in 2022 and provide a new type of DERMS: a universal platform for centrally orchestrating DERS regardless of where they sit or who owns and manages the resource. While there are other models and options for providing such coordination, utilities are no doubt in the best starting position to provide it, given the role they've played to date in protecting our delivery infrastructure for the common good.
Reimagining Behavioral Energy Efficiency
Behavioral energy efficiency and "home energy reports" (HERs) have become the centerpieces of modern-day energy efficiency portfolios. HERs have evolved considerably over the past decade, moving from the old paper-based 'neighbor comparisons' to more personalized and digital versions of these "reports" that are more closely aligned with individual customer usage patterns. At many utilities, the adoption of HERs has clearly hit its tipping point. HERs are now an integral party of the energy efficiency portfolio, in most cases providing a body of validated energy savings and a gateway to other programs and incentives that can contribute to the organizations energy efficiency and decarbonization goals in the years ahead. The question is whether we've hit a plateau or if there are more to come, even from companies with mature behavioral energy initiatives.
We expect 2022 will introduce a new approach to HERs—one that will dramatically lower costs and drive more adoption than ever before by integrating behavioral messages more seamlessly at ALL stages of the customer experience: from the moment customers move into their homes, throughout their transactive experiences (routine billing and payments), and even into the external servicing channels and marketplaces they routinely interact with. We envision a truly immersive experience that may, in fact, render the home energy report (as a "program") obsolete, replaced by a more dynamic body of behavioral messaging already embedded in leading CX platforms. Just another (albeit vital) source of strategic content positioned in ways customers actually care about.
Home Services 3.0
Home services—an area not entirely new to utilities—has also undergone a major evolution in recent years. Some of the largest energy, gas, and water utilities have built hugely profitable and successful businesses around the servicing of "behind the meter" appliances: from home wiring and plumbing to appliance warrantees and servicing. These services are attracting customers because they address key pain points and reduce risk and financial exposure. They have also provided a platform for extending utilities' relationship with customers beyond just the monthly energy bill.
In 2022, we expect the opportunities for home services offers to expand even further as devices in smart homes increase, customer owned generation becomes more prolific, and EV's rise in penetration. As this occurs, utilities and customers will grow increasingly dependent on the consistent performance of connected customer devices for their own benefit and the reliability of the power grid as a whole. With the intelligence and predictive insights utilities can garner from AMI meters, solar inverters, EV chargers, and a litany of other in-home devices, Utilities will be well positioned to step in with a new generation of home monitoring and maintenance offers.
This is certainly not an exhaustive list of the areas that hit major milestones in 2021, or the changes we're likely to see in 2022. But collectively, these milestones show that utilities are now well into the most important phase of the innovation cycle, i.e., taking these ideas out of the incubator and integrating them into what is now taking shape within the "utility of the future." That's progress we can all be proud of, and excited about as 2022 unfolds.
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Jim Stack on Jan 28, 2022
Bob, Giod points but the traditional utilities are not open to thinking out of the box. In FACT they don't even see things or reacte when you give them the data.
An example is my government owned not for profit utility SRP in Arizona. They own and operate 7 large dams that were placed to prevent flooding over 50 years ago. These produce over 8% of the electric power for their 1 million customers . They produce 24/7.
I have been trying to get them to upgrade these 50 year old hydro plants so they could produce up to double the power they now produce. They won't even get bids. I also said any time you are repairing some of thexequipment do an upgrade as the repair. They finally have started doing that with spectacular results.
I also presented to their board over 20 years ago that GRID TIED solar is going to grow fast. They came up with a 19 year incentive starting at $7 a watt with a 19% reduction a year. I told them thexequipment will drop by 50% a year and they will not be able to pay so much. They all laughed and said I don't know what I am talking about. The next year they reduced by 50% on the incentive then dropped it completely the next year and now charge customers extra if they add solar. They still don't understand.
So I think it is hopless trying to get big greedy utilities to change and see the future.
The same issues happen with the other regulated utilities in my state. Only Germany and Norway seem to see and embrace the future.
Bob Champagne on Jan 28, 2022
I hear you Jim, but my view is that it's not that black or white. Over the consulting part of my career alone, I've worked with literally hundreds of utilities globally and have definitely seen the best and worst of what's out there. While I would say the gap between the "winners" and "losers" has widened- there are way too many good examples to support blanketing the industry as blind to innovation and change. In the customer experience area where I spend the bulk of my time, there are utilities (within the markets you reference) who are consistently outperforming their counterparts in more competitive industries. Let's celebrate and reward those successes , and use that as catalyst to drive those innovations more deeply across the sector. No shortage of opportunity.
Russ Hissom on Feb 1, 2022
Great article, Bob. It's really informative to find out more about these areas. I can only speak to the finance side of the business and those processes, but we see plenty of innovation in finance processes as well. With advances in software, we've seen more uses of artificial intelligence for areas like workflow management in purchasing, materials management, work orders, vendor payments, contract reviews, and others. And, with more smart meters I think you'll be seeing trends in the ratemaking area with predictive analytics, leading to better load management, integration of DERs in power supply planning (taking a point from your article), and customer choice.
For those of you reading this, it would be interesting to find other uses of technology in ops or finance and accounting. It's a pretty exciting time in the business.
Thanks again, Bob.
Thank Bob for the Post!
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Wolverine dedicates their full focus on industry-leading print & mail capabilities while Royal Alliances scales into Presort with their revolutionary software platform and unparalleled operational expertise
Royal Alliances (RA) reaches an agreement with long-time partner, Wolverine Solutions Group (WSG), to acquire Wolverine Automated Mailing Services (WAMS), a division of Wolverine Solutions Group. RA will create a stand-alone automated presort company named Royal Alliances Presort Detroit (RAPD). This agreement allows RAPD to leverage the infrastructure of the WSG presort division with an industry leading software platform and modernized service offering. The partnership is built on the trusted relationship WSG has maintained with RA for several years.
"We are confident that the combination of leadership, industry knowledge, hardware and technology will provide a world class presort offering that customers will immediately appreciate," said Darryl English, President of WSG.
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About Royal Alliances:
Royal Alliances is at the forefront of revolutionizing the mail industry by combining systems and business procedures from large and small print, fulfillment, presort, and logistics businesses on a free, easy to use, webbased software platform. The RA software is fully approved by the US Postal Service and makes presort business operations easier and more profitable. RA's platform enables increased revenue and cost reductions at the newly formed RA presort location in Detroit, and at RA partner firms nationwide.
About Wolverine Solutions Group:
Wolverine's core business is to provide solutions that support strategic growth. Their clients utilize their deep knowledge and experience in business-critical communications to connect with their target market – whether business-to-business or business-to-consumer. They simplify processes to create efficient exchanges between their client and the target. They accomplish this by supporting their communications strategy to create, maintain, or expand the consumer relationship.
They are an integrated provider of high-value services to organizations seeking to reach consumers or other businesses by collaborating and architecting quality solutions that deliver results. Wolverine leverages vast knowledge and experience in cross media communications to satisfy, inform and educate their clients. They provide on-time, flawless execution that yields compelling value. Wolverine's integrity, commitment and personal service set the benchmark for target market expansion and retention across a range of industries.
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the last month of 2013!
Studio Tour is this weekend!
Holiday Love and Peace to you all!
Gypsy wonders where she will lay down in the studio now.
In my October-November newsletter, I told you that Byrdcall Studio was making a major acquisition, but I didn't say what.... Sorry, but I was afraid that by talking as though it was a "done deal," I might jinx the transaction.
Gramma is pleased. See, she is smiling.
rug supply business founded by my grandparents the year I was born. Lundgren Rya was sold out of the family about 30 years ago.
Once again, I am participating the the Studio Tour. Click on the link in the right-hand panel for details. Being the furthest south on the tour, it can get lonely if people don't feel like driving all the way to Woodbine. I'll make it worth your while with tasty home made snacks, beverages, a sneak peek at my rya supplies, and a great selection of both hand-printed and silk screened shirts...but the best part is seeing a working studio in action...and it is always in action. Don't miss it. If you ordered a shirt at the Mistletoe Mart, remember to come by to pick it up if that was your pick-up choice.
I didn't know how many to print a few months ago, but come to find out I didn't print enough of certain sizes and colors... and I must say that the royal purple has been very popular. Who knew? So if I turned you away because I didn't have your size or color, hopefully you'll give me another chance in mid-December.
Thanks for your kindness and support all year long.


Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), (also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group that the drummer was associated with for the next 35 years. The Messengers were formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard-bop group of the late '50s".
A relentless performer, Blakey continued to record as a sideman throughout his career—frequently for Messengers alumni. He also led several percussion-centric albums with many of his peers.
Blakey was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1981), the Grammy Hall of Fame (in 1998 and 2001), and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
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Blakey had been living in Manhattan (New York City), when he died of lung cancer at age 71, at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center. Blakey's New York Times obituary notes that he was survived by four daughters (Gwendolyn, Evelyn, Jackie, and Sakeena, and by four sons (Takashi, Kenji, Gamal, and Akira.
As John Cohassey reports, Blakey was a "jazz musician who lived most of his life on the road, [and] lived by the rules of the road." This lifestyle resulted in run-ins related to but predating the civil rights era (including a 1939 Fletcher Henderson band episode in Albany, Georgia, where an altercation and Blakey's treatment after arrest led to surgery inserting a plate in his head). Drummer Keith Hollis, reflecting on Blakey's early life, states his perception that his fellow drummer "wound up doing drugs to cope"; like many of the era, Blakey and his bands were known for their drug use around travel and performing (with varying accounts of Blakey's influence on others in this regard). Other specific recollections have Blakely forswearing serious drink while playing (after being disciplined by drummer Sid Catlett early in his career, for drinking while performing), and suggest that the influence of "clean-living cat" Wynton Marsalis led to a period where drugs were a less serious matter during performances. Blakey was also a heavy smoker; he appears in a cloud of smoke on the Buhaina's Delight (1961) album cover, and, similarly, in extended footage of a 1973 appearance with Ginger Baker, Blakey begins a long drummers "duel" with cigarette alight.
Blakey traveled for a year in West Africa (1948) to explore the culture and religion of Islam he would adopt alongside changing his name (see above); Art's conversion to "Bu" took place in the late 1940s at a time when other African-Americans were being influenced by the Ahmadi missionary Kahili Ahmed Nasir, according to the Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History, and at one time in that period, Blakey led a turbaned, Qur'an-reading jazz band called the 17 Messengers (perhaps all Muslim, reflecting notions of the Prophet's and music's roles as conduits of the divine message). A friend recollects that when "Art took up the religion [...] he did so on his own terms.", saying that "Muslim imams would come over to his place, and they would pray and talk, then a few hours later [we] would go [...] to a restaurant [...and] have a drink and order some ribs", and suggests that reasons for the name change included the pragmatic: that "like many other black jazz musicians who adopted Muslim names", musicians did so to allow them to "check into hotels and enter 'white only places' under the assumption they were not African-American". Blakey reportedly stopped public practice of Islam in the 1950s (though retaining his name and continuing private Qur'anic prayer), perhaps because of the pressures of touring and performing, perhaps in response to experiencing racism within the adoptive religion he believed free from this perceived Christian practice.
In addition to his musical interests, Blakey was described by Jerry "Tiger" Pearson as a storyteller, as having a "big appetite for music [...] women [and] food", and an interest in boxing. Blakey married four times, and had common law and other relationships throughout his life. He married his first wife, Clarice Stewart, while yet a teen, then Diana Bates (1956), Atsuko Nakamura (1968), and Anne Arnold (1983). These relationships gave him 10 children—daughters Gwendolyn, Akira, Evelyn, Jackie, Kadijah, and Sakeena, and sons Art Jr., Takashi, Kenji and Gamal. Sandy Warren, another longtime companion of Blakey, published a book of reminiscences and favorite food recipes from the period of the late 1970s to early 1980s when Blakey lived in Northfield, New Jersey with Warren and son Takashi.
Blakey's and his bands' legacy is not only for the music they produced, but also in their role as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians. Observers have stated the opinion that Blakey's groups' productivity and influence are matched only by those of Miles Davis. Blakey was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1982), the Grammy Hall of Fame (in 2001), and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Blakey's final performances were in July 1990. He died merely months later, on October 16 of the same year.
Blakey went on to record dozens of albums with a constantly changing group of Jazz Messengers. He had a policy of encouraging young musicians: as he remarked on-mike during the live session which resulted in the A Night at Birdland albums in 1954: "I'm gonna stay with the youngsters. When these get too old I'll get some younger ones. Keeps the mind active." After weathering the fusion era in the 1970s with some difficulty (recordings from this period are less plentiful and include attempts to incorporate instruments like electric piano), Blakey's band got revitalized in the early 1980s with the advent of neotraditionalist jazz. Wynton Marsalis was for a time the band's trumpeter and musical director, and even after Marsalis's departure Blakey's band continued as a proving ground for many "Young Lions" like Johnny O'Neal, Philip Harper, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison and Kenny Garrett. Blakey continued performing and touring with the group into the late 1980s; Ron Wynn notes that Blakey had "played with such force and fury that he eventually lost much of his hearing, and at the end of his life, often played strictly by instinct."
Many Messenger alumni(ae) went on to become jazz stars in their own right, such as: Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons, Curtis Fuller, Chuck Mangione, Keith Jarrett, Joanne Brackeen, Woody Shaw, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison and Mulgrew Miller. For a complete list of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messenger alumni, some of whom did not actually record with the band, see main article The Jazz Messengers.
From 1959 to 1961 the group featured Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton, respectively. The group evolved into a proving ground for young jazz talent. While veterans occasionally re-appeared in the group, by and large, each iteration of the Messengers included a lineup of new young players. Having the Messengers on your resume was a right of passage in the jazz world, and conveyed immediate bona fides.
The "Jazz Messengers" name was first used for this group on a 1954 recording nominally led by Silver, with Blakey, Mobley, Dorham and Doug Watkins – the same quintet recorded The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia the following year, still functioning as a collective. Donald Byrd replaced Dorham, and the group recorded an album called simply The Jazz Messengers for Columbia Records in 1956. Blakey took over the group name when Silver left after the band's first year (taking Mobley and Watkins with him to form a new quintet), and the band name evolved to include Blakey's name, eventually settling upon "Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers." Blakey led the group for the rest of his life.
Around the same time—in 1947 or 1949:20—Blakey led a big band called Seventeen Messengers. The band proved be financially unstable and broke up soon after.:20 The use of the Messengers tag finally stuck with the group co-led at first by both Blakey and pianist Horace Silver, though the name was not used on the earliest of their recordings.
On December 17, 1947 Blakey led a group known as "Art Blakey's Messengers" in his first recording session as a leader, for Blue Note Records. The records were released as 78's at the time and two of the songs were released on the "New Sounds" 10" LP compilation (BLP 5010). This octet included Kenny Dorham, Howard Bowe, Sahib Shihab, Musa Kaleem, Ernest Thompson, Walter Bishop, Jr., and LaVerne Barker.
By the late forties and early fifties, Blakey was backing musicians such as Davis, Parker, Gillespie, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk; he is often considered to have been Monk's most empathetic drummer, and he played on both Monk's first recording session as a leader (for Blue Note Records in 1947) and his final one (in London in 1971), as well as many in between.
After the Eckstine band broke up, Blakey states that he travelled to Africa for a time: "In 1947, after the Eckstine band broke up, we -- took a trip to Africa. I was supposed to stay there three months and I stayed two years because I wanted to live among the people and find out just how they lived and -- about the drums especially." Two years is an exaggeration, as Blakey is known to have recorded in 1947, 1948 and 1949. Blakey did study and convert to Islam during this period, taking the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (subsequent nickname, "Bu"), although he stopped being a practicing Muslim in the 1950s (see "Personal life", in following) and continued to perform under the name "Art Blakey" throughout his career.
From 1943 to 1947 Blakey worked with Billy Eckstine's big band. Through this band, Blakey became associated with the bebop movement, along with his fellow band members Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Sarah Vaughan among others.
:11–12 He then lead his own band at the Tic Toc Club in Boston for a short time.:11 the injuries from which kept him out of World War II.


Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה, literally "head of the year," Biblical: IPA: [ˈɾoʃ haʃːɔˈnɔh], Israeli: [ˈʁoʃ haʃaˈna], Yiddish: [ˈroʊʃ hɑˈʃɔnə]) is a Jewish holiday commonly referred to as the "Jewish New Year." It is observed on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, as ordained in the Torah, in Leviticus 23:24. Rosh Hashanah is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim ("Days of Awe"), or Asseret Yemei Teshuva (The Ten Days of Repentance) which are days specifically set aside to focus on repentance that conclude with the holiday of Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah is the start of the civil year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four "new year" observances that define various legal "years" for different purposes). It is the new year for people, animals, and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical (shmita) and jubilee (yovel) years. Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of man whereas five days earlier, on 25 of Elul, marks the first day of creation.
Yom Kippur (Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר, IPA: [ˈjɔm kiˈpur]), also known in English as the Day of Atonement, is the most solemn and important of the Jewish holidays. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jews have traditionally observed this holiday with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer.
Some (selling—ed.) came from Jewish traders who wanted to be out of the market for the Rosh Ha-Shanah holiday which began at sun-down last night. There is an old adage in Wall street: "Sell on Rosh Ha-Shanah and buy on Yom Kippur." The latter holiday starts on Friday, September 25, at sun-down.
But is it more rational to summer rallies and winter declines, in the hemline theory which says stocks drop when hemlines do, or even in the old "Religious Maniac Syndrome"—"Buy at Rosh ha-Shanah, sell at.Yom Kippur"?
>became discredited in recent years along with a lot of other shibboleths.
>Fed easing in the near term and would unsettle the capital markets.
>given the predictive records of.........Now,just what is that old saying?
but you havealot of people who really believe this.
the saying is buy on Rosh Hashana, sell on Yom Kippur.
Q. What is the best stock market indicator to watch? ERIN SLEET Kansas City, Mo.
A. If I knew, I'd be—as the old song goes—as rich as Rockefeller. Anyone who even dabbles in stocks knows how hard it is to divine which way they are headed. When J. Pierpont Morgan Sr. was asked what the market was about to do, he snapped, "It will fluctuate," summing up many investors' frustration.
But there are a host of indicators, trends and theories—some, of course, more reliable and economically significant than others—that traders and analysts use to guide their investing strategies.
The Jewish New Year, Rosh ha-Shanah, celebrates renewal and turning over a new leaf. So how do many investors greet it? By unloading their portfolios. The maxim goes: Sell near Rosh ha-Shanah; buy close to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which always falls 10 days later.
"Sell on Rosh Hashanah and buy on Yom Kippur" is an old saying on Wall Street that coincides with the Jewish High Holidays. What does it mean and, more importantly, does it work? Thanks, S.G.
That old Wall Street adage runs along the lines of "Sell in May and go away" or the so-called Super Bowl Indicator. It's one of those maxims based more on market lore than on fundamental analysis.
Rosh Hashanah, which marks the Jewish new year and literally means "head of the year," occurs on the first and second days of the Hebrew month of Tishri. Since the Jewish calendar, which is lunisolar, or based on the sun and moon, differs from the solar-based Gregorian calendar used by most people around the world, Rosh Hashanah does not fall on the same date each year.
It starts this year—the Jewish year 5767—on the evening of Sept. 22, and runs through the weekend. Yom Kippur falls on Oct. 2.
"The saying goes back to the 1920s, when it was said that this was the strategy of the Loebs and other prominent Jewish financiers, but it has not really been relevant since," says Larry Wachtel of Wachovia securities.
As it turns out, the thing actually might work. The Dow averaged -0.62% from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur, while it gained 1.99% from Yom Kippur to the end of the year. For those compelled to action (or to see how this year plays out), Rosh Hashanah begins tonight at sunset and Yom Kippur begins at sunset on October 1st.
History tells us to sell this Thursday (September 13, 2007) due to the Rosh Hashanah holiday. It then tells us to buy next Friday (September 21, 2007) when Yom Kippur begins.
Before you follow this advice blindly; I would like to explain that I am having some fun to open the week with some statistics from the Stock Trader's Almanac. I don't necessarily buy and sell based on these holiday patterns (and you shouldn't either) but I like to note and highlight them on the blog from time to time.
The Dow Jones Industrial Index has been down 20 of the past 35 years from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur and up 24 of the 35 years from Yom Kippur to Passover. The average loss starting on Rosh Hashanah is (0.4%) and the average gain is 7.1% after Yom Kippur. Seven of the past eight years have given us negative readings starting on Rosh Hashanah while 14 of the past 16 years have shown positive gains from Yom Kippur to Passover. The DOW has gained an average of 9.1% over the past 16 years from Yom Kippur to Passover with the 1998-99 period topping the list at 25.4%.
It's time for a perennial Wall Street debate to begin once more: What's the correct trading strategy for the Jewish High Holy Days?
Over on the Wall Street Journal's MarketBeat column, Mark Gaffen points out that the old adage "Buy Rosh Hashanah, sell Yom Kippur" has been working in reverse for a couple of decades now, with stocks falling between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
"On average, from 1971 to 2005, the S&P 500 has fallen 0.4% between those days, with a number of real doozies, including a 2.2% decline in 2005 and a 1.9% drop in 2004. (The data doesn't include 2006, when the market rose 1.6%.)," Gaffe explains.
Actually, we've heard the reverse of the adage—sell Rosh Hashanah, buy Yom Kipur—almost as many times as the other way around. We're not even sure which one is the original.
We asked our friend Steven Weiss, who writes The Cannonist blog, for some clarification on the matter. "In order to accept any argument along these lines, wouldn't one first have to accept the premise that Jews really do control Wall Street?" Weiss said.
"Sell Rosh Hashanah, Buy Yom Kippur" might not only be more profitable, it seems to make more sense historically.
"Certainly the In order to concentrate on their prayers instead of their portfolios, there was a time when many Jews would sell their holdings ahead of the Days of Awe, or 'Sell on Rosh Hashanah and buy on Yom Kippur,'" Greg Greenberg wrote on theStreet.com last year. Apparently this version goes back to the 1920s, when many believed that selling into the holiday was the strategy of the Loebs and other prominent Jewish financiers.
Our headline above may surprise some investors who vaguely remember the old saying on the Street, "Buy Rosh Hashanah, Sell Yom Kippur." Though it had a good record at one time, it stopped working in the middle of the last century. Still, it gets tossed around every autumn when the "high holidays" are on the minds of traders as many of their Jewish colleagues take off to observe the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement. It's not unlike the "summer rally," which gets mentioned every year despite the fact (page 70) that it's the worst season for stock prices.
It often pays to be a contrarian when the old bromides are being tossed around, buying instead of selling Yom Kippur.
Those who blame yesterday's dive in the stock market on the House of Representatives' failure to approve the Paulson-Pelosi bailout plan can consider that the market was down sharply yesterday even before the House vote, defying predictions that the agreement on a deal that was announced over the weekend would yield a rally. Half of the Wall Street adage — sell on Rosh Hashana, buy on Yom Kippur — was proven a day early.
But it's a two-part adage — sell on Rosh Hashana, buy on Yom Kippur — and the second part of the adage is the buy side. Amid all the carnage in the stock market yesterday, there were at least a few hopeful signs for New York.
OK; you all have it half right...heres how it goes for sure 100% right!
Sell before Rosh Hashanah; buy the days after.
Sell before Yom Kippur; buy the days after.


A correlation is a relationship between two things, or variables.
For example, it is generally true that the more junk food you eat, the fatter you get. This is a positive correlation – there is a strong relationship between the two things.
A negative correlation means that there is a strong relationship between two variables, but in the opposite direction. For example, the older a second-hand car is, the lower the price.
Zero correlation happens when >there is little or no relationship between two things- when they don't affect each other. For example, the number of times you go to the movies in a year is probably not related to the number of brothers and sisters you have… or is it?


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How the TPP Could Trouble Malaysia
Business and Economy Politics
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement could cause more harm than good to Malaysia. Photo Credit: Truthout.org via Flickr
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement – an enormous 'free-trade' agreement between Malaysia, the United States, Australia and numerous other countries – is steadily marching towards ratification. Billed as a catalyst of international trade and booster of economies, the multinational agreement is extremely controversial as it includes many laws that would heavily favor large corporations while wreaking havoc on the common employee, public health and the natural environment.
Some of these laws would have especially negative effects on Malaysia. For example, the TPP would cement what's called the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism. The provision allows foreign investors (businesses and corporations, etc.) to sue governments who have signed the TPP if those governments act in a way that harms their interests.
Many a Malaysian social and environmental health program could 'harm the interests' of a foreign corporation. Environmental regulations, requirements to uphold reasonable wage or employment standards, or requests by the Malaysian government for a foreign corporation to, say, not build a coal factory on the banks of a river could be taken to court upon finalization of the TPP. The ISDS provision is in thousands of treaties around the world, and has resulted in many examples of corporations suing governments for well-intentioned and reasonable requests.
Intellectual Property rules in the TPP would also lengthen and strengthen corporate patents on medical innovations, keeping medicine prices higher for longer. This could put vital medicines out of financial reach for those in need.
The agreement could also make it much harder for Malaysia to give domestic businesses a chance against corporations, make it difficult for Malaysia's government-linked companies to play a big role in the economy, and in many ways cause changes that would damage the way Malaysia's economy works.
Though officially agreed upon by all 12 countries involved, the TPP still has to be approved by various national governments. The increased trade it could bring is awaited eagerly by some, but the potentially debilitating power consolidation and new rules it could bring are dreaded by others.
Tags: TPP, TPP Malaysia, trans pacific partnership


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Vivo X9 with 5.5-inch display, 4 GB RAM, 16 MP and 20 MP CAM announced
Vivo announced the company's latest Smartphone, Vivo X9 in China. Let us have a look at the specifications of the device in detail.
Vivo X9 Specifications
The Smartphone sports a 5.5-inch full HD Super AMOLED display at a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. It is powered by 2GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 625 processor with Adreno 506 GPU and runs on Funtouch OS 3.0 which is based on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). The device comes with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB / 128 GB internal memory.
The stunning front cameras in Vivo X9
It has a 16 MP primary camera with PDAF, f/2.0 aperture, LED Flash and a 20 MP Selfie camera with Sony IMX376 sensor and f/2.0 aperture, secondary 8MP front camera. The device is equipped with a fingerprint sensor and supports GPS, Bluetooth 4.2, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4 GHz + 5 GHz), 4G VoLTE. It features a 3050 mAh battery with fast charging and weighs 154 grams with 152.6x74x6.99mm size measurements.
Vivo X9 has a full metal unibody design with Unique U-Shaped antenna design. It will be available in Rose Gold and Gold colors at a price of 2798 Yuan and 2998 Yuan for the 64 Gb and 128 Gb versions respectively.
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Warm weather is finally arriving, and that means it's time to get outside and enjoy barbecues and picnics. Summer parties can be tough to enjoy when you're focused on healthy eating, but it is possible to avoid making this annual tradition a calorie landmine. Our latest post on the ISSA blog is chock full of tips for healthy grilling this summer.
Do You Need to Add BCAA Supplements to Your Workout Plan?
While branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) play a vital role in strength training, many fitness enthusiasts debate the value of BCAA supplements. Unsure which side you'd choose? Read on for more about BCAA supplements.
You and your client have hit a wall. Weight loss just isn't happening. What do you do? Before you let your client give up in frustration, consider these four weight loss roadblocks that not everyone knows about, not even most trainers.
Do your clients often complain about an upset stomach or other GI issues? The problem may be their dietary choices. As a nutrition and fitness coach, you need to understand gut health and the dietary choices that impact it. Check out the latest ISSA post on gut health and how to optimize it.
Think plant-based diets are lacking in protein? Think again. There are more than enough plant-based protein options to support an active lifestyle.
It's possible to do a cheat meal right, and it can provide motivation, inspiration, energy, and may even contribute to long-term success. Here's why you should consider cheat meals, for you and your clients.
If you're looking into nutritional coaching as a career, you need to know what you'll actually be doing. Check out this latest ISSA post where we give you the rundown on important nutritional coaching tasks.
The topic of protein can be really confusing for your clients. This is especially true for women since most information available is for men. To help your female clients meet their nutrition, fitness, and weight goals, you need to read this complete guide to women and protein.
You might be ready to start building healthy eating habits, but is your kitchen? Check out these top tips to turn your kitchen into a supportive environment for a healthy lifestyle.
What's holding your client back from making better food choices? We asked trainers and you told us. Check out real, actionable strategies for helping your clients make good choices and meet their nutritional goals.


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Liverpool v Manchester City: Match From The Past – Quinn Salvages A Point At Anfield
A Look Back At A Match From A Bygone Era
By Manc Pete Nov 9, 2019, 8:48pm GMT
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Niall Quinn Levelled For City At Anfield in 1990
21st November 1990 – Anfield
Back in the day when players wore short shorts, referees had regular jobs and City and Liverpool fans enjoyed a friendly rivalry, mainly brought on by their joint hatred of United, City travelled to Merseyside to try and win at a place where they hadn't won for eight years.
Liverpool were the reigning First Division champions and were unbeaten going into the match, having won 12 of their opening 13 games and sat six points clear of Arsenal at the top of the league. City were in 7th place in the league, eighteen points behind the leaders and, as usual, the fans travelled in their droves, more in hope than expectation.
As expected, the champions started well, with John Barnes taking a free kick from Peter Beardsley, before turning his man and firing across goal. City had chances of their own, with left back Neil Pointon darting forward, only for the ball to fall to Mark Ward who hit a tame shot that was gathered easily by Grobbelaar in the Liverpool goal.
Liverpool continued to press and David Burrows shot was saved by Andy Dibble, before Beardsley danced past two City defenders into the City area and flicked the ball to future blue Steve McMahon, whose shot cannoned off Beardsley towards the goal, until it hit Ian Brightwell to go behind for a corner.
City started the second half much brighter and Mark Ward was released down the right and crossed for Niall Quinn, but the big Irishman was stretching to meet the cross and his shot went wide. But on 62 minutes, City stunned their own fans as much as the home side by taking the lead. Quinn med David White's cross which forced an excellent save from Grobbelaar. Gary Megson picked up the loose ball and fed Ward, who was felled by Ronnie Whelan and the referee pointed straight to the spot.
Ward stepped up and hammered the ball straight down the middle, which rebounded of the keeper's body and hit the roof of the net to send City fans into fantasy land. It was only the second time Liverpool had conceded at Anfield in a league match all season, and blues fans were dreaming of inflicting a first defeat of the season on the Reds.
It was all hands to the pump in the City defence as Liverpool started to pressure the blues. Beardsley and Ray Houghton both fired wide when in good positions, while Ian Rush was denied by a superb last-minute block. Steve Redmond cleared for a corner when under pressure from Rush, but the resulting corner on 82 minutes brought about Liverpool's equaliser.
Beardsley's corner was headed down by Hussein to Barnes, whose turn and shot was deflected in by Ian Rush. City appealed for handball and it did look like Rush had punched the ball home, however the goal was given and Liverpool were level.
Four minutes later, City capitulated as Liverpool took the lead. Ian Brightwell was…well no one knows what Brightwell was trying to do as his attempted hoof went back towards the City goal and fell for substitute Ronnie Rosethal, who beat Pointon and flicked the ball brilliantly over Dibble to put the hosts in front.
It was a familiar story for City in matches like these, but on this occasion, they weren't to be denied. With a minute to go, Clive Allen was brought down outside the Liverpool penalty area and with the home side singing, You'll Never Walk Alone in anticipation of the win, Ward's powerful free-kick was tipped over the bar by Grobbelaar. Ward raced over to take the corner, and his cross found Quinn on the penalty spot, and the big striker's header hit the underside of the bar, hit Whelan and bounced in for the City equaliser.
It was a big moment for City, not only for the blues confidence but also in the title race. The blues went on to finish fifth in the league, their highest top flight finish since 1978 when they finished fourth in the league on 52 points, just 12 behind champions Nottingham Forest (it was 2 points for a win in 1978 though).
After drawing with City, Liverpool then lost at Arsenal, before losing their way in the second half of the season, conceding the title to Arsenal by seven points.
Final Score: Liverpool 2-2 Manchester City


The MACHEquity project has now completed its six-year term. The PROSPERED project continues the work of MACHEquity, taking a more holistic view that encompasses different public policies and by prioritizing the health-related targets set forth by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The overall objective of the Maternal and Child Health Equity (MACHEquity) research program is to examine how social policies focused on reducing poverty, income and gender inequality have an impact on the burden of disease among children and women under the age of 50.
Partnering with international NGOs and dedicated to the training and mentoring of the next generation of researchers in the field, MACHEquity joins information from household surveys with global policy data and utilizes innovative methods to investigate associations between social policies, social determinants, and health outcomes prioritized by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Launch of MACHEquity's Downloadable Data!


Implementing innovative social investment : strategic lessons from Europe / edited by Susan Baines, Andrea Bassi, Judit Csoba, Flórián Sipos.ope.
Other author/creator Baines, Susan, editor.
Publication Info Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2019.


Fools Tongue presents their CD Release show on April 28 at 8pm at the Capitol Theatre at Fort Edmonton Park. Tickets are $25, plus applicable fees. Children under 6 are free! Buy Tickets.
Check out our performance here.
Song of the Day on CBC!
Exciting news! We were featured as song of the day on CBC. The Bridge, Voyage North, Homestretch, Radio Active, Daybreak Alberta, Breakaway, CKUA, The X - all playing the album!
Check out Luke Ertman's interview here.


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The Duchess of Cornwall attends the South of England Show
The Duchess of Cornwall attended the South of England Show in West Sussex today in her role as 2017 President of the South of England Agricultural Society.
Her Royal Highness toured the show ground on the opening day of the three-day event to celebrate the charity's 50th year of supporting agriculture and the countryside.
The Duchess of Cornwall attended the South of England Show today to celebrate 50 years of the South of England Agricultural Society supporting the countryside. As President of the society for 2017, HRH toured stalls of local produce, saw livestock and met charity groups and show visitors.
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Working across six counties, The South of England Agricultural Society aims are to showcase agriculture, horticulture and the countryside and raises funds that help serve the community through the provision of education, grants, awards, bursaries and scholarships.
The Duchess visited stands across the show, including the Young Farmers' Club and Discover Countryside, and spent time meeting charity groups and educational organisations.
Her Royal Highness browsed stalls of local produce, including Sussex-made honey, and spoke to local farmers and viewed their livestock. In the Ardingly Ring, The Duchess watched part of a show jumping competition and handed out long-service awards to members of the society.
Her Royal Highness also marked 50 years of the show by unveiling a commemorative timeline.
As 2017 President, Her Royal Highness chose The Brooke to be the Society's charity for the year. The Brooke is an international animal welfare charity dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules, and The Duchess of Cornwall became The Brooke's first President in 2006.
Representatives from The Brooke attended the show today, and The Duchess was able to hear about some of the work currently being carried out by the charity.


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Mela steht für:
 Mela (Vorname), einen weiblichen Vornamen
 Mela (Versammlung), sanskrit "gesellschaftliches Zusammentreffen", religiöse oder säkulare Festveranstaltung in Indien, zum Beispiel Kumbh Mela
 Titularbistum Mela, ein römisch-katholisches Titularbistum
 Mela (Korsika), eine Gemeinde im Departement Corse-du-Sud auf Korsika
 Mela, einen Ortsteil der Gemeinde Montespertoli, Provinz Florenz, Italien

Mela ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Fabius Mela, römischer Jurist (vermutlich 1. Jh.)
 Francisco Mela (* 1968), kubanischer Musiker
 Ghias Mela (1961–2015), pakistanischer Politiker
 Pomponius Mela, römischer Geograph und Kosmograph der Antike aus Tingentera

MeLa steht für
 Mecklenburgische Landwirtschaftsausstellung, Agrarmesse in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Siehe auch:
 Mella

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Add a preppy element to your look with this mini skirt. This skirt has a flattering A-line silhouette, a side zipper closure, discreet pockets, and a solid color. This skirt will look stylish with a sweater, crew socks, and ballet flats.


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Kennedy Art Students Create Art for Syrian Refugees
Fifteen art students in Carissa Roche's classes at Kennedy High School in the Bellmore-Merrick Central School District volunteered to participate in charitable art mission that aims to affect children halfway across the globe.
Students drew or painted the portraits of 15 Syrian refugee children for the nonprofit organization, Memory Project.
"The portraits will be delivered back to the Syrian children, then we will receive a video of the children receiving the artwork, seeing firsthand the joy it brings them," Roche explained.
For the students, it is an opportunity to creatively practice kindness and global awareness. For the Syrian children, the portraits help them feel valued and important, while also receiving a keepsake for years to come.
Students in grades 9-12 participated on a volunteer basis. There was no reward other than "knowing they were doing something kind to create a positive memory for someone less fortunate," Roche explained. "I am very proud of the students who chose to participate in a selfless act to bring a little joy to underprivileged children who they will never know or meet," said Roche.
"It was worth being able to put a smile on their faces by recreating them on a paper," said sophomore Gianna Venero.
Since March 2011, conflict has devastated Syria, gravely affecting millions of children.
"As we went through this process of creating the portraits, we became very intimate with the children's faces. As you look directly into their eyes, you know you are taking part in something special," added Roche.
Students couldn't help but think about their subjects' struggles.
"It is powerful knowing what I could do with a piece of paper and some colored pencils," said junior Renata Davi. "Maybe the little girl that I drew has a bigger story than we all know."