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Floridians Outraged Over Islamic Bias And Indoctrination In School Textbooks
Dean Garrison July 26, 2013
Does Prentice Hall ring a bell? Depending on when you went to school you may have had a few Prentice Hall textbooks. I know I did. One of their current textbooks, simply titled World History, is causing quite the stir in Florida. Florida Today reports:
Two Brevard School Board members are reviewing a world history textbook used in ninth grade Advance Placement classes amid concerns that it is biased in favor of Islam — at the expense of Christianity and Judaism.
House Representative Ritch Workman and individuals from two citizens groups spoke against the textbook, Prentice Hall World History, at the Brevard School Board meeting Tuesday, citing examples of phrases and passages they believe show bias.
"Our children deserve facts and accuracy, not history being revised for our own failure or desire to not offend one culture or another," said Workman, a Republican from Melbourne.
The textbook, which has been used in Brevard for the past three years, devotes a chapter to Islam, with sections including the rise of Islam and the building of the Muslim empire. Conversely, Christianity and Judaism do not have their own chapters and instead are referenced in paragraphs embedded in other sections.
Workman also expressed concern about how historic events are portrayed and what phrases are used. For example, he said the textbook reads Jesus proclaims himself to be the Messiah but declares Muhammad becomes a prophet.
School board members Amy Kneessy and Andy Ziegler promised to review the textbook, which is published by Pearson, a well-known printer of educational textbooks.
"No matter what the subject is, whether it's math, English, science or world history, students need to have accurate, unbiased information," Kneessy said. "If textbooks are unbiased or incomplete, it's our job to fix that."
This story is much bigger than a Florida school system. We must consider how big Prentice Hall is and consider that there are likely tens of thousands of these textbooks in circulation. Prentice Hall is not foreign to controversy on this subject. According to Stop the Madrassa…
The Textbook League is another national center that evaluates textbooks for academic quality and political bias, which also found multiple editions of Houghton Mifflin's Across the Centuries to be filled with Islamic preaching. They have also drawn attention to Prentice Hall's textbook, World Cultures: A Global Mosaic as "a vehicle for Muslim propaganda":
Long passages in World Cultures are devoted to promoting Islam, to making American students embrace Islamic religious beliefs, and to winning converts for Allah. In these passages, Muslim myths are disguised as historical information, Muslim superstitions are disguised as facts…
Palm Beach County has already forced the reprint of World History once for Muslim bias and inaccuracies. The question on my mind is whether or not this is the reprinted book or the old version. As reported in April:
Dr. William Saxton, Chairman of Citizens for National Security told The Report Card that as result of CFNS efforts – and for the first time as far as anyone related to these K-12 textbook issues knows – a major publisher, Pearson Prentice Hall, had to correct the content of an already printed flawed textbook that it intended to sell to a huge school district in Florida, and reprint it, before it could be purchased. Dr. Saxton earned his doctorate in Applied Physics from Harvard and spent much of his career in the United States Intelligence community. He founded CFNS as a result of concerns that Islamic terror organizations Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood were spreading misinformation and indoctrinating students in American schools.
The new 2013 high-school history book, "World History," was slated for delivery to Palm Beach County (PBC) students for use at the beginning of the current school year. CFNS documented Islam bias and misinformation in a report co-authored by Dr. Saxton and Report Card Publisher William Korach. That 92-page report, published February 2012 documented Islam-biased errors and misinformation in 25 textbooks in Florida. CFNS participated in a marathon meeting with PBC curriculum specialists and a Pearson representative to delineate their concerns and recommend corrections. Following that, Dr. Saxton testified about the book's bias before the PBC School Board. After further review, the Board concurred with the CFNS position, and determined that much of the textbook's contentious language be revised, consistent with CFNS's recommendations, as a condition for purchase.
You must consider how liberal leaning our school system has already become and then consider how bad a book must have to be for reprints to be demanded and questions to be raised.
What the hell is going on at Prentice Hall? Maybe there is a clue on their own website. Prentice Hall is owned by Pearson. Here is a quote that is the very first line on their about page:
Pearson is the world's leading PreK-20 educational publishing company, dedicated to working with educators to change the way America thinks.
Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner.
Since when was it decided that Americans needed to change the way they think? That's Progressive talk. And for those of you who don't know… Progressive is a politically correct way of saying communist.
Don't be fooled America.
This is real and it has been in play for a long time.
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That AccorHotels is using the Internet of Things and other innovative tech to create more personalized and accessible guest rooms is an idea we can definitely get behind. But we wonder what the company's plans might be to incorporate loyalty into the initiative. It would be crucial in adding value for Accorhotels, property owners, and guests.
If it seems as if nearly every major hotel company is working on a "smart" or "connected" hotel room powered by the Internet of Things, then it's because they are.
The latest hotel company to be testing this smart hotel room concept is Paris-based AccorHotels.
Damien Perrot, senior vice president of design solutions for AccorHotels, told Skift that the company is testing technology that uses voice activation and and the Internet of Things to make the hotel room experience more accessible and personalized.
A model smart room at the company's Paris headquarters incorporates a variety of technologies and accessibility features to accommodate up to three guests at a time.
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As Skift has noted before with how Marriott and Hilton are approaching the connected room, hotel chains are applying different strategies in implementing these technologies. While Hilton has developed its own proprietary system that doesn't yet incorporate voice activation, Marriott is working with partners, Legrand and Samsung, to develop a connected room that includes voice activation.
Hilton is planning to use a guest's own smartphone to "power" the connected technology in its connected room, while Marriott is planning to use both voice activation and the TV remote to do so, with possible plans to incorporate guests' own smartphones.
AccorHotels, however, is testing he use of both voice activation and in-room tablets.
As for a loyalty tie-in and the ability to personalize the room experience, Perrot said that loyalty will also be taken into consideration at some point. However, to date, there is no formal incorporation of Accor's Le Club AccorHotels loyalty program in this new smart room concept.
Hilton, however, plans to use the Hilton Honors program in its connected room concept via member profiles, and Marriott is also considering doing something similar with its own Internet of Things guest room.
Loyalty will certainly play a major role in the development of these new high-tech rooms. Without a loyalty tie-in, it would be much more challenging for hotels to have access to customer data that allows them to personalize the individual guest experience.
Another important facet of AccorHotels' smart room concept is its commitment to accessibility for guests with disabilities or reduced mobility. That means wardrobes with sliding shelves and rods for easy access; TVs that swivel 180 degrees; adjustable bed heights; and bathrooms with easily adjustable shower heads, shower seats, and height-adjustable sinks, as well as grab bars that double as towel rails.
"The objective is that the design becomes so simple that it will improve the guest experience overall," Perrot said. He said that while the room was designed to accommodate travelers with reduced mobility, it was really created to be a room for everybody.
"We're hoping that this room can be an example that you can design a room that can be used by everyone, and can facilitate all types of travelers — families, people with disabilities, children, the elderly. It's another way of thinking about how to design the hotel room," Perrot said.
AccorHotels' smart room concept is still in a testing phase at the company's headquarters, but Perrot and his team are working on a timeline for piloting it in hotels.
AccorHotels has a partnership with partnership with Jaccede, a mobile app and website that lets people review the accessibility of different places they visit, from restaurants and bars to stores and hotels. The tie-in is part of the chain's desire to make accessible hotel rooms more personalized and more design-driven. To date, Jaccede has accessibility reviews for more than 100,000 sites worldwide.
AccorHotels recently challenged its own employees to add their own reviews to Jaccede — not only of the hotels where they work but in their surrounding neighborhoods.
Accessibility in accommodations is a major issue for the hospitality industry, and guidelines for accessibility vary from region to region.
Anne-Sophie Beraud, vice president of diversity and inclusion for AccorHotels, said the company's partnership with Jaccede, as well as the development of its smart room concept, show AccorHotels' commitment to accessibility on a global scale.


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Matt LeBlanc didn't really tell the Royals to 'f–k' off
By News.com.au
August 13, 2015 | 12:09pm
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Matt LeBlanc recently felt the heat of the British press after jokingly telling a TV host he'd told Princes William and Harry to get lost.
He said the remark came after they asked him about a "Friends" reunion at a polo match.
The actor was promoting the latest season of his TV series "Episodes" on "Conan" in January when he joked about a meeting with the brothers — but Brits took him seriously.
"I went to this exhibition polo match one time and the princes were there and they were playing, and afterwards there was this big line to go and meet them … All they want to know is, 'When is the "Friends" reunion?' I told them to f–k off," LeBlanc said.
Returning to Conan O'Brien's talk show on Monday, the actor said he was grilled by the British media this spring when he was in the UK promoting his series.
"It was the first question. It was 10 days in a row of interviews all day long to launch the show and every asked, 'So why did you tell the princes to f–k off …?' I was like, 'It was a joke. I never said that. They're bigger than me … and that would be rude.'"
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Q: How to persist proxy settings for Chrome on Ubuntu? I've added some proxy settings in google-chrome.desktop:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

by adding them to each "Exec" entry (there are three):
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U --proxy-server="localhost:3128" --proxy-bypass-list="localhost,127.0.0.1"

But: With each update of Chrome (and there are a lot...) these settings are overwritten. Is there a way to persist the proxy settings, making them survive an update?

A: Current workaround: I set the proxy settings with this command:
sudo sed -i.bak '/^Exec\=/ s/$/ \-\-proxy\-server\="localhost\:3128" \-\-proxy\-bypass\-list\="localhost\,127\.0\.0\.1"/' /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

Warning: This doesn't check if there's already a --proxy... declared in the processed lines. However -i.bak creates a backup of the file ;)

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William James, an American psychologist was a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century and one of the most influential U.S. philosophers. Labelled as the "Father of American psychology" he wrote back in 1890 —
"The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will."
Social skills are formed through face-to-face interactions with others from birth, such as infants with their parents and siblings, and children with their peers at nursery and school. But there is a growing concern that the use of social media is effectively displacing the way the new generation is developing their peer to peer social skill-set throughout adolescence. The question is whether these digital stimuli have the potential to influence the risk of behavioural addiction.
University College London psychiatrist Dr Michael Bloomfield states: "Adolescence is a critical period for a person's development, particularly as our brains go through important changes during our teenage years."
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, which is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in psychiatry and neurology, released an in-depth article into the Maturation of the adolescent brain. It stated:
"It is well established that the brain undergoes a "rewiring" process that is not complete until approximately 25 years of age… The nucleus accumbens, a part of the brain's reward system located within the limbic system, is the area that processes information related to motivation and reward. Brain imaging has shown that the nucleus accumbens is highly sensitive in adolescents, sending out impulses to act when faced with the opportunity to obtain something desirable."
Part of the appeal for these attention-seeking businesses are the 'rewards' they offer; push notifications of the number of 'likes' on the user's post for example. These are types of rapid reward cycles which reinforce the habit-forming actions of their users, guaranteeing they keep coming back time and time again.
An opposing opinion is that perhaps it is not the general use of digital media but more the content and context that is influential since some uses of digital technologies actually do improve multitasking skills, working memory, and fluid intelligence- which is one's problem-solving ability.
Whether we use the technology to connect with loved ones throughout the day for that familial interaction and support, or if our usage is related entirely to our curiosity and inclination to compare our lives to the often highly filtered and sheltered lives of others, there is a stark contrast to the online environment we expose ourselves to. With the more astute and measured perspective of an adult, these potentially negative factors may not be such an 'influence' (as these 'influencers' are named). But for younger, less pragmatic users, these issues will have a much greater impact on their self-esteem and value.
A study into the issue was conducted by University at Albany psychologist, Julia Hormes. She led a team of three researchers in assessing the addictive nature of social media — specifically Facebook. She states that-
"New notifications or the latest content on your newsfeed acts as a reward. Not being able to predict when new content is posted encourages us to check back frequently,"
The big players profit from their user-base through targeted advertising which means this genuinely becomes an economy driven by control over our attention. The value of our attention is enhanced by its finite availability, thus the demand and need for those in this market to compete.
With the emergence of these critical communication technologies, there is bound to be some fraction of users who will show addictive behaviour. If someone is displaying unbalanced behavioural habits, whose responsibility is that?- It would certainly be in the platform provider's interest to afford some safeguarding within their services since they know exactly how much you are using their product and the detrimental effect of reliance on them.
Alex Marshall CPsychol, Forensic Psychologist, provided an overview of the subject when he observed-
"There is a lot of research into adolescents being vulnerable to entrenchment in a particular lifestyle that otherwise would be adolescence-limited, but failure to integrate (amongst other factors) prolongs behaviour or steers them off onto a trajectory that they otherwise weren't destined towards biologically or socially."
Ultimately, nobody knows the consequences these digital media phenomena will have on modern life and to some level, we are all part of a long-term social experiment to find the answer.
By Medicalchain's Tim Robinson
Inside Medicalchain
Inside Medicalchain Issue #7
Welcome to the seventh issue of Inside Medicalchain, our monthly newsletter to keep our community up to date.
If you missed the sixth issue you can catch up by clicking here.
Medicalchain Opens New Office in Switzerland
Since its foundation, Medicalchain has been growing rapidly and we are delighted to announce the official opening of our new office in Switzerland. We have a global vision and geographical expansion is necessary to achieve this.
MyClinic.com continues to improve and we are working to our timeline for version 2 which is eagerly anticipated for the end of Q2 2019.
We are working extra hard to confirm contracts and are hopeful that our services will be available within the NHS as well as the private sector soon.
MyClinic.com will also be available on Android very soon.
Considering how difficult it can be to keep up with our progress, especially product development — we have created an interactive timeline on our website to update you clearly on our road to achieving our goals.
Want to help? Give us feedback!
Please continue to download our iOS version of the MyClinic.com app and let us know your feedback on version 1.0 by sending us your comments to — [email protected]
Our Communications Manager, Tim Robinson has been working on a new blog about the problems in healthcare and how to address these. Check out some of his articles below:
Faxploit: Read about the security dangers healthcare systems have by using fax machines — read here
Lifestyle Intervention: Read about how the NHS plans to help patients at risk of developing diabetes with "lifestyle interventions" to curb the demand the health service is under — read here
Curiosity killed the…Trust?: Trust is especially valuable when it comes to our intimate health data, read about how that 'trust' is being handled today — read here
E-Prescribing for NHS Trusts: Read about the benefits of "E-Prescribing for NHS Trusts" — read here
Youth Turning to Apps for Mental Health Needs: Read why our youth are turning to health tech and apps to care for their mental health needs instead of existing conventional options — read here
Snail Mail in the digital age: Read how using 'Snail Mail in the digital age' to inform patients about their vital NHS healthcare services has caused serious delays in tests and screenings for thousands of patients — read here
COO Mo Tayeb presenting at the Healthcare Expo in Taiwan
Our COO, Mo Tayeb has been busy this month in Switzerland, Italy and Taiwan, speaking at various events and forums that showcase the latest in technology in healthcare. In Switzerland, he attended the Life Sciences Leader Forum. In Italy, he spoke at the Futureland event, which highlighted the companies and technologies that are going to make an impact in 2019. Finally, in Taiwan, he presented Medicalchain at the Healthcare Expo at the end of November. This event marks the principal display of solutions and connections for medicine and healthcare in Asia.
COO Mo Tayeb presenting at Futureland
Back home, Mo has been just as busy speaking in London at the Healthcare Unblocked event, the UK's first conference dedicated to advancing blockchain in healthcare.
Medicalchain's stand at Giant Health event
More in London this month as our Head of Business Development, Dr Amina Albeyatti attended the Giant Health Event 2018 at Stamford Bridge, home to the Chelsea Football Club. We received a warm reception and presented Medicalchain and MyClinic.com and its application in our health, to a very excited audience.
Dr Amina Albeyatti speaking at the Giant Health event
Dr Amina Albeyatti was interviewed by Disruptive Live. Check out the interview below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq7-DIRqqRo
We were also interviewed by Jessica DaMassa, health blogger for WTF Health.
As one of the UK's technology startups and the first UK-based company to bring blockchain technology to healthcare, we were delighted to be invited to the 11th Annual GovNet Parliamentary Awards, hosted by Rt Hon. Baroness Golding. It was an enjoyable and relaxed evening to set off the Christmas season.
Communication Manager Tim Robinson at the House of Lords, Westminster
Our founders will be holding an AMA on December 24th at 7:30 am GMT, a link to the event on YouTube will be shared via our social media closer to the date. Please start posting your questions from now to Communications Manager, Tim Robinson. [email protected]
London January 9th 2018
Designing a Central Bank Digital Currency and Building Healthcare on Blockchain
Medicalchain's COO, Mo Tayeb, will be speaking at this event. Find out more and how to join us
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to ask us questions and engage with our communications team. If you have not had the chance to say hello yet, please click on one of the links!
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Don't Forget To Sign Up For Your Free Health Passport
The Medicalchain Health Passport signup is live! Prospective patients and medical practitioners can register their interest now, by clicking here.
Partnerships within the NHS and private sector
New website reveal — coming soon
This month marks the end of an eventful year for Medicalchain. With the conceptualisation and delivery of the first rendition of the MyClinic.com application, to the plethora of events all around the world that members of the team have presented at.
We appreciate all the support we have received for what we are trying to achieve, from our loyal community members to representatives we meet at our events — including the wider public at large.
Overall this year we have represented at over 52 events in over 25 cities around the world!
We look forward to the new year and all that we have in line to achieve in keeping with our roadmap. Notably, the updated versions of the MyClinic.com application and the release of the Health Passport, which will truly enable patients to hold their own data. With more good news on the way with exciting partnerships close to being announced.
Again, we thank you for your support and wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from all at the Medicalchain team.
Thanks for reading the seventh newsletter of Inside Medicalchain. For more information on where to purchase our tokens (MTN), click here.
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Lifestyle Intervention
Whenever you hear the word "intervention" you may automatically think of an 'addiction intervention'', or a 'surgical intervention', as these terms have almost become synonymous with the word. But how about a lifestyle intervention?
Currently, the NHS England spends around 10% of its budget on treating diabetes, with recent projections showing that the growing number of people with the condition could result in nearly 39,000 people suffering a heart attack and over 50,000 people suffering a stroke by 2035.
There is progress within the sector to redress the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in particular, through a prescription of- lifestyle changes.
There are plans proposed by the NHS to roll out a national Diabetes Prevention Programme (DPP) in the form of 'lifestyle interventions' to curb the demand the health service is under. The evidence shows that diabetes prevention programmes significantly reduce progression to T2DM compared to traditional care by ~26%.
The approach will involve GPs prescribing a liquid diet of just over 800 kilocalories a day for three months, then a period of follow-up support to ultimately help achieve remission of their Type 2 diabetes. NHS England's chief executive, Simon Stevens, announced the program on 30th November. It will first be offered to 5000 patients before being rolled out nationally.
The announcement followed a series of recent studies that have overturned the widely held view that type 2 diabetes is incurable and must be managed with medication.
Large population-based studies in China, Finland and the USA have recently demonstrated the feasibility of preventing, or delaying, the onset of diabetes in overweight subjects with mild glucose intolerance (IGT). With these studies leading to the conclusion that even moderate reduction in weight and only half an hour of brisk walking each day reduces the incidence of diabetes by more than fifty percent.
The objectives for the DPP are:
To support more people at high risk of developing diabetes to receive lifestyle
interventions to help them lower that risk.
To slow down the increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes compared with current predictions.
To reduce the incidence of heart disease, strokes, kidney, eye and foot problems (and associated
mortality) related to diabetes compared with current predictions.
The benefits include not only saving the NHS money by alleviating the demand diabetes puts on numerous services within the sector, but the money and resources will then be reallocated and reinvested into providing more essential frontline care.
Chris Askew, the Chief Executive of Diabetes UK states:
"Plans to double the size of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme is excellent news. The programme is already the largest of its kind globally and shows England to be a world leader in this area. The ambition being shown by the NHS needs to be matched across all government policy — we need stronger action on marketing to children, and clearer nutritional labelling to support people to make healthy choices."
There are even plans for online versions of the DPP, involving wearable technologies and apps to help those at risk of Type 2 Diabetes better self-manage. These will also be provided to those who find it difficult to attend regular sessions due to work or family commitments.
The aim is to better integrate the available solutions and help patients feel more in control of their treatment. This will hopefully stop the chance of patients withdrawing from their therapy and in feeling more accomplished with short-term goals- by achieving a certain number of steps for instance. This move by the NHS brings us one step closer to achieving a patient-centric health service, a more integrated solution.
Curiosity killed the…Trust?
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Trust is a valuable commodity and in the words of American business magnate, Warren Buffett — "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." The greatest issue is not so much the fact that you have been lied to, but that it then becomes so much more difficult to trust.
Trust is especially valuable when it comes to our privacy, and what is more private than our most intimate data — our personal medical records. In May, Sir Alex Ferguson, Britain's most successful football manager was admitted to Salford Royal hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage. After emergency treatment and less than a month in the hospital, Sir Alex made a good recovery.
After an audit of the Trust's computer systems however, it became evident that a number of staff members- Two doctors, a senior consultant, and two nurses allegedly gained unauthorised access to Sir Alex's private data.
Doctor Chris Brookes, chief medical officer for the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, which runs Salford Royal, said of the incident- "We can confirm that a number of staff who work at Salford Royal are currently subject to investigation in relation to an information governance breach… All of our patients have the right to expect that their information will be looked after securely and accessed appropriately. We take patient confidentiality extremely seriously."
Human error is not the issue here, curiosity shouldn't be a variable in the privacy of our data since ideally, this shouldn't even be a possibility. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is the UK's regulatory body charged with enforcing data protection legislation and bringing regulatory action against those found to have breached data laws. It regularly deals with health-related cases and states that within its figures for Q2 of 2018/19 alone, there were a total of 4,056 data security incident reports within the sector.
What can Hospital Trusts do to earn our trust? Doctor Chris Brookes, chief medical officer at the site responsible for Sir Alex's breach also stated — "We take patient confidentiality extremely seriously and will take the appropriate action to ensure staff understand the seriousness of unauthorised access." Does that mean staff were not previously aware of the seriousness of unauthorised access? Does that statement guarantee this won't happen again?
If hospital sites and CMOs wish to redress the issue they should reconsider their solutions, since trust is built through actions, not words. Successful relationships, including doctor-patient relationships, are built on the foundation of trust. This isn't automatically awarded to someone due to a title, but earned, and as each Doctor and healthcare professional represents the sector as a whole, their reputation affects the NHS's reputation.
Advising someone not to be curious is not enough, we should have firm and robust measures to protect patient data. Around the world, companies are considering using blockchain technology to help with privacy and data safety as they have done for the financial sector. it is time to block unwarranted access so that we can rebuild some trust.


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Inoculate yourself against the stock-market bears. They will be everywhere once the year begins. They will be telling you that the easy money has been made, that it is a market of stocks, not a stock market, and that the average stock has already made its run. You will hear genuine Ursa Major growling about repetitive Fed rate hikes to slow down inflation. You can expect that the "rigorous" grizzlies, the always bearish intelligentsia, will put fangs and claws to everything from the dollar to tech to bonds. They will tell you to sell everything that's not nailed down; they will tell you to sell short things you don't even own!
And they will be wrong. As they were wrong in 2003. Because, despite the huge run we have had in the stock market this past year, we have more room to go, maybe even much more, as the country's economy shakes off three years of contraction and begins to grow again. I know it seems Pollyannaish, if not downright unrealistic, but for the life of me, I can't be bearish on stocks during the first full year of an economic upswing when a pro-investor president looks like he might win in a landslide.
Conventional Wall Street wisdom going into 2004 has it that we could be on the verge of a year like 1994 or 2000, the last two times the Fed had to tighten aggressively to cool off the economy. Heaven knows it would make sense for the Fed to tighten. Even though inflation remains low, we have a barn burner of an economy, with soaring industrial production and colossal gains in gross domestic product. While we haven't created any jobs to speak of yet, history tells us that one year after interest rates bottom—March 2004, in this case—we see large jumps in payrolls. Whenever we see those jumps, give or take a month, the Fed always tightens, even when it says it won't.
I want to take the 2000 Fed comparison off the table. The Fed superheated the economy four years ago, virtually flooding it with money, to ameliorate any Y2K glitches. That, plus the dot-com bubble, made Fed vigilance a necessity. We have no such bubble in the stock market now. We're still way below historical equity highs even though the economy looks much stronger now than it did before we reached those highs last time.
The better example—and to some graybeards, a more worrisome one—is 1994, when the Fed put in six head-slamming rate hikes in a row. The averages marked time because of the rate boosts. But the averages lied. The flat Dow masked mammoth moves to the upside for the smokestackers, the big industrial and technology companies that thrive on a strong economy, and absolutely scary declines in the financials and the home builders. I think 1994, not 2000 and its bearish aftermath, is the more relevant parallel. I'm placing my bets for 2004 strictly using 1994's tip sheet.
Most people can't recall the 1994 tightening cycle. Not me. I lived through it as a hedge-fund manager. Right about the moment when my wife was giving birth to our second child, right at the moment when I was supposed to be saying "push" or "there she is," I took a phone call from my partner at my hedge fund telling me that the Fed had just tightened 50 basis points and that it might be done tightening. As my mortified wife looked on, I barked out orders to cover the Dow, cover Alcoa, lest we lose a fortune and our shorts.
And while I may have created years' worth of future psychological damage for generations of Cramers with that phone call, I nailed the tape right. The cyclical stocks, precisely the ones the Fed was tightening to stop, just kept on rolling, because almost invariably when the Fed starts tightening it makes you feel that it is almost done tightening, and nothing ignites a market like the "last tightening" in a cycle. I believe the same thing will happen again. The winners will be the Phelps Dodges, the Dow Chemicals, the Alcoas, and the technology stocks that do best when boom times are upon us. Typically that means Intel, but this time I think it could extend to Micron, the commodity memory-chip maker that could explode upward, as it has other times when the economy worldwide has kicked into high gear. Cheap stock, Micron. Hated and cheap at $11.
Don't overlook the oils either. This group does incredibly well when the Fed starts tightening. ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, and ConocoPhillips could be big winners in 2004. I just picked up some ChevronTexaco, betting that this multi-year wallflower finally gets called to the dance floor, and I always hate the oils.
But the 1994 history also shows some big losers, notably retail and the banks. These two groups, winners at the start of 2003, limped into 2004, as big mutual-fund managers recognized that these stocks almost always underperform during the initial tightenings. For some of these stocks, the bears' warnings will be right. They will look cheap on paper, but they could fold if rate hikes send emotional jitters through consumers who have been living off easy credit for several years now. I no longer own Target, I sold the Kohl's, and I can't even fathom Wal-Mart here. The drugs and foods should do nothing initially. It takes four or five tightenings before the economy is sufficiently cool enough that an Anheuser-Busch or a General Mills makes sense. But midyear, if the Fed's too vigilant, you will have to scale back out of the smokestacks and into the stocks found in the medicine chest and the fridge.
Why aren't I more worried after the outsize gains of 2003? Why can't I join the chorus of those talking heads who say "It can't be as good as it was" or "Valuations are already stretched like rubber bands about to break"? Two reasons: One, those same pundits probably missed the whole rally in 2003, and two, if you read these columns this year, you know I didn't.
How good will it be? Good enough to make me wish that I could un-retire and go back into that trading turret I left at the end of 2000.


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The following post is written by CAPT William C. Hamilton, 22nd Commanding Officer of the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) in honor of the carrier's 50th birthday, November 25, 2011.
Friday one of the most storied ships in U.S. Navy history broke another record. The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65) became the first aircraft carrier in history to celebrate 50 years of active service. The oldest warship still in active service, ENTERPRISE has participated in every major naval conflict from the Cuban Missile Crisis through six arduous tours in Vietnam, the Cold War, the Gulf Wars, and today's effort to rid the world of terrorism and piracy.
To serve as Commanding Officer of the Big E is nothing less than an honor and a dream fulfilled. To carry the name ENTERPRISE is a great responsibility and one that I hold dear. As a Student Naval Aviator in 1985, I was qualified to operate from carriers while flying from her deck. As an F/A-18 Hornet squadron Department Head in 1995, I flew patrol and combat missions from her deck. As Executive Officer in 2004, I learned to appreciate the heritage and legacy of the ship and the challenge of operating and maintaining her. And now, as her Commanding Officer, I fully understand that ENTERPRISE is not a piece of steel, pointed at one end and blunt at the other. Rather, ENTERPRISE is the pride, spirit, dedication, and hard work of the 200,000 Sailors that have served aboard and flown from her deck.
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title: 2016 Uchicago Trading Competition Case3
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color: '#949667'
tags: [UCTC]
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Thanks to my teammates: \\
* Liang Zhang\\
* Yue Liu\\
* Qiasheng Zou

## Introduction
This is a option market-making case which needs to algorithm to find a best balance between risk and market-making revenue. There are three calls and three puts at three stikes
in the market, in every tick, we need to give out our prices for all six options. Besides the options, we can also trade the underlying.

## Market Making
Here is an explanation of market-making on [Investopedia](http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketmaker.asp#ixzz4MNEVd6Lp)

```
How Market Makers Earn Profits
All market makers are compensated for the risk of holding assets.
The risk they face is a decline in the value of a security after it has been purchased from a seller and before it's sold to a buyer.
Therefore, market makers charge a spread on each security that they cover.
This is known as the bid-ask spread and is extremely common in financial transactions.
For example, when an investor searches for a stock us6ing an online brokerage firm, it might have an ask price of $100 and a bid price of $100.05.
This means that the broker is purchasing the stock for $100 and then selling the stock for $100.05 to prospective buyers.
Through high-volume trading, the small spread ads up to large daily profits.
```

## Strategy
Our goal is to find the largest bid-ask spread and control our delta (effect of change of underlying price on option price) and vega (effect of change of underlying volatility on option price).
Both Delta and vega have a limit and exceeding the limits would be punished. Our basic strategy is set a cutoff on vega, which is stricter than the limit since it would take some time to neutralize our vega. Then trade underlying to keep our delta between
-100 to 100 which actually help us to lock the profit. The most essential part is the market width (ask-bid spread), we adjust it according to our vega, when vega is large,
we shrink the market width to reduce our position and vega sooner, which vega is small, we enlarge the market width to get more profit.

## Initialize

```java
import org.optionscity.uchicago.common.case3.Case3Option;
import org.optionscity.uchicago.common.case3.Case3Ticker;
import org.optionscity.uchicago.common.case3.Greeks;
import org.optionscity.uchicago.common.case3.Market;
import org.optionscity.uchicago.job.case3.AbstractCase3Job;

//import com.sun.xml.internal.bind.v2.schemagen.xmlschema.List;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;

public class ILL1Case3Job extends AbstractCase3Job {
    double deltaPos;
    double vegaPos;

    double currentDelta;
    double currentVega;
    double call_100;
    double call_80;
    double call_120;

    double put_100;
    double put_80;
    double put_120;

    int buy1=0;
    int buy2=0;
    int buy3=0;
    int buy4=0;
    int buy5=0;
    int buy6=0;
    int sell1=0;
    int sell2=0;
    int sell3=0;
    int sell4=0;
    int sell5=0;
    int sell6=0;
    int cc8=0;
    int cc10=0;
    int cc12=0;
    int cp8=0;
    int cp10=0;
    int cp12=0;
    int lc8=0;
    int lc10=0;
    int lc12=0;
    int lp8=0;
    int lp10=0;
    int lp12=0;
    int[] tick = new int[600];
    boolean[] fills = new boolean[600];

    double scale_option1_bid = 0.1;
    double scale_option2_bid = 0.1;
    double scale_option3_bid = 0.1;
    double scale_option4_bid = 0.1;
    double scale_option5_bid = 0.1;
    double scale_option6_bid = 0.1;

    double scale_option1_ask = 0.1;
    double scale_option2_ask = 0.1;
    double scale_option3_ask = 0.1;
    double scale_option4_ask = 0.1;
    double scale_option5_ask = 0.1;
    double scale_option6_ask = 0.1;
    double market_width=0.1;

    int long_tradable = 1;
    int short_tradable = 1;

    //int option_counter = 0;
    int tick_time = 0;
    int global_hit = 0;
```

## Set initial spread
At the very beginning, since we do not have enough historical data, we set market_width to be 0.1 and wait for 24 seconds to see how does this width work and then adjust market
width according to the number of hits we got. We set some extreme cut-off for hit because vega should be able to successfully help us adjust market-width, and the only situation
we want this function to work is when the market is really crazy and this function could save us some time to adjust compared with the vega way.

```java
    public void search_spread(Case3Option option)
    {
        //get the current option position

        //if get hit

        if( tick_time == 24 )
        {
            global_hit = buy1+buy2+buy3+buy4+buy5+buy6+sell1+sell2+sell3+sell4+sell5+sell6;
            log("hit"+global_hit);
            if( global_hit > 20 )
            {
                 scale_option1_bid = 0.2;
                 scale_option2_bid = 0.2;
                 scale_option3_bid = 0.2;
                 scale_option4_bid = 0.2;
                 scale_option5_bid = 0.2;
                 scale_option6_bid = 0.2;
                 scale_option1_ask = 0.2;
                 scale_option2_ask = 0.2;
                 scale_option3_ask = 0.2;
                 scale_option4_ask = 0.2;
                 scale_option5_ask = 0.2;
                 scale_option6_ask = 0.2;
                 market_width = 0.2;
                 log("scale"+scale_option1_bid);
            }

            else if( global_hit <= 4 )
            {
                 scale_option1_bid = 0.05;
                 scale_option2_bid = 0.05;
                 scale_option3_bid = 0.05;
                 scale_option4_bid = 0.05;
                 scale_option5_bid = 0.05;
                 scale_option6_bid = 0.05;
                 scale_option1_ask = 0.05;
                 scale_option2_ask = 0.05;
                 scale_option3_ask = 0.05;
                 scale_option4_ask = 0.05;
                 scale_option5_ask = 0.05;
                 scale_option6_ask = 0.05;
                 market_width = 0.05;
                 log("scale"+scale_option1_bid);
            }
         }

    }

      public void record(){

        cc8=getPosition(Case3Option.CALL_80);
        cc10=getPosition(Case3Option.CALL_100);
        cc12=getPosition(Case3Option.CALL_120);
        cp8=getPosition(Case3Option.PUT_80);
        cp10=getPosition(Case3Option.PUT_100);
        cp12=getPosition(Case3Option.PUT_120);

        if((cc8-lc8)>0){buy1=buy1+(cc8-lc8);}
        if((cc10-lc10)>0){buy2=buy2+(cc10-lc10);}
        if((cc12-lc12)>0){buy3=buy3+(cc12-lc12);}
        if((cp8-lp8)>0){buy4=buy4+(cp8-lp8);}
        if((cp10-lp10)>0){buy5=buy5+(cp10-lp10);}
        if((cp12-lp12)>0){buy6=buy6+(cp12-lp12);}

        if((cc8-lc8)<0){sell1=sell1-(cc8-lc8);}
        if((cc10-lc10)<0){sell2=sell2-(cc10-lc10);}
        if((cc12-lc12)<0){sell3=sell3-(cc12-lc12);}
        if((cp8-lp8)<0){sell4=sell5-(cp8-lp8);}
        if((cp10-lp10)<0){sell5=sell5-(cp10-lp10);}
        if((cp12-lp12)<0){sell6=sell6-(cp12-lp12);}

        lc8=cc8;
        lc10=cc10;
        lc12=cc12;
        lp8=cp8;
        lp10=cp10;
        lp12=cp12;
    }
```

## Main part

```java
    public void tradeOption(Case3Option option, double scale1, double scale2 ){
        Greeks Gs = getGreeks(option);
        double optionDelta = Gs.delta;
        double optionVega = Gs.vega;
        int    optionPosition = getPosition(option);

        double optionPrice = Gs.theoreticalPrice;

        if (long_tradable==1&short_tradable==1){
        Market market = new Market((optionPrice-scale1*optionPrice), (optionPrice+scale2*optionPrice));
        makeMarket(option, market);}
        if (long_tradable==0){
        Market market = new Market(0, (optionPrice+scale2*optionPrice));
        makeMarket(option, market);}
        if (short_tradable==0){
        Market market = new Market((optionPrice-scale1*optionPrice), Double.MAX_VALUE);
        makeMarket(option, market);}
        if( tick_time <= 24 )
            search_spread(option);

        //option_counter++;

    }
    #OnTick is the function called by sever on evry tick
    public void onTick() {

        //update the time tick
        tick_time++;

        Delta();
        currentVega = getTotalVega();
		//set cutoff of vega
        if( currentVega>  300){long_tradable=0;}
        if( currentVega<  -300){short_tradable=0;}
        if( currentVega<  200){long_tradable=1;}
        if( currentVega>  -200){short_tradable=1;}

        //get the buy and sell at current tick time

        scale_option1_bid=getscaled(currentVega)[0];
        log("c11"+scale_option1_bid);
        scale_option1_ask=getscaled(currentVega)[1];
        log("c12"+scale_option1_ask);

        List<String> options=topVegas();
        //log(""+options.get(0)+options.get(1)+options.get(2)+options.get(3)+options.get(4)+options.get(5));
        //log("size: "+options.size());
        log("c22"+scale_option2_ask);
        tradeOption(strtooption(options.get(0)),scale_option1_bid, scale_option1_ask);
        tradeOption(getparity(options.get(0)),scale_option1_bid, scale_option1_ask);
        tradeOption(strtooption(options.get(1)),scale_option1_bid, scale_option1_ask);
        tradeOption(getparity(options.get(1)),scale_option2_bid, scale_option2_ask);
        tradeOption(strtooption(options.get(2)),scale_option2_bid, scale_option2_ask);
        tradeOption(getparity(options.get(2)),scale_option2_bid, scale_option2_ask);
        record();

    }

```

## Set market width by vega

```java
    public double[] getscaled(double vega){

        double scale[] = new double[2];

            if (vega>=200)
            {
                scale[0]= market_width*2;
                scale[1]= market_width*0.1;
            }
            else if(vega<200 && vega>100)
            {
                scale[0]= market_width*1.7;
                scale[1]= market_width*0.3;
            }
            else if(vega<=100 && vega>=-100)
            {
                scale[0]= market_width;
                scale[1]= market_width;
            }
            else if(vega<-100 && vega>-200)
            {
                scale[0]= market_width*0.3;
                scale[1]= market_width*1.7;
            }
            else if(vega<=-200)
            {
                scale[0]= market_width*0.1;
                scale[1]= market_width*2;
            }

        return scale;
    }

```

## Neutralize Delta by trading underlying

```java
    public void Delta(){

        currentDelta = getTotalDelta();
        log("Delta"+currentDelta);

        if(currentDelta > 100)
        {
            order(Case3Ticker.UCHIX, (int)((-currentDelta)/100));
            log("DNeutral-underlying"+currentDelta);
            log("DNeutral-shares"+(int)((-currentDelta)/100));
        }

        else if (currentDelta < -100)
        {
            order(Case3Ticker.UCHIX, (int)(-currentDelta/100));
            log("DNeutral+underlying"+currentDelta);
            log("DNeutral-shares"+(int)((currentDelta)/100));
        }

    }
```

## Help functions

```java
    public Case3Option strtooption(String str){
        if (str=="call80"){return Case3Option.CALL_80;}
        if (str=="call100"){return Case3Option.CALL_100;}
        if (str=="call120"){return Case3Option.CALL_120;}
        if (str=="put80"){return Case3Option.PUT_80;}
        if (str=="put100"){return Case3Option.PUT_100;}
        if (str=="put120"){return Case3Option.PUT_120;}
        return Case3Option.CALL_80;
    }
    public Case3Option getparity(String str){
        if (str=="call80"){return Case3Option.PUT_80;}
        if (str=="call100"){return Case3Option.PUT_100;}
        if (str=="call120"){return Case3Option.PUT_120;}

        return Case3Option.CALL_80;
    }
     public List <String> topVegas(){

        double call80 = getGreeks(Case3Option.CALL_80).vega;
        double call100 = getGreeks(Case3Option.CALL_100).vega;
        double call120 = getGreeks(Case3Option.CALL_120).vega;
        double put80 = getGreeks(Case3Option.PUT_80).vega;
        double put100 = getGreeks(Case3Option.PUT_100).vega;
        double put120 = getGreeks(Case3Option.PUT_120).vega;

        HashMap <Double, String> vegaToTicket = new HashMap <Double, String>();

        vegaToTicket.put(call80,"call80");
        vegaToTicket.put(call100,"call100");
        vegaToTicket.put(call120,"call120");

        double [] vegas = new double [3];

        vegas[0]=call80;
        vegas[1]=call100;
        vegas[2]=call120;

        sort(vegas);

        List<String> ret = new ArrayList <String>();

        for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
        {
            //log(""+vegaToTicket.get(sortedKeys.get(5-i))+""+sortedKeys.get(5-i));
            ret.add(i,vegaToTicket.get(vegas[2-i]));
            log("size: "+ret.size());
        }

        return ret;
    }
	# I don't think sort is necessary here, looks like it was some idea we abandoned, but I kept it anyway.
     public void sort(double[] x) {
          boolean sorted=true;
          double temp;

          while (sorted){
             sorted = false;
             for (int i=0; i < x.length-1; i++)
                if (x[i] > x[i+1]) {
                   temp       = x[i];
                   x[i]       = x[i+1];
                   x[i+1]     = temp;
                   sorted = true;
                }
          } }
    public void onVegaLimitBreached() {

    }

    public void onDeltaLimitBreached() {
    }
}

```

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Smobler Studios launches Hytech's rebrand and first global Metaverse event
Smobler Labs Pte Ltd
Hytech's Re-brand in the Metaverse
Huge Turnout in Decentraland
Smobler Studios' Co-Founder and CEO, Loretta Chen
Smobler Studios' Global Head of Production, Sharon Beh
As pioneers in the space, we seek trusted partners and brands that embody the spirit of innovation, celebrate creativity and provide a trifecta of form, function and fun to stay ahead of competition"
— Smobler Studios' Co-Founder and CEO Loretta Chen
SINGAPORE, January 6, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- International management consultancy firm, Hytech, has launched its new brand in the Metaverse.
The experience was developed by Smobler Studios, a leading metaverse architecture agency. It also designed and hosted the first wedding in The Sandbox Metaverse last August. The phygital wedding captured international headlines and created widespread public interest in the Metaverse.
Hytech provides management consultancy services to fintech firms around the world. The rebranding move consolidates its teams across different verticals - including operations, cybersecurity, human resources, data analytics, and app development support – under a single umbrella.
In order to achieve maximum impact, the brand launch was planned in stealth and disguised as a Christmas celebration party for staff and internal stakeholders.
In order to ensure the success of this ground-breaking endeavour, Smobler Studios partnered with HighCo Metaland, a subsidiary of HighCo, a media company headquartered in France.
Co-Founder and CEO of Smobler Studios, Loretta Chen shares that strategic collaborations are key to the success of the burgeoning Metaverse,
"The Metaverse and Web 3 space are in its early throes of creation. As early adopters, disruptors and pioneers in the space, it is essential we seek out trusted partners to create value propositions for our users and community. Brands that embody the spirit of innovation, celebrate a culture of creativity and seek to provide a trifecta of form, function and fun will be able to stay ahead of the curve."
The event was held in Decentraland, a 3D virtual world browser based platform from 15th to 17th December 2022. It drew over 1700 applications making it one of the biggest highlights in Decentraland during the period. Eventually, close to a 1000 Hytech employees were granted access to the password-gated experience. This was a feat given that Hytech has a diverse team operating from global markets and different time zones.
Sara Zhang, Head of Global HR at Hytech explained that Hytech's brand launch was key to building a strong sense of belonging for its employees within the sprawling organisation,
"Hytech's people live and breathe technology and innovation daily. Our operations were isolated due to our teams being physically located in different offices around the world. It was essential to create a unified identity for them, so they know they are part of a bigger family with a common purpose and vision that goes beyond their four walls. This virtual gathering on the Metaverse was the right choice on so many levels."
A launch of this scale requires careful planning. The EU commission spent over $400,000 on a party in the Metaverse to promote its Global Gateway Initiative last December. Only 6 people reportedly showed up. The empty gala did not go down well with internal staff, netizens and the public.
As such, the team at Smobler Studios worked hard to ensure the event would go without a hitch by embarking on an "Educate, Engage and Entertain" framework to onboard the Hytech staff. Global Head of Productions at Smobler Studios, Sharon Beh adds,
"While the term 'Metaverse' has become one of the most Googled buzzwords, not everyone truly understands it. At Smobler Studios, we aim to remove the barriers to entry. Aside from building the experience, we educated the Hytech staff on how to create a digital wallet, engaged them on how to claim their NFTs and entertained them by showing them how to animate their avatars to play and dance in the metaverse. All of these work in tandem to enable a richer, more fulfilling Metaverse experience. We are delighted that everyone was able to partake in the festive celebrations and create memories with their colleagues from all over the world. "
This positive experience has served to alleviate some of the initial anxieties on entering the Metaverse which reinforces Chen's beliefs and vision for collaborative, win-win-win partnerships.
"The launch is just a start. Our success will come as we continue to build our operations with the refreshed brand," quips Zhang.
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About Hytech
Hytech is a global management consultancy firm, specialising in driving digital transformation for businesses in the fintech industries. Hytech operates at the intersection of business and technology by amalgamating innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge, to deliver end-to-end data-driven solutions for cloud services, cyber-security solutions, IT consultancy, and other support services.
We're connecting the dots, so you won't have to.
About Smobler Studios
Smobler Studios is a metaverse architecture agency that specializes in IP creation, brand marketing and metaverse development. The Studios is also focused on co-creating a Metaverse for Good based on its IDEALS (inclusion, diversity, equity, access, leadership and sustainability) as well as building a diverse ecosystem with a strong academy emphasis.
Smobler Studios works largely with Web 2 legacy brands, governments, NGOs, financial institutions, F&B, retail and other B2B brands. Its recent clients include DBS, Mighty Jaxx, 1-Group, The Food Bank Singapore and Tools of Rock NFT amongst others. Smobler Studios is backed by The Sandbox and Brinc. To learn more, visit www.smoblerstudios.com.
For media queries, please contact: nat@smoblerstudios.com
Loretta Chen
Smobler Studios
loretta@smoblerstudios.com
Hytech's Re-Brand Launch and Christmas Party in Decentraland
Distribution channels: Amusement, Gaming & Casino, Culture, Society & Lifestyle, International Organizations, Media, Advertising & PR, Technology
Smobler Studios loretta@smoblerstudios.com
10 Anson Road #22-02 International Plaza
Bestselling author Loretta Chen celebrates unsung heroes of parenting in M/OTHER


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A bicolor cat or tuxedo cat is a cat with white fur combined with fur of some other color, for example black or tabby. There are various patterns of bicolor cat. These range from Turkish Van pattern (color on the crown of the head and the tail only) through to solid color with a throat locket.

Where there is low-to-medium grade white spotting limited to the face, paws, throat and chest of an otherwise black cat, they are known in the United States as a tuxedo cat. High-grade bicolor results in Van-pattern cats. There are many patterns between, such as "cap-and-saddle", "mask-and-mantle" and "magpie" (more randomly splashed). Bicolors are found in many cat breeds, as well as being common in domestic longhair and domestic shorthair cats.

Mostly-solid-color bicolor cats occur because there is a white spotting gene present along with a recessive allele of the agouti gene, which evens out the usual striped pattern of the colors of the coat. In contrast, tabby cats have an agouti gene that produces striping of the coat. The Abyssinian has agouti (ticked tabby) fur, giving the appearance of even color with color-banded hairs

White spotting can also occur with any of the tabby patterns, resulting in tabby and white bicolors. Colorpoint (Himalayan pattern) cats can have bicolor points, although this variation is not recognized for showing. The body markings of bicolor colorpoints become clearer with age, as the body fur of colorpoint cats darkens as the cats grow older and the white patches become more visible.

Bicolor cats that are black and white are sometimes called "magpies". The cream and white bicolor cat is the rarest of the bicolors, while the black and white or "blue" (grey) and white are the most common.

Grades and frequency in breeds

Bicoloration in cats is graded from one to ten with one being completely black and ten being completely white. There are also several patterns with their own names. The cat labelled "bicolor" is the preferred pattern in show-quality bicolor purebred cats. The Cat Registry Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe) states that for a "standard" bicolor coat to compete in shows: "the color patches must be clearly separated from each other, even in color and harmoniously distributed. At least ½ should be colored, but not more than ⅞; the rest is white." In comparison, The Cat Fancier Organization (CFA) says that "cats with no more than a locket and/or button [patch on chest] do not qualify for this color class."

Another type of black-and-white bicolor cat is referred to as a "cow cat" or "moo cat" and includes the magpie, cap-and-saddle and mask-and-mantle patterns. A cat cow does not have the solid black "jacket" of the tuxedo cat. Instead, it has large black patches over a mostly white body, often with a black mask over the head. "Black-mask cats" are so called because they look like they are wearing a black mask over their head.

The Turkish Van (white and red) is one good example of a bicolor breed. Van pattern is known to animal geneticists as the Seychelles (Seychellois) pattern and is classified into three variants:
 Seychellois Neuvieme is white with colored tail and head splashes (classic Turkish Van pattern)
 Seychellois Huitieme is white with colored tail and head splashes plus additional splashes of color on the legs
 Seychellois Septieme is white with splashes of color on the legs and body in addition to those on the head and the colored tail

These are high grade white spotting of types nine, eight and seven.

This coloration is not restricted to a specific breed of cat, as it can be found in many different types of pure-breed as well as mixed-breed domestic cats. However, some breeds are especially noted for having bicolor coats in their breed standards. These include the Turkish Van, American Shorthair, Manx, British Shorthair, and Turkish Angora.

In contrast, other common breeds of cat have specific coat patterns specified in their breed standards. Cats with such specific coat patterns include the Russian Blue, which has a coat of one solid color.

Genetics of coat patterns

The basic colors and patterns of cat fur are defined by fewer than ten genes. Cats with white color in their coats are thought to have a mutant white-spotting gene that prevents the formation of coat color in patches over the cat's body. This gene has been investigated in several species, particularly mice, and is co-dominant to normal coat color as it prevents the migration of melanocytes into the developing hair follicles. The genetics of this pattern are not as well understood in cats but at least some of the genes involved in melanocyte migration and survival may play a role similar as in other animals.

Three genotypes possible with the S (white spotting) gene, with capital S standing for a wild-type copy and lower-case s standing for the mutant.

 SS (two dominant alleles) results in high grades of white spotting (sometimes resulting in a solid-looking white cat or a white cat with just a few color hairs)
 Ss (one dominant, one recessive allele) results in medium grades of white spotting
 ss (two recessive alleles) results in solid color or low grades of white spotting (sometimes as little as a few white hairs)

The lack of tabby striping in bicolor cats is controlled by the agouti protein, which inhibits the production of melanin and thus prevents the formation of dark hair colors. In agouti cats the gene is turned on and off as the hair grows, producing hairs with alternating stripes yellow and black. In domestic cats, inactivation of the agouti gene by a deletion mutation causes all-black coat color.

Tuxedo

A tuxedo cat, or Felix cat  or Julius cat  is a bicolor cat with a white and black coat. They are called "tuxedo" cats because they appear to be wearing the type of black tie formal wear commonly known in the United States and Canada as a tuxedo. The tuxedo pattern is not limited to the color black, but the name is typically reserved for black and white cats. Most tuxedo cats are also black-mask cats, a common name for felines who, due to their facial coloration, look as if they are wearing a black mask over their eyes, and often over their entire head. To be considered a true tuxedo cat, the feline's coloring should consist of a solid black coat, with white fur limited to the paws, belly, chest, throat, and often the chin - sometimes the tail, although many tuxedo cats appear to sport goatees, due to the black coloration of their mandible: the lower jaw and chin. Bicolor may also appear in the skin color. Paw pads may be black or pink, often matching the coat in that area; if the color boundary crosses the underside of the paw, the pads on either side may be different colors or even bicolored. White muzzles or vertical stripes are a common attribute of tuxedo cats.

In popular culture

In the United Kingdom, the tuxedo cat became depicted as the "Jellicle cat" in the fictional tribe of nocturnal black and white cats described by T. S. Eliot in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was first published in 1939. In its derivative musical "Cats", the tuxedo cat is exemplified by the character of the magical Mr. Mistoffelees, who is portrayed as a stage magician wearing a lacy ruff and bow tie, as well as the character Bustopher Jones whose outfit consists of a tuxedo and spats. The musical differed from the book in that the characters included cats with many different coat colors, rather than just bicolor cats, but it retains the repeated assertion that "Jellicle cats are black and white." Cats with these markings also played a starring role in the drawings illustrating The Unadulterated Cat, a book written by Terry Pratchett, with cartoons by Gray Jolliffe.

Other well-known cartoon bicolor cats include Sylvester the Cat, Felix the Cat, Tom Cat from Tom and Jerry, Oggy from Oggy and the Cockroaches, Cat from The Cat that Hated People and Ventriloquist Cat, Krazy Kat, Jess from Postman Pat, Kitty Softpaws from the Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots, Figaro, Beans and Sebastian the cat from Josie and the Pussycats. A bicolor cat named Mittens is one of the main characters in the 2008 Disney animated film Bolt. Aldwyn from The Familiars is a tuxedo cat, while Meowrice (voiced by Paul Frees) from Gay Purr-ee is a bicolor. A tuxedo cat is also the protagonist of the popular children's book Tip-Top Cat, and another is one of the ten breeds of cats in the video game Minecraft. Morgana, a playable character in the JRPG Persona 5, is a bicolor cat. Bo, a character from the TV series Abby Hatcher, is a Fuzzly who resembles a tuxedo cat. Klonoa, the main character of the titular Klonoa games, closely resembles a tuxedo cat.

Known tuxedo cats
 Salem, the tuxedo cat from the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: Salem is a tuxedo cat that appears in the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Although an animated character, Salem became a popular figure among fans of the series and became a symbol of the popularity of tuxedo cats.
 Tilly, Actress Audrey Hepburn's Tuxedo Cat: Tilly was Audrey Hepburn's tuxedo cat for many years and became a popular figure in her own right. Tilly was known for her charisma and personality, and was frequently seen in photographs and interviews with Hepburn.

See also
 Palmerston, black & white bicolor, resident Chief Mouser of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Whitehall London
 Kat Kong, a children's book about a bicolor cat
 Penelope Pussycat, a cartoon character who is a bicolor cat

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Granada Profiles: Meet Principal Clark Conover
Tyler Hayley, Reporter and Editor
Clark Conover has been working at Granada for over two decades. While a majority of students may just know him as their new principal, he has had many roles at Granada including vice-principal, wrestling coach, and teacher. It's time to learn a little more about our new principal.
When Mr. Conover became a teacher, he knew it would be at Granada. While spending time in New Haven and at Cal Poly, he would quickly settle here and take on a multitude of roles. While he would initially be hired as a math teacher, Conover would go on to do much more, including teaching health and P.E. as well as coaching the wrestling team. When it came to moving up, the decision came naturally, "…the opportunity came about to be an athletic director and they needed somebody, so I became the athletic director. Did that for a long time, and the next step, logically, was administration…" stated Conover.
Since he was a kid, Conover knew he wanted to be a teacher, although he, "…wanted to, to be honest, stay a student forever." Mr. Conover had a lot of influences that led him to become a teacher. Most notably, his high school wrestling coach Steve Page helped guide him into a career in teaching. His mom was also a teacher for over 44 years. While he was a teacher for a long time, many current Granada students still might remember him as their vice principal. Speaking on why he decided to become principal, Conover said, "…I was happy doing what I was doing last year as a vice principal, but when Mr. Hart went to the district office [and] an opening appeared, and I was asked about it, and I thought, well, I have a lot of people supporting me, so I just kind of went for it."
What Mr. Conover loves most about his job are the connections he's made with students and teachers. He loves getting to know the students of Granada and helping them do their best. Although, his least favorite part would be, "…a lot of E-Mails…" There's nothing else Mr. Conover could imagine himself doing; if he wasn't the principal he would hop right back into coaching or teaching again.
When he's not working on bettering Granada, Mr. Conover loves to work out, read, listen to music, and hang out with his family. Mr. Conover is a fan of many sports, including wrestling, grappling, and jiu-jitsu. If you've been sensing a pattern, Mr. Conover has always had an interest in wrestling, recalling, "I had two older brothers that wrestled, and when I was in middle school at East Avenue here in town they had this huge wrestling unit. The coach told me to go to practice one day, and I listened to him." He also loves to read, finding himself immersed in spy novels by authors such as Daniel Silva and Brad Thor.
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