The fear of switching from PC to Mac prevented me from taking this leap for years. My office neighbor was a retired director, and he had Mac and iPod, etc. That was more than 10 years ago. He tried, evening letting me play with an old iPod. I stayed (i)Pod-less. (I love to listen to music, but don't like ear butts.) Fast forward, my laptop is dying (I think) and I am leaving U. Hawaii. So, I will not get free service if something goes wrong with my PC. There is an Apple store right across the street, and one of my girlfriends told me about these one-to-one classes that cost $99/year. I thought that was such a good deal. If I went weekly for an hour, each lesson would cost me less than USD2! I know there are many, many features on a Mac, or a PC, but all I had done was Word, ppt, xlsx, email, photos, and web surfing. So, here is what I learned from my first one-to-one class. 1) Two-finger press on the trackpad: press two fingers down simutaneousely, and you get the right click. This is better than using ctl+one-finger click, which takes two hands. 2) Three-finger tap: you move the curse to a word in your Mac Notes (or a web page), and lightly tap it with three fingers. The word will be highlighted, with a pop-up windwon showing dictionary, thesaurus, and wikipedia. (Too bad this does not work for Word.) 3) Five-finger move: put all five fingers down, and move them inward. Something will happen. Try it. All these N-finger movements made me wonder whether or not Mac will get sued one day by people who do not have five fingers... Oh, well, that's how my brain works; it likes to think. With all I learned yesterday, I still love the two-finger scroll (to move a page up and down, and left and right), which I learned on the first day. Why? This helps me to relax my right hand, which was doing most of the extra work on a PC laptop. (Note: Later on, I discovered many other ways of using the trackpad. It's under System Preferences. It's like having a trainer who does not speak.) Next, I had a tour of the exterior of the MacBook Pro. Why don't you take a look around your Mac, and tell me which slot/button you don't understand. The half-visible button on the left hand side is something I probably would not care to play with if not told. The same for the small slot on the right hand side--but it's unlikely I will ever use it.
The full text is quoted as follows: A private conversation Last week I went to the theater. I had a very good seat. The play was very interesting. I did not enjoy it. A young man and a young woman were sitting behind me. They were talking loudly. I got very angry. I could not hear the actors. I turned round. I looked at the man and the woman angrily. They did not pay any attention. In the end, I could not bear it. I turned round again. ‘I can’t hear a word!’ I said angrily. ‘ It’s none of your business’ the young man said rudely. ‘ this is a private conversation!’
Institutional investors demand greater private equity transparency Professional Pensions | 30 Aug 2011 | 10:52 By Jenna Towler Categories: Private Equity , Investment , Defined Benefit , Defined Contribution Topics: Sei , Private equity , Greenwhich associates , Rodger smith , Phil masterson Pension schemes are looking to increase allocations to private equity but demand greater transparency, reporting and risk management from providers, a report suggests. The survey, The Logic of Fund Flows from SEI and Greenwich Associates, found 26% of investors plan to increase their private equity mandates in the next year. However, investors and consultants differed on their investment objectives regarding private equity. More than two-thirds of investors (68%) said return potential was their primary objective as opposed to 10% of consultants. Some 50% of consultants, meanwhile, said diversification was their primary investment objective compared to 18% of investors. Greenwich Associates managing director Rodger Smith said: "As investors are looking to achieve higher returns in an increasingly challenging return environment, private equity is coming back, but standards are higher across the board." The report also said investors ranked portfolio transparency, fees, and quality of reporting and communications as very important factors in the selection process - alongside tradition criteria such as investment philosophy and performance. SEI senior vice-president and investment manager services division head of business development Phil Masterson added: "This survey confirms what we're hearing from our clients - investors are demanding more from managers across asset classes." He explained while investors see private equity as an area of opportunity they expect more from the managers they give their money to. "They want greater transparency, better reporting, and lower fees. Those can only be achieved with greater operational effectiveness." The poll of more than 400 institutional investors, consultants and fund managers found the range of private equity mandates is also growing. It said more than 80% of investors had put funds into venture capital, leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed investments and mezzanine capital. SEI said the secondary market for private equity was "thriving as investors are buying or selling to meet liquidity demands or pick up deals at deeply discounted prices". Read more: http://www.professionalpensions.com/professional-pensions/news/2105133/institutional-investors-demand-private-equity-transparency#ixzz1mMu7EJtu Professional Pensions - News and analysis from the pensions market. Subscribe now.
飞机上看王尔德的 The Picture of Dorian Gray ——我出门总会为带什么书纠结一会儿，于是干脆随机选择。带这本书只是因为它很薄，正赶上了随行的机会。 前言就是一篇妙文：艺术家创造美，批评家把对美的感觉转写成别的形态或材料。批评是一种自我写照，从美中看到丑的人，本身就腐烂不堪了；从美发现美的人才有希望，对他们来说，美就是美…… The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. …… …… We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. 王老师说的美，与道林格雷从他的画像看到的美一样，是没有灵魂的。如果我们想从人生和道德来看，恐怕就成了王老所说的 corrupt without charming ——那该怎么看呢？学他最后那句话：“一切艺术都是没用的”。没有灵魂的画像，才能表现他的纯粹，至于结局嘛，当然和一切纯粹的东西一样…… 为格雷画像并成为他的崇拜者的画家，在书里说过一句很妙的话： Dorian Gray is to me simply a motive in art. You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. That is all. 这样看来，格雷的美，在他的画里也是一种虚幻，若有若无，无形胜于有形，可以幻化成任何形式和色彩……
You may have never heard of Creighton University (CU) . A young man who plans to become a medical doctor was told by his college counselor to apply to some small, private colleges. One of the schools he has applied is CU. On Jan. 15, 2011, an acceptance letter from the CU has arrived, which offers the young man the CU Founders Award in the amount of $11,000.00 for the 2011-2012 academic year. The letter noted that this award is renewable for another three years. ps. This award is about 1/3 of the tuition.
Suddenly, I feel like a frog at the bottom of a deep well... I know private high schools in the U.S. can cost a lot. Punahou is a great school, and its annual tuition goes UP every year--it will be USD 17,800 for the school year of 2010-2011. (If it were NOT for the poor economy, it could have been USD 500 more.) What I never heard of, until today, is that a private school in the U.S. can charge tuition differently, that is, charging an international student more than twice of its "normal tuition." I am talking about tuition alone, not including boarding, etc. If someone knows a private school that does this, that is, charging international students much more, could you please leave me a link in the comment area? Maybe this is the way the U.S. can try to get out of its recession (in addition to rejecting Chinese for their visa applications)?
Hawaii is a wonderful place to live, but if you have a school-age child you need to know the public schools in Hawaii are not well run. So, can you afford a private school in Hawaii? Paying for Private School By Jenny Quill of Honolulu Magazine With 124 licensed independent schools, Hawaii offers an abundance of options for families looking to find the right schools for their children. Each school is different: There are nonsecular and secular options ranging from Catholic to Buddhist; schools that cater to gifted or special-needs children; and schools that focus on specific programs, such as performing arts, technology and environmental stewardship. While a private-school education doesnt come free, it probably wont cost as much as you think. Approximately 65 percent of Hawaiis independent schools charge less than $9,000 per year for tuition, with 43 schools costing less than $6,000 a year. A few schools cost upwards of $15,000 annually, but the substantial range between the highest annual tuition at a standard K-12 school ($19,200 for grades 9-12 at Hawaii Preparatory Academy) and the lowest ($3,400 at Koolau Baptist Academy) means theres a lot of financial wiggle room. When shopping around, it helps to keep your options open. should apply to a variety of schools, says Kathy Lee, Hawaii Baptist Academys director of admissions. And if money is going to be a big factor, look at schools of all different tuition prices so that, in the end, they have several good options. That said, you want to be sure to find the right fit for you and your child, which may mean that the cheaper school isnt necessarily the better school for you. is terrifying, says Laura Brown, whose two sons, Adrian and Ray, have attended or are currently enrolled at ASSETS School, a school for gifted or dyslexic children. You look at your budget and say, Theres absolutely no way our family can do it. But the minute you experience it, theres absolutely no way you cant afford it. You cant believe the difference until you get your kid in there. Learn more at Hawaii Private School Guide 2010 Note: This guide is updated each year, so look for a newer one.
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