"During times of market volatility, expert, active fund managers can really make a difference for you – hopefully losing less money when markets fall and making more when they rise.
Don't get me wrong: SLO is not yet in the league of Aspen, Telluride and Santa Fe for boho-bourgeoise charms, but, to my surprise, it's methodically moving in that direction, without, hopefully, losing the earnest, considerate kindness that is its signature hallmark.
When your sibling or friend is playing a video game, wait behind them until they reach a crucial point such as a boss battle, put the pen up to their ear and click it repeatedly until they turn round and hopefully lose the game.
It is too simple to blame one camp for the failure of the fight to take place, but hopefully the lost opportunity will serve as a harsh warning to all future fighters that fail to meet their natural rivals at a time when it still matters.
Hopefully someone lost their job at GM over it because this is not how you sell the Chevy Volt.
We are easing towards a slight liberation from our national inhibitions - although hopefully not losing them completely.
Now canny authors Tim Phillips and Rebecca Clare have seized on the power struggles and psychopaths of Westeros to write Game of Thrones on Business, which promises to "turn you into an outstanding leader and transform your business", hopefully without losing any body parts along the way.
"With filmmakers like ('The Hobbit' director) Peter Jackson, we will still strategically swing a little bit bigger on certain movies, but hopefully not lose focus on the genres we've always done well on".
I would be willing to wager that in five years or so, once the data is accumulated, these guidelines will be changed back after it is discovered, hopefully, that losing even one life unnecessarily to breast cancer because the opportunity for early detection no longer exists in the absence of mammograms and self exam, is absolutely unacceptable.
So again, a kind of fear and narrowmindedness led to a huge lost opportunity, but hopefully not permanently lost as some good things are slowly starting to happen now that the citizenry is reasserting its role.
