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Equity futures are higher after yesterday's wave 5 and immaculate recovery off the SPX 1,040 support area. Bonds are lower, oil is back above $70 a barrel, gold is climbing well above the $1,200 an ounce level again, but the dollar is higher and euro lower. Hey, the euro still looks sick – the crisis of debt is rippling, it has not been cured and cannot be cured as long as the debt far exceeds income.
The completely worthless MBA Purchase Applications Index which hit an all time record low with the last report descended another 3.3% over the past week – here's Econoday:
HighlightsYeah, how 'bout that? Record low interest rates and yet historic low Purchase Index. Can you say, "debt saturation?" I thought you could!
Housing demand in May appears to have collapsed, the result of second-round stimulus which pulled sales into March and April. The Mortgage Bankers Association's purchase index fell another 3.3 percent in the May 21 week to sit at deeper 13-year lows. Ironically, the collapse is hitting at a time when mortgage rates are moving to record lows, the result of the safe-haven rush for U.S. Treasuries. More and more homeowners are refinancing their existing mortgages to lock in the low rates as the refinancing index jumped 17.0 percent. The average 30-year mortgage fell 3 basis points to 4.80
So, what happens from here now that the government has lowered rates to zero and basically purchased every worthless mortgage in the country? We're going to find out, it's going to get real interesting. Obviously creating bounces by throwing trillions at the problem is a short term thing exacerbating the problem in the longer run. Change is coming and all the while the melt down in the upper end segment is scheduled to kick into high gear shortly with the ongoing wave of Option-ARM resets.
Durable Goods orders are reported up 2.9% month over month mostly due to an influx of aircraft orders. The year over year numbers look spectacular, up 18.9% now year over year, but keep in mind that's compared to the standstill that occurred over the same timeframe the year prior. Here's Econoday's report:
HighlightsThe overall level of activity is still way down from peak. I don't think the upwards trend in Durable Goods continues as we head into the second half of the year, but it will be quite some time before we see the possibility of negative year over year numbers again. Once again I point to tax receipts which are still down year over year. As the stimulus in the housing industry runs out, we are going to see the indicators whipsawed as the government now manipulates nearly every segment of the economy.
The April durables report lived up to its reputation as a volatile series but this time it was not just in the new numbers but in revisions. Net, durables are still notably healthy. New factory orders for durable goods in April surged 2.9 percent after a revised no change the month before. The headline number topped analysts' projection for a 1.5 percent comeback. The jump in the headline number was led by huge boost in the transportation component.
Excluding the transportation component, new durables orders slipped 1.0 percent after a 4.8 percent spike in March. The swing was largely in civilian aircraft. However, taking into account the March strength in ex-transportation, the relatively small decline in ex-transportation leaves new orders at healthy levels.
Nondefense capital goods orders excluding aircraft fell back 2.4 percent in April after a sharp 6.5 percent boost the month before. Shipments for this category-and source data for equipment investment in GDP-edged up 0.2 percent in April, following a 2.3 percent increase the month before.
Year-on-year, overall new orders for durable goods in April were up a robust 18.9 percent, compared to 17.3 percent in March. Excluding transportation, new durables orders stood at up 18.0 percent, compared to 19.2 percent in March.
The bottom line is that after taking into account monthly volatility, durables orders are still strong at both the headline and core levels. If manufacturing growth is slowing, it is too early to tell from this report.
New Home Sales for April are released at 10 Eastern this morning. The buyer's credit expired at the end of April, and now in May we are seeing a collapse of Mortgage Applications. Thus, this morning's number is expected to show improvement, and sales can take a couple of months to close, so in due time the sales figures are going to reflect a less supported reality, probably within the next couple of months. I would not be surprised if this month was stronger than expected due to the government manipulation within the market.
Yesterday, USA Today reported on BEA's latest income figures:
Private pay shrinks to historic lows as gov't payouts riseGot to love the liberal viewpoint regarding money, "It's the system working as it should!" LOL, boy, is he in for a bankrupt surprise. Yet more "economists" who do not see the forest and the raging fires that are headed this way. There is absolutely no reason why private wages should pick up anytime soon.
Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds.
At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.
Those records reflect a long-term trend accelerated by the recession and the federal stimulus program to counteract the downturn. The result is a major shift in the source of personal income from private wages to government programs.
The trend is not sustainable, says University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes. Reason: The federal government depends on private wages to generate income taxes to pay for its ever-more-expensive programs. Government-generated income is taxed at lower rates or not at all, he says. "This is really important," Grimes says.
The recession has erased 8 million private jobs. Even before the downturn, private wages were eroding because of the substitution of health and pension benefits for taxable salaries.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that individuals received income from all sources — wages, investments, food stamps, etc. — at a $12.2 trillion annual rate in the first quarter.
Key shifts in income this year:
• Private wages. A record-low 41.9% of the nation's personal income came from private wages and salaries in the first quarter, down from 44.6% when the recession began in December 2007.
•Government benefits. Individuals got 17.9% of their income from government programs in the first quarter, up from 14.2% when the recession started. Programs for the elderly, the poor and the unemployed all grew in cost and importance. An additional 9.8% of personal income was paid as wages to government employees.
The shift in income shows that the federal government's stimulus efforts have been effective, says Paul Van de Water, an economist at the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
"It's the system working as it should," Van de Water says. Government is stimulating growth and helping people in need, he says. As the economy recovers, private wages will rebound, he says.
Economist Veronique de Rugy of the free-market Mercatus Center at George Mason University says the riots in Greece over cutting benefits to close a huge budget deficit are a warning about unsustainable income programs.
Economist David Henderson of the conservative Hoover Institution says a shift from private wages to government benefits saps the economy of dynamism. "People are paid for being rather than for producing," he says.
I can't let this fact go by without mentioning it regarding the latest financial reform bill that recently slid by the Senate…
Senate Democrats Pass Bill Allowing Govt to Collect Addresses, ATM Records of Bank Customers
(CNSNews.com) – Senate Democrats united to pass a financial regulatory bill that allows the government to collect data on any person operating in financial markets at any level, including the collection of personal transaction records from local banks that list customers' addresses and ATM receipts.
The Senate voted 59-39 on Thursday to pass the bill, the chief aim of which is to more-heavily regulate the financial industry. The bill now goes to a conference committee in the House of Representatives, where differences between the House and Senate versions will be ironed out.
The bill, if it becomes law, would create the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection and empower it to "gather information and activities of persons operating in consumer financial markets," including the names and addresses of account holders, ATM and other transaction records, and the amount of money kept in each customer's account.
The new bureaucracy is then allowed to "use the data on branches and [individual and personal] deposit accounts … for any purpose" and may keep all records on file for at least three years and these can be made publicly available upon request.
So, instead of getting transparency at the Fed and the ability to audit them, they get to see every single transaction you make. Folks, this is exactly backwards and it is opposite of the rule of law. You are progressively living in a jail, one where your every movement is video taped, and every nickel of transaction is monitored and taxed. If someone in the government doesn't like you, they can simply have you prosecuted and sent to jail claiming that you intentionally made errors on your tax return with the intent to evade paying taxes. Welcome to prison. Do you think your tax return is perfect with miles of tax code? Who interprets all that language? It's nuts, and it's going to evidently require drastic action to remove the people who are doing this to our country.
Yesterday I posted a video in the comments section of a guy who was threatened with 5 years in prison for video taping and posting on Youtube a video of a police officer who pulled him over for riding dangerously on his motorcycle. They are pressing charges, claiming that he doesn't have the right to record without consent. Of course the police have the "right" to record you without consent, but not the other way around. Backwards! This is not freedom, it's a police state – and police states always fail, just as micro-managed economies fail.
The down move yesterday was the large move that the prior day's small movement in the McClelland Oscillator said was coming. The down up action, however, produced another small move in the McClelland which means we should see another large move in the next day or two.
The current downtrend line has broken to the upside and that gives us the appearance that wave 3 down is over, unless this is just a throw-over – now it gets interesting. The bounce yesterday did produce daily candles that look quite bullish and look like a bottom, however, wave 5 did not appear to have all of its subwaves – this does not look correct, although there are definitely 5 distinct waves and we know that wave 5s can truncate as this one may have. If it's going to produce the rest of its waves, we would need to not advance significantly and would need to descend sometime today – we'll see.
There's another possibility that I see has potential for occurring. On the longer term charts there's a potential Head & Shoulder Pattern setting up. On the one year chart of the SPX below, you can see that we created a left shoulder, a head, and that we just returned to a potential neckline:
If 1,040 is the neckline and we're going to create a right shoulder, we should bounce over the next month or two, say into July. That actually fits with the June/July summer months which are typically more bullish months, and it fits with the two more months that will be required to work the government manipulated home sales through the system before they collapse as mortgage applications have done. This is very preliminary, I'm just pointing out that the pattern seems pretty obvious right now.
Yesterday's journey to the pin lows produced new bearish targets on the Point & Figure diagrams. Once these levels are breached and targets get produced, an intraday reversal does not undo them! In fact, most of the major indices produced breakdowns including the RUT. Below I've included the P&F charts for the S&P and Industrials:
S&P target = 920:
Industrials target = 8,600:
While it may take some time for those targets to play out, they will not be reversed easily at this point as new highs are a long ways up with a lot of resistance between here and there.
In the short term, getting above the 1,090 pivot is bullish, there is resistance again at 1,100 and then 1,110. Hey, 300 point plunges followed by 300 point advances in the same day are not a sign of health. This type of action is proof positive that our markets are whack. They are run almost entirely by computer trading and only a few large money interests. In other words, they do not reflect reality and the price discovery process is broken.
There certainly seems to be a kink in the machine from my perspective. It seems our leadership has forgotten what it takes to be a well respected man about town…
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If you've been following my blog, for weeks and weeks now I've been obsessed with Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Johnson. Obsessed.
She's 43 and he's 19. And they're engaged. And she's pregnant with his baby. Please. It's delicious. And their relationship has now already been featured twice in People Magazine this week, first focusing on Aaron's point of view (he says he's an old soul and Sam's a young soul and as such they're perfect together), and now from Sam's vantage on the heels of her feature story in Harper's Bazaar. So the MiniVan, the North American MiniVan, they are judging her now.
Sam's argument is that if she were a man it would be irrelevant, and no one would pay it the attention the situation is receiving. I don't disagree. If she were a man sleeping with a hot 18 year old, other men would be like – goddamn, keep on. But she's a woman sleeping with a hot now 19 year old, and other women are like – you're a sick bitch.
I don't think she's a sick bitch. Neither do her famous friends. Like Elton John and Stella McCartney. This is a woman who moves in a certain society, obviously not the MiniVan. And while I don`t necessarily have a moral objection to her love affair etc, I just want to know about her plans when he changes, because she`s the constant right now, and he`s the variable, and when happens then?
Click here for the full article. It's a good read. Given her background, I'm curious to see if you'll change your mind.
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If you've been following my blog, for weeks and weeks now I've been obsessed with Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Johnson. Obsessed.

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The Department of Public Safety is staffed 24/7 and can reach Facilities Services personnel after hours when necessary. Call Public Safety at 443-5911 for emergencies only! Public Safety's number for non-urgent business is 443-5133.
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If you suspect bedbugs in your room, please visit the Health Center's web site to review and initiate "Student Procedures." If bed bugs are confirmed your prompt action will help the College quell the spread and eliminate the problem. Click here for general information on bedbugs and prevention tips for travelers.
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See the College Handbook: Residential College Policies, College Storage Policies and Procedures, article 1b (Bicycles).
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Please contact the Department of Public Safety at 443-5133, unless it is a kryptonite lock. For kryptonite locks you may contact Facilities Services to arrange an appointment with a Locksmith. You will be asked to provide your ID number. There is a labor fee for this service.
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Students should contact Facilities Services at 443-5472 for current information.
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TORONTO - The trial of a man accused of driving a stolen snowplow that killed Toronto police Sgt. Ryan Russell is set to get underway today.
Richard Kachkar is charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of dangerous driving.
He has pleaded not guilty.
A jury was selected in January, but because of some scheduling issues the trial proper wasn't scheduled to start with opening statements until today.
Russell, 35, died after being struck while trying to stop a snow plow during a chase through snowy city streets on Jan. 12 last year.
Russell was promoted to the rank of sergeant only six months before his death and according to the Toronto Police Association he was the first Toronto officer to die in the line of duty since 1994.


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December 18, 2017United States
The president's first national security strategy eloquently sums up the U.S. role in the world and what should be done to defend it, but much of the document is at odds with what the president himsel…
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The Obama administration's review of its nuclear spending will shape the country's arsenal for decades to come and could be the president's final chance to influence arms control, writes CFR's Adam M…
November 12, 2008Economic Crises
CFR Senior Fellow Adam Segal writes that India may be better positioned for a quick recovery from the global financial crisis than many other developing countries.
October 31, 2013Egypt
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood needs to withdraw and reform if it's to become a viable political force in the years ahead. CFR's Ed Husain highlights a course for change.
November 12, 2008Economic Crises
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Governor Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Skelos and Assembly Speaker Silver Reach Agreement on 2011-12 New York State Budget
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced an agreement on a 2011-2012 budget that eliminates a $10 billion deficit.
The agreement includes historic reforms that redesign state government, create efficiencies through consolidation, cap spending increases for education and Medicaid, and transform the future budgeting process.
The approximately $132.5 billion budget will reduce spending overall by over 2 percent from the current year, eliminate 3,700 prison beds, establish regional economic development councils, bring performance funding to education, redesign Medicaid, and cap next year's education and Medicaid spending.
This budget reaches its financial goals with no new taxes and no borrowing, and will also cut next year's projected budget deficit from $15 billion to about $2 billion.
Recent changes to the budget include an additional $272 million in education which includes restoration of funding for schools for the blind and deaf (4201) and summer school special education. Human services funding of $91 million was added and $86 million for higher education including SUNY hospitals, SUNY and CUNY community colleges. There are also miscellaneous program additions of $33 million including aid to localities and agriculture programs. The budget proposal requires the Office of Court Administration (OCA) to reduce its budget by $170 million to reflect a more proportionate share of the state's reductions. There were also $54 million in miscellaneous cuts. As a result, the net add spending to this budget is approximately $250 million. In addition, there are no new member items.
"I have said that New York is at a crossroads one road leading to further dysfunction and decline, the other towards fiscal responsibility and government efficiency. I believe this budget puts us on the right path," Governor Cuomo said. "This budget makes tough choices, which is what you sent me to Albany to do. It closes a $10 billion dollar deficit with no new taxes or borrowing, redesigns government to force it to cut waste and inefficiency, and finally delivers real results for hard-working families across New York State. I applaud and thank Majority Leader Skelos and Speaker Silver for working together to reach this agreement."
Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos said, "This budget agreement keeps our Senate Republican commitment to reduce spending, cut taxes and empower the private sector to create jobs, and will begin to put New York on the path to fiscal recovery. By working together to reach consensus on a responsible spending plan that eliminates a $10 billion deficit without raising taxes, we have tightened our belt and protected middle-class families in every region of this State. I am particularly pleased with Governor Cuomo's commitment to making UB2020 a reality, which will bring jobs and hope to Western New York, as well as improvements to the other university centers, which are important priorities of our Senate Republican conference. Today's developments ensure we are moving full speed ahead to an on-time budget."
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, "Speaking for the Assembly Majority, I commend Governor Cuomo for his leadership in bringing about this agreement and for providing the Legislature with an executive budget that was strong and firmly grounded in reality. Government had to tighten its belt with the same sense of urgency that working families have been tightening their belts since the economy went into freefall in 2008. The sole consolation is that working with the Governor, we were able to achieve critical restorations which will soften the cuts affecting working families, our senior citizens, our most vulnerable populations and the children in our classrooms."
The 2011-2012 budget agreement contains critical components first proposed in Governor Cuomo's executive budget, including redesigning Medicaid and recalibrating the cost of state government, in part, by merging and consolidating agencies as well as curbing spending growth to sustainable and affordable levels.
Policy reforms in the 2011-2012 budget include:
- Changing Permanent Law and Provides 2-Year Appropriations and Caps for Education and Medicaid: Education will be increased at a rate of personal income growth next year roughly 4 percent. Medicaid will be increased at a rate tied to healthcare CPI which is roughly 4 percent. Together, these actions reduce next year's deficit from about $15 billion to about $2 billion and change decades-old practice of overspending.
- Redesigning the Medicaid System: The budget includes a global cap on State Medicaid expenditures of approximately $15 billion and implementation of the majority of recommendations by the Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) to redesign and restructure the Medicaid program to be more efficient and get better results for patients. There are reallocations within the MRT cap that reduce some areas while targeting increases to others. Among the notable changes: the cap on medical malpractice is not included and EPIC is increased by $22 million. The MRT reduction of $2.8 billion and the overall spending cap to the state will be enforced by the Department of Health's "superpower" provision, whereby the commissioner has authority to make reductions during the year to enforce the cap.
- Creating Regional Economic Development Councils: The budget establishes 10 Regional Economic Development Councils, chaired by Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy. These councils will create a region-based approach to allocate economic development funds to speed up the creation of jobs. They will act as one-stop shop for all State-supported economic development and business assistance programs in each region, and will be supported with $130 million in capital that is reprogrammed from existing resources.
- Creating the Recharge NY Power Program: Recharge New York will enhance and make permanent the current Power for Jobs Program that will significantly boost the state's economy by creating and maintaining hundreds of thousands of jobs. Recharge New York will improve upon the existing program by opening it to new participants and allocating a blend of stable, low-cost hydropower and market power for use by businesses that seek to grow and create jobs in New York state.
- Authorizing the SAGE Commission: The budget authorizes Governor Cuomo's Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission to reduce the number of agencies, authorities, and commissions by 20 percent. Currently, the consolidation of Parole and Corrections will save $16.8 million, the merging of NYSTAR into Department of Economic Development will save $1.9 million, and the merging of Consumer Protection into the Department of State will save $500,000.
- Creating the Department of Financial Services: The budget merges the state's Banking and Insurance Departments into a new Department of Financial Services.
- Authorizing Governor to Close Prisons: The state will eliminate 3,700 prison beds throughout New York at the sole discretion of the administration in consultation with the Legislature.
- UB 2020: The Governor has also agreed to hold a summit with stakeholders to discuss how to make UB 2020 a reality.
- Reforming the Juvenile Justice System: The budget includes significant reforms of the state's juvenile justice system by encouraging greater use of community-based alternatives, downsizing the state juvenile facilities system by more than 30 percent, and investing resources into enhanced services for juveniles that remain in OCFS custody.
- Creating New Education Performance and Efficiency Grants: The budget enacts initiatives Governor Cuomo proposed to make districts more efficient and improve student performance. Funds totaling $500 million will be awarded competitively to districts that demonstrate significant improvements in student performance and to districts that undertake long term structural changes to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The budget also restores $270 million in education related funding.
- Improving the Excelsior Jobs Program: As proposed in the executive budget, the budget strengthens the Excelsior Jobs Program, which was created in 2010 to provide job creation and investment tax credit incentives to businesses in targeted industries.
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Interstate 65 in Northwest Indiana reopened at about 9 :30 a.m. Tuesday after two days of intermittent closures.
Still, authorities hoped most commuters would avoid the roadway because of dangerous conditions that included black ice and blowing and drifting snow. Several vehicles that were abandoned on Sunday were still awaiting recovery Tuesday morning, officials said.
Officials closed the northbound and southbound lanes between U.S. 30 near Merrillville and mile marker 172 near Lafayette at about 5:15 p.m. Monday. That closure came just hours after portions of I-65 and I-94 in in the state reopened to drivers after an initial closure on Sunday. I-94 remained open Monday, but INDOT spokesman Matt Deitchley said driving was "extremely hazardous" and he discouraged from entering the highway.
Some state roads also remained closed in certain areas, but Deitchley said it was difficult to get a specific list together and keep it current because the road conditions kept changing due to blowing and drifting snow and the ice.
State roads that experienced closures Monday included: State Road 16 between Monon and Royal Center, State Road 18 between State Road 29 and U.S. 31, State Road 218 between State Road 25 and State Road 29, and State Road 43 south of Chalmers.
Emergency crews worked late Sunday and early Monday to help several drivers stranded on I-65 due to ice and white-out conditions.
- IN.gov: Indiana Travel Conditions
Several Northwest Indiana counties on Sunday issued emergency declarations due to extreme winter weather conditions in the area.
Officials in Lake and Porter counties ordered county roads closed to all traffic except for emergency, law enforcement and government vehicles.
"We are urging citizens to adhere to this order," said an alert from the Lake County Sheriff's Department.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence authorized all state government offices to remain closed Monday.
"We want to ensure that our employees are safe," Pence said in a statement. "I am limiting the number of employees who must report to work on Monday to help keep people off the roads and out of the extreme cold, even while we make sure that Hoosiers have access to necessary government services."
He declared a state of emergency in 29 Indiana counties due to the storm, clearing the way for federal disaster aid.
According to the NWI Times, state troopers responded to more than 2,000 calls for service in 24 hours and helped to rescue dozens of people.
South Shore commuter rail service was expected to resume service on Tuesday after trains were canceled Monday.


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Bill James names Matt Kemp
among top 20 young talent in baseball
Calls Dodgers #11 in Young Talent Inventory
In the third year of his newly developed "Young Talent Inventory," groundbreaking baseball analyst Bill James names Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp #11 on his list of the top 20 young major league ballplayers. In the just-published Bill James Gold Mine 2010, James also judges the Dodgers to have the eleventh-best overall young talent in Major League Baseball, up two places from last year and just below the Marlins but above the Phillies. The Tampa Bay Rays were ranked #1.
James rates all of the young talent on each of the thirty major league teams. The Dodgers are rated #11 overall: "Despite the presence on their roster of Kemp, Ethier, Martin and Loney, the Dodgers are actually fairly near the bottom of the list in young position players. They rank first in young pitching, however," he says. "Their top six: Kemp, Billingsley, Ethier, Broxton, Loney and Kershaw. (If the system worked perfectly, Kershaw would rank ahead of Loney.)"
James lists the 20 "most valuable properties" among young players in the majors (with ages in parentheses):
Felix Hernandez, Seattle (23)
Prince Fielder, Milwaukee (25)
Hanley Ramirez, Florida (25)
Ryan Braun, Milwaukee (25)
Pablo Sandoval, San Francisco (22)
Tim Lincecum, San Francisco (25)
Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay (23)
Justin Upton, Arizona (21)
Miguel Cabrera, Detroit (26)
Nick Markakis, Baltimore (25)
Matt Kemp, Los Angeles Dodgers (24)
Dustin Pedroia, Boston (25)
Zack Greinke, Kansas City (25)
Ryan Zimmerman, Washington (24)
David Wright, New York Mets (26)
Joe Mauer, Minnesota (26)
Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado (24)
Adam Lind, Toronto (25)
Jair Jurrjens, Atlanta (23)
Mark Reynolds, Arizona (25)
As James has noted often, "Competitive teams don't have as much room to let young players thrash around, and consequently most of the top teams don't show as having a lot of young talent. They may have the young talent; it just isn't in the lineup yet." That having been said, here are his rankings of the Young Talent Inventory of all 30 teams (with their rankings last year in parentheses):
Tampa Bay Rays (3)
Colorado Rockies (8)
Minnesota Twins (1)
Arizona Diamondbacks (2)
Boston Red Sox (10)
San Francisco Giants (22)
New York Yankees (29)
Texas Rangers (19)
Chicago White Sox (25)
Florida Marlins (4)
Los Angeles Dodgers (13)
Philadelphia Phillies (20)
Atlanta Braves (9)
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (11)
Kansas City Royals (5)
New York Mets (16)
Chicago Cubs (26)
Seattle Mariners (18)
Milwaukee Brewers (6)
Baltimore Orioles (24)
Oakland A's (12)
Toronto Blue Jays (28)
Washington Nationals (23)
St. Louis Cardinals (14)
Pittsburgh Pirates (17)
Cleveland Indians (7)
Cincinnati Reds (15)
Detroit Tigers (27)
San Diego Padres (21)
Houston Astros (30)
For more information information on The Bill James Gold Mine 2010,
go to www.actasports.com or call Andrew Yankech at 800-397-2282.
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I'll bet Andre has a better year than Pablo, David Wright and Prince.
I suppose it's because Dre isn't considered young any more 🙂
I am going to try to draft Andre and Kemp in baseball fantasy team but I know it will be hard.
Just ordered entra Opening day tickets and could not get two or more in the Top Deck. I got Reserved level tickets and one top deck. Top Deck came out for $24 after the extra charges. Wow! Big, big difference from my season tickets.
Great list Josh!!!
Hi everybody
Not a bad listing, except the Dodgers should be at least 8th
and Kemp will move up.
First in young pitching means more than anything else.
This doesn't hinder their chances of going all the way.
Jhall, I agree with you. While I hope they don't have to, I feel the Dodgers can overcome a Manny meltdown much easier than a declining Furcal. I am a bit more optomistic about Bills bouncing back since he had a taste of success and is another year wiser.
Thanks again Josh for all your efforts. Great job!!! Thank god we are on the eve of actually playing. I'm very optimistic about our team and ability to take the NL West. I do think it will be a dogfight as I think all the teams in our division will be better this year. We will go as far as Furcal, Manny, Martin, and Billz!!! The rest of the bunch will continue to perform and make us competitive. These four will determine how far we go!!!! JMO!!!
We're really going to need Furcal to light the offensive candle!!! I think he is our biggest question mark. Billz, right behind him. What do you all think?
Jhall ~ I'd say Furcal is probssbly a good choice because he will lead off. However, I think Russell really has to return to the form of two years ago. I'm hoping last year for Martin was just an off-year and not a sign of the future. I also think Billz has to be awesome this year.
red pen *probably
Hey Jhall!! How ya doing? I am sooo looking forward to baseball starting up again.
We had the number 2 ranked system when McCourt took over to not parlay a number 2 farm into overall greater outcome 5 years later worries me alot. I'm telling you guys. We should have already added young talent to our young talent, not traded away alot of our young talent for crap. Should have added two younger centerpiece free agents and not all this old garbage an should have already been rolling with a young hungry club. I was bitching about Ethier not playing the day before they signed Luiz Gonzales. Loney the year before with Nomar. Tomko taking starts from billinsgley..etc. Etc..Being 11th is cute but three of our division rivals are above us. 2 teams with huge payrolls and a win now attitude are above us (which we say we have!! is why i make the point, u can do both you know) and what isn't written here is we have now about the 20th ranked farm system, maybe worse we will see soon.
The Dodgers rank #11 in young talent?? And Matt is #11 out of 20?? I don't know if I agree. Silver Slugger, Golden Glove.
Heavy sigh!! 185!!! Well said Jungar!! Hi'Ya Trumom and Nelly!!!
Billz had a great start last year. I am sure he will improve his stats of the second half.
Is good to see the Rays rank #3 I always like the way they fiercely compete with the Yankees & Red Sox. This is the 13th season in the league.
Thanks for the list Josh! God willing, I'll see you and the boys in Blue in Arizona this weekend.
jungar – very well said once again
The thing about the Dodger's farm system is lack of depth at the triple A level. Most of our talent seems to be in the lower leagues, not too much unlike a few years ago when the current crop of young "studs" tore it up at Jacksonville. However, other than Edwin Jackson, who obviously is a late bloomer and just was not ready while wearing Dodger blue, and Jayson Werth, who had injury issues, what other young talent has the team traded away who is making a big impact on a major league roster?
I don't think any of us are under the illusion that this club is run by baseball people.
Unfortunately birk, they have to have draft picks and be willing to sign young talent to replenish the farm, two things we've seen this year that they're unwilling to do.
You're right about the Andys and the Delwyns they've traded so far. I'd imagine a lot of those trades have to have Logan's blessing.
If only we, the average Dodger fan, had the organizational skills and the tenacity to boycott every Dodger game (hey, there's still TV!!!) until Frank is FORCED to sell, based not only on zero incoming revenue but on the enormity of the message sent. Sure, the corporations will still fill their pricey seats…but imagine the glory of a COMPLETELY empty upper deck, reserved deck and vacant bleachers. The visual would make CNN world wide!!!! Bud Selig would probably collapse, as well. My disgust for the McCourts as owners grows daily. Anyone up for a 14-game mini plan (in this economy, no less) for the "honor" of seeing the Yankees? The great Dodger in the sky must be weeping…it HAS been a very wet February….
Kahli, if you want to know what that image might really look like, you should have seen Dodger Stadium Sunday when UCLA played SC (won by UCLA I am happy to say). I was not there but from the images on TV, the field level seats had a lot of people by design while the upper decks and the outfield were purposefully left emply.
By the way, watching that game reminded me of one of the worst sports sounds not caused by accidents, crashes, collisions or anything which causes bodily harm: the sound of the ball off an aluminum baseball bat.
The "honor" of seeing the Yankees, heheheheh. Good stuff. As if Bristol doesn't cram those pinstripes down our throat any chance they get.
The Dodgers don't need to leach off the crumbs and leavings of the Yankees to fill seats… must be a Bostonian thing. Then again, our coaching staff is filled with ex-Yankees, but I'd put them in the "Would love nothing more than to give 3 Steinbrenners fits in October".
Yes, October… The "Rivalry" can never be renewed in June. I don't care if our Manager's Reggie Jackson and theirs is Steve Garvey, this is a World Series rivalry. These are just 3 interleague games. Three very interesting interleague games, but interleague nonetheless. The franchise didn't have any illusions of a rivalry being renewed when I saw the Dodgers in Oakland in the first season of Interleague back in '97, even with Canseco ("Tan seco") AND Mark McGwire on the other side.
Then again, our owners, in their infinite wisdom, leach off the "legacy" of the Cubs in Spring Training, why not the Yankees during the season?
Because anyone with a sense of "Dodger Tradition" wouldn't be leeching off the Yankees, that's why. I doubt there'd be tumbleweeds in the Ravine that weekend without a mandatory 14-game buy-in.
Get a Boston owner, inherit a "Yankee Inferiority Complex".
Y.I.C. is what we've got, Northstateblues!
Now! Now! Folks…..calm down…..Breathe deep….. and release…
The Dodgers aren't going anywhere, they are in good hands!!!
I believe the team on the field will be very competitive this season….I agree with jhall that some of the veterans need to produce to their capabilities, such as driving runners in, setting the table, and capturing the momentum in times of need. The season will take more than just that however, it will take a repeat performance from all the good we had last season, such as the bull-pen, the 1st inning run production, the 7Th inning and on game changing dramatics. The ability to hang on in close games and find a way to win. It will take a solid performance from everyone, just as it did last season when everyone wanted to participate and be a contributor. I believe that these guys are fighters….I believe that these guys are proud…..I believe that these guys have the ability to get it done….there will be some ups and downs along the way…..If the boys can manage to stay healthy, and have fun on the field, we will as well. If not we are all just going to have too adjust to the times and endure…….We know where we want to go……we just have to have the determination to get there….
Well said, North 🙂
what other young talent has the team traded away who is making a big impact on a major league roster?
None. Maybe Santana here soon. Maybe LaRoache soon. Maybe Abreau soon. But that's not how to look at it. Lot's of young players that people though were gonna be great who never were are traded for good players who make impact.
So trading Jackson (22 at the time) for a 34 year old reliever who isn't on our roster even a year later hurts us. It hurt us last year simply because Jackson would have been our best starter in the first half last year and 2nd best at age 25 for the season overall. Maybe we then don't trade for Padilla and resign him..So just like for Padilla it cost about 10 million to have made that trade. the 5 million we paid Baez and the 5 we pay Padilla. I am not saying not to make trades, but jackson was regarded highly and ee could have gotten alot more for him just in term of talent let alon getting a guy, older who produced far less for the dodgers than Jackson would have.
Hey all, it's been way too long, but we're starting to ramp up to the season! I hope you are all doing well!
Wow, it has been a long time Peumike. Great to see you again!!!
Thanks tru! Great to see you too! Been busy, but have kept up on the news of the team, and will get back in the groove. 🙂
I can't wait for ST! I'm so tired of the cold weather. Got some new Dodger shirts and jewelry, of course, and am ready to hear, "Play Ball"!
I don't think its a matter of who's being traded, its who's doing the trading. Any competent GM WOULD get more. Then there's Frank's financial restrictions of not wanting to add salary. You have to trade talent to get talent. In that respect, this management team sorely lacks the tools to get back what it gives.
And no one please cry Manny either because he was given to Frank on a silver platter. Ethier is the only trade that's truely worked out to our advantage, and I'm still convinced Beane thought he put one over on ol' Ned at the time.
Jackson's a tougher one though. He's now with his third team since being traded. That means two other teams didn't think enough of his talent to keep him either.
Well, let's just hope the players we have now have the fight in them to get it done this year. The ownership seems to be heading into very shakey ground, and yes, we may have Matt, Andre and Brox for two years, but who else will be here a year from now. Just like Andre had to prove he deserved that outfield job the past two years (and to him even now), the Dodgers, as a team of players, will have to have that same motivation to prove they can do this without owners who "seem" to care about the future of this ball club.
I think we will see alot of determination from this club this year just on pure motivation alone. The motivation that they can overcome the adversity this divorce is sure to bring their way throughout the season. Similar to what happened when Manny served his 50 day suspension, they, as a team of players, had the motivation to prove to themselves they can win with or without Manny and they did. Now, it's not a matter of proving you can win without Manny, it's a matter of proving you can win with all the odds against you because your owners are idiots.
I have faith they can. It's the young core's year to prove why we believed in them…………why we called them the Young Gun Dynasty three years ago.
Hey Mr. Pianoman!!! It's so good to see you!!
Speaking of pianos (hey Peru!), I think with Ned's stockpile of crap, I mean players, we're going to see an interesting DL list of "injuries" again this season.
Thanks nelly! Great to see you too! It's been busy, and now crazy the last few day!
Great posts by all this evening. All thought provoking to say the least.
Well enchanted, I spent the offseason polishing up the pianos, so just let me know if you need one!
LOL enchanted!!!!
I think we will need a truck load, Perumike!
Oh…………..I am sure enchanted has his list handy if you haven't already seen it – LOL!!!!
I'll admit Nells there's a slight possibility that at some point during the season I may become disgruntled with a PVL or two.
I'll have a train load of pianos on call!
which is also the point enchanted. he was traded three times now and His upside was most when we had him…and we got the least for him. The Rays and now the Tigers both got good young players in return. Jury is still out. Our return is no longer near DS and wasn't any good when he was.
And the fact is, no matter what the GM's thought of his ability, last year he pitched better than Randy Wolf for about 400,000 bucks. We could have used that.
No doubt jungar. Not saying he wouldn't be nice to have now, especially considering what we got for him, but that speaks volumes for Ned's inabilities to get value in return. It also seems to be this management teams MO that if a youngster doesn't produce right away (LaRoche, Repko, maybe even McDonald), they become expendable for "known commodities." Its just a pisspoor way to run a club. How is it the Yankees and Sox can spend the money they do, trade prospects like they do, yet still have a deep young talent pool? It ain't because they got NedCo working for them. I wonder if Kersh didn't pitch as well as he has his first two years if he'd be gone now for some crappy vet. My guess is yes.
I completely agree with jungar and enchanted on their points about young players. The "known commodities" point especially strikes a chord for me. When I was a kid, I would make fun of my friends that were Angels fans because if we didn't know what team an old, aging veteran had gone to in the offseason, I would comment that they were probably an Angel now because it seemed like the Angels would always sign "known" guys way past their prime. Now, though, the Dodgers sign and trade for those types of guys. Very frustrating for me to witness and believe me, my Angels buddies let me know about it too.


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Christian right election-year rally set for Philly
By RACHEL ZOLL | Associated Press
Christian conservatives who blame "moral depravity" for everything from the recession to terrorism are converging on Philadelphia for a rally they hope will spark a religious revival as Election Day nears.
Called "America for Jesus 2012," the prayer assembly on Independence Mall is attracting support across a spectrum of Protestant clergy and activists. Among the scheduled speakers are religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, along with preachers such as Cindy Jacobs of Generals International ministry who say they're prophets with a direct line to God. Many backers had also endorsed "The Response," the prayer rally hosted last year by Texas Gov. Rick Perry just before he entered the GOP presidential primary.
John Blanchard, national coordinator for "America for Jesus 2012," said the two-day event starting Friday night is nonpartisan. It's modeled after the 1980 "Washington for Jesus" rally, considered a pivotal show of organizational strength by the then-fledgling Christian right. Bishop Anne Gimenez, whose late husband John helped lead the 1980 assembly, is a lead organizer of the Philadelphia gathering.
"We are praying that God would touch America," said Blanchard, executive pastor of Rock Church International in Virginia, which the Gimenez family founded. "We're not Democrats and Republicans. We're Christians."
Still, many of those offering prayers at the event have been outspoken critics of President Barack Obama. Steve Strang, the influential Pentecostal publisher of Charisma magazine, wrote in a blog post inviting readers to join him in Philadelphia that America is under threat from a "radical homosexual agenda" and Obama "seems to be moving toward some form of European socialism."
Jacobs blamed a mysterious Arkansas bird-kill last year on Obama's repeal of the policy known as "don't ask, don't tell," enabling gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.
David Barton, a self-taught historian who emphasizes the Christian roots of the U.S., is another rally supporter. Barton wrote in a Feb. 29 article that Obama has shown "hostility toward Biblical people of faith" while giving "preferential treatment" to Muslims. (Obama has said he was raised in a nonreligious home and later became Christian.) The publisher Thomas Nelson last month withdrew Barton's book, "The Jefferson Lies," citing historical errors. The book challenged the belief that Jefferson was largely secular and promoted the separation of church and state.
Anne Gimenez said in a phone interview that although the event is Christian, the assembly will not advocate that the U.S. government be limited to Christians.
"I have no boundaries or limitations on that. I would just like to see someone who is God-fearing" in public office, she said.
Gimenez said Philadelphia was chosen because of its importance in U.S. history. The rally will be held outside the building where the Declaration of Independence was signed. Pennsylvania is also where evangelist George Whitefield preached during the first Great Awakening, the 18th-century religious revival that spread through the American colonies. Blanchard said his group successfully petitioned Pennsylvania lawmakers to declare Saturday "William Penn Day" in honor of Pennsylvania's founder, who championed religious freedom.
"America is in a state of emergency evidenced by the symptoms of widespread moral depravity and economic meltdown," organizers wrote on the rally's website. "Education, government, and man's wisdom cannot solve this problem."
Two weeks ago, the ministry coalition behind the assembly distributed food and offered medical care throughout Philadelphia as part of the run-up to the gathering. Attendees will be asked to start 40 days of prayer and fasting, through the Nov. 6, election, to help turn the nation toward God. Preachers representing Messianic Judaism, which teaches that Christ is the Messiah, a belief at odds with traditional Judaism, will blow the shofar, a ram's horn used in Jewish ritual.
The major speakers are scheduled for Saturday. Joel Osteen, the Texas megachurch pastor, has sent a video prayer message to the event. An executive with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is also among those offering prayers. A message of support from 93-year-old evangelist Billy Graham will be read.


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Another micro release to fix the critical regression in 'Year' hierarchy of Tracker plugin. All contributors to this release: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
A new release in the current unstable 0.7.x series for upcoming GNOME 2.32.0 release. - Fix wildcard handling in search request. - Distribute correct copy of scallable icons. - Provide icons in DLNA standard sizes. - Provide icons in JPEG format as well. - Don't offer transcoding from video to audio and viceversa. This makes sense anyway and reduces network traffic. - Only offer time seeking if duration is known. - Report correct DLNA profile for MPEG-TS HD and WMV transcoder. - List DLNA formats first in the list of supported formats. - Provide correct values for out parameters of GetCurrentConnectionInfo action. - Correctly handle HTTP 'POST' requests. - Correct checks for vala bindings. - Use new 64-bit size property in GUPnP resource API so that we can deal with resources bigger than 2GB. - Fix some (potential) crashes. - Correctly handle a translated string involving plurals. - Don't use deprecated libsoup API. - Correct flaws in code related to search for media object by ID. This combined with some changes in Tracker plugin (see below) improves the reliability and especially the performance of Tracker plugin a lot. - Use the mime-type and DLNA profile when provided in item creation requests. - Advertize byte-seek support for thumbnails. - Correct algorithm to decide whether to seek or not. - Set standard header on XML files. - Prefix service URLs with a "/". This seems like the right way to do it and it might actually improve our IOP. - Make use of new APIs to report all known DLNA profiles in list of supported formats (MediaServer only). - Add support for the "Genre" tag in music items. - External: - Handle AlbumArt property. - Fix a few crashes. - Remove workaround for bug#602003. Tracker: - Make sure metadata container get unique IDs. - Performance improvements to search for media object by ID. - Make use of DLNA profile when provided. - Don't use Tracker's logo as icon. - Ignore duration of '0'. - Print debug after item creation in store. MediaExport: - Disable plugin when Tracker plugin is/becomes available. - Require sqlite3 VAPI only for this plugin. - Code clean-up and general speed improvements - Extract embedded album art - Remove the ability for user-defined virtual folders, providing a set of built-in folders similar to that of tracker's. - Fix some minor regressions introduced by the switch to gupnp-dlna metadata extraction - Move configured files and folders into their own "Files & Folders" container to de-clutter root. - Localization: - Add ta translation. - Update Galician translations. - Update Hebrew translation. - Update Spanish translation. - Update Romanian translation. - Update Slovenian translation. - DLNA test cases fixed in this release: - 126.96.36.199 - 22.214.171.124 - 126.96.36.199 - 18.104.22.168 - 126.96.36.199 - 184.108.40.206 - 18.104.22.168 - 188.8.131.52 - 184.108.40.206 Dependency-related changes: - Require and adapt to Vala 0.9.5. - Require gupnp-av >= 0.5.9. - Require gupnp-dlna >= 0.3.0. - MediaExport - Require gstreamer-tag >= 0.10.28. - Require gstreamer-app >= 0.10.28. All contributors to this release: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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Changes since 0.2.1: - New API and tool (gupnp-dlna-ls-profiles) to list all supported profiles - Move API to get a profile to the DLNADiscoverer namespace - Make GUPnPDLNAProfile opaque, add to API documentation - Add support for several AVC_MP4_MP profiles - Print stream topology instead of a simple list in gupnp-dlna-info - Add debug output controlled by an environment variable for eaesier debugging - Beginnings of an automated testing infrastructure - Add relaxed/extended mode properties (more details in the next release) - Use 'bitrate' instead of 'maximum-bitrate' while matching streams - Various bug fixes All contributors to this release: Arun Raghavan
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Rygel 0.7.3 (Out of Their Minds) is out! A new release in the current unstable 0.7.x series for upcoming GNOME 2.31.6 release. - Add Album-art support. - Add support for sorted Browse/Search. - Don't push data after HTTP response is cancelled. - Advertise support for search by "createClass". - Revive accidently removed XBox hacks. - Fix icon export for uninstalled case. - Simplify plugin APIs to further abstract plugin developers from UPnP details. - Add convenient MediaRenderer APIs for plugins. This involved moving most of the GstRenderer code to core. - Fix seeking once again. - Improve error handling in HTTP request handling code. - Port to new DIDL-Lite contributor APIs. - Port to Vala 0.9.3 and 0.9.4. - Clean-up README and specify build and run-time dependencies. - More debug output. - MediaExport: - Make use of gupnp-dlna for faster, more complete and reliable metadata extraction. - Print a debug message if extraction fails for a file. - Add windows formats to positive list of file extensions to include in the metadata extraction. - Don't share anyt folder by default. - Fix url-escaped folder names on PS3. - Fix issue of empty title of top-level virtual folders on PS3. - Process 256 children at a time. This improves performance of harvesting of large folders. - GstRenderer: - Rename to Playbin. - Advertize support for 'video/mp4' - Advertize support for RTSP - Handle error from playbin. - Don't claim support for unsupported UPnP actions and state variables. - External: - Fix a crasher bug. - Localization: - Add French translation. - Update Simplified Chinese translations. - Update German translation. - Update Galician translation. - Update Swedish translation. - Update Slovenian translation. - Lots of other non-functional and/or minor improvements and fixes. Dependency-related changes: - Require Vala >= 0.9.3 - Require gupnp >= 0.13.4 - Require gupnp-av >= 0.5.8 - Require gupnp-dlna >= 0.2.1 (new dependency) - Require libgee >= 0.5.2 - Use gtk+-2.0 (>= 2.21.5) if available rather than gtk+-3.0 Bugs fixed in this release: 607411 - Need to mention non-compile time deps. 624445 - Samsung can't FF/REW/PAUSE when playing video/avi from Rygel. 625556 - New configure flag to switch GTK+ version. All contributors to this release: Aron Xu
Arun Raghavan Claude Paroz Eleanor Chen Frédéric Péters Javier Jardón Jens Georg Mario Blättermann Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
Changes since 0.5.7: - Fix crashes in DIDLLiteContributor API. - Remove incomplete and broken DLNA guessing code. Applications should use gupnp-dlna now for all their DLNA needs. - Do set the 'dlna:profileID' property of 'albumArtURI' node and treat it as mandatory as per DLNA guidelines (22.214.171.124). - Prefer non-transcoded resources over transcoded ones when choosing compatible resources for a particular MediaRenderer. - Minor correction to DIDL filtering code. - Some other minor improvements/fixes. Bug fixed in this release: 2187 - GUPnPDIDLLiteContributor class doesn't work All contributors to this release: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)


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Hindenburg Omen, Skyscraper Curse–technical indicators of a coming crash have ghoulishly clever names attached to them (with the exception of the Hemline Index), and one has now attached itself to the country's most successful company.
News that Apple was rapidly approaching a "Death Cross" last week rattled investors, but analysts largely shrugged, noting it's happened before and hardly hurt the tech giant's long-term performance.
"Charts register a death cross when both short- and long-term trend lines start to point south, as evidenced by a stock or benchmark's 50-day moving average cutting below its 200-day moving average," according to The Wall Street Journal's MarketBeat blog. "The crossroads suggest to some that recent declines could turn into a longer-term slump."
And while it affects individual companies, it can also apply to the economy as a whole, based on data embodied in various market indexes and sector funds.
But for Apple, recent death crosses aren't necessarily a sell signal, Market Beat notes.
It points to Collin Monsarrat, an analyst at Birinyi Associates, who says Apple shares have suffered through five death crosses dating back to November 2000.
"The data is fairly inconclusive, but if it shows anything, it is that a death cross implies better performance," he says. "The stock has tended to struggle for the week and month following the cross, but three months later the stock has tended to be not only up but outperform the S&P 500 60% of the time."
He adds a combination of Apple losing tablet market share to competitors such as Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com, Google and Samsung as well as reports of clearing firms hiking margin requirements and negative technical developments weighed on the stock. Overall, trades say confidence in Apple has clearly been rattled in recent months.
When it comes to the death cross, keep in mind only five examples for Apple is a pretty small data set, the blog explains. Generally speaking, death crosses in stocks and indexes are viewed negatively in the world of technical analysis.
For Apple, perhaps it's no big deal, it concludes.


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Members of Congress are back in their districts, attending town hall events, explaining to their constituents why, exactly, they want to make such major changes to the health care system.
If that sounds familiar, you might be wondering if we're in for August 2009 redux. That was when conservatives and tea party activists caused mayhem at Democratic town hall events and sowed doubt in the minds of members and the media about whether the push for health care reform was really viable. Now, Republicans have their sites set on Medicare and Medicaid, and just voted, almost to a person, to basically zap both programs.
So are we in for a repeat?
Don't bet on it. So far this week, we've seen a handful of video clips showing Republicans being interrogated by constituents — experiencing mild discomfort, but nothing like the genuinely frightening scenes two years ago, when large groups of coordinated, angry activists forced members to call off and cancel events. This is frustrating for progressives — but don't be too quick to pin the blame entirely on Democratic and liberal ineptitude. It turns out there are plenty of non-obvious differences between then and now.
"I don't think it's possible to do that over again," said Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn. "It's like SwiftBoats in 2004. Interesting things happened in August, but it's hard to repeat."
MoveOn is mobilizing and prepping its members for town hall events in their districts, and is responsible for some of the disruptions — such as they are — that we've seen so far.
But things have changed since 2009. Those town hall disruptions convinced members of both parties to lower their profiles. The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) reinforced that instinct. In 2009, town hall events were publicized and scheduled well in advance. That's not true anymore.
On top of that, progressive, Democratic, and union groups across the country aren't fighting off one threat to their interests — they're swamped by state-level fights over collective bargaining, public pensions, voting rights, and other conservative onslaughts.
Both AFL-CIO and SEIU are educating their members about the GOP budget, and encouraging them to make their members of Congress answer for their votes. They're organizing "Don't Make Us Work 'Til We Die" events. But there's no organizing specifically around packing and disrupting town halls.
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Commercial airlines have been the last refuge from the ubiquity of cellphone chatter and text messages that just can�t wait. Call us Luddites of the worst sort, but we hope it stays that way.
The Federal Communications Communication began hearings Thursday to consider whether to lift a more than two-decade ban on cellphone calls in flight (calls still would be prohibited during landing and takeoff).
That prohibition stemmed from fears that calls while in the air could interfere with cell towers on the ground, or with a plane�s navigation and communications systems. Improvements in technology have alleviated those concerns, and the FCC already has lifted a similar ban on electronic devices like tablets and e-readers while planes are under 10,000 feet.
Playing Angry Birds or reading a novel while airborne is one thing. A Boeing 767 loaded with 300-odd people jabbering on cellphones or clicking out texts with their thumbs is another. We�d imagine it would be like the third stage of Hades to many travelers who just want to get from one place to another in relative peace.
There�s been talk of �quiet rows� where cellphone conversation would be banned, but honestly, where can one really hide in a pressurized aluminum can at 30,000 feet?
Of course, there also are folks who simply cannot abide being disconnected for even one of the 86,400 seconds in a day. They�ve pushed for the ban to be lifted, and the FCC likely will do so. Its chairman, Tom Wheeler, said it was time to review the �outdated and restrictive rules,� even though he personally opposed permitting cellphone calls in flight.
However, if the FCC lifts the ban, airlines still would have the final call on whether to allow cellphone use on their planes. There have been predictions that carriers would jump at a potential new revenue stream.
Not so fast.
Delta plans to continue barring voice calls in flight, regardless of the FCC�s decision. Other carriers have said they will �explore� changes, but as JetBlue officials noted, �making the cabin comfortable and welcoming for all� will remain a priority.
The non-connected public also is speaking up. A petition against allowing cellphone use in flight on the White House�s website has drawn 2,000 signatures, and the largest flight attendant union in the U.S. has come out against it. (We�re sure attendants would rather not experience the nightmare of trying to interrupt umpteen phone calls to pass out coffee, tea or a magazine.)
Wheeler said the FCC should only be concerned about safety issues in making its decision. Luddites or not, a lot of people are making the point that just because something is safe doesn�t mean it�s desirable.
A version of this editorial first appeared in the Gadsden Times, a Halifax Media Group newspaper in Alabama.