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With a record $123 billion in bond (debt) issuance just this week ($6.4 trillion annualized), rates are breaking major trendlines on the longer end of the debt yield curve.
The pundits in the media and the analysts who work for the investment brokerages, who have their product to sell, are telling people that this is occurring due to the strength in the economy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Rates go higher when risk goes higher, and the risk for holders of debt are becoming extreme.
The Fed has been artificially keeping rates low via buying up their own debt issuance, in effect monetizing our debts. That is obviously not sustainable. Rates moving higher off a zero interest rate policy is certainly not unexpected. However, with debt saturation permeating our economy and government, higher rates means nothing but DRAG on the economy. The higher the rates, the higher the drag.
I have repeatedly showed the pattern playing out in TLT, the 20 year bond fund (Bond Market Hide & Seek – A Domed House & 3 Peaks...). Now that pattern appears to be headed for the next leg down as the sideways consolidation over the past 4 months is breaking the lower trend line. The target on that break is substantially lower, meaning interest rates substantially higher. Below is a 2 year chart of TLT:
Below that is a 6 month chart of TLT. As it broke that red rising trend line I wrote an update advising that a break of the lower trendline would signal the beginning of the next significant move – here we are:
The long bond futures, /ZB, show this breakdown even more clearly:
In the 3 year chart of USB below, the 30 year bond fund, you can see that bond prices are already substantially off their highs. That pattern is a clear Head & Shoulders pattern with the neckline in the 115 area and the right shoulder forming now. Should prices break below that neckline, the target is OMINOUS, down in the mid 80's. That would spell much higher rates for debt and huge losses for bond prices.
TNX, the 10 year treasury note RATE, is also producing a pattern that is indicative of higher rates ahead. It recently broke a smaller triangle and is heading up to an inverted H&S neckline that is in the 4% area. Should that pattern break the neckline upwards, it is targeting roughly 6% for the 10 year note. While that may not sound ominous, keep in mind the levels of debt in our economy.
Now, let's zoom out and look at the past 20 years in the TNX. Here you will see the very clear downtrend line that has followed the historic 30 year decline in rates from the peak in 1980 until Ben Bernanke forced them to zero last year. If that inverted H&S pattern target area of 6% is achieved, you can see that the 30 year downtrend line will be clearly shattered. Keep in mind that that pattern is NOT confirmed until the neckline is broken. Like I've been saying, we are entering a new era… when rates were falling, it was favorable to debt – the era of leverage. Once that trend reverses, debt is no longer your friend, it is your enemy as rates go higher. Those who recognize this trend change too late are going to make huge mistakes.
Remember that bond holders are generally more savvy than equity investors. They know that higher rates are coming and they know that owning bonds while rates are rising is a huge mistake. The government, through their Primary Dealers, and through the Primary Dealer's surrogates, are buying the debt to keep our national debts financed. That Ponzi scheme is going to end, and when it does it's going to end very badly.
Money, capital, does flow like water from one investment to the next. There's enough water in the system to drown, no doubt. The question is, where will the capital flow? Into equities? Maybe for awhile, but higher rates will make it painfully clear that companies who hold debt will have a difficult future ahead - that would be most companies. Capital does not have to stay in the U.S., either. It can, and will, flow overseas. Anyplace where it is treated better, and it will be treated better by any country that follows the rule of law and is not as debt saturated as we are.
And by the way… I've seen rebuttals to this argument stating that our debt is "only" 40% of GDP and therefore not yet a serious problem. To those who believe that, you need to wake the heck up! In the first place, our GDP is trumped up, it is WAY overestimated. Secondly, our debt is WAY underreported! The true debt to GDP ratio would astonish everyone. Thirdly, debt to GDP is a FALSE FLAG measurement. They have NO DIRECT RELATIONSHIP. It is DEBT to INCOME that matters. They can claim all they want that GDP is rising… not only is it NOT RISING, but our nation's income is CRASHING. Anyone who would like to refute that is welcome to try – in fact, I relish the challenge as this is a MYTH that needs to be buried! Please, oh, please challenge me on that assertion, we will debate it in public as that myth needs to see the light of day! Come prepared with facts, I'll be bringing charts and a calculator – simple math is all that's required, and you better know how those statistics are compiled or you will be shredded.
All the little, and not-so-little, white lies compile on one another in distorted statistics that have painted a picture of false health – and even that picture is not that healthy. The bond market is signaling higher rates, the economy will not escape the math of debt, there is no skating away…
Dire Straits – Skateaway:
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Bond Market Breakdown…
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For correct use of these types, see almost any of the example programs distributed with the Library.
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In this implementation calls to the NAG version of the following BLAS and LAPACK routines are included in the libraries libnag_acml.a and libnag_acml.so to avoid problems with the vendor version:
The behaviour of functions in these Chapters may depend on implementation-specific values.
General details are given in the Library Manual, but the specific values used in this implementation are as follows:
S07AAF F_1 = 1.0E+13 F_2 = 1.0E-14 S10AAF E_1 = 1.8715E+1 S10ABF E_1 = 7.080E+2 S10ACF E_1 = 7.080E+2 S13AAF x_hi = 7.083E+2 S13ACF x_hi = 1.0E+16 S13ADF x_hi = 1.0E+17 S14AAF IFAIL = 1 if X > 1.70E+2 IFAIL = 2 if X < -1.70E+2 IFAIL = 3 if abs(X) < 2.23E-308 S14ABF IFAIL = 2 if X > x_big = 2.55E+305 S15ADF x_hi = 2.65E+1 S15AEF x_hi = 2.65E+1 S15AGF IFAIL = 1 if X >= 2.53E+307 IFAIL = 2 if 4.74E+7 <= X < 2.53E+307 IFAIL = 3 if X < -2.66E+1 S17ACF IFAIL = 1 if X > 1.0E+16 S17ADF IFAIL = 1 if X > 1.0E+16 IFAIL = 3 if 0 < X <= 2.23E-308 S17AEF IFAIL = 1 if abs(X) > 1.0E+16 S17AFF IFAIL = 1 if abs(X) > 1.0E+16 S17AGF IFAIL = 1 if X > 1.038E+2 IFAIL = 2 if X < -5.7E+10 S17AHF IFAIL = 1 if X > 1.041E+2 IFAIL = 2 if X < -5.7E+10 S17AJF IFAIL = 1 if X > 1.041E+2 IFAIL = 2 if X < -1.9E+9 S17AKF IFAIL = 1 if X > 1.041E+2 IFAIL = 2 if X < -1.9E+9 S17DCF IFAIL = 2 if abs(Z) < 3.92223E-305 IFAIL = 4 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 3.27679E+4 IFAIL = 5 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 1.07374E+9 S17DEF IFAIL = 2 if AIMAG(Z) > 7.00921E+2 IFAIL = 3 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 3.27679E+4 IFAIL = 4 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 1.07374E+9 S17DGF IFAIL = 3 if abs(Z) > 1.02399E+3 IFAIL = 4 if abs(Z) > 1.04857E+6 S17DHF IFAIL = 3 if abs(Z) > 1.02399E+3 IFAIL = 4 if abs(Z) > 1.04857E+6 S17DLF IFAIL = 2 if abs(Z) < 3.92223E-305 IFAIL = 4 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 3.27679E+4 IFAIL = 5 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 1.07374E+9 S18ADF IFAIL = 2 if 0 < X <= 2.23E-308 S18AEF IFAIL = 1 if abs(X) > 7.116E+2 S18AFF IFAIL = 1 if abs(X) > 7.116E+2 S18DCF IFAIL = 2 if abs(Z) < 3.92223E-305 IFAIL = 4 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 3.27679E+4 IFAIL = 5 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 1.07374E+9 S18DEF IFAIL = 2 if REAL(Z) > 7.00921E+2 IFAIL = 3 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 3.27679E+4 IFAIL = 4 if abs(Z) or FNU+N-1 > 1.07374E+9 S19AAF IFAIL = 1 if abs(X) >= 5.04818E+1 S19ABF IFAIL = 1 if abs(X) >= 5.04818E+1 S19ACF IFAIL = 1 if X > 9.9726E+2 S19ADF IFAIL = 1 if X > 9.9726E+2 S21BCF IFAIL = 3 if an argument < 1.583E-205 IFAIL = 4 if an argument >= 3.765E+202 S21BDF IFAIL = 3 if an argument < 2.813E-103 IFAIL = 4 if an argument >= 1.407E+102
The values of the mathematical constants are:
X01AAF (pi) = 3.1415926535897932 X01ABF (gamma) = 0.5772156649015328
The values of the machine constants are:
The basic parameters of the model
Derived parameters of the floating-point arithmeticX02AJF = 1.11022302462516E-16 X02AKF = 2.22507385850721E-308 X02ALF = 1.79769313486231E+308 X02AMF = 2.22507385850721E-308 X02ANF = 2.22507385850721E-308
Parameters of other aspects of the computing environmentX02AHF = 1.42724769270596E+45 X02BBF = 2147483647 X02BEF = 15
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On August 9 at about 1pm, officials from the Israeli Civil Administration and border police arrived to the village of Abu Nuwar and confiscated 10 solar panels and 12 batteries from the local primary and nursery school. The equipment, which the village's
Abu Imad Jahalin said was worth ILS 80,000 (about €19,000), had been installed about a month before by an NGO, and paid for with EU funding.
"There was a summer camp and the children were out playing," recounted resident Ahmad Ibrahim, 45, who has four children attending the school. Israeli forces closed the road leading to the school and declared the surrounding area a closed military zone. "Their faces were so sad as they watched the crane take away the solar panels. They couldn't understand it," Ibrahim said.
The panels were confiscated despite an injunction issued on the same day by an Israeli court. The equipment, producing clean, green energy for the village, which is not officially connected to the electricity grid, was confiscated on grounds it was built without a license.
The result is that about 80 children will go back to a school this year that won't be able to operate fans, refrigerators, computers, copy machines and other equipment. The panels also served a nearby community centre.
Before and after the confiscation - photos courtesy of Abu Imad Jahalin
Currently, some households in the village receive electricity from a nearby Palestinian town, normally via a single cable that is just enough to turn the lights and TV on, but not to operate high-consumption appliances. Some homes in the village, which are makeshift structures made of wood and corrugated iron, do not have any electricity at all.
According to Abu Imad, all structures in the village, including homes, have pending demolition orders since 2005.
The Abu Nuwar community counts about 650 residents, half of them minors. It's located along the southern boundaries of the "E1 corridor", an area that lies between the West Bank's largest settlement, Ma'aleh Addumin, and East Jerusalem. The Israeli government has promoted zoning
for this area, which critics say are aimed at linking Occupied East Jerusalem, which Palestinians see as their future capital, to the mega-settlement. They argue this would effectively cut off East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and hinder any possibility of a two-state solution.
In 2016 alone, house demolitions in Area C (not including East Jerusalem) left 1,134 people homeless, according to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.
"If people have services, they will stay here, otherwise they will migrate," Abu Imad told Palestine Monitor. "And they want us to move from here."
The Palestinian community of Abu Nuwar and the Israeli settlement of Ma'aleh Addumim on the background
Alongside other communities in this area, the village of Abu Nuwar has been under considerable pressure in the past year. EU-funded water tanks were confiscated, as well as emegency kits and tents provided by European donors after six homes were demolished in the village last year. In addition, a number of locals were revoked their permits to work in the settlements, according to Abu Imad.
This was the third confiscation of solar panels since the beginning of July in communities located in Area C, the sixty percent of the West Bank under full Israeli control. Approximately 325,500 Israeli settlers live there in 125 settlements and about 100 outposts, as well as 180,000 to 300,000 Palestinians, according to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.
Human rights organisations have long denounced Israeli policies in Area C of the West Bank as constituting "forcible transfer" of Palestinians.
Earlier this summer, Israel confiscated solar panels from two other West Bank villages. Jub a-Dib, south of Bethlehem, saw 96 of its solar panels taken away on June 28. They'd been donated about a year ago by the Dutch government. Over the years, the village filed several requests to the Israeli authorities to be connected to the power grid, but all were rejected on grounds it does not have an outline plan. But when residents filed an outline plan with the Civil Administration, the Israeli military body in charge of civilian matters in the West Bank, that too was rejected.
In July, Israeli forces confiscated two solar panels serving five families, including 15 children, in Khirbet Tall al-Himma, a village in the northern Jordan Valley.
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that there has been an "exceptional upsurge" in demolitions and confiscations of projects funded by the EU or its member states. The total financial loss in 2016 amounts to €557,378.
published last year by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor estimated that Israeli policies in Area C, as well as military operations, have "squandered" about about €65 million of EU aid money since 2001 – of which about €23 million was lost during the 2014 assault alone.
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Tom Friedman's Embarrassing Man-Crush on Sec. Duncan
Many people say nice things about our earnest Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. It's easy to see why, even if one thinks the Obama administration has made its share of mistakes on education. He's a pleasant, even-tempered guy; has comported himself in Chicago and D.C. with class; and has gotten some significant stuff right, like giving his terrific "New Normal" speech and broadening out the reform agenda in helpful ways. But none of that explains the bizarre, mouth-breathing man-crush that New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has on him.
In a NYT column last week that I found fairly disturbing (Arne, please call the stalker hotline before you turn in tonight), Friedman instructs President Obama that his next Secretary of State should be Duncan. Friedman's got a number of reasons for this. My favorite is: "As our foreign budget shrinks, more and more of it will have to be converted from traditional grants to 'Races to the Top,' which Duncan's Education Department pioneered in U.S. school reform. We will have to tell needy countries that whoever comes up with the best ideas for educating their young women and girls...will get our scarce foreign aid dollars." Uhh, Friedman might want to check back with his sources at Foggy Bottom on the likelihood of all this. Imagining you can use an interesting and novel (if overhyped) domestic grant program as the foundation for revamping foreign aid is peculiar. Regardless, I love the notion of Duncan ordering would-be aid applicants to file their 500 page applications, filled with international development jargon, in line with his 19 priorities. That would be good fun.
In his typically measured prose, Friedman terms our earnest Secretary "one of the world's leading authorities on education," explaining, "Everyone would want to talk to him. For instance, it would be very helpful to have a secretary of state who can start a negotiating session with Hamas leaders...by asking: 'Do you know how far behind your kids are?'" I'm kind of surprised to learn that the Pulitzer Prize-winning Friedman believes our biggest failure in Middle East diplomacy has been not talking with Hamas about proficiency rates.
Friedman writes, "Anyone who has negotiated with the Chicago Teachers Union, as Duncan did when he was superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools...would find negotiating with the Russians and Chinese a day at the beach." Ummm, I'm not even sure what to do with that. First off, there's zero evidence Duncan was a savvy negotiator. All those CBA provisions that Rahm Emanuel sought to address this year? Duncan did nothing to get those out, or to even make the public aware of them. (Oh, and remember that TNTP has reported CPS terminated just nine teachers for poor performance between 2003-08, during Duncan's tenure as superintendent--not exactly evidence that Duncan was Horatio at the bridge.) Typically, you see, we say somebody is a good negotiator because of what they won in negotiations. Friedman doesn't even try to go there.
More to the point, Duncan's first-term accomplishments were fueled by an unprecedented infusion of more than $100 billion in education stimulus funding--$8 billion of which funded i3, Race to the Top, and SIG. I'll tell you what, when you're the guy with billions of dollars in free money during the Great Recession, you don't have to be an especially good negotiator to get people to do things. For all Friedman's enthusiasm for the Race to the Top, it's worth remembering that the feds can get states to promise to do these things--but it can't make them do them well. And, the frustrating thing, is that for things like teacher evaluation and school turnarounds, how you do them matters a lot more than whether you do them.
Friedman asserts, "Trust me, if you can cut such deals with Randi Weingarten, who is president of the American Federation of Teachers, you can do them with Vladimir Putin and Bibi Netanyahu." This is just strange. First off, I'm not aware of any deal that Duncan has ever cut with Weingarten--unless it was him agreeing in September to help get Rahm to fold if she'd help keep the CTU strike from embarrassing President Obama in the weeks before the upcoming election. More tellingly, this is just the kind of silly, "ain't-that-cute" compliment that is embarrassing to the entire K-12 sector. You know, "Oh, look, how cute... Sec. Duncan got Randi to attend a 'collaboration' summit in Denver--clearly, he's the guy to get the Iranians to back off on the bomb, Egyptian president Morsi to abandon his totalitarian aspirations, and Syrian president Assad to stop murdering his countrymen."
Like I said, I like Duncan. I disagree with plenty of things he's said and done, but I respect him and what he's trying to do. But fatuous commentary like Friedman's envelops Duncan and the Obama administration's K-12 efforts in fanboy praise and makes it harder to talk honestly about what the administration has gotten right and wrong.


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MPs will leave the Commons for almost three weeks today despite the looming international crisis in Ukraine, provoking warnings Parliament could be "left behind" .
At around 7pm, Leader of the Lords Lord Hill will read a message from the Queen, sparking a constitutional procedure involving tricorn hats and Norman French, proroguing Parliament until the State Opening on June 4.
The event will shut down Parliament and unlike a normal recess, recalling MPs in the event of an emergency is very difficult and would require a Royal Warrant.
Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday warned MPs it would be "unprecedented" and could only happen in "extreme circumstances if there is a threat to the United Kingdom".
The break up comes a week before a scheduled recess was due to start on May 22 - the same day as local and European elections - and effectively extends the Whitsun break from six working days to 15.
Labour MP John Mann (Bassetlaw) told the Press Association there were many subjects which could be discussed to fill the time - and warned MPs could very well need to be brought back to Westminster to debate Ukraine.
He said: " It's a volatile situation (in Ukraine). We don't want to be left behind.
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"There is the question of taxation following the Gary Barlow case and why these schemes have been allowed before and why it has gone on for so long."
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Wildcats head into Big 12 play with win over South Dakota
Timeout tirade helps energize K-State squad
A bad pass, missed opportunities and some casual defense got Kansas State coach Bruce Weber looking a little like his predecessor Frank Martin on Monday afternoon.
Weber launched into a timeout tirade midway through the first half of No. 25 Kansas State's 70-50 victory over South Dakota on Monday afternoon.
"Play like a Top 25 team. Have a swagger. Have a confidence. Put people away," he yelled as the crowd cheered him on.
"That's where you should have won the game," Weber said. "That's where it should have been 16, 18, 20 (point spread) and instead it's 12 at halftime."
The Wildcats responded, and the team finished its nonconference season on a solid note despite missing starting point guard Angel Rodriguez and backup point guard Martavious Irving.
"Coach got real rowdy in the huddle and got us motivated," forward Nino Williams said, "so we came out, played with intensity, then we let our defense dictate our offense."
Williams led the team with 16 points and also snagged seven rebounds.
Weber credited some of that production to increased competition within the team, particularly with former reserve and current starter Shane Southwell.
"When Shane kind of took (Nino's) spot a couple weeks ago when he got hurt, now there's competition," Weber said. "And what happens with competition? Either you lay down or you step up to the challenge, and he stepped up to the challenge."
Williams attributed his own success to following Weber's instructions and continuing to rebound.
"The middle of the zone was open, so Coach told us if we cut, we'd be open, and I was making good cuts, and I got a couple easy offensive rebounds," Williams said. "That's how I pretty much got all my scoring."
Rodney McGruder added 15 for the Wildcats. Karim Rowson led the Coyotes with 14 points, six of which came from free throws.
The Wildcats (11-2) dominated the boards and shot 50 percent from the floor, nearly 20 percent better their opponents, who managed 32.7 percent.
Kansas State entered halftime with a 12-point lead, but South Dakota (6-9) cut that advantage in half before the Wildcats pulled away late.
The Coyotes started the second half with an 11-5 run. They trailed 37-29 when Trevor Gruis went to the free throw line with 15:13 to play and a chance to cut Kansas State's lead to just six points. He made both.
The teams traded baskets as the half continued, and South Dakota stayed close. With fewer than eight minutes to play, the Wildcats led 44-39.
"We screened better," South Dakota coach Dave Boots said. "We didn't have very good movement the first half with our four and five and got that going a little bit better the second half. We got better ball reversal off that and opened up the floor a little bit."
The tide turned, however, when Jordan Henriquez converted a three-point play, beginning a 10-0 run for the Wildcats.
Williams was intentionally fouled on a breakaway layup and sank both free throws. On the Wildcats' ensuing possession Shane Southwell drained a 3-pointer. The next time down the floor, Southwell got a bucket in the lane, and the next he scored from the baseline, and Kansas State led 56-39 with 5:23 to play.
"I didn't notice until the timeout came, and then I looked up, and I was like, 'Whoa!'" Southwell said. "It was a big run because they were in the game for the whole second half."
The Coyotes could not muster another comeback, however.
Kansas State created distance early and largely maintained it throughout the first half after jumping out to an 11-2 lead in the first five minutes. The Coyotes pulled within 15-8 minutes later when Brandon Bos converted a traditional three-point play and then sank a 3-pointer.
The Wildcats' size in the post continually posed a problem for South Dakota. The combination of seven-footers Henriquez and Adrian Diaz made it difficult for the Coyotes to score inside early. Henriquez returned to the bench shortly after committing two quick fouls, but fellow reserve D.J. Johnson picked up the slack by scoring a second chance basket right after entering the game.
That shot started a 9-0 run that gave Kansas State a 24-8 edge with 7:43 to play in the first half. The Wildcats were outrebounding the Coyotes 14-5. At that point in the game, South Dakota was making less than 15 percent of its field goals.
With the nonconference season over, Kansas State looks forward to its Big 12 opener against Oklahoma State on Saturday.
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It's a gray and rainy day in Reykjavík and I'm thinking of colour. Arrayed before me in the National Museum's collections storage center are an array of jasper fragments from an excavation at Reykholt, an important regional center in western Iceland. Founded in the late 10th century, Reykholt became the center of a polity forged by Snorri Sturluson, Iceland's wealthiest and most powerful chieftain of the early 13th century. I was involved in the first years of the Reykholt Project in the late 1980s and was there briefly in its last days, in 2007. Excavations that I undertook at a small, non-elite farm about 10 kilometers away and at the site of one of Snorri's rivals, a bit farther out, led me through a circuitous route to think about jasper, an iron-rich form of SiO2 that, like flint, chert and obsidian can be easily flaked into stone tools or used with steel to strike sparks for lighting fires. It's this latter use that attracted the Vikings and their Norse descendants to collect, use and discard jasper at most sites. A quotidian and visually boring class of material culture, jasper fire-starters were, nonetheless, the matches in the pockets of Norse men and women and their distribution, use wear and trace element chemistry can be used to monitor the movement of people over both short and long distances (we've used neutron activation analysis to trace Icelandic jasper to the site of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, for example).
But arrayed before me today is a puzzle. Due to its high iron content, jasper is most commonly red or ochre-yellow. Far less common are black, blue, or green colours. And yet here, from the ruins of a medieval church built at the site around 1150 and demolished around 1550 is a sea of green and greenish-blue jasper. More to the point, the wear patterns on it indicate that hardly any of these green and blue-green fragments were used for striking fires, although the few red jasper fragments in the assemblage- and all of the obsidian pieces-were used to make sparks. The question is, why were these green pieces brought to the site and why were they treated this way? Or, better, what did it mean to be "thinking green" in medieval Iceland? So far, the answer is looking far more complex, and far more interesting, than I'd expected.
Of these green stones, roughly 10% form a coherent assemblage of desilicified, soft pieces, light blue-green in color, that have been scraped and faceted with files, knives, or abrading stones. The actions taken on them are deliberate but their forms are each different, random and seemingly accidental. Their most likely explanation is that the objects in my hand are end-products of actions taken to obtain blue-green powder, and that was most likely intended for the production of blue-green or green ink, as Reykholt was a center of literary production through the Middle Ages. These humble pieces may, therefore, be our best material evidence for the action of clerics and secular writers at Reykholt, whose products include those of Snorri Sturluson himself, among them Heimskringla (the earliest history of the kings of Norway), the Poetic Edda (a manual of skaldic poetry and one of the main sources on Nordic pagan cosmography), and Egills saga (an important foundation of the Icelandic Family Sagas). Finding illuminated manuscripts in a collection of colored stones was the last thing I expected.
However, the majority of the other stones found in the fill and under the floors of this church are united simply by being green. Many are achingly beautiful jasper, like Song dynasty porcelain in color and texture, but were simply smashed into fragments to reveal the green interior and then discarded without any other traces of use. Another large group consists of small green pebbles, some of jasper and others of white chalcedony with a green surface rind formed from contact with iron-rich basalt in a reducing environment. From their surface contours, it is clear that some of these were collected from river or stream beds, others were obtained from eroded landscapes where they were faceted and worn by Iceland's strong winds, still others were plucked directly from the roots of ancient volcanoes with basalt still adhering to their outer surfaces. An extensive survey of the region around Reykholt has shown that jasper of any kind is extremely rare there and nearly impossible to find in riverine, terrestrial or bedrock contexts. At Hestfjall, the nearest well-known jasper source, 30 km from Reykholt, red jasper is abundant. Although blue, green, and blue-green are present, obtaining it may require long searches, scrambles up vertical cliffs, or dangerous transects across steep and loose scree slopes. Bringing these simple objects to Reykholt, then, represents a considerable number of separate actions, undertaken in different places and variable settings, over a prolonged period of time, and potentially through a series of dangerous or at least difficult actions. Why? What was important about being green?
The answer may lie in the symbolic meanings of green and of jasper itself within medieval thought. Jasper was one of the twelve stones on the breastplate of Aaron, described in the Old Testament, and was among the foundation stones of the Celestial Jerusalem described in John of Patmos' Revelation, and formed that metaphysical city's walls. Numerous sources, from the Venerable Bede in 8th century England to Richard of St. Victor and Bruno of Segni, writing in 12th century France and Italy, make it clear that the term "jasper" itself was used to describe an opaque green or blue-green stone, not the more common red color that we associate with jasper today. Jasper was the symbol of faith and belief during this life, that, like green plants, grows and returns to life after hardship, never truly dying despite the troubles of earthly existence. Jasper was used, at times, as a symbol of Christ and, more frequently, as one of the symbols of Saint Peter…and the church at Reykholt was dedicated to Saint Peter.
An hypothesis starts to form. Are these green and blue-green pieces of jasper, gathered with difficulty from a potentially wide-spread landscape and deposited here in greater numbers than known anywhere else in Iceland, accumulated symbols of personal devotion? Are they materialized prayers to St. Peter, tokens of belief…or perhaps supports for belief under strain and supplication for his believed ability to turn away fever, to cure foot problems, to provide longevity, to aid harvests and harvesters, to provide support for fishermen, or to guide the souls of the deceased into heaven?
Two classes of stone objects, one used for pigment production and the other unused except for its acquisition, intentional destruction and sequestration within a church, are both joined primarily by color. Together, they suggest new approaches for understanding the pragmatics of religious practice in medieval Iceland, on the one hand, and the practice of illumination, on the other, in ways that could not have been expected from such humble remains.
Well, back to it! The rest of the assemblage awaits and with it opportunities to refute this emerging hypothesis or to find additional examples that may support it. Some days archaeology takes place in the field, others in the lab. This is one of those days. This weekend may have me scouring the landscape in search of new jasper sources…


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While playing a trick on your furry friends, a spell was cast that put them all to sleep. How in the world can you wake someone up under a magic sleep spell (aside from smooching of course)? Well one way might be to complete level upon level of colored block busting action. And where does this block puzzler take place you ask? Why inside of the open mouths of our hapless sleeping victims of course. Sanitary Cubis Creatures is a variation on the match three block puzzle phenomenon. Tow…Watch The Video Review
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So you can now score the Joe Girardi/Dave Eiland experiment with pitching starters on three days' rest at 1-for-3: a Sabathia victory in the ALCS, a Sabathia no decision in which he gave back a 2-0 lead and half of a subsequent 4-2 lead, and tonight's Burnett implosion.
This does beg a question I had not considered before. Perhaps Girardi and Eiland were not shooting the works with Burnett on short rest rather than throwing Chad Gaudin as a sacrificial lamb. Maybe the Yankees knew they got an unrepeatable performance by the eminently reliable Burnett (you can always depend on him; he will always let you down) and he was the sacrificial lamb tonight.
Could've been worse from the Yankee perspective. When he went to the bullpen tonight, Girardi could have gone not to David Robertson but to Gaudin.
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Just watched the Phillies get their seventh run of the game. This is pretty depressing. A close game, one where it goes back and forth, is fun to watch. Even if the Yankees lost a game like that, you have to admit, in the end, that it was a great game to watch. But they are getting blown out of the water here. It begs the question: Where are the Yankees?
On the bright side they CAN win at home Wednesday (assuming there won't be heroics tonight)
Pitching the erratic Burnett on 3 days rest was a bad move on Joe G's part. And the Yankees paid for it tonight.
Perhaps they wanted to win it at home…
"Implosion" is definitely the word for that debacle tonight. It was starting to look more like a football score, than a baseball score.
And I think that "…you can always depend on him; he will always let you down," would make a fantastic sig file quote. I'll definitely be adding it to my repertoire of smart-alecky remarks.
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In a one-bedroom apartment in Riverhead, 18-year-old mother Jennifer Reyes often lies awake at night wondering how she'll care for her family.
She's already cut back hours at her retail job to tend to her 3-year-old daughter, Ashley, and she has another baby on the way. Balancing finances and childcare is made all the more challenging by her fiancé's job, which is seasonal.
Head Start, the federal preschool program for low-income families, has been a source of comfort for Ms. Reyes in the past. Ashley spends her days learning and socializing at a local center in Riverhead.
"Ashley loves her teachers and her friends here," Ms. Reyes said with a smile Friday while she awaited her daughter's moving-up ceremony in one of the center's classrooms. "She is safe here."
Ms. Reyes' smiling face faded to one of worry when she spoke about Ashley's future and the future of her unborn child.
"It's really upsetting," she said.
Head Start programs across the country are facing an uncertain future in the wake of sweeping federal budget cuts that come as part of what's known in Washington, D.C., as the sequester, which took effect March 1. The Head Start program, run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has seen a 5 percent cut in its funding, causing centers to lay off employees, shorten semesters or even shut down.
Friday was the last day for three of the classes at the Riverhead facility, including Ashley's. The rest of the students will finish June 21, sooner than in previous years due to the cuts. The center will reopen in mid-October, more than a month later than the typical start of the fall semester.
"We're blessed we're still here because we thought we wouldn't make it past June 1," said Carol Burnett of Jamesport, a community outreach recruitment coordinator for Long Island Head Start. Ms. Burnett had thought the center would close even earlier this spring.
The shortened semesters are leaving many parents like Ms. Reyes scrambling to find alternative childcare.
A baby sitter, Ms. Burnett said, would fail to provide the education, safety and socialization children need during their developmental years. Many of the families that rely on Head Start's services are at or below the poverty line. Those who cannot afford to stay home from work may try to find an inexpensive — which often also means young and inexperienced — baby sitter as an alternative to the program, Ms. Burnett said.
"Physically, emotionally, we don't know what type of situation our kids will end up in," she said.
Riverhead Head Start employees have also had to deal with hardships, or the stress of planning for hardships, due to the cutbacks.
Daniela Perez, who has worked for 10 years as a family advocate at the Riverhead center, is being furloughed until October, a month longer than her typical unpaid summer break. Her daughter also attends the center.
"When we got the news, it was hard for me as an advocate," Ms. Perez said. "Telling parents we're going to close early and they'll need to find help with their kids was hard. It's affecting me as a worker and a mom because my daughter is out of school earlier. I have to start thinking about where she can go and getting another job until October."
For the 23 Long Island-based Head Start centers, the cuts meant a loss of $800,000 annually from a budget of $16 million, according to Ms. Burnett. Head Start serves 1,675 children in Suffolk County, 102 at the Riverhead center and 114 at the Southampton center just three miles away.
Hundreds more are on a waiting list for services.
No centers on Long Island will close due to the sequester cuts, Ms. Burnett said, although regional Head Starts elsewhere in the U.S. have closed and consolidated some centers.
"People don't realize the need for Head Start programs," she said. "These cuts will be particularly catastrophic."
Sequestration set in place automatic spending cuts that came as part of the Budget Control Act signed by President Obama in 2011. The cuts are aimed at reducing the federal government's $1.2 deficit through slashing funding for government departments by billions over the next nine years. The measure went into effect because elected leaders in Washington couldn't agree on a long-term budget reduction plan. The cuts were designed to be so painful to Americans that elected leaders would have to act to prevent them. They did not.
"There are many harmful effects of sequestration on Long Island, including furloughs and job losses at major employers like the 106th Air Rescue Wing at Gabreski Air Force Base in Westhampton and Stony Brook University," said Oliver Longwell, a spokesman for Congressman Tim Bishop (D-Southampton). "Sequestration is an unnecessary drag on our economic recovery when we should instead be promoting growth with jobs."
President Lyndon B. Johnson first established Head Start in 1965 as a part of his War on Poverty. It is the only program that survived that effort.
For nearly 50 years, Head Start has helped educate, feed and provide health coverage for low-income children and their families.
Ms. Burnett said the cuts would hurt not only those benefitting directly but the country's long-term prosperity as well.
"Without access to Head Start there is no safety net in place to help these children be ready to enter and succeed in kindergarten and assist their families in moving toward self-sufficiency," Ms. Burnett said. "Head Start not only changes lives, but saves lives as well."
Head Start children are 12 percent less likely to be charged with a crime as adolescents and adults and are more likely to graduate from high school, according Ms. Burnett. The program also provides nutritious meals and resources for children with special needs.
The Head Start nutrition program follows all rules and regulations set by the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program. Mealtimes serve as social and educational activities, Ms. Burnett said.
When a child enrolls in Head Start, steps are taken to assess the child's health to identify any concerns, Ms. Burnett explained. The screening can identify children who may need further assessment to determine if they need hearing aids, mental health services or special education. The screening process is particularly important for children with disabilities.
Ms. Burnett is calling on federal leaders to solve the problems she believes they themselves created in Washington.
"Elected representatives need to come up with a plan that addresses our long-term deficits without trying to balance the budget on the backs of children and families that had nothing to do with getting us to this point in the first place," she said.
Mr. Bishop said he would support legislation giving the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services the flexibility to redirect funding to Head Start from other areas in the department's budget. To date, however, no legislation of that kind has been introduced.
Like that of Head Start, Ms. Reyes said her future is also uncertain.
"I don't know what I'll do," she said. "I'll probably have to stop working."


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HOUSTON – After the first half of Saturday night's match against the Vancouver Whitecaps, the Houston Dynamo were in a bit of quicksand.
The Dynamo had controlled the opening stanza, dominating the ball and had the edge in most of the important statistical categories. Still, without being able to put chances away, the Dynamo were under pressure after sophomore Darren Mattocks opened his 2013 account in the 36th minute to put Houston behind the eight ball.
In the end, the Dynamo got two in the final 45 minutes to seal a victory. The sources of the two goals, however, were unique as the producers, Giles Barnes and Warren Creavalle, had yet to score a goal in an MLS game.
"I think I've had a chance to score in every game we played, so I knew I was due one," Barnes, who scored his first Dynamo goal in CONCACAF Champions League play last season, said. "It was good to get off the mark and it was good we got the win as well.
"I think they only had two chances in the first half and one was on target for the goal," Barnes continued. "We know we had the upper-hand and it was just a matter of time until we got one."
The second half response was what you would expect from the Dynamo. Houston has been dangerous in the final minutes of games this season and although did not leave things until the final 10 minutes, the club did what it has been able to do all season and that is respond when necessary.
The comeback did not come easy. The Whitecaps were up to the challenge and pushed the game in the second half, especially after going down in the 62nd minute. The center of that plan was speed, which the 'Caps have in droves, but none more evident that Mattocks who was a menace with a goal and several close calls.
"[Mattocks] gets behind every defense, not just us, so you have to make sure communication is good and if he does get behind, you can't give up on the play," head coach Dominic Kinnear said. "When the timing is right and you have speed like that and good passing on the ball, it can cause you problems."
Despite Mattocks' exploits, and with a little help from the framework on Camilo's free kick in the dying minutes, the Dynamo stood up to the challenge and were able to keep their home unbeaten streak going at 33 in all competitions overcoming an tough first half deficit.
"Our home is a fortress so we always have a little bit of an extra lift, kind of like a 12th man," Barnes said. "We thought we could come here and get the two losses out of our system."
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Toronto – Toronto Rock General Manager has announced the signing of Captain Colin Doyle to a one-year contract. Doyle is one of two franchise players, as designated by the lacrosse club, along with Josh Sanderson.
The 15-year NLL veteran has spent twelve of those seasons with the Rock franchise and has been a member of all six Toronto championship teams. Doyle began his NLL career in 1998 with the Ontario Raiders, played for the Rock from 1999 to 2006 and was then traded to San Jose prior to the 2007 season where he spent three seasons. He was re-acquired by the Rock in a blockbuster deal just prior to the 2010 campaign. In his twelve seasons with the Rock franchise he has accumulated 371 goals, 527 assists and 898 points, which are all franchise bests.
"Colin is one of the best leaders this sport has ever seen," expressed Rock GM Terry Sanderson. "He's done so much for this game, this franchise and this city. He's a champion and his work ethic and professionalism are second to none in our business."
The 35-year old forward is entering his fourth season as captain of the Rock, and he's coming off a season in which the team fell short of their ultimate goal of winning a league record 7th NLL championship. Toronto's training camp opens December 1st and Doyle's competitive juices are flowing already.
"I can't say how happy I am to be back for another year," said the Kitchener, ON native. "The Rock, as they show year in and year out, continue to be the flagship franchise in the NLL. It excites me to embark on another season where we get to carry on such a winning and rich tradition. Toronto is where I want to be, it's as simple as that."
The impact Doyle has made on the franchise is easily measured. In his three seasons away from Toronto (2007-2009), the Rock never finished above .500, qualified for the playoffs just once losing in the first round and had a combined record of 19-29.
Upon his return for the 2010 season via trade from San Jose, the Rock made it to the NLL Championship game in the first year of his second tour of duty in Toronto. The Rock then finished the job in 2011 as the team won their first NLL championship since 2005 with an 8-7 victory over the Washington Stealth on home turf at Air Canada Centre.
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Liquid analysis as part of surface treatment
Hug Oberflächentechnik AG relies on the Teqwave T
Hug Oberflächentechnik AG uses the Teqwave T as a new, versatile solution for monitoring its passivation and degreasing baths. The Teqwave uses special sound waves to create an acoustic "fingerprint" of the high-quality concentration solutions. This allows it to take very precise measurements of the specific concentration and density that the liquid has during the treatment process.
The result
To ensure absolute process quality, the Teqwave measures in real time and the treatment baths can be readjusted at any time based on this measurement.
Now, all employees at Hug Oberflächentechnik AG can use the Teqwave easily and efficiently. The result: the guarantee of consistent measurements – no matter which employee is using the device.
The automatic documentation practically eliminates the risk of errors that go along with manual record-keeping of the measured concentration values.
The Teqwave T from Endress+Hauser fulfilled each and every one of our expectations with respect to functionality, performance and technical design.
The challenge
The old method involved indexing the concentration in the baths each day using an aerometer, also known as a plummet or spindle. This process included documenting the concentration values, which are crucial in achieving the desired process stability. The previous measuring and documentation methods were very time-consuming and could only be done by one specialist. Both the manual reading and documentation steps were prone to errors.
Our solution
Hug Oberflächentechnik AG was convinced by the Teqwave T and its smart solution for mobile concentration measurement. It only takes one device to monitor concentration values at numerous measuring points. As a result, product quality can be maximized at minimum costs. The mobile transmitter of the Teqwave T can operate for up to 8 hours without external power supply. Thanks to its customizable app design and preconfigured measuring points, it can be adapted to meet the production requirements.


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