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Saturday, March 6, 2010
New Blog at SwarmUSA.com...
The Swarm grew by about 30 more members today, nearly a 25% increase, not bad for opening day. It's a snowball, and it's just started.
We moved a bunch of stuff around at the site and I posted a new Notable Supporter's page: Notable Supporters
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Friday, March 5, 2010
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5 March 2010
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March Monetary Trends…
Before you dive into the report, there are a couple of charts I want to highlight. The first one is the S&P 500 trailing Price to Earnings ratio. It had spiked to all time record highs near 150! We knew that the 4th quarter earnings would result in this coming down, and now this chart reflects those numbers, coming in with a trailing P/E of "only" 90! What a bargain, get 'em while they're hot!
Please keep in mind stage 5 of Hyman Minsky's 7 bubble stages, the following excert is from my book, Flight to Financial Freedom:
Stage Five – Market Reversal/Insider Profit Taking:
Some wise voices will stand up and say that the bubble can no longer continue. They argue that long run fundamentals, the ratios and measurements, defy sound economic practices. In the bubble, these arguments disappear within one over-riding fact – the price is still rising. The voices of the wise are ignored by the greedy who justify the now insane prices with the euphoric claim that the world has fundamentally changed and this new world means higher prices. Then along comes the cruelest lie of them all, "There will most likely be a 'soft' landing!"
Meanwhile the jokesters on Wall Street and in the media create flashy brochures disguised as economic and market reports. They talk about "future earnings" as if they have ever been able to correctly divine the future, and they talk about "operating" earnings that conveniently ignore "one time" and "special" expense items that seem to occur far more frequently, as in every single reporting season. Those economic and market marketing brochures are also built upon what would be considered in any rational world plain old accounting fraud, with mark-to-model and off balance sheet items galore. The point? The only P/E that matters is the one currently produced, the rest is all bull. The current P/E of 90 is roughly 5 to 6 TIMES higher than modern historic norms and is still far above the bubble heights of the tech bubble.
And our government keeps pouring the debt backed money into the system. Since current incomes cannot support current debts, as that debt money is funneled into the system, the vast majority of it simply is used to service already existing debt. Thus it is manufactured, but simply circles right back around to the bank who continually skims interest and fees as the money goes around and around in a circle, never creating a path through productive hands in the economy.
M1 Multiplier:
March Monetary Trends
Morning Update/ Market Thread 3/5
The Headline numbers on the Unemployment Situation Report are: The rate remained the same at 9.7%, the consensus was 9.8%. The number of jobs reportedly lost in February was 36,000, the consensus was for -50K.
Futures were up overnight and spiked on the release of the February Unemployment Situation Report. Below is a chart showing a 60 minute view of the DOW on the left and a 15 minute view of the S&P on the right:
Note in the chart above that we ran right into the upper boundary of a potential megaphone and now prices are pulling back somewhat. The dollar is higher, bonds are lower, both oil and gold are higher.
Just remember what Larry Summers said, why do you suppose he said it and what do you think his game is? Hmmm...
Let's begin with the Econoday spin on the Employment Report:
Severe weather in February did not have as much impact on jobs numbers as feared. But government layoffs are now weighing on the numbers. Nonfarm payroll employment in February declined 36,000, following a revised 26,000 decrease in January and revised fall of 109,000 for December. The February payroll decline was less negative than the market forecast for a 50,000 fall in employment. The January and December revisions were up a net 35,000.
Weakness in February was led by a 64,000 drop in construction jobs. Rounding out the goods-producing sector, manufacturing actually edged up 1,000 and mining rose 4,000. Service-providing jobs were up 42,000 in February, following a 20,000 increase the month before. The highlight was temp help being up 48,000 in the latest month. Government jobs fell 18,000 despite the hiring of 15,000 temporary Census workers. At the federal level, the U.S. Postal Service cut 9,000 jobs. Local governments shrank their work forces by 31,000 in the latest month.
From the household survey, the unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent in February.
Wage inflation in February eased to a 0.1 percent rise from 0.2 percent the month before. The consensus had expected a 0.2 percent gain. The average workweek (traditional series) slipped to 33.1 hours in February from 33.3 the month before.
It's hard to really determine the direction of momentum this month given the heavy snow storms. Equities traders, however, see the numbers as positive and futures are up.
Once again we see revisions sending the prior numbers even higher. There are notes in the report regarding weather and how they count people laid off by it, basically they don't. Within the report you will find that construction and other private sector jobs are still hemorrhaging while government is one of the few sectors growing.
Below is the Unemployment Situation Report in its entirety:
Feb Unemploy
Here are some excerpts from the summary of the report:
The number of persons working part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) increased from 8.3 to 8.8 million in February, partially offsetting a large decrease in the prior month. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.
About 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force in February, an increase of 476,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
Among the marginally attached, there were 1.2 million discouraged workers in February, up by 473,000 from a year earlier.
Note that the numbers are up considerably from the height of the financial freeze-up one year prior to these numbers.
Below is the alternative measurement table. U6 is the number most closely comparable to how unemployment used to be calculated for those looking to compare this timeframe to earlier in the 20th century. Note that not seasonally adjusted U6 fell from 18% to 17.9%, but that seasonally adjusted U6 rose from 16.5% to 16.8%.
These numbers are depression era numbers. It may not feel like that to you, but to those unemployed I'm sure it feels a lot more depressing, and were it not for massive "safety nets" created by borrowing money we don't possess, those people would literally be standing in soup lines.
Below is a table from Shadowstats.com showing John William's alternate data series. This data is actually much closer to the way it was calculated during the Great Depression era. Note that his alternate is still above 21%:
Consumer Credit numbers come out at 3:00 Eastern.
There was a small movement on the McClelland Oscillator yesterday meaning a large price move today was likely. Prices have pulled back a little from the upper boundary of the megaphone. We'll have to watch prices to see if we return back to the bottom or break out. I still think this appears like topping action. Keep in mind that what seems like it's taking an eternity to play out will in hindsight appear to have happened very quickly.
Remember that today is Friday, so will we get the usual front-running of the coming Monday ramp job on top of the employment front-running and ramp job? What a joke, valuations still way above historic norms, future P/E's based on pure fantasy.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Morning Update/ Market Thread 3/4
Equity futures are slightly higher after being down overnight. Below is a 60 minute chart of the DOW futures on the left and a 5 minute chart showing the S&P's overnight action on the right:
The dollar is up slightly, bonds are down, while both oil and gold are down just a little.
Jobless claims fell by 29,000 last week to 469,000, a still very high figure, a figure that has been at or near the 500k range for quite some time. Here's Econoday's report:
Turning to the Emergency Claims, here are the numbers for the week directly from the Department of Labor:
Jobless claims swung lower, down 29,000 to 469,000 vs. expectations for 475,000. There are no special factors in the Feb. 27 week. The prior week, when heavy weather increased filings, was revised 2,000 higher to 498,000. The weekly data for February show steep swings whether up or down. The four-week average, which helps smooth out volatility, fell 3,500 in the week to 470,750, a level showing no significant change from late January to indicate no improvement for tomorrow's non-farm payroll headline which is expected to fall 50,000. Markets showed no reaction to this morning's report.
Continuing claims fell 134,000 to 4.500 million in data for the Feb. 20 week. The drop marks a significant move lower for the data, pointing to an uncertain mix of hiring and benefit-expiration. The unemployment rate for insured workers slipped 1 tenth to 3.5 percent.
States reported 5,687,574 persons claiming EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) benefits for the week ending Feb. 13, an increase of 207,632 from the prior week. There were 1,929,723 claimants in the comparable week in 2009. EUC weekly claims include first, second, third, and fourth tier activity.Emergency claims are nearly 3 times as many as the year prior and for the WEEK rose by 207,000. How many of the current claimants will be doing the same in 6 months? We'll see.
According to the Productivity and Costs report, productivity is soaring and labor costs are plummeting – a miracle for business, right? Here's Econoday:
HighlightsHere's the deal. The productivity numbers are inflated for the same reasons that GDP is inflated, the output is measured in dollars with all the false accounting and statistics rippling through the reports. What people have yet to figure out is that the very same people who represent "labor costs" when out of work or when taking pay cuts have less to spend into the economy. This is the opposite of a virtuous cycle, it is like choking yourself and saying that it's a good thing. Yes, increases in productivity are good, but like all things there has to be balance. When I see growth numbers in the 7% range, I immediately know that we are talking about paper increases and that the odds of those increases being real are very low. If they were real, they would be very unsustainable. Deflating labor costs at that rate should scare the heck out of the markets and out of the Fed. Creating the sustainable inflation they seek with falling wages is simply not possible.
Both productivity and costs were revised better than expected for the fourth quarter. Businesses clearly are focusing on cutting labor costs to try to boost profits or cut losses. Nonfarm business productivity was revised up to a sharp 6.9 percent boost from the initial estimate of 6.2 percent. This followed a revised 7.8 percent surge in the third quarter. Today's report includes annual revisions which raised the Q3 figure. The consensus had called for a 6.3 percent revised gain for the latest period. Unit labor costs fell an annualized 5.9 percent in the fourth quarter, compared to an initial estimate of minus 4.4 percent and a revised third quarter plunge of 7.6 percent. The market forecast was for a 4.5 percent drop in costs.
The fourth quarter jump in productivity reflected a 7.6 percent spike in output, following a 2.2 percent gain the prior quarter. Hours worked edged up a mere 0.6 percent after a 5.3 percent annualized drop in the third quarter. Compensation cost inflation is nearly nonexistent as compensation rose only 0.6 percent, following a 0.4 annualized percent dip in the third quarter.
Year-on-year, productivity rose to 5.8 percent in the fourth quarter from 4.6 percent in the third quarter. Year-ago unit labor costs fell to minus 4.7 percent from down 2.7 percent the previous quarter.
Today's productivity and cost numbers are good for businesses trying to get back to a healthy cost position. But it also indicates that businesses are still slow to hire.
Could the real reason labor costs are falling be that capital is fleeing the United States, creating manufacturing and real production elsewhere while we simply paper over our economy? Please follow the link to view a report showing how $8 of $10 stimulus dollars are going overseas:
Green Stimulus Jobs Going to China
In the markets, there is a potential megaphone top forming in the futures. If that is occurring we should see a new higher high today that follows last night's lower low. That same pattern is not as clear, however, in the day only market indices, I see more of a potential Head & Shoulders pattern forming with the neckline on the DOW at about 10,400, or about 1,117 on the SPX.
If that is occurring, then we should not make a new high today. Both of these patterns are potential topping patterns, indicating that a couple more days time will likely be required to break the current range. Obviously, that could happen tomorrow on the very important monthly jobs report. I'll try to keep both patterns updated in the daily thread below.
The links we've been placing about Freedom's Vision and the Swarms are still paying off, I appreciate everyone's help in that regard. We're still planning on Opening Day Swarms this Saturday, so please make sure that you visit the site on that day and participate, I appreciate it. Hey, when your money is based upon debt, your country is not free and that's the point of the Swarms…
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird:
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Understanding Derivatives – "The Sultans of Swaps…"
Gordon T. Long compiled a terrific article explaining the progression of derivatives and how they are not just in the hands of private companies, they are actually a part of SOVEREIGN risk. Below is a terrific Graph showing the progression of collapse up the chain:
Please read Long's article here: Sultans of Swap
While you're reading that, here is an audio discussion of the article that can help to shed some light on the subject: Interview with Muhammad Rafee discussing the international implications of Swaps
Damon Vrabel - Wall Street rules the American people…
Wall Street rules the American people:
Morning Update/ Market Thread 3/3
Equities are up once again this morning, below is a 60 minute chart of the DOW on the left and 5 minute view of the S&P on the right:
Both the dollar and bonds are down, oil and gold are higher with gold looking like it's broken out.
Overall domestic sales of light vehicles was down in January, coming in at 7.6 million, the consensus was 7.9 million and that was also the amount sold in December.
The insane and worse than worthless MBA Purchase Applications report came up off last week's record low reading. Of course we don't know exactly what that reading was or what it means, or really anything else about it, because all the MBA will report is percentage change of an index that they made up and change at their will, but people seem to be okay with that? Fools.
A drop in rates fed a burst in mortgage applications during the Feb. 26 week. The gain was centered in refinancing applications which rose 17.2 percent. Purchase applications rose 9.0 percent but the Mortgage Bankers Association, which compiles the data, describes purchase activity as "subdued" and still in the narrow range of the last few months. The average 30-year mortgage dropped 8 basis points to 4.95 percent with 15-year mortgages down 8 basis points to 4.27 percent. Pending home sales, which have been very weak, will be posted tomorrow at 10:00 ET.Note that it was NOT applications that rose, it was their index… 17.2% in a week? Riiiiggght… but that seems to the norm for these loons.
Both the Challenger and ADP job reports are out this morning. I take them both a many grains of salt. Of course the Employment Situation Report comes out on Friday and we already have the maniacal Larry Summers telling the media to discount it due to the weather. Larry never met a debt backed dollar he didn't like and he wouldn't recognize debt saturation if it bit him in the rear. At any rate, below is the Challenger report with Econoday spin:
HighlightsWell, let's see… the private sector has downsized massively, and guess who was picking up the slack? Government…
In a positive indication for Friday's jobs report, Challenger's count of layoff announcements fell to 42,090 in February for the lowest total since the economic strength of mid-2006. For comparison, the layoff count in January was 71,482 and was a chilling 186,350 in February last year. Layoffs in construction, a sector believed to have been hit hardest by the month's heavy weather, were minimal. The report believes employers have now shifted away from downsizing.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The U.S. Postal Service said on Tuesday that it would reduce its workforce by another 30,000 positions and slash overtime this year in an effort to reduce costs.Like getting your weekend Netflix on Saturday? Not any longer.
Together these staffing reductions will result in cost savings equivalent to eliminating 50,000 full-time positions, according to Chief Financial Officer Joseph Corbett.
Here's ADP's report:
HighlightsSo we get to ignore Larry Summer's ignore? I'm pretty sure I already had.
ADP is calling for a 20,000 decline in February private payrolls. The report said weather had only a minimal impact on its results but warns that weather is nevertheless likely to have an effect on the government's results. Equities firmed slightly in reaction to the report.
Republican Jim Bunning moved out of the way of extending Emergency Unemployment Compensation, stating that he wasn't against the benefits, only against funding them with more debt! Wow, what a concept, and I note that Bunning voted against TARP legislation as well. But there's our media and others shaming him for his actions. Here's a snippet from a CNN article:
"You have made your point ... [but] the majority of the Senate disagrees with you," Reid told Bunning. The need to extend unemployment benefits is "an emergency. ... Our economy is suffering. [There are] long lines of people out of work."Anyone remember the quote about people calling for their own monetary destruction? Seems like that's ringing a bell somewhere, just saying – it's a math thing, and yes, this is "only" 10 million dollars to last until April 5th, no biggie, just put it on the tab and we'll keep many thousands from standing up for themselves and for their country.
Reid called Bunning's legislative maneuvering "terribly inappropriate."
iReporter: Shame on you, Sen. Bunning
Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins sided with the Democratic leader, saying Bunning's views "do not represent the majority of the Republican caucus."
"Wild Man" Richard Fisher is calling for a breakup of the big banks – gaaasp! Now that's just heresy.
March 3 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher called for an international pact to break up banks whose collapse would threaten the financial system, a position that goes beyond other Fed officials.Now there's a man of the people, a future President right there.
"The disagreeable but sound thing to do" for firms regarded as "too big to fail" would be to "dismantle them over time into institutions that can be prudently managed and regulated across borders," Fisher said in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
The former fund manager said his views on the issue "may be slightly radical."
Turning to the markets, they are extremely overbought on the short term timeframes. The Trin has gone out at extreme levels the past two days, the put/call ration is way low especially on the NDX, and new 52 week highs have jumped back up to 360 with 0 new lows – all extreme readings.
The RUT did go on to make a new high yesterday, here's what McHugh thinks about that from his perspective, "If prices exceed the January 19th top in all major indices, it means Supercycle degree wave (B) from last March has further to go on the upside before completion. If one or two major averages exceed the January top, but several others fail to confirm, that would be very bearish for the stock market in general."
Guess we're going to find out.
McHugh also has a wave count that says yesterday's action may have been a wave 4 and that there is a wave 5 up coming, but he once again thinks this should be the final wave prior to a correction beginning. We'll see, we've been here before. Again, this market is similar to the way markets topped in '07, but it did take most of the year to play out. I don't think this will take too much longer, we're way over extended here and have already fallen away from that giant rising wedge.
Speaking of rising wedges, I was tracking one on the 5 minute time frame over the past few days, and it broke support yesterday, we are still beneath it:
Patience is a virtue, for sure, there are larger trendlines in play, I think it's most wise to wait for them to break.
These "casual" swarms we've started in the daily thread have been quite successful! With just a few of us making posts, we managed to double the traffic to the Swarm site the first day, and then we doubled it again the next, actually by vBulletin's count we quadrupled it! And we're picking up new registrants as well. Let's keep that up, we're planning on a Grand Opening Swarm for this Saturday, March 6th!
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Morning Update/ Market Thread 3/2
Equity futures are higher again this morning, below is a 60 minute chart of the DOW on the left and a 15 minute chart of the S&P on the right:
On both those charts you can see a rising wedge with an overthrow out of the top which is typical of rising wedges. The only problem with these wedges is that while they are clear in the futures, the wedge is not so clear in the indices themselves without the overnight trading, and thus my confidence in those being terminal patterns, as they normally are, is lower.
Both the dollar and bonds are lower, oil and gold are both higher.
The only economic data of the day are the silly Redbook and the Goldman ICSC. The ICSC was down .8% week over week, but up .7% yoy. Redbook is up 1.4% yoy, both are totally false readings as they do not account for store closings. This is why we turn to sales tax data which for state and local governments nationwide is now down about 5% year over year, even lower than the very bottom of the panic occurring one year ago.
First Greece is going to be bailed out, that's cause for markets going higher. Now they say that within just a few days they will announce measures to help get their fiscal imbalance back under control. Yeah, right! When your money is backed by debt, you can spend more and go deeper in debt, or you can cut back and watch as your economy contracts. Darned if you do, darned if you don't. Neither a bailout or austerity measures are the answer, yet those are the only options being considered.
The European Union needs a dose of Freedom's Vision, and they need it soon. The problem for Greece and individual EU countries is that they are now tied to the Euro which means that they are at the mercy of the central bankers who managed to place themselves in power. Their power is much more thorough and complete than the elected officials, they tell the elected officials what they are going to do and how they are going to behave. Same in the U.S.. We let our central bankers steal that power from us in 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed without a full Congress in session.
At any rate, the Euro is up on the non-news and just like yesterday and last week there is really no fundamental reason whatsoever for equity markets to be higher. But they are, and the Russell 2000 is even nearing its prior high, the Transports are not that far behind (that's a good one as they are being led by the airlines), and now the S&P and Industrials are both well over their 61.8% retrace levels.
So, if we don't turn down here, it seems likely that we get the RUT and maybe even the NDX onto new highs. There are a lot of similarities between the action today and the action near the '07 top. Then, as now, we had a large rising wedge that broke lower, and then prices crawled along the bottom boundary and even went onto new highs. Then, as now, there was the rotational trade game being played, remember? One week tech stocks were hot, then they would fade and commodities were hot, etc. The same thing today – Amazon and Apple are ramping for no apparent reason other than there's hot money chasing return. These are symptoms of a financial system out of control, and they are symptoms of topping action.
The VIX has fallen below last week's low and has pretty much invalidated that inverted weekly hammer – but the week's not over, so we'll have to see what the weekly candle looks like. It needs to turn around now or else it was not a meaningful candle.
The Supreme Court has decided to review a Second Amendment case regarding the Constitutionality of gun control limits as there is now in Chicago. That will be interesting.
The Emergency Unemployment extension is held up still, that too is going to be interesting. I'm sure the Central Bankers actually support printing more money to placate the masses, why not, it's just more debt from which they profit.
Kiss Saturday mail delivery goodbye, can't afford it, yet amazingly we can afford $400 Billion PLUS in interest payments to the central bankers and literally Trillions more to buy down interest rates.
Hey, buy stocks, your future depends upon it, LOL! No, I haven't turned into a Cramer like shill, it's just another bad joke, but I'll keep pushin 'till it's understood! There's trouble in the heartland, got a head-on collision, smashin in my guts man... Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings, and a king ain't satisfied till he rules everything.
Bruce Springsteen – Badlands:
Monday, March 1, 2010
The Media-Lobbying Complex - run amok...
The implications to America run far deeper and more harmful than most believe. It's a long article, so I'm just going to publish a link to it below:
The Media-Lobbying Complex
Be sure to catch The Slideshow of Faces…
A much shorter compilation was penned by Sherwood Ross. He hits most of the lowlights below (ht AZ):
Corporate Lobbyists and Public Relations Firms behind Cable News OutletsThis type of thing is just counter to the best interests of our country. No one is there to police it anymore because so many have been co-opted. The provisions within Freedom's Vision Political Reform would take care of most this.
Since 2007, at least 75 registered lobbyists, public relations representatives and corporate officials have appeared on cable news broadcasts "with no disclosure of the corporate interests that paid them," The Nation magazine (March 1) reveals.
Many of these people are "paid by companies and trade groups to manage their public image and promote their financial and political interests," writes the magazine's Sebastian Jones, a freelance reporter after a four-month-long probe.
"Many have been regulars on more than one of the cable networks, turning in dozens---and in some cases hundreds---of appearances," Jones reports.
For example, Tom Ridge, identified as the former governor of Pennsylvania, appeared on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews urging the White House to "create nuclear power plants." What viewers were not told, though, is that Ridge since 2005 has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for serving on the board of Exelon, the nation's biggest nuclear power company, Jones writes.
On the same day, last Dec. 4th, retired general Barry McCaffrey, told MSNBC viewers the war in Afghanistan would require a three-to-ten-year effort and "a lot of money." Unmentioned, Jones says, was the fact DynCorp paid McCaffrey $182,309 in 2009 alone and that DynCorp has a five-year, $5.9 billion deal to aid U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Jones describes MSNBC as "the cable network with the most egregious instances of airing guests with conflicts of interest." He notes, "Only on MSNBC was a prime-time program, Countdown, hosted by public relations operative Richard Wolffe and later by a pharmaceutical company consultant, former Governor Howard Dean, with no mention of the outside work either man was engaged in. And MSNBC has yet to introduce DynCorp's Barry McCaffrey as anything but a 'military analyst.'"
Moreover, last January 22nd, MSNBC's Morning Joe audience saw Mark Penn, identified only as a Clinton administration pollster, suggest the Obama administration put healthcare reform on ice. Unmentioned, says Jones, was "Penn's role as worldwide CEO of Burson-Marsteller, which has an entire healthcare division devoted to helping clients like Eli Lilly and Pfizer 'create and manage perceptions that deliver positive business results.'"
Jones reports that what transpires on MSNBC also occurs on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN and CNBC. These outlets "eager to fill time and afraid of upsetting the political elite, have often looked the other way (and)at times...have even disregrded their own written ethics guidelines." MSNBC may be the most flagrant example of deception but the other networks do not appear far behind.
During a Sept. 18, 2008, Fox News appearance to discuss Sarah Palin, Bernard Whitman, president of Whitman Insight Strategies---whose clients include marketing/PR firms like Ogilvy & Mather---lambasted Sen. John McCain for proposing to "Let AIG fail," saying his position demonstrated "just how little he understands the global economy today." Whitman's "ongoing work" for AIG was not mentioned!
"When there's a whole host of pundits on the airwaves touting the same agenda at the same time, you get a cumulative effect that shapes public opinion toward their agenda," Janine Wedel, an anthropologist at George Mason University told Jones. Another academic, Jay Rosen, journalism professor at New York University, said, "More disclosure is good---I'm certainly in favor of that---but why are these people on at all?"
That's a very good question. MSNBC, Fox, and the others guilty of deceptive journalism owe their viewers an apology. Such broadcasts are neither fair nor balanced. They are deceptive, slanted, and contrary to the public interest. The cable broadcasters need to pledge to their viewers to reveal the hidden corporate agendas of their guests. Until that time, viewers can always turn them off.
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Economic Reality Check…
Many people get all wrapped around the axle about debt to GDP statistics. This is a complete Red Herring as comparing our Federal Government's debt to the productivity of the nation is exactly the same as comparing your personal debt to the productivity of your neighborhood. They are unrelated.
What is completely related and totally relevant is DEBT to INCOME. In fact, in regards to debt, income is the only thing that really matters. Our Nation's Income is crashing as shown in this chart expressed in year over year (yoy) change in Billions of dollars:
Our Current Government Receipts rose to approximately $2.5 Trillion and has collapsed to less than $2.2 Trillion, again expressed here in yoy change in Billions:
At the same time that our receipts are falling, our Federal Net Outlays are in an exponential growth phase, spiraling up in a now very out-of-control fashion. This is THE most important chart of the modern era! When this chart begins to roll over, and it will, it will mark the end of the last leg of support for our debt crippled economy:
The combination of rising outlays and falling receipts produces a negative Government Savings rate, clearly not sustainable but on an accelerating downward plummet into the depths of nation changing events that are right on the nearby horizon:
You are being told that the economy is improving, the only "improvement" is the amount being spent by the government. Take a look at the Consumption of Fixed Capital, one of the components of GNP:
Sales are up, REALLY? Below is a chart of Real Final Sales of Domestic Products yoy in Billions. Not only is it not positive, but it is still crashing:
The tell in regards to sales is in the tax collected on sales. State and Local Government Sales Taxes are now down about 5% on a year over year basis:
Here's the same chart expressed in yoy change in Billions of dollars – no change of path, not even a wiggle or a waiver:
How about Imports and Exports? Aren't we being told that they are increasing again? Absolutely not the case, again, nothing but collapse. Take a look at Exports of Goods and Services expressed in yoy change in Billions:
Now take a look at the yoy change in Real Imports of Goods and Services:
Historic collapse, take a look at the magnitude of the collapse and how far back those charts go in time. You can talk up the "recovery" all you want, you can call it a "recession" all you want, but lip service does not change what is occurring on those charts and to our debt saturated economy.
We let the Central Bankers take over our money supply and we let them back all our money with debt at their benefit and at our expense. It is time to change that equation around!
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Morning Update/ Market Thread 3/1
Equity futures are mostly flat to slightly higher for your central planned Monday ramp job. The roller coaster will be departing momentarily, please ensure that your life's savings are securely fastened, and please note that an air sickness bag has been provided for your convenience and for the comfort of those seated next to you. Have a good trip.
Below you will see a 60 minute chart of the DOW on the left and a 5 minute overnight view of the S&P futures on the right:
The dollar, meantime, has gone for a vertical rocket-shot, and bonds are rising. I would like to point out that last week was quite unusual as both bonds and stocks were up. When this condition occurs, it is usually the bond market that is correct – watch this relationship, I'll bet there is some catch up coming shortly. The Euro is down hard this morning. Oil is up slightly and gold is down slightly.
Personal Incomes & Outlays, were reported as follows according to Econoday:
HighlightsThe Manufacturing ISM and Construction Spending come out at 10 Eastern. The largest economic report of the week is the February Employment situation that is released on Friday.
Wages & salaries were strong in January, up 0.4 percent but were not strong enough to offset a reversal in last month's jump in farm income to make for a lower-than-expected 0.1 percent increase in personal income.
The spending side is also mixed. A 0.5 percent rise for personal consumption is stronger than expected but, given a 1.8 percent surge in non-durable goods, looks to have been boosted by gasoline. Spending on durable goods rose only 0.1 percent with spending on services up a moderate 0.2 percent.
Price readings are flat with core PCE up only 1.4 percent year-on-year, while the savings rate, drawn down by spending, fell 9 tenths to 3.3 percent. Equities got a slight lift on today's report, one highlighted by strong wages.
Speaking of unemployment, did everyone see that the emergency unemployment benefits failed to get extended and that as of today there are now 1.2 million people who instantly fell off the unemployment rolls? They can still vote to reinstate them, but as of now those people are losing the only income they have.
Today is a Bradley Model turn date and it is at the backside of the window of McHugh's turn dates as well. Friday's action produced yet another small change in the McClelland Oscillator, this is another phenomena that is occurring at a high rate and I believe it's related to the Monday ramp job. Prices try to move lower on Friday, but the market is supported and late day buyers come in trying to get in front of Monday's ramp. That back and forth movement produces the small readings. Now we can expect today or tomorrow to be a large directional move.
I want to go over a few charts today as I didn't get a chance to go over them for the weekend – I see some things of interest mainly in the weekly charts. In general, the markets are back to being overbought on the daily time frame – we left Friday with the short term oscillators in the middle of their ranges.
Since it has been almost 1 year since the March bottom of '09, below is a chart of the DOW showing the very large rising wedge that is broken (prices generally fall at least to the base of rising wedges). You can also see generally decreasing volume, this is a pattern that is divergent against rising prices and is the largest divergence in modern history, by far:
Next is a WEEKLY chart of the DOW. Note the red hammer on rising volume. That hammer is a potential reversal indicator, but because it is inside of the previous candle, the odds of it being valid are less. Almost all of the indices produced a similar candle:
NDX weekly hammer, partially outside:
SPX weekly hammer:
Now here's the one that is most interesting to me. It is the VIX, which produced an inverted outside weekly hammer:
Here is a two year view. There are two similar candles to this one, one in August of last year that was not meaningful, and one in August of '08 and just look at what followed that reversal indication – I'm just observing. If you go back in time further, you will find that nearly all inverted hammers on the VIX produce upward reversals that result in downward moves in equities. The one last August is a rare exception:
McHugh has some short term patterns that say we have one more wave higher, likely at the beginning of the week, then we move lower. This looks reasonable, but we need to see lower on the week to validate the hammers. There is something brewing in Europe with our dollar rocketing higher and the Euro falling. There is also something brewing with bonds disconnected from equities – the bond market players are smarter than the equity players. Bonds bounced perfectly off long term support. Money cannot continue to flow both into bonds and equities for very long – one or the other will give.
Below is a link to a CNN article on DEBT. This is a perfect example of where Swarm members and supporters of Freedom's Vision can make a difference by going and placing information about the fact that there is a solution that can work as I did this morning. Please take the time to make a remark and place a link to www.SwarmUSA.com in the remarks, thank you!
America's hidden debt bombs
Just remember that the pushers of debt are actually WORSE than the pushers of drugs. They cause more damage and reap more havoc across more people's lives than drugs ever could. Beware the Pusher Man:
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Revision history for Perl extension Mail::Sender.
I am sorry I did not keep track of the changes :-(
Version 0.4 :
I added several methods for most common tasks.
MailMsg : Send a string as a mail by single call
MailFile : The same plus attached files
SendFile : Insert a file as a part of a multipart message
Send(Line)Enc : Automatic encoding (Base64,Quoted-Printable)
Version 0.5 :
Cancel : cancel an Opened message.
$sender->{'error'} : last error for this object.
@Errors : a list of error messages.
Several minor fixes.
Version 0.6 :
fixed problems with Base64 encoding. Files are now read, encoded and
sent in parts instead of whole at once. You may call SendEnc several
times in one part now.
Version 0.6.6 : Added support for CC: and BCC:.
Version 0.6.9b : 7/19/1999 - BETA
Open(), MailMsg and MailFile accept ctype, and encoding parameters.
You have more options in Part() and Body(). It's possible to send HTML
mails with inlined images easily now.
Error -5 (Unspecified communication error) now includes the actual
error returned by the mail server.
Some more examples in the docs.
Mail::Sender now tries to guess the content type for attached files.
You may now create not only multipart/mixed but also multipart/related
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Version 0.7.00
Mail/Sender.config file may be used to set up default options for
new Mail::Sender. You may install a function that gets called for every
Version 0.7.01 - 12/9/1999
bugfix (qmail would not accept attachments)
Version 0.7.02 - 8/1/19100
Don't tell me I'm stuuupid, I know it. Ever tried to send en email
with a line consisting of only a single dot?
Version 0.7.03 - 14/1/19100
Don't tell me I'm stuuupid, I know it. As Jan Starzynski <email@example.com>
pointed out it ate the last character on each line in SendEx() (Used in SendFile)
under Unix. Oh well :-(
Version 0.7.04 - 8/1/19100
A fix only in the configuration script because of some unimportant
problems with PPM instalation. No change to the module itself.
Version 0.7.05 - 25/1/19100
Added fake_from, fake_to and fake_cc options to
This allows you to send a message to a list of people, while including
only the list name/address in the headers. The fake_... may be whatever
text you like, doesn't need to look like an address.
Version 0.7.06
Version 0.7.07 - 4/4/2001
Fixed a stupid bug related to multipart messages (have you ever used one hash item
for two different purposes? I AM that stupid!)
Version 0.7.08 - 4/10/2001
doc fix
Version 0.7.09 - 6/28/2001
minor fixes
Version 0.7.10
minor instalation related fixes
Version 0.7.11
not public, beta only
Version 0.7.12 - 2/18/2002
added debuging output
The problem with multiline responses from some SMTP servers (namely qmail) is solved.
Version 0.7.13 - 3/13/2002
made compatible with Perl 5.004 again (sorry I don't have 5.004 at hand
and noone reported the problems before releasing 0.7.12 to general
Improved compatibility with some BSD versions (using sockaddr_in() instead of pack())
Version 0.7.13.1 - 3/17/2002
very small and very important fix.
Don't tell me I'm stupid. I know it.
Pleae don't use 0.7.12 and 0.7.13
Version 0.7.13.2-5
internal only, BETA versions. Please do not use.
Version 0.7.14 - 6/6/2002
added ESMTP authentication (LOGIN, PLAIN, CRAM-MD5)
docs tuneup
various small fixes
Version 0.8.00
Version 0.8.01
internal only, please do not use
fixed problems with PerlIO and ascii-mode sockets under windows with Perl 5.8
Version 0.8.03 - 12/29/2002
- added NTLM authentication
- send_cmd (internal function for sending commands to the server) checks for
broken connections
- reverted the server response tests
(instead of /^[45]/ (server reported an error)
I use now !/^[123]/ (server reported success) )
- some documentation fixes and additions
Version 0.8.04 - 01/08/2003
- fixed typo causing the "Unknown PerlIO layer 'raw:perlio' at .../Mail/Sender.pm line 21"
- fixed incorrect handling of halfhour timezones
Version 0.8.05 - 03/01/2003
- new Mail::Sender ({..., die_on_errors => 1});
Version 0.8.06 - 03/24/2003
- new Mail::Sender ({..., on_errors => 'die'});
- new Mail::Sender ({..., on_errors => 'undef'});
- new Mail::Sender ({..., on_errors => 'code'});
- A small fix for an issue with nested parts on the courier-imap server (whatever it is).
Version 0.8.08
- fixed an error in SendEx() causing problems with qmail
(thanks to report&help from "Luciano Bueno " <email@example.com>)
- added debugging levels
- added an option that tells Mail::Sender to ignore rejected recipients
- you can now overwrite the message-id generation function
- added two addins improving the content type guesswork
- added TestServer method/function
- improved handling of the last newline in quoted-printable encoded parts
(the Outlook problem with = appearing at the end of attached files)
Version 0.8.09
- private
Version 0.8.10
- use
in preference to
(gethostbyname 'localhost')[0]
as the local name if none is specified by the user
- fixed half-hour timezone handling
- fixed
to => [list, of, addresses]
- fixed "incorrect server name" handling (previous versions did not
report the problem correctly in all cases
- untaining the IP address of the SMTP server in all cases
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Joe and Kathy Winter have been creating art in the Winter Art Studio in their converted carriage house in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, PA for 30 years. Their commissions include work in bronze, aluminum, terra-cotta, wood, stone and fiberglass, and stained glass.
They are both graduates of the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Joe, a sculptor, has done several commissions for the City of Philadelphia, The most well-known may be The Family of Bears in Three Bear Park Delancey St., Phila., PA. He has done many portrait commissions, liturgical sculpture for local churches, and medallic sculpture for the United States Mint and numerous private Mints. Kathy is a painter, specializing in portraiture, but enjoying other subjects; landscapes, flowers, still life in oil, pastel and water color. She designed the stained glass windows for the chapel at Shore Memorial Hospital, Somers Point, NJ.


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Bhagowalia has headed IT in multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Sanjeev "Sonny" Bhagowalia has been named Hawaii's first full-time CIO by Gov. Neil Abercrombie. Bhagowalia currently serves as deputy associate administrator with the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, a department of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
Bhagowalia will begin his new post July 7 and will head Hawaii's recently established Office of Information Management and Technology (OIMT).
"Sonny brings a background in technology and management coupled with more than 25 years of experience in senior government and private-sector positions," Abercrombie said in a statement. "I'm confident he will lead us into a new era of efficiency and service-oriented government."
Bhagowalia previously served as CIO for multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education. Last year he began working on innovative technologies for the GSA. The new Hawaii CIO also has 14 years of experience in the private sector, having worked as chief engineer/manager at Boeing Information Services, a subsidiary of Boeing, in the areas of system integration and business development for a variety of U.S. government civilian, defense and intelligence clients.
Bhagowalia will report to the governor and work with state agencies to help modernize Hawaii's technology infrastructure. OIMT has started an assessment of the state's technology, which the new CIO will use to construct a plan to revitalize Hawaii's IT services.
"I look forward to collaborating with the many people who are already working hard to improve public services and create a more efficient government," Bhagowalia said in a statement. "My experience has trained me to see information and possibility in everything, and I'm eager to discover what opportunities lie ahead for Hawaii."
The Hawaii CIO position and OIMT are being funded through appropriations and a $3 million grant from the Hawaii Community Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting quality of life improvements in the state. According to the Hawaii Reporter, a long-term funding source will be part of a budget plan that will be developed and presented to the Hawaii Legislature in 2012.


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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Here's a sight you don't see very often these days.
Sharp-eyed reader Cameron took these shots for us. Here's what he has to say:
Spotted this survivor T6-body 356B in Eagle Rock. Original paint, Black license plates, sixties era band stickers — I couldn't get a look at the mileage, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is a one-owner car. Enjoy!!
Check out the 356 Spotters Guide at the 356 Registry — it might make a fun game "What year is this Porsche and why?" Answer: Drum brakes!! It has drum brakes and T-6 356C's have disks. It took me about an hour to figure that out. Enjoy!!


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With the great global surge of mobile gadget use has come a tsunami of cell phone garbage, the United Nations warned on Monday—especially in India and China. And that's on top of tidal waves of computer, video receiver, and kitchen electronics junk skewing about the planet in all the wrong places. All in all, global e-waste is growing by 40 million tons a year, a study by the UN's Environmental Programme concludes.
The UNEP will soon meet in Bali, Indonesia to further consider the problem, and it is huge. Consumers bought almost 900 million mobile phones in 2006 and over a billion in 2007, UNEP estimates. A big percentage of those devices are just thrown in the trash, or given to local collectors who extract precious metals from them in environmentally hazardous ways. The study predicts that by 2020, the amount of e-waste from dumped mobiles in China will be about seven times larger than it was in 2007, and in India 18 times higher. At present, India alone produces about 1,700 tons of e-waste from mobiles, Columbia about 1,200 tons, and Kenya another 150 tons.
The United States is the big winner when it comes to e-waste: 3 million tons a year all told, followed by China's 2.3 million. But, "despite having banned e-waste imports, China remains a major e-waste dumping ground for developed countries," the report notes.
All that junk doesn't just come from mobiles. By 2020, e-waste in South Africa and China from old computers will have leapt to as much as 400 percent of its 2007 levels, and by 500 percent in India. In China and India, the piles of dumped TV sets will be 1.5 to two times taller, while the mountains of old refrigerators could reach three times their present altitude, the report warns.
And don't get the UN started about old printers, pagers, digital cameras, music players, and laptops. "This report gives new urgency to establishing ambitious, formal and regulated processes for collecting and managing e-waste via the setting up of large, efficient facilities in China," declared UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner. Everywhere else too, he added. Much of the developing world faces "rising environmental damage and health problems if e-waste recycling is left to the vagaries of the informal sector."
In and out
There are two big problems with the production and discarding of all this electronic stuff, the survey says. A huge quantity of precious metals must be dug out of the earth to manufacture these things. Mobile phone and PC making gobbles up three percent of all the world's gold and silver available each year, not to mention 13 percent of all palladium, 15 percent of cobalt, and plenty of copper, steel, nickel, and aluminum as well. These spew tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
In developing countries, much of this e-waste is mined yet again by "backyard recyclers" who take apart the discarded devices for their tiny quantities of gold and other precious metals, a practice that releases "steady plumes of far-reaching toxic pollution," but recovers very little value compared to more efficient and modern industrial recycling plants.
The challenge for the world is to collect all this e-waste and get it to more modern recycling facilities, the UN says. The report is particularly critical of China for its slowness in dealing with the problem. "The consumers in China have low awareness about the pollution from the informal e-waste recycling," it concludes. "They tend to sell their end-of-life (EOL) equipment to the informal collectors for positive earnings. This habit will cost the future formal collection system and how much waste equipment formal collectors could receive from the consumers."
The "future formal collection system" that the UN recommends doesn't necessarily mean completely replacing current collection networks or importing high tech equipment from elsewhere. The survey notes that these networks are efficient in the sense that daily collectors have strong ties to their communities. "Moreover, deep-level manual dismantling in formal or informal environments is preferred over semiautomatic processes due to the abundant workforce and low labour costs."
But many of the informal methods of extraction being used, such as wet-chemical leaching, pose serious environmental hazards. So the next step is to set up "e-waste management centers of excellence" around the developing world, by building on existing organizations and systems. "One person's waste can be another's raw material," optimistically noted UN Under-Secretary General Konrad Osterwalder. "The challenge of dealing with e-waste represents an important step in the transition to a green economy."


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If you have a MacBook Air, or any ultraportable computer that doesn't have a built-in optical drive, the Samsung Portable DVD Writer SE-218BB will make a handy accessory. This is arguably the thinnest and most compact portable bus-powered DVD writer on the market. And at a street price of around $40, it's almost half the price of the SuperDrive accessory for the Air.
The SE-218BB drive is bus-powered, meaning it uses a single USB cable (included) for both power and data. The only shortcoming, if any, the Samsung SE-218BB has compared with Apple's SuperDrive is the fact that the drive comes in black and with a pull-out tray, instead of a slot-loading design.
That said, for those who need an portable, handy external DVD burner and reader, the SE-218BB would be an excellent buy.
Design and features
Measuring 5.8 inches by .6 inch by 5.6 inches, the Samsung SE-218BB is about as thin as a pull-out-tray optical drive can be, and is much thinner than any others I've seen. While it's generally cooler and more convenient to have a drive with a slot-load design, the pull-out tray guarantees that the drive also supports mini CD and DVD disks.
You press a button on the front of the SE-218BB to eject the drive tray, then pull the tray farther out to load a optical disc on it. The eject button only works when the drive is plugged in and powered up. If you want to take out the disk while the drive is unplugged, you'll need to use a paper clip on its manual eject hole under the eject button.
On the back of the drive is a Mini-USB 2.0 port. To use the drive, plug into a computer using the included Mini-USB cable, and that's all you need. There's no other power port or separate power adapter.
Despite its plastic chassis, the optical drive feels solid, looks good, and seems high-end. The drive also seems able to handle somewhat rough environments, making it well-suited for travelers.


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A new upcoming model kit line by Volks. Made to be compatible with VLockers line of mecha kits which has been going on for quite a while, similar to Frame Arms Girl. Yay for more competition:D!
Here is some pictures from Wonfes. What do you think^^?
Source: http://www.nekomagic.com/?p=59562
Volks' Nexate Fiore
For discussion of all the other girl+mecha lines that have cropped up since Shinki began: Frame Arms: Girls, Megami Device, Armor Girls Project, Desktop Army, etc. This includes kinda-sortas like Daibadi's Polynian and things like Strike Witches and Fumikane's original Mecha Musume.
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I'm not sure how much practical competition they are, given volks isn't selling them anywhere but on their own site. They are, however, probably going to be sold directly through their NA store, as well, so... easy to get.
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UTD's Cecil Lecture Series To Feature Speaker On Medicine and Health Care Costs
The Andrew R. Cecil Lecture Series continues at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) next with a talk about the at-times competing tensions between medical progress and health care costs.
For the lecture, Dr. Daniel Callahan, director of international programs at The Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, will speak about "Medical Progress and Health Care Costs: A Clash of Values" on Monday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m., also at UTD's Conference Center Auditorium. Callahan's lecture will raise fundamental ethical questions about the nature of medical progress and what is good for society. Callahan will be present at a reception immediately following the talk.
Callahan is co-founder of The Hastings Center, the oldest independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute of its kind in the world. The Hastings Center addresses fundamental ethical issues in the areas of heath, medicine and the environment as they affect individuals, communities and societies.
Callahan currently serves as the center's director of international programs. He previously served as the organization's director and president from 1969 to 1996. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine within the National Academy of Sciences and is member of the Director's Advisory Committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he also is a member of its ethics committee. Most recently, Callahan served as an advisor to President George W. Bush on the topic of stem cell research. Dr. Callahan holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University and a B.A. from Yale University.
About the Andrew R. Cecil Lecture Series
In 1979, The University of Texas at Dallas established the lecture series in collaboration with Dr. Andrew R. Cecil, a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at UTD. Cecil delivered the first lecture in November 1979 and spoke in each subsequent series until his death in 1996.
The lectures are a reflection of the interests of Cecil, including his moral reasoning, philosophical principles, commitment to justice and freedom, love for education, search for political and religious reasoning and quest for a better understanding of universal ethical values.
In the 22 years since Cecil's first lecture, UTD has invited to its campus scholars, business professionals, public officials and other notable individuals to share their ideas about themes related to those subjects with the academic community and the general public.
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The University of Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of Richardson, Plano and Dallas in the heart of the complex of major multinational technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor, enrolls more than 7,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students. The school's freshman class traditionally stands at the forefront of Texas state universities in terms of average SAT scores. The university offers a broad assortment of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs. For additional information about UTD, please visit the university's Web site at www.utdallas.edu.
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I just got back from the Burnaby Velodrome where the Symmetrics Team of Svein Tuft, Zach Bell, Cam Evans and Christian Meier did their first ever full-on team pursuit. Although the guys have been training hard up til now, today was the first time the 4 riders loaded on the good wheels and went to full pressure in the tires. This was Zach's first time in the formation as well.
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Tonight at sundown Hanukkah begins, which means a whole lot of latkes will be fried in the next week. Ed hosted his latke-frying party for family last weekend (right after Thanksgiving, now that's impressive). The sizzling oil represents the oil used to light the menorah. Fried food lovers: this is your favorite Jewish holiday. Just beware of your hair and coats—they might be latke-scented for a bit.
This year we featured Hanukkah recipes from Olga Massov of the blog Sassy Radish. Here is a roundup of our favorites, including some non-deep-fried foods like brisket and homemade chocolate gelt.
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Lawyers for the man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy are going back to court.
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A judge closed recent hearings, though documents related to some of them were unsealed in February. The records show that government prosecutors asked to seal a Dec. 18 hearing to talk about information they learned about after Guandique was sentenced. They also show defense attorneys believe the information calls into question the testimony of a witness and that they plan to ask for a new trial.
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