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August 14, 2008
Keith Olbermann calls out Rush Limbaugh for saying why he thinks John Edwards cheated on Elizabeth.
I'm not defending Rush for stooping to this level (and I'd guess that he isn't particularly proud of his work in that segment). But Olbermann's comprehension falls short. I agree with him that Rush seems to be saying: 1. Men aren't sexually attracted to women who are smarter than they are, 2. Smart women are always telling men what to do instead of catering to their sexual needs, and 3. Elizabeth Edwards, being a smart woman, may have driven John Edwards into the arms — crudely, into the mouth — of Rielle Hunter.
But Olbermann is wrong to spin this as hypocrisy, a charge he premises on the notion that Rush is a big Puritan who expects others to meet standards of virtue that he ignores. Olbermann cites Rush's 3 failed marriages and problems with drug abuse. I don't think Rush ever promotes himself as particularly virtuous on sexual matters. (See this old post where I call him "a shameless sybarite.") The issue of drugs is irrelevant to Edwards's case, but in the time I've been listening to Rush (since January 2008), he's always been modest and self-aware with respect to his drug problems. But on sexual matters, he tends to be worldly. He frequently says he doesn't want to be married and implies that he's enjoying himself.
What I hear in the clip Olbermann has presented is a man's understanding of another man. Rush means to say something very crude, and he makes comedy out of holding it back and then blurting out just enough that we get the picture: A man needs a woman's mouth for sex. Rush's comic riffs often involve him telling us what other people must be thinking. His best work comes in this form, but this example is not his best work. His best work usually has him voicing imagined thoughts that he does not agree with — the thinking of liberals and leftists. But this one is a case of sympathy. He purports to know why men cheat on their wives, and he may be speaking from experience. So Olbermann's hypocrisy theme is just wrong.
Olbermann is probably assuming that all conservatives are alike, and since some of them profess strong sexual morality, all of them do. That's as wrong as thinking that all liberals are sexual libertines.
It's also absurd that Olbermann taunts Limbaugh for only being on the radio and not on TV. Obviously, Rush's ratings are much higher than Olbermann's, and he's had far, far more influence.
Interestingly, the clip shows why Rush belongs on the radio. And I'm not saying that because he's fat, which he is, and he knows it. He belongs on the radio because to produce his very expressive vocal stylings he throws his whole body into it. He flails his arms and jerks his shoulders like a ham Shakespearean actor. The voice possesses the body. You don't want to see that. You only want to hear the results of it. This is fine, since he's not terribly physically attractive anyway. He's a great voice. That's radio. By contrast, Olbermann belongs on TV. He looks right for that part, and he maintains physical decorum while producing a good, expressive voice.
Olbermann announces at the beginning of the segment that he's going to demonstrate that Limbaugh has turned Edwards into "a victim." He never proves that point. Elizabeth Edwards is a victim — of disease and a cheating husband — and that makes it quite unpleasant to blame her for Edwards's actions (which Rush does). But how does that make Edwards a victim? I think it makes Edwards even more disgusting to have Rush saying, I know why you must have felt like cheating on her.
Now, maybe Rush is a big step ahead of me, and he wasn't just blurting out a theory of why Edwards cheated on Elizabeth. There's not much to the idea that a man wanted more sex than he was getting at home — or a different kind. And the idea that a woman should stop talking so much and give a man oral sex is such low humor that it's hard to see why he didn't discard it. Maybe what Rush was really doing was trying to hurt Edwards with Rush's sympathy. After all, Edwards's supporters hate Rush. To portray him as the sort of guy who thinks like Rush is to hurt him.
49 comments:
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
Olberman must not have gotten the memo of how Ms. Hunter pronounces her first name.
- bleeper said...
In a previous Edwards series of comments someone was bent out of shape by a comment that Elizabeth Edwards was fat. Look at the clip, she was.
As for Rush, I listened for a while, but I don't any longer. If I agree with him, then why listen to hours of ads and self promotion for a few minutes of things I know already. If I disagree with him, then why listen to him at all? So now I listen to a sports talk show - much better.
As for Olbermann, all I can say is who the hell is he? Have never seen his show, never will.
Rush had a television show years ago - it was not a good show and it went off the air. Maybe soon we will be able to say that about Olbermann.
- AllenS said...
What you just explained, while complicated, I believe is correct.
- Meade said...
"Maybe what Rush was really doing was trying to hurt Edwards with Rush's sympathy. After all, Edwards's supporters hate Rush. To portray him as the sort of guy who thinks like Rush is to hurt him."
Wow! You'd make a good trial lawyer. You know that?
- michaele said...
Rush initially danced around going full bore into completing his version of "a little less talk and a little more action". Then right before he went on a commercial break, he indulged himself. Definitely not his best braodcasting moment because more subtle innuendo was actually more effective that crude proclamation. He was the lesser because of it.
- kjbe said...
They're both blowhards. Why should I waste my time?
- Spread Eagle said...
Part of what Limbaugh is saying is that in all ways other than having been stricken with cancer, Elizabeth is no victim.
- Ann Althouse said...
"If I agree with him, then why listen to hours of ads and self promotion for a few minutes of things I know already. If I disagree with him, then why listen to him at all?"
I can't take the ads, which is why I subscribe to the website and listen later in the day to the podcast.
And I listen not because I agree or disagree, but because it's well-done and very amusing. I like hearing the news processed into comedy with a strong point of view. I like "The Daily Show" too.
- ricpic said...
Rush has good humor; Olbermann has none: that explains Rush's tremendous following and the genuine love millions have for him. Not that alone, of course. There is a largeness about Rush in intellect and in heart that is simply incomprehensible to spite filled Keith. How ironic that tight ass Olbermann calls life loving Limbaugh a puritan.
And yes, Rush is large in the obvious sense too. Har har har.
- MadisonMan said...
I wonder if the ad-buyers on his show get some discount based on how many people download the podcast precisely to avoid the ads on the show.
Rush is not my type of humor -- he often seems mean to me -- but I agree that he is very good at what he does. Olbermann too often comes off like an insufferable pain in the ass.
- Unknown said...
Olbermann has never let good reasoning get in the way of going after someone he targets. It would be easy, and maybe correct, to believe he is jealous of people like Rush and O'Reilly who are far more successful than he is.
But I tend to feel he is just a massive ego combined with a fear of being viewed as failure so he has sought to become a popular figure among those who hate the people he targets.
However badly stated, I would think Rush was presenting an "excuse" for Edwards as a way of making him look worse.
- Wayne said...
The radio station plays a short clip from the previous day's Rush show while I'm driving to work. In this morning's clip, he was talking about how John Edwards must feel like he's been treated poorly, since the last Presidential candidate with great hair, and who had affairs got elected, rather than being thrown under the bus of another candidate.
Based on that, I would say Rush was actually comparing Edwards to Bill Clinton in the clip here - the references to "smart women" being a backhanded reference to Hillary being described at some point as "The smartest woman in the world", and then, of course, references to finding a woman who could do more with her mouth than just talk being a reference to Clinton's affair with Monica.
- Unknown said...
Olbermann is the rabid attack dog of yelow journalism. He is like the little boy who shakes his fist in the mirror and yells I hate you, I hate you.
Why anyone takes him seriously is beyond me. He does the same thing he blames Rush for; creating victims out of sinners. It is alright, I guess, when he gets his puritanic streak up and goes after people he does not like. God forbid another does the same to people he admires.
Olbermann was a lousy sports caster; his only sprots experience was collecting baseball cards. he is a lousy pundit. He is a horrible human being; if one could call him human.
- Host with the Most said...
Had a passing aquaintance with Olbermann when he was doing the news out here in LA. We had friends in common and we shared lunch a couple of times at Phillipe's in downtown LA (the original French Dip Sandwich place - sorry you didn't get to it Ann when you were in LA). He didn't seem "political" at the time. Intelligent, yes, but he mostly impressed me each time as someone who is just basically unhappy. Not cynical so much as just kind of sad with his life.
- Swifty Quick said...
I listen not because I agree or disagree, but because it's well-done and very amusing.
I've been listening to Rush off and on since his show began 20 years ago. The off times mainly because it hasn't always been easy time-wise, what with work commitments. And you are exactly right about the reasons to listen to him: because he is very good, extraordinarily good, at what he does, and he is very entertaining.
There has however been a time or two when I thought he was out of line. Not this time in the way Olbermann describes, but other times in the distant past. Back in the 90s one of the things Rush went off on was the over-diagnosis of ADD and ADHD amongst schoolchildren, particularly boys. The fad diseases de jour, which he went so far as to wonder whether they really existed at all. He would've been okay if he had stopped there. Many people hold these opinions and there is some currency in that line of thinking. But he didn't stop there. He went on to talk about "the little school buses," ridiculing them, having great fun at their expense. It wasn't just once. He went on and on about it, getting a good laugh out of it. Limbaugh has made a point of saying many times over the years that he doesn't have kids and he knows nothing about raising kids, so with that in mind it was painful. He has never spent time at his kid's elementary school, watching those little buses load and unload, seeing up close the kids who ride them, let alone volunteering any time in the classroom or in other school activities, having direct contact with the kids who ride the little school buses. Many of his fans, conservative people, mothers of kids who ride the little school buses, called in to try to tell him how wrong and out of line he was, that there are real kids with real disabilities who ride these buses, but he wouldn't back down, and he never did, and he never apologized that I know. He never made these jokes again though either, and never brought up the little school buses again. So that seems indicative of something. Limbaugh is brilliant, but he lost a little luster for me with all that. This was a long time ago. I haven't really heard him make this kind of wrong-headed misjudgment very often, and not again.
- Hoosier Daddy said...
But Olbermann is wrong to spin this as hypocrisy, a charge he premises on the notion that Rush is a big Puritan who expects others to meet standards of virtue that he ignores.
Rush isn't and has never portrayed himself as a Puritan. Olberman does his usual frothing at the mouth and thinks because someone calls themselves conservative that somehow we're all out to paint scarlet letters on sluts bosums.
Keith needs to go back to sports commentary since he constantly shows his ass anytime he talks about politics.
- Stacy McMahon said...
Have to say I disagree that "smart women are always telling men what to do". Smart women have opinions and [mostly dumber] men may not like that, but in my experience it's usually the dumber folks - male or female - who are the most controlling. I suspect it's because they're afraid the person with the plan is as dumb as they are, and they don't want to be on the bus when it goes off the cliff. Smart people know how and when to get off the bus.
- Unknown said...
Wayne-- I think you are exactly right.
- rhhardin said...
I think Rush is just motivated by talking about women, and what seems to him the usual problem in problem marriages.
He's pretty often mentioning nagging, too. Hillary ``sounds like my first wife.''
Nothing about you is right, when you have a wife, in his opinion; a situation he vows to avoid now.
So he's talking about marriages, not smart women really.
Smart women might tend to nag more, might be his guess, but it doesn't depend on it.
It's not necessarily oral sex that he means, by the way. An ordinary kiss of satisfaction would be better. Shown satisfaction is the anti-nag.
Nagging is a reduction of sending on quests; where shown satisfaction is never offered, is all.
Guys like the quests, but not the absence of shown satisfaction.
My intuition when a man is found cheating is that there's a reason for it. It really isn't common that men stray from a wife that shows her satisfaction with him to him as a matter of course.
Part of the ``anybody's body parts will do'' inclination of men is that the wife will do fine against the hottest babe in the world, provided she's not nagging.
So a good guess when a marriage breaks up is that there's nagging.
Which is what Rush said. He mixed in the story line that Elizabeth is very smart, like the story line that Hillary is very smart, as something of a mistake, in my opinion.
- Unknown said...
bleeper said...
As for Olbermann, all I can say is who the hell is he? Have never seen his show, never will.
You're not missing anything. It is like watching someone beat themselves up.
- Melinda said...
Many of his fans, conservative people, mothers of kids who ride the little school buses, called in to try to tell him how wrong and out of line he was, that there are real kids with real disabilities who ride these buses, but he wouldn't back down, and he never did, and he never apologized that I know.
That was a tad "Savage" of Rush.
but in my experience it's usually the dumber folks - male or female - who are the most controlling
In my experience, it depends on how guilty and ashamed the smarter person is about being smart.
- Simon said...
Middle Class Guy said...
"It is like watching someone beat themselves up."
No it isn't. Watching Keith Olbermann getting beaten up would actually be quite entertaining.
- garage mahal said...
Since Republicans never claim to care about women, minorities, or the sick - they can never be accused of hypocrisy when they mock women, minorities, or the sick . A free pass if you will. And convenient!
- holdfast said...
I'm sure this is out of line, but let's be honest, EE is not exactly hot. I assume that when she and John met (30 years and 4? kids ago) she was more physically attractive. I also assume that she was always smart and had strong opinions (she's, what, 5 years his senior?). So then, what has changed? Not the smart, opinionated part.
Also, EE may not really be interested in "that" part of marriage any more - the cancer alone is bound to have taken a big toll on her, periods of remission or not.
Hunter/Druck is 10 years younger than John, appears to be in fairly good shape, and is clearly a new-age hippy chick - and I think we all know what that means, don't we guys?
Yes, sometimes it really is that simple.
AA said: And the idea that a woman should stop talking so much and give a man oral sex is such low humor that it's hard to see why he didn't discard it.
Humor? You have obviously failed to purchase a copy of "The Male Survival Guide", 2008 edition.
mcg said: Olbermann is the rabid attack dog of yelow journalism. He is like the little boy who shakes his fist in the mirror and yells I hate you, I hate you.
Why anyone takes him seriously is beyond me.
Well-stated. I'm not sure anyone takes him seriously so much as they use him as a justification for their own similar pathology. "See, I'm right. Keith said so too!" Got to keep feeding that anger and resentment.
- JSF said...
Olbermann can have a case against about hw "fascist" us Right Wingers are when he actually puts people who have different opinions then him on his show.
Didn't he just throw Dana Milbank under the bus for saying complimentry things about Senator Mccain?
Maybe Jonah Goldberg wasn't wrong after all.
- Beth said...
Your pointy-headed intellectualism comes out when you deconstruct Rush, and it reminds why I've gone back to loving the text and pushing away from the critic.
Sometimes Rush is just a crude gasbag with a banal sense of humor. No need to flail through ever-more labyrinthine "maybe he means THIS!" analyses.
- Joan said...
Beth: Your pointy-headed intellectualism comes out when you deconstruct Rush, and it reminds why I've gone back to loving the text and pushing away from the critic.
Which text would that be? Are you saying you love listening to Rush? Because that's what you seem to be saying here, and I'm having a hard time reconciling that with "Beth" as presented here.
FWIW, with all the setup Ann gave it, I expected what Rush said to be much more crude. Certainly the implication was crude, but the words themselves were not. Rush has a recurring theme about nagging women, and it's dead on. (I speak from experience as a reformed control freak.)
I'd rather watch Rush's flailing limbs than Olberman's oh-so-cool facade. I used to watch him when he got his first news program back on MSNBC (The Big Show? something like that), and he was OK. Then the Monica Lewinsky story broke, and I swear it killed something in him. You could see he hated having to report that story, rooting around in the muck, day after day after day. He didn't last too long there but then he popped up again, and now we can't get rid of him. He should have quit while he was ahead.
- Bob said...
Part of the reason that Rush's TV show failed is that it was often programmed at times that made success problematical. Here in Charlotte, NC, his show came on at 11 at night, and later 5 in the morning. Hard to succeed when most of your target audience is asleep.
As for his weight, he actually slimmed down (Atkins) while married to his 3rd wife, but apparently after the divorce gave up trying; after all, if you have enough money, there's a lot of women out there who can overlook the physical aspect of it.
- Saul said...
I stumbled on Rush years ago when he was much more raw and more consistently funny. Some of that remains. The post-drug bust, and Viagra mishap, has exposed him, which is a good thing. Overall, Rush is unabashedly someone who has no problem enjoying the fruits of the flesh.
I've never understood why Olbermann is obsessed with Rush and O'Reilly. Maybe it is jealousy. If it isn't, Olberann does a disservie by mentioning them everyday.
As for Edwards, who knows and who cares with he screwed someone else. Attributing it to Elizabeth's intelligence, is overthinking what happened. Edwards wanted to get laid. Nothing surprising.
- William said...
In the pecking order of art forms, talk radio falls somewhere above juggling and perhaps a notch or two below tap dancing. All the best people acknowledge Rush's talents in the same way they acknowledge Lassie's ability to learn tricks and communicate with small children....During the thirties. writers acknowledged the primacy of their novels and plays over Hollywood screenplays. Well, maybe not. Clifford Odets is more likely to be remembered for The Sweet Smell of Success than for Waiting for Lefty. Art that appeals to educated tastes and art that is performed in pursuit of beauty rather than money is considered more worthy than the puppet shows we groundlings grunt at. And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime....I listen to Rush all the time. OK, there's a bit of gasbag to him, but in the same way that there is a bit of cheap floozy in Marilyn Monroe's performances. It is a flaw that his performance both encompasses and transcends....Let's take the item under discussion. Many of us have little understanding of central Asian geopolitics or optimal rates of taxation and little wish to increase our understanding. But all of us have pondered marital relations and the proper place of oral sex in those relations. I don't know if Rush's explanation is anywhere near right, but he is playing with the truth. Moralists wish to stone the sinner. But Rush wishes to look at the larger picture. The pain and shame that Edwards is suffering will not be in vain, if married men can draw the appropriate moral and game this into a bj. Can art draw a more sublime meaning to Edwards' domestic troubles?
- the wolf said...
I think I see the problem...Olbermann is a jackass.
Host With The Most said about Olbermann: "..he mostly impressed me each time as someone who is just basically unhappy. Not cynical so much as just kind of sad with his life."
Great definition of a typical liberal, no?
This comment will probably get me in a bit of trouble, but here goes. When you look at Clinton/Clinton and Edwards/Edwards do you see couples who probably have a pretty good sex life? Or do you see couples where the sex probably ended some time ago, and there may even be (on the female side) efforts to avoid it entirely? I see men who are locked in a sexless marriage.
Now look at the McCains. Pretty happy couple, I'd say.
- knox said...
I'm surprised at Olbermann referring to Rush as a puritan... and he seems to want to tag all conservatives that way. A laughable premise, as liberals long ago are the ones trying to micromanage and rob our lives of pleasure and joy. Nag us to death, if you will.
Anyway, disapproval of adultery is not puritanical, it's just basic right-and-wrong stuff, isn't it?
- Chip Ahoy said...
Better things than talking women can do with their mouth.
* suck up spaghetti noodles in a spaghetti noodle sucking contest
* shoo away pool-side bees by spitting a stream of water on them like a squirt gun
* blow smoke rings
* make a popping sound with the flattened palm of the hand gently smacking an open mouth like an French oral explanation point.
* blow out candles
* shoot a pea shooter
* operate a blow dart gun
* kiss a boo boo and make the hurt go away
* get at the last of a milkshake through a straw
* gargle
* make duck calls
* ease the pain of a burn by blowing on it
* eat
* breathe through when their nasal passage is blocked
* sing
* Make that bububububububu sound by running an index finger back and forth over the lips, that conveys and extreme "duh."
* make various sound effects
* be a place to smear lipstick
* cool a bowl of soup, a cup of coffee, a test-taste of something cooking.
* blow the dust off something dusty
* annoy and confuse a pet by blowing in its face.
* scream to chase away a bear
* yodel, because that's always funny.
* bite things
* tear open a package of potato crisps
* remove a splinter when tweezers aren't available. Tweezers <--- that's a funny word.
* create a hickey
- Fen said...
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- Fen said...
Rush means to say something very crude -
Dowd says pretty much the same thing. Some piece awhile back complaining why should couldn't land a real man.
Like me. Maureen, contact me through Ann, I'll cook you a nice dinner and treat you right.
Lets not talk politics though...
- ricpic said...
Here's to blow jobs
Given with gusto, not grudgingly;
Makes a man malleable,
Not grumpy/curmudgeonly.
- Unknown said...
I would agree that Oberman could have shortened his comments and left out the part about Rush being on radio instead of TV. Hell, even as a liberal, I'm willing to admit, that Rush is masterful at what he does.
With that said, I'm having a difficult time buying into your rationalization for Rush's comments. Whether he was trying to paint John Edwards as a victim is irrelevant to me. It's the crude comments about Elizabeth that show a lack of class.
And as far as this rationalization...
"However badly stated, I would think Rush was presenting an "excuse" for Edwards as a way of making him look worse."
I guess I don't understand what Rush has to gain by making Edwards looks worse. I could understand if Edwards was still in the predidential race, but he's not.
As I mentioned, I'm a liberal and I don't think Rush is a reflection of most conservatives. However, he is great at feeding those old stereotypes. I was listening one day when someone called to disagree with him on something. She indicated that she did social work and made only 20 thousand dollars are year. Rush laughed and said "Anyone who makes 20 thousand a year, cannot possibly take themselves serioulsy as a human being." I remember hearing that I wondering if that is how all conservatives feel.
Thanks for the GREAT Blog!
- Eli Blake said...
Maybe what Rush was really trying to do was hurt Edwards with Rush's sympathy. After all, Edwards's supporters hate Rush. To portray him as the sort of guy who thinks like Rush is to hurt him.
Dang, using that kind of logic maybe the next thing Rush will do is endorse Obama.
- Joan said...
Eli, didn't year hear about Operation Chaos?
- Steven said...
Olbermann called telecom immunity fascist until Obama supported it, then suddenly declared that it was statesmanlike. And he's trying to call anyone out on hypocrisy?
Olbermann, meta-hypocrite!
- Beth said...
Which text would that be? Are you saying you love listening to Rush? Because that's what you seem to be saying here, and I'm having a hard time reconciling that with "Beth" as presented here.
I didn't mean to send your head spinning, Joan! I'm saying, I think "texts" mean something, and the first place to go to figure out what they mean is to the texts themselves, to their words. In this case, Rush said what he meant, a crude comment that a nagging woman just needs a dick in her mouth.
When I say I love the text, I mean I honor it above other interpretations.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- Joan said...
Thanks, Beth. I get where you're coming from, and agree with you in principal: words mean what they mean, and most of the time we don't have to go looking for subtext or meta-whatevers. What threw me is that the text in this case is more ambiguous. Rush said that a woman's mouth could be put to better uses than nagging, which is undoubtedly true with or without double entendres.
- Beth said...
Joan, then I'm laying on interpretation -- but it sure wouldn't be the first time this week I'd heard a similar comment made on the topic! I don't think Ann was reinterpreting what he meant to imply, but her spin on his purpose I found extremely eggheaded.
- TMink said...
Olbermann, who cares about anything Olbermann says? He is neither a well nor an intelligent man.
- Leni said...
Saul said:
I've never understood why Olbermann is obsessed with Rush and O'Reilly. Maybe it is jealousy. If it isn't, Olberann does a disservie by mentioning them everyday
Jealousy? How naive are you? It's because they're easy targets. I mean, have you ever heard Bill O'Reilly? My god, he's a veritable goldmine for mockery! Falafel??!
They're both a couple of low-brow, blowhard, parasitic hypocrites who earn ridiculous amounts of money by deliberately misinforming people. "Ergo", they're easily and deservedly mocked.
Way to go Althouse, by the way. Limbaugh insults Elizabeth Edwards in about as crass a way possible, and you take Olbermann to task for calling him a hypocrite. Yes, I know you aren't *defending* Limbaugh, you are just making the superfluous and eye-rollingly niggling point that, because Limbaugh is more or less a Jabba-sized, pasty-faced, unrepentant man-whore with a dubious Viagra prescription and enough money vacation in the Dominican Republic, Olbermann was wrong to call him a hypocrite. As if criticizing Elizabeth Edwards and blaming women for their husbands' infidelity wasn't enough for him to earn it.
I'm guessing that, like Rush, this probably isn't your moment work, either.
- Leni said...
That should be "probably isn't your best moment".
Or "best work". Whatever. Fell free to choose the one you think works best :)
- fav.or.it said...
keith olberman in an idiot who should have stuck to espn
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Equity futures swooned overnight but miraculously recovered with a straight up pump this morning into the green. The dollar is down slightly, bonds continue higher, the Yen is strengthening again, oil is down, and gold has fallen back below $1,300 an ounce.
Today is yet another POMO day. The correlation between POMO days and up days in equities seems to be quite high, and we need to watch that correlation progress. Look, as frustrating as it is, I can guarantee you that it WILL come to an end. Why? It's simple. Because the PD's and only a handful of other players have accumulated nearly ALL the stock already! Once they own the entire market, which won't take long at the rate of $20 billion per week, then what? Then we have 10 or 20 firms trading almost all the stock? How's that going to work out? It's not, that's how – once again our knuckleheaded leadership is getting us into a battle which they do not understand and one for which they have no exit strategy.
Can you say Iraq or Afghanistan? That's what our stock markets resemble - the same exact type of flawed "thinking," that is really only just a profit center for a few in disguise. They don't care as they know it's just a short term profit opportunity for them, they will leave behind a decimated populace with no effect on their narcissistic conscious whatsoever. I'm telling you that the POMO fueled stock market correlation is going to end, and it's going to end badly as all attempts to manipulate price always do.
The Case-Schiller Home Price Index came in with a July 10 city seasonally adjust price increase of ZERO.ZERO% – nada. This is down from June's supposed .3% increase. All the numbers reported were weaker. Keep in mind that this is a trailing report and that closing prices for July were not yet free of influence from our nutty government's interventions. This summer's selling season was DECIMATED because they simply pulled forward what little demand there was, and now the traditional selling season is over. In my neck of the woods (Puget Sound area of Washington State) prices are still far above rents and above what average incomes can support. That alone tells me that price correction is not over.
Yesterday Brazil admitted that there is a currency war occurring with countries competing to devalue their money. That's definitely true. Now there's also trade wars firing up. We accuse China of undervaluing the Yuan, they retaliated by sticking tariffs on chicken imported from America. Yesterday America responded:
US sets duties on copper pipe from China, Mexico
WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday set final duties ranging up to 61 percent on hundreds of millions of dollars of copper pipe from China in one of several disputes causing friction between the two countries.
The U.S. Commerce Department announcement came one day after Beijing slapped final duties ranging from 50.3 percent to 105.4 percent on chicken parts from the United States.
Action in both cases came as the House of Representatives is considering a bill this week that would treat China's "undervalued" currency as an export subsidy under U.S. trade law, opening the door for more U.S. duties on Chinese goods.
Trade wars are not going to end well for anyone.
Consumer Confidence will be released at 10 Eastern this morning. These low confidence reports have been largely ignored by the markets so far.
The SPX 1150/1160 area is an import level, and it has held so far. Divergences continue to grow, they are all over the place. Here's a huge one - bonds versus stocks:
Another BIG red flag appeared yesterday when the McClelland Oscillator closed back below zero. This is one of the prime ingredients to look for when there is a Hindenburg Omen on the clock as there is now. As long as that oscillator remained above zero the odds of large declines was small, but below zero it picks back up dramatically.
The market has been leaving huge gaps in the chart all the way up from the bottom. Gaps get filled. Below is a 30 minute chart of the NDX, there are 5 open gaps just on this latest parabolic ramp, there is yet another even below that. Note the RSI divergence against price here – that divergence is even larger on the 60 minute chart. The longer the time frame of the divergence, the larger the coming correction:
The red line on that chart above is your clue point. The NDX is being fueled by the action on a narrowing number of momentum stocks. Those stocks are showing signs of tiring, and there are fewer of them now participating in the momo rotation. This is the same type of activity seen before at major tops. POMO fueled ramps will work until they don't.


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7 December 2012
Jeff Weir, Senior Analyst, HeavyDutyDecisions.co.nz
A commercial tariff consultant says some electricity retailers are significantly overcharging Canterbury businesses by incorrectly calculating refunds due for overpayment of electricity lines charges.
Jeff Weir of tariff analysis company HeavyDutyDecisions.co.nz says he's seen some cases in the tens of thousands of dollars.
"I've just helped one customer secure a $76,000 refund for overpayment…$45,000 more than their retailer was originally going to refund them," said Mr Weir.
"Another energy retailer made the exact same mistake last year… to the tune of $52,000. So this clearly wasn't an isolated case.
"You've got to wonder how many other businesses out there have got no idea that they've been significantly overcharged. And you've got to hope that retailers will work damn hard to check their math, and to contact any businesses that are owed a refund."
Mr Weir says that larger businesses in Canterbury pay lines charges based on their average power use during peak winter periods – usually the coldest mornings and evenings on working days. Before finalized winter figures are to hand, retailers charges businesses based on an estimate.
"In October, retailers are supposed to work out the actual amount used and refund large customers for any overpayment in what's termed a 'wash-up'. But they don't always get the math right. As a result some businesses pay thousands – or tens of thousands in the above case – more than they should.
"Another question in my mind is whether retailers check for a refund in the case that you switched retailers or shut up shop before they do their annual wash-up. There were a heck of a lot of businesses changing sites or closing down altogether in the aftermath of the Canterbury quakes. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them didn't get the refunds they deserved."
Mr Weir says that the annual October wash-ups usually only cover the period between April and October, with retailers assuming any previous payments were correctly calculated based on actual usage figures from the previous winter.
"But if you switched on your site in spring or summer, then you didn't have any actual winter figures, and so your retailer must have used a guestimate – often a very high one. If they neglected to take this into consideration when they did your wash-up, then you've been significantly overcharged."
Mr Weir believes all energy retailers should review their methodology behind wash-ups for the last several years – particularly given the issue could have been exacerbated by businesses changing sites following the Canterbury Earthquakes.
"There were a heck of a lot of businesses changing sites or closing down altogether in the aftermath of the Canterbury quakes….I wouldn't be surprised if some of them didn't get the refunds they deserved.
"Any overcharge as a result of this is the last thing these businesses need."
Mr Weir says that any miscalculation by retailers is exacerbated by the high tariffs in force during these peak winter periods.
"If you so much as routinely boil the jug during these peak periods, you'll face an extra $52 of lines charges per year…and that's on top of the cost of any electricity used. Imagine how much more firing up a large electrical furnace or motor during these periods would cost you."
Mr Weir says that as well as ensuring that Energy Retailers get their math right, businesses can reduce their lines charges 'by up to 70%' if they reduce their load during winter peak periods.
Mr Weir emphasizes that the local lines company Orion is not at fault, and that the issue is due to some retailers incorrectly passing through Orion's charges to customers.
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- Lines charges are what you pay the local lines company to deliver your electricity from the national grid and across their network to your business.
- In the Canterbury region, the local lines company – Orion – charges retailers in bulk, and retailers in turn pass these costs through to their customers.
- A major component of Orion's delivery prices is a 'Peak Charge', usually applicable during the top 100 to 150 demand peaks during the winter season (May to August).
- Orion use ripple control signals, text alerts, and emails to advise major customers that a peak period is occurring. Businesses can reduce lines charges by up to 70% by reducing load during these signaled peak times.
- Around 1000 connections have Time-Of-Use metering required for retailers to pass through these charges transparently. Because the exact timing of winter demand peaks can't be predicted, retailers use an estimate of peak load until finalized figures are available in October.
- Once finalized figures are to hand, retailers are supposed to refund customers for any overpayment in what's termed a 'wash-up'. Some retailers forget to apply these wash-ups to uncorrected estimates from previous periods.
- A copy of Orion's Application of Delivery Prices can be downloaded from http://www.oriongroup.co.nz/downloads/ApplicationOfDeliveryPrices.pdf


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UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Jamie Benn can't explain the correlation between his multi-point games and the Dallas Stars' success.
He's not wasting any time attempting to figure out the link, either.
"I don't know. Guess it's good luck," Benn said after he scored the go-ahead goal 4:33 into the third period and also had an assist in the Stars' 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday night.
Loui Eriksson and Brendan Morrow also scored and Richard Bachman made 25 saves to improve to 3-0 in the NHL and help the Stars run their winning streak to three games.
"We're at a point mentally that we know if we play a certain way, (we can) win," Glen Gulutzan said.
The Pacific-Division leading Stars improved to 18-11-1 and are 7-0-1 in Benn's eight multi-point games.
"Coast-to-coast has been a long go," Brendan Morrow said. "We wanted to focus on the game. All of our games have been down to the wire. We know how much things can change (in the Western Conference). A bad week can send you to 10th, 11th place."
Michael Grabner and Kyle Okposo scored for New York. The Islanders have lost four in a row.
New York's Brian Rolston left the game because of a concussion in the first period. He had played only five shifts, totaling 3:47 of ice time.
"Rolston is day-to-day with concussion symptoms," Islanders Jack Capuano said.
Kevin Poulin made 26 saves in his first start of the season. He's the fifth goalie to start for the Islanders this season, joining Rick DiPietro, Evgeni Nabokov, Al Montoya and Anders Nilsson.
"Poulin was great," Capuano said.
The Islanders didn't give Poulin a lot of early support, and Eriksson opened the scoring at 8:36 of the first with a front-of-the-goal redirection of Benn's centering pass. Eriksson was credited with a secondary assist on Benn's game-winner and also finished with two points.
"It's the same old, `Shoot pucks, go to the net,"' Gulutzan said about Benn and Eriksson.
Eriksson had not scored a goal in eight games and hadn't had a point in five. Benn only had two goals and three assists in his previous 10 games.
Grabner tied it with 3:32 left in the period. Grabner he slipped behind Trevor Daley, and Okposo's centering feed went in off Grabner's skate. A review confirmed Grabner didn't kick the puck into the goal.
Okposo gave the Islanders 2-1 lead off a rebound with 1:36 left in the second.
"We have to get better at playing with a lead," New York's P.A. Parenteau said.
But the lead only lasted until 1:07 into the third, with Morrow tying it on a power play with a quick one-timer from the top of the crease. The goal was Dallas' lone score in six power plays.
"It was one of the plays we thought might be there. (Steve Ott) might tell you he was trying to sauce (a pass, but we) got a lucky bounce," Morrow said.
Benn's goal gave the Stars a lead it would not relinquish and it came off of a rush following a scramble in front of Bachman. New York defenseman Mark Streit pinched in to keep the offensive pressure on, but when Benn took the puck and began skating up ice, there was not an Islander to be found.
Benn ripped a shot over Poulin's glove.
"We had four guys below the hash marks and that shouldn't happen," Capuano said. "A couple mistakes in the third cost us the game."
Added Poulin: We gave them the game."
New York failed to score on its three power plays.
NOTES: The Islanders called up Poulin and highly regarded defenseman Calvin De Haan from Bridgeport of the AHL, and put DiPietro on injured reserve because of a strained groin. … Even though his three-game suspension for charging New York right wing Nino Niederreiter was up in New York's 5-4 win over Dallas on Dec. 3, Stars defenseman Mark Fistric was a healthy scratch. Niederreiter, who sustained a concussion from the hit, has not played since that game. … Dallas and New York split the season series. … Dallas' three-games-in-four-days swing through the metropolitan area will conclude Friday night in Newark against the Devils.
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While I'm not studied in Puetz, he uses some methodology that includes the cycles of the sun and planets and how they interact with nature. He uses these cycles and aligns them with changes in human psychology and thus market price. I DO NOT DISCOUNT HIS THEORIES. Everything has cycles! The fall is HARVEST TIME, and it is nearing.
The other side of the coin, of course, is that this is a very, very undeveloped science, one that still falls into the "squishy" category. DO NOT PLACE YOUR BETS in the Goldman CASINO based solely upon these methods! But do give it a listen and watch the cycles play out…
Here's the link to the audio interview:
Click here for Puetz Interview...
Tickerforum member, Ponzi_unit, was graceful enough to provide a summary of Puetz's interview. The interview sheds a lot of light on Armstrong's work, it's worth a listen…
From the interview: Puetz built upon previous research, 2.12 yr, 6 yr, 19 yr, Kondratieff 57 yr, 171 yr, 515 yr...
Puetz goes on to on to say that they were not estimated precisely to begin with and seems to have smoothed them out to be divisible by three. He says after he made very minor adjustments to the cycles and multiplied them by three he found they matched well with nature and calls them to be 'physical cycles'. Climate, geology and universe - all precisely divided by 3 - found about 25 cycles... and concludes that they are all linked.
Stock, business, climate,...
Cycles get out of phase but jump back, gravitational characteristics, electromagnetic cycles, human cycles (psyche) (which he discounts as he says they are caused by natural cycles?) hope I have that correct. Says it doesn't matter who's in charge, especially the 515 year civilization cycle rules over them (world leaders)... Nation after nation, no matter what part of world, civilizations seem to collapse... Similar to what I've read on Kondratieff, if humans can realize that these cycles exist we can control them -
On gov controlling cycles are proven failure, Puetz says we can't control by racking up huge debt during good times and says government is (in my words) counter cyclical. Should be encouraging saving during good times.
On EW, every cycle sub divides; Puetz used this concept in his theory. Frequency, and wave length theory confirm his cycles.
Believes a great number of people are influenced by negative / positive cycle and that there is nothing government can do to control it. Seems like a conflict with statement a couple paragraphs above.
Is there some way to predict stock market changes by monitoring mood changes?
Likes weekly survey "consumer comfort index" which contains a particular component 'personal finance index' ( no direct google hits on this ) tends to precede changes in Stock market by a few months. It relates to the question in the survey: 'how do you view your personal finances'
On short term news events - dominant factor, most nations are not prepared for big swings (in mood),
On 'turning points' A general rule: when one cycle peaks, all other cycles of smaller wave lengths peak at same time. Example, in Jan 2007, based on history of all these cycles, the 172 yr cycle (rounded) peaked, so the 2.12 yr, 6.36 yr, 19 yr & 57 yr also peaked. Subsequent to that, various market peaks stock, commodity peaked within 9 months...
- investors only respond positively to credit growth (reflation) during upswings (of cycles),...
Ties it in with climate cycles... global temp declines starting from Jan 2007 - ongoing influence.
On sunspots... thought it was ridiculous when he first heard it, doesn't believe it's absurd any more because of solar winds ionization of magnetic stream, at height (northern lights, etc.) says his theory predicts we are effected by Earths magnetic cycles, resulting mood swings, etc,...
Says cycles are more visible in bear markets than bulls markets. Says deleveraging during bears emphasizes cycles. Talks about a series of natural occurring waves effecting all living, (animate & inanimate) things. Unconscious behavior, not fully understood by science, yet recognized as likely influential on attitudes, moods,... many unknowns re precise mechanisms. (full moon madness!)
Not just theory of markets, theory of universe, cycles of BILLIONS of years which he's been able to trace back to the big bang. (Uhm, wow.)
(--- your humble scribe is now pausing for a moment of reflection on this, imagining the margin of error ---)
2.7 billion year cycle, volcanoes! evolution! extinction! 22.2 billion year cycle, 13.7 billion years
On Martin Armstrong: became aware of Armstrong 3 years ago (edit- pretty sure it's 3 months ago and i'm not going back to interview - there's that number 3 again!),
Says Armstrong breaks it down to core component as 2.15 and Puetz is 2.12 yrs, says they are only off by .03 (you better check for accuracy) and that Armstrong's turning points match up well enough with his own... are nearly identical to what he's (Puetz) identified. The only difference between both of our theories is estimate on the time (huh?)... (I guess he means .03 yr)
On margin of error: within 2% likely within 1%, believes Armstrong has some errors, says Armstrong's data fits the last 100 years better than his (Puetz own) cycles, but when looked at over longer period of time says his cycles fit better and that Armstrongs starts to break down. Says he thinks Armstrong tried to make it fit most recent data - it does it well. Thinks that Armstrong demonstrates 'inversion' well. Inversions do exist. Puetz describes them as deviations. Says Armstrong is correct (in some specific cases). So he's working on modification of his own theory for confirmation (using some Armstrong principles) -
Says we just had an 'inversion' (as Armstrong calls it) or 'deviation' as Puetz calls it happened in March of this year...
Inversion/Deviation = theory predicts peak however markets make a trough.
Says he has an explanation why this 'occasionally occurs' but won't go out on a limb to explain until he studies it further.
(Scribe notes: seems that Puetz has a lot of respect for Armstrong's work, I'm curious to know if Puetz's point of interest is in the concept that 'hot money' flow, evacuation from one peaking market flowing into another bottoming market (the next market to get hot) is the cause of these 'inversions/deviations')
Says he and Armstrong are seeing same thing, same conclusion, just different methodology.
172 yr cycle peaked Jan 2007, down for 30 years according to this theory. Last peak May 1835, (canal bubble) followed by 7 yr bear, followed by recession and civil war, down phase coincides with war cycles. International conflicts are greatest threat.
On the Fourth Turning (Strauss and Howe): Puetz acknowledges the work of many cycle theorists and says that everyone seems to come up with the same results and that what sets Puetz apart from others is that he believes he's documented the source of all the cycles in sequence. In other words, Puetz applies the physics behind the cycles.
Doesn't feel that all the cycles are converging, they are oscillating, are not precise, the larger cycles overwhelm smaller cycles...
(current application of cycle theory to markets - interview dated July 11, 2009)
Says that because of recent market deviation/inversion in March of 2009, that he expects the correction to now occur on a sub cycle of 28 day, 86 day cycles are in play now. Says 86 day cycle is now in phase w/258 day cycle. Expects some sideways action (must mean end of July-August according to timing of interview). Tremendous deleveraging taking place, oscillations are short term and doesn't believe in sustained upswing, 172 yr cycle rules. Says new next major low possible around April 2010, (6.36 yr cycle) again, all rebounds are capped. Down cycle should end around 2035. Deflationary/depression environment.
Actually worse for US because debt can't continue - says world is out of suckers buying US debt. Consumption drops till we can afford to pay as we go, sustainable.
Stocks and bonds look good compared to a few years ago but are over valued. Mentions rule of law breakdown as gov changes rules. Gold and silver can do favorable - although - major indexes there are breaking down too - gold and silver could deflate again. Long term, a good buy, but deflation can take them down short/medium turn. Would prefer to be in cash for conservative investors or short.
Robert Precture's work, of Elliott Wave International, is also aligning with this timeframe…
Robert Precture - Robert Prechter of Elliott Wave on CNBC's Closing Bell, Aug 17, 2009:


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Britain is making a formal protest in Madrid after a Spanish warship entered the waters around Gibraltar and disrupted a British forces parachute training exercise.
The UK's ambassador in the Spanish capital will raise the incursion at "a high level" in government as tensions increased yet further over the disputed territory.
Military chiefs were forced to suspend the session while the Gibraltar Squadron's patrol boat, HMS Sabre, shadowed the Spanish navy ship.
Warnings were issued to the vessel, which is said to have used a fake name and call sign, but it only left after radioing back that it was in Spanish waters, the Gibraltar Chronicle reported.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: " There was an incursion into British waters near Gibraltar by the Spanish Navy on 18 February, during a Royal Navy exercise. The exercise went ahead irrespective of this incursion.
" We are raising this at a high level with the Spanish government and will be issuing a formal protest. Neither this incident nor other incursions change the fact of UK sovereignty over British Gibraltar Territorial Waters."
Relations have been strained since the construction of an artificial reef by the Gibraltar government last year which the Spanish said interfered with their fishermen.
Madrid responded by imposing tighter border controls, leading to long delays at the frontier.
Repeated incursions into Gibraltar's waters by Spanish state vessels followed, which led to the Spanish ambassador being publicly summoned to the Foreign Office on a number of occasions.
In November, a British diplomatic bag was opened and searched by Spanish Guardia Civil officers on the border with Gibraltar - an incident the Foreign Office described as a ''serious infringement'' of international diplomatic protocols.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "The Royal Navy patrols and continues to challenge all unlawful incursions into British Gibraltar territorial waters by Spanish state vessels by issuing appropriate warnings.
"This forms an important part of Her Majesty's Government's commitment to uphold our sovereignty against unlawful incursions with a range of proportionate naval, police and diplomatic responses.
"There should be no doubt that the MoD remains absolutely committed to ensuring the defence and security of Gibraltar, its residents and British Gibraltar territorial waters."
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Broadway To Sandy: The Show Is Back On
One of New York's biggest economic engines reopened on Wednesday after being dark in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Broadway brings in more than $1 billion in annual ticket sales and billions more in revenue from hotels, restaurants and other businesses in the Times Square area. But getting Broadway running, with much of the transportation system down, required some extreme measures.
Charlotte St. Martin is president of The Broadway League, the association of Broadway theaters and producers. Her commute from Manhattan normally takes 15 or 20 minutes. On Wednesday, it took an hour and a half.
"There are very few times that Broadway goes dark," St. Martin says. "There's this amazing tradition with Broadway, it's probably been in place for over 100 years — we all believe the show must go on. It's just got to go on. When Sept. 11 occurred, Mayor [Rudolph] Giuliani said 'You've got to get Broadway back up; it's a symbol of New York.' "
A symbol, sure, but not everyone who works on Broadway — the actors, musicians, stagehands and even reporters — lives within walking distance. And on Wednesday there were no trains, very few buses and massive traffic jams. I hopped on my bike and rode the eight miles from Brooklyn to the theater district. I dodged traffic on the streets and pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge, and was greeted by the eerie spectacle of seeing lower Manhattan, Chinatown and Greenwich Village virtually empty.
Then, all of a sudden, at 26th Street and Sixth Avenue, there were traffic lights and open shops. About another mile uptown, at the TKTS booth, where people can buy discounted tickets to Broadway shows, the line was long. It seemed like a lot of those in line were tourists who were stuck in Manhattan.
"My best friend, this is her first trip to New York City," says New Yorker Sabra Gertsch. "Her flight was cancelled and so, darn it, here we're in line, buying tickets for a Broadway show. Because of the hurricane, we were able to get in to see The Book of Mormon, which I've tried countless times to get in to see."
When Hurricane Irene hit last year, Broadway suffered a loss of about $10 million from cancelled shows. St. Martin doesn't think it will be as bad this time because everyone mobilized on phones, the Internet and even knocking on doors to make sure cast and crew could make their Wednesday matinees.
"It was all about finding the employees — the actors, stagehands, electricians, etc. — to ensure that the show could go on because many of them were without power," she says. "And so we spent all day finding that out and almost every single show did come back up today."
The cast for Chaplin made its matinee. Among them was Leslie Flesner, who was scheduled to fill in for an actress on her honeymoon. Flesner lives in Astoria, Queens, and couldn't get a cab to take her to Manhattan, so she had to hoof it.
"My only option was to walk the Queensboro Bridge," she says. "It was like, I've never done this before — this is awesome! I had to walk from my apartment to the Queensboro Bridge, which is quite a walk — it's about 25 to 30 minutes — and then walk the Queensboro Bridge, with hundreds of other Astorians, which was kind of cool. We all came together to get to work. And [I] walked the Queensboro Bridge to the entrance on 59th Street and then walked to work. It was like two hours of walking."
Followed, of course, by two hours of dancing. Erikka Walsh, who plays the ex-girlfriend in Once, had an even longer commute; 24 hours before her matinee, she was in Frankfurt, Germany.
"I was supposed to fly out on Monday, for my honeymoon, come back to the show on Tuesday night and we got cancelled," she says. "And somehow, everything was booked until Friday and one person was like, 'Put them on that Philadelphia flight!' "
She rented a car to get to her powerless home in New Jersey, then rented another car to get into the city and made it to her matinee with 15 minutes to spare. Walsh says even though it was a smaller-than-usual crowd, the show got a standing ovation at the end.
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Although measuring usability can cost four times as much as conducting qualitative studies (which often generate better insight), metrics are sometimes worth the expense. Among other things, metrics can help managers track design progress and support decisions about when to release a product.
Usability can be measured, but it rarely is. The reason? Metrics are expensive and are a poor use of typically scarce usability resources.
Most companies still under-invest in usability. With a small budget, you're far better off passing on quantitative measures and reaching for the low-hanging fruit of qualitative methods, which provide a much better return on investment. Generally, to improve a design, insight is better than numbers.
However, the tide might be turning on usability funding. I've recently worked on several projects to establish formal usability metrics in different companies. As organizations increase their usability investments, collecting actual measurements is a natural next step and does provide benefits. In general, usability metrics let you:
- Track progress between releases. You cannot fine-tune your methodology unless you know how well you're doing.
- Assess your competitive position. Are you better or worse than other companies? Whereare you better or worse?
- Make a Stop/Go decision before launch. Is the design good enough to release to an unsuspecting world?
- Create bonus plans for design managers and higher-level executives. For example, you can determine bonus amounts for development project leaders based on how many customer-support calls or emails their products generated during the year.
How to Measure
It is easy to specify usability metrics, but hard to collect them. Typically, usability is measured relative to users' performance on a given set of test tasks. The most basic measures are based on the definition of usability as a quality metric:
- success rate (whether users can perform the task at all),
- the time a task requires,
- the error rate, and
- users' subjective satisfaction.
It is also possible to collect more specific metrics, such as the percentage of time that users follow an optimal navigation path or the number of times they need to backtrack.
You can collect usability metrics for both novice users and experienced users. Few websites have truly expert users, since people rarely spend enough time on any given site to learn it in great detail. Given this, most websites benefit most from studying novice users. Exceptions are sites like Yahoo and Amazon, which have highly committed and loyal users and can benefit from studying expert users.
Intranets, extranets, and weblications are similar to traditional software design and will hopefully have skilled users; studying experienced users is thus more important than working with the novice users who typically dominate public websites.
With qualitative user testing, it is enough to test three to five users. After the fifth user tests, you have all the insight you are likely to get and your best bet is to go back to the drawing board and improve the design so that you can test it again. Testing more than five users wastes resources, reducing the number of design iterations and compromising the final design quality.
Unfortunately, when you're collecting usability metrics, you must test with more than five users. In order to get a reasonably tight confidence interval on the results, I usually recommendtesting 20 users for each design. Thus, conducting quantitative usability studies is approximately four times as expensive as conducting qualitative ones. Considering that you can learn more from the simpler studies, I usually recommend against metrics unless the project is very well funded.
Comparing Two Designs
To illustrate quantitative results, we can look at those recently posted by Macromedia from its usability study of a Flash site, aimed at showing that Flash is not necessarily bad. Basically, Macromedia took a design, redesigned it according to a set of usability guidelines, and tested both versions with a group of users. Here are the results:
|Original Design
|Task 1
|12 sec.
|6 sec.
|Task 2
|75 sec.
|15 sec.
|Task 3
|9 sec.
|8 sec.
|Task 4
|140 sec.
|40 sec.
|Satisfaction score*
|*Measured on a scale ranging from
12 (unsatisfactory on all counts) to 84 (excellent on all counts).
It is very rare for usability studies to employ tasks that are so simple that users can perform them in a few seconds. Usually, it is better to have the users perform more goal-directed tasksthat will take several minutes. In a project I'm working on now, the tasks often take more than half an hour (admittedly, it's a site that needs much improvement).
Given that the redesign scored better than the original design on all five measures, there is no doubt that the new design is better than the old one. The only sensible move is to go with the new design and launch it as quickly as possible. However, in many cases, results will not be so clear cut. In those cases, it's important to look in more detail at how much the design has improved.
Measuring Success
There are two ways of looking at the time-to-task measures in our example case:
- Adding the time for all four tasks produces a single number that indicates "how long it takes users to do stuff" with each design. You can then easily compute the improvement. With the original design, the set of tasks took 236 seconds. With the new design, the set of tasks took 69 seconds. The improvement is thus 242%. This approach is reasonable if site visitors typically perform all four tasks in sequence. In other words, when the test tasks are really subtasks of a single, bigger task that is the unit of interest to users.
- Even though it is simpler to add up the task times, doing so can be misleading if the tasks are not performed equally often. If, for example, users commonly perform Task 3 but rarely perform the other tasks, the new design would be only slightly better than the old one; task throughput would be nowhere near 242% higher. When tasks are unevenly performed, you should compute the improvement separately for each of the tasks:
- Task 1: relative score 200% (improvement of 100%).
- Task 2: relative score 500% (improvement of 400%).
- Task 3: relative score 113% (improvement of 13%).
- Task 4: relative score 350% (improvement of 250%).
You can then take the geometric mean of these four scores, which leads to an overall improvement in task time of 150%.
Why do I recommend using the geometric mean rather than the more common arithmetic mean? Two reasons: First, you don't want a single big number to skew the result. Second, the geometric mean accounts fairly for cases in which some of the metrics are negative (i.e., the second design scores less than 100% of the first design).
Consider a simple example containing two metrics: one in which the new design doubles usability and one in which the new design has half the usability of the old. If you take the arithmetic average of the two scores (200% and 50%), you would conclude that the new design scored 125%. In other words, the new design would be 25% better than the old design. Obviously, this is not a reasonable conclusion.
The geometric mean provides a better answer. In general, the geometric mean of N numbers is the N'th root of the product of the numbers. In our sample case, you would multiply 2.0 with 0.5, take the square root, and arrive at 1.0 (or 100%), indicating that the new design has the same usability as the baseline.
Although it is possible to assign different weights to the different tasks when computing the geometric mean, absent any knowledge as to the relative frequency or importance of the tasks, I've assumed equal weights here.
Summarizing Results
Once you've gathered the metrics, you can use the numbers to formulate an overall conclusion about your design's usability. However, you should first examine the relative importance of performance versus satisfaction. In the Macromedia example, users' subjective satisfaction with the new design was 66% higher than the old design. For a business-oriented website or a website that is intended for frequent use (say, stock quotes), performance might be weighted higher than preference. For an entertainment site or a site that will only be used once, preference may get the higher weight. Before making a general conclusion, I would also prefer to have error rates and perhaps a few additional usability attributes, but, all else being equal, I typically give the same weight to all the usability metrics. Thus, in the Macromedia example, the geometric mean averages the set of scores as:
sqrt(2.50*1.66)=2.04. In other words, the new design scores 204% compared with the baseline score of 100% for the control condition (the old design).
The new design thus has 104% higher usability than the old one.
This result does not surprise me: It is common for usability to double as a result of a redesign. In fact, whenever you redesign a website that was created without a systematic usability process, you can often improve measured usability even more. However, the first numbers you should focus on are those in your budget. Only when those figures are sufficiently large should you make metrics a part of your usability improvement strategy.
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Authorities in Hamilton are tracking a growing problem with heroin overdoses.
Firefighters have responded to 20 overdose calls in the past two weeks, including five in one day this week.
Emergency crews feel like they're spinning their wheels as the number of cases continues to grow.
"Yesterday, we actually had one where we had two patients in a car that both overdosed," said Jennifer Mason, emergency medical services coordinator for the city's fire department.
That case involved a mother and daughter, she said.
Each time an overdose call comes in, two police officers must respond. Two officers were injured last month while responding to an overdose call after the victim allegedly attacked them.
Even calls that aren't dangerous to police takes up valuable resources.
"Those are people who aren't available to the rest of the community, dare I say, the good people who deserve the police service," said police spokesman Sgt. Ed Buns.
Police said a potent batch of heroin containing the narcotic fentanyl has hit Hamilton recently, making it more difficult for first responders to revive overdose victims with Narcan.
Sometimes medics must use five doses to revive victims, police said.
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A shifting electoral landscape favors Democrats.
From the Politicker: With last night's elections, a number of seats changed hands between the Democratic and Republican parties across New York State, and indeed the entire country. But in the five boroughs of New York City, it was a one-way street.
At the congressional level, for example, the city lost half its Republican representation with the exit of Queens' Bob Turner, who unsuccessfully ran for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. GOP Councilman Dan Halloran had his sights on the remnants of Mr. Turner's district in northeastern part of the borough, but the area's solidly Democratic tendencies allowed Assemblywoman Grace Meng to easily leap over Mr. Halloran and secure a new gig in Washington D.C.
While in the State Legislature, Republicans had specifically targeted Democratic Senator Joe Addabbo, reshaping his district to contain every single conservative-minded voter in eastern Queens. In addition, they deployed their top recruit in rising GOP star Eric Ulrich, who enjoyed a fundraising advantage throughout the race. Nevertheless, Mr. Addabbo held on, landing the coveted endorsement of Governor Andrew Cuomo as well as a big push from organized labor. Hurricane Sandy, which devastated many of the conservative areas drawn into Mr. Addabbo's district, didn't help Mr. Ulrich's electoral fortunes either, but it's not clear it was decisive in the outcome.
In some ways, Staten Island isn't even as much of a Republican stronghold it once was. In the heavily conservative South Shore, Assemblyman-Elect Joe Borelli will hold onto a Republican seat and State Senator Andy Lanza won't be going anywhere anytime soon, but Democrats have a decent presence themselves in other local officials. Indeed, in a bit of a shocker, President Barack Obama apparently managed to edge out Mitt Romney on the island, a benchmark he couldn't cross with his stronger performance in the 2008 presidential race.
The Grand Old Party did have one marquee victory, however, in the re-election of Staten Island's Congressman Michael Grimm, who managed to grab a number of Mr. Obama's supporters as he faced off against Democrat Mark Murphy. Although a federal investigation and other controversies dogged the incumbent, the electorate wasn't willing to embrace the negative headlines without solid evidence of wrongdoing present. Mr. Grimm's biography as veteran and former F.B.I. agent, and his status as one of the most active freshman legislators in the House of Representatives, certainly didn't hurt either.
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Founder Tony Brummel has received media attention for his criticism of Apple Computer's iTunes music download service, which he believes "makes music disposable. It makes it a faceless impulse item. It steals its soul." Currently, music by bands signed to Victory Records can be purchased on iTunes, showing that Brummel has backtracked on this position; however, music by bands signed to Victory Records is still unavailable on the Australian iTunes.


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Family Law Attorneys: All There Is To Know
Finding a good family lawyer in Sioux Falls, and for that matter South Dakota, can be like finding a needle in a haystack. While domestic issues take up a lot of the court's time, it may be hard for some families, domestic partners, and otherwise to find the best attorney for the job. Searching online for family attorneys, doing research, and asking for estimates is a great way to prime oneself for the family law court. In many of the family law cases the problem involves property and possession. Who is to be in possession of the child in a child custody battle? Who gets what percentage of what items in a divorce case? These arguments are hard to win, and often times both sides may have valuable grounds, making the case go on and on. Again, the right family law attorney will be there to reduce confusion, and get what is needed most out of the ordeal.
What Is Family Law?
Family law, also known as matrimonial law, is the area of law that specializes in domestic relations and familial matters. A family law attorney might cover cases such as: marriage, divorce, child abuse, child custody, child abduction, and paternity fraud to name a few. Family law claims and cases are often huge, rigorous and take a lot of time, money, and energy to settle. That is why a good family law attorney will help smoothen the process, help those in need, and get the most out of the situation.
Family law is also an emotional roller coaster for many of its people caught in its web. Families are meant, for the most part, to stay together; but sometimes a family lawyer is there to help coordinate and communicate between the arguing sides of the family. Let's take a look at some of the areas of which a family law attorney could be of service.
Divorce, also called "dissolution of marriage" in the United States, is a lengthy legal process whereby a judge legally ceases a marriage. A legal divorce separation will allow both parties to remarry, should they so choose.
Child custody
Child custody refers to a battle whereby one of the two parents take sole or partial guardianship responsibilities of the parents' child(ren). Sometimes, one of the two parents may have earned more of the right to look after the child(ren) than the other.
Domestic Abuse
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OMAHA, Neb. – Billionaire Warren Buffett says he doesn't like owning bonds right now, and he doesn't think average investors should either.
Buffett said on CNBC on Monday that bonds are a terrible investment at the moment and owners of long-term bonds may see big losses when interest rates eventually rise.
The head of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. says stocks are generally selling for reasonable prices even with the market at record levels. Several years ago, stocks were very cheap during the recession.
Buffett says bond prices are artificially inflated because the Federal Reserve continues to buy $85 billion of bonds a month.
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National Urban Fellows, Country's Top Leadership Development Organization Seeks Leaders for a Changing America
NEW YORK — As National Urban Fellows (NUF) makes plans to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of its first graduating class, it will launch a series of national recruitment campaigns for the 2011 fellowship class. The organization will host recruitment receptions in three major cities seeking applicants interested in the fully paid fellowship program that is designed to develop the leadership for a changing America.
National Urban Fellows, a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit institution, addresses one the most important and challenging issues faced by America today — the under-representation of people of color and women in leadership — particularly in the public and non-profit sectors. Founded in 1969 and recognized as one of the oldest and finest leadership development organizations in the U.S., particularly for women and people of color, NUF has developed leaders who identify issues, shape solutions and form policy. Today, well over 1,100 Alumni make a personal and professional impact in government and nonprofit organizations across the United States.
For nearly 40 years, the program has successfully provided local leaders of color with the education and experience needed to manage city governments. This ground-breaking approach was developed during a time of unending turbulence in cities across the nation. The country's urban centers were in crisis as each city struggled to cope with pervasive violence and social unrest, the outcomes of years of social injustice.
Communities throughout the United States were experiencing the results of discrimination, segregation, poverty, unemployment, poor housing, and police brutality. NUF has afforded individuals who had been traditionally under-represented in the government sector the opportunity, visibility and recognition necessary to manage programs intended to improve conditions in their communities, while empowering leadership representative of their communities.
In addition to the recruitment receptions to be held in Atlanta, GA; Indianapolis, IN; and Los Angeles, CA, the organization will also host its 40th Annual Leadership Conference in Washington, DC, January 17 – 23, 2010. The conference theme, 40 Years: Past, Present and Future Leadership will celebrate the uncompromising leaders of color and women, whose history of commitment to diversity, social justice and equity date back to the founding of National Urban Fellows, through to the present day and beyond.
NUF seeks individuals who have U.S. Citizenship; a Bachelor's degree; a minimum of five to seven years managerial experience; and the ability to meet the admission requirements of Baruch College. Relevant attributes of successful fellows include self-discipline, interpersonal and problem-solving skills, high standards of integrity and work ethics, and a strong desire and commitment to addressing urban problems. GRE scores are not required for the NUF program.
The top graduate degree fellowship program offers an intensive 14-month graduate program through Bernard M. Baruch College, School of Public Affairs in New York. The fellowship is comprised of two semesters of academic course work and a nine-month mentorship with senior-level administrators in a partnering government agency or not-for-profit organization. It is the only program in the country where Fellows receive an advanced degree and critical leadership experience. Fellows completing the program receive a Master of Public Administration.
Candidates interested in participating in the program should attend one of the three Recruitment Receptions in one of the following cities:
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National Urban Fellows is one of the oldest and finest leadership development organizations in the U.S. for women and people of color. The Fellowship program is created for mid-career professionals who possess a strong commitment to public service, equity and social justice. NUF is the only program in the country where Fellows receive both an advanced degree and essential leadership experience. Today over 1,100 NUF Alumni hold leadership positions across the United States. National Urban Fellows develops the leadership necessary for a changing America.
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