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Equity futures are down hard this morning following the theft report from Goldman Sachs and more losses at Citi:
The dollar had fallen further overnight but ran back higher as the markets dove this morning. Overall the dollar is nearly flat from the close, currently sitting at 75.58 after failing to regain 76. Both gold and oil are down this morning, gold is currently sitting at $1,050 per ounce after peaking near $1,072.
Goldman reported earnings that "beat," earning a shameful and disgraceful $3.2 billion in the past 3 months. Like JPM, their mark-to-fantasy "earnings" of $1+ billion per month come through the buying and placement of politicians, the buying of regulations, and the pillage of the taxpayer:
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the most profitable securities firm in Wall Street history, reported third-quarter earnings that exceeded analysts' estimates on trading gains and investments with the company's own money.
Net income more than doubled to $3.19 billion, or $5.25 a share, in the three months ended Sept. 25, from $845 million, or $1.81 a share, in last year's third quarter, the New York-based company said today in a statement. The average estimate of 22 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was for $4.18 a share, with forecasts ranging from $3.48 to $4.75.
Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs's chairman and chief executive officer, stuck with the firm's focus on advising, trading and investing after converting to a bank last year to win the Federal Reserve's backing. Increased risk-taking paid off, and the company's stock climbed 128 percent this year, the best performance among the 15 biggest U.S. banks.
"Fundamentally everything's fine and is probably going to remain strong into next spring," Jon Fisher, a fund manager at Fifth Third Asset Management in Minneapolis, which has more than $19 billion under management including Goldman Sachs stock, said before the results. "The risk really is just on the sentiment side: political fallout or just expectations getting too bullish in the short term."
Yep, they better beware of not political fallout, but of the ire of the people. Someday enough will have figured out the game to rise up and take back what has been stolen from them. Don't look for the politicians to do so, they have been bought and paid for.
Meanwhile, over at Citi, even with mark-to-fantasy they couldn't turn a profit – except when they remove "special, one time items." This is the other bullshit game that is being played. It's like this… Let's say you own an old junker of an automobile that is always breaking down. You have huge repair bills every month, like clockwork, YET, you refuse to budget in extra maintenance expense and fail to consider or report to your wife how much all those repairs cost. Meanwhile you are slowly going deeper into debt and don't have money to spend on other things in life and can't quite figure out why!
Well, the financials and most corporations in America are doing the same thing – and the analysts who review these companies buy into the B.S. by shoving artificial Price to Earnings ratios at you that ignore all these (forever recurring) write-offs. Simply more Enron-esk accounting.
Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc., the lender 34 percent owned by the U.S. government, posted a $101 million profit, defying expectations for a loss, as the company slowed the pace of building reserves for future loan defaults.
The third-quarter profit compared with a loss of $2.82 billion a year earlier, the New York-based bank said today in a statement. On a per-share basis, the company had a loss of 27 cents because of a charge related to the exchange of government- and privately held preferred shares into common stock. Eighteen analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News estimated a loss of 29 cents.
Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit, whose bank profited in the first half by booking gains on business sales, added $802 million to loan-loss reserves, 76 percent less than the amount expected by David Trone, an analyst at Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller. Citigroup posted deficits every quarter last year and a record $28 billion annual loss.
How did all this work out for their share price? Here's the overnight chart of both C and GS:
The CPI came in still with yoy decreases in overall price. Should the rally in energy end, you will see these numbers accelerate again to the downside. Here's Econday's report:
Consumer price inflation in September was mixed as the overall CPI slowed while the core rate firmed. The headline CPI rate eased to a 0.2 percent gain after jumping 0.4 percent in August. The consensus had expected a 0.1 percent uptick for the latest month. The slowing was due to a dip in food prices and a dramatically slower gain in energy costs. Core CPI inflation firmed slightly, rising 0.2 percent after a 0.1 percent increase in August. The latest number came in a little above the market forecast for a 0.1 percent rise.
Helping to soften the headline number, the food component declined 0.1 percent after a 0.1 percent rise the month before. The energy component slowed to a 0.6 percent boost in September, following a sharp 4.6 percent jump in August. Gasoline posted a modest 1.0 percent gain in the latest month after a 9.1 percent spike in August.
The moderately faster pace for the core rate was due to relatively strong gains in lodging away from home, medical care, new vehicles, used cars and trucks, and public transportation. The core rate firmed despite declines in rent and owners' equivalent rent, the first decreases in those indexes since 1992.
Year-on-year, headline inflation edged up to minus 1.3 percent (seasonally adjusted) from down 1.4 percent in August. The core rate was unchanged at up 1.5 percent in September. On an unadjusted year-ago basis, the headline number was down 1.3 percent in September while the core was up 1.5 percent.
Overall, inflation remains subdued despite slightly disappointing numbers in today's report. The weakening in housing costs especially points to a sluggish trend for inflation in the near term unless energy costs pick up.
The Empire Manufacturing index came in much stronger than expected. The trend is definitely positive, and while the reading is strongly above zero showing growth in that region, what the index does not show is at what level that activity is. Remember that overall activity fell off the proverbial cliff, therefore any uptick is likely to produce a positive number the way they index it – seeing the raw number chart would be much more meaningful here:
The month-to-month rate of increase is picking up steam quickly in the New York manufacturing region. The Empire State general business conditions index jumped to 34.57 in today's October report vs. 18.88 in September. The index first popped over the break-even level of zero in August and has since indicated, again, rising rates of month-to-month expansion.
New orders have been mirroring the overall index, now at 30.82 and pointing to extended gains for overall activity in the months ahead. Unfilled orders have finally popped over zero, now at 2.60 and reflecting the increasing level of activity that is backing up work. Shipments really jumped in the month to 35.08 vs. September's 5.34, helping to drive up employment to 10.39 in a reading that ends a long string of declines. The workweek also rose sharply, to 20.78 vs. 5.95.
An odd thing in the report is that manufacturers in the region continue to work down inventories aggressively, at -18.18 vs. -25.00 in a month-to-month comparison that only hints at a slowing rate of drawdown. The ISM manufacturing report, that samples firms from around the country, showed in its September data a pivotal slowing in destocking that is not confirmed here. And firms in the New York region expect to continue to draw inventories well into next year with the 6-month outlook for the component at -5.19, but still much less severe than the prior reading of -17.86.
Price readings are steady showing increasing month-to-month costs for inputs, at 19.48, but no pricing power for outputs (or finished goods), at -5.19. Today's data are definitely a positive, suggesting that the manufacturing sector, which was among the first sectors to contract, is poised to help lead the whole economy into recovery.
Weekly Jobless claims came in at a still horrid 514,000 which was once again "better than estimated." Continuing claims fell, this is due to people falling off the backside of the roles and notably those on Emergency Extended unemployment is continuing to rise:
The rate of layoffs continues to ease as initial jobless fell 10,000 in the Oct. 10 week to 514,000 (prior week revised from 521,000). Continuing claims also fell, down 75,000 to a sub-6 million level at 5.992 million in data for the Sept. 26 week. The unemployment rate for insured workers, in contrast to the overall unemployment rate, continues to slip, down another tenth to 4.5 percent. Levels in this report are the lowest since the first quarter.
Special help for the unemployed is an important feature of economic policy. Emergency unemployment compensation rose a little more than 10,000 in the Sept. 26 week to 3.331 million. September's employment report proved to be a disappointment, showing greater weakness than August. But the early read on jobless claims offers a reason to be optimistic for this month's jobs report.
The Philly Fed Survey comes out at 10 Eastern.
Yesterday's action was very interesting with DOW 10,000 acting as a magnet and actually closing over. We first reached DOW 10,000 in March of 1999, more than 10 years ago. At that time the dollar was at 100 and gold was at $300. That means that had a person kept $10,000 in the DOW and $10,000 in gold for the past decade that what they could purchase with their stock money would only buy about $7,500 worth of 1999 goods, but their gold would buy $35,000 worth of 1999 goods!
Notice the discrepancy between the fall of the dollar (25%) and the rise in gold (300%+). The disconnect is because the dollar is weighted against a basket of fiat currencies ALL OF WHICH are devaluing themselves in real terms. So, I hate to say it, but Harry Dent's inflation adjusted call of DOW 35,000 is not that far off as the DOW would have to be at the 35,000 level today to have kept up with the rise in gold.
Below is a 10 year chart of gold from July of this year, courtesy of Kitco. Note the very obvious inverted Head & Shoulders, I don't even need to draw the neckline in, do I? Target equals about $1,325 on that now confirmed pattern.
The daily candles yesterday are interesting. There were normal looking large candles produced on the indices, but on the ETF's with their gap openings, they look more like topping hammers. And the NDX is very ugly looking as it has set itself up for an island reversal, and with this morning's gap down open could verify that if prices were to stay below yesterday's candle all day. That makes the price action today very important:
The XLF has the same set up.
Exxon Mobile (XOM) broke upwards out of a fairly large consolidation triangle yesterday. I am wary of that break out, but note that the oil P&F now has a bullish target on oil of $94 a barrel. This is pure dollar weakness and speculation with cheap money as demand is simply not there to justify that move, yet it bears watching for sure.
The Transports did a rocket shot on CSX's earnings yesterday. No, that move was not justified. Rail traffic is way, way down and the price of the Transports is relatively much too high compared to traffic levels. Nonetheless, the Transports ran smack into the upper Bollinger Band stopping at a new rally closing high. It did not, however, break the prior intraday high. So, did that confirm the DOW Theory buy signal or is the non-confirmation still a possibility? This is a gray area for me… some technicians base everything on closing numbers and some on intraday numbers. I look at it like this; it's possible either way and it needs to be watched. I am never convinced until both the intraday and closing high/low is exceeded.
Yesterday's move obviously satisfied the large directional move the McClelland Oscillator was looking for. McHugh believes that was likely the beginning move of the final wave higher and that it's likely to peak in the next couple of weeks, landing on the high about in time for his Fibonacci turn window at the end of the month or by the Bradley turn date on the 9th of November. We'll see, again his count has been tracking very well and his count is in agreement with Tony Caldero's count, something that when they are sync, I simply do not ignore.
We finished yesterday obviously WAY overbought on all time frames through daily and even the weekly and monthly are overbought as well. BIG, BIG divergences all over the place, namely on the advance decline lines, on volume (yesterday was higher volume than the past several days, but still very low), and interestingly in the segments of the markets. Last night I was looking at the big picture of the bear market over the past couple years to get a better perspective and something really jumped out at me. Here are some charts, pay attention to the percent Fibonacci retrace for the entire bear market to date:
NDX, right at the 61.8%, a very important point:
IYR, the Commercial Real Estate ETF has retraced 38.2% and is sitting right underneath:
The XLF, touted as being the strongest of the recovery is NO SUCH THING when looking at its rebound. Yes, from its pathetic bottom it has jumped the most in percentage terms, yet it has failed to even reach the 38.2% retrace level of its peak!!! Math is a bitch, pay attention! Also note the very clear volume pattern… that's a huge, HUGE divergence:
The Transports have mysteriously risen way more strongly than traffic would dictate. They have retraced more than 50% of the bear market and are approaching the 61.8%. Note again the perfect rising wedge – that is NOT a channel, it is a rising wedge with volume tapering off, confirming the pattern:
Here are the DOW Industrials. Again, rising wedge, volume divergence, having retraced up to nearly the 50% level:
The SPX has also nearly reached the 50% retrace level which is at 1,125. Note the classic rising wedge, it's volume is pattern confirming as well although not pictured, and you can also see the diverging RSI on this daily chart:
So, we have the NDX up against very powerful resistance at the 61.8%, and yet the financials, despite the resumption of mark-to-fantasy, not even back to the 38.2%. That's a huge red flag to me, yet another split in the market. As the primary indices get into or above the 50% retrace level, the overhead resistance becomes much greater as the volume resistance at those levels is much more recent with much higher volume.
This morning's decline is likely a subwave of the final wave higher. It will likely continue to move higher but can still end anywhere in here (watch the NDX and XLF today), or can overthrow those rising wedges. I'm still being patient and not playing the game in here. It looks like playing with nitro to me… we have major disconnects between what's happening in the real economy and what's happening in the technicals. And, we have major disconnects in the technicals as well. Personally I like to put the odds in my favor when investing, that means that the fundamentals, technical, and psychological all get in alignment. They are getting in alignment right now alright, and its extreme…
But, hey, in the meantime we might as well party like the DOW… in 1999!
Prince – Party Like It's 1999:


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* Special-edition 25th Anniversary model * Priced at 32,600 * On sale now...
Chrysler is celebrating 25 years of the Grand Voyager by launching a special edition version called you guessed it 25th Anniversary.
It will be priced at 32,600 - that's 1000 less than the Limited model - and just 100 will be available in the UK. Visual changes over the standard model include xenon headlamps, a new front bumper panel and chrome mesh grille, LED running lights and bespoke paintwork and badges.
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Every time I want to spend an evening alone my boyfriend has a complete fit and passive aggressively makes me feel like shit and like I am a selfish horrible person and he tells me hes having a bad day and feeling lonely and depressed. I have always been very independent and I have always needed alone time in relationships. Its very frustrating because he tells me I must not care about him as much as he cares about me since I want time alone.
A lot of times I just see him anyway if I need a day alone to avoid a massive stressful fight. Im sick of it. I just want time to sit and veg by myself. I care about him but I feel like as crazy as I am with my phobia and everything, his behavior is also unhealthy. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Ive tried to reason with him about it and he gets mad when Im not honest about needing time alone... yet he throws a freaking fit when I am.
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The preliminary decision, by the Department of Commerce (DoC), is a victory for the US-based Wind Tower Trade Coalition, which filed a complaint in 2011. A final decision on the duties will be announced later this year.
"This is an important step in remedying the harm caused by unfairly traded wind tower exports," says Alan Price of Wiley Rein, whose law firm is handling the case. "We look forward to further relief when [preliminary] anti-dumping duties are announced in about two months."
China and the Asian producers deny the charges.
As soon as the DoC's decision is published in the Federal Register, within three to five days, the US border authorities will require cash deposits to cover the duties on all imported Chinese towers, says DoC spokesman Tim Truman.
The US imported an estimated $222 million of Chinese towers in 2011.


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Cameo and "Word Up" (as a song) in general have been a consistent point of discussion between myself and Henrique Hopkins over the years. At this point,my primary outlet for writing about music was through Amazon.com's customer reviews. For a number of reasons,my forum or music based writing became based more around my WordPress blogs such as Andresmusictalk. So much of my opinion went into my currently unpublished Amazon.com review of the Word Up album itself. So over three months after its 30th anniversary,here's my personal take on Cameo's major funk crossover album from 1986.
Truth be told? This album probably represented the very first funk by a contemporary artist I ever heard. Keep in mind it was when it came out. And at the time I had no idea what a musical genre (let alone funk) even was. The music of Cameo has always had a strong attraction to me ever since-likely due to that core musical memory. Historically for Cameo,this was an interesting time. Starting with 1984's She's Strange,Cameo pared down to a trio of three members in bandleader/founder Larry Blackmon on lead vocals and bass with Nathan Leftenant and Tomi Jenkins as vocalists.
Charlie Singleton left the band functionally to start a solo career. Yet the deepest thing about that was that Charlie,along with other members of the band,didn't leave completely. He,along with session musicians such as the Brecker brothers remained behind on this album which,as it were wound up being their iconic breakthrough album commercially-at least as far as pop char success was concerned.
The title song and "Candy" are of course the signature mid 80's Cameo sound-stripped down funk sound,slap bass the texture of thick liquid. Another element that makes them stand out is the strong percussion breaks and Michael Brecker's sax solo on "Candy"-making for one of the strongest rhythmic patterns of mid 80's hard funk. "Back And Forth" is a straighter dance/funk groove that's highly catchy and melodic. It seems like a naked funk number,but the arrangement is filled with layers of dreamy synthesizers as well.
It was a full sound creeping up from behind rather than immediately out front. "She's Mind" is the one slow jam here-really more mid tempo boogie with an appropriately jazzy pop sense of song craft showcasing what terrific songwriters Cameo were. "She's Mine",a drum beat oriented hip-hop/funk hybrid as well as the furious live band oriented funk of "Fast,Fierce & Funny" and "You Can Have The World" are all brightly composed and heavily rhythmic grooves-all focusing on the theme of materialistically demanding women that was a mainstay for Cameo throughout the years.
Many "jam fans" who have an intense dislike for the music of the first half of the 1980's refer to the period in which this album came out as a rebirth of the funk. As soon as James Brown hit the airwaves with "Living In America",music that was strongly linked with classic funk began to be innovated on. That also found itself spreading into the next generation of hip-hop as well-especially as the functional original funk bands who didn't have the commercial success of Cameo abandoned the idea of radio play and musical commerce.
So the "nu funk" as it were,and the generation of hip-hop that both inspired it and was inspired by it was all part of the culture from which this album came. It would seem looking back that no one was particularly self conscious about this burst of funk creativity. It seemed to be a degree of life breathed into the "number one funk" aestetic of the 60's and 70's-where music that celebrated advanced rhythmic ideas and lyrical wit in a contemporary context could flourish. This album is one of the many that really captures that spirit. And reminds any cynic who thinks that funk is dead that,when it seems to begone,it can survive and (in cases such as this) be enormously successful as well.
One of the ideas I had that sprang up from writing this review was about the type of funk that is becoming successful today. Songs such as "Uptown Funk" (the "Word Up" of 2014/2015 in terms of commercial success in many ways) are generally inspired by the synth based style of 80's funk. Word Up,as both a song and an album,was a whole other thing though. The slap bass and the slow,hard hitting beats that are seldom heard in modern funk really define this album through and through. Still,it not only represents a major crossover triumph for Cameo but hard funk in the 1980's in general.


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Growing yacht club donates toys
A number of children in Southwest Florida will have a Christmas present to open this year thanks to the generosity of the Southwest Florida Yacht Club members.
Members were asked in advance to bring unwrapped toys to the club's monthly meeting, which was held Monday night at Palmetto Pine Country Club, and donated to the U.S. Marine Corps Toys For Tots campaign.
"We got flooded," said SFYC member Rich Weiner. "We filled four large plastic bags of toys, plus someone donated a bicycle and I was told there were a couple of antique dolls in there."
Weiner and several other members delivered the collection to the Sea\\Tow office on Del Prado Boulevard Wednesday, which is serving as a collection site for the Toys For Tots drive associated with Cape Coral's Holiday Boat-A-Long this weekend.
With 80 percent of its membership residing in Cape Coral, SFYC will celebrate its second anniversary next month and move into a building with 45 yacht slips near the Edison Ford Estate in Fort Myers. The club was founded in January 2012 by three friends who wanted to strike out on their own.
"We had been cruising together for a while," said Weiner. "Everyone just wanted to maintain our friendships. Once we incorporated we joined the Yachting Club of America, which gives our members reciprocity access to slip space at 85 yacht clubs in Florida and more than 750 nationwide."
The club soon grew to 23 members and now stands at 298.
"We kind of knew each other from doing a lot of cruising in the past," said Weiner. "It was all by word of mouth. We didn't go out and advertise for members. There are some new people, too. We got one member from Cape Harbour, they told their friends, and now we have several from Cape Harbour. We've opened up our membership and expect it to keep growing."
The club just elected new officers that will be installed at the January monthly meeting. Gary Tapken is the new commodore, replacing Terri Natale; the new vice commodore is Jim McKinley; fleet captain Kris Weiner; read commodore Chris Burger; treasurer Len Zych; recording secretary Jo Nelle Schrapper; financial secretary Barbara Greco; directors Kay Smith and Pete Partilo; and Rich Weiner is the club's webmaster. The club's website is www.southwestfloridayachtclub.com.
The Toys for Tots campaign is not the club's only charitable function of the year. SFYC is conducting a fundraiser on Feb. 28 at the Burroughs House in Fort Myers called Downton Abbey, which consists of a dinner and entertainment. Proceeds from the event will benefit Uncommon Friends.
The club stages up to four cruising events each month ranging from two days to a few longer ones that last two weeks. The initiation fee for membership is $300 with annual dues at $200, which covers two people.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The advice from master to student over the past three years has been simple: Be prepared. Know what to do and how to do it.
"Fearless Felix" Baumgartner has heeded Joe Kittinger's advice and now is about to test it.
On Tuesday morning if winds allow, in the desert surrounding Roswell, N.M., Baumgartner will attempt to break Kittinger's world record for the highest and fastest free fall.
Baumgartner is aiming for an altitude of 23 miles, just over three miles higher than Kittinger attained in 1960. And he hopes to break the sound barrier; Kittinger fell just shy of that.
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A brief comparison of the two men and their endeavors:
Baumgartner is 43 and a former Austrian military parachutist with more than 2,500 jumps behind him.
Kittinger was 32 and a captain in the U.S. Air Force. He's now 84 and living near Orlando, Fla. His record jump was his 33rd skydive. "He has considerably more experience than I had," Kittinger says.
Baumgartner is aiming to jump from 120,000 feet, or 23 miles. Kittinger plunged from 102,800 feet, or 19.5 miles.
Baumgartner expects to accelerate to 690 mph in order to break the sound barrier, or Mach 1, somewhere between 102,000 feet and 107,000 feet up. Kittinger was clocked at a maximum 614 mph, equivalent at that altitude to Mach 0.9.
Baumgartner will ascend in a pressurized capsule hoisted by a 30 million-cubic-foot helium balloon, 335 feet tall when inflated. Kittinger rode an open, unpressurized gondola that was lifted by a 3 million-cubic-foot balloon, 184 feet tall when inflated.
Baumgartner will wear a custom-made full-pressure suit. Kittinger wore an Air Force standard partial-pressure suit. He was initially claustrophobic in his suit and had counseling to overcome his anxiety.
He's now comfortable in the suit for five to six hours at a stretch and more.
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"When you close your visor, it's your own little world. You don't hear anything from the outside anymore. The only thing that you hear is yourself breathing all the time. Then you start thinking about bad things and it's getting worse in a very short amount of time," Baumgartner says. "Your brain sometimes does fancy things."
Kittinger, by contrast, was a test pilot and used to pressure suits. In 1972, his fighter jet was shot down and he ended up a Vietnam POW, surviving 11 months of torture at the "Hanoi Hilton" prison. In the next cell was Sen. John McCain.
Kittinger's Project Excelsior was Air Force. Baumgartner's Red Bull Stratos effort is sponsored by the energy drink maker.
Both men had two test jumps before the grand finale.


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Once again, every single bout from a major UFC pay-per-view event will be available for live viewing.
UFC officials recently announced that five preliminary-card matchups from next month's "UFC 133: Evans vs. Ortiz II" event will stream live on the social-networking site.
The announcement means UFC 133 will serve as the seventh consecutive event the organization has made its entire lineup available for live viewing. The streak began with April's historic "UFC 129: St-Pierre vs. Shields" event.
Featuring a rematch between former light-heavyweight champions Rashad Evans and Tito Ortiz, UFC 133 takes place Aug. 6 at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center.
The evening's main card airs on pay-per-view, and an additional two contests are featured on a Spike TV "UFC Prelims" special.
Brian Ebersole (45-15 MMA, 1-0 UFC) vs. Dennis Hallman (42-13-2 MMA, 3-4 UFC), Nick Pace (6-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) vs. Ivan Menjivar (22-8 MMA, 1-1 UFC), Mike Pierce (12-3 MMA, 4-1 UFC) vs. Johny Hendricks (10-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC), Mike Brown (24-8 MMA, 0-3 UFC) vs. Nam Phan (16-8 MMA, 0-1 UFC) and Costantinos Phillippou (7-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) vs.
Rafael "Sapo" Natal (12-3-1 MMA, 0-1-1 UFC) will make up the evening's Facebook-streamed special, which begins streaming at approximately 5:45 p.m. ET.
To access the stream, viewers must visit the UFC's official Facebook profile (www.facebook.com/ufc) and push the "Like" button for the page.
The UFC first began to stream select fights live on Facebook at this past January's "UFC Fight Night 23: UFC Fight for the Troops 2" event.
"I'm always looking for ways to give fans fights for free, and this is just another example of that," UFC president Dana White stated prior to the promotion's first Facebook-streamed special.
Facebook is the world's most popular social-networking site and one of the most visited websites in existence.
The full lineup for UFC 133 now includes:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
- Rashad Evans vs. Tito Ortiz
- Rich Franklin vs. TBA
- Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Vitor Belfort
- Jorge Rivera vs. Alessio Sakara
- Rory MacDonald vs. Mike Pyle
(Spike TV)
- Alexander Gustafsson vs. Matt Hamill
- Chad Mendes vs. Rani Yahya
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
- Brian Ebersole vs. Dennis Hallman
- Ivan Menjivar vs. Nick Pace
- Johny Hendricks vs. Mike Pierce
- Mike Brown vs. Nam Phan
- Rafael "Sapo" Natal vs. Costantinos Phillippou
For more on UFC 133, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
(Pictured: Dennis Hallman)


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This week's discoveries
Sylvia de Pater (IBL)
DNA double strand break-mediated mutagenesis and gene-targeting
Location: Sittardzaal, Leiden University
Time: 13:00 hrs-13:40 hrs
9 October 2008
This week's discoveries
Sylvia de Pater (IBL)
DNA double strand break-mediated mutagenesis and gene-targeting
Location: Sittardzaal, Leiden University
Time: 13:00 hrs-13:40 hrs
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