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|Bruins drop Game 2 to Canadiens
|04.16.11 at 9:47 pm ET
By DJ Bean and Scott McLaughlin
If the Bruins weren't feeling the pressure before Game 2 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, they should be now. A 3-1 loss to the Canadiens gives the Habs a 2-0 series lead and means the Bruins suddenly have to show they can win at the Bell Centre.
Playing without Zdeno Chara (dehydration), the B's saw the Habs jump out to a 2-0 lead in the game's first 2:20. Michael Cammallari put a rebound off a James Wisniewski shot past Tim Thomas 43 seconds into the game, while Mathieu Darche struck on the power play shortly after.
The Bruins did get on the board in the second period with a Patrice Bergeron tally that injected some life into the building, but after two games the B's have been able to put just one puck past Carey Price through two games.
The Bruins played a more physical game than they did Thursday night, but were reckless at times. After a no-show from the top line in Game 1 and not enough of what Claude Julien wanted in the first two period, Claude Julien broke up the Milan Lucic – David Krejci – Nathan Horton trio by sending Horton to the third line in favor of Rich Peverley.
The B's will play Game 3 in Montreal on Monday night. They need to get a win at the Bell Centre (where they went 0-2-1 in the regular season) either Monday or Thursday to bring the series back to Boston for a fifth game.
– For much of the game, the Bruins' puck-movement appeared to be that of strangers in a pickup game. They repeatedly made passes that were either off the mark, intended for a player who wasn't looking or easily intercepted by a Canadien. Boston looked particularly shaky in its own end, as the defensemen struggled to retrieve pucks in the corners and start clean breakouts. Montreal's second goal came as the direct result of a bad Andrew Ference pass behind the net.
– Speaking of passes — and hindsight is 20/20 — but maybe the B's should have passed on the Tomas Kaberle deal. Aside from a shot hitting the post on the power play in the second period, there was nothing encouraging about Kaberle's night, and that's been a pretty common occurrence. He had issues keeping the puck in the offensive zone on routine plays, but the icing on the cake came when Krejci and P.K. Subban were getting rough behind the net in the first period. With Price out of his net, Krejci sent the puck back to the point. Before any whistles were blown of Kaberle knew the play was dead, he actually passed the puck to Johnny Boychuk with a clean look (if he looked) at an empty net.
In Kaberle's defense, he looked much better on the the power play when Subban went off for tripping Daniel Paille in the third period. Still, you really have to wonder whether the B's will re-sign him for the money he commands after such a bad run.
– This was not Thomas' most impressive showing. Though he came up with a big stop on a Tomas Plekanec on a second-period breakaway, the goals from Cammalleri and Weber came as the result of big rebounds. Further evidence that having the best goaltender in the playoffs doesn't guarantee success. Thomas is human, as is Price, though the latter has two wins.
– Bad night for Dennis Seidenberg. The 29-year-old was a minus-2 on the night, while his interference penalty at 2:14 of the first gave the Habs the power play on which Darche scored.
– For at least the middle portion of the second period, the Bruins did a better job going to the net and making things difficult for Price. That culminated in their first goal of the series when Bergeron charged down the middle and tipped home a centering pass from Brad Marchand. For the next few minutes, the Bruins got traffic in front, battled for position and weren't afraid to jam away at rebounds and harass the Montreal netminder. Had the Bruins played like that for the whole game, it might be a different story heading to Montreal for Game 3.
– Shane Hnidy fighting Wisniewski in the second period following the Habs defenseman's charging call was brilliant. At that point in the game, Hnidy had played 2:58 to Wisniewski's 10:00. The Bruins will send their reserve blueliner to the box any day of the week if it means a top-four defenseman on the other team is doing the same.
|David Krejci on P.K. Subban: 'I don't like him'
|04.14.11 at 10:46 pm ET
The Bruins had plenty of reason to be frustrated with their inability to put one past Carey Price in their 2-0 loss to the Canadiens in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, but David Krejci's frustration extended past the score board.
With the Bruins trailing the Habs, 1-0, in the first period, Krejci was tangled up with Habs rookie defenseman P.K. Subban. Subban turned on the jets, seemingly knowing Krejci's stick would obstruct him just enough for the officials to take notice, and drew a questionable hooking call that left the crowd booing and Krejci hoping for a better call. Krejci was even more upset when the refs didn't treat second-period play similarly when he went crashing into the boards on the power play.
"I barely touched him," Krejci said of his hooking call on Subban. "Then we had a power play in the second period, and they did the same thing to me. I almost killed myself by the boards there behind the net, and the ref didn't see it, I guess. I know people make mistakes, but come on, the puck's there, so there's two referees. If he calls that penalty on me, he's got to call [the other one] too. Obviously it sucks, but I can't bring it back."
As for Subban, who has proven on multiple occasions that he'll do whatever he can to draw a penalty, Krejci didn't hide his thoughts.
"I don't like him," Krejci said. "I'm not going to say what I think about him, but I don't like him. I think he didn't have to go down that easily, but it was a call. I don't think it was a bad call or a good call, it was just a made call, but if you make a call that's fine with me, but he's got to make the same call on the other side when that happened to me. That's what I'm kind of mad about."
|Bruins lose to Maple Leafs in shootout
|03.31.11 at 9:53 pm ET
The Bruins fell to the Maple Leafs, 4-3, in a shootout Thursday night at TD Garden.
The Bruins got goals from Brad Marchand, David Krejci and Andrew Ference. All three Bruins goals came in the second period. Tim Thomas made 32 saves in regulation, and made the save of the game in stopping Mikhail Grabovski on a penalty shot in overtime.
However, the Bruins blew two leads in the game. Joffrey Lupul struck for two goals for Toronto ' both of the Toronto forward's tallies were of game-tying variety, as his second period power-play goal knotted the game at two, and his third-period goal made it 3-3. Lupul went off for slashing Tomas Kaberle with 1:05 remaining in overtime.
The Capitals defeated the Blue Jackets Thursday, so the Bruins are now four points behind Washington. Bruins will wrap up their three-game home-stand on Saturday when they host the Thrashers in a matinee.
– Milan Lucic became the 10th player in the post-lockout NHL to have 30 goals, 30 assists and 100 penalty minutes in a season when he assisted Krejci's second-period goal. Lucic later added to his penalty minute total by fighting Jay Rosehill.
– With Marchand's shorthanded goal, he moved into a three-way tie for second in the NHL. It also gave him points in three straight games, and he now has five points (2 G, 3 A) over his last five contests.
– Krejci's goal preserved the high level at which the B's center has produced. Since Jan. 11, Krejci has not gone more than two consecutive games without a point. He has five (1 G, 4 A) over his last five games.
– Zdeno Chara went missing for a bit. After his shift with 2:46 remaining in the second period, the Bruins captain was not on the bench, and he was nowhere to be seen as the third period began. He ended up returning to the at 3:05 and playing the third period without appearing hindered, so the B's seem to have dodged a bullet after a scare to one of their most important players.
– Toronto initially got on the board because a puck deflected off former Leaf Tomas Kaberle. The tally was credited to Luke Schenn. The goal also gave Schenn goals against Thomas in the last two meetings between the two clubs. Not bad for Schenn considering he's scored just three other times this season.
– Schenn's first-period tally broke up Thomas' shutout streak at 1:22:21. For a while it seemed it would take a flukey goal to end the streak, and it did.
– Bruins fans seemed to dislike hearing a Phil Kessel assist being announced more than they did seeing a Toronto goal scored. The former Bruin picked up helpers on both of Lupul's goals.
|Bruins lead Maple Leafs after two
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After not scoring in the first period, the Bruins got production early in the second and lead the Maple Leafs, 3-2.
Brad Marchand got the Bruins on the board when he scored a beautiful short-handed goal at 2:09. It was Marchand's fifth shorthanded tally of the season, putting him in a three-way tie for second in the NHL. Fifty-nine seconds later, David Krejci took a pass from Milan Lucic in front of the net and put it past James Reimer for his 13th goal of the season. With the assist, Lucic became the 10th player of the post-lockout NHL to have 30 goals, 30 assists and 100 penalty minutes in a single season. Lucic celebrated the mark later in the period by fighting Jay Rosehill.
After a Joffrey Lupul goal tied the game at two goals apiece, Andrew Ference put a slapshot through the legs of Reimer for a soft five-hole strike.
The Bruins held a 19-7 advantage in shots on goal in the period and are outshooting the Leafs, 27-17, after two.
|Bruins hold optional morning skate in anticipation of Blackhawks
|03.29.11 at 11:23 am ET
The sounds of pucks hitting boards and skates cutting ice were drowned out by a game of hallway soccer, as the Bruins held an optional skate Thursday in anticipation of their game against the Blackhawks. Tuukka Rask, Chris Kelly, Michael Ryder, Tyler Seguin, Gregory Campbell, Shane Hnidy, Steven Kampfer and Adam McQuaid skated for the B's. Expect Tim Thomas to start with Rask the only goaltender to skate in the optional.
Given that Ryder also skated in the optional and that Claude Julien expressed a desire to stick with the same lineup that won them Sunday's game in Philadelphia, it is probable that Ryder will be a healthy scratch once again.
Here are some notes from the morning:
– Julien said that he doesn't feel a need to talk about last year's playoffs with his team as they prepare for the postseason this time around. The B's blew a 3-0 series and Game 7 lead in the second round last year against the Flyers.
"I think for us right now it's just focusing on the moment. From here on in, we've still got to maintain our play, our level of play that we've had lately and continue to try and even improve that. There's no room for complacency right now, and we have lots of players. If we're going to move some players in and out from here on in it's not because we're taking it easy, but because we want everybody ready to go. That's kind of the message that we gave the players. So for us, I think we need to make sure we maintain our level of play from here on in."
– Much was made in training camp of the new situation that former Panthers Gregory Campbell and Nathan Horton found themselves in. Having never been to the playoffs in their careers, it seemed the postseason would be extra special for them. Campbell spoke about what it means to him to finally know he's headed for the playoffs.
"I'm excited. It's been a long time. That was the first thing I thought of when I got traded to Boston, was that I was going to get a chance to play in the playoffs," Campbell said. "For me, at this point in my career, the most meaningful thing is to get a chance to win. I know this organization's excited about the opportunity to get back to the playoffs again."
– While Julien said that the recent scratches "probably" won't get in the lineup Tuesday, he will get them in the lineup over the next two weeks to both rest those playing and keep everybody fresh.
"We've got to remember the guys were going to put in are good players. It's not like you're putting in a bad player," Julien said of the players serving as healthy scratches. "It's that you've got a 20-man roster for the game, but you've got 22-23 guys here. We're going to put some guys in, pull some guys out, but certainly not to say, well this is a game that we're going to take it easy, we're going to pull so-and-so out. We've got to stay on top of our game, and that's what I've been talking about, sliding guys in that can go in there and stay sharp so that if, come playoff time, we need somebody, they haven't been sitting around for a month."
– Julien spoke highly of David Krejci, who has 28 points in the 27 games since Marc Savard went down with his latest concussion. The coach said it's been more a result of improved play than increased opportunity.
"He's elevated his play, there's no doubt," Julien said. "He's become a better player in the second half of the season. I think we're starting to see more of the David Krejci we know. I think he had a bit of a slow start this year and wasn't skating as well as we had seen him in the past. And was trying to make those plays, but when you don't use your speed it's pretty hard to make those plays in this league. So I think his skating has gotten better, his intensity has gotten better, and because of that he's making some plays."
– The coach said that as far as fine-tuning things go prior to the playoffs, special teams will be the focus. After an ugly stretch, the power play has scored four goals in the last four games, while the penalty kill has allowed one goal over the last five.
"[Power play] is an area we've got to get better at," Julien said. "Even our penalty kill had been pretty good all year, then we hit that funk there for about three weeks that really made us slide down in the [rankings] in regards to that. We've got to get that back to where we feel it should be. I think our special teams are going to be important from here on in, and those are part of the things we need to work on.
"What I liked about the last game is that we were playing a really good team, it was a tight checking game and we stuck with it and found a way to win. You've got to be able to be patient with those types of games that are tight checking games. In the playoffs, that's what you're going to get, and I think our guys did a great job in the third period of not creating some bad mistakes or turnovers, and eventually they broke, took a penalty, and we took advantage of it. It's those little details when you get near the end of the year. You want your team to be composed and in control of their game plan."
|Price is wrong (again): Bruins crush Habs behind Tim Thomas shutout
|03.24.11 at 9:36 pm ET
Amidst what Milan Lucic called a "war of words," the Bruins let their play do the talking Thursday at TD Garden, chasing Carey Price and defeating the Canadiens, 7-0, at TD Garden.
The Bruins got on the board early, with Johnny Boychuk scoring his second goal of the season at 1:01 of the first period. The Bruins also got first-period tallies from Gregory Campbell and Nathan Horton, with Horton's tally coming on the power play off a feed from Lucic. Horton would add his second goal of the game at 15:57 of the third period, with Adam McQuaid making it a clean five for the Bruins moments later and sending Price to the Montreal bench in favor of backup Alex Auld. Tomas Kaberle welcomed Auld by scoring his first goal since being acquired by the Bruins on Feb. 18.
Campbell scored a shorthanded goal with the Habs on the two-man advantage in the third period. It made for his first two-goal game as a member of the Bruins.
David Krejci and Chara tied a career-high with three assists, while Lucic's three assists set a career-high.
Tim Thomas improved to 31-10-8 with the victory, and picked up his career-high eighth shutout of the season. His last shutout came on Jan. 17. His 18 games without a blanking served as teh longest stretch of the season without a shutout.
The game featured only one fight, as Campbell dropped the gloves with Belmont native Paul Mara late in the second period.
With the victory, the Bruins finished the season series with a 2-3-1 record against their rivals. At third and six place in the Eastern Conference, respectively, the teams would meet in the first round of the playoffs if the season were to end Thursday night. The Bruins have nine games remaining in the season and lead the Habs by five points. The Canadiens have seven games remaining in the season.
– As much attention as he's gotten for the wrong reasons since the March 8 Max Pacioretty hit, Chara hasn't seen his play take a hit in the slightest. With his three assists, Chara has 10 points (2 G, 8 A) in seven games since the Bruins last faced the Habs.
– Chris Kelly hasn't exactly been a fan favorite since coming to the B's prior to the trade deadline, but he had one shift on the penalty kill that probably won a few fans over. Kelly had no problem laying out on the ice to disrupt a P.K. Subban slap shot, and moments later had a shorthanded opportunity that drew a Roman Hamrlik holding call. It wasn't all roses, as Kelly took a tripping call at 1:35 of the third period, but he might be more valuable to this team than he gets credit for.
– Good to see Tyler Seguin sticking his nose into the more physical areas. The rookie has shied away from contact throughout the season, but he's clearly more willing to take it on as of late. Seguin even came to the aid of Mark Recchi after the veteran's tussle with Mara. The rookie exchanged a few shoves with Habs defenseman Brett Sopel after he felt Mike Cammalleri gave him something extra behind the Canadiens net.
– Recchi is now tied for 12th place all-time in points. His assist on Kaberle's goal put him in a tie with Paul Coffey with 1,531.
– Brad Marchand broke up a seven-game pointless streak in setting up the play that led to Kaberle's goal and getting an asssist. The rookie had just one point, an assist, in his previous to games. He has still been stuck at 19 goals on the season for over a month. Marchand last scored on Feb. 22 in Calgary.
– If the Habs weren't so dead the entire night, they would have had an opportinity to produce the makings of a comeback in the second period while trailing 3-0. After the B's outshot the Canadiens, 19-8, in the first period, the Habs had some space to work with early in the second. They came out with five shots to the Bruins' two early in the second, but a Bruins timeout and Montreal penalties doomed their chances of getting anything going.
– The Bruins don't match up well with the Habs, but if they meet in the playoffs they have to like their chances against Price at the Garden. The Montreal netminder has allowed 13 goals in his last two Garden appearances, both of which were losses.
|Tuukka Rask, Bruins beat Blue Jackets in shootout to snap skid
|03.15.11 at 9:47 pm ET
Tyler Seguin was given just 9:57 of ice time Tuesday night, but he co-starred with Tuukka Rask in a 3-2 shootout victory over the Blue Jackets that ended a four-game losing streak.
The Bruins fell behind in the final minute of the first period when Grant Clitsome sent a blast from the blue line past Rask, but a Zdeno Chara shot that went off David Krejci would tie it in the second. With the Bruins trailing in the third period and Nathan Horton in the box for holding the stick, Rich Peverley scored the B's eighth shorthanded goal of the season, beating Steve Mason for his 16th goal of the season.
Rask, who had 32 saves in regulation, made timely saves in the third period in stopping Jakub Voracek, Antoine Vermette, Derick Brassard and Derek Dorsett on key Blue Jackets opportunities. He followed that by stopping Rick Nash and Fedor Tyutin in the shootout.
The Bruins will head to Nashville to face the Predators on Thursday.
– While benching Michael Ryder may have opened some eyes, there's no debating that the Bruins are in better shape for a shootout with Seguin in the lineup. The rookie has struggled to pin down the NHL game physically, but when it comes to skating down the ice untouched, talent trumps all.
– The Bruins may have not seen much time on the power play, but they scored more than Columbus on Blue Jackets power plays. The B's killed off all six penalties they took, with Peverley scoring the timely short-handed goal.
– Either Milan Lucic or Krejci were bound to see their point streaks continue due to the B's first goal, and after a scoring change it proved to be Krejci. Lucic hit Johnny Boychuk with a pass in the offensive zone, with Boychuk setting up a Chara blast that went off Krejci before sailing past Steve Mason. Though Lucic didn't get an assist on the play, he still has six points (2 G, 4 A) in his last six games. Krejci now has at least one point in each of his last six games, and eight points (2 G, 6 A) over the span.
– Good to see Rask play the role of stopper, as he picked up the Bruins' first win in five games. The Bruins' four-game skid was the ninth time this season the team had lost at least two games in a row. Of the previous eight occurrences, Tim Thomas had gotten the win that followed the first five losing streaks, with Rask now serving as the stopper in the last four. That's a combination of both coincidence and the fact that Claude Julien is giving his young goaltender more time down the stretch.
– Mark Recchi continues the climb up the list for most games played. Tuesday, he surpassed former Bruin Dave Andreychuk, and at 1,640 games, Recchi is now fifth all-time.
– The Bruins had just one power play in the game, and it lasted all of five seconds. Patrice Bergeron took an interference penalty following the face-off that began an Antione Vermette hooking minor. The team's power play struggles have been well-documented (just one power play goal since Feb. 28), and having just five seconds on the man advantage isn't exactly the right way to remedy them.
– Scottie Upshall continues to haunt Rask. Nice puck-movement by his line drew Rask way out of his net with less than eight minutes to go, and Upshall easily put his 20th of the season into an unoccupied net. The goal was his third goal against Rask in three games facing him.
– That's now two games in a row in which Nathan Horton has taken a penalty in the final seven minutes of the game with the Bruins trailing. Horton was called for interference at 13:12 of the third period against the Islanders on Saturday, and he went off at 13:06 for holding the stick. Of course, the Bruins ended up tying the game with Horton in the box, but it certainly isn't the type of habit the B's want to develop. Krejci would later be called for a cross-check with 4:34 remaining.


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European Stocks Rebound
European stocks edged higher Thursday, recovering from heavy falls a day earlier, with investors refraining from making any bold moves before Spain unveiled its budget, which came as trading wound down.
Headlines on Spain's plans began to filter through as European markets closed. The government said it would tap €3 billion ($3.9 billion) from a reserve fund to cover its liquidity needs. The euro was briefly dented on the news, falling to a session low of $1.2833. The common currency soon recovered to trade at $1.2889, up from $1.2871 late Wednesday in New York.
Spain's budget minister also said the country would meet budget-deficit targets this year, but expects a 'soft recession' next year.
The benchmark Stoxx 600 index rose 0.3% to 271.65. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index rose 0.2% to 5779.42, Germany's DAX gained 0.2% to 7290.02 and France's CAC-40 advanced 0.7% to 3439.32.
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The news from Spain and a move by China to add liquidity to its banking system helped U.S. stocks, looking for their first gain of the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 66 points, or 0.5%, to 13479 in midday trading. The S&P 500 rose 11 points, or 0.8%, to 1444. Energy shares led gains as oil prices rose. Technology shares also rose, paring losses that have made the sector the worst-performing of the index's 10 groups this week. The Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 32 points, or 0.7%, to 3126.
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Spain's 10-year government bond yield eased to 5.92% after trading above 6%, according to Tradeweb. Italy's corresponding yield fell to 5.10%.
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The story came to me from troubling thoughts about the compromise between liberty and security free societies must make. What is labeled by some as "collateral damage" that is unavoidable in a war (even one on terror), is to the unjustly tormented a far more personal reality. The ghosts of souls broken by wars throughout the ages would certainly haunt our societies if they existed. EXTRAORDINARY RETRIBUTION was written because I heard their voices and could not get them out of my mind. As with book 1 of the series, THE RAGNARÖK CONSPIRACY, the genesis of the novel was as much from an effort to exorcise these voices as tell an involving story.
In the process, two new characters came to life that have become a part of me and the continuing series. One is a rogue CIA agent, something not unusual for the genre. The other is a Catholic priest, which is decidedly not a common element in a high-octane thriller. Both go through a transformation by fire that forever changes their lives.
About the Author
His novels have been called "unique" and "pulse-pounding" (THE RAGNARÖK CONSPIRACY), "altogether profound, reminiscent of Bradbury and Dan Simmons' Hyperion" (DAUGHTER OF TIME TRILOGY), and "startlingly dark" (EXTRAORDINARY RETRIBUTION) with five star ratings in Foreword Reviews, San Francisco Book Reviews, Portland Book Review, and others.


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Finger print scanner
I have had my HD Envy for a couple of weeks but this is the first problem ive had. the fingerprint scanner is registering a fingerprint constantly without me touching it, this made it hard to lock in but i have managed to now. the light next to the scanner is also not turning on, any suggestions?
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Welcome to the HP Forum.
I am not sure I understand the issue you are facing.
- What kind of computer do you have?
- What kind of Windows are you running?
- Which version of the fingerprint software are you using?
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The way I read your post it sounds like the fingerprinter is both active and not active at the same time.
- Can you please clarify the manner in which the fingerprinter is "registering a fingerprint constantly without me touching it"?
If the light is not active, then the fingerprinter is not actively seeking input. This is only an issue if the fingerprinter fails to activate when it should do so.
Certain types of perceived input from the system can trigger the fingerprinter -- when the system is working properly, this might be the case when the system senses an available login screen in an active browser. In this case, the fingerprinter may blink as a means to inform the user that input is expected. "Input" is defined as a registered fingertip swipe.
The fingerprinter may blink in a constant on/off/on sequence when the database that controls the fingerprinter is active -- this is expected if the proper triggers have been applied. For example, if you open your favorite browser and your home page is set to a website that is registered with your fingerprint login, the fingerprinter blinks. If you fail to open that page and move on to another "open window" or "tab", then the database should settle (blinking stops); if the database remains active due to having fallen into a "confused" state (code loop?), then the light may continue to blink and the database hangs in a "here, not there" state of "non readyness". (Forgive the poor use of grammer.)
Regardless of the confused state of the device, you might start with the following option. This type of reset does not destroy data; this reset is a "drain and fresh" method of restarting your device driver software.
- Close all your programs and Shut down the computer
- Disconnect everything (little Unifier for the keyboard / external mouse can stay)
- Perform the Hard Reset for your notebook
- Boot the computer and log in
If the reset revolves the issue, you are done. Fixed. Ta-Da!
If it does not, please provide the information needed and we can look at this again.
Click the Kudos Star!
It is a nice way to say "Thank You" for the help.
Although I strive to reflect HP's best practices, I do not work for HP.
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Hi, thanks for replying. My problem is that when i try to log in to my laptop, (a HP Envy j4 something or other), it thinks that i am giving it my fingerprint, then saying that it is not valid even though i have not scanned my print. Due to the fact that this happens even when i try to type my password it keeps resting me to the first log in menu so i have to quickly type in my password before it throws me back again. also no light is appearring next to it at all when it used to flash white when the finger print was right and orange when it was wrong.
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OK, thanks for the explanation about what you are seeing.
- I do need the requested information so I can judge whether I can answer your inquiry effectively.
Computer model:
Locate the Notebook Product Number
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Which version of the Windows operating system am I running?
Start > search / type "winver" > click on winver
Is the Windows Version on My Computer 32-bit or 64-bit?
- What version of HP SimplePass are you running?
- Has the SimplePass program ever worked correctly?
- Did you make any changes (that you know about) just before the issue started?
- Did you try the Hard Reset ?
Simple Test at login
If you are running a version of Windows that shows a left facing ARROW on the login screen somewhere near the upper left your login user Icon, you might be able to tap that arrow to allow the Windows login to slide over where it shows all the user accounts on the system -- in your case, as in the case of many people, there may only be one account showing. Nonetheless, the simple act of click on the ARROW may be enough to reset your login screen so it won't freak out. Tiny chance, but worth trying.
When I know more about what you have, what you are running, and whether you tried the Hard Reset, I will better know if I can help you.
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It is a nice way to say "Thank You" for the help.
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"When the faithful were persecuted, as in Soviet times, people aspired more to spirituality – young people, everyone," he said. "Now, when you have the chance to manifest your spirituality, people are turning away; different values have emerged among young people – material values … non-spiritual values."
It's partially ended - there are Old Ritualist parishes under the Moscow Patriarchate in Russia and under the ROCOR in Pennsylvania.
Hence the use of the word "partially" :-).I wasn't aware that the Bezpopovtsy were still so numerous - from what I'd read they did not endure Communism as well as the Belokrinitsy and other Popovtsy or recover from it as quickly. (Though perhaps that's not the case in the Diaspora?)
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Present Music celebrates composer Ince at Wilson Center
Present Music celebrated its 20-year-plus relationship with composer Kamran Ince on Saturday with a concert dedicated entirely to his work.
Kevin Stalheim, artistic director of the new-music ensemble, joked that Ince is "kind of like a brother to me, including all the bad stuff," but any differences were worked out well before the concert at the Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield.
Ince, a Turkish-American composer, can conjure up distant mountains and sinuous Eastern melismas with the best of them, particularly in "Asumani," a duet for cello and ney, a breathy-sounding Turkish wind instrument. Cellist Peter Thomas, who keeps a full schedule of nontraditional gigs, was a good choice to explore this exotic sound world in partnership with Mehmet Ali Sanlikol on the ney. (Sanlikol also presented two solo Turkish pieces: one sung, one played on the zurna, which sounds like its name.)
In larger ensembles, Ince's Western side showed through a little more. "Zamboturfidir" and "Two-Step Passion" both used repeated ostinato figures, fragments of melody that repeat endlessly with small but intriguing variations, and intensely rhythmic sections set off by wispy, ethereal sounds.
Occasionally, Ince let his oddly assorted instruments soar in massed chorales; more often, the aggressive baritone saxophone and bass trombone parts punctuated the strings like grease-pencil doodles on a watercolor painting.
In the remarkable "Dreamlines," musicians had to speak several lines of Turkish text, and also sing wordless melodies while playing their instruments. The overall effect was a long, slow crescendo of tranquil gestures up to a luminous final major chord.
Ince conducted with much more animation than I remember from his previous appearance with Present Music for his opera "The Judgment of Midas." On Saturday, he looked like a loose-jointed marionette as he urged the musicians onward.
The program opened with "Partita in E" for violin and percussion, operating on the far edge of Ince's tendency to assemble random fragments. Violinist Eric Segnitz handled the technical demands easily, including almost constant double stops (playing two notes at once). Percussionist Carl Storniolo partnered with Segnitz on many instruments and on many John Cage-like blocks of silence.
Present Music's first-ever concert at the Wilson Center drew a decent crowd, but it skewed older. The good sprinkling of hipsters who usually attend the ensemble's downtown concerts apparently chose not to drive to Brookfield.


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More than any of the previous trailers, this one focuses more on the journey to catch Osama bin Laden than the actual capture. Jessica Chastain's Maya is at the center of that, although this trailer makes it evident that many more people than just her were involved.
Zero Dark Thirty has earned some criticism for its take on torture during the Iraq War and hunt for bin Laden. This trailer opens with a tease of that, but it doesn't show any of the interrogation techniques. At least it does tease the great performance Jason Clarke gives as Maya's CIA colleague Dan.
Formerly referred to as Kill Bin Laden, the movie has been at the center of a political firestorm in which opponents accuse the Obama administration of giving the filmmakers access to classified material. Written by Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), Zero Dark Thirty stars Chastain, Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Jennifer Ehle, Kyle Chandler and Edgar Ramirez.
Bin Laden should have been placed in a large glass pickle jar and put on display at the Smithsonian next to another glass empty pickle jar with the sigh " to be determined" . I am glad that this movie came out. Justice is partially served. God bless America.
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Got a new phone (Nexus S) and having some issues with picture messaging. I want to check the size of the picture I took with the camera, but I can't seem to do this. As I don't have a data plan yet, I can't download any apps to help me with this. Is there a way to find the file size on the device without apps or connecting to a computer (no USB cable)
Is there a file manager called "My Files"? Most Samsung phones have that by default now, although I'm unsure if Vanilla Google Android on the Nexus S will have that. Check file size through that.


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That's That: A Memoirby Colin Broderick
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How can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from?
Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone the heart of rebel country. In That's That, he brings us into this world and delivers/i>/b>
How can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from?
Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone the heart of rebel country. In That's That, he brings us into this world and delivers a deeply personal account of what it was like to come of age in the midst of a war that dragged on for over two decades. We watch as he and his brothers play ball with the neighbor children over a fence for years, but are never allowed to play together because it is forbidden. We see him struggle to understand why young men from his community often just disappear. And we feel his frustration when he is held at gunpoint at various military checkpoints in the North. At the center of his world—and this story—is Colin's mother. Desperate to protect her children from harm, she has little patience for Colin's growing need to experience and understand all that is happening around them. Spoken with stern finality, "That's that" became the refrain of Colin's childhood.
The first book to paint a detailed depiction of Northern Ireland's Troubles, That's That is told in the wry, memorable voice of a man who's finally come to terms with his past.
Editorial Reviews
"Colin Broderick is in the front rank of Irish storytellers. In this memoir he walks us through Irish history and mythology, explores fallacies, tells us of savagery and humor, all in simple but colorful language. I exhort you to read That's That and obviously that is that."
—Malachy McCourt
"That's That is Broderick's apotheosis. It's the hard won testament he brought back from his broken past. It turned out that it was love and not war that shaped him, but it can take half a lifetime to figure that out if the world you grew up in was daily rocked by bombs and barbarism. In That's That Broderick does something that takes remarkable courage, he tells the truth. It's the ultimate revolutionary act. It isn't his parent's truth or his community's truth. It's his own, and it's unassailable."
—Cahir O'Doherty, Irish Voice
"A Northern Irish gutbucket version of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Colin Broderick writes with clarity and heart about a time of moral ambiguity, when war and repression were daily facts of life."
—T. J. English, author of The Savage City and Paddy Whacked
"Broderick renders the conflict in the North of Ireland with an intimacy and honesty at once brutal, poignant, and unforgettable. Somehow, amid a landscape of ancient hatreds and unblinking cruelties, he manages to unearth the possibilities of hope and redemption. He is writer of extraordinary talent."
—Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy and Hour of the Cat
"What poverty is to ANGELA'S ASHES political turmoil is to THAT'S THAT, Colin Broderick's stirring coming-of-age memoir of growing up Catholic in the North during the so-called Troubles. Written with verve and raw honesty, the book is both a captivating saga of personal discovery and the eye-opening story of how one boy experienced this shocking chapter in Irish history."
—Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate
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Mother. Ireland.
Seen from the window of a plane Ireland is a patchwork quilt, little square fields of green stitched together by thin rows of thorns; spring green, fern green, forest green, pine, sea and shamrock green. From above, she is clean, mystical, magical to behold. That is her first great act of deceit, her lush, rolling beauty the first betrayal of her truth, for on the ground, and deeper still, buried beneath that verdant lawn is her pain; underneath, there is blood.
I assume you've heard bits and pieces of the history of Ireland already, some of the landmark atrocities that have made international news over the years, or perhaps you've heard snippets grumbled over small glasses of amber in the dim light of a smoky tavern in the Bronx, stories of the long and bitter hatred between the English and the Irish, of heroic young men in balaclavas, petrol bombs being hurled into the dark night, monuments of flame on the claustrophobic streets of Belfast, the ghosts of skeletal boys, naked and excrement-smeared, starving themselves to death in the cold cells of the H-Block. And if you did receive your Irish history lesson in a bar from some furtive creature with a brogue, then as the night wore on, you surely heard about his mother also, for every drink poured in an Irish bar leads back to the mother. As you may well know, there is no mother like the Irish mother, and there is no love more wounded and fierce than the love between an Irish mother and her son.
In honor of that age-old tradition I, too, will start with the history. (The mother I will get to in just a little bit.)
In about 6000 BC the first humans arrived in Ireland. They stayed close to the shores, hunting and fishing for their food. Two thousand years later they had evolved into farmers; they grew crops and kept sheep, pigs, and cattle.
Around 500 BC the Celts arrived in Ireland and took to running the show. They were a wild bunch, prone to battles and orgies of food, drink, dancing, and much lovemaking. Their spiritual guides were Druids, and polygamy was embraced if you could afford it; many could. The Celts divided Ireland up into many kingdoms and worshiped many gods, and the craic was high and mighty, for a while.
Things went along like that without much of a hiccup until an English lad called Patrick came along. He had been kidnapped and held as a slave for a few years by the Celts and he returned in the year 430 AD for retribution. He began telling the Celts that their lifestyle was evil and that the real God, the one true God up in heaven, would punish them for their debauched ways and sentence them to a place called hell. There they would burn in a molten lava–type substance for eternity once they died. Patrick had the gift of the gab, as they say. Many listened. Christianity had arrived.
Six hundred years later, in 1155, once the Irish had been corralled into a more malleable state with a good dose of Christian shame, humiliation, and fear, Pope Adrian came along, the first and only Englishman ever to hold the papacy. He gave the entire island of Ireland to the king of England, King Henry II. Henry, in turn, bequeathed unto his son John the new moniker Lord of Ireland, and John was welcome to hang on to his new title just as long as he kept paying Adrian and the Vatican an annual fee for the honor of retaining sole slavery rights of the Irish people. It was a sweet deal, and John was just about as happy as a clam at high tide to throw the boys over at the Vatican their yearly bone.
In 1536, Henry VIII had himself anointed the king of Ireland by the Irish Parliament, which was comprised at the time of a bunch of his English buddies. Henry VIII decreed that all the Irish chieftains must Anglicize their names and that all of the English landowners, who had arrived in Ireland claiming all the best land up and down the country for themselves, must now clear their estates of native Irish workers. Of course, this was impossible because the landowners needed to keep the Irish on as slaves to work the land, but the threat of banishment for even the slightest misstep was a wonderful little tool to keep the Irish workers on their toes, and productivity soared.
As you can imagine, by this point the Irish natives were getting a little restless. In 1641 there was a rebellion in the northern part of the country known as Ulster, and twelve thousand Irish were slaughtered for their effort. But they had stirred a nest of bees. Others throughout the country had been awakened to the possibility of defeating the English and ending the horror of living as slaves. England got wind of the whispers and they sent Oliver Cromwell and his army across the Channel to put an end to any buzzing.
In 1649, when Cromwell first arrived in the town of Drogheda, he decided to make a name for himself right away. He slaughtered 2,600 people—the entire population of the town: "I am persuaded that this is the righteous judgment of God upon those barbarous wretches," he said famously, before rolling on down to Wexford and repeating this act.
Over the next ten years, the population of the Irish natives was halved by sword, starvation, and disease. More than 600,000 were killed or died. Another 100,000 were shipped off into slavery in the West Indies. The handful of Irish Catholics still standing were denied voting rights and access to education, and all of their foodstuffs were confiscated and shipped off to England. Then to put the icing on the cake, all land belonging to Irish Catholics was confiscated and given to English Protestants, and that was that.
Thirty years later, there was so much wealth to be gained from the plunder of Ireland's dairy, meat, and grain products that the English started scuffling among themselves for ownership rights. King James II, who had been deposed from the English throne after producing a Catholic heir, made an attempt to win Ireland back for himself from the hands of the new English king, his successor, William of Orange. James had the support of many Irish who believed he would put an end to discriminatory English penal laws (basically a set of English laws that forbade civil rights and housing to anyone accused of being a practicing Catholic) and restore Irish sovereignty once and for all. In July 1690, the two armies met outside Drogheda for the Battle of the Boyne and later in Limerick to give it a lash. William of Orange was victorious. Even today the Protestants of Northern Ireland, "Orangemen," celebrate the victory by erecting enormous bonfires and burning the Irish national flag, just to rub Catholic noses in it every year on July 12.
Things were quiet for a period after that thrashing, but in secret the Irish were regaining their strength and getting ready to take another crack at the throne. In the rebellion of 1798 another 30,000 Catholic Irish were slaughtered in an uprising. The great Irish republican hero Mr. Wolfe Tone attempted a landing with a fleet of French ships and 14,000 French troops ready to join the fray against the English, but they encountered such gale-force storms off the coast of Bantry Bay, County Cork, that they eventually had to turn back. The uprising was quelled. The English eventually caught Mr. Wolfe Tone on another one of his missions up at Buncrana on Lough Swilly, County Donegal. He was imprisoned and upon being denied his request that he be given the death of a soldier by being shot (they sentenced him to be hanged), he cut his own throat in his cell and bled to death rather than suffer the humiliation.
A few years later, inspired by Tone, Robert Emmet also led a small group in an uprising in Dublin but he was caught, hanged, then drawn and quartered.
Daniel O'Connell was the next to take the baton in hand and run with it. After a few chaotic years, he managed to rally enough public support to force the English into granting the Irish the Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829, which meant that we were now bestowed a few basic human rights, such as the right to run for public office and own a little land. A small light of hope glimmered for the first time since Saint Patrick had showed up in town almost fifteen hundred years earlier spouting his great divine vision for the Irish soul.
But the candle was soon extinguished when the potato crop failed a little more than a decade later in 1845, then again in 1846. By 1847 the island of Ireland was engulfed in the darkest period of her history to date. The potato was about the only food the English had left the slaves access to, and suddenly it was gone. Not that there weren't enough foodstuffs being produced in Ireland to keep the population alive. On the contrary, there was an abundance of wheat, meat, and dairy products available, but the English chose to ship those foodstuffs off to the homeland for themselves.
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Skip to comments.Obama's Brutal Gaffe: Low Gas Prices Cratered Our Economy
Posted on 10/17/2012 12:32:23 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama's Brutal Gaffe: Low Gas Prices Cratered Our Economy
by Ben Shapiro 17 Oct 2012, 11:48 AM PDT
Last night, President Barack Obama dropped the biggest campaign gaffe of the season only the media wasnt watching. It happened during his testy exchange with Mitt Romney over gas prices. First, Obama denied that hed done anything about denying licenses on oil and gas; he backed off of that shortly. Then he denied that production on federal land was down; he was lying. Finally, Romney hit him with this devastating line:
The proof of whether a strategy is working or not is what the price is that you're paying at the pump. If you're paying less than you paid a year or two ago, why, then, the strategy is working. But you're paying more. When the president took office, the price of gasoline here in Nassau County was about $1.86 a gallon. Now, it's $4.00 a gallon.
Obamas response was horrendous:
Well, think about what the governor -- think about what the governor just said. He said when I took office, the price of gasoline was $1.80, $1.86. Why is that? Because the economy was on the verge of collapse, because we were about to go through the worst recession since the Great Depression, as a consequence of some of the same policies that Governor Romney's now promoting. So, it's conceivable that Governor Romney could bring down gas prices because with his policies, we might be back in that same mess.
In other words, bringing down gas prices by drilling creates economic recession. That was Obamas argument.
Does anyone think this president understands basic economics?
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Ya, did a search on the comments. Probably should check sources first before posting something like that. Too good to be true.
At the very least he should say it was a bipartisan problem, and that both parties did not agree to reform Fannie and Freddie's mortgage lending practices when they needed to. He just lets Obama completely tar the Bush administration for the financial crisis, and uses that as his basis for saying we can't go back to "Republican" rule. To me it's a losing proposition to NOT challenge Obama on that.
I guess I wasn't listening to the same debate. Seemed Obama said the bad economy created the low prices, which is perfectly reasonable in theory. I don't get Breitbart sometimes.
High gas prices increases transportation costs. This impacts delivery of raw materials to manufacturing plants, delivery of finished products to stores, delivery of agriculture products (food) to stores, costs in consumer transportation (cars, buses, ferries, planes (avgas)). This drives up consumer prices.
High gas prices are the result of high crude prices and/or high global demand. Gasoline competes with plastics, heating oil and lubricants for crude. If gas goes up, it's also likely that lube oils are more costly, that heating oils are more costly, which in turn increases the operating costs of manufacturing plants, which also leads to increased consumer prices.
Less money in consumers' pockets due to higher costs results in less commerce for discretionary items. This is what leads to a poor economy.
So what about the idea that low gas prices is a leading indicator of a cratering economy? I don't think so. Gas prices are driven by supply and demand, but crude is also very fungible. If the theory is that a faltering economy uses less gas, and therefore low demand pushes prices down, therefore low prices reflect a poor economy that isn't using energy like it used to, remember that the crude would simply be sent overseas to economies that will use it. Oil companies will not settle for cheaper prices, they will sell the oil at competitive prices in other markets, reducing supply here and keeping prices constant.
Higher prices is the result of low supply as well as higher demand. Eventually, supply will match demand at a market price point. Romney was saying that Obama cut off drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the east coast, and federal inlands. Obama also blocked the Keystone pipeline from Canada. These all contribute to lower supply, which is driving up prices.
If Obama is saying that lower gas prices means a bad economy, and therefore that higher gas prices means a good economy, he's wrong.
I heard Rush talking about this today and was reminded of how little I think of Rush's mind t times. It is perfectly reasonable economics that when times are bad, prices go down. The fact that he, and people here don't see that is bewildering.
Food prices are on the rise, because gas is on the rise. All other consumer prices will rise due to the cost of transportation.
Gas prices are controlled by the ME which is in chaos - look for higher prices and more inflation. This will not improve the economy or create jobs.
The only winner will be public transportation for people who have to park their cars or move closer to a job (if they have one).
The low gas prices are more of a coincident indicator not a leading indicator. They might even be slightly lagging.
What about Obama's claim that Romney stood in front of a coal-fired power plant in MA and allegedly said that this plant is harming people?! That has got to be either a lie or taken grossly out of context, did you catch that?
However, it was actually an oil price shock that set off our economic crisis. That's what caused the dry up of disposable income, the rise in unemployment, the mortgage defaults and the bank liquidity crisis, in that order.
So actually an excessive rise in oil prices is a leading indicator and causative agent of an economic recession.
I thought the mortgage issue was banks loaning money to people who couldn't afford it. Once they bought homes at the high real estate bubble, the bubble burst and the home values declined, leaving the mortgages upside down (mortgages worth more than homes). So, people walked away from their mortgages.
That wasn't a case of high consumer prices using up money that would go to mortgages. People didn't have the incomes to pay for the mortgages onces the ARMs adjusted. They wouldn't have, no matter what the gas prices were.
"The corollary of this theory is that paying $4.00 means that the economy is roaring. Imagine how we will be doing when we are paying $10.00."
With that we'd probably "improve" to near-EU levels.
No y'all are misunderstanding what Obama said. Obama didn't say the low prices caused the bad economy. He said the low prices were the result of the bad economy.
And Obama said Romney could cause more low oil prices by crashing the economy with his policies. Not that Romney policies would lower oil prices and cause a crash, but that his policies would crash the economy, and oil prices would fall as a result of the bad economy. Thus Romney would successfully bring oil prices back down by crashing the economy.
I don't remember exactly what Romney said about prices, other than that they had increased due to Obama's policies.
I too was scratching my head, and yes, I shouted
So according to Obama, a recession will drive down gas prices and a strong economy = high gas prices?
Ummmm. Don't think so.
Notice CC decided to remain "a fly on the wall" for that one though.
NONE of those guys said that or else they'd be part of the 99% right now.
He would be correct. Strong economy equals more demand for fuel equals higher prices. When demand fell like it did in 2008 prices fell. Why did demand fall?
but the enigma here is that clearly our economy is NOT currently strong, but gas prices are through the roof.
My take on oil prices is somewhat different. No one here is addressing the Fed's impact on oil prices. Oil is traded in US dollars. The Fed has been printing money for the past 4 years, big-time. So the real value of a dollar has been diminished, by how much I couldn't say. So the sheiks want more of these cheaper dollars for their barrel of oil.
That was the most asinine comment I've ever heard. I'm thinking we should be wishing for $10 gallon gasoline so we can have a good economy.
Our economy is stronger than it was in 2008-2009, but that isn't the whole picture. Crude oil is traded on the world market and rises and falls on worldwide demand, not just how we are doing here. China and India are becoming huge consumers of oil.
the sad thing is that what he said, makes sense to about 30-40% of the population.
What is causing the outrageous gasoline prices with crude hovering at 92 bucks?
even your pets had to laugh! yah, then why is it 4.00 a gallon now?
Gas prices in Jan-05, the start of W's second term were about $1.85. The week prior to the Lehman collapse in Sep-08 they were about $3.80. 4Q08 GDP declined by 8.9% and Jan-09 payrolls fell by 818,000. I have to believe that such a hit to the economy goes along way to explaining the gas price in Jan-09. Also, if 1.80 gas is so great, why was Newt only wiliing to promise $2.50?
The price of gas in Jan-05, the start of W's second term was about $1.85. The week prior to the Lehman collapse in Sep-08 it was 3.80. That was followed by 4Q08 GDP of -8.9% and Jan-09 payroll declines of 818,000. I have to believe those circumstances were a key component to the gas price levels seen in Jan-09. Also, if $1.80 gas is so great, why was Newt only willing to commit to $2.50?
Positive. Look at a chart of oil prices for the 2000's. Then look at a chart of unemployment. There was a spike in 2002 that we never fully recovered from. The economy was reflecting a weak economy then, outsourcing had already begun to take it's toll. Then you see unemployment start rising much faster almost a year before the banking crisis hit the fan.
Most people who got mortgages, had jobs and could afford the mortgage when issued. But once oil went up, they started having trouble. Once it went up enough, they started losing their jobs and the defaults grew.
Mortgages take it on the chin in every recession and in hindsight it looks like a real estate bubble. It's usually not. Sometimes there are speculative bubbles but those tend to be regional. Mortgages are a symptom of the general health of the economy. When people lose their jobs they default.
The defaults grew until a money market fund broke the dollar for the first time in history. Money market funds are limited to investing in short term investments. That's one of the things that drove the market in mortgage derivative products. Derivative companies would split the mortgage payments into a series of cashflows. Payments due in the near future would be bundled into a security sold to the money markets. Payments occurring later in the life of the mortgage would be bundled into a security sold to the life insurance companies.
When that money market fund broke the dollar it scared the banks and liquidity dried up almost instantly.
Meanwhile, the bipartisan repeal of Glass Steagall in the late 90's had allowed banks to invest in riskier stuff. They mollified the FDIC by claiming they had hedged their risk with offsetting credit default swaps. The FDIC accepted this despite that they had failed to regulate them and didn't know if the company that had issued them could really stand behind them.
On top of that the Federal Reserve had exempted different types of bank accounts and various funds until the effective reserve ratio was about 1%. So that when the credit crisis hit, followed almost immediately by a liquidity crisis, the FED had no reserve to fall back on. Thus President Bush was forced to go to Congress and issue an emergency appeal for loans to stop the liquidity crisis. This public appeal killed any remaining consumer psychology that was left.
It was a comedy of errors, but the mortgages were not the cause, a weakened economy due to unwise trade policies, high gas prices and unemployment is what caused the defaults. There was some mortgage fraud but it wasn't that much.
You can say that the loosening of mortgage standards and subsequent tightening made the situation worse. But we would have had problems anyway.
Gas prices are driven by world wide demand and supply and to some extent speculation.
Any politician actually predicting a price is sharing a hope and a prayer. There are some things that they can do to help drive the price down, but to guarantee a price, or even that the price will go down, no.
Gas prices are driven by world wide demand and supply and to some extent speculation.
Any politician actually predicting a price is sharing a hope and a prayer. There are some things that they can do to help drive the price down, but to guarantee a price, or even that the price will go down, no.
I thought Obama's words were a little wacky, too. I didn't view it like the author did as "drilling creates recession."
I heard Obama say "recession causes fuel price increases."
I'm trying to wrap my head around that. If I don't have a job, and don't have as much money, then I can't buy as much fuel, so increasing the supply of fuel and decreasing the demand for fuel causes a price increase.
That's news to me. I always thought greater supply and lesser demand caused a decrease in price.
What was the previous year's gas prices before 0bama? There was no sudden fall IIRC.
And, 0bama said gas prices were so low b/c we were on the VERGE of a great recession... not that demand was low already.
No, he screwed the pooch on this one.
Actually that is the way it works. A weak economy means less demand and a lower price. A strong economy means more demand and a higher price. It's a little distorted because of the cartel OPEC. But it still works. The OPEC members also have enough non-oil investments that they strive to get the highest price they can without tanking the economy.
Bingo. The price of gasoline in silver or gold is pretty flat.
However, I do think the economy was being weakened by the constant outsourcing overseas due to free trade. Both oil and job exporting was driving up unemployment and reducing disposable income. We "might" have been able to handle one or the other, but both were deadly.
***** "Not absurd at all. It is fact. Sorry some of you cant get it, but this is a losing argument. Crude oil and gas prices crashed in mid 2008 when the world economy took a dive.
Fact" *****
And it is twice the price now because the Economy is twice as good? Is that a FACT too?
Don't know about anyone else but in my business the phones were ringing today... all because Zero looks like he is on his way out... of those I discussed Politics with the biggest concern was "What the FOOL will do on his way out and can or will Romney be able undo it"
PRICE is but an indicator premised upon many things including supply and demand. Obama was arguing demand in regard to the supply issue that Romney brought up -THEREFORE in my opinion Obama was either clueless or adding another layer of lying to cover his ass as far as his efforts to reduce American supply of energy...
Good point -YES, that impacts price.
Obama might argue that recession leads to low gas prices, due to lack of demand.
And hed be right during the worst throes of recession, gas prices (along with all other prices) drop. But Obama didnt argue that.
Instead, he argued that low gas prices destroy the economy. Which is simply asinine.
And if that asinine argument means that Obama is fine with high gas prices, were set for a second recession.
But times are bad now so the price should be below 1,89.
As I said earlier, if demand falls in the United States (for whatever reason), the price won't fall because the supply will be adjusted as the oil companies sell their oil overseas instead.
A global commodity like oil won't behave like a domestic product that can only be sold locally or it's wasted, resulting in lower prices to at least get something for the product.
Last night, President Barack Obama dropped the biggest campaign gaffe of the season only the media wasnt watching.
Oh, the media was watching. They just didn't care.
Even Letterman had some good one-liners.
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ďWeíre gonna do a good show,Ē he declared. ďEvery time Tina has come back, the showís been great.Ē
Heís talking about former ďSNLĒ regular and frequent guest Tina Fey, of course, back again to host this season premiere (Saturday at 11:30 p.m. EDT on NBC, with musical guest Arcade Fire).
Joining Michaels for a phone interview on Tuesday, Fey laughingly labeled ďa coincidenceĒ her presence on any good shows sheís guest hosted. But she offered a couple of ways she might be serving ďSNLĒ well this week.
ďOne, I have nothing to promote,Ē she promised, ďso weíve got plenty of time for other things.
ďTwo, Iím always happy to play straight person, so, hopefully, the cast will get to do more than when they have other kinds of hosts. You might get to see those new guys more. Although Iím not promising their parents anything.Ē
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Michaels agreed that neither their parents nor any other viewer should count on them making a splash on opening night.
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ďThe intent is always to go slowly and not put anyone out there unless you feel they can score,Ē Michaels said.
ďI think if they have one line as a waiter in a sketch, theyíll be thrilled,Ē Fey said.
These six newcomers are helping fill the larger-than-usual void left last season by exiting ďSNLĒ stars Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis.
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ďI saw them all within the last week,Ē he said dryly, ďso I donít really feel their absence.Ē
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ďI canít concern myself with how viewers feel,Ē he cracked, which made Fey chuckle.
ďItís always been that way,Ē Michaels went on, turning serious. He pointed to ďSNLĒ alums Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler and Fey, who all got big laughs as part of Sundayís Emmycast.
ďYou feel really proud that theyíre as good as they are, and that you were part of that,Ē he said. ďBut `Saturday Night Liveí has always been about reinvention, and weíre doing it again. Thatís what keeps the show alive.Ē
On Monday, he and Fey flew back from Los Angeles, where ďSaturday Night LiveĒ landed its 40th Emmy (the most for any series in history) and Fey shared the comedy-series writing Emmy with Tracey Wigfield for ď30 Rock.Ē On arriving in New York, they went straight to the weekís first ďSNLĒ meeting at 10 p.m.
This season promises to be even busier than usual for Michaels, the famous multi-tasker, whose duties now include ďThe Tonight ShowĒ with Jimmy Fallon hosting from New York starting early next year.
With this promotion, Fallon will leave ďLate Night,Ē also part of Michaelsí empire. Seth Meyers takes over that hosting assignment.
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ďCount on Seth through February,Ē Michaels said, ďand I think he knows he can stay after that. It will be up to him to assess if he can handle the workload.Ē
Can Michaels handle his mammoth workload? Why not re-hire Fey, whose ď30 RockĒ has ended its seven-season run, to oversee ďSNLĒ every week and ease his pace?
ďIf thereís any way you could convince her, that would be great,Ē he laughed.
ďI think they know what theyíre doing,Ē she said.
Instead, Fey is now huddled with her partner Robert Garlock developing pilots for shows she wouldnít appear in. (She said she would ďloveĒ to star in a new series sometime, ďbut it just seemed like good manners to sit out a season or two.Ē)
Meanwhile, Michaels is kicking off a new season of the show he says consumes some 80 percent of his time, and insists he has no plans to step away.
Understood. But at age 68, and after decades running the comedy juggernaut he launched in 1975, doesnít he get a little tired of the grind?
ďVERY tired of it!Ē he hastily replied. ďBut then that music starts at 11:30, and you remember itís a very exciting place to be!Ē
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William Guy William Guy Jan 17, 2013 13:02 Flag
Quiet in here....
perhaps people have been driven away by the sheer volume of stupid posts you make - you seem to want to pick a fight with everyone or try to goad everyone
this must be the first football related post you have made in 6 months if everSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
even pixies initial post was a direct goading of those who have disagreed with him recently about Wenger.
Once a c()ny always a c()nt!
much love
FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Jan 17, 2013 13:39 Flag
And the world awaits your posts with baited breath.
I mean, they are so informative, and you express your views so eloquently.
Just a shame all you ever do is write about either me, or Slayer, or 'Geordie girl' huh.
Who are you then?
Either a very wound up Chris, or an extremely wound up 'Eric' no doubt.
Much love.
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FABONGRASSS FABONGRASSS Jan 17, 2013 14:20 Flag
Looking like you are yet another Rikki the OAP ID actually.
F*ck me he's one proper little saddo.