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The consolidation warning issued for the Nasdaq 100 index (QQQ) on 5/12/14 has ended. This was another bad signal for QQQ and continues to show how resilient the general market has been since the beginning of 2013.
Index Updates
Here's some quick charts of QQQ and SPX with Twitter and StockTwits sentiment readings. QQQ is most likely going to close its consolidation warning today. The StockTwits community still has SPX on a consolidation warning and doesn't like the sideways action over the past few months. Sentiment from the Twitter stream isn't too impressed with the recent action either. However, the break above 1900 today is bringing some strong readings. As a result, sentiment will probably break its downtrend line and signal the resumption of the uptrend in the next day or two.
Still Waiting for a Direction
Not much has changed over the past week. The market is still compressing in the range we've been watching. However, a bit of volatility was present with a trip to both the top and the bottom of the range. I'm still looking mostly at breadth for the most likely signs that the market will enter a correction or at least make a trip to the 200 day moving average. Our Sentiment indicator for the S&P 500 index (SPX) that reads the StockTwits stream is still on a consolidation warning and has made another lower high. Sentiment from the Twitter stream looks much the same, however it didn't have a clear up trend so it couldn't officially warn. This week it made a higher low and a higher high so we have good triangle in place to watch for hints to the direction SPX will break from the range. Currently the odds favor a break lower since smoothed sentiment has a negative divergence with price. Support and resistance levels gleaned from
Consolidation Warning for Nasdaq 100
Today at the close a consolidation warning was issued for the Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQ) from the Twitter stream. This follows the consolidation warning for the S&P 500 Index (SPX) from StockTwits last Friday.
Sentiment for Indexes Holding Uptrend…Barely
Sentiment from StockTwits for the S&P 500 Index (SPX) bounced from its confirming up trend line yesterday. It is trying to hold trend and avoid a consolidation warning. The next few days will be critical. In addition, sentiment from Twitter for the Nasdaq 100 Index (QQQ) has been compressing in a triangle. Generally the break of a triangle points the direction for the next move. Once again, the next few days will be critical for the market.
Ignore the Fed…For Now
Today the Federal Reserve minutes suggested that they may start to taper bond purchases sometime in the future. The market sold off on the news. I'm ignoring the news and the market's move until Friday. Over my 30 years of investing and trading I've observed that the real direction of the market after Fed announcement doesn't usually appear until the Friday after the minutes are released. The algos take over the first day, then it takes a day or two for money managers to decide how they want to be positioned in light of the news. If the market rebounds by Friday then there is a good chance the uptrend will continue. While a continued sell off will most likely mean more selling ahead. One thing to note about general market sentiment is that small moves lower in price are once again causing large shifts in sentiment. The chart of the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) below illustrates the point. The underlying numbers show the bulls getting quiet while the bears are
Consolidation Warning from StockTwits Ends
The consolidation warning for the S&P 500 index (SPX) generated from quantified StockTwits messages on 11/8/13 has been cleared as of the close on 11/12/13. The move in smoothed sentiment back above its down trend line clears the warning. Since the warning came so close to the apex of a triangle this move higher could simply be a whipsaw similar to what we saw with the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) earlier in the month. The next few days will most likely give us the answer. There are still a very large volume of tweets targeting 1775 on SPX as resistance. If that level is overcome the market will most likely push to 1800 before pausing again (with sentiment confirming the move). If price stays below 1775 then I suspect we'll get another warning from quantified StockTwits messages. I'll post another update when the picture becomes clear. Here's the chart for QQQ that shows the whipsaw. It is currently still warning.
Profit Taking Continues
Much of the same conditions I mentioned last week are still in place. Rotation and profit taking are still the major theme. Our market health indicators mostly fell last week, but didn't deteriorate enough to change our core portfolio allocations. Our Twitter sentiment indicator for the S&P 500 Index (SPX) fell sharply over the past week. The daily indicator didn't produce any strong readings even on days the market rallied. The initial jubilation from traders on Twitter when SPX pushed above 1730 has quickly dissipated. Smoothed sentiment painted a negative divergence with price into the last peak which suggests traders were taking profit and shorting into that rally. Then a small drop in price caused a steep drop in sentiment indicating that others started to pile on to the trade. That behavior was expected given the fact that SPX had a large volume of tweets projecting a top at the 1775 level. The tweets lead price by two weeks and acted as a magnet to pull prices higher. Once 1775
Consolidation Warning for Nasdaq 100
A consolidation warning was issued for the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) at the close on 10/29/13. Smoothed sentiment has been painting a negative divergence with price for over a month. The last rally in price did not bring with it significant tweets cheering the move. The selling in some of the momentum stocks has been weighing on QQQ as well. Please note, this isn't a sell signal, rather fair warning that QQQ may need a bit of time to consolidate before moving higher. This consolidation warning comes a week after the small caps (IWM) warned. Since that time IWM has been trading sideways even as the S&P 500 Index (SPX) has continued to move higher. This adds weight to the other indicators I've been seeing that suggest rotation out of the stocks that rallied over the summer into stocks that consolidated during that time. Although SPX is moving higher it is painting a negative divergence with sentiment from both Twitter and StockTwits. They haven't issued consolidation warnings yet, but the negative
Profit Taking as the Market Moves Higher
Over the past week we got enough weakness in our measures of market quality to cause a shift in our portfolio allocations. Both of our long/cash portfolios are now 80% long and 20% cash. Our hedged portfolio is 90% long and 10% short (using SH). As the market moves higher I'm seeing profit taking in the momentum stocks that had strong runs through the summer. Take a look at the charts of some of the stocks that are currently in the Twitter Top 10 Portfolio and you'll see some very choppy tops. As money moves out of the momentum stocks it is finding its way into stocks that consolidated across the summer. This rotation is creating an improvement in market breadth which indicates that money managers are expecting a year end rally, but are getting more selective in the high fliers. One thing of concern is that some of the stocks that are rallying are defensive in nature or have high dividends which indicates a rotation to safety. Our investor


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The history of themes to James Bond films is a storied one. From Shirley Bassey's brassy "Goldfinger" to Paul McCartney's hard rocking "Live and Let Die," Duran Duran's synthy "A View to a Kill" to Tina Turner's slinky "Goldeneye," the track designated to play over the opening credits to the latest 007 cinematic adventure has often climbed the charts, standing on its own as a pop hit.
Well, for a while, anyway. Since Turner's take on Bond in 1995, only Madonna's "Die Another Day" has managed to break through as a standalone hit, and even then, I dare you to try humming Madge's techno tune from memory. Otherwise, the dashing British secret agent has lately been saddled with overwrought and quickly forgotten music from some usually reliable hitmakers, including Sheryl Crow, Chris Cornell, Jack White, and Alicia Keys.
It is with that sad preamble that I invite you to feast your ears on the newest James Bond theme, "Skyfall," written by Adele and her "Rolling in the Deep" collaborator Paul Epworth for Sam Mendes-directed film that hits stateside Nov. 9. It's the Grammy-winning artist's first song since her mega-hit album 21, not to mention her pregnancy announcement, and it does not disappoint. Note: The official version is much longer than the radio version leaked earlier today. Check it out below: READ FULL STORY

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Uncle Tupelo made explicit how the roots of punk and hard-core honky-tonk intermingled: the rejection (often drunken) of instrumental competence, the politics of desire and its immediate and sometimes disastrous effects. Whether it has been cowpunk in the '80s or alt-country the following decade, these two seemingly disparate genres have merged to consistently produce music of quality and distinction. San Antonio's Two Tons of Steel continues this confident fusion of hayseed and half-ass. One listen to their hillbilly take on "I Wanna Be Sedated" on their fine, recent effort Vegas makes obvious that it really isn't all that far from two-stepping to stage diving. Although still a little too retro fashion-conscious for their own good, Two Tons of Steel straddle the unprofitable but artistically potent line that Gram Parsons thankfully walked over three decades ago.


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- Summary: The fourth full-length studio release for the R&B singer features guest appearances from 2 Chainz, Beyonce, Big Sean, Mary J. Blige, Gary Clark Jr., Fabolous, Jay-Z, Pusha T, and Kelly Rowland.
- Record Label: Def Jam
- Genre(s): Pop, Rap, R&B, Contemporary R&B
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Positive: 11 out of 19
Mixed: 7 out of 19
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May 30, 2013The-Dream is one of R&B's best talkers and he flexes that weird, wordy, girl-crazy mind all over IV Play's lush love jams. [31 May/7 Jun 2013, p.136]
May 31, 2013IV Play succeeds in spades with its production and songwriting.
May 28, 2013[IV Play revisits] Nash's usual tropes through a more varied sound palette that demonstrates a willingness to experiment and, at rare and glorious points, a raw sense of urgency fuelled by his bitterness.
May 30, 2013IV Play finds Dream delving into more sounds and styles than ever before.
Jun 4, 2013Even Dream's production, which was voluptuously orchestrated, has turned static; there's an ashen militarism to be heard in these slow, sad songs.
Jun 10, 2013This is an album of average to good songs, with only a few highlights.
Jun 4, 2013The lyrical and musical content of IV Play doesn't stray far from the Top 40 standards of mind-numbing repetition and stories about getting high and having sex.
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With Thirst (1949), Ingmar Bergman began to display an astonishing technical virtuosity and control over the medium of film. A crosshatched, multilayered narrative, sewn together with fascinating side trips and flashbacks, Thirst was adapted by theater critic (and Bergman mentor) Herbert Grevenius from four controversial short stories written by famed Swedish stage actress Birgit Tengroth, and moved Bergman even further away from his theatrical origins. Simultaneously a portrait of a decaying marriage and a dreamlike journey through various characters' tragic pasts and presents, the film evinces a newfound assurance, both in storytelling complexity and visual invention. Notoriously hard on his own work, Bergman himself was even able to later grant, "The film does show a respectable cinematographic vitality. I was developing my own way of making movies." Continue reading
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LEE COUNTY, Fla.- A trip to the doctor is going digital. Lee Mental Health is partnering with other agencies to launch an all-new Telemedicine program, allowing a patient to meet with a doctor without ever being in the same room.
"It's our sort of call back to the era of country doctors. When the service went out to people, instead of people having to go out to the service," Lee Mental Health's Dr. Donald Baracskay said.
Lee Mental Health just got a $50,000 grant for their Telemedicine program. It will allow patients and doctors to meet through teleconferencing. Doctors hope the new technology will speed up treatment time.
"One of the biggest problems most people have with treatment has nothing to do with quality. It has everything to do with access. This is a method of improving access for treatment," Baracskay said Tuesday.
If you visit one of the four participating agencies, data from stethoscopes and EKG's can be instantly transmitted from one site to another. Then, you can meet with your physician via streaming video and even get examined. Dr. Baracskay explains one of their new, virtual otoscopes.
"This actually uses a camera that projects it onto a computer screen so that somebody remotely can see the inside of an ear or the inside of a throat," Baracksay said.
The Telemedicine program is the first of its kind in Lee County, but doctors say it's going to become a trend.
"The fact is, people in younger generations are very keen on using technology such as this. Even earlier today, I made the case that in 10 or 15 years from now, this will be very commonplace in terms of how people get a lot of their treatment," Baracskay said.
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Kendall Jenner has had a whirlwind year, traveling the world for modeling gigs, but she will celebrate her 19th birthday in a decidedly lower-key manner.
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What the Kardashians want, they usually get. But it's easier said than done in this case.
When Khloe Kardashian filed for divorce from Lamar Odom 10 months ago, she was finally ready to move on.
But the former NBA player, 34, isn't making it easy for the reality star, 30, to enter the next phase of her life. Odom has yet to file his own response to Kardashian's initial divorce filing – and in fact, has not been seen or heard from in several weeks.
"He needs to sign papers and he won't," a source close to the Kardashians tells PEOPLE. "He disappears here and there, and she can't find him. She just wants to move on."
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It's official: Kris and Bruce Jenner's marriage is ending.
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The near-disaster unfolded, say the pair, who were there to help host Foxwoods Resort Casino's Liquid Sundays, on Saturday when they headed out to have some fun on the water – and not for the first time: she recently posted a photo of the two of them in a tub together.
"We actually fell in the bay yesterday," Disick revealed.
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Sorry about missing a post last week. It turned out to be a busier weekend for me than I originally planned.
I'm back this week, and I've brought plenty of snippets with me to make up for the missing post!
• Back in September, in DataGenetics' Grid Puzzle post, an intriguing puzzle was posed: Imagine there is a grid of squares. You draw a line connecting one intersection to another intersection on the grid. The question is: How many squares does this line cross through?
The link works through the answer, including an interactive widget which may help you work it out. It turns out that the answer involves only simple arithmetic and being able to work out the greatest common divisor (GCD) of 2 numbers.
If you can work out the GCD of 2 numbers in your head, you can turn this into a mental math presentation. How do you go about that? Math-magic.com has the answer, in both webpage form and PDF form! Page 94 of Bryant Heath's Number Sense Tricks also has some great tips on finding the GCD of 2 numbers in your head.
• Also back in September, I wrote about Knight's Tours on a calendar, and included sample calendars for both September and October 2014. I figured it's time for the November 2014 version, included below. This month, 6 is most date-to-move matches I could find:
• OfPad.com seems to have a similar goal to Grey Matters, which is to improve your genius. There's plenty to explore as a result, but I'd like to draw your attention to their Mental Math Tricks posts in particular. There's lots of great tricks, some of which you may not have seen before.
• To wrap up this month's mental math snippets, I'd like to focus on one particular technique for multiplying any two 2-digit numbers together. I've seen this technique before, but the way dominatemath teaches this multiplication technique, it just made so much more sense than the other instructions I've seen for this approach.
That's all for this month's snippets. Have fun exploring them!
Even More Quick Snippets
Published on Sunday, November 16, 2014 in fun, Knight's Tour, math, mental math, self improvement, site features, videos
Sorry about missing a post last week. It turned out to be a busier weekend for me than I originally planned.
Prime Mates
Published on Sunday, November 02, 2014 in fun, math, mental math, self improvement
I've wanted to write about factoring numbers in your head for a while, but never really had a good approach to analyze and discuss.
Recently, I've come across some strategies that mesh well with what I've discussed before on this site. Learning to factor a number in your head can be tricky, but it can be done.
BASICS: Starting from a given number between 1 and 10,000, you're only going to test for divisibility from the number 2, up to the square root of the given number. If you're familiar with estimating square roots, you only need the whole number part.
For example, if you're given the number 447, you only need to estimate the square root as 21, to realize you only need to be concerned with numbers from 2 to 21.
To narrow things down even further, you're only going to test for divisibility by prime numbers from 2 up to the limit you determine (21 in the above example). Between 2 and 100, there are only 25 prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, and 97), so testing only for these minimizes the time it will take.
Certainly, divisibility tests for 2 (is the rightmost digit even?), 3 (do the digits add up to a multiple of 3?), and 5 (is the rightmost digit a 5 or a 0?) are well known, but how do you go about testing, and remembering the tests, for the higher primes?
TECHNIQUES: NUMBERS ENDING IN 9 - Back in April, I discussed how to work out divisibility tests for numbers ending in 9. For divisibility by 19, you would divide by 20, add up the quotient and remainder from that divisibility problem, and see if they added up to a multiple of 19. For 29, you'd run through the same process, but divide by 30, instead. For 59, you'd divide by 60, and so on.
When testing for various primes, however, working out all these quotients and remainders can quickly get confusing. Thankfully, it turns out that there's an alternative method, and it's even a little quicker!
Let's start with the test for 19. Instead of dividing by 20 and running through the process described above, split the number into the rightmost number and the rest of it, multiply that rightmost digit by 2, and add that total to the rest of the number. As an example, let's test 285 for divisibility by 19. You'd split 285 up into 28 and 5. Doubling the rightmost number, 5 × 2 = 10, so we'd add that 10 to the rest of the number, 28, to get 38. 38 is a multiple of 19, so 285 must be a multiple of 19! Wolfram|Alpha confirms that 285 is evenly divisible by 19.
For bigger numbers, you may not be sure about the result you got, so you simply run the test on your new total. For example, when testing 2,527 for divisibility by 19, you'd split it up into 252 and 7. Doubling the 7 makes 14, so you'd add 252 + 14 to get 266. Not sure whether 266 is evenly divisible by 19? We run the same test on 266, by splitting it up into 26 and 6. 6 doubled is 12, and 26 + 12 = 38, which we know is a multiple of 19! Therefore, 2,527 is a multiple of 19!
For 29 instead, you would divide up the number in the same way, but multiply the last digit by 3 instead, and then add . Why? Because 29 is right next to 30, and 30 divided by 10 equals 3 (similar to the way we used 2 as a test for 19, because 19 is next to 20). This same pattern holds for the other prime numbers ending in 9. For 59, you'd multiply the rightmost digit by 6 (59 + 1 = 60, 60 ÷ 10 = 6) and add it to the rest of the number. When testing divisibility by 79, you'd multiply the last digit by 8 before adding, and when testing divisibility by 89, you'd multiply the last digit by 9 before adding. Get the idea?
That's great for those numbers, but what about primes which don't end in 9?
SCALING NUMBERS TO END IN 9 - As also discussed in The Great Divide, you can also use this test on numbers which can be scaled up to end in 9.
This approach is particularly hand for primes ending in 3. For example, 13 × 3 = 39. Since 39 is right next to 40, you should quickly realize that you can test for divisibility by 13 by splitting the number as before, multiplying the rightmost number by 4 (40 ÷ 10 = 4), and adding that total to the rest of the number.
Is 507 evenly divisible by 13? 507 split becomes 50 and 7, multiplying 7 by 4 gives us 28, and 50 + 28 = 78. 78 is a multiple of 13, so 507 is evenly divisible by 13!
In the same way, 23 can be tested by multiplying the last digit by 7 and adding it to the rest of the number, because 23 can be scaled up to 69, and 69 is next to 70. Need to test for divisibly by 43, you split the number, multiply by 13 (do you see why?), and add as before.
Just using this approach covers 10 of the 25 prime numbers from 2 to 97. The well-known tests for 2, 3, and 5 add another 3, so you should comfortably be able to test for divisibility by more than half the prime numbers below 100!
Naturally, that brings up the question of how to handle the other half.
NUMBERS ENDING IN 1 - In my follow-up to The Great Divide, I cover a similar technique for numbers ending in 1. The big difference between the ending-in-9 technique and the ending-in-1 technique is that adding is replaced by subtracting.
Let's start by testing for divisibility by 11. The test will begin with the same splitting as before, and since 11 is next to 10, we'll multiply the last digit by 1. However, this time we'll subtract that number from the other numbers.
Is 341 evenly divisible by 11? We split 341 into 34 and 1, multiply 1 by 1, giving us 1, and subtract that from the rest of the number, 34 - 1 = 33, and since we know that 33 is evenly divisible by 11, then so is 341!
I'm sure you have the idea by now. For 31's divisibility test, you'd multiply the rightmost digit by 3 and subtract, for 41's test, you'd multiply by 4 and subtract, and so on.
SCALING NUMBERS TO END IN 1 - Just as before, this technique also applies to scaling numbers up to end in 1. For testing prime numbers ending in 7, including 7 itself, this is a big help.
The test for 7 begins by realizing that 7 can be scaled up to 21. This tells us that the rightmost number must be multiplied by 2 (remember why?) before subtracting from the rest from the rest of the number.
Is 665 evenly divisibly by 7? Let's use our knowledge of the 21 test to find out. The number is split into 66 and 5, and we double the 5 to get 10. 66 - 10 = 56, and we know 56 is a multiple of 7, so therefore 665 is evenly divisble by 7!
WIND-UP: At this point, we've covered the classic divisibility tests for 2, 3, and 5, as well as how to recall and perform easy divisibility tests for every prime number below 100 which ends in 1, 3, 7, and 9 - in other words, every test you need!
You'll need to recall that 9s and 3s require multiplying then adding, and 1s and 7s require multiplying followed by subtracting. When subtracting, note that you can always subtract the larger number from the smaller, which can prevent having to deal with negative numbers.
Since you're performing multiple tests, this won't be the quickest of mental math feats. However, being able to recall and perform tests for such a wide variety of prime numbers is still an impressive, and even useful, feat!
Calculate Powers of 2 In Your Head!
Published on Sunday, October 26, 2014 in math, mental math, Pi, videos
Earlier this year, I posted about calculating powers of e in your head, as well as powers of Pi.
This time around, I thought I'd pass on a method for calculating powers of a much more humble number: 2. It sounds difficult, but it's much easier than you may think!
BASICS: For 20 up to 210, you'll memorize precise answers. For answers to 211 and higher integer powers, you'll be estimating the numbers in a simple way that comes very close.
First, you must memorize the powers of 2 from 0 to 10 by heart. Here they are, along with some simply ways to memorize each of them:
Problem Answer Notes
20 = 1 Anything to the 0th power is 1
21 = 2 Anything to the 1st power is itself
22 = 4 22 = 2 × 2 = 2 + 2
23 = 8 3 looks like the right half of an 8
24 = 16 24 = 42
25 = 32 5 = 3 + 2
26 = 64 26 begins with a 6
27 = 128 26 × 21
28 = 256 Important in computers
29 = 512 28 × 21
210 = 1024 210 begins with a 10Take a close look at 210, which is 1024. It's very close to 1,000, so we're going to take advantage of the fact that 210 ≈ 103!
When multiplying 2x × 2y, remember that you simply add the exponents together. For example, 23 (8) × 27 (128) = 27 + 3 = 210 (1024). Similarly, you can break up a single power of 2 into two powers which add up to the original power, such as 29 (512) = 26 + 3 = 26 (64) × 23 (8).
TECHNIQUE: We'll start with 215 as an example.
Start by breaking up the given power of 2 into the largest multiple of 10 which is equal to or less than the given power, and multiply it by whatever amount is leftover, which will be a number from 0 to 9.
Using this step, 215 becomes 25 + 10, which becomes the problem 25 × 210.
For an powers from 0 to 9, you should know by heart, so you can convert these almost instantly. In the example problem we've been doing, we know that 25 is 32, so the problem is now 32 × 210.
Now we deal with the multiple of 10. For every multiple of 10 involved, you can replace 210 with 103. With our problem which is now 32 × 210, there's only a single multiple of 10 in the power, so we can replace that with 103. This turns our current problem into 32 × 103.
At this point, it's best to represent the number in scientific notation. In this feat, that simply refers to moving the decimal point to the left, so that the left number is between 0 and 10, and then adding 1 to the power of 10 for each space you moved the decimal. Converting to scientific notation, 32 × 103 becomes 3.2 × 104.
That's all there is to getting our approximation!
How close did we come? 215 = 32,768, while 3.2 × 104 = 32,000. I'd say that's pretty good for a mental estimate!
EXAMPLES: Over 6 years ago, I related the story of Dr. Solomon Golomb. While in college, he took a freshman biology class. The teacher was explaining that human DNA has 24 chromosomes (as was believed at the time), so the number of possible cells was 224. The instructor jokingly added that everyone in the class knew what number that was. Dr. Golomb immediate gave the exact right answer.
Can you estimate Dr. Golomb's answer? Let's work through the above process with 224.
First, we break the problem up, so 224 = 24 + 20 = 24 × 220.
Next, replace the smaller side with an exact amount. In this step, 24 × 220 becomes 16 × 220.
Replace 210x with 103x, which turns 16 × 220 into 16 × 106.
Finally, adjust into scientific notation, so 16 × 106 becomes 1.6 × 107.
If you know your scientific notation, that means your estimated answer is 16 million. Dr. Golomb, as it happened, had memorized the 1st through 10th powers of all the integers from 1 to 10, and new that 224 was the same as 88, so he was able to give the exact answer off the top of his head: 16,777,216. 16 million is a pretty good estimate, isn't it?
Below is the classic Legend of the Chessboard, which emphasizes the powers of 2. In the video, the first square has one (20) grain of wheat placed on it, the second square has 2 (21) grains of wheat on it, with each square doubling the previous number of grains.
The 64th square, then, would have 263 grains of wheat on it. About how many is that? I'm going to run through the process a little quicker this time.
Step 1: 263 = 23 + 60 = 23 × 260
Step 2: 23 × 260 = 8 × 260
Step 3: 8 × 260 ≈ 8 × 1018
While 263 is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, our estimate of 8,000,000,000,000,000,000 works.
TIPS: If you're really worried about the error, there is a way to improve your estimate. Percentage-wise, the difference between 1,000 (103) and 1,024 (210) is only 2.4%. So, for every multiple of 10 to which you take the power of 2 (or every power of 3 to which you take 10), you can multiply that by 2.4% to get a percentage difference. You can then multiply that percentage difference by your estimate to improve it.
Just above, we converted 263 into 8 × 1018. Since we started with six 10s, our percentage difference would be 6 × 2.4%, or 14.4%. In other words, our estimate of 8 × 1018 could be made closer by adding 14.4% to 8.
Assuming your comfortable with doing percentages like this in your head, 8 increased by 14.4% is 8 + 1.152 = 9.152, so our improved estimate would be 9.152 × 1018. Considering the actual answer is roughly 9.223 × 1018, that's quite close!
Practice this, and you'll have an impressive skill with which to impress family, friends, and computer geeks!
100 Years of Martin Gardner!
Published on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 in fun, magic, Martin Gardner, math, mental math, puzzles, videos
Martin has turned thousands of children into mathematicians, and thousands of mathematicians into children. - Ron Graham
100 years ago today, Martin Gardner was born. After that, the world would never again be the same.
His life and his legacy are both well represented in David Suzuki's documentary about Martin Gardner, which seems like a good place to start:
As mentioned in the snippets last week, celebrationofmind.org is offering 31 Tricks and Treats in honor of the Martin Gardner centennial! Today's entry features a number of remembrances of his work in the media:
Scientific American — A Centennial Celebration of Martin GardnerThere are quite a few other ways to enjoy and remember the work of Martin Gardner, as well. The January 2012 issue of the College Mathematics Journal, dedicated entirely to Martin Gardner, is available for free online! The Gathering 4 Gardner YouTube channel, not to mention just searching for Martin Gardner on YouTube, are both filled with enjoyable treasures to be uncovered.
Included in the above article is this quiz: How Well Do You Know Martin Gardner?
NYT — Remembering Martin Gardner
Plus — Five Martin Gardner eye-openers involving squares and cubes
BBC — Martin Gardner, Puzzle Master Extraordinaire
Guardian — Can you solve Martin Gardner's best mathematical puzzles?, Alex Bellos, 21 Oct 2014
Center for Inquiry — Martin Gardner's 100th Birthday, Tim Binga
Here at Grey Matters, I've written about Martin Gardner quite a few times myself, as I have great respect for him. Enjoy exploring the resources, and take some time to remember a man who has brought joy, wonder, and mystery to the world over the past 100 years.
Even More Quick Snippets
Published on Sunday, October 12, 2014 in Martin Gardner, math, mental math, puzzles, Scam School, self improvement, videos
It's time for October's snippets, and all our favorite mathematical masters are here to challenge your brains!
• I'm always looking for a good mathematical shortcut, in order to make math easier to learn. More generally, I'm always looking for better ways to improve my ability to learn. I was thrilled with BetterExplained.com's newest post, Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method.
ADEPT stands for Analogy (Tell me what it's like), Diagram (Help me visualize it), Example (Allow me to experience it), Plain English (Let me describe it in my own words), and Technical Definition (Discuss the formal details). This is a great model for anyone struggling to understand anything challenging. This is one of those posts I really enjoy, and want to share with as many of you as I can.
• If you enjoyed Math Awareness Month: Mathematics, Magic & Mystery back in April, you'll love the 31 Tricks and Treats for October 2014 in honor of the 100th anniversary of Martin Gardner's birth! Similar to Math Awareness Month, there's a new mathematical surprise revealed each day. It's fun to explore the new mathematical goodies, and get your brain juices flowing in a fun way!
• Over at MindYourDecisions.com, they have a little-seen yet fun mental math shortcut in their post YouTube Video – Quickly Multiply Numbers like 83×87, 32×38, and 124×126. As seen below, it's impressive, yet far easier than you might otherwise think:
They've also recently posted three challenging puzzles about sequence equations that you might want to try.
• If that's not enough, Scam School's latest episode (YouTube link) at this writing also involves three equations. If you have a good eye for detail, you may be able to spot the catch in each one before they're revealed:
That's all for this October's snippets, but it's more than enough to keep your brain puzzled through the rest of the month!
Convert Decimal to Any Base 2 - 9
Published on Sunday, October 05, 2014 in fun, math, mental math, self improvement, videos
About 2 years ago, I posted about Russian/Egyptian multiplication, and included a technique for mentally converting decimal (base 10) into binary (base 2).
Recently, Presh Talwalkar covered this same technique on his Mind Your Decisions blog. I've only just realized that with a little modification, this technique can be used to quickly and mentally convert decimal to any base 2 through 9!
We'll use the Mind Your Decisions binary conversion video as a starting point. It's less than 3 minutes long, so it's a quick study:
In both my original Power of 2 post and the above video, the idea of ignoring the remainder is emphasized. Funnily enough, changing the technique to focus on the remainder makes this basic idea much more usable. If you remember division problems with answers like, 22 ÷ 6 = 3 remainder 4, that's the type of division we'll be using in this post.
The first step is simply to take the given number and divide it by whatever base you're using, so that you have a quotient and a remainder. For a starting example, we'll convert the decimal number 84 into base 5. 84 ÷ 5 = 16 (the quotient), remainder 4.
The second step is to write down the remainder. In our example, we'd simply write down the 4.
Step 3 is to divide the quotient by the base again. This time, we'd work out 16 ÷ 5 = 3 remainder 1.
Step 4 is to write down this remainder to the immediate left of the previous remainder. Writing down the 1 to the immediate left of the 4 gives us 14.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you get a quotient of 0, at which point, you've got your answer! Finishing up our example, we'd use our current quotient of 3, divide that by 5, getting an answer of 0 remainder 3, write the 3 down to the left of the previous remainders, giving us 314. Since our quotient is 0, we also know we're done! Checking with Wolfram|Alpha, we see that 84 in base 5 is indeed 314!
TIP #1: Once your quotient is a number less than your base, you can simply write that to the left of the remainders and know you're done. In the above example, once we got down to 3, and we realize this is less than 5, we know this is the final step. Because of this, we can simply write the 3 down and stop.
In short, as long as you're given a decimal number and a base by which you're comfortable dividing that number, you can convert that number to that base in your head with little trouble. Not surprisingly, knowing division shortcuts and divisibility rules can be of great help here.
What about 147 (in base 10) to base 4? As long as you realize that the closest multiple of 4 is 144, and that you can handle 144 ÷ 4 in your head, the rest of the conversion shouldn't be a problem. 147 ÷ 4 = 36, remainder 3. Write down the 3, and then work with 36. 36 ÷ 4 = 9, remainder 0, so write the 0 to the left of the 3 (03), and work with 9. 9 ÷ 4 = 2, remainder 1. Write down the 1 to the left of the previous remainders (103). Tip #1 above tells us that, since 2 is less than 4, we can just write down that 2 to the left of the other numbers (2103) and know we're done. Sure enough, 147 in base 4 is 2103!
TIP #2: If the given number is less than the square of the base to which you're converting, you can do everything in a single step. All you have to do is work out the quotient and the remainder, write the quotient to the left of the reminder, and you're done! For example, what is 59 in base 8? 59 ÷ 8 = 7 remainder 3. Write down the 3 as before. Thanks to tip #1, we know that we can write the quotient down to the left, since 7 is less than 8, so we just write the 7 down next to it!
For base 8, this will work for any number less than 8 × 8, or 64. Similarly, for base 5, this will work for any number less than 25 (5 × 5), and so on. 44 in base 7? 44 ÷ 7 = 6 remainder 2, so we can quickly give the answer as 62!
Being able to convert to base 2 and base 8 in your head can be a great asset when working with computers. Practice this skill and have fun with it. You'll not only have a useful skill, but something with which to amaze and amuse others, as well!
How To Instantly Convert Weeks to Minutes
Published on Sunday, September 21, 2014 in calendar, fun, math, mental math
A little over a year ago, I teased Grey Matters readers with a mystery skill. First, they had to learn to easily multiply by 63, then learn how to easily multiply by 72. The skill itself was revealed to be how to roughly convert any whole number of years into seconds!
In this post, you'll learn a similar skill: how to convert weeks into minutes instantly!
Back in the days before computers and calculators, this was a popular feat among entertainers who performed as human calculators. It was quick and direct to perform, yet was highly impressive to audiences.
One week has 7 days, and each day has 24 hours. Every hour, of course, has 60 minutes, so if we multiply out 1 week × 7 days/week × 24 hours/day × 60 minutes/hour, we get 10,080 minutes in a week. The number 10,080, as it happens is very easy to multiply by almost any number of weeks. If you keep the number of weeks at or below 124 (about 2.37 years), the numbers are even easier to work out.
STEP 1: Ask for any number of weeks less than 2 years (104 weeks). As an initial example, we'll say an audience member gave the number 36.
STEP 2: Write down the number they just gave you. In our example, you'd write 36.
STEP 3: Multiply this number by 8 in your head, and write this result to the immediate right of the first number you wrote. This is simpler than it sounds; all you have to do is double the number 3 times. For 36, doubling once gives you 72, doubling a second time gives you 144, and doubling a third times gives you 288. Writing 288 next to the 36 you wrote earlier gives you 36288.
NOTE: In step 3, it's very important to always treat the answer as a 3-digit number. For weeks from 13 to 104, it will be, but for weeks from 2 to 12, it will be a 2-digit number. You can change this into a 3-digit number simply by adding a 0 to the left of it. If you're given 7 weeks in step 1, you write down the 7 as in step 2, then multiply 7 × 8 to get 56, which becomes 056. You would write 056 as your step 3 answer, giving 7056, and then continue with step 4.
STEP 4: Write a zero to the immediate right of the other numbers, add commas where appropriate, and you're done! In our example, we add the zero to the right, giving us 362880. With commas, that result is 362,880. This means that there are 362,880 minutes in 36 weeks!
With a little practice, you'll be astounded as to how quickly you can pick this impressive skill up. You can quiz yourself by having Wolfram|Alpha give you a random number of weeks from 2 to 104, and then use it to verify whether you've worked out the correct answer.
HANDY BONUS TIP: You can make this more impressive for an audience by having someone with a calculator verify this in a long, drawn-out manner. Tell them to put in the number of weeks given, then multiply by 7 for the number of days in a week, then multiply by 24 hours in a day, and then multiply by 60 minutes in a week. Multiplying it out the long way makes this feat seem more difficult, as you're hiding the simple 10,080 conversion factor.
Try it out and amaze your friends!
Days and Knights
Published on Sunday, September 14, 2014 in calendar, fun, Knight's Tour, puzzles, software
As you can probably tell from this recent post and this recent post, I've spent quite a bit of time thinking about the Knight's Tour lately.
These thoughts have reminded of a different type of Knight's Tour puzzle. This unusual variation involves moving the knight around a calendar.
It was 4 years ago, during September or October, that I was looking for blog post inspirations and ran across a thread on the XKCD forums, titled Knight's Tour revamped, which suggested playing the Knight's Tour on a calendar.
There was an added challenge, however: With your starting square being considered as move #1, how many dates could you land on that were the same as the move number? For example, if move #1 started on the 1st of the month, both the move number and the date would be 1.
As you can see in the original thread, the original poster used a July 2010 calendar and managed to find a complete Knight's Tour on which the 2nd, 6th, 11th, and 23rd moves landed on the dates of the 2nd, 6th, 11th, and 23rd respectively. Not surprisingly, it was Jaap of Jaap's Puzzle Page who found an 8-match solution.
I filed this in the back of my mind, but never really did anything until I ran across the Solving the Knight's Tour on and off the Chess Board post which I mentioned last week. I liked the basic idea of being able to input a shape, and have the computer work out the tour, and especially the idea of using it to work out the XKCD forum's calendar challenge.
With a little knowledge of Java and graph theory under my belt, I managed to work out a program to solve it. For my fellow Java programmers, here's the main portion of my program, and here's the KnightsTour class I wrote to support it. Most of the hard work is done by lines 590 to 749. Those and lines 20 to 23 can removed if you're interested more in the general Knight's Tour than the particulars of the calendar challenge.
One of the first things I did, not surprisingly, was to find out how many day-to-move matches I could find in this month's calendar. I also found 8, all of which are highlighted below in red:
Yes, I've gone through every possible calendar, starting on every possible date, and learned quite a few interesting things in the process:
• Due to the fact that the number of days in a week (7) is odd, and the fact that the knight always moves an odd number of spaces (3), this means that a Knight on a calendar will always move from an odd date to an even date, and vice versa (just like what your teacher taught you about adding even and odd numbers). This, in turn, means that it's impossible to get ANY date matches if move #1 begins on an even-numbered date, as all the odd moves will land on even dates, and vice-versa.
• The above fact also means that if you start on an even date in a month with an odd number of days (29 or 31), you won't be able to complete a Knight's Tour.
• Yes, Jaap's 8-match path is the best one possible for July 2010 in particular. It also happens to be the only way to get 8 date-to-move matches in a Knight's Tour of a 31-day month beginning on a Thursday.
• Given any random month and year, you can always find a complete Knight's Tour and at least 6 date-to-move matches. Surprisingly, these minimum matches aren't found in the shortest months, as you may expect. With 30- and 31-day months starting on a Saturday, as well as 31-day months beginning on a Friday, 6 is the highest number of date-to-move matches you'll be able to find.
• There are months with 9 date-to-move matches, but none with more than that. 9 date-to-move matches can be found in a 29-, 30-, or 31-day month starting on a Tuesday or a Wednesday. In a 29-day month starting on a Thursday, or a 31-day month starting on a Monday, you can also find 9 date-to-move matches. You can often find more than 1 way to get to these matches, as well.
As it happens, next month (October 2014) is a 31-day month starting on a Wednesday, and here's one of the 3 possible ways to get 9 date-to-move matches:
I chose this one simply for the elegance of the column containing 16-23-30 and the diagonal containing 12-20-28. I also find it interesting that so many powers of 2 have date-to-move matches (2-4-8-16).
For the more math-inclined geeks, I'll wind this post up with all the maximum number of matches I've found, including the dates on which they start:
28-day months, starting on:
Sunday: 7 matches, beginning from the 1st or 23rd
Monday: 7 matches, beginning from the 1st or 21st
Tuesday: 8 matches, beginning from the 25th
Wedneday: 8 matches, beginning from the 1st
Thursday: 8 matches, beginning from the 1st or 5th
Friday: 8 matches, beginning from the 1st or 15th
Saturday: 7 matches, beginning from the 23rd or 25th
29-day months, starting on:
Sunday: 7 matches, beginning from the 1st
Monday: 7 matches, beginning from the 1st or 27th
Tuesday: 9 matches, beginning from the 25th
Wedneday: 9 matches, beginning from the 1st or 11th
Thursday: 9 matches, beginning from the 1st
Friday: 7 matches, beginning from the 1st, 5th, 27th, or 29th
Saturday: 7 matches, beginning from the 1st
30-day months, starting on:
Sunday: 7 matches, beginning from the 7th or 23rd
Monday: 8 matches, beginning from the 27th
Tuesday: 9 matches, beginning from the 25th
Wedneday: 9 matches, beginning from the 11th
Thursday: 8 matches, beginning from the 1st
Friday: 7 matches, beginning from the 1st or 7th
Saturday: 6 matches, beginning from the 1st or 25th
31-day months, starting on:
Sunday: 8 matches, beginning from the 23rd
Monday: 9 matches, beginning from the 7th or 31st
Tuesday: 9 matches, beginning from the 1st, 23rd, or 25th
Wedneday: 9 matches, beginning from the 7th
Thursday: 8 matches, beginning from the 5th
Friday: 6 matches, beginning from the 1st, 5th, 7th, or 31st
Saturday: 6 matches, beginning from the 1st, 23rd, 29th, or 31st


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The live reunion after the Jersey Shore season finale was no exception. Ronnie and Sammi got into a big fight and swore this split was for real, too.
Not so much - they're back on!
Ronnie Magro became enraged after viewing never-before-seen footage of Sammi in bed, having a heart-to-heart, with The Situation on the reunion.
But co-star Snooki (a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi) says it only lasted a day: "They got back together two hours later. You never know with them," Snooks sez.
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Despite fighting and breaking up around the clock, and Ronnie's propensity for kicking people's asses on the boardwalk, Sammi and he seem perfect together.
She's proclaimed herself the sweetest bitch you will ever meet, and he's clearly a juiced-up hothead with a heart of gold ... mostly. A match made in heaven.
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As for their co-star, Nicole Polizzi says her own love life is picking up these days, as some blogs have linked her to an unlucky, tan "guido" named Emilio.
Asked about the rumored romance, she said: "What the hell? How does that get out so fast? He's just a friend. We're hanging out but nothing serious."
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i think ronni and sam are bad ass but damn sam is so hot ? they should not separete because it would not be the same in jersey shore . ronnie your bad ass bro your awsome
ronnie and sammi should get back together for season 4 they are a bad ass couple love them. mike is so freaken bad ass and pauly hes cool i love them all.
ronnie and sammi shlund get back on season 4 thats all
ok i was not really intererested in jersy shore but whn sammi left i started watching more.. and more it was interesting i know they have there ups and downs but they are ment to be i was crying at the finale.samm and ronn wrnt together i would love to meat them but afraid not all those ppl on jersy shore are beasts but sam and ron stood out to me and thr are rumers sayin tht sammi is pregnet with mikes baby i doubt tht thy hate each othr she wuldnt evn hug him and the pics so her with black hair i la well any way thr beats stfu!And ppl are just seriously jelous bcuz shes got sumthin goin with ronn!
I LOVE SAMMI AND RONNNNNIIEEEEE!!! SO FUCK OFF If You don'ttt
I think what Sammi did was right.. but i think the show will lose a lot of viewers....
Everybody needs to stay out of Ron and Sammi's relationship, maybe they will get back together maybe not its their decision not yours.... so just let them be. Sit back and Enjoy the ride;) i know we all hope they get back together, and yes what ron did to sam was wrong but he actually tried to go to another room and she just kept following so in the end they were both wrong...
stop hating on sammi. look what ronni did to her. he broke her into peices.....in no way was that okay. my heart goes out to sammi
First off u girls who r slamming sammie should be ashamed of urselves! Seriously u think what ronnie did was right? Yes she constantly brings it up when they fight, but guess what I'm 27 yrs old and when I was 18 I was hurt and guess what I still am effected by it. Its not about getting over it its about learning from it. All I can say is grow up! She finally stood up for herself, all the times he made her cry n now he is crying. Karma is a bitch! This is the prob with freedom of speech, u b*tches don't kno wut ur talkin about!
Deuces... =)
Ron you're wasting your young life on an emotionally bankrupt drama queen (she's not nearly a royal I might add.) You'll kill yourself trying to fill the bottomless void that is Sammi. Her imagined woes are endless and hers alone. You're missing a blast with your mates. And coming across as a skirt. What for? Sammi didn't patent the 'pouka.' Have a look around, there's still a few out there. She's attractive, but not gorgeous. She's sullen, manipulative, a buzz kill and an emotional vampire. Just to name a few. This is a quick glimpse into your future Ron....long after Sam's average, time consuming looks have faded, will a quick roll in the hay be worth a lifetime of this? Me thinks not.


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November 27, 2014
WEST LIBERTY, Ky (WYMT) - It has been a little more than a week since a student in Pennsylvania stabbed 22 people in the halls of Franklin Regional High School.
Now as that community begins to heal, another community that is a little closer to home, is hoping to help with that process.
The city of West Liberty is no stranger to tragedy. Back in March of 2012, a tornado hit and most of the town was destroyed.
Morgan County High School Guidance Counselor Lori Keeton tells WYMT that many residents were left helpless.
"When you think of natural disasters or such horrific tragic events, you hear them on the news. But you do not ever think that will happen to you and for us, we were the natural disaster in 2012," said Keeton.
For students and staff at Morgan County High School, relief came from an unexpected place.
Each year at Franklin Regional High School, their students raise money for a worthy cause and that year, it was for the Cougars.
"It was a box of t-shirts and a $1,500 check that they had given to the students in our school," said Keeton.
So now as that school faces its own hardship, students like Senior Cheyenne Harper, want to return the favor.
"It really would show the kids at the Pennsylvania school that we actually do care," said Harper.
There message is simple and painted on a banner. It reads, "hate cannot drive out hatred; only love can do that".
Freshman Abby Lemaster said she is glad they can use their love for painting to help others.
"I thought it was a really good idea because art can symbolize hope," said Lemaster.
Harper could not agree more.
"Even though it is bad now, they will be able to brush it off and it will get better later," said Harper.
Staff at Morgan County High School plan to send the banner to Franklin Regional High School soon.
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Even though "Blurred Lines" was 2013's undisputed "song of the summer" the catchy smash hit has since become a source of never-ending headaches for its singer, Robin Thicke.
Thicke is being sued over "Blurred Lines" by the family of legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye. They claim that Thicke stole the rhythm and basic melody of the song from Gaye's 1977 classic "Got to Give It Up."
Thicke basically admits that "Lines" is plagiarized in a bizarre, rambling deposition that just went public today. However, he says he's not responsible, as his collaborator Pharrell "wrote the whole thing pretty much by himself."
"I was high on Vicodin and alcohol when I showed up to the studio," Thicke tells lawyers when asked about the song. "I thought I wanted...I wanted to be more involved than I was by the time nine months later when the song became a huge hit...I was jealous and wanted some of the credit."


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Congress Disgracefully Approves the FISA Warrantless Spying Bill for Five More Years, Rejects All Privacy Amendments
BY TREVOR TIMM, Electronic Frontier Foundation, DECEMBER 28, 2012
Today, after just one day of rushed debate, the Senate shamefully
voted on a five-year extension to the FISA Amendments Act
, an unconsitutional law that openly allows for warrantless surveillance of Americans' overseas communications.
Incredibly, the Senate rejected all
the proposed amendments
that would have brought a modicum of transparency and oversight to the government's activities, despite previous refusals by the Executive branch to even estimate how many Americans are surveilled by this program or reveal critical secret court rulings interpreting it.
The common-sense amendments the Senate hastily rejected were modest in scope and written with the utmost deference to national security concerns. The Senate had months to consider them, but waited until four days before the law was to expire to bring them to the floor, and then used the contrived time crunch to stifle any chances of them passing.
Sen. Ron Wyden's amendment would not have taken away any of the NSA's powers, it just would have forced intelligence agencies to send Congress a report every year detailing how their surveillance was affecting ordinary Americans. Yet Congress voted to be purposely kept in the dark about a general estimate of how many Americans have been spied on.
You can watch Sen. Ron Wyden's
entire, riveting floor speech
on the privacy dangers and lack of oversight in
the FISA Amendments Act here
Sen. Jeff Merkley's amendment would have encouraged (not even forced!) the Attorney General to declassify portions of secret FISA court opinions--or just release summaries of them if they were too sensitive. This is something the administration itself
promised to do three years ago
. We know--because the
government has admitted
--that at least one of those opinions concluded the government had violated the Constitution. Yet Congress also voted to keep this potentially critical interpretation of a public law a secret.
Tellingly, Sen. Rand Paul's "
Fourth Amendment Protection Act
," which would have affirmed Americans' emails are protected from unwarranted search and seizures (just like physical letters and phone calls), was voted down by the Senate in a landslide.
The final vote for re-authorizing five more years of the FISA Amendments Act and secretive domestic spying
was 73-23
. Our thanks goes out to the twenty-three brave Senators who stood up for Americans' constitutional rights yesterday. If only we had more like them.
Of course, the fight against illegal and unconsitutional warrantless wiretapping is far from over. Since neither the President, who once campaigned on a return to rule of law on surveillance of Americans, nor the Congress, which has proven to be the enabler-in-chief of the Executive's overreach, have been willing to protect the privacy of Americans in their digital papers, all eyes should now turn to the Courts.
EFF was just in federal court in San Francisco two weeks ago, challenging
the NSA's untargeted dragnet warrantless surveillance program
. And the Supreme Court will soon rule whether
the ACLU's constitutional challenge
to the "targeted" portions of the FISA Amendments Act can go forward.
But make no mistake: this vote was nothing less than abdication by Congress of its role as watchdog over Executive power, and a failure of its independent obligation to protect the Bill of Rights. The FISA Amendments Act and the ongoing warrantless spying on Americans has been, and will continue to be, a blight on our nation and our Constitution.
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The merchandise offered at Li Hu Die Fang originates from the Naxi minority, one of the 56 nationalities in mainland China. The Naxi population is very small. Their wear and objects of daily use are very different from those of the majority of Chinese people. That is what attracts passersby
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The streets of Rosewood are festive, little kids are running around the streets hoping for a good year of trick or treats, and five best friends are looking forward to the biggest party of the season. It is the Halloween before Alison went missing and the only concern for Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer is to score an invite to Noel Khan's (recurring guest star BRANT DAUGHERTY - Super Sportlets, Private) Halloween party. But with a new girl in town to challenge Ali for Queen Bee dominance, the possibility of Spencer losing the election for class president - along with her parents' approval - and a shocking revelation for Aria about her father, there may be more to worry about this Halloween than finding the perfect costume. With all of the tricks and treats floating around Rosewood, there may be something more sinister waiting out there for Ali and her best friends.
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