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Pretty neat to see at night, really cool lights. Best seen from a cruise ship...while going underneath it!
Just a bridge really! It is high and long but not a tourist destination as such. Cose your eyes if you don't like heights.
It's pretty tall and long with spectacular views of Tampa Bay. On a clear sunny day, I highly recommend to take the time and drive over it just for the experience. On each side of the approach there are scenic viewing areas. Don't miss this opportunity. Grab a snack or lunch before you head out and plan on relaxing at...
This is a beautiful bridge, and if you are anywhere in the area, it's worth driving over. Also recommend stopping on the old bridge and watch the people fishing. The only draw back, the driver really doesn't get to fully enjoy the view, you really need to keep your eyes on the road! There is a toll fee.
Everyone must drive over the skyway at least once when in Florida. You can experience Tampa Bay from high in the air.
The length and height of the bridge is a great visual experience.
Early morning or at sunset are the best times.
I love going to Tampa just to go over the bridge! It's beautiful and long. At first, I was a little freaked out about having to go over such a high bridge (from a distance), but when you're on it, it's not so scary!
Loved the undulation of the bridge above, very artistic. Gorgeous view of all the water around. Worth the ride over it must to view the scenery.
We winter in Florida and cross the Sunshine Bridge many times during the course of our stay. We have also passed under the Bridge heading out to the Gulf on a cruise ship at night. No matter the time of day, but especially on a blue skies, sunny kind of day it is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. There are many places...
I use the bridge coming and going to my house in Coral Springs from my condo in St. Petersburg. I can remember when the tug hit the old bridge, and they had to take it down. The fishing piers extending from both Bradenton and St. Petersburg are part of the original bridge. Their is a park below the bridge on...
Its a beautiful bridge. We visited this thanksgiving weekend. There is a fishing pier by the bridge, from where you can get the best view of the bridge. We enjoyed the sunset there
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If you have not heard about the "Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks" documentary for ESPN's 30 for 30 series, um, where you been?
The documentary screened at Sundance to widespread acclaim and the celebrations have been the same since. They showed it at Conseco Fieldhouse and the fans were giddy. They showed it in New York, and the rumor is that Betty Ford had a 40% increase in occupancy the next day.*
Miller's rampage against the Knicks was beyond legend. The drama was off the charts, in a time that all anyone seems to remember is Jordan doing Jordan things. Miller's legacy has been compromised by the lack of a ring and his time on television, but the documentary brings us back to a very simple truth.
In his time, Miller was the most cold-blooded assassin next to Jordan in the 90's. And to the Knicks, he was their own personal demon. But see for yourself tonight, over on that one network.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, today announced that foreign exchange traders in its Global Markets group are now capable of flowing FX orders to the FastMatch® electronic communication network (ECN).
Based on the matching technology underpinning Credit Suisse's Crossfinder® offering, FastMatch® has been retooled and refined to the needs of global foreign exchange traders. It has been designed to give traders access to large pools of diversified liquidity at unparalleled levels of speed and pricing transparency. As part of its adoption of ECN-based trading capabilities, BNY Mellon has acquired an ownership interest in FastMatch, joining Credit Suisse Group AG and FXCM Inc. as partners in the venture.
"Giving our traders and customers access to FastMatch's ECN capabilities will provide additional alternatives to source liquidity by accessing larger pools of buy/sell opportunity, as well as faster execution," said Craig Messinger, executive vice president and global head of trading and risk management for BNY Mellon Global Markets.
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BNY Mellon Global Markets includes the Foreign Exchange and Derivatives business of The Bank of New York Mellon together with the securities business of BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, an SEC registered broker dealer1. These three businesses provide products for corporate, institutional and high net worth investors to access liquidity, execute investment and hedging requirements, and manage risk. With foreign exchange sales and trading desks in New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, London, Brussels, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei, Seoul and Shanghai, BNY Mellon Global Markets has access to more than 100 countries, and is recognized by industry publications as a global leader in FX research and FX technology. BNY Mellon's derivatives business offers hedging products based in the interest rate, currency and equity markets, and BNY Mellon Capital Markets underwrites and transacts on Exchange and over the counter markets in a broad range of debt and equity securities.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
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The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
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The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
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ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
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DevOps Summit 2015 New York, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
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Nigeria has the largest economy in Africa, at more than US$500 billion, and ranks 23rd in the world. A recent re-evaluation of Nigeria's true economic size doubled the previous estimate, and brought it well ahead of South Africa, which is a member (unlike Nigeria) of the G20 club for political as well as economic reasons. Nigeria's economy can be said to be quite diverse from one point of view, but heavily dependent on oil and gas at the same time. Oil and natural gas account for about 15% of Nigera's overall economy, but traditionally represent more than 90% of the country's exports and as...
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The Internet of Things is a misnomer. That implies that everything is on the Internet, and that simply should not be - especially for things that are blurring the line between medical devices that stimulate like a pacemaker and quantified self-sensors like a pedometer or pulse tracker. The mesh of things that we manage must be segmented into zones of trust for sensing data, transmitting data, receiving command and control administrative changes, and peer-to-peer mesh messaging. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ryan Bagnulo, Solution Architect / Software Engineer at SOA Software, focused on desi...
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"At our booth we are showing how to provide trust in the Internet of Things. Trust is where everything starts to become secure and trustworthy. Now with the scaling of the Internet of Things it becomes an interesting question – I've heard numbers from 200 billion devices next year up to a trillion in the next 10 to 15 years," explained Johannes Lintzen, Vice President of Sales at Utimaco, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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"For over 25 years we have been working with a lot of enterprise customers and we have seen how companies create applications. And now that we have moved to cloud computing, mobile, social and the Internet of Things, we see that the market needs a new way of creating applications," stated Jesse Shiah, CEO, President and Co-Founder of AgilePoint Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 15th Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Gridstore™, the leader in hyper-converged infrastructure purpose-built to optimize Microsoft workloads, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Gridstore™ is the leader in hyper-converged infrastructure purpose-built for Microsoft workloads and designed to accelerate applications in virtualized environments. Gridstore's hyper-converged infrastructure is the industry's first all flash version of HyperConverged Appliances that include both compute and storag...
Dec. 17, 2014 06:30 PM EST Reads: 1,307
Today's enterprise is being driven by disruptive competitive and human capital requirements to provide enterprise application access through not only desktops, but also mobile devices. To retrofit existing programs across all these devices using traditional programming methods is very costly and time consuming – often prohibitively so. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jesse Shiah, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of AgilePoint Inc., discussed how you can create applications that run on all mobile devices as well as laptops and desktops using a visual drag-and-drop application – and eForms-buildi...
Dec. 17, 2014 11:45 AM EST Reads: 1,522
We certainly live in interesting technological times. And no more interesting than the current competing IoT standards for connectivity. Various standards bodies, approaches, and ecosystems are vying for mindshare and positioning for a competitive edge. It is clear that when the dust settles, we will have new protocols, evolved protocols, that will change the way we interact with devices and infrastructure. We will also have evolved web protocols, like HTTP/2, that will be changing the very core of our infrastructures. At the same time, we have old approaches made new again like micro-services...
Dec. 16, 2014 11:45 PM EST Reads: 1,356
Code Halos - aka "digital fingerprints" - are the key organizing principle to understand a) how dumb things become smart and b) how to monetize this dynamic. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robert Brown, AVP, Center for the Future of Work at Cognizant Technology Solutions, outlined research, analysis and recommendations from his recently published book on this phenomena on the way leading edge organizations like GE and Disney are unlocking the Internet of Things opportunity and what steps your organization should be taking to position itself for the next platform of digital competition.
Dec. 15, 2014 11:45 PM EST Reads: 1,712
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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As the Internet of Things unfolds, mobile and wearable devices are blurring the line between physical and digital, integrating ever more closely with our interests, our routines, our daily lives. Contextual computing and smart, sensor-equipped spaces bring the potential to walk through a world that recognizes us and responds accordingly. We become continuous transmitters and receivers of data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Andrew Bolwell, Director of Innovation for HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, discussed how key attributes of mobile technology – touch input, sensors, social, and ...
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Pilot jailed over deadly China crash
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Fog disrupts flights, trains in Delhi, no respite Friday
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Bangladesh president arrives on six-day visit
Dec 18, 2014 at 23:30 | Source: FirstPost
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Bangladesh President M. Abdul Hamid arrived here Thursday on a six-day official visit - the first visit by a ceremonial head of state of Bangladesh since 1972.Hamid is here on the invite of President Pranab Mulherjee, and wil...
Aer Lingus rejects takeover bid by BA owner IAG
Dec 18, 2014 at 22:41 | Source: BBC
British Airways owner IAG says that the Irish carrier Aer Lingus has rejected a takeover offer. In a statement, IAG confirmed that it had submitted an offer and that it had been rejected by Aer Lingus. Earlier, Aer Lingus shares had jumped 14% after ...
SpiceJet: Indian airline resumes flights
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India's troubled airline SpiceJet has resumed flights after it agreed to pay oil companies cash for fuel purchases. The fleet of the debt-ridden carrier, which owes money to creditors, including oil companies, was grounded for several hours on W...
CISF deploys Filipino combat skill trained women commandos at IGIA
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Ahead of Obama visit, US security team visits Agra
Dec 17, 2014 at 23:15 | Source: FirstPost
Agra, Dec 17 (IANS) A 40-member team comprising US security advisers, representatives of the two houses and journalists visited the Taj Mahal in Agra to access security arrangements and logistics, ahead of the US President Barack Obama's India visit ...
SpiceJet: Indian airline planes 'grounded'
Dec 17, 2014 at 13:37 | Source: BBC
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Rusalka Ukrainian dance troupe still kicking at 50
Eighteen dancers from the Ukrainian National Federation Dance School struck out on their own in 1962 and formed a humble dance ensemble, bonded by their shared Ukrainian heritage and passion for dance.
Little did they know that 50 years later, Rusalka -- named for the seductive water nymph of Ukrainian folklore -- would be regarded as Winnipeg's première Ukrainian dance ensemble. Over the past five decades, Rusalka has delighted audiences all over the world with its kinetic performances, dancing for the likes of Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II. Many Rusalka dancers have gone on to have careers in the arts -- actress Mimi Kuzyk is an alumna.
More than just entertainment, Rusalka is a vital part of Winnipeg's large and vibrant Ukrainian community; in fact, it still calls the historic UNF Hall on north Main Street home. There have been more than a few Rusalka marriages and many founding members, such as Myron Tarasiuk, have children who dance in the ensemble. He will perform along with his daughter Andriana at the 50th anniversary gala concert Sunday at the Centennial Concert Hall.
Tarasiuk, 63, danced with Rusalka from 1962 until 1984. He recalls those formative years and having to explain to people that Rusalka, despite bearing a name that started with the same three letters, wasn't a Russian dance troupe. It's a telling anecdote about public perception at the time; Ukraine wouldn't gain independence from the Soviet Union until 1991 and it became part of Rusalka's raison d'etre to familiarize people with the history and culture of Ukraine.
In 50 years of highlights, 1979 sticks out for Tarasiuk. That was the year Rusalka first toured Ukraine.
"It was a year I will never forget," says Tarasiuk, who is also a teacher in the English/Ukrainian bilingual program in the Seven Oaks School Division. "First of all we were, to my knowledge, the first Western troupe to perform in Ukraine when it was still under the Communist regime. That was an achievement in itself. And to top it off, we were dancing in front of relatives we never met before. Embarrassingly, I remember losing focus during a dance because I was so focused on the fact a grandfather I'd never met was in the audience. It was a very emotional trip."
For Rusalka dancer/board member Patrick Kuzyk, who danced from 1977 to 1989, that first tour to Ukraine was an eye-opener. He was 19 at the time. "It really focused my desire to discover and preserve my Ukrainian heritage," Kuzyk says.
The 1979 trip was in stark contrast to Rusalka's most recent Ukrainian tour. In August, the ensemble performed as part of Independence Day celebrations in Lviv.
"I'm in the same place, watching my daughter perform, my son perform and my niece perform on Independence Day," Tarasiuk marvels. "You never forget something like that. In 1979, everything in Ukraine was grey. There was nothing to do. There was propaganda everywhere. Now, everything is in colour. There are bars and cafes. It's alive."
Kuzyk says Rusalka's longevity can be owed to the dedicated generations of families who have tirelessly volunteered their time, energy and money.
"I can't believe the group has made it to 50 years, but I am thrilled it's made it," Tarasiuk says. "As with all performing companies, you have your highs and lows and budgets are drained."
Rusalka's legacy is being carried on by "the kids," many of them second- and third-generation Canadians who want to keep their Ukrainian culture alive.
"You want to see young people involved and engaged. For them, it's fun. And for the Ukrainian community, it's a great thing. It offers a tie to our ancestral roots. There are such good kids in this group; I can't say enough about them," Tarasiuk says.
Kids like Kuzyk's 17-year-old daughter Kathryn, who grew up surrounded by Rusalka, always dreamed of being a dancer. That dream became reality in 2011.
"The opportunities still surprise me," she says.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 26, 2013 G10
Updated on Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 10:50 PM CDT: Adds slide show.
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The native beauty of Bidwell Park serves as the scenic backdrop for Bidwell Park Golf Course, a 6,363-yard layout comprised of two distinct 9-hole experiences. Characterized by parkland-style terrain, the front nine includes two of the round's more difficult tracks: the 520-yard, par-five fifth hole and the 412-yard, par-four sixth hole, both of which demand accurate drives and approach shots down narrow fairways and into greens guarded by sandtraps. The back nine ripples over Northern California foothills, creating shot opportunities where golfers will have to adjust their swings for up- or down-hill targets. Though water only comes into play on two holes, a stream runs throughout the entire course, attracting wildlife and caddies who need a place to wash the grass stains out of their coveralls.
Course at a Glance: * 18-hole, par 71/72 course * Length of 6,363 yards from the tips * Course rating of 70.4 from the tips * Slope rating of 126 from the tips * Three tee options
Plumas Lake Golf & Country Club was established in 1926, but its course has undergone multiple facelifts since then. In 1960, it was expanded to 18 holes and re-designed by renowned architect Bob Baldock. Then, in 2006, larger putting greens were installed using premium turf.
All that work has retained the facility's reputation as one of Sacramento Valley's hidden gems, and has even caught the eye of Golf Digest, which has placed Plumas amongst the country's top courses on multiple occasions. Golfers, meanwhile, encounter the the course's beauty while attempting to overcome its challenges, including rows of mature oaks that guard the smallish greens and often demand answers to three riddles before allowing anyone to pass.
Course at a Glance * 18-hole, par 72 course * Total of 6,422 yards from the back tees * Four tees per hole * Course rating of 71.9 * Course slope of 125 * Click here to view the scorecard.
Copses of serene pines, oaks, and redwoods cluster along no fewer than 36 rye-grass fairways at Lincoln Hills Golf Club. Even after creating its first 18-hole Hills course, designed by professional golfer Billy Casper and famed course architect Greg Nash, the club decided it wanted another. Its ambition created a second par 72 layout—the Orchard course—giving golfers a choice between two courses where large greens nestle amid rolling hills and naturally occurring wetlands.
The older Hills course unfurls over 6,876 yards. Its second hole demands a tee shot over a lake and onto a tight fairway before players even begin to aim at a green guarded by a bunker on the left. The newer Orchard course also makes golfers sweat at the second fairway, its hardest, which earns a par 5 by coming in at 598 yards and offering a plethora of sand bunkers as well as a 75-foot slope from the tee box to the green.
Instead of smashing cell phones to make rudimentary compasses, golfers navigate the course in GPS-equipped golf carts. The club also entices players with an 8-acre driving range, a practice area for putting and chipping, and individual or group lessons with professionals Steven Treadway and Patty Snyder—a former LPGA Tour player.
The Ridge Golf Course and Event Center's 6,734-yard course—designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr.—stretches across wide-open, natural expanses, and up and over rippling foothills to reveal breath-taking views. The 18-hole, par 71 course offers challenges for golfers of all levels, daring them to evade the 48 bunkers, water hazards, and oak trees that have been known to hit balls back. Some holes are especially tricky, for instance, on hole 7, an uphill fairway precedes a 26-yard-deep rolling green, prompting golfers to pull their three-wood instead of their driver. But as Greg French—retired director of Golf at The Ridge—said, "It doesn't have to be a difficult course," according to their website. Each hole contains four sets of tees, enabling new players to set up closer, less-difficult shots.
When they're not testing their mettle on the course, players can settle disputes with their empty stomachs at the club's bar and grill, where cooks grill burgers and sizzle up hot sandwiches.
Course at a Glance: * 18-hole, par 71 course * Total length of 6,734 yards from the back tees * Course rating of 72.2 from the back tees * Course slope of 137 from the back tees * Four sets of tees per hole * Scorecard
In 1988, the owners of a ramshackle golf course put it up for sale, taking out a small advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle. But where others saw a lost cause, Gordon Morrice saw an opportunity. He quickly bought the course and set to improving it, clearing the rocks and trees littering the fairways, planting new trees, and adding concrete paths to keep wild carts from burrowing into the grass. Over two decades, Morrice and his family transformed Black Oak Golf Course into a facility worthy of a country club, with tiered poa annua greens highlighted by the signature fourth hole?a 131-yard par 3 featuring a dramatic tee shot over water. Along with a regular maintenance staff, at least one member of Morrice's family oversees the course on any given day, retaining a level of personal attention that keeps it from shriveling into a mini-golf course like so many before it.
Course at a Glance: * Nine-hole course with a driving range and practice greens * Total length of 3,164 yards from the back tees * Course rating of 70.4 from the back tees * Course slope of 128 from the back tees * Four sets of tees per hole
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Early this morning, Israeli forces assassinated the spiritual leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. He was killed by a missile fired from a helicopter gunship as he returned from a mosque in Gaza City at daybreak. At the time of the airstrike, Yassin was being pushed in his wheelchair by an aid. Seven others were killed and many more wounded in the attack. Yassin is by far the most high profile Palestinian assassinated during the second intifida.
The assassination has sparked massive street protests as tens of thousands of Palestinians marched in a funeral procession. The Palestinian Authority declared three days of mourning and a general strike has been called. The Hamas leadership said Sharon had "opened the gates of hell" and the group vowed all-out war.
Millions Across the World Protest On Anniversary of Iraq War
On Sunday, millions gathered around the world in a global day of protest to mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In New York organizers said up to 200,000 marched through midtown. In North Carolina, military families led a rally outside the gates of Fort Bragg. In San Francisco, on Friday, some 500 protesters shut down Bechtel's corporate headquarters.
Former Terrorism Czar Criticizes Bush 9/11 Response
President Bush's former terrorism czar Richard Clarke is publicly accusing Bush of ignoring the threat posed by Al Qaeda up until Sept.11, 2001 and that after the US was attacked, Bush wanted to immediately to strike Iraq.
According to a new book by Clarke, Bush said on the evening of Sept. 12: "Go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this." When Clarke responded that Al Qaeda was responsible, Bush said "I know, I know, but . . . see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know any shred."
Clarke is widely viewed as a leading figure in national security circles. He has held top posts under every president since Reagan and served as both President Clinton and President Bush's top anti-terrorism official.
In his book Clarke writes that Bush "failed to act prior to September 11 on the threat from al Qaeda despite repeated warnings and then harvested a political windfall for taking obvious yet insufficient steps after the attacks." He goes on to write that Bush "launched an unnecessary and costly war in Iraq that strengthened the fundamentalist, radical Islamic terrorist movement worldwide."
Clarke charges the Iraq war was used to help the Republicans win the 2002 midterm election. He writes, "The crisis was manufactured, and Bush political adviser Karl Rove was telling Republicans to 'run on the war.'"
Clarke also says that before Sept. 11 Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz claimed Iraq was behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and posed at least as much as danger as Al Qaeda.
Meanwhile, less than a day after the attacks, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, said at a cabinet-level meeting that, "there were no decent targets for bombing in Afghanistan and that we should consider bombing Iraq."
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Same Old Same Old As VIX Dips, EUR Rips, And Equities BTFDsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 16:33 -0400
UPDATE: TXN misses and guides down:For the third quarter of 2012, TXN expects:
Revenue: $3.21 – 3.47 billion vs consensus Exp. of $3.53 billion,
Earnings per share: $0.34 – 0.42, vs consensus Exp is $0.43
VIX opened north of 20%, traded to 20.49%, and then it was decided that this level of premium over a recent calm realized vol period is too much and the front-end of the volatility market was crushed over 2 vols lower. While VIX closed up 2.3vols at 18.6%, the sell-off into Europe's close recovered handsomely on low volume leak back up to VWAP (thanks to HYG and VXX's stability) and then an afternoon push to last Monday's close before giving most of the afternoon gains back in a few mins after the cash close. The EUR dip-and-rip, the stick-save in the S&P whenever it tumbles with any kind of velocity, the fearless selling of short-dated vol, juxtaposes the general state of safe-haven seeking in Treasuries (and Swiss/German bonds) as the entire TSY curve saw record closing low yields amid a 3bps flattening at the long-end. Equity volume was meh, average trade size was meh - though as cash closed near day-session highs we saw heavy blocks selling, and ES traded between its 61.8% and 50% retracements of the March-to-June swoon. Broad risk assets did not play along with stocks this afternoon (though equities and gold recoupled) and neither did TRIN which remained very flat all day. The USD ended stronger by 0.2% (in line with EUR weakness) but SEK was the day's best major performer as AUD lagged (down 1% against the USD today). Volatility pulled plenty cheap to equities once again which remain notably more sanguine than credit and TSYs but the magic 1340 level in ES appears to be the line in the sand for now - though given a 10Y at 1.40%, do not expect NEW QE anytime soon - though Gold outperformed its peers on the day as WTI slid over 4% from Friday's close.
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Guest Post: The Dawn Of The Great California Energy CrashSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 19:06 -0400
California, which imports over 25% of its electricity from out of state, is in no position to lose half (!) of its entire nuclear power capacity. But that's exactly what happened earlier this year, when the San Onofre plant in north San Diego County unexpectedly went offline. The loss only worsens the broad energy deficit that has made California the most dependent state in the country on expensive, out-of-state power. Its two nuclear plants -- San Onofre in the south and Diablo Canyon on the central coast -- together have provided more than 15% of the electricity supply that California generates for itself, before imports. But now there is the prospect that San Onofre will never reopen. Will California now find that it must import as much as 30% of its power? The problem of California's energy dependency has been decades in the making. And it's not just its electrical power balance that presents an ongoing challenge. California's oil production peaked in 1985. And despite ongoing gains in energy efficiency via admirably wise regulation, the state's population and aggregate energy consumption has completely overrun supply. Essentially, California, like the rest of the country, has built a very expensive system of transport, which is now aging along with its powergrid.
Who will produce all the energy that California will need to buy in the future?
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Is Vegas Signaling The Consumer Is Folding?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 18:17 -0400
Visitor volume to Las Vegas is the highest since 2007, despite rising hotel rates, but gaming revenues are near flat. Online gambling is popular with Europeans – the Brits and Greeks in particular – yet it has slowed over the past 3 months. ConvergEx's latest off-the-beaten-path economic indicator – gambling – shows an increasing global reluctance to leave household finances at the whims of blackjack and poker tables, be they in actual casinos or online betting parlors. Discretionary spending behavior is reliant on consumer sentiment and economic outlook; gambling is the ultimate "luxury item" because there's absolutely no guaranteed return, so gambling behavior is a near real-time indicator of changes in consumer confidence. Our gambling indicators, both domestic and abroad, show what feels a lot like recessionary behavior and point to another leg down in the latter half of 2012.
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Moody's Changes Aaa-Rated Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg Outlook To NegativeSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 16:57 -0400
In a first for Moody's, the rating agency, traditionally about a month after Egan Jones (whose rationale and burdensharing text was virtually copied by Moody's: here and here), has decided to cut Europe's untouchable core, while still at Aaa, to Outlook negative, in the process implicitly downgrading Germany, Netherlands and Luxembourg, and putting them in line with Austria and France which have been on a negative outlook since February 13, 2012.The only good news goes to Finland, whose outlook is kept at stable for one simple reason: the country's attempts to collateralize its European bailout exposure, a move which will now be copied by all the suddenly more precarious core European countries.
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Is Spain's 15%+ 'Legal-Arbitrage' 6 Month Return Signaling An Imminent Bailout?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 15:46 -0400
In what has become one of the most widely read and distributed of our posts, we first introduced the world to the intricacies of legal 'subordination' and protection among European bonds back in January of this year (and reaffirmed it specifically for Spain in early June). This strategy proved exceptionally successful in the case of Greece, and has, in recent weeks, also done extremely well in the case of Spain. Since we first noted it, the local-law Spanish 2029s are down over 14% while the non-local 'UK-law' Spanish 2029s have managed to gain 1.1% providing arbitrageurs with a massive profit on a duration-matched low-capital pairs trade. More importantly, for all the European fixed income asset managers who owe their clients as least some fiduciary duty, we can only hope they rotated to the non-domestic-law bonds before early May - when trouble really hit. While gloating on one's success at non-vaporizing cash once again is not our way, we much more critically note that one can read the fundamentals (as opaque as they are and known to everyone) or one can look at what the market is saying. What it is saying is that the differential between UK- and non-UK-law bonds has been crushed and is absolutely on a path to repeat the Greek PSI experience. There is plenty of room left for the trade since the UK-law bonds will likely be taken out at Par (just as with GGBs) while Spain's PSI is just as likely to be the 20s/30s - and any TROIKA funding will prime everyone but the UK-Law bonds.
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RANsquawk US Market Wrap - 23rd July 2012Submitted by RANSquawk Video on 07/23/2012 15:44 -0400
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On 'Silly Season' And The Danger Of European PoliticiansSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 15:04 -0400
The coincidence of comments from Germany - both the Bundestag's Hasselfeldt "If a country is not in a position to fulfill its obligations, or is unwilling to, then it must leave the Euro zone"; and vice-Chancellor Philip Roesler (of the FDP) to the effect that the dangers associated with a Greek exit had faded - and the IMF (which has been suspect for a while in its 'steadfastness' with regard Greece, seem to suggest as UBS notes, that there is notable suspicion of collusion among the politicians to apply pressure to the Hellenic Republic. Against becoming too concerned there is the Realpolitik of the Euro area. Decisions about the direction of the Euro project are taken by a very small coterie of political leaders within the Euro area, and we should be concerned not necessarily because of the specifics of the comment or the associated "hardball" bargaining stance, but because politicians still feel that comments like this can be made at all without fear of repercussions. As silly season is set to begin, we should prepare for the impact of politicians need to hear themselves speak.
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Desperate CME Tries To Regain Client Confidence In MFG, PFG Aftermath; Sends Letters To CustomersSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 14:09 -0400
The CME, which is seeing an unprecedented exodus in trading and clients due to the recent fiascoes at MF Global and Peregrine Financial, and which is completely helpless to do anything about what is fundamentally a core feature of modern US 'capital markets', has resorted to the last ditch effort of every failing enterprise: writing and mailing letters to clients full of hollow promises. "We want you to know that CME Group is committed to making whatever changes are necessary to strengthen customer protections, restore confidence in the futures industry and ensure the effectiveness of these critical markets." Or until the next MFG or PFG at least. Sorry: too little, too late.
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Oil And Gold Seasonals Suggest BTFDSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 13:46 -0400
The long-term seasonal data for gold and oil has not just remained relatively highly correlated over time but, as Barclays points out today, has very clear periods of bearishness, consolidation, and bullishness. While Gold may have another month of treading water, the period from September to mid-October is empirically bullish while Brent's August to mid-October period is the most bullish segment of the year. Given gold's stability in the past month or so since the EU Summit, and oil's surge (and modest pull-back very recently), seasonals certainly provide some technical support for BTFD here in these QE-sensitive, real assets.
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Presenting The Real Impact Of US Stress Test TransparencySubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 13:30 -0400
Far be it from us to reflect Schadenfreude here but at the time of the squeezefest leading up to and after the announcement of the lipstick-on-a-pig US Stress Tests in mid-March, when CDS were remaining wide and hardly budged, we questioned the reality of the assumptions and the lack of contagion comprehension. Most critically, in the 4 months since that wondrous day when all was proved great in the world of US banking, the major financials are down a stupendous 25% on average with Wells Fargo taking over the mantle of least used bed-pan in the E-Coli ward - at an unimpressive unchanged since 3/13.
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LCH Adds Margin Call To Injury, Hikes Spanish, Italian Bond MarginsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 13:19 -0400
Hopefully nobody will be surprised to learn that after Spanish bonds closed at all time records earlier, just shy of 7.50%, that LCH has decided to hike margins on not only Spanish bonds, in the 7-30 year duration windows (from 11.80% to 12.20% for the benchmark 10 Year), but also on Italian bonds, at both the short and long-end, which are now also rapidly approaching the 7% threshold, pushing the 7-10 Year duration window from 9.50% to 11.65%, and which will approach it much faster now that there will be even more forced margin selling to cover collateral calls.
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All The World's A StageSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 12:41 -0400
The European Union has been, in a very real sense, like a masquerade ball. The intricately painted masks covering manipulated stress tests, hiding inaccurate debt to GDP ratios, falsified accounting practices, glossing over any sort of contingent liabilities as if the scars were not there and double counting assets however, like all extravaganzas of this type, is about to reach a conclusion. The night has been long and the hour is late but one by one the masks are being removed and the characters are seen for what they are; a less than pretty sight. There are negative yields in the short maturities for Germany, France and the Netherlands which might soon be found in the United States. We are not sure what Mr. Bernanke will make of institutions paying him to leave their money with the United States government but it will be a classic example of a point in time where "Return OF Capital" became much more important that "Return ON Capital" but as we have asserted time and time again, given the 36% loss of wealth during the American Financial Crisis, that "Preservation of Capital," are manifestly the byword of the Faith at present.
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Guest Post: You'll Love The New Nickname They Have For The Dollar Here…Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 12:27 -0400
No doubt, Eastern Europe is a part of the world where people are accustomed to being abused by politicians. After decades of Soviet Rule, the cultures in places like Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Belarus, etc. have been inculcated with a strong mistrust of government. All government. One obvious sign of this is how little confidence people have in their own national currencies. Here in Ukraine, for example, people who have any level of wealth whatsoever hold hard currency– dollars and euros, rather than the local hryvna. (Naturally, their relative confidence in dollars and euros is misplaced, though I was pleased to see that gold is starting to penetrate the cultural psyche here.) They even have a funny nickname for these regional currencies that get inflated and devalued by corrupt central bankers and politicians– rabbits… because they grow and multiply in such huge numbers so quickly. As two different economics students this weekend told me, 'we are starting to look at the US dollar in the same way…' I guess that makes the euro a dodo bird.
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European Bloodbath Continues As Spanish 2Y Is Crushed To Record High SpreadsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 11:55 -0400
While Monti claims there is no need for an emergency summit and Spain and Italy ban short-sellers (but not long-sellers yet), Europe's Dow-equivalent is down around 2.5%. Interestingly Italy and Spain 'bounced' off ugly lows intraday (which we are sure Monti/Rajoy are patting themselves on the back briefly) but France's CAC40 and Germany's DAX were sold hard - both down around 3% (as proxies as much as contagion-gatherers). More critically, equities are catching down to European credit markets. European financial credit is now notably wider than pre-Summit levels but it is the front-end of the Spanish and Italian sovereign yield curves that has been absolutely monkey-hammered in the last few days. Spain 2Y is now at 16 year highs in yield (biggest 1- and 2-day jumps in over two years) but all-time record wides in spread as we await for the ultimate death cross of inversion to signal the approaching endgame. EURUSD hovered around 1.2100 (down around 50 pips from Friday) and while oil prices slumped, Brent priced in EUR remains above its levels 2 months ago. Meanwhile, Swiss 2Y rates are at a new record low of -44.4bps, German 2Y same at -8bp, and Denmark remains -31bps - though we do note some of the other higher quality 2Ys leaking a little higher in yield such as Austria and France.
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As The Fiscal CliffSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 07/23/2012 11:34 -0400
The effect on the USA of its casually wandering over the Fiscal Cliff will be catastrophic; adding approximately $607bln to the US deficit which in turn would sap anywhere up to 4% (according to the CBO) or possibly even 5% (if Chairman Bernanke—in full-on 'scare Congress' mode—is to be believed) from US GDP and send the country crashing into outright recession (or further into recession depending on how things continue to deteriorate in the coming months). "That we cannot have" was the opinion of Erskine Bowles who, along with former Sen. Alan Simpson, devised a debt reduction plan last year to prevent this doomsday scenario.... According to the OMB estimates, any attempt to do something remotely meaningful will result in at least a percentage point reduction in US GDP, which is fine in a world of 3% growth, but today that 1% is not something these guys have to play around with. In the run-up to December 31, you can guarantee that the issue of the US Fiscal Cliff will replace Europe as the major concern facing the world in general and the US in particular and, if things continue to deteriorate at their current pace, anything that will lead to even a 0.5% cut inGDP will be seen as a disaster.
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