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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
At the risk of beating a dead horse, 2009 has, in aggregate, played the role of the slave in Macro Man's investment career. As if he needed further proof, a couple of the trades that he cut yesterday have come roaring back today. It's a slap in the face, but not altogether unexpected, and Macro Man has to laugh (if only so he won't cry.) In any event, those trades are done with, and there's no utility to be gained from crying over spilt milk.
Anyhow, while Macro Man is in wind-down mode for the year, he is still keeping a watchful eye on things. One little item that has caught his notice is the relative outperformance of Korea in the aftermath of the initial Dubai flare-up. For the two months after late Sepember, the Kospi couldn't buy a friend, and badly underperformed the rest of global equities. Since "Dubai", it has surged, even breaking out of its downchannel resistance. Does it mean anything? Macro Man isn't sure...but it is interesting.
Also of interest is the swirling talk around sovereign risk. Te Nakheel bond maturity is rapidly approaching, and while there have been some mumbles about ad hoc support from the government, there's been nothing concrete announced. Similarly, Greece continues to get pummeled, with 5 year CDS widening out beyond 200 bps this morning.
The Big Kahuna(s) of soverign risk, however, are G4 countries. While Japan is its own special case, the US and UK have come under renewed scrutiny, and not simply because it's the time of year whn banks roll out their "year ahead" research products. Today's WSJ carries a story noting that Moody's has changed its language on the US and UK, possibly opening the door to a downgrade by 2013.
While that's still an unlikely outcome (doom-mongering to the contrary), it does highlight the risks posed by the fiscal situation in both countries. Macro Man had to laugh at a recent story that the Obama adminsitration would use some of the TARP money to pay down the deficit. It really highlights the absurdities of US government budget accounting, because it seems to be common sense that the best way to "use" the TARP to reduce the deficit would be by...err....not using it! In any event, US CDS has started to tick higher again, though it remains well below the panicked levels of last year. Still, it's worth keeping an eye, particularly in the context of shaky performance by the peripherals.
In the UK, meanwhile, we get the Government's "go for broke" mini-budget that is widely seen as a last-ditch effort to revive Labour's sagging electoral fortunes. The other day, Macro Man wondered to himself what Mr. Darling would propose if he were actually interested in a goal other than saving his own political skin, then chuckled at the absurdity of the notion. In any event, expect some focus on windfall taxation of banking bonuses, which will no doubt raise howls of protest from the Square Mile and satisfied taunts of "Unluggy!" from the other 94,525 square miles of the United Kingdom.
In any event, UK sovereign risk is likely to remain in focus for some time, given the forthcoming election next year and the potential for a hung Parliament. Macro Man doesn't know how it will play out and is happy to remain on the sidelines. Trying to guess how this will play out would likely provide him with aanother slave-like reminder.....
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hold on to your hats, rest of the week is gonna be a wild ride!
- December 8, 2009 at 11:24 AM
What does anyone think about the possibility of another emerging market debt crisis? Dubai, Greece, Romania... rest of Eastern Europe could be contaminated?
Could this be the "next wave" of the credit crunch?
- December 8, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Anon 11.24
I was just drawing the same conclusion..are you watching the banks as well?
- December 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Anon 11:32, just like you, I can only guess. I believe that most of Eastern Europe didn't take out credit only to buy gadgets, they tried to build their economy as well. On the whole, I believe it will turn out well for EE in the long run.
- December 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM
It may be an obvious point to many here, but Korea is often used as a proxy to short/hedge Asia/EM as it has the most liquid futures market. Some of that pressure may have eased (for now).
GS will tell you that Korea is no longer a leveraged play on G3 demand, but the equity market correlation suggests otherwise.
Korea is at the pointy end of the global cycle, hence it is a very interesting market to watch..
- December 8, 2009 at 11:50 AM
anon @ 11.39
i keep harping on about this, but conditions have started to tighten for 2 months now ... its not just about base rates.
the liquidity fueled bubble will unravel precisely according to those who have benefitted most and are furthest away from fair value ... banks, poor sovereign credit, useless inflation hedges such as gold and oil and the like.
its just gonna take time to pan out. but once the domino effect starts, its hard to stop ... this time precisely because its central bankers that are easing off the liquidity/money supply pedal despite trying to keep rate hike expectations low.
- December 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM
I guess we have reached that time of year where risk takers are not happy to add and become vulnerable to pain. Fridays price action in many 'risk on' positions was out of step with what the market has come to expect and I fear we have entered that time of year where we play hunt the hunt the pain game. This morning we have had some China comments, Dubai stocks, bank shares and the Dollar all adding to a feeling of pain to come. None of it is very new but that appears, now, not to be the point. If it is owned it is vulnerable.
- December 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM
In contrast, Hong Kong appears to be forming a H&S top (not confirmed, of course). Chinese stocks are not taking the possibility of weaker loan/money growth very well.
- December 8, 2009 at 11:57 AM
lets put it this way, the notion that those sectors (economy, nations whateiver) which got bombed out the most will lead us out of this mess is absurd.
- December 8, 2009 at 11:58 AM
I've been short the banks for several months and wondering when the bad news will hit their share prices ... MBS prices have been declining since Q3 ended, meaning banks will face big losses in Q4 ... now Obama is forcing share issuance in order to get the TARP funds back ... surely with this double whammy banks will drop significantly in advance of earnings reports?
- December 8, 2009 at 12:36 PM
I'm still expecting the powers that be to keep adding more elasticity to the IASs and GAAP to ensure the year is ended on a positive.
JPM Q3 should have a permanent spot in the Tate.
- December 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM
- abee crombie said...
does anyone here actually trade CDS? I have heard the accuracy of Bloomberg data for CDS (especially single name corporates) is very poor. I wonder if gov't is similar
Just a thought
- December 8, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Tons of negative news out today. But what if SPX holds on? Sure there are lots of reasons to be bearish. But most (if not all) the factors that began this risk asset rally are still in place: namely, loose monetary policy, improving economic fundamentals (albeit from a low base), em strength, blah, blah, blah.
So, here's a bit of Voodoo…i.e. Technical analysis
As mentioned in previous comments, Korea is probably still important and it has consolidated but has not yet broken down. And when a perfect Head and shoulders top fails to confirm (looking at the kospi since 7/31), the textbooks tell us that the rally off the uncompleted pattern can be parabolic. If kospi rallies, other risk assets probably will too.
So, don't forget about the possibility that equities and risk assets could be primed for one final F U rally. I think that's the pain trade. The head and shoulders bottom on SPX projects to ~1230, which is also 61.8% retracement of down move.
Something to consider.
Long risk asset exposure into year end with downside protection is warranted.
- December 8, 2009 at 3:05 PM
This is just my humble opinion, but I question the basic models that underlie most CDS pricing (Bloomberg or elsewhere). It is not obvious to me that the assumptions behind the models are sound (I am on the fence here). But it is very obvious that the data necessary to calibrate the models does not exist.
Then you have sovereign CDS... I asked two happy sell side credit analysts to explain to me why the f### I should buy insurance denominated in USD to protect against default of the US government. Its a lot like buying insurance from AIG against a default by AIG... the two analysts gave me an answer that sounded like something a member of Congress would say; lots of words, zero meaning.
CDS are essentially insurance contracts and insurance is about pooling risk. You need a big pool of **independent** risks, you need statistics about how/when those risks turn into negative outcomes. Life insurance companies pay vast sums to actuaries to determine life expectancies, and (usually) one person's death has no correlation with others. With property insurance, one guy's house burning down doesn't have any correlation with other houses burning. They are independent risks.
With credit risk, the risks are not independent. When (not if) you have a recession, the probability that defaults will be correlated is huge. In today's environment, where every CEO seemingly operates with a "me too" strategy, many distinct companies are exposed to the same economic factors. In short, they are not independent risks -- the "insurance company" cannot reduce risk via diversification. In political terms: systemic risk trumps entity risk.
And the long term data to determine default probabilities? Most data sources have obvious survivor bias.
What is the recovery rate you can expect on a defaulted asset? It depends on how a court will resolve all sorts of off balance sheet credits against supposedly "senior" credits.
And beyond all those model risks, you have the added problem that the CDS seller of protection is likely an over-levered financial institution who will go bankrupt right when everyone needs to make an insurance claim (eg AIG).
CDS are a very flawed product -- way worse than CDOs
- December 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
surely not, a bullish view? here? Prepare for the onslaught, or if everyone agrees, maybe it really is the top...
- December 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM
- Deniz said...
i might be wrong but i think US cds is settled in EUR. not that there will EUR left is US defaults.
- December 8, 2009 at 5:20 PM
I don't know if some US govt CDS is priced in EUR now, that story with the two analysts is from about 2yrs ago.
But it doesn't matter. A big reason why the USD remains the global reserve and trade currency is that there isn't a viable alternative. EUR has its own flaws (too many to list here), Rembi/Yuan is illiquid and not convertible, JPY is issued by a geriatric state deep in debt, and so on.
Whatever currency you denominate G-4 CDS in -- its still garbage.
Any event that would trigger a G-4 default would almost certainly also bankrupt CDS sellers of protection, making the "policies" worthless.
And that's before you get into all the structural problems like risk independence, model assumptions and calibration problems, and credit risk of the "insurer"
- December 8, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Gary, CDS is not usually a default insurance trade, its a spread trade and thus an easy way to implement a leveraged view on the creditworthiness of sovereigns without having to mess around with cash bonds and rate risk. Obv settlement under default is a major issue but that doesn't mean its impossible.
I too think SPX has held in well today, am enjoying the fall in gold, but not that in EUR$. It's a messy month and has been mentioned most desks are prob risk lite rather than on or off.
My 2p, JL
- December 8, 2009 at 5:49 PM
- hear today guanno tommorrow said...
US sovereign CDS is quoted in either US or EUR tho mosylt traded in EUR. point is, u don't just need default for trigger on to tarde these. credit migration or a missed coupon should do you well. so what if this a technical default. who cares. its not as though the currency will cease to exist.
- December 8, 2009 at 6:13 PM
To DGDF bugs: So Greece bankruptcy worth about 2 big figs on the Euro? How about Spain? How about Italy? I'm sure German and Dutch taxpayers will love bailing out the Greek government or guaranteeing its debt with their savings and/or future taxes. How long the PIGS governments will allow unemployment to be 15% amid collapsing competitiveness and crushing debt loads without the devaluation option is the question of day...
- December 8, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Anon 5:49
Yes, I know many traders trade CDS based on "spread" and not for default ... but you are just proving the point that the basic product is flawed.
The underlying reason for the spread is to pay for the risk of default; hence my reasoning applies to how that spread is priced, even if default doesn't happen. That is why they are called credit ***DEFAULT*** swaps. Default, even if it doesn't happen, is the basis for any economically based price.
The fact that insolvent banks are trading these things essentially like casino chips (with zero attachment to underlying economic value) is why the product is hopelessly flawed.
No solvent bank would sell protection at these "spreads" (or they wouldn't remain solvent). No intelligent consumer would buy protection from an "insurance company" that won't be there in the event of a claim.
Hence, trading in CDS casino chips is left to people who trade only with other people's money.
Its a bad product, just waiting for a blowup
- December 8, 2009 at 7:26 PM
I know how you feel, MM, also took off a trade yesterday and it just kept rolling today. Can't discuss what it was, though, too controversial... but it wasn't a DGDF trade.
Shorting miners and materials seems like it might be a good trade at some point if this dollar rally is for real. Experimenting with that today. Once again the 3-mo T bill to 2 bps action yesterday was consistent with a little overseas turmoil. LB usually gets short risk assets when that happens, seems to be reliable.
- December 8, 2009 at 7:40 PM
- Our Man in NYC said...
LB -- Shorting miners has already been a good trade (points to FCX's post Dubai performance as a good example).
That said, you're playing with the tail end of the whip and can't hang around when they turns else it gets ugly (as OM's boss mentions every hour to him, following burned fingers in October!)
- December 8, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Gary - Here's the only model I need: if the sovereigns default no banks will be able to pay up on the CDS.
CDS are like paper tickets or tulip bulbs, they have value because people willingly accord them value. In a true crisis, they would underperform. But in the meantime, they can trade much like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mae, and old GM did this summer.
- December 8, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Had a good week already with another trade that cannot be mentioned here. My usual "DGDF trade" is long energy, so that will probably be employed when the time comes. The leashes on all such beasts are short, for now, and in any case most of the portfolio is dull - dividend stocks, IG corporates and Ts. LB does not heart risk here.
- December 8, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Looks like the Chinese are spooked ... The two things Chinese stimulus funds have been buying, Chinese equities and gold, are down the hardest.
Where's Nemo?
- December 8, 2009 at 8:25 PM
PJ -- I agree with you 100%... CDS are casino chips with no real value.
As long as the crazed masses want to trade tulip bulbs -- they will have a pretend price. The instant a critical mass of people realize the CDOs / subprime / FNMA / CDS are nothing but swamp water ... they will simply cease to trade.
Then some corrupt banker will whine to a corrupt treasury secretary about an imaginary "liquidity" problem in tulip bulbs and CDS ... that "no one could have foreseen!"
Trading CDS is exactly like going to Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun (both casinos in Connecticut FYI). If you go to a casino with a set amount that you can afford to lose, see a show or have a great dinner, etc -- no problem. Its entertainment.
But if you are foolish enough to think it is a sound business model and bet more than you can afford to lose outright...
And that is what the banks are doing with taxpayer money
- December 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM
So now this stupid George Bush wanna-be president plans to spend our way out of debt!
There is no way this recession is even close to over
- December 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Gary: You are 100% correct, and the government is intent on backstopping the tulip trade at the same time. Once the folly of this policy is realized there will necessarily be another "repricing of risk".
- December 8, 2009 at 8:41 PM
LB -- the problem I see going forward is that the govt is running out of money and credibility.
When Obama is facing election / referendum next year, or facing actual election in 2012 ... will he opt to make good on bullsh!t banker promises?
Or will he spend on infrastructure, welfare, tax credits, etc that voters can see?
Wait!! before you answer, consider that the resentment of the masses is becoming so obvious that even the CEO of Goldman is starting to see it. Heck, voter resentment is so friggin obvious that even (gasp!) members of Congress are noticing and asking Bernanke about it
Wait!!! Bailing out mortgages is one thing, voters want a house. How the heck are Congress members going to explain bailing out a CDS trade? What's a CDS trade anyway? Isn't that the AIG toxic waste that Henry Paulson used to bail out Goldman Sachs? And then Goldman went and paid $20 billion in bonuses?
I would not want to be one of the suckers counting on yet another big government bailout.
- December 8, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Gary, in what can only be described as a conversion similar to that of Saul on the Road to Damascus, there has been a transformation - we agree completely. Macro Man, are you witnessing this miracle?
On another note, LB points out that this week has seen an example of a VERY RARE technical pattern that may have been spotted by other flamingo hunters - the CLAVADISTA d'ORO.
- December 8, 2009 at 9:07 PM
LB, if my rough translation is correct (I may be wrong), "CLAVADISTA d'ORO" means "golden-cliff-diver", but I am not familiar with the technical pattern. Please englighten us.
- December 9, 2009 at 1:43 AM
OK, so Obama's idea of paying off the Mastercard bill with the visa card didn't go over to well with people who can do math...
On to the next idea: Cash for Caulkers (no I am not making that name up). Home owners can get up to $12,000 to buy various energy efficient appliances made in South Korea or China (stoves, A/C, refrigerators, etc) ... OR ... as the headline suggests, for insulating and caulking their homes.
At the local Home Depot (hardware store), a canister of caulk (made from petroleum products) costs USD $4.95
So that means Obama wants us to buy 2,400 canisters of caulk for our home? Maybe we can make the entire house out of caulk?
Or, similar to the cash for clunkers program bailing out Honda and Toyota, we can now bail out the only compressor factory in the world (in South Korea) or maybe buy a new stove from LG (South Korea again) or one of the "name brand" models (GE, Maytag, Whirlpool, etc) that are outsourced to China.
And this is going to stimulate the US economy!
The recession is not even close to over ... but I am starting to miss the stupidity of George Bush
- December 9, 2009 at 1:58 AM
I found most surprising the grilling BB got at the hands of Congress. It was like they actually cared or something. Maybe their staffers have been hitting the blogs.
One way or t'other, TPTB in Washington seem to be figuring out that all the QE isn't actually helping the US economy at all, but is simply fueling new bubbles in EMs, commodities, and of course providing for record bonuses at GS.
Naturally, their own deficit spending is another matter entirely. While the masses may be looking about for pitchforks on the sinking dollar, they've not yet figured out how the deficits are mostly lining the pockets of Democratic stalwarts, to be recycled as campaign contributions, nor that what doesn't find its way to those worthies is, as noted here, flowing into the pockets of foreign suppliers of imported necessaries such as petroleum and flat-screen televisions.
Put the two together and what do you get? BB under pressure to defend the dollar, while at the same time massive new issuance of US govt debt will need to be priced to catch a bid in the real market from the same foreign buyers who are running around looking for ways to dump their dollars. What does that suggest for US interest rates? Can BB possibly keep the pot from boiling over for the 2 years necessary to skate past the option-ARM reset bubble and the commercial RE loan rollovers?
- December 9, 2009 at 3:41 AM
Skippy, "clavadista d'oro" in fact refers to the chart showing a precipitious fall in the price of a certain instrument of late. LB is forbidden to discuss this further in the interests of investor harmony.
- December 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Thanks LB ;)
- December 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM
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Kiplimo romped to a comfortable victory, clocking 2:09:23 to beat over 3,600 runners on a foggy day with temperatures averaging 15 degrees and a high humidity of over 86%.
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Kiplimo knew well that the Japanese were good marathoners and with fast pace setters, he decided not to go ahead but never to lose the lead pack.
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"After 35km I found myself in the front by accident so I just decided to continue pushing. I know the Japanese are very strong so I had to keep pushing and not give up," he said at the post marathon press conference.
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The SpaceLoft XL rocket failed to reach a targeted altitude of 70 miles, but the historic mission was still declared a giant step as the first-ever education launch at the commercial spaceport site in southern Sierra County.
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"It's a really great opportunity," he said.
The 20-foot-tall, 10-inch-diameter rocket and payload components separated about 2 minutes and 40 seconds after launch and parachuted back to earth, touching down 15 minutes after take-off.
Jerry Larson, president of UP Aerospace Inc., delivered the bad news.
"The motor burned like it was supposed to," he said of what many called a successful launch. "We're not sure why (the rocket failed to reach space)."
Larson said crews were scheduled to proceed with recovery operations today. "White Sands Missile Range tracked the launch vehicle through the entire flight," he said.
"The purpose of this program is to develop New Mexico's work force by providing students access to space annually from Spaceport America," emphasized Steve Landeene, executive director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority. "This is the gateway to the future."
Dr. Patricia Hynes, director of the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium said, "By giving our students the ability to launch their experiments, we are generating interest in technology and science that can't be matched in a classroom setting.
Erik Eisen, 22, a senior at New Mexico State University who helped design and build the university's payload, said "It was really exciting to see the fire come out during the launch."
While he was "a little disappointed" that the rocket failed to reach space, Eisen added, "It still worked out."
Larson said the rocket "came up a little short" of the 70-mile target, but just how short was not immediately available.
Eisen and three other NMSU seniors had worked since August 2008 to build their payload, which was designed to gauge the rocket's performance and measure particles in the upper atmosphere.
Students will learn the results of their experiments today when payloads are retrieved.
The launch marked the first of the year at Spaceport America. The last public launch was in April 2007, though three other private launches have taken place since.
The New Mexico Spaceport Authority plans to break ground for Spaceport America in June.
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Zola's Home Daycare 545 New Dawn Road Lynden WA PH 360 555 5012 www.ZolasDaycare.com Zola's Home Daycare Services August Prepared for. Marsha Ferraro Prepared by. Zola Bentley Your name was on our waiting list. If you are still interested in enrolling your child in Zola's Home Daycare please let me know ASAP we will have two spaces available as of September 1.
Everyone needs to plan for the unexpected. To be sure that normal activities can continue at Zola's Home Daycare if Zola must be absent for some reason we have developed the following contingency plan. Possible Emergency Situation Zola Bentley is ill or has sudden emergency she must attend to while the daycare is open and children are present. Objective We want to keep the children in our care safe and happy with as little disruption as possible to their schedules and their parents' schedules. The children will never be left without responsible adult in charge. The Plan In the event that Zola falls ill needs additional help or situation develops for which Zola must leave the daycare premises these steps will be followed. 1. Zola will call Nancy Vandercamp her next door neighbor stay at home mom with an infant and Nancy will take over bringing her infant with her. In the event that Nancy is not available or needs help Susanna May retired preschool teacher who lives two blocks away will come to the daycare and take over care of the children. Both Nancy Vandercamp and Susanna May have passed routine background checks and are experienced in caring for small children. 2. The substituteŚNancy or SusannaŚwill call parents of the daycare children to notify them of the situation and allow them the opportunity to pick up their children early if desired. 3. The substitute will stay at the daycare premises and perform all the routine duties that Zola would do until Zola can return to her normal schedule.
Distribution of Plan Parents of all enrolled daycare children will be provided with copy of this plan and contact information for Nancy Vandercamp and Susanna May. Cost of care at Zola's Home Daycare. Infant less than one year $595 month Toddler 3 years $575 month The monthly fee is payable in full on the first child care day of the month. The fee includes formula snacks and lunch as appropriate for your child. If your child is sick or you are on vacation the monthly cost will be pro rated to account for the time your child is not present. Absences of more than two weeks must be approved in advance by Zola; prolonged absences may result in another child taking the place of yours. You must provide immunization records for your child. We will not accept any child that does not have the recommended immunizations. You may not bring sick child to daycare. In the event that your child becomes sick while at daycare we will call you to pick up your child as soon as possible. Please do not use scented skin care products on your child. We have had problems in the past with allergies to perfumes and try to keep our center as fragrance free as possible.
If your child has allergies or problems with certain foods please provide us with list of items to avoid. You must provide us with list of people authorized to pick up your child. We will not release your child to anyone not on this list. Zola Bentley runs the daycare center and cares for the children. Zola is years old has teaching certificate in Early Childhood Learning and has two children of her ownŚMarta and Max 8. During the summers and after school Marta and Max like to help Zola care for the infants and toddlers enrolled in Zola's Home Daycare. Zola is married to Richard Dick Bentley physician with Van Thomas Care Center in Lynden. Although Dick is an osteopath not pediatrician he loves children and is invaluable for answering quick health care questions from Zola that may arise about the children in her care. Both Zola and Dick Bentley have passed the standard Washington State Patrol background checks for child care providers. These background checks are updated on regular basis for license renewals. Zola Dick Marta and Max have received all recommended immunizations as outlined in the state schedule and strive to keep their home and the daycare center as sanitary and disease free possible. Zola has received state training in proper handling of pathogens preventing the spread of disease and confidentiality issues. Zola is physically fit and has joyful attitude greeting each day and each child with enthusiasm. She will listen to your concerns and following any special instructions with care. You'll find that she's exactly the sort of conscientious person you want to care for your infant or toddler. Zola's Home Daycare is located in Zola Bentley's home at New Dawn Road Lynden WA 98264. The house was originally built as farmhouse in and is spacious and airy. This is large four bedroom home with living room family room three bathrooms and large kitchen and dining area. One bedroom the family room and one bathroom are reserved for exclusive use of the daycare business as described below.
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Nico Rosberg won Shanghai's Grand Prix on Sunday, the first win for Mercedes since 1955. Read More »
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Nico Rosberg won Shanghai's Grand Prix on Sunday, the first win for Mercedes since 1955. Read More »
Painted with 86 stripes in 24 colors, Paul Smith's eye-popping, one-of-a-kind Mini Cooper has been turning heads since it was unveiled at the 1997 Tokyo Motor Show. Now, it's back in Asia, where it's on display at the Hilton Singapore until April 20. Read More »
Jenson Button won the Australian Grand Prix this weekend in Melbourne, beating Sebastian Vettel and his McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton. Read More »
Christmas may have a shopping hold on the West, but in Asia, Chinese New Year is a force to be reckoned with. What was once a minor date on the fashion and retail calendar has now become a season unto itself. International brands are embracing the season with increasing gusto as a way to create demand, via limited-edition offerings and as a nod to their increasingly important Chinese market. This year promises to be even more over-the-top, because it is the Year of the Dragon. The only Chinese zodiac symbol rooted in myth, dragons are supposedly the strongest among the 12 zodiac animals, and so merchandise sporting the symbol are especially popular. After the jump, some of the more extravagant dragon-themed products available this year: Read More »
What: The Tokyo Auto Salon opens to the public this weekend, with major Japanese car manufacturers like Nissan, Subaru and Mazda among 350 exhibitors. Expect colorfully underdressed models parading around customized versions of regular cars, and a few concept vehicles too.
When: Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Makuhari Messe Read More »
While the auto world descends on Detroit, luxury car maker Rolls-Royce is drumming up attention on the other side of the world: China. Read More »
Maruti Suzuki unveiled new models, and Hyundai showed its concept car as the 2012 Auto Expo kicked off in New Delhi. Read More »
When it comes to mapping the world's changing plutocracy, the Rolls-Royce Index is among the more useful tools.
Simply put, it measures which country is buying the most Rolls-Royces. The index not only gives us a sense of the country's with the most excess wealth to burn (a base model Rolls will set you back at least $245,000), but also the citizens who are most anxious to display it. Read More »
Freed from the confines of a Formula 1 racecar after winning last week's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix, Australian driver Mark Webber is returning to home soil for the start of a charity adventure race he launched in 2003.
Mr. Webber, who drives for Red Bull, finished third in this year's championship after Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button. His race, known as the Swisse Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge, will be altogether different, as he runs, cycles, paddles and rappels with 60 competitors. Read More »
Toyota Boshokou presented its "T Brain" concept car, another vehicle showed up sporting large ears, and Mazda, BMW and Audi showed off new models. More photos from Tokyo's auto show. Read More »
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|Guidelines for transoesophageal echocardiographic probe cleaning and disinfection from the British Society of Echocardiography.
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|PMID: 21998464 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|The clinical utility of transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) is well established. Being a semi-invasive procedure, however, the potential for transmission of infection between sequential patients exists. This has implications for the protection of both patients and medical staff. Guidelines for disinfection during gastrointestinal endoscopy (GIE) have been in place for many years.(1,2) Unfortunately, similar guidance is lacking with respect to TOE. Although traversing the same body cavities and sharing many similarities with upper GIE, there are fundamental structural and procedural differences with TOE which merit special consideration in establishing a decontamination protocol. This document provides recommendations for TOE probe decontamination based on the available evidence, expert opinion, and modification of the current British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines.
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Air Force Expands F-35 Trials Over Tester's Objections
The U.S. Air Force is expanding pilot training for Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter over objections from the Pentagon's top weapons tester that the move increases the danger of a "serious mishap."
After six months of limited check-out sorties for the plane, the Pentagon's costliest weapon, the Air Force this month began 65 days of riskier training without ground-control personnel constantly monitoring instruments to warn of flaws.
Considering the aircraft's "immaturity," conducting the so-called uninstrumented training flights "entails significant risk with no benefit," Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon's testing director, wrote in a memo to Air Force Secretary Michael Donley obtained by Bloomberg News.
Gilmore's concerns about flight training add to debate over the fighter program whose estimated cost has increased 70 percent since 2001 to $397 billion in current dollars while encountering flaws or delays with its software, a pilot helmet and aircraft deliveries. "Repair work" is needed to mend the Pentagon's frayed relations with Lockheed over the F-35, General Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, said Sept. 18.
Michael Rein, a spokesman for the Bethesda, Maryland-based company, said in a statement Sept. 17, "We remain committed to continuing our work to solve program challenges and build on the momentum and success we've achieved during the past couple of years." Welsh and Rein were commenting on issues other than the previously undisclosed training dispute.
Lockheed, the world's largest defense contractor, rose 55 cents to $92.46 in New York trading yesterday and has gained 14 percent this year.
Florida Base
The Air Force started the 65-day "operational utility evaluation" of flying qualities, maintenance training, ground simulators and classroom courses on Sept. 10 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Air Force Colonel Andrew Toth, commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing, said in a Sept. 7 press release that starting the drill "is another huge milestone."
In a response to Gilmore's criticism, Donley wrote, "We have taken great efforts to ensure that comprehensive safety and readiness reviews have been completed."
Flights conducted at Eglin since March were a "deliberate and incremental approach" demonstrating the "system is ready for the next step," Donley wrote in the response dated Aug. 27. The aircraft flew 121 sorties at Eglin since March for a combined 152.9 flight hours, according to service data.
'Unprecedented Move'
The current exercise, if successful, would let the Air Force expand the number of pilots trained on the F-35 to 80 instructor pilots by December 2015 from five today. It would be a step toward training the first foreign pilots -- Dutch students -- by January 2013 and as many as 100 American student pilots a year by December 2016.
The Air Force eventually would need as many as 2,200 pilots to fly the 1,763 F-35s it plans to buy. The service has yet to determine when it intends to declare the fighter has reached initial combat capability.
In Gilmore's memo, dated July 20, he wrote that "initiating training with an immature, non-combat-capable version of a fighter aircraft is unprecedented among prior analogous systems and is not now supported by the need for trained pilots."
"I recommend strongly" that the test phase be delayed until the F-35 has "actual combat capability," Gilmore wrote. Going ahead "poses risks of a serious mishap," he said, and has nothing to do with combat capability because the F-35s at Eglin "have none."
Telling Nothing
"Executing this training will tell us nothing about the difficulty and time required to actually train pilots to conduct air combat," he wrote.
The testing dispute provides a window into tensions as the Pentagon's civilian leaders seek to exert increased oversight of the plane.
Tougher oversight of the F-35 by Pentagon civilians began in February 2010 when then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired the military's program manager and withheld $614 million in fees that Lockheed could have received.
Since then, the Pentagon has given increased scrutiny to contract proposals, delayed the purchase since 2010 of more than 400 planned aircraft until after 2017, and withheld payments to Lockheed because of a flawed cost-estimating system.
'Abort Rate'
Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, said in February that putting the F-35 into production years before its first flight test "was acquisition malpractice." Kendall was criticizing the practice known as "concurrency," when limited production occurs in parallel with development flight tests.
Gilmore said the Air Force is following the same flawed approach in the expanded training. "Now, the pressure is to make training concurrent with flight testing," he said in the memo.
A comprehensive review of the jet's airworthiness, each aborted flight and deficiencies all show the evaluation can be conducted safely, Donley wrote in his response.
Gilmore stands by his memo and doesn't find Donley's rationale for pressing ahead "compelling," spokeswoman Cheryl Irwin said in a Sept. 10 e-mail.
The disagreement turns partly on "abort rates" for F-35 missions that had to be cut short, an Air Force measure used to assess an aircraft's progress in development.
Air aborts often occur because a problem went undetected on the ground or didn't occur until after the jet was airborne and is severe enough in terms of flight safety that the mission must be ended.
'Not Improving'
The abort rate for F-35 test flights at Eglin and at Edwards Air Force Base in California "has been flat, that is, not improving," Gilmore said in his memo.
The Air Force reviewed each mission abort, Colonel Dawn Dunlop, Donley's special adviser on F-35 issues, said in a telephone interview.
"We've had many discussions with Dr. Gilmore's staff," she said. "We agree on the data. The only disagreement is in whether or not the risk is understood, is sufficiently mitigated and that there is smart plan to move forward. The Air Force thinks the answer is yes."
Gilmore said the trend was also unchanged in discovering so-called Category 1 deficiencies, those that may cause death, injury or severe occupational illness and loss or damage to a weapon system.
As of July 9, 67 of the Category 1 deficiencies related to the F-35's airframe, propulsion systems and support systems remained unresolved, according to Gilmore. "Twenty-eight are relevant to the intended" flight training at Eglin, he said.
Dunlop said in the interview that "every one of those was gone through line-by-line to see if there was sufficient mitigation in place."
Donley and Gilmore "have different roles and different responsibilities and might come at this from different perspectives," Dunlop said. "We have spent some time trying to reconcile those differences, but the Air Force feels confident in our assessment of the risk and the value of an independent evaluation at this point."


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Pirates notebook: Catcher Martin nursing sore shoulder
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BRADENTON, Fla. — Hours before Tuesday's game against the Orioles was rained out, catcher Russell Martin was scratched from the lineup due to minor soreness in his right shoulder.
He also will sit out the game Wednesday.
"Just the normal aches and pains of being a catcher," Martin said without elaborating.
Manager Clint Hurdle said the injury was not the result of a single incident but rather normal wear and tear.
"He's been getting after it in a crazy fashion," Hurdle said.
Martin went through catching drills Tuesday morning with instructor Mike LaValliere but made underhanded flips instead of throwing the ball overhand. Martin has not played in three of the Pirates' four Grapefruit League games.
He caught four innings Sunday and went 0 for 1 with a walk. Martin also picked off a runner at first base.
Throughout his career, Martin has been durable. His only stint on the disabled list came in 2010 when he fractured his hip and tore his labrum in a collision at home plate. Last season, he sat out three days in late June due to a stiff back.
Drug testing discussion
MLB's drug testing program likely will be among the items players union chief Michael Weiner discusses with Pirates players Thursday when he visits camp as part of his annual spring training tour.
Earlier this week, Weiner said there have been talks about increasing penalties for players who test positive. Neil Walker, the Pirates' union rep, is eager to hear what Weiner says.
"I think what we have in place is very good," Walker said. "As far as whether I'm for or against (tougher penalties) ... I want things to be fair. We usually get tested three or four times a year, so it's not like (there's) a lack of trying.
"What they're doing is right on par with what they should be doing. Do they really need to (change) something here or there to really hunker down on things? Possibly."
Odds and ends
Right-handed pitcher Jeff Karstens (biceps tightness) is scheduled to throw a bullpen session Wednesday. ... Left-hander Wandy Rodriguez was supposed to start Tuesday, but the game was rained out. Instead, he will piggy-back with righty A.J. Burnett on Wednesday against the Rays. Also slated to throw are Gerrit Cole, Andy Oliver, Jason Grilli, Jared Hughes and Mark Melancon.
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Seattle's Tableau Software soars in trading debut
The shares jumped $17.50, or 56 percent, to $48.50 in morning trading. Earlier, the company sold 5 million shares for $31 each and total proceeds of $155 million. Certain shareholders sold an additional 3.2 million shares at the same price for $99.2 million.
The shares are trading under the symbol "DATA."
The offering's underwriters — Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. — have a 30-day option to buy up to 1.2 million more shares from Tableau, which would generate $38.1 million more in proceeds.
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Yup, seems like we're starting to figure that at least a couple of Fridays a month, that I'll share with readers interested in doing your own DIY SEO Campaign….with tips or tactics or info that we know works. Tried. Tested. And able to help your own SMB sites rise in their own channel rankings.
So…today's topic is a bit interesting in that it wasnt' my own thoughts that led me to hypothesize about it, but a conversation that I had yesterday with a new entrepreneur and our discussions on site usability. How such a Canadian based or even locally based firm does not exist and what we both could brainstorm on the probable success of such a firm, it's offerings, it's packages…you know the whole entrepreneur conversation.
And then I remembered later, that I already know (well follow online) a guy who does a fair bit of Usability thinking/espousing over at usereffect.com - Dr Pete is his name!
And does this guy "know" usability!
So, what's this usability and why should I care about same when it comes to your SEO campaign and in Dr. Pete's words –
"Usability is, simply put, the science of making technology work for people. Strategic web usability puts people power to work for you, by finding out what makes your website visitors tick and converting ordinary shoppers into satisfied buyers…"
Usability then (did you catch this in the quote above) is all about "converting" that is, the process of converting a website visitor to a new lead or a new sale. Usability then is pretty important when your own competitors are only a click away and as Dr. Pete puts it "poor usability drives away customers and translates directly into lost revenue." And lost revenue is something that we all want to avoid.
If a site has strong usability, then it allows in fact it promotes it's visitors into accomplishing their on-site goals….from making a buy of a product to finding out how to contact the site owners for more information. Usability allows a visitor to make that choice easily. It allows them to navigate the site with ease. It allows them to pick and choose thru multiple pages or tabs or windows or iFrames – whatever the technology and design that is used – it is transparent. It simply put is not a hindrance to any visitor.
In fact, a successful site with transparent usability offers up enough points of assurance to equal a decision that just can not be avoided….visitors turn themselves – they convert themselves into buyers of whatever it is you're selling….a product or a service.
Usability helps to generate leads. Usability generates new revenues and as it's your website, it does so passively…day after day at 2 am or 3 pm…it matters not when – only that the visitor finds the usability so transparent that the process of conversion from visitor to buyer is a forgone conclusion.
Dr. Pete knows his stuf…that's the good news…the bad news is that it still appears that his firm is NOT taking on any new clients (a lot of that going around, eh!) but don't despair. He has provided some great resources for those who want to DIY their own usability testing….including these two –
And his books list is great, including my own favorite….the Morville/Rosenfeld (two librarians I understand) entitled "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" and I have read same and it's chock full of great nuggets and I can't say enough about how good it is!
So….Dr. Pete, thanks. You're my own "usability-go-to-guy" and I love watching your videos over at seomoz.com….well done, sir!
Now, back to our regular scheduled SEO client campaigns….but tell me, is your site usability optimized?


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Seriously, I don't know what the younger generation of christians are being taught.
If you are looking for accommodation, I hear hell is quite nice this time of year, and has a lot of room set aside for you. – "Jesus FTW", who endured the lengthy rigmarole of getting an AFA login, just to tell us that.
Does it make him happy? Is that a Jesus-like attitude? He's only the most recent of a container-load of wallies with the same "message", although the focus generally seems to be on the writer's own glee at our impending damnation and torment.
Still, I'm glad, in a totally Pollyanna-like way. Why, you may ask…
The joy that these sick-puppy types get at the idea of me and Gee Suss reclining in a jacuzzi of molten lava, or whatever their twisty little minds can conjure up, is free.
It costs nothing from us fantasy victims (although I must confess I feel a bit squicky at the idea they may get excited enough to give themselves Special Rubs), and it hopefully sublimates those nasty urges, so they don't need to go attacking church youth, pulling the wings off puppies, or whatever.
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RENTON, Wash. — Marshawn Lynch is not expected to be present for the first day of the Seattle Seahawks' training camp according to close friend and former teammate Michael Robinson.
Appearing on NFL Network on Thursday night, Robinson said he spoke with Lynch and Seattle's star running back plans to hold out of the camp that begins Friday.
At dispute is Lynch's contract. Lynch can make up to $5.5 million this season in base pay and roster bonuses. It's the third year of a four-year contract Lynch signed with Seattle before the 2012 season.
Lynch nearly skipped June's mandatory minicamp because he wants the final two years of his contract reworked. He ultimately showed to avoid a hefty fine, but did not participate with what coach Pete Carroll said was an ankle issue.
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Ban on polythene bags is unwise
Paper bags come from trees and wetland plants like papyrus. These are already in severe shortage in Uganda. There is a report which has just been released entitled "The State of Environment Report for Uganda 2008: Sustainable Environment for Prosperity". It says Uganda is soon becoming a total desert because of drastic and alarming deforestation! The statistics are bleak, to say the least. Why do we dig a bigger hole to fill a manageable one?
We always do the easy thing—run away from our duty to use plastics responsibly and think we are solving a problem! We shall soon have petrochemical industries in Uganda and we are not even considering how to live responsibly with their by-products that should be utilised to maximum to spur development and pull people out of poverty.
The difference is cultivating the discipline to use them responsibly. You don't do that by banning the product, you enact bylaws of safe use/disposal and enforce them vigorously and within a year everyone will be conforming to safe disposal of plastics. And then you save the trees and wetlands and resist desertification. The finance minister's approach is irrational.
The emphasis should be on responsible plastics use and disposal in an era of plastic revolution. And to all Ugandans, let us not run away from our responsibility. We all need a good environment, plastic-free soils, forests and wetlands.
Protecting it is primarily our obligation. We should not wait for a minister's decree to do the right thing. Why wait for a minister to tell you it is wrong to throw your mineral water bottle in the middle of Kampala road from your air-conditioned car? Do we also blame the plastic manufacturers for such behaviour?
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HD 280 Pro not satisfied
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Okay so i bought the HD280 Pro as i read it was good, with accurate sound and such.
But i am not satisfied with it, the first is the pressure it gives, it´s like i am on the verge of getting a headache, but still not getting one.
Maybe it will disappear through use, maybe not.
But more importantly, the sound.
even my Cheap AKG something, sound better with the bass.
Now i am not one who wants enormous bass or something, but you know, normal vibrations feeling kind of bass.
That gives you that feeling.
This just, sound like there is bass, but it isn´t there;S
I tried putting on some bass sound through the night, about 10 hours to see if there is any Burn In effect.
It does sound alot better than from when i first listened, cause then it was like a Tin Can or something.
But it still doesn´t give me that Real sound feeling.
sorry for bad explanation, maybe someone knows about these headphones?
I am thinking about sending them back, but i don´t know what to get.
I want something like this, isolation, more comfortable and better sound.
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(I'm responding mostly to the stuff at the beginning of the thread)
From my experience, I believe the major portion of the burn-in effect is not based in the hardware.
I have multiple headphones which I use (HD 215, HD 490, HD 238, HD 380, superlux HD 668, Samsung OEM earbuds). All of them took some time to get used to. I hadn't used some of those for a long time in the past (and got used to the other one/s) and had to "burn them in" again, which actually meant getting used to the different sound (from the HW point they were already played a lot).
I can imagine when you're used to something which you really like, you will have hard time getting over the differences and switch to something else. My experience is that once you cross a certain price level and enter the high-end, the sound is more about opinion/individual taste than about objective measurements.
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Dallas-based Southwest says there were 150 people on the flight, while the Port Authority says it was 149.
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I try contact form 7 but it seem like some mistake which i dunno why
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I have recently restored my firmware on my new iPhone 5 recently purchased from Vodafone UK. The firmware I was expecting iTunes to download was iPhone5,1_6.0_10A405_Restore.ipsw (GSM) however the firmware downloaded was iPhone5,2_6.0_10A405_Restore.ipsw (CDMA)
According to another forum the firmware is supposed to support the CDMA iPhone 5 only and as Vodafone in the UK is a GSM Network I am confused. Is there anyone out there on the Verizon network with an iPhone 5 who can confirm the firmware filename.
I have done a bit more research and it looks like Vodafone UK are supplying iPhone 5 Model Number A1429, which is the GSM & CDMA version.
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Like all desert-dwellers, scorpions are masters of efficiency. A new study shows that their efforts to conserve energy even extend to their arsenal of venom. In one scorpion species, researchers have found that the arachnids use a relatively weak, but easily produced, prevenom for small jobs such as paralyzing insects and save their deadliest venom for serious work like fending off a larger animal.
Parabuthus transvaalicus is a South African scorpion that can grow to be more than 10 cm long and squirt its potent venom like a water gun. The venom, specialized for use against mammalian predators, can kill a barefoot human unlucky enough to step on it. South African researchers working on an antivenom asked Bruce Hammock, a protein chemist who studies insects at the University of California, Davis, to analyze the animal's venom. While milking a scorpion, one of Hammock's students noticed two different secretions coming out of the animal's stinger.
The first secretion to emerge, the clear prevenom, was potent enough to paralyze larval flies and moths and make mice lick themselves in pain, the team found. Mass spectroscopy revealed that the prevenom contains proteins that block potassium channels in nerve and muscle cells. Prevenom acts fast and is easy to make, Hammock says, requiring only a few proteins and lots of readily available potassium. Hammock speculates that scorpions may also use it when they mate--the male is known to sting the female repeatedly during courtship.
For large prey or persistent attackers, the scorpion gets out the big guns: a thick, opaque venom that wreaks havoc on more parts of the victim's cells. This venom affects insects and mice at lower doses than prevenom, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It's not easy to make either, since there are at least 100 kinds of peptides in P. transvaalicus venom.
Venom glands take time to pump out venom, so it makes sense that they release another liquid first, says Philip Brownell, a scorpion biologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Scientists had noticed before that some scorpions put out two fluids, but no one had analyzed them separately. What's interesting here, Brownell says, is that each part of the venom has a separate function. "I think it's a significant advance on what we understand, the subtleties by which venoms have evolved to really deal with ... paralyzing an animal."
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There are various web-based tools for creating and customizing icon fonts.
Fontastic is another solid option for that which enables us to choose items from multiple icon sets.
The chosen items are combined into a single font with a click where this approach helps minimizing the font size as we only choose the icons needed.
It is also possible to intervene the naming process and import our own SVG icons.
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