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With GM Vladimir Kramnik and GM Levon Aronian on top boards, Siberia of Novosibirsk won the Russian Team Championship on Thursday.
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Obiettivo Risarcimento won the Italian Team Championship on Sunday, but less convincingly than expected. A last-minute substitute worked out well: GM Hikaru Nakamura won an important game as Black in a King's Indian.
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First it was Irene Wood, she of the amazing beaded necklaces, who upped and move to Brooklyn last year, and now we're losing handbag designer Crystalyn Kae to the Big Apple. While we wish them both success of course, alas we can't help but feel a little bereft at the loss to our accessory design community here in Seattle.
In preparation of her cross-country move, Kae is having a huge sale at her home studio on Saturday, March 30 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (at 5611B Phinney Ave N.) where she will be unloading sewing supplies, zippers, thread, fabric, hardware, a sewing machine, a camera, leather working tools and some of her personal collection of handbags.
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Families living in Boston Public Housing developments rank widespread insect infestation among their highest concerns. Residents and building supervisors use significant amounts of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and rodenticides to kill the pests in households and auxiliary buildings. Health concerns related to continued pesticide exposures of residents, particularly children, led the Boston Housing Association to begin implementing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs in some of their neighborhoods. These programs combine sanitation, physical barriers, and, as a last resort, the least harmful pesticides into a program that reduces the pesticide burden on residents and their environment.
Researchers at Harvard University School of Public Health are collaborating with the Boston Public Housing Authority and the Committee for Boston Public Housing to find out if IPM effectively reduces human exposure to pesticides in public housing communities.
Working with the community living in the Bromley Heath development before and after the IPM implementation, the research partners will:
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To facilitate wider implementation the IPM program, the partners will widely disseminate outcomes to other Boston Housing Authority community residents. An evaluation will determine whether this collaborative process reached the education and research objectives.
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Court chief: No legal basis for a recount
CARACAS — Venezuela's Supreme Court president said Wednesday there is no legal basis for holding a vote-by-vote recount that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles is demanding for the disputed presidential election.
It was the latest indication that the governing system left behind by Hugo Chavez when he died of cancer last month has no intention of agreeing to Capriles' request. He claims Sunday's election was stolen from him.
Capriles has not formally filed a request for a recount with the National Electoral Council, which on Monday ratified Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's anointed successor, as the winner. The council says Maduro won with 50.8 percent of the vote to Capriles' 49 percent.
Judge Luisa Estela Morales, the Supreme Court chief, said Venezuela's voting system is so automated that a manual count doesn't exist. Technically, however, a recount is possible as paper receipts are issued for every vote cast and can be checked against tallies done by each voting machine, voter registries and centralized records.
Morales is the same judge who issued a controversial decision three days after Chavez's March 5 death saying that Maduro effectively became president at the moment of his mentor's passing. That enabled Maduro to be sworn in the same day as acting president.
Analysts say Capriles has few options, given Maduro's solid hold on all the levers of power, including the loyalty of the military high command. On Tuesday, Capriles canceled a big protest march he had called for Wednesday.
21 executed for links to al-Qaida
BAGHDAD — Iraq has executed 21 prisoners convicted on terrorism charges and links to al-Qaida, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday, setting off fresh criticism from a human rights expert over Baghdad's insistence on enforcing capital punishment.
The prisoners were executed by hanging in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, according to a statement posted on the ministry's website. All the convicts were Iraqi al-Qaida operatives who were involved in bombings, car bomb attacks and assassinations, the statement said.
The hangings brought the number of prisoners executed in Iraq so far this year to 50, according to Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim.
Security raised for party's convention
OSLO — Norway's governing Labor Party has tightened security at its first convention since a far-right extremist who railed against the party's immigration policies killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting massacre.
Labor officials cited an "overall assessment" of the situation in Norway, but wouldn't say whether the raised security level was linked to Anders Behring Breivik's attacks on July 22, 2011, or the explosions at the Boston Marathon this week.
The four-day convention starts today with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg leading a memorial service for the victims of Breivik's violence.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP): This spring's rain in Indiana and the summer humidity could combine to produce crop diseases that could lead to reduced yields. The gray leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight are caused by a fungus and have been found in Indiana. The bacterial disease Goss's wilt has been confirmed in plants in northeast Indiana.


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Things stay busy around this place. From working with new product lines and implementing new features, there's not much time for TV reruns or trips out about town. TigerChef, for all of us here, is a true passion. The request list from shoppers is ever-growing, and we consider each and every one of them.There's quite a few new things on the list, like detailed images of Winco Flatware. I've got the spoons, forks and whatnot right next to me as I write this, but since I'm moving this month, I'm begging for your patience. Rest assured, you'll be able to see the fine lines and beads on the handles, allowing you to make a much more educated purchase.
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T-Mobile USA to skip HSPA+ 84Mbps network
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T-Mobile to focus on LTE rather than 84Mbps
T-Mobile will not deploy an HSPA+ 84Mbps network, The Verge learned from the carrier's Andrew Sherrard. Instead, T-Mobile will focus on its recently unveiled LTE plans and continue on with its existing 42Mbps HSPA+ network. The 84Mbps was being readied in some areas late last year.
The carrier will continue to build out its HSPA+ 42Mbps network, however. The decision to do 84Mbps 3G would require re-farming its 1,900MHz spectrum. T-Mobile is already moving away from 2G handsets, committing not to sell any that don't have 3G support. Its network will also transition over to 3G only.


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In addition, Mr. Mott correctly credited President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) for having "the vision of an American land set aside to be the focus of restoration and renewal of this magnificent space entrusted to our stewardship."
Indeed, Roosevelt was responsible for setting aside many areas of natural and cultural significance for protection. These later became some of our first and most beloved national parks and monuments. (The National Park Service was not established until 1916.)
However, like many Americans, Mr. Mott does not differentiate between the various land management agencies and their missions. The truth is that all land management agencies are not created equal and not all of them are mandated to preserve and protect resources.
Theodore Roosevelt was aware that natural wonders such as the Petrified Forest and cultural resources such as the archeological sites at Mesa Verde needed to be protected from the rampant exploitation that was occurring at the time in order for them to be preserved for future generations.
The National Park Service, which operates under the Department of the Interior, was established to do just that, to "preserve and protect" natural and cultural resources on lands under its jurisdiction. The U.S. Forest Service, however, was established with a completely different goal in mind.
In the early part of the last century, the United States was interested in growth. As businesses and homes were being built, all kinds of resources were needed to sustain that growth; timber for building homes, steel for manufacturing, and oil for machinery. Roosevelt and others realized that the government needed to protect areas that contained natural resources in order to sensibly regulate their extraction.
With this concept in mind, the Forest Service was established under a "multiple use" model of land management.
The term "multiple use" covers a variety of both commercial and private activities including but not limited to; recreation, grazing, hunting, fishing, trapping, mining, logging, and the extraction of natural gas and oil.
For this reason, the Forest Service functions under the Department of Agriculture. So, unlike the Park Service, the Forest Service was not specifically designed for the purpose of resource protection.
Wilderness areas were the next step on the preservation side of the equation. However, the motivation of early wilderness advocates such as Aldo Leopold, were not what most of us imagine today.
Leopold, sometimes called the Father of Wilderness, was an avid hunter. His ideal wilderness area was what we might call a hunting preserve. The purpose of establishing wilderness, then, was not to protect all of nature in general, but game animals in particular.
Land managers of the time attempted to accomplish this by attempting to eradicate predator species. Bounties were offered by the U.S. Biological Survey (an early manifestation of the Fish and Game Department) for the killing of mountain lions, bears, coyotes and other predator species. It would be many years before Leopold came to realize that all wildlife deserved man's protection from himself.
In recent years, many people like Mr. Mott have begun to regard our federal lands as sanctuaries, peaceful places from which to escape the noise and stress of modern life. They value public lands not for what can be extracted from them but for the natural resources they contain.
While I appreciate the sensibilities behind these views, they are not always reasonable in terms of the missions of the various land management agencies. So while we cannot expect the Forest Service to prohibit extractive activities such as logging, we can surely attempt to encourage management practices that will protect mature stands of trees and reduce destructive forest fires.
These sensible practices will assure the protection of our national forests for both the aesthetic and the practical needs of future generations.
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Johannesburg - A total of 8651 candidates from 45 political parties are standing for the general elections, the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) said on Friday.
"This is slightly fewer than the 9117 candidates who appeared on the final lists for the 2009 election," spokeswoman Kate Bapela said in a statement.
"The electoral commission has published the final list of candidates for the May 7 national and provincial elections and has provided candidates with certificates confirming their candidacy."
There were 2089 candidates on the national lists, 2165 on the regional lists and 4397 on the provincial lists contesting.
The parties were contesting 400 National Assembly seats and 430
provincial legislature seats.
Men continued to make up the bulk of candidates with 59.8 percent of the total compared to 40.2 percent women.
"However, gender representation continues to show steady improvement over the years: 1999 (26.76 percent), 2004 (30.65
percent) and 2009 (38.5 percent)."
She said lists in the Western Cape provincial elections showed the greatest gender equity with 43 percent women, the Northern Cape provincial lists were the lowest with 37 percent of women.
The parties with the highest percentage of female candidates were the Keep It Straight and Simple with 100 percent, the African National Congress with 85 percent and the SA Maintenance and Estate Beneficiaries Association with 76.6 percent.
Bapela said in terms of age, candidates over 40 years old comprised 64.86 percent of the total. Candidates under the age of 30 comprised just 11.8 percent.
"However, young candidates have increased by 17 percent since 2009 when just 869 of the 9117 candidates were under 30 years old.
"In 1999 there were 724 candidates under 30 years old, out of a total of 7140 candidates (10.1 percent)," Bapela said. - Sapa
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The Southern Ohio Forestland Association is inviting the public to its meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. April 11 at The Ohio State University South Centers, 1864 Shyville Road, Piketon.
Speaking will be Amy Fitton, naturalist for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks, who will discuss finding, identifying and preparing edible plants. She has 16 years experience as a naturalist at Tar Hollow State Park and other state parks in Ohio.
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Ok after several months, I have had more time to really think about this and here is what I have to say about Whistler. And I want people to understand it not just about the conditions, it is about the total experience.
My trip was not as enjoyable because:
1- The hotel. Supposed to be a 4 1/2 start resort but could barely pass for a 3 star. Also they were not very accommodating.
2- The price. It cost a small fortune for a 5 day trip. Totally not worth it. I purchased everything at a discounted rate so I got it at the cheapest price possible.
3- Conditions. Icey at some parts, overcrowded (even though we went during the weekdays), snow was shitty and visibility was poor.
4- People (not the staff but the skiers) there sucked. I've never met more arrogant and rude people in my life. Worse than the NYC Subway. I thought Canadians were easy going and nice people but I was wrong. Canadian Skiers are the biggest pricks I've ever met.
5- Distance. It took an entire day just to get there. Just not worth it.
All in all, Whistler is more like a Disney world rather than a ski resort. Yeah, its huge and you get 2 mountains to chose from but if they were busy on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday then I don't even want to know what it would be like on the weekend.
I would never go back to Whistler. I experienced the hype that it was. With the amount of money I spent on this trip I could have gone to Antigua for a week followed by a week at Utah or Tahoe. If you live in the Northwest I suggest that you go for it, but if you live anywhere else save your money and go somewhere else.
Holy crap. Someone shut down this thread please.
Yes yes, people have a bad time at Whis. We know... and people will continue to go there.
Oh and deeken, you probably didn't encounter many Canadians. Not sure they have them up there any more
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Earlier today, I mentioned an example of the wrong analysis/right investment posture. Here's a perfect example of that:
Last week, I read this surprisingly ugly quote from TrimTab's uber-Bull, Charles Biderman:
"Fear and ignorance seem to be gripping retail investors these days," said Charles Biderman, chief executive of Santa Rosa, Calif.-based TrimTabs on Thursday. "There's no credit risk; no bank is going to lose money on this subprime fear," he added. "Income-tax collections are strong, and you don't have a housing collapse when wage income and job growth are surging. This is a complete panic by individual investors," he commented. "They just don't know what's going on."
My initial reaction was total annoyance. I was meaning to pen a response to Mr. Biderman, but then I saw the response written by Jack McHugh of Praetorian Advisors, and any further words on my part had become unnecessary. Last week, Jack wrote:
"Sorry, but the ignorance is yours, Mr. Biderman. Banks have already lost tidy sums "on this subprime fear", and home prices are indeed collapsing in many locales. Whether it all spreads to the general economy is the question we need to answer if we are to know whether to load the boat with tech stocks right now or take a more conservative approach. In my opinion, it's tough to see how tougher lending terms and pricier credit WON'T impact our economy.
And as to whether stocks are a bargain right here because they've dropped a few percentage points off the recent highs, try to remember that a "normal" correction takes prices down by 10% or more. Keep in mind, too, that the 52 week gains in the major averages from last July until last week's highs are as follows: The Dow was up 28%, the S&P was up 25%, the Russell 2000 was up 27%, and the NASDAQ was up a full 33%.
That some of these averages have given up 5% or so really isn't much in the context of the run they've had just in the last year. So, no, we're not there yet; we might instead have quite a way to go."
–Jack McHugh, Praetorian Advisors
Why blame the underwriters of mortgages who sold these sub-primes to unqualified persons, or the investment banks that packaged and re-packaged them, or the prime brokers that provided the leverage to hedge funds to buy this junk, or the hedge fund gunners who owned all this shite without really knowing what was in it — when, instead, we can place all of the blame on the small investor?
What an asshat . . .
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I thought that the retail investors dumped all of their money into remodeled/second homes?
I'm sure if someone does a Lexis/Google search on Biderman there will be some quote in which he says the markets will be posed to go even higher once the retail investor wises up that there's a bull market and jumps in a la the cover of Barron's a few weeks back.
What kind of boss keeps these types of people?
Yes, Bidderman's comment was an asshat viewpoint but it's a typical viewpoint of many within the Wall Street establishment (doesn't matter if it's based in Santa Rona). The markets are their territory. Main street investors are to serve them, and to be fed upon for their profit, not to be served as clientele of utmost importancel. Diversification of cost, concentration of benefits, promote through slick and savy media and most importantly keep the underpinnings opaque, whether the convoluted CDO/CDS et al, DTCC workings, transparency is not to the MM advantage. Voila, feeding grounds. The irony is the retail investor has been mainly out of the markets in any direct way relative to the past so perhaps are finally cluing in.
I think someone needs to provide him with a link to the Case-Schiller index, and an explanation of why median home prices in NAR reports do not necessarily reflect home price trends (they are cherry picking the sample if low end homes are not selling at all!).
The question in my head is does he actually believe this garbage, or is he engaging in the same sort of "opinion management" the fed seems concerned with lately?
Also, if you do write him a letter, I suggest you use the more formal "rectal chapeau" in place of asshat.
I don't know how many times I have read, over and over, that the retail investor has not invested, that this rally is institutionally driven. That once the retail investor participates, the bull market will explode. Yet now, we get a pull back, and it is the retail investors fault? What a douche bag.
Tres Bonne AD…………tres bonne..
I've got news for everyone. The retail investor never left. They never sold. They will go down with the ship just like they always do.
I love these kinds of posts.
Thanks for doing our dirty work for us.
I think we should require this guy to put all his retirement money into real estate. Its perfectly safe. NO?
Keep Your Eyes on Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Published: August 1, 2007, New York Times
The peak month for the resetting of mortgages will come this October, according to Credit Suisse, when more than $50 billion in mortgages will switch to a new rate for the first time. The level will remain above $30 billion a month through September 2008. In all, the interest rates on about $1 trillion worth of mortgages, or 12 percent of the nation's total, will reset for the first time this year or next. A couple of years ago, by comparison, only a marginal amount of mortgage debt — a few billion dollars — was resetting each month.
So all the carnage in the mortgage market thus far has come even before the bulk of mortgages have reset. "The worst is not over in the subprime mortgage market," analysts at JPMorgan recently wrote to the firm's clients. "The reason for our pessimism is that loans originated in late 2005 and all of 2006, the period that saw peak origination volumes and sharply decreased underwriting quality, are only now starting to reset in large numbers."
"There's no credit risk; no bank is going to lose money on this subprime fear."
I guess Mr. Biderman must have been living on another planet when HSBC announced back in February that it was charging $10.5 billion in bad debt due to subprime loans.
Or maybe $10.5 billion isn't a real "loss" to Mr. Biderman?
Nice "rally"
THe up/down volumes have made no sense for about two weeks, they seem to always be incorrect for both swings. Pay attention to the upper portion……A/D line.
the question was asked regarding what is being done with the treasury auction money???
It's fairly obvious looking at the above. It's called "handing off"…..
It looks like the decline in housing is finally over!:
At last, the bottom has been reached! Remember, you heard about it here first!
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"The peak month for the resetting of mortgages will come this October, according to Credit Suisse, when more than $50 billion in mortgages will switch to a new rate for the first time. The level will remain above $30 billion a month through September 2008. In all, the interest rates on about $1 trillion worth of mortgages, or 12 percent of the nation's total, will reset for the first time this year or next. A couple of years ago, by comparison, only a marginal amount of mortgage debt — a few billion dollars — was resetting each month."
And the effects are cumulative and are time lagged. Those claiming like Paulson that its contained have simply lost any credibility they ever earned.
If it's any consolation, your friend Chuck "Asshat" Biderman threw "200% long" a couple weeks ago with the SPX at 1530 or so.
He based his "teets-long" call on his interpretation of mutual fund inflow data. The theory: Joe Sixpack is shunning U.S. stocks, ergo, they must be a buy.
As if Joe6 matters right now in the slightest.
Anyhoo, according to my kalkalations, Biderman is now -12% on his bet at this morning's lows. Hate to engage in schadenfrade, but there you go.
Unlike the Chuckster, I have no crystal ball. So I have no idea if he'll end up lookin' like a smartypants or not. But one thing is clear: Chuck ain't much of a timer.
BTW, speaking of "asshats", anyone heard from Kenny Fisher lately about the homebubblers?
Here's a choice quote from Kenny-Boy from early February when the bubblers were finishing up their dead-cat bounce:
"Housing crisis? Don't buy it. There won't be any housing disaster. We won't have a landing at all, soft or hard. Right now the U.S. and global economies are both accelerating."
"You can see right through the housing crash story by looking at the prices of housing stocks. The market knows what the economic worrywarts do not, which is that the housing sector is already making a comeback. In the last six months housing stocks are up 24%, well ahead of the overall market. If housing were destined to fall apart in 2007 these stocks wouldn't be so strong now."
Whoopsie-doodle. Fisher made his "bottom is in!" call about 40% ago.
The market likes to make monkeys out of everyone, especially those who are unable to adapt their views. We've seen the permabears carried out on a stretcher one by one over the past four years. Looks like it's time for some of the more hubris-engorged bullzies to feel the heat.
Continues to be contained…
Not quite….
at least two issues:
the black box leveraged hedge funds are trading like "sybil" right now (i have a black box at home but as a retail investor I use that black box for storage in the basement), and
The AHM situation: the tail unmentioned is whats happening to homebuyers expecting to close this week and cannot–and the sellers who need the money to close on their next home purchase or get out from under. Ans so on–the dominos can fall.
My hair is a mess today, I could really use an asshat.
you can take one of Gordon Brown's bowlers.
Those quotes certainly makes me question the wisdom of the man behind TrimTabs.
"you don't have a housing collapse when wage income and job growth are surging"
Got both of those wrong as well.
Another Kudlow in the making ?
"…when, instead, we can place all of the blame on the small investor?"
He found me out! What should I do?? My 70% cash allocation is to blame for the whole mess!!!
I think Biderman plays golf with Luskin, Kudlow and Laffer. It is the "greatest story never told".
On the other end of the spectrum of madness, Jim Cramer (who I thought was America's foremost bull) has suddenly undergone a conversion and is advising people who are underwater on their mortgages to go into default and walk away from their homes.
He says that housing prices are down %20-30 everywhere in America "with the exception of a small part of Baltimore and south of Houston in Manhattan", and that the Inland Empire of California should be bulldozed.
Then he came back and said it again the next day so people would realize he's serious:
I don't even know what to make of this…
For a financial professional to EVER say "there's no credit risk" is stupid. But taking it a step further and saying "no bank is going to lose money on this subprime fear," is even more stupid.
Why does he think the prime brokers are raising margin requirements for hedge funds who deal in this paper if there's no credit risk? Why is the debt of the broker dealers being sold down to where it's trading at junk spreads? It must be the retail guy doing the selling. And I suppose its retail investors who are causing credit default swap premiums to soar.
What a boneheaded shill.
Read between the lines……..more chairs are removed…..
Who decided to wait until the end of the day to buy… What a push… Looks like someone is shopping for bag holders.
maybe "retail investors" finally decided to
pile into the market – all in 30 minutes…
Talk about a bullshit rally……..
The SPY chart looks just like the oil markets at the same point of time of it's day. Gotta get that print. They must have let the oil pit traders take over
Not even trying to hide the buys on the SPY at this point.
250 dow move in 30 minutes
"FREE MARKETS" right??
A matter of opinions…
A) someone BIG decided the market was a bargain
B) someone BIG decided to pump the short interest for an exit
C) as MarkTX said, the retail investor is back
250 dow move in 30 minutes
"FREE MARKETS" right??
D) perhaps covered by B), PPT to the rescue.
My data feed could'nt even keep up with the prices on the spy. I saw .20 and .30 over the ask on this all the way up…..and that's just what I was able to see.
and people STILL say it's not manipulated…..
HOLY CRAP……what an effing scam this is
and people are upset about the retail investor possibly sitting this out… Poor bastards lost their ass last week and decided to jump on the slide only to get another chance to hold the bag
MM, it's not just a candy anymore
The critical issue to understand is that it is not 'retail' investors, or the so-called PPT, or other possible manipulations, it is all about buying power.
Nothing else really matters.
In recent years the real "support" of the Market has come from Corporate Buybacks and Easy Credit.
"Fundamentals" among many other so-called "golden rules" are merely tools by which 99% are parted with their money over time.
Buying power is directly affected here by the credit availability.
If indeed that is going to contract significantly, the Market will fall in proportion thereto, regardless of any other matter or intervention.
Everything you 'think' matters, doesn't. It all comes down to that.
What we are seeing here is either recognition of that possibility at the least, or as usual, the Market leading the way to that outcome.
The most important fact never remembered is that in every bull market in history, 99% of the people never actually realize the wealth in the end.
Never have and never will.
Did you see today's add in the WSJ? It was sponsored by Club for Growth. I forgot to look for Laffer. Luskin and Krazy Kudlow were there though.
Markets go up and they go down. Why is it surprising that it rallied into the close?
While surely technicals can be gunned-down by fundamental woes, the technicals this afternoon were about as oversold as they typically get before a bounce.
I'm not saying that the market is done correcting. I'm just saying that the markets go up, and go down, and we were due for a bounce, and go one.
Consider Occam's razor…
Why does it always have to be a conspiracy?
to put to rest conspiracy theories…..is it possible for us to know who bought what?….and if there is any connection between their purchase and fed printing press (they may not correlate immediately but if the data is analyzed over time…we may discover something)
but its very hard to believe that people are not scared of losing their money (unless most trading was done with not own money but someone's money??)
if i am not wrong isnt news all around about mortgage related business going bankrupt….isnt it enough sign of things to come atleast in financial sector and of course loss of all the liquidity.
haha, ya, the mortgage resets will hit just as people start making their Christmas shopping lists.
hmmm, RSH RCII WMT BIG EZPW. low-end obviously is hurting. will the next ones to have their bollocks squeezed by resets and energy the Alt-A/"poseur" upper-middle consumer?
the rally off of this sell-off through October will be the tell on whether people are thinking recession.
Joe Klein's conscience,
I don't read the WSJ anymore. I hate getting news print on my hands as much as I hate the News Corp. I read Barry's blog and others instead.
It does not have to be any sort of conspiracy…..much in the way that blind buying 30 minutes into the close without ANY sort of news or technical breach occurring (we were already at the levels it came from earlier in the day-oversold/overbought is COMPLETELY relative) raises the entire market from loss to about a .75% gain across the board (avg.)in approximately 33 minutes.
Come on even you can see what was done….
If you can't or are unwilling to see what that was then I suppose everything is easily explained from a technical, fundamental or whatever you choose as your reason to understand it-especially if it supports your on-going viewpoint and trash the opposite view in the process. It is not as simple as you would like to believe based on your statements.
one more thing:
How does one explain the Advance/Decline imbalance on every "up" day. Also New highs and New Lows is skewed to the low….
The volumes up/down (although horribly inaccurate at times) seem to suggest this divergence from what the Index(s) are doing as well.
There is too much of a disconnect to call this anything other than the work of a very select few. Remember the analogy of an engine that gets shots of nitrous………..
Barry, they just won't stop! In case you were not aware, again today… subprime is contained!
"BEIJING (Reuters) — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday that the market impact of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage fallout is largely contained and that the global economy is as strong as it has been in decades."
And my husband asks, "And did Paulson say he still believed in a "strong dollar"?"
MS- I actually wasn't referring to you this time with the conspiracy talk. Seriously, I wasn't. Someone else mentioned the PPT again. However, without looking up the term, I believe what you describe could certainly be labled a conspiracy.
I think that we can create many viable scenarios which would explain why a 30 minute rush of buying would push the indexes to a small gain. For example, at what point do the shorts begin to cover? If I were short going into the close, I would have been covering, simply because the technicals are oversold and due for a bounce. Another scenario- you mention this is the work of a select few. Well, if I were the select few, I'd drive it up so that I could sell higher tomorrow. Why is that so wrong, or hard to stomach? It is done all the time- re: juicing the futures. Also, why can it not be just that simple? As a trader, I find it easy to trade from simple explanations, where complex explanations relying on a confluence of variables do not make me profitable. YMMV.
Finally, I don't have an "ongoing" viewpoint. My viewpoint changes based on the technicals.
M.S.: Right on! Although strange outcomes can come from natural causes – this smells real bad. If it wasn't human connivance perhaps Hal was behind it and we're all on a Space Odyssey.
michael schumacher:
Keep in my, though, the two things that U.S. administrations consistently misestimate: the capabilities of the U.S. military; the power of the bond markets.
The PPT could keep mild dips from occuring too often, but if the markets decided to sell off in a big way, you would see Paulson in China again, hat in hat, begging for more handouts. The PPT would be too busy changing underwear to do anything about it.
"Barry, they just won't stop! In case you were not aware, again today… subprime is contained!
"BEIJING (Reuters) — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesday that the market impact of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage fallout is largely contained and that the global economy is as strong as it has been in decades."
And my husband asks, "And did Paulson say he still believed in a "strong dollar"?""
Paulson is either Baghdad Bob II or Nero II. His credibility is long past becoming a joke.
MS- also, a big favor. Would you email me the .pdfs of the billions borrowed recently. I can't find the article you originally posted them on. Thanks. Or you could point me to the website where they are housed.
email is my nickname with firstname.lastname@example.com attached to it.
Wood- touche'…..I am rationale and can see it from both angles. The whole thing stinks because of the short covering. I've made the point of an engine on nitrous oxide…….at some point it becomes a self-fulfilling action as just enough gas gets the desired result and then physics take over. That, I believe, is exactly what we saw today. It's not hard to believe but considering some of the very SERIOUS overhangs we have had and will continue to have it's just a bit hard to think that no one will notice what is being done.
Utilizing it for a monetary gain is one thing…..not the main focus of this site IMO……but the acceptance of the reasons for it's happening in the first place-at least this is my reason to be on this site your's may vary. I think those are two different points of discussion and often get confused here in the overall process of trying to become a better trader.
I can make money from it but it still can suck at times- Keke Rosberg, 1982 F1 WC
I'll give you the place where you can DL them.
Right hand column will give you the current
THis will give the history:
Look at the last 10 or so….
Well, what would U expect after a 3 % worldwide selloff? The owners have too much more to dump… they don't want lower prices just yet.
I saw .20 and .30 over the ask on this all the way up
I sold my last long position… Placed a limit order at about .30 over the current bid. A few seconds later my order was filled at about .20 over my ask.
I'm not complaining about the few extra dollars I received, but the whole transaction left me very confused.
The move at the end today was not all that different from the move at the end of yesterday, except in the opposite direction. Today had a high level of volatility. The indices went up and down 1% in 30 minutes several times. The first hour had 2 moves with nearly the same momentum. The downward move around 10am was actually larger and faster than the closing move in RUT.
How do you know which moves are conspiracies that you should complain about and which moves are the natural market forces?
If Cramer is down on the housing market, then an article in Time magazine isn't far away…and you know what that means…
Joe Klein's conscience,
"Did you see today's add in the WSJ? It was sponsored by Club for Growth. I forgot to look for Laffer. Luskin and Krazy Kudlow were there though."
What, no Stephen Moore ?
The "Club for Growth" should be called 'Wrong for Decades'.
Too many clowns on this board, listen to Suge if you want to make $$$$$$$$. The Dow has another 750 points to go (lower). Buy then, not now. Comprende?
Suge with his "another 750 points to go (lower)" prediction is betting on an exact 10% correction from the top (his bottom is 12600 on the DJIA which many have forecasted).
Didn't I hear yesterday on CNBC that the series of 5-7% dips we've had in the last 5 yrs are actually "the new 10%"?
%5-7 is the new %10… is that like "40 is the new 30″?
I'm sure Maria Bartiromo would like us to believe both of those notions.
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A deadly house fire in Hutchinson last week has been ruled as arson, killing a mother and her daughter. The son, 14-year-old Sam Vonachen, has been charged with murder, attempted murder and arson.
A Facebook friend of his contacted us about some messages the teen posted on the day of the fire. The posts might give us a better idea of the timeline of what happened, and what was going through his mind on that day.
Just after midnight, fire crews were called out to the fire at the Vonachen home. Steve Vonachen, his wife Karla and their two children, Sam and 11-year-old Audrey, were inside the home when the fire started.
The Reno County District Attorney said an accellerant was poured around several rooms of the house.
Audrey died at a Hutchinson hospital just a short time after the fire started. Karla died in a Wichita hospital later in the afternoon.
Just after 5 p.m. Thursday, Sam posted a message on Facebook saying "My dad just got back form Wichita, Its just me and him now."
About an hour and half later, he had a conversation with a Facebook friend, who reached out to him with a sympathetic message.
Sam replied, "its fine."
Two minutes later, she wrote back that it was not fine, and that it was "so sad."
He replied, "I'm not sad, this is just part of life."
About an hour after that post, Sam was arrested for the murder of his mother and sister. Reno County District Attorney Keith Schroeder believes that what happened was premeditated.
"I think when those facts go out to those people who say, "Oh, this is just a 14-year-old boy,' they'll realize - hopefully they'll realize - he should be charged as an adult," Schroeder said.
Sam was scheduled to be in court this morning for a hearing to determine whether he would be moved to a youth shelter. He waived the hearing, meaning he will continue to be held in a detention facility.
So far, there has not been a motion to fim Sam as an adult, and there is no date set for his next court appearance.


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Sometimes a congregation that has declined in numbers and morale comes to believe that their situation could be reversed if they build or buy a church building.
Some may begin to think, with all the best intentions, "If we buy our own building, we could do so many things we cannot do now!" Like the theme of the movie Field of Dreams, some may begin to believe: "If you build it, they will come!"
But experienced pastors know that a building program is not a ready solution for a church's attendance problems. In fact, it is frequently a death knell for a congregation, generating conflict, hostility, frustration and morale problems the members never anticipated.
Some of our congregations, frustrated after a 60-year history of virtually no local church buildings in our denomination, now feel that owning a building may provide just the answer they've been looking for. Some of our churches may indeed be at the right point in their growth and maturity as a congregation where a building is the right and appropriate step for them to take. Before a congregation is prepared for a church building, several important factors need to be carefully considered.
1. A church must realize that owning a building is not an end in itself. The explosive growth of Christianity in the first and second centuries took place without church buildings.
Focus was on the joy of the gospel, and it was spread by the testimony of believers through personal relationships, not by attracting people to an impressive hall.
Members met in homes and temporary facilities for worship, prayer, instruction, study and praise.
2. We can't solve non-building problems with a building. Lack of growth in a congregation can be due to many factors, but lack of a permanent building is not one of them.
Sometimes the reason for lack of growth is that God is simply not currently calling people in that particular area.
Most of the time, however, the reason is that the congregation is still working through its own internal problems and is not ready for an influx of new converts.
Evangelism has often been called overflow. In other words, evangelism, or reaching out with the gospel, results from being so filled with the love of God and the joy of his salvation that it simply bubbles out, or overflows from us.
It is no surprise that this usually can't happen during a time when we are still struggling to cope with past hurts, relationship problems and a sense of loss. While we are in a grieving process, it is difficult to reach out to others. During such a time, we are still in need of nurture ourselves.
It is also no surprise that effective evangelism can't happen if we are not on fire for Jesus Christ in our private lives. When most of the congregation is still lukewarm, the first need is prayer for the spiritual renewal of the congregation.
Spiritual renewal won't happen by acquiring a permanent building. It will happen through prayer and proclamation of the Word of God.
3. Despite the best intentions, people will not improve their giving habits just to support a building. Some pastors and churches come to believe that if the church buys or builds a new building, the members will increase their giving to support the added costs of the mortgage, insurance, maintenance and repairs. But that doesn't happen.
The initial spark of good intentions cannot withstand the steady rain of reality. Unless a building is paid off or nearly so before members actually begin using it, meeting mortgage payments will be a continual albatross around the congregation's neck, creating a constant source of requests for giving until the building is either paid off or sold, which may be decades.
4. Buildings are not the primary reason new people are attracted to a church, nor the primary reason people choose to stay.
People today are attracted to a church by what that church does for them and their children. Where it meets is not nearly as important as how much it cares and how much it provides for the needs of the members.
It's true that a building can play a part in meeting needs. But the heart of love and commitment to Christ of the congregation is infinitely more important.
Several large, successful churches today grew into thousands of members before finally investing in permanent facilities. That's because who they were as the people of God was more important than where they met.
For example, Rick Warren writes this: "I'm often asked, `How big can a church grow without a building?' The answer is, `I don't know!' Saddleback met for 15 years and grew to 10,000 attenders without their own building, so I know it's possible to grow to at least 10,000! A building, or lack of a building, should never be allowed to become a barrier to a wave of growth. People are far more important than property (The Purpose-Driven Church, page 46).
5. Consider the following point made by church growth expert Lyle Schaller in an article in the Winter 1997 issue of Leadership called "You Can't Believe Everything You Hear About Church Growth": "The typical congregational planning process is overloaded with wishes, dreams, and myths, which undermine effective decision-making."
Some common examples illustrate this syndrome:
Myth 1: If we build it, they will come.
"We now average about 400 at worship, and we have designed a comprehensive strategy to double our membership over the next six years.
"The recent and projected population growth in this community suggests that is a realistic goal. Therefore we have launched a capital funds campaign to double the size of our physical facilities. We're convinced if we build it, they will come."
Reality: That slogan was a great story line for a wonderful baseball movie, but for churches, it overlooks two crucial variables: The initial focus on responding to rapid population growth should be on expanding the ministry and raising the quality of what is offered. That usually means that adding program staff should come before constructing additional facilities.
A second issue is the assimilation of newcomers. Unless the process for the assimilation of new people is improved and expanded, a 50 percent increase in membership may produce only a 10 percent increase in worship attendance.
As Schaller points out, a congregation must be ready to receive and assimilate new members before it can properly bring them in. Otherwise, new converts will simply become disillusioned and either drop out or move on to another church that is prepared to receive and spiritually nurture new converts.
What does all this mean? It means that owning a building should be way down the list of priorities for a congregation.
The first order of spiritual business is to begin the discipling process—building effective disciples of Jesus Christ from the members God has already placed in the congregation. Effective disciples become effective disciplers. And a congregation of effective disciplers is ready to receive and assimilate new converts.
That's why your development of small groups, leadership training classes, Christian education classes and service goals, all bathed in private and corporate prayer, should be far higher priorities than a permanent building.
Key ingredients of a congregation that is ready to evangelize, receive and assimilate new converts include such basics as these:
* Compelling, committed personal and corporate Bible study.
* Devoted, faithful personal and corporate prayer.
* Meaningful, Spirit-guided personal and corporate service inside and outside the church.
Until these are in place, and until the congregation has carefully a) studied the demographics and needs of its community, b) discovered and developed the spiritual gifts of its members, and c) prayerfully developed a plan for 1) serving that community with the gifts God has provided and 2) for assimilating new converts into the active life of the church, it is not ready to consider ownership of a permanent facility.
In other words, only when a congregation is already successfully fulfilling its reason for existence without owning a building, is it ready to evaluate whether ownership of a permanent facility is part of God's will for its future.
Owning a building isn't the purpose of the church. But the time may come in a congregation's life when owning a building fits appropriately into the true purpose of the church, not as an end in itself, but as a clear enhancement of what God is already doing in that congregation.
A building will not make kingdom work happen, and until kingdom work is happening, a building will be a curse, not a blessing.
I strongly urge every pastor and elder to read When Not to Build, by Ray Bowman (Baker Books, 1992).
I believe that ownership of local church buildings will be part of our future as a denomination. But we need to proceed wisely and in accord with God's call, learning from the mistakes of others, so that our buildings can truly be blessings.


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Witnesses say starving twins now thriving
WASHINGTON, Pa. – The foster parents of 6-year-old twins who were removed from their New Eagle home last year amid claims of starvation and imprisonment said the siblings are now thriving and enrolled in school.
Janelle White and Peggy Beich were among eight witnesses who testified Wednesday in the Washington County Courthouse against the twins' mother, Roxanne Taylor.
Taylor, 26, of 353 Seventh Ave., is accused of neglecting her children –a boy and girl.
She was charged after the boy was discovered lying in the middle of Seventh Avenue shortly before 6 a.m. Feb. 15 wearing a T-shirt and a diaper.
Police believe the boy climbed out of a bedroom window. Officials later found his sister in a locked bedroom in the house.
The twins allegedly were malnourished, weighed only about 33 pounds each, and were covered in feces when they were taken to Monongahela Valley Hospital in Carroll Township, according to Monongahela police.
Taylor and the twins' father, Edward J. Buckholz, were arrested March 28 on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment and endangering the welfare of children.
While Buckholz, 34, pleaded guilty June 26 to two felony counts of aggravated assault, Taylor chose to stand trial.
The jury of seven women and five men heard testimony from medical personnel who treated the twins Feb. 15 and four current and former Washington County Children & Youth Services employees who had investigated complaints about Taylor and Buckholz over the years.
In court Wednesday, Taylor rarely made eye contact with the jury or the witnesses and didn't look at photos of her children that were displayed as evidence.
Natalee Peters, the Monongahela Valley Hospital emergency room nurse who treated the couple's daughter the morning of Feb. 15, became emotional as she described the twins' appearance to Assistant District Attorney Traci McDonald.
"They were both covered in feces and smelled like urine," said Peters, fighting back tears. "The girl's hair was matted, her eyes were sunken in and they both had distended stomachs.
"They looked like they were no more than 2 or 3 years old.
"It was the worst case I've ever seen as a registered nurse."
Peters said an insect was found in the girl's left ear. She testified she bathed the girl, tried to "comfort" her and bought her a teddy bear.
"She said she was hungry, so I got her a tray of food," Peters said. "She finished that and asked for more food."
In cross-examination, defense attorney Andrew Glasgow questioned the amount of feces found on the children and their overall health.
Peters replied that Taylor and Buckholz were in the waiting room and told her the children had no health issues and didn't know how their son got the bruises.
CYS officials also questioned the couple at the hospital.
CYS Supervisor Christine Martin testified that the agency had been in and out of the couple's lives since 2008 over concerns about the twins' welfare, deplorable housing conditions and a large number of animals, including pit bulls, living in the house.
The last open CYS investigation was from September 2010 to June 2011.
Martin testified that she met the family in 2010. She said the house smelled of urine and that the twins were confined to their cribs. Nine pit bulls were caged in the basement, she said.
She said the agency arranged early intervention therapy for the twins' developmental delays.
Martin said the cases were closed each time as the couple complied with orders, kept the twins' medical and therapy appointments, and attended parenting classes.
Martin and three other past caseworkers, Marie Wolf-Hatalowich, Bethany Tobias and Yvonne Lyons, testified that the twins were always small in stature, but they didn't recognize them Feb. 15 at the hospital.
"I was shocked when I saw them. They looked like kids in Ethiopian commercials," said Martin, adding she saw bruises on the boy and both children were losing their hair.
"They were shoving food in their mouths," Martin said. The girl was a little better. (The boy) just seemed beat up."
Tobias, the last caseworker assigned to the children, described the twins as "feral," and said she raised concerns with the couple after seeing a latch made for holding padlocks on the twins' bedroom door.
Tobias said the refrigerator was always "packed full of food" during her visits, and Taylor once asked her if CYS could give them money for a new vehicle transmission and dog food.
"They never asked for money for the kids," Tobias said.
The case was closed in June 2011, when the couple was deemed to be in compliance.
Dr. Jennifer Wolford, a physician with the Child Advocacy Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, testified the twins spent three days in the hospital after they were transferred Feb. 15 from Monongahela Valley Hospital.
She testified the children underwent a battery of tests to determine if they had health issues causing them to be underdeveloped.
"All the tests came back normal," Wolford said.
Wolford said the twins only spoke at an 18- to 24-month age level. She said the twins weighed about 33 pounds when they were admitted. Last month, their weight was about 54 pounds each.
Wolford said the twins were "subjected to neglect."
Under cross-examination, Wolford said the twins seemed neither "traumatized," nor "frightened," during their hospital stay and were often smiling and interacting with the staff.
Glasgow questioned the discharge instructions for the twins.
"So, Children's (Hospital's) response was to treat malnutrition with a regular diet and Pediasure supplements?" Glasgow stated.
Wolford quickly responded, "That's the cool thing (about malnutrition). You just have to feed them."
The twins are in separate foster homes. White testified the girl has been living with her since Nov. 1, now weighs 56-pounds and just completed kindergarten.
"She knows the alphabet, her numbers and can dress and bathe herself," White stated.
Beich testified the boy weighs 55-pounds, also finished kindergarten, and went to Kennywood Park last week.
Despite their progress, both foster parents testified the children are in trauma therapy and see a psychiatrist. A previous psychiatrist diagnosed them with intellectual disabilities.
The girl has nightmares and is often aggressive, White said, while the boy is "obsessed" with checking windows and doors.
"He needs to make sure they can open and shut," said Beich, adding he never asks about his birth parents.
Testimony was scheduled to resume at 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Taylor is expected to take the witness stand in her own defense.
Stacy Wolford is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-684-2640 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Kenai Peninsula College continually reminds students to stay on track to graduate in the shortest time possible, saving both time and money, by tackling 15 credits each semester. In addition, the registration periods are regulated so that students closest to graduating get priority to ensure they secure seats in courses required for their program.
Veteran students were the first group of KPC students eligible for fall semester priority and they were able to register for classes last Friday.
Alyssa Kimble, a fourth-grader in White Plains, New York, says she uses the desk in her bedroom for "everything" — creating lesson plans for her make-believe school, writing stories and storing stuff.
Everything, that is, except homework.
"Usually, my desk is covered with things, a computer isn't nearby and my mom isn't there to help me," Alyssa says.
So she prefers doing homework at the kitchen table.
School board to meet
Advice and a Slice offers venue to explore options
KPC's Kenai River Campus will be holding the third annual Advice and a Slice open house from 4-6 p.m. on Friday, April 3 in the McLane commons. This event is intended to provide an all-inclusive opportunity for current and prospective students (and parents) to learn what benefits that KPC/UAA has to offer.
There will be a nursing information and advising session for current and prospective students at 9 a.m. on March 27 in room 107 at the Kenai River Campus. The session is open to anyone interested in pursuing a career in nursing.
Next fall students in four Kenai Peninsula Borough School District institutions will be greeted with new leadership.
Principals for Homer Flex, Connections Home School Program, Soldotna High School and Tebughna School have been hired to fill the positions being left open by Karen Wessel, Lee Young, Todd Syverson and Marilyn Johnson.
"This is an average number of administrator changes," said school district spokesperson Pegge Erkeneff. "
KPC's Fall Scholarship Packet is now available for students on the KPC website or from the Student Services or Financial Aid offices. Every effort is made to make applying for 20 college-based scholarships as straightforward as possible.
KPC's summer enrollment numbers have steadily climbed during the last two decades. The number of student credit hours generated during summer of 1990 compared to 2014 reveals a staggering increase of 1,354 percent (2,600 more credit hours). Students have figured out that there are many advantages to taking courses during the summer. Because the semester is much shorter, the curriculum is accelerated allowing students to fully engage and become immersed in the course work.
Like most students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, Marina and David Schramm had some free time last summer. And just like many of their peers, the two wanted puppies.
Not surprisingly their parents Heather and Derek Schramm set up some requirements Marina Schramm and David had to fulfill before they could pick out their perfect pets.
Derek and Heather Schramm wanted their children to do some preliminary, canine-related research and have something challenging to spend time on over the summer.
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