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A cyber risk conversation
What's the logic behind a potential cyber attack?
We've run a number of pieces lately exploring the implications of further federal action on cyber security and the logic behind federal-industry interaction. And we've pointed to what state regulators are doing as well as work by municipal and cooperative utilities.
Today I provide an essay on the logic around the threat, the risk assessment.
Who would have an interest in disrupting electric service, either locally or on a mass scale? What would malefactors do and why? How would a perpetrator derive value from hacking or attacking? Are they looking to cause a blackout as a prelude to invasion, as Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta suggested Friday, or just monitor our systems until the right moment arrives?
While I have a few interviews pending on these subjects, a dialogue started in my head around the logic behind the cyber security threat. I've read enough recent reports in the news and by pertinent groups that the following exchange materialized.
Two utility executives walk into a bar, order drinks and start talking.
Executive One: If the cyber threat is real, why haven't there been any major attacks in the U.S.?
Executive Two: Well, we know that monitoring software of Chinese origin has been found on a number of systems, but we don't know whether that's the government spying or industrial espionage. Could be one and the same. Increasing numbers of system intrusions have been reported to the federal government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team. And we know that the Russians used cyber attacks against Georgia during hostilities in 2008. But you're right, no blackouts have resulted here. Still, I'm mighty concerned by what my IT and OT folks tell me. And the Secretary of Defense last week really put on a fine point on it.
Executive One: Maybe what we've been doing in cyber security is working; we've been hardening our industrial control systems as well as corporate IT for years now. But you just mentioned nation-states, which wouldn't launch a cyber attack on the U.S. since we announced that would be considered an act of war. Surely our main rivals would only launch a cyber attack as part of all-out war that nobody wants, right? That'd be mutually assured destruction, which kept nuclear war from occurring during the Cold War. It still works. So what other threats do we face?
Executive Two: Let's go down the list. Terrorist groups would love to damage our grid, harm people or cause a massive blackout with major economic consequences. Terrorists don't care who gets hurt and they don't need to profit, they just want to cause harm. So I'd guess they'd love to sabotage critical infrastructure and we know that homegrown Al Qaeda sympathizers crop up occasionally. But are they sophisticated enough to mount a cyber attack or blow up a generating station?
Executive One: I'd say if we keep up our cyber security stance, combined with physical security, we can avoid that possibility. And I doubt terrorists have the sophistication to launch a damaging assault from afar, though Secretary Panetta makes it sound like they can. I'd be surprised if they weren't trying. I'm more worried about criminal elements, like the Russian mob, or hacktivists, like that Assange fellow. What would they be after? Notoriety or profit?
Executive Two: Foreign gangs are very sophisticated and we know they have a foothold in the U.S. Perhaps they're after customer information that could be triangulated with other data to enable identity theft on a mass scale. That'd mean we don't need to worry about economic damage from a blackout, but more the destruction of a company's brand and the exploitation of its customers for gain. That's a credible threat. What about the hacktivists?
Executive One: Those guys are nuts. They'd penetrate our systems to show how smart they are or make some misguided attempt to "expose corporate evil." Good luck with that. All we're doing is providing electricity and collecting a pittance in return. But you're right, shutting down part of the grid or exposing competitive secrets might wreak havoc, even if all they get is an ego-rush. I think we're back to terrorists causing a blackout with economic consequences, hacktivists on a Quixotic mission or gangs stealing identity-related information. Maybe nation-states stealing industrial secrets. I think blackmail over the threat of a shutdown or theft of key data is too Hollywood. How could anyone get away with profiting? You pay them, you nab them, right? Is that the whole list?
Executive Two: Unfortunately not. We haven't talked about disgruntled insiders, our own employees. More realistically, several of the biggest grid-related incidents of the past couple years turned out to be mistakes with unintended consequences, by our own people.
Executive One: You're right. At the last conference I attended, the cyber security speakers hammered on a "security culture," "access controls," "confidentiality, integrity and accessibility" and the intersection of "cybersec and physec" that would prevent any individual from causing harm, even unintentionally. So we've required vendors to bake-in security with no back doors or loose ends, our IT architects are designing our smart grid to prevent, detect and resist an attack and we're impressing our people with the right practices. Did you know that "social engineering" tests have shown that a thumb drive picked up in the parking lot typically ends up getting plugged in at work within hours? That may be how Stuxnet got to the Iranian centrifuges! We can't afford that!
Executive Two: Calm down. If you provide your people with a sense of the risks and reward them for demonstrating sound security culture, plus put in those access controls and focus on detection, response and resiliency and maintain an aggressive stance, we'll stay one step ahead of bad actors or catastrophic mistakes.
Executive One: Yeah, but this stuff costs money. How do we balance risk with the cost of maintaining a security stance? And what will my state commission recognize as a prudent expense when it comes to cost recovery?
Executive Two: We've had discussions with our regulators and they're open to cooperation, but neither of us have a bead on the public's reaction to cyber security costs. And we can't really go public with what we're doing. All I know is that if my business is seriously disrupted, our brand value flies out the window, investors flee and customers will howl. Meanwhile, I'm busy spending time and money on complying with stuff the feds hand down, which is detracting from our real work on actual security.
Executive One: Me too. Let's have another round, a double. But first I gotta call Smithers in IT and see that he has what he needs this year. And check with HR on our security training. Or I won't be able to sleep tonight.
Phil Carson
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So you DO suffer from Normalcy Bias...
Instead of being a grammar Nazi - why not take the message at face value?
You don't think Iran is building a nuke?
You don't think Iran supports terrorism?
You don't think if they had a nuke they couldn't produce a single missile that could reach 300KM?
You don't think Al Qaeda would pilot a freighter off our coast and launch it if it was prepared to do that?
Have you forgotten 9/11 and the twin towers? (I believe Al Qaeda was responsible for that)
I don't really care if Utilities can prepare for this - it is a real threat... and for a cogent argument - why don't you just read this official report and get back to me...
(So, did I butcher the English language so much you missed the point of this response?)
http://www.empcommission.org/docs/A2473-EMP_Commission-7MB.pdf 2008 report
http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf 2004 report
http://www.empactamerica.org/featuredreports.php organization promoting education about the threat of HEMP.
And, this is my personal observation - There was an English version Jihad online-magazine called "Inspire" dedicated to the defeat of America. There were about 8 or 9 issues published. I downloaded one and on the cover was a title of an article: "EMP, the Ultimate Weapon".
The entire article was praising the idea of Jihadist acquiring a nuke to detonate above the US. Would it be difficult? Sure. Is it unlikely? Sure. But so was the thought of 9/11 too. But it happened. Don't think for an instant if a terrorist could get their hands on a ability to launch a missile with a nuke warhead they wouldn't do it. Yeah, it would be bad. Laugh or scoff and solidify your Normalcy Bias - Bias...
Do You Suffer From NORMALCY BIAS?
Or, can a "Black Swan" enet deliver a fatal blow to our entire grid?
All it takes for a unilateral well-placed strike and we'd be living like NBC's new show, Revolution, where the world loses all power and it never comes back on...
Don't think it can happen?
High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse is all it would take (for the US anyway).
Let's say Iran was hell-bent on "killing" the Great Satan. What would you do?
First, you need to be able to build one functioning high-capaicty bomb. Check. They're woking on that
Second, they need a way to deliver the nuke to the right place. So, you need a missle - not an intercontinentla ballastic.. no, just one like they have been testing that keeps blowing up before it goes into orbit... Yay we say! Their missle blew up! Fail!
It is the perfect "profile' for a HEMP event. Once they have a bomb and they have their 350KM altitude Shahab missle ready they put it on an old freighter... hardened to avoid the tell-tale readioactive signuture and therefore we don't suspect a thing...
Then Iran (or NoKo if you prefer - they could do the same thing... or Russia) delivers the frieghter to Al Qaeda. The take a leisurely cruise and when they are about 200 miles off the coast of the US (in international waters) they launch... it speeds to the correct best-practice height to deliver a Gamma-packed high altitude Electronmagnetic Pulse that takes out the ENTIRE US GRID, most of Canada's and most of Mexico's...
We are in dark-city.
And with all the king's horses and all the king's men no one will be able to replace the 2,000 some-odd high voltage back-bone required transformers (which have been turned to complete molten heaps of metal fried by the E3 component of the HEMP) and only Germany is in the business of manufacturing them at a very very very slow rate.
Of course, this does not count all the thousands and thousands of lovwer street-variety voltage transformers too. And, since there is no communiciation, no gas pumps and most vehicles are fried. How will anyone anywhere know or have ability to travel and work on the grid?
Infact, anything with an IC chip on a circiut board will fry from the E1 & E2 component. All cell phones, computers, ECU units in your car... every SCADA system (think of all the gird controlled systems, plus gas pipelines etc) go up in a puff of a milisecond.
The Federal Gov't esttimates it could take years to get some semblence of a grid back working... and in the meantime they also estimate between 75% to 90% of our population would die in the first year due to starvation and diesease.
That means around 30 Million people may survive. Hmmm, if I were an enemy, I'd sit back for a year and let the worst play out and then mosey on in to take over the balance...
Guess you execs drank a bit too much cuz they didn't mention this hypothetical... just wonder how hypothetical it is?


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Why The Heck Not
June 23, 2005
Last Wednesday I left St Paul for Cuyahoga Falls at two in the afternoon, late on purpose. I figured that by 8:00 PM the awful Chicago rush would be over, and it was; breezed clean through like a dream, until just past the south side of the loop. Or, more properly, The Loop, or Da Loop. Whichever term it was south of, it was in that confluence of I-90, I-94 and I-57 that the mighty mass of traffic from north Chicago and from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Manitoba, Montana, Alberta, Washington, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and Alaska was all forced into one lane. A gigantic toothpaste tube, bigger than a tall silo, full of B-Bs, squeezing one by one through an exit hole made by an ice pick.
But enough trucker waa-waa-waa. I lived through it. I've been down there in third gear before, with the next seven waiting their turn for what seems like eons and millennia but for what in fact isn't even a strobe flash in the planet's time line. Patience, son; for some reason a difficult skill for most of us in this business.
I crossed the great bridge and banged over the always-rebuilding Chicago Skyway and on through the wires and towers and monster mills of Gary and Hammond, all fire and smoke in the darkness; caught Interstate 80 and just before the first big cash box on the Indiana Tollway saw the exit to Portage and a Day's Inn sign. It was past eleven and suddenly a diner and an actual motel room seemed appealing. Maybe I could even plug in the computer and get some work done before getting back on the road. Or, if the place was full, park in some big quiet lot somewhere. I'd been by the Portage exit a hundred times or more and had never stopped in. Why the heck not.
I was about to find out why the heck not. Came to a T and took a left toward the traffic lights and saw no Days Inn, but there was a spread of strip malls to the left and I went for it. Big parking lots, a few fast food places still aglow but no real diners and no big motel. At the far end of the three blocks a Kentucky Fried was all lit up. I found a remote place in the shadows behind it and backed in; looked like a good place to sleep. I'd be just a truck waiting to deliver to some local shop in the morning. The KFC was lit but locked. I nearly stumbled over a body lying on the walk when I came around in front, a teenage kid who said, when he saw me jerk, "Jist waitin' for my ride." He looked like a homeless guy down for the night.
Across the lot next door a McDonald's sign said Drive Thru Open 24 Hours and there were people inside at work. I tried the door but it was bolted. Three cars were in line to order at the speaker, and I was hungry. I was too well-parked to leave and go back to the superslab. I pondered, reluctant to look foolish. Then I got in line.
A very silly feeling, like some old giraffe trapped in a kiddy parade, standing there fourth in line in a string of cars, the last one a smoky Honda Civic with a fast idle and that aftermarket loud pipe. It took a while. I was glad that nobody I knew could see me. The first in line had a tough time getting their order figured out. I could hear them over the pop music in the car radios: "No, make that a chocolate shake yah, one chocolate and one vanilla no, okay, two chocolate. Change that to two chocolate shakes so now it's one Big Mac and two double cheeseburger and the chicken fingers, and two Coke I know, but they changed it – and fries with the Big Mac and just one of the double cheese yah, just two fries, and and " You know the drill.
I finally got to the speaker by the menu. It didn't greet me. I said Hello into it. I said it twice more, louder and closer each time. Nothing. I figured maybe I wasn't big enough to set off the motion detector. I walked ahead and stood behind the loud smelly Honda again. They finally moved up and got their stuff and I said to the young lady at the window, "I tried to order at the speaker but it wouldn't say anything. I just want a quick double cheeseburger."
"We don't serve anything through the window unless you're in a vehicle. You have to be in a car or something."
"What are you talkin' about? Come on. I'm hungry. Just hand me the burger. It's not that difficult."
"Our policy is that we can't serve you unless you're in a vehicle. It's company policy."
"Look. I'm in a vehicle. That's it sitting over there. The semi. It can't make the turn into here and it's too big to fit under your canopy. But I'm driving a vehicle."
"We aren't allowed to do it if you walk up, that's all."
She was enjoying her power way too much. "Who's gonna find out? What's the harm? I'm a driver, for chrissakes."
"We can't do it. It's against our policy." If I had a policy, I thought, it would be against doing business with a little idiot twit like you. But a guy had pulled up on a Harley and placed an order at the speaker and was now behind me at the window. I walked back to him and said, "How about givin' me a hand?" And I explained the problem.
"They won't sell you a burger? Un believable," he said, slipping a common non-family-publication word into unbelievable, making it seven syllables. "Sure, I'll get you one."
I gave him a five and he amended his order. It didn't take long, and he handed me my dinner. "Saved by a biker again," I said, "Seems like bikers are the only damn people left in this country with any sense at all."
"Ya, I hear ya," he said, handing me two bucks.
"Keep it. I wanna buy you a cool one, just for bein' here."
"No man you'da done the same."
"I know. And I'd letcha buy me a beer, too."
"Well okay, I guess." He put his paper bag in a studded leather saddlebag and putted off.
I stifled my urge to holler something vulgar into the drive-up window and walked to the truck, thankful for the timing of the biker. Took an Arizona Ice Tea out of the little cooler and wolfed it all down, climbed back in the sleeper, undressed and was asleep in about two minutes, although that's a difficult event to measure by yourself. It was just before midnight, anyway. Time passed and there came a heavy banging on the side of the truck. THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP. I knew it could only be the cops. No criminals would do that. I didn't say anything. THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP. THUMP!! An extra one tacked on at the end. The sleeper vent was open and I hollered, "Yeah? Whaddya want?" A pause. THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP. "Whaddya want?" By then I was pulling my Wranglers on. A hard voice said, "Git yer head out here where I can see you."
I stuck my head through the curtain and he was standing underneath the driver's window, a young beefy guy, hatless and humorless, standing by a squad car. I cranked the window partway down. He said, "You can't park here! You gotta move this thing!" He seemed to have something black in his hand, like a billy, but I couldn't see for sure. I looked at my watch. 4:30. I said, "I'll be outta here at six. I need to meet a guy here who has to put somethin' on the truck."
"Gotta move it now. Ya can't park it here."
"It's only an hour and a half. What's the harm in that?"
"City ordinance says you can't park here. Move it. Get it outta here. Now."
So I got dressed and drove out to the I-80 toll booth and got my ticket and stopped at the first rest area I came to. It was close to five o'clock and a few trucks had left and I found a place, which is not that easy these days. There is so much truck traffic out there that the usual rest areas and truckstops are jammed by nine o'clock at night. (So don't tell me the economy is lousy; when it's lousy there are parking spaces.) I woke at six-thirty, all slept out after my usual six hours' worth and facing the common log book dilemma: The new regulations say you have to take ten hours off, so I could either tear out the previous day's page and re-write the departure time back four hours or I could sit in the truck in the parking lot for four hours and watch the traffic. The old "my dog ate my log book" doesn't work when you don't have a dog along. So whatever you would have done, dear reader, that's probably what I did.
Our house band sounded dynamite at the Blossom Music Center, with Cindy Cashdollar and Elana Fremerman sitting in. (I know, but "dynamite" is an adverb in some circles.) Elana plays fiddle with a great verve and Cindy is one of those people like Michael Jordan, who make everyone around them play better. We were loaded up before ten o'clock the truck was, anyway and we slipped out of there and in less than eight miles were back on the Ohio Tollway. The big outdoor venues all have in common these narrow roads leading through trees to the stage docks, and when you pass through there the leaves brush the side of the truck. It feels sort of like the passage of the Pope, moving slowly, worshippers reaching out for just a touch.
Got home on Sunday, a gorgeous day to mow the lawn, and on Monday evening watched the contrasting tornado clouds gathering, rotating, the very tops a clean white in the sun, while underneath there was a churning low blue-black mass building to the northwest; the color of pure dread. We called a lady who lives on Big Marine Lake, above which the most menacing cloud seemed to be hovering. The tornado sirens in town had begun to wail and we wondered if she was aware of all the fuss. She wasn't; she was sitting there watching some show on cable, but now she sprang into action.
She's eighty-seven years old and when tornadoes threaten she always goes down to the basement and sits there in her life jacket. That an unsteady elderly lady would expect to survive a tornado ripping her out of her house and hurling her out into the lake is an idea so filled with the optimism of the human spirit that one cannot think about it without smiling. The mental image of her paddling back to her ruined house on the shore in her colorful life jacket makes one proud just to be in the same general gene pool.
©R.Ringsak 2005
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Join CUESA on this bus tour of two picturesque Marin County farms: County Line Harvest and Point Reyes Cheese Company.
The tour begins in the pasturelands overlooking Tomales Bay, where we'll meet the cows that produce milk for Point Reyes Cheese Company's Original Blue and other farmstead cheeses. We'll hear about the family farm's 52-year history, its humane animal management practices, and sustainability on the farm (they use a methane digester to generate energy from waste). Our guides will explain how the handmade cheeses are crafted and will lead our group through a tasting of each one. We'll then sit down to a delicious lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches and fresh salad.
Our bus will then take us over the hills to County Line Harvest, situated in a valley west of Petaluma, where farmer David Retsky and his team raise a diverse array of organic vegetables for farmers markets, restaurants, and a weekly Community Supported Agriculture box. The farm's specialties are heirloom lettuces, chicories and specialty Italian greens, but they also offer a variety of roots, herbs, tomatoes, brassicas, strawberries and alliums. We'll hear about County Line's sustainable practices, from cover cropping to natural pest control, and about the landowners' agricultural easement, a legal agreement that protects the land (both County Line's and Point Reyes Cheese Company's) from future development.
Sorry, children under 12 are not allowed on the tour.
Where to meet: Meet at the Ferry Building (in front, south side of the clocktower). Be there between 8:30 and 8:45; we leave at 9:00 am sharp. Please be prompt! We cannot wait for stragglers.
Note: The weather could be very dry and hot. We will spend time both outdoors and indoors. The bus is air conditioned.
What to bring: water bottle, sun protection, layered clothing, and comfortable, closed-toed shoes for walking uneven terrain. Also consider bringing snacks, a camera, a book or other entertainment for the bus, and money for purchases.
We will do our best to return by 5:30 pm, but traffic conditions can be unpredictable and we can't guarantee punctual arrival.
This tour is organized by CUESA, the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, as part of our mission to cultivate a sustainable food system. CUESA organizes 5-6 tours each year to Ferry Plaza Farmers Market farms and artisan food businesses in order to give eaters a first hand look at where their food comes from and how it is produced. For more information or to sign up for our weekly email newsletter, visit www.cuesa.org.
We sincerely thank our farm tour sponsor, First National Bank of Northern California, for underwriting tour costs and Coach 21 for providing a discount on the bus charter fee.
When & Where
Ferry Building
San Francisco,
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (PDT)
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The pigment: Falu Rödfärg contains pigment from the mineralization of the Falun Mine. "Red mull" is created from ore with a low copper content that has decomposed over the centuries. In addition to copper, red mull contains a rare compound of iron ochre, silica and zinc.
This results in a paint with a beautiful, matt finish and a translucent surface with course silicon dioxide crystals that reflect rays of light. In warm evening light, the red colour becomes intense and almost glows. The pigment is also highly stable in terms of light, houses can be found that have not been painted for 100 years and yet the few remaining pigment granules are still nice and red.
Falu Rödfärg has a high pigment content: 18%
The coat of paint: Falu Rödfärg is a distemper, one of Sweden's oldest and most used types of paint. The paint produces an open coat that allows the wood to breathe – it lets in moisture, but allows it to evaporate again equally quickly. This minimises the risk of rot.
The colour: Falu Rödfärg's classic colour is not available as an exact paint number that can be mixed in a machine. The colour is as alive as the experts who burn the pigment. It is a craft that has been handed down in our production process since we started serious pigment manufacture in the mine area in 1764. An experienced Swedish user of red paint knows that it is a natural product and that it is therefore best to change batch at the corner of the house just to be sure.
Maintenance: Falu Rödfärg is very simple to maintain. As the paint ages, the binder weakens and the pigment granules are finally so loosely attached to the surface that you can simply brush them off and repaint without using a scraper. The fact that the pigment comes off granule by granule also means that the frontage ages with charm, without flaking and becoming unattractive. It is precisely the fact that the pigment adheres almost mechanically on the surface that explains why Falu Rödfärg should only be used on rough surfaces.
Coverage: Falu Rödfärg covers well and should be applied in thin coats. When painting new, untreated timber you should apply two coats. For the first coat dilute the paint with 10-20% water. After 24 hours you can finish off with undiluted paint. NB! Paint may not adhere to nail heads and knots after one coat, however, these are covered after the second coat.
Solvent and binder: Falu Rödfärg is and has always been a "natural product" with a very low environmental load. The binder is starch glue and linseed oil. The solvent is water, which makes it easy to clean brushes and tools in ordinary water and a small amount of washing-up liquid.
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In my plant researched and experiment. Marissa and I did our experiment project on miracle grow and regular soil. We planted flowers in each type of soil. As a result, the regular soil made the plants grow better, faster and healthier. The miracle grow took 5-6 days after the flowers had sprouted in regular soil. we think that the reason why our flowers grew better in the regular soil due to the soil that we got from the high shcool green house. We dont know what nutrients and what kind of soil it is. The greenhouse soil are for plants to grow healthy. So the soil from the greenhouse have a huge role to play in our experiment. We did some researched on our plants and flowe structures that we showed in our presentation. I learned that the reason why our flowers grew towards the light due to photosytheisis. Plant needs as much photosythesis as much as possible so therfore, they grow towards the sunlight. i learned about how seeds are a living organism. They have the embryo to create plants in the future and seeds have some stred energy in themself ready to be planted and sprout. We also researched about flowers structures such as, petal, ovule, ovary, stigma, carpel, etc.
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``We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present." - Adlai E. Stevenson (1835-1914)
When we talk about financial globalization, we talk about greater accessibility to financing, a deepening of capital markets, a broader scope of risk-sharing capabilities, a wider base of asset ownership, more array or selections of financial instruments, and increasing profile of financial markets, participants and institutions. And these have been unfolding right before our very eyes.
Just to give you a short clue, market participants today includes the emergence of the "sovereign funds" class or public institutions assigned by national governments to allocate sections of their excess reserves into the global asset markets. In other words, public funds have now morphed into quasi-hedge funds which now compete with private funds for the same purpose, to generate "ALPHA" returns.
I have shown you how closely correlated the movements of our markets have evolved with that of our neighbors or with global benchmarks. And in such context, as much as the benefits accrue, the risks have been increasingly interrelated or shared.
To quote IMF's Managing Director, Rodrigo de Rato in his recent speech (emphasis mine), ``In the last decade, the global integration of capital markets has become even deeper. As a result, both the benefits of free trade and free capital flows and the risks associated with volatile capital movements have increased....We have learned that shocks in the financial sector can spread quickly to other sectors, and that the interlinkages between sectors must be taken into account."
In today's world where capital markets greatly overwhelm the exchange of goods and services, it is of no doubt the principal role played by the financial sector.
And it is on similar grounds, where as an Asian bull, I believe trends towards the "financial globalization" theme will drive the region's assets (including the Philippines) over the LONG RUN to unprecedented heights;
>mounting trade surpluses which represent the wealth shift phenomenon,
>outsourcing and offshoring signifies a shift of the manufacturing capacity or increasing trends of industrialization,
>per capita convergence or the rising middle class,
>intensifying regionalization trends or lesser dependence on a single market or source of finance,
>growing consumer class,
>beneficiary of the science and technology revolution,
>favorable demographic trends,
>faster growth rates
>growing supply of skilled labor and
>rising productivity
Yet, in the face of these substantial auspicious circumstances, the Asian economies have not been adequately supported by its financial markets which are largely fragmented, underdeveloped and over reliant on the traditional banking sector as source for financing as shown in Figure 1.
The 2006 outperformance of the Philippine Phisix (+42.29% in local currency) and Indonesia's JKSE (+55.3% in local currency) could be due to the extremely low levels of Market Capitalization relative to GDP, which in 2004 represented 34 and 30% respectively.
And this is one of the reasons why the present global structural imbalances thrive; Asia's surpluses continue to be recycled into US assets, which tacitly supports the highly indebted US consumers as manifested by the exploding trade deficits, simply because its capital markets do not have the depth and sophistication to absorb all these excesses surpluses. And this will nonetheless change.
According to IMF's Agnès Belaisch and Alessandro Zanello (emphasis mine) ``In the future, trends in regional trade and abundant liquidity are likely to serve as catalysts for stronger financial linkages throughout the region... A strengthening of regional demand and trade growth will independently stimulate Asian asset markets and tighten regional interconnections. Better-linked regional financial systems could provide funding and hedging instruments to support the region's trade activities. Overall, Asia's growing intraregional trade will catalyze greater financial integration and, in turn, be stimulated by it."
In short, the trends towards further capital markets deepening and integration looks like a monumental and possibly "irreversible" force to reckon with. Such is the reason why I am bullish with non-bank finance services which I think should benefit significantly from this seismic transformation, aside from of course, the general asset classes of Asia.
In today's globalized financial environment where money moves "freely" in search of yields real time, let me show you why foreign money should continue to pour into Asian assets. In the eyes of the widely followed BCA Research, real yields matter (or bond yields deflated by inflation indices)...
Figure 2: BCA Research: Searching for Yields
``The Chart compares real bond yields and the basic balance for key emerging markets. Countries with high real yields and strong external positions (emphasis mine) offer the best risk/reward profile for investors in domestic bonds—that is, those in the upper right area." wrote BCA Research.
As you can see in Figure 2, the Philippines alongside its ASEAN contemporaries have been labeled as good value in real bonds yields (domestic currency), with mature East Asian bonds in somewhat the lesser attractive class. Meanwhile, US and Australian bonds have been shown as the least attractive.
Now relative to RISKS I believe, the housing recession in the United States has been the biggest mystifying factor whose effects could undo yet all the present gains seen in the liquidity driven global financial markets.
Figure 3: Northern Trust: % changes of New and Existing Homes
Mainstream analysts have recently adduced to several positive data in the housing industry as signs of a bottom. I am highly skeptical of this.
Bottoms or tops, or major cyclical inflection points do not come without capitulation from either bulls or bears. Because markets are psychological in nature, they tend to shoot beyond the norm; that is why you have such phenomenon as Mania, Panics and Crashes. As the Wall Street axiom goes, Markets climb a wall of worry, and decline on a ladder of hope.
What gives the bulls the ammo for their continued exuberance is the absence of credit-related crisis or fallout from risky exotic mortgages or derivatives yet. However, it is too premature to discount such possibilities, as signs of incipient raptures could have emerged, from Bloomberg's Caroline Baum, ``A few sub-prime lenders have gone belly up. Signs of additional distress are just starting to show up in larger home- loan companies. Last week, IndyMac Bancorp Inc., the second- biggest independent mortgage lender, said its fourth-quarter earnings would miss forecasts because of deteriorating credit quality in the home-loan market."
This view appears to have been shared by the illustrious Yale Professor Robert Shiller of the Irrational Exuberance fame in his latest interview in Bloomberg (emphasis mine), ``Why hasn't the weak the housing market affected retail sales? Or why hasn't consumer confidence fallen' more? Well the easy answer to that is it hasn't really started falling yet. It' s the rate of increase that's been going down for two years now, and its just starting to fall....I mean cities are down 1-2%, its not happened yet, so I am interested in what's gonna happen next year."
This means mainstream analysts have been looking at the rate of change instead nominal figures in determining the scope of the retrenchment of the housing industry.
Despite the declining rate of change, as shown in Figure 3, the nominal price levels suggests that housing levels remains on the high side, ergo, the effects of the fallout has not yet been visible. In other words, market participants have been in a state of denial and have not capitulated, so the likelihood is that while there may be interim recoveries, the bottom in the housing industry in the US has yet to be found.
In addition, Mr. Shiller implies that as nominal price levels decline, things can get rather interesting or possibly, the ramifications would be more evident. And we must not forget that since markets functions as discounting mechanisms, where if such effects would be more apparent by next year, stressed or not, the market's price signals should soon be reflective of these.
Further, as I have repeatedly mentioned, Derivatives, "Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction" to Warren Buffett, which have provided for expanded leverage and added liquidity in the markets, have now caught the attention of policymakers as potential catalyst to a major market crisis.
This is one of the major issues taken up in the Davos Switzerland, where Zhu Min, the Bank of China's executive vice-president warned (emphasis mine), ``There is money everywhere. You can get liquidity from the market every second for anything. Derivatives are eight times global GDP and much of the money is flowing to Asia, where people have no idea what risks they are taking."
Figure 4: Lazlo Birinyi/ Trend Investor: S&P's Record Run
As I have been saying along, despite fundamental risks, global markets appear to be getting ahead of themselves. In spite of Friday's 3% decline, which shadowed the activities in Wall Street, the Phisix has still been up 6.04% year to date! And by virtue of being overextended, the market could simply tumble out of sheer profit-taking.
This observation from Steven Lord of the Trend Investor (emphasis mine), ``In a nutshell, this is the current situation in U.S. equity markets. Although I am not bearish on the market per se, the current bull market is elderly by historical standards at 51 months, while the S&P has now booked the 928 consecutive days without a one-day, 2% correction. It is the longest such streak since before the Depression, or, more correctly, for as far back as we can get daily prices. It is an ominous fact, since most things on Wall Street eventually revert to trend. With earnings and the economy decelerating, the Fed unlikely to be much help unless things dramatically change for the worse, and markets perched at record levels on the back of one of the longest bull markets on record, we're calling the chances for a good, old-fashioned correction as better than good."
Figure 5: Stockcharts.com: Emerging Market dissonance
In figure 5, one can see that emerging market debts (lower panel) appear to have "peaked out" and could be in the process of correcting, [via manifestations of lower highs and lower lows] while Emerging market bourses seems to continue with its upside momentum. However, the Morgan Stanley Emerging Market Index has yet to break the 925 hurdle to confirm its uptrend. Failure to do so could translate to a weakening momentum or a possible reversal.
Let me repeat, aside from all the negatives I've cited since (growing divergences, unfavorable market actions, fundamental, technical and sentiment risks), I think that our cost of capital have risen far more than the potential returns that can be gained from investing today, making the present day theme least attractive.
Say if one of the analyst is right on his prediction that the Phisix will gain 10% in 2007, with the Phisix already up 6%, this means your upside is now limited to 4% until the end of the year! But how about your downside risks? This is what I mean as the risk prospect has far outgrown your return potentials.
Of course, there will be selective opportunities within the market. We are after all in a long term bullmarket faced short-term risks.
Further, with eroding seasonal strengths, the manifestation of overconfidence through the bidding up of third tier issues signifies the accelerating speculative fervor. As such, it looks as if there are more fools or suckers out there than money to be made, which gives us another reason to be extremely cautious.
Yet, the market can still go higher predicated on a budding mania at work. As I have said to a favorite foreign client, acting on one's portfolio reminds me of the Serenity Prayer which goes...
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
There are things that we cannot change and things that we can act upon to effect changes for as long as we know our goals.


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RUTLAND, Vt. - An inmate at the Marble Valley Correctional Center is accused of pouring hot coffee on another inmate.
Vermont State Police say Jolibin Massamba, 36, of Scranton, Penn., followed Timothy Williams, 25, of New Haven, Vt., to his cell and poured coffee on him after he removed his coffee from the microwave to cook his own food.
Williams received minor injuries and was treated at the medical unit at the correctional facility.
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The Campy 649 brake cable clips... anyone know what the screw threading is on these? I was going to replace the screws on mine with some stainless, but can't figure out the threading. Not M3, not 4-40. The thread looks to be a bit coarser in pitch than an M3, but about the same diameter. The hardware store I was at did not have any M3.5.
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Cell Therapeutics Must Deliver on Promise for Myelofibrosis Drug Partner
TheStreet) -- Cell Therapeutics (CTIC - Get Report) CEO Jim Bianco has told investors -- including the hedge funds which bought his last fund-raising deal in September -- that he'll land a partner for the company's experimental myelofibrosis drug before the end of the year.That's the next big catalyst for the company, and it helps explain why Cell Therapeutics shares closed Monday at $1.95, a 52-week high. Cell Therapeutics is famous -- I should say infamous -- for drug development futility. Few companies in the biopharma world have lost as much money ($1.9 billion) for as long (22 years) as Cell Therapeutics. Yet Cell Therapeutics refuses to die, mostly due to Bianco's uncanny ability to emerge unscathed from failure while coaxing cash from another group of investors with promises that "the next drug" will finally work out. Bianco's next, next drug is pacritinib, an oral Jak-2 inhibitor for myelofibrosis which Cell Therapeutics bought in 2012 from Singapore's S-Bio for $30 million upfront, half of that in stock. Onyx Pharmaceuticals once owned development rights to pacritinib but returned it to S-Bio for reasons never fully disclosed. That's why Cell Therapeutics was able to pick up pacritinib cheap, especially for a drug phase III ready. Consider Gilead Sciences (GILD - Get Report) paid $500 million to acquire YM BioSciences and its phase III-ready myelofibrosis drug CYT387, now renamed momelotinib. The myelofibrosis treatment market is already served by Jakafi, marketed by Incyte (INCY - Get Report) and Novartis (NVS - Get Report). With the exception of Pixuvri (which barely counts), Cell Therapeutics has never developed a cancer drug successfully on its own. All of the company's past, phase III cancer drug clinical trials have either failed or been stopped prematurely. This is why Bianco's promise to find a development and marketing partner for pacritinib is so important. No one wants Cell Therapeutics to be chiefly responsible for conducting the pacritinib clinical trials because -- let's be frank -- the company will screw them up. Pacritinib has baggage that makes people doubt the drug's clinical and commercial potential. Cell Therapeutics licensing and developing the drug doesn't help, either. But investors might start to look at pacritinib differently if a company with a solid reputation and track record in cancer drug development signs on as Cell Therapeutics' partner. A trustworthy partner doesn't guarantee pacritinib's success but it would validate the drug to some degree. Cell Therapeutics has already started the first pacritinib phase III myelofibrosis clinical trial. On Monday, the company announced an agreement with the FDA on the design for the second trial. The clock is ticking. Bianco needs to deliver the partner. -- Reported by Adam Feuerstein in Boston. Follow @AdamFeuerstein
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Posted By Joaquin Millan On December 22, 2011 @ 5:30 pm In Architecture,Reader Submitted Content | No Comments
Water, rurality, urbanity, cultural habits and traditions were all key considerations in the design of OODA [1] and OOIOO Architecture's [2] Leeuwarden Housing Plan. Inspired by the water lilly, the team of architects set out to mimic the living organism and its ability to naturally make a "bridge" between the water and the land world [3]. With a need to combine and establish environmental relationships within the study area, and between the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, the architects chose to create a masterplan based on an abstraction of a set of water lilies. The plan of the project fuses water, green spaces and agricultural areas to create a sustainable residential system that is harmony with both the urban and natural environments.
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- Jan 30:
- Casey Puckett places fifth in Winter X Games farewell
- Langely McNeal, X Games skicross racer, blasts ban from final for clothing violation
- Jan 29:
- Shaun White hits perfect run, winning X Games gold again in halfpipe
- Shaun White gets top spot in X Games superpipe qualifier
- Nate Holland leads U.S. sweep of boardercross podium
- McMorris first snowboarder to double gold since Shaun White
- X Games include teen sensations flush with fame, fortune
ASPEN — The two men toggle knobs and click keyboards, their eyes hidden behind awkward glasses as they stare at a bank of flickering screens.
"Whoa, little hot on 6!" one yells across the trailer to nine technicians wedged shoulder to shoulder, tweaking an endless stream of images from the Winter X Games venue.
"Sorry, sorry," comes the response as the white-washed, 3-D image of a skier comes into clearer focus as he soars off a jump and — seemingly — into the trailer.
ESPN is splashing the spectacle of Winter X in 3-D this year, capturing the winter circus on 34 3-D cameras and eight robotic 3-D cameras, all united with 37 miles of fiber cable crisscrossing Buttermilk ski area.
"This is the biggest we've ever done," said Paul DiPietro, coordinating director for ESPN, a leader in 3-D programming. Still, this Winter X — Sunday will be the network's 204th event captured and broadcast using 3-D cameras — is the network's first event using all 3-D cameras.
"We are starting at 8,000 feet, going up to 10,000 feet. In the middle of winter. On the side of a mountain," DiPietro said. "We are not in a basketball arena at 72 degrees. It's a huge, huge endeavor, but that's what we love about X Games."
3-D TVs haven't lived up to the hype they generated when introduced in 2010, though sales are climbing. Industry experts expected 20 million to 25 million to sell last year, but the technology often is an add-on feature to existing models and many consumers haven't yet adopted it.
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In Aspen, more than 400 ESPN workers — about half of the network's entire X Games staff — labor in the technology division, capturing and processing the signal from the army of 3-D cameras in a live presentation. The mission began a month ago, when ESPN took over the entire slopeside Inn at Aspen and built something as technologically capable as the network's vast headquarters in Connecticut.
The hotel — its floors lined with plastic, its ballrooms divided into dozens of offices packed with on-site servers capable of storing 18,000 hours of video — is a technological wonder. It's got to be, with the workload nearly doubled moving from standard or high definition to 3-D.
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Hi, I woke up this morning and my five zebra danios were all swimming around very fast in one corner of the tank, some of them looked like they were fighting...but is this the way zebras spawn? They looked like they were swimming around very frantically, not at all normal. It has been about 45 minutes now and they are still doing it.
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Regarding the danios, they seem to like to chase each other allot, sort of like playing tag. As far as spawning, they are egg layers. I used to have them so I can't really be positive, becuase if they did lay eggs, I know my clown loaches or angels would more likely eat the eggs.
I also have 4 zebra danios and they are the most active in the tank! They are just awesome to watch let me tell ya. That is totally normal for zebra danios, like crazy eddie said its kinda like tag! There tails/fins may get a little nibbled on but thats just there nipping order... Oh and about the stringy poop try feeding them pea's to help the digestive system.
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Can you say mama drama!? Between Emily's long-missing mother, Jack's whiskey-sniffing baby mama, and the mother of all villains, Victoria Grayson, we've got a trifecta of tragedy in the Hamptons.
This Sunday's "Revenge" is looking like a doozy, as the new ABC promo teases "one life will change forever" as someone screams call 911.
Since Emily is this close to finding out that her mental mama is running The Bates Motel (and running from "The Initiative"?), she reveals the truth about her mother's sudden alive-ness to Amanda, whom she uses to bait Victoria.
And now that she's been "accepted" by the Graysons, "Fauxmanda" (Margarita Levieva) has a new swagger, like when she shows up fashionably late to her own baby shower at Grayson Manor — with some slut-tastic old friends in tow. Watch Victoria's Reaction in the Clip Below.
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After last week's reveal that Emily's mom is the secret lover of the White-Haired Man (you know, the one Emily killed?), Emily tries to envision what her eventual reunion with her mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) might be like — and it's hardly the things Oprah episodes are made of. As Emily's former lover/frenemy Aiden warns: "You better be prepared for what you might find."
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The result of weight loss is a fringe benefit to using the tools, treating myself well and figuring out who I am and what I deem important in my life. It is this work that makes the result of weight loss or any result or expectation possible. Life is wonderful and precious and I wish everyone to stop for one moment and be thankful for the air they breathe and consider what endless possibilities of living life lay at their feet.
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The result of weight loss is a fringe benefit to using the tools, treating myself well and figuring out who I am and what I deem important in my life. It is this work that makes the result of weight loss or any result or expectation possible. Life is wonderful and precious and I wish everyone to stop for one moment and be thankful for the air they breathe and consider what endless possibilities of living life lay at their feet.
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Marriage ~ My marriage is strong yet fluid, romantic yet productive. Our relationship is my dearest outward manifestation of unity and opportunity to know myself. I nurture my marriage.
Knowledge~ My thirst for knowledge is ever-constant yet whimsical. I seek knowledge grounded by my inner child tucked into bed by the great Unknown. I am ever kindler, gentler and more tender loving to myself. I am nurtured.
Children&Creativity~ Children continue and expand upon my marriage and outward manifestation of unity and opportunity to know myself. I nurture children and cultivate childish play in my life.
Family~ From my dear sister and her family to our relatives and extended family of humanity - let me appreciate the gift of their presence in my life and the opportunity to see more of myself and practice unity and self-care.
Benefactors&Travel~ I give the same care to others and receive that care in return tenfold yet I give neither without expectation nor beyond my means. The Divine walks with me in my travels safe-guarding me and my companions.
Wealth~ Mine, my family and my friends' worldly and material needs on earth are more than met without hardship, grief or suffering to ourselves or others. Prosperity and good fortune blows towards us like a constant breeze off the ocean and we are able to harness and amplify its power like a windmill to continue to do good for humanity and the earth. We are blessed and fulfilled with good fortune, love, security, safety and comforts, which is true wealth.
Career~ My career is rewarding and not only inspires others but also does good for Humanity and the Earth yet fulfills all my worldly and material needs on this earth as well as offers freedom of time for travel, health and wellness, friends, family and general pursuit of happiness for myself, my husband, my family and friends. My family and friends also have similar rewarding careers.
Fame~ All those who cross my path or my path have crossed - appreciate me, recognize my worthiness, and sincerely love me with a divine love full of blessings for me, my family and my friends. I am recognized as good, loving, beautiful, playful, musical, graceful, whimsical, soothing, inspirational, bright, joyous, sharing, strong, steady, earthy and spiritual.
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I am honest and clear yet gentle and kind with myself. I have a joyfully focused yet openly calm energy. Just be and revel in the moment of who I am which passes on to another moment which may or may not be the same.
In search for my own inner spark, I reviewed my entire online journal to find my best advice to myself in hopes to reveal my vision. You will see the link to the results of that process on my community journal to the right.
I have never given myself this much time to figure out what I want and the more I work on it, the more I realize this will be a lifelong process. But I start from where I am today.
I seek to be true to joy and happiness~ this IS my own self. Acknowledging joy and happiness in every moment of my life, from the mundane to extraordinary - I bask in my joy to �feel� and �experience� � to LIVE! I am happy for fluidity, the limitless and infinite nature of God, the Earth, the Universe, Humanity back to Myself � separate yet ONE. I consider for myself that rather than a destination, �Happiness� is a state of mind and I have the power to choose my state of mind (or at least nudge it in the right direction!) I wish you all happiness in your journey towards wellness � let your passion be a slow-burning, everlasting ember.
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Hey, thanks so much for your comment, I almost started crying when I read it, but in a good way. Things did get better, at least a little. I read some inspirational blogs and remembered that post about that sparkpeople member who didn't budge from 160 but went from a size 12 to a 6. I tried to just eat when I was hungry today. I went to my friday night gym date with myself and was able to do all the hard moves and jump like I could pre-c-section. Thanks for being there. The night is always darkest before the dawn, right? Most of all, thank you for saying that I am worth something because I am me, not because of all the things I'm supposed to do or take care of. I need to remember that more.
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Thank you so much for your comments and support. After I wrote that blog I just felt so at peace. It's like I finally turned this huge corner in my life. Last night I went through all the arias that I know and picked out a soprano list and a mezzo list that I felt good about and I think I can do right now as I am. I start practicing tomorrow! You are also so right about singing because you love it and not to be somebody. That's what I've so been struggling with. I will probably still struggle with some part of that always, but I think it will be a lot better now.
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In Darksiders you are one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Your name is War. The mission of game is proving your innocent as you didn't make an Earth apocalypse. The only one thing what you start with is your sword. You can't even make a good combo with it. New moves can be bought is shop. But sword isn't your only weapon. There's a Scepter and Gauntlet which you'll get by playing. There are normal or legendary enchantments which can be put in your weapon. You dispose spells after buying them. Thing giving me the most fun was Demon form. You can get it after many sword's attacks. When your bar will be full you might transform to unstoppable Demon. The fighting items or magic is not only thing in this game. There's some items which you'll need to complete logic mini-games. They aren't hard but you have to be open-minded and skilful. The game is pretty good when you are playing it with pad, so don't forget to plug it in because in my opinion, playing Darksiders on keyboard is very uncomfortable and annoying.
Randomly generated rougelikekontotestowe | Jan. 28, 2014 | Review of The Binding of Isaac - PC
The Binding of Isaac is rouge like with totally randomly generated dungeons. The longer you play, the game gives you more different items and bosses. There is no the same game. Every time when you click "Start" you can be sure that it will be different rooms, enemies and items. Isaac is pretty nice but bad optimized production. I had no problems to learn to play it. The gameplay is pleasant and very comfortable. It's always fair with us. When we've died, we did it because of fails. It's easy to play but very hard to become master. I think DLC (Wrath of the Lamb) is mandatory to buy because it give you access to many bosses, rooms, items and characters.


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when can dad feel the baby kick?
my husband want to feel the baby kick
Posted: 11/05/2009 by the1uneed2know
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During the 2end trimester he should be able to feel movement of your baby. Kicking or hiccups. :) I'm in my 2end trimester and am 18 weeks.... even though it was very light my husband felt our baby move just last night!!!posted 08/06/2013 by Megan178
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