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There's no other time to see SATURDAY NIGHT other than on Saturday night. And it has nothing to do with our hectic social schedule. It just makes sense in our world. See, if we were to see to Sondheim's first-ever musical on Friday night, it would just throw off our whole sense of time. We'd think Saturday was Sunday, Sunday was Monday, and we just can't deal with that kind of complexity. (See Onstage.)
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We've had a thing for Asian culture ever since we were wee tykes and our grandmother would watch martial arts movies on a low-wattage TV station.
Of course, as we got older, we realized that there was a lot more to the world of Asia than just some kick-ass kung-fu moves. And no, we're not referring to those technological wizards at Sony. (You know, we don't always make fun of other cultures.) But the ASIAN CULTURE FEST should show Cincinnati that there's a whole world beyond crouching tigers and hidden dragons. (See Events.)
Monday 30
We go batty for vampire movies. (We being the lone underling forced at stake point to write these gloriously insightful picks, and, in turn, being the only person at CityBeat whose opinion really matters.) So naturally, even if it's bordering on cheesy, we're going to rise from our grave to bite into THE FORSAKEN. We like movies that grab us by the neck and drain us dry. We're sick like that. (See Film.)
Tuesday 1
When we first heard about the latest exhibit at the MIAMI UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Craft is a Verb: Selections from the Collection of the American Craft Museum, we admit we got a little confused. We were looking forward to sculptures made out of cheese and macaroni. Despite our little faux pas, we hear that this show has its share of tasty art, even if it's not nearly as edible. (See Art.)
Wednesday 2
How can anyone go wrong with OPERA RAP? It only makes sense to have two of the most misunderstood musical genres come together. Actually, we just like the idea of Cincinnati Opera Artistic Director Nicholas Muni throwing down some fly beats and rhymes with his peeps. We're particularly looking forward to his duet with Snoop Dogg. (See Classes.)
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McCutchen Hits 3 Homers, Pirates Beat Rockies 9-4Slumping outfielder Andrew McCutchen hit three homers and drove in five runs to help the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Colorado Rockies 9-4 on Tuesday night.
Pirates Defeat Brewers, 9-3Andrew McCutchen homered for the second straight day, Matt Joyce and Gregory Polanco each had three of the Pittsburgh Pirates' 17 hits in their 9-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
Pirates Beat Brewers 5-0Andrew McCutchen hit his first home run of the season and Jon Niese combined with two relievers on a three-hitter as the Pittsburgh Pirates blanked the Milwaukee Brewers 5-0.
McCutchen, Part-Owner Of Steelers Honored At Rooney Award DinnerThe philanthropic outreach of the Rooney family has been well-documented in Pittsburgh over the years. Four decades later, the legacy of the Rooney Award Dinner lives on.
Dunlap: If Polanco Signs Deal, McCutchen Has Decision To MakeWhere does a reported contract extension for Gregory Polanco leave Andrew McCutchen?
Pirates Fans Brave Cold Temperatures For Opening DayThere were two games going on Sunday: The Pirates versus the Cardinals and the fans versus the cold.
Pirate Andrew McCutchen Stars In MLB Commercial With Humpty DumptyPirates player Andrew McCutchen is starring in a new commercial for Major League Baseball.
The KDKA Morning Show Brings Back The Bucs - March 31The "KDKA Morning News" wrapped up their trip to Bradenton with an all-star cast of Pirates on their final day.
Pirates Anxious To Return To Pittsburgh After Spring TrainingWhile a Florida day at McKechnie Field might sound good if you've been in Pittsburgh the last two months, the Pirates are anxious to come north.
Pirates Front Office Weighs In On McCutchen Hitting SecondMonday marks the third game this Spring Pirates centerfielder Andrew McCutchen will hit second in the lineup.
Blue Jays Beat Pirates, 3-2Andrew McCutchen hit his fourth homer in five games, again hitting in the second spot of the lineup as the Blue Jays beat the Pirates 3-2 in Dunedin.
Locke Allows Five In Pirates 7-2 Loss To YankeesThe New York Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-2 in Bradenton on Thursday as Jeff Locke gave up five earned runs over 5 innings. Locke said while he made some mistakes, he felt like he pitched really well.


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Medical providers who have served the community during or after Hurricane Katrina know firsthand the unique difficulties the city faces as it tackles health issues. Many of the residents who needed medical services and health education were hardest hit by the floods. Today, New Orleans is headed in the right direction but the overall health and wellness of the community needs attention, financial assistance and continued support by organizations and policies outside of healthcare.
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The 23-year-old, alongside Andy Ellis, was beaten in the first round of the men's doubles draw by Malaysian second seeds Kien Keat Koo and Boon Heong Tan 21-19, 24-22.
Adcock suffered a similar fate in the mixed doubles with Gabby White where they this time went down 21-14, 21-18 to Chinese top seeds Chen Xu and Jin Ma.
They had to qualify for the main draw, with two wins on Tuesday, and, not being able to make further progress, Adcock knows what he now has to do going forward.
"It has been a successful week," said Adcock. "The mixed performances in the qualifiers were immaculate, it was perfect.
"We showed signs of that against the best in the world and showed we can play at their level but they had ways to counter it.
"That's why they're the best but we need to make sure we know how they do it, so we can counter that. But I'm really confident in our ability and our belief as well."
Robert Blair is the only Brit left at the All England Open as he and Malaysian men's doubles partner Bin Shen Tan beat Alvent Yulianto Chandra and Markis Kido in their first-round tie.
Marcus Ellis and Scottish partner Paul van Rietvelde bowed out at the same stage 21-15, 21-14 to Chinese Taipei pair Sheng Mu Lee and Chia Hsin Tsai.
They had pushed in both sets before falling away towards the end, leaving Ellis to call for greater consistency.
"Probably the biggest area for us to improve on is consistency in producing excellent, world-class performances," said Ellis.
"The consistency is not just from game-to-game, but within games too. There's areas where we switch off and go a bit passive, and maybe showing a bit of immaturity on our part."
White later missed out in the women's doubles with Lauren Smith, again losing to Ma who was partnered by Jinhua Tang to beat the British pair 21-16, 21-7.
They too had to come through qualifying, however White believes the pair will use the defeat for development and will continue to improve.
"We've already proven that we're hopefully going to be a good pair," she said. "That game was the next level up and we need to learn from it."
Chris Langridge and Peter Mills were also knocked out after pushing Thailand's Maneepong Jongjit and Nipitphon Puangpuapech to three sets, losing 21-13, 16-21, 21-8.
And Imogen Bankier, who partnered Adcock at the London 2012 Olympics, was knocked out with Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva in the women's doubles by Kyung Eun Jung and Ha Na Kim.
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Labor: If anything raises questions about the fitness of the California Federation of Teachers to be around kids, just look at its new video pushing class warfare doctrine by graphically depicting "the rich" urinating on the poor.
The angry, hate-filled cartoon video was placed right up top on the California Federation of Teachers' website, where children could see it, if it's not already being shown in classrooms.
Besides featuring a Monopoly-money style fat man urinating onto the heads of four people representing the middle class, "Tax the Rich: An Animated Fairy Tale" dishonestly pushes a class warfare narrative in an effort to whip up hatred of "rich people."
"Rich people love their money more than anything in the whole world," narrates Hollywood actor and noted leftist Ed Asner, in tones used in reading to schoolchildren. "Over time, rich people decided they weren't rich enough so they came up with ways to get richer."
Incredibly, this comes from a union representing teachers, the very people entrusted with teaching schoolchildren. The fact that the bilious cartoon video is clearly targeted at young people is a sign its aim is no longer education, but propaganda and indoctrination.
The bile that oozes in the union's puerile seven-minute screed was unspeakable: The world was a paradise full of good jobs and safe streets until "rich people" decided to get more money, so the video begins.
Instead of paying their "fair share" of taxes, the rich decided to do three things: seek tax cuts, engage in loopholes and evade taxes by shipping their fortunes to the Cayman Islands, illegally of course, mendaciously suggesting that any financial tie with the Caymans is illegal.
It only gets worse: The rich people's supposed greed led them to buy media and politicians, with a not-so-subtle cartoon depiction of a man who looks a lot like Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, and then money amassed as coins in big stacks, which then crashed down first on middle class people's houses, and then on the jobs of police, firefighters, teachers and librarians.
After that "the rich" tried to blame defaulted mortgage holders and after that, teachers and firefighters (conveniently ignoring the bloated pensions and entitlements and waste that are the doings of public employee unions). "Maybe it was the firefighters," Asner sarcastically narrated.
After that, the micturation starts, and the rabid screed calls for more taxes on "the rich" in a finish that would have made Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro proud.
It's grotesque, but it's no surprise coming from a union that's famous for blocking legislative efforts to keep union-affiliated child molesters teaching in the schools. It's also not random.
In an editorial published in the San Francisco Chronicle last Nov. 27, the California Federation of Teachers outlined its next agenda priority, fresh from elections where it managed to persuade the public to vote for tax hikes on the rich: still more taxes.
"During the campaign, (Gov. Jerry) Brown repeatedly cautioned that Prop. 30 would not solve all of California's problems; it's merely a first step. He was right," wrote CFT President Joshua Pechthalt. "A window of opportunity, by definition, doesn't last. The Democrats, acting in the interest of the majority of Californians, should use theirs now," he wrote, calling for new taxes.
That's right, more — even after Prop. 30's tax hikes and the $900 billion federal stimulus that made teachers unions the top beneficiary. And anyone who objects is urinating on the heads of the poor.
Teachers unions are free to have their views, but there's something objectionable for them to target the young to advance their positions, using nonconsenting children and advancing class hatred in their quest for more public funds for themselves.
If there's any group that has forfeited its right to be around children, it's the California Federation of Teachers and its repugnant, hate-filled indoctrination agenda.


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Tender touch. by RJHalfbreedWatch
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Idk what happened to my scanner. Lol Anywho, the thought of the tender qualities these two have came to mind, and finally putting them at play. Hehe.
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Lots of love to those who have favored this! XD
Reminds me of an incredibly powerful scene from my A Link Between Worlds fanfic. Raw emotion....
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This is wonderfully sweet, and you drew them perfectly! It's nice to see Twilight Princess Link and Zelda have a moment, just because the two of them don't have enough together in the game itself. Man, for some reason I just really, REALLY like this.
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Thank you! I love drawing Zelda from Twilight Princess. She's the most beautiful Zelda of them all to me. Awww I'm glad it makes you feel that way. That's what I was aiming for.
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"He (understood) from a child the simplicity of complex music and the complexity of simple music. He has something that I don't have, which is perfect pitch. He knows what key everything is by hearing it once."
""If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down"."
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For the aging, a commune-like alternative in NY
"We're an age-integrated community built around the central mission of care of the elderly," Bosch said. "The members want to be of service. They come because they know this is a place where they can contribute."
So Karp, the 81-year-old, teaches music and entertains the community at the piano.
"I think the reason people really appreciate this place is because they can be active and they can contribute and there's always something that needs doing," Karp said. "And it's nice when kids are glad to see you."
Other residents, or members, as they're called, have found similar niches.
Gwen Eisenmann, 91, a retired poet, leads poetry discussions and also likes to set the table before meals. Larry Fox, 74, a psychologist, treats patients at the Fellowship's medical office and said, "Where could I be at my age and be so happy to get up in the morning and look forward to the day?"
It's difficult, Bosch said, to find people to sign up for the communal life and work. It appeals to "people who are dismayed with the materialism of the world and are trying to get above it," he said. "People who are interested in an alternative lifestyle , not based on pocketing the most money they can for the least amount of work."
When elders come in, they pay a "life lease" of $27,500 to $50,000, depending on the space they will occupy in the adult home or the "lodges" surrounding it. In addition, they pay $700-$1,500 per month in rent, and up to $3,000 a month for care, depending on what they need.
Revenue from the adult home provides 60 percent of the nonprofit Fellowship Community's $3 million operating budget, with the rest coming from donations and the sale of produce, milk and crafts, home officials said. Donations completely fund the capital budget, make up any annual shortfall and subsidize the adult home.
The adult home is licensed and inspected by the state and is in good standing. It doesn't accept federal or state aid. Workers are paid according to need, and their housing, food and transportation - there are community cars - are included.
"Two people doing the same job might get very different stipends," Bosch said. "One might have children, one might not."
Matt Uppenbrink, 44, a former businessman in the fashion world who now lives at Fellowship with his wife and two children, is on the community's "financial circle" but also does his bit in the adult home.
"When I got my MBA, I didn't think I'd be helping somebody to go to the toilet," he said. "But years ago, with Grandma and Grandpa in the house, that's how it was done. What we do here is like helping a friend or helping a loved one. My dad is in a nursing home, and I wish he had this instead."
Rachel Berman, a 47-year-old former New York City teacher, lives at the community with her 10-year-old daughter.
"We cook, we farm, we care for the elderly," Berman said. "I was in the Peace Corps, and I lived for a while on a kibbutz in Israel, so community life was important to me."
The workers "get to see the stages of an elder's journey, different approaches to the end of life," Uppenbrink said. "You get to see the process happen. It gives you something to work with in terms of your own future."
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I've looked all around and found nothing to help me. Why on earth can't I clone a javascript object with private members without making them quantum entangled?
Just look at this code... It's a plain private property with getter and setter. Somehow if I call the public setter on one instance, the cloned one gets changed too. Why? Can it be worked around?
obj = function(){
var changed = 0;
this.getChanged = function(){
return changed;
this.setChanged = function(){
changed = 1;
this.setUnchanged = function(){
changed = 0;
myObj = new obj();
copiedObj = $.extend(true, {}, myObj); // Or any other deep copy function you'd have around
myObj.getChanged(); // returns 1
copiedObj.getChanged(); // returns 1!
copiedObj.getChanged(); // returns 0
myObj.getChanged(); // returns 0
Thanks for any ideas.
Edit: So far, nothing new. I know javascript doesn't really have OO like Java or C++, but hey we're talking about programming languages, there is always one way out. Sometimes it's ugly but there is one.
I get it.
Solution A: just make it this.changed instead of var changed
Solution B: make my own clone function that rebuilds the whole object anew
I was just hoping there would be some Solution C that would trick javascript into standard Object Oriented patterns.
Somebody, am I really stuck with A or B?


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Images: Camp Arifjan MPs partner with Kuwaiti counterparts [Image 2 of 4]
Photo by Sgt. Jennifer Spradlin
U.S. Army Reserve Cpl. Sara Manning, a military police officer with Detachment 1, 450th Military Police Company, and Moyock, N.C., native, deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, tests the balance of a Kuwaiti soldier serving with the 94th Al-Yarmouk Mechanized Brigade Oct. 29, 2013. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jennifer Spradlin, U.S. Army Central Public Affairs)
This work, Camp Arifjan MPs partner with Kuwaiti counterparts [Image 1 of 4], by SSG Jennifer Spradlin, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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This 4-star hotel is close to St. Kilda Beach and Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Make yourself at home in one of the 206 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Cable programming and iPod docking stations are provided for your entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with showers feature hair dryers and bathrobes. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Enjoy a range of recreational amenities, including an indoor pool, a spa tub, and a sauna. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge).
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar and a garden view. You can also stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Breakfast is available daily for a fee.
Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and express check-out. Planning an event in Melbourne? This hotel has 6458 square feet (600 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center and meeting rooms. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! Opens in a new window
Melbourne Parkview Hotel562 St Kilda Road Melbourne VIC 3004
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In addition to an indoor pool, Melbourne Parkview Hotel provides a spa tub, a sauna, and a fitness center. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 6458 square feet (600 square meters) include a conference center. This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, concierge services, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Melbourne Parkview Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- Number of floors - 9
- 24-hour front desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 206
- Bar/lounge
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- Limo or Town Car service available
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- Conference space size (feet) - 6458
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- Self parking (surcharge)
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- Conference space size (meters) - 600
- Number of meeting rooms - 16
- Sauna
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa tub
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- Indoor pool
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- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
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- Premium TV channels
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- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- Phone
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- Daily housekeeping
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- Private bathroom
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- In-room safe
- iPod docking station
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
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Breakfast is available for a surcharge and served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Woods Restaurant - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered.
Late night fare is available from 24-hour room service.
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An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
- Golfing nearby
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Pets not allowed
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- Breakfast fee: between AUD 29.00 and AUD 29.00 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: AUD 12 per night (in/out privileges)
- Rollaway bed fee: AUD 45.00 per day
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
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WASHINGTON (WJLA) - A controversial email sent from a battalion chief at the D.C. Fire and EMS Department is causing outrage. The message orders fire inspectors to clean up a messy office instead of do their jobs, and it uses words many consider to be racist.
The email sent on Friday has some offended and wondering if the agency has its priorities straight.
The men and women who work as fire inspectors in the District don't run into burning buildings, but they do something just as criticalenforce the fire code, so businesses, schools and hospitals are safe. They work on the seventh floor of a building in Southwest D.C.
On Aug. 22, the fire inspectors received an email from a supervisor that stated:
" no appointments are to be made next Friday, August 29, 2014 due to a mandatory office clean up. I believe the quote used by a certain Battalion Chief (who shall remain nameless) was 'this place looks like a hi-rise Good Times.'"
Sources familiar with this division say a number of fire inspectorsmost of whom are African Americanwere offended at the language used in the email, as are D.C. residents with whom ABC 7 News spoke.
"Good Times," a 1970s sitcom, focused on the everyday struggles of an African-American family living in public housing in Chicago.
"That's derogatory. When I think of 'Good Times,' I think of low-income tenements," said D.C. resident Shanthi Natesan.
"It just shouldn't be said, so I guess somebody just wasn't thinking," said D.C. resident Keith Dewitt. "It shouldn't have been said that way."
A spokesperson for the fire department issued a statement that says referencing "Good Times" is "an insensitive remark that should not have been made in a professional environment."
ABC 7 News started asking questions about the memo: would the division really close up to clean up?
"That's a big safety situation," Natesan said.
D.C. residents were concerned such a move would also be a poor use of government resources.
The fire department's spokesperson responded by insisting the memo was a misunderstanding, saying, "At no time was an order given to stop all fire inspections in order to clean the office space," and that members have been encouraged to "maintain an orderly work space."
The fire department does not plan on taking any disciplinary action in this case.


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Stocks Have Worst Start To Year Since 2008
Despite the best efforts of 330RAMP CAPITAL, US equity indices ended the first trading day of the year with the biggest loss (on that day) since 2008. Led by weakness in the high-beta indices as Trannies tumbled their most in 4 months and the S&P's biggest daily downswing in over 3 weeks. On a side-note, gas prices have never been this high on the first day of the year. VIX closed higher once again as stocks began to catch down to it's recent warnings. Bonds rallied from the open this morning (with 10Y 6bps lower in yield from its opening print) with 10Y back under 3%. EUR weakness drove the USD higher (but JPY strength weighed on stocks). The biggest moves appeared in commodities with gold and silver up nicely and WTI crude down hard... on, and TWTR was up over 6%!
Gas prices have never been higher on the first day of the year...
Stocks were spanked from the panic-buying highs of New Year's Eve...Notably, the major selling pressure ended when Europe closed. Did we really see a rotation from US equities into European bonds?
So buy TWTR you idiot!!!
VIX pushed higher still and stocks began to catch down...
Despite Treasury strength, Utilities are actually the worst performer off the highs of New Year's Eve...
Which, perhaps most interestingly, means Utilities are now unchanged from the Taper...
Treasuries rallied from the get-go...
But commodities were the most actuve space today with Gold and silver surging and oil plunging... Gold's best day in 10 weeks; oil's worst day in 13 months
and FX markets have had quite a week but it seems the EUR repatriation filled its year-end liquidity needs and is now unwinding (on European bond's best day in over a year!!)
Charts: Bloomberg
Bonus Chart: Since 2000, there has now been 7 years with a negative first day. Of the previous 6, half ended the year with losses (-10.3%, -13%, and -38.5%)... will 2014 be any different? (h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer)
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Profit taking. BTFD..... When the "market is down 1000 + points in a trading session, then you you get my attention.
Profit skimming. If everyone tried to 'profit' their would be no profits left.
see how you got +6 in here quickly.
Its simple. the market will go up this year, but GOLD MIGHT BE THE PLACE YOU REALLY WANT TO BE.
GOLD CHART YOU NEED TO LOOK AT => http://bit.ly/1arJATL
It seems, and I am taking a guess is that GOLD might be where you want to be in 2014, MONTHLY, WEEKLY, daily all starting to turn. Last time this happen OMG, we shot up like a gyfox night.
Wake me when the S&P 500 moves below its 50 DMA or declines more than 20%.
I predict that today is the last down day for stocks in 2014!
Nah, you got Planet Yellen next week on the 8th. And the magical payroll numbers.
Market trolling the 'traders almanac' momo players. No Fed today or tomorrow means morning moves really kink the algos. Today was likely one of the only days we will see what the 'natural' market is like. The slam oil & tech trade is old as 8bit as speculators need to get out before the mid-month rollover. See what next week brings, remember Tokyo is offline and China starts their month long party next week.
If T holds 300bps or gets to 350bps, then we will start to see some serious shit. 350 to 400 is when the floaters/Lite-cov's start to trigger rate resets. Highyield is not pricing in 880 right now. Of course this is when we hit the time warp back to 1979.
50M on FEWD STAMPZ - fuck it - bullish for 2014
lifetime buying opportunity here folks.. the low of the year is in
Thanx...bonus chart means coin flip to me.
January is chock-a-block filled with POMO days. Unless they're changing the script, this is not a shorting opportunity.
Oil & energy down, gold and miners up. I've seen this movie over and over and over again.
The debt ceiling is not likely to be an issue either. The Republicans will roll over on that and focus on Obamacare in connection with the fall elections.
Come on, this is just "investors" taking "profits".
I'm predicting 2014 will be the best year EVER, unless a black swan poops on the party.
No black swans, the party roars.
even a broken clock is right twice a day.
No problem Wiliiam Dudley, Charlie Evans and QEen Yellen will push some buttons to get the buying going again.
Any bears left, beware.
Should have changed my ID from Yogibear to Yogibull.
Buy the dips. It's been making everyone filthy rich.
Hey, where did my e*trade BTFATH icon go.????
Utilities weak 'cause of reduced demand for electrical power in a weak economy - sad.
this "market"will correct in 3-5 months! there is no upside left!
It's always a good time to buy housing and stocks.
It's "treasuries bid from the Getco" and "there are numerators" (equities) and then there are DENOMinators (treasuries/debt in general.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAaRlTrSNcE of course there is the whole "he saved from your burning house douche bag" thingy...never let logic dictate a quality vengeful moment tho! what the phuck does "getting even" have to do with "balance" anyways? did anyone even consult with the Big Buddha on this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ktR9tZH1M now say hi to this guy: http://www.google.com/imgres?newwindow=1&sa=X&biw=1296&bih=521&tbm=isch&...
its so funny how they say that the reason for todays ''sell off'' ( ya big sell off, dow lost a whopping 0.82 percent) s&p 0.89 and nasdaq 0.80 percent) was due to tax selling. my fucking ass.
i mean technically every time the market goes up its because more liquidity flows in than out and vice versa on down days, but there was absolutely no selling in december, and i highly doubt every big market mover hedge fund called each other up and said '' hey lets all sell jan 2nd, as is no one wanted to sell for tax purposes in december like last year.
also, its funny how they make such a big deal about last years rally on the 1st trading day of the year. what these fuckers do not mention is, it had nothing to do with fundementals, it had everything to do with the bullshit fiscal cliff shit that was made into a much bigger deal than it had to be, and therefore algos across the globe bidded stocks up like it was 1999.
hopefully today was the 1st of many many many triple digit loss days on wall st.
Hey guys! New guy here, I have been reading Zero Hedge for a couple of years and decided to make an account so I can ask you guys a couple things and comment here and there.
My first question is...Has anyone seen a current chart with the 1929 DJIA and todays DJIA on the same chart but updated within the last couple days? McClellan Financial Publications has this same chart but it's a few week old. If there is any merit behind the McClellan chart we could see a significant downside soon, and I hope so...
an AFC team starting to look right for the super bowl indicator
that combined with the D.C.-P.C. indicator says Kansas City Chiefs
tapering, rising rates, should be bad for stocks ...added that the dollar has started the year strong and will continue to do so, which will hurt u.s stock earnings on an international level..can't see an upside from here apart from momentum and dillusion...


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New Businesses Merit Attention and Support; Making the Effort to Assist Entrepreneurs Can Bring in Healthy Profits for a Bank
Chambers, J. Richard, American Banker
Why should commercial bankers spend valuable time serving the needs of new and emerging business? My answer is simply because small businesses are profitable for those banks who meet the challenges of this market.
Advocates of small business are quick to point out that net job creation in our society and innovations in business products, services, and methods are, in general, the outgrowth of small business. The rate of new business formation combined with cottage industry formation and a burgeoning growth in the ranks of professional occupations point to a growth market for banking services.
However, simply to identify another growth market may not pique your interest in its pursuit. Perhaps the high performance in return on assets and return on equity of banks with a concentration on the small business market will provide the incentive.
Small businesses and their management are our two highest priorities. Therefore, a proportionate concentration on this market is included in the marketing plan for each of our lending and service offices as well as the management-by-objectives plan for each customer-contact banker.
All borrowing and nonborrowing accounts are assigned to a bank representative who will call on them in the course of his/her solicitation effort. The call program and direct referral prospects from satisfied customers are the cornerstone of our identification and solicitation program.
We compete against several larger financial institutions, each of whom has centralized credit approval. Our system is to place relatively high credit authority in each office based on the training level and loan loss experience of the lenders. This has proved most satisfactory in dealing with small businesses who need banking answers.
A hypothesis that guides our small business approach is that the success of our customers is the best bet for the bank to succeed. Therefore, in addition to proper customer financial services, the nontangible services of introducing the customer to vendors, service purveyors, or others who may enhance our customer's business is important.
We often find that customers A and B could do business with one another but have never had the spark that our introduction may provide. In a way this is old hat, but goes back to the concept that to serve small business the bank must be an advocate, counselor, team member, as well as lender, data processor, accountant, and financial doctor.
Emerging businesses need so much service that the bank must not look upon them as an imposition in its day-to-day routine. Bankers sometimes refer to the day-in and day-out customers as interruptions, while in reality the activity of their banking transactions is paying the bank's bills if the bank has properly priced its services.
The account officer must budget time for the small businesses and must teach the small business customer how to best work with the bank in terms of financial information and service questions.
How does dealing with these emerging companies work for us? A recent case in point is a restaurant company that our bank had nurtured from its inception. The principals had previous restaurant experience with large organizations but had gone into business for themselves as a franchisee of a relatively new franchise concept.
As their expansion occurred, the company approached several of the larger lending institutions in the market for a $3 million revolving credit facility. While other institutions were still studying the company, our familiarity with the customer allowed us to make a commitment for the credit facility.
In the real estate area, syndications have become very important in our marketplace. We have been able to deal with the syndicators themselves, in addition to being active in financing investor participation in limited partnerships. And by having a coordinated marketing plan, the bank has been able to convert over 60% of the noncustomer investors to depository customers. …


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I have half sister's and a half brother that have the last name byrd from there dad. They are Hispanic, well that's what we have all been told. I have only seen people with the last name of byrd to be white or African American. I wonder now what nationality they really are. This is so interesting and if any one out there has any answers to how my siblings can look Hispanic and also have the last name byrd , I would appreciate any input. They are from Denver Colorado. Thank you
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Danske to Tap $2.7 Billion From Central Bank Lifeline
Denmark's central bank provided lenders with 18.9 billion kroner ($3.39 billion) in three-year loans, less than a sixth the amount analysts contacted by Bloomberg estimated would be drawn.
There were "no success criteria" for the facility, Governor Nils Bernstein said in a statement. "The lending window will be open again on identical conditions in September and the utilization of the facility should be viewed as a whole."
Denmark's banks have faced higher funding costs than their rivals elsewhere in Scandinavia since the failure of Amagerbanken A/S in February last year triggered senior creditor losses. Lenders in the Nordic country, which sank into a recession in the second half of 2011, need the central bank's cash to help them repay 146 billion kroner in state-backed debt due next year.
The number was "well under consensus expectations," said Rune B. Kristensen, an analyst at Nykredit Research, in a note. "This must, all things being equal, be taken as a disappointment for the market."
Banks participating can borrow at the central bank's benchmark lending rate, at 0.7 percent since December, Copenhagen-based Nationalbanken said in a statement. Danske Bank A/S, Denmark's biggest lender, said it drew 15 billion kroner.
'Purely Commercial'
"We have from a purely commercial point of view decided to use the central bank's new facility," Danske Chief Risk Officer Peter Rostrup-Nielsen said in a statement. "Danske Bank has recently obtained liquidity via senior debt and covered bond sales, which underlines the bank's strong liquidity position."
Danske will use assets from its bond portfolio as collateral for the loan, it said. A Bloomberg poll published March 20 predicted Denmark's banks would tap a total of 116 billion kroner from the facility.
"This is cheap money and Danske faces no reputational risk by doing this," Claus Groen Therp, an analyst at Enskilda Securities in Copenhagen, said by phone.
Danske rose 5 percent in Copenhagen trading to 94.50 kroner, marking its biggest gain since Feb. 15.
The Danish central bank first published its decision to provide the loans on Dec. 8, following a similar announcement from the European Central Bank the same day. The Frankfurt-based ECB has injected more than 1 trillion euros ($1.3 trillion) into Europe's banks since December in an effort to stem the region's debt crisis.
Carry Prospects
The Danish credit lifeline doesn't offer banks the same carry-trade opportunities as the ECB's facility because the difference in rates on the three-year loans and Denmark's sovereign bonds is much narrower than the equivalent spread for troubled eurozone members, said Jesper Berg, senior vice president of regulatory affairs at Nykredit A/S in Copenhagen.
"In relative terms, they had less to gain here in Denmark," he said in a phone interview.
The yield on Denmark's two-year government note rose less than one basis point to 0.3 percent today. The 10-year yield slipped 1.2 basis points to 1.83 percent. Yields on Italian and Spanish 10-year debt traded above 5 percent this week.
'Good Business Reason'
Denmark's central bank uses monetary policy to maintain the krone's peg to the euro. It plans to hold a second offering of the three-year loans at the end of September. Bernstein yesterday encouraged Denmark's banks to draw on the facility.
"From the central bank's perspective, we have nothing against using it if there is a good business reason," he said at an annual gathering hosted by the Danish Mortgage Bankers' Federation in Copenhagen.
The central bank has said it may add a premium to the interest rate it charges on the loans should financial markets improve.
Denmark is struggling to emerge from a housing bubble that burst in 2007, triggering a regional banking crisis that choked lending. House prices will have slumped 25 percent by next year since the crisis started, the government-backed Economic Council said in November.
Denmark's economy entered a recession in the third quarter of last year as investments and government spending shrank, according to revised data published today by the national statistics agency. Gross domestic product contracted 0.1 percent both the third and fourth quarters of last year.


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Mystic - To be sure, the local maritime museum can't go dropping a national landmark into the river every summer.
For Mystic's tourism trade, 'tis a pity.
"The Morgan launch was huge," Richard Prisby, general manager of The Whaler's Inn, said last week. "We were booked up that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Mystic was full of people."
Indeed, the Seaport's July 21 launching of the restored whaleship Charles W. Morgan proved to be the kind of public event that can make a tourism season - for hotels and restaurants here as well as for the Seaport itself.
Earlier this summer, an exceptionally wet month followed by a nasty heat wave in early July exacted a toll at the Seaport's turnstiles. Then came the launch.
"Up through the end of June, our attendance was down about 3 percent compared to last year at the same time. But in the last several weeks, we've brought it up to even," said Dan McFadden, a Seaport spokesman. "... We anticipate a positive growth year."
Some 4,500 visitors packed the Seaport grounds the day of the launch and thousands more jammed the shore and boats on the Mystic River. Video of the launch, streamed live on the Seaport's website, attracted some 12,000 views the first 24 hours it was available.
"One of the most rewarding things was that people came from Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Maine, New York," McFadden said.
In Mystic, the state's top tourism destination, business this summer promises to top last year.
Ed Dombroskas, executive director of the Eastern Regional Tourism District, which has its headquarters at Olde Mistick Village, attributed the upturn in business to the public's sense that the economy is on better footing than it had been.
"Overall, hotel occupancy is up and attendance at attractions is generally better. We're hearing that retail is doing well," he said. "People are more comfortable about spending a little money."
For some tourism-based businesses, this summer will mark two solid seasons in a row, after a string of off years.
"We're having our best year since ... last year," said Prisby, the general manager of The Whaler's Inn. "We're a little ahead of last year, with the best part of our year - August, September, October - still to go. Why was 2012 so good? It's hard to say. I think people were really tired of being held down. They wanted to cut loose."
Marketing, of course, has a lot to do with any season's success, or lack of it.
For all its attractiveness and "great location" a half-block from the Mystic drawbridge, The Whaler's Inn draws customers because "we do everything we can to get them here," Prisby said.
The region, Mystic in particular, continues to benefit from a "dislocation" in New York and New Jersey markets that are still recovering from last fall's extreme weather, Dombroskas said.
"Just this morning, I had calls from people in Maryland and Georgia who have never been here before and were putting Mystic on their short list," he said. "The first thing they ask about is what is there to do, and then, 'Do you have any deals?'"
Theresa Thesier owns the Mystic & Shoreline Visitor Information Center, a private enterprise that books tours and hotel rooms and sells discounted tickets to attractions. She, too, sounded the things-are-better-than-last-year refrain.
"I think the economy got a little better, or at least it's perceived to be better," she said. "There's not so much moaning about rates, not so much grumbling."
Some say that while Mystic's downtown traffic is heavier than it was a year ago, visitors, individually, are spending less, a phenomenon observed in recent years at casinos from Connecticut to Atlantic City to Las Vegas.
"What I'm hearing is that volumes are higher but people are being thrifty, not spending as much," said Tricia Walsh, president of the Greater Mystic Chamber of Commerce.
August remains a critical month for the tourism business, especially with Labor Day arriving early this year on Sept. 2. Still ahead in Mystic are such stalwarts of the calendar as this coming weekend's Mystic Outdoor Art Festival and the Taste of Mystic food festival Sept. 6-8.
"I expect that when we get to the end of summer, we will have had a good season," Walsh said.
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Description: This is an interesting new book covering the difficult problems of the validity of the DSM categories in general and in psychotic disorders classification in particular. The DSM since DSM-III has certainly improved the reliability of the categories, but unfortunately psychiatry has made little headway in the validation of the DSM categories. The DSM categories have been analogous to the classification of animal and plants prior to Darwin, which is to say, they are not biologically based classifications. Classification based on mainly description is prone to error - a whale may be classified as a fish, or edema (dropsy) thought of as a single disease. This book, which grew out of a conference entitled "Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Refining the Research Agenda" held in Arlington, VA, in 2006, summarizes the contemporary research on psychosis. The book was written and edited by researchers in the field and adds important ideas to the current conceptualization of psychiatric illnesses.
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Mickey Rourke's Hatred For Marvel Is Still Burning
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You know how some actors choose to take the high road after working on a project that doesnt quite come together. Not Mickey Rourke. Hes a much bigger fan of telling people exactly whats on his mind, even if it means setting fires to most of the bridges he walks over. Over the years, hes poured gasoline and thrown matches at the Marvel walkway numerous times thanks to his disdain for Iron Man 2, but in case if you werent aware of his hatred, he decided to twist the knife in again this week on Late Night With Seth Meyers.
There to promote his work on Sin City 2, Mickey Rourke, dressed and styled like he was attending a combination line dancing party and rave, was asked if he was a comic book fan, and he, of course, used the opportunity to remind everyone hes still not pleased. You can check out a portion of his quote below
Im not a Marvel fan Once I did a movie for Marvel and they cut the whole goddamn thing out When you bring it to the table, its really disappointing when they cut things out. "
Heres the thing about those quotes. If Mickey Rourke had been asked directly about Iron Man 2, they would be perfectly reasonable. Perhaps, they would even be a bit classy and understated, but because they come out of nowhere, it feels like hes throwing right hands for the sake of throwing right hands.
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The source of the problems stretch back to pre-production. Rourke reportedly asked the creative players on set if he could ad some layers to his character. They immediately agreed and perhaps werent surprised since the actor is a guy who always likes to go deep with his characters. When it came time to actually put the movie together, however, the Marvel decision-makers allegedly pulled much of his performance, preferring instead to have a simpler villain who was more straight up evil. Allegedly. Marvel, of course, hasnt spoken out on the matter.
Regardless, itll be a cold day in hell before we see either Rourke or Marvel pushing to reunite and join force for another roll in the hay. Fortunately, something tells me the majority of fans are OK with that. Some fine meats are better kept on different sandwiches.
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