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I Name The New Baby: "Intervention"
Via Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,
"Yes, in this immense confusion, one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come."
-Samuell Beckett, Waiting for Godot
It seems these days that we are all waiting. Waiting for some European Moment, waiting for the American elections and waiting for some central bank to propose the next new thing and flood the world, once again, with liquidity. The world seems askew.
There has been the thought, in place for decades, that the greatest danger lay in rapidly escalating Inflation and that governments could ruin the populace and devastate the purses of everyone if Inflation was allowed to run rampant. This was counterbalanced by the fear of Deflation which may have an even worse effect. These two twin evils have been viewed as the mainstay of things that could go wrong and they have each been battled in various ways for the last hundred years. Some missions were successful, some not, but the battle raged on from one administration to another.
Now I wonder if some new infant has not been born to join them. This morning I will name this new baby; "Intervention." What has become clear to me is that while the worlds' central bank cannot print money off-world is that we cannot invest money off-world either. They are stuck and we are stuck but the central banks have the advantage. They can print money in an open fashion such as at the Fed or they can do it in some hidden fashion, such as with the ECB and their Euroloans but the world is flooded with liquidity in either case and something must be done with the money. The stuff does not slosh around in giant jars and we are paid to make sure it is put to some kind of useful purpose. Hence the irrational behavior of some markets; they rise because they are forced to by the spigot of liquidity opened by the central banks.
In prior days we would have thought that the consequence would have been an increase in Inflation as the off-set of this scheme but we have now learned otherwise. By lowering interest rates just off Kelvin's Absolute Zero and holding them there the incremental amount of Inflation that one would have expected is minimal as being so close to the temperature of freezing makes the response sluggish and anemic. We find ourselves in a new dynamic where investors are penalized, where it is possible to re-finance government debt at very low levels, where new debt is sopped up by liquidity and where fiscal cliffs and events that would have been defined as catastrophic are muted, dulled by the belief that the central banks will inject ever more liquidity to overcome the problem.
The new sibling, "Intervention," has over-ruled both Inflation and Deflation by the use of liquidity so that all of the newly printed money soaks up not only the issues at hand but the normal reaction to them. The financial world has become muted and the rise in the equity markets and the compression in the bond markets finds a rational explanation along with why the reactions to Greece, Spain and the rest have not provided the devastation that we would have once thought. We are currently living in an oddly twisted world where the next new bad thing will be countered by some central bank providing ever more money which will cure the problem so that markets remain flat or rise with any new tragedy as it will bring the central bank running out to clean up the mess.
Mommy will make it all better.
So the central question becomes; can this go on forever? Is this a never ending story or is there now some pin that could prick the whole affair and send it wildly spinning out of control? Europe has been the best at the scheme creating an enclosed circle where money is minted, flows to the banks and other institutions who buy the ever increasing debt that is required to keep this plan in motion and so money out becomes money in and the assets of the European banks increase by 7% and the sovereign debt is placed and the circle is enclosed. America and China have also engaged in this game though not to the extent of Europe but the circle remains because it has become a global affair where the limit is where money can be invested and, again, off-world is not an option. It is a curious affair that gets curiouser and curiouser the more I ponder it.
I believe we find ourselves in unchartered territory and without a decent compass. Some ponder the question of what happens when the largesse of these central banks stops as I wonder why it would ever stop. If there is to be a point of embarkation from the current global scheme then it would ratchet up interest rates and why would the central banks head in that direction unless forced to by very different circumstances than our present ones. In the meantime, because they can, the governments of the world add ever more debt that is financed by the new money that they have created. The game continues but is there an end to it and what are the consequences of it ending?
I continue to muse. I have no answer at present. I continue to wonder.
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once skynet is on for good, it can just keep the imaginary money flowing back and forth all the time so markets necer need to go down. A permanent time out. Just keep passing the ball back and forth without a shot clock and the game can be played without anyone taking a shot. No losers yay.
Perceptive piece and frames the problem well. Most of us have been looking for bond vigilantes or a currency collapse. With free markets, one or both would happen. Many are waiting for a black swan. Who cares what the trigger is? Get on with it.
I think the swan/albatross has arrived. Weakness doesn't go away because it is papered over. Pain is real, even if Lloyd and Ben don't mind. The weaker economies are imploding. When people are hungry and genuinely afraid of the near future, all hell breaks loose. WELCOME TO THE NEW NORMAL.
I name the baby : rampant kleptocracy.
What about KAKISTOCRACY ?
(Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens)
Do you really think most Americans vote in favour of qualifications or tie color and shoo-shine? I would bet on the latter, not on the former.
Absurdistan has been taken. How about Limboland?
anyone notice metals tracking the dollar lower today? what's up with that?
The author Sowell has written more than one book on the evils of intervention.
No...It's not INTERVENTION....I call him GAMBLOR!!!
Intervene in your own financial future and trade this financial mess using the perfect instrument for that: the CFD
...but the world is flooded with liquidity in either case and something must be done with the money.
Not necessarily. We're all sitting around doing nothing because there is no urgency. The intervenors have driven the real value of money to zero. Time is money. Therefore the money value of time has been driven to zero.
When in doubt, invert.
Good point csmith. Currency/your labor/ your time / your functional value driven toward zero. Not for lack of potential but for lack of opportunity!
Interesting thought.
Yeah, csmith, that is also what Max Keiser has been repeating many times!
I totally sympathized with this article: It seems these days that we are all waiting. I have been gradually forced to come to the conclusion that there was NOTHING else I could do, but wait and watch as things automatically got worse, faster ... After several decades of doing everything I could think of to try to change that situation, I was gradually backed into a corner, where the more I knew, the worse it got, until that got so bad, I had to admit to myself there was NOTHING I could do about it!
I too struggled to try to understand the balancing between inflation and deflation, and then along came the Intervention Baby, howling at 100 decibels, which made rational thought practically impossible, because ANYTHING is possible when runaway fraud jumps the rails, since "reality" becomes like an insanely unpredictable cartoon, where whatever "reality" may be is hiding, under layer after layer of triumphant deceits, where the biggest bullies' bullshit dominates society, through the sheer inertia of social habits, and by being backed by threats of violence. However, meanwhile, any attempt at a more objective view discovers only absurdities! In that situation "reality" is practically impossible to figure out. Nothing needs to make sense, when everything is controlled by the psychotic psychology of the triumph of runaway financial fraud ... until such time as there may be some corrections outside of the frame of reference of that fraud, which means outside of the frame of reference of the entire established global systems of electronic fiat money frauds, backed by atomic bombs!
Just like the slightly later article http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-12/charts-day-why-america-needs-em... stated: ... the correction will come, but only after everyone has lost control of the big picture ...
After the whole world becomes a Bizarro Mirror World Fun House, that IS almost totally directed by runaway financial frauds, everything is BACKWARDS. Theoretically, we need to go THROUGH that looking glass, to understand that we were always looking in a mirror, where everything was proportionately BACKWARDS, and being distorted to the degree that triumphant financial frauds were backed by the force of hypocritical governments. We are living inside of a runaway system of organized lies, operating organized robberies, which make some sense, somehow, but only as runaway triumphant frauds. Hence, these the old slogans applied: As above, So below. As within, So without. The lies are different at every level. ...
As we went through an apparently infinite tunnel of deceits, waiting and watching the banksters endlessly making more money of out nothing, as debts, automatically becoming a more insane situation, as that got bigger and BIGGER ... what else could we do against those trillionaire mass murderers, but wait and watch them do that even more? Those people who made and maintained that system became more wealthy, and more powerful, and therefore, even more able to get away with bigger lies, backed by more violence. After any group in society starts to get away with fraud, then they become able to reinvest the profits from that fraud into more fraud. They become more and more able to buy up control of the mass media, and the political processes, and so on and so forth! There is nobody else that can compete with those trillionaire mass murderers! There is nothing else which actually can be practically done, but wait and watch as they continue to do bigger frauds, and back that up with greater violence.
The only thing I can think will eventually happen is the paradoxical way there will be final failure from too much "success" of their triumphant runaway frauds driving themselves MAD, and thereby destroying themselves. However, there is NO realistic and practical ways to prepare for that either, since they will simultaneously destroy almost everybody else at the same time! No possession of guns and gold is in the same order of magnitude of the crazy collapse of a global system of electronic fiat money frauds, backed by weapons of mass destruction. The debt engines have their peddle to the metal, as the runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut automatically accelerates faster and faster, because that system has no brakes. The debt engines are like steam engines with no governors. There is nothing in the current structures of the established debt engines to enable them to be driven in any different ways. Indeed, the basic theory regarding doing that is banished from public debates.
Therefore, I totally agree we are all waiting ... and watching as ... everyone has lost control of the big picture ... Meanwhile, I spend my time attempting to still understand what that big picture actually IS, although that looks like it is a waste of time, since understanding this runaway insanity of triumphant financial frauds does not appear to produce any realistic and practical ways to DO anything about it ... other than continue to wait, and watch, as the trillionaire mass murdering banksters go MAD, and their Mutually Assured Destruction more fully manifests, and overwhelms us all, even more than it already is ...
Well stated RM! How long did it take you to write that? Similar path taken here. It is going where it is going with or without my cooperation. Stated another way, people do what they want. Very simple statement, great depth if you take some time to think about it. Best wishes to you!
Thanks Zadok!
As you said, "It is going where it is going ..."
To answer your question:
It takes me about a half hour to write something like that, and then 20 minutes to try to find the mistakes I made while writing it ...
when one's realisation expands to acknowledge the depths of this "runaway insanity of triumphant financial frauds" then the realisation simultaneously arises that there's nothing to be done but,
surrender, dorothy, simply surrender to what is.
So Mark Grant finally admits defeat about his earlier 'Europe will blow up - Germans will not pay' predictions.
He finally realises that many others were right, that 'QE to infinity' will be papering over problems and kicking the can for a while yet.
After being so cock-sure with his predictions, Mark Grant now has a different tune, writing about
« ... why the reactions to Greece, Spain and the rest have not provided the devastation that we would have once thought »
That 'we' is referring to Mark Grant himself and his fellow euro-doomers ... buying into the 'euro collapse' meme that has made so many euro shorts go broke recently
Mark Grant underestimated the central banks, and now he says « ... I have no answer at present. I continue to wonder ... »
Not quite the admission he was wrong like Graham Summers at Phoenix Capital admitted, but Mark Grant is at least admitting he has been clueless.
The euro-zone is certainly a non-sustainable farce, but Mark Grant should be reading Jim Sinclair and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard to get a more realistic view of medium-term events.
In the era of Max Central-Bankerism, and Max Kick-the-Can-ism, the old rules do not apply.
Agreed, but this leaves us, and leads us - where, exactly? To assume this can just go on forever seems wrong, but it is correct to conclude that it can go on longer than would seem possible.
Intervention = endless styrofoam peanuts in an ever-bigger box of mail-order crystal stemware.
All I know is the regular price of a small KitKat bar is $1.39 at my local CircleK, and that is insane.
A smaller than expected increase in something, somehow means there is a shortage.
Up is down, and 2+2=5.
Life is getting more and more expensive and dealing with just about anything is reaching levels of unfathomable absurdity.
The longer Q-infinity goes the bigger the crash when it is pulled to execute the next step. Correct that it won't go forever, but there is a purpose to the apparent insanity. It only appears insane to the those who don't share their frame of reference. It is perfectly rational and planned, and spectacularly evil.
I keep reading this guff; where inflation is benign. Inflation is NOT benign on the essentials. Food, Energy, Health service and indeed Education. Inflation - on a relative basis and absolute - is high. Everywhere. It is stagflation. There is no secure income, let alone rise in income, for the majority yet living essentials keep rising. What planet do these people live on that can't recognise that inflation is much higher than supposed.
War. Wonder no more.


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Most children who go to the clinic with brain disorders have symptoms combining autism, cerebral palsy and epilepsy, suggesting underlying and shared mechanisms of brain dysfunction in these conditions. Such disorders affect 4-6% of the population with life-long disease, and account for about 10% of health care expenditures in the US. Genetic studies have pointed to frequent low-penetrant or low-frequency genetic alterations, but there is no clear way to use this information to make gene-specific diagnosis, to predict short- or long-term prognosis or to develop disease-specific therapy. We propose to recruit about 500 patients with these disorders mostly from our Children's Hospital, through a dedicated on-site collaborative approach. Extracting from existing medical records, taking advantage of years of experience in recruitment and stem cell generation, and already existing or planned whole exome or genome sequencing on most patients, we propose a safe, anonymous database linked to meaningful biological, medical, radiographic and genetic data. Because team members will be at the hospital, we can adjust future disease-specific recruitment goals depending upon scientific priorities, and re-contact patients if necessary. The clinical data, coupled with the proposed hiPSC lines, represents a platform for cell-based disease investigation and therapeutic discovery, with benefits to the children of California.
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We had a job fair in Vancouver. More than 1,600 people showed up to get moderate to minimal wage-per-hour jobs. You couldn't raise a gerbil family on that. American and foreign corporations who pay poor wages and no taxes steal a decent life from hard-working Americans. Our politicians let them do it. Your children will never have prosperous lives with these wages. America will never prosper again. We have built a society that demands a decent wage to live in it. Without it, we will slide back to the 19th century — the few haves, with the rest starving. You want this? Just keep bashing those who try to prevent it.
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WASHINGTON - The Georgetown University men's soccer team managed to hold on for a 3-2 victory over the American University Eagles (5-5) Wednesday afternoon at Reeves Field. The Hoyas boasted a two-goal lead early on, but allowed the Eagles to come back and tie it before freshman Steve Neumann (New Hope, Pa./Council Rock North) hit the game winner in the 85th minute. GU closes out nonconference play with an overall record of 5-4-1.
"I was happy with the result, we played well and had a lot of chances," said Georgetown Head Coach Brian Wiese. "I think the real credit here goes to how the boys handled them tying it up. In the past and even earlier this season we didn't handle a lead well and today we kept it at two the Steve Neumann, who doesn't miss on chances, has a great header."
Georgetown controlled the pace early and jumped out to a 2-0 lead. Senior Seth C'deBaca (Albuquerque, N.M./Sandia Prep) sent the ball to classmate Jose Colchao (Fairfax, Va./Lake Braddock Academy) who was waiting in the box and beat keeper Matt Makowski with a low shot to make it 1-0 in the tenth minute. The goal was Colchao's second on the year.
The Hoyas continued to attack and had a number of good looks, but didn't find the back of the net until the 31st minute. Sophomore midfielder Ian Christianson (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Christian Life) had some nice footwork to bring over another defender freeing up freshman forward Gabe Padilla (Sacramento, Calif./Jesuit) on the left side. Padilla shot toward the net and Neumann was on the opposite side to redirect it back into the net marking his second goal on the season.
The Blue & Gray looked to be in control, but the Eagles came on late. In the 36th minute, Patrick Mehlert served in the corner kick which was tapped to Colin Seigfried who fired deep in the box to pull the Eagles within one going into the break.
American scored the equalizer early in the second when a shot hit the post and ricocheted right back to Alassane Kane who put it back in to tie the game at two with 29 minutes remaining.
At 84:39, Andy Riemer (McLean, Va./Georgetown Prep) sent a cross from the left side of the field into the box. Riemer's cross went to the head of Neumann who directed it into the net for the game winner with just five minutes to go.
Georgetown would hold on for the 3-2 victory making it three in a row for the Hoyas and the first win over American since 2007.
The Blue & Gray was outshot, 18-14, and took just five corner kicks to American's seven. Both keepers had six saves on the day, four of Brutto's came in the second half. Neumann is leading the squad in scoring with three goals and four assists for ten points on the season.
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Serena Williams' bizarre meltdown during a doubles match at Wimbledon this summer sparked many a rumor regarding what exactly was wrong with her. Williams responded Monday in an interview with Sports Illustrated.
Serena Williams has opened up about her scary on-court struggles at Wimbledon earlier this summer, reiterating to Sports Illustrated in a lengthy feature article published Monday that it was a matter of health and directly addressing rampant rumors on the subject.
The incident occurred July 1, during a doubles match at the All England Club with sister Venus. Serena struggled to do just about everything, slapping serves weakly into the net and even having trouble picking the ball off the ground.
The match was called off with the Williams sisters trailing 3-0 in the first set. Serena was diagnosed with a "viral illness" after the match, but many -- including TV tennis analyst Martina Navratilova -- speculated that something more was going on.
"You don't know what's going on, but virus was not it: That much is clear," Navratilova told ESPNW shortly after the incident.
Theories ran from drugs to drinking to pregnancy, and Serena -- who has said little about the incident since Wimbledon -- refuted all of it to SI:
"I have nothing to hide," she says. "No, I didn't take anything. If you want to ask me if I took drugs, I didn't take drugs. I'm not on drugs. I've heard it all. I'm not pregnant; I wasn't pregnant. Although I think a baby would be great, but there's a time and place for everything. But no, I don't do drugs. Never did 'em. I'm scared of 'em. I'm not on that stuff."
So what caused it? Again, from SI:
Her Wimbledon explanation: After losing meekly the previous Saturday in a third-round singles match to 25th seed Alize Cornet, Williams took to her bed for the next three days, feeling dehydrated, dizzy and feverish, "just in my room, sweating like crazy." She was not examined by a doctor. Venus urged her repeatedly to pull out of their Tuesday doubles match. "Begged me not to play," Serena says.
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Anyone wanna give me their best guess. I have promised myself I am not testing again until Thursday, so until then, its all a guessing game. AF was supposed to come today and she didnt show (however last month she arrived as I tested).
You can see a smudge of pink where the 2nd line should be. I have no idea WTF that means (other than stop buying IC's!)


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Lots of pre-market volume (at least for CODI) and action on the open at $11.88, but it all looks like small trades. I'm guessing someone pumped it last night or early this a.m., or we have some insider trading going on ahead of some news.
There was also an unusual 15k block trade after hours (down almost a buck)."Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice.
You know, I recall that CODI ran up when they almost closed a deal to acquire another portfolio business. When that deal wasn't able to close, the stock traded off.On possible explanation for the recent bump up is that CODI might be close to closing on another acquisition. We know they have the cash and are in the market. It's not beyond the realm of possibility.
Making up for yesterday's also unexplained drop.
Here is something about CODI but still does not explain the move very well...http://www.learningmarkets.com/index.php/200912169765/News-Feed/News-Feed/compass-diversified-holdings-gaps-up-on-bullish-interest-codi-pvd-nyx.html
Last insider buy was on 11/20 ...Mark Lazarus bought 900 shares at $ 11.00
Actually, I was thinking "insider" more broadly than a Form 4 insider ... I was thinking more like "Martha Stewart" insider activity, based on a pending announcement that us mere mortals aren't deemed important enough to be informed of.And as of 12:00 ET, volume is already 2x normal.
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Economic growth in the world's richest countries outside disaster-stricken Japan is gaining strength, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in an upbeat interim assessment, but warned that a rise in commodity prices may push up inflation expectations.
In a major policy reversal, the International Monetary Fund officially endorsed the use of controls on international cash inflows, the first time in the fund's seven-decade history. The IMF has traditionally advocated open markets for investment flows.
Low interest rates may be spurring risky investment strategies, Mario Draghi, a prominent member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council and chairman of the Financial Stability Board, said after the FSB's plenary session in Rome.
Growth in the euro zone's private sector slowed slightly in March but prices rose at a near-record rate, adding pressure on the European Central Bank to raise interest rates later this week, a survey showed.
The European Commission said it will consider some new pan-Europe rules to improve corporate governance, saying current voluntary codes are falling short in key areas.
The biggest sector of the U.K. economy surged in March, a survey of purchasing managers showed, suggesting the economy as a whole grew in the first quarter of the year.
British police arrested two men in connection with the alleged widespread use of rogue reporting tactics by the News of the World newspaper, the first major development since a police probe was reopened earlier this year.
Portugal faces a rapidly dwindling array of options if it is to avoid making a formal request for a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund before general elections are held June 5.
Moody's cut Portugal's long-term government-bond rating even closer to junk grade and placed it on review for possible downgrade, citing heightened risks that the authorities will be unable to meet their ambitious deficit reduction targets.
Three years into Spain's economic crisis, the worst could still be to come for the country's ailing banks as they grapple with falling profits and rising bad debt, central bank chief Miguel Ángel Fernández Ordóñez warned.
The Italian Parliament voted to challenge the jurisdiction of a Milan court to conduct an upcoming trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges that he paid an underage woman for sex and abused his powers to cover it up.
Germany's pro-business Free Democrats nominated Health Minister Philipp Rösler as their new leader, as the party seeks to resurrect its fortunes in the wake of a string of battering regional election defeats.
Russia hopes to attract $60 billion to $90 billion in foreign investment over five years with a new government-backed fund that is aimed at private-equity investors now deterred by the country's rough business climate, according to a top official.
The country faces a renewed bout of capital flight, with net capital outflows totaling $21.3 billion in the first quarter, as political concerns scared off investment and companies increasingly used domestic debt to repay foreign borrowings.
Federal Reserve officials judged the U.S. economy was gaining traction when they met three weeks ago, but highlighted the potential negative impact of rapidly rising commodity prices on inflation expectations, consumer spending and business investment.
Republicans in the House of Representatives proposed a 2012 budget that would spend $3.53 trillion—$179 billion less than President Barack Obama's plan—and aims to bring the budget into balance, excluding interest payments, by 2015.
Political leaders continued to talk past each other on federal spending, offering little evidence they could soon reach an agreement to avert a shutdown of the federal government this weekend.
Japanese authorities said they had discovered for the first time fish swimming off the country's Pacific coast carrying high levels of radioactive materials.
Separately, South Korea said it would seek more information from Japan's Foreign Ministry about the decision to allow the plant operator to dump the 11,500 tons of low-level radioactive water into the ocean.
India suspended food imports from Japan for three months, fearing radioactive contamination.
The European Union reportedly said it will further reinforce radiation controls on imports of food and animal feed from Japan.
As much of Japan worries about nuclear radiation, residents along its northeastern coast are confronting a different environmental disaster.
The People's Bank of China raised benchmark lending and deposit rates by a quarter of a percentage point, in the latest tightening move aimed at reining in inflation pressures.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court ruled that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus must step down as head of microlender Grameen Bank, a decision which is likely to ratchet up diplomatic tensions with the U.S.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, on a whirlwind trip to Pakistan, sought to restore relations that have been turbulent over the past year.
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Libyan government forces unleashed a new round of bombardment of rebels trying to take back a key oil town to thwart their latest drive, as officials close to Col. Moammar Gadhafi said they might consider some reforms but the leader wouldn't be stepping down.
The rebels had managed to take part of the oil town of Brega, aided by an international air campaign that the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations says has already destroyed nearly a third of Gadhafi's weaponry.
Tribesmen loyal to Yemen's embattled president clashed with a group of soldiers whose commander has sided with the opposition, and the fighting in a suburb of the capital San'a left three tribesmen dead, according to tribal elders and military officials.
Two generals close to Ivory Coast's strongman Laurent Gbagbo are negotiating his surrender, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon told French lawmakers, in a possible breakthrough for a months-long political impasse that has turned into a full-scale military conflict.
The Zambian state prosecutor has dropped charges against two Chinese mine supervisors accused of shooting at least 13 Zambian miners during a wage protest in October.
Australia's central bank left interest rates firmly on hold for a fifth straight month in April as a soaring Australian dollar and a slow recovery from floods in January allowed policy makers more time on the sidelines.


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A flagrantly schlocky horror yarn that will titillate the teens without alienating fanboys.
Sam Raimi returns to his roots in "Drag Me to Hell," a flagrantly schlocky horror yarn that will titillate the teens without alienating the director's far pickier fanboy contingent, who will find the "Evil Dead"-style action they've been clamoring for in a surprisingly potent PG-13 package. When the bank forecloses on an old gypsy's house, it's the unlucky young loan officer who risks having her soul repossessed in this throwback to both Raimi's early work and '50s B-movies. After booking the pic in coveted midnight slots at the SXSW and Cannes fests, Universal should see strong awareness yield heavenly returns.As its no-nonsense title suggests, "Drag Me to Hell" offers a kicking-and-screaming riff on the classic curse movie — and if the material scarcely warrants feature length, so be it. Scant of plot and barren of subtext, the pic is single-mindedly devoted to pushing the audience's buttons, and who better than Raimi to do the honors? Long before he went legit with "A Simple Plan," helmer was perfecting inventive shocks on shoestring budgets, and, as if to remind us of that legacy, he opens this modestly budgeted film (by "Spider-Man" standards, at least) with an early-'80s Universal logo. First scene further cements the tone, as an innocent boy (though not so innocent as to avoid being cursed) attempts to outrun his imminent damnation, only to be thrown from a balcony and swallowed whole by a gaping, fiery chasm in the earth. It's hard to imagine such a fate awaiting Christine (Alison Lohman), a sweet young lady gunning for the assistant manager job at her local bank, until we see the almost comically unkempt old hag who comes begging for an extension on her mortgage. With one bad eye, gnarled fingernails and inexplicably jagged dentures, Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) is clearly the reason Raimi and his brother Ivan decided to write this in the first place. She's as memorable a villain as Christine is forgettable a heroine, and the fact that Mrs. Ganush means bad business is so evident in her introductory scene that the mere appearance of her car (played by Raimi's own instantly recognizable 1973 Oldsmobile) in the parking garage is enough to make neck hairs stand on end. On the losing end of a showdown that makes creative use of a stapler and several other everyday office supplies, Mrs. Ganush manages to grab one of Christine's buttons and utter a nasty incantation. "Soon it will be you who comes begging to me," she predicts. But the crusty old crone expires before Christine can ask her to lift the curse, leaving our hell-bent heroine with no one but her skeptical fiance (Justin Long) and an in-over-his-head street-corner psychic (Dileep Rao) to advise her on how to escape her fate. In the increasingly desperate events that follow, Raimi clearly believes the mouth, not the eyes, are the window to the soul, with one grossout gag after another exploiting auds' fear of foreign substances (from ominous flies to Mrs. Ganush's phlegm) entering the mouth. Such off-putting visuals are considerably more effective than Raimi's next favorite trick, which is to ratchet up the already overloud soundtrack alongside a shock cut. The scares are all delivered in Raimi's usual tongue-in-cheek style, down to the menacing goat-like "Lamia" (seen only in cartoonish silhouette, its shape is a direct homage to Jacques Tourneur's 1957 "Night of the Demon"). It's odd to find so many laugh-out-loud moments amid such genuine tension, but were it not for Raimi's comic touch, auds would likely be outraged by a good deal of the material — the fate of Christine's kitten, for instance, or the movie's unapologetically backward characterization of gypsies. Pic seems to have lucked into what little relevance the mortgage crisis lends its story, otherwise so slight as to seem better suited to an hourlong "Masters of Horror" episode. Still, there's no denying it delivers far more than competing PG-13 thrillers (including several from Raimi's own Ghost House shingle). CG touches — including the one that'll have auds cheering into the end credits — look cheap, but practical effects and makeup are tops.
Drag Me to Hell
A Universal release of a Ghost House Pictures presentation. Produced by Rob Tapert, Grant Curtis. Executive producers, Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane. Co-producers, Cristen Carr Strubbe, Ivan Raimi. Directed by Sam Raimi. Screenplay, Raimi, Ivan Raimi.
Camera (color, Panavision widescreen), Peter Deming; editor, Bob Murawski; music, Christopher Young; production designer, Steve Saklad; art director, James F. Truesdale; set designer, Josh Lusby; set decorator, Don Diers; costume designer, Isis Mussenden; sound (SDDS/Dolby Digital/DTS), Joseph Geisinger; supervising sound editors, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Jussi Tegelman; visual effects supervisor, Bruce Jones; special makeup effects, Gregory Nicotero, Howard Berger; stunt coordinator, Randy Beckman; assistant director, Chris Edmonds; second unit directors, Bruce Jones, Beckman; casting, John Papsidera. Reviewed at Arclight Cinemas, Los Angeles, May 12, 2009. (In Cannes Film Festival -- Midnight Screenings.) MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 99 MIN.
Christine Brown - Alison Lohman Clay Dalton - Justin Long Mrs. Ganush - Lorna Raver Rham Jas - Dileep Rao Mr. Jacks - David Paymer Shaun San Dena - Adriana Barraza Leonard Dalton - Chelcie Ross Stu Rubin - Reggie Lee


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Georgia DT John Jenkins in shape after shedding nearly 40 pounds
John Jenkins is regarded as a potential late-first round pick for his combination of size and athleticism that is virtually unmatched among his peers in this month's NFL Draft.
Jenkins, though, risked plunging down draft boards after ballooning to 370 pounds during the SEC Championship against Alabama. The former Georgia defensive tackle has responded with an intense condition program over the last several months that helped him shed nearly 40 pounds. He is now reportedly down to 332, according to Pro Football Talk.
"When you're in the moment, you don't want the negative feedback," Jenkins told the Macon Telegraph. "The program stuck behind me (and) kept saying I was 354, when in reality I was 370."
While Jenkins' numbers at the NFL Scouting Combine weren't as popping as the ones turned in by Dontari Poe in 2012, the Bulldogs' lineman compares favorably with the former Memphis tackle. At 6-3, 346 pounds, Poe put up 44 reps on the 225-pound bench press and was clocked at an unofficial time of 4.98 in the 40-yard dash in February 2012. Jenkins had hoped to finish ahead of Poe in the 40, but was clocked at 5.2 seconds. With 30 reps on the bench press, Jenkins ranked among the top defensive linemen in the category. Poe's performance is considered as one of the most impressive by a defensive lineman in combine history.
Jenkins has also employed a strict diet to help lose the excess weight. On a given day, Jenkins will wake up as early as 6 a.m. and drink a protein shake before his morning workout. After a light meal around 10 and a bigger lunch an hour later, he had another shake following his afternoon workout. The shakes, Jenkins said, contain fresh fruits such as pineapples, blackberries, blueberries and raspberries.
The Vikings, Colts, Chargers, Cowboys, Broncos and 49ers are among the teams that could target a run-stuffing tackle like Jenkins in the early rounds of the draft. The 49ers have scheduled a workout with Jenkins, according to NFL.com. Jenkins said he models his game after Vince Wilfork and former Jets three-time All-Pro defensive tackle Kris Jenkins.
"Wilfork is a dominant guy, so is Kris. I feel like Kris is very versatile and is a big man that can move," Jenkins said. "My strength is going to carry me a long way."
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What they say is true -- "you never forget how to ride". I was a bit wobbly but no problem.
Even though I have an old road bike that is way older than 20 years, while looking at the cracked rubber tires, I decided I needed something more current. I bought a stock Miyata TrailRunner with an aluminum frame yesterday. I think it's circa 1993. At least the original owner says it's 15 years old. Everything on this bike seems to be Shimano Deore LX.
I plan on staying on the road mostly and I want to commute to work on the days that I don't have to run errands and pick the kids up. That is the plan but I have a habit of going into things full out. I will try to avoid what I call "the mod bug" as much as possible and keep the bike stock, except I'm already thinking of replacing the tires with something more appropriate for road use maybe some fenders
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