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But that's hard for him to believe.
"Every time I buy a plane ticket, I'm shocked," says Adams, 34, of Washington. "Every time I go to the gas station, I'm shocked. Housing prices are insane. That's inflation, right?"
After being on the back burner for several years, inflation has once again become a topic of conversation around office water coolers, gas pumps and boardrooms. It likely was near the top of the agenda when Federal Reserve policymakers met Tuesday to discuss interest rate policy. In a post-meeting statement, the Fed said long-term expectations for inflation were "well contained."
Conditions for inflation
Too much money in circulation Not enough in-demand products and services available
How inflation hurts
Purchasing power falls, consumers pay more, and it becomes more difficult for business and consumers to make plans about future purchases.
Attempts to control
The Federal Reserve tries to keep the inflation rate stable by buying and selling Treasury bonds. It can: Lower interest rates. If the Fed wants to lower interest rates to stimulate the economy, it adds money into circulation by buying bonds, thus giving the bondholder money to spend in the marketplace. Raise interest rates. If the Fed wants to raise rates in response to inflation concerns, it will reduce the money supply by selling bonds, thus taking money out of circulation.
Sources: Pimco Advisors; USA TODAY research
While consumers might be seeing higher prices when buying milk, purchasing a house or paying the electricity bill, a widespread, worrisome gain in inflation is not showing up in the official statistics. That's shining a light on a nagging issue in the economics community: How do you define inflation?
It's harder than it seems, and it's important not just for Fed officials as they consider when to raise interest rates to keep inflation under wraps. It's also key in determining adjustments to federal benefits, such as Social Security payments. Wages, child support and other items that are indexed to inflation depend on gauges of price pressures.
Getting it right is key for the health of the economy. But knowing what is right might never be possible.
The fast-paced nature of the economy makes measurement difficult. Products come and go at rapid speed, notes Michael Boskin, economics professor at Stanford University and head of the "Boskin Commission," which looked at problems with government inflation measurement in the mid-'90s. "Measuring prices and their rate of change in a complex, dynamic market economy, where in a typical large store you may have 40,000 or 50,000 items ... is very, very difficult," he says. "Let alone very difficult to do in real time."
To people such as Adams, a fundraiser at National Public Radio, it seems a little more obvious. Take clothes shopping: In the past, he found sales. "I haven't had as much luck lately," he says.
Measuring inflation
Every month, the Labor Department reports the consumer price index. CPI, the most commonly watched inflation index, dates back nearly 60 years. Some 400 part-time workers in 86 regions of the USA fan out every month with handheld devices about the size of a large calculator to collect the going rate for 80,000 items — everything from mangoes to movies to music lessons.
The CPI is used to adjust Social Security and other benefits. It is showing a 1.7% increase in inflation in the 12 months through March, the smallest gain since September 2002.
There are other reports on inflation that economists watch:
•CPI, excluding food and energy. Economists like to toss out food and energy costs when looking at inflation because those costs tend to bounce around a lot and cloud the picture. That gauge is showing a 1.6% 12-month increase, the biggest gain since May 2003, but still a historically slow pace.
•Personal consumption expenditures index. The PCE, produced by the Commerce Department, is considered by some to be a more accurate measure of consumer prices, largely because it's altered every quarter to reflect consumers' changing buying habits. Although it receives regular tweaks, the CPI's distribution of consumers' expenses goes through a major revision every two years. The PCE, which is mostly based on the price data collected by the Labor Department, also places greater emphasis on medical care than the CPI and less weight on housing.
The PCE showed a big bounce in inflation in the first quarter — up 3.2% at a seasonally adjusted, annual rate, following a 1% gain in the fourth quarter of 2003. But excluding food and energy costs, the so-called core PCE was a 2% annual rate in the first quarter.
None of the inflation gauges is believed to be perfect. The Federal Reserve looks most closely at the PCE, less food and energy. But Fed officials, and other economists, think the PCE overstates inflation by about half a percentage point, since a score of research and economic studies have shown inflation is mismeasured in several ways.
That means that the Fed's view of the inflation picture is more benign than the numbers suggest. The CPI is believed to distort the numbers even further.
"In short, the debate on what the price environment is has spread beyond where the usual notions of a single index has led us," Greenspan told lawmakers in testimony in April.
But the belief that inflation hasn't picked up is perplexing to some consumers, in part because some of the most visual, in-your-face prices are rising. Prime example: Gasoline prices rose 16.5% in 2003 and have continued to climb.
But other costs have fallen. Used car prices plunged by double digits in the year through March. Computer and apparel prices have also declined.
It's a matter of how each household allocates the family budget, says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com in West Chester, Pa. "If you're a 50-year-old with someone in college, your CPI is a lot higher," he says. "Or a senior with medical care that is not being covered by insurance. It does vary quite a bit according to who you are and where you live."
Says Roger Cook, 59, a retiree in Lincoln, Calif., "Where we are positioned, I don't see it as a problem." But for some neighbors, especially those who take a lot of prescription drugs, "It's really tough."
Accounting for quality
Medical care is one of the biggest controversies surrounding inflation measurement. According to the CPI, medical care inflation has been just 4.5% in the last 12 months — an unrealistic number for many people, such as small-business owners who have seen double-digit premium gains.
But what employers pay is not included in the CPI, only what consumers are paying out of pocket, such as in co-pays and premiums.
Economists, however, say medical care inflation is being overstated because changes in quality aren't being accounted for. Cataract surgery might cost more than it did 10 years ago, but now it's an out-patient procedure, so people are back at work more quickly. That kind of adjustment, which is done for computers, cars and other goods, should be accounted for, argue economists, including those at the Federal Reserve.
For example, if a computer cost $1,000 in 1999 and was also $1,000 in 2004 but was 10 times faster, the computer's price fell because its quality improved.
Medical care isn't the only area where the ability to adjust for quality is questioned. But while it might be easier to measure quality changes on tangible, hands-on goods, judging improvements in medical care is a different issue.
"There just isn't any way to value these things," says Patrick Jackman, head of the CPI staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Other issues:
•Housing. According to the National Association of Realtors, the median cost of a house rose 7.4% in the last year to $174,100. The median is the point at which half of homes sold are more expensive, and half are cheaper.
But the CPI for shelter has risen just 2.7% in the last year — a laughable number for many people, especially those on the East and West coasts.
The difference is how the government calculates housing. It doesn't simply take home sale prices — sales are too inconsistent, and it would be difficult to track a house that wasn't sold for 30 years.
Instead, government economists determine how much it would cost for someone to rent a particular home. If rents are going up more slowly than home prices, as is the case in much of the country, housing costs will be undercounted. The opposite happens if rents are rising faster.
Such a discrepancy irks some economists, including Brian Wesbury, chief economist at Griffin Kubik Stephens and Thompson in Chicago.
"We believe that the CPI understates actual inflation because it does not appropriately measure housing costs," says Wesbury, who has long argued that the Fed is ignoring a bubbling inflation problem.
But others argue that over the long haul, using the rent numbers accurately represents the housing trend.
The method "does tend to understate inflation during booms and overstate inflation during recessions," says Stephen Cecchetti, economics professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. "In the long run — over a business cycle — this all evens out, and things work well."
•Updating. Several studies by economists have found the CPI is not updated often enough to adjust for consumers' changing tastes and shopping habits. For example, if a sharp increase in orange prices leads consumers to stop buying oranges and buy apples instead, that isn't fully accounted for.
Another thorny issue is when consumers change where they shop. If consumers stop going to Nordstrom to buy shoes and instead buy at Wal-Mart, that won't be captured in the CPI for years. The department conducts a survey once every four years that asks consumers where they shop.
Such taste changes are reflected in the Commerce Department's PCE and is part of the reason Greenspan and other economists have argued that federal entitlement benefits should be indexed to the core PCE, not the CPI. His arguments have been met by anger from senior citizens and lawmakers, who claim the chairman is suggesting benefits should be "cut" because the Social Security cost-of-living increase is linked to the CPI.
The Labor Department has made several changes to the CPI in the past decade, much of which has been cheered by the economics community.
No major changes are expected anytime soon. While Labor Department officials have been toying for years with the idea of using data from store scanners, the bar code system isn't uniform enough to make it worthwhile to buy the data from retailers.
Questions — from economists and consumers — are likely to continue, making the Fed's job that much more difficult as policymakers try to stay ahead of the inflation curve. It's always better for the Fed to act to stave off dangerous inflation before it comes rather than try to play catch-up.
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Yesterday's gains were impressive: 1.64% for the S&P 500, 2.05% for the Nasdaq Composite and 2.27% for the Dow. All told, Wednesday's bullish push was a major signal for the market: Don't discount the bulls right now.
That rally came following a fairly tepid market response to the normally upbeat Thanksgiving holiday and strong Black Friday numbers. As of yesterday's market open, most indexes had been sitting right on support, a sort of price floor that market prices have difficulty falling below. Now, however, stock prices have cracked near-term resistance levels to the upside and are pointing higher for the first time in several trading days.
What does that mean for some of the most heavily traded stocks on Wall Street? Let's take a technical look.
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In case you're not familiar, technical analysis uses a stock's price movements to determine where shares are headed in the future. Technical charts are used every day by proprietary trading floors, the Street's biggest financial firms and individual investors to get an edge on the market. And according to some sources, skilled technical traders can bank gains as much as 90% of the time.
Here's this week's look at how some of the biggest names on Wall Street are trading technically.
With all of the focus on what's happening with the broad market right now, it makes sense to start off with an index play. I'm talking about the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), an exchange-traded fund that mirrors the performance of its popular namesake index. SPY is a popular option for buy-and-hold investors and traders alike.
Long-term buyers like the fund's exposure to the S&P's basket of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the world without many of the drawbacks of mutual funds. Traders flock to SPY's liquidity. Right now, both could be seeing a reason to go long this fund.
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Following a two-month rally in the market, SPY has pulled back noticeably since the beginning of November, consolidating between $118 and $120. Shares made their move above that $120 resistance level with yesterday's large upward move. Now they're on track to take out another overhead resistance level.
One of the potential consequences of yesterday's price action is a pullback or sideways consolidation period. We'll want to see shares stay above newfound support at $120 to justify going long right now.
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Microsoft (MSFT) was a major beneficiary of the upward price movement in the NASDAQ yesterday: Shares of the $223 billion software giant rallied 3.1% by Wednesday's close. That jump may have set the stage for higher prices to end 2010…
Shares of Microsoft had been in a downtrend for the last month as shares slumped down to a previous support level at $35. With yesterday's 3.1% bounce, however, shares cleared the tight overhead resistance level at the 50-day moving average, clearing the way for a move up to the 200-day.
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While that's a small potential upside gain, it's one that traders will likely be eyeing for a high probability trade. More significantly, though, a break above the 200-day clears the path for another leg higher. We'll have to see where shares wind up next week before betting on any kind of direction on shares of Microsoft.
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This year has proved brutal for $114 billion banking stock Bank of America (BAC). All told, shares of this banking behemoth have fallen 25% since the first trading days of 2010, but that downtrend could soon end at the hands of a double bottom in shares right now at $11.
For the past several months, shares have met resistance to the upside at the 50-day moving average, a line that charts the stock's average price over the trailing 50 days. But now that shares of BAC have stalled their latest descent at $11, the same spot they reversed in late October, this stock looks set up to make another attempt at the 50-day.
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To be sure, cracking resistance at the 50-day will prove challenging for this stock. Even if it does make it above that thin blue line, past performance tells us that we'll want to see shares manage two consecutive opens above that level before it becomes a buy.
That said, there's nearly 10% short-term upside in shares right now as they approach that level. I'd suggest placing a stop just below $11 support if you're planning on going long right now.
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World Premiere Opera: River of Time
UK Opera Theatre presents a new American Folk Opera about Abraham Lincoln as a young man, with lyrics and music by Kentuckians James W. Rodgers and Joseph Baber. The poignant lyrics and expressive orchestration convey the story of Lincoln on a quest of self-discovery and personal destiny, a prologue to greatness. From his boyhood days in Kentucky, this opera takes the audience on a journey through the formative years of one of our nation's greatest presidents.
Dates: October 8-10, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Lexington Opera House
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Review: Lincoln opera shows potential to be great tribute
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Train-station killing conviction upheld
Updated 9:11 pm, Friday, October 19, 2012
The California Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a man who shot and killed a passenger at the Amtrak station in Emeryville in 2005.
Ahkin Mills killed Jason Jackson-Andrade, 27, at the station near Powell Street on April 21, 2005, after asking him if he had a gun. Mills, now 38, testified that he had believed people were following him and that he had opened fire because he thought Jackson-Andrade reached for a gun.
The defense asked jurors to find Mills guilty only of manslaughter under the theory of "imperfect self-defense," in which someone overreacts and attacks a perceived aggressor when in fact the target intends no harm. Mills also raised an insanity defense.
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The jury convicted Mills of first-degree murder, and Judge Larry Goodman of Alameda County Superior Court sentenced him to 50 years to life in prison. In his appeal, Mills argued that Goodman had improperly told jurors they should presume that Mills was sane at the time of the killing.
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As I've grown accustomed to writing about this team this year, the reason for the club's latest loss was simple: they didn't pitch. Jamie Moyer had arguably his worst start of the season as he allowed five earned runs on seven hits and a walk in just five innings.
Moyer did strikeout seven Dodgers, which is an improvement considering he had 17 strikeouts in six starts entering the game. Still, with pitchers Jeremey Guthrie, Jhoulys Chacin, and Jorge De La Rosa on the mend and due to return soon, Moyer's days in the Rockies rotation appear to be numbered.
If you are only looking at earned runs, you might think that Moyer has had a pretty decent year to date and with one bad start his ERA went up to 4.66. When you look at his runs allowed per nine innings (earned or otherwise), Moyer has a 6.05 for the season. The Rockies defense hasn't been that bad and it's very hard for a team to win baseball games while giving up six runs a start. Perhaps that's why the Rockies have lost all but one of Moyer's starts.
Defense certainly wasn't the problem on Friday when Moyer's undoing was his dealing with former Rockies second basemen Mark Ellis, who broke the game open for the Dodgers a solo home run and a two-run double (both off fastballs).
With Alex White and Christian Friedrich combining for back-to-back quality starts earlier this week (and just the second time for Rockies pitchers all season), the symbolism should be clear. It was awkward to see Jamie Moyer at Spring Training as a favorite to make the rotation and it's been awkward watching him pitch every five days for a team with this much young pitching. The Rockies don't really have a spot for Moyer anymore and squeezing him out was bound to happen. I never thought he'd make it through the entire season in Colorado just because I don't necessarily see the need for a team going to the playoffs or a team developing young pitchers to have Moyer in the rotation.
The Rockies don't look playoff bound just yet, but the young pitchers in this organization need to gain experience at the major league level. The first concession the club is making for Moyer is to send LHP Drew Pomeranz to Triple-A Colorado Springs to work on his mechanics.
Pomeranz has pitched pretty well in the majors this year but left his start four days ago with a right quadriceps bruise after a line drive him off the bat of Edinson Volquez got him. Now, the club isn't sending him down because he's hurt. He's getting sent down to "work on his mechanics" which is fairly vague, but understandable when dealing with a young pitcher.
Sooner or later, the club will have to deal with the old pitcher.
- Dexter Fowler hit his first triple of the season last night, he set the Rockies club record with 15 triples last season. Perhaps this is a sign of things to come. Fowler, hitting .223 on the year, has been dropped down in the order and clearly needs to show more of this offensive firepower to move back up.
- Jordan Pacheco hit 2nd for some reason last night. I'd literally be fine with anyone else on the team hitting 2nd but Mr. Pacheco. Sorry, Pacheco family.
- Jeremy Guthrie tossed four scoreless innings in a rehab start with High-A Modesto on Thursday, he'll take his turn for the Rockies Tuesday against the Giants barring any setbacks.


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Putin and the West
By regional analyst Malcolm Haslett
Some Russian journalists have painted a picture of western politicians hurrying to visit the Kremlin with their tails between their legs to apologise for Kosovo and the criticism of Russia over Chechnya.
They accept Russia has a right to disagree with them over Kosovo and to try and do something about the lawlessness generated by the Chechen separatist regime. But the West is still annoyed with what it generally sees as Russia's emotional and illogical policies on both issues.
The West is also very concerned about other developments in Russia: the extent to which corrupt practices now control the Russian economy, for instance, and what looks very much like a return towards an "official line" in much of the Russian media, in support of everything Mr Putin does.
Western governments do not want to encourage such tendencies by staying silent.
But at the same time they do not want a full-scale row with the new Russia, even before Mr Putin is elected. It is recognised that the world is a better and safer place when Russia and the West work in harmony.
Western debate
There has been a sharp debate among politicians, government advisers and journalists about where the balance should be between frankness and criticism.
On the one hand there is the current Clinton/Albright line, followed largely by the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Britain, and Nato Secretary-General George Robertson on their visits to Moscow.
"We can do business with this man," Bill Clinton has said, echoing Margaret Thatcher's famous evaluation of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Western governments now seem willing to accept they made mistakes in the last six or seven years, in expecting Russia to fall in behind the general western consensus on foreign and domestic policy.
A report by a US working group has said the Clinton administration had fallen into the trap of too readily taking the side of ex-president Boris Yeltsin and a small group of reformers.
Their policies, it is now recognised, were not always the best for ordinary Russians.
Western politicians, the report recommends, should build up a wider network of contacts in Moscow and in Russia's regions, and generally concentrate on preventing a further erosion in the relationship. Supporters of this line emphasise that Vladimir Putin's supporters include very competent and respected people like First Deputy Premier Mikhail Kasyanov and adviser German Gref.
But this 'soft' approach to Russia has been fiercely criticised in some quarters in the West.
French criticism
Some of the fiercest criticism of the western governments has come from the French media. Both the rightist Figaro newspaper and the left-of-centre Le Monde have delivered scathing attacks on western leaders for "timidly trying not to humiliate the Russians."
At a time when the Kremlin's men are crushing their own Chechen citizens with bombs, says Le Monde, it is now a question of "how much longer the West is willing to be humiliated by the Russians?"
Le Monde argues that 'disquieting signs' are appearing under Putin: FSB (former KGB) units have been reintegrated into the army; a branch of the FSB has been told to maintain surveillance of the media; military education is again compulsory in schools.
But a majority of western experts probably believe that western governments should take an issue-by-issue approach, with a judicious mixture of criticism, where it is due, and constructive co-operation wherever Russia makes this possible.
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A look inside the Lambeau Field press box
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Kendeigh's colleague at WISN, Stephanie Sutton, worked in the Bay Area prior to her return to the Midwest. Sutton had few positives for both the Raiders and 49ers setup, including the food, which she said, members of the press had to pay for. Not in Green Bay, where the food is good and free.
"They literally carve roast beef for the press in Tampa," said Sutton. "I like the Packers and Tampa Bay the best. Oakland and San Francisco are both old-school, outdated and small."
Van Vooren is in agreement, noting Monster Park in San Francisco is a lot like the old Solider Field setup. Looking for your chair? Sorry, stools are where the media plants their butts for three hours taking notes. Ah, but at least the venues there have windows and walls around you.
"The worst auxiliary press box was County Stadium (Milwaukee), because it was outside," said Kendeigh. "I actually watched a game in the snow there, and it was so bad, we all watched the second half of the game on TV."
The Packers eventually gave up playing games at County Stadium, and so did the Brewers. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when you start breaking down the amenities in the room high above the Frozen Tundra, there is little room to file a complaint.
An attentive press box staff of 15 includes three copy people, three members running stats, and nine assistants doing everything from holding elevators to providing escorts for the coaches who also sit high above Lambeau Field. The media is also privy to an in-house public address announcer, local TV news anchor Tom Milbourn from WLUK. His baritone voice is heard exclusively throughout the press area, detailing each and every play on the field.
Milbourn also provides reminders of press conferences and schedules for the week, injury updates, out-of-town scores and weather reports.
"Lambeau Field has the best in-house PA announcer," said Van Vooren. "He gives the most accurate information. Some of these other places, they don't get the names right, give very limited information, and they get the facts wrong. That does not happen here. I remember in San Diego this year for the preseason, Brandon Manumaleuna … tough name, but their own person butchered it twice, and then just gave up … stopped saying he was catching the ball. And that's their own guy!"
Kendeigh added, "We still go on the road and people can't pronounce Kabeer's (Gbaja-Biamila) name … and he's been in the league seven years! I mean, come on!"
One announcement that Milbourn makes before every game, is a disclaimer to remind everyone that the Lee Remmel Press Box is a working press box, and no cheering is allowed. You would think this goes without saying, but around the league, there are armchair quarterbacks wearing a credential who think they have a game ticket as well.
"Chicago is as blatant as anywhere," said Van Vooren. "And a couple of years ago, there were Green Bay people and Chicago people kind of getting into it in the press box."
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Take 5: Usher, Maroon 5, Monterey Pop, more
USA TODAY's music staff offers a weekend tip sheet of sound recommendations spanning the media landscape:
Usher lights up the O2 stage
An April concert in England by R&B star Usher comes to home video in high-definition with the 104-minute OMG Tour — Live From London (2011, Eagle Rock Entertainment, not rated, $15; Blu-ray, $20). Usher's performance features an array of pyrotechnic and lighting effects, and dazzling choreography on a specially designed set at the O2 Arena. The song list spans his career with hits like You Make Me Wanna, There Goes My Baby, Yeah and Nice & Slow. Extras include "On the Shoulders of Giants," a behind-the-scenes look at the staging of the event. — Steve Jones
Before Woodstock, there was Monterey Pop
Woodstock gets all the attention, but California's Monterey International Pop Festival created the blueprint that future rock festivals would follow, even to Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza today. In the new A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival (Santa Monica Press, $45), Harvey and Kenneth Kubernick piece together the story of the three-day 1967 festival that featured Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield and helped propel the careers of Otis Redding, The Who and Jimi Hendrix to mythic proportions. Part photo book, part oral history, A Perfect Haze features recollections from many of the musicians who either played or attended the festival. If you've ever wondered how Jimi Hendrix got his gig opening for The Monkees, it was a direct result of drummer Micky Dolenz watching the performance where Hendrix doused his guitar with lighter fluid, then set it ablaze. "I suggested him for our tour because he was so theatrical," Dolenz says. "Um … it didn't work out." — Brian Mansfield
Fun Fun Fun Fest offers Spoon, Lykke Li on Pitchfork.com
For the first time in its six-year history, the Fun Fun Fun Fest will stream live from Austin, offering fans the choice of four streams tailored to different musical tastes, from punk, metal and indie rock to electronica, bounce and hip-hop. The roster includes Spoon, Lykke Li, M83, Okkervil River, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Ra Ra Riot, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Joy Formidable, Architecture in Helsinki, Mates of State and many more. Pitchfork.com will stream performances Friday (starting at 1:20 p.m. ET/10:20 a.m. PT), Saturday (1:10 ET/10:10 PT) and Sunday (1:15 ET/10:15 PT). For tickets, schedule details and updates, visit funfunfunfest.com. Fans can follow the fest on Twitter (@funfunfunfest) or become a fan on Facebook at facebook.com/funfunfunfest. — Edna Gundersen
Travie McCoy joins Maroon 5 on 'Saturday Night Live'
This weekend's Saturday Night Live musical guest Maroon 5 has invited Travie McCoy of Gym Class Heroes for a rendition of Stereo Hearts. The song, which features Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, was the first single from GCH's current album, The Papercut Chronicles II. Charlie Day of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the host. — Edna Gundersen
Ace Frehley and Tony Iommi publish memoirs
Hard-rock fans now have a couple of fresh reading options, both from iconic guitarists. On Tuesday, Kiss' Ace Frehley unveiled No Regrets (written with Joe Layden and John Ostrovsky), a behind-the-greasepaint account of his years (and breakup) with that storied band, as well as his personal struggles. This week also marked the release of Tony Iommi's autobiography, Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath. On a live-stream chat the day of the book's release, available at his official site, Iommi was asked to explain his "endless creativity," and said, "If you told me to put a shelf up, I probably couldn't do that. But coming up with riffs and ideas, that's what I'm good at." — Elysa Gardner
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Destination: Southern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
I travel with my mom, who I have to say is 60 ( I am 42), every year. We have cruised the last few years and have tried most high end line, with the exclusion of Seabourn. We discovered HCL last year when we did the 10 day Caribbean cruise out of NY.
So this year we decided to try the sister ship Westerdam. We were not disappointed. Although there are some differences in layout ( the Exploration cafe is up in the crows nest for one.
Also this year they introduced the "any time dining" which was great! This is one of the reasons we cruise the higher end cruises, and we very impressed with the system inplace.
Our first suite, we are now spoiled for ever! large comfortable and wonderful! The veranda holds a small dining table and two chairs along with great club chairs and ottoman plus a small table. We had drinks and Hors d'oeuvres there every night while getting ready for the evening. More
Very good food and very good service. We dined with others, at our request except for one night. Formal nights (2) had great food. We also tried the Pinnacle grill the night of the BBQ (not tooo fond of that one!) and it was very good and comparable to a good steak house but with fancier french service. Amuse gueule were served before our first course and mignardise to finish the evening with our champagne - I am usually a bottomless pit when it comes to good food, and even I was stuffed after that meal!
Lido was good and clean - did not dine there however.
Islands: we had done them before so we knew what to expect. It was nice and the ports where we had to tender were well run.
Days at sea (3): As always, difficult to get chairs if you get to the aft pool after 9am - lots of chair hogs , 8 at a time for crying out loud! Other than that very nice atmosphere (SP?)
Disembarkation was fast and efficient - they give you a tag with a time to get off, and you just stay in your cabin until you have to leave all very stress free.
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Dual Receives Cross Triathlon National Champs Status
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For immediate release from Triathlon New Zealand and The Partners Life DUAL, for further information visit www.triathlon.org.nz
Dual Receives Cross Triathlon National Champs Status
The hugely popular Partners Life DUAL event has received further kudos with official sanctioning as the Triathlon New Zealand Cross Tri Nationals, with athletes able to earn qualifying spots for the ITU World Cross Triathlon Championships in Holland in July this year.
Based at Home Bay, Motutapu in the Hauraki Gulf, the Partners Life DUAL has in its four years already established a reputation as one of the more sought after events on the sports calendar. The DUAL is a trail-running or walking and mountain biking event that crosses the oldest and youngest land forms in the country and is staged on some of the most scenic landscapes in New Zealand, the Hauraki Gulf's Motutapu and Rangitoto Islands.
Aaron Carter from total sport, the event organisers, is thrilled to have received the endorsement from Triathlon New Zealand.
"It is the first year we have introduced an off-road Triathlon to the Partners Life DUAL event menu, we're excited about bringing an off-road Triathlon to Auckland. Our partnership with Triathlon New Zealand, which allows people the opportunity to qualify for the World Championships is a real plus for the Partners Life DUAL, which now has stunning event options for all levels of keenness and ability."
Triathlon New Zealand for their part is equally enthused that The DUAL has agreed to act as the Cross Tri National Champs, offering competitors who wish to race at the sharp end of the event the chance to qualify for the World Champs in July.
"The organisers of The DUAL have been wonderful to work with and we couldn't be happier to have an event of this stature and in this location to act as our Cross Tri National Champs," said Tri NZ Operations Manager Community and Events, Haidee Stratford.
"The sport is growing at such a rate across all aspects and cross tri is not immune to that expansion. Tri NZ is thrilled to be able to put in place a clear qualifying pathway for athletes wishing to represent us at elite or age group level on the world stage, competing in The Partners Life DUAL is a key step on that pathway."
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The Partners Life DUAL takes place on March 23rd this year with entries still open online at www.thedual.co.nz
Athletes wishing to qualify for the New Zealand team to The Hague in July must first enter The DUAL Cross Triathlon (1km swim, 30km mountain bike, 10km off-road/trail run) and then follow procedure to be eligible for nomination, including submitting the necessary forms prior to attempting to qualify.
All details can be found at the Triathlon NZ website www.triathlon.org.nz or by following the links below.
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