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Eight people predicting a Romney win on Election Day
Storified by Digital First Media · Mon, Nov 05 2012 08:04:28
Although many professional prognosticators see President Obama as the favorite tomorrow, some notable conservatives are dissenting. Their maps show everything from a slim win by Mitt Romney with 275 Electoral College votes to a 325-vote landslide, with some maps putting Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and even Michigan in play.
One thing these seven maps agree on, however, is a Romney win in Ohio. (Updated: Ben Domenech's map, added below, does not include Romney winning Ohio.)
Dick Morris: Romney 325, Obama 213
In an appearance on Fox News, conservative commentator Dick Morris predicted a massive Romney win with 325 Electoral College votes. To get there, Romney would have to win all of the swing states but Nevada and turn Minnesota, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania red.
Swing states for Romney: Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida
Swing states for Obama: Nevada
George F. Will: Romney 321, Obama 217
Conservative commentator George F. Will predicted a huge Romney win, with 321 Electoral College votes. His map is essentially the same as Morris' scenario above, but he would keep Wisconsin in Obama's column and give Nevada to Romney instead.
Swing states for Romney: Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota
Swing states for Obama: None
Michael Barone: Romney 315, Obama 223
Writing in the Washington Examiner, conservative columnist Michael Barone says he's going "out on a limb" and predicting a healthy Romney win, with 315 Electoral College votes. That map would have Romney cleaning up in the South plus capturing Colorado, Ohio and New Hampshire and turning Pennsylvania into a swing state.
Swing states for Romney: North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Swing states for Obama: Nevada
Dean Chambers: Romney 311, Obama 227
Conservative activist Dean Chambers runs the website UnSkewed Polls, where he recalibrates polls to offset what he believes are misjudgments about sampling. His prediction calls for Romney to win the South and the Midwest, including Michigan, a state on few other lists.
Swing states for Romney: Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida
Swing states for Obama: Nevada
Andrew Beyer: Romney 284, Obama 254
As part of the biennial "Crystal Ball" contest in the Washington Post Outlook section, horse-racing columnist Andrew Beyer predicted a narrow Romney win, with 284 Electoral College votes to Obama's 254. The newspaper does not post actual states called, but a likely scenario would involve Romney doing well in the South and West and winning Ohio.
Swing states for Romney: Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire
Swing states for Obama: Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska 2nd Congressional District (1 elector)
Karl Rove: Romney 279, Obama 259
Republican strategist and former Bush adviser Karl Rove predicted in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that Romney would win with at least 279 Electoral College votes. Though he didn't specify which states, a likely route would be for Romney to clean up in the South plus win Colorado, Ohio and New Hampshire.
Swing states for Romney: Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire
Swing states for Obama: Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin
Ben Domenech: Romney 278, Obama 260
In a post on Real Clear Politics, Red State blog co-founder Ben Domenech predicted a narrow Romney win with 278 Electoral College votes. His map includes Romney sweeping the South and picking up Colorado, Wisconsin and New Hampshire plus one of Maine's Congressional districts.
Swing states for Romney: Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire, Maine Congressional district
Swing states for Obama: Nevada, Ohio
Leslie Sanchez: Romney 275, Obama 263
Also as part of the "Crystal Ball" contest in the Washington Post, Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez, a former adviser to George W. Bush, predicted a narrow Romney win. Again, the actual states aren't known, but the most likely scenario would be for Romney to clean up in the South, plus win Ohio and Colorado.
Swing states for Romney: Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Colorado
Swing states for Obama: Nevada, Iowa, Wisconsin, New Hampshire


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In the past two years, the social safety net has helped more Americans than any time in a generation. So why are so many people trying to tear it to shreds?
The recession brought on by Wall Street's casino speculation has pounded Main Street hard; unemployment has hovered near double digits for two years. Ordinary people are searching for jobs day after day, week after week. At a national hiring day in April, McDonald's got more than a million job applicants, and rejected more than nine-tenths of them.
The House of Representatives' budget, which would cut Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, foreign food aid, health-care reform, and unemployment benefits -- while sparing military spending and giving tax breaks to wealthy corporations and individuals -- would be a moral disaster for every American. It's clear (even to rampaging liberals such as the economists at Goldman Sachs) that the proposed federal budget cuts would be a drag on the economy as it digs out of the hole caused by the recession.
During the Bush years, Congress handed out big tax breaks to the rich -- cuts that originally had an expiration date so legislators could avoid talking about their long-range budget folly. Congress and the Bush administration also green-lighted a $1.2 trillion bender of unneeded wars, a splurge that will keep on spending, due to our responsibilities to veterans.

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Which company will deliver the first quad-core Tegra 3 Android smartphone and when will it be available? I originally predicted it would happen this year, and it looked to be on track when NVIDIA unveiled Tegra 3, saying it would arrive in tablets by August with smartphones to follow by Christmas. Unfortunately that schedule was changed to tablets in October and smartphones in Q1 2012. We have yet to get our hands on the first quad-core Android device.
That should change soon enough. ASUS will launch their Transformer Prime on November 9, and today we learned their first quad-core smartphone should be available in February 2012. Digitimes is reporting that ASUS will launch the previously announced Padfone in February, which we expect will be powered by Tegra 3 and ship with Android 4.0.
ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih first revealed the Padfone at Computex in May. The first of its kind gadget allows users to "switch seamlessly between pad and phone for a user experience that best fits [their] activities." The unique device was first slated for a holiday launch, but it appears that date was pushed back to make sure it shipped with the latest version of Android.
HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung also in the mix
NVIDIA said previously in a quarterly earnings call that they have a "whole lot of new design wins on Kal-El," but we haven't heard about too many rumored devices yet. Outside of the Transformer Prime, only some random ZTE tablet has been spotted in China. This year is already winding down, so it looks like we'll have to wait 'till CES 2012 in January for the next big wave of product announcements.
Who might also be working on a Tegra 3 phone?
- HTC: We normally think of HTC as exclusive with Qualcomm processors, but there are several signs that relationship is weakening. HTC already said NVIDIA-powered phones are possible in the future, and it appears 2012 will be the year that they start dual-sourcing processors as they continue to grow.
- LG: The LG Optimus 2X was the world's first dual-core phone. Earlier this year it looked like they could have the first quad-core phone. Since that time, we have heard no rumors of LG working on Tegra 3 devices. They source processors from just about every major semiconductor company, so we know they are willing to play with many platforms.
- Motorola: Rumors from earlier this year said that Motorola was working on a pair of quad-core phones named Bullet and Jet, which were headed to Verizon in Q1 2012. Nothing has surfaced since that time, but Motorola was one of the early adopters of Tegra 2 phones.
- Samsung: As big as they are, we always believe Samsung has the ability to deliver a "world's first" type device. We know they like to use their own Exynos processor in their high-end devices, but they were forced to go with Tegra 2 in the Galaxy Tab 10.1 (it was the lead platform for Honeycomb tablets). Samsung also launched the Tegra-powered Galaxy R, so they have experience working with NVIDIA's mobile platform.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) As he addressed the media at his first press conference as coach, Syracuse's Scott Shafer briefly fumbled for words as he looked over at his wife and two children and thought about his father.
``(Being a head coach) has been a goal of mine since I was 10 years old because I was influenced by my dad. I just have so many vivid memories of the influence that he had on so many young men and young women,'' Shafer said Friday as he remembered his father, Ron, a high school coach who died in 1994. ``I came home for the funeral and I can remember as a couple of thousand people lined up outside waiting to see my dad. He touched everyone, and that's always been a goal of mine.
``It's hard not to be emotional about this sort of thing, but at a very young age I just knew it was something great.''
Defensive coordinator the past four years for the Orange, Shafer succeeds Doug Marrone, who resigned and was named coach of the Buffalo Bills on Monday.
Marrone preached discipline, accountability, character, and integrity, in rejuvenating a team that went 10-37 under his predecessor, Greg Robinson, and transformed it into a two-time bowl winner. Syracuse finished 2012 at 8-5 after beating West Virginia 38-14 in the Pinstripe Bowl and earned a share of the Big East regular-season title with a 5-2 conference mark, its best since Paul Pasqualoni's 2001 team went 6-1.
Shafer promised to follow that lead with a foundation based on attitude, effort, and enthusiasm as the Orange prepare to leave the Big East and join the Atlantic Coast Conference in July.
``It's those three pillars that we will always point back to as we try to progress forward and make this community proud about the product that we put on that football field,'' Shafer said. ``The thing that I like about Syracuse the city is that the people that live here and embrace it are tough people. They're hard-nosed people and they expect a hard-nosed football team.
``It's our job to put a product on the field that the community can say, `That is us. That is our team. They're physical, and they're going to get after you when you come to the (Carrier) Dome.' We're going to storm that conference and do better than people think we can.''
Shafer said he planned to meet with the players on Sunday when they return from semester break and Marrone is expected to address the team as well.
As for his staff, Shafer tabbed Chuck Bullough as defensive coordinator. Bullough was a two-time All-Big Ten linebacker at Michigan State and joins the Syracuse staff after two seasons as a defensive assistant with the Cleveland Browns. He was linebackers coach at Western Michigan in 2005 when Shafer was defensive coordinator and also spent five years at UCLA, the last two as defensive coordinator.
A big hole remains on Shafer's staff, though. Offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, architect of a record-setting, uptempo offense this past season with fifth-year senior quarterback Ryan Nassib at the helm, has joined Marrone and the Bills in the same role.
``I want an offense that's fast, that's fun, and invested. I think Coach Hackett did a great job putting that on display, and we want to continue that,'' said Shafer, who was a quarterback in college. ``What we're looking for is the right fit, that fit for Syracuse, and I'm not in a hurry to do that.
``We don't want to go about this taking the first guy that sounds exciting. We'll get the best guy in here that gives us a chance to put on a show on offense. It's unbelievable how many people want to be here.''
With national signing day looming in early February, Shafer said one of his first priorities will be to reach out to recruits.
``We have to do a great job of tending to our prospects, the recruits that we're going after and trying to hold onto. You never know until signing day,'' he said. ``I want guys that want to go to the Dome and say this is my home. All those other guys that are wavering, they'd just better make a decision that they're not going to play us if they decide to go elsewhere.''
According to Rivals.com, Syracuse has received 14 commitments, nine of them three-star athletes, including quarterbacks Zach Allen of Texas and Austin Wilson of Pennsylvania. Scout.com listed 15 recruits, including five three-star athletes, and both websites had the class ranked No. 71 on Friday.
Prior to Syracuse, Shafer was an assistant at Michigan, Stanford, Western Michigan, Illinois, Northern Illinois, and Rhode Island. A 1990 graduate of Baldwin Wallace University, Shafer was one of Marrone's first hires.
Shafer's defenses have ranked among the nation's best in various categories during his four-year tenure with the Orange. In 2010, the Orange defense was No. 7 in the nation and he was nominated for the Broyles Award as the nation's top assistant.
Even though he won't be running the defense next season, Shafer doesn't expect the Orange to skip a beat.
``I envision an Orange crush defense that makes the opponents' families cringe when their child is about to get hit,'' he said with a smile. ``I want to put the fear of God in the opposing football player that happens to have the ball underneath his arm. That's what we want to do, play an aggressive style of defense that people love to watch.
``When we get the opposition in the loud house (the Carrier Dome), we lock the doors behind them and we don't let them out.''


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I won't lie: The past few months have left me fairly disillusioned about playing an enhancement shaman. Nothing in Cataclysm will ever match the absolute horror that was the last patch of Wrath of the Lich King for enhancement. However, our total lack of scaling with secondary stats that aren't mastery, horrific AOE DPS every patch, and our total lack of any form of worthwhile DPS cooldown have all been ingredients in the lukewarm dish that is enhancement. If this was Iron Chef: America, even Alton Brown would be hard pressed to make us sound good.
Thankfully, the 4.3 PTR is up, and with it comes some changes to enhancement shaman that have me excited.


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Lohan shows up late for `Scary Movie 5' premiere
Lindsay Lohan showed up late for the Hollywood premiere of "Scary Movie 5."
The 26-year-old actress got a kiss from co-star Charlie Sheen in front of photographers, then told reporters on the arrivals line: "I'm taking care of myself."
After striking a plea deal in her most recent court case, the troubled actress is set to report to three months of locked rehab next month. She arrived about 20 minutes after the scheduled start of Thursday night's premiere screening.
Lohan appeared to blame her tardiness on a dress mix-up and smiled when fans chanted her name.
"Are they chanting? That's crazy. That's insane. It's like Brazil again. But yeah, my dress was left in New York. But it's fine," she told "Extra."
She appears in one brief segment in the film playing herself alongside Sheen, but promoted it this week in an interview with "Late Show" host David Letterman, who pressed her about rehab.
"I have no hard feelings. His job is to crack jokes. So it's fine," Lohan said of the veteran talk-show host. "I think he's an amazing man and I respect him."
While Sheen's recent financial support has gotten media attention, Lohan downplayed her relationship with the "Anger Management" star.
"He's a really nice person. I think that having my family's support - you know, my siblings and my sister, and stuff like that, my mom - I think that means the most, that the people that I care about in my life care about me," she said.
Sheen said he was happy to help the former child star.
"I do it because it's the right thing to do at the time, in the moment. She needed some help and I helped her. The biggest deal out of it was made through the media, you know," he said.
And he predicted an eventual return to the public good graces for Lohan: "You know this town loves a comeback, loves a comeback, you know."
"Scary Movie 5" opens in theaters Friday.


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Global experience in technology generation and transfer in the forestry sector is limited, compared to the agricultural and energy sectors. The pathways are complex and country-specific. The three major pathways are: government, private sector, and community-initiated. The existing institutions involved in technology transfer along with barriers to large-scale technology transfer are listed in Table 12.2.
Government Initiated. One of the features of technology transfer in the forestry sector is the non-commercial nature of the transfer of some technologies as well as low levels of involvement of commercial institutions. Furthermore, the forests, forestry research and extension services are largely controlled by the governments, particularly in tropical countries. Currently technology transfer is largely from the government-controlled universities and research institutions to forest departments and farmers. Forestry research and development is largely restricted to university and research institutions. These are largely funded by the national governments and external development assistance agencies. Yet these developing country research institutions are inadequately funded. Nevertheless, in Annex I countries, significant research and development (R&D) and technology transfer occurs in the private sector.
An analysis of forest research institutions and universities throughout the world and their staffing levels clearly shows that very few developing countries have capacity in forest science (in terms of numbers of institutes, staff or budgets). The effectiveness of the few scientists working on forestry issues in developing countries is frequently constrained by shortages of equipment and operating budgets, by limited access to scientific advances elsewhere and by local institutional issues (FAO, 1997). There are several international institutions involved in technology (including information) generation, dissemination and capacity building. Some examples are the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), "Centro Agronómico Tropical para Investigación y Enseñanza"(Tropical Agriculture Centre for Research and Education) (CATIE), Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), (IUFRO), International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), (IFGRI) and World Conservation and Monitoring Centre (WCMC). A new global framework might, for example, build upon the extensive coverage of IUFRO, the inter-disciplinary and collaborative mechanisms of CIFOR, and the practical field presence and global data sources of the FAO.
Currently, almost all of the investment projects funded by multilateral agencies (World Bank, 1993) and bilateral agencies contain a technical assistance component. When the World Bank, the largest multilateral funding agency is considered, only US$5.4 billion out of US$396 billion was allocated for environmental projects, where forestry is only one of the components and, furthermore, only a marginal part of it was devoted to R&D (World Bank, 1997).
Private Sector Dominated. Private sector timber companies and industries (paper mills) are increasingly participating in R&D and technology transfer in the forestry sector. Technologies and machinery for recycling, harvesting, and processing are well developed and largely originate from industrialised countries. The private sector is likely to play a larger role in the future, even in developing countries (refer to Tables 12.2 and 12.3).
Community Initiated. A substantial part of technology transfer in the forestry sector within developing countries is driven by local communities and NGOs. This is particularly true for forest conservation practices, agroforestry systems, and systems for harvesting of non-timber and other subsistence products. Much of the transfer also takes place in the form of "software", i.e., training and capacity building. Local institutions, such as NGOs and grassroots organisations, are increasingly participating in these technology transfer programmes. In some countries, such as Mexico, communities with commercial forest resources have organised nation wide organisations of social forestry enterprises. Through these organisations villages receive administrative and technical training and financial resources.
The existing institutions are currently playing a limited role compared to the demands. Currently, there is a marginal role for private sector or industry participation in technology transfer. Forest departments, research institutions and NGOs are even more constrained by limited financial support and technical capability. The existing institutional mechanisms have several limitations to promote climate mitigation technologies, namely, limited resources and absence of policies and institutions to process, evaluate and approve mitigation projects for implementation (Sathaye et al. 1999).
The existing institutions and arrangements are inadequate to meet the emerging challenges of promoting forestry-based mitigation projects. In tropical countries, the state forest departments play a predominant role in all aspects of forest protection, regeneration and management. There are uncertainties regarding the areas under tropical forests, rates of deforestation, causes of deforestation and the C-densities in vegetation and soil of different forest categories. Such information is crucial for developing strategies, projects and technologies to reduce deforestation. Currently, the lack of funding and technical capabilities in tropical countries limit the generation of information on all of the above aspects.
|Table 12.2 Barriers to Technology Transfer in the forestry sector
|Institutions and mechanisms
|World Bank, ADB,GEF FAO, IPF, IFF, IUFRO, CIFOR,UNDP, Technical cooperation
|Commercial and non-commercial lending agencies
|Development assistance programmes of OECD countries
|Forest department
|Research institutions
|Industry/ private sector
|Joint ventures
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10k is small indeed. Anytime Manji, the avatar you did for him was good stuff anyway, and quality pics are always pleasing to work with.
I've got the the image 18.5kb but I can't get the 100 x 100 pixels parts. How do you resize the pixels? I don't even know how many there are in the image. Any help would be appreciated.
Rogue Fett.
Its not resizing the pixels as much as it is the picture, what I usually do is I take the image in paint and go to image, re-size/skew. and work it until its about 100x100. That usually doesn't give me very high quality images. If you used a higher-end program or have someone here do it for you im sure they can do it in a better way then you could yourself
Rogue, post your pic at its biggest size possible. We should be able to get it set at the right size for your avatar.
Cheers, Imageshack resized it for me.
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Cool! I didn't know they did that.
Hey there everyone. I aint really computer savy but I am a fan of the Fett, and I could use an avatar I guess.
I think though I would like something a little mor origional (No offense intended to anyone).
I was reading the legacy of the force series and they made reference to the fact that not all mandalorians wear matched armor. They will sometimes take pieces of armor from fallen enemies, allies, family members, and for a multitude of other reasons.
So I guess my question is... Does anyone know who could put togeather an image for me consisting of armor from different periods, different colors, different ammounts of damage etc. ?
If so I would appreciate it.
(I apologize for my horrible grammer and spelling I am from Arkansas. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it.)
Do you know the colors you want? like Jango is purple/blue/silver or boba, gree/red/gray and do you want just the chest up or the whole mando?
We can make about anything as long as iwe know what you want.
Well I was thinking the helmet and Chest armor would be kinda camo. Different shades for different areas but still camo.
For instance,
Te parts of Boba's Armor that are green would be a green camo like the Clone troopers in episode 3, or the rebels camo on Endor in episode 6. The red parts in the same type of camo but in shades of grey and black.
Whereas the arms and legs would be a varied assortment of colors and types sort of pieced togeather like a patchwork quilt. Well... Except for the forearms they should still be that black and grey camo. And the camo armor sorta chipped and dinged like Boba's.
I guess like a lower ranked Mando that started out with just helmet chest and back armor and forearms, and since then he has been adding to it over the years with stuff from here and there.
Hi! So I am totally new to this whole star wars thing, but I have found myself enamored with the concept and story of Boba! could somebody please make me an avatar so I can dive head first into this madness that is the star wars fandom? this is the image I would like to use.
Thanks Muchly!
I got a question for everyone...
Hey is it possible to change your username in here? I wanted to use one in Mando'a but I figured it would be taken... However, it seems that not a lot of people research Mando'a names on here. Not that that is a bad thing it was just unexpected.
I don't think so...can we do that?
That would be something you would have to ask the boss...I really don't think so...
There you go! I'll get to work on the other one.
I love it! Thanks bunches!
I got a question for everyone...
Hey is it possible to change your username in here? I wanted to use one in Mando'a but I figured it would be taken... However, it seems that not a lot of people research Mando'a names on here. Not that that is a bad thing it was just unexpected.
I think you would have to start all over to change your name. So what's it mean anyway? I know ka'rta is heart. I wouldn't be disheartened, vod'ika...I only speak pigeon Mando, it's not so jate.
I'm old so learning a new language is a pain in the ***. Of course I can curse in about twelve of them including Mandoa, LOL.
actually this IS the new one. Someone put me in contact with aaron and he changed it for me.
And actually it is Mando'a and as my understanding isnt perfect it should literally translate to "Vengeful Heart"
Its always fun to make a name for yourself (Pun fully intended)
Anywho the more casual meaning would be "Someone to be left alone" or "Dont mess with me leave me alone and I will leave you alone"
It seemed like the sort of name a Mando would give to a child.
Ahhhhh, well there must be a reason for that vengence. Mandos seem to name their kids for anything and everything.
Hey all these people have things on here like "Smuggler from bavaria" and I dont know how to do that... Any info ? Please?
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Yeah, I guess he forgot about us...
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That's the problem with debt saturation and why it's best not to base all your money on debt.
It can be demonstrated that the math of debt just doesn't work in many different ways, today we're going to take a snapshot at the long end of the yield curve so that we can illuminate the deep, dark, and dank corner in which our politicians and central bankers have painted themselves with their debt backed money.
I keep talking about the math of debt and how it is expressing itself in several ways:
Death by Numbers
Zombie Nation – The Rise of the Mathematical Plague
The Impossible Math of Debt Backed Money
All of these articles point to the same mathematical conundrum of debt backed money. The bond market, otherwise known as the DEBT market, is saying the same thing.
A little over a year ago I wrote Bond Market Hide & Seek – A Domed House & 3 Peaks, that explained the topping formation in long bonds and why I was forecasting that the blow-off parabolic move occurring at the time was ending and that it would collapse back to its base. That's exactly what happened, and now here we are at the base yet again.
This base is an inflection point. A decision must be made.
Below is a 5 year chart of TLT showing the phases of that formation and subsequent collapse. The overall formation is now a very large Head & Shoulders. The head was formed as interest rates on the short end of the curve reached ZERO. Therefore, I believe that was it – as high as TLT can possibly get (price moves up as rates move lower). The green up-sloping line is the ten year trendline, note that we are sitting right on it or even just below it depending on how it's drawn. A break of that trendline will signal higher rates are coming:
IF that neckline is penetrated and that H&S pattern confirmed, the target on that formation is all the way down at 56! That would represent a disaster of massive debt proportions to our economy. Each uptick in interest rates makes the chasm between debt and income even wider.
How do rates get below the neckline? By first breaking the smaller H&S formation found on this 9 month chart of the TLT:
That 9 month H&S pattern is the right shoulder of the larger H&S pattern. Here you have a neckline that is now at 89 to 90, right in the present position. A break below here breaks the long term trendline and validates the smaller H&S pattern that has a price target of 78. That's well below the larger H&S neckline and now you have a disaster target of only 56 and you basically doubled the cost of carrying long term debt.
Could that happen? Absolutely. Many are calling for a bounce upwards, and that may happen, but only if choices are made that allow it to happen.
If you look back up at that 9 month TLT chart, I do note that I see 5 distinct waves down into our present location, the daily, weekly, and monthly stochastics are oversold and look prime for a bounce. Definitely up against long term support. But a bounce here will likely mean that equities take it on the chin. Which is it going to be?
The Point & Figure charts say that the necklines are going to break. Below is the TLT P&F chart, the bearish target is 82.
Now let's look at the 30 year bond fund, USB. Below is a weekly chart and here you can see the same H&S pattern with prices approaching the red neckline. If that neckline is broken, the target would be 86, again a long way down. I contend that we reached a critical juncture when interest rates on the short end reached zero… that means that the future will not look like the past 30 years as interest rates have been descending since 1980:
Below is the USB P&F diagram, bearish target is 94:
Yes, there are still choices to be made, but none of them are good ones. "Johnny, show 'em what's behind door number 1!"
Door #1. "Well, Bob, behind door number one…" we can let interest rates rise, break the neckline and watch in slow motion as all the holders of debt slowly get killed… that would include our Federal Government. Sure, the stock market can go higher for awhile as money flows out of bonds but eventually the economy simply grinds to a halt as the cost to finance our national debt skyrockets, as the cost to finance homes, autos, and consumer debt skyrockets, and as the expense to finance business skyrockets. It won't be a pretty sight, but it may take awhile longer to be noticed and fully realized. Bernanke just signaled this is his option by raising rates .25%. This option is the option that kicks the can down the road just a little farther.
Door #2. We take the pressure off the debt markets by withdrawing stimulus, letting equities roll over, people again seeking safety into the debt markets. No, bond prices will not, in my opinion, get anywhere near as high as they were before, this is because of debt revulsion – investors have already been burned and now see the massive deficits somewhat as the threat that they are. If we play by the rules of the game, this is the option that will win the day. Of course accounting standards like mark-to-fantasy aren't exactly in accordance with Hoyle already. This option is being jawboned, we'll see if they really mean it and pull support.
Door #3. This is the option of changing the rules of the game. A lot of this has occurred already, but this option is a confidence destroyer. It means more Q.E. (money printing), it means more buying up of toxic waste assets, and it means other "creative solutions" could be coming.
"All this, and more, can be yours IF the Price is Right!"
"Thank you, Johnny!" Bob graciously hosted as he turns to a red faced Bernanke, "Well, Ben, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't – which door will it be?"
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North Korea is easing some of strict cell phone rules -- now, visitors can bring their own mobile devices into the country, according to the Associated Press.
While this may seem like a minor move on the part of the North Korean government, it is actually a big step for one of the most closed-off countries in the world. Despite the ease in regulations, foreigners are still not allowed to talk to any locals via mobile device.
For years North Korea's authorities made visitors leave their cell phones at the border or airport when arriving to the country, according to the Associated Press. Now, the new rules allow foreigners to bring their own WCDMA-compatible phones or rent a mobile and buy a local SIM card at the airport. These SIM cards allow calls to Japan and the U.S., but not South Korea.
This change in the rules may have been brought on by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's recent trip to the country in his push to get North Korea's government to give its citizens more Internet access. On his visit, Schmidt elected to leave his phone in China and rent a local handset.
"We left our phones and laptops behind in China, since we were warned they'd be confiscated in NK, and probably infected with lord knows what malware," Schmidt's daughter, who accompanied her father to North Korea, wrote in a blog post yesterday.
North Korea is known for restricting its citizens' access to cell phones. In 2008, the government banned the use of cell phones to prevent its residents from sharing news about a worsening food crisis. And in December 2010, after the death of president Kim Jong-il, all cell phone use was prohibited during a 100-day mourning period. Those people caught using a mobile device were considered war criminals and "punished accordingly."
The ongoing bans on cell phones seems to stem from the government's desire to keep a tight rein on information flow in and out of the country. According to the Associated Press, more than 1 million North Koreans now have cell phones and that number is growing. However, 1 million people is still less than 5 percent of the country's total population.


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The Value of Learning To Cook
The potential of food to add beauty/pleasure to everyday life should not be under-estimated.
I have been discussing job skills for the past five days, but life skills are equally valuable. For example, knowing how to cook. Knowing how to cook offers benefits beyond just saving money (though that is important); when you know how to cook:
This is more my style: a burger topped with a nice brie cheese (from Costco--very reasonably priced) and home-made pickles--a remarkably easy project.
If you type what's cooking at our house into the custom search box in the upper left sidebar, you will find many entries such as What's Cooking at our House: Sichuan Green Beans. My goal in sharing our day-to-day cooking is to show that it isn't that hard to create delicious meals--especially if you have a garden. I am not a great cook, but being a great cook isn't necessary. Knowing the basics and understanding that the prep is 90% of the process is enough.
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Are you like me? Ever since my first summer job decades ago, I've been chasing financial security. Not win-the-lottery, Bill Gates riches (although it would be nice!), but simply a feeling of financial control. I want my financial worries to if not disappear at least be manageable and comprehensible.
And like most of you, the way I've moved toward my goal has always hinged not just on having a job but a career.
You don't have to be a financial blogger to know that "having a job" and "having a career" do not mean the same thing today as they did when I first started swinging a hammer for a paycheck.
Even the basic concept "getting a job" has changed so radically that jobs--getting and keeping them, and the perceived lack of them--is the number one financial topic among friends, family and for that matter, complete strangers.
So I sat down and wrote this book: Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy.
It details everything I've verified about employment and the economy, and lays out an action plan to get you employed.
I am proud of this book. It is the culmination of both my practical work experiences and my financial analysis, and it is a useful, practical, and clarifying read.
Test drive the first section and see for yourself. Kindle, $9.95 print, $20
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Angela Stanford fired a 67 Friday, the low round of the afternoon, and jumped two shots in front at the midway point of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.
Stanford, winner of this year's HSBC Championship, concluded 36 holes at the Guadalajara Country Club with an 11-under total of 133. One of her five LPGA Tour victories came in this event in 2008.
She ran off four straight birdies beginning at the par-4 seventh after sharing the first-round lead with Candie Kung and Michelle Wie.
Inbee Park was alone in second at 135 after firing a 68. Cristie Kerr was another shot back.
Kung was tied for fourth at 137 with Stacy Lewis and So Yeon Ryu. Lewis is coming off a win last week in Japan.
Wie dropped to 12th place at 141 after shooting a 75. Tournament host Lorena Ochoa was tied for 19th in the 36-player field.


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Many parasites have developed mechanisms that suppress their hosts' ability to fight them off or even change their behavior in favor of the parasite.
"We found the opposite is true with tiger moth caterpillars and their parasites," said UA Regents' Professor Emerita Elizabeth Bernays.
Bernays discovered the previously unknown phenomenon when she studied tiger moth caterpillars infected with parasitic fly larvae. The presence of the parasites alters their hosts' taste organs. As a result, the caterpillars prefer to consume plants containing chemicals toxic to the parasites.
Bernays, who is in the department of entomology at UA's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and in the Division of Neurobiology at UA's Arizona Research Laboratories, did the research with Michael Singer, a former doctoral student of hers who is now an assistant professor in the department of biology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.
"It is a new and surprising kind of interaction between organisms," said Bernays. "When parasites change the behavior of their hosts, it's usually to their advantage."
The chemical war starts when parasitic flies of the tachinid family seek out their victims, the caterpillars of two species of tiger moth, Grammia geneura and Estigmene acrea. The flies lay their eggs on the outer surface (cuticle) of the caterpillar. As soon as the larvae hatch they bore through the cuticle and squeeze inside the caterpillar's body. Inside they feast on the caterpillar's tissue, using it as an ever-fresh live supply of food. When the fly larvae have eventually consumed and killed their host, they pupate and develop into adult flies.
But in the case of the tiger moth, co-evolution between parasite and host has resulted in an arms race involving chemical weapons.
Some plants that the caterpillars feed on produce chemicals that are toxic to the parasites and kill them. The chemicals, known as pyrrolizidine alkaloids and iridoid glycosides, are secondary compounds made by plants such as ragwort and plantain. When the caterpillars consume those plants, the substances become distributed throughout the caterpillar's body. The caterpillars store especially high amounts in their skin and blood to deter various natural enemies.
"Normally the caterpillars wander around and eat lots of different plants," explained Bernays.
But caterpillars with parasites in their bodies behave differently, the team found.
"They are likely to stay longer on those plants that contain the protective chemicals, thus eating more of the plants that are good for them," said Bernays.
Using neurophysiological methods, Bernays and Singer figured out why parasitized caterpillars switch to a more healthful eating behavior.
When parasites are present in a caterpillar, its taste cells react differently to chemicals in the food. The cells become more responsive to the protective chemicals and less sensitive to other chemicals, which are present in the same plants but are distasteful to the caterpillar and normally cause it to crawl off and look for tastier plants elsewhere.
As a result, the change in behavior elicited by the parasites makes parasitized caterpillars consume more of the beneficial plants. In many cases, the altered behavior helps the caterpillar to escape its impending doom because the plant chemicals kill off its parasites.
Bernays and her co-worker have not yet figured out by what mechanism the parasite elicits the change of behavior on a physiological level. "It's still a mystery how they do it," Bernays said. "But the result for the caterpillars is the same: They can survive because they find the protective plants more tasty."
Some parasites trigger their own destruction by altering their hosts' behavior, researchers at The University of Arizona and Wesleyan University report in Nature.
Source: University of Arizona. August 2005.


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Check showtimes to see when Amanpour is on CNN where you are. Or watch online.
By Mick Krever, CNN
Boris Johnson may be the most colorful mayor in the world.
Known for his wit – and sometimes gaffes – the top man in London sports a floppy blonde mop of uncombed hair.
When he wants to promote the bike share system nicknamed after him – Boris Bikes – he rides them up to strangers in shopping malls.
When he wants to promote the Olympics, he ziplines in full suit, waving a tiny Union Jack in each hand. The fact that he got stuck twenty feet off the ground halfway down was just "the only piece of transport infrastructure that seriously malfunctioned" during the Games, he says.
"I'm deliriously happy," Johnson told CNN's Christiane Amanpour at his office overlooking the Thames and Tower Bridge on Monday. "I'm deliriously happy and lucky to be mayor of London."
He helped orchestrate the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London, and claims success, by citing statistics, among other things, on the number of births since the event.
"I got the statistics and this is biggest baby boom this city has seen since 1966, when England won the World Cup," he said. "This is yet another legacy from the joyful events of the summer of 2012 … they're expressing that confidence in the most vivid possible way."
Johnson is confident that the Olympics have been a great benefit to London – something leaders in Brazil, which has seen massive protests against in part spending on their own Olympic Games, may want to hear.
"One of the most important lessons I think we got from the 2012 experience was don't get spooked by the doubters," Johnson said, "because they will come for you and they will find - they will criticize everything. And you've just got to butch it out and keep going."
London is a global city, but Johnson nonetheless inserts himself into global affairs more than one would expect for a city mayor.
Among the international issues looming largest in the United Kingdom is membership in the European Union. Prime Minister Cameron has promised a national referendum on the issue.
"In the end, people are massively commonsensical in this country," the London mayor said. "They're going to say, 'How can we maximize our economic advantage whilst minimizing the interference?' That's what we're going to want."
If a mayor speaks out on global affairs does that mean he has higher ambitions?
"I want to be mayor of London and I certainly can't foresee any circumstances in which I will be prime minister," Johnson said.
The job, in his telling, is simply too good to give up.
"It gluts the appetite for power," Johnson told Amampour. "You know, I can take executive decisions and get things done in London at a speed and on a scale – it's sounds megalomaniacal now - but I don't think many secretaries of state can in Whitehall," the seat of the British government.
Many Londoners were shocked, Johson said, when he was first elected in May 2008. Since then, they have grown used to his cutting quips – sometimes to a fault.
"Sometimes I'm making a speech and I've just got to say something unbelievably dull but important," Johnson said reflectively. "And I see the audience looking at me, sort of waiting for me to say something amusing … but you've got to fight that. You've got to have the wit to be dull."
So you went to London, got to talk to the top man, and this is the result? That's incredibly shallow.
What about Calgary's mayor? Ex-professor, quit-witted, flamboyant, and yes, Muslim. He's practically a folk-hero in Calgary after leading the city through a natural disaster this year with over 80% approval and a variety of restaurants and businesses naming their products after him. Somebody even vandalized a Man of Steel billlboard to replace superman's face with the mayor's! Nenshi's so popular that there is a chance nobody will run against him in the upcoming election. Perhaps less masculine (?) than Boris, but certainly at least as colourful.
Is Calgary a city now? Last time I checked it was an open mine pit. :)))))))) As long as you still have the BigMac's and the Timbits you're OK. Can be classified as a city ... I guess.
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Iran:傷を癒す必要がある,発言,そうですね.傷を癒す相手は米だ.周りが,とやかく言うより,米とIran,対話なくて 前進なし.じっくり対話必要.話し合いして下さい.
Egypt:ここも対話なし?何も解決しないと思うが. デモ?何の為に?他に,する事が,あるのでは,ないのか?.
Have a nice day all
rie matsumoto.
He does one hell of a porn shot to boot !
With Scotland set to sail away, what remains in the UK that is half as precious as London ?
When it is a man blonde is spelt without the 'e'.
Boris is a character but lets not forget, he didn't win the olympics, the last party in government did. In fact hasn't really done anything to benefit London that the previous government hadn't already put in motion!


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Birds and ducks decapitated in horrific act of cruelty
POLICE are investigating a mass poultry slaughter at a Morayfield home on Friday morning in the latest stint of animal cruelty to hit the town.
Retiree Kerry Twine, 68 and her partner Robert Venz of Adelong Ct, were left distraught after they discovered the cruel mess left in their back yard when they woke up on Friday.
About 20 birds including ducks and chickens were decapitated and left around their yard.
Ms Twine believed the killings happened about 4am.
She said she heard a noise about that time and came outside to see what it was but couldn't see anything.
It wasn't until the couple woke up that they saw the extent of the cruelty.
"I noticed what I thought was a pile of rags down at the gate, I went down to see what it was and it was all my chooks in a pile, they had been neatly stacked without their heads," Ms Twine.
"I can't get the sight out of my mind."
She said she found her favourite rooster Henry with also a snapped neck.
It was little solace but she was relieved he had been spared the brutal fate of the others.
Ms Twine said she wasn't the only home targeted in the street that night, another house further down also discovered one dead chook and others missing.
She said she believed the offenders were locals.
"I don't know why anyone would do this," she said.
Police believed the offenders had entered Ms Twine's backyard between 1-4am and located a handaxe at the scene which was allegedly used to decapitate the birds.
A police spokesman said the Caboolture Criminal Investigation Branch was investigating the matter.
"They have listed some suspects and interviewed people but charges have not been laid as of yet," the spokesman said.


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I caught Koa playing in a big tub in one of the Parade of Homes models. They need a new interior designer in my humble opinion. Looks like a zebra went through a wood chipper. At least Koa didn't take his clothes off. There were a lot of other people walking around the house too...
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Scientists Explore Secrets of the Well-Hit Fastball
Human brain 'predicts' the path of objects hurtling toward it, researchers report
WEDNESDAY, May 8, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- A baseball pitched at more than 90 miles per hour or a tennis ball swatted at even greater speeds leaves opponents mere split-seconds to ready themselves for a savvy return. So how can the human brain track such small objects traveling at such high speeds?
New research suggests that the brain can predict and map the path of an oncoming object faster than it processes incoming visual information.
"For the first time, we can see this sophisticated prediction mechanism at work in the human brain," study lead author Gerrit Maus, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a university news release.
The researchers said it can take one-tenth of a second for the brain to process what the eye sees. That means, for example, that by the time the brain "catches up" with incoming visual information, a tennis ball moving toward a person at 120 miles per hour would already have moved 15 feet closer. If people couldn't compensate for this, they'd be hit by oncoming objects much more frequently than they are, the researchers said.
To make up for this delay, the brain appears to engage a "prediction mechanism" that pushes oncoming objects a bit forward in their expected trajectory, according to the new study.
"The image that hits the eye and then is processed by the brain is not in sync with the real world, but the brain is clever enough to compensate for that," Maus said. "What we perceive doesn't necessarily have that much to do with the real world, but it is what we need to know to interact with the real world."
Maus's team said the findings provide deeper understanding of how people anticipate the trajectory of moving objects. Besides giving us a better understanding of how top athletes perform so well, the new insight could help doctors diagnose and treat many disorders, including those that impair motion perception.
The study involved six people who underwent functional MRI scans, in which brain activity is tracked in real time. During the scans, they viewed a two-part visual illusion in which they saw brief flashes shifting in the direction of motion, called the "flash-drag effect."
Using this technology, the researchers were able to pinpoint a region of the brain, called V5, that makes calculations to compensate for people's delayed visual-processing abilities.
"[The brain] engages its prediction mechanism to compensate for processing delays," Maus said. "Now, not only can we see the outcome of prediction in area V5, but we can also show that it is causally involved in enabling us to see objects accurately in predicted positions."
The study's authors said their findings coincide with the Obama Administration's push to create a Brain Activity Map Initiative, which will further advance the creation of a roadmap of human brain circuits.
The study was published May 8 in the journal Neuron.
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GOP's tech visa bill copies, literally, Democrat's bill
- 18 October, 2011 21:04
A Republican lawmaker has submitted legislation that would make foreign students who earn advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math at U.S. universities automatically eligible for a green card or permanent residency if they have a job offer.
If this bill by U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) sounds familiar, it should. In June, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), introduced legislation seeking the exact same thing.
Indeed, Labrador's bill appears to be a cut-and-paste version of what Lofgren is seeking. Lofgren's bill is HR 2161 , and Labrador's is HR 3146 .
"It's kind of a novelty to take something word for word out of another bill, but it is probably not the first time it has happen in Congress," said Lofgren, in an interview. She called it disconcerting and said she has spoken to Labrador about it.
The difference is in the scope of the bills. Labrador's bill limits itself to green cards for advanced degree graduates. What Lofgren proposed was more comprehensive. Her bill sought, among other things, green cards for foreign entrepreneurs who invest in the U.S., as well as H-1B and L-1 visa reforms, including eliminating the lowest level of the prevailing wage scale.
Lofgren doubts that Labrador's bill "can actually make it all the way to the finish line," and said there were provisions in her bill that are intended to help broaden support in both chambers.
Lofgren is on the House Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the key person in deciding what immigration bills move ahead or not.
"I haven't gotten a sense from Chairman Smith that he is eager to do anything that meaningful," said Lofgren, of immigration reform, although she said there may be some interest in moving small things.
Labrador, in a statement Friday announcing the bill, said his legislation addresses "the long-term problem of too few American students entering into math and science-based programs."
"When I practiced immigration law I regularly worked with high-tech companies in Idaho who had openings for workers with advanced degrees but, due to the small number of U.S. graduates in these fields, could not find the employees they needed," Labrador said.
Asked about the copying of Lofgren's bill, Phil Hardy, a Labrador spokesman, said that when they talked with industry groups "they all mentioned that the Lofgren bill was a great starting point," he said, in an email.
Hardy said that "as is common, our office asked legislative counsel to help draft our bill, keeping the good parts and taking out the parts that Mr. Labrador felt weren't necessary to create a vibrant STEM reform plan." STEM refers to science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM fields.
Hardy said because everyone is trying to accomplish the same thing "the language is going to be alike." He also hoped it would encourage bipartisan cooperation.
The idea of granting green cards to STEM grads has been around for some time. U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, (R-Ariz.), for instance, reintroduced what he called the "Staple Act," earlier this year.
Industry supporters, including the IEEE-USA, which announced support for Labrador's bill, cite data that finds, for instance, that more than 55% of the master's and 63% of Ph.D graduates from U.S. universities in electrical and electronics engineering are foreign nationals.
But there is also debate and controversy about the effects of such a program regardless of who proposes it.
Smith raised concerns, at a hearing earlier this month on the STEM workforce, about an automatic green card policy for advance degree grads. Among his concerns is that "a visa 'pot of gold' could create an incentive for schools to aim solely to attract tuition-paying foreign students with the lure of a green card."
At the same hearing, Lindsay Lowell, director of policy studies at the Institute of International Migration, said the number of U.S. science and engineering graduates is far larger than the science and engineering workforce.
Lowell said the U.S. projects 190,000 annual science and engineering job openings due to growth and replacement needs between 2008 and 2018. Annually, between 1995 and 2007, there was an increasing number of domestic science and engineering graduates, averaging 408,000 with bachelor's degrees; 78,000 with master's degrees ; and 21,000 doctoral graduates for a total of 507,000.
Lowell told the committee that there is "little evidence that our educational pipeline produces too few domestic students able and willing to pursue a science and engineering career." A tighter labor market also induces wage gains, he said.
Also testifying was Darla Whitaker, senior vice president of worldwide human resources at Texas Instruments who testified on behalf of the Semiconductor Industry Association. She told lawmakers that companies want to recruit from the entire talent pool of graduates.
"We do not choose where those engineers were born or what their citizenship is," said Whitaker. "We choose the best, the brightest and the most creative engineering graduates," she said.
Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, said the Labrador bill "is a sledgehammer approach that will surely create many negative unintended consequences."
"Most foreign STEM advanced degree graduates can already stay through an H-1B and be sponsored permanently through an EB-1 or EB-2 visa," said Hira, referring to employment-based green cards.
An EB-1 worker is "an outstanding professor or researcher, or are a multinational executive or manager," according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. An EB-2 visa is available to someone with an "advanced degree or its equivalent," among other criteria.
There are long backlogs for EB-2s from two important source countries, India and China, Hira said. If that is the problem Labrador wants to solve, then there are cleaner ways to do so, such as adjusting the size of the allowed EB-2 visas, he said.
"Labrador's bill invites creative business models from entrepreneurial universities to sell green cards," said Hira. "The bill hasn't been vetted carefully."
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Are you ready? Only Gordon Sondland will testify today, and he is a key player in the whole Schiff Circus. He spoke to the President on 5 occasions, at least that is what we are being told. After yesterday, we can expect the Dems to try to make up some lost ground. Oh, and don't spend all your energy here ——- there is a Dem Debate tonight.
Yesterday, ThinkThinkThink passed me this photo and it's perfect for today. Members of the swamp, all having fun together.
Testimony will be streamed from same places as yesterday.
Thought I would take this opportunity to tell you a little more about Gordon Sondland, the US Ambassador to the EU.
Gordon Sondland was born in 1957, based in Portland Oregon, born in Seattle, founder of Provenance Hotels and co-Founder of Merchant Bank Aspen Capital. He's a multi-multi-millionaire, if not a billionaire. Interesting – he dropped out of University of Washington to start the real estate biz —- he did well. His parents were Jewish and escaped the Nazis. He's been married to Katherine (Katy) for decades and their charitable foundation, which supports families, has been active since 1999. Until 2016, Durant was the Chairperson of the Oregon Investment Council, the body that oversees the over $85 billion Public Employees Retirement System Fund.[68] They have two children, Max and Lucy.
Sondland has been enormously successful renovating older downtown buildings and turning them into fabulous gems from Denver to Seattle, to Los Angeles and back again. A project like The Old Post Office in DC, would have been Sondland's dream come true. When he was appointed as Ambassador to the EU, his wife took his place as Chairman of the Hotel Company.
There is a lot of speculation about how loyal Sondland will be to President Trump. Let's look at Sondland's political history to see if we can discern how he "leans".
- Sondland was a member of the transition team for Oregon Democratic Governor Ted Kulongoski's administration and was appointed by Kulongoski to serve on the board of the Governor's Office of Film & Television.
- Sondland also served as Oregon liaison to the White House. (Under Bush)
- In 2007 President George W. Bush appointed Sondland as a member of the Commission on White House Fellows.
- During the 2016 United States presidential election, Sondland initially supported Donald Trump, but cancelled a fundraiser and repudiated Trump for his attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan
- April 2017, it was revealed that 4 companies registered to Sondland donated $1 million to the Donald Trump inaugural committee.
- On March 12, 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump selected Sondland to be the next United States ambassador to the European Union. (Confirmed June 28th, 2018)
- Both Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) testified in support of Sondland.[33] Sen. Wyden suggested that Sondland's "family history is both fascinating and instructive as to why he has the experience and understanding to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the E.U.," noting how his Jewish parents fled Nazi Germany before coming to the United States.
- Sondland served as Co-chair raising funds for the George Bush Center.
- Sondland has served as Trump Admin lead for coraling EU nations for Iran Sanctions, the SPV vehicle which skirts US sanctions, and has been a vocal critic of the Nord Stream Pipeline.
Because Ukraine (allegedly) wants to enter the EU, Sondland would be the primary lead guy in charge of Ukraine policy. Bill Taylor would answer to Sondland. Volker would answer to Sondland. There are two text message exchanges we will probably see today. Here they are.
Ukraine Bill Taylor: [12:47:11 AM] Bill Taylor: "As I said on the phone, I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign." This was seen as the "set-up" text message. It came AFTER the Politico article was released, and Taylor already knew the premise was bogus. Yet, here, he is trying to trap Sondland.
It took Sondland approximately 5 hours to reply to Taylor's text message (because Taylor sent the message a 1:00am in the damn morning), and it was later revealed that Sondland had called Trump prior to writing a response, in which the president repeated the phrase "no quid pro quo" several times. Sondland responds:
[9/9/2019, 5:19:35 AM] Gordon Sondland: Bill, I believe you are incorrect about President Trump's intentions. The President has been crystal clear no quid pro quo's of any kind. The President is trying to evaluate whether Ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms that President Zelensky promised during his campaign I suggest we stop the back and forth by text If you still have concerns I recommend you give Lisa Kenna or S a call to discuss them directly. ThanksWiki
On November 5, the New York Times reported that Sondland had provided updated testimony stating that he did in fact view delivery of the aid package as contingent upon the Ukrainian government publicly opening an investigation of Trump's political rivals as desired by the President. According to the testimony, he relayed this position to Ukrainian government officials. (note the phrasing from the NYTimes – it could be that the President merely wanted corruption from 2016 and Burisma and origins of the 2016 election investigated ——– which happen to be the Bidens)
Fiona Hill created the theme of "The Sondland Problem" whereby she chastised Sondland for pushing more investigations. "The Sondland Problem" was a trending topic on Twitter, yesterday.
The press has been after Sondland as well. They interviewed his general contractor who is renovating his personal residence. No kidding. And the press criticized Sondland for spending over $250K on the renovation of his kitchen. Word to the wise, if Big T was a billionaire – and as much as I love to cook – I could easily spend a MILLION dollars on our kitchen. Besides, it's Sondland's own money.
Here, we see Sondland standing next to Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry. Sondland has done a good job for the Trump Admin and probably NEVER expected this kind of scrutiny. The left will be desperate to disparage Sondland…. it's there best chance for something substantive. Let's hope he can withstand the barrage.
Sondland will only be available in the morning/early afternoon session. At 2:30pm Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Ukrainian and Eurasian affairs and David Hale, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. We'll do a seperate thread for them.


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