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The Irish rugby union community was unified in mourning over the weekend following the death of Ulster centre Nevin Spence.
Spence, 22, was killed alongside his brother Graham and father Noel in an incident which is believed to have unfolded as the trio attempted to come to each other's aid after falling into a slurry tank at their farm in Hillsborough.
Investigators are still examining the circumstances of the incident in County Down but it is known emergency services went to the farm in Drumlough Road shortly after 6pm on Saturday. Spence was considered one of the up-and-coming stars of the Ulster scene and was tipped as a future Ireland star.
Brian O'Driscoll took to Twitter to post his condolences, writing: "Devastating news about Nevin Spence, his dad & brother. What a wonderful talent he was. Thoughts & prayers go out to his family & friends."
One of Ulster's most famous former players David Humphreys, now the club's director of professional rugby, said he was overwhelmed by the loss of a man he had watched rise through the ranks.
"You just need to listen to some of the conversations with our players over the last 24 hours," he said. "All of us are struggling to come to terms with what has happened.
"On days when nobody else wanted to come in and train, he was there leading from the front. All he wanted to do for the remainder of his career was to stay here, win trophies and be successful for Ulster."
Irish Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Eamon Gilmore visited Ravenhill to pay his respects on behalf of the Dublin Government.
Gilmore said: "This was a huge tragedy for the family. I want to express my condolences to Mrs Spence, to the family, the two daughters. I grew up on a farm, I understand how something like this could happen. I can picture how it could happen. It's a deep tragedy, it's a great loss and I think that everybody on this island of Ireland will express their sympathy with the Spence family."
It was later confirmed Ulster's RaboDirect PRO12 fixture against Zebre, due to be played in Parma on Friday night, has been postponed following Spence's death.


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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Weekend Open Thread...
Friday, April 22, 2011
Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/22 - Dear Mr. President, YOU are the Oil Speculator...
Markets are closed today, and there are no economic releases. Next week will bring a lot of data including Q1 GDP which is forecast to have risen 2.0%, down from 3.1% in Q4, 2010. Wednesday will also bring more lip flapping from the "Fed's" FOMC, and oh boy, we get a historic first in that Bernanke will hold a press conference after the announcement. What a placating joke.
Once again President Obama says that the evil speculators are running up the price of oil and that he's really going to crack down on them! This time he means it. Of course he said basically the same exact thing back in 2009, and then again in 2010, and how's that worked out so far? Oh yeah, and here's what he said when he was running for President, showing just how knowledgeable our President is on the subject:
Well, here's a tip, Mr. President. Take a look at the following chart and see if you can spot the correlation:
Okay, so WHO is in charge of the monetary base, Mr. President? Yes, that's right, the same PRIVATE bankers who pretend to be a government agency and are the largest donators to your campaign. The same bankers who you promised time and again to crack down on, but never did. If and when you get serious about controlling speculation in the oil markets, then please write and I'll fill you in on how to actually accomplish that – just make sure you surround yourself with your most trusted security force first!
And Mr. President, just so that you're not confused on where the fuel for the speculation is coming from, let's discuss that aspect because it seems that many people are being fooled by the "Fed's" mechanics of "Quantitative Easing." The trail they have built for America is one based upon deception.
But to fully understand this deception, we must first understand that there are three types of money:
1. Credit Money – this is money that is borrowed under contract, must be repaid within a specified timeframe, and bears interest. Prior to QE, 100% of our traceable money was credit money – new money came into existence through private loans, and if the government needed more money than they received in taxes, then they could barrow more in the form of bonds – usually bought by the private banks. In this way, ALL money is created by the PRIVATE banks, is someone's obligation, and bears interest.
2. Sovereign Money – This is money created by the government without debt. Our government does not produce sovereign money any longer.
3. Other Money – Other money is created by instruments that act like money, but are neither sovereign produced, nor bear interest. This is BY FAR the largest type of money in existence. It includes all derivative instruments, trading on margin, futures (which are just another form of derivative), and any thing else that acts like money generally to create leverage (which is the act of effectively multiplying money).
Now we need to talk about Inflation and Deflation. For overall MONETARY inflation to occur, the total supply of all three forms of money must rise. For monetary deflation to occur, the total of all three forms of money must decline.
Monetary inflation/ deflation is not necessarily the same as overall PRICE inflation/ deflation. It is possible to have the money supply growing, for example, but to have overall PRICE deflation occur if the population size is growing faster than the total supply of money – and visa versa.
Let's examine the "Roaring Twenties." At the time, there was a mix of sovereign money (supposedly "gold backed"), privately created credit money, and then massive amounts of margin was used to buy up stock which inflated the price of equities. The aggregate of all three dramatically outstripped the growth in population and overall price inflation broke out, especially in equities where margin was rampant. This created a bubble which was not supported by income and thus the bubble burst in the year 1929 – note that having gold backed sovereign money DID NOT stop the bubble from being created! This is because private credit and margin were not kept under control. And that is because we allowed the private bankers to be in control, and it was in their interest to let it get out of control – the very same thing that is happening today.
Here's what most "economists" either don't know or don't admit. Credit dollar creation is inflationary up until the point of debt saturation which is when income can no longer support it. Once debt saturation is reached, then credit creation becomes deflationary!!! This is why we had the wave of deflation that began in 2007 and roared into 2009.
During the Great Depression, margin money and credit money were allowed to contract. That allowed debt to fall to the point that income could support it, and then REAL growth resumed.
Today we have failed to let derivatives, margin, and credit money contract. Our income still cannot support more debt, and thus we are still debt saturated.
In comes the "Fed" to try something "different" because we don't want to repeat the Great Depression: So instead of letting the debt properly default, and let investors deleverage their margin, the "Fed" instead began transferring the private debt and leverage onto itself with a guarantee by the American taxpayer. This is exactly what "QE" is – it is a shift of debt from private banks onto the general population. Doing so IS MONEY "PRINTING," but it is simply indirect instead of direct. By taking debt instruments off the private banks, they are thus allowing the total money (all three types) to expand where otherwise it could not have!
Understand? In this way the mechanics of QE are designed to fool you. They get to claim that at some point they will be repaid, but that is simply a game, because in the mean time the banks are allowed to generate even more, and thus the total supply of money skyrockets. That's the fuel that creates the speculation.
My contention is that the total supply of the three types of money is unknowable because derivatives and margin are so out of control. Banks are effectively being allowed to "fractional reserve" to infinity, and thus producing nearly infinite leverage. This, of course, is NOT supported by income – and thus is GUARANTEED to fail.
It is the creation of too much credit, and too much of the "other money" type that is the problem. It became a problem because we allowed private individuals to control its production. Think about it – any individual, and even any politician who is given the power to create money will find ways to create more of it. Give me that power, and I'll show you how!
But it is possible to create a system that works – that is sustainable over time, allows prosperity, but also allows contraction without collapse. Such a system should, in my opinion, be a mix of private credit money, and sovereign money with NO "other money." If your goal is truly to reign in speculation in oil, food, or anything else, that is the only proper direction to head.
WHO controls the production of our money, Mr. President, WHO.
Still more radiation is being found in feeding mother's breast milk in Japan. Of the nine mothers tested so far, half have radioactive iodine contamination, and the most contaminated mother lives 150 miles away. According to one nuclear expert, the currently reported levels of radioactive iodine at the Fukushima plant absolutely mean that nuclear fission is taking place both in the reactors and in the cooling pools – Expert who worked at Sandia Labs: "TEPCO data suggest that fission is ongoing… This is bad news" — "Truly scary" that nobody in Japan seems to know basics of reactor accident progression. And thus radiation continues to pour out of the plant, across the ocean, and into our food and water supply where they are continuing to find increasing levels of radiation in our water, milk, and soil.
Yet according to the FDA, not to worry, it's all safe… Well here's a conversation that Arnie Gunderson had with Dr. Steven Wing regarding radiation exposure. No, there's no "safe" level of radiation. And what Dr. Wing pointed out is that even though the radiation is spread very widely, the total number of cancers does not decrease because of the dispersion! In other words, the more radiation that comes out, the more cancers there are regardless of how widely it disperses.
Epidemiologist, Dr. Steven Wing, Discusses Global Radiation Exposures and Consequences with Gundersen
While I wholeheartedly support what Dr. Wing is saying regarding acting collectively to ensure safety, I strongly disagree that there's nothing you can do to protect yourself individually. You can strive to eat food and drink water that was produced prior to the spread of radiation. You can avoid milk and creamy dairy products. You can install a reverse osmosis filter for your home's water. And if you want to get even more creative, there are many other things you can do as well. The young, in particular, should be protected.
And our government absolutely needs to get far more proactive, but again, they have been completely captured by special interests and thus will fail again in that regard.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/21
Equity futures are up slightly following yesterday's wild gap. The dollar is down some more, falling below the 2009 lows showing that this is a higher level wave lower. Of course as the dollar falls in value, the cost of oil goes up, and WTI is now $111 and change. Gold and silver are both higher still, with rumors now floating that someone/ some group/ some nation is working to corner the silver market. Personally doubt that the heavy buying is an attempt to "corner the market," rather it is a statement about the value of the dollar – I say that because silver is catching up to gold which is also setting records. Of course most food commodities are also higher.
The weekly Jobless Claims number came in above 400K again. At 403,000, this is well above the consensus that was looking for 390k, and once again last week's number was revised higher. Here's Econohope:
Fewer workers filed for initial unemployment benefits in the latest week but the data nevertheless point to risk for the April-to-March comparison. Initial claims fell 13,000 in the April 16 week to 403,000, not quite as low as expected and compared with 416,000 in the prior week (revised 4,000 higher). The latest improvement was too modest to keep the four-week average from rising for the fourth time in five weeks, up 2,250 to 399,000. A look back at this time last month shows the average at 391,000.
The Labor Department cited no special items in the latest week and once again made no mention of a possible Japanese effect. Before the ongoing bump, jobless claims had been showing two years of steady improvement. Stocks edged off highs in initial reaction to today's results.
The Philly Fed, Home Price Index, and "Leading Indicators" are released at 10 Eastern and will be reported inside of the daily thread comments below this post.
Why is the market and commodities zooming? Could billions per day in hot money have anything to do with it? Let's take a look at a chart I built this morning showing the cost of oil versus the monetary base:
Hmmm… there's a pretty big story there I think, and it pretty much puts the blame squarely where it belongs. You can blame demand (falling), or mid-east wars (American manipulation), or even speculators for the cost of oil, but it is the constant flow of hot money, including billions of dollars per day, that is really behind rising prices. The "Fed" is out of control with the production of money.
This week the housing data was touted in the mainstream as "flexing muscle." [insert major eye roll here] Below are the freshly updated charts of Housing Starts and Permits, you decide how bright the future looks based on these:
I'll simply note that a REAL economic recovery has never occurred without the housing industry leading the way. If you look at all the info in the charts above what is it that's leading the way? Oh yeah, money printing. Extraordinary money printing. Of course there needs to be sufficient money or the economy will suffer, but when you overdo it, the economy also suffers. These wild swings are brought to you because of the "Fed" controlled system. It doesn't work to have private individuals manage the nation's money – period.
Now there are rumors that the "Fed" may be selling put options on Treasury Bonds in order to drive down yields. While I don't know if they are doing this for a fact, it wouldn't surprise me as I know that desperate people do desperate things. The "Fed" is desperate to keep "growth" going at any cost, and they are taking actions that only desperate men would take. Manipulation is everywhere and because there is a complete lack of transparency in the markets, it is impossible to know everything that those doing the manipulating are up to. Here's a clear explanation of what might be happening in this regard:
Fraud is what it amounts to – and fraud is rampant.
Updating the nuclear situation, forecasts are showing a large amount of radiation crossing the Pacific and reaching the United States – again crickets from our mainstream and our politicians. Meanwhile tests by Berkeley University are showing increasing levels of radiation in milk (San Francisco) and in the soil at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Radiation is also now turning up in breast milk tested in Japan. Still, the radiation pours out of Fukushima and no serious action to contain the radiation is occurring.
Yesterday's ramp in the market managed to push the DOW Industrials to new highs, but the Transports and SPX failed to confirm that, thus there is a potential non-confirmation now in place. But as long as the money pumping continues, we can expect higher prices for everything – and that's the catch. They can't force the hot money to go only where they want it. And they're not willing to pass it on to the people so that they can keep up with inflation, and thus their pump money strategy is clearly limited – we are at or near those limits now.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/20
Equity futures continue to ramp overnight on the back of a broken dollar which is plummeting to new short term lows, bonds are roughly flat, WTI oil is climbing again and now just beneath $110 a barrel, gold is setting new all-time records of course - now well above $1,500 an ounce, silver is moving straight up and is now pushing $45 an ounce, and food commodities are shooting the moon today as well.
Let's put it this way… for stocks to double again, oil, gold, and food would also likely double again. Is that going to happen? Only if our money flat out crashes in value, Zimbabwe style. Perhaps that's what President Obama meant when he repeatedly stated that we are going to "double our exports in five years?" Can you imagine the impact that would have on the economy and on your personal habits? Devastating – because I will personally guarantee you that your income won't do the same.
Wonder why oil and the price of everything is rising so dramatically? Look no further than shear panic on the part of the "Fed" who is ramping monetary base literally straight up:
Gold appears to me to have put in a reverse Head & Shoulders pattern that is targeting roughly $1,560 an ounce. Should it make it there, I would then look for a pullback to the multi-year rising trendline that will by then be well above $1,400 an ounce:
Silver is moving in a much more dramatic vertical fashion… this is a dangerous play as there is no telling how high it will go before it gives in. All parabolic moves eventually collapse, but this could be – repeat could be – signaling a rapid devaluation of our money.
The run up in food commodities, of course, will continue to pressure people the world over who are living on the margins. More atrocities are occurring daily – these are sponsored by our own "Fed" who breeds trouble the world over.
The completely conflicted Mortgage Banker's Association released their phony Purchase Index claiming that it raised – get this – 10.0% in just one week! They really expect me to believe that sales are so volatile that they can rise 10% in one week? Do they think we all have rocks in our heads? Or are they the ones with rocks between the ears? You decide:
A scheduled increase in FHA insurance premiums tripped a 10.0 percent surge in purchase applications in the April 15 week, according to the weekly Mortgage Bankers Association report. The refinance index, boosted by a 15 basis point fall in the average 30-year mortgage to 4.83 percent, rose 2.7 percent. The purchase index improved in March pointing to strength for today's 10:00 a.m. ET release of existing homes data.
(cough, cough, bullshit)
Existing Home Sales is released at 10 Eastern. Keep in mind that it is spring time (duh), and that home sales will increase (duh), but keep the numbers in perspective with the depression that we are in. Also keep the following Option-ARM reset chart in mind:
Very telling for me in the markets, NYSE margin debt increased to its second highest reading of all-time, just behind February of 2008. This should concern anyone long the market as extreme leveraging absolutely creates bubble peaks – think 1929 and 2007/ 2008.
Following the crisis in Fukushima, Japan raised the annual limit that nuclear workers could be exposed to from 100 milli-sievert/year, to 250. Now they are raising it again to 500 – that's a 500% increase in allowable radiation – a level that is far beyond what any rational person would consider safe. Even the Soviet Union approached the problem way differently – they brought in literally hundreds of thousands of workers in order to limit their expose. Here they are simply dooming a fewer number. But their actions to date are falling far short as yet another day without containment passes.
Huge gaps in the charts again, the NDX just leaped in one overnight session from the bottom Bollinger to the top Bollinger:
Not a market, this is something not recognizable. Price leaps like that are far more frightening to me than stock market declines. That's because I know why this is occurring, and it is devastating to the vast majority of the population.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/19 - Can't Quit Cold Turkey Edition…
Stocks are continuing to bounce mildly after yesterday's "Negative Watch" meltdown. The dollar is significantly lower, bonds are higher again (and against higher equities), oil is down slightly, gold pushed into a new high at $1,500 but is hovering just below that resistance level, and most food commodities are higher.
Yesterday's action pushed the NDX into its lower Bollinger band, and the XLF closed below its lower band:
Whenever you see prices push these bands in today's HFT computer controlled holographic world, it's usually safe to assume that the market will at least pause there, and that's what we're seeing. Yesterday was a 90%+ panic selling down day that did cement a double-top looking 'm' formation. We'll see.
Bloomberg is reporting, and others are guessing, that Bernanke may not be able to quit printing cold turkey! No duh, the impossible math dictates that cannot happen unless he's willing to let the air out of the overinflated balloon:
Bernanke May Avoid 'Cold Turkey' End to Record StimulusWhat they are suggesting here is to "reinvest maturing debt." This talk is nothing but code/ disinformation language designed to confuse and confound the average person. They are simply saying that as debt matures that they will replace that debt with more debt in an equal number, versus the current equal number replacement PLUS. It's still "QE," and it's still nothing but outright money printing in laymen terms.
April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may keep reinvesting maturing debt into Treasuries to maintain record stimulus even after making good on a pledge to complete $600 billion in bond purchases by the end of June.
The Fed chief's top two lieutenants said this month the economy and inflation are too weak to warrant the start of a monetary-policy reversal. Investors and economists including David Kelly at JPMorgan Funds see that as a signal the Fed will keep its balance sheet at current levels by replacing about $17 billion a month in maturing mortgage debt with Treasuries.
Ending the reinvestment policy and the $600 billion program at the same time would be like quitting stimulus "cold turkey," said Kelly, who is based in New York and helps oversee $400 billion as chief market strategist at JPMorgan. "It does make sense to reinvest for a while," he said. "Then they could watch how bond yields react to that."
No, it doesn't matter what they call it, they cannot actually stop doing it without markets and the economy falling off the cliff which they created (to their own benefit).
This morning Housing Starts came in higher for March than in February as is what happens every spring. The number came in at 549,000 new starts, up from 479,000. Sounds great until you realize that these are all-time low depression era readings, that it is expected that the numbers go up in the spring, that housing completions set another new all-time low reading, and that apartment building is responsible for the majority of the starts (to house formerly middle-class Americans). Here's Econoshill, having trouble spinning this one – yet I note the headline in CNN reads "Housing market shows some muscle." To that I say sick and twisted, we are going to get fully what we deserve for being so full of fluff:
HighlightsHey, it's hard to go lower once you've fallen off a cliff. And any bounce off a cliff-dive looks big percentage wise to those who don't 'do' math. So, let's turn to a graphic for the math challenged to clearly illustrate my point:
Housing construction may be returning to normalcy after recently volatile winter months. Starts are up but still at a depressed pace. Housing starts in March rebounded 7.2 percent, following a monthly 18.5 percent drop in February. The March annualized pace of 0.549 million units came in higher than analysts' estimate for 0.525 million units and is down 13.4 percent on a year-ago basis. The improvement in March was led by a monthly 7.7 percent boost in single-family starts, following an 8.8 percent decrease in February. The multifamily component made a 5.8 percent partial comeback after plunging 39.4 percent in February. Overall starts for February were revised up to 0.512 million units annualized from the original estimate of 0.479 million.
By region, the rebound in starts in was led by a 32.3 percent jump in the Midwest. Also improving were the West, up 27.6 percent, and the Northeast, up 5.4 percent. The South slipped 3.3 percent.
There may be modest improvement ahead for housing starts. Housing permits gained 11.2 percent in March after decreasing 5.2 percent the prior month. Overall permits came in at an annualized rate of 0.534 million units and are down 13.3 percent on a year-ago basis.
Today's report is modest good news for a sector where expectations have been running low. Activity is still at a depressed level but now there is hope that housing is not back on a downtrend. Despite the favorable numbers, it is good that they were not much better. Supply is still high and too much of a boost in starts would simply mean pullback later until demand is more robust.
The March housing starts reports provided small lift to equity futures which earlier had been boosted by favorable earnings reports.
Think you'll find a picture like that in the mainstream? Why not? Nope, just "Housing market shows some muscle." Delusional/ Economic Mass Psychosis comes to mind. While disinformation is nothing new, the scope and extent of it certainly is.
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."Did Bill Gross do the opposite of his book and go long bonds? Say it isn't so. Why gee, I've been pointing out how all this talk of him selling everything came well after the fact and at a time that bonds were very close to major long term support. Since this time bonds have proceeded almost straight up, and today finally it's being reported that maybe he went long again. Duh.- Mark Twain
Let me help the uninitiated… The markets, all of them, are rigged. The exchanges are owned by the big banks who also create money from nothing. They own HFT computers and fuel their trading with their freshly printed money. There are NO regulators – forget that quaint notion. The politicians not only do not care, they are in on it and promote it. Ordinary citizens who try to play in their casino will lose – just like a casino, you will win just enough to keep you coming back as long as you still believe in their illusion. It's a sick and twisted situation that is nothing but outright theft in my opinion – at least a casino is honest and you know the odds going in. In the 'markets,' not only do you not really know the odds, you are told nothing but lies and disinformation regarding the odds. The insiders manipulate everything – all of it. There are super-insiders who reside at the Primary Dealers (they OWN the "Fed" literally), and then there are ancillary insiders, like Bill Gross, who are given access to the real inside story as long as they do the bidding for the higher ups and promote their games.
Of course then there are various levels of insiders below the ancillary level, most of these people are unaware patsies who are tossed bones as long as they support the games. All the real insiders realize that there are no regulators – and that they are safe from having bought off the politicians. The only people ever prosecuted are the patsies who have either failed to support the game properly, or who have been made a sacrificial lamb for the real insiders – Bernie Madoff comes to mind in this regard – as the big boys knew his scam and only allowed regulators to get him when the pressure was on to feed a lamb to the sharks following the turmoil they created.
So, that's the way the real world works – "invest" at your own risk within that context. Good luck, you'll need it.
Let's turn to the Fukushima nuclear situation again… no, I won't let it go – it's the most important event still occurring on the planet. Here's Arnie Gunderson with his latest update. This one gets a little bit technical, so you may want to replay it to follow along – I note that when he puts up the temperature charts that the first digit is not in view, so the very bottom of the temperature graph is Zero, then 50 degrees Celsius, 100, 150, 200, etcetera.
Gundersen Discusses Current Condition of Reactors, TEPCO Claim of "No Fission" in Fuel Pool, and Lack of Radiation Monitoring in
I will note that unlike what Arnie said about pressures, it's NOT good to have ZERO pressure in a nuclear reactor – that means the containment is compromised. Some pressure would be expected, but too high of pressure is not good either. The bottom line is that these reactors and cooling pools are all sick, and the situation is worse than the Japanese are letting on. Another example is the fact that robots couldn't get into reactor number two as the steam was too thick and fogged over the camera lenses. At the doorway radiation levels were sky high – and so how do you get workers in? You don't because you can't.
TEPCO couldn't get enough data on the radiation level in the Reactor 2 building. Two remote-controlled robots went through the door to the Reactor 2 building on April 2. But after measuring 4.1 milli-sievert/hr near the door, the camera lens quickly became foggy due to high humidity (94 to 99%) and couldn't record the radiation level.
Meanwhile we still don't discuss how to really contain it on site, and all the while radiation continues to pour into the environment. The latest? Fallout is now being found in the Southern Hemisphere, meaning there's no place on the planet that's unaffected. Our own FDA refuses to test Pacific fish? Heck yes, do as Arnie says and write your politicians, that is totally unacceptable.
Here's a link to see the latest Xenon dispersion cloud… note that by the 23rd a very large and dense band will be aimed right at the west coast with levels similar to those passing over Japan. While on this site, you can also see the dispersion of cesium and how it's making its way all across the United States: North America Xenon dispersion forecast from Fukushima through 4/23
Monday, April 18, 2011
Morning Update/ Market Thread 4/18 - Confidence Waning, Outlook Negative Edition…
Just prior to the open this morning, Standard & Poor's put the United States on "outlook negative." Stocks are falling, the dollar is falling (but bouncing mechanically later), bonds are falling, gold & silver are setting new records, oil is falling, and most food commodities are slightly lower.
From S&P:
Because the U.S. has, relative to its 'AAA' peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us, we have revised our outlook on the long-term rating to negative from stable.What we have here is two things; one is a large step towards admission of our impossible math, and two is political pressure to act. That pressure to act is exactly the type of pressure that can lead to another wave of deflation as austerity measures are "the cure" when operating inside of the central banker debt money box. My take is that any deflation, while potentially significant, will be overrun with the impossible math and thus a complete "restructuring" of our debt and money systems is going to occur.
We believe there is a material risk that U.S. policymakers might not reach an agreement on how to address medium- and long-term budgetary challenges by 2013; if an agreement is not reached and meaningful implementation does not begin by then, this would in our view render the U.S. fiscal profile meaningfully weaker than that of peer 'AAA' sovereigns.
The negative outlook on our rating on the U.S. sovereign signals that we believe there is at least a one-in-three likelihood that we could lower our long-term rating on the U.S. within two years. The outlook reflects our view of the increased risk that the political negotiations over when and how to address both the medium- and long-term fiscal challenges will persist until at least after national elections in 2012.
Some compromise that achieves agreement on a comprehensive budgetary consolidation program--containing deficit reduction measures in amounts near those recently proposed, and combined with meaningful steps toward implementation by 2013--is our baseline assumption and could lead us to revise the outlook back to stable. Alternatively, the lack of such an agreement or a significant further fiscal deterioration for any reason could lead us to lower the rating.
I've been saying that for quite some time, and that's exactly the way it's heading, this admission/ veiled threat by S&P is a major step along the way. Keep in mind that the rating agencies aren't going to do anything rash, their livelihood depends upon it. S&P is owned by McGraw Hill (MHP) which in turn is owned by some of the largest funds in the world. I'm certain that those fund holders want to reel in what they see as an unsustainable path. Of course as is usual for the rating agencies, they will only pronounce that the horse is in trouble AFTER the barn has burned down. Look for things to heat up over the debt ceiling debate and for progress to be made there and on next year's fantasy budget where they will be touting how much they "saved" while continuing to feed the impossible math.
The Housing Market Index will be released at 10 Eastern this morning, while this light release week brings more housing data, and "Leading Indicators" later in the week.
Meanwhile interest rates continue to blow out on European debt, as the Fins vote out those in favor of a Portugal bailout, and the Greeks seek to restructure their debts into something longer term in order to fend off outright default.
Bizarre enough world for you? Thank a central banker. Oh yeah, it gets even more weird…
Gov. Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law In WisconsinSieg Heil, Mein Fuhrer! …as if national level Czars weren't bizarre enough, the financial chaos is breeding mini Hitlers who feel their bizarre actions are justified by the impossible math they are forced to deal with.
Following the lead of Michigan GOP Governor Rick Snyder, Walker is said to be preparing a plan that would allow him to force local governments to submit to a financial stress test with an eye towards permitting the governor to take over municipalities that fail to meet with Walker's approval.
According to the reports, should a locality's financial position come up short, the Walker legislation would empower the governor to insert a financial manager of his choosing into local government with the ability to cancel union contracts, push aside duly elected local government officials and school board members and take control of Wisconsin cities and towns whenever he sees fit to do so.
Such a law would additionally give Walker unchallenged power to end municipal services of which he disapproves, including safety net assistance to those in need.
Oh yeah, as nuts as Czars are, our glorious exalted grand leader decided to take matters into his own hands (handler hands, of course) by flat out ignoring the direction of Congress who had passed a law that included provisions to defund many of the Presidential appointed "Czars." Obama is flat out ignoring those provisions via adding in a Presidential "Signing Statement" which says surreptitiously that he is going to ignore that part of the law. In this manner he is CIRCUMVENTING THE RULE OF LAW. In other words, he is circumventing the checks and balances set for in this nation's Constitution. He is overpowering the legislative branch and the legislative process.
Of course he is not the first to do so, that title goes to the former central banker Puppet-in-Chief. Note, however, this is yet another act on his part where he says one thing and then does the other – something for which I'm sure he must be on track to hold the political record. Surreal.
Did I say surreal? Oh yeah, it gets better. This weekend we learned that the University of Texas converted all their endowment's paper gold holdings into physical gold – as in 664,300 ounces! Worth is nearly a billion dollars at today's $1,500 an ounce, but that billion dollars represents only 5% of the University's Endowment.
The University of Texas possesses the nation's second largest endowment at $19.9 billion. Harvard's is over $25 billion (but was over $30).
So, what does this ACTION on their part say? It says to me that they are no longer CONFIDENT that their paper gold holdings possess real value. It says that they understand their money is being devalued by reckless bankers and politicians and that they want to protect their huge portfolio.
Now then, this is just one institution that is losing confidence. S&P stated they are losing confidence. What happens when ALL the endowments seek to convert paper gold into physical? Seems to me that this is a game of first come, first served. Could it ignite a run on the physical metal? You bet it could, it seems to me that's already in progress. Is this a sign of a top? Let me know when most the endowments have done likewise – and just imagine what would happen if all the large investments funds did the same!
Oh, and I have another issue here. Why on earth does the University of Texas endowment fund possess so damn much money?! With the cost of education soaring, the Universities are sitting on billions and billions while they jack up the cost of tuition and force students to bury themselves in central banker DEBT. Currently on Wikipedia there are 58 university endowment funds with values above a billion dollars (Wikipedia – Endowments > $1 billon)!
So, effectively the universities are robbing Peter (students) to pay Paul (Endowment and its managers), while putting the taxpayer on the hook to guarantee it all through the student loan process (which is not dischargeable in the bankruptcy process by the way – thanks to central bankers writing these "laws").
How much educating could the University of Texas endowment do? Go ahead and get out your Cray calculator and divide $20 billion by whatever you think it should cost to educate one of our youth through college – the number is HUGE, and that money is simply not being used as intended. Greed comes to mind.
To refocus the discussion – all of these events point to a loss of confidence, and just look at today's market – equities down, bonds down, dollar down (then bouncing mechanically on deleveraging), gold up. Loss of confidence is in progress.
How do you invest for that? Seems like the University of Texas is onto something.
And if those events are not surreal enough for you, think about the violent breakdown occurring now in Mexico, and then try reading about the fallout of the impossible math right here in the good ol' U.S. of A… Crime and police work in Flint, Michigan:
Riding Along With the Cops in Murdertown, U.S.A.Go ahead and give that one a read.
A sign taped to the entrance of police headquarters says it all: "Closed weekends and holidays." Every weekday, the doors are locked at dusk.
It's not that the cops here are scared; it's just that they're outmanned, outgunned and flat broke.
…"Sometimes, we don't get to a call for two days," he says. Last fall, an elderly couple called after being held up at gunpoint in their driveway. The police arrived on the scene five hours later.
And I can't pass a day without emphasizing the dire situation in Japan – do not forget that every day more and more radiation from Fukushima is spilling into the environment and is continuing to accumulate into our food chain. The "roadmap" presented this weekend by the Japanese is complete fantasy. You will find that progress as they are discussing will not happen as they will be unable to reestablish containment as they dream. Again, it is my opinion that the number one priority be containment on site. In this regard they are talking about building a giant concrete walled structure to enclose the reactors in, but that is a dream until they get the fission reaction to stop taking place – this is because the fission reaction produces hydrogen and they risk blowing up any ordinary walled structure they place over them. No, they should be burying the cores and the pools in sand and boron, and then entombing them – at least get rid of TEPCO and bring in some outside experts to brainstorm and take action on behalf of humanity!
Each new aftershock seems to stir the corium and produce another large release of particles that is promptly covered up by the Japanese removing the radiation data as if it did not happen. Again, this is the type of cover-up that occurs when special interests are in charge – it is the exact same type of cover-up practiced daily in our markets and with our economic data.
And that is exactly why the University of Texas is converting to physical gold, and why the S&P put the United States of America on watch Negative.
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24th January 1964: Austrian soldiers carrying baskets of snow to the ski slopes in preparation for the Winter Olympics at Innsbruck where there is a shortage of snow and ice. Emergency squads are employed to bring snow to the ski-run and ice to the bobsleigh run. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)


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Who knew you could grow raspberries in Queensland? I've never seen a plant ever, but this one was at the nursery so hopefully that means it will grow here. I'm obsessed with taking pictures of the developing fruit at the moment.
Chickens! These have been a while in the planning and yesterday was Chicken Day. They have been given the highly original names of Blackie, Brownie and Whitie. Fifi took one run at the fence and quickly realised that she wasn't getting a chicken dinner. She just sits and watches them now. The chickens flipped out when they saw a cat the first time – lots of squawking and carrying on, but they quickly settled down. There are plans for a couple of Silkies and a duck as well. It's probably a good thing that there is a limit of 6 birds.
And the best of all:
A knitting machine! It took me 5 trips to get everything out of the car and carry it upstairs. There's a stand for it which I am pleased about because I don't have a table that I can use for this. The colour catalogue has a price of $870 and the year 1982 written on it. I paid $50 – couldn't get the money out of my purse fast enough! I had a Singer knitting machine many years ago but didn't really know how to use it and got sick of dragging it around everytime I moved house, so I gave it away. I've been wanting to get another one for a while now, can't wait to get it set up so I can play with it. It looks like all the bits are there. What to make first?


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Oldspeak:"You know it's grim when the prevailing debate among economists and historians is whether the world economy faces the "Great" depression of the 1930s or the "Long" depression of the 1870s." I like to call it a "Stealth Great Depression" The bread lines have been replaced with EBT cards, and the banks are too bigger to fail, but many of the other conditions that existed in the 1930's and 1870's exist today. Tent cities, high unemployment, high poverty, high homelessness, wage stagnation, high debt, mass bankruptcy etc, etc, etc… A profound difference between today's depression and those of the past is the propaganda. It's so exquisitely and insidiously crafted that people actually believe it over what it happening all around them in the real world. Meanwhile "Institutions (banks) that know how and why to prevent things from falling apart and which nonetheless sit back and do nothing. A global collapse is being engineered. We need a radically new way forward to avert catastrophe but all we're being offered by our political classes is tried and false ways of the past that are clearly leading to catastrophe. A 'sustainable future' is being monetized. More and more people awakening to the reality that those old ways are no longer acceptable. Our civilization needs a new operating system. Or a crash is not a matter of if, but when. Greed will be our downfall.
Paul Krugman released a new book yesterday called "End This Depression Now". In the introduction, Krugman writes:
The best way to think about this continued slump, I'd argue, is to accept that we're in a depression …. It's nonetheless essentially the same kind of situation that John Maynard Keynes described in the 1930s: "a chronic condition of subnormal activity for a considerable period without any marked tendency either towards recovery or towards complete collapse."
Robert Shiller said yesterday that the world is in a state of "late Great Depression".
Many other top economists also say that were in a Depression.
We are stuck in a depression because the government has done all of the wrong things, and has failed to address the core problems.
For example:
- An economics professor says we'll have "a never-ending depression unless we repudiate the debt, which never should have been extended in the first place"
- Fraud was one of the main causes of the Depression, but nothing has been done to rein in fraud today. Indeed, the only action the government is taking is to help cover up fraud
- All leading independent economists have said that the economy cannot recover until the big, insolvent banks are broken up, but the government has just helped them to get bigger
- Excessive leverage helped cause the Great Depression and the current crisis, but the government has encouraged more leverage
- The Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression and the current crisis, and has done nothing but help the fatcats at the expense of the little guy. And yet the government has given the Fed more power than ever.
- Government policies send manufacturing jobs and dollars abroad
This isn't an issue of left versus right … it's corruption and bad policies which help the top .1% but are causing a depression for the vast majority of the American people.


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FBI: 3 removed backpack from Boston suspect's room
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FILE - This combination of undated file photos shows the two brothers the FBI initially said were suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday, April 15, 2013, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police several days later, while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and lies in a hospital prison. Three more suspects have been taken into custody in the marathon bombings, police said Wednesday, May 1, 2013. (AP Photo/The Lowell Sun & Robin Young, File)


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Bought a used Revo last week and put a driftbofdy on it, rather please with the look
Powerhouse Sweden
Villain IV with Octura 447
RAPTOR BODY WITH "CAMO"...lol before[IMG][/IMG]
some cool silhouette shots. kinda like the one on manual
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Some pic's of a JConcepts Bajr body (made for a Slash) painted and mounted to my E-Revo.
"enjoy your ride"
Here's my new ERBE...
New clear shell and spray painted to BMW Graphite Grey... Show time!
Decals on!
Wings replaced with carbon look and replaced wheels on wheelie bar with rubber type...
New look...
Spin after some play in a dusty grass field...
Here's my pain in the @#* IDK how most drive there's but I have broken everything at least twice!!! But then it'd be no fun if I just got to drive it right???
my 3rd f150 raptor , this time gold member edition
Just received it last week...it took almost 3 weeks to arrive
Who needs tires. lol
These are Proline 40 Series Road Rage tires on Proline Cheyenne rims
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Hey guys, new to the forum! Just joining in on the action!
E-Revo Brushless, Rustler VXL, Spartan
My new ERBE with a 79 Ford Supercab body. I finally got to drive this truck for the first time today and all I can say is WOW
No Limit RC of Maryland
No Limit RC of MD Race Day with the new ERevo
No Limit RC of Maryland
My Monster in My Green Summer Theme for 2012
ERevo │ E-Revo BE
Raw and un-pampered, from the dog bites on the lid to the silly mods, broken parts that still remain and sporting homemade drift tires aka Lowes PVC pipe. haha (it works) caution will ruin rim (obviously)
my latest creation
homemade LCG batt tray,
tranny locked on 2nd gear
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Hi, this is my ERBE from Italy, in one of its configurations!
I still gotta drill the holes and put the decals on. What do y'all think?
Been working on this truck for awhile now.
-Tekin Brushless system
-Hitec 7955tg Servo
-CC Bec Wired Directly to Servo
-x2 SPC 8200mah 2s Lipos
-x2 SPC 5000mah 32 Lipos
-Mip Shafts Front, Rear, Center
-Aluminum Push Rods
-Aluminum Rockers
-Aluminum Shocks
-HR Aluminum Front Knuckles
-HR 8 shoe slipper
-Rc Solutions Roll cage
-HPP 17mm Hexes
-RPM True Trac In rear
-FLM Aluminum Diff Cups
-STRC Aluminum Diff Housings
So far so good, its a good running truck. i Used to go through Diffs like crazy but since i switched to the Aluminum Cups and housings i have yet to Shred one.
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RX8 Powered E-revo
With the on road tires
Sharing is the best thing to do on EARTH legally.
new body coming soon. Trying to decide whats gonna work/look best.
hey, you need a real driver for that car?!?
My ERBE
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[IMG][/IMG]RPM A-arms, RPM front bumper, geodes w/hpi super mudders.
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Off to the hobby shop I go.
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Talk Show Upgraded in Major Markets Across the Country
STAMFORD, CT - January 25, 2013 - NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution has renewed "Trisha Goddard" for its second season in national syndication, it was announced today by Barry Wallach, President, NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution.
"Trisha Goddard," which has already been renewed in more than 85% of the U.S. for its second season in national syndication, is executive produced by Paul Faulhaber and hosted by popular television personality, Trisha Goddard. Since its debut, the one-hour talk show has been upgraded in major markets including Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix, Las Vegas and more.
"We are so pleased that our station partners have recognized the success of 'Trisha' and have upgraded the show to higher-profile time periods," said NBCU's Wallach. "As we head in to season 2, we expect 'Trisha' to grow and achieve the same success as we have had with our other long-running conflict talk shows."
"It has been an incredible experience working with Trisha and I look forward to another successful season," said Faulhaber. "Trisha and our staff have put their hearts and souls into this show and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring more compelling stories to our audience."
"Trisha Goddard" has seen the program's viewership increase throughout the season. In the November 2012 sweep Trisha's viewership increased 23% vs. its premiere week. 'Trisha' also improved local household time period ratings this past November in New York (+82%), Chicago (+30%), Philadelphia (+66%), San Francisco (+6%), Boston (+62%), and Washington DC (+44%.)
Each weekday, Trisha helps everyday people and their families navigate through tough issues they are struggling to overcome. Her show covers topics important to viewers everywhere with her signature straight talk, warm heart approach. In each episode, Trisha uses honesty and common sense to teach people how to move forward and push through life's obstacles.
"Trisha Goddard" is distributed in national syndication by NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution and produced by Stamford Media Center Productions, the same production team behind several long-running and successful NBCU talk shows including "Maury," "The Jerry Springer Show" and "The Steve Wilkos Show." Paul Faulhaber (also EP of "Maury") serves as executive producer for "Trisha Goddard."
For more information on "Trisha Goddard," visit the show webpage at www.thetrishashow.com. To join the conversation, visit the show's official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/TrishaGoddardTV.
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The NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution division is responsible for the sales and distribution of NBCUniversal product to broadcast television within the U.S. and Canada. The division develops and produces first-run programming and distributes these shows, along with off-network content, to broadcast syndication. Current first-run broadcast syndicated programming includes "Access Hollywood," "Access Hollywood Live," "Maury," "Steve Harvey," "The Jerry Springer Show," "The Steve Wilkos Show" and "Trisha Goddard" as well as weekend syndicated series "On The Money with Maria Bartiromo" and "The Chris Matthews Show." Current off-network programming includes "30 Rock," "House," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Monk" and "The Office."


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February 5: Peyton Manning does everything including playing in the Super Bowl Day
- 1678 - Roman king farted on trees.
- 406 - Peyton Manning sacked by the Central Asian Huns in Super Bowl -MDLXI... wait, that was the Romans... my bad.
- 1066 - Peyton Manning, king of Normandy, conquers England.
- 1152 - Peyton Manning almost makes it to Super Bowl -DCCCXV but he loses the AFC Championship after getting sacked five times by the Frankfurt Galaxy's linebacker Frederick Barbarossa.
- 1215 - Peyton Manning thinks up concept of Magna Carta.
- 1492 - Peyton Manning sails the ocean blue.
- 1588 - Peyton Manning defeats the Spanish Armada.
- 1688 - Peyton Manning takes power in England after the Glorious Revolution. Indianapolis Colts QB William of Orange offers to trade jobs with him. Peyton accepts.
- 1776 - Peyton Manning leads the Continental Army across the Delaware River in an assault on Trenton, NJ.
- 1777 - Peyton Manning's child is born to his female slave Sally Hemmings.
- 1788 - Peyton Manning secretly ghostwrites one of the Federalist Papers. Sadly, he forgot which one.
- 1813 - Peyton Manning exiled to Elba.
- 1860 - Peyton Manning signs the Emancipation Proclimation before Ol' Abe does.
- 1995 - Peyton Manning is forced to freshman practice squad after younger brother Eli Manning punches him in the crotch for stealing the last Fruit-by-the-foot.
- 1996 - Peyton Manning studies for sociology quiz.
- 1998 - Peyton Manning goes snorkeling in the Bahamas.
- 2000 - Peyton Manning numb from another disapointing season, helps express his grim emotions by co-fouding the band Hawthorn Hights.
- 2001 - Peyton Manning chats with Saudi leader concluding in "Hey, have you ever tried a flight simulator, real-stuff??".
- 2003 - Peyton Manning plays Bocce with Marvin Harrison.
- 2006 - Peyton Manning sits on couch with a brewskie, watches repeats of Real World/Road Rules Challenge on MTV and tries to figure out how Beth got to be captain.
- 2006 - Peyton Manning Is revealed to be Superman
- 2007 - Peyton Manning Timetravels.
- 2007 - Peyton Manning comes out as a nazi and eats Polish Sausage with his defeated team.
- 2008 - Peyton Manning holds Climate Change meeting with The Grinch.
- 2019 - Peyton Manning, in a confused spasm of rage, accidentally misprints the date of the year while filing his taxes and is whisked away to the year 2019. He is saddened to learn that he will only play in the Super Bowl once in his lifetime. Peyton also surprised to find out he only lives to the age of 42.


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Man hit by Cape motorist remains hospitalized
A pedestrian remained in the hospital Tuesday after being struck by a Cape Coral motorist.
Steven Ciriaco, 44, of Bonita Springs, was listed in critical at Lee Memorial Hospital, where he was taken following the accident last week on McGregor Boulevard, near San Carlos Boulevard.
At about 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Ciriaco was headed southbound on McGregor in the westbound lanes as a Volvo C70 was traveling eastbound on McGregor, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Ciriaco reportedly failed to notice the Volvo and walked into the path of the vehicle.
The FHP reported that the front of the Volvo struck Ciriaco and he came to rest on the median.
Ciriaco was transported to the hospital.
The driver of the Volvo, Carolan Mahr, 58, of the Cape, was not injured in the accident.
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Wood thinking of high school friend during last start
WASHINGTON -- As Alex Wood cruised through the finest start of his young career during Sunday night's win in Philadelphia, his thoughts were with his high school friend who had fallen into a coma after slipping on a rock while canoeing in Charlotte, N.C., on Saturday.
Wood's spirits changed on Monday, when he learned that his friend had come out of the coma and was talking.
"The doctors on Saturday had said it would be a miracle if he didn't have any brain damage," Wood said. "So far there aren't any signs of brain damage. So it's a been a really good day."
Per request from the family, Wood has chosen not to disclose his friend's name. The young man's initials B.M. were on Wood's hat as he limited the Phillies to two hits and one run in six innings.


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Torrington City Council approves spending, extends Titans' contract at meeting Tuesday night
Torrington >> Tuesday's City Council meeting kicked off at 6:30 p.m. and wrapped up by 6:50 p.m. Council members weren't wasting any time approving each item on the agenda.
The council opened the floor and heard comments from the public, which consisted of one comment.
Robert Crovo, Torrington tax collector, reported about the state of claimed properties in Torrington. According to Crovo, there are 20 properties in the process of foreclosure and about 30 properties up for tax sale. Even with 50 properties in some state of being claimed or sold, Crovo said, few properties ever end up changing hands.
The council quickly moved on and approved the Mayor's reappointment of Thomas Gritt as Personnel Director for a four year term, reappointment of Gerald Rollett as Public Works Director for a four year term and the appointment of Lisa A. Soliani to the Economic Development Commission for a five year term.
The council affirmatively voted to adopt a resolution establishing a re-roofing project at Forbes Elementary School. Bingham commented that any problems related to this project have been worked out and the Board of Education is involved in watching the process.
With that motion, David Bascetta was named Board of Education Director of Facilities, and the preparation of schematic drawings, a grant application, and approximately $400,000 in funding were approved for the project.
A resolution empowering the mayor to enter into and amend contractual instruments on behalf of the city for a Home Management Contract was quickly adopted, as was a vote to authorize the mayor to sign the same contract in the amount of $44,424, which will provide Meals-on-Wheels to people under the age of 60 and to foot clinics at the Sullivan Senior Center. The meal served in the Meals-on-Wheels program are prepared by Charlotte Hungerford Hospital.
The council voted to accept the Parks and Recreation Commission's recommendation to extend the Fuessenich Park lease agreement with Torrington Baseball Group, LLC for the 2013 season. During the discussion, Bingham asked the council to consider allowing a five-year extension of the team's contract. The Titans are now in the third year of the five year contract. Bingham praised the team and general manager Sander Stotland, who was in attendance, for the positive impact the team has made in Torrington. The council voted to approve that contract extension.
"I look forward to another summer with the Titans," said Bingham.
City Council members quickly carried several other motions, including approving a payment of $22,963 to Delray Contracting for a New Harwinton Road Pump Station Rehabilitation and several payments from the Municipal Renovations Fund and the Small Cities Funds.
The meeting ended after Bingham joked about the silence.
"I guess people want an adjournment," he said, and they did.
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Life's no cake walk in Persephone, but Lave Faraday has it worse than most. In a city where the undead are part of the night life and supernatural's the norm; Lave is expected to help keep the peace in this impossible city; or do hard jail time for past crimes. But when you have mafia vampires, necromancer frat boys, and zombie booze drinkers prowling the streets, one can't help but feel like a glorified; paranormal janitor. And Laves problems don't exactly improve when she finds herself protecting a young boy from a sinister force; and making enemies in all the right places.


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Democrats are steadfast advocates for America's seniors, their peace of mind, and the issues they care about— including retirement security, Medicare, and the high cost of prescription drugs. While Democrats strongly support Social Security and Medicare and oppose efforts to privatize them, President Trump and Congressional Republicans are proposing to drain the Medicare Trust Fund and undermine Social Security.
For years, Democrats have worked to ensure the strength and long-term solvency of those vital programs, so that they can support not just today's seniors, but the generations to come. Democrats improved and modernized the Social Security program by investing in technology to enable the Social Security Administration to more efficiently process the increasing number of retirees and claims, and by improving the speed and quality of services for retirees. Last Congress, Democrats in Congress helped reauthorize the Older Americans Act, which provides help to seniors including funding vital programs like Meals on Wheels.
Democrats also consistently fight to strengthen the Medicare program and help ensure that seniors can see their doctors. The Affordable Care Act extended the fiscal solvency of the Medicare program, while improving Medicare benefits, nursing home care, and chronic disease coverage, and reining in waste, fraud, and abuse. The law also lowers prescription drug costs for seniors by offering discounts of up to 50 percent on prescriptions for those in the Part D coverage gap, and closing the coverage hole completely over the next several years.
In contrast, President Trump and Republicans in Congress supported legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a plan that would discriminate against older Americans, forcing millions off of their coverage and drastically increasing health care costs for millions more. TrumpCare also cut Medicaid by $800 billion, jeopardizing access to long-term care for seniors in nursing homes, as well as home- and community-based health care services.
Democrats' priorities stand in stark contrast to the Republican budget that makes the wrong choices and attempts to balance the budget on the backs of seniors. We are committed to protecting and strengthening programs that assist seniors and support a balanced approach to deficit reduction that will strengthen the solvency of our entitlements and protect America's seniors.
This week, House Republicans will vote again for their budget that ends the Medicare guarantee and puts our economic recovery at risk, while cutting taxes for the wealthy. Back in their districts, it was poorly received by voters who are concerned about the impact of the budget.


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Julia Gillard has become only the second Australian prime minister to visit the top secret Defence Signals Directorate facility in Canberra, as she formally announced the establishment of a new cyber security centre.
Ms Gillard visited the centre on Thursday and thanked staff at the nerve centre of signals intelligence, where hundreds of computer and intelligence experts work under strict security to keep the government's networks safe and, conversely, try to eavesdrop on other nations and non-state threats.
The Prime Minister said that the new Australian Cyber Security Centre would be up and running by the end of the year. It will bring together cyber experts from different government agencies including Defence, ASIO, the Computer Emergency Response Team Australia, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Crime Commission.
''Cybersecurity encompasses so much - so much in terms of threats, the threats that we see from state and non-state actors, and so much in terms of the security of our community, not only government networks but business networks, critical networks across our community,'' she said.
A key aim of the new centre will be to work with the private sector to protect their systems. An all-out cyber attack could involve destroying not just defence networks, but civilian systems that run power grids, water supplies, banking and other vital infrastructure.
''Thank you for the work that you do to keep our nation safe,'' Ms Gillard said. ''Thank you for every effort you make - efforts that we can't thank you for one success at a time. We never go out there and say, 'Guess what DSD has done today? They've done a really good job' - for obvious reasons.
''But . . . I'm really conscious that the work that you do here is a pivotal part of our national security efforts. It's a pivotal part of keeping our nation safe.''
Ms Gillard's cyber centre announcement came under quick fire from the opposition, which said there was no detail about funding, the location of the centre, the chain of command or how it would liaise with business.
Opposition defence personnel spokesman Stuart Robert said: ''There's no idea of budget, no increase in budget, therefore if it's being funded, where's the money going to come from? We're all at a bit of a loss. We support the concept that greater co-operation between the national security apparatus of government on a significant and growing threat is warranted. But we've got to see some more concrete work done in terms of what it's going to look like, where it's going to be, how industry will interact with it.''
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said the centre would be set up with existing resources rather than new funding. It would be staffed by about 300 people at a location yet to be decided.
The DSD already has a Cyber Security Operations Centre, established in 2010, with embedded officers from ASIO, the AFP and CERT Australia.
Ms Gillard's visit to the DSD follows one by John Howard in 2005.
The directorate's slogan is, ''Reveal their secrets . . . Protect our own.''
The staff refer to working in their operations centre as being ''down in the pit''.
Mike Burgess, the DSD's acting head, said the directorate's work was ''necessarily conducted in secret and private''.
''That helps us protect our capabilities, it helps us generate intelligence . . . it also helps us protect our men and women deployed in Afghanistan and elsewhere on military operations and . . . it also helps protect Australia against the cyber threat.''
It was only the second time the media have been allowed into the building.
David Wroe is defence and national security correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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Nothing has been more mysterious and confusing then my interest in art! Im giving it up! But I do not know what to replace it with! I will have to ask God!
It's not a question I like to bring up to God! I assume because of my background; it was a mistaken area of interest!
You know those guys; the ones that tell you they are the most talented person you've ever met!
Im the most talented person you've ever met! Why would lie; Ive never met you! I don't have to lie to you!
What good is any of this! I do not have a practice room! And day after day after day; nothing! No creating!
Creating was my number one area of interest! But no practice room! Without a practice room; one is dead in the water! You cannot create any series art; the reason being; you have no protective walls! You never feel safe from the outside world! You feel like you're being raped every time you express yourself! Soon; you cannot express yourself anymore! You shut down and never open up again!
It's getting to the point; I cannot do any art work of any nature anymore! I have no safe place to do so!
I seriously don't get it! I don't understand! If God made this my main calling, temperament or interest; then wheres the practice room! He will have to supply it; and he is not! And I am not!
So where is it! If God does not supply a practice room; if its one more door shutting in my face! Whats the point! I assume this is a sign from God and the Universe that this is not an area I should be involved in! I have asked God about this; over n over n over n over n over! And nothing; no response!
Art is something you do on a daily basis! I cannot do it at all! My nervous system wont do it!
What am I supposed to do?
I can take it to God! Its all very confusing! What am I supposed to do with my life! I am an artist! Maybe not!
I see people with no talents with plenty of private space they have bought! I do not have the funds to buy something; yet, Im the one that needs the private space ! How am I supposed to be happy!
It's a joke to tell people; I could have been an actor, a composer, creative writer! Artist! Singer song writer! Whats the point!
What else is supposed to take its place! Ive lost almost all interest in anything creative! So, I do not have much joy or anything to look forward to! I have no excitement! Creativity gave me excitement!
The only professions I could stand on a daily basis would be creating something; or having enough money to have a place to practice; something I could get used to so that I could feel safe and secure!
Im a real artist! Im not the type to take a 9-5 job and do art on the weekends! Doesn't work that way!
My temperament is artistic! Im not sure where I would fit in! I don't fit into anything!
I will have to take this to God; I honestly don't get it! What kind of a life is this!
IVe lost interest in what Im not supposed to loose interest in! It's my temperament; yet I cant do it!
It's such a painful never ending horror show of regret and confusion!
I wish I could take an interest test and something else as temperament! What good is it!
What is a person supposed to do with their lives! What do I concentrate on; porn!
So, Im supposed to give up what I like to do! But I cant do what I like to do; so , what am I supposed to do! The frustration mounts!
The whole thing creates nothing but rage and hatred!
I was not supposed to be someone this shut off of self! I don't get it!
I don't plan to kill myself over it; not like before! Just a waisted life! Nothing makes any sense!
Im a non conformist! I refuse! But then what am I supposed to do? IVe got my back against the wall! I don't fit in anywhere!
What makes me excited! Being myself;; I can hardly think in terms of being creative anymore! Theirs no place for it!
Its been a very long time since I could sit down and practice singing or create a song! Or sing to a song! Ive never had any privacy singing anything in the last 10 years! I finally gave up! I simply believe its a sign from God that I am not supposed to go in this direction! So; what direction and I supposed to go in! What replaces it!
I simply don't understand!
Ive seen numerous people with no talent and plenty of private practice space! I guess God will allow them to express their feelings; but wont allow me to be creative?! I don't get it!
I guess I have to take this to God! Its getting to the point that its a joke!


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Those of our blog readers who hang out in the eHarlequin community forum will already know Catherine's amazing story. She took a manuscript that had been rejected by Harlequin and self-published it on Amazon. That story, Wife by Wednesday, has become a runaway success, and she is here today to share a little insider info behind the story.
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What is your writing process?
I'm a pantser. I have an idea in my head with a basic outline of my characters and I run with it. Lately I've not been writing as much as I'd like, but when I'm in the 'writing groove' I will dedicated five hours a day to getting new words on paper.
Everyone who writes knows it's not easy - what methods do you use to keep at it on days when it would be so much easier to go shoe shopping?
I understand that in order to keep readers I need to infuse the net with a new book a few times a year. Very few authors can write one book a year and call this a career. I try and remember that and force my butt in the chair. It helps that I have fans now that tweet me and ask when my next book is coming out. It's like a little cyber whip reminding me to get to work. LOL
Keeping fit: Do you have an exercise regime to counterbalance all those hours sitting at a computer?
"Next Question!"
Ah, yeah… about that… I wish I could say that I'm on top of a good exercise routine but I'm not. I try and walk or get to the gym a couple of times a week but often fail. Does a sticky note reminding me count as points toward my goal?
Do you believe in writer's block?
Not as its own entity. I think if something is going wrong in the story the book won't flow and the writer has a hard time moving the story forward. When this happens to me I will re read all I've written to that point and usually find where the problem is. Some stories flow like water and others get caught up in the stream. Doesn't make one book better than the other, just easier for the author to put out.
Have you ever used an incident from real life in a book? If so, did it get you into trouble?
Certainly there are little glimpses into my life. I have a character or two that are nurses and I've taken what was my day job into this work. I waited tables when I was younger and will never forget those 'lovely' experiences. LOL – does it get me in trouble? No. I would never compromise a patient's privacy or anything like that. As for my friends in books… I guess you could say that I will sometimes tie in certain personality traits that I see daily. And of course there are those people in my life that have ticked me off and we all know we as writers paint them as our bad guys. LOL "just kidding".
In what way is being a published writer different to how you thought it would be?
I guess I saw more glamour to the job. But the truth is I'm sitting in my bathrobe right now in an empty house writing. Unlike some, I knew promotion would be a part of being a bestselling author, so that doesn't bother me. I actually like the promo part of the job.
Promotion is no longer a dirty word. In what ways do you strive to reach more readers?
I respond to each and every positive comment I'm given on the social networks. I won't debate someone who didn't like a book, or something I did in my work. I try and do interviews often. I tweet, facebook and blog. But I don't try the hard sell. I don't go on daily and say 'buy my books' – I will retweet a positive comment or a review. I'll let others say they like my work and then tell the world about that. But not to the point where it looks like spam. Nobody likes spam.
What is your top promo tip for other authors?
Write your next book! All the promotion in the world isn't going to sell your books if you don't have books to sell.
What did you learn while writing this book?
I learned that I could write a novel without anyone turning furry or shifting in time. Most of my work is paranormal so this book, Wife by Wednesday, is a straight contemporary and I wasn't sure I could do it.
Guess I can!
What was the most fun part of writing this book?
Rich hero and needy woman. I took a basic romantic outline and then twisted it and made it new and exciting for many readers. I really enjoyed writing this book.
And just for fun: what would your hero's honeymoon destination of choice be?
A tropical island in the South Pacific where they never left the hut.
Blake Harrison:
Rich, titled, and charming… And in need of a wife by Wednesday so he turns to Sam Elliot who isn't the business man he expected. Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, engaging and spunky with a voice men call 900 numbers to hear.
Samantha Elliot:
Owner of Alliance, her matchmaking firm, and not on the marital menu... That is until Blake offers her ten million dollars for a one-year contract. All she needs to do is keep her attraction to her husband to herself and avoid his bed. But Blake's toe-curling kisses and charm prove too difficult to combat. Now she needs to protect her heart so she can walk away when their mercenary life together is over.
Big note: Wife by Wednesday is currently selling on Amazon.com for just $0.99, so if you haven't already, get yourself one! It is also available on Amazon.co.uk.
You can find out more about Catherine and her books on her website, at her blog, and check out this video blog she recently posted on YouTube on Becoming a Bestseller.


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Photo Coverage: Heather Headley From THE BODYGUARD At The Royal Variety Performance!
Thea Sharrock's production of new musical The Bodyguard, opens this week (Wednesday 5 December 2012) at the Adelphi Theatre, London, and tonight (Monday 3 December 2012) leading lady Heather Headley can be seen performing at the 100th Royal Variety Performance (ITV1) singing the classic number from the West End show, I Will Always Love You.
Based on Lawrence Kasdan's 1992 Oscar nominated Warner Bros. film, The Bodyguard, with book by Alex Dinelaris, stars Heather Headley as Rachel Marron and Lloyd Owen as Frank Farmer in the roles made famous on film by the late Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.
Joining Headley and Owen are Debbie Kurup (Nicki Maron), Mark Letheren (The Stalker), Ray Shell (Bill Devaney), Nicolas Colicos (Tony Scibelli), Mark McKerracher (Herb Farmer), Sean Chapman (Sy Spector), David Page (Rory Fryman) and Oliver Le Sueur (Ray Court).
They are joined by Luis Buddy, Caius Duncombe, Jayden Fowora Knight, Kwame Kandekore, Taylor Lockhart and Malakai Paul who will share the role of Fletcher, Rachel Marron's young son.
Ensemble members are Nigel Barber, Jordan Darrell, Yasmin Harrison, Shanay Holmes, Holly James, Robert Jezek, Melissa Keyes, Gil Kolirin, Janet Kumah, Nicholas Maude, Richard Murphy, Gloria Onitiri, Ashley J Packer, Dharmesh Patel, Lucinda Shaw, Paul Smethurst, Charlotte Watts and James Wooldridge.
Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge; what they don't expect is to fall in love.
A romantic thriller, The Bodyguard features a whole host of irresistible classics including Queen of the Night, So Emotional, One Moment in Time, Saving All My Love, I'm Your Baby Tonight, Run to You, I Have Nothing, I Wanna Dance With Somebody and one of the greatest hit songs of all time - I Will Always Love You.
With designs by Tim Hatley, lighting by Mark Henderson, sound by Richard Brooker and video designs by Duncan McLean. Choreography is by Arthur Pita, orchestrations by Chris Egan with musical supervision by Mike Dixon. The Bodyguard is produced by Michael Harrison and David Ian.
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Physicist/inventor/tinkerer David Neevel (of Oreo separator machine fame) has unveiled designs for an Adruino-powered guitar that converts notes to corresponding letters on a keyboard using a Roland GK pickup system and GR-33. Though the idea of shredding your way through an important memo seems rather inefficient, the technical expertise to make it happen is completely real, and Neevel shares how to do it yourself, if so inclined, on his blog.
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When it comes to buying a pair of running shoes it can sometimes seem as tricky as buying something bigger like a bike for instance.
You re gonna be spending a lot of time in these so its important that theyre right for you.
So today I thought Id run through a few tips on how to select the nike lite running shoes, what type you should wear and when.
Firstly what works for one runner may not necessarily work for another so dont aimlessly head out and buy a pair of running shoes just because you like the look of them or your friend has recommended them to you.
The best thing you can do is head to your local running store to have your gait analyzed or if you have a pair of well-used running shoes you can check the wear patterns on the soles to see how you pronate and what shoes are suited to you.


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Keith Strudler competed in his first triathlon as a sophomore in high school after being challenged by a friend to a duel in the grueling race.
Keith Strudler competed in his first triathlon as a sophomore in high school after being challenged by a friend to a duel in the grueling race.
More than 25 years later, Strudler, has entered more than 100 triathlons. He may have run his first on a whim, but there was an immediate connection for Strudler, traversing through water for a swim, on the road on a bike, before finishing with a grueling run.
The triathlon fulfilled Strudler's competitive fix. Since grade school, he's always been a competitor, whether Strudler was trying to one-up his classmates on report cards or sharpen his pencil faster before racing to his seat. It's just the way Strudler is wired, and not just competing in triathlons, but winning them, has served as an outlet for the 42-year-old from Beacon.
Strudler will enter the Hudson River near the Newburgh waterfront on Sunday morning as the two-time defending champion of the Orange County Triathlon. The event, which began in 2011, includes a 0.93-mile swim down the choppy Hudson, a 25-mile bike tour and a 10K (6.2 miles) run.
"I do have, by nature, a lot of energy," Strudler said. "I like to be goal-driven and challenge myself in a lot of things. I've always said doing triathlons, at least I hope, kept me from being a complete jerk. Because it was a way that I could really filter this competitive energy without making my whole life a competition."
For the record, Strudler is far from a jerk. He's a humble and hard-working champion. Strudler won last year's race in 2:05.11. Brad West, 38, of Rockville Centre finished second (2:08.01).
Strudler's intensity has served him as a triathlete and professionally. He is the director of the Marist College Center for Sports Communications, which launched in the fall of 2011. Seemingly always on the go, Strudler created the concentration in sports communication at Marist in 2002 — at the time it served as one of the first such degree programs in the country. He is also an associate professor of communications.
"He's taken Marist to a different level with the sports communications program," said one of Strudler's former students, Greg Fahey, who graduated in May. "Dr. Strudler is a smart guy and I've always seen him working out at the McCann Center on campus. He tries to keep in shape and is always trying to make something happen."
When he competed in his first triathlon, Strudler said he could barely swim. However, the event inspired him to run track in high school in Houston. Strudler went on to compete in track and cross country at Cornell.
After college, he began running triathlons religiously ever summer and has never stopped. As for a three-peat on the banks of the Hudson on Sunday? Strudler is noncommittal.
However, knowing the way Strudler's wired, the way he competes, it should be tough to take the title from him.
"The greatest truth in all of sports is that you can only control what you do," Strudler said. "It really depends on who shows up. If some superstar 25-year-old shows up, that will probably make it really difficult. But we'll see what happens. I will give a full effort. I think there is a shot. I know that course, I know what to expect."


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All right, so yes, she is attractive, though she's starting to veer a little close to that, "OK, we get it, you're hot, please stop it now," territory. Mets wife lady Anna Benson is piping up again, this time to blast the Mets for considering trading her man. The reason for the trade talks, she says? Her decision to pose for Playboy. (Ultimately, negotiations for the photo shoot fell apart over money; we're guessing she wouldn't pay them enough.)
This, of course, makes perfect sense, the Mets trading away someone because of the assuredly wretched publicity it would receive for a players' wife posting nude. We full expect a statement from Anna next week saying that Willie Randolph took Benson out in the sixth inning when he had plenty left because of her upcoming appearance on VH-1's "The Fabulous Life," that Benson shoulder troubles stemmed from her impending fragrance line and that the Mets' late pressing of Benson's uniform on her appearance on the Howard Stern show on "E!" airing at 11 p.m. weeknights, Eastern/Pacific.
Amazin's Hurler's Wife Pitches Fit [NY Daily News]
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(As usual, Newsday's Jon Heyman had this first.)