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Welcome to Friday the 13th, the day that could potentially bring us our second Hindenburg Omen as we did meet all the conditions for one yesterday as I suspected we would. This morning the equity futures are lower after being first substantially higher overnight. The dollar is slightly higher, bonds are higher, and both oil and gold are about flat.
There were 92 new 52 week highs and 81 new lows on the NYSE yesterday, meeting the 2.2% of shares requirement for the Hindenburg. The NYSE 50dma was also rising, the McClelland Oscillator was negative on the same day, and new highs were not twice the amount of new lows.
This, by itself, gives us very high odds of experiencing a significantly lower market sometime within the next 4 months. Receiving a second confirming Hindenburg gives us very high odds of experiencing a decline that meets the definition of a market crash (-15% or more). That second observation could come today, or at anytime within the next 36 days. The last time we had a confirmed Hindenburg was in June of 2008, and I don't think I need to show you a chart to know what the result was. No market crash in the past 25 years has occurred without a Hindenburg Omen in place. When they occurred in 2008, it was not long before serious declines began. So, it is time to buckle up, I believe we are likely to get confirmation and that it is telling us we are ready to make the trip down to the large H&S target of SPX 860 – that decline from this week's high is approximately a 24% plunge. If you own stocks, you will definitely want to miss that.
A Hindenburg Omen is telling us that the market is hugely divergent internally - conflicted. This is the same thing that the many 90%+ up and down days has been telling us. Conflicted markets do not rise, they fall. A rising market requires uniformity and conformity. This market is as high as it is based upon manipulation - I know it, you know it, and now the market is telling us it's ready to correct that condition.
The Retail Sales Report for July came in below expectations showing .4% growth when .5% was the consensus. This is a rise from the prior -.5% in June. My caution on this report is that it suffers from survivor bias, only counting sales at stores that still exist, and not overall sales. That means that to get a true and accurate picture of sales, we need to look at sales tax receipts. Therefore, I do not put full credence into this report, especially in an environment where stores are closing. Here's Econoday:
Retail sales made a comeback in July – but it mainly was due to a jump in auto sales. Overall retail sales in July rebounded 0.4 percent, following a 0.3 percent decrease in June. Analysts had called for a 0.5 percent boost. Excluding autos, sales gained 0.2 percent, following a 0.1 percent down tick in June. The July ex-auto number equaled the median forecast. But without the jump in gasoline sales, consumer spending was soft. Sales excluding autos and gasoline slipped 0.1 percent, following a 0.2 percent boost in June.
The rebound in July was led by a 1.6 percent boost in motor vehicle sales and a 2.3 percent jump in gasoline station sales. Also showing gains were miscellaneous stores, nonstore retailers, and food services & drinking places.
Declines were seen in furniture & home furnishings, electronics & appliances, building materials & garden equipment, food & beverage stores, health & personal care, clothing, sporting goods & hobby stores, and general merchandise.
Overall retail sales on a year-ago basis in July improved to 5.5 percent from 5.2 percent the prior month. Excluding motor vehicles, the year-on-year rate rose to 4.9 percent from 4.6 percent in June.
The underlying trend for consumer spending is soft, indicating that the recovery is slowing. Numbers, however, are not weak enough to confirm a double dip. On the news, markets were little changed.
Love that, "the recovery is slowing." As if there was a recovery. There was not, there was only a government sponsored pump which made things worse, not better in the long run. Year over year numbers are still higher only based on still easy comparisons, but those comparisons are getting more difficult rapidly from here. Gasoline prices were rising up through July on the back of higher oil – that is now reversing again as deflationary forces overpower the sugar high.
You can see the effect of energy prices in the CPI released this morning as well. Want to create the illusion of inflation? Simply jack the oil futures with hot money. Higher energy costs, however, are not a good thing for the economy as they act as a tax draining wealth, not creating it. The overall CPI rose in July .3%, but the core rate rose .1%. Here's Econoday's excerpt:
A bump up in energy costs led to a rebound in CPI inflation, ending a three month string of declines. Meanwhile, the core rate remained soft. In June overall CPI inflation rebounded 0.3 percent, following a 0.1 percent decline in June. July's rise equaled analysts' forecast for a 0.3 percent increase. Excluding food and energy, the CPI eased to a 0.1 percent gain after a 0.2 percent boost in June. The consensus projection was for a 0.1 percent increase.
By components, energy increased 2.6 percent, following a 2.9 percent drop in June. Gasoline rebounded 4.6 percent after a 4.5 percent decrease the previous month. Food prices dipped 0.1 percent after being flat the prior two months.
Within the core, a lot was going on. Probably the biggest item of note was the continuation of soft shelter costs which rose only 0.1 percent for the fourth month in a row. This reflects the weak housing market which has resulted in more unsold homes going to the rental market. Medical care cost fell back 0.1 percent after jumping 0.3 percent in June.
But some components showed some strength. Apparel jumped 0.6 percent. Tobacco spiked 1.6 percent. And new & used motor vehicles gained 0.3 percent.
Year-on-year, overall CPI inflation firmed to 1.3 percent (seasonally adjusted) from 1.1 percent in June. The core rate in July was unchanged at 1.0 percent. On an unadjusted year-ago basis, the headline number was up 1.2 percent in July while the core was up 0.9 percent.
Overall, inflation at the consumer level continues to meet the Fed's expectation of "subdued." Markets were little changed on the news.
Again, as oil prices decline we should see this number turn negative once more.
The Dallas Fed published a report admitting that the "recovery" is far weaker than has been forecast. This chart of unemployment, shows that even the HIGHLY massaged 9.5% number is way behind their overly optimistic assumptions – as if anyone here had any doubt? And frankly the amount of bad and manipulated data is simply shocking – absolutely a confidence destroyer:
Counting the waves in the market, it appears to me that there are a couple of possibilities… Yesterday morning's dip could have been wave 5 down to complete wave 1 of 3, in which case we completed subwave 2 overnight - or it was the end of wave 3 of 1 of 3 and we are completing wave 4 now, possibly entering wave 5. Typically I like to see all the waves appear on the day only charts, like the SPX, but sometimes waves when they are moving quickly do occur after traditional market hours. On the futures, it appears we made a wave 2, but on the SPX I would favor the wave 4 scenario – time will reveal which, the movement so far during trading hours is more of a flat, retracing only 23.6% of the move down which favors the wave 4 scenario. If that's the case, we should experience a 5th wave down soon. If we rise higher, we could be in wave 2, and that may test up to the 38.2 or even 50% move. Below is a 5 minute chart of the SPX:
Remember that today is Friday, and that precedes Monday which is a 90% HFT ramp job day as the manipulation is still unchecked as there are no watchdogs in this casino (actually there are, but they are all on the take). That's okay, let the market come to you, any bounce higher is an opportunity to get positioned on the short side. Also keep in mind that next week is options expiration. A day that moves both higher and lower today would be ideal, that would likely generate the necessary new highs and lows for a confirming Hindenburg. The NYSE 50dma is barely rising, so too large of a decline could turn that negative, while too large of a ramp job could turn the McClelland positive – should be interesting, get ready for some wild swings.
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Waterkeeper Alliance's Updates
Judge Denies Taylor Energy Motion to Dismiss Clean Water Act Violations Suit
New Orleans, LA - July 22, 2013 (Investorideas.com Water Stocks Newswire) Yesterday, the judge in the Apalachicola Riverkeeper v. Taylor Energy Co. LLC Clean Water Act suit issued an order denying most of Taylor Energy's Motion to Dismiss and denied Taylor 's Motion to Stay in the Waterkeeper Alliance lawsuit to stop Taylor 's oil discharges into the Gulf of Mexico.
US Coast Guard confirms natural gas leak in Gulf of Mexico
Last Updated: 7/10/13 @ 2:32 PM EST July 10, 2013 – 12:54 pm: The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced Tuesday they are responding to a loss of well control at Platform B in Ship Shoal Block 225. On July 9, USCG reported a 4-mile by 3/4 mile rainbow sheen in the Gulf (covering an area of 1,920 acres based on reported dimensions) around an oil and natural gas platform 79 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, Louisiana and 44 miles from the nearest land.
Check out Waterkeeper Alliance's Annual Report 2012
Isaac Update from Lafitte Barataria
It has been a long three days and we can not begin to clean up until the water receeds. Once again the communities of Lafitte, Barataria and Crown Point have been pounded by Hurricane winds and inundated by devastating flood waters. The damage includes typical hurricane wind damage to roofs shingles missing down to the plywood, siding and trim damage, carport and shed damaged. Some homes have more severe wind damage such as roofs pealed off, broken windows, etc. Cars underwater and boat sunk.
Marylee Orr honored by Tides Foundation
SAN FRANCISCO-- Tides is proud to announce the 2012 Jane Bagley Lehman Award winners, two astounding local leaders and grassroots activists who brought their communities together and advocated for truth, accountability, and justice in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Brenda Dardar-Robichaux and Marylee Orr work every day to provide for the people who have been adversely affected by the oil spill and to hold BP accountable for the damage wrought upon their communities.
The Gulf: Frankenstein's Lab
By Marc Yaggi, Executive Director of Waterkeeper Alliance
Earlier this week, a coalition of public health, wildlife, and conservation organizations filed a Clean Water Act lawsuit in an effort to compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a rule regarding the use of chemical oil dispersants. In particular, the suit notes EPA's failure to identify the waters in which dispersants, and other substances, may be used and in what quantities. The suit is an effort to inject science and safety into decisionmaking around oil disasters.
Groups Seek Dispersant Rulemaking
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 6, 2012
Hannah Chang, Earthjustice, 212-791-1881 x 8233
Jill Mastrototaro, Sierra Club, 504-861-4835
Pamela Miller, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, 907-242-9991
Marylee Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, 225-928-1315
Cyn Sarthou, Gulf Restoration Network, 504-525-1528
Bob Shavelson, Cook Inletkeeper, 907-299-3277
Marc Yaggi, Waterkeeper Alliance, 212-747-0622 x14
Conservation, Wildlife, and Health Groups Seek Dispersant Rulemaking
File Clean Water Act lawsuit against lagging EPA
Is There A Catch? Protect your right to Fishable Waters
Is There A Catch?
Marc Yaggi, Executive Director of Waterkeeper Alliance
Happy World Oceans Day! June 8, 2012
Why Should I Celebrate World Oceans Day?
The world's ocean:
-Generates most of the oxygen we breathe
-Helps feed us
-Regulates our climate
-Cleans the water we drink
-Offers us a pharmacopoeia of potential medicines
-Provides limitless inspiration!
Now we can give back.
Take part in World Oceans Day events and activities this year and help protect our ocean for the future!
It's up to each one of us to help ensure that our ocean is protected and conserved for future generations. World Oceans Day allows us to:
Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants (Video)
(Phys.org) -- Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around the world.
Watch the video here

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Just like The Beach Boys, he gets around.
Ralph Alfonso photo of Dave Rave from Mr. Rave's Facebook page.
International Pop Overthrow's second showcase of the day at The Red Line Tap features five bands, and kicks off at 8:00 PM. That puts it on a collision course with Cosmos on the Fox Network, but you can always record Cosmos and watch it later.
Here's tonight's lineup.
8:00 The Intimate Machines: The members of this quartet have almost two decades of experience playing in bands like The Cells, Box-O-Car, and The Webb Brothers on the Chicago music scene. Their mission statement is simply, "We play the rock and roll," and they cite Big Star, T-Rex, The Cars, and Neil Young as influences.
8:45 King Mixer: This is a new power pop band led by Eric Howell, a veteran Chicago musician with loads of important friends in the entertainment industry. In addition to performing rock and roll, he creates comedy video clips. King Mixer also includes drummer Nick Kitsos, bassist-vocalist Jake Crowe, lead guitarist-vocalist Grant Tye, and keyboards player Matt Nelson. Expect the unexpected.
9:30 Emily Martin Band: This indie/folk singer-songwriter is a Chicago open mic veteran who started performing at age 13 and recorded her first CD five years later. Her newest effort, the Yellow And Blue EP came out last summer. She lists Laura Marling and Iron And Wine among her influences.
10:15 Jennifer Fletcher And The Reckoning: This Country And Western/folk singer-songwriter grew up in Beal City, MI listening to Patsy Cline, Alabama, and Johnny Cash. The Reckoning is comprised of Frank Loria, Jason Vinluan, and Jeremy Schmidt.
11:00 Dave Rave: If you're dying to know what it would be like to perform at every IPO festival throughout North America and the UK, just ask Dave Rave. He's done just that over the past few years. He's originally from New York, is a renowned session musician, and was a lead vocalist-rhythm guitarist for Teenage Head.


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Intimacy with God doesn't just happen. It develops over time as we cultivate our relationship with Him.
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Is There Bitterness in Your House?
If resentment, anger and hostility gain a foothold in your life, they will diminish your effectiveness for God.
Let's Face Our Giants
Are you facing some giants in your life? You're not alone.
How to Help a Friend Not Quit
Are you ready to throw in the towel? Or do you know someone who wants to quit? Here's some encouragement from Christy Fitzwater on how to encourage your friend to stay the course.
Pray for America
Today is the National Day of Prayer, a call to war for our families and children.
When God Defends
Beth Guckenberger and her husband, Todd, are missionaries in Mexico. Here's an excerpt from her latest book, Tales of the Defended Ones, that shows God is in the business of rescuing orphans, slaves and children.
Do You Really Believe God Is Good?
When your problem and God are in the room, something has to change. Here's an encouraging word from pastor Gregory Dickow.
5 Signs That He Is 'The One'
Are you dating someone and wondering if he's a candidate for a serious relationship? Check out these signs to see if he is "the one."
Heroine of the Faith: Corrie ten Boom
If you're under the age of 40, chances are that you haven't heard of Corrie ten Boom. Here's a heroine of the faith who was a survivor of the Holocaust.
When Being Right Is Wrong
Has someone done something wrong against you? Here's some insight from author and blogger Sue Birdseye, who faced this challenge.
Can You See His Glory?
Our lives will become a demonstration of God's glory when we begin to walk in His truth.
The Power of a Calm Heart
Words have the power to move your heart. Sarah Bessey learned this lesson from one of her toddlers.
Think Small When You Dream Big
Are you small in your eyes? Jennifer Kennedy Dean uncovers how the small moments and acts can create giant works of God.
When Hope Is a Battle
Author and blogger Wendy Alsup challenges us with the idea that God is good when circumstances don't line up.
How to Get Your Kids to Talk About God During Dinner
An author of 30 books tells us how she manages to have mealtime devotionals with her six kids.
Finding Time for Him
If you want to be a powerful force for God, make fellowship with Jesus your top priority.
Heroine of the Faith: Lottie Moon
"Heroines of the Faith," by author and blogger Felicity Dale, is a series that will be posted every Wednesday. These are women who blazed a trail for God's glory in their time. Lottie Moon pioneered a move of God in China. Here's her story.
How to Bear the Fruit of the Spirit
How do we become productive in the work of God? The late Dr. Fuchsia Pickett shares how we can be fruitful for the cause of Christ.
When God Delays His Arrival
Have you ever desperately prayed and then wondered if God would act? Here's some insight on how God responds.
Are You Wearing Yesterday's Rags?
Focus on the Family's radio-show host Susie Larson shares how you can receive new garments of praise today.


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Where There's A Will: Legacy
I've only had a quick prod at this, but it's interesting enough to post – and there's a reason why posting sooner rather than later, as there's a sorta-time-limit here. Radio 7 have done a two part radio drama, about a pair of siblings discovering that their inheritance is harder to get than you may expect. However, it's complimented by an audio-lead web-adventure . The game concentrates on one brother's perspective. The radio play concentrates on the other. By experiencing them all, you'll get more of the picture. The game's produced by DESQ, and is graphically simple and based around simple adventure-style interaction (Finding items, examining stuff, combining, etc), but with pretty neat audio. While the game's online indefinitely, the radio play is only on the iPlayer service – which means the first part isn't there any more and the second one only has another five days on its clock. So get a move on, eh? Fascinating to see the BBC trying something that's as determinedly cross-media as this. Go play here or listen here.
EDIT: However, the play will be broadcast again on the 17th and 24th of September, meaning that it'll be back on Iplayer for a week then.


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TPC Louisiana features a challenging landscape of lush wetlands and native cypress trees that lie just across the great Mississippi River. It is part of the Audubon Golf Trail and a proud member of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary program.
TPC Louisiana is home to the state's only PGA TOUR event, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. A stadium design brings golf fans up close to the action at every hole, making for a superb spectator experience. And five sets of tees on each hole ensure a rewarding round of golf for every player – no matter his or her handicap.
This championship golf course, located just outside of New Orleans in Avondale, is open to the public. TPC Louisiana, which opened in 2004, was honored by Golf Digest magazine that year as the fourth-ranked best upscale public golf course. TPC Louisiana is a repeat honoree in GolfWeek magazine's list of "Best Courses You Can Play" (Golf Digest 2011 Top 100 Public Golf Course).


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Raptors head coach Dwane Casey likes to remind us his team is a work in progress.
Wednesday night's 98-91 loss to the 4-7 Sacramento Kings at the ACC provided ample amounts of evidence to back up his claims.
Playing for the third night in a row and fifth time in six, the Raptors looked gassed throughout and had no answers for mercurial sophomore DeMarcus Cousins, who turned in a monster 21 point, 19 rebound performance.
Andrea Bargnani started 2-for-13 from the field and left for the night in the third quarter after at least hauling in 10 rebounds. Bargnani said he will have an MRI on his strained calf, which he said was similar to an injury he suffered last season.
The punchless Raptors could not score enough without Bargnani, even though Sacramento shot just 37% from the floor and even though the return of forward Linas Kleiza clearly sparked the team.
"The game was right there, (it's) really frustrating," Bargnani said.
Leandro Barbosa led the Raptors with 24 points, no other scorer managed more than 13.
Summing things up, Amir Johnson had the ball slip out of his hands on an easy alley-oop in the final 1:30 of the game and Cousins finished at the other end.
Cousins has taken to life under new head coach Keith Smart.
He had five offensive rebounds, J.J. Hickson added six.
"I'm out there just grabbing boards, that's my job," Cousins said.
"Get everything that comes off the glass. I wasn't getting touches, so I had to do something else."
Toronto can credit Barbosa for keeping the game close early.
Barbosa had to step up because starting shooting guard DeMar DeRozan was invisible in the first half yet again.
Casey said tighter defence and more of a focus on DeRozan by opponents is the reason for his struggles.
DeRozan attempted only two shots — missing both — but ended 5-for-9 for 13 points.
Toronto trailed 41-40 going into the tunnel in another display of less-than-stellar offensive basketball. The Raptors shot 37.5% through two, Sacramento, a dismal 34.8%.
Toronto harassed former rookie of the year Tyreke Evans into 4-for-14 shooting in the first two quarters but after handling Kevin Love the other night, the 4-7 team had no answers for Cousins.
Eight points and five rebounds from Cousins in the fourth quarter sealed the deal.
Kleiza got a big ovation when he made his season debut late in the first quarter. He got a bigger one when he scored on a driving layup while getting fouled minutes after hitting a pair of free throws. Kleiza was running the floor extremely well showing no ill effects from knee surgery and finished with 10 points and three rebounds in 15 minutes. Kleiza had missed Toronto's previous 41 games … Rasual Butler came in 5-for-27 in his past five games and went 1-for-5.
Jimmer Fredette, the biggest thing to come out of Glens Falls, N.Y., since Hacksaw Jim Duggan, nailed his first two jumpers, prompting Jamaal Magloire to stand up on the bench and implore Jose Calderon to "get up on him." Fredette missed his next two shots and finished 3-for-10 … The Kings get their hands on a lot of loose balls. Several times members of the Raptors brought the ball down too low and Sacramento made them pay with steals … DeRozan doesn't go inside as much as he should, but part of his hesitation could stem from the fact that referees never seem to give him a break when he does. Countless times this season DeRozan has taken a hit on a foray to the basket without getting the benefit of a call.
If there is a team with more "iso" players than the Kings it is news to us. Pass is almost a dirty word on a squad featuring Cousins, Evans, John Salmons and even Fredette (plus Marcus Thornton, who was out). Most of those players could be good passers if they wanted to be, but they prefer to create for themselves. Cousins said the close-knit group needs to play more together on the court … The Kings came in leading the league in offensive rebounding and they showed why early. Attacking the glass on every occasion, prompting an early call from Dwane Casey for Magloire. Magloire promptly sent Cousins down gently with a flagrant foul … Another veteran, Anthony Carter, played well early in place of Calderon. Carter's eyes lit up when he saw the defensively-challenged Fredette on him and he attacked the rookie off of the dribble, setting up Barbosa for open shots … Cousins threw down the dunk of the game over the back of Johnson and drew a technical for staring Johnson down and yelling. A vocal fan then yelled out: "Hey cousins, are you happy with this coach?" A nod to Cousins helping to get Paul Westphal fired. "I'm just trying to put all the silly stuff behind. I'm trying to help my team win and at the end of the day that's all I want to do," Cousins said of his improved play.
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KOHLER, Wis. — Na Yeon Choi survived a triple bogey and a few more shaky moments on the back nine Sunday to win the U.S. Women's Open at Blackwolf Run.
It's the first major and sixth career LPGA Tour victory for the 24-year-old South Korean star, who came into the tournament ranked fifth in the world.
Choi shot a 1-over 73 on Sunday and finished at 7 under for a four-stroke victory. Fellow South Korean player Amy Yang had a 71 to finish second.
Choi came into Sunday with a six-stroke lead after shooting a 7-under 65 on Saturday. She got into trouble when she triple-bogeyed No. 10, but recovered to win at the same course where Se Ri Pak won South Korea's first major title in 1998.
Pak was among a group of friends who met Choi after she putted out on the 18th green, showering her with hugs — and victory champagne.
Choi becomes the fourth South Korea player to win the event in the five years, following Inbee Park (2008), Eun-Hee Ji (2009) and So Yeon Ryu (2011) .
Choi could afford to have one bad hole Sunday thanks in large part to her remarkable performance Saturday when she had matched the fifth-lowest single round in Open history.
Choi and Yang were the only players to finish the tournament under par.
Sandra Gal of Germany shot a 74 and finished 1 over for the tournament. Il Hee Lee of South Korea, Shanshan Feng of China and Italian Giulia Sergas finished 2 over.
Michelle Wie finished the tournament 10 over. After shooting a 66 on Friday to close with a stroke of the lead, she had weekend rounds of 78 and 80.
Top-ranked Yani Tseng finished 14 over, and still needs an Open victory to complete a career Grand Slam.
The afternoon belonged to Choi, who was even through the front nine, making bogey on No. 1 and making a birdie putt on No. 4.
Then she found trouble.
It started on the par-5 10th hole, when she put her tee shot way left into woods and deep rough. Choi was 8 under at that point — five strokes ahead of Yang, who was 3 under.
After a long delay for a fruitless search for her ball, she went back to the 10th tee with a penalty. Choi wound up with a triple-bogey 8 and appeared to be on the verge of unraveling. Yang made a par on 10, cutting Choi's lead to 2 strokes.
Choi birdied No. 11 but got in trouble again on No. 12, putting her approach shot in the long rough short of the green. She managed to chip out of the rough and hit the green, then rolled in a putt of about 20 feet to save par — and, perhaps, her Open title.
Choi then came within inches of putting her tee shot in the water on No. 13, but her ball bounced to safety and she made another par.
She then made birdies on No. 15 and 16.
Na Yeon Choi wins US Women's Open
KOHLER, Wis. — Na Yeon Choi survived a triple bogey and a few more shaky moments on the back nine Sunday to win the U.S. Women's Open at Blackwolf Run.


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Magic number at four as Medlen stifles Padres
Righty continues second-half surge; Freeman hits decisive HR
ATLANTA -- In return for one of Kris Medlen's most complete pitching performances of the season, Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez permitted the 27-year-old right-hander to see the eighth inning Saturday for just the third time all year on a night the bullpen needed some rest. The move was a fitting testament to the confidence that Medlen has recaptured within his team in recent weeks after enduring a roller-coaster first half.
"He mixed all of his pitches up, and boy, we pushed him as far as we could push him to try to get him through that eighth inning," Gonzalez said.
Medlen scattered four hits over 7 1/3 scoreless innings as the Braves drew even in their weekend series with a 2-1 win over the Padres.
Freddie Freeman's 3-for-3 night, highlighted by a decisive solo home run in the sixth, keyed the sluggish Atlanta offense and helped the Braves lower their magic number for clinching the National League East to four thanks to Washington's 5-4 loss to Philadelphia.
Medlen lasted into the seventh for his seventh consecutive start, turning in an efficient performance to spell an Atlanta bullpen that used six relievers over four innings in Friday night's 4-3 loss. With his pitch count in triple digits, Medlen came back out to start the eighth, striking out Mark Kotsay before a bloop single off the bat of Will Venable ended his night.
"I think tonight more than even the past few, I established all three pitches early," Medlen said. "I knew I was going to have to establish all three, and usually it takes a couple innings to kind of get the curveball going, but everything felt really good from the get-go, and I just mixed pitches pretty nicely."
Since July 28, Medlen has rekindled the second-half magic he found at the tail end of 2012, posting a 2.44 ERA in his last 10 games. The Braves have won eight of his last nine starts as part of a hot streak that picked up momentum just a few days after Tim Hudson went down with a season-ending ankle injury.
"You do see your team leader go down, and it's something you definitely notice," Medlen said. "I've been trying to pitch like this the entire year, and it just hasn't necessarily happened until now."
He looked as sharp as ever, allowing only one San Diego runner to reach second base. Every meeting between the teams this season has been decided by two runs or fewer, and Medlen excelled with limited run support as he has so often this year to secure the Braves' first win over the Padres in five tries.
"He knows how to pitch," Padres manager Bud Black said. "His fastball had action in the hitting area, he has a tremendous changeup. He's their guy. They're headed to the playoffs and I suspect that he will be their first-game pitcher."
The Braves struggled in their first trip through the order against Padres rookie left-hander Robbie Erlin, who was making just his seventh start. Just as he did Friday, Justin Upton sparked the offense to lead off the fourth, sending a base hit into center field and taking second on Freeman's ground ball through the right side of the infield. Three batters later, Chris Johnson took advantage of a curveball up in the zone, lining a single into left field that allowed Upton to score easily from second.
After Medlen cruised through an eight-pitch sixth, Freeman led off the bottom half of the frame with a shot to the opposite field, his 21st home run of the year. In the process, the Braves first baseman notched his 99th RBI, bringing him within 10 of NL leader Paul Goldschmidt and just one from the first 100-RBI year of his young career.
"I'm healthy this year," Freeman said. "I have some confidence in my eyes, and I did have that little [disabled list] stint in April, but that's about it. I've been able to stick with a routine this year with [hitting coaches Greg Walker and Scott Fletcher], and I've been able to go out there and stay consistent."
In recent weeks, the Braves have run into the type of low-scoring, closely contested games they can expect regularly in October, and for the second time this weekend, they couldn't pad their lead in the later innings when given the opportunity. Evan Gattis struck out to leave the bases loaded in seventh, but reliever David Carpenter was able to preserve a two-run lead after replacing Medlen in the eighth, retiring Chris Denorfia and Jedd Gyorko to strand Venable on third base.
"The pitching staff overall has just done a pretty good job, has been I think the backbone of this team," Medlen said. "We have an explosive offense, and when they get going, it's a pretty cool thing to see, but that's our job, to pick them up when they're not going as well. It's the same thing with us. When we're struggling, they have to score some runs for us, and we've done that all year."
After Elliot Johnson struck out to leave the bases loaded once again in the eighth, closer Craig Kimbrel converted his 37th consecutive save opportunity, but not before allowing an earned run for the first time in 29 appearances dating back to July 4. Chase Headley cranked a leadoff home run to right to cut the Atlanta lead in half, and Kimbrel issued a two-out walk to Ronny Cedeno before getting Nick Hundley to ground out to third base for the final out.
"I'd rather it be 2-0 than 2-1, but his nerves are pretty good, and you feel that he's going to make some good quality pitches," Gonzalez said. "The play that [Paul Janish] made, made it look pretty simple and it wasn't, slow roller coming in with the tying run on second base and two outs. He made a nice play."


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Molecular 'eat now' signal makes cells devour dying neighbors
A team of researchers has devised a Pac-Man-style power pellet that gets normally mild-mannered cells to gobble up their undesirable neighbors. The development may point the way to therapies that enlist patients' own cells to better fend off infection and even cancer, the researchers say.
A description of the work will be published July 15 in the journal Science Signaling.
"Our goal is to build artificial cells programmed to eat up dangerous junk in the body, which could be anything from bacteria to the amyloid-beta plaques that cause Alzheimer's to the body's own rogue cancer cells," says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, who led the study. "By figuring out how to get normally inert cells to recognize and engulf dying cells, we've taken an important step in that direction."
Identifying and devouring dying cells and other "junk" is usually the job of white blood cells called macrophages and neutrophils, which also go after bacteria and other invaders in a process called phagocytosis. For the new experiments, Inoue teamed up with researchers at the University of Tokyo to strip down phagocytosis, figuring out the minimum tools one cell needs to eat another one.
They started not with macrophages, but with a type of laboratory-grown human cells known as HeLa, which normally can't perform phagocytosis. Their first task was to induce the HeLa cells to attach to nearby dying cells by getting the right "receptors" to the HeLa cells' surface. The researchers knew that part of a receptor protein called MFG-E8 would recognize and stick to a distress signal on the surface of dying cells, and coaxing the HeLa cells to make the protein fragment was straightforward. To get the fragment, termed C2, onto the outside of the cells, the team found a way to stick it to another protein that was bound for the cell's surface, thus taking advantage of the cell's own transportation system. "We put C2 on the same bus as the membrane protein," Inoue says.
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This is currently the final beer on my Westvleteren journey (unless I'm fortunate enough to end up with a bottle of the long retired Westvleteren 6) and having already rambled about the phenomenon which is Westvleteren (#66), and the history of the brewery itself (#90), this gives me the opportunity to finish the story by giving a little history of the abbey.
The Trappist Abbey of St. Sixtus began life in 1831, although the plot on which the Abbey was formed had been a spiritual home for hundreds of years previously, with at least three different monasteries occupying the land. Historians suggest as far back as 806 the Cella Beborna was built on this land. Records also show that between 1260 and 1355 there was a nunnery, and between 1610 and 1784 the place was occupied by a monastery. If you ever get a chance to wander around the area there really does feel an eerie sense of spiritual history.
The catalyst for the most recent incarnation was probably the hermit Jan-Baptist Victoor, who left Poperinge in 1814 to settle in the woods of St. Sixtus, where he rebelled against the rules of Emperor Joseph II and took up the monastic tradition. It was only when the prior and a few other disparate monks at the Catsberg monastery joined the hermit that the Abbey was officially formed. The monks here often went off on journeys to found other monasteries, and you may recall from the tale of Chimay White (#165), that the Abbey at Scourmont was started by the monks at St. Sixtus.
Life at the Abbey in Westvleteren though began to grow, and by 1875 the number of members totalled 52. It was still mind you a completely peaceful rural community which would have seen very few visitors. All this was to change during the first World War, when hundreds of refugees and approximately 400,000 allied soldiers lived in and around the abbey. Now it is once again a very peaceful place with only around thirty brothers, who serve the community and provide the world with some of the finest beers known to humanity.
Once of which is the Westvleteren 8, and I had been saving the blue-capped beer for a special occasion and this one happened to be a relaxing Christmas afternoon after the usual three thousand calories of roast!. The pour was everything I hoped it would be – thick and viscous with a ring of rustic head, but I wasn't getting much in the way of the nose. The taste was very good, with a mix of chocolate, coffee and festive spice. Perhaps though it was the lack of room in my stomach, but I felt just a little let down by the beer in the end. It was still impressive but I guess I had fallen for all the hype. I was expecting some kind of oral firework show, but all I ended up with was an overwhelming desire to nap!


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The Transforming Life After 50 (TLA50) initiative, undertaken by the California State Library, was designed to help libraries better serve and engage mid-life adults by positioning libraries as cornerstone institutions for productive aging. Research had shown that library services for "seniors" did not match the interests or characteristics of current adults, ages 50+ nor did these services reflect how aging is changing.
This was confirmed by a Library Field Survey (pdf) administered by the California State Library in 2007. Of the 230 library respondents, 65% said mid-life adults were "important" to their library but only 6% had specific programs or plans in place for them. Based on these findings and a desire to help libraries better support this growing population of older adults, the TLA50 initiative was launched.
The initiative began as a 3-day TLA50 training institute (pdf) designed to help libraries envision an alternative to the predominant deficit-based model of aging. Leaders in the fields of health, education, social science, finance, spirituality and aging offered new strategies for working with active, older adults. Eighty-eight participants (pdf), from 44 California libraries, attended the institute and 24 libraries went on to complete community assessments and be awarded LSTA grants to address the identified opportunities or needs of the older adults in their communities.
Interest in TLA50 spread beyond California, and an interstate partnership then led to the creation of the IMLS Western Regional Fellowship – a year long continuing education opportunity that brought the TLA50 training institute to yet more library staff wishing to further advance their skills related to improving services to and community engagement with mid-life adults.
From these combined efforts, 36 libraries (to date) in California have been award LSTA grants to put their learning into practice. Projects ranged from planning grants, to new community collaborations, to innovative volunteer opportunities, and inspiring new program models!
All the training presentations, tools and program models from this TLA50 initiative – including the promising practices created by the funded libraries and the IMLS Fellowship courses as well as a searchable resource database – are available on this web site, with new resources continually being added. We hope this site can serve as a hub of information, ideas and collegial support for anyone interested in connecting with mid-life adults in new and meaningful ways.


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Joan Nathan, author of Jewish Cooking in America, is the go to author on traditional Jewish cooking. She also has a wonderful childrens' book, The Children's Jewish Holiday Kitchen, where I found this simple to do Haroset recipe.
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Child: Peel the apples and cut them in quarters, removing the core. Using your chopping bowl and chopper, chop together all the ingredients. The apples and almonds should be about the size of the chunks in chunky peanut butter. Add red wine to taste.
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Britney Spears indefinitely postponed her residency in Las Vegas due to her father's life-threatening health issues, the singer said in a statement on Friday.
"Britney: Domination" was scheduled to start in February and run through August at the new Park MGM resort, according to Rolling Stone. Spears announced that she was going on an "indefinite work hiatus," and it wasn't immediately clear when or if the show would be rescheduled.
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I'm not one of those who thinks that Kerry is an idiot. Like Biden, he has perfected the art of being the dumb guy in over his head who gets what he wants by letting others think they got one over on him. Do you think this was a gaffe?: "Kerry to Russia: Syria comments were not a proposal" Or was it something cooked up by diplomats at the Russian G20 - where Putin and Obama had to pretend to hate each other (but you can see the smirk) - to give everybody a face-saving way out. The losers are the Jewish billionaires and the aching fangs of World Jewry. Of course, the Lobby feared a loss of influence if it couldn't whip the Congressional votes, so it may be a win all around except for those deeply committed to Yinonism.
Added: "Nancy Pelosi: Russian Proposal On Syria Is A 'Victory' For Obama" Note the unnecessary scare quotes from the media with a bad case of the sads.
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Will Smith's "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" Reunion: What to Expect
The "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star gives fans a first look at what's to come in the highly anticipated reunion episode. Watch!
The "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star gives fans a first look at what's to come in the highly anticipated reunion episode. Watch!
Tuesday evening, Rosie Perez appeared on "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah" where she discussed her battle with COVID-19 in November of 2019.
Parscale said he advised the president to show public empathy during COVID-19, but Trump chose a different path.
'The Voice' Season 19 just went live this week, but it's already nearly over.
Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy, who must get along pretty well for how often they work together, have found yet another project: According to Deadline, they'll be starring in God's Favorite Idiot, a new Netflix comedy series created by Falcone and directed by Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Michael McDonald that already has a 16-episode series order from the streaming service. In the vein of The Good Place or Miracle Workers or God Friended Me, God's Favorite Idiot is a high-concept workplace comedy about "a midlevel tech-support employee" (Falcone) who falls in love with a coworker (McCarthy) "at exactly the same time he becomes the unwitting messenger of God." Deadline says there's also "rollerskating, a lack of fire, and an impending apocalypse"—a.k.a. some kind of season-long arc that will explain why Falcone's character can talk to God. Or maybe it's not really God? That would be a fun twist.
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We've always known Ariana Grande to be a big animal lover - I mean, she once said she loved them more than she likes most people, and like, same - and now she's bringing her passion for four-legged friends to a new venture: an animal rescue center based in Los Angeles. On Dec.
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Spiritual Warfare and Sin: Our Old Nature
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.—Colossians 3:5
There are a lot of people trying to get away with the old man. What do I mean by the old man? I mean your pride, your bossiness, your nastiness, your temper, your mean disposition, your lustfulness and your quarrelsomeness. What do I mean, Reverend? I mean your study, your hunting for a bigger church, being dissatisfied with the offering and blaming the superintendent because you cannot get called. The reason you cannot get called is nobody wants you. That is what I mean, Reverend.
Deacons, what do I mean? I mean sitting around in board meetings wearing your poor pastor out, because you are too stubborn to humble yourself and admit you are wrong.
What do I mean, musicians? I mean that demeanor that makes you hate somebody that can sing a little better than you can. I mean that jealousy that makes you want to play the violin when everybody knows you can't, especially the choir director. You hate him, wish he were dead, and secretly pray that he would get called to Punxsutawney. That is what I mean. All of this may be under the guise of spirituality and we may have learned to put our head over on one side, fold our hands gently and put on a beatific smile like St. Francis of Assisi, and still be just as carnal as they come. Success and the Christian, 42-44.
"Wow! Tozer pulls no punches this morning, Lord! May Your Holy Spirit bring the proper conviction and repentance to my heart and give me victory over any of these carnal thoughts that might be mine today. Amen."
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House Bar Emmon
|House Bar Emmon of Sharp Point
|Coat of arms
|Fretty argent and white, a swordfish embowed haurient azure
|Sharp Point
|Duram Bar Emmon
|Massey's Hook, the crownlands
|Lord of Sharp Point
|House Baratheon of Dragonstone
House Bar Emmon of Sharp Point is a noble house from Sharp Point in the crownlands. They are sworn to Dragonstone.
Their blazon is a leaping blue swordfish on fretty silver on white.[1][2] Their motto does not appear in the texts.
Togarion Bar Emmon was an Andal warlord who founded a small kingdom north of the Blackwater Rush during the Andal invasion, but he was opposed by the more powerful Darklyns of Duskendale. Togarion married the daughter of King Josua Massey of Stonedance, himself a rival to the Storm King Qarlton II Durrandon, and the Bar Emmons abandoned the Blackwater for Massey's Hook. Although Qarlton defeated Josua, Togarion drove the stormlanders from Stonedance, built Sharp Point as the new seat for House Bar Emmon, and established a kingdom on Massey's Hook with the son of Josua as a puppet. The region was eventually recovered by the stormlands, however.[3][3]
Prior to the War of Conquest, House Bar Emmon was sworn to House Durrandon, the Storm Kings from Storm's End, but had closer ties to House Targaryen of nearby Dragonstone. When Aegon the Conqueror launched his invasion of Westeros, the Bar Emmons supported him instead of the Storm King, Argilac the Arrogant. With the creation of the crownlands after the Conquest, the Bar Emmons became sworn to Dragonstone, instead of House Baratheon of Storm's End, who had replaced the Durrandons.[4]
Lord Bar Emmon was a member of Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen's black council during the Dance of the Dragons.[5]
Recent Events
A Clash of Kings
Stannis Baratheon complains that the lords sworn to Dragonstone, including Bar Emmon, are a poor crop.[6] House Bar Emmon's contribution to Stannis's fleet is the Swordfish.
Davos Seaworth sees Lord Duram Bar Emmon turning a splotchy grey during the burning of the sept of Dragonstone.[7]
A Storm of Swords
The Bar Emmon banners are seen in Castle Black after Stannis's arrival.[1]
House Bar Emmon at the end of the third century
The known Bar Emmons during the timespan of the events described in A Song of Ice and Fire are:
- Lord Duram Bar Emmon, Lord of Sharp Point. A fat and feeble boy.[8]
Historical Bar Emmons
- Togarion Bar Emmon, called Togarion the Terrible, the founder of the house.
References and Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 75, Samwell IV.
- ↑ Citadel. Heraldry: In the area of the King's Landing
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The World of Ice & Fire, Andals in the Stormlands.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Conquest.
- ↑ The Princess and the Queen.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Prologue.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 10, Davos I.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 26, Jon III.


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Strategies for Creating Activating Events
To assist students in becoming transformative learners, that is, learners who recognize the limitations of their current knowledge and perspectives, can be challenging. It requires a variety of approaches, such as …
- creating an activating event that exposes the students' limited knowledge,
- providing opportunities for students to identify and articulate their underlying assumptions,
- encouraging self reflection,
- creating opportunities for students to critically reflect through conversations with each other and the instructor.
The following strategies can assist in creating an activating event. I.e., an event that aids students in revising their underlying assumptions and adopting new ones.
- Anticipate what students already know about a topic by learning about your students early on in the semester (McGonigal 2). This can be done through Bio Sheets, anonymous pretests, surveys, graded or ungraded assignments, etc. It is critical that we accurately anticipate what our students know and don't know about our subjects.
- Provide oppositional viewpoints through reading assignments and/or classroom activities (McGonigal 2). Visual materials, such as video clips, photographs, etc., can be particularly effective in helping students experience cognitive dissonance.
- Create a disorienting dilemma through a case study or a scenario that does not fit the students' expectations. "Hopefully, their confusion and intrigue will motivate them to learn more about what you are teaching" (McGonigal 2).
- Present a challenging problem that students will be motivated to learn when they recognize that their current knowledge and understanding is insufficient. In doing so, you will need to be able to convince students that they can solve the problem and create conditions that validate their success (McGonigal 2).
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NASA has set March 18 as the soonest revised date for the launch of its NuSTAR X-ray satellite observatory, after delaying the "flight readiness review" it had scheduled for March 13.
According to NASA's mission page, NuSTAR is now on a six-day countdown (at the time of writing).
NuSTAR is a belt-tightening novelty for the big-spending space agency: although it's designed to catch hard X-rays from distant galaxies, it's working to a shoestring budget of just $US165 million.
Artist impression of NuSTAR. Source: Caltech
Part of the low cost comes from an unusual launch approach. NuSTAR will be carried by a Pegasus XL vehicle which itself will be released from an Lockheed L-1101 aircraft over the Marshall Islands (where it now awaits lift-off).
NASA says the delay is "to allow time for a review of data and simulations to qualify software associated with a new Pegasus flight computer."
NuSTAR – the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array – is designed to detect "hard" X-rays at energies between 5 and 80 kiloelectronvolts.
This radiation penetrates mirrors, which make it hard to focus onto a detector. The design team has created a sandwich of thin films, each of which is tuned to reflect photons of a specific energy. These films are arranged as nested conical shells.
The mirrors are arranged so that instead of trying to capture X-rays striking them directly, they capture X-rays that are nearly parallel to the mirror surface. This, however, means there's a much smaller collection area – a problem overcome by the nested mirror arrangement used in NuSTAR.
The other design challenge, according to Nature, was to build a low-cost structure with a long focal length, and make it small enough to fit inside the Pegasus rocket. The solution was to create a 10-meter folding truss which will have to be deployed after NuSTAR reaches orbit.
Once in space, NuSTAR will be able to detect galaxies – in particular, the active galactic nuclei, which give off X-rays as energized particles orbit black holes – that are hidden from current instruments by dust and gas. According to mission partner Caltech, the instrument will be "100 times the sensitivity of previous missions that have operated in this part of the electromagnetic spectrum."
Its initial two-year science program also includes a black hole survey, mapping remnants from recent stellar explosions, and searching for the remnants of exploded stars in the Milky Way. ®


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Vancouver director Vic Sarin stumbled across the story of Adam Robert while researching a film on how different shades of skin colour inspire prejudice within cultures.
Sarin travelled around the world making the film Hue: A Matter of Colour, released last year, part of which explored the persecution faced by people with albinism in Tanzania.
While working in the East African country, Sarin was horrified at the brutality of the attacks, which largely targeted children, and decided the issue warranted a film of its own.
"If I listen to this and I don't do anything about it, then I'm as guilty as anybody else," he said. "You can't just stand by."
In his research he discovered Surrey-based businessman Peter Ash, his organization, and Robert, who was 12 years old at the time of his attack. In them, Sarin found the vehicles he needed to tell his story.
Sarin watched the relationship develop between Robert and Ash in Tanzania. He documented what it took to bring Robert to Vancouver for surgery and had a camera in the operating room when it happened.
One of Sarin's biggest challenges was getting Robert to share his story. Not only is the boy quiet and timid by nature, Sarin said, but he was being asked to open up to someone from a different culture, who spoke a different language.
"It was a challenge for me because I needed him to tell me his story because in my films I don't use narration," he said. "I let people tell their own stories."
After six months and several unsuccessful attempts, Robert finally spoke out. The director said he is often struck by how coherently children who have experienced trauma are able to talk about it.
"They don't cry, they don't make any drama, they just say it very simply. That is far more dignified, it's far more effective ... and simplicity to me is quite often the most effective way to tell things."
Sarin's new film, The Boy From Geita, will premiere at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto April 25, and he hopes to bring it to Vancouver in the fall as part of VIFF.
The film is important as a means of informing people about this horrific issue and inspiring political action, Sarin said, but it also carries with it a message of hope.
The hope lies in the extraordinary humanity of people like Ash and Dr. Mark Hill, who operated on Robert, and their compassion and perseverance in the face of such brutality, Sarin said.
"The story became to me this inhumanity versus humanity. That, to me, was the basic foundation for my film."
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