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Meet The Doctors:
Dr. Kane is committed to caring for her patients in her private practice which she has been building since 1993. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Kane was raised in the Chicago area and attended college at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with high honors in Psychology. Her medical school training was completed at the University of Illinois at Chicago, followed by pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
Dr. Kane enjoys running her own practice at Kids-Doc's, which she opened with Dr. Bullivant in 2000. Over the years, she has enjoyed getting to know her patients and families in order to provide individualized care for all of their medical and personal needs.
Dr. Kane resides in St. Louis with her husband and two young children.
Dr. Bullivant is a board certified pediatrician who has been building her private practice in West County since 1995.
After being raised in southern Illinois, she attended Eastern Illinois University and graduated Summa cum Laude with a degree in Zoology and Chemistry. She received her medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Bullivant completed her pediatric training at St. Louis Children's Hospital where she received awards for outpatient pediatrics.
Dr. Bullivant enjoys being involved in all aspects of running her own practice at Kids-Doc's which she opened with Dr. Kane in 2000. Most rewarding for her is the partnerships she develops with her patients and their parents as she cares for their medical, emotional and developmental needs. She sees each patient and family as unique and tries to tailor advice and management accordingly.
She resides in St. Louis with her husband and two young children. They enjoy the many outdoor activities that are available in the area.
Dr. Mueller is a dedicated, board certified pediatrician who started her private practice in the St. Louis area in 1996 and joined her friends, Dr. Kane and Dr. Bullivant at Kids-Doc's in May 2001.
Dr. Mueller received an Honors degree in Biochemistry and Spanish from Kansas State University and then attended medical school at Washington University. She completed her Pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital. She was then appointed chief resident there and later joined the academic teaching faculty.
Dr. Mueller is committed to giving the best care to her patients and families, and really enjoys helping kids grow up happy and healthy. She is very experienced with difficult diagnostic evaluations and also manages many different developmental issues.
Dr. Mueller resides in the St. Louis area with her husband and four beautiful children.
Dr. Cole is a board certified pediatrician who joined the Kids-Docs family starting January 1, 2007. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children's Hospital and is excited to add his expertise and passion in the area of children's health to the team at Kids-Docs, continuing a strong tradition of dedication to improving the lives of children.
Dr. Cole received his medical degree and Ph.D. in neurosciences from Washington University School of Medicine in 2003. Prior to that, he graduated summa cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Biology in 1995. In 2006, he was honored with the Community Outpatient Practice Experience (COPE) Resident Award from Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital for his enthusiasm, professionalism and dedication to primary care. Dr. Cole has also been recognized for his dedication to teaching, receiving the Teaching Assistant of the Year award at Washington University School of Medicine in 1998. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Outside the office setting, Dr. Cole takes an active role as a leader in the Children's ministry at McKnight Road Church of Christ and serves on the oversight committee of the St. Louis Area Wide Campus Ministry program. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, trivia tournaments, traveling, and attending major sports events, especially St. Louis Cardinals games. Dr. Cole resides in the St. Louis area with his beautiful wife, and daughter.
Since our opening, we continually receive compliments about the friendliness of our staff. We think you will find them to be genuinely interested in the individual needs of you and your children. Our goal is to meet your needs at all levels – from your phone calls to personal contact with us and every aspect of your visit.
We have four medical assistants in our office: Brandi, Ashley, Arri and Beth. These ladies will greet you after signing in and assist you to an exam room to prepare you and your child for your visit with your pediatrician. They have been trained to perform hearing screening starting from infancy, and vision screening starting at age 4 years. You will find them to be very personable and happy to help you with any needs you may have during your visit.
Susan manages all our front desk activity. Megan is our medical records coordinator. They will check you in upon arrival for your appointment, confirm your demographic and insurance information and collect co-pays.
Monique is our insurance and billing coordinator and will gladly answer any billing question you might have. She takes billing phone calls between the hours of 10am and 4pm. The billing phone number is (314) 628-9949.
Albina, our office manager, oversees all that goes on in our office and is an available resource for any questions or concerns you may have.
We have two telephone nurses: Emily and Juli. They're registered nurses with many years of pediatric triage experience. They take and triage phone calls involving medical, developmental and behavioral issues. They are experienced at helping you decide if and when your child needs to be seen in the office. They are in close contact with the doctors during office hours to ensure that all of your concerns are taken care of in a timely manner, and also help you schedule office appointments for illness. Advice that is given over the phone is always communicated to the doctor the same day.


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A New Sushi Hot Shot Has Replaced Hiro Sawatari at Niko
Magical hands trained by Morimoto.
Sushi Yasuda-alum Hiro Sawatari has left his post at Niko on Monday only to be replaced immediately and enthusiastically by Kwang Kim, a young sushi superstar who has already made a splash by way of Morimoto. The Hiro-Niko split is reportedly amicable. This is big news for Nikofiles, as Hiro brought a lot of street cred to the culinary cove of beautiful people, but many are saying that Kim has even more worth behind the Mercer Street sushi bar. Plus, he brings with him a sushi-lady-chef, and where have you seen that lately? Incidentally, we hear that the design has been updated, too, emphasizing the "spectacular bones of the space," with a warmer, timelessly Soho style. Sake. Please. Now.

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O'Neill Man Killed in 2-Vehicle Crash
O'NEILL (AP) - A 75-year-old driver has died after a collision near O'Neill. The Holt County Sheriff's Office says the accident occurred Wednesday afternoon, less than a mile east of O'Neill. The sheriff reports Thomas Schneider halted at a stop sign and then turned east onto Nebraska Highway 108. But he apparently turned too wide and went into the oncoming lane. His vehicle struck a westbound vehicle driven by 52-year-old Gerald Kemp of Niobrara. Schneider was pronounced dead at the scene. The Sheriff's Office says Kemp suffered no visible injuries.
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Studio Three, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineers: Ken Scott, Martin Benge
Work continued on John Lennon's song Across The Universe during two sessions on this day, which took place in Abbey Road's Studio Three from 2.30-5.30pm and 8pm-2am.
Two takes of the song had been recorded on the previous day. During this day's first session they recorded a further four, numbered 4-7; there was no take three. The basic track had Lennon on acoustic guitar, George Harrison playing a tambura, and Ringo Starr on drums.
During the evening session overdubs were added onto take seven. Lennon recorded his lead vocals, with the tape running slower than usual to raise its pitch upon playback. Paul McCartney then decided to invite two young women - Apple Scruffs, as George Harrison later dubbed them - from outside the studio to sing on the track.
The women were 16-year-old Lizzie Bravo and 17-year-old Gayleen Pease. They sang the "Nothing's gonna change my world" refrain a number of times onto the fourth track of the tape, before being escorted back outside.
They were so excited. They couldn't believe they'd actually been invited by Paul not just inside the building but into the studio itself, to sing with The Beatles.
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
A reduction mix known as take eight was then made to allow more overdubs to be added. Backwards drums and bass guitar were then added onto track four.
Towards the end of the session three separate effects tapes were prepared. Two of these were of guitar and harp, which were intended to be played backwards, and the third contained four tracks of humming lasting 15 seconds, and was known as Hums Wild.
A rough mono mix was also made during this session for John Lennon to take home. This didn't include the backwards bass and drums, although the three tape loops were used.


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The country's sugar production fell by 29% to 57.39 lakh tonne in the first three months of the 2013-14 season (October-September) because of delay in crushing, industry body ISMA said on Thursday.
Sugar output is slowly catching up the last year's trend. However, the pace of raw sugar output would improve if the Centre announces export incentives at the earliest, it said.
Sugar output was 80.32 lakh tonne in the year-ago period. After a sluggish start, sugarcane crushing picked up pace by the end of December 2013. Lower production is due to late start of mills because of the cane pricing problem, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said in a statement.
It added that 476 mills were crushing till December 2013, as compared with 499 mills a year ago.
Maharashtra, the country's largest sugar producing state, has produced 22.14 lakh tonne of sugar, down from 29.07 lakh tonne in the same period last year. 154 mills were operating as against 161 till December 2013 in the state.
Uttar Pradesh the country's second biggest biggest sugar producing state produced 11.3 lakh tonne, down by about 42% from the last year's period. In UP, 119 mills were operating as against 122 mills in the year-ago.
Sugar recovery in Maharashtra was 10.19%, while it stood at 8.75% in UP.
The ISMA said that extended rains in UP had adversely impacted sugarcane yields in the central and eastern parts of the state.
However, recovery could be better in these zones because of cultivation of better crop varieties this year.
Sugar production in Karnataka remained lower at 12 lakh tonne in the first three months of 2013-14 season, as against 16 lakh tonne in the year-ago period. Here too, the cane pricing problem is affecting smooth crushing, ISMA said.
Andhra Pradesh produced 2.52 lakh tonne of sugar, down by 18% from the year-ago period, while Tamil Nadu 58% less sugar at 1.5 lakh tonne of sugar in the review period, it added.
As far as raw sugar is concerned, the ISMA said that mills have produced 1.95 lakh tonne till November of 2013, much higher than the 81,000 tonne of raw sugar produced in the entire 2012-13 season.
"It clearly shows that mills are eager to produce more and more of raw sugar for exports. However, the pace of raw sugar production will improve if the government quickly announces the incentives it intends to give for raw sugar production," the industry body observed.


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Friday, April 30, 2010
25,000 Barrels of Oil Per Day Could Be Spilling Into Gulf Coast (#OilSpill UPDATE, 4/30/2010)
Check Out Price Volatility In EuroBancshares (EUBK), FDIC Closes Three Puerto Rican Banks: Eurobank, Westernbank, R-G Premier Bank
Check Out Price Volatility In EuroBancshares (EUBK), FDIC Closes Three Puerto Rican Banks: Eurobank, Westernbank, R-G Premier Bank
Goldman Implied Volatility Up 49% to 51.66, ISEE Ratio Up 139% to 223
|$GS Implied Volatility,
ISEE value snapshot at ISE.com
Oklahoma Teachers Retirement System Puts Goldman On 90-Day Alert, $GS -9.4% to $145 on Criminal Probe, Channel Support Violated (Charts)
Oklahoma Teachers Retirement System Puts Goldman On 90-Day Alert, $GS -9.4% to $145 on Criminal Probe, Channel Support Violated (Charts)
SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert Interview Video at "Rising Stars" Executive Council Event
"As the marketplace for illiquid assets, SecondMarket's mission is to not only provide sellers with increased liquidity and qualified buyers with unique investment opportunities, but also to keep them informed on public issues regarding illiquid assets."
Bob Janjuah Sees $2,000 Gold, $100 Oil (Chief Credit Strategist at RBS)
"10 - What I really want to own in a world of reckless policy, debasement, more debt, inflation etc, are PHYSICAL ASSETS like Gold, Oil and PRIME PROPERTY. I can see GOLD @$2k/oz in the next yr or so, Oil north of $100, and when I say Prime, I really mean SUPER PRIME - location and quality are key."
In the end he thinks we're screwed if we don't change policies.
"We seem to be stuck in an era where policymakers only understand more debt, more deficits, & more debasement. This IS gonna come back and savage (forget 'bite') us real hard unless our policymakers turn abruptly towards Voluntary Austerity/Deflation. As I've said before, we do NOT have the luxury of time here - it is simply not feasible to continue on the current policy paths for much more than a few qtrs. We do NOT HAVE years. And the longer we wait, the worse the unwind will be."
In the short term he thinks a breakout in the 10-year yield could knock 10% off global markets.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Oil Spill in Gulf, $USO Trading at $41 Ceiling (Oil ETF Charts, Pentagon Video)
Goldman Sachs Congressional Hearing Video 2 [CFO, CRO]
Goldman Sachs Congressional Hearing Video 3 (Lloyd Blankfein CEO)
S&P Downgrades Spain to AA, 10Y-Note Yields 4.12%, CDS Tightens to 187bps and $EWP Testing $37.5 Support
S&P Downgrades Spain to AA, 10Y-Note Yields 4.12%, CDS Tightens to 187bps and $EWP Testing $37.5 Support
Milken Institute Panel On Financial Journalism, Bloggers (4/2010)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Goldman Sachs Congressional Hearing Video 1 [Tourre, Birnbaum, Sparks, Swenson]
Joshua Birnbaum: Former Goldman Sachs Managing Director, Structured Products Trading
Daniel Sparks: Former Goldman Sachs Department Head, Mortgages
Michael Swenson: Goldman Sachs Managing Director, Structured Products Trading
Fabrice Tourre: Goldman Sachs Executive Director, Structured Products Trading
E-Mini S&P Large Speculators Net Short, ES Breaks Down During Goldman Hearing, VXX Spikes (Videos of Chartcast, COT Chart, SPY)
E-Mini S&P Large Speculators Net Short, ES Breaks Down During Goldman Hearing, VXX Spikes (Videos of Chartcast, COT Chart, SPY)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Portugal Bond Yields, CDS Spike on S&P Downgrade, Fighting Greek Contagion Risk (Charts)
S&P Downgrades Greece to Junk, Greek 2Y-Bond at 15%, CDS at 787bps, National Bank of Greece -14.24% (NBG)
"Greece's debt has been downgraded to junk status by Standard & Poor's amid concern it was not able to take steps needed to tackle its economic crisis." [source: BBC]Looks a lot like the pattern of Lehman Brothers. Who will bail this country out... or is a default actually coming.
Moody's Downgrades Greece, 10Y Bond Yield 8.84%, CDS 633bps, Greek Shares Testing February Low, Euro Needs Help (Charts) (April 23, 2010)
Pricing of Greek CDS, 10Y Bond Yields Sense Risk (CDS 399bps, 10Y 6.85%) (January 31, 2010)
S&P Downgrades Greece to Junk, Greek 2Y-Bond at 15%, CDS at 787bps, National Bank of Greece -14.24% (NBG)
Citadel's Ken Griffin, Marc Lasry and Mohamed El-Erian at Milken Conference on 4/26/2010 (Video Link)
Citadel's Ken Griffin, Marc Lasry and Mohamed El-Erian at Milken Conference on 4/26/2010 (Video Link)
Time For Oil ETN, ETF to Make a Decision (USO, OIL, OVX, USD/CAD Charts)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Peter Schiff vs. James Galbraith on US Government Debt (CNBC)
Here is Peter Schiff and Professor James Galbraith debating about our Federal debt and interest rates going forward.
- James Galbraith: "The United States Government does not have and is not going to have a problem financing its public expenditures and its deficits. It's simply not an issue that should be on our list of things that we really care about right now".
- Peter Schiff: "The US Government is making the same mistakes that sub-prime borrowers did when they were using teaser rates on their mortgages".
Gizmodo Exclusive of iPhone 4, Jason Chen's Computers Seized (PBS Video)
Mary Schapiro, Larry Tabb on SEC Large Trader Reporting Proposal Videos (Tabb Group)
I See XLE Made New Highs Last Week, Will It Lead USO? (Oil ETF/Energy Sector SPDR)
|XLE (Energy Select SPDR ETF) - Courtesy of Stockcharts.com
|XLE Short Term
|USO (US Oil Fund ETF)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
June Oil Future at $85 Resistance, Rig Count Down 9 to 1482 On Week, Up 524 Annually, Watching Spreads (WTIC, USO, CLM10, UNG)
|June Crude Oil (courtesy of optionsxpress)
June Oil Future at $85 Resistance, Rig Count Down 9 to 1482 On Week, Up 524 Annually, Watching Spreads (WTIC, USO, CLM10, UNG)
Goldman Executives, "Fabulous-Fab" Emails (Released By Senate)
New Home Sales Up a Whopping 27% In March, November BZH Call Rips 59%, Stock Testing Resistance, Beazer Downgraded To Hold By Citigroup Citing Valuation
New Home Sales Up a Whopping 27% In March, November BZH Call Rips 59%, Stock Testing Resistance, Beazer Downgraded To Hold By Citigroup Citing Valuation
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Speech By Kiyohiko Nishimura on Japan's Economy, Monetary Policy (Bank of Japan, 4/21/2010)
"Price Developments in Japan
I will now talk about price developments.
The year-on-year rate of change in consumer prices has been declining, while the pace has been moderating since last August to around -1 percent recently.
We hear from firms that it is difficult to raise sales prices as consumers are sensitive to prices due to their tight purse strings, and as competition is harsh among firms. The Tankan showed that output prices have not risen, compared with the improvement in business sentiment and the rise in input prices.
Nevertheless, it can be said that some beams of light are starting to break through a thick cloud of deflation.
First, there is a subtle change in firms' price-setting behavior and consumers' purchase behavior. With your cooperation, the Bank conducted a survey on firms' price-setting behavior at the beginning of this year. The results, which were published in our January Regional Economic Report, showed that there were signs in some firms to avoid endless price competition and try to differentiate in aspects other than prices. The impression obtained through various surveys and interviews is that there are subtle and gradual signs on the consumers' front to purchase quality products by paying reasonable prices.
Lionsgate vs. Icahn, Video of Live 13D War On CNBC, Icahn Owns 19%, Mark Cuban Owns 5.4% and Technical Analysis ($LGF, $IEP)
Lions Gate to allow Icahn vote on poison pill - April 23, 2010/Reuters
Icahn Lifts Lions Gate Bid to $7, Says Management Should Go - April 15, 2010/Bloomberg
Lions Gate drops out of bidding for MGM - March 25, 2010/LA Times
Lions Gate drops bid for MGM: report - March 25, 2010/MarketWatch
Lions Gate Exec Michael Burns vs. Carl Icahn March 24, 2010/CNBC
Lionsgate vs. Icahn, Video of Live 13D War On CNBC, Icahn Owns 19%, Mark Cuban Owns 5.4% and Technical Analysis ($LGF, $IEP)
Pimco's El-Erian On Greece Debt Contagion Risk (CNBC Video)
$3 Million Jacked From Detroit Pension Funds (Fire, Police and General Retirement)
Mike Farr, firm accused of bilking local pension funds - Detroit News
Ex-Lion, money manager stole $3M from Detroit, Pontiac pensions, U.S. says - Detroit Free Press
Asset freeze ordered in pension fund case - Detroit News
SEC: Former Lion Mike Farr, partner stole more than $3M from Detroit-area pension funds - MLive
SEC Charges Private Equity Firm and Money Manager for Defrauding Detroit-Area Public Pension Funds
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a private equity firm, a money manager and his friend with participating in a fraudulent scheme through which they stole more than $3 million invested by three Detroit-area public pension funds.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Abacus 2007 CDO Pitch Book Referenced Securities One Notch Above Junk Four Months Before Two Bear Stearns Credit Funds Blew Up
Abacus 2007 CDO Pitch Book Referenced Securities One Notch Above Junk Four Months Before Two Bear Stearns Credit Funds Blew Up
U.S. Housing Data Spurs Late Gains in Oil Prices after Mixed Week (Oil Market Summary) - Guest Post
U.S. Housing Data Spurs Late Gains in Oil Prices after Mixed Week
OilPrice.com Oil Market Summary for 04/19/2010 to 04/23/2010
After languishing most of the week, crude oil prices galloped to the finish line on Friday, tacking on 1.7% and recouping most of last week's losses as positive new-housing sale data spurred most markets forward.
The decision by the Greek government on Friday to activate a bailout plan from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund eased pressure on the euro, contributing to oil price gains as the dollar slipped against the joint European currency.
The benchmark West Texas Intermediate contract gained $1.42 Friday to end the week at $85.12 a barrel, compared with the benchmark's finish of $83.24 in the previous week.
Moody's Downgrades Greece, 10Y Bond Yield 8.84%, CDS 633bps, Greek Shares Testing February Low, Euro Needs Help (Charts)
Greece's Credit Rating Lowered One Step by Moody's - BusinessWeekThe Greek 10-Year Bond yield hit a new high of 8.84% and 5-Year Greek CDS (credit default swaps or default insurance) on Greek debt hit 633 basis points according to CMA Datavision. Remember my post from January [Pricing of Greek CDS, 10Y Bond Yields Sense Risk (CDS 399bps, 10Y 6.85%)]. You can see how important this data is. In 2.5 months the Greek 10-Year yield is up 200 basis points (2%) and CDS is up 234 basis points (2.34%). Market participants are pricing the risk of default. The ultimate bailout event or default risk reversal will be interesting to watch.
Greece May Seek Bridge Loan as Bond Redemption Looms - Bloomberg
Greece seen with little choice other than to activate aid plan - MarketWatch
Moody's cuts Greece's sovereign ratings to 'A3' - MarketWatch
Greece faces tight timeline before May debt crunch - Reuters
Greece Problems Spreading on Credit-Risk Selloff, El-Erian Says - Bloomberg
Greek equities are testing the February low. If Greek shares don't hold support here I don't see support until the early 2009 bottom (see chart below). The Euro Index is also testing lows. Judgment day is near but someone will bail them out. Click charts for larger view.
Moody's Downgrades Greece, 10Y Bond Yield 8.84%, CDS 633bps, Greek Shares Testing February Low, Euro Needs Help (Charts)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
President Obama's Speech On Wall Street Reform (Video, Cooper Union)
"The President speaks at Cooper Union in New York City, where he spoke on the need for reform two years earlier, and tells Wall Street and Republicans to support these common sense reforms to end bailouts, close loopholes and protect consumers." [Whitehouse.gov]
Options Active In Homebuilders $XHB, $BZH, $HOV, Existing Home Sales Up 6.8% In March, Inventories At 8-Months
Options Active In Homebuilders $XHB, $BZH, $HOV, Existing Home Sales Up 6.8% In March, Inventories At 8-Months
Lumber Contract In I-Shaped Recovery, Up 91% On Year (Chart)
Will Gold and Oil Continue Trading Sideways In 2010? (Videos)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Anton Valukas, Dick Fuld, William Black Congressional Testimony On 2008 Lehman Failure (Videos)
Miami Businessman Charged With $900 Million Ponzi Scheme
"SEC Charges Prominent Miami Beach Businessman in $900 Million Ponzi Scheme
Washington, D.C., April 21, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a prominent Miami Beach-based businessman and philanthropist with fraud for orchestrating a $900 million offering fraud and Ponzi scheme.
The SEC alleges that Nevin K. Shapiro, the founder and president of Capitol Investments USA, Inc., sold investors securities that he claimed would fund Capitol's grocery diverting business. Shapiro told investors that the securities were risk-free with rates of return as high as 26 percent annually. Instead, Shapiro was actually conducting a Ponzi scheme and illegally using investor money to pay for other unrelated business ventures and fund his own lavish lifestyle. When investors questioned Capitol's business, Shapiro showed them fabricated invoices and purchase orders for nonexistent sales."
[read full at SEC.gov]
Paulson Sees V-Shaped Recovery, Housing Recovery in 2011 (Video)
TLT (20+ Treasury ETF) Chart Broke Out Of Downtrend From October 2009
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
CDS 101 By Goldman Sachs (Education on Credit Default Swaps)
Goldman Sachs Initial Defense From SEC Wells Notice (9/2009)
In early 2007, Goldman Sachs acted as the underwriter of privately-placed notes issued in a synthetic CDO transaction known as ABACUS 2007-AC1 ("2007-AC1"). There was nothing unusual or remarkable about the transaction or the portfolio of assets it referenced. Like countless similar transactions during that period, the synthetic portfolio consisted of dozens of Baa2-rated subprime residential mortgage-backed securities ("RMBS") issued in 2006 and early 2007 that were identified in the offering materials (the "Reference Portfolio"). As in other synthetic CDO transactions, by definition someone had to assume the opposite side of the portfolio risk, and the offering documents made clear that Goldman Sachs, which took on that risk in the first instance, might transfer some or all of it through a hedging and trading strategies using derivatives. Like other transactions of this type, all participants were highly sophisticated institutions that were knowledgeable about subprime securitization products and had both the resources and the expertise to perform due diligence, demand any information that was important to them, analyze the portfolio, form their own market views and negotiate forcefully at arm"s length. And like other transactions with similar lower-rated subprime portfolios, 2007-AC1"s performance was battered by the unprecedented subprime market meltdown, which has impaired cashflow to countless noteholders in such transactions and caused many participants in the market to fail altogether.
Now, with the benefit of perfect hindsight about the magnitude of the market downturn, the Staff proposes to charge Goldman Sachs with misrepresenting material facts relating to the offering. Notably, the Staff does not contend that anything about the Reference Portfolio itself was incorrectly disclosed. Rather, the Staff"s theory relates exclusively to the role of Paulson & Co., Inc. ("Paulson") – now recognized as a heavy bettor against the subprime market but at the time a relatively unknown hedge fund manager – in making suggestions to the" [........] Continue reading at NYT Dealbook.
Iran Shows Off Shahab-3 Missile at Army Day, Ahmadinejad at Tehran Nuclear Conference and Middle East News Links (4/19/2010)
Iran Shows Off Shahab-3 Missile at Army Day, Ahmadinejad at Tehran Nuclear Conference and Middle East News Links (4/19/2010)
Monday, April 19, 2010
$USO ETF Failed Ceiling Test, May, June Oil Future Below Support, Traders Grab Volatility (USO, CLK10, CLM10, CLN10, $WTIC, $USD, $OVX Charts on 4/16/2010)
While tweaking off Turkish coffee I cooked up a bunch of oil charts on the fly. Check out USO and West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTIC) from the close on Friday. $USO did NOT break through ceiling resistance while WTIC (oil continuous contract) did and it's sitting right on top of support. You can also see the clear uptrend channel from October 2009 and the 50 and 200 day moving average not far behind. The dotted line is currently support which will probably break tomorrow since futures are down. We shall see though. If you're on the index page, I also charted out May, June and July oil, the oil volatility index, US Dollar and the recent USD/WTIC correlation.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
China Property Prices, FX Concepts, Simon Johnson on Paulson, Goldman Sachs, Mostly The Media Gang Beating CDO Fraud Allegations
FX Concepts' John Taylor: "2011 Will Be Worse Than 2008 - Zero Hedge
China's central bank to curb property prices - CCTV Video
China Developers Fall on Latest Moves to Damp Property Prices - BusinessWeek
Iranian VLCCs back on storage duty - Lloyds List
Top Goldman Leaders Said to Have Overseen Mortgage Unit - New York Times
Simon Johnson On John Paulson on Bill Maher (Video)- Zero Hedge
The One Last Ethical Bank? Bear Stearns - Zero Hedge
Paulson May Face Litigation Following Goldman Suit, Whalen Says - BusinessWeek (but hes MVP)
Merrill Used Same Alleged Fraud as Goldman, Bank Says (Update1) - Bloomberg
SEC Investigating Other Soured Deals - WSJ
RBS may sue over 'Goldman fraud' - DailyMail
Goldman Sachs: Brown attacks firm's 'moral bankruptcy' - BBC
IMF to raise global growth forecast to 4 percent: report - Reuters
U.K., Germany Plan to Seek Information on Goldman - WSJ
Gordon Brown and Angela Merkel attack Goldman Sachs - Guardian
Gasoline Makes Crude Oil a Buy on Any Pullback - Asiablues via ZeroHedge
Europe Cuts 77% of Flights; Relief May Come April 22 (Update5) - Bloomberg
Volcano casts shadow on 1st-quarter airline earning reports - USA Today
British Airways completes 'perfect' volcanic ash test flight - News.com.au
Bin Laden, a secret fan of footie and Monty - Telegraph
Illinois bank-owned foreclosures double in first quarter (4/14) - Tribune
China Property Prices, FX Concepts, Simon Johnson on Paulson, Goldman Sachs, Mostly The Media Gang Beating CDO Fraud Allegations
Dick Bove: Goldman Sachs is a Buy After Charges ($GS Chart Channel Now $150-190)
Buyers Of May 27 $KBE Puts Up 150-percent On Goldman Charge, Unrealized Of Course (KBW Bank ETF)
From post on 4/15/2010: Retail, KBW Bank ETF Protection, ISE Sentiment Index Volatility (ISEE, KBE, XRT, IWM)
Saturday, April 17, 2010
$SPY, $DIA Sell Off at 61.8% Retracement Level (Charts)
Hussman: Haven't Seen Final Uncomfortable Valuation Trough, Sees Overbought Conditions With Upward Yield Pressure [Extend and Pretend Note]
"Secular bull market periods tend to begin with quite low multiples to normalized earnings (historically, on the order of 7), which is what provides the platform for a very long period of subsequent gains. It would not be surprising to observe a sequence of cyclical movements comprising a bear-bull-bear series, ending with a final and uncomfortable valuation trough (perhaps 6-8 years from now) before the market is finally priced to deliver that sort of sustained "secular" period of long-term gains. Current valuations provide no such platform.
Again, at this point it does not matter whether we anticipate further credit strains or not. Wholly on the basis of current valuations, stocks are priced to deliver unsatisfactory returns in the coming years - a situation that is worsened by strenuous overbought conditions and upward yield pressures here." [full report is here]
Hussman: Haven't Seen Final Uncomfortable Valuation Trough, Sees Overbought Conditions With Upward Yield Pressure [Extend and Pretend Note]
Barry Ritholtz, William Black On Goldman Fraud Allegation
Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud By SEC Over Shady CDO Dealings (ABACUS) - link
Goldman Responds To SEC Complaint - link
Paulson & Co. Responds to SEC Complaint Against Goldman Sachs - link
Friday, April 16, 2010
SEC Charge Against Goldman has Volcanic Impact on Energy Markets - Guest Post
SEC Charge Against Goldman has Volcanic Impact on Energy Markets
Oil Market Summary for 04/12/2010 to 04/16/2010
Oil prices plunged on Friday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman Sachs with fraud in its marketing of certain subprime mortgage securities, amid a general sell-off in financial and commodity markets.
The allegations against one of the biggest market makers in virtually every markets dampened speculation heading into the weekend. Much like the volcanic eruption in Iceland spewed a cloud of dust over northern Europe that grounded all air travel, the SEC charge cast a pall over financial markets.
Paulson & Co. Responds to SEC Complaint Against Goldman Sachs
NEW YORK, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Paulson & Co. Inc. has the following statement in response to the SEC's complaint against Goldman Sachs & Co. announced today:
As the SEC said at its press conference, Paulson is not the subject of this complaint, made no misrepresentations and is not the subject of any charges.
While Paulson purchased credit protection from Goldman Sachs on securities issued under the ABACUS ABS CDO program, we were not involved in the marketing of any ABACUS products to any third parties.
ACA as collateral manager had sole authority over the selection of all collateral in the CDO, securities of which were subsequently rated AAA by both S&P and Moody's.
Paulson did not sponsor or initiate Goldman's ABACUS program, which involved at least 20 transactions other than that described in the SEC's complaint.
SOURCE Paulson & Co. Inc.
Source: Paulson & Co. Inc. Responds to SEC Complaint Against Goldman Sachs -- NEW YORK, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --
Goldman Responds To SEC Complaint
Goldman Sachs Makes Further Comments on SEC Complaint
April 16, 2010
New York, April 16, 2010 - The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) said today:We are disappointed that the SEC would bring this action related to a single transaction in the face of an extensive record which establishes that the accusations are unfounded in law and fact.
We want to emphasize the following four critical points which were missing from the SEC's complaint... [continue reading here].
From the initial release.
"The SEC's charges are completely unfounded in law and fact and we will vigorously contest them and defend the firm and its reputation" [read full release at goldmansachs.com]
Eurocontrol Volcanic Ash Cloud Press Conference, Aviation Industry Could See $1 Billion Hit (Videos)
Eurocontrol Volcanic Ash Cloud Press Conference, Aviation Industry Could See $1 Billion Hit (Videos)
Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud By SEC Over Shady CDO Dealings (ABACUS CDO Tied To Subprime Mortgages)
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud in Structuring and Marketing of CDO Tied to Subprime Mortgages
Washington, D.C., April 16, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter.
The SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs structured and marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that hinged on the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Goldman Sachs failed to disclose to investors vital information about the CDO, in particular the role that a major hedge fund played in the portfolio selection process and the fact that the hedge fund had taken a short position against the CDO.
"The product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple," said Robert Khuzami, Director of the Division of Enforcement. "Goldman wrongly permitted a client that was betting against the mortgage market to heavily influence which mortgage securities to include in an investment portfolio, while telling other investors that the securities were selected by an independent, objective third party."
Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud By SEC Over Shady CDO Dealings (ABACUS CDO Tied To Subprime Mortgages)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Yale's Robert Shiller: 50% Chance Of Another Housing Downturn, Don't Bet Farm On Housing Recovery (BloombergTV and NYT)
"On March 31, the Federal Reserve ended its program of buying more than $1 trillion of mortgage-backed securities, and the homebuyer tax credit expires on April 30.
Recent polls show that economic forecasters are largely bullish about the housing market for the next year or two. But one wonders about the basis for such a positive forecast.
Momentum may be on the forecasts' side. But until there is evidence that the fundamental thinking about housing has shifted in an optimistic direction, we cannot trust that momentum to continue." [NYT]
On Bloomberg TV today he said there's a 50-50 chance of another housing downturn. For the full video click here.
Yale's Robert Shiller: 50% Chance Of Another Housing Downturn, Don't Bet Farm On Housing Recovery (BloombergTV and NYT)
Israel/Hezbollah Warning, Goldman on $99 Oil, Greece Taxing Higher Income, China Increases Crude Production, Markets Could Derail Again -Soros, Credit Card Delinquencies Fell In March
War between Israel and Hezbollah 'imminent', US warned - Telegraph
"A war between #Israel and #Hizbollah that could spread across the Middle East is "imminent", King Abdullah of Jordan has warned the US." ..(hopefully not)Israel accuses Syria of arming Hezbollah - AFP
Syria Gave Scuds to Hezbollah, U.S. Says - Wall Street Journal
Syria denies it gave Hezbollah Scud missiles - Associated Press
Syria denies arming Hezbollah with Scud missiles - Reuters India
Goldman Sachs: Oil Is Going To $99 - Pragmatic Capitalist (USO, $WTIC)
Rail Traffic Continues To Surge (Chart) - Pragmatic Capitalist
Goldman Sachs: Good Q1 Earnings Priced In - Pragmatic Capitalist
Greece asks for IMF-EU rescue talks - Guardian (ht edwardnh)
Greece Closer to Aid Request; IMF, EU Due in Athens - Bloomberg
Morgan Stanley fears German exit from EMU - Telegraph (ht alaidi)
Markets could be derailed again, warns Soros - Reuters Blogs (ht Zerohedge blog)
Soros, Chanos Blast Banks - FinAlternatives
Greece poised to pass key tax bill to slash budget gap - Reuters
Credit card delinquencies fell in March - Reuters
Capital One credit card defaults rise in March, annualized net charge-off rate 10.87% - Reuters
Defaults Rise in Federal Loan Modification Program - New York Times (4/14)
Batista Plans to Sell 20% of OGX Oil Company - Bloomberg
Nearly 600 dead, 10,000 hurt in China earthquake - UPI via Xinhua
Factory production grew 0.9%, labor Market Struggles - Bloomberg
China domestic crude production rose 4.6% on year to 380.7 million barrels - UpstreamOnline
With Oil Deals, Merger Advisers Rejoice (China 40% of deals outside US) - NY Times
JP Morgan Chase & Co. Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha (ht enoehtoen)
Argentina annual inflation rate at 40% based on March inflation - Lanacion (ht edwardnh)
Continental Air, United Said to Resume Merger Talks - Bloomberg
Lehman wins OK to create asset management company - Reuters (ht alea)
last but not least.. Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop to File Attachments - Mashable
Israel/Hezbollah Warning, Goldman on $99 Oil, Greece Taxing Higher Income, China Increases Crude Production, Markets Could Derail Again -Soros, Credit Card Delinquencies Fell In March
Retail, KBW Bank ETF Protection, ISE Sentiment Index Volatility (ISEE, KBE, XRT, IWM)
Courtesy of the Options Activity Watch at CrimsonMind.com, there appears to be protective positioning in the Retail ETF (XRT) and KBW Bank ETF (KBE). At 3:00p XRT is at 44 and KBE is at 28.32.
"SPDR KBW Bank (SPDR_Series_Trust/Specialty-Financial) - KBE: "One options strategist sold 28,260 May 29 calls for $0.58 per contract (bid:0.55 ask:0.70) and purchased 28,260 May 27 puts for $0.40 per contract (bid:0.30 ask:0.40)"
"SPDR S P Retail (SPDR_Series_Trust/SPDR_Series_Trust) - XRT: 32,500 Sep 40 puts were purchased for an average premium of $1.40 per contract against the sale of 32,500 Sep 34 puts for $0.40, a net cost of $1.00 per spread."
On my International Stock Exchange (ISE) widget on the right sidebar, XRT had the lowest ISEE ratio (call/puts opened) and IWM was second with 84,406 calls and 2,806 puts as of 1:30pm est. Who knows why the IWM puts were opened, if insurance or speculative.
The full ISE Sentiment Index (ISEE Index), which measures call/put data on all securities on the ISE, has been volatile. On 4/13/2010 the ISEE ratio was at 78 and the next day it hit 165. "ISEE is computed by dividing opening long call options bought by customers by opening long put options bought by customers". Last year I analyzed how the S&P traded off the ISEE index here.
Click the labels below for recent posts.
Oil Update, Revisiting 2008 Oil Peak, S&P/Oil Divergence, Inventories Down (Charts: Oil Futures, USO, $USD, XLE)
Today the S&P just about doubled from the March low and crude oil securities have either pierced through multi-month ceiling resistance levels or are battling them as we speak. Light Sweet Crude (continuous contract) closed today at $86.80. It is close to the 50% retracement level (91.42) using the 2008 peak and 2009 trough and pierced through January resistance. I'll zoom in on $WTIC below.
Check out the May (CLK10), June (CLM10) and July (CLN10) crude oil futures. They all pierced through ceiling resistance and are riding an upward triangle in a point of serious inflection. It looks like January is the new floor (for now) to hedge or stop a failed upside bet, like SPX $1,150 currently (imh opinion).
Oil Update, Revisiting 2008 Oil Peak, S&P/Oil Divergence, Inventories Down (Charts: Oil Futures, USO, $USD, XLE)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Interesting Options Action: SLV, EEM, PG, USO, VIX, XHB (4/13/2010)
$USO (Oil ETF), 2,000 July $43-48 Call spread (closed at $40.89) - OptionsInsider
$EEM (Emerging Markets ETF), 50,000 May $43-$40 Put spread (closed at 43.34) - CrimsonMind
$XHB (Homebuilders ETF), 5,000 June $18 straddle (appears) (closed at 17.76) - CrimsonMind
$VIX (Volatility Index), 5K x 7.5K May $20-$26 Call spread (closed at 16.20) - OptionMonsterTV
$SLV (Silver ETF), 16,711 July $16 Put (20,800 total with 5,619 open) (closed at $17.84) hedge?
Click the links for more info on the ticks.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
China Small-Cap 500 Index At 5,000 Resistance, Up 224% From 2008 Low
This continues from my post on Jim Chanos on Charlie Rose.
Chanos on Charlie Rose: China Property Bubble, RMB Devaluation? (FXI Analysis)
"So supply will equal demand at some point, it always does and then there's this precarious tipping point where suddenly you can't sell a project and then it's just as if everyone from the port side of the cruise ship goes to the starboard side of the cruise ship all at once. You get a tipping point. You get this sort of light bulb moment, 'I got to get out while I can', and the buyers dry up"....
"One of the most obvious trades of the world right now is that the RMB, the Yuan, is undervalued"... "Everyone is assuming that China needs to peg its currency higher to avoid the export deflation that's going on. Well Chinese exports aren't the problem here and what if it turns out that by having to nationalize lots and lots of real estate bad debts, the RMB is DEVALUED. That's something nobody is expecting, particularly all the hot money that's going into China".
Interesting about the RMB. Is he trying to play China's real estate market like the U.S in 2005? (AAA debt turned sub-prime). For recent posts on Jim Chanos click the link. I also provided a chart of $FXI (iShares China 25 Index Fund) below the video. Click here for recent posts on Chinese real estate stocks and the Hang Seng Property Index a few months ago. There were record breaking deals going on at that time.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
EUR/USD Pierced Downtrend On 45 Billion Euro Greek Aid Offering, German Ministry of Finance Says It's Not An ACTUAL Decision
Here's what is going on from Bloomberg:
"The euro rallied after European governments offered debt-burdened Greece a rescue package worth as much as 45 billion euros ($61 billion) at below-market interest rates as they try to end its fiscal crisis and restore confidence in the currency." [read full article].But...
"The euro zone's agreement Sunday about details on an aid plan for Greece must not be misunderstood as an actual decision to provide aid, but it does justify hopes that the country will be able to refinance its debt on its own, the German Finance Ministry said Sunday." [read full DJ article at Nasdaq.com]
How Goldman Won the Over-the-counter Derivatives Poker Game Against All Investment Banks (CBS Videos)
How Goldman Won the Over-the-counter Derivatives Poker Game Against All Investment Banks (CBS Videos)
Peak Oil Alert, Soros On Pound Devaluation, Chanos on Charlie Rose, China Iron Ore Imports Rise With Rare Trade Deficit, Greece Needs 80 Billion Euros Over 3 Years, Magazine Ads Decline, Shiller On Housing Recovery...
Update: Greek official: 80 bln euros "logical" aid amount for next 3 yrs - Reuters
Eurozone nations offer Greece euro30 billion in loans - AP
*Full Text Of EMU Statement - Zero Hedge
Greece Hints It Might Need Aid If Markets Remain Skeptical - Reuters/CNBC
Soros Says Pound Devaluation Is Option for Next U.K. Government - Bloomberg
April 9 Soros Interview on Greece, haven't yet corrected imbalances from 2008 - Bloomberg
Magazine Advertising Pages Declined 9.4% in Quarter - NY Times
China's March Iron Ore Imports Rise on Steel Demand - BusinessWeek
Yuan rise still on cards despite rare trade deficit - Reuters
UK stops 'vulture funds' picking on poor - BBC News
Poland ETF (PLND) In Focus After President's Death - ETFdb
Short-Seller Jim Chanos: Red Flag Over China (on Charlie Rose) - BusinessWeek
More Banker Outrage: Protesters Plan Marches on Wall Street Banks - ABC
Ex-Lehman Officials, Auditor Sued Over Repo 105 Transactions - BusinessWeek
China Sees First Trade Deficit in Years - New York Times
China records rare $7.2bn trade deficit, questioning exchange rate- Financial Times (sub)
Florida 90-Day Delinquency Rate Hits 19.39 Percent, US Rate is 8.78 Percent - Mish
US military: Oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015 - Guardian (@edwardnh)
Shiller: "Don't Bet the Farm on the Housing Recovery" 3/9/2010 - New York Times
Do rising oil prices threaten the economic recovery? - Econbrowser
San Francisco Office Vacancy Rate at 17.7% up from 14.7% - SFGate
Spring on the Tracks - Gregor.us
Hong Kong foreign reserves rise to US$258.8B - ChineseStock.org
Kyrgyz interim leader asks for Moscow aid - FT.com
Trader blows whistle on gold & silver price manipulation - New York Post
Peak Oil Alert, Soros On Pound Devaluation, Chanos on Charlie Rose, China Iron Ore Imports Rise With Rare Trade Deficit, Greece Needs 80 Billion Euros Over 3 Years, Magazine Ads Decline, Shiller On Housing Recovery...
Saturday, April 10, 2010
USO (Oil ETF) Chart Artistry, Trends, Targets and Bull Put Spread
Greenspan: Overseas Savings Glut Kept Long Term Rates Low, Fed Funds Rate Was Ineffective In Controlling Housing Inflation (Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Testimony)
He made an interesting case that the Fed Funds rate between 2002-2005 was ineffective in controlling long term interest rates which mortgage rates are priced on ("the conundrum"). He found that a savings glut in the developing markets, or lack of investment, kept long term rates down and had no effect on home price inflation at that time. Remember he was so confused about the yield curve in 2005? The curve started to invert in March 2006 if you remember.
Below I embedded Alan Greenspan answering questions from U.S House Rep. Bill Thomas below and the PDF of his testimony. Should he have forced rates significantly higher even with the inversion? Here is Greenspan's Brookings Institute paper titled "The Crisis" if interested.
Greenspan: Overseas Savings Glut Kept Long Term Rates Low, Fed Funds Rate Was Ineffective In Controlling Housing Inflation (Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Testimony)
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Gas Producers Go to the Dark Side (Oil Exploration) - Guest Post
Gas Producers Go to the Dark Side
It's finally happening. Gas producers are starting to crack.
With the natural gas to oil price ratio running at a nearly-unprecedented 21-to-1 ($86.80 per barrel for crude versus $4.12 per mcf for gas), gas producers are throwing in the towel. And switching over to the "dark side". Oil exploration.
Up until now, many die-hard gas producers had been sticking to their guns and continuing to drill gas plays. Particularly shale gas, where producers claimed economics are still attractive. Even at current depressed gas prices.


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While there are no set rules on how to solve a case, we have found that some advice can help you succeed.
The case presented might sound familiar to you: BCG cases are sometimes discussed by people who have been involved in our interview process. Remember, however, that we attempt to use fresh cases in our interviews, so jumping to conclusions about the case before you have heard all the details could be distinctly disadvantageous.
One last piece of advice: be yourself and have fun discussing the case. If you find this conversation exciting and entertaining, you'll likely enjoy being a consultant at BCG.


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I love turning old PCs into something useful. They're perfect for appliances. They are slow as hell with Windows running on them, but they become supercharged machines when running stripped down versions of open source operating systems with specialized services.
I already run an open source firewall called m0n0wall. It's one of the most stable pieces of equipment in my house. The uptime is only affected by a severe power outage. And it's rock solid being that it runs BSD.
I have tried every other open source firewall out there, but m0n0wall is superior in functionality and overall operation. It even has an included VPN server so I can securely access all of my home files and network when I am on the road. It even supports wireless PCI cards so I can roll my own access point if I so choose.
A smart guy by the name of Olivier Cochard adapted the code from m0n0wall and created a NAS appliance product out of it called FreeNas. I just bought a 250 GB internal drive that was about $50 today for an old PC to run FreeNas. I'll surely add more later as I test it out.
FreeNas is still taking shape so it's not exactly easy for a novice user and it still lacks some important features that are found in commercial applications, but over time this will surely fall into place. But early iterations show that performance is quite respectable. I didn't break out ethereal, but just eye-ballin' it shows that it cranks along with massive file transfers.
So I can literally throw together a terabyte of NAS storage for about $200 since I already own the old PC and the software is open source.
I remember 10 years ago when a terabyte of storage was over a million bucks and now I can afford to put one in my closet as a blackbox network backup device.
The commoditization of hard disk drives has been overwhelming over the years. The result of this commoditization has also been a drag on the cottage industries that built products around the notion of expensive storage and how to deal with it better.
But this same drag has had an opposite effect on the consumer market. Go to Fry's, Best Buy, or CompUSA and ask for a NAS appliance. This is something that you couldn't really do 12-18 months ago. They might not have known quite what you were asking for then, but Netgear, Linksys, and Buffalo are just a few of the vendors manufacturing NAS appliances for the consumer space.
It makes total sense. Blackbox storage has benefits for the end user. A whole slew of communities has formed around the creation of replacement firmware for these devices as is also the case with video game consoles and wireless access points by the same vendors.
The only problem with blackbox devices for the majority of the consumer space is that they can only be mod'ed to a certain extent. I mean, that's what blackbox devices or appliances are meant to do. I have a feeling users will want more than just storage for MP3s and such.
I have a feeling that these appliances will also drive the need for continuous data protection (CDP) software for the consumer space. CDP is essentially event drive snap shot software that lets you do a point in time recovery based on an event.
But the problem is that the NAS appliance would have to run some sort of CDP service and currently that is only limited to enterprise type of applications because of the costs involved.


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Research Topics
Colleen A Morris
Affiliation: University of Nevada
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Introduction: Williams syndromeColleen A Morris
Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 154:203-8. 2010..The results of current research not only recommend interventions that can be implemented now, but also identify areas requiring additional investigation, and suggest future therapeutic approaches...
- Frequency of the 7q11.23 inversion polymorphism in transmitting parents of children with Williams syndrome and in the general population does not differ between North America and EuropeColleen A Morris
Department of Pediatrics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Mol Cytogenet 4:7. 2011..Results indicated that Frohnauer et al.'s data are consistent with previously reported frequencies of 7q11.23 inversion in North America and Spain in both transmitting parents and the general population...
- The behavioral phenotype of Williams syndrome: A recognizable pattern of neurodevelopmentColleen A Morris
Genetics Division of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, USA
Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 154:427-31. 2010..Continued study of cognition, behavior, neuroanatomy, and function in WS will continue to elucidate the neurogenetic underpinnings of human behavior...
- Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency alleles are associated with joint dislocation and scoliosis in Williams syndromeColleen A Morris
Department of Pediatrics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, NV, USA
Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 154:299-306. 2010..These findings suggest that genes important in elastin metabolism are candidates for variability in the connective tissue abnormalities in WS...
- GTF2I hemizygosity implicated in mental retardation in Williams syndrome: genotype-phenotype analysis of five families with deletions in the Williams syndrome regionColleen A Morris
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada 89102, USA
Am J Med Genet A 123:45-59. 2003..Comparison of these five families with reports of other individuals with partial deletions of the WS region most strongly implicates GTF2I in the mental retardation of WS...
- Genetic counseling of adults with Williams syndrome: a first studyKatrina Farwig
Department of Pediatrics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, NV, USA
Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 154:307-15. 2010....
- BAC-FISH refutes report of an 8p22-8p23.1 inversion or duplication in 8 patients with Kabuki syndromeKendra W Kimberley
Department of Pediatrics Division of Genetics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV, USA
BMC Med Genet 7:46. 2006..Recent studies have focused on possible duplications in the 8p22-8p23.1 region but no consensus has been reached...
- Spectrum of MLL2 (ALR) mutations in 110 cases of Kabuki syndromeMark C Hannibal
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, USA
Am J Med Genet A 155:1511-6. 2011..These results are important for understanding the phenotypic consequences of MLL2 mutations for individuals and their families as well as for providing a basis for the identification of additional genes for Kabuki syndrome...
- Adults with genetic syndromes and cardiovascular abnormalities: clinical history and managementAngela E Lin
Genetics Unit, Department of Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Genet Med 10:469-94. 2008..New data are also provided about the cardiac status of adults with a 22q11.2 deletion and with Down syndrome...
- Heat shock protein 27 gene: chromosomal and molecular location and relationship to Williams syndromeA Dean Stock
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics, Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas 89102, USA
Am J Med Genet A 120:320-5. 2003..B363M4 was demonstrated to overlap the telomeric end of B161A02 and HSP27 may be contained partially within the telomeric end of B161A02. The possible role of HSP27 in the cognitive features of WS is discussed...
- Behavioral phenotypes in genetic syndromes: genetic clues to human behaviorSuzanne B Cassidy
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, USA
Adv Pediatr 49:59-86. 2002..The genetic basis for each of these disorders is known, and the pathophysiology and genotype-phenotype correlations are beginning to provide insight into genes responsible for personality characteristics and behavioral abnormalities...


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FALL BACK! Daylight savings time ends @ 2 am Sunday.
Get an up-close look an authentic World War II B-17 Bomber this weekend at the Asheville Regional Airport. It'll be on display 8 to 6 Friday thru Sunday. Adults $10/$20 for family of four. Kids under 8 are free. Free for Veterans. You can also take a 15-minute flight, weather permitting, for $450.
Join Tammy & Dex Saturday evening for the Relay for Life Evening of Hope Gala at Laurel Ridge Country Club, Waynesville. Hor d'oeuvres, dinner, and music by Tuxedo Junction. $75 per person.
Put your survival skills to the test Sunday at the 2013 Zombie Escape, Camp Tonwandah, Hendersonville. 2.4 mile trail run that pits zombies against escapees. $15 and up.
Take a tour of local art studios during the two-day Weaverville Art Safari. 10 to 6, Saturday & Sunday. FREE
The 66th annual Asheville Antiques Fair runs Friday thru Sunday at the Crown Plaza Resort. 10 to 6 Fri & Sat, 11 to 4 Sun. $10
Head to Frannie's Farm in Leicester for the 2013 Barnaroo Music Festival, featuring more than a dozen local and regional bands. $20 and up.
Ender's Game
Last Vegas
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With the momentum gained last week during the Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer reveal, Activision plans to come in swinging this week at Gamescom. Bringing Call of Duty: Ghosts, Destiny, and Skylanders SWAP Force; CEO of Activision publishing Eric Hirshberg believes that they will have "some of the most talked about and anticipated games at the show."
Activision's booth will be fully equipped with a "massive footprint of stations" to allow for a completely immersive experience into their multiplayer minded games, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Destiny. The demo-theater for Destiny alone will be largest ever built in Gamescom history with a seating capacity of 192 people and a height equal to that of a three-story house.
As for Skylanders SWAP Force, attendees of Gamescom will be able to get their hands on the sequal to Activision's best-selling title in the SONY Computer Entertainment Deutschland booth and will playable on both the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation 4.
The Activision booth will also be featuring an interactive "Show Mode" that will be showing video and gameplay footage from the aforementioned games in a panoramic 190º theatre experience.
What do you expect to see from Activision during Gamescom? Will you be at Gamescom getting some hands-on time yourself? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.
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I don't even want to think about what this would mean if he had been the candidate.
In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.
Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter's baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.
Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby's birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.
A former campaign aide, Andrew Young, has said he was the father of the child.
Edwards is done.


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Report questions FBI's ability to implement agile development for Sentinel
A September review of the FBI's plan to adopt agile development to complete the remainder of its troubled Sentinel web-based investigative case management system found a number of weaknesses.
The report (.pdf), commissioned by the FBI and written by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University--obtained by FierceGovernmentIT through a Freedom of Information Act request--calls the switch to agile development a "positive step toward improvement over the prior development approach."
"While an Agile approach cannot solve all the program's problems, it is likely to help," report authors added while also listing several concerns about the bureau's ability to implement agile processes.
An October Justice Department inspector general report revealed that the FBI made plans to adopt agile development, lessen its reliance on Sentinel prime contractor Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), and drastically cut personnel. The FBI said it can finish Sentinel for $20 million and within 12 months--despite having already spent nearly 90 percent of its $451 million budget, and despite also being two years behind schedule and having completed, at best, two of the four phases of Sentinel's development.
The Sentinel agile development plans reviewed by the SEI, dubbed by the FBI as the "Path Forward"--although authors wrote that little of FBI plans are written down--called for a mix of agile techniques, including Scrum and eXtreme Programming.
FBI officials told SEI authors that Sentinel will be completed by two teams of approximately 25 personnel each: A developer group located inside an FBI building (the SEI report doesn't specify which one) and a quality assurance group located "in another office nearby." Developers are meant to produce new functionality in two-week sprints and the personnel a mix of government and contractor employees.
The SEI review found that overall objectives were clearly defined, as were cost and schedule objectives, and that the bureau laudably intended to build on existing assets as much as possible.
But, it appeared to the authors that the FBI planned to designate only one ScrumMaster and "an expectation of shared authority was rarely in evidence."
A cornerstone of Scrum is to allow considerable autonomous decision making by teams of five to 10 people. Hierarchical decision making by the program manager--the FBI chief technology officer--might be at first necessary "given the aggressive schedule," report authors wrote.
"Our concern, however, is that the shift toward a self-organized, self-empowered posture will not truly materialize," they added. They also noted that the usual agile tactic is for roles to be shared and for all team members to be physically co-located.
SEI authors also found FBI officials lacked detail on key agile processes, such as daily meetings, sprint retrospectives, continuous integration and test driven development. Nor was it clear to SEI personnel how the user community would interface with Sentinel agile teams. The FBI also appeared to take a predetermined fixed time/fixed scope approach to deliverables.
"While some of these above conditions might occur in any given Agile project, in the aggregate, they suggest that the key principles that underlie an Agile approach have been only partially embraced," report authors wrote.
Report authors refused to make a prediction of failure or success due to all the unknowns, which also include user community reaction to a "an 80 percent solution." However, unless the FBI remedies those weaknesses, it will surely face grater difficulties than it would otherwise, the authors concluded.
For more:
- download a copy of the Sept. 2010 SEI report
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ZTE Ships Home-grown LTE Modem in USB Dongle
Published on: 9th Jan 2014
Note -- this news article is more than a year old.
ABI Research reports that ZTE is shipping a home grown LTE modem inside one of its own LTE USB dongles.
The ZTE ZX297502 is a second-generation LTE modem from ZTE.
Jim Mielke, VP of engineering at ABI Research, comments, "ZTE recently announced the WiseFone 7510 LTE modem for release early this year but the 7510 is a third generation LTE chip. The first generation was mainly a prototype; the second generation was the first real production chip and is certainly the basis for the 28nm 7510 scheduled to be released early 2014."
The ZX297502 is strictly a modem baseband; it is accompanied by ADI and ACP transceivers, and a TI power management unit (PMU).
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I have lost count of the number of times I have been told that people should not believe in God because "prayer doesn't work." (As if prayer were a mechanical operation, like a slot machine) The people who say this kind of thing seem to assume that the whole point of my religion is to persuade an all-powerful Being to do what I want him/her/it to do. And if this mythical all-powerful (yet strangely co-operative) Being doesn't comply with everybody's wishes (however contradictory they might be) then he/she/it either doesn't exist or isn't worth the time of day.
Certainly many religions could be said to fit this pattern. Their purpose seems to be to generate some kind of successful formula: if you could use the 'right' words, offer a big enough 'bribe', go through the 'right' intermediary, and so on, then 'success' would be guaranteed. There are some examples of this kind of thing in the Bible (such as the prophets of Baal competing against Elijah on Mount Carmel, in I Kings 18) – not held up as models to follow but as errors to avoid!
This same idea of prayer as 'a means to an end' crops up in a more modern guise, in the form of several 'scientific' experiments that have attempted to show that prayer for the sick is effective. The results are conflicting, and their significance has been hotly disputed. I'm not sure what, if anything, they would prove. Is God being regarded as an impersonal force that is capable of being experimented on in the same way as electricity or a new wonder drug? Would a personal Deity choose to participate in such a crude exercise?
As a Christian, I try to avoid this kind of attitude to prayer. Prayer isn't about 'getting results'; it's part of the child-parent relationship that I have with God. Asking for things is just a small part of the conversation – as it would be in any other normal loving family. Praying for somebody else usually means talking about their problem, rarely specifying a particular solution. Just as I give my daughter love, security, food and birthday presents whether she asks me or not, so God gives me many things without my asking. And just as good parents tend to say 'no' to their children's requests at least as often as 'yes', so God often says 'no' to mine. Nothing mechanical about this kind of prayer!


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Samantha Asked: Am I Bipolar??????????
I've done a lot of research about bipolar disorder but I still don't know enough to know I'm Bipolar. I did have some of the symptoms of it though.
Like the fact that every school night I only get four and a half hours of sleep (go to bed at 2:00,wake up at 6:30) and I am still wide awake and extremely hyper. I also feel like I'm more than just a regular person, kind of like I'm part of something big. I have a very low attention span and I get irritated way too easily.
At school, my friends get very annoyed at how hyper I am and they usually tell me to calm down. At home, my sister usually irritates me and I lash out and slap her. My parents usually don't take me out to restaurants anymore because we usually have to wait in a long lineup and I always complain and say horrible things about the restaurant out loud so the people that work there can hear.
if I am bipolar, what type of bipolar disorder do I have? If it matters,(which it probably will) I'm twelve years old. Should I go to the doctors and get tested? Thank you for reading….
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Proof Of LTRO Bank Stigma, Or Why Mario Draghi Is Lying
Earlier in the week we began discussing the stigma that would likely be attached to the banks that decide to borrow from the ECB via the LTRO. Many talking heads including Mario Draghi himself, arbiter in chief of all risky collateral in Europe, dismissed this - reflecting back at the compression in credit spreads in the market-place as evidence that all was well and confidence was returning. In the last week our (senior unsecured debt) index of LTRO-ridden banks has underperformed non-LTRO-ridden banks by 23bps to a 75bps differential. This is the largest divergence since the LTRO began and corrects off mid-Summer tight levels of difference as the critical flaw that we also pointed out earlier in the week (that of the implicit subordination of bank assets via ECB's LTRO collateralization). Credit Suisse agrees with us and expounds on 'the flaw' in the LTRO scheme noting that the market is fickle and self-sustaining at times (as we have seen) but over time (and that time appears to be up this week), the market will weigh the liability side of the balance sheet versus the asset side, less haircuts (which implies haircuts will become the de facto capital requirements) and inevitably (given bank earnings potential) reflect this huge differential - most specifically in the senior unsecured debt market. With few shorts left to squeeze, spreads back at pre-crisis levels and financials having dramatically outperformed even large gains on sovereigns, the weakness in senior financial debt in Europe this week is more than just a canary in the coal-mine, it should become the pivot security for risk appetite perception.
Via Bloomberg:
"There is no stigma whatsoever on these facilities," Draghi said at a press conference in Frankfurt yesterday. "Some have made some sort of statements that I would call statements of virility, namely it would be undignified for a bank, a serious bank, to access these facilities. Now let me say that the very same banks that made these statements access facilities of different kinds -- but still government facilities."
We Disagree (or rather - the senior unsecured debt market Disagrees)
Our indices reflect the average credit risk of six major banks that accepted LTRO loans EULTRO (and hence subordinated their senior unsecured debt holders) and six major banks that did not EUNOLTRO. The lower pane shows that the difference compressed back to pre-crisis levels of the summer and this week, as the reality of the flaw in the LTRO was brought to people's attention, the Stigma of LTRO subordination has appeared writ large in a quite significant underperformance (of almost 50% rise in the spread differential).
Credit Suisse: The Flaw
The market is essentially proceeding on the assumption, as we see it, that banks' capital requirements can be met organically, through earnings and deleveraging. We want to be very careful about leaning too hard on this; we have insisted for a long time that the banking system needs to shrink, and that the capital markets would grow to match. But this is not a short-term process and cannot be, if it is to remain orderly.
The 2011 consensus range of bank capital requirements was € 100bn to €400bn; the log. average, €200bn, always seemed like a sensible estimate to us. The market is proceeding on the assumption that the need has all but gone away; many estimates now centre on €50bn. Such numbers strike us as ridiculous; the Greek banks alone are absorbing that (see above) and Anglo-Irish absorbed €30bn. This is (yet) another of those cases where a number is small until it is needed, at which point it grows.
But the market has made these moves in thinking despite our long asserting the premise that liquidity cannot cure a solvency issue, and it is liquidity that has been the big change.
What's happened?
Partly, "the paradox of thrift". Each bank individually can credibly plan to delever, but collectively the system cannot. But even if the inherent contradiction is recognised, it is hard to act on immediately.
Debt is no cure for debt. What it can do is prevent a self-fuelling Fisher-style debt-deflation and it is clear that the LTRO has at least to some extent achieved that. And it can buy time such that, if the basic business model is restored, solvency can be earned. But we are not sure the business model has been restored; far from it. Here again, our caution and outright mistrust needs to be tempered, and at least patient. But the apparent widespread notion that the LTRO is a game-changer simply does not wash in our view, because of our premise. Game-saver (no Fisher); yes. Game-extender, which makes it a potential gamechanger; yes. Outright game-changer; no.
So what's the flaw?
The flaw is that, even in 2012, we retain respect for markets. Unfettered, they are not the tool of choice for resolving the current situation but we see it as essential to work with them and harness their power, rather than against them, as we discussed in Twelve Steps.
In Greece it is now clear that the process of avoiding a credit event for the past 21 months has been ruinously expensive. Frustrate the markets (again, individuals making rational, fiduciary decisions, not some conspiracy pursuing an agenda) and they will find a way around the frustration, in our view; in the meantime, costs will increase due to the inefficiencies created, as has happened in Greece.
The result that we now expect in the European banking system is in our view rather beautiful.
The Basel Accords have a patchy track record – to put it at its most generous – and the EBA has almost no track record at all and as we see it, even less credibility in the eyes of the market. The market is fickle (and in this situation self-fuelling, so it must be tempered; indeed it has been by the LTRO), so it cannot even trust its own estimates (as stated above, they are all over the map). But it cannot be frustrated in seeking comfort on such an important issue as restoring trust in the biggest banking system in the world, in our view.
In the banking system just as in Greece, the rescue funds are coming in at a senior level.
There are therefore two kinds of bank; those with the market's full confidence, which will be able to fund at a "senior" but partially subordinated level, and which can repay everything without question (see Flash of 20 January) and those who cannot. The price of time to the latter is ever-further subordination in a self-fuelling circle. Over time, the market will empirically, and with efficient pricing, weigh the liability side of the balance sheet versus the asset side, less haircuts (so haircuts become the de-facto capital requirement), tranche by tranche, maturity by maturity, and see what happens. If there is any insolvency in the European banking system, it will eventually appear, independent of Basel or EBA requirements (which may still becoming binding, of course). But it is hard to see how it appears before some time has elapsed. In this environment, competition for retail deposits, of which the European banking system is chronically short, largely because of its size, will become ever more intense.
Inevitably, due to the mark-to-market nature of repo, the banking system is now even more sensitive to mark-to-market, further baking volatility into the cake.
This reinforces our idea that the ultimate arbiter of bank capitalization is the senior unsecured market.
We suspect that organic earnings retention cannot be the solution.
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Meanwhile in Germany the actual cost per citizen in case of a Greek default is calculated at about 650 Euro or 52 billion Euros - worst case scenario. That includes 16 billion cash payout from 2010, includes government owned bank write-offs and includes Germany's 27% part of ECB loans to Greece.
Write off potentially 52 billion now or go down the drain with another multi-billion Euro packaga and write off 52 billion +++ x
Greece is going to go kaputt on March 20th for sure.
Maybe they can recoup a few cents on the Euro, but I'm not hopeful. It will be a crapshoot either way.
WEll, its better off for them to go bankrupt than having the Troika enslaving the people.
The real drama is that the people, both Germans and Greeks would welcome the bankruptcy and default. It's quicker and healthier in the long run.
But our banking overlords and their political whores are not letting it happen.
So, how much longer before we will see some real blood in the streets of Athens and Berlin?
People demand to take back their country from the claws of a financial elite which doesn't know when to stop?
This won't go away. Too much drama, too much at stake. This can't be fixed.
Germans are proved to be the easy solution to breach Europe's door. Whoever wishes to "set foot" on Europe and demolish it, the only thing he has to do is to "fool" the Germans. For a second time in less than fifty years, Europe's idiots become the victims of foreigners and they serve their interests at the expense of Europe …it is for the second time that they take money from foreigners and they turn against their European "brothers" under their lenders' orders …it is for the second time that the family's fool takes "candies" from the "#r" of the neighbourhood in exchange to get him into the "bedroom" where the younger "siblings" sleep …In the "bedroom" which is common today due to the European Union...
Germany handed all the European countries over to the Jewish loan sharks, by naively believing that this way they would let Germany free. Germany put the European family at the "target" of the "markets" and it is collecting profits every time one of its members gets "executed". The loan sharks who pretend to be the "hunters" are shooting safely in the European "hen house" because Germany has managed to "raise walls around" Europe. One after the other, Europeans are destroyed so that Merkel can pay the stupid and artificial German debts to the loan sharks.
As in all previous instances, once again its "fairy tale" is extremely misleading. Nazi Germany who used to destroy Europe in the name of the Greek ideals, does the same thing today. The surrendered, corrupting, competitive after receiving subsidies and extremely anti-European Germany pretends to be the unrivalled European power that fights for the European unity and against the corruption. This country that took advantage of the unification to serve its national interests, requires from the other countries to sell themselves out in the name of this unification. This country that even today keeps corrupting anyone around it, it threatens the corrupted ones. It "vomited" over a whole continent and now it is looking for the "spot" on its victims to punish them.
Authored by PANAGIOTIS TRAIANOU
You're blaming Germany for Europes debt debacle?
I agree being the hub of the Euro-loan program and allowing the suicide socialists of Greece et al to pig out on cheap debt with the thought that the Fatherland might be backing the debt 'helped' somewhat along the way.
But the responsibility for spending and indebting entirely rests with the individual Govts, and politicians, who went on this socialist Kamakazi Mission
If Germany has blame to go around it once again rests with their moronic politicians and bankers yet again ruining (pissing away) their nations productivity and wealth creation on vacuous idealism (socialism). The heads of Merkels Party and the German Banks should be feathered and tarred
...ditto Greece, ditto Portugal, ditto Spain and ditto EVERY bankrupt European country
forget that TYLER...answer me this how can the VIX have a 11% move and the SP less then 1% move....help me the market is fucking broken
'Debt is no cure for debt. What it can do is prevent a self-fuelling Fisher-style debt-deflation and it is clear that the LTRO has at least to some extent achieved that.'
God forbid debt deflation ever occurs meaningfully. It'd make the currencies somewhat credible again. I'm sure we can avoid the collapse that was brought about from the credit expansion but for some reason I'm not totally positive.
Italy, that car that you saw just skid out and wreck ahead of you is Greece and you are about to hit the same ice patch on the road, so watch out because here it comes.
and in a moment of unexpected sanity, the VIX is up 14% today.
make that +18%
and my one week old way out of the money calls are .02 away from being in the money.
I think next week monday is going to be bad, what you think?
Am gonna load the truck with more VIX
Tough call. They have all weekend to make up great news.
Get that dow loss under triple digits. Wow. Golf clap Ben. Golf Clap.
That's a tough call.
personally, I try not to hold positions over a weekend. So much can happen. I've woken to so many Monday morning nightmares. But of course, the opposite can also happen.
I find that being flat allows me to enjoy my weekends much more than holding positions.
But that's just me...
I wish you luck whichever way you choose to go.
there is a reason why executives lie: the alternative would be worse.
i'm gonna start a canary business!
Fools, we are not broke, you are. We are completely insolvent, yes, you keep taking our money out of your accounts before we can steal it. We will fix this, give us a very long time. It is you that should be embarrassed that the banks are without zee money, not us. You will suffer, and we will do fine.
Amazing what happens when you cut through the syntax and leave in only what you can eat.
What would shock me at this point is finding that anyone involved in this historic ponzi is telling the truth about anything.
Did you see that South Korea sold a bunch of bonds today....denominated in Swiss Franks....hmmmmmm
funny how the euro was just fine a few years back, but,... they had the audacity [of hope] to encroach upon US$'s hegemony from the Arab's and fuck the whole thing up --- now that they've been slapped around a bit, and finally shown their place on the totem-pole, all will be fine and dandy, except for a non-greece wheel never greased - needing to be replaced and discarded
to ashes do the phoenix rise, naught?
As the Irish people have encountered, all irish bank debts were guaranteed by their government and losses were socialized.
The easing of the LTRO collateral rules means anything that carries value worth physical gold can be mortgaged for worthless digital money.
What u own becomes worth less, what u need becomes more expensive and taxes skyrocket.
To rub salt to wounds, government reported inflation is only 2%. Can u believe it?
Global Debt Crisis
The greatest private fraud of human history.
Who are the great fraudsters who are becoming the murderers of the human kind? How does the economy "illness" threaten Democracy and the freedom of people?
By knowing what happened in indebted Greece, where loan sharks created "bubbles" and the current inhuman debt, one can understand the inhuman plan in total ...understand where this plan started just to bring all states at the same end ...understand how this type of plans are established...
Authored by PANAGIOTIS TRAIANOU
Bravo PANAGIOTIS TRAIANOU. +10
We are all over the globe in the same fight.
Destroy the vampires!
With a Silver bullet.
If you liked the previous article, feel free to read this one as well:
World War III - The First Private War in History
Those who won all battles shall lose the war.
Bilderberg Group and the crimes against humanity.
This is how things work in all countries. Whatever used to belong to their people, today it belongs to the multinational companies of the Club. People were betrayed by their given leaderships and they lost everything. Capitals and markets were handed to the Club bosses. If you understand what is going on in Greece, you can understand what is going on in Britain, France, and Germany etc..
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I'm currently in the process of submitting a scientific paper to a congress for publication in their proceedings.
This will be a great point for my CV. I have "tried" to click on "add an article or blog post you've written" but it asks me for a URL.
Since scientific papers don't usually have a home URL (unless they get indexed by Google Scholar and/or published at IEEE), shouldn't it be possible to add an article the candidate wrote by citing references instead of reporting URL?
Today it's still early to update my CV but I'm still asking the question. I don't even know if my article will be ever accepted at current of future congresses :D but I believe it's worth to discuss the subject
Consider the 2012 edition of this congress: using the link to the "buy the book" page is not really the best option to enrich one's CV.
Instead one should be also able to reference articles in reference format.
i.e. A.
Author and B. Coauthor, "A new stackoverflow" in Proc. ICIN2012 (2012) (the congress name is real ;-))
Mine is just an idea. What do you think about it?


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Aberdeen woman charged with trying to burn down house after domestic dispute
ABERDEEN, Ohio -- A domestic dispute led to a charge of aggravated arson for one Aberdeen woman.
Jessica Gast is currently in the Brown County Adult Detention Center after Brown County Sheriff deputies say she tried to burn down a house on Maple Street on Friday, June 20.
The sheriff's office received a call about a disturbance on Maple Street. It was there, deputies say, that after Gast got into an argument she returned to the home, destroyed household items and tried to set the place on fire.
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NCAA's officials director says refs doing good job enforcing new rules
Halfway through college basketball's first major season of change regarding new officiating protocol, the man in charge of overseeing more than 800 officials is satisfied with how things are turning out.
NCAA national coordinator of men's basketball officiating John Adams said, across the board, Division I officials have been implementing the points of emphasis regarding hand-checking and the block/charge rule with consistency -- for the most part. It's not perfect. There have been cases where the zebras have failed in this pursuit, but overall, he's satisfied.
"I'm pretty honest about stuff like this," Adams told CBSSports.com. "Given everything that was thrown at officials this year … I think they've done a very, very good job of adapting quickly and officiating games according to the standards of the NCAA and their conferences. I don't think there's any question that anecdotally these rule changes have worked. Scoring through Jan. 5 was up six and half points through this time last year. There were only four more fouls per game. Turnovers are down almost two per game and with exception of [Kentucky-Arkansas], the games that we're able to time are coming, the vast majority, under two hours."
Adams' statement about shortened games goes against conventional sentiment, that the new rules and more whistles are leading to games that often swell beyond two hours. Adams said the NCAA timed all the NIT games back in November and December, most of which were on television, and the average length came to one hour and 54 minutes. It should be noted that the NIT's November bracket of results is a small sample size overall.
The loudest bemoaning most recently sprouted during Tuesday night's Kentucky-Arkansas game, which went to overtime and took two and a half hours to complete. It featured 60 fouls and 81 free throws. As coincidence would have it, Adams was at the game.
"I hope my presence doesn't have any affect on the officials," Adams said when I asked him if he thought his attendance affected the way the crew called the game. "They have much more things to worry about than me sitting 150 feet from the court. I thought the referees in the game, assigned by the SEC, did exactly what they're supposed to do. What happens in games like that … the players on each team fail to adjust to the way the game is being called. At some point, you have to stop fouling. And if you don't, why would you expect the officials to change the way they're calling the game?"
Some believe conference play has led to a regression to the sluggish, physical game that college hoops had morphed into in recent seasons. Adams said there have been instances where fouls that should have been called weren't, but overall that criticism is too broadly painted.
"I don't agree with a blanket statement like that," Adams said. "But there are games that fall into that category, some of that I've seen."
Adams also said the phone calls and reactions from coaches has greatly dipped in the past two weeks compared to the feedback he was getting in November and December. Adams distributed a memo for all officials last Thursday. (The "10-1-4" is the new protocol for whistles against hand-checking.) Verbatim, here are the five points he emphasized to all officials:
1. Very inconsistent enforcement of 10-1-4, especially in the back court.
2. We are letting defenders "show their hands" but foul with the lower body.
3. In games where 10-1-4 is enforced fairly well, that enforcement tends to fade late in close games.
4. Post Play is as rough as I have ever seen it. Not calling the 1st or second foul in these scrums, invariably leads to a "retaliation foul" later in the sequence.
5. There is still way too much illegal contact committed against players without the ball. That was a 2013-14 point of emphasis.
I listened to an announcer last night on ESPN say: "what they (officials) work on and talk about in November and December eventually goes away in January and February and we get back to playing college basketball". Our challenge is to prove him wrong.
Will NCAA tournament assignments be affected by how the refs are (or are not) calling hand-checks and properly judging block/charge situations? To an extent, yes, but it's not the top criterion when Adams considers who will get the most coveted assignments at this year's NCAA tournament. The decision on who gets picked for the field of 68 is ultimately made by the men's basketball committee based on Adams' recommendations.
"How they manage both new rules, as well as bench decorum, the new rules are just one of the ingredients," Adams said. "If you were to disregard them, it would not be likely you'd be in the NCAA tournament, regardless of how long you've been doing it and your national stature."
Adams has four regional advisors (Tommy Nunez, Sr., based in Phoenix; Tynes Hildebrand, in Louisiana; Ted Hillary, in Michigan; and Jack Sweeney, in New York) that work for the NCAA and report to him. They'll see 400-450 officials and almost 500 games collectively, in person, this year and evaluate them for tourney consideration. Each have responsibility for overseeing eight leagues and will contribute to an "exhaustive file" that will be presented to Adams by Feb. 1. Adams himself is constantly traveling. He was at Mississippi State-Alabama on Wednesday, will be at UConn-Memphis on Thursday and at Louisiana Monroe-South Alabama on Saturday.
"I think we're right where we'd thought we'd be in January," Adams said. "The challenge is to hold on right here."


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County activates non-emergency hotline at noon
Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano will activate the County's Non-Emergency Hotline beginning today noon as the winter storm approaches the region. Residents with non-life threatening emergencies should dial1-888-684-4274 for assistance beginning at noon through the duration of the storm. All those with life threatening emergencies should call 911.
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