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Overnight Action: European Knee Jerk Fade
SSDD. Europe has a late night conference, regurgitates stuff, gives no details, makes lots of promises, peripheral bonds tighten only to blow out, etc, etc, etc. Seen it all before. Unlike a week ago, Spanish bonds, when Spanish bonds ripped by 1%, this time we can barely muster a 25 bps move tighter, with the 10 year "down" to 6.82%. It was 6.25% a week ago. Expect the blow out as has been empirically proven time and again. Hint: there is no magic money tree nor is there a magic collateral tree.
A less jaded version of the overnight events from BofA:
Market Action
Asian equity markets slide after the release of the Chinese trade report that showed China's economy is slowing. See the overseas data section for more. That helped cause the MSCI Asia Pacific Index to record its fourth consecutive selloff. Looking at the individual markets, the worst performer was the Japanese Nikkei and Korean Kospi both down 0.4%. The Shanghai Composite fell 0.3%, while the Hang Seng lost 0.2%. On the flip side, the Indian Sensex rose 1.3%.
In Europe, a risk on mode has swept over investors after the Eurogroup agreed to ease budget rules for Spain and made progress on the Spanish bank recap. For more see the European watch below. In the aggregate European equities are trading 1.1% higher in the aggregate. At home, futures are pointing to a solid 0.4% rally in the S&P 500 later today.
Treasuries are backing up modestly across the curve. The five year yield is 1bp higher while the ten year and long bond are both up 2bp. The ten year yield is currently trading at 1.53%. In Europe, Spanish ten year yields are down 23bp to 6.75% and Italy's ten year note is trading at 5.88% after falling 19bp.
The dollar is weaker with the DXY index down 0.1% and commodities are mixed. WTI crude oil is down 16 cents to $85.83 a barrel and gold is up $9.05 an ounce to $1,596.58.
Overseas Data Wrap-Up
Chinese export and import growth slowed in June. Exports rose 11.3% yoy in June after increasing by 15.3% yoy in the prior month. Imports slowed considerably increasing just 6.3% yoy in June, that's down from the 12.7% yoy growth rate recorded in May. Chinese export growth has slowed considerably since the first half of 2011 weighing on the country's economic growth. Our Chinese economist Ting Lu estimates that the export slowdown has knocked 1.5pp off of headline GDP. With US growth set to slow to 1% by the fourth quarter of this year and the Euro area to fall further into a recession, China's export growth faces considerable headwinds in the second half of this year. Ting expects export growth to dip below 8.0% in the second half of this year but expects the government to offset weak external demand with more policy easing measures.
Several European countries released industrial production data early this morning. In the Euro area, both France and the Netherlands recorded drops in their industrial output in May, -1.9% mom and -0.3% mom respectively. With the recession expected to get worse over the next several months, investors should brace for additional declines in the region's industrial production. Outside the Euro area, the UK managed to record a 1.0% mom increase in industrial production. That was partly a bounceback from the revised lower 0.4% mom contraction in the prior month.
No major news from yesterday's Eurogroup meeting
There were no major news and most of the progress was on the Spanish recap program and the deficit adjustment:
1. Spain will get an extra year to reach a budget deficit of 3% (2014) which will be approved at the ECOFIN meeting today as long as Spain takes the fiscal measures our European team has highlighted before. There was also confirmation that the bank recap loan would initially come from the EFSF. Once the ESM is up and running the loan would be transferred to the ESM without gaining seniority status. The first tranche of the program to recap the weakest banks will be released by the end of July. We will get more details at the next Eurogroup meeting (July 20).
2. Regarding the secondary market purchase programme, the ECB and EFSF signed a technical agreement to set up the program for secondary market sovereign debt purchases, but no further details were released.
Today's events
The only thing on the calendar today is the release of the NFIB's small business optimism report at 7:30 am. Consensus expects the index to fall to 93.3 in June from the 94.4 recorded in the prior month.
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Ron Paul said it best: There is no magic money tree for if there were, money would end up as leaves do.. bagged up and thrown away or burned.
But there is a printing press which does the same as a magic money tree, Zimbabwe, Weimar Republic for example
"recap the weakest banks"
yeah, I'd like to cap them alright.
At home, futures are pointing to a solid 0.4% rally in the S&P 500 later today.
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Jock bombs out on dramatic day at Olympic Trials
U.S. Olympic Track Trials
A look back: Nick Symmonds won the 800 with relative ease in 1:43.92, the fastest ever by an American at Hayward Field. Khadevis Robinson was second at age 35, and Duane Solomon third. Alysia Montano went wire-to-wire in the women's 800 in 1:59.08 (with a flower in her hair), with Geena Gall in second and Coronado resident Alice Schmidt winning a three-woman lunge for third. The night's most disappointing performance came from Alan Webb, who broke Jim Ryun's high school mile record here in 2001 and who was dead last in his 5,000-meter heat in 14:01.25 Monday night after controversially petitioning his way into the race.
A look ahead: Tuesday is the first of two rest days. Hayward Field hosts an all-comers meet for kids.
Locals watch: Olympic Training Center athletes Crystal Manning was fifth in the triple jump (43-5¾) and Tora Harris was ninth in the high jump (7-0½). Mt. Carmel High alum Ben Bruce had the second fastest qualifying time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase prelims at 8:29.11. Russ Winger, Jarred Rome and Ian Waltz of the OTC went 1-2-3 in their discus qualifying flight, all advancing to Thursday's final with throws over 200 feet. American record holder Brad Walker (OTC) advanced in pole vault qualifying by clearing 17-8½.
EUGENE, Ore. From his perch in the Hayward Field stands, Vince O'Boyle looked at his stopwatch Monday night after the opening 200 meters of the 800-meter final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials: 24.2 seconds.
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It was a painful thing for the veteran UC Irvine coach to watch, his prized half-miler, Charles Jock, inexplicably going from the lead to last place, one runner after another passing the man who two weeks ago blew away the field in the NCAA final, Jock's Olympic dream melting like raindrops into puddles, glorious expectation twisting into gut-wrenching disappointment, hopeful becoming helpless.
The Mission Bay High alum would finish last in the eight-man final in 1:49.02, nearly 4½ seconds slower than his personal best and a full 40 yards behind the lead pack. Only the top three go to London: Nick Symmonds, Khadevis Robinson and Duane Solomon Jr.
Jock walked off the track in the rain, walked through the interview area without stopping, then got in a car with O'Boyle's assistant coach and left.
"I sat there in shock," O'Boyle said of the race. "I'm still shock. I didn't expect to see that."
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I understand the reflection API (in c#) but I am not sure in what situation would I use it. What are some patterns - anti-patterns for using reflection?
The only place I've used the Reflection stuff in C# was in factory patterns, where I'm creating objects (in my case, network listeners) based on configuration file information. The configuration file supplied the location of the assemblies, the name of the types within them, and any additional arguments needed. The factory picked this stuff up and created the listeners based on that.
In one product I'm working on we use it a lot, but Reflection is a complex, slow beast. Don't go looking for places to use it just because it sounds fun or interesting. You'll use it when you run into a problem that can't be solved in any other way (dynamically loading assemblies for plug ins or frameworks, assembly inspection, factories where types aren't know at build, etc). It's certainly worth looking at reflection tutorials to see how it works, but don't fall into the trap of "having a hammer and everything looking like a nail." It's got very specialized use cases.
I don't know if it is a pattern but I use reflection to generate SQL from DAO's class definitions.
There is no hard and fast rule. Basically, you don't use reflection without a good reason. Use reflection when you can't do what you want without it, or when your code would be much longer or more difficult to understand without reflection.
I find reflection (combined with runtime class loading) indispensable for implementing plugins:
I have used reflection in a number of places. The main broad categories include:
Patterns wise, I'm not sure what the patterns are. A common thread between all the uses is reference by name and late binding - you want to bind to a member at runtime. This is often the case when you dynamically load assemblies and do not know the types of objeccts you need to create/manipulate.
Using reflection is powerful, but it wont make you more popular at parties. Only use it where the coupling is intentionally weak. So weak that you expect it to break at runtime. A great example is data binding in WPF.
I'm unsure about anti-patterns, but surely it would relate to doing things at runtime that should be done at compile time...
I'm not about to drop any patterns, but I would suggest that it's a good idea to avoid reflection until you actually need it. It's especially useful for interop and extensibility situations where you cannot control ahead of time the type of an object.
I use it in a binary serializer (protobuf-net). I use reflection only to build the model - when it is used (i.e. during [de]serialization) it is using delegates etc for maximum performance.
I also used it (along with ComponentModel and Reflection.Emit) in HyperDescriptor, to build accelerated property access (~100x the speed of regular reflection).
And by necessity, you need to use reflection if you are building your own
I use reflection a fair amount in my unit tests, especially when the things I'm checking are anonymous types. I've also used it as a way to easily clone/copy model objects. Rather than write the code to do this for every model object, I can easily create an object of a particular type using reflection, interrogate the incoming object's public properties and invoke the settors on the cloned objects corresponding properties. I also use it with designer generated classes that implement the same method signatures, but don't have an associated interface. In those cases, I can interrogate the object to see if it has the required method and invoke it if it does. LINQ2SQL entities are like this so in my fake data context wrapper OnSubmit method I use reflection to get the OnValidate method and invoke it for unit testing.
+1 on the factory pattern usage -- very powerful there.
Aside from the factory pattern, every time I've used it, I probably shouldn't have...
I've used it to dynamically load classes that implement certain interfaces (mine were menu items from assemblies) at startup and I really regret that usage. I wish I would've loaded from a config file (and later added a form that showed available interfaces to load). It's cool but terribly slow...
An anti-pattern is to use it access properties that class designers marked as private without knowing why they marked them as private. I've done this with the DataGridView WinForms control to unset a boolean variable so I could have a "companion" column move when its complement was moved. Once again, it's very cool but that code will fail horribly if a new release changes that private property (it very well could be gone in 3.0 or 3.5...).
I went for 2 years of development without understanding the purpose of reflection. It has very niche uses, but is extremely powerful when it is the right tool for the job.
I think what I'm trying to say is only use it when you are sure it's the only way to achieve what you want.
I use it in a case similar to that mentioned by Harper Shelby, in which a configuration file specifies at runtime which object to instantiate. In my particular case there's nothing as elaborate as a factory--only a set of classes that implement a common interface, and a simple function that reads the configuration file and creates the proper object, returning the interface.
The prime place I use reflection: Pulling a type out of a database.
I have a class that needs to know which library to call. Keep in mind that as new tools are added to the list, the class needs to recognize the new tools without a recompile, so a switch statement is out of the question.
Instead, I store the reflection string in the DB that tells the class to "create one of these..." Since I (the programmer) always ensure that the class is derived from a single base class, the idea works. It's clean and efficient.
But I agree that if you use reflection for more than these "auto-generated code" scenarios, then you could be opening yourself up for a world of hurt when it comes to maintaining the code in the future.
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I most often use it when I need to break somebody else's (usually the framework's) encapsulation. That is, I need to change some private field, or call a private method, or create an instance of some internal class in a library I have no power to change. A good example is the code in my answer to this question. In this case, the behavior of the framework method
Reflection has many other uses, though, including duck typing, working with attributes, and late binding.
Reflection allows you to solve problems that would otherwise require you to duplicate code. If you find yourself copying and pasting code, and can't see how an OO pattern can help, maybe if you can call them, then the "r team" can help.
Only joking. I couldn't understand the point of reflection for ages. If you can write code to perform a job, why do you need to use reflection at all?
Say you have lots of GUI objects like Forms or 'table' objects. It binds to a business object like a Customer:
Your users don't want to see the column headings 'FirstName' or 'LastName'. They want 'Christian Name' and Surname. You don't want to code the literal strings in all your GUI objects in case they change their minds to 'First Name' and 'Father's last name' (I know , crap example).
If you define your class using attributes:
You can use reflection to pull out the column names. If you need to change the way all your GUI objects describe the customer object, you now do it in one place.
I am not aware of any anti-patterns. My advice is to jump in and try it. You will start to see all sorts of ways in which reflection gives you an elegant solution. Performance is often cited as a reason for not using relfection. There is a performance overhead with relfection but I would discount it unless you can prove the overhead is hurting an algorithm you need.
When you want to improve performance of late-bound objects. You can emit the code necessary to call bound types directly, and then call through your emitted method. Although you cannot perform calls as speedily as with early binding, you will perform better than late binding.
I personaly don't use it a lot. I tend to use it when I don't have a different way to code something.
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The Promise and Peril of Mission and Vision
First, there is a critically important difference between these two key ingredients of an effective organization. A recent study conducted by the American Association of People Who Don't Mind and In Fact Advocate Long-Windedness in Their Communications showed that the typical mission statement includes two semicolons, two dashes, and at least two business buzzwords -- while the vision statement contains only one dash but makes up for it with at least one run-on sentence.
To be at all credible, a company's mission and vision statements combined must include at least five of the following terms and phrases:
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- empowerment
- employees are our most important asset
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- puts the customer first
- puts employee bonuses first
Of course, examples are the best way to convey these important guidelines. Here is what the little-known Anon Company* came up with after spending eight hours in a hotel meeting room, during which the organization's 35 employees consumed 102 donuts, 90 cups of coffee, 68 soft drinks (including 24 cans of Jolt Cola), 35 boxed lunches, and countless peppermint candies:
Our mission is to develop a high-performance mission statement -- one that puts the customer first, puts employees first, and does it right the first time in a way that delights anyone who had concerns that this mission statement would actually mean something; in order to show that employees can exceed expectations for how much unhealthy food they can consume during a single work day; and so we can get out of this damn hotel room with its thermostat that we can't control and end this madness an hour early.
This mission statement clearly conveys that the employees of Anon are bold risk-takers, as demonstrated by their brazen abuse of their high-performance gastrointestinal systems. The employees also show a command of key business terms, particularly those words and phrases that have had the meaning squeezed out of them years ago. And let's not ignore the powerful empowerment reference at the very end of the statement.
The team from Anon also developed a vision statement:
Our vision is to be a world-class organization -- one that becomes a benchmark for other organizations, so they can copy what we do and get it right in about five years, by which time we will be light years ahead of them; one that impresses its customers the first time and every time with its plastic-laminated mission and vision statements; and one that fully empowers its employees so they aren't forced to spend an entire day in a freezing-cold hotel meeting room churning out run-on sentences while the real work backs up.
These statements are guaranteed to strike a deep chord in employees, customers, and printers of plastic-laminated cards. Imagine the Anon employee who needs a quick dose of direction or inspiration. All they'll need to do is reach into their wallet or purse and -- oh gee, I must have thrown it out.
Seriously, when done right, mission and vision statements can give an organization an incredibly powerful sense of purpose and direction. Here are several things to keep in mind:
- Involve people from all areas and levels of the organization when developing or updating the mission and vision. They're the ones who will be making it happen so doesn't it make sense to have their hands on the clay? Sure, it's tough to orchestrate widespread co-creation. Consider tapping the services of an outside facilitator who can bring neutrality and the needed know-how to pull it off.
- Don't let something as important as mission and vision degenerate into an "efficient" meeting aimed at cranking out two elegantly worded "statements." People should have plenty of time to talk things over and develop a deeply held understanding. In the process, they'll learn more about each other, their work, their customers, and their overall system -- not to mention their past, present, and future as an organization.
- Steer clear of phrasing debates in which the mission- and vision-development process turns into an exercise in group-writing. That doesn't mean you should give in to bad grammar and lousy punctuation. Rather, have two or three group members team up to work on the wording; they can bring one or two clean versions to the next all-group session.
- Five different people are likely to have five different definitions of "mission" and "vision." Begin any dialogue by reaching consensus on one definition for each. Otherwise, well-intended people will go off in wildly different directions.
- Use the mission and vision whenever and wherever you can. At the very least, they should deeply inform the goal-setting process. The mission and vision can even be used as the context and criteria for making daily decisions.
- For the mission and vision to remain meaningful and relevant, they need to be the focus of ongoing dialogue. Speaking of which: When's the last time you and your colleagues talked about your mission and vision?
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Tulane junior golfer Gemma Dryburgh led the Wave with a 1-over 145 through 36 holes.
Feb. 24, 2014
NEW ORLEANS - The 2014 Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Golf Championship finally got underway today with 36 holes and the 31st-ranked Tulane golf team combined for an 18-over 594 total and is in 11th place at the English Turn Golf & Country Club.
Tuesday's final round will begin with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. and the Green Wave will join golfers from Washington and Georgia.
Rain postponed Sunday's first round and forced the 17-team field to play two rounds on Monday. Tulane got off to a great start after the first 18 holes with a 3-over 291 total and was tied for sixth place. However, as the second round commenced, the Green Wave was not able to maintain its momentum and dropped into 11th place by the end of the afternoon.
Junior Gemma Dryburgh proved to be TU's most consistent player with a 1-over 145 on the day and is tied for 24th place.
Sophomore Emily Penttila fired a 2-under 70 to lead the Wave and tied her for second place in the opening round. However, she carded a 5-over 77 in the second frame and is tied for 37th.
Sophomore Madison Opfer finished the 36-hole marathon with a 5-over 149 and is tied for 51st place, while freshman Belen Goicoechea went to the clubhouse with a 9-over 153 and is in 71st place.
Freshman Olivia Winning played as an individual and logged a 4-over 148 after finishing the first round 8-over, but shot a 2-under 70 in her second round.
"We came out and had a pretty solid first round and each of our players seemed to be playing in a zone," Tulane head coach Lorne Don said. "We made a couple of mistakes early on, but in the second round we had moments where everyone seemed to have lapses in concentration and we had to count too many big numbers. Today's scoring conditions were optimal for the course and we didn't take advantage in the second round. I thought Gemma was solid and consistent all day and really had a good day."
"We were up and down today as a team from the first to the second round," Dryburgh said. "Today was pretty steady for me. We just need to stay patient tomorrow and play one hole out a time."
Second-ranked UCLA leads top-ranked USC by four strokes heading into Tuesday's finale, while 18th-ranked Florida is third, 12th-ranked Oklahoma State is fourth and ninth-ranked Alabama is fifth. UCLA trailed Florida by two strokes after the first round, but set a single-round record with an 11-under 277 total to overtake the Gators.
"The team did a great job today," UCLA head coach Carrie Forsyth said. "We have worked very hard on our fitness as a team and I think that made a big difference for us today with 36 holes. I think getting more comfortable with the golf course really helped. We played the practice round, had a gap yesterday with the weather and maybe started off a little unsure in the first round, but as the course dried up we gained a comfort level with the pin positions and were able to start making our putts."
Individually, UCLA's Erynne Lee looked to be running off with the individual title, shooting a 6-under 66 in the second round. However, Denver's Tonje Daffinrud used a hole-in-one on the par-3, third hole to catapult her way to the top of the leaderboard. Daffinrud threw in a pair of birdies to finish with 5-under score for the day. Both golfers are tied for the lead at 7-under.
11 Tulane 291-303=594 (+18) T24 Gemma Dryburgh 72-73=145 (+1) T37 Emily Penttila 70-77=147 (+3) T51 Madison Opfer 74-75=149 (+5) T71 Belen Goicoechea 75-78=153 (+9) 90 Silvia Garces 77-D *T44 Olivia Winning 78-70=148 (+4) *playing as an individual
Team Results
1. UCLA (-14), 2. USC (-10), 3. Florida (-4), T4. Oklahoma State (+1), T4. Alabama (+1), 6. Clemson (+3), 7. Denver (+5), 8. LSU (+8), 9. Auburn (+11), 10. Washington (+12), 11. Tulane (+18), T12. Georgia (+20), T12. Ole Miss (+20), 14. Baylor (+21), 15. Mississippi State (+22), 16. UTSA (+23), 17. Texas (+25)
Players Results (Top-10 only)
T1. Tonje Daffinrud, Denver (-7), T1. Erynne Lee, UCLA (-7), T3. Alison Lee, UCLA (-4), T3. Jayde Panos, Oklahoma State (-4), T3. Marta Sanz, Auburn (-4), T6. Sophia Popov, USC (-3), T6. Sloan Shanahan, Clemson (-3), T6. Maria Torres, Florida (-3), T9. Daniela Lendl, Alabama (-2), T9. Annie Park, USC (-2), T9. Madelene Sagstrom, LSU (-2)


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In May, Melba Little League program wrapped up its first summer of soccer in Melba ever. The five week spring season was assisted by Sky View High School soccer coaches, Shawn Pelton as he donated pinnies and cones to start the program. Georgette Williams and Eric Forsgren of Melba were chairmen of the league. The league was more popular than expected and taught nearly 80 kids, kindergarten to sixth grade, skills to play the game. A team of volunteer coaches like Brandie Naragon, Christ Hinderliter, jack Richardson Jr., Georgette Williams, Eric Forsgren, Kenny Edwards and Suzanne Thacker coached eight teams in the maiden season. "The season was a huge success with about 80 kids playing and having a good time," said volunteer Christina Forsgren.
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While it is rare to have five pitchers each compile 180-plus innings (Cleveland has only had four-plus accomplish the feat in the same season twice in the past 23 years), the projected ERA that I came up with for Masterson, Jimenez, Myers, McAllister and Carrasco was 4.54. For argument's sake, let's say that is where Cleveland's rotation ERA ends up for the season." [Bastian/MLB.com]
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1% Spike In Yields = $200 Billion In Losses For US Firms
Back in May, just after the BOJ unleashed its epic QE program, which on a relative basis was about twice the size of the Fed's own QE, and when bond yields for JGBs suddenly soared higher before a flurry of bond market halts forced the BOJ to completely take over the entire JGB market, the key question among the financial community was how big the losses for Japan's banks would be as a result of a big jump in yields. We provided the answer: "A 100bp interest rate shock in the JGB yield curve, would cause a loss of ¥10tr for Japan's banks." Or, roughly $100 billion for 100 bps. Which is why the BOJ promptly decided to take away from the market the ability to set yields on the margin: after all the paradox of pushing for inflation and keeping bond rates low did not compute so might as well do away with the bond market entirely.
Fast forward to today when it is not Japan but the US that suddenly the topic of discussion over the possibility of spiking rates (thanks to the Fed's recently announced creeping taper), and specifically how big the losses at US bond funds and various other financial institutions would be as a result of a 1%, 2% or bigger jump in rates. Now, courtesy of the Treasury's Office of Financial Research, we know precisely how badly US investors, funds, and financial firms would be impaired should rates spike.
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Losses from a given change in interest rates would be larger than in the past. These positions increase the vulnerability for some market participants to outsized losses that could be difficult to absorb in the event of an unanticipated increase in long-term rates. To assess the degree of vulnerability, we simulated an adverse interest rate shock to estimate losses by bond funds from an instantaneous parallel shift in the yield curve of 100 basis points from current levels. We then compared the impact of such losses in today's context to loss rates from a similar hypothetical scenario during the three previous periods of U.S. monetary policy tightening. Losses during each tightening cycle are calculated by averaging monthly estimated losses, where the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is used as a proxy for duration and mutual fund bond holdings are based on data from the Investment Company Institute. Figure 15 shows that losses could rise to nearly $200 billion, underscoring that current bond portfolios are vulnerable to a sudden, unanticipated rise in long-term rates.
Which brings us to this simple rule of thumb:
A sharp 1% spike in yields would lead to
- $100 billion loss for Japanese banks
- $200 billion loss for US banks
- As for European banks whose balance sheets are loaded up with sovereign bonds, the are literally off the charts.
So bring on the bond sales. Let's hope that everyone sells in a calm, cool and collected manner or else the bond funds (oh wait, the same entities who are selling, and are thus motivated to sell first and avoid future losses) get it...
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And here I thought we had to worry about an oil shock. Now its an interest rate shock we have to worry about!
Who cares about the effect of a 1% rise in yields, what happens with a 3% yield?
Yeah, quit fucking around with the appetizer, let's get down to the (eventual) main course!
Who cares about the effect of a 1% rise in yields, what happens with a 3% yield?
the moral of this story is there yet again the banks!! Higher interest rates will cause BANK LOSSES. So just like Japan, the FED will take over the bond market before the yields produce negative effects.
There are only 2 choices of poison here: either accept the higher interests or destroy the currency holding them down. Thus the reason why many say there will not be a taper but an increasing of QE. This is also why you see many stacking PMs as they believe the money spigots will eventually be opened wide. This is forward thinking from looking backward at history. It would also seem that some Nations are even stacking for that day.
This is a "take the pain now or take the pain later" game. Now just to add another piece to the puzzle: look at the govt prepping. They seem to be preparing for wide spread civil unrest. I would say they have also tipped their hand as to the choice that has been made as very hungry people holding worthless money will be in the streets (but the good thing is all the debts will be paid back in ONE DAY!!).
Oh, sadly they will get the guns before that days comes. Americans are not really forward thinkers.
...... and just like the FED Americans have 2 options right now: Stacking or Stawking
I will fight to the death for my (and your incidently) second amendment rights..they will not get my guns without a fight. US may become one heavily armed third world bunch of people. The second the gov attacks its citizens the wagons will circle..we are fanatic freaks about the right to be armed and theyll lose on that front. We just havent gone 'Proactive' yet.
Yeah, I'd love to believe that romanticized version of people "standing up to the man", when we both know that the reality would be a bit different. Most people are afraid of criticizing the government, much less going against it. And if they're not afraid, they think people who do oppose any government action are traitors and should be hung.
So, you'd get a few enclaves of "shooters" that would be put down by a few squads of militarized police goons, and then everyone else would be clapping from the sidelines praising the "heroes" of eradicating the domestic "threat". You know, just like everyone fell over themselves to tweet about the exciting block-to-block search/lockdown in Boston.
No protest, no consideration that they were enabling precedent into some home invasion without a warrant scenario. No, they were excited and titillated that they were part of the dangerous DRAMA unfolding in the city.
That is the America you have, and it's just the pitiful truth. How do you think they've gotten away with all of their shit for so long. There are no real patriots left.
I think you're right if that were to occur today under present conditions. I was refering to circumstances during a future time of widespread civil unrest, bond market collapse, entitlements cancelled, much higher unemployment, much higher price inflation..a time when military and police become more concerned with protecting the Constitution, their families, friends and like-minded patriots than they are with their 'jobs' of being muscle for BigGov tyranny.
underscoring that current bond portfolios are vulnerable to a sudden, unanticipated rise in long-term rates.
When the fuck would it NOT be sudden or unanticipated?
Ben will just print moar and give it to his friends so no loss. Oops I mean lady Ben will do that. The opposite of to big to fail is that you must succeed no matter what. 200 billion, please. Here is 400 billion because you had a little stress. Don't even pay it back and if you lose that we will just give you moar. Hey can i get some of that? F u pay me.
Crash is optimistic is dead on.. None of these number games matters when you (Fed) controls the production of numbers as well as the BLS. We can pontificate until the cows come home and until the supply lines JIT are threatened it does not matter. The Fed will paper this over in ten seconds every last one of us is invested in this paper ponzi scheme by hook or crook that is the genius behind it we will all support it until we cannot put food in our mouths.
We've already had more than a 1% rise in yields off the lows WHILE those funds were stuffed to the brim with nervous investors who fled to the "safety" of bonds since the 08-09' crash.
Lots of money has ALREADY been lost.
The inflows to bond funds have clearly stopped, but I'm not seeing massive outflows from them, either. At least not at the individual level. They're just eating the capital losses and sending the coupon payments into cash.
My opinion piece here too on what we have to look foward to next year in news as well...seems to me unless I missed something here that the news agencies to stay in business are looking to content farms to get news and stats to us...scary...as the journalisti bot debuts. Forbes has been doing it for a while now and we know Forbes media is looking for a buyer and the other day was doing a #Foxchat...so maybe schmoozing Fox to sell that platform. If you read over there enough you can kind of pick out the news stories humans created and what the bot wrote. This is a full on process and there's a guy who created it and wrote over 100,000 books that he sells on Amazon. I put the video in my post as well as a few other clips that go along wiith all of it.
Quantitated Justification For Believing Things That Are Not True And Using Mathematical Processes To Fool Ourselves-The Journalistic Bot Functionality Debuts As Media Can't Resist the Formulas…
The media can't resist the formulas for breaking news and if it has a formula no matter how stupid it is, they blast it and it's not the fault of the journalists who want to keep their job but rather the folks initiating this business model to have algorithms decide what content we are going to get. It's pretty interesting as it can mine and scan a news article written by another agency, change the wording and title and have a brand new article. Wall Street Journal has been telling all they are changing their online news format so it could be they too are moving in this direction and the classifieds are full of ads looking for more reporters.
The news created by the bots by comparison is pretty bland so if you look at enough of them, they start to stick out. It uses machine learning to write with styles and wording that is currently on the web. I guess you could call it Zombie news, right:)
Basically I guess we have to really pay attention to what kind of numbers and the values we see in the media anymore. It's all about numbers and frankly I want humans reporting the news as a human, that's what I relate to, not a bot:)
Be honest: A bot wrote this comment, right?
(I keed, I keed!)
"My opinion piece here too on what we have to look foward to......"
I stopped reading after "FOWARD"
All it takes is China or Russia to sell enough off to call out the FED. They have enough juice to move the rates and call out the FED for being a one trick pony if they pull back on the taper. It will just prove they have nothing else in the toolbox and expose that the Emperor has no clothes.
The fact Goldman Sachs (most likely at the FED and State Deparments beheast) called out Gazprom and in turn Putin today to try to keep him from doing just the scenario above.
You hit on exactly why sovereigns and large institutional investors won't do that. They know any significant price movement would expose exactly that which they fear most- the Emperor being exposed as having no clothes. They would start the avalanche that would result in the remainder of their holdings being severely devalued. AND they know that the Fed could come in, distort the market again with their unlimited printing power, and lay waste to them. Damned in they do, damned if they don't. So they keep dancing while the music plays.
and yet there are not enough chairs. someone's gunna jump sooner or later
humans ALWAYS end up doing something to piss off another- then the fireworks begin -count on that. China, India, Brasil, Russia, Isreal - we will piss one of them off big time and they will finally
have had enough of the bully treatment...
key event will be treasurie dumpage and market chaos.
then the swan takes flight,it is too late to prepare.
this is how I originally thought of the problem back in 2008 when i thought the obvious problem would be one of inflation as QE represented America's "Weimar" moment. Boy was I wrong..and i'm glad i didn't trade on my own rhetoric. (obviously those who have traded on Zero Hedge's rhetoric have been absolutely obliterated.) what confounded me was the total collapse in interest rates at the long hand...in short what started out as comical relief for me ("i demand bikini beach volleyball on the moon as a taxpayer!") quickly became a thought experiment in "2005-07 redux"...namely Alan "Captain Insane-o" Greenspan's inversion of the yield curve "and the guaranteed implosion of Wall Street" (the Big Short) AGAIN. If we were to believe the rhetoric in the article above then obviously we're talking Banking heaven (i.e. the 1970's). the spread product is where the bank...and all of Wall Street...makes it's nut...with more than enough left over for the Government to buy all the votes it wants insofar as the 70's was concerned. Well...laaa-deee-da!...fast forward to "the Gizmo called QE" and instead you get what empirically at least looked to me like banker hell: "another version of the inversion." in short...a curve flattener with nothing but cash on the balance sheets and zero lending. That's why i was never bullish on banks coming out of the collapse...i simply didn't understand the bond market (and apparently i really don't after getting annihilated this summer...although "you should see the other guy.") indeed this year has even been MORE confounding to me. If I didn't know any better I would say the Fed is trying to blow up the banks AGAIN...only this time we're going to throw in a bunch of municipalities, European States, China, Brazil, Mother Russia "and now maybe even some American one's" just for fun. now leaving aside the fact that "the 70's was lot easier" (look at Japan's conquest of "deflation"...easy, right? "devalue and print")...the original plan i thought was to create inflation. Literally...that was what the Fed said. Not..."price everyone out of the market and leave the bulk of humanity high and friggin' dry." that's a lot of moxie, foxie! "now here's your room in the leaky, ill lit basement with the single clanky filing cabinet and a beat up old school desk Mr. Economist guy. Welcome aboard our Bank!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXbY-CrxO9M
you'll see "us" occupying this: http://architecture.about.com/od/usa/ss/David-Childs-Portfolio_6.htm
If you invest like an economist, you will get your ass handed to you like an economist.
.... says the guy whose official training was in economics, but has spent all his time since learning the much more "real world" side of The Force (the Dark Side).
If Tom Keene of Bloomberg News...who is a truly amazing economist btw...has been trading his thought process...he has been financially ruined. so have all those trading with him i might add. He keeps barking up the wrong tree...namely..."recession, recession, recession." uh, no. The "problem" as it were is "liquidity, liquidity, liquidity"...as in too much of it (starting in North Dakota and the Bakken/also cloud computing infrastructure/also Al Gore's "carbon bubble") and now spreading all throughout the entire State of Texas and now the Marcellus shale formation which spreads all the way from Upstate New York to West Virginia and by some accounts now includes North Carolina actually. to say this has a "dispositive impact" is like saying "Jupiter is kinda like a big planet dude." in other words forget "so what if we have inflation" we now have to concern ourselves with the fact that at the same time the banks are sitting on trillions in liquidity the USA is going through the biggest energy, materials and "means of production" boom in world history...all at the same time apparently. in other words basically the cash in your wallet in effect has become an instrument of state policy as "it is better than even gold itself." http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/docs_lessons/686_oil_answers1.pdf (talk about the ultimate trust fund. oil itself is to be held in trust? and to think people call themselves rich today.) my view of the data could be incorrect...false as it were...or falsely seen...but even if i'm wrong the "other side" of this view i hold has more than a lot of explaining to do. In other words my view if true "does represent a solution to the debt problem"....but only if you are chaste. If you are a wastrel http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wastrel (key word being "wasting resources EXTRAVAGANTLY") you will simultaneously be punished by this bounty because you have to put it in the context of QE which is constricting growth leading to a generalized "malaise" or "jobless prosperity." (or "worse"...the context of a booming equity market where assets can be had based upon the issuance of more equity and more equity alone!) this might explain not only why interest rates plunged on the "news" of the "hyperinflation caused by QE" (great news for Treasuries...but the exact opposite for all other types of debt...and a truly massive double top in gold and silver) but also explain why those treasury yields may in fact be set up for a spectacular fall in yield and rise in price in the coming months ahead while at the same time "the rest of planet earth goes belly up." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsK6aRuSBIc (London Whale trade.) this is why i keep saying "the Fed is getting away with murder with the weak dollar." (that thing is a Killer Whale in gold fish clothing in my view) and though this view is contradictory in the sense of being logically inconsistent (and according to almost all the experts "false" or "wrong") even though the banks have "sequestered" all the QE...investment has in fact soared it sure looks true data wise thus "yielding" striking amounts of over capacity while at the same time creating massive amounts of return and...terrifyingly in my view...huge amounts of leverage. In other words certain Very Large Aspects of the US economy are in effect "monopoly renters" simply wiping out entire industries both locally and globally based purely on what should be creating inflation...namely a barely worth anything dollar...yet they have zero debt and huge cash flows. in effect the aposite of 2008's "financial WMD" in the form of US dollar and say...Kinder/Morgan or Tesla... instead of 2008's CDS. needless to say Morgan Stanley et al look to be in an AWESOMELY powerful position vis a vis "pretty much financing all of planet earth" (through debt financing/restructuring, IPO's and just plain old equity issuance) right now. on the other hand: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/08/merger-acquisit... so here's your moonshot: http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/lmt here's your other moon shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cq7hf4ylvY far be it from me to want to be a mere spectator of course.
Some plump bond pigs are in the pen, ready for harvesting. sooooie! I mean THIRTY YEARS for a bull market is getting a little long.
People in bonds and FX need to be careful. Control over bond yields will most likely come through FX manipulation. Certainly seen today. DXY should have blown through the roof and stayed there on the GDP numbers. Though it initially spiked...it was quickly squashed towards yesterday's lows.
I don't understand. Is the article suggesting some idiots actually bought government bonds that have negative real interest rates?
Black swans are not what everyone expects by difinition.
The black swan is deflation despite QE 5. Followed by massive losses in junk bonds and commercial real estate. Bank failures and oh yeah-
a collapse in Treasury rates.
C'mon 6% on the 10 Year T-Bill!!!
I can only assume that the markets are structured so that for one to gain, another must lose. There is no product or service here simply bets and money chaning hands......so, big losses must mean big gains for someone, right? I guess we just watch the batting schedule and see who is up to bat to know if it will be a hit, ball or strike. Who are the real players and what are their positions. It seems pretty obvious to me, short of a really big ole black swan, nothing will change their course. Taper up or taper down...THEY decide, not us.
$100 billion? Chump change.
How man TRILLIONS have been stolen from savers, pension funds and insurance companies by ZIRP?
What was the Fed's DV01 X 100?
I think the whole point of the Fed's delay in tapering was to provide ample time for institutions to adjust their portfolios whether to reduce their durations or hedge their positions before the start to the Fed taper. By doing this the thinking would be the slow Fed taper would reduce abrupt interest rate changes to the market. Basically the Fed telegraphed what they were going to do 3 months ago for institutions to prepare. There will likely be NO sudden 100bp changes to the bond yield curve. It will be gradual, and the Fed retains the flexibility to do what they want to make that happen.
"By doing this the thinking would be the slow Fed taper would reduce abrupt interest rate changes to the market."
Greenspan raised the rate 1/4 point per meeting. The 2008 crash happened anyway.
"adjusts their portfolios" includes farm out their biggest expense to as many places around the world where the labor is glad to make a few dollars an hour or even a day. The new off shoring term you just have to love is near shoring to the same hemisphere, so they can get rid of that excuse that they can't get rid of a job because of the timezone difference. And the jobs are gone and never coming back.
Considering the multi layers of rehypothication - combined with the fact that interest rate risks are mostly hedged using the derivatives market
The losses in the banks - on balance sheet bonds will be a small fart in a hurricane.
Plus all they need to do is classify the bonds as long term holdings and they do not even have to mark them to market.
(There're Winners/Losers In
Any Dynamic Moment; High
Savings Yields Can Reflect
An Efficient Economy As Much
As An Otherwise Inflationary One.)
Definition Of A Market Top:
More People Are Possessed Of More Bullish Conviction
And Willingness To Go Net Long
Than Ever Recently And Not So
Recently, And, Are Wrong.
Definition Of A Market Bottom:
More People Are Possessed of More
Bearish Conviction And Willingness
To Part With Assets Or To Go Net
Short Than Ever Recently, And,
Are Wrong.
With Free Reserves The Banks
Sold Their Own Bubble For Time
Value; And, They Used Our Money
For Loss Sharing.
The Inflation Has To Go Somewhere.
They Sold That.
Prior To The Financial Crisis,
For All The Bankers Who Bought Their
Self Made Mortgage Bubble, There
Were Those Who SOLD It, Making The
Right Call, Only To Have Faced
The Policy Of Hand It Over.
Those Following Investment Counselors'
Advice Scrupulously Given And Dutifully
Followed Will Always Be At Sufferance
Of The Same Fate.
There Are Obviously A Lot Of People
Commuting To Board Rooms Stuck In
Consensus Pressure Ruts Who Simply
Follow The Carrot.
You Can Make It Happen By Being
In The Mortgage Business And
Selling Bundles Of Unqualified
Borrowers' Commitments.
That Runs Parallel To Running
Down Gold's Price And Then
Buying Gold Miners.
That Runs Parallel To Being, Oh,
Say, In The Oil Business But Also
Banking, Theoretically.
Then You Can Lend To Would Be
Competitors, Flood The Market
With Oil, And Call The Loans.
Sharecroppers.. And All That Oil.
Maybe Those Who SOLD The
Bubble Should Simply Be Glad
They're Supposed To Not Exist
Instead Of Actually Being Demonized.
Taper my ass.... Of course they've kept ZIRP in place- - more free money to the "banks" as life support. And as soon as Treasury interest rates creep up, look for Yellen and her global financial crime syndicate controller Stanley Fischer to do the only thing they know how to do: print money and ruin the average American.
Is this $10bn cut in trash purchases even real, or just a media event meant to allow Bernanke to claim that he was the one who (heroically) began to wind down QE. Now does anyone who doesn't make a living off our rigged "financial sytem" think the American "economy" is in any condition to stand on its own 2 feet?
I know this will be hard to believe, but Stanley Fischer also just happened to be a "mentor" to BS Bernanke- - isn't that special? Ben goes, Stan stays to work the strings of the Fiat Syndicate's latest figurehead in the US. What could possibly go wrong?
WASHINGTON — Stanley Fischer, the former governor of the Bank of Israel and a mentor to the Federal Reserve's chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, is the leading candidate to become vice chairman of the Fed, according to former and current administration officials.
"A 100bp interest rate shock in the JGB yield curve, would cause a loss of ¥10tr for Japan's banks."
Rate shock? ZIRP is rate shock. QE is rate shock.
A manipulated market always manipulates back.
Nio kidding. Rates have hit the bottom.
No where eles to go but up for years to come.
All the Fed has done is to enrich the banksters at the expense of the average citizen..
Rates are going lower.
So the dominoes are all in place. If the Fed wants to bring the house down they can do it by pressing a button
the only way the Algo Oligarchy will resolve this problem is to integrate into the Algo a bail-in mechanism organised by the banks to bring in private capital back into the real economy instead of feeding the perpetual WS beanstalk that obliges the TBTF to orient the algo towards derivative plays and bond purchases fed on ZIRP and QE.
If there is growth then this will be possible; the euro banking alliance has been done for that reason.
What the system cannot resist is shock therapy of sudden interest hike. The algos have to find a way of solving that.
Come on Blankfein, Yellen and Dimon, come on with a solution to avoid bond armageddon.
We all know, as the 4 year currency war shows, every oligarchy group tells the other : YOU FIRST MUTHAFUKKA !
hahaha; when the emperor has no clothes, we'll know for sure who is faithful to whom, or else the Algo will go rampant like Frankenstein on the loose.
"I'm Ben LAden's ghost!"...yikes, Banco's ghost comes to visit Macbeth of FED.
When she comes to the FED to do God's work on QE, Yellen will want the World to say to her, like the Ghost urging Hamlet not to seek vengeance on Queen Gertrude :
"Leave her to Heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her."
Hmm, but Hamlet was like Nemesis, he had to do what he had to do!
So will that crazy market. As you can see it looks a spooky world to me!
Cool. 6% loss, i guess those 7% annualized return assumptions in pension funds aren't that far off after all


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C-5 Faculty Building Advisory Committee
Committee Membership
Abraham, Lawrence D., associate professor, curriculum and instruction
Bose, Henry R., professor, biological sciences
Dison, Thomas W. (vice chair), director, recreational sports
Garrison, James D., professor, English
Gilbert, Jack (chair), professor, chemistry and biochemistry
Knapp, Mark L., professor, communication studies
Leary, Daniel E., associate professor, architecture
Malina Jr., Joseph F., professor, civil engineering
Palka, Bruce P., professor, mathematics
Pravda, Bryan D., student government representative
Staas, David, student government representative
Todd, Janice S., assistant professor, kinesiology and health education
Wilson, Samuel M., associate professor, anthropology
Administrative Advisers
Clubb, Patricia L., vice president for employee and campus services
Rishling, John L., associate vice president, Campus Planning and Facilities Management
Sanders, Sidney J., assistant vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction
The Faculty Building Advisory Committee (FBAC) met on a monthly basis throughout the year. All members of the committee are to be acknowledged for their commitment of much time and energy to the activities of the FBAC.
Two new subcommittees were established to facilitate responses to issues arising with respect to the Pickle Research Center Master Plan and the Campus Transportation Plan. These subcommittees are in addition to that for the Campus Master Plan.
Committee Activities
Capitol Improvement Projects (CIP). Input regarding projects to be proposed for the biennial update of the CIP was sought from throughout campus. After analyzing the various requests, the FBAC elected not to recommend addition of any new projects to the program.
Indoor Practice Facility. This completed project, popularly known as the "Bubble," was critiqued through an on-site inspection. The committee's view of this facility remains one of disappointment regarding its appearance and location. A recommendation was forwarded to the President to provide more suitable signage for the facility.
Blanton Museum (Phase II). The plans for this phase of the museum project were reviewed from the standpoints of overall design and accessibility.
Seay Building. A formal critique was organized by the School of Architecture and involved participation by members of the FBAC.
PRC Project. The need for and location of a facility to house heavy seismographic equipment was assessed, and execution of this project at the PRC was recommended.
North Speedway. Following presentation of arguments regarding the permanent closure of Speedway north of 24th Street, it was recommended that this action be implemented, with the proviso that a maximum amount of on-street parking be retained.
Geological Sciences Addition. This completed project was critiqued by the committee via an on-site inspection. We were impressed by the execution of a number of design elements in this project, and the fact that the construction of additional general-purpose classroom space was included in it.
Ad hoc committees. An important responsibility of the FBAC is to provide representation on ad hoc committees involved in the programming and design phases of major construction projects, including both renovations and new buildings. We currently have active participation on committees for the following projects: Erwin Center and Basketball Practice Facility, Scarbrough Block Dormitory, Gregory Gymnasium Aquatics Complex, Guadalupe Street Reconstruction, and Experimental Science Building Renovation.
John C. (Jack) Gilbert, chair
This document was posted on the Faculty Council Web site, www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/ on August 20, 2003. Paper copies are available on request from the Office of the General Faculty, FAC 22, F9500.


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3 Parks near Hermitage, Missouri
Pittsburg, Missouri 6.47 miles S
Lowery City, Missouri 21.32 miles NW
Warsaw, Missouri 21.56 miles N
Osceola, Missouri 22.19 miles NW
Hermitage, Missouri (map) | (417) 745-2244
Sites: 100 | Latest Rate: $10.00 | 2 Reviews
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Aug 2015 - $10.00
Rate reflects Golden Age discount. Nice park, on the lake side of the Dam on Pomme De Terre Lake. Sites on the water are quite close together and there is no shade. The sites on the water have level enough parking but you do go down a slope to get in. Sites are gravel as are patios. As with most water sites you have to contend with people walking thru empty spaces and sometimes even occupied ones to get to the water. Some sites on further up on the bluff seemed a little more spacious. The water sites do have steps down to the bank of the lake. Electric was steady, water pressure was 60PSI. These are not full hook up sites, however there is a dump going toward the exit. Park Attendants were friendly and site was clean when we arrived. Other than the camp attendants, we saw no other staff presence. There is a very nice walking trail on the other side of the dam, one is .5 miles, the other is 3 miles. Very easy to walk, there are a few short upgrades. Our Verizon phones worked well here but wi-fi was a little weak at times. We would stay here again if in the area. - Fixn2gocamp
Jun 2014 - $10.00
A Corp of Engineer Park on Pomme de Terre Lake. This park is only a few miles from the other two listed for Hermitage. These parks are about 1/2 way between Springfield and Kansas City, MO. They all have a 6 PM check out and check in. On Sundays, many people stay until 4 PM or so to take advantage of the lake. Sites 113-123 are popular due to the shade and size of the sites, plus they have water at each site and most are satellite friendly. Sites 1-72 may have individual water but some have "shared" water which can require a long hose and a "Y" connector. The COE Project Office, at 417-745-6411 might be able to advise as which sites have individual water, if that is important to you. We had good Verizon and AT&T service and we could pick up all the Springfield TV stations. When we booked about 4 weeks prior to arrival, none of sites, 113-123, were available for weekends, but Sunday through Thursday was available. We were with a group of 10 other RV's. - johnwadams
Hermitage, Missouri (417) 993-5529
Sites: 129 | Latest Rate: $8.00 | 1 Reviews
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Jun 2011 - $8.00
The $8 rate is the Golden Age rate. Standard rate is $16 WATER: Most sites have "shared water". You can fill your tank at the entrance station or, in our case, we borrowed enough hose to reach 150 feet to fill the tank. Site 73 is a pull through with one of the water faucets. If you could call the host, before you reserve; they can tell you where the water spigots are. I do not have a phone #, and they are open early A.M. and then late afternoon if you find a phone #. This is a beautiful park with a lot of trees. Over the air TV only on 90% of the sites with 9 stations available. Verizon 3G service available, but slow. This park is just south of Nemo, MO, off Hwy 64, (my new GPS does not have "Nemo, MO" and calls Hwy 64 a "Road". Follow the directions on Rec.Gov from U.S 65, but turn left at the 4 way stop, which is "south", not "west". They are upgrading this park to change 30 Amp sites to 50 amp with water. There are a number of C.O.E. parks on this lake. During the summer, reservations are strongly recommended if you wish a pull through or big rig site, even during the week. The lake and park are about 2 hours from Kansas City and a little over 1 hour north of Springfield, MO, so it stays packed. If you go to the forum and search for Nemo Landing, I am going to post a few photos. - johnwadams
Hermitage, Missouri (map) | (417) 745-2290
Sites: 21 | Latest Rate: $16.00 | 1 Reviews
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Jun 2010 - $16.00
Awesome little spot just below the dam of Pomme de Terre Lake. We camp here in our 40' motorhome a lot. We think it's a hidden gem. There is lots of space between campsites and lots of big big trees. Has a newly finished nature trail through woods. The one bad thing I can tell you is that sometimes during warmer months the river smells very bad. It is usually when they are not pulling much water out of the lake. There is a playground, tennis courts, basketball goal, pavilions, baseball diamond, and group camp area. This is a Corps of Engineers Park. Only 14 sites are electric. And only about half would be good for a bigger rig. - Standage3


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Scott Bolles If you don't like queues, don't go to Mamak.
Simon Thomsen
The spicy aromas of Malaysia arrive at the table fast and
furiously good.
Simon Thomsen the (sydney) magazine Simon Thomsen selects the hottest new dining rooms in town.
Queues are sometimes part and parcel of a good dining experience.
Joanna Savill From Korea Town to Thai Town, we find the best eats to be had in Chinatown.
Fast, furious, tasty, busy, loud. The perfect Asian eatery.
Average food, definitely not worth the 40-60 minute wait (oh and beware if one of your party hasn't arrived yet- even if you're a party of 7 or 8- you are still rudely turned back for further waiting). You're better off finding a recipe and sourcing your own fresh ingredients. You can probably cook the same dish, eaten it and washed up in a shorter time than you'll get seated in this over-hyped place.
I wasn't plannig on eating at Mamaks on a recent visit to Sydney but my wife and I were tempted by the long queues to change our plans and give it a try.
It was a lesson in don't get fooled by long lines.
We ordered Nasi Lemak (Malaysia's national dish, no less) and were greeted by the most ordinary plate of boiled rice, boiled egg, peanuts and anchovies I have ever had the misfortune of paying money for.
I followed that up with a roti, thinking that it must be a speciality of the house. What I got was a doughy, undercooked tasteless lump of bread (you can buy better frozen ones from an Indian grocer) and two insipid bowls of curry sauce, only distinguishable from each other by their colour.
The iced coffee was nice!
I don't want to be too hard on them, they were only average at best, and they are surrounded by a hundred better restaurants.
Stop lining up!
walked past it last night - love the beautiful flying paper thin roti they spin, but apart from that this is indeed an exercise in hype.
We went several times when it was new, complained about chicken being 90% bone, they took it away and brought back - 90% bone ! Ordinary food. The roti being the only unusual thing.
The hype started when it appeared maybe a coupla years ago in the ?SMH Good Food Guide as the way-cheapest 2 hat or something restaurant in town. I don't think it still has that status in current issues.
I regularly walk past that queue and marvel.
P.S. the new better deal is the Taiwanese dessert place where the queue goes around the corner. Forget Mamak - or even after, enjoy a hot or cold dessert there.
Mediocre Malaysian's streets food. Go to any Mamak's food stall in Malaysian/Singapore, much better quality, standard and consistency.
Many of my Malaysian friends even from melbourne have tried the food there and came out disappointed. Definetely not worth queueing up.There is much better quality Malaysian food in Sydney and Melbourne.
Mamak is so good! We travel from Brisbane just to eat there! Best resturant in Sydney.
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