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A U.S. Army contract translator was re-sentenced today to 108 months of imprisonment for illegally possessing national defense documents and using a false identity to procure his United States citizenship and to gain access to classified military materials.
The proceeding was held before United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan at the U.S. Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York.
Previously, on February 14, 2007, the defendant—whose true identity is still unknown and who goes by various names including Abdulhakeem Nour, Abu Hakim, Noureddine Malki, Almaliki Nour, and Almalik Nour Eddin— pleaded guilty to the unauthorized possession of classified documents charge.
On December 20, 2005, the defendant pleaded guilty to the false identity charge. On May 19, 2008, the defendant was originally sentenced to 121 months' imprisonment. That sentence was later reversed on appeal due to an error in the calculation of the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines range. The case was then remanded for re-sentencing, and Judge Cogan imposed an above-Guidelines sentence.
In August 2003, the defendant used a false identity to apply for and gain a position as an Arabic translator for the L-3 Titan Corp., which provides translation services in Iraq for U.S. military personnel. He then used the same false identity to fraudulently obtain "Secret" and then "Top Secret" security clearances.
Subsequently, during assignments in Iraq, the defendant took classified documents from the U.S. Army without authorization. While assigned to an intelligence group in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army at Al Taqqadam Air Base, he downloaded a classified electronic document and took hard copies of several other classified documents.
The documents detail the 82nd Airborne's mission in Iraq in regard to insurgent activity, such as coordinates of insurgent locations upon which the U.S. Army was preparing to fire in January 2004 and U.S. Army plans for protecting Sunni Iraqis traveling on their pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in late January 2004.
During a later deployment to a U.S. Army base near Najaf, Iraq, the defendant obtained a photograph of a classified battle map identifying U.S. troop routes used in August 2004 during the battle of Najaf, where the U.S. and Iraqi security forces sustained serious casualties. In September 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Joint Terrorism Task Force recovered these classified documents during a search of the defendant's Brooklyn apartment.
One of the documents remains classified and therefore is not described here. In connection with the re-sentencing, the court found that the defendant had intentionally taken the classified materials that were later found in his possession.
"The defendant used fraud and deception to work his way into a position of undeserved trust. He then used that position to steal sensitive data about U.S. troops and their mission. Significant breaches of national security must be prosecuted aggressively," stated United States Attorney Loretta E. Lynch.
"Today's re-sentencing ensures that he will spend nine years contemplating the failure of his plans."
Ms. Lynch extended her grateful appreciation to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office; the New York City Police Department; and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), New York, for spearheading the government's investigation and thanked the U.S. Department of Defense for its assistance.
The government's case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel Silver. This case was originally prosecuted by former Assistant United States Attorneys John Buretta and Jeffrey Knox.
Source: http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2012/u.s.-army-translator-re-sentenced-to-108-months2019-imprisonment-for-unauthorized-possession-of-classified-documents-concerning-iraqi-insurgency-and-for-using-a-false-identity


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Lindley, P.J., Sayer, L. and Thurtle, Valerie J. (2012) Current educational challenges for specialist community public health nurses following a health-visiting pathway and the consequences of these challenges for public health. Perspectives in Public Health, 131 (1). pp. 32-37. ISSN 1757-9139 (Print), 1757-9147 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913910369091)


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Elipsa necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 110 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Our company develops software more specifically cms, crm, SEO optimization, project management, document management systems and other collaborative tools. We also design web sites and support our Clients in different ways.
Our products are specific (not really mainstream). We do not have many clients (yet) but our products and services are of high quality. We would like to have a unique, nice, simple, clear logo that will give a general feeling of trust, easiness.
Our company is named Elipsa-it (as information technology) or just Elipsa.
a) visitors of web pages we did for our Clients (tourism, yachting, call centers, social care, gastronomy, nature, etc.);
b) potential Clients - i.e. persons to whom we will give our visit card or brochure or similar;
c) young people (we are embarking on a development of a new software which will be wide spread)
We like the logo to be very simple "zen" simple, easy to read and recognize, with live colors: orange or green lemon grass (but this is not a must).
The logo could express a live process, strength, the energy radiating.
In a way it should represent advanced technology that comes from some more advanced realms (not wanting to be arrogant in thinking we are better than others. We are just we.)
It could have a spiritual touch or connotation and to be a bit mystical. Ellipse has a mystical meaning - "lingam" in Hindu mythology. I was fascinated, but it seemed a hard idea to integrate IT and this together. Maybe you may succeed?
The symbol shape is of an ellipsis, but if you find some other symbol or solution that represent our work, products or process, it is also ok.
Please, no animation characters, no too many small details or too many sharp edges, no some smile faces or something similar.
If ellipse is used as a symbol it should be full (not broken) or at least such that it indicates continuity.
Even the texts "elipsa" or "ellipse" could be used.
One of the ideas that is often in my mind is "elliptical engines" (the way to name the software we do).. Maybe this can be of some help or inspiration?
Hoping this description will give you some inspiration to make something very nice and catchy. Thanking you for your time and ideas you dedicate to us. Best regards.
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Gerben necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 4 diseños de 1 diseñadores freelance.
Dear designers,
We need designs for a website on which our exhibitors and visitors can find al sources of information about our exhibition
Just read the brief and start designing!
Thanks very much.
We are a company that is organizing a congress and exhibition/fairwhich focuses on sustainable and ecological friendly mobility. (In theNetherlands)The companies that will display their products on theexhibition are producers of all types of ecological friendly mobility.Such as cars, boats, transport (electric vans), Segway's etc. Othercompanies that will be present on this exhibition are car leasecompanies that particularly focus on ecological friendly cars,companies that produce hybrid or electrical motor systems and on top ofthat producers of motors that are driven by water or air pressure.Asyou can read the products will be very diverse but all with aecological friendly character.
We need designs for our website so come up with some creative ideas!
Briefing ecomobiel.nl
1. General
Ø What is the event about, what's eco mobiel?
Ø Who's the event for
Ø Where and when is the event
Ø Programm.
2. a part for participants
Ø Participants list
Ø Information how you can expose onthe exhibiton
Ø Prices and sponsor packages toexpose on the exhibition
Ø A map of the location
Ø register form
3. a part for visitors
Ø Participants list
Ø Location and route
Ø Date and time of the event
Ø register form
4. a part: In the media
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6. at the bottom of the homepage: contact, terms and conditions, aboutthe company etc.
7. Sites which we like and which you can have a look at to get someideas for our design
The site has to contain a picture of the location of the event.
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Picture of the logo can be found here:
The text is not the most important, we can add that ourselfs later. We just need some designs which contains several buttons as described above. Give it a fresh look with some "ecological" collors.
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Three Farms, One Town, One Storm—Perley Interview
Written onDecember 01 , 2011
Below is an excerpt from Devon Karn's extended interview with Duke Perley and Penny Severance of the Perley Farm. Read Devon's full article here.
Duke Perley: We've farmed here for 40 years, and down the river, 135 years.
Penny Severance: I was a neighbor, so I always came down as a little kid and helped if the cows got out. [Duke] used to come and get us to help put the cows back in. Ever since I was knee-high to a grasshopper I've been helping the Perleys do something with the farm. He used to give me a quarter, then it got to 50 cents. I still have all my 50-cent pieces. My husband and I have both lost our dad, so Perl's been our godfather whether he wants us or not, he's stuck with us. He's who we go to for fatherly advice, anything that we need.
Duke: They're both good people. Larry and her are hard workers. I just treat him like he's my son. Like I've told him many times and I've told Penny, you work – I'm too old to do it now – and I'll supply the money. That's it. Whatever we can come up with, we come up with, and work together and if we can afford something, we buy it, and if we can't, we don't buy it.
Penny: On the day of the flood I tried to get down here because I was going to help them do evening chores, but the river had already started up over the flat over there that I have to come across so I couldn't even get over here. There's a bridge they call the Foxdam bridge, but the water was up over that. So my family is here, and my daughter and I are on the other side of the river.
We never thought the water would come up like it did because we've seen the water come up, but then it goes down. And that day, it started going down. He saw it on the bridge pillars out there – it had come up, then it started going down. So he was like, we'll be ok. There's a Vietnam vet that lives out back in the trailer, and my husband said when the water was getting up there, his first thought was to get Bobby out of there. So he went out, and it's a good thing he did, because Bobby was sound asleep on the couch. He didn't even know. He almost had to break the door down to get him out and took him up to the upper place, which is three minutes away. When he came back down, he was pushing water with the front bumper of his truck.
We were preparing for wind, we drew up water. But it never poured, it never rained hard. It was just a steady rain.
Duke: I was in Jersey. I just had a pacemaker put in. I said to my nieces, 'That storm's coming in,' and right on the Atlantic coast, they live. I said, 'Get the kids, they like to fish in the river, your grandchildren, your daughter-in-law, and both my nieces, and we'll all go to Vermont where it's safe.' So we came up here. They got a little wind down there, and they took us out in a boat up here.
Penny: They came up Saturday night and were taken out in a boat Sunday night.
Duke: At least the boys got something to remember!
Even when they took us out in the boat to the fire station, the firemen said, 'Do you have a place to go?' And we didn't have any place to go, so they took us to the firehouse in Bethel. It was still raining then, just a slight, nice rain. I've lived here 40 years and I've never seen the water come up like that. They tell me Quebec opened two dams, and that raised the water level up, but we would still be ok. But then they opened the dam in Morrisville, to keep from flooding Montpelier – which maybe they should've flooded Montpelier, cleaned house up there, but anyhow – as soon as they did, within 15 minutes in the house, I was telling everyone to get upstairs. I was up to my knees in water. Just that quick. Of course my one niece said 'I'm glad you brought us to where it's safe, Duke, at least we're not where it's bad!' It was an experience. I never thought this would happen.
What happened here was what happened in 1927, only it took out the town of Gaysville with all the factories. The houses came down, got against the bridges, and caused a dam. Only so long, and it couldn't hold it, and it took the bridge out and all the water came down. And of course, we have all kinds of things to deal with it. Back in those days, there were horse and buggies, they didn't have no way of doing anything. The same thing happened to this property in '27 as it did now.
I bought the schoolhouse down here last June, and put $65,000 in that, and now the floorboards, everything is shot.
Penny: When the water started coming up, we had some cows out to pasture, our dry cows and heifers were all out to pasture. And then the milk cows were in the barn because my husband and son were milking. There was no time to do anything, because we're thinking, do we let them loose in the barn?
But the water came so fast, he was in water up to his waist in the barn. And he had to get out.
Duke: There was 12 in there, and they were still standing when we got in there the next morning.
Penny: We had a foot and a half of mud throughout everything, the house, barn, every outlet there was.
Duke: That's the problem we had, you got this much mud. We had two antique cars in that garage. The doors are all closed, no doors open. The Lincoln on this side of the garage had so much crap got under the hood – now there's nothing open – sticks and leaves and mud got in there and just bulged the hood right up. I had a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado convertible over there in the far bay, and that didn't have a thing on the motor. And I lost my new truck, filled with water, my niece lost her new GMC Envoy that was here.
Penny: My son had a truck we had just bought this summer, but all we had was liability on it because we were able to pay for it, and that was full of water and mud. The door panel on the passenger side was half-full of mud. He could only roll the window down halfway. We just got that running, he took it to school and started working on it. Then we ended up, because the clutch wasn't releasing, took it out to one of his friend's whose parents had a garage and they got it going for him. We just got it back, and it's working, knock on wood. They said there might be some bugs in it. Then the starter went, and when it he took if off, where the starter bolts on, it was full of sand that had gotten up in there. So we had to re-do the starter.
We had seven vehicles that we lost. My husband and I had just bought a new truck three months ago, and Bobby lost his car, a Volkswagen.
My son's main thought was, 'I gotta get these cows milked before it gets really bad.' So he was focusing on getting his animals taken care of. He had a set of twin bulls that we had a month before that, and Perl told him there's your set of oxen. And he was raising them for oxen in the calf barn, but one of them drowned and the other one survived. Then we had another heifer that was hooked in line with the other heifers and she drowned. We don't know how any of the cows made it in the barn.
We lost all the cows on pasture. There were 10. Someone had cut the railroad fence and the 10 got out, but they were so scared that a lot of them ran and ended up in the water. We had one cow that was within two weeks of having a calf that my son watched drown.
Duke: The state has helped us. They took our tractors up to VTC and are completely going through them, overhauling them, free of charge for us.
Penny: We had one tractor – a 4020, it's a big John Deere – that the back tires are six feet tall. It was hooked to a bailer in what used to be the field out there, and that tractor was totally submerged. And you wouldn't have even known there was a tractor out there.
Duke: A woman and her son stopped here a week or so afterwards, and she said, 'How are you folks making out? I was here the first three days after the flood. And I just want to ask you one question.' So I said, what's that. And she said, 'Who put that linoleum down in the kitchen?' Well the guy that put it down is dead, his son took the business over. Why? She said, 'Because it took three of us two and a half hours to get that stuff off the floor! And I'm putting new linoleum in my kitchen and I want they guy who put that down!' I said well he's gone, he can't help you."
Penny: It's hard for us to even imagine what took place the first couple of weeks. Just because it's so much. It was really hard for us to have everybody come because we've always been the giving people, the helping people. And to have to receive the help – that's harder.
Duke: I got a motel the day we got out of the firehouse in Bethel. They put us in there, they had all kinds of mats they brought from the high school, and people were back in there with mattresses and blankets. They got everything all settled and got it warm in there, and then one of the farmers come over and he said, "Duke, these people are gonna hate me. We gotta move upstairs. Look out the front window. And the water was flopping right against the doors of the firehouse. So they moved us all, and it was cold up there. But we survived. And then it was the first time I took a bath then put dirty clothes back on and it felt good."
The boat took us out to the railroad. To give you an idea of how deep the water was, when he pulled up with the boat, we were stepping out onto the railroad.
Penny: Our big hay wagons that were out in the fields here, one of them was out in the pasture with feed on it, and we had one right out here with almost 200 round bales. Those all went. We were just able to purchase these after the flood. One of the wagons set out here full of feed that we were going to pull in, because we knew they said it was going to rain and it's just easier to have it covered and pull it in. Those wagons ended up way down by the Jehova's Witness church, and then a full one ended up where the railroad tracks bend, up on the tracks, behind the pizza place. And the railroad company was able to pick it off and they took it down so we could get it. That's how much force the water had.
Duke: I can't imagine. In the barn, we've got a place where it bulged in. If that were to give way, we would have lost the barn. But it didn't because we had plastic on the wall. People can say what they want about how strong plastic is, but that plastic was just stretched as far as it could go, and it held. It held the wall with the water against it.
We sat in the kitchen, me and my nieces, and I said, 'Don't get excited, everything's ok. I've lived here 40 years, I know this river like the back of my hand. It'll come up a little bit, maybe, might go over the road a little bit. Then my niece called me, I was in the living room, and she said Uncle Duke, come out here. You're right, it's going down. And I said, see, it's all over. What it's doing is washing down over Bigelow's fields over here and some of the lower levels. Then we were in the kitchen, and she said Uncle Duke, come out here, it's going to come in the windows pretty soon. When they opened that dam in Morrisville, that was the end of it. That's what killed us. And I told them, get upstairs.
When the guy in the guy in the boat came, he had taken me and the two boys out first, and when they came to take the rest of them out, my niece hands a shopping bag to the driver and says hold on to that bag, don't let that bag get away from you. So he hung right on to that bag, and he gets over here to the railroad, and he says, 'I couldn't help it, I don't know what's in the bag, I thought maybe it was diamonds, so I had to look!' And it was two half-gallons of Canadian Mist in there. He said, 'Lady, these would have floated!' And she said, 'Yeah but they might not have floated where I could grab them!" So we get down to the motel, and I said, 'Boy, I could use a drink.' And she said, 'I'll be right back with the ice.' She's a riot.
Penny: We have to do things to laugh. We cry, but we laugh. That's how we got through it all. We had to, it's just stupid little things to laugh.
Duke: Larry got out of the barn and got on the big tractor, started that up and came over – Buddy was with him – and I said put Buddy in here and I opened my bedroom window and Larry's out there with the tractor saying he could pull up and get you out of here. I said, 'Larry, if you go out on that road, that river will suck you right in, big tractor or not.' And it's a big tractor, 145 horsepower.
Penny: He thought if he could get everyone from the house he could find a way through the fields.
Duke: I said, go put the tractor away, and get in the house before the water comes in.
When the guy in the boat picked Larry up off the tractor, he came over here and said, 'We're not going to leave your dog, bring him over here and hand him to me.' He weighs 145 pounds! So of course he's swimming some now. The guy said, 'Will he bite?' And I said, 'He will if we leave him here!'
Penny: My sister was up on the railroad tracks and she had called me, that's how I kept in contact. She was letting me know what was going on here, and I'm in hysterics because I can't get here. I kept telling her, because Duke just came back and no one knew he had a pacemaker, to get him out and make sure they get the dog!
We've just been cleaning. We put a new milk tank in. We had a ton of milk in the milk tank, and it moved back eight inches. The water did it. We had a bunch of guys here and they thought they could move it back, but they couldn't even budge it. They found out that between the jackets of the bulk tank, the mud and water got in there. It was trashed. We lost 6,000 pounds of milk.
Duke: It's a funny thing. In the barn, there were two plastic pails, and they're right there. But the sledgehammer's gone. We found it out in the field.
Penny: I had a metal wheelbarrow. I had just, the week before, repainted painted the whole milk house. I took out an old bench. I put in new cupboards. I had put all the tools and metal pieces from the old bench into this wheelbarrow, wheeled it into the calf barn, and that wheelbarrow ended up against a 6x6 post outside. It left marks in the post, the water just slammed it into the post. There's stuff we don't even know is missing yet, we don't know until we need it and can't find it.
Duke: If it wasn't for the mud… We're gutting the house. The sheetrock's off the walls. The volunteers did that. I've been picking up stuff because we couldn't get a dumpster down here when they were stripping everything out, so they just threw everything out on the lawn and out back. I've got a lot of this picked up. But now we've gotta change our water line because it comes from the well up above but it goes to the house, then to the barn. And there's no heat, no nothing. So we've got to dig up, find the water line, and get it to go directly to the barn because if it freezes this winter we're done.
Penny: People would say to me, 'Oh my god, you lost so much.' And we're all saying there's people out there who are worse of than we are. There's people up in Bethel who lost their whole house. We've been brought up that you don't put all your value on material things. Your family, that's what's most important. As long as our family is ok, we're going to make it. It's when something happens to one of us that our wheel's going to wobble. I can't focus on what we lost, I have to focus on what we have left. And like my husband says, those cows in that barn fought to stay alive, and we're going to fight for them to keep them going.
Even thought it's been a couple of months since the flood, we're still seeing effects of it in the cows. We've had four cows freshen since the flood, and they're getting sick. The vet had told us it could be quite a while that you'll have to watch. They were all in this water and mud, you just don't know. There was two days that we couldn't milk because we had no power. There was a foot an a half of mud and they couldn't lay down so they stood up for two days. They didn't have water. One of our friends had a truck – I had a van, but you can't do much of anything with a van – so we had a 150-gallon sap tank that we filled with water from his house, and we lugged it by 5-gallon pails to the cows. And they were scared to drink, they were scared of the water.
When we got down here Monday night, someone had brought down a little generator and he had a light that he made up so he could hook it to the end of the barn and shine down because it was so dark in there. Some of the boys that were here, I told them we need to at least get some of the mud out of this manger so I can feed them. We just kept working and working and we finally got the muck out of the manger so we could put hay down for the cows to eat. Tuesday night, my brother gave us a big generator and Larry Trotier that has Trotier's Equipment down to South Royalton brought us a big generator so we could finally milk the cows. Then the power company got the power turned on to the barn, so we had water then. My son and I had to scoop the mud out of the water bowls and get them cleaned out. There's a button on them that the cows push to get water. When you push the button, it makes kind of a hissy sound when the water comes in, and they're used to it. But when we pushed that button, they were scared. Both him and I had to really talk to them and telling them it's ok. And they were ok. But if it had been somebody else the cows didn't know, they would have just been crazy because they were so scared.
Monday night, when we finally got a light hooked up so we could go in, the first few cows – the cows are like our kids, we name them – the could see me coming down the manger and their eyes lit up, and I could see them smelling and they were like, 'Oh my god, it's mom!' And each one that I walked by, they would lap me. And they were like, 'We know you, and it's ok.' It was such a good feeling to have them still alive, and they were looking for us as much as we were looking for them.
We spent until midnight here the first few weeks, just trying to get stuff done. It's like we were here doing stuff, but to tell you now everything step by step, it's so hard because you're in a zone. I know we had people here, people brought us food, we couldn't have done it without the community and beyond that helped us.
The mailbox that's down here in the middle of the field, that actually sat out by the street. The water took the mailbox. My husband and I were just having a down moment and my son and another kid who's like a son to us – he was here Monday morning at 6 o'clock, waiting for us at the railroad tracks to come up to the barn, and he's been here since moment one – they went down and said, 'We're going to build a fire on the beach. So they were scrounging around in the dark with their flashlights, found the mailbox, which was still attached to the post. That's why the mailbox is in the middle of the beach. And it just stayed there. We have to laugh. They built us a little bonfire on the beach and they dug out two old lawn chairs and had them set up. You have to find the sense of humor in it.
This is our life. How do you throw your hands up in the air and walk away from it? This is what we do, this is our life.
Farming is like a religion of it's own. So when something happens, all the farmers come together. We've had farmers that brought us sawdust, they brought us hay, everyone wants to know what they can do to help. I had people in Massachusetts that have a summer camp up here. They said they were coming up and wanted to bring us grain, and asked what we use. We lost our grain bin. They brought us up bags of grain, and another week she said they were coming back the next weekend, asked what we needed. They brought us more grain, they brought us shavings.
Duke: Tractor Supply donated bags of shavings. We lost all of our fencing – the water just took it down – so we have to rebuild that fence. They donated a roll of woven wire. Someone bought us a roll of wire. People came and built us this small paddock area where the cows are now.
Penny: The main thing about the river that I look at is they need to get gravel bars and stuff out of that river. Because the river is now getting shallower and wider, and they need to dig it back down.
Duke: When I was a kid, we had a diving board out front and the water was 12 feet deep. And you can walk across that river now. But they dug it out every spring, with a big steam shovel, and all the towns got their gravel. We used to have huge fish in there, now we have no fish at all, hardly. They're saying you can't go in the river because you'll kill the fish. There ain't no fish in there. We used to fish in there with a safety pin on a string from a stick with nothing on it.
Penny: It would look a lot better down here if we were heading into spring rather than trying to get everything done before winter.
Duke: We've been buying cows, and we're going to look at two heifers for sale today. We're alright. It's a bump in the road, but it's a big bump.
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Sunrise in the Welsh valleys is a bit of a misnomer. The mist lies low like a blanket and distorts the landscape, as if seen through gauze. The dull morning light fashions a scene full of shadows and silhouettes. If mornings are any barometer, the eventual appearance of the sun is not a foregone conclusion. Waiting alone in a gravel lot outside the town of Abergavenny, near the border of England, I am staring into this dreamscape that counts for dawn in Wales. I have come here to clear my head. More than that: I have come here to find balance.
I am about to meet the strangers who will be my companions on a nine-day, 100-mile walk from Holy Mountain to Bethlehem, christening a new path traversing Brecon Beacons National Park. The sky begins to brighten, highlighting the rising mist and fallen stones of an abbey in the distance. It's all a little dramatic, almost too well constructed; yet it perfectly suits my sense of the theatrical. The first of the cars turns into the lot, and I know, taking in a deep, deep-breath, that I have come to where I need to be.
We are a fairly large group of walkers: 19, plus one dog. It occurs to me that perhaps this is not going to be the best situation for quiet reflection, but before I have a chance to second-guess myself we are done with the pleasantries and heading straight up the steep incline of Holy Mountain (named, perhaps, for the number of times you'll find yourself stopping to gasp for air, invoking the name of the Lord). It quickly becomes difficult to remain sociable and mobile at the same time. I pass a woman twice my age and struggle to mumble a few words. "I will talk to you later," she says with a chirp and a smile, "right now I am trying to breathe." I can only nod. My ears are buzzing with the intensity of the effort, and it is only hours later that I realize she wasn't speaking Welsh.
"We've got about another 45 minutes to the top, and then it's just another bump before lunch," shouts Rob Knowles, the leader of the walk. I'm panting twice as hard as the dog, who is continually doubling back to nudge us along, as if we are sheep. I find that once I stop staring at the number of people ahead of me and focus on my immediate path, I fall into a light rhythm, stepping first with my left foot while breathing in, following with the right while exhaling. It widens my stance so I feel the effort not just in my calves but from hip to heel, becoming more sure-footed in the process.
When we reach the peak, it is carpeted with heather and exposed to the elements, though the air is completely still. The curtain of mist has evaporated. I've not managed to take in the views until now, having spent the hours trying to not embarrass myself, so the effect is magnified. The sky is gunmetal grey, the hills and valleys an endless spread of concentrated greens: jade, forest, lime, bottle.
Gulping water, I can see far in the distance two hills nestled side by side, imposing and impressive. "That's Pen y Fan, the highest point in southern Wales," a woman tells me, pouring water for her dog. "We'll be there in three days." Three of us compare pedometers and realize that we've racked up about five miles.
As we descend into the valley and approach our second "bump" of the day, a number of people use their walking sticks. I'd wondered why they hadn't used them on the way up, but the man next to me explains, as if reading my mind, that the sticks are used more for balance than for leverage, taking the stress off of tender joints. I've two bum knees, and they get a little wobbly heading downhill; the grass is slick, and the mountain runoff has turned the path to mud. I make a mental note to find a stick back in town.
Once we settle down for lunch I tell my new friends that in America this would not be considered a walk at all, but a full-on hike. Everybody laughs, not only because I am a good 20 years younger than most of them, but because in the UK walking per se is not considered an active pursuit. They laugh because the majority of them are serious walkers, or ramblers, addicted to not only the outdoors but also the myriad benefits that come from such extended vigorous exercise: increased stamina, mental clarity and joint stability to name but a few beyond the obvious cardiovascular benefits. I enjoy an occasional hike and walk a few miles in the course of my daily routine, but collectively this group has a few thousand miles on me, and I am humbled. I'm also fairly exhausted and very aware of the ache in my hips and the growing discomfort in my lower back. I wonder if anyone's carrying Advil but push the thought away.
Later, I set out to explore the town of Brecon, where we are staying. Brecon is situated along a river in the middle of these hills, named the Brecon Beacons. Once a center for the thriving Welsh coal trade, this small town is proud of its heritage yet keenly aware of its new role as a way station for outdoor enthusiasts. There's also a quaint esplanade that rolls along the river to the mouth of a great canal that stretches down to Cardiff and the sea, a castle, the county museum, and a rash of good restaurants. According to the guidebook, my evenings promise to be as full as my days.
My exploration is cut short, however, by an ache in my left hip that streaks down my leg like a message sent in Morse code. I decide to return to my B&B to do some stretching. I stumble into a chip shop along the way: "We're closed," the clerk tells me. In my best New York accent I beseech the woman for anything I can steal back to bed for dinner. "Peas and beans are all gone, but I can do you a big fish and chips. I'll wrap it up tight so you can sneak it in — they don't usually let you bring food back to those B&Bs," she says. Gratefully, I tuck the package into my jacket and hobble back home.
Back in my room, I wonder if I can do this all over again tomorrow. I practice focused breathing into my hips and legs and quickly nod off before I've had the chance to try any of my yoga stretches.
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It's true that a day makes all the difference. My lungs feel huge, capacious, as though able to move greater quantities of oxygen into my blood. Plus, I've learned a trick with my new walking stick: carrying it Christ-like across the back of my neck pulls back my slumping shoulders and opens up my chest, causing me to stand fully upright. Also, it prevents "hiker's hump" — walking uphill while hunched over, putting undue strain on the lower back. Above the waist I am revived, but my legs continue to cry out. However, by day three I'm able to chat, and I drift up and down the pack like an inquisitor, learning all about my fellow hikers.
One of the most beguiling things about walking in a group is that it's a bit like going to confession. An intimacy forms when two people walk side by side, whether by choice or accident. The physical demands of the hike keep your eyes focused either on the path or the horizon, rarely on the person with whom you're speaking. Someone is there, but not there. It makes it easy to share, knowing that you'll not find disapproval in the eyes of your confessor. It is said that muscles hold emotions and memories, and I wonder if all this exercise has a purgative effect, tumbling out into speech. As we reach the massive escarpment leading up to Pen y Fan, I am mentally fatigued, but in a good way: as though I've just worked through something in therapy.
I've been waiting for this peak. It is the great summit of the trip, and at almost 4,000 feet it doesn't fail to impress. Steep and rocky, there is no clear path to the top since we are approaching it from behind. Each of us must figure out our own way up. I reach for my iPod, having previously decided that my favorite piece of music will be just the thing to take me there. Plugging in, there is only Faure's Requiem, this enormous rock and me.
It is arduous at first — until the wind begins to whip, and then it be-comes arduous and cold. I concentrate on what's in front of me, breathing and lifting myself in sync with the music. Despite the cold, I can feel sweat trickling down my spine after only a few hundred feet, yet I press on. I had set a goal before the trip to make it to the top in one shot — no pausing to breathe or take in the view. The rush of the music and the physical effort have me on the verge of hallucinating. I begin to slow down with the summit in sight. I want to consciously push past my self-imposed limits. I crest the last bump and behold the whole of Wales before me, even the coast of England far into the shimmering distance. Clouds part slightly, and shafts of sunlight cut through the countryside as if on cue. I feel like the star of a biblical epic. It's a few minutes before I realize that I am not alone; most of the others are here, too, already drinking tea.
The next day it rains constantly as we hike all day through shoulder-high bracken. My feet are blistered at the close of 16 miles, and I know a threshold had been crossed. The following day I tape my toes together, padding my blisters before grinding uphill once again.
Along the way, I get distracted from the pain: I discover the delicious whimberry, a tiny wild blueberry that dots the Beacons' western hills; I totter to a lake so still that had a hand come out holding a sword or a pterodactyl flown over, I wouldn't have blinked; I see an elusive red kite, a bird of prey only recently saved from the grip of extinction, circle the hills its ancestors once cloaked. My physical limitations stop me from pushing toward the front of the pack, but in exchange I am rewarded in more ways than I thought possible. "Things do not change; we change," Thoreau wrote. These simple pleasures are all I need to make me feel transformed.
The final day is anticlimactic. A gentle half-day hike, a shared meal, a certificate presented to each of us and then our little group disbands amid hugs and pictures and promises to stay in touch. Little do these strangers know how much they've taught me or how grateful I am for our shared miles. I hope for them it is reciprocal. I don't pause to ask, however, because I've earned the next stop on my trip — the prize that kept me going when every muscle in my body wanted to stop: an appointment at the luxurious St. David's Hotel & Spa in Cardiff, the Welsh capital.
The spa was my backup plan in case the walk didn't go so well; now it's my reward. I am escorted immediately into the spa, where I take refuge in the marine hydrotherapy pool with its powerful underwater jets and swan-necked showers that emulate a waterfall. Floor-to-ceiling windows look out across the harbor. When I am collected for my massage it seems like overkill. And indeed it is; within minutes I am snoring on the table. "You're intensely relaxed," my therapist tells me when I wake up. "There's not a knot to be found." My muscles and joints feel supple. I am breathing without having to remind myself to do so. If I could remember it, I'm certain I would say it was a perfect massage. In spite of that, it almost seems incidental. I've come to this state of being because of nine days of grueling work. Nobody inflicted it on me — I got myself here. Everything else, no matter how indulgent — and trust me, the St. David's ritual of hot stones, mud wraps and a facial is as hedonistic as it gets — is just frosting.
The next few weeks are a hive of activity for me, and my mind is free and open with the rush one gets from being extremely alert. So many people become addicted to an hour or two of vigorous daily exercise, and now I understand the reason. For a time you are forced to focus, undistracted, on the intense demands of the task at hand; you cannot merely go through the motions, or you risk injury. I work all morning, hike the afternoon away and return with just enough strength to cook some simple food, read a little and blissfully pass out, unconscious of the time.
Eventually, as all good things go, I slip up with an hour of television here, a cigarette there, struggling in a set-ting that has all I think I need. It feeds a growing frustration until I realize one afternoon a most basic and overwhelmingly startling — and simple — fact of life: Every day is a struggle, and that's how it will always be. Yesterday's challenges remain, and to spend so much effort on finding that easy groove, the fast lane to enlightenment, if you will, is only to start a self-defeating cycle. Most things are never conquered, like summits — they are accommodated into a greater whole. It feels as though I am being washed, humbly, with a glaze of late-found maturity. It is comforting.
I hear that next year a walk with Knowles will be led along the coastal path of western Wales: 14 days and 220 miles. I hope to be there. Sure I'll trip, stumble and complain. But each bump will be new, and I will slump and straighten my way up and over each of them thankful that by the end of it, I'll remember that Mark Twain was wrong — there's no such thing as a good walk spoiled.
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"There is a critical gap in the research that leads to lack of treatment for diseases like Parkinson's," said Scherzer. "Biomarkers are desperately needed to make clinical trials more efficient, less expensive and to monitor disease and treatment response. We are hopeful that this initiative will fast track new discoveries in this area."
According to Scherzer, most of our knowledge of the human brain is based on the analysis of just 1.5 percent of the human genome that encodes proteins. The first part of Scherzer's project will examine the function of the remaining 98.5 percent of the genome that, so far, has been unexplored in the human brain. While this remainder had been previously dismissed as "junk", it is now becoming clearer that parts of it actively regulate cell biology. Scherzer and colleagues believe that "dark matter" RNA transcribed from stretches of so called "junk" DNA is active in brain cells and contributes to the complexity of normal dopamine neurons and, when corrupted, Parkinson's disease.
"This offers a potentially ground breaking opportunity for biomarker development. Initially, the team will search for these RNAs associated in brain tissue of individuals at earliest stages of the disease. Then, this team will look for related biomarkers in the bloodstream and cerebrospinal fluid in both healthy brains and those with Parkinson's," Scherzer said.
Scherzer's lab has been spearheading biomarker research in this field since 2004 and the team already has 2,000 patients enrolled and being followed in a longitudinal study with rich clinical data and one of the largest biobanks in the world for Parkinson's tissue with support from the Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center. The biobank was designed as an incubator for Parkinson's research and until now was chiefly available for research collaborations within the Harvard-affiliated community. As part of this new project, this vast resource will be open to all NIH-funded investigators.
"Our ultimate goal is to personalize treatment for our patients with Parkinson's." said Scherzer. "By opening up this vast collection of specimens, we are exploding the resources that are available to NIH-funded investigators looking at this disease. We hope to harness the power of collaboration to speed up biomarkers discovery."
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Back wheel looks too small and the whole car looks like it was stretched in the vertical dimension, hopefully it looks more like this:
That is one sick looking Corvette!
It's s big departure. While I've been a Corvette owner for over 30 years and love the styling, I really want the new mid engine when it comes out. Budget may be the only thing that stops me.
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...These cookies should join noodles, pancakes and flatbreads, as another example of how some foods are repeatedly "discovered" in different parts of the world. If you scan the recipe, you'll see just how much like Mexican Wedding or Russian Tea Cakes these Swedish Sugar Plums actually are. I, of course, think they have an edge and infinitely superior to their cousins because these were the cookies of my childhood. I first saw them being made towards the end of WWII when they were made with margarine and cardamom that was shipped from a Swedish Covenant Church somewhere in the South. At that time, margarine came in white blocks with color packets that had to be worked into the gooey mass to make it look more like butter and less like lard. Most adults disliked the chore, but kids, including me, loved this Sawyer-esque chore and volunteers were always available. I was a champion squisher and my prowess got me into Mrs. P's kitchen where I got to watch her Christmas baking marathon. The cardamom sets these cookies apart from their Mexican and Russian cousins, and if you enjoy them and like cardamom, you will love this version of the cookies. If you store them in an air-tight container they will keep for a week, but you will need to re-coat them with powdered sugar before you serve them. This is an easy, near effortless cookie to make, and I know that those of you who try this recipe will not be disappointed. Here is how the Swedish Sugar Plums are made.
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1/3 cup sifted powdered sugar + additional sugar for finishing, divided use
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon cold water
2 cups sifted flour
1/3 cup toasted slivered almonds, chopped
1) Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Blend in lemon zest, cardamom, salt, vanilla extract and water. Gradually add sifted flour, blending well after each addition. Stir in chopped almonds. Chill dough for 30 to 60 minutes.
2) Move one rack to upper third of oven before preheating oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly grease two baking sheets and set aside.
3) Using a teaspoon measure, roll dough into small balls and place on prepared cookie sheets. Bake in upper third of oven for 10 to 12 minutes, or until just lightly browned. Roll at once in sifted powdered sugar. Cool completely before storing in an air-tight container. Roll in sifted powdered sugar again, just before serving. Yield: 4 dozen cookies.
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KDE 4.3.3 Out Now: Clockwork
Like the ticking of a Swiss watch, every month the KDE team brings you a new release. November's edition of KDE is a bugfix and translation update to KDE 4.3. With the KDE 4 series picking up in popularity, we're happy to encourage even more people to give KDE 4 another spin -- or just upgrade your existing KDE to KDE 4.3.3. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. Users around the world will appreciate that KDE 4.3.3 is more completely translated. KDE 4.4 is already translated into more than 50 languages, with more to come.
KDE 4.3.3 has a number of improvements that will make your life just a little bit better. Some of KWin's effects have been smoothed and freed of visual glitches, JuK should now be more stable, KDE PIM has seen its share of improvements while in the back-rooms of KDE, the developers are working hard on porting all applications to the new Akonadi storage and cache. The changelog has more, if not exhaustive, lists of the improvements since KDE 4.3.2.
Meanwhile, the KDE team is plugging away at KDE 4.4 with its feature freeze drawing closer. KDE 4.4 will see its first incarnation (KDE 4.4.0) in February 2010, two weeks later than initially planned in order to make it possible to release on top of Qt 4.6. KDE 4.4 will be based on, and using the new goodness in Qt 4.6 -- think of new layouting mechanisms in QGraphicsView, improved performance, the new animation framework, and many more pearls. KDE 4.4 will deliver a staggering amount of improvements and new features on top of this: improved desktop search, better privilege escalation, remote controllable Plasma widgets, and of course more polish to the existing code. Beta 1 is only one month away so stay tuned.
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On the Kubuntu info page the reference to http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.3.3 only return the generic news page and not details about 4.3.3.
By reagle at Tue, 2009/11/03 - 8:24pm
so what?
i don't think this is the place to post that. kubuntu is not kde, it is just a distro that, in addition, didn't care too much about anything alse than gnome.
By lucas at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 1:22am
Actually, it is. Kubuntu has
Actually, it is. Kubuntu has not released its packages for 4.3.3 yet, so KDE should not link to that page yet. I find your attitude towards Kubuntu quite hostile, in any case.
By JontheEchidna at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 1:31am
kubuntu FTW !
sorry, you are right. kubuntu is kde. :)
By lucas at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 1:38am
That's not what I said...
I never said it was. I was merely saying that it is the fault of the KDE website that it links to a nonexistent webpage. Nothing more, nothing less.
By JontheEchidna at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 1:54am
i agree that the link shouldn't be there ...
i agree that the link shouldn't be there. but i don't agree that you didn't say:
> Actually, it is. Kubuntu has not released its packages for 4.3.3 yet, so KDE should not link to that
wake up. *buntu is the same distro.
By lucas at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 2:35am
>wake up. *buntu is the same
>wake up. *buntu is the same distro.
Do you even know what you're saying?
Kubuntu is an official Canonical supported and funded project. It is in no way same as Ubuntu which uses Gnome as a DE. Just as openSUSE offers KDE as default, Ubuntu offers Gnome.
I personally don't find _any_ KDE feature missing in Kubuntu. There is no "basic", "ultimate" etc, as each and every *buntu flavor is in itself feature complete. Nevertheless, you can always install two or more desktop environments in one Ubuntu installation.
I don't see the facts on which you are basing your rants upon.
By Sayak Banerjee at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 7:43am
Anyone who has used Kubuntu
Anyone who has used Kubuntu can attest to where most of Canonicals attention goes. GNOME gets it's own theme, while KDE loads up with the default theme. (Depending on whom you ask, this might be a good thing.) There was a discussion on Distrowatch a couple of weeks ago about whether or not Kubuntu was the blue-headed stepchild of Ubuntu.
Now to be fair, if a user doesn't like the way that Ubuntu does things, than I doubt they'd like the way Kubuntu does things. Other than the DE, they are the same distro.
Also, the link now works. So Kubuntu user can enjoy KDE 4.3.3.
By Reuben at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 7:03pm
kpilot still irrevocably broken.
I am annoyed with the fact that I still cannot sync my Palm Treo to kdepim. Cellphones and PDA's are important devices, and the syncing of such devices to the Linux desktop should imho have a priority over eye candy and esoteric applications.
Syncing to the cloud (e.g. Google calendar) is all very well, but only for a subset of the Calendar fields, and there is no solution for the contact address database. Also, the problem of how to get your PDA synced, remains.
And I don't want to be dependent on a third party to administrate my appointments and addresses.
Hans Paijmans
By paai at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 8:51am
Congrats to the release! And
Congrats to the release!
And I'm glad to see a "k" enter the release name again! :-)
Many thanks for your work!
By Arne Babenhauserheide at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 1:58pm
dark screenshot
I created a screenshot of kde 4.3.3 with some mods to turn it into a dark theme - I thought you might be interested:
(simply click the image to enlarge it)
This uses the Aurorae theme engine with Ghost and the Ghost plasma theme. Apart from the image on the right, everything I used is free licensed (as far as I know).
It already served me as a nice tool to show the versatility of KDE, and I thought it could serve others the same way :).
(I posted detailed information how to theme your KDE that way in a weblog entry (german) and on kde-look (english, but lacking most resource-links))
PS: Only in KDE 4.3.3 because Aurorae didn't work flawlessly before.
By Arne Babenhauserheide at Thu, 2009/11/12 - 8:00pm
juk fixes, yay!
juk fixes, yay!
By mxttie at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 7:53pm
Mandriva RPM:s?
The Mandriva rpm:s don't seem to be where they are supposed to be? Late arrival or?
By Dag Nygren at Wed, 2009/11/04 - 8:09pm
...or they are updating
...or they are updating Tasktop and the "Social Desktop" along with making the upgrade to 4.3.3? That could explain the delay.
Please, I'm in the line of waiting. Could you drop us a line, Mandriva developers?
By Ernesto Manríquez at Mon, 2009/11/09 - 2:24am
Build Instructions: wrong link
On the Info Page for KDE-4.3.3, the link for the 'Build instructions' points to the instructions for building TRUNK.
The correct link is:
which gives instruction for building either a release or an SVN BRANCH.
By James Richard Tyrer at Sat, 2009/11/07 - 7:24am


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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Some people expect gold to drop to $1400. Some $1300. Some even doubt that gold will ever go down again. However after watching gold for years and studying its history I think I can safely say that gold never misses an intermediate decline. Next week will be the 18th week of the current intermediate cycle. That means gold is now in the timing band for a bottom. If gold is in the timing band for a bottom a top can't be far off.
In the weekend report I discussed the impending stock market yearly cycle low and three year cycle low in the CRB that are both coming due together this summer. A yearly cycle low in stocks is the second most severe selling event ever seen in the stock market, only exceeded by a four year cycle low, which by the way is due in 2012. The three year cycle low in the CRB is the single most severe selling event for commodities.
By a twist of fate these two major selling events should happen simultaneously this summer. The combination of of these two major cycles bottoming together will almost certainly intensify selling pressure into the stratosphere. In an environment like that fundamentals will go right out the window.
In theory gold put in it's yearly cycle low last January at $1308. Barring something extraordinary I would not expect that low to be violated. However we could very well see something extraordinary.
While the pattern isn't "clean" there is an ongoing T-1 pattern in play on the gold chart that suggests that $1575 probably was the top of the current C-wave and if that is so and the T-1 pattern plays out as expected we should see a test of the the mid-point consolidation during the summer sell off.
That consolidation zone for gold's T-1 pattern comes in at roughly $1225- $1250.
Of course I have no idea if this will play out as we move into the summer but if in July gold touches the $1250 level I think it will be the last great bargain we will get in the secular gold bull market.
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"In an environment like that fundamentals will go right out the window" you say.ReplyDelete
I say In an environment like this technicals will go right out the window.
You risk being out of the market when the really big moves are at hand.
Technicals are great for the general ebb and flow of the markets but there is something else afoot here, and its bigger than technicals.
The T-1 pattern is just a guess. An intermediate cycle low though is about as close to a certainty as we ever get in the market.ReplyDelete
Gold has never missed one that I know of. And the few times where the cycle has stretched long it did so because the decline had a second leg down. Not because it rallied for an extended period.
The uncomfortable fact (for longs anyway) is that gold's intermediate cycle is now in the timing band for the move down into a major bottom. The average percentage decline for an intermediate low is between 10-15%.
This particular decline is going to occur simultaneously with stocks and the CRB dropping into major cycle selling events. This kind of coordinated selling panic will put extreme pressure on every asset class and that includes gold.
Margin calls have that effect. They take even the good stuff down.
Ultimately gold will recover because the bull is not over but does one really think they are easily going to ride out a 10-15% correction in gold? You're fooling yourself if you think you are.
At the bottom of something like that it's going to look like the gold bull is over. Anyone still holding is going to be sorely tempted to sell at the bottom. And the recovery will be rough and hard to hold on to at first.
Trust me, the bull is just about ready to give us the biggest shake out of the last three years. It will be much easier to endure if you are in cash.
Gold may go down as Gary says but that will be a buying time for physical gold. As long as the dollar goes down and debt increases the fear will push gold higher. I see trouble ahead. The economy is getting worst with debt and inflation and that is going to get worst. People are buying silver like crazy right now as it has gone down at the present time. Gary is right about getting into cash but what happens to the cash when the dollar goes to nothing? I would rather hold gold and silver than have nothing.ReplyDelete
What Gary said like 1,250-1,200$ is "Maybe",butReplyDelete
1,650-1,700$ is "Definitely" .
What you choose ?
We are in an unstable country. The truth is not being told to the American people out of Washington for fear of chaos.ReplyDelete
You have to use your own judgement and your gut feeling on what to do. Gary and Toby are giving warning signs to you. If they add more debt (QE3), we will never get out of debt. We will have a crash, don't know when. If they don't add more debt, 30-40 percent in this country will starve. We are hanging by our finger nails. No one knows what they will do next but I believe they will do the QE3 and just keep on adding to the debt until we crash again. My opinion only.
I really think for those holding miner stocks and gold ETF's that going to cash right now, short term, is probably wise. Aside from the seasonality of the market that usually brings a summer decline, we also have the official end of QE2 looming which might spook the markets before the end of the month. Getting out now and buying back in after a substantial drop will be very profitable. If you believe a correction is coming. I lean towards that view. My 2 cents.ReplyDelete