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The man is not a Christian. He is one of your own. I am not interetd in your disgruntles with a man who taught your worldview professinally for decades.
Hold on, just above you said that you were not impressed with his arguments. Now you are agreeing with him. I don't follow. I would agree that neither empiricism or religion can be empirically proved. But then that begs the question I asked plethora at reply #39.
Again it depends on what you mean by "prove". Do you mean an inductive process in a historical series, or do you mean a propositional demonstration in a logical series?
Please answer the question that I posted at #39.
You have not addressed a single statement he made. But then again the significance of that depends on how you answer #39. It seems to me that what you are saying is that I am the only one who must prove my system. I think I can with coherency theory in a propositional series. But, if you think that an atheist, to be so defined, can be an absolute skeptic, you may feel unmoved that I have destroyed the basis of empiricism. You may be thinking to yourself:Ok so what that you have refuted empiricism? You haven't empirically proved your God, thus I am content to remain an atheist until a proof arises that satisfies me.
But that really begs the question doesn't it?
Can an atheist truly exist in that state of ignorance? Every single atheist mindset that I have come across is built on the assumed truth and the assumed commitment of empiricism. Every single one. The atheist position is that no empirical proof has been provided that satisfies your conscience. Thus, to be defined as an atheist you must keep empiricism standing or the whole mental structure comes tumbling down with it.
The problem with this, is that I was raised in the public school system and they don't tell you this. They tell you that their view of the universe has been proven, objectively and established as the only rational worldview.
In actual fact, I disagree quite strongly with his (and your) position. Empiricism can be empirically proven on its own terms.
It is your attempt to claim that it cannot be which cannot be empirically proven
since you attempt to deny the basis for empirical proof. Therefore, your argument is nonsense.
This is nothing more than an attempt by you to muddy the waters and confuse the issue.
Therefore, I will simply state what I meant by prove: testing the validity of something.
And by definition, you cannot test the validity of something that's subjective
because it is inherently untestable to begin with.
Your "question" is irrelevant, an attempt to draw plethora into defending fallacious circular logic of your own devising. Furthermore, as I am not an atheist, it is meaningless to me.
because a refutation requires you to be able to prove your own argument true in order to prove the other argument false
Your attempt to attribute thoughts to me begged the question of whether I was an atheist
In other words, you just acknowledged again that you cannot provide actual empirical proof of your beliefs.
Therefore, the only way you can keep your beliefs from toppling is by attempting to disprove science and its foundations.
plethora Quote from: plethoraYou can believe this all you like. Until you can prove it, I reject your claim.By proof you mean empirical proof I am assuming yes? If so, I have a question for you:By the assumption you have that empiricism is the paragon of knowledge, do you admit then that an atheist must have knowledge to be so defined as an atheist? That is, that you have first committed yourself to empiricism in order to be an atheist and thus an atheist to be so defined cannot be a skeptic? Is that right?
You can believe this all you like. Until you can prove it, I reject your claim.
How do we account for the existence of screwdrivers? Are there multiple physical things to justify the existence of screwdrivers? How do we know there are multiple existing things?
HAL That is a diversion. My view does not require a demonstration of physical things. Your's does.
Seriously, you guys are the meanest people I have ever met. I hope you are happy and feel really good about yourself.
I am going to need more than your opinion to be convinced.
You yourself do not understand calculus as one of your own professionals has admitted.
I am not interested in your squabbles with Kline.
I am not interested in knowing more about math and the way secularists think about it,
than a man who taught the subject professionally for decades.
It is you who is guilty of hubris.
I have no burden to prove a negative. You positively affirm empiricism so it is your burden to prove it.
1. How do you define sensation and show how sensation produces perception and abstract ideas?
2. What language should we use to talk about the material world? Mary Louise Gill refuted all attempts made to provide a theory of individuation in Aristotle (Making Logic [The Law of Contradiction] impossible; thus making language impossible.) in her article: "Individuals and Individuation in Aristotle" (Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
i. If we take matter to be the principle of individuation how do we individuate one unit of matter from another? Some will say, "the spatio-temporal location". Yet this is circular. How do we individuate spatio-temporal locations? By the matter contained in that space. So the matter is individuated by the space and the space by the matter.
3. Induction (asserting the consequence) is a formal fallacy and yet every scientific law is based on it. http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php/topic,21682.0/topicseen.html
4. Mathematics is necessary for every empirical scientific law and yet it is all ad hoc until #2 above has been answered.
I have no burden to prove a negative. You positively affirm empiricism so it is your burden to prove it. Good luck.
Your obstinate response shows your ignorance. Euclid used a propositional series to develop geometry. This is not new.
I believe in the coherency theory of truth. That is how I prove my religion. I have proved that Scripture is coherent: http://olivianus.thekingsparlor.com/drake-s-systematic-theology
Logical coherency is not subjective.
So it is your assertion that coherency theory is false seeing that I clearly affirmed this in reply # which you even quoted above when you quoted me as saying, "I think I can with coherency theory in a propositional series".
How is my question circular? Asking for a definition of sensation, the identity of a numeric substance, reminding you that induction (asserting the consequent) is a formal fallacy and showing that your failure to distinguish numeric substances provides you with no justification for the existence of numbers is not circular. You just don't want to have the face the merciless truth of these statements = Obstinacy.
That is completely false. One can be a complete skeptic if he wanted. No knowledge at all. I think that is where Kline found himself.
So what?
Wrong. You even quoted me where I stated I hold to coherency theory.
How do we account for the existence of numbers? Are there multiple physical things to justify the existence of numbers? How do we know there are multiple existing things?
I doubt you are stupid enough to lend me $1,000 and for me to repay you with $100 - you therefore have the concept of numbers in your mind, which accords with mine and most other people's.
"But," he said, "you cannot see my face[1]; for man shall not see me and live." And the Lord said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand upon the rock; and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand[2] until I have passed by; then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back[3]; but my face shall not be seen."--Revised Standard Edition (emphasis added) 1. Onnnnne component part! 2. Twoooo component parts! 3. Threeee component parts! Ah-ah-ah-ah-aaaaah!
Having received in the historical order-the genus of being, the self attestation of the coherency of scripture-the logical order of propositions-the genus of epistemology, my ego wakes up to the reality of its regeneration. The knowledge of my existence and the assurance of my salvation is thus implied from the teaching of scripture and the conviction that the scripture is true. The Bible speaks of men having a body yes. I have a physical form depending on your defintion of the word physical. Physical is something positive but my knowledge of it is only negative. Thus something physical is not something intellectual or spiritual.
Having received in the historical order-the genus of being, the self attestation of the coherency of scripture
Quote from: screwtape on January 14, 2013, 01:16:52 PMLet me guess... is it god?That answer simpliciter would be unsatisfying. It depends on what kind of God one believes in. I believe the only God that can provide the complexity for the distinctions necessary for numbers is the Christian God of the Bible who has a mind and makes man according to that image. Thus the ultimate principle is not a monad. I think Pythagoras had no coherent explanation of how multiplicity extended from the Monad, which makes me wonder: do atheists who believe in the reality of numbers believe in a Parmenidian One?
Let me guess... is it god?
The forum has once again shown that Empiricists must prove their principles by their conclusions instead of prove their conclusions by their principles.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
The forum desperately seeks to find something wrong with me because they cannot answer the problems before them. This thread was not about Olivianus, it was about secular philosophy.
Sensation is produced by the effects of electromagnetism.
Vision is the direct detection
of electromagnetic radiation, hearing is the detection of vibrations
Perception is caused by the makeup of the body's physical structures that allow for sensations; i.e.,
Abstract ideas are derived from perception, because they are actually based on emotions (which are based on perceptions).
We perceive something, so we have an emotional reaction to it.
An emotional reaction causes an abstract idea (or a concrete one, depending on the circumstances).
This is a good example of why you cannot solely rely on logic. Gill may have "proven" that language was impossible, yet it clearly exists;
we are using it to communicate with each other right now. If language was actually impossible, we would not be able to have this argument, therefore it clearly is possible.
Therefore, the particular language does not matter provided we both have a sufficient understanding of it.
Your error is your attempt to rely on logic to resolve every question, even questions it is not suited to answer.
If you try to use a hammer to pound in a nail, it does a very good job; but if you try to use it to drill a hole in a piece of wood, it will not work very well. The same goes here. All four of your attempts to refute individuation use logic, but logic is not good at refuting things that actually exist.
You are referring to the problem of induction. Note that it is not the same thing as the induction fallacy. The induction fallacy happens when a sample used for testing is found to not be representative of the whole. The problem of induction is whether or not the information that we base an inductive conclusion on is representative of the whole or not, and the only way we can actually find out is to discover that it is not. That does not make it a fallacy.
As I have so answered.
I addressed this in my earlier post.
No, as I showed in my earlier post. By declaring empiricism invalid, you have sabotaged your own argument. The fact of the matter is that you cannot prove empiricism invalid without some way to test the validity of your premise.
You are essentially arguing that you can do so with logic, but this is impossible, so it is nonsensical to make that claim.
Your use of those logical proofs in this case were indeed attempts to confuse the issue. Logical proofs cannot determine the validity of a premise, therefore giving me the choice of logical proofs to determine the validity of something makes no sense.
No, but you cannot determine that it is valid with logic. It shares that with something that's subjective.
No, it is my assertion that you cannot show that coherence theory is valid with just logic, because logic can not validate logic.
It is circular because you attempted to define atheism in such a way that it plethora would have found himself defending circular logic if he had agreed with your proposition.
Basically, you devised a catch-22Wiki (if atheism depends on empiricism, then it cannot be skeptical, because in order to be skeptical it cannot accept empiricism), a logical trap that relies on circular logic.
As I have said multiple times in this post, you cannot verify logic with more logic. You must use something else to verify it. Normally, empiricism is used to verify logic, but you excluded that, so you have nothing you can use to verify your logic.


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As I wrapped up my comparison of the best that both Hip-Hop and America have to offer in my blog entry Hip Hop: Home of the Brave, another juxtaposition came to my mind that I'd like to explore: rappers and preachers.
You may scoff at such seemingly disparate individuals, but I ensure you, there are more similarities than meets the eye. While I'll leave the final discernment to you, the readers, I will offer up a few questioning assessments regarding these similarities. Questions, not statements, that should beckon us to consider whether or not such parallels between secular and spiritual community leaders are wrong or point to a prophetic anointing/calling shared by these individuals which they walk in. Whether that walk is and will remain straight or crooked is another blog entry all together!:
Uncanny Resemblance #1:
S/he has the freshest whip on the lot, threads on his/her back, and jewelry on his/her wrist... Is this a preacher or a rapper?
Uncanny Resemblance #2:
S/he has a following that cosigns EVERYTHING s/he has to say without testing its validity... Is this a preacher or a rapper?
Uncanny Resemblance #3:
S/he has an obligation and accountability to said words yet seems to rely a bit too much at times on "being human" as a scapegoat/loophole for repeated actions that s/he refuses to change… Is this a preacher or a rapper?
Uncanny Resemblance #4:
S/he has on overused/abused reliance on secular vernacular for the sake of maintaining their "street cred"… Is this a preacher or a rapper?
Uncanny Resemblance #5:
S/he has followers that quote and cop his/her sayings as their own… Is this a preacher or a rapper?
Uncanny Resemblance #6:
S/he has followers who namedrop his/her nomenclature is if they have a special relationship going back to childhood that nobody else has… Is this a preacher or a rapper?
Uncanny Resemblance #7:
S/he has lines with internal and external rhyme schemes built into everyday language that put Mother Goose to shame… Is this a preacher or a rapper?
Uncanny Resemblance #8:
S/he has the ability to "move the crowd" with prompts of throwing hands up in the air and sing-along call & response... Is this a preacher or a rapper?
Uncanny Resemblance #9:
S/he possesses charisma that borders on flirtatious interactions with members of the opposite sex (not always, though!) which s /he seems to welcome without seeing the need to set boundaries… Is this a preacher or a rapper?!!
Final thought:
If any of these shared traits concerns you, especially the content(ment) regarding the things that proceedeth from their mouths – if we don't stop feeding/living off potentially hollow rhetoric - how will these prophets ever reevaluate the source of their talents/gifts and infuse substance into words that lack content?
An Uncanny Resentment
When they present like
Rappers, should preachers repent
Resented fractures?!!
Broken Anguish
If rappers and
preachers were raptured as speakers,
who'd breach the masses?!!
- as published in Steel Waters VOLUME I: DUPLicate AuthentICITY:
Critical Mass Exodus
Mass Appeal
Unless delegated by God,
I can't be led or baited by mobs.
I'm not like the rest of the flock that blindly follows.
Feeling my way through Braille passages
By stealing away with groups to hail the masses
Simply seals my faith into frail packages that are decidedly hollow.
Such methods of exodus plannin'
Leads to textbook and reckless abandon.
To be restless and stranded are its awful aims in the long term.
Though I reckon this madness
Is wretched and drastic…
Its essence is massive as it attracts traffic
like moths to the flame caught in the cloth as it burns.
Compacted in drafted winds, it's like fledgling child liars.
Rather, the pattern can spread like wildfire.
Grounded higher, the proper vantage brings it all into focus.
So instead of drudging through drowning mires
Where sudden moves create crowd divers…
Be crowned and sired – move the crowd beyond being throngs of locusts.
If you want to gather a crowd,
Organize it against what's happenin' now!
Don't leave 'em scamperin' chasin' bandwagons down bound to be left behind!
Don't feed 'em reruns of empty rhetoric –
Don't beat lead drums into empty crevices…
Don't be a bum like emcees with no messages – let your destiny shine.
Be at the head as a lead guide.
Leave Red Seas 20,000 leagues behind.
Lean against the grain – seek and find your irreverent relevance!
Dare to show different strokes of genius.
Dare to lead indifferent folks to Jesus…
Evoke a provoking thesis lined with eloquent severance.
Don't react to systemic stimulus –
Detach roots from insipid kinship.
Use the given wisdom sent from Him – reject groupthink fallacies.
Challenge what's known with solid research.
Seek the chalice of thrones with a knowledge rebirth…
Acknowledge and reverse ghetto mindsets blinded by hoodwinked mentalities.
Cause conflict! – contradict the dismal plight
Of unconsciousness that haunts the critical might
Of flocks the size of the Israelites – at least they had Aaron and Moses.
We've let our souls follow pitiful guides essentially
Because we've got role models who pivot their liability…
Which leads to abysmal strife and misery from plentiful errors chosen.
We've been called out to be taught different –
So fall out from dream walks into vision.
Like Stephen Hawking, exceed the limits of your surroundings.
Don't let corporal forces coagulate and congeal you.
Push court ordered warrants for mass appeals through
Before such tactics kill you with the kindness of kindred crowding.


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Enticingly seasoned tender pork is layered between layers of boniato pancakes. Eggplant escabeche on the side is spicy and delicious.
Eggplant Escabeche:
1⁄2 cup olive oil
4 eggplants peeled, cut into 1-in. wheels
2 Spanish onions, diced
4 garlic cloves, sliced
1⁄2 tsp. red pepper flakes
2 bay leaves
1 tsp. oregano
1 1⁄2 cups cider vinegar
3 tbsp. salt
4 garlic cloves, minced
1⁄4 cup parsley, chopped
Juice from 3 oranges
1 cup vegetable oil
1 pork shoulder (about 5 lb.)
2 qt. orange juice
1 cinnamon stick
2 cloves
1 tbsp. fennel seed
1 tbsp. Mexican oregano
2 chipotle peppers
2 cardamom pods
1 qt. tomato juice
2 cups barbecue sauce
4 tbsp. salt
Boniato pancakes:
1 1⁄2 cups boniato puree
1⁄3 cup heavy cream
1⁄2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1⁄2 cups flour blended with 1 cup water
2 tbsp. salt
1⁄2 cup egg whites, soft peak
1⁄2 cup heavy cream, soft peak
1. In a skillet over medium-high heat, add oil; sauté eggplant until lightly browned. Add onion, garlic, red pepper flakes, bay leaves and oregano; sauté until tender. Deglaze pan with vinegar; add salt and simmer 3-5 min. Cool; reserve.
2. In a bowl, mix together garlic, parsley, orange juice and oil. Rub mixture over pork shoulder and marinate refrigerated 48 hr.
3. In a separate bowl, combine orange juice, cinnamon, cloves, fennel, oregano, chipotle peppers, cardamom, tomato juice, barbecue sauce, salt and cilantro; reserve.
4. Roast pork in a shallow pan at 400° F. until brown on all sides. Transfer pork to braising pan; add reserved orange juice mixture. Bring to a simmer and cook, covered, 1 hr.
5. Remove pork from liquid and chill. Reduce braising liquid by half; strain and reserve.
6. Pull pork into strips and remove fat. In a saucepan, toss together pork and reserved reduction until warmed through.
7. In a large bowl, mix boniato, heavy cream, sugar, eggs, flour water and salt until it forms a smooth paste. Fold in egg whites until fully incorporated; fold in whipped cream. In a skillet or on a griddle over medium heat, pour batter and cook pancakes until done, flipping once. Reserve warm.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The first of Justin Timberlake's two concerts at Madison Square Garden has been postponed.
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Timberlake apologized on Twitter and said, "It kills me to have to do this. I hope to see you all on Friday."
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Iowa State wins $18.5 million grant to create NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals
The National Science Foundation has awarded Iowa State University and its research partners an $18.5 million grant to establish the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals based at Iowa State. The center's focus will be to develop catalysts that promote the chemical reactions that can efficiently produce biorenewable chemicals. The center is also expected to create university and industry partnerships that promote innovation, transform engineered systems, advance technology and produce engineering graduates who can creatively contribute in a global economy.
ISU researchers help map first plant-parasitic nematode genome sequence
Iowa State University researchers have contributed to the release of the annotated genome of one of the most destructive nematodes: Meloidogyne incognita -- the southern root-knot nematode, as reported recently in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Iowa State University to Break Ground on New Chemistry Facility Sept. 6
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ISU student organizations dish up something for every taste
ISU students can climb mountains, ride unicycles, build robots, speak French, study the Bible, dance Celtic, prepare for the Marines, march for peace and walk for AIDS. That's because ISU student organizations have something for everyone. They'll show be showcased at Clubfest "Come See What Happens After Class," 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, in the Memorial Union Durham Great Hall.
Henry Rollins performs free Sept. 18
Henry Rollins, known as a post-punk renaissance man, will launch his new Recountdown Tour, an election-time talking show, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, in Stephens Auditorium at Iowa State University. The performance is free and open to the public. Doors open at 7 p.m.
ISU study finds link between a mother's stress and her child becoming overweight
A mother's stress may contribute to her young children being overweight in low income households with sufficient food, according to a new Iowa State study that is published in the September issue of Pediatrics, the professional journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Point/Counterpoint: Speakers debate development of a bioeconomy
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Carly Fiorina is fall Mary Louise Smith Chair
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Bonobos may have greater linguistic skills than previously thought
What happens when linguistic tools used to analyze human language are applied to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human? The findings, published this month by Iowa State Ph.D. student Janni Pedersen in the Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, indicate that bonobos may exhibit larger linguistic competency in ordinary conversation than in controlled experimental settings.
National Wildlife magazine
New science is helping biologists understand how some bobcats can thrive in human-altered landscapes. ISU Professor William Clark has studied Iowa's burgeoning bobcat population since 2003. Clark and his fellow researchers from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources are learning that the cats are "highly adaptable, expanding their range, and reestablishing populations in more fragmented landscapes."
When will Iowa elect a woman to higher office?
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Iowa is one of only two states to never have elected a woman governor or as a member of Congress. Dianne Bystrom, director of ISU's Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, says that's mostly been an issue of timing. Qualified female candidates have simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time.


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April 16, 2013
Stewart Myers, Robert Merton, James Poterba
The late Franco Modigliani, who won the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, was celebrated April 9 for his many contributions to the field of economics and his lasting legacy at MIT, where he taught for more than four decades.
Fellow economists, former students, Boston-area professionals, and family gathered at the MIT Faculty Club for the two-hour long " A Celebration in Honor of Franco Modigliani" to delve into the academic giant's work in economics and finance and to share stories about the man whose infectious enthusiasm affected so many.
"It's very hard to believe Franco passed away almost a decade ago," said Stewart C. Myers, professor of finance at MIT Sloan. "I remember him so vividly I can expect him to walk through that door. And if he did, I think he'd have the same combination of energy and happiness about the field of economics, ideas about economics, and absent-minded generosity he was famous for."
Modigliani won the Nobel Prize for his pioneering analysis of savings and financial markets. He taught at MIT from 1962 until his death in 2003. Nobel laureate and MIT Sloan professor Robert Merton said Modigliani's work remains relevant.
"There's no question his work has a long shelf life," said Merton. "In 2013, it's still cutting edge."
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Merton, speaking on the panel "The Life and Times of Franco Modigliani," said that before Modigliani's Life Cycle theory, economists tried to explain how people save and consume by looking at a single year in a person's life.
Modigliani's insight was that people plan their consumption and savings over a lifetime in order to spend in retirement.
"He believed most people believe a standard of living in work or retirement should be similar—they don't want to live on dog food and dine on crystal in retirement, or the reverse," Merton said.
Modigliani's work led to the commonly used income-replacement ratio. It remains relevant in today's MIT Sloan classrooms.
MIT economics professor James Poterba compared Modigliani to Isaac Newton—someone whose work formed the building blocks studied in today's classrooms.
"Franco's work is timeless," Poterba said. "The issues he worked on are the big questions. They are as important today as when he wrote his papers."
Poterba said Modigliani's work on monetary theory and stabilization in 1944 "clarified for the rest of the world…sometimes you couldn't influence the macro economy any more by pushing on interest rates."
Modigliani also built, along with economist Albert Ando, a large-scale model of the U.S. economy to test the impact of monetary policy.
"We learned enormous amounts about individual sectors of the economy," Poterba said. "No part of the economy was safe from Franco's microscope. It was tremendously influential."
Modigliani was also a pioneer in behavioral economics, currently a hot field of study. In the early 1980s he believed the stock market was underpriced because people weren't choosing to account for high inflation. As a result, he cautioned investors to hold stocks for a long time so their value could rebound.
Myers said Modigliani left his fingerprints on the way corporate finance is studied and practiced. In 1958, he and economist Merton Miller devised the Modigliani-Miller theorem, which says a corporation's value is unaffected by whether it is financed by debt or equity.
"It moved corporate finance from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance," Myers said.
Today, bank regulators want lenders to have greater debt to equity ratios. Bankers oppose this, saying that would hurt their corporations. Myers believes Modigliani would conclude that's wrong—the theorem says the amount of debt and equity shouldn't affect the value of a corporation.
"Modigliani would say that's a freshman-level mistake," Myers said. "Informed corporate finance always starts with Modigliani-Miller."
Fervent inquiry into pressing problems
Born in Italy in 1918, Modigliani was always interested in Italian and European economics, long after he and his wife, Serena Calabi, immigrated to the United States in 1939.
A second panel, "The Fate of the Euro," considered how Modigliani would react to the financial crisis affecting Europe and Italy today.
Panelist Francesco Giavazzi, a professor of economics at Bocconi University in Milan and a regular visiting professor at MIT, noted that in 1998 Modigliani predicted a crisis if wages and labor costs fell out of line.
"You see Franco was right," Giavazzi said. "Prices did go out of line and the issue today is how to bring these prices back in line with each other."
Modigliani's granddaughter, Leah Modigliani, said her grandfather would have liked an opportunity to fix today's euro crisis. In fact, he never stopped trying to solve the world's economic problems. She remembered a trip to the beach with a childhood friend that was cut short when her grandfather suddenly had an idea to save Social Security.
"My friend asked, 'What is your grandfather talking about?' Well, he has an idea to save the U.S. Social Security system," Modigliani recalled. "And he would in fact write a letter to The New York Times, and by the time I got home he'd have gotten (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan) Greenspan on the phone to discuss his ideas."
"He said these things about trying to make the world a better place," Modigliani added. "His ideas were contagious."
Beyond his lasting imprint on the study of economics, Modigliani left an impression on many people around MIT.
Serenella Sferza, co-director of the MIT-Italy program, said Modigliani was among the faculty who advised her on establishing the program, which now sends 50 students to Italy annually. Like other panelists, she said she learned that all doors in Italy opened to Modigliani.
But as an MIT student, Sferza studied political science and not economics.
"I envied fellow Italians doing their PhD in economics," Sferza said. "They had better fellowships, shorter dissertations, and they had Franco Modigliani, who was a magnate, full of authority, good humor, and generosity."
The Celebration in Honor of Franco Modigliani was held as part of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States, and Pioneer Investments' U.S. Colloquia Series.


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Italian aviation forum takes off
Italy now has its own platform on energy in civil aviation thanks to an initiative partly led by the WEC's Italian member committee. The Italian Sustainable Aviation Fuel Forum (ISAFF) has been established under a Memorandum of Understanding signed between WEC Italy and the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) on 4 June. ISAFF aims to […]
Posted on 24 June 2013
Interview: Prof Jonathan Stern on the future for natural gas markets
Natural gas markets are in a state of flux. Professor Jonathan Stern, who spoke at a WEC Italy conference about the latest on gas, shares his views on what the future might hold. How will the European gas consumption evolve in this decade? We need to specify the countries and years we are talking […]
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Jesus Restores Brokenness
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Russ Murphy lost his wife after 40 years of marriage. He is a songwriter and the author of Not Alone.
Teresa Kemp was freed from 18 years of drug use. She is founder of Breaking Chains Intl Inc. & author of Forever Changed.
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Some people may need non-prescription sleeping pills from time to time to help them fall asleep. Examples of sleep medicines available without a prescription include Nytol and Sleep-Eze. All of these contain diphenhydramine, which is a type of antihistamine. Using an over-the-counter medicine now and then is okay. But sleep medicine works best as a short-term treatment combined with lifestyle and behaviour changes.
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There are other ways to improve your sleep besides using medicine. Talk to your doctor about lifestyle and behaviour changes you can try to help you sleep.
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Saturday, April 2, 2016
Does Sarcoidosis Have Any Effects On The Brain?
Hello, my mother was diagnosed with sarcoidosis in May. She is taking Gabapentin among other things. She seems to have lost some brain functioning (for lack of a better explanation). Her speech is very slow, she is very chatty and gets confused easily.
Is there something else that could be going on that is going undiagnosed?
Sarcoidosis can involve the brain. It is often difficult to confirm the diagnosis, and sarcoidosis can mimic other central nervous system disorders (e.g., tumors, multiple sclerosis). Gabapentin and other new medications should also be considered.
Elliott D Crouser, MD
Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
College of Medicine
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Obama's Cairo speech first tipped me off to the fact that he's probably a misogynist. He may have a couple of powerful women upon whom he relies (Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama), but his instinct is to avoid women and hide them away. The Cairo speech got my antenna up because I thought it was peculiar that Obama twice boasted that one of the hallmarks of his presidency would be ensuring that women could continue to wear the hijab:
Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That's why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it. (Applause.) [This makes me uncomfortable. It's good to trumpet America's religious freedom, but I find it icky that he would boast about the fact that America (rightly, I guess) allows its Muslim citizens to enshroud their women — and please note that this last is an applause line.]
The sixth issue — the sixth issue that I want to address is women's rights. (Applause.) I know –- I know — and you can tell from this audience, that there is a healthy debate about this issue. I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality. (Applause.) And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well educated are far more likely to be prosperous. [There he goes again with the hijab. Maybe it's freudian, and he wishes he could shut Michelle down.]
Three months later, Obama was at it again, applauding the hijab:
The president paid special tribute to Kareem Khan, who "made the ultimate sacrifice" when he died serving in Iraq, Nashala Hearn, who won the right to wear a hijab in school, Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, who holds the record for the most points scored by a high school basketball player in Massachusetts, and Muhammad Ali, who – though he couldn't attend – is "a man of quiet dignity and grace and continues to fight for what he believes."
We are a pluralist society, with First Amendment for freedom of religion, so I'm no going to quarrel with women who voluntarily chose to wear the hijab. Nevertheless, to the extent that it represents the first step in de-sexualizing and even de-humanizing women, and I am no fan of the garment and could not understand why Obama gave two speeches lauding the garment. My snarky guess at the time was that Obama doesn't like women and that his admiration for the hijab represented a Freudian desire to see women subordinated.
With these thoughts in my mind, it came as no surprise to be that Obama's White House discriminates ferociously against the women who work for him. Aside from a few high profile female staffers, women who work for Obama are paid less than men across the board. Obama's cabinet also boasts only eight women out of a total of twenty-three positions, something ardent feminists demand he remedy by applying a 50% quota (showing that, while Obama may not like women, modern feminists are fools).
I also don't think it's a coincidence that, in a couple of speeches, Obama almost randomly targeted his grandmother as a racist. In his Rev. Wright speech, he spoke of her inherent racism:
I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
Having said that, he helpfully clarified that his grandmother was "typical":
The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know (pause) there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way.
So, Obama started off by insulting his grandmother — a female target — and then extended that insult to all white Americans.
I'd be lying if I tried to pretend that those four disparate pieces of evidence — two speeches referencing hijabs; lower wages; and a small, but not insignificant, number of women in his cabinet — prove that Obama doesn't like women. They prove nothing, although they hint at a trend.
Today, I learned another factoid that hints at this same trend — Obama, the great golfer, has golfed with women partners only two times, despite playing the game 107 times during his presidency:
President Obama, who ran a campaign that alleged Republicans were waging a "war on women," refuses to bring women along on his favorite recreational pastime, golf.
Obama has not included a woman in his golf outings in more than two years, choosing instead to bring along male staffers, male politicians and, while vacationing, a regular group of old friends, all of them men.
The last time he brought a woman out onto the golf course was October 17, 2010, when he played with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Since then, he's been golfing 54 times, but has never brought along a woman.
I'm only aware of one other golf outing Obama has had with a woman during his presidency, a round with chief domestic policy advisor Melody Barnes on October 25, 2009. The White House acknowledged at the time that this was the first time he had golfed with a woman as president.
That makes, as of today, two out of 107 total outings during his presidency.
Keith Koffler, who noticed this interesting phenomenon, also points out that women have been railing for years against men only golf courses and clubs because so many deals are brokered in those segregated preserves.
One can draw two reasonable conclusions from Obama's golfing patterns, neither of which is mutually exclusive: (a) When in relaxation mode, Obama does not enjoy women's company; and/or (b) Obama does not believe in making deals with women. Both of those conclusions provide further corroboration that Obama, if not actually a misogynist, has misogynistic tendencies.


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So, Barack Obama, you've been granted a second term. What do you do for an encore?
It has become commonplace to observe that presidential second terms are fraught with disappointment. George W. Bush's was marred by a bogged-down war in Iraq and the collapse of the financial system; Bill Clinton's by the Monica Lewinsky scandal; Ronald Reagan's by the Iran-Contra scandal (but moderated by the end of the Cold War). Franklin Roosevelt squandered the promise of his second term by picking a fight with the Supreme Court, an effort that ultimately undermined his ability to fulfill all the promise of the New Deal.
The challenge of Obama's second term will begin even before his second inauguration. That's because some sort of accord with Congress will have to be reached during the postelection lame-duck period to avert the "fiscal cliff" — that combination of expiring tax cuts and mandated spending cuts that will kick in at the beginning of the year, stifling the economic recovery if no action is taken.
This is where Obama could position himself as a president with a mandate, or the lamest of lame ducks. Throughout the campaign, he signaled that he would stand firm on the expiration of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers, but he was less specific about what programs he would keep off the bargaining table.


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How does your family celebrate birthdays? If you're looking for a new birthday tradition to start in your family or if you're looking for some ideas to make your kids' birthdays extra special, you've come to the right blog post. We know there are many different birthday traditions you could start with your kids, but we've come up with five birthday traditions that are pretty easy and fairly inexpensive to start:
1. Start the Celebration Early
A child's Birthday Eve is a great time to celebrate and reflect back on the year. It's also a chance to spend quality time with your child before everyone gets caught up in the excitement (and stress) of the birthday party and other planned birthday celebrations. You can read a special birthday book with your child, for example, or make cupcakes together for their birthday party. Asking children what they want to remember from their current age and what they would like to accomplish in the next year will help kids reflect on and remember events in their life. You can also share pictures and memories from past birthdays to make it even more memorable.
2. Have a Special Birthday Decoration Tradition
Decorations can make a child's birthday feel extra special, so come up with a birthday decoration tradition to help celebrate birthdays in your household. One fun idea is to decorate your child's bedroom floor or the hallway outside their room while they are asleep by covering the floor with birthday balloons. You could also hang streamers or crepe paper from a doorway to help kids make a grand entrance on their birthday morning. Remember that simple, inexpensive decorations can go a long way in building excitement and celebrating your child's birthday.
3. Invite Your Family's Adopted Elf to the Party
Learn how elves celebrate birthdays at the North Pole with The Elf on the Shelf®: A Birthday Tradition. Children will be delighted when their favorite holiday tradition becomes a part of their birthday festivities. Each Elf on the Shelf®: A Birthday Tradition comes with a children's book about birthday celebrations at the North Pole, a cupcake outfit for your elf, and instructions on how your child can invite your family's adopted elf to their birthday party. If your family has yet to adopt an elf, The Elf on the Shelf® Christmas and Birthday Gift Set is available.
4. Hunt for Treasure
A treasure hunt can make a child's birthday even more exciting as they hunt for clues to find their gifts. You can choose to give them a small present with each clue or give them a big present once they figure out the last clue. Treasure hunts are also a great way to give out party favors at a birthday party. You can give children individual clues or have them work together to find their party favor bags. If both kids and adults are attending your child's birthday party, a scavenger hunt is a fun way to include everyone.
5. Enjoy a Favorite Treat
Blowing out candles and eating cake is a popular birthday tradition in the United States, but not everyone likes to eat cake. If that's the case in your household, celebrate your child's birthday with their favorite main dish or favorite dessert. You could make a lasagna or chocolate pie, for example, or have a special birthday breakfast each year. If your child has a lot of food allergies or can't eat sweets due to health reasons, take the focus off of food as treats by treating them to one of their favorite activities. This could be anything from going to a bookstore or bowling alley to going on a short day trip somewhere they enjoy or have always wanted to visit.
Taking the time to do something special for your kids on their birthday will create wonderful memories for both you and your children, so we hope this list will help your family start a new birthday tradition. If you need birthday gift ideas, be sure to browse our Great Gift Ideas section. We also welcome you to share your family's birthday traditions in the comment section below or on our Twitter and Facebook pages.


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Small Cool 2010: Eden's Art Deco Details
Who Lives Here: Eden and Belvedere, the cat
Location: Portland, Oregon
Size: 322 square feet
What is your favorite element of your Small & Cool home? My favorite apartment feature is the art deco details of the 1927 building that have been maintained. The arched hallway, the glass doorknobs, and the completely white walls/molding were great starting points for decorating.
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What was one of the biggest challenges you faced in furnishing your Small Cool home? Living in such a small space requires that I embrace compromise and decide what really matters. I could only afford a studio, but was determined to keep the space from feeling like an all-purpose dorm room. The kitchen did have a small space intended for a kitchen table, but I decided to put my bed in the kitchen so that the main room could be a dedicated living room space. A bit odd, but it works. The "bedroom wall" is a bookshelf in the kitchen that holds my cookbooks, cooking tools and pantry items. My ridiculously large book collection had to come with me, and it's been really hard to keep them from overwhelming such a small space. I've managed that problem by confining them to three big bookshelves and (hopefully eye-pleasingly) packing them in there.
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The Minnesota Vikings have waived QB Rhett Bomar, S Chris Adingupu, OL Conan Amituanai, TE Ed Barham, DB Simeon Castille, LB Jonathan Gilmore, WR Andre Holmes, LB Kyle O'Donnell, K Nate Whitaker and DT Colby Whitlock.
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The Minnesota Vikings agreed to terms with 14 undrafted rookie free-agents Wednesday, July 27. The list includes OGs Rod Huntley (UTEP), Byron Isom (Auburn) and Conan Amituanai (Arizona), FB/TE Allen Reisner (Iowa), CBs Marcell Gipson (Wyoming) and Devon Torrence (Ohio State), DE David Akinniyi (N.C. State), WRs Andre Holmes (Hillsdale) and Dominique Johnson (Cal Poly), FSs Ryan Hill (Miami) and Chris Adingupu (Prairie View), RB Matt Asiata (Utah), LB Larry Dean (Valdosta State) and PK Nate Whitaker (Stanford).
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|Vikings | Undrafted rookies expected to sign
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:12:33 -0700
The Minnesota Vikings are expected to sign undrafted rookie free-agents CB Devon Torrence (Ohio State), WR Andre Holmes (Hillsdale), OG Conan Amituanai (Arizona), RB Matt Asiata (Utah), TE Allen Reisner (Iowa), CB Ryan Hill (Miami), WR Dominique Johnson (Cal Poly), CB Marcell Gipson (Wyoming) and DE David Akinniyi (North Carolina State).
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KABUL, Afghanistan � Political interference stymied an investigation into the collapse of Afghanistan's largest bank, according to an independent report of how the men at Kabul Bank and their friends and relatives got rich off $861 million in fraudulent loans.
KABUL, Afghanistan � Political interference stymied an investigation into the collapse of Afghanistan�s largest bank, according to an independent report of how the men at Kabul Bank and their friends and relatives got rich off $861 million in fraudulent loans.
The 87-page report, released on Wednesday, details how politics played a role in who was charged in the case and why it took prosecutors so long to render indictments. Its findings reinforce the image of Afghanistan as deeply corrupt. If those who carried out the fraud are not punished, it will likely be more difficult for the West to donate money to this impoverished nation where U.S. and NATO forces are trying to extricate themselves from an 11-year-old war.
The bank�s collapse and subsequent bailout represents more than 5 percent of Afghanistan�s gross domestic product, making it one of the largest banking failures in the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars were sent out of Afghanistan � some in airplane food trays.
The report depicts the Kabul Bank scandal as a saga about money-grabbing, weak banking oversight, lax prosecution, nepotism and fraud. The cast of characters includes a poker-playing bank chairman, an Afghan central bank head who feared his life was endangered and fled to the U.S., the wealthy relatives of the Afghan president and vice president, and bank shareholders � some who bought posh properties in Dubai and spent lavishly on themselves and their circle of friends and relatives.
The bank, which was licensed in 2004 and grew to become Afghanistan�s largest financial institution, was run like a Ponzi scheme under nascent banking oversight, according to the Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee, which issued the report.
It claims a special judicial tribunal that started hearing the case this month is involved in activities that are �well outside the legal norms of criminal procedure.�
The report says the tribunal has had off-the-record meetings with accused individuals and potential witnesses, has conducted its own probes on the sidelines and has held meetings with shareholders, urging them to repay money. Getting the money back is the job of the receivership, which as of Oct. 31 has recovered $135.3 million in cash as well as assets with a book value of $181.1 million.
Drago Kos, chairman of the committee, told reporters at a news conference in Kabul that Afghan officials were �deferring questions to political parties� rather than acting independently to investigate, prosecute and try the case.
�We also see some cases of direct political interference from above,� Kos said.
The report does not specify who was involved in the political interference. The committee said it did not come across any documents indicating that the presidential palace was meddling in the case.
However, the report says that after an investigative commission that Karzai set up to look into the scandal issued its own report, the commission �publicly announced that the president would decide who to prosecute based on its recommendation.�
The committee also criticized the attorney general�s office for not undertaking a substantial probe into the bank until April 2011 � a year after the news of the bank�s problems surfaced, eight months after nervous customers ran to withdraw deposits and five months after the central bank asked the attorney general�s office to start a criminal investigation.
Although criminal indictments were prepared by the attorney general�s office around May 2011, the indictment was not issued until more than a year later, according to the report.
The indictment names more than 20 bank executives, bank employees, central bank workers and others who allegedly benefited from the fraud. The charges include money laundering, misuse of authority, using counterfeit documents and opening accounts under pseudonyms. But the report claims the indictment is tainted by political influence.
The report says the indictment did not name officials from accounting firms that created false documents for Kabul Bank, airline employees who smuggled money out of Afghanistan or some shareholders who received funds from loans at zero interest, �apparently with no intention of repayment.�
�The major factor impeding the criminal investigation process is political interference resulting in reluctance to pursue charges against some of the participants of the Kabul Bank fraud,� the report says.
�Information received during the inquiry indicates that the final decision about who to indict was made at the political level in the spring of 2011 by a high-ranking committee � and that prosecutors from the attorney general�s office were called in to amend the indictment to conform to the decisions taken.�
Basir Azizi, a spokesman for the attorney general�s office, said Tuesday that the Kabul Bank case was not treated as a political issue.
�We strongly reject any comments that the attorney general�s office dealt with this case as a political issue,� he said.
The report says $861 million, or 92 percent of Kabul Bank�s loan book, went to 19 individuals and companies. Among them are key bank shareholders, including Sherkhan Farnood, the former bank chairman and a world-class poker player; former chief executive officer Khalilullah Ferozi; Mahmoud Karzai, one of Karzai�s brothers; and Hassan Fahim, a brother of first Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim.
The former bank executives were charged, but the brothers of Karzai and Fahim were not named in the indictment.
The report describes Kabul Bank as a sophisticated operation with one set of books for the eyes of regulators and another in the back room that logged how those running the bank and others were fattening their wallets.
Loans were made but rarely repaid. Borrowers took out loans to pay back loans. Company documents and financial statements were fabricated. The bank�s credit department used more than 100 corporate stamps for fake companies to make documents look authentic. The bank operated some of its more than 100 branches without a permit from the government.
�Since 2006, the bank was running a pure Ponzi scheme,� Kos said.
The review was conducted to satisfy one of several benchmarks the International Monetary Fund asked the Afghan government to meet in cleaning up the scandal.
The report gives the Afghan central bank credit for carrying out various examinations of the bank, saying it tried to take enforcement measures or corrective actions four times after consistently spotting regulatory violations. But the committee said that unless the central bank and other Afghan institutions move to operate independently, stand up to political interference and hold wrongdoers accountable, the Afghan government will never be able to sustain a fully functioning democracy.


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General Comments: Futures closed higher for one more day. There has been little selling pressure on the market since the dramatic move lower, but some may develop son as futures are closer to resistance areas. Better weather in Florida seems to be the big problem for the bulls at this time. Showers are reported and conditions are said to have improved in almost the entire state. Ideas are that the better precipitation will help trees fight the greening disease. No tropical storms are in view to cause any potential damage. Greening disease and what it might mean to production prospects continues to be a primary support ítem and will be for several years. Temperatures are warm in the state, but there are showers reported. Brazil is seeing near to above normal temperatures and mostly dry weather, but showers are posible later this week.
Overnight News: Florida weather forecasts call for showers. Temperatures will average near to above normal. ICE said that 0 delivery notices were posted today and that total deliveries for the month are now 0 contracts.
Chart Trends: Trends in FCOJ are mixed. Support is at 130.00, 125.00, and 122.50 September, with resistance at 135.00, 138.00, and 139.00 September.
General Comments: Futures were lower on a weaker Brazilian Real. The cash market remains very quiet. Sellers, including Brazil, are quiet and are waiting for futures to move higher. Buyers are interested on cheap differentials, and cheap futures. Brazil weather is forecast to show dry conditions, but no cold weather. Current crop development is still good this year. Central America crops are seeing good rains now. Colombia is reported to have good conditions.
Overnight News: Certified stocks are near unchanged today and are about 2.745 million bags. The ICO composite price is now 116.67 ct/lb. Brazil should get dry weather except for some showers in the southwest. Temperatures will average near to above normal. Colombia should get scattered showers, and Central America and Mexico should get showers, and rains. Temperatures should average near to above normal. ICE said that 2 delivery notices was posted against July today and that total deliveries for the month are now 809 contracts.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are down with no objectives. Support is at 117.00, 116.00, and 113.00 September, and resistance is at 125.00, 126.00, and 127.00 September. Trends in London are mixed to up with objectives of 1835 nd 1900 September. Support is at 1755, 1720, and 1705 September, and resistance is at 1855, 1870, and 1900 September. Trends in Sao Paulo are down with no objectives. Support is at 140.00, 137.00, and 134.00 September, and resistance is at 150.00, 151.00, and 155.00 September.
General Comments: Futures closed lower on a weaker Brazilian Real. Ideas are that mills had not had time to amass more Sugar due to a delayed harvest in Brazil because of rains and also because they are concentrating on producing ethanol. Futures might try to work lower this week. There is still talk that a low is forming or has formed for at least the short term, but there is still a lot of Sugar around, and not only from Brazil. The Indian monsoon is off to a good start and this should help with Sugarcane production in the country. But, everyone is more interested in Brazil and what the Sugar market is doing there. Traders remain bearish on ideas of big supplies, especially from Brazil. Traders in Brazil expect big production to continue as the weather is good.
Overnight News: Showers are expected in Brazil, mostly in the south and southwest. Temperatures should average near to above normal.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are down with objectives of 1640 and 1580 October. Support is at 1620, 1600, and 1570 October, and resistance is at 1665, 1690, and 1715 October. Trends in London are mixed to down with objectives of 475.00, 465.00, and 448.00 October. Support is at 476.00, 475.00, and 470.00 October, and resistance is at 490.00, 496.00, and 499.00 October.