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More and more people are finally starting to benefit from using natural and organic skin care products, perhaps you are one of them?
It's important that you know the difference between the two as sometimes deciding on which product to buy can become slightly confusing.
Natural products are made from minerals and plants that grow naturally, not in a laboratory or are man-made. Naturally free from chemicals, preservatives and fragrances.
Organic products are grown without chemicals and pesticides; they are not tested on animals and undergo minimal processing. When the various oils are extracted from the plants and herbs no chemical processing was used. For a product to be certified with made with organic ingredients it must contain at least 70% organic ingredients.
With both natural and organic products it is always best to check the ingredients, especially if you suffer from sensitive or problem skin as certain ingredients can cause flare-ups even if they are completely natural and each person reacts differently to various ingredients.
Some products are labelled hypoallergenic but that really doesn't mean that that product is right for you skin, always investigate before you decide on a product.
Each person is different and each person's skin reacts differently and there isn't any guarantee that the product that you have seen on the TV or in a magazine will be right for you.
Botanical is also another word that is used in many skin care products but although this is natural because the ingredients come from trees or plants it doesn't mean that it is also organic.
Your skin absorbs a large percentage of everything that you put on it, so choosing products that are natural or organic will provide your body with a higher level of nourishment that it so rightly deserves.
There are many products on the market that claim they are natural or organic, one particular company that produces hair care products claimed their shampoo contained organic ingredient but unfortunately the product contained synthetic petrochemicals and has a moderate toxicity level. That's why it's always best to check the ingredients before you purchase any product whether it is skin care or hair care.
Skin care products cannot claim that they are containing 100% natural ingredients because with natural or organic ingredients they do need a small amount of certain preservatives for the product to last.
If you were to take a product that contains cucumber, how long do you think a cucumber would last without going bad? Only a matter of days that's why when it is included in a skin care product a small amount of preservatives are added to keep the cucumber element fresh.
Ultimately it really is up to you what you decide to use on your skin.
My advice to you is do some research into your skin care products before you go ahead and purchase them.
When you look at the label the main ingredient in the product will be displayed at the beginning of the list of ingredients.
If you see organic or natural at the bottom of the list then the amount in the product is minimal, which means that the product is unlikely to provide your skin with the greatest of benefit.
On top of natural and organic ingredients look out for products that are supportive of the environment and don't use animal testing or products.


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This Singer sewing machine dates from around 1912. It was owned by a family in the East End and used for both commercial and private purposes.
Many Jewish immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in London and Leeds, earned a living working in tailoring workshops. The Jewish tailoring trade played a key role in developing the ready-to-wear clothing industry. Traditional English tailors produced made-to-measure clothes for individuals. The immigrant tailors made cheap off-the-peg clothing, which was affordable for a wider section of society.
Working conditions were extremely hard with long hours, low pay, overcrowding and seasonal unemployment. Tailoring was divided into processes and each worker had a different task. Pay and status varied with each process with lower rates for women and unskilled labour. Many joined unions to campaign for better pay and working conditions.

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LOS ANGELES – Was that?
No, it couldn't be.
But yes, it was.
That was Frank Williams pumping in 27 points Tuesday – 14 from the free-throw line – for the D-League Sioux Falls Skyforce. The same Frank Williams who wasted a golden chance to forge a NBA career because he would not stay in shape.
Now, after spending last season playing in Italy, Williams is back hoping to get another opportunity. He was invited to the New Orleans Hornets' training camp last fall but failed to make the regular-season roster.
Williams, now 29 years old, was the Big Ten player of the year as a sophomore at Illinois. Drafted in the first round, 25th overall by the Denver Nuggets in 2002, he was traded on draft night to the New York Knicks.
He played sparingly for the Knicks in two years and then was traded to his hometown team, the Chicago Bulls, in the summer of 2004. But Williams reported to training camp out of shape and barely played that year.
The Bulls did not tender him a contract offer and Williams became a free agent. In the fall of 2005, on the recommendation of Neil Olshey, Williams was invited to training camp by the Clippers. It was one of Olshey's first major acts in his new role as director of player personnel.
I remember Olshey having to do some explaining to Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy and vice president of basketball operations Elgin Baylor because Williams was unable to finish his first practice. Midway through the session in which the players were required to run full-court sprints, Williams ducked out of the back door and began vomiting.
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Driven by a passion for design and communication its range of services include brand development and strategy, copywriting, data visualisation, print & web design, social media management and face to face workshops for organisations, teams and business owners.
Since its incorporation, Adinqra has created brands for reputable companies in the UK, Ghana and Nigeria. Some of which have included, the UKGCC, the first ever UK Chamber of Commerce launched in Ghana, Africa Matters Limited, the UKs leading Africa-focused consultancy firm, the Money Advice Liaison Group (MALG) and Elmina Advisory, Ghana's government affairs consultancy.
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The question of what will happen after death has never been less metaphysical: the Lewis Funeral Home, Nantucket's only funeral home for more than a century, is struggling to survive financially.
NANTUCKET — The question of what will happen after death has never been less metaphysical.
The Lewis Funeral Home, Nantucket's only funeral home for more than a century, is struggling to survive financially, said Carmen Bennett, office manager and daughter of owner Richard Lewis Jr.
Now, the family-run business and islanders are trying to figure out what to do next if it closes.
Bennett's daughter, Kelly Miller, is an apprentice funeral director at the family business, but is contemplating whether it makes financial and personal sense to earn her full license to keep things going when her 78-year-old grandfather retires.
"We are trying to make some decisions on what to do in terms of carrying on," Bennett said.
She said there are hurdles to selling the business, which typically handles between 50 and 70 deaths annually.
The island's high real estate prices may make things hard for a new funeral home to buy the property and make a profit, Bennett said.
That's difficult even without a mortgage and as it is, the funeral home is losing money, she said, as more people opt for lower-cost cremations instead of burials.
"Nobody seems interested in buying the property and using it as a funeral home," she said. "Do we just close the doors and sell the real estate as real estate? If we do, Nantucket has no funeral home."
If that happens, people will have to work with off-island funeral homes. Bodies would have to ferried off the island to be embalmed. Those to be buried on Nantucket would then be shipped back for burial and any church services.
Bennett called that option a "veritable nightmare for Nantucket people."
Those are factors the family is considering as it weighs selling the funeral home, which has been in the Lewis family since 1878.
Lewis, who has owned the business since 1975, could not be reached for comment. But Bennett said her father has often absorbed the costs of funerals when families couldn't pay.
She estimated that the business has lost $200,000 over the past 10 years through indigent burials. "That's a very real and understandable problem," she said about people not being able to afford funerals.
During the past decade, the island's private cemeteries have started opening and closing their own graves, which meant less money for the funeral home.
Miller, who has been helping out at the funeral home since 2010, is attending FINE Mortuary College in Norwood to earn her full funeral director's license.
But with two young children and a business losing money, she is contemplating whether it makes sense. Her 5-year-old daughter had a heart transplant when she was 6 months old and must take regular medical trips to Boston.
"I am willing to put in whatever it takes, if in the end it is a viable way to support my family," she said.
The family approached the town this fall to see whether it would consider operating the funeral home as a town-run business. Bennett said selectmen went into executive session and then told her they weren't interested.
She also floated the idea of the town setting up an indigent fund to help people pay for burials.
Bob DeCosta, vice chairman of the board of selectmen, said the board briefly discussed the issue in executive session. He declined to say whether the town would consider running it. The board may discuss the issue at a later date, including the indigent fund idea, but he did not know when.
Town and County Clerk Catherine Flanagan Stover said residents will consider a nonbinding article at town meeting in April that asks whether to set up a nonprofit organization to purchase and run the funeral home if the Lewis family leaves the business.
A second article would be a home rule petition to request an exemption from the state law that requires funeral directors and embalmers to own a stake in the funeral home.
Flanagan Stover said the family has shown constant commitment to the island, starting with Lewis.
"I don't know of him ever leaving the island," she said. "The whole family is an amazing family. They are an inspiration, really."
Miller said the family will continue to talk with town officials, other funeral homes and residents for ideas.
"We are just hanging in there and trying to keep it running as long as we can," she said.


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sati-indriya: doing, being, knowing distinctions
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:20 am
How valid and/or helpful do we think these distinctions are from this talk, The Faculty of Mindfulness, by Gil Fronsdal?
3:39-5:19, 10:15-10:29, 10:57-13:40The way mindfulness was discussed by the Buddha was closer to what we call--in kind of modern America I guess--more like 'being' rather than 'doing'. Some people think of mindfulness as a lot of doing--noting this, noting that; and there's certainly a doing in this practice we do. But this faculty, this state, this capacity for mindfulness is not so much something we do as something we be. Just like with faith. Faith is not something you do, it's something you have, you cultivate, you can develop, you can strengthen. But you don't do faith. You have faith. It's something that supports you. You can do things to cultivate, establish and strengthen energy or effort, but you have them there to engage you. So it's the same with mindfulness. It's a faculty or capacity of mind that can be weak or strong. But it's there, waiting for us, in a sense. In the language and teachings of the Buddha he talked about mindfulness as something we abide in, we dwell in. Again, not so much something we do--an activity--but something we dwell in or abide in. We enter into mindfulness and abide in it....
There is a practice the Buddha taught of knowing what's happening when it's happening. That you can do. It's focused on trying to know what's happening while it's happening, understanding what's happening.... There's a way in which we separate ourselves from--or free ourselves from; or make space for--our experience; when we can know it in a clear way. By knowing what's happening--by observing what's happening--that is how mindfulness is established. That's how a person comes to possess mindfulness. The distinction that the Buddha made--which we don't really make when we teach mindfulness in English: we often teach mindfulness and knowing as being synonymous, as if mindfulness is a thing that we do--but the way the word sati is used in the ancient texts, it's not what you do but it's the result of what you do. It's a state of heightened clarity, or clear seeing, that comes from practicing understanding or knowing what's happening.
Now you might think it's just semantics, or not so important, the distinction between knowing as something that you do and mindfulness as something that you be, but I think the distinction can be very helpful, because both can go on at the same time. You can do certain things and also be in a certain state. For example you can dwell in--abide in--a house, but within the house you might be cooking or cleaning, doing things. You can abide in happiness while talking to a friend, singing a song, or going for a walk. These things can co-exist. So the state of mindfulness or the quality of mindfulness that the Buddha emphasized: he never used any kind of active verbs to talk about mindfulness, that this is something that you're supposed to do. But he used verbs like, 'endowed with mindfulness', 'possessed of mindfulness', 'established in mindfulness', 'abiding in mindfulness'. He did talk about cultivating mindfulness or establishing mindfulness, but that's not an activity. That's a result.


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Over 250 notebooks filled with the sketches, hacks and insights of new and established creative thinkers expose the inspirations, processes and end results, including Spike Jonze, Paola Scher, Karim Rashid and Patricia Urquiola.
The online gallery lets you flick through videos and photos of each notebook and read more about each author: some works contain extensive stories and illustrated narratives, others are turned into sculptures and pieces of contemporary art and design.
Curated by Raffaella Guidobono, it's a project that's always on the move and this time it arrives at the Taikoo Li Sanlitun Moleskine Store on the occasion of Beijing Design Week. Amongst a backdrop of notebooks, journals and Moleskine objects, the notebooks of celebrated artists from around the world such as Kengo Kuma and Ron Arad as well as those of local representatives including internationally-renowned graphic designer Alan Chan and a new addition from fashion designer Vega Wang are displayed for visitors to turn each page, interacting with the creative process as it unfolds.
Detour is organized in support of non-profit foundation lettera27 , whose mission is to promote the right to literacy and education as well as access to knowledge. As each author donates their notebook to this cause, we begin to build an archive of contemporary creative thinking, in the making.
Flick through the pages on the online gallery here.
Full list of participating authors at Detour Beijing:
Ron Arad
Fernando & Humberto Campana
Alan Chan 陈幼坚
Li Hu 李虎
Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu
郭锡恩 & 胡如珊
Zhang Ke 张轲
Kengo Kuma
Joseph Li 李文洋
Lin Lin 琳琳
Elaine Ng Yan Ling 吴燕玲
Carl Liu 刘传凯
Antonio Marras
Ou Ning 欧宁
Karim Rashid
Vega Wang 王在实
Ma Yansong 马岩松
Wang Yiyang 王一扬
Detour Beijing
25 September – 27 October | 10am-10pm
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Homophobic Facebook Group Uses Degrassi: The Next Generation To Promote Hateful Agenda #HateFAIL
Videogum reader Emma sent us an email about her recent discovery of the Facebook group "Heterosexual Awareness Month," which is your Facebook group. Good group! Great group. Very cool group for a very cool thing. If one thing has become increasingly clear in the Culture Wars over gay marriage it is that heterosexuals are INVISIBLE and we need to do whatever we can to BRING THEM OUT OF THE SHADOWS. Obviously, this is nonsense. The group is garbage, who cares. Even the most cursory look at their page shows them to not only be homophobic, but also weirdly racist and sexist but in extraordinarily confusing ways. For example: there is a Photoshop of Obama with a woman's body wearing sexy lingerie and it says "Change, did somebody say change?… No thanks I'll take sanity." Haha, WHAT? That is just straight up bonkers I don't even know what. (One woman who "liked" the page posted a note that says: "I'm so straight, first thing I did when I bought a house was brick up the back door." The point is: we live in a beautiful world full of fascinating and wonderful people. Characters welcome.)
ANYWAY, now we are just giving lip service to a fringe group of fucking assholes, and what is the point, except that Emma also points out that the Heterosexual Awareness Month (which is JULY, incidentally, LOL, what?) group has launched a membership drive for the month of November. It's pretty cool and easy to be a part of it, as the page points out: "It's simple just click join! That's all there is to it… you are in. All you have to do now is enjoy your heterosexual lifestyle." ALL YOU HAVE TO DO NOW IS ENJOY YOUR HETEROSEXUAL LIFESTYLE! Cool. Dope. Fun club. When you pledge your orientation with these nightmares, they promise that you will have "worldwide acceptance, cool relationships, specific roles, and minimum guilt." Hahaha. How are we not all members of this great community! I LOVE COOL RELATIONSHIPS WITH MINIMUM GUILT AND HATE IN OUR HEARTS! Anyway, if you're going to push for new members, you're going to need to make a flyer, obviously, and if you're going to make a flyer about the joys of heterosexuality, you're going to need a fresh image of straight people loving to have fun, and what better image than a class photo from Degrassi: The Next Generation. Wait, what? Yoops! Degrassi: The Next Generation, of course, had numerous homosexual characters whose storylines were treated with dignity and respect. They are NOT a good representation of the cool and universally accepted guilt-free lifestyle of heterosexual pride. Which is not a thing. Also this whole group of people can go fuck themselves no joke I hope they fall of their bikes and scrape their arms and knees and then James comes and steals their bikes. But the real point is HI DRAKE IN A WHEELCHAIR! (Thanks for the tip, Emma.)


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Hello to the world.
I recently obtained a second XO-1 from a cousin, and it has developed the RTC clock issue (Luckily, my first was upgraded before developing the problem). The battery was checked and is fine, but I'm having trouble resetting the RTC. When I use the serial terminal, any commands sent to the computer don't do anything to the XO, and the d6.py script seems to be stuck in a loop whenever used. It will continue to create lines and will run until halted by Ctrl-C. Meanwhile, the XO just sits there, without any response or sounds. Thank you in advance to whoever takes time to help.


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Unlike the other common programming languages of our days, C is the only one expressive enough to do everything you want to do with the machine.
For some it is a strength, for some it is a weakness, but to use C well you need to know how CPUs execute code.
If you know that, aside from syntactical quirks, using C is easy and results in small and fast programs, even in userspace.
Nowadays it is fashionable to criticize C and to say it is not good for userspace applications, but a fact remains and it is that most of the applications which make the computing world run, they are in C. Pure C.
Despite some people thinking otherwise, OOP oriented programming is much more confusing for newbies, and newbies should start learning to programming in assembly. Yes, in assembly. The only way they will understand what the language is doing when they go on to higher level languages. Theory means nothing without practice and understanding. Once you know how assembly languages work and the memory model of machines pointers are just natural.
Substandard programmers can flock to languages like C# or Java. Not that I find Java, the language, wrong in itself, it's just that it is often used by programmers who do not understand what's happening and that want to be cool by saying stuff like "it's secure, it's run by a VM, it's sandbox, it doesn't have pointers!!", well it is does have references. Which, internally, are just like pointers! It's hidden to the eye, but they are still there. Proof is the argument passing to methods in Java, if I pass a reference to an object in an argument, and if I change the value of the reference inside the function at a later moment, the value of the reference I passed to the function externally doesn't change. Just like C. It's still passing argument by copying. Most other things are just things the Java Compiler enforces for you and the JVM sets up automatically for you (like garbage collection, interfaces, etc.).
You can compile C for a virtual machine, and it will be as "safe" as Java run in a virtual machine, and also the MMU already tries to "isolate" user code from system code in order to make things safer. Most times it is sufficient, at times not.
Not type checking adds to the expressiveness of C, it doesn't make it "unsafe" if you know what you are doing. That you can copy things elsewhere without being stopped is a very useful side feature, especially in system code.
Also, C strings are not necessarily too tied to the language. You could modify a C compiler in order to output Pascal-style strings for string constants, and you could make custom string functions that handled Pascal strings if you really wanted to..
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And I though Ada, Modula-2, Modula-3 and Turbo/Free Pascal, Oberon(-2) already provided everything C does and more, just to name a few comparable languages.
Security exploits everywhere, since not everyone is a top developer.
Then you throw C performance out of the window, because all C libraries assume null terminated strings and you end up converting between string types all the time.
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Since when is C performance depending on null-terminated string ? God, have you already programmed in C ?
Whenever i'm looking for performance, i never handle strings, but blocks of bytes.
Strings are for "higher-layers", such as sending a file name as a parameter. This kind of usage has zero impact on critical loop performance.


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We had lots of fun with the Brown Bag Gift Exchange. Many sheep participated and enjoyed themselves.
We also enjoyed some luscious cake and relaxed and talked and looked at each other's projects, etc.
And just look at the charity project toys that were turned in to Judith. I just love them. You guys are the greatest when it comes to charity. And so creative!
Judith spoke about another charity project, a kind of pay it forward project. Make a hat. Give a hat to someone who needs one. Don't even need to tell anyone about doing this. Just do it. Anyone who didn't pick up a kit to do this and would like one, let us know.
We had our election for the new vice president. The results of the vote will be announced at the December meeting and the new vp will take office at the January meeting.
We circulated a sign-up sheet for the retreat committee. Several signed up, but we can always use more sheep. Please think about this and make a decision to participate and contribute a bit of your time to the Guild. Seriously, the retreat committee is a lot of fun.
Also, if you would like to become more active in the Guild, you can sign up to help out at KnitMichigan the first Saturday of February. Feel free to ask any questions about this or the retreat committee. We'd be glad to talk to you.
Our next meeting will be December 10th. Tracey Kane will be presenting a trunk show and we will have a program on Techniques - Edgings. We, hopefully, will have our swag/umbrellas by this meeting. We will let you know for sure, so you can bring your $15 (per umbrella).
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Some gamers can't get enough of the same old thing. You know the type – always talking about the good old days while collecting original copies of NES games and swearing that Dig Dug is the best game ever, bless their poor, ignorant souls. Chances are if you're reading this, you want to know what's next and what's new, and in terms of baseball gaming, nothing is newer this year than 2K Sports' Major League Baseball 2K5. While not nearly as smooth or intuitive as EA's offering, it does provide the year's most major innovation with its Baseburner feature.
If you have a runner on base, you can take direct control of him by tapping the R-stick in his direction. The camera then shifts to a close, isometric view of the base-runner and from there you can manually lead-off with the L-stick. You can also manage the batter's behavior with the D-pad, telling him to be selective, swing, or lay off.
While Baseburner is a great idea, it isn't seamlessly integrated. For starters, returning to the bag and proceeding to the next one are handled by two different buttons " press one and your runner just goes, so you aren't in complete control. This is especially apparent if you run to second from first on a fly-ball that gets caught. If you step on second, you can't return to first because you can't control your runner or direct him to a specific base. You can only frantically jam the return button, which uselessly returns the runner to his current base, in this case, second. Aaand, you're out.
Still, Baseburner is a great idea and is by far the most exciting feature to be included in any of this year's baseball titles. We can't wait to see where it leads.
Outside of Baseburner, base-running can get pretty hectic. Taken verbatim from the instruction booklet: "To advance all runners, pull the left trigger; to retreat all runners, pull the right trigger. To retreat all runners, pull the right trigger. Pressing the left trigger will cause all runners to attempt to reach the next base." Did we mention Major League Baseball 2K5 has the worst instruction booklet ever? It gets worse, but we won't go there. Instead, we'll simply say that there are a lot of ridiculous base-running glitches and inconsistencies.
This incongruous experimentation pervades the rest of Major League Baseball 2K5's gameplay. For example, the pitcher/batter duels now include something called the Slam Zone. If the pitcher screws up on a pitch badly enough or the batter guesses the location, the game enters the Slam Zone. Here, the batter and the pitcher both mash buttons to determine whether or not the ball turns into a home run.
If this sounds a bit obtuse, it is. Compared to the relative simplicity and clarity of MVP 2005's system, the Slam Zone seems a little silly. Then again, you basically saw MVP 2005's system in MVP 2004. With the Slam Zone, 2K Sports tries to do something really innovative and misses, but at least they try.
The batting system is a bit difficult to figure out. As the batter, you have an invisible cursor that aims your swing as well as buttons for normal and power swings. But it isn't really clear what you're doing when you aim the cursor. Are you aiming at that precise spot, or are you generally aiming the trajectory of the bat? I think you're doing both, but the instruction manual doesn't say. At any rate, the batting system in Major League Baseball 2K5 is weaker than the challenging timing-based system in EA's game.
Fielding the ball is the same in both titles, except that Major League Baseball 2K5 uses better camera angles for a better view of the action. You make players run around on the field with the L-stick and execute lunges, dives and leaps with the R-stick. But where the animations in MVP 2005 are canned, those in Major League Baseball 2K5 are context sensitive. This means that if you're running towards a ball and press the R-stick in its direction, you won't leap past it. Instead, your fielder will do whatever he can to make the grab.
This doesn't always work out, though. Sometimes your fielder will glitch and skip a couple frames of animation when you press the R-stick, and other times throwing the ball just won't happen. We think this may be the result of the game locking up due to a log-jam of potential animations, but whatever the cause, it can be damn annoying.
While its play mechanics are fairly unorthodox, Major League Baseball 2K5's selection of modes is very standard. You can play Exhibition games, In Your Face games, full Seasons, Tournaments, Home Run derbies, simulated Gamecasts, create your own scenarios with Situation mode, or dive into baseball's managerial nuts and bolts with Franchise mode and GM Career mode.
Before an In Your Face game starts, both sides will be presented with a list of generic challenges, usually requiring you to be the first to get X amount of hits or steal X amount of bases. If you manage to complete one of these before your rival, you get Face Points. These can then be used to disable a facet of your opponent's game, such as sliders or power swings. In a way, Face Points represent another way to score and are a cool step in the evolution of similar challenges that have been in sports games for years.
Face Points aren't limited to In Your Face games, although they're a little harder to come by in normal ones. Maybe once or twice a game, you'll be notified that you're entering a "Home Run Inning." If you or your opponent then knocks one out of the park, you'll be awarded with a Face Point. This reduced role keeps the basic integrity of Major League Baseball 2K5's sim elements intact, while adding an extra touch of intensity here and there.
Franchise mode is extremely basic in that you hire and fire staff, trade players, and manage your AAA and AA teams in between games. You'll want keen scouts and a good staff that can effectively recognize and foster talent ensuring a steady flow of top-notch players into your club year after year. In a barely interesting twist, player fatigue is now a major concern, so you'll want to be sure and grant players routine days off. GM Career mode simply takes the Franchise mode and complicates it by adding the whims of an owner to your list of concerns. The owner will set long term and short term goals, and your consistency in meeting them will decide the team's budget as well as your future within the organization.
For the most part, Major League Baseball 2K5's offline single-player content is thin compared to what is offered in MVP 2005. If you love to budget and micromanage, there is no question that the Owner mode of MVP 2005 is deeper and more involved than anything this game has to offer. Since the prospect of setting concession prices doesn't necessarily make our mouths water, we were hoping that Major League Baseball 2K5 would offer something better, but it doesn't.
Even though Franchise and GM Career offer little new in and of themselves, they are undoubtedly the most effective means of unlocking Major League Baseball 2K5's extra content, all of which can be accessed in the Skybox feature. Most of the stuff you unlock has been seen in earlier games, but the fact that you actually have a visual space devoted to this content remains a nice touch.
Major League Baseball 2K5's online component is pleasantly deep thanks to its intuitive League system, Exhibition games, Home Run derbies and rosters. The Leagues are easy to set up, taking the forms of small tournaments or big forty game seasons, and can involve up to thirty players. Leagues aren't new, but they're more interesting than EA's relatively skimpy tournament system.
Major League Baseball 2K5 is by far the best looking baseball game of 2005 on both the PS2 and the Xbox. While the Xbox has distinctly shorter loading times, both games look fantastic thanks to great lighting, impressive texture mapping and a generally bright, attractive presentation. The ESPN incorporation doesn't hurt matters, either. Impressive pitching sequences are shown in a sharp replay mode, the camera angles are at once cinematic and practical, and the whole thing just looks familiar. After all, if you're any sort of sports fan you probably watch quite a bit of ESPN.
The ESPN touch is even more crucial and effective when it comes to Major League Baseball 2K5's sound effects, commentary and music. Instead of the horrible, poppy garbage that drones on endlessly in MVP 2005 or the meat-headed thrash that plays during MLB 2006, Major League Baseball 2K5 sounds like an ESPN telecast. Joe Morgan and Jon Miller provide ridiculously good commentary, and so does the crowd.
Despite its better delivery, though, Major League Baseball 2K5 is not a better baseball game than MVP 2005. Its offline content is simply not as deep and its play mechanics are broadly inferior. However, it looks and sounds better, has deeper online content, and features the year's only major innovation in a baseball game. It might not win the pennant, but it definitely makes the playoffs.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators zeroed in on brakes as a possible cause of last weekend's deadly tour bus crash that killed seven people, including a 13-year-old boy from San Diego and his mother and grandmother.
Victor Cabrera-Garcia, Elvira Garcia Jimenez and Guadalupe Olivas were among 38 people on a daylong trip from Tijuana, Mexico, to see the snow in the San Bernardino Mountains. The bus crashed Sunday evening near Yucaipa as it made its way down meandering state Route 38.
Beginning a review that could take months, investigators from the California Highway Patrol and the National Transportation Safety Board started collecting evidence about the bus, road conditions, and possible driver error or fatigue that could have played a role in the crash.
A team of NTSB officials was dispatched Tuesday to the offices of bus operator Scapadas Magicas LLC, in National City, near San Diego, where they interviewed owners and employees and gathered documents on the vehicle's maintenance history.
The roadworthiness of the 1996 bus loomed as a key issue after the driver told investigators the brakes failed as it descended from the popular Big Bear ski area, and federal records pointed to a history of brake maintenance problems.
"We are going to look very closely at the brakes as we will every other mechanical system on the bus," NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said.
The bus, its front roof collapsed and windows shattered, was towed to an auto yard in Ontario that the CHP uses to store evidence, Officer Mario Lopez said.
The CHP's criminal investigation, which is routine, is "to determine if there was any criminal action that caused this collision," Lopez added.
The bus careened out of control as it descended the mountain road, striking a sedan and flipping before slamming into an oncoming pickup truck hauling a trailer. The accident scene left even veteran investigators shaken, as debris and body parts littered the road. Dozens were injured and several remained in critical condition Tuesday.
Victor Cabrera-Garcia's aunt, Luz Garcia, told The Associated Press she believed the boy went to see the snow with his 40-year-old mother and 61-year-old grandmother as a late present for his Jan. 13 birthday.
"It's hard because we are suffering the pain from losing members from three generations," Garcia said, speaking in Spanish. "Each one hurts equally. It's horrible."
The boy was his mother's only son and they lived with his grandmother, Garcia said. He loved soccer and played on a local team as a goalie.
One of his happiest moments, she said, was when he got an autographed photograph of Tijuana's soccer team, which in December won the border city's first Mexican Apertura first division football title.
Others killed in the crash were Tijuana residents Liliana Camerina Sanchez Sauceda, 24; Aleida Adriana Arce Hernandez, 38; Rubicelia Escobedo Flores, 34; and Mario Garcia Santoyo, 32, authorities said.
Investigators will attempt to determine if a mechanical failure, driver error or a combination of both caused the crash. It will encompass a broad range of factors, from road conditions to witness accounts, an exhaustive review of the vehicle to an evaluation of the driver and his decisions. Investigators have also taken a blood sample from the driver.
Just before the crash, the driver, Norberto B. Perez of San Ysidro, shouted to the passengers that the brakes had failed and urged them to call emergency services, passengers said.
"If it didn't have brakes or did have brakes, it would leave different types of evidence," said Bob Snook, an accident consultant who recently retired from CHP after working on accident investigations for 25 years.
The investigations are "basically car autopsies, because they will go over that bus with a fine-toothed comb," Snook said.
Even skid marks need to be analyzed carefully to determine whether, for example, they were created by the bus trying to turn too quickly or braking hard, Snook said. Investigators found skid marks at the crash site.
A special six- or seven-member CHP investigation team is typically augmented by other specialists from the agency, whose expertise can range from roadway engineering to diesel mechanics, Snook said.
Government records showed the bus recorded 22 safety violations in inspections in the year ending in October, including brake, windshield and tire problems.
"They'll be very interested in prior contacts with this company, what prior violations they've had, which could be bad or extremely minor," Snook said. A violation can be a crack in the corner of a windshield all the way up to a broken wheel or axle falling off.
Chris Medwell, an expert in heavy vehicle accident reconstruction at Bloomberg Consulting in Gulf Breeze, Fla., said investigators typically focus on several issues when examining air brakes following a crash, including wear to parts and an adjustment device that compensates for wear. Filters on air compressors that feed the system can clog, and hoses can leak, among other mechanical problems.
But human error can also be at issue.
As the name implies, air brakes use pressurized air for stopping power, rather than the hydraulic fluid used in car brakes. Heavy weight in a vehicle, combined with an inexperienced driver in rugged terrain, can have risks.
"A lot of inexperienced drivers on long grade will pump the brakes. ... Descending mountain grades is a special skill," Medwell said. "You don't want to apply and release, and apply and release, to maintain a constant speed. That's what taxes the system."
Associated Press writer Julie Watson in San Diego contributed to this report.


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Four stock indexes — the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow 30 and Russell 2000 — each have futures and options that have the trading advantage of being valued according to the same underlying index. The S&P 500 has the SPDR E-mini S&P 500 futures and SPY exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Nasdaq 100 has the E-mini Nasdaq 100 futures and QQQ ETF. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has the mini-sized Dow 30 futures and DIA ETF. The Russell 2000 has E-mini Russell 2000 futures and IWM ETF.
Each of the four futures contracts has an exchange symbol and a multiple number of dollars per option point. In a separate valuation mode, ETFs are priced as shares in funds that are based on the indexes. ETF share prices are more akin to common stock prices and are traded easily on various stock exchanges. They are as follows:
- E-mini S&P 500 (ES): $50 per option point
- E-mini Nasdaq 100 (NQ): $20 per option point
- Dow 30 mini (YM): $5 per option point
- E-mini Russell 2000 (TF): $100 per option point
The stock indexes corresponding to the E-minis are SPX, NDX, DJIA and RUT. SPY is one-tenth the size of SPX. QQQ is one-fortieth the size of NDX. DIA is one-hundredth the size of DJIA. IWM is one-tenth the size of RUT.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) — There's no peace for Mystic Falls.
The cast and crew of "The Vampire Diaries" gave shrieking Comic-Con fans a taste of what's to come in the fifth season during the CW supernatural series' presentation Saturday at the pop-culture convention. In footage shown before the panel, mind-bending baddie Silas addressed a group of Mystic Falls townsfolk while appearing as Paul Wesley's Stefan. He not-so-discreetly informed the crowd that he wants to control them.
"Vampire Diaries" executive producers Julie Plec and Caroline Dries said the new season will also deal with the ramifications of Nina Dobrev's Elena choosing romance with Ian Somerhalder's Damon over Stefan, as well as Katherine, the ancient vampire character played by Dobrev, involuntarily becoming human.
"It is Mystic Falls and essentially you can't be that happy for that long, so there's always got to be that drama," said Somerhalder.
The new season will also see some characters going off to college.
"Why are we pursuing higher education?" joked Wesley. "We're all murderers."
"Vampire Diaries" stars Dobrev, Somerhalder and Wesley were joined on the panel by co-stars Kat Graham and Candice Accola.
"The Vampire Diaries" returns Oct. 10.
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Pinnacle Programs necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a new company specializing in sales training for professionals in the insurance and financial services industries. We are veterans of the industry and delivering education and training services in the traditional in-person, seminar, style, but are also heavily investing in online-based training and video work. We are based in the U.S. and will spend most of our time in the U.S. with independent insurance brokers, but we will also do some work in English-speaking countries outside the U.S.
Our target audience are senior executives of insurance brokerage firms for primarily commercial property & liability insurance, as well as employee benefits. These are typically white males in their 40s and 50s, with 20-30 years of corporate experience. Although there are already a number of sales trainers (7-10) in the insurance industry, none have the combination of brokerage and underwriting experience of our founders. Nor has the market seen the extensive use of video and web-based training we will offer.
Our name, "Cazador", is the spanish word for hunter because we are teaching sales professionals how to "hunt" for new accounts. Our motto is "Scout. Score. Strengthen." Our slogan is "The Sales & Marketing Performance Specialists." We do NOT want the image of a hunter itself, but the theme of helping people to strengthen their sales skills is appropriate.
Our preferred color scheme for website, logo, letterhead, and brochure is black, gold, and burgundy. We will use 99designs for additional contests to design a WordPress website them; a Twitter background; a brochure; and a PPT template. Designers of this logo can also let us know if they have experience in these other areas of design.
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I remember when my parents were our age.
Forty-one. Thirty-nine.
I thought they were so old.
What did I know?
When my husband smiles, his eyes crinkle. I see his father.
I have my mother's hands.
Both our parents inching towards their golden anniversary. Fifty years.
It's a mantle we wear proudly.
He still closes the door behind me in the closet and kisses my neck.
But his socks are still on the floor.
I love that guy anyway.
He sips coffee, tea for me. We write love notes. We grow old together.
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Whenever public figures speak, a lot of people respond with snark. They try to cast ridicule or contempt on such figures, and to demonstrate that they are mere cartoons or perhaps even demons.
There is high political snark, which can be quite sophisticated. (Maureen Dowd and Jon Stewart are able practitioners, as is Charles Krauthammer, though his version is darker.) There is low political snark, which consists of little more than name-calling.
Whether high or low, political snark comes in just a few basic flavors — seven, to be precise — that can be wheeled out on almost every occasion. For readers of political snark and for those seeking to produce it, here is a consumer's guide. (Names have been changed to protect the innocent.)
Sen. Smith objects that President Obama has taken an unduly expansive view of presidential power. You might ask: Did Sen. Smith say the same thing about President George W. Bush? If not, she's a hypocrite, and she needs to be exposed.
Here's a variation on the same theme: Sen. Jones believes in the importance of public education and strongly opposes voucher systems, but he sends his own children to private schools. Isn't he a hypocrite?
Consumer advisory: Maybe Smith did say the same thing about Bush, and if she didn't, maybe it's because she wasn't focused on politics at the time. Whether she's right today doesn't depend on whether she spoke out a few years ago. As for Jones, it isn't hypocritical to believe in the importance of the public school system while also sending your kids to private school. In any case, his views deserve to be evaluated on their merits.
Conflict of interest
Mary Johnson, head of a large corporation, argues against campaign-finance regulation, contending that it violates the right to free speech. You might object: Would Johnson say the same thing if she didn't have a ton of money to spend on campaigns?
Consumer advisory: It's easy to charge people with conflicts of interest, but the charges often turn out to be speculative, false or unhelpful. When people complain about conflicts of interest, they are avoiding discussion of the substantive questions.
Hidden agenda
Rep. Smith argues in favor of restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions. The restrictions would impose big costs on the coal industry. You might object: Smith has a hidden agenda; he wants to kill the coal industry.
Consumer advisory: Most people's agendas aren't hidden. It's perfectly possible to support greenhouse-gas regulations without wanting to kill the coal industry (so long as the regulations are reasonable rather than draconian).
Rep. Taylor argues against recent food-safety regulations, contending that they will cause serious economic damage, especially to farmers. You might object: Taylor doesn't believe in regulation at all. He would have opposed the Clean Air Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, too.
Consumer advisory: It is a defining feature of snark (especially the lowest kind) to suggest that a narrow claim, about a particular proposal or policy, is really a much broader claim, and an absurd or alarming one. That's unfair. If people make a narrow or a qualified claim, there is no reason to attribute the broader one to them as well.
Sen. Burns supports a fiscal deal that allows funding for programs to which he recently expressed strong opposition. You might object: Burns has no guts; he is pandering to special interests.
Consumer advisory: Burns probably believes the deal is the best he can get. In American politics, most compromises reflect a form of principled pragmatism.
Sen. Young argues for increased tobacco taxes and also for educational measures to reduce childhood obesity. You might object: Young is an elitist; she doesn't trust us to make sensible decisions.
Consumer advisory: Nothing is inherently elitist about efforts to tax products that cause harm or to educate people about risks. Maybe Young is an elitist — who knows? — but an epithet isn't an argument.
Dumb priorities
Rep. Jacobs complains about discrimination on the basis of age. He says older people need to be protected, especially in the current economy. You might object: If we consider the economic challenges facing the United States today, age discrimination looks pretty minor. Doesn't Jacobs have a nutty set of priorities?
Consumer advisory: In all likelihood, Johnson agrees that other problems are more serious and more fundamental. But he also believes that age discrimination isn't a trivial matter and that it is feasible to address it. His beliefs may be wrong, but they should be assessed on the merits.
Those beliefs deserve a rebuttal, not contempt. That point is also the best response to the world's many purveyors of political snark.
Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, is the former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the co-author of "Nudge" and the author of "Simpler: The Future of Government."
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Larry Brooks of the Post wrote Friday of how good Bill Guerin would look to the right of Scott Gomez. Larry points out that the Islanders' captain will not drop his no-move clause if it means leaving the area (he's probably right, although I would not rule out Boston). While the captain has done everything he can for the Islanders, Guerin is not so emotionally linked to the franchise that a trade to the rival Rangers would be heresy.
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- A 2009 third round pick that becomes a second round pick if the Rangers advance to the Eastern Conference Final
My take: Guerin could give the Blueshirts the kick they need, but I'm fairly confident that's as much as the Rangers would offer. Highly doubtful the Islanders are getting a conditional first round pick from any team for Guerin. The Rangers have some leverage knowing Guerin determines his fate with the no-move.
Prucha has energy, hands and at age 26 would be a willing student under Scott Gordon. Give him a try and then decide if you want to re-sign him as a restricted free agent in the summer. If Prucha doesn't pass the test, you can add all this saved salary to the Komisarek Pool. The third (maybe second) round draft pick is more than the Islanders will get for Guerin when he bolts in the summer.
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"I am confident we can get our fiscal situation dealt with," Obama said at a news conference in Bangkok, where he began a three-nation trip. House Speaker John Boehner said Republicans are willing to put revenue on the table in exchange for spending cuts after Nov. 16 discussions with Obama, which he called "constructive."
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Dudamel is an excellent colorist . . . [his] colors are extremely vivid, and help with something else this conducting is very good at: maintaining great clarity of secondary lines, without muddying the primary melody. This is especially evident in the first movement her. Dudamel and the orchestra maintain a lovely, singing line through material that can otherwise seem merely introductory or transitional. Dudamel takes the movement's "Passions" as seriously as the earlier "dreams", perhaps even more so, with very strong accents and eruptive phrase launches in the more dynamic sections. The second-movement ball scene benefits from very flexible phrasing, and lots of feline portamento in the repeated opening material. The third movement is nicely bucolic . . . Then Dudamel and the LA Phil really take off in the "Marc to the Scaffold", everything crackling with energy and played with a jolly snarl (and repeat) . . . does your iPod need it? I would definitely say so.
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Angel's Envy Bourbon has no doubt been quite a success story. The company set themselves apart with a sourced (not distilled by Angel's Envy but procured) bourbon finished in port barrels. This easy drinking, fruity bourbon has won over a lot of folks, including me. I rated it a 9.3, which is an extremely high rating on my site. What I appreciated most about Angel's Envy Bourbon is the company took a pretty standard, "good" bourbon whiskey and made it FAR better than the sum of its parts through this finishing (a second aging) process.
So what does the company do for the next major release?
Angel's Envy has just answered that question with a new Rye Whiskey finished in Caribbean Rum casks. Offered at 100 proof, Angel's Envy Rye Whiskey begins with a sourced rye from Midwest Grain Products (MGP, formerly LDI). Unless you have been sleeping under a rock, or not paying attention, you've likely had an MGP rye in the form of Bulleit Rye, George Dickel Rye, or many other products on the shelves. MGP has built a name for producing unique bourbon and rye whiskeys that many independent bottlers are working overtime to make less unique.
Needless to say, a whiskey geek like me certainly looks forward to trying something like this. Here are my thoughts….
Angel's Envy Rye Whiskey, 50% abv (100 Proof), $70.00/bottle
Color: Light Amber
Nose: A trip to the islands. Brown sugar, Orange and grapefruit rind, candied pineapple, coconut cream, clove, and cinnamon with the green, fresh herbal and gin botanical spice notes ever present in MGP rye whiskeys. The rum influence is heavy handed, and I'd prefer something a bit more harmonious, but it's intriguing and completely unique. A splash of water brought out some lemon-lime soda (WTF?).
Palate: Creamy on the palate with spiced honey, brown sugar syrup, golden raisin, cinnamon, and a sweet rye notes. The rye spice is most prevalent on the palate.
Finish: The finish lingers moderately with a big return of the rum, tropical fruit sweetness, and green rye spice.
Overall: I haven't been more confused about a whiskey in a long time. In a world of sameness (all those other MGP ryes that taste VERY similar), it's nice to nose and sip something different. Angel's Envy Rye Whiskey certainly qualifies as "different". More similar to rye flavored rum from a profile perspective, I cannot say I have ever tasted a whiskey that's picked up more aroma and flavor from a finishing process. That's good and bad because the fresh, green rye notes fought the heavy, sweet rum influence from sniff to finish. I'd have preferred something a bit more harmonious and well integrated. One interesting little note – my lips and hands (dripped a little) smelled like I'd been drinking pina coladas all day. If you love (I mean LOVE) rum, and are looking for something totally different in the American Whiskey category – this one ticks all those buttons. I predict most will either love it or hate it, but give it a try and let me know what you think. It certainly has character (and a big price tag). Ahoy me hearties!
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Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Creamy Pancetta Pasta with Mushrooms & Parmesan
Creamy Pancetta Pasta with Mushrooms & Parmesan
Serves 4
400g papardelle or tagliatelle
100-200g cubed pancetta
175g chestnut mushrooms, wiped and finely sliced
225ml double cream ( I use half fat creme friache)
75g grated parmesan cheese
Freshly ground black pepper
Cook the pasta according to the packet instructions.
Meanwhile, put the pancetta in a medium pan over a medium to high heat. When it starts to go brown, add the mushrooms and cook for about 2-3 minutes, then add the double cream. Once the cream is hot, add the parmesan and stir together well.
Once the pasta is ready, drain and then return it to the pan. Add the creamy mixture and stir through well. Seaon with some pepper and sprinkle over more grated parmesan.
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- Gloria said...
Ni9ce to see you María, I love cookbooks too! are my lost!This look delicious María! gloria
- 8 November 2011 at 18:57
- Please Do Not Feed The Animals. said...
Maria - this is the kind of dish I would make again and again too - easy but comforting and yummy.
I like your new haul of books!
I have Short and Sweet but looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the others.
- 8 November 2011 at 19:15
- Brownieville Girl said...
Great haul!!
I'm trying not to buy any before Christmas - and then leave a long lish hanging around the house!!!!
Delicious looking pasta dish.
- 8 November 2011 at 20:47
- At Anna's kitchen table said...
I think I'd really like this Maria! I love my cookbooks too!
- 8 November 2011 at 21:15
- Mandy@Withmilkandflourt said...
Some of these books are definitely going on my Christmas wish list.
Creamy pasta dish sounds incredible!
- 13 November 2011 at 11:01
- Anne said...
I keep hearing good things about her book but am on a very strict no more buying phase!
The pasta looks gorgeous, exactly the kind of meal I love to eat!
- 14 November 2011 at 22:48
- Maggie said...
Great choice of cookbooks to keep you busy!
- 16 November 2011 at 10:20
- Maggie said...
Great choice of cookbooks Maria.
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The FOMC releases its minutes report from the most recent policy announcement meeting, and Fed chairman Bernanke also speaks this week, which will likely captivate investors who are looking for clues as to when the Fed might start to taper its stimulus program.
Equities: The SEP13 E-mini S&P 500 (CME:ESU13) is up 10 points today to 1637.25. We have a key level at 1623. The market looks very strong to us, considering it has tried now several times to stay below 1595 and could not do it. So now, we have 1623 as the key pivot level. If the market can stay above this level, we look for first 1644 to be hit, then 1650 to be approached. Ultimately, we do believe the market is headed higher this year. It seems as though the recent expanded volatility and even dip below 1600 was just the market trying to digest the important post-FOMC policy announcement discussion on the Fed tapering their bond-buying program. The economic numbers have been strong and we believe these numbers are the key drivers of the market's strength.
Bonds: The SEP13 U.S. 30-year bonds (CBOT:ZBU13) are up 19 ticks today on some light short-covering. This market got fairly over-extended as it almost broke the 132 handle. Now it is trading up 133'08. Our key pivot level is 132'26, and if the bonds can stay above this level they could head to the low 134′s. This market will be watching two key data points this week: the FOMC minutes as well as Bernanke's speech. We don't think the market will hear anything drastically different this time from Bernanke though.
Currencies: The Aussie dollar (FOREX:AUDUSD) is having a decent short-covering rally from the key 90.00 level. Today this market is up 61 ticks to 90.79. It looks like the 90 level was very good support, and we may be in for more gains. We have our next upside target for the Aussie at 91.38. The euro (FOREX:EURUSD) and the pound (FOREX:GBPUSD) are also seeing gains today against the USD. The U.S. Dollar Index (NYBOT:DXU13) is down 21 ticks to 84.49, while the Euro is up 33 ticks to 128.66 and the Pound is up 31 ticks to 149.24. We are watching the pound closely as we believe this currency is susceptible to more losses against the U.S. dollar. Our key pivot level is 148.90, and our next downside target is 147.10. The pound is having a small rally above this key pivot level this morning. If the Pound can find its way below 148.90, we look for this currency to fall further, potentially to 147.10.
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