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Obsessive compulsive disorder is one of the most difficult mental health disorders to survive with. It's characterized by a variety of intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) that take over your life and provide considerable amounts of anxiety and grief.
It's possible to live with just obsessions. For example a fear of being contaminated by germs may be considered an obsession, and may not have any noticeable compulsive aspect. However, many of those with germ fears wash their hands numerous times a day to compensate, and this may be the way their compulsion manifests.
There are thousands of possible obsessions and fears, and thousands of different types of compulsions. But the basis of the disorder is severe stress and anxiety over these obsessions that drives the need to perform compulsive actions.
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Understanding Obsessions
Obsessions are often the hardest issue to understand. Obsessions are thought based, and the most clear component of an obsession is a negative thought that you simply cannot shake. Generally the thought is focused and unyielding, although it may present itself in different forms. Examples of obsessions include:
- Fearing the effects of dirt, germs, or illness.
- Worried about someone harming you, or you harming others.
- Worried about whether someone else will be harmed, not by you.
- Unwanted impulses to hurt others or worry over uncontrollable aggression.
- Visions or images of horrific things.
- Unwanted, recurring sexual thoughts – often of an taboo or religiously unacceptable nature.
- Feels of disorder – the need for things to show some type of order/symmetry.
Remember, the key is "negative" thoughts, not necessarily obsessions in the traditional sense. The obsession may not be over a person or an action, but rather the inability to shake a thought or a need. Requiring symmetry is an example – the need to organize something or put something in a specific order may be overwhelming, but the thought isn't inherently bad. It's the inability to control the thought that makes it an obsession.
Those with OCD may not only have one obsession either. You may have multiple obsessions that occur at random whenever you encounter the nature of that obsession. You may also have obsessions you don't even realize you have. For example, you may find yourself checking the stove 10 times in a row because you want to make sure you didn't leave it on, but you may not realize that you're having that thought unless someone mentions it to you.
Understanding Compulsions
Unlike obsessions, which are thought based, compulsions are behavior based. They're physical/behavioral responses that you can't seem to control. You're compelled to do them, and if you don't, you may experience severe stress that forces you to keep doing it.
Imagine the old childhood phrase "don't step on the crack or you'll fall and break your back." Someone with OCD may have this belief, and the compulsion will be stepping a certain way to avoid cracks. If someone with compulsions does step on a crack, they may find themselves going back and starting over so as to avoid the crack in the future.
Nearly anything can be a compulsion, but some examples of compulsions include:
- Ritualized cleaning.
- Re-ordering or re-arranging rituals.
- Touching certain types of objects whenever you see them.
- Repeating completed activities.
- Hoarding.
- Checking and rechecking things.
- Counting objects, or simply counting inside your head.
Most compulsions are directly observable, because they're behaviors designed to rid yourself of the obsessive thought. But the compulsion may be a bit deeper than that. Counting, for example, may take place in thought form rather than in a visibly observable way.
How Are Obsessions Created?
Obsession causes are not well understood. It's thought that obsessions may be the result of flawed moral thinking or a type of phobia. There is also most likely a chemical component in the brain that contributes as well, such as serotonin. It may also be the nature of generalized anxiety – which can in some cases cause negative thinking or unexpected worries.
Numerous studies have shown that those that try not to think of something end up thinking about it more than those that don't try. For example, if someone asked you not to think about a white sock, and someone told someone else to think about a white sock, the person told NOT to think about it would probably think about it more often. That's because it takes a lot of brain power to not think about something, and in order to remind yourself not to think about something you have to think about it.
With that in mind, it's possible that obsessions are also the result of trying too hard not to have a negative thought. This causes the thought to come up more often, which causes greater fear in the individual about the validity of the negative thought.
There is no limit to the number of obsessions a person can have, and obsessions can always be developed later. Some obsessions may also be attributed to images a person wishes they could forget (such as witnessing a death), while others may have no basis in experience.
How Are Compulsions Created?
Compulsions are a bit easier to understand, and have their basis in a behavioral learning theory known as "negative reinforcement." Negative reinforcement is when some sort of action or behavior takes a bad thing away. For example, if a dog has a thorn in its paw and whines, and you come and you take the thorn out of their paw so they feel better, then the dog knows the next time it has a thorn in its paw it should whine faster to get you to respond. It learns that when it whines, you come and take the bad thing away.
Human beings may not be as simple as dogs, but behavioral reinforcement works in a very similar way. With compulsions, the person performs some sort of behavior (possibly at random, possibly for a reason based on the obsession – such as hand washing from germ fears) and they find the negative thought goes away, or at least reduces their anxiety. They then do the behavior again, and find that their thought goes away again. Pretty soon they find themselves doing the behavior every time they have the obsession, and at some point, they may even find themselves doing the behavior even when they're not having the obsessive thought at all.
There are countless ways that these obsessions and compulsions can take shape:
- Obsession: Something bad will happen to someone - Compulsion: Checking on them constantly.
- Obsession: Fear of germs or contamination - Compulsion: Washing hands regularly.
- Obsession: Fear of losing objects of value or memories - Compulsion: Hoarding all of your stuff.
- Obsession: Feelings of worthlessness - Compulsion: Muttering or praying.
- Obsession: Worried about making mistakes - Compulsion: Repeating tasks numerous times.
- Obsession: Feeling the world is dirty/disorganized - Compulsion: Organizing and rearranging objects.
Also, because of the nature of these compulsions and behaviors, it's just as possible to have compulsions that appear to make no sense at all.
Can You Be Predisposed to OCD?
While there doesn't appear to be a gender or race preference to obsessive compulsive disorder, there does appear to be a heredity factor for developing OCD. Those with family members that have obsessive compulsive disorder appear to be more likely to experience it than the rest of the population. Estimates put the number of people suffering from some form of obsessive compulsive disorder at near 2.5%, although not all of those cases require clinical intervention.
It's possible that obsessive compulsive disorder also shares other genetic pathways with other mental health issues. Those with OCD tend to be more likely to suffer from other conditions, such as major depression, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobia, panic disorder and substance abuse.
However, just because you may be predisposed to obsessive compulsive disorder does not mean that it's something that can't be cured. The good news about all mental health disorders is that with the right treatment you can find relief.
Treatments for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Several treatment options are available for those living with OCD. Two of the most well-known treatments include:
Exposure and Response Prevention
Exposure and response prevention course is the common treatment standard for OCD cases. This specific technique attempts to help patients gradually learn how to put up with their own obsessive thoughts without performing the ritual or compulsive behavior. It is based on the idea that when the client suffers from their thoughts, they learn to stop withdrawing to their escape response (the compulsion).
It also acts on the principle that by allowing themselves to focus on the thought rather than try to fight it, the thought loses its power. Variations of exposure therapy play a role in several other anxiety disorders as well, including PTSD.
Cognitive-Biobehavioral Self-Treatment
Cognitive-Biobehavioral self-treatment is another approach to combatting OCD. It utilizes several anxiety-reduction principles, and a four step strategy to reduce their tendencies towards obsessions and compulsions. The steps are as follows:
This step requires a technique known as "mindful awareness." It's a conscious recognition that the intrusive thoughts and compulsive urges are the symptoms of a mental health disorder, and not something that someone thinks is natural. The client will re-label their thoughts as obsessions and their urges as compulsions, in order to call them what they really are and ensure that they realize that neither their thoughts nor their compulsions are something they can't control. This technique teaches acknowledgement of the problem in order to improve the overall outcome.
The re-attributing step of the process is to learn to train yourself to recognize that your thoughts and urges are caused by your OCD, and not by any internal desires. It's very similar to the first step, in that it's meant to give you clarity over the cause of your problem. The difference is that with this type of awareness, the hope is that you will be able to stop yourself when you're having an obsessive thought or compulsive behavior, and be able to say to yourself "this is just my OCD." Both the relabeling process and the reattribution process are often performed together.
The refocus exercise involves replacing rituals and compulsions with more constructive/pleasant behaviors. At its heart it is still a ritual, much like other compulsions, but the goal of this exercise is to provide you with a ritual that acts as a distraction, rather than a compulsion designed to stop the obsessions. Examples of these behaviors include reading, exercising, knitting, walking, or listening to music. By changing the ritual to one that distracts your mind, your obsessions should decrease without a corresponding negative behavior.
The final step of the Cognitive-Biobehavioral Self-Treatment exercise for OCD involves lowering the importance you give to your obsessions and compulsions. Many of those suffering from OCD give too much value to their thoughts and actions. They'll have an intrusive, negative thought and think it reflects on them, trying to hide the thought and fight it and losing their self-worth in the process.
This step teaches the idea that thoughts are just thoughts, and the compulsions are nothing more than a response to the thought. It focuses on the idea that these are not reflective of you as a person, and the importance you give them is more than they deserve.
Other Treatments for OCD
There are several other treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder available as well. Success rate isn't just based on the overall success rate for the type of treatment. The success rate is also based on you and your personality. That is why you shouldn't give up – everyone living with OCD can be cured, but finding the right treatment may take time, especially because every treatment you decide to use requires a long term commitment.
I've helped people overcome their OCD and their anxieties. I start them with my free 7 minute anxiety test. The test is designed to look at your symptoms, get an idea of your anxiety, and use it to create treatment choices.
March, John S. Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for children and adolescents with OCD: A review and recommendations for treatment. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (1995).
Saxena, Sanjaya, et al. Neuroimaging and frontal-subcortical circuitry in obsessive-compulsive disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry (1998).
March, John S., and Karen Mulle Friesen. OCD in children and adolescents: A cognitive-behavioral treatment manual. The Guilford Press, 1998.
Samuels, Jack F., et al. Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study. Behaviour research and therapy 45.4 (2007): 673.
Nestadt, Gerald, et al. The identification of OCD-related subgroups based on comorbidity. Biological psychiatry 53.10 (2003): 914-920.
Author: Micah Abraham, BSc Psychology, last updated Sep 28, 2017.


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This early embroidered view of Harvard Hall at Harvard College shows the second building of that name, built in 1676 but destroyed by fire in 1764. Some of the architectural details of that building are confused with nearby Stoughton Hall in this rendition.1 The embroiderer also replaced the cupola with a swarming bee-hive and a variation upon a quotation from Virgil which roughly translates as "They keep out drones from these premises."2
Based upon this quotation which he found used in reference to Harvard among the Leverett family papers, Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison in 1933 hypothesized that the piece was worked by Mary Leverett as a gift for her second husband.3 Mary Leverett, the daughter and granddaughter of Harvard presidents, was born in the old parsonage in Cambridge where her father, John Leverett, served as pastor until his election to the Harvard presidency in 1708. She married her cousin Major John Denison of Ipswich in 1719, but he died five years later, and she was remarried in 1728 to another cousin, the Reverend Nathaniel Rogers, also of Ipswich. Both husbands were Harvard graduates. Although only fifty-five at her death, she survived all but three of her two Denison and eight Rogers children.
The piece is worked in the basic half-cross stitch or tent stitch, a decorative thread crossing diagonally the intersecting threads of the linen. The two large putti holding the beehive aloft are done in a technique resembling the stump work popular in the seventeenth century in which forms are padded or raised to produce a three-dimensional effect. The red color of the bricks contrasts richly with the narrow strip of blue, cloud-streaked sky and the dark roof.
1. Hamilton Vaughan Bail. Views of Harvard: A Pictorial Record to 1860. Cambridge, Mass., 1949, p.23.
2. Samuel Eliot Morison. "Needlework Picture Representing a Colonial College Building." Old-Time New England 24 (1933), p.68.
3. Ibid., pp.68-70.
4. John Langdon Sibley and Clifford K. Shipton. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass., and Boston, 1873-1975, 5:527, 6:557.
5. Hope Hanley. Needlepoint in America. New York, 1969, p.24.

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Malissa Ferraro, 42, died at 6:45 p.m. at the scene of the wreck on FM 350.
According to the DPS report, Ferraro was driving a 1981 BMW southbound on FM 350, 5.3 miles south of U.S. 59, at 5:39 p.m. when she left the road and struck a tree.
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Probably one of the fastest growing games in the world, it seems that everyone wants to play lacrosse. The Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee will field a team at the World Outdoor Championship Games to be played this summer in Denver (July 9-19). In 2015 they will host 16-18 countries competing in the Indoor Box Lacrosse League on their home turf near Syracuse, New York. Their boys will be on the field with their flag, their anthem, and their colors against USA, Canada, and England, all those good old boys they have known for 500 years.
Oren Lyons, the Honorary Chairman of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team, and world renowned advocate for Native American and indigenous peoples around the globe, presented the 2014 Annual Elizabeth Watts and Howard C. Petersen Lecture at the Penn Museum last week as the inaugural guest speaker for our new exhibition – Native American Voices: The People – Here and Now. He explained that there are two kinds of lacrosse – games for fun, and games for healing, both called Deyhontsigwa'ehs (translated roughly from the Iroquois language as "we bump hips"). He spoke eloquently about the less familiar, medicine game and its sacred role in the community today.
"In the Spring we have a ceremony. We open it when the sap begins to move in the maple, generally in February. Maple is the leading tree of our cosmology. When that sap starts to move, the blood starts to move in our men, and they are getting ready for the game. The game is open now. When the sap finishes running we will close that ceremony."
Holding a 170 year old Cayuga lacrosse stick in Penn Museum's collection, he offered…"So this stick was made for somebody. I have no idea who, but somebody was not well and they called for a game. When that happens, when you call for a game, immediately it will go to a leader and an elder who will call in a speaker who will announce that we have a game. The word will go out to the players, and the community goes into full action. The women have a great deal to do with this game – they handle the feast side of it. If you are having a game for someone it will be a feast and a spiritual event. Everything has to be made that day including the ball. So you put the word out. We usually play 3, the first to 3 goals wins, and that's the old style. No referees, no whistles, no nothing. You play fair, and you play hard. The harder you play the better it is for the person you are playing for. You represent the spiritual side of things. Everyone who picks up a stick is moving into a spiritual arena – our people love that medicine game. We played about 18 games last year at Onondaga."
This stick here, I saw sometime back around 1998 when we were looking at your Museum and at what you had in your collections and I saw this. It's from 1840, not that old, but I saw it was a medicine stick – made for somebody who called for a game. I know because it has a ball here at this end, and I looked at the handshake, and I knew it was made for somebody. And if you look at it, it looks a little different that those used today. This was designed for big fields. I made a stick like this just to see what it was for, and I found out you could throw 150-200 yards with this – it was designed for lonnnng fields. Today the fields are short and sticks are short, designed for short passes…So this was made for somebody. I have no idea who, but somebody was not well and they called for a game…Before the game they build a fire and speak on behalf of the person it is for and all the players lay their stick on the fire and he will talk about why this game and why this tree is involved, why this lacing which represents all the animals in this world, how they serve the people and their duties. This is about the responsibility we have for this earth. Because this is representing the spiritual side. When the game is over the ball is the medicine – you don't know where it's going. You do your best to get it in the net or the goal. But the ball is the medicine and it is made that day from the leather of the deer. When the game is over, the ball is given to the person and they become part now of the society. They have a responsibility for the next person that is coming, the next person who asks.
So that's what this stick was for. I don't know the person it was for, but at one time it served a very strong purpose for an individual."
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Scandal of Catholic "Pro-Choice"
Politicians Must Come to End
Fr. Frank Pavone and Priests for Life Applaud
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Fr. Frank Pavone, International Director of Priests for Life and an official
of the Pontifical Council for the Family at the Vatican, applauded the document
released by the U.S. Catholic Bishops, "Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge
to American Catholics," the purpose of which is to bring even more clarity to,
among other things, the Church's long-standing position on Catholic politicians
and abortion. In a statement from Rome today, Fr. Pavone said:
"For those who are Catholic, there can no longer be any doubt: There is
simply no way to be Catholic and "Pro-Choice," when the choice in question
involves the taking of innocent life. Those who hold that there is more than one
Catholic position on abortion are mistaken and need to stop misleading others.
"In reality, the Catholic position is the only position that promotes
authentic human freedom of choice. It recognizes that 'Choice' has an obligation
to 'Truth.' If Catholics want to govern, then let them govern all the people---
that includes the youngest members of the human family.
"In the course of my travels throughout the United States, few questions have
been asked of me with such urgency and consistency than that of how to address
the scandal of politicians who call themselves Catholic, and yet permit the
legal destruction of innocent babies.
"Priests for Life has addressed this question in the past in communion with
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cooperation of thousands of our priest members throughout the country to see
that this document is known and applied."
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From John Thompson's Georgetown Hoyas to John Wooden's UCLA Bruins, Dell Presents College Basketball's 10 Greatest Teams counts down the 10 best teams to ever set foot on the basketball hardwood. College basketball legends appearing in the show include UCLA's John Wooden, Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, Grant Hill and Christian Laettner, Georgetown's John Thompson and Patrick Ewing, North Carolina's Dean Smith, Indiana's Bob Knight and Quinn Buckner, and the University of San Francisco's Bill Russell and KC Jones. In order to choose the 10 greatest teams, ballots were sent to a select panel of 300 voters representing four different groups - the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, Division I Athletic Directors and prominent members of the media. This DVD collectible is the perfect gift for the college basketball enthusiast in your life! Running time is approximately 45 minutes.
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This is the time of year when storekeepers have visions of shoplifters dancing in their heads. And this is why: * Almost half of the average $24 billion a year in shoplifting losses occur between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
* 50,000 people a day will be caught stealing about $8 million in merchandise and food during the season, according to Shoplifters' Anonymous International in Acton, Pa.
* Shoplifting ''for need'' (rather than for the ''fun'' of it) is expected to rise sharply this Christmas season because of widespread US job layoffs.
* Approximately 6 percent of annual gross sales by retailers go to cover inventory losses and the cost of preventing and prosecuting shoplifters, according to the Atlanta-based National Coalition to Prevent Shoplifting.
Until recently, the costly battle to prevent shoplifting was left mostly to retailers. But now, women's groups, judges, Parent-Teacher Associations, prosecutors, educators, and merchants are beginning to cry out against the crime that eventually costs consumers about $400 per household annually.
Many shoplifters ''just yield to the urge to get something for nothing,'' but Shoplifters' Anonymous director Lawrence Conner says others get depressed because ''they can't conform to the standards society has set for this time of year - which is to buy presents.''
Seventy-five percent of all shoplifters are ''soft core,'' Mr. Conner says. He counsels shoplifters that ''it isn't worth the risk'' of embarrassment and a criminal record. Since courts are unlikely to actually lock up a shoplifter - especially a first offender - local courts send convicted shoplifters to him for rehabilitation.
The Shoplifters's Anonymous program, which is available on cassette to criminal US justice systems, boasts a low 1 percent recidivism rate.
Michigan, hard-hit by auto industry layoffs, is experiencing a rapid increase in store theft, despite the efforts of an aggressive statewide coalition fighting the problem. The group, a chapter of the National Coalition to Prevent Shoplifting, was formed this year following a 25 percent rise in the crime in Michigan between 1979 and 1980. One coalition aim is to encourage businesses to prosecute shoplifters. ''It's fine to tell kids that shoplifting is a crime,'' says director Barbara Wallace, a volunteer, ''but if merchants don't follow through, you're giving kids a wholly different message.''
In Philadelphia, a new Shoplifters' Court is devoting one day each week exclusively to retail theft cases. Frances Paciotti, program director of the PENJERDEL (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware) Retail Council, says retailers, especially small-store owners, can't afford to send employees to court to testify in shoplifting cases because cases are often delayed for days due to heavy court dockets. Shoplifters' Court (actually not an additional court, but just a new way of scheduling cases) will make testifying less time-consuming, and may encourage retailers to prosecute.
Shoplifters' Anonymous counsels those with little money to spend at Christmastime to substitute love and togetherness for store-bought presents.
''I know it sounds corny . . . but we suggest they revert to an old-fashioned Christmas,'' Conner says. Family members might refinish a piece of furniture, write a poem, bake something special, or wrap gifts in the Sunday comics instead of expensive wrapping paper. He says people write him to say they've had the most memorable Christmas ever. ''They can buck the trend and still have a good Christmas.''


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Elizabeth Olsen Doesn't Have 'Avengers: Infinity War' Spoilers: 'They Decided To Not Give Us Scripts'
Don't even bother asking Elizabeth Olsen for spoilers on Avengers: Infinity War – she's got nothing!
While making an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday evening (August 3) in New York City, the 28-year-old actress revealed just how secretive the Marvel universe has become.
"I think I signed a lot of things before I joined. This time, they actually decided to not give us scripts," Elizabeth admitted to host Stephen. "They gave me my pages and then they explained other things that are happening."
Elizabeth added that she'll be just as "shocked and surprised" as the average fan. "I'll be like, 'Oh, I see! That's what was happening to the world at that time!'" she laughed.
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Jimi Statue
Our friend and awesome singer-songwriter Brian Fitzpatrick from Jersey, is in Dublin where he posted a photo of the Phil Lynott statue (Thin Lizzy), wondering why more artists are not celebrated in statue form stateside, specifically mentioning the absence of a Joey Ramone statue in NYC. We agree with Brian: Europe seems to celebrate its artists more than we do here in the U.S. and we wonder why? Do they value the arts more across the pond? Without getting into the related political issues, lack of funding for the National Endowment of the Arts or even wondering why, at such a relatively low cost, there aren't more saucy gents out there who'd be willing to commission such landmarks celebrating the artists who were so (pun, comin' atcha) instrumental in putting our municipalities on the larger map. The Jimi Hendrix statue proudly sits on Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, at Broadway and Pine, right across from Seattle Central Community College. So we looked online for some photos of it, in the handful of ways we've seen it over the years, to celebrate it here. Okay, that's it. How many ways can one statue be shown? Jimi was a local boy done good, we celebrate him, the brilliant and prolific catalog of music he gave us in such a short time, and appreciate that the world was fortunate enough to have him at all. Naturally, we wonder what might have been. Ultimately, rather than speculate what Jimi may have given us in these last 40 years, we celebrate the amazing stuff he gave us in just four. Oh - here's Brian with the Phil Lynott statue, the original inspiration for this goofy post. Thanks, buddy!
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
5 Things We Like Right Now
We're checking in here to throw some of our favorite new stuff atcha. Check these artists out: 1. JD McPherson. Oklahoma guy, caught the interest of our old Chicago homeboy,original Mighty Blue King and Four Charm, Jimmy Sutton, who produced the record and plays bass. 2. Gary Clark Jr.. The present and future of Texas Blues, a complete and total animal. On the guitar. We don't know Gary personally, but we'll assume he's a perfectly nice dude when he's not making a guitar his bitch. 3. Dr. John - dude put out his best album is 30, 40 years this year. Produced by Black Keys' guitarist Dan Auerbach, this is one fine set of fresh music. 4. Jack White. He may be the most prolific if not interesting and commanding artist of the modern era. First, he played bass in the Detroit cowpunk lounge act Goober & the Peas. Then, he formed the raucous and bluesy 2-piece White Stripes with his ex-wife, Meg, who was billed as his sister. Then came the Raconteurs, then the Dead Weather. Along the way, he formed Third Man Records which puts out tons of vinyl by artists ranging from the legendary to the relative unknown, and they host crazy in-store shows at their flagship store in Nashville. His first solo album came out a couple months ago and it might be the Album of the Year. 5. Alabama Shakes. Blues-rock and Southern soul at its finest, right here. Okay, we said 5 things we like but we really meant 6. See how we're always goin' the extra mile for ya, under-promisin', over-deliverin'? Please, please, don't applaud, just throw money! 6. Kelly Hogan is probably best known among the uninitiated as a prominent member of Neko Case's band, but for those of us lucky enough to have stumbled upon her special voice, she's been unwittingly singin' us to sleep for the last 15 years. This is not her first solo album, but it will prove to be her mainstream breakthrough. It's that good. With assists from such stalwarts as Robbie Fulks, M. Ward, Jon Langford, John Wesley Harding, Vic Chesnutt, Booker T. Jones, and the unsung hero of the thing, our old friend Scott Ligon, we can't say enough, other than BUY IT NOW. Blues, real R&B, and Americana are at a relative high right now. There's so much good stuff out there that involves people writing their own stuff, bending strings, hitting things with sticks, pounding on ivory, blowing through brass, stomping on the floor and belting out their souls... and it ain't hard to find. You just gotta wanna find it. Hope to see you in a sweaty club soon, be it ours or somewhere else.
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iSuppli Corp. on Thursday released a breakdown of the materials contained in the new US$1,299 Intel iMac, coming to the conclusion that it contains $873 worth of parts. Unsurprisingly, the most expensive item is the Intel Core Duo processor, estimated to cost $265, with a $45 Intel mobile 945 core-logic chipset supporting it.
iSuppli senior analyst Andrew Rassweiler noted that those two items account for 35% of the BOM (bill of materials) cost in the new iMac. Other major integrated circuits in the computer include a $30 northbridge for the ATI Radeon X1600 video card and $20 for GDDR SDRAM (256Mbit x 4) from Samsung. The iMac also carries a $25 manufacturing and test cost above the $873 worth of parts.
iSuppli also identified other major parts in the new computer, including a 17-inch wide-format LCD panel from LG Phillips and a 160GB SATA hard drive from Maxtor. The complete breakdown analysis is $3,500.


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These pics are just showing the plug. I still have to make the mold.
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Giversome, on 29 August 2011 - 09:17 PM, said:
These pics are just showing the plug. I still have to make the mold.
Cool! How did you end up with that thing? Did you actually make it?? I've got a 96 that I race, so you never know... should you end up pounding out a few, I'll probably end up getting one.
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groulxs, on 31 August 2011 - 06:34 PM, said:
I Chopped, channeled, and faired everything in until it looked somewhat descent. It was a rush job from the begining. I started the project this time last year hoping to be done by last riding season. Initially I planned for dual headlights instead of the standard 1, next time maybe.
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Giversome, on 31 August 2011 - 09:25 PM, said:
Looks great! Nice work.
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JRK5892, on 10 December 2011 - 12:14 PM, said:
The mold was completed in October. I finished laminating the part in the mold two weeks ago. Until I separate the new hood from the mold I have no idea how it is going to look. If it comes out of the mold looking good, and someone wants one than maybe I will sell. There is a good chance the hood might not pop from the mold, and all is for nothing.
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Fingers crossed...
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Thank you. It took many hours here and there over a year now. Most of the work was done outside during the warmer month's of the last couple summers. It was my most challenging fiberglass project so far, mostly because it had to be as close to perfect as possible no excuses.
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Delow, on 18 February 2012 - 10:38 PM, said:
If the fit and finish on the ZR is good, and I can find a way to produce the hood easier, and faster than maybe it will be available. Slow cure resin, and vacuum bagging might be the answer. I would rather do lexan over fiberglass, but I don't think my mold will work with that process yet. I would like to put vents where the gages go. Haven't decided which ones. The 4" round vents might work so I could swap in the gages if I wanted.
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JRK5892, on 23 February 2012 - 12:23 PM, said:
Thank you. Only problem is the rest of the sled now needs an upgrade to match the hood. Your machine looks real good with the seat upgrade. I will have to do something in the seat department for looks as well as comfort.
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for comfort it is awesome!!!! put on over 150 miles a day over the weekend and had no problem at all!
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Real Madrid coach Rafa Benitez has taken the time to praise Jese Rodriguez in the wake of a 3-0 win over Levante on Saturday and has urged the 22-year-old to make the most of his chances.
Jese featured from the start in Madrid's Liga opener against Sporting Gijon, but then remained on the bench in their next three games as Benitez was allegedly unhappy with his training attitude.
The attacker got 20 minutes of playing time in the match at home to Levante and capped a fine outing with his first goal of the season.
"Jese was much closer to what we all expect of him," Benitez told the official Madrid website.
"He's a player with quality and talent and he has to make the most of his chances. That's the way it is at Real Madrid; the demands are really high and all his team-mates are very good.
"He has to work the way he did against Levante, penetrating defences, and do that continually. It's very positive for me and for every Real Madrid fan. He has to keep that up because there is a lot of competition.
"There were several positives: seven academy products on the bench and the odd one on the pitch, the entrances of Lucas [Vazquez] and Jese that injected energy, speed and penetration, and Marcos Llorente's debut. A lot of positive aspects in the assessment of the game and the team is up at the top of the table."
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President Donald Trump's budget blueprint, released Thursday, promises big money but offers few details for the Peninsula's biggest economic motors — shipbuilding and the military. But it also proposes cuts that would be felt immediately and that indicate how closely federal spending is woven into daily life here.
The biggest increase, $54 billion for the Department of Defense, includes a commitment to expand the fleet, but no specifics on timing or mention of the promise he made in his visit to Newport News Shipbuilding for a 12th aircraft carrier, up one from the current fleet.
And among the cuts is the complete elimination of federal support for Chesapeake Bay cleanup.
"It's truly a mixed bag," said Craig Quigley, executive director of the Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance. "There are some plus-ups and some reductions."
On the plus side for the economy, in addition to ship construction, the budget promises increases in maintenance for ships and aircraft, he said. The budget also calls for hiring medical staff at Veterans Administration facilities like the center in Hampton.
On the negative side, part of the 12 percent cut for the Department of Interior is coming in maintenance for national parks and monuments, which could hit Fort Monroe and the Colonial National Historic Park. The nearly 16 percent cut from the Commerce Department hits the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hard, particularly ocean research efforts that include operations in Norfolk and Chesapeake, he said.
While NASA got by with a 0.2 percent cut, the cuts it will see come in education and earth science programs, including the CLARREO Pathfinder program for the International Space Station to produce accurate climate records. The budget also ends the $1.35 billion Asteroid Redirect Mission, or ARM, which aimed to place a multi-ton boulder from an asteroid in orbit around the moon, giving NASA experience for deep-space missions.
The blueprint also proposes a $900 million cut in the Energy Department's Office of Science, which, among other things, funds Jefferson Labs.
Awaiting details
Translating the budget blueprint into dollars and cents at this early stage is hard to do, even for those with the most at stake.
"We are pleased that the president is continuing to invest in tomorrow's Navy," said Newport News Shipbuilding spokeswoman Christie Miller. "This the first step in a long and complex process, and therefore it would be premature to speculate on possible outcomes and impacts."
"It's kind of a double-edged sword for us — there's increased defense spending and looks like there's two camps on a BRAC round in '19 or '21. ... With defense, we don't know where that's headed, and that's the good news," said Newport News Mayor McKinley Price, referring to the periodic review of which military bases should remain open.
The bad news, he added, is clearer — a lengthy list of programs, from the block grants Newport News and other cities use to fund a wide range of programs for the needy, to funds for economic development, to support minority businesses and to tackle sea level rise. One Department of Housing and Urban Development program the city was hoping might provide as much as $30 million for a major renovation of the Southeast Community would disappear under the Trump budget, he said.
"It's like they're taking from those who are in need," Price said.
Margaret Nimmo Holland, executive director of Voices for Virginia's Children, said she's worried about cuts to already-reduced federal programs for youth, in tandem with the caps on Medicaid spending proposed in Affordable Care Act replacement legislation Trump is backing. She fears it will force Virginia to choose who gets priority for Medicaid-funded health care — children, people with disabilities or indigent residents of nursing homes.
"It's not good, it's not good," said Karen Wilds, executive director of the Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
Trump's proposal to eliminate HUD's $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program cuts funds the authority uses to support Transitions Family Violence Services, the Boys and Girls Club branches in public housing, the Peninsula Area Agency on Aging's Meals on Wheels program and Menchville House Ministries' shelter for homeless women.
Wilds said funds for renovating public housing, like the work now underway at Marshall Courts, could be at risk, as well as the money that funds Section 8 rent subsidies for low-income families, which aids 2,500 in the city.
Hampton Mayor Donnie Tuck said he's worried about cuts to education, as well as the $1.8 million to $1.9 million the city receives in HUD block grants, which it uses to support Habitat for Humanity and housing rehab programs citywide.
"That's the equivalent of two cents on the real estate tax rate," he said.
Trump's budget cuts a number of education programs, including elimination of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program. These after-school programs operate in both Newport News and Hampton.
Hampton schools alone got $1.5 million from the program in 2016. Nationally, the program costs about $1.2 billion a year, and the administration said in its budget outline that it "lacks strong evidence of meeting its objectives, such as improving student achievement."
In Newport News, the program serves 361 students in grades three through eight at Carver Elementary, Jenkins Elementary, Sedgefield Elementary and Hines Middle School, offering them six additional hours of instruction and learning each week with after-school and Saturday programming. The students receive tutoring and hands-on educational experiences, and participate in field trips and college tours.
Political reactions
John Fredericks, the Hampton Roads talk radio host who was Trump's Virginia vice chairman during the campaign, called the proposal "a revolutionary first budget" that makes good on campaign promises.
The budget doesn't hit Medicare or Social Security, Fredericks said, it reinvests in the military and shrinks the nonmilitary federal workforce.
"That is the best news of this budget," Fredericks said. "We have to stop the continual growth of federal employees."
The fact-checking organization PolitiFact reviewed the Trump administration's claim that there has been a "dramatic expansion of the federal workforce in recent years" and found it to be mostly false. Office of Personnel Management records show that the federal workforce has hovered right around 2 million for decades, PolitiFact reported.
Fredericks said the budget shows that Trump is "attempting to execute real reform and real change" and should make supporters smile.
"If you're a Trump supporter, this budget is a bonanza," he said.
But Sen. Mark Warner complained the budget includes "many short-sighted choices that if implemented could actually harm our country's strength and long-term growth."
Warner, a key player on the Senate Budget and Finance committees, said he is upset by deep cuts in early childhood education, job training, scientific research and protection of the Chesapeake Bay.
And although the budget calls for increased defense spending, Warner said it did not address the effect the across-the-board spending cuts in recent years have had on the military and national security.
"The budget also shows President Trump intends to keep treating federal employees as a punching bag, while in reality these workers are patriotic Americans who keep our government running," said Sen. Tim Kaine. More than 170,000 Virginians work for the federal government.
The budget also eliminates funds for the Sea Grant program, which funds research and education at seven Virginia universities, including the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point and Old Dominion University in Norfolk.
National security worries
Kaine, a member of both the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, said he supports the Trump administration's commitment to investments in defense but added that the 28 percent cut to the State Department jeopardizes national security. It could also hit the Virginia-based organizations that have U.S. Agency for International Development contracts worth more than $1 billion a year.
"While the administration's 'Budget Blueprint for 2018' does increase the base defense budget, I'm concerned that the modest increase may not provide adequate funding to restore our military's readiness and could lead to a situation where we are letting budgets dictate our strategy, said Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Westmoreland, chairman of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee.
And instead of Trump's proposal to cut all funding for the Chesapeake Bay cleanup, Wittman said he wanted to see the program funded at least to last year's level of $73 million, adding that his 2014 legislation to increase coordination and transparency in Chesapeake restoration efforts showed there is wide support for a federal role in maintaining the health of the bay. He said he'll push hard for that funding.
"I am particularly disappointed by the total elimination of funding to clean up the Chesapeake Bay," Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam said. "As an Eastern Shore native, I know protecting the bay has both economic and environmental impacts."
Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Virginia would be especially hard-hit by ending federal support for cleaning up the bay, eliminating the Appalachian Regional Commission and deeply cutting the number of federal government workers, many of whom live in Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia.
"Spending Americans' hard-earned tax dollars on an unnecessary and impractical border wall is political pandering that will divert resources and focus from homeland security functions that actually work," McAuliffe said.
Warner, Kaine and McAuliffe are all Democrats.
"This budget proposal is yet another broken promise from the administration to the American people. Cutting $54 billion from programs that help protect and support working families to learn and earn is no way to grow the national economy or put people back to work," said Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, D-Newport News.
"President Trump's budget proposal eliminates and reduces vital programs for students, teachers and workers that will endanger public education, make college less affordable and reduce the availability of workforce training," Scott said.
Rep. Scott Taylor, R-Virginia Beach, did not respond to a request for comment.
Staff writers Travis Fain and Tamara Dietrich contributed to this report. Ress can be reached by phone at 757-247-4535.


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iPhone 2G is the original iPhone that came out in 2007. The latest firmware version is 3.1.3. And Apple discontinued support for the iPhone in any future iPhone firmware versions. This means that your iPhone 2G can be unlocked forever. Below are step-by-step guide to unlock your iPhone 2G OS version 3.1.3
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This volume represents a stimulating collaboration by economists, ethicists, political scientists, demographers, and ecologists from around the world. By focusing on the implications for future generations and the people of developing countries, the editors provide an alternative to standard approaches that have concentrated on the short-term solutions consumers or markets are willing to support. The book illustrates that issues of equity can be applied to global environmental problems as well as taking a more central role in economic theory. It contends that new developments in social-choice theory offer a better foundation than traditional welfare economics.
After reconnecting neo-classical economic theory to moral philosophy, these essays systematically describe the real challenges of global environmental economics and politics in a world of future uncertainties. Putting equity - intranational, transnational and intergenerational - at the center of analyses does not make the answers easier, but it does make their pursuit realistic and potential application more effective. Richard B. Norgaard, Professor of Energy and Resources and of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley "This volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature by providing a unified theoretical background to the topic in addition to specific representative applications. The presentation of both vertical and horizontal equity is unique in that this volume pulls together ideas that lead to the recognition that one form of equity cannot generally be addressed in isolation from the other. The over-riding strength is the direct approach taken to a complex and controversial issue. The argument that equity is, and should be, a determining factor in how we address global environmental issues is clearly expressed and well-supported on both theoretical and applied bases." Jane V. Hall, Professor of Economics, California State University, Fullerton
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Product Information of Star Trek The Original Series Seasons 1-3 DVD Box Set
Name:Star Trek The Original Series Star Trek The Original Series Seasons 1-3 DVD Boxset
Genre:Sci-Fi | Adventure
No. of Season:Seasons 1-3
Created by:Gene Roddenberry
Starring:Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Majel Barrett, Roger Holloway,Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Eddie Paskey,Bill Blackburn, George Takei, Frank da Vinci, Walter Koenig,
Release Date: 8 September 1966
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Summary of Star Trek The Original Series Seasons 1-3 DVD Box Set
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (Star Trek: TOS or TOS) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy,Star Trek The Original Series roughly during the 2260s. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), first officer and science officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and chief medical officer Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley).


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Well, here we are 3 days from the thrilling 'touchdown' of Curiosity on Mars on the boldest mission yet by humans to the Red Planet – Seeking Signs of Life beyond Earth!
The Curiosity Mars Science Lab rover is by far the hardest and most complex robotic mission that NASA has ever attempted. She marks a quantum leap beyond anything tried before in terms of the technology required to land this 2000 pound beast and the science she'll carry out for a minimum 2 year prime mission.
So watch this harrowing video (above) – Outlining how Curiosity slams into the Martian atmosphere at 13200 MPH and comes to rest at 0 MPH after surviving the "7 Minutes of Terror" with an unprecedented guided entry, rocket powered descent, neck snapping supersonic parachute deployment and never before used Sky Crane maneuver – and be sure you're safely seated !
The car-sized Curiosity has entered the final 72 hours of careening towards a crater floor on Mars.
After the nail biting entry, descent and landing (EDL), the 6 wheeled rover Curiosity is scheduled to touchdown inside Gale Crater at about 1:31 a.m. EDT (531 GMT) early on Aug. 6 (10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5).
"It look a little crazy !" said Adam Steltzner, MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Lead engineer JPL , at today's (Aug. 2) pre-landing briefing for reporters at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. "But it's the least crazy compared to other methods we evaluated."
"Everything looks good for Sunday night. Over 300 Years of human individual contributions went into the MSL EDL system. We pull 10 Earth G's or more of acceleration during first contact with the Martian atmosphere."
Source 3 Days to Red Planet Touchdown – Watch the Harrowing Video of Car-Sized Curiosity Careening to Crater Floor


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Thursday after several days of muted trading as investors took a defensive posture before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's much-awaited speech on Friday.
Bernanke, due to speak to central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at 10 a.m. (1400 GMT) on Friday, is expected to keep markets guessing about the timing of another round of bond purchases.
The mood was cautious in financial markets due to the high stakes surrounding the Fed chairman's speech as well as a meeting of the European Central Bank on Thursday that is expected to take pressure off highly indebted countries.
Central banks face pressure to combat the weakness in the economy. In a sign of slowing growth, shares of mining companies fell as iron ore prices dropped to the lowest level since 2009. U.S.-traded shares of BHP Billiton (BBL.N) dropped 3.8 percent to $58.11.
All 10 S&P industry sectors were lower, with technology .GSPT, energy .GSPE and materials .GSPM leading the decline. The benchmark index dipped below the 1,400 mark at the close for the first time since August 6.
U.S. economic data over the past two weeks have been a little stronger than expected, and Reuters polls show investors and economists were more skeptical the Fed will announce a new round of bond buying at its September meeting. <ID:L4E8JU5BM>
"If (Bernanke) doesn't tip his hand, then the market is going down on the speech," said Uri Landesman, president of hedge fund Platinum Partners. "I don't think the market hangs in around 1,400 if he doesn't say anything substantive."
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI dropped 106.77 points, or 0.81 percent, to 13,000.71. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX dropped 11.00 points, or 0.78 percent, to 1,399.49. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 32.47 points, or 1.05 percent, to 3,048.71.
The S&P had barely budged over the prior three sessions - resulting in a decline of merely 0.05 percent - and hasn't closed with a 1 percent move in either direction since August 3.
Volume continued to be anemic with the week's daily average so far at 4.49 billion shares changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE MKT and Nasdaq. This week's four days so far are among the five lowest for volume all year.
Most U.S. retailers posted better-than-expected sales gains in August at stores open at least a year, boosted by back-to-school buying and setting the stage for a strong third quarter.
Despite the August sales results, the Morgan Stanley retail index .MVR fell 0.6 percent as it was weighed down by a drop in Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD.O).
Sears' shares tumbled 7.9 percent to $52.90 after S&P Dow Jones removed the company from the benchmark S&P 500 index, effective after the close of trading on September 4. Chemicals maker LyondellBasell Industries (LYB.N), which will replace Sears, rose 3.8 percent to $48.67.
Economic data showed consumer spending enjoyed its biggest rise in five months while the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits held steady last week.
Pandora Media Inc (P.N) surged 14.3 percent to $11.52 a day after reporting adjusted second-quarter earnings that beat expectations and raising its full-year outlook.
Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; additional reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak and Caroline Valetkevitch; Editing by Kenneth Barry


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Cain Train Moves "Full Steam Ahead" in Iowa
"We're in it to win it," Herman Cain's chief of staff told the campaign's Iowa operation on Thursday.
Mark Block dropped by the Iowa headquarters around noon to talk strategy: getting events set up for the candidate in December, moving resources to keep the campaign going forward. Block chatted with the team of four paid staffers for around three hours.
Block's "unequivocal message," Iowa communications director Lisa Lockwood told Fox News, was that the Cain train is still moving "full steam ahead."
"We have a whole list of potential surrogates here on his behalf as well," said Lockwood, who said the campaign currently has 899 precinct captains.
"Hoping to hit 999 by end of week!" she said.
A new television ad will start airing in Iowa statewide Friday, entitled "Time to Put America Back to Work." In an email to supporters touting the ad, the campaign emphasized Cain's ability to create jobs and, in a cursory gesture towards Ginger White's allegations of infidelity, said "It's no secret that the Democrat Party and their surrogates in the mainstream media are out to derail Herman Cain's candidacy, and the only way for them to succeed is to destroy him personally."
And so, the Cain train isn't showing signs of derailing, at least not from the perspective of the staff. On Tuesday night, a shipment arrived at the Herman Cain headquarters in Des Moines, which prompted Michele Bachmann's campaign staff -- located across the parking lot -- to tweet that there were moving vans there.
When reporters arrived at the Cain office, Lockwood said, it was "poetic justice to say that it was a delivery of signs."
Three thousand signs, she added, and a whole bunch of volunteers to help assemble them. Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman Kent Sorenson has since deleted the tweet.


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Susan Crile proves that Huffington Post willfully distorts any fact that can be found about Sarah Palin. In a HuffPo post about the attempted hijacking of a State of Alaska web page (See Web Page Hijack FAIL), Crile says:
"Sarah Palin's lawyers — already busy handling the dozen legal complaints that are pending against the Alaska governor — are now doing legal battle with a website called Crackho.com."
The Crile/HuffPo parenthetical prevarication – that there were a dozen legal comlaints pending against Gov. Palin – is easily exposed as moose manure. The post is time-stamped 05/12/09 04:40 PM. At that point in time, only five of the bogus "ethics complaints" could have reasonably be said to still be pending, nine having been disposed of with no finding that any law had been broken by the governor or her aides.
Two more of the nuisance complaints were dismissed yesterday, bringing the number of pending baseless complaints down to just three. I haven't bothered to check whether the last two were thrown out before Crile's post went up, given the time zone difference between Alaska and whatever cukoo clock HuffPo uses, but it doesn't really matter. A lie is a lie. Huffington Post and its posting prevaricators have been busted yet again.


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Jennifer Louise Fritz and Fred Siegfried ex-changed wedding vows yesterday in Notre Dame of Bethlehem Catholic Church.
Maxine Gardner and Jeff Dieter were honor attendants.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. Fritz of Bethlehem. The bridegroom's parents are Milton and Anna Siegfried, also of Bethlehem.
Mrs. Siegfried graduated from Bethlehem Catholic High School and is employed by Unionbank and Trust Co. of Eastern Pa., Bethlehem. Her husband, a graduate of Liberty High School, is assistant meat manager at Giant Food Stores, Inc., Easton.
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Yesterday, Fireclean's counsel filed a motion opposing my motion to dismiss their lawsuit against me in the Arizona District Court. This comes on the heels of their poorly strategized motion opposing the length of my motion being shot down in flames by the same judge who'll eventually rule on the case itself.
In their latest motion, Fireclean seems to make two main points:
1. I, Andrew Tuohy, am for real a competitor of Fireclean
2. This topic is not a matter of public concern.
In order to prove the first point, Fireclean describes the extent of my global media and apparel empire:
I'm sorry that you all had to find out this way that I'm one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, what with my four podcast episodes already having spawned a radio show company. Also, I find it surprising that they describe all of these "industries" in which I target "consumers" and then proceed to vehemently deny the idea that this topic is a matter of concern.
The first line in their opposition is apparently based on the belief that if you say something enough times, it eventually becomes true. I found the shrill and almost desperate tone of the motion to be highly entertaining, and am very much looking forward to hearing the judge's thoughts on all of this.
There's plenty more to discuss, but I'll let you all peruse their opposition to the motion to dismiss here after leaving you with one final thought:
If you are a blogger, Fireclean's position is that you are a business, and thus a direct competitor stripped of first amendment protections.


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Overall the US jobs report was good, with revisions higher to the prior months and a household survey that showed huge improvement. The big negative was the miss to hourly earnings, so generally the inflationary aspects of the release were poor and this was a key factor in the strong bid in US treasuries, gold and modest selling in the USD. When the dust clears, what the report has confirmed though is that the US recovery is back on track and the script of tapering $10 billion a month is still assured.
Perhaps the key equity story now is the horrible price action in the momentum/growth stocks; especially ones that trade (or at least did trade) on outrageous valuations. Anyone who has been watching price action on Twitter, Facebook, Tesla and Amazon, among others, would not see this as a particularly new story, as they are all in or around bear market territory. However, it's now time for the index to play catch up and the NASDAQ (quotes as US Tech 100 Cash with IG) has now broken and closed below the 100-day moving and June 2013 uptrend. Short positions are clearly favoured now, although the hourly chart is grossly oversold.
The S&P 500 didn't fall as hard as the NASDAQ as the make-up of the index is different, but price action is also bearish, having printed a key day reversal at the trend high. There seems to be some rotation out of any names which have effectively been labelled a 'bubble' over the last six months or so and there seems to be some money being re-positioned into names which have been returning cash to shareholders. Expect similar price action in Europe on open.
It's interesting to see these issues spill over into Asia and while tech and social media names across Asia have been sold off fairly aggressively, there is concern that any stock trading on a very high multiple is ready to be savaged. In Australia the likes of RealEstate.com, TPG and SEEK have been sold off, but they are quality businesses and while they deserve a pullback to realistic multiples, they should find willing buyers at better levels. Then we have businesses like Xro and Freelancer which are still trading on huge valuations, with the former still up 440% from last March and not expected to make earnings until 2017.
Time to get into emerging markets?
While developed markets seem to struggle, another key talking point is whether it's time to get serious about emerging markets again. The outflows from emerging markets have been a one-way trend for so long, and while this still seems a contrarian idea for many, there have been much better flows into currencies such as the Brazilian real, Mexican peso, Turkish lira and Russian ruble on Friday and today. The carry trade is working once again and while this strategy comes and goes, with the falls in US yields (and fed funds futures) traders looked to pick up yield and subsequently carry. This is another reason why the AUD remains well bid.
Locally, China has been closed, while we've seen selling in Japanese and Australian markets. Data has been limited today, with ANZ jobs ad's turning up a touch ahead of this Thursday's employment report. If ANZ jobs are a leading indicator then this is encouraging stuff and is being taken today in earnest by the rate hike bulls. AUD/USD bulls will be hoping for a break of the 93 handle, where strong offers seem to be prevalent.
While the talk on the floors has mostly centred on price action in high valuation equities and whether it's time to get back into emerging market assets (with valuations in some cases half that of developed markets) , it's worth pointing out the further developments in one of key themes – growing central bank divergence.
Talk of ECB QE
The talk on Friday was around an article in a German publication that the ECB were modelling a one trillion euro QE program, aimed at boosting inflation between 20 and 80 basis points. This was later denied, but one can't help but think this was strategically designed to cement the belief that the ECB are serious about fighting deflation. Still the probability is we have seen the low point in European inflation and they may never have to buy any assets, which would be the typical Draghi way, with the OMT (Outright Monetary Transaction) being hugely successful without ever having to be used. This should keep the EUR from rallying too high. ECB members Yves Mersch and Vitor Constancio are due to speak, with Mr Constancio's comments likely to be of key interest given he was the individual who denied that the ECB were modelling a QE program.
As well as talk from the ECB, it's worth highlighting the BoJ are now firmly expected to ease again and this may be reflected in the 28% increase in JPY shorts last week. In a Bloomberg survey today 72% said extra easing would materialise before or during July. If 103.21 can hold then USD/JPY should move back to the high 103's this week.


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Third Thursday at the Glass Studio
When it comes to our Third Thursday performance-art events, expect to see flames and fun. Shown above is Echard Wheeler's video tribute to February's Third Thursday performance. His still photos are at the bottom of the page.
The Walker
Glass Artists: Jerry Kung and Alexander Sarkis Adajian
Third Thursday events combine live music, a cash bar, and glass art as performance art. Admission is free for Museum Members, $5 for all others. Things get underway at 8 p.m., and after 6 p.m. you can pick up an admission ticket to avoid standing in line. This video by Echard Wheeler, .


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On February 11, 2016, the Federal Reserve Board announced that, as part of the transfer of certain consumer protection rulewriting authority to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Dodd–Frank Act, the Federal Reserve Board was repealing Regulation AA (Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices). Among other things, Regulation AA contained the Federal Reserve Board's "credit practices rule," which prohibited banks from engaging in certain practices to enforce consumer credit obligations and from including these practices in consumer credit contracts. Separately, the Federal Reserve Board announced the proposal to repeal Regulation C (Home Mortgage Disclosure), which has been superseded by CFPB rules.
The Federal Reserve Board press release is available at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20160211a.htm.
The text of the final rule repealing Regulation AA is available at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/bcreg20160211a1.pdf.
The text of the proposed rule to repeal Regulation C is available at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/bcreg20160211a2.pdf.