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As news that the labor market had shed 598,000 jobs in January confirmed that the economy is in rough shape, market psychology looked on the bright side and pushed the indexes higher on optimism for an aggressive government stimulus plan.
But skepticism abounded as to whether the rally could be sustained.
"This is a classic case of the market taking this dismal number in hopes that Washington will be motivated to do more," says Michael D. Kresh, president of M.D. Kresh Financial Services in Islandia, N.Y. "It's becoming very clear that something has to be done now. We really are reacting to external influences, not to the market seeing through to a better future."
Market veterans have seen this before.
A series of stimulative measures in 2008—including the Troubled Asset Relief Program and aggressive Federal Reserve rate cuts—led to temporary buy-the-rumor and sell-the-news market rallies.
Following that thinking, Kresh says he's continuing to use stock surges as selling opportunities.
He's staying away from banks, despite a strong pop in Friday trading, though he's nibbling at other sectors when the market moves lower.
At the same time, some market bears are holding short positions, while one fund manager says he's continuing his strategy of dumping stock-based funds until there's more clarity in when a turnaround might happen. Gold has become an increasingly popular shelter from the storm, while energy stocks are getting a mild push on hopes that the oil market may have found its bottom even as the stock market looks for its own capitulation point.
"There's an underlying pessimism and a lack of consumer confidence. It's going to take a lot to bring this thing around," says Vern Hayden, president and mutual fund manager of Hayden Wealth Management, in Westport, Conn. "A sinking economy, soaring unemployment and a shattered financial industry--you don't overcome those things overnight, even with government bailouts. I'm not sure the government can bail it out."
Indeed, the verdict was far from unanimous on what the employment weakness and the subsequent stimulus and bank rescue plans ultimately will mean to the economy and the stock market.
The market is closely watching for details next week on the good bank-bad bank plan to get toxic assets from banks' books, as well as the stimulus plan and its grab bag of various capital improvement projects and capital injections.
Some think the market is overdue for another leg up in a bear market rally that started after the November lows. Talk of that rally grew Friday after the jobs report and the ensuing anticipation of government action.
"There is a massive bear market rally building somewhere out there," Art Cashin, director of floor operations at UBS, said on CNBC. "And I think it may occur shortly, before St. Patrick's Day." See Cashin's full commentary in video.
Disciples of that school of thought piled into financial shares Friday, sending previously battered Dow components Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C) and JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) sharply higher. The SPDR Financial Select Sector (NASDAQ: XLF) exchange-traded fund was up more than 5 percent during the rally.
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But the enthusiasm for stocks that seem to have little upside other than a government rescue left some market advisers queasy.
"The major banks have not come close to solving their troubles and I certainly would be staying away from financials until we see some clarity and see some real transparency in their assets," Kresh says. "People moving in here and playing this momentum gain are playing it at a very, very high risk. There may be a reward, but as I see it the risks are way, way out of balance."
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"I think the market is deluding itself," adds John Jacquemin, founder and principal at Mooring Intrepid Opportunity Fund, in Vienna, Va., where he managers hedge funds. "As the market goes up on this bad news that means that markets are anticipating that a recovery is near. I don't believe it. Frankly (the recession is) much too deep to go into recovery in three to six months."
Jacquemin is holding all short positions for the institutional funds he manages and will continue to do so until the housing market shows sure signs of a turnaround, regardless of any bear rallies that come along.
"We are gearing our investments for a recovery sometime down the road, at least a year or perhaps two years," he says. "We start with a macro view and we stick to that view, and we are looking for segments we think are going to be the weakest. Until that changes we don't really worry about bear market rallies."
Jacquemin finds particular weakness in financials, housing and credit card companies, which will continue to be plagued by defaults as employment and the broader economy weaken.
For his funds, Hayden is nearly completely out of equities, except for an energy fund he participates in through T. Rowe Price that holds Chevron (NYSE: CVX), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP), and the XTO Energy (NYSE: XTO) ETF as a 5 percent energy component for his portfolio.
Slideshows on CNBC.com
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- Resume With Cocktails on Wall Street
He's also holding a 5 percent gold component through the SPDR Gold Trust (NASDAQ: GLD) ETF and First Eagle Gold Fund (OTC Funds: SGGDX).
Overall, he's stressing flexibility and a quick recognition for what's working and what isn't in this rapidly changing and fickle market.
"Every portfolio needs an offense and a defense," Hayden says. "I'm not a buy-and-hold guy. Buy and hold, especially in this kind of environment, is a suicide mission."
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During game 4 of the NBA Finals, Tim Duncan broke a pair of records held by two key members of the Showtime Lakers. In that light, here are a few of Tim's other NBA records and standings in all-time lists. Stats from basketball-reference.com.
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The Eton Road Torq is a simple device: toss it in your car (where you hopefully never have to use it). In the event you do need it, dig it out from under the seat, crank the dynamo for two minutes and use the 1 watt LED light for 15 minutes. Alternately, you can pop out the tripod legs, flip the flash light head open and use the light as an emergency beacon. $40. [Eton and Brookstone]
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strawberries + plastic: are tunnels worth the eyesore?
With the arrival of new season crops, the boxes are looking full and varied; we have bridged the hungry gap and as we get into summer the variety will only improve. The new potatoes are still from the Channel Islands but we start our own next week. Similarly, the bunched carrots in some boxes are the survivors of the largely failed crop in France. We will pull our own for next week. To keep them at their best, twist off and discard the tops to prevent them drawing moisture from the roots.
Over the last twenty years the huge majority of the UK strawberry crop has moved from open fields to the protection and intensification afforded by hundreds of acres of polytunnels, largely in Kent and Herefordshire. Plastic can advance a crop by perhaps two weeks, but the great advantage is the protection it gives from the vagaries of a British summer. Fruit must be picked dry to avoid bruising and to give a reasonable shelf life. Even more importantly, persistent dampness leads to a build-up of fungal disease, particularly botrytis, which can reduce a good berry to a foul tasting pulp in a matter of hours.
Our strawberries are grown extensively on high ridges at wide spacing which, in a normal year, gives enough airflow to dry dews and rain before botrytis sets in. There can be no doubt that polytunnels are a blot on the landscape; the question is whether they are justified by the economic and environmental benefit they bring by reducing wastage, extending the UK season, excluding exports and thus reducing food miles. For twenty years I have stubbornly persisted with growing outdoors, with the result that we have a relatively short season and, over the last few years, have not been able to pick up to a third of the fruit. Initially I was convinced that growing outdoors gave better flavour, but now I am not so sure and wonder if I have been overly dogmatic in my resistance. Across the five regional farms we would need eight acres of tunnels to provide a good supply of strawberries for the 45,000 homes we deliver to each week. Your views would be welcome; join the debate at blog.riverford.co.uk.
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What causes urinary tract infections?
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- Urinary tract infections happen when bacteria enter the urethra, bladder, or kidneys.
- A urinary tract infection is also called a UTI.
- Urinary tract infections are treated with antibiotics.
- A urinary tract infection accompanied by a fever and abdominal pain can be serious.
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Paquita la del Barrio sings of the wrongs that men do
The titles of her songs speak volumes: Wicked Men, Low Blow, Pure Pain and Hypocrite.
Then there's her mega hit: Two-Legged Rat.
Rife with tales of abusive husbands, impotent lovers and cheating boyfriends, these lyrics have made Francisca Viveros Barradas -- better known as Paquita la del Barrio -- much more than an artist. She has become a sociological phenomenon.
Paquita is an idol to millions of women in Latin America, the United States and Spain, but also an object of scorn, even hatred, to as many men.
''I am defending women. It is very important. I am a woman. I speak of my experiences,'' Paquita said in a recent interview with The Miami Herald.
''We Mexicans have this machismo situation. Women are always hurt by what men do to them,'' she added. ``I don't sing what others sing. I sing the truth, even if the gentlemen don't like it.''
Paquita, born 61 years ago in Alto Lucero, state of Veracruz, Mexico, picked up the torch for all women who have known the pain of love gone wrong early in her career. Her themes not only explode with feminine rage, but also poke fun at the inadequate lovemaking and the insufficient heft of virile attributes of various partners. Her message does not stay at the level of lament. Instead, the passive suffering is replaced by forceful anger and the promise of female revenge and survival beyond humiliation.
David Foster, Regents' professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, has written a paper analyzing the qualities that set Paquita apart. Paquita's songs, Foster said, go beyond mere love stories to capture a harsh social reality.
``There is a strong tradition of romantic ballads in Mexico that sings about the glories of romantic love. Paquita cuts right through that to tell you that most of the time you are just going to get the dregs and a woman has to learn to deal with it. In her case it means `get the bum out'.
''This is a very feminist principle,'' he added.
Miami audiences will get a chance to listen to Paquita Oct. 18 when she debuts at the American Airlines Arena as the opening act for Mexican star Vicente Fernández.
Five of her albums have sold more than 100,000 copies. In a performance two years ago in the Zócalo, Mexico City's central plaza, she drew a crowd of 130,000.
A month ago, Paquita released her 30th album. In the lead song, Women Rule, she urges women to break free of the indignities brought on by a male-dominated society.
Paquita's own story could be fodder for one of her songs. She eloped at 15 with 44-year old Miguel Magaña, only to learn when she was pregnant with their first child that Magaña had another family.
The union lasted seven years and produced two sons. As Paquita tells it, when she ran into Magaña a few years after leaving him, all she could wonder was: ``Is this what I fell in love with?''
Paquita and her sister Viola came to Mexico City in 1970 to try their fortune. When the duet broke up, Paquita retired for a few years. She bought a lot on Zarco 202, in the heart of Colonia Guerrero, a working class district of Mexico City, and built a restaurant and performance hall where she cooked for the clientele. The business is closed as Paquita plans her next moves, but she still keeps an apartment on the floor above.
The place is decorated with Liberace-style accents, including hyper-ornate crystal chandeliers and a collection of Rococo china figurines. A family of steel tigers is arranged on the tile floor in the living room, and a painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe hangs in one of the bedrooms, alongside a portrait of a mermaid that strongly resembles Paquita.
Paquita resumed her career as a soloist in 1979. Her real break came when she appeared in the popular Televisa program Hoy Mismo, conducted by Guillermo Ochoa, on Nov. 20, 1986. Since then, she has performed throughout Mexico, as well as in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Spain and the United States.
In 2003, she won three Latin Grammys.
Her life as a public figure has not been free of controversy. Two years ago, she was briefly arrested in the Mexico City airport for charges of tax evasion. She says it was all a ``misunderstanding.''
According to her manager, Francisco Torres Lozada, this grandmother of seven is a simple person who enjoys mingling with regular folk, even when on tour.
''Last year she shared the chiles rellenos a friend had brought her with the waiters at the hotel in Los Angeles. They had recognized her,'' he said.
Her schedule is tough. Torres Lozada says she does around 100 performances annually, sometimes two in one night.
Paquita is philosophical about the pace of her career.
''I will continue singing as long as God gives me voice,'' she said. ``We take life as it comes.''
She does not compose her repertoire, which she estimates at some 300 songs. She sings songs from other performers, she occasionally receives unsolicited compositions and she also works with various composers. The main one is Manuel Eduardo Toscano, who has composed more than 30 songs for Paquita, including eight of the 10 featured in her latest release.
Toscano first heard Paquita on the radio some eight years ago. He was so taken that he wrote a song, put it to music and sent it to her. According to Toscano, a few days later she contacted him and told him that she would record the song he had sent her.
``She told me: `I see you understand what I feel.''
Toscano, who has also composed for Los Tigres del Norte and Vicente Fernández, doesn't mind the ribbing he receives for writing songs that put down his own sex.
''A good friend likes to tell me that for sure everything I write for Paquita is what my own wife tells me,'' he said with a laugh from his home in Huatusco, also in the state of Veracruz.
The secret to the success of the songs, he added, is a little humor.
``My songs speak in strong terms. But they don't just beat up on men. They also make you laugh.''
He looks forward to a long collaboration with Paquita.
``Paquita is a figure that has already established her appeal with the people forever. She is the spokeswoman for humble women. She says what all of them want to shout to our faces.''
Paquita is not a musical innovator, sticking to traditional boleros, rancheras, and even tango-style melodies. Her powerful contralto voice has never received formal training. She has stood on stage with mariachis, bandas norteñas and other instrumental arrangements. She does her own makeup and designs her own dresses.
One of Paquita's trademarks is a refrain she belts out at various pauses during her songs. Many years ago, her second husband, Alfonso Martínez, had disappeared for a couple of days. When he returned and passed by her as she was performing in Casa Paquita, a frustrated Paquita, who was singing about a woman chiding her lover, paused and screamed at Martínez: ''Do you hear me, you useless wretch?'' The refrain stuck and audiences go wild whenever she uses it, which can be several times in the same performance as well as in her recordings.
Hilda García, a 43-year-old multimedia professional who lives in tony Polanco district, is a Paquita diehard. Listening to Paquita ''is like going out with your friends . . . all remembering someone who made us cry,'' she said.
García added that Paquita 'can transcend generations and socioeconomic classes for a simple reason: we women are all the same when it comes to men, who are also all the same, or as the saying goes, `they are all the same and some are worse.' ''
``She says what you always want to say to that man who hurt you, but you cannot say it in those words because they are insults and a well-mannered woman would not do that . . . so that's how you get your revenge.''


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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — After a week without power at his home in Connecticut, the New York Yankees' Brian Cashman arrived at the general managers' meetings ready to do business.
The weather was hot, but the trade market was not.
"Do I have something I'm looking to execute while I'm out here? No," he said Tuesday night. "Whatever agents are here, I'll meet with the agents and then obviously have a chance to engage the 29 clubs. I've been with them a few times already. I think there's certain guys that I've been made aware of, but for the most part I think it will be unfolding quietly."
The annual GM meetings, back in the Coachella Valley for the first time in seven years, start just a week after the World Series and often spark discussions that lead to trades and signings later in the offseason. The largest winter meetings, where teams send larger delegations from their organizations, are scheduled for Dec. 3-6 at Nashville, Tenn.
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Cashman said his power at home was restored Sunday, nearly a week after Superstorm Sandy hit. In contrast to the cool weather back home, the high temperature in the Palm Springs area Tuesday was 93 degrees.
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The 59-year-old, 12-term Republican said he filed documents to start a candidate committee late Friday afternoon, but plans to make no formal announcement about his candidacy.
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"Nothing Is Remotely Imminent" eh?
I guess I'll let Nolan Ryan off on a technicality. I mean there isn't a whole lot that's remote in the 48 hour distance between that statement and a signed contract now is there? No, that pretty much is just imminent. What was it I was saying a few weeks ago about the different front offices playing a little too much Diplomacy this off season? If I were actually sitting in on this particular game of Diplomacy I might say well played in addition to growling less sportsmanlike comments but, as it is, I'm just growling.
So Adrian Beltre is a Ranger and the Angels missed the boat again. I understand that the free agent market got outrageously expensive again this year. Under normal circumstances, I think sticking to one's principals is laudable but, right now, claiming to stick to their principals just looks like the Angels front office is making a piss poor excuse for terrible performance. We didn't strike out this off season, we barely even bothered to step up to the plate. And they better not start carting out Takahashi and Downs again like those signings make for a fine off season on their own and anything else would just have been gravy. Those signings were a great start, alas apparently on a road to nowhere. When nothing else followed, just admit that you messed up. That way you only look really stupid instead of abysmally stupid.
If I am being rational, I know this isn't the absolute end of the world. If I am being rational, I know that there is no one player who is the answer for us in a vacuum without any other changes. If we had landed Beltre and, defying all reason, the rest of bats went missing for most of the season again, a season with only Beltre and Weaver consistently performing to expectations isn't going to be any prettier than one where Weaver more or less consistently performed to expectations alone. If the bats actually show up, I think the team that hits the field in 2011, as it stands right now, is a better team than the one that hit the field in 2010. Rationally though, I really don't know if that is enough.
Again, if I'm being rational, it's a long season and we haven't started Spring Training yet. Everybody has to play 162 games, blah, blah, blah and all of the other clichés. But, seriously, a lot can happen in that amount of time, especially in California baseball. My sister and I have always said that no one, but no can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat (or, sadly, defeat from the jaws of victory but let's not go there right now) in the most unexpected of ways like California baseball teams. Angels, Dodgers, Giants, A's and Padres fans, you all know what I'm talking about. And tomorrow…okay maybe by next week, I will probably truly believe all of this and the other hopeful posts I have made on this blog again.
But tonight I don't feel like being rational. I am angry, enough so that I didn't so much type this as I beat and pounded it into the keyboard. Whether or not Beltre was the answer, I just wanted something, anything to point at and say, look, the front office is really trying this off season instead of well, just being trying.


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This has been an exciting year for MIGA, in part because the agency has introduced changes to its policies and operational regulations enabling it to provide new and innovative types of coverage.
One such cover which is particularly relevant in today's market is MIGA's new temporary business interruption (TBI), a product offered as a subset of MIGA's traditional war and civil disturbance coverage. TBI covers equity investors against losses arising from a war, civil disturbance, or terrorism event in the host country that causes a temporary shutdown due to asset damage, forced abandonment, or loss of use. Unlike the traditional cover which requires a total abandonment and "walk-away" by the investor, TBI enables investors to shut down for as little as 30 days and for up to a year while still maintaining a financially viable and even profitable operation. The key to this cover is the unique compensation structure, which goes beyond coverage of damage to assets to actually cover a company's lost income during the period of shutdown. Compensation extends to continuing expenses, such as payroll and debt service; includes those extraordinary expenses required to resume operations more expeditiously, such as relocating the project to a safer area or renting replacement equipment; and perhaps most importantly covers the actual lost income, including the company's profits based on historical earnings.
This product should prove particularly useful to investors operating in post-conflict countries where the possibility of political violence recurring is very real. Because these areas tend to be so inherently risky, investors rely on high profit margins as incentive for operating in these regions. With MIGA's TBI cover serving as an additional protection against potential losses due to necessary but temporary shutdown, investors will be further incentivized not only to initially invest, but to continue operating even after a political violence event occurs. No longer must a company abandon its project in order to collect on MIGA's insurance policy; it can continue operating seamlessly as a profitable enterprise, and MIGA will assist it to get up and running. This very powerful tool could potentially have great developmental impacts in countries such as Afghanistan where investments are so desperately needed.
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This has been an exciting year for MIGA, in part because the agency has introduced changes to its policies and operational regulations enabling it to provide new and innovative types of coverage.


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Hey everyone - not sure how active this forum is, but wanted to try to start a discussion....
I've been in contact with the website owners for Allihoopa - it was made very clear to me that their site is not for professionals. The remit of Allihoopa is in the spirit of social media - sharing, collaborating and enjoying some fleeting music making. My version of Reason (v8.x) is permanently linked to this site for collaborations. My question is; why?
Is Reason a glitzy little App, the same as Take and Figure? No.
Is it simple to produce a little ditty or melody that you might share freely and collaborate with others? No.
Does it take a lot of dedication and effort to produce quality, professional music tracks? Yes.
So why is it connected to a host of freebie Apps and Software, instead of being seen a professional DAW?
Can anyone explain this to me???
Allihoopa is a tool for users of Reason to collaborate and share nothing more. It can be powerful in collaboration or fun is trying out stuff people share. It can be learning from analyzing a song file....ect
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - President Barack Obama is praising University of Missouri football player Michael Sam for announcing he is gay before the NFL draft.
Obama says Sam's attitude is that he knows he can play great football and that he should be judged only on those facts.
Sam could become the NFL's first openly gay player. The defensive end is scheduled to participate in the league's scouting camp in Indianapolis later this month. He's projected to be a mid-round draft pick in May.
First lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sent Sam messages of encouragement over Twitter last week after his announcement. A spokesman had said Obama shared their sentiments.
Obama commented in a taped interview with Charles Barkley that aired during TNT's pregame coverage of Sunday's NBA All-Star game.


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Canvases and Careers Today brings together contributions from the eponymous conference organized by the Institut für Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main. Its goal is to provide deeper insights and more complexity to current debates on the relationship between criticism, art, and the market.
"It was especially interesting for us to watch a kind of transatlantic divide happening. While the US-American participants mostly declared criticism as obsolete while hoping for turning its weakness into a strength, most European participants departed from the opposite diagnosis: that criticism has never been as strong as it is today, since it is now part of a knowledge-based economy." Isabelle Graw/Daniel Birnbaum
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Phoenix has two major airports from which to choose. The Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is the most popular, and one of the most dependable. It's only three miles from the downtown area, and because it's a hub, it's generally bustling. It has three terminals, 2-4, with Terminal 4 being the busiest. Public buses run between the terminals, but the airport also has a metro shuttle. The Deer Valley Airport and the Goodyear Airport are ports for Sky Harbor.
Scottsdale Airport is another choice, especially for travelers who want something a bit smaller. Scottsdale is around 20 miles away from Phoenix, so the trip isn't a long one. Scottsdale is a top choice for leisure and business travelers. The recently remodeled terminal offers free parking and is incredibly flexible.
Choosing an airline largely depends on the airport. Most people do choose Sky Harbor, not just because it's the largest, but also because it's the most versatile. It's incredibly easy to navigate and it has certain aspects travelers don't expect to see, such as an Arts Program that puts on exhibitions and keeps collections. It also has free Wi-Fi and it allows dogs.
The airport sees around 1600 planes landing and taking off each day. Travelers have their choice when it comes to airlines, as the bigger names – US Airways, Southwest, American Airlines, Delta, United, and jetBlue – all offer flights to and from Phoenix. Smaller airliners, such as Hawaiian Airlines, Alaskan Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Spirit, Sun Country, airTran, and Volaris, are all available as well.
Sky Harbor also boasts several lounges. Terminal 2 houses the United Airlines United Club, where members receive complimentary drinks, snacks, and breakfast, along with power outlets, charging stations, and Wi-Fi. The US Airways Club has three lounges in Terminal 4, located in concourses A1, A2, and B1. The British Airways Terraces Lounge is in Terminal 4 as well.
Scottsdale Airport has a lounge too. The passenger boarding lounge is non-exclusive there, so travelers can easily relax or wait during layovers. The airport also has a non-exclusive conference room.
The sheer scope of Sky Harbor lends itself well to year-round travel. The weather in Phoenix means there's rarely any reason to cancel or push back flights. Peak season lasts from November to April, so it's harder to find last-minute flights to Phoenix or cheaper fares for outbound flights. Those who choose to visit the city should book hotels and transportation as well.
Summer is hot, making it the ideal off-season span. Visitors can get cheap one way flights to Phoenix when they book between May and October. Round-trip tickets are available for affordable prices as well. Anyone coming through the city in high summer should simply make it a point to look for park tickets too, to take advantage of the water.
Phoenix's biggest attractions are all-natural. Camel Back Mountain and the desert typically call to visitors. Even during the height of summer, the nightlife is amazing. There are many art centers and complexes around and outside of the city as well.
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January 2007 was similar to this December-January '11-'12. That cold dry year the ice skating was spectacular voles damage was minimal and many plants suffered.
The process of preparing for winter in hardy plants goes something like this: Plants sense shortening days and cooling temperatures and produce chemicals to start the processes of dropping leaves or closing stomata (the holes they "breathe" through). Food is moved to the roots and important compounds in leaves are recycled and stored away. When freezing begins, water moves out of the cells and into the intercellular spaces (between the cells). This water freezes, but the cell's contents, with higher concentrations of sugars and salts, have much lower freezing temperatures (like salt water or anti-freeze). As temperatures drop, more water moves out of the cells and solute concentrations in the cells increase, and freezing temperatures drop further. The cell membrane, which is inside the rigid cell wall, actually pulls away and makes room for the ice crystals between the cells.
If temperatures drop too quickly, water cannot move out of the cell fast enough, ice forms inside the cells and in pores of the cell membrane. As you might imagine, jagged ice crystals inside the cells rip them apart and if enough cells die, the plant dies. This is damage we see frequently suffer in spring.
This winter, before it finally began to snow, the days were sunny the nights were very cold, the north-east winds were blowing and several things happened.During the warmer sunny days, plant tissues warmed up enough to thaw and begin photosynthesis. Cells woke up and filled with water. At 3:00 PM in mid January, the warm afternoon sun had the plants thinking it was spring, just before the sun went down. The air temperatures were already below freezing and without the sun on the stems, leaves or needles, the temperatures plummeted and many plants suffered – This damage often shows-up as "freeze-cracking" , split bark or tissue damage on the southwest side of trees.
In many other locations the dry wind and sub-freezing temperatures caused the ice between plant's cells to sublimate (change from solid to vapor). When the ice around the cells was gone, the cell membrane was exposed and the little moisture remaining in the interior of the cells dried up – This is "freeze-drying".
This winter, some plants just dried-up. The soils became so dry that even roots died. I lost 2 of 7, 14 year-old currants. Sometimes there is no telling why some one plant dies and another survives. In the wild it is the same story, one manzanita is dead and 3 feet away another is fine and 12 feet further another is dead and so-on. It could have been one branch of a pine 30' away provided a few extra crucial minutes of shade in mid January or the one plant's roots just happened to be under a large rock... it is fascinating and frustrating at the same time.
In home landscapes, many people may have saved their plants by watering in January and people with 3-4" of mulch throughout their garden suffered far fewer losses than most. NEVER underestimate the wonders of mulching.
In the nursery, we lost huge numbers of plants in pots this winter. We tuck the plants together for the winter and put shade around them to trap snow but this winter they froze and dried. You cannot water a frozen container plant because the water freezes and suffocates the roots so we tried to lightly mist them and just raise the humidity but it was largely ineffective. We really need a cheap used snow-making gun for winters like this one (many larger nurseries in the mountain west have them.)
We don't have a huge variety of broadleaf evergreens that grow well here but there are a few. Manzanita, Huckleberry Oak, Live Oak and Ceanothus and Mt. Mahogany are some of our broadleaf evergreen natives. Many of these suffered this winter, especially those exposed to the north-east winds (see photo of fried manzanita and dead squaw-mat). I have not seen damage on any Mountain Mahogany.
I've also seen damage on Native Incense Cedar, Giant Sequoia, Lydia Broom, Hardy Holly, Hardy Rhododendron, Dwarf Alberta Spruce (it often suffers sun scald), Cotoneaster and Bear-Berry Manzanita.
We are still waiting to see what has survived but many are pushing some new growth. Meanwhile, we've fertilized with Biosol and Dr. Earth and with seaweed to stimulate roots.
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Stuxnet Source Stories Suspect
Britain's Sky News is reporting that the source code for the Stuxnet worm is being traded on the black market "...and could be used by terrorists."
The story is anonymously sourced, relying on "[S]enior cyber-security figures" and "[A] senior IT security source." Once the claim is made that the source code is being traded is made, the rest of the story writes itself: the potential for attacks is horrifying. "An IT security consultant to the UK Government said: "You could shut down the police 999 system'" (999 is the emergency phone number in the UK and many other countries, analogous to 911 in the US). Power systems, the transport network and dams are all claimed to be at risk; thankfully, no threat to Sky News itself has been identified.
The reports have been met with marked skepticism by security experts willing to go on the record, such as AVG's Roger Thompson and Sophos's Paul Ducklin. Thompson states "I flat-out don't believe Stuxnet source is available for sale on the black market or anywhere." He claims there could be a scam at work. He also points out that actual Stuxnet source code would require substantial work to be adapted to other targets and that it's so well-known now by security software that it would be widely-detected.
As Thompson hints, it's possible that the real inspiration for this story was the release, a few days before, of an exploit for one of the Stuxnet 0-day vulnerabilities, a privilege escalation bug in the Windows Task Scheduler. This is a fairly serious event, but nothing worth getting out of bed over. The vulnerability has been known for months.


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The LDBMWCLRX650GT will be debuting at the Geneva Auto Show and despite what you might think, it's actually fairly tasteful compared to what we've previously seen from tuners at Geneva. Consider the Fab Design Benzies from last year, yeesh. Anyway, this X6 gets all of the baubles with none of the dreary performance updates normally associated with tuned cars, so we're sure it'll be a huge hit. [Carscoop]


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Q. Do you have a position on the 'free-shooting' of badgers?
A. The humaneness of using the free shooting method is of grave concern to the group. If a cull is to be carried out, we believe it should be done in the most
humane way possible. Because of their anatomy it is potentially more difficult to free shoot a badger in a quick humane way than, say a fox or a deer. This means there may be a high risk of wounding badgers instead of killing them outright, resulting in a slow, painful death for the animals. It is currently unclear how wounding rates will be assessed and monitored.
We also have concern surrounding draft guidance that dogs may be used to retrieve wounded animals. The legal protection provided to badgers was not just to safeguard badgers against the cruelty and persecution inflicted by badger diggers and baiters, (baiting is an activity which involves setting dogs upon badgers in order to encourage a fight between them), but also abuse by some farmers and landowners from activities such as bulldozing and slurrying badger setts. Whilst badgers can be legally killed and dogs used against them in the trial areas the same animals would be protected outside the trial areas leading to confusion on their status.


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Jan. 23 - Delegations from both sides in the Syrian conflict left Montreux for further talks in Geneva after Wednesday's acrimonious start to the peace process. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
This has served as the backdrop for Syrian peace talks in Switzerland which will move to Geneva Friday. Security is tight as Syria's government and opposition, meeting for the first time, vented mutual hostility Wednesday. Iran, which backs the Syrian government is not represented at the talks, but President Hassan Rouhani attending the nearby World Economic Forum in Davos is calling for free elections in Syria. It's a suggestion that is not going down well as the Syrian opposition heads to Geneva. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE SYRIAN NATIONAL COALITION, BADR JAMOUS, SAYING: "Rouhani's comments that the Geneva conference will not yield results and that fair elections are the only solution, I am surprised at such comments from a politician. What elections is he talking about? Who will vote in them? The seven million refugees in Turkey and Jordan and Lebanon or those who are drowning in sea or those who ended up in Libya or Egypt? Or those under the rubble or the people who are missing in prison and we don't know anything about their fate? A Syrian refugee now living in a camp in Jordan is not optimistic. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SYRIAN REFUGEE, NAEEM, SAYING: "In our opinion, this conference will not yield any results. The international community is watching idly as the Syrian people are getting killed and displaced. I believe this is not the best way for a solution, there are other paths to be taken which could be more successful. Assad is taking the military road, and after all of this killing, there is no way he will step down as a result of Geneva and hand over the power to the Syrian people. More than 100,000 people have been killed in the war in Syria which began with peaceful protests almost three years ago.


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Last week, New York City Comptroller John C. Liu unveiled the Checkbook NYC 2.0 website and announced that the source code for the financial transparency website would be available to developers on GitHub, which will allow other government organizations to use Checkbook to build similar sites.
Checkbook NYC illustrates how the city government spends its nearly $70 billion annual budget. Using a dashboard that combines graphs and user-friendly tables, the site displays up-to-date information about the city's revenues, expenditures, contracts, payroll and budget. It also offers that information programmatically via APIs.
Built on the Drupal open source content management platform, Checkbook NYC's data warehouse contains more than 50 million financial transactions, according to REI Systems, which worked with the city to develop the system. The data warehouse is updated daily and is growing at a rate of approximately 2 million transactions per month. REI was selected to lead the project, the comptroller's office said, because of its experience with government transparency websites, including USASpending.gov, Data.gov, and ITDashboard.gov.
Other partners, centralized accounting software vendors Oracle and CGI, worked to develop "adapters," or automated data feeds, between their financial management systems and Checkbook NYC. These feeds will enable other state and local governments that use Oracle and CGI solutions to easily share their financial data with the public.
Collectively, it's estimated that Oracle, CGI and REI Systems have committed to investing more than $1 million of resources in order to make Checkbook NYC rapidly adaptable by other governments, city officials said.
Checkbook NYC is significant because it makes a vast storehouse of information available online in a timely, structured and human-readable form, according to the Sunlight Foundation. Additionally, it marks a shift to proactive civic application-sharing, Foundation officials added.
"Checkbook NYC is an outstanding example of local government adoption of the open source software model, and with this project New York City has truly stepped up and into the open IT ecosystem," said Deborah Bryant, Open Source for America co-chair and director of the Open Source Initiative. "NYC's highly evolved approach also increases the benefit of collaboration beyond software code – such as sharing related investments like training, knowledge base and business rules – exponentially increasing its value to the city and anyone else joining the project."
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