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6/04/2008 7:35am, #21
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6/04/2008 7:46am, #22Originally Posted by MikeTKDnCT
6/04/2008 8:47am, #23Originally Posted by MikeTKDnCT
What myths are you trying to disprove?
Carl Lewis
I remember vividly making the decision in July of 1990 to become a vegan. I was competing in Europe and ate a meal of Spanish sausage on a Saturday and on the following Monday started eating vegan. The hardest thing for me was changing my eating habits from skipping meals to eating throughout the day - which is much healthier. I also missed salt and so substituted lemon juice for flavor.
Tony Gonzalez:
Three weeks later, he walked into the weight room at the Chiefs' training facility and got a shock. The 100-pound dumbbells he used to easily throw around felt like lead weights. "I was scared out of my mind," he says. Standing on the scale, he learned he'd lost 10 pounds.The Chiefs' team nutritionist, Mitzi Dulan, a former vegetarian athlete, did not believe that was enough. With the team's prospects and Mr. Gonzalez's legacy at stake, she persuaded the tight-end to incorporate small amounts of meat into his plant diet. Just no beef, pork or shellfish, he said; only a few servings of fish and chicken a week.
Brendan Brazier is 100% Vegan now. He was already competing before he switched.
Mac Danzig
. But then in 2004, I got to the point where I was sick of eating chicken. It started grossing me out for some reason. I was about a month out from a fight and I decided I was going to cut out all meat. I was working with a trainer who was vegan and he helped me make the switch. I won that fight and went on a 12-fight winning streak. And [not eating meat] made it really easy to cut weight for that fight.
Mike Mahler
I gave up meat gradually. I stated off by giving up all meat except fish. Then I gave up fish, but continued to eat eggs and dairy. Once I realized that most eggs and dairy products came from animals that lived miserable lives on factory farms, I gave up all animal products. That was ten years ago and I have never looked back. While I am an ethical vegan, there is no doubt in mind that a vegan diet is healthy and that I can get everything that my body need for my intense lifestyle. Regardless, like any other diet, planning is required.
He is in Phenomenal shape and I'm not discounting his veganism.
Basically, 50/50 with your examples.
So, I can argue meat got them all there and they are living off an already meat fueled body.
I can say wow Veganism or vegatarian diet helped them, who knows?
I agree that making outright assertions is silly. We can argue veganism all day. The way I look at it is certain diets work for some and not others. The one thing that doesn't support your implied assertion is many of these athletes were established then became great athletes.
In other words, was it meat and natural progression or was it veganism and natural progression?
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6/04/2008 12:00pm, #24
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First of, thanks Is it Fake for actually having a real debate with me, as I expected the next vet member to respond was just going to attack me. I've read most of the articles you quoted, so in response to that, I think you may have interpreted a few things wrong:
In the Tony Gonzalez article, it states that although he had difficulty at first and although his nutritionist "PERSUADED" him to eat chicken and such, he did not, "But Mr. Gonzalez managed to stick to his diet and hold onto the football. He broke the touchdown record before midseason..." I've also read in several other articles where he attributes his record breaking year to his "vegan" diet.
As Far as Carl Lewis is concerned, he was no doubt a fantastic athlete before the diet, but his best year as an athlete was the first year he went vegan, at the 1991 World Championships. These were no doubt his greatest performances as regarded by himself and others. Lewis credits his outstanding 1991 results in part to the vegan diet he adopted in 1990 in a lengthy book introduction.
So ya, aside from those interpretations I agree! I was taunting only because I got some taunts in the form of negative rep and **** talk...only because I posted advice on how to lean out....correct advice I feel. I know that the fact that I have "TKD" in my name further discredits me, but I did not realize this at the time I signed up ;). The term "Vegan" has a lot of stigma associated with it. Rightly so, as even I get VERY annoyed anytime I see some pale skinny waif of a hippy-homo whining and ranting about the animal's feelings and trying to push people to give up meat.
I started eating a whole foods, plant-based diet 9 months ago because athletes like Tony, Mac Danzig, Mahler and such inspired me...and I've had more than fantastic results so far. So I really feel compelled to try to share this with whoever I can, only because I really think that anyone who gives it a shot would really love it. If not for all the great ethical and environmental side effects, but just for how fantastic you feel and how much energy and resiliency you get. Trust, I know that meat is fuckin' delicious and I used to put away Jack Daniel's ribs like a champ. But knowing what I know now, and feeling how good I feel, I couldn't go back.
Oh, and the only point I was initially trying to make before was that, as an athlete, giving up animal products was not "nutritional suicide" as stated by a previous poster in this thread. It's not. TADA!!! Thanks all, peace!
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6/04/2008 12:32pm, #25Originally Posted by It is Fake
It was the culmination of blood, sweat, and tears that propelled these athletes towards success.
Eating habits are secondary, and could be considered a by-product.
Meat Eater, Vegetarian, Vegan...
...without the heart of a athlete, you will fail regardless.
6/04/2008 12:38pm, #26
I sounded more like a sanctimonious ass than I intended.
My point: Someone with the drive and heart of a professional athlete will make ANY eating arrangement work for them. They have the discipline, education, and motivation to ensure that any eating style is performed in a healthy and logical manner.
i.e. a Vegan athlete should understand that they'll need to eat a lot of combined foods to fill their protein needs (Beans and Rice, Tofu, Soy Product, TVP, Seitan, Tempeh, Spinach, Lentils, etc...). A meat eating athlete understands that they should minimize the amount of high cholesterol heavy protein they ingest while still maintaining their ideal goals.
As such, I think the idea of "Vegan Diet vs Omnivore Diet" is pretty much a moot point, all things considered.
6/04/2008 12:39pm, #27Originally Posted by Satori
They are all important. You don't eat properly, it doesn't matter what type of heart you have. You don't have the proper mental attitude/heart, it doesn't matter what type of diet you have.
Please, this is the PT forum lets not get into a mental/metaphysical debate.
They all go hand in hand.
6/04/2008 12:43pm, #28Originally Posted by Satori


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What is the biggest, best birthday bash you have ever thrown for your child? Tell us about it in the comments!
Here's a piece of advice for you, my dear friends and readers – don't even bother with an actual party for your child, at least one that takes place at a location outside of your home and involves more than the grocery store cake and some candles, until age four. The reason has nothing to do with how much you love your child (trust me) and actually not even as much to do with the fact the before the age of four your child won't remember any of their parties anyway.
Given that my planning personality needed to have birthday parties that were fun and themed ever since Emma's first year celebration, and now that I have had to plan something different and interesting eight times at this point, I have started to run out of cheap but special ideas and themes. When you started planning the location birthdays when your child is turning two, then by the age of eight you have pretty much been to every single location your town has to offer, and the ones you have not been to yet (Chuck E. Cheese's) are the ones you avoid like the plague (which is what you will catch if you ever have to go there).
Let's now jump back to mid-September of this year, when I am on the phone with one of my BFF's, Lisa, who also happens to be the mother of one of Emma's BFF's, Lucy. We are discussing our daughters' upcoming birthdays, which happen to fall fairly close together on the calendar. Both of us are struggling to come up with ideas that we have not already done or that would not break the bank. The last four words of that sentence will prove to be … that's right … famous last words.
Emma and Lucy had expressed interest in having a movie theater birthday party, which sounds easy enough, and given that Lucy's birthday comes first on the calendar, I was naturally willing to have Lisa make the movie theater inquiries. As it turns out, you can definitely have an awesome movie theater birthday party, IF and only IF, you don't mind waiting until basically about a week before your party to tell your guests what time they will actually need to arrive at said party, since that is when the movie times are announced and there is no way to have any idea more than one week prior to said movie theater party date what showing you will receive. This is no celebrity wedding here, folks, where you send out the invite and they call a special secret phone number to get the location and time; this is just a simple Saturday birthday party at a local cinema for some eight-year-olds. Lisa and I debated how you would even go about wording the invitations, or would we even send invitations at all or just rely on old-fashioned smoke signals and hope for the best. And oh, by the way, all of this comes at a very steep price, so in the end you are handing over gobs of cash to feel extremely unsure and uncomfortable about your child's birthday party. So we said, "Thanks but no thanks," and we moved right along.
After tossing around some other ideas that amounted to nothing, I casually threw out the possibility of the pumpkin patch. Emma had been to a Christmas-themed birthday party there while in preschool, when they had winter sleigh rides to see Santa and thought it was fabulous. Once again, Lisa did the calling, as I don't really "like" people, especially when I have to talk to them on the phone. The good news about our friendship is that having run the car raffle together, we both know our strengths and weaknesses and accept them from each other. She called me back very quickly, sounding quite excited, and said that this was a GENIUS idea. It was totally available the day that we wanted to have the party, and if we did a joint party for the girls, we could include all of their classmates, plus several other friends; and by splitting the cost it would be the "best, least expensive" party ever! Note those last words, again. In fact, given that it was going to be so inexpensive for the location fee, we came up with the fantastic idea to include pony rides … because honestly, what makes a joint birthday party with your BFF even better? … PONIES!
And then the planners in us were off and running! The girls were excited and immediately got to work on the guest list. They came up with the idea very quickly that they wanted to collect items for the Humane Society of Charlotte, rather than have gifts, because they had so many friends in common and they did not want to ask them to bring two presents to the party. Cue the pulling of the heartstrings in Lisa and me. We love our sweet girls so much! By the time we were finished, we had more than 40 children invited to this party, so we realized that we were going to need some serious manpower to handle this many girls running loose in open fields, at the petting zoo, among pumpkins, etc. Fast forward to hiring three high school cheerleaders moonlighting as babysitters for the afternoon of the party and we were feeling much better about parents dropping off their babies with us.
Like everything else that we seem to do together, Lisa and I might have gone a little overboard; but we just kept thinking about the fact that we were going to be splitting it all by two. And because we did it all one expense and party line item at a time, it never seemed TOO crazy, you know? So yeah, we had custom-designed invitations and custom-designed cakes …
… plus arts and crafts so the girls can be creative, which of course required purchasing additional decorative pens and stickers to make the activity even more fun. And then we realized that we needed a way to keep these children in groups so that we would be able to keep track of them with our group leaders and move them from station to station easily. Enter the purchasing of the bandanas. Each group would have their own color. The bandanas made for one more great party favor, and they were only a dollar a piece, which sounds cheap … until you multiply it by the safe number of 50 and then add it to all of the other "minor" expenses.
And then, when actually devising our military-like schedule for the party, it hit us that we did not have as much time as we originally thought for all of our activities.
We became afraid that we might not have enough time for all the girls to get their pony ride, which was of course, totally unacceptable. One phone call (by Lisa, of course) to the pony rental lady later and we were hooked up with a fourth pony. Phew. What was another $75.00, especially when you (say it with me now) think about the fact that we are splitting it all two ways?
In the end, we jokingly said that we managed to throw the David Beckham birthday party, minus the mansion, the catering staff, the bouncy castle and real live ponies … oh wait, no, we had the real live ponies. And bandanas. And a tractor-pulled, rickety-wagon hayride. And we ate at picnic tables under a shelter. There was nary a clown or juggler in sight, yet our final bill resembled that of a small wedding.
Where did we go wrong? I am not actually sure that we did, really; because if we had cut corners and done less, it would not have been the party that we threw … and the party that we threw was the one that created the memories and the moments that our girls will always remember when they think about turning eight.
And I am so pleased that they will have that memory to cherish and keep hold of all the way through their ninth birthday parties which will take place in my garage, on the floor, with Domino's delivery and some Betty Crocker tubs of frosting. And that's all.


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TIPS for a Risky Period
Whoever is selling stocks these days is really appreciative of those who are pushing the market higher. Thanks to overnight rallies in China and Japan on Tuesday night, US stocks launched higher at the open on Wednesday. Now, neither the modest rally in Shanghai (led by official buying) and the bigger rally in Japan (on Prime Minister Abe's pledge to cut corporate taxes next year) had the slightest thing to do with items that impact the US, but the rally led a wave that rolled through futures markets around the globe until about seven minutes after traditional stock trading hours opened in New York, when the high of the day was set. The next six-and-a-half hours saw a 440-point decline in the Dow and around 50 in the S&P to a net loss of about 1.4% on the day.
"Gee, thanks!" said the pension fund guys who got to unload stocks about 3% higher than they otherwise would have. Who says the fast money monkeys don't have salutatory effects?
The clue that today's rally was not going to be sustained was actually in the energy markets. Prior equity oscillations had been mirrored with quite reasonable fidelity in the last week or two, but this morning energy markets were noticeably flat-to-down. Equities soon joined them.
Now, yesterday I mentioned that real yields are near their highest levels of the last five years, and that nominal yields are essentially in the middle of that range. I didn't illustrate the latter point; but see below (source: Bloomberg).
So it is clear, to me, where you would rather place your bets in fixed-income: with real yields around 65bps and nominal yields at 2.20, you only want to own nominal bonds if inflation is less than 1.55% for ten years. Note that if inflation is negative, then you do approximately the same with TIPS as with nominal bonds, since in both cases your nominal principal is preserved. So it is a narrow set of circumstances in which you do better owning nominals, and you don't do much better. On the other hand, there are long tails on the other side: ways that by owning TIPS you will do dramatically better.
I mention this, even though both nominal bonds and TIPS offer poor prospective returns, because it is the time of year when seasonally it is difficult to lose by owning fixed-income. The chart below (source: Bloomberg) shows the average change in nominal 10-year yields over the course of a calendar year for the last 30 years (gold), 10 years (white), and 5 years (red). Note that this isn't a pure seasonal chart because it doesn't correct for the average drift over the course of the year, but it suffices to show that buying bonds after the early-September backup has been a good strategy for many years…really, until the last five years, and even then it was a push between mid-Sep and mid-Nov.
So what I want to do in a period of uncertainty, headed into the fourth quarter, is to own TIPS, either outright or via an ETF like TIP. If the market comes unglued, then all interest rates should decline; if the market drops because real growth is weakening, then real rates should fall more than nominal rates (and in any event, owning TIPS gives you the positive tail exposure I mentioned above). If the market turns around and rallies, then energy probably recovers somewhat and this will help TIPS compared to nominals. But in any event, I am reducing risk into a very risky period.
A Relatively Good Deal Doesn't Mean It's A Good Deal
I suspect that everyone has 'default activities' that they automatically turn to when nothing else is working. For example, when I can't sleep and I've tried everything, I go downstairs and have a bowl of cereal. Some folks hit the gym when they're frustrated. Others go shopping when they're depressed.
And apparently, some people buy stocks when they're not turned on by anything else.
There wasn't any outrageously positive news today that sent the S&P +0.8% on the day. Initial Claims (371k) was slightly higher than expected (but I advocate ignoring that release in late December and most of January). The dollar dropped sharply against the Euro. I initially thought that this was because the President nominated as Treasury Secretary someone with no financial markets experience at all but a solid resumé of hard-nosed negotiations with Congress, but the Euro gained against all major currencies so it was perhaps due more to the fact that ECB President Draghi didn't ease further at the policy meeting held today (though they were not expected to). Bloomberg blamed a better-than-expected rise in Chinese exports, but the miss was well within the usual variance for a volatile number so that seems unlikely to me.
I am not entirely kidding about the frustration that "there's nothing else to invest in." I was just working today on a chart for a keynote presentation I have been asked to give at the Inside Indexing conference in Boston in April (See the link here, although most of the information on the site is still the 2012 data). I have previously run this chart, showing Enduring Investments' projected 10-year annualized real returns and risks (this is as of year-end 2012).
The slope of that line indicates that the current tradeoff of risk for return is 2.7:1. That is, for a 1% higher expected annualized real return, you will have to accept a 2.7% increase in the annualized standard deviation of annuitized real returns (the "right" measure of risk, as it measures the variance in the long-term real purchasing power of the investment). Now, here's the chart as of April 23, 2003, using all the same methodology:
The slope of the line back then was 9.1:1. That is, in 2003 you needed to take more than three times as much risk to add 1% in expected real return to your portfolio.
But notice something else also that is very important. The change in the slope of the line didn't come because expected equity or commodity index returns got better. Indeed, those two asset classes have roughly the same forward expected returns as they did back then, although slightly different risks the way we figure it. What happened is that the expected real returns to Treasuries, TIPS, and Corporate Bonds all fell precipitously.
Of course, this comes as no surprise to anyone, because we've all watched the Fed push interest rates down so far that we need extra decimal places. But I think comparing these charts you can understand a fundamental verity: people are not buying stocks because they expect awesome returns going forward (hopefully, anyway, because they're not going to get them). They're buying stocks because there's less reward to buying less-risky asset classes. Which is, after all, what the Fed was trying to do (this is called the "portfolio balance channel" in monetary policymaker parlance: force people to take more risk than they want, because it's a relatively good deal even if it's not a good deal in an absolute sense).
A few other notes about today's news:
Inflation markets were abuzz today, with inflation-linked bonds outpacing their nominal counterparts in many countries, because the UK's ONS announced that it has decided not to change the RPI that applies to Gilt linkers (inflation-linked bonds, like TIPS). The ONS (similar to our BLS) has been studying how to make certain important technical corrections to the way the RPI is calculated to make it more accurate; these changes would have had the effect of lowering the RPI significantly. As a consequence, these bonds have been trading at higher real yields, reflecting the fact that if the ONS chose to change the RPI formulation, the yield on the bond would have to be higher to compensate investors for that change if the same value was to be delivered. That is, instead of a yield of (for example) 1% added to expected inflation of 2.5%, the yield would rise to 1.5% to reflect the expectation that measured inflation would be at 2.0%. Many investors thought it was very likely that the ONS would choose one of several options for restating RPI that would have had such a deleterious effect on the bonds.
In the event, the ONS made the wise decision that it would be unfair to change the terms of the bonds retroactively by making a significant change to the RPI, so they will release a second index called the RPIJ, which will now be the benchmark index and featured in ONS releases. But they will also continue to calculate the RPI and the existing bonds will continue to track RPI.
This is a great relief to inflation-linked bondholders the world over, because it sets a very important precedent. The U.S. Treasury has long said that if the BLS made a material change to the way CPI was calculated, it would plan to continue paying on the basis of the old-formulation CPI (if it was still available) or a suitable alternative, but many investors from time to time have worried about whether they would do that in practice. It will be harder to do so with the ONS precedent.
Because investors had thought the ONS was leaning the other way, Gilt linkers rallied a bunch. For example, the UKTI 1.25%-11/2055 rallied 10 points on the day (the yield fell by about 20bps), which is an enormous move at the long end. The 5-year linker (Nov 2017) yield fell 35bps. This is likely to have a spillover effect in US TIPS, since the latter now look much better on a relative value basis than they did previously. Anyone who was long UK linkers yesterday is probably considering 30 year TIPS at a pickup of 42bps.
Finally, in Fed news Esther George, the President of the Kansas City Fed (replacing Thomas Hoenig) was on the tape today. "Fed's George Says Low Rates Risk Stoking Inflation Surge," said Bloomberg. No kidding? (See here for Market News' coverage of the same speech). At the very least, said George, the asset purchases will "almost certainly increase the risk of complicating the FOMC's exit strategy." Neither of those statements ought to be the least bit surprising or controversial, but it's unusual to hear a Fed official state these things so bluntly. But she may have crossed the line with this one, which might get her ostracized at the next FOMC meeting:
Like others, I am concerned about the high rate of unemployment, but I recognize that monetary policy, by contributing to financial imbalances and instability, can just as easily aggravate unemployment as heal it.
Keep speaking truth to power, Ms. George!
Incredible Inflation Bond Bargain
The economic data continues to drip weaker. Today's Chicago Fed index was the lowest since 2009, and while the Dallas Fed index rose, it remains negative. These aren't major indicators, but the general tone of data recently has been weak and nothing recently stands out as positive…except for Existing Home Sales, which raises other issues as noted last week. A friend in the southwest U.S. describes the local housing market in Phoenix as "definitely bubblicious" and passed along this link, describing how rental properties in Phoenix are seeing aggressive bidding from would-be renters.
Now, economic activity is also not exactly falling off a cliff, and some Americans insist that the economy is doing just great (these seem to be the Obama voters but I can't tell which way the causation runs – are they Obama voters because they think the economy is doing well, or do they think the economy is doing well because they are Obama voters and that's the story?). But to listen to Fed speakers, you would think economic collapse is imminent. Last week, Minnesota Fed President Kocherlakota[1] advocated keeping monetary policy extraordinarily accommodative until the unemployment rate gets down to 5.5% or until the medium-term outlook for inflation rises above 2.25% (on core PCE). Today, San Francisco Fed President Williams said that he expects the Fed to end asset purchases "before late 2014" (which, for those of you scoring at home, would imply the Fed has about a trillion dollars to go) and shouldn't raise rates until mid-2015. I wonder what it is that Fed officials are forced to check at the door: their brains, or their optimism?
No wonder that inflation-linked bonds are so expensive these days!
Which brings me, actually, to the main topic I wanted to discuss today. A reader asked me the other day about I-series savings bonds from the U.S. Treasury. For those of you who aren't familiar with them, I-bonds are like regular savings bonds except that they pay a real interest rate. That is, instead of getting a fixed coupon, you get a fixed coupon plus inflation, which is added to the principal and compounded until the bond is redeemed. You can buy them on Treasury Direct and keep them in electronic form, and in fact that's the best way to buy them. You can buy up to $10,000 per Social Security number per year.
And that limit turns out to be a good thing, because if it weren't for that limit hedge funds would be going nuts on series I bonds right now. Because the people who created I bonds never contemplated a negative real interest rate, or else thought the marketing angle of selling bonds at a negative real interest rate would be too bad, the fixed part of the I bond coupon is floored at 0%. This is significant, since the market rate for a 5-year TIPS bond right now is -1.59%. The coupon rate on the I-bond is set for the next six months of new sales (the fixed coupon stays the same for the life of any given bond) every May and November, and typically is set very close to the 5-year TIPS rate (see chart below, source Treasury Direct and Bloomberg).
Notice, though, that at the far right-hand part of the chart the last few I-bonds issued have had coupons of 0%, since the actual TIPS rate has been considerably below that. And that means that if you are going to buy TIPS, then before you spend a single dollar on the April-2017 TIPS you should buy your full $10,000 limit on I-bonds, because you save 1.59% compounded for at least 5 years. That's an extra 8.2% total return on your money over that period![2]
Occasionally, there can be good deals when the TIPS market moves between the setting of a coupon and the next coupon set. When the current series coupon was set at zero, back in May 2012, the advantage was only about 125bps and it's now 159bps. But the current advantage is in good measure structural, rather than due to timing. As a consequence of that structural mistake (not allowing a negative real coupon), combined with the TIPS market's rally since May, the current spread is actually the highest ever seen for the program (see chart below, source Treasury Direct and Bloomberg).
I don't regularly recommend specific trade ideas in this (public) space, for a whole host of regulatory reasons, but I can say this: look into series I-bonds unless you (a) don't care about inflation, (b) feel like you need to take lots more risk, (c) feel comfortable that if you wait long enough, you'll get a better investment opportunity in inflation-linked bonds, or (d) have so much money that $10,000 per member of your household, per year, simply isn't meaningful.
And if it's case (d), then please write because I need more friends like you!
[1] Kocherlakota is described by some as a hawk, but he can most accurately be described as 'confused.' He once explained that the Fed might have to raise interest rates, even if inflation expectations were low, to force them higher, getting the causality exactly backward.
[2] Note that if you do not intend to hold the I-bond for at least 5 years, there is a penalty associated with early redemption – you lose some interest accrual. Even with that, it's not a terrible deal given how cheap these are now, and most investors should have some inflation protection in their portfolios to diversify the risk of all of those investments (equities, nominal bonds) that do poorly in inflationary environments. So, for the buy-and-hold part of your portfolio, these are terrific.
TIPS Are No Longer Cheap, But Still Preferable
TIPS have gone from being rich on an absolute basis, but cheap against nominal bonds, to (still) rich on an absolute basis, but fair versus nominal bonds as nominal yields have risen. That statement is based, however, on a static equilibrium – given where nominal yields are now, after a 40bp selloff since July, real yields have fallen slightly (see chart, source Bloomberg – nominal yields in yellow, real yields in white) and are about right.
I have previously documented this move, pointing out the rise in breakevens and/or inflation swaps. However, because I was traveling I didn't write anything following Friday's skyrocketing breakevens, which followed through on Monday to within a couple of basis points of all-time highs (see chart, source Bloomberg).
That leap seemed exceptionally surprising to some, given the weakness of core CPI on Friday. But inflation expectations on Friday were still reacting to the Fed's open-ended QE move, which had moved 10-year breakevens to near 2.50% on Thursday. After sleeping on it, many investors realized what we realized immediately: there is nothing deflationary about buying bonds without limit, using money printed for the purpose. The Fed professes to be concerned about the negative tail risk to growth (which they can do nothing about), and ignores the positive tail risk to inflation (which they could do something about, if they chose). It is not at all surprising that breakevens leapt.
As I said, these recent gyrations have moved TIPS to being approximately fair value relative to nominal bonds, given the yield of nominal bonds. But the further question is whether those nominal yields are themselves at fair value, or are on the way to higher or lower levels.
A reasonable question to interpose here is this: is this as good as it gets for bonds? What could be better than unlimited Fed buying? Well…I suppose unlimited buying in Treasuries, as opposed to mortgages, would be better, but with 10-year yields at 1.81% one would think that both a considerable amount of buying and a considerable amount of bad economic news is priced in. To be sure, the news continues to be bad; Friday's -10.41 print in the Empire Manufacturing Survey was the lowest since the dip in 2008-09. Lower than the "cash for clunkers" hangover in 2010. Lower than the post-Japanese-tsunami drag in 2011.
But consider this: in the throes of a much worse crisis (especially demographically), and with the Japanese central bank making only timid efforts to resist deflation – and certainly not buying every bond in sight, as the Fed is – the average yield of 10-year Japanese government bonds (JGBs) from 1997-2007 was 1.51% (see chart, source Bloomberg).
Even if you take the crisis-on-a-crisis period of post-2008 for Japan, the average 10-year yield is about 1.15% – and that's with deflation in full bloom and the central bank until the last year or so doing little to fight it.
In Japan, core inflation is at -0.6% over the last 12 months, and 10-year yields are at 0.81%. Our core inflation is 1.3% higher and our nominal yields only 1% higher. There is a lot of disinflation and/or Fed buying that is already in the price. I am not saying that we ought to be selling nominal bonds here; I've gotten burned on that call in the past, and anyway we are in the middle of the strongest bullish seasonal period of the year for bonds. But the Fed just added to the length of the possible "high inflation tail" outcome – and I fail to see what the offsetting bullish tail is. I can't imagine why anyone would buy nominal bonds at these levels, given what the Fed and their pals at other central banks are doing.
But if nominal yields do rise further, this means that TIPS yields will eventually start to rise as well. I still prefer TIPS to nominals, and I still want to be long breakeven inflation, but admittedly it is a more difficult trade at these levels than it was back on August 7th, when I first noted that our Fisher model indicated a short position in TIPS and a long position in breakevens.
I say this, going into a TIPS auction tomorrow with 10-year TIPS yields near all-time lows and 10-year breakevens as I noted near all-time highs. It's not going to feel like a bargain for anyone, but a year from now, it may seem like it.
Now, make no mistake: the core inflation print on Friday of +0.052% was a definite surprise on the weak side. But it wasn't quite as weak as it looked. In fact, thanks to Housing and Transportation, 62% of the CPI major subgroups saw their year-on-year rates of change rise, while only 38% (Food/Beverages, Apparel, Recreation, Education/Communication, and Medical Care) saw those rates decline. Much of the weakness in core inflation came from apparel (which is interesting and worth watching to see if it continues) and large moves in used cars and airline fares. Moreover, as I observed last week, the year-ago comparisons get much easier for the next four months, so that the current 1.9% core inflation print is likely to be the lowest for this year. If it's not, then we'll need to re-assess what is going on, but for now nothing has changed about my forecast. Do note that the Cleveland Fed's Median CPI was unchanged again up at a 2.3% y/y rate of change, reinforcing the fact that the core decline over the last few months has been driven by some outlier price movements rather than by a shift in the central moment of the distribution.


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Cumberland County Imagination Library Party set for June 1
Dolly Parton's Cumberland County Imagination Library will host its 2013 Birthday Party on Saturday, June 1, from 10 A.M. to noon.
The event will take place at the Art Circle Library, 3 East Street in Crossville.
The program includes Ident-A-Kid Fingerprinting, free ice cream and storytelling Model Railroad – Cat in the Hat. Music will be supplied by Marty Gibson
Registration is at 9:45 A.M. All children five years of age and under are welcome to this free event.
Incorporation Committee meeting cancelled
The Incorporation Committee (made up of member volunteers) has worked diligently for the past year in analyzing the pros and cons of incorporation — had planned a meeting for May 23 but that meeting has been cancelled and is hoped to be rescheduled.
Renegade Mountain to Host Open House
The public is cordially invited and encouraged to attend the Renegade Mountain Community Open House on Saturday, May 25 beginning at noon.
Pack up the kids, come and see what "Life Elevated at 2700 Feet" is all about! The day begins by arriving on the mountain and following the signs to our registration center located at the top of the mountain.
There, each visitor will receive information about the mountain, a list detailing the day's events, times and locations, and a map for self-guided tours of the community.
The main event of the day is the "Tour of Homes", featuring many of the mountain's 142 beautiful homes open for tours by the public.
Some of the homes are for sale, some for rent and others are open just to show off the possibilities of mountain living.
Personal guides with detailed maps will be standing by to show any of the 1351 lots and living units on the mountain, many of which sport a 60-100 mile view.
Then stay for the free BBQ and potluck dinner beginning at 5 P.M. and hosted by the Cumberland Point Condominium Association. ry and see the sights.
And, yes there is water! The Community had some water issues in 2012, but the State of Tennessee stepped in and the issues are now resolved, in fact, the monthly water rate was reduced by $10.
The Renegade entrance is located near Crab Orchard (I40, exit 329), just 2 miles east on U.S. 70. For more information find Renegade Mountain on Facebook, visit their website at www.renegademountaincc.com or call the President at 931-200-2411.
Russian River Cruise
Friends Traveling Together are busy planning a Russian River Cruise through Grand Circle Travel in July of 2014.
An informational meeting will be held at the home of Tom and Molly Hartman on Saturday, June 8 at 4 P.M. If you are interested in traveling to Russia, please join us. RSVP to Molly at 931-287-0458.
Hebbertsburg celebrates start of summer
Summer is officiall here on June 21, but, things will start heating up on Saturday, June 1, at the Hebbertsburg Dinner/Dance.
The fun begins at 6 P.M. and continues til 9 P.M. with music provided by the Sounds of the Country band.
This is Classic Country Music at its best, with Rob Baker (vocals and lead guitar), Terry King (steel guitar), Brian Rigney (drums) and Ed Lee (bass guitar). Whether you like to dance or just sit and listen, you will enjoy these talented guys.
What a treat for only $3 per adult admission donation; children 16 and under are free.
In addition to great music, you can be served a home-cooked spaghetti dinner with bread and a beverage, provided by our Hebbetsburg ladies for only $6. Desserts and/or additional beverages are just a $1 each.
Speaking of a $1, that's all it takes to possibly win a delicious cake when you participate in our 'Fun and Famous' Cake-walk.
This Dinner/Dance, held the first Saturday of each month through September at the Hebbertsburg Community Center, is their main fundraiser and all the monies go to pay the band and for maintenance and upkeep of the Community Center building. All the workers are volunteers.
The Community Center is only about 10 minutes from the 4-Way Stop in Fairfield Glade heading North; watch for the signs, or call Carolyn at 931-707-7837 for more directions or information.
CPAP Support Group Meeting set for June 6
Cumberland Medical Center CPAP Support Group Meeting is scheduled for June 6 at 6 P.M. in Fairfield Glade Conference Center.
These meetings are a great opportunity to meet other cpap users, get help with masks and get answers to your questions by Registered Technologist and Therapist.
You can also see the newest CPAP equipment out there. Bring anyone interested in learning more about Sleep Apnea and CPAP therapy.
The guest speaker this month is Dr. Lana Jeradeh Boursoulian and the topic will be sleepwalking. Please contact Cyndy Whitson at 931-459-7249 to reserve your seat.
Entrepreneurs to meet
The next meeting for "Enduring Entrepreneurs MeetUp" will be Tuesday, May 21 at the Cumberland Business Incubator (CBI). Bring your own lunch.
Networking with other business owners begins at 11:30 and the meeting begins at noon.
The presenter for this meeting is Sany Ledford. She will share information on a topic that will help each of us in our businesses. Visitors are welcome to attend.
More information can be found on the website: www.meetup.com/Enduring-Entrepreneurs or contact the Organizer, Connie Price 931-287-0123.
Elks "All-you-can-eat" Fish Fry this Friday
The Elks Lodge is still serving their famous Fish Fry from 4 to 7 P.M. on May 24.
This all-inclusive price is $10 per person, and you can enjoy "All-you-can-eat" fish and sides of coleslaw, french fries or baked potato and dessert. For the non-fish lover, they offer a single serving of a half baked chicken which includes all side dishes, children 8 years and younger half price, children under 3 years eat free.
The Elks Lodge is open to its members and guests. If you would like additional information call the Lodge at 931-484-0150. They are located at 1145 Genesis Rd. which is about 1/2 mile south of I-40. Lodge hours are 12-9 P.M. Monday through Saturday.
Glade Fire Department to host Pancake Breakfast
The Fairfield Glade Fire Department will hosts its Pancake Breakfast at the Fairfield Glade Conference Center on Saturday, May 25, from 6 to 11 A.M.
The cost will be $6 for adults and $2 for children under 10. The menu will consist of orange juice, coffee, milk, sausage and all you can eat pancakes — all cooked and served by the Glade Fire Fighters and Ladies Auxiliary.
Singles Game Night set for June 3
Are you single and 55 or older? How about joining us for a fun evening of fellowship and games? Your new BFF (Best Friend Forever) just might be there, too! So, try a new social activity sponsored by the Fairfield Glade United Methodist Church (231 Westchester Drive) on June 3, from 7 – 9 P.M. in their Fellowship Hall. No religious affiliation is required. There is a $1 charge for refreshments.
FOL to host Presidents, Hogs & Pies mystery
On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the Friends of the Art Circle Library will host aother Mystery Tour. It will be $79 per person – of which $5 goes back to Friends of the Library.
For details please call Elaine Johnston at 931-484-8228 or email [email protected]
Elks Lodge offering Shrimp Dinner & more
The Elks Lodge is offering a Shrimp dinner on May 31, in which you will receive 24 shrimp three different ways — scampi, fried or cocktail.
They will serve between 5 and 7 P.M. and the price is $14 per person
Don't wait, reservations close May 26 so call the Lodge today and get your name and how you want your shrimp cooked on the list! Call the Lodge for more details at 931-484-0150.
• The Elks have a new price — just $8 — for breakfast that will be served on May 19 from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M.
They have added new items to the menu. Te breakfast is still an all-you-can-eat event with made-to-order omelets with all the fixings. Swedish pancakes for the asking with several sweet toppings to choose from. On their refreshment table they offer, orange juice, fruit, coffee or tea. For the sweet tooth, they have delicious mini doughnuts. There is a tasty breakfast bar with country fried steak, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, country gravy, potatoes, and biscuits. Cost for children 8 years and under is $4 and children under 3 years eat free.
Call the Lodge for more details at 931-484-0150.
• The Elks Lodge is serving up homemade beef tacos and burritos on May 17, from 5-7 P.M. You can buy two tacos or one burrito with refried beans for $3.50. They do carry outs, so if you want an order to go, just call and they will have it ready for you to pick up.
For more information on any of these events, call the Lodge at 931-484-0150.
Glade Hospice Life Butterfly Release in June
The Fairfield Glade Hospice Auxiliary will present the 3rd Annual Hospice Benefit Celebration of Life Butterfly Release on Saturday, June 15, on the Courthouse Lawn in Crossville, from 9 to 10 A.M.
The program will be an uplifting and joyful experience remembering those we have loved and lost, including a reading of the names we are celebrating, a butterfly blessing, special music, commemorative readings, and the release of the butterflies to mingle with the crowd and flowering plants.
The donation for the butterflies is $20 for one name to be remembered or $100 for six different names to be remembered. They encourage you to attend their event, bring a lawn chair and wear brightly colored clothing. Those unable to attend can still reserve butterflies in the name of a family member or friend and these will also be released. Butterfly order forms are available at the Hospice office at 30 East Adams Street.
Mountain Memories Quilt show scheduled
Ever wondered what that old quilt you inherited from Grandma Sue might be worth? Or, maybe you have a quilt that you made and want to have it insured. You can have all of this taken care of at the Cumberland County Mountain Memories Quilt show on June 14 and 15.
The written appraisals will be $40 and an oral appraisal will be $10. Appointments may be made by contacting Marsha Radtke at 931-456-6932.
The 7th Biennial Mountain Memories Quilt show will take place at the Community Complex (Fairgrounds) on June 14, 15, and 16. Over $1000 will be awarded to quilters in 13 categories.
On Sunday, June 16, Father's Day, all gentlemen will be admitted free! The show even awards a 'Gentleman's Choice' award voted on by all men in attendance.
The deadline for entry forms and fees is Wednesday, May 8. More information on entries, rules, and a map may be found at www.ccpiecemakers.com.
Bible study tech spring session is offered
Kelly Minter will be the DVD instructor for our spring session, "Nehemiah: A Heart That Can Break." Nehemiah is a seven-week study that includes seven video sessions and real life ways to put feet to your faith.
Are you ready to learn from Nehemiah and move you in compassion to be the hands and feet of Jesus? If so join them April 8 – June 10, 2013, 1:30 to 3:30 P.M. at Fairfield Glade United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
Cost of the class is $20 for the workbook. Pre-registration is suggested. Please send your name, address, email address and phone number with your check made out to BIBLE STUDY TECH to Bible Study Tech, 104 Prescott Lane, Fairfield Glade, TN. 38558. For more information call 931-456-9282 or 931-459-4947.


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Castle Clout 3D for Nintendo 3DS™
Smash castles, crush enemies and enjoy epic 3D trebuchet action with the release of Castle Clout 3D from California-based game developer Selectsoft! Featuring all new painted backgrounds, 150 levels, vivid 3D effects, new foes, special weapons, and a "hot seat" multiplayer mode, Castle Clout 3D brings medieval mayhem to the Nintendo 3DS™ like never before. Battle through the Forest, Frost, Desert, Jungle and Burning Lands to unite the empire and save the kingdom from the Darkness. Choose between the ballista and trebuchet, load it with ammo and release at the right angle to send boulders, bombs and more blazing through the air in front of immersive 3D painted backgrounds. Batter walls and topple foes while avoiding allies and earn Gold, Silver and Bronze trophies for each level. Then use the builder to create custom levels out of wood, stone and metal, filled with a variety of colorful foes. Or challenge friends and family in multiplayer mode and see who emerges the victor in a medieval battle royal.
Developed by Selectsoft in partnership with Teyon, Castle Clout 3D combines exciting physics-based play with clever strategy, entertaining sound effects and stunning visuals. Castle Clout 3D will be available through the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS on January 30, 2014 for $4.99 (USD).
Full press release online at PRWeb.
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I am stumped trying to add a pdf to my blog so it is visible
The blog I need help with is artpedagogy.wordpress.com.
Me too I also can't see my pdf. I've tried uploading it directly in a post and saving it in my media library. Also for presentations (is it even possible?)
We need links to the blogs you are talking about before we can help.
Me too! I'm working on this blog this week - rather stumbling through. I tried to upload a pdf file from my computer...It looked like I followed the directions. I'm on visual in the create/edit a page. I hit the media button - I selected upload from my computer. I had saved a word file as a pdf and see the llittle logo in my computer...but it doesn't seem to work..
pdf's can not be 'seen' directly in the blog. If you upload them via Add Media the pdf will display as a link, which will only display if you (or your reader) have Adobe Reader installed.
To make them visible on your blog I suggest to use Scribd
Upload the PDF the same way that you upload an image.
media > add new > browse > upload
Husdal's suggesting of using Scribd works great for displaying PDF files.
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LionCage Shredding, New York City's Leading Document Shredding Company, Proudly Partners with the NYPD to Combat Identity Theft in All Five Boroughs
The New York City Police Department Partners with LionCage Shredding, New York's Trusted Leader in Document Shredding and Hard Drive Destruction, to Fight Identity Theft
Nov 29, 2013, 16:39 ET
NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Identity theft is one of the most serious and fastest-growing white-collar crimes in the United States, a fact which much of the population remains blissfully ignorant of. Additionally, even those who do grasp the seriousness of identity theft do not fully comprehend its frequency, opting instead to view themselves as somehow immune to such criminal activity.
Unfortunately this attitude causes many individuals to overlook the necessity of security measures such as effective document shredding or complete hard drive destruction. This lack of security consciousness is one of the primary reasons identity theft has been allowed to run rampant throughout the United States.
In the hopes of combating such criminal activity, the NYPD and LionCage Shredding have banded together to make destroying personal and potentially compromising information easier and more accessible than ever. In an effort to raise consciousness of America's most widespread white-collar crime, LionCage has agreed to make the state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly MDX-1 Mobile Shredding Unit from its fleet available for public use on the 1st Sunday of each month.
The precise location of these New York City document-shredding stations will vary throughout the five boroughs in the hopes of raising public awareness and providing easy access to secure document shredding throughout New York City.
The first such public document-shredding station will take place at the Staten Island Mall on Sunday, December 1, 2013 between the hours of 11 am and 2 pm.
All paper will be shredded on location in a LionCage state-of-the-art shredding truck and 100% of the paper will be recycled.
"It is our greatest pleasure to give back in this season of giving and we are committed to providing regular free events with the NYPD throughout the year all across New York City," stated Eli Rowe, CEO of LionCage Shredding. "LionCage Shredding is proud to work closely with the NYPD Crime Prevention Unit and Community Affairs in the fight for a safer, more trustworthy America."
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Felipe Massa leads from Fernando Alonso, both for Scuderia Ferrari, during practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix. (This cannot be the race, in which Fernando shunted out on the opening lap after snapping off a front wing, because both cars are intact!) Felipe finished a somewhat disappointing 5th in the GP after an impressive qualifying performance to grab 2nd on the grid.
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Sketching on a stack of hay
This week I sketched at a farm for my newspaper column. The story and sketches are posted on my Seattle Times blog.
Looking at my iPhone photo now, I realize that I should really clean my watercolors pans more often, but, I have to say, those dry stains sometimes save you the time of mixing new colors.
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Can I ask an odd artist question of you? Do you sketch with you right hand or left hand? (if you're right hand dominant)ReplyDelete
Hi Amanda, thanks for stopping by. I sketch with my right hand. Occasionally, I try to do it with my left hand and the results are quite interesting. To draw with your non-dominant hand is an exercise that many art instructors recommend. Have you tried it?ReplyDelete
Thanks for responding! I try to sketch with my left hand as often as I can. I think it's interesting that even if the lines aren't as strait, the image is more correct.ReplyDelete
I like the tractor. Your sketch style is fun!ReplyDelete
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Grinding on my ninth grade teacher. Dreams really do come true
i went to disney world today with my friends, met snow white, then saw her later at a bar. she is naked next to me in her bed, passwed out. when you wish upon a star...
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The Capacity Operated Relay – A lesser known "Weird Science" project that works like magic.
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Build a Showman Bass amp head – Modeled after a Fender Dual Showman
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Canby FFA wins national award
The Nutrients for Life Foundation announced Canby FFA as the 2014 Helping Communities Grow at-large category winner. Canby FFA won $5,000 for helping to improve the soil in the local community garden.
The FFA chapters that participated in this years Helping Communities Grow chapter recognition program left our judges impressed with outstanding quality and creativity, said Foundation Executive Director Harriet Wegmeyer. These students put a tremendous amount of time and effort into educating their communities about the role fertilizers play in our lives. It is an honor to present these checks to such deserving students.
FFA members collected soil samples from several garden plots and tested the soil. From the results, they calculated how to adjust the soils pH and nutrient value with the addition of crop nutrients and compost. FFA members tested their calculations by growing plants in their greenhouse soil. Next they tested the plant material for nutrient content to ensure the plants were nutrient rich. The last step of their project was education. They taught community members that compost and crop nutrients are beneficial to the soil and directly correlate to yields.
The FFA chapter from Troy, Mo., won the second place award of $3,000, and the Corinth Holders FFA chapter, of Wendell, N.C., won $1,000.
Students in participating FFA chapters developed and executed community-based education programs based upon the Nutrients for Life Foundation curriculum, Nourishing the Planet in the 21st Century.
The curriculum was developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study and reviewed by the Smithsonian Institution to provide field-tested, standards-based classroom activities to help students learn about scientific solutions to food production.
The Nutrients for Life Foundation spearheads the mission to educate students and the public about critical soil nutrients in our growing world.
Since formation 10 years ago, the Foundation has reached over six million students. Nutrients for Lifes 2013 partnership with Discovery Education has added a new dimension of innovative, interactive digital resources for the modern classroom.


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Dr. Krishnendu Roy, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Technology was invited by the Green Design Institute-Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting lecturer for the Chair of Sustainability on 4th June 2016 at Pittsburgh-USA.
He imparted lecture on the topic of "The Impact of Go-Green Refrigerants on the Environment " amidst the laureates of their respective fields in the WES hall at the campus of GDI. His next lecture will be in November 2016 at the same venue.


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At work we've been watching a nest of eggs. This is the second time we've had this opportunity. A Killdeer bird laid her eggs in the gravel outside by the parking lot. It's amazing that she'd lay them in such a high traffic area, but she's happy there. Well happy unless we are bothering her. Then she uses a 'broken wing' technique to draw you away. She will amble and squawk like her wing is broken and lure you away from the nest. Dad, too. He's just as protective. (we did post a sign warning people to step carefully!)
Well, the babies hatched today and of course we've been outside watching. These birds are amazing. They are called precocial, meaning they are ready to run move around as soon as they hatch. Here are some pictures I took, though mama wasn't pleased!
There are three little puff balls and one egg left. I'm assuming it won't hatch, but I'll check a little later. Aren't they cute?!?
UPDATE**** I am happy to report there are 4 little puff balls now! And Mama is STILL mad at me 🙂


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Michelle R. Kubala was promoted from the ranks of lieutenant to the new chief of "C" District in the Ferry-Fillmore area.
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coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black(adj)
a very dark black
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of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
coal-black; the blackest black
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Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood says manager Arsene Wenger can stay beyond his new contract - which expires in 2011.
"If Arsene feels that he still wants to be in charge of the team then there is no reason why he shouldn't do that.
"If he decides that he wants to leave the day-to-day running of the team then he will hopefully stay on in another capacity. You do not want to lose someone with his knowledge about football."


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I've spent the past few days re-reading your advice about letting my kid go to Hawaii. Alone.
"You'll miss her, but you'll get over it," wrote Jen at Semantically Driven. "I'm sure you deserve a week to yourself."
"Do it," commanded Bad Mummy. "Some space is good for the both of you."
John at Single Parent Travel even included a super detailed kid's packing list in his comment!
First, thank you so much for chiming in! But here's what kind of shocked me: NOT one of you told me to keep my kid at home.
So, I checked in with M one more time. Me: "Are you sure?"
Her: "I'm sure, I'm sure!!"
I got all ready to call her friend's grandparents — to thank them profusely. No doubt, I do need some time off. In fact, Dr. Leah, aka The Sanity Fairy , has been encouraging me to take a little breather. I can't pretend that I'm doing this all and staying sane. (You get that, don't you?)
Still, I worried. (Some might use stronger words, like "obsessed.")
Here's what really felt hard: nine days. She and I have never been apart for more than three days. I could do a week. I'm sure that she could too, easy. But nine days… NINE DAYS!
In the meantime, that LG listened to me worry. I went on and on — and that's when we both looked at each other and smiled. Wait, what if?… Why don't we go to Hawaii, too?
No, it's not what you think. I'm not hiding in my kid's suitcase. I'm not going as a chaperon. And I'm not going to tag along for kids' snow cones.
But I AM going to hike for one week, adults only, while my kid lives it up on her own. At the week's end, I'll pick her up for a few days of family fun, including snorkeling for her first time, before we head home.
And hey, if she misses me, we'll always be on the same island, right?… Okay, I'll stop now.
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Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Money
|U.S. Attorney's Office January 22, 2010
ANCHORAGE, AK—United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that on January 21, 2010, Cheri Ray, of Wasilla, Alaska, pled guilty in federal court in Anchorage to embezzling money from a health care benefit program.
Ray, age 38, pled guilty in front of Chief United States District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline.
According to Assistant United States Attorney Aunnie Steward, who prosecuted the case, the facts supporting Ray's plea reveal that from March 2003, through August 2006, while employed as a bookkeeper for a company receiving health care benefits, she embezzled and stole approximately $75,000.
According to information filed with the court, Ray used many methods to embezzle and steal the money from the company including, but not limited to, the following: Ray obtained a credit card in her own name that was billed to the company and used the card to make personal purchases, including buying airplane tickets for her family, paying a deposit on a new truck, and purchasing personal computers for her household; she withdrew cash from ATMs on the company's credit card; she issued and negotiated duplicate paychecks to herself; paid personal bills with electronic transfers of funds from the company's accounts; paid herself unearned wages over time; and made payments from the company's accounts to her personal accounts.
Judge Beistline scheduled sentencing for Ray on April 5, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. The law provides for a maximum of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based on the seriousness of the offenses and the criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
The Anchorage Police Department Financial Crimes Unit, working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, conducted the investigation that led to the prosecution of Ray.


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Two new corrections for Utah group that retracted two Cell Metabolism papers for missing notebooks
We have an update on the case of a University of Utah lab that retracted two Cell Metabolism papers last month after a fired lab technician disposed of two lab notebooks without permission. The team has now corrected two other papers, one in Blood and the other in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Here's the notice from Blood:
Correction to De Domenico et al. 110 (10): 3780
De Domenico I, Vaughn MB, Yoon D, Kushner JP, Ward DM, Kaplan J. Zebrafish as a model for defining the functional impact of mammalian ferroportin mutations. Blood. 2007;110(10):3780–3783.
On page 3781 of the 15 November 2007 issue, there is an error in Figure 1. The panel depicting Fpn-GFP N144H in Figure 1B was inadvertently duplicated from another panel in the original published figure. The authors have replaced the panel with the correct image. The findings of the paper have not been affected by the error. The authors apologize to the editors and readers for this mistake. The corrected figure is shown.
Figure 1
Expression of mutant Fpn in zebrafish affects hemoglobinization of erythrocytes. Zebrafish embryos were injected with wild-type or mutant Fpn-GFP. At 48 hpf, the embryos were homogenized (A), and Fpn-GFP levels were assayed by Western blot analysis or (B) stained with o-dianisidine to detect hemoglobinized cells (brown color denoted by the arrow). The figures are representative of 6 different experiments in which 100 embryos were injected with each construct. The survival rate (n = 600) was 69.6% for embryos injected with wild-type constructs, 50.8% for embryos injected with H32R constructs, 64.7% for embryos injected with N144H constructs, and 48.2% for embryos injected with N174I constructs. (C) Embryos were injected with wild-type or H32R constructs with or without coinjection of iron-dextran. The survival rate was 70% for wild-type embryos injected with or without iron-dextran, 50% for wild-type embryos injected with H32R without iron-dextran, and 62% for wild-type embryos injected with iron-dextran.
And here's the one from the JCI:
Hepcidin mediates transcriptional changes that modulate acute cytokine-induced inflammatory responses in mice
Ivana De Domenico, Tian Y. Zhang, Curry L. Koening, Ryan W. Branch, Nyall London, Eric Lo, Raymond A. Daynes, James P. Kushner, Dean Li, Diane M. Ward and Jerry Kaplan
Published June 1, 2012
Original citation: J. Clin. Invest. 2010;120(7): 2395–2405. doi:10.1172/JCI42011.
Citation for this corrigendum: J. Clin. Invest. 2012;122(6):2326. doi:10.1172/JCI63977.
The anti-Fpn and anti-Jak2 rows in Figure 2A were reprinted from I. De Domenico et al. (ref. 10) without attribution. They represent the same rows as were present in Figure 3B of that manuscript.
The authors regret the error.
Of note: Reference 10 of the JCI paper is a PNAS paper that the team has already corrected, as we reported last month. According to the PNAS correction notice, Figure 3b was
replaced due to errors in preparing the figure for publication.
So it's unclear which version the figures in the JCI paper came from. It's also unclear whether the same dismissed technician involved in the Cell Metabolism retractions was involved in these figure errors.
We've been trying since Monday to contact senior author Jerry Kaplan for comment on those issues, as well as to find out whether there are any more corrections or retractions planned, and will update with anything we find out.
Hat tip: Commenter Anonymous
I don't buy it (the "inadvertently duplicated" argument). Take the 2 images that are allegedly duplicated and crank up the contrast – it's the same fish, but NOT the same image. Someone didn't accidentally paste in the same image twice, they pasted 2 different images of the same fish. The deception was further up the production chain!
You are right. Hence why I think the initial blame on lab technician for their first two retractions was not entirely the technician's fault if they didn't even originally credit the technician.
why to blame lab technician, when credit goes to first author and corresponding author? Without Supervisors' involvement, these malpractices are impossible. That is where science is in truble. Supervisor propose hypothesis and ask to show this and that. Successful first authors make data for supervisors and left over innocent goos scsientists become whistle blower!
"My lab tech ate my notebooks!" yeah…
Junk Science wrote: "In addition it looks like the Anti-GFP blot (the two cut and pasted bands to the right) of Figure 4A is very similar to the two first lanes of the Anti-Tubulin blot in Figure 1C, however with longer exposure time in Figure 4A."
You are right. Bands are similar … but one blot was labeled "anti-GFP" whereas the other was labeled "anti-tubulin".
do you think those papers are not trustworthy? what would be the next step? too many of these cases are distrubing..
You can find the original Blood picture of the zebrafish here:
One fish is fuzzy compared to the first one. It cannot be a copy-paste picture.
I am wondering if it was made fuzzy to hide it?
If you look at the retracted papers there are some that look like image manipulation too. For example the western blot in figure 1C in 'The Role of Ubiquitination in Hepcidin- Independent and Hepcidin-Dependent Degradation of Ferroportin'. The lower FT blot looks to be an inversion of the upper PM blot, which could only be achieved by image manipulation and not by accidentally scanning your blot the wrong way round (this would create a mirror image)…. Yet again the western blot!
@Anon: You are absolutely correct! We could probably find more if we just keep digging deeper, but hopefully we don't have to and the person(s) behind these anti-scientific shortcuts in this lab get the proper punishment.
Here is a paper just published in Cell Metabolism. Authors demonstrate that hypothesis from De Domenico are WRONG! This paper is the PNAS (De Domenico 2009) mega-corrected some weeks ago. In the correction De Domenico & Kaplan wrote: "These errors do not affect the conclusions of the article."
No comment.
Molecular Mechanism of Hepcidin-Mediated Ferroportin Internalization Requires Ferroportin Lysines, Not Tyrosines or JAK-STAT.
Cell Metab. 2012 Jun 6;15(6):905-17
Yes absolutely. There is an inversion in figure 1C. It's like that in all papers!
@Junk Science
"and the person(s) behind these anti-scientific shortcuts in this lab get the proper punishment."
I'm not sure. Wait and see.
@Ressci Integrity
"do you think those papers are not trustworthy?"
Here you can have an answer:
Molecular Mechanism of Hepcidin-Mediated Ferroportin Internalization Requires Ferroportin Lysines, Not Tyrosines or JAK-STAT.
Cell Metab. 2012 Jun 6;15(6):905-17
This paper demonstrates that some hypothesis from De Domenico/Kaplan's group are wrong.
For me there is a correlation between a wrong hypothesis and wrong datas. And I am sure that after several years, scientist involve in this manipulation finish to believe that this hypothesis is true. They are so sure that it becomes normal to do a flip/inversion in a western blot instead to do the REAL experiment. It is like a vicious circle.
@iron-man (are you in the iron scientific field and/or do you like Black Sabbath?)
Good job iron-man! The Cell Metab. 2012 Jun 6;15(6):905-17 paper is really taking the bull by the horns. Hopefully, there will be more editors/journals that start to publish papers that questions the prevailing model.
@Junk Science
"are you in the iron scientific field?"
Yep I am interested by this topic.
It seems that this bad Domenico's story ends. No more correction. No more retraction.
Read also the following link:
And this one:
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