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July 7, July 21, and August 5, 2009
bring changes, good and bad. Usually they come in pairs twice a year,
but this summer we will have 3 eclipses: a lunar, a solar, and then
another lunar. Most of us find changes difficult, even if they are
positive. With all the changes we have been dealing with over the past
year due to the collapse in the economy, I'm not sure any of us are
really going to want to deal with any more. Well... like it or not,
change is coming. Do we want to sit around and cry, or do we want to
accept the challenges and grow into richer and more spiritually healthy
human beings? It's our choice.
The first two eclipses will be in
Cancer and Capricorn, and the third will reflect between Leo and
Aquarius. (I have good news for Leo's and Aquarians, this will be your
last set of eclipses. It will be another 8 years before they come back
to your signs.) The lunar eclipses will be penumbral eclipses, which
means that just the edge of the earth's shadow will be crossing the
moon. But, the solar eclipse on July 21 will be a total eclipse, so it
will pack a strong wallop.
The first eclipse will be a lunar
eclipse on July 7th at 5:38 AM EDT. If we were only dealing with the
eclipse itself, we may find that the event would be less dramatic. But,
there will be other stellar aspects happening over the days leading up
to the eclipse, so get ready for drama. The eclipse will consist of the
Sun in Cancer at an opposition to the Moon in Capricorn, and Saturn
over in Virgo will be making a positive aspect between the two.
Normally I would say that there could be some positive changes in
business and at home if we've been working hard. But, Mars the ruler of
energy and sex will be fighting with Neptune and Jupiter, and Venus,
the goddess of love, will be upset with Pluto. There could be lots of
fights, disputes, auto accidents, jealousy, and financial losses on top
of the eclipse energy.
The second eclipse on July 21st (July 22nd
Europe) at 10:35 PM EDT will be a total solar eclipse at 29 degrees
Cancer. The 29th degree is a karmic point, and it can bring out the
heroes. People born with their suns or rising signs at the 29th degree
of any sign often like to rescue people. This time, not only do we have
a powerful eclipse at a karmic degree, its also going to be aspecting
Uranus and Pluto. And, we have other planets doing their things at the
same time. There is a good chance that relationships will breakup and
investments will show major losses around this time. But, there is also
a chance that some will "take the bull by the horns," and initiate
major changes in their lives. Some of those changes will be absolutely
brilliant, but some will be dealing with major losses. Its not unusual
that people who are ill and tired often pass over during eclipses, but
this eclipse may bring even more deaths... and some not anticipated.
third eclipse will be the final eclipse in Leo and Aquarius on August
5th. It will be at 8:39 PM EDT, and it will be visible from about the
eastern 2/3 of the US. I would call it more of a normal eclipse, since
it won't be aspecting any other planets. And, the other planets of the
zodiac will not be at war with one another. Its still going to be an
eclipse, and there will be changes to deal with. But, after the
previous 2 eclipses, this eclipse may feel more like an aftershock.
And, if you want to do something different, with Leo and Aquarius
involved, throw an eclipse party!
Okay, now its time to pull out
our natal charts and see how these eclipses are going to affect us
personally. First off, look and see which of your houses the eclipses
will be occurring in. That will be the major determiner of what area of
your life will be affected. Next, if the eclipse makes an aspect to a
power point (ascendant, nadir, descendant, or mid-heaven), it could
bring some tremendous changes, especially a conjunction or square. If
any of the eclipses aspect one of your inner planets (Mars on in), then
the changes will be personal. Which planet is being aspected and the
house that the planet is located in will determine what aspect of your
life will probably be dealing with those changes. If the eclipse is at
an aspect to one of your outer planets, it will probably affect you
more on a community or generational level. (Like, maybe a bunch of the
baby boomers decide to retire early. I have not examined the ephemeris
that closely to give any absolute predictions.)
The eclipse on
July 7th will be at 15 degrees 32 minutes Capricorn. That means the
Moon will be at 15 degrees Capricorn, and the Sun will be at 15 degrees
Cancer. Any planets or points between 13 and 17 degrees (within a 2
degree tolerance) in Cancer and Capricorn are going to be dealing with
the biggest changes. Planets or points in between 13 and 17 degrees in
Libra and Aries are going to be dealing with unwanted changes, and some
of those changes may be forced upon them. Planets and points between 13
and 17 degrees in Scorpio, Pisces, Taurus, and especially Virgo, may
find that they actually initiate some wanted changes.
Our total
solar eclipse on July 21st will be at 29 degrees 26 minutes Cancer.
Cuspy Cancer/Leo's are going to be dealing with a lot of drama during
this time. Any planets between 27 degrees and 1 degree on the cusps
between Libra and Scorpio, and Aries and Taurus are not going to be
happy at all. Be careful, there could be accidents. Planets or points
between 27 degrees and 1 degree on the cusps between Capricorn and
Aquarius, may find that they are doing the rescuing. The points and
planets on the cusps between 27 degrees and 1 degree between Scorpio
and Sagittarius and Pisces and Aries may actually see some positive
changes from this eclipse.
And, the final eclipse on August 5th
will be at 13 degrees 35 minutes Aquarius (with the Sun at 13 degrees
35 minutes Leo). Planets and power points between 11 and 15 degrees in
Aquarius and Leo will be dealing with the biggest changes. Planets and
points between 11 and 15 degrees in Scorpio and Taurus will be griping
about the changes they have to deal with. Planets and points in
Sagittarius, Aries, Libra, and Gemini could be dealing with fallout
from other people's changes.
We can often feel the effect of
eclipses up to a month before the actual eclipse, and to give you a
perspective, its been said that the energy of an eclipse is
approximately 10 times that of a full or new moon. If you are not sure
how the eclipses will be affecting you, contact an astrologer. Even a
10 or 15 minute reading should clear up most of your confusion.
(Sparrow) Moon is a professional psychic and astrologer. You can visit
her web site for more articles about upcoming events in astrology, and
to read her daily astrology general tendencies forecast. (This article
can be reprinted freely online, as long as the entire article and this
bio is included.) http://www.sparrowmoon.com/


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Henry Wanted Penalty Re-Run
Robert Pires has revealed Thierry Henry wanted to to have another go at 'that penalty'
The Gunners were awarded a penalty in the first half in last weeks home tie against Portsmouth, with Arsenal 3-0 up at the time Henry thought it would be a good time for a repeat performance.
"Thierry wanted to try it again. But I didn't want to — we'll have to wait a little bit yet.
"I did well not to as two defenders stood in front of me just as Thierry took up his position.
"I wanted to avoid this sort of thing, especially if we had tried and missed again."
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I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned. --- Arthur Koestler
November 12, 2016, Hi Miguel, Food for thought ["Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857–1927): Strange Circumstances Surrounding the Death of the Great Russian Neurologist" by Kesselring J] … It seems either Stalin or some of his colleagues consulted a neurologist about his withered arm in 1927, and the neurologist made a dx. of syringomyelia. [But] it is usually attributed by historians to either beatings by his father or childhood infection of some sort. But as you say, historians cannot be doctors [or medical scientists!].
He [Trump] would have loved Stalin. — Vice President Joe Biden
Although it is difficult to fathom what causes Mr. Biden to make his trademark offhand comments, we can at least try to understand this defamatory remark. Here are two possible explanations for Biden's latest episode of verbal flatulence:
Stalin's Secret Agents — The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government was written by two experienced authors and recognized authorities on the Cold War, M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein. Evans is a veteran journalist and former broadcaster, as well as the author of Blacklisted by History (2009), a biography of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and other momentous books. Romerstein was the former head of the Office to Counter Soviet Disinformation at the U.S. Information Agency and a congressional staffer of the House Intelligence Committee.
Young Stalin by Simon Montefiore is a well-researched, well-written, absorbing, and authoritative biography of Joseph Stalin's early years. Following the usual formalities, the book begins with a tantalizing "Prologue," the audacious robbery and bloody bombing at the festive Yerevan Square in the center of the town of Tiflis (now Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia).
For Russia, as well as to the rest of the world, the approaching presidential election of March 4, 2012, is raising concerns as to how it will affect Russian democracy and the stability of Europe — Russia vis- à-vis the West. Just this past November, Russian Chief of Staff General Nikolai Makarov and President Dmitry Medvedev, threatened to have Russian missiles deployed against the proposed U.S. missile shield in Europe.
It is estimated that between 20 million to 40 million Russians were killed during Josef Stalin's dictatorship (1924-1953). Stalin not only exterminated purported "enemies of the peoples," but also liquidated almost the entire slate of communist Bolshevik leaders, who had been his and Vladimir Lenin's friends.
The "Great Leader," Stalin, 1879-1953, killed more communists of all nationalities, than all his fascist, Nazi, and Western democratic enemies combined. But for Stalin, "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic."
Old Bolsheviks Cadres
Stalin's Loyal Executioner: People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov, 1895-1940 by Marc Jansen and Nikita Petrov is a great addition to the story of Soviet communism, a story that is still unfolding, but has not completely been told. This book will remain the authoritative source of the life and times of Nikolai Yezhov, until the Russian archives are once again fully opened to scholars.
For weeks, Joseph Stalin had been plagued with dizzy spells and high blood pressure. His personal physician, Professor V. N. Vinogradov had advised that Stalin step down as head of the government for health reasons. That was not what Stalin wanted to hear from the good doctor. Soon the Professor would pay for this temerity and indiscretion with his arrest and alleged involvement in the infamous Doctor's Plot (dyelo vrachey).
Robert B. Farquhar, an anti-nuclear activist from Georgia, who has written a book on the subject entitled Duck and Cover, asserts that, "In 1946 the U.S. had about 7 atomic bombs, none completely assembled; by 1956, 5,000, all assembled; Russia had about 150." (1)
Operation Barbarossa — A Re-Enactment 70 Years Later
SPECIAL BULLETIN — from Radio Berlin a Special Report!
June 22, 2011 7:00 AM
We are sorry to interrupt your programming. It is the German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, speaking:
"...At this moment a march is taking place that for its extent, compares with the greatest the world has ever seen. I have decided again to place the fate and future of the Reich and our people in the hands of the soldiers..."
Fortunately for the United States, the Japanese strategic plan for World War II was flawed in that the Japanese High Command decided to take on a sleeping giant in order to gain control of the Pacific basin, rather than attack the USSR. There was no way for the Japanese to beat the U.S., even with their alliance and the support of Italy and Germany. On the other hand, if the German grand strategy had been followed and carried out by Germany AND Japan, we could, very possibly, have lost the war, and today be speaking German on the East coast and Japanese on the West coast!
"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic," said Joseph Stalin (1879-1953). It is estimated that between 20 to 40 million people, mostly Russians, were killed by Stalin during his dictatorship (1924-1953). Stalin, the Soviet dictator, not only exterminated purported "enemies of the peoples" but also liquidated almost the entire slate of communist Bolshevik leaders, who had been his and Lenin's friends during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Stalin's Last Crime — The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov is an in-depth study in psychological survival in a nightmarish police state — Stalin's Russia, circa 1948-1953. The untangling of this Gordian knot of conspiracies and plots is the convincing achievement of the authors of this suspenseful, historical drama.
This a great book for history buffs and World War II aficionados. The author, Louis C. Kilzer, a respected journalist who has twice earned a Pulitzer Prize, has written an intriguing book. I must respectfully disagree with the unfavorable Amazon book reviews that have been posted so far in this forum, and so I am adding my contrarian view's nickel's worth. This book reads like a suspense, historic novel, fast-paced and well written.
The lessons of history clearly demonstrate to those of us who care to look that whenever science and medicine have come to be under the heavy hand of government, political pressures, or subordinated to the state, the results have been as perverse as they have been disastrous. Towards this end, I would like to share with you an egregious chapter on the perversion of science in the name of politics and ideology that has come down to us from the recent historic record.
Our country is rotting. It is sick with a disease so shocking
that we turn our faces from it in dread.
Increasingly, it is home to a class of citizens for whom
the most basic rules of social
organization have come unraveled.
Jared Taylor
Paved With Good Intentions
The Astounding Case of Soviet Defection Deception
In "Alexander Orlov: The FBI's KGB General" (2002), former FBI agent Edward Gazur tries to prove the impossible that KGB Gen. Alexander Orlov was a true defector, a man who switched allegiances from the Soviet Union to America and repudiated international communism.
Gazur ardently believes that Orlov, who became his friend and whom he ultimately came to love as a father figure, genuinely cooperated with the FBI and the CIA. This (his own) book unfortunately proves quite the opposite.


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5/12/2004 8:30am, #31
Ok so I was rolling last night and my coach got me in what I'll call a transitional N-S position. It wasn't a tight pin but it was definately the N-S position. I escaped in a different way. I basically Helicoptered my legs really hard and got up on my right shoulder where I could spin under to a guard position. It was really weird but seemed to work great. Anyone else ever pull something like that?
I did it because a few minutes earlier he managed to pass my guard while I was blocking his him by switching his hips real fast/hard. So the space he made that way inspired me to try it from N-S. I was really just trying to switch hips but I did it hard enough to make space where I could spin into guard.
5/12/2004 10:27am, #32Originally posted by bunyip
Google 'Eddie Bravo Twister'. I think there might be a vid on subfighter.com.
5/13/2004 12:37pm, #33
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what is he doing in the last pic? is that a submission? what is he hurting?
5/13/2004 3:11pm, #34
It cranks the entire body from the neck. Sorta like a crucifix.You say what about my rice?


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City puts final touches on pedestrian and cycling crosswalk on Bronson
The city put down the green thermoplast on the crosswalk this spring to make the bike lane. (Jennifer Beard/CBC)
Krista Johnson was struck by a car and killed while cycling on Bronson Avenue in 2012
Five years after a cyclist was killed on Bronson Avenue, the city has put the final touches on a pedestrian and cycling crosswalk on the busy road just north of Sunnyside Avenue.
Twenty-seven-year-old Krista Johnson, an avid runner and city cyclist, was struck by a car and killed on Bronson Avenue in October 2012.
The Carleton University student was cycling home at the time.
While speed was not deemed a factor in the crash, Johnson's death triggered a safety review of that stretch of the road.
According to the councillor for the ward, David Chernushenko, it was determined that section of Bronson was a very confusing and busy area.
And, the lack of a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights there meant people were dashing across in busy traffic.
Green thermoplast marks bike lane
"This crossing addressed a need to be able to cross a very high speed busy road in a safe manner. It's only triggered when the need is there. So, while it does have the traffic calming effect of slowing down traffic by having another intersection, it's not going to be activated if no one wants to cross so you won't have frustrated drivers," said Chernushenko.
The crossing has been in operation for 18 months, but the city recently added signs, and in the spring, put down green thermoplast paint on the road to mark the bike lane.
Chernushenko said the process took five years to reach this final stage due to a number of factors. It took a year to do a traffic safety review and hold public consultations. And then there was a municipal election before the contracting process began.
"The usual, I guess process to do a public infrastructure project of tendering and design, sure it did take longer," said Chernushenko.
'It's bittersweet'
Krista's mother, Laurie Johnson, said Krista would have been happy to know the crossing is fully operational now.
Johnson says Krista was fit and passionate about running and healthy eating. Her mantra was to keep moving.
In Krista's memory, Laurie and her family have been marking her legacy in her hometown of Pembroke. There is a scholarship for Krista at the high school, a free drop-in fitness studio for youth, a homework and fitness cafe, and a permanent outdoor fitness grove with equipment.
And, now in Ottawa, another legacy in Krista's memory: the Bronson Avenue crosswalk in the area where she died.
Johnson says she's pleased even though it took five years.
"It's bittersweet right. I mean it's unfortunate that it wasn't there before but if that's what it took to make it happen, then obviously we're pleased," said Johnson.


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In the history of photography, few images are more iconic than Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Derriere la Gare Sint-Lazare." Photographers often use the phrase "decisive moment" and this image is the ultimate illustration of that term.
Cartier-Bresson created the image behind the Gare Saint-Lazare train station in Paris in 1932. He says he was peering through a fence and captured this image as the man jumped across the water puddle. The arrangement of the image is incredible. The more you look at it, the more you notice. For example, the metal loops in the foreground echo the rings of water that are rippling away from the ladder. The sign in the background is for a performer named Railowsky, the shot was taken behind a railyard and the ladder resembles a train track. Add to that the repetition of the the shadow, the jumper, the man in the background and the clock tower behind him. When you take it all in, it really seems too good to be true. In fact, many have accused Cartier-Bresson of setting up the shot.
However it was created- either by planning or sheer luck- it represents a masterpiece in composition and timing. The more you study it, the more you notice.
An interesting fact about this picture is that it is one of the few cropped images that Cartier-Bresson ever produced. He never allowed publications to crop his work – even going so far as to put a black border on every shot to make cropping more difficult. However, since this image was shot between fence planks, there was part of a plank covering the left edge of the frame, so he had to crop in to remove it.
When you first look at the original, uncropped image, it really looks like something you would discard as a reject. The crop – and resulting change in composition- helped to elevate this simple snapshot into one of the icons of photography.
I can't help but wonder how this image would score in today's print competitions. Would its impact stand up to the dizzying digital creations that we have today- or would it be brushed aside as just another snapshot? What do you think?


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Internationally recognized author and journalist Amanda Ripley will share her insights on disasters through the voices of survivors when she speaks at the awards luncheon for the University of Southern Mississippi National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security's (NCS4) second annual National Sports Safety and Security Conference & Exhibition.
The conference is set for Aug. 2-4 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. Ripley is scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4.
An investigative reporter for TIME Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly, Ripley is also the author of "The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why," which was published in 15 countries and described by National Public Radio (NPR) as "The thinking person's manual for getting out alive." Her presentation is titled "Disaster Mythology."
Ripley has discussed her research in appearances on ABC, NBC, CNN, FOX News and NPR and given talks for the Pentagon, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. State Department and Fortune 500 companies.
"I have spent years talking to survivors of all kinds of disasters - from terrorism attacks to tsunamis. These survivors have very practical, surprising lessons to share - things that they wish they had known," Ripley said. "My goal at the conference will be to tell their stories in a constructive way.
She believes once people understand how it feels emotionally, physically and even socially to go through an extreme event, they can train for it more intelligently. "We can understand how to convey risk in ways the brain understands; we can learn to override our own worst instincts," she said.
In addition to her work as a writer, Ripley is a Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC. She is currently traveling around the world visiting schools researching for her next book, "The Smart Kids Club: How Other Countries Saved their Schools (and Taught their Kids to Think)," which will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2012.
"We're very fortunate to have Amada Ripley speak at our conference awards luncheon. She brings a wealth of research on how people survived disasters," said Lou Marciani, director of the NCS4. "Our profession will be greatly enhanced by her insight and hopefully we can take away information that we can use in our planning, training and assessment of emergency response and evacuation capabilities at high consequence sport events"
Established in 2006, The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security was created to provide an interdisciplinary academic environment to further increase sport security awareness, improve sport security policies and procedures and enhance emergency response through evacuation, recovery operations and crowd management training.
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Is this bad?
check with your lab's admin if it's bad....
I would say don't ask the admin; by doing so you loose the possibility of doing it anyway if they say no.
Try looking it up somewhere; most schools will have an official rule book, and in there should be something about computer use policy. Also, it may depend on what else you're supposed to be doing besides posting here.
If you have any class that pertains at all to web development, you could say you're doing work for that class because you're keeping your website up, which is essential for that class, right?
I almost now for sure, you are not allowed to visit non school related sites.... tho who cares, everybody does the same thing: visit other sites, play games etc.....
Do it anyway I say, think about the consequences later.
Yeah, its prolly bad if you are at school for they hate it when your not going to sites about research and blah. They should all have something to where when your finished with your school work you can explore the web i mean you do it at home anyways why not do it in a learning enviroment. That way if your confused about something you have people like the computer lab instructors to help you out with any problems you may have. I myself think its easier to search at home for im trying to learn more then enough stuff using the internet as my teacher.
If you can use it to play games, you can use it to post on a forum.
When frihost gets banned, then you know its bad :p
or you could just turn off the filter and never know...
Could say that doing anything not educational is bad.
What does your own moral compass have to say about the situation? And why did you ask in the first place? Do you really want to know if its bad or do you only want someone to tell you that its OK. Personally it doesnt sound like any school work is getting done in any case (I think school hours are too long anyway, the workload of the majority of curricula can be done in a fraction of the time allocated).
At least you've earned points for this post so it's not bad at all, I guess.
well it depends.... im not supposed to go on forums at school but i do anyways... your not 'supposed' to use proxies in school but i do anyways. your not supposed to go in irc at school but i do anyways.
Conclusion: School comps suxors! lol.
Yes, it's probably bad using the school's lab computer. However, it may not be. It really depends, ask your lab teacher if it's okay or not, so that if he finds out, he might not give you a bad consequence or punish you. You could always just not play the computer in school at all, though, and just wait until you get home.
If you're suppose to be doing work then yes, if you're having freetime then noo.
I do it all the time. I dont' see a problem with it. In study hall we play games and all. Thats where good proxies come in play.
geez, you're such a rebel. don't get arrested.
Pyro Man
For crying out loud! Its not crime of the centuary, I am always trying to get round school blockers, taking the cable from school PCS and plugging them into my laptop while im at school. It gets a connection but doesnt work sadly. The following things are blocked in Buckinghamshire schools:
Game Sites
Porn Sites
Email Providers (except the school email system)
Image search functions
downloads sites
Music Sites
and much much more.
Its not bad... think of the other stuff the people do... play games, check personal e-mail, look at adult pictures (I have seen people do it)... posting here is not nearly as bad as those things
Probably isn't bad...unless you were in charge of handling some acid - or you;re the teacher
If your there's no pop-up warning you that you've committed a lab offense, then you're ALL GOOD
I Dont acctually know if i could post on here from school. I think the school has most of the good sites blocked
i find that posting on a forum is more educational than say playing games or going to youtube or anything related. especially here where there are so many different topics to go into and you have the chance to learn about a lot of things that are going on
bad or not? can't tell... actually, it all depends on the rules and regulations imposed on use of computers at your laboratory. if browsing the net or chatting is allowed during laboratory hours, there is no problem with that. if not, then it's bad.
if you have known or if your aware of the dos and don'ts of your laboratory, then you yourself can tell whether what you have done is good or bad!
happy new year!
Haha...my school says that we can't do this and that...but somebody always finds a way around. Right now, I know ytmnd.com is banned, but we still can find ways to be the man now dog!!
why it's a bad thing to post in computer lab in school.....
i always post in my pc at my working place, even msn and icq, writing blog, watching youtube, reading news... etc.. doing all the things that i suppose to do at home, hahaha
There is nothing bad about it. At least you earned some points and frih$ by posting in the FriHost forums.
I do it too during our computer lab I usually play games and posting here in FriHost.
Our professor really sucks he didn't even know what he was trying to teach us.
My school also disallow us doing this but we still doing it
My friends always tell me "do whatever you want, just don't get caught"
It depends on your school & your own intelligence. It is not bad if:
(i) Your school allows it
(ii) Your school do not allow it but you are smart enough to fool them.
I don't know why it would be bade as I'm posting this from college, and they don't stop me from doing it.
I don't think it's bad. Everybody does it. Everybody!
Just don't be too silly and get caught.
As long as it is not blocked it is OK, but like someone else mentioned. Just make sure that your work and class stuff are done. I use to teach computer lab classes and nothing pissed me off more then people surfing when their work was not finished. As long as that was done I had no problem with it.
One of the students at my school has got admin access to the computers. and he hosts a sight about our school here so i think were allowed.
No. They blocked Frihost in our computer lab.
Errr, I know that if they found out at my school I was visiting forums for fun during schooltime - they'd kick me out, haha.
Its not bad, do what u want !!!
Personally, I've broken every single computer-related school rule except for cyber-bully someone and hit the dang thing with a sledgehammer. Then again, I've never hurt anything by doing it, and I've never come across any sensitive information or anything crazy like that. The schools are really too paranoid when it comes to computers.
They're like evil boxes that do things if you don't lock them down.
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All the computer models that count are in good agreement.
The gradient wind is expected to change from about 160deg at 10kn this morning to lighter and more variable this afternoon. As such the surface wind is expected to commence from 150deg and trend left during the day under the influence of the sea breeze component.
The difficult questions are still however:
1. How far left? The weak sea breeze component should assist the left trend. For your racing period a max left of 060deg is possible.
2. How quickly will the direction trend left? I'm happy with forecast above however there is a 65% chance that the direction shifts more slowly than above.
3. How strong the winds? Pretty happy with the wind ranges above, however there is a 85% chance that the wind speeds could be about 2kn stronger from mid-afternoon? The sea breeze component will again assist here.
Wind direction and speed is expected to be more variable than forecast above over parts of the race course (especially within the general Whitsunday Passage area) due to changing topographical profiles i.e. wind speed enhancement (+2 to 5kn) due to funneling out of bays, some speed enhancement and wind directional changes around headlands and in passages. Lighter and more variable winds in the lee of islands, etc
Natural wind direction oscillations: around 20 to 30 deg, more/less due to topographical influences.
Dry and sunny.
Maximum land temperature at Hamilton Island: 23 degrees. Proserpine: 26deg
Sea Temperature: about 22 degrees.
Wind Waves:
0.2 to 0.6 metres.
Heights less in lee of land and more when wind wave opposes tidal current.
(Wave heights quoted are Significant wave heights).
Tidal Current: A strong flood first up this morning followed by slack water and then a strong ebb developing this afternoon.
Be extremely careful in narrow channels, etc.
Remember: In general tidal currents flood to the south and ebb to the north in the Whitsundays. There are many localized variations however so be very vigilant.
Tide at Shute Harbour:
Low 0.38m at 0601hr, High of 3.10m at 1211hr, and Low 0.52m at 1802hr. (know your time offsets for other locations around the race courses)
Saturday: Light and variable at first becoming SE to E at 8 to 14 kn (ave) during the late morning and afternoon. Dry and sunny.


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Financial Domination: An Unusual But Very Real Fetish
This past week, my friend Deanne was chatting at length with a younger man on a dating site when he suddenly hit her with an "unusual" request: "Every month I'd like to give you money," he wrote. "You can spend it on yourself or any way you want. We can start out small but maybe […]Read more


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For the week, the S&P500 rallied 2.1% (down 8.1% y-t-d), and the Dow gained 1.7% (down 4.1%). The broader market was strong. The S&P 400 Mid-Caps rose 2.3% (down 11.9%), and the small cap Russell 2000 gained 1.9% (down 16.3%). %). The Morgan Stanley Cyclicals rallied 4.4% (down 23.4%), and the Transports jumped 4.1% (down 14.6%). The Banks increased 0.6% (down 3.19%), and the Broker/Dealers gained 0.7% (down 33.7%). The Nasdaq100 jumped 3.0% (down 0.7%), and the Morgan Stanley High Tech index surged 5.5% (down 11.5%). The Semiconductors surged 5.3% (down 13.4%). The InteractiveWeek Internet index rose 4.8% (down 11.0%). The Biotechs rallied 1.2% (down 13.9%). The Morgan Stanley Consumer index gained 1.3% (down 7.7%), while the Utilities slipped 0.8% (up 6.1%). Although bullion recovered $14, the HUI gold index was little changed (down 8.3%).
One month Treasury bill rates ended the week at zero and 3-month bills closed at one-half basis point. Two-year government yields were up 4.5 bps at 0.29%. Five-year T-note yields ended the week up 13 bps to 1.08%. Ten-year yields jumped 16 bps to 2.07%. Long bond yields rose 10 bps to 3.01%. Benchmark Fannie MBS yields surged 22 bps to 3.18%. The spread between 10-year Treasury yields and benchmark MBS yields widened 6 to 111 bps. Agency 10-yr debt spreads narrowed 5 to 3 bps. The implied yield on December 2012 eurodollar futures jumped 13.5 bps to 0.72%. The 10-year dollar swap spread was one wider to 20 bps. The 30-year swap spread declined 2 to negative 24 bps. Corporate bond spreads narrowed. An index of investment grade bond risk declined 5 bps to 139 bps. An index of junk bond risk dropped 22 bps to 807 bps.
Investment-grade issuance this week included John Deere $1.0bn, Nordstrom $500 million, Joy Global $500 million, Darden Restaurant $400 million, Public Service of New Mexico $160 million and Southern California Edison $150 million.
Junk bond funds saw outflows of $363 million (from Lipper). Junk issuance included American Tower $500 million.
I saw no convertible debt issued.
International dollar bond issuers included BG Energy $3.0bn, Network Rail $1.75bn and BAE Systems $1.25bn.
Greek two-year yields ended the week up 450 bps to 63.52% (up 5,128bps y-t-d). Greek 10-year yields rose 75 bps to 22.53% (up 1,007bps). German bund yields jumped 12 bps to 1.885% (down 96bps), and U.K. 10-year gilt yields gained 4 bps this week to 2.47% (down 104bps). Italian 10-yr yields declined 2 bps to 5.51% (up 69bps), and Spain's 10-year yields fell 15 bps to 4.97% (down 47bps). Ten-year Portuguese yields rose 27 bps to 10.94% (up 436bps). Irish yields were jumped 9 bps to 7.55% (down 150bps). The German DAX equities index rallied 3.2% (down 17.9% y-t-d). Japanese 10-year "JGB" yields declined 4 bps to 0.98% (down 14bps). Japan's Nikkei declined 1.1% (down 15.9%). Emerging markets were mostly lower. For the week, Brazil's Bovespa equities index declined 2.1% (down 26.1%), and Mexico's Bolsa fell 1.5% (down 14.4%). South Korea's Kospi index slipped 0.6% (down 14.1%). India's equities index declined 1.4% (down 20.9%). China's Shanghai Exchange was closed for holiday (down 16%). Brazil's benchmark dollar bond yields dropped 16 bps to 3.87%, while Mexico's benchmark bond yields jumped 20 bps to 3.83%.
Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage rates were down 7 bps to 3.94% (down 33bps y-o-y). Fifteen-year fixed rates declined 2 basis points to 3.26% (down 46bps y-o-y). One-year ARMs jumped 12 bps to 2.95% (down 45bps y-o-y). Bankrate's survey of jumbo mortgage borrowing costs had 30-yr fixed rates unchanged at 4.82% (down 42bps y-o-y).
Federal Reserve Credit declined $2.7bn to $2.836 TN. Fed Credit was up $428bn y-t-d and $551bn from a year ago, or 24%. Elsewhere, Fed Foreign Holdings of Treasury, Agency Debt this past week (ended 10/5) dropped $11.4bn to $3.425 TN (3-wk decline of $50.5bn). "Custody holdings" were up $74.3bn y-t-d and $173.5bn from a year ago, or 5.3%.
Global central bank "international reserve assets" (excluding gold) - as tallied by Bloomberg - were up $1.489 TN y-o-y, or 17.1% to $10.219 TN. Over two years, reserves were $2.961 TN higher, for 41% growth.
M2 (narrow) "money" supply jumped $33.8bn to $9.604 TN. "Narrow money" has expanded at a 11.6% pace y-t-d and 10.1% over the past year. For the week, Currency was unchanged. Demand and Checkable Deposits rose $31.3bn, and Savings Deposits added $0.7bn. Small Denominated Deposits declined $2.5bn. Retail Money Funds increased $4.5bn.
Total Money Fund assets added $4.9bn last week to $2.639 TN. Money Fund assets were down $171bn y-t-d, with a decline of $166bn over the past year, or 5.9%.
Total Commercial Paper outstanding dropped another $22.2bn (12-wk decline of $251bn) to $985.4 Trillion. CP was up $13.9bn y-t-d, although it was down $137bn over the past year.
Global Credit Market Watch:
October 7 - Bloomberg (Lorenzo Totaro and Emma Ross-Thomas): "Spain and Italy, the euro region's fourth- and third-largest economies, were downgraded by Fitch Ratings on concern they will struggle to improve their finances as Europe's debt crisis intensifies... The downgrades reflect 'the intensification of the euro zone crisis,' which 'constitutes a significant financial and economic shock,' Fitch said... 'A credible and comprehensive solution to the crisis is politically and technically complex and will take time to put in place and to earn the trust of investors.'"
October 7 - Bloomberg (Tim Catts): "Corporate borrowers are pulling back from markets for everything from overnight commercial paper to the longest-maturity bonds as global economic growth is threatened while Europe struggles to contain its fiscal crisis. The market for short-term IOUs in the U.S. slipped below $1 trillion for the first time since February in the week ended Oct. 5... Bond... issuance worldwide fell 47% to $21.5 billion this week..."
October 5 - Bloomberg (Gavin Finch, Liam Vaughan and Anne-Sylvaine Chassany): "Less than three months after Dexia SA got a clean bill of health in European Union stress tests, France and Belgium are considering a second bailout, moving the banking crisis from the continent's periphery to its heartland. 'We're seeing a practical example of contagion playing out,' said Jean-Pierre Lambert, an analyst at Keefe Bruyette & Woods... referring to Dexia's 'material exposure' to the debt of countries on the EU's rim. 'Investors aren't quite sure what the sovereign debt losses will be, nor where the share price should be. They are concerned about the risks and reduce their funding.'"
October 5 - Bloomberg (Anne-Sylvaine Chassany and Jacqueline Simmons): "Dexia SA may be left with the lender's worst assets under plans that would allow the French and Belgian governments to avoid injecting more capital into the bank, two people with knowledge of the talks said. Under the option most favored by the French, the two governments would guarantee Dexia's borrowings before splitting up the lender... Belgium may then assume Dexia's assets in that country, while France's state-owned La Banque Postale and Caisse des Depots et Consignations would buy Dexia's French municipal-lending unit, leaving Dexia as the 'bad bank,' the people said."
October 5 - Wall Street Journal (Michael Corkery): "Dexia SA's troubles in Europe have extended to the U.S. in recent months, lifting borrowing costs for many cities and towns. When times were good, the Belgian-French bank gave governments across the U.S. easy access to cheap financing by agreeing to 'backstop,' or purchase unsold bonds, in the $2.9 trillion municipal-debt market... as investors grew concerned about Dexia's ability to make good on the municipal guarantees, the bonds' interest rates rose."
October 7 - Bloomberg (Greg Chang): "Belgium had its Aa1 local and foreign currency government bond ratings placed on review for possible downgrade by Moody's..., which cited the financing environment for euro sovereigns and increasing risks to economic growth."
October 7 - Bloomberg (Howard Mustoe and Michelle E. Frazer): "Moody's... cut the senior debt and deposit ratings of 12 British lenders including Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Lloyds Banking Group Plc, saying the government would be less likely to provide support in the event of failure."
October 4 - Bloomberg (Liam Vaughan and Fabio Benedetti-Valentini): "Dexia SA, BNP Paribas SA and Societe Generale SA are resisting pressure from regulators to accept more losses on their holdings of Greek government debt amid criticism they haven't written down the bonds sufficiently. While most banks have marked their Hellenic debt to market prices, a decline of as much as 51%, France's two biggest lenders and Belgium's largest cut the value of some holdings by 21%. The practice, which doesn't violate accounting rules, may leave them vulnerable to bigger impairments in the event of a default..."
October 3 - Bloomberg (Richard Bravo): "Leveraged-loan issuance in the U.S. dropped 57.5% in the third quarter with losses mounting amid a faltering economy. New issue sales fell to $50.6 billion from $119 billion in the three-month period ended June 30... Year-to-date issuance of $310.8 billion outpaces last year's $233.4 billion figure."
October 7 - Bloomberg (Sapna Maheshwari): "Kinetic Concepts... that's being bought by Apax Partners Inc., is proposing the biggest speculative-grade bond offering in 10 weeks as banks seek to offload acquisition financing promised before credit markets weakened in August. Kinetic is offering $2.55 billion of eight-year notes... Junk bonds have lost 8.6% since July..."
Global Bubble Watch:
October 3 - Bloomberg (Boris Groendahl and Gabi Thesing): "Bank for International Settlements General Manager Jaime Caruana urged European leaders to step up efforts to solve the region's sovereign-debt crisis to prevent a further deterioration of the banking system. 'We need to urgently and forcefully regain fiscal credibility and take the necessary actions to restore the risk- free status of sovereigns,' Caruana said... 'The implications of not having sovereigns as risk-free are very severe, they will materialize in many areas,' including banks' capital requirements."
October 6 - Bloomberg (Jennifer Ryan): "The Bank of England expanded its bond-purchase plan for the first time in almost two years as government budget cuts and Europe's debt crisis jeopardize Britain's economic recovery. The nine-member Monetary Policy Committee led by Mervyn King raised the ceiling for so-called quantitative easing to 275 billion pounds from 200 billion pounds."
October 3 - Bloomberg (Thomas Penny): "U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said British bank practices before 2008 resembled 'Ponzi schemes,' contributing to the market crash. The crisis was caused 'by the mistakes of human beings,' Osborne told delegates... He blamed excessive borrowing by the previous Labour government, the creation of the euro and bankers' risk-taking for the economic problems the U.K. faces. 'The banks and those regulating them believed that the bubble would never stop growing, that markets were always self- correcting, that greed was always good, that their Ponzi schemes would never collapse, and that none of the debts would ever turn bad,' Osborne said. 'They let down their customers, they let down their shareholders, and they let down their country.'"
October 6 - Bloomberg (John Glover): "Investors are losing money on bonds sold by Europe's bailout fund as optimism ebbs about policy makers' ability to contain the economic crisis. The 440 billion-euro ($588bn) European Financial Stability Facility has sold 13 billion euros of bonds and all are underperforming relative to alternative investments such as debt of Germany and France... 'That's telling you that global investors are losing confidence in the whole EFSF apparatus,' said Michael Riddell, a... fund manager at M&G Investments, which oversees about $323 billion of assets."
October 6 - Bloomberg (Shannon D. Harrington and Sarah Mulhollan): "Europe's crisis of confidence is crippling credit-market trading as banks shrink bond inventories to the least since the depths of the last recession. Federal Reserve data show U.S. primary dealers cut their holdings of corporate debt by 33% to $63.5 billion since May, bringing stockpiles to within $4 billion of the five-year low reached in April 2009. Trading in investment-grade company bonds has dropped 27% since February... Evaporating liquidity is contributing to the biggest junk- bond losses since the failure of Lehman Brothers..."
October 5 - Bloomberg (Daryna Krasnolutska): "Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the best-selling book 'The Black Swan,' said the current global market turmoil is worse than it was in 2008 because countries such as the U.S. have larger sovereign-debt loads. 'Definitely, we face a bigger problem now and we will pay a higher price,' Taleb... said... 'The structure of the problem has still not been understood. We haven't done anything constructive in three and a half years. Nobody wants to do anything drastic now.'"
Currency Watch:
October 7 - Bloomberg (Allison Bennett and Ye Xie): "The worst declines since at least 2008 for emerging-market currencies may have further to go as the debt and banking crisis in Europe buffets economies once resistant to the global slowdown. European lending of $3.4 trillion to developing nations is almost triple that from U.S. and Japanese institutions combined, according to Bank for International Settlements data through March 2011. This leaves emerging countries more vulnerable to Europe's sovereign debt crisis than they were to the global credit meltdown in 2008, according to Royal Bank of Canada.
October 6 - Bloomberg (Denis Maternovsky): "Russia's international gold and currency reserves declined for a fourth week, plunging $9.2 billion, the most since May, as Bank Rossii bought rubles, stepping up its defense of the currency. The country's reserves tumbled to a four-month low of $516.8 billion..."
The U.S. dollar index added 0.3% this week to 78.75 (down 0.3% y-t-d). For the week on the upside, the Brazilian real increased 6.1%, the Mexican peso 3.3%, the South African rand 1.2%, the New Zealand dollar 1.1%, the Australian dollar 1.1%, the Canadian dollar 1.0%, the Swedish krona 1.0%, the Singapore dollar 0.8%, the Norwegian krone 0.6%, and the Japanese yen 0.4%. On the downside, the Swiss franc declined 2.1%, the British pound 0.1%, and the euro 0.1%.
Commodities and Food Watch:
The CRB index rallied 1.8% this week (down 8.8% y-t-d). The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index jumped 2.6% (down 4.0%). Spot Gold increased 0.9% to $1,638 (up 15.3%). Silver recovered 3.0% to $30.993 (up 0.3%). November Crude gained $3.78 to $82.98 (down 9%). November Gasoline jumped 4.3% (up 8%), while November Natural Gas dropped 5.0% (down 21%). December Copper gained 3.9% (down 26%). December Wheat was little changed (down 23%), while December Corn rallied 1.3% (down 5%).
China Bubble Watch:
October 6 - Bloomberg (Jasmine Wang): "China's air travel grew at less than half the pace of capacity in the first four days of the weeklong National Day holiday, adding to signs that the world's second- largest economy may be slowing down. The number of passengers rose 5.7% to 3.37 million in the Golden Week holiday... The number of seats available expanded by 12%. Growth in passenger numbers slowed from a 24% jump for the entire Golden Week vacation last year..."
India Watch:
October 7 - Bloomberg (Jeanette Rodrigues and Anto Antony): "The risk of holding India's debt is rising the most in a year amid concern higher borrowing costs will spur an increase in bad loans... The cost of insuring the notes of State Bank of India... has climbed 34 bps since Sept. 30 to 387 bps."
Asia Watch:
October 4 - Bloomberg (Katrina Nicholas and Wendy Mock): "Asian loans slumped to the lowest level in two quarters as Europe's sovereign debt crisis pushed up banks' funding costs and lenders under pressure in home markets retreated. Syndicated loans in the Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan fell to $104.7 billion in the third quarter, the least since the three months ended March 31, when they totaled $96.8 billion..."
Latin America Watch:
October 7 - Bloomberg (Alexander Ragir and Ye Xie): "Brazilian business owners are boosting prices on the widest range of products since March, a sign that above-target inflation is becoming entrenched. Bondholders are seeking protection..."
October 6 - Bloomberg (Ben Bain): "Foreigners are cutting holdings of the shortest-term Mexican government bills to a three-month low as the peso's plunge erodes dollar-based returns. International investors owned 26% of the securities, known as Cetes, on Sept. 26, down from a record high of 37% in March... The peso has tumbled 14.2% in the past three months... the biggest slump among Latin American currencies after the Brazilian real. Foreigners who piled into Cetes to profit from gains in the peso earlier this year are now shunning all but the safest assets as Europe's debt crisis fuels a global sell-off in emerging-market currencies."
October 6 - Bloomberg (Camila Russo): "The cost to insure Argentine debt against default is soaring relative to Venezuela, the world's riskiest credit after Greece, on concern the country will struggle to weather a worsening global economic crisis after defaulting on $95 billion of bonds in 2001. The cost of five-year credit-default swaps on Argentine bonds has more than doubled from Aug. 1 through yesterday to 1,200 bps..."
Unbalanced Global Economy Watch:
October 4 - Bloomberg (Sophie Leung and William McQuillen): "China said that the U.S. risks triggering a trade war with legislation being considered by the Senate to punish the nation for what lawmakers say is the undervaluation of the yuan. The People's Bank of China said it 'regrets' the Senate voting yesterday to consider the bill, while the Foreign Ministry said the measure would violate World Trade Organization rules..."
October 3 - Bloomberg (Monika Rozlal and Piotr Skolimowski): "Poland, a bond-market darling in the second quarter, is leaving foreign investors with the third biggest losses worldwide as the euro region's debt crisis slows growth in eastern Europe's biggest economy. Polish bonds... tumbled 15.7% in dollar terms during the third quarter..."
U.S. Bubble Economy Watch:
October 6 - Bloomberg (Joshua Zumbrun): "When regulators come knocking at the Bank of Newman Grove, Nebraska, inquiring about loan risks, Chairman Jeffrey Gerhart has a 'stress test' ready to show how his portfolio would fare if rural land prices dropped 25%. Or 50%. Or 75%... Farmland prices in Nebraska rose 30 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to a survey by the Kansas City Fed, driven by soaring farm income from elevated agriculture commodity prices and record-low interest rates."
Central Bank Watch:
October 6 - Bloomberg (Gabi Thesing and Jeff Black): "The European Central Bank's move to keep euro-area banks afloat is buying governments more time to recapitalize them as Greece edges closer to default. The ECB said... it will reintroduce year-long loans, giving banks access to unlimited cash through January 2013, and resume purchases of covered bonds to encourage lending. At the same time, the European Commission is pushing for a coordinated capital injection into banks and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said policy makers 'shouldn't hesitate' if it turns out financial institutions are undercapitalized"
October 4 - UK Telegraph (Richard Blackden): "Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has said that US authorities are 'innocent bystanders' as European leaders grapple with a debt crisis that is now damaging confidence in the world's biggest economy. 'We're kind of innocent bystanders,' Mr Bernanke told Congress's Joint Economic Committee... 'Even the current situation - which is ongoing uncertainty - has been a negative for our economy.'"
October 4 - Bloomberg (Steve Matthews): "Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker said last month's move to reduce long- term interest rates is unlikely to spur a job market hampered by uncertainty over fiscal policy and government regulation. 'I tend to think it would cause higher inflation and have only a transitory or fleeting effect on growth,' Lacker said..."
Muni Watch:
October 7 - Bloomberg (Andrea Riquier): "Municipal-bond rating downgrades exceeded upgrades for the 10th consecutive quarter, the longest such streak in more than a decade, Fitch Ratings said. Fitch cut 84 U.S. public-finance credits representing $29.2 billion in par value in the second quarter... It was the most ratings cuts in eight years."
Tuesday morning was the type of market moment that leaves a sick feeling. Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields were collapsing below 1.75% (closed today at 2.07%). The "developing" currencies, notably the Brazilian real and Mexican peso, were under heavy selling pressure. The Dollar index was surging higher, trading to the highest level since early January. Crude had sunk below $76 and commodities in general were under liquidation. Italian Credit default swap (CDS) prices had jumped back to almost 500 bps. At 206 bps, France's CDS had returned to recent near-record highs. CDS in Brazil and Mexico were trading at almost 230 bps, while China jumped above 200 bps. U.S. corporate CDS index prices were surging to levels not seen in more than two years, with high-yield CDS prices almost reaching 900 basis points.
Even more dramatic, financial company risk premiums were blowing out to levels last experienced during the fall of 2008's "Lehman Moment." European banking stocks were, after last week's rally attempt, again getting hammered, as French banking goliaths Societe Generale (738 bps) and BNP Paribas (592 bps) saw their CDS prices in virtual melt-up. Goldman Sachs CDS traded to 410 bps, up 80 bps in two sessions (ended July at 150 bps). And after capturing the market's attention with Monday's big spread widening, an alarming headline went across the tape: "Morgan Stanley Swaps Add 62.6 Basis Points..." Perhaps the most market troubling headline came out of Europe: "Dexia Shares Now Down 24%." The wheels were coming off.
The S&P 500 rallied from 1,080 to 1,125, or almost 4.2%, in the final hour of Tuesday's trading session. Market commentators generally credited the announcement of Belgian and French government support (and the creation of a "bad bank") for (top-25 European bank) Dexia as the spark for the dramatic market reversal. From its intraday low of $11.58, Morgan Stanley's stock rallied 21% to close above $14 - most of the gain coming in the last hour. The Bank stock index rallied 8% intraday to end the day up 4.5%.
From the Wall Street Journal's Wednesday "Heard on the Street" column (Matthew Curtin): "It's deja vu all over again for Dexia. Just like in 2008, Franco-Belgian municipal lender Dexia is in need of a bailout. Except this time, the support looks like a stop-gap to allow an orderly wind up. The question becomes whether this means taxpayers will be called on to take losses so that bondholders can be spared. The French and Belgian governments, both part-owners of Dexia thanks to the previous bailout, committed Tuesday to safeguarding the bank's depositors and creditors."
The markets have been trained over the years to recognize "market low" when risk asset prices are flashing "financial meltdown now in progress..." The buy signal, I suppose, is when the highly-intertwined global markets turn sufficiently disorderly to ensure immediate and undivided policymaker attention. Tuesday fit the bill. The move towards French and Belgian government support for Dexia was taken as a signal that European governments were indeed moving aggressively to support their rapidly faltering banking sector. Markets were also heartened by the prospect of more powerful responses from worried central bankers.
After surprising the markets with the announcement of another round ($116bn) of quantitative easing, Bank of England (BOE) governor Mervyn King commented: "This is the most serious financial crisis we've seen - at least since the 1930s if not ever. We're having to deal with very unusual circumstances, but to act calmly to this and to do the right thing." Meanwhile, in testimony before Congress's Joint Economic Committee, chairman Bernanke signaled that the Fed was also on the case: Pricing pressures "have begun to moderate" and the Federal Reserve "is prepared to take further action as appropriate."
From the degree of tumult apparent in the markets on Tuesday, de-leveraging and de-risking dynamics were in full force. And from the markets' perspective, QE3 had rather quickly moved from appropriate to necessary - and it better be big. Markets were relieved to know policymakers have gotten the message.
The ECB further heartened markets with its move to purchase $53bn of bank ("covered"/backed by assets) loans and to re-open long-term bank funding facilities. An analyst was quoted by the Wall Street Journal: "They've opened the floodgates with liquidity..." With central bankers in crisis management mode and European policymakers said to be working diligently on a plan to recapitalize euro zone financial institutions, markets were in the mood to hope that there was finally sufficient resolve to contain the crisis.
I was struck by a further comment from the BOE's Mervyn King: "We're creating money because there's not enough money in the economy." Dr. Bernanke has over the years used similar analysis in describing a central cause of the Great Depression. He is convinced that the Fed during that period was derelict in its responsibilities for failing to expand the money supply. It is his view that had the Fed only "printed" sufficient money and recapitalized the banking system much of the pain of the depression would have been avoided. The markets will now watch anxiously as participants try to gauge the efficacy of money printing and bank recapitalizations in arresting the global sovereign debt crisis.
I have posited that conventional analysis has it wrong: a paucity of "money" during the Great Depression was not a cause - but only a consequence. The Fed was not so much derelict in its duties in the early-thirties as much as it was from accommodating the "Roaring Twenties" Bubble episode. Yes, the Fed could have "cut a check" and recapitalized the banking system in the early-thirties, but it would have made little difference. A fateful post-WWI Credit inflation had inflated price levels throughout what had become a badly maladjusted "Bubble Economy" structure. The U.S. and global economies had been so distorted by Credit and speculative excess - and through the Bubble process had become hooked on ongoing Credit expansion and speculative leveraging. When the speculative Bubble burst, systems could not withstand de-leveraging dynamics. The financial apparatus buckled and dragged economies down with it. The critical issue was not a lack of money, but a collapse in confidence in Credit instruments and faith in financial intermediaries and policymaking.
Bernanke and others have over the years argued that bank recapitalization in the early-thirties would have had a profound systemic impact. Some have argued that an operation by the Federal Reserve to create $4bn of additional capital would have been sufficient to stem collapse. These days, analysts make estimates of the amount of additional capital required to stabilize the European banking system.
It's been my long-held view that, in the grand scheme of major Credit busts, calculations of necessary additions to depleted bank capital basically become meaningless. The critical issue is not some quantifiable (and "plugable") hole in banking system capital but, instead, the overall Credit needs of maladjusted Bubble economic structures and inflated system-wide prices levels and spending patterns. This is a critical distinction. In the U.S., for example, I have argued that a period of prolonged Credit excess created a financial and economic structure requiring in the neighborhood of $2.0 TN annual net non-financial Credit growth - to keep the economic wheels rotating and (speculative) asset markets levitating. Post-2008 crisis bailouts threw hundreds of billions (Trillions?) at the financial sector, although this changed little with respect to the economy's requirement of massive Credit creation on an ongoing annual basis. This is an enormous festering problem that goes unnoticed with attention fixated on European carnage.
From the European experience, we now appreciate that the little, almost inconsequential Greek economy is quite an impressive financial black hole. And as things have progressed, critical Credit Bubble Dynamics have been illuminated for all who want to see. The market has witnessed how the "money" from Greek Bailout One was soon vaporized. Dexia's 2008 bailout: vaporized. Greek Bailout II, when it arrives, will be similarly vaporized. European bank capital: poof. The potential amount of "money" to be vaporized if Italy succumbs to the highly contagious path of Greece, Portugal and Ireland: Unfathomable Black Hole. Well, everyone knows this is not an option. So incredible effort will be exerted to present the European crisis in terms of some quantifiable, manageable, solvable problem - some quantifiable cost that might, with the euro at risk, be tolerable to, say, the German voter.
The markets are somewhat relieved to see policymakers now completely engaged. Yet I don't foresee an increasingly enlightened marketplace really buying into any notion that policymakers are getting their arms, minds or pocketbooks around the problem. Seeming at times in lonely isolation (and I'm not referring to either their AAA debt rating or manufacturing-based economy), the Germans appreciate the unfolding "financial black hole" and monetary "slippery slope" nature of how things are progressing. Meanwhile, on a more daily and hourly basis, the market focus seems to be whether policy pronouncements are sufficient to engender another "rip your face off" short squeeze.
Despite stringent austerity measures, Greece will run a deficit this year of at least 8.5% of GDP. Without a massive and open-ended commitment from a rapidly depleting European "core," the situation is utterly hopeless. In a microcosm of the predicament shared by other developed economies, Greece for too long depended on the creation of new financial claims (Credit) and consumption at the expense of investment in real wealth creation (is this type of analysis sounding any less archaic these days?). As much as policymakers will never admit it, impaired economic structures are at the heart of an unquantifiable global Credit crisis of confidence. And as de-risking and de-leveraging empowers contagion effects worldwide, the scope of the unquantifiable grows only more unfathomable. Perhaps this is what Sir Mervyn King, from the BOE, had in mind.
And it all seems to boil down to this: Credit cannot be stable within a backdrop of such extraordinary uncertainty. And, I would argue, no amount of central bank liquidity ("money") and bank capital is going to engender sufficient certainty to stabilize global Credit, financial flows and asset markets. Not with the large number of dangerously maladjusted economies; not with such well-entrenched global economic and financial imbalances; and not with today's unbelievable Credit, derivatives, and speculative leverage overhang. The issue is certainly not a lack of "money" - but rather a lack of confidence and trust - the bedrock of Credit.


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- populated place;
- a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
- West Perry (3.1km)
- Silver Lake (3.2km)
- Fairview (3.6km)
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- Chace (5km)
- Perry (5.1km)
- Silver Lake Junction (5.5km)
- West Perry Center (5.7km)
- Sucker Brook (6.1km)
- Silver Springs (6.3km)
- Newburg (6.4km)
- Rock Glen (6.6km)
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- Martinsville (7.9km)
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- Buffalo Corners (10.9km)
- Gainesville (11.2km)
- Saltvale (11.9km)
- cemetery;
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- Saint Josephs Cemetery (4km)
- Saint Marys Cemetery (6.6km)
- Glenwood Cemetery (6.8km)
- Elmwood Cemetery (7.9km)
- Prospect Hill Cemetery (8.1km)
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- Hope Cemetery (9.7km)
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- Cotton Creek (6.4km)
- Relyea Creek (7.2km)
- Stony Creek (8.9km)
- Lacy Creek (9.1km)
- Eastover Brook (10.5km)
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- Letchworth State Park (9.6km)
- Gardeau Overlook (10.8km)
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- Holihan Gulf (11.5km)
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- Letchworth Central High School (11.3km)
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Despite Activision hooting and hollering from their piles of money that for now, the Call of Duty franchise is steering away from the Modern Warfare line of games, a leak from one of the developer's own employees confirms that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 is on the way.
Back in May, Sledgehammer Games were adamant that their team were absolutely not working on Call of Duty : Ghosts, the next game in the FPS franchise's line up, but this was because they were working on an a different Call of Duty game altogether. The Modern Ware 4 confirmation comes from Rob Valdivia, a VFX Artist on the title, who, unwary of the dangers of being a dev with social media, revealed on professional networking site, LinkedIn, that he is "responsible for developing photo real visual effects for the next Call of Duty – Modern Warfare release".
You can see the screengrab below, but the actual posting is nowhere to be seen on Valdivia's LinkedIn, hastily removed after either he, or more likely, one of the higher ups at Sledgehammer Games, pointed out that Modern Warfare 4 hasn't even been announced yet. The posting, if innocent, would probably still be there, but the removal effectively confirms it that yes, our next dose of modern time face-shooting, quadrotor controlling and UAV-calling, is somewhere near on the next-gen horizon.
The Modern Warfare 4 reveal is also inline not only with Sledgehammer's goal for the future (that'd be the photo realistic visuals then) but it also coincides with a huge hiring spree that took place earlier this year, where the team began to recruit fresh talent for this thing. Hardly a surprise to anyone as this is one of Activision's biggest cash cows (if you like your beef served with a side of ragequitting and premium DLC, that is), but we'll keep you posted on any more big news.
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Michelle Morrison, Emilie Moore, Hayley Hall, Kai Jackson
ASL History
American Sign Language
Dances with Words
ASL Structure
-Geronimo Cardano. --Proclaimed deaf people could be taught to understand written combinations of symbols.
16th Century
-Founded first free school for deaf people.
-Abbe Charles Michel de L'Epee of Paris
-Gallaudet founded nation's first school for deaf people.
-Hartford, Connecticut.
-Founding of Gallaudet College
-Washington, D.C.
Dances with Words
-"Subject" + "Predicate" sentence structure.
- For example: "I am a teacher," could be signed:
- "I Teacher I"
- "I Teacher"
- "Teacher I"
- Sentence without "be" verbs
-"I am a teacher" ="Teacher Me".
-Drop "am" and instead nod your head.
-Signing "Teacher"
- Changing "teach" to "teacher"
-Teach + Person = Teacher
-Add an "Agent" affix.
-Sign teach, but then you add a handshape to the end of the sign.
The Deaf Community
-Deaf and hard of hearing individuals
-Share common language, experiences, values and ways of interacting with hearing people.
-Preferred language is ASL
1.Making eye contact.
-Very important for effective communication.
2.Attention getting.
-Hand waving is most common or the occasional tapping on the shoulder.
3.Meeting others within the Deaf community.
-There is a common interest.
-eye sight
- hands/signs
1. Language
3. Values
4. Traditions
Behavior Norms
-The traditions of the Deaf community are a direct reflection of their cultural values.
- Many of their traditions include face-to-face communication.
Sign Your Name
-Phonological properties of ASL involve manual articulation and movement that are salient to the visual system.
Four phonological features
ASL and Hearing Children
-ASL used as a tool when teaching hearing children
-Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities cause impairments in communication
-Educational and Social Benefits in learning ASL
-Represent mental pictures
-Visual Cues
-Word retention
-Example: Over
-Formations of synapses
-Enhances activity on both sides of brain
-Make learning connections and retrieve information
Signing Increases Brain Activity
ASL is Iconic
Children with Special Needs
-Intellectual Disability
-Acquisition of language skills at a slower pace
Down Syndrome
Elementary School
Hearing child:
• Language is being used in different discourses
• Kindergarten- 3rd grade are learning to read but after 3rd grade, reading to learn
• Pronouns
• Turn-taking
Deaf/Hard of Hearing:
• Vocabulary development does not parallel with that of a hearing student
• Struggle with understanding abstract concepts in language
• Tend to make more grammatical errors
-ASL is a constructive technique to aid in development of language and communication skills
- Signing does not interfere with speech development
-Supports speaking skills
-Effective when family engages with child
Middle and High School
-Teachers assume students have mastered language by this point
-Plays huge role in all subjects
-Writing skills are emphasized
-Preparing for adult roles and responsibilities
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in the Mainstream
Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act
IDEA: integration of students who are deaf and hard of hearing into classrooms with hearing students
• Trying to foster speech and hearing skills before full integration into American (hearing) society
• Unintentionally caused ASL and American Deaf community to be mainstreamed into the system
• IEP for D/HH students includes schedules, coursework, and benchmarks
• Increased placement of deaf and hard of hearing students in general education classrooms
Countering Negative Impact of IDEA
• 1980's Memorandum of Understanding based on report by Dr. Frank Bowe and his 51 recomendations
• 1997 Reauthorization of IDEA
• 1999 Reauthorization of IDEA
ASL as a foreign language
• Somewhat dependent upon other outside factors
Daniels, M. (2001). Dancing with words signing for hearing children's literacy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Mashie, J., Moseley, M. J., Lee, J., & Scott, S. M. (2006). Enhancing communication skills of deaf and hard of hearing children in the mainstream. Clifton Park: Thomson Delmar Learning.
(People of the Deaf community). (2012-2013). Cochlear war: The battle between deaf pro-imlants and deaf community advocates. Retrieved from http://www.cochlearwar.com/forum/deaf_view.html
Rosen, R. (2006). Disability studies quarterly . Retrieved from http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/685/862
Sherman, J. (2001). Signing for Success: Using American Sign Language to Learn Sight Vocabulary. SRATE Journal, 20(2), 31-38.
Stamps, F. C. (2013). Deaf culture and community. Retrieved from www.tobermorey.com
Toth, A. (2009). Bridge of Signs: Can Sign Language Empower Non-Deaf Children to Triumph over Their Communication Disabilities?. American Annals Of The Deaf, 154(2 [Supplement]). 85-95. doi:10.1353/aad.0.0084
(2013). Department of modern and classical language studies. Retrieved from http://www.kent.edu/mcls/languageprograms/asl/deaf-community-definition.cfm
Rod R. Butterworth and Mickey Flodin (1995). The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing. http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/cultures/daa/ASLHistory.html
Dr. Bill Vicars (2005). American Sign Langauge University. http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/syntax.htm
Myths About The Deaf Community
-ASL is universal. People from overseas and people from America get together and can instantly understand each other.
-All Deaf people can read lips, and as long as I speak distinctly and look at them, they will always understand every word I have to say.
-All Deaf people were taught to speak in school using an easy process where each letter has a mouth shape they learn, and then they're good to go.
-Deaf people don't want to be Deaf, they are hoping for some miracle cure that will make them hear.
-Deaf people can't drive a car.
-Sign names can only be given to you by someone who is deaf or hard or hearing.
Switched at Birth
Why Do We Need IDEA?
-Deaf/Hard of Hearing: still working on language skills•
-May need direct speech-language intervention•
-Language delays are starting to affect the whole child
-Self-esteem and psychosocial development
Deaf vs. Hard of Hearing Children
Deaf refers to individuals whose primary acess to communication is through their vision.
Hard of Hearing refers to individuals whose primary acess to communication is through audio alone or audio and vision combined.
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RESIDENTS have launched a campaign to "save" Wigan most famous feature.
Hundreds of locals have signed up to crusade to restore Wigan Pier to its 1990s glory when it was one of the North West's top tourist attractions.
Their leader Barry Titler says the area around the famous coal tippler itself, the former nightclub and The Way We Were Museum has become more of an eyesore than an asset and more needs to be done to preserve this priceless piece of borough heritage.
He said: "This is the biggest landmark in Wigan and it has just been left to rot.
"The whole area around the Pier and the canal used to be a massive tourist attraction in the 1980s and 1990s which now just appears to be a forgotten part of the town.
"Famously, George Formby sang about this Pier, George Orwell wrote about it and it's one of the main reasons why Wigan is so popular and well-known.
"But over the past few years it has just been abandoned and become an absolute eyesore, it's just looks so run down and miserable which is such a shame.
"We want to bring our history back and revive the area. I would love to see some cleaning-up of the canal path, some gardening and a lick of paint to the old warehouse and the grim statue which stands next to the old tippler.
"The old museum used to be thriving full of visitors and school children learning about their hometown's industry past.
"But now it just looks like a forgotten abandoned building. We would also like to see a replica of the tippler, the main reason for Wigan Pier, to be brought back.
"Nowadays not many people can say that they have actually seen Wigan Pier.
"There are many Wiganers who I know are passionate about this campaign. And I genuinely believe the restoration could bring back a lot of interest and money into the town.
"It could really become the heart of the borough once again. We need to rebuild Wigan's history."
Barry set up a Facebook page called Save Wigan Pier which attracted more than 600 followers within just a couple of days.
But the council has reassured residents saying plans are already under way to restore the area.
Steve Normington, director for economy at Wigan Council, said: "While Wigan Council does not own the pier and the surrounding area we are working hard with the owners – Canals and Rivers Trust – to restore this area of historical importance.
"Plans to transform the area are well under way with the demolition of Wigan Pier nightclub imminent.
"This area will be replaced with community gardens, while the wider area, which is the subject of the group's campaign will also be improved as part of the Wigan Pier masterplan."


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A little bird told us
Nido, the new European restaurant in Bandra, is more than a pretty face
Here we are, bird-watching and dreaming of that trip we recently made to a jungle. But then we are also running our hands over silken throw cushions. It doesn't happen everywhere, and the birds here are fake, but Nido, the new European restaurant in Bandra, has an affinity for all things green, meat and fresh. Nido has a vast selection of small plates, salads, burgers, sandwiches, pastas and promising mains. We are here for lunch and almost every table at the restaurant is occupied. After much deliberation, we settle for Loch Duart Salmon and Panini Provençal, hoping to be as surprised as we were to see the decor.
Loch Duart Salmon (Rs 665) arrives, sitting pretty besides pickled beetroot and sunchokes and looking fresh under the greens thrown in. The citrus-soy glaze is perfect, but it isn't the freshest salmon we've had. The Panini Provençal (Rs 595), which has ratatouille and emmenthal cheese, comes with a delicious, generous portion of fries. Fresh and no-frills, the panini is quite filling and could be a good early lunch option, too. Nido, however, has us at the mains. Out of nowhere, we find ourselves becoming rather gleeful for what is a sunny afternoon outside. Then, we realise it is the Double Pork Chop (Rs 725). It looks nothing short of beautiful and comes with a large portion of delicious scallion mash, apple coleslaw and organic mustard. It is juicy, tender and there's a hardly a word exchanged until we are halfway through it.
What really wins us over, though, is the Ravioli (Rs 565). We couldn't have asked for a better balance of lemon, Alleppey black pepper, sage butter and ricotta. Once again, conversations dim and senses are heightened. We even stop looking over at the birds in the restaurant. For a moment, just for a moment, we forget the jungle, too.
At: 21, union park, Khar (W)
Call: 67706336
Cuisine: european
Verdict: good