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The 2005 rice season is one for the record books. Arkansas producers began the season with a cold, wet spring, followed by drought in May and June and a dry production season. Energy costs reached levels not experienced in 25 years, making this our most expensive rice crop ever. Producers harvested a considerable amount of rice lodged by hurricane remnants, and now they face support reductions.
That said, all indications are that Arkansas producers have produced a record rice crop with a production currently estimated at 108.1 million hundredweight, 600,000 hundredweight above the 2004 production. In 2005, according to NASS, Arkansas rice producers harvested an estimated 1.64 million acres compared to 2004's 1.56 million acres.
Louisiana and Mississippi are also projected to exceed their last year's rice production, while Missouri is projected to have a record production of 13.3 million hundredweight.
U.S. production is estimated at 220.7 million hundredweight, 10.1 million hundredweight below last year.
A quick scan of USDA's November rice balance sheet shows 2005-06 U.S. all rice ending stocks at 26.2 million hundredweight, 4.6 million hundredweight below October and 11.5 million hundredweight below a year earlier, which is fairly normal for the past 15 years. The problem is that medium grain ending stocks are at historic lows of 6 million hundredweight for 2005-06 and long grain ending stocks, though projected below 2004-05, are still problematic at 19.1 million hundredweight.
The season-average all rice farm price is projected at $7.75 to $8.05 per hundredweight, which is up 30 cents on both the high and low ends from the October estimate. There is a fear that export demand will weaken for U.S. rice with strengthening prices.
USDA's U.S. long grain November estimates are as follows:
Beginning long grain stocks for 2005-06 are estimated at 22.7 million hundredweight, the second largest since 1987, following 2002's 26.8 million hundredweight. 2003's beginning stocks were 15.7 million hundredweight and 2004's beginning stocks were 10.3 million hundredweight.
Long grain production for 2005 is the largest on record at 173.2 million hundredweight. 2001 production was 167.6 million hundredweight, 2002 production was 157.2 million hundredweight, 2003 production was 149 million hundredweight and 2004 production was 168.9 million hundredweight.
Total long grain supply is also a record 207.1 million hundredweight, 17.4 million hundredweight above the last marketing period, 2004-05.
Domestic and residual long grain use of 91 million hundredweight, if achieved, would also be a record. Domestic use is 44 percent of total long grain rice supply. The second highest domestic use was in 2001-02 at 87.7 million hundredweight, while last use in 2004-05 was 83 million hundredweight. Achieving 91 million hundredweight of domestic use with the currently assumed 2005-06 all rice price may be challenging.
Total long grain exports, if achieved, would be the second highest on record at 97 million hundredweight or 47 percent of total supply. During the 2002-03 period, exports were at a record 99.5 million hundredweight.
Total long grain use, a record, is estimated at 188 million hundredweight or 91 percent of total supply. 2000-01 total use was 141.5 million hundredweight, 2001-02 was 161.6 million hundredweight, 2002-03 was 178.4 million hundredweight, 2003-04 was 164.2 million hundredweight, and 2004-05 was 167 million hundredweight.
Ending long grain stocks are now estimated by USDA at 19.1 million hundredweight, which is below 2004-05's 22.7 million hundredweight, but still the fourth largest since 1987-88.
Global 2005-06 rice production at 406.1 million tons, trade at 25.5 million tons, consumption of 414.2 million tons, and ending stocks at 64.6 million tons were all raised from the October 2005 USDA report. Global production of 406.1 million tons is 4.2 million tons above 2004-05, and is the second largest crop on record, following the 1999-2000 production of 408.8 million tons. USDA's latest data shows the increase in global production due to a larger crop projected for China. China's 2005-06 production is projected at 127.4 million tons, a 1 percent increase over the October estimate.
Global rice ending stocks for 2005-06 are projected at 64.6 million tons, down 8.1 million tons from 2004-05 and the lowest stocks since 1982-83.
A slide show that accompanies this article is available on the internet at
Bobby Coats is an agricultural policy analyst with the University of Arkansas.<


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I have decided to write this article for two reasons.
One, to give my opinion of how I remember Al Tomko.
And two, to correct an omission in a previous article.
I first met Al Tomko when I was a "mark." I, along with my two buddies, Allen French and Dave Greenaway, would attend the matches at the old Civic Auditorium in Winnipeg. I was working for the U.S. Consulate General at the time in Immigration and Visa Control. Since there were a lot of Canadian wrestlers at the time who wanted to work in the U.S. legally, Al would send them down to see me for advice. And he graciously let me take photos of the wrestlers and wrestling matches for my personal use. More on this in a later article.
He later gave me a "job" selling programs at the matches which got me free front-row seats at the matches which were now held at the Winnipeg Arena. The Auditorium could no longer handle the large crowds that attended the wrestling matches.
And he took care of me when I got my first big lay-off from my regular job. The U.S. Consulate General job was already a thing of the past at this time. He gave me side jobs which put extra money in my pocket to support my family. With him, family was very important. This may seem funny to some people, but he had his father selling programs for him at the matches. And when his kids got old enough, they were drafted into the business. He started up A.T. Promotions and 4-T Promotions (named for his four children Tanis, Terry, Todd and Trisha) in a small office where, along with selling tickets to upcoming wrestling matches, he also sold wrestling novelties and photos. I still have crates of some of those old novelties from the mid-'70s down my basement as I bought him out when he was leaving Winnipeg for Vancouver.
Another funny thing, is he started his pet food business because of his pitbull, Tyson.
I remember a wrestler in WWE in the recent past named Tyson Tomko. Was this a secret tribute to Al or a rib played on the fans by Vince and the boys?
Now here comes the omission.
Al Tomko wrestled as The Zodiac from about 1975-76 for the Central Canadian Wrestling Alliance, a sideline independent wrestling promotion he created for matches he ran in rural Manitoba.
The reason I remember The Zodiac is that I was offered the job of being his "manager."
Tomko said to me, "Ya wanna get into the wrestling business?" I figured he was starting up something new and that he was going to offer me a job selling his wrestling novelties on the road or something. But, he offered me the job of being The Zodiac's manager. (I should mention here that The Zodiac was a gimmick used previously by Bob Orton Sr. in Florida, and later by Barry Orton in Stampede.)
Al said to me, "Ya have to gain some weight first!" He then gave me the recipe for a super milkshake which must have contained about 2,500 calories. You took two raw eggs, a brick of vanilla ice cream, a pint of whipping cream, a banana or two, and two packages of Carnation Instant Breakfast and threw them into a blender. Plus you had to eat about a quarter pound of cheddar cheese and Ritz Crackers. I was gaining about five pounds a week on this diet plus eating my regular meals. I was also spending a lot of time at the gym and achieved a 42" chest & 28" waist. I don't think that's not bad for someone who is only 5'5". Al was pretty proud of this and mentioned what I would be getting paid for being a "manager" -- which really wasn't worth mentioning. But then he said "plus we'll pay all your medical bills." This is where my wrestling managing career ended.
After he left Winnipeg, he held one or two matches in competition with the A.W.A. bringing in his "boys" from Vancouver. I was allowed to take pictures of those matches too.
I spent a lot of time on the road in Manitoba with Al when he promoted the rural areas. And I learned a lot about the business from him. Mainly, don't turn your back to anyone because you'll get screwed every time, even by those you trust.
Yes, he was a con man, a carny, and a lot of other things. But he was a human being first, last and in-between. And like all human beings he had his faults. He supposedly screwed a lot of people but as I learned over the years, you have to look after yourself and those close to you first because no one else will or would.
Hope you enjoy those two shots of The Zodiac that I've included with this article.
Al wasn't the greatest promoter or wrestler in the business but he had creative ideas, some of which were way ahead of his time.
The wrestling novelties that I previously mentioned are just one example. The entrance music for the wrestlers that was mentioned in another article was another.
And lastly, something that Al Tomko was severely criticized for, which was later used by Vince McMahon and probably by a lot of other promoters (including Verne Gagne) before this, is putting yourself and your family members first. Making himself champion. And pushing his kids into the business. Hey, wrestlers may come and go, but you're stuck with your family.
Al Tomko, you've got a lot of great wrestlers and promoters in "The Great Beyond." What kind of booking and territory wars have you got lined up? I'm sure that we'll hear all about them when we get there.
Al, you were my first real contact in the "wrestling biz" and I'll always remember you.
Terrance R. Machalek Sr. is a long-time Winnipeg photographer, contributor to countless wrestling magazines, and was the publisher of the Canadian Championship Wrestling newsletter. He will be contributing his "I Remember ..." column to SLAM! Wrestling every two weeks or so, digging into his deep archives to stir own memories -- and his own.


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- You get a good CTR and CPM
- Your landing page is good, unless you're buying likes
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Agency Reporting of Gifts and Bequests
Pursuant to Iowa Code section 8.7 an agency other than a Regents University that receives a gift or bequest shall file a report disclosing information concerning the gift or bequest. This includes the Governor accepting a gift on behalf of the state.
*Effective July 1, 2008, agencies no longer report grants to the Board.
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GE Healthcare is the result of the merger between GE Medical and Amersham Health in Nov. 2004, after GE acquired Amersham Health for 9.5 billion in Oct. 2003. Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of General Electric, said, 'Amersham's diagnostic pharmaceutical and life sciences business will add new, high growth platforms to GE Medical's diagnostic imaging, services and health care information technology businesses'. GE Healthcare, a UK company, is a unit of General Electric (NYSE: GE). GE Healthcare is a global leader in medical imaging, diagnostic imaging agents, interventional procedures, health care services, and information technology.
For more than 100 years, health care providers have relied on GE Medical Systems, now GE Healthcare, for high quality medical technology and productivity solutions.
GE Healthcare, headquartered now at the formerly seat of Amersham Healthcare in Great Britain, operates facilities around the world. Global Operations include organizations on the Americas, Europe, and Asia, including India, Japan, Korea China, Thailand and Vietnam


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Hunger Report 2010
A Just and Sustainable Recovery
The 2010 Hunger Report focuses on recovery from the worst economic crisis in 75 years and the looming crisis of climate change. It highlights the opportunity we have to do things differently, to address poverty, and put people and the planet at the center of our decisions.
The recovery has the potential to create green jobs that offer people a path out of poverty and build a more sustainable economy. It offers an opportunity to put in place policies that reduce inequality, help low-income families to save and build assets for the future, and revitalize neglected communities throughout the country.
The strength and sustainability of our recovery also depends on what happens beyond our borders. The report makes the case for U.S. leadership in reducing hunger and poverty around the world and in addressing climate change.
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CARSON >> It had been 13 months since Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a welterweight title fight when Guerrero took on Yoshihiro Kamegai of Japan in the main event Saturday at StubHub Center.
Guerrero, of Gilroy, was out that long because of contractual problems with his promoter — Golden Boy Promotions — and because he had three tough fights in less than 10 months. He should have found a way to avoid that long of a layoff.
In a fight in which defense was the last thing on either fighter's mind, Guerrero got beat up but won a unanimous decision over Kamegai before 5,711 by scores of 116-112 (Max De Luca), 117-111 (Pat Russell) and 117-111 (Tony Crebs).
The sweet scienece took a beating in this one. Basically, all Guerrero (32-2-1) and Kamegai (24-2-1) did for the 12 rounds was stand there and trade blows. Guerrero's left eye was closed by the end of the sixth round, courtesy of a right uppercut. Kamegai was bleeding from the nose for much of the fight, and he had an abrasion under his right eye.
"That's a tough guy," Guerrero said. "He stood and fought. Tough guy, he hits hard, man."
Guerrero was asked why he stood and traded blows the way he did.
"The fans, they love it," he said. "I like to give the fans what they want, so I stayed in there to mix it up with him. He hit me with a lot of body shots, too. But I took it very well."
Guerrero had been asked many times about the ring rust, but he said, "You don't find out until you get in there."
As for the closed left eye, Guerrero admitted it came from a terrific punch.
"He hit me with a good shot," Guerrero said. "He hit me with like three of them in a row."
Even the body shots Guerrero delivered did not discourage Kamegai.
"I went to the body in the middle rounds and toward the end of the fight, but he had that will to win," Guerrero said.
Kamegai, who probably earned himself another big fight, was not chagrined.
"I'm OK with the decision," he said. "I get my fighting spirt from the fact that I traveled all the way here from Japan to win. That's what kept me going throughout the fight; I really wanted to win. He shook me a couple of times and I felt weakened in the legs.
"But I think I had him hurt a few times, too. But he recovered very well."
Gary Russell Jr. of Washington D.C. entered the ring with a record of 24-0 with 14 knockouts and a good amateur background as he boxed in the 2008 Olympic Games. But Asyl Lomachenko of Ukraine won gold medals in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, so even though he was just in his third pro fight, he figured to give Russell a run for his money when they tangled for a vacant featherweight world title in the semi-main event.
Lomachenko did more than that, winning a majority decision to the delight of the fans who booed one score that had it even at 114-114 (Judge Lisa Giampa). The other two scorecards — by Max De Luca and Pat Russell — were for Lomachenko at 116-112.
There were no knockdowns, but Lomachenko appeard to hurt Russell in the fifth and seventh rounds.
Lomachenko (2-1, 1 KO) is a beautiful boxer with some pop. He unleashes pretty combinations and then does well to cover up after delivering them. The uppercut of Lomachenko's was also on display; that's what he hurt Russell with in the seventh.
Immediately afterward, Lomachenko was asked what winning this title meant to him.
"I don't know yet, I never thought about it," said Lomachenko, 26.
You've heard the term, kill the body and the head will fall. Lomachenko did beautiful work downstairs as well.
"I was making sure to work the body so he would drop his hands and I could work to the head," Lomachenko said.
Russell did not moan about the result.
"I thought it was a fair decison," said Russell, 26. "I didn't stick to my game plan like I should have. I should have initiated the action much more and closed the distance on him. He was strong, but I felt strong. I would definitely fight him again any time, any place."
Dominic Breazeale, a 2012 Olympian from Alhambra, continued to make a name for himself as a knockout artist when he stopped Devin Vargas at 2:26 of the third round of their scheduled 10-round heavyweight bout.
Breazeale (11-0, 10 KOs) decked Vargas (18-4) in the second round with a punch that landed on the back of Vargas' head after Vargas was trying to turn away. Brealeale kept up the assault and by the time that round ended Vargas was bleeding from the nose.
Breazeale resumed his attack in the third and when Vargas turned his back on Breazeale again while absorbing punishment, referee Thomas Taylor stopped the fight.
"I was just starting to boil, just starting to get warmed up," Breazeale said. "He came to fight, and it's always an honor to fight a fellow Olympian."
Vargas toiled in the 2004 Olympic Games for Team USA.
"I knew it was only a matter of time," Breazeale said. "Once he turned his back on me for the second time, me and the referee knew that was it."
Breazeale did take some solid blows to the head from Vargas.
"I think it's great that I finally got him with some good shots," said Breazeale, who is trained by North Hollywood's John Bray.
Devon Alexander of St. Louis, like most former world champions, is hopeful of once again being referred to as such. Step one in that direction came when he won a unanimous decision over Jesus Soto Karass of Mexico in the super welterweight class.
Alexander (26-2) won by scores of 97-93, 99-91 and 99-91. There were no knockdowns, but there was plenty of action — particularly in the 10th and final round when the fighters went for broke.
Alexander is a former junior welterweight and welterweight champion. He lost his welterweight belt to Shawn Porter in December in Brooklyn. Alexander praised the hard-fighting Soto Karass (28-10-3).
"He just keeps coming," said Alexander, who said he hurt his left hand in the seventh round. "He's a tough competitor, so I had to pace myself. He was missing most of his shots, but he caught me a couple of times."
Alexander was just too fast for Soto Karass, who indeed never stopped trying to get at Alexander, who threw a sweet and very quick right jab out of his southpaw stance.
"I pressured him, but it just wasn't enough," Soto Karass said.
Former light heavyweight champion Chad Dawson was in the ring for the first time since losing his title when he was knocked out by Adonis Stevenson in the first round in June 2013. He had little competition, so there was no ring-rust issue, and Dawson knocked out George Blades at 2:35 of the first round of their scheduled 10-rounder.
Dawson had missed weight by more than three pounds on Friday, and he came in 20 pounds heavier than Blades at fight time.
"We knew he was beat at the weigh-in, you could see it in his eyes," said Dawson, of New Haven, Conn. "I worked with what I had to work with. But it just felt good to be back in the ring."
Dawson said he was off for a year because of the knockout at the hands of Stevenson.
"I've seen guys get knocked out and come right back and it didn't work out," he said, "so I wanted to take that year."
Dawson, still just 31, said he is hopeful of having two more fights this year and then getting back in the mix for a shot at another title.
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Hassan has $35K left from NH governor's campaign; Lamontagne reports $23K in cash left over
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � Democratic Gov.-elect Maggie Hassan has $35,000 left from her successful campaign to succeed retiring New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch.
Hassan reported raising $97,000 between Oct. 31 and Wednesday, a state campaign finance reporting deadline. She spent $128,000 during the period. She reported raising $845,000 since the September primary and spending $809,000.
Republican Ovide Lamontagne raised $117,000 during the latest reporting period and spent $273,000. He reported having $861,000 to spend on his general election bid. He spent $837,000, which left him with $23,000 in cash.


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Stafford Home Builder Convicted of $1,000,000 Theft
Sentencing is scheduled April 4 for a development builder from Stafford found guilty of draining more than $1,000,000 from a dozen investors for projects that never materialized.
David K. Haugland, 41, could receive prison terms of five to 10 years for individual counts o ftheft and attempted theft, according to information from Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato's office. He faces retrial on a first-degree charge of money laundering, which resulted in a mistrial.
Prosecutors asserted that Haugland was involved in two proposed projects in Long Beach and another in Beach Haven. Jurors determined that Haugland misrepresented his ownership status in order to amass $1,092,500 in investment capital, then failed to spend it on construction.
The jury also determined that Haugland handed false information to a bank in an effort to secure a $75,000 mortgage loan.
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Places of Interest
Do you know what kind of shells you are picking up on the beach? For some help, take a guided nature walk on a dune path to the beach in Corson's Inlet State Park. The volunteers for the Beachwalk program will help you to see the beach in new and different ways as they pass on their knowledge of sand and water, birds and sealife. Each guide has a specialty, and many people take the walk over and over, just to hear what different guides have to say. More then 20,000 people have done the walk!
Beachwalks are given in July and August on Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30 p.m. and on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The walks start at the south and on Central Avenue, where Corson's Inlet State Park begins. The cost is $1.00 for adults and $.50 for children. The tours last for about an hour. Reservations are not necessary and the walks go unless there is lightening.
Corson's Inlet
After looking at so many little box houses you will come upon a flash green meadows and blue water which will refresh you. Corson's Inlet is a State Park. It's a haven for fishermen to huddle along the causeway to catch crabs and estuary dwellers. There is a small boat ramp and beach and parking off the road. Be careful exploring undergrowth, as it is filled with poison ivy. Stick to the marked trails to help protect the fragile dune environment.
Ocean City Tabernacle
The Ocean City Tabernacle is one of the largest tourist destinations in Ocean City. It is rapidly becoming a year round operation as a center for conferences, special concerts and retreats. The main auditorium holds over one thousand people and boasts one of the best sound and lighting systems in the area. The Tabernacle is a nondenominational summer church featuring some of the greatest preachers in the world. During the summer season it hosts many of the most well known and popular speakers in the country, which are accompanied by musicians of the finest caliber. There is a dynamic children's ministry program that address the needs of children from the cradle thorough grade six. Look for special midweek events geared for this age group as well as programs for adults. The Tabernacle has won a number of awards from the local and county Chamber of Commerce and state assembly recognizing us as the most beautiful site on the entire island. In the evening the lighted historic bell tower fountain is breathtaking.
The Bayside Center
520 Bay Avenue Ocean City
Far magnificent sunsets in the relaxed atmosphere of the bay, visit the Bayside Center. This 1.9 acre property with its vintage 1910 home is owned by Cape May County and operated by the City of Ocean City as a recreational, environmental and historical facility. The ambiance is relaxed, but the activities are many. Open everyday to the public during the summer, the house has an environmental education center, a lifesaving museum, a display of classic ship models by master model maker Stephen Hutsko, and other attractions improvements to the house in 1999 include three floors of reconstructed bayfront porches and an elevator to a third floor observation area.
The environmental Bayside Camp for children is located in the garage on the grounds, and the Ocean City marine police are headquarters in the former pool house. Picnic tables, a pavilion for shade, docks for short-term docking, restrooms, and a butterfly garden round out the outdoors amenities. Bayside Center is the best place to watch the annual Night in Venice parade, according to hundreds who buy tickets for a seat each year. Other events take place Memorial Day Weekend and in September, when kayaks gather. A large room on the second floor of the house provides meeting room for groups up to 40 in number, and it is used all year.
For information on the children's summer camp, call (609) 525-9294. During the summer, call the Bayside Center phone at (609) 525-9244 for hours and special programs.
The Boardwalk
Every trip to Ocean City should include a stroll along the Boardwalk. We have one of the last true boardwalks along the Jersey Shore, and it's block after block of fun and excitement! We've got classic attractions and new additions that will put a smile on every visitor's face. The boardwalk is just over 2. miles long.
The Friends of the Ocean City Historical Museum
1735 Simpson Avenue
Ocean City, NJ 08226
(609) 399-1801
e-mail: email@example.com
A history museum depicting early Ocean City's history with period room displays and vintage clothing, a large display of old Ocean City photographs and postcards, dolls and toys. The Sindia room features a scale model of Ocean City's most famous shipwreck and a lighted 8 x 8' stained glass window showing the Sindia under sail. Many photographs, the original figurehead, china and other atifacts from the ship depict a story of the Sindia's journey at sea and subsequent grounding. Throughout the year, the museum features special exhibits and during the summer, special Thursday evening programs. The museum's gift and consignment shop has an eclectic assortment of items for all ages.
Hours: Summer( May-Oct.) 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mon-Fri; 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, extra hours July and August
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My beginning as a legally recognized individual occurred
on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Bluefield
Sanitarium, a hospital that no longer exists. Of course I can't
consciously remember anything from the first two or three years of
my life after birth. (And, also, one suspects, psychologically, that
the earliest memories have become "memories of memories" and are
comparable to traditional folk tales passed on by tellers and
listeners from generation to generation.) But facts are available
when direct memory fails for many circumstances. My father,
for whom I was named, was an electrical engineer and had come to
Bluefield to work for the electrical utility company there which was
and is the Appalachian Electric Power Company. He was a veteran of
WW1 and had served in France as a lieutenant in the supply services
and consequently had not been in actual front lines combat in the
war. He was originally from Texas and had obtained his B.S. degree
in electrical engineering from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical (Texas A. and M.).
My mother, originally Margaret Virginia Martin, but called
Virginia, was herself also born in Bluefield. She had studied at
West Virginia University and was a school teacher before her
marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. But my mother's
later life was considerably affected by a partial loss of hearing
resulting from a scarlet fever infection that came at the time when
she was a student at WVU. Her parents had come as
a couple to Bluefield from their original homes in western North
Carolina. Her father, Dr. James Everett Martin, had prepared as a
physician at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and came to
Bluefield, which was then expanding rapidly in population, to start
up his practice. But in his later years Dr. Martin became more of a
real estate investor and left actual medical practice. I never saw
my grandfather because he had died before I was born but I have good
memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at
the old house which was located rather centrally in Bluefield.
A sister, Martha, was born about two and a half years later
than me on November 16, 1930. I went to the standard schools
in Bluefield but also to a kindergarten before starting in the
elementary school level. And my parents provided an encyclopedia,
Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, that I learned a lot from by
reading it as a child. And also there were other books available
from either our house or the house of the grandparents that were of
educational value. Bluefield, a small city in a
comparatively remote geographical location in the Appalachians, was
not a community of scholars or of high technology. It was a center
of businessmen, lawyers, etc. that owed its existence to the
railroad and the rich nearby coal fields of West Virginia and
western Virginia. So, from the intellectual viewpoint, it offered
the sort of challenge that one had to learn from the world's
knowledge rather than from the knowledge of the immediate community.
By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the
classic "Men of Mathematics" by E.T. Bell and I remember succeeding
in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by
itself p times where p is a prime. I also did electrical and
chemistry experiments at that time. At first, when asked in school
to prepare an essay about my career, I prepared one about a career
as an electrical engineer like my father. Later, when I actually
entered Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburgh I entered as a student with the
major of chemical engineering. Regarding the circumstances
of my studies at Carnegie (now Carnegie Mellon U.), I was lucky to
be there on a full scholarship, called the George Westinghouse
Scholarship. But after one semester as a chem. eng. student I
reacted negatively to the regimentation of courses such as
mechanical drawing and shifted to chemistry instead. But again,
after continuing in chemistry for a while I encountered difficulties
with quantitative analysis where it was not a matter of how well one
could think and understand or learn facts but of how well one could
handle a pipette and perform a titration in the laboratory. Also the
mathematics faculty were encouraging me to shift into mathematics as
my major and explaining to me that it was not almost impossible to
make a good career in America as a mathematician. So I shifted again
and became officially a student of mathematics. And in the end I had
learned and progressed so much in mathematics that they gave me an
M. S. in addition to my B. S. when I graduated. I should
mention that during my last year in the Bluefield schools that my
parents had arranged for me to take supplementary math. courses at
Bluefield College, which was then a 2-year institution operated by
Southern Baptists. I didn't get official advanced standing at
Carnegie because of my extra studies but I had advanced knowledge
and ability and didn't need to learn much from the first math.
courses at Carnegie. When I graduated I remember that I had
been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But
the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous since I had not
actually won the Putnam competition and also Princeton seemed more
interested in getting me to come there. Prof. A.W. Tucker wrote a
letter to me encouraging me to come to Princeton and from the family
point of view it seemed attractive that geographically Princeton was
much nearer to Bluefield. Thus Princeton became the choice for my
graduate study location. But while I was still at Carnegie I
took one elective course in "International Economics" and as a
result of that exposure to economic ideas and problems, arrived at
the idea that led to the paper "The Bargaining Problem" which was
later published in Econometrical. And it was this idea which in
turn, when I was a graduate student at Princeton, led to my interest
in the game theory studies there which had been stimulated by the
work of von Neumann and Morgenstern. As a graduate student I
studied mathematics fairly broadly and I was fortunate enough,
besides developing the idea which led to "Non-Cooperative Games",
also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real
algebraic varieties. So I was prepared actually for the possibility
that the game theory work would not be regarded as acceptable as a
thesis in the mathematics department and then that I could realize
the objective of a Ph.D. thesis with the other results. But
in the event the game theory ideas, which deviated somewhat from the
"line" (as if of "political party lines") of von Neumann and
Morgenstern's book, were accepted as a thesis for a mathematics
Ph.D. and it was later, while I was an instructor at M.I.T., that I wrote up
Real Algebraic Manifolds and sent it in for publication.
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a "C.L.E. Moore
Instructor". I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year
after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for
personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the
higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T. I was on the
mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in
the spring of 1959. During academic 1956 - 1957 I had an Alfred P.
Sloan grant and chose to spend the year as a (temporary) member of
the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. During this
period of time I managed to solve a classical unsolved problem
relating to differential geometry which was also of some interest in
relation to the geometric questions arising in general relativity.
This was the problem to prove the isometric embeddability of
abstract Riemannian manifolds in flat (or "Euclidean") spaces. But
this problem, although classical, was not much talked about as an
outstanding problem. It was not like, for example, the 4-color
conjecture. So as it happened, as soon as I heard in
conversation at M.I.T. about the question of the embeddability being
open I began to study it. The first break led to a curious result
about the embeddability being realizable in surprisingly
low-dimensional ambient spaces provided that one would accept that
the embedding would have only limited smoothness. And later, with
"heavy analysis", the problem was solved in terms of embeddings with
a more proper degree of smoothness. While I was on my "Sloan
sabbatical" at the IAS in Princeton I studied another problem
involving partial differential equations which I had learned of as a
problem that was unsolved beyond the case of 2 dimensions. Here,
although I did succeed in solving the problem, I ran into some bad
luck since, without my being sufficiently informed on what other
people were doing in the area, it happened that I was working in
parallel with Ennio de Giorgi of Pisa, Italy. And de Giorgi was
first actually to achieve the ascent of the summit (of the
figuratively described problem) at least for the particularly
interesting case of "elliptic equations". It seems
conceivable that if either de Giorgi or Nash had failed in the
attack on this problem (of a priori estimates of Holder continuity)
then that the lone climber reaching the peak would have been
recognized with mathematics' Fields medal (which has traditionally
been restricted to persons less than 40 years old). Now I
must arrive at the time of my change from scientific rationality of
thinking into the delusional thinking characteristic of persons who
are psychiatrically diagnosed as "schizophrenic" or "paranoid
schizophrenic". But I will not really attempt to describe this long
period of time but rather avoid embarrassment by simply omitting to
give the details of truly personal type. While I was on the
academic sabbatical of 1956-1957 I also entered into marriage.
Alicia had graduated as a physics major from M.I.T. where we had met
and she had a job in the New York City area in 1956-1957. She had
been born in El Salvador but came at an early age to the U.S. and
she and her parents had long been U.S. citizens, her father being an
M. D. and ultimately employed at a hospital operated by the federal
government in Maryland. The mental disturbances originated
in the early months of 1959 at a time when Alicia happened to be
pregnant. And as a consequence I resigned my position as a faculty
member at M.I.T. and, ultimately, after spending 50 days under
"observation" at the McLean Hospital, travelled to Europe and
attempted to gain status there as a refugee. I later spent
times of the order of five to eight months in hospitals in New
Jersey, always on an involuntary basis and always attempting a legal
argument for release. And it did happen that when I had been
long enough hospitalized that I would finally renounce my delusional
hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more
conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research. In
these interludes of, as it were, enforced rationality, I did succeed
in doing some respectable mathematical research. Thus there came
about the research for "Le Probleme de Cauchy pour les E'quations
Differentielles d'un Fluide Generale"; the idea that Prof. Hironaka
called "the Nash blowing-up transformation"; and those of "Arc
Structure of Singularities" and "Analyticity of Solutions of
Implicit Function Problems with Analytic Data". But after my
return to the dream-like delusional hypotheses in the later 60's I
became a person of delusionally influenced thinking but of
relatively moderate behavior and thus tended to avoid
hospitalization and the direct attention of psychiatrists.
Thus further time passed. Then gradually I began to
intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of
thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This
began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented
thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
So at the present time I seem to be thinking rationally
again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However
this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from
physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is
that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of
his relation to the cosmos. For example, a non-Zoroastrian could
think of Zarathustra as simply a madman who led millions of naive
followers to adopt a cult of ritual fire worship. But without his
"madness" Zarathustra would necessarily have been only another of
the millions or billions of human individuals who have lived and
then been forgotten. Statistically, it would seem improbable
that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able
through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her
previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it
is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of
partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation
may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve
something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas
that come in the future.
Les Prix Nobel 1994.
C. HarsanyiAutobiographyPrize
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Exactly one year ago today, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs left this world for the next. And while not much has changed — we still have new iPhones, iPads, and Macs; Apple remains the world's most-valuable company — a palpable void hovers on the horizon of the consumer technology landscape he did so much to cultivate.
This void is especially present for Apple, which has gone through an identity crisis of sorts in the past few weeks, with an iPhone 5 launch that lacked that "one more thing" magic and the dreaded Maps app fiasco that arrived with iOS 6. In this short time, Apple without Jobs has come into focus: It's less polished, more humble, but still dominant. Hints of this new, Tim Cook-run Apple appeared to the public throughout the past 12 months — the EPEAT flip-flop, the porous iPhone 5 supply chain — but until Cook's apology over Maps, we couldn't be quite sure that a fundamental shift had taken place. Now we know: The post-Jobs era has officially arrived.
The vanished ambiguity has renewed our collective search for the "next Steve Jobs." Inevitably, names like Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Elon Musk of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and even Tim Cook make the list. We debate over the ins and outs of their abilities to "think differently;" to create and manage teams that are capable of building "great" things; to see areas of our lives that can be enhanced by technology, and then have the je ne sais quoi to smoothly and effectively pull it all off.
The reason we search for a new Jobs is not simply because it's fun to speculate and analyze the other tech CEOs before us (though that's part of it) — it's because American industry is looking for a new leader. In Jobs, we had a remarkable person who ushered in the PC age with Apple II and the post-PC age with the iPhone and iPad. He changed the animated movie business with Pixar, the music industry with iTunes and the iPod, and the software industry with the App Store. And he created a new kind of vocabulary that made the public, which previously kept its tech at arms length, understand and crave it with a convert's zeal. Had he lived a bit longer, it seems likely that Jobs would have changed the television industry, as well — a development that appears as far off as ever without his unique ability to force transformations on stubborn incumbent industries.
Yet, those who have resisted the pull of Jobs' Apple make an increasingly compelling case for the benefits of doing so. His penchant for control has led to the creation of technology's most colossal walled garden. Inside its vast confines, consumers have largely abandoned the idea that the technology we have in our pockets and on our desks is our own, to be tinkered with and customized and made into something altogether new. We've become sheep-like and complacent in our powerlessness to a corporation that makes all the rules — rules that Jobs himself invented.
Both sides are true, of course. Consumer technology advanced at an incredible rate over the past two decades, thanks to the contributions of Apple under Jobs. The ever-popular iOS and Mac devices we use remain the benchmark of usability and design. Conversely, our relationship with technology and the companies who create it is a binding one. And corporate giants like Amazon, with its Kindle ecosystem, and Microsoft, with its forthcoming Windows Phone 8 lineup, and all of Facebook, are actively moving to lengthen those chains in an attempt to keep us tethered.
Because of these contrasting truths, it is important for us as consumers of technology to ask: Do we really need another Steve Jobs? Or is the technology industry better off without a leader?
Admittedly, this is an impossible riddle. We cannot predict the future, and it can go in any direction. Without a clear leader, the many capable minds and companies out there are more free to try new things without having to compete with a status quo. Such a democratic environment allows for a large set of unique ideas to break through more easily. And, in theory at least, this can lead to rapid advancement.
The contrasting scenario is just as likely: a level playing field leads us in circles. We keep moving, but never get anywhere new. Without a leader decreeing a clear winner, new products compete with an endless string of equals. Development becomes a center-less brawl that bogs down further advancement. And that's a world that looks much like Apple did before Jobs made his triumphant return, streamlined the company's product lineup, and turned Apple into the powerhouse it is today.
Reality is a mixture of both. Looking back, we can see that the technology world moves in a cycle. The rise of Apple under Jobs defined one part of that cycle, one in which the primary vein of innovation led back to a single, pumping heart. The loss of Jobs began the next part of the cycle, which we are in today — a phase where the tech industry lacks an obvious center, but no longer really needs one to thrive.
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The world's first ATV was created by Honda factory workers in Japan in a company-sponsored research facility where the motorcycle maker encouraged employees to be creative.
When workers finished that first three-wheel, flotation tired ATV, no one knew exactly who would buy it or for what purpose.
The decision was made to sell it and see what happens. What happened was almost limitless applications from a recreational vehicle to a motorized cart for industrial roofers.
The same thing is happening with the public availability of Global Positioning System technology. Thousand of civilian uses have been spawned by a technology that was once the private domain of the American military.
Sacramento Valley, Calif., rice grower Steve Butler uses GPS on his tractors' guidance systems, but he also uses it to mark duck blinds to prevent tractor blight. However, he said the most unusual application he has seen was on a recent trip to a remote Mexican fishing village.
"A lot of the houses do not even have electricity, but the local lobster fisherman was using GPS to track the location of his lobster traps," said Butler. The Mexican lobster fisherman did not need GPS to find his own traps, but he relied on it to ensure his workers found the traps.
Just like that fisherman, San Luis Obispo County, Calif., vineyard manager Simon Graves knows well each of the 34 distinctively different blocks of vines within the 400-acre Southcorp Wines California premium varietal vineyard he manages in the rolling foothills near Creston, Calif.
The blocks are segregated by a variety of factors, including variety/rootstock, trellising styles, irrigation, soil types, elevation and countless other features.
Using GPS with a handheld computer or PDA coupled with aerial imagery he has become a more efficient manager of those different blocks for mere pennies in technology costs.
Accuracy, efficiency
GPS/GIS technology cannot replace the shadow of the vineyard manager on the vines, but Graves says it can add a level of accuracy and efficiency never before possible.
Graves uses database software from Scancontrol of Pleasanton, Calif., selling for about $200 per installed handheld. The Personal Digital another $100.
"It is very inexpensive, simple, straightforward and easy to use. That is the beauty of it," said Graves.
Robin Woods, president of Scancontrol, said there was a method to his madness of pricing software so cheap. He wants to attract the attention of grape growers and vintners with the low price so he can bring in more business managing the data collected.
"We wanted to develop a package in a $300 to $600 range that was reliable and simple to use in collecting information for sub-block management," Woods said.
The software can be downloaded online using online tutorials.
It is also the online link to the user where Robins figures to make his money, not selling the software.
The data is easy to collect. Woods sees the payoff of his efforts in crunching the data into information to help the grower and vintners do a more efficient job.
"As we collect data, we can do comparison of seasons to detect trends in the vineyard in database form so a grower can see exactly what is going on in the vineyard," said Woods. He has also collected data on research, like gauging the impact of a mechanical harvesting on a large vineyard block where a myriad of data was collected.
Woods is already working with many of the largest vintners in California in helping tabulate data from vineyards where grapes are purchased.
"We want to act as a service provider to interpret the data collected in the field using our software and handhelds," said Woods.
Learning investment
While the cost is attractive, there is an investment in time with a learning curve for the new technology, said Graves.
"It takes a bit of time to set it up and time to learn to use it. You have to force yourself to use it — to pick up the PDA when you head out to the vineyard. However, when you make that commitment it is worth the effort."
From that point, "you drive your own boat. The technology and software is there to use almost anyway you want."
Graves has been using aerial imagery and Scancontrol software for about three years and finds only one shortcoming.
"I wish I had Blue Tooth technology to download soil moisture datalogger information directly to my PDA in the field," said Graves.
Southcorp's Cametti Hills Vineyard was planted in 1998 and 1999. It is all red wine grapes: Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Zinfandel.
It was soil mapped and planted on 10- by 6.5-foot spacing using GIS and GPS technology. "It was pretty high tech for the time. Remote sensing was used and soil mapping was geo-referenced." Vine rows and plant spacing were marked using GPS.
This precision technology at planting brought a higher level of uniformity to the vineyard blocks from the beginning, "however, it is difficult to judge uniformity fully until you have something in the ground," said Graves. The initial uniformity has been enhanced with the precision ag technology Graves has adopted as part of his sub block vineyard management.
The largest vineyard block at Cametti Hills is 12 acres. Eight acres is the most common block size.
"What aerial imagery and programs from Scancontrol have brought to the vineyard is the ability to manage vineyards on a sub block level."
Varied qualities
This sub block segregation is all about wine grape and wine quality to meet a wide range of programs for Southcorp wines that sell for $15 per bottle up to $50 per bottle wines.
There can be as many as five different quality levels within the vineyard's four varietal grapes. "What we try to do is to say bring B quality up to A quality fruit level. If we cannot do that, then we want to identify the qualities and manage and harvest them separately," said Graves.
This typically is related to vine vigor. Graves uses aerial infrared imagery to evaluate vine vigor, ordering one aerial image of the vineyard each year, just prior to harvest. This is when there is a full canopy and no other vegetation, like a cover crop, growing.
"I like use gray scale with black being low vigor and white being high vigor," said Graves. He then uses that imagery to segregate blocks using GPS for harvesting based on vigor index. After harvest, he uses the aerial imagery to manage the vineyard the rest of the season.
"We now have three years of aerial imagery and will use this information to compare years and to evaluate any changes we have made."
Graves knows that the hill tops will be lower vigor and that typically goes into the reserve wine program with lower elevations, more vigorous vines going into lower priced wines. Aerial imagery and Scancontrol's software allows him to more accurately define those lines between grape qualities.
"You can literally harvest individual vines with the precision ag technology we now have, but you have to harvest using economically reasonable blocks," said Graves. The smallest block he has harvested was 4 tons and the largest 50 tons.
All of the vineyard's grapes are crushed at Byron Winery in Santa Maria, Calif. The vineyard's first vintage was 2001.
Must correlate
"Technology does not replace going into the vineyard touching and examining the vines. You cannot irrigate by looking at soil moisture dataloggers and aerial maps. You have to correlate what the moisture sensors are telling you with visual observations of the vines."
Graves uses the technology for other things as well.
"Using my GPS equipped handheld PDA and an aerial map of the vineyard on it, if I see a vine or an irrigation problem that needs attention, I can identify location of the problem on the map on my handheld and give that information to someone to take care of. They can go right to the spot I identified on the vineyard aerial map and take care of the problem," said Graves. No guessing; no wasted motion.
While the majority of the Cametti Hills grapes are utilized for Southcorp wines, some are sold to other wineries. Winemakers want a progress report on their grapes. Graves logs grape and vine conditions on his PDA, downloads them into his computer to e-mail progress reports to winemakers.
"E-mailing the information takes no time at all if it is downloaded on the computer. It sure beats playing phone tag for a week trying to provide the information," he said.
He has also used the aerial imagery and GIS technology to rectify low vigor areas he wants to improve. Identifying a hilltop that needed attention, Graves mapped out a compost application that identified where to start the compost operation and gradually increase rates moving up the hill.
"We put down a lot of compost — 75 cubic yards per acre, banded beneath the vines to improve the organic matter in the soil." Cametti Hills is not only the vineyard's name, but its soil type as well. Cametti means limestone and that also translates to very little organic matter in the soil; it can benefit from compost.
Fit spray rig
Graves also will soon be fitting his spray rig for variable rate pesticide applications using the handheld PC to operate a spray controller.
"What we plan on doing is connect the handheld to the variable rate computer to treat for leafhoppers in specific spots of the vineyard at the same time we are applying wettable sulfur for powdery mildew control," said Graves.
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Increasing farming costs is what is driving Graves to this technology. "It may cost us $1,000 to treat hotspots only, but we would burn up at least three times that much in chemicals that if we had to spray entire blocks or the whole vineyard," he explained.
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Voters in Washington and Colorado on Tuesday legalizing recreational use of marijuana, but that doesn't make drugged driving in those states legal.
Both states -- as well as the 17 where medicinal use is approved -- penalize stoned drivers the same way they do drunken drivers.
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Washington's ballot measure establishes a concentration of 5 nanograms of active tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) per milliliter of blood as proof of impaired driving. Backers of Initiative 502 say a marijuana smoker who lets several hours pass before getting behind the wheel should fall beneath that standard. But most other states - where marijuana is still considered an illegal substance -- have a zero-tolerance standard.
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Those who are convicted of impaired driving face major legal and financial issues. CarInsurance.com's "What's Your Limit?" tool, though geared toward those planning to drink, spells out the state by state penalties for a DUI conviction.
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I've spent the past week in residence at the Hoover Institution as a media fellow along with Richard Starr of the Weekly Standard and Cristina Aby-Azar of the Wall Street Journal Americas. It's been a blast. Here are a few notes.
Among the highlights of the week has been the opportunity to catch up with Hoover research fellow, author and Dartmouth College trustee Peter Robinson. Peter is the host of Uncommon Knowledge, the Internet successor to William Buckley's Firing Line. Peter's How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life is his portrait of Ronald Reagan deriving from his work as a speechwriter in the White House over six years that shook the world. Peter was not only there with Reagan, he helped the man shake it up.
As a media fellow, I was set up in an office and given my leave to follow my interests for the week. As Richard Starr put it, much was given and little was asked. The bookshelves in my office in the Lou Henry Hoover Building where I am writing are lined with books written by Hoover scholars including Thomas Sowell, Martin Anderson, Victor Davis Hanson and the late Admiral James Stockdale.
In the ranks of American honor, no man stands before Stockdale, the senior American officer who led the American prisoners of war in the Hanoi Hilton and received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his service there. The New York Sun saluted Stockdale in a superb editorial published in 2005 (written, I believe, by Seth Lipsky) on the occasion of Stockdale's death at age 81.
While at Hoover this week I pulled Admiral Stockdale's In Love and War off the shelf to read. The title alludes to Stockdale's having written the book in alternating sections with his wife Sybil. What a powerful book; Richard Starr says it should have been two books. If so, what a powerful two books. In any event, I commend it to your attention.
The first scholar I ever associated with the Hoover Institution was Robert Conquest, still in residence at Hoover. If there is such a thing as a heroic work of scholarship, Conquest's The Great Terror, originally published in 1968, is the real deal. Conquest denies having suggested the new title I Told You So, You F***ing Fools for the updated edition of this classic work on Stalin's murderous purges of the 1930's; Conquest credits Kingsley Amis.
At the invitation of Professor Joel Brinkley, I spoke about our experience with Power Line in Professor Brinkley's Stanford graduate journalism class. Professor Brinkley is the Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter. He writes a weekly column, of which the most recent addresses the desirability of capturing or killing bin Laden. Like Professor Brinkley himself, Professor Brinkley's students were hospitable and gracious. Although I was prepared for the students' hostility, if there was any, they saved it until I left.
During my week here I also met up with four students at Stanford Law School: Gabriel Ledeen, Evan Berquist, Jordan Teti, and Anthony Dick. These are all outstanding young men who stand to make substantial contributions to the legal profession and offer hope for America's future.
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We wrote a live blog of the U.S. stock market Friday. You can read a wrap of pre-market actions here and after the open, a compact rundown of the stock market in Market Snapshot. For questions or comments, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- 9:56 am
- Early rebound
- by Laura Mandaro
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Good (snowy) morning.
It's forecast to be sunny and in the 60s on the West Coast where this particular stock blogger is following stocks, but for the Northeasteners reading this from under an afghan — welcome, we'll try to keep it toasty.
The market is, ahem, heating up a bit after the 2014 opening day dud. Here's a look at the benchmarks:
DJIA + 54 at 16,494
S&P 500 + 4 at 1,836
Nasdaq Composite +4,147
Gold +$5 at $1,230 an ounce
(Photo: Reuters)
- 10:04 am
- Fedspeak ahead
- by Laura Mandaro
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There's not much on the calendar — except a ton of Fed speakers. A bunch are taking the stage at the American Economic Association's conference in Philadelphia.
Philly Fed President Charles Plosser starts things off at 10:15 a.m. with a talk on transitioning from a low-interest rate environment.
Here's the line-up of Fedspeak from MarketWatch's Greg Robb. Not market-moving, but maybe interesting, is outgoing Fed chief Bernanke's talk at 2:30 where he opines on the past and future. Fed speakers hit the podium on Saturday, too.
- 10:09 am
- What Plosser said in December
- by Laura Mandaro
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A little refresher on the first Fed speaker, Charles Plosser.
In early December, this is what he said about the Fed's asset purchase program.
"It would be wise if we began to get rid of this program," Plosser said in an interview on CNBC. "I don't think it is doing very much good for us. I think it has a lot of potential unintended consequences and risks to the economy down the road."
I think it would be fair to call him a hawk.
Check on the 10-year yield: flat at 3%.
- 10:30 am
- 'Animal spiriits'
- by Laura Mandaro
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Fedspeak aside, most of the market oxygen continues to be sucked up by this question: Is the rally over and should we get out?
In the camp of "stick around, the fun's not over" is Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management. He's been a staunch optimistic, even during the bumps in 2011. Here's what he wrote on Thursday:
While economic players are becoming more comfortable than earlier in this recovery, the full-out 'animal spirits' behaviors almost always obvious before recoveries end have yet to surface.
Paulsen actually isn't expecting big gains this year. More likely, he writes, we'll end the year flat. But that's not to say it won't be a rollercoaster.
Perhaps the S&P 500 will reach as high as 2000 before succumbing to a correction returning it close to where we begin the year. Isn't it just like the stock market to turn more difficult just as most are finally beginning to return to stocks for the first time in this recovery?
(Photo: Disney)
- 10:34 am
- We're listening to Plosser but...
- by Laura Mandaro
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Nothing much to report.
The ASSA panel with Fed Plosser and BoE Haldane in Philly is lightly attended so far. Maybe it's the lovely weather.
— Michael S. Derby (@michaelsderby) January 3, 2014
- 10:37 am
- More on those shivering economists
- by Laura Mandaro
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I liked this. H/T Mike Derby of the WSJ.
ASSA meetings: 2014 – Philadelphia in winter 2015 – Boston in winter 2016 – Mariana Trench 2017 – Soyuz spacecraft without fuel 2018 – Hoth
— Daniel Lin (@DLin71) January 3, 2014
- 11:09 am
- Hertz jumps on Icahn news
- by Victor Reklaitis
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- 11:10 am
- 'Detroit Three' car sales disappoint
- by Anora Mahmudova
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It looks like Americans did not buy as many cars in December from the "Detroit Three" as analysts predicted.
General Motors sales fell last month by 6.3% to 230,157, when forecast were for a 0.8% rise. Ford Motor sales rose 2% to 218,058 vehicles, missing analysts' expectations of a 5.9% gain. Privately owned Chrysler Group LLC reported a 5.7% increase in sales last month to 161,007 units, also missing analysts' expectations.
GM shares suffered the most, falling 2.6%, Ford shares fell 0.1%.
- 11:21 am
- Thin volumes on Wall Street
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Main indexes are trading in a narrow range amid thin volumes as many traders are still on holiday, while a major storm in the Northeast hampered travel in the tri-state area.
"Trading volume is off at least 25% this morning and will likely be lower all day due to the mammoth snow storm and today being the last day of a holiday week. Next week volumes will rise as market participants will be back to work and investors will be re-allocating portfolios for 2014," said Channing Smith, managing director at Capital Advisors.
- 11:53 am
- Plosser warns of rapid rate rises
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Stock markets are giving up earlier gains after the Philadelphia Fed president Charles Plosser warned of rapid rate rises, while speaking at the American Economic Association meeting. Via Steve Goldstein:
Plosser warned that the central bank may have to be "aggressive" in lifting interest rates and may have to chase market rates higher, if banks were to quickly release reserves. He also suggested the expectations of his colleagues by the end of 2016 that calls for Fed funds rates to be below 2% even when the job market is back to normal may be too low. Plosser also said the central bank could face political pressure not to lift rates. "Technically we can certainly do that, but it will be a question of will," he said. He also said the Fed is monitoring asset prices and leverage to avoid "frothiness" in markets. Plosser is known for his hawkish views and becomes a voting Federal Open Market Committee member this year. The Fed last month started tapering their bond-purchase program, reducing monthly purchases to $75 billion.
(Photo: Bloomberg)
- 12:09 pm
- AEA meeting in Philly
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Despite the snow storm in the Northeast, which seriously hampered travel, scores of economists came to Philadelphia to hear the Fed officials speak.
Here are some comments from Twitter on #AEA and #ASSA2014 #Fed
Thousands of economists descend on a single block in Philadelphia. What could possibly go wrong? #AEA
— Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) January 3, 2014
"A conference in a snow-prone city in early January? What could go wrong?" —the same folks who brought you the financial crisis. #ASSA2014
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) January 2, 2014
Now that the #Fed has tapered, Plosser is dusting off old inflation warnings at #AEA conference @philadelphiafed
— Jonathan Spicer (@jonathanspicer) January 3, 2014
- 12:28 pm
- A contrarian view
- by Anora Mahmudova
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After the spectacular gains in 2013, U.S. stock markets started the new year on a much cautious note. The first two trading days on Wall Street are ending with losses.
Even as the consensus for 2014 returns is about 10%, strategists have been advising to be cautious.
But to market analysts of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Wall Street's skepticism and recommendation that investors stay relatively light on stocks is a bullish sign, writes Jonathan Burton.
Savita Subramanian, Bank of America Merrill Lynch equity & quant strategist notes:
"Even though the S&P 500 has risen by over 30% since sentiment bottomed [in July 2012], history suggests that strong equity returns can last for years after the indicator troughs."
- 1:21 pm
- FireEye-Mandiant deal
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Hacking and other more serious cyber attacks are on the rise, so when one computer-security firm buys another, investors rush in to buy.
FireEye Inc late on Thursday announced that it is buying another cyber-security firm Mandiant Corp, a company known for its report linking cyber attacks on U.S. companies to the Chinese military. The deal is worth $1 billion.
FireEye shares surged 34% by midday.
Writing about the stock, Nomura analysts reaffirmed their buy recommendation:
We view this [Mandiant deal] as highly complementary and a strategic positive in expanding the completeness of the product offering in advanced threat detection. Also, this facilitates both a broader entry into the larger IPS market and the delivery of FireEye's virtual machine APT products to the endpoint market. These are significant new product directions for the company. FireEye also announced preliminary results for its fourth quarter, which were above expectations.
- 2:35 pm
- All attention turns to Bernanke
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Main indexes have been moving sideways for much of the day, as all attention is now focused on the Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's press conference.
SPX -0.3 points
DJIA +22 points
COMP -10 points
- 2:40 pm
- Bernanke defends record as he forecasts growth
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a full-throated defense in front of the economics profession to his nearly eight-year tenure running the central bank, arguing without near-zero interest rates, new communication methods and unconventional bond purchases the economy may have stagnated or even fell back into recession, writes Steve Goldstein. More details in the full report here.
"Skeptics have pointed out that the pace of recovery has been disappointingly slow, with inflation-adjusted GDP growth averaging only slightly higher than a 2% annual rate over the past few years and inflation below the Committee's 2% longer-term target," Bernanke said at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Philadelphia.
"However, as I will discuss, the recovery has faced powerful headwinds, suggesting that economic growth might well have been considerably weaker, or even negative, without substantial monetary policy support. For the most part, research supports the conclusion that the combination of forward guidance and large-scale asset purchases has helped promote the recovery."
He said financial healing, greater balance in the housing market, less fiscal restraint and continued monetary-policy accommodation bodes well for U.S. growth in coming quarters.
(Photo: Getty Images)
- 3:15 pm
- Stocks, dollar are perking up
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
In a fitting reminder of the Fed-day rallies that have characterized Bernanke's tenure, stocks are perking up as Bernanke speaks. He started speaking at 2:30 to a packed room at the American Economic Association's conference in Philadelphia.
S&P 500 up 5 points at 1,837.
Dow up 76 points at 16,517.
Nasdaq Composite paring losses, off 1 point at 4,142.
The dollar strengthened, sending the euro below $1.36.
- 3:59 pm
- Stocks losing air
- by Laura Mandaro
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Stocks are losing it in the final minutes. SPX is now lower.
- 4:01 pm
- Ring a ding
- by Laura Mandaro
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Well that was a choppy day – maybe no surprise given volumes on a snow-muted holiday week.
The numbers:
DJIA + 28 points at 16,469
S&P 500 -1 point at 1,831
Nasdaq Composite -11 points at 4,132
- 4:08 pm
- Volumes
- by Laura Mandaro
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NYSE composite volume was 2.7 billion, or less than 90% of its last month's average.
Nasdaq Composite volume was 1.6 billion, or 94% of the past month's average.
Advancing volume for NYSE-listed stocks made up 53% of volume.
- 4:20 pm
- Movers wrap: Goldman boosts the Dow, Apple hits Nasdaq
- by Laura Mandaro
- Add a Comment
Here's a little detail on what made or broke index gains in Friday's session.
On the Dow average, the only one of the Big 3 indexes to end higher, Goldman Sachs, IBM and Boeing contributed the most to point gains. Verizon and Wal-Mart did the most damage.
Apple's 2% slide kept the Nasdaq lower. High-flier Micron, which has earnings next week, and Baidu also kept the tech-heavy Nasdaq indexes in the red.
One surprise winner? Delta Air, which gained 5.5% after strong December performance.
Here's an intraday chart of Apple.
- 4:30 pm
- Last tip: Stay away from last year's winners
- by Laura Mandaro
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That's a a wrap for Friday. We leave you with this bit of number-crunching from Mark Hulbert, who weighs in on whether following 2013's rock stars (ie Netflix, Best Buy) is likely to make you money this year. Short answer: Nope.
You should instead be focusing on strategies with superior track records over far longer than just the last 12 months. More like 15 years, in fact.