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The fiscal cliff showdown: 4 ways it could play out
The discussions starting between President Obama and congressional leaders will be a major test of whether re-elected leaders in Washington will be able to work together and forge a path toward a stronger economy and lower debt.
The victory celebrations sure didn't last long. As soon as the results from Tuesday's election became official – before, even – politicians, pundits and investors fixed their attention on the next piece of urgent business facing the country: the fiscal cliff.
The focus has been both immediate and intense, as this chart from Bank of America's Matthew Fleury, via Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider, shows. The number of articles mentioning the cliff has spiked far higher than coverage of the debt ceiling debate ever did.
But all that attention hasn't moved the debate from earlier hardline positions. In the days after the election, both men spoke about the need for compromise while at the same time, digging in deeper on their respective lines in the sand on those tax increases for families making $250,000 or more. President Obama insists on raising income taxes on high earners while preserving tax cuts for everyone else; John Boehner, GOP House majority leader, insists on keeping the tax cuts for everyone.
The cliff itself involves much more than just those tax increases. It includes a panoply of more than $600 billion worth of spending cuts and tax increases in 2013:
- About $109 billion in defense and domestic spending cuts
- Expiration of the Bush-era income tax rates
- Annual adjustments to the Alternative Minimum Tax
- Expiration of the payroll tax cut introduced under President Obama
- Expiration of more than 70 so-called annual "tax extenders," including a rise from 15 to 45 percent in the estate tax
- Expiration of unemployment insurance and Medicare "doc fix" reimbursement rate for doctors
- A return to taxing dividends as income rather than capital gains, and an increase in the top capital gains rate from 15 to 20 percent.
And as we saw during the debt-ceiling debate last year, reaching a deal on those various elements isn't all that matters – the process used to get there counts, too. With that all as a backdrop, here are a few basic scenarios for how the fiscal cliff talks could play out:
A Modest Compromise
A number of analysts still expect Obama and Boehner to strike a deal that averts the year-end pitfalls while leaving the long-term budget issues for 2013. "The most likely scenario, in our view, is that policymakers reach sufficient political compromise in time to avoid most, if not all, potential economic effects of the cliff," analysts at Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said after the election.
Any such deal would require one side to back off its position on tax increases for top earners. "In the end, we expect the upper-income portion of the Bush tax cuts will also be extended for another year," Jim O'Sullivan, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote this week, "but in return Republicans will have to agree to the outline of a longer-term deficit reduction package that includes some increase in revenues as well as spending restraint." Alternatively, a compromise could extend the Bush-era rates for everyone but the top 2 percent of taxpayers, renew the patch to the Alternative Minimum Tax, eliminate the payroll tax cut and raise the debt ceiling.
But such short-term compromises would require a commitment to tackle entitlement and tax reforms in 2013. "In order to garner Republican support for new revenues, the president must be willing to reduce spending and shore up the entitlement programs that are the primary drivers of our debt," Boehner said after the election.
Kicking the Can Down the Road
Can-kicking is a favorite Washington pastime and some of the comments made since the election suggest that Congress and the president might work out a deal that extends most if not all of the current tax and spending policies three or six months, buying time to work on both the cliff and a broader agreement in 2013. "We won't solve the problem of our fiscal imbalance overnight, in the midst of a lame duck session of Congress," Boehner said. But punting, with or without some small compromise, could still have complicating factors.
"Perhaps the two sides could agree to a framework for later negotiations, and postpone the cliff now — some versions of the 'kick the can' view argue that this could be a way out. But the lack of trust to date has precluded such options," Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists Michael Hanson and Ethan Harris wrote Friday.
A Grand Bargain
It's highly unlikely if not out-and-out impossible to get done by the end of the year, but the president and congressional leaders could revisit the overarching deal they had discussed last year – one that would address not only averting the fiscal cliff but also hashing out a long-term deal that addresses spending, taxes and entitlement changes that would lower the debt by some $4 trillion in the long term. But negotiations on those issues will likely take time, making a big deal much less likely to be hashed out during the lame duck session of Congress. Even so, any lame duck compromise could set the framework for a broader agreement next year. "An extension of the debt ceiling is possible during the lame duck session but any 'grand bargain' with big budget reductions is, in our view, unrealistic," Brian Gardner of boutique investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods wrote after the election. "Entitlement and tax reform are both issues for 2013."
The 'Thelma and Louise' Option
President Obama and John Boehner could still find themselves playing out a decidedly less glitzy version of the final scene from the Susan Sarandon-Geena Davis chick buddy flick. Boehner told ABC News on Thursday that raising tax rates is "unacceptable" and Obama has said he would veto any deal that extends the Bush tax cuts across the board. "If the president insists that income taxes on higher-income Americans must increase next year, and House Republicans insist that they must not, we risk complete deadlock and may at least briefly go off the fiscal cliff at the end of the year," Nigel Gault, the chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight, wrote in a note to clients Thursday.
Some analysts and politicians, primarily on the left, have suggested that going over the cliff might not be economic suicide. Lawmakers could still work out a deal within weeks or months and make it retroactive, potentially mitigating the harmful economic effects. And reaching an agreement might be easier if Republicans could depict any agreement as cutting taxes from Clinton-era rates rather than raising them from Bush-era ones.
But a failure to address the cliff before the end of the year could have serious consequences. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that inflation-adjusted GDP will fall by 2.9 percent, all but assuring a recession, and the unemployment rate would jump from 7.9 percent now to 9.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013. And while the CBO projects that the recession would be mild and the economy would grow much more strongly between 2014 and 2017, other economists forecast that the sudden austerity involved with going over the cliff could cause a much stronger economic shock.
Besides sending us back into recession, the continued political gridlock would also shake the confidence of investors and business executives and might earn the U.S. another credit-rating downgrade. "This would be a recipe for turmoil in the financial markets, and would threaten such a severe shock to the economy that the pressure to come to some sort of compromise would be extreme," Gault wrote.
Whatever the outcome, the odds of going the cliff may be on the rise. "Given that neither party has a majority with which to push through an agenda," the Standard & Poor's analysts wrote, "we think the chance that political brinkmanship will push the U.S. economy over the fiscal cliff is increasing, though only to about 15 percent."
Yuval Rosenberg is a Business+Economy editor at The Fiscal Times. Subscribe to The Fiscal Times' FREE newsletter.
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If anyone thinks national debt/fiscal economic issues are Obamas priorities, wake up America. His first White House conference was infested with union bosses, radicals, acdemics, kooks like move on.org and various other nilihists. This was the first overture to have these Commisars lay out their demands for helping him get elected and before he meets with business leaders.
I heard the NEA president interviewed afterwards and was appaled to find he had only 2 identifiable phrases-THE TOP 2% and FAIR SHARE. Members of this education union should be very worried that their spokesperson thinks taxes will continue to support their bloated membership and unsustainable wages and benefits. I am betting he has an education and law degree because he obviously never had an economics or accounting course. Taxes result from a robust economy that produces wealth and capital .Tax revenue is a result of this effort, not a cause. Everything I heard him and Richard Trumpka say advocates the strangulation of the resources they will ultimately depend on.
Keep a note pad and total the number of planned layoffs being announced each day, the number of business reducing work week hours to avoid Obamacare, states opting out of Medicaid, doctors dropping medicaid and limiting number of medicare patients-then tell me over the next 3 months I am misguided in my concerns.
These people still dont get it. The takers control elections but the so called rich still control the MONEY.
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If you have a strong family history of breast cancer (in men or women) and/or ovarian cancer that might be caused by a BRCA mutation, and/or if someone else in your family is known to have a BRCA mutation, you might want to consider genetic testing to determine if you have inherited a mutated BRCA gene. If the test detects a mutated BRCA gene, you and your health care team can watch carefully for early signs of cancer. Other cancers (besides breast and ovarian cancer) have been linked to BRCA mutations, including prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, and testicular cancer.
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There is a current trend in the modern art world to use LEDs, neon and visible circuitry. Light art can represent modern consumer culture. I love the luminosity of it, the rawness and its implied cheapness and flamboyant nature.
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My 8 month old too had severe diaper rash and its stayed on for over a month refusing to heal. I started with patting the butt area dry and apply desitin after every change. It dint heal. Then i started leaving the baby diaperless for sometime between changes. This time it neither increase nor decrease. After trying a lot of stuff, including cloth nappies, for a couple of weeks, I contacted the doctors office. They recommended Desonide Cream. Two days of applying the cream every two hours brought in amazing results. At the end of two days, my baby's skin was as tender as it was before. Now i have Desonide cream handy all the time. All I do is, leaving the baby's butt area to dry for 10-15 mins and then apply this cream before i put the diaper on. Hope this helps.posted 09/03/2011 by mamthabl
The BEST treatment for diaper rash is called Sudocrem. I used it every day on my baby and we never even got a hint of diaper rash !!! Sudocrem is basically the same as Triple Paste, only it's one quarter the price, plus has more of the active ingredient zinc oxide (15% as opposed to 12%). Sudocrem is available only in UK and Canada, BUT you can also get it in USA through ebay. Most ebay sellers will charge you shipping as of course they aren't selling from USA. There is one seller however who sells from USA, so shipping is cheap and the link is here: http://bit.ly/qVuc2r Hope this helps. Maxine xxposted 08/25/2011 by MaxineRyder
Also air baby's butt once or twice a day for as long as you can, but not too long of course. It helped tremendously on my baby get rid of diaper rash along with a good cream. I used 'Egyptian Magic' which is a little expensive if your on a tight budget, but worth it, otherwise other creams mentioned by other mum's will do.posted 08/13/2011 by PuaKaa
go to walmart and get ENDINT it has natural stuff in it to get rid of baby rashes it smells like bacon but i swear it helps my mom used it for all two of her children and it didnt fail one good luck=)posted 05/04/2011 by starsky200
if the diaper rash isnt too alarming (less than 3 days) basically every time the baby goes #2 wash their boottie with water and the reg babywash. pat dry then let it air dry do not blow with your mouth due to our mouth bacteria. leave the baby with no diaper for as long as u can. then cover the rash in diaper rash cream.(there is stronger cream that is for burns n it heals them also but i wouldnt do it due to the dose of antibiotics in them ) I know it can be even more demanding to wash then after every go but your baby will be relived in less than 1 day if u do it fast. Just think about it when the baby goes #2 its contains acids and it breaks into the babys skin depending on how sensitive their skin is. n wipes dont clean all the way if so try smelling your baby after u might think that they are clean :)posted 07/07/2011 by mhernandez4828
I found that Advanced Therapy Dry Skin Treatment from Walgreens works better than Vaseline!posted 03/26/2011 by Angel77Dust
Best thing is cornstarch. It works immediately and you will see a big difference by the same day or the next. My doc used to give prescriptions for all the expensive creams...finally i mentioned it to my mom and she suggested cornstarch. I never bought another cream again. dont put and cream or oil etc , make sure baby is dry completely and then just dump cornstarch on his/her bottome and in and around legsposted 03/04/2011 by margehashey
BUTTPASTE! our daughter had daiper rash really bad and BUTTPASTE made all the difference we put it on her at every changing and she has NEVER had one since!!posted 02/16/2011 by wemetatbentleys
I use baby oil and cotton squares to clean my baby. I used this method on recommendation from a friend for my first baby, and it worked so well I've passed on the advice to many friends, and now am doing the exact same with my second. If he has a BM I'll use wipes to get the majority off, and then wipe clean the rest with a couple of cotton squares with a squirt of baby oil on. It cleans, protects, moisturises, treats, and prevents diaper rash. I also use baby oil to massage him all over every evening, and make sure to smooth it over his whole body and butt, and he has remained pink and rash free.. now at 3 months. If you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend you try.posted 12/28/2010 by ArizonaBrit
We were having diaper rash with the cloth ones and our friend gave us the BEST advice! Keep a small hairdryer handy by the changing table. One with a low/cool or low/warm setting. (NEVER use the HOT setting! duh.) And for each diaper change, gently blow baby's waist and bottom dry! (hold dryer at least 12" away from baby's skin at all times.) Within a day and a half the diaper rash was GONE and we haven't had any issues since! This worked 100 times better than any cream or ointment, which really just adds to the moisture in the diaper that causes the rash. Also, we use the Mio Bambino diaper covers. They are thin and allow more room to breathe.posted 12/08/2010 by evildcat
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In Something's Wrong with Your Scale!, Sonny Walker is a thirty-something Mr. Nice Guy who has found companionship and comfort with Marsha. The only problem is that he's become too comfortable. Weighing seventy-five pounds more than when the relationship began, Sonny finds himself dumped by Marsha, but determined to lose the weight and get her back. In a heartwarming tale that is alternately humorous, wise, and ultimately self-affirming, Van Whitfield has created a thoroughly delicious and engaging novel sure to be enjoyed by those who have waged the battle of the bulge, or know someone who has.
With a style that is simultaneously self-effacing and downright hilarious, Van Whitfield's first novel, Beeperless Remote, is the tale of one man who has been thrown into the dating pool and is struggling to get out. Shawn Wayne is a single, employed, hard-bodied, former All-American looking for his ideal woman. He may have an obsession with ESPN's "SportsCenter," money, and going to the gym, but he's a good guy. According to his best friend, Kelly, however, he may have to "expand his universe" a little to find the right woman.
Armed with a cell phone, a pager, an answering machine, and his mother's wisdom, Shawn is back in the game, but his search for the woman of his dreams leads to dating misadventures ranging from nightmare blind dates and underage flings to encounters with married swingers. Then he meets Troi. Is she the one?
Beeperless Remote appeared on both the Blackboard and Emerge bestseller lists, and has also been optioned as a feature film. Van Whitfield established the "Education Works!" Foundation to encourage literary excellence among young people. He's single and lives in suburban Washington, D.C.
Something's Wrong with Your Scale!
1. Sonny Walker, the lead character in Something's Wrong with Your Scale!, is dropped by his girlfriend Marsha because he gained too much weight. Is Marsha wrong for dropping him, or should she be viewed in a positive light for being honest and straightforward? How could Marsha have better handled the situation? If you were involved with someone who had gained a significant amount of weight over the course of the relationship, would it be a problem? How would you respond if you thought a mate or potential mate were overweight?
2. Kayla Jennings, Sonny's new love interest, is portrayed as an intelligent, successful, overweight woman. How would you describe her relationship with Jonathan James Leslie? Considering her achievements, is her relationship with Sonny, a low-level employee at The Sports Authority, realistic? During a phone call, Sonny calls her, "The big girl." How did you feel about this statement, particularly since Sonny has a weight problem of his own?
3. When Sonny and Kayla first dine out at Leon's Eat & Weigh Kountry Buffet, they are insulted by a waiter and his brother. How do you feel about that incident and Kayla and Sonny's response? Are you aware of incidents of this sort? Have you ever been out with someone who was clearly overeating and was insulted by the wait staff or by other customers in the restaurant? If so, how did that make you feel? Do you think that people who are overweight are sometimes treated unfairly?
4. Chet and E, Sonny's closest friends, are depicted as acknowledging Sonny's weight problem, yet they have disdain for overweight people. Are their attitudes typical? How would you handle a friend who discrimates against a particular group of people to which you also happen to belong? Did Sonny overreact the night he and his friends were drinking?
5. Like Shawn in Beeperless Remote, Sonny is dropped by a woman he cares about, yet he never tells his closest friends. Is this typical of the men you know? Who do men talk to when they have concerns about their relationships?
6. Van Whitfield said that while interviewing people for Something's Wrong with Your Scale! he found that overweight people were often not attracted to other overweight people. How do you explain this? What do you suppose are the issues regarding overweight people and romance? Are those with weight problems perceived as especially romantic or particularly unromantic?
7. In one sequence, Kayla says that other people had a bigger problem with her weight than she did. How do you think those with weight problems are perceived by others? How do you think they perceive themselves? Are you uncomfortable with overweight people? If you had a friend that you thought was overweight, but who didn't seem bothered by it, would you address it?
8. In a scene at Sonny's job, he is asked to pose as a "jumbo family-sized tent." Do you think overweight people are subjected to workplace ridicule more than those without weight problems? How are those with weight problems perceived in the workplace? Could a weight problem cause one to miss out on a promotion? Do you think a subordinate sees a supervisor with a weight problem as a competent supervisor or as "just another fat person?"
9. Did Something's Wrong with Your Scale! affect your perception of people with weight concerns and the problems they endure? Do you feel the book would be beneficial to younger people with weight problems?
10. Van Whitfield has been hailed for his unique writing style and use of metaphors and humor. How would you define his style? Is his use of dialogue realistic and/or effective? How, if at all, does Sonny's tone differ from Shawn Wayne's in Beeperless Remote? What are the strengths of Van's style and what might be his shortcomings?
Beeperless Remote
1. Shawn utilizes a rating system to describe six different types of women. Do you feel this system is accurate? Do you see yourself or your friends somewhere in this system? What numbers and phrases would you attach to men?
2. Shawn's mother plays a dominant role in his life. Does this accurately reflect the mother/son relationships of the men in your life? What piece of his mother's advice did you find especially thoughtful?
Did you find Mrs. Wayne's advice to be consistent with that of your mother?
3. Troi, Shawn's main love interest, is depicted as a focused, career-oriented woman of the '90s. What do you think she saw in Shawn? Would you have gone to the black-tie dinner with him? Was Shawn misled?
4. In Beeperless Remote, Whitfield sets up several different dating scenarios. Have you and your friends found yourselves in similar situations? How and where do single men and women meet today? Would you date a man like Shawn? Do you know men like Shawn?
5. Beeperless Remote ends in a climactic fashion. In your opinion, what happens next? Will Donnie maintain his new way of life? Will Kelly's relationship with Lance continue? What will happen when Troi comes back to D.C.? Will Dawn and Shawn persevere? What do you think is the "good news" Dawn refers to in her last message?


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There are several ways you can get a girlfriend who loves bodybuilding. Have a look at I Love Women University: www.ilwu10.org. The main one is going to a gym and looking at the women who are on the machines. The one who is pushing the hardest is clearly interested in bodybuilding. Getting the girl's number is going to be a little tricky and you are going to have to use suave techniques. The basic line is to show her the goods. If she likes what she sees, she is going to go after you. If she likes the ripped look, you're in.
There are many things that you can do to get a girl to want to go out with you, but making sure that they are going to be happy with the routine that you have to maintain in order to keep your ripped body, is the tricky part. You have to make sure that they know from the start that you are going to be lifting and that they can join you. If the girl likes bodybuilding, she is going to take you up on the offer. You are going to be able to push yourself to the limits when working out with someone else. This is the main focal point you're going to have to pay attention to. It is not hard to be able to get a girlfriend who is interested in bodybuilding if you pay attention to her from the start.
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Many retirement investors have tucked their nest eggs into supposedly low-risk havens like bonds, bank accounts and gold. But even these aren't so safe anymore.
"Of late, I've been recommending the VelocityShares 3x Long Gold () exchange-traded note to my clients. Other, less-leveraged options include the ProShares UltraShort Gold () and the Gold SPDR exchange-traded funds."
Tony says to look at the Junior Gold Mining Stock index, GDXJ. Many Junior gold mining stocks will run out of money before making any. As Mark Twain says, ""A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top." You will need to be highly selective in Junior mining stocks to make money in them. Find a good newsletter that can recommend these types of stocks, and separate the wheat from the chaff.
"Gold mining stocks also look attractive and can be played via the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners () exchange-traded fund."
Tony is right on Corporate bonds and U.S. Treasury bonds. Interest rates have nowhere to go but up, and bonds have nowhere to go but down.
Banks are a dangerous place to put your money. The largest banks have deployed Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction, aka derivatives. They may lead to a financial system meltdown. Banks in the Great Depression went bankrupt, and they may go bankrupt again.
Tony is right on Precious Meals: "All of this suggests gold will go higher, not lower, long term."
I didn't agree with his stock recommendations though.
It would be hard to overstate the recklessness of these banks. The numbers that you are about to see are absolutely jaw-dropping. According to the controller, four of the largest U.S. banks are walking a tightrope of risk, leverage and debt when it comes to derivatives. Just check out how exposed they are...
JPMorgan Chase
Total Assets: $1,812,837,000,000 (just over 1.8 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $69,238,349,000,000 (more than 69 trillion dollars)
Total Assets: $1,347,841,000,000 (a bit more than 1.3 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $52,150,970,000,000 (more than 52 trillion dollars)
Bank Of America
Total Assets: $1,445,093,000,000 (a bit more than 1.4 trillion dollars)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $44,405,372,000,000 (more than 44 trillion dollars)
Goldman Sachs
Total Assets: $114,693,000,000 (a bit more than 114 billion dollars - yes, you read that correctly)
Total Exposure To Derivatives: $41,580,395,000,000 (more than 41 trillion dollars)
That means that the total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts is more than 362 times greater than their total assets.
Without a doubt, a derivatives panic is coming.
It will cause the financial markets to crash.
Several of the "too big to fail" banks will likely crash and burn and require bailouts.
As a result of all this, credit markets will become paralyzed by fear and freeze up.
Once again, we will see the U.S. economy go into cardiac arrest, only this time it will not be so easy to fix.
While I agree with most of what you say, I'm not sure about the housing market. You say it stabilized? Perhaps, maybe, possibly, it just temporarily stopped falling. Unless people find good jobs it could just keep falling. My neighbor retired and listed his house over 4 years ago and said he is headed for Florida. He is still here in Jersey. He has been chasing the price down, constantly hoping to sell after each drop only to drop it again.
And we pretty much agree on Gold or Prescious Metals. I can't argue with your other positions, I agree with them..
And you could throw in a bad word for all those folks getting suckered into Annuities. If Quality stocks don't have high yields and banks have no yields, those folks that are buying Annuities better grab their ankles and hold on tight!
The problem I see in the Nation is poor Leadership, muslim loving anti American Leadership at that!. Obozo can't see the problem because he has his head too far up his butt. Liberals can't agree with Conservatives. Congress like wise can't get their heads out of there own butts.
Shortly after Ed Rendell loyally complimented Obozo's Cash for Clunkers, Governor Rendell said, "But what I would have done is put people to work on America's infrastructure". Rendell may be one of a very few Democrats I would ever vote for, but evidently even his own party doesn't listen to him.
But God Bless Helicopter Ben, he's the man gonna make Gold rise as soon as he creates another couple zillion dollars.
One day the chickens will come home to roost and lay a golden egg..
Sorry AZ Blond
If you are as smart as you say you are you would know that through the history of our market economy it is cycle of ebbs and flows. The cycles of Bear and Bull run about six to seven years. Yes the individual investor needs to know when to hold them and when to fold them like a good poker player. The political players in DC have very little to do with the overall market performance other than the daily dalliances of the fear and euphoria of the average unskilled investor. What I have found is I seem to have good to average performance other than when in 2007 the housing market tanked on a thirty year old deal the banks and mortgage companies made with the Carter Administration, which basically gave said banks and mortgage companies less regulation in exchange for more lenient lending practices to lower income and minority applicants. Look where that got us when they started to default which in turn caused the housing market to tumble, followed by jobs and so on. The markets if you watched had started to tumble post 9/11 to bottom out in 2006 and had started their upward trend with a minor blurb due to the housing crisis and has since made a correction. Only a fool will think that because of Obama this high flying market will continue throughout his administration. It will however trend downward again in its normal cycle. A smart investor will be able hedge this and suffer minimal damage. The only people who will surely suffer under Obama's jobless economy are the working middle class. The poor never suffer under any administration because of the safeguards put in place decades ago. At least Romney, who is not a career politician (he in fact did really want the presidency, just to help a struggling economy and middle class which he realizes is the backbone of our economy), knows what it takes to create real good paying jobs and has the connections to do so. Why do you think Obama had a private sit down lunch after the election with Romney and if you notice the media was never privy to the details of said meeting. Hopefully Obama paid some heed and will not be the self-righteous, arrogant **** he appears to be. To tell me that we are better off under the job killing policies of this administration shows that you and those like you Madam are a fools!
It`s all about buying great stocks like I have.Most people are so hung up on hating
Obama that they never do the required reading.The market is up 67% with Obama
but many right wingers can`t even spell his name.There`s little hope for the birthers
that love guns over brains.Thank God most Americans arn`t so stupid to vote for
elitist BS people like Romney.
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When that happens, city officials have to go through Marathon County, and have that money taken from property tax payments at the end of the year. That also leads to huge overdue charges for the property owner.
2012 had about $100,000 more dollars in delinquent bills than the previous year. The city eventually gets it's money, but residents could save the overdue charges and having to pay extra property taxes if they paid their water bills on time.


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Miles Nadal, MDC Partners chairman & CEO, weighs in on Facebook's new ad platform and whether it is likely to become a game changer.
Miles Nadal, MDC Partners chairman & CEO, shares his thoughts on brand associations with the National Football League.
CNBC's Steve Liesman, and Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics chief economist, provide perspective on the latest jobs numbers.
CNBC's Phil LeBeau runs through the automaker's latest sales number.
Roger Altman, Evercore Partners founder and chairman, shares his thoughts on why the way China is handling the Hong Kong protesters illuminates looming problems.
The Center for Disease Control has indicated the Ebola patient is male but will not identify his nationality, reports CNBC's Meg Tirrell, with the latest details.
Sandra Kurtzig, Kenandy chairman & CEO, discusses the future of connectivity and the likely big player in the space ten years from now.
CNBC's Jane Wells sits down with billionaire gaming king Steve Wynn to discuss the investing environment in China and why he is more concerned about polarization in America.
Dr. William Schaffner, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, provides perspective on containing the deadly virus.
Ian Shepherdson, Pantheon Macroeconomics, provides insight on the impact of plunging gas prices on the economy and the upcoming holiday buying season.
Gas prices have dropped to a seven month low and according to one report could fall even further before the end of the year.
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Police hostility has backed down as pro-democracy demonstrators call for free and open elections on China's National Day, reports CNBC's Susan Li.
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Is Our Worship of Consumerism and Technology Making Us Depressed?
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The following is an excerpt from Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green, 2007) by Bruce E. Levine, and is reprinted here with permission from the publisher. In this book, Levine delves into the roots of depression and links our increasingly consumer-based culture and standard-practice psychiatric treatments to worsening depression, instead of solving it.
U-Turn from the Wisdom of the Ages
Throughout history many seekers, thinkers, and prophets have taught about overcoming despair. However, it would be difficult to top the greatness of Buddha, Spinoza, and Jesus. All three were rebels and heretics. All three rejected societal norms and religious orthodoxy. Buddha rebelled against both the caste system and religious rituals. Spinoza rebelled against hypocrisy in his community and certain aspects of accepted theology. Jesus rebelled against a materialistic society and religious authorities. Buddha gave up royalty and wealth, Spinoza was excommunicated and nearly assassinated, and Jesus sacrificed his life.
Buddha, Spinoza, and Jesus all came to a similar conclusion about despair -- quite a different one than that reached by the modern mental health establishment. Although each described it differently, Buddha, Spinoza, and Jesus concluded that the source of our misery is avarice, material attachment, and self-absorption. While each used different language, they all provided a path away from torment and toward wellbeing. Buddha taught how to release oneself from narrow self-interest and craving. Spinoza taught how to liberate oneself from greed and other irrational passions. And Jesus taught, very simply, about love.
Modern mental health culture classifies depression as quite a different matter from the despair spoken of by Buddha, Spinoza, and Jesus. However, while modernity has resulted in different sources of pain, human beings and their responses to pain can hardly have changed so dramatically. And so to believe that Buddha, Spinoza, and Jesus would have dealt only with mild and moderate unhappiness and left debilitating depression for future mental health professionals to tackle seems quite unlikely.
Buddha, Spinoza, and Jesus were not alone in their understanding of the importance of moving beyond self-absorption. In more recent times, their message has been echoed by many others, including psychoanalyst and social critic Erich Fromm (1900-1980). Fromm argued that the increase in depression in modern industrial societies is connected to their economic systems. Financial success in modern industrial societies is associated with heightened awareness of financial self-interest, resulting in greater self-absorption, which can increase the likelihood for depression; while a lack of financial self-interest in such an economic system results in deprivation and misery, which increases the likelihood for depression. Thus, escaping depression in such a system means regularly taking actions based on financial self-interest while at the same time not drowning in self-absorption -- no easy balancing act. In Fromm's culminating work, To Have or to Be? (1976), he contrasts the depressing impact of a modern consumer culture built on the having mode (greed, acquisition, possession, aggressiveness, control, deception, and alienation from one's authentic self, others, and the natural world) versus the joyful being mode (the act of loving, sharing, and discovering, and being authentic and connected to one's self, others, and the natural world).
Fromm's penetrating social criticism of an alienating society resulting in increased depression was, during his lifetime, widely respected by many mental health professionals. Today, however, the mental health profession has come to be dominated by biopsychiatrists: those who see depression as a matter mainly of brain chemistry. Fromm, if alive today, may well have labeled this as "microscopic self-absorption." And he most certainly would be sad that mental health treatment has increasingly become a component rather than a confrontation of modern consumerism.
Technology Worship and Scientific Sham
The faith of our culture is that technology is omnipotent. On my way to getting a PhD, I learned about behavioral technologies, about cognitive technologies, and about biochemical technologies. I learned to think about depressed human beings as broken objects that needed to be fixed. After experiencing the futility of this type of approach, I learned a completely different way of thinking.
I do not oppose technology per se. I merely oppose the uncritical worship of it. My concern is not unique; it echoes that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lewis Mumford, and many others. Human beings have always had technology of sorts -- some sort of tools and techniques to make their lives easier. The difference today is that technology has increasingly become the supreme value of American culture.
Technology is all about control, and the more we Americans singularly worship technology, the more we singularly worship control. Our society is increasingly dominated by megatechnologies -- huge, complex technologies that most of us neither understand nor can control. Human beings pay a psychological price for any technology that controls them more than they control it; they can actually feel more powerless. And the feeling of powerlessness is highly associated with depression.
Uncritical worship of any value or belief leads to extremism and fundamentalism. Henry David Thoreau, another early critic of technology worship, lamented, "Men have become the tools of their tools." He knew that a society that worships technology would spend little energy assessing its ultimate value, resulting in what he described as "improved means to unimproved ends." Beyond its attribute of control, technology has no meaning, and if people singularly worship it, they will have meaningless lives. A meaningless life, like a powerless life, is a depressing one.
The consequences of technology fundamentalism are no less comical and tragic than the consequences of antitechnology fundamentalism. The belief that technology is the solution to all of life's problems is no less naive than to believe that technology is the source of all of life's problems.
American mental health culture has increasingly become a technology fundamentalist one. Drugs have become a first option for many doctors, electroconvulsive therapy has made a comeback, and psychosurgery is no longer frowned upon. Technology fundamentalists demand speed and efficiency. By the early 1990s, two-thirds of doctor visits were less than fifteen minutes, and a 2001 RAND Corporation survey revealed that the majority of physicians were diagnosing depression in less than three minutes. In a culture that worships speed, I suppose this is considered progress, but a culture that truly respects life would view this quite differently.
In a society that worships technology, the authority of science provides any given technology with legitimacy, and so there are great incentives to convince the public that the techniques used to measure depression are scientific. However, the technology for assessing depression lacks the basic elements of science -- including objectivity and verifiability.
One of the most common depression measurement techniques used in researching the effectiveness of antidepressants and other biochemical treatments is the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD). The HRSD was the primary measure of depression in the NIMH STAR*D study, and it is routinely used in antidepressant studies evaluated by the FDA for drug approval. However, even the American Journal of Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association's own journal, concluded in 2004, "Evidence suggests that the Hamilton depression scale is psychometrically and conceptually flawed." And the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology noted in 2005, "When looking closely at the construction and content of the HRSD, it is clear that this is a flawed measure." When legitimate scientists examine the HRSD, they immediately notice its biases in how depression is defined, the arbitrariness of a point total for qualifying a person as depressed, the arbitrariness of what qualifies as remission of depression, and the subjective nature of how responses are interpreted and evaluated.
In the HRSD, clinicians and researchers rate subjects, and the higher the point total, the more one is deemed to be suffering from depression. There are three separate items about insomnia (early, middle, and late), and one can receive up to six points for difficulty either falling or remaining asleep; however, there is only one suicide item, in which one is awarded only two points for wishing to be dead. The HRSD is heavily loaded with items that are most affected by psychotropic drugs, and thus it is not surprising that pharmaceutical-company-sponsored researchers use the HRSD in their antidepressant studies. And it is therefore especially damning for antidepressants that even with such measurement dice loading, these drugs routinely fail to outperform placebos.
Even with depression measures that reflect the standard psychiatric view of depression more accurately than the HRSD, there are interpretation problems. Standard depression symptoms such as depressed mood, loss of interest and pleasure, sleep difficulties (too little or too much), activity difficulties (agitation or lethargy), lack of energy, guilt and self-reproach, poor concentration, indecisiveness, and suicidality are not objectively quantifiable in a scientific sense (and weight gain or loss, a standard symptom that can be objectively measured, is routinely assessed via interview -- without a scale or baseline weight). I have talked to people who, while eating a sandwich, report that they have no appetite, and I've talked to others claiming a good appetite who in reality have not eaten in days. People routinely deny they are suicidal when they are in fact so, and vice versa. And I've known people who had poor concentration because they were passionately in love, and people with excellent concentration who were considering suicide.
There can be some value in interviewing or polling people on their subjective experience of "unhappiness," "depression," or "number of depressive episodes" and comparing the responses of different populations. However, only someone who knows nothing about the objective nature of real science could take seriously an arbitrary point total on a subjectively interpreted questionnaire and conclude it to be a scientifically conclusive criterion for diagnosing a person as suffering from the disease of depression (or declare that another arbitrary point total is scientific evidence for remission from the disease of depression). Yet such is common practice in the mental health establishment.
A worship of technology rather than a respect for its power and limitations has also resulted in denying or ignoring phenomena that are obviously nonquantifiable. However, if one dismisses all phenomena that are not measurable, some of the most significant aspects of humanity are simply not discussed. Science cannot accurately quantify the emotional impact of a given trauma on any given person or the love required for healing that wound. And authenticity, spontaneity, compassion, and other variables involved in morale and healing are too subjective to be captured with any scientific certitude. But rather than acknowledging the limitations of quantification, powerful nonquantifiable antidotes to depression are too often simply neglected.
The Unhappiness Taboo
There are many possible reasons for the increasing rate of depression among Americans, but I believe that one important cause is a culture that demands happiness. The pressure to be in a good mood can make people ashamed of not being in one. This "pain over pain" can then result in normal low moods becoming prolonged bouts of despair.
Why did this unhappiness taboo take hold so strongly in the United States? One possibility is a societal distortion of the right to "the pursuit of happiness," which has come to mean the expectation of being in a good mood all the time. The irony here is that the signers of the Declaration of Independence signed their death warrant had the American Revolution failed, and it is difficult to imagine Thomas Jefferson telling them, "Don't worry, be happy." It was once accepted that experiencing uncomfortable feelings was often necessary to achieve an ideal.
The unhappiness taboo has dominated the United States since it became a nation primarily of consumers rather than citizens, a gradual process that accelerated with the ascent of advertising in the beginning of the 1900s, and which dramatically spiked with the consumer boom following World War II. The belief that people should be either happy or trying to be happier is a fundamental principle of modern consumerism -- the never-ending search for products and services to bring happiness and prevent unhappiness.
In a culture of consumerism, people are forever trying to buy happiness, and sellers are expected to appear happy so as to inspire confidence in what they are offering. There are few businesses that are not in some sense selling happiness or the relief from unhappiness -- and thus there is enormous pressure to maintain the appearance of happiness.
The perversion of the pursuit of happiness to mean that it is our duty to be chronically upbeat has, according to psychologist and journalist Lesley Hazleton, resulted in the labeling of anxiety and depression first as weakness and now as illness. In 1984 she published The Right to Feel Bad, which confronts this unhappiness taboo: "Feeling good is no longer simply a right, but a social and personal duty. ... How are we to see depression as a legitimate emotion? How are we to avoid calling ourselves sick or wrong when we feel it? How are we to reclaim it from the clutches of those who claim that anything but feeling good is bad? ... Seeing depression as pathological -- that is, as illness -- is a useful way of invalidating it. ... If we were allowed to be depressed -- if we could allow ourselves to be so -- we might find it much easier to tolerate." Hazleton convincingly argues that depression is a normal human reaction, and if we cannot accept it, we become ashamed and alienated from ourselves, and this is what makes depression so lethal.
Is it the stigma of depressive illness that we need to eliminate, or rather the stigma of being depressed? Instead of viewing being depressed as weakness or illness, we Americans might better decrease depression by understanding it as a normal human reaction -- to be taken as seriously as all other dimensions of our humanity, but neither shamed nor pathologized. When people label a natural component of their existence as "sick," they run the risk of alienating themselves from a part of who they are, making that component far more problematic than it naturally is. By contrast, when we accept the whole of our humanity, we are often rewarded with greater joy -- and almost always receive increased wisdom about life.
Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and author of Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green, 2007).
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A proposed $10 million Fort Wayne Habitat for Humanity subdivision is on track to build, but neighbors got in a few barbs Thursday.
The Allen County Plan Commission approved the non-profit organization's first-ever major housing addition after a public hearing. County commissioners still must OK a rezoning request for the 120-home development on West Cook Road across from the Raven's Cove subdivision on the city's northwest side.
Unlike most Habitat for Humanity projects, Fuller's Landing wouldn't simply be a few houses in a block. It would create its own footprint, which has neighbors worried. Some say an affordable-housing addition would create several problems, not the least of which is lower property values.
Representatives for the organization said most homes will cost $108,000 to $116,000 – a range they say is comparable to nearby homes. Officials hope to begin work on the first three-bedroom dwelling by the fall.
Habitat for Humanity attorney Thomas Niezer said the organization can boast of having only seven foreclosures out of 166 homes over a 26-year span.
"It's not the relative wealth of a homeowner," but the pride of being a homeowner that brings stability to a neighborhood, he said. A family of four could earn up to $37,100 annually to qualify for a three-bedroom house. Mortgages would range from $400 to $450, including escrow, taxes and insurance.
Raven's Cove neighborhood leader Lynn Overman said there is a perception that neighborhoods with Habitat homes have lower values, more crime and shoddy maintenance.
"If I'm investing in a neighborhood, those are things I would consider," said Overman, who did not attend Thursday's meeting.
Justin Berger, executive director of Habitat, said he expected such objections. Still, he said they're rooted in ignorance.
"This is a first for Fort Wayne, and people always have concerns when something is new," he said. "What I appreciate is that the people speaking didn't object to Habitat for Humanity or what we do." Other neighbor concerns were about congestion and the quality of the homes since the organization uses volunteers.
Berger said there are similar developments in Evansville, Bloomington and Nashville, Tenn. Fuller's Landing would feature three-bedroom ranch and two-story houses, most spanning 1,100 square feet. Walking trails, a playground and other amenities are planned.


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On March 14, 2008, Josune Bereziartu and her husband Rikar Otegui — both known almost exclusively for their sport climbing achievements—put up a seven-pitch alpine scarefest on the north face of Pena Telera (2764m) in the Spanish Pyrenees. Their new line, Frenesi (Frenzy: ED+: III/IV M6/7 R, 450m), they climbed onsight and ground up over seven hours, placing only natural protection.
"My alpine experience has been very short because I mostly sport climb, but in the past two years I've been gradually seduced by alpinism," Bereziartu said. "Frenzy was the first alpine route that I opened, so it gave me perspective on what's mentally and physically difficult for me. This route was hard for me, especially because many of the placements were pretty poor, which didn't give me much confidence."
Full Report (with action photo) on the Alpinist Website.


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It's less than a full month into the season and normally I'm the first person to say, "it's too early to panic.â€Â Seriously, I am. But this is an exception. IT IS TIME TO PANIC.
And here's why:
After today's sorry loss to the Cubs (8-1), the Mets have now lost nine games. Of those nine games, the Mets have fallen behind early and failed to score more than 1 run five times. That is ugly. The simple fact is this: when this team gets down, they give up. Don't believe me? Take a look.
APRIL 6 @ ATLANTA: The offense is shut down by John Smoltz. No big deal, right? Smoltz is still a great pitcher, a true ace, and losing to him is not a big deal. But Smoltz only pitches 5 innings, and Mets fail to do anything productive off of the less-than-impressive Braves bullpen. They squeak out a single run in the 9th but that's only because David Write is great. Final score: 3-1, Braves.
APRIL 8 vs. PHILADELPHIA: The boys in blue and orange lead 2-0 on a solo HR by Delgado (this was his last positive contribution to the team) and a fielder's choice by Ryan Church. But that's it. After Church's RBI (which is an RBI on paper, but the dribbler was barely touched by his bat) the Mets scored nothing after the 4th inning. The could not scratch out a run off of an ancient Jamie Moyer or the "terrible†Philly bullpen (Gordon, Romero, and Chad Durbin). What's worse is that they left runners in scoring position in the 5th, 7th, and 8th innings! Once again, they simply gave up on trying to score. Final score: 5-2, Phillies.
APRIL 12 vs. MILWAUKEE: Again, the Mets scored 2 early (both in the first inning) but then they failed to score more than a single run the rest of the game. This was Santana's homecoming, and, while he wasn't light's out, he was still good enough to win. But the Mets couldn't score anything against Ben Sheets, despite being very hittable. They left runners in scoring position in the 1st and 2nd innings, and then proceeded to do nothing the rest of the way. Final score: 5-3, Brewers.
APRIL 21 vs. CHICAGO: The Cubs jump out and go head by 2 in the 4th inning, and once they're behind, the Mets just stop. The offense is anemic, scoring just one lone run. Reyes led off the game with a single, and if I had known that this would be the high point of the game, I would have stopped watching right then. Final score: 7-1, Cubs.
APRIL 22 vs. CHICAGO: This was a repeat performance of the game on the 21st. The Mets fall behind by 3 after the 4th inning, and again manage only 1 single run. That's it. This, just like the day before, was a winnable game; the underwhelming Mets bullpen gave up runs late and put the game out of reach, but had the offense found a way to get something—anything—done earlier, it would have been an entirely different ballgame. Final score: 8-1, Cubs.
So what's the point to all of this? Simple: The Mets seem to be lacking a sense of caring. The heart just isn't there. It's what was missing last year and it seems to be missing already now this year. People will tell you that the bullpen blew it for them in September of last year; others will say it was the manager's fault; I say it was a lack of heart. I didn't like the team that lost those games, but not because I'm not loyal or because they were losing or because I'm a fair-weather fan. I didn't like that team because they just looked like they gave up. The Phillies deserved to win last year because they never gave up: they came from behind a ridiculous number of times last year because they had heart. This team, the 2008 incarnation of the New York Mets, so far, has no heart. And if this keeps up, it's only going to get harder and harder to root for them.
I say this to my students all the time (I'm a teacher): I will work as hard for you as you will for yourself, but I won't work harder. The same thing applies: I refuse to care more about the Mets wins and loses than the players on the team. They need to show that they actually care or they're in danger of another disappointing season.


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Volume 62 Issue 21 Wednesday, October 13, 1999 w E B R T A T U N V R T Y Signpost i T TT7 1 HUC, OMECOAftlStti 1 A- v- iwT 1 s 4 i CELEBRATE! It's Homecoming Week, time to "Celebrate." So far, activities have included the. kick-off party with hypnotist Bruce McDonald's and daily mud volleyball games. Other plans for the week will include today's Pep Rally, the Poetry Slam and Saturday's Funfest. For more information on the week's activities, look at the Homecoming special section inside today's issue. WSU students don't celebrate Columbus Day By Chris Young campus affairs editor-Tfoe Signpost Columbus Although Columbus is considered a master of navigation, he died in neglect, almost forgotten. Remembrance, not celebration, was a common theme among many students at Weber State University on Columbus day. "It's not a time to celebrate," said Fabian Ama-rillo, a senior majoring in Spanish and theater arts. "It's a time to remember." Amarillo said that by naming the holiday after Columbus people have forgotten about the Native Americans and their sacrifice. "It is like naming Thanksgiving Day Pioneer day when what you really want is to give credit to the Native Americans for providing the food," he said. He also said that in many Latin American countries the holiday is called "Dia de Raza" interpreted as meaning the "day of races" where people celebrate their heritage rather than Columbus. Native Americans also view Columbus Day as a day to remember but not a day to celebrate. "Most Native Americans look at it as a day that inaugurated the breaking up of the cultural values of the eastern coast tribes," said Walter Watchman, a sophomore studying chemistry. Watchman said that it is a somber day for the Native American people. "We look at it not as a discovery but more as a conquering of America," he added. He said that the biggest impact was the affect it had on their cultures. He related that the Native American religions were woven very tightly within their respective cultures. When the Spaniards arrived, disease arrived also and it killed a majority of the people. The biggest impact wasn't the people dying but the inability of the shamans, 'religious leaders of the tribes, to help the dying. The people's beliefs began to crumble and the cultural values of the Native Americans did also. Watchman thinks that the time before and during Columbus' arrival is See Columbus page 3 Football season can be more than just games By Denise Cunningham news writer -The Signpost Weber State University football season means cheering the team on to victory, light chit-chatting and great food. That's exactly what the WSU president's football box is all about. During Homecoming loyal friends of the university, alumni boards and councils, the classes of '49 and '59, and alumni Homecoming royalty are invited to gather in the president's football box. "People who come to the football box really want to share in the camaraderie and the team play. Everyone joins in the cheering and blow-by-blow broadcasting, since there isn't a speaker system in the box. There are some real Carl Arky sound-alikes," said Lorine Murtagh, president's box host and alumni relations budget coordinator. According to President Paul H. Thompson, more than 20 years ago, a stadium storage shed was transformed into the president's football box, which is located at the top of section "M" on the east side of the stadium. "It was really a team effort," said Ann Millner, vice president of university relations. Old theater seats were donated and with Jack Goddard's help were reupholstered. Plate glass windows were installed, and soon the president's box was buzzing with activity. Usually anything with the word "president" in it sounds lavish and extreme. However, WSU's president's box is far from lavish - "practical" or "plain" would be better words. The small, yet comfortable room is about 10 feet wide by 20 feet long, with two rows of See Football page 3 Senate discusses child-care services By Chris Young campus affairs editor-Trie Signpost Child care expands into evening hours Student senate was encouraged Monday to promote evening childcare services that will be offered spring semester. The service, provided by the child and family studies department, will be available to students attending evening classes. "I would love to see you to promote it." said Dr. Anand Dyal- Chand, vice president of student services. "This is one of the ways of responding to the needs of evening students." Margarita Guerra, services for women students representative, told the senate that it will accept children 3 to 5 years of age and that the enrollment capacity is approximately 20 children. Health professions senator, Chad Dickamore, expressed his concern over a long waiting list for daytime child-care. Guerra said that a "child-care task force is currently looking at ways to expand services" for daytime care. See Senate page 3 News f,: - : International mountain '-" ' climber Magda King shares experiences with ""J' ""3 ' " students. sfr See page 6 w Homecoming Megan Hall and Brian Brown are Homecoming king and queen. Find out who else is royalty. See page 3, special section TO Sports Corrie Scheepers is a. tennis star at 19 years old. See page 8 www.weber.edusignpost
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Play recorded movie frames
The movie function plays the movie defined by a matrix whose columns are movie frames (usually produced by getframe).
movie(M) plays the movie in matrix M once, using the current axes as the default target. If you want to play the movie in the figure instead of the axes, specify the figure handle (or gcf) as the first argument: movie(figure_handle,...). M must be an array of movie frames (usually from getframe).
movie(M,n) plays the movie n times. If n is negative, each cycle is shown forward then backward. If n is a vector, the first element is the number of times to play the movie, and the remaining elements make up a list of frames to play in the movie.
For example, if M has four frames then n = [10 4 4 2 1] plays the movie ten times, and the movie consists of frame 4 followed by frame 4 again, followed by frame 2 and finally frame 1.
movie(M,n,fps) plays the movie at fps frames per second. The default is 12 frames per second. Computers that cannot achieve the specified speed play as fast as possible.
movie(h,...) plays the movie centered in the figure or axes identified by the handle h. Specifying the figure or axes enables MATLAB® to fit the movie to the available size.
movie(h,M,n,fps,loc) specifies loc, a four-element location vector, [x y 0 0], where the lower left corner of the movie frame is anchored (only the first two elements in the vector are used). The location is relative to the lower left corner of the figure or axes specified by handle h and in units of pixels, regardless of the object's Units property.
Animate the peaks function as you scale the values of Z:
figure('Renderer','zbuffer') Z = peaks; surf(Z); axis tight manual set(gca,'NextPlot','replaceChildren'); % Preallocate the struct array for the struct returned by getframe F(20) = struct('cdata',[],'colormap',[]); % Record the movie for j = 1:20 surf(.01+sin(2*pi*j/20)*Z,Z) F(j) = getframe; end
Now play the movie ten times. The twelfth frame looks like the following plot.
With larger frames, first adjust the figure's size to fit the movie:
figure('Position',[100 100 850 600]) Z = peaks; surf(Z); axis tight manual set(gca,'NextPlot','replacechildren'); % Record the movie for j = 1:20 surf(sin(2*pi*j/20)*Z,Z) F(j) = getframe; end % use 1st frame to get dimensions [h, w, p] = size(F(1).cdata); hf = figure; % resize figure based on frame's w x h, and place at (150, 150) set(hf,'Position', [150 150 w h]); axis off % Place frames at bottom left movie(hf,F,4,30,[0 0 0 0]);
The movie function uses a default figure size of 560-by-420 and does not resize figures to fit movies with larger or smaller frames. To accommodate other frame sizes, you can resize the figure to fit the movie, as shown in the second example below.
movie only accepts 8-bit image frames; it does not accept 16-bit grayscale or 24–bit truecolor image frames.
Buffering the movie places all frames in memory. As a result, on Microsoft® Windows® and perhaps other platforms, a long movie (on the order of several hundred frames) can exhaust memory, depending on system resources. In such cases an error message is issued that says
??? Error using ==> movie Could not create movie frame
You can abort a movie by typing Ctrl-C.
movie is not a built-in function. Therefore, you cannot call movie using the builtin function.
Setting the figure Renderer property to zbuffer or painters works around limitations of using getframe with the OpenGL renderer on some Windows systems.
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