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I'm a girl and I like pink. I also like purple, green and orange, but really I'm supposed to like pink. Or so says our culture from the day we are born – pink for girls and blue for boys.
The distinction is especially clear when it comes to toys. Aisles of pink Barbies, doll houses and princess costumes are meant to lure girls, or rather their parents, to the checkout line. Walk down a toy aisle today and you'll find some new additions for girls, like bows and arrows and Nerf guns, but you'll know they are for girls because, well, they're pink.
The emergence of female heroines like Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games, Merida from Brave or Tris from the new movie Divergent has given girls a whole new set of strong female role models that have inspired lots of new toys. Great news, right? Well, not too fast. While yes it's great that girls have options for more active toys, it's also frustrating that said toys fall prey to the tired gender stereotypes of girls loving pink.
"The result is a selection of toys that, oddly, both challenges antiquated notions and plays to them deeply," says a New York Times article about the pinkification of toys for girls.
Sharon Lamb, a child psychologist and play therapist, featured in the Times article adds, "What I don't like is the stereotyped girlifying of this. Do they have to be in pink? Why can't they be rebels and have to be re-BELLES? Why do they need to look sexy when aggressing, defending the weak or fighting off bad guys?"
I have to agree with Lamb. In trying to shatter gender stereotypes on one hand, these new toys are reinforcing them with another. Funny thing is that Katniss doesn't have a pink bow and arrow in the movie (and probably wouldn't be caught dead with one). Actually, none of the characters who inspired these types of toys are "girly," so why are they being branded this way?
The Nerf Rebelle Heartbreaker isn't the only culprit. Even toys like GoldieBlox and Roominate – which were designed specifically to get girls interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields that are predominately dominated by men — use pastels and shades of pink in their design. Don't get me wrong. The products are great and help break stereotypes that girls aren't good at or interested in STEM, but they reinforce the concept that girls should love pink. Why not use bold primary colors instead?
Luckily, there are some great new products that are expanding their color palettes for girls. The new average-sized Barbie, Lammily, isn't decked out in pink like her counterpart Barbie, but rather has outfits in blue, orange and yellow, not to mention the fact that she was designed using the measurements of an average 19-year-old girl.
Another successful crowd funding campaign, Girls Will Be, is creating shorts for girls that aren't "shorty shorts or skinny fits" and that stray away from "pink, ruffles, or bows." The casual cargo shorts or perfect play shorts will be perfect for girls who like to run around with their bows and arrows or Nerf guns.
Gender stereotyping stretches beyond toys and clothes to books. The Let Books Be Books campaign in the UK is hoping to stop children's books from being labelled as "for boys" or "for girls" because "telling children which stories and activities are 'for them' based on their gender closes down whole worlds of interest." The campaign has gotten support from several publishers and authors, as well as the general public.
Lammily, Girls Will Be and Let Books be Books are shining examples of breaking down stereotypes through and through. We need these examples to become the norm so that girls and boys aren't locked into separate pink and blue worlds, and the time is now. We have seen that girls' interests are changing, but by pinkifying these new toys we are still telling girls not to abandon their femininity or girly side. While there is nothing wrong with being a pink-loving-girly-girl, it is wrong for girls to feel that they must be girly to be a real girl.
Presenting girls (and boys for that matter) with toys in a variety of colors will show them that they can just be a kid.
What do you think?
Related from Care2:
The Battle of the Barbies: Iconic vs. "Normal" vs. Plus-Size
Let Toys Be Toys: UK Store Removes Boys and Girls Labels
Read more: gender, gender stereotypes, gender-free toys, girl toys, toys for girls, Women's rights
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I never considered "I'm a girl." to be a reason (or excuse) to do or not do anything!
I'm a girl, too.
I ride motorcycles, have done aerobatics in Air Force T-34s, drove a bulldozer, and did construction work in addition to knitting, cooking and sewing. I'm also an artist, and I choose colors according to what looks good.
But that doesn't mean I'd choose pink as a color for toys because they're meant for girls, or not choose pink because the toys are meant for boys.
Actually, I think I kind of missed the concept that some toys are for girls and some are for boys. How does that work again?
I love all colors. I look especially good in blue, but I am a girl. What am I supposed to do?
I disagree with the idea that girls are taught to look and feel good! Rather, I think that there is more pressure on girls to look good! There are all these images out there of these really slim girls and ordinary girls are expected to live up to that!
Hi Loesje, Yes but who decided this rule? Why should girls only like pink and boys blue? There is no basis for this idea other than to tell male and female babies apart! I am an individual and no one is going to tell me what I should and shouldn`t like according to whether I am male or female!
I have always hated the colour pink and hated dolls when I was little! Every doll I have ever had, I have pulled the arms and legs off of and chopped all the hair off! I played with cars when I was little and would have prefered a Batman or Thundercats toy than a `dolly`! I prefer wearing jeans to skirts or dresses and my favourite colours are black and blue!
Normally blue for boys and pink for girls, but all colours are beautiful.
Honestly, it's mainly just a girl problem. I have a son, and none of his toys are all blue or different shades of blue. So my son has variety, and if I had a daughter...well, she'd still have variety because I'd buy the neutral "boy" toys, but you get the idea.
On the other hand, girls have more choices for clothing (variety of colours and items), whereas boys are stuck with blue, brown or orange apparently. It's sad...even with sewing, when I looked through a patterns catalogue, in an entire catalogue there were only 3 boy models. Made me very disappointed. Girls are taught to look good to feel good, and boys are taught to be active to feel good.
When my kids were small toys were just toys-- boys could play with dolls and trucks, and girls could play with dolls and trucks. However, it was hard to find items that didn't play into the stereotypes.
Thanks for the article.
@Karen J. G., the rite of passage for girls was to let their skirts down and put their hair up, meaning that instead of knee-length dresses or skirts they wore ankle-length ones, and instead of wearing their hair down over their shoulders they put it up in a bun. After which, they were young women instead of little girls.
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those look like eighties colors I have 90's Specialized
Silver "Hardrock" Suntour XC pro,
green fade to purple "Rockhopper COMP" XT group My LBS told me today that they sold new for $749... I cannot believe this is true at all...
and solid green "Streethopper" Deore XT group
Retrobike.co.uk has a pretty good collection of Specialized catalogs, though most of them are in German. You can probably find an example of the bike there.
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Hi guys, I have a vintage Specialized Stumpjumper I need help identifying. It's red and yellow with copper handlebars. It has mostly original parts, including tires, shifters, brakes, etc. However, I'm having difficulty locating a serial or model number to nail down it's exact production year. It has an solid wielding frame. Any ideas or suggestions to point me in the right direction would be much appreciated.Here are pics

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We took the first photo when she was almost 1 month old and DH said the other night after her bath, let's take another and compare. Can you believe how BIG she is now?! She's almost ready to stand w/o support and she's getting good at walking around holding onto the couch. I'm mind blown. People say it goes by quickly but I never imagined how fast it ACTUALLY goes!!
Do you have a comparison photo? ^_^


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A: DisplayPort is a video interface standard administered by VESA, the Video Electronics Standards Association. DisplayPort is the new generation AV interface developed by the GPU/display industry segment and it continues to gain market momentum. DisplayPort enables high display performance, robustness, and versatility, highest degree of system integration, and greater interoperability among various device types.
A. DisplayPort 1.3 was published in September, 2014 and defines the new normative requirement and informative guideline for component and system design. Most DisplayPort products currently available in the market today (as of January 2015) were built to the previous version, DisplayPort v1.2a. Testing that is performed for DisplayPort device certification is also still based on the DisplayPort v1.2a Standard (devices must be certified to use the DisplayPort logo). Products built to DisplayPort 1.3, as well as compliance testing based on DisplayPort 1.3, should become available within 2015.
For more information on DisplayPort 1.3, see DisplayPort 1.3 Standard FAQs
A. DisplayPort was originally developed as the next generation personal computer display interface and is now available on a wide range of tablets, notebooks, and desktop computers as well as monitors. It is now also becoming available on digital televisions, including some 4K TVs, as a display input.
A. DisplayPort provides several direct and indirect benefits to the user. Direct benefits include higher performance capability, the availability of display adapters for legacy display types, and the ability to connect multiple displays to a single video output. Indirect benefits include smaller system form factor and lower system cost, because DisplayPort enables higher system integration, requires less RF shielding, and is royalty free. DisplayPort also uses a small connector, or can be combined with other interfaces onto a single common connector. As the only AV interface with link training, a more robust and stable link is established.
A. DisplayPort and HDMI are very different technically, and each began with a different product focus. For over ten years, HDMI has been the de-facto connection for home entertainment systems and is used widely on HDTVs as an AV interface. Some PCs and monitors include HDMI to enable connectivity with HDTVs and other consumer electronics gear. DisplayPort, a newer standard originally developed to support the higher performance requirements of personal computers, is based on updated signal and protocol technology similar to that already used in today's computer systems, enabling an increase in performance and integration. Because DisplayPort uses common signaling technology in use for data communications and a packetized data structure, through a common connector, it can be combined with standards such as USB and Thunderbolt. With link training/link quality monitoring as in data communications, DisplayPort provides a more robust and stable AV link.
A. DisplayPort has the unique ability to support external display adapters. The DisplayPort Source device (such as a notebook computer) provides power at the DisplayPort plug to power such an adapter, and it detects the type of adapter connected, as well as the type of monitor. Inexpensive DisplayPort adapters are readily available for VGA, DVI, and HDMI displays. Adapters for HDMI 2.0 will become available in the near future.
A. Yes, DisplayPort supports multi-channel audio and many advanced audio features. DisplayPort to HDMI adapters also include the ability to support HDMI audio.
A. Yes, DisplayPort includes protocol support for transmitting left and right eye display data. DisplayPort 1.3 enables the support of 4K Stereo at 120Hz frame rate with full 24 bit 4:4:4 color.
A. Just like DVI and HDMI, DisplayPort supports HDCP content protection. DisplayPort 1.3 supports the latest HDCP 2.2 content protection that is required for the latest premium AV contents.
A. Because of its high data rate, DisplayPort 1.2a systems today can support 4K displays at 60Hz refresh and full 30-bit 4:4:4 color (non-chroma subsampled). DisplayPort 1.3 systems will support 5K displays (5120 x 2880) at 60Hz refresh, and for 4K displays will enable deeper color and higher refresh rates. When enabled with DisplayPort's Multi-Stream feature, several monitors can be connected to a single output on a video source device (such as a laptop or computer), using a daisy-chain or hub configuration.
A. VESA manages the DisplayPort Compliance program which is designed to assure interoperability between various systems. To bear the DisplayPort Logo, a system must pass compliance testing and the system OEM needs to be a VESA member, which assures they are aware of the latest DisplayPort related specifications and updates.
A. Thunderbolt takes advantage of DisplayPort technology, and Thunderbolt Hosts (such as notebooks and personal computers) are backward-compatible with DisplayPort cables and DisplayPort monitors. This means you can plug a DisplayPort monitor into a Thunderbolt computer output, using a standard DisplayPort cable. The adoption of DisplayPort technology by Thunderbolt has helped to accelerate the adoption of DisplayPort in high-end computing and video post-production.
A: Not at all. VESA develops and publishes standards like DisplayPort prior to their actual deployment in the field. DisplayPort 1.2a represents the latest interconnect technology now available to consumers from manufacturers. The new DisplayPort capabilities included in DisplayPort 1.3 have begun the cycle of hardware development that will result in such technology becoming available to consumers in a range of products over the next few years. And like other new versions of DisplayPort, DisplayPort 1.3 is backward compatible with earlier DisplayPort standards.
A: By providing the option to support a new higher data transfer rate known as HBR3 (High Bit Rate 3), which provides a link rate of 8.1 Gbps per lane, DisplayPort 1.3 offers a 50% increase in total link rate to 32.4 Gbps when using all 4 lanes in the DisplayPort cable. Allowing for data coding overhead, this provides a total data transport capacity of 25.92 Gbps or 3240Mbytes/sec.
A: Yes, when including the new HBR3 link rate option, DisplayPort 1.3 will enable a 4K UHD display to operate at a 120Hz refresh rate using 24-bit pixels, or a 96Hz refresh rate using 30-bit pixels.
A: Yes, as DisplayPort 1.3 with HBR3 becomes available for production, we should see computers and displays that support 5K x 3K using a single cable.
A: Yes, by using the new HBR3 link rate, DisplayPort 1.3 will support 8K displays with a 60Hz refresh rate at 24-bit-pixel visual quality, however, until DSC is enabled, the 4:2:0 chroma sub-sampled pixel encoding format must be used. 4:2:0 is normally acceptable for the playback of pre-recorded content, such as movies, which uses 4:2:0 pixel format for compression, but is less desirable for rendered graphics from computer or other graphics generating video sources. In the future, DisplayPort will support DSC which will provide a better alternative for 8K display support. See DSC FAQs for more information.
A: Products that support new DisplayPort features defined in DisplayPort 1.3 should become available in 2015. Early implementations could very likely use DisplayPort Alt Mode over USB Type-C – See DisplayPort Alt Mode for USB Type-C FAQs for more information.
A: Vendor packaging and on-line information should indicate the DisplayPort features supported for each product.
A: Yes. All of the features associated with DisplayPort 1.3 will be available for the DisplayPort Alt Mode.
A: We expect that other interconnect technologies that use DisplayPort as a video transport will adopt the DisplayPort 1.3 features.
A: Assuming the DisplayPort Multi-Stream feature is enabled and the Source can support such monitor configuration, DisplayPort 1.3 with HBR3 can support two 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) displays at 60Hz refresh with and 24-bit pixels, using the VESA video timing that is used with DisplayPort connections. This will also require the appropriate Multi-Stream hub or at least one monitor with Multi-Stream daisy-chain capability.
A: Yes, DisplayPort 1.3 enables support for HDCP version 2.2. This requirement will apply to DisplayPort-to-HDMI 2.0 converters as well (including USB Type-C to HDMI 2.0 converters that utilize DisplayPort Alt Mode).
A: Existing DisplayPort source devices, such as PCs, already support HDMI televisions up to 1080p through the use of a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter. DisplayPort 1.3 defines new adapters that will enable DisplayPort source devices to support HDMI 2.0, enabling the support for 4K UHD with up to 60Hz refresh and up to full 24 bit color with the 4:4:4 pixel format. These adapters do not require the new HBR3 link rate, requiring only HBR2, but will depend on some of the protocols within the DisplayPort 1.3 Standard. Some DisplayPort 1.2a systems will most likely be upgradable through firmware to support this new feature. These new adapters will also be available in DisplayPort Alt Mode over the USB Type-C connector.
A: Yes.
A: Yes, this is a new feature for DisplayPort 1.3.
A: Yes. AdaptiveSync was first supported by DisplayPort 1.2a, and it is already supported in some available products. This is also branded as "Free-Sync" from AMD, which is based on VESA's AdaptiveSync Standard.
A: Using the DisplayPort Multi-Stream feature, combined with the new HBR3 link rate option, DisplayPort 1.3 can enable the following example display configurations, without the use of compression:
• Two 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) displays
• Up to Four 2560 x 1600 displays (see note 2 below)
• Up to Seven 1080p or 1920 x 1200 displays (see note 2 below)
• One 4K UHD display with up to Two 2560 x 1600 displays
(1) The examples above assume the following:
• HBR3 and Multi-Stream supported by both the video source and displays
• 60Hz refresh with 24 bit color, using the 4:4:4 pixel format and VESA monitor timing
(2) The number of connected displays might be limited by video source capability. Typical personal computers support a maximum of 3 to 6 displays.
A: DisplayPort™ over USB-C™ enables the USB Type-C connector and cable to support the DisplayPort interface for audio/video (AV) transport capability.
A: Yes, it is published by VESA and called the DisplayPort Alt Mode for USB Type-C Standard. The development of this Standard was done in collaboration with the USB 3.0 Promoters group, and VESA continues to collaborate with USB for the refinement of the specification and for compliance test development.
A: The USB Type-C connector is the next generation USB interface and it will appear on devices such as Smart Phones, Tablets, PCs, Notebooks, Docking Stations, Displays, and Peripherals. Many of these systems are expected to support DisplayPort over USB-C for video output support, just as the Apple MacBook and Google Chromebook Pixel do now.
A: When using DisplayPort over USB-C, the USB Type-C connector becomes the single system connection point for data, full performance AV interface, and power, with such features combined or supported individually. DisplayPort over USB-C enables the USB Type-C connector to support full DisplayPort capability including video resolutions of 5K and beyond. The USB Type-C connector is also reversible, which further simplifies the consumer experience.
A: Yes. DisplayPort, USB data, and USB Power Delivery can all be carried simultaneously through the same USB Type-C connector and cable. This is supported by a standard full-featured USB Type-C cable.
A: Yes. Just like in standard DisplayPort connectors and cables, DisplayPort over USB-C can take advantage of the four high-speed data lanes in the USB Type-C connector and cable to provide 4K display resolutions and beyond.
A: USB Type-C connectors that support the DisplayPort over USB-C will normally include the DisplayPort (DP) logo near the connector. This is described in the USB-IF Trademark License Agreement and Usage Guidelines document published by the USB IF and available here: http://www.usb.org/developers
A: Yes. Adapters and Adapter cables, as defined in the DisplayPort Alt Mode for USB Type-C Standard, are available to connect DisplayPort over USB-C to DisplayPort, HDMI, DVI, and VGA monitor inputs.
A: Yes. Adapters and Adapter cables are used to connect DisplayPort over USB-C to an HDMI input on the HDTV. HDMI 2.0 is supported to enable 4K resolution. If the HDTV has a DisplayPort input, then a USB-C to DisplayPort adapter cable can be used to provide DisplayPort display capability.
A: Yes. Displays will also take advantage of the USB Type-C connector to enable the use of the reversible connector as well as carry USB data and power over the same cable. This can allow the inclusion of a USB hub in the monitor, for example, and allow the monitor to provide power to the computer – thereby enabling a single cable for desktop use of a portable system. A standard, full-featured USB Type-C cable would be used in such configuration.
A: DisplayPort over USB-C will allow the use of a single cable to power the system (notebook, tablet or phone), transport USB data, and transport AV data using DisplayPort. The hub can also include one or more DisplayPort outputs for connection to external monitors, using USB Type-C and/or native DisplayPort connectors. The hub can also include DisplayPort protocol conversion to support HDMI, DVI, and VGA outputs. DisplayPort's Multi-Stream capability would be utilized within the hub for multiple monitor support.
A: Yes. An adapter should be available to connect a DockPort capable source device that uses a USB Type-C connector to a DockPort Hub, which uses a tethered cable with a mini DisplayPort connector.
A: The USB Type-C Standard includes provision for Alternate Modes, which involves repurposing of the connector pins and cable wires for other interface types. Discovery of Alternate Mode support and enablement is performed through leveraging the use of the USB Power Delivery protocol.
A: No video data will be received by the display, so there will be no image on the screen. Doing this will not harm your device. A warning message will also be displayed on the screen of a USB product.
A: The USB Type-C to Type-C cable is reversible, and so is the USB Type-C to DisplayPort adapter cable. These can be plugged in either direction. The USB Type-C to HDMI, DVI, VGA, and DockPort converters need to be plugged into a video source device that has the USB Type-C connector.
A: A Thunderbolt connector on a Mac or PC uses the standard mini DisplayPort connector and supports DisplayPort as well as Thunderbolt. So for the Thunderbolt connector, you can use the standard USB Type-C to mini DisplayPort adapter cable to connect to the monitor.
A: Yes. VESA and the USB-IF are working on a comprehensive certification program.
A: Products that have been released to date claiming "video over USB-C" are actually using DisplayPort over USB-C, and DisplayPort over USB-C is expected to remain the primary AV Alt Mode. DisplayPort over USB-C is also natively supported by a standard "full feature" USB Type-C cable, by design. In comparison, other Alt Modes, such as the MHL Alt Mode, will likely require a special cable to carry Display or Display + data content. DisplayPort over USB-C will also continue to offer higher performance, such as uncompressed, full color 4K images at 60Hz refresh rate.
A: While MHL supports 4K displays, its performance is reportedly limited to 30 frames per second. It can be assumed this is because MHL was originally developed for the earlier 5 pin USB connectors (4 signal pins), and backward compatibility with existing MHL Sink devices will be maintained. The DisplayPort over USB-C was developed to take full advantage of the USB Type-C connector that has 24 pins (14 signal pins), allowing it to support 4K and 5K displays at 60 frames per second. Even higher performance displays will be enabled by DisplayPort over USB-C in the future. Using the DisplayPort Multi-Stream feature, DisplayPort over USB-C can also support multiple high resolutions displays.
A: No. To support the MHL Alt Mode, a USB Type-C to MHL adapter cable will be used, which will have an HDMI plug at the display or "sink" end. For DisplayPort over USB-C, assuming the video source and sink use the USB Type-C connector, a standard, full-feature USB Type-C cable can be used. If the Source or Sink uses a standard or mini DisplayPort connector and the other end uses USB Type-C (and supports DisplayPort over USB-C), then a USB Type-C to DisplayPort adapter cable can be used.
A: No. MHL Alt Mode protocol adopters will not work on systems that only support DisplayPort over USB-C, and visa-versa. Such adapters should include labeling to identify MHL Alt Mode or DisplayPort over USB-C support to avoid consumer confusion. Both MHL Alt Mode and DisplayPort over USB-C will support the use of protocol adapters to support HDMI, DVI, and VGA displays.
A: MHL is available today from certain smart phone manufactures, and MHL Alt Mode will allow the introduction of USB Type-C into these product lines to maintain interoperability with the existing ecosystem. DisplayPort over USB-C is expected to accelerate the adoption of DisplayPort in personal computer systems, notebooks, and tablets as well as smart phones.
A: DisplayPort over USB-C provides increased capability and performance. And unlike MHL, DisplayPort uses electrical signaling that is similar to SuperSpeed USB, which is easier to integrate into today's submicron chips, including the SoC's used in phones and other portable devices. And unlike MHL, DisplayPort over USB-C is an open, royalty-free standard*, and participation in the definition and development of the standard and ecosystem is open to any VESA member.
* MPEG LA is making claims that DisplayPort implementation requires a license and a royalty payment. It is important to note that these are only CLAIMS. Whether these CLAIMS are relevant will likely be decided in a US court.
A: VESA, the Video Electronics Standards Association, has published a new Standard in 2014 that uses visually lossless image compression to increase the amount of data carried by a display interface data rate, saving power.
A: By being visually lossless, a typical observer of a display, under typical viewing conditions, would in most cases not notice any difference or degradation of images or video after compression, when compared with the uncompressed image or video.
A: DSC is an open standard that was developed in liaison with the MIPI Alliance for general purpose display interface compression. It is currently included for optional use in VESA's Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard v1.4, and MIPI's DSI Specification v1.2, and is open for use in other display interface standards as well. VESA anticipates on-going liaison activity other parties interested in the DSC Standard as upcoming improvements or revisions arise.
A: The initial application for DSC is portable, battery powered systems with an embedded display. DSC is used in the internal embedded display interface to both save system power, which extends battery life, and reduce the system form factor's weight, and cost by decreasing the number of interconnect wires. It also decreases the display's frame buffer size which further decreases cost. In the future, DSC will be used to further increase display resolution for external displays. For example, DisplayPort 1.3 will be able to support 8K video at 60Hz and 24-bit color using a low 2:1 compression ratio or 30-bit color using a low 2.5:1 compression ratio, which will provide visually lossless image quality (indistinguishable from the original image), unlike the use of chroma subsampling.
A: Compared to other image compression standards such as JPEG or AVC, etc., DSC achieves visually lossless compression quality at a low compression ratio by using a much simpler codec (coder/decoder) circuit. The typical compression ratio of DSC range from 1:1 to about 3:1 which offers significant benefit in interface data rate reduction. DSC is designed specifically to compress any content type at low compression with excellent results. The simple decoder (typically less than 100k gates) takes very little chip area, which minimizes implementation cost and device power use, and adds no more than one raster scan line (less than 8 usec in a 4K @ 60Hz system) to the display's throughput latency, an unnoticeable delay for interactive applications.
A: During the development of DSC, the contributing VESA member companies performed ongoing visual tests to uncover visual compression artifacts using different image types and image motion. This testing was used to fine tune the DSC codec (coding / decoding algorithm). For the final DSC codec, the visual performance of DSC was evaluated through clinical testing by VESA in collaboration with member companies. The evaluation included a statistically significant number of observers who viewed many images over four image categories including artificial engineered images, text and graphics, such as street maps or different examples of printed material, people, landscape, animals and stills. Overall, observers completed nearly 250,000 subjective image comparisons. VESA members also concluded subjective testing as a far more robust method to verify visually lossless quality rather than using objective metrics, such as, PSNR which typically designates one value for an image. The results of this testing indicated that DSC met the visually lossless criteria set by VESA. The details of testing methodology and results can be downloaded here.
A: As noted in the above answer, you can download the results by clicking here.
A: The VESA DSC Standard is open and royalty free.
A: The VESA DSC Standard was designed to be an open standard available for use by other video interface standards. The VESA DSC Standard, including the codec C source code files, is available from VESA for a nominal fee, and is available to VESA members for free.
A: The current VESA DSC Standard is version 1.1, and it is likely that the VESA contributing members will make future optimizations and publish future updated versions that will be backward compatible with version 1.1. VESA is also starting work on another display compression standard that will provide higher compression with the tradeoff of higher codec complexity. This should be announced in early 2015.
A: Some VESA Standards are offered electronically in PDF format on the public VESA website. Pricing is also available on the website. Click here for the purchase standards page.
A: Most VESA Standards are available only to VESA members, and they are downloaded in PDF format from the VESA member-only web pages.
A: As a Standards organization, VESA is atypical in that all VESA members have equal access to all work groups, proposals, and draft specifications. VESA typically holds about ten different work group meetings per week, covering various VESA Standards, and typically has one or two PlugTests per year open to all members.
A: The membership application is on the website. Complete the application, having the financial portion signed by an authorized person, and mail, scan and email, or fax it to the VESA office. The fee structure is based on annual sales revenue as explained on the application.
A: No, VESA cannot accept POs. Membership applications and standards orders are processed when full payment has been received. Payment for standards or membership fees may be made by check, credit card or wire transfer.
A: VESA does not provide drivers of any type. Contact the manufacturer of your system/game.
A: Yes, VESA does maintain a list of DisplayPort certified products on the DisplayPort website.
A: Yes, the Flat Display Mounting Interface (FDMI) Standard contains the information you need.
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really the opportunity that we seek. as far as the value proposition right now, we are getting a real alignment in the industry. the cost of production is about 1350 an ounce. right now with it at 1385 or so, we are at basically the cost of production. this is an attractive point for investors to enter. lori: there is an article, hedge fund manager. he was sitting back affecting inflation. are we in a diversionary environment? >> obviously the world is very dynamic.
we have the report from china that their growth was not as robust as expected. economic act two that he is not quite as robust to support this type of equity market. there are concerns that confidence is fading on the u.s. federal reserve monetary policy as well. >> i think that is part of it. i think what you observe in a marketplace is at the asian market is still very interested in gold. they are very active in this cold environment. earlier this year, the indians were a little bit challenged. this clearly opened up the window for them. lori: let's talk about some of these gold mining stocks.
a lot of people were concerned about the gold mining companies. getting back to your discussion with me on production costs versus -- do you think they are on a more bullish trajectory? >> i think we are getting a realignment that is a positive for the industry. lori: would you put new money into shares? >> not a position for us. lori: i appreciate your take. thank you. melissa: will the deadly boston terror attack change the tone? stephen moore is here. lori: let's take a look at who is moving the markets. they are all higher at the moment. all 30 issues.
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. .. melissa: time for stocks now as we do every 15 minutes. let's head to the floor of the new york stock exchange. our own nicole petallides is standing by. nicole, stocks are in rally
mode. we're up about 140. >> pretty impressive on a day after what we saw yesterday late in the day particular as we had the terror attack in boston. we saw the stock market drop precipitously at end of the day, 265 points at the end of the day going int different . we're getting some of that back, paring the losses. we're up 140 points a majority of stocks are doing well. we've seen names coming out with earnings such as johnson & johnson and coca-cola helping the dow along. one name came out with their report, goldman sachs down 1.8% because of their first quarter numbers. one thing they did say the revenue they're seeing from client trading that actually fell about 10%. that raises obviously concerns going forward. we've seen some of the financials mixed. other names are doing quite well but you are seeing goldman sachs to the downside after what we saw there. year-to-date it is still a
winner. it is up 1% this year. back to you. lori: nicole, thank you as always. we want to keep up to date with the latest on the boston attacks. boston police giving an update on number of people hurt in yesterday's attacks. 117 wound, 7 people are critically wounded and two three people were killed. no unexploded bombs have been located. a saudi national has been taken in for questioning as quote, pen of interest for the bombings. boston police said now no one is in custody. a little an hour ago the president speaking on the boston attacks calling the bombings an attack of terrorism. how the attack may impact american business, our
and our nation's capitol and overall national security. steve moore from the "wall street journal" wonderful to have you in studio. the politics dealing with the aftermath of a terrorist attack? how does it improve the tone
of partisanship in washington. >> anytime you have a national attack like this people pull together. i was thinking of the two major issues in washington. lori: immigration and gun control. >> those are two we've been hang link over months and months if not years. that is interesting i think it could have negative impact on both issues. lori: how so. , if it turns out it is saudis or foreigners, it will, it will, play into this kind of nativist, keep the foreigners out mentality. that is going to be a negative thing. in fact some of the senators and congressmen already said that maybe we should slow down on immigration reform. lori: wow! all the debate on immigration was held behind closed doors with the "gang of eight". that itself was critical because of the lack of transparency. >> interesting just today the "gang of eight", the eight senators drafting this bill, publicly came out with
their draft version of the bill and so we're finally starting to make some progress on this i'm very pro-immigration reform. i really think we need to do it. i think this slows things down a little bit. on the gun control issue, i think a lot of people will say wait a minute, this is a major attack. there were no guns involved in this. is this really the time to be disarming people or making it harder for people to own guns? i'm not saying this will stall these things all together but i think it may slow them down. lori: will it, to get in the weeds with you, influence seven or eight republicans in the senate to pass the manchin-toomey bill? >> it could. people say, wait a minute. what this reminds us of violent acts can be done in a lot of ways other than guns. lori: interestingly raises a lot of questions, attack about the sequester. you do have democrats, house democratic caucus chair saying this morning we know first-responders are being cut. we know community policing is being cut. we know health care services
especially emergency health care services are being cut. you know where this is going. the quote is quite long.
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had a huge impact on all are our lives in the wake of the disaster the importance of this new tool can not be ignored. our own shibani joshi has been doing reporting. hi, shibani. >> it proves value of social media, twitter and facebook, what the sites have been able to do with information over the last 24 hours, blasts were heard and captured on video cameras through tweets on the web. this is all before news participant in the marathon, using foursquare, his own company, checking in every mile he crossed and using twitter chronicling what happened at mile 26. fyi, no one at mile 26 has no idea what is happening. moments later, rumor the rest of the race is canceled. no cell phone service. lots of rumors. can't get texts. that is how we learned what was happening in boston. big technology firms as a whole also responding in the wake of what happened in boston. google for example, updating its people finder website to
allow people to find loved ones and find one another. this is a site that has been up a couple of years. the company putting it out there in natural disasters and big events like the one we had yesterday. this as all, as cell phone service was disabled yesterday, or, because of overloading of service. at&t, verizon and others had a little bit of a signal issue. so people were turning on their wi-fi and updating their social networking sites and that is how information got around. melissa: you know, shibani, it is so interesting. just last week we were talking about the irs using software to mine twitter and facebook, to look for certain things. it seems like now we could see it maybe playing a role in helping law enforcement look for clues and find answers. >> absolutely. we've seen a growing importance of sites like twitter and facebook and others in the uprisings in the middle east and the wake of hurricane sandy and even
like yesterday. the challenge though is, -pseparating the authentic from the inauthentic. that is something that social networks and the media still has a very important role in doing. there was a lot of false information that was posted yesterday. and things that just were inaccurate in social media tend to proliferate and get false information out. po it doesn't have the best filtering you could say just yet. lori: that's the problem. the false information. who is editing this. all this information just sent out there sprayed out there and sometimes especially when the event just happens it is hard sifting through what you need to know what is useful. that is fascinating sign of that's for sure. >> thank you. lori:. melissa:. lori: for the five highest paid executives believe it or not at s&p 500 work for one company and that one company is apple. according to the latest compensation filings with the sec coming in fifth on the list, making 68.6 million, apple's chief financial officer, peter oppenheimer.
fourth place, senior vice president jeffrey williams raking in 68.7 million bucks. coming in third, lead attorney, bruce sewell with $69 million. number two on the list and highest paid apple executive is senior vice president bob mansfield who made $85.5 million. only one exec beat out the apple gang, that was oracle ceo larry ellison. his total comp last year, shy of one billion dollars. 92.6 million. melissa: good to be larry ellison. a terrorism expert and university of proprofessor and a former nsa officer. he will join me to go over the cost of fear in regards to yesterday's bombings in washington, whether it was domestic incident or not. how does that fear affect the business and the
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he is going to be our special guest. tracy: that's a great point too. it is top of the hour. time for stocks now. we head down to nicole petallides on the floor of the exchange as we do every 15 minutes. with we are in rally mode. >> pretty unbelievable here. reason for concern late yesterday. we saw markets selling off dramatically going into the closing bell. we were down 265 points yesterday on some very heavy volume. today a different picture though. we're gaining back some of that at least. we're up 125 points. we're off the highs of the day. still you are seeing retail stocks, drug stocks, bank stocks all with up arrows. the tech-heavy nasdaq is the best of the three intoday tease we follow closely up -- indices, we follow closely. gold is up some. we should note what we see in earnings, of johnson & johnson and coca-cola. both are leading the dow jones industrials. they have been being at thatting on points to the dow. both beat the street and are looking good. coca-cola at an annual high,
multiyear high. you can see it is up 5.25%. also making a dealer with bottlers. johnson & johnson doing well with over the counter drugs and drugs for hepatitis-c and or johnson & johnson. back to you. tracy: theyfor a while, right? we were in passive mode. now all of a sudden it is a wake-up. good to be with you too. look what sam stovall, he is with s&p capital iq. he says until the suspect is caught people are definitely going to be on edge. another reaction from chip cobb with raymar trust. we hope boston is a singular event. we have the president of planned financial services. look at this. he says it won't have any bearing on the market. that north korea is a bigger effect on market. and worldwide volatility is more to do with worldwide
volatility. according to sec filings, increasingly companies are worried about north korea. there are more disclosures about north korea in sec filings. a jump of 29% for the first quarter of this year versus a juor beating expectations. that is the nail of the game right now, guys. tracy: do you think we're numb to it, liz? >> numb to it? when you talk to the guys on wall street, they are serious, this is according to one analyst who is not being global in perspective. he is just saying this may be an event that we will have to live with as ireland did, northern ireland, with bombings. it is not saying that is something that is great. he is not applauding it. of course he is not saying i know or have any inside information. tracy: of course. >> i didn't mean to say applauding it, that he has information as if he knows better. this is the reality of the marketplace, what the general public will have it deal with and of course the markets as well. tracy: interesting, especially based on the way
the markets reacted today.with s bottom line. adam: thanks. joining us with more on the story about terrorism is terrorism expert michael kushner and chairman of the holland and company running yesterday in boston's marathon. let me start with you, michael. thanks for joining us. where were you on the route? had you finished when the strategy struck? >> we were at the 20 mile point, something called heart break hill, which is near boston college at that time. what happened, adam, spectacular morning. beautiful day for the marathon. everyone was having a wonderful day and the, all of sudden sirens started going off and motorcycle cops went flying by. some more cruisers and then, the age of smartphone we knew within seconds there had been a couple bombs that went off. almost immediately the incredible response from police marathon officials,
they closed down the marathon. adam: sure. >> immediately. it was, the worry was that there were more packages along the way as you reported a second ago. it turned out not to be case. adam: right. >> the worry was there was more. they did a spectacular job of getting everything shut down immediately and, we, you know, we unfortunately had instant news what was going on. adam: sure. michael, we're grateful that you're okay. i want to come back to you, i want to ask you as a businessman how you get back to business after a tragedy like this. let me bring in dr. harvey kushner right now. you're an expert on terrorism as we learn some of the details. this is pressure cooker device. does that definitely indicate something that might have came from overseas? we've seen these devices used. they seem to have lack of a better term a fingerprint, do they not? >> yes, we call it a signature. there are three things which occur here lead me to believe it is international. the first is, absolutely the fact that it is a pressure
cooker. we've seen that type of device used in afghanistan. that's one. the second they have to vilify y nationality giving out that information. so that is the second. the third is the change in the wording that the president used. yesterday he was very careful with his words not to mention terrorism. today in his speech he called it an act of terrorism. adam: but two things. to in response to whatrice doin, was trained by somebody doing it before. as well as saying it is a person of interest. that is political correct talk for achl, let me ask you this, the business aspect of this, how do you get back to business especially someone like you you were there when this tragedy transpired. you have to go on with your life but how do you do that? >> well the same way as back in 9/11 walking up park avenue, that beautiful morning, once again a beautiful day and having the world change dramatically at that time. you acknowledged that there are bad people out there who are going to do things like this and you say how do you change? well the change is, you
acknowledge that they're there and go about your business. as the british did and irish did, you say that these things are possible. you did the best you can to minimize them you about, as doctor kushner was just saying, a second ago, you acknowledge what they are and, you, you move on. so i think, i think, for me, it's, it is a very sad moment but one that, while a game changer for the boston marathon it doesn't mean that we change our way of living. adam: let me give dr. kushner on the last word on this. what will be the next phase of the investigation? they have fragments of the device. what happens next? >> there was no chatter before the event or after the event. they have many cameras there and many film. the world was focused in on that. in events like these, wait, two or three days something entirely different can happen from what we think is happening now. adam: thank you, for joining us here on set. and michael holland, thanks for joining us from boston. all the best to you. we are grateful that you
were not injured. tracy: all right. still ahead, we're going to continue to bring you more of the latest on the boston marathon bombings. we'll hear from former cbo director douglas holtz-eakinidl security tax. adam: also oil, is sliding again. it is trading below 90 bucks a barrel. we're live from the cme with a look how low it will go. first as we try to do every time around this time of day, let's take a look how metals are trading.
tracy: oil continuing its slide for the fourth straight session, trading below $89 a barrel. that is prices we haven't seen since september. sandra smith in the pits of the cme with today's trade. how far is it going to go? >> the fact that we're now below 90 everything is in
question. can we fall below $80 a barrel? what does it mean for gas prices? there is lot of talk that the national average could come down shortly considering that oil prices are now 88.85 a barrel. down a fourth straight session. right now hitting the lowest levels of 2013. if we were to close where we're trading right now, this would be the lowest levels of the year. by the way in trading terms we often like to look what happened on the week. it is down 7% over the past week. on the month down 9%. for the year oil prices down 4%. here's the news. american petroleum institute at 4:30 p.m. eastern time. they will come out with the latest inventory numbers. we're expected to see another build of oil inventories up more than a million barrels in the latest week after last week, over five million barrel build. so, this is a sign that we're not using as much oil right now. the u.s. and biggest consumers of oil in the world. this is still reflection of the global slowdown. by the way, when you're
talking globally you have to look at the price of brent crude oil. remember we're always watching that spread. brent is usually more expensive than wti. that spread is narrowing. it narrowed for eight straight weeks up until last week. it looks like narrowing again. brent crude trading items they e had been hoping to sell. so this current quarter they said is going to be weak. they backed full-year numbers about. on day with up arrows the stocks are to the downside. they came out with their numbers. obviously when you look at fold man, you see the down arrow after their earnings, but the ref you in from their client trading fell 10% and that obviously raises some concern about what we've been seeing here. that accounts for all of revenue that they have seen over the last four years, about 60% of the revenue. so obviously they don't want to see their client revenue drop like that. that is why you're seeing a down arrow for goldman. adam: nick -- nicole petallides see you again in
15 minutes. tracy: we'll hear from a market strategist who says it is not a good time to buy or sell. see what he is doing with his $40 billion under management right now. adam: look how the dollar is moving. seems to be falling against the euro and other currencies. ♪
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adam: police and fbi agents are racing to find out who is behind the boston bombings but as of right now they have no suspect in custody. fox's molly line is on the ground in boston and she joins us with an update on their investigation. molly? >> adam, there are a lot of unanswered questions. it is just beginning. still just about 2 hours since this event occur, since the two bombs went off here in downtown boston at the end of the finish line of the boston marathon. investigators are trying to piece things together. they are speaking with someone previously described as person of interest. a individual from saudi arabia. here on a student visa, in a local hospital injured at the scene. now they are saying he has been very cooperative. he may not actually have anything to do with this bombing. they actually have actually searched his apartment in
nearby revere, a community just outside of boston and his roommates have spoken to the press. there has been a lot of focus on that but it turns out investigators are not entirely sure he may have anything to do with this. he could be feasibly a witness at the scene over the course of these events unfurling over the, in the recent 24 hours or so. also worth noting the casualty numbers. there are three deaths of the they have identify a 29-year-old woman as another victim of this tragedy. 176 people injured. multiple casualties. still 17 people in critical condition. adam being back to you. adam: fox news channel's molly line in boston. thank you. tracy: 176. stocks are bouncing back from their biggest one day drop of the year is it time to jump in? our next guest just doesn't think so. nick sargen, chief eninvestment officer at fort washington advisors. he oversees a mere $45 billion in assets. nick, thanks for being with
us today. you don't seem to think yesterday was the beginning of any kind of a pullback, do you? >> no. the principle reason is, we have had these one-day pull backs in an amazing bull run but, you know, i said, i'm going to take a stab and my hunch was we would see a bounce-back. indeed we have. so it tells me, i think what is going on in the commodity markets is fundamental shift. i don't think it is bad for stocks but, i'm not worried about a huge pullback in the market. but, you know what i was saying about not adding. our call at beginning of the year i thought we would test high, all-time highs. we got there a lot quicker than we expected. that is the big surprise. it was on the back of a firming
but now the reason that i don't want to jump in now is, we are seeing some signs of evidence, certainly of slowing growth abroad and maybe it will spill over into the u.s. a bit. tracy: so, you know, if
asked buy, sell or hold, you would say hold. >> yes. tracy: let's ask you what the commodity market is telling you? what is it screaming out about the overall equity markets? >> well, i would actually go back and think it is telling us two things. one, that even though, i think the u.s.
is holding up better than most people expected. tracy: yeah. >> but the rest of the world is softer. i think the surprise was, the china slowdown story. now put that in context, do you really get upset that china grew 7.7, instead of 8 and change? tracy: exactly. >> i don't think it's that. i think what is going on more people capitulating to notion that china can grow at ten. i think that is what we're seeing as a capitulation. the other thing, inflation worldwide has not been rearing its ugly head. in fact it is coming down. it is down a full percentage point globally in the last 12 months to 2 1/2%. tracy: so the gold thing doesn't really bother you, right? it is more about what is happening here at home.
interestingly you're overweighting the financials. that actually says something to me. >> yeah, well, taking into account two things. number one, we have value oriented vest, to. i think the broad market is fairly valued. financials, are still one of the cheaper sectors in the markets. so we have that bias going for us. i think the second thing is, it comes down to the call on the
. i'm in the camp that the private sector of the u.s.
is improving. so being in financials is a leverage play on playing the private sector of the
. i think that is the second component. tracy: but there still is this huge dichotomy between the actual main street
and wall street, right? so when eventually do they all come together? >> well, you know, for those people, there are a lot of people who come to me and say, i'm not telling a story that the u.s. main street looks great. i'm telling a story that says main street is better off than it was a few years ago and we're healing.
we're in the process of healing. tracy: yeah. >> wall street is not just keying off the
but corporate profits. and corporate profits are up 50% from 2007. and everybody's been or worried about corporate profits going forward. and i like that. you're climbing the wall of worry. you're beating lowered expectations for the markets. so my argument is that the stock market is really a barometer of the corporate sector. tracy: sure. >> not main street. tracy: you might as well make money while it he is going up. nick sargen with fort washington investment advisors. you have to be in it to win it, right? thank you, sir. >> thank you. adam: coming up the economic fallout from the boston bombings. former cbo director douglas holtz-eakin tells us why yesterday's events could lead us to a economic slowdown. tracy: let's look at winners and losers on the s&p 500. jcpenney up today. who would have thought. of course coca-cola, have a
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>> you know how american airlines scored lowest for on-time arrivals out of 14 airlines. this will not help. we have an update on problems at american. all flights grounded due to computer problems. initial reports say departures halted until 3 p.m. eastern now. no comment so far from the faa. >> hopefully it's a compliewrt glitch and nothing more than that. half past the hour, back to nicole on the floor of the new york stock exchain. nicole, bow's pulling back, and
jcpenney, what is that doing? >> we have a lot going on here. of course, yesterday, the dow sold off late in the day, understandably, down 265 points yesterday. we regain some of the losses, up 113 points at the moment, but losing steam here on wall street; however, how do see the nasdaq and s&p holding on to gains of more than 1% each. the dollar is weaker, and oil and gold mixed. oil training to gain after losing significantly day, up $17. watching jcpenney, as you noted, very closely. the s&p's up 17 points, jcpenney in there helping the s&p along. it's up about 6% at the moment. now, granted, we watched jcpenney over the last year struggling. ron johnson's out, changing of the guard now, brought in the former ceo to try and move this company along with new ideas and ways to get it back on track. a report said jcpenney's actually exploring ways to
borrow cash ens real estate holdings. we heard whispers about that happening, separate units, and this comes -- it did happen its reinvolving credit facility, but we see today, jcpenney a winner on the s&p 500 where we have a lot of winners. >> nicole, we'll see you in 15 minutes. >> all right. president obama calling the bombings in boston an act of terrorism as the fbi continues to search for a suspect. rich edson outside the white house has breaking news on the investigation, rich, what is it? >> we do just in the last minute from our producer saying federal law enforcement officials confirmed to fox they have just ruled out that saudi man as a suspect in the bombing. remember, he had been questioned. he was never named as a suspect. the 20-year-old saudi here on visa, and law enforcement officials confirm he is ruled out as a suspect. this after a day of briefings at the white house. the president meeting earlier
today with the national security team speaking earlier today. we'r from security officials, says fox news, remanents of a pressure cooker found on-site, a style first seen in afghanistan, but yet too early to determine if this is a type of device from overseas. also, some officials confirming only two bombs found in boston, the two that exploded. there is no one in custody at this point, but officials say they continue to question many people. the president says this is a terror investigation, mincing no words there. he says when it comes to everything else, plenty of unknowns. >> what we don't yet know, however, is who carried out this attack or why, whether it was planned and executed by a terrorist organization, foreign or domestic, or was the act of an individual? that's what we don't yet know, and, clearly, we're at the beginning of our investigation.
>> heightened sense of security continues here in washington at the white house on capitol hill as flags are lowered to half staff at the white house earlier this morning. back to you. >> rich edson, thank you. >> all right. the boston bombing could lead to a slow down, and believe it or not, more taxes, well, sort of. the next guest joining us now, douglas holtz-eakin, currently the president of the american actions forum. all right, doug, i want to first let everyone know you're a marathon runner, or you were. >> thirty years, ran many marathons, wanted to run the boston marathon, was never really good enough. >> what was that like watching yesterday? you watched it live. >> a live stream, i was supposed to work, but like many americans, watched the marathon, and it was heart rending, and, you know, you share the confusion of those there. you couldn't understand what was going on.
sundayenly -- suddenly the emergency medical technicians show up, the police show up, and the chaos. >> can't be more vulnerable than a runner, nothing on the body at the time, and you don't understand why. that brings us to your take on this that this could cost americans money? >> you know, we don't much. we don't know the cause of this. we certainly don't know the ramifications down the line, but these kinds of events are the pebble in the pond. there's the impact on boston. there's the impact on cities like boston and events like the marathon. destination cities, large public events, tourism, it hits the tourism industry, the hotels, restaurants, cabs, and then past that, the thing i worry about, having, you know, been through september 11, 2001, is what precautions need to be taken to secure, not just public events, but the
in the transactions of the
from terrorism? that's an expensive undertaking. that's like a tax on everything
we do. it's not a productive activity. >> i felt it coming into manhattan today. there were more police officers at the bridges and tunnels, people were pulled over on the side of the roads checking cars. took me a long time to get here today because of that. that's out of pocket. >> yeah, it's money. it's time. you spend more time in transitions between home and work, on travel, and think in the past decade of the amount of money this country spent on making people safe. that's an important endeavor in and of itself, but that's not hiring people or investing in new technology. that's not growth. that's a cost. >> after 9/11, or in 2011, we were just on the precipice of the
turning, and then 9/11 hits. >> 9/11 hits, the recession, people remember that. that was the first of the jobless recoveries. think back. it took a long time. it was during that period we were trying to build a regulatory apparatus to make people safe, a physical app apparatus, and it's not a
coincidence we had a hard time creating jobs. >> you know, the administration trying hard to focus on the
. does it struggle to do more -- i feel sometimes they can't do more than one thing at a time. all attention goes back to the securing the people, and are we going to forget about how we try to make the
better? >> i hope not. it was certainly a concern back in 2001. >> right. >> i worry about it at the time -- i worry about it now, especially. this comes on top of what are already big regulatory pushes, big tax increase, and the
's not doing very well. the timing is particularly troublesome, and they hope it's an isolated and with all do respect to those harmed, a minor incident. >> i mean, what do you hope happens within the administration now to change things. that are they not doing correctly? >> i think they need a greater commitment to long-term growth
strategies. targeted temporary policies, have an infrastructure, a tax credit, spend, don't worry about deficits. you know, have a plan for tax reform, the spending programs, ensure the debt's not going to explode. be cognizant regulations have benefits, but costly as well, and just say we're committed to growing over the long term, not for this month or in this bill, not when we think of it between other events. have that commitment. >> douglas holtz-eakin, thank you. >> thank you. >> doug has a long term plan, that's for sure. >> breaking news with boeing. the head. faa says they completed all tests and analysis of the redesigned 787 batteries. they hoped to get the commercial fleet back in the air this month. that seems to be, if accurate, seems to be a step in the right direction. >> we'll see. breaking news now in oil, closing up one penny at $88.72 a
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>> price of gold is rebounding from a two-year low, and its biggest selloff in three decades. what's next for the precious metal? bringing in edward mere, senior correspondent at iatlfc stone. thank you for being here. >> thank you. a lot of people are saying you have goldman sachs saying gold is time to get out. some analysts say we'll see gold at $1200 an ounce. you disagree with them, why? >> well, i'm not sure i disagree with them. in our last report, we have been very cautious op gold, especially given that it's broken key support levels. it's trading between 15-25 to 1800 in the last 18 months, and
everybody's been waiting for if -- for it to pick up steam and move ahead. it's not. able to do it. the bottom fell from the market in the mast few days issue and i think we'll head lower from here. >> yeah, i think there's a lot of people who agree with you. is one of the reasons we are lower hedge funds bought gold, need out, and they have not liquidated? >> that's partly one of the factors. of course, we won't know for a few more weeks until the initial filings come out. there's a lot of money tied up in the physical atfs, and, of course, as people get out, especially the big hedge fund managers, that drives the market even more lower than it normally would. plus, the additional factor of margin call, those who support other losing positions. you have a combination, a cascading effect. that's why we sold off $200 in
two days, quite an incredible drop. >> i was reading one account of why we saw the big drop is that there was one fund, apparently, sold a huge number of futures. might we see that again? usually, don't they do this slowly so as to avoid panic and retain some price stability? >> it's hard to say. i mean, it takes all sorts of shapes and forms. it's possible they are out. you know, you sort of could have had a selling climax on monday, but we'll have to just see what happens. certainly, the market feels very fragile right now. it doesn't seem to have bottomed out. we'll still have more volatility and then perhaps resume the trend lower again. >> i have to ask you this for retail investors. they buy gold etf, worried about inflation, but inflation just, you know, i think it's paul who says inflation that has not come to haunt us, not yet, and not coming soon. if he's accurate, it's time to get out of gold, wouldn't it?
>> yes, it would be. inflation, if you look at the western countries, it's running at 2%. in emerging market inflation is 6%. the last time gold spiked like this in 1980, we were running a 20% inflation, so these are not the types of inflation numbers that can really ignite the market, but what drove the latest rally was investorring so worried about all this easing coming into the system they kind of got into gold in anticipation of inflation and it's like a mirage, not happening. >> as people point out, too, a 12-year run on gold at least in 2001 when it was in the $200 range. what should i look for if i'm someone who eventually wants to get back into gold? what should i look for, and what would be any trigger to make that play? >> you know, it's really hard to pick a bottom. we kind of look at some charts, and they give us a little bit of a clue. the various studies we're
looking at suggest around 1285 as the next level where we could see some support coming in. other technicians look at kind of a retracement. in other words, they take the -- they take the average between the high price, which was 1900, and the low price, $300, ten years ago, take a 50% average of that. that brings you down to around 1 # 100, so it's hard to say, but those are some gauges. >> very quickly, i know a lot of people raise the possibility of cypress could sell off gold to pay debt, but i thought their holdings were so tiny it wouldn't impact the price of gold. was i wrong or is that something investors should ignore should cypress sell? >> you're right. sigh press has ten tons, not a big deal. i think it was the straw that broke the back along with some other things including deteriorating technicals. >> all right. thank you very much for joining us, edward,ic, from the
international ftc, is it -- intlfst stone. gil get the initials right sometime. thank you. >> thank you. >> john is standing by. you know, we just heard we did not have a suspect now in the boston bombing. markets are pulling back. 1 there a correlation? >> there is a correlation there. people want information, you know, whether we talk about information that comes out of washington about economic data or this headline that's there. people want information, but we have to understand there's a slow output of information to take a long time to figure it out, and the fbi and all of them are careful, don't want to spook anybody yet. i think we have to keep an eye on that, but we can't cor lit the market on those coming out
of bos ton because there's too much information. we don't know what's real and what's not. >> today is about earnings, about economic data. it's going to be so interesting how the market trades up, trades in the last hour here. i think it is going to trade higher. we've seen momentum there, balances on the bell, and s&p 500, there is stocks, and i think right now we're looking at how this focuses here, earnings after the bell, economic data tomorrow morning, and like we talked about earlier, financial earnings tomorrow morning, bank of america and american express, pnc so important just for the sentiment of the market, whether they trade is irrelevant, just a sentiment to get us back to feeling comfortable about the market to continue to move higher. >> you're right. >> it's about sentiments at the end of the day. thank you, sir. >> thank you for following gold, the rally is stalling. breaking news on american airlines commenting on the
system-wide grounding, commenting on twitter saying, american's reservation system is experiencing intermitten outages. we're working to resolve the issue and apologize for any inconvenience. please yous aa.com to check gates and times. all flights grounded until 5 p.m. eastern time. earlier, they were grounded until three o'clock. it's now moved to 5 p.m.. fox business keeps you posted. a lot of people trying to travel today, and it's going to be a headache. >> it is, but aa.com is the police to go. security tightening in the country, chicago where jeff flock has a live report from that city's financial district. we'll be right back. ♪
♪ >> major cities in the country tightening security potentially terror target the in the wake of yesterday's bombings in boston. jeff flock in the chicago with the latest. hey, jeff. >> tracy, not as tight as it could be. this is the corner of whacker and jackson boulevard in chicago. it's home to the sears tower. maybe we have another picture of what use to be called the sears towerment i'm old, but it's the willis tower now that was shut down after 9/11, and, you know, we're on the edge of the financial district here. look audiotape there, maybe if bob pans up, that's sir iring's s, the goddess of agriculture and grain on the top of the building now home to the cme. if you look at inside, though,
not intense security, and as i said, the markets, i think, cheered by this, indication, perhaps, of not any great fears of any wide ranging plot out there. talking to some security experts though, look around a place like this on the streets of chicago, you don't see a lot of trash cans which, as we know, was the repository in which they placed the bombs. another thing they think about pulling off, though, in times like this is these newspaper boxes. chicago tribune box and all the other free and newspapers you got to purchase, you can open them up, and, also, perhaps put something inside. time note from the mayor, saying chicago is not a threat, not believed to be any kind of threat out here although there's high profile targets here,3 still, the tallest building in the world, the willis tower, largest one to be completed. that one in new york at the
world tried center site is now the tallest in america. that's the latest from chicago. >> i call it the sears tower too. we're old together. >> all right. liz claman goes through the last hour of trading within 5 interview with the ceo of royal caribbean, the first since unvailing the new quantum cruise ship. you have to see the ship to believe it. sky diving, a ride that looks like the london eye, and liz has that all in "countdown to the closing bell" next. ♪ we know a place where tossing and turng have
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on the wings of lunesta. ♪ liz: the deadly boston bombings, businesses in boston and beyond not taking chancest chances. bomb sniffing jobs beefed up security as markets and gold bounced back. we have the latest on the investigation. goldman sachs, johnson and johnson reporting just as target
issues an earnings worng. looking ahead to yahoo. talk about a quantum leap, royal caribbean unvails the never before seen ride, quantum of the sea, carrying 4,000 passengers and bumper cars and sky diving. will it thrill investors? we have the ceo on opening day. "countdown to the closing bell" starts right now. ♪ good afternoon, everybody. i'm liz claman, the last hour of trading, and markets showing resilience in the face of trauma and tragedy, just 24 hours after the attack, look at the markets on the screen, they are charging back. these are stocks, 19, let me repeat, 19 stocks in the s&p with 52-week highs today, many of them all-time highs like kimberly clark, clorox
hershey's, mills, they are up now. coca-cola reporting better than expected earnings before the bell, and now that stock is jumping more than 5%. flip it over


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Originally Posted by okto
You got a problem with soo-mee-krawn and elmurrit, boy? :P
Yes, they don't tell me anything about the damn thing lol, at least with for example canon uses DO for diffractive optics or comments on an Aspherical Element. In their description, rather than making unpronounceable names that make no sense unless you've grown up only with Leica or LF lenses. I've never understood some of the silly names they have or what they mean, Kodak too, they don't make any sense... How can I tell what's better, at least with canon I know the L lens is the better one...
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