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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Staten Island man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in a hate crime attack against two gay men in Provincetown, Mass. over the summer.
Police in Provincetown say Steven Caminiti, 24, who has addresses both on Staten Island and in Wellfleet, Mass., and a second man got out of their car and attacked the men as they were walking down a one-way street July 31.
According to prosecutors, Caminiti and an accomplice were driving the wrong way down that street, and one of the two men told them as much. That led to the duo getting out of their car.
A fight broke out, and one of the two victims took a beer bottle bash to the head.
Cape and Islands First Assistant District Attorney Michael Trudeau said that the attackers used anti-gay slurs, both before and during the assault.
An investigation ensued, and police arrested Caminiti and a second man, Dorjee Gyadatsang, 24, of Provincetown, but Gyadatsang was ultimately released because, Trudeau said, the victims could not identify him.
On Oct. 26, Caminiti admitted to sufficient facts for a guilty finding on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery to intimidate, assault and battery to intimidate with bodily injury and a civil rights violation.
He's been held on $5,000 since his arrest, and that time will go toward the 18-month sentence he received, according to court officials. That sentence will run concurrently with another sentence he received for violating his probation, court officials said.


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You've heard of "the Thrilla in Manila?" Here's the thriller called "Mauritius."
It doesn't take place on a rainy night in a house with a creaky staircase, but is instead set in a memorabilia store. That's fitting, for "Mauritius" is memorable. Better still, the way that Lauren Mills has expertly directed it for the Women's Theater Company in Parsippany, it crackles with as much tension as the best Agatha Christie chillers.
A young miss named Jackie shows up at the store to have her stamps appraised. Shop owner Phil has seen too many amateurs who expect millions for canceled ordinaries, so he refuses to even take a look. Dennis, who hangs around the store, decides to be nice, opens her album -- and is utterly astonished at what he sees.
There are those two famous 1847 stamps from Mauritius -- each of which has a printing mistake. If they're real, Dennis knows a buyer named Sterling who'll make Jackie a millionaire, after giving Dennis a handsome commission for his efforts.
But do the stamps even belong to Jackie? Her half-sister Mary claims she's the owner, and that their grandfather left them to her. The two fight, and when Jackie slaps Mary, director Mills doesn't settle for one of those stage slaps where an actor purposely misses and follows with a handclap to make a convincing sound. Julie Sihilling gives Robin Marie Thomas a force-of-nature hit that the latter actress must still be feeling this morning.
This is Sihilling's second terrific performance in 10 weeks; she made an impressive Garden State debut in "The Transit of Venus" at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township in September. There, she was an 18th-century romantically obsessed girl who became disillusioned in love. Here she's all fluttery arms and hands, suggesting that Jackie just doesn't know what to do with them. By the second act, when Jackie must come of age, Sihilling shows ever-increasing force in refusing to be victimized. The little laugh she gives when she feels the men are taking advantage of her has just the right amount of contempt in it.
Thomas is just as effective, allowing keen, shrewd eyes to accompany her dialogue. As Dennis, Lenny Bart has terrific energy in the way he delivers lines between gum chews. He works hard to be charming, which he equates with being slick. Nino Spallacci superbly provides a wiry and diminutive Phil, all the better for Sterling to lift him a few feet off the floor in yet another of the fights that "Mauritius" offers.
With a jutting chin that insinuates itself into the proceedings, Duncan Rogers plays Sterling, the role originated by F. Murray Abraham in last season's Broadway production. While Abraham was unapologetically menacing, Rogers has more charm. Given that Sterling has many lines that show he has a genuine interest in stamps, and that he's not just in it for the money, he can be played as more connoisseur than criminal. That's Rogers and Mills' choice, and it works quite well.
"Mauritius" does beg one question: If a young woman had priceless stamps, would she bring them to two men she barely knows and one she's never met without anyone there to protect her? Three men could easily overpower her and take the goods. But just as the play points out that people love stamps that have mistakes on them, we can appreciate a play that makes an error when the rest of it is so good.
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So do Nick Papa, Joe Malfettano and Brian Scrocca.
Malfettano, at his own peril, is even cutting short a wedding-anniversary celebration. The rest are dodging work for an extended weekend.
Because the former Wagner College baseball players are all headed on a twenty-something jock's version of the ultimate fantasy road trip.
Well, minus Scarlett Johansson, that is.
It's not every day, you see, that the guy who left his dirty socks piled-up around your off-campus apartment on Arlo Road, the person you turned training runs with on Howard Avenue, and wolfed down pizzas with at Nucci's in West Brighton, your pal, your buddy, is playing in his first major league All-Star game.
That's right, I said, "All-Star game."
Their boy has made it to the big time!
Just like David Wright and Roy Halladay.
And everyone's on board.
"It's unbelievable," Picarello was saying the other day of Andrew Bailey's jet-fueled rise from Oakland A's minor league question mark in March to big-league closer in June to All-Star team selection in July.
"From the first time I saw him throw, I knew how much better Andrew was than the rest of us," Bailey's college catcher said. "But for all this to happen so quickly. It's amazing."
Amazing is a pretty conservative description of Bailey's journey since undergoing Tommy John surgery in his junior year of 2005 at Wagner. He blew out his arm against Northeast Conference rival Quinnipiac on one of those typically dangerous cold and drizzily spring baseball days in the New York area.
"He came off the mound, and said, 'Something popped,'" recalled Picarello, now in the insurance business in downtown Manhattan. "It was scary."
But Bailey was back a year later.
He signed with the A's in 2006 as a sixth-round draft pick.
Another speed-bump followed when he struggled as a minor league starter.
"I was psyching myself out," is the way the hard-throwing 230-pounder explains his early professional situation. "I was trying to pick at the strike zone instead of attacking it."
Baily's career might have ended right then; the familiar tale of one more guy who wasn't quite good enough.
Or lucky enough.
But out of desparation as much as anything else, the A's decided to move the New Jersery native into a relief role.
Bailey, being Bailey, took the decision as one more opportunity.
Paring down his pitch arsenal to an explosive mid-90s fastball and nasty late-breaking cutter during the latter part of the 2008 season in Double-A, the then 24-year-old began to thrive.
He came to A's spring training as a non-roster invitee, and opened eyes with his power and poise. The rest, as they say, is history.
Heading into the weekend, Bailey carried a record of 4-1 with nine saves, a 2.03 ERA and 1.01 WHIP. That's in 37 appearances. He hadn't given up a run in his last nine outings, and was bing talked about in American League Rookie of the Year conversations.
"He's dominating," Picarello said. "Andrew's big and strong and he always has an idea of how he's going to approach a hitter. Because he's smart, he was always easy to work with as a catcher."
Now Bailey's college buddies are scrambling to make airline reservations, just the way they did when he made his big league debut in Anaheim in April.
They're checking on-line for ticket prices to Tuesday's game in Bush Stadium. And trying to find a room somewhere near St. Louis that isn't already booked.
The group are back and forth on their cell phones, laughing about the notion of their old col lege teammate hanging out with Derek Jeter, and talking closing with Mariano Rivera and Jonathan Papelbon.
Texting Bailey that they're on the way.
Reminding him to pick up his socks.


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Until now, our images of MI6 came from Smiley or 007. Now a series of paintings exposes the blunt reality
In 1967, an art critic writing in The Spectator argued that art must always be relevant to reality and that any work of art worthy of the name must have "direct contact with life". The writer was one Anthony Blunt, art connoisseur, secret communist, former MI5 officer, KGB spy and a man who had more reason than most to cover up the reality of his own double life.
Blunt, the arch secret-keeper, would have been astonished at the exhibition entitled A Year with MI6, which opens in London today. It's a series of paintings and drawings by James Hart Dyke


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Between 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. on Wednesday, graffiti was discovered on the back wall of Saint Theresa School in New Cumberland. Among the messages were the statements "God isn't real" and "Capitalism is your God." By 2:30 in the afternoon, the walls had been cleaned.
"Everyone feels violated, because you don't expect this in your own backyard," St. Theresa Parish manager Elaine Herald said.
There are no suspects, and none of the messages revealed any threats of violence, Officer Brian Nailor, with the New Cumberland Police Department, said.
Families were notified of the incident through a letter from St. Theresa School principal Michael Tracy, Herald said.
"We have to force ourselves ... to forgive and to move forward," she said.
Anyone with more information should call the New Cumberland Police Department at 717-774-0400.


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CAMDEN — A Lindenwold man has been convicted by a Superior Court jury of assaulting two Camden County Sheriff's Officers and a state parole officer in 2006, Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk said Wednesday.
Rene Edwards, 46, was found guilty on charges of resisting arrest by force and aggravated assault on police officers. Because of a lengthy criminal history, Edwards could be eligible to spend up to 20 years in prison. officials said.
The Nov. 29, 2006 altercation began when state parole officers attempted to put on him a monitoring device required as a condition of his parole on an attempted sexual assault conviction. Edwards refused, and two Sheriff's officers were called outside of the building to restrain him. He continued to refuse to wear the device and when officers attempted to take him into custody he fought with them, hitting them and biting one of them. Because Edwards was aware he had the AIDS virus when he bit the officer, he was also charged with aggravated assault. He was not found guilty on that count.
Edwards was remanded upon conviction to the Camden County Jail. Sentencing is scheduled for May 14 before Superior Court Judge Anthony Pugliese.


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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The Montgomery Biscuits, along with the city of Montgomery, will play host to the 2015 Southern League All-Star Game at Riverwalk Stadium next June.
This will mark the second time the Biscuits have hosted the All-Star Game, with Riverwalk Stadium being the site of the 2006 contest, the Biscuits stated in a release today.
"We're excited to showcase how much Montgomery has grown since we last had the game in 2006," Biscuits General Manager Scott Trible said. "After the successes of Biscuits baseball, the MAX Capital City Classic series and Rays at Riverwalk exhibition game, we hope to continue to draw fans from all over the southeast to experience great baseball games at beautiful Riverwalk Stadium."
The game is set for June 23, 2015, but the festivities will start the day before.
"The city works closely with the Biscuits ownership to meet the entertainment needs of families across the River Region as well as visitors. This event will be sure to showcase all that the Capital of Dreams has to offer," Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange said.
The Biscuits organization will release a full schedule of events in the coming months.
Ticket information will also be made available at the end of the 2014 season. Fans who purchase 2015 season tickets will have special priority privileges.
The Southern League has produced a number of future Major League stars, including Miguel Cabrera, Joey Votto, Paul Goldschmidt, Clayton Kershaw, Evan Longoria and many more.
Fans who attended the 2006 Southern League All-Star Game in Montgomery saw former National League MVP Joey Votto showcase his future prowess in the Home Run Derby, 2014 NL All-Star Miguel Montero go 3-3, and former MLB third baseman Scott Moore win All-Star Game MVP as the North Division won 9-4.


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by Dr. James O. Whittaker
As a college professor, I'm amused every year by the so- called rankings of colleges and universities. Harvard is always on top.
The impression these rankings give is that the student is some kind of passive vessel into which education is poured. Apparently, Harvard does a better pouring job than any other institution, at least according to the chart.
The fact is that there are many, many variables that determine the value and worth of a college or university.
At the top, and most crucial, is the student himself or herself. Good students are good students no matter where they go, and bad students, by the same token, are bad students.
Every college, whether Harvard or not, has good departments and lousy ones according to their students. No overall ranking gives a true picture, nor is it possible for any single ranking to do so.
For example, when I came back as a l9-year-old, having served more than a year in the occupation of Germany right after the end of World War II, I enrolled at Texas Christian University.
The next summer I went to Harvard and did that the following year also. The difference between TCU and Harvard was not that Harvard was more difficult, nor were the professors or classes better. Competition in the classroom from fellow students made Harvard a little bit tougher. That's all.
In my career I have counseled many students (and parents) about college choice. Many young people should not be going to college at all, but should attend vocational training programs.
Others should plan on a two-year community college. Still others should go to a community college for two years and then transfer to a four-year college or university. Some should enroll in a four-year university. There is no single answer for all high school graduates.
At age l8, many students are immature and really not aware of the many career choices out there. I have had students who wanted to major in engineering but hated mathematics, for example.
One young woman I met, who graduated from Penn State, eventually went on to earn her doctorate in molecular biology at Cal Tech. I am sure that as a high school senior she had never even heard of molecular biology or Cal Tech. Nor did she know that Cal Tech requires the highest SAT scores in the nation, and is probably the most difficult institution of higher education to enter.
Many students, as I have advised, should consider first attending a two-year community college. Based on that experience they will be more mature, and more aware of their abilities and interests. Those who wish can transfer with greater ease to universities such as Penn State (or Harvard) after completing these two years. Another tip: Sometimes picking a lesser-known major makes acceptance more assured. Once enrolled in the four-year institution, transfer among majors is far easier.
Money, of course, is another consideration today. Too many students are leaving college after a couple of years with enormous debt, and little to show for it. This is another reason to consider starting at a community college.
And I should add that generally speaking, the curriculum is much the same in the freshman and sophomore years whether in a two-year or four-year institution, whether at HACC or Harvard.
So the lesson for high school seniors and their parents is: Don't be impulsive. Consider all the alternatives.
Consider even perhaps taking a year off before beginning higher education. Remember the student himself or herself is the crucial variable. All of these factors should be taken into account.
The decision can affect one's entire life — no spur of the moment or impulsive move should be considered. Give it thought and do the research.
DR. JAMES O. WHITTAKER of Camp Hill is professor emeritus at Penn State University.


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I wish I had easy answers but I sure don't.
Just look at our Big Chart - we flipped it bullish and put up new level targets just two weeks ago and already the Russell is up 5% to test 1,000. All 3 lines over 1,000 and we're back to being bullish until 3 of 5 fail to hold our "Must Hold" lines.
We should be celebrating this but we played too cautiously as what we thought was a top and I never officially put "5 Inflation Fighters Set to Fly" or our "5 Trade Ideas that Make (made) 500% in an up Market" into our portfolios and I only said:
So lots of fun ways to participate in the next mega-rally. We don't need S&P 1,900 - just holding 1,600 would do us quite well and I cannot emphasize enough that these are HEDGES to our current BEARISH stance - just in case we're wrong and a correction never comes and the markets go up and up forever and all of our bearish positions expire worthless.
In reviewing those posts, I realize I went heavily into detail about my thoughts of the current market environment and we decided we'd better go with the flow until the flow changes and, frankly, I don't have a lot to add to that. A week ago we reviewed our "5 Trade Ideas" that made ridiculous amounts of money in a very short time but, as I have been reminded this weekend - unless I specifically state something should be included in one of our virtual portfolios - it doesn't occur to people that they should add it to theirs so we have been out of balance bearish in our portfolios and have gotten hit pretty hard in this relentlessly climbing market.
That's my fault then and my solution is to make things less confusing and go back to my favorite system for managing trades and that's to have a portfolio for short-term trading and one for long-term trading (the Income Portfolio is a separate strategy and won't be affected) and we'll be instituting that beginning next week. The idea is to practice the basics - position sizing, scaling in, scaling out, using stops, reacting to news, diversifying positions, etc. The Long-Term Portfolio is generally for short-term positions that don't work but that we would like to stick with for a longer-term play. Still, the LTP is pretty much for "set and forget" trades, mostly, and that lets us concentrate on a single STP for day to day trades. I'll still put up more aggressive trades but that's up to more aggressive traders to track for themselves and, of course, I'm always happy to help out with ideas for any adjustments that need to be made.
So, now that you're done re-reading our 2 "5 Idea" articles, let's first talk about what we can still trade:
Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX) was the worst performer of our 5 Trade Ideas - it was down 242% as of May 8th with the 2015 $20/30 bull call spread net of the short $20 puts at a $1.20 credit, up from a .35 original credit - meaning you would have to pay net .85 to close it out at the time. ABX has gotten even worse since then and that bull call spread is now $1.90 while the short $20 puts are $5.35 for net -$3.45 so down another $2.25 from May 8th. While that's attractive still as a new play, it's usually wiser to take advantage of the dip and be a bit more conservative. Also, in keeping with our new philosophy of trying to set limits at the outset of a trade:
Let's say you have $5,000 to spend on ABX. You could buy about 300 shares of ABX at $18.50 (269, actually). Since we know we can use options to lower our entry, we can assume we'll end up with 400 shares for around $12.50 so we'll start with selling 2 2015 $18 put for $4.05 ($810) and we can buy 2 of the 2015 $13/20 bull call spreads for $3.20 ($620). That leaves a net credit of $190 so a net entry on 200 shares of ABX at $17.05 if ABX is below $18 in Jan 2015.
Because we also own 2 of the 2015 $13 calls, the break-even on the trade is between $13 and $17.05 = $15.03. That means ABX can drop 20% more from here before we get in trouble. The cash outlay on this spread is none - we have a credit of $190 and, if ABX hits $20 in Jan 2015, the spread will be worth an additional $1,400, for a total of $1,590. The risk is, of course, owning 200 shares ABX for net $15.03 and ordinary margin on this trade is about $1,400 for 2 contracts but the idea would be to set aside the full $3,060 you would need to buy 200 shares at $15.03 and then, below $15.03, you could double down for another $3,000 or less or you could simply do another sale to knock the basis down another 20% or so before the DD is forced on you.
Should there be a stop on this trade? Not really as you can already see how violently it moves. For that reason, we won't be using it in our new Portfolios (we already have some in the Income Portfolio) but it's a very nice way to take a stab at gold without committing too much capital.
DBA has also gotten cheap again (great commercial for using stops to take profits) and our original spread idea was the Jan 2014 $23/26 bull call spread at $2, selling 2015 $25 puts for $1.55 for net .45. The spread has dropped to $1.85 and the 2015 $25 puts are now $1.55 for net .30 less than 1/2 of the .65 we hit on 5/8. We like the same trade with the same bottom for the same reasons still but note how quickly easily you can make or lose 50% on these small net trades - they are not for the faint of heart!
Our Inflation Fighters were an interesting bunch as well. F flew away so hard and fast it can't be chased. CLF took off but is still playable, BAC is up as if they were selling Fords and the MCD/DBA pair trade is doing well because MCD took off (not so much DBA). That then leaves us with ABX but we just did them, unfortunately. I think I should repeat what I said in that post about ABX for all who might play:
We've been catching those ABX knives for a while and, if you want to join in the pain, the 2015 $15 puts can be sold for $2.65 and the 2015 $20/30 bull call spread is $1.90 so you keep .75 in your pocket for a net $14.25 entry on ABX (an additional 21.5% discount) and this is super margin-efficient with just $1.55 in margin on the short puts. Obviously, this is a more speculative play but, off a net credit of .75, at $30 you can make an additional $10 for $10.75 or a 1,433% return in less than two years if ABX retakes HALF of what it lost in the past two years.
That post was from the 21st and I am only just looking at it now, AFTER I wrote the previous ABX play up. The 2105 $15 puts are now $2.46 and the $20/30 bull call spread is $1.90 (still) and that's a net credit of .54 so not much change there and your net is $14.46 - just a bit higher than the original trade idea above so - I like that one too.
For variety's sake though, we should pick something else and good old Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE:CLF) is still around at $20.69 looking good for a move to $30 so I propose we DO put this one in the Short-Term Portfolio with the fallback strategy of going long in the Long-Term Portfolio if CLF get cheap again ($16.62 was the bottom, 20% down-ish). So, how much CLF would we be willing to own? Let's say $10,000 at $17.50 is 600(ish) contracts.
We can buy the CLF Jan $17/24 bull call spread for $3.20 and sell the 2015 $18 puts for $4.15 for a net credit of .95. That would, at worst case, give us a net entry of $17.05 but here we would absolutely stop out the bull call spread at $1.55 as that would leave us a net on the short puts of just $15.50.
If we commit to 4 of those positions, we risk having to own 400 shares of CLF at $15.50 ($6,200) out of our $10,000 allocation. That's what we'll do for the Short-Term Portfolio. In reality, as we're playing it short-term, we should be watching the 50 dma at $20.24 and, if they can't hold that, we may need to re-consider. On the other hand, the short puts have a delta of .30 and the bull call spread has a net delta of .24 so we pick up about .54 for each $1 CLF moves up and that means we have a pretty good chance, on a 10% move, of making $1 x 4 contracts = $400 and we will be happy to take it as a short-term profit.
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Again, there's this nagging question of whether or not the rally is real and we're not sure but we are sure we're able to buy these three stocks at very low prices and that seems worth the risk - even if the market does turn down now. Let's talk about what might happen next:
2045 is a good date to keep your eye on as that's the date a Rice University professor believes humans become obsolete as artificially intelligent machines take over most of the work people currently do. I joke about this all the time but 2045 is not all that far off. I'll be 83 and probably won't care that my nurse is a robot - especially if it doesn't ask for Tuesday's off. Still, it won't happen all at once - it will come in stages and we already love our IRBT but not cheap anymore at $34 and IBM of course, at $208 we're already long on and both of those will seem very, very cheap when 60M old bastards like me need a robot to help us take a bath.
What's it worth? Well, home health care is roughly $13,000 a month for 24-hour care and that's just for two 8-hour shifts and the assumption you can get by when you sleep. It doesn't matter if insurance pays for it or you do - someone is putting up the cash. So $130,000 a year is plenty of money to get yourself a $500,000 robot that can be amortized over 5 years instead of a person and, don't forget - you don't have to specifically make that choice - the same agencies that currently hire people will buy the robots and that's what will show up at your door.
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The same goes for security guards, meter maids, librarians, secretaries, most manual labor - as the robots get cheaper and faster and smarter, they move down the pay scale and do, literally, make humans obsolete. There was a cool Audi/Star Trek commercial and it's pretty normal but, at the very end, a guy gets out of a car at a country club that goes and parks itself. PRESTO - a few million valet jobs disappear as soon as Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and others work out the bugs on self-parking cars.
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So - Bad for humans but good for corporations that make robots and parts for robots. Certainly good for Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) as we'll eventually have as many slaves, er robots, as we do cars, which is 200M in the US and all of those robots are going to need to be on the web which means bandwidth and routers, etc. We also like Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and they're still and underperformer still at $1.57 but, as a long-term investment, they're a good one.
That's our 30-year horizon all taken care of. If we want to speculate it's going to be on people who make batteries or fuel cells as we'll need lots of those too. If we roll back to 2035, we'll certainly be well into that cycle already and to some extent, I think the leisure industry will do well, with people having way more free time but, the question is - how do we get them more money? So social unrest is the game between 2015 and 2035. By 2015, there's a very good chance that Watson alone will put tens of millions of customer support people, call center operators, secretaries, record keepers, librarians, sales people and even paralegals out of work.
Look how hard people work to write apps now that make $100,000, $200,000 or $1M. Imagine how many companies will jump on the bandwagon to develop apps that can replace 100,000 $35,000 jobs ($3.5Bn) at a clip! Again, this will be great for the companies that used to have to hire all these people and not so great for the people who used to work there. Unemployment, in the long run, is not only here to stay - it's at the very early stages of 2/3 of a developed nation's population not working (already full employment is 50%). In Japan, for example, 1 out of every 30 workers is already a robot!
You can see we're already facing the problem of what to do with all these extra people. They're not lazy, they're not stupid - there are simply more people available than there are jobs that need to be filled because this country, which consumes about 10x what the average country in the World does - still produces so much stuff that, without oil imports ($350Bn a year) - we'd almost have a trade surplus. China has a trade surplus, Japan has a trade surplus, Europe is closed so they don't count, Australia has a trade surplus, Canada has a trade surplus, South Korea has a trade surplus ... That's a lot of surplus!
And we're doing all this with less than 1 in 100 workers being robots at the moment. As I said, EXTRA people. What can we do with extra people then? Usually we send them off to war - that's always a good way to save on unemployment, not to mention retirement as we convert a lot of them into dead bodies (maybe the robots can bury them - they already use back-hoes to dig the graves). If we don't find some way to kill off the extra people - what do we do? This is the most important question on Earth over the next couple of decades only no one wants to discuss it.
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Are we NOT going to get up to Japan or Germany's level of robots in Manufacturing (above chart)? That makes no sense, of course we need to compete. Robots are the entire secret to Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) success as they scuttle about the warehouse floors filling orders. I myself invested in a private RFID company that allows those robots to find any package within sensor range - it's a decade away from being mainstream but now's the time to get in on these things. As of 2011 just over 1.2% of our factory jobs are robotic but that's up from 0.75% in 2008 - even during a recession it almost doubled in 3 years. Japan is already over 3% and a 2% replacement of our 34,000,000 factory jobs is 680,000 people out of work - almost 60,000 jobs a month being lost to robots in just that sector.
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And what is the Fed doing? Lending money at record low rates so companies can invest in upgrading their plants and LOWERING their costs and that is code for labor costs and that is code for jobs lost by humans. And what does Bernanke say to these corporations? He says it all the time - essentially it's: "As long as you keep unemployment over 6.5%, I'm going to KEEP giving you MORE FREE MONEY!" As you can see from the above chart for 2008-2011 - it's certainly been getting a response from Corporate America.
Free money is letting companies buy back their stock and cut down their debt and lay off workers (as there's usually an up-front cost to that) BUT, they are not, so far, spending that money on R&D or CapEx or expansion - THOSE are the signs of a healthy economy. What we are seeing now is a smooth contraction. We're also seeing inflating prices at the retail level while commodity and labor costs are dropping and THAT is increasing corporate profits - not a greater demand for goods and services.
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And we put this chart up all the time but you HAVE to think about the implications:
How can we build a sustainable recovery when we a wringing those profits out of the paychecks of the consumers? China is already getting blowback and salaries are up 9.2% over last year, after being up 7.2% last year from the year before. That has brought Chinese manufacturing wages up to a whopping $4 an hour vs. $19 in the US and, while that may not sound like much - it's less than 1/5th of what a U.S. worker makes and, as recently as 2010, it was 1/10th and, in 2005, it was 1/20th.
China's wages have, in fact, just passed Mexico's and NAFTA is starting to give Mexico the edge as a manufacturing choice for U.S. companies. Of course it's difficult for 112M Mexicans to compete with 1.3Bn Chinese and that's the key demographic to understand - we are, in fact, simply running out of human labor - well, cheap human labor - and that's the only kind our corporate masters are interested in.
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You can see, in 2007, what happens to corporate profits when labor stops getting cheaper every quarter. It makes that E in p/e fall right off a cliff. The usual solution for that is to lay off more workers and cut back spending but - didn't we just do that? Can they really make MORE cuts at this point? That's why I have trouble buying into rosy forward forecasts. We're NOT paying the workers in the U.S. more money, we are at record levels of corporate profits due to cost cutting, money is the cheapest its ever been and rising wages in other countries is causing a demand for our goods.
The age of the robot is not upon us yet. Down the road, humans are screwed and corporate citizens and their armies of robot slaves will rule the earth but, for the moment, there is still manual, human labor that needs to be done and that puts a functional lid on corporate profits and, at the moment, the stock market does not reflect that possibility. The markets have jumped right from 2013 to 2045 in its expectations and, I'm fairly sure - we're not there yet, which means we'll have to conclude that the markets are, in fact, ahead of themselves.
We'll see by July but I'd say it pays to be careful now.
If I'm wrong and the market keeps going up - it doesn't take a big bet to make a lot of money. For instance, the Dow is our lagging index, according to our Big Chart, at 15,354 and the Nikkei has pulled ahead, at 15,360 with its 40% comeback. Our goal on the Dow is 16,000 and that's up 700 points, which is almost 5% and, if we're not going to get the pullback we expect, then the rally is likely to continue into the Summer and we can pick up the DIA (Dave Fry chart) July $153/157 bull call spread for $1.70 and that makes $2.30 if the Dow goes up 400 points (and holds it through July expirations, of course).
If you are not satisfied with a 135% gain in 60 days off a 4% Dow move higher, you can find something you WOULD like to buy if the Dow drops 20%, like BA for example. Boeing (NYSE:BA) is at $98.92 and the 2015 $75 puts are $4.20 and let's say you're willing to own $37,500 worth of BA at net $75 and that would cost you roughly $19,000 in margin but then you'd do a buy/write and knock it down - of course. So, with 5 BA puts sold for $2,100, you can buy 20 of the DIA July $153/157 bull call spreads for $3,400 and, if the Dow does go up 4% into July expirations, you won't get your cheap BA stock but you will make $4,600 on the DIA spread.
At that point, we'd cash out the DIA spread AND the BA puts and keep the cash. If the trade goes so far the other way that the DIA spread goes to zero, then we net into 500 shares of BA at $77.60 (the extra $1,300 divided by 500 plus the net of the put strike). Of course, we want to stop out before that happens and we have a line key support line at 15,200 that should stop us out. The net delta on the DIA spread is .23 so a 150-point drop in the Dow should cost us about .35 so our stop on the bull spread should be about net $1.20 or if the Dow fails to hold 15,200.
That would limit the loss to $1,000 and we'd still be net $73.80 on the BA puts (25% off the current price). This is how we can go to cash, set up trades to re-buy similar positions at cheaper prices and not miss a very nice gain if we were premature and the rally continues.
Disclosure: I am long DIA, BA, DBA, CSCO, CLF, MCD, ABX, IRBT, IBM. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. Positions as indicated but subject to change (fairly bearish mix of long and short positions - see previous posts for other trade ideas). Positions mentioned here have been previously discussed at philstockworld.com - a paid membership site that teaches stock, options and futures trading, portfolio management skills and advanced income-producing strategies for investors.


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Magic Johnson Comments On Donald Sterling's "AIDS" Shade: "It's Disturbing"
In an attempt to apologize for the racist remarks that got him banned from the NBA for life, LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling told Anderson Cooper on Monday that Magic Johnson "doesn't really do much" for the African-American community, and that he should be "ashamed" for "having those AIDS."
In a follow-up interview with Cooper on Tuesday, Johnson responded to the nasty comments with the utmost grace. "It's disturbing," he said. "He didn't educate himself before he actually came on and talked to you."
Johnson also said he's still waiting for an apology from Sterling, who Cooper ventures to guess is suffering from "early onset dementia."
"I'm really disturbed by the fact that when he called me he should have said, 'Magic, I'm sorry,'" Johnson added. "What's really sad is, it's not about me. This is about the woman you love outing you and taping you and putting your conversation out here for everybody to know….This is between you two, but then he wants to include me."
Sterling has yet to comment on the interview. Let's hope he crawled back into his cave for eternity and won't have the chance to.
Oh, and can I say….TMZ is going IN !!!!
Sterling crossed the line — big time. You don't diss someone over their HIV status. In fact, when I read what Donald Sterling said, I wondered if there was possible legal action Magic Johnson could take? In any case, Magic has don't more for disadvantaged people in the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles than Donald Sterling. The Crenshaw is now a destination and it's safe. So Donald Sterling can go play in rush hour traffic on the 405.
Please don't blame dementia on a wealthy white man who simply doesn't acknowledge his own racism and white privilege. He no more has dementia than I. He's just one of many like him who has a plantation mentality and lives in a bubble.
Magic Johnson on the other hand is a class act. Love that man.
His dementia isn't an excuse…it's a release. He's been a prick since birth. I still would love to hear that speech
Had it been just that one instance of his gold-digging sidepiece taping him, I might of at least empathized with him to a point (who of us hasn't said something mortifying we wish we could take back?), but the fact that his racism is well documented before that and instead of apologizing and doing the right thing by selling the team (at about a half-billion dollar profit no less), he goes and attacks others? Screw him. Magic has been a class act through this whole thing.
What is disturbing is that Magic Johnson is a sex whore and probably gave aids to hundreds of women and maybe some men. There is nothing to admire about this man. Did he stop having unprotected sex after he found out he was hiv +? If not, he should be charged with attempted murder.


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Liz Robbins writes running news for the New York Times. Here is a recent story she had on the benefits of cross training.
I felt a little wistful the other day when, riding my road bike, I passed runners gliding by on the upper bridle path in Central Park. That used to be me, before the pain in my knees and hip made other workout plans. So I shifted gears, pedaled faster and contemplated the benefits of cross-training.
Back in the 1970s, during the first running boom, runners obsessively piled on the mileage in their Nike waffle trainers. Today, with recreational runners training for first marathons and ever-older runners eager to stay active, people are trying to maximize their body's potential without running it into the ground.
"If you want to do a marathon, you really only need to do three runs a week," said Neil Cook, the multi-sport program manager at Asphalt Green, a city-owned sports complex in Manhattan. The other two days, Mr. Cook said, should be spent on cross-training activities like cycling or swimming.
Of course, he warns, those three days of running must be intense and concentrated workouts: speed, hills and a long run.
Cycling is the best cross-training sport for runners, Mr. Cook believes, since it builds an aerobic base while maintaining range of motion. "It forces your leg muscles to contract and increases the blood flow," he said. "If you do it properly, you're not really straining on the bike, the muscles aren't getting that abused."
Cyclists tend to work opposing muscles -- like the quadriceps and hamstrings -- differently than they do when on foot. Indeed, recreational athletes who only run can end up with muscular imbalances, according to Bill Pierce, the director of the Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training in Greenville, S.C.
He and his colleagues wrote "Runner's World Run Less, Run Faster" (Rodale, 2007), which promotes a training program of three days of running (track repeats, tempo and long runs), plus two days of cross-training workouts.
Clipless pedals that are adjusted to the length of the legs can help cyclists concentrate on a fluid cadence -- which Mr. Pierce considers the most important feature of the cycling workout for runners.
The average runner's cadence is 180 steps per minute. "If you get on the bike and you're riding at 90 r.p.m.'s," you replicate that cadence, Mr. Pierce said.
Runners still want to know the secret formula: the exact number of cycling miles (riding outdoors or spinning indoors) that correspond to running miles.
There is no formula. "Just folklore," Mr. Cook said.
Time is the essence, coaches agree. Equal the time of how long you would normally run on a recovery day -- say 45 minutes -- in order to turn these so-called "junk miles" into a productive workout.
As for other alternatives to running, many trainers and coaches recommend strength training or pilates, either after a run or on a cross-training day. Swimming, as triathletes can attest, provides cardiovascular benefits without impact. Runners could use a kickboard to improve ankle flexibility while swimming laps, Mr. Pierce suggested.
Friends of mine with foot and knee injuries swear by deep-water running to maintain fitness. I call pool running the poor-man's solution to the underwater treadmill that Olympians like Deena Kastor have used while rehabilitating their own injuries. These professionals are privy to other luxury devices like the Alter-G antigravity treadmill, which the three-time New York City Marathon winner Paule Radcliffe trained on and which U.S. Olympic marathoner Dathan Ritzenhein told me he used last spring in his basement while he rehabilitated from a foot injury.
Meanwhile, back on Planet Regular Runner, we each have our own methods for staying in shape while nursing or minimizing injuries. Give me the bike.
"Nothing will replace running -- sport specificity is important for training for a marathon," said Michael Conlon, a local trainer and coach of the Team in Training triathlon team in Brooklyn. "There are those of us who can't, however, get away with running five days a week."
That's why the New York Road Runners' editorial director Gordon Bakoulis, a former elite runner who coaches the Running Divas New York team, urges people to start cross-training before injury or age forces them into it.
"The goal is not so much to improve your performance," she said, "the goal is to stay injury free, which will, eventually, improve your performance."


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NORTHAMPTON - How sustainable is Northampton? How about the most sustainable community in the country, at least for now.
Northampton was recently named top in the nation in sustainability by 5-STAR Communities, a national organization that looks at a broad spectrum of quality-of-life factors in making its assessments. For those who have a hard time wrapping their hands around the concept of sustainability, the city scored well because, among other factors, 40 percent of its adult residents attending a live art performance last year, all its farmers markets accept food stamps, it has a hospital like Cooley Dickinson that sponsors events like "Living Well With Congestive Heart Failure" and it boasts no fewer than 820 community garden plots.
Planning Director Wayne Feiden, who is elated by the designation, said the city had to fill out lengthy surveys on education, the arts scene, health and safety and other areas, collecting data on each.
"We had to show them what makes Northampton's downtown more attractive than other downtowns," he said, adding that the answer is too complicated to express in a single sentence.
More than 30 communities throughout the U.S. participated in the year--long pilot program that resulted in Northampton's 5-STAR rating. Feiden anticipates that there will other 5-STAR communities, but Northampton is still the first.
Mayor David J. Narkewicz said the designation validates the city's commitment to sustainability.
"We had been considered one of the top communities in Massachusetts (in terms of sustainability)," he said. "This let us expand the state gauge and look nationally."
In 2015, Northampton will hold community meetings to revise its Sustainable Northampton Comprehensive Plan. It first adopted the plan in 2008, after two years of community input.


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It's that time of year again. You've finally got that new, unoriginal Halloween costume all ready, and you're just itching to get to the party.
People are always saying that you look mildly like Johnny Depp (maybe it's the dreadlocks?), so this pirate outfit should be easy to pull off. Plus, you can use it again for Winter Carnival - no one will remember anyway.
But what happens when you have to hit the dance floor, my man? What then? Oh, surely there will be a fog machine, but you're still going to have to cut some rug amidst the mist.
My advice: Start practicing now. It's all about putting the time in. And there is no better practice for impressing that special ghoul on Hallow's Eve than watching Michael Jackson's "Thriller" again and again on YouTube.
It's something everyone does at one point or another (isn't it?). And, at nearly 14 minutes long with tens of millions of views, "Thriller" is the number one song to make Halloween party playlists since Oct. 31, 1983. Why? Well, it is, frankly, a phenomenon.
The video itself is morbid, with zombies rising from their graves only to dance the night away to Michael Jackson's infectious grooves. And yet, this song inevitably finds its way onto the jukebox at some point. When that happens, all bets are off, and the person with the best zombie dance impression is king.
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A tip: Just start out with the head tic, and build from there.
But, hey, maybe you're not into Michael Jackson - that's cool, I'm not really either, I just like this one video. But anyway, maybe you like being popular. Guess what? Knowing the "Thriller" dance is cool, even if admitting you like Michael Jackson's music in broad daylight isn't. I don't fully understand the science behind it either.
Anyway, what are you waiting for? That moonwalk isn't just going to up and do itself, you know. Just don't let anyone catch you practicing.
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If you're not yet registered with the site, now's the time. How else are you going to win one when we start giving away these sold-out Series 3 Android Minis?
If you're not yet registered with the site, now's the time. How else are you going to win one when we start giving away these sold-out Series 3 Android Minis?
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I have yet to own a single one of these mini androids. I've always thought they were cute, but never bothered to track one down. Odd, considering how much I like Android.
Just registered with Android Central so I can win one!
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Top Stories farewell google reader
NetNewsWire Beta Brings Several New Features, Temporarily Lacks Sync
Mac: Popular RSS reader NetNewsWire has just announced a public beta of its next version, just in time for Google Reader's demise. The software adds a variety of features, but temporarily removes an important one for many users: sync.
Feedly's Migration To Its New RSS Server Has Begun, Is Messy
Good news: RSS-tracking service Feedly has begun migrating users onto its own servers — a necessary move since we're less from a fortnight away from Google Reader switching off entirely. Bad news: when you migrate, you'll find your unread articles count reset, and the service may misplace your saved articles as well.
Feedly Opens Up Normandy API To Other Apps
Feedly has been very popular with Lifehacker readers as a replacement for Google Reader, which has less than a month to live now. To get around that problem, Feedly is developing its own API for when Google kills Reader off for good. If you're a fan of alternate readers such as Reeder, Press or gReader, you'll now also be able to access the Feedly API.
Readable: An Aussie Google Reader Alternative
Make Your Own Email-Driven Google Reader Substitute With Blogtrottr
As the countdown to Google Reader closing ticks over, we're continuing to see alternative ways to manage your RSS feeds. Lifehacker reader Michael rolled his own solution with Blogtrottr, creating a system that sends notifications direct to your email.
CommaFeed Is A Minimalist Google Reader Replacement
As the countdown to the death of Google Reader on 1 July continues, the list of potential alternatives grows. Another to consider: CommaFeed, a web-based service that closely replicates the standard Google Reader look.
Skimr Is A Clean Feed Reader That Makes Skimming Headlines A Breeze
Curata Planning A Google Reader Alternative Aimed At Business Users
New alternatives to Google Reader appear to be profliferating as we await the July 1 cut-off for Google's much-loved-but-definitely-departing RSS reader. Business content curation service Curata has launched a limited beta for its own Reader replacement, which it plans to release in May.
Lifehacker 101: RSS Feeds
An RSS reader is an essential tool for anyone who likes to be kept abreast of news as it happens and/or updates from their favourite websites. It will make you more organised, ensure you don't miss valuable information and save lots of time that would otherwise be spent manually checking websites. If you're new to RSS, here's what you need to know, including the best RSS readers in a post Google Reader world.
Are Your Google Reader Links Disappearing?
Another sign to remind us that Google Reader will be dead come July 1: some browsers are reporting that the link to Reader on Google's menu has vanished when using Gmail.


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Friday, October 28, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: First Look at Wizart's 'Sheep and Wolves'
Here's an exclusive first look at the teaser trailer to Sheep and Wolves, an upcoming 3D animated feature film from Wizart Animation in Russia. Here's how the studio describes ... Continue Reading →
eOne Nabs NoAm Rights to 'Snow Queen 2′
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You can then operate without the tram-line rope being too taut, and once you have raised the antenna almost all of the way up the tram line, slacken it to allow the antenna to come in to the right place. While pulling the antenna up the tram line with a tractor has much to commend it, you need to have a person on the tower to watch that the pull rope, where it is tied to the load, does not reach the pulley through which it is being pulled! My tractor could not sense the increased strain when this happened, and the rope broke allowing a 6-element 20-meter beam (60 ft boom) to slide back down the tram-line and,on reaching the ground, turn itself into a prettzle! John N3HBX. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Raising (Hell) Beams Author: Lee Buller <firstname.lastname@example.com> at INTERNET To: <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: 1/9/97 9:24 AM Ladies and Gentlemen, I ask for a "cookbook" method raising large antennas. So far, I haven't got any pictures, but lets see if I can write a little verbage here as to what people are telling me. 1. Place a rope from the top of the mast to a solid connecting point away from the tower. 2. Install two pullies on the rope. 3. Move the antenna under the rope and secure it to the lower pully on the rope. The boom should be perpendicular to the rope. Make sure that the boom to mast clamp is facing the right direction. The antenna should be tied to the balance point. 4. Attach and 3 to 4 foot arm on the boom parallel to the rope using a U-Bold. At the outer reach or the arm attach the second pully. You now are supported by two pullies. The reason to put the arm on the boom to act as a lever and keep the antenna from rolling over or flipping while raising the antenna. It cannot flip over with this arraingment. 5. OPTIONAL: Tag lines. A tag line can be place on each end of the boom to keep the antenna horitontal during lifting. Tag lines are very long loops of rope which can be taken off after the antenna is in place. Smaller rope or cord could be used for the Tag Lines 6. Place a pully at the top of the tower and string a pull line through the pulling and attach it to the arm on the boom of the antenna. The pull line rope then goes to the ground. 7. Slow pull the antenna up the rope until it comes to a place where you want to attach it to the mast. A person on the ground might have to loosen the tram line to allow the placement of the antenna on the mast. I suggest that a "hay-knot" be used at the lower end of the tram line to insure that the rope doesn't get out of hand. Please make comments and suggestions as to this very simple seven point cookbook method. I would like to know what I missed because I have never done it this way before. I want to incorporate your thoughts and experience into the cookbook. 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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Visitors will experience stories of runaway and homeless youth and take an interactive tour of a youth shelter in an open house planned next week at The Bridge of Arbor Circle.
The Green Light Project aims to raise awareness of the challenges facing the 1,000 young people reported as runaways each year in Kent County. On any given night, more than 200 youth 18 to 21 are homeless or living in precarious situations, said Megan LeMieux, development coordinator for Arbor Circle.
The agency is holding an open house Wednesday evening, Nov. 20, to highlight the issue of homelessness and the services offered at The Bridge, which provides shelter to youth who are homeless or at risk of losing their home.
Visitors will take an interactive tour of the facility with a young person and learn ways to help address the issue.
The Green Light Project is a national campaign sponsored by National Runaway Safeline and the National Network for Youth. It encourages people to get involved volunteering or donating to shelters that serve homeless youth. As a sign of support, porch lights glow green in the month of November.
Green Light Project
When: 5:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20
Where: The Bridge of Arbor Circle, 1115 Ball St.NE, Building B
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Sue Thoms covers health care for MLive/The Grand Rapids Press. Email her at email@example.com or follow her on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.


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What price for the Casanova of the porcine world? Genus, the specialist dealer in animal semen, has attached valuations as high as £10,000 to the finest pigs in its sprawling husbandry empire.
A tightening in accounting standards has forced the only London-listed company dealing in zoological genetics to attach a sale value for the first time to the prized specimens in its herds.
Genus revealed yesterday that it was amending its balance sheet with an exceptional credit of £25 million to reflect a reassessment in the value of its "porcine pure line breeding animals". The change relates to an elite


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New drives can be set up with unlimited travel lengths
These drives are made for applications such as traveling gantries and columns, pick and place robots, and material handling systems. They come in metric pitches from module 1.0-16.0, with linear force capacities of up to 31,000 lb. They come with standard rack segment lengths up to 3m, but segments can be mounted end-to-end for unlimited travel lengths. They come in soft, induction-hardened, quenched and tempered and hardened and ground (AGMA 12) quality levels.
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LANSING – A bill prohibiting public employers from using payroll deduction to collect contributions to political action committees cleared the state House on Thursday.
Backers said the bill will separate government operations from politics, but opponents have said it is aimed at slowing the flow of contributions to unions.
Rep. Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake, said the bill is "good, sound public policy," and will put an end "to the whipsaw between the courts and the Secretary of State" on the issue.
Shirkey said there is nothing in the bill that prevents the employees from donating or volunteering for political causes, but takes a government agency out of the collection process.
The measure was approved by a 62-46 vote and heads to the state Senate.
The bills, approved by the state House Redistricting and Elections Committee on Tuesday, prevent public bodies such as state agencies and municipalities from working with political action committees to collect political contributions.
The bills stem from a June ruling from the Michigan Supreme Court case involving the Michigan Education Association and the Gull Lake school district in Kalamazoo County.
The Supreme Court ruling overturned an opinion issued in late December, just before Democrats lost their 4-3 majority and control of the court.
The deductions are prohibited even if the political action committee reimburses the public employer.
State Rep. David Nathan, D-Detroit, said during the committee meeting that the bills do nothing to address a corrupt use of campaign dollars, which he believes are concerns on voters' minds.
"The real goal here is to hurt unions and their ability to contribute to candidates," he said. "Unions tend to contribute to candidates who are Democrats."
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It is often said football teams tend to take on the personalities of their coaches.
That's easy to believe with the New Orleans Saints' defense. The unit is young and brash, loose in the locker room and free-spirited on the field.
Whether it's cornerback Corey White's recently dyed golden mohawk or Junior Galette's ever-growing beard or Kenny Vaccaro's sometimes overly aggressive style of play, they don't really care about what others think.
Much like their defensive coordinator, Rob Ryan.
Ryan has never pretended worry about criticism. He keeps his hair long, his comments to the point and his style his own.
Three years ago, Ryan seemed open to the prospect of cutting his hair if it meant securing an NFL head-coaching job.
"Look, if I have to cut it to become an NFL head coach, then I'll cut it," he told Sports Illustrated. "But I'll be pissed about it."
By last year, Ryan changed his tune.
"It is getting kind of long now. Eventually, I'll cut it," Ryan said during an interview at a New Orleans Pelicans game. "But not now with the peer pressure, I think I'll let it grow."
Why change for others? He knows he's a good coach.
It works the opposite way, too. Ryan has had stints with six NFL teams and has observed every coaching personality possible.
What he never wanted to be was a "my way or the highway" kind of coach.
"It's just being honest with people and I think that makes it easier to get to players nowadays than ever before. They don't want to see somebody that's up there who says 'This is the way it is,'" Ryan said. "If that's who you are, that's who you are. But if you're me, I think the best way is just being myself, coming in there, knowing my football and being able to present that in a way that people can understand."
It's hard enough for a new coordinator to stand in a room full of jaded veterans and convince them to listen to his message. In theory, the Saints should have been a particularly tough challenge.
By the time Ryan walked in the door, they were on their third defensive coordinator in as many years. They were coming off former coordinator Steve Spagnuolo's nightmare one-year stint, when the defense gave up an NFL-record 7,042 yards.
Things were so bad an anonymous Saints player called out Spagnuolo for the defense's historically awful performance that season.
"Players have no say in anything," the player said at the time. "It was complete opposite from before where it was a simple D that players had lot of control and say. We couldn't suggest (expletive) ... Nothing ever changed. It was his way only."
That's not how Ryan runs his locker room. From the minute he got to the Saints, he kept an open office door for suggestions. He listened to what they had to say.
He didn't try to push any sort of agenda or message. That wasn't his style, he said. Never has been.
"Rob didn't come in here with a new attitude or anything. What we already had established, he just went with the flow," White said. "And that's what I like about him."
Added Galette: "He's won before. That's all that matters to us."
Adapt, adapt, adapt, is what Ryan preaches. It's what's earned him longevity in the NFL. It's also what vaulted the Saints to the No. 4 defense last season.
"Wherever you go in the NFL, the biggest thing a coach has to know is that the players are the most important thing. It's players over scheme," Ryan said. "What the coaches have to do, if they're going to stay coaching, and I've been coaching for a while now ... you better be able to adapt your system to your players. If you can't do that, I don't think you're going to be there long."
Ryan has learned lesson that the hard way. He was fired after only two years as defensive coordinator of the Dallas Cowboys.
The team gave up an average of 312.5 yards per game in the first half of his last season. But they lost five starters and two important backups to injuries, while some of their other starters were playing hobbled.
By the last eight games, they were yielding 398 yards a contest.
"In Dallas, man, I had an entirely different defense. It was crazy. We had one of the best defenses in the league. Then it was devastated, it was just ravished with injuries," Ryan said. "We had guys playing off the street. It killed every statistical thing we had going for us. We were at the top of everything. It didn't finish that way during the last four weeks of the season."
The point was, Ryan explained, excuses mean nothing in the NFL. He didn't forget that lesson when he was hired by New Orleans.
"The thing I learned there is that nobody cares what you have out there. You better be able to adapt with what you have," he said. "And it's a testament to our scouting staff that what we had last year, with the injuries, we have good players all over this roster. And that's something we didn't really have in Dallas. So when the injuries hit, we weren't devastated, we just kind of moved on."
For every injury the Saints had in 2013, Ryan figured out a way to combat it. Outside linebackers Victor Butler and Will Smith went down with knee injuries before the season began.
Defensive end Kenyon Coleman tore a pectoral muscle and never played a snap. Middle linebacker Jonathan Vilma (knee) played only one game, and cornerback Patrick Robinson (patella) went down in Week 2. Cornerback Jabari Greer suffered a horrific knee injury vs. the 49ers midway through the season.
So Ryan adapted. He and coach Sean Payton came up with the idea to play more three and four-safety sets.
"Last year, we ended up being a smart, tough team, and we tried to play that way," Ryan said. "We played multiple safeties because those were our best players. So we adapted that and believe me, that was a work in progress from Day 1. ...
"That was a team thing, that was Sean saying, let's get the best guys out there, so that's how we came to that."
Under Ryan's way of thinking, a backup safety like Rafael Bush or backup cornerback like White didn't need to waste away on the bench if Ryan could find a way to get him on the field.
"He'll play all of his players in some type of package. He'll find a way," White said. "If you make the roster, you're going to play. I know that for a fact."
It was those adjustments that quickly earned Ryan the respect of his players. Players like Bush flourished under Ryan.
"I'm more assertive. I know what I'm doing, I know my job, and I'm not as passive as I was last year," Bush said. "I'm more aggressive, more vocal, and just more confident."
Added White: "He's going to give us tools. He's going to give us five or six different ways to play one coverage. Whatever we feel like we're comfortable playing, he's going to let us play. He's not very controlling. He's a team coach, players coach. Whatever we feel like is going to work, he's going to let us do."
Every defensive coordinator is different. Some are more figureheads than others. Defensive end Cam Jordan pointed out that he spent a year under Gregg Williams as a rookie, but barely knew him by the time he left.
Everyone from the linebackers to the defensive backs seem to have a pulse on Ryan. He's the type of coach who will text his players just to ask how they're doing.
"The guy cares about your personal life and I don't think I have been around anybody since I have been here with the defensive coordinators we've had, with Williams and Spags, who have cared about you as a human being," Galette said. "That makes me want to give more out there and not only for yourself and your family but to him 'cause we all want to win."
So with the success of 2013 now in the past, the big question is how Ryan can follow it up?
If the signing of Jairus Byrd is any indication, he's not done innovating yet.
"We can definitely do some things here that most people won't be able to even try," Ryan said.
Ryan raved about Byrd's talent, pointing out Byrd's second practice this summer when he was able to fully participate after undergoing back surgery. Byrd was flying all over the field, intercepting and breaking up passes.
Was that a preview of the season?
"God I hope so!" Ryan said. "Anybody that saw that practice has to realize how special Byrd is. He's unbelievable, he's great in the meeting rooms, he's great on the field with his teammates communicating and obviously he's a special talent. So I was excited. I can promise you that."
It's hardly possible to sleep on a top-five defense. But Ryan and his players are out to prove it was no fluke.
"We didn't really identify us as a defense, we didn't really identify exactly what we were until about the midseason," Ryan said. "And I think we started getting better as the season progressed. I think it's because we identified who we were, it was easier to call a game that way and I think we got better by the season's end. We became a pretty good defense. I think this year hopefully we can identify it quicker, but I think you've got to find out exactly who you have, what you do well and you've got to play that, or you're not going to be very good."
He added: "I know we haven't looked great in the preseason, but I know we'll be competing. I know our guys know, and that's more important.
"We're looking forward to a great year, and we want to be better than we were last year."


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Schulz, Uwe and Fritscher, Klaus and Haidn, Oskar and Greuel, Dirk (2005) Fabrication and testing of EB-PVD thermal barrier coatings for Cu rocket combustion chambers. Material Science &Technology 05 Conference, 2005-09-25 - 2005-09-28, Pittsburgh, USA. (Unpublished)
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|Document Type:
|Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
|Fabrication and testing of EB-PVD thermal barrier coatings for Cu rocket combustion chambers
|26 September 2005
|EB-PVD, Schutzschichten, rocket engines
|Event Title:
|Material Science &Technology 05 Conference
|Event Location:
|Pittsburgh, USA
|Event Type:
|international Conference
|Event Dates:
|2005-09-25 - 2005-09-28
|HGF - Research field:
|Aeronautics, Space and Transport (old)
|HGF - Program:
|HGF - Program Themes:
|Propulsion Systems
|DLR - Research area:
|DLR - Program:
|L ER - Engine Research
|DLR - Research theme (Project):
|L - Turbine Technologies
|Lampoldshausen , Köln-Porz
|Institutes and Institutions:
|Institute of Materials Research > High Temperature and Functional Coatings
Institute of Space Propulsion
|Deposited By:
|Dr.-Ing. Uwe Schulz
|Deposited On:
|09 Dec 2005
|Last Modified:
|27 Apr 2009 04:44
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There's a new hum these days around River Vale Country Club.
For the first time in nearly a decade, electric-powered golf carts are buzzing around the semiprivate Bergen County course adjacent to Lake Tappan, a stark contrast to the rumble of the gas-powered carts the club previously had used.
With the price of gas now averaging $4.08 a gallon and prices having jumped more than a dollar in only a year, Americans are being more cautious than ever when filling up. The trickle-down effect is just beginning to reach golf courses that have been gas cart stalwarts.
"I think it was a mix of things, but the rising gas prices and all, we just decided to make the switch," said Tom McGuinness, River Vale's head professional.
The move from gas carts to electric is not a swift -- or easy -- one. But in order to keep prices and profits stabilized, clubs like River Vale are re-examining their use of gas golf carts.
"Our owners, more or less, wanted to move in the direction of electric carts anyway because it was a little more quiet," McGuinness said. "But with the cost of gas rising so rapidly, it made the decision a little easier."
River Vale switched its fleet of about 80 carts a little more than a month ago, a move that was relatively easy because the club already had the facilities to store and charge electric carts were already in place. The course had used electric carts until switching to gas eight years ago.
On its face, rising prices of gas would seem to be the tipping point to get courses still using gas carts to switch over to electric. The electric carts are cleaner, quieter and take far less time and resources to maintain.
However, those in the golf cart industry know the switch isn't something that can be done overnight.
"It's not easy for clubs to just switch," said Steve Gerard, general manager of Vic Gerard Golf Cars in Farmingdale, a major distributor of carts to New Jersey and surrounding area courses. "The clubs that have switched from gas to electric, they already had electric cars in the past, so it was an easy thing for them to go back to electric."
Gerard, who has been with the company since 1974, said gas carts take regular fuel, and one tank (approximately five gallons) can last anywhere from three to five rounds and get 30 miles to the gallon or more.
Still, River Vale is Gerard's only client to change.
"I haven't even had a lot of clubs questioning switching yet," he said. "I don't know if they're still weighing the options, but they're probably starting to think about it now, so once they start seeing the bills, they may reconsider. Right now they're buying, I'm sure, 500 to 1,000 gallons (for the fleet), so they may start decreasing costs there, because they're paying almost three times as much as last year."
Kevin Purcell, general manager of Bergen County's golf courses, has seen the impact the rising prices have had on the budget. This week the county's freeholders asked the Parks Department to use midgrade fuel, as opposed to a higher-octane fuel, when possible for its golf carts at three of the county's four public courses, as well as other maintenance vehicles.
"It's just a matter of being cost-conscious," Purcell said. "Right now, though, with regards to our golf carts being impacted? Not really. Sure, it's costing us more (to fuel them), but we haven't even thought about having to raise rates or anything to offset it."
Purcell said rising prices haven't affected county courses as much because most golfers prefer to walk or use a pull cart, instead of paying for a gas cart. But as the county continues its renovation projects on the courses, it is looking at the possibility of switching to electric carts for the future.
"We've talked about putting in cart barns for electric carts, sure," he said. "But that's the one thing with electric -- you have to have a facility in order to do it."
Across the county, McGuinness said that nearly two months into its switch from gas to electric, River Vale has been satisfied with its decision. He called the rising gas prices "a major factor" in the club's decision to switch, but still isn't sure if it will be trendsetting.
There is one downside he has noticed since the electric carts have been brought back.
"We've seen our electric bill go up," McGuinness said. "So you're still paying a bill, one way or the other."


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Chautauqua County Trap League
Celoron downed Randolph 344 to 341 and Busti beat Carroll 337 to 330 in Chautauqua County Trap League competition on Thursday. Celoron's Bob Faga and Busti's Kirk Decker shot the lone 50s for the evening. High lady was Stephanie Tutmaher with 49. High junior was Andrew Hvizdzak with 49. High sub-junior was Dalton Becker with 49. High vet was Faga with his 50. High senior vets were Russ Wingard and Dick Starks with 49. High super senior vets were Howard Arnold, Gary Sickles and Jim Hannon with 48. Here are the team-by-team results from Thursday's competition:
Celeron (344) Bob Faga, 50, Dave Anderson, Tony Bellomo, Dalton Becker, Dave Kingsley, Stephanie Tutmaher and Russ Wingard, 49.
Article Photos
Times Observer photo by Jonathan McAfoos
Little Gridders
Beaty students (clockwise from back left) Aidan Morrison, Ben Thomas, Jacob Colander and Zach Thomas are just a few of those eligible to participate in the Little Gridders Football Camp that will be held next week. The camp, which is for children entering grades 3-8, will run from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday through Wednesday at the Warren Area High School practice field.
Times Observer photo by Jonathan McAfoos
Eyes downfield
Nicholas Pellegrino fires a spiral to an open receiver during a scrimmage at the open football workout held on Thursday night at the Warren Area High School practice field.
Times Observer photo by Jonathan McAfoos
On the run
A group of kids warm up by running sprints during an optional football workout at the Warren Area High School practice field on Thursday evening.
Randolph (341) Gary Sickles, Jr, Marty Gawron, Tim Sickles, Bill Congdon and Andrew Hvizdzak, 49, Derek Rumsey and Steve Crudele, 48.
Busti (337) Kirk Decker, 50, Dick Starks and Reed Johnson, 49, Jim Hannon, 48, John Young, Tim Young and Bob Prince, 47.
Carroll (330) Jim Nowacki, 49, John Foster, 48, Ray Lee, Bill Wilson and Marty Nelson, 47, Russ Estus and Fred Callahan, 46.
Golf Results
Jill Dart shot a 46 which was good for low gross and Jeanette Carlson's 29 was good for low net during Cable Hollow Thursday AM Leagues League play. Here are the flight-by-flight results:
1st Flight Low gross: Dart, 47; Low net: Shirley Pearson 33
2nd Flight Low gross: Laura Martin, 49; Low net: Carlson, 29
3rd Flight Low gross: Margo Rounds, 56; Low net: Elsa Hern, 31


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[Verse 1]
Slip it in her drink and in the blink
Of an eye I can make a white girl look chink
Don't know what to think, cause last time
I attempted this shit the judge ordered me to see a shrink
Started with the link, contended her to meet me
At the local Odd Future Wolf Gang skating rink
We was uniquely in sync, already fucking and we only met last week
We're both young, not yet antique
So her mindset was working for my technique
Tell her that I love her and by next week
You can hear her shriek from the gashes in her cheeks
No, I'm not a freak, I am meekly a creep that
Neighbors by the creek say that my house stinks
It reeks of a chic girl, streaks of red, even though all pussy is pink
Oblivion makes obvious seeks
Which makes meats for my obvious feasts
Used to just blot up thoughts, plot and rethink
Now I get daughters and tie them and clink
Got my dick harder than iron and zinc
Now they just rot up, arms caught in the sink
Where they get cut up to fit my physique
Critique my chic in this brand new mink, go
[Verse 2]
Bitches running round, down, pussy take a trip
Make you strip, got my dick harder than the unzip
Tyler swiftly slips his dick inside of Taylor Swift's slit
Round trip in that pussy, here comes a ticket
Film clips popping on that Canon, busting Ottoman cannon
On the pill, is he real? Gaza stripping
In my living room, Wolf Gang full moon
I'm assuming mushrooms, I'm a necrolampoon
Not of Charles Mansoon, this fuck is ending soon, because I'm ejaculating
An extended metaphor which compares picking up girls with fishing, possibly derived from the popular "many fish in the sea" metaphor.
Fun Fact: Tyler said in a concert before this track had a title that it was about catching a fish, cooking it, putting ketchup on it and eating it.
The title is also an allusion to Albert Fish, one of the 1st serial killers in America (Tyler's Blow is also named in honor of serial killer.. anybody noticing a disturbing trend??)
Contains hidden track "Boppin' Bitch"


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A U.S. intelligence official says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was unable to access the "crown jewels" of the NSA intelligence gathering programs, according to CNN.
An ongoing assessment of Snowden's haul from the agency reveals that he missed what is called ECI, or "extremely compartmentalized information," CNN reports, although he did access sensitive information.
Snowden, a former NSA analyst, leaked that information to the Guardian and has been in hiding in the transit area of a Russian airport for weeks, seeking asylum from the U.S. government.
The information Snowden was able to smuggle out was sensitive, officials have said, but not the most sensitive.
"But just because you have the blueprints doesn't mean you have the manual," the official reportedly told CNN.
As Abby Ohlheiser at the Atlantic Wire notes, the anonymously-sourced CNN piece might be in response to an earlier assertion by journalist Glenn Greenwald – who published Snowden's information in the Guardian – that Snowden had "the blueprint" for the NSA.
Read more: CNN | The Atlantic Wire


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