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Monday, December 31, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Just trying to play around with some different things..colors, moods, etc etc,.
Have a GREAT day everybody!
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Something like this and that
Gosh.. so much is happening these days, so much has happened this year...
I'll probably make a post in between Xmas and new year's to sum up this year, but, it was an amazing year!
This drawing started like this, then when like that, and now is this.
One of those!
Have a GREAT Friday, and a Merry Xmas!
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Silent Thursday
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
middle of the week
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Rainy day
It was pouring and raining this morning in San Francisco!
It was actually quite lovely!
Have a GREAT day.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Keeping it in the same line of"keep it simple", here's a little Monday Sketch.
Cheers, and have a GREAT Day!
Cheers, and have a GREAT Day!
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Merry Friday
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
The chair kids are back for just this once!
It's been a while since I've done any chair drawings.
I just had a little bout of nostalgia I guess!
have a GREAT day everybody
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Blue Tuesday
Couldn't figure out a better name for it..
This is actually a mural I'm doing for a beautiful week and a half old new born boy.
for a larger version of it( in case anybody wants to take a closer look), here's a link
An interesting thing, technically, with this one. I did it almost all in flash.
I came to a point where Flash kept crashing on me( I counted 17 times on Sunday) because, I'm assuming, I had too many points. Especially on the Octopus part, which is why it's a lot barer than the rest.
I guess there are some limits to what flash can do.
I had to finish it up in photoshop, and that means, adding the light rays in the middle part. Not that I couldn't do that in flash on a regular drawing, but here, it just wouldn't take it anymore!
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Friday sleeper
Just a quick one to wish you a GREAT Friday and let you know what you already know. I'm swamped right now, and will be for quite a bit. This time, there will truly be a lot less sketches of the day for a while.
BUT, I'll be back!
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Monday, December 03, 2007
Monday sketch
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Friday coffee break
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
The Hustler
Have you guys seen this movie with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason?
We saw this movie a few nights ago, and I was just awe struck by everything in it. The story, the picture, Paul Newman's performance, and most of all, the intense atmosphere that comes out of every single shot of the movie.
A GREAT movie to watch!
Have a great Thursday.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Color doodle
I find it extremely hard these days to get some time to draw my sketches of the day.
I guess it's just one of those periods of time when a lot of other priorities are getting shifted.
Nevertheless, it's a beautiful day out there, and my favorite season of the year is starting.....(^_^)
Cheers, and have a GREAT DAY!
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Monday, November 26, 2007
A scary Story
Once upon a time, there was an alligator running after a boy.
The end.
Written by Bremmer Campion, my Super awesome Kansas City nephew, pictured in the story.
We just got back from Thanksgiving from my brother's . So fun!
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Monday Blues
One for the week.
I'll see you all next week, sometime!
Have a GREAT Monday, a GREAT week, and a fantastic ThanksGiving!
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Have a good Monday
Here goes another little animation....I really didn't know where this was was going all the way until the end.
Funny how that works.
Kat and I just got back from a nice trip to LA, where I was surprised to find out that it gets cold there. I would never have thought!
Here goes another little animation....I really didn't know where this was was going all the way until the end.
Funny how that works.
Kat and I just got back from a nice trip to LA, where I was surprised to find out that it gets cold there. I would never have thought!
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Thursday, November 08, 2007
Friday Sketch..in advance
Kat and I are in LA tomorrow, so since I already have a sketch, I'll post it and call it the Friday's sketch!
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Have a better day!
These little tests are super fun to do! This one may not be as easy to get, but I had fun giving this little guy some sort of atitude!
The more I play around with that idea, the funner it is.
When I get a chance, I'll try to make a few of these that are a little longer, and more"constructed".
For the moment...have a GREAT Thursday!!( better than his at least!)
These little tests are super fun to do! This one may not be as easy to get, but I had fun giving this little guy some sort of atitude!
The more I play around with that idea, the funner it is.
When I get a chance, I'll try to make a few of these that are a little longer, and more"constructed".
For the moment...have a GREAT Thursday!!( better than his at least!)
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Have a good day...again
(Just click on the link at the top of the page!)
(Just click on the link at the top of the page!)
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Have a good day
It's NOT a sketch!!
Still...have a GREAT day everybody!
Still...have a GREAT day everybody!
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Monday, November 05, 2007
a great catch
I know, I know.. I said I was slowing down, and I AM.
BUT, I just got interviewed by the british site ThunderChunky, and the interview is up online.
you can see it HERE
That's it.
Have a GREAT MONDAY!
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Friday, November 02, 2007
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells...
I'm not totally happy with that last post, and since I might be off the blog thing for a while, I wanted to leave a more"colorful" image as a last post ( before the next one!)
Anyhow.. I made this image for an English project called Chunky Thunder.
I'll tell you more about it when I know a little more about it too!
In the meantime.. CHEERS!
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
.....Just a quickie to say that I am once again super busy and will stop or at least slow down on the daily sketches for a while!
Have a GREAT Thursday.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The chase
This one is only half way done, as compared to what I wanted to do..I imagined a whole herd of kids running, but, as usual, I ran out of time and need to get going!
So, this will have to do for today!
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Back into the swing of things
Once again, I find myself on a very busy schedule, so don't expect more complex than this for the next few weeks!
Still...have a GREAT Monday!
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Friday, October 26, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Thursday Sketch
This one was actually done this morning, but for some reason, I couldn't access my ftp, nor was I inclined to go digital...just one of those mornings!
Oh well...
Here it is anyhow, and I hope you guys had a GREAT Thursday!
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Feels like a Wednesday morning
(^_^) I was walking on the beach last evening, and it was beautiful. So many people out there despite the fact that the water is cold in San Francisco, but there were surfers, and families doing sand castles on the beach. I even saw some students do their homeworks facing the ocean.
It was BEAUTIFUL.
I know this image looks nothing like the Bay, but I got inspired by that!
Have a GREAT day everybody.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Ok, ok..I know this one is hard to get, and doesn't make much sense. So what?
I like the colors!
Have a great Day!
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Monday, October 22, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Ultra simple sketch, because I'm in a hurry again!
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Bird' eye
There's something so fun about just sketching cities stuff like this
Have a GREAT Thursday everybody!
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
sitting on the dock of the bay
...watching the ships rolling....
I have that song in my head right now...
Have a GREAT Wednesday everybody!
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Story time
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Monday morning
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Keep the change
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
It's right off the freeway
Originally, I tried the longer one, as an experiment, but I think the shorter one works a bit better.
Anyhow, have a GREAT Thursday.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Worlds of silence
(^_^) Have a GREAT Wednesday.
( These are actually Backgrounds I did for something else, i just reused them for a sketch today!)
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007
It happened in the basement
This one grew very organically. I started out just doing the character on the left, cooking the tentacle like creature, and, poof, before I knew it, i had a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG drawing...all in yellows.
It's funny how does things work, no?
Have a GREAT Tuesday!
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Monday, October 08, 2007
Land Land
....Columbus day is today!
( I know, I know.. Chris did not actually make land fall on what is now the US, but... it's just a sketch guys!!)
Have a GREAT day
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Friday, October 05, 2007
Thank god...
It's FRIDAY!
Ok..for this one I really forced myself to use the color green. If you look through most of my drawings, you'll find very little "green" drawings, or just the color green. I've always find it difficult to work with for some reason, so I decided to not let that get in the way anymore and tackle that issue head on!
I'm only OK with this image, but I learned a lot about green..isn't that funny?
Anyhow, have a GREAT weekend.
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Thursday, October 04, 2007
A hot walk
Ok.. I admit it.. I got lazy!
Originally, that was for Drawer Geeks, the theme was Cleopatra, I got busy, didn't do it, tried to.. and yadadi yadada.. that's my sketch for today!
Oh well...
Have a GREAT THURSDAY!
(oh.. on a side note, I'm relistening to the AMELIE soundtrack right now, and it's still as fantastic as ever.)
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Hu Ho
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
bigben robbed the bank
It's only SO SO, but that's really all I can manage these days. My brain is frying with work right now. I hear it going fritzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Still, have a GREAT day everybody!
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Friday , friday
What an interesting start of the day so far, and it's only 9..
I won't tell you what goes on all the time here, but I will say that I ADORE San Francisco!
Have a GREAT Friday.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Albert goes to school
Ok..I have NO idea what why or where this one came from. and I'm in a super rush to get to class.
So, enjoy and Have a GREAT THURSDAY!
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Hmmm.I might be in a "blueish" period this days...it seems I'm doing a lot of moods in that color palette.
OH well, blue is good.
Have a GREAT Tuesday.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
My little garden
That was an easy one, I must say. It really flowed out of me, and I didn't think too much about it. If you look closely , you'll see a ton of little detail in the flowers. That's just because it is pretty relaxing to draw them.
Anyhow, we just saw 3 10 to Yuma yesterday. I had so so expectations for the movie, but was blown away by it.
It's brilliantly shot, the images are BEAUTIFUL, and the Christian Bale/ Russel Crowe duo is amazing. You really believe them.
The rest of the cast is also very very strong. Especially Russel Crowe's Captain, and that young kid really pulls his weight,which would be especially hard in scenes with two guys like Crowe and Bale.
I do like westerns in general, so I might be biased, but this was such a great, intense , gripping movie.
Even now that I know how it ends,I'll go back and see it.
Have a GREAT Monday
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There, she joined the more than 38,000 people forced to wait across the border for immigration court hearings under a rapidly expanding Trump administration policy. And her plight highlights the health risks and perils presented by the "Remain in Mexico" program.
The woman was waiting Thursday with her 3-year-old daughter in a makeshift tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, next to an international bridge, due to give birth any day, said her attorney, Jodi Goodwin.
"She's concerned about having the baby in the street or having to have the baby in a shelter," Goodwin said.
Pregnant women face special hazards in Mexico because places where migrants wait to enter the U.S. often don't have access to regular meals, clean water, and medical care.
Many shelters at the Mexico border are at or above capacity already, and some families have been sleeping in tents or on blankets in the blistering summer heat. Reports have abounded of migrants being attacked or kidnapped in Mexican border cities, especially in Tamaulipas state across from South Texas, where the Salvadoran mother is waiting for a November court date.
The Associated Press is not identifying the woman from El Salvador because she fears for her safety.
The U.S. government does not automatically exempt pregnant women from the "Remain in Mexico" program. U.S. Customs and Border Protection declined to comment on the woman's case.
The program - officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols - was instituted by the U.S. and Mexico as a way of deterring migrants from crossing the border to seek asylum. Mexico has cooperated with the expansion of the program at the behest of President Donald Trump, who threatened crippling tariffs in June if Mexico did not do more to stop migrants.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has said people in "vulnerable populations" may be exempt from being sent to Mexico. But pregnant women are not necessarily considered "vulnerable" by CBP, a subsidiary of the department.
"In some cases, pregnancy may not be observable or disclosed, and may not in and of itself disqualify an individual from being amenable for the program," CBP said in a statement. "Agents and officers would consider pregnancy, when other associated factors exist, to determine amenability for the program."
"In some cases, pregnancy may not be observable or disclosed, and may not in and of itself disqualify an individual from being amenable for the program," CBP said in a statement. "Agents and officers would consider pregnancy, when other associated factors exist, to determine amenability for the program."
Goodwin provided copies of the 28-year-old woman's immigration paperwork and the bracelet from when she was admitted to Valley Regional Medical Center.
"In this particular case, this woman was actually taken to the hospital by CBP," she said. "There's no way that CBP could suggest that her pregnancy wasn't known."
The paperwork instructs her to return to Brownsville on Nov. 14 for a court hearing.
The U.S. government is establishing temporary tent courtrooms in Brownsville and Laredo, Texas, where immigration judges from around the U.S. will hear migrants' cases by video. The hearings will start in those cities later this month.
The woman's notice lists her address as a migrant shelter in Matamoros several miles from the primary international bridge near the camp where she is staying. Goodwin says she has never been to that shelter.
There are at least six cases of pregnant women border-wide who have been sent back to Mexico, according to U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who recently sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general demanding an investigation into the issue. Goodwin also represents a woman from Peru who was seven months pregnant when border agents allowed her to enter, only to send her back to Mexico the next day.
Mexico offers limited health coverage to people regardless of nationality that includes some of the screenings a pregnant woman needs, said Lina Villa, a Mexico-based health official for Doctors Without Borders. But many migrants don't know that they can get that coverage, she said.
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"It's a very, very difficult group of people that needs a lot of help, and they don't get enough," she said.
Merchant reported from Houston. Associated Press journalist Colleen Long contributed to this report from Washington.
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The following comment brings together in one article the various themes we have been writing about weekly, and emphasizes why we are maintaining our bearish position at a time when so many bears have thrown in the towel.
The market continues to rise solely on the perception that the Fed's easy money policy can hold stock prices up indefinitely. We think that this line of thinking will prove to be no more durable than the dot-com bubble that peaked in early 2000 or the housing bubble that topped out in late 2007. In both cases the market gave back a large proportion of the gains made during the bull market, and we believe that will prove to be the case this time as well. When the vast majority of investors faithfully believe in a concept, no matter how faulty it may be, momentum takes over and the market goes up because it's going up, ignoring all of the obvious warnings such as high valuations, over bullishness, decreasing earnings momentum and an underperforming economy. When reality suddenly sets in, as it inevitably does, most investors are left holding the bag, hoping that the market doesn't go any lower.
The housing boom market of 2006 and 2007 provides the most recent example of the persistence of bullish momentum and irrational belief in the face of obvious negative events that were ignored in the frenzy to join the bullish crowd. As early as August 2006, various mortgage lenders began to go public with their dire problems. H&R Block's subprime lending facility had to set aside $60 million due to borrowers falling behind in payments. Countrywide Financial publically stated that customers were slow in paying their loans. Similar statements were made by mortgage lenders Impac Mortgage and Accredited Home Lenders. Washington Mutual revealed that, as a result of improper calculations, it had made loans to borrowers at lower rates than their personal situation justified. The unpaid balance of these borrowers was $30 billion. It shouldn't have taken much imagination to realize that these revelations were only the tip of the iceberg, and that there was much more to come.
Now remember, the above revelations occurred in August 2006. The stock market kept rising for another 14 months to October 9, 2007. During these 14 months, new revelations came out almost daily, detailing the full implications of the crisis that was enveloping us. We learned how mortgages were sold and packaged, sliced and diced, and sold all over the world. We learned about an alphabet soup of various types of securities few had ever heard of before. On February 8, 2007, a Wall Street Journal article stated that "The mortgage market in the U.S. is a complicated web of mutually dependent businesses. Mortgages are bought and sold several times over, and the default risk often lands far from the institution that originated the mortgage." The press was full of announcements of mortgage companies taking huge write-downs and going out of business.
Things got even worse in June 2007, when two big Bear Stearns hedge funds came close to collapse. Despite all this, Wall Street still didn't get it. As late as August 2007, a guest on financial TV casually referred to the turmoil as "financial gamesmanship", as opposed to what he termed "solid economic fundamentals". He was far from alone in his thinking, as the market rallied for another two months before peaking.
Looking back, the market not only ignored the early warnings of some very prominent people and institutions, but, even when faced with the reality of events, continued to operate in a state of denial.
The current market delusion is not about the dot-coms of 1999-2000 or the housing boom of 2006-2007, but about the blind faith in the ability of the Fed to hold up the market for an indefinite period in the face of a faltering U.S. economy, global weakness, decelerating earnings gains, significant overvaluation, overly bullish sentiment and the dysfunction in Washington. Although the bulls, as usual, say "this time it's different", there is nothing new in the market's historical cycles between greed and fear. In the end, there is only the same old excess speculation in a new guise.
Some market observers maintain that all of the talk we hear about a "bubble" means that we aren't in one. However, we would ignore all of the talk on Wall Street and in the media about whether the stock market is in a bubble. After all, that's just a matter of semantics, and whatever we call it, the market is overvalued, overbought, and overly bullish at a time when the economy is slogging along at an inadequate pace, and depends almost solely on the prospect of continuing Quantitative Easing (QE) to continue its upward move.
The market doesn't have to be in a bubble in order for it to be on the precipice of a significant decline. Of all the cyclical market peaks since 1929, only the tops in 2000 and 2007 were looked back on as being bubbles. Most of the other major market peaks occurred with the P/E ratio ranging between 18 and 21 times reported cyclically-smoothed GAAP earnings, compared to a norm of 15 times and bear market lows between 7 and 10 times. The current P/E ratio of 20.6 times earnings is high enough to be a potential market top, especially given existing fundamental and technical conditions. The similarity between now and 2000 or 2007 is not necessarily that we are in a bubble, but that the reason for market strength rests on such dubious grounds.
In our view, the market is not supported by strong fundamentals. The so-called strength in the economy is based on forecasts, rather than on current conditions. But forecasts have now been overly optimistic for the last three years, and we see no change in the period ahead. The revised 3rd quarter GDP growth of 3.6% annualized is far from indicative of renewed economic strength as 1.7% was accounted for by increased inventories, meaning that real final sales were only growing at a still tepid 1.9%. And even taking the top-line number at face value, GDP has been growing at only 1.8% over the past year.
Similarly, both real consumer spending and real disposable income have been rising at a weak 1.8% rate----and this with a powerful dose of QE. Core capital goods orders for October dropped 1.1%, and have now declined for three of the last four months. With the rise in mortgage rates, housing has also become a weak spot. October existing home sales were down 3%, while the pending sales index, which leads existing sales, indicates more declines ahead. With consumer spending, capital expenditures and housing accounting for over three-quarters of of the economy, the recovery is not likely to become self-sustaining for some time to come.
While it is difficult to estimate what the rate of economic growth would have been without Quantitative Easing, it is clear that the vast amounts added to the Fed's balance sheet have barely trickled into the real economy. The growth of the money supply has been relatively low compared to the amount of Fed bond purchases (the multiplier). In turn, the growth of the economy has not been proportionate to the increase in the money supply (velocity).
Technical conditions also point to a vulnerable market. Breadth has been narrowing and did not confirm the recent new highs in the averages. Daily new stock highs peaked in May and recently have been trending lower. The Russell 2000 has been lagging the large-cap averages. Some speculative high-P/E momentum stocks have recently been hit hard. Investors Intelligence bulls have averaged a historically high 55% and bears 15% over the past four weeks, numbers indicative of market extremes. There are now fewer bears than at any time since 1987 and less than the lows at the 000 and 2007 stock market peaks. Margin debt is at an all-time high. According to Vanguard, investors, as a group, have a 57% allocation to equities, an amount exceeded only twice in the last 20 years----the late 1990s and prior to 2007-2009. All of these numbers belie the belief by many that most investors are still too pessimistic.
All in all, we believe that the market is facing significant headwinds, and that a major decline is not far off. In our view, economic growth and corporate earnings will be highly disappointing in the period ahead and investors will drop the pretense that the Fed can fix everything that ails the economy, particularly with the continued dysfunction in Washington and a restrictive fiscal policy. We believe that the risk of a major decline in the stock market outweighs the limited potential rewards from current levels.
The following comment brings together in one article the various themes we have been writing about weekly, and emphasizes why we are maintaining our bearish position at a time when so many bears have thrown in the towel.
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Chapter 34
The LORD said to Moses, "Cut two stone tablets like the former, that I may write on them the commandments which were on the former tablets that you broke.
Get ready for tomorrow morning, when you are to go up Mount Sinai and there present yourself to me on the top of the mountain.
No one shall come up with you, and no one is even to be seen on any part of the mountain; even the flocks and the herds are not to go grazing toward this mountain."
Moses then cut two stone tablets like the former, and early the next morning he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, taking along the two stone tablets.
Having come down in a cloud, the LORD stood with him there and proclaimed his name, "LORD."
Thus the LORD passed before him and cried out, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity,
continuing his kindness for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for their fathers' wickedness!"
Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship.
Then he said, "If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and receive us as your own."
"Here, then," said the LORD, "is the covenant I will make. Before the eyes of all your people I will work such marvels as have never been wrought in any nation anywhere on earth, so that this people among whom you live may see how awe-inspiring are the deeds which I, the LORD, will do at your side.
But you, on your part, must keep the commandments I am giving you today. "I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Take care, therefore, not to make a covenant with these inhabitants of the land that you are to enter; else they will become a snare among you.
1 Tear down their altars; smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their sacred poles.
2 You shall not worship any other god, for the LORD is 'the Jealous One'; a jealous God is he.
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of that land; else, when they render their wanton worship to their gods and sacrifice to them, one of them may invite you and you may partake of his sacrifice.
Neither shall you take their daughters as wives for your sons; otherwise, when their daughters render their wanton worship to their gods, they will make your sons do the same.
"You shall not make for yourselves molten gods.
"You shall keep the feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the prescribed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you; for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
"To me belongs every first-born male that opens the womb among all your livestock, whether in the herd or in the flock.
The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with one of the flock; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck. The first-born among your sons you shall redeem. "No one shall appear before me empty-handed.
"For six days you may work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; on that day you must rest even during the seasons of plowing and harvesting.
3 "You shall keep the feast of Weeks with the first of the wheat harvest; likewise, the feast at the fruit harvest at the close of the year.
Three times a year all your men shall appear before the Lord, the LORD God of Israel.
Since I will drive out the nations before you to give you a large territory, there will be no one to covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD, your God.
"You shall not offer me the blood of sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the sacrifice of the Passover feast be kept overnight for the next day.
"The choicest first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the LORD, your God. "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk."
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with them I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
So Moses stayed there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights, without eating any food or drinking any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he conversed with the LORD.
When Aaron, then, and the other Israelites saw Moses and noticed how radiant the skin of his face had become, they were afraid to come near him.
Only after Moses called to them did Aaron and all the rulers of the community come back to him. Moses then spoke to them.
Later on, all the Israelites came up to him, and he enjoined on them all that the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.
4 When he finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
Whenever Moses entered the presence of the LORD to converse with him, he removed the veil until he came out again. On coming out, he would tell the Israelites all that had been commanded.
Then the Israelites would see that the skin of Moses' face was radiant; so he would again put the veil over his face until he went in to converse with the LORD.


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Of the almost eight men and women who stepped forward to run for president of the United States under the Republican banner this year, just about all of them at some time have been the frontrunners in the race. However, given how long many of these candidates have been running, and how much of a known quantity most of them are, it is surprising that there is still no consensus amongst Republicans as to who will carry the party banner against Obama next year.
What's more as we have headed into the final weeks the person carrying that banner seems to shift ever more rapidly. Is this a case of harmless electoral flirtations before the final coronation of Mitt Romney or have the constant candidate bubbles indicated something far more unsettling beneath the surface of the Republican field?
From the beginning of 2012, former Governor Romney has been the frontrunner in the nomination for the GOP, but the title always had an asterisk after it. Namely the public and the press and the party were all waiting to see if over popular political figures would step into the fray and either challenge or supplant Romney, who seemed like a safe choice.
First it was Mike Huckabee from Arkansas but he decided that television money from Fox was more appealing than sleeping on tour busses and traveling around the country for a year. Then there was Haley Barbour, who was exciting for about a month before he made it clear that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was not his dream house. Jeb Bush, stained by his older brother's terrible job performance from 2000 to 2008, wouldn't dare run in 2012, and Sarah Palin had become something of a side show. By late summer it was apparent to all but the most die-hard of Republican supporters that the field was more or less set.
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Since Saturday, Aug. 13, the day of the Iowa Straw Poll (won by Michelle Bachman), there have been four different Republican candidates to take the lead in the GOP nomination race in national polls. Perry announced on the 13th and led for weeks, then he flopped and Herman Cain came in, then he flopped and now Newt Gingrich has come on strong. If you add in Bachman's win in Iowa, the only Republicans to have NOT led the field this year are John Huntsman, Rich Santorum and Ron Paul.
Essentially more than half of the field has taken the lead at some point. What does this musical chairs really mean for American voters?
It has finally become apparent that Romney is the best candidate to run against Barack Obama, if Republicans want to win, but at the same time he will have an extreme enthusiasm gap with the president. One or two lead changes in the final minutes of a game means you've got two competitive teams, but four or five means that nobody's got the heart to take over and put the other team down.
Romney's inability to establish himself as the inevitable candidate, the one with the best national numbers and the most competitive with Obama is a sign of weakness in his campaign. Without question, Republicans will rally around him and vote and volunteer to kick Obama out of office.
But if passion pushes poll numbers, and it does, his campaign will be severely lacking. No one has ever won a president election by getting people to vote against the other guy. They have to be voting for you, and the fact that Republican primary voters are still scrambling around trying to find some way to avoid pulling the level for Romney shows that his margin of error to be the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania avenue is going to be very, very small.


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Shooter among 4 dead in Fort Hood spree, 16 people injured
Published time: April 02, 2014 22:13
Edited time: April 03, 2014 08:55
A shooting took place at the US military base at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas on Wednesday afternoon. Four people were confirmed dead including the gunman, apparently of a self-inflicted wound.
Sources told CBS News that the shooter was a 34-year-old soldier named Ivan Lopez. While little is known about Spc. Lopez, sources told CBS the Wednesday shooting may have been motivated by a conflict with another soldier.
Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley confirmed during a Wednesday evening press conference that there was only a single male shooter, but refused to divulge the gunman's name as the family has yet to be notified. Milley said the soldier in question was receiving treatment for depression and anxiety, and was undergoing the process that would have ultimately determined if he had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The Fort Hood gunman was found wearing combat fatigues and used a semi-automatic handgun.
The suspect served a four-month tour of duty in Iraq in 2011 and may have suffered a traumatic head injury during his time overseas, Milley said. The soldier only arrived at Fort Hood in February and has a wife and family in the Killeen area.
"Our focus now is to focus on the families of the injured and the families of those killed," the general said. He encouraged the public to turn over any information that might be relevant to an investigation to either the FBI, local police, or military investigators.
As many as sixteen people have reportedly been hospitalized. Three of the wounded have suffered critical injuries and were transported to Carl R. Darnall Medical Center and other area hospitals.
Witnesses speculated that 20 shots were fired from a .45 pistol.
One soldier told KENS-5 in Texas that the first gunshots rang out around 4:35 p.m. near the outdoor motor pool but the gunman then ran into the medical building. The witness said it seemed like some kind of standoff had taken place, and that some people tried to flee by jumping over a seven-foot-high barbed wire fence.
An estimated 90 police and military vehicles were at the scene two hours after the first shots, along with nearly two dozen ambulances and SWAT teams.
There were also reports of victims in the Battle Simulation Center on 65th and Warehouse.
The lockdown was lifted Wednesday night, allowing many families to reunite with loved ones who were either stuck in traffic on the way to the base or were waiting for loved ones to arrive there. The American Red Cross previously announced that it had opened a shelter with a capacity of 150 for families who may have had trouble returning to Fort Hood amid the confusion.
The parking lot outside the base, where thousands of people come and go on a daily basis, quickly filled with family members of military personnel anxious for news on the situation. Local media reported that, along with fear and concern, a number of people were voicing frustration that another shooting appears to have taken place after Nidal Hasan, a US Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others on the base in 2009.
Hospital officials said Wednesday night that the victims had been shot in the head, chest, neck, abdomen, and extremities. They added that, in the wake of the 2009 shooting, hospital staff carried out drills to prepare for a mass shooting incident.
"Their conditions range from stable to quite critical," one doctor said in an evening press conference. "There's a lot of unknowns early on and it creates some logistical problems…I'm pleased to report we were well prepared but it always takes a little while to figure out how many patients are going to come."
Officials have not confirmed whether Lopez was in uniform at the time of the shooting, which was reportedly motivated by an argument at the Army base's motor pool. It is known that he was living in the Killeen area. Terrorism is not suspected as a motivating factor.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who was also governor in 2009, released a statement expressing condolences to the families of the victims.
"Today, Ft. Hood was once again stricken by tragedy," he said. "As Texans, our first priority must be caring for the victims and their families. Ft. hood has proven its resilience before, and will again. Texas will support those efforts in any way we can, with any resources necessary. The thoughts and prayers of all Texans are with everyone affected by this tragedy."
Speaking to a press pool in Chicago on Wednesday afternoon, US President Obama said he is "heartbroken" about the events at Fort Hood and promised "we will get to the bottom of what happened."
"It's a terrible tragedy. We know that. We know there are casualties, both people killed and injured," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters during a news conference in Honolulu.
"We don't have all the facts yet. We will get those. It's still under investigation," he added.
The FBI had launched a manhunt for a former military recruit who told friends he was planning a "jihad" attack on Fort Hood, according to a Fox News report published Tuesday night. The FBI confirmed the report, although officials said the suspect had been interviewed and that he was not considered a threat.


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The United States is urging the government of Sudan to open humanitarian access to an area of conflict where aid officials say people are running out of food. The Obama administration is also pushing for an end to the conflict over oil revenues between Sudan and South Sudan.
The U.S. special envoy for Sudan, Princeton Lyman, says Washington is "extremely concerned" about humanitarian conditions in the states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile where renewed hostilities between militants and government troops broke out last May.
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Patient transfer
Prior to achieving any surgical position, the patient must be transferred onto the operating room table. The final position of the patient is of the utmost importance, but achieving these positions requires careful planning and coordination by the operating room team. The overall plan for each patient transfer should be discussed prior to any movement.
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The lithotomy position is a variation of the supine position in which the hips are flexed, the legs abducted, and knees flexed. The legs are secured in leg supports such as the candy cane, knee crutch, or boot support. As with the supine position, the arms can either be tucked at the patient's side or abducted to less than 90 degrees and supinated on padded arm boards. The foot section of the operating room table is then lowered to allow surgical access to the perineum.
What common procedures are performed in this position?
The lithotomy position is used regularly in gynecologic, urologic, and colorectal procedures.
What are the common variations of this position?
In the lithotomy position, the legs can be positioned into a low, standard, or high position as dictated by the surgical team. As with the supine position, the patient in the lithotomy position can be positioned into the Trendelenburg or reverse Trendelenburg position.
What are the physiologic changes when placing a patient in this position?
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The effects of closing capacity and intrapulmonary shunt are similar to the supine position. Cardiovascular effects of lithotomy positioning are also similar to those in the supine position. However, with leg elevation, there is a transient rise in cardiac output secondary to an increased return of in venous blood from the legs augmenting preload.
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Patient body habitus and exact leg height must be determined prior to the procedure when contemplating MAC or the use of LMA. The physiologic changes as well as the comfort of the patient might make these techniques unsuitable or unsafe.
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Peripheral nerve injury has been reported after surgery in the lithotomy position. Injury to the common peroneal nerve appears to be the most common nerve injured.
Symptoms include motor weakness in ankle extension, ankle eversion, and foot dorsiflexion. This can be accompanied by variable sensory loss of the dorsal foot and lateral leg. The mechanism of injury appears to be related to stretch and compression of the peroneal nerve.
Overall, the risk of peroneal nerve injury increases with the length of surgery. Reports indicate a 100-fold increase in injury risk per hour spent in the lithotomy position. This can be minimized by intraoperative position changes of the legs to limit the time spent in lithotomy. Recent evidence suggests a decreasing incidence of common peroneal nerve injury due to better awareness and proper surgical positioning.
Other potential nerve injuries include compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve leading to lateral thigh pain or meralgia paresthetica. The femoral nerve can be injured via compression beneath the inguinal ligament with extreme thigh abduction and external rotation of the hip.
Femoral nerve injury leads to quadriceps muscle weakness, loss of knee jerk reflex, and sensory loss over the thigh and medial leg. Sciatic nerve injury has been reported after lithotomy with excessive hip flexion.
Compartment syndrome is another potential serious complication related to the lithotomy position. The exact mechanism is not completely understood. Overall, arterial pressure of the lower extremity decreases proportionately with the height of leg raise in the lithotomy position. Also, lower extremity compartment pressures increase predictability for unknown reasons when placed in the lithotomy position. The combination of a lower arterial pressure and elevated compartment pressure potentially lead to ischemia of the lower extremity musculature and soft tissue.
Of all standard surgical positions, lithotomy, followed by the lateral decubitus position, puts the patient at the greatest risk for compartment syndrome. Length of time spent in the lithotomy position is the only established evidence-based risk factor and 2 hours appears to be the point at which this risk substantially increases.
Other potential risk factors include obesity, blood loss, vascular disease, and intraoperative hypotension. Intermittent pneumatic compression devices used to increase lower extremity circulation have not been implicated in the development of compartment syndrome in the lithotomy position.
What strategies can be used to decrease the risk of injury in this position?
As with the supine position, the patient's arm must be properly positioned to decrease the risk of peripheral nerve injury. A more detailed discussion of arm position can be found in the chapter on the supine position.
The lithotomy position does increase the risk of crush injury to the patient's hands and fingers. If the arms are tucked at the patient's side, the hands might rest at the break in the operating room table. When the foot section of the operating room table is brought back to the normal position at the conclusion of the procedure, the table can impinge the hand or fingers leading to serious crush injury. Careful attention must be paid to the hands prior to raising the foot of the table.
As previously stated, the lithotomy position is associated with several lower extremity nerve injuries, including the common peroneal, lateral femoral cutaneous, femoral, and sciatic nerves.
In the lithotomy position, the legs are positioned into maneuverable supports, allowing the surgeon the freedom to move either leg in nearly all planes of motion.
Specific care must be paid to the position of the knee. Proper positioning does not allow external compression or fixation of the lateral leg at the fibular head to avoid pressure on the peroneal nerve.
The risk of nerve injury increases with every hour spent in the lithotomy position. Intraoperative position changes of the legs can minimize the time spent in lithotomy and potentially limit nerve injuries.
To limit the risk of injury to the lateral femoral cutaneous, femoral, and sciatic nerves, excess hip flexion and abduction should be avoided.
Another complication of the lithotomy position is lower extremity compartment syndrome. Although the exact mechanism of injury is not completely understood, the current literature emphasizes an increased risk during prolonged periods of time spent in the lithotomy position. At 2 hours with the legs raised, the incidence of compartment syndrome increases. In surgeries lasting longer than 2 hours, intermittent repositioning or lowering of the legs is recommended and may decrease the overall incidence of compartment syndrome.
What's the Evidence?
Cassorla, L, Lee, JW. "Patient positioning and associated risks". Miller's Anesthesia. vol. 41. 2015. pp. 1240-65. (Book chapter on patient positioning in the operating room.)
Cheney, FW, Domino, KB, Caplan, RA, Posner, KL. "Nerve Injury Associated with Anesthesia". Anesthesiology. vol. 90. 1999. pp. 1062-69. (Closed claims database evaluation of anesthesia-related nerve injury.)
Coonan, TJ, Hope, CE. "Cardio-respiratory effects of change of body position". Can Anaesth Soc J. vol. 30. 1983. pp. 424-37. (Basic physiology of many common surgical positions.)
Dunn, PF. "Physiology of the lateral decubitus position and one-lung ventilation". Int Anesthesiol Clin. vol. 38. 2000. pp. 25-53. (A detailed description of ventilation and perfusion mismatch in the lateral decubitus position.)
Edgecombe, H, Carter, K, Yarrow, S. "Anaesthesia in the prone position". Br J Anaesth. vol. 100. 2008. pp. 165-83. (Comprehensive and in depth review of the prone position.)
Gale, T, Leslie, K. "Anaesthesia for neurosurgery in the sitting position". J Clin Neurosci. vol. 11. 2004. pp. 693-6. (Review of the sitting position and discussion of venous air embolism.)
Higuchi, H, Takagi, S, Zhang, K, Furui, I, Ozaki, M. "Effect of lateral tilt angle on the volume of the abdominal aorta and inferior vena cava in pregnant and nonpregnant women determined by magnetic resonance imaging". Anesthesiology. vol. 122. 2015. pp. 286-93. (Discussion of aortocaval compression in the parturient and the effects of various degrees of left lateral tilt in the supine position.)
Knight, DJW, Mahajan, RP. "Patient position in anaesthesia. Continuing Education in Anaesthesia". Critical Care & Pain. vol. 4. 2004. pp. 160-3. (Brief overview of patient position during anesthesia.)
Koh, JL, Levin, SD, Chehab, EL, Murphy, GS. "Neer Award 2012: Cerebral oxygenation in the beach chair position: a prospective study on the effect of general anesthesia compared with regional anesthesia and sedation". J Shoulder Elbow Surg. vol. 22. 2013. pp. 1325-31. (A prospective study suggesting the possible benefits of avoidance of general anesthesia in the BCP.)
Lee, JR. "Anesthetic considerations for robotic surgery". Korean J Anesthesiol. vol. 66. 2014. pp. 3-11. (An update and review of robotic surgery including a detailed discussion on the anesthetic implications of many common robotic surgeries.)
Lohser, J. "Evidence-based management of one-lung ventilation". Anesthesiol Clin. vol. 26. 2008. pp. 241-72. (Ventilation and perfusion in the lateral decubitus position with further discussion of one-lung ventilation management.)
Murphy, GS, Szokol, JW. "Blood pressure management during beach chair position shoulder surgery: what do we know?". Can J Anesth. vol. 58. 2011. pp. 977-82. (Brief discussion of the beach chair position and intraoperative blood pressure management.)
Picton, P, Dering, A, Alexander, A, Neff, M, Miller, BS, Shanks, A, Housey, M, Mashour, GA. "Influence of ventilation strategies and anesthetic techniques on regional cerebral oximetry in the beach chair position". Anesthesiology. vol. 123. 2015. pp. 765-74. (Prospective study showing that increasing the inspired oxygen fraction and end-tidal carbon dioxide during general anesthesia increases regional cerebral oxygenation in the BCP.)
Prielipp, RC, Morell, RC, Butterworth, J. "Ulnar nerve injury and perioperative arm positioning". Anesthesiol Clin NA. vol. 20. 2002. pp. 589-603. (Review of perioperative ulnar neuropathy including anatomy, risk factors, and legal implications.)
Rains, DD, Rooke, GA, Wahl, CJ. "Pathomechanisms and complications related to patient positioning and anesthesia during shoulder arthroscopy". Arthroscopy. vol. 27. 2011. pp. 532-41. (Discussion of anesthetic options and positioning during shoulder arthroscopy.)
Roth, S. "Perioperative visual loss: what do we know, what can we do?". Br J Anaesth. vol. 103. 2009. pp. i31-i40. (Review of perioperative visual loss including updates on risks factors and preventative recommendations.)
Washington, SJ, Smurthwaite, GJ. "Positioning the surgical patient". Anaesth Intens Care. vol. 10. 2009. pp. 476-9. (Brief overview of patient position during anesthesia.)
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- Patient transfer
- Lithotomy
- What common procedures are performed in this position?
- What are the common variations of this position?
- What are the physiologic changes when placing a patient in this position?
- What are the options for anesthetic management?
- What complications are associated with this position?
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When the women said, "This is The General," I had to ask. "Gwen here works as an access nurse at Mass General for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients" her friends responded. Gwen M, from Boston, has been working in a key position at The Gillette Center for Breast Cancer, caring for women at a time when there are unanswered questions and an unknown future.
Gwen is surrounded by a solid group of wild women on the Susan G. Komen Boston 3-Day and by chance I was photographing in Cambridge on Day 3 at a cheering station when Gwen waltzed in. She immediately pulled Nancy P. (an original member of their team "Wild Women Originals" and cancer survivor) out of her wheelchair and waltzed with her!
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If you think that the upcoming energy shortage is going to be bad, it will pale in comparison to the next water crisis, so investment in fresh water infrastructure is going to be a recurring long term investment theme.
One theory about the endless wars in the Middle East since 1918 is that they have really been over water rights. Although Earth is often referred to as the water planet, only 2.5% is fresh, and three quarters of that is locked up in ice at the North and South poles.
In places like China, with a quarter of the world's population, up to 90% of the fresh water is already polluted, some irretrievably so.
Some 18% of the world population lacks access to potable water, and demand is expected to rise by 40% in the next 20 years.
Aquifers in the US, which took nature millennia to create, are approaching exhaustion. While membrane osmosis technologies exist to convert sea water into fresh, they use ten times more energy than current treatment processes, a real problem if you don't have any, and will easily double the end cost to consumers.
While it may take 16 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef, it takes a staggering 2,416 gallons of water to do the same.
The UN says that $11 billion a year is needed for water infrastructure investment, and $15 billion of last year's US stimulus package was similarly spent.
It says a lot that when I went to the University of California at Berkeley School of Engineering to research this piece, most of the experts in the field had already been retained by major hedge funds!
At the top of the shopping list to participate here should be the Claymore S&P Global Water Index ETF (CGW), which has appreciated by 50% since I first brought it up.
You can also visit the PowerShares Water Resource Portfolio (PHO), the First Trust ISE Water Index Fund (FIW), or the individual stocks Veolia Environment (VE), Tetra-Tech (TTEK), and Pentair (PNR).
Who has the world's greatest per capita water resources? Siberia, which could become a major exporter of H2O to China in the decades to come.
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Women serve in almost every high-powered job in the United States: CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, Senators, university presidents, race car drivers and even astronauts. Yet, there are some male bozos who think women should be treated as inferior beings.
Conservative blogger and Fox contributor Erick Erickson is the latest man to come out of his cave.
After the publication of a Pew study that found that women are the primary or sole source of income in 40 percent of all American households that have minor children, Lou Dobbs had the poor judgment to assemble an all-male panel May 29 for "Lou Dobbs Tonight" to discuss the report.
LOU DOBBS: Erick, your thoughts on this study and what it portends?
ERICKSON: Lou, I'm so used to liberals telling conservatives that they're anti-science. But this is — liberals who defend this and say it's not a bad thing are very anti-science.
When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and female in society, and the other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it's not antithesis, or it's not competing, it's a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it's tearing us apart.
And what I find interesting in the survey is that three-quarters of the people surveyed recognize that having moms as the primary breadwinner is bad for kids and bad for marriage, and reality shows us that's the truth.
After pushback from a lot of women, many of them conservative, Erickson tried to clean up his remarks the next day on his radio show, but only made matters worse.
It is a fact that children in a two parent, heterosexual household tend to have a more stable upbringing and a better chance of success than those of single parents or gay parents. This is a fact. This is not to insult gay parents. This is not to insult single parents. It's just a fact. And the, of the subset of children who are raised in a two-parent, nuclear, heterosexual household, children where the father is the one who is the leader of the family, or the breadwinner of the family, however you want to say it, tend to out-perform those where the mother is the primary provider of the family outside of the home. Those are the facts. All I have done is pointed them out.
… And I understand that some women believe they can have it all, and that's the crux of the problem. I have to tell you, as a man, where women are told that men have so many more advantages in society, we can't have it all. Women, you can't have it all either. Life is a series of compromises and choices.
"America Live" anchor Megyn Kelly challenged her Fox News colleague.
KELLY: So I'll start with you, Erick. What makes you dominant and me submissive, and who died and made you scientist-in-chief?
ERIKSON: …This isn't healthy for society when we think that roles of gender are completely — can be interchangeable. No one's saying women can't be or shouldn't be a breadwinner or even the primary breadwinner. It's just that when we forced ourselves to this point in society where they have to be, that's not a good, healthy thing for society.
Other women Fox contributors also weighed in.
"I'm sincerely confused as to why you used behavior of animals to suggest that women shld stay at home," Fox political analyst Kristen Powers tweeted.
Katie Pavlich wrote on her Twitter account, "Not offended by idea of a strong male leading the household, offended he implied women aren't capable of doing so."
MediaMatters, the press watchdog group, noted, "What the study highlighted, and what Erickson and his fellow Fox News commentators ignored, is the persistent class divide among mothers. According to the data, married mothers who earned more than their husbands were 'disproportionally white and college educated.' The single mothers, on the other hand, were 'more likely to be black or Hispanic, and less likely to have a college degree.' They also made significantly less: single mothers in the study had a median income of $23,000, about a quarter of the median income of couples with a female primary earner. If those single mothers were never married, their median income dropped to $17,400, hovering near the poverty threshold.
"Furthermore, though more women may be 'breadwinners,' women still earn significantly less than men. The report showed that 75 percent of husbands still make more than their wives. In fact, women's wages decreased in 2012, causing the gender-wage gap to widen with women earning only 80.9 percent of what men earned, or about $163 dollars less per week."


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Curriculum Pathways from SAS creates stronger writers with AI and machine learning
Free Writing Reviser Add-in now available for Microsoft Word
The makers of Curriculum Pathways®, free interactive learning resources from SAS, are equipping more students and adults with powerful tools to make them more effective and compelling writers. Curriculum Pathways Writing Reviser, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze writing and highlight areas for improvement, can now be added to Microsoft Word in just a few simple steps.
Many US students continue to struggle with writing, which can have far-reaching effects. The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress found that three-quarters of 8th and 12th graders lack proficiency in writing. The inability to write clearly and with purpose undermines a student's work in nearly all subjects and often requires remediation at the college level.
Adding Writing Reviser to Microsoft Word will help educators cultivate more precise and expressive writers.
"We are excited that with this integration, students can transform prose with the new Writing Reviser add-in," said Eran Megiddo, Corporate Vice President of Education for Microsoft. "This is a natural integration that supports addressing the needs of teachers and learners."
A stalwart in the world of education, Microsoft Word is the word processing program of choice around the globe. It is one of the many Office 365 resources available for free to educators.
Writing Reviser is among the most popular resources from Curriculum Pathways, a philanthropic division of analytics company SAS. Curriculum Pathways is used by more than 4 million teachers and students worldwide at no cost. Writing Reviser is one of more than 1,800 free tools, resources and apps covering English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and Spanish.
Former English teachers have joined forces with experts in AI to advance the algorithms in Writing Reviser to identify potential areas for improvement in writing. By learning to spot problems like passive voice, run-on sentences, weak verbs and wordiness, students become more effective and persuasive communicators.
Whether bolstering an essay's argument, justifying a math result or explaining complicated science concepts, all students can benefit from more economical, varied and powerful writing. The Microsoft Word add-in enables students to call up Writing Reviser while they work.
"Many educators do not have the time to focus on writing fundamentals while trying to teach other subjects," said Scott McQuiggan, Director of Curriculum Pathways at SAS. "Writing Reviser eases that burden, helping students think like seasoned writers. They can simply launch the tool at any point in the writing process, giving them instant feedback powered by AI. Writing Reviser doesn't fix student writing; instead, we focus on making students better writers."
Learn how to get started with Writing Reviser and MS Word.
Beyond the classroom, creating better professional and personal communication
Microsoft Word remains the most popular word processing program in the corporate world and at home. Any Word user can add Writing Reviser to gain confidence in their business and personal writing.
"Whether it's a proposal, blog, newsletter or heartfelt message, anyone can use Writing Reviser to become more effective and persuasive communicators," said McQuiggan.
About Curriculum Pathways and Writing Reviser
Used in traditional, virtual and home schools, Curriculum Pathways increases student learning and teacher effectiveness by targeting higher-order thinking skills. Mapping resources to individual state standards helps educators across the country in their planning.
Writing Reviser is one of the resources within Writing Navigator, which helps students become more accomplished writers. They learn to pinpoint their purpose, organize and convey main points, spot missed opportunities, revise their work, and finally document sources and publish a final draft. The app is free at WritingNavigator.com, as well as the Curriculum Pathways site and through iPad and Chromebook apps.
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CRS: BANK LOAN DENIAL FOR NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION UNDER SECTION 102(b) OF THE ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT AS APPLICABLE TO INDIA AND PAKISTAN, December 16, 1998
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Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service
Title: BANK LOAN DENIAL FOR NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION UNDER SECTION 102(b) OF THE ARMS EXPORT CONTROL ACT AS APPLICABLE TO INDIA AND PAKISTAN
CRS report number: 98-537
Author(s): M. Maureen Murphy, American Law Division
Date: December 16, 1998
- Abstract
- After the President has determined that a "non-nuclear-weapon state" has detonated a nuclear explosive device, section 102(b) of the Arms Export Control Act requires that a number of sanctions be placed on that state including the prohibition of private bank loans to the government of the country concerned. This report provides details on the Act as it applies, under current conditions, to India and Pakistan.
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Originally sponsored by the Nantucket Garden Club in 1974, the Chamber of Commerce will be coordinating the 37th annual Daffodil Festival this April 29th & 30th. An estimated 3 million daffodils adorn the roadways and gardens throughout Nantucket during the month of April and are presently emerging from the Winter soil, heralding another celebration of this hearty flower, along with antique cars and a delightful Spring picnic in Sconset. In addition to the antique car parade and tailgate picnic, the weekend features a window decorating contest, a children's parade, a dog parade, a hat pageant and flower show at Bartlett's farm with free shuttle service. We hope you can stay with us and come see the beauty on Nantucket during this festive time on the Island.
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Lords of Dogtown2005 Action/Adventure | Drama
In the 1970s, a group of teenage surfers from a tough neighborhood known as "Dogtown" in Venice, CA, pioneered a revolutionary new style of skateboarding. Riding the waves at the Pacific Ocean Park pier, the Z-Boys, known for their aggressive style and hard street attitude, combined the death-defying moves of surfing with the art of skateboarding and became overnight sensations and local legends. With empty pools as their canvas, the Z-Boys paved the way to what is now referred to as "extreme sports," and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon. But all of this fame would take its toll on the friendships that they thought would last a lifetime, as the sport that started out as an afternoon hobby turned into big business.


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Anjeanette Carter — Crush of the Day
Our 'Crush of the Day,' Anjeanette Carter, is pretty damn funny. Exhibit A is her Twitter account.
She is a popular blogger, a regular contributer to Nerdist.com and tweeter from Los Angeles and is rapidly gaining recognition due to her sarcastic and witty tweets. You may have also seen her in a variety of commercials and small roles in bad indie flicks.
Anjeanette was nice enough to talk to us about a lot of random stuff. She didn't have to answer when we knocked on her bedroom window, but she did,
GuySpeed: Your Twitter account is hilarious. Do you 'plan out' tweets or do they just come to you and you let fly?
Anjeanette Carter: Half of the time I'll be inspired by a moment I'm having or something I see, and 30 seconds later I'll have a great tweet. The other half is me writing down random ideas and re-tooling them until they make me laugh.
GuySpeed: Ever say something on Twitter you later regretted?
Anjeanette Carter: Of course! I always delete something if I find it too offensive after the fact. Or if I later decide it sucks. Don't you hate when people say they have no regrets? Life is full of regret.
GuySpeed: I don't think I'm out of line saying you're attractive. Is it harder to be taken seriously as a writer, comedian, wise ass when you're good looking?
Anjeanette Carter: I write penis jokes. I'm obviously not too concerned about being taken seriously. But truthfully, everyone is a package deal. The same thing that holds you back today can propel you forward tomorrow.
GuySpeed: If you could rewrite history and claim to have invented,wrote or did something that someone else did, what would it be and why? Example — claim to have invented the radio, or cheese in a can.
Anjeanette Carter: I would love to have invented the Snuggie. Not only could I retire, but I would be responsible for making millions of people comfortable AND ridiculous looking at the same time. Win win!
GuySpeed: If you had a Wikipedia page, but it could only have one sentence describing you, what would it say?
Anjeanette Carter: "Anjeanette Carter is an American worshipper of cheese and bread and is currently involved in a love/hate relationship with her gym."
GuySpeed: F, Marry, Kill — Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn?
Anjeanette Carter: I'd have sex with Twitter, take Facebook home to momma and kill LinkedIn. I don't even have a LinkedIn profile.
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The Sole
In a competition among the fish. In the process, the plaice becomes the laughing stock of the rest. This should be the explanation why his mouth is crooked.
The fishes had for a long time been discontented because no order prevailed in their kingdom. None of them turned aside for the others, but all swam to the right or the left as they fancied, or darted between those who wanted to stay together, or got into their way; and a strong one gave a weak one a blow with its tail, which drove it away, or else swallowed it up without more ado. "How delightful it would be," said they, "if we had a king who enforced law and justice among us!" and they met together to choose for their ruler, the one who could cleave through the water most quickly, and give help to the weak ones.
They placed themselves in rank and file by the shore, and the pike gave the signal with his tail, on which they all started. Like an arrow, the pike darted away, and with him the herring, the gudgeon, the perch, the carp, and all the rest of them. Even the sole swam with them, and hoped to reach the winning-place. All at once, the cry was heard, "The herring is first! the herring is first!" "Who is first?" screamed angrily the flat envious sole, who had been left far behind, "who is first?" "The herring! The herring," was the answer. "The naked herring?" cried the jealous creature, "the naked herring?" Since that time the sole's mouth has been at one side for a punishment.


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NEW YORK -- There's just no stopping "Jaws."
Joey Chestnut scarfed down 61 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win his eighth consecutive championship, barely beating Matt Stonie at the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island on Friday.
The main course? That came just before the contest, when the 30-year-old Chestnut dropped to his knee on the event stage, just steps from the beach, and proposed to longtime girlfriend and fellow competitive eater Neslie Ricasa, who said yes.
Stonie, who was second in 2013 with 51 dogs, again was the runner-up with 56. Tim "Eater X" Janus was third with 44.
While it was more of the same for the men, there was a new women's champion as Miki Sudo shocked three-time defending champion Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas by wolfing down 34 franks and buns in 10 minutes.
The 46-year-old Thomas, a native of South Korea who now lives in Alexandria, Virginia, was able to devour only 27 3/4 hot dogs and buns. She scarfed down a record 45 dogs and buns last year.
Chestnut, who was neck-and-neck with Stonie for the first eight minutes of the event -- they were tied at 53 with 1:13 remaining -- pulled ahead for good down the stretch to continue his stranglehold on the Nathan's "Mustard Belt."
"I could never find my rhythm, so it was just a dogfight the whole time," said Chestnut, who won last year with a record 69 franks and buns.
Both Chestnut and Stonie reside in San Jose, California.
The 61 hot dogs and buns equates to 23,790 calories, 1,189.5 grams of fat, 60,390 milligrams of sodium, 2,245 grams of carbohydrates and 793 grams of protein.
Takeru Kobayashi had held the record with six consecutive wins, but in 2010, he refused to sign an exclusive contract with Major League Eating, the food equivalent of the NFL, and was banned from competition.
This year, Kobayashi will compete against five other competitive eaters at a separate event on Fifth Avenue in a quest to down the most hot dogs without buns in 10 minutes.
Darren Rovell of ESPN.com and The Associated Press contributed to this report.