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The United States never held a large number of direct colonies, a fact that has prompted many political leaders to declare it the great exception to colonialism. Yet the Monroe Doctrine was for a century and a half a rallying cry for American economic and military engagement in Central and South America, and, fueled by cold war considerations, it remained a hallmark of American foreign policy into the nineties. And for many, the Vietnam War was emblematic of US imperialism: Consistent with its cold war foreign policy, the United States assumed the role of protector of a weak, antidemocratic but anti-Communist regime and intervened to thwart the self-determination of the Vietnamese people, especially when they chose to live under Communist rule. While it is doubtful that the United States was seeking, as France had, to make Vietnam an actual colony, still the government followed historical precedent in dominating a weaker nation for political, strategic and economic advantage, as had been the case in Korea and Latin America.
As the recent struggle by Puerto Ricans to prevent the Navy from maintaining the island of Vieques as a bombing range indicates, the US government retains something of a colonialist mentality. Moreover, contrary to the claims of various presidential administrations, we have rarely been at peace. Even the collapse of Eastern European Communism and the rapidly proceeding integration of China into the world market have failed to stem the steady tide of US military intervention into the affairs of smaller, quasi-sovereign nations.
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The Mysterious Case of Two Spheres Falling to Earth in Australia and Brazil
On the March 24th, a story hit the web from Brazil asking for help identifying a mysterious-looking sphere found in farmland. The black, shiny object appeared to be wrapped in fibrous material and it was hot to the touch. Immediately thoughts of extra-terrestrial origin came to mind…
Today, several news sources covered the discovery of a mysterious spherical object found in the Australian outback last year. The farmer who made the discovery has only just started to make enquiries into what the object actually is.
So are the two objects connected in some way? Are they indeed from outer space?
The answer is "yes", and "yes". But don't go getting too excited, they're not bits from a broken alien spacecraft.
Before their origins are explained, a bit of background: The first story to be released was from Brazil on Monday. Just a small story on Daniel Drehmer's blog, asking "a space geek from Digg" (Digg.com being the social bookmarking site) for help to identify this strange object found by Sebastião Marques da Costa who described the orb as being hot to the touch. Either it has been heated by the Sun, or it had just crashed to Earth. On seeing the object, it does make for good science fiction material. It's a very strange looking thing, one meter in diameter, contrasting with the green countryside.
I was so intrigued by the story, I kept an eye on the blog. The following day, the Second Wave reported that an answer had been found. Obviously the geeks on Digg had been paying attention and identified the object as a Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel (or COPV). Put very basically, it's a high pressure container for inert gases. The space shuttle carries COPVs and it seems likely that these containers will be used for a variety of space missions. They are built with a carbon fibre or Kevlar overcoat to provide reinforcement against the vast pressure gradient between the inside and outside of the container.
If the COPVs are so reinforced, it seems reasonable that they may survive re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere.
So what about our Australian farmer? Looking at the picture, the strange object in the Australian outback has some striking similarities to the Brazilian orb (only a lot more damaged).
Today many news sites picked up on the Australian find (well, last year's find), and call me suspicious, but the timing couldn't be better. The Australian farmer, James Stirton, who found the object made the surprising statement to the Reuters news agency:
"I know a lot of about sheep and cattle but I don't know much about satellites. But I would say it is a fuel cell off some stage of a rocket."
That's one very well informed guess. Perhaps he's a Digg reader…?
Either way, it would be interesting to find out to what space mission these COPVs belonged to, as it appears they are highly efficient at not only storing fuels being flown into space, they also crash to Earth pretty much intact.
Sources: Reuters, The Second Wave
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Welcome to Oz. 🙂
The sky IS falling! These may indeed be helium tanks off Centaur or Delta IV upper stages. They'd be light once they vented and separated from the stage during reentry, and would quickly deaccelerate so they'd have a better chance of surviving re-entry heat.
Better be careful though; hypergolic propellant tanks might be of similar design and the contents will be extremely hazardous. I believe some of Columbia's propellant tanks survived more or less intact.
those are alien droppings
Hi Damon,
Helium tanks will not become lighter when vented unless air is kept out of the tank. Air being heavier than helium. A vacuum is lighter than either – excuse the bad grammer.
Hypergolic propellant could be aniline and nitric acid – hazardous indeed. For those new to rocket fuel try Googling hypergollic fuel most informative. Thanks for comment.
NB just seen a spelling error ;-
hypergolic is correct not hypergollic.
Hi Brian
Actually Helium is heavier than Air, at least helium at high pressure is heavier than air at atmospheric pressure.
The helium in the tank at take off would be at many hundreds of atmospheres but after venting during re-entry would be at the edge of space and an almost a perfect vacuum.
Incidentally the Aussie farmer probably remembers skylab crashing in Oz and scattering half a dozen similar spheres all over the outback.
Cheers, Alan
Dear Y'all
they're a pair of balls.
But don't quote me on that.
Luke. (crashes and burns)
He may know more about sheep and cattle than satelites but also knows more about the *internet* than satelites.
He did some research and found some photos of a booster stage that had similar tanks attached to it.
What about the populated community getting hit by these.
That's all we need is to have people killed by falling object s out of the sky.
Has NASA ever considerd these things hitting around dense areas of population?
Dang it. I waz sur' it wuz a UFO.
When the shuttle Columbia broke up in 2003, I remember seeing that at least one such pressure vessel survived reentry. It's not surprising to see similar tanks from a vehicle. It'd be interesting to see someone back-track this to a reentering satellite or stage (US or otherwise). Presumably, it's from a satellite or top stage – launches are usually planned so lower stages fall into the ocean.
At the risk of starting a rumor: any chance these could be from USA 193 / NROL-21, the spysat the US destroyed with a sea-launched missile recently?
I wonder if might be pices of the shot down USA 193?
Folks, lets get some of the science straight here, could we?
The word hypergolic doesn't imply dangerous itself, no more than 'hydrogen' implies bomb. Realistically, these spherical high pressure cells vented every last gram of their contents to space and the upper atmosphere during reentry, and even supposing not … then while perched in the middle of the fields where they lay. Hypergolic MIXTURES must by their nature be very volatile and kept very separate until needed. Hypergolic COMPOUNDS are not engineered into spacecraft, as they have the tendency to spontaneously detonate.
Next up, the silly worry about whether someone would get hurt by one of these things hurling themselves into a city. 99.99% of this planet is NOT city. Even if hundreds of these things were dropping out of the sky per year, there would still only be a 1 in hundred chance that one would bounce into a city. Even there, the majority of a city isn't covered by people, but buildings, streets and unpeopled area. We're talking REAL low probabilities, since the true number per year is most likely less than a few dozen.
Lastly, what the heck is up with the disbelief that a "lowly sheepherd" knows something about satellites – enough to say a relatively well imformed idea? Good Lord, I make all sorts of reasonably informed assertions WITHOUT researching on Google all the time, and I'm no rocket scientist. Why? Because I actually listened to the science teachers in grade-and-high school. I read SciAm and other journals-for-the-masses. I'll never be a frikkin' space scientist, just as I'll never be a car mechanic. However, I can tell you how just about every component of both spacecraft and cars work.
Geez. Let's grow up a bit here, folks.
Could probably be pieces of the US satellite shot down on Feb 21, the Pentagon informed the public to expect the pieces to start coming down right about this time.
" "I know a lot of about sheep and cattle but I don't know much about satellites. But I would say it is a fuel cell off some stage of a rocket."
That's one very well informed guess. Perhaps he's a Digg reader…?"
? Maybe he just used deductive reasoning? Just because he is an Aussie farmer, doesn't mean he is stupid.
Hey Ian, you forgot these in your profound scientific analysis:
El 24 de marzo una noticia golpeó a la Red desde Brasil: se pedÃa ayuda para identificar una esfera de aspecto misterioso encontrada en el terreno de una granja. […] Fuente: Ian O'Neill en Universe Today.
has vanyone wondered as to what would happen if one of those thanks fell onto a big city? it would appear that the americans went to the trouble of shooting down a satelite recently just to destroy what appeared to have been a similar thank
As we know there are piles of reasons to believe the existence of alien life, such unidentified things should not surprise us. We must wait for the day when we are face to face with them.
Thats not space junk, its a "Furball" coughed up from google earth!
A variation of the aviation gas container tank with insulation could be used to contain hydrogen at refuel spots in north america. Otherwise Japan like usual have a new reason to call the USA numbnuts country of the world..
Based in my scientific examination, these what so called "space spheres" are not space spheres at all. these are more of God's Buggers(joking). Truth: It may have been a spaceship of a little alien that these aliens died inside. Unfortunately for them, we are able to probe it; on the other hand, researchers/examiners of the sphere seems does not know how to open it.
These kind of space superb are really hard to debunk….(I was thinking to debunk it, but seems I can't at all)
dis is intresting! lolmfao
i definatly think that's a tank from a space craft. possibly the spys satilite (dont mind my discusting spelling), so i find it no couincidence that these things arent ailen. but its probably intresting to find a spacecraft in the outback anyway!!
Brothers and Sisters. Those are God's golf balls. He was most likely trying to bank them off Earth to sink them in the nearest black hole. Even God misses sometimes.
God Bless you all. Heathens!
It's just a propaganda.
The pictures dont show any evidence that these spheres have fallen from outer space, since there are no marks of high temperature on the ground where the sphere lies or even a hole that proves the impact.
Hard to believe it.
what doesn't surprise me is that nothing fell on Usa soil. I dont mind lenthy explainations and funny inserts. I am also glad no one has been hurt with falling debree yet but I am sure that is to come. I find it amusing tho- and typical the plan to which all things fall!
They will be known as whatever they tell us they are, like all other odd things that are space related or seemingly so.
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We probably know the rockets responsible for dropping the two tanks: see the links in the 2nd paragraph of this story. Apparently tanks make it to the ground quite frequently; the Delta 2 is notorious for doing it.
A long-time Netter over at SPACE.com has argued that two Submitter-proclaimed observed NEOS were very likely the ISS + another SpaSat – however, after midnite [Guam time], I myself observed two linear large fiery balls in the sky over Hagatna, in addition to other phenomenon e.g. POSSIBLE COMET/ASTEROID STREAK OVER THE SPHERE OF THE MOON.
To Ian O'Neill,
OK, my apologies. I got a soft spot for Aussie Farmers hehe … got all defensive ;p
It must be the extremely tough fuel tanks the US wanted to destroy when it shot down its Spy sat, or alien droppings.
I sure hope that none of this space debris ever hits everyone. Seems that people in Austrailia and Brazil have been lucky this time. I mean it looks heavy and if hit by that crashing to the earth, someone may have been killed. Someone may have been hospitalized. Anyone hit by something like that ought to be entitled to multiple millions!
What kind of satellite parts has weird fur on it?
Oo!!! It's a Dragonball. That's what they look like after you make your wish. hehe.
Could be from the downed satellite – true – but I like the comment about the hairball from Google Earth 🙂
This is from Russian or US artifacts in space.
Look like rather large sheep droppings to me. Large alien sheep. Large alien sheep in Australia. Large alien sheep in Australia on an intelligent Australian sheep herder's ranch. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Hmmmm, I hate to be funny, but, could be the old movie props from the movie "SPACEBALLS", hey, I could be wrong!;););)
I was one of a group of people here in Australia who helped to make a tentative identification of the "mystery ball" for Jim Stirton late last year after he first found the piece of debris on his land. We identified it then as a pressure vessel possibly from an Atlas or Delta.
My understanding is that he later sought confirmation from The Aerospace Corporation's Centre for Orbital and Re-entry Debris studies and they confirmed its probable identity to Mr. Stirton, as a helium bottle from a 1998 Atlas II launch, around March 21 or 22.
The timing of having the identification confirmed in late March may just be a co-incidence, but I would guess that the fuss about the Brazilian find prompted Mr. Stirton to contact the media about it, once he had an indea of what it was . Maybe, as a recently drought-stricken farmer, he was hoping someone would offer to buy it!
BTW, Australia is a very big, very empty landmass (think population of New York in a country the size of the US), so the likelihood of a piece of space debris hitting a population centre here is pretty low. Bits of space debris do turn up from time to time in the outback (Jim Stirton's was the second piece I'd been asked about within a few months): sometimes the material is on the ground for a long time (even years) before it is discovered, since no-one has previously passed that way to find it.
So THAT'S where my PokeBalls went. Careful, I think the one in Australia is Jigglypuff, which means the Brazilian one's Squirtle (by the way, Pres. Bush was recently told of a Brazilian soldier's perishing in Afghanistan. He was visibly shaken but finally said: "Is a brazillion more or less than a million?") (Rimshot, please.)
Just goes to show, we need to be keping tabs on all the junk we keep sending up & leaving there
Seeing that this is a science-oriented website, I don't understand the need for the author to use silly phrases such as "…thoughts of extra-terrestrial origin come to mind…" and "Are they really from outer space?". Sensationalism is not fitting here, I believe.
I liked the article – just, the choice of words irks me.
Lee: "brazillion?!" :p
shut up nerds
Tarzan this page is made for nerds. So what.
Hello, my friends,
Plese access the article about crash objects in Brazil in the world:
This text by prof. Ildefonso Souza, brazilian fisical, explain 10 pics of crashs objetcts and the fragment of research by Mr. Ian O'neil about the "spheres crashs".
The original portuguese idiom, to translate, please, access Google Translation:
Best regards,
Pepe Chaves – spacial researcher
from Brazil
They are nothing of consequence. They are most likely solidified swamp gas balls (very common) or also common wild giant black pumpkins.
Forget about them. Do not discuss them. Please send your names and addresses to [email protected]. Also include when you are most likely to be alone and vulnerable.
You never read this.
Yes, that makes perfect sense. These grow all over the undisclosed area I live in. We definately should stop speculating and accept that these are common objects. Yip, definately nothing out of the ordinary here. Just common wild giant black pumpkins and/or solidified swamp gas. Well that settles it. I can go about myy daily routine again. Whew. What a relief. I sure hate thinking. I love TV. We should all watch more of it.
Bob Lynch Mar 28th
Good on you. Commonsense isn't a lost art.
What's the explanation for them being 'hot to the touch"?
What kind of function do these things serve? Why is the helium vented? To lighten the craft or as a flame retardant?
Hi UK Dave
They store helium gas under pressure,
The helium is piped into the fuel tanks and presurises them for 2 reasons.
1) the pressure forces the fuel out of the tanks, into the pumps and then the egines,
2) they make the tank stiff, think of a plastic cola bottle and how rigid it gets when you shake it up, then think how weak it gets when you vent it ( that means unscrewing the cap)
The tanks have to be strong enough to support the payload at the top of the stack
under accelleration, the helium actually supports the payload.
Why Helium ???, well it has to be inert, compressed air could feed a fire and cause the fuel tank to expload, compressed CO2 is inert but very heavy.
Why vented ???, as the ship breaks up on re-entry the pipework burns up and the helium just escapes, it not intentional
Hope this is clear
Cheers and beers, Alan
They are warm to the touch because wild pumpkins and/or solidified swamp gas are great insulators for solar heat. I saw that on T.V.
I can't wait to watch more. Ooops…gotta go. The movie "Conspiracy Theory" is coming on in a few minutes.
Let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that a very mysterious orb washed up onto the beach here near Charleston, SC some years back. It was metalic and a sphere but beyond that, nobody around here actually knows what it is or where it came from. Some of us thought it may have been an object from WWII but that's all any of us had, just theories. Nobody knew with any certainty. It was just eventually hauled off to some police station I believe and forgotten about by most. An old saying, "Mankind is lost for lack of knowledge…"


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The Washington-based U.S. Travel Assn. said Thursday that the number of people traveling internationally worldwide from 2000 to 2010 rose about 60 million. But the group said the number of foreign visitors to the U.S. remained the same over that period.
The association's plan calls on Congress and the Obama administration to overhaul the process to approve visas for foreign visitors, which can now take up to 145 days.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- No. 1 Methodist won the second annual Methodist Spring Invitational on Sunday afternoon.
The Monarchs posted a second-round score of 309 to match Saturday's opening 309 for a total of 618. Piedmont was second at 664 (340-324) followed by SUNY Cortland (340-324-664), Randolph-Macon (356-353-709) and Hollins (363-358-721). The teams played Sunday's final round at nearby Kings Grant Golf Club after playing Saturday's round on Methodist's campus.
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The Universe is swirling, chaotic, and dark. Galaxies shift and planets shake as the entire universe is being ripped asunder. Galactic storms rip through space dust clouds. Everything is in turmoil. A long Arwing rips through space when one of these galactic storms rips through and strikes the Arwing. The pilot, Fox, tries to make control of his spacecraft but it begins to smoke. Fox makes preparations for a emergency planetoid landing but, as he is about to engage the thrusters, he notices a lone mechanical floating isle poised over the unknown planet. From the the galactic storms are racing out, devouring space itself. Fox changes his crash landing course to the mechanical floating isle.
Universe: Star Fox
Debut: Star Fix (1993)
Element Alignment: Fire
Affinity: Good
Reason for Fighting: Duty
Perks: Physical Damage, Double Physical Damage, Shield Increase, Double Shield Increase, Speed Increase, Jump Increase, Fire Damage Increase, Double Fire Damage Increase, Fire Damage Resistance, Double Fire Damage Resistance
Fox is the main face of the series Star Fox and it's leader with the other members being Falco Lombardi, Slippy Toad, Peppy Hare, and occasionally Krystal. He has super fast speed, quick blasters, high jumps, but lacks in power and defense. Fox was fairly nerfed in Brawl but in SSB4, he plays in the middle compared to Melee and Brawl. He can now jump cancel, his blaster travels for a longer period, and his overall strength has improved but he has become somewhat slower and even lighter compared to Melee. His strength resembles much like in Melee with a few changes.
Changes from SSBB to SSB4
Fox is firstly able to cancel out of his Fox Illusion into a double jump or a wall jump while in midair. Fox's blaster also travels for a longer period of time. In addition, Fox's jabs now connect fully with all characters.
Fox's Special B Move Set
- B – Blaster
- Side B – Fox Illusion
- Up B – Fire Fox
- Down B – Reflector
The Final Trio
- Final Smash – Blinding Fox
- Final Melee – Landmaster
- Final Brawl – The Great Fox
Blinding Fox is Fox's new Final Smash. Fox vanishes and then, in blinding speed, dashes back and forth along the stage; running into opponents. It is similar to Sonic's Final Smash but uncontrollable. As well, Fox seems to vanish much like his attack, Fox Illusion. It is one of the fatest Final Smashes since Sonic's became a Final Melee. It does 4% damage for every hit and does 28 hits in 8 seconds. However, he does 3.5 hits per second to one character so that's 14% damage for every second so a max total damage for 112% damage with no additional perks. However, this is divided up between the three players so it can do anywhere from 37 to 50% damage depending on how many times it hits a certain character. The movements are random and hit the opponents depending on where they are in contrast to Fox.
- Beginning Cinematic: Fox holsters his gun and does a couple warm up jumps. He then punches towards the screen and says "Come on!"
Landmaster is Fox's new Final Melee. It has the same properties as before.
- Beginning Cinematic: Fox presses a button on his jacket and, through teleportation, his Landmaster appears. He jumps into and takes command.
Assault and Command is Fox's Final Brawl. Fox starts stretching and then says "Let's go!". He then vanishes and appears a good distance behind the opponent. A blinking button is on the opponent. He taps the comm set on his head set and the scene quickly cuts to the Great Fox which is in orbit in space. It fires a powerful laser beam at a earth-like planet. It pierces through the atmosphere and strikes the opponent with a powerful and large laser beam. It creates a massive explosion and Fox shields himself to prevent being hit by debris. It does 70-76% damage and has high knock back.
Proposed Stage – Katina
Proposed New Taunt(s)
- Left Side – He Points at the opponent and does a thumbs down and says "You are gone, pal!"
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- Orange Fox – His headgear is white with a orange lens over his eye, his fur has a gray tint, he has a white coat with black fabric on the shoulders, yellow scarf around his neck, orange shirt and pants, and a yellow belt. His boots are black. Made to resemble Peppy Hare.
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Move Set (taken from SmashWikia) (will adjust the percentages at a later date)
Ground Attacks
- Neutral attack – Left jab (2%), right hook (2%), then a flurry of kicks, or the Rapid Kick (1-2%). One of the worst jabs in the game due to its poor range, damage, and hitstun, with the natural infinite being very easy to DI out of with slow cool down.
- Dash attack – Running kick. At low percents, can lead into an Up Tilt, leading into various other combos. Its best use is undoubtedly the Up Tilt follow-up, though it is also possible with his grab. Somewhat short duration/range and is easily shield grabbed. 7%.
- Strong Side – A quick right kick. Moderate-low knockback, best used as a quick punisher out of shield. Can be angled up or down. 6%. Significantly lower ranged than Falco's, and with less knockback.
- Strong Up – A pretty fast scorpion kick that covers Fox's back, though his whole body becomes a hitbox. Consists of three small, barely noticeable hits. 1st and 2nd hits do 3% each with little knockback, and third hit does 4% with moderate knockback, for a total of 10%. Little ending lag. This attack, though nerfed from Melee, is still very useful. It easily chains into itself, which is good for damage racking, and can even lead into his Up Smash or Grab. At higher percents, it sets up well for his aerials. This move is the pinnacle of most of Fox's combos. Unfortunately, with Fox's nerf, the move's killing power was reduced, and is very easy to DI out of a KO.
- Strong Down – Low tail whip. The attack does more damage the closer the opponent is to Fox, with a maximum of 9% and a minimum of 7%. Hitting with the tip of the tail sends the opponent upward. Not one of Fox's more useful attacks, due to slower start up and end lag than either of his other tilts.
- Side Smash – Butterfly kick on the ground. As with his other iterations with this move, moderate knockback. Best used near the edge, this move kills regularly above 130%, though lower scaling makes it weak at greater distances. At 30-60% damage, provided there is enough stage to work with, the low angle is just strong enough to cause reeling knockback, often making the opponent have to either bounce or tech off the stage, which Fox can chase down and respond to.
- Down Smash – Split kick. Hits on both sides. A Down Smash with above average, low angle knockback and with decent range, which is better than Falco's, but slightly slower in both starting and ending. 14%-19%.
- Up Smash – A backflip kick. Very high knockback scaling. The attack is drastically weaker when the opponent is behind Fox. KOs most characters at about 100% with strong vertical knockback and slight horizontal knockback. It's the strongest Up Smash out of all 3 Star Fox characters, similar to how Wolf has the strongest Down Smash of the three, and Falco has the strongest Forward Smash. It is considered Fox's best finisher, as it has fast start-up, pretty good shield stun, and it is by far his strongest and best ranged attack, although its end lag is not as generous, and it leaves Fox wide open if sidestepped or jumped over, especially against other fast fallers. 17%-30%.
- Ledge attack – Pulls himself up into a sliding kick. This has a somewhat similar animation to his Forward Smash from Super Smash Bros. 8% damage.
- 100% Ledge attack – Gets up slowly, then does an axe kick while whipping his tail. 8% damage.
- Trip attack – Gets up and kicks on both sides with low range. 6% damage.
Aerial Attacks
- Neutral Aerial – Flying kick. Is a sex kick. Fast start up and long hitbox duration but low knockback, mediocre range and abysmal shield stun make it almost guaranteed to be punished on shields, especially due to Fox's jumping mechanics and high falling acceleration, since he has little maneuverability to create space after using it. Maximum of 9%.
- Forward Aerial – Quintuple kick. Increases jump height and reduces falling speed while in effect, making it useful with recovery. Decent hitstun, medium vertical knockback and low aerial end lag, has juggle starting potential, and at higher percents can set up his Up Air, but is very awkward on grounded opponents, due to its hover effects and high landing lag. Also difficult to use on small characters. Can deal up to 23%.
- Back Aerial – A slow though quite powerful back kick, with a low knockback angle. Dangerous near edges, though its slow speed and short duration can make it difficult to land. 15%.
- Up Aerial – An upward tail whip with a follow-up kick. Hitting with the tail causes 5%, while the kick causes 11%. His best aerial for KOing. Can set up for juggles at mid percents, though this is situational, due to being awkward to use while falling.
- Down Aerial – "Drill Kick". Does more damage the closer the opponent is to Fox and can deal up to 21%. It is technically a Meteor Smash, but is hardly noticeable at lower percents due to its very weak power. Often the move of choice when Fox needs to approach, its surprisingly high priority, multiple hitboxes, low landing lag and decent shield damage sets it apart from his other attacks. Goes well into his grab or up tilt, but is not impossible to shield grab and several disjointed attacks (like Marth and Bowser's Up Tilt) will hit Fox through it. At higher damages, near 100% and beyond, the attack causes enough flinching to combo an Up Smash, and if one of the hits causes tripping, since it is a Meteor Smash, several other attacks like Down Smash become possible.
Grabs & Throw
- Grab – Grabs opponent by the neck.
- Dash grab – Halts with one foot and grabs, somewhat predictable.
- Pivot grab – Great as he can boost grab, and has a long grab range.
- Pummel – Knees the opponent. 1% damage each.
- Forward Throw – Punches the opponent forward. 7% damage.
- Back Throw – Throws opponent backward and shoots them with his Blaster. Can be avoided using DI. Up to 8% damage.
- Up Throw – Throws opponent up and shoots them with his Blaster. Can be avoided using DI. Up to 8% damage.
- Down Throw – Slams opponent on the ground and shoots them three times with his blaster. 9% damage. Can be followed up with either a Forward Aerial at low percentages on certain characters, or an Up Aerial on all characters.
- Up: Fox charges fire in a kneeling position and says "Here I come!". This taunt mimics the Up Special, Fire Fox, except he does not launch off into the air.
- Down: Like in Melee, Fox backs up, bends down a bit, and says "Come on!", although it seems faster.
- Right Side: Fox throws his blaster around himself, watches it flip, and catches it.
Stage Entrance
- Enters the stage on a Arwing and lands. The Arwing seemingly takes off without Fox.
My Thoughts
I admit not knowing much about Smash meta game or the ins and outs of Character gameplay but I would like to see Fox improve from his SSBB version. He was really nerfed in Brawl so to see him climb the ladder a bit in SSB4 would be a welcomed change. Other that that, I wanted to focus on making Fox a fast yet somewhat powerful character.


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Proper computer disposal is something that all of us will need to worry about at least once or twice in the coming years. You may already have two or three sitting around that you've got no idea what to do with. You can clear some space in your home by getting rid of them. However, in many municipalities, just throwing them in the trash — especially the monitors — is illegal because of the toxic chemicals used when they were manufactured.
5 Safe Computer Disposal Solutions
So what do you do with your old computers? Can computer disposal be done safely?
1. Donate Them to Salvation Army or Goodwill
Just because those old computers you've got lying around aren't the newest, latest, and greatest doesn't mean that nobody will be able to make use of them. Many people, especially in these trying economic times, aren't able to afford a new computer, but their 5-year-old Pentium machines are just too excruciatingly slow to be of any use to them.
Box your old ones up and take them to the nearest Salvation Army, Goodwill, Amvets, or American Legion Post. All of these organizations will be more than willing to take them and either give them away to someone who needs them. Or in the case of Salvation Army and Goodwill, sell them at a price that someone less fortunate and in need of a computer can afford. They will also give you a tax deductible receipt, so you can save some money on your taxes.
2. Schools Will Also Take Old Computers
Computers are becoming more and more an everyday part of the curriculum at our schools, both public and private. Older ones are a great way for kids to develop technical skills working on them, getting them running the best possible. Since they have no appreciable investment in them, the schools can allow this without worrying about losing money when a student does something that kills the computer or parts of it. Again, you can also write these donated computers off your taxes when you donate them to a school.
3. Make Some Money Back by Selling Them to a Scrap Recycler
Break out the Yellow Pages or Google — it's time to let your fingers do some walking. Look for recyclers that specialize in computer components. Most of these recycling operations will readily buy used computer components since many of the parts inside the computer can be reused as long as they function properly. You probably won't be paid as much as you can get as a tax write off by donating, but you'll have money in your pocket today, instead of when you get your refund.
4. Check the Wanted Sections of Newspapers
There are quite a few individuals and organizations that advertise in the Wanted sections of newspapers looking to buy used computers and components. Read through the whole classifieds section, as some people that advertise don't do so in the sections you'd expect to see their ads. Again, you probably won't get as much as you could as a write off, but, you will still have money in your pocket right away, instead of some months down the road.
5. Find an Acceptable Dumping Location as a Last Resort
What happens when you can't find anyone in your area to take your old computers off your hands? You still have to get rid of them, right? You can call either City Hall or the local garbage collection company to find out the locations that have been set aside for accepting used electrical components.
Like I said, in most places you can't just toss them on the street for pickup or take them to the dump because of some of the toxic chemicals that were used when they were manufactured, such as PCBs used during the manufacturing process of the circuit boards. The lead in the solder used to secure components to those circuit boards is also dangerous.
Even the smallest towns have designated collection locations set side solely for collecting used electronic devices. At these locations they collect the scrap until they have a truckload or a container full, and then the scrap is trucked to an electronics recycler and anything useful is recovered. The rest is disposed of safely.
BONUS OPTION: Don't Get Rid of It – Use as a Family Server
I have two computers. The one I do all my work and play on and a second one that I've set up as a storage receptacle for movies, music, and pictures that I want to share with people. I've set it up as a mini server dedicated for this use and nothing else. Since it only has to run an FTP server software, it doesn't have to be top of the line.
Hopefully, I've given you some ideas to think about when you start looking into computer disposal options.


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Understanding the 1000 Year Reign (Millennial Kingdom)
Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this they wilfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.2 Peter 3:4-9
The context of Peter's comments is the second coming, that which directly precedes the destruction of the world and the close of the gospel age, shutting the door to salvation once for all. No future age follows, this earth will wax away like the old covenant and eternity commence. The Gospel age beginning at the Cross is the 1000 years of Rev20, (1000 representing perfection, not a literal timeframe) in which Christ has destroyed the works of the devil, cast him out and is ruling and reigning with His Saints NOW! Jh12:31-32, Mat12:28-29, Lk11:20-22, Eph1:20-23, 2:6-7. When He returns it will be in flaming fire and vengeance, to put all things under His feet and the Kingdom will be delivered over to the Father. (2Thes1:8-9, 1Cor15:24-25) There cannot be two millennial reigns or two new heavens and new earth, when the last enemy is defeated (death) time will be no more.
The common fallacies concerning eschatology seem to always end up with the results everything being in 'two's. Such as 2 houses, 2 physical resurrections, 2 flocks, 2 brides, 2 Gog -Magog wars, two second deaths, 2 kingdoms, (the church & Israel) etc. Yet Peter clearly says that at His coming the heavens and earth are burned up ushering in a New heaven and new earth in which Righteousness dwells. Consequently there will NOT be any mortals remaining to dwell in some 'imaginary temporal Millennial Kingdom, given a second chance (so to speak) to hear and believe before the great Judgment. (it also sounds suspiciously like the false concept Catholic Purgatory, although the people are dwelling in bodily form instead of spirit) These fallacies were contrived many centuries ago by a Jesuit named Ribera in order to take the heat off the Pope as the anti-Christ, casting the events of Revelation into the far off future, therefore taking the focus off the universal deception the establishment church system had fallen under during the so-called Great awakening. These teaching were imported into the Protestant side of the Church in the early 1800's when Edward Irving and John Darby took notice of Lacunza's (another Jesuit priest) re-write of Ribera work. It gained momentum through the likes of Scofield, Larkin, Dallas Theological Seminary, others, and became mainstream teaching by the turn of the 20th Century as Dispensational theology; that introduced the Rapture Cult in which the Church escapes the wrath of the anti-Christ in the great Tribulation while the Jews (God's supposed chosen people) are cast onto the world scene caught up in the temporary world order that ends with the (second) return of Christ and the commencement of another Millennial reign with Him ruling in bodily form from Jerusalem. BUT this defies reason! Everything in Scripture that testifies of Christ's return, spells out the end of time as we know it.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 2Pet2:10-13
Against the full weight of scripture concerning the Last Day, Christ's own words in Matt24:37-39, Lk17:26-30, the proclamation in 2Thess1:7-10, and others, how could there be any hidden meaning in Peter's words. The earth and everything in it will be dissolved, cease to exist, time as we know it shall be no more, the Gospel age of Grace is finished, door shut. (as on the Ark) In the New heaven-earth only Righteousness dwells, no more sin, corruption, sickness and death, 'there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away, Rev 21:4. Could there be any question as to what the early Saints believed about the Kingdom, Why would Christ, who has already established the Kingdom, return and set up another 'temporary kingdom, only to destroy it (again) a 1,000 years later? No where in scripture are such things taught by Jesus or the apostles. The Apostles were not looking for another Kingdom yet to come, but THE KINGDOMestablished in Righteousness forever! As Jesus likened His return to the Days of Noah, where the flood came and swept them all away, so Peter affirms that Day is the Last Day. And then admonishes the brethren:
Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation 2Pet3:14-15
Understand that Peter wasn't looking for Christ to return and rule on THIS earth, rather he saw the return of Christ as a Renewal and restoration of all creation, a place in which the righteous shall shine forth as the sun, after the tares are burned up, Matt13:41-43. As Paul said, 'the whole creation groans and labours in birth pangs together until now', Rom8:22. The Saints will not dwell in a place where the Goats-Tares-Leaven still exist, each Kingdom Parable speak in this manner, that the Son of Man will send out His angels and they will gather out of His Kingdom ALL things that offend and those who doeth lawlessness, Matt13:41. It's the time of separation and Judgment, the final resurrection of
the just and unjust, Jh5:28-29, Dan12:2, raised to everlasting shame or eternal bliss. What kind of 'comfort would the Saints have looking forward to more corruption and turmoil, another entire Millennial age in which to suffer and die! Are we to believe that resurrected, glorified Saints are walking around on this earth with unredeemed mortals (who some how survived Armageddon) who will again be deceived by Satan and mount another armed conflict against God before they're finally all cast into the lake of fire with Satan and his cohorts? Utter non-sense, there is no basis to support such notions anywhere in Scripture. The fascination with Jesus returning in bodily form, touching down on the Mount of Olives and setting up His earthly (1000 yr) Kingdom in Jerusalem, (after the great Tribulation) is a scorched earth myth, with the question left unanswered: 'HOW is it that the earth is utterly destroyed and no mortal remaining (after battle of Armageddon) can there be 'another interim Kingdom and the whole thing playing out again.
We know that the 1000 years (millennia) is not a literal timeframe, the Gospel age has already run concurrently for 2000 years, therefore how do we measure the (supposed) future Millennial age? The Dispensationalists complicate the matter even further by taking the 'literal stance on 1000, that instead of representing perfection (or something that has reached maturity) they Chart it on a 7000 year timeframe going back to Babylon, up through the Cross and finally their (fictional) 70th Week of Daniel, separated by 3-1/2 year intervals in which Lacunza's play book takes place. It's a stretch but with the hype surrounding the Left behind series (and others) and the craze for end times prophecy their theories have become the biggest cash cow in professed Christendom. Today we have prophets and visionaries crawling out of the wood-work, making predictions and deceiving millions. It's a confusing maze of error that few can sort out and discern truth from fiction. Daniel said that four things would happen when Christ showed up on the scene, Dan9:24, 'He would make an end of sin, make reconciliation for iniquity, bring in everlasting righteousness and SEAL UP the vision and prophecy to anoint the Most Holy', SO, ask yourself, what is it that Christ as Messiah failed to accomplish and must yet be done in a time yet to come? He confirmed the Covenant with Israel, brought an end to the sacrifices and offerings (once for all) and left their (physical Israel) house desolate. (Matt23:38, Lk13:35) The everlasting Kingdom, putting an end to sin is fulfillment of the Covenant made to Abraham, Gen12:7, 23, 13:15, 24:7, Gal3:16-17, (mentioned also by Ezekiel, 33:26-27, 37:26-28, valley of dry bones) a people redeemed from all nations and tongues who would have the law written into their hearts and minds, the True Israel of God, (Gal6:16) His Church (Saints in white robs, Rev19:7-8) united in ONE faith in righteousness and true holiness. In them reconciliation has been made and iniquity abolished.
Judgment Day and the resurrection of the dead is the dividing line between this age and the age to come. The plumb line of truth that was set (from the foundation of the world) to determine such a day. At the Last Trump it is finished,
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1Thes4:16-18 The Day of Salvation is Over, when the last generation of living Saints are caught-up (Raptured) the remainder (Armageddon, Great White throne, Satan cast into lake of fire) will happen in the twinkling of an eye, the time lapse of a thought, (1Cor15:51-52) the 'final enemy' (death) is defeated and also cast into the lake of fire forever more, again: And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. Rev21:4
This is where His people inherit the Kingdom prepared for them:
Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power 1Cor15:24 The kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world, Mat25:34
There is no waiting another 1000 years for Christ to put down His enemies and bring in eternity. The eternal Kingdom follows the great Judgment concurring with His Return, at the final Trump. The Gospel age is the time of Salvation, the long suffering of the Lord, Rom2:4, once the harvest is gathered in, the winnowing fan has separated the wheat from the chaff, TIME shall be no more. Those who have taken part in the first resurrection, the New birth, currently reign with Him in the Gospel age. (Rev20:6) This passage cannot be speaking of the physical resurrection as 1Cor15, because that would separate the resurrection of the Just and unjust by 1000 years (age) and scripture continually speaks of ONE final (physical) resurrection and separation when He returns:
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind, which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just, and cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matt13:47-50
The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! Matt13:40-43
Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left Lk17:36 (not speaking of a 'secret rapture of the Saints, but the taking away of the Tares to be burned, as any farmer knows before you harvest the wheat, you winnow out the chaff, the Left Behind teaching has the exact opposite taking place)
And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. Matt25:46 (separation of sheep and goats)
Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. Jh5:28-29
Christ is coming to abolish death and destroy the wicked, not to reside over another earthy Kingdom in which death and wickedness remain. No more tares among the wheat, goats among the sheep, the foolish among the wise. To Him every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord over all. (Rom14:11, Phil2:11) It is an absolute impossibility that anyone (mortal) survives at His coming; the living Saints are caught up, the wicked are destroyed, 1Thes4:17, 2Thes1:8-9, the earth is dissolved, 2Pet3:4-9, Satan (and his minions) are cast into the Lake of fire, Rev20:10, and the final Judgment is complete, Rev20:12, 15. What did John say comes next:
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away Rev21:1
The Saints will dwell forever with Him in the 'heavenly country, Heb11:16, the 'New Jerusalem', holy city of the heart, their Tabernacle with God, Rev20:1-2, in which there will be no more death, sorrow, crying or pain. Time will be no more. How can His coming and setting all things in order be delayed by yet another undetermined timeframe (1000 years) with the scenario played out again culminating in a 'second return, when the Scripture speak so clearly about ONE Coming, ONE Judgment and ONE new earth. This is what the Saints looked for, desired earnestly, hastened and prepared for, the New heaven and New earth in which all wickedness and corruption are vanquished and they dwell with the Lord forever. In this final Day there will be no second chances, no magic glorifications from wicked to righteous, no escaping Judgment. It is declared:
He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still. Rev22:11
Dispensational theology contradicts itself, its pundits cannot explain how the wicked survive after the so-called Tribulation period and go on to dwell in a new/old earth age (take your pick!) wherein Jesus is ruling physically from Jerusalem, with glorified Saints walking around, everyone still subject to death, pain, sorrow and deception. And they cannot harmonize the passages that clearly reveal that the return of the Lord is a Day of vengeance and total destruction of the wicked.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 2Thes2:8
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 2Thes1:7-9
The lure in this line of teaching is the 'secret Rapture theory, based on the catching away passage in 1Thes4:17, wherein the 'Church escapes the wrath of the anti-Christ (not appointed to wrath 1Thes5:9) as the world is thrust into the Great Tribulation period. But again this also coincides with His coming, 'Last Trump', 1Cor15:52, Rev11:15, and the Kingdom delivered to the Father, 1Cor15:24, how is it a secret gathering when Scripture says 'every eye shall see Him and mourn, Rev1:7, the heavens are rolled back like a scroll, Rev6:14, in flaming fire of vengeance… doesn't sound like an event happening in secret or a launch pad for anything other than final Judgment. Why are these things so important to sort out and understand? Mainly because falling under any deception concerning the return of Christ can lead to greater deceptions and the invention of more fallacies as has been the case since dispensationism was invented by Darby. They also offer a false sense of security and comfort to the professed masses and with the reoccurrence of lying signs and wonders going wild, calling people out of this mess is more difficult than ever before. That's why its important to understand these things, righty divide scripture and give others a proper accounting of the truth when you are confronted by their errors.
By Mike D
taken from research by Bill W and Mike D


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Rumours that Apple could unveil the two versions of the iPhone 6 at separate launch events have been dismissed by a high-profile industry analyst, after probing accessory-makers in China.
Tech-site reports had suggested that battery and screen-manufacturing problems with the larger 5.5-inch iPhone 6 meant that it may not tip up until much later than the 4.7-inch model.
However, anyone hoping to get their hands on the iPhone phablet sooner rather than later got something of a fillip last week when it was claimed that Apple had discovered a way of making a battery thin and durable enough for the larger phone.
The Cupertino giant was also reported to have enlisted a secondary supplier to help cope with demand.
Today, there's more good news for would-be owners of the 5.5-inch kit after Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White also threw his weight behind a simultaneous debut for the iPhone 6 variants.
He told BGR: "During our China/Taiwan Tech Tour in April, we met with a small number of accessory makers that had started initial production of accessories for the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 but not the 5.5-inch version, but today's research highlights a much broader ramp of the 4.7-inch version."
White added: "Also at Computex, we noticed that a few vendors had already started work on accessories for the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 and the pieces were available at the show.
"Given the lack of data points in recent months around progress with the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 and growing scepticism in the media around a 2014 launch, we view this as a positive development.
"Based on today's research, we believe the timing of the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 launch appears to be in sync with our expectation around the unveiling (i.e., September) of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6."
How much store to set by his prediction in the light of White's mixed track record is a moot point. But he's been very, very right about these things before (CF: he was the first to call coloured iPhones as part of Apple's plans), so we'd suggest you keep a close eye on his forecasts as the launch date approaches.


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Global motion detection switch can be adjusted on the bottom toolbar. The Detection information field shows the currently enabled mode(s):
- Software motion detection is the commonly used mode (enabled if detection sensitivity is greater than 0).
- Trigger File detection is usually enabled but rarely used (employed to attach an external PIR sensor).
Detection Parameters
- Pre-buffer is to configure the amount of video data stored before a detection event.
- Post-buffer is to configure the amount of video data stored after a detection event ends.
- Detection Sensitivity has to be regulated by testing, a good start is 50: if too many false detections are saved lower that value, if some movements are missing increase it.
Hint: enable the red rectangle button in the bottom toolbar to visually see where a detection happens.
- Detection Zones Size is to adjust the rectangle sizes seen when enabling the zones designer through the blue rectangle button in the bottom toolbar. Choosing smaller zones permits a more precise selection but uses a greater amount of CPU.
Hint: only use the Medium or the Small zones size when really necessary.
Detection Limits
- Drop detections shorter than is handy to filter out short movements.
- Split detections files longer than can be adjusted to split a detection sequence into multiple files and to limit the movement detection buffer size (default value is 1000 frames).
Detection Scheduling
Global motion detection switch must be enabled in the bottom toolbar.
- Detection enabled: choose From when To when on the checked days the detections are to be enabled.
- Detection disabled: choose From when To when on the checked days the detections are to be disabled.
For an example see the following document which explains how to enable the detections during non-working hours.
On Detection
Select the actions which should be taken in response to a movement event. Actions which involve video files will necessarily happen at the end of the detection event.
- Save Full Video stores a full video sequence of the detection event in the format chosen under Storage of the Camera Basic Settings dialog.
- Save Small Video stores a small summary of the detection event with the configured size.
- Ftp Upload is for advanced users and will permit the storage of the detections on a FTP server.
Attention: the user is responsible for the FTP server space as old detections are never deleted from it (the settings under Storage of the Camera Basic Settings dialog do not apply to the FTP server).
- Execute Command is either performed when the detection event terminates or as soon as possible (when the detection filter says ok we have a detection).
- Under Cmd provide the full path of an executable or a script.
- Under Params fill the optional parameters.
- Hide window of executed command can be checked if the window of the program has to be hidden, for example when calling a script file.
- Only one instance of executed command makes sure that the program to be executed is not still running because of a previous detection event.
Example: to play a sound on detection check this.
Avoid false detections
- Decrease Detection Sensitivity to 10-40.
- Increase Drop detections shorter than to 2-4 sec.
- With the Detection Zones designer (blue rectangle buttons in bottom toolbar) exclude zones or set zones relative sensitivities. For example if a relative sensitivity of 50 % is chosen from the context menu, then all clicked zones will have half the sensitivity of the configured Detection Sensitivity.


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(Bloomberg) -- The sudden slowdown in U.S. inflation has left Treasuries at the cheapest levels in almost two years, aiding the Federal Reserve's efforts to tamp down long-term borrowing costs while the economy improves.
Yields on 10-year notes, the benchmark measure for everything from home loans to corporate bonds, reached an 11- month high of 2.08 percent on March 8. The securities pay interest 0.88 percentage point higher than the personal consumption expenditures index deflator, the Fed's favored inflation gauge, the widest gap since May 2011.
Growth in so-called real yields is what Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke needs to persuade bond investors that he has inflation under control, even after pumping more than $2.5 trillion into the economy to spur growth and bring down the jobless rate. Jeffrey Gundlach, whose $39.5 billion DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund beat 97 percent of its peers last year in part by avoiding U.S. government debt, said on March 5 that "relative value has swung more to the favor" of Treasuries.
"The Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke are not concerned about inflation right now, and neither is the bond market over the short term," Donald Ellenberger, who oversees about $10 billion as co-head of government and mortgage-backed securities at Federated Investors in Pittsburgh, said in a telephone interview March 1.
Incomes Fall
The PCE gauge, which measures household spending, rose 1.2 percent in January from a year earlier, the smallest increase since October 2009 and down from a recent high of 2.9 percent in September 2011, the Commerce Department said March 1. The central bank has said it wants to keep inflation below 2 percent.
That may be easier because payroll taxes rose in January, and $85 billion in spending cuts went into effect after Congress was unable to reach a budget agreement last month. Incomes slumped 3.6 percent, the biggest monthly drop in 20 years, the Commerce Department reported March 1.
"With all of the uncertainty over policy and the economy, and with no inflation pressures to speak of, the market has found equilibrium," Ellenberger said.
Yields on 10-year notes rose 20 basis points, or 0.20 percentage point, to 2.04 percent last week in New York trading, the biggest increase since the five days ended March 16, 2012, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The yield touched 2.08 percent, the highest since April 5, 2012, after falling for the previous two weeks and sinking 11 basis points in February. The 10-year notes yielded 2.05 percent at 9:04 a.m. in New York.
Unemployment Rate
The unemployment rate unexpectedly declined to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008, from 7.9 percent as the economy added 236,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department said March 8. It's still above the Fed's target of less than 6.5 percent. The median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg News survey was for an increase of 165,000. Average hourly earnings rose 0.2 percent to $23.82.
Real yields have begun to reward investors, recovering from negative levels as recently as November, even though the gap between the Fed's inflation measure and the benchmark 10-year note is still below its 10-year average of 1.38 percent.
Another measure of the relative value of U.S bonds with maturities of more than 10 years shows them yielding 0.44 percentage point more than comparable global sovereign debt. That makes the securities the cheapest since August 2011, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes.
Term Premium
Treasuries have also gotten less expensive according to the term premium, a model created by the Fed that includes expectations for interest rates, growth and inflation. With a 30-day moving average of negative 0.65 percent, the measure shows 10-year notes are the cheapest since May, after they were the costliest ever in December.
While the U.S. is exhibiting slow growth, expected to grow at a 1.8 percent this year, other developed countries have it worse as the euro-area economy, still grappling with the effects of a debt crisis, may shrink by 0.1 percent this year, surveys of economists by Bloomberg show. The U.S. is also expected to fare better than the average of 1.15 percent growth expected in the Group of 10 developed nations.
There is "a long road ahead of these low rates," Jay Mueller, who manages about $3 billion of bonds at Wells Fargo Capital Management in Milwaukee, said in a telephone interview March 5. "It's easy to look at the U.S. and see all of these problems, until you look around the world and see everybody has these problems and more. As a consequence, you are seeing dollar-denominated assets do well, and that includes Treasuries."
Fed Purchases
Consumer prices will rise 1.8 percent this year, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists. A bond market measure used by the Fed to forecast inflation for the five years starting in 2018 has fallen to 2.83 percent from a high this year of 2.89 percent on Jan. 29, and is about the average for this gauge over the past decade.
Yields are also being held down by Fed purchases of $85 billion a month in Treasuries and mortgage bonds aimed at boosting growth and demand for the safest assets amid a dwindling supply.
Investors submitted $3.05 in bids for each dollar of the $360 billion auctioned by the Treasury this year, second only to last year's ratio of $3.15.
Global supply of the highest-quality bonds, as measured by ratings companies, is poised to fall to $6 trillion from $10 trillion before the global financial crisis, according to an International Monetary Fund report in January. Reforms such as the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law and global regulations set by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, require institutions to hold more top-graded debt as a cushion against potential losses.
Bull Market
"The shortage of debt and the sluggish recovery and employment situation have paved the way for low yields for some time," James Sarni, senior managing partner at Payden & Rygel in Los Angeles, which oversees $75 billion, said on March 6 in a telephone interview.
While Treasuries have lost 1.13 percent this year, the worst start since 2009, the bull market for bonds that began in 1980 has shown few signs of reversing. Since the 2008 collapse of the subprime-mortgage market triggered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, government debt maturing in 10 or more years has returned 48 percent, compared with the 28 percent gain for the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index.
Longer term, the best may be over for bonds, according to Zach Pandl of Minneapolis-based Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC. He says Treasuries may have zero total returns for the next two years.
Inflation 'Overshoot'
The market expects inflation to rise, according to the 10- year break-even rate, the difference in yields between government notes and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. This measure has increased to 2.58 percentage points from a 2012 low of 2 percent in January. Yields will rise to 2.26 percent at year end, according to the median forecast of analysts in a Bloomberg survey.
"Given the improving economy and the depressed levels of rates, investors aren't being compensated enough in Treasuries and rising rates make sense," Pandl, senior interest-rate strategist for Columbia, which oversees $340 billion, said in a telephone interview March 6. "Everyone recognizes that the Fed is pursuing an aggressive policy that raises the probability of an overshoot of their inflation target, even as inflation is still low and employment still high."
For now, demand is being boosted by the better returns, converting bond bears to bulls as 10-year notes gained 1.24 percent in February, reversing in part the 1.98 percent losses from January, according to Bank of America indexes.
Gundlach Buys
"Relative value has swung more to the favor of Treasuries," Gundlach, whose Los Angeles-based DoubleLine manages about $53 billion, said in a March 5 webcast. After telling investors that Treasuries were overvalued in July, DoubleLine resumed buying government securities when yields rose, he said.
Policy makers cut their target interest rate to a range of zero to 0.25 percent in December 2008. Last year they said it will stay there while unemployment remains above 6.5 percent and inflation is no more than 2.5 percent. The Federal Open Market Committee said at its January meeting it will continue asset purchases until the labor market improves "substantially," according to minutes released on January 30.
Beige Book
Bernanke defended the Fed's bond purchases in testimony to Congress on Feb. 26, saying the benefits of reducing borrowing costs and fueling growth outweigh any potential harm from rising inflation as a result of the bond purchases. The Fed said price pressures were "modest" in its Beige Book business survey, released March 6, which is based on reports from its 12 regional banks.
The tax increases and budget cuts that went into effect Jan. 1 may trim as much as 0.6 percentage point off gross domestic product, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf told lawmakers at a hearing on Feb. 13. GDP will expand 1.8 percent in 2013, down from 2.2 percent in 2012, according to the median estimate of 75 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
Bernanke has faced limited inflation so far, as the PCE has averaged 2.1 percent since he took office in January 2006, according to Commerce Department data compiled by Bloomberg. That's below the 3.8 percent average from the January 1960 start of monthly data until the beginning of his term.
"Unemployment is still high, inflation still benign, the Fed is still supporting the market and there are still problems globally, which means low yields," Matthew Duch, a fund manager at Calvert Investments in Bethesda, Maryland, which oversees more than $12 billion in assets, said in a telephone interview March. 5. "You aren't going to get outsized returns, but yields certainly aren't going to spike in this new rate environment any time soon."
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