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While the Obama Administration celebrates the accomplishments of yet another bloated government program—this one providing low-income populations with taxpayer-funded housing—a federal audit exposes the darker side of the costly welfare endeavor. Known as Rural Housing Service (RHS), the program is responsible for providing safe, sanitary and affordable housing
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Govt. Blows $102 Mil To Catch $19 Mil In Medicaid Fraud
In a shameful—and costly—example of government incompetence, a special program created to combat Medicaid fraud has cost American taxpayers more than five times the amount of overpayments it has identified. That means the anti-fraud project, known as National Medicaid Audit Program, has cost the U.S. government $102 million to operate…
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U.S. Spends $10 Mil To Train Asian Call Center Workers
While President Obama calls on companies to insource overseas jobs back to the U.S., the federal government is spending millions of dollars to help foreigners learn enough English to work in offshore call centers for American businesses. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is blowing $10 million to train…
Free Govt. Meals Contributing To Obesity
In a laughable story that illustrates how dense government can be, a taxpayer-funded program that feeds low-income children free breakfast in public schools is causing concern about child obesity. That's because, as it turns out, some kids are "double-dipping" or eating twice in the morning, according to a national newspaper…
Obama Gives Poor Free Internet After U.N. Says It's A Basic Human Right
Following a laughable United Nations declaration that high-speed internet access is a basic human right, the Obama Administration is investing north of $400 million to expand broadband into poor, rural areas of the U.S. The president has long asserted that broadband access is essential for communities to compete on a…
$4 Mil To House 12 Homeless People
In an example of how government at every level wastes tax dollars, one U.S. county is spending around $4 million in combined federal and local funds to house a dozen homeless people in an affluent community.That translates into more than $330,000 per person, which means that Uncle Sam might as…
Government Ethics Conference At Lavish Golf Resort
While President Obama pushes to increase taxes for Americans, his Office of Government Ethicsis planning a taxpayer-funded "conference" at a famously luxurious golf and spa resort in Florida.Uncle Sam will fly hundreds of federal employees—charged with fostering high ethical standards in government—from Washington D.C. to the world-renowned Orlando resort, which
Govt. Doles Out $125 Billion In "Improper Payments"
With the national debt and federal spending at an all-time high several U.S. government agencies joined forces to make an outlandish $125 billion in "improper payments" last year, an increase of more than $16 billion from the previous year.This sort of government waste and corruption is hardly an earth-shattering development.…
Job Agency Spends $73K On Superhero Campaign
In a flagrant example of how the government wastes taxpayer dollars, a federally-funded job center in Florida has financed a costly public relations campaign that is distributing thousands of superhero capes to the unemployed.The story would almost be funny if it didn't involve such an idiotic act with increasingly scarce public funds.…
Lawmakers Decry Cutting Fraud-Infested Welfare Program
Led by a famous politician who pimps oil for a sworn enemy of the United States, a pair of congressman are denouncing cuts to a fraud-infested government program that gives low-income residents money to pay heating and cooling bills.Known as Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the welfare project gets around…
Overlap In Federal Programs Wastes Billions Annually
As the already-bloated federal government keeps expanding under President Obama, a new congressional report exposes astounding waste in hundreds of duplicate programs that cost U.S. taxpayers billions annually.Released this week by the bipartisan Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of the United States Congress, the report is sure to enrage


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Despite his good fortunes with women voters, there some troubling warning signals for President Obama in the Quinnipiac poll out today. The huge problem is that he continues to lose Independent voters.
In February, the Democratic-leaning think tank Third Way chronicled the fight for the so-called "Obama Independents" — who authors Michelle Diggles and Lanae Erickson called the "heart" of the 2012 campaign.
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In 2012, Independents are likely to comprise the highest proportion of the electorate since 1976, and winning them will be crucial to victory. But not all Independents are the same, and the real showdown for 2012 is over who will win the Obama Independents. If President Obama woos the vast majority of them back, he can be reelected. But if he performs among them like Democrats did in 2010, when one-quarter of the Obama Independents voted for a Republican, it's going to be a long election night.
Barack Obama is losing the Independent vote by 7 percentage points — 46 percent to 39 percent. Of course, that doesn't measure the "Obama Independents," and a significant chunk — 8 percent — is still undecided.
But look at the trends from the past few days. They all point to Obama losing support among Independents, the group that handed him the election in 2008. He won 52 percent of the Independent vote vs. John McCain in the '08 election.
First, this is a marked shift from the Quinnipiac poll in February. Though that was a theoretical matchup between Obama and Romney because the Republican primaries were very much in full swing, Obama still had a 5-point lead on Romney — 46 to 41 percent.
That's a pretty significant 12-point swing with the most important group in the electorate.
Then there's the first Gallup daily tracking poll, which was among the first to signal the fact that Independents are now flocking to Romney. And a Fox News poll out last week also showed that Obama stands at a 6-point disadvantage to Romney among the Independent bloc.
And a survey performed by the Democratic think tank Third Way found that generally, so-called "swing independents" identify more with Mitt Romney's ideology. But that survey of the "swing Independents" — about 40 percent of Independents who will legitimately "swing" between parties in different elections— also found that they would vote for Obama today (44 percent to 38 percent).


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The Kansas City Royals try to move beyond a rough outing as they close out a three-game set with the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards on Thursday night.
On Wednesday Kansas City fell behind early and was never able to fully recover as the squad suffered a 5-3 setback in Baltimore. Royals starter Luis Mendoza was saddled with his second loss of the season as he permitted five runs -- two earned -- on five hits and three walks. Mendoza, who is now carrying a 6.38 ERA, struck out only two through six innings of work.
It also didn't help that Kansas City committed three errors in the contest, playing a crucial part in the three-run fifth for the hosts.
From an offensive standpoint, Mike Moustakas finished with three hits, knocking in a pair, as he logged his second home run of the campaign. Also going deep for the visitors was Alex Gordon, his fifth of the year.
J.J. Hardy plated a pair in the bottom of the second inning for the O's, hitting his sixth home run of the season. Manny Machado was credited with the other RBI for a Baltimore squad which has won four straight and five of the last six in order to move into a first-place tie with the Boston Red Sox atop the American League East standings.
Chris Tillman picked up his third win of the season, making it through six innings, allowing three runs on five hits and three walks, striking out a pair. Jim Johnson registered his 13th save of the year as he worked a scoreless ninth.
"I feel like we really haven't lost a step from where we finished (in 2012) or how we finished last year," said Johnson, who notched his 34th save in a row to match Randy Myers (1997) for the club record. "But I think ... guys are really starting to get a good feel for what's going on and what's expected of them. All 25 are going in the same direction."
Heading to the hill for Orioles tonight, making just his second appearance of the season, is Freddy Garcia. The right-hander, who has a career mark of 10-13 with a 5.69 ERA in 30 all-time appearances versus KC, had a strong debut for Baltimore on Saturday as he allowed just two runs on three hits and a walk, striking out two in 6 2/3 innings of work versus the Angels on the road. While the O's eventually secured a 5-4 win in that outing, Garcia failed to earn a decision.
A former Baltimore hurler himself, Jeremy Guthrie takes the ball for a Royals squad which is now second in the AL Central, 1 1/2 games behind Detroit.
Guthrie, who had his most productive years in the majors with the Orioles between 2007-2011, posting 47 of his 59 career victories during that stretch, is currently enjoying a very strong start to the 2013 campaign with four wins in as many decisions. In fact, the Royals have won five of his six starts thus far, a trend that the team hopes to continue as they try to snap a season-long three-game slide.
In action last Saturday, the right-hander pitched a shutout for Kansas City against the Chicago White Sox, allowing just four hits and striking out three, while walking one. In posting his first career shutout, Guthrie also broke a Kansas City record in the process, stringing together 17 straight starts without earning a loss going back to last season, breaking the franchise mark of 16 in a row set by Paul Splittorff in 1977-78.
"It's something I've never been able to accomplish," said Guthrie of his first career shutout. "I had a few opportunities. Going out there in the ninth inning and hearing that little roar from the crowd was really cool to back me up. We played great defense early that made it all possible."
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Barry Alvarez to coach Wisconsin in Rose Bowl after Bret Bielema's departure
MADISON, Wis. Wisconsin is going retro for the Rose Bowl.
Former coach Barry Alvarez will return to the sidelines to coach the Badgers when they face No. 8 Stanford on New Year's Day. The announcement Thursday came two days after Bret Bielema stepped down to take over at Arkansas.
"I'm very excited about coming back," Alvarez said. "This will be a one-game I'm not looking to do it any longer than one game."
Bielema's departure was a shock, coming just three days after Wisconsin earned a school-record third straight trip to the Rose Bowl with a 70-31 rout of then-No. 14 Nebraska in the Big Ten championship. But speculation immediately centered on Alvarez returning as coach, at least for one game.
His return will mean little disruption for players, and even fewer distractions. Though Alvarez stepped down as head coach following the 2005 season, he's remained an integral part of the football program as Wisconsin's athletic director and players are familiar and comfortable with him. They won't have to adapt to a new coaching style Alvarez hand-picked Bielema as his successor and Alvarez won't have the pressure of a one-game audition that a current assistant looking to upgrade his job or keep the one he's got would.
In fact, it was the players who convinced Alvarez to come back. Following Bielema's announcement, Alvarez received messages from senior quarterback Curt Phillips and captain Mike Taylor, who said the players had met and decided they wanted him as their Rose Bowl coach.
"I told him I would be honored to coach them," Alvarez said. "I wanted them to understand, if I was going to coach them, we weren't going to screw around, We were going to go out there to win."
Alvarez's 118-73-4 record in 16 seasons coaching the Badgers includes a 3-0 mark in the Rose Bowls Wisconsin's only victories in eight trips to Pasadena.
The chance to see Alvarez on the sidelines one more time is sure to entice some alums and boosters into making trips to the Rose Bowl, too. Wisconsin supporters will always appreciate Alvarez, who took a program that was little more than a laughing stock for three decades and turned it into one of the Big Ten's top teams. Wisconsin had had five straight losing seasons before Alvarez arrived in 1990, and posted a winning record in just six of the previous 26 seasons. After losing to USC in the 1963 Rose Bowl, Wisconsin would go 19 years without a bowl appearance.
The Badgers were in such sorry shape that the Wisconsin band's postgame show was the main attraction at Camp Randall, with students not even bothering to show up until halftime or later.
But under Alvarez, Wisconsin became known for big, stingy defenses, a power running game and a massive offense line that would soon be imitated throughout college and the pros. The Badgers had a Big Ten-record 10 straight seasons with a 1,000-yard rusher under Alvarez, and Ron Dayne became the school's second Heisman Trophy winner in 1999.
Four years after taking over, Alvarez led the Badgers to a 10-1-1 record, a No. 4 ranking and the 1994 Rose Bowl. Wisconsin has had only two losing seasons since then.
Alvarez's return also gives the Badgers something to talk about besides their less-than-impressive record. Wisconsin is headed for the Rose Bowl at 8-5, and more than a few people have said the Badgers aren't worthy of a spot in a BCS bowl.
Wisconsin was just third in the Big Ten's Leaders Division. But neither Ohio State nor Penn State was eligible for the postseason because of NCAA sanctions, sending the Badgers to the Big Ten title game by default.


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Texas jury convicts man of consulate slaying
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A federal jury convicted a high-level Mexican gang member on Friday of participating in the 2010 slaying of a U.S. consulate employee in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, 35, was found guilty of three counts of murder for ordering the killing of U.S. consulate worker Leslie Ann Enriquez Catton; her husband, Arthur Redfels; and Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, the husband of another consulate employee in Ciudad Juarez in March 2010. He was also convicted on eight other counts, including money laundering, racketeering and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
The jury reached its verdict in just over three hours of deliberation.
Prosecutor John Gibson said Gallegos faces up to life in prison for each count but the money laundering charges, which carry up to 20 years. Gallegos is scheduled to be sentenced April 24.
"I'm glad it's over," Reuben Redfels, Arthur Redfels' brother, told The Associated Press after the verdict.
The prosecution presented more than a dozen witnesses, including federal agents and former Barrio Azteca gang members who said Gallegos gave the order to shoot Enriquez, Redfels and Salcido.
The former gang members who testified said the killing was a mistake by gang members who thought they were targeting rival gang members that drove a car similar to Salcidos' white Honda Pilot. Redfels and Enriquez were targeted because they were seen leaving the same children's party in Ciudad Juarez.
The defense did not present any witnesses, nor did it give an opening statement. During the closing arguments, the defense focused on attacking the credibility of the witnesses, saying they had been offered sentence reductions, received legal status in the U.S., or had relatives be given legal status. Some witnesses have been paid thousands of dollars by the government.
Defense attorney Randolph Ortega also said the statement Gallegos gave to FBI agents in Mexico City after his arrest in Ciudad Juarez was given under intimidation by Mexican law enforcement agents.
In that statement, Gallegos admitted to being the liaison between the Barrio Azteca gang and the La Linea gang, the enforcing branch of the Juarez Cartel. He also admitted to putting a "lookout" on a white Honda Pilot and that the order to shoot that car came from La Linea leader Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, a man known as "El Diego."
Ortega said they plan to appeal the ruling.
The indictment names 35 defendants. Twenty-five people have pleaded guilty, and one committed suicide in jail. Gallegos was extradited from Mexico two years ago.


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Congress in the Classroom® is a national, award-winning summer workshop
developed and sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center and dedicated to
the exchange of ideas and information on teaching about Congress.
Designed for high school or middle school teachers who teach U.S. history,
government, civics, political science, or social studies, the program accepts
35 teachers annually.
Applications will be accepted through March 15. We expect to confirm selections
by March 29.
The workshop will feature a variety of sessions related to the U.S. Congress.
Presenters will emphasize ideas and resources that teachers can use almost
immediately in their classrooms--examples include sessions about Internet
sites, online historical resources, simulations, and best classroom practices.
Sessions for 2013 are listed below. Information about the content of each
session will be posted on our Web site as it becomes available.
Throughout the program, you will work with subject matter experts and
colleagues from across the nation. This combination of firsthand knowledge and
peer-to-peer interaction will give you new ideas, materials, and a
professionally enriching experience.
"Until now so much of what I did in my class on Congress was straight
theory--this is what the Constitution says," noted one of our teachers. "Now I
can use these activities and illustrations to help get my students involved in
the class and at the very least their community but hopefully in the federal
government. This workshop has given me a way to help them see how relevant my
class is and what they can do to help make changes in society."
The 2013 workshop will begin Monday afternoon, July 29, and end at noon on
Thursday, August 1. All sessions will take place at the headquarters hotel,
Embassy Suites and Conference Center, East Peoria, IL
(http://www.embassysuiteseastpeoria.com/home.aspx). The Illinois State Board of
Education certifies the workshop for up to 22 Continuing Education Units. The
National Council for the Social Studies also endorses the program.
Participants are responsible for (1) a non-refundable $135 registration fee
(required to confirm acceptance after notice of selection) and (2)
transportation to and from Peoria, Illinois. Many school districts will pay all
or a portion of these costs.
The Center pays for three nights lodging at the headquarters hotel (providing a
single room for each participant), workshop materials, local transportation,
all meals, and presenter honoraria and expenses.
The Center spends between $40,000 and $45,000 to host the program each year.
What follows are the sessions planned for the 2013 edition of Congress in the
Classroom®. Please re-visit the site for changes as the program develops.
Session Titles, 2013:
In addition to the sessions below, additional sessions will be listed as
speakers are confirmed.
"Congressional Insight: A Simulation"
With Congressional Insight, you experience the high-pressure, uncompromising
environment in which legislators must operate. With increasingly tight
deadlines imposed by the simulation, you are part of a team that must decide
which bills to support, which committee posts to seek, how much time to devote
to fund-raising, and what tradeoffs to make amidst constituent, party,
special-interest, and media pressures. The quality of your choices will be
tested in a re-election campaign.
"The Four "Ps" of Congress," Frank H. Mackaman, The Dirksen Congressional
Mackaman will suggest a way to present information about Congress organized
around four themes. These themes serve (somewhat loosely) as the structure for
the Congress in the Classroom® 2013 workshop.
"Ten Things to Know About the 113th Congress," Frank H. Mackaman, The Dirksen
Congressional Center
What are the essential factors to know about the new Congress? This session
will highlight ten of them ranging from membership and organizational
characteristics to political dynamics and the issue agenda.
"Teaching with Primary Sources," Cindy Rich, Teaching with Primary Sources,
Eastern Illinois University
The Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program works
with an educational consortium of schools, universities, libraries, and
foundations to help teachers use the Library's vast collection of digitized
primary sources to enrich their classroom instruction. Schools that have
participated in the program know that it encourages educators to embed primary
sources into curriculum through all disciplines and grade levels to build a
foundation of knowledge, enhance understanding, increase comprehension, and
develop multimedia/information literacy skills.
"Thomas.gov Reinvented as Congress.gov," Cindy Rich, Teaching with Primary
Sources, Eastern Illinois University
Learn about the features of the new Web site, Congress.gov, and explore
classroom applications.
"Fantasy Congress: Adapting Fantasy Football to the People's Branch," Jennifer
Hora, Department of Political Science, Valparaiso University
Imagine how engaged your students might be if they learned about Congress
through the use of a drafting game similar to Fantasy Football. Hora has
developed such an approach and finds that it encourages discussion, ownership,
and laughter in a curriculum focused on Congress.
"What Do Political Cartoons Tell Us About Congress?"
This session will introduce two Web-based resources for teaching about Congress
using political cartoons.
"Help for Teachers from the Office of the Historian," U.S. House of
Representatives, Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives
This presentation will focus on the educational resources available through the
Historian's new web site. They include information about the House, Congress
members, exhibitions and publications, historical collections, an oral history
program, and educational materials.
"A View of Congress from the White House: What the Presidential Tapes Reveal,"
KC Johnson, Department of History, Brooklyn College
Using samples from Lyndon Johnson presidential recordings, KC Johnson will
demonstrate the nature of congressional-executive relations in the 1960s. The
recordings give a behind-the-scenes sense of how Congress works on public
policy issues that's unusual in its richness.
"Congress at Work: Going to the Source Documents," Christine Blackerby, Center
for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration
Teach your students how laws are made by using records actually created by
Congress while laws were made. Facsimiles of historical congressional records
are used to illustrate each step in the legislative process. Participants
investigate and appraise each document to determine what action is happening
and where in the legislative process that action occurs. This classroom-ready
lesson is set up as a game.
"The YouTube Congressional Campaign"
The "Vote Travis Irvine for Congress" campaign offers teachers the opportunity
to illustrate the challenges and foibles of congressional campaigning.
"The Congressional Timeline, 1933-2013"
The Dirksen Congressional Center's Web-based timeline arrays more than 550 of
the nation's laws on a timeline beginning in 1933 and continuing to the
present. A second timeline "band" depicts major political events of the period
as a way to provide context for Congress's law-making. The project also
includes lesson plans.
"A Modern-Day 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
Many teachers use the famed "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" starring Jean Arthur
and James Stewart. For all its relevance nearly 75 years after debuting, is
there a modern treatment of the same themes that might have more impact on your
students? Yes. And you will view it in this session, with a follow-up
"Off Beat Ways to Introduce Congress to Students"
You don't have to introduce Congress with, "The United States Congress is the
bicameral legislature of the federal government . . . ." as some teachers
undoubtedly do and Wikipedia actually does. Instead, experiment with these
video clips to bring some fun to the subject.
"Insider Resources for the Congress Member"
Learn about two organizations that provide advice to Congress members and how
you can use their resources in your classrooms.
"Listen Up Legislators: How to Get Your Point Across," Stephanie Vance, the
Advocacy Guru, Washington DC
How do you break through the "noise" to communicate with a member of Congress?
Vance has the answers. She advises clients on how to reach Congress members
effectively by understanding how congressional offices function and process
information. Heads up--one of you will have a role in "Worst Congressional
Meeting in the World!"
Take a look at The Dirksen Center Web site --
http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_programs_CongressClassroom.htm -- to see
what participants say about the program.
If you are interested in learning more about the sessions and registering for
the Congress in the Classroom 2013 workshop, you can complete an online
registration form found at:
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The Dirksen Congressional Center
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Pekin, IL 61554
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How Can We Learn From a Pet Food Recall?
By Lucy Postins, Pet Nutritionist, The Honest Kitchen
Consumers should take time to read pet food labels, familiarize themselves with what various ingredients really are, research the companies that make the products they buy—and then decide what they would (and would not) like their pets to eat.
As pet owners come to terms with the gravity of this most recent, widespread tragedy in the pet food industry, it is important to learn as much as possible from what has occurred, to protect our animal companions and to try to evoke change in an industry that has become a "catch-all" for industrial and human-food byproducts and off-casts.
Many people are relying on the Internet for resources on the recall. Don't forget elderly neighbors, family members or others who may not have computer access and may still be unaware of the gravity of the situation. The extent of this latest recall makes it impossible to convey brand names, lot numbers, batch codes and UPCs effectively without computer access. Helping those who are still in the dark to double-check the food they've bought could save lives.
Pet industry regulations allow manufacturers to use ingredients that most people would never knowingly give to their animal companions. Many conventional "grocery brand" pet foods contain byproducts such as feet, beaks, feathers, blood and other animal parts unfit for human consumption. Chemical preservatives, including ethoxyquin, TBHQ, BHA and BHT, are utilized to prolong shelf life, and grains or grain parts that are hard to digest and mostly unsuitable for cats and dogs (wheat, corn, rice and soy) are often used as a protein source instead of meat.
Understanding what various pet food ingredients are—and why they are included in some products—is an important part of a pet owner's responsibility when selecting a food for their companion. The AAFCO (American Association of Feed Control Officials) formal definition of gluten is "the tough, viscid nitrogenous substance remaining when the flour or wheat or other grain is washed to remove the starch." Why is it included? It costs far less than meat and other wholesome ingredients!
Many customers have been particularly shocked to discover just how many different brands can be made by one major conglomerate (even well-respected products that are not affected by the recall). And more disturbing, a vast number of products under so many different labels, names and price points could all contain the same low-grade ingredient. In many cases, products with appealing names and labels that are marketed as "veterinary" or "natural" in some way have turned out to be exactly the same as the generic store brands that are sold for a fraction of the cost!
The following checklist can be used to develop some insight into companies a customer is considering:
Are they willing to share ingredient data with customers?
How do they rate in independent publications like the Whole Dog Journal?
How well do they respond to basic customer service questions? What about complex inquiries warranting a nutritional consultation?
Do they use whole or organic ingredients?
What are their product innovations or other features that set them apart from their competition or somehow raise the bar?
What are the company's values?
Is the company privately owned? Are they willing to disclose who they are owned by?
Will they disclose if they make their own products or contract out manufacturing to another vendor?
The pet food aisle can be a daunting place, with an overwhelming array of pretty packets and marketing tactics on shelves. Pet owners must take the time to understand the options available for their budget. Most products sold in convenience stores or supermarkets (with the exception of some natural and health food stores) are substandard.
Pet guardians should buy from specialty pet stores with staff who will take the time to walk them through the options. If you can't get the advice you need, shop elsewhere. A store that has taken the time to carry more reputable, high-class brands, as well as raw and natural products, will generally have well-trained staff who can help owners in their purchasing decisions. The Whole Dog Journal is an excellent, unbiased resource for product reviews and opinion.
As more customers begin to educate themselves on the issue of pet food manufacturing and then start to expect better quality, the industry will slowly but surely be forced to look at itself and readdress which ingredients are acceptable for use in pet food products. Perhaps even AAFCO will reconsider some of the obscene substances that are unfit for human consumption, currently allowed in pet foods, and they'll become obsolete altogether.


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Houston Dynamo at New York Red Bulls
Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 p.m. CT
Red Bull Arena, Harrison, NJ
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The Houston Dynamo (No. 4 seed) and New York Red Bulls (No. 1 seed) meet for the second leg of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Wednesday night at Red Bull Arena. The clubs played to a 2‐2 draw in Sunday's first leg in Houston. The club with more total goals from the two legs wins the series. The winner of Wednesday's game will advance to the Eastern Conference Championship. If Wednesday's game is tied after 90 minutes, two 15‐minute extra time periods will be played in their entirety, followed by penalty kicks, if necessary.
REFEREE: Silviu Petrescu; AR1 (bench): Daniel Belleau; AR2 (opposite): Peter Manikowski; 4th: Geoff Gamble
HOUSTON DYNAMO -- OUT: Jermaine Taylor – Left foot fracture;
NEW YORK RED BULLS -- OUT: Ian Christianson – Right fifth metatarsal surgery; Heath Pearce – Hip surgery; QUESTIONABLE: Luis Robles – Right knee sprain; SUSPENDED: Jamison Olave (one game red card suspension)
- LEAGUE HEAD-TO-HEAD: HOU 3 wins, 17 GF ... NY 8 wins, 26 GF ... Ties 7
- 2013 HEAD-TO-HEAD: HOU 0 wins, 1 GF ... NY 3 wins, 9 GF ... Ties 0
- AT RED BULL ARENA: 6/30: NY 2, HOU 0 (Alexander 60; Steele 88)
- MLS CUP PLAYOFFS: HOU 0 wins, 3 GF ... NY 1 win, 6 GF ... 2 ties
- After making just 11 league appearances – just one as a starter – in an inju- ry-plagued season, Omar Cummings scored his first goal of the campaign to level the series heading back to New Jersey. Cumming had one career play- off goal in seven matches, with the Colorado Rapids. "Games like this and scoring a goal is what's been pushing me," Cummings said. "It's been very difficult physically, but also mentally. You're not getting the playing time you're used to even. Yes, the season's past, but I've still got a lot of important goals to score for this club."
- Ricardo Clark scored his first playoff goal in 15 career postseason appearances with the Dynamo, and just the second of his MLS career -- his first since 2005, when he netted for the San Jose Earthquakes. "The way everything turned out, you feel real positive going into Wednesday," said assistant coach Wade Barrett, who depu- tized for the suspended Dominic Kinnear. "We didn't script it this way ... the first half didn't go as we had planned. We gave up two goals and dug a hole, but ... the guys came back with a fantastic attitude and got a goal back right away."
- The late come- back extended the Dynamo undefeated streak in home postseason matches to five games. Their last playoff loss at home? The 3-0 defeat by New York in 2008. "You can't really win the series in the first leg, but I think you can definitely lose it if you give up a ton of goals," said center back Bobby Boswell. "It was great for the guys to give ourselves a chance heading to New York. We are going to fight to the last whistle. We have to go out and try to hit them where it hurts, at home."
- A year ago, the Dynamo lost their last three playoff matches on the road, after a 2-1 win at Chicago in the Knockout Round. "When we went down 2-0 you had that feeling, 'It's not this again,'" said Will Bruin. "It's happened to us quite a few times this year. It's uncharac- teristic but ... we're much more mentally strong that earlier in the season. We had a talk and said 'Look, it's not over.' We just had the mindset to chip away little by little and it's a tie ballgame going back to New York."
- With the late draw, the Red Bulls saw their MLS Cup Playoffs winless streak extended to five games. They last won a playoff match in the Knockout Round in 2011, a 2-0 defeat of FC Dallas. "The red card killed us. Those goals are our fault. It wasn't something created out of spectacular stuff. It was self-inflicted on us," said Red Bulls head coach Mike Petke. "The rule of thumb is on the road, if you get a tie and go home to your place and it's pretty much 0-0, it's a good thing. But our guys are angry at the way that we allowed them back in the game."
- The Red Bulls also return home having never before won a playoff game at Red Bull Arena -- having lost all three postseason matches there in the stadium's history -- and also riding a six- game winless streak in home playoff matches. Their last victory in a home playoff game came in 2005, a 1-0 win vs. New England. "If you come here and get a draw, it's not the worst result. We're strong at home. [But] the result isn't going to take care of itself. We're going to have to do what we do at home, as we've been doing," said midfielder Lloyd Sam.
- The Red Bulls have still not lost to the Dynamo this season, with three wins and a draw in their four meetings in all competitions. they scored nine goals in three games at BBVA Compass Stadium. "It's not like it's the end of the world. I feel like we've been in Houston for the past couple of months, so now we finally get to go back home and have them on our home field and obviously we're going to be better on our home field," said midfielder Dax McCarty.
- The Red Bulls have still last lost a match on Aug. 25, finishing the regular season with an eight-game undefeated run (6-0-2). "They didn't hurt us from the run of play. The only way they hurt us was from our own mistakes," said McCarty. "We've been a team that's very solid, we've been a team that doesn't beat ourselves. And when we beat ourselves, that's the only way we're going to lose, so we need to clean it up."
- Making his first career start in the MLS Cup Playoffs, Eric Alexander scored his first postseason goal to double the Red Bulls lead. Tim Cahill had earlier scored his first MLS playoff goal.
- There will be a major adjustment in the back four with Jamison Olave suspended for the second leg after being sent off in the 65th minute. "We've hopefully learned our mistake from last year, where we drew the game on the road in the first leg and we lost at home," said McCarty. "That's a horrible feeling, that's a feeling that we can't have again."


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I cannot emphasize enough the true importance of ear-training and "hearing the changes" in a song. This is really the only way that you will know you are growing in a musical way, and even though some people obviously are keener at it than others I believe it's an ability that we all possess!
Real ear-training is the kind of thing that must be honed and developed over time. Now that I have achieved the ability to hear any change, and the fact that I hear literally everything as a tonal and musical relationship, I can think back and see that even at a very young age, I was already displaying this ability, and using it internally for all kinds of games and ideas. And what I mean by "games" is that my young mind would always "play" with the sonic relationships that I heard and recognized. I still do this all the time….if someone drops a plate in a restaurant, and there's music playing somewhere, I can immediately identify that plate's note as a 7th, a 6th, a 9th, or whatever sonic relationship it has to the original "pad" of the song that is playing. Remember that everything has a note to it, and it just becomes your job to start to recognize just what that note is, and more importantly, its relative pitch in relation to other music you are hearing.
Recognizing portions of "riffs" and "licks" you already can play easily is another way of training your ear. Those note groupings and patterns can really become emblazoned in your ears, and portions of them should become instantly recognizable, anywhere in life. I have a student who for example, always gets a phone call on his landline while we have his lesson. I always imitate the phone's ring on the guitar, as it's actually a perfect E Blues "trill", consisting of two notes. It always makes him laugh how I hear this, but more importantly, I am trying to convey this ear training process to him, and hoping he starts to do his own recognizing of tonalities and note relationships/intervals. I guess there's a music lesson in just about anything we use our ears for, and the experiences we go through as musicians all leave their indelible mark on us as we continue to use memory as a part of our learning.
As you continue to move on through this process, you'll see that it is actually a total joy to develop your ear, and the more you open yourself up to what you "hear", the more you simply do hear! And then of course, the more you "hear", it makes sense that the more you'll be able to play, and that, ultimately, is what it's really all about! Hope you enjoy the process…I certainly have, and continue to, more and more with each new day!


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Hope College will present its annual fall student dance concerts on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4-5, at 8 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concerts feature works choreographed and danced by Hope College students. Although many of them are dance majors and minors, not all students involved in the concert are conducting studies in the department of dance. The Advanced Composition class will also contribute pieces to the Student Dance Concert.
In addition, several works choreographed by the Composition I class will be premiered. Composition I is a semester-long course taught by Steven Iannacone that introduces students to choreographic structure of dance, including problems in space, motion, design, dynamics, and theme.
The Knickerbocker Theater is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Sipping Beauty
By Tom Grant
Label: nu-Wrinkle Records
Released 4/7/2017
Sipping Beauty tracks
1. Petrichor Perfume
2. Sun Kissed Beings
3. Sipping Beauty
4. Feathers Falling Up
5. Wrapped in Love
6. Sighs 'n Whispers
7. Arms Wide Open
8. Desire Unspoken
9. Moondrops
10. Where Time Disappears
Sipping Beauty
Born in Portland, Oregon,
Tom Grant
is among the original pioneers of the smooth jazz genre, having enjoyed a longstanding and successful musical career going back to the 1980's. In fact, I remember being quite enamored as a child with his hit, "If You Were My Girl", from his 1988 Mango Tango album, which aired for years thereafter on my local smooth jazz radio station. Nearly three decades and a plethora of releases later, Grant is still expressing his artistic brilliance, this time with a beautiful recording aptly titled,
Sipping Beauty
. Comprised of ten original instrumentals spanning an hour, minimal smooth jazz is imbued with new age and ambient accents on this exquisitely lovely recording. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Grant plays piano, percussion, keyboards and synthesizers throughout. He is also accompanied by David Captein on bass (tracks 4 and 5) and sitar (track 9), along with Kevin Karrick on guitar (tracks 1, 7, 8 and 10). Mary Suzanne Garvey is credited with the album's painting and poem in the liner notes.
The Bossa Nova-tinged "Petichor Perfume" opens with a swaying rhythm, lush pads and delicately flowing piano interlaced with classical guitar. Hazily romantic and dreamlike, this beautiful piece seemingly paints an idyllic scene of sailing in the evening along a misty river. Following next is the caressingly warm "Sun-Kissed Beings", which conveys a somewhat tropical island feel with its interplay of classical guitar, subtle piano and rhythmic shakers, as hovering background voices lend an angelic presence throughout. The title track, "Sipping Beauty", is characterized by soft piano keyboard textures that give way to a wash of chimes at the midway point, overall imparting a wistful sense of nostalgia and remembrance. One of my favorite pieces, "Feathers Falling Up", aptly conveys a delicate airiness with its repeating melody of crystalline keyboard notes that are gently accompanied by shakers, bass guitar and ethnic-tinged percussion. Another especially noteworthy composition is "Wrapped in Love", where suspended vocal layers, distant echoing drums and perfectly understated twangy guitar notes seemingly recall that of overlooking a canyon sunset. Co-composed with David Captein, "Sighs and Whispers" is a minimal smooth jazz-tinged number that somewhat reminds me of Pat Metheny's softer musical side. "Arms Wide Open" is another favorite that incorporates all the signature musical elements on the album; while the equally beguiling, "Moondrops", weaves Indian sitar into a lushly flowing current which follows along a deeply meditative course.
Often conveying a Mediterranean flair wrapped in a sensual haze, Sipping Beauty is ever-romantic but not overly sentimental, effectively imparting a subtle sense of mystery throughout. It's especially wonderful to see Tom Grant still actively creating music and exploring new sonic terrain, which simply works to perfection on this exquisitely elegant and tastefully sumptuous album!
Rating: Excellent
- reviewed by Candice Michele on 6/16/2017
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New Hampshire State Fire Marshal, J. William Degnan, warns residents that with the extreme weather, urgent steps are needed to reduce fire and carbon monoxide deaths and injuries. Millions of Americans have suffered through treacherous weather – snow, ice and Arctic-like temperatures – already this winter. And while these extreme conditions have received much deserved attention, U.S. residential fire and carbon monoxide deaths and injuries account for far more fatalities in most years than all natural disasters combined.
"From my 38 plus years of experience in the fire industry, I can tell you that no one is immune," said Marshal Degnan. "Fire can happen anytime, anywhere – and too often ends in tragedy." In January a family of 5 narrowly escaped from their home during a house fire caused by a hidden pipe connected to their woodstove. A family in Manchester were overcome with Carbon Monoxide and brought to the hospital. They were lucky, as there were no working smoke or CO alarms in the homes.
There have, however, already been 5 fatalities this year in New Hampshire residential fires. Working smoke alarms may have saved their lives! Degnan urges all residents to check your smoke alarms and those of your family, friends, and neighbors.
Marshal Degnan said, "It is the deadliest time of the year for home fires and CO poisonings. As families struggle to stay warm, it's important to clear flues and outside exhaust vents of snow and debris, place generators outside if there is a power outage, and keep flammable materials at least three feet away from any heat source. These small, but vital, actions can be life-saving."
Additionally, "I urge families to take these five simple steps to help protect your loved ones and home year-round", said Degnan:
- Replace outdated smoke alarms [any installed 10 or more years ago] because age-related factors like dust, insects and airborne contaminants can impact alarms' efficiency. If you have battery-powered alarms, choose replacement alarms with sealed, long-life lithium batteries. They offer 10-years of protection, are tamper-proof, and never need the battery replaced. Don't forget to install alarms on each floor and inside/outside of sleeping areas.
- Place UL-listed fire extinguishers within reach on every level of your home; make sure they are within reach in rooms like the kitchen, garage and bedrooms.
- Develop and practice an escape plan with your family; know two ways out of each room.
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Extreme weather conditions should prompt all of us to take stock in our home emergency preparations. But don't ignore the simple steps that can help save lives throughout 2014. For further information visit the website www.nh.gov/co or contact us at email@example.com. Get more tips on the NFPA website here: generator safety information and safety tips sheet.


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South Carolina is one of 22 states to decline to take the Medicaid expansion that was part of the Affordable Care Act. The expansion would have extended coverage to people with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level. The estimate is that 344,000 people would have become newly eligible. It would not have cost South Carolina one single penny until 2017 and would never have cost the state more that 20 percent for that expansion.
Instead South Carolina, under a "healthy outcomes" initiative, is giving $475,000,000 to hospitals to help provide coverage to 8,511 poor people who routinely use emergency rooms for care. The hospitals would be penalized on future reimbursement rates if they don't meet their quotas for moving a few people into some form of health care. Coastal Carolina Hospital has a quota of 73 patients.
In our state, Gov. Nikki Haley and the GOP-dominated government have shown their independence. Although our federal tax dollars go to support the ACA, Gov. Haley refuses to accept federal Medicare funds to insure 344,000 people at a cost of $0 for three years. The expansion would also bring many new jobs in the medical industry (nurses, doctors, clerks, and construction workers). Instead the state is spending $475,000,000 in order to give some form of health care to as few as 8,511 people. That's $55,000 per person.
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Buzz on the Street: The Wild, the Innocent, and the 200-Day Shuffle
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Gate Sniffage
Todd Harrison
After twelve days of borderline Biblical living conditions, power was restored to our home on Long Island on Saturday night.
While yesterday it felt like the previous two weeks were a bad dream--life was seemingly normal again; the weather was superb, our Peewee football team finished the season undefeated and the Raiders got creamed--I'm all too aware that any sort of celebration would be in extremely poor taste. There is still a slew of suffering on the east coast, which is why we're directing the proceeds from this year's Festivus to benefit educational efforts surrounding children impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Click here to register; it's a rocking good time!
Turning our attention to the tape....
I had breakfast this morning with Frank Boulben, the CMO of Research In Motion (Nasdaq:RIMM). As Minyans already know, I've been trading this stock from the long side (buying dips to sell blips) for the last year, sometimes successfully (catching a 40% move higher last December) and sometimes not so much (getting stopped out for a flat trade a few weeks ago, missing the latest 40% rally).
While I'm compelled to disclose that there may be a commercial relationship in our future, I will also share that I got a sneak preview of the BB10 operating system (which will launch on January 30, per the press release this morning) and it blew me away. This isn't your father's BlackBerry; it's completely revamped, extremely user-friendly and it has numerous features that can't found anywhere else.
As discussed before -- when the stock was trading at six and change -- my sense is that this puppy sees double-digits into the launch. The timing of said launch -- January 30 -- helps cement that sense as this stock lost ground in 2012 and fund managers may purge it from their sheets into year-end, much like last year. The "easy" trade, from my perch, is the move into the launch, but that may only be the beginning of the rebirth.
Away from that individual play--in which I have no position, at present--we are sitting on some pretty serious levels as we power up for another five-session set.
With last week's election drama in the rear-view -- we mapped it in the 'Ville, lest you missed it -- the two top-line topics on the lips of money managers are the Fiscal Cliff and Greece, both of which had on-the-margin positive news over the weekend. The agenda not on their lips, but very much in their minds, is the percolating performance anxiety and I will again say that the buyers are higher and the sellers are lower.
S&P 1380 (the 200-day) is the level to watch (it should hold the first test) while the "lower highs" (technically negative) remain in play in the Semiconductors (INDEXNASDAQ:SOX), Banks (INDEXDJX:BKX), and the Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC). With regard to that latter matter -- the tech tape -- Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) continues to lead that complex, as discussed Friday morning on the Buzz when the stock was trading in the $535-540 range:
Apple (AAPL) is down 24% from it's 2012 high two months ago, almost in a straight line. For those of you looking for a Snapper---which could then feed into upside performance anxiety--this is setting up as a decent risk-reward with a stop below $530, per the chart below.
The 200-day for Apple is $594, which corresponds to the 200-day in the NDX at 2664 (2.5% higher). Thus, IF (big if) the S&P holds this zone, a rally back to the 200-day moving averages in Apple, and by extension the NDX, may be the forward-looking trade (before further slippage). See both sides, define your risk and remember that discipline must always trump conviction.
Good luck today.
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NBG, Yeah You Know What That Means
Michael Gayed
News coming out on Greece with wranglings over the restructing program has continued to push the National Bank of Greece (NYSE:NBG) lower and lower. In the beginning of the year, Greece grabbed headlines as fears of a Eurozone breakup were rising. On a number of occasions back then, I argued Greece did not matter, largely because reflationary behavior was underway in markets and because it seemed everyone was focused on it. Now, no one seems to care about Greece because everyone is focused on the next 4 years under Obama and the Fiscal Cliff. It is rare that what is directly in front of you is most dangerous. Rather, it is that which is in the corner of your eye which can make you most vulnerable to a negative surprise.
With the complete collapse in Greek stocks, collapse in Treasury bond yields, and collapse in Eurozone attention, I suspect the real surprise is not what happens here at home but what happens in Europe once again. Tread carefully here - our ATAC models used for managing our mutual fund and separate accounts remain out of equities until conditions improve in risk sentiment based on intermarket analysis.
Two Sides of the Shining
Jeffrey Cooper
Gold (NYSE:GLD) exploded through its 200 dma in the summer and recently pulled back toward the 200 and the prior pivot.
If we're going off the fiscal cliff, then the dollar is going south and gold is likely going higher and the pattern going into next year may be a bullish big picture Cup & Handle.
If we're not going off the fiscal cliff then gold may have carved out a double top in 2012.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Market Staging an Early Bid for Turnaround Tuesday
Peter Prudden
As the futures were down double digits, I saw multiple reversals being put in. I don't view this as a lasting bottom at the moment. With a 60 minute close above the 1385 area on the S&P 500 (^GSPC), we should see a bounce into 1400-1405. I am viewing this as an area to short.
There is a lot of chatter on the fiscal cliff. Many are complacent on the topic, again putting faith in Washington to see the warning signs of dealing with an urgent debate or kicking the can one more time. This time could be different. There is a sense of panic in Washington as many are licking their wounds from the election and lucky to be still afloat. The hope is that everyone slides to the middle. But we can't place capital on hope.
I sent an email out to a few friends in the trading community last week suggesting the coming fiscal cliff is shaping up like August 2011, with regard to the debt ceiling debacle. Let me remind you as I did last August. When Congress vetoed TARP on the first vote, the Dow (^DJI) dropped nearly 1,000 points. Yes, there is a large amount of fear being built up. If the talking heads come together this market will experience a rip your face off short covering rally. If not, it's the same old bump and grind.
Important Spot for Natty, MLP Stops the Bleeding, German Chatter
Michael Sedacca
Natural gas broke through two levels of resistance this morning, and has put the downtrend in jeopardy. If we hold this level throughout the rest of the day and the inventory level on Thursday shows the demand growth as expected, futures could be on a beeline towards $4. Before today, I thought that the effects of Hurricane Sandy and the cold front that was behind it would have a bigger effect on the price, but today seems to be the day to factor that in.
MLP's such as Prudhoe Bay (NYSE:BPT) and LINE Energy (Nasdaq:LINE) have been under considerable pressure since the presidential election culminated last Tuesday. I don't have anything extraordinary to add, but the bleeding appears to have slowed today after taking a 7%+ pounding.
German Finance Minister Schaeuble said earlier that Germany considering paying out all three tranches of aid to Greece at once, echoing the headline from the German newspaper Bild this morning, saying a similar thing. The rub is that they need a "control mechanism" to control the payout. This essentially reads like, controlling the payouts so they don't spend it all in one place. Again, I'll point out that the EU and Germany are attempting to limit the opportunities for the German parliament to veto something.
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ES View: Short-Term Bullish
Janice Dorn
We are short-term bullish in the ES (SP futures) 1369 area.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Honey, I Shrunk the Spreads
Fil Zucchi
Spreads on the Credit Default Swaps of large US financial institutions have dropped like stones over the last 30 minutes. JPMorgan's (NYSE:JPM) and Merrill Lynch (yes, it's still out there) are testing multi-month lows, and approaching some multi-year support trendlines. Because of the incestuous relationships of financials' balance sheets to their businesses, there is a very tight inverse correlation between CDS spreads and the underlying stocks. So, while the fiscal cliff has everyone on edge, the "gorillas" betting against these financials seem to be getting nervous. The chart of the SPDRs Financials ETF (NYSE:XLF) doesn't look so hot so I'm hesitant to get long. But fighting the obvious improvements in the CDS is a tough way to make money. An alternative to consider if the XLF inches closer to $15 is a risk-reversal (buying calls / selling puts).
Research In Motion
Marc Eckelberry
Todd has sparked my interest in Research In Motion (Nasdaq:RIMM), and I decided to take a look at some charts. When I first approach an issue, the first thing I look at is a weekly chart. Score one and a big one for the bulls (chart 1). The stock is now closing above its 20 weekly ma (now at 7.58) for the 1st time since February 2011. We have had head fake moves above that key long term average before (notably in late 2010), but the big difference now is volume. For the week of September 24, note the huge volume bar at lows, often a strong indication of capitulation.
Next up in the long term charts comes YTD volume profile (chart 2). There too, things are getting interesting. Note the bumping along VAL (value area low) at 6.22 with a strong volume nudge on 9/28 pushing up above the POC (point of control) at 7.62 (these levels are dynamic, obviously). Not surprisingly, that is exactly where the 20 weekly sma resides, give or take a couple of ticks. This confirms the tremendous forces applied to that area, validating the nudge above, which so far we are holding. Score 2 for the bulls.
Closer to home, charting the hourly volume profile since September (chart 3), another confirmation is given with the critical VAL of 9/27, which of course is right above that famous 20 weekly ma. The key level to hold is 7.62, in order to preserve that strong push of late September. So far so good. My guess is that the test already succeeded in late October and we are now trading above the VAH of that key day, at 8.06, which happens to be exactly were weekly S2 is located, a level that was bought to the tick on 11/9. There are no random numbers in the stock market.
Conclusion: we have a potential long term reversal for RIMM still in its infancy, as long as we hold the 7.50 area on a weekly closing basis. Minimum upside price target is around 13.50, which is 60% higher from here.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Two Quick Observations
by Peter Atwater
First, it feels like there are a lot of "buy the bottom I feel a short covering rally coming" comments out there this morning. While the markets are oversold, bottoms don't bring with them the belief that THE bottom is in.
Second, there seem to be a lot of frustrated gold bulls out there who are scratching their heads now wondering why gold isn't doing what they thought it would during a big sell off. As I offer in "Moods and Markets" one of the things that bothered me about the peak in gold last year was that in the months leading up to it, I saw the exchanges and many banks willing to take gold as margin for other transactions. This mirrored what I saw in the home equity space right near the peak of the mortgage markets.
From my perspective, the problem with folks using gold as collateral for other things is that it correlated gold to other financial assets instead of leaving it uncorrelated, which most gold investors believe.
Not sure where this will head, but with GLD holding the second or third largest position in gold in the world, I would offer that the benefits of liquidity on the way in may be subject to the consequences of liquidity on the way out.
To be clear, I don't have any dog in the gold hunt bullish or bearish.
ES Comment
by Janice Dorn
Friday's options expiration is on the approach as is the ES (SP futures) mid-round at 1350, which gave us a good hard move to the upside on the last go-around when the contract last dropped down below 1400. ES is now down 104 points off of the 2012 high and yesterday gave us the first close below the 200-day moving average as well as the -2.5 lower Bollinger band, -2.5 standard deviations below the 50-day moving average.
The contract has now completely traversed the +2.5 Bollinger band (1468) to the -2.5 Bollinger band (1362). We are still looking for a sizable short-covering move in the short-term (days).
Finding NYMO
by Peter Prudden
Loose hands are being shaken, while dip buyers are testing the waters. When looking at the $NYMO for a potential oversold and extended low, this is what you need to do.
First we find an exaggerated fear low in the -100 to -120 area, here now. Next we look for a bounce, along with broader market price, forth coming. From there this is what you need to identify, a positive divergence between the oscillator (NYMO) and broader market price (SPX). You need to see the oscillator make a higher high while the market makes a lower low in the price. Then we know the tradable bottom is in place. Until then, this is noise and bottom feeders being early.
Looking at the Fibonacci retracement from the June 2012 low to the September 2012 high, we can identify SPX 1346 (61.8% retracement) as an important juncture for bulls to support. Again, as I stated yesterday, the Feb. and July 2011 highs should come into act as support (SPX 1338-1348). Once we have a trading bottom in place, this should come in short order as % bulls is sitting in the single digits, much like it did at the June 2012 bottom. Look for a rally back to the 1408-1412 area for an A wave, followed by another decline to a slightly lower low for a B wave that would set up an intermediate term set of bullish divergences for a C of B rally to correct the entire decline from the September high. That will be a buy for a month or so, and the resulting high would set up a big sell for a C wave down that should last a large portion of 2013.
We will identify that juncture once our path has more clarity. Chin up, Festivus is only a few weeks away!
Friday, November 16, 2012
Drink the Sand
by Michael Sedacca
First off, I wanted to point out that breadth was 3:1 negative this morning (and worse) before using up a lot of energy to get back to flat. Now we're giving that back. The reason for the rally was Pelosi, Boehner, and Reid came on TV with the "all clear" sign. It reminds me of a quote from the Hunt for Red October:
Jeffrey Pelt: Listen, I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops. But it also means I keep my options open.
Or as Professor Branden Rife just pinged me with: "The market feels like it will drink sand if there is no water. We are at the mercy of US political PR."
mREIT's, namely Annaly Capital (NLY) are rebounding some today after catching an upgrade from Wells Fargo this morning. I think this falls in the "too late to short, too early to get long" category for the time being. This is also taking place in a number of closed end bond funds that have been utterly demolished. However, I'd point out similar type of action took place last October, so it's still touchy for now.
High Yield Spreads
by Fil Zucchi
I'm not making light of the carnage in equities. As bearish as I was on Apple (AAPL) pre-earnings, I am on record that I thought $530 was the downside target. As they say, "been there done that".
On the other hand, parallels to the beginning of a repeat of 2008-'09 just don't rhyme in my humble opinion. The credit measures I outlined in this article are still exceedingly benign with the corporate bond market absorbing new bonds at a truly bizarre pace, and the cherry is this chart showing the spreads for high yield bonds from Jan '08 to the end of October. "Abyss" is the only way to describe the difference between the two backdrops.
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The State of the Onion
by Peter Atwater
Some of the reviewers of "Moods and Markets" have questioned how you use the principles of socionomics in real time. Let me give you a live example.
So far this morning I have seen 5 articles on secessionism and the following cartoon was on the editorial page of my local paper.
Thoughts of secessionism definitely don't happen in bull markets and the fact that they are now abundant suggest to me that we are getting near a significant bottom. Why? Because secessionism reflects an extreme view of "Me, Here, Now" self-interest.
Based on the past, I expect that we will see some kind of market bottom over the next 2-3 trading sessions. And if you see CNBC announce a market special, you know we are getting very close. Back in June the network called the equity market bottom with a special and they did the same thing in the ag space with their drought special the first week of August.
The media doesn't make mood, they reflect it. Watch what they focus on and they will tell you the direction of the markets.
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The Duchy of Tenh is a political state in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It is situated in the Old Aerdy West region of the Flanaess, nestled between the Theocracy of the Pale, the Bandit Kingdoms, and the Rovers of the Barrens.
The native folk of Tenh are nearly full-blooded Flan, and fiercely proud of it. Their skin has a bronze hue.
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She became the first designer to create Ready To Wear in France.
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Of course she walked by while I was shooting Tim Hamilton's collection. I wasn't quick enough to stop her but I love the bag.
Friday, June 9, 2006
On The Street…. West Village, New York
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Striking. I'm glad you still caught a shot of her.
Great shot.
I love her jacket- of course her whole outfit looks that much better because she has a model body.
What is up with the color of that jacket?!? It's gorgeous. I'd love to see it from the front. I love the boots with the outfit, too.
Great ensemble… actually , I like the shot from the back , don't always need the frontals , gives a sense of mystery …. bag is cool and boots are great
The jacket looks awesome!
so glad the boots-over-pants look is still going strong…i love that look!
She's a multitude of colors: yellow hair, blue coat, black pants, orange boots, red bag, and white shopping bag! And for some reason, it works! I love it! Oh yeah, nice body too.
carolyn bessette-kennedy reborn. her style and stick straight platinum hair is reminiscent of the late fashion icon
The bag reminds me of one of those cylindrical German gas mask carrier from World War II.
its a great shot – the cut of the jacket is superb – love the barell bag too


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