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Fibinacci and the Bond Market????

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Fibonacci Fate Date for a Bear Bond Market?

Published: Friday, 5 Aug 2011 | 3:24 PM ET

When I was an institutional broker in a former life, I was a believer in the merits of using technical analysis. I found that it was a very useful tool that complemented the much more mainstream tools generically referred to as fundamental analysis.

Many don’t put much stock in technical analysis. I understand that. A former institutional client of mine once said: “At the bottom of the ocean are many sunken vessels, and in each one there is a chart room filled with charts.” But there is another perspective. The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable….and repetitive.

 



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One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man namedW. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market moves much in advance. Legend has it that he occasionally sent notes to The Wall Street Journal, which accurately predicted tops and bottoms in grain markets months ahead of time.

There are two Gann principles that I have always respected.

to read more, go to:    http://www.cnbc.com/id/44036727

Documentary: Magic Trip

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Magic Trip Soundtrack

About The Film

Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s MAGIC TRIP is a freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. WithMAGIC TRIP, Gibney and Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family. They worked with the Film Foundation, HISTORY and the UCLA Film Archives to restore over 100 hours of film and audiotape, and have shaped an invaluable document of this extraordinary piece of American

Check out the Official Movie Website:   http://www.magictripmovie.com/

Feel Good Plants

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Why Plants Make Us Feel Good

Maureen K. Calamia  

Posted: 8/4/11 08:32 AM ET

Plants make us feel good. In fact, other elements of the natural world do also. Why is that?

In a word, it’s “biophilia.” A term coined by social psychologist Erich Fromm in the 1960s, biophilia is our biologically-inherited need to commune with nature. Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, in his book Biophilia defines it as “the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life.” In his biophilia hypothesis, Wilson has urged that these connections are imperative for healthy emotional development and wellbeing.¹

When I first heard about biophilia, a mere 24 months ago, it really resonated with me. I had recently learned about Nature Deficit Disorder (NDD)² an unofficial behavioral disorder that stems from the “disconnect” our children have with the natural world. Biophilia certainly explained the challenge of NDD and why it has a profound impact on our future.

to read more, go to:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maureen-k-calamia/biophilia_b_917161.html

SEALS Killed in Afghanistan Helicopter Crash

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Afghanistan Helicopter Crash: More Than 20 Navy SEAL Team 6 Members Killed

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By KIMBERLY DOZIER and LOLITA C. BALDOR   08/ 6/11 12:07 PM ET   AP

WASHINGTON — The Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

The operators from SEAL Team Six were flown by a crew of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. That’s according to one current and one former U.S. official. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because families are still being notified of the loss of their loved ones.

One source says the team was thought to include 22 SEALs, three Air Force air controllers, seven Afghan Army troops, a dog and his handler, and a civilian interpreter, plus the helicopter crew.

The sources thought this was the largest single loss of life ever for SEAL Team Six, known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group.

to read more, go to:    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/06/afghanistan-helicopter-crash-sources-navy-seals-killed_n_920147.html

 

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Pre-Columbian Settlements in the Amazon

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New discoveries concerning pre-Columbian settlements in the Amazon

October 25, 2010

The pre-Columbian Indian societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized.

Together with Brazilian colleagues, archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have found the remains of approximately 90 settlements in an area South of the city of Santarém, in the Brazilian part of the Amazon.

“The most surprising thing is that many of these settlements are a long way from rivers, and are located in rainforest areas that extremely sparsely populated today,” says Per Stenborg from the Department of Historical Studies, who led the Swedish part of the archaeological investigations in the area over the summer.

Traditionally archaeologists have thought that these inland areas were sparsely populated also before the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries. One reason for this assumption is that the soils found in the inland generally is quite infertile; another reason is that access to water is poor during dry periods as these areas are situated at long distances from the major watercourses. It has therefore been something of a mystery that the earliest historical account; from Spaniard Francisco de Orellana’s journey along the River Amazon in 1541-42, depicted the Amazon as a densely populated region with what the Spanish described as “towns”, situated not only along the river itself, but also in the inland.

NEW DISCOVERIES COULD CHANGE PREVIOUS IDEAS

to read more, go to:   http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/new_discoveries_concerning_pre_columbian_settlements_in_the_amazon/

Saving Trees in Tasmania

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Tasmanian Forest Deal Brings End to a Conflict While Saving Trees

by Nicklas Karlsson | August 05, 2011

The federal Australian government has signed a deal with Tasmania which ensures the preservation of, at least, 430,000 hectars of ancient high conservation value forests.

The 430,000 hectars will be immediately protected from logging, while an additional 142,000 hectars will be set aside for eventual needs to fulfill existing logging contracts.

The conflict which has been unfolding for nearly 30 years between the federal government and state government circulates around issues of financial dependence upon logging rights. $276 million has been pledged, of which $85 million is earmarked as an exit package for forestry contractors, and some $120 million for the purpose of diversifying the economy of towns dependent on forestry over the next 15 years.

to read more, go to:   http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/tasmanian_forest_deal_brings_end_to_a_conflict_while_saving_trees/

Search on For Missing Island

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Missing ‘Island’ Floating In Earth’s Atmosphere

Natalie Wolchover, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer
Date: 03 August 2011 Time: 05:53 PM ET
Illustration of the floating island of Laputa, a strange land in Jonathan Swift's 'Guliver's Travels.' Public domain image.
Illustration of the floating island of Laputa, a strange land in Jonathan Swift’s ‘Guliver’sTravels.’
CREDIT: Public domain image

A floating “island” is at large somewhere in the Earth’s atmosphere.

The 23-foot-wide, helium-filled model of a desert island was constructed by two artists for a festival in Cambridgeshire, England. Tethered by ropes, it hovered above a lake on the grounds of the Secret Garden Party festival until the wee hours of July 24, when vandals let it loose. Reminiscent of the airborne island of Laputa in “Gulliver’s Travels,” it floated away.

Based on meteorological data, the inflatable’s creators say “Is Land,” as they call their art piece, may be hovering in the troposphere above the Czech Republic by now. They’ve asked for help retrieving it via their websi te

 

to read more, and join in, go to: http://www.livescience.com/15387-missing-island-floating-earth-atmosphere.html

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Ancient Palace Remains Found

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Remains of Ancient Palace Discovered

Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor
Date: 05 August 2011 Time: 02:04 PM ET
ancient palace
Only a small portion of the structure, possibly an ancient palace, has been excavated so far (part of it can be seen in the photo’s bottom foreground) in central Sudan beneath another ancient palace. The structure is the oldest building ever found in the ancient city of Meroë.
CREDIT: Photo copyright Royal Ontario Museum

Hidden beneath an ancient palace in what is now central Sudan, archaeologists have discovered the oldest building in the city of Meroë, a structure that also may have housed royalty.

At its height, the city was controlled by a dynasty of kings who ruled about 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) of territory that stretched from southern Egypt to areas south of modern-day Khartoum.

People of Meroë built palaces and small pyramids, and developed a writing system that scholars still can’t fully translate today. Although Meroë has been excavated off and on for more than 150 years, archaeologists are not yet clear on how it came to be. The city seems to have emerged out of nowhere

to read more, go to:   http://www.livescience.com/15420-remains-ancient-palace-discovered-central-sudan.html

Night Time Solar Radio Burst

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NIGHT-TIME SOLAR RADIO BURST: The M9-class solar flare of August 4th produced a burst of shortwave static so powerful that receivers on Earth picked it up after sunset. “A RadioJove observer in Florida recorded the burst when the sun was 38 degrees below the horizon,” reports amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft. Ashcraft’s own radio telescope in New Mexico recorded the event 1 hour and 54 minutes after sunset:

“To my knowledge, receptions like this are very rare,” says Ashcraft.

Indeed they are. This event brings to mind the iconic night-time solar radio burst of March 8, 1958. Five radio telescopes at the University of Florida picked up emissions from the sun while observing the planet Jupiter in tthe middle of the night. On the other side of the world, radio astronomers in daylit Australia confirmed that a powerful solar radio burst had taken place at that exact time. The event is described in a 1959 Nature paper by pioneering radio astronomers Alex Smith and Tom Carr. They considered the possibility that solar radio waves might have been reflected by the Moon or carried to the night side of Earth by ionospheric ducting. In tthe end, they could not conclusively explain what happened and to this day night-time solar radio bursts remain a puzzle.

Buddhists on Twitter

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12 Buddhists On Twitter You Should Be Following

First Posted: 7/27/11 10:33 AM ET   Updated: 7/27/11 10:54 AM ET

f you are a Buddhist or somebody who is just curious about the tradition and the issues facing it today, Twitter is a great starting point for getting in on the conversation. Here we’ve compiled several of the prominent teachers, writers and organizations that we follow to help us stay clued in on the world of Buddhism.

We invite you to follow them, and also join our conversation @HuffPostRelig! Be sure to add your suggestions below if we left your favorite Buddhist on Twitter off the list.

to read more, and see the list, go to:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/buddhism-on-twitter_n_910389.html#s316395&title=His_Holiness_the