Stockpicks,Football and OT

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Tampa Bay has a shot this year

Lets see what the PACKers look like!

Go Aron Rodgers, he needs good receivers!

[Crazy Money]

YES!! LOL

[Specalculator1]

NO !! LOL

[pkripper]

Russian Navy UFO records say aliens love oceans
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21 July, 2009, 18:56

The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Pressa news website.
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The records dating back to soviet times were compiled by a special navy group collecting reports of unexplained incidents delivered by submarines and military ships. The group was headed by deputy Navy commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov, and the documents reveal numerous cases of possible UFO encounters, the website says.

Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher, says the materials are of great value.

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“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” he said.

On one occasion a nuclear submarine, which was on a combat mission in the Pacific Ocean, detected six unknown objects. After the crew failed to leave behind their pursuers by maneuvering, the captain ordered to surface. The objects followed suit, took to the air, and flew away.

Many mysterious events happened in the region of Bermuda Triangle, recalls retired submarine commander Rear Admiral Yury Beketov. Instruments malfunctioned with no apparent reason or detected strong interference. The former navy officer says this could be deliberate disruption by UFOs.


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“On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, of 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” Beketov said.

Navy intelligence veteran, Captain 1st rank Igor Barklay comments:

“Ocean UFOs often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”

Another place where people often report UFO encounters is Russia’s Lake Baikal, the deepest fresh water body in the world. Fishermen tell of powerful lights coming from the deep and objects flying up from the water.

In one case in 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal spotted a group of humanoid creatures dressed in silvery suits. The encounter happened at a depth of 50 meters, and the divers tried to catch the strangers. Three of the seven men died, while four others were severely injured.

“I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Vladimir Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there

[traderdon]

FTCH... chart ready to BLOW UP BIG! NEWS AH also:

250 Member HOA Switches to F3 Technologies' Interaction Community System

Press Release
Source: F3 Technologies, Inc.
On Monday July 13, 2009, 4:34 pm EDT

F3 Technologies, Inc. (Pinksheets:FTCH - News) is pleased to announce that it has signed another large HOA to start using the Interaction Community System to facilitate the needs and wants of its HOA members.

This is a first class HOA consisting of roughly 250 homeowners in North West Georgia. They will be using Interaction to enable their members to pay HOA dues on-line, post photos, videos, garage sale items and messages on boards. Community members will now be able to reserve facilities, book babysitters, share recipes, vote and much more.

Frank Connor, CEO of F3 Technologies, stated, "This is a very encouraging development for us here at F3 and our shareholders. While every community we sign is our most important client this new HOA holds a very special place with us here at F3. This particular HOA was using one of our major competitor's systems for many years. After learning more about Interaction and comparing it with our main competitor's system that they were using, they decided to start using Interaction. This is the first time that we know of that an HOA strategically decided to use Interaction in lieu of a system that they already had in place. While it is very satisfying to sign up an HOA that has no system in place it is very encouraging to know that Interaction is so far advanced that even communities with existing systems are switching to use Interaction."

James Canouse, President of F3 Technologies, stated, "We have been very busy here at F3 on all fronts. As mentioned above, Interaction continues to be deployed in HOAs all across the US and we recently announced the hiring of Paul Campbell to head up our sales and marketing efforts for both Ascend and Interaction product lines. We just concluded a two-day working session in our Atlanta offices with Casey Clark of our strategic partner and reseller, Paymenting LLC, and have made significant technology updates to the Ascend and Interaction products lines. We are proud to tell our shareholders that while we continue to move forward at a frenzied pace our share structure remains tight, intact and unchanged."

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ETF Reverse Splits Have Arrived… More Looming? (FAS, FAZ)

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 7:23 am
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Broken Money Merger ImageWhen we first floated the notion that Direxion may need to consider conducting a reverse stock split on its two Triple-Leverage cult ETFs for the financial sector, this was a notion that was not that popular despite the company’s hint that a reverse split was likely before the market temporarily interrupted that need. Now this morning we are seeing the Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) and the Direxion Financial Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: FAZ) have adjusted prices to be based around reverse splits. It is the ex-date.

The bearish FAZ is splitting 1 for 10 and the bullish FAS is splitting 1 for 5. On an unadjusted basis, the FAZ close of $5.64 yesterday would imply a price of $56.40 if everything was equal and unchanged. On an unadjusted basis, the FAS close of $7.51 yesterday would imply a price of $37.55 if everything was equal and unchanged.

In pre-market trading we have the FAZ trading down at $52.75 and the FAS trading up at $39.00.

What will be interesting to see is how this affects the average daily volume. The FAZ has an average volume prior to the split of over 240 million shares and the FAS trades roughly 230 million shares per day.

As a reminder, the semi-annual report from Direxion itself panned the notion that these should be held for the long term.

We still think that more reverse splits or just some outright closures will follow this trend. Not just from Direxion, either.

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AGEN on watch

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MBRX on watch

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EVC FRE SIRI all on watch from being dumped last couple minutes of the day, they all should jump on Monday.








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[pkripper]

CAP and TRADE As the Wall Street Journal noted in a recent editorial, *(my side note,FYI- 85% of this bill goes to special interests.)

“Hit hardest would be the ‘95 percent of working families’ Mr. Obama keeps mentioning, usually omitting that his no-new-taxes pledge comes with the caveat ‘unless you use energy.’ Putting a price on carbon is regressive by definition because poor and middle-income households spend more of their paychecks on things like gas to drive to work, groceries or home heating.”

According to a study by the global consulting firm CRA International, the President’s cap-and-trade program will increase natural gas prices 39 percent by 2020 and 56 percent by 2025. Electricity prices are estimated to increase 27 percent by 2020 and 44 percent by 2025. CRA projects that cap-and-trade will ultimately increase gasoline prices by 74 cents per gallon.

Then there are the job losses. Coal, the primary target of cap-and-trade, currently provides half the nation’s energy. Under cap-and-trade, coal plants will either be forced to shut down or their energy will be prohibitively expensive, crippling many coal-dependent industries, utilities and communities. Even counting the new jobs in alternative energy development projected by the White House, CRA estimates cap-and-trade will cost more than three million jobs.


http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/north_sound/mar/opinion/47330917.html


THE VOTE IS COMING SOON.

[pkripper]

I was always a little jealous of you motor-t guys, driving by us as we were humping. Good memories. I already had ya marked from reading some of your posts before.




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[traderdon]

Semper Fi brother! Ooohrah!!! Infantry! Nice! I was 3531... Motor T - hauled your asses around in 5 Tons and Humvees LOL

Lost my Dad, Grandfather, and a few friends to cancer. Just unreal! Hope someday there is a cure for it!

I'm markin ya!

[pkripper]

semper-fi ohhrah. 0351. Yes Cancer sucks. Lost my mother and two uncles to it. Amazing how many people are touched by this horrible disease.

[traderdon]

She was such a beautiful angel... what a shame! Cancer is horrible!

[pkripper]

Actress Farrah Fawcett dies from cancer: reports

12:55 PM ET 6/25/09 | Marketwatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Actress Farrah Fawcett, 62, has died from cancer at a Los Angeles hospital, according to media reports, citing her spokesman. The former "Charlie's Angels" star and 1970s icon recently entered the hospital after having struggled with the disease over the past three years.

[pkripper]

Banks in Georgia, North Carolina, Kansas Closed by Regulators


By Margaret Chadbourn and Ari Levy

June 20 (Bloomberg) -- Banks in Georgia, North Carolina and Kansas with total assets of $1.5 billion were closed yesterday, bringing this year’s tally of failures in the U.S. to 40 amid the highest unemployment in a quarter century.

State regulators shut Southern Community bank of Fayetteville, Georgia and Cooperative Bank in Wilmington, North Carolina. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency closed First National Bank of Anthony, Kansas. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was named as receiver for all three, according to statements from the FDIC.

Southern Community’s $307 million in deposits were bought by United Community Bank of Blairsville, Georgia, and most of Cooperative’s $774 million in deposits went to First Bank in Troy, North Carolina, the FDIC said. Bank of Kansas in South Hutchinson acquired First Bank’s $142.5 million in deposits. The acquiring banks are taking over a combined $1.47 billion in assets, mostly loans, from the failed institutions, and signed agreements with the FDIC to share more than 80 percent of the losses with the government.

“The loss-sharing arrangement is projected to maximize returns on the assets covered by keeping them in the private sector,” the FDIC said in each statement. “The agreement also is expected to minimize disruptions for loan customers.”

Regulators this year have closed the most banks since 1993, as the loss of jobs contributes to mounting home foreclosures and loan delinquencies. The U.S. economy contracted at a 5.7 percent annual pace in the first quarter. More than a quarter of all states have unemployment rates higher than 10 percent, the Labor Department said yesterday.

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Southern Community’s five offices will open today as branches of United Community, and Cooperative’s 24 branches will open on June 22 as part of First Bank. The six offices of First National will open under normal business hours as branches of Bank of Kansas, the FDIC said.

The regulator estimates the seizures will cost the deposit insurance fund $363 million. The reserve in the first quarter fell 25 percent from the previous year, to $13 billion -- the lowest since September 1993.

As many as 1,000 U.S. banks could fail in the next three to five years on losses related to commercial real estate loans, RBC Capital Markets analysts said in February. The FDIC estimates U.S. bank failures through 2013 may cost $70 billion.

The FDIC classified 305 banks as “problem” institutions in the first quarter, a 21 percent jump from the fourth quarter and the highest since 1993, the agency said May 27. The agency doesn’t identify problem lenders.

The FDIC insures deposits at 8,246 institutions with $13.5 trillion in assets.

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=amlPorxs3Als

[pkripper]

President Obama and James Lockhart have decided to (financially) rape Americans.

Yes, really:

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s program to help more homeowners refinance may be expanded to include borrowers who owe more than 105 percent of their homes’ values, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James Lockhart said.

The Obama administration is considering allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to refinance loans with current loan-to-value ratios of 125 percent or higher, Lockhart said at a National Association of Real Estate Editors Association conference in Washington yesterday.

Let me be absolutely clear so nobody can ever accuse me of being less than straightforward on this.

If you are underwater on your house and take a deal like this, you are as dumb as a box of rocks and have just consented to being bent over the table and violated repeatedly. That our government would propose "allowing" such a thing is fomenting financial rape upon The American Public. Period.

Under conventional financing terms loan-to-value (LTV) ratios over 80% have required what is called "PMI" - private mortgage insurance. The purpose of this is to guarantee for the lender that they can recover if you don't pay and, post-foreclosure, your home isn't worth enough to satisfy the mortgage.

One of the reasons for this requirement is that in most states purchase money first mortgages are non-recourse. That is, if you default they can take the house and ruin your credit - but it ends there. In those states they cannot pursue you beyond foreclosure and reclamation of the house.

In every state if you refinance the resulting mortgage is a recourse loan, which means they can sue you for any deficiency if you subsequently default and come after any other assets (other than retirement funds - which is why you NEVER EVER raid a 401k or IRA to stay afloat!) and even try to get a wage garnishment - and they just might!

For this and other reasons nobody should ever refinance a mortgage that is in trouble without getting qualfiied legal and accounting advice. It could be the cheapest $500 you ever spend.

President Obama's original "refi" program exempted LTVs from 80-105% from PMI requirements, ostensibly as a way of "helping" homeowners. What it really did was rape the taxpayer, because such loans are very dangerous in that if there is a subsequent default the lender will, after expenses, almost always lose money, and may lose a LOT of money.

We have since discovered that the majority of "refinanced" workout loans default again, because the underlying problem is that the buyer used exotic financing to get around their inability to actually cover the fully-amortizing payment of a conventional mortgage. When faced with a fully-amortizing payment, even when restructured, they re-default because they bought through a fraudulent device - they were never able to afford the house in the first place.

This plan will not change that.

Only one thing will change that: lower house prices.

But see, the NARites and other politically-connected rubes will not allow the truth to be told, or the market to assert itself so long as the government can bury you in insoluble debt.

The Chinese and Japanese will fully rise (they're already half-awake) soon and when they do, the curtain will be called down on this stupidity via the bond market. Indeed, the blow-out of MBS spreads yesterday might have been due to a leak of this stupidity - there is no more-certain way to guarantee that Fannie and Freddie, now wards of the Federal Government, will detonate and leave a thermonuclear-sized hole in the Federal balance sheet than this piece of stupidity.

WHERE ARE THE DAMN ADULTS?

http://market-ticker.org/archives/1137-The-Dumbest-Thing-Ive-Seen-Yet.html

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[Crazy Money]

Any BUCS FANS HERE?



Gruden joins 'Monday Night Football'

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4174469

Enjoy America and I will enjoy our new coach, I hope.

[pkripper]

certainly not us, errrr... wait probably us.

[stock2windaily]

Someone is going to have to pay - LOL!

[pkripper]

Sad but very possible. Iran or North Korea is nice this time of year. lol

[stock2windaily]

We will be forced to start bombing someone - soon!

[pkripper]

national debt

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[KingofPennies]

LOL.

[FiremanDave]

LMAO!!!

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[pkripper]

cool last name?

[FiremanDave]

This pic is awesome!!!


firefighter.jpg

[FiremanDave]

Gotcha I finally atleast figured out how to do pictures now and will do the chart's next. Feel free to add stuff in the new ibox over there if you like also. I will add some stuff today (if I don't get busy on the ambulance today so far so good)

[pkripper]

make it look like this without the *

[chart*]investorshub.advfn.com/images/thumbnail.aspx?width=200&picid=11649[/chart*]

[FiremanDave]

Yup. But stil trying to figure out how to post pictures just even in my posts that is the closest I have gotten yet. What "writing" do I copy and past for the picture itself to pop up instead of the link?

[pkripper]

you want that in there?

[FiremanDave]

http://investorshub.advfn.com/images/thumbnail.aspx?width=200&picid=11649

[pkripper]

any time you need hand holding

[FiremanDave]

Thanks.

[pkripper]

right click the pic. click properties, go to location out line it and right click to copy. go to the ibox manager right click and paste. a box will pop up accept it. then put your chart markers [c h a r t ]

[FiremanDave]

Absolutely! Hey..I cannot figure out the new picture posting system. I have been able to upload the pictures to IHUB but I have not been able to post them in my posts! What am I doing wrong/what link do I copy and paste? TIA

[pkripper]

First thing is to move the canned beaver over.

[Specalculator1]

HAY! Silly Sailor! Whats that? LOL

[FiremanDave]

You would definitely know gay (not that there is anything wrong with two hot chicks being gay LOL)

[FiremanDave]

LOL! That's ok you haven't answered my question about helping mod the new free board yet, you haven't called or written I"m beginning to think you don't love me anymore (Figured I would step up the gayness a little more LOL)

[KingofPennies]

I thought that, too. You sure it's not the "cream" in his cookies and cream? LMAO!

[pkripper]

that sounded gay, not that there is anything wrong with that.lol

[FiremanDave]

Sweet. Consider yourself an asst mod on the new free board you are the "jerry" in my ben and jerry :) welcome :)

[Specalculator1]

thanks dave but its time for someone else this time. going to have to pass out of same principle, gotta move the line in the sand over as well for same reason. Much appreciated though. I'll see ya on the free board.

best

Hot Sauce guy..:)

[FiremanDave]

Sounds good. Not leaving just gotta check out "Firemandave and friends stock picks" (free board) alot of the usual friends here have found it c'mon over :)

[DOLLARLAND]

Sorry to see you leave, Dave. Here's some stem cell news to help perk you up:

Stem cell therapy 'could offer women natural breast enhancement from stomach fat'
Women could be offered natural breast enhancements under a stem cell therapy now being developed in Britain.

By Aislinn Simpson
Last Updated: 5:23PM BST 29 Mar 2009

http://www.zimbio.com/Breast+Enlargement,+Breast+Augmentation/articles/1932/Stem+Cells+Boob+Jobs



The treatment implants stem cells taken from spare fat on the stomach or thighs into a woman's chest.

At present, its focus is on providing breast cancer sufferers who have undergone full or partial mastectomies with an alternative to implants.


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Radial Scar: How worried should we be about this rare breast abnormality?But if successful, it could also vastly improve the outcome of cosmetic breast enhancements.

Professor Kefah Mokbel, a consultant breast surgeon at the London Breast Institute at the Princess Grace hospital, is leading a trial with 10 patients from May.

He said that while helping women who have suffered from breast cancer is the London Breast Institute's priority, private patients could also benefit from the new technique within six months at a cost of about £6,500.

The same technique has proved a success in Japan where it was initially used to help women with breast cancer and now is used to provide healthy women with breast enlargements.

"This is a very exciting advance in breast surgery," Prof Mokbel said. "Breasts treated with stem cells feel more natural because this tissue has the same softness as the rest of the breast."

The cells are extracted then separated from the fat before being mixed with another batch of fat and injected into the breast. While it takes several months for the breast to achieve the desired shape and size, the presence of stem cells means that blood vessels can grow and ensure supply to the transplanted fat.

As it stands, Professor Mokbel said, the procedure only provides for minor alterations in size, and does not deliver the pneumatic quality of a fake implant.

But it is also be far more likely to be a success. "Implants are a foreign body," he said.

"They are associated with long-term complications and require replacement. They can also leak and cause scarring."

Prof Mokbel will also conduct research to find out whether larger augmentations can be achieved: "We are optimistic we can easily achieve an increase of one cup size. We cannot say yet if we can achieve more. That may depend on the stem cells we can harvest."

He believes that the cosmetic aspect can be offered after 30 successful trials. But critics say that breast enlargements using the technique should not be offered until large-scale cancer patient trials are completed.

Eva Weiler-Mithoff, a consultant plastic surgeon at Canniesburn hospital in Glasgow who is helping to run a European trial of the stem cell therapy for breast cancer sufferers, said that the initial results are good, the follow-up is vital. She said that while breast cancer patients regularly attend follow-up appointments, women who have had cosmetic surgery may not be so careful and so complications could be missed.

[stock2windaily]

Dab Nab IT!

Government needs to send some of that money in my direction!

GM gonna pop tomorrow!

GAPPA!