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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Nigeria Christians given three-day terror ultimatum

By msnbc.com staff

Christians have been warned by a militant Islamist group to leave northern Nigeria or be attacked, according to media reports.

Abul Qaqa, a purported spokesman for Boko Haram, said the terror group was ?giving a three-day ultimatum to the southerners living in the northern part of Nigeria to move away?, the English language Vanguard newspaper reported.

The group has been linked to many attacks on Christians, most notably the bombings on Christmas Day killed 49 people, most of them at a Catholic church as services were ending.

Nigeria?s 160 million people are divided between the mainly Muslim north and predominately Christian south.

Qaqa said Boko Garam?wished "to call on our fellow Muslims to come back to the north".

The BBC reported that Nigeria?s president, Goodluck Jonathan, declared a state of emergency on Saturday in parts of four states hard hit by violence blamed on Boko Haram.

It said Mr Jonathan vowed to "crush" the group, which he said "started as a harmless group" but had "now grown cancerous".

Human rights activist Shehu Sani told CNN that the latest Boko Haram threat was credible, but many Christians born and raised in the north have nowhere else to go.

"The killings will continue," he told CNN, adding that the state of emergency and an enhanced presence of the security forces would not improve the situation, alleging that troops had already been involved in human rights abuses and had done little to reduce violence.

David Cook of Rice University, who has studied the rise of Boko Haram, told CNN that "if radical Muslim violence on a systematic level were to take hold in Nigeria ... it could eventually drive the country into a civil war."

Source: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/02/9895745-islam-terror-group-tells-christians-leave-north-nigeria-or-be-attacked

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Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes

CLEVELAND (AP) ? A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.

Research is continuing on the now-shuttered injection well at Youngstown and seismic activity, but it might take a year for the wastewater-related rumblings in the earth to dissipate, said John Armbruster of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

Brine wastewater dumped in wells comes from drilling operations, including the so-called fracking process to extract gas from underground shale that has been a source of concern among environmental groups and some property owners. Injection wells have also been suspected in quakes in Ashtabula in far northeast Ohio, and in Arkansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma, Armbruster said.

Thousands of gallons (liters) of brine were injected daily into the Youngstown well that opened in 2010 until its owner, Northstar Disposal Services LLC, agreed Friday to stop injecting the waste into the earth as a precaution while authorities assessed any potential links to the quakes.

After the latest and largest quake Saturday at 4.0 magnitude, state officials announced their beliefs that injecting wastewater near a fault line had created enough pressure to cause seismic activity. They said four inactive wells within a five-mile (8 kilometer) radius of the Youngstown well would remain closed. But they also stressed that injection wells are different from drilling wells that employ fracking.

Armbruster said Monday he expects more quakes will occur despite the shutdown of the Youngstown well.

"The earthquakes will trickle on as a kind of a cascading process once you've caused them to occur," he said. "This one year of pumping is a pulse that has been pushed into the ground, and it's going to be spreading out for at least a year."

The quakes began last March with the most recent on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve each occurring within 100 meters (yards) of the injection well. The Saturday quake in McDonald, outside of Youngstown, caused no serious injuries or property damage.

Youngstown Democrat Rep. Robert Hagan on Monday renewed his call for a moratorium on fracking and well injection disposal to allow a review of safety issues.

"If it's safe, I want to do it," he said in a telephone interview. "If it's not, I don't want to be part and parcel to destruction of the environment and the fake promise of jobs."

He said a moratorium "really is what we should be doing, mostly toward the injection wells, but we should be asking questions on drilling itself."

A spokesman for Gov. John Kasich, an outspoken supporter of the growing oil and natural gas industry in Ohio, said the shale industry shouldn't be punished for a fracking byproduct.

"That would be the equivalent of shutting down the auto industry because a scrap tire dump caught fire somewhere," said Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols.

He said 177 deep injection wells have operated without incident in Ohio for decades and the Youngstown well was closed within 24 hours of a study detailing how close a Christmas Eve quake was to the well.

The industry-supported Ohio Oil and Gas Association said the rash of quakes was "a rare and isolated event that should not cast doubt about the effectiveness" of injection wells.

Such wells "have been used safely and reliably as a disposal method for wastewater from oil and gas operations in the U.S. since the 1930s," the association's executive vice president, Thomas E. Stewart, said in a statement Monday.

Environmentalists are critical of the hydraulic fracturing process, called fracking, which utilizes chemical-laced water and sand to blast deep into the ground and free the shale gas. Critics fear the process itself or the drilling liquid, which can contain carcinogens, could contaminate water supplies, either below ground, by spills, or in disposed wastewater.

Permits allowing hydraulic fracturing in Ohio's portion of the Marcellus and the deeper Utica Shale formations rose from one in 2006 to at least 32 in 2011.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/b2f0ca3a594644ee9e50a8ec4ce2d6de/Article_2012-01-02-Gas%20Drilling-Earthquakes/id-8e7091cf3e2a429d841132f9e73a1ee0

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Investing Wisely -- Something to Ponder and Personalized Support ...

Something to Ponder:

Historical Review of: 2007 - 2009 - Bear Market - & - 2011 - 2012 - Bear Market

This is a REPEAT of my posting on December 24th. I hope you will read my long experience with interest.

I have added a VERY REVEALING Chart (January - December 2011) to the following URL: http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/Favorites.CServlet?obj=ID4429111

It is the very first Chart you will see - the other 36 are simple supportive and relate to my posting of last week.

If you do not relate to the message that Charts like this provide - put your money in Money Market Funds or CDs - - You are a "Hopeless" Investor!

However, if you are, or would like to be a "Serious" Investor - you might do three things. First stop reading more than 2 - 3 Blogs - PERIOD ! and Second try reading my Blog for six months. Lastly, ask questions via Email of the Bloggers you follow - you will soon learn who really knows what they are talking about and whether or not they know how to consistently make money in the stock market.

The URL for my Blog is: http://twitter.com/InvestRotation

Well here are the real / honest STATS for the Year 2011.

The Damned Media is posting FALSE numbers for the year and trading ended less than 24 hours ago. Why is there an urgency to lie? Wall Street, Brokers, Stock Brokers, Financial Analysts are and have been lying to you for Years. Why is it so hard for Investors to understand that fact?

If you do not understand or know the term "BREADTH" then you will never know the "TRUTH" about how easy it is, has been and will be for them to continue to lie and manipulate nearly all Investors. Breadth is their secret and that is the "HOW" and the "WHY" you are getting screwed each and every day. Most of these purveyors of false information do not know themselves that they are part of such a huge conspiracy. That is how sick it really is!

Here are the honest STATS for 2011 for the following - Majors: (Please read the notes on the above referenced Chart posted my me in StockCharts Public List.

Breadth: Down at least 30% for the year 2011. (I am being generous with that percent figure).

Dow 30: Up 6% for the year 2011.

New York Composite: Down 6% for the year 2011.

Nasdaq Composite: Down 2% for the year 2011.

Compare these four Indexes and see how close the big 3 track each other and how different the Breadth really is.

If you cannot relate to my missive, the message I have been sending to Investors for over 50 years - - Find Another Blogger that makes YOU FEEL GOOD with False / Distorted / Flat Out Lies about the STATS and much more prolifically the Financial / Economic information they some how contrive !

I have identified many Bear Markets over the 50 plus years of being a private asset manager and financial analyst.

Something to Ponder both Bullish, as well as Bearish time frames. I often refer you to the 30 component stocks of the Dow Jones Average and ask you to look at where each of these component stocks are since the late 1990s. Twelve or fifteen years should Get Your Attention by the FACT that only ??? of these Companies were making new (Long - Term) highs when the 2011 Bear Market commenced in April of this past year - 2011. They are: CAT, CVX, DIS, IBM, JNJ, MCD, MMM, TRV, UTX, VZ. Ten (10) of Thirty (30) -- 10 / 30 is 33%. As an old Professor of Economics and Finance if you scored 33% on my tests you flunked and did not graduate. In the stock market it is just as simple - if your score 33% you Lose Money! Isn't that Scary and Something to Ponder with the world Economic Condition - as it is and will be for the foreseeable future?

For graphic support of this missive, please have a look at the charts that I have presented in StockCharts - PubicList. The include all 3o Dow Components - Apple, Inc. as the kind of Company to Invest your money in Wisely, and Gold, Silver, Crude Oil, Treasuries and the U. S. Dollar. The URL is: http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/Favorites.CServlet?obj=ID4429111

Well here is 2007 in a nut shell and why I came out of retirement to try to help:

There were two distinct major pull backs in this Primary Bear Market of 2007 through 2009. I have broken down both pull backs by using my (primary) five proprietary Technical Indicators. As usual, both these Pull Backs were rather briefly interrupted by what is called a Bear Market Rally.

The 2007 - 2009 Bear market was a bit unique. Its devastation to you portfolios, and that there were just two pull backs instead of the usual three. Often in the more distant Bear Markets there were three or more distinct major pull backs before a bottom was reached.

We will now have to wait and see what will come in the ensuing months and quarters ahead for this current Bear Market? I hope you are in Cash or seeking experienced guidance for prudently taking some Bear Market positions.

At this writing, I cannot see any positive long-term changes from the Bearish Position I took, in this blog, way back in October of 2010.

Not one of these specific five Technical Indicators were available in any Chart Service prior to 2007 and at the time that I -- came out of retirement and published a single mini blog saying that: "A 2007 Bear Market is upon us, and you had better move your investment positions to Cash." This was in October 2007. I only had only a few Clients to advise and more important to you - (Inverse) ETFs were not prudent and mature investment choices as yet - today ETFs is a flourishing part of the U. S. and foreign Stock Market activity.

My (primary) five Indicators are all "Leading Indicators" - that means they are anticipatory and lead me to my procedures for "fine tuning" and the eventual Taking Selective Investment Positions as appropriate in either Bull or Bear Market environments. Obviously, in this case (October 2007), it was taking selective Bearish (Short) Positions.

I would like to be very clear that Technical Analysis is by far the most dynamic of the three forms of Securities Analysis (Analytics) that I use. It can be graphically presented for all of the world to study in just a few picture charts. It is very important for me to note that as a financial analyst / asset manager for over 50 years I view both Fundamental Analysis and Consensus Analysis as having as much, or more, to do with the identification of Primary Inflections Points as does Technical Analysis. Unfortunately, to present an adequate picture of the current or past Fundamental and Consensus Analysis would take volumes of pages and therefore, is not practical in such a short missive. I believe you should also know that Inflection Points present themselves rather frequently each year, that is over the on-going Cycles of the General Stock Market.

I sincerely hope that you will take the time to study the flow of my narrative and come to realize that there is no longer any other way to grow your retirement and general assets. Mutual Funds and the old "Buy and Hold" is no longer a prudent way to invest your money.

Please note both here and on the Historic Chart for the 2007 - 2009 in StockCharts - PublicList, there are specific 2007 - 2009 Bear Market statistics that should seriously get your attention. If they do not get your attention, you are hopelessly lost forever enjoying the possibility of being a profitable and successful investor!

Look at the The Stats: (see the above referenced charts)

First Leg Down: Loss of about 11%.

Second Leg Down: Loss of about 45%.

Combined, First and Second Legs Down or a Total Loss of approximately: 56%

Just for the record, it was much worse than the above with many, many mutual funds!

Well here is 2011 in a nut shell and it is getting very Scary and also Something to Ponder:

The first leg down was on the Dow 30 Industrials: 12,876 - high and 10, 404 low - (late April to early October). The First Leg Down was a Loss of 19% and worse than the First Leg Down in 2007-2008 by 8 %.

Isn't the Scary ? Am I - Getting Your Attention and offering Something to Ponder?

Folks the Facts and the Numbers are all that count. You are being fed huge quantities of media, Wall Street, Stock Brokers, Financial Analysts, Blogger -- Crap and BS. It is the Facts and the Numbers that you can rely on and Nothing Else - now-a-days.

Have a wonderful holiday season and please - engage your brain just a little bit more than usual.

I will publish this same missive again next Saturday or Sunday.

Thanks, I hope this provides a better picture of my work / analytics.

The URL for accessing my personel / private blog is: http://twitter.com/#!/InvestRotation
My Email Address is: senorstevedrmx@yahoo.com

Thanks for permitting me to share my "stuff." I would of course appreciate your - Telling a Friend or Two about my Work / Analytics . . .

Just something to ponder . . . From an old fox.

How to become a Client or Prospective Client:
If you would like to have further information on my work / analytics or perhaps my professional asset management, mentoring or consulting - services . . . I would appreciate your sharing just a bit about yourself and your investment objectives - via Email.
I will need you to provide information regarding your investment needs, goals and objectives as well as - how you think my work / analytics might be of help in your quest to enjoy being consistently profitable on an annual basis.
Please understand that I am seeking "serious investors" to become Clients. I am willing to work with you as a Prospective Client providing on going forecasts, warrnings, alerts, advice / direction on your existing portfolio. I wish I could do more!
Just send me an Email, and I will respond promptly.

Thank you so very much for your time in reading my "stuff." It is conservative investing your capital, it is low risk exposure to the marketplace, it will very quickly provide you with financial peace of mind and it is very profitable guidance.

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Smile, have Fun - "Investing Wisely",

Steven H. Bauer, Ph.D.

Steve has several degrees, i.e. post graduate degrees and doctorate and a great deal of (too much) continued education. For seven years, he did a stent as a University Professor of Finance and Economics.

He owned a privately held asset management firm and managed individual investor and corporate accounts as a Registered Investment Advisor - for over 40 years.

Professionally he is a financial analyst and private asset manager / consultant / mentor.

Steve can be reach at senorstevedrmx@yahoo.com

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Cee Lo Green Changes 'Imagine' Lyrics To 'All Religions,' Fights Twitter Anger

Cee Lo Green's small change to the lyrics to John Lennon's song "Imagine" is causing a very big uproar.

Charged with singing Lennon's famous solo-era tune on NBC's New Year's Eve show shortly before the ball dropped in Times Square , Green changed the lyrics from "Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too" to "Nothing to kill or die for, And all religion's true."

The change didn't go unnoticed, and to preempt criticism, he soon tweeted, "Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all."

That did little to comfort angered Lennon fans, who lashed out over Twitter. Watch the performance below and then read the angry exchanges over Twitter.

WATCH:

[Gabriella Segata Antolini] Union City, GA: Government targets attacked during anti-police protest

from ~~the press~~:

UNION CITY, Ga. ? A protest against police violence turned violent in Union City [a suburb of Atlanta, GA] Wednesday night.

Some of the people who had gathered to speak out against the shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old man by a Union City Police officer tore up a street sign, spray-painted vulgar graffiti on government buildings and broke out a window to a nearby jail, Action 2 News reporter Tony Thomas said.

Organizers of the event said they were unaware of the activity until they were informed later.

Union City police said no one was arrested.

The gathering began peacefully as leaders from several different civil rights groups gathered to demand that Union City leaders speak with the family of Ariston Waiters.

Calls by Channel 2 Action News to Union City Police and the mayor for comment went unanswered.

Authorities said an officer shot and killed Waiters after a call reporting a fight in progress. Investigators said Waiters struggled with an officer.

His supporters said he never fought with the officer, but ran because he was afraid.

His mother, Freda Waiters, spoke at the rally on the steps of the Union City City Hall.

?I am so hurt because my son was gunned down like an animal. He did not deserve that,? Freda Waiters said. ?I am reminded every day, even in my house, of things my son would say and little bittie things he would do.?

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is now investigating the case and has not released any findings.

Activists said the Waiters shooting is just another in a long line of police violence they believe is unwarranted.? The groups want Union City?s mayor and police chief to speak with the family. They also want Fulton County?s district attorney to take the shooting case to a grand jury.

?How can you shoot someone in the back twice and define it as a fair fight?? asked Georgia NAACP President Ed Dubois.

National Action Network member Marcus Coleman told the crowd, ?This is just like Katherine Johnston.?

Johnston was the elderly Atlanta woman shot and killed in a bogus drug raid .

Union City leaders have not identified the officer involved in the Waiters shooting, but the family believes they know who he is.

?To the officer that did this, I do not hate you and I?m not angry. I love you like I love my son. I want justice for what?s been done to my son.? Freda Waiters said.

It was just moments after she spoke those words that violence broke out. Members of Occupy Atlanta and others marched down the main street in Union City to the public safety building and around the corner to a jail.

One man, his face covered with a black mask, was spotted pulling up a street sign and then tossing it in the street.

Another person covered in black spray-painted vulgar graffiti on the courthouse door before also targeting the sign to the Justice Center. It was painted so it read ?Injustice Center.?

Union City police said after the marchers went to the regional jail, someone broke out a window to the facility. A flag from the post office was also torn down and mail drop boxes were vandalized, as well.

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Source: http://waronsociety.noblogs.org/?p=2771

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Graphene gives protection from intense laser pulses

ScienceDaily (Dec. 30, 2011) ? Scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) , DSO National Laboratories and University of Cambridge have jointly announced a new world record in broadband non-linear optical absorption behavior using single-sheet graphene dispersions in a variety of heavy-atom solvents and film matrices.

Graphenes are single sheets of carbon atoms bonded into a hexagonal array. In nature, they tend to stack to give graphite. In this breakthrough, the scientists have developed a way to prevent the restacking of these sheets by attaching alkyl surface chains to them, while retaining the integrity of the nano-graphene pockets on the sheets. This makes a solution-processable material that can be dispersed into solvents and also into film matrices. As a consequence, the scientists observed a new phenomenon. They found that the dispersed graphenes exhibit a giant nonlinear optical-absorption response to intense nanosecond laser pulses over a wide spectral range with a threshold that is much lower than found in any material.

This sets a new world record in energy limiting onset of 10 mJ/cm^2 for a linear transmittance of 70%.

These materials can now be used for protection of sensitive sensors and devices from laser damage, and for optical circuits.

"We found from ultrafast spectroscopy measurements that dispersed graphene sheets switch their behavior from induced optical transparency which has been well known, to induced optical absorption depending on its environment. This is a remarkable finding that shows graphene can still surprise!" says Prof Lay-Lay Chua, principal investigator of the ONDL graphene team at NUS.

"This is an important first step in the development of practical graphene nanocomposite films for applications where the graphene sheets remain fully dispersed. The induced change in their nonlinear optical behavior is amazing and highly practical!" says Prof Geok-Kieng Lim, principal investigator of the DSO graphene team. Prof Geok-Kieng Lim is also an adjunct professor at the Department of Physics, NUS.

The work at University of Cambridge was performed at the Cavendish Laboratory in the group of Prof Sir Richard Friend, who is also the Tan Chin Tuan Foundation Centennial Professor of NUS. The work in Singapore is supported by the Temasek Young Investigator's Award, NUS-DSO Project Agreement and Ministry of Education.

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Geok-Kieng Lim, Zhi-Li Chen, Jenny Clark, Roland G. S. Goh, Wee-Hao Ng, Hong-Wee Tan, Richard H. Friend, Peter K. H. Ho, Lay-Lay Chua. Giant broadband nonlinear optical absorption response in dispersed graphene single sheets. Nature Photonics, 2011; 5 (9): 554 DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.177

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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111230134831.htm

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

As Millions Of Consumers Unwrapped Kindle Fires Over Christmas, Mobile Ad Impressions Spiked 261 Percent

In November, Mobile ad network Millennial Media reported that Amazon?s new tablet devices Kindle Fire, was seeing ad impressions grow at an average daily rate of 19% since its launch to the public in the middle of the month. Millennial says it?s not just seeing millions of impressions and the device is on a monthly run rate of hundreds of millions of impressions. But that data was gathered from a few weeks of usage from consumers in November, and as Amazon reported yesterday, December's holiday season brought record sales for the Kindle Fire, with over 4 million Kindle devices sold in December. The Kindle Fire was the most gifted and wished for product on Amazon this season. Today, Millennial is releasing data from its ad network showing impressive growth numbers from the Kindle Fire over the holiday weekend. In November, impressions on the Kindle Fire grew an average rate of 19 percent every day. Over this past weekend, Millennial says that as consumers opened and used their new Kindle Fires, ad impressions increased even more. As millions of consumers unwrapped new Kindle Fires, Millennial saw an average daily growth rate of 113 percent.

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