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April 02, 2008 Breaking News
FOS Recruiting Survey: Part 2
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:12:00 PDT
FOS Recruiting Survey: Part 2 Over the past eight years the Front Range has compiled the FOS Recruiting Survey to review the origins of Division 1A football talent. In this part we look at the recruiting trends over that period both nationally and within Pennsylvania. Full Story | Discuss Team NewsRecruitingAlumniBig Ten47 Commit to Play in UA All-Star GameFOS Spring Photo Gallery 2 FOS Recruiting Survey: Part IA first look at the Final FourFOS-TV: DE Josh GainesPlay-By-Play: 11-on-11 Wor
Intimate Modernism at the Amon Carter, part two
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:20:14 PDT
On Monday I introduced the Amon Carter's Intimate Modernism show and talked about how much fun it was to see a museum present an American modernism show when everyone else seems to be abandoning the period. Continuing... In 1943, with World War II in full throttle, Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock separately hit on the mix of scale and abstraction that drove three decades of American post-war art. Pollock worked through Picasso and European modernism on his way to his drip-fields, and Still
If you're bearish...
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:22:56 PDT
If you're bearish, the current rally can simply be viewed as an unwind of the bets made by leveraged hedge funds. The following explination comes from Contraryinvestor.com... Before rushing to judgment about new bull markets and new cycle credit market and economic expansions based on what we may have "seen" in short term financial market movement, at least personally, we're going to need a little more corroboration. Yes, call us conservative. Yes, call us skeptical. Extremely guilty as cha
Shrimp Glove Face Plant: MC Chris Pays Tribute To The Ghost With The Most
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:25:00 PDT
With the start of April comes many burnt blogosphere offerings, but the gem of the day was a nerdlicious new song from MC Chris. He'd been advertising an exclusive preview track from his upcoming album, though given the April 1st release date it seemed unlikely he'd be putting up anything legit. He ended up unleashing a song that won't be on the album, or presumably any other album since the backing track consists almost entirely of samples from the greatest Danny Elfman theme of all time...
Not your average kitchen appliance
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:25:43 PDT
Are you frustrated by the limited color options out there for kitchen appliances? Not into stainless steel, white or black? Join the club. Reader Denise wrote to me, asking for some advice: I'm getting ready to buy all new kitchen appliances; hooray! The trouble is, my kitchen is very open into my family room, and my house is quite colorful, with lots of Mexican and abstract influences--and lots and lots of color. To me, stainless-steel (or, God forbid, black) appliances would look terrible in m
CBOE Put/Call Ratio
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:27:10 PDT
This fear/complacency indicator goes along with the VIX chart posted on the COW this morning. All I am saying is that the bulls' emotions are coming along quite nicely toward a contented state. Did they really find their HOPED FOR bottom with the recent Bear Sterns bailout compliments you and me (if you're from the USA)? We will find out shortly. But I have difficulty believing the story until/unless recent trends in the $VIX & $CPC are busted. As for the PCR, the 20 day ema is approaching t
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:12:00 PDT
FOS Recruiting Survey: Part 2 Over the past eight years the Front Range has compiled the FOS Recruiting Survey to review the origins of Division 1A football talent. In this part we look at the recruiting trends over that period both nationally and within Pennsylvania. Full Story | Discuss Team NewsRecruitingAlumniBig Ten47 Commit to Play in UA All-Star GameFOS Spring Photo Gallery 2 FOS Recruiting Survey: Part IA first look at the Final FourFOS-TV: DE Josh GainesPlay-By-Play: 11-on-11 Wor
Intimate Modernism at the Amon Carter, part two
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:20:14 PDT
On Monday I introduced the Amon Carter's Intimate Modernism show and talked about how much fun it was to see a museum present an American modernism show when everyone else seems to be abandoning the period. Continuing... In 1943, with World War II in full throttle, Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock separately hit on the mix of scale and abstraction that drove three decades of American post-war art. Pollock worked through Picasso and European modernism on his way to his drip-fields, and Still
If you're bearish...
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:22:56 PDT
If you're bearish, the current rally can simply be viewed as an unwind of the bets made by leveraged hedge funds. The following explination comes from Contraryinvestor.com... Before rushing to judgment about new bull markets and new cycle credit market and economic expansions based on what we may have "seen" in short term financial market movement, at least personally, we're going to need a little more corroboration. Yes, call us conservative. Yes, call us skeptical. Extremely guilty as cha
Shrimp Glove Face Plant: MC Chris Pays Tribute To The Ghost With The Most
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:25:00 PDT
With the start of April comes many burnt blogosphere offerings, but the gem of the day was a nerdlicious new song from MC Chris. He'd been advertising an exclusive preview track from his upcoming album, though given the April 1st release date it seemed unlikely he'd be putting up anything legit. He ended up unleashing a song that won't be on the album, or presumably any other album since the backing track consists almost entirely of samples from the greatest Danny Elfman theme of all time...
Not your average kitchen appliance
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:25:43 PDT
Are you frustrated by the limited color options out there for kitchen appliances? Not into stainless steel, white or black? Join the club. Reader Denise wrote to me, asking for some advice: I'm getting ready to buy all new kitchen appliances; hooray! The trouble is, my kitchen is very open into my family room, and my house is quite colorful, with lots of Mexican and abstract influences--and lots and lots of color. To me, stainless-steel (or, God forbid, black) appliances would look terrible in m
CBOE Put/Call Ratio
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:27:10 PDT
This fear/complacency indicator goes along with the VIX chart posted on the COW this morning. All I am saying is that the bulls' emotions are coming along quite nicely toward a contented state. Did they really find their HOPED FOR bottom with the recent Bear Sterns bailout compliments you and me (if you're from the USA)? We will find out shortly. But I have difficulty believing the story until/unless recent trends in the $VIX & $CPC are busted. As for the PCR, the 20 day ema is approaching t
