| Mid−Day Forex Technical Report − Dollar Mixed after Data, Canadian ...
However, the S&P/Case-Shiller home price indexes showed further weakness in the housing market. The 20-city index dropped -7.7% yoy in Nov, even worse than expectation of -7.1%, to 188.8, the worse reading since records began in 01. Conference board consumer confidence deteriorated from upwardly revised 90.6 to 87.9 in Jan, but was above expectation of 86.0. On the other hand, the major mover today is indeed the Canadian dollar again, which ride on record gold price and rally in oil prices. USD/CAD dives through parity as reaches as low as 0.9943 so far. Canadian dollar's strength is also apparent in EUR/CAD and CAD/JPY. Also, yen and Swissy were generally weak Earlier today, Sterling was lifted briefly by CBI distributive trade which dropped from +8 to +4 but was much better than expectation of +0.
Canada's top ballet companies create new Banff program
Canada's top five ballet companies are collaborating on a new summer training program for young dancers at the Banff Centre in Alberta. Dancers from the National Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Alberta Ballet and Ballet British Columbia will be selected for a program to begin in 2008. Dancers Phillip Payne, Natalia Fiorioni and Brett Taylor, left to right, in Butterfly Affect, choreographed by Joe Laughlin, at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2007. A new training program is to begin this summer.(Don Lee/Banff Centre) The program will put dancers from different companies together to expose them to "a wide range of styles and approaches," according to Sarah Iley, vice-president of programming for the Banff Centre. "It will also give these talented young dancers a tremendous opportunity to collaborate on the development and performance of a new piece," she said.
1010 WINS Talking Politics with Justin Schrager
It wasn't even close... but first things first.....what is a Palmetto? South Carolina is the palmetto state, and its on signs everywhere. Turns out its kind of a small palm tree, signifying John Edwards, and to a lesser extent, Hillary Clinton's stunted showing here. I knew she was in trouble when I stepped off the plane. Obama bumper stickers, Obama t-shirts everywhere...and the closer you get to the University of South Carolina campus in dowtown Columbia, the more you saw. Friday morning at Benedict College, also in downtown Columbia, Hillary Clinton addressed a not quite full chapel. Asking folks before hand, and I was astounded to find among the young people very little support for her. The best she could hope for from these young people was "I want to hear what she has to say", but in the next breath it was "I'm leaning toward Obama". This primary result was more than a lean.
MPs put Gigaba on the spot
Home Affairs Deputy Minister Malusi Gigaba faced a grilling from MPs on Tuesday, who demanded that he account for the perennially chaotic state of his department. Gigaba's attempt to pass the buck to his director-general, Mavuso Msimang, was shot down by the portfolio committee chairperson, Patrick Chauke, who put his foot down firmly and demanded political accountability. This comes hardly a week after the Cabinet said it would haul ministers and their directors general before the executive to account for poor bookkeeping practices. .
Dangerous Ideas, Sinister Forces
Bringing Rachel's words to the stage is actress Megan Dodds.
I saw the play last October as it began its second sellout run at the Royal Court Theatre in London. "Surreal" fails to adequately describe what it was like to sit in that theater packed with British patrons watching a Californian actress vocalize the writings of this Oly Girl as comfortably as if they were her own. I live in Olympia, my adopted home for almost a decade. I had arrived in London that fall after spending the summer working as the media coordinator for ISM in the West Bank. Sitting next to me were Rochelle Gause and Serena Becker, women from Olympia who would be in Rafah a few weeks later working on behalf of the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project, an ambitious though not yet officially sanctioned group.
Hillary Spins the Times :
Hillary Avoids Still More Damage! A mere 45% of New Hampshire Democrats call her a "political whore"--or otherwise say they dislike her, using milder language (e.g., "[c]riminal" . . . "megalomaniac" . . . "fraud" . . . "dangerous" . . . "devil incarnate" . . . "satanic ". . . "power freak" . . . "shrew" . . . "Machiavellian" . . . "evil, power-mad witch"). ... Nothing a bit of additional "repositioning" won't cure! ... [You're very proud that, unlike the paper where the original article ran, you get to spell out 'whore,' aren't you?--ed That's value added!] ... 1:32 P.M. Saturday, August 5, 2006 Hillary Spins the Times: If you're Hillary Clinton, and you fear people might interpret a Lieberman loss in Tuesday's Connecticut Senate primary as trouble for other pro-war Senate Dems, what do you do? Get the credulous New York Times to print your damage-controlling spin on the front page!** Here's the headline: Clinton Dodges Political Peril for War Vote Oh yeah? Says who? Anne Kornblut (who owed Hillary one after erroneously reporting that the former First Lady actually said something interesting) claims that "skillful repositioning and adaptation to changing circumstances have enabled her to avoid political damage." Kornblut then outlines Hillary's attempts to make up for her war vote (by "repositioning" and criticizing the Bush administration) but she offers zero evidence that this in fact has enabled Hillary to avoid political damage--at least on the national stage on which Hillary aspires to play.
Nawaz deported.
It was a great day in the history of Pakistan that Judiciary and lawyers recognize their role, as a last resort people rush to support them. A few great decisions encouraged peoples that perhaps Judiciary at last has became independent. But judiciary did not care to their own decisions, hungry wolves, toddies of fascism; political orphans and mafia which were against independence of Judiciary were active to sabotage each and every decision of judiciary. It is a great mistake of judiciary to take light such actions and compromised with integrity of courts such as: Why government servants who humiliated CJ were not brought to justice and why mastermind of conspiracy was not pointed out Alleged police officers were promoted to highest ranks and photos were published in press Why missing person's case is lingering so long Whether DG, National Crisis Management, Sec, Ministry of interior, DG of ISI, MI and IB are above the law, not a single one is punished State terrorism is being conducted openly, courts have no powers to ask government, and thousand of peoples have been killed, abducted and tortured by use of force.
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