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Besides being a moral obligation, humanitarian aid is also in the national interest of the United States, the report says. Such programs show a compassionate side to US foreign policy and can win friends for the US around the world, making the US more secure. And as developing countries become healthier and wealthier t... |
In a forward, two former members of Congress – one a Republican and one a Democrat – urge bipartisan support for humanitarian aid to mothers and children. "As Congress and the Administration face tough choices about future funding for international programs, let’s work together to give the gift too many mothers still w... |
Tax VOX Many tax breaks for kids, but do they work together? |
Margaret Thomas, deputy editor of The Business Times in Singapore, suggested to me recently that I take a look at what Asian print media are doing on the Internet. “It would be good to see the column wander away now and then from the very — and I suppose inevitably — American slant,” she wrote. |
“Utusan Malaysia Online offers a news summary and full news version in the Malay language, plus news summaries in English, French and German, with Spanish to follow soon. |
“Asahi Shimbun has an interesting online club called Asahi Net whose members participate in a range of online activities related to material in the paper. There are, for example, online ‘haiku’ gatherings which are led by a well-known haiku (strictly formatted short poems) writer. |
One of the most ambitious online publishing efforts by an Asian company is Thomas’ own. The Business Times of Singapore has been on the World Wide Web since June 1995 as part of AsiaOne, the Web home base of Singapore Press Holdings. BT Online has been “getting very encouraging response not just from Singaporeans and A... |
BT Online also has added online services such as BT StockWatch, which provides realtime prices and other data from the Singapore Stock Exchange, and soon from the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (in Malaysia). A BT Business Directory lists Singapore companies and businesses and offers foreign companies a bulletin board whe... |
“We have several other services and additions in the works, and for the forseeable future most if not all of these will be available free, as we’re looking to — and getting good response from — advertisers/sponsors for revenue,” Thomas says. |
Today just happens to mark the official Web launch of Singapore Press Holdings’ flagship newspaper, The Strait Times, on the AsiaOne site. The service is called Strait Times Interactive. |
You can easily view all the Asian newspapers on the Web on the Editor & Publisher Interactive Online Newspaper Services Resource Directory. Click on Asia Internet services for a directory of newspaper online services by country. |
Infoseek also named the top online magazine services: Pathfinder (Time Inc.), The Atlantic Monthly, Word, and Village Voice/L.A. Weekly. |
Top electronic news services: The Electronic Newsstand, NandO.net, and CNN Interactive. |
Cox Enterprises Inc. has named former Times Mirror Co. executive R. Scott Whiteside to be its director of strategy and technology for new media. Whiteside forerly was T-M’s director of strategic development, involved in the company’s acquisitions of Internet and online services companies and strategic new media allianc... |
Washington: US President Barack Obama will propose $467 billion in budget cuts to offset the cost of job-creation package, White House budget director Jack Lew said on Monday. |
“In order to invest in jobs and growth, we’re going to have to pay for it," Lew told reporters as Obama prepared to submit his $447 billion jobs program to Congress on Monday. He said the extra $20 billion in cuts were intended to “build in a cushion" to make sure the plan is paid for without adding to deficits, as Oba... |
TaylorMade promises distance, and distance they deliver with this white-headed beast of a club. |
There's something to be said about the adjustibility and ease with which you can tune your driver these days. TaylorMade might not have invented the adjustable driver, but they've nearly perfected it. |
For the past two months I have put a TaylorMade R11S TP driver through the paces, both at the range and through a dozen or so rounds on the course. The company that scored major marketing and visibility points for its shift to white driver heads that are all the identifiable in the hands of the pros on TV, I entered th... |
The R11S is the follow up to the wildly successful R11. Raising eyebrows, TaylorMade launched an ad campaign that basically focused on its own product as the primary competition, touting the R11S as significantly longer than its predecessor, the original R11. |
"The R11S is a golfer's dream come true; it's the realization of every ounce of innovation, adjustability, and performance we could package in a bigger, more aerodynamic, white clubhead," said Sean Toulon, executive vice president. "It would have been easy for our product creation team to rest on the laurels of the ori... |
At 460cc, the R11S is at the USGA limit for size. Similar to the original R11, the new R11S features a flat-white crown color and black PVD face to improve alignment and accuracy off the tee. TaylorMade testing indicates that the majority of golfers gain confidence at address from a head that appears large relative to ... |
The R11S driver's modern-classical clubhead shape is intended to suit the eye of better players, while still providing ample forgiveness and confidence for average players. The head boasts a contemporary, slightly more triangular appearance than traditionally shaped drivers that provides higher MOI and a deeper, farthe... |
Adjustable Sole Plate technology allows the decoupling of loft and face angle by using a sole plate to adjust face angle independent of loft sleeve setting. Very simply, that means you can adjust the face angle independently of the loft, and vice versa. The five face angles made possible by the improved ASP Technology ... |
ASP works with FCT to create 40 combinations of loft and face angle, which can be used to further accentuate a face angle or counter a negative face angle due to a sleeve adjustment. This adds up to approximately 60 yards of side-to-side trajectory adjustment and 3 degrees and 1500 rpm of launch condition change. |
TaylorMade introduced Movable Weight Technology, which gives golfers the ability to easily move discretionary weight to different areas of the clubhead to shift the CG location to promote changes in trajectory that produce greater distance and accuracy. |
Believe the hype. The R11s isn't a hit because of its paintjob and ad campaigns. This driver flat-out performs. |
Look: Flat out, the white looks sharp. I consider myself a traditionalist, but I can't lie, the minute I took this puppy out of the box, I wanted to hit it. The ball sets up so nicely against the black face with the white crown. Even if white isn't your cup of tee, I'd suggest getting it into your hands before writing ... |
At address, TaylorMade's claims that the head looks bigger rang true for me. The color and the shape of the head create a visual dwarfing of the ball and it inspires confidence to be able to seemingly hit it anywhere on the face and make it go. |
Performance: When TaylorMade sells distance, it can come with a requisite eyeroll, especially if you take their promises of "20 more yards" year after year at face value. But once you realize they're couching their claims based on tuning the club to your swing, fitting you properly and adjusting the head to maximize pe... |
For me personally, the R11s was longer than any of the three drivers I had been rotating through my bag at the time. The ability to tinker with face angle, lie angle and weighting in the head is helpful, although be careful that you don't obsess over it. I found an absolutely measurable difference from one end of the s... |
Along with the look of the club, the highlight of this driver is the stock shaft, which is the best I've seen come standard in a driver. The RIP Phenom 60 gets some mixed reviews in the rabid golf gear online universe, but I was fully impressed. Having spent time on TrackMan and being fit into some pretty hefty shafts ... |
My primary gripe with the R11s is in my ability to swing it consistently. I chalk this up to its slightly longer length, which promotes distance but can rob you of the ability to control it. I found that my primary miss was a high, weak push or an uncharacteristic 60-yard slice. When I caught it on the screws, the R11s... |
As someone who has long fought a hook, I looked forward to adjusting this driver into an anti-hook machine, by opening the face and adjusting the lie to promote a cut. But as it turned out, I ended up closing the face and setting it up as neutral in order to keep the ball in play and allay fears of losing the ball righ... |
Feel: The R11s has a unique feel that struck me right away as different. It's got a really nice, deep feel at impact. I can best describe it as the feeling of hitting a baseball with a wooden bat. It's solid, and when you catch it on the screws the ball simply explodes. The sound is quite different than the high pitche... |
One of the big pluses for this driver is the way the shaft performs through the swing. On older model TaylorMade drivers I've hit, I felt they were too light and too whippy, but the R11s stands up very well in this respect. |
If you're a cynical SOB like me, and you're doubting the quality of TaylorMade's products based on their marketing prowess, let me dispel that notion. The R11s is so popular on Tour and in the stores because it's a great stick. The white head is a plus and you'll have a hard time finding a better stock shaft on the mar... |
Shaft and Club Specs: The R11S measures 45.75 inches and is equipped with an Aldila RIP Phenom 60 shaft (X, S, R and M flexes), which weighs 60 grams and which features a medium-firm tip profile. RIP shafts feature Reverse Interlaminar Placement to provide more stability more stability at impact and promote more distan... |
Lofts: 9 degrees, 10.5 degrees, 12 degrees in right-handed; 9 degrees and 10.5 degrees in left-handed. |
25 additional TP shaft choices are also available. |
Lofts: 9 degrees, 10.5 degrees in right-handed; 9 degrees and 10.5 degrees in left-handed. |
Mike Moore | The Journal Gazette TinCaps designated hitter Esteury Ruiz bats in the first inning against West Michigan at Parkview Field on Tuesday. |
The TinCaps open their second-to-last home series of the season Wednesday night. The game is significant not only for its playoff implications – Fort Wayne remains in a tight Eastern Division race with several other teams – but also because the attendance at the game will likely put the team over 4 million fans at Park... |
On the field, the TinCaps are looking for their fourth straight victory. They need to keep winning, because Great Lakes shows no signs of slowing down. The Loons, just a half-game behind Fort Wayne in the standings, have won seven games in a row and nine of 10, keeping the pressure on the TinCaps and West Michigan Whit... |
"He extracts all he can from a fringey slider thanks to feel for east/west location, and he has a 12-6 curveball with which he pitches backwards. When he misses, he misses down. He has a limited ceiling but could pitch at the back of a rotation." |
Longenhagen added that Assad throws a fastball that touches 94 mph, so the TinCaps will have to be ready for some velocity tonight. Fort Wayne's offense is coming off a somewhat workmanlike performance in Tuesday's victory. The TinCaps didn't put together a big inning, but scored single runs in five different innings t... |
The U.S. benchmarks are approaching the second-quarter close amid increased market volatility and potentially consequential price action. |
Consider that the Dow industrials have violated the marquee 200-day moving average — closing lower for the first time in two years — while the comparably resilient S&P 500 has nonetheless violated notable support for the first time in nearly one month. |
As illustrated, the S&P has extended the June downturn, violating the breakout point (2,742). A retest of the 50-day moving average, currently 2,717, remains underway. |
On further weakness, deeper support matches the March gap (2,710) and is followed by an inflection point at the 2017 peak (2,695). |
Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.42% has staged a headline technical event. |
Specifically, the Dow has violated its 200-day moving average, currently 24,292, closing lower for the first time since June 2016, a move then fueled by Brexit-related volatility. |
The downturn punctuates a failed retest of the 50-day moving average from underneath. Shaky, if not outright bearish, price action. |
Against this backdrop, the Nasdaq Composite has reversed sharply from record highs. |
In the process, the index has violated its breakout point (7,637) — a level matching the March peak — plunging to its next notable floor, better illustrated below. |
On this wider view, the Nasdaq has violated its breakout point amid technical price action. |
Delving deeper, the Nasdaq’s 50-day moving average, currently 7,419, is rising toward support. Its intermediate-term bias remains bullish pending incremental damage. |
Looking elsewhere, the Dow industrials’ backdrop is strikingly weaker. |
The 200-day moving average, currently 24,292. |
Support matching the late-May, “Italy-induced” low of 24,247. |
On a headline basis, Monday’s close (24,252) punctuated the Dow’s first violation of its 200-day moving average since June 2016. The index is vying to avoid its first consecutive closes under the 200-day since March 2016. |
Still, the Dow has maintained late-May low (24,247) by a narrow five-point margin. An eventual close lower would mark a “lower low” — combined with a violation of the 200-day moving average — more firmly consistent with a primary trend shift. |
Separately, consider that the 200-day moving average’s slope is ascending, still consistent with a primary uptrend. |
Combined, the June downturn has inflicted genuine damage, though a primary trend shift has not been signaled. The ongoing retest of the late-May low is worth tracking. |
Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has extended its pullback from the range top. |
In the process, the S&P has violated its breakout point (2,742) pulling in to the 50-day moving average, currently 2,717. |
Monday’s close (2,717.1) closely matched the 50-day, and the prevailing retest remains underway. |
Collectively, the U.S. benchmarks are approaching the second-quarter close, the month-end, amid technical cross currents. |
On a headline basis, the Dow industrials have closed under the 200-day moving average for the first time in nearly two years, since June 27, 2016. |
But as always, the Dow Jones Industrials Average is least representative U.S. benchmark. It has just 30 components, and is the lone price-weighted index, meaning that higher-priced names are more influential in its movement. |
Moving to the small-caps, the iShares Russell 2000 ETF IWM, -0.29% has reversed from record territory amid increased volume. |
Immediate support remains poorly-defined, though a near-term floor (164.40) is followed by the much firmer breakout point (160.00). |
Similary, the S&P MidCap 400 has extended its pullback from record highs amid thus far limited technical damage. |
Tactically, an inflection point matches the January gap (357.90) and is followed by the 50-day moving average, currently 353.80. |
Looking elsewhere, the SPDR Trust S&P 500 has pulled in from three-month highs. |
The former breakout point (274.25) pivots to resistance. Conversely, the 50-day moving average, currently 271.50, is followed by support matching the bottom of the March gap (268.87). |
This week’s low (269.10) has registered fractionally above support. |
Collectively, the bigger-picture technical backdrop is not one-size-fits all. |
Very generally, the prevailing trade tensions have pressured the Dow industrials and the global markets — detailed in the next section — inflicting pronounced damage, in spots. |
Conversely, U.S. small-caps and domestic-centric sectors remain comparably resilient, and largely unscathed. |
Amid the cross currents, the S&P 500’s prevailing backdrop remains relatively straightforward. |
To start, the S&P’s intermediate-term uptrend is intact. The index has maintained its 50-day moving average, and remains within a series of “higher highs” and “higher lows” preserving its rally attempt. |
Tactically, a major floor broadly spans from 2,673 to 2,695, levels matching the 2017 close and the 2017 peak. |
Recall that the late-May “Italy-induced” low (2,676) punctuated a fleeting, but successful, retest of major support. An eventual violation would mark a “lower low” raising a caution flag. |
Delving slightly deeper, the S&P’s 200-day moving average, currently 2,666, is rising toward support. |
As always, it’s not what the markets do it’s how they do it. Generally speaking, the S&P 500’s intermediate- to longer-term technical bias remains bullish barring a violation of the 2,673 support. |
See also: S&P 500 nails major support amid fragile global market backdrop. |
To start, the Financial Select Sector SPDR XLF, -0.29% is precariously positioned. Monday’s close marked the year’s worst close. |
Technically, the June downturn punctuates a failed test of trendline resistance, placing major support, circa 26.50, under siege. On further weakness, deeper support matches the September breakout point (25.50) while a downside target projects to the 24.70 area. |
Conversely, an eventual close atop the 50- and 200-day moving averages — the 27.60 area — would place the brakes on bearish momentum. |
Meanwhile, the transports’ backdrop is comparably stronger, though the group has returned to its former range. |
Specifically, the iShares Transportation Average ETF has violated major support, and the 50-day moving average, on increased volume. |
Underlying the downturn, its relative strength index (not illustrated) has registered three-month lows, leaving the group vulnerable to downside follow-through. The 200-day moving average, currently 186.50, is firmly within view. |
Conversely, a swift reversal atop the breakdown point (195.00) would neutralize this week’s downdraft. |
Combined, the transports’ intermediate-term bias is in flux — the group is traversing the range — against a still bullish longer-term backdrop. |
Looking elsewhere, the PowerShares QQQ ETF QQQ, +0.13% — a large-cap technology proxy — remains incrementally stronger. |
To be sure, the group has violated its breakout point, circa 175, reaching less-charted territory on increased volume. |
Still, the downturn has been underpinned by next support (169.75), almost precisely, an area closely followed by the 50-day moving average. |
Put differently, limited technical damage has thus far been inflicted. The group’s intermediate-term bias remains bullish. |
Related names setting up well include Clorox Co., General Mills, Church & Dwight Co., Kimberly-Clark Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co. |
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