Down 0.7% at 9,047.89

Skullcandy Delivers Weak Forecast; Shares Skid

Audio brand Skullcandy posted a higher second-quarter profit, helped by growth across all its businesses, but forecast a weak full year.

Shares of Skullcandy, which launched its IPO about a month ago, skidded more than 10 percent in trading after the bell after closing at $16.73 in regular trading.

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Hot Copper….

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Thieves determined to reap value from scrap metal have pried storm grates from streets, sliced catalytic converters from cars and trucks and stripped copper downspouts from churches.Now they’ve sunk to new depths – or reached new heights, depending on your view.Lakeville Police Chief Frank Alvilhiera said police who went to a Verizon cell tower off Route 140 earlier this month found a man attempting to steal copper plates used to ground the towers during lightning strikes.“The officers reported that he was over 100 feet above ground,” said Alvilhiera. “This is the first time we have had a theft from a cell tower that I can recall. This has been the trend with copper prices high. Thefts are on the rise everywhere.”In fact, cell towers have been targeted by copper thieves around the country:In Spartanburg County, S.C., copper has been stolen from seven cell towers this summer, including from four AT&T towers on a single day in July. Police said the rise in thefts may have been prompted by a new law to take effect later this month that will require anyone selling copper to obtain a permit from the county sheriff.In Richland, Penn., two copper grounding plates were discovered missing from a cell tower last week. Each plate costs $500 to replace, according to a technician.

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Prepare to be violated in prison, Raj Raj.

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As regular investors fled the unprecedented stock market volatility this month, purchases by company executives relative to sales hit the highest levels since 1998, according to one of the more widely-watched insider buying newsletters on Wall Street.

As regular investors fled the unprecedented stock market volatility this month, purchases by company executives relative to sales hit the highest levels since 1998, according to one of the more widely-watched insider buying newsletters on Wall Street.

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321 cracks were up 0.5% today, to $34.51.

“too big to jail”

It’s all about the money

Articles that make you go hmmmmmmmm

Its looking like the final nail is in

ESLR went bankrupt yesterday, but the jobs went overseas a long time ago…

A bust is what it is being called

Warren wants to raise taxes, but a campaign run on raising taxes is borderline suicidal.

Among other things this guy is not presidential material!

Expect a withdrawal shortly…

Billy Meier relays info from the Plejaren extraterrestrial Ptaah from a March 7, 2011 contact.

“The current electronic technology and thereby also the entirety of the electronics on the Earth is extremely sensitive in regard to storms on the Sun and other cosmic radiation; consequently everything can collapse if strong sun-storm eruptions send their energies to Earth and induce storms of electrons on Earth. These induce electric currents as a result of which enormous numbers of electrical – and therefore, also electromagnetic – apparatuses and devices of all kinds can be made inoperable just as can atomic and electric power plants as well as other plants, machines and vehicles, and so forth, which are in any way associated with electrical energy. If something happens in this form then the whole thing is absolutely not harmless, because if such harmful consequences arise, then not only do large parts of the economy and medical care, as well as drinking water supply, collapse, but also the production and necessary transport of food stuffs, as well as general security measures against plundering. Not to mention that, in regard to all Earth human advances, a setback in development could result and damage could generally come about in all areas, which would take decades to rectify again. The Earth human beings and their governments would also come to the brink of financial ruin, which means that they would become incapable of payment concerning being able to generally address and rectify the damage which had arisen. Criminality and wrongdoing would also climb, along with many other evils, which would be incalculable. This would be the case if a catastrophe in fact arose in the form in which it could with an over-activity of the Sun. But that happening is only a possibility and does not correspond to a prediction, because it still is not certain what will occur when the activity wakes the Sun from its slumber.”

NASA warns
“Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

Scientists believe it could damage everything from emergency services’ systems, hospital equipment, banking systems and air traffic control devices, through to “everyday” items such as home computers, iPods and Sat Navs. Due to humans’ heavy reliance on electronic devices, which are sensitive to magnetic energy, the storm could leave a multi-billion pound damage bill and “potentially devastating” problems for governments.

“We know it is coming but we don’t know how bad it is going to be,” Dr Richard Fisher, the director of Nasa’s Heliophysics division, said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. “It will disrupt communication devices such as satellites and car navigations, air travel, the banking system, our computers, everything that is electronic. It will cause major problems for the world. “Large areas will be without electricity power and to repair that damage will be hard as that takes time.”

Unbelievable story

Update:

Back to the ride.

So far comments out of this meeting are more or less the same that we have heard all along….that is EU needs more control over member countries, member countries need to apply and stick to budgets and or austerity programs, France and germany want to propose a tax on financial transactions, EU leaders need to meet twice a year…..

Some details that have emerged