But, we also have these Iris in clear view of both the kitchen and dining room windows!

I Love My Wife.

The word spread across one smart phone after another:

Danny Werfel appointed by President Barack Obama as the new Acting IRS Chief.

“The Quarterback?”

“From Florida!”

“Yeah he went into Politics!”

It’s amazing to me how so many “in the know” guys were saying this yesterday afternoon!
The news spread like wild fire!

As for the women, well, most were saying, “Who?” Yes this could be viewed as slightly sexist, but it was true non the less.

As for me, I thought it was hard to belief when I heard it, and for a moment almost got suckered into the internet spawned and he said she said rumor, until , that is, – I looked at my smart phone news feed.

No, my smart phone is not “smarter” than anybody elses. I just thought to my self, Hmmm I thought he spelled his name with a “u”.

Sure enough, Danny Wuerffel was “The University of Florida QB” who won the Heisman Trophy and was drafted by the Saints and would eventually end up playing for the good all “ball coach”, Steve Spurrier, and the Washington Redskins.

He did NOT go into politics but rather began work with Desire Street Ministries in New Orleans and eventually wrote a book called Tales From the Gator Swamp.

Danny Werfel did not play professional sports but rather became a lawyer and played for the Justice Department eventually starting as the controller for the Office of Management and Budget in 2009.

Both Danny’s however, were good for a chuckle and, for a brief moment in internet history, brought together by an unlikely news feed.

And a bunch of guys.

It’s a brave nu wrld & U got 2 knO how 2 tweet d spk.

2 ofn ppl tweet b4 dey tink.

ap wz hacked

& d stock mrkt tanks

NFL prospects don’t knO how 2 act on social media

tweets & pics git deleted bt not b4 dey go viral

& crowd sorcerers accuse an  NOsNt prsn

wen DIS hpns honor, integrity & accountability go out d window.

we bcum our own worse nME f aL we do iz spk & act lIk DIS

d nfl & espn wiL not plA spoilers bt La Canfora wiL.

Bravo 2 ESPN & d Commish

& 1 epic fail 2 Jason

& cuz U R goin 2 b w yor hed pointed dwn @ yor smrt fone l%kin @ a 4 inch scrEn insted of l%kin @ yor 50 inch hI def wide scrEn TV w surround swNd U R goin 2 b d 1 l%kin lIk a boob trying 2 figur out wot aL DIS iz saying & missing aL d real important actN & commentary

Wot hapnd 2 d days wen bn social mEnt goin out & bn w ppl & interacting & speaking fAc 2 fAc

O wot bout true entertainment & d biLd ^ & surpriz of an unexpected evnt o scene on stage

So when the next big event of your life starts, such as the NFL Draft tonight, invite some friends over, or go out to the local sports bar and actually socialize!

Interact with others and enjoy the suspense and the reality of the moment of live TV.

If you want to share the moment, pull out that smart phone, take a few pictures, share them with the people you invited over to get their reaction and if it’s a good one, post it out to the internet for others to see what they are missing.

And if you need one piece of advice, remember this . . .

There is no backspace, delete or mulligan on social media.

You’ll be glad you did.

Mark (aka TacoMan) and I have taken up golf lessons at a local golf/driving range.  It’s a nice course, with good instructors – but what I think they really need is one of these!

Apparently, after the recent rift and public shot at “other parties” in the organization by RGIII regarding his season ending knee injury; the Redskins are tired of a QB unnecessarily taking risks and blaming others for their decision making capability.

RGIII:

My first NFL season and my injury that ended it showed me a lot about the league, my team and myself.

I know where my responsibility is within the dilemma that led to me having surgery to repair my knee and all parties involved know their responsibilities as well.

Cutler brings with him a wealth of experience of properly avoiding further injury and risking his career. And although he has been the butt of a lot of motivational jokes and accused of not being the best team player, he does have Mike Shanahan complete confidence.

Jay Cutler :

I have played this game a long time and know when I am hurt and when I am not, when I can play and when I can’t.  I want to have a long NFL career and if that means I have to sit on the bench, then so be it.

Mike Shanahan:

He (Jay) is a Pro Bowl player; has a good supporting cast around him and has always been “A worker”; very smart; handles himself like you want. I think he is just getting better and better.  I like the way he competes. I like him on a day-in, day-out basis. I think people will see his personality in time, and hopefully it’s a short time before we all can see him build on our success of last year.

This trade reunites Coach Shanahan with Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall and gives all of them a chance to rekindle past success and future championship dreams for all Redskins and Bears Fans a like.

HTTR !!!

Stocks showing a definitive breakout pattern or setup to a breakout and those showing a steady momentum upward within a well defined price channel.

Check out the awesome chart patterns below.

EAST

IRDM – Continues to display wedge pattern, the only question is – will it be able to breakout and win during this crucial week?

MRH – Meanwhile, MRH continues to show good rising strength.

NORTH

BA – Boeing had a great breakout and now looks to establish a favorable pattern before it cools off  and comes crashing back down to earth.

BKE – Buckel has demonstrated good form in maintaining a horizontal cooling off period (maintaining support) and then establishing a positive momentum patter after experiencing a similar BA style breakout last year.  But, has BKE reached a momentum swing point with a possible new wedge pattern forming over the past two weeks?  If so, it could be a bumpy ride this week.

SOUTH

DPS – Technically DPS was in a positive pattern upward (but just barely).  After recovering from a violent drop in February, DPS has skyrocketed at just the right time to win each contest match-up this month.  Now it faces the pressure of maintaining this breakout momentum above its top price channel.

INTL – is once again flirting with support lows and has yet to see any movement up to challenge this downward wedge pattern.  It is amazing that they have managed to win this far into the contest.

WEST

SVLC – a previous “W” pattern (February – March) could have been a signal for a reversal. Now it has to breakout of its trending downward price channel.  The rising support level of the horizontal wedge pattern helps support this effort.

TWX – is another stock that looks like it wants to continue in it established rising price channel.  Will it be enough to carry it through to the final rounds?

You can follow this weeks match-ups, as well as the coming Final Four and Championship by clicking HERE!

But that is based solely on the fact of treating every game, every team with an equal 50/50 chance of winning.

Of course we all know that is not exactly correct.

There has never been a 16 seed beating a number 1 seed.

That translates to an impressive 0% win rate for 16^th seeded teams.

Six, no wait, Seven 15^th seeds have beat a number 2. Thank you Georgetown That is roughly a 4% win rate.

Eleven and Twelve seeds have done much better. Each has roughly a 33% historical win rate against 6^th and 5^th ranked teams respectively.

Still, factor all this highly technical mathematical statistics and probability mumbo-jumbo into it and you come up with something like 35 billion to 1.

Not that I would recommend either as a get rich strategy, but you would be better off playing the lottery.

By mapping out where over 1 million Facebook fans currently live, you and all your friends can see how regions and states will be dividing their loyalty and filling out their brackets for March Madness.  According to the data, the ACC dominates the country.

Do you agree?

Check out all the maps for the teams and conferences playing in the tournament here

It was a historic NCAA Tournament.

This year, Louisville is the talk of the tournament with the #1 overall spot.

I don’t think they will make it.

I have two brackets set up.

One, with a ton of upsets and games I think are going to be great to watch.

The other, with my personal favorites dominating into the final four.

First my upset bracket:

MIDWEST:

St. Mary’s and Creighton (I hate Duke) make it to the Sweet 16!

Yes, I have Louisville losing!  I told you it was a crazy upset bracket.

WEST:

La Salle and Belmont make it to the Sweet 16.

Sorry Ohio St fans, you are going to lose to one of the “I” teams (either Iowa State or Iona).

SOUTH:

Kansas gets dropped by North Carolina.

Michigan and S. Dakota prove to be the game to watch.

And unfortunately VCU falls to S. Dakota.

EAST:

This is my “boring” part of the bracket with only Bucknell being a possible surprise advance.

My Final Four:

Creighton, Belmont, Florida, Indiana

And The Winner Is:

Florida!

And for my slightly more realistic “personal favorite” but very boring bracket I have all four #1′s making it to the Final Four with Gonzaga defeating Indiana for the National Championship.

Who do you have winning?

There are plenty of great examples of resistance levels putting momentum pressure on stocks, wedge patterns putting the squeeze on price points this week, successful break-outs and good ol’ positive price channels maintaining a winning record.

Lets take a look at some of them:

WEST

VCI and TWX go up against each other this week in the battle of the momentum charts.  VCI has successfully broken above resistance and is looking to maintain momentum and establish another good pattern.

TWX is staying within its upward moving price channel.

EAST

PCCC broke through top level of their rising price channel but may not be able to have what it takes to establish a new pattern. They lost their breakout momentum this week which was enough to lose to slow but recently steady ORCL.

MRH and ORCL both rising however ORCL has formed a rising wedge pattern which indicates it days may be numbered.

NORTH

BA – just like ACAS and PCCC experience a breakout at just the right time.  Unlike ACAS and PCCC, Boeing has the strength of hope and hype.  They seem to have a solution for their pesky little fire problem and they continue to receive new orders for more planes.

So, when will all this good news end? Will Boeing stock continue to take flight this week or crash and burn when the hype is over?

BKE – looks to have broken through two levels of resistance, and will attempt to not suffer post break-out disorder.

BKE has two potential patterns starting here – one a good rising channel – the other a rising wedge. The key will be how well BKE stays above its recent resistance levels.

CACC – recovers from the dreaded rising wedge to breakout above resistance and looks to establish a new and hopefully better pattern.  But they have a ton of pressure to overcome with trying to retain momentum above the break out and their rising price channel.

CROX – On the other hand, after successfully breaking out of a wedge pattern, continues its positive momentum trend upward well inside their newly established rising price channel.  Sometimes slow and steady does win the race.

SOUTH

Remember last weeks hype darling?  HIMX?

Well hype ran out almost as fast as it started.  Last week we debated if HIMX was nothing more than a classic pump and dump scam.  I think the sudden boost was, however, the stock itself is a good stock and just might benefit in the long run from this exposure and its potential relationship with Google Glass.  HIMX is still up quite a bit for the month of March, but they lost a lot of momentum last week and drop out of the tournament.

And to highlight our latest breakout star, perhaps peaking at the right time to carry itself all the way through to the end of the tournament:

GTIV – Wedge?  What Wedge – I’m breaking out-a-here!  GTIV had two really good support levels to bounce off of and looks to continue moving upwards in the coming weeks.  Will it be enough to win?

See Ya’ll Later!