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Over the last couple of years or so, I've been a regular visitor to the the web site called:
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Especially in the fall months.
So I'm disappointed that the web master has closed that forum because of a dispute he's having with his web hosting company.
I felt like I'd made some friends over on that forum and miss being able to check in with them during the run up to Christmas this year.
I'm wondering if any my old friends from The Yule Log ever drop in here. I miss you all!

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Chapter 30
Jacob marries Bilhah, and she bears Dan and Naphtali—He marries Zilpah, and she bears Gad and Asher—Leah bears Issachar and Zebulun and a daughter, Dinah—Then Rachel conceives and bears Joseph—Jacob works for Laban for wages of cattle and sheep.
1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in
3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also
4 And she gave him
5 And
6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name
7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8 And Rachel said,
9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, A
12 And
13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me
14 ¶And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found
15 And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast
16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.
18 And Leah said, God hath given me my
19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband
21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 ¶And God
23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my
24 And she called his name
25 ¶And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.
26 Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have
27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath
28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:
32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted
33 So shall my
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
37 ¶And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the
38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the
40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
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Skip to comments.Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 3 March 2013
Posted on 03/03/2013 4:40:52 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
March 3rd, 2013
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Mitt and Ann Romney.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House economic adviser Gene Sperling; House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; Rep. Raul Labrador.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., John McCain, R-Ariz., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sperling; Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sperling; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Reps. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., and Greg Walden, R-Ore.
You 100% guys are amazing. Thanks by the way for giving us ozero.If you keep it up we will get Hitlery as well.
By the way who is your 100% candidate who has charisma, is a household name, and has so much money its falling out of his pockets. Just curious. Cause some of us live in the real world.
Someday, my FRiend, I will be one of them! Will you join me? What does Tarpon taste like?
Fishing season is right around the corner.
Uhhh... we don't eat them. They are a game fish. I'll tell you how revered they are. A friend of mine caught one about 175 lbs. Curoiously at the 7 Mile Bridge! The fish expended so much lactic acid during the fight he was going to be bait for a nearby 300 lb. bull shark. My friend pulled him into the boat put him on the bow and drove two miles away to safety. He then spent 20 mintues bringing the fish back to life by pulling him slowly throught the water lettingthe gills fillwith water with the boat in gear. Fish swam away in good shape. Thats tarpon fishing down where.
It is not appropriate to blame the Republicans for any of this...In the meantime, the fault lies entirely with Obama and the democRats.
I think not!
Explain to me exactly how all those gianormous CRs made it through the GOP House. Did they have 234 guns held to their heads?
Use as much paper as you need.
I thought you set the clocks on March 10th.
OK, maybe I've been livin' in Alabama too long...
But what's the point of catchin' a critter if you ain't gonna et it?
Simpson-Bowles did nothing to address health care spending. It was the reason that Ryan did not sign off on it.
Yes, entitlement spending must be dealt with. It is the biggest driver of our debt and it is on automatic pilot. I won't make the distinction between earned and unearned entitlement programs. They are both wealth redistribution schemes that we can't afford. You must either cut benefits or raise taxes or some combination thereof to make them sustainable.
The current Sequester suicide plan is madness - it does nothing to stop the Entitlement bleeding, it punishes Defense, and it will cause great harm to the economy.
It will no doubt harm defense, but I am upset with how politicized the military has become in this political fight. The idea that we can't deploy a carrier because of sequestration is nonsense. And I have no doubt that defense will be cut further as we get involved in the "Guns versus butter" battle that characterizes nations in decline.
I think the impact of sequestration is overblown. If reducing government spending by what amounts to a rounding error is so painful, how can we really make the spending reductions we need? We spend $10 billion a day (and borrow $4 billion of that) so sequestration is less than nine days of spending. There is no painless way out of our problem and the longer we delay confronting it, the more painful the solution will be. Sequestration is not madness. The status quo is madness as we run trillion dollar annual deficits.
Last week a pollster called me (I live in Sc) and asked me to rate a # of SC politicians as favorable or unfavorable. I rated all favorable until he got to Lindsay who I said Unfavorable.At that point he said "thank you for your time" and hung up. Who do you suppose was conducting this survey?
You must read the anecdote.
Welp, I agree with every word you wrote.
But Kabar, I fully understand that Medicare and SS are drains on this country, not operating in the black like planned.
Those of us who got up every morning and went to work, we didn't know where our money went, it was just deducted from our paycheck and that was the law.
I also understand that all those silly grants and pork barrell things are pennies compared to the enormity of entitlement spending. I am pretty sure the Republicans know this and want desperately to fix it.
BUT they too are part of the problem.
Cause while many of us would stand up and say hey, give me a couple hundred less every month, I am a loyal American, I'm okay with it.....FIRST we want to see the waste in gubmint dealt with.
I predicted to husband, as he busily changed clocks either forward, backward or wherever he was going, that over the next month we will hear stories of gubmint silliness bejeesus.
Already there's a web site that managed, via compilation of absurd gubmint spending programs, to get all the money needed by the sequester!
Stupid things like watching squirrels mate or setting teddy bears on fire....I dunno....we've all heard of it.
But that's just the really apparent! I'm willing to bet that there are thousands, if not millions, of employees on gubmint payrolls that no longer word there! I'm willing to bet that if somehow some impartial audit firm could get in on what's going on....man, come on, we all know it goes on.
Then let's look into those crazy awards....like the so-called "black farmers" nonsense.
My mind boggles.
This is something the citizenry expects before they go after the entitlements.
All those journalists so mad at the bully White House could blow this apart.
We all have to tighten our belts and this insane rule of the Democrats that gubmint spending must NOT be reduced is nuts.
But entitlements?
Gotta do a lot of other fiscal housekeeping first.
The politicos....Rep or Dem....they don't want this. That pork barrell and study of mating squirrels is often cycled round right back into their campaigns.
Bigger problem...we got an entrenched political class. They are protecting their own.
Folks like us.....pat on head and tell to go away.
The largest class of welfare recipients are government "workers". They are RAT union thugs at every level of government.
That's why you can safely say the union runs the country. (and the executive branch "workers" are overwhelmingly RAT)
A little off topic but I will tell you the BEST way to steal from a company. Take it from me, a payroll veteran of many years.
Every job I went to I caught them.
First payroll job I worked at, the very first, after a well-deserved promotion, I caught a woman been on the payroll...on jury duty....every day for a YEAR AND A HALF!
First thing, I call down to supervisor..."Well she turned in her jury slip to Joe Blow so I guess it's okay," he told me. Man, by this point I'm thinking Baltimore city has to reimburse us cause we can't afford employees on jury duty for over a year, go to hell.
So turns out the lady was in some kind of jury list that MIGHT be called to serve. She actually only served on a jury for two days.
She got to keep the money cause the union said companyt should have explained that she must go to WORK when not called to serve on jury.
In a way, they're right.
I got a hunch there's thousands of phantom gubmint employees, it's in my bones I know it. This is kind of an easy thing to do. The jury duty lady was a company error but oh I've found many a phantom employee, set up intentionally, in my day.
So here's my offer....Go ahead aHehnd reduce my entitlement siuch as it is....but first...I want an audit of gubmint agencies by a respected accounting firm with results publicized and public hearings on same.
How's about the repubs get out and about and offer this?
Never happen. We're mired in a vast wasteland of muckity muck overseen by the ruling elite.
Bums me out.
Indeed, they did have "guns" pointed at their heads. Their choice was simple: pass the resolution, or shut down government forever. Had they shut down the government, the "guns" were every single media outlet in the US blaming them for starving children, shutting down the military, eliminating Social Security payments, and all other evil that could occur. It happened during the Clinton reign, and they haven't forgotten it. There is no way that anything but a continuing resolution would pass, and no way that failure of anything to pass would be total blame on them and them only.
The unfortunate reality is that Obama is President, Reid controlls the Senate, and the mainstream media is on their side. Wishful thinking will not change that.
There's a lot of people who used to work at Andersen still looking to get back into the game. And since they had actual experience with Enron itself, that makes them most qualified to deal with our federal government.
Talk about creating jobs!
Man, a citizen audit of the federal gubmint would put millions to work!
Somebody tell the pubs.
Put me in charge of looking over one agency, heh, say....state department....come on.....come on guys.....
You got to know we'd find so much my head spins.
Don't blame it on Obama. He's doing what he was re-elected to do.
Blame it on the political class.
As has been said before, Watch what they do, not what they say.
The hundreds of lies spewed by nobama this past week about how draconian the Sequester was going to be are a fine example.
Speaking of example: U.S. Capitol official: Obama wrong on janitors' pay cut. [He just flat-assed lied about this.]
I've got a project for you.
Find me a single solitary time over the past eight years that The 0 has told the truth about ANYTHING.
(I'd say the same about any other 'rat and most of our political establishment, but that could take up a few lifetimes.)
As bad as Boehner has been I think the bigger problem is in the GOP Senate. McConnell is just a dead fish. He has made no attempt to tie the kenyan to the Democratic majority senate. Barely any fire directed at Reid for his shenanigans,etc, etc. No fight in McConnell. He is useless compared to how Reid was when he was minority leader.
The GOP will continue to lose if the leadership does not push back against the marxist attacks. Merely standing up and asking for another is not good enough.
You make that sound like a bad thing. Especially now, compared to the unrecoverable morass we are currently facing.
Honestly, they should have passed a CR every day, 24 hours at a time, forcing a budget vote. That's why they sent the TEAparty to Congress.
Denial just ain't a river in Egypt. We need to do entitlements first, especially Medicare. And what did we do? We just added another huge entitlement program called Obamacare.
Do you know what the Germans did to get their fiscal house in order? They reduced benefits to the elderly. The Greeks cut pensions by 20% and it still is not enough. This other fiscal housekeeping won't come any where near solving our fiscal problems.
I totally agree!
RodGuy, I put up with you wailing and moaning about voting for romney for well over eighteen month. This morning in an earlier comment you appeared to be coming to your senses regarding the utter failure romney was in his campaign.
Your reference to 100% is a non sequitor. Soliciting for a small G'ment is FREEDOM. There is simply too much G'ment at all levels. There are more laws passed by every branch of G'ment that allow any prosecutor way to much leverage and g'ment money to create monster havoc.
The Republicans at all levels have been complicit with the Democrats in extending their personal power/money at our expense.
In Texas we had the good fortune of electing Ted Cruz, who as of this time is being vilified by McLame and other REPUBLICANS - what ever happened to Reagen's 11's commandment. (Sarcasm intended)
You live in Florida - Your "republican" governor has just singed up for romneycare -
Someone in an earlier thread asked why the Republicans DO NOT EXPEL people from the party. What does the Republican party stand for? What do you stand for? When will you have enough G'ment?
Making excuses for spineless elected officials is no way to go through life.
If you cannot stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Every citizen needs to fight. Once you give up you become a slave.
lol, after all that....surely you will.
This Tea Party member since April 15, 2009, would rather have adults in congress that live to fight another day. We simply have to deal with the fact that Obama is President, and Harry Reid is Senate Majority Leader. Makes a great cartoon, but it's hardly a way to govern:
Mouse just needs to stop wavin' fingers and bring a bit of firepower to that deal.
...havin' the stones to use the stuff might help, too.
My opinion is cave-ins have consequences, just as elections do- so my answer is yes they are complicit...
With Reid controlling the Senate and Obama the WH, Republican control over spending is in name only. Think about it. We are governing by crisis and by continuing resolutions. There is no agreement between House, Senate and WH which is what it would take to control spending WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN.
CRs have to be agreed on by all three. These are passed because there is no budget that all three can agree on. At every turn, Dems refuse to cut or reform and insist on tax hikes. There can only be "compromise" CRs - that is, votes to keep the government wheels turning as things are to avoid a shutdown.
So when you say you don't understand why spending isn't under control of the House Republicans, you are saying you either don't know that if they held out for their version of, say, the Ryan budget which is DOA with Reid, the government would shut down, or you know it would shut down, but you don't get why the Repubs don't simply LET it shut down.
Think about the shut down angle, because THAT's your alternative scenario to spending continuing to go up.
That would be fine with you, I'm guessing, but think about it in reality terms in this whole struggle. It's an option. But think about it. Don't fail to include its repercussions in your musings...
Last thing: remember that entitlements are just that, ENTITLEMENTS. That part of the budget is eating us alive and reforms must be made but the Dems refuse reforms. Now add on top of that, Obamacare. Also the interest on the debt must be paid. Must.be.paid.
Not a pretty picture.
In Texas, we did put Ted Cruz in the Senate but Texas - not speaking of individuals but Texas as a WHOLE, ALSO massively voted for Romney.
Do you understand what that means? Texas, of all places, massively voted for a Yankee, Mormon, moderate-to-lib because he was not Barack Hussein Obama. Such is not a normal Texan vote. But these are not normal times. The candidates were who they were. One or the other would be President the next 4 years.
Brag on Cruz, by all means.
Just remember the rest of the vote and remember WHY Texas pulled that lever. Would you have preferred they NOT have pulled it? Because I assure you, if they had not done so, Obama voters in Texas would have won this state for Obama.
I don't think rodguy needs to be ashamed. If he needs to, then the state of Texas needs to. But such would be HOGWASH.
And now, time for the Sunday Show Transcripts:
Fox News Sunday: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace/2013/03/03/exclusive-mitt-and-ann-romney-campaign-mistakes-life-after-presidential-election-loss-and
Meet the Press: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51006727/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/t/march-john-boehner-gene-sperling-raul-labrador-kathleen-parker-joy-reid-chuck-todd-tom-brokaw/
Face the Nation: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57572264/face-the-nation-transcripts-march-3-2013-mccain-graham-durbin-dolan-woodward/
This Week: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-gene-sperling-sen-kelly-ayotte/story?id=18630603
State of the Union: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/03/sotu.01.html
As Doctor Evil said to Austin Powers, "There's nothing more pathetic than an aging hipster."
Two good ends to a great thread. Thanks Alas Babylon.
OK then, how about a new (downsized) CR every week, instead of every day.
It would be impossible for the press and the apathetic American public to ignore, AND...it could be used to put the heat on the Senate, highlight the FACT that they violated the Constitution by not passing a budget, and force them to act responsibly or be replaced.
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It was not the easiest season for DeKalb, which had the unenviable task of trying to replace a head coach and a senior quarterback in the same year. First-year coach Todd Hallaron took over for Marty Sanders and junior QB Jack Sauter was named the starter after Brian Sisler graduated.
Peak: DeKalb laid the smack down on Yorkville, 47-0, in Week 8. The offense finally put it all together as Dre Brown and Sauter ran the ball effectively and the defense pitched its only shutout of the season.
Valley: A couple of fourth-quarter miscues led to a 33-27 loss in Week 2 against a Hampshire team that ended the year with a record of 3-6. The Whip-Purs scored on a last-second touchdown after DeKalb committed a penalty for too many men on the field.
2013 Outlook: The Barbs return a lot of talent for next year. Sauter will be a senior and now has a full year of varsity experience under his belt. Brown should get stronger and will continue to provide a game-breaking presence in the backfield. It's almost always a struggle in a coach's first season, especially for someone who has never been a head coach before. But just as consistently, year two usually brings vast improvement.
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How come gas prices keep going up if everyone keeps buying hybrid and electric cars that are supposed to reduce the demand for gas?
Ask Syria Iran and the rest of the oil cartel. We are not business majors here.ReplyCancel
When I want Nate Silver I go to Nat silver. When I want a hot mess with implants I come here.ReplyCancel
Still trying to figure out how Efron ran out of gas, Enty? Move on, BooBoo.ReplyCancel
Really, Enty? It's FRIDAY!!! Dick pics and gossip, please!
Cleo, East Coast from where, the moon? LAX to JFK is around $300 to $400.ReplyCancel
Because we use oil for 99% of all our products. Gas is a small thing compared. Getting off oil is not feasible right now. You can't use the renewables for products.ReplyCancel
I've been a reader here since the whole "is Himmmmmm Robert Downey Jr. debate", and this is my first post. Most of it has to do with speculation on the oil market. Remember back around 2006 or so when gas prices started going up? The oil companies told us that if we used less gas there would be a surplus, and the price would go down. Well, Americans started using less gas, but the price remained high. The oil companies figured out that they could sell gasoline overseas, and still make a profit. So they did. In 2011 America became a net exporter of gasoline. The oil companies get to sell their gas overseas and make money from it, while at the same time keeping the price here at home artificially high (less product). Believe it or not we import most of our oil from Canada (roughly 22% of our oil imports come from there), followed closely by Saudi Arabia (20%) and Mexico (19%).ReplyCancel
Vroooom vroooooom!!! May the best (wo)man win!!!ReplyCancel
Hi kystranger! This post was worth it if it brought a long time lurker out of hiding! Welcome!ReplyCancel
Because once wall street gets a hold of anything, it will no longer follow the rules of logic, or supply and demand. One simple rule would drop all commodity prices substantially within days…Require physical delivery. Right now, it is little more than an xbox game for these folks, while stealing your money.ReplyCancel
Actually, the US and Russia are the 2 biggest oil and gas producers in the world, common misconception.ReplyCancel
Killer first post @kystranger 😀
And I will add a paragraph from Chapter One, Petroleum Man, from Michael Ruppert's, 'Crossing The Rubicon' to what @Reno posted…
"Oil pervades our civilization; it is all around you. The shell for your computer is made from it. Your food comes wrapped in it. You brush your hair and teeth with it. There's probably some in your shampoo, and most certainly in its container. Your children's toys are made from it. You take your trash out in it. It makes your clothes soft in the dryer. As you change the channels with the TV remote you hold it in your hands. Some of your furniture is probably made with it. It is everywhere inside your car. It is used in both the asphalt you drive on and the tires that meet the road. It probably covers the windows in your home. When you have surgery, the anesthesiologist slides it down your esophagus. Your prescription medicine is contained in it. Your bartender sprays the mixer for your drink through it. Oh yes, and the healthy water you carry around with you comes packaged in it.
"Be careful. If you decide that you want to throw this book out, your trashcan is probably made from it. And if you want to call and tell me what a scaremonger I am, you will be holding it in your hands as you dial. And if you wear corrective lenses, you will probably be looking through it as you write down a number with a pen that is made from it. Plastic is a petroleum product, and its price is every bit as sensitive to supply shortages as gasoline. Oil companies do not charge a significantly different price for oil they sell to a plastics company than they charge a gas station owner. If the wellhead price goes up, then every downstream use is affected."
Now look at all the billions of people in China and India that have entered a new working class and can afford modern plastic products, in addition to the cars and gasoline tanks to fill… If you don't like paying $4 a gallon now, just wait until it is $10.. then $20.. then $50… smhReplyCancel
The emerging economies of India and China. Ship jobs over there, create a middle class there, and the demand for commodities goes up. They are going from mopeds to compact cars. Once they get SUVs, we'll be paying $10/gallon.
Anyone have an electric or hybrid car? What does your home electric bill jump to?ReplyCancel
@Aemish: Peak oil is the GOPs "global warming". They find new reserves all the time, they have no clue if we will ever run out.ReplyCancel
It's a question, since the US is a net oil exporter (at least as of November '13).
BTW, the Middle East represents a pretty small percentage, source-wise, of the oil the US uses (at least as of 2012).
Oil refinery maintenance also plays a role in rising prices due to the effect on supply.
Me, I want a Leaf or a Tesla (in my dreams).ReplyCancel
@Count.. I disagree and base that assessment on the actions of the major oil companies themselves. I loathe the GOP but isn't their whole shpeel we'll never run out anyway? I'm not sure how that would be their climate change, another topic they are in total denial of..ReplyCancel
We don't/won't drill for our own resources so we are at the mercy of people who do. Also, electric cars don't really reduce pollution so long as the electricity is generated from polluting sources. But so long as it makes good people feel good the rest of us will have to underwrite the costs (and blithely ignore the foreign pollution generated by manufacturing these vehicles.)ReplyCancel
Should I feel bad for working in the oil sands for so long? Would someone like to yell at me re: reclamation? Maybe you, Mr. Rufflalo, step into the elevator and tell me all aboot your fracking concerns…ReplyCancel
@Aemish: The first I ever heard of "peak oil" was out of Dick Cheney's mouth. I think he got "peak oil" and Ashcroft got "bird flu" to bilk money with.
You hear all the time of new finds in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Huge deposit in/off Brazil that rivals the Saudis. Then we have the trump card. When the rest of the world is bled dry, we unless Alaska's full potential and take all their money.ReplyCancel
@Snapdragon and @aemish, me too! Whichever one of us can afford to buy a Tesla first gets to be first in the driver's seat on a coast to coast road trip. :-))ReplyCancel
This is one of the dangers of social media. Fuck you Zuckerberg. Aside from the normal holiday wknds when oil companies historically raised prices, we now have data miners trolling the web for chatter regarding higher than average plans for car travel. They then raise the prices accordingly. The more this happens the more we become tolerant of those prices, so they stay up. Facebook is Skynet. Take that damn cord out of your ear before you are assimilated.ReplyCancel
Because not that many people are buying hybrid and electric cars. The truth is, most Americans are still buying gas guzzlers. They still live in the days when Reagan was President and told them that they were Americans, so fuck the planet and the rest of the people in the world. We do what we want.ReplyCancel
Mr. Leek bought 10 windmills (sorry, wind generators) a couple of years ago, and they are still in the basement in their boxes.ReplyCancel
Hybrid cars are too expensive and too weak for winter driving here. You need a heavy 4-wheel drive. Plus, they are too small. I want some metal between my family and the rest of the world. That being said, they usually look adorable.ReplyCancel
@Alita Same here. I hope she comes back and posts. Maybe she's just busy.ReplyCancel
Two words: Lizard people.ReplyCancel


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This quiz will test your knowledge to find out how much you remember about Jurassic Park.
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Question 1 of 35
What year was Jurassic Park released?
Jurassic Park debuted to much fanfare in 1993 and was a massive box office success.
Question 2 of 35
Who directed Jurassic Park?
Steven Spielberg
Acclaimed director Steven Spielberg directed Jurassic Park along with numerous other award-winning movies and box office successes. He has often worked with Tom Hanks, in addition to a variety of other actors.
Martin Scorsese
Ron Howard
Clint Eastwood
Question 3 of 35
Who is the park's founder?
Ian Stockholm
Sam Neill
Stark Nielson
John Hammond
Billionaire John Hammond believed in the park's potential and its safety, but unfortunately the park wasn't quite as safe as he had hoped.
Question 4 of 35
Which actor plays Dr. Alan Grant?
Sam Neill
Sam Neill plays Dr. Alan Grant, a dinosaur expert who also appears in the third Jurassic Park film.
Jeff Goldblum
Martin Ferrero
Samuel L. Jackson
Question 5 of 35
What is the name of the island in Jurassic Park?
Isla Nublar
Isla Nublar was the original island featured in Jurassic Park. The second and third films featured Isla Sorna, but Jurassic World returned to the original island.
Isla Sorna
Isla Nueva
Isla Icca
Question 6 of 35
Based on what we see in Jurassic Park, which dinosaur is generally referred to as the most intelligent dinosaur?
Tyrannosaurus Rex
In Jurassic Park, the velociraptor is portrayed as being one of the most intelligent and cunning dinosaurs. Often throughout the film and other movies, we see how the raptors can communicate and plan their attacks.
Question 7 of 35
The velociraptors have a distinct barking sound when they communicate. What real-life animal actually made this sound for the movie?
The sound of the velociraptors communicating is actually the sound of tortoises mating, believe it or not.
Question 8 of 35
What bioengineering company did John Hammond found?
InGen is the name of the bioengineering company founded by John Hammond. There are several "fake" InGen websites in existence to promote the movies.
Question 9 of 35
Which person gets eaten while on the toilet in Jurassic Park?
Tour Guide
In a fit of terror, the lawyer ran into the bathroom and sat on the toilet but ended up getting eaten by a T. Rex. Note to self: bathrooms are not a good hiding place when running from a T. Rex.
IT personnel
Question 10 of 35
Which type of dinosaur did Ellie Sattler want to take care of when she discovered it was sick?
Ellie and some of the other characters come across a sick Triceratops, and Ellie decides to stay behind to help take care of it while the others move along.
Question 11 of 35
Which dinosaur in Jurassic Park had a venom-spitting capability and a rattling, expanding neck?
The Dilophosaurus had neither a venom-spitting capability nor an expanding neck in real life. Based off a book by the same name, Jurassic Park's author invented the venom-spitting ability, and director Steven Spielberg added the scary neck.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Question 12 of 35
Near the end of the film, a T. Rex is shown standing among a destroyed building. A banner falls around it. What does the banner say?
Welcome to Jurassic Park
Beware of Dinosaurs
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth are the words written on the banner that falls around the triumphant T. Rex after it attacks the Velociraptors, saving the humans int he process.
Question 13 of 35
What liquid ripples in a glass when the T. Rex approaches?
While stuck in one of the Jeeps in the rain, the boy notices that the water in the glass is rippling. This image soon became iconic with the approach of a T. Rex.
Question 14 of 35
Jurassic Park is based on a book by the same name. Who is the book's author?
Stephen King
James Patterson
Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton is the author of the book version of Jurassic Park. It's worth reading the book as well as watching the movie, as several details in the book were changed for the onscreen version.
Francis Rivers
Question 15 of 35
Which adventure star turned down the role of Dr. Alan Grant?
Sylvester Stallone
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford turned down the role of Dr. Alan Grant. Perhaps if he had accepted it, he would be a well-known actor today. Oh wait, he's hugely famous. It's all good.
Hugh Jackman
Chris Hemsworth
Question 16 of 35
What is the movie's running time?
127 minutes
Jurassic Park has a running time of 127 minutes, which is just over two hours of soaring musical scores and dinosaur goodness. Out of the 127 minutes, only 15 minutes contains dinosaur footage.
300 minutes
93 minutes
260 minutes
Question 17 of 35
Where was most of Jurassic Park filmed?
Hawaii's Kauai Island
Jurassic Park was mostly filmed on Hawaii's Kauai Island, even while Hurricane Iniki stormed through.
The Dominican Republic
Question 18 of 35
What does Dennis Nedry use to smuggle dinosaur embryos out of the park?
Lunch box
Soda bottle
Shaving cream can
Nedry uses a Barbasol shaving cream can that has been modified to smuggle the embryos out of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. This strategy did not go according to plan due to the torrential rain and a pesky Dilophosaurus.
Cardboard box
Question 19 of 35
Which actor played the role of John Hammond?
Jeff Goldblum
Sam Neill
Samuel L. Jackson
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough played the role of John Hammond, founder and optimistic believer in Jurassic Park. He passed away in August of 2014, but left a lifetime of memorable movie quotes in his wake.
Question 20 of 35
Which Jurassic Park cast member reprised their role in the fourth film, Jurassic World?
Laura Dern
Sam Neill
BD Wong
BD Wong plays Dr. Henry Wu in both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, receiving significantly more screen time in Jurassic World. He can also be seen in TV's Gotham.
Jeff Goldblum
Question 21 of 35
Which character primarily wears black throughout the film?
Dr. Alan Grant
Dr. Henry Wu
Ian Malcolm
Jeff Goldblum's character, Ian Malcolm, is shown wearing black for most of the movie while John Hammond is shown wearing white. The color contrast is meant to show their opposing viewpoints on most things in life.
John Hammond
Question 22 of 35
InGen was mining what in order to find dinosaur DNA?
InGen was mining amber to see if they could find blood-sucking insects and animals trapped inside the amber; then, they could try to extract the blood to determine if the animal had bitten a dinosaur and therefore possessed dinosaur DNA in the blood in its body.
Iron ore
Question 23 of 35
What was the name of the cartoon character designed to explain the dinosaur cloning process to guests?
Mr. DNA
Mr. DNA was the name of a cartoon character that appeared in a film at Jurassic Park, telling guests how scientists were able to recreate dinosaurs. This cartoon did not appear in the novel, but condensed a good portion of the novel explaining this very process.
Prehistoric Joe
Dino Dan
Wild Wally
Question 24 of 35
What type of dinosaur comes out of the egg in the egg-hatching scene?
In the egg-hatching scene, a baby Velociraptor is born. It was originally supposed to be a Triceratops but was later changed.
Question 25 of 35
What nickname did the movie crew give the Dilophosaurus?
The crew gave the Dilophosaurus the nickname of "Spitter" and was made deliberately smaller than the Velociraptors to avoid confusion.
Question 26 of 35
What is Dr. Alan Grant's job title?
Dr. Alan Grant is a Paleontologist invited to the park by John Hammond. He appears again in Jurassic Park III.
Question 27 of 35
How many people die in the original Jurassic Park movie?
In the first Jurassic Park movie, five people bite the dust. One of the most memorable Jurassic Park deaths involves a lawyer, a bathroom, and a T. Rex.
Question 28 of 35
How many dinosaurs died in the original Jurassic Park movie?
Three dinosaurs die in the original Jurassic Park film, and the pattern of less dinosaur deaths than human deaths continues throughout the film's sequels.
Question 29 of 35
Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna are supposed to be islands off the coast of what country?
Costa Rica
Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna are supposed to be islands off the coast of Costa Rica. Filmmakers did try to film the actual movie in Costa Rica but decided to go with Hawaii instead when learning that the Costa Rican government would not allow them to build any roads to get to certain areas where they wanted to film.
Question 30 of 35
Near the beginning of the film, in what state are Dr. Grant and Ellie Sattler excavating?
North Dakota
Montana is the site of real-life fossils as well as fictional ones, as shown by Dr. Grant's excavation in Jurassic Park. Dr. Grant and Ellie Sattler were excavating the fossilized remains of a Velocirapter.
Question 31 of 35
When the park's guests tour the park early in the film, they see a Brachiosaurus with a herd of what?
They see a herd of Parasaurolophus and are very impressed; the lawyer in particular comments that they will make a "fortune."
Question 32 of 35
During the scene showcasing the daily feeding of the dinosaurs, what animal was lowered into the pit?
During feeding time, a cow was lowered into the pit and instantly devoured.
Question 33 of 35
What is the name of InGen's rival corporation?
BioSyn is the name of InGen's rival corporation, and Nedry tries to smuggle the dinosaur embryos out of the park for BioSyn.
TimeWarp, Inc.
Wyngyn Classified
Question 34 of 35
Who plays the character of Dennis Nedry?
Samuel L. Jackson
Jeff Goldblum
Wayne Knight
Wayne Knight, also well-known for his role as Newman on the hit television series, Seinfeld, played Dennis Nedry in the first Jurassic Park film.
Tom Hanks
Question 35 of 35
What movie is playing on one of Nedry's computer screens?
As a fun Easter egg, Jaws was playing on one of Nedry's computer monitors as a little tribute to Steven Spielberg.
Star Wars


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Early in, the now departing, Pres. Bush's first term we were viciously attacked with a method and magnitude that was formerly unprecedented. These attacks called for a combined new and an age old response our enemies would not fail to understand. Our mechanisms for self protection had to be updated and improved. Previous errors in judgment needed to be righted and most important, our enemy's perception of our ability and determination to wage war needed to be refreshed.
In the middle of his second term the President announced a new policy for Iraq which involved a change of strategy requiring more, not less, boots on the ground; the opposite of what many demanded. The President's party had recently suffered electoral losses which were attributed to the conflict in Iraq. The leadership of the winning party declared defeat in Iraq. They stated our failure, followed by retreat, was the only option available.
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Ermaksan held an open house Feb. 29-March 1 at its new plant in Bursa, Turkey, to introduce the Fibermak fiber laser cutting machine and the Evo II hybrid press brake. Two hundred guests from 90 companies in 40 countries attended the event.
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Ozkayan also discussed the company's role in the regional and economic development of Turkey and Europe. "Our many projects followed by our 40 expert engineers in the R&D department have been approved by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) and TTGV (Technology Development Foundation of Turkey), and our aim is to build a new structure for our R&D center," he said.
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RIC's include closed-end funds (CEF's), open-end funds (mutual funds) and exchange traded funds (ETF's). Other non-RIC, conduit vehicles include real estate investment trusts (REIT's) and Master Limited Partnerships (MLP's). Particular emphasis is placed on CEFs given their under-research and inefficient valuations.
Mr. Frank, a chartered financial analyst (CFA), spent his first 20 years in the investment business as a real estate research analyst for the investment banking firm of Alex Brown & Sons, Inc., (later sold to Deutsche Bank) where he was a managing director and group head of the real estate securities researched division.
Mr. Frank was later an executive vice-president, director of equity research and co-head of capital markets at Legg Mason, Inc. Mr. Frank founded Intellectual Capital Markets, Inc., a financial services firm in which he sold his interest; he also served as a real estate investment banker at a regional investment banking firm.
Mr. Frank has been a former "Institutional Investor" All-Star Analyst for multiple years, a featured interviewee for Barron's Magazine multiple times, a guest on Wall $treet Week and Bloomberg TV, former governor of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("NAREIT"), charter member of the Berman Institute at the Johns Hopkins University, former Trustee of the University of Baltimore, former Trustee at Friends School of Baltimore, former director of Mid-Atlantic Realty Trust (sold to Kimco Realty Trust, Inc.), recipient of the "Life-Time Achievement Award" by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and the American Real Estate Society's "Award of Merit".
Market Blog is a daily compendium of market news and analysis. You can find the blog at GlobeandMail.com, the website of Canada's national newspaper The Globe & Mail, or at The Globe's investment website, Globe Investor.
Market Blog is primarily written by David Berman. He has has been writing about business and investing since 1995. He began his career at Canadian Business magazine, where he wrote full-length features on a range of topics, from goose slaughterers to broadcasters. Later, he moved to MoneySense magazine, where his emphasis turned to investing. More recently, he worked at the Financial Post as an investing writer and daily columnist. He has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto and studied journalism at Ryerson University.
David Parkinson has been covering business and financial markets since 1990, and has been with The Globe and Mail since 2000. A Calgary native, he received a Southam Fellowship from the University of Toronto in 1999-2000, studying international political economics.
Simon Avery has covered telecom and technology for the Globe since 2004. Previously, he was a staff reporter for The Associated Press in Los Angeles and for The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. He covered the boom and bust in Silicon Valley for the Financial Post between 1998 and 2001. Mr. Avery holds a Master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in English and political science from the University of Western Ontario.
"Sold At TheTop" is the snarky pseudonym for the organic blogger that maintains the reasonably popular and, dare I say, possibly even slightly influential web log PaperEconomy (www.papereconomy.com).
"Sold", as he prefers to be called (especially by his wife under certain saucy circumstances… mmmm…) is not a professional economist, analyst or stock trader and has neither been trained in finance nor statistics.
What Sold offers is a dedicated and serious passion for macroeconomic analysis and further, for the creation of striking, some say even artistic, visualizations of macroeconomic data. Though not a "perma-bear" Sold is very bearish about the current state and future of the American economy subscribing whole heartedly to notion that the recent financial crisis is but the second act of an immense systemic unwind that commenced, more or less, in the year 2000.
Sold is NOT A PESSIMIST by nature but a true skeptic and a realist that prefers solid and sustained evidence of fundamental economic recovery to "Goldilocks", "Green Shoots", "Mustard Seeds" and wholesale speculation. Further, Sold believes that the evidence for rational and efficient markets as well as collective wisdom is scant.
In his spare time Sold works as an independent software consultant spewing out cutting edge code like he's spraying silly string.
Dr. Price writes about stocks, options, and the financial markets every weekday on Real Money Pro, a subscription site at The Street, and here, with Arrow Loop Partners at Seeking Alpha.
Paul has been a speaker at the International Traders Expo in New York City and the Options and Forex Expo in Las Vegas. He also gives investment seminars for subscribers of The Street's multiple subscription sites.
Dr. Price is also a featured contributor for Guru Focus.com, and here on Seeking Alpha.
Roger Nusbaum is the ETF Strategist for AdvisorShares. This Arizona-based professional has over 25 years of industry experience. He is also a well-known financial commentator covering ETFs, retirement planning and portfolio management for AlphaBaskets.com and at TheStreet.com. We think Roger is particularly insightful on exchange-traded funds, risk management and investing in international markets. Visit Roger's work at Random Roger (http://randomroger.blogspot.com) and AlphaBaskets (http://alphabaskets.com)
Ron Rowland is a portfolio manager with Flexible Plan Investments, Ltd., a Registered Investment Advisor specializing in active management, located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
He has been providing market commentary and active investment advice since 1991. He is the founder and editor of Invest With An Edge, a website and weekly newsletter providing free actionable ideas for ETFs, and the home of ETF Deathwatch.
Additionally, he is the Executive Editor of the All Star Investor newsletter (http://allstarinvestor.com), a highly regarded paid subscription investment service he started in 1991.
Kid Dynamite is now on Twitter: #KidDynamiteBlog
Kid Dynamite (pseudonym) spent 8 years as a trader at a major Wall Street investment bank. from June 1999 thru April 2005 he specialized in portfolio trading, and from May 2005 thru November 2007 he was the head trader for an internal hedge fund on the buy side of the same firm. Kid Dynamite managed a multi-billion dollar merger arbitrage portfolio, and continued to implement portfolio trading related strategies as well.
If you are interested in intelligent discussion about any of my blog posts, or have questions, please visit Kid Dynamite's World (http://kiddynamitesworld.com).
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Mr. Roche is the founder of Orcam Financial Group, LLC, a low fee financial services firm based in San Diego, CA as well as the founder of the popular financial website Pragmatic Capitalism (some articles from Pragmatic Capitalism get syndicated on Seeking Alpha so please see the full site if you don't want to miss articles by Mr. Roche).
Orcam Financial Group, LLC (www.orcamgroup.com) is a low fee financial services firm offering asset management, personal advisory, consulting and educational services. Pragmatic Capitalism (http://pragcap.com) was founded by Cullen Roche in the midst of the financial crisis of 2008. Mr. Roche foresaw many of the events that led up to the crisis and felt that the government was slow to react and when it did finally react, responded with the wrong medicine.
Mr. Roche's primary areas of expertise include global macro portfolio construction, quantitative risk management, monetary economics and behavioral finance. Prior to establishing his own business, Mr. Roche worked at Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management where he worked on a team overseeing $500MM+ in assets under management. Upon leaving Merrill Lynch, Mr. Roche managed a private investment partnership for 7 years generating substantial positive alpha (high risk adjusted returns) without a single negative year of returns. He has since transitioned back to retail asset management to better serve the much needed low fee retail space with sophisticated but simple asset management and financial planning services.
Mr. Roche is also a prolific writer. In addition to the daily musings on his website, he is the author of the popular book "Pragmatic Capitalism: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance" as well as "Understanding the Modern Monetary System", one of the top 10 all-time most downloaded research papers on the SSRN academic research network. He was named one of the "Top Wall Street Economists, Experts and Opinion Leaders" of 2011 by Wall Street Economists and was named one of the "101 Best Finance People" by Business Insider where he was described as "one of the most influential economic thinkers today." In 2015 Mr. Roche was named one of the "40 Under 40" most influential people in finance by InvestmentNews. He is regularly cited in the Wall Street Journal, on CNBC and in the Financial Times.
Mr. Roche is a Georgetown University alumnus, growing up in the DC area and now living in Southern California with his wife Erica, troublesome collie Cal and 4 irritable laying hens. In addition to being a financial dork Cullen is an avid outdoorsman, mediocre gardener, proficient complex carbohydrate consumer (i.e., loves brownies and cake) and finisher of one of the most difficult IRONMAN races at Cabo in 2015.
Richard is the managing principal of QVM Group LLC, a fee-based investment advisor based in Connecticut, with clients across the country. . QVM manages portfolios uniquely designed for each client on a flat fee basis through the client's own accounts at Schwab; and provides investment coaching to "do-it-yourself" investors on an hourly fee basis. The investment approach is based on value, asset allocation, expense control, risk management, customizing portfolios to each client's specific circumstances, and regular communication about strategy and absolute and benchmark performance. Richard's extensive experience includes serving having served as a Board Director of Phoenix Investment Counsel, a U.S. pension and mutual funds manager, now Virtus Investment Partners (New York Stock Exchange: VRTS http://www.virtus.com); as Managing Director of Phoenix American Investment in London; and as a Board Director Aberdeen Asset Management PLC in Aberdeen Scotland (London Stock Exchange: ADN http://www.aberdeen-asset.com). He has been a Trustee of a $500 million pension fund, and was a charter investor and member of the Board of Directors of several internet companies, including Lending Tree (NASDAQ: TREE http://www.lendingtree.com) prior to its IPO. He is a 1970 graduate of Dartmouth College. QVM Group LLC is a Registered Investment Advisor. Visit the QVM Group website. (http://www.qvmgroup.com). Follow him on Twitter: @QVMinvest
David White is a software/firmware/marketing professional and a long time investor. He has worked in the networking field, the semiconductor equipment field, the mainframe computer field, and the pharmaceutical/scientific instrumentation field. He has bachelor's degrees in bioresource sciences and biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley. He is a former Ph.D. student in biochemistry. He has done significant graduate work in EECS and business at Stanford (through SITN) and UC Santa Cruz. He was awarded a Certificate in Advanced Software Systems (about 1/3 of an MS in EECS) by the Stanford Computer Science Department. He also took most of Stanford's undergraduate Computer Science curriculum.
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We even have a new low-cost "Trend Watcher" Membership that lets readers view our chat sessions without directly participating a great solution for people who want to test-drive the site and profit from our experience! Trend Watchers get to view all of our Chat Archives, weekly Webinars - as well as the amazing PSW Wiki, which gives you Phil's recent opinions and trade ideas as well as technical and fundamental analysis of hundreds of stocks that we follow.
Philip R. Davis is a founder of Phil's Stock World (www.philstockworld.com), a stock and options trading site that teaches the art of options trading to newcomers and devises advanced strategies for expert traders. Mr. Davis is a serial entrepreneur, having founded software company Accu-Title, a real estate title insurance software solution, and is also the President of the Delphi Consulting Corp., an M&A consulting firm that helps large and small companies obtain funding and close deals. He was also the founder of Accu-Search, a property data corporation that was sold to DataTrace in 2004 and Personality Plus, a precursor to eHarmony.com. Phil was a former editor of a UMass/Amherst humor magazine and it shows in his writing -- which is filled with colorful commentary along with very specific ideas on stock option purchases (Phil rarely holds actual stocks).
Visit: Phil's Stock World (www.philstockworld.com)
John Lounsbury, Managing Editor and Co-founder of Global Economic Intersection, provides comprehensive financial planning and investment advisory services to a small number of families on a fee only basis. He has a background which includes 34 years with a major international corporation, 25 years in R&D management and corporate staff positions. More recently he was a Series 6, 7, 63 licensed representative with a major insurance company brokerage from 1992 to 2001. Since 2002 he has operated his own sole proprietorship business. Specific interests include political and economic history, econometric analysis and investment strategy analysis. Recreational activities include hiking, non-technical mountaineering and alpine skiing. He is also founding partner and managing editor of EconIntersect.com.
Tim Iacono is the founder of the investment website 'Iacono Research', a subscription service providing market commentary and investment advisory services specializing in natural resources.
He also writes a financial blog known as 'The Mess That Greenspan Made', a sometimes irreverent look at the many and varied after-effects of the Greenspan term at the Federal Reserve.
Use the links below to visit Tim's website/blog.
Michael Johnston is the co-founder and senior analyst at ETF Database, an online investment resource for ETF investors. ETF Database offers a proprietary ETF Screener that allows investors to filter the universe of 900+ ETFs to find the right fund. ETF Database also provides news, analysis, commentary, and actionable investment ideas on a daily basis.
Edward Harrison is the founder of the blog Credit Writedowns (www.creditwritedowns.com) and is a finance specialist at Global Macro Advisors. Previously, Edward was a strategy and finance executive at Deutsche Bank, Bain, and Yahoo. He started his career as a diplomat and speaks German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish and French. Edward holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/edwardnh. Contact him at edh at creditwritedowns dot com as that's the only mailbox he reads regularly.
Scott Grannis was Chief Economist from 1989 to 2007 at Western Asset Management Company, a Pasadena-based manager of fixed-income funds for institutional investors around the globe. He was a member of Western's Investment Strategy Committee, was responsible for developing the firm's domestic and international outlook, and provided consultation and advice on investment and asset allocation strategies to CFOs, Treasurers, and pension fund managers. He specialized in analysis of Federal Reserve policy and interest rate forecasting, and spearheaded the firm's research into Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). Prior to joining Western Asset, he was Senior Economist at the Claremont Economics Institute, an economic forecasting and consulting service headed by John Rutledge, from 1980 to 1986. From 1986 to 1989, he was Principal at Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, a financial services firm that specialized in sophisticated hedging strategies for institutional investors.
Visit his blog: Calafia Beach Pundit (http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/)
John is a lawyer and accountant with over three decades of corporate finance, due diligence, M&A advisory and related legal services for manufacturers, innovators and investors in the energy storage and renewable energy sectors.
Over the last eight years John has earned a global following for his articles on the energy storage and alternative energy sectors. He has contributed to AltEnergyStocks, Seeking Alpha, The Street, NASDAQ.com and Batteries International Magazine and InvestorIntel.
John is a 1979 graduate of the Notre Dame Law School and a 1976 graduate of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He was admitted to the bar in 1980 and licensed to practice as a CPA in 1981. John's diverse experience in corporate finance, natural resource development and energy storage give him a unique and sometimes unsettling perspective on the technical, economic and supply chain challenges of the battery industry.
David Hunkar (pseudonym) holds a Masters Degree in Finance and Economics. He is a part-time consultant for a financial consulting firm where he manages portfolios for manages portfolios for self and family. He has been an investor for the past ten years. David focuses on foreign stocks trading in the US markets including the OTC market. He concentrates on high dividend yield and dividend growth stocks. ETFs are his another favorite investment vehicle. In addition to his contributions here at Seeking Alpha, you can also visit him at his blog www.topforeignstocks.com
Felix Salmon is a senior editor at Fusion
Tom Lydon is editor and publisher of ETF Trends, a website with daily news and commentary about the fast-changing trends in the exchange traded fund (ETF) industry. Mr. Lydon is also CEO of Global Trends Investments, an investment advisory firm specializing in the creation of customized portfolios for high-net worth individuals. He has been involved in money management for more than 25 years. Mr. Lydon serves on the Board of Directors for U.S. Global Investors, Inc. and Guggenheim Investments. In early 2010, Mr. Lydon helped create the CNBC Model ETF Portfolios. Mr. Lydon is the author of The ETF Trend Following Playbook, as well as iMoney: Profitable Exchange-Traded Fund Strategies for Every Investor. He is Co-Founder of Virtual Summits, educational virtual events for financial advisors.
Visit his site: ETF Trends (http://www.etftrends.com/)
ETF Virtual
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Alts Virtual
The Alts Virtual Summit is the leading Alternative Investment conference for financial advisors. ETF Trends and RIA Database host this complimentary, interactive conference that exists completely online. The virtual showroom features keynote speakers, panel webinars, an exhibitor hall, a networking lounge and hot topic forums. Designed exclusively for Financial Advisors, this conference allows you to interact with experts in the Alternative Investment industry in a unique, virtual environment, avoiding the hassles and costs of traveling. Details on the conference, including agenda, past attendee statistics and sponsor information can be found at www.AltsVirtual.com.


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OXFORD – Senquez Golson says he's comfortable in the secondary, and his play early in the Ole Miss camp supports that declaration.
Confidence from Golson – a gifted sophomore who turned down a $1.4 million offer from the Boston Red Sox last year – is a good thing in light of the fact that he missed spring drills with the new coaching staff while he played with the Ole Miss baseball team.
Defensive coordinator Dave Wommack last week compared Golson more to a true freshman than a sophomore, because Golson missed spring drills while a new staff was installing a new scheme.
Five days into camp, Golson continues to hold a starting job at cornerback, and the secondary is becoming a strong point as a defensive personality appears to be emerging for the rebuilding Rebels.
Hugh Freeze was hired to implement an up-tempo, high-scoring offense. Depth is thin, and progress has been slow. No leader has emerged in a quarterback race between junior Barry Brunetti and junior college transfer Bo Wallace.
Defense, though, has been consistent.
"Our secondary continues to play with a swagger and a chip on their shoulder," Freeze said. "We've said all along that defense is where most of our experience lies. If they can keep getting turnovers in games like they do in practice we'll be all right. We'll have some chances."
Golson is one of three starting cornerbacks in the 4-2-5, an effort to get more speed on the field.
Junior college transfer Dehendret Collins, who played cornerback in the spring, has been moved inside to what is called the "Husky" position.
Senior Wesley Pendleton holds the other outside position.
Pendleton had two interceptions in Tuesday's workout, one where he tipped the ball then made the catch, another where he read the play, broke on the ball and sprinted in front of receiver Vincent Sanders to make the catch.
It was a good day as well for Golson, who made a couple of plays in the red zone.
coveted recruit
Coming out of Pascagoula two years ago, Golson was rated the No. 10 player in Mississippi, the No. 33 cornerback in the nation by Rivals.com.
Golson appeared in 12 games as a freshman and finished with two pass break-ups and an interception, though he may be best known for getting juked on a long touchdown run by Trent Richardson en route to a 52-7 win by Alabama. The play frequently appeared on ESPN.
He says his technique is "sloppy" right now, but he's putting in the time to change that. It hasn't affected his confidence.
"Confidence comes in being comfortable with the person next to you. I'm comfortable with all those guys," he said. "That helps me come down on those comeback routes. I know I've got help over the top."
There is no help for Golson in the playbook. That's one-on-one all the time.
"Playing-wise, it hasn't been too hard to get back into it, it's just learning the playbook. I've got to stay in it."


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Dr. Conrad C. Crane
Chief of Historical Services
Dr. Conrad C. Crane is currently Chief of Historical Services for the Army Heritage and Education Center at Carlisle Barracks. For the previous ten years, he was Director of the US Army Military History Institute. Before accepting that position, Dr. Crane served with the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College from September 2000 to January 2003, where he held the General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He also has held the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg Chair of Aerospace Studies at the War College. He joined SSI after his retirement from active military service, a 26-year military career that concluded with 9 years as Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy. He holds a B.S. from USMA and an M.A. and Ph.D from Stanford University. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. He has authored or edited books and monographs on the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and has written and lectured widely on airpower and landpower issues. Before leaving SSI he coauthored a prewar study on Reconstructing Iraq that influenced Army planners and has attracted much attention from the media. He was the lead author for the ground breaking Army-USMC counterinsurgency manual which was released in December, 2006. For that effort he was named one of NEWSWEEK's people to watch in 2007. He visited Iraq in November 2007 at General Petraeus' request to evaluate the new doctrine in action. In November 2008, he was named the international Archivist of the Year by the Scone Foundation.
*The above information may not be current. It was current at the time when the individual worked for SSI or was published by SSI.
SSI books and monographs by Dr. Conrad C. Crane
Precedents, Variables, and Options in Planning a U.S. Military Disengagement Strategy from Iraq
October 01, 2005
Authored by Dr. W. Andrew Terrill, Dr. Conrad C. Crane.
The questions of how to empower the Iraqis most effectively and then progressively withdraw non-Iraqi forces from that country is one of the most important policy problems currently facing the United States. The authors seek to present the U.S. situation in Iraq in all of its complexity and ambiguity, with policy recommendations for how that withdrawal strategy might be most effectively implemented.
Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario
February 01, 2003
Authored by Dr. Conrad C. Crane, Dr. W. Andrew Terrill.
In October 2002, the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute, in coordination with the Office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff/G-3, initiated a study to analyze how American and coalition forces can best address the requirements that will necessarily follow operational victory in a war with Iraq. The objectives of the project were to determine and analyze probable missions.
Avoiding Vietnam: The U.S. Army's Response to Defeat in Southeast Asia
September 01, 2002
Authored by Dr. Conrad C. Crane.
The author analyzes the Army's response to that defeat in Southeast Asia and its long-term impact. Contrary to the accepted wisdom that nations which lose wars tend to learn best how to correct their mistakes, he argues that Americans tried to forget the unhappy experience with counterinsurgency by refocusing on conventional wars.
Facing the Hydra: Maintaining Strategic Balance while Pursuing a Global War against Terrorism
May 01, 2002
Authored by Dr. Conrad C. Crane.
The author analyzes the impact of the war on terrorism and the requirements of the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review on the many essential missions conducted by the U.S. Armed Forces. Focusing primarily on the Army, he highlights the requirements associated with combat operations against terrorists, accelerating transformation and the new emphasis on homeland security and force protection.
Transforming Defense an Era of Peace and Prosperity
December 01, 2001
Edited by Dr. Conrad C. Crane.
The ideas and issues presented in this collection of papers from the Twelfth Annual Strategy Conference conducted by the U.S. Army War College in April 2001 will educate and inform anyone interested in the past and future course of American defense reform.
Landpower and Crises: Army Roles and Missions in Smaller-Scale Contingencies During the 1990s
January 01, 2001
Authored by Dr. Conrad C. Crane.
The author analyzes the role of landpower in the 170 smaller-scale contingencies conducted by the United States during the last decade. The author especially emphasizes the recurring problems in the planning, execution, and force structure for stabilization tasks, including nation-building.
Alternative National Military Strategies for the United States
December 01, 2000
Authored by Dr. Conrad C. Crane.
The Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and the Georgetown University Center for Peace and Security Studies convened a conference on "Alternative Military Strategies for the United States" to highlight the key issues that will have to be analyzed by the QDR and the new administration's security planning. This report summarizes the presentations from a distinguished group of patrons.


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