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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 06:25:40 +0800 From: John Mayson <email@example.com> To: email@example.com. Subject: Re: Pre-paid SIM cards in the US Message-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Adam H. Kerman <email@example.com> wrote: > >>AT&T would not sell him a SIM telling him before they could sell him >>one he needed a phone number and to have a phone number he needed an >>account with AT&T. > >>T-Mobile gladly sold him one and it works great. > > I'm with the AT&T clerk on this one, for I am confused as to how he could > have a SIM card without a telephone number. What was the objection, that > he didn't want a cell phone number geographiccally assigned to San Jose? Wouldn't the SIM card come with a telephone number? How would someone not from the US have an existing phone number? > Did T-Mobile sell him a SIM card also assigned to existing telephone number > geographically assigned to Malaysia? No, he got a +1-408 number. -- John Mayson <firstname.lastname@example.com> Austin, Texas, USA
Date: 26 May 2011 01:00:26 -0000 From: "John Levine" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: email@example.com. Subject: Re: Pre-paid SIM cards in the US Message-ID: <email@example.com> >>AT&T would not sell him a SIM telling him before they could sell him >>one he needed a phone number and to have a phone number he needed an >>account with AT&T. > >>T-Mobile gladly sold him one and it works great. > >I'm with the AT&T clerk on this one, for I am confused as to how he could >have a SIM card without a telephone number. The clerk was a moron. They sell you a SIM (or a prepaid phone with a SIM), then activate it and assign you a telephone number. That's how prepaid service works in the US. This is exactly what I did in an AT&T store in NYC last month. He said he could only assign me a number in the NYC area -- if I wanted one upstate where I live I'd have had to call 611 later and have them change my number. SIMs aren't tied to phone numbers. That relationship is made at the switch. That's why you can move an existing number to a new phone, and change the number on an existing phone. R's, John
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:15:04 -0500 From: Neal McLain <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com. Subject: Comcast Tests Tech Overhaul Message-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com> By jessica E. Vascellaro Comcast Corp., facing a growing threat from online video services, is fighting fire with fire. The country's largest cable-service provider soon will start testing a new way to deliver its television channels, co-opting the same technology standard that upstart Internet rivals have used to challenge traditional pay-TV business models. Using the MIT campus as its proving ground, Comcast in coming months will try delivering TV channels using the same standard used to deliver data over the Internet, known as the Internet protocol, or IP. Like other cable providers, Comcast currently delivers channels over less versatile digital television technology that sends the video in streams to set-top boxes and isn't compatible with the Internet. http://tinyurl.com/3o6erko
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:43:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Lisa or Jeff <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com. Subject: No. 10A Remote Switching System--experience/historical track record? Message-ID: <email@example.com> In April 1982 the BSTJ reported on a new remote switching system, the No. 10A, that was intended to economically replace small step-by-step community dial offices and provide ESS features to subscribers who otherwise couldn't get them. Table of Contents of that issue: (very detailed description of the system) http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol61-1982/bstj-vol61-issue04.html The No. 10A is a slave system to a larger ESS. IIRC, many small switching offices were indeed replace by this or other arranagements. In a sense, this switch is a fancy line concentrator. Now, nearly 30 years later, would anyone know of the actual service experience of the 10A or similar functional units? It seems like a good idea, and given the huge drop in the cost of electronics since that time, probably more such systems have been deployed. Of course the flip side is that many tiny communities with a CDO have grown as a result of population growth and suburbanization and would need more capacity.
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:11:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Lisa or Jeff <email@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com. Subject: Early Voice Mail ("voice storage") systems Message-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com> The May 1982 issue of BSTJ has a seires of articles on voice storage. This technology led to voice mail services. As usual, Bell Labs extensively researched the architecture, physical design, software, office engineering, maintenance, and reliability, with articles describing in detail the findings. The preface says the FCC ordered Bell to cease work on this system as it violated regulatory policy--it was considered a premium add-on in violation of "Computer II". So even though in 1982 Bell's competitors were providing both transmission services and customer equipment, Bell was forbidden to offer its own premium services. How much of this research carried forward to voice mail systems I don't know. But I can't but suspect that subsequent private developers benefited from Bell's original research and trials. table of contents may be found at: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol61-1982/bstj-vol61-issue05.html
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 09:02:33 +1000 From: David Clayton <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com. Subject: Re: Pre-paid SIM cards in the US Message-ID: <email@example.com> On Wed, 25 May 2011 20:39:49 +0000, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > John Mayson <email@example.com> wrote: > >>Here's the verdict. > >>Earlier this year a coworker from Malaysia went to San Jose and neither >>AT&T Mobility nor T-Mobile USA would sell him a SIM card telling him his >>only option was buying the prepaid phone. > >>A second coworker went over armed with the information you gave me plus >>some digging I did. > >>AT&T would not sell him a SIM telling him before they could sell him one >>he needed a phone number and to have a phone number he needed an account >>with AT&T. > >>T-Mobile gladly sold him one and it works great. > > I'm with the AT&T clerk on this one, for I am confused as to how he could > have a SIM card without a telephone number. What was the objection, that > he didn't want a cell phone number geographically assigned to San Jose? .......... Since there are security issues with SIMs/handsets these days the customer identification credentials are probably the issue, not any technical issues. If is probably the difference in the internal bureaucracy between the two organisations. -- Regards, David. David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.
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""The US is not committed to spreading democracy and freedom in the
world. "Freedom" and "democracy" are concepts it exploits to undermine regimes
that refuse to serve its interests. Indeed, there is virtually an inverse
relationship between how democratic a country is in the Muslim world and how
closely allied the US is to it."" (thanks Amir)

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The Cosmic Microwave Background, the relic radiation from the Big Bang, permeates the whole Universe in all directions. Today, it appears much colder than it used to be when it started its long cosmic journey; the CMB is in fact recognisable by its very low temperature: 2.7 Kelvin (or about 270º C below zero). However, the temperature of the CMB radiation is not completely uniform. There are tiny variations, or fluctuations, which carry information about the initial conditions of the Universe in which this radiation was liberated. These small variations of the CMB temperature reflect the existence in the primordial soup of the first seeds of the structures, such as galaxies, that we observe in our Universe today.
Planck will be able to measure temperature fluctuations about a million times smaller than one degree - better than any predecessor mission of its kind.
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News about reggae music, artists, culture and more...
Alborosie has a new album cooking, an album that is said to take reggae a step further.
'2 Times Revolution' is the name and the press release states that he doesn't think of himself as doing reggae anymore. He says he is doing "Jahspel", which is told to be a form of gospel music.
Last year Pupa Albo put out an essential duets compilation, an inspired dub album and the awesome Rudie Don't Fear on John John's Zion Gate riddim. He also had time to produce The Tamlins comeback album 'Re-birth'.
On top of these he obviously managed to record '2 Times Revolution', an album that comprises 16 tunes and scheduled for release on June 21.
According to the press material he has played most of the instruments and produced most of the album – just like he did on last year's dub effort.
The first promising tune of the album – Respect – features veteran waterhouse singer Junior Reid, with whom Alborosie cut the lethal Kingston Town Remix a few years back.
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"Never mistake a clear view for a short distance"
~ Paul Saffo
As we push this puck over the goal line into another solid quarter end, we'll have plenty of math to reflect upon this evening. Winners and losers for both the month of March and 2009 YTD will no longer be a trivial exercise. Some people missed stuff - some people nailed stuff - it's all cool.
By some market strategist counts, 3-months is not a very long time - particularly for not so cool horse and buggy whip Street savants who still profess the US centric mantra of "stocks for the long run."
What is the long run these days anyway? Is it what it used to be? Is it what the asset manager whose objective is having money to manage needs the client to think? Or is investment duration what the client decides?
I have a sneaking suspicion that most Americans invested in, say, the Dow or the SP500 index funds are starting to generate different views to Wall Street's answers on some of the aforementioned questions. The New Reality is that all of the received wisdom of managing risk and portfolio diversification will continue to be challenged. Losing other people's money isn't cool.
Despite yesterday's -3.5% correction, the SP500 is still +7% for March-to-date, and +16.4% from the March 9th low. After seeing the SP500 down -11% in February, plenty of investors rightly ran for the exits. All the while, those who were diversified across countries, currencies, and commodities stayed cool.
Staying cool? Isn't this the Great Depression? While that definitely turned into the crutch for those who were YouTubed as destroyers of capital, making up narrative fallacies for their incompetency, isn't cool. In 2009, there have been many meaningful reflation TRADES to capitalize on.
In USD terms, let's look at some YTD performance:
1. China +30%
2. Russia +10%
3. Copper +27%
4. Oil +9%
5. Gold +5%
I know, I know... up until say 18 months ago, a lot of "smart" people in this business proclaimed to me that global macro wasn't a place where you "could get edge"... While I acknowledge that some of this industry's insecure only feel warm and fuzzy about buying something after having a "one on one" with a corporate executive who gives them "body language" on the upcoming quarter - that isn't cool.
Does the client understand that there are problems associated with that investment plan when the CEO or CFO across the table from you doesn't do global macro either?
You see, there is no received wisdom in doing "one on one's" with companies who have less of a clue than you do about global macro. Acting on what they think is not an investment process. That's called a hope and a prayer, and it ain't cool.
As an investor who has made plenty of mistakes in my career, I have learned one thing - evolve. If I don't, someone will be more right than me every day - and I really don't like that. The New Reality is that global macro is cool. Across asset classes, global markets have revealed themselves as being as interconnected across a multiple of interacting fundamental factors as they have ever been. Mathematicians call this chaos theory. Einstein would call this cool.
Cool is one of my favorite words. Cool is having a 17-month old son with big teeth and crazy curly hair. Cool is what having positive absolute performance in our Asset Allocation Portfolio in February, March, and 2009 YTD is (it also lets my wife tolerate my work hours!). Cool is being able to tell our clients that we can quantify solving for alpha in 2009 to-date. Cool is understanding that we don't have to be professional "one on one" meeting organizers to earn a client's respect.
Cool isn't what Larry Kudlow does every night in this country. Kudlow was calling the US Dollar being up yesterday a "mustard seed"?? Last night he said the US Dollar has had a great move in the last 2 weeks - notwithstanding that checking the replay reminds us that within his stated duration was the worst down move in the US Dollar index EVER (that's why stocks went up Larry, fyi), what are investors and our hard working American families to do with this received wisdom? Just turn it off... being politically polarized and sloppy stating your gospel as fact ain't cool any more Larry...
The New Reality is all about evolution. Tonight, as we reflect upon the macro TREND of 2009 (US Dollar UP = US Stocks DOWN), I can only hope that Larry and his reckless entertainers over at CNBC correct their mistakes, review their performance in the last month, quarter, and year to-date, and hold themselves accountable.
Hope, unfortunately, is not an investment process... but man would that be something that's really cool for all Americans who were sold on the "stocks for the long run" by Kudlow and Co. to see.
From yesterdays SP500 close of 787, my immediate term risk versus reward for the US market is -3%/+2% (SPX 763 and 802).
Be cool,
RSX - Market Vectors Russia-The Russian macro fundamentals line up with our quantitative view on a TREND duration. Oil has benefited from the breakdown of the USD, which has buoyed the commodity levered economy. We're seeing the Ruble stabilize and are bullish Russia's decision to mark prices to market, which has allowed it to purge its ills earlier in the financial crisis cycle via a quicker decline in asset prices. Russia recognizes the important of THE client, China, and its oil agreement in February with China in return for a loan of $25 Billion will help recapitalize two of the country's important energy producers and suppliers.
QQQQ - PowerShares NASDAQ 100 - We bought QQQQ on Wednesday (3/25) on the pullback. We believe the NASDAQ has moved into a very bullish tradable range and is breaking out from an intermediate TREND perspective alongside the more Tech specific XLK etf.
USO - Oil Fund- We bought oil on Wednesday (3/25) for a TRADE and are positive on the commodity from a TREND perspective. With the uptick of volatility in the contango, we're buying the curve with USO rather than the front month contract.
EWC - iShares Canada-We bought Canada on Friday (3/20) into the selloff. We want to own what THE client (China) needs, namely commodities, as China builds out its infrastructure. Canada will benefit from commodity reflation, especially as the USD breaks down. We're net positive Harper's leadership, which diverges from Canada's large government recent history, and believe next year's Olympics in resource rich Vancouver should provide a positive catalyst for investors to get long the country.
DJP - iPath Dow Jones-AIG Commodity -With the USD breaking down we want to be long commodity re-flation. DJP broadens our asset class allocation beyond oil and gold.
XLK - SPDR Technology-Technology looks positive on a TRADE and TREND basis. Fundamentally, the sector has shown signs of stabilization over the last several weeks. Semiconductor stocks, which are early cycle, have provided numerous positive data points on the back of destocking in the channel and overall end demand appears to be stabilizing. Software earnings from ADBE and ORCL were less than toxic this week and point to a "less bad" environment. As the world stabilizes, M&A should pick up given cash rich balance sheets in this sector and an IBM/JAVA transaction may well prove the catalyst to get things going.
EWA - iShares Australia-EWA has a nice dividend yield of 7.54% on the trailing 12-months. With interest rates at 3.25% (further room to stimulate) and a $26.5BN stimulus package in place, plus a commodity based economy with proximity to China's H1 reacceleration, there are a lot of ways to win being long Australia.
GLD - SPDR Gold- We bought gold on a down day. We believe gold will re-assert its bullish TREND.
DVY - Dow Jones Select Dividend -We like DVY's high dividend yield of 5.85%.
UUP - U.S. Dollar Index - We believe that the US Dollar is the leading indicator for the US stock market. In the immediate term, what is bad for the US Dollar should be good for the stock market. The Euro is up versus the USD at $1.3283. The USD is up versus the Yen at 98.3150 and down versus the Pound at $1.4274 as of 6am today.
XLI - SPDR Industrials- We shorted XLI on 3/26; industrials remain broken on a TREND basis.
EWL - iShares Switzerland - We shorted Switzerland for a TRADE on an up move Wednesday (3/25) and believe the country offers a good opportunity to get in on the short side of Western Europe, and in particular European financials. Switzerland has nearly run out of room to cut its interest rate and due to the country's reliance on the financial sector is in a favorable trading range. Increasingly Swiss banks are being forced by governments to reveal their customers, thereby reducing the incentive of Switzerland as a tax-free haven.
LQD - iShares Corporate Bonds- Corporate bonds have had a huge move off their 2008 lows and we expect with the eventual rising of interest rates in the back half of 2009 that bonds will give some of that move back. Moody's estimates US corporate bond default rates to climb to 15.1% in 2009, up from a previous 2009 estimate of 10.4%.
EWJ - iShares Japan - Into the strength associated with the recent market squeeze, we re-shorted the Japanese equity market rally via EWJ. This is a tactical short; we expect the market there to pull back when reality sinks in over the coming weeks. Japan has experienced major GDP contraction-it dropped 3.2% in Q4 '08 on a quarterly basis, and we see no catalyst for growth to return this year. We believe the BOJ's recent program to provide $10 Billion in loans to repair banks' capital ratios and a plan to combat rising yields by buying treasuries are at best a "band aid".
DIA -Diamonds Trust-We shorted the DJIA on Friday (3/13) and Tuesday (3/24).
EWW - iShares Mexico- We're short Mexico due in part to the country's dependence on export revenues from one monopolistic oil company, PEMEX. Mexican oil exports contribute significantly to the country's total export revenue and PEMEX pays a sizable percentage of taxes and royalties to the federal government's budget. This relationship is unstable due to the volatility of oil prices, the inability of PEMEX to pay down its debt, and the fact that PEMEX's crude oil production has been in decline since 2004 and is down 10% YTD. Additionally, the potential geo-political risks associated with the burgeoning power of regional drug lords signals that the country's economy is under serious duress.
FN -The India Fund- We have had a consistently negative bias on Indian equities since we launched the firm early last year. We believe the growth story of "Chindia" is dead. We contest that the Indian population, grappling with rampant poverty, a class divide, and poor health and education services, will not be able to sustain internal consumption levels sufficient to meet targeted growth level. Other negative trends we've followed include: the reversal of foreign investment, the decrease in equity issuance, and a massive national deficit. Trade data for February paints a grim picture with exports declining by 15.87% Y/Y and imports sliding by 18.22%.
XLP - SPDR Consumer Staples- This group is low beta and won't perform like Tech and Basic Materials do on market up days. There is a lot of currency and demand risk embedded in the P&L's of some of the large consumer staple multi-nationals; particularly in Latin America, Europe, and Japan.
SHY - iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bonds- On 2/26 we witnessed 2-Year Treasuries climb 10 bps to 1.09%. Anywhere north of +0.97% moves the bonds that trade on those yields into a negative intermediate "Trend." If you pull up a three year chart of 2-Year Treasuries you'll see the massive macro Trend of interest rates starting to move in the opposite direction. We call this chart the "Queen Mary" and its new-found positive slope means that America's cost of capital will start to go up, implying that access to capital will tighten. Yield is inversely correlated to bond price, so the rising yield is bearish for Treasuries.
Hotel ADRs are starting to crash. That's bad for margins, EBITDA, and earnings. A dollar RevPAR decline due to ADR is obviously much more detrimental to margins and EBITDA than from occupancy. Room rate declines drop right to the bottom line. Street estimates need to come down for HOT, MAR, HST, and most of the rest of the sector. The 2009 "trough year" thesis should be discarded, particularly after the recent 30%+ move in lodging stocks over the past month. We believe 2010 will fall significantly short of 2009 in terms of sector EBITDA and earnings. In contrast, the Street is still projecting generally flat EBITDA.
In a sort of perverse way, the downward move in rates could expedite the beginning of the trading cycle in the stocks. Historically, lodging stocks do not sustain rallies until occupancy stabilizes. At that point in the cycle it ceases to be a numbers game. Earnings still decline as rates continue to fall. However, the inflection point indicates that the cycle is troughing, earnings, while lower, become more predictable and investors can see the light at the end of the tunnel. As can be seen from the charts below, ADR change exceeds occupancy change at the bottom of the cycle. That appears to be where we are heading.
Before the bulls get too excited, they need to realize that we are not there yet. In this cycle, rates may fall farther, estimates need to come down, and the stocks probably need to approach valuation support at lower levels.
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I have been seeing/hearing a lot of "technical" notes/noise today. What that generally means is that people are in trouble, looking for a lifeline. So, be patient … and you'll get your price.
In this morning's Early Look, I issued 2 levels of immediate term TRADE support (801 and 760). Since that dotted red line in the chart below was broken to the downside (801), I have done nothing but sell. I think you're going to get paid to wait for the 755-763 range that I have outlined in green below. That's my new buy/cover range in what is turning into a very trade-able range bound market.
The US Dollar is up again today – that's bad for the US stock market. The USD runs into immediate term resistance at 86.46, and is bumping up against the 86 line here intraday. If I see a VIX over 47, the USD pushing up at 86.50, and the SP500 at 760, you can proactively predict what I'll be doing – buying/covering.
This is a Bear Market, and it should be proactively managed accordingly.
Keith R. McCullough
CEO & Chief Investment Officer
The reaction to today's production data release by the Ministry of Trade was an exercise in the spin process as the glass-half-full crowd took heart from a modest month-over-month sequential improvement to -9.37% coupled with a 4.2% decline in inventory levels –the thesis being that this was signaling a potential bottom.
We are unconvinced. Although declining inventories are clearly a positive signal for the drowning exporters, the data breakout showed little relief for the beleaguered automotive and consumer electronics sector as production declines in those spaces exceeded 50% on a year-over-year basis.
Our investment thesis in Japan remains unchanged: we still see Yen devaluation as the only potential driver for any near term recovery. Our short position in EWJ was initially caught flat footed as we put on the first leg in the face of the BOJ stimulus measures, which drove the Yen lower than we had anticipated. After selling a second leg into strength last week we are now close to flat on the position.
We continue to remain negative on Japan, and view it as a debt laden hostage to external demand. We will continue to adjust are portfolio opportunistically based on tactical factors, but our long term view remains decidedly glass-half-empty.
Andrew Barber
And The Winner Is…
Last week we asked readers to guess how soon the phrase "One Quadrillion Dollars" would appear in the mainstream media. With governments Left, Right and Center tossing trillions about like panties at a fraternity party, it was clearly only a matter of time before the sums would spin out of control.
Not forty-eight hours elapsed, but the Wall Street Journal (Wednesday 25 March) OpEd page ran "Toxic Assets Were Hidden Assets," by Hernando de Soto, in which the following appears: "… aggressive financiers have manufactured what the Bank for International Settlements estimates to be $1 quadrillion worth of new derivatives…."
Honestly, folks, this is just getting too easy.
Don't buy trash with their cash.
- Stu Travis – ""The Big man's Ten Commandments"
Speaking of money, the media is now joking "A trillion here, a trillion there…" but unlike Senator Dirksen, we are no longer talking about real money. Money is a contract based upon the consensus value of a basket of real items. The Gold Standard, long since abandoned, merely designated the single most useless component of the basket as a proxy for coal, oil, timber, agriculture, and the other assorted hard resources that keep the world turning. In today's global Consensus of Confusion even the value of value is in question.
Since in God we no longer trust, the dollar's stability is rooted in what accountants call Goodwill, and what the world knows as the Full Faith and Credit of the US Government. Now that the Faith needle is hovering at zero, and with Credit literally gone negative, there is neither Intrinsic nor Premium Value to the dollar.
One reaction to this situation is China's proposal of a new global currency. When the Euro was first introduced, columnists at home and abroad wryly called it "Esperanto money", and even a synthetic currency must seek its Full Faith and Credit legitimacy in some palpable measure: typically, the implicit backing of those nations who accept it in payment. IMF Special Drawing Rights, another synthetic store of value, are based on a basket of the US dollar, Pound Sterling, Euro, and Japanese Yen. Thus, the SDR looks like a set of hedged cross-trades of established currencies, rolled into a single contract.
Underlying China's pronouncement is a heads-up call directed at the US. Like an artificially enhanced athlete on its last legs, the Dollar has had a few strong seasons. But now the fans know it is faltering, and its recent record has been marked with an asterisk. The scary thing is, there is no coming star on the horizon to take up when the champion is finally carried off the field.
The global push to immolating our children's future is a terrifying substitute for thoughtful and responsible leadership. Governments are rushing to outdo one another in destroying their patrimony. Everywhere we turn we see Potlatch Economics. It is too late to say that it will end badly. It is already very, very bad.
The Talmud tells of the sage Honi the Circle-Maker, watching an elderly man planting a carob tree. "Old man," asked Honi. "Why do you plant that sapling now? It will take seventy years for the carob to grow and bear fruit, and you will not be alive to enjoy it."
"When I came into this world," replied the man, "there were carob trees and I ate from them. Just as others, who were no longer alive, had planted carob saplings so that I might eat of their fruit, so I am planting this carob tree before I leave this world, so that there will be fruit for future generations."
The Talmudic ideal is that we are all part of a community that extends from the creation of the world, down through history, and to the End Of Days. When President Obama speaks of The American People, he is reminding us that, unlike nations which derive their legitimacy from similarities of language, religion, skin color, eye shape, and common hatred for the people living in the next valley, America is a nation founded upon one basic ideal: that all people are equal, and that all have inalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
A society founded upon an ideal ignores that ideal at its peril. As long as the Wall Street professional considered himself a Customer's Man, he knew where his duty lay, and his efforts contributed to the society – even if only to a defined social stratum. When he became a Financial Executive, the focus shifted from servicing the needs of the investment community, to building up his own Executive status. Executive Suite. Executive Perks. Executive Privilege.
Underlying the global crisis is the true crisis: the Crisis of Trust. A society that was not able to say No, that saw Gordon Gekko as a hero, is now shocked that "They" have let this happen to "Us". Where, the world asks, has America's Full Faith and Credit gone? It is a brave new world, to say the least, where America seeks to reassert its position of global dominance by doing everything it can to destroy its own credibility. Vocal and articulate critics of this program, like Nobelist Krugman, are still not able to come up with anything to top the very real wisdom that rises from the gutter. Not buying "trash with their cash" was one of Stu Travis' golden rules. If Stu were sitting today beside Timothy Geithner – instead of gracing the heavenly pantheon, somewhere between Jesse Livermore and Carlo Ponzi – he would be blowing cigar smoke in Geithner's face and telling him "Mark it up! Mark it up!" as Geithner & Co. lay the groundwork for the greatest principal trade in history.
Instead of providing for future generations, Potlatch Economics has put a Bizzarro twist on the Talmudic legend: "When I came into this world I inherited debt run up by those who had come before me. I am now running up enough debt to ensure that our children will be paying it off from now until the Coming of Messiah."
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"SEC Pledges To Strengthen Its Oversight" reads the Financial times headline (March 27). Chairman Mary Schapiro has "… emphasized the importance of the SEC as the only government agency 'responsible for both protecting investors and promoting capital formation.'" And suddenly it occurred to us – wasn't this what went wrong at the NASD/NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange, Congress and Fannie Mae, and the entire brokerage and investment banking business?
When you are funded by the fees paid by the issuers who list on your exchange, when your members are the banks who package the deals, and the brokers who sell them, does it make sense that you should also self-regulate that activity?
Not a new argument. But timely.
The designation "Self-Regulatory Organization" (SRO) implies protection of the marketplace and the consumer. These organizations, funded by the entities they are charged with protecting us against, enjoy the privileged status of a quasi-governmental agency. They can limit, or suspend altogether, the ability of a company to raise capital. They can restrict, or cancel, the ability of a banking firm, or an individual, to earn a living in the industry. They charge membership dues and registration fees, and when they need to beef up their budgets, they levy fines. The one financial area where they have a poor track record is in preventing investor losses, and in compensating investors who were cheated.
Suffice it to say that we have conflicted regulators to oversee a conflicted business. The conflict-driven Wall Street business model will not change any time soon. Now, with Secretary Geithner making a push to become the master Regulator, we are truly entering the Twilight Zone of market instability.
In a hyper-hyperbole worthy of the moment, Bill Gross, founder of fixed-income management giant Pimco, said of Secretary Geithner's public-private partnership proposal, "This is perhaps the first win/win/win policy to be put on the table and it should be welcomed enthusiastically."
Three "wins" sounds downright desperate to us.
What assurances can Treasury offer the private investors, in addition to asking the Private side of the Partnership to put up only five percent of the cost of the transaction, while taxpayer dollars to cover the risk on the rest? Now, in case we are worried that market regulations may trip up our exit strategy, Mr. Geithner is taking control of the regulators as well.
Let it not be overlooked that, for the private investors to get out of these investments, they will ultimately have to sell them to someone. Large private equity firms have announced their interest in floating toxic assets mutual funds, and are looking into partnership structures to permit them to package toxic assets into what will essentially become long-term hedge funds for sophisticated investors.
We can just imagine how difficult these transactions might become if market regulators got involved, what with issues of disclosure and valuation.
Mr. Geithner is now out to arrogate to himself the control of the whole ball of wax. Cloaked as the power to drag bankers into the woodshed if they don't toe the line, Geithner is making a play to control all regulation. The notion of creating one single global regulator – personally overseen by Mr. Geithner – is right out of the pages of Kurt Vonnegut. It used to be the job of the free markets to decide which firms succeed and fail, and under what circumstances. The freedom to make horrid mistakes and to be clobbered as a consequence is one of the great strengths underlying American Capitalism. It's that "Pursuit of Happiness" thing. Capitalism is supposed to guarantee us only the Pursuit, not the Happiness.
To be sure, there is much to criticize in the current regulatory structure. The SEC granted the banks loosened risk parameters – giving them the ability to leverage 33 to one. In return, the SEC demanded – and after long and hard-fought negotiations, finally won – nothing more than permission to audit the firms it is charged with regulating. Of such capitulations are market implosions made.
The rules that get in the way of the Private Partners stand to be done away with. Hiding behind the highly orchestrated attack on mark to market accounting is the Trojan Horse of the Private Public Investment Partnership. How are private equity partnerships going to convince their wealthy limited partners to invest in a new hedge fund, made up of the Government's raw sewage, when their investment – like a used jalopy – will decline precipitously in value the moment it is driven off the lot?
The ability of the promoter of a partnership to, itself, determine the value of that partnership's portfolio is key to attracting investor dollars. The other key is the ability to dictate the exit strategy.
Mark To Market accounting is now being challenged on the notion that it forces institutions to mark portfolios down to distressed, or forced sale prices. We recognize that disasters are not everyday occurrences. But risk management tools fail if they do not protect against the outlier event. It is precisely the fire sale scenario that no one ever predicted would come, that we are facing today, and that mark To Market accounting was designed, at least in part, to address.
As has been observed – by James Chanos, for example (Wall Street Journal OpEd page, 24 March, "We Need Honest Accounting") the assets subject to possible material revaluation under MTM represent relatively small percentages of most institutions' holdings. But without a transactional market in the underlying assets, it is likely that 100% of the portfolios of the PPIP would be subject to MTM revaluation.
No one seems to have made this connection. Mr. Geithner's push to become the Commander In Chief of market regulation could put him in a position to tell the SEC "hands off" when the PPIP packages its assets for sale, and when it starts selling off its portfolios.
Of course, many things would have to transpire before that happens. Not the least of which, the PPIP will have to find enough private sector interest to launch successfully. And then there's always that Messiah thing…
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ETF investors can breathe easy.
We have raised our concerns and questions about the ETF marketplace on more than one occasion. There appear to be several areas of potential regulatory concern, including the whipsaw effect that ETF creations and redemptions often have on underlying equities; the disparity between non-contemporaneous trading in the ETF and underlying commodity markets; the possibility of ETFs being hit with speculative restrictions under proposed new legislation, and the notion that, as ETF managers come to dominate sectors of the market, they will be seen as effectively dominating and controlling those sectors.
The good news is in: Goldman Sachs is said to be putting together a bid for Barclays' iShares unit, one of the world's leading creators of ETFs. ETF market participants should get a confidence boost if the Goldman purchase goes through. Goldman Sachs' entanglement in the US government is perhaps the greatest concentration of influence and power coming from one organization since the Masons.
For those who need clarification, fifteen US presidents, 19 Vice Presidents have been masons. By some counts, at various periods during the early and mid-1900's, as many as 2/3 of the members of Congress have been Masons.
In a story that no one else seems to think is related, Goldman announced its intention to repay the $10 billion in TARP money it has taken in. One of the foundation points of the TARP was getting all the banks to play by the same rules. But Goldman has always made its own rules, and has the ongoing success to show for it.
The Financial Times reports (24 March, "Goldman Working on iShares Bid") that the Barclays unit could fetch as much as $6.5 billion. It goes on to say "The possible Goldman bid would be made by the bank, not its $20bn Principal Investment private equity fund, which manages money on behalf of third-party and employee investors."
Goldman, the bank, which holds $10 billion in TARP money, will be subject to increased transparency requirements under Secretary Geithner's upcoming "Stress Testing" program. Now Goldman has announced its intention to repay that money, and it has control over a $20 billion private fund. We would not be surprised to see a self-dealt bridge loan that would take Goldman out from under the microscope, giving it free rein to roam the markets while its competitors are being tied up in Secretary Geithner's multicolored bureaucratic tape.
Say what you will about Goldman Sachs, they certainly understand power. With control of everything from the US Treasury, to the State of New Jersey, to the Bank of Canada, and well beyond, Goldman continues to dominate the globe. Hank Paulson showed himself a passed master of the Art of the Deal. Cutting through the numbing detail, he told members of Congress there would be an abrupt economic meltdown resulting in martial law if they failed to pass the TARP. That got their attention. And as AIG's recently disclosed payouts to counterparties makes clear, Lloyd Blankfein is calling the shots every bit as much as Secretary Geithner. America was founded on Masonic principles. Let us pray it will not be destroyed on the principles of Goldman Sachs.
But in spite of all temptations to belong to other nations –
He is an Englishman!
- W.S. Gilbert, "HMS Pinafore"
We have observed in this space before that saying one is Sorry has become an empty ritual. Gordon Brown has moved a few spaces ahead on the game board now, having his interlocutors say it for him, while he sits squirming in the European parliament.
The Prime Minister has not had a good week. Fresh from being publicly dressed down by MP Dan Hannan – in a YouTube clip that has circled the globe – for having spent the British nation's patrimony in an attempt to find the bottom of a bottomless pit, Mr. Brown may have thought he could save face by sharing the stage with another head of state.
Imagine Mr. Brown's surprise when, seated alongside him, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said "This crisis was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything, and now demonstrate that they know nothing."
This is not a Che-T-shirt-wearing college radical, not upagainstthewall.org, not Reverend Al Sharpton. This is the head of state of a nation boasting one of the world's largest economies. There is tremendous anger in the world, not all of it being expressed by groups as feckless as the US Congress. We fear that we must now add this to the list of Things Which Will End Badly.
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DESTIN, Fla. – Basketball and football coaches are slowly trickling into the main ballroom to meet with the athletics directors. It's still hard to get a firm grasp on what may happen on the basketball front, as far as changing the division and conference structure.
Before going in, Georgia's Mark Fox said the basketball coaches, meeting separately Tuesday and Wednesday morning, had a "heated" and "excellent" dialogue."
"It'll be really interesting to see what the A.D.'s, after we go upstairs, how they feel," Fox said. "Because again, what their discussions have been about, I don't know. We had a lot of discussion about divisions, yes."
The range of options for the league include eliminating divisions, adding two games to the league schedule, and seeding the tournament according to league finish, and not divisions.
"We did have very active dialogue, the most active dialogue we've had since I've been in the league, regarding a lot of topics," Fox said. "But I think the general consensus is the coaches in the league now are genuinely concerned with doing what's best to help the league. I really felt like all the conversations weren't selfishly driven, they were motivated by an interest to make the league better."
The word last year was that Western Division coaches blocked an effort to have the tournament re-seeded, rather than go by division finish. But on Wednesday one Western coach, Trent Johnson, answered "hopefully" when asked if re-seeding the tournament may happen today.
"I said this from Day one, I like the model that the Pac-10 has," said Johnson, the former Stanford head coach. "You go one through 10 and play each other twice, you have a true champion and you celebrate your overall league champion more than the tournament. But we all know the tournament is money-driven."
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Study to Look at the Effects of ART-123 on Patients With Sepsis and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
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Last updated: January 23, 2013
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To evaluate the safety and activity of ART-123 in reducing death in subjects with sepsis and disseminated intravascular coagulation.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Sepsis |
Drug: ART-123 Drug: placebo |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2B Study ot Assess the Safety and Efficacy Effects of ART-123 on Subjects With Sepsis and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation |
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- all cause mortality rate [ Time Frame: 28days ]
Enrollment: | 0 |
Study Start Date: | March 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | October 2008 |
Primary Completion Date: | October 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Placebo Comparator: 1
Drug: placebo
0.01 ml/kg up to a volume of 1ml administered by IV boleus every 24 hours for 6 consecutive days
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Drug: ART-123
0.01ml/kg up to a volume of 1ml administered by IV boleus every 24 hours for six consecutive days
Ages Eligible for Study: | 19 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Bacterial or suspected bacterial infection
- Presents with 2 or more sepsis related SIRS criteria within 24hours prior to any particular qualifying DIC score.
Exclusion Criteria:
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- Unwilling to allow transfusion of blood or blood products
- Body weight> or equal to 175kg.
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Study First Received: | March 17, 2010 |
Last Updated: | January 23, 2013 |
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Pathologic Processes Blood Coagulation Disorders Hematologic Diseases Hemorrhagic Disorders Thrombophilia |
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Mitosis The Dance of the Chromosomes
When a human cell divides, its 46 chromosomes must be copied, or replicated, and each of the two new cells must receive only one copy of each chromosome. Mitosis (from the Greek mitos = thread) is the process that sorts the genetic material into two new nuclei and ensures that both contain exactly the same genetic information.
Embryos, babies and children grow using mitosis, and mitosis occurs all the time in our adult bodies, as new cells replace old ones--such as worn-out blood cells or skin cells injured by cuts or burns. Though mitosis is a smooth continuous process, biologists have divided it into several stages.
Interphase is the cell growth phase in which a cell increases in size and carries out activities that support the organism. It is technically not a part of mitosis. Near the end of this phase, the chromosomes of the cell duplicate in preparation for cell division. By the time a cell is ready to divide, there are two copies of each chromosome (the sister chromatids.)
Prophase The chromosomes coil, becoming short and thick. The nuclear membrane appears to dissolve and the chromosomes float in the cytoplasm. The spindle, a football-shaped, cage like structure consisting of thin fibers forms in the cytoplasm. The spindle fibers attach to the centromeres of the chromosomes and to both ends of the cell.
Metaphase All of the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell.
The chromosomes separate. One copy of each chromosome is pulled to each end of the cell by the spindle fibers
The cell membrane begins to pinch the cell in two to divide the cytoplasm. A new nuclear membrane forms in each daughter cell.
The daughter cells contain the same genetic information as was found in the original cell and as each other because the chromosomes in each cell are the same.
Interphase for the two new cells begins
The chromosomes uncoil and the cells begin to grow.
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The best way to understand mitosis is to watch a cartoon animation, or better yet, a movie made through a microscope of the actual thing.
I thank the owners of the Cytographics website at http://www.cytographics.com/gallery/clips/cg.html for permission to include the little QuickTime movie to the right. Click on the picture to view mitosis and cell division in cultured animal tissue.
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She's my main character on 4 and 3rd Strike so i had to show her some love. I just got confident enough to plan out the hair.
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- Mounting Options: Foot Mount
- Material: Steel
- Required Torque: 0.0 to 18.8 Ft-lbs
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Description: or 1,600-lb double-line lift capacity with a capstan rope drum and a 10-ft pendant hand or foot control. APPLICATIONS This rugged, portable winch-hoist is great for utility truck installation, tower and antenna erection, transformer replacement and overhead line crews. FEATURES Worm gear
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- Line Type: Wire Rope / Cable
- Capstan Winch: Yes
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Description: Gear and Wire Rope Lubricant is formulated to provide protection and lubrication for open gears and wire ropes under all operating conditions. Heavy duty lubricant. Fast drying. Reduces wear and extends the operational life of the equipment. The tough, durable coating resists corrosion, abrasion
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- Line Diameter: 0.2500 inch
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Description: and maintenance departments. Small enough to be installed with only the capstan drum exposed. Comes complete with forward and reverse foot controls on 10′ switch cord. FEATURES Worm gear reduction Rugged construction 12V permanent magnet motor 10′ pendant control Frictionless bearings
- Power Source: Electric
- Line Type: Wire Rope / Cable
- Capstan Winch: Yes
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Description: WPT provides worm gear winches that have heavy duty pulling power for Towing & Recovery, Utility, Marine, Oil & Gas and Construction industries. WPT winches are a longstanding, tested design known for its high reliability and endurance. Self braking feature requires no outside braking
- Power Source: Hydraulic
- Load Capacity: 9000 to 20000 lbs
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Description: Talon Heavy Duty Series Advantage - Speed and power make our Talon Series winches ideal for recovery and super duty applications. Available in 14,000 and 18,000 lbs with either steel or synthetic ropes. These 2-stage planetary gear winches are packed with essential and extra practical features
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Description: , differentials and other heavy loads with minimal effort. Features Four position telescopic boom that folds down for traveling position or storage. 5 to 1 gear ratio winch with 20 foot long 1/4" diameter steel cable and hook pull the load toward the boom. Winch gear design acts as a brake and allows
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Description: conveyor rollers which allow easy rotation of wheels for alignment with bolt pattern. 7-1/2" of side-to-side lift arm adjustment eliminates the trial and error method of aligning the rim's lug holes with the wheel drum. A 1500 pound capacity heavy duty winch with 5 to 1 gear ratio provides ease
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Description: Adhesive, heavy-duty, water resistant, calcium sulfonate complex grease designed for use on metal cables, wire ropes, winches, chains, slide rails, and small open gears working in extreme environments such as marine applications, cement works, mines and quarries, ports (traveling cranes
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Description: gearing (compact, weight and space saving). Bearings: Ball and roller-type anti-friction bearings used throughout the winch. Compact Design: Hydraulic motor located inside winch profile Long life, wet, free-spool clutch, no adjustments or service required. Lubrication is wet sump filled to oil
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Description: Description Air powered Gear Motors are available in right-angle and in-line models offering a maximum torque range of 73 to 5,200 lb. in. (8 to 587 Nm) and gear ratios from 10:1 to 60:1 single reduction gear reducers. Applications Mixing Equipment Conveyor Drives Pump Drives Food Packaging
- Required Torque: 6 Ft-lbs
- Air Consumption: 21 SCFM
- Rated Free Speed (output): 350 rpm
- Gearmotor: Yes
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Description: The OTC -1854 hydraulic shop press is the ultimate in pressing power! Features: Large 35" opening between press uprights allows easy handling of large gears, shafts, sprockets, and other components serviced in truck, construction, and agricultural equipment shops. Hand-operated winch
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Description: transmission applications. In addition, standard SAE hydraulic motor mounting provisions accommodate nearly any hydraulic motor. The application flexibility provided by these features and the broad range of torque outputs and gear ratios available have helped to make Fairfield Torque-Hub® the preferred
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Description: K2RA rotary actuators are motor driven gear boxes and use the base drive design and components of the K2 linear actuator. K2RA models incorporate all of the features of the K2 model providing excellent weatherproofing for outdoor applications. The same long-life motors, hardened gears, corrosion
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Description: AMETEK Prestolite Motors is recognized worldwide as a leader in high quality motors used in hydraulic pumps, winches, snowplows, scissor lifts, coffee grinders, pumps, mixers and many other industrial and commercial applications. It offers an extensive product line backed by outstanding customer
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Description: - U.S. Patent No 7.137.464 - 1/2 Horsepower, 50 amp, high torque motor runs cooler under load - Industrial grade gear box transmits steady power and is preferable to other drive designs - Large 2" diameter, polyurethane lifting feet provide more secure stair gripping - Auto rewind ratchet works
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- Capacity: 800 lbs
- Length: 30 inch
- Width: 25 inch
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Description: pumps makes them the ideal solution for a wide range of medium-pressure mobile applications. Common applications include sprayers, combines, harvesters, windrowers, snow removal trucks, refuse trucks, fire trucks, salt spreaders, crane/winch, telehandlers, aerial lifts, railcar movers, wheel loaders
- Maximum Discharge Pressure: 3625 to 5076 psi
- Types: Positive Displacement Pumps, Piston / Plunger Pumps
- Industry: General Industrial, Agriculture / Horticulture, Commercial, Construction
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Description: The Miller ManHandler Hoist is the perfect solution for a range of applications including confined space entry, rescue, positioning and personnel/material handling. Features: Compact, durable steel construction Smooth, controlled winding action Effortless lifting and lowering with 5:1 gear
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- Operating Torque: 1319 In-lbs
- Operating Speed: 4000 rpm
- Operating Pressure: 2030 to 3046 psi
- Power: 41.8 HP
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Description: ; keyed shaft 4 Bolt flange ½ NPTF ports Applications Use the CMM Series for light to medium duty applications such as grain augers and elevators, salt and sand spreaders, car wash and sweeper brushes, conveyors, winches, scissor lifts, and many others. To assure optimum motor life, run motor
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Sad Ending for Reid
RUMOR has it that Harry Reid will step down very soon--he has Alzheimer's.
I carry no brief for Reid, but Alzheimer's is not pleasant, no matter.
I carry no brief for Reid, but Alzheimer's is not pleasant, no matter.
4 comments:
- Amy said...
Seriously? He's not that old...
Alzheimer's sucks, and my prayers are with Reid and his family. - 7/02/2008 8:21 AM
- asianbadger said...
I can think of many thing I would wish on Harry Reid but Alzheimer's is not one of them.
Ditto Amy. - 7/02/2008 9:58 AM
- Headless Blogger said...
That might explain the crazy talk coming from that man lately. I thought his speech patterns during his "making us sick" speech were strange.
Sympathy is due Reid, but (if true) the Senate has a duty to immediately remove him from office.
I learned through personal experience that by the time dementia is diagnosed, the victim cannot be held responsible for his own care, let alone leading the U.S. Senate. Reid should have a guardian and custodian appointed, and resign now. - 7/02/2008 12:26 PM
- Jay Bullock said...
I wonder if Lott heard that from Mary Rosh?
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Mourinho hails 'great' Van Gaal
Jose Mourinho hailed Louis van Gaal as a "great" manager, following the Dutchman's appointment as Manchester United boss on Monday.
After widespread speculation, it was confirmed that Van Gaal would be the permanent successor to David Moyes at Old Trafford.
Ryan Giggs has retired from playing to become Van Gall's assistant manager - having led the club on an interim basis at the end of the season.
And Chelsea boss Mourinho, who worked with Van Gaal at Barcelona, was delighted with the news that his former colleague would become an adversary in next year's Premier League campaign.
Both clubs will be out to improve on this year's league finishes, after Chelsea ended third behind Manchester City and Liverpool, while United failed to qualify for Europe altogether, finishing seventh - their worst placing since coming 13th in 1990.
"He is a great football manager and I am happy he joins me in the same country and the Premier League," Mourinho said.
"But more important than that, he's a great guy, a great man and I wish him well."
Perhaps the greatest achievement of Mourinho's career - his treble with Inter in 2010 - was capped by a 2-0 victory over Van Gaal's Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League final.


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Trump Order Effectively Guts Obama-Era LGBT Protections
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British electronic pop duo Pet Shop Boys have turned an impassioned speech on homophobia into a dance track.
The speech was a response by Miss Panti Bliss, considered Ireland's top drag queen.
Panti, also known as 45-year-old Rory O'Neill, delivered the speech on February 1 at Ireland's national theater, the Abbey, following fallout from a television appearance on RTE.
During the broadcast, O'Neill was asked to weigh in on anti-gay attitudes in Ireland. He said a few columnists were "horrible and mean about gays" and, when pressed for names, he named two columnists and a small Catholic group opposed to marriage equality.
Those mentioned threatened RTE and O'Neill with legal action, arguing that they had been unfairly labeled as homophobes.
Appearing as Panti, O'Neill delivered his rebuttal in an eloquent 10-minute speech that has since gone viral.
"Have any of you ever come home in the evening and turned on the television and there is a panel of people – nice people, respectable people, smart people, the kind of people who make good neighborly neighbors and write for newspapers," Panti told the Abbey audience. "And they are having a reasoned debate about you. About what kind of a person you are, about whether you are capable of being a good parent, about whether you want to destroy marriage, about whether you are safe around children, about whether God herself thinks you are an abomination, about whether in fact you are 'intrinsically disordered.' And even the nice TV presenter lady who you feel like you know thinks it's perfectly okay that they are all having this reasonable debate about who you are and what rights you 'deserve.'"
"And that feels oppressive."
"Three weeks ago I was on the television and I said that I believed that people who actively campaign for gay people to be treated less or differently are, in my gay opinion, homophobic. Some people, people who actively campaign for gay people to be treated less under the law took great exception at this characterization and threatened legal action against me and RTÉ. RTÉ, in its wisdom, decided incredibly quickly to hand over a huge sum of money to make it go away. I haven't been so lucky."
"And for the last three weeks I have been lectured by heterosexual people about what homophobia is and who should be allowed identify it. Straight people – ministers, senators, lawyers, journalists – have lined up to tell me what homophobia is and what I am allowed to feel oppressed by. People who have never experienced homophobia in their lives, people who have never checked themselves at a pedestrian crossing, have told me that unless I am being thrown in prison or herded onto a cattle train, then it is not homophobia."
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Tim Wilkin: Chrome makes us wonder if this horse is that special
Updated 11:44 pm, Saturday, May 17, 2014
BALTIMORE -- The New York Jets last won a Super Bowl in 1969.
The city of Cleveland hasn't won a pro championship in anything since 1946.
The Chicago Cubs? Forget about it. The last time the Cubbies won a World Series was 116 years ago.
Every year, fans of those sports teams talk about next year being the year. And usually they are wrong.
And that brings us to thoroughbred racing. The Sport of Kings hasn't seen a horse get the three-peat since 1978. Affirmed was the last Triple Crown winner's name, and he won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes in a five-week span.
That was also the third time in the 1970s there was a Triple Crown winner. Back then, horse racing was as popular as "The Brady Bunch."
Winning a Triple Crown has been called one of the toughest chores in all of sports, although you might get an argument from folks on the North side of Chicago.
For the next three weeks, the sports pages, which have been hogged by the NHL and NBA playoffs and the baseball season, will have to make room for the flashy thoroughbred named California Chrome.
He won the Preakness on Saturday and now stands a mile and a half from history. If he wins the Belmont Stakes on June 7 at Belmont Park, he will become racing's first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed and, believe me, New York will go wild.
California Chrome has won his past six starts, and no one has shown they belong on the same track with him.
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, whose Bayern finished ninth in the 10-horse field, was smiling while he stood in the enclosed paddock at Pimlico after the Preakness was done. A lot of the record crowd of 123,469 already was spilling out into the Baltimore streets after watching California Chrome's work.
Baffert, in no hurry to go anywhere, said he would not be trying to beat California Chrome in the Belmont because he thinks the colt is too good.
"(California Chrome) is pretty good right now," Baffert said. "I don't see anything out there that can beat him."
We have heard words like that before when it came to talking about Triple Crown bids of horses like Silver Charm and Real Quiet and War Emblem (all trained by Baffert) and Funny Cide and Smarty Jones and Big Brown.
All of them went to Belmont Park with the chance to win the crown. All of them failed.
Why should this one be any different?
California Chrome will have to prove it all over again in three weeks. He will have to show he can run a mile and a half faster than anyone else. He will have to show he can handle the massive track called Belmont Park.
"I'm up here with the big boys," Art Sherman, the trainer of California Crome said early Saturday night. "It's just an honor to have a horse like him."
Do I think he is going to win the Triple Crown? A few weeks ago, I would have said "no chance." I didn't believe he really was this good. After watching him in the Derby and Preakness, I really don't know what to think.
He might just be better than the rest of them. Give me three more weeks to think about it.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
it's tuesday. time for a toms tribute.
don't mind the great alliteration. kim, what's an alliteration? only my favorite literary device. go here to find out more, if you must.
but come back.
i've written about toms shoes on my blog several times. like here...and here...here...and here too. honestly, it's because i think it is the coolest company out there. cute shoes for a good cause? say no more, i'm in.
this is blake.
he founded the company & you can read his story and his blog here. i think you are pretty rad, blake. i have a lot of cute, single friends back in texas if you want to date one of them. just sayin'...
(( read more about the movement here ))
i bought my first pair my sophomore year of college...so in 2006 when toms first got started. I'll admit, they were a big hit on Texas A&M's campus, so I won't act like I was a trendsetter...just a faithful customer.
they started out looking something like this...but with a way cooler interior fabric
and then i glued some burlap onto them. they were pretty awesome...until the burlap started to fray off. then i painted them at a toms party.
(( obviously sewing is more my skill than painting. ))
they look weird to me now, so i haven't worn them more than 10 times, i'd say. maybe i should cover them in fabric. OOOH! brilliant.
then my sister-in-law and i gave each other toms for Christmas the next year. I gave her these,
and she gave me these.
oh, earth toned toms. you are always a winner.
then, i got these cuties last spring/summer. they may be my favorite pair they've ever made.
my sister-in-law (seriously, she's awesome) gave me another (!!) pair for my birthday, but they were too big :( linen has a tendency to stretch big time so i traded those in for these cute cordones.
yay plaid!
finally, my heart has been long awaiting the toms wedge. i love me a good peep-toed shoe, but when you combine that with toms "one-for-one" promise, a summery mint-green, and a great wedge, they are simply irresistable. they should be here next week.
chase & i have a rule that if i buy a new pair of shoes, i have to get rid of a pair...sell them, give them away, whatever. i need to get on that :-/
anywho...head on over to www.tomsshoes.com or www.toms.com and buy your first (or second, or third) pair of toms, if you haven't already! it's such a good cause, they are trendy, they come in fun colors, and they really are the most comfortable shoe you'll ever own.
((they make great gifts as well))
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