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Ferris State University plans to offer a new undergraduate degree program that concentrates on sustainable design, the Detroit News reports. Trustees at the Big Rapids school have approved the new bachelor of science in architecture and sustainability. It will be available starting in fall 2010 through the College of Engineering Technology. Ferris State says the program will create nine new courses and will use existing courses that are parts of various bachelor's and associate degree programs. Engineering Dean Tom Oldfield says the program "will educate students on real-world issues of green building" and gives them experience in applying "sustainable building technology practices." Read more at http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/news/News.cfm?AnnouncementID=1007&CatID=1&year=2009.
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Seniors Andrea Rietsch, Taylor Vock and Crystal Tullar weren't surprised Cindy Salfate won "Teacher of the Year" through the Michigan Department of Education. In all honesty, they're just shocked it hasn't become an annual ritual to present her the award in Family and Consumer Science Education at Durand High School, reports the Argus-Press of Shiawassee County. "I'm more surprised that she hasn't won it a million times already," Rietsch said. Numerous teachers from state schools nominated her for the award. Salfate, who has two master's degrees – one from Ferris State University and another from Michigan State University – won the honor for both upper and lower peninsulas and will pick up her award at a ceremony later in the year. She said being recognized by so many people for something she loves doing is an honor in itself. She has been teaching Parenthood, Essentials to Healthy Living, Nutrition and Foods, Introduction to Personal Living and various Child Care classes for more than seven years at Durand. While her lesson plans don't revolve around traditional school subjects such as physical sciences or mathematics, everything done in and out of her classroom directly relates to other course work, preparing students for the real world. Read more at http://www.argus-press.com/articles/2009/11/10/news/news1.txt.
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When it comes to bibles, you've got the King James Version, the Latin Vulgate Version, and numerous revised versions. But you'd have to change the Vulgate to Vulva and forget anything about finding a single good word if you want to know what a Tijuana Bible is.
Sometime during the 1920s, small 8-page booklets that were printed on cheap paper started to find themselves in the knapsacks of soldiers and schoolboys. These crude little booklets (approximately 4" by 6") often poked fun at actors, politicians, and public figures, although their main focus was another kind of poking. They were irreverent, usually humorous, and always dirty--featuring sex-starved characters from Popeye and Donald Duck to baseball heros, with their pants down and penises proud.
How these pornographic pulp parodies got the name "Tijuana Bibles" is anyone's guess, but they were popular in America from the 1920s until after World War II. They were eventually put into paper graves by glossy magazines such as Playboy. The pin-up powerhouse Esquire probably served a death notice or two as well.
Some of you might be wondering what relevance these little pieces of erotica from 80 years ago have on human sexuality today when we've got scientific journals with brain scans of people having orgasms. I can assure you that there's no greater danger to human sexuality than researchers on the cutting edge of technology who don't have an appreciation of sex in history and culture.
I've included a scan below of an actual Tijuana Bible. It is based on a 1926 silent movie titled *Ella Cinders," which was based on a popular comic strip character by the same name. In the movie, the naive Miss Cinders wins a trip to Hollywood that includes a movie screen test--which turns out to be a fraud.
As you can see from the eight pages that follow, these little bibles enjoyed making fun of men as much as women. The cocksure artist-producer Bob ends up with erectile dysfunction by page 7, and it's the naked Miss Cinders who has the last laugh.
Tijuana Bibles displayed a level of irreverence that fell by the wayside with the advent of Playboy and the other softporn glossies that sometimes took themselves way too seriously.
Thanks to Quinn from the very thorough TijuanaBibles.org for permission to use his scans). Another competent resource is the book Tijuana Bibles by Bob Adleman.

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Hey Alan I have called multiple times and they even sent a tech out. Everytime I call they tell me that they will sent over to broadcasting to look into. However they tell me that everytime.
I notice when in guide if you go over to channel name it states (A3 Albany GA 17CW(Virt)and same with channel 25. What is (Virt) ?
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And was told that I just needed to reset all four of our receivers. I noticed that it will pull in the guide information for only 4 hours and is only there for about 2.
Was told that it was the Jacksonville stations not giving them the guide information. If that was true, then how did they get a local church service in the guide after a reset this Sunday?
They told me that they had not had any complaints, so must be something wrong with my system. Well I see that is bull also.
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They suggested that everyone in this area send them an email in addition to calling.
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I sincerely apologize for the problems you are having with your local channels ABC and CW. Since it's difficult to troubleshoot technical issues by email, ou may find some additional help at directv.com/troubleshooting. Otherwise, please our technical support center at 1-800-531-5000 and select the option for technical assistance. Our Technical Support agents are trained to walk you through a number of troubleshooting steps which are too difficult to try to talk through over email. Also, you may find some helpful information at the DIRECTV Technical Help forums. Just visit http://forums.directv.com/pe/index.jsp to find answers to your questions.
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Mom Squad Panel Member Paula, attended the Joyce Meyer Conference this past weekend in St. Louis, MO.
This years theme was I DARE YOU...Live Life with Passion and Purpose. It was an awesome time as 27,000 women worshipped together at the Edwards Jones Dome, with worship led by the group Delirious and special performances by musical guest, CeCe Winans. Bishop T.D. Jakes gave an inspirational speech Thursday evening. Joyce, as always, had a relevent, moving, inspiring message to share with us about finding our purpose and pursuing it with passion. She said that our purpose could be as simple as being a mom, a neighbor, a good worker but whereever we are in life, RIGHT NOW, is our purpose. God has us where we are for a reason, and we are to do whatever it is with passion and in a manner that will bring Glory to the Lord.
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience!
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Yes great post. Aren't her conferences amazing? God bless you.
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New Scientist | Physicsgg
Truth of the matter: The Majorana particle mystery
- 14 May 2012 by Michael Brooks and Richard Webb
- Magazine issue 2864
- For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide
Can a single entity be matter and antimatter at the same time? It looks like it
OH, MATTER is matter and antimatter is antimatter, and never the twain shall meet. That line has a poetic ring of truth about it – perhaps more so than Rudyard Kipling's original about east and west. After all, if matter and antimatter do meet, their mutual destruction is assured as they "annihilate" in a flash of light.
Or do they? Almost as soon as antimatter burst onto the scene 80 years ago, another possibility was aired: that certain particles, dubbed Majorana particles after their proposer, might be matter and antimatter at the same time. Proving this would be a big deal. It could help us to pin down the identity of the dark matter thought to dominate the cosmos, and discriminate between candidates for a better, all-encompassing theory of how stuff works. It might even explain the greatest material mystery: why matter exists at all.
Yet so far searches for these intriguing, ambiguous entities have turned up nothing. Some think that they pass through us in their millions each second, but lack the clinching proof. Others say a positive identification will come from the Large Hadron Collider, at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. As yet, nothing doing.
Solid sighting
Now, though, these matter-antimatter hybrids seem to have been sighted – not in cosmic rays or the detritus of particle collisions, but trapped in the innards of a solid superconductor. Has the mystery of the Majorana particles finally been solved?
Ettore Majorana had a talent for enigma. The mercurial Italian physicist's disappearance, somewhere en route from Palermo to Naples in the spring of 1938, still excites lively discussion. Suicide? Kidnap? A recluse's ruse to escape the public eye?
The particles that bear his name are no less enigmatic. Their origin lies in a seemingly innocuous modification Majorana made to an equation derived by the British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. The Dirac equation marries quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity to describe how electrons behave – and with them all other "fermion" particles, the building blocks of matter.
The Dirac equation was a revelation. First, it showed that electrons in a magnetic field act in one of two ways, distinguished by different values of a quantum-mechanical property called spin. But these spin states were only two of four possible guises for the electron that the equation made possible. The other two looked just the same, but had some sort of "negative" energy.
It wasn't immediately clear what this could mean. That changed in 1932, when American physicist Carl Anderson discovered an electron curving entirely the wrong way as it passed through the magnetic field of his cosmic-ray detector. He had found positrons: particles just like electrons, but with the opposite, positive, electric charge. Antimatter had made its debut.
Antimatter has since become a staple of science fact and fiction, beguiling for its habit of destroying itself and matter whenever the two should meet. It harbours great mysteries: exactly equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been made in the big bang, so by rights everything should have annihilated. Why some matter survived to make stars, planets and people remains one of cosmology's great existential questions.
In Dirac's original formulation, only electrically charged particles had antiparticles. Majorana's tweak produced antiparticles for chargeless particles, too. Indistinguishable even by their charge, such a particle and its antiparticle would be absolutely identical. In fact, they would be one particle embodying all the qualities of both simultaneously.
The idea sounds faintly absurd – but it can be tested. "If a particle is its own antiparticle, then if two of them are brought together they can annihilate," says theorist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Majorana particles would eat themselves.
That's not technically unprecedented. Today's standard model of the workings of matter predicts that absolutely every particle has an antiparticle: the chargeless, massless photon, for example, is its own antiparticle, and two photons annihilate themselves on the rare occasions they interact. But the photon is a force-carrying "boson"; seeing a matter-making fermion eating itself would be another thing entirely.
So far we have been denied the spectacle. The hottest tip is that neutrinos might be Majorana particles in disguise. These aloof, chargeless particles pass through Earth in their billions each second without interacting with anything. We know of three types and each seems to have an antineutrino equivalent that participates in particle reactions very differently. But many favoured routes to a unified theory of all of nature's forces suggest that this is an illusion. "Neutrinos and antineutrinos might be the same thing, just seen in different states of motion," says Wilczek.
The trouble is that the very elusiveness of neutrinos makes it nigh-on impossible to say that conclusively (see "Nothing doing"). Now, though, a result from an unexpected quarter could at last have given us something solid to go on.
Take half an electron…
A superconductor might seem an implausibly material stage upon which to spy antimatter. A positron would certainly be hard-pressed to survive among the myriad electrons that swarm through any sort of conductor. But from the early days of quantum physics it has been clear that certain materials harbour their own version of anti-electrons: holes.
"The hole is an absence of an electron where an electron would usually be," says Marcel Franz, a physicist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. These holes move freely through certain conductors, and carry a positive charge equal and opposite to that of the electron. Understanding how a silicon transistor works is impossible without accepting that holes exist. When an electron and a hole meet, they "annihilate": the electron jumps into the hole and neither electron nor hole is there to conduct any more.
The spectral existence of holes suggests a way to make a Majorana particle. Start off with half an electron and half a hole, combine the two bits and you have a fermion that is chargeless and has zero energy overall. "This solid-state Majorana would be a 'nothing' particle," says Leo Kouwenhoven of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. "It is one big zero."
But hang on: an electron is an elementary particle that you can't just split apart. That is true, but doesn't take into account the weird things that go on in superconductors. At very low temperatures, electrons and holes lose their individual identities and start behaving essentially as a larger quantum particle that flows collectively through the material without resistance. "It's a little bit like a Mexican wave in a stadium," says Kouwenhoven. "You can describe it as lots of individuals jumping up and sitting down singly. Or you can describe it as one wave."
The crucial Majorana-making trick was worked out in 2010. It involves inducing superconductivity in a material in which electrons have very little room for manoeuvre in the first place, such as a one-dimensional wire (Physical Review Letters, vol 105, p 077001 and p 177002). Then it is as if the Mexican wave is disrupted at its ends. Things start to peel off – and in these broken-off bits you can find something that's a little bit electron, a little bit hole, and every bit a Majorana. "Theoretically, there is no doubt that Majoranas should appear in these set-ups under the right conditions," says Franz.
Kouwenhoven and his team might now have snared them. When they allowed superconductivity to "leak" from a superconductor into a neighbouring, restricted nanoscale semiconducting wire, entities popped up at the ends of the nanowire with zero energy and zero charge. Applying an electrical or magnetic field did not budge them, which is exactly the behaviour expected of a "nothing" matter-antimatter hybrid particle (Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1222360). In February this year, David Goldhaber-Gordon and his team at Stanford University, California, also claimed evidence for Majorana particles in a subtly different material setting (arxiv.org/abs/1202.2323).
Further tests are needed to confirm the nature of the finds, but hopes are high. "Observation of Majoranas in solid-state devices will provide proof that these particles can exist in nature," says Franz, who is not involved with the experimental teams. "My guess is we'll have it in the next year or two."
These manufactured Majoranas are sought after in their own right as the working bits of potentially super-powerful quantum computers (see "Twisted logic"). But there is a sense they are still not quite the real deal: a magnificent big cat caged in a zoo rather than freely roaming the savannah.
Besides those still stalking the neutrino in the hope of observing Majorana-like behaviour, the LHC's particle hunters would seem to have the best chance to bag that beast. The LHC is searching for the Higgs boson, which would complete the standard model, and also for signs of a greater theory. The leading candidate is the construct known as supersymmetry, which proposes that every standard-model particle has a heavier, undiscovered "superpartner". For every fermion, there's a super-boson, and for every boson there's a super-fermion.
Fact of the matter
Take the Higgs boson. It is the chargeless particle thought to give all others mass. But bring two "Higgsinos", their super-fermion partners, together and you should get a spectacular mass-destroying show: they will annihilate into a slew of other particles. Other supersymmetric particles should also act as Majoranas. Such particles are prime candidates for the "weakly interacting massive particles", or WIMPs, that might make up dark matter, the puzzling three-quarters of the universe's mass that we cannot see. "If so, Majorana particles would be the most common in the universe," says Kouwenhoven. The constant annihilation of these dark Majoranas could account for anexcess of high-energy cosmic positrons seen by detectors.
So far, the LHC has seen no evidence for anything supersymmetrical, let alone Majorana-like. But Wilczek thinks that could change over the next few years as the machine ramps up its power to maximum. "We're not there yet, but we're close," he says.
Determining whether neutrinos are Majorana particles, meanwhile, might finally tell us why there is something rather than nothing. If neutrinos and antineutrinos are distinct particles, equal numbers of each would have been produced in the big bang. In the highly energetic conditions of the early universe, each would have decayed into equal numbers of all manner of other particles and antiparticles. But if neutrinos and antineutrinos are the same particle, it could decay into particles or antiparticles at will. There is no guarantee that those decays would have happened at the same rates: decays to particles might have slightly outnumbered decays to antiparticles. "It needs only a tiny difference, but this could be what makes the universe as we see it," says Silvia Pascoli, a particle physicist at Durham University, UK.
Proving this scenario directly would require a particle accelerator that could recreate the incredibly hot and dense first fraction of a second of the cosmos – a machine 10 million times more powerful than the LHC. Given that, perhaps we should be grateful for any glimpse afforded us in a supercooled wire in a down-to-earth lab. The Majorana mystery continues, but we are a step closer to its resolution.
Nothing doing
Might neutrinos be matter-antimatter hybrids? Their "Majorana" status (see main story) has long been suspected. Definitive proof, however, would only come from seeing neutrinos annihilating each other. But it is difficult enough to get neutrinos to interact with detectors, and so measure their properties. Getting two neutrinos to interact with each other under earthly conditions is that problem squared.
One solution might be to observe a radioactive process known as neutrinoless double-beta decay. Conventional beta-minus decay involves the emission of an antineutrino, but a few nuclei can undergo two successive decays, producing two antineutrinos. If the neutrino is its own antiparticle – and so the antineutrino is a neutrino under a different name – then these antineutrinos might meet and annihilate on emission, resulting in no neutrino product. "It's a very clumsy way to investigate the Majorana question, but it's the best thing people have come up with," says Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It is also fiddly, patience-sapping work: a neutrinoless decay is expected to happen to any one susceptible atom only about once in 1025 years. In 2001, a group of German and Russian physicists suggested that they had seen a few instances of the process, afterobserving decays of germanium-76 over 10 years (Modern Physics Letters A, vol 16, p 2409), but this result remains disputed.
The Majorana Collaboration now aims to break the deadlock. Involving more than 100 physicists from four countries, its goal is to keep a watchful eye on a tonne or so of germanium; a 40-kilogram prototype, the Majorana Demonstrator, is being built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (arxiv.org/abs/1109.4790).
Twisted logic
It's not only testing basic principles of matter and antimatter that motivates researchers to hunt down Majorana particles. "Majorana states are hotly pursued because they would allow for something called topological quantum computing," says Laurens Molenkamp of the University of Würzburg in Germany.
Physicists have long dreamed of encoding information in the quantum states of particles, for example in the direction of their quantum-mechanical "spin". Quantum theory's fuzzy logic means that particles can exist in multiple states at once, meaning more computing bang for your bit. There is a huge stumbling-bock, however: quantum states are extraordinarily delicate, breaking down at the slightest disturbance from their environment.
Not so Majorana bits. A consequence of the way they arise in superconductors (see main story) is that they always come in pairs that, although spatially separated, encode the same information. That offers built-in robustness through redundancy: if one of the pair gets its information wiped, the other still has it.
Not much use if, as soon as the two bits meet, they blow each other up. But the beauty of Majorana particles is that they don't have to interact for you to use them for computing. You can change the quantum states of a Majorana pair in concert simply by moving them around each other. By guiding these twisty movements in a pre-determined way, you can effectively run a whole series of computing steps: an algorithm.
If the recent sightings are confirmed, it will be full speed ahead with attempts to harness this sort of "topological" number-crunching. "Five years ago it was pure fantasy," says theorist Frank Wilczek at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The theoretical ideas have been way ahead, but now the experiments are catching up – that's very exciting."
Truth of the matter: The Majorana particle mystery – physics-math – 14 May 2012 – New Scientist.
Ανακαλύφθηκαν φερμιόνια Ματζοράνα;
Αναδημοσίευση από physicsgg
Το νανοκαλωδιο (η οριζόντια μπάρα στο κέντρο) στο οποίο κάτω από ορισμένες συνθήκες όταν διοχετευθεί ηλεκτρικό ρεύμα τα ηλεκτρόνια συμπεριφέρονται ως φερμιόνια Majorana. DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Ένα ειδικά σχεδιασμένο τρανζίστορ προσφέρει τις πρώτες σαφείς ενδείξεις για την ύπαρξη των «φερμιονίων Ματζοράνα», μιας κατηγορία παράξενων σωματιδίων που αποτελούν τα αντισωματίδια των εαυτών τους.
Φερμιόνια είναι χονδρικά τα σωματίδια από τα οποία αποτελείται η μάζα, σε αντιδιαστολή με τα λεγόμενα μποζόνια, τα οποία χονδρικά είναι φορείς των φυσικών δυνάμεων.
Όλα ή τουλάχιστον τα περισσότερα φερμιόνια είναι «φερμιόνια Ντίρακ» (ονομάστηκαν έτσι από τον μεγάλο Άγγλο φυσικό Πολ Ντίρακ), τα οποία εξ ορισμού είναι διαφορετικά από τα αντισωματίδιά τους, τα οποία υπάρχουν στον κόσμο της αντιύλης. Όταν ένα σωματίδιο συναντήσει ένα αντισωματίδιο, και τα δύο εξαϋλώνεται σε μια έκρηξη ενέργειας.
Το 1937, όμως, ο Ιταλός θεωρητικός φυσικός Εττόρε Ματζοράνα (ο οποίος εξαφανίστηκε μυστηριωδώς το 1938 στη διάρκεια ενός ταξιδιού με καράβι) προέβλεψε θεωρητικά ότι υπάρχουν φερμιόνια που δεν ακολουθούν τον κανόνα του Ντίρακ.
Εβδομήντα πέντε χρόνια μετά, οι φυσικοί ακόμα προσπαθούν να επιβεβαιώσουν ή να διαψεύσουν την πρόβλεψη του εξαφανισμένου φυσικού.
Σαν σωματίδια
Προηγούμενες θεωρητικές μελέτες προέβλεψαν ότι, ακόμα και αν δεν υπάρχουν συγκεκριμένα θεμελιώδη σωματίδια που συμπεριφέρονται ως φερμιόνια Ντίρακ, η κίνηση των ηλεκτρονίων σε κάποια ηλεκτρονικά κυκλώματα μιμείται τη συμπεριφορά των φερμιονίων Ματζοράνα.
Αν οι φυσικοί κατάφερναν να δείξουν ότι μεγάλοι αριθμοί ηλεκτρονίων συμπεριφέρονται όπως τα αντίθετα των εαυτών τους, θα έδειχναν ουσιαστικά ότι τα φερμιόνια Ματζοράνα όντως υπάρχουν.
Αυτό ακριβώς επιχειρεί να κάνει η νέα μελέτη, η οποία δημοσιεύεται στο κορυφαίο περιοδικό Science. Οι ερευνητές του Πανεπιστημίου του Ντελφτ στην Ολλανδία κατασκεύασαν ένα ειδικό τρανζίστορ, το οποίο περιλαμβάνει ένα εξαιρετικά λεπτό, ημιαγώγιμο καλώδιο που συνδέει δύο ηλεκτρόδια.
Η θεωρία προέβλεπε ότι, αν διοχετευτεί ηλεκτρικό ρεύμα σε αυτό το νανοκαλώδιο, υπό την επίδραση ενός μαγνητικού πεδίου, και κάτω από συγκεκριμένες συνθήκες, τα ηλεκτρόνια στο νανοκαλώδιο θα συμπεριφερθούν ως φερμιόνια Ματζοράνα. Αν πάλι η θεωρία δεν ευσταθεί, το ηλεκτρικό ρεύμα δεν θα έπρεπε καν να περάσει από το ημιαγώγιμο νανοκαλώδιο.
Πράγματι, οι ερευνητές κατέγραψαν τη ροή ηλεκτρονίων, ένδειξη ότι συμπεριφέρονται ως φερμιόνια Ματζοράνα.
Οι παρατηρήσεις αυτές αποτελούν ισχυρή ένδειξη για την ύπαρξη των παράξενων αυτών «σωματιδίων», ωστόσο το ρεύμα που καταγράφηκε ήταν 95% ασθενέστερο από το προβλεπόμενο, και παραμένει ασαφές αν αυτό οφείλεται σε τεχνικούς μόνο λόγους.
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Αν τελικά η ύπαρξη των φερμιονίων Ματζοράνα επιβεβαιωθεί, αυτό θα έδινε τροφή για σκέψη και σε άλλους κλάδους της φυσικής.
Για παράδειγμα, τα φερμιόνια αυτά θα ήταν ιδανικά για την κατασκευή των λεγόμενων κβαντικών υπολογιστών, καθώς ένα ζευγάρι από φερμιόνια Μοτζοράνα θα «θυμόταν» την αρχική του κατάσταση ακόμα και αν χωριζόταν.
Επιπλέον, η επιβεβαίωση του Εττόρε Ματζοράνα θα αναπτέρωνε την αισιοδοξία των φυσικών που πιστεύουν ότι τα θεμελιώδη σωματίδια νετρίνα είναι στην πραγματικότητα φερμιόνια Ματζοράνα.
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David Stockman – Deal Mania: The Rise Of 'Chase and Crash'
David Stockman, President Reagan's Budget Director and one of the architects of the Reagan Revolution, then an early partner at the private-equity firm, Blackstone Group, and now bestselling author, graciously gave me permission to post the particularly relevant Chapter 23 of his book, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. Here is the third installment (for the second installment, see How The Fed Got Cramer'd).
One of the great ironies of the Greenspan bubbles was that the free market convictions of the maestro enabled the Fed to drift steadily and irreversibly into its eventual submission to the Cramerite intimidation. It did so by turning a blind eye to lunatic speculations in the stock market, dismissing them, apparently, as the exuberances of capitalist boys and girls playing too hard.
By the final years of the first Greenspan bubble, however, there were plenty of warning signals that there was more than exuberance going on. Hit-and-run momentum trading and vast money flows into the stocks of serial M&A operations were signs that normal market disciplines were not working. Indeed, the M&A mania was a powerful indictment of the Fed's prosperity management model.
These hyperactive deal companies with booming share prices were being afflicted ever more frequently with sudden stock price implosions that couldn't have been merely random failures on the free market. Yet, as in the case of the subprime mania, the central planners undoubtedly read the headlines about these recurring corporate blowups and never bothered to connect the dots.
The WorldCom train wreck of 2001, for example, was as much a consequence of Bernie Ebbers' penchant for serial M&A as it was the result of his desperate efforts to cook the books when his deal making failed. Years of overpaying for acquisitions and the incurrence of massive debts finally came home to roost when WorldCom announced a shocking $20 billion goodwill write-off in the spring of 2001. Celebrated for years by the financial press for its prowess in deal making and as a pioneer in the deregulated long-distance phone market, the stock imploded on the spot. It had been a debt-ridden house of cards all along.
The two telecom equipment flameouts of that era, Nortel and Lucent, had also been hotbeds of serial M&A. In the short span between April 1998 and late 2000, for example, Nortel had completed nearly two dozen deals valued at more than $30 billion. Not to be outdone, Lucent had executed a new deal almost every month during the same period, racking up $44 billion in total M&A transactions in less than three years.
Yet after the 2001 crash landing of these two telecom equipment giants, any residual value from this barrage of acquisitions was hard to find. By September 2002, for example, Lucent's market cap had plunged to just $4 billion, meaning that its three-year spree of M&A deals were being valued at essentially zero after giving even minimum value to its massive base of assets, customers, and technology inherited from its prior one-hundred-year history as Western Electric.
Likewise, Nortel's market cap peaked at $400 billion. Twenty-four months later it crashed and burned, its market cap reduced to a $5 billion rounding error. Again, Lucent and Nortel had not been shooting stars off the pink sheets or highflyers inhabiting the margins of the economy. They were the giant former equipment divisions of the Bell Telephone monopolies in the United States and Canada, and had $60 billion of sales and 200,000 employees between them.
As monsters of the deal maker's midway, they had dominated financial TV and were omnipresent in the investment banking and trading precincts of Wall Street. So when they imploded in a sudden, fiery crash, it was a sign that something was haywire in the stock market.
Still, the ultimate monument to the merger mania which became pandemic by the end of the first Greenspan bubble was the JDS Uniphase acquisition of SDL. The deal had been announced on July 10, 2000, a date which was virtually the high noon of the tech frenzy. At that moment the market cap of JDS Uniphase was $90 billion and it paid $40 billion for SDL.
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This won first prize in the Friskies contest of videos. Ive watched it over and over. It is so sweet.
Check out Blind Cat Rescue in North Carolina. You are going to find there is a whole community of people who have blind kitties.
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Oskar's people lived in Omaha when they brought him home. Oskar, much like Homer, are great examples of cats not only overcoming disabilities, but thriving with them. Thanks to them and many other "special needs" feline stars on youtube, the negative stereotype of "unadoptable" pets is being broken.
Oskar's brother Klaus was adopted from the shelter where I volunteer and is a special guy in his own right. See his story in this newsletter...
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What a great story about Klaus! Sounds like a wonderful rescue to volunteer for! Off topic but did the black cat Luna ever get adopted?
There are so many hidden treasures in feral cat colonies! You are right, the stereotype of unadoptable or should be put to sleep line of thought is being broken. Thanks to books, internet and utubes!
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This is all really good for me to hear. I just watched the video on Homer's Odyssey. That author & her cat are really cute. Maybe, once Calyx adjusts, he'll show his superpowers too.
And bless that woman with the blind cat sanctuary! What a wonderful environment (I hope they win that $10K challenge)
I tried playing with Calyx with little jingle-bell balls, but I think he's still feeling poorly. But it is good to rethink his toys, and shift toward ones with distinct sounds.
Regarding Klaus, I feel like my cat has already been therapy (don't we all think that?) He helped me through graduate school, work... life.
Mitts & Tess: Good idea with the cat eye specialist. I didn't think about that. Luckily, where I live there are a ton of specialists & I found one that gets 5 stars on Yelp with 20 reviews - just a half mile away. I called & spoke to an assistant today & they were kind enough to say "delay bringing him in until he recovers" (I feel like some places automatically default to "bring your cat in!!!" no matter what you say)
I think its interesting that veterinary medicine has branched out & become specialized. I feel like this wasn't the case 20 years ago. I suppose it's for the better - and hopefully this animal ophthalmologist can help Calyx.
Now I just have to get him to eat on his own...
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Oskar might be the cutest little ball of fur I've ever seen! It wasn't clear to me whether Homer's been blind by birth or whether he went blind at some point later. But both videos show that blind kitties can have very happy lives. When Margaux doesn't play, it isn't because she can't see - either she's sleepy, hungry, or not feeling well.
Calyx, your poor kitty! That sounds like an awful experience at the vet. It does seem logical that if Calyx's sight had already been affected by retinal hemorrhaging due to hypertension, a sudden rise in blood pressure may have just caused the retina to detach completely. And if the spike in blood pressure was caused by pain due to not enough anesthesia, then I'd have to say that the vet really messed up that surgery. I'd never go back.
I'm so glad you found an eye specialist! I wish there were one here, but the closest is 3 hours away. I don't know whether it would be worth making an appointment. I don't want to stress her needlessly with 6 hours in the car in one day, especially since I think Margaux's blindness is irreversible. I hope Calyx's isn't!
About the edge-of-stairs issue. Maybe put a little rug remnant, a few inches shorter than the width of the stairs, over the carpet at the top of the stairs. The difference in texture would alert him that something was different there. And if the carpet isn't entirely covered, he'll recognize that the stairs are still there. My carpet strips leave about 5" free on either side (the stairs are really wide). If you don't want him to use the stairs at all, you could try buying a rug in a texture he doesn't like. Margaux hates anything plush, so if I wanted her to stay off a surface, I'd buy the plushest bath rug I could find. I have 3 in the bathroom, and she carefully walks around each one.
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Oskar is indeed amazingly cute. I remember watching the video a while ago (during one of my late night cat video marathons ) and it made me cry. Such a brave little boy!
Homer wasn't born blind, but at two weeks of age he was brought into the vet as a stray with a bad eye infection. The vet decided the infection was too far gone to treat and save his eyes, so she removed his eyes to save him. She figured that since his eyes hadn't yet opened naturally, that he wouldn't know the difference. he would live his life assuming all he had were his other senses. i know this because I started reading Homers' book just yesterday!
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Just thought I'd post a picture of my baby. This was him before all this happened.
Spirite - that's hilarious about the plush rug! Heh, Calyx isn't that discerning. But I think the texture change is a good idea - I just have to think about how to do it without altering the apartment (I'm just a renter). Maybe I can put masking tap along the edge of the stairs? In any case, right now, it's blocked with a huge pillow, I'm not taking any chances.
To those of you that have blind cats, specifically ones that experienced the onset of blindness in adulthood: did you notice weird behaviors? Calyx is seeking dark places (behind the fridge, underneath chairs/stairs, etc) And he's acting weird. I came home yesterday to find him comfortably resting in his covered kitty litter - like it was a pillow or something.
He's getting better, not sicker, so this is just weird. I was even wondering if the hypertension was so high that he had a stroke - but he has no unilateral weakness or anything. Just weird behavior.
So when did your cats get back to semi-normal? Or maybe it wasn't so acute, so it was a slower adjustment time.
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Admit it: There are some icons of old New York that you haven't visited, like the Staten Island Ferry or the Coney Island Cyclone. Remedy that by planning a summer date at four iconic New York City experiences. Romance abounds at these classic spots—plus, you and your date can call yourselves real New Yorkers after finally riding the Roosevelt Island Tram.
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GeoAg Solutions is a business services product of Crop Production Services, Inc. which is the largest retail supplier of ag inputs; nationally and globally. GeoAg Solutions has been providing technology based value added services to CPS customers for over 15 years. Click on the above image to meet the team.
Where To Find Us
You will normally find us in the field providing customers with service and support – otherwise, our main office is in Lake Placid, FL.


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The ruble weakened for the first time in six days against the dollar and yields on Russia's local debt rose as oil, the country's main export, retreated.
The ruble lost 0.2 percent to 32.0399 per dollar by the close in Moscow, paring its advance this week to 1.8 percent. Russia's 54 billion rubles ($1.7 billion) of domestic bonds due 2027 fell, increasing the yield by six basis points, or 0.06 percentage point, to 8.36 percent.
Brent crude sank 1.2 percent to $106.52 per barrel after U.S. reports yesterday showed home sales unexpectedly dropped in June and manufacturing in the Philadelphia region contracted a third month in July. Oil and gas together contribute about 50 percent of Russia's state revenue, according to the government's estimates.
The ruble gained 0.6 percent to 38.9875 per euro and 0.2 percent to 35.1663 against the central bank's target dollar-euro basket. Investors increased bets on the currency weakening, with non-deliverable forwards showing the ruble at 32.5347 per dollar in three months, compared with expectations of 32.4670 per dollar yesterday.
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