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In the off-season, the Buffalo Bills elected to bring linebacker Kirk Morrison back on a one-year contract with the intention of him playing. With the Bills switching back to a 4-3, the team thought he would be the best fit to start at strongside linebacker.
Twelve weeks in to the season Morrison has yet to be active in one of the team's games, which wasn't exactly the expectations of either side. Despite not dressing for the games, Morrison has really taken on the veteran leadership role to help younger players when they may be getting frustrated by how things are going.
One of the most glaring examples of that came in the Bills' 45-3 loss to San Francisco, in which Morrison was basically in the hip pocket of wideout Stevie Johnson when the team's top receiver was getting frustrated. He talked to him and helped calm him down on the sidelines despite only being dressed in a Bills hat, t-shirt and shorts.
But there is an obvious frustration that may not be vocalized, but any competitive player in the NFL will have it if they aren't seeing the field at all. Morrison said he's just staying ready for the call.
"Just doing what I can -- what I can control," he said. "Working out every day, being at practice every day, being just intense in my meetings, intense in my preparations. I prepare every week as if I'm gonna play. I'm on this team for a reason. I wish I could go out there and show what I can do, but the coaches make that decision. For me, I just sit back and do what I can to help the guys out. I try to give as much knowledge as I can, try to cheer the guys up, make sure the guys are in tune to what's going on in the football game. Other than that, just waiting for your opportunity to come."
The Bills will be going up against one of Morrison's old teams, the Jacksonville Jaguars, at Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sunday.
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I cannot be sure this is what happened but one scenario is that aspergillus can grow very slowly and almost without symptoms to form a ball of fungus in vulnerable areas of the lung. As we age we are more vulnerable to all types of infection so your fathers age may have contributed. These fungal balls can be very difficult to spot.
If a ball (aspergilloma) happens close to a major blood vessel then there can be sudden episodes of bleeding that need immediate medical attention. Patients will lose blood via their mouths as the bleeding is in their lungs - this would explain the location and amount of blood you saw. It sounds like your father was unlucky to have had an infection so close to one of his blood vessels that the first time he had a bleed it was severe - usually we see little bits of blood coming up after coughing and that acts as a warning.
We need better methods of diagnosis of these infections to avoid people dying like this - our current methods rely on quite specialised skills and as these infections are rare not many doctors will be experienced at identifying aspergilloma. There are some kits becoming available but more research is needed.
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There are hopes that 2006 will see Europe get back on track to a slow recovery, even though it experienced a difficult year in 2005 with minimal growth.
The European Union reported a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 1.2 percent for 2005, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Andrea Sasso, chief commercial officer of Indesit Company, Milan, Italy, said that the white goods sector did not have one of its best years and, as of press time, expected final results that were flat or even down 1 percent or 2 percent.
"In the United Kingdom, we are talking about a market going down about 10 percent, and markets were down in Portugal, the Netherlands and Poland," said Sasso. "These are the four countries that are most affected not only in white goods, but also in general macroeconomics.
High interest rates were a problem that the European economy faced in 2005. Towards the end of the year, the interest rate raised to 2.25 percent, which was the first raise in 5 years.
Still, Dr. Peter Götz, senior vice president of sales for BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, Munich, Germany, feels that the appliance industry is on a good track to recovery. "We had a 2005 increase on the unit side of roughly 2 percent," he said. "On the other hand, we had a price decrease, also roughly between 1.5 percent and 2 percent."
BSH expected the European economy to improve in 2005, but due to the downturn in the economies in Spain until September and in the United Kingdom it experienced a difficult year.
According to Kyu-Tae Kim, general manager of the marketing strategy team of Digital Appliance Company for LG Electronics, located in Seoul, Korea, "This industry had a slow market growth and slow changes in products, but the global top-tier companies saw their growth rates exceed the market growth rate by a large difference." As of press time, LG said it would post a two-digit growth rate in 2005, which was higher than its typical growth rate.
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The United Kingdom experienced lower than expected 2005 GDP for several reasons, including higher interest rates, oil price increases and the cooling housing market, according to the IMF's World Economic Outlook.
Lowered consumer confidence was one of the many issues that created a decline in the United Kingdom's economy. Sasso said that this was not only evident in the white goods sector, but also in other segments. Portugal, the Netherlands and Poland experienced the same lack of confidence. Last year was Poland's first year in the European community and Sasso said, "We are thinking it was a negative trend in terms of price increase. Next year, they could recover."
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Continuing price wars among the OEMs forced Europe retail prices down 1 percent in 2005, as in the 2 previous years. "In the next 2 or 3 years we think that these decreases in price will be even worse," said Sasso. "We are estimating 1.5 percent decreases as Chinese and Korean companies target Europe and the market becomes even more competitive."
Some are concerned that these price issues are taking away from the creative aspect of making appliances. Marci Kosann Dew, president for Faber, Wayland, Massachusetts, U.S., told APPLIANCE, "I feel consolidation drives the world to think about price more, which I'm not sure is a good thing. It stresses price as opposed to innovation."
Even as the cost of raw materials and the cost of transportation increased, the appliance industry tried to reduce operating costs and keep appliance prices low in order to keep up with the competition.
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As raw material and transportation costs increased, companies searched for other ways to cut cost. Turkey, similar to China, experienced growth throughout the last several years as European appliance companies moved manufacturing to Turkey in hopes of cutting costs. They moved not only production facilities, but also tech centers, call centers and distribution centers to Eastern Europe and countries such as Turkey and Russia.
"Turkey is becoming more and more aggressive as it tries to become the factory for Europe, just like China is trying to be the factory for the rest of the world," said Atul Vir of Equator Appliances, located in Houston, Texas, U.S. Dew said, "In order to position yourself as a manufacturer that is able to survive the turmoil that exists now, you've got to be more nimble. You've got to be able to find lower cost production bases, maybe using those lower cost production bases for a lower value product, and then maintaining higher value product in the higher cost production venues, but even then pursue ways to lower costs."
While companies gravitate to these lower cost venues, the economies of those countries are benefiting. Turkey is forecast to maintain GDP growth of 6 percent for 2006. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Economic Outlook, investment drove this growth and private consumption reached a more sustainable pace.
The air-conditioning market in Turkey, where it was previously considered a luxury item, grew dramatically in 2005. According to a report in JARN (Japan Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News), the air conditioner market size exceeded 500,000 units in 2004 and is forecast to reach 1 million in 2008. The report stated that the market for air-conditioning in Turkey experienced such demand "due to an unsaturated market and relatively good economy."
Russia's economy experienced growth of 5.9 percent in the first 9 months of the year, according to Reuters. Kim of LG Electronics said, "The Russian economy, with international oil prices flying high, will continue a 6 percent growth rate into 2006. Before and after its entry into WTO, the Russian economy will improve its internal and external economic climate."
Year Ahead
For greater Europe, the 2006 projections are for GDP to grow roughly 2 percent or 3 percent. "In the western countries the trend will be more or less flat as it has been in the last 3 years," said Sasso of Indesit Company. "In Russia, we continue to estimate a better rate of growth, but less than the previous year." He expected Russia's 10 percent growth rate of 2005 would decline to roughly 5 percent and 7 percent in 2006.
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Several other countries that saw little or no growth in 2005 will experience the same in 2006. "There is a certain risk in the United Kingdom that the household appliance market will be negative next year. In Spain, the market is not performing as well as in recent years," said Dr. Götz. "In France, there is no positive signal for the development of the market."
He said BSH experienced positive growth in 2004 and 2005, and was able to increase market share. "We were able to have growth despite the negative development of the market, and we will experience continued growth through 2006."
Some companies and European countries will increase sales in 2006. However, 2006 will prove to be another difficult year for the European appliance industry.
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Wednesday, September 24. 2008
[RepRap] My interactive RepRap ... Posted by Erik de Bruijn in RepRap at 11:04
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[RepRap] My interactive RepRap control and G-Code parsing program
This is version 0.1 of my reprap controller. I don't have much time to work on in so I'll publish it in a non-finished state (then again, what is 'finished'?). It still needs an open minicom session with the appropriate settings. I can make stty do this, but it works for me right now...
[edit] This work is now documented Here, at the RepRap Builders Wiki[/edit]
Friday, September 19. 2008
RepRap: Rotary encoder Posted by Erik de Bruijn in RepRap at 23:20
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Something I almost forgot to share is the optical encoder disks. I made those when Chris made his achievement on the encoder. The encoder on the extruder is an important step towards better 3D print quality (constant plastic flow rates).
Chris' encoder wheel
Source: hydraraptor's blog
To prevent a chicken and egg situation where you can't print an encoder wheel with an adequate quality and can't gain quality because you don't have one, I designed a wheel that could be printed on transparencies:
Two encoder wheels with different resolution. To be used for quadrature encoding.
Here's the source code (it's pure SVG). Of course it is usable for other parts of a RepRap and other robotics projects than the RepRap... so go ahead. If you make one in a different resolution, please send it back and I'll update my pages as well.
Friday, September 19. 2008
RepRap = also a milling machine Posted by Erik de Bruijn in RepRap at 20:18
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I just visited a conference about the launch of GPLv3. There was a very nice ambience. People I talked with were very interested in the possibility of the RepRap, and about it being a project under the GPL.
The Dremel(TM) toolhead
As everyone related to the project has envisioned, the RepRap will become a very versatile machine! Not just because they expected this, but because all of us had different plans with it. I wanted to actually mill PCBs... and this now seems very possible. The RepRap's standard toolhead is for extruding plastic. Nice to have to make many useful things. There are several things it's good at. It can make things that are not possible with the industrial standard of injection moulding. In terms of shapes it can create a hollow object consisting of one part. It can contain other components if its assembled during build. It could potentially reinforce the plastic with glass fibers, ceramics or a metal frame (to make for a composite material), this makes it stronger than any plastic moulded object could ever be. It could vary in color and still be made in one piece (adding the color pigments CMYK-style) as we extrude it, etc. Using edding markers of various colours this seems likely to be possible. But a lot of testing needs to be done (as always!). In summary, A lot of posibilities for plastics.
But still... sometimes the material requirements require something other than just plastics...
We needn't stick to using plastic. If we want to be able to use any wood, metal, sheet material it would be nice to be able to mill or engrave those using digital models! This is what I've been working on for the last two days. Here are some more pictures:
Milling more!
My first RepRap engraving/milling result!
I ended up writing the GCode parser and control software myself. The ReplicatorG actually did a good job, but it wasn't transparent to me what it did. Yesterday, after an evening of coding I could interpret and tidy up G-Code on the fly, control the machine from my program and do this in an interactive way. It has a command line with aliasses for G-Codes, and smart AutoCompletion and a history of entered command. I intend to release this code soon. Amazing what a modest 200 lines of php code can do
Mechanically, my innovation is to sharpen my milling head through automatically moving it to a position where a sharpening block is placed. Initial tests showed that this made it sharp and pointy. If this proves successful, you can use a 50 ct. drill instead of a 10 euro tungsten carbide milling bit. It can automatically be kept sharp so it might outperform one that wears out slower (in terms of price/performance). Besides, I don't want to spend the money if this doesn't fail. I've bought enough things 'just in case I need it' already
I intend to automate the process from Inkscape to actual workpiece and make it more transparent and user-friendly. But I have to go through the tedious manual process a couple of times to see HOW to do this in the best way. Perhaps I'll make an interactive (AJAX) graphing app that can also initiate the machine control and visualize where it is in real-time...
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
-- Alan Turing
Thursday, September 18. 2008
(AVR-)Dude, Arduino crashes fixed! Posted by Erik de Bruijn in RepRap at 13:23
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(AVR-)Dude, Arduino crashes fixed!
In anticipation of new thermoplast extruder parts, I built a Dremel toolhead for my RepRap. It should be able to do light milling, such as PCB isolation routing!
I was hoping to do some milling. But the G-Code firmware had problems, it kept crashing when I sent G-Codes. I've been debugging the firmware for quite a while. When I was just starting to go crazy, Wade (from the RepRap community) pointed out that it could be a compilation problem of ubuntu's AVR compilation toolchain [edit] Is fixed on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10), so this problem will soon be irrelevant![/edit]. And that was it... all this time it wasn't a program bug, it was a compiler bug! The windows version of the avr-toolchain produced HEX code that DID run well! Here's how I did it:
I used the Arduino software to compile the v.1.3 G-Code firmware (as described here). Recompiling it on Windows in a VM (I don't have windows computers around) created a ROM file. After some searching I found that it saves ROM files in a file named:
C:\Documents and Settings\erik\Local Settings\Temp\build?????.tmp
Make sure you don't exit the arduino software, or the build will be gone!
Since I can't connect to the Arduino from windows (FTDI drivers won't install, device remains unrecognized), I transfer the .HEX file to Ubuntu again. There I downloaded and installed AVRDUDE, an open source package to program AVRs such as the one Arduino is based on. This is how I programmed it:
$ wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/avrdude/avrdude-5.5.tar.gz
No no no, thank you, AVRDUDE!
Wednesday, September 3. 2008
PIXEL: The movie (our cute little cat!) Posted by Erik de Bruijn in Private at 16:00
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PIXEL: The movie (our cute little cat!)
We've adopted this cute little cat. We call him PIXEL. We liked the name, perhaps because pixels are small they can be fun to look at? When he grows bigger we could always change the name to megapixel...
I found a nice open source package to edit the videos into a nice compilation.
Pixel is a very special cat. Apart from being able to fly, he can make funny noises, and in general be very cuddly.
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Definitions for soccerˈsɒk ər
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word soccer
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
soc•cerˈsɒk ər(n.)
a form of football played by two 11-member teams, in which the ball may be kicked or bounced off any part of the body but the arms and hands: only goalkeepers may use their hands to maneuver the ball.
Category: Sport
Origin of soccer:
1890–95; (As)soc(iation football)+ -er7
Princeton's WordNet
soccer, association football(noun)
a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
soccer(noun)ˈsɒk ər
a game played by two teams of eleven players who try to kick a ball into a net to score
to play a game of soccer
To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their opponent's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their feet
Origin: Colloquial abbreviation for Association football, via abbreviation assoc.; earlier socca (1889), then socker (1891), with soccer attested 1895.
Soccer is a video game produced by Intelligent Systems and Nintendo as part of its Sports Series for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in Japan in 1985, and was released in the United States and in Europe in 1987. It was also released for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986. It is also available on the Wii's Virtual Console since 2006, to be bought from the Wii Shop Channel.
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A game in which a round inflated ball is advanced by kicking or propelling with any part of the body except the hands or arms. The object of the game is to place the ball in opposite goals.
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Rank popularity for the word 'soccer' in Nouns Frequency: #2518
Translations for soccer
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football played according to certain rules.
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Download size3 MB
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27/08/2013This app uses way too much data for what it does. It's chewed up close to 400mb in a month. How is it possible for a few news stories. Luckily the amber update now includes data sense so I can track these runaway apps. Uninstall until fixed.
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Marketing is going through some pretty rapid changes over the last few years. I'm not just talking about the rise and power of inbound strategies. Sales and marketing have become components that work closer together than ever before. Communication between the two branches is crucial and strategies work best when developed together. It's all very kumbaya don't you think?
At GroupHigh, I try to keep the communication lines open and flowing between myself and the sales team. I create content and marketing strategies not only to target different stages of a consumer's journey but also items that the sales team asks for and that they can send to leads they are nurturing.
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Another awesome component is that the entire conference is archived for a year so it will continue to generate leads even though the event is over.
If you think a similar virtual event would benefit your company as well, keep reading because I am about to tell you exactly how I pulled it off!
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If you check out the conference I put together, you can see it's not just presentations. There is a whole virtual environment complete with chat lounges, a library of downloadable resources, a lobby and an area where attendees can take notes and save presentations to watch later.
There are a variety of platforms in which companies can host virtual conferences. The best one and priciest is On24 and if your budget can handle it, I do think it's the best one out there.
Besides On24, there are some "mid-level" platforms that I demoed and narrowed down to Expos2 and vConferenceOnline. We went with Expos2 because of their initial visual appeal but I had wished I had chosen to work with vConferenceOnline as we encountered some technical difficulties with Expos2...
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Because a virtual conference is a lead generation tactic and increases brand awareness, the first step is thinking of topics that would spark the attention of people who would be interested in your brand. You know, to qualify the leads a bit from the beginning.
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In your initial communication to all potential presenters, offer them something in exchange for their time. It can be anything from a presenter gift, monetary compensation, sponsorship or leads from the conference. Preparing a presentation and recording/streaming it takes a lot of time so make sure you acknowledge and reward this!
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Before organizing the conference and marketing it, I was prepared to work nights and weekends. Even with this in mind I still ended up burning the candle on both ends the two weeks leading up to the summit.
Between being available to support your presenters, planning and executing a marketing strategy, and working on the technical side of things via the conference hosting platform you need to make sure you can give your event everything you have.
But, it will be so worth it!
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The Wall Street Journal is not an outlet you think of much for food news, but staff reporter Kelly Crow had a heck of a story on the 22nd about top chefs being paid to shill for food producers without necessarily revealing their compensation to the dining and viewing public.
Frontera's Rick Bayless was widely lambasted for doing a Burger King ad. How could such a well respected chef stoop so low? Personally, I think it had to do with tweaking the big Rock and Roll McDonald's just down the street from him, but that's just my opinion.
I didn't personally think his endorsement was a problem since it was clear he was just following the road taken by Paul Prudhomme et al, and no one really thought Rick Bayless was leaving his top shelf gourmet Mexican restaurant to go get himself a double Whopper with cheese. Bayless stated his goal was to "help Burger King customers take steps toward honest, seasonal, natural flavors [by] starting with them where they are". Oh, and get paid. That, too.
He got paid, but the WSJ reports that Bayless was so pressured by the foodie community and media to renounce the Burger King spot that he gave the $300,000 he earned for the commercial to charity.
Many of the deals the WSJ reports are based on exposure not on TV or in commercials, but in the chefs' restaurants. Jose Andres, whose guacamole I enjoyed at Cafe Atlantico got paid to increase the number of avocado dishes on his menus from two to eight. Ming Tsai uses frozen shrimp instead of fresh shrimp in part because he gets paid to do so. Even Rick Tramanto and Charlie Trotter have promotional deals (though neither one, surprisingly, is employed by the Foie Gras Board).
Ironically, the most honestly ungrateful of the bunch is Bayless who has a deal with V&V Supremo for his PBS coooking show "Mexico: One Plate at a Time", but who refuses to use their cheeses in his restaurant. Perhaps tellingly, the Journal notes "Supremo executives did not return repeated interview requests."
Is it a problem that chefs are being bought (or at least rented)? I think it can be. As this practice becomes more widely known a chef who honestly believes that a specific branded ingredient is far and above the best of its kind and places the name of the ingredient on the menu is going to be suspect. Conversely, a chef who takes the money may be less willing to experiment with other ingredients until he/she gets paid. That may lead to less interesting and lower quality food and a diminishment of the quest for culinary excellence without regard for who's footing the bill.
This post begs for clarification. Jose Andres was NEVER paid by the California Avocado Commission to increase the amount of avocado he uses in the restaurants.
Here are the facts: we did an event in Baltimore for the CAC back in 2004. For that event, we were paid our standard appearance fee. Are we using more avocado now? You bet but to suggest that there is a causal link between these two facts is just plain wrong.
One very important fact the writer failed to mention in her story is that 6 months after the Baltimore event we opened a Mexican restaurant. And given the avocado's importance in Mexican kitchens that fact alone would explain why we use more.
The WSJ have been pretty weasely about the whole thing.
Jose Andres is a great chef. nuff said.
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Anyone who
thinks that the super-rich, the rich, and the wanna-be rich who
comprise Wall Street are defenders of prosperity in the name of
the middle class is terminally nave. He is confusing Wall Street
with the free market.
The free market
is the great friend of all classes. Through the division of labor
engendered by private ownership, the free market supplies ever-increasing
quantities of goods and services for all classes, but especially
the middle class. People in the lower classes can legitimately hope
to enter the middle class. A few will become rich.
There is a
price for this upward access to greater wealth: the
possibility of a fall into poverty. This is a greater threat to
the rich than to the middle class. The rich are at the far right
edge of the bell-shaped curve. There are few of them. Their position
is insecure, for good reason. The free market rewards those sellers
who serve consumers efficiently, wasting few scarce resources. Consumers
are a fickle bunch. They keep asking sellers, "What have you
done for us lately?" There are always many competitors trying
to get rich. They are ready to replace today's rich people. Today's
rich people know this. They are therefore ready and willing to pull
up the ladder that enabled them to replace yesterday's rich.
The free market's
ladder of mobility — upward and downward — is based on these
legal principles: open entry of new buyers and new sellers, the
predictable enforcement of contracts, and the absence of government
favoritism of any special-interest group.
These principles
should also govern the monetary system. They have never done so
perfectly, and ever since 1914, hardly at all. Because of the tremendous
profitability of legalized counterfeiting, fractional reserve banking
has always been based on two principles: (1) keeping out new counterfeiters,
who would debase the currency through price competition — mass paper
money inflation — and thereby end the game of wealth-redistribution
from depositors to bankers; (2) the creation of a central bank that
protects today's commercial banks from bank runs by depositors.
The fractional
reserve banking system is engaged in a war against depositors and
also a war against people on fixed incomes, who are unable to hedge
their assets against monetary depreciation. The depositors get their
pittance, based on the money they deposited. The bankers then multiply
these small deposits through fractional reserve banking and thereby
enjoy income from many interest-paying borrowers.
The threat
to bankers arises when depositors realize that a bank is insolvent
— lent long and borrowed short — and start demanding their money
back in currency. This is the nightmare scenario for bankers. They
do not want depositors to catch on to the obvious: their money is
being used to create multiple loans, meaning multiple new income
streams for banks. They do not want depositors to kill the goose
that lays the fiat money eggs for bankers. How? By pulling out their
money in currency and not redepositing this currency in another
bank. Bankers know what happened to over 6,000 small, federally
unprotected banks, 1929—32, and they never want to see it again.
Enter the Federal
Reserve and the FDIC, semi-private, profit-seeking protectors of
the little guy! And just how is the little guy protected? By the
full faith and credit of the United States government.
When you think
of "full faith and credit," think of the scene in the
first "Superman" movie. Lois Lane has just fallen from
the top of the Daily Planet's building. Superman flies upward just
in time and grabs her. "Don't worry, miss. I've got you."
To which she replies, "Who's got you?"
As in the case
of the cosmic elephant, which is standing on the cosmic turtle,
what is the turtle standing on? It's turtles all the way down.
With the Federal
government and the FDIC, their full faith and credit stand on two
factors: taxation and the Federal Reserve System. What holds up
the Federal government when it can no longer collect enough taxes
from the coalition of the unwilling to pay the bills? The Federal
Reserve's fiat money. It's digits all the way down.
If you follow
the financial news media, you will notice how much attention is
paid to the Federal Funds rate, which is the overnight bank rate.
This is the rate that the Federal Open Market Committee can control
directly. The media reports concentrate on this issue: the expectation
of another rate cut.
Whenever the
FED is raising this rate, the media never warn the public that this
policy could send the U.S. stock markets into a bear market phase.
The words "bear market" are cited only in sentences that
contain the words "little possibility of." But when there
is even the slightest possibility that the FOMC might lower the
FedFunds rate, market commentators get all twiterpated over the
possibility of another upward move of stocks.
This is what
I call the asymmetric nature of the financial press: "upward
rate move = no problem; downward rate move = boom ahead."
Whenever there
is news of slowing employment, the media start talking about the
possibility of the FOMC's lowering the FedFunds rate: "That's
good news for the stock market!" Whenever the employment rate
rises, the media start talking about economic growth: "That's
good news for the stock market."
What is bad
news for the stock market? Officially speaking, nothing.
Why is the
financial press asymmetrical? First, the middle class reads the
financial press and dreams of getting rich. Second, Wall Street
and its large corporations advertise in the financial press, and
therefore shape the content. Financial editors are careful to exercise
self-censorship. Unlike the non-financial press, which flourishes
on bad news — "If it bleeds, it leads" — the financial
press is dependent on the flow of good news: "Buy your piece
of the American dream," not "buy your piece of the American
For evidence,
watch the networks' evening news shows. The lead stories are bad
news for someone. Local news shows love a fire. National news shows
love a political scandal. The "bad news leads" format
hooks you in the first seven minutes. Then the ads start coming.
After the ads, you will get a financial report. If it's anything
significant (Dow up or down over 150 points), NBC's Brian Williams
will interview either the 40-year-old visibly fading woman from
CNBC or the 30-year-old rising CNBC starlet with the premature bags
under her eyes. He never interviews some grizzled survivor of 40
years of popped bubbles and shattered dreams. They assure the viewers
that "time will tell," which means "tune in to CNBC
The FED dominates
discussion these days. Will it lower rates? Will it let rates sit?
By "rates," the media mean the FedFunds rate.
If the FED
lowers "rates" by waving its magic wand — sorry, scratch
that — if the FED debases the dollar more rapidly than today, the
broad middle class will receive a lower rate of interest in its
bank savings accounts. This is great for banks, which can now borrow
short at a lower rate, such as 3%, while lending money at 10% to
30% to other members of the middle class and the poor, who are addicted
to credit card debt. The spread between borrowed funds and loaned
funds widens. This is the dream of the financial sector.
Why don't credit
card rates fall? Because consumers who use credit card debt are
not sophisticated. They do not shop for better rates. Even when
they do, they do not read the fine print of the new contract, which
allows the card company to double or triple the introductory rate
if the borrower falls behind on a payment, even a payment to a company
in no way connected to the credit card.
a free market society enforces contracts. It does not protect those
people who refuse to read their contracts or cannot understand them.
Lesson: if
you don't understand the fine print, don't sign the contract, e.g.,
the credit card application.
Lower rates
produce an economic boom. Businessmen borrow from banks to take
advantage of the expected boom. Banks make more money. But if long-term
rates are not higher than short-term rates, banks don't make much
money. Today, long rates are barely above short rates.
large banks are still losing big money in the subprime mortgage
market. The Bank of America and J. P. Morgan Chase are expected
this month to declare a combined $3 billion write-down because of
subprime mortgages. This brings the total to $20 billion at the
world's largest banks since this summer. This has only just begun.
MarketWatch has just started a Subprime Today e-letter option. They
see a new trend coming, and they plan to take advantage of it!
Wall Street
flourishes when the central bank creates fiat money to buy assets
— any assets — that can legally be monetized. This does not include
furniture or new cars. It does include the debts of furniture companies
and auto companies. It even includes their market-listed shares.
So, when you
hear about the "good news" that the FED is about to lower
rates, it is not good news if you have money in a bank account or
a money market fund.
Wall Street
does not care about the plight of the middle-class lender who deposits
money at 3% in his bank, only to suffer 2% to 3% price inflation,
after paying 20% or more to various governments on the interest
The middle-class
saver is the loser when Wall Street screams its way into the thinking
of the FOMC. Jim Cramer threw a tantrum. The FOMC responded.
The dependence
of Wall Street on a continuing stream of new fiat money is very
high. If this flow of funds were to cease, Wall Street would go
into withdrawal seizures. The various stock markets would plummet.
This cannot be allowed, say Wall Street's many spokesmen. This would
"harm America." So, the FED is called on to continue the
flow of counterfeit funds, multiplied through the fractional reserve
The losers
are those people who trust the banking system and deposit their
money. The other losers are those who are on fixed incomes or close
to fixity. They pay higher prices for whatever they buy. The resulting
boom on Wall Street comes out of their lifestyles.
When Wall Street
and its media mouthpieces call for another cut in the FedFunds rate
to "keep the American dream alive," they mean the dream
of corporate insiders whose stock option plans are being threatened
by the readjustment in capital values posed by stable money. They
do not mean the broad mass of Americans, whose savings, if any,
pays 3%, which barely equal their credit card debt, which charges
Most Americans
wear three hats: their thrift hats, their debt hats, and their wage
Their thrift
hats are today almost an afterthought. Only 56% of American households
actually saved any money in 2004. They don't have large retirement
funds. The average American, as of 2004, had a net worth of under
$95,000. That was the median figure: half of Americans above, half
below. Of this value, well over 60% was the value of their residences.
Retirement? Living on Social Security? Those in the 50 to 75 age
range had a median net worth of $171,000. But most of this was the
value of their homes. They will have to pay for space somewhere.
In terms of liquid assets to invest and live off the earnings, they
are in very bad shape. For the data, see the report, "Recent
Changes in U.S. Family Finances: Evidence from the 2001 and 2004
Survey of Consumer Finances," Federal Reserve Bulletin
(Feb. 2006).
Their debt
hats pressure them monthly. They have to pay the bills. They are
hard-pressed to save. They worry about meeting their monthly expenses.
This gets their attention. If they were to lose their jobs for two
months, they would be in trouble. Rising interest rates threaten
them. So they are with Wall Street's call for the FED to lower rates.
They wear wage
hats. They are far more worried about losing their jobs than they
are about price inflation under 3%. They don't understand that the
means for lowering rates — monetary expansion — threatens to raise
These hats
are all present hats. They take precedence over future hats. Retirement
is way off in the distance. They'll think about it tomorrow.
Or the day
after tomorrow.
So, when the
Wall Street wizards perceive a looming decline in their stock portfolios,
they call for the FED to intervene and save the various stock markets.
The voters like low interest rates, so they don't complain.
The wizards
get support from the broad masses, who are threatened by the return
of monetary expansion. The wizards have their futures tied to the
stock market and bond market. They are not interested in the plight
of the average American. The fact that price inflation is a threat
to the average American's way of life is of no concern to the wizards.
We see today
a clash between the long-run interests of the middle class and the
short-run interests of those who make their living in the financial
markets. Because the process of economic cause and effect is not
understood by the media, and because it is not understood by the
average American, the wizards of Wall Street get away with their
endless pleas to the Federal Reserve System to lower interest rates.
Nobody in the mainstream media ever asks: "But how can the
FED lower rates, year after year?" The world really does believe
in magic. They believe that the FOMC committee merely has to issue
a press release promising to lower the FedFunds rate and, wonder
of wonders, the rate is lowered cost-free. Nobody asks: "Why
not just reduce it to zero?"
sense of the FED today is that it will not lower the FedFunds rate
again at the end of October. In late August, I was sure the FOMC
would lower the rate by half a point on September 18. It did. I
don't think they are facing equal pressure from Wall Street today.
For the sake
of the U.S. dollar, let us hope I am correct.
10, 2007
North [send him mail]
is the author of Mises
on Money. Visit http://www.garynorth.com.
He is also the author of a free 19-volume series, An
Economic Commentary on the Bible.


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Red Branch Theatre Company, the professional theatre company in residence at Drama Learning Center opens their final show of the season, Once On This Island. Performances will be October 14-29.
Once On This Island is an original Caribbean adaptation of the popular fairy tale The Little Mermaid. Based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy, the fast-paced story follows island peasant girl Ti Moune as she rescues and falls in love with the wealthy Daniel from the other side of the island. Four elemental island gods lead Ti Moune on a mission to test her love for Daniel against all odds in this nonstop, song-and-dance story. With a catchy, Caribbean-inspired score brought to you by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (the same songwriting team responsible for Ragtime and animated feature Anastasia), Once On This Island garnered eight Tony® nominations during its Broadway run.
Once On This Island will mark the end of Red Branch Theatre Company's 2011 season entitled "Telling Tales." Following successful runs of Into the Woods, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and original work Web of Deceit, Once On This Island serves as the perfect bookend to a season that has been filled with fairy tale and fantasy. The stories told in this season have helped Red Branch Theatre Company to continue its mission of fostering a love of theatre in its audience which is life-long.
Stephanie Lynn Williams, Co-Founder and Executive Producer, leads the helm of this production as director. Williams has previously directed Bridge to Terabithia and The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking for the Red Branch stage. Dustin Merrell serves as music director; Mark Allen, Jason Kimmell, Jenny Male, and Dawn Barnes contribute as choreographers; and Danny Clemens is stage manager.
Tickets are now on sale and available for purchase on the web at www.redbranchtheatre.com or by calling (410)997-9352.
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October 16 & 23 at 3 PM
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Knight and Day
Cruise and Diaz have a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure, where nothing and no one – even the now fugitive couple – are what they seem.
Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.
Starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Olivier Martinez, Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas
Directed by James Mangold
Running Time - 2:10
Genre - Comedy
Opened in Theaters - Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
sequences of action violence throughout, and brief strong language
Grown Ups
Five friends and former teammates reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives (Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph) and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier.
Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn't mean growing up.
Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello
Directed by Dennis Dugan
Running Time - 1:42
Genre - Comedy
Opening in Theaters - Friday, June 25th, 2010
crude material including suggestive references, language and some male rear nudity
South of the Border
In his new documentary, Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone embarks on a road trip to five different South American countries. Along the way he examines the current political and social attitudes that permeate the nations and interviews seven South American heads of state including Presidents Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), and Raul Castro (Cuba).
Never one to shy away from controversy, Oliver Stone uses South of the Border as an opportunity to get to know these leaders on a more personal level and examine what he considers to be the mainstream media's misrepresentation of them.
Starring Tariq Ali, Raúl Castro, Hugo Chávez, Rafael Correa, Cristina Kirchner
Directed by Oliver Stone
Running Time - 1:18
Genre - Documentary
Opening in Theaters - Friday, June 25th, 2010
Love Ranch
"Love Ranch" is a bittersweet love story that turns explosive when the players in a romantic triangle lose control and cross the line.
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Plans quickly go awry when Bruza comes between Grace and Charlie as an unforeseen love triangle develops that erupts into uncontrollable passion and murder.
Starring Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Scout Taylor-Compton, Bryan Cranston, Gina Gershon
Directed by Taylor Hackford
Running Time - 1:57
Genre - Drama
Opening in Theaters - Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
sexual content, pervasive language and some violence
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob--knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf.
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Genre - Action/Adventure
Opening in Theaters - Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality
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