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Back to calling people who want immigration laws hatemongers?
Amnesty for 100,000 (not an honest number, the figures jump from 20,000 up to 1.2 million) plus their families, adult brother and sisters, in laws, etc can exceed 300 per person through sponsorships after becoming citizens. That's 100,000 x 300.
And after they become citizens, who will do the work they claim no one else will do?
All the new illegal immigrants who come here for the next amnesty. The arguments don't make sense.
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Note to the lame ducks: Your slim majority is even slimmer.
Roland Burris (D-IL of Blago fame) is GONE. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has already replaced him. He was sworn in yesterday.
And Kirk has expressed his intent to vote NO on DREAM.
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It looks like some are trying to say that pandering to an illegal population will get votes. A review of the most recent elections shows that a growing majority of Americans reject any sort of amnesty, and support Arizona-style laws.
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@Bryan, I think that comes from the fact that low wage earners and new
immigrants tend to vote Democratic.
I agree with you, not handling the situation, and trying back door moves for amnesty by the Democrats is moving middle America back to the Republicans.
The time and money would be better spent educating people thinking about coming here illegally. Your actions today will harm your children in the future.
Amnesty and allowing this to happen over and over helps no one.
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Stop the criminal invasion. NO to the "Dream" act.
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I can maybe see it for those who serve in the military, especially combat veterans, because they place their lives on the line for this country, but not for those who are only students.
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We used to get where we had to go, and then ditch the frame.
I didn't see it listed in the specs, but many of these have internal frames.
A frame will depend on how much weight you want to carry in the bag and be comfortable. Mainly, if you are planning to load out the bag heavy to 25 pounds or more, a frame would be advised for comfort and weight distribution.
If it is for overnight back packing, I like a frame pack. I have a small tent wrapped in a sleeping mat lashed to the top of my frame and a sleeping bag lashed to the bottom of the frame.
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I don't back pack any more, but when I was a Boy Scout and did a lot, I had to have a frame. Judging from the looks of the pack in the photo, I think Dad's right!
I dont exactly know how the backpack dipicted in your post is supposed to be used. With external frame or without external frame. Most of the backpacks that have been designed over the last give or take 20 years or so are "soft back" framed. They have a built in frame of sorts that in my opinion are far superior to the older hard frame designs especially in comfort.
I used to have a external metal frame pack back in the 1970's and recently I bought a 70 liter Osprey Aether backpack, as a few of my buddies from back in the day want to go to some of the places that we used to go to before we get too old and can no longer physically make it. We figure as a group most of us have about 10 to 15 years left to do so. Some individuals in our group maby even longer. Regardless, the most important thing we seek in new gear is comfort in it's use.
The main thing I've noticed in a few trial trips with this new backpack up to and on the PCT and in Desolation Valley, is that the most of the weight rides on the small of the back and on the hips which reduces the felt weight of the pack on the shoulders. This makes it more natural to stand upright and not have to lean foreward as with the older external frame pack I had in the 70's when carrying weight. It makes the weight I carry (36 lbs.) feel lighter and makes traversing up and down steep inclines much more comfortable.
Heres a couple of pics of that Osprey Aether 70 backpack loaded to pretrip weight of 25 lbs. At trip weight, with bear canister of food, mummy sleeping bag, and a few specialized lite weight hiking clothes, my pack weight is between 36 and 37 lbs. This will keep me self contained for all my needs in a solo manner for a good 7 to 8 days of hiking and camping in the comfort I want. Oh, that brown tube strapped to this pack is my fly fishing rod. Catching fish (usually trout where I go) can extend the duration of food supplies that I carry in the pack.
+1 mrm14, my pack looks very similar to yours!
As a Scoutmaster for years I have put several miles of backpacking on the trails.
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Thanks for the interesting comment and useful website reference Emnew Dresser. Aside from my -- these days rather forced -- interest in economics and finance, I also teach a course on the History of Ecological Rhetoric at the university, so that website, which I hadn't stumbled on before, should be helpful to me. The connections between Ecology and Economics are very numerous and continually growing. Both deal with problems of what the Ecologist, Garrett Hardin, called PP-CC games, in which people figure out various ways, generally the more opaque the better, to privatize all the profits of some activity or enterprise while sluffing off all the costs onto the commons, as through untreated pollution, in environmental situations, and through taxpayer bailouts, in the case of the thoroughly undeserving zombie-banks. The PP-CC game also leads directly to Hardin's moat famous concept, "the tragedy of the commons," i.e. the natural tendency of any unprotected commons to be thoroughly exploited, to the point of ruination, wherever private players are allowed unlimited freedom to exploit it -- as say in the exhaustion of public grazing lands in Africa -- or to damage it -- as say in the large-scale environmental damage done by corporations which they gladly leave as "superfund" sites to be cleaned up, at enormous costs, whenever the American taxpayer once again has enough money to clean up a toxic mess -- like that horrific, dastardly poisonous lake on the edge of Butte MT -- that the taxpayers bearing the cleanup costs had nothing whatsoever to do with creating. Subsidies are another classic example of PP-CC games. The sugar industry is willing to donate millions of dollars every election to various candidates to keep their ridiculous subsidies coming. But since each consumer of sugar only has to pay a few extra bucks a year for his sugar because of the govt. give away, no counter-lobby is ever likely to form to pressure Congress -- with all its would-be "free market" "eliminators of waste" -- to abolish this and a thousand other such citizen bloodsucking subsidies. And now the taxpayer even gets to pickup the tab for all the huge "bonuses" the bankster granted themselves for ruining the world economy. Why is there not more outrage?
One other, unrelated question. Does anyone know why it was only Lehman Bros. that was allowed to die, with huge losses to all its shareholders and employees, while all the other vampire banks were not only saved but forced to take more liquidity than many of them even wanted, and got all their bonuses paid by the taxpayer too, despite the public's resentment at that most minor part of how they were royally taken to the cleaners by the banks and their evidently thoroughly spineless new president? I suspect it had something to do with a personal vendetta that Hank Paulson had for the Lehman CEO, or perhaps it had something to do with fears that Lehman could cut into some of Goldman's prized feeding grounds.
At any rate, it is truly strange that only one company was allowed to go under. And Paulson's explanation in terms of seeking to prevent "moral hazard" is truly nonsensical when one considers that the rest of what the government and the Fed have done for the zombie-masters amounts to moral GENOCIDE on a scale last seen among Pol Pot and the Nazis. And now they have just used the same "moral hazard," line, fully successfully, to pass a law to prevent judges from renegotiating the insane mortgages that many innocent, or simply naive, or weak-witted, people got suckered into. And that even though, as they admit, a renegotiated mortgage with the current owner would actually be easier and cheaper for the banks than foreclosing, then evicting, -- which might well lead to big legal costs -- repossessing and rehabing the property, and then trying to sell it at current market prices, which may take forever, during which time they will receive no mortgage payments at all, and at the end of which they will receive about what the original owner would have been renogiated to pay! Ah the wonders of banker's morality! Always so concerned about moral principals, [er, principles]; at least where the little people are concerned. They are even willing to put the whole family, the dog, and all their belongings out on the street, and at a net financial loss to themselves, for the sake of morality! But, of course, when it comes to giving back their taxpayer bonuses -- not to mention the bail outs themselves! -- , it would simply be "immoral" to do that. And why, because, as they told Congress, and will soon be telling the 1.7 million estimated evicted families; "I'm sorry, but a contract is a contract, and simply can't be renegotiated!" [Er, ... except of course if it's a vacation house, in which case renegotiation by a judge has been standard procedure for ages.]
But what is the REAL story behind the axing of Lehman Bros.??
The next time your company bleeds from a bad debt, you need not write it off. As a matter of fact if you have an angel investor you may pick up the phone and ask him for some more funds. Your VC would entertain your plea for scaling up your project and if you have a listed company, you could go to the stock markets and raise fresh capital. Writing off bad debts is passé . You don't even have to asses and quantify it. It is now a commonsense approach to raise fresh capital to ensure that you have enough liquidity to offset not only your current losses but even the losses you make in the next couple of years . This new trend in Financial Engineering heralded by Mr. Kenneth Lewis CEO of BOA under instruction and support from Mr Bernanke of the Federal Reserve & Mr Geithner of the U.S. Treasury could bring about a revolutionary concept in Corporate Management. Dynamic Business Leaders who can muscle through the opposition of faint hearted taxpayers and shell shocked stockholders and run their Corporations, Banks and Insurance Companies with public money are a new phenomenon and will be glorified for their fearless marauding and path breaking exploits like Alexander, Hannibal, Napoleon and Genghis Khan. If they are vanquished their empires will fall by like Enron & Satyam, but if they are able to lobby enough forces and retain the blessings of the Heads of State they will rule the world, till they can extract every penny from the pockets of the less fortunate, the Taxpayer, the stockholder, the international investor and the creditor.
Like all marauding armies the key to winning the battle is winning the local chieftains who control the Khyber passes. The traders at the stock market, the editors in the media rooms, the economists in the academic institutions, the business men in the corporate world, the IMF and World Bank, and the key political leaders in the G 20, and also the army within, some of whom are disillusioned, disheartened and confused while waging this unholy war against their own brethren.
These dynamic Business Leaders and their redoubtable army of the the top 25 sub prime-mortgage originators, control most of the checkposts through a network of you pat my back I pat yours syndicate. Many have ties to big banks, have profited manifold directly or indirectly from the losses that the tax payers and common stockholders are saddled with today. According to the Centre for Public Integrity a non-profit organization they have spent close to $380m on lobbying and campaign contributions over the past ten years.
The key question is not how they will overcome the challanges ahead. The problem is how long and how much will they have to wink at the traditional accounting practices and regulatory norms to keep helping the sub-prime mortgage originators and the defaulting banks. The issue is what about capital efficiency when you bloat the capital to maintain capital adequacy. What happens to the ROI and the EPS if you keep raising the equity without increase in profits.
Bank lending is falling each quarter despite the artificial liquidity being injected by the bailout money and TARP funds
Banks are tightening lending norms for credit cards and other mortgages and increasing their charges which does not help business volumes.
Where then will the profits come from. Or do they have yet another innovative business model tucked in, more profitable then the securitized mortgages dealmaking, to bring in revenues and profits.
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Thinking Europeans concluded a long time ago that Americans were very superficial people who only had one aim in life to become rich and famous....Hollywood movies about WW2 with TOM CRUISE were their version of history.....perhaps many Americans are rich but it comes at a high price of social chaos and an unbalanced income-based class system.
European socialism spray-painted as the enemy of mankind.
Britain also labours under the same illusions of might is right...it always fails.
Bomb first and ask questions later.
We must now look forward for China as world leader to reset the ON switch because we cant afford America anymore.
I hope no one read my earlier posts as expressing disagreement with the original Economist article, which I consider truly "top drawer"! I also hope no one was too put off by my polemical style of expression. That comes from 30 years of teaching sleepy students at the University of Pittsburgh, where if you don't state things emphatically, as either a partisan, or a devil's advocate, you can't get riled to engage you indebate, which is the best way to get them to grasp that the issues involved are truly important to the quality of billions of persons' lives, not merely dry "theoretical" issues. I tend also to get polemical when I discuss the current global financial/economic fiasco because, as a professor who, after 30 years of teaching at top universities, doing endless departmental service, and publishing regularly, still make much LESS in inflation-adjusted dollars than the day I was hired here in 1990! And now, due to Pennsylvania's latest budget shortfall, my salary is frozen [for the third time] next year. Meanwhile the real inflation continues, despite what the politically-cooked govt. numbers say. [To see just how, and how much, they are cooked, Cf. Kevin Mitchell's fine article in a recent Harper's magazine, or his "Bad Money."] So I will take it on the chin again this year, unless my wife and I finally get fed up and are also lucky enough to find 2 tenured positions elsewhere, far from our friends, home and neighborhood. And how can I possibly not be outraged when I KNOW how hard we and our colleagues -- those other "tenured radicals," who, at least in the imagination of far right-wing, scarcely literate, book hawking anti-intellectuals, are raking in huge remuneration for doing virtually nothing in our cushy sinecures -- work each day only to receive ever eroding pay, while those at the top of the pay pyramid, the top CEOs, banking magnates, and Hedge Funders routinely skim off more every DAY than the two of us do in an entire YEAR! And then these same glorified gamblers have used their legislative pawns to game the tax code so that they now pay no more than 20% on whatever small part of their earnings they can't exempt entirely, while we, -- like cleaning ladies, chicken-cutters, WalMart "associates," and $5/hour childcare providers, -- have 28% of federal, plus another 6-12% of state and local taxes withheld from every paycheck. Indeed, even those making below the scandalously low "poverty wage," must still pony up, or risk being slapped with fines, garnished wages, and the threat of joining the 2.3 million Americans already incarcerated to serve the bottom-line needs of one of America's few still profitable industries.
I hope that make clear to those who are not Americans why it is so distressing to people like me, who grew up in an America with strong public education, [at least for most], high paying jobs, [even for those without a college degree], a thriving industrial economy [that once produced more than HALF of the world's total output], a forward-looking government and citizenry, that were, albeit reluctantly, finally granting civil rights to African-Americans, that still revered the civil liberties enshrined in our Bill of Rights, that was already too often, but hardly ALWAYS, fighting a foreign war, that had the determination to put a man on the moon, that led the world in scientific and industrial research, that was slowly beginning to close the "safety net gap" with other developed nations, and, most of all, was led by legislators and presidents that were usually genuinely concerned to consider the needs of the mass of their people, not merely the latest wants of their plutocratic overlords, a nation that could build a massive interstate highway system, and all other needed infrastructure, that did not assume that EVERTHING, including even the administration of justice and the fighting of wars, could and, ipso facto SHOULD, be done by granting sweetheart contracts to corporations, I hope that explains, in fine, why it is so demoralizing to see the nation I so loved, flawed though it was, disintegrate before my eyes, in the course of 50 years, into a Babylon where cold cash rules all, where a tiny few, like the zombie-banksters, make billions, while another 10% have seen modest wage gains, and the bottom 90%, including myself, have become poorer each year, and hence easy prey to seductive debt, which ironically now prevents us from consuming enough to kick start a broken economy that may remain in the doldrums for years, as America loses its economic standing, just as it has already lost its moral standing in the world.
For those who can't find it, the article with the independent "stress test" results of ALL American banks is at:
The big banks in America Switzerland and Britain have been extended billions in govt bailouts yet their balance sheets are still deemed to be inadequate in the event of more contagious diseases...the banking losses (writedowns) keep coming...however the hedge funds are immune and keep busy like hungry squirrels nesting in the loft...out of sight.
Call for the regulator-fumigator to smoke'em out....
@ R Subhranshu ~ Parameters for BST's
The bank stress tests are mathematical models a.k.a hypothetical situations that the government "puts" the banks into. The mathematical models are closely related to Pietro Veronesi's models. He is a professor of finance at ChicagoBooth. The preliminary models drop the values of each banks asset pricing, stock and bond valuations. They see how the banks "should" fare based on the most probable outcomes for the bank. The tests also change the baseline values for consensus forecasts, GDP, unemployment, CDS values and other mitigating factors that lead to the collapse of both Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. The government then sees how well the company fares and decides how much (if any) money they would need to survive the tests.
This is of course related to risk management as we are dealing with the most probable scenario's in each case. This is exactly what risk analysts do the only difference being they do it when a company is entering a new venture or buying a new business. I think European banks should implement BST's but I fear its too little too late for some of these banks the tests have come too late, these tests would have been better done last year before the collapse.
In my opinion however the BST's are not comprehensive enough and are not hard enough on these banks. I believe it better to over-estimate a future collapse than to under-estimate one.
Here are the results of how much each bank would need to "pass" the tests. They have been given until the 8th of June to raise:
Bank of America - $33.9bn
Wells Fargo - $13.7bn
GMAC - $11.5bn
Citigroup - $5.5bn
Morgan Stanley - $1.8bn
Regions Financial - $2.5bn
SunTrust Banks - $2.2bn
KeyCorp - $1.8bn
Fifth Third Bancorp - $1.1bn
PNC Financial Services - $600m
Here is a truly SUPERB article, by one of the top experts on the American banking system, on the new, and in some ways still greater threats, -- arising from the huge pool of poorly securitized, non-bank originated, mortgages, -- that still severely threaten the American economy. This organization has also just released a truly independent "stress test" -- with actual data! -- of ALL the American banks which shows, quite ominously, that not just the 19 zombie-banks, but increasingly many hundreds of smaller U.S. banks, are now at risk of going under. Indeed the total "stress" on the whole banking sector is now almost 6 times greater than in the reference year of 1995! That article can be found on a link from the first one. These two pieces are truly ESSENTIAL reading for anyone who wants to have some idea of what the huge new risks still to come -- and they WILL come -- are likely to be.
What are the parameters of stress test ? How is it related
to risk management ? Do European banks begin to follow such
types of test ? Do USA expect some condition on present
capital requirement ?
Not only result but also the norms are very important to
understand any new capital restructure policy.
However stress test is welcome to strengthen global economy.
R Subhranshu
It's obvious the "stress tests" are just yet more hokum from the Obama administration, the Fed, the mainstream media pundits and the fraudulent banks, like all of the other optimistic "we have weathered the storm" rhetoric that we have been fed for eight months now, while nothing that a real chance of solving the problems has been implemented.
The only things that can actually solve the problem are, at a minimum: 1.) a full independent audit and inquiry into all the zombie-banks, 2.) a complete coming clean with the public by all institutions involved, i.e. provision of the hard financial and economic data, not just endless vague assurances that THEY have things under control, 3.) a governmental takeover and restructuring of the worst banks, 4.) a fair, market-priced, non-state-subsidized, auction of all remaining "toxic assets," 5.) an immediate replacement of all executives responsible for ruining, not only our own, but the entire world's economy, 6.) a rescinding of the use of taxpayer money to provide "bonuses" to those responsible for disastrous behavior, 7.) criminal investigations into the most fraudulent activities and the individuals who repeatedly committed them, 8.) a complete independent revue of how our almost thoroughly "deregulated" regulatory agencies, like the SEC, and various bond rating agencies, engaged in thousands of massive deceptions, 9.) their robust reconstruction of such regulatory agencies, armed with much stricter laws, full staffing, public funding and an fully independent hand in enforcement, and, finally, 10.) an end, once and for all, to the months of delay and orchestrated cover up while the real economic problems continue to fester and simply must re-erupt when the next big economic problem hits!!
All in all, then, these latest "stress tests" have exactly the credibility as a used-car salesman who, while he keeps telling you over and over how great the engine is, refuses to allow you to open the hood and have a peek for yourself! We can all be sure of one thing, if the "tests" had REALLY shown that everything was in good operating order, all the parties involved would want us to pour over as many details as possible, since the continual lack of transparency is the main thing still fueling public fears, and hence stalling reinvestment. That those in charge STILL, after eight months, are trying to handle the entire crisis in secret backdoor, early-morning weekend meetings, and through the clandestine transfer of additional billions [or trillions?] of fiat liquidity from the Fed to the banks, -- many times what was, or could, be provided by the now disgraced "TARP" program, which was all that Congress legally authorized -- that they are still pursuing the very same "cover up and keep quiet" strategy that many of the people involved in the new cover up -- even Geithner! -- explicitly warned the Japanese, alas to no avail, could only result in much worse problems, i.e. the "lost decade," than coming clean at once, restructuring the banks, and re-establishing transparency and public trust would cause, all of these "see no evil" behaviors can mean only one thing, namely that the American financial sector has become so big and powerful that as Senator Durbin recently said, referring to our federal government, especially Congress and the Executive, the "[financial industry] owns the place"! The banksters, of course, want to be bailed out, -- indeed somehow feel entitled to be bailed out! -- by the ever more burdened folks who are so poor and disfranchised as to have to pay taxes. That way they, the self-proclaimed "masters of the universe," can continue to return to all the same fraudulent, but sickeningly lucrative, activities that caused the global meltdown. Indeed, so strong is their lobbying power that they just yesterday defeated reforms that would have provided relief to some of those who, having been sold fraudulent mortgages, are now facing foreclosure and eviction. They have already passed laws to turn bankruptcy in virtual debt slavery. And now they want to be able to charge unlimited interest rates and assess unlimited fees to credit card holders as well, the very people who, thanks to the corrupt priorities of their government, are paying through their taxes for all the free principal the insolvent banks have received and upon which they now gouge the true owners for interest! No wonder these "too big to fail" monsters don't want their OWN bankruptcies to cause them to lose such a license to steal!
But worst of all, barring some massive outpouring of popular disgust and indignation, spawned perhaps by still larger economic collapse,it looks like the bankster mob is going to get away with it all once again! No reforms, no public transparency, no new regulations, no agencies to oversee and enforce the latter, but simply the status quo in spades, as the bazillionaire thieves bide their time on the yacht and wait for the next bubble to inflate!
Another pitfall is that the Treasury Department has an incentive to justify its own policy approach to the banking system. If none of the banks is failing and the capital requirements aren't huge, then Obama administration policy is right; if not, then their approach is probably wrong.
"an eye-popping loss rate of 22.5% on credit cards"
There is nothing eye-popping in this number.
First of all, this is a cumulative 2-year loss rate.
Secondly, it is in line with recently reported loss rates, and the unemployment will continue to rise.
If anything, this is a optimistic number.
International Economy will continue to slide until the pressure of resistance to change in future energy sectors has decreased. The second stress test will impact the Banks for the entire world due to second protective insurances on default insurances are now also collapsing with merges. The risks that are being played at the stakes in Asia simply is too high while credit fraud must be cleaned up in Western countries to ensure their secure relatively long term stable growth if one must grow any further.
If the underlining problems in energy sectors are not resolved, the entire economy in the World will be facing various collapses during a transitional phase. The World economy will start to have an on and off flickering phases in various sectors due to incomplete transitions.
Not all of the 700bn$ has been spend yet, only 334bn$ has been spent. The rest of this money is being allocated after these BST's are done. For a better breakdown of where the 6.2 trillion $ Fed rescue plan is going and where Obama's 700bn$ stimulus packages are going check out:
The money hasn't simply dissipated into nothingness, it is being placed in the best possible branches of each of these banks. The BST's will tell the the government and the Fed where the money is most likely to not be wasted entirely. I agree with Ogmios' argument as it is my own as well.
Something is about to go splash in our sea of tranqulity....how can America save GM AIG and BOA with their rolling debt problem?
Something must go...how about that little island off Europe with all their politicians on the fiddle living with three fully-furnished homes...who do they think they are....royal families?
Spanners at the ready?
Unfortunately all the spanners are already in the works....its called industrialised financial sabotage by speculators such as hedge funds that are now calling all the shots even at this late stage.......without any regulations.
The Bank of England warned on friday of another wave of bank losses and the economy in Britain suffering more upheavals.
America may park somewhere soon in a hole far away where banks dont even exist because they hold useless dollars....
To Ogmios:
Obviously it would be a bad idea to let a bank the size of BofA go under, but letting them live on as zombie banks that require constant bail outs is dooming the U.S. to the Japanese lost decade. These banks have to be broken up into their viable and non-viable parts. The non-viable parts need to be put in a "bad bank." If it can survive, fine. If the market won't support it, fine. The shareholders that bought those securities will lose out, but the economy will be on the right track.
You miss the point that the $75 B shortfall occurs when the rate of 'capital action' was $110 B in the first quarter of 2009. At this rate, the $75 B shortfall will be satisfied by the last week of May. In short the US Tresury assert the 19 bank cohort has adequate capital for more adversity, as defined. Today the market appears to be confirming this sentiment.
Since Europe has long favored debt financing for capital formation and America preferred equity financing, to run the same stress test on European Banks would be of interest. Some bridging of the divide between mark-to-market and fair value methodolgy is within the stress test. European banks have been reputed to be not reporting their losses in a timely fashion, and a study looking at 2009 and 2010 would be fascinating.
What does the stress test actually do? It creates an apparent justification for converting government loans into ownership of the banks' common stock and then compels banks to raise even more capital. In a rising market, it may appear that more investors will throw more money at these failing companies, but with an ever-declining housing market, this is a fool's bet. For government, it assures a "duty" to buy the stock no one else wants.
As things get worse, government will gain more and more control of the major banks, smaller banks will fail or be absorbed by the bigger banks, and we will have nationalization of the financial system -- either directly or indirectly.
Tricky Tim at Treasury is a tax cheat who lied about his "honest mistake." (See http://tinyurl.com/trickytim) Who would be a better choice for pulling the wool over the eyes of the gullible American public?
We've already authorized burning through $700B to shore up troubled assets owned by banks and other embattled institutions that were too big to fail. Much/most of that eventually filtered its way to the banks.
Now we're led to believe that if conditions go to levels far worse than anyone has seen, the banks will only need an additional $75B.
Something tells me we're being lied to. Either about where the $700B went, or the $75B is far far too small. Or, almost certainly, both.
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The issue dates to 2004, when Ford and Mazda recalled 591,345 Ford Escapes and mechanically identical Mazda Tribute SUVs built between the 2002 and 2004 model year with V-6 engines. In that recall, Ford warned owners that a liner around the cable connecting the accelerator pedal to the engine could move out of position, blocking the pedal from springing back and keeping the engine's throttle open.
Ford first sent dealers instructions on how to fix the problem in December 2004, and began alerting customers to bring their Escapes in for repairs. But 10 months later, in October 2005, Ford sent a different set of instructions to dealers, warning them that if they weren't careful with the repair, they could damage the cruise control cable.
The Center for Auto Safety, a Washington advocacy group, says that problem with cruise control cables should have been its own recall, since some 319,506 Escapes had been potentially repaired incorrectly before Ford sent its updated instructions, and that the kink in the cruise control cable can happen independently.
Since 2004, more than 100 Ford Escape owners have complained of acceleration problems with their SUVs, with 15 citing the cruise control cable specifically. The complaints gained additional notice after the January crash of a 2002 Ford Escape in Payson, Ariz., that killed the driver, 17-year-old Saige Bloom. The Escape Bloom was driving had been fixed under the original repair in January 2005 -- and the Center for Auto Safety provided photos of the Escape showing the cruise control cable kinked.
After a petition from the CAS earlier this month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it would review the original recall by Ford and Mazda -- which never sent its dealers an updated set of repair instructions. NHTSA also expanded the probe to include 2001 Escapes and Tributes, bringing the total number under investigation to 730,000. It said it had records of 99 complaints including 13 reports of crashes from unintended acceleration, including the Bloom case. Under federal law, automakers can face fines from NHTSA for ignoring a safety defect -- as Toyota did in 2010, paying NHTSA $50 million over a series of defects that led to sudden acceleration.
Clarence Ditlow, the executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said Ford knew Escapes were prone to sudden acceleration and did nothing to fix it, despite repeated warnings from customers and experts that identified the problem. In a letter earlier this month, Ditlow called on Ford Chief Executive Alan Mulally to "exercise...moral leadership" and order the recall.
"There's no question there's going to be a recall," Ditlow said. "The question is how big is the fine going to be."
A spokeswoman for Ford said the company was aware of the NHTSA probe and would cooperate with it. Ford has previously said it was investigating the Bloom crash but had reached no conclusions, and that it would "take appropriate action" if required.
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We bought a package to see 'Dancing Waters' & the 'Taboo' shows (which I'm not rating here.) The hotel was not cheap, that said the service was as the reception was good. If only the hotel room had been either properly cleaned or at least deodorised. We complained they immediately sent a little man up with a atomiser/ deodoriser but when we returned after dinner it was just as bad. So at 11.00pm + when we wer feeling very tired we had to request a room change, which was efficiently executed.
The new room was on the 22nd floor, 4 x floors higher with an excellent view. We found a comfortable bed with usual amenities expected in a hotel of this quality. Being our anniversary we appreciated the gesture of a bottle of Merlot, a bowl of fruit & three exotically presented chocolates on a long dish.
Probably the most difficult part was booking this treat weekend over the phone. I spent too much time trying to understand the charming receptionists, whose spoken English was deplorable so! It was so bad I hung up once to in oder to speak to another girl, but it was just as bad. They understand well, but I ended up asking several times to spell simple words. Let's hope this hotel puts there staff through elocution lessons in future it will save customers so much time & phone bills.
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Little Mermaid Musical Instrument Set and Ariel's Musical Light Up Dress Review
For the love of all things Disney Princess comes a new consumer line of Little Mermaid Toys that are not only lovable but also interactive with the DreamPlay app! Not to be confused those as the toys themselves work wonders for magically playtime fun without the app as well.
Ever princess needs a dress that is not only beautiful but also lights up the room with sparkles and plays her favorite tunes. The Ariel Musical Light-Up Feature Dress does just that. With a slim mermaid line design, it fits beautiful on girls ages 3 and up.
The Ariel Musical Light-Up Dress's delightful colors and glittery accents can make anyone little lady feel just like Princess Ariel. With an open flowing tale bottom, she can dance and sway to the musical dress sounds for hours to come. Take notice of the round circle adoring the front giving it the appearance of beautiful scales to help bring the mermaid feel to life! PSSS…. That is also where the light-up action takes place.
I also had the pleasure of playing with the Disney Princess The Little Mermaid Musical Instrument Set which helps bring those childhood musical joys to life at the simple touch of our children's hands. They can get right in the action and play along with their favorite Disney tunes and even create a few of their own along the way as well.
This is a high quality toy; sturdy and no small parts to worry about being broken or chewed on. That is especially important to toddler moms such as myself. Each instrument is sized appropriately for little hands and is suggested best for ages 3-5. However I can see older siblings getting into play too. You are never too old to be a princess.
The noise level is low on The Little Mermaid Musical Instrument Set. Honestly, I don't know how you geel, but I don't really care too much for toys I have to raise my voice over to be heard. The instrument set is as perfect as you can get on a proper sound level. It doesn't bother me one bit to hear each instrument played while it is still loud enough for them to enjoy.
While both toys are adorably fun, The Little Mermaid Musical Instrument Set is my favorite of the two when it comes to pairing with the Ariel's Musical Surprise DreamPlay app because the app offers a starting point for their musical playtime fun. They get to sing and dance and play with their favorite Little Mermaid characters and interact somewhat as well. This provide a double feature that will hopefully keep them entertained long after the holidays have come and gone.
Warning : On my recent Christmas shopping venture, I noticed that Ariel's Musical Light Up Dress is a big seller and they only had one unit left on the shelves at Target. I also noticed several additional Disney Princess pieces that could easily go right along with The Little Mermaid theme. With toddlers being harder to buy for, I can see this particular Jakks Pacific Disney line beginning a top must have this holiday season. In fact we were so happy with both the Little Mermaid Musical Instrument Set and Ariel's Musical Light Up Dress that a very special niece of mine will also be getting a set as well. Happy Holidays!
In celebration of the release of The Little Mermaid Diamond Edition on Blu-ray™ this fall, "Ariel's Musical Surprise" is the first-ever DreamPlay app. When played with select Little Mermaid toys from JAKKS, Ariel's beautiful underwater world and iconic music from the film comes to life, connecting kids to a favorite Disney character. Children can explore Ariel's grotto, paint and decorate fish under the sea, and create and play music. 3D gameplay rendering allows for a unique and truly magical experience never before available.
The DreamPlay app-enabled Little Mermaid toys from JAKKS include:
- Ariel Musical Light-Up Feature Dress – Girls can celebrate their inner princess in this gorgeous Ariel-themed mermaid gown with motion-activated lights and fun music. With the DreamPlay app experience, little girls can learn to dance with fish and follow their moves as they guide them around the dance floor.
- Musical Instrument Set – Budding musicians can strike up their very own crustacean band with this set that includes bongos, a tambourine, a pair of maracas, a trumpet and a microphone. With the DreamPlay app experience, children can interact with Sebastian, mimicking his moves on the bongos while trying to follow along. Watch out because each round becomes more challenging!
- Magical Mermaid Kitchen - Little girls can cook up a fantastical feast with this incredible kitchen that says multiple phrases, makes fun kitchen sounds and includes lots of kitchen accessories! And, with the DreamPlay app experience, little cooks can learn to create cakes and treats and be rewarded with a "fireworks" display for a job well done.
- Ariel Keyboard Vanity - Little princesses can treat themselves to a royal makeover, or transform the vanity into a keyboard to create original music. With the DreamPlay app experience, children can play a musical game led by magical seahorses.
The DreamPlay app-enabled Little Mermaid toys from JAKKS are each sold separately and available now at major retailers nationwide. The "Ariel's Musical Surprise" app is free to download now on the iTunes app store. Children can also experience fun gameplay through in-app purchases, without the need to purchase additional products. For more information, visit www.jakks.com/dreamplay.
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This whole set is so adorable. I love all the detail the creators put into these items. If I had a daughter I imagine she'd love this.
Looks like too much fun!
Such fond memories (that this post brings back to me, and that you are creating for the future).
Music is such a pick me upper.
This has brought a new height to the music world.You don't have to worry about the bass pumping.
My granddaughter loves Ariel and this is a fantastic toy for her to play with and sing and dance to her fill.
Is there a little girl that hasn't played princess? That's just too cute. I know if my granddaughter doesn't have it yet, she will.
My 8-year old granddaughter would really like this. The Little Mermaid is her favorite.
My daughter loves ariel! I wish they made the app for andriod
Looks like my little girl would love this for a fun musical night! All little girls would actually!
The set is really cute. I know how much kids love musical instruments, having the Little Mermaid characters on them only makes them that much more enjoyable. If I had a daughter she would definitely have this set.
oh my girls would just die! Thanks for the super cute review!
aww this would be perfect for my little cousins. They are obsessed with Little Ariel.
well this is just amazing!
This is adorable. I think I'll try and get my daughters each a piece from this collection if I can.
This is super cute. If only my daughter was a little older.
The whole set is soooo cute
I would have loved this as a kid! I loved the Little Mermaid!
i loved the musical instrument set which has a microphone which is so awesome and my kiddo would love to play with it all day long.
Toys like this make me wish my nieces were small again as I'd love to buy a set for them! They grow up so fast….
This is a cute toy, definitely something little girls would love. I like the variety in the toy sets, they can play an instrument, they can play in the kitchen, or they can play with a vanity set. Thank you for sharing this post.
I know my niece would love all of these fun toys. Thank you for your review.


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History is repeating itself in the bond market as investors capitulate on bets that the Federal Reserve's money-printing efforts will spark faster inflation.
Overseas creditors such as China and Japan enabled the U.S. to spend its way out of the recession as they gobbled up 80 percent of the nation's Treasuries. Now, their holdings are dropping toward the lowest level in a decade, while homegrown investors have picked up the slack.
Treasuries snapped a three-day rally after a government report showed the economy added the most jobs last month since 2012, a sign that economic growth is poised to accelerate as the Federal Reserve pares monthly bond-buying and considers when to raise interest rates.
Treasury two-year notes tumbled, pushing yields up the most since 2011, after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen suggested policy makers may begin raising interest rates by the middle of next year.
Treasury bonds rose for a second week, pushing the yield to the lowest level since June, as signs of uneven economic growth and escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine drove investors to the safety of U.S. debt.
For all the handwringing over the slowdown in the U.S. economy, the bond market shows there's less risk of deflation now than before the Federal Reserve's first two rounds of large-scale debt purchases.
Bond investors trying to divine when the Federal Reserve will reduce its unprecedented monetary stimulus are increasingly looking to the riskiest parts of the debt market, which are booming like before the financial crisis.
Treasuries pared losses amid political tension in Ukraine as traders sought a refuge in the world's largest securities market with trading drawing to a close this month.


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Getting around Lisbon is easy and inexpensive. We'll overview all you'll need to know about the city's metro, bus lines, tram network, funiculars and public transportation ticket information. We'll also explain why taxis are a bad choice in Lisbon during rush hour.
Getting Around Lisbon
Four color-coded metro lines cover Lisbon's central and business districts. Stations are wonderfully decorated with murals, poetry and sculptures. Each stop is marked with a red 'M'. A single ticket costs €.90 for zone one only and €1.15 for travel within two zones.
For more information, visit the Metro Web site.
Carris operates Lisbon's buses, trams and funiculars. There are 78 bus lines that run from 5 a.m. until midnight, and after that, 12 night lines take over. You should be able to find a bus route map at the tourist office. A single bus ticket costs €1.50.
There are five tram lines running through Lisbon, each offering hard-to-beat glimpses of the city. We regard tram line 28 to be one of Lisbon's greatest rides. The central section of its route runs from Rua da Conceição in the Baixa, past the Se and up Rue Augusto Rosa before chugging through Lisbon's steepest and narrowest streets. Note that the tram ride gets markedly less interesting after the tram reaches Rue de Voz do Operario. A single tram ticket costs €2.50
Funiculars link the lower city with the residential areas in the hills. Lisbon features three funiculars and one "lift," which is essentially a large, ornate elevator. A funicular ride costs €3.
For more information on Lisbon's bus, tram and funicular services, visit the Carris Web site
Combination Tickets and the Lisbon Card
For those planning on taking multiple trips across various types of transit, the one-day pass is a good pick. It's valid for an unlimited number of rides on all Metro and Carris networks (bus, tram and funicular) within a 24-hour period. The designated time period starts when you validate your ticket.
The "Viva Viagem/7 Colinas"card is a new reusable card that allows regular transit riders to set up an account that is automatically charged every time they use transportation. The card itself costs €.50, after which you can "charge" your card with a certain amount. When you use transportation, you "zap" your card and will automatically be deducted €.90 for each ride. A minimal bonus is also added to the card each time you add fare.
Taxis in Portugal are billed by time, not distance. The starting cost during the day is €2.50; at night and charged incrementally by distance thereafter. At night, taxi fares increase by 20%. Other additional fees include a €1.60 luggage supplement (possibly more for especially heavy bags) and a €.80 charge for a taxi arranged by telephone.
During heavy traffic hours, it can be much more expensive to cab it than during light traffic times. Ask the folks at the airport tourist office about the voucher program, which simplifies transportation by taxi.
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Much of this is already in LinuxCNC
http://www.linuxcnc.org/ [linuxcnc.org]
It's mostly used by developers to control CNC machines but it also includes support for non-Cartesian motion systems provided via custom kinematics modules. Available architectures include hexapods (Stewart platforms and similar concepts) and systems with rotary joints to provide motion such as PUMA or SCARA robots.
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/man/man9/kins.9.html [linuxcnc.org]
http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/motion_kinematics.html [linuxcnc.org]
We've use it to control some pretty complex robotic systems.
There is such a stack: Open JAUS. [openjaus.com] JAUS is the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems used by many military robotic and unmanned systems. It's somewhat dated, and has a more open-loop approach more suited to teleoperators than fully autonomous systems.
Dealing with the time constraints in robotics rules out some of the approaches used in other software. Microsoft's Robotics Studio [microsoft.com] was built on a web-like approach, and it was a flop. Game programs tend to be tied to the display refresh rate, which isn't helpful in robotics. In robotic systems, there may be several subsystems with their own cyclic rate and processing delay, and they need to talk to each other. The inputs which have processing delays, like vision systems, produce outputs which represent the situation at some time in the past. Updates to the world model based on multiple sensors must all be synchronized to the time of the observation, not the time the data became available. This matters when you're moving fast. For slow robots, not so much. Many research robots are slow and pause a lot because they don't do this. That was the norm a few years ago, but it's not any more.
Robotic systems tend to need hard real time control. That control can be quite complex, not just a simple servo loop. Inside the more advanced and agile robots, like BigDog, you tend to find QNX, not Linux. (Typical test for a hard real-time OS [tamu.edu]: hook up a square wave oscillator to an input, and a scope to an output. Put a high-priority program in the system which turns on the output when the input comes on. Watch the input to output delay on the scope. Load up the system with lower-priority tasks. If the input to output delay is ever substantially longer, (more than a few microseconds) the system is not hard real time. The "real time" variants of Linux have trouble getting down to 1ms, and 10ms of jitter is observed. In hard real time systems, 10us is more like it. Servo control in BigDog executes every 1ms, balance every 10ms.) However, as CPUs get faster, the limitations of Linux have become less of an issue.
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