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I make tacos once a week for the family and I was tired of my tacos falling to the side. When I found these taco plates I said I need to buy these. It's well worth getting these taco plates.I love them!
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I love my Fiesta Taco Plates. I had been looking for plates like these for years and I was so happy when I discovered Walter Drake products. I couldn't believe I FINALLY found what I had wanted for so long. I also like the bright colors they come in and that they are microwavable. Thanks!
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These plates make taco night easier and less clean up! I leave the meat in the skillet and chopped toppers on the cutting board and my husband and I assemble our tacos on the plate. Before, I set everything on the table "taco bar style" in separate bowls and we ate one....made one....ate one....made one. We were able to fit 3 using Ortega brand shells and didn't have any problems with the last slot on the curve. I love the plates! Good idea...only draw back you can't scoop up the goodness of the toppers that fell off your taco with broken shells and "clean your plate" because of the slots.
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These are great! I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Now, if only they were a rectangle instead of oval, more tacos would fit better. These plates are truly dishwasher safe!
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Best thing for Tacos you can make more then 1 at a time and not worry about it falling over and everything falling out of your taco I had already got some for me these where for my daughter and she loves them.
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Is the San Antonio Spurs dynasty about to come to an end? Not if you look at their current playoff match-up, which sees them up 3-0 in their first round playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers. But comments Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich made to the San Antonio Express-News on Friday indicate that the man-in-charge knows when he will step away from the bench. When talking about the play of his star forward, 37-year-old Tim Duncan, Popovich stated that he would be ready to finish his NBA coaching career when Duncan ends his playing days. "He's a mentally unique individual in that he's able to sustain the year-round workout regimen, both physically and (diet) wise," Popovich said, according to the newspaper. "He has an unbelievable feeling of responsibility for his place in the program and wants to sustain that performance that he brings night after night. "When he doesn't think he can, he'll stop. It might be in the middle of a game. I can see him walking of the court say...
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Hacknet v1.23Mar 6, 2012 Full Version 7 comments
Patch 1.23 of Hacknet, fixing several issues that were reported, and some other bugs with save files.
A terminal-based hacking game, following the story of a recently deceased hacker Bit, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports. LAN Multiplayer allows you to go head to head hacking competitively, to compromise the other's computer first.
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Hacknet is back in full development - in fact is has been for a long time now! Lots of new features, new missions, new programs (new everything) are in. The story now splits into multiple paths, that are completely different. It's making development take a lot longer, but should improve the game significantly. The paths play quite differently - Hacknet watches your actions and you'll end up with a different game depending on what attitude you take towards things. It's exciting times!
Patch 1.23 of Hacknet, fixing several issues that were reported, and some other bugs with save files.
Hacknet Version 1.22 Fixes many bugs, and adds some small features.
The Full Version 1.2 of Hacknet - fixed every reported bug, added saves and improved some terminal functions to be more like their *nix equivalents.
The full alpha version of Hacknet. This version has both single player and multiplayer options. Patch 1.1 - fixed many bugs of the initial release and...
This is such a great hacking game and multiplayer is so fun. This game must be developed more because its so cool.
Just finished the single player campaign and I was surprised how much I enjoyed this game. The interface is easy to use once you get the hang of it and I'd love to see this game expanded upon in the future. Good on ya, Orann. Great work, keep it up.
This game rock!!!!
I really enjoyed this game, made me feel like a real hacker :P
Hey I searched at Google and the whole comments section but did not find a solution for the Problem of having the Same IP for both Players in Multiplayer matches.
Anyone got a solution / fix for it? . . . It's pretty annoying. :-/
Detail: If you start multiplayer and hack to your opponent you may notice that he has got your IP if you check the logs. In addition forkbomb on your system will crash him too. (Same for the trap)
The game looks very good, like a clone of Uplink. Played for an hour, I like it very much so far! :)
Too bad there is no Mac or Linux port though :(
Do you have any plans to expand the single player mode? Maybe add an open-world style freeplay or expand on the campaign? I love HackNet, but I just keep falling back to the old Uplink (using the Onlink mod) because theres not much to do in single player once you've beaten the campaign three or four times in a row (great campaign)
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Your words; however the article does declare:-
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*Under four degrees many species would be extinct and one expects that for the Great Barrier Reef, there's nothing good in a 4°C rise. Our landscape will be impoverished and our wellbeing eroded.*
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Extrapolate that as each degree beyond 4 kicks in.
A quick check will show I said *A perfectly natural cyclical course of events*; apocalyptic is such an emotional gross generalisation word.
I am a very patient man, and will therefore explain the denialism of scientists and their spokes-persons I referred to.
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Enugu — Forty-four years after the January 15, 1966 coup, a team of researchers from the University of Southern Florida, United States, yesterday faulted the widely held belief that the action was masterminded by the Igbos, saying that it was not an Igbo coup.
The study revealed that the coup was organized by revolutionaries who were motivated by events that took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo that led to the death of Patrice Lumumba.
They also pointed out that the intention was to make the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo the Prime Minister, stop the mayhem in the West and the genocide in Tiv land.
Addressing newsmen in Enugu yesterday as part of activities lined up for the planned anniversary of the 1966 coup, a member of the group and Conflict scholar, Emma Okocha, said the revelation was the outcome of a 22-year study undertaken by the team of scholars from the university on the subject matter.
He described as unfortunate, the way and manner General Theophilus Danjuma, who was then the Chief Security Officer to late Aguiyi Ironsi had told the story, insinuating that it is the root cause of Igbo marginalization in the country.
Okocha said that he is prepared to face the retired general in a debate to prove that Ndigbo never masterminded the coup.
According to him, declassified information from some US Libraries and Nigerian Police reports about the end purpose of the coup, indicated that Ndigbo never executed it. He added that it was Igbos that stopped the coup.
"The January 15 coup was organized by revolutionalists who were motivated by the events that took place in Congo, the murder of Lumumba and the end purpose of that coup was to install as Prime Minister of Nigeria, the late Obafemi Awolowo and the immediate impact of that coup was to stop the mayhem in the Western part and the genocide in the Tiv land.
"We have studied critically the actors and we have had literature review and we may be rewriting the Nigeria history because it is only the lost tribe that allows its literature to be written by others. I will like the respected media of Nigeria to organize a serious debate between Emma Okocha, one of the conflict scholars with another actor in the series of the Nigerian coup who has continuously accused the Igbo of being the masterminds of the January 15 coup: General Danjuma. I need him to come around for a debate so that we end this thing and rewrite the obscure and unkind history of Nigeria that put the Igbos as the masterminds of that coup," he said.
The scholar alleged that Asaba, Delta State where he hails from was victimized to the extent that it lost its best. He added that declassified information on the event has shown how the people were massacred.
"In fact the January 15 coup is a fathom of Igbo coup and I still maintain that Major Kaduna Nzeogwu was not Igbo. He was a Hausa boy. Asaba was victimized to such a catastrophic scale that the crème of the Asaba generation of 1966 were wiped out.
"Infact the in-law to the Babangidas, the man who came to read the welcome address for the passing soldiers, Mr. Okobo was massacred. As I am talking to you now, I lost my father, I lost my family and anybody who said I should be afraid of those who killed my people is talking a marine story. I have here letter of those who perpetrated the act because they thought Nzeogwu came from Asaba, that Nzeogwu was Igbo that he killed their own brother generals. But our study, especially with the 22-year that have elapsed with the declassification of information on this coup have proved that it was not an Igbo coup," he said.
The scholar who claimed to have written several books on conflicts in Africa stated that it would be "madness" for Ndigbo to have staged the coup since they were in control of the affairs of the country.
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You'll forgive the Detroit Lions for feeling as if they've been relegated to second-tier status as they head toward a Sunday afternoon meeting with the visiting Miami Dolphins, thanks in large part to the level of dominance the 'Fins showed in a 37-0 throttling of San Diego in Week 9's biggest blowout.
It was their first shutout since 2006 and their biggest scoreboard margin since 1995.
The pristine performance left Miami atop the NFL in yards allowed per pass (5.16), yards allowed per pass play (4.68) and first downs allowed (143). Additionally, it's second in pass defense, third in total defense and fourth in rushing defense.
Still, it's the host Lions who enter with a better record and a one-game lead in the NFC North amid a three-game win streak that was at least temporarily halted by last week's bye. Detroit isn't so shabby in its own right defensively, as illustrated by its No. 1 rankings in yards allowed and points allowed.
The Lions are shorthanded for the time being with lineman Nick Fairley expected to miss four or five weeks with MCL and PCL sprains in his right knee, but it hasn't done much to temper the swagger.
Defensive tackle C.J. Mosley could pick up additional playing time in Fairley's absence, though he's been suspended by the team and subsequently reinstated since the last time he played.
"We're the top defense," safety James Ihedigbo said. "People say it. It's not something we said ourselves. That's the standard that we've set across the NFL. That's the standard we've set in this building."
Atlanta was held to 80 yards and zero points in the second half of the Lions' 22-21 win in London before the bye. The Falcons had 291 yards of total offense for the game, the fourth time a foe has failed to hit 300 - which ties Detroit for the league lead. Meanwhile, quarterback Matthew Stafford has connected with offseason acquisition Golden Tate to the tune of 55 catches and 800 yards in eight games.
Tate's role has been magnified by the injury issues being experienced by No. 1 wide receiver Calvin Johnson, who's missed three games with an ankle problem. He's probable to return this week.
Also expected back is ex-Dolphin Reggie Bush, who missed two of three games with a sprained ankle.
"(It's) good for the body," Johnson said. "Definitely fresh when I came back. It's going to be good for me this season."
Miami safety Louie Delmas will be a familiar face to the Lions, who cut him in February. He signed on the with the Dolphins, has started seven games and was named the AFC's top defensive player in Week 7 after making two tackles, recovering a fumble and picking off a pass against the Chicago Bears.
He used to cover Johnson during Detroit practices, but hopes to fare better come Sunday.
"I pretty much lost every one," he said of the one-on-one battles. "He's a heck of a player. He's one of the more talented players I've ever faced. We're talented, too. We've just got to go out there and play our game, and hopefully the best man wins."
It wasn't just defense for the Dolphins against the Chargers, though. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill notched the best single-game passer rating of his career - 125.6 - and Miami generated a season-best 441 yards of total offense while San Diego was smothered on the way to gaining just 178.
Tannehill, though, wasn't quite ready to declare it as the best game of his still-young career.
"I don't know about that," he said. "Offensively, we executed well. Guys were making plays. But we still left some plays out there."
He's completed 68 percent of his throws over the past five games, averaged 8.2 yards per attempt and compiled a 104.1 rating. Since Week 4, the Dolphins are averaging 30.6 points per game, and Tannehill has also run for 35 yards or more in each of the last five games.
"You saw where they had the wide splits on the outside, a quarterback that can run, he's throwing the ball well, backs that can move it and receivers that can run and catch," Lions coach Jim Caldwell said. "Just across the board, they give you all types of problems and difficulties. That's one of those teams that you can tell just keeps getting better and better each week."
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When Dolphins right guard Mike Pouncey and Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh line up against anyone else, it's safe to chalk the matchup up as an easy win for either guy. But on the eve of a face-to-face encounter, it's a bit more difficult to forecast who's superior.
Regardless of the predictions, it's going to be a tough task for Pouncey to limit a guy who's already got 23 tackles and 3 1/2 sacks.
Dual-Sided Blades
Though they've had a hard time getting both guys on the field at the same time, it looks like this could be the first weekend in a month in which both Johnson and Tate will line up at wide receiver, not to mention the presence of Bush out of the backfield. Miami cornerbacks Brent Grimes and Cortland Finnegan will be nothing if not busy trying to make sure Stafford doesn't start an aerial circus.
To a large extent, it comes down to who you believe in the most. Both the Lions and Dolphins have impressive marquee wins - over the Packers and Patriots, for example - alongside shared clunkers against the Bills in Weeks 2 (for Miami) and 5 (for Detroit). The extreme nature of last week's defeat of the Chargers has the pendulum swinging toward the boys from South Florida, even on the road.
Sports Network predicted outcome: Dolphins 27, Lions 24
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TOTAL TIME: 5 hr
Make dough:
Blend together flour, butter, shortening, and salt in a bowl with your fingertips or a pastry blender (or pulse in a food processor) just until mixture resembles coarse meal with some small (roughly pea-size) butter lumps. Drizzle 3 tablespoons ice water evenly over mixture and gently stir with a fork (or pulse) until incorporated.
Squeeze a small handful of dough: If it doesn't hold together, add more ice water, 1/2 tablespoon at a time, stirring (or pulsing) until incorporated, then test again. Do not overwork dough, or pastry will be tough.
Turn out mixture onto a work surface and divide into 4 portions. With heel of your hand, smear each portion once or twice in a forward motion to help distribute fat. Gather dough together (with pastry scraper, if using) and press into a ball, then flatten into a 5-inch disk. If dough is sticky, dust lightly with additional flour. Chill dough, wrapped tightly in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 1 hour.
Roll out dough into a 13-inch round on a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin. Fit dough into a 9-inch pie plate and trim, leaving a 1/2-inch overhang, then fold overhang under slightly. Crimp edge decoratively. Chill shell until firm, about 30 minutes.
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
Lightly prick shell all over with a fork. Line shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake until pastry is pale golden along rim and set underneath weights, 15 to 20 minutes. Carefully remove foil and weights and bake shell until bottom and side are golden, about 15 minutes more. Cool completely in pie plate on a rack, about 20 minutes.
Make butterscotch filling:
Bring corn syrup, 3/4 cup sugar, and 2 tablespoons water to a boil in a 11/2- to 2-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Boil mixture, without stirring, swirling pan occasionally, until it melts into a deep golden caramel, 7 to 9 minutes.
Remove saucepan from heat and add butter, vinegar, and a pinch of salt, swirling pan until butter is melted. Add 1/3 cup cream and vanilla and simmer, stirring, 1 minute (sauce will be golden brown). Cool sauce to warm.
While sauce is cooling, sprinkle gelatin over remaining 2 tablespoons water in a small saucepan and let stand 1 minute to soften, then heat over low heat until dissolved. Stir into butterscotch sauce and cool to room temperature.
Beat egg whites with a pinch of salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer until they hold soft peaks, then add remaining tablespoon sugar and continue to beat until whites just hold stiff glossy peaks. Fold in butterscotch sauce gently but thoroughly.
Beat remaining cream with cleaned beaters until it just holds stiff peaks, then fold into butterscotch mixture gently but thoroughly. Gently pour chiffon into cooled pastry shell, letting it mound, and chill, uncovered, until set, at least 2 hours.
Make topping:
Cook pecans in butter with salt in a small heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until golden, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and cool nuts completely.
Let pie stand at room temperature, about 30 minutes. Just before serving, sprinkle cooled nuts over top of pie.
Cooks' notes: · The egg whites in this recipe are not cooked, which may be of concern if salmonella is a problem in your area. · Chiffon pie, without nut topping, can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, loosely covered once set. Let pie stand at room temperature 30 minutes before sprinkling with nuts and serving.


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I am posting an update to a social media valuation post from last week. There is a growing chorus questioning the high valuations and viability of business models of the social media start-ups.
More fuel was thrown on the fire this week with the announcement of the results of the latest round of fundraising at Ning.
Ning, a social networking start-up, raised $15 million at a $750 million valuation this week. The application allows anyone to launch their own personalized social networks (i.e. an entire network of Brüno aficionados, fans of the HBO show the Wire, or the Silvio Berlusconi support group).
Ning has a lot going for it: vip pedigree of founders – Andreessen and Gina Bianchini, approximately 200,000 active networks created to date, 30 million registered users, and it is revenue positive from the placement of Google ads.
To beef up the revenue model, the company will be rolling out is own proprietary advertising scheme, $25 premium service network subscriptions as well as virtual gifts. This series- E round led by Light Speed Venture Partners showed significant valuation growth over last year's $500 million D-round.
The latest successful fundraising round however does not change the fact that revenue will still trail far behind the valuation. David Dines pointed out that even if 10% of the 200,000 active Ning networks subscribers pay up for the $25 "premium" monthly service upgrade, this would generate $6 M of revenue per year.
Using the advertising multiple for big social network sites suggested by Raj Kapoor (Managing Director at Silicon Valley's Mayfield Fund) of $.20 month of on site advertising revenue per user would add from $6 million active users an additional $14M per year for an approximate total revenue of $20 M per year.
Even for optimists, this kind of revenue numbers stand out sharply in contrast to the $750M valuation.
This may seem quite odd to most Europeans and may be written off as further proof to some of failed integration of Eastern Europe, but actually the result makes perfect sense when put into perspective through the local political context. Like elsewhere in Europe the voters voted with their pocket books – the state of the economy was the central issue.
Center-left party (Keskerakond) won the election with 103 525 votes. Their campaign capitalized on the dissatisfaction with the ruling coalition's inability to deal with the economic crisis which has resulted with drastic pre-election buget cuts of popular programs.
The same protest vote that showed the extent of voter anger and frustration with the continuing economic crisis and high unemployment fueling gains by far right in Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Slovakia and Finland was the force also behind the independent candidate Indrek Tarand's 102 509 votes. Estonia has a fairly small foreign-labor population (no Turkish, Polish or Algerian laborers here to blame for high-unemployment) so the anti-foreigner anti-immigrant theme was not picked up by any parties for their election propaganda.
The center-right (Reform and IRL) parties' coalition has been in power since before the beginning of the economic crisis. The right wing parties that were elected into office under the promise to get "Estonia into the top 5 wealthiest nations in Europe in 5 years" were punished by the voters facing the stark reality of salary, pension and benefit cuts. Therefore, it was inevitable that the voters blame the center-right for its inability to deal with the economic crisis, and the draconian budget cuts that have now been implemented. This voter backlash explains why the right wing parties did not triumph in Estonian elections, but were glad to just hang on to their seats. In the final tally the Reform party received 60 899 votes and IRL 48 489 votes.
The Green party is still seen by the average Estonian voter as a one-issue novelty group than a legitimate political force that can realistically propose and drive through a full platform of economic and social reforms for the entire nation. Many people also associate the Greens with their leader Marek Strandberg who is seen as a good public speaker as well as a vocal and intelligent critic, but unable to find the necessary political compromises to actually execute strategies.
In the end the Greens were unable to convince the voters that their ideas would bring back jobs and rapidly improve the Estonian economy, rather than making growth based on clean energy, agriculture and manufacturing slower and more expensive. As a result their votes totaled a mere 10 845.
Just like elsewhere in Europe voter turnout continued to fall as ever less people use their democratic rights to elect representatives. Only 43% of Estonia's eligible voters voted (more than in 2004, but still rather low), on par with the low European turnout of 43%. Although it should be noted that Estonia pioneered Internet voting for these elections, and the electorate seems to have enthusiastically adopted the e-vote with over 14% of the voters casting their vote electronically.
Alan Heuer has an insightful story in the New York Times describing the downsizing taking place at New York top firms. Associates and partners are being let go to adjust to the drop in business.
The recession is crashing the business model for NY full service commercial law firms, which in good times used to compete amongst each other for the right to pay first year incoming baby-lawyers $160,000 per year plus bonuses. With the Lehman Brothers collapse, CDO catastrophy, and surrounding economic crisis the capital markets transactional work dried up. The transactional deal-flow ran down to a trickle, and there had already been a long drought of IPO work.
Lawfirms work mostly on a cash on hand basis, and do not carry large reserves. As such, very quickly there is not enough money to keep the large numbers of associates waiting for new work. The firms have been forced into firing both partners and associates and telling new recruits their start date will be delayed by a year. Heuer Reports:
In the first quarter of 2009, demand for legal services in New York decreased by nearly 10 percent over 2008, according to the Hildebrandt International Peer Monitor Index. At least 10,000 employees at major firms across the country have lost their jobs so far this year, according to the macabre but wildly popular "Layoff Tracker" run by another blog, lawshucks.com.
Steve Verrier a Partner at White & Case (2,000 lawyers in 34 offices in 23 countries) described his choices upon assuming the management of the firm as follows:
Do nothing, which risked the firm's survival; couch layoffs as decisions based on poor performance; or own up to the crisis and bid large numbers of lawyers a harsh but needed goodbye.
They decided for the layoffs. A partner at White&Case explained the atmosphere has changed significantly at the large firms: "The problem is we're supposed to all be in this together. But at some point, you stop and think: 'Well, maybe we're not.' "
Clients are beginning to look ever more closely at the legal bills they receive. Large businesses have started to employ legal auditing service companies. Essentially they audit the clients' legal bills, identifying incorrect entries as well as inefficiencies and possible over-billing. The company gets paid a percentage of the "savings" achieved. As one can imagine, the performance fee structure ensures sufficient motivation to find mistakes and cost-cutting opportunities. For example, Stuart Maue saved Kmart $15 million in legal and professional fees in the bankruptcy proceedings.
Denver based Law firm Watson& Associates just announced that it is now offering a flat-price full-service packages for businesses. The reasoning is as follows:
The firm hopes its innovative approach to helping clients reduce the staggering fees typically associated with legal advice will strengthen the firm's position as a business partner, rather than a line item in the budget.
We are hoping that law firms will also recognize their role in bringing the economy back, by offering legal services to startup companies which hope to rapidly grow their business on a discount basis, or in exchange for some equity (where this structure is allowed by the bar) or structured on growth basis. By sharing in the risk with the entrepreneurs, the law firms are creating a network of grateful and loyal entrepreneurial customers and their referrals, but also are investing into ensuring the survival of their own future client base.
This is an opportunity for lawyers to help out seed and early-stage companies by giving them some basic services and business contract forms cheap or free, instead of charging heavy fees later by telling the company about the damage done to the valuation, money lost to overtaxation, or intellectual property lost because they could not afford lawyers and failed to use proper legal forms.
The current US national debt of $11 trillion comes out to$36,000 pear each living US citizen, and has continued to increase on an average at the rate of $3.8 billion per day since 2007. Of course US is not alone in this situation as IMF has calculated that average government debt for the richest G20 countries will exceed 100% of their GDP in 2014, compared to 40% in 1980 and 70% in 2000.
The growing debt burden has been mainly financed by printing money (technical term – quantitative easing) as we have reported in our previous posts here and here. However, the concern for rising debt has now pushed UK and US creditworthiness to the brink and put their AAA national debt credit rating very much at risk. However, tough budget cuts must still wait a while, as current stimulus spending is necessary to bring life back to the US economy. This creates for a very tough challenge for any world leader.
Full transcript of President Obama's interview is available from C-Span here, but the relevant portion of the interview went as follows:
SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a nationaldeficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?
OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we've made on health care so far. This is a consequence of the crisis that we've seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades.
So we've got a short-term problem, which is we had to spend a lot of money to salvage our financial system, we had to deal with the auto companies, a huge recession which drains tax revenue at the same time it's putting more pressure on governments to provide unemployment insurance or make sure that food stamps are available for people who have been laid off.
So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don't reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can't get control of the deficit.
The banker suggested that in Europe, where laying off people generally is very costly and involves potential law suits, several (big)companies are using crisis as a perfect scapegoat for letting people go. He also added that in most cases, these people would have been fired long time ago, but these companies just did not have a plausible and safe enough reason to get rid of them until the meltdown. The key for the downsizer is to blame it on external reasons, globally applicable if possible!
"World markets are all down. We can't possibly afford to keep you around anymore."
"Our revenues are down. It is sad, but we are forced to let you go."
"Our export clients aren't buying anymore. Your department needs to be shut down despite your great personal performance."
"Everybody is talking about cutting costs and staff. So, letting you go now is only fair, right?"
Rather interesting observation I would say. It certainly makes (brutal)sense when considering how hard it is to fire workers in normal conditions due to inflexible socialist regulations that make it prohibitively expensive to adjust staff according to changing market conditions.
When writing my March6 blog entry I wondered when we would the United States be added to the list of countries resorting to printing money to boost the economy. That day has already come.
In the words of Goldman Sachs analyst Jan Hatzius, the Fed is going to the "kitchen sink" strategy of throwing everything it had to jolt the economy out of its downward spiral.
The Federal reserve is dropping a $1.15 trillion money bomb into the bond markets to boost lending. Yes this money will literally be eased out of the printing machine in major quantities (official term being "Quantitative Easing"). Ok maybe I am not using exactly the proper description they teach in the MBA program.Wickipedia defines QE as follows:
The term quantitative easing refers to the creation of a pre-determined quantity of new money 'out of thin air' through open market operations by a central bank as the start of a process to increase the money supply. It can, more simply, be understood as an indirect method of printing money.
Traditional papers are closing their doors, drastically reducing staff, and shifting all their operations online. This week the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle's oldest business publishing papers since 1859, closed its doors after losing $14 million in the
last financial year. This follows on the heels of Rocky Mountain News, Denver paper founded in 1863, publishing its final edition after losing $16 million last year. This April the 100 year old The Christian Science Monitor closed the print operation of the paper and moved all of its content online. The Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle and Minneapolis Star-Tribune are on the verge of bankruptcy and are up for sale. The New York Daily News is losing 7% of its readership per year and took a $30 million loss in 2008. Four owners of 33 U.S. daily newspapers have sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the past 2 1/2 months. Similar trends are seen in the magazine industry with a significant reduction in paid advertising pages.
The old media revenue streams (read – advertising) have dried up significantly over the past two years, and it is simply not possible anymore to keep a staff of 150 professionals and carry the cost of physically printing and distributing newspapers and magazines. Online versions of the publications require a staff of less than 20 employees and distribution is fully scalable with very low costs. Moreover, the advertising views are quantifiable and traceable providing useful metrics and targeting tools impossible to achieve with traditional media.
As US (0.25%), UK (0.5%), Japan (0.1%), Canada (0.5%) and other key Central banks have reduced their short term interest rates to near zero. With that economic stimulus tool's effectiveness exhausted, countries around the world are now having to turn to radical last ditch solutions like – printing money.
Yes, exactly the same thing we all learned in high school economics class is very bad idea. Printing money can lead to hyperinflation at some point taking the form of Zimbabwe's daily additions of zeros to the prices.
Bank of England has now announced that it will be applying "quantitative easing" (QE) to add to the supply of money in the UK banking sector. In plain English this means that it will print £150bn (10% of the annual output of the economy) extra money. The extra cash will be used to purchase government bonds and commercial assets to quickly inject money into the economy.
International Monetary Fund IMF may have to use its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to create money. IMF is simply running out of money, as it has already committed 25% of its Reserve funds to bail out Iceland, Ukraine, Pakistan, Belarus, Serbia and Hungary. IMF needs another $600 billion to address the growing crisis as the Baltics, Romania and Turkey are all teetering on the verge of economic catastrophe.
Economists claim that it is possible to do QE successfully pointing to 2000 Japanese experiment. There is a debate whether QE actually worked. Regardless, QE is a sign that central governments are beginning to use their emergency parashutes and other than the umbrella there is not much left after QE to guarantee a soft landing.
I have been asked several times in the past six months – if and when will the mega-rich start buying up the best of the distressed assets. I must admit having heard rumors about local business tycoons and groups of wealthy Swedish business sharks hoarding piles of cash, ready to pick the low hanging fruits. But my honest answer is – I am not sure if Estonia has that much of valuable assets to buy up at all, distressed or not. In Estonia and its neighboring countries there is little to no transparency to determine the actual purchasing power and liquidity of the rumored buyers.
In US however, the wolves are ready for a moose hunt and their preys know it. Kara Swisher pointed out that high-tech giants are sitting on a huge amount of shiny acquisition dollars. Take a look at these enormous reserves:
To continue the fauna analogy, this wolfpack (clearly on steroids) is patiently following the moose herd (i.e. start-ups) to go after the ones that show sings of weakness and can't keep up with the pace of others (i.e. run out of money). It is clear that the wolves could already make their move right away, but they are holding it back to maximize their gains. They bet on the dire economic landscape that will become even harder to pass for the moose, allowing the hunters to optimize their attack when the prey is completely exhausted.
Thanks to the internet, we have front row seats for witnessing the brutal outcome of this hunting season. Stay alert and let the chips fall as they may because there is little hope for the moose.


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Nanoesis' business is devoted to the nanotechnology and the tremendous opportunities nanomaterials provide due to the change in the properties they exhibit when their structure is altered down to the nanometer scale. These nanomaterials change their characteristics depending on their composition, structure and morphology. Their properties can be altered by engineering their spatial properties as well as their compositions.
Nanoesis specialize in providing their clients with high- purity Nanomaterials with select compositions. They also manufacture customised compositions of Nanomaterials, on clients' request, and also undertake joint development projects which involve engineering specific properties for specialised applications.
Sir, i'm studying msc(physics) with nanoscience specialization so after complete my study can i get a chance to do job in nanotech companies?
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