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Portrait from A Memoir of the Life of John Tulloch.
"The ghost's face is almost concealed by his white beard and mustache." —H. Milnor Klapp, "A Race With a Ghost"
"It looked almost like a semicolon, almost like an exclamation point, yet not altogether like either. It glowed eerily in the dim light."
—Joe Devine, Commas are Our Friends (1989)
Portrait from Memoir of John Veitch.
"The immense problem of the beard faded to insignificance." —Blackwood's Magazine
Portrait from Henrik Ibsen: The Man and His Plays.
"The ghost was like a man in old-fashioned clothes, with a beard; but you couldn't see very well because it was only half-lit, like luminous paint on match boxes." —Frederic Stewart Isham, Three Live Ghosts
The semicolon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by the reading lamp. The fraction of the semicolon's dot that is illuminated is decreasing, like a cut flower without a vase. The darkness grows like a gathering thunderstorm. This semicolon appears before the New Semicolon and after the Last Quarter Semicolon. The crescent will grow smaller and smaller every day, until the semicolon looks like the New Semicolon.
Portrait from The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith (Robert, Lord Lytton).
"'Maybe he has a mysterious beard.' 'Who cares? It's his soul that matters.'" —Munsey's Magazine
June ponders:
Maybe they were calling Shakespeare "The Beard" and pronounced it "bard"!
Portrait from The Man Christ Jesus, under a shroud of tissue paper.
"The Holy Ghost is also represented with a beard, to signify his being equal to the Father and the Son, and that like them, he had eternity for his portion." —Adolphe Napoléon Didron, Christian Iconography
"The period of moonlit and starlit nights continued."
—Ronald Mathias Lockley, Shearwaters (1942)
Portrait from Memoir of Charles Lowe.
"[The] specter raises the prospect of an immaterial beard." —Jack Selzer, Rhetorical Bodies
Portrait from Autobiography of Henry Taylor.
"One venerable 'ghost' . . . appears repeatedly with his flowing, patriarchal beard." —Elliot Coues, "Can Ghosts Be Photographed?"
"Space, semicolon, space."
—International Standard Bibliographic Description (2007)
Portrait from Memoir of John Wingate Thornton.
"His mustache and beard faded more and more into gray." —Charles Neville Buck, The Key to Yesterday
Portrait from Memoir of LeBaron Botsford.
"Should ghosts grow beards?" —Frederic Stewart Isham, Three Live Ghosts


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Orlando, FL--It's already been a pretty big week for Arnold senior Eddie Williams, but Thursday night is certainly the what his road trip is all about.
Williams will play Thursday night in the Under-Armour All Star football game in St. Pete.
He's been practicing with his team in Orlando since Sunday and Wednesday we spoke with Eddie by phone about his experience so far. "It's the best thing closest to college. I mean, practice has been great, really great. I'm down here with all the top guys, the NFL guys. I'm learning something everyday so it's a plus. It's the greatest feeling to have in football. Everybody's on the same level."
Williams, who played qb., receiver and safety for Arnold, will play just as a safety Thursday night. That's the position he's expected to play at Alabama, the program he says he'll sign with in February.Eddie the first Bay County product to play in the Under Armour game. That game 6:30 central. We'll have highlights for you in our late news Thursday.
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File this one in the non-news news box. While Dragon Age 2 received excellent critical reviews, the reaction from players was extremely mixed and it's safe to say the game will not be remembered as the best in the series. Even so, it sold a lot of copies for a barely advertised RPG, which means part 3 is inevitable and as of today, totally confirmed. Alistair McNally, BioWare's Sr. Director of Creative Development posted that confirmation in the form of a tweeted help-wanted ad:
One can't read too much into the timing and order of such announcements, but the fact that confirmation of the game coincides with the first job opening, anf that this job is for environment design indicates that BioWare is probably paying attention to loud complaining about constant level recycling in Dragon Age 2. For what it's worth, I stand by my own review, mostly. It was in retrospect a little rushed out but the slow building story and departure from numerous RPG conventions was a breath of fresh air. So long as they don't jettison that they should fix things to their heart's content.
You can keep informed of further Dragon Age 3 tweets via Alistair McNally's Twitter feed.
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nex82 Mar 21, 2012 2:28 AM
in response to guitartabman
I'm experiencing exactly the same problem. Tried it with serveral Providers and it's reproducable with all of them.
Chamar Mar 21, 2012 2:43 AM
in response to guitartabman
Out of interest I just tried an experiment. I've been using my iPad 3 on my home wifi network, took it into the garden and lost the wi-fi signal. Picked up a 3G signal from my provider (O2 in the UK) and carried on browsing in Safari.
reestr Mar 26, 2012 10:39 PM
in response to guitartabman
I also get this problem with my iPad3, with my iPad2 I would get a 3G signal, albeit quite weak. Now, with my iPad 3 it shows 3G however says no internet connection. My iPhone 4S sat right next to the iPad on the same 3G carrier works fine. The only way to fix it is a complete reboot, like the original poster says, flicking on and off airplane mode will not fix as one might expect.
Tartan_guru Mar 27, 2012 1:45 AM
in response to guitartabman
Having a similar problem myself - 3g doesn't always drop out straight away after coming off of wifi, but will inevitably do so after about 20mins or so.
My iPad 3 shows full bars and a 3G logo but then refuses to load anything. I've tried toggling airplane mode and turning mobile data on and off but that just shows the message that there is no connection to the internet even though there are full bars. The only way of restoring service is to restart the device.
I have erased the unit back to factory settings and I am getting the same issue. The same sim also worked fine in my iPad 2 so I don't believe it's a carrier issue
nex82 Mar 27, 2012 1:57 AM
in response to nex82
For myself the problem has been solved automatically. My provider (Vodafone Germany) made an update to their network which solved the problem. Right now I'm surfing without any problems 24/7.
NewForce Mar 27, 2012 2:19 AM
in response to guitartabman
All of you are not ALONE ! Most of us here in Singapore be it with Singtel, Starhub or M1 3G network, all of us with the "NewiPad" are sharing the same pain of this "Cellular data not connected" problem. When this problem occurred, one must power cycle or at least reset network setting to get the 3G data connection work again. A daily of power cycle 3~5 times for my new iPad was need. All methods like below tried but still DOES NOT fix the problem.
1. Reset Network setting.
2. Reset iPad back to default.
3. Changed Singtel APN name from "e-ideas" to "internet" still the same.
4. Changed a complete brand new sim card.
My current fixed was, called up Singtel ISP to reset my iPad 21Mbps 3G Line in their system. In my end, I need to power off my new iPad to complete the cycle. So far it has been working fine for 42 hours now.
By looking at the "General > About > Cellular Data Number" was "Unknown". This lead me to think it might be a bug in current new iPad iOS 5.1. To be more precise, it might narrow down to the "Big & Bad Qualcomm Radio chipset Driver" problem?
If that was true, jess.. I truly dislike "Qualcomm inside" devices. It make me come to remembered Dopod/HTC D810 the most funniest released WM device in history. When D810 first hit the market, it does not features any gps function at all when in true fact D810 did come with "Qualcomm" GPS chipset built-in since day 1. Dopod/HTC took more than 6 months to release a very crippled firmware that included Qualcomm GPS chipset driver with lots of trouble and start announce all the customers in the world, including those who's bought D810 more than 6 months ago. What a joke!
That's not all the "Qualcomm" funny facts. They then hit the wall again with Dopod/HTC Tytn-II, another WM cellphone with "Qualcomm 3D Graphic chip built-in, BUT WITH NO 3D DRIVER BUILT-IN". Hahaha.. what another big "QUALCOMM" historical joke of all time.
Anyway, hopefully Apple can found the actual trouble or fixed "might be Qualcomm driver problem again?" in the next iOS 5.2 release.
Until then, I've wishes everyone with the cellular data connection trouble eventually manage to solved your headache in any solutions provided by many and living happier with your new iPad, the same for me.
nex82 Mar 27, 2012 11:23 AM
in response to nex82
I have to revoke my statement.
I still have this network problems. After 30+ hours without a problem I had to reboot twice today. :-(
reestr Mar 27, 2012 12:06 PM
in response to guitartabman
Just out of interest, has anyone raised this with apple yet? I was thinking of contacting them today but dread having be expected to reproduce it on the spot or justify why I don't want the device reset to factory settings....
Lewpirate Mar 27, 2012 12:17 PM
in response to guitartabman
I have talked with apple about the 3G issues. I have now been referred to Verizon my carrier, and am waiting on a return call from them. After this apple told me it would be faulty equipment, and I can return the device. FYI, 4g works great when avaliable, as does wifi.
NewForce Mar 27, 2012 6:20 PM
in response to guitartabman
I've believed there's thousands of new iPad users are suffering.
Apple statements like,
1. Just avoid using it or holding that way
2. It's normal
3. Still in normal working condition
4. Still in normal working temperature.
Blah.. Blah.. Blah..
Think all of us should not tolerate for all type Apple excuses anymore.
Maybe we should launch a peace & silent protest outside Apple Cupertino HQ.
What do all of you think?
tm.chen Mar 27, 2012 8:19 PM
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Experiencing the same problem every morning ever since I got the new ipad. If i leave it idle for 4-5hrs without touching it, the 3G connection issue would appear. Full signal strength but no connectivity whatsoever.
verscph Mar 28, 2012 7:53 AM
in response to tm.chen
I have exactly the same problem. @Newforce, you talk about Apple statements... Does that mean that they're not investigating whether this is a hardware or software problem? Where did you find those statements?
NewForce Mar 28, 2012 9:24 AM
in response to verscph
@verscph, basically I am just summing up all old Apple statements when they responded for their products issues. However, there's no statement yet for this 3G data issue that we are suffering everyday. I bet they're just going to respond in the same old way with lame excuses.
Apple, please prove I'm wrong.
Or better still Tim, prove to me you're not the same old bad Steve will ya?
reestr Mar 28, 2012 10:20 AM
in response to guitartabman
Ok, to give you all an update on the progress I have (or haven't) made..
I've been in touch with Apple (phone based) support today. The engineer was very sure of himself and the fact that this was likely to be a mobile network issue, despite me detailing that I've had consistent issues which I could reproduce with the iPad3 whereas with the iPad2 (same sim!) and my iPhone4S (same network/location) there was no issue.
Despite this, the engineer recommended that I reset my network settings with "Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings" (BEWARE, this will wipe your wifi settings also!). Since doing this, sure enough, the problem persists. I've even taken a screen shot of it now to show the 3G signal with what I deem to be reasonable network strength, with no internet connectivity. Again, my iPhone4S on the same network continues to work fine.
After hard resetting the iPad3 and then trying to connect (in the same location) as you will see, I get a reasonable 3G connection and download speed.
I am very disappointed by the engineer I spoke to, he was not interested in looking at this thread to see that the issue wasn't isolated to me. I'll be sure to contact them again and report back.
For those who will also raise a support call with Apple, could I ask that you forward this thread to them so they can realise that these are not isolated incidents, and therefore hopefully they can escalate through their support tiers for resolution?


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Experienced graphic and multimedia designer – Sorin Bechira showcases as a true artist passionate to details and inspiration. Currently he is a Creative Director at slashTHREE art-group; Art Director at X3 Studios and a proud member of The KDU Network.
What first attracted you to digital art?
I was attracted first by traditional art, especially engraving techniques, but the lack of time forced me to work quicker and cleaner so I went digital. But in the end, if the art and the message are good, the medium doesn't matter at all. I still like to combine different mediums in order to achieve unique results.
You were born in Romania. Have you ever been inspired by its famous mythology or spirituality?
Not really, to be honest. Our mythology is beautiful indeed but I'm not attracted by it to represent it into my artworks. But I like to combine legends and mythological stories from different nations. Combining them you may come with great results. I always like to combine things in unusual ways, I always like to experiment both conceptual and technical wise.
What was the most inspiring moment in your artist career? Any extraordinary insights?
The most spectacular moments were when I was asleep. A few years ago I used to dream that I'm flying and I could control the flights (flying by myself, without any mechanical stuff, flying like a bird). I used to fly over fantasy lands and real places too. The words can't describe those feelings. Those were the most beautiful moments and most inspiring. But for 2 years now I'm not flying in my dreams anymore. Maybe because I'm pretty stressed lately but I'm not going to lose my hope that I will be able to dream those kind of dreams again.
I have mentioned many references to abstract composition in your latest works. Can you state it as your manner?
I like to have different approaches and I have various techniques. Yes lately I like to make abstract compositions because they are the basis of a good composition, and therefore the path to a good artwork. I like also to play with abstract shapes because almost every user can see what he wants to see in those compositions and this is all about, to let the user be an active part of my artworks when looking at them, to let him dive into the artwork details and every time to make new connections and to see different things. I also liked to work only black and white for a period of time because working in b/w only makes me concentrate only on shapes, volumes and contrasts. It was a nice exercise for me to develop my skills and to communicate with the viewer. But on the other hand I have nice fantasy like environments that are most digital matte-paintings, so I playing with realism too.
Have you inspired by famous abstraction artists or philosophers? What art or an artist you prefer?
I like the art that makes you think, that makes you discover new and fascinating things, that reaches your deepest feelings, so I'm a big fan of surrealism, followed closely by cubism, deconstructionism, art-nouveau and romanticism. These are the art currents that inspires me, trough their most prolific exponents, of course.
How you build your career? Recently you combine art director position in local company and in SlashTHREE project, how you manage that?
I like to combine design and art. It make me think better. So as an art director at one of the best design studios in Romania (X3 Studios), I'm keeping my focus on design related and client oriented tasks, things that needs to communicate in the most efficient and creative possible way, and after work time, I'm taking my artist clothes, start creating art that makes people wonder and delight their visual senses and also helping slashTHREE art community. It's a pleasure to do it because I'm working and I'm surrounded by great colleagues and great friends. So it's very natural and easy for me to do it because I'm doing it form all my heart.
We are following freemasonry Keystone Design Union and being a part of it. And also you became it member. What are your expectations from collaboration with the KDU?
Yes, I recently joined The KDU. I'm hoping , beside making new friends among their respectful artists/designers, also to be able to make top notch art and design related commissions to keep and to contribute to the high standards that The KDU used their clients with.
I heard you have been featured in diverse number of design magazines. Can you tell us the benefits?
The main benefits and that my artworks are seen by a large amount of viewers and this is all I want, to share my artworks with the world, because art is made for sharing with the others.
Are you happy with combining managing and creative positions at one time? Is that hard? Or are you still more artistic person?
Yes, as I already explained before, I like to combine the rational side (design) with the emotional side (art) of visual expression. It give me the right amount of balance that I need. Also it keeps away many frustrations that most of designers have: that they can't make more artistic approaches in their design commissions, or the artists that want to make design related work besides artworks. So it helps me very much to fulfill my dreams and keeps me sharp.
Many artists have a distinct path plotted for their career, while others remain flexible in their approach. In your case, what do you hope to achieve, creatively and personally, over the next five years?
I don't like to think so much in the future because if I'm planning big things, I will lose the details and as we all know, it's all in the details. I like give it 100% on every task and be satisfied only with the best solution. So I'm a perfectionist, I'm restless, but I always be a dreamer. And if I'm playing good, good things will come in return. So I'm pretty open regarding my future.
You have collaborated with Designcollector Network not that long. How did you find us? And how you identify us?
Yes indeed, we had a nice collaboration a few weeks ago and I must say that I love the initiatives that you make inviting artists to take an active part of your Network. I love to see how DesignCollector is interacting with the best digital artists around to give their viewers and fans high quality artworks and inspirations, because the interaction between people is the most important thing that we can do and must do. And you are doing that in a great way!
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Retail Investors About To Get Fleeced Again
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man blog,
Mistiming the Market
As a small addendum to our previous post on the market situation, here is a chart recently posted by the "Short Side of Long". It shows the cash allocation reported by AAII, which surveys retail investors. Not surprisingly, retail investors tend to be completely wrong in their positioning at major lows and major highs, while generally not doing too badly in the middle portion of trends. That latter remark has to be qualified by the fact that they tend to lose their gains from this portion of a trend by being wrongly positioned at its end.
Retail investor cash allocation reported by AAII, via the shortsideoflong – click to enlarge.
As Short Side of Long comments on the chart:
"According to the recent AAII Asset Allocation Survey by retail investors, cash levels in July dropped to the lowest level since 1999 at only 15.8%. Just as this was happening, European markets like DAX 30 have started a free fall of 10% in only a few weeks, while S&P 500 is also experiencing the strongest sell off in months. It seems to be that the same old theme of buying very high and later down the track, most likely panic selling into an upcoming low, will once again be occurring."
Of course the fact that retail investor cash allocations have sunk to the lowest level since 1999 is quite an astonishing and newsworthy datum, but we have seen the same thing happening in Rydex money market fund asset levels for quite some time already.
It should be pointed out that such data are not very useful as short term timing indicators, they do however have medium to long term significance. Certainly they show in this case how the average retail investor has once again been led astray by monetary pumping.
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"Certainly they show in this case how the average retail investor has once again been led astray by monetary pumping."
Isn't that the point of monetary pumping?
To"incentivise" is to induce someone to do what they may normally not do through either fear or greed. In this case they have used both simultaneously telling us that they are knowingly manipulating us for our own good. Of course like how they sell foreign trade deals which are also supposed to benefit "Americans", they ultimately only benefit the select few while driving the rest of towards a cliff.
I LOVE the taste of fresh mutton in the morning......
I find the Eukenuba tastes alot better with Maple syrup on top.
Let the fleecing begin..
The sooner the better
And Marc Faber says to expect a drop by the fall...
Don't you mean "fresh muppet in the morning?"
Look at Feb. '98: 11 %. All is just fine.
Holy mackeral, look at the difference between the two curves then - or at any time actually - compared to today.
John Mill's Market Locator
Credit Creation — The nurturing of a bubble. Just as fire can't grow without oxygen, so a boom needs credit to feed on. Minsky argued that monetary expansion and credit creation are largely endogenous to the system. That is to say, not only can money be created by existing banks but also by the formation of new banks, the development of new credit instruments, and the expansion of personal credit outside the banking system. During this phase the rate of interest is almost uniformly low. Credit continues to grow more robust, enterprises increase and profits enlarge.
Euphoria — Everyone starts to buy into the new era. Prices are seen as only capable of always going up. Traditional valuation standards are abandoned, and new measures are introduced to justify the current price. A wave of over-optimism and overconfidence is unleashed, leading people to overestimate the gains, underestimate the risks, and generally think they can control the situation. The new era dominates discussions and Sir John Templeton's four most dangerous words in investing, "This time is different," reverberate around the market.
<< You are here >>
Critical Stage — Financial distress. This is often characterized by insiders cashing out, and is rapidly followed by financial distress, in which the excess leverage that has been built up during the boom becomes a major problem. Fraud also often emerges during this stage of the bubble's life. The unwinding of massive leverage now results in asset fire sales.
Final Stage — Revulsion. Investors are so scarred by the events in which they participated that they can no longer bring themselves to participate in the market at all. This results in bargain basement asset prices.
All you have to do is scan the comments at Bloomturd, Yahoo, MarketWatch, to see a whole new livery of Jackasses that think ,"It's different this time."
I just committed another $40k towards new equipment this last week, even in the face of what I believe to be surely a disaster. As a business person (using the term loosely) I see no alternative but to continue on. While it makes me nervous to spend money I may well never see again, it earns nothing setting in the bank and I will NEVER invest in the "markets" again. If I myself am not good enough to invest in, rather than some other business who has my interests as their very last concern, then I will do nothing at all.
I'm 61, but right there with them. I know inflation is eating away at my savings but I simply refuse to give the markets my money to gamble all of our futures with. And while there is an appeal to metals, I see our number one problem as government. Their power, their lack of accountability is the weight that will ultimately crush us, and while I'm fully weaponed up, I do not see that as any hedge against government power or malfeasance, simply a defense against potential collateral threats. The dollar, while absolutely as worthless as any stock, is still the law of the land, and will retain "some" value as long as our government is in power, which I see no end to in our near future. Gold or silver on the other hand, can be outlawed or taxed out of existence for any practical purpose short of absolute lawless collapse (and in that case I still believe lead will be the most precious of them all). Cash and real assets are the only relatively safe hedge from my perspective, but we each will make those choices individually.
Similar in age, but approaching things differently.
Gold or silver CAN be outlawed, but if you have it and didn't leave a trail getting it, you are probably safe IF you are fortunate enough not to have bought a defective canoe.
If you have 'money' in the bank, it belongs to the bank until you withdraw it.
If you have money in the markets, I have a jacket for you with buckles up the back.
Fitness & skills are your best friends.
59 here - did 30 miles of trails on my mountain bike yesterday and about 20 on the road today.
Can shoot a rifle and a Bow better than most.
Give me a pre-electronic gizmo engine and I can make it run.
I'm not hopeful, and the world may decide I have no place in it, but then shit does happen.
Little younger but still no spring chicken anymore. I would have to travel to find a coin shop so I did leave a trail but sold it at a loss privately some years back. Could use a little work on my longbow skills but could also just get a compound or crossbow-nothing like silent kills if shtf badly.
Also, don't think real estate is so safe, it can be taken by eminent domain or made too expensive by taxes. Still, I think it's a good hedge. Metals, base metals, real estate. Cash is trash and stawks are for suckers.
Like oldwood's investing in himself. Who else cares about your money so much?
The problem with investing in yourself is it only works if you actually work at it. The whole point of investing in other people's business is the free ride. they do the work and you gain from their efforts, not your own. Easy money, the path to all our troubles....
I'm impressed. This may alter the prep lense.
Once the retail investor is fully in, then the markets can be allowed to crash back down.
it's everyone else that's getting fleeced
How is the Tribe able to pull off the same scam at the same scene of the crime, over and over and over again !!!
We humans, taken as a whole, seem to be very predictable, and there are those who have spent a lifetime studying us. Like your pet dog, they have nothing better to do than watch us and learn, yet we are always surprised when they seem to know what we are going to do before we do it. And WE see them as "dumb animals".
The same way that Vegas stays in business, lots of greedy Hopium.
Good analogy that will probably continue to play out on the downside. As Lake Meade continues to evaporate, it will probably have the same effect on Vegas as the central banks eventual vaporware evaporation has on the world's economy. Both will blow away in the wind.
...financial disaster is quickly forgotten. In further consequence, when the same or closely similar circumstances occur again, sometimes in a few years, they are hailed by a new, often youthful, and always supremely self-confident generation as a brilliantly innovative discovery in the financial and larger economic world. There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.
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the however many trillions in 401k/IRA's for starters.
That is institutional money. Not necessarily going to stocks and far far far far insufficient to cover $1.4 quadrillion of derivatives.
The money in 401(k)'s and IRA's get to choose between stock funds and bond funds. They are retail. That does not include the trillions in non qualified brokerage accounts and annuities. That is all retail.
don't sweat the derivatives. They all net each other out at the end of the day. Besides the banks know that they are not allowed to take anyone out anymore. Look at that banco espirito. That's the nice calm way to do it now.
Yes. They netted at AIG also.
And yes with BES, until no one is bailed out.
Any idea will will provide energy, commodities and food to all these people who have """""saved"""?
Might be;
The shortages come after the chopper drops result in price controls. We aren't there yet.
Looks like so far, excess printings are still being absorbed by balance sheet repairs, or are being parked (eroded?) in "safe" negative return instruments.
Aside from those funds going into the casinos that are equity "markets."
But they are manic depressive, after all, manic being the flavor of the day.
When they go depressive, the air drops begin, in as yet, unknown form. A year or three after that, wage and price controls are instituted. Shortly after, the shelves go bare.
Just reflecting on the stagflation of the 70's,,,only this time, more so. This time around though, market forces will be over ruled by executive order. This is not good.
On the dollar being displaced. By what? Developing nations being run by Marxists that out Marx our Marxists? I see it more along the lines of, all fiat being equal, all being displaced by things real.
Unfortunately, it takes decades for the nonsense of State Controlled commerce to run it's miserable course, and for common sense to once again prevail.
We are talking about 300 million armed americans.
Not the same thing.
In other recent historical cases, the population was un-armed
you keep missing the beauty of this collapse. it's one family at a time and the police state will keep everyone in check. besides americas next top piece of shit is coming on and you can text your vote in on your obamafone.
Police are getting cut also.
Their pensions are getting gutted.
Clintons are warring openly on Obama now.
Situation is changing weekly.
dude u show me one link, just one, where a police pension got "gutted". show me one where they even got touched. TPTB will keep the police pensions long after chaos has set in. everyone else will go down in time but they will be last, and it ain't happening yet.
Cities are broke.
i'm on mobile now and trying to check, but i don't even see inthat article where the biggest disaster of them all, Detroit, cut police pensions.
A big correction will send them flying back into the bond market.
15% cash still... Quick, BTFD, BUY, BUY, BUY!!!
Not sure how meaningful this is when the chart shows cash as a percentage of the total portfolio. If the portfolio holds a fixed dollar amount of cash and an index fund then as the market goes up the percent in cash will go down and vice versa.
"Buy high and sell low," is for the Retail investor, the little peeples, my broker told me.
"Buy low and sell high," is for the Wall Street insiders.
buy high and sell higher is the new paradigm
Prime residential property prices in Singapore saw the sharpest decline over the past year out of the 32 cities profiled in residential and commercial property consultancy Knight Frank's latest Prime global Cities Index.
"No one saw this coming...."
Cash is at the lowest level since 1999 but what will happen if it rises to "normal" levels? I don't like to image but I hold enough cash to hunt opportunities on the market. My latest acquisition was Target. The retailer is one of the worst performing stocks of the past year but one of the most solid dividend grower on the market.
That chart doesn't look so bad to me, and Absalon makes a great point.
Small investors may also be cashing some winners and taking all cash out of the accounts, shrinking the accounts overall. I don't know of anyone taking a second mortgage on the house (as if they could get one) and investing it in Facebook ... although I'm sure there are some, and if so they are looking good right now.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me 200 times makes me your typical Investor.
I had been short up until early 2014 but then I realized the Fed will make sure this f*cker goes to the moon. Got fully invested long U.S. stocks in July. Don't buy the BS in this article, just BTFD. Plenty more money to be made; the Fed will make sure of that.
It might be "different this time": cash balances might be low for retail investors because . . . they're finally running out of cash. (For best results, shave at least thrice weekly with Occam's Razor.)
FUCK THE RETAIL INVESTORS!! And the fucking horses they rode in on! As the French would say, "Damage"!! (Too Bad). LMAO. These scum deserve nothing. And that's just what they're gonna get. DOWN WITH CONSUMERISM!! btw, no offense meant to actual scum, as they have a biological purpose to be here. Unlike retail investors!


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Co-Mo Electric Cooperative members will pay the same rates in 2013 as they did in the year just past.
The cooperative's Board of Directors voted at its last meeting of 2012 to keep rates steady for the coming year. But Co-Mo officials cautioned that regulatory uncertainty makes it difficult to project how long the cooperative can go without an increase.
"If you would have asked me at this time last year if we would have had a rate increase now, I would have said yes, we would have. But a variety of factors combined to allow us to push that decision back," said Ken Johnson, the cooperative's CEO and general manager.
Among those factors is the continuing low price of natural gas, which was used to generate a larger portion of Missouri cooperative members' power in 2012. In a typical year, coal is used to generate about 80 percent of Missouri's power; this year, affordable natural gas dropped that percentage to the mid 70s.
While a year with no rate increase is a definite plus to Co-Mo country residents, the future is much more murky. The Environmental Protection Agency is once again threatening costly regulations on coal plants that would make generating power more expensive.
"This is a pocketbook issue for our members," Johnson said. "We rely on a diverse fleet of sources to generate electricity – natural gas, hydroelectric power, wind power – but the backbone of the system is coal. If you make coal more costly, rates are going to go up eventually – and probably sooner rather than later."
Missouri's coal plants have received more than $1.4 billion in improvements over the past 10 years to make them meet and exceed current federal regulatory demands.
"We're happy to keep rates the same this year. That's a plus for our members," Johnson said. "We just want to see the moving target of regulations stop moving."
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I set up my surround sound today. I'm just running an optical cable to my receiver. Everything is hooked up, but when I turn on the surround, it is extremely quiet. I turn the volume to max, and can barely hear it.
When I had it hooked up previously, I didn't used a coax instead of optical, but it appears to be reading the optical.
What would cause this to happen?
Could I have damaged my optical cable when I ran it through the wall?
Any suggestions?
Just a thought...on my Sony reciever, for input channels that have both optical and coaxial inputs, you have to manually toggle the receiver between the optical and coaxial inputs. Maybe yours is the same way...
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I would first look to see if you accidentally pressed any buttons on the reciever. Sometimes there is a button that controls speaker location or on and off of front and back speakers.
What is hooked up to what?
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Stay in your own yard, play in your own yard!
My Sony receiver automatically switches between optical and digital coax, depending on where the signal is. If there is a signal coming to both, I believe optical has priority.
Sounds like you could use some Monster Cables!
I got it figured out. My TV volume controls the volume of the signal going to the receiver. That wasn't the case with my old TV. I had the volume turned down low so I could hear the surround. I just had to turn off the speaker on my TV, and then crank the volume on the TV so I could have the correct volume control on my receiver.
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Sounds like you could use some Monster Cables!
And where do you get those monster cables? Mr Monoprice? Jeremy should have mopnoprice as a sponsor to this website.
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What is hooked up to what?
I have my cable box going to TV via HDMI
DVD player to TV via Component
TV to Receiver via Optical.
And I'm thinking I need to run a coax from DVD to receiver to get my Dolby on.
Originally Posted by MNclone
I got it figured out. My TV volume controls the volume of the signal going to the receiver. That wasn't the case with my old TV. I had the volume turned down low so I could hear the surround. I just had to turn off the speaker on my TV, and then crank the volume on the TV so I could have the correct volume control on my receiver.
I believe this is also something you can probably set on your TV. There is probably a setting on the menu of your TV that will just send a consistent volume level to your receiver irregardless of you turning the volume up/down on your TV.
Also, yes you need to send the digital signal (via coax as you said) from your DVD player to your receiver.
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Wayne Brady is such a funny guy. Where has he been lately? I guess he's been the host of "Let's Make a Deal" since October. I guess I don't watch the right kind of daytime TV, Oops.
He and his daughter Maile attended the Los Angeles premier of How To Train Your Dragon.
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There was hope that a new defense leadership, Ehud Barak's military record and the IDF's training over the last year would produce something new. But Israel's problems are more basic and even thornier than we thought
Hope. For a moment, it seemed as though Defense Minister Ehud Barak had found the formula for fighting an enemy armed with rockets, striking at it hard and bringing quiet to Sderot. We so badly wanted to hope that the replacement of the failed defense leadership from the Second Lebanon War, Barak's record as a watch tinkerer and crafty military planner, and the training and re-equipping of the Israel Defense Forces over the past year would result in something new and different. And then indeed it happened: Saturday's air strike gave Israelis a sweet moment of nostalgia for the heroic tales of earlier generations.
But it was an illusion. The Cast Lead got stuck in the throat, just like all previous operations of its type. The war in Gaza is starting to resemble the past confrontations in Lebanon with the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hezbollah. It's hard to stop after carrying out a hard-hitting reprisal action. Israel believes that a little more pressure will prompt the enemy to surrender, but is hesitant to pay the price that would be exacted by a ground operation, and does not want to be dragged into a reoccupation of Gaza.
The Israel Air Force, which has already hit all its designated targets, is now trying to hit "launching areas" at the very moment Hamas takes out those rockets it stored up and hid during the period of calm and attempts to bring new parts of Israel into the line of fire. The result is ongoing attrition, in anticipation of either international intervention or a "tie-breaker" move that would result in the enemy's collapse. As long as the public believes that Barak still has such a move up his sleeve, it will support the war's continuation. The only question is which will hold out longer - Hamas or Israeli public support.
Olmert. From the prime minister's perspective, as of yesterday, everything was going according to the plan presented to the cabinet at the outset, aside from two surprises: Hamas was hurt worse than expected, and the Israeli home front was hurt less. There's no reason to stop, or to pressure ourselves, before the goals are achieved. Ehud Olmert decided that the war would be run in accordance with a "success strategy" and not an "exit strategy," and that he would handle all the diplomatic contacts. As of yesterday, he was still waiting for a good proposal from the key international players. Until it is forthcoming, the fighting will continue.
Livni. During this war, the foreign minister is playing a wholly different role than in the Second Lebanon War. Back then, Tzipi Livni acted as a moderating force, opposed to escalation, searching for "exit opportunities" and trying to push Olmert in the direction of diplomacy. This time, Livni situated herself in a difficult position for any foreign minister - to the right of the defense minister. This is what happens when an election is on the horizon. She pushed for Israel to go to war against Hamas, and was very pleased with the achievements of the operation's first days, when Israel showed the world that the master of the house had had enough.
Yesterday, Livni traveled to Paris for a few hours - not to hold negotiations for a diplomatic accord, but to explain Israel's position to the French. She is wary of an agreement that would grant legitimacy to Hamas, and would like to see the war conclude with "deterrence": Israel will keep on attacking until Hamas stops shooting. Then we'll know that deterrence has been achieved, and if they resume attacking, we'll strike at them again. In this part of the world, there are no perfect solutions.
Melancholy thought No. 1. The conflict between Israel and the Arabs is beginning to resemble the wars we studied in history class, the Hundred Years' War and the Thirty Years' War and World Wars I and II. In those conflicts, too, the fighting was not continuous; instead there were outbreaks of concerted violence punctuating periods of calm. So it is with us: Each time the operation has a new name, the objectives change, as does the enemy's identity, but the principle remains the same - one side sees an opportunity to change the status quo to its benefit, and initiates another round of violence. Sometimes it works, as it did for Egypt in 1973. Sometimes, you end up back where you started, as in Lebanon in 2006. And sometimes it turns out to be a bloody and painful own goal (as it's called in soccer), as happened to Egypt in 1967, to Israel in 1982 and to the Palestinians in 2000.
The deal. If the war ends in a draw, as expected, and Israel refrains from reoccupying Gaza, Hamas will gain diplomatic recognition. No matter what you call it - international mediation, a combination of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his people in Gaza or even "calm plus," Hamas will obtain legitimacy. After three years of some success in isolating Hamas among the international community, Israel is currently searching for mediators who have the phone numbers of Khaled Meshal, the organization's political leader in Damascus, and Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas co-founder. The Foreign Ministry, which took pride in the quick formulation of an "exit strategy" during the last war, did not properly prepare this time. While the air force was gathering intelligence about targets, the diplomats were not preparing drafts for a cease-fire or building an array of potential mediators for an emergency. This was evident in the chaotic response to the French cease-fire proposal.
Bibi. Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be the war's big loser. His rise in the polls was already stalling, and this week he was left outside the decision-making circle and resumed his old post as an English-speaking talking head on television, while his rivals were busy overseeing the military campaign. This is an illusion, of course. If the operation is successful, Netanyahu will say it's because they listened to his advice. If the operation falls short, Bibi will say that he would have done a better job of it. In the CNN studios, unlike the cabinet room and the chief of staff's headquarters, it's hard to make fateful mistakes. This puts Netanyahu in what will ultimately be a near-certain win-win situation. Unless, of course, Barak manages to bring Gilad Shalit home, to completely crush Hamas in one week, or to pull off some other magic trick.
Melancholy thought no. 2. What has changed since the reprisal operations of the 1950s? Then, Moshe Dayan said, "It was in our power to set a high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying." Israel is following the same logic today. The main difference is that today the Arab side has a steadily growing deterrent capability of its own - rocket fire on the Israeli home front - that somewhat balances out the IDF's aerial superiority. Israel showed Hamas that it's not afraid to bomb Gaza, but the rules of the game have changed on the other side, too: Before the war, they fired at Sderot and Ashkelon; now they're firing at Ashdod and Be'er Sheva, too.
Preserving Hamas. The Gaza war has been the first test of the strategy formulated by the IDF after the Second Lebanon War, which holds that if the government is one of terror, then its institutions are to be destroyed. The idea was to threaten the destruction of Lebanon if Hezbollah were to attack Israel again. But its first implementation was in Gaza, where institutions such as the education ministry were destroyed, because it is headed by Hamas. Gabi Ashkenazi's IDF spearheaded the view that Gaza is a Hamas state, while the political echelon was hesitant to call it that.
The experts propounding this strategy recommend that it not be taken too far, that Hamas should still be preserved, so that Gaza doesn't fall apart into a rule of militias and gangs who would be impossible to deter and would continue to launch rockets at Israel. Hit Hamas hard, but don't destroy it completely. Israel needs a "diplomatic address" in Gaza as a basis for armed coexistence. As with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
A revolutionary proposal. Here's an idea that could contribute to world peace: Shorten the length of the U.S. presidential election campaign and the transition period between administrations. These twilight times in Washington invite all kinds of trouble on other continents. The war in Georgia, the terror attack in Mumbai, the Gaza war - all have occurred against the backdrop of a fading Bush administration and the anticipation of its departure. Like fights among kindergartners when the regular teacher is away and the substitute is having a hard time imposing discipline. Maybe the Americans could give up some of the convenience of an orderly change of governments and take a little more responsibility as the guardians of world order?


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According to detectives, a male subject described as white, 40-50 years old, 5'7" tall, thin build, bald head, unshaven face, clear lensed glasses, red/white short sleeved shirt, blue jeans, blue sneakers, entered the Astoria Federal Savings Bank located at 1149 Wantagh Avenue and presented a note to a female teller demanding cash. The subject obtained an undisclosed amount of US currency and fled on foot in an unknown direction. There were 7 employees and 2 customers present at the time. There were no injuries reported.
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Wall Street Rallies on Fed Rate Hike
The S&P 500 index showed nine new 52-week highs and eight new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 31 new highs and 75 new lows.
The S&P 500 index showed nine new 52-week highs and eight new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 31 new highs and 75 new lows.
No credit card is a great fit for everyone. It's all about finding a card that matches your lifestyle, and the Star Wars card is no different.
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JPMorgan Chase agrees to settle class action litigation arising from Bear Stearns' sale of $17.58 billion of mortgage securities that proved defective.
Two troubled firms (SeaWorld and McDonald's) and two big banks (JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo) start to report earnings next week.
Regulators fined five major banks $3.4 billion for conspiring to manipulate foreign currencies, which pushed their stocks down and ended a run of records.
JPMorgan Chase says it will cut more than 3,000 jobs than previously expected in its retail banking unit.
Consumers seem to forgive and forget companies that have suffered data breaches. You should probably be more paranoid than you are.
JPMorgan Chase reported lower-than-estimated third-quarter profit Tuesday as unexpected legal expenses of $1 billion offset strength in other areas.
The stock market couldn't shake off last week's jitters and closed lower again Monday. Airlines, energy and materials stocks were among the big decliners.
Amazon is taking a step back in processing financial transactions, and Apple is expected to announce new Macs and iPads.
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1. pro-democracy opposition
there is no such a thing as pro-democracy opposition in arab countries. All they want is to get in power instead of shiis. In Syria the opposition is pro-muslim brotherhood, nothing to do with democracy and democratic values but only with sharia and killing. Both sides are crazy lunatics and fanatics pigs...
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"...using chemical weapons on civilians will carry international consequences..." Yea, like who believes that when it is easier to focus on some gripe with Israel...
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Assad is an immoral and cruel butcher. I am proud of the fact that Israel was the only country that stood up against him, while the rest of the world cheered as he raped Lebanon and his own people. But a question. For all those years, his victims were helpless against his police. One day, for reasons of political interests and not human rights, foreign powers started arming Assad's opponents who could finally overthrow this butcher. In Syria, liberty and justice are served by arming the people. Why is it that self-styled "liberals" want to cancel the Second Amendments and deprive the American people of the same tools everyone agrees the Syrian people need?
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Obama will do his part. He will give a speech and pretend to wipe a tear from his eye. That will show them.
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that we gain nothing by either side. In Assad we have a known enemy and we know his intensions. Rebels are worse than Assad for us in a sense that once they are in control and have guns, they will look to destroy us. Russia has the right idea here. They keep the fight going until Assad runs out of money then they will the Iranina monkey pitch in until they run out of money. And as long these 2 morons are fighting then we don't need to fight them yet. Let's help them fight each other until the end. I hope the Iranian monkey gets in the middle so we can really have a show to watch.
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The weather for the Miners Jubilee parade felt more like Halloween.
So did the bag of candy I was clutching.
I had to maintain a firm grip on the thing just to prevent it from vomiting a glut of cheap paper and empty calories all over the sidewalk.
This single act, besides its potential for saddling me with a citation for non-nutritive littering, would have obliterated the trust I've accumulated with my daughter, Olivia, over her four years.
I haven't seen her quite so excited since she figured out how to "steer" her grandpa's powerboat.
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Of course there are few four-year-olds, at least among those I've run across, who can maintain any measure of tranquility when people keep tossing candy bars and chewing gum right at their very feet.Especially when the throwers are accompanied by rodeo princesses on horseback ("cowgirl princesses," in Olivia-speak), fire trucks and people carrying an immense American flag (a "flag trampoline" in the lexicon of Olivia).
It's not that she was surprised by the candy.
We had in fact emphasized that aspect of the parade in the days leading to the event. Although our goal wasn't to awaken Olivia's sweet-tooth — it's pretty energetic without any special provocation — but rather to remind her not to run out into traffic to grab a Tootsie Roll.
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We picked a block which was nearly devoid of spectators — the east side of Second Street between Washington and Court.
We weren't aiming to maximize Olivia's gluttony — as any parent knows, the annoyances related to candy increase exponentially with the number of pieces gathered.
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The only people within 50 feet or so of where we waited for the floats to arrive was a foursome who looked awfully comfortable in their folding chairs.
We, of course, had neglected to bring any.
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Max, who's Olivia's four-month-old brother, more or less insists on being held, and he prefers that his holder never sit down.
He's apt to complain too if his bearer so much as stands still. Max reminds me, in that way if no other, of a great white shark, which must stay constantly in motion or risk drowning.
When the first of the candy-tossers came past and underhanded a few butterscotch disks toward Olivia, she got right into the spirit of the thing.
She handed me the candies, which I stuffed into the pocket of my shorts.
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With a word of encouragement from her parents, she slunk over and shyly accepted.
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Over the next 45 minutes or so, Olivia and her new friends showed off the kind of coordinated teamwork that a basketball coach strives to instill in his players.
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At one point Olivia squirmed beneath the Dumpster parked against the furniture store wall. She emerged after a brief time brandishing one of those square candies that can crack a bicuspid if you don't let the thing soften in your mouth for, say, half an hour.
Her comrades, meanwhile, exhorted every parade entry — they seemed to be longtime friends with at least 70 percent of the participants — to not be so stingy with the goods because, hey, there's a little girl over here at the curb.
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