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Gold and the Swissie
- Bruce Krasting's blog
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Why are all the wealthy Greeks and italians driving up to Switzerland and buying gold bars?
You can't eat the stuff.
This may be the "end game" plans: bankrupt the sovereigns and make them dishoard their Gold holdings BEFORE any revaluation.
Interesting thought.
Some links about Gold.
First the biggest news:China's gold imports jump sixfold - from the Financial Times (do a web search for the article title if you lack a subscription)
OR try these links http://tiny.cc/gxdoq http://www.cnbc.com/id/45198734Gold tops $1,790 to end at over six-week high
"Gold is money and now that we've heard that the German economy minister concurs that gold can't be touched, that theory is reinforced," said Mark Leibovit, chief market strategist at VRTrader.com.
"Maybe [we'll] get a pullback into December, but the trend [for gold] is up and I'm looking for new highs," he said.
There might be some big issues at play here. The Swiss have a reputation for financial conservatism that is not exactly backed up by the facts. Yes, Swiss bank directors are personally liable for losses---unlike US TBTFs---but that does not mean the Swiss are incapable of error. After all, they did sell about half their gold in the period of 2001-2005. On top of that, the major banks lent heavily---in SFrs---to Eastern European home buyers.
Just UBS and CS represent half an Iceland in terms of assets to GDP. That means 5x Swiss GDP. Both are also much more highly levered than US banks (>30:1). One has to consider what a 5% decline in value of assets would do to them, and in turn the Swiss budget. The pool of Director assets just isn't that deep.
It may well be that 1.2 isn't good enough to make foreign default on SFr loans less likely, and the SNB et al have decided that the loss of safe haven status plus the possibility of imported inflation is the lesser evil. I do not know the banks' portfolios well enough to say how exposed they are to both foreign SFr borrowers and European sovereign debt, but it does seem that this---plus export competitiveness---is the driving force behind the pegging talk.
Did you know that only ~25% of Swiss are homeowners, compared to ~67% of Americans?
Swiss banks may be highly leveraged, but their population certainly doesn't have the "ownership" entitlement that is so prevalent in the US. It's sort of funny how Americans have been conditioned to be debt slaves and tricked into believing that it's the "American Dream" instead. If you buy a 200K house and mortgage it at 4% for 30 years, you pay over $400,000 for your "dream". How the hell did the banks convince an entire population that this was the "American Dream"? I think I'd rather rent, save all the interest and buy gold with it, rather than hand it over to a bank over a lifetime of labor.
Max Fischer, Civis Mundi
I was able to "buy" a house and then pay off the mortgage from my holdings in Harmony Gold, at that time HGMCY.
Bernard Swanepoel was able to jack the earnings of HGMCY to get the stockholders a fine special dividend plus the price apprecition of the shares.
My wife is an idiot for not realizing just how important it was for her to be debt free on her nest. The last secured creditor is the local gombit that now has to get back to 1998 spending levels in order to keep out of chapter eleven. The governments still jack the taxes as if there was no collapse of their ponzi tricked rise in unison against the taxcow "homeowner". That does not even have the slightest accounting for the vast added heap of debt upon slobs like myself and others that actually closed out their naked debt
Bring on the "Fees" to keep the rotting gombit scams of goomint above all else:
The continuing punishment for the savers that actually had to produce a surplus of manufactures in order to have savings is completely negated by a slime in a TBTF getting fungible dollars that had no provenance other than a keyboard.
As some have claimed, the Occupy movement is the last hope for those that are not being co-opted by whatever crap that comes from the fraud that is Basel II.
Mark it to market, and let us just get it over.
Central banks cannot create liquidity, they can only destroy liquidity
By printing money, they take the value of money in the economy and destroy. Overall this destroys economic liquidity. The junk that they print has no value and no one wants it. That is what happened to the BOJ the other day when they wanted to tank the buck by buying it. In order to buy dollars, they had to sell gold, no one in their right mind would want to take yen in return for bucks when the BOJ was printing yen like madmen. The BOJ had to stop printing before anyone would take yen.
What lasting harm occurs to Switzerland from changing the role of the CHF from being the "safe haven" bitch to Bernanke's USD devaluation dominance into the "street walking" fiat whore that pegs the price of her services against the euro?
The Swiss are renowned for their .... watches ....... chocolate (I prefer Belgian chocolate myself) ..... and .... oh,yeah - their anonymous banking tradition. Obama's heavy handed determination to destroy the anonymous part of their banking approach is in line with all of his other "the Chicago way" tactics. The problem is the Swiss have been doing anonymous banking longer than any of the "Chicago" tactics have been around. The only downside for them is that they will have to take CHF pain until the global system breaks (my money is hedged but personnaly I think it doesn't make it to the New Year) or Obama is out of office (which doesn't necessarily mean he runs for re-election - the down ticket destruction he can cause by being the Democratic Presidential candidate would be of epic proportions).
On the upside for the Swiss, they know what they are holding and for whom they are holding it. Their leverage is enormous. Or do you believe they REALLY don't know the contents of their vaults?
Hey Bruce,
I like your idea of a 1.30. The swissie will lead gold to new highs!
I don't know a thing about these markets, but this is my first thought and gold in any currency appears to need very little impetus to send gold screaming to new highs in each.
I'd rather have it more orderly, but I'm just not that powerful---the universe has its own plan; of this I am certain om
BTW----I'm a little giddy from traveling for 24 hours without sleep, so please forgive this exhuberance
some thoughts on Gold and the Miners:
From Pater Tenebrarum's Excellent Blog
and oil.
And the Swiss love a high oil price.
I wish Europe would hurry up and have another liquidity crunch again so the AUD hits the deck again.
I figure if we hit 70c vs the USD again sometime soon, I'll bail out of my potentially fatal ETF and get some physical in the next upswing.
don't know about a 70, but it looks topped out and tight, same with stock indexes.
Central Banks (Nations) are gobbling up all the gold they can get looks like.
Don't they know what Buffet said.,...."you can't eat gold."
Why don't the CBs buy Berkshire's HatWay instead, I wonder?
SMART central banks are gobbling up gold. "All your gold are belong to us." If you get my drift...
"Anyone who was still hanging onto the notion that the CHF was a safe haven, puked with the headlines."
What will it take to wise people up? CHF isn't backed by anything but bad intentions.
I'm not sure i would go this far. This is not Singapore here. This is Rousseau's "heartland of freedom." The only comparison i can think of in the Western World is New Hampshire...and well, they have neither the independence nor temerity to indeed thumb their nose at the G-20. I agree this does not seem like expressing some form of conscience however. They seem to sending a message to the "euro-denominated" people: stick with us, you'll be better off in the long run. It's a strikingly bold claim.
From where I stand, in the center of the wasp's nest, I can assure you that Rousseau turns in his grave.
No competeeeeeteeeeeve devaluation says Hildenbrand <- ass
Stories like these are the reason that I wrote "The Four Money Questions". Given a choice between real money and paper, the target is always real money.
edit: oops - @ Walkure
Why would CBs trade an appreciating asset for a depreciating one (paper) when all they have to do is create an ETF that everyone jumps into with both feet? Buy a share of our real physical gold, we'll store it for you!
Since the end game is to gather all the gold and silver for themselves, along with real estate and businesses, selling it outright would be foolish. Gordon Brown learned this the hard way.
Exactly! Their ETF game gives the investor an illusion to be part of the "greatest game in town"!
But there's no investor appetite unless the price keeps going up. We've seen a fast run followed by a shakedown. Now we'll see another run before the big shakeout.
Just understand the premise that THEY want it all and THEY have absolutely no interest in making YOU rich. That was my initial point about the manipulative and speculative aspect of this game. See what happened to oil in '08. Few understood the game and shorted oil at North of $100 all the way down to $30ish per barrel. This is THEIR game and when all THEIR media is full of gold stories and the importance of gold in this futile economy, then I'm beginning to wonder how THEY will benefit from this when investors are piling into "the greatest game in town".
Physical is another story. Who is buying and who is selling and WHO is making the biggest spread?
Interesting, I was looking at the Swiss Franc on Friday. Even made a call to my bank asking if they had any. Might have to hold off on that one for now.
I'm wondering if I have the stomach to buy more gold. Purchased on that last pull back around 1630, and I'm not a big fan of dollar cost averaging upward. Might have to stay in dollars for now and hope something drops to a level I'm comfortable buying.
Look for a second tier (but cash rich) Central Bank to make an announcement of a big gold buy.
As I've bitched before in these pages, I don't see why this wasn't the best move for the Swiss too - instead of doing what they did. If they're worried about their currency
appreciating too much (choking their exporters and money lenders) why couldn't they print and buy gold?
When the music finally stops, being a citizen of a fortress country with a lot of gold (which the SNB could dividend out if need be) is a pretty good relative situation to be in.
But for some reason the Swiss seem to be following the herd over the cliff here.
Maybe somebody in Switzerland woke up with K-Daf's head at the foot of their bunk bed. Maybe the Swiss are overcome with guilt for being the one percent? (of countries that aren weren't stupid)
Dumb phucks. The Swissy will go the way of the rest of the Euro trash and all other paper trash for that matter. Why not just let the mutha ucka appreciate, buy up all the gold, and be done with it.
The question I have - and for those at ZH that have followed the writings of Another, FOA and FOFOA might have also is: what impact does the German statement that they will not pledge gold against the EFSF. Another asserted that gold assets backing the Euro it a much stronger currency than the dollar. Based on the recent Euro area problems I'm not sure his argument holds up at all, or perhaps it's fractional gold.
Backing up the EFSF and backing up the Euro are two different things. To paraphrase Jim Rickards, the bonds are toast (including EFSF bonds), the banks are toast, but that does not mean the Euro is toast.
The decision on the Euro is still to come. Italy is too large for the EFSF. If the ECB prints to buy Italian sovereign debt, then the Euro is circling the drain. If instead some banks and governments are forced into default, the Euro could survive. We're closing in on that decision. The ECB rate was lowered and someone is buying Italian bonds to keep a ceiling on the yield. If Germany let's that go on, then I think the Euro will follow the banks and the bonds.
Gold will be money after the current system is more or less burned down to the ground. This can be orderly or disorderly. Increasingly, it is looking like disorderly.
To try to back stop this truly staggering mountain of leveraged paper with gold would be sheer stupidity. Not saying it can't happen, but it really doesn't make sense. For any nation with a lot of gold, it makes sense to go back to traditional fiat with fractional gold backing. Both Germany and Italy own lots of physical gold, so if Italy walked from the Euro, they could just carry on with life after a 100% default.
Greece doesn't have the gold option, so they would have to issue fiat backed by their, ahem, productive economy.
Remember, everyone wants the cheapest money right now to support their exports (and economy). Kind of zero sum, which is why folks toss around the term "currency war".
Gold would make for a strong currency, something no one wants right now anyway.
Gold could be money... but we could also have a system without money, i.e. an economic system, not a commercial.
Odds are you'll have a lead backed (copper jacketed) standard in the intervening period. Things are looking VERY messy....think Yugoslavia collapse recdux. At least Europe was smart enough to keep their farmers in business. Things could get real messy for countries dependent on importeed food - or transport over long distances.
Size of the market: 7.62 x 39
Gold is the currency of central banks. The speculation about gold being leased, sold, rinse repeat ad nasuem just lends credence to the idea that we will eventually see a nasty world war when the game of musical chairs ends and countries find that "their" gold is also everyone elses gold. Only the few who bothered to repatriate and take physical possession of their gold are going to come out ahead.
I am not sure of the breakdown, but US banks have approximately 4 tons of "private" gold, which is gold held by banks for themselves or on behalf of other countries. If this number is inaccurate or someone has a break down, I would love to see the link/resource. I am just talking from something I read somewhere but can not source at this time.
Recall that recently Mr Chavez requested that his gold, being held in the US or the UK I believe, be physically sent to Venezuela.
The paper claims are likely 100:1 or more, so when the paper system burns down, the gold goes no where and in all likely hood the original owner (in the case of nations) will retain ownership. If this doesn't happen, I think the prediction of conflict is a pretty good one.
They are damn fools for letting anyone else hold it anyway ...
"It only takes five bucks to dig it up out of the ground" Robotrader is manipulating the worlds stock markets with this remark. Now, everyone is buying. Unlike tulips though, gold is currency, and never deteriorates. "It has a power like no other"
Currency is a product of market economy, not Economy. It has no more power than another. Please think supply/demand and fuck the monetary system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
Money is a product of market economy
Currency is a product of the banking/(government taxing) system
Robo just pitches stocks ... I think you are quoting MathMan ... but I could be wrong.
Who the fuck cares! At $5/oz, it's cheaper than most cash crops, bottled water, condoms (regular or cherry flavored) bags of rocks, ice cream, locks of Jesus' hair, slag, tallow renderings (maybe not, but getting sketchy) steak, Fleet enemas (voted best in customer satisfaction 3 years running) gasoline, a Le Big Mack avec sauce Especialle or whatever the fucking frogs call it, and tubes of used Titelist rangeballs.
Now that's what I'd call a great investment opportunity......
Can we all agree that the paper price of gold is manipulated by speculation?
I read an awful lot about gold today across the world financial news. Spurred by the European approach to suck gold from Germany's Bundesbank and capitalize the rest of Europe.
There is an awful lot of gold stored around the world, supposedly in the hands of central banks. When the bills come due, that gold will hit the market in one form or another.
This may be the beginning of a gold bubble and I'm neither buying bullion nor miners at this juncture.
When central banks are scrambling for liquidity, cash is king.
Non sequitur.
Your facts are uncoordinated.
Central Banks do not "scramble for liquidity", Central Banks create liquidity at the touch of a keyboard.
Not true. Central banks are at the mercy of politics. Believe it or not. That works both ways, by the way.
Right now we are seeing a problem in the system brought to you courtesy of political will to keep inflation in check.
Austerity is the arch enemy of Helicopter Ben.
You don't get it. You, society in the whole, create liquidity. Whatever if you buy or sell, if you do it for/with fiat money, you create liquidity. Hence it's depression that crashs liquidity. But where comes the depression from? Just look at the pyramidal system we have. Inequalities create anger, frustration, depression; inequalities are the big one problem.
In the conceptual way, the mathematical way. The scientific method assessing how systems work.
Food for tought: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
There has been no austerity in the USA. That's just absurd.
Not yet. But after PIIGS, the road to austerity for US is paved. Which is why there's no further easing and everything is stalling.
It's manipulated some of the time, but it doesn't last, eventually market forces take over. As far as a bubble, I think the bubble is in currencies and their race to the bottom. Looking at these charts I just don't see a bubble in gold, at least not yet and I don't think so for awhile. The worm is turning bullishly large and in charge right now, but your welcome to sell into it. In fact I see $2000 gold by Thanksgiving, consolidation and then breaking out of its new up channel to $2500 sometime in the 1qtr 2012. This thing has got a honeymoon hard-on that I don't think is going to quit until the Euro dies the death of a million cuts. Quick and painless.
Ok, is the market for gold purchases going to collapse when central banks are starting to liquidate massive amounts of physical? Yes or no?
Was reading about the Fed running out of cash or some analysis to that extent here on zh this morning. Then I'm reading about gold, gold and more gold across the newswire.
The elite controls the news. They control the gold. Are they now the benevolent gang that wants everyone to get a piece of the action and be a happy gold camper OR is this a concerted effort to shore up buying interest in the investor population at a time when cash is scarce?
Being "in cash" means to have "cash" bills in the house or anywhere else "private" and non-accessible by others.
There is not enough cash to satisfy the going demand. They're not printing more. You do the math.
Another thought... in 2008 just before the great crash, what was the most hyped up commodity and does anyone remember (I know it's a long time) what trade was among the best during that crash?
Oil of course. "Peak Oil" theory going gangbusters across the net. People piling in at the top and reaching for the stars.
Limit for price of oil wasn't the sky but $147 a barrel. That's when the ship came crashing down. Nobody seriously ever questionned why oil was going to that price in the first place. There was no reason for it other than classic manipulation and speculation.
There are theories for gold to be at $500 or $5000 today. I'm sure it will run a bit longer but when it corrects when Depression hits hard, the gold short could be a super play. Talking paper of course.


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That day is Saturday, when 18 Olympians and two Paralympians will be in Park City for a celebration parade. Beginning on upper Main Street at 1 p.m., the day's festivities will run until 5 p.m., concluding at the Town Lift Plaza on lower Main.
Hosted by the Youth Sports Alliance, the event will feature a parade, fireworks, a speech from Park City mayor Jack Thomas, autographs and children's activities.
YSA executive director Aimee Preston said this parade has been in the works for a long time now.
"For us, when the Olympics were coming up, we knew right away we had several athletes from this community that were going to be competing," she said. "We ended up with a list of 64 athletes. At that point, we knew we wanted to be celebrating that when they got home."
And, with so many of the athletes getting their starts in Park City, it made sense to have a big celebration.
"Eighteen of those athletes came from our Youth Sports Alliance teams and three of them are coaches of our teams," Preston said.
Funding for the parade wasn't a problem, Preston added, as many donors throughout the community emerged to make sure the event took place and the Park City athletes were appropriately celebrated.
"We've had an outpouring from the community and businesses wanting to support this," she said, adding, "We're a nonprofit and don't have the budget to put on a big event like this, but the community stepped up and helped. It really was a collaboration with the city, the county, the Park City Chamber/Bureau, the National Ability Center and the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation."
Gold medalists Ted Ligety, Joss Christensen and Sage Kotsenburg will headline the parade. Double bronze medalist Steven Holcomb will also attend, along with many other hometown Olympians and Paralympians. Stein Eriksen, a 1952 Olympic gold medalist, will serve as the parade's grand marshal.
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College Hockey:Eagles Rally Past River Hawks
Two Goals In Third Net Win
LOWELL, Mass. — For the opening 20 minutes of Friday nights game between No. 11 Boston College and No. 15 Massachusetts-Lowell, things couldnt have looked better for the upstart River Hawks.
However, perfection for 20 minutes doesnt always translate to a victory, as Lowell quickly found against the potent Eagles' offense.
Despite an early 2-0 advantage for Lowell, BC used its ability to score in bunches, three goals in five minutes in the second period and a pair in less than six minutes in the third that broke open a 3-3 tie, as the Eagles skated to a 5-4 victory in front of 5,065 at Lowells Tsongas Arena.
"It wasn't the flow we wanted to establish in the second period," said Lowell coach Blaise MacDonald, whose club paid the price for getting into penalty trouble, giving up a power play goal in the frame and overall was unable to control the game's pace.
A slow start to the third period didnt help the River Hawks' cause either.
With the game knotted at three entering the third, BC pressed the Lowell net from the faceoff. Just 1:27 into the period, the Eagles grabbed the lead. Benn Ferriero pushed home a second rebound to put BC in front for good.
Brian Gibbons scored unassisted at 7:20 to extend the Eagles lead to 5-3. Lowell would finally respond a Jeremy Dehner goal with 4.7 second remaining, but it was too little, too late.
Despite allowing four goals, a major storyline in the game was the play of BC netminder John Muse (32 saves). With the River Hawks peppering shots throughout the game, particularly during their eight power plays, it was Muse who stood tall, making plenty of game-saving stops.
"I thought Muse made some incredible saves down the stretch," said Eagles' coach Jerry York.
At the other end of the ice, Lowell netminder Carter Hutton put in a yeoman's effort himself, stopping 27 BC shots.
The River Hawks skated with the energy of a nationally-ranked club through the game's opening 20 minutes, while the Eagles looked like a team that struggled to skate at all. The result was a 2-0 Lowell lead, one that easily could have been a three- or four-goal lead but for missed opportunities.
The hosts opened the scoring on a power play when defenseman Maury Edwards pinched from the point and found an opening in the slot, snapping a wrister past Muse at 3:20.
Sophomore Jonathan Maniff added to that lead at 9:43 when he completed a picture-perfect two-on-one with Ian Schaser, grabbing the pass in the slot and pulling it around Muse, leaving an open net for the 2-0 lead.
Another odd-man rush resulted in a wide-open net for captain Ben Holmstrom just a minute later, but a misfire on the shot forced the puck just wide of the left post.
Despite the territorial advantage, Lowell held just a 9-7 advantage in shots through one.
In the second, BC looked like a team determined to turn the game around and did just that. The Eagles scored three straight goals, a power-play tally by Joe Whitney at 7:05, a two-on-one goal by Matt Greene at 9:49, and a blast by Tim Filangeri from the left point through traffic at 14:06 to take a 3-2 lead.
Filangeri's goal, his first of the season, was set up by Nathan Gerbe, the 100th point in the junior's career.
The River Hawks finally had an answer at 16:45. As Ben Holstrom and Kory Falite raced in on an odd-man rush, the BC defender fell to the ice, allowing an easy cross-ice feed that Falite tipped into the open net to send the game to the third knotted at three.
The Eagles improved to 11-5-5 and 7-3-4 in league play, moving into a tie for second place with Northeastern. At 10-6-4 overall, Lowell drops below .500 in league play at 5-6-4. With Providence and Boston University winning on Friday night, both teams are tied with the River Hawks with 14 points a piece.
Both BC and Lowell can now focus on rivalry games scheduled for Saturday. The Eagles will host cross-town enemy BU, while Lowell hosts sister school Massachusetts.
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TAYLOR — Cleanup after an early morning house fire continued throughout the day today on Goddard Road near Oak.
The house in the 23300 block of Goddard, across from the main fire station and City Hall, continued to smolder as it was being torn down at 11 a.m.
The house had been vacant for 20 years and was filled with debris in what Fire Chief Bob Tompos called a "hoarder situation."
The fire started at 5 a.m. in the basement, Deputy Chief Dan Reynolds said, although the cause is still being investigated.
Debris inside was at window level on the main floor and about 6 inches from the ceiling in the basement. The attic also was filled.
Once the fire began, entry to the residence was obstructed by the items inside, which Reynolds estimated were 85 percent garbage.
With no one inside, responders contained the fire and poured water on it, Tompos said.
A section of the first floor was found collapsed into the basement due to the weight of the debris and fire damage inside, Reynolds said, contributing to the decision to raze the structure.
The fire burned for about two hours before being extinguished, although numerous hot spots smoldered and continued to crop up, delaying the demolition.
So, there you have it. Like to collect stuff? Don't do it in Taylor, Michigan. because if you do; they'll tear your house down. I got $5 that says someone from the city had that house torched, because someone was complaining about it and the city was powerless to do anything about it. So, about five in the morning, someone, most likely paid by the city, torched the house.
Just to be honest, I cannot prove my allegations at all. But I can tell you this; I have friends who live over in that city and the corruption in that it city is quite well known, and has been going on for years. Why do you think that the city is having so many problems? Because the past leadership over there was horrible corrupt for years— just like Ecorse and Detroit.
Even it is was a "hoarder," does not that city have to get permission from the owners to tear it down like that, whatever happened to property rights? Whatever happened to getting a order from a court to tear something down, before just barging onto someone's property and razing a building? Could not the fire dept just stay out and keep the fire from spreading? It just sounds like progressive leadership and city gone horrible wrong, if you ask me.


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Sandy Gladding, MD, is chair of the Surgery Department at Banner Estrella Medical Center,
Question: I've read about women with breast cancer in one breast choosing to have both removed. Why would anyone do that?
Answer: For women who have breast cancer in one breast, the risk of having a primary breast cancer in the opposite breast is about one percent per year. For women younger than 55 or those who have invasive lobular breast cancer in their breast (cancer growing in the cells that line the lobules of the breast), that risk increases to about 1.5 percent per year. Over a 10-year period, these women have a significantly higher risk than average of getting a breast cancer in the opposite breast.
The decision to have a bi-lateral mastectomy when cancer has been detected in one breast is complex. There have been retrospective studies done by the Mayo Clinic over a period of 30 years that show removal of the breast reduces your breast cancer risk by 94 to 97 percent. If you are a 55-year-old woman who anticipates living to be 95, that's a 40-year survival. That means, in your lifetime, you have about a 20-40 percent chance of getting a breast cancer in the opposite breast by the time you are 90. Additionally, if you do get another breast cancer, the risk of it spreading to other parts of your body are higher.
I don't recommend a bi-lateral mastectomy to every woman. I think the ideal candidate is a young woman who has a great deal of fear of dying from the cancer, has a risky cancer such as a lobular cancer or a highly aggressive tumor who asks what she can do to reduce her risk of having the cancer come back. If she can envision herself without breasts or with reconstructed breasts, a bi-lateral mastectomy could be a good decision. If she cannot envision herself as being socially acceptable without breasts or with reconstructed breasts I think it is the wrong operation for her.
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Jeff Tweedy and Wilco made a great appearance last night on the Colbert Report, the interview with Stephen and Jeff really cracked me up, very funny stuff. In addition they performed a new song, currently titled, "Wilco – The Song" or at least that is what Jeff said it was.
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2010 Jaguar XKR Convertible
When we reviewed the 2008 XKR we took issue with its handling, interior and gearbox. The 2010 Jaguar XKR Convertible adds little more than a new, 510 HP engine, but that's our kind of a band-aid.
When we reviewed the 2008 XKR we took issue with its handling, interior and gearbox. The 2010 Jaguar XKR Convertible adds little more than a new, 510 HP engine, but that's our kind of a band-aid.
Jeremy Clarkson thinks the 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI is "perfect." But should we really care what he thinks? We mean, he can't even tell a funny elephant joke.
If you read our Mercedes SLS AMG review you probably caught on we weren't as impressed with the new Gullwing as we thought we'd be. Why? We wanted it to be more like the Mercedes E63 AMG.
Fact #1: At least two members of Jalopnik's editorial team have a raging man-crush on Chris Harris. Fact #2: He's the first person outside Porsche to take a spin in the 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Here's the video.
The 2011 Mercedes SLS AMG is the first clean sheet design from AMG and the new flagship for the entire company. As a modern re-interpretation of the 300SL it's also a return to the fast, striking Mercedes of yore.
Earlier this week, Hell For Leather published the very first review of the Aprilia RSV4 R, the race-bred, V4-engineed Italian superbike that, at $15,999, you can actually afford. What's it like? Challenging. [HFL]
We were quite impressed with the 2010 Chevy Equinox on our first drive, but what about its platform-mate, the controversially-styled 2010 GMC Terrain? It's both more butch and expensive, but does it offer any substance over the Chevy? Not really.
The 2010 Acura MDX has been loaded down with technology like no SUV before. That's a good thing, as that tech solves so many of the problems inherent to the SUV form factor.
In Europe, this is the Honda Accord. Here, it's the 2010 Acura TSX V6 and it's expected to compete with the BMW 3-series. Can two extra cylinders and 79 more HP really do that?
When you think of the Audi TT, particularly the Roadster, your head probably fills with poor-driving, poseur car stereotypes. The 2009 Audi TTS is supposed to turn that image on its head with a 265 HP 2.0-liter turbo.
Despite its smiley new face, the 2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata, more than any other car, begs the question: Are you man or mouse? Sadly, it turns out I'm the latter.
Normally, when we review an exciting new performance car, we like to use a dramatic burnout shot. Unfortunately, the 2010 Ford Taurus SHO barely chirps its front wheels on its 5.2-second trip to 60 MPH.
The 2009 VW Jetta SportWagen TDI is frugal and fun, but its DSG transmission doesn't suit the diesel engine. Should you buy one?
Yesterday we reveled in the frugal performance of the VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI's diesel engine, but bemoaned the awful DSG gearbox. Join us today as we examine the Jetta's abilities in detail.
Conventional car enthusiast wisdom states the VW Jetta TDI is the thinking man's fuel-efficient car. Free of the complication, sacrificed driving dynamics and image of hybrids, it makes do with diesel instead.
Replacing the CLK, the 2010 Mercedes E-Class Coupe adopts a similar look to the new E-Class Sedan and most of its mechanicals. It's just a shame it's not as fun to drive as the four-door.
Since the early '90s we've seen Mercedes slowly dilute its peerless quality in a drive for increased sales. The 2010 Mercedes E-Class represents a major step back towards the timeless luxury cars of yore.
Like the rest of the BMW range, the 2009 BMW Z4 is bigger, heavier and more complicated than its predecessors. But could it be bigger, heavier, more complicated and much better to drive?
The Switzer P800 Nissan GT-R makes over 700 HP at the wheels, nearly double that of the comparatively plain-Jane GT-R. Luckily that's at all four wheels, because we drove it through both snow and ice.
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See Mexicans Arrested for Drug Trafficking in Johnson City
Illegal Immigration Crime Invades East Tennessee
Growing Poverty and Job Losses in Tri-Cities VA-TN
Tri-Cities, Bristol Virginia-Tennessee will not only have among the lowest growth in the nation, but the lowest in Tennessee and Virginia. The region already suffers a 20 percent plus real poverty-unemployment rate. Oddly liberals and Progressives work with big business Republicans to destroy labor, drive down wages. Where do I begin?
Quoting futurist Ed Barlow before the Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce:
"Seniors create low-wage service jobs. They tend to withdraw from working, and they generally don't create new wealth. A retirement community strategy has long-term negative economic consequences unless there is a diverse economic base of other employees around it...A significant component of your economic future in Sullivan County is recruiting Hispanics, making sure they get highly educated and integrated into the community."
In 2011 Bristol-Tri-Cities was ranked number 5 in the 10 poorest cities in America by www.DailyFinance.com.
See Bristol Virginia-Tennessee News Opinion 2015 Has has updated economic stats.
- News updates May 2016
- Bristol Virginia Washington County loses 362 jobs May 2016
- Massive Debt Leaves Bristol Virginia Near Panic
- Green Energy Boondoggle in Bristol Virginia
- More Replacement Call Center Jobs for Scott County Virginia - Ultimately
- Bristol Residents Paying $650,000 for Cabela's Fake Waterfall
- Bristol Virginia to Raise Taxes Layoff Workers Over Corporate Welfare
- $30,000 Public Funds Wasted in Washington County Virginia
- Gov. McAuliffe Claims New Jobs in Smyth County - Not Really
- Bristol Virginia Utilities Culture of Corruption
- Another $157,000 in Grants to be Wasted on Tourism
- Virginia Politicians Waste Another $10,000 on Failed Movie
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- Coal Industry Downturn Spreads Beyond Coal Miners
- Sessions Hotel Massive Taxpayer Ripoff
- Johnson City Crime November 2015
- Corruption in Southwest Virginia
- $25,000 Incentive Package for Ice Cream Shop
- Bristol Virginia Bond Rating Crashes
- High Costs of Immigrant Housekeepers
- Pushing Back Against Political Correctness Censorship
- Intelligence Predicts Economic Social Outcome
- Virginia Schools Become More Dangerous
Posted August 5, 2015:
- No Corporate Welfare for Cootie Brown's Bristol Tennessee
- White's Mill still Waste of Tax Dollars
- Bristol Virginia Residents Nailed for Higher Taxes and Fees
- Bristol Compressors More Corporate Welfare?
- Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey Stabs Consumers In the Back
- Virginia Tourism Low Wage Jobs
Illegal Immigration
- Racism Underlies Mass Immigration
- Jobs of Tomorrow A New Low?
- Social Dangers of Outsourcing
- Patronizing Insulting at the Same Time
- Enforce Immigration Laws by Lewis Loflin
- Immigration talking points - Killing Gringos
- 'Immigrants' Take New Jobs in Texas
- Why illegal Immigration Matters in Bristol Tri-Cities
- Illegal Aliens in Virginia and Tennessee
- The truth on mass immigration.
- America's Job Growth Benefits Immigrants
- Cult of multiculturalism' vs. U.S. sovereignty
- Illegal Immigration's High Cost
- Western Muslims' Racist Rape Spree
Posted April 16, 2015:
- Bristol Loses Another 185 Jobs State Workers in Poverty
- Will Bristol Virginia become a toxic waste dump with Nulife Glass?
- Job Market Continues to Implode in Tri-Cities Bristol in 2015
- Crime by Race in Virginia 2012
- Raising Taxes to Pay Police While Looting Public Funds
- Bristol-Southwest Virginia Lost Another 2800 Residents Since 2010
- Tax Break for Stupid Country Music Museum Schools Go Without
- The demise of the Virginia coal industry
- What about some solutions for Southwest Virginia?
- Social Breakdown in Tri-Cities Virginia Tennessee
- Republicans push corporate welfare for the coal industry
- Youth unemployment in Bristol Tri-cities continues to explode
- Oikophobia and Other Mental Disorders of Liberals
- How Government Exported Black Crime into Ferguson Missouri
- St. Louis Black Youth Gunshot Death Rate
- Crime Rates by Race in Missouri
- When a Violent Thug Becomes a Victim of Racism
Bristol Virginia Tri-Cities Crime 2014
Steb Hipple on a Shrinking Tri-Cities Labor Force 2014
ETSU economist Steb Hipple is the last word in economics in Tri-Cities, but lately nobody in the press or government are saying much about him - they claim unemployment is down and all the corporate welfare has turned the economy around. Well, not really. To quote Dr. Hipple:
During the first quarter (2014), the Tri-Cities Consolidated Statistical Area (CSA) continued to see job losses. Compared to the same period in 2013, regional job levels were lower by 0.7% to 221,514. Employment has now declined for the past eight quarters and increasing numbers of jobless workers are withdrawing from the regional labor force.
As a result, unemployment fell 16.5% to 16,072, and the labor force contracted by 1.9% to 237,586. The jobless rate for the metro area was 6.8%, compared to 7.9% a year earlier. Under these conditions, a falling unemployment rate is a sign of labor market weakness...
During the January to March period, employment was higher by 0.5% in Bristol, but fell 1.6% in Johnson City and 1.2% in Kingsport. Matching the regional pattern, large numbers of unemployed workers are exiting the labor market in each city.
This has lowered jobless levels by double digits, contracted the labor force, and reduced jobless rates. The percent of workers unemployed fell to 6.6% in Johnson City, 6.7% in Bristol, and 6.8% in Kingsport. As in the metro area, the lower jobless rates in each city are a result of weakness in the labor market.
Happy Face Assault on our Individual Liberties
Liberalism's Double Standard on Bigotry and Intolerance
The dismal future of the working poor in this community is tied directly to a job structure hostile to working people. Lack of economic opportunity is not a racial thing but system wide planned policy cutting across all demographic groups. Mass immigration has pushed millions out of the job market hurting in disproportionate numbers Black Americans.
Meat packing for example was once heavily black and white paying $18 an hour - today illegal alien Hispanics and some Asians now dominate the factory floor with dismal working conditions and abuse while wages have fallen below $12 an hour.
See Proof Limiting Mass Immigration Helps the Working Poor
Letter to the Editor
Published Bristol Herald Courier January 2, 2015
RE: GOP dominates SWVa. The sheeple of SWVa. Tri-Cities vote for Republicans determined to cut their throats, pilfering millions of public dollars for corporate welfare at the same time bitterly opposing expanding Medicaid.
"We don't want socialized medicine." What's Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration?
"They are working for jobs." Really? Republican dominated Tri-Cities- SWVa. labor force is imploding, disability roles explode as thousands turn to that for a living, and the region continues to rank in the bottom of the nation in most social demographics. Check with Dr. Steb Hipple at ETSU. Check the Sullivan County Jail - we even got our own TV show! (Southern Justice)
Republicans refused to defund the Obama amnesty - they support more replacement workers to further depress wages for the working poor. Where were you Mr. Griffith?
Republicans have reduced public office to private fiefdoms. "Economic development" is catch-phrase for corporate welfare, lucrative jobs, and a bonanza for contractors, consultants, and their friends - and zero accountability.
$150 million plus looted for the Falls, Pinnacle, etc. BVU using ratepayer funds to underwrite millions (most of it hidden) for The Falls, a stupid music program, etc.
An $8 an hour call center crosses State Street, get millions in incentives, and we call them "new jobs."
Why is the Tobacco Commission even paying Dominion Energy $10 million? The $2 million being wasted to fund the so-called "Center of Excellence" I predict will produce nothing like the last $2 million. Other than bailing out a non-profit and the Abingdon Incubator the program suffers from vague goals, no measurable standards, and zero public oversight. The Phil Puckett scandal aside when will the public shut this scandal-ridden agency down?
Now back to Obama's birth certificate.
- Local Leaders Complain to Senator Kaine - Ignore Workers
- Rebirth of Glade Spring Virginia
- Predominant Face of American Poor is White and Liberals Ignore It
- Proof Limiting Mass Immigration Helps the Working Poor
- Born Again Jobs and a Shrinking Tri-Cities Labor Force
- Prime Choice Foods Files for Bankruptcy in Bristol
- What 70 New Jobs at Columbus McKinnon?
- Another 100 Jobs Lost in Bristol Virginia with College Closure
- Bristol Metals fires 290 Workers
- 240 Phony Jobs and Corporate Welfare for Heritage Glass
- Bristol Raising Property Taxes to Pay for Corporate Welfare
- Caterpillar Plant Closure Costs Pulaski County 240 Jobs
- Arch Coal Fires Another 213 Workers - It's the tip of the Iceberg
- High Cost of the Non-Profits Industry
- Wholesale Plant Nursery Receives $8 Million for Energy Research
- No It's Not 250 New Jobs in Grayson County Virginia
- 2008 Remote Area Medical in Wise in Pictures
- Remote Area Medical Wise 2011 Ignores Government Waste
- Remote Area Medical Exposes Government Hypocrisy Again in 2014
- Crony Capitalism Comes to Wise County
- Pinnacle Wood Products Follies in Wise County
- Obscene Electrolux Incentive Deal Puts Tennessee at Risk
- Tobacco Commission Sykes Fiasco
- Scott County Virginia Economic Backwater
- Cost of Wise Inn Fiasco Soares to $12 Million
- Appalachia Resents Label of Third World
- Washington County Supervisor Blasts Obscene Pay Raises
- Exposing the Virginia Tobacco Commission Part 1
- Exposing the Virginia Tobacco Commission Part 2
TVA Slashes Nearly 2000 Jobs in 2014
As if the job misery in East Tennessee isn't bad enough TVA has cut 1,750 high paying jobs. The Chattanooga Times Free Press and AP report TVA "supplies power to about 9 million people in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia."
The fact is TVA's peak production was in 2007 before the massive losses in manufacturing across the region that is still ongoing in 2014. They stated "increased conservation and energy efficiency since then" has led to declines when in fact it's the loss of manufacturing I believe is the big factor.
Manufacturing uses a lot of electricity. 124 industrial plants in the TVA service area have slammed the doors since October 2008-9.
See TVA Jobs Losses to Raise Power Rates
Again the loss of middle class jobs be it TVA, manufacturing, or the over 600 mining jobs lost in recent months in Southwest Virginia will ripple across the whole community. We simply can't replace these jobs with tourism crap jobs and expect the high poverty rates to not get worse.
One has to wonder how it is possible to spend these hundreds of billions to alleviate poverty and still have the same number of poor people that we had, say, in 1968...It prompts the more suspicious among us to ask: What happened to the money?...[A] tremendous chunk of these domestic outlays goes to pay the salaries of people who work for and with the federal government - including well-paid civil servants and an array of contractors and "consultants," many of whom have gotten rich from housing programs, "poverty" studies, energy research grants, and the like...
"Where Do All the Welfare Billions Go?" (Human Events, February 6, 1982) M. Stanton Evans
- Tri-Cities Unemployment Up 2013-2014
- Fourth quarter Job Disaster in Tri-Cities Bristol Virginia-Tennessee
- Bristol Spends Millions for Jobs - Gets Nothing
- Poor People the Big Loser in Appalachian Economics
- 'Good Old Boys' Rake in Millions Thousands Struggle in Bristol
- Poverty Wages Class Warfare in Bristol Virginia-Tennessee
- Cost of Living Versus Income in Bristol Virginia-Tennessee
- Virginia Republicans are Hypocrites on Welfare
- Poverty a Complicated Issue Bristol Virginia-Tennessee
- Inconvenient Truths about Race & Slavery
- How Liberals Betray Black Workers in Favor of Hispanic Voters
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International Pension Workshop
January 25 - 27, 2012 in Amsterdam
On January 25-27, 2012 Netspar organizes another Pension Workshop. This event will take place at the Marriott Hotel in Amsterdam.
On Wednesday January 25, Pierre Collin-Dufresne (Columbia University) and John Piggott (University of New South Wales) will give invited lectures. They will discuss dynamic asset allocation and accumulation and decumulation in retirement provision.
The second day of the workshop will be divided into academic sessions in the morning and early afternoon and a closing policy session on European supervision on pension funds. The third day is again scheduled for academic presentations.
For more information regarding this workshop, please contact Sylvia van Drogenbroek, Events Coordinator Netspar on 013-4663206 or via email email@example.com.


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As a Sophomore 2011-12: Indoor Track: Competed in five meets ... Finished 14th at the New England Championship (2/25) in the 60 meter hurdles event with a time of 8.56 ... Had a first place finish at the Giegengack Invitational (2/4) with a time of 8.38 in the 60 meter hurdles ... Set a mark of 6-2.00 in the high jump at the Sorlien Invitational (1/14), good enough for sixth place ... Finished 18th at the Sorlien Invitational (1/14), setting a time of 24.54 in the 200 meter dash ... Set a time of 8.48 in the 60 meter hurdles event at the Sorlien Invitational (1/14), earning him a good enough finish to qualify for the New England Championship.
As a freshman: Outdoor Track: Did not compete. Indoor Track: Did not compete.
Before UMass: A graduate of Winchester High School ... Was a senior year letter-winner for the Sachems ... As a senior was named a Division 2 State Champion ... Competed in hurdles, triple, and high jump as a Sachem ... Also played soccer and basketball.
Personal: Stephen Pratt Bigelow ... Born August 8, 1992 in Boston, Mass. ... Son of Robert and Nancy ... Brother to Daniel ... Plans to major in Sport Management.
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My question is whether to use TCP of UDP for my openVPN connection. I've set up a simple network for a startup company that allows users from the outside to acces the network via an openvpn server (in routing mode). The only thing users will do with the vpn is accessing files.
The priority is to keep the integrity of the files intact. With that in mind, should i use the UDP of TCP protocol for my vpn tunnel? I've read up on reliability-layer collisions (i.e. on http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/security-overview.html) but since tcp, the openvpn transport layer and the tunneled TCP session can all provide the reliability checks for me it leaves me wondering what would work best for me.
So, should i use TCP or UDP in this situation?
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Noguchi, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Robinson, along with remaining Discovery crewmembers, Commander Eileen Collins, Pilot Jim Kelly and Mission Specialists Andy Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and Charlie Camarda, worked on moving items from the Shuttle to the Station. They were helped by International Space Station Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA ISS Science Officer John Phillips.
Approximately six tons of hardware and equipment, including the 600-pound Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) that will be installed on the exterior of the Station during Monday's spacewalk, will be moved from Discovery to the Station. Just over three and a half tons of material, including the replaced CMG, will return to Earth aboard Discovery.
Noguchi, Robinson and Thomas prepared for Monday's spacewalk by setting up some of the tools they will use to install the new CMG outside the Station. Thomas will once again serve as coach and monitor inside Discovery during the spacewalk. Working from aboard the Station, Kelly and Lawrence will use the Station's Canadarm2 to maneuver Noguchi between the two spacecraft during the removal and installation of the CMGs. In preparation for that activity, Kelly and Lawrence "walked" the Station arm into position on the Destiny Laboratory. All nine crewmembers also participated in a review of spacewalk activities near the end of their working day.
Collins, Kelly and Camarda talked with reporters from ABC News, Fox News and NBC at about 5:40 a.m. CDT. About 7:25 a.m. Collins, Noguchi, Robinson and Phillips talked with CBS News, CNN and Discovery Channel.
Engineers and mission managers continued to analyze information about Discovery's thermal protection system. They have cleared the orbiter's tiles and a decision was expected later today on the analysis of reinforced carbon-carbon protection for the nose cone and wing leading edges.
Mission managers continue to look at two gap-filler areas. These coated-fiber gap fillers are used to keep hot gas from flowing into gaps in the thermal protection, in these two cases, in tile-protected areas. Two gap fillers are protruding, and teams are working to determine whether any action is required by the crew.


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Avant, a Cleveland School of the Arts graduate, will discuss his musical career, his influences, and his experiences – as well as perform two songs – in front of a live audience of high school students from the Cleveland School of Arts. Avant will be interviewed in the Rock Hall's Foster Theater by Rock Hall educator John Goehrke.


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College Hockey:Wolverines Crush Unpredictable Irish, 9-0
Cammalleri, Resurgent Kosick Notch Hat Tricks In Win
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Mike Cammalleri was done thinking about the game with five minutes still left on the clock.
The seventh-ranked Michigan Wolverines, set to face No. 1 Michigan State on Saturday, had the luxury of looking ahead after obliterating Notre Dame 9-0 Tuesday night at Yost Ice Arena.
"This is an exceptional night for this team," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. "[The offense] does give us that much more confidence."
The nine-goal margin of victory was the largest since the 1995-96 season, when Michigan slapped the Fighting Irish, 11-1.
The Wolverines improved to 18-6-4 overall (12-4-4 CCHA). Notre Dame dropped to 5-18-5, 3-12-4.
Sophomore John Shouneyia led the Michigan charge right out of the gates on a breakaway 1:09 into the game, his 11th goal of the year.
Two minutes later, a shot by captain Geoff Koch deflected off Mike Cammalleri's skate for Cammalleri's 16th of the season.
Mark Kosick added a slapper to make it 3-0 at the end of the first.
"We got down early, they got a few breaks, and we didn't really respond," Notre Dame junior David Inman said.
When asked why, Inman said, "I don't know. Our team, it's been an enigma."
What isn't an enigma is the power of the Michigan offense. Kosick and Cammalleri went on to record hat tricks, and Michigan's top line of Cammalleri, Koch and Andy Hilbert had 12 total points on the night.
For the evening, Michigan outshot Notre Dame 51-21.
"We did a lot of little things right," Kosick said. "That helps you score goals."
The night helped Kosick's confidence the most. After Berenson benched him just two weekends ago with only 14 points in 24 games, he has five points in the past two games playing on the fourth line.
"I don't think I should have been benched, but that was the coaches' decision," Kosick said. "It's been a tough ride for me. At the start of the year I was getting the same shots — they just weren't going in."
Kosick played a big part in helping the Wolverines tally four goals in the second period and two more in the third.
Notre Dame coach Dave Poulin pulled goaltender Kyle Kolquist after the fourth goal in favor of Jeremiah Kimento. Kimento then gave up five goals.
Dealing with a three-goaltender rotation, Poulin said he will start Tony Zasowski this weekend against Yale.
"If I thought one guy could do the job it wouldn't be a problem," Poulin said. "I sat them down at the beginning of January and said, 'If you win, you'll play.'"
At the other end, Michigan goaltender Josh Blackburn earned his third shutout in five games by halting Notre Dame on all 21 shots.
"Tonight was a big step back for us," Inman said. "We had made strides — the attitude is a lot better in recent weeks."
Notre Dame played tough with one win and a tie against No. 9 Western Michigan two weekends ago, and didn't perform poorly in a loss and a tie at Ohio State last week.
But Tuesday, the Notre Dame that had one win in 13 games reappeared.
"It's the same team as [the past two weeks]," Poulin said. "Is tonight an aberration? I hope it's an aberration."
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Louis Armstrong: Potato Head Blues
Potato Head Blues
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens (Columbia 44253)
Louis Armstrong (trumpet), Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Lil Hardin (piano), Johnny St. Cyr (banjo), Baby Dodds (drums),
John Thomas (trombone), Pete Briggs (tuba).
Composed by Louis Armstrong.
Recorded: Chicago, May 10, 1927
Rating: 100/100 (learn more)
In the 1890s, architect Louis Sullivan perceived that switching from masonry to steel-frame construction required an equally transformative aesthetic. The new methods and materials of modern high-rise skylines rendered historical design styles obsolete. In the 1920s, also in Chicago, another Louis similarly redrew America's musical landscape. Whereas Sullivan's triumph was the skyscraper, Armstrong's was the solo. This track finds him in mid-revolution, before his less visionary accompanists could adjust. With strumming banjo, oompah tuba, and strident, herky-jerky clarinet as flimsy foundation, Armstrong's trumpet rises as prodigiously as a gleaming girder amidst the crumbling masonry. Jazz would never be the same.
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
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- Louis Armstrong: Potato Head Blues by Ted Gioia (100/100)
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The "Hannibal" Season 1 finale, "Savoureux," made one thing clear: Dr. Lecter wins this round. But even with series creator Bryan Fuller's obvious preference for the unpredictable, we're still betting on Will Graham in the long run.
If it's hard to see exactly how Will (Hugh Dancy) can come back from this — now that he's stuck in a cell after being arrested for the… Continue reading 'Hannibal' Season 1 finale recap: What happened when Will went face to face with Lecter?


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More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD, an anxiety disorder induced by exposure to a traumatic event, such as witnessing injury or death) and traumatic brain injury (TBI, which is caused by sudden trauma to the head and is commonly sustained by service members exposed to explosions).
Some observers contend that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the health care system within the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the health care system for active-duty personnel within the Department of Defense (DoD) may not adequately screen, diagnose, and treat OCO service members and veterans affected by PTSD and mild TBI.
In a study requested by the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, CBO analyzes VHA's care of OCO patients diagnosed with PTSD or TBI and compares the reported rates of occurrence of those conditions within VHA with estimates of the prevalence of those conditions in the broader population of service members who have deployed to recent overseas contingency operations. The study also examines the costs that VHA has incurred in treating patients diagnosed with PTSD and TBI.
CBO's Findings
Through September 2011, about 740,000 recent veterans had been treated at VHA—approximately half of all recent veterans eligible for care within that health system. VHA spent about $2 billion in fiscal year 2010 (in 2011 dollars) to provide medical care to all recent combat veterans.
CBO finds that:
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The amounts above do not include initial care provided by DoD or care by other providers outside of VHA. For comparison, VHA estimates that the average cost of care in 2011 for veterans of all eras was $9,100.
VHA's average costs for patients were highest during the first year of their care and declined and then stabilized in subsequent years. In the data CBO analyzed, VHA's average costs for patients with TBI (including those with both TBI and PTSD) appear to increase in the third and fourth years. That result is probably generated by a policy change (occurring in the middle of the period CBO analyzed) related to screening for mild TBI. Without that change, costs for those patients would probably also have been highest during the first year of care and declined and stabilized thereafter.
Those results exclude about 500 patients with severe multiple injuries that received treatment in VHA's polytrauma centers; costs for those patients were significantly higher.
Uncertainly of the Prevalence of PTSD and TBI
CBO's study examines data from veterans who sought treatment at VHA. Those data may not be representative of the prevalence of PTSD and TBI in the overall population of recent veterans. Prevalence estimates gauge the proportion of cases of a disease or condition in a population, whether or not people have received a diagnosis from a medical professional.
A great deal of uncertainty surrounds the prevalence of PTSD and TBI within the population that deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Other researchers have estimated that:
This study was prepared by Elizabeth Bass and Heidi Golding of CBO's National Security Division.


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On Culture Night, the National Library of Ireland will launch 'Write in the City', a new series of Saturday creative writing workshops and writing classes aimed at would-be authors, poets and members of the public given by well-known creative writing teacher Yvonne Cullen.
To launch these classes (which will start on 22 October) 'taster readings' by some of Dublin's finest new writers ('graduates' of her Writing Train Writing Workshops) will take place in Cafe Joly on Culture Night. Further information at www.nli.ie


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Hello Mama! Mom's ready to cut loose, and she's ready to go all the way! She is a mother you would love to fuck, and she's gone absolutely, totally buck wild!
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BlackBerry Z10 for Verizon and AT&T leaked
The BlackBerry Z10 isn't exactly a mystery, as we've spotted images of it several times before. However, we haven't seen it with mobile carrier branding on it – until now.
Business Insider has managed to obtain photos of a Verizon-branded BlackBerry Z10, which stands next to Apple's iPhone 4S, and another Z10 (this is unbranded, but it is said to be made for AT&T). The RIM smartphone is significantly larger than the iPhone, as it accommodates a display that measures more than 4 inches.
According to Business Insider's sources, the build quality of the Z10 is "really nice", the display is "great", and the browser (which supports Flash) is very quick. The new BlackBerry OS 10 allows you to set-up separate profiles (for personal and work use), while the new BlackBerry AppWorld "looks a lot like" Google Play.
Another new RIM smartphone, possibly called BlackBerry X10, should join the Z10 in the company's BB 10 line-up, coming with a full QWERTY keyboard. Both the Z10 and X10 are expected to make their official debut on January 30, when Verizon and AT&T are likely going to reveal launch and pricing details.
Earlier today, RIM announced one if its last smartphones that don't run BlackBerry OS 10 (but OS 7.1): the entry-level Curve 9315 for T-Mobile USA. This will be released on January 23.


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This dress was purchased after I tried it on in the Chicago BHLDN store. I knew as soon as I saw it online that it would be perfect for my garden wedding. It was so light and comfortable, I didn't want to take it off. I hope someone else can wear and love the dress as much as I did.
- Alterations: I made a few alterations. I reduced the size of the train and hemmed the dress to fit my 5'8" height, with 2" heels. See pictures for the length of the train. Also, I had the straps narrowed slightly (they were wide/unflattering, this is well documented on the BHLDN site) and taken up less than an inch. I am small on top, 32B, and so the cups were ever so slightly taken in, and then HUGE padded inserts were added. These can easily be removed, so I'd say if you're up to a C cup, this dress could still work for you. However, for someone larger on top, this dress will probably not work. See BHLDN.com for more images.
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I wanted to type 'throw out the black liner' but then even I knew the absurdity of that statement. I changed that statement so that I would still be allowed entry into India.
When I was younger and practicing the art of make-up, my friend's younger sister would ask me bewildered: "What's the point of make-up if you can't tell you're wearing any." I was in high school and not allowed to wear anything and the few times I got to borrow my friends' make-up (insert eeewww noise here), I had to do it subtly. The point of this confession is that sometimes, we need to step out of the box a bit, and navy liner is something every, and I mean every, brown-eyed girl needs.
A deep, smouldering navy liner is perfect for the holidays (and upto your deathbed-trust me on this one). No brown-eyed girl should ever be without it. It makes the whites of your eyes pop and it somehow brings out gold and amber undertones to my brown eyes. And don't worry, it's subtle enough that you won't be jarred.
My favourite navy liners are:
Make Up For Ever Aqua Eyes in 3L
This is a beautiful iridescent navy pencil that stays put through a rainstorm (was wearing this once during a very bollywood moment where I was trying to be glamorous in the rain; luckily I was alone), a bit of crying after watching UP! (great movie by the way), and even a short nap. It's my go-to navy liner that I had to replace as I have worn my old one to a stub. As this is slightly more on the navy side than a blackened navy, you can always tone downt he look with black eyeliner or eyeshadow if you please.
Kevyn Aucoin The Precision Eye Definer in Dazzle
This looks as navy as the 3L pencil only it's a lot more deep and black. I would say that this is for those amongst the brown-eyed that are a bit trepidacious or are possibly in the process of writing concerned emails to me telling me that I should take one and only one of that little pill no matter how pretty it is. In all seriousness, this cream liner is great if you want that hypnotic gaze you get with navy liner without stepping too far from black. It looks more blue in the pot than it does on the skin. It also wears really well and is a great holiday/everyday essential.
image source: www.amazon.com
I wanted to type 'throw out the black liner' but then even I knew the absurdity of that statement. I changed that statement so that I would still be allowed entry into India.
5 comments:
- priya said...
thanx for the post,make me wanna try it!i stick to black usually ,but im gonna give it a try.9:13 AM
- Husha said...
Yay I already have blue liner!! I wore it the second week of high school & got a compliment everywhere I went (cafeteria, chem lab..bathroom!). It makes brown-eyed girls look like hot Egyptian queens.5:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have been using blue liner since I bought it. I use the drugstore brands Rimmel and L'Oreal... They r super cool. Somehow black looks weird on me now :)10:23 PM
- Frances said...
Totally agree. I loved navy liner and shadow on dark brown eyes. But this holiday season, I'm rocking a brilliant shimmery blue liner (Pupa Multiplay in 15, disgusting name, awesome product). It's so vibrant and really striking and makes your eyes look brown but not in the creepy possessed way.9:12 AM
Absolutely love your wedding makeup, btw. Congratulations!
- Musicalhouses said...
I love navy liner! I actually rarely wear black because it's so boring:)12:30 AM


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Dr. Who TriviaSep 11th, 2014 | By bdierks | Category: Teen Program Spotlight
Thursday, 9/25, 4-5 PM
Kids in grades 6-10! Test how well you know your Doctor Who with a fun-filled trivia game. Come with a team or we'll match you with other teens to play. Whotastic treats will be served and prizes awarded. Allons-y!


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Technote (FAQ)
When the OmniFind Enterprise Edition Search application is installed on a WebSphere Application Server cluster does it have to have access to a single index on the ICA master and does it make this a single point of failure?
When OmniFind Enterprise Edition Search application is installed to a cluster, the cluster has multiple search servers each having its own copy of the index. So the search nodes do not all access the index on the master node.
This means that the failure of the master node does not make it a single point of failure when it comes to search. The search application and search servers will still be available and up and running even though a failure occurs on the master node.


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