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U.S. stocks skidded to their fourth loss in five weeks, as concerns about a splintering Europe and the slackening U.S. recovery prompted investors to flee risky assets.
The selling accelerated Friday after investors were reminded that neither the Atlantic nor our benevolent Federal Reserve can shield us from Europe's noisy drama. As Europe's recession deepened, U.S. employers slowed the pace of hiring and added just 69,000 jobs in May, the least in a year, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2% (for more on this, see Economic Beat, "Jobs Data's Chilling Message"). By the closing bell, the Dow industrials had fallen into the red for the year, and crude oil and copper were plumbing fresh 2012 lows.
The alarm was even shriller in the bond market, where the lunge for safety drove the yield on 10-year Treasuries below 1.5%, a record. In Germany, yields on two-year bunds fell to zero, while its 30-year yield actually dipped below that of Japan. Just think: Investors are now willing to lend money for years to Washington or Berlin at no, or next to no, interest, even if factoring in inflation means that they'll take a loss.
At least one person is relieved; all this skittish selling has finally bumped from the financial front pages the botched debut of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook FB 0.17720499395892067% Facebook Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD124.37 0.22 0.17720499395892067% /Date(1471986000403-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13066738 AFTER HOURS USD124.42 0.0499999999999972 0.04020262121090295% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 242714 P/E Ratio 59.79326923076923 Market Cap 356429562290.892 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1746120 More quote details and news » (ticker: FB), even as its shares slipped to $27.72, almost 30% below the $38 at which they splashily went public.
Attention now turns to Greece's June 17 elections. Success by a pro-bailout coalition, with enough votes to stave off a default, could trigger a momentary relief rally. But any deviation from this script could fan the market's worst fears.
You'd think fresh bleeding from the tired, familiar scab that is Europe can't possibly shock or hurt much, but think again. Investors have been paring risk and are crouched in neutral, but most aren't bracing for a big setback. BofA Merrill Lynch's mid-May survey showed fewer global money managers expecting strong growth, and less than 10% saying that they're taking on above-average portfolio risk. Yet a recession isn't in their forecasts.
If Greece leaves the euro zone—which some on Wall Street deem unlikely but hardly impossible—banks could come under more pressure. Already, strategists estimate that a third of deposits have left Greek banks over three years. Unless the chain of events is arrested, banks in southern Europe might have to sell their government bonds to meet the outflow of deposits, pushing yields there even higher, notes Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial.
Last week, Credit Suisse nudged the odds of a Greek exit to 20% from 15%, but says there's just a 10% chance of a complete euro-zone breakup. JPMorgan pegged the odds of a Greek exit at 50%, but it thinks there's a less than 10% chance that this will lead to contagion in Spain and Italy.
Meanwhile, the brittle global recovery has increased calls everywhere for central banks to ride to the rescue. The scramble to shore up liquid assets lifted the buck to a two-year high against the euro, with the dollar index even higher today than in the summer of 2008, before our central bank embarked on its record bout of money printing. With markets shuddering in sync and the outcome in Europe hard to handicap, money managers would rather withdraw and wait. The result is a state of stasis, akin to paralysis.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended last week at 12119, a 2012 low, after losing 336 points, or 2.7%. The Standard & Poor's 500 fell 40 points, or 3%, to 1278. It has slumped 8.9% over the past five weeks and is up just 1.6% this year. The Nasdaq Composite lost 90 points, or 3.2%, and ended Friday at 2747, while the Russell 2000 fell 29 points, or 3.8%, to 737.
For all of May, losses totaled 6.2% for the Dow, 6.3% for the S&P 500, 7.2% for the Nasdaq, and 6.7% for the Russell.
GOLD'S REPUTATION AS A STORE of value has been burnished to a blinding gleam in this age of competitively depreciating paper currencies. So why is gold lately behaving more like a risky asset than a safe harbor?
Over the past year, gold prices have tended to spike or skid in lockstep with stocks and commodities—much more than with Treasuries. Stocks may have pulled back 10% since April 2, but that money hasn't gone toward gold, which is down 9% over the past three months.
Gold is still a compelling hedge against inflation in the long run. But since 2009, when central banks began printing reams of money to support their flailing economies, "investor enthusiasm has pushed the metal past fair value and into speculative territory," says Jack Ablin, Harris Private Bank's chief investment officer. "For that reason, gold appears to more closely resemble a risk asset, rather than a safe haven nowadays."
That guest-starring stint in the risky-asset soap opera won't end until the precious metal gets less out-of-whack with inflation expectations. Gold has far outgunned other commodities since 2008, and the ratio of gold prices relative to the CRB all-spot commodity index has leapt far ahead of year-over-year inflation. In the shorter term, the metal might have to trail other commodities to bring prices more in line with inflation, Ablin says.
Gold had also benefited from the surge in liquidity and emerging-market wealth, with demand especially rabid in India and China, so waning agricultural prices can thwart Asian hoarders.
Gold prices have repeatedly tested a key support level near $1,520 a troy ounce, notes Michael Shaoul, CEO of New York brokerage firm Oscar Gruss, and "our experience is that levels that are revisited time and again eventually give way."
THE THINNING ROSTER OF STOCKS scaling 52-week highs last week was dominated by defensive names like Scana (SCG), Wisconsin Energy WEC -0.6331168831168831% WEC Energy Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD61.21 -0.39 -0.6331168831168831% /Date(1471986059769-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 998400 AFTER HOURS USD61.21 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19080 P/E Ratio 21.78291814946619 Market Cap 19442191217.6209 Dividend Yield 3.2347655611828134% Rev. per Employee 869809 More quote details and news » (WEC), AT&T T -0.14666340747983378% AT&T Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD40.85 -0.06 -0.14666340747983378% /Date(1471986065644-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14724446 AFTER HOURS USD40.9 0.0499999999999972 0.12239902080783353% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 329044 P/E Ratio 17.645788336933045 Market Cap 251678319061.279 Dividend Yield 4.700122399020808% Rev. per Employee 577456 More quote details and news » (T) and Wal-Mart WMT -1.0041265474552958% Wal-Mart Stores Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD71.97 -0.73 -1.0041265474552958% /Date(1471986077789-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9304435 AFTER HOURS USD72.07 0.0999999999999943 0.1389467833819647% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 86955 P/E Ratio 15.477419354838709 Market Cap 226580225400.858 Dividend Yield 2.7789356676392942% Rev. per Employee 210362 More quote details and news » (WMT). In fact, the only sectors clinging to gains this quarter are telecoms and utilities. This defensive lineup, however, only makes more conspicuous the ascent of Bed Bath & Beyond BBBY 1.8452645620275678% Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD45.81 0.83 1.8452645620275678% /Date(1471986000277-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1353361 AFTER HOURS USD45.81 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 102040 P/E Ratio 9.1437125748503 Market Cap 6947700941.86615 Dividend Yield 1.0914647456887143% Rev. per Employee 195217 More quote details and news » (BBBY) to an all-time high.
The home-goods chain has defied expectations to rally 22% this year. Bed Bath had benefited from the downfall of rival Linens 'n Things, but investors have begun fretting about slowing growth, tougher comparisons and encroaching competition from Internet retailers.
When Bed Bath recently agreed to buy Cost Plus (CPWM) for $550 million, detractors took the acquisition—its largest to date—as a tacit admission that management had run out of ideas for growing the business.
Yet Cost Plus may prove to be money well spent, because Bed Bath has no debt and a cash pile equal to 11% of its stock-market value.
Cost Plus became profitable over the past two years after a string of annual losses, and the underappreciated discounter earns 60% of its sales from home furnishings, many of them private-label, and another 40% from consumables.
Analysts expect it to expand Bed Bath's food offering and merchandise sourcing. Its 260 stores are often smaller than Bed Bath's superstores, but their choice real estate could come in handy for expanding other Bed Bath businesses like Buy Buy Baby.
At about 71, Bed Bath shares fetch just 15 times projected profits—compared with their median of 17.5 times over the past decade. Credit Suisse recently nudged up its projected 2013 profits to $5.37 from $5.15 and applied a 17 times multiple to the stock to arrive at a price target of 91.
Bed Bath & Beyond, of course, isn't the only consumer stock to shine. Investors have been dumping energy and industrial issues hitched to global growth, but many still hope that our housing and jobs markets will continue to mend, and that Fed-coddled Americans will keep shopping, even as Europe burns.
As a result, consumer discretionary is the year's top sector, joining staples as the only groups to far surpass their prior bull-market peaks.
Sherwin-Williams SHW 1.125429851679461% Sherwin-Williams Co. U.S.: NYSE USD291.13 3.24 1.125429851679461% /Date(1471986121667-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 719241 AFTER HOURS USD290 -1.13 -0.38814275409610827% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2649 P/E Ratio 24.98969957081545 Market Cap 26549792966.051 Dividend Yield 1.1541235874008176% Rev. per Employee 283752 More quote details and news » (SHW) also jumped to a 52-week high. While it's classified as a materials stock, the maker of paint and coatings earns much of its revenue from paint stores and is, at heart, a consumer business. Environmentally friendly new products and a splashy collaboration with HGTV have helped the well-run company. First-quarter profits rose 47%.
But universal acclaim has a downside, because it makes some investors question whether the stock is overbought. The stock is up 40% this year, outstripping gains of 24% for home-furnishing shares and 16% for speciality chemicals. The shares fetch 20.2 times projected profits, a 14-year high multiple that is double that of Dupont DD 0.7005003573981415% E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD70.44 0.49 0.7005003573981415% /Date(1471986068555-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4391745 AFTER HOURS USD70.44 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 45798 P/E Ratio 27.952380952380953 Market Cap 61159031935.6537 Dividend Yield 2.1578648495173196% Rev. per Employee 474096 More quote details and news » (DD). And Sherwin-Williams' enterprise value is a staggering 13.2 times cash flow. Such glossy valuations assume a picture-perfect housing recovery and the ability to keep passing higher raw-materials costs to shoppers.
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The Dow's fourth loss in five weeks wiped out all its 2012 gains. With Europe in turmoil and U.S. jobs growth slowing, the blue chips slipped 6.2% in May.
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iGuy for iPod mini joins the family
Speck Products today added a new version of its iGuy posable "friend" for Apple's iPod mini. The white rubberized toy/case features bendable arms and legs, docking capability and a screen protector. iGuy mini is priced at $34.95 and fits both 4GB and 6GB iPod minis.
"Since our explosive iGuy release in May, mini iPod owners have been anticipating the release of iGuy mini," said Tim Hickman, general manager of Speck. "The iGuy mini is even more portable than his big brother. The smaller size makes it much lighter and easier to carry around."
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Posted by Bob Levens on July 5, 2005 at 5:56 PM (CDT)
i think it's cute
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iBono for the U2 pod
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These iGuys are awesome. Really a cool a unique device.
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Is this the sequel? Revenge of the iGuy?
Posted by FahrenheiPod 451 on July 5, 2005 at 10:08 PM (CDT)
The iGuy might be fun to have… if it was $10, not $35!
Posted by Galley on July 6, 2005 at 1:14 AM (CDT)
if any dudes actually like this u r ghey
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Perfect for those who always wanted to replay a little SNL Mr. Bill skit with their iPod/Mini.
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Er, meanwhile, the 'toilet' reference is great, symbolically appropriate AND cool at the same time. And the concept of Claymation possibilities with your iPod/Mini…Speck has a winner (assuming that the material they use is better than that KRATON garbage they use in other products).
Posted by flatline response on July 6, 2005 at 8:04 AM (CDT)
Really cool! Hey, it's just a fun cover for your gadget. You either like it or you don't. Either is fine. As for me, I can dig it, I'd buy it.
Posted by Andipod on July 6, 2005 at 8:33 AM (CDT)
Wait… Wait… didn't the iGuy only sell as you could give a it a face on a {iPod} photo?
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ghjcrazy said:Wait… Wait… didn't the iGuy only sell as you could give a it a face on a {iPod} photo?
Hay let's not give these Nutballs anymore ideas!
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ghjcrazy said:Wait… Wait… didn't the iGuy only sell as you could give a it a face on a {iPod} photo?
Hay let's not give these Nutballs anymore ideas!
Posted by Ichijoe on July 6, 2005 at 11:30 AM (CDT)
The picture says it all, really.
I don't like your iPod Toilet Man, but I'll defend to the death your right to buy it! :)
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
5:21 pm
Finished watching Flash season 1
Aaaand I am not excited right now.
I'm actually kind of ugh.
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This show did not choose the best things.
I disliked the ending.
And felt it didn't make entire sense.
Even emotionally.
It was creepy and inadequate about disability, and not even because of the source text, just, because it felt like it.
Spending a whole season lying to Iris is creeptastic and got worse and worse and made less and less sense as it went along.
Waiting until the next to last episode to point out the legal and moral problems of locking people up in your basement was rather ducking the problem. And again, that whole thing happened because their solution was secrecy, and far more secrecy than even made sense. If knowledge was keeping the mundanes alive within the team then it really should have been useful to the police in general, you know?
And I kind of don't care about the characters. I mean, they don't actively suck, but they didn't click with me. Some of this is being very bored of love triangles, and some is the ages of characters, and some is just... *shrug*, it isn't working for me.
So now I'm kind of cranky and want to do something different with the pieces.
Which is how I feel about most DC adjacent media, lately.
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
9:11 pm
Painkillers are awesome.
In related news, the later part of my birthday was a bit not awesome.
But that's okay, I watched a bunch more Flash anyway.
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Happy Birthday to Me :-)
It's my birthday :-)
So far I have woken up serenaded by road drills and the weird vibration of our whole building.
So, omens... good?
It's also the annual day I have to figure out how to make Facebook work or all my relatives think I'm ignoring them. Which effectively I am, but only because Facebook never feels like working.
My employee dropped off a birthday card yesterday, and I'm getting an Avengers card on Thursday, and I ordered a whole bunch of presents that will arrive some time this week, so, going to be doing pretty good.
But first today is cleaner day, so, very happy birthday to me...
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Monday, August 22nd, 2016
10:35 pm
The Flash: Ongoing thoughts
It is really awkward fancying Captain Cold, of all people.
Like, just, really. Awkward.
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A wolf, a reverend, and an estate agent walk into a Fae bar...
Today's dream started with house hunting. Which was mostly frustration and ugh. But then the estate agent showed us this place that at first I thought was the
, because okay, two bedroom flat on the unthank, sounds fine, but it's over what looked like a butchers shop. And smelled, from the car park out front, like a butchers shop. With the windows all papered over from the inside, so possibly not a shop right at that minute, but that would just mean you wouldn't know who your neighbours were. Plus, have you ever tried getting somewhere to
smelling like a butchers shop? So I was like *raised eyebrow* at the estate agent, and they explained that the price? The in my price range price? Was for the flat
and the shop, with tenant
. At which point the place became both more interesting and
more likely to be woeful.
... I have seen a lot of houses. In my price range on the unthank? Has
So we went inside... and the smell magically cut off when the door closed. It was... nice. Dark, but nice. And out the side there was an archway to a conservatory, which had the side windows papered but the roof merely dirty, so it was getting a bunch of sun. There was a table in there, suitable for half a dozen people to sit around playing RPGs. And in the dark shop part there was an old counter, with scars like for butchers knives, but behind it there were a few taps, like a pub. But it didn't smell like a pub either. It just smelled, like, nice and clean and with wooden furniture. That seldom happens. (Very. Seldom.)
I looked through the archway beside the counter, and behind it was a little corridor with doors at both ends to the outside, and across the corridor were a couple of little rooms, so back there was a kitchen and some storage. And the doors led to stairs, so getting to my place would mean going through the same door as the downstairs people, but it was just nice and white and cool back there, tiled floor but nothing nasty looking about it. I kept wondering what the catch was.
And then when I wandered back into the not-bar I saw Oz. Werewolf Oz. Who, in my dreams, was my ex from High School. And also didn't appreciate being called Oz, it was Michael now. And me recognising him made the pattern of who was tense and relaxed change across the half dozen people there, including the guy behind the counter, who I realised was wearing a really interesting hat which seemed maybe to have bumps underneath?
And long story short, I was being shown around a Fae bar, on the Unthank, in Norwich.
Which explained the price they were asking, I mean, they'd probably paid off the mortgage a hundred years ago, and keeping up with the latest market prices wouldn't seem that urgent.
So obviously I was going to try and buy the place, even without seeing the flat, and with the stairs, because wow was this the most interesting place I was likely to find.
... awake me would prioritise insisting on a good survey first. And checking it got deep cleaned. It's no bother to me what Fae were eating in there, I just don't want it squelching or stinking up the place after.
So after that there was a whole chased by bears sequence that honestly I could have lived without, but then there was the part where Fae were asked to vote on me becoming Fae, and only 36% voted to agree I could, so I figured that was All Done, but then only 36% voted for me to stay human, and the others either didn't care or wanted to see what would happen. So that added up to a vote to make me half? Fae? Which I hadn't thought was an option. But I'd be short lived but awesome, or long lived but pretty much human. And different people were, like, trying to influence things one way or the other, with offering me weird eats, or just with the kisses offering themselves. And I was not at all keen on the one guy, tall blonde and uptight, who wanted me upgraded so I'd be suitable for him. Because no? Not how it works? How about he tries to get me to like him first? He does not get to design me to order just because he's uncomfortable fancying someone my species. But I was pretty keen on Oz, whatever he was calling himself now, and he was way more relaxed about the whole thing. Like, he's a shapeshifter, even if I became a shifter I might be any kind of shifter, it's all cool by him. But it wasn't up to either of them, it was up to the designer.
Yes, Fae had a designer.
I'd spent a whole bunch of the dream complaining about the design flaws of various Fae, and how I'd like to give Ruper of Wales a piece of my mind, and then he was going to turn up and I'd get a chance to, but only if I wanted him to be really annoyed while he was designing
But then of course he turned out to be Giles, whose Fyarl form was pretty much his natural form, but he could usually switch more smoothly and not be locked in such a bad mood. His Int and Strength stats pretty much swapped when he shifted, so he usually found his squishier human self more versatile.
But he was like a genetic engineer, only for Fae, so they were using magic and had only recently become acquainted with the underlying principles at the base pair level, and had in fact found Fae genetics not explicable by existing human science, so they were quite excited. And he was going to be using his new upgraded understanding to design me.
So that... that's a setup with
Like, I always dislike the vaguely aristo logic of the born-different settings, but if they're actually just really advanced genegineers, well, then it gets
Plus the different courts would, like, court you, and try and persuade you to upgrade into the specific styles they'd find useful. And there'd be people thinking up new ways to combine old packages. And of course you could be the violet eyed shapeshifter faerie queen of your dreams, if you fancied... and live with the consequences.
So now I totally want to play with this one.
... also, I totally want that self funding flat on the unthank. That would be awesome. Especially with the no alcohol pub downstairs.
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6:15 pm
Sunday worked
We had a food, but mum can't eat anything from the cafe any more so that's less fun.
We did a shoppings, and I think I remembered the things I wanted.
And we went home and watched Avengers Assemble.
... I'm not really feeling it any more. I mean, I like the characters, and there's some great whoosh boom once they're actually fighting the bad guys, but the parts where they're fighting each other? Ugh. So tired of that. They keep doing that. Over and over and over. So many films, so many episodes, so many hero on hero fights. Writers need to be better than that.
... yeah, that's honestly all I have to say about Avengers any more. Let them fight bad guys and I might get back on board.
But aside from that, yaay Sunday.
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Saturday, August 20th, 2016
10:53 pm
The Flash
Have watched more of The Flash.
The problem is that Flash is darker than Supergirl, and Arrow is darker than Flash, and I like
, so it's just not wearing off that I keep noticing all the ways this is markedly inferior.
Also the whole concept that the Flash and Arrow have their own prisons? That... that makes them the villain. Right there. That is a line, and they cross it blithely and with confidence.
Granted the Arrow also shoots people, but the show at least has noticed that's a morally problematic act.
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Also? Secret identities - ugh. But the thing is in this show the secret identity is only a secret from, like, one person. For some reason they're not telling the girl. Because she is special precious flower who must be protected? That's suck.
I'm having trouble playing along with the bits that are supposed to be fun because there's all these problems just lying around. It's annoying.
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I know superheroes, as a genre, are basically 'let's solve problems with violence!'
But Batman as a fantasy of justice specifically works against his context: he's in the most violent and corrupt version of America's nightmares, fighting crime without a gun and with a specific commitment not to kill, and he isn't interested in making money out of it.
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Friday, August 19th, 2016
8:09 pm
Now my arm hurts
which I guess makes sense
since in the last few days I have lifted, moved, opened, lifted, moved, and reshelved, a couple hundred books, both singly and in batches.
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My books: The Final Count!
2032 books :-D
I have catalogued 2032 books :-D
And there is a very good chance that that is
the books :-D
... I mean, lets face it, it's never all the books
but it is all the boxes, all the bookcases, all the shelves
gone through at least once and put into LibraryThing.
... is there a way to back up LibraryThing?
... not that I'm paranoid, it's just the first time in my life the catalog is a near approximation of reality...
There's still all the magazines, the Analog, F&SF, Galaxy, IF, Asimov's and Venture
and those will go in the LibraryThing, probably, but I may have to type them all in manually, which was the case for far too many of the last couple of shelves and takes half way to forever. The idea of adding manually a whole bookcase of magazines, which are skinny and very numerous... oooooh, that's going to take a run up.
So for a while the number of books in the catalogue maybe might go down instead of up.
I mean, that seems fundamentally unnatural, but I've given away several feet of books by now, on account of them being actually rather boring.
Since everything is in the catalogue from now on if I decide anything else is boring the count might go down.
... but it's entirely possible for me to go to a book shop once a week if I feel like it, so let's face it, that number is unlikely to shrink much.
I am doing a happy dance
and I texted my mum
because this is a momentous occasion.
All! The! Books!
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I thought I only had 7 books left to go
then I found 3 uncatalogued books
on a catalogued shelf
so now I don't even know
I'm just going to have to check every single book over again
*big sigh*
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6:38 pm
The Flash
Today I bought season 1 of the Flash, because it was in ASDA for reasonable moneys.
So far I have watched two episodes, and it's pretty okay.
I mean,
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Hmmm, that actually covers quite a lot of stuff so far.
But it has ethnic diversity, and superpowers, and that's a nice start.
It is yet another show that makes me (a) notice how long it has been since last time I saw that guy (b) feel like past a certain point one does not get to be the protagonist and (c) feel old when I realise the young and theoretically attractive people are only seeming young to me.
... it's my birthday next week, I'm not keen on this whole time passing bit, it's a thing.
Also it's nice how Barry has that little speech to the guy that raised him about how doing all that work makes him kind of like his dad, but then that leaves him having romantic feelings for his kind of like a sister, and that part seems not cool to me. Seems like a weird setup.
I guess this is why I didn't watch this show before, I bounced off the not-quite.
But I have run out of Supergirl and this has costumes.
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I did a shoppings
and threw things away at the recycle centre, which is Difficult.
I now own three more books, with £10 off because voucher,
and two new tabletop games.
That is all the games I'm buying until I actually acquire friends to play them with.
... it seems like a reasonable hope, so...
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11:12 pm
Norwich Science Fiction Group
went to SF group, did a talking
pretty successful
there has been many weeks it is just the one other person lately
maybe needing to find more people?
but as long as I keep watching and reading new things then I'll have new things to say every couple of weeks, so that should work out...
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How do you even find a new people to follow these days?
... the pervasive feeling all the people gone away aside.
I tried finding stuff on tumblr and it's like epic no use.
But I watched Supergirl and now want to find people who will also squee about my happy place
but it turns out to be difficult.
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Big Finish Audio: Doctor Who: The Entropy Plague
Pretty good story, told in a pretty rubbish way.
It was told in flashback with a framing story. It was like the whole story flinched and it got told in the most distant possible way. It's difficult to have a feels about it when it's both trying not to have them and detailing at some length exactly which variety of sentiments one should have by the end, in voiceover, as a letter to someone who will never get it (awwww)(:eyeroll:).
On the other hand, these three stories together are all about trade offs, sacrifice, saving the many by losing the few. They poke at it a lot, which ways are heroic and voluntary and which are, well, stupid, and which are actually evil. It's an interesting theme set with a theoretically good conclusion, it's just told really poorly this one time.
My face is mostly puzzled face right now, because why did they do that the rubbish way?
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7:58 pm
Doctor Who audios
Listened to two today
Mistfall I didn't find very interesting, but I was concentrating on LibraryThing and accidentally replayed 8 minutes of it because I couldn't find the more precise controls for the CD player, which obviously would impact my feelings about the pace rather. Even so it seemed like an average adventure, so it's doing okay.
I liked Equilibrium better. It's about a society in a closed system, where the arrival of 4 new travellers must lead to 4 deaths. But being Doctor Who the Doctor just rejects the premise, and gets away with it eventually. Which seems a bit like ducking the answer. I mean, they're on an ice place where the food is really skimpy, they'd be run right up against the limits of their resources at some point. Making the solution just pressing some buttons seems like ducking. But they could live at a much higher tech level and make better use of resources and have more people survive, so it's not cheating. And I liked the characters and how they were cold and sympathetic by turns. Also Nyssa had her moment of connection to the story and themes and stuff, and the Doctor had a moment of self doubt, and those are nice character moments. I gave it 4/5 stars.
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1995 books :-)
I added 50 books while listening to Doctor Who.
Now there's only two shelf lengths left of books, so less than 100, I think :-)
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This morning started kind of poorly, with a nightmare where Superman got shot
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So once I woke up I had to write that in my head until things were much better than that. Like, clearly Kryptonians have healing nanotech, Clark would be fine, obviously, he's always fine. But that was really upsetting.
So then my day started late, which wasn't cool.
but I'm up, I'm clean, I'm dressed, I started Cleaner Day appropriately, and I remembered to clean out the fridge and put all the new cutlery in the dishwasher before I started it. So that's working.
It's weirdly annoying having nightmare feelings hangover. Like, I know full well it's all imaginary stuff that isn't even wrong, but feelings just had a really bad thing happen in front of them and are kind of ... like bad smell, trying to stick around.
Last night I went looking for Supergirl fanfic, but found despite an actual strong presence of f/f that none of it is my happy place. I haven't figured what my happy place would be.
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Mostly I'm just having a feelings and some of them are not nice
but I liked Supergirl so there's nice feelings around as well
so that's nice.
Cleaner is here, I can stop rambling and go do something useful.
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9:19 pm
Yaay Supergirl!
I need some Supergirl icons :-)
I finished watching Supergirl season 1 :-)
... wait, I
watching :-(
But, Supergirl!
*happy eee noises*
See, I know it's not perfect, but I really like the stuff it does well, so it is a happy place, and all about hope and love and stronger together :-)
Also sometimes there's a moment where they're either going to do a really bad thing or a really good one, and they choose the good one! :-)
... yes, that was indeed the ! of happy surprise. I have watched
so many thing
that did not acknowledge the plausible possibility of the good ones.
So many
So Supergirl is a happy place and I am all *happy eee*
Except for the thing where I have finished it and must now wait for any more.
There were so many women!
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So the series before this one that I watched through was Lost Girl, so now I'm imagining a show with as many women as Supergirl and as much bi kissing as Lost Girl.
... I may imagine that at some length, later.
... *blinks*
But I'm still just *happy eee* about Supergirl.
The only thing I noticed though is I keep reading everyone as
so young
except for, like, Cat and Eliza and Alex. ... I may be possibly a lot <3 about Alex. Which is weirdly awkward if I think about it too hard because I have longstanding appreciation of both of her character's parents actors / other characters, so that's, like... *blinks* *a lot*
... like, basically, it is making me think about my age, in the weeks running up to my birthday.
... aaaaand I just paused to blink a lot and look up a lot of ages.
But! Basically! Everyone is pretty and their characters are nice and I like everyone and this is such a fun playground and *happy bouncing yaays*
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Luke very much looked like a monk/hermit
I'm ashamed to say despite spending large amounts of time in my life in that part of the world, I've never been on it...
and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Got an offer for cheap now TV movie sub so I've been catching up on films I've missed.
I was expecting it to be a bit shite after all the production trouble but it was fun. Not the best Marvel movie but by no means the worst. It had an interesting spin on Hank Pym's story for the comic fans and Paul Rudd is always watchable.
The Martian
Also really enjoyable. I've read the book before and thought that Matt Damon would be good and he was. It's rare to see a hard sci fi movie with such a warm tone. If I was to look for a flaw it's that it's a bit light on the actual science compared to the book but that's ok.
Fast and Furious 7
Absolutely ludricous, it's not really worth pointing out the logical flaws in a movie where they parachute a Dodge Charger trophy truck out of a plane . I've always been a fan of the F&F movies and I liked this but I think they may be tipping over too far into the silliness with the stunts and famous faces. It felt a bit like an Expendables movie which isn't really a good thing imo.
American Sniper
Pretty disappointed with this. I've always enjoyed Clint Eastwood movies but this felt like a poor effort from him. It didn't have his usual style. I don't generally like modern war movies (as in ones set in post 9/11 Middle East) so it may be my problem, I think Hurt Locker is the only one I've really enjoyed. It wasn't a terrible movie but considering that Eastwood has made 4 of my all time favourite movies it was disappointing.
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Sicario - Saw this on netflix and thought we'd give it a go, it showed the potential to be a 8 or 9 out of 10 movie with the way it built up the suspense and mystery about what was going to happen and how everyone was aligned. Didn't quite hit the highs that it promised in the end but still an enjoyable watch. 7 out of 10.
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Looks like that rainbow ends on top of the church of scientology. Also: in before the global warming deniers.
Seriously though, I live in Glendale and it's been really lovely the last couple of days to walk outside my door and see on the mountain.
It looks like two seasons happening at the same time. Double seasons! Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh god. What does this mean? Oh. Oh my god. Oh. Oh. God.
Double seasons are ok… i guess…if you haven't seen double planets, that is:
That snow / hail must have been at least partially liquid, otherwise a rainbow wouldn't have formed.
I believe the hail was on the Valley side of the hill (the back of the Hollywood sign) while the weather and temperature were different on the city side of the hill, hence the rainbow.
Just yesterday, there was an icy biting coldness to the air but when I went over to the Valley, it was cold however easily 10 degrees warmer than just a few miles away. What a difference a mountain range going through a city makes.
Great shot 'trano. He plays well with that there Hollywood sign.
What, no unicorn?
A different view from yesterday.
I had heard on Friday that we might see a "light dusting of snow on the Hollywood sign" over the weekend, so I was looking forward to some nifty images.
But I find myself strangely disappointed. Last August we had record-breaking high temperatures in L.A. which felt just comfortably toasty to me. Did we actually have close to record lows this weekend? I could swear it felt chilly, but not record-stretchingly so. Have I actually become even less sensitive to temperatures in my old age?
Still, the San Gabriels have been postcard-picturesque as a result. Just as our beaches make decent foregrounds for our sunsets (but aren't necessarily things you'd want to swim near), we here in L.A. keep our snow sensibly dusted over our nearby mountain ranges, where we don't have to shovel it, but we can occasionally look at it.
It's all image out here.
Oh great, they'll get 2mm of snow, and they'll start to call it Snowzilla, or something.
/Here, at least 160 cm, just for the month of February.
OMG, it was SO cold here when I went for my bike ride, I ended up wearing my hoodie all the way, when usually I take it off a couple of miles into it. I nearly died.
I nearly died.
Our grandkids can't wait to hear us tell the tale again and again and again…
Actually, the overnight low temps didn't get quite as low as the models were predicting. None of the reporting stations south of the San Gabriels even hit freezing. Nowhere near a record, even for the date.
OTOH, it definitely did snow at ~600 ft on the floor of the San Fernando Valley. We got about half an inch in northern Studio City, and parts of Burbank got an inch or so. There was just a single train of convective cells popping up off the Santa Monicas and traveling east by northeast over the east Valley. Dusted the Verdugos all sparkly-white in the sunset.
Not the first time it's happened – parts of the Valley floor got accumulations of up to a foot back in the late '40s.
And, yes, it was snow, not hail. Watched it come floating down. Small crystals and occasional drifts of bigger fluffy flakes. Very delicate.
The dark truth, of course, is that it's LA's dirty little secret: the weather sucks.
(For rather pathetically wussy values of "sucks", of course.)
Wow. I just read Schmidt's article. And that is one pathetic wuss.
To my way of thinking, "terrible" weather is the kind that costs lives, destroys property, and makes people wonder why they ever chose to live in such a deadly hellhole. We have earthquakes to serve those ends. We had the merest powdered-sugar-dusting of snow (the first in decades, maybe) while much of the rest of the nation has spent weeks buried under yards of the stuff. We've had something like a decent few splashes of rain, but the river has not been in danger of flooding the basin, and I'm still only allowed to water the lawn a couple days a week.
We have no monsoon season like parts of Arizona. We have no hurricane season like the entire southeast. We have no frozen-solid-ice-storm-snowpocalypse like the northeast and the midwest. We have no tornado season. What do we have? Santa Anas and June Gloom. Scary!
I'm reminded of some serious L.A. rain that fell during early spring 1992. There's a gate that stands near where Burbank Boulevard crosses the 405 freeway near the Sepulveda Dam. Burbank Boulevard descends after the gate into a floodplain there, and as the water rose behind the dam that rainy day, the Army Corps of Engineers stationed there wondered when the LAPD or CHP planned on closing the gate. And while the water continued rising, the cops wondered why the Army didn't close the gate. Eventually the water rose so high that people had to be airlifted off their submerged vehicles on Burbank Blvd, because the gate had never been closed in all its many decades of existence, because the road had never flooded before and nobody could remember who had the authority to close it. The floodplain hadn't flooded in so long, there were two golf courses built within it.
Things like that almost qualify as "terrible weather," but they're more noteworthy because of their rarity. Here it is now, March 1, three weeks remaining of winter, and it's sunny and clear and in the high sixties. And not for the first, tenth, or even thirtieth time this year.
Any of you folks north of the Mason-Dixon line been able to step outside in your shirtsleeves in the last four months?
Terrible weather in L.A. my cracked ass.
If February is only disappointing because it's below normal, you have good weather. When an above average February still makes you wonder why the air hates you, then we can talk.
wait, a rainbow in front of land, can that happen, i thought they existed only in the eye and that effect made them effectively infinitely far off.
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CLEVELAND, March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A study by Cleveland Clinic researchers shows bariatric surgery is a highly effective and durable treatment for type 2 diabetes in obese patients, enabling nearly all surgical patients to be free of insulin and many to be free of all diabetic medications three years after surgery.
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The STAMPEDE (Surgical Therapy And Medications Potentially Eradicate Diabetes Efficiently) trial was simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented today at the Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in Washington, D.C.
The study also shows that bariatric surgery patients experienced an improvement in quality of life and a reduction in the need for cardiovascular medications to control blood pressure and cholesterol compared to those receiving medical therapy. As a result, patients in the surgery groups used less cardiovascular and glucose-lowering medications – 5 to 10 percent were on insulin compared to 55 percent of the patients in the medical therapy group.
Obesity is the main trigger for type 2 diabetes. Given that an estimated one in every three adults in the United States is obese, health experts developed the term "diabesity" to talk about this epidemic. According to the American Diabetes Association, as many as one in three American adults will have diabetes in 2050 if present trends continue.
"We see patients whose lives are ravaged by diabetes. At the three-year mark, this study shows that bariatric surgery is more effective with persistent benefits noted up to 3 years for treating type 2 diabetes in moderate and severely obese patients when compared to medical therapy," said Sangeeta Kashyap, M.D., one of the lead investigators and an endocrinologist at Cleveland Clinic's Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute. "More than 90 percent of the patients who underwent bariatric surgery were able to lose 25 percent of their body weight and control their diabetes without the use of insulin and multiple diabetes drugs."
To date, the STAMPEDE study is the largest randomized trial with one of the longest follow-ups comparing medical therapy with bariatric surgery. The trial initially involved 150 overweight patients with poorly controlled diabetes. The patients were divided into three groups: 1) Fifty patients received intensive medical therapy only, including counseling and medications; 2) Fifty patients underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and received medical therapy; 3) Fifty patients underwent sleeve gastrectomy and received medical therapy.
Effectiveness was gauged by the percentage of patients who achieved blood sugar control, defined in this study as hemoglobin HbA1c level of less than or equal to 6.0 percent – a more aggressive target than the American Diabetes Association's guidelines. HbA1c is a standard laboratory test that reflects average blood sugar over three months.
At the three-year mark, more patients in the gastric bypass group (37.5 percent) achieved blood sugar control without the use of any diabetic medications compared with the other two groups -- 5 percent of the patients in the medical therapy group and 24.5 percent of the patients in the sleeve gastrectomy group. This correlates with a weight loss five to six times greater on average for patients who underwent bariatric surgery compared with those in the intensive medical therapy group.
"The three-year data confirm that bariatric surgery maintains its superiority over medical therapy for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in severely obese patients," said lead investigator Philip Schauer, M.D., Director of the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute. "Moreover, data show that bariatric surgery is as effective in treating type 2 diabetes in patients with mild obesity. That's why Cleveland Clinic health insurance plan now covers bariatric surgery for its members with mild obesity and uncontrolled diabetes."
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"We looked at quality of life, because ultimately it is all about helping our patients live a healthier, happier life," said Dr. Schauer. "When compared to sleeve gastrectomy and medical therapy, gastric bypass patients achieved greater weight loss, were on fewer medications, had a higher success rate in controlling their diabetes, and an improved quality of life."
In addition, new data looked at kidney function, measured by the amount of albumin in the urine and a marker of kidney damage due to diabetes. Albumin level was significantly lower in the gastric bypass group only.
Cleveland Clinic researchers have been at the forefront of research in this field. In addition to leading the STAMPEDE trial, pioneering Cleveland Clinic-led research includes a study showing for the first time that bariatric surgery can markedly improve type 1 diabetes, with some patients reducing their insulin intake by more than 60 percent. The results were published in the March 2014 issue of Diabetes Care.
A substudy of STAMPEDE, published in Diabetes Care in 2013, found that gastric bypass surgery reverses diabetes by uniquely restoring pancreatic function in moderately obese patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes.
Further research is needed to continue to advance the study of bariatric surgery as a treatment option for patients with diabetes.
More information on the STAMPEDE clinical trial can be found at clevelandclinic.org/stampede.
The STAMPEDE study was funded by Ethicon, part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, through its Metabolic Applied Research Strategy (MARS) program. The NIH grant number is R01 DK089547.
Dr. Schauer is a paid consultant for Ethicon.
About Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic is a nonprofit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, it was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. Cleveland Clinic has pioneered many medical breakthroughs, including coronary artery bypass surgery and the first face transplant in the United States. U.S.News & World Report consistently names Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation's best hospitals in its annual "America's Best Hospitals" survey. More than 3,000 full-time salaried physicians and researchers and 11,000 nurses represent 120 medical specialties and subspecialties. The Cleveland Clinic health system includes a main campus near downtown Cleveland, eight community hospitals, more than 75 Northern Ohio outpatient locations, including 16 full-service Family Health Centers, Cleveland Clinic Florida, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Cleveland Clinic Canada, and, currently under construction, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. In 2012, there were 5.1 million outpatient visits throughout the Cleveland Clinic health system and 157,000 hospital admissions. Patients came for treatment from every state and from more than 130 countries. Visit us at www.clevelandclinic.org. Follow us at www.twitter.com/ClevelandClinic.
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The emerging Internet of Everything creates tremendous new opportunities for customer engagement and business model innovation. However, enterprises must overcome a number of critical challenges to bring these new solutions to market. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Michael Martin, CTO/CIO at nfrastructure, outlined these key challenges and recommended approaches for overcoming them to achieve speed and agility in the design, development and implementation of Internet of Everything solutions wi...
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DevOps at Cloud Expo, taking place Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 19th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long dev...
Aug. 26, 2016 12:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,259
Cloud computing is being adopted in one form or another by 94% of enterprises today. Tens of billions of new devices are being connected to The Internet of Things. And Big Data is driving this bus. An exponential increase is expected in the amount of information being processed, managed, analyzed, and acted upon by enterprise IT. This amazing is not part of some distant future - it is happening today. One report shows a 650% increase in enterprise data by 2020. Other estimates are even higher....
Aug. 26, 2016 12:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,901
I wanted to gather all of my Internet of Things (IOT) blogs into a single blog (that I could later use with my University of San Francisco (USF) Big Data "MBA" course). However as I started to pull these blogs together, I realized that my IOT discussion lacked a vision; it lacked an end point towards which an organization could drive their IOT envisioning, proof of value, app dev, data engineering and data science efforts. And I think that the IOT end point is really quite simple…
Aug. 25, 2016 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,286
Aspose.Total for .NET is the most complete package of all file format APIs for .NET as offered by Aspose. It empowers developers to create, edit, render, print and convert between a wide range of popular document formats within any .NET, C#, ASP.NET and VB.NET applications. Aspose compiles all .NET APIs on a daily basis to ensure that it contains the most up to date versions of each of Aspose .NET APIs. If a new .NET API or a new version of existing APIs is released during the subscription peri...
Aug. 25, 2016 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,873
Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more business becomes digital the more stakeholders are interested in this data including how it relates to business. Some of these people have never used a monitoring tool before. They have a question on their mind like "How is my application doing" but no id...
Aug. 25, 2016 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,717
Identity is in everything and customers are looking to their providers to ensure the security of their identities, transactions and data. With the increased reliance on cloud-based services, service providers must build security and trust into their offerings, adding value to customers and improving the user experience. Making identity, security and privacy easy for customers provides a unique advantage over the competition.
Aug. 25, 2016 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,203
Qosmos has announced new milestones in the detection of encrypted traffic and in protocol signature coverage. Qosmos latest software can accurately classify traffic encrypted with SSL/TLS (e.g., Google, Facebook, WhatsApp), P2P traffic (e.g., BitTorrent, MuTorrent, Vuze), and Skype, while preserving the privacy of communication content. These new classification techniques mean that traffic optimization, policy enforcement, and user experience are largely unaffected by encryption. In respect wit...
Aug. 25, 2016 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,701
Using new techniques of information modeling, indexing, and processing, new cloud-based systems can support cloud-based workloads previously not possible for high-throughput insurance, banking, and case-based applications. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, John Newton, CTO, Founder and Chairman of Alfresco, described how to scale cloud-based content management repositories to store, manage, and retrieve billions of documents and related information with fast and linear scalability. He addres...
Aug. 25, 2016 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,943