Archive for July, 2008
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[?]Submitted by A Dash of Insight
At “A Dash” we believe in letting the data drive our conclusions. This can be boring, since everyone wants strongly held and argued opinions. In case you do not see the disagreement, CNBC even shows you a crashing bull and bear.
Today’s Data
The economic news […]
NBC’s Today Show and Nas play Rock Band
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[?]Submitted by videogame2play
Rock Band 2 gets national media exposure yesterday on NBC’s Today Show when hosts Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Al Roker, and Natalie Morales play Bon Jovi’s “Living On A Prayer” in front of a crowd in front of their Time Square studio in New York City.
Over on The Colbert […]
More Madden football games
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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs
A report on EA’s latest entry in the John Madden Football series:
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Although the future team colors of quarterback Brett Favre are unknown, when the 20th Anniversary “Madden NFL 09″ game is released in August he will be wearing the Green Bay Packers’ colors […]
Wii waves the magic wand
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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs
In this article from the Japan Times, they report on the new remote control wand that’s being made now for the Wii system, plus a few other interesting items.
Britain proposes cinema-style ratings for games
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[?]Submitted by Gaming Briefs
Let us look at what’s being suggested now in the Blighty:
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain could give all computer games cinema-style age ratings to protect children from increasingly realistic and violent titles, the government said on Thursday.
British Culture Minister Margaret Hodge said the rise of adult-themed games with grown-up […]
Best of Philly!
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[?]Submitted by Wine Reviews from the Wine School
We finally got it! We are now, officially, the “Best Place to Fall in Love” with wine and food. We knew that already, but gosh darn it, this makes me happier than a squirrel in a nut shop. So happy, in fact, that my […]
Turbulence Training Road Tour
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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
I’ll have “On the Road Again” by Willy Nelson stuck in my mind for all of August (and some of September too).
Next week I’ll be in NYC for a seminar and then I’m off to Boston to see an old client and then to have high energy […]
Not quite a recession
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today that U.S. real GDP grew at a 1.9% annual rate in the second quarter of 2008, less than many analysts had been predicting a week ago, but substantially better than the 6-month-ahead predictions for that number that we were hearing back in […]
Exxon Posts Record $32.36 Billion Tax Payment
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
CNN’s headline: “Exxon posts record $11.68 billion profit.”
According to CNN, Exxon Mobil once again reported the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history Thursday, posting net income of $11.68 billion on revenue of $138 billion in the second quarter.
That profit works out to $1,485.55 a second.
Buried in the story […]
Recession? Not in 2008
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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog
Wall Street’s rule of thumb, that recession is two consecutive quarters of declining GDP, is not technically correct. But it’s not a bad rule of thumb. Certainly there’s no recession when the economy is growing substantially, even if the growth is below trend. That’s where […]
Penny Stocks to Watch by Stock Analyzer for August 1st
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[?]Submitted by Stock Analyzer
Penny Stocks to Watch
Here is a full video breakdown of my stocks on watch http://www.stocknetworkonline.com/tutorials/Aug1.html
PURO (not mentioned in the video) but did a video yesterday and so far so good! A break of .26 and we should be able to test .30s here imo. MUST hold .20 still […]
Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Star Trek all from a different perspective
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[?]Submitted by Real Simple Blog
Written by Michael Vass
There’s been a huge hustle and bustle of news and events of late and the tone to many posts I’ve written has been a bit darker than usual. So today I decided to slow down a bit and look at things from a different […]
SOUTH DAKOTA GETS IN THE WIND GAME IN A HUMONGOUS WAY!
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[?]Submitted by New Energy News Blog
South Dakota is about to become host to the biggest wind farm ANYWHERE. This is the kind of humongous news the wind energy industry has been awaiting expectantly for some time.
As T. Boone Pickens has been so vigorously pointing out this summer (see Saturday Video: The […]
UTILITIES VS. INSTALLERS IN THE SOLAR WORLD?
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[?]Submitted by New Energy News Blog
California’s dynamic solar energy market has separated into 3 segments: The distributed home solar system “retail” market, the utility- and big-money dominated solar power plant “wholesale” market and the “’tweeners,” distributed but larger-scale systems for commercial-sized buildings.
Utility giant Southern California Edison (SCE), a solar industry leader, […]
ARMY CUTTING CARBON ‘BOOTPRINT’
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[?]Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The U.S. Army wants to be more “sustainable.” Is this a new recruiting strategy? Well, there was no point in “going green.”
The truth: Turns out the Army thinks efficiency is more than just (as Vice President Cheney once condescendingly dubbed it) a sign of “personal virtue.” […]
Countries face off against each other as trade talks crumble
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[?]Submitted by 2point6billion.com Blog
Developed and developing nations are playing the blame game over trade talks which fell apart on Tuesday. While Japan, China and India pointed fingers at each other, the EU and U.S also faced off.
Japan blamed China and India for not shouldering greater responsibilities in the WTO as emerging […]
The Wisdom of Peter Schiff
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[?]Submitted by Gold Stock Prophet Blog
With the last video I posted on this site, I recommended a weekly webcast called the Financial Sense News Hour. One of the advantages of listening to this program is that one can become exposed to the ideas of many different guest speakers.
Peter Schiff is a […]
New Pretreatment Technology Dramatically Increases Cellulosic Ethanol Yield
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[?]Submitted by Energy Answers Blog
A new mild acid pretreatment process promises to increase sugar yields from cellulosic biomass by 10 times according to researchers at the University of Georgia. It also uses less harsh chemicals than previous processes and works for a wide variety of biomass materials.
New Biomass Technology Dramatically Increases […]
US Ethanol Imports for May Fall Sharply
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[?]Submitted by DTN Ethanol Blog
U.S. imports of ethanol fell by more than half in May from April as the ethanol market sagged, according to fresh data from the Energy Information Administration. The EIA data show imports fell to 634,000 bbl in May from 1.4 million bbl in April.
Ethanol Production, Demand Climbs […]
The Case for Bioenergy
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[?]Submitted by BIOconversion Blog
I am frequently asked why we should pursue the production of biofuels and biopower when we could substitute other seemingly simpler and “cleaner” alternatives - like wind and solar - that don’t require such complicated biomass logistics. A recent article I found on the European-based Biopact Blog supplies […]
Can Shellfish Smooth Skin?
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[?]Submitted by Beauty Brains Blog
Mid Brain muses:
Recent research published in the scientific journal Lipids indicates that extracts from certain clams and mussels may be a new weapon in the fight for beautiful skin. Scientists at the Romanian University of Constanza, obtained lipid extractions from the two organisms and showed that […]
Official : Fart Jokes Have Been Funny For At Least 4000 Years
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[?]Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
From ABC News :
The world’s oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humour was as popular with the ancients as it is today, British academics say.
The joke is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq, […]
Lizard Overlords Popularity Fading In UK
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[?]Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
This poll of Top Ten UK Conspiracy Theories was taken to promote the new X-Files movie, ‘Cheer Up Mulder You Miserable Bastard’, but the results of which secret truths Brits believe are hiding behind the headlines are still interesting, unless you are a secret shape-shifting lizard hiding […]
Fuzzy Math
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[?]Submitted by Boys and Schools Blog
I am not super-great at math. I’m certainly not bad at math either. I took calculus in high school and college, and I understood it. Mostly. (It was about curving graphs and stuff, right?) And I got decent, if not spectacular […]
Creole Sloppy Joes
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[?]Submitted by Chef Tom Cooks - Recipe Blog
1 lb. lean ground beef
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 small yellow onion, finely diced
1 small green pepper, seeded and finely diced
1 clove garlic, finely diced
1 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons mustard
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon Agave nectar
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
kosher salt, to taste
1/2 teaspoon […]
