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[?]Submitted by Book Nut
I’m going to top last week’s pathetic loot because this week I didn’t even bother going to the library because I’m sick as a dog (where on e, instead sending K with a friend. All they brought back were my holds, so that’s what we have for the […]
Warne Marsh
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[?]Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Warne Marsh has a claim on my heart. My first introduction to serious jazz was listening to Bill Evans in the apartment of an English Professor, Mead Harwell, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. One of my first purchases was Crosscurrents, featuring the Bill Evans Trio backed by […]
Medeski, Martin & Wood ticket giveaway!!!
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[?]Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
When I was going to school at Berklee back in the late 80’s I spent a lot of time hanging and playing with the students at new England Conservatory. This was mainly because my close friend Kenny Brooks, a fantastic tenor player, was a student there. […]
I love stuffed chicken breasts!
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[?]Submitted by Chef Tom Cooks !
Chicken is one of my favorite meals, I make it all the time. “Not chicken again!” Nobody says that in my house. I love to try new things when it comes to making chicken. So the other day, I decided to make a stuffed chicken breast […]
Trip To England - Part 2 The South
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[?]Submitted by Barry’s Wine Notes & Memories
If you are reading this…not having read Part 1…then scroll down. Of course…if you buy the daily paper and automatically go to the back page..then there is no hope for you (or me either…I always go to the BACK page first!…only crime, problems, politics and […]
Trip To England - Part 1 The North
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[?]Submitted by Barry’s Wine Notes & Memories
Snow all over Europe….and the English were having difficulty dealing with it on the weekend before I was due to travel. By monday morning things looked brighter everywhere..and I set off from Germany to Rotterdam (450 Kilometres) to take the ship overnight to Hull. Roads […]
Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on January 29, 2009
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[?]Submitted by Ducimus Plinius
Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on January 29, 2009
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
Under $5.00
Over […]
Banning Foreign Companies’ Campaign Contributions
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[?]Submitted by unsettling economics
Many companies have tried to reduce taxes by incorporating abroad — the so-called Bermuda Inversion. Wouldn’t the banning of foreign campaign contributions apply to them.
A CONTINENTAL QUESTION
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[?]Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Unemployment in Europe is now at 10%, matching the jobless rate in the U.S. Does this undermine the argument in favor of European-style bigger government that’s more proactive in trying to minimize the perceived limits of capitalism? One response is that Europe didn’t do as much as […]
John Cochrane on the credit crisis
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
University of Chicago Professor John Cochrane (hat tip: Capital Spectator) has an interesting analysis of the causes of the financial problems of the last few years.
Cochrane writes:
The signature event of this financial crisis was the “run,” “panic,” “flight to quality,” or whatever you choose to call it, that started […]
Remedial Writing
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Prof. Jack Miller writes about his experience teaching remedial writing at Normandale Community College (Bloomington, MN):
“Whatever their backgrounds, their writing problems fit into relatively few categories. Not surprisingly, they have little understanding of grammar and see it as a set of arbitrary “rules” concocted by sadistic pedants harboring […]
Michael Moore’s Love Story: For Taxpayer Subsidies
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Sugar Tariffs Cost Americans $2.5 Billion in 2009
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
The chart above displays refined sugar prices (cents per pound) using monthly data from the USDA (Tables 2 and 5) for: a) U.S. wholesale refined beet sugar price at Midwest markets and b) the world refined sugar price. Due to trade restrictions on imported sugar coming into the […]
Dec. Restaurant Activity Index Highest Since Feb.
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
“Driven by improving sales and traffic levels, the National Restaurant Association’s comprehensive index of restaurant activity rose sharply in December. The Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and outlook for the U.S. restaurant industry stood at 98.7 in December, up […]
V-Signs of Economic Recovery
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Durable Goods (percent change from year ago).
Real GDP growth (percent change from year ago).
Here’s one more from Scott Grannis (Chicago PMI).
Markets Don’t Stay Bad Forever: Cycles, Trends, and an Oil Refining Example
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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog
Valero Energy Corp. is selling oil refineries that it had bought a few years ago. We used to have a shortage of domestic refining capacity, but now we have an excess—even though there has not been a new refinery built in the United States in years. […]
Inventories in the Economic Recovery: Caterpillar Snaps the Bullwhip
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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog
The recession is the time to cut inventories. The recovery is the time to re-stock. First, though, you have to make sure that your vendors are up to the challenge. The Wall Street Journal recently ran an excellent front page story about Caterpillar Inc. entitled, […]
More Exercise is Better
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[?]Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Dr. Paul Williams of the University of California at Berkeley thinks that the American Heart Association’s recommendation of “half an hour a day of exercise” is way too little. He has followed more than 100,000 runners for 20 years and has shown that […]
Australia 2009 & 2010 - Some new coins
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[?]Submitted by World Coin News
New 50 cents commemoratives:
“40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing”
“Australia Day 2010″
New 1 dollar commemoratives:
“200 Years of Postal Services in Australia”
“Lunar Series #4 - Year of the Tiger”
“100 Years of Australian Coinage”
(information by Peter Kaminsky and Pabitra Saha)
LINK: Royal Australian Mint
Coin Photography: New Lighting Technique
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[?]Submitted by Ancient Coin Cleaning And Restoration
I shot the attached coin photograph using a new lighting technique I have been experimenting with for a few weeks. I am sharing the photograph in hopes of getting some feedback. It is not unusual for an artist to ask for objective feedback and that […]
@NTTimes As if we’re not angry…
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[?]Submitted by the stupid cancer blog
@NTTimes As if we’re not angry enough, “Battling for Health Coverage as @StupidCancer Spreads.” More fuel for the fire. http://bit.ly/aa6e53
@StupidCancer Show hits 40,000…
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[?]Submitted by the stupid cancer blog
@StupidCancer Show hits 40,000+ listeners! Tune in Mon nites LIVE@9PM ET w/me and my co-hosts @JackBouffard & @LisaBernhard. http://z.pe/REk
Childress Buys Into Furniture Row, Smith Now Locked Into First Five Races
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[?]Submitted by The Motorsports Soapbox
Furniture Row General Manager Joe Garone told Sirius NASCAR Radio’s Sirius Speedway with Dave Moody that as part of the team’s new technical alliance with Richard Childress Racing, Childress is now a part-owner of FRR.
“That is a huge part of the deal for us,” he said. “This […]
Help Us Build Ronald McDonald House of Charlotte
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[?]Submitted by The Motorsports Soapbox
Sirius NASCAR Radio’s Sirius Speedway with Dave Moody is teaming with Ray Evernham to raise money for the new Ronald McDonald House of Charlotte, NC.
Nearly two decades ago, Evernham needed a place to stay while his year-old son, Ray J, was treated for leukemia at New York’s […]
Stewart-Haas Racing Has Orange County Choppers Build Bike – TLC This Week
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[?] Submitted by Ryan Newman News and Information
Don’t miss this weeks episode of American Chopper.
“Stewart-Haas Racing Bike” – A NASCAR inspired chopper is built of the Stewart-Haas racing team.
Haas Automation recently commissioned Orange County Choppers to build a motorcycle for the Stewart-Haas Racing team. That bike was built as part of their […]
