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Economic Moment of Truth

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:47:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Can anyone stop the avalanche?

The consequences of Lehman’s fall were apparent within days, yet key policy players have largely wasted the past four weeks. Now they’ve reached a moment of truth: They’d better do something soon — in fact, they’d better announce a coordinated rescue plan this weekend — or the world economy may well experience its worst slump since the Great Depression.

What he should have proposed instead, many economists agree, was direct injection of capital into financial firms

The question now is whether these moves are too little, too late. I don’t think so, but it will be very alarming if this weekend rolls by without a credible announcement of a new financial rescue plan, involving not just the United States but all the major players.

And the time to act is now. You may think that things can’t get any worse — but they can, and if nothing is done in the next few days, they will.

Think McCain may be a bit "off" - you may be right

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:36:52 GMT

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Clip Source: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

Why Josh Marshall is Exactly Right about McCain’s Psychology

As a clinical psychologist I have been watching John Mccain’s behavior toward Barrack Obama with increasing concern. There have now been several small incidents that indicate that McCain is actually having a very paranoid reaction toward Obama, and I fear that the recent descent of the McCain campaign into unacceptable levels of hatred may be a result. Here are the incidents that concern me:

PopUpLight-CloudCity

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:43:08 GMT

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Cloud City
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Cloud City is a new pendant lampshade by Phil Cuttance, inspired by paper folding techniques found in pop-up books. The die-cut polypropylene shade folds flat, but then takes it form when placed over a bulb. In all its 360º glory, Cloud City evokes images of a pixelated city in the clouds. Cloud City will be presented at Charles and Marie in Milan, along with the Trophy Hangers that debuted in Milan last year.

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High speed crash makes galaxies 'sterile'

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:03:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Larry O'Hanlon

A new view of two very well-known galaxies has revealed they are connected by faint, starless filaments of hydrogen gas, which trace back to a very high-speed intergalactic collision.

The smash-up between M86 and NGC4438 had not been suspected before, and may explain why M86, which is visible to the naked eye, is unable to give birth to new stars.

"Stars and gases behave very differently in collisions," says astronomer Professor Jeffrey Kenney of Yale University and lead author of a paper in the November 2008 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

During galactic smash-ups stars rarely collide, since there is so much space between them. But gases do slam into gases. The faster the collision, the higher the temperature the gases reach.

In the case of M86, its gases are millions of degrees in temperature and radiate x-rays.

The new evidence of M86's collision may solve that mystery. What's more, the super-hot gas also probably explains why M86 is unable to produce new stars.

Reports: Organge Suspends sales of Bold

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:03:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not good

Clip Source: www.boygeniusreport.com

Orange drops the Blackberry Bold due to quality issues

“Following reports of software issues with the BlackBerry Bold handset across a variety of mobile operators, Orange has decided to act in the interest of its customers by suspending shipments of the device in the UK. We are currently awaiting feed back from RIM as to when an industry wide fix for these issues will be in place, and expect this suspension to be an interim measure. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may cause you. BlackBerry/RIM are doing everything they can to resolve this issue and will be completing full testing and validation to ensure future handsets do not have any quality issues. This may take a couple of weeks so it’s up to us to do what’s best for our customers.

A house divided: Estranged couple's home cut in half

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:54:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

A house divided: Estranged couple's home cut in half

(CNN) -- A Cambodian couple who separated after 40 years of marriage may have taken things too literally when it came to splitting their assets:

The husband cut the house in two.

"It is the strangest thing I've ever seen," said May Titthara, who wrote about the case for The Phnom Penh Post, an English-language newspaper in the Cambodian capital. "People there never saw this happen in a divorce. It is very interesting for them."

The husband and wife had been living together in the house in a village in the Prey Veng province of southern Cambodia, roughly 50 miles (80 km) from the capital.

The couple would not talk to the newspaper, but the village chief told May Titthara that the husband was angry because his wife wouldn't tend to him when he was ill.

Tags: entertainment, funny, social, divorce, cambodia

Eating dark chocolate may keep heart healthy

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:38:51 GMT

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Eating dark chocolate may keep heart healthy

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eating dark chocolate regularly may help lower levels of inflammation, which is strongly associated with heart and blood vessel disease, Italian researchers report.

"In an apparently healthy population, even a small reduction of a low-grade inflammation such as that associated in this study with regular consumption of dark chocolate might have clinically relevant benefits in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease," Dr. Romina di Giuseppe of Catholic University in Campobasso write in the current issue of The Journal of Nutrition.

The benefits were seen when people ate up to one 20-gram serving of dark chocolate every 3 days, but eating more chocolate wasn't more beneficial; in fact, effects on CRP levels "tended to disappear" at higher consumption levels, the researchers found.

Tags: nutrition, heart health, diet, chocolate, dark chocolate

Malcolm in the Middle

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:40:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.smh.com.au

Australians will treat a political chameleon with short shrift, as Turnbull may well find out if he continues his current approach

BIG BANG OR BIG BOUNCE ?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:50:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Genesis of The Universe may just be different after all

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth

Einstein’s general theory of relativity says that the universe began with the big bang singularity, a moment when all the matter we see was concentrated at a single point of infinite density. But the theory does not capture the fine, quantum structure of spacetime, which limits how tightly matter can be concentrated and how strong gravity can become. To figure out what really happened, physicists need a quantum theory of gravity.

According to one candidate for such a theory, loop quantum gravity, space is subdivided into “atoms” of volume and has a finite capacity to store matter and energy, thereby preventing true singularities from existing.

If so, time may have extended before the bang. The prebang universe may have undergone a catastrophic implosion that reached a point of maximum density and then reversed. In short, a big crunch may have led to a big bounce and then to the big bang.

Gmail Goggles

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:25:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.labnol.org

Gmail Goggles: No More Drunk Emailing on Friday Nights

Gmail Labs today released an interesting feature to prevent you from sending mails that may you may regret later. It does so by asking you to confirm whether you really want to send that email.

So if you’re writing a mail late on a Friday night, when you may not be as sober as you would like yourself to be, you can get GMail to ask you a few math problems before the message leave your Gmail outbox.

You can enable this via the "Labs" tab on the Gmail "Settings" page. By default, the Mail Goggles feature of Gmail become active late night on the weekend, but you can set it to other times as well from Settings –> General.

This email won’t leave your Gmail outbox unless you solve that Maths problem.

Written by Amit Agarwal on October 6, 2008

Tags: gmail

AP: Palin's Ayers Attack "Racially Tinged"

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:44:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America," she said.

Translation..."wake up white people"
disgusting

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.

And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

First, Palin's attack shows that her energetic debate with rival Joe Biden may be just the beginning, not the end, of a sharpened role in the battle to win the presidency.

"Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain's ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.

7 Annoyingly Awesome Australian Homes

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:28:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nubricks.com

They may be on the far side of the world, but Australians have become renowned for their design prowess. The land down under may be most widely known for kangaroos, barbeques, beaches and year-round sunshine, but take a look round the place and you’ll soon discover the country is home to many stunningly beautiful properties. With literally thousands of miles of coastline dotted with beaches and fringed with forest and bushland, it’s not surprising then that the Australians have some of the most spectacular homes you’re ever likely to see.

Tags: interesting, design, off-beat, greenliving, ecosystems

http://www.herbal-pills-for-weight-loss.com/

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:08:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hoodia Gardonii Diet Pills

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Hoodia Gardonii Diet Pills

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Florida Law May Disenfranchise New Voters

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:23:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

the state's stringent fraud prevention laws may keep some of those newly registered voters - and many others - from casting their ballots.

The sheer volume of new voter registration applications, along with the state's so-called "no match, no vote law" has election observers worried that one mistyped number could disqualify a ballot.

For the first time, Florida law requires a voter's driver's license or social security number to match a state or federal database. It's done to prevent fraud. Several other swing states have similar laws, but none as strict as Florida's.

"Already we've seen that over 5,000 people, as of this last Monday, have had their voter registration applications rejected," says Tova Wang of Common Cause. "The county administrators admit that it's because of mistakes like typos and variations on people's names."

Local election officials say they're trying to clear up the problems before Nov. 4.

Tags: politics, vote, florida, registration, law, election

Cause-Related Ads Get More Attention, May Increase Sales up to 74%

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:33:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.marketingcharts.com

Cause-Related Ads Get More Attention, May Increase Sales up to 74%

Cause-related marketing can increase sales as much as 74% in certain consumer-goods categories, and consumers spend twice as long looking at cause-related ads than generic corporate ones, according to a study by Cone and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

After participants were exposed to either a cause-related or a generic corporate ad for one of four focus brands in the toothpaste, shampoo, chips and light-bulb categories, they entered a mock convenience store with nearly 150 SKUs and were given real money to purchase a product of each type.

There was a 74% increase in actual purchases of a shampoo brand after it had been associated with a cause. Nearly half (47%) of participants who saw the cause-related message chose the brand, while only 27% of those who saw the generic corporate ad chose the brand.

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