Millions gather around the world to ring in the new year – USATODAY.com
Happy New Year
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Robust Roll-out of New Products Set for CES 2011 – Mobile and Wireless – News & Reviews – eWeek.com
Robust Roll-out of New Products Set for CES 2011 – Mobile and Wireless – News & Reviews – eWeek.com.
2011 International Consumer Electronics Show
January 6-9, 2011 in Las Vegas
This articles has some of the new goodies expected in its info.
FBI Raids Texas Server Farm for Clues to Anonymous Group, Operation Payback – Security – News & Reviews – eWeek.com
Russia calls on Koreas to stop muscle flexing | Reuters
Russia calls on Koreas to stop muscle flexing | Reuters.
and backed China’s call for an emergency meeting of the six powers seeking to resolve tensions on the peninsula.
The Radiation Boom — Stereotactic Radiosurgery Overdoses Harm Patients – NYTimes.com
from NY Times article – “The Radiation Boom”
Marci Faber was one of the three patients. She had gone to Evanston Hospital in Illinois seeking treatment for pain emanating from a nerve deep inside her head. Today, she is in a nursing home, nearly comatose, unable to speak, eat or walk, leaving her husband to care for their three young daughters.
(etc. – well worth reading about this common procedure gone awry in hospitals all over America to be aware of how this x-ray equipment must be set-up and used properly by hospitals and x-ray tech labs for patients to be safe when it is needed.)
via The Radiation Boom — Stereotactic Radiosurgery Overdoses Harm Patients – NYTimes.com
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Complete list of world’s plants compiled – UPI.com
Complete list of world’s plants compiled – UPI.com.
Amazing and truly stunning cooperative effort -
The Plant List includes 1.25 million scientific plant names and can be accessed online at www.theplantlist.org
GE Leads $3.19 Trillion in Corporate Bond Sales – Bloomberg
GE Leads $3.19 Trillion in Corporate Bond Sales – Bloomberg.
Corporate bond sales worldwide topped $3 trillion for a second straight year, led by the highest-ever issuance of junk-rated debt, as borrowers locked in the lowest yields on record.
My Note -
But weren’t these the same people that for the last three years have blamed the American people who bought homes with criminal adjusting rate mortgages for the entire economic disaster? And, aren’t these same financial institutions and investors backing these junk bonds, the same ones that won’t make loans for anything or anyone in the real world with anything less than sterling credit, including business startups, small businesses, medium-sized businesses and individuals at risk of losing all the years of equity in their homes?
Wait, and let me get this straight – these same players that actually caused the majority of the problems in the economies and common economic crises around the world are now getting to leverage for junk bonds with interest rates at damn near zero? Hmmmm…. is that right? Is that what this story is describing that has been going on for a second year now in the “over $3 Trillion dollar range”?
Are they kidding? Is there any real currency in any of this system of business which uses the funds from sales coming in the front door to actually fund the business operations, and invest in the business growth? This is insane.
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A quote from the bloomberg article -
“This was a once-in-a-career opportunity to refinance everything you possibly could,” said James Kochan, who oversees $175.6 billion of bonds in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, as chief fixed-income strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management LLC.
My Note – this is just wrong. They are robbing Peter to pay Paul around and around and around in a never ending spiral which isn’t going to go up because it has no foundation of principles upon which it can be based – are they just all hoping to cheat each other and get out before anybody notices (again) or what?
- cricketdiane
And their only overriding question when being asked to fund anything , to buy into a new business offering, a government sponsored high speed transit rail line or a tech startup is “how will it be paid for?”
Who are they stealing from this time, if not you and me and our children and our children’s children along with our entire nation’s economic well-being . . . AGAIN.
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Best of 2010: Tech Innovations for Transit | TheCityFix.com
Best of 2010: Tech Innovations for Transit | TheCityFix.com.
Great stuff that works including updating taxis to be a bit more on the green side and including information for walking or biking on Google maps and other apps.
Nordic Windpower leaving California – SiliconValley.com
Nordic Windpower leaving California – SiliconValley.com.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon offered Nordic $5.6 million in incentives, including sales tax exemptions for equipment and machinery purchased, to persuade company executives to make the move.
Investors in Nordic Windpower include Khosla Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Goldman Sachs. The Department of Energy also awarded the company a $16 million federal loan guarantee.
