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Lehman Brothers: time for action
in Sox First, on March 18, 2010
...ppalled by the accounting shenanigans at Lehman Brothers that allowed its number crunchers to shift toxic assets off its books and pretend its debt was nowhere near as bad as it actually was. But wher...
Will Ernst & Young get the Andersen treatment?
in Sox First, on March 16, 2010
... week, Ernst & Young signed off on those accounting tricks that allowed Lehman Brothers to hide toxic assets and make its debt levels look better than what they actually were. A report from the co...
Seen that? - Scratches May Leave You Scarred
in PCGamers Blog, on March 11, 2010
... be in the home. The screen shots look very creepy and should make [...] Read More Bioshock Website launched PCGamers Blog Good news for B...
Livetweeting Abortion: Yes...Somebody Had The Guts To Do It!
in Well Woman Blog, on March 7, 2010
...Last week, the world was shocked when tweets (on Twitter) ran like this: "Okay, the pain starting to get distracting." "Definitely bleeding now." "Had to change my pa...
Go green with printed RFID batteries
in The RFID Weblog, on March 2, 2010
...rate 1.5 volts and can deliver peak drain currents of at least 1 mA. Since it does not comprise any toxic substance it fully meets the norm of EU Restrictions on Hazardous Substances. These thin b...
Seen that? - World Trade Center Movie
in Latina Viva, on March 1, 2010
...ent to another planet.Yesterday, the Dow soared 7% as investors embraced Geithern's plan to buy toxic bank debt. Global markets have followed.While markets roared, the World Trade Organization has...
A Fresh Start
in Are you a beauty?, on March 1, 2010
...d I had to make some choices. I kept my Murad (yes, I'm addicted to my facial regimen and, toxic or not, I'm sticking to it), but I dumped my chemically shampoo and soap. And guess wha...
Is China the next Toyota?
in Sox First, on February 28, 2010
...c wool. But even though China's warnings are far more visible - tainted milk, kids' toys as toxic as the chemical slick floating on Love Canal - they're seen more as manageable symptoms of...
Chitosan as Alternative to Antibiotics for Ruminants
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 27, 2010
...timicrobial activity, chitosan is a viable alternative as it is biodegradable, renewable and a non-toxic compound. ... in vitro trials obtained highly promising results, based on an improvement on ...
Anti-Cancer Potentials of Celastrol Plant Derivative
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 15, 2010
...se medicine, that may have potentials in cancer treatment. Apparently, Celastrol inactivates heat shock protein 90, a protein crucial to the development of cancer cells. "The celastrol induces ...
Ricoh CX3 Digital Camera Boasts 10X Optical Zoom
in Digital Shot, on February 14, 2010
...for a Ricoh GR1 or GR10 film, sorry, analog, camera on the used camera market and be prepared for a shock. Yes, according to their devoted owners these long discontinued cameras are that good. B...
LaCie Launches Rugged eSATA Drive
in On Storage, on February 14, 2010
...hard drive, and like other Rugged models has a scratch-resistant aluminum case filled with internal shock absorbers shell and covered by a rubber bumper," according to Electronista . "The n...
Electronic Cigarettes: A healthy alternative for smokers
in I got Spam?!, on February 10, 2010
... cigarette is a battery powered device in which nicotine is vaporized without creating any form of toxic smoke. In case of electronic cigarettes a smoker inhales nicotine vapors therefore the question...
Seen that? - How to persuade senior management about the value of SCM
in Supplychainer, on February 9, 2010
...-Mart mandate) past, RFID technology was rather obscure and even a little boring. So it doesn't shock me that business executives, especially those far removed from day-to-day operations, might no...
Seen that? - How to Lower Your Score - In the Winter!
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 26, 2010
...orm. Power outages. Highways closed. Stranded cars. You get the picture. We go through this initial shock of winter each and every December when the cold weather hits hard enough to cause good amounts...
Seen that? - Shakira's Oral Fixation Is More Than Just Vol.2
in Latina Viva, on January 25, 2010
...s been approved by the FDA for use in humans. The meniscus, a padding tissue that provides shock absorption and joint stability in the knee, is crucial for normal knee function. Surgeries for meniscus...
Lockheed Martin, IronKey Introduce IronClad
in On Storage, on January 24, 2010
...ty and offers 256-bit military-grade encryption, built-in virus protection, and a rugged water- and shock-resistant metal casing," writes ZDNet's Andrew Nusca . "Nothing on price yet,...
Digg 将进行全面改版
in Wangtam, on 2010-01-22
Digg 创始人 Kevin Rose 表示 , Digg 将于今年晚些时候进行全面改版,重点突出实时信息。 Rose 表示,新版 Digg 将于几个月之后上线,这将是 Digg 网站历史上的一次重大改变。他表示:"我们将进行一些明显的调整,这是非常必需的。用户将对我们在某些方面的发展方向感到震惊,我们将放弃目前的许多创意。" Rose 表示, Digg 网站上的导航栏和"Digg"按钮将会改变, Digg 将更加强调图片。他表示:"当你看到新的设计,你会说'这是一个完全不同的网站'。" ...
Seen that? - On the horizon: A portable CPR machine
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 16, 2010
...ent available for adults with severe depression who aren't relieved by drugs, psychotherapy and shock treatments, called "the pacemaker of the brain", the vagus nerve stimulator (VNS) wh...
The Aviary's Safe Beauty Treatments for Expectant Moms
in Next Nine Months, on December 16, 2009
...gnant women. Some hair salons already smell so nauseating when you come in, I'm sure there are toxic stuff in there that can't be good for you and your baby! Lucky are those in the vicinity...
Kimi Raikkonen to Rally in 2010
in Under My Helmet, on December 4, 2009
...be driving for Citroen’s junior team in the 2010 World Rally Championship has come as a bit of a shock. The 30--year-old driver will race in 12 of the 13 events for a team who is backed by the ev...
The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
... accrued to create that bizarre financial center out in the middle of the desert. The news has sent shock waves around the world. While Americans were munching on their Thanksgiving turkey, global sto...
Verizon Targets Outdoorsy-Types With Their Latest Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on November 20, 2009
... and sunsets for a given location. The push-to-talk handset is also designed to withstand water, shock, dust, vibration, humidity, salt fog, solar radiation, altitude, and high and low temperature ...
découvrez le dell latitude XT2 XFR, sans doute le portable le plus solide du monde !
in Business Computer Blog (FR), on novembre 12, 2009
...e), - Rain, Blowing Dust, Vibration, Functional Shock, Humidity, Altitude and Temperature Extremes, soit en fonctionnement de -23ºC à 60ºC et éteint de -40ºC à 70ºC et une protection contre la poussi...
Motorola's New Handset Built to Military Spec
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on November 11, 2009
...to meet military specifications including protection against extreme pressure, temperature, dust, shock, vibration and blowing rain. Side ported audio speakers provide clear, uninterrupted sound an...
Tips for Staying Healthy While Traveling for the Holidays
in Wandalust, on November 11, 2009
...e to your immune health, but many days of heavy alcohol consumption can leave your body fatigued, toxic, and susceptible to infection. When it comes to booze a little really can go a long way, in kee...
Seen that? - Napkin Folding
in White Lace Wedding, on November 6, 2009
... Now detecting the presence of toxins, including viruses, bacteria, biohazards and toxic chemicals, may be as easy as wiping a toxin-detecting napkin across a surface. Researchers at...
Seen that? - Olympic Torch Hoax
in I got Spam?!, on October 31, 2009
...mail hoax still going around about margarine originally made to fatten turkeys and turned out to be toxic. Here's part of it: Now [...] Read More ...
Dishwasher Salmon with a Piquant Dill Sauce
in Do you like to cook?, on October 31, 2009
...h a Piquant Dill Sauce . He says: Poaching fish in the dishwasher is a virtually foolproof way to shock your friends, prepare a succulent meal, and do the dishes—all at the same time. I've poached s...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
...ings to pools of mortgages that soon were downgraded to junk. Such products have another name now: 'toxic assets' ... Others who worked at Moody's at the time described a culture of willful ignorance ...
Bankers' cocaine binge
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...e of coke. Studies show that people who take risks have low levels of dopamine receptors and try to shock the brain into a boost of the chemical through novel situations. They're also more likely to b...
Writedowns reduced but bad loans to increase
in Sox First, on September 30, 2009
...til 2011, and that's if we're lucky. The IMF also warns that there is still a problem with toxic assets on the books of the banks. And until that's fixed, nothing will get better....
魔鬼辞典之金融危机
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-23
随着金融危机从"狼来了"变成活生生的磨难,金融业的一些特有隐语也进入到了日常对话中。对于不熟悉华尔街这个小圈子的人来说,这种出乎意料的变化可能让他们不快。 安布罗斯•比尔斯(Ambrose Bierce)在1906年出版的魔鬼辞典《愤世嫉俗者词汇手册》(The Cynic's Word Book)中对当时的政治和文化用语给出了独出心裁的解释。按照这种精神,《华尔街日报》也在雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)倒闭一周年之际编写了一个缩写词、新词和滥用词入门手册,这些词可以让人通俗、形像地了解雷曼倒闭给世人留下的烂摊子。 AAA,名词,废词。一种修辞工...
价+值,是不是价值?
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-22
... Wii VC, XBLA "Long Past the Stage Where an Agreement was On the Cards" • RedesignGoogle.com • We've got the goods on some upcoming AT&T smartphones from HTC and Garmin-ASUS • ...
I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant!
in Next Nine Months, on September 17, 2009
... to labor and delivery, while never even knowing they were pregnant. Each half-hour episode will shock and intrigue viewers, with the most bizarre pregnancy and delivery stories imaginable. Season t...
The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
... Should UBS be held accountable for selling toxic collateralised debt obligations? The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS staff knew these debt securities were bad and sent off emails making t...
The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
... It had to happen. It's no great shock that Switzerland has overtaken the United States as the world's most competitive economy. The World Economic Forum also ranked Britain at number 13...
SEC links to Madoff scam
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...Madoff himself expressed surprised that the SEC had failed to apprehend him. He was in a state of shock that he was being allowed to get away with it. But he was such a psychopath that he just kept ...
Apricorn Launches Aegis Padlock Secure Drive
in On Storage, on August 24, 2009
... USB cable," writes Macworld's Peter Cohen . "It features a 16-point omnidirectional shock mounting system. The drive features built in AES encryption - Apricorn makes the drive availab...
Cloud platform performance questioned
in The CIO Weblog, on August 21, 2009
...ed by a factor of twenty depending on the time of day services are being accessed is something of a shock. The massive absorption of overload is being called into question. Regrettably, few details o...
Striking French workers threaten to pollute Seine
in Sox First, on August 22, 2009
...they've done it again with reports that striking French truck drivers are threatening to pour toxic fuel additive into the Seine if they don't get better redundancy payouts. Maybe it's j...
Who says you are a CIO?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 13, 2009
... pan so far but it seems like the sort of thing that the mainstream media might pick up on just for shock value so I am getting the popcorn ready. Dvorak's primary knock against the guy seems to ...
US mortgages underwater
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...support the home-loan market. That sounds fine in theory. But the problem is what to do with those toxic assets. And with the US economy still in recession, joblessness rising and defaults on home lo...
Western Digital Intros Terabyte Laptop Drive
in On Storage, on August 3, 2009
...ts include WD's WhisperDrive technology for quieter operation. The drives also include WD's shock-resistant technology, which includes parking the recording heads off the disk surface during s...
Another oil shock?
in Sox First, on August 2, 2009
...We're talking about oil. As Scott Nyquist writes in BusinessWeek , we are looking at a second shock to the world economy as the recovery kicks in with demand expected to grow more than 2% annual...
Lawsuit: Amazon Ate My Homework
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-02
...Is Toast • Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale • Windows 7 OEM Product Key Leak • How to Create an Online Store with Google Checkout in 5 Minutes • IMPORTANT NOTE • Judge: Tenenbaum guilty of copy...
Top Tips for Expectant Mothers
in Next Nine Months, on July 31, 2009
... Don't smoke, drink alcohol or use street drugs. Cigarettes expose the embryo/fetus to over 200 toxic chemicals which can interfere with the growth of the baby, causing the blood vessels to constr...
Western Digital Introduces Husky 1TB Hard Drive for Notebooks
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 28, 2009
...e drive also features the Western Digital WhisperDrive Technology which ensures a quiet opperation, ShockGuard and SecurePark which keep physical damage to a minimum during sudden movements and shock....
Genetically Modified Salt-Tolerant Cereal Crops
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 10, 2009
...emoved from the transpiration stream before it gets to the shoot. "This reduces the amount of toxic Na+ building up in the shoot and so increases the plant's tolerance to salinity," Pro...
'I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant' Premieres July 8 on TLC
in Next Nine Months, on July 4, 2009
...r and delivery, while never even knowing they were pregnant. I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS PREGNANT will shock and intrigue viewers, with the most bizarre pregnancy and delivery stories imaginable. Each wo...
Did Palin quit to head off an embezzlement scandal?
in Sox First, on July 5, 2009
... The blogosphere is buzzing with talk that Sarah Palin's shock resignation was to head off an embezzlement scandal. Brad Friedman at the Brad Blog broke the story. "I've now been ab...
HP Mini 5101 真机赏
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-30
Disney and toxic waste allegations
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
...ing carefully at allegations that Walt Disney Company had for decades contaminated groundwater with toxic chemicals, including cancer-causing chromium 6. The allegations are contained in lawsuits file...
Banks to face more stress tests
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
...ys. "Stress testing should also be repeated so long as banks continue to hold large amounts of toxic assets on their books." The report also seems to suggest that stress testing needs to be...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 8, 2009
...an American and Hispanic communities, and the way banks had targeted these people for predatory and toxic loans. As Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro wrote in The American Prospect toward the end of ...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
... standard setters might be tightening the rules for banks, forcing them to take off balance sheet toxic vehicles on to their books but don't expect the banks to take that lying down. Up until no...
Geomate Jr GPS Is One Way to Get Kids To Play Outside
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 21, 2009
... get a bit healthy. The Geomate.jr GPS runs on a few AAA batteries, and it is both splashproof and shock-resistant. The unit is not too big for little hands, and the color schemes of bright blue and ...
1957 年款 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-20
官方新闻稿: MARANELLO, Italy, May 17 /PRNewswire/ - RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby's made history at the Ferrari factory in Maranello today as a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for € 9,020,000 at the third-annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record...
New Pet: Woolly Mammoth
in WebKinzBlog, on May 10, 2009
...ur Webkinz family! The Woolly Mammoth will be available at the Ganz eStore in the near future. No shock it is online only - after all, cloning is an inexact science!...
Save Money on Your Grocery Shopping
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 7, 2009
.... When you realize that so large a percentage of your income goes to food would probably even be a shock to many. Finding ways to save money on groceries would probably free up some cash to help pay d...
One more step to bank nationalization
in Sox First, on April 25, 2009
...on't know how to run banks. From another, nationalization might well be the only way to fix the toxic assets. What's needed is a full and open debate, possibly even Congressional approval. Doi...
Cardboard coffins and green funerals
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
... all the rage and the market is growing. Bloomberg reports that they are now even introducing non-toxic biodegradable embalming fluid to replace the formaldehyde. Green burials also tend to be cheap...
VMware to announce VSphere today
in The CIO Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...provisioning tool, a way to architect services at an extremely high level, it may both surprise and shock CIOs in its ability to help them realize that goal. This is all premature speculation at the ...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...n why Barofksy's report recommends the US Treasury abandon its planned structure for buying the toxic securities, which include intricate bundles of bad mortgages and loans. That's unlikely to...
Is the US becoming like Russia?
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...rs. It's a point I raise in my column here . It's not just about cleansing the banks of toxic assets. It's about restoring trust in the system and until that happens, there can be no ful...
AT&T announces Samsung SGH-a657 Rugged Phone
in The Smart PDA, on April 13, 2009
...the Samsung SGH-a657. It is a rough and tough device certified to meet military standards for dust, shock, vibration, altitude, extreme tempratures, rain and humidity. All in all the Samsung SGH-a657 ...
Varnish Alternative Derived from Glycerin
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 9, 2009
...es with the added advantage of containing no N-methyl-2-pyrrolidon (NMP), which is known to have a toxic effect on the growing embryo and is classed throughout the EU as a hazardous chemical requiring...
Giving banks permission to lie
in Sox First, on April 5, 2009
...extent in determining the "fair value" of their assets is a case of pretending that those toxic assets are really valuable assets that for some irrational reason no one wants to buy. And tha...
Oil shock ahead
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
Last week, I did a blog entry on the International Monetary Fund warning that there might be a small recovery next year if there are comprehensive and co-ordinated global policies, and if commodity prices remain low. So far, there's been no sign of global co-ordination. Add to that the r...
A good crisis for George Soros
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
... but expresses concern about the solution to create a bad bank that would be the dumping ground for toxic assets. What they should be doing, he says, is capitalizing the good banks. "What they pr...
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