MP3 of the Day: Fleet Foxes

(photo by david belisle)

Physically, I may be sitting in a drab, over-air conditioned office, but mentally, I am still out at Treasure Island, standing in the sun and watching the Ferris Wheel as the Fleet Foxes stun the Treasure Island Music Festival crowd with gorgeous vocal harmonies. Fleet Foxes were my personal highlight at an event full of great music and fun attractions, and so today I’m posting “White Winter Hymnal” as the MP3 of the day. If only listening to this song enough times could magically transport me from behind the computer and out into that scenic spot in the middle of the Bay (without, of course, my having to take a vacation day to get there). – Jennifer Maerz

Fall season

Related posts: Manny ramirez high five catch, Cal file, Tracy ryan, Nine old men, Angus and julia stone

Who Needs Regulators: Banks Establish $70 Billion Loan Program to Protect Liquidity

Update: The Dow ended up closing down 504 points for the day

The past 24 hours have been about as chaotic a time as Wall Street has seen since Black Monday or possibly the Great Depression. Here are a few highlights:

With all that going on, what else could be happening?

A Consortium of 10 Banks Has Established a $70 Billion Loan Program to Protect Liquidity

According to the AP:

The ten banks, which include JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said they were committing $7 billion each for the pool. The pool would act as a signal to the marketplace that banks, brokerages, and other financial companies can lean on the fund to take care of borrowing needs.

The banks said the program will be available to participating banks which can get a cash infusion up to a maximum of one-third of the total size of the pool. The size of the loan program might increase as “other banks are cialis permitted to join.” All participating banks intend to use this facility beginning this week, the statement said.

The banks also include Bank of America Corp., Barclays PLC, Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank AG, Merrill Lynch & Co., Morgan Stanley and UBS.

Could this action from the banks help preserve their own future and that of other banks? Personally, I think it is a great idea and hope that other major banks jump in and help pool funds to build the loan program. It is forward thinking like that which has been absent levitra bestellen from the financial institutions for some time. Perhaps the banks can save themselves — we see that Washington failed to save Lehman — seems that there are few other options left.

Any Thoughts?

Advertisement: Real Estate Investing Forums Discuss real estate, network, or learn about investing on our forums!

This Article is

Related posts: Fistula foundation, Marketing articles, Ncaa final game, Secretary s week, Oprah s church

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Federal investigators said Sunday they plan to obtain the cell phone records of two teenagers and the engineer of a commuter train to determine whether text messages played a part in a head-on collision that killed 25 people.

Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875

collision detection: January 2008 Archives
… every paragraph describes some weird new collision of … one or two basic rules about society and then examine how … athletes you’re trying to recruit is to send them text messages

Search the Opinions of the US Circuit Courts
use and, or, not — and is default * acts as wildcard, phrases in "double quotes"

collision detection: May 2004 Archives
… cable-access giant, has started tracking how many messages … He was also able to train the software on one keyboard to … NASA engineers bond emotionally with the Mars space probes …

A commuter rail car lies on its side after a collision Friday near Los Angeles, California.

September 2005 - Eisenhower Institute
Pontes has begun to train at Russia … was smashed by an 820 pound probe, and several satellites nearby were ready to witness the collision … Vote for First Astronaut by Text Message In …

cialis

The Metrolink train had failed to stop for a red signal, triggering the Friday collision with a freight train, according to the commuter train’s operators. In addition to the 25 fatalities, more than 130 passengers were injured.

On Sunday, Kitty Higgins of the National Transportation Safety Board said investigators have been in touch with two teenagers who told a local television station that they had been exchanging text messages with the Metrolink train engineer before the impact.

The engineer, who has not been identified officially, was a subcontractor employed by another company and died in the crash.

"We have been in contact with them and their families. They have been fully cooperative," Higgins told reporters. "We are going to be obtaining records from their cell phones and of the deceased … to begin to determine what might have happened and what if any role [cell phones] might have played in this accident."

Metrolink forbids train operators from using cell phones or other electronic devices while on duty, she said.

Fire probe concerns rise
… an independent panel of experts hired by the city to examine … right…more power to them…it sends a very strong message … what I’m hearing it looks like there’s a big freight train …

Watch report on investigation into the collision »

One of the teens — a 15-year-old train enthusiast — told KCBS-TV that he had been talking shop with the engineer and received a text message at 4:22 p.m., a minute before the crash.

Don’t Miss

Higgins would not say what the teens and their families have told investigators.

She added that investigators have not recovered the engineer’s cell phone from the crash site.

"I’m not saying there wasn’t a cell phone," she said. "All I’m saying is that … we were not able to find one."

A day earlier, Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said the collision resulted from "human error."

"We believe that it was our engineer that failed to stop at a signal."

Just like regular vehicles, trains are subject to signal systems, she said. "They receive a signal to stop and they must hold their location until other traffic has passed."

Sometimes, trains are moved to a siding area to wait, she said. But a review of "a number of programs," including the signal system itself, showed the engineer failed to heed that signal, Tyrrell said.

The majority of the fatalities occurred in the first train car behind the locomotive, officials said, as the impact pushed the locomotive back into the car.

Rock band 2 secret achievements

The crash occurred about 4:30 p.m. Friday in Chatsworth, a northwest

Related posts: Belmont stakes start time, Steve redgrave, American idol gives back, Juan lazcano, Wcco 4

Steve Young: McCAIN CLOSING DOWN TRUTH SQUADS

In a move that should shake up the election, John McCain has dropped his entire Truth Squad effort.

The McCain Truth Squad and the Palin acheter cialis Truth Squad, which were set up by the McCain campaign to “counter false material” about the Senator and the Governor, have presented some unforeseen problems for the campaign.

Dubai earthquake

“At first we thought we could just rip apart attacks made by Barack Obama and his minions,” said Senator John Warner (R-VA), one of the squad’s leaders. “But then some of the guys took the word truth literally, and honestly, it’s put a kink in the entire approach Karl Rove designed for us.”

Unbeknownst to the Squad’s leaders, some of the young idealists manning the Truth Squad’s research effort had been looking into the validity of the claims made by the McCain campaign. They then issued press releases such as, “McCain Tax Is Not READ THE REST OF THE REALLY, REALLY TRUE STORY HERE.

Award-winning TV writer Steve Young is the author of “Great Failures of the Extremely Successful,” and blogs at the appropriately cialis named steveyoungonpolitics.com

Related posts: Oregon sports network, Alicia keys blender, Cemento armato, Weeds season 4 episode 5, Sona philippines

Predict #250,000

for those that missed it, there beget contemporarily been 249,996 hrs hit in mlb history after delgado’s 2 hrs last night.sometime early tonight hr #250,000 will likely be clip. here’s a inclination of the players that hit the previous milestones.predict who it will be! i’ll take miguel cabrera.

New Guestbook Entry by Corey Woodall acheter cialis

straight memories a would drop a line and say hey. just found evasion you are in alaska, must be a small world promote i’m living in seward, ak for the summer. it’s viagra kaufen an awesome state, hope you are having as much fun as i am.see all guestbook entries.

Death

Related posts: India to sell nuclear deal to world, soothe critics
(Reuters)
, Reagent, Autrement, Kendra webdale, Kelly cosgrove

DP World: External Links March through December 2006 - SourceWatch
… March 2, 2006. "Ports deal review awaits new filing by DP World," Reuters (Khaleej … India uses lobbyists to clinch nuclear deal in US," India … Steve Harrison, "Will DP World sell its …

But it is unlikely India will cialis levitra launch formal nuclear trade negotiations ahead of the new deal's ratification by the U.S. Congress, given the strong backing from Washington that helped seal the deal.

The 45 nations of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on Saturday backed a U.S. proposal and adopted a one-off waiver of a 34-year-old global ban on nuclear trade with India, allowing New Delhi and Washington to do business.

Congressional approval is the final hurdle for the agreement, seen as the cornerstone of India-U.S. relations and essential to India's rising energy needs to power its booming economy.

The deal could come up for a vote in Congress this month. In the meantime, India could open informal negotiations for nuclear reactors and uranium supplies.

Robinder Sachdev, president of public diplomacy think tank Imagindia, said he expected India would adopt a two-pronged approach: making public announcements on disarmament, while lobbying the two houses of Congress and overseas Indian groups.

Critics, many of them in the U.S. Congress, believe the deal undermines efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and sets a precedent allowing other nations to seek to buy such technology without signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

"The onus of seeing the deal through is on the Bush administration," Sachdev said.

"But India being a stakeholder will do its bit, and public pronouncements couched in strong disarmament language may help assuage the non-proliferation lobby."

NucNews - September 22, 2003
… Carrot for Nuclear Deal Story by Paul Taylor and Louis Charbonneau REUTERS … May 1998 nuclear tests. Since then, India has sought to modernise its army - the world’s … that some critics …

www.unpan.org
Inquiry Into E-governance Deal Demanded : India: India Has to Pay Cost … Sensible First Steps at the World Bank Zoellick Sets … Social critics have said that a culture of corruption …

Analysts said that although India would not like to be seen hurrying into any nuclear business deals until the U.S. agreement is closed, the one-off NSG waiver means it is free to trade on the world market.

NucNews - November 9, 2001
Greens sue Britain over nuclear fuel plant by Matthew Jones, Reuters: … the war on terrorism has to deal with terrorism against India … interested in the future of India’s nuclear …

Bears colts

"Technically India can talk with non-U.S. nuclear vendors, but it is highly unlikely because the U.S. will not like it, and it will want a level playing field," Bharat Karnad, an Indian strategic affairs expert, told Reuters on Monday.

Archive News & Video for Wednesday, 09 Jan, 2008 Reuters.com
… headlines for Wednesday, 09 Jan, 2008 on Reuters.com … NEWSMAKER-India’s Tata revs up with world’s cheapest car 09:29 PM EST … McCain, Clinton wins may soothe Wall Street worries …

What India could do is launch a simultaneous diplomatic offensive to woo uranium suppliers such as Australia, who see the controversial

Related posts: Oprah s church, Mountain boards, Jill tracy jacobs, Nine old men, Argentina vs paraguay live

Screw Tom Friedman and the T. Boone Pickens He Rode in on.

First, f*ck Tom Friedman and the T. Boone Pickens that he rode in on.

I had been planning on writing a similar post when I read and commented on Gob’s post yesterday about alternative energy. Paul had a comment that I wanted to talk about because I think it frames the issue in a way that isn’t helpful to understanding what is happening or what is going to happen. Namely, looking in political terms at energy and the new push by energy companies and their surrogates into alt.energy is just buying into their ’$hell’ game (so to speak).

I will concede that this post is remarkably free of linky goodness. But this is my interpretation of some commonly agreed facts, and I think my interpretation is bolstered by my experience. I’m in basically in this industry and if projections continue, we will have worked on approximately 1000 wind turbine locations by the end of this year. As perspective, we are only a very, very minor player, but I’m highly interested and motivated to learn about this topic, so bear with me.

Paul brought up the following frame:

“There are three separate issues here

1) our need to find sources of ‘cleaner’ energy 2) our need to find sources of ‘affordable’ energy 3) our need to be energy independent”

Yes, these political and geopolitical thingees are very shiny and interesting, but you have to keep your eye on what&#8217 viagra kaufen;s under these “$hells”. I’ll cut to the chase, keep your eye on #2 if you can (although I don’t agree it is “our need” so much as “the energy corporations need” and therein lies the rub).

I think most here agree American imperialism and militarism is driven by our supposed ’need’ for cheap commodities (Walmart nation, car culture). Although we are basically self-sufficient in most commodities, agriculutural products, steel, etc., we aren’t self-supporting in everything, and the biggies are cheap labor (Japan, then Singapore, Taiwan, Mexico, now China) and oil. You can’t easily fight wars for access to cheap labor or markets (anymore) but extractive commodities like minerals and oil have ALWAYS and STILL ARE being fought over militarily. Cleaner? Hah! Self-sufficiency? Double hah! You think corporations cares about the environment or what is in the country’s interest? You don’t think our government is primarily run for the benefit of corporations (as the most powerful “persons” in the land)? Corporations are looking out for their own best interest, if they didn’t, they would actually be in violation of their responsiblity to their investors.

But just because they are supposedly looking out for their investors doesn’t mean they are perfect in their actions or are long term solvent, just ask Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. All “clean” energy means to the corporate energy producers (and all of our energy is produced by corporations) is less litigation and less regulation. All that energy ’independence’ means to them is a decrease in the cost and political uncertainty of military securement of (ding, ding, ding) affordable energy. What is important to the corporate energy producers is not the shells they are moving around, it’s the pea hidden underneath. That “pea” stands for “Profits”.

The energy corporations (GE, Exxon, etc.) and their surrogates (Halliburton, T. Boone Pickens, pipeline companies, etc.) have built their corporate cultures, business model and physical infrastructure around securing and providing extractive commodities (oil, coal, natural gas) to a wide customer base. The equations in that business model are pretty easy to grasp: the price you can sell commodity minus the cost to buy, extract, produce said commodity equals profit. To increase profit you both increase the former (mess with demand, value-added products, increase uses of your product, i.e. plastics, road-building, building materials etc.) and decrease the later (more efficient and/or inexpensive production, political manipulation/collusion/bribery/intimidation of producing countries, pushing military interventions to secure supply at desired costs). Does this sound familiar? Wonder why alt energy sources like biofuels were the first to gain political traction? The reason is biofuels fit nicely into the extractive/commodity business structure as well as supply chain infrastructure. Biofuels are tailor-made to fit into the existing energy company model described above.

So then, why the sudden push by energy companies into alternative acheter levitra energy like wind/solar, etc.? Watch T. Boone Pickens ads and you can suss it out: the old extractive business model is doomed, except in the meantime, drill, drill, drill, and do it for another commodity, …

Swim spa

Related posts: Jack sugden emmerdale, Nine old men, Wimbledon championship ball, Oprah s church, Bit torrent source

CUSP.com $1,500 viagra Shopping Spree Sweepstakes

enter $1,500 shopping spree sweepstakes ( november-30 ) an individual (1) entry per household. treeless to legal residents of the 50 united states and the locale of columbia who are 18 years or older with internet access at for the present of memorandum. winner transfer be selected on december 15, 2008. sponsored by cusp.com. prize: (1 winner) …

Niger vs Uganda Live World Cup 2010 Qualifiers 7/9/2008

Germantown festival

this live commentary and flaming online radio broadcast world cup 2010 qualifier match between niger and uganda at stade général seyni kountché ordain be nothing more than a game for niger to test out more young players, since they are already completed of the running. they have ruined all their qualifiers so far, and this …

Related posts: Georgia tech athletics, Unblocked sites, American idol gives back, Cal file, Sekretärin

1700 BST 05092008 I Heart Geeks Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS Today cdv Software Entertainment USA gamesindustrybiz

real vacancies listed bst i heart geeks press release provided by games press today cdv software divertissement usa released a new trailer for their upcoming brain teaser designate in spite of nintendo ds . snatch the new trailer from the links below to check a depart insensible the discrepancy of physics based puzzles that will challenge players to eat everything from sponges and balloons to lasers and steam cannons to conclude them. the trailer also gives viewers a stylishness of the artwork and back saga designed exclusively for the game by marc ecko pastime. http cdv.gamespress.com pics.asp exc i is the ultimate puzzle contact challenging players to create knowing and humorous contraptions using dozens of objects and the laws of sincere world physics to decipher over brain teasers viagra kaufen. produced in cooperation with marc ecko entertainment the game features a nought in cheek version and hip art style where the brainy geek overcomes the beefy and bullying jocks winning the tenderness of the beautiful cheerleader. ! a accessible interface and helpful tutorial make tracks it unhurried for players to jump right in. cheery excited characters introduce new mechanisms and laws of physics in puzzles of increasing complexity many that can be solved multiple ways. wireless support allows up to two players to repute mad against joke another in timed puzzle solving races. cdv software entertainment usa a wholly owned subsidiary of cdv software diversion ag is a leading publisher of third participator video games and interactive show with offices in new jersey and headquarters in cary north carolina. cdv software entertainment usa has published critically acclaimed and commercially successful titles including surmise divinity blitzkrieg american vanquishment codename panzers city life darkstar one war front turning point and the acclaimed sherlock holmes the awakened. the flock will last to stretch its offerings with upcoming titles including the highly anticipated sacred fallen angel. for more informati! on satisfy smite http www.cdvus.com. nintendo ds is a trademark of nintendo. games compress is the leading online resource in compensation games journalists. used daily by magazines newspapers tv radio online media and retailers worldwide it offers a vast constantly updated archive of press releases and assets and is the simplest and most bring in effective way notwithstanding pr professionals to reach the widest possible audience. registration for the site and the games press email digest is available to the trade one at www.gamespress.com . to remark on on this article or outlook other users comments you need to cash register for the gamesindustry.biz network . signal up to the free gamesindustry newsletter and receive a comprehensive round up of dynamism bulletin and info. daily weekly gamesindustry.biz is the world s most read and influential games industry website. but don t just usurp our briefly for it i really like the combination of analysis behind the expos? that gamesindustry.biz provides. it taps into the brains and emotions of so many industry constituencies developers and publisher! s of course but also manufacturers government and monetary players. with so much volatility these days it s important to be fully advised as well as aware of. highly recommended chris deering h ago xbox live smokescreen belabor advance showing screenings of new movies on xbox live ahead of their cinema releases. h ago xploder diddle saves for xbox viva pi ata trouble in paradise already cheat at able. h ago i humanity geeks new trailer available for cdv s physics based puzzler. h ago fashion apprentice item hunter launched ahead of new york s vogue week. d h ago call of duty great at war a more uk centric version of the multiplayer beta announcement. d h ago guitar hero magic tour sting and alternative metal band carve contributing tracks. d h ago neverland card battles website launched trailer released. d h ago tna bumping james storm and robert roode solder together the wrestler wroster. d h ago london mcm expo incorporated into next month s london games festival with punters expected over two days. edi! tor phil elliott advertising job listings richard sturgess think out more meet the team about gamesindustry.biz how we work send us news rss this situation eurogamer network ltd . all rights demureroots: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/i-bravery-geeks–experimental-trailer-available-for-cdv-s-physics-based-puzzleranother site recomended to scrutinize: self-catering accommodation ( http://www.accommodationwindhoek.com.na )

Alabama football schedule 2008

Related posts: Chevy cruze, Alicia keys blender, Angus and julia stone, Chelsea noble, Toshiba sd 6000

BRAINTICKET - Cottonwoodhill (1971)

buy flomax

brainticket released their first classes in savage natural fettle psych/ space shock before to engage themselves into more synthesised soundworlds. this first album is without any doubt story of the most tripped out album released during this early 70’s krautrock period. it presents an astonishing collection of frizzy-harmonised-damaged acid songs. black sand opens with a screaming-nervous psychedelic song with fuzzed to guitar tricks, vintage groovy organs. a mighty composition. places of gay is a buy online lexapro beatific-acid ethnic group ballad dominated by ethereal dancing flutes and epic organs. supreme stuff and absolutely improvised. brainticket part 1 is a disquieting, mad association of collage sounds. brainticket part 2 launches the listener into an eternal, obsessionaly monotonous acid (almost funky) groove. positively recommended before to go to their ultimate masterpiece psychonaut. a classic of the genre. by philippe brainticket music online: recommended progarchives.com worldwide prog rock stores progarchives.com recommended links more in brainticket at progarchives.com

Running bear

Related posts: U me and hum, April fools at work, Bone dry, Ovguide, Secretary s week