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Daily Flog: The worm turns . . . yet another profit | Village Voice
Daily Flog: The worm turns . . . yet another profit
by Ward Harkavy
After feasting on Wall Street's collapse, hedge hog John Paulson scurries to London for more.
The early worm kills the birds — excuse me, we're talking of the financial world, so the birds are actually vultures.
And the worm is New Yorker John Paulson (left), the hedge-fund manipulator so admired in his circles.
Not as well-known as he should be to the rest of us, Paulson has fortunately surfaced into the news.
Hedge hog or worm — like a Fox, we report, you decide.
He's a different animal to those who worship short-sellers. Paulson's so admired that after Alan Greenspan sold us short, Wall Street's Rasputin went to work for Paulson. As the Financial Times noted last January:
Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is to become an adviser to Paulson & Co, the $28bn New York-based hedge fund company that achieved spectacular investment returns at the height of the credit squeeze last year.
Mr Greenspan will join the advisory board of the credit specialist investment house. Paulson will be the only hedge fund that Mr Greenspan will work with under the terms of the agreement.
Let's let Bloomberg — the news service owned by Mayor Mike Bloomberg — tell this latest story of Paulson's maneuvers after some counsel from his aging bitch Greenspan (as if Paulson really needed help).
The mayor, of course, has only indirectly helped people like John Paulson. Mayor Mike did nothing with his vast business knowledge to stop the damaging Wall Street derailments even though his company's sophisticated financial-data products that gave the mayor his fortune enabled Wall Street to figure out how to profit from subprime mortgages, credit arbitrage, and the like (as I pointed out yesterday).
Anyway, in "Paulson Shorts 4 of 5 Largest U.K. Finance Companies," the news wire Bloomberg reports:
Paulson & Co., whose main hedge fund made a sixfold return last year betting on a collapse in U.S. subprime mortgages, said it's wagering four of the U.K.'s five largest financial-services stocks will decline.
Everybody's talking these days about Hank Paulson, whom Jon Stewart refers to as the Frankensteinish figure who's spending your money to bail out Wall Street's reckless financiers — who crapped out after playing with the billions you had already handed over to them.
Hank Paulson worked as Nixon flunky John Ehrlichman's assistant during the Watergate era and then made his money at Goldman Sachs, eventually becoming its CEO before his appointment as Dick Cheney's Treasury Secretary. (Paulson's official bio notes that not only is he an "avid nature lover" but that Goldman Sachs is "one of the world's largest and most successful investment banks." Make that "former investment bank.")
John Paulson, on the other hand, never worked for Nixon and he hasn't yet made enough money; he's straight out of Dune or Tremors: the giant worm too greedy to ever get his fill after making sneak attacks on his prey.
But John Paulson's not such a bad thing, if you believe his press releases. The final chapters of the Mike Bloomberg story — bailout czar? president? — have yet to be written, but the mayor's Bloomberg L.P. news service continues the story of John Paulson:
The disclosures [by Paulson & Co.] were required under rules pushed through by the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority last week. John Paulson, founder of the $35 billion hedge fund, in June said banks will need to write down about $1.3 trillion from the subprime crisis after more than $522 billion in losses and writedowns so far.
"Paulson & Co. empathizes with financial firms as to the difficult positions in which many find themselves," Paulson & Co. said in a statement distributed by PRNewswire. "We support the FSA's desire to establish fair trading practices and to eliminate fraud and market manipulation. We will continue to comply with the FSA's requirements."
The FSA's emergency measures were introduced after politicians and some investors blamed short sellers for a plunge in HBOS's market value last week before it agreed to a takeover by Lloyds TSB. Under the rules, no new short positions can be taken in U.K.-listed financial services companies. While existing short positions don't have to be closed, they can't be increased.
Don't decide whether you believe the bit about Paulson's "empathy" until you see this June 25 Wall Street Journal item, "Subprime Billionaire John Paulson: 'Not a Credible Witness,' Court Says":
If we were playing a word-association game and you said "John Paulson," we'd say "rich." Paulson, after all, is the hedge-fund honcho who reaped $3 billion — $3 billion! — shorting the mortgage market.
But rich wasn't among the adjectives recently used by a Canadian judge used to describe the New York hedge-fund manager's 2006 testimony in a Calgary courtroom. Instead, she used these choice words: "unpersuasive," "self-serving," "unbelievable." In sum, she said, "Mr. Paulson was not a credible witness."
He wound up in the Canadian court after some complex maneuvering in the arbitrage bidness:
Before Paulson was a Wall Street Journal pinup idol, he was just another hedge-fund manager trying to eke out a living. His strategy: event arbitrage, or betting on such corporate events as mergers, restructuring and spinoffs. In 2005, he saw an opportunity to profit when French oil giant Total bid for Deer Creek Energy.
Total bid $31 a share, or $270 million, for Deer Creek, an oil-sands play based in Calgary and backed by Connecticut private-equity firm Lime Rock Partners (which, as an aside, made a bundle on the deal). Paulson refused to tender his stake, arguing that fair value for the company was as high as $190 a share. He sued in Canada to prove that point, exercising his so-called dissenter's rights to seek a higher price from a court.
On June 13, the Honourable Madam Justice B.E.C. Romaine of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta ruled that Total paid fair value for Deer Creek, quashing Paulson's claim. The 130-page opinion, issued more than a year-and-a-half after the trial, contains insights into corporate governance and valuation methodologies. . . .
Justice Romaine didn't buy Paulson's testimony, calling him a "not credible" witness and implying that he was essentially trying to greenmail the company. His valuation methodology was "unpersuasive in someone of his credentials and level of financial sophistication." His selective judgment of risk in an oil-sands company was "self-serving." And as a minority shareholder, Paulson's "limited and skewed interpretation" of Total's intention to buy the whole company was "self-serving and patently erroneous."
You don't have to go to Canada to learn more about Paulson. Just drive out to the Hamptons. That's what Vanity Fair's Michael Shnayerson did for his story last month, "Hamptons Overdrive":
While much of America worries about foreclosure, John Paulson, who made $3.7 billion shorting subprime mortgages, has plunked down $41.3 million for a Southampton estate. Another just went (to Tiger Woods?) for $60 million. And Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman is building a vast compound in Water Mill. But, amid whispers about which Wall Street casualties will lose their summer spreads, the market for properties below $10 million is grim.
I guess that means I should try to hang onto my house and just hope that John Paulson doesn't get his hands on my mortgage contract.
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El Journal of Coastal Research és una revista científica bimensual que tracta de la recerca els processos costaners. Va ser fundat el 1984 amb el nom de Litoralia i l'any següent es va canviar al nom actual. Està publicat per la Coastal Education and Research Foundation, el president i director executiu de la qual, Charles W. Finkl, també és el redactor en cap de la revista. La revista és membre de BioOne des del 2005. Segons Journal Citation Reports, el Journal of Coastal Research tenia un factor d'impacte de 0,915 el 2016, col·locant-lo al lloc 193 de les 229 revistes a la categoria de «Ciències del Medi Ambient».

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Combinatorial therapy against HIV virus: Sodium butyrate increases Heme oxygenase 2 (HO-2) expression, blocks N-myristoylation of HIV-1 Gag protein, disrupts HIV-1 budding, and restricts HIV-1 production via up regulation of its target gene, 21/June/2018, 10.10 am
Awakening the sleeping/cancer-protecting angels in mutant p53-expressing human tumors: Sitagliptin (trade name: Januvia), a DPP4 inhibitor, increases the expression of tumor suppressors genes, such as TIMP3, CCM3/KRIT1, TA-p73, TAp63, p53, and others, induces regression of p53-mutated human tumors, via down regulation of its target gene, 19/June/2017, 10.45 pm
Natural product-based learning/memory/cognitive-enhancement therapy:Kaempferol, found abundantly in apples and aloe vera, increases Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases 2 (TIMP2) levels, improves cognition, and decreases age-associated decline in memory and learning, via down regulation of its target genes, 22/June/2018, 2.37 pm
Published by admin_auro at June 21, 2018
Introduction: What they say
A study from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA shows that "Heme Oxygenase 2 Binds Myristate to Regulate Retrovirus Assembly and TLR4 Signaling." This research paper was published in the 8 February 2017 issue of the journal "Cell Host and microbe" [One of the best research journals in Infectious biology with an I.F of 12.552] by Prof. Goff SP, Zhu Y and others.
On the foundation of this interesting finding, Dr L Boominathan PhD, Director- cum-chief Scientist of GBMD, reports that: Combinatorial therapy against HIV virus: Sodium butyrate increases Heme oxygenase 2 (HO-2) expression, blocks N-myristoylation of HIV-1 Gag protein, disrupts HIV-1 budding, and restricts HIV-1 production via up regulation of its target gene
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From Significance of the study to Public health relevance:
Given that: (1) more than 37 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS; (2) there is no effective vaccine available for HIV/AIDS; (3) HIV/AIDS tops the list of incurable diseases in humans; (4) the life-long painful drug treatment is required to treat HIV/AIDS and its associated opportunistic infections; (5) the global economic cost spent for HIV treatment is enormous, there is an urgent need to find: (i) a way to restore CD4 T-cells that were lost in HIV/AIDS; (ii) a cheaper alternative to the existing expensive antiviral drugs; (iii) a side-effect-free natural product-based drug; and (iv) a way to cure, not just treat, HIV-1/AIDS.
Prof. Goff's research team has recently shown that HO-2: a) binds the myristate moiety of HIV-1 Gag protein; b) inhibits virus budding; c) binds TRAM, the adaptor protein of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4); d) decreases sensitivity to TLR4 ligand lipopolysaccharide; e) negatively regulates TLR4 signalling; and f) inhibits HIV-1 and MLV virions production, suggesting that increasing the expression of HO-2 in HIV-1 infected individuals may inhibit HIV-1 production; and host inflammatory responses.
This study suggests a small molecule-based antiviral therapy against RNA viruses such as HIV-1. Sodium butyrate, by increasing the expression of its target gene, it may increase the expression of Heme oxygenase-2 (HO-2) (Figure 1). Thereby, it may: (1) bind and block the myristate moiety of HIV-1 Gag protein; (2) disrupt HIV-1 budding; (3) restrict HIV-1 infectivity, replication and production; (4) promote clearance of HIV-1 and MLV virions; and (5) strengthen antiviral immunity against RNA viruses.
Figure 1 Mechanistic insights into how Sodium butyrate functions as an anti-HIV agent. Sodium butyrate inhibits HIV-1 budding and production via up-regulation of HO-2
Figure 2. The chemical structure of Sodium butyrate
Thus, pharmacological formulations encompassing "Sodium butyrate or its analogs, either alone or in combination with other drugs" may be used to inhibit HIV-1 production.
Idea Proposed/Formulated (with experimental evidence) by: Dr L Boominathan Ph.D.
Undisclosed mechanistic information: How does Sodium butyrate increase the expression of Heme oxygenase-2 (HO-2)?
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Citation: Boominathan, L., Antiviral therapy for HIV virus: Sodium butyrate increases Heme oxygenase 2 (HO-2) expression, blocks N-myristoylation of HIV-1 Gag protein, disrupts HIV-1 budding, and restricts HIV-1 production via up regulation of its target gene, 21/June/2018, 10.10 am, Genome-2-Bio-Medicine Discovery center (GBMD), http://genomediscovery.org
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A short and sweet discussion about traveling by plane and all that comes with it.
The writing below is an excerpt of a conversation between me and Lindsey Zanchettin, an English teacher at OES. I cannot guarantee that it will not offend anyone, but both of us decided that everyone needs to think about the issues we raised in this conversation.
Okay. I was not an American teenager, therefore not an American middle schooler. However, this seemingly shocking and tragic fact inspired me to write this piece more than ever.


My 5 year old starts kindergarten in a few days and my 19 year old heads back to college for her junior year. There is always a unique energy to this time of year for many of us. The end of summer signifies it's time to kick back into gear for me. Enough of dreaming about the summer cottage I want to own someday. Or the smell of the sea air, and the extravagance of that lobster dinner. It's time to get our brains in motion, and close out 2012 with a bang!
In the beginning of the summer I vowed to have Kate practice writing her upper and lower case letters, numbers and start a little reading. We were off to a great start until we got to the beach, and then vacation brain settled in! But now that we are less than a week away, I dusted off the pre-K activity books and she spends at least 30 minutes a day on them. And practice really does make perfect. She plowed through those books in no time, and we headed to Costco to get the Kindergarten version. My friend Kevin Eikenberry wrote a great post about practice recently that caused a pause and got my attention. And how does it apply to me?
My PCC (Professional Certified Coach) credentials are renewable this year through the International Coach Federation. Like other professional associations, we are required to earn 40 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to maintain the designation. It's a 'back to school' of sorts, and it keeps the credibility of the credentialing alive. And for coaches, there is no better way to continue to learn than to be coached as well. I work with a couple of coaches each year, for different reasons, and every time I have a session I am reminded about the power of coaching. I participated in two fantastic continuing ed programs this year.
I learned a lot more about Adult Development and I am now certified on a new assessment called The Hogan.
I was able to spend several days in the presence of my fellow coaches, many of whom have achieved Master Certified Coach status, and it was a great reminder how practicing your craft, your livelihood, or a hobby, is tantamount to continuous growth.
Sadly I know people that tell me they have no hobbies or outside interests. And they watch a lot of TV, and they also report feelings of lethargy and even depression. Keeping our minds active is CRITICAL! We cannot allow our minds, and then our spirit and bodies to atrophy.
Practicing is hard. Whether it is music, medicine, needlework, cooking, tennis, swimming, writing, or upper and lower case letters- establishing in a routine of consistent practice makes the brain happy and generative.
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Re: Stripping an Accurail boxcar
David Jobe, Sr.
It's a 4600 series USRA double-sheathed box car. Hopefully, I'll be able to try the Scalecoat this weekend or perhaps ELO. Since this is for a kitbash I would prefer to return it to its unpainted state if possible. Thanks much for the offer. Hope to see you at the St. Louis RPM!
Saint Ann, Missouri
From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 12:39 PM
To: STMFC@...
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Stripping an Accurail boxcar
Which series box car is it? I have several undecs in my unbuilt kits stash. I would trade you an undec for your car if I have the right one.
Jeff White
On 5/8/2017 9:41 PM, 'David Jobe, Sr.' tangerine_flyer@... [STMFC] wrote:
Unfortunately, 91% Isopropyl alcohol barely touches the paint. It did get most of the lettering though.
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 7:37 PM
Have you tried 91% Isopropyl alcohol?
Eric Hansmann
On May 8, 2017, at 6:30 PM, 'David North' david.north@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
Because the undec version of this series is out of stock at all our suppliers.
Re: Essential Freight Cars - X29
Sent off list. About 8 MB total.
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 11:08 PM
Subject: [STMFC] Essential Freight Cars - X29
I am modeling an undecorated Red Caboose X29 and am seeking scans of Ted Culotta's January and February 2007 RMC Essential Freight Car articles on the Pennsy X29 class. I do not necessarily need hard copies, as PDFs of the original articles would do nicely if anyone has copies.
Michael Gross
Re: Ventilated Box Cars
richard glueck
Kind of like displaying Grandma in her casket, in the parlor, in July.
On Friday, May 12, 2017 2:50 AM, "Tony Thompson tony@... [STMFC]" wrote:
Yep, field heat is a familiar concept in produce shipping. It combines thermal heat from warm air, etc. with the biological heat from life processes that continue in most fruits and vegetables after harvest. Per-cooling by the shippers is the best remedy.
On May 12, 2017, at 7:59 AM, 'Aley, Jeff A' Jeff.A.Aley@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
Ike,
The first phrase that came to mind as I read your message was "field heat". The crops coming in from the fields were warm. Were they cooled before being loaded in to ventilated box cars? I have no idea.
I learned the term "field heat" from Tony Thompson (or I read it in Pacific Fruit Express by Thompson, Church, and Jones). I hope he'll chime in and comment.
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 8:49 AM
Subject: [STMFC] Re: Ventilated Box Cars
There is another aspect of "ventilated" box cars I did not realize until I started doing research for the SRHA Wood and Steel Underframe Cars book. Ventilated cars were necessary to let heat OUT.
Any vegetable matter produces heat as it decomposes. Melons, etc that were shipped in vent box cars produced enough heat from that process to cause them to "go bad". It's not the loads needed cooling or refrigeration, they needed to keep from spoiling due to the heat they produce in transit. There is probably an expert on the list that can explain the process better?
Re: Permanent Heaters—was Ventilated B ox Cars
Bill Welch
I know that Tony, I was responding to Tim's statement.
Ventilated Boxcar In 1959
Caption: "Louisville and Nashville Railroad local freight train crosses Cumberland River as it leaves Clarksville, Tennessee, on run to Paris in September 1959. Photograph by J. Parker Lamb, © 2016, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Lamb-01-149-01"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/railphotoart/27670361634/in/album-72157668145827254/
Third car is an ACL ventilated boxcar.
Re: Permanent Heaters—was Ventilated Box Cars
Bill, I was talking about BAR.
On May 12, 2017, at 10:50 AM, fgexbill@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
A'hem, pretty broad statement regarding pre-1960. FGE's Plywood sheathed FOBX 50-foot 4000 overhead bunker cars built beginning in 1944 were equipped with heaters under the floor and while granted it was a singular entity, Aluminum car FGEX 40000 was rebuilt with a permanent underslung heater.
Then there all those pesky Canadian reefers so equipped.
After 1960? Off in the dim future somewhere? C'mon, Tim.
On May 12, 2017, at 8:29 AM, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
After 1960, a minority of the reefers had either interior alcohol heaters,
or charcoal heaters mounted underneath, like the XI cars. Some of these were
equipped for bulk potato loading. However, prior to 1960 none of the reefers
had permanent heaters of any kind as you say.
Tim O'
The cars with heaters were NOT reefers, but were XI cars. The BAR reefers did NOT have permanent heaters. That's my understanding. Please correct if you have more info.
Essential Freight Cars - X29
Re: CO-2
Craig Wilson
I ran this by John Young, a friend who recently retired from a career at the Pepsi bottling plant in Howell, Michigan:
In the early 1950's, CO2 would probably been delivered in larger (200 gallon range) tanks and transported into the plant. These would have been delivered in box cars. The empties would also have been returned in boxcars. Remember, the bottling plants of that era were much smaller than those of today. If choosing to model a plant that has the kind of production that would require an out door storage tank, he could use a model of a horizontal LP tank, shortened a bit (you need the round ends because of the high pressure) or a vertical tank of the same design. We had one of each tank in Howell. The vertical one you are familiar with had a 50 ton capacity; the horizontal one on the other side of the plant had a 26 ton capacity. Unfortunately, I never had a reason to convert those figures to gallons or cubic feet capacity, so I don't really know how large they actually were. My guess would be that the larger one is in the 15000 gallon range, comparing them to the syrup tanks inside.
The unload method involves a two hose hook up: one hose delivers the liquid CO2 to the storage tank, the second hose returns CO2 vapor to the delivery vessel from the onsite storage tank. It both captures the gas and also balances the pressure between the two tanks making it easier to deliver.
It takes a pump to move liquid CO2, so the unload spot for the CO2 rail car will need some type of pump house. At our site, because the CO2 was delivered by truck, the trucks had a PTO driven pump under the middle of the tank.
In any case, there will be an on site storage tank. No bottling plant would have paid to use a rail car as a storage tank for CO2, CO2 is just too cheap, and the per diem rate too high to hold the tank car for a week to unload it.
The Howell plant made over 150,000 cases of pop a day and used one truck load of CO2 per day. When I entered the business in 1978, we used about a truck load a week, and we were a big operation at the time turning out about 35,000 cases a day.
One other thing to mention is to have the CO2 source be in the London, Ontario area. That has been a long time source of CO2 over many decades. There have been other sources pop up in the intervening years (such as Lima, Ohio) but even in the 1950's it would have been cheaper to ship CO2 by truck to the modeled town than to ship it by rail from Ohio.
Hopefully this answers some questions. Craig Wilson
I had presented last year at both Chicagoland and Cocoa and this spring at a Twin Cities RPM about National Reefer Movements. (Do I have too many Reefers?)
In it I had presented that there was a Special Car Order 95 placed in May 1956, which read in part as follows,
Because of the impending heavy movement, principally watermelons - SCO 95 became effective May 15. Order is applicable to ventilated (VM) boxcars owned by the ACL, SAL, and C&WC." (Charleston &Western Carolina) Prompt unloading and expedited return to loading areas is requested.
This SCO 95 continued that year until the July 20th AAR bulletin stated : SCO 95 applicable to ventilated boxcars is now cancelled.
I had also provided the quote from the May 21, 1956 AAR bulletin that " The heaviest demands for refrigerator cars normally shifts from the Northern-Belt states to the Southeastern, Gulf, and Southwestern states during April and May".
Read: Protected Service, which in itself is a major market of refrigerator cars and really a bonus for prototype oriented modelers who understand how it affects refrigerator car usage.
It also lead me to believe (based on the number of SCO's and mentions for Canadian Cars to be returned home) that US modeler seriously undermodel the number of Canadian boxcars on US rails. However that is another topic. Jim Dick - St. Paul, MN
---In STMFC@..., <jimbetz@...> wrote :
What was shipped in "Ventilated Box Cars" - the ones with open/slotted doors and
ventilators on the ends of the cars?
Most of the pics of them I've seen have been pre-WWII ... when did they stop
being used? What replaced them?
Re: THINNER FOR FLOQUIL SOLVENT BASED PAINTS
anthony wagner
For what it's worth, I used lacquer thinner with both Floquil and Scalecoat before I switched to acrylics. It worked better with Floquil and saved some cash over buying brand specific thinners. A quart can would last a long time. Tony Wagner
On Thursday, May 11, 2017 3:31 PM, "Rod Miller rod@... [STMFC]" wrote:
On 5/11/17 1:09 PM, Nelson Moyer npmoyer@... [STMFC] wrote:
> You're rumor is urban legend. If you read the fine print on the can, you will
> see that the ingredients include a number of organic solvents that are
> immiscible with water. If you wish to experiment, put a little water in a
> small jar and add a little lacquer thinner. Your will see water on the bottom
> layer and lacquer thinner on top. If you shake the jar and let it stand, the
> solvents will separate into two layers. I don't have my CRC handbook any
> more, but you look up the solubility tables if you have one available.
> Nelson Moyer
> From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Thursday,
> May 11, 2017 2:34 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re:
> THINNER FOR FLOQUIL SOLVENT BASED PAINTS
> It is rumored that the big box lacquer thinners are cut with water.
> For painting I buy lacquer thinner from auto paint supply stores. For clean
> up I use the big box thinner.
> -- Rod Miller
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Re: Ventilated Box Cars (Processing Produce)
George Eichelberger
The packing and loading methods changed over the years, by region and by crop. Watermelons did not need much more than a "watermelon" (ventilated) box car and layers of straw. Putting them in rail cars as close to the fields as possible made sense as no other processing was required. The following link is a photo of Southern "vent" 27941 (SRHA Archives, Ben Roberts collection) being loaded in 1912 directly from a mule powered farm wagon.
The idea of loading watermelons (a huge crop in Florida and the South) in the field did not go away. Semi trucks were and still are parked and loaded in the fields.
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If you are talking about the very early years of national produce shipments, things were somewhat different. In Southern California (mainly pre-1910), the citrus crop was sorted and packed in the field or brought to the open platforms of the depots to be sorted and packed. This changed with the large scale introduction of dedicated packing houses, of course.
No outside authority inspected the fruit in those early days. However, the retailers and wholesalers in the east, especially New York, were angry with the California growers for their successful lobbying for increased tariffs on imported lemons and (later) oranges. So, the local health departments inspected fruit arriving from California and, not surprisingly, tended to condemn more California fruit than fruit from southern Europe.
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Before loading any produce to be sold in markets onto rail cars for shipment, it went from the field directly to a facility where it was all sorted, inspected, graded, often washed, then counted or weighed, boxed or crated for shipment. For interstate shipment produce was inspected by agricultural or public health authorities of the growing region as well as at the consuming region.
If necessary (depending on the type of produce), crated or boxed fruits or raw vegetables ready for shipment were stored in a cooled or chilled warehouse. It likely held produce from a number of area farms.
When shipping produce, it's important to maintain optimal storage temperatures, to reduce the possibility of spoilage enroute.
That's only half the story. There was much more involved with delivery and distribution of rail shipped produce to local markets at the destination. All that is much changed now.
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On May 12, 2017, at 12:00 AM, richard glueck richard_glueck@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
Bangor and Aroostook reefers were equipped with charcoal heaters in the winter, for shipping potatoes. In other times of the year they traveled with ice. I'm certain this isn't news, but occasionally, some of these cars were leased out to California companies, which might be news. In the mid-50's, the switch began to an all-steel fleet, but wood sided cars remained in service for years and well into the mid-60's.
On Thursday, May 11, 2017 8:54 AM, "Eric Hansmann eric@... [STMFC]" <STMFC@...> wrote:
There are historic Pittsburgh images that show ACL ventilated box cars (XV) in the produce terminal area, circa late 50s and early 1960s.
Awhile back I compiled notes on XV listings in the 1943 ORER reprint. I was surprised at the numbers. I'm on the road at the moment but will see what I can dig up tomorrow.
As a 1926 modeler, these are an important car class with many more in service before the Depression Era. B&O, PRR, Reading, L&N, C&O, and many others had XV cars in service in the 1920s.
On May 11, 2017 at 2:45 AM "Garth Groff sarahsan@... [STMFC]" <STMFC@...> wrote:
Tim and Jim,
I'm wondering what you mean by "weren't traveling too terribly far"? A lot of produce out of the Carolinas and Georgia came north to New York and other major cities in these cars. That is a pretty fair distance. I can't cite statistics, but the proof is in photos of RF&P trains which often show large blocks of ACL ventilators. See Richard E. Prince's RICHMOND-WASHINGTON LINE for examples.
I agree about melons and the like being shipped in ventilators. Ambroid referred to their model as a "watermelon" car, which seems cute marketing but does have truthiness to it. The genius of these cars was that they could be used for almost any clean load on the return trip. I recall reading somewhere that tobacco was another frequent ventilator commodity, though most of this traffic likely didn't leave the south.
Jim, these ventilators are closely identified with "y'all" railroads, and most of the major southern lines had substantial fleets of these cars up WWII, with Seaboard and ACL continuing to use them in large numbers into the 1950s. However, as Dennis noted, they were replaced by ice reefers running as ventilators. By the 1920s the two biggest refrigerator operators, PFE and FGE, dominated the produce trade and the decline of ventilators was well underway.
On the West Coast, the Southern Pacific and its subsidiaries were major ventilators operators at the turn of the century. PFE made their ventilators redundant. Even the Western Pacific bought a modest fleet of ventilators just after WWI. When that road joined PFE, their ventilators were soon all rebuilt as plain boxcars.
Yours Aye,
Garth Groff
On 5/11/17 12:15 AM, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC] wrote:
Lots of melons and cantaloupes and squashes that weren't travelling
too terribly far and in "season" - but I think at other times of the
year they could be used like ordinary box cars.


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UCF Knights QB Darriel Mack Jr., the hero of the 2018 American Championship, announced he is leaving UCF and entering the transfer portal on Wednesday. Mack made the announcement on social media:
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Mack's career path at UCF was as circuitous as it was fascinating. He came to UCF from Norfolk, Virginia, and worked his way up to being McKenzie Milton's backup by 2018.
It was at Greenville when Mack made his first start for UCF, playing well in Milton's place as he was banged up from the week before. Mack was 12/20 for just 69 yards through the air, but ran 22 times for 120 yards and a TD in a UCF win.
When Milton went down with his devastating injury at South Florida, Mack stepped in and captained UCF to another win, rushing for 51 yards and throwing for 81.
But it was the following week that Mack made his mark at UCF in the 2018 American Championship against Memphis. After a disastrous first half where he fumbled four times, losing three of them (one was recovered for a TD by UCF). Despite that, he led UCF back from a 38-21 deficit at halftime, scoring four TDs on the ground and throwing for two more through the air. He finished 19/27 for 348 yards and two TDs, plus 59 yards and the four more running scores, and won the game's MVP award.
In the Fiesta Bowl against LSU, Mack was harassed all day, but still had the ball in his hands down a score in the final minute.
Mack was the odds-on favorite to be the Knights' starter in 2019, but after an ankle injury in the preseason, he was supplanted by Brandon Wimbush, who himself was supplanted by Dillon Gabriel. He opted out for 2020, and the rest is now history.
Mack finishes his UCF career 70/131 for 838 yards and 7 TDs with two picks, plus 516 yards on 110 rushes and another 9 TDs.
Due to the NCAA's COVID rules, Mack will be a junior wherever he lands in 2021. It should be very intriguing to see what he will be able to do with an offense that he fully has the keys to.
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Why Snap Inc (SNAP), Duluth Holdings Inc (DLTH) and Cenovus Energy Inc (USA) (CVE) Are 3 of Today's Worst Stocks
DLTH, SNAP and CVE stock never even had a prayer of making gains on Wednesday
By James Brumley, InvestorPlace Feature Writer	Jun 7, 2017, 4:43 pm EST	 June 7, 2017
For the better part of the day, the market's gain was in doubt as uncertainty surrounding James Comey's testimony to the U.S. Senate on Thursday left most traders unclear about the near-term future. With fewer and fewer unknowns about the matter shedding some light though, the bulls decided they could test the waters after all on Wednesday. The S&P 500 ended the session at 2,433.14, up 0.16%.
Not every stock sidestepped a setback though. Duluth Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:DLTH), Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) and Cenovus Energy Inc (USA) (NYSE:CVE) were hit by sellers early and often, albeit for understandable reasons.
Here's the deal.
Cenovus Energy Inc (USA) (CVE)
It was a rough day for most energy stocks, with Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) falling 5.2% and Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) tumbling to the tune of 3.5%. It was Cenovus Energy that won the race to the bottom on Wednesday though — at least among large-cap energy names — with CVE shares losing 6.1% of their value in response to a steep 4.8% plunge in the price of oil.
The selloff was the result a surprising rise in the amount of oil the U.S. has collectively stockpiled. Analysts were expecting that number to drop for a ninth straight week, this time rolling in by 4.6 million barrels less than last week's tally. Instead, the number grew by 3.3 million barrels.
That being said, CVE shareholders, along with most other energy investors, were already starting to doubt OPEC would deliver on its promise to curb its oil output through early 2018. Now it seems it may not matter.
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For the second time this week, Snapchat parent company Snap earned a spot on the daily worst-three list, with Wednesdays' reason more or less being the same as Monday's reason. That is, another analyst has doubts about the company's actual prospects.
Nomura's analysts did the deed today, pointing out the number of global downloads of the Snapchat app were down 22% on a year-over-year basis over the course of the prior two months. That, in turn, will likely contribute to the ongoing slowing in the company's daily active user roster.
Analyst Anthony DiClemente commented: "We are surprised that a newly public company, supposedly early in its growth cycle, would see near-term results impacted by broader seasonal ad market trends."
DiClemente is also concerned that roughly 80% of SNAP shares will become free-trading next month, injecting a flood of supply that could work the stock's price down.
SNAP lost 3.9% of its value today, bringing the week-to-date loss up to 7.2%.
Duluth Holdings Inc (DLTH)
Last but not least, Duluth Holdings — you know it better as Daluth Trading Company — may have entertaining television commercials, but they don't appear to be cost-effective television commercials. DLTH shares dropped 18.6% following the release of its fiscal first-quarter estimates.
On the surface, the results look sold. Revenue was up 22% last quarter, and the company turned a profit. The penny per share it earned, however, was not only down from the year-ago bottom line of 5 cents, but missed analyst estimates for a profit of 10 cents per share of DLTH by a country mile. Selling expenses were up 39%, driven by heavy advertising and store-opening costs.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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Judy Pfaff: Kantha Series features the newest editions that Judy Pfaff completed at Tandem Press. While working on this series, Pfaff took a break to chat with our director Paula Panczenko. During that conversation she said, "I went to India and I thought I knew a lot about color, but I realized I didn't know anything about India's vibrant and exotic colors." Pfaff's work has always been characterized by vitality, but, in response to her experience in India, these pieces lean more heavily on color rather than structure or form to generate energy and movement.
In some of the work, such as ...two foxes..., Pfaff used extremely saturated colors, allowing them to flow into each other, almost clashing, but with enough control to retain harmony. In other works, she used color with a more restrained hand. This series is also marked by the presence
of patterns that reference the kantha quilts made from recycled saris that Pfaff encountered in the Indian markets. The term raga appears in the titles of three of the larger works - a succinct metaphor for Pfaff's working process. Just as a raga is a melodic pattern in Indian music used as a framework for improvisation, Pfaff used pattern as a backbone for the work while leaving plenty of room for her to do what she does best - improvise..
Image: Judy Pfaff, ...wind-deer and the honey-grass...
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…wind-deer and the honey-grass…, 2017
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Morning Raga, 2017
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Judy Pfaff working in the Tandem Press Studio. Image courtesy of Tandem Press.
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…two foxes…, 2017
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Judy Pfaff (b. 1946) was born in London and immigrated to the US at the age of thirteen. She received her BFA from Washington University and her MFA from Yale University. From the beginning of her career in the 1970s, Pfaff has worked with a wide and unusual range of materials and moves back and forth easily between two- and three-dimensional work, creating art that is complex, profuse, and unique. Her dynamic, exuberant, large-scale works incorporate many different media. Like her installations, Pfaff's prints have a three-dimensional presence and flowing quality with layered circles, lines and organic shapes echoing throughout the images. To bring the overall compositions together, her prints are often completed with hand-applied paints, fabric dyes, and layers of collaged elements. Her innovative work has brought her wide acclaim from galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and her work can be found in such prestigious collections as the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among many other awards and accolades, Pfaff was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2004 and was featured in PBS's Art 21 in 2007. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2014 and a National Academy Award for Excellence in Sculpture in 2015.
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