do not ask - it is gone.
Bencher 2-paddle bug and old straight key given by railroad upon retirement. There is another old straight key in the workshop.
massive tilt-over base for Rohn 20 tower.
AC line voltage adjuster, input 100-125V 50-60Hz, output 85-150V via tapped switch at 500 Watts. Best for setting the usual 125V line volts to 115-117 for older tube gear, especially classic receivers.
30A battery charger for 5-8 cells, or 10-18V batteries. For 12V car or motorcycle battery. rugged industrial unit. input 120 or 240VAC.
Dentron model R2 wattmeter with remote sensor. 0-200 reflected, 0-200-2000 forward. ETO Alpha 374 linear amplifier. bandpass type "no-tune" on ham bands, manually tunable for alternate use or difficult loads. Three 8874 (each 400W dissipation, 3CX400A7) tubes so ought to be a real beast on the air.
some huge beams on a tower. Tower is made of tubular steel and appears to be one piece, possibly two, about 30-40FT tall, with rotor. Base has small tree entangled in tower. Not damaged, tree will have to be sawed through, 3" trunk, will be some work. Icom IC-251A 2M rig. comes on but display is all "8's", as in 888.888888. unknown fix, maybe logic regulator. makes noises and behaves as though radio part is working.
Icom IC-275 HF xcvr, intermittent DC power, will work then go dead. Receives well. Maybe bad connection to power, otherwise power is solid. The switches for KHZ MHZ Band Lock are very dirty and don't release right causing difficulty to operate.
Icom IC-735 HF XCVR, SSB(A3J), CW(A1), FM(F3), AM(A3) . Receives well. , one lamp out on display, RF power setting (control behind front door) seems to be max all time. otherwise seems to work OK. bands opened. Seems to draw too much power from the 12V supply and makes it "limit", but I was not able to investigate that. I think the issue is possibly the voltage setting on the supply (low) because of the way it acted.
Icom IC-735 HF XCVR this one seems to work OK. Receives well. SSB(A3J), CW(A1), FM(F3), AM(A3). bands opened. Seems to draw too much power from the 12V supply and makes it "limit", but I was not able to investigate that. I think the issue is possibly the voltage setting on the supply (low) because of the way it acted.
Icom IC-737 HF XCVR, SSB(A3J), CW(A1), FM(F3), AM(A3). Receives well. One lamp out on display, RF power setting (control on front panel) seems to be max all time. otherwise seems to work OK. bands opened. Seems to draw too much power from the 12V supply and makes it "limit", but I was not able to investigate that. I think the issue is possibly the voltage setting on the supply (low) because of the way it acted.
Icom IC-2KL linear amplifier, 500 watts, 10-160M, solid state. Automatic bandswitching when used with Icom HF radio IC-737 or 735. Uses IC-2KLPS power supply next..
Icom IC-2KLPS power supply 40VDC 23A high efficiency switching power supply.
Icom IC-AT500 automatic antenna tuner, used with Icom IC-2KL linear amp. Automatic bandswitching and tuning when used with Icom linear amp and Icom radio. 500W rating.
Looks like a new-in-plastic-wrapping Icom IC-AT500 automatic antenna tuner that has been sitting around a while. Odd but that is what it looks like.
rear panel of the tuner in plasic.
JW Miller AT 2500 automatic antenna tuner. Seems to work, knobs turn by themselves when RF applied and "Tune" pushed, but was not able to really test because the antenna cables removed from entry to the house already. Rated 2500W.
Kenwood TM-221A 2M mobile rig. came on, not way to test further. Also 90 watt 2M mobile amp. Amp was sitting in shelf in carport, so explains the appearance and cobwebs! The radio was in the house so it is only dirty.
MFJ-941B manual tuner. 300W. Has tapped coil, no worries with roler inductors.
AEA "Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc." MorseMatic memory keyer. Can send CQ's or messages, or station ID for you at touch of button. Also does beacon keying.
Classical RCA 22" round CRT color TV by RCA. Knobs seem to be in desk drawer in the same room.
Simpson 260 analog meter. Ohms adjust knob missing or broken. This is fixable though.
antenna rotor for TV or 440/2M/small 6M beam antenna. There is a controller.
beam antenna for HF bands.
crank-up TV tower with antenna and rotor. looks like about 8-10" on a side and 25-30 FT total height when extended. Winch is shot but ther are a couple extras in the carport. NBVM baseband tranceiver VBC model 3000. This is a speech processor that contesters use. from the WWW: "The voice audio is amplified as need then bandwidth-limited to 2500 Hz. This signal is split into two components. Vowel sounds are selected out ( 500 Hz - Low Pass) and consonant sounds (1500 Hz to 2200 Hz - Bandpass). The consonant sounds are used to modulate a carrier to produce an output consisting of frequency translated and inverted voice compnents (600 Hz to 1600 Hz inverted - LSB) and summed with the vowel sounds. Now we have the vowel sounds to 500 Hz and the consonant sounds inverted in frequency 1600 Hz to 600 Hz. Reducing bandwidth by 50% and improving SNR. To recieve is just the opposite process."
multiband vertical antenna seems in good shape. About 15-20FT tall.
12V adjustable 50 amp DC power supply.
12V 15A DC power supply.
looks new in box, a balun W2AU model I1 with lightning arrestor built in. with manual.
The fuller spool is RG-213. Has been outside but I think if the first 20FT or so were cut off the rest would be as new. There are many piles and coils of wire here. Also in this pic, more HF beam elements.
6 section HBX tower with X braces. Easily removed as is correctly bolted to proper mount in ground.


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Big Brother, do you remember Michael Bertie? Here's how it fell after disappearance
Daisy Bowen March 13, 2022 3 min read
Maicol Berti was one of the heroes of the tenth edition of Big brother. We haven't seen him on TV in years: at the bottom there is a picture that shows today how he looks and what he does. Many personalities have become famous thanks to the reality show of Channel 5. Some of them continue their careers in the world of entertainment, while others prefer to devote themselves to something else and leave their TV experiences behind. Tomorrow, Monday, March 14th, is final Big brother In the "Vip" version, where the audience can see what celebrities are doing inside the Cinecittà house, and get to know better the private sphere of the celebrities who participate in the game as competitors. But reality shows were born to bring out completely unknown faces to the public. A social experiment that made celebrities like Luca Argentero and Eleonora Daniele, to name a few. One of the most popular releases of . will surely be remembered by the audience GF on TV. This is the tenth edition, which witnessed the victory of Mauro Marin, who has gone through a difficult stage in recent years. The same edition was also attended by Michael Bertie, one of the protagonists of that edition who took advantage of himself. Here's what it looks like today and what it does.
Maicol Berti is undoubtedly one of those faces that have never been forgotten since the start of the reality show Canale 5. A wonderful, theatrical and very kind personality, able to attract the attention of the audience and competitors of the House of Cinecittà. His relationship with the winner of that edition was never idyllic. The two characters were too different to get along, which caused a lot of conflict throughout the show. But if the relationship with Marine was not good, then the same cannot be said about another competitor. Maicol developed a special and strong relationship with Giorgio Ronchini. The strong and important friendship continued throughout the race, to the point that many thought there could be something between the two beyond simple friendship, but then it wasn't the case. Having reached the final of the tenth edition, and after walking out the famous red door, Bertie's TV presenters were somewhat in short supply, until the former Givino stopped appearing on the small screen. But even if he no longer participates in TV salons, the same cannot be said on social media.
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Maicol's appearance today has completely changed, he no longer has long hair. In the photo above, you can see a face and a look that seems to have changed a lot compared to the past: Maicol now shows himself with short hair and a beard. Maicol is today by profession an influencer and has around 39,500 followers on his social profiles, where he shares many photos from his daily life. In this way, the ex-Givino was able to keep in touch with the people who followed his events at home. Who knows if he will return to the loft that brought him so much popularity, perhaps this time he will participate in the "Vip" version of the most popular reality show of all time.
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Recently, it had dawned upon me how similar building software products was to baking sourdough bread.
To set the context, let me share some background and a little story. My fiancé, Marko, and I are consultants in the tech space and LOVE food. We often work long hours so by the time we factor in a social life, dining out was the norm and cooking/baking was the exception. After many years of excuses, we began to question the quality of ingredients and food which we were eating from restaurants, markets and grocery stores. One weekend about 6 months ago, we were having a conversation about the weekly purchase of artisan bread, which led to a personal challenge of "how hard could it really be to make our own bread".
Whilst it might sound like a typical couples conversation, this was "the end of the beginning". A sequences of events, research and experimentation had begun. We both learnt a lot about bread, it's history and the difference in store-bought bread compared to the bread is that baked at home with homemade sourdough starter.
It's amazing that bread is the most widely consumed food in the world and that it's been apart of our diet for approximately 30,000 years. Let's take a look at the 7 commonalities that we noticed between homemade sourdough bread and software development.
When we don't understand how a particular technology works, we apply the "brute force" method by default. Likewise when making our first loaf of sourdough bread. It's all about trial and error but it may not be the most efficient for reaching the imagined goal. For example, when making a decision about how much to invest into developing a software product, we are often emotionally distracted by a combination of capturing the opportunity and the funds that we're willing to pour into it.
When making real sourdough bread, bakers use something called "sourdough starter" (aka natural or wild yeast), instead of commercial yeast. The starter constantly needs to be "fed" in order to keep it active and to maintain its 'strength'. Additionally, the process for making the dough takes patience and attention to the personality of the dough. For example, there is never a fixed time around how long you should let the dough rise for because there are many factors that influence the rate at which the dough will rise.
Similarly, the technologies used to build software products need to frequently be updated because technologies are constantly evolving. And once a software product is built, the work is really only half done. The product must now be maintained and enhanced in order to stay competitive and useful for its customers.
In 2011, a book called the Lean Startup was published and the concept of running experiments exploded in the tech space. The general principle is to rapidly discover if a proposed business model, thus software product, is viable. This grew in popularity quickly due to the number of factors like a business' technology legacy, requirements, constraints and team skillset and experience that played a significant role in the resulting software product. Whilst two different teams might have the same skills and experience building web software products for a particular industry, 99.9% of the time you will end up with a different product (eg. multiple ways to write code that achieves the same result). No two software products are created exactly the same.
The same can be said about baking sourdough bread. When making the exact same loaf of bread, a baker could have followed the exact same measurement of ingredients, but without knowing the environment the dough was proofed in, 99.9% of the time you'll end up with a different kind of loaf. Temperature, duration of proofing, different types and qualities of flour and the combinations of different flour types can result in a wide range of sourdough bread flavour, shape, crumb openness (interior texture) and overall quality. I can speak from second hand experience of listening to my fiancé, who also happens to be a software engineer and regularly talks about his next sourdough experiment. There's always a discussion about the sourdough's hydration and the debate about the percentages of different flours in the next sourdough loaf. One may dare to say that sourdough baking has become a scientific hobby for some. Therefore, no two sourdough breads can be alike.
Obtaining a certain level of quality is all about frequently collecting early feedback. In the kitchen, it is common to continuously make the same type of bread and modify one or more variables (eg. type of flour, proportion of water to flour, etc.), in order to work towards a desired flavour and crumb openness in the sourdough bread. To achieve this, it requires patience and an analytical approach due to the many iterations of experimentation with each new sourdough loaf. For example, feeding the starter regularly with unbleached organic plain flour until it is established then occasionally feeding it with wholemeal flour adds a little 'nuttiness' to its flavour.
In product development, it is common for each new feature to be tested or put in front of a customer to obtain feedback and learn what needs to be tweaked or what didn't behave as expected. Customers often cannot articulate and prescribe the exact issue with the product. Instead, customers' infrequent engagement or "uninterested" reactions of the product are often a sign that the product doesn't provide value or meet a need. Hence, it is crucial to continuously experiment, test and learn the new product ideas and what the end-user's needs are.
For both sourdough bread and software products, there is a wide price range associated to how much it will cost to make or to build, eg. time, experience, skill and quality. The key factors influencing which end of the price scale you end up paying depends on the quality of the product, skills and experience involved to produce the product and the associated worth assigned to the product by the customer. At the end of the day, if the customer does not see any value in a particular product (eg. artisan sourdough bread or custom software), they would most likely go for the cheaper option.
Regardless of it being sourdough or software, it's important to educate the customer on the different ends of the price scale and the respective pros and cons.
There are many reasons why cheap sourdough simply doesn't exist. The process to make it isn't fast, so the 'time-is-money' approach just doesn't work here. With a loaf naturally containing so few ingredients, any artisanal baker worth their (third ingredient) salt will take huge pride in selecting the best ones for the job.
Developing software is also expensive, not because of the cost of developers to build the product, but because of the collective cost of all the activities, time, resources and effort that is required to take a software product from a concept to a finished product that customers will use.
To be clear, I'm not saying you can't get cheap sourdough bread or software products. But if you do get them cheap, you should ask yourself "what corners did they cut in order to reduce the price?" What are you paying "tomorrow" for the perceived cost-saving incurred today (eg. the cost of convenience)?
Which flours and in what combinations will give me "fluffy" sourdough?
What are the "best" flours to use?
How much of which flours should I use to make gluten free sourdough?
How much is someone willing to pay for this product?
As you can see, uncertainty is the norm when it comes to baking sourdough and developing software. But with experience and the help of more scientific approaches, the multiple variables involved with bread making and software development can be brought under control as a result of reducing the uncertainty. As a result, bakers and producers of software are empowered to make more confident decisions and have a more realistic expectation of the outcome.
For some, sourdough bread may be as simple as buying sourdough bread from the grocery store as an item to be eaten. For others, it may be as complex as understanding all the ingredients, quality and nutrition of the ingredients, sourcing their own ingredients then baking their own sourdough bread.
Sourdough can be as simple as buying it from somewhere. But it can be as complex as understanding all the ingredients, quality and nutrition of the ingredients, sourcing their own ingredients then baking their own sourdough bread. With software products, the same two extremes exist — eg. to build the software from scratch or to utilise a software that is already pre-built by a third party.
For both sourdough and software products, there are different pros and cons corresponding to the "from scratch" (eg. homemade sourdough and custom built software) compared to the "pre-built" (eg. store-bought sourdough and software built by a third-party) version of the product. These pros and cons help the consumer to decide based on their perceived value.
By default, both those who produce software products and those who bake real sourdough bread must be analytical thinkers. Analytical because it is a mandatory requirement for uncovering the essence of desirability, usability and quality of the end product's consumer in order to be successful.
Software development is the art of problem solving because a product usually stems from experiencing a problem or desire to make something more efficient with the help of technology. There are no formulas or instructions to inform how we could create the perfect solution. The probability of the intended solution is surrounded by waves of uncertainty due to several factors such as the rapidly changing and wide variety of technologies and imperfect information. Thus, the only way to succeed is to operate lean, fast and learn lots along the way!
On the other hand, as the chef Julia Child puts it, "no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing". Chefs and people from the food industry say that cooking delicious food is not only art, but also a skill because of the vast range in ingredients and flavours, the attention to detail and use of techniques. "When you analyse cooking there are many techniques that must be mastered, and some are really boring,'' said Michele Urvater. The same can be said about baking bread. Therefore, one must constantly balance creativity and adaptivity in the food industry because our forever evolving food sources, environments and trends.
And if you didn't already know, bread making has been around for thousands and thousands of years. Could we learn something from baking sourdough to improve the way we develop software today?


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import org.apache.airavata.workflow.model.graph.impl.PortImpl;
import org.xmlpull.infoset.XmlElement;

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English Short Story, Idea For A Short Story For University English. Completed As A First Assignment English Essay
Mrs Lizzy's House
It was early in the summer of 2018 in small rural community in Newfoundland. There
was not much to do around that small community for entertainment so we all had to find a way
to have fun.
So my name is Angel and I'll be telling the story of the night we decided to break into an
old house that is located in the middle of the community where I am from.
So it all started one night when we were just walking around and talking trying to figure
out what to do, it was a foggy Wednesday night, we were all very bored and could not seem to
come up with anything to do with our time. As we were all walking through the community and
then Mitchell said "How about we go into the yellow house that Miss Lizzy use to own. I heard
her son is soon coming out to knock it down." We all headed to my garage to get some tools to
open the door to the house.
After an hour of looking for tools we needed to get inside the house we all headed up
there in a group we started to take out the screws to open the door. We tried to be very quiet due
to the house being in the middle of the community. We finally got into the house and it was very
dark and we all tried our best not to make noise in fear of getting caught there.
We all split up into groups to see what we could find that belonged Miss Lizzy, and we
decided to take one belonging of hers that we would return at the end of the summer. And to
mention there was so many cool things left behind in her house. About 20 minutes later all of us
we deep into exploring the house, and all of a sudden we heard a noise that came from upstairs.
Before Haileigh and I went to check we had to make sure the floor was safe to walk on and that
it would not rot underneath us. As soon as we checked the floor the both of us went upstairs to
check out what has happened to only find that Noah had on the ladies clothes and was all dressed
up laughing at what he had done.
Once we discovered where the noise had...
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Significant advancements in the field of hair restoration surgeries; centered on the introduction of micro and mini grafts has revolutionized the industry. Use of these types of grafts allows for creating natural hairlines.
What are mini and micro grafts?
Mini grafts are actually very small organs of the body called follicular units (FU). An FU can consist of one, two, three or four hairs. After harvesting these micro grafts they can be place at any point of the recipient's scalp. This method of hair transplantation has brought into focus aesthetically superior surgical hair restoration results. These advancements have increased the treatment options for men and women suffering from baldness. New hair transplant techniques give natural, permanent and proven results when FU or micro grafts are utilized in reconstructive and restoration procedures.
These extremely small little organs (FU), have low metabolic needs and thus are able to better survive the transplantation process as compared with older plug grafts which are easily damaged (transected). These new methods are very helpful in scar revision reconstruction surgeries. Micro grafts have been able to grow fast and successfully even on scalp that has been burnt.
Today's micro-grafting techniques or better said follicular unit transplantation procedures provide hair loss patients with the results they desire.
SMP- scalp micro pigmentation is a cosmetic hair restoration procedure where the patients scalp is tatooed with ink to create the illusion of shaved hair or hair stubble. This is a method sometimes preferred by bald men who are seeking an alternative to hair transplant surgery or to augment hair transplant surgery. Performed correctly SMP provides the appearance of short shaved hair to balding areas of the scalp. Like any cosmetic medical procedure the results are only as good as the surgeon performing the procedure.
SMP eliminates the hassle of frequent applications of a topical hair product to hide thinning, as they can be messy and be transferred onto clothing, sheets or pillow cases. SMP can be used for a variety of scalp conditions that include: genetic androgenic alopecia (AGA) otherwise known as male pattern balding (MPB), scarring alopecia's from a variety of autoimmune diseases of the scalp (e.g. alopecia areata, alopecia totalis). SMP is very helpful and reducing the appearance of some types of scarring. It can also used to manage the unnatural appearance that is associated with older unnatural looking hair transplant procedures.
US Hair Restoration centers utilize SMP to reduce the appearance of scars to create an illusion of density and military shaved type hairstyles and other uses such as eyebrow density. Always make an educated decision before considering any permanent solution for hair restoration. If you are considering SMP consult with one of Los Angeles or Beverly Hills leading hair restoration centers.
Hair loss is correlated to stress. Hair loss induced by stress usually occurs after severe stress, such as surgery or illness. Stress and hair loss don't have to be permanent. Getting your emotional stress under control or alleviating a physical stressor usually results in your hair growing back.
Parsa Mohebi, MD reviews stress related hair loss effects.
Sudden hair loss can signal an underlying medical condition that requires treatment. If needed, your doctor may suggest treatment options for the hair loss as well. And if efforts to manage your stress on your own don't work, talk to your doctor about stress management techniques. Be sure to consult a physician if you notice sudden or patchy hair loss or more than usual hair loss when combing or washing your hair.
Stress is defined as "a demand upon physical or mental energy." A physical or emotional demand that is a person is finding difficult to overcome. Stress puts demands on people to perform well above their capacity. Stress has a negative perception and connotation, however, stress is an everyday occurrence that affects most people at some time in their life. This longer the duration of the demand the more difficult it is to maintain without relief.
Dr. Daniel K. Hall-Flavin, M.D. of the Mayo Clinic points out that three specific hair loss conditions are related to stress.
Alopecia areata. A variety of factors are thought to cause alopecia areata, possibly including severe stress. With alopecia areata, white blood cells attack the hair follicle, stopping hair growth and making hair fall out.
Telogen effluvium. In this condition, emotional or physical stress pushes large numbers of growing hairs into a resting phase. Within a few months, the affected hairs may fall out suddenly when simply combing or washing your hair.
Trichotillomania. Trichotillomania (trik-oh-til-oh-MAY-nee-uh) is an irresistible urge to pull out hair from your scalp, eyebrows or other areas of your body. Hair pulling can be a way of dealing with negative or uncomfortable feelings, such as stress, anxiety, tension, loneliness, fatigue or frustration.
When experiencing hair loss an evaluation by a Los Angeles hair restoration doctor can be very helpful.
Modern technology has allowed our society with proven, natural permanent hair loss options.
Modern technology has allowed our society with options not possible a half century ago. Medical and scientific advancement presents promising changes with each advancing generation. An example is the loss of vision typical with age like hair loss. People with vision problems, had the disadvantage of wearing glasses; although there are contact lenses as well. There is still a dependence upon outside tools to reduce the loss of vision; which inconvenient and sometimes greatly reducing the quality of life. Now the near miraculous advancements in LASIK vision correction has made vision correction possible. No longer are middle agers at tables in restaurants pulling out their glasses or squinting helplessly to read the menu; the stubborn problem of fading eyesight for millions of people is solved.
If someone chooses to undergo a LASIK procedure, does it make him an insecure person? Not in the least! Rather, they are using their resources to correct a medical problem and look their best.
Our Los Angeles based US Hair Restoration clinics consistently receive calls and emails from people who need hair restoration for their baldness, but they are shy to provide their names as they inquire to be able to get more information about hair restoration options.; It is amazing how many want to hide the fact they contacted us for advice. We are proud of our fine medical staff and patient advocates who are exceptionally sensitive to the needs of those seeking our help. It is one of the deeply rewarding aspects of our profession that we can provide encouragement to our patients, as well as, give them new hope, confidence, and a fresh perception of how their suffering from hair loss can be alleviated.
Hair loss is a disease, a common one and like many other diseases there are treatments for it.
Modern medical and technological advancements provide similar relief for hair loss sufferers as Lasik for people with vision loss. One day we hope the stigma of addressing hair loss through medical treatment lessens its impact on people who suffer from baldness as it has for those with vision impairment.
At our Southern California centers our team uses the latest technologies and procedures to perform FUT and FUE hair restoration surgeries. These procedures provide our patients with a permanent natural treatment for their hair loss. The progress in hair transplant surgery now provides our patients with results that are proven, natural and permanent.
We had a patient from a different hair restoration clinic that had a few concerns about his hair transplant results. He underwent hair transplant in September of 2008 and mentions that sometime in November he started trimming his hair avoiding the transplanted area and then started trimming all areas to help him monitor his progress. He also stated that he has curly hair which can make it relatively hard to really notice his growth. He fears that because he never asked how many grafts he had received that maybe he had less done than he had hoped for.
He asks, "Does transplanted hair regrow at different rates?". Generally, transplanted hair goes through a few changes. First, the transplanted hairs will shed in about 9 out of 10 people and you will probably see some or if any results in about 3 months after your hair transplant surgery. This is the most obvious result for patients who had little to no hair in the first place.
Most patients who already have existing hair don't usually see or notice results until about 6-8 months after the surgery. The hair is growing but visually it does not compare to the existing hair and can be easily mistaken as a bad hair transplant. Once the transplanted hair becomes long and thick enough you can easily distinguish the results.
We understand the importance of results to our patients but results after hair transplant cannot be rushed. As for a follow up or additional procedure, US Hair Restoration does not recommend having an additional hair transplant procedure within less than 6 months of the initial procedure because many of the grafts may not even be out at that time. With patience and time you will see the results of your transplanted hair in a few months or sooner.
Bakersfield, California: US Hair Restoration hair transplant clinic soon will start its first clinic in the city of Bakersfield in California. US Hair Restoration already has three other locations at Encino, Beverly Hills and Orange County. Dr. Parsa Mohebi the medical director of US Hair Restoration stated that since we are getting many patients for hair transplant from the city of Bakersfield in our Encino and Beverly Hills hair transplant offices, we decided to make it easier for our hair transplant patients from Bakersfield to find access to our services in their town.
Hair Transplant Surgeon Restores Patients Hair and Self-Confidence was the title of Dr. Mohebi's recently published article in the the magazine of Beverly Hills Courier. In the article Dr. Parsa Mohebi, hair transplant surgeon and medical director of US Hair Restoration discusses the modern hair transplant techniques and the innovation that a perfect hair restoration is made of with the most natural results possible.
US Hair Restoration announced the opening of its hair restoration clinic in the city of Bakersfield, CA to serve Southern California, particularly the northern cities of Los Angeles such as Sacramento and Fresno and north of the San Fernando Valley. US Hair Restoration hair transplant clinics are also accessible and being used by the residents of Las Vegas, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona.
We all know that nothing looks better than a full head of hair, and one of the best people to provide it is Dr. Parsa Mohebi, medical director of US Hair Restoration.
Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT) is the gold standard of hair-transplant surgery, Mohebi said, giving very natural results. A strip of donor scalp is removed and the follicles are prepared under microscopes and distributed in the bald area in the natural direction and orientation.
Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), also called non-invasive hair-restoration surgery, uses special biopsy devices to extract individual follicular units without having to remove a strip of skin; so there is no linear scar.
Not everyone needs FUE or follicular unit extractions hair transplant Mohebi says. But people who want to shave their head in the future for any reason may consider FUE because there is no visible evidence of surgery on the back of their head. There's nothing to suture, and the small dot wounds are not detectable a few days after surgery.
Since the newly placed follicles are so fragile, patients return the next day to get their hair washed professionally, given special shampoo and taught how to take care of their hair at home. After five days, no special care is needed, Dr.Mohebi said.
Ten days after the surgery, patients return to have the donor site checked and staples removed for those who had them. Hair starts growing after three months, and is long enough to style and comb after ten to twelve months. The third follow up is at 10 months after the procedure.Continuing to pioneer in the field, Dr. Mohebi is the inventor of the Laxometer, a device to measure the laxity or mobility of the scalp. Laxity of the scalp is key in determining the size of the donor strip so that enough can be removed for bigger cases, and the wound can be closed without too much tension and the scaring will be minimal.
US Hair Restoration has Southern California Clinics in Encino, California, Orange County, Beverly Hills and now Bakersfield. US Hair Restoration also offers hair transplant services in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). To help people stay abreast of all that's happening in the field of hair restoration, and to answer questions ( heard from Europe and China) Dr. Mohebi maintains the US Hair Transplant Blog to answer your hair loss and hair transplant questions.


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The Indian government has extended its safeguard duty on solar equipment for one more year, effective today.
India's Ministry of Finance confirmed the move in a notification issued yesterday (29 July 2020), announcing that a duty of 14.9% would be levied on the imports of solar cells and modules from China.
The notification does however make no mention of Malaysia, indicating cells and modules originating from the Southeast Asian nation are exempt.
The 14.9% tariff is to be levied until 28 January 2021, when it will reduce to 14.5% until 29 July 2021.
It follows a recommendation from India's Directorate General of Trade Remedies earlier this month that the existing safeguard duty, which has been in place since 2018, be extended a further year to support domestic manufacturers.
Imports could however be further implicated by a Basic Customs Duty (BCD), also mooted by India's government to help make domestic components more competitive. That BCD was proposed to come in at 20% and rise to as much as 40% next year, however there has yet to be any official confirmation as to how it will be implemented – if at all – alongside the safeguard duty.
Last week consultancy firm Fitch warned that a double tax hit on imports from both a safeguard duty and BCD would place at risk a considerable portion of India's utility-scale solar pipeline, potentially rendering them uneconomical.
The move comes at a time when India is attempting to both stimulate a domestic solar manufacturing base while progress towards a lofty target of having 100GW of installed solar by 2022. Chinese imports are still estimated to make up around 80% of components used in solar developments in India today, and the country's homegrown solar manufacturing output remains comparatively small.
Earlier this month senior figures from manufacturers in the country warned that duties of 40% would not be sufficient to properly curb imports from China, instead requesting tariffs of at least 50%.
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David E Bland
Economics is fundamentally unscientific. The economic crisis has speeded the shift of power to emergent economies. In Britain and the USA the theory of 'rational markets' removed controls from the finance sector, and things can still get yet worse. Read my book, No Confidence: The Brexit Vote and Economics - http://amzn.eu/ayGznkp
They still have not 'got it'!
Politicians and the press are becoming tired of repeating the mantra that the bankers have not yet 'got it'; but the point is that the bankers have got the lot!
They have mostly kept their jobs, they had banked their earlier bonuses before the crunch struck the system; and now they can threaten to walk away from London if they don't have their way into the future.
The politicians have not begun to 'get it'.
Their analysis of the events of the past couple of years is superficial: even the better onces, notably Vince Cable, are much stronger on description than on dissecting the causes of the crisis and making policy for the future on that basis.
The inter-party mudslinging is approaching election pitch, and will increasingly alienate voters.
The announcement by NHS auditors that 'international accounting standards' REQUIRED them to aggregate charitable giving to NHS-related causes within NHS accounts was rightly seen as an attempt by government to enable them to pretend that NHS funding by them was much greater than it is.
International accounting standards were a major factor in the exaggeration of the crisis in banking.
International accounting standards are an ego-trip for would-be masters of the universe; who depend on the same, nonsensical Economics that sanctioned the excesses of 'rational markets'.
This may seem a trivial matter, but - like the recent resurgence of the spurious authority of the rating agencies - it shows that the Economics establishment that bears huge responsibility for the global crisis is still wreaking havoc. Keynes wrote that most politicians are in thrall to some dead economist: the tragedy of our day is that the whole system is in thrall to living economists!
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Brown & Balls Drop Darling in the Doo-Doo
Alistair Darling has 'had a good recession', in the way that some men have been said to have 'had a good war'.
He was ridiculed for his prescience in recognising that the then-impending crisis of 2007-9 would be the most serious economic issue for sixty years. He kept his nerve through the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lemans [refusing to take Lemans' obligations onto his balance sheet, which would have been the case if Barclays had been allowed to buy the whole rotten empire]. He calmly took over Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley, and bailed out the other banks that were essential to the UK economy.
He increased government spending and borrowing to keep trade and industry alive.
Then came his pre-budget report of December 9, 2009. It was crass electioneering, designed in painfully glaring detail to try to get the Labour vote out in the coming contest with the slightly-revived Tories.
National concerns, reducing the deficit and rebuilding international confidence in the UK, were set to the side; to be tackled by whoever will be the government after the election.
It is now revealed that Darling had intended to put the national interest first in his planning, but was overruled by his bully-boss and his sidekick. What a pity: for Darling's reputation, and for the future of the country.
Brown backs Sarkozy on Bankers
On the morning after the bugetary non-event in London, Gordon Brown has grabbed significant publicity with a joint 'editorial' in Murdoch's WALL STREET JOURNAL,in which he and the French President rail about the unacceptable face of international banking. They note that the bankers have been feathering their own nests in massive speculation that does nothing for the 'real economy'.
Brown spent his decade at the Treasury praising the bankers for precisely what he now condemns.
His entire economic strategy - if it may be described by such an elevated term - was based on taxing the banks at a rate that they found tolerable, encouraging mass consumption through borrowing facilitated by the banks, and allowing industry to fade away under the burdens of heavy taxation and increasingly intrusive regulation.
Now he is imposing a one-off tax on the banks, which they can easily afford; while they pay accountants and lawyers to find ways of substituting other means of remuneration for the bonuses that have been banned. The medium to long term increases in taxation that are needed, because of the bail-out of those very same bankers, will fall on the broad mass of the population: starting with an increase in the second income tax [known as national insurance]. There's nothing else to be taxed!
The really significant [very bad] news of the week
This week, Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will demonstrate that it has learned nothing of real significance in all the thirteen wasted years since they came to power.
The Thatcherite idiocy of selling-off what used to be the world's greatest concentration of high-grade intellectual property will continue, with the invitation to bid for the Metereorological Office, the Ordnance Survey and other scientific foci in which Britain has been a global leader since the respective sciences were first delineated.
Although these agencies have been denied much of the investment that could have improved them even further over the past three decades, they remain innovative and respected by their few peers. As has happened with other already-sold-off intellectual property, the key assets will quickly pass into alien ownership, so that the earnings from the existing investment - together with all the new output that will come from future investment - will pass away from the United Kingdom. The profits that should come to British taxpayers will go to the new shareholders; while the price for which the agencies are sold will simply be swallowed up in the black hole of the government's deficit.
Labels: alienate, Meteorological Office, Ordnance Survey, Thatcherite
So now we know: £60 BILLION
The Bank of England announcement that they lent this huge sum off-balance-sheet to RBS and HBOS in the autumn and early winter of 2008 is not really surprising: there were doubtless similar mood-calming moves in other countries.
What is remarkable is that it was replaid by the end of January. So it is no wonder that the banks had no cash to support their customers with, during an after the repayment period.
It shows that the banks have been preferred to their users, because the banks are 'too big to fail': so small businesses have been allowed to fail for the lack of cash.
Banks don't innovate: small businesses develop ideas, and the best of them become big businesses.
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Britain Threatened by Discredited Agency
Fitch - one of the less-disreputable Rating Agencies - has indicated that the UK could soon loose its AAA rating, and thus be seen as a worse credit risk than any other leading economy.
There is no surprise in the observation that the British Treasury is creating so much debt that British Government securities may become devalued. But it is very sad that the media can take the comments of any rating agency seriously. The agencies' collective failure adequately to value a huge range of financial 'products' - or the companies that issued them - was a major factor is allowing the credit bubble to develop, which ended in the credit crunch; which in turn created a crisis for the 'real economy' that will take years to work itself out.
Notwithstanding the agencies' disastrous impact ,government and regulators - not least our very own FSA - use agency ratings of businesses and of financial assets because without them they would have no systematic valuation medium at all.
Just as governments have to use the businesses that made the bubble as the means of getting out of the consequential mess, so they have to accept as authoritative agency ratings that can directly harm them.
Truth really is stranger - and even sadder - than fiction.
Labels: Britain as leading financial centre, bubble, credit crunch, Fitch, FSA, Government Securities, Rating Agency, Treasury
No Surprise about Barclay's
Barclays has surprised nobody with the huge profits that have been announced today. This company cleverly stayed out of the tighter government 'safety net', while benefitting from effectively-unlimited almost-free credit that the government and the Bank of England made available to maintain the whole banking sector.
They bought the US operations of Lehmans for a token sum, without having to accept any of the embedded liabilities.
Their management is tough and intelligent.They have done absolutely nothing wrong; but they are widely reported as having somehow abused their resources and opportunities. That nonsense doesn't hurt the company, or reduce the principals' pay.
Attention will now focus on bonuses to be awarded to the people who do the clever stuff in 'casino banking'. They have a huge turnover, doing things that make no contribution at all to the material economy; but which are intellectually demanding and institutionally stressful. Their pay comes from the profits that are made on 'retail' - real world - banking, and from the corporate banking area that manages corporate mergers, acquisitions, share issues and bond sales; these also require intelligence, attention to detail and huge investment in contacts.
Labels: Barclays, casino banking, Lehmans, profits
The most important economic news of the weekend was not the G20 meeting at Saint Andrew's [where Gordon Brown's advocacy of a 'Tobin Tax' on financial transactions received a loud raspberry], but a piece of back-room business that accompanied the African Economic Summit at Sharm-el-Sheikh. China agreed contracts of at least six billion dollars - very likely, much more - with several mineral-rich but poverty-stricken African countries.
While the West has fretted about doing any deal with an undemocratic or corrupt regime, over the past decade China has gone for access to the oil and minerals that it will need for the next stages of industrialisation.
The news reports include the fact that at least 50 'clean' power stations are to be part of the deal; enabling millions of Afircans to become users of Chinese computers and TV sets.
While Britain lags behind the field even in escaping from a 'technical' recession, former colonies that used to get all their manufactures from the UK are now Chinese clients [though some of them still receive assistance from the Department for Overseas Development in London].
While imperialism on the old pattern is unacceptable in this century, Britain could have retained much more positive relations with former colonies - as France has done, with considerable success. This is another glaring instance of the incompetence of the entire British political class over the past two generations. For a realistic perspective on all of this, click on to Nuclean Economy via this site.
Labels: Africa, China, Chinese computers, clean power stations, DIFID, former colonies, imperialism, minserls
RBS Losses and Bonuses
Royal Bank of Scotland today announced another huge loss on its overall activities. No surprise there!
It is equally unsurprising that RBS claims to have billions of pounds in funds allocable - and allocated - to SMEs that are not taking up the loans they have been offered. They do not add the truism that this is because the terms are too onerous. The banks have access to incredibly cheap money: but they screw their customers in the hope of rebuilding their balance sheets quickly. Quite rightly, the customers who have survived - in the main - are telling the bankers where to stack their funds.
The Corporate Banking area continues to produce disastrous results of Goodwin-era excess.
The Casino Banking operation is bringing in oodles of lovely profit; but the owner, the government, has told RBS that it cannot pay the going rate for the traders' high-pressure activity. It is expected that when this is confirmed - people in that world cannot yet believe that they may not be paid the top slice of the cream that they generate in their cyberspatial transactions of ephemera - they will resign. The speed with which the resignees will get equivalent jobs elsewhere will be an interesting indicator of the real degree of vitality in the City casino: and that will be the one really useful piece of information to emerge from the RBS Group results.
So, to nobody's surprise, it was announced to day that the Bank of England has decided to spend another £25 billion buying 'old' government bonds, to put the cash into the hands of firms that will use it buy new bonds and maybe a few old shares.
Meanwhile the government is selling the 'new' bonds at an unprecedented rate for peacetime.
The release of at least £200 billion of 'new money' into the economy from the QE programme will inevitably cause inflation of costs and prices at some time in the next few years.
The people who should be most concerned about this 'financial engineering' are those in employment who plan to become pensioners - with company pensions or personal pensions - in the next few years. The value of their 'pension pots' has been eroded massively over the past decade, and the trend of the last few years for fund trustees to hold bonds has set fund members up for further significant losses. The consensus of commentators has decreed that it will probably never be knowable whether quantitative easing has 'worked' or not, at the macro-economic level: it is certain at the micro-economic level that it will be disastrous for members of pension funds.
It is probable that a majority of members of pension funds who are old enough voted for Thatcher in the 'eighties, and for Blair-Brown in 1997: so did they in so doing earn the misfortune that the succession of governments has brought upon them?
Labels: financial engineering, pensions, quantitative easing
Banks 'Bailed-out and Broken-up'
Although the latest steps in the rehabilitation of RBS and the LLoyd's Group are being announced by British ministers, the decisions were taken in Brussels. In most EU countries [including the eastern states, before they were captured by the communists] smallish banks, often run on a mutual or local basis, were the norm. The megacorporations have largly been for corporate banking business, while personal account-holders and mortgagees have been with the smaller banks.
Thus the changes that may seem to be a little eccentric to the British are definitely intended to move the picture nearer to parity with the 'old' EU.
The fifty-odd billions of pounds that are to be added to the two banks' balance sheets are a [largish] drop in the ocean on top of what the public have committed to 'saving' the banks over the past fifteen months. RBS and Lloyd's will still be massively bigger than the new spin-off banks; so 'competition' will only be assured by an active regulatory regime.
We won't see the full picture for months.
Everybody will funk out at Copenhagen
The party games that have been played out in the EU Heads Of Government meeting this past two days have been more obviously silly that usual, because the poor mutts have allowed themselves to indulge in a mood of euphoria that at last the Lisbon Fudge is to be ratified. They went on to create a new mess of sugary fudge by agreeing that Europe should pay heavily to encouraging other parts of the world to tackle climate change; while funking which country shall pay how much.
Nobody can be held responsible for any policy failure after the final ratification, because nobody will 'own' any policy: EU Directives will set the context - and nobody is ever responsible for a Directive - and policies within states will be constrained or overruled by Directives. So the bully-politicos who are becoming the 'natural party of government' in each country will push through whatever seems to them to serve their blairite best advantage, without constraint or potent public inquiry. Nobody can remember when EU accounts were last signed-off by the auditors; and now the girls and boys on the inside track in each member state can tell the people below them that any abuse of pwer was sanctioned by Brussels: knowing that the people above them don't dare to rock the boat.
The extent of humanity's responsibility for climate change will increasingly be disputed as the economic constraints tighten: both by those who don't want to pay for mitigation and by the increasing minority of literates who are becoming influenced by the deniers of anthropogenic causation. The fact of climate change looks set to continue; and two more countries this week have issued dire warnings to their seaside populations that they may have to evacuate their homes within this generation. Prevention of an ultimate crisis must focus on what humanity can do to mitigate climate change on a global scale. This will probably entail huge climate-influencing public works that will try to change the behaviour of the oceans, and devices to control the penetration of solar radiation to the atmosphere and to the suface of out planet.The concentration of green campaigners - and tax-collectors - on 'greenhouse gas emissions' is bizarrely unhelpful: that whole argument assumes that - this time - the single cause of the phenomenon [which has occurred many times in world history] is the human economy.
Solutions that could 'work' to save human life on the planet would overcome CO2 impacts and yet correct for global warming that might emanate from astronomical and geotechnical forces that our science has not yet analysed adequately. In the arrogantly depressing tradition of the Puritans and the Marxists, the Greens would impose high taxes and low living standards on most people in what have been the advanced economies; while tolerating the possible starvation of 'overexpanded' populations within the emergent countries where population growth has become rampant,
No wonder the politicos are backing off from any draconian proposal to spend hugely [from resources they do not have] that would [at best] deal naively with a problem which none of them could explain.
Back to Al Gore!
Methane, Meat and Water
Lord Stern - the intelligent apostle of the climate change lobby - has been quoted this morning as advocating vegetarianism as a step towards mitigating climate change. He notes that methane is 23 times more dangerous a greenhouse gas than is carbon dioxide: a proposition interestingly similar to one used on the other side by an early denier of anthopogenic climate change, who argued that the methane excreted by millions of buffalo and elk in North America until their extermination by European settlers would have been a greater risk to climate than all the vehicular pollution created by the modern USA.
British farmers reacted to the latest comment by saying that they were now challenged [and modestly paid] to maintain the countryside as it is, which is largely based on sheep and cattle farming. That land is mostly unsuitable for intensive food crops; so there is no practical alternative to the present use of the land.
Whether the future is to be vegetarian or carniverous for the human who survive the next sixty or seventy years, one thing is clear: a crisis at least as great as the potential consequances of global warming is assured. The predicted growth in population will outstrip available water resources, even if rainfall in the most heavily-populated areas is not drastically reduced by climate change. The ability of humanity to address climate change is heavily questioned: but there is no question about the water problem. If population grows at the rate that has been predicted, thirst and filth will inescapably create incalculable human misery; and food supplies will fail as crops wither and animals die. This is no distant prospect: it is happening today in Africa.
Labels: CO2, global warming, Lod Stern, Methane, population growth, water
Osborne Bashes Bonuses
The Brown government is likely to loose the next General Election; but it is increasingly unlikely that the Tories will win - other than by default. There is a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the Etonians and their associates among the majority of uncommitted and undecided voters.
George Osborne the shadow chancellor made a populist pitch today, with his proposal that people in 'retail' banks should not be paid significant bonuses; but the profits should instead be used for investment in businesses.
Businesses certainly need access to funding. For this purpose, they need banks. Most banks have been foolishly, even recklessly, run in past years; but the current crop of senior managers have been retained or engaged on salary-with-bonus packages that are designed to ensure that the retail banks become once more fit for purpose. The bosses will have earned those packages, in full, if the objectives are achieved and 'real world' businesses and viable individuals can borrow responsibly in future.
By contrast Osborne appears to have backed off from wanting to ban - or draconically to limit - the bonuses that traders and product designers are due to be paid in the 'casino' wholesale financial services business. Yet that is the sector against which public disgust has most strongly been directed, the market that almost destroyed the world economy. Doubtless he has been told by his shadow treasury team that a future government would have a devil of a job balancing the national books if these 'investment bankers' and traders stopped being paid massive taxable sums in the UK. It will be bad enough for government cash-flow if part of the bonus is received in shares, or is otherwise deferred, because the immediately accessible tax take is reduced.
Thus in this area - as in so many others - there is no clear difference between government and opposition [and the Lib Dems offer no innovation, notwithstanding the forensic skill of Vince Cable].
Policymakers can only thrash around for the least-painful way out of the mess into which 'brilliant' Chancellor Brown allowed the system to propel us all. Political parties have no relevance in this crisis management, but - suprisingly - in this context, Darling seems marginally to be the better man for job; pity about his leader!
Labels: bonuses, casino financial services, Darling, George Osborne, investment bankers
The Banks 'On Welfare'
Anyone interested in the rational view of American social issues should follow Star Parker in her syndicated columns and via her CURE organisation.
It provides regular blogspots and access to a very significant corpus of work.
Her key perception that the US banking system has - in effect - been put on welfare [alongside the growing cohort of those who have been made unemployed by the banks' past actions] gives a useful perspective to the rapidly advancing statism that has captured both the USA and the UK.
This cannot be seen as a party political issue, as what the Bush administration began the Obama administration has carried forward [though the latter has pursued quasi-nationalisation with much more enthusiasm].
The bovine acceptance of dependency by both individuals and institutions is the antithesis of enterprise; and marks a major phase in the decline of the west.
Labels: dependency, Star Parker, statism, unemployed, US Banking, welfare
Mervyn is Right!
If a few men go out to sea in a small boat to catch fish - say haddock - and one of them catches a cod, that must now be reported to the national government, which must report it to the EU, which will deduct that codfish from the national quota that professional fishermen are allowed to catch.
The EU pretends that it is allowing more latitude to national and regional governments: but, as this new regulation about cod fishing shows, it is merely building up intrusive bureaucracy.
A parallel point was made by Mervyn King in his Edinburgh speech on October 20, 2009. Detailed regulation is mere regulation: bureaucracy is just costly bureaucracy: and clever Dicks who know how to manipulate the fringes of legality to their own gross advantage will always outsmart the deskbound rulemakers. The bankers have been given greater power to ruin the economy than they had on New Year's Day 2007; and they can safely assume that there will always be a Gordon Brown to lead the next bail-out. This will be true until the idiocies of the historical Economics establishment have finally been abandoned.
Labels: bankers, Gordon Brown, Mervyn King, regulation
Freakanomics: a Nice Escape
Levitt and Dubner have deservedly struck gold with their second book in a series that could run further. Since SUPERFREAKONOMICS includes the sex trade among its subject matter, it has had huge exposure in the press.
Among the great attractions of their approach is that it does not hark back to the core dogmatics of textbook Economics: it is fun, it includes a lot of common sense and sensible observation. This is so unlike the aridity of mainstream economic theory, that has built complexity sky-high on the basis of assertions that are 150 years old and did not describe the 'real world' even as it was when they were formulated.
There is no similar fun in NUCLEAN ECONOMY, but there is realism and good sense: try it out, accessible from this site.
Labels: comon sense, Nuclean Economy, sex trade, Superfreakonomics
Contempt of the People
Bankers' bonuses are beating all records - and all but the most senior managers of the banks will be able to take most of their bonuses in cash pretty well immediately. Just a year after the credit crisis reached its peak, it is generally agreed that the bankers' behaviour is obscene. it is certainly contemptuous of the mass of people whose lives will be adversely affected by the bankers' and securities traders' past antics for many years to come.
Meanwhile Britain's parliamentarians have got themselves in a pickle by having accepted an adjudicator on their expenses who has made up his own aberrant rules: they must now accept what he has said, or defy him and look corrupt and selfish. Either way, it means that politicians as a class do not have the moral authority to censure the bankers as they should.
Bizarrely, the one person who comes really well out of the past period is Alistair Darling, who predicted the depth of the crisis while on his summer holiday [to receive much ridiclue] and kept his cool throughout! While the Prime Minister postured, Darling beavered away; and when he made public statements they were measured, clear and comprehensible. It will be worse than unfortunate if he falls foul of the expenses kerfuffel in any serious way.
Labels: bankers. contempt of the people, bonuses, Darling
Bank Profits and Bonuses
The international bankers have again achieved what should be imposible.
They have made very significant profits, from which they are paying large bonuses; making fools of the politicians who bailed them out at such huge cost just a year ago. Ministers demanded that bonuses be limited: they have not been; though there are some cosmetic changes in the timing of when the rewards will go into the blokes' pockets.
How do they manage this, when things are getting tighter for ordinary people and for 'real' businesses?
The answer is, that they trade with others of their ilk in imaginative contracts, not in reality,
This is explained in Nuclean Economy, acessible via this blog.
Labels: banks, bonuses, profits
More Assets to be Stripped
The government is trying to sell its holding in the Channel Tunnel, the Dartford Bridge, the Tote and other assets, to reduce the deficit on government spending.
The deficit arose because the stability of society was seriously threatened in 2008 by the near-collapse of the banking system. That failure was due to the disastrously incompetent manner in which the 'financial services' were regulated; and regulation in turn was burdened by its dependence on nonsenical propositions that were asserted in Economics.
The revenue that may be received from these sales will be a mere drop in the ocean as a supplement for normal government revenue; but a much more important question is whether it is right or sensible to sell yet more 'public goods' to be administered for private profit.
The Tote was established by Winston Chrchill in 1928, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and it has supplied stable funding for the sport of horseracing ever since then. There is a broadly valid old adage: 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. We may add, if it's useful as it is, why change things?
Such tinkering will not make a ha'peth of difference to the economy, or to the financial position of the government. It is action for the sake of action: gesture politics. The real issues are demanding, and should properly be addressed.
To see a realistic assessment of the issues, refer to Nuclean Economy, via this site.
Labels: Asset stripping, Channel Tunnel, Dartford Bridge, Horse racing, nonsenical economics, Tote, Winston Churchill
A true measure of Britain's problem
The World Economic Forum [best known for running the annual Davos shindig] has announced that Britain is the world's 'leading financial centre'; but this apparent accolade is balanced by the fact that the same survey lists Britain in 37th place for 'financial stability', after Nigeria and Bangladesh in a table of 55 countries.
The UK was 44th for currency stability, 45th for the stability of the banking system, 39th for managing the public sector debt and 40th for managing private deabt.
This is because there is precious little evidence that the government and the Bank of England really have control of the system
By keeping the economy open to global financial trade the government gets taxes from the City trading firms and on the salaries and bonuses of the traders. The cost of doing this is to expose the 'real economy' and the economic existence of citizens to unpredictable and potentially violent fluctuations.
Gordon Brown thinks that he has 'saved the world': he may have benefitted other countries by his vastly expensive intervention in the meltdown of the financial system in 2008, but he has pushed Britain further out on the limb that hangs over an abyss.
Labels: Britain as leading financial centre, Gordon Brown
The Tory Twister
David Cameron has taken a bold line in his 2009 Party Conference, and it has received a good response. The ideas that emanate from work led by Iain Duncan Smith and by a recent import from New Labour show that the Conservatives have recognised the extent of the problems Britain faces.
But their proposed 'solution' will make matters vastly worse.
Nobody except their mothers and dependents likes or respects NHS managers: they are legendary for inefficiency, waste, and the avoidance of responsibility; so if they are - rightly - weeded out, who would ever employ them? Ditto for many of the MILLIONS of Civil Servants who should be thrown out if the Tories really want to shrink 'big government'.
It's great to claim to be able to 'get Britain back to work': but DOING WHAT? Serving in Tesco or Asda for a short week, selling imported commodities and receiving tax credit? That's no good for the tax burden or for the balance of payments.
The problems go seriously deeper than the 'solutions' that Cameron has proposed: see Chapter Five of Nuclean Ecnomy
Labels: Cameron, civil servants, Conference Speech, etting Britain back to work, NHS Managers
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I have had a very fortunate life, in that I have been able to study the economy and Economics for more than forty years. I taught Economics, the History of Economic Thought and some Economic History at University level for over twenty years; I was CEO of an international professional Institute in financial services for more than a decade; served as head of a large Business School and have been Pro-Vice-Chancellor of a major university; and I have lectured and examined all over the world. My introductory text on insurance was translated into fourteen languages and my writings over a wide range of topics have been available worldwide.
Throughout these years I have quietly challenged the normative assumptions that underlie academic Economics; but for decades I recognised that the hegemony of dogma was so impenetrable that any frontal assault on the self-styled 'profession' would be brushed aside by the professoriate that had been appointed in a pyramid of patronage. Now – through the credit crunch and the even more grave sovereign debt crisis – it is very widely recognised that Economics is a failed subject: it fails to provide any adequate analysis of the situation or any new programme for moving the economy forward. The time has come for the world to understand how fundamental the failings of Economics are.
Fortunately we can begin to move forward in understanding by restating principles that were developed before Economics was set out in its modern form in the eighteen-seventies. A sound understanding of the economy begins in the recognition that all decisions and actions in the economy are taken by human individuals, acting on their own or as the agents of corporate persons [companies, registered charities etc] or as servants of international sovereign persons that are known as states [and their governments, local authorities and state agencies].
Persons are not impotent incidents in markets: markets are the creations of persons and any market can be abused or upset by persons with unusual ambition, drive, inspiration or dishonesty. This approach is followed in my simple little book, Personal Political Economy: follow the link.
In this blog I make comments on people and events from the perspective that is set out in the book: and I will not hesitate to repudiate any portion of the book – or any blog – that is invalidated by emergent reality.
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SLIVERS OAKLEY: Slivers' Clown Shoes
Photos courtesy of Gene Wolande
Photos of Slivers Oakley's clown shoes, quite possibly the first oversized clown shoes worn in an American circus, in the collection of the Ringling Museum of the Circus in Sarasota, FL
REX "COUNT DE BOXCAR" YOUNG
CLOWN CARS: Billboard Magazine (November 13, 1948)
According to this article Hip Raymond, Kinko Sunberry and Bobo Barnett each took possession of their miniature clown cars within days of each other, all at the end of the 1948 circus season and all built for them by a Mr. Leo L. McKenzie of Wichita, KS.
1948 being the end of Lou Jacobs' first full season of performing his routine.
An earlier "midget auto" built by Leo McKenzie (whose family owned the Wichita Carriage Works)...
Title/Object Name: McKenzie Midget Auto
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1930
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Group of boys gathered around a miniature automobile built by Leo L. McKenzie. The clown in the driver's seat and the flags may indicate they are about to participate in a parade. McKenzie built and sold these small cars as a sideline to his business, McKenzie Body Works.
Keywords: Business and industry, children, people, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_T3-34.1.8
Mr. McKenzie passed away on January 30, 1977 at the age of 90 in Wichita, KS.
AL MIACO: Obituary, NY Clipper (July 27, 1923)
ALFRED FRISBIE MIACO
Alfred Frisbie Mlaco, Al Miaco, died July 21 at his home in New York City. He had spent 66 of his 78 years as a circus clown. Born in Cortland, N . Y., he ran away from home at the age of nine and joined Yankee Robinson's Circus . He started by playing Humpty Dumpty, soon learning to be a contortionist, and then a pantomlmlst. At this time he met the late Al Ringling and became the chief clown of his show, remaining with it for more than thirty years. Every sort of Interesting adventure was his during this long period. He knew John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lincoln, intimately, and was with him the night before he shot the great President. He met his wife, Laura, 56 years ago while travelling on the Mississippi. She acted as his Columbine for some time and nursed him since the time three years ago that partial paralysis caused his involuntary retirement. He was recognized as the dean of all Shakespearian clowns and won innumerable tributes from his associates, one of whom said, "This man has sense enough to play the fool."
A grandson, Al Renton, is perpetuating the name by appearing as a clown . The funeral services were held Monday and were attended by hundreds of circus people.
When Miaco lived in Cortland, it was a town of about 2,500 population. His homecoming and departure each year to or from the circus were the biggest events of the village.
CLOWN ALLEY: "The B.B. Club", Ringling Bros. Circus (circa 1900)
I have seen newspaper accounts describe this as the "Button Boosters Club" but the back of the photo identifies it as the "Button Busters Club" (likely as in 'you'll bust yer buttons') and the Hagenbeck Wallace clowns had one as well.
"B.B. Club" was a common newspaper abbreviation for baseball team at the turn of the century.
All the performers listed are clowns so some of the clowns either had their own
social club within the larger alley or this is a baseball team comprised of Ringling clowns
A much better scan from the personal collection of Hank Peare (courtesy of Gary Peare)
BUZZY POTTS
POODLES HANNEFORD: New York Clipper (April 7, 1920)
SETTLE POODLES COMPLAINT
The complaint of Poodles Hanneford, the Hippodrome clown, charging the May Wirth act with infringing upon his material, which gave rise to considerable discussion among both vaudeville and circus folk when it was filed with the N. V. A ., has been settled in favor of the Wirth act. According to the decision of the complaint board, the infringements which Hanneford claimed against the Wirth act have and are being used by scores of equestrians. Expert testimony was given to this effect by Charles Ringling, Toto, and a number of other circus folk. However, it has been suggested that Phil, the comedian in the Wirth act, change his makeup, which, it was contended, is identical to that of Poodles .
CLOWN CARS: Billboard Magazine (November 13, 1948)...
CLOWN ALLEY: "The B.B. Club", Ringling Bros. Circu...
POODLES HANNEFORD: New York Clipper (April 7, 1920...


Mola Mola Dive Season in Bali, The perfect time to see Mola-Mola ( Sunfish ) in Bali. The Mola-Mola fish is one of the marvels of the sea around Bali. This giant fish weighing 1000 kg is the heaviest bony fish ever found. These huge, mysterious fishes live around Bali all year round, the best time to see is from July to October in Nusa Penida.
If you are vacationing in Nusa Penida Bali do not miss the opportunity to meet the magical fish of Nusa Penida sea inhabitant that is Mola-Mola fish. The wonder of this giant sea is an incredible sight. It is advisable to spend 3 days around Nusa Penida to have more experience with this giant fish.
This Mola-Mola fish can be found when diving in Nusa Penida. You can highlight the unique Mola-Mola fish in the August to October season. The Mola-Mola fish becomes Nusa Penida's sea icon, with its unique shape having large heads with witty eyes and two looms that look without tail. Giant Fish Mola-Mola weighs about 1-2.5 tons and about 3-4 meters long, while the new Mola-Mola fish hatched approximately 2.5 cm in size. Mola-Mola fish has a unique swim wiggling way, sometimes occasionally swimming by reversing the sides of his body.
Mola-Mola fish can not withstand cold temperatures, so at night this fish can dive with a depth of 600 meters and in the morning is the time for Mola-Mola fish to sunbathe the sea surface, which is why he was nicknamed by the name of Sunfish. Mola-Mola fish can survive in tropical temperatures and warm temperatures, if temperatures below 12 degrees Celsius then this fish can die.
This massive sea-boneless Mola-Mola fish is not as dangerous as any other marine predator fish, the staple food of these fish is just a jellyfish. Mola-Mola is famous for its high curiosity fish. This fish is very close to humans especially the Snorkeling and Diving. The divers can capture the moment by by posing with the Mola-Mola fish. The Mola-Mola fish are already endangered species, as victims of accidents in sea water traffic, become victims of collisions from large ships and often caught in ship's propellers. The motion was so slow that it could not escape the speed of the ship. But in Bali Mola-Mola fish including animals that are protected mainly in Nusa Penida, Mola-Mola fish only as a tourist attraction of divers and allowed to live in their habitat.


Today I went out to the Boomershoot site to help Joe with a private party with some coworkers from Microsoft. We met up around 0800 at "The Breakfast Club" in Moscow. I had French toast which was extremely yummy, however what was totally awesome was the fact they had "Green Eggs and Ham".
If you don't get it, well you need to go read more Dr. Seuss. From there we drove out to the Boomershoot site. Joe stopped off for a couple quick history lessons like showing the grade school he went to growing up, as well as stopping by the farm he grew up on as we left.
The weather for the event today was downright miserable, the Explorer said it was 36 degrees out. I'm extremely happy it didn't happen last weekend. Winds were about equal to Saturday for the PRC, what was bad is the fact that it was raining, sleeting, and snowing most of the time. Everything was so moist as a matter of fact a new possible issue with manufacturing was discovered. The PC in the high humidity had a tendency to re-clump while sifting. This created issues in getting correct measurements. We had about 7-8 crates of left over targets from last weekend. Joe attempted to detonate some of the targets which provided an extreme disappointment.
Lesson learned: they will not store for a week.
Janelle and Kim then proceeded to mix up targets for the private party. Only about 15 were mixed up, however while they mixed I burned. About 7-8 crates of targets were burned and I only lost the hair of the back of my left hand. That oxidizer lights up fast when it finally goes, and boy does it burn hot. After that we fully introduced Joe's coworkers to the world of firearms and explosives. We pounded stakes, let the current squal pass, performed the saftey lecture and then got into it. I was going to destroy some harddrives for a friend however it appears I had left them at home. Another time do an Idaho Stress Test/data reduction method. For today it was going to be an extreme test as we were going to destroy them under the fireball as well.
The conditions continued to deteriorate; I was soaked through my Carhartts, inner layer, and base layer. What makes it worse was it was ice that was pelting us and quickly melting so it chilled to the bone.
Notice how my coat is glistening from being saturated.
Joe the ever vigilent instructor.
The next shooter with Joe giving position instruction.
As Joe says, people who complain are puritans.
Another happy customer. The white streaks are hail.
A smile attempting to hide.
Proof that's why Joe does it!
Satisfaction, He hit it… Finally. Where's the grin, we assume just straight satisfaction!
After that everyone took a second boomer, some used my rifle instead, others used Joe's. As a finale we attempted a fireball. Key word attempted. Unlike the blogger day the year before where we set the field on fire, it failed. It was too freaking wet and windy.
So after we finished up we then headed to the viewpoint overlooking Dworshak Dam. Joe gave us a short history lesson and thankfully we were able to stay out of the rain somewhat. After Dworshak we went to the Ponderosa for some dinner and conversation. Interestingly we discovered that Joe's daughter, Kim, was married on the same day, same year, and same exact time as my wife and I. Amazing the little things you discover. Enjoy the pics from the dam.


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Adopts exported cambered saw-tooth knife making the die-cutting surface smooth and without burr.
The gap between the cushion roll and the knife mold roll is adjusted by hand pneumatic adjusting the soft roll to go up and down.
The cushion roll adopts mechanical cam path longitudinal moving (40 mm) structure.
The whole machine adopts Oldham coupling structure and oil-spraying lubrication with steady dire and prolonged gear service life.
Electric adjustment for die-cutting phase with the scale showing the date.
Adopts exported cambered saw-tooth knife making die-cutting surface smooth and without burr.
The gap between the cushion roll and the knife mould roll is adjusted by hand pneumatic adjusting the soft roll to go up and down.