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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	5/14/2010 9:19:37 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217530

debating on whether i should move my gold ledger marking from 1000 to 1100 or 1200 or just save myself the bother later and mark to 6000 on further illumination: "The History of An Obsession - Power of Gold" by Peter L. Bernstein books.google.com Music video Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg - The Power Of Gold (Live) youtube.com The story is told of the Power of gold And its lure on the unsuspecting It glitters and shines It badgers and blinds And constantly needs protecting. Balance the cost of the soul you lost With the dreams you lightly sold Are you under The power of gold? The letters and calls Got you climbing the walls And everyone wants a favor They beg to remind you Of times left behind you But you know the past is a loser. The face you're wearing is different now And the days run hot and cold Are you under The power of gold? You're a creature of habit Run like a rabbit Scared of a fear you can't name You own paranoia Is looming before you But nobody thinks that It's a game. Balance the cost of the soul you lost With the dreams you lightly sold Then tell me That you're free Of the power of gold. The women are lovely The wine is superb But there's something about the song That disturbs you...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	5/14/2010 10:21:46 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217530

education - returning to basics 4 seasons of gold true gold, 1914 - 2009 false hope, dow 1929 -1933 gold vs s&p500, 1979 - 2010 gold vs dow, 1929 - 2009 gold vs house why gold why not paper papers from the good old days road markers - forced loan stories the wiser should have told you mises.org history you should have read, "The History of An Obsession - Power of Gold" by Peter L. Bernstein books.google.com Movie you should have seen, "Melt Up" youtube.com and song you should have been taught - Music video Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg - The Power Of Gold (Live) youtube.com The story is told of the Power of gold And its lure on the unsuspecting It glitters and shines It badgers and blinds And constantly needs protecting. Balance the cost of the soul you lost With the dreams you lightly sold Are you under The power of gold? The letters and calls Got you climbing the walls And everyone wants a favor They beg to remind you Of times left behind you But you know the past is a loser. The face you're wearing is different now And the days run hot and cold Are you under The power of gold? You're a creature of habit Run like a rabbit Scared of a fear you can't name You own paranoia Is looming before you But nobody thinks that It's a game. Balance the cost of the soul you lost With the dreams you lightly sold Then tell me That you're free Of the power of gold. The women are lovely The wine is superb But there's something about the song That disturbs you...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	5/16/2010 5:12:37 AM
From: TobagoJack	3 Recommendations Respond to of 217530

financial relativity theory, i guess, is all about the tragic action of taking from the less deserving many so that a few may rise ;0) do tell, what was the point of the qcom trade again ? it seems no better than it seems to have been about the same as speculating on Spain but, yes, decidedly a better wager than betting on Italy

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	5/17/2010 2:47:08 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217530

Iran, Brazil, Turkey sign nuclear swap deal Iran agreed to swap 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium for higher-enriched nuclear fuel, to be used in a medical research reactor. The exchange would take place in Turkey, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said. Iran, Brazil, Turkey sign nuclear swap deal Parisa Hafezi TEHRAN Mon May 17, 2010 2:41am E TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran, Brazil and Turkey signed an agreement on Monday over a nuclear fuel swap designed to allay international concern over the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions. Iran said it had agreed to swap 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium for higher-enriched nuclear fuel, to be used in a medical research reactor. The exchange would take place in Turkey, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said. Iran, which rejects Western accusations it is seeking to develop nuclear bombs, had earlier insisted such a swap must take place on its territory. Turkey and Brazil, both non-permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, had offered to mediate to find a resolution to the impasse at a time when world powers are in talks to impose a fourth round of U.N. sanctions on Iran. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan discussed the deal with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iranian state media reported. "The swap will take place in Turkey," Mehmanparast told reporters, shortly before the agreement was signed by ministers in front of reporters. Major world powers had urged Iran to accept a months-old International Atomic Energy Agency plan to ship 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) of its low-enriched uranium -- enough for a single bomb if purified to a high enough level -- abroad for transformation into fuel for a medical research reactor. The proposal, backed by the United States, Russia and France, was aimed at giving time for diplomatic talks with Iran. Tehran agreed in principle to the deal in October but then demanded changes such as a simultaneous swap on Iranian soil, conditions other parties in the deal said were unacceptable. (Editing by Ralph Gowling)

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	5/18/2010 4:49:11 PM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Respond to of 217530

Re Message 26546716 It certainly stirs people up when their financial interests are harmed to the extent that they are getting hungry or even just unable to live in the manner to which they have become accustomed. Happens all the time since the beginning of the time, and each and every time, the people gets destroyed along with their money per universal zero-state monetary reset, bar none, and this sorry time shall prove no exception Financial Relativity Theory Premise - there is gold, and it is true Figuring - and Gold is true Promise - then there are paper monies, and they inevitably die, inexorably Guarantee - often Pledge - all different ways, but per script Contention - Gold has its seasons The season is now Everywhich way we look at it Suspicion - Gold season is very young Guess - Paper burning time is upon us Look-see - so much paper, and not all holders can achieve redemption to Gold Fact - even as more paper gets printed into existence Wild guess - all paper assets may well answer to the 1% rule, that they will all lose 99% of purchasing power Anticipation - even as some of the stuff paper may buy will themselves obey the 10% rule, that they fall by 90% of purchasing power Warning - QCOM is just another piece of paper Learning material stories the wiser should have told you mises.org history you should have read, "The History of An Obsession - Power of Gold" by Peter L. Bernstein books.google.com Movie you should have seen, "Melt Up" youtube.com and song you should have been taught - Music video Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg - The Power Of Gold (Live) youtube.com The story is told of the Power of gold And its lure on the unsuspecting It glitters and shines It badgers and blinds And constantly needs protecting. Balance the cost of the soul you lost With the dreams you lightly sold Are you under The power of gold? The letters and calls Got you climbing the walls And everyone wants a favor They beg to remind you Of times left behind you But you know the past is a loser. The face you're wearing is different now And the days run hot and cold Are you under The power of gold? You're a creature of habit Run like a rabbit Scared of a fear you can't name You own paranoia Is looming before you But nobody thinks that It's a game. Balance the cost of the soul you lost With the dreams you lightly sold Then tell me That you're free Of the power of gold. The women are lovely The wine is superb But there's something about the song That disturbs you...

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	5/19/2010 7:34:39 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217530

Ultimate test: The U.S. may fall victim to bond “vigilantes” targeting indebted nations from the U.K. to Japan in a potential second stage of the financial crisis, New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said. bloomberg.com This is the ultimate test emrging markets will have to pass as the Great Unwinding, well, unwindings Roubini Says U.S. May Face Bond Market ‘Vigilantes’ (Update1) By Jennifer Ryan May 19 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. may fall victim to bond “vigilantes” targeting indebted nations from the U.K. to Japan in a potential second stage of the financial crisis, New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said. “Bond market vigilantes have already woken up in Greece, in Spain, in Portugal, in Ireland, in Iceland, and soon enough they could wake up in the U.K., in Japan, in the United States, if we keep on running very large fiscal deficits,” Roubini said at an event at the London School of Economics yesterday. “The chances are, they are going to wake up in the United States in the next three years and say, ‘this is unsustainable.” The euro slid to the lowest level in more than four years against the dollar today as a German ban on some speculative trading fueled concern the European debt crisis will worsen. Roubini suggested the public debt burden incurred after the 2008 bank panic may now cause the financial crisis to metamorphose. “There is now a massive re-leveraging of the public sector, with budget deficits on the order of 10 percent” of gross domestic product “in a number of countries,” Roubini said. “History would suggest that maybe this crisis is not really over. We just finished the first stage and there’s a risk of ending up in the second stage of this financial crisis.” German Ban Germany banned naked short-selling on European government bonds with credit-default swaps today in an effort to calm financial markets, sparking investor anxiety about increasing regulation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel laid out proposals to gain control over “destructive” financial markets as her government seeks to extend the ban across Europe. The euro weakened to as low as $1.2144 for the first time since April 2006. The currency traded down 1.3 percent at $1.2181 as of 10:06 a.m. in London. Roubini, who predicted in 2006 that a financial crisis was imminent, said that the record U.S. budget deficit may persist amid a stalemate in Congress between Republicans blocking tax increases and Democrats who oppose cuts in spending. “In many advanced economies, the political will to do the right thing is constrained,” he said. The U.S. posted its largest April budget deficit on record as the excess of spending over revenue rose to $82.7 billion. The federal debt is currently projected to reach 90 percent of the economy by 2020. Roubini, speaking in a lecture hall packed with students who then queued to meet him at a book-signing, reiterated that the euro region faces the threat of a breakup after the Greek budget crisis. The European Union said yesterday it transferred the first installment of emergency loans to Greece, one day before 8.5 billion euros ($10.4 billion) of bonds come due. “Even today there is a risk of a breakup of the monetary union, the euro zone as well,” Roubini said. “A double dip recession in the euro zone” is “something that’s not unlikely, given what’s happening.” To contact the reporter on this story: Jennifer Ryan in London at jryan13@bloomberg.net Last Updated: May 19, 2010 05:24 EDT

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	5/21/2010 8:36:58 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217530

maurice, why did you not buy gold? zerohedge.com now that i am so paper gold-less, will be adding more, so that profit can be booked, used for buying solid gold, so as to hold on to the gain, ... ad infinitum

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	5/26/2010 8:06:21 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217530

soon, a new mode of communication physorg.com Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km May 20, 2010 by Lin Edwards Enlarge a, A birds-eye view of the 16-km free-space quantum teleportation experiment. Charlie sends photon 1 to Alice for BSM. Classical information, including the results of the BSM and the signal for time synchronization, is sent through the free-space channel with photon 2, to Bob, before decoding and triggering of the corresponding unitary transformation. b, Sketch of the experimental system. See the original paper for more details. Image copyright: Nature Photonics, doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.87 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons further than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km (10 miles), much further than the few hundred meters previously achieved, which brings us closer to transmitting information over long distances without the need for a traditional signal. Ads by Google Easy Particle Raman - Reliable Micro Spectroscopy Studies and Integrated Systems - www.particle-explorer.com Quantum teleportation is not the same as the teleportation most of us know from science fiction, where an object (or person) in one place is “beamed up” to another place where a perfect copy is replicated. In quantum teleportation two photons or ions (for example) are entangled in such a way that when the quantum state of one is changed the state of the other also changes, as if the two were still connected. This enables quantum information to be teleported if one of the photons/ions is sent some distance away. In previous experiments the photons were confined to fiber channels a few hundred meters long to ensure their state remained unchanged, but in the new experiments pairs of photons were entangled and then the higher-energy photon of the pair was sent through a free space channel 16 km long. The researchers, from the University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University in Beijing, found that even at this distance the photon at the receiving end still responded to changes in state of the photon remaining behind. The average fidelity of the teleportation achieved was 89 percent. The distance of 16 km is greater than the effective aerosphere thickness of 5-10 km, so the group's success could pave the way for experiments between a ground station and a satellite, or two ground stations with a satellite acting as a relay. This means quantum communication applications could be possible on a global scale in the near future. The public free space channel was at ground level and spanned the 16 km distance between Badaling in Beijing (the teleportation site) and the receiver site at Huailai in Hebei province. Entangled photon pairs were generated at the teleportation site using a semiconductor, a blue laser beam, and a crystal of beta-barium borate (BBO). The pairs of photons were entangled in the spatial modes of photon 1 and polarization modes of photon 2. The research team designed two types of telescopes to serve as optical transmitting and receiving antennas. The experiments confirm the feasibility of space-based quantum teleportation, and represent a giant leap forward in the development of quantum communication applications. The paper is available in full online at Nature Photonics. More information: Xian-Min Jin, Experimental free-space quantum teleportation, Nature Photonics, Published online: 16 May 2010. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.87 © 2010 PhysOrg.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (63624)	12/4/2020 5:04:47 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maurice Winn Respond to of 217530

Following up on this from 2010 Message 26565875 , the latest known happening is Message 33073857 Something about studying, learning, working, saving, investing ... etc etc, and arms and legs attached to brains The investment is beginning to pay off, so that Message 26306977 industryweek.com The Countries With The Most STEM Graduates China has experienced a revolution in third level education since the turn of the century. By 2016, it was building the equivalent of nearly one university every week and in terms of graduate numbers, it has surpassed both Europe and the United States Historically the U.S. dominated the world's graduate population but in recent years, that population has shifted amid steady academic progress in Asia. Last year, India was the global leader in university graduates (78.0 million), slightly ahead of China (77.7 million). The U.S. was in third place (67.4 million) and the gap behind the top two is widening. According to some estimates, the number of Chinese graduates aged 25 to 34 will rise 300 percent by 2030 compared to just 30 percent in the U.S. and Europe. STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) has become a pretty big deal in China's flourishing universities. In 2013, 40 percent of Chinese graduates completed a degree in a STEM subject, more than twice the share in American third level institutions. Workers with STEM qualifications have become increasingly important to global prosperity and unsurprisingly, China is leading the way. The World Economic Forum reported that China had 4.7 million new STEM graduates in 2016 while India had 2.6 million. The United States had 568,000 recent STEM graduates in 2016. As Team America is intending to cull its PhD program of Chinese, more shall rejoin the Team Probably more efficacious and consequential than culling Team Brazil of Chinese PhD students axios.com Chinese students make up 16% of all graduate STEM students in the U.S. and 2% of undergraduate STEM students, per a new report from Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology. The big picture: Concerns about intellectual property theft and foreign influence in U.S. research have led to calls to limit what Chinese students can study in the U.S. At the same time, others argue U.S. universities benefit financially and, ultimately, the country benefits economically from the contributions of students from China."These conversations have been hampered by a lack of granular data on the number of enrolled Chinese students by field and degree level," CSET's Jacob Feldgoise and Remco Zwetsloot write.What they found: Using four different datasets, the researchers report there are "around 46,000 Chinese undergraduates, an estimated 40,000 master’s students, and an estimated 36,000 Ph.D. students" in STEM fields in the U.S. The percentage of Chinese students is lower than an earlier government report's estimate that 25% of STEM graduate students in the U.S. were Chinese nationals.Yes, but: The new estimates still don't give a certain picture, says Zwetsloot, "driving home the need for much better U.S. government data collection and dissemination on these questions."