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There have been no end of studies on the subject, and most people seem to agree that NASA is the King of fewest errors. Generally the test of a program is ‘number of errors per 1000 lines of source code’. For those of you that are not computer geeks, source code is the almost english language that programmers use to create programs.
NASA claims the prize with 3 errors per 1000 lines, Microsoft does not score so well with 50 errors per 1000 lines.
Microsofts goals are obviously very different from what NASA is doing. But it is clear that Microsoft could learn much from the quality control standards that NASA maintain.
If our friends in Redmond spent more time time on quality, and less time on piracy (oh and maybe lowered their prices), life would be good!
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The Greek elections did not generate any significant movement in the stock market today, which is especially bad news for one particular bank stock that's taking a lot of heat from investors.
Greece decided not to leave the euro Sunday as the pro-bailout New Democracy party narrowly won elections tallying just over 30% of the vote. Investors had feared a win by an anti-austerity movement could lead to a breakup of the euro and possibly the European Union.
That's all good news except stock markets opened lower Monday following the announcement.
Maybe investors really wanted the worst to happen concerning Greece, insuring more action by the Federal Reserve when they meet later this week. QE3 is still a possibility but it seems that some are disappointed by the Greek elections, which could just be a postponement to Greece's eventual "Grexit" from the euro.
European markets rallied following the election results, but by the time U.S. markets opened investor sentiment had become neutral. It seems that until the Fed's meeting concludes on Wednesday investors will be stuck waiting for more news out of Europe to guide them.
One sector that has been vilified recently is financial stocks, and today's headliner is Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS).
The Wall Street Journal this morning highlighted Morgan Stanley for its leading role in Facebook's IPO debacle.
When Morgan Stanley and its lead banker Michael Grimes declared to Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) that they would be the "single driver" in the company's IPO they didn't expect what was to follow.
Yes, there was hype and lots of attention leading up the IPO, but now it seems there is nothing but backlash.
Morgan Stanley and specifically Grimes must deal once again with being in the spotlight for this botched IPO. The recent Journal report indicated Morgan Stanley made many moves that were inconsistent to past IPOs handled by the company and others.
Morgan Stanley conducted many meetings with prospective institutional buyers without the other two lead banks, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS). This led to the other lead banks having to gauge the level of demand for shares from a much smaller sample than what Morgan Stanley had, and maybe led to Goldman and JPMorgan deferring to Morgan Stanley on some key issues of the IPO.
Morgan Stanley, along with Facebook, supported increasing the number of shares and the price range despite protests by a Goldman executive. MS also allocated 26% of the initial shares to individual investors who usually only receive up to 15% of the IPO shares.
Just 3.4% of all U.S.-listed IPO deals since 1995 have increased both the number of shares and the price range of their IPOs before pricing, according to Dealogic, a provider of global investment banking analysis.
Morgan Stanley insists it did its job, citing the fact that the stock traded above its $38 offering price as proof that it was priced well.
Since its second day of trading, however, the stock has failed to rise above that level. Instead Facebook stock is down 20% since the IPO, the steepest-ever decline over the first month for an IPO of $1 billion or more of a U.S.-based company, according to Dealogic.
Morgan Stanley probably doesn't mind too much as they still made out pretty well. The underwriter will collect $68 million in fees – 38.5% of the $176 million that's to be given out to the 30 underwriters. JPMorgan will get about 20%, and Goldman, 15%.
This was another unusual part of the IPO, as normally the top banks split the fee structure equally. Facebook is the only U.S.-listed IPO that topped $5 billion since 1995 to have a fee structure not split equally at the top, according to Dealogic.
Taking into account the profits Morgan Stanley made on Facebook's first day of trading, which are reported to be $125 million, there remain plenty of reasons to be mad at the investment bank if you were a Facebook stock holder on day one.
Morgan Stanley was down more than 3% as of 3 p.m. today to $13.85. The S&P 500 today was up 0.23% an hour before market close.
In a TLC publicity still from “19 Kids and Counting,” Josh Duggar and his wife react to news that their due baby will be a girl.
People reports that Josh Duggar, his wife Anna, and his parents Jim Bob and Michelle are now doing a media tour responding to reports that Josh is accused of molesting five underage girls as a teen. Josh is a son in the large conservative Christian family featured in the reality show "19 Kids and Counting," on The Learning Channel.
"Twelve years ago, as a young teenager, I acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret. I hurt others, including my family and close friends," Josh, 27, told People in a statement.
"I confessed this to my parents who took several steps to help me address the situation. We spoke with the authorities where I confessed my wrongdoing, and my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling. I understood that if I continued down this wrong road that I would end up ruining my life."
Josh has resigned from his position at the Family Research Council as a result of the accusations becoming public. His family supports him, People reports.
The Family Research Council is an American conservative Christian anti-gay hate group and lobbying organization formed in the early 1980s by James Dobson, Gary Bauer, Tony Perkins, and George Alan Rekers.
Here are the organization's thoughts on being queer: "homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed" and it is "by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects... there is no convincing evidence that a homosexual identity is ever something genetic or inborn."
What a bunch of sickos.
The extended holiday weekend gave us a chance to think about how the U.S. should borrow a page from Russia and introduce a new holiday of its own also called National Unity Day.
As Americans go to the polls Tuesday to elect a president, the din from "blue" supporters of incumbent Barack Obama and the "red" proponents of challenger Mitt Romney has grown to a mind-numbing roar. The two groups' stringent opposition to each other's ideals represents ­— a bitter rivalry rarely seen since slavery split the country and led to the Civil War from 1861 to 1865.
What ever happened to a common vision and the desire to work for the common good, universal values that once won the admiration and envy of people around the world? Instead, moderate Americans are vanishing as they join the ranks of once-fringe elements of the Democratic or Republican parties, all the while insisting that their side represents true patriotism and U.S. democratic values.
The Americans have the right to fight among themselves. They are, however, creating an embarrassing spectacle as the world looks on, amazed at the divisive bickering of an economically declining nation that once stood proud as a global leader. But when U.S. pettiness and pride start roiling international markets, as it did when mean-spirited brinkmanship nearly caused the U.S. government to default on its debt last year, the world also has a stake in the battle.
In this heated atmosphere of anger and hatred, the first act of the next U.S. president should be to set aside a day for national unity and to lead the way by taking the first public steps toward reconciliation.
This would stand in marked contrast to President Vladimir Putin, who took a lot of flak in 2005 when he created National Unity Day, a public holiday that commemorates the defeat of invading Polish fighters in 1612 and was remembered only by the most studious historians. Putin has done little to promote unity, and there is little doubt that he chose the Nov. 4 date for its proximity to Revolution Day, thus allowing him to discard the Soviet-era holiday on Nov. 7 while still giving people a day off from work.
The new holiday also has its own problems, particularly since Russia's own fringe "patriots" have steadfastly tried to hijack it as a time to promote racial intolerance under the banner of "Russia for Russians." Furthermore, many Russians still don't know the reason for the holiday and consider it little more than a day off work, according to a Levada Center opinion poll released last week.
But the idea for the holiday, national unity, is commendable. In 1994, South Africa introduced the Day of Reconciliation, celebrated on Dec. 16, to foster national unity after the bitter era of apartheid. Germany celebrates Unity Day on Oct. 3, the anniversary of the reunification of the two divided Germanies.
Even before Putin introduced National Unity Day, President Boris Yeltsin in 1996 renamed the Nov. 7 holiday as the Day of Accord and Reconciliation, believing that memorializing the 1917 Revolution was dividing society rather than uniting it.
Americans are tearing each other apart, and it's not only those on the losing side who will be bitter, bruised and broken after Tuesday's election.
The U.S. president doesn't often look to Russia for lessons. But this is one case where he should.
New Mexico’s Pete Domenici is doing everything he can to ensure the future of all things nuclear.
Pete Domenici is a man on a crusade. The senior senator from New Mexico wants to change the way Americans think. For far too long, Domenici preaches, we have let our beliefs about nuclear energy be governed by fear rather than a recognition of all the good that it brings to the world. So the powerful six-term legislator, chairman of both the Budget Committee and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, is wielding his considerable clout for the promotion of all things nuclear.
Bell isn’t exaggerating. In 1998, concerned that the NRC’s regulations were too stringent in general, Sen. Domenici threatened to cut the commission’s budget by $90 million. This year, he was instrumental in securing more than $27 million to reevaluate the health effects of low-level radiation and to research a plan to reduce the half-life of plutonium waste (a byproduct of nuclear weapons development) by bombarding it with high-energy proton beams in a linear accelerator at Los Alamos, New Mexico. An independent audit of the plan by MIT noted that while it would cost at least $40 billion, the effect on the nation’s nuclear waste problem would be minimal — if the plan even worked.
Nothing better demonstrates Domenici’s effectiveness in promoting his new nuclear paradigm than his salvation of the nation’s weapons labs. Two of the Department of Energy’s three weapons labs — Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories — are in New Mexico and are crucial to its economy, providing high-paying jobs in a state otherwise dependent on agriculture and mining. According to census figures, only Arkansas and West Virginia have lower median incomes. Revered as “Saint Pete” at the labs, Domenici has been able to safely navigate America’s nuclear weapons program through the fall of the Soviet Union as a superpower, the pressure in Washington to balance the budget, and the election of a cost-cutting, supposedly small-government- oriented, Republican Congress in 1994.
In a sense there are two Pete Domenicis. the first is the fiscally conservative chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who has earned praise from both sides of the political aisle for his pragmatic approach to policymaking. This is the public man, the one Democrats are attracted to: the man who so incensed Ronald Reagan in 1983 by his criticism of then-Budget Director David Stockman’s “voodoo economics” that the normally mild-mannered Gipper smashed a telephone into a wall. This is the senator known for backing mental-health initiatives, education spending, and the rights of immigrants.
Domenici’s power in Congress helped him raise nearly $3.5 million for his most recent reelection campaign (1996), although he perennially wins his seat by a landslide. More than $425,000 of that came from political action committees and individuals tied to energy and defense-related companies, including Lockheed Martin, which manages Sandia, and General Electric, a leading developer of nuclear technology.
The weapons labs and their subcontractors have also been generous participants in those election efforts; from 1991 through 1996, individuals and PACs tied to the labs and their defense work put more than $165,000 into the senator’s campaign coffers.
The labs also provide Domenici with a full-time “science adviser,” Peter Lyons, a physicist at Los Alamos whose $159,000 annual salary is paid by the labs. Many of those who have dealt with Lyons believe him to be a member of Domenici’s staff — a public servant — not a paid employee of the labs. The American Gas Association’s guide to congressional staff even lists him as an “energy legislative assistant” to Domenici. “It is unfair to the taxpayer that you have a person like Pete Lyons in that position,” says one Los Alamos physicist, who asked not to be identified, adding that Lyons is there to “protect the interests of the University of California,” which manages Los Alamos.
The Department of Energy describes the SSP as necessary to maintain the “safety and reliability” of the nation’s nuclear arsenal without compiling data through actual test explosions. Critics say that kind of language is little more than a smoke screen to mask the program’s real purpose: to maintain the status quo of nuclear weapons design and testing through the use of supercomputers, subcritical nuclear testing, and other sophisticated simulations.
From the beginning, the SSP has been tied to the prospect of getting Senate support for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which President Clinton signed in 1996. It would take a two-thirds Senate vote to approve the treaty, a proposition that has become increasingly remote. If the Senate does not approve it, the United States’ efforts to rally international support for the treaty will ring hollow. And without Domenici to coax reluctant Republicans, approval will almost certainly not happen.
Christopher Paine, a senior analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, helped craft early versions of legislation to ban nuclear testing when he was an aide to Sen. Ted Kennedy in the late ’80s. He says that when the CTBT was being formulated by the Clinton administration, he “observed firsthand how when Pete Domenici whistled, everybody jumped.
“The administration was trying to craft a bipartisan compromise on testing,” says Paine. “They did that by giving Domenici everything he wanted on the SSP.” It turned out to be a dream come true for the laboratories.
Outsiders see the U.S. program as ongoing because we continue to conduct controversial subcritical nuclear tests. Carried out at the Nevada Test Site, which Lockheed Martin co-manages, these tests are nearly identical to normal nuclear weapons tests. High explosives are used to generate a controlled nuclear reaction, which is suppressed before reaching the full, critical stage of a nuclear blast. Data from the test can then be used to predict the dynamic profile of a full explosion.
Critics say this clearly subverts the treaty, which calls for the “cessation of all nuclear weapon test explosions and all other nuclear explosions, by constraining the development and qualitative improvement of nuclear weapons and ending the development of advanced new types of nuclear weapons.” Indeed, when India staged its nuclear test last year, it issued a press release saying it would only sign a “truly comprehensive international arrangement which would prohibit underground nuclear testing of all weapons as well as related experiments described as ‘subcritical.'” The European Parliament has similarly voiced its disapproval of subcritical tests.
The second criticism of the SSP is that it is simply a waste of money. Today it boasts such projects as the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, a supercomputer-development plan, which, according to the General Accounting Office, may eventually cost more than $5 billion (and which Chris Mechels, a former Los Alamos computer systems manager, describes as likely to “be obsolete before it is even created”). Another project is the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamics Test (DARHT) facility, a pair of high-intensity-X-ray machines used to simulate the effects of nuclear explosions. Originally slated to cost $110 million and be ready earlier this year, DARHT will have ballooned to about $260 million and will be only partially complete by year’s end. “Their budgets,” says Mechels, “are just an exercise in wishful thinking. Los Alamos is notorious for never bringing in anything on budget and on time.” Construction costs alone for planned SSP facilities at the Los Alamos lab will total about $1.2 billion over the next few years.
But critics admit that prospects for curtailing the SSP are slim. Few legislators have the political capital to challenge Domenici. And the administration remains beholden to him as long as ratification of the test ban is pending. Domenici, meanwhile, remains noncommittal on whether he will support the CTBT, although he has said in no uncertain terms that he will not support the treaty without vigorous funding of the SSP.
Nowhere is Domenici’s blind support for New Mexico’s labs more evident than in his efforts to keep alive a giant accelerator project at Los Alamos. The lab’s first experience with giant accelerators was during the Reagan administration’s failed Star Wars program. And while using accelerators to destroy missiles is an idea few think will come again, Domenici finds ways to keep the project going. “Any nuclear waste bill that is moving through Congress in this day and age, Domenici looks at and asks, ‘Will this be the train that will pull along the accelerator project?'” says Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group, a disarmament-advocacy group based in Santa Fe.
One plan was to convert the accelerator project into a tool to produce tritium, a radioactive gas essential to the trigger mechanism of a nuclear bomb. Because of decay, the tritium in each weapon must be replaced every 12 years. This year, however, the DOE found a cheaper solution: It would use a specialized reactor that could produce tritium for a fraction of the cost of using the giant accelerator. But Domenici has still managed to keep the accelerator funded at $10 million per year for at least the next several years — as a backup option.
But to Los Alamos, it would mean an extra $40 billion in funding over 60 years. So despite MIT’s damaging evaluation, Domenici managed to secure $15 million in this year’s Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill to continue ATW research.
The senator’s quest to forge a nuke-friendly world will no doubt continue until, in Steve Bell’s words, “nuclear energy will be an absolutely important element whenever people talk about clean air and clean water.” So while the rest of the world protests on Hiroshima Day and worries about the next Chernobyl, Pete Domenici works to bring about a new — presumably safer and cleaner — nuclear future. It all sounds disturbingly like those carefree days of the 1950s, when the nation had high hopes for nuclear energy — the days when Eisenhower was president, the Nevada Test Site buzzed with activity, and the atom was still king.
A dust mask and other items seized from the martial arts studio of a Mississippi man charged with sending letters laced with a deadly poison to President Barack Obama have tested positive for ricin, according to a court document released on Tuesday.
Tupelo martial arts instructor Everett Dutschke is also charged with sending poisoned letters to two other public officials.
Records seized by the FBI also showed that he ordered castor bean seeds, used to make ricin, from eBay, FBI Special Agent Stephen Thomason said in an eight-page affidavit.
Favorable fishing both pelagics in top waters and “reef” dwellers on the bottom should continue.
Last week we referenced the continued hurricane threat here right through the end of October and a bit beyond. Well here we are, the fortunate one’s this time, as Michael sails past us and has the Florida Panhandle at full alert. We offer our prayers for safety for those folks effected. Here, we will experience some intermittent rain and moderate wind conditions that should be totally dissipated by week end. On the red tide front, we should continue to experience a clear condition with the waters clean of the Karenia brevis micro-organism especially with the wind direction this week pushing waters offshore. General weather conditions this week are mild. The p.m. rain storms will be less frequent as Michael draws the water north; the general wind conditions are easterly come late weekend and through the balance of the week; the tides are coming off a new moon and feature a nice strong early morning incoming followed, unfortunately, with a super week p.m. outgoing. The water temperature should hold in the 80-82 range.
Marco Island: The brush-by produced by Michael will have very little effect here. Favorable fishing both pelagics in top waters and “reef” dwellers on the bottom should continue. In the latter domain, mangrove snapper remain the primary catch with a goodly number of those in the take home category. Best locales for action are the Hurricane Pass, Keewaydin mangrove edges and docks; the Rookery Bay flats just east of ICW #22R; and the island mangrove edges in the full extent of Addison Bay. Best action on shrimp tipped jig heads worked tight to structure. Redfish action is accelerating as the “pups” are being replaced by schools of nice size (16-22”) reds working the grass flats in Johnson Bay and the Henderson Creek area in Rookery Bay. Shrimp under a popper on a drift is the catch ticket.
Naples: Pompano have been a hot item in Hurricane Pass and that action should continue this week. The pomps are showing and working the bottom in the fast-moving water (early morning this week for best fast water). Simple white jigs tipped worked just off the bottom and keeping motion (not retrieve) in your bait. The rip rap and edges of Gordon Pass is a magnet for snook action – again, the best will be first light incoming post weekend with pilchards worked post shower. Look for redfish in the north part of Rookery Bay circa ICW R#58 along mangrove edges of shallow flats working shrimp under a popper.
Bonita Springs: Reports state that we have a very noticeable improvement in action from Estero on up to Charlotte Harbor and beyond. Don’t need any weather issues to disturb that trend and the “light” rain forecast here with Michael will keep the Lake O dam spill at a minimum. Still seeing snook hot action in the Gulf cuts Vanderbilt Beach to Carlos on the morning incoming working first light with pilchards post shower. Have to be there before sunrise. With first sun rays the snook vamoose. Juvenile tarpon have produced action at New Pass; in the cut, again early incoming on threads, pinfish. Careful release. Redfish are in full action mode circa the Matlacha Bridge spots at the top of the tide along shoreline overhangs with live bait under 4’ leader popper. Request: continue release of all snook and redfish.
Marco Island: Thankfully, sea conditions nearshore should continue favorable with only mild, moderate wind effect from storm. Might be tougher conditions deep. East winds should also hold off any “floater” accumulation. Look for continued pelagic action along the first and second reefs particularly late morning incoming. Top water species continue to be primarily mackerel, some bluefish and a plethora of hungry blue runners and jacks. Start with chum and work tipped jigs in the extreme top water. Structured reefs will have good action on mangrove and lane snapper and, surprisingly, some take home sheepshead (already).
Naples: Inshore for pelagics (mackerel, bluefish, jacks etc ) from Doctor’s to the Pier. Tipped jigs on wire under chum on the AM strong incoming. Bottom action same venue with weighted jigs to 1-2’ off bottom for lane and mangrove snapper action. 8-10mile artificial reefs and adjacent wrecks for first sightings of southbound pelagics (escaping Michael) kings, some cobia and permit working live bait in chum both to bottom and tethered mid depth. Best will be morning incoming. Poor PM water flow.
Bonita Springs: Near shore for continued good action on pelagics up top in the strong morning incoming with tipped jigs on wire under chum. Clean water offshore should continue. Some sea condition issues super deep following storm passage. Mid to deep reefs should begin to reverse migration action this week accentuated with schools escaping the ravages of the storm passage. Set up on deep wrecks that are holding bait with freelined live bait to tethered at 15-20 ft. all under chum.
April 3, 2019, 5:02 a.m.
Patti Callahan Henry graduated from Auburn University and now lives in Mountain Brook with her husband, Pat.
In her first eight books, Patti Callahan Henry has tackled a number of subjects.
“Losing the Moon” examined love lost and love found; “Where the River Runs” had a tragic secret at its core; “The Art of Keeping Secrets” centers around a plane crash, and subsequent books have looked at musicians, sisters and a dying marriage.
But not until now, with “And Then I Found You,” which comes out on Tuesday, has the Birmingham author written about what’s nearest her heart.
But it’s definitely the right time. Because although “And Then I Found You” is fictional, it’s heavily based upon a true family story.
What: Launch party for Patti Callahan Henry's "And Then I Found You"
The real-life story began 23 years ago, when Patti’s sister, Barbi, gave a baby girl up for adoption in South Florida. She was a single mom and, Patti says, looking for a better life for her child than she could give her at the time.
Cut to 2010, when a 20-year-old girl named Catherine Janelle Barbee, who knew she was adopted, stumbled across her own adoption papers. With the Wite-Out flaking away, she could barely make out the name of her mother, Barbara Callahan, and she went to work on Google.
“Catherine wasn’t looking for my sister out of looking for a good mother,” Patti says. “She already had a great mother. She was simply curious about what Barbi looked like. She started Googling my sister’s name and nothing came up except for me. I have thanked my sister in all of my novels and dedicated one of them to her.
Facebook was next, with Catherine finding Barbi through Patti’s page and sending friend requests to both.
What followed was a flurry of activity and, in this case, a happy ending.
And all agreed that Patti ought to write about it.
She tried, and she failed.
Names and dates have been changed, and the reason for the adoption is much different in the book, but for the first time, Patti has used real-life places, such as Birmingham and Bluffton, S.C. It's also the first book that the author has written since moving to Mountain Brook with her husband and children from Atlanta two years ago.
And the author is quick to point out she doesn’t mean for “And Then I Found You” to be a pro-adoption treatise.
That may be different for Barbi, who is joining her sister in the author ranks.
Friendly Fires have revealed new song ‘Velo.’ Scroll down to hear the track in full now.
‘Velo’ was recorded with The Asphodells, aka Andrew Weatherall and Timothy J Fairplay, and will be released alongside another new song ‘Before Your Eyes’, on 12″ via Friendly Fires’ own Telophase label on March 31.
Recorded between Weatherall’s Shoreditch studio and that of Friendly Fires frontman Ed Macfarlane’s basement studio in Farringdon, the 12-inch marks the first new music fans have heard from the band since they released second album ‘Pala’ in 2011. The Asphodells released their debut album ‘Ruled By Passion Destroyed By Lust’ in 2013.
Spotting, nautious,sore,cramping normal over 2 months after a d&c?
later I have a sore uterus. It feels very tender if I were to push down on it. Im not spotting anymore,but it feels like I should be starting my pg at any time. Im not suppose to start for atleast another week. at this point today ive just been extremely tired and nautios.I now am just confused on if this is normal after a procedure like this.
I lost my baby at 9 weeks, 6 days. Had a D&C today after a long night of bad cramps and lots of bleeding. I have terrible viracose veins and they r really paining me... Is this a bad sign for a clot ot anything?
I have posted a response to your question on your own thread.
Ya I saw the doctor today and I guess I had a cyst that popped, and a stomach bug that would explain most of the symptoms. She also did blood work and found out im pregnant. That would explain all the other symptoms. Im happy it wasnt anything bad. Im very happy to be trying again.although scared at the same time. I cant imagine goung through another loss like before. But thankyou for the quick response to my first question.
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel, or NLMK, has posted a FY 2008 Net Profit of $2.278 Billion under U.S. GAAP, despite a 4Q loss of $480 million.