H. T. Love

Swine Flu News Concentrator (November 5 - Part 3)

VICAL: Press release of presentation summarizing how VICAL was first to develop against H1N1, how great it is. Nothing substantive or new, just publicity release.

ir.vical.com/releasede...

HardToLove

Nancy Pelosi - Speaker of the House or Satan's hellspawn?

Looking at the pic, I think she would have done better in "Misery" than Kathy Bates. And Kathy did great.

Unfortunately, the movie would have probably had to be re-cast as a documentary film.

HardToLOve

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 policy, pay 2.5% of income, or Go To Jail!!!

While watching CSPAN, it came out that the bill went from appx. 1000 pages yesterday to 2000 pages today. Sec 340N forgiving loans for veternarians - ~$500M. Biofuels being taxed - that's health care, right?

Makes "Healthcare Czars".

Asked why vet loans forgiven, Dems lady switches topics and doesn't answer.

HardToLove

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 policy, pay 2.5% of income, or Go To Jail!!!

Pete Sessions R-Tx: $730B new taxes, double dip recession would be assured. Using same CBO and other ind. studies, 4-5 MM jobs lost.

CSPAN telecasting the whole circus.

HardToLove

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 policy, pay 2.5% of income, or Go To Jail!!!

Jail sounds good. Free food, medical care, lots of free time, mindless repetitive work with no worries.

The punishment is certainly more attractive than the alternative - frenetic work, most gains taken by the government for everything, 2016 cost of the insurance likely to be higher than monthly gross of most if deflation is really at play, no free time, can't afford food and health insurance at the same time, ...

Hm, she must be bringing the policies to the nation that helped get California in the fix it's in now.

HardToLove

Equity Market Bears, Take Careful Note of the Chinese Stock Market

On Nov 07 08:05 AM Freya wrote:

><snip>
> The Top graph, however, is also a thing of Beauty to me.
>
> A much more pronounced Rising wedge. The Breakout here is in progress.
> My initial Target would be the Old high.

My only concern on that is the last candlestick is a "hanging man", although the "tail" is a little abbreviated. This is sometimes an early indicator that the bulls are losing control and downturn may be coming.

It's not certain, is usually more useful on intraday charts and should/would be confirmed in a period or two following the candlestick. Of course, being new at this stuff, I really don't know how reliable it is on these charts.

><snip>

HardToLove

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire

On Nov 06 03:24 PM optionsgirl wrote:

><snip>
> 2. Israel is heads and shoulders above USA in clean energy technology.
> Don't forget that they have no crude, but they do have some nat gas.
> Do a Google search "Israeli research of alternative energy" and you
> will see pages and pages. Can you think of any other country on earth
> more in need of energy independence for strategic defense? <snip>

And, as far as I know, they plan to take advantage of their sunny clime in a big way too. They have a co (HelioFocus) doing concentrated sloar power installations that has ordered a developmental modified Capstone Microturbines C65 to generate electricity. The concentrated solar is used to provide the heat for the input stage of the (CPST) turbine directly to produce electricity.

" fuel free renewable solution offers higher solar conversion efficiencies over traditional solar photovoltaic systems"

and

"Utilizing Capstone's microturbine, our mutual goal is to develop a system that can operate entirely on sunlight."

Full article here
www.microturbine.com/n...

HardToLove

Quick Chat #14- Start 11/5/09

Depends. Many of the laptops these days have variable-speed fans that run slow and quite when CPU load is low and the CPU is "cool". Then if load on the CPU gets high, it can speed up the fan, which may then make a noticeable whirring sound.

The particular make and model will determine if it has that setup or not.

Another possibility is that over time a lot of dust has accumulated inside and reduced airflow. Sometimes, because of the oils in the air naturally, it will even accumulate on the heatsinks, chips, etc. May restrict things at the vents.

If this is the case (my youngest son had this happen last year), opening up the unit and giving it a good dust off with compressed air (available in cans at places like office supply, wal-mart, computer shops) may fix it. It fixed my son's.

Last possibility is that the bearings in the fan may be going. Quality ball bearing fans don't usually wear out, but it can happen.

If you lost a "core", that could be due to heat build-up. After cleaning everything out and making sure the cooling fans are clean and working, that core may return to service.

By the way, the unit may be repairable for less than new cost. If you have a local computer shop you trust, they can replace fans, CPUs (if that's really needed) sometimes. It depends on just how "proprietary" the design is and if parts are available.

My wife had her Toshiba 17" repaired locally recently - good service since.

I hope that helps.

HardToLove
On Nov 06 12:38 PM Freya wrote:

> the damn thing is making a whirring sound...HTL, what does that mean?

Quick Chat #14- Start 11/5/09

Check NUSTAR - they avoid layoffs too and are hiring. I've not looked at them yet - just became aware - so this is not a recommendation by me yet.

HardToLove


On Nov 06 10:25 AM tripleblack wrote:

> NUE is always on my short list. I wish more companies thought like
> them, in other industries.

Quick Chat #14- Start 11/5/09

CPST: awarded the President’s “E” Award for U.S. Exporters.

"We have increased our export sales by 266% over the past four years,” said Jim Crouse, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “Adding strong distribution partners across the world has enabled us to seize opportunities in markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia.”

www.capstoneturbine.co...

CPST reports Monday, if I recall. I'm long CPST.

HardToLove

Quick Chat #14- Start 11/5/09

Unemp 10.2% Watch out for mkt today?

Prev 2 months had better revisions 91K fewer losses than prev. reported.

Good news: temp jobs started to pick up, expected tp lead regular hires.

HardToLove

Swine Flu News Concentrator (November 5 - Part 3)

NVAX:

Today's SEC filings
www.sec.gov/Archives/e...

Summary from news: Cash & equiv $34.4MM Q3 rev. $201K vs $194K, loss -$0.08 (consensus expected was -$0.09) vs. -$0.12.

Loss $7.5MM vs. $7.8MM YoY.

HardToLove

Quick Chat #14- Start 11/5/09

Maya

AMLM: A potentially negative article?

www.djnewsplus.com/art...

Link only good for a days or so.

HardToLove

Are Oil and Natural Gas Cheap or Expensive?

Ever since Boone started his campaign, I was convinced that the NG story as a "bridge", in certain scenarios, made sense. Then SA participant "One Eye" made me aware of the pollution issues.

As I have learned more, only one thought keeps surfacing: why in the hell are the folks that are in the NG E&P area pursuing the same old obfuscate and delay policies in addressing the issues rather than jumping on board with an attitude of "let's work together to solve the problems".

Certainly we have the intellect, technology and wherewithal to address and fix the problems up front, rather than following the same old route. And if they can't be fixed, then certainly the efforts to expand NG production via the current "fraccing" methodologies should be terminated.

Even those in the industry have to live on the planet.

The argument about the "fraccing" being well below the water tables seems rather thin in that we all know that the geologic formations are not static and change over time. This poses the risk that the toxins left in the ground could enter the water supply in the future.

The processing of the water returned to the surface seems less of a problem as cleaning, disposal and re-cycling technologies already exist (and will likely improve in the future).

My other major concern in that area is the copious amount of water used in the process. Fresh and safe inland water supplies are already under duress in the U.S. Some way must be found to ensure that the water used is returned to the system, in potable quality, with minimal net loss to the system.

I'm afraid that unfortunately that we will follow the same old "confront and conflate" policies that we have followed in the past.

I'm not concerned so much with the reduced savings in CO2 emissions. *If* CO2 is really a problem, any gain from the high single-digit percentages upward seems a significant benefit.

Are there better strategies to wean ourselves from energy dependency? Probably. Unfortunately, with policies being determined by lobbying budgets, rather than technical and economic fundamentals, we are not likely to pursue them until significant damage of various types has been done.

HardToLove

Swine Flu News Concentrator (November 4 - 5 Part 2)

Your thesis is supported in the bacterial arena. Antibiotic resistant strains of the most common bacterial infections have developed over the years when folks didn't take the full course prescribed by the doctors and when the doctors over-prescribed them.

As resilient as virii are, if bacteria can do it I suspect virus can too.

HardToLove


On Nov 05 03:00 PM User 283977 wrote:

> Freya, I wonder if it spontaneously mutates like the Andromeda Strain,
> or if the mutation occurs due to a failed intervention? For example,
> Tamiflu does not kill the virus, it retards its action. It seems
> to me that the act of not killing a virus, but retarding its action
> would be exactly the stimulus needed for a virus to rapidly mutate
> into another form. This notion seems to be supported by the large
> number of reports of H1N1 Tamiflu resistant mutations. If this was
> true, than the distribution of products like Tamiflu could increase
> the mutation rate and practically guarantee the survival of the now
> mutated virus.
>
> Of course, this is just a hypothesis, but it is a testable hypothesis.
> Even if it was not true, it would make an interesting plot for a
> science fiction movie.