Archive for January, 2013
JPMorgan European Equity Sales Trader Candillier Dies at 37
January 18th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Thomas Candillier, the Paris-based head of European cash equity sales at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), has died at the age of 37. JPMorgan declined to comment on the cause of death. Candillier is survived by his wife and children. Brian Marchiony, a JPMorgan spokesman in London, said Candillier will be “dearly missed.” […]
White House Raises Petition Signature Threshold to 100K
January 18th, 2013Readers are pointing out that the article has the website wrong. The correct address is petitions.whitehouse.gov. Via: Cnet: Future petitions to the White House to build a Death Star, have Piers Morgan deported, or fire Aaron Swartz’s prosecutor will have to attract more support to merit the White House’s attention. Beginning today, petitions filed on […]
Fed Needs Seven Years to Deliver Germany’s 300 Tons of Gold
January 18th, 2013Via: ZeroHedge: But the biggest news of the day comes from the official Buba announcement that, in its official capacity as a prudent central bank, it – as first of many – is looking to repatriate some 300 tons of gold from the New York Fed. That, however, is not today’s news – that was […]
U.S. Mint Runs Out of 2013 Silver Coins, Suspends Sales
January 18th, 2013Via: Reuters: U.S. Mint has suspended sales of its 2013 American Eagle silver bullion coins after running out of stock due to soaring demand for the newly minted coins in the first two weeks of the year. Sales will resume on or about the week of January 28 after the U.S. Mint has replenished its […]
A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark
January 17th, 2013Via: NPR: What we have here is an immense and startlingly new oil and gas field — nighttime evidence of an oil boom created by a technology called fracking. Those lights are rigs, hundreds of them, lit at night, or fiery flares of natural gas. One hundred fifty oil companies, big ones, little ones, wildcatters, […]
Inspection Team Headed to Pa. Nuclear Plant
January 16th, 2013UPDATE: MALICIOUS VIRUS SHUTTERED U.S. POWER PLANT Via: Reuters: A computer virus attacked a turbine control system at a U.S. power company last fall when a technician unknowingly inserted an infected USB computer drive into the network, keeping a plant off line for three weeks, according to a report posted on a U.S. government website. […]
3D Printing High Capacity Magazines
January 16th, 2013The guys over at Defense Distributed are having some success with 3D printing 30 round magazines for AR-15 type weapons. While I wouldn’t suggest cancelling any backorders for “real” magazines, this is still pretty interesting. Via: Defense Distributed:
Fitch May Downgrade U.S. Credit Rating
January 16th, 2013Via: AP: The United States could lose its top credit rating for the second time from a leading credit agency if there’s a delay in raising the country’s debt ceiling, Fitch Ratings warned Tuesday. Congress has to increase the country’s debt limit, which effectively rules how much debt the U.S. can have, by March 1 […]
Low Power Thermoelectric Generator Runs on Body Heat
January 16th, 2013Via: Fast Company: It’s no science-fiction fantasy. With wearable gadgets like Google’s Project Glass on the horizon, all that’s missing is an ultraportable power source that never needs recharging–like, say, your own body heat. A startup in Corvallis, Oregon, has developed a small chip that can turn body heat into electric energy, using the same […]
‘The Sandy Hook Shooting – Fully Exposed’
January 16th, 2013Comments open on the main Sandy Hook thread. Via: ThinkOutsideTheTV YouTube Channel:
