News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Wall St "repos". Legitimate financing or just plain gambling?

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It's a very short term lending scheme. The borrower sells some financial paper (often US T-bills) to raise money, but promises the buye...

FDA approves Novartis $475,000 cancer treatment

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It's for aggressive leukemia in children and young adults. It's a fancy procedure actually, the patient's blood is drawn, its T...

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Reverse Mortgages

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They advertise them on TV all the time. The ads make it sound like free money. Today's Wall St Journal has a piece that fills in some...

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Words of the Weasel Part 50

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"Epic" in referring to Harvey. The correct word for a flood is "biblical". Noah himself would be appalled by what is f...

Fantastic Beasts and where to find them

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Disappointing. Strange. First movie I ever watched that had a narrator. Since the soundmen cannot make the dialog understandable, this mo...

Monday, August 28, 2017

Harvey

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The damage in Texas is horrendous. Fortunately there are few deaths, so far. The TV news has been saying nice things about the number of c...

Sunday, August 27, 2017

ICE is running a roadblock on I93, south.

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I drove thru Friday afternoon. It was around Ashland. Not sure what they were looking for, they didn't even ask me my name, just waved ...

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