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In a couple signs that the housing market is still far from fully recovered, Fannie Mae has asked the Fed for $15 billion more in funds to stay alive at the same time they announced plans to allow borrowers in foreclosure to remain in the house by making lease payments.
The recent news comes as Fannie Mae announces they lost a staggering $18.9 billion in the latest quarter. That’s $4 billion worse than the prior year quarter.
If the Treasury Department gives FNM the $15 billion, it will be the fourth time the mortgage lender has tapped the system.
The money paid to FNM is huge. They has so far received a total of $44.9 billion in federal government assistance, under a senior preferred-stock purchase agreement.
Fannie Mae’s Deed for Lease Program is expected to help stabil…
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According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension may be on the President’s Desk for signature by next Saturday, November 7, 2009.
According to a statement from J. P. Delmore, NAHB Senior Federal Legislative director, the Senate has a cloture vote scheduled for 5 PM on Monday on the substitute bill that adds the tax credit to the Unemployment Extension Bill. If it passes the Monday vote and is added to the Unemployment Extension Bill, there would be another cloture vote on Tuesday on moving forward to vote on the bill. Both of these cloture votes require 60 votes. The Senate would then pass the bill on Thursday morning.
The NAHB then anticipates that the House will adopt a special rule to allow them to consider the bill on Friday under a process called “suspension of the rules.” This means that the bill cannot be amended and debate time is limited, but it requires a 2/3 vote to pass.
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Can These Bones Live?
Ezekiel 37:1-141 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “O Sovereign LORD, you alone know.”4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’ “
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’ ” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.’ “
Back From The Grave
In 1974, peasants digging a well near the city of Xian, China, broke through the dirt into a pit where the scene before them was amazing. Scores of clay soldiers, the size of full-grown men, filled the dirt before them. Little did they know that they had uncovered the burial ground of the first emperor of China and his army of 7,000 life-size terracotta soldiers. The now-famous Xian Terracotta Warriors are from the Qin dynasty, and accompanied the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi to his burial. Shi Huangdi was a powerful ruler who united the warlords in China, unified the Chinese language, and connected ancient fortifications into what is now called the Great Wall of China.
The terracotta army now boasts more members, as archaeologists have opened other excavations which have unearthed more soldiers, bronze chariots, horses, weaponry, and other artifacts. The excavation site is so extensive that the Xian Terracotta Soldiers are called by many the eighth wonder of the world.
Like the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, Qin Shi Huangdi aspired to immortality. And, to insure that his next-world success was equal to his achievement in this world, he commissioned artisans to sculpt this vast army of soldiers to march with him from this life into the next. The detailing is so fine that the treads on the bottom of their footwear are still visible, and every face in this vast army is unique and wears a different expression.
Ezekiel’s Vision of Dry Bones
But, about 350 years before the emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, the prophet Ezekiel sees his own vast army spread out before him. Only in Ezekiel’s vision, the army is in disarray. Individual warriors are dismembered, the flesh has disappeared from their bones, and this disjointed valley of dry bones is all that is left of the once mighty army. Quite a contrast to the emperor’s fully-armed terracotta brigades.
The setting is the Babylonian captivity of Israel. In 597 BC, Ezekiel was taken from his homeland and exiled to Babylon under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. In 593 BC, God called Ezekiel to prophesy to his fellow exiles that things would get worse before they got better. God’s call to Ezekiel was this –
1 He said to me, “Son of man, stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.” 2 As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.TOKYO, JAPAN, Nov. 4 (TOTI) –
Brad Pitt may have had a crash recently on his motorcycle, but that doesn’t mean the 46-year old actor is ready to quit riding the two-wheelers just yet.
“I had a little mishap,” he told reporters in Tokyo, where he is promoting his recent film Inglorious Basterds. “No injuries, except my ego. I was trying to get away from some paparazzi and instead gave them a good story. It was my favorite bike, so that is really sad.”
The accident occurred in L.A. On October 24. The first thing Pitt worried about at the time was the reaction of his lover Angelina Jolie, said a witness who overheard Pitt after he sought refuge in a local building.
“He told the building manager that Angie was going to kill him because she thinks motorcycles are too dangerous,” Talia Schwartz, who lives in the building…
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Yeah right, Barack… We all know this ploy and have been awaiting it… yawn
This is the
Real ‘National’ Emergency
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Just hours after GazoPa announced its similar image public beta test to the public, Google announced that it was releasing its similar image search out of Labs. Now, anyone could have experimented with the similar image search while it was in Labs, but you can only run one Labs experiment at a time. And a new experiment, Social Search, was added to Labs yesterday.
We’re used to seeing Google release updates, products, major news, etc. in reaction to Microsoft or Yahoo! but saying “Me, too” to a smaller site just seems weird. Not everything that Google has done in this light has been ready (cough, Google Squared, cough). So, how does similar images fare?
To try it out, go to Google Image search. I used “pumpkin” to test it out since that’s the keyword I used with GazoPa earlier. Thankfully, Google returned images of pumpkins. GazoPa only returned one or two even with keyword search.
The red circle in the graphic above highlights the “Find Similar Images” link, which I hope is self-explanatory. Sure enough, images of pumpkin similar to the one I clicked on appear in the results.
Unfortunately for GazoPa, Google is already light years ahead in similar image search. That doesn’t mean GazoPa could never make inroads, they just have their work cut out for them.
This 18 x 4 foot “monster” was installed in the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas and it is awesome.
3 HD projectors are beaming the content onto the glass.
but videos say more then words – I want one:
No, don’t worry, my post title doesn’t mean Econo Man* and I have broken up. We’re still married. But when I’m at my graduate program, I find myself living a strange version of the single life (especially now that I am sans roommate).
Back when I was single for real, I had this idea for a grocery store that sold everything in single-person-friendly serving sizes. Cooking for one is hard! Canned goods just don’t come in single-serving sizes, and most recipes are designed to feed at least 2. You learn quickly which leftovers survive in the fridge, and which become gross overnight. Now that I’m “single” again, I’m undergoing a similar learning process about wine, and which ones can survive multiple days of being open** without turning to vinegar.
White wines kept in the fridge, I’ve found, generally do well. But red wines kept at room temperature are a trickier prospect. I know the “right” thing to do would be to chill my open reds as well, to slow the chemical processes that change the taste, but here’s the thing. It’s too cold for chilled reds (October has asserted itself full-force here on the East Coast), and I rarely remember to pour my glass early enough to let it warm to a more palatable temperature by dinnertime. Heck, most nights I only leave the library because I’m starving, and when I get home I usually want to eat RIGHT NOW. So I’m always on the lookout for red wines that I can keep at room temperature for roughly 3 days. (I am a lightweight. More than about 1/3 of a bottle is enough to put me out for the night.) So far, here are my findings.
Good performers at room temperature: anything bold and tannic that you’d want to let breathe for a while anyway. Bordeaux is a particularly good bet here. So is Cabernet, or a super-tannic Malbec like Trapiche.
Not-so-great performers at room temp: … well, pretty much anything that’s not super-tannic. Another one of my favorite Malbecs, Altos las Hormigas, didn’t fare as well as the Trapiche — it’s smoother and more fruit-forward, and took on a mild vinegar hint after 24 hours in the bottle. Light, dry reds like Montepulciano d’Abruzzo or Côtes du Rhone also don’t do as well as I initially expected; I think the acidity is too high to taste good after the fruit has mellowed. And forget about delicate, fruity reds like Beaujolais or Pinot Noir. I love them on the first night but sitting overnight does them no favors.
How long do you usually keep an open bottle of wine? Are there other sturdy reds I should be looking for?
* The husband formerly known as Econo Boy has requested an upgrade to “Econo Man.” I’ll see if I can make it stick. :-)
** When I say “open,” I mean “opened on Night 1, then recorked with a wine stopper.” Just in case that wasn’t clear.
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Over the few last weeks, I have been watching Ghost Adventures to prepare for tonight's live event and I can't wait to see how they handle it tonight on the Travel Channel at 8p! BTW what makes these live specials is so cool is that
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For Halloween this year, “Ghost Adventures” will be at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum on October 30th for a SEVEN HOUR live broadcast. The show will be aired on The Travel Channel from 8PM to 3AM. I haven't seen much of “Ghost
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Friday, Oct. 30, starting at 8 PM EST/ 5 PM PST, the Ghost Adventures crew — Zak, Nick and Aaron — will lock themselves into the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, WV, for the most ambitious paranormal investigation ever
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I have to agree with John that sometimes the ghost hunter shows don't always deliver. Then again, sometimes just the idea of where they're going is frightening. Last night, I watched an episode of Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel,
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One of our favorite guests, author Jeff Belanger, returns to talk about his new book and his work on The Travel Channel's Ghost Adventure series. We chat about an upcoming October 30th seven-hour live spectacular where the crew will
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Zak Bagans of the Ghost Adventures crew talks about their October 30 visit to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Tune-in to Travel Channel Friday, October 30th starting at 8pm e/p to see Zak, Nick and Aaron broadcast live from this
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I received a press kit giving me a bit of insider info about the upcoming 7-hour live “Ghost Adventures” lockdown at Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum on Travel Channel October 30th. I'm actually having my Halloween party that night,
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