There may be romance in constructing high-speed passenger rail but if we’re going to spend the capital of U.S. citizens on the steel wheels, let’s spend it on freight trains. That’s where it will make the greatest impact on the economy.
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I think I tend to agree. Which is an oddity.
St. Louis attracted more young people than it lost in each of the past three years.
Rust Belt chic: Declining Midwest cities make a comeback - Salon.com
STL 4 life
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Boom goes the dynamite. More of this. Everytime I drop by a smaller industrial city: Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwaukee I always find these incredibly vibrant neighborhoods emerging out of these distressed places. These places are small nodes in a growing diaspora of younger folks interested in denser living environments who have no desire to go to typical magnet cities.
The Pacers win, and are up 2-1 over the Heat.
Indiana absolutely believe they can beat the Miami in this series, and by the way, they currently employ Tyler Hansbrough.
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Months before Bruno Iksil became famous as the “London whale,” the trader who contributed to a loss of more than $2 billion at J.P. Morgan he earned a different nickname: the “Caveman,” for pursuing trades that rivals sometimes thought were overly aggressive but often led to huge profits.
Are we surprised at the outcome? The moral hazard within publicly held banks is absurd. I mean no one can possibly think that the status quo can hold.
And the crazy part is that it’s not Bruno’s fault. He’s just taking advantage of rules created by executive and congressional leadership. It must stop.
Foward Forward Back When you think of Missouri the first thing that comes to mind certainly isn by Believers
Fantastic and much happier than my last posting.
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That is mental!” one source says. “We recommend 15 - 25 percent on content, not 75 percent.
See this is a Facebook person recommending that your brand spend the largest percentage of your money on Facebook ads. GM has said they aren’t doing that. What’s interesting is that GM isn’t saying it’s going to stop spending on Facebook. It’s just saying they are going to stop buying media on Facebook.
The big story is that GM is spending $30 million on content creation and nothing on paid distribution.
Vhils is the illest. Such an amazing artist and style
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The glory years before Wrigley are like the age before the flood, when exotic species thrived on the earth, among them the feared Chicago Cub.
Why Wrigley Field Must Be Destroyed - WSJ.com
Torch it and let’s get some runs!
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Burn the thing down for god’s sake. Enough is enough.
Artist James Nizam makes incisions into the structure of a house to manipulate sunlight into light sculptures.
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holy!
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the wind caresses her hair by Sun Glitters
Can’t get enough of this deep dark gem. Think we are in the realm of witch house…and I’m loving it.
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Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right context, for some people. But so are a lot of skills. I would no more urge everyone to learn programming than I would urge everyone to learn plumbing.
Jeff Atwood, “Please Don’t Learn To Code” (via evan)
I learned to program (in part, at least) for the same reason that I’ve gone on sales calls, learned to read a P&L, put together marketing plans, and — yes — learned to do some basic plumbing.
Other people are better at all of these things that I am, but having a basic understanding allows me to communicate with those people more effectively and intelligently, and also avoid bothering those people with the really stupid questions.
While I’m probably too much of a generalist for my own good, I nevertheless believe that having this kind of broad understanding of a variety of topics is important.
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An important working truth for our network age. It’s about communication above all else.
A skateboarder’s skateboard made with tumblr images #skateboard #skateboarding #skate #skateboarder #tumblr #photo (Taken with instagram)
a great idea for my little guy.
Worth some consideration. It would appear that austerity is about pleasing capital, not supporting labor. While that may work in the short term, I think that you’ve got a problem long term when you inevitably concentrate capital.
This may not have violated the Volcker Rule, but it violates the Dimon Principle.
JPMorgan Discloses $2 Billion in Trading Losses - NYTimes.com
Pompous much Mr. Dimon?
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Ugh.