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Wow. Hope all works out for you in the end. But I have to admit that was the best I quit ever.

Yet some more banking woes. JPMorgan profit sinks as credit deteriorates By MADLEN READ, AP Business Writer 1 hour, 49 minutes ago NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s profit tumbled 84 percent in the third quarter after it took big hits from souring mortgage investments, leveraged loans and home loans. Profit at the New York-based bank, considered one of the stronger players in the current financial meltdown, came in better than Wall Street anticipated. But the deterioration seen in all types of loans — from home equity loans to prime mortgages to credit cards — bodes badly for a banking industry that is requiring unprecedented investment from the federal government. Full article

Thanks for cheering us up. That's me. Sorry but it isn't over. It was just stupid greed that has caused all this and a lack of big brother watching. The company I work for also handles a large portion of the auto dealerships for 2 of the 3 US auto makers. Don't be surprised if there's going to be a bail out for these guys next. We're in real sad shape. If I was running for the oval office, it's going to take more then two terms to get the US back on the road to recovery, and it's not going to make you look pretty with some choices that need to be made.

Work wise, I am as busy as hell because if this. I work for a company that deals with all these banks. We process the US debt through our computer systems. The computers I work with are doing on avarage of 4.2 trillion dollars a day in the US debt. We also have information on the health of many of these banks before the information is made public. The worst is not over yet, with the risk of getting in trouble I'll leave it at that. Personally I’ve had to cut back on some stuff. My wife and child and I do not go out eat as many times as before. Instead of driving my car to the train station to get to work, I am walking. I guess this one is a benefit in two ways. I’m getting excise and secondly I am cutting down on CO2 emissions. The number of music CDs I am buying has also dropped. It sucks.

1 bad connection caused atom smasher shutdown By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer 45 minutes ago GENEVA - A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said Monday. The fault was probably a poor soldering job on one of the particle collider's 10,000 connections, said Lyn Evans, project leader of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Nuclear Research Organization. Only one fault in 10,000 isn't bad, "but it cost dearly," Evans said. It will take at least two months for the repair, meaning the collider cannot be restarted until spring, after its mandatory shutdown due to high electricity costs during the winter. Full Story

I was reading the liner notes to the Dexter Gordon Jazz Icons DVD. Lorraine Gordon talked about one reason Dexter moved to Europe was because he couldn't get a cabaret card to play in New York due to his drug arrest. This was the same for other jazz musicans too. About when did cabaret cards become obsolete?

Ouch. "While under going a simple medical procedure the surgeon drops the scalpel and it slices off a section of your heart and you die while on the operating table."

Thanks Mark. Great photos as always

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Moe just popped up. Magariesta . Plus the newest member datemanboy. I question the name.

I love tests. That sound like a great idea.

short live members, peessomed and atterbica, are posting porn. Bye bye.

You guessed it. I did mean you.

Okay, why do most Organissimo members dislike you?

You may want to ask him, why do most jazz fans dislike him.

It's all her fault.

By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 18, 5:12 PM ET PARIS - A French museum has found a previously unknown piece of music handwritten by Mozart, a researcher said Thursday. The 18th century melody sketch is missing the harmony and instrumentation but was described as an important find. ADVERTISEMENT Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, said there is no doubt that the single sheet was written by the composer. full story What amazes me is, Mozart never crossed out anything he wrote. This photo shows this again.

Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 18, 5:18 PM ET GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider malfunctioned within hours of its launch to great fanfare, but its operator didn't report the problem for a week. In a statement Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported for the first time that a 30-ton transformer that cools part of the collider broke, forcing physicists to stop using the atom smasher just a day after starting it up last week. the whole story.

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Great, so when the blackhole is forming we can all watch it as it grows and gets closer to us. Hopefully you'll be next to someone very attractive and go out with your own big bang.

Yeah we have a few months to live.

The only movie that scared me as a kid. "Don't be Afraid of the Dark"

Well it seems that Nostradamus prophesied this. We are doomed. You have to listen to this. It really made me laugh.

Not yet. Today was just turing the power on to make sure all the cylinders are working, so to say. The actual collision of atoms will happen in a few days. It's as if the governor has called and we've been saved from the electric chair at 11:59. We live another day.

Tomorrow has come, so far we're still here. OR have we died and hell or heaven just continues like before? Successful test for Europe's Big Bang collider 45 minutes ago MoreGENEVA - The world's biggest physics experiment has succeeded in its first major test as a beam of protons was successfully fired all the way around a 17-mile tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border. The protons traveled the full length Wednesday of the $3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider that scientists hope is the next great step to understand the makeup of the universe. There were a series of trial runs.