Raven-Symone has not spent any of her Cosby Show money after getting her big break on the series over 30 years ago.
The actress, 34, was just four-years-old years old when she began playing Olivia Kendall on the hit series from 1989 to 1992, and has been sitting on all that money ever since.
Source: Raven-Symone reveals she hasn’t spent ANY of her Cosby Show money | Daily Mail Online
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Now that’s good financial planning!
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Speak-easies are back in New York. And not the tourist traps that have been filling perfectly good storage space in the backs of bodegas, pizzerias and pet stores across Williamsburg for a decade — but actual illicit drinking dens.
Source: Lockdown-flouting speakeasies popping up throughout Manhattan
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Makes me laugh!
Can’t keep drugs out of prison, but expect people to refrain from bars?
Just more Gooferment stupidity!
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How bathroom design will change after COVID-19
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Yuck. Stay out of rest rooms lest you rest in peace!
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Negative oil price triggers trading software bug, wipes out traders
For the non-professional trader, dabbling in futures or FX contracts is generally a recipe for financial ruin. There’s so much leverage in those contracts that it doesn’t take much of a move against your position to get wiped out. When the underlying commodity does something weird, like say, flash crashing or something weirder (see below), all bets are off. The situation is exacerbated if the trading desk software isn’t equipped to handle such an unprecedented move.
Bloomberg reports the tale of Toronto-based Syed Shah, who normally trades stocks and currencies on his Interactive Brokers account. On April 20, Shah picked the absolute wrong day to try his hand at trading oil futures. That’s the day oil went negative for the first time in history, at one point printing a negative $37/barrel handle.
Shah waded into what he thought was an unsustainable discount on oil: spending $2,400 from his account on futures contracts at $3.30/barrel, $0.50/barrel, culminating in a tranche at the unbelievable price of one penny a barrel. Except not only did oil fall to 0.01/barrel, it kept going, below zero, negative and further negative – only Shah, and all of the other traders on Interactive Brokers system didn’t know that, because the platform wasn’t coded to handle negative oil prices. None of them knew the contracts they were buying were actually costing them money the further oil went below zero.
When the end-of-day settlement notices went out, Shah, who started the day out with a balance of $77,000 in his account, now owed the house $9,000,000.
Interactive Brokers has since acknowledged the negative price exposed bugs in their own system, and IB will be making all traders affected whole out of their own book. It’s estimated that will cost the brokerage around $113,000,000.
Read: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/oil-crash-busted-a-broker-s-computers-and-inflicted-huge-losses
Charles Hugh Smith, Jesse Hirsh and I discussed this type of unprecedented signal distortion in our first AxisOfEasy Salon, available here.
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That’s a horror story.
This “casino” is NOT for the faint of heart!
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2020-May-12
I use the online renewal for my car registrations’ renewals here in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee!
Bear in mind the NJ MVC has all my car related information and my drivers’ license data.
The app should remember me, my cars, and policy numbers and only force me to enter the data if it’s changed.
I do wonder what they do with the insurance company id and policy numbers?
Also annoying is that the printed renewal should use a larger font for us old folks and the visually impaired.
Since I have no choice in vendors of this “service”, I can’t comparison shop or influence them to “fix” my issues with their design.
Typical of the Gooferment versus a truly free market.
Funny that the supposedly “free market” — which isn’t “free”! — never send me stuff that’s hard to read. Wonder why? Competition!
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Of 441 hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the study, 5% were active smokers But rates are 24% in the Italian population, suggesting some sort of protection However, more smokers succumbed to the disease – half of smokers compared to 35% of non-smokersIt comes after a UCL review of 28 studies, including from Europe, which found smokers were less common than expected among COVID-19 patients Governments suggest quitting the habit for precaution despite lack of evidence
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More anecdotal evidence that the experts don’t understand this pandemic?
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But, wait, can you get up to an intake of 200 milligrams a day without taking supplements? No problem. Single servings of fruits and vegetables may have about 50 milligrams each; so, a measly five servings of fruits and veggies a day could get you to ideal blood levels.
Source: What Is the Optimal Vitamin C Intake? | NutritionFacts.org
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Five servings of fruits or vegetables is the RDA!
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James wrote up his mother’s case for a study he and Horowitz coauthored on treating her and another patient, a Manhattan man in his 50s. It was published online in the journal “Respiratory Medicine Case Reports.”
The second patient told The Post he felt better after getting an intravenous infusion of the glutathione.“
Within half hour it helped with the breathing symptoms in particular,” he said.
Source: New York mom with coronavirus saved by medical-student son
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More evidence that the “experts” don’t know squat about this disease.
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The novel coronavirus and COVID-19 have turned the entire world upside-down. We’re stuck at home without much to do, and there’s only so much Netflix you can watch before you start feeling cabin fever.
It might be months, or even years, before society goes back to normal—if it ever does—so we have no choice but to get used to how things are now. And that means finding ways to keep ourselves entertained without leaving the house.
Source: Bored During Self-Isolation? 100+ Tips for Staying Entertained and Engaged
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How can an introvert ever be bored with themselves?
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Brandon Van Grack, a top Justice Department prosecutor and former member of special counsel Bob Mueller’s team, was withdrawn from the Flynn case (indeed, many of his cases) earlier Thursday because he’d plainly abused his power by withholding bombshell evidence from the defense and the court.
Source: Michael Flynn case collapse latest sign ‘RussiaGate’ was a complete fraud
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At the very least, why hasn’t this fellow been disbarred?
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