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"ShadowCrash - the Bloomberg article linked above. We offer the CDs at a slightly lower APY to offset the fee we pay to Promontory. FDIC still gets their cut of that fee, but the difference between 5-7 and 12.50 is Promontory's profit.
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2 weeks ago
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"The "interesting question" that Chairman Bair is referring to above has to do with the fact that CDARS takes a bigger cut from member banks - they basically get paid more than the FDIC by participating banks. CDARS gets paid @ $12.50 per..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"konolia, your morals are not my morals. Your definition of evil is not my definition of evil. Your morals and your definition of evil are at least partly based on a religion we do not share. You mentioned how the Taliban treats women, with at..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Charm bracelet charm bracelet charm bracelet - there will be a million different occasions to add to it as she gets older." [
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2 months ago
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"A close friend described it to me as "drowning in the air", and I got her meaning right away." [
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2 months ago
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"OMG, if Orisinal is the site that had that game where you had to catch the little baby chicks as they fell from the sky, NOT RELAXING!" [
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4 months ago
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"It isn't the cheapest option, but if you're anything at all like me and the *slightest* mis-cut of a larger sheet of paper drives you mad, you should look at pre-scored card stock from someplace like Paper Source. I've run many many sizes through an..." [
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6 months ago
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"I was looking into the same thing a few weeks ago - while we ended up staying in Black Mountain at The Inn Around the Corner, we had friends who successfully bid on the Renaissance on Priceline for around $70...." [
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6 months ago
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"One of the simplest and truest things ever said to me, by my great-grandma - "people who are hardest to love are the people who need it the most". I think of that, and of her, a lot - and it helps...." [
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7 months ago
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Books about places?
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9 months ago
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"There's this absolutely disgusting (in a good, artery-clogging) warm sausage dip thing. You don't make it in a crock pot, but you serve it in one. Brown a pound of spicy breakfast sausage in a skillet, drain off the fat, then melt in two of those..." [
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10 months ago
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"I'm guessing the paper/paint/pencils/crayons are far from archival, so if you scan it, you'll have it forever. Scan it, then use it for computer wallpaper, print it on photo paper and frame it, print it on those iron-on transfer dealies that you can..." [
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10 months ago
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"I disagree that the gift answers are only useful to the poster. I've followed a ton of cool links in threads like that, and have discovered new places to shop, and new things to buy...." [
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11 months ago
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"Here's a bit of input that you didn't exactly ask for, but you ought to hear - guys with shaved heads are *hot*." [
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"I was in the exact same tizzy, until I picked a venue and made an invite list. The venue will help inform so many other choices you make, and the invite list will help you be realistic about a budget. I had all this "planning insecurity"..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ml98tu, santojulieta
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"Plant a tree? You can have one planted by lots of different places in your partner's honor. You could also plant one yourselves (with your son helping) if you have someplace you can plant it.
I know you said $20, but for $30, you can send a..." [
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"You could buy a small blank book, let your son "decorate" the pages with smeary fingerpaints, then let it dry and go back in later and mount photos on cardstock and then in the book. Not sure if fingerpaint is archival, though.
You..." [
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"I wouldn't hesitate to recommend any of the following: suit separates from Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren - I have pieces that are 6-7 years old and are still "go-to". Handbags from Coach or Kate Spade. Ladylike shoes from Kate Spade...." [
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"Does he have short hair? Short enough that it's fun to pet it backwards?
Is he barefoot and wearing faded, ratty jeans?
Does he smell like Bee and Flower sandalwood soap?
Can he cook?
When you kiss his neck, does he say "I'll give..." [
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"There's a basement-level Chinese place on 6th street, I think between G and H, called Chinatown Express. You'll see a guy in the front window making hand-stretched noodles. Go ask for them in the house-made lo mein. (I'm just realizing I haven't..." [
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"The cleanest way for a theif to trap your card/PIN data is a skimmer at an ATM - we find them occasionally in our ATMs, and there's a general assumption in the industry that most banks find them only 10-20 percent of the time. If a theif can..." [
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Last year
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"More news and Les Nessman!
I mean - these were all really cool posts - please continue to out do yourself.
Rangers sweep the series!!" [
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"Dried pasta
Good canned crushed tomatoes (we like Pastene)
Thick-cut bacon
Boneless chicken breasts
Sweet or spicy Italian sausage
Broccoli
Onions
Fresh garlic
Fresh parsley
Lemons
These things go on my normal "milk, bread and..." [
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"I've had a world of success with The World's Most Unhealthy Goodie Bags. I buy lots of different, cool candy - stuff *I* like, like Twizzlers, canisters of mini M&Ms, bubblegum lollipops, stuff like that. I set up a table with a colorful paper..." [
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