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Guess where Sarah is?

Next 72 hours critical as wildfire threatens Lillooet – The Globe and Mail
Fire specialists from Australia and New Zealand among those coming to spell off exhausted crews in the province

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Telus is the “#” key to go straight to beep. Rogers fido doesnt appear to have the dumb instructions (yeah im surprised too)

Bypass Cellphone Voicemail Instructions with One Star Pound – Voicemail – Lifehacker: ”

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Bypass Cellphone Voicemail Instructions with One Star Pound
By Azadeh Ensha, 3:30 PM on Thu Jul 30 2009, 43,950 views
Next time your call goes to voicemail, there’s no reason to contend with the insufferable 15-second instructional that precedes the beep. Here’s how to skip ahead and leave your message in peace without wasting precious minutes.

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Gold, has been around for 5000 years: “

That barbaric 5000 year old metal, gold, is just $30+ from $1000 and just a few dollars more from its all time record high. I’m not familiar with any other asset that is this close to its record high and not coincidentally coincides with the dollar index being near its record low. Gold is now up 31% since Oct ‘07 when the SPX peaked at 1565. Because gold doesn’t have much industrial use (mostly electronics and dental, 8% of total demand), jewelry (33% of demand) and investment (59% of demand) are the two main sources of demand. India in fact is the biggest buyer of gold jewelry. With high prices discouraging jewelry purchases, the main source of buying this year has come from investments. Why would someone buy a piece of metal that yields nothing and doesn’t have much economic relevance other than looking nice in a necklace? Because it is perceived as another currency that is not a fiat one, because it historically has risen in line with inflation and because it’s perceived as some place of safety. If markets telegraph investor thoughts on the future, gold’s action is an interesting dynamic with the S&P 500 back to 1000 after a rally of 50%, the 10 yr bond yield at 3.70% versus its 47 year average of 6.90%, inflation expectations over the next 10 years below 2% according to the TIPS, an expected July CPI reading of -2.1%, the biggest drop since 1949 and a Federal Reserve that is made up mostly of those who think inflation is subdued and will be for the next few years.

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(Via The Big Picture.)

A breather for Canadian dollar?: “While further gains are to be expected for loonie, it may have topped out in the short term, economists say

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(Via The Globe and Mail – Front Page News.)