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'X-Men: First Class' Extended Truck Scene Hits the Web (Video)
The Blu-ray and DVD hit stores last Friday.
We here at Heat Vision have been ensconced in the Great White North's cosmopolitan city of Toronto for the Toronto International Film Festival, watching many a Midnight Madness movies among others, so I missed out on X-Men: First Class hitting Blu-ray and DVD last Friday.
The picture is one of the better super-hero comic book movies of recent years and I can't wait to re-watch it when I get back to Hollywood.
STORY: Lucas Till Talks 'X-Men: First Class' DVD and Blu-Ray
The Blu-ray and DVD comes with a ton of featurettes, extended and deleted scenes. Many of them have been released in the run-up to the Blu-ray/DVD hitting stores, but this one I don't believe has. The big addition here is the dog, smelling humans being mentally shielded by Professor X, jumping up into the truck and barking its head off.
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Forum "Innovations.
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EVESHAM United's new stadium will be named the Spiers and Hartwell Jubilee Stadium, it has been announced.
The club's committee unanimously agreed to name the new Cheltenham Road stadium in honour of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations held over the Bank Holiday weekend last week.
Blackminster based haulage company Spiers and Hartwell have signed a three-year sponsorship deal for the ground with a view to extending it after the contract expires.
Evesham United chairman Jim Cockerton told the Observer: "It was the unanimous decision of the committee and it was the name that came up many times as a suggestion. It's a fitting name given all the celebrations which have taken place in Evesham and throughout the country."
After years of waiting and as revealed in the Observer last month, the Robins will move into the £2million stadium on Saturday, July 7 with former Manchester United and Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson officially opening the stadium to make for an historic day for the club.
The cutting of the ribbon will take place before the stadium plays host to its first match when an Evesham United Old Boys XI take on a Manchester United Legends side.
The match was originally due to be held last year when the stadium was completed but the lack of an access road blighted the new development and delayed the opening of the venue, meaning the fixture was moved to Evesham High School.
Mr Cockerton added: "Its superb to have Ron Atkinson opening up the new stadium. He's a former Manchester United manager and you can't get more appropriate than that giving a Manchester United team are coming on the day.
"Ron is a relation to one of our members of the committee and when we approached him he said yes which was great news. It will be a big day in the club's history, tickets are selling reasonably well and work on the access road will be completed.
"We are all very excited and think the future of Evesham United Football Club is very bright."
The match kicks off at 2.30pm with tickets currently on sale costing £10 and are available from Evesham stores Birdseye Sports, Carrick Travel and Knights Menswear.
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I Hate High School
Personal Stories, Advice, and Support 805 People
All they do is put pressure on youand it's so degrading.
EmHeartsX 13-15, F 2 Responses 3 May 5
Best 4 years of your life,huh? Well, that's probably only for the people who are: popular, smart, athletic, involved in school, and loved by everyone. Seriously, high school is awful. The tests are hard, they give too much homework, and the other teens make me feel uncomfortable, unwanted, and a waste of...
Redhy11 16-17, F 2 Responses 4 Jul 28
The only reason I'm staying in school isbecause my mom is paying me to get good grades and I'll get the job I want and have the future I want. Other than that, I couldn't care less about the piece of **** hell hole I have to go to 5 days a week. Learning about how to do linear equations and presidents from the past...
PriscilaGaray 13-15, F 1 Response 3 4 days ago
I saw someone making out behind school,scared me forever ^~^
EyelessGlitch 13-15, F 1 Response 2 Oct 23
Yeah..seriously what's the point of learningwrong and useless things? Specially teachers or parents:You have to study harder to be prepared for the future,your future is on your hands right now *crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap* Shut the **** uuuuuuup!!!
Amirmohammad 13-15, M 3 Responses 5 Nov 14
It's full of fake, derriere-kiss upswho get away with anything and everything. It's a place where grades, popularity, and looks determine who you are. It's a cage match between hungry resume-fillers and desperate Ivy climbers. I hate it. I hate it so much.
semarrer 16-17, F 3 Responses 5 Sep 13
rockyboo 13-15, F 1 Response 2 Oct 28
Id rather be anywhere elsethan this whack place.
cobainlover4life 16-17, F 1 Response 4 May 19
Knowing that it's 6:59and still is not even ready my body is still asleep can't think right and I have to be at my bus by 7:32.. Might just stay home won't be a bad idea
LovingTheNewMe 16-17, F 3 Responses 4 Oct 10
Seriously considering dropping out of schoolagain. I'm tired of being around people.
britteller 18-21, F 1 Response 0 Oct 22
I just forgot my bio lab book at schooland I have work due tomorrow D:
TormentedSaint 13-15, M 1 Response 1 Oct 26
School starts tomorrow... Everything is so real.... I'm terrified.
bluegirlie98 16-17, F 21 Responses 14 Sep 1
I don't even care anymore,i wont waste my time doing useless word that wont matter in the future... don't give me crap because we all know school does not provide **** to us. It corrupts learning its a memory fest of useless information. It is stressful its not fun, i am unhappy at school, i feel like I...
JustDoNot 22-25, M 2 Responses 3 Nov 2
Help! I said that i was going to studybut here i am...i gotta go! But no i dont want to! BUT I HAVE TO! STOP IT O MY GOD! wat! NO I DONT WANT TO! im a brainless boy srry
JustDoNot 22-25, M 1 Oct 15
My (relatively new, to me) high school is amelting pot of cultures and ideas, much like Italy during the Renaissance , a place where there are upper middle class kids and their expensive clothes bought at Abercrombie and Fitch, joining AP classes they aren't ready for, normally treating everyone "below" them like...
KateSings1997 18-21, F 1 Response 3 Jan 1
High School is just a big pile of crap.Everyone thinks that we are not good enough for anything. The teachers make me feel like I am a failure at life. My principal told me today that because I am an all A student I get away with everything. He makes me feel like being good and being an overachiever is bad. He denied...
forevermckayla 16-17, F 2 Responses 1 Oct 23
AmberBailey 18-21, F 1 Response 4 Oct 29
making a girl miss classbecause her legs r showing or threatening her for having a skirt a lil 2 short is so ridiculous
paleprincess 13-15, F 10 Responses 10 Nov 12
I am sooo over high school.Like if can't even describe. Fake girls everywhere judging you, no teacher gives you the time of day, ****** school lunches, confusing homework, hard tests, missing a class because you're sick and have no idea what is going on the next day, need I go on? I'm so ready to leave...
Amydenson1 16-17, F 2 Responses 3 Apr 1
I feel sick at the thought of going back toschool. Everyday, I sit in class alone and unnoticed. Other people have so much fun and laugh with their friends, but I go almost the whole day without smiling at all. Of all the people at my school, there is no one I can find who actually takes me seriously and wants to be...
AlpineBeast 16-17, F 2 Responses 4 Oct 26
A lot of people keep making fun of me callingme a s**t yet when I tell them I'm still a virgin (which I am) they laugh and say I suck cause I can't get some. Any advise as to what I should do?
Kar197 13-15, F 2 Responses 1 Oct 29
Summer is ending, and I'm having awful anxiety.To me, back to school means back to daily migraines and back to cruel and judgmental students, back to careless and condescending teachers. It means back to being made to feel stupid, like you aren't good enough, like you can't make it, like you can't succeed.
Aventias 16-17 1 Response 6 Jul 23
duran12222 16-17, F 3 Responses 3 Aug 30
Im with the outcast and i hate it...i first started to hang out with them cuz they seemed nice and they are but i dont want to anymore.
JustDoNot 22-25, M 1 Oct 23
GaleJake 13-15, M 2 Responses 0 Nov 15
Not in High School. Class of 2011.When I was in high school, I hated it with a passion. I didnt fit in, and I thought it was an institution that was fixed on brainwashing kids into acting a way that society deems "proper". Now that I am 21, I realise thats not true at all and I wish I paid better attention in...
iseedumbpeople 18-21, M 0 5 days ago
Omg school starts next Friday.Some1 plz help me. :3
xPiZzaIsBaex 13-15, M 7 Responses 3 Jul 31
My teacher called me emo again todayand told me that anxiety isn't real and it's all in my head and I I don't want to be anxious I won't be.
zclimber 18-21, M 12 Responses 4 Oct 6
I'm so anxious and last time I was I'm regularschool I almost killed myself.. My English teacher mocked me for it.. What an *******.
LittleFighterBoy21 18-21, M 2 Responses 1 Nov 6
I want to be done with itso i can move away from my piece of **** family
walkinwonder 16-17, F 1 6 days ago
It's not even second period yetand I have already had a panic attack.... Yay
kelsey0616 13-15, F 2 Responses 4 May 6
I do all my male up work turn it all in justfor my history teacher to give me a F on it.. This is probably why I hate school the most!
LovingTheNewMe 16-17, F 3 Oct 16
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EyelessGlitch 13-15, F 1 Response 3 Oct 28
Worst years of my lifebut it does get better!
WendyDarlin 18-21, F 1 Response 3 Jun 29
Hate it with a passion.I'm always being told I'm lucky I get a free education but that's not what it is anymore. Hardly any teachers are there to actually teach, they're there to make sure you pass standards. They're there because it's a job and nothing more. I don't see why teachers get so angry when...
Blackbirdy13 16-17, F 3 Responses 6 Oct 19
I just absolutely hate it.I hate learning i'm just more of a laid back kind of person. i'm far from a dummie though,. I just hate waking up early. I have to be to school by 8:15 and it takes me until 7:30 just for my body to wake up and the bus comes at 8:52 the one that i catch and how am i suppose to...
Dsanders13 16-17, F 2 Responses 2 Oct 8
They say it's the best 4 years of your life.That's bullshit. I'm so miserable. It's not the schoolwork, it's the immature ****** I have to put up with. 😒
Skydes17 13-15, F 4 Responses 4 May 14
How is it even consider good to be 8 hours in a****** place 5 days a week, learning crap i don't really care. This is so wrong.
JustDoNot 22-25, M 2 Oct 14
mom can i stay home from school today i think ihave an std
paleprincess 13-15, F 10 Responses 8 5 days ago
Second semester hasn'teven started and I already want to drop out. This semester is going to be really bad, I can feel it :/.
sammyy2qt16 18-21, F 3 Jan 28
I look like this to go to schoolbecause idk what people think
LovingTheNewMe 16-17, F 5 Responses 4 Nov 3
I wish I could go all day through schoolwithout talking. That would be nice.
heyguysss 16-17, F 1 Response 7 Apr 17
School makes me sad, mad,depressed, anxious, uncomfortable EBERYTHING THAT IS NEGATIVE! I need some serious help.
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High school sucks. Everyone's an *******and a fake. There are only a handful of good people and the rest only care about their image
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In its recent third quarter reporting, the company posted a 7% decrease in user engagement and a slide in growth of monthly active users: growth increased 23%, but that was down from 24% posted in the second quarter of 2014 and down from 38% reported in the third quarter of 2013. Consequently, Twitter's stock price has fallen in recent weeks, and the S&P downgraded Twitter's debt to junk status, describing the company's risk as significant. So, how did it come to this? Where did Twitter go wrong, and, more importantly, what can it do to right the ship and recruit new users?
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Digital business aggregator Factiva will begin to incorporate selected Twitter feeds on its site. The Twitter streams will act as compliments to the wide range of content in Factiva which include 8,000 business blogs. Factiva says is customers will be able to follow along with what industry leaders are talking about.
The content from Twitter will cover 31 industries including energy, financial services and technology. It will be updated in real time and appear next to the more traditional media sources.
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"Military Intelligence and You!" a very clever satire
An ingenious satire that could easily tip toward self-congratulation yet never does, "Military Intelligence and You! " is a comic assault...
Special to The Seattle Times
Movie review"Military Intelligence and You!" with Patrick Muldoon, Elizabeth Bennett, Mackenzie Astin. Written and directed by Dale Kutzera.
78 minutes. Not rated, suitable for older kids and up. Varsity. Kutzera will attend the evening screenings today and Saturday.
To read an interview with Kutzera, see today's Northwest Life section or go to www.seattletimes.com/movies.
An ingenious satire that could easily tip toward self-congratulation yet never does, "Military Intelligence and You!" is a comic assault on the Bush administration's policy of preventive war in Iraq.
But there's nothing strident about filmmaker and former Seattleite Dale Kutzera's political barbs, couched as they are in an unusual parody.
Kutzera, a television writer ("Without a Trace"), has made a hobby of re-editing other people's feature films (including Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo") for his own amusement. With "Military Intelligence," he's come up with a kind of reconstituted cinema made up of excerpts from 1940s battle dramas and original footage.
The finished work is an extended goof on starchy, military training films of long ago.
"Military Intelligence and You!" purports to be a declassified production from World War II, focusing on the need for developing good intelligence about the enemy before waging a fight. We see the issue from two sides: the unfortunately successful efforts of Nazi interrogators to get information from downed American pilots, and frustration among the good guys over locating a secret base of German fighter planes.
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What I Would've Missed Out On If I'd Committed Suicide
If you've read any of my previous blog posts, you in all likelihood know that in 2008, I started suffering from life-threatening bouts of depression, which led to alcoholism, drug abuse, medicine-induced psychosis and multiple hospitalizations.
But worst of all was the fact that at times, I couldn't see any way out of my ghastly misery. As anyone who's ever suffered from clinical depression will tell you, it's an expert at convincing you that your despair is eternal, and destined to oppress you for the rest of your days. And it was when I was in that horrifically black place, staring down the barrel of what I truly believed would only be a lifetime of wretched agony, that my thoughts turned to suicide.
In those moments, it seemed as if it was my only recourse. I was convinced that Planet Earth held nothing good in store for me, and that I would be better off no matter where the afterlife took me. But after a while, one of the multiple medications I'd tried started to work. I started benefiting immensely from therapy. I committed myself to eating well, sleeping well and exercising frequently. And over time, I began to recover. Towards the end of 2010 and throughout 2011, I also made a number of positive lifestyle changes, and by early 2012, I'd kicked my depression for good. Ever since then, I've been feeling great.
Looking back now, there are times I think about everything I would've missed out on if I'd ended my life in the throes of my depression. I had this thought last weekend while I was in Singapore visiting a good mate from high school. Below is a picture of me and my buddy at Marina Bay, feeling happy, healthy, and so glad I never ended my life on one of the countless days I felt that suicide was the only way out.
I've loved backpacking ever since my first trip, and every time I'm travelling, I'll always have at least one moment where I stop and think "I'm so glad I'm here ... I'm so glad I got to have this experience". There have been so many of these grateful moments since I had my first suicidal notion way back in 2008, and I know there'll be so many more of them in the years to come ... backpacking around the Greek Islands and North & Central America later in the year, getting my first novel published, get married, having kids, having grand kids ... the list goes on and on.
I have so many things to look forward to, and you do too. I know that depression is an expert at robbing you of your hope, and making you feel as if you're destined to a life of unremitting misery and despair, but depression is a liar. Recovery is possible.
So if you're in that horrible place I used to be in, then please remember that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, and make sure you reach out for help.
You'll miss out on so much if you end it.
If you are experiencing symptoms of depression, please contact your GP. If you think you need help in a crisis you can also contact the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90. You can also call the NHS helpline on 111, 24 hours a day.
If you enjoyed reading this post, I encourage you to download a FREE copy of my memoir here. Recounting my struggle and eventual triumph over depression, I wrote it so that sufferers of the illness could realise they are not alone - that there are other people out there who have gone through the same excruciating misery, and who have made it through to the other side. I also wrote it so that I could impart the lessons I learned on the long, rocky, winding road that eventually led to recovery - so that people could learn from my mistakes as well as my victories - particularly with regards to relationships; substance abuse; choosing a fulfilling career path; seeking professional help; and perhaps most importantly, having a healthy and positive attitude towards depression that enables recovery. Multiple-bestselling author Nick Bleszynski has described it as "beautifully written, powerful, heartfelt, insightful and inspiring ... a testament to hope."
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Crawford's recovery from his injury has been very slow, as manager Don Mattingly referred to it as a "plateau" several weeks ago. But if his rehab games go well, he could return to the Dodgers before the All-Star break.
The 32-year-old veteran is slashing .267/.293/.400 with four home runs, 18 RBI, and nine stolen bases in 157 plate appearances on the season.
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Artist Spotlight: Philip Bonneau
BY Christopher Harrity
November 10 2012 4:00 AM ET
In May of this year we first covered Bonneau's inspired project and we saw a great response about the first two issues and the images. The good news is that issue #3 is ready to go. To celebrate, there will be an opening reception and a silent auction of the Heroes + Villains #3 photography series to benefit AID Atlanta on Friday, November 16 7-11 p.m. at i.d. LAB. There will be live entertainment by the models — you won't want to miss this.
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Heroes + Villains is a concept series of reconnecting adults with their imagination with a commentary on who we are as individuals. At its core, this is escapism in the truest sense. As most people age that imagination gets lost somewhere in the shuffle of adult life. Stress takes over. The dreams shift from the fantastical to, for some, just getting by and making ends meet. For others they get passed down to children and forgotten. This series strives to bring that sense of wonder back to adults and to remind people of dreams and to enjoy life. This series takes into consideration that not everyone's desires and dreams are the same for each of us, but some do overlap at times.
Issue #3 of Heroes + Villains is a show for everyone who was told they could not or should not be a certain character due to social conformity. By doing a show of these iconic characters in the manner of predominantly drag (or drab), it was meant to further separate the viewer from everyday life as well as celebrate one of the oldest methods of theatrical production. This show allows for my models to embrace the chance to live dreams they may have been denied growing up or for others a chance to stand up to say it is ok to be unique and different.
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close to the policy of the Garden Cities in England. Founded by Ebenezer Howard over a century ago, residents own the land in common and run the town as a business. Letchworth, the oldest of the model towns, serves residents grandly from bucketfuls of collected land rent (as does the Canadian Province of Alberta from oil royalty). A geonomic town would pay the rent to residents, letting them freely choose personalized services, and also ax taxes. Both geonomics and Howard were inspired by American proto-geonomist Henry George. The movement launched by Howard today in the UK advances the shift of taxes from buildings to locations. A recent report from the Town and Country Planning Association proposes this Property Tax Shift and their journal published research in the potential of land value taxation by Tony Vickers (Vol. 69, Part 5, 2000). (Thanks to James Robertson)
a POV that Spain's president might try. A few blocks from my room in Madrid at a book fair to promote literacy, Sr Zapatero, while giving autographs and high fives to kids, said books are very expensive and he'd see about getting the value added tax on them cut down to zero. (El Pais, June 4; see, politicians can grasp geo-logic.) But why do we raise the cost of any useful product? Why not tax useless products? Even more basic: is being better than a costly tax good enough? Our favorite replacement for any tax is no tax: instead, run government like a business and charge full market value for the permits it issues, such as everything from corporate charters to emission allowances to resource leases. These pieces of paper are immensely valuable, yet now our steward, the state, gives them away for nearly free, absolutely free in some cases. Government is sitting on its own assets and needs merely to cash in by doing what any rational entity in the economy does – negotiate the best deal. Then with this profit, rather than fund more waste, pay the stakeholders, we citizenry, a dividend. Thereby geonomics gets rid of two huge problems. It replaces taxes with full-value fees and replaces subsidies for special interests with a Citizens Dividend for people in general. Neither left nor right, this reform is what both nature lovers and liberty lovers need to promote, right now.
a scientific look at how we divvy up the work and the wealth, how some of us end up with too much or too little effort or reward. That's partly due to Ricardo's Law of Rent, showing how wasteful use of Earth cuts wages. And it's partly due to how a society's elite runs government around like water boys, dishing out subsidies and tax breaks. While geonomists look political reality right in the eye, without blinking, conventional economists flinch. When Paul Volcker, ex-chief of the Federal Reserve, moved on to a cushy professorship at Princeton cum book contract, the crush of deadlines bore down. So Volcker asked a junior associate to help with the book. The guy refused, explaining that giving serious consideration to policy would ruin his academic career. The ex-Fed chief couldn't believe it and asked the department chair if truly that were the case. That head honcho pondered the question then replied no, not if he only does it once. And economics was AKA political economy!
not exactly Georgism, the Single Tax on land value proposed by Henry George. He did, tho', inspire most of the real-world implementations of the land tax that some jurisdictions enjoy today, and modern thinkers to craft geonomics. While his name and our remedy both begin with "geo" since both words refer to "Earth", the two have their differences. (a) George pegs land monopoly as the fundamental flaw while geonomics faults Rent retention. (b) To fix the flaw, George was content to use a tax, while geonomics jettisons them in favor of price-like fees. (c) George focused on the taking while geonomics headlines the sharing. George envisioned an enlightened state judiciously spending the collected Rent while geonomics would turn the lion's share over to the citizens via a dividend. (d) And George, as was everyone in his era, was pro-growth while geonomics sees economies as alive, growing, maturing, and stabilizing. Despite these differences, George should be recognized as great an economist as Euclid was a geometrician.
shaped by reality. In the 1980′s, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax. Tax receipts, however, rose only 15%, since traders simply fled to London exchanges. Fearing a further exodus, the Swedish government quickly rescinded the tax altogether. (The New York Times, April 20) That willingness to tax anything leads us astray. Pushing us astray is that unwillingness to pay what we owe: rent for land, our common heritage. Assuming land value is up for grabs, we speculate. We cap the property tax on both land and buildings and the rate at which assessments can go up; while real market values rise quicker, assessments can never catch up. Our stewards, the Bureau of Land Management, routinely sell and lease sites below market value, often to insiders, says the Government Accounting Office. Once we grasp that rent is ours to share, we'll collect it all, rather than let it enrich a few, and quit taxing earnings, which do belong to the individual earner. That shift is geonomic policy.
about the money we spend on the nature we use. It flows torrentially yet invisibly, often submerged in the price of housing, food, fuel, and everything else. Flowing from the many to the few, natural rent distorts prices and rewards unjust and unsustainable choices. Redirected via dues and dividends to flow from each to all, "rent" payments would level the playing field and empower neighbors to shrink their workweek and expand their horizons. Modeled on nature's feedback loops, earlier proposals to redirect rent found favor with Paine, Tolstoy, and Einstein. Wherever tried, to the degree tried, redirecting rent worked. One of today's versions, the green tax shift, spreads out of Europe. Another, the Property Tax Shift, activists can win at the local level, building a world that works right for everyone.
a way to have everybody pulling on the same end of the rope. Last summer's expansive forest fires shed light on growing class resentment in the West. Old loggers and ranchers rankled at the new urgency to stamp out the blazes that threatened the recent Aspenesque settlers. The newcomers expected working class firemen to make protecting their expensive homes top priority. (Chr Sci Mntr, Spt 7) The tinder for this envy? Rich people moving in bid up the price of land, making it hard to afford by people on the margin. The fault really lies with our system of privatizing land value. If this rising value were collected by land dues and shared by rent dividends – the essence of geonomic policy – who'd complain? The more people move in, the higher the land value, and the fatter the dividend paid to residents. Then people on the margin might go out of their way to invite rich outsiders in.
the Great Green Tax Shift maxed out" Economically, taxing pollution and depletion does reduce pollutants and extracts – and thus the tax base; plus such taxes are regressive, requiring a safety net. On the other hand, collecting site rent is progressive and generates a revenue surplus payable as a dividend to residents, which can serve as the safety net. Environmentally, taxes on waste and extraction do not drive efficient use of land, as does getting site rent. Better settlement patterns do reduce extraction upstream and pollution downstream. Politically, green fees have less impact if applied locally; local is where grassroots movements have more impact. Yet getting rent usually entails shifting the property tax (or charging user fees), the province of local jurisdictions; both mayors and city voters have been known to adopt a site-value tax. Ethically, putting into practice "tax bads, not goods" skirts the issue of sharing Mother Earth which collecting rent confronts head on. Since nothing is fixed until it's fixed right, ultimately, greens must lead humanity into geotopia where we all share the worth of Mother Earth.
a study of a phenomenon David Ricardo noted going on two centuries ago. When wine grapes rise to $10,000 a ton from the very best land (last year, cabernet sauvignon commanded an average of $4,021 a ton in the Napa Valley), then vineyard prices soar from $18,000 an acre in the 1980′s to $100,000 an acre five years ago and now for a top pedigree up to $300,000 an acre (The New York Times, April 9, via Wyn Achenbaum). Pricey land does not make wine pricey; spendy wine makes land spendy. While vintners make their wine tasty, nature and society in general – not any lone owner – make land desireable. Steve Kerch of CBS's MarketWatch (April 5) notes that much of what a home sells for on the open market is a reflection of intangible factors such as what school district the house sits in. The price the builder has to pay for the land also tends to be driven by the same intangibles. Because the value of land comes from society, and because one's use excludes the rest of society, each user owes all others compensation, and is owed compensation by everyone else. Sharing land's value, instead of taxing one's efforts, is the policy of geonomics.
what you do when you see economies as part of the ecosystem, following feedback loops and storing up energy. Surplus energy – fat or profit – enables us to produce and reproduce. To recycle society's surplus, the commonwealth, geonomics would replace taxes with land dues (charged to users of sites and resources, including the EM spectrum, and extra to polluters), and replace subsidies with rent dividends to citizens (a la Alaska's oil dividend). Without taxes and subsidies to distort them, prices become precise, reflect accurately our costs and values; then, motivated by no more than the bottom line, both producers and consumers make sustainable choices. While no place uses geonomics in its entirety, some places use parts of it, most notably a shift of the property tax off buildings, onto locations. Shifting the property tax drives efficient use of land, in-fills cities, improves the housing stock, makes homes affordable, engenders jobs and investment opportunities, lowers crime, raises civic participation, etc – overall it makes cities more livable. Geonomics – a way to share the bounty of nature and society – is something we can work for locally, globally, and in between.
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LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ What is the one critical mistake almost all businesses make? They don't prepare a business ahead of time so it is salable. Ignoring this can cost a business owner dearly when the time comes for a sale. "How to Increase the Value of Your Business Before You Selland Make it More Profitable Now!" by Lorraine McGregor shines a light on this important topic. No longer are business owners left in the dark when selling their life's work. The book is available on Amazon.
With the help of McGregor, business owners are made aware of the pressing need to address the issue of making a business salable now, not later, when exiting is suddenly important. The work must be done personally and inside a business so it is attractive and transferable to the next owner. Readers will learn the right strategic changes that must take place so that the company is worth what the owner wants to sell it for, to a buyer who will be willing to pay that price.
Every day, hundreds of businesses go up for sale, but the owners are in the dark about what they could have done to increase their valuation. Here are a few statistics no one knows, but should, discussed in the 135 pages of "How to Increase the Value of Your Business Before You Sell":
- 50% of our economy in North America is fueled by business owners aged 55 and older.
- 90% of business owners who attempt to sell their companies fail to find buyers, yet are counting on the proceeds to fund their retirement.
- There is $10 trillion in wealth looking for businesses to acquire that have been made salable. Unfortunately, less than 10% of owners take this vital step.
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- Whether or not their business is currently in a salable and transferable condition, and how to remedy any issues.
- What makes a business attractive to buyers.
- How to find and fix profitability leaks to drive maximum returns today, long before selling.
It takes two to four years to make a business salable, yet owners count on selling when they want to or when facing unforeseen circumstances. The high failure rate shows owners do not give themselves the time to make the right changes to be able to get the biggest return on the biggest asset they've ever owned. A business should be salable at all times. Why? It's more profitable for the current owner, who is the primary investor after all. The ideal buyer will be looking to acquire when it suits their strategic interests not the owner's retirement plans.
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- Adapt or Die:As industries change, companies must adapt or risk being pushed out. The right time to sell is before seismic shifts occur in the marketplace.
- Understand the difference between how a business owner values their business and how a buyer would value the same business, two distinct thought processes.
"There is no reason non-technology business owners can't participate in the big buy-outs that technology entrepreneurs enjoy today. All they need is this proven 'salable' blueprint and the willingness to want a return on all they have invested in their business," says Lorraine McGregor. "Most businesses confuse tax planning or succession planning with preparing a business to make it salable, when in reality they are entirely different strategies."
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Sharing tutorials, soapy inspiration and bits of my life on this blog motivates and inspires me immensely. I love being able to swap ideas and interact with fellow soapers! Did you know you can find more Soap Queen tutorials, inspiration and behind the scenes sneak peeks via other social media outlets? Check out all the unique, fun soapy activity happening on Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, Google + and Facebook.
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Do you love testing new fragrances in your soapy projects? Here at Bramble Berry, we receive hundreds of fragrance oil samples. To help choose the very best fragrances to add to our line, we are looking for eight new members to join our S.O.A.P Panel! As part of the panel, you will have the opportunity to test eight new mystery fragrances, and help us decide which new scents to add to our lineup.
Each member of the panel will receive eight 1 oz. bottles of fragrance oil. These fragrances can be tested in cold process, melt and pour, lotions or other bath and body products. To keep opinions unbiased, the fragrances will not have names, but instead will be labeled with a number. Not knowing the name is part of the fun!
At the end of the testing and reviewing process, each S.O.A.P. Panel member will fill out a survey regarding the fragrances. We then review this survey, and choose the very best fragrances to add to our line. While not a requirement, many S.O.A.P. (aka: Soap Opinion Awesome Panel) members share their opinions and test results on their blog, Facebook pages or other social media outlets. We love hearing your honest opinions regarding the fragrances, so an ideal member of the panel won't hold their feelings back!
Previous S.O.A.P. panel fragrance winners were: Mandarin Oasis Fragrance Oil, Mahogany Fragrance Oil, Autumn Fig Harvest Fragrance Oil, Lavender and Cedar Fragrance Oil, and Heavenly Honeysuckle Fragrance Oil.
Note: S.O.A.P. Panel members have about 7 weeks to test the fragrances. Please make sure you will be able to commit to testing all fragrances before entering. Because these fragrances can't ship internationally, we are not able accept international entries.
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Today is a great day to give away a free three month subscription to Handmade Beauty Box. Wouldn't you agree? Thank you to those who voted, offered project suggestions, and liked/followed/shared/pinned Handmade Beauty Box on social media. We read every single comment and created a master list compiling all of your project ideas. Four pages later, we're swimming in DIY inspiration. You guys rocked it!
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Facebook Photo of the Week (April 26th ~ May 2nd)
This week the sun came out in full force, warming up cloudy Bellingham to 70 degrees! All this sunshine certainly inspired new projects and recipes, including a delicious twist on kale salad. Using roasting chickpeas instead of croutons, the Roasted Chickpea and Kale Cucumber Salad is the perfect lunch on a hot day.
Speaking of heat, the Jazzed about Gel Phase post is full of information regarding what happens when your soap heats up. Gel phase has great benefits, particularly when you gel with LabColors. If you'd like more information on LabColors, this post will get you up to speed.
Does soapy inspiration ever strike while you are away from your computer and enjoying the sun? The newly updated Soap App for Androids makes it easy to collect and formulate cold process recipes. You could even use it to formulate recipes for the Make it Monday Challenge! Simply share your project using the Carnation Fragrance Oil, or the Sunny Herb Garden Fragrance Oil with the hash tag #BBGarden for a chance to be featured on the blog. Projects can be shared on the Bramble Berry Facebook page, Twitter or on Instagram until May 30th.
The Facebook Photo of the Week was inspired by all this talk of hot summer days days and impending summer vacations. Called "Birds of Paradise," it's a bright colored soap reminiscent of exotic beaches.
Make it Month: Sunny Herb Garden & Carnation Fragrance Oils
After a brief break from our Make it Month contest, we're bringing it back in full force! Throughout the month of May, you'll receive a complimentary .5 oz. sample of Sunny Herb Garden Fragrance Oil with every order. It smells like fresh picked herbs with a subtle floral scent. It holds up wonderfully in cold process soap, and it's refreshing scent for scrubs body washes.
We're switching this Make it Month up a bit because in addition to making projects with Sunny Herb Garden, you can also use Carnation Fragrance Oil, which was April's Sample of the Month.


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When you allow someone else to take charge of what you think or do, you give them the power to control you. #inspiration
Never live someone else's life. You have to create your own road. #inspiration
When your aura is a beacon of love, it becomes a force field with the ability to transform the energy of any person you're in contact with.
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When we are in communion with our divine souls, even the simplest acts of creation testify that every day a miracle is waiting to be born.
When we acquire the mind-set of a generous and open heart, it is easier to tune into the frequencies of the heaven worlds. #inspiration