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sharks about to beat Detroit, btw....looking ahead (a bit too far, perhaps), jumbo joe vs. the bruins for the Cup is pretty intruiging, huh ?
Posted 05/12/2011 11:39:41 EDT
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Forum Post: This is ODD
Posted 04/14/2011 12:17:37 EDT
In Response to Re: This is ODD: That would be a highlight for my baseball season, Wakefield's retirement acceptance. Posted by BaseballGM all that would do is lock in Dice K as the no 5 starter - frig more »
Forum Post: Why is Harangody not playing?
Posted 02/15/2011 12:52:52 EST
i honestly believe that given a chance, harangody could be the next (white) coming of big baby. with all the injuries, now's as good a time as ever to give him some on-the-job training if they don't f more »
Forum Post: Which team would you prefer in the first round of divisional playoffs? Jets, Chiefs or Ravens?
Posted 01/03/2011 11:01:45 EST
your scenario is very likeable, but the chances of KC beating the playoff-tested and defensively superior Ravens are slim, meaning we host Baltimore - can't get myself to bet against Peyton in the pla more »
Forum Post: Final Thoughts Before The Game?
Posted 11/13/2008 07:11:44 EST
[Quote]I used to vacation on Cape Ann, Mass., until I was run off the road in Gloucester by a Mass. driver yelling, "Go back to New Jersey!" Now I love to see you pathetic losers suffer. NE is about a more »
Posted 11/13/2008 07:09:43 EST
[Quote]this game is the perfect example of why the coin-toss-slash-first-team-to-score-wins rule in overtime is ridiculous. the pats overcame a large deficit and large odds, to put on display a potent more »
Posted 11/13/2008 07:08:26 EST
this game is the perfect example of why the coin-toss-slash-first-team-to-score-wins rule in overtime is ridiculous. the pats overcame a large deficit and large odds, to put on display a potentially c more »
Forum Post: Tek just signed a 3 year deal with the Sox
Posted 11/08/2008 05:01:47 EST
friggin moron. don't even pretend to be a sox fan more »
Forum Post: Chip Caray had a bad Play by Play Night
Posted 10/04/2008 07:00:34 EDT
every time martinez said OR-tiz....i got so mad i almost punched my cat.very annoying. more »
Forum Post: Dice-K for Cy Young
Posted 09/24/2008 06:36:46 EDT
beckett's big game achievements can come on the road, such as gm 5 at cleveland last yr. down 3-1 in the series, or the WS clincher with Florida in Yankee Stadium....plus as KRomine showed, lester str more »
Forum Post: Johnny Damon
Posted 09/24/2008 02:10:56 EDT
could be wrong, but i think he said he'd never play for the Yankees, which he then promptly did for a bit more change thrown his way. like a quote i read from someone when he first signed with NY : Jo more »
Forum Post: Pats a better team as Underdogs
Posted 09/20/2008 07:17:48 EDT
glad to see a co-fan keepin faith, but we are definitely NOT a better team with no brady, plain and simple. and no, the coverage of the 'perfect' season didn't jinx the pats, they just for some unfath more »
Forum Post: cassell should have been cut days ago!!!!!
Posted 09/20/2008 07:07:40 EDT
even tho its the lowly fins, sunday will be a good test for cassel ,as he'll likely have more offensive freedom. we'll find out once and for all if he's a quarterback. and oh, if he is, given the stat more »
Forum Post: Lifelong Supporters, offer Bashers Perspective!
Posted 09/19/2008 09:24:23 EDT
fine and dandy, except that's not what this thread is about. way to go, changing it from an attempt to get sox fans to appreciate what they have, to a reminder of one of the ugliest aspects of the tea more »
Posted 09/19/2008 07:53:02 EDT
i was an impressionable young kid in 86 for the WS, and they had me hooked for good. baseball and the red sox from that point on has meant way too much to me - i'm just glad i didn't have to wait unti more »
Forum Post: Lowell is Done
Posted 09/19/2008 07:40:44 EDT
want him in the lineup....that was tues against the rays he left the game. i was at the game on mon, when he hit the home run - he's gonna give it his all to the end, which is all you can ask more »
Forum Post: Byrd Is A Turd
Posted 09/19/2008 07:36:08 EDT
if a turd keeps us in the game on a consistent basis, hell, i say put the turd above wakefield on the playoff roster's list of starting pitchers more »
Forum Post: Note to Papelbon: Listen to Varitek!!!
Posted 09/19/2008 07:29:02 EDT
agreed...paps' overly relying on the fastball has proven to be a potential problem lately. (Dan Johnson? really??) more »
Forum Post: Is Manny MVP in the NL?
Posted 09/19/2008 06:50:30 EDT
how about MVCY (Most Valuable Contract Year) ??? more »
Forum Post: 2 World Series In 4 YRS. And The Teenie Bopper Cry
Posted 09/18/2008 07:41:49 EDT
good post, agreed....we should never forget where we came from. more »
Forum Post: Wakefield and My Blood Pressure
Posted 09/18/2008 07:31:47 EDT
i too like the idea masterson back into the rotation (next yr), and wake into the pen, effective immediately. innings-eating is what he does best and is most reliable for, at this point in his career. more »
Forum Post: The bright side of the moon/hillarious Manny quote
Posted 09/18/2008 07:17:18 EDT
if they did drop the options in the middle of the season, which i think would be an unusual move, and manny tore it up in a red sox uniform before going into free agency this offseason, you think the more »
Forum Post: THIS SUNDAY AGAINST THE JETS -WOW!!!
Posted 09/12/2008 08:31:49 EDT
I'll watch, but let's all be honest...I'll have a hard time being nearly as excited about this season as I was prior to Brady's injury. I love this team, and all I can say is I hope they surprise me a more »
Posted 09/12/2008 08:28:32 EDT
hey now, THERE'S the definition of an overreaction...
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Answer: At the height of his popularity, legendary mixed martial arts superstar Bruce Lee gave this advice: "Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."
Little did master Bruce know that his advice would be relevant to people practicing personal finance.
His piece of advice can be broken down into two parts; emptying the mind and becoming like water.
A lot of the pitfalls in personal finance have to do with mistaken beliefs that we grew up with. These beliefs are what we should be emptying our minds of if we want to practice personal finance well.
In the Philippines, we have the tradition of preparing food during fiestas. In some parts of the country, people's 13th-month pay, which is normally received from November to December, is already borrowed against as early as the summer months of April and May when fiestas abound. This practice of borrowing just to have food prepared during fiestas has become so prevalent that there are cooperatives formally offering fiesta loans. So who gets to enjoy the food more? The guests. Who ends up footing the bill and paying the loan interest? The host.
Preparing a lot of food also happens during the New Year. There is a belief that whatever you have on New Year's Day will be what you will have for the rest of the year. So, if you can serve a lot of food on January 1, this will be your lot for the rest of the year. In particular, there are the practices of serving 12 round fruits for prosperity during each of the 12 months of the year and of hanging inverted umbrellas to catch the blessings of the New Year.
Well guess what: only the fruit vendors become prosperous. And as for the inverted umbrellas, we did that when I was still a teenager. Lo and behold, we ended up with umbrellas full of holes as all they caught were the embers from falling fireworks. And by the way, I also tried jumping on New Year's Day to get taller. To this day, I am still not a six-footer.
The beliefs that we should empty our mind of are not limited to fiestas and holidays. Putting too much money in our pockets on any day just to feel good and confident is courting the pickpocket. The pickpocket's motto is "Kapag may isinuksok, may madudukot" (loosely translated: If people put something in their pockets, the pickpocket will have something to steal). And the pickpocket here is no other than us.
If we give ourselves easy access to our money, we will take it, especially when the temptation to spend is right before us. With technology, that easy access refers to the ATM payroll card, which not only makes withdrawing money a breeze but also allows for purchases just by swiping the card at POS (point of sale/service) machines at the cashier.
Once our mind is empty of beliefs that wreak havoc on our finances, we can now internalize the water part of master Bruce's message, namely the right practices in achieving financial freedom.
Personal finance lessons may seem soft at first like idle water. But when water gathers strength, it can carve rock just like what it did with the Grand Canyon. Many cable TV shows now even feature machines that use water jets to precisely cut metal.
A financial planner will not bombard his client with heavy tasks at the onset. A lot in personal finance has to do with financial discipline that has to become second nature to us, much like the wrong beliefs that we now need to get rid of. And the best way to make financial discipline second nature to us is to practice small lessons repeatedly. The operative word here is repeatedly.
Have you heard of TWAHCD? It means Thoughts become words; Words turn into action; Action becomes a habit; that Habit becomes character; and Character leads to Destiny. In instilling financial discipline, personal finance focuses on the action that is made into a habit. For example, if you had invested annually in an equity mutual fund or unit investment trust fund for the last five years ending in 2011, you could have made upwards of 15 percent in terms of annual compounded returns.
Financial planners talk all the time about having small amounts automatically deducted from payroll and saved away or even invested. Behavioral finance has found that it is easier for people to live on 90 percent of their income than to save 10 percent of it. While the two options are seemingly the same, living on 90 percent of income means we don't get to see the 10 percent balance as it is automatically taken away from us. On the other hand, saving 10 percent of income means that we would still need to do the actual saving. Now we all know that funny things can happen on our way to the bank to save that 10 percent.
There is much more ground to cover on personal finance practices than one column will allow. We will try to discuss those in other columns. For now, if you want to get started on practicing personal finance, empty your mind first, then start imbibing the seemingly soft lessons of financial planning. You may also want to download the country's first free personal finance mobile app called Ya!man from www.personalfinance.ph.
Ya!man provides simple tools on doing a week of budgeting, computing the effective interest on loans (whether they are on diminishing balance, add-on-rate or 5-6), determining the appropriate amount of life insurance coverage given a particular financial situation, computing for the future cost of children's college education and computing for the future cost of retirement. Each computation produces a brief analysis and allows the user to ask for tips from a personal finance expert. And all of these are for free.
"Be water my friend."
(Efren Ll. Cruz is a registered financial planner of RFP Philippines, personal finance coach, seasoned investment adviser and bestselling author. Questions about the article may be sent by SMS to 0917-5050709 or e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com. To learn more about the RFP program, visit www.rfp.ph or e-mail email@example.com.)
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels.
Heart care is in the midst of a transformation. Many problems that once required sawing through the breastbone and opening up the chest for open heart surgery now can be treated with a nip, twist or patch through a tube.
These minimal procedures used to be done just to unclog arteries and correct less common heart rhythm problems. Now some patients are getting such repairs for valves, irregular heartbeats, holes in the heart and other defects -- without major surgery. Doctors even are testing ways to treat high blood pressure with some of these new approaches.
All rely on catheters -- hollow tubes that let doctors burn away and reshape heart tissue or correct defects through small holes in blood vessels.
"This is the replacement for the surgeon's knife. Instead of opening the chest, we're able to put catheters in through the leg, sometimes through the arm," said Dr. Spencer King of St. Joseph's Heart and Vascular Institute in Atlanta. He is former president of the American College of Cardiology. Its conference earlier this month featured research on these novel devices.
"Many patients after having this kind of procedure in a day or two can go home" rather than staying in the hospital while a big wound heals, he said. It may lead to cheaper treatment, although the initial cost of the novel devices often offsets the savings from shorter hospital stays.
Not everyone can have catheter treatment, and some promising devices have hit snags in testing. Others on the market now are so new that it will take several years to see if their results last as long as the benefits from surgery do.
But already, these procedures have allowed many people too old or frail for an operation to get help for problems that otherwise would likely kill them.
"You can do these on 90-year-old patients," King said.
These methods also offer an option for people who cannot tolerate long-term use of blood thinners or other drugs to manage their conditions, or who don't get enough help from these medicines and are getting worse.
"It's opened up a whole new field," said Dr. Hadley Wilson, cardiology chief at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte. "We can hopefully treat more patients more definitively, with better results."
For patients, this is crucial: Make sure you are evaluated by a "heart team" that includes a surgeon as well as other specialists who do less invasive treatments. Many patients now get whatever treatment is offered by whatever specialist they are sent to, and those specialists sometimes are rivals.
"We want to get away from that" and do whatever is best for the patient, said Dr. Timothy Gardner, a surgeon at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del., and an American Heart Association spokesman. "There shouldn't be a rivalry in the field."
Here are some common problems and newer treatments for them:
Millions of people have leaky heart valves. Each year, more than 100,000 people in the United States alone have surgery for them. A common one is the aortic valve, the heart's main gate. It can stiffen and narrow, making the heart strain to push blood through it. Without a valve replacement operation, half of these patients die within two years, yet many are too weak to have one.
"Essentially, this was a death sentence," said Dr. John Harold, a Los Angeles heart specialist who is president of the College of Cardiology.
That changed just over a year ago, when Edwards Lifesciences Corp. won approval to sell an artificial aortic valve flexible and small enough to fit into a catheter and wedged inside the bad one. At first it was just for inoperable patients. Last fall, use was expanded to include people able to have surgery but at high risk of complications.
Gary Verwer, 76, of Napa, Calif., had a bypass operation in 1988 that made surgery too risky when he later developed trouble with his aortic valve.
"It was getting worse every day. I couldn't walk from my bed to my bathroom without having to sit down and rest," he said. After getting a new valve through a catheter last April at Stanford University, "everything changed; it was almost immediate," he said. "Now I can walk almost three miles a day and enjoy it. I'm not tired at all."


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PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea's top leadership is calling the successful launch of a satellite proof that Kim Jong Un has the strength to lead the country one year after his father's death.
A solemn Kim Jong Un joined top political, government and military officials Sunday in a national memorial service at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on the eve of the anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death.
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Meera Sanyal, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for Mumbai South constituency, is pitted against political bigwigs like sitting Congress MP Milind Deora, MNS leader Bala Nandgaonkar and the Shiv Sena's Arvind Sawant. Though she had unsuccessfully contested the 2009 election as an Independent candidate, this time the 52-year-old former banker is confident of her victory. In an interview with dna's Ashutosh Shukla, Sanyal says freeing up over 730 acres of Mumbai Port Trust land is her main campaign issue. Excerpts:
A prominent accusation against you is that you disappeared after the last elections. Your comments.
I was on a sabbatical when I fought the 2009 election. In fact, I should be thankful to my former boss who told me that I can quit if I win the election. He allowed me to take a sabbatical. So, I went back to my job after the last poll. I have done a lot of social work that have helped women get sustainable livelihood and make them empowered.
What is your vision for the constituency?
My vision is simple. It is to make the city gainful and productive in terms of employment, be able to provide a decent standard of living. By this I mean providing for things that are taken for granted like better toilets, high quality affordable education and housing, pedestrian and handicapped friendly city, high quality health care, coastal transport that was there until 1995 and above all an inclusive city. The people of this city are entrepreneurial. Mumbai is a heart of commercial activity and the young can make it into a silicon valley of services not just in IT but traditional services banking and finance, marketing, advertising and film making. We need to make that work.
These are the very promises that have been around for years.
They are but they have not been solved which is why they still exist.
Regionalism and religion have been strong factors deciding voting patterns. How are you convincing the voters to vote for AAP?
We have never played identity politics. There are much bigger issues with which people are harassed that we talk about. These are corruption, inflation, future of children, affordable housing, transport and open spaces. We try to reach out to them through these.
What are the prominent issues your constituency is facing?
Quality of life has deteriorated. Quality hospitals and educational institutions are few. The main cause is that we do not have land. There are two ways to deal with it in an island city. Either we can reclaim or efficiently use the available land. Reclaiming will have a lot of environmental concerns. Mill lands have already been usurped. The way is to get Mumbai Port Trust land back. It is my main election issue. After JNPT, it was none other than late prime minister Indira Gandhi's directive in 1998 that the land be given back to the city. They are not adhering to her directive. Mumbai is no more an industrial but a service oriented city. The city does not need a ship container terminal.
You have taken up the issue of Mumbai Port Trust land strongly. Why?
This is an issue the south Mumbai MP should have been raising because the land comes in his constituency and he is also the minister. The issue is important because the land can be encroached. The land can provide space for recreation, better and affordable housing among others. Instead they are talking of increasing the capacity. Trucks will be going to the hinterland. They want to dredge the place that will waste taxpayers' money. There is coal stacked there like it is in Jamshedpur. Carcogenic material spills into water. People's health is getting affected. There is an exponential rise in TB and lung diseases. This is something both Milind Deora and Bala Nandgaonkar should have looked.
If you are elected, how soon can you deal with all the issues you have taken up.
You have to get the Mumbai Port Trust land back. The land can be given to the city even today. Once the land is given to the city, problems of the city can be solved in five to 10 years. Planning bodies like Urban Design Research Institute (UDRI) can be roped in for better and efficient use of land for schools, hospitals, affordable housing, open spaces etc.
AAP has been facing a fund crunch. How much has it affected your campaign? What is likely to be your campaign expense?
There is a fund crunch but we are doing with what we have. We have this concept of sister constituency where we share the funds with other candidates of our party. With respect to my expense, I can tell you it will be a fraction of the Rs70 lakh one is allowed to spend.
Do you see loosing previous election as a drawback?
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OverviewNestled between Blue Ridge and Cedar Roughs east of Napa Valley, Lake Berryessa provides ample public recreation opportunities. Popular activities on and around the large, yet uncrowded lake include fishing, boating, water skiing, wake boarding, jet skiing, sailing, swimming, kayaking, canoeing, wildlife viewing, hiking, biking and picnicking. The Dufer Point Visitor Center offers year-round interpretive events and exhibits highlighting natural and cultural resources.
Lake Berryessa is a Federal reservoir managed by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region (Central California Area Office).
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Lake Berryessa is more than just a great place for water recreation. The blue oak woodlands covering the surrounding hills are home to a wide variety of plants and animals, all dependent on each other to survive. Visitors can experience the beauty of Lake Berryessa by hiking the Smittle Creek Trail. The climate is Mediterranean with warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters. For those who wish to venture outside the main recreation areas, there are many unique places to visit. Overall, the geography is quite varied and provides many opportunities for all types of recreation.
Oak Shores and Smittle Creek Day Use areas offer free day use, beach activities, swimming, shoreline fishing and wildlife viewing. The 2.6-mile long Smittle Creek Trail connects the two areas.
Reclamation Managed Day Use Areas offer more than 200 picnic sites which are equipped with picnic tables, barbeque grills, restrooms and drinking water. There are six covered group picnic sites that can be reserved or can be used on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Nearby areas including Cedar Roughs Wilderness Area and Knoxville Recreation Area offering extensive backcountry and hiking opportunities. Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, operated by the University of California at Davis, is a high-quality hiking experience near the Monticello Dam that provides great views of Lake Berryessa.
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Moree Things to Do
Cotton growing in Moree is quite successful.IN JULY, all the cotton had been harvested and the land was being ploughed ready for the next season. There are quite a few Cotton Gins in the area. The cotton is brought to the Gin in modules, from there it is taken into the Gin where the ginning process removes the cotton seeds and cleans the cotton...more
Moree has hot summers and cold winters, so it is nice to find many lush, lawned parks. We stopped at Mary Brand Park, mainly because it was easy to park with a Caravan, but also as it had toilets and was located on the banks of the Mehi River. On the opposite river bank is Max Wales Memorial Park, named for Moree's son who lost his life at the...more
I'm glad I didn't miss this building, as in my opinion, it is the nicest in Moree. It is not an Art Deco building, but a building built in Edwardian style in 1910 for the CBC Bank & Managers's residence.Since 1988, it has been a gallery showcasing a permanent collection, and changing exhibitions, many of contemporary Australian artists, especially...more
Moree is a Town full of Art Deco buildings. There is a guided walk that can be done, cost is $12, that takes you around the 14 heritage listed buildings, or you can just walk the main street and surrounding streets like I did.The Art Deco dates back to between 1920 and 1939. In Moree, there were many different styles combining modern art designs as...more
As I was walking along Frome Street, I came across this lovely old home on the corner of Frome & Albert Streets.It caught my attention as it was built in a very different style to the Art Deco buildings in Moree.It was empty, and starting to fall into disrepair, a shame I thought. I hope somebody renovates it, and I wish I knew something about it.more
The flood marker is quite easy to walk past. Located in front of the Post office on a large rock, is a marker showing the level the water came to in a "once in 100year flood." The problem is, somebody forgot to put on the marker, the year of this flood, a very important piece of missed information.I since have read, that Moree has been subject to...more
It was worth walking along Frome street, as along here, I found more historic buildings.These included the Police Station, Court House, Westpac Bank and Post Office.I took photos of the Court house which was built in Federation free style in 1903.It's a great example of Federation Free style architecture and also of a large country courthouse.It...more
Moree is town full of art deco buildings. The Moree Tafe building is one of them.It was originally the Moree Council Chambers, built in 1902, sadly not much is left of this building. After WWII it became the services club, then in 1969, a TAFE college.The building is single storey, and has fifteen bays facing Frome Street and six bays facing Heber...more
Dr. Magill's I presume
Though the sign today says Moree Club, for 20 years from 1900 this was the surgery and hospital for a certain Doctor Magill. It's a unique example of Federation style Arts and Crafts architecture with a paint scheme to highlight the design.There's intricate timber detailing here and the gables that face Albert Street have incorporated some of this,...more
Federation weatherboard
These three shops with residence attached are one of the few buildings to survive the great floods of 1910.Some of the fronts are original and are over 100 years old.This is one of 14 points listed in a town walk brochure called "Moree's Heritage Trail" that you can obtain from most accommodation houses or the Tourist Information Centre.more
The Waa Gorge experience
Just 86.1 kilometres from the tourist office in Moree, you'll find this gem. Of course, that titbit of information casually circumvents the fact that you'll also have half a dozen gate opening and closures, a couple of tricky creek crossings and a lot of the road is dirt. Then again, more than half of Australia's roads are dirt.Scene 2 shows you...more
Classic Aussie pub
This is the sort of place those yobbos who fancy a beer might well end up at. Typical two storey with spacious verandahs for those who might be staying a night or two in the budget accommodation that can prove handy for the traveller who fancies a tipple.It's located on the eastern side of town where the road heads out to the Gwydir Highway.more
On a clear day
It was warm, well, hot really. The only thing that tempered the heat was that it was a dry heat, typical of the country. Away from the beaches there's a distinct lack of humidity, which is just as well, because 40 degrees is not comfortable.Just outside of town, on the southern side, an emu and its young chick wandered restlessly through a newly...more
Moree on a Plate, with Wine & Art
MOREE FOOD WINE & ART FESTIVALThis sounds like a great weekend indeed & I would love for us to get up here for the weekend of May 7 and 8 during which you can take cooking classes or just enjoy food already prepared, then feast your eyes at the different galleries & for your other senses not quite yet catered for either listen to the music an/or...more
Hot Springs to rival Beppu (well almost)
After working with 3 different school teams, a Primary school (K-6), a Central school (K-Year 10) & a High School (Years 7-12), a total of about 16 teachers K-12, we were ready to have coffee, do some window shopping, then unwind relaxing in one of the hot mineral springs places.Which was exactly what we did. Onto the hot mineral springs info'.We...more
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Albert Motel
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Dragon & Phoenix Motel
This is run, as the name suggests, by those of Asian origin. At the risk of being called pejudiced,...more
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Cotton On to Great Coffee in Moree
Another spot recommended to us by both Sydneysiders and also locals.This was our first port of call after a hot, hard day working with the teachers.We needed caffeine, but not just any caffeine, but GOOD QUALITY COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!! (Are you getting my point here?).Well we weren't disappointed in the least. And....., I enjoyed a really yummy, freshly...more
Top Thai Tucker in Moree
There are not one, but two Thai food restaurants in Moree & this particular one was recommended to us by not only people back in sydney, but also local people we spoke to.So......., after our relaxing hot artesian springs bathes all freshened up we rolled up at Thub Thim Thai to be greeted by a couple of absolutely delightful Thai ladies who looked...more
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Moree Transportation
We travelled to Moree by plane, but you can also travel by car and also train.
QANTAS Link services Moree. The trip up includes a stop at Narrabri where passengers from there to Sydney borad the aircraft. Fifteen minutes later we were on the ground in Moree. All up around 2 hours from Sydney. The trip back to Sydney was quicker because it didn't require a stop in Narrabri.
Now for the funny little story! Michelle, one of my colleagues & a terrific lady is a tad worried about flying in these smaller planes (I'm not overly fussed on the idea either actually!!!) so wasn't too pleased when I pointed out to her that the Pilot & co-Pilot were doing a "high-tech" (said he with tongue in cheek!) inspection of one of the engines up a ladder with a torch. It was after dark. My guess, which turned out to be correct, was that mayber a bird had been sucked into the air intake. After a 40 minute delay we finally got into the air, a bit the worse for wear & somewhat apprehensive (the master of understatement strikes yet again! lol!). Obviously we survived the trip because I'm writing this tip!
When Vicki rang home, one of her sons told her that anything within some metres gets sucked into the air intake of a plane's engine. Also one of local business owner has a sister who owns a travel business & when he told her I was going to Moree she said I should fly as the planes are often hel up or grounded because of birds getting sucked into the air intake!Related to:
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This is quite an upmarket shop designed for those with a bit of cash (or credit card) to spare. Unfortunately we three didn't have a lot of either to spare so it was only a relatively quick browse for us with thoughts of what we might like to purchase on another trip with more time and moeny to spare! Sigh!!!
What to buy: It has an excellent range of boomerangs, didgeroos, fabrics, prints, ceramics, carved items, weavings, authentic aboriginal crafts & accessories, tapes & CDs & books.
While much of the merchandise is from other parts of Australia, you will find trhat some boomerangs, didgeridoos & ceramics are locally sourced if you might like a genuine local aboriginal souvenir to take home. Next trip there that's what I'll be looking at, within the affordable range.
What to pay: From a little to a lot. Quite a lot for the top ticket items. Having said that there quite good value items to be purchased. And the other thing to consider is that time & love put into the production. Mind you, I still have concerns as to how much the middleperson (& retailer) gets as opposed to the original artist/producer.Related to:
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Moree Local Customs
2014, And a lot of Eastern Australia, especially NSW and Queensland is in severe drought. The poor stock has been dying through lack of water and feed. The farmer has a few options of what to do with them, and one is to employ a Drover to take his cattle along proclaimed stock routes, as by doing this, they get food and water.And so it was, as we...more
The Moree Plains which surround the town of Moree, is where over time we have seen Cattle and Sheep farming, Cotton, Wheat, Soybeans, Sorgum, Sunflowers, Pecan nuts and other crops growing. It is here, where the farmer is up early and retires late after a hard days work.It's here where we see something different everytime we travel this area.This...more
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We were there for one night, and on that one night our vehicle was broken into and two friends tents were slashed into, with iphones, cameras and walky-talkies stolen. If you're going there and you have to, stay in a motel or hotel.Related to:
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Moree Sports & Outdoors
Now I'm not the fisherman I could have been seeing I was a good one as a young lad (see my Stages of Life 1 album on my homepage for my big fishing catch as a youngster). However when we saw an interesting banner fluttering overhead the Newell Highway (aka Frome St, Moree) about the Easter Carp fishing competition sponsored by Hong Yuen I did a little bit of research.
Apparently Moree & the area around is considered to be the fishing centre of the Gwyder Delta as well as being situated on the Mehi river which will apparently give up Golden Perch & Murray Cod (which seems to be hard to get down around Corowa on the mighty Murray) if you're a half decent fisherperson. Apparently the Gwyder river proper has both of these two fish species & also Silver Bream & Eel-tail Catfish. All of these fish are supposed to be good eating. And as all good fisherpeople know, if you've caught it yourself & it's that fresh then nothing tastes better!
Equipment: You could bring all the necessary gear with you & we did notice a couple of cars in town with the appropriate gear on the roof & in the back.
If you need anything you didn't bring or need any new gear then drop into Hong Yuen's shop in 126 Heber streeet, Moree. IThe experts there are available for sales of tackle & bait & will be very helpful with appropriate advice. I've scanned some info to go with this tip. You'll need to click on it to enlarge it if you are at all interested. If not, just move on dear reader.Related to:
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I wanted to bump this to say I could not disagree more with this review:
I usually like GT reviews, but this one is horrible. For one, they say the base game just isn't fun, which is really the opposite of the truth... the base game is so fun it makes the other problems easier to deal with. He talks about how it steals gameplay ideas from Crazy Taxi, Burnout, Driver and GTA, but he doesn't seem to realize this combination is awesome fun. He also says the car melee controls are terrible, and I assure you they are not... vert intuitive and easy to use, and with a mouse it feels cool, like you're swinging over to hit them. He also complains about manual aiming being impossible with the analog stick and having to use the lock-on feature, never mentioning the PC version which has perfect mouse aim and no lock-on feature at all that I have seen.
It really annoys me that a game like this is bashed out of hand just because they aren't that hyped. Grand Theft Auto 4 had similar problems with repetitive missions and a lack of gameplay innovation, but no one even mentions that in reviews for the game. The lame reviews industry with their pointless numerical scores are really killing this industry... I wish it would stop.
I like this guy's comment in response to the review:
Idiots who buy games like Wheelman are the ones who makes us real gamers suffer the ****ing ongoing tidewave of crappy movie-based videogames...
What an f'ing sheep.
That said don't buy Wheelman and expect it to be a AAA game, it's not.
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Calls and messages of support following my supposed loss to Robert Helenius, have compelled me to break my silence. On Saturday, the whole world saw yet another travesty in our beloved sport of boxing when the judges dubiously awarded the vacant ECB belt to my opponent, Robert Helenius. So bad was the call that I felt I could have just stayed away in north London and watched Helenius coronation as European Boxings Lord and Emperor in the comfort of home on the telly!
I am not one to moan and bleat about a bad result. The heavyweight I am is built to take knocks and trips, my champion instincts cajole me to stand up when I fall or lose; and the disciplined professional athlete in me is ever gracious even in the most unjust defeats.
And as Saturdays is one and a glaring, blatant one I feel its only fair that I demand an immediate rematch against Helenius.
The thousands who came to see the fight in that massive Hartwall Areena on Saturday will at the very least privately admit shock and surprise at the decision. Millions other boxing fans watching the bout on the small screens; and starved of a true and exciting heavyweight champion for years, felt as sour in the mouth as I did after the fight.
For me, these are the people who matter because the fans are more important judges than anyone else in my trade and industry.
Those judges overlook one very important fact. Saturdays result will do little to drag the reputation of the world heavyweight boxing category out of the state of crisis which many observers, pundits and fans feel it is enmeshed in.
When I was in that ring alone with Helenius, I saw a lot which no one else in world except the two of us did. Robert will be the first to admit that I gave him the fright of his life. I felt it, I smelt and I touched it. And if he is man enough, he will put that belt back on the table, and I can promise the world, this time I will knock him out and mop the canvas with his head!
I would like to thank all the people that came to the arena, all my fans, promoters and Team Chisora for their belief in support. In you, I know I am a World Champion.
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I'll admit, I've never been a green lantern fan. In fact even when I was buying almost every Marvel and DC ish, GL was one of the one's I refused to buy. It was always too weird for me. Anyways, still quite sad.
MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, the comic book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime, has died. He was 91.
Nodell died at a nursing home in Muskego, Wisconsin, on Saturday of natural causes, his son Spencer Nodell told The Associated Press on Tuesday. He previously lived in West Palm Beach.
Nodell was looking for a new idea for a comic book in 1940 when he was waiting for a New York subway and saw a train operator waving a lantern displaying a green light, said Maggie Thompson, senior editor of Comics Buyer's Guide.
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Facebook confirmed the launch of its mobile ad platform, Audience Network. The social network also introduced Anonymous Login.
Facebook chief executive (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the f8 global developer conference yesterday with a slew of new product announcements. Most notable was Audience Network, a mobile ad platform that will have the ability to serve ads to third-party apps.
The company has been experimenting with a mobile ad network since January and yesterday's confirmation made it official. "We've done a lot of work already in the past years to help you build and grow your apps. This is really the first time that we are going to help you monetize on mobile," said Zuckerberg.
Audience Network is hoped to make it easier for advertisers to target the right apps with the most relevant experiences. Deborah Liu, director of product management and platform monetization at Facebook, said the social network "has the best targeting system in the world" and clients can now benefit from it.
That means Facebook's app clients don't have to hire sales teams, nor find out who is in the right audience, create reporting, or figure out measurement, Liu noted. The social network will do it all for them.
According to Mark DiMassimo, CEO of digital ad agency DiMassimo Goldstein, Facebook's move "marks an aggressive step into the mobile advertising industry, allowing the social network to expand the hyper-targeted reach of its network into the mobile app space, providing an offering currently unmatched in the market."
Advertisers will be able to better target in-app ads based on who the user actually is, rather than just a profile of who they think the user is, DiMassimo says, adding that this will be particularly important for apps in the dating, travel, employment, banking, food, and shopping industries.
"The one thing that Facebook has over everyone else is that its users voluntarily submit information about themselves: their 'like' history, relationship status, sexual orientation, attitudinal behavior, etc. For years, advertisers have been speculating how Facebook would use the treasure trove of data, and [now] we will see Facebook put this information into action outside its own network," DiMassimo adds.
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Other product announcements made at f8 include Anonymous Login, which gives users the ability to decide what permissions they want to give to an app before signing in, limiting the data shared with third parties.
Zuckerberg referred to Anonymous Login as "a hassle-free way to log in and try apps." Users don't have to remember usernames and passwords and can decide later if they want to share any additional information once they understand more about the app.
"The idea here is that even if you don't want the app to know who you are yet, you can still have a streamlined experience without filling in fields," said Zuckerberg.
For his part, Larry Drebes, CEO of customer profile data management company Janrain, said Anonymous Login is "Facebook's answer to the death of cookies. Cookies just don't work for mobile."
Facebook is testing Anonymous Login with a few developers and says it plans to open it up to more in the coming months.
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In a further move meant to inspire more users to sign in and trust apps, Zuckerberg unveiled a new version of Facebook Login that gives users line-by-line control over the information apps receive. Users can select the data apps get by checking and unchecking categories of information, such as email addresses or birthdays. In addition, the new Facebook Login won't post to Facebook without permission.
"One of the things we've heard over and over is that people want more control over how we share their information, especially with apps," Zuckerberg said. "If people don't have the tools they need to feel comfortable, that's bad for them and you. If we prevent people from having good personalized experiences and trying out new things, that hurts you and prevents you from getting new customers."
Facebook says the new login will be rolling out over the next few months.
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Facebook also revealed it would be creating a tool to add its "like" button to apps. This will allow users to highlight and share content they had seen via the social network. This should drive more traffic to the third-party apps as well as provide Facebook with more data to target its ads.
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