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Over the last 8 months I have lost around 30 pounds by simply changing my diet and eating habits. No one, my self included, considered me obese or even fat really but I was obviously fat enough to drop 30 pounds, and am now working on losing another 10. My goal weight is 175 lbs…this is how I have gotten there so far, and how I am planning on finishing.
Things You Need To Do
Losing weight is really as simple as a little self discipline. If you are not willing to discipline yourself then you may as well stop reading right now and go eat some Doritos (no offense against you or Doritos, heck I actually LOVE Doritos!). If anyone is going to be successful in their goal to shed a few pounds, self discipline needs to become their best friend.
Making the following disciplined changes in my life has allowed me the fortune of dropping this weight and should be passed on to help others.
- Stop Gorging Yourself – The best piece of advice I can give you is simply to stop overeating. You know the feeling, you walk away from a meal barely being able to breathe…yeah I'm talking to you fatty! This was the first step I took & was really how I gathered a lot of motivation to keep pressing forward.
- Understand The Concept of "Diet" - People…you HAVE to stop thinking of a diet as a 2 – 3 week period where you simply eat less! That will never work for anyone. Grasp the concept that the word diet should refer to your daily intake of food. You do not "go on a diet", you "change your diet". If you want to be healthier & lose weight, then you eat a healthier diet with less caloric intake. This also does not mean eat everything "fat free"…more on that thought later.
- Stop Eating Fast Food Altogether - I have not eaten fast food in over 9 months…& neither should you. It is actually really easy, it saves you a lot of money, and will help you retrain your mind to eat healthier food at home.
- Eat A Balanced Diet - Not all fats are villains; in fact, we need fat for good health. A simple fact that I live by is to stay away from processed foods or foods with too many ingredients I cannot pronounce. Fat free foods are a no no. white sugar and white flour are a no no. Prepackaged food is a no no. Eat more nuts, eat more vegetables, eat more beans. Get high amounts of proteins, whole grains, fiber, & good fats every day. It's easier than it sounds really, just don't buy stuff that men make…eat things that God created.
- Eat A Large Healthy Breakfast - Every morning I start the day with a g00d sized, healthy delicious breakfast. Is this new news? No, but are you doing it? No? Then shut up & keep reading! Your breakfast should include a protein, fat (that's right…fat, it helps your body break down the protein), whole grains, & fruit. The link I included a few words back gives you the recipe for what I eat every morning.
- Eat A Large Healthy Lunch - Beat into your brain the fact that most of your eating should be done in the first half of the day. You should eat the largest amounts early and trail the amounts off over the course of the day.
- Eat A Smaller Dinner & Limit Snacks Before Bed – Again, this is not necessarily new information…but it is all essential for you to adopt if you want to start living healthier. Cut your dinner portions in half. Stop eating before bed. If you do have cravings, have ONE handful of nuts; the fat in the nuts will make you feel full faster. Do not eat a ton of them, just one handful then drink some water & wait 5 minutes, you will find your cravings disappear.
- Allow Yourself A Cheat Day - This is the concept of "taking a day off". I'm a big proponent of this concept because it allows us to be human, and when properly employed will help us stay faithful and curb failure. A lot of people say to do this once a week, I just do it whenever I am feeling heavy cravings which is usually once a week or once every two weeks.
Things You Do NOT Need To Do
Just as there are a bunch of things you SHOULD be doing, there are also a bunch of things you SHOULD NOT be doing. I like to keep a general point of view that if I saw it in a commercial it is probably either bad for me or a waste of time. Whether you like it or not marketing has brainwashed our society into thinking in certain ways. Break free from that sad truth and start thinking for yourself.
- Eat Fat Free Products – Like I said above, if man has found a way to replace natural fat with some sick combination of chemicals…stay away. Stay far away! My wife & I eat real butter, real eggs, real nuts; all of which have real fat. Just because it has fat does not mean it is bad, actually I'll say it again…fat is good.
- Buy Diet Pills - This is another farce the marketing machine has shoved down the throats of Americans and is terrible advice and most times results in health problems & sometimes even death!
- Follow The Latest Diet Trend - Like I told you above, do not "go on a diet". Simply change the way you eat and the way you think about food. Following the latest trends is just a waste of money & will not get you anywhere.
- Spend Hundreds or Thousands On Equipment - You do not need to go buy the latest & greatest health of fitness equipment. Just eat healthy, run, bike, do push-ups & sit-ups. These things are all free and will benefit you more & will not cost you anything more than you are already paying.
How I Plan To Lose 10 More Pounds
Sure I'm down 30 pounds, but I have a goal to get down to 175. Why 175? No really specific reason other than I believe that to be an ideal weight for my size & body type. Also, 175 pounds is how much I weighed all through high school & early college. Here are some of the things I am doing to lose the last 10 pounds:
- Fix Up & Ride My Old Bike - To stick with my staunch views of frugality I prefer to reuse before I buy anew. About 7 years ago my brother sold me a nice mountain bike for $100. That mountain bike is still in really good shape (probably why I was 40 pounds over weight!) so instead of buy a new racing road bike for $2,500 I just converted my mountain bike into a road bike. I bought some new road tires to replace my trail tires, bought a new & more comfortable seat, and bought a new handlebar neck to raise up my bars & make for a more comfortable riding experience. All said & done I spent $90 to get my trail heavy mountain bike ready for road riding, and it worked out quite well. I am planning to ride my bike to work & back when it is nice out. Work is 9.5 miles one way, so that will be a good 1.5 hour ride a few times a week.
- Enter A Triathlon - My brother is a bit of a triathlon freak so I'm going to take a page out of his book this year by entering at least one triathlon. The race I am participating in is run in the end of May and involves a 16k bike ride, a 5k run, and a 400meter swim. I will use this race as a reason to get into shape. Getting more exercise is really the last step in my journey to healthier living. Although I do have a healthy diet now, I still do not exercise enough, so I'm planning to change that this year.
- Continue To Eat Healthy - I will continue to eat healthy food in healthy portion sizes. Coupling this with my new exercise regiment will help me lose the last 10 pounds of my goal!
Do you have a plan to lose weight and get healthier this year? Share it with us in the comments…come on…what are you waiting for??
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Chances are you have stumbled across the great technology website Shankrila.com at some point, but if not now is the time to go visit!
K of Shankrila is giving away 30 licenses of Comodo Internet Security licenses with LivePCSupport – about $1200 value!
From his site:
Comodo Internet Security PRO
A great anti-virus and firewall package that is available for FREE as well as a PRO version. So, what do you get with the PRO version that you don't get in FREE?
You get Comodo Internet Security with LivePCSupport services for an entire year! A $99 value just by itself.
How To Enter
Visit Shankrila to see his blog entry about the Comodo Internet Security giveaway and enter to win!
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The Annoying Problem…
Have you ever been in the middle of writing a post in Wordpress…attempt to either save or preview your post…but accidentally press the "Publish" button instead? Although you can edit the posts published status shortly thereafter, unfortunately your RSS readers will still see your uncompleted work. This can cause you early gray hair and is something I'm sure every Wordpress blogger has done at one time or another!
The Simple Solution…
Enter the "Are You Sure" plugin for Wordpress…
This plugin is quite simple, but quite awesome and should put a quick end to accidental publishing of Wordpress posts. Once installed…when the Publish button is clicked the plugin confirms that you do indeed wish to publish your current content by presenting you with a simple Javascript box to confirm your desire to publish. You can either cancel the publish if accidental, or proceed if you are indeed ready for the world to see your awesome material.
Features per the author:
- Extremely small file size, less than 1.7 KB total
- Simple to use, just activate and your done
- Saves you from accidental posting
- Works on any 'Publish' button, including pages, posts, and quickpress
- Tested and Compatible with Wordpress 2.7+
Download the Plugin:
This plugin has already saved me from a few incomplete publishing snafu's, so I wanted to pass it along to all of you…ENJOY!
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How many times have you had that GREAT idea for a blog topic, only to get home to your laptop & have completely forgotten it? That use to happen to me all the time before I started employing a few simple concepts.
Use any or all of the following as a crutch to help your aging mind remember all those great ideas swimming through your head:
- Use DropBox – Do you have a document that you use to keep all your ideas in? Use DropBox to sync the files between all your computers so you always have your data where you need it
- Use a USB flash drive – same concept as above, but this way it is stored on a little chip that you always carry on your person
- Use Google Docs – this way your documents are stored on Google's servers making them accessible anywhere, especially now that they have made Google Docs available offline
- Use the Memo Recording Feature on your Mobile Phone – that's right, stop reading for a minute or two & play with your phone. Found it yet? Now start using that to record all your great ideas.
- Carry a journal on you AT ALL TIMES – This is still my favorite, a real oldie but goodie! There's just something about carrying & using my Moleskine Small Plain Notebook that just makes me feel more creative
- Start carrying a purse or a "Man Purse" – Carrying a "Man Sack" has enabled me to have all these tools on me at all times. With it, at any given moment I have several options at my finger tips to help buffer my lack of brain power!
Do you use any of these ideas? What are some others that you use?
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Recently I had to upgrade one of my blogs (Debt Free Adventure) to a VPS. Now that I'm operating on a VPS, I have to install, configure, & manage the server by myself. After moving DFA to its new home server, I had a few issues but the main problem was my inability to upload media to a post. Every time I tried to upload media I would get the following error:
"The uploaded file could not be moved to /your/www/root/yourdomain/wp-content/uploads/year/month/"
After much trial & error, mental toil, and countless Google searches here is the fix that I ended up trying on my own accord that solved my problem:
- Add your user account to the "apache" group on your server (you can do this via webmin or with the this command)
- useradd -G groupname username
- change the owner & group on the uploads & all child folders to apache by issuing the following command:
- chown -R apache:apache uploads/
Using this solutions keeps you from having to chmod your uploads dir to 777, which I was not crazy about doing.
Here are a few solutions I found on the web that I tried as well…so give them a shot if the above fix does not work:
- In Settings > Miscellaneous – verify that the default folder for uploading is set to wp-content/uploads
- Changing file permission – changing rights on /wp-content/uploads to 777
- Upgrade your Flash player to the most recent version – past versions cause problems & may cause this error.
- Delete and recreate the wp-content/uploads folder – be sure to back up the contents before doing so. Then make sure to set the newly created dir perms to 777.
- In Settings > Miscellaneous - un-check the box that read, "Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders". I didn't try this because I didn't want to mess with the folder structure, but this DID work for several people around the web.
Thanks to Yan at ThouShallBlog for some of these solutions.
Soon eJabs.com will be residing on the same VPS www.Linode.com server as DebtFreeAdventure.com and I'm sure I'll have to return to this post to re-read this solution!
Good luck & Godspeed.
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Enable the Administrator Account
- Open the command prompt with Administrative privileges by opening the Start Menu, and typing cmd in the search box, and then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter or click the Start orb, All Programs, Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
- Type the following in the command prompt and press Enter after:
net user administrator /active:yes
- Restart your computer and logon as Administrator.
Note: You might want to set a password for the administrator's account for at least a little protection.
Disable the Administrative Account
To disable the Administrative account run the Net User command demonstrated above while logged on an account with administrative privileges but not as the Administrator account and replace yes with no.
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Have you recently installed IE8 only to discover it displays all website forms, input boxes, buttons, etc, so small and/or tiny that they are unreadable & unusable? If this sounds like your problem…read on.
In my last post I included a screenshot of how IE8 was rendering Google.com. After further exploration I found IE8 was rendering every webpage in this errant way.
Please note that I did not install a beta or an RC version of IE8, but the actual first release. I am not sure if this was an issue w/previous RC versions but have heard rumors of it existing since the release of IE8 RC1.
I did figure out how to fix the issue so IE8 now displays all forms in all websites correctly. Here's how I did it:
- In IE8 click "Tools" | "Internet Options" | and choose the "Advanced" tab.
- Scroll down one full scrolls worth and uncheck the "Enable visual styles on buttons and controls in webpages"
- Click "OK" – it will take a few seconds, then your browser should display correctly. You should not have to close/reopen the browser for the change to take effect.
Here is a screenshot:
Thank you for visiting, and happy improved IE8 surfing!
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Yesterday I installed IE8 and much to my lack of amazement, was "advised" to reboot. I ignored the annoying Windows XP restart nag screen and went about my business.
This morning I obliged Windows and restarted so I could test out this new highly touted (by whom I'm not sure) version of IE. I have my home page set to Google.com, which is a pretty simple & easy page to render correctly…right? Well, not for IE8!
Here is what I saw (click to enlarge):
The search window is so small you I cannot even see what I'm typing when I search!
This is hilarious…& an unforgettable first experience with IE8. Be sure to spread this one around!
Check out the 1st experience M$ MVP Keith Elder had.
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I also posted about it here - http://is.gd/mxnr #
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- loves Adobe Air apps #
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- @garryconn - sorry, lost you there for awhile #
- @NCN found you via a twitter search for "debt free" #
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This is a post from eJabs! If this content was helpful to you, come on over & leave us a comment.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-15
Thanks to @KinTheHouse I started using Twitter a little over a month ago and have been enjoying it quite a bit! I love being able to keep up on what everyone is doing & see huge personal marketing potential in this new (to me) social networking tool.
Once you start using Twitter it will not be long before you start using some type of Twitter client/app. Darren Rouse of Problogger has recently compiled an excellent list of tools on his new Twitter Blog, Twitip.com. Also, here is a list of the 21 most popular Twitter Apps from TechCrunch/Compete.
How I Spend My "Tweet Time"…
On My PC…
I actually started using Twhirl & Tweetdeck on my PC about a week before Darren posted his article listing my two favorites as his two favorites (you go Darren!). After using both for about a week, I seem to spend most of my "tweet time" in Twhirl, although I still use some of the tools in Tweetdeck that Twhirl does not offer; such as a long list of tweets by followers & followees, and different columns you can use to separate your direct messages, search terms and the latest news. Overall I prefer Twhirl because of its user friendly interface making it a snap to perform all my every day twitter tasks. Before I was using these two clients, I used Digsby & Twitter.com, which I still use occassionally today.
**UPDATE – 3/12/2009** – I just started using DestroyTwitter and seem to like it quite well so far.
On My Phone…
When on my Samsung Omnia Windows 6.1 mobile phone I use an awesome tool called PockeTwit. I am really impressed with this client and already use it quite often though I just installed it 2 days ago! Download it and read all about the benefits & main features of PocketTwit here.
For Photos…
To tweet photos I use Twitpic, but do not have to leave Twhirl to do so since it is built right into the app.
How do you tweet from your PC or MAC?
How do you tweet from your Mobile Phone?
How do you tweet photos?
Let us know by commenting below…
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I have no qualms about making public knowledge of how much I love Wordpress! Most people use Wordpress as a blogging tool, at which it excels fantastically. However, I'm here to challenge you to use Wordpress as a complete web development CMS utility! More & more I find myself leaving Drupal and choosing Wordpress as the platform I build company websites on.
I could make a huge list of reasons why, but I have recently stumbled upon a very well designed website, built on Wordpress I might add, that has already done just that. So as not to "re-invent the wheel", in summary here are 13 points highlighting why a business (or individual) would want to use Wordpress to develop their web presence.
13 Reasons Why Wordpress Rocks!
- It's free
- There is plenty of support availabile
- Availability of plugins
- It's easy to install
- It maintains itself
- It has an easy-to-use web interface
- Anyone can learn to use it
- It allows multiple users to update content
- You can write in it from anywhere
- You can better integrate content across your website
- There are minimal files to work with
- It puts an emphasis on usability
- It's as advanced as you want it to be
The original article gives depth on each point given above. This list can be a very useful tool in selling your web services to a potential client!
Please visit AddicottWeb.com for the full & original article.
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What do Me, Chewbacca, My Wife and a Nightstand Have In Common?
We can all sound like Chewie! For some reason, I cannot pinpoint why anymore, but my wife & I love to sit and imitate Chewbacca and see who can do it the best! Sounds silly, but it's true. Check out this guys nightstand that likes to do the same thing. Hilarious!
PS…I love you baby, but you know I can do it better.
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A lot of PC techs may be upset that I am delivering this information to "end-users" because it will undoubtedly cut into their workload. However I believe in saving a buck where you can and wanted to give non-techies a quick, easy, & free way to clean their own PC's, and not only clean them but also maintain them. Who knows, this could even be the start of a new career for you!!
First let it be said that using Firefox as your Internet browser may be your single best defense against becoming infected. However if your PC is already infected, use the arsenal of free tools below to play computer technician for a day and clean your own Windows PC. I suggest Firefox not only because I believe it superior to Internet Explorer (IE), but also because the majority of spyware, malware, & viruses constructed today are developed to exploit security holes in IE. Therefore, using Firefox is a good way to prevent infection completely which ultimately, is your greatest defense.
Here is a brief description of the 5 free products you will need as well as a link to each:
- Firefox is a free Internet browser that has been overtaking market share from IE for years now. The majority of Information Technology Professionals use Firefox as their default browser, and they couldn't all be wrong! Click here for a great source for superior Firefox Add-ons.
- MalwareBytes Anti-Malware is a spyware/malware removal program that is free and is also the most effective tool on the market for removing malicious software.
- Clamwin delivers excellent virus protection at no cost. The program is open-source and very effective.
- Ccleaner is both temp file & a registry clean up tool that has been an invaluable tool in my IT apps arsenal.
- Defraggler is a the tool you will want to use last to help speed up your PC. Made by the same company as Ccleaner, Defraggler is a free tool used to defragment your hard drive. I use it because I believe it superior to the built-in Windows defrag utility. I suggest setting up a monthly automatic defrag for best results.
Now that you have cleaned your PC make sure you start using Firefox as your default browser!
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If this post did help you clean up your PC, be kind and pass it along to friends, family, & coworkers…you computer technician you. Happy cleaning!
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***UPDATE 2/12/2009 – The MalwareBytes site appears to be back up & operational***
Currently, to get rid of spyware there is no better tool out there than MalwareBytes Anti-Malware.
The program is free and in my experience has a 100% success rate in removing spyware (along with most viruses) from Windows PC's. I use the program in tandem with Clamwin free antivirus and Ccleaner.
Currently the MalwareBytes website is experiencing issues, so you may not be able to download it. Also if you are trying to update the definition files you will be out of luck until their site comes back up.
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When is this coming? It seems like such a simple request, however I have not noticed this feature in any web-based email solution. Outlook and maybe some other email clients give you this feature, but I have never noticed it in any web email.
Why is that? Is it hard to code? Is this a feature not many people desire? What do you think, would you like to see this feature added to the already awesome arsenal of Google's Gmail? I know I would.
Here are a few of the Google Labs Gmail features I have recently enabled that I used a lot:
- Offline Gmail
- Superstars
- Signature tweaks
- Old Snakey - I love this game!
- Right-side chat
- Right-side labels
- Navbar drag and drop
- Forgotten attachment detector
- Vacation time!
- Custom label colors
- Multiple inboxes
- Create a document (using Google Docs)
- Text messaging (SMS) in chat
- Google Calendar gadget
- Google Docs gadget
- Add any gadget by URL
I'm going to start using Gmail Tasks very soon. Currently I'm using Remember The Milk for tasks, but want to switch to the newly released Google Tasks. The tasks are something that also sounds relatively simple to implement but took forever for Google to add to Gmail.
So why hasn't Google added a Delay Send Feature to Gmail?
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As I attempted logging into my Mint.com account today, though it accessed my account without any problems, I noticed that none of my accounts ever refreshed the new balances.
I started to click on other tabs, then I noticed the "Accounts" tab was gone, and was replaced by a little link in the upper right corner of the Mint.com screen. I clicked on the link and saw an entirely different screen! Here is a screenshot of what I saw:
I haven't heard any announcement of this, so I was pretty surprised to see it.
I noticed that they have added the functionality to add assets for "Auto" and "Real Estate". It looks like Mint.com continues to be a leader in the Free Online Personal Finance Software market!
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Some of you may have been trying to leave comments lately & were unable to. I apologize for that.
I have the reCAPTCHA plugin for Wordpress installed but didn't have my "keys" entered in for it. I knew I didn't have them in, but I didn't realize it was breaking comments. I thought the reCAPTCHA simply wasn't prompting you guys. The reason I took them out was because I had a couple complaints from commentators who were having a hard time seeing the CAPTCHA text, and therefore difficulty adding their comment.
I disabled the plugin to do some research and see if I could make the text easier to read. After digging around…Google style, it's apparent you cannot. However, I did learn some good stuff. Namely, you don't need to enter both CAPTCHA words to have your comment posted, one will suffice. I believe this is a little known fact within the blogging community; well…at least it was with me. Something most peoople do know is that you can refresh the CAPTCHA words if you are having a hard time reading them by clicking on the refresh icon.
After deliberation with…myself…I have decided to reenable the plugin for use on eJabs. What do you think? Does it bother you that much, or are you used to CAPTCHA? Let us know by commenting and participating in this poll.
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I received an email forward today that showed me a pretty cool trick so I figured I'd share it with you.
You know how when you try to use aluminum foil or plastic wrap or wax paper and the roll falls out of the box when you pull on the sheet? Well NO LONGER my friend!
Much to my surprise, and probably yours too, the box company's put in a solution that seems to be a little known fact. I'm sure after reading this you will get up, go to your kitchen & check for yourself…as I did. Each roll contains a perforated triangular shaped locking tab that reads "Push here to lock end" on each end of the box. Simply depress the locking tab with your thumb (or finger) and once depressed these ingenious little inventions hold your roll in place when you pull out and tear off a sheet!
Ah…sometimes it's the small things in life that are cool.
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On January 25th, 2009 I posted an article called "My Goals for 2009". The following post is part of a series of weekly updates I'm writing to serve as my accountability for staying focused and faithful regarding these goals.
First I will list the original goals I set, then respond with my weekly progress toward them.
Original Goals from January 25th, 2009:
- Tithe to the Lord faithfully
- Read my bible & pray every morning and night
- Attend church services every time the doors are open
- Be 15 minutes early for everything
- Work out every morning for at least 5 minutes (jump rope, punching bag, sit ups, push ups and/or other calisthenics)
- Pay off $8,000 in debt (to help accomplish this I have created a new blog called "DebtFreeAdventure", please visit often)
- Form Jabs, LLC to include:
- vJabs – a company that offers remote/virtual Office and IT Administration
- eJabs – a company that includes all of my website endeavors
And now, here is my progress over this past week:
- Besty & I were blessed with the faith to successfully tithe for both the months of January and February 2009. I'm very excited about this because it is something that has been burdening my heart for years. From 2000 to 2003 I was semi-faithful in my tithe, but in the last 5 or 6 years have not been tithing at all. I'm happy to report that the Lord has given me the grace to do so again. I'm also happy to report that I seem to have more money now than I did before I was tithing…a lot more! The money doesn't appear out of thin air of course, opportunities simply arise more often now. Thanks be to the Lord for the success per this goal and I trust He will be faithful in allowing me to tithe faithfully for the rest of my life.
- In my bible reading I have been decently successful in reaching my goal. I have read my bible every morning this past week. My night reading was not 100% but I did read 3 out of 6 nights. The nights I didn't read was because I was up to late either watching T.V. or working on my blogs.
- I'm happy to report that I have been 100% faithful in my church attendance this week! Let me add that it has been a tremendous blessing to me and my wife. We have found a new church in Grand Ledge, MI and are working on getting my membership transferred. I'm very excited about this.
- My tardiness has been something that has challenged me all my life. The good news is, my mindset is changing. I no longer think that it is okay to leave on a 20 minute trip and only give yourself 15 – 20 minutes to get there. You may laugh, but that is exactly what I've done most of my life. Although this goal is not as easy to track, I would say that I have been relatively successful this week.
- I only worked out one day last week, and it was not in the morning! It was at night…though not my exact goal, some working out is better than none. I believe this goal will be the biggest challenge for me to overcome. Nonetheless, I intend to do just that. I want to live long and have a healthy, active life.
- For the month of January I paid $400 toward my 3 credit cards and a little extra on the principle of my auto loan, student loans, and mortgage. Starting with my February payments I intend to pay at least $200 every month to each card until they are paid off, which should take 9 months. I'm paying $33 extra toward the principle of my auto loan, $100 toward my 1st mortgage, and $50 toward my 2nd mortgage. Tithing, DebtFreeAdventure.com, and Mint.com are an immense help in striving toward this goal! Tithing is the most helpful because the Lord is helping me be a better steward of what He gives me, making me more frugal and responsible in all areas of my finances, which allows me more money to put toward emergency savings and bills each month!
- I have actually made some good progress on vJabs this past week. I created vJabs.com, check it out if you'd like. It is just a shell currently, but you can get the gist of the business by checking it out. I have a lot to do, and still am not sure if this is what the Lord has for me. I will continue to work on it.
Overall it was a decent week. I didn't exactly "come charging out of the gates" but that is just as well, I don't want to start off fast only to get burned out. I want to maintain a steady progression toward a change of habits, and I think I'm well on my way!
How are your 2009 goals coming along? Let us know by leaving a comment!
To help me accomplish these goals I'm using a web-based software called "Don't Break The Chain"
To write these weekly update posts, I installed an AWESOME Wordpress plugin called Post Templates which allows you to create and save Post & Page Templates in Wordpress 2.7 so you don't have to reinvent the wheel each time you wish to create a recurring post of similar structure.
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Like I do, many of you probably subscribe to the popular technology blog TechCrunch. With regard to the company, this morning I was very surprised, disappointed, and saddened to read their latest article via my feedreader.
In the article Michael Arrington was definitely on a mission to "clear the air" when he wrote this post. I feel compassion for the him, his family, and for the TechCrunch employees, although not surprised by the actions of humanity in regard to Michael's concerns. Human nature, though some would like to believe contrary, is not prone to love nor the fruit of the spirit. Quite the opposite, according to the bible, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9.
I will be in prayer for Michael and his family and I wonder…Michael…do you have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ?
What about you dear reader…are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? To Nicodemus, a Jewish leader during the time of Christ, Jesus said, "…Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3.
Here is an excerpt of Michael's article followed by a link to the full Monty:
"Yesterday as I was leaving the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany someone walked up to me and quite deliberately spat in my face. Before I even understood what was happening, he veered off into the crowd, just another dark head in a dark suit. People around me stared, then looked away and continued their conversation.
Generally at events people come up to me to talk about their startups. My reaction varies depending on how much sleep I've gotten and how many times I've been pitched in the previous hour. Sometimes I sit down and watch a demo. Sometimes I give them my card and ask them to contact me. Yesterday I was battling the flu, jetlag and little sleep, and had been battered for three days straight with product pitches from entrepreneurs desperate for press. The event was over and I was on my way back to my hotel. The last thing I wanted was another product pitch as I hurried to the car that would drive me to Davos for the next event. So when I saw this person approach me out of the corner of my eye, I turned away slightly and avoided eye contact. Sometimes that works. But in this case all it did was make me vulnerable to the last thing I expected.
In the past I've been grabbed, pulled, shoved and otherwise abused at events, but never spat on. I think this is where I'm going to draw a line…."


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Grantham: Biggest Housing Bubble Since 807 A.D. Has Burst
Posted By Washingtons Blog On November 21, 2012 @ 1:30 am In Real Estate,Think Tank | Comments Disabled
Preface: Housing is currently experiencing a rebound. But the housing crash which started in 2007 was so massive that it is historic in its significance.
We've previously noted that the housing bubble which burst in 2007 was bigger than the Great Depression [1] … and perhaps bigger than any housing bubble in 700 years [2]:
The question is, given the boom we had between 2001-2007, how bad a bust might we have?
Real Estate
Well, in the greatest financial crash of all time – the crash of the 1340s in Italy, which brought on a new dark Age – real estate prices fell by 50 percent by 1349 in Florence when boom became bust [3].
How does that compare to 2001-2007? The price of Southern California homes is already down 41% [4], Southern California hasn't fallen as fast as some other areas, and we're nowhere near the bottom of the market.
Moreover, the bubble was not confined to the U.S. There was a worldwide bubble in real estate.
Housing bubbles are now bursting in China [5], France [6], Spain [7], Ireland [8], the United Kingdom [9], Eastern Europe [10], and many other regions [11].
And the bubble in commercial real estate is also bursting world-wide. See this [12].
Jeremy Grantham just said that our recent bubble was the largest in 1,200 years [13]:
Investors should be wary of a Fed whose policy is premised on the idea that 3% growth for the U.S. is normal. Remember, it is led by a guy [Bernanke] who couldn't see a 1-in-1200-year housing bubble! Keeping rates down until productivity surges above its last 30-year average or until American fertility rates leap upwards could be a very long wait!
2007 – when the housing bubble popped – minus 1,200 years brings us to 807 A.D.
To give a sense of how long ago that was, Charlemagne had just defeated the Saxons – one of the tribes forming the famed Anglo-Saxons – and forcibly converted them to Christianity. England didn't become a country until hundreds of years later, during the Norman Conquest of 1066 .
But the housing bubble which burst in 2007 was arguably the largest in history … ever.
As we've noted [2]:
In "What Goes Up" [14], I discussed the law of booms and busts. A big boom with easy credit leads to a big bust.
The Economist magazine wrote [15] in 2005 that the worldwide boom in residential real estate prices in this decade was "the biggest bubble in history". The Economist noted that – at that time – the total value of residential property in developed countries rose by more than $30 trillion, to $70 trillion, over the past five years – an increase equal to the combined GDPs of those nations [16].
The bigger the boom, the bigger the bust. Because we have likely just lived through the greatest boom in history, we may see the biggest bust in history. (No wonder the guys who predicted this crisis are gloomy about the future [17]. Is this why the big players are selling everything that's not nailed down to raise cash?)
If true, this is saying something dramatic. Because the bubble in 1340 Italy was so big that its bust helped precipitate a new dark age.
We also noted [2] something that is now obvious to all:
The real estate bubble formed the base upon which a series of bubbles in derivatives were built. Specifically, mortgages were packaged in "collateralized debt obligations" (CDOs), which were sold in enormous volumes all over the world. Credit default swaps were then bet against the companies which bought and sold the CDOs.
Now, with housing prices crashing, the CDO bubble is crashing, as is the CDS bubble.
A series of other derivatives bubbles are also crashing. For example, the "collateralized fund obligations [18]" – sort of like CDOs, but where the assets of a hedge fund are the asset being bet on – are getting creamed as hedge funds are forced to sell off many hundreds of billions [19] in assets to cover margin calls.
As everyone knows, the size of the global derivatives bubble was almost 10 times the size of the world economy [Update: It was actually 20 times the world economy [20]]. And many areas of derivatives are still hidden and murky.
So the bust of the derivatives bubble could even be bigger than the bust of the housing bubble.
Article printed from The Big Picture: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog
URL to article: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/grantham-biggest-housing-bubble-since-807-a-d-has-burst/
URLs in this post:
[1] bigger than the Great Depression: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/housing-prices-have-already-fallen-more-than-during-the-great-depression-how-much-lower-will-they-go.html
[2] bigger than any housing bubble in 700 years: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/12/how-bad-could-it-get.html
[3] real estate prices fell by 50 percent by 1349 in Florence when boom became bust: http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff203.html
[4] The price of Southern California homes is already down 41%: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-homes19-2008nov19,0,5649769.story
[5] China: http://www.newsweek.com/id/164626
[6] France: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/europeinsight/archives/2008/10/pop_goes_the_fr.html
[7] Spain: http://www.nysun.com/opinion/housing-pain-in-spain/72501/
[8] Ireland: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/1001/1222724598109.html
[9] United Kingdom: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/constructionandproperty/2787692/UK-housing-bubble-is-bursting-and-it%27s-serious.html
[10] Eastern Europe: http://www.leap2020.eu/European-real-estate-in-2008-Spain-and-UK-deep-into-the-crisis-Eastern-Europe-near-housing-bubble-burst_a1511.html
[11] many other regions: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/13/business/housing.php
[12] this: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/02/14-year-commercial-real-estate-supply.html
[13] 1,200 years: http://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-grantham-us-growth-forecast-2012-11#ixzz2Co8mwHYL
[14] "What Goes Up": http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/12/what-goes-up.html
[15] wrote: http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4079027
[16] the total value of residential property in developed countries rose by more than $30 trillion, to $70 trillion, over the past five years – an increase equal to the combined GDPs of those nations: http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/24/115349.shtml
[17] gloomy about the future: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/12/what-are-the-people-who-predicted-the-financial-crisis-predicting-now.html
[18] collateralized fund obligations: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/10/hedge-fund-losses-may-lead-to-new-derivatives-meltdown.html
[19] hundreds of billions: http://www.moneymorning.com/2008/11/25/hedge-fund-de-leveraging/
[20] 20 times the world economy: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/05/top-derivatives-expert-finally-gives-a-credible-estimate-of-the-size-of-the-global-derivatives-market.html
[21] Image: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/GMO-Grantham.png
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Clear Springs Foods, Inc., an employee owned, vertically integrated food company, has taken possession and operational control of three additional facilities within the past few months. This includes two trout raising facilities in Southern Idaho, which are adjacent to current operations, and a brood operation to hatch trout eggs near MacKay, Idaho in the north central portion of the State.
"We are pleased to take operational control and possession of these three facilities which will increase our production significantly and allow us to provide additional fresh and frozen rainbow trout to our customers," says Larry Cope, Executive Chairman, president and CEO. "Protecting our pristine, spring water resource has been a primary focus for many years. The possession and operational control of two of these properties is the result of diligent water mitigation negotiation efforts over the past several years.
"One of the facilities is immediately operational while two of the other facilities will be renovated and brought up to Clear Springs' standards within 12 to 18 months. Sustainability will continue to be a strong focus for our company. Clear Springs Foods trout remains the leading rainbow trout brand in the USA. We will continue to strive to provide our customers with excellent service and innovative products," he adds.
Clear Springs Foods, Inc. headquartered in Buhl, Idaho, a vertically integrated company, was founded in September of 1966. Today, Clear Springs is a producer of aquacultured freshwater Rainbow Trout and is privately held by an employee-owned trust. This integration allows Clear Springs to control quality through to the primary distribution channels. As an added assurance of quality, Clear Springs' products are packed under strict HAACP guidelines. Clear Springs' products can be found, fresh or frozen, on the menus of many fine restaurants and in the seafood sections of major supermarkets throughout the United States and Canada.


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Red Bluff mother presses for early meningitis warning
Scott and Cameron Arons were incorrectly identified in photo captions appearing with an earlier version of this story.
Braden Schoelen didn't feel good when he woke up early on Jan. 8.
By the time the 10-year-old Red Bluff fifth-grader would normally have been settling in for bed that night, his mother, Suzanne Schoelen, was watching in helpless horror as emergency room doctors futilely tried to bring him back to life.
A bacterial meningitis infection had stopped his heart.
In that moment, the term "meningitis" became more than just another vague medical condition for Schoelen.
She's since become an expert on such outbreaks and how public health departments release information when they suspect someone has fallen ill. What she's learned has left her outraged.
She believes Braden might still be alive had local public health officials announced that another child had been hospitalized with meningitis at least four days earlier.
"Had anyone said to me, 'There was a meningitis outbreak, and this what to look for,' I'd have been in the hospital that morning," Schoelen said.
Instead, Tehama County public health officials chose not to tell the public about the first meningitis case until six days after Braden died from the same strain of the bacteria that sickened the first child.
Confirmation needed
Valerie Lucero, executive director of the Tehama County Health Services Agency, said that when the agency learned of the first case on Jan. 4, it initially had no intention of notifying the public because that child, a 6-year-old, wasn't in school at the time, and there was no great risk the sickness would spread, she said.
"Had we not had a subsequent case in such a short time in the same town, we probably wouldn't have put out a press release at all," she said.
In general, the county doesn't announce a suspected meningitis case until the infection can first be confirmed at a lab, Lucero said. That process can sometimes take days or weeks after doctors obtain a sample from a patient's spinal fluid to test for the bacterial or viral infections that can cause the disease, a swelling of the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord.
Lucero said county officials chose not to disclose cases when they're first suspected because too many false alarms would amount to crying wolf. She said patients would soon start to ignore warnings on how to protect themselves from a disease.
In addition, Lucero said that since meningitis can easily be picked up anywhere, even by those who show no symptoms, there's no point in putting a patient's privacy at risk by announcing specifics of a case if it hasn't yet been confirmed.
Many people carry meningitis-causing bacteria and don't even know it, she said.
"People do have some rights to privacy here," Lucero said. "Plus, you're causing alarm out there in the public when certain diseases aren't that infectious."
Killing quickly
• Stiff neck, fever and headache, which can develop over the course of several hours or take as long as one to two days to appear.
• A rash that doesn't go away with pressure.
• Nausea, vomiting, discomfort in looking at bright lights, confusion and sleepiness.
• Newborns and infants may appear slow or inactive, irritable, or simply stop acting normally.
• Seizures.
But Schoelen contends that public health officials need to announce even suspected meningitis cases because the public needs to be aware of the symptoms as soon as possible.
Schoelen learned just how fast the disease can kill on Jan. 8. She said Braden woke up about 5 a.m. with seemingly flulike symptoms. Schoelen said since the H1N1 and other flu strains were in the news at that time, she assumed that's what had sickened her son.
By that point in the much-hyped flu outbreak, local and national public health officials had begun urging patients to stay at home, except in the most serious of cases, rather than flood already overburdened emergency rooms for care.
She waited it out, thinking her son's symptoms might abate.
Health departments fear disease warnings could cause complacency
They didn't. By 5 p.m., she called an ambulance.
She rode with Braden to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff, watching as a bright red rash spread across his body. By 9:45 p.m., he was in cardiac arrest.
Information questions
Schoelen said she can't get a clear answer as to why public health officials sent out a news release announcing her son's death just two days after he died, but they waited so long to announce the earlier case.
Jan. 4: Tehama County Health Services Agency receives notice that a 6-year-old Red Bluff child has been hospitalized with meningitis.
Jan. 8: 10-year-old Braden Schoelen of Red Bluff dies of meningitis.
Jan. 10: Public health officials send out a news release announcing his death. It's described as a "suspected" meningitis case of a boy at Bidwell Elementary School. Braden isn't identified and his age isn't provided.
Jan. 11: Public health officials send out second news release announcing that Braden's infection was confirmed as meningitis.
Jan. 14: Public health officials send out a news release announcing the initial case. The release doesn't identify the patient's name, gender or hometown, but provides the child's age.
The health department also sent out a news release about her son's case even though the strain was still not yet confirmed, running counter to Lucero's claims that only confirmed infections are announced.
Schoelen also takes issue with the way the health department wrote the news release announcing the initial case. The Jan. 14 health department news release announcing the first child's case called it the "second confirmed case" of meningococcal infection.
The release doesn't identify the patient's name, gender or hometown, but provides the child's age. The release also doesn't reveal the date on which the child became ill.
Schoelen contends the news release announcing the first infected child was written that way to mislead the public into believing the initial victim was sickened after her son fell ill.
She said that even if health officials insist on waiting for a case to be confirmed before releasing information, she can't understand why it took so long for the first case to be tested in a lab.
She said it took just two days for her son's infection to be confirmed.
"They're not being held accountable for their role in this," Schoelen said. "They had confirmation, but they didn't disclose it."
'Word already out'
Lucero defended how public health department officials handled January's meningitis outbreak as well as how information was released.
Lucero said that Braden's case was announced quickly without confirming the bacteria because Braden was a student when he got sick, and his fellow students at Bidwell Elementary School in Red Bluff needed to be tested and vaccinated to keep the disease from spreading.
School officials already had started notifying parents, Lucero said.
At that point, health workers made a choice to release information on what was then a suspected case because "word was already out," Lucero said.
The first case was announced Jan. 14, the day after lab results came back confirming the infection, she said.
Without knowing the specifics of why the lab tests in the first infection took so long, Lucero theorized that lab tests are often done in bunches, which could have led to a testing delay.
She said the news release declaring the initial infection as the "second confirmed case" wasn't meant to be confusing. Rather, it was merely stating that a lab had confirmed another case - not to announce a chain of events, she said.
Lucero said that just because information hasn't been released to the general public, it doesn't mean that health officials aren't working diligently to stop the spread of a disease. When health workers suspect someone has meningitis, a patient's immediate family, friends and other close contacts are tracked down to make sure they're treated with antibiotics or vaccinated.
Those without symptoms are especially urged to get treatment to keep from spreading the disease since it can still be carried and spread to others even if the carrier isn't sick.
Inherent risks of testing
Doctors also warn that excessive and unnecessary testing for meningitis presents its own dangers.
Dr. Rob Hamilton, who heads the emergency department at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, said since a doctor needs to sample the fluid surrounding the spinal column to test for an infection, there's always an extremely low risk of an errant needle poke severely damaging someone's nervous system.
The larger danger is that the procedure would worsen a benign headache.
There's also a small chance that even in a sterile hospital setting, meningitis-causing bacteria could inadvertently be introduced during the lumbar puncture, commonly called a spinal tap, Hamilton said.
"It's not a total trivial thing to get done," he said.
Hamilton said he empathizes with public health officials in holding back until a case is confirmed.
One false alarm about a suspected meningitis case could potentially flood an already crowded emergency medical system with dozens of scared patients who don't have meningitis but are demanding expensive, potentially dangerous and time-consuming spinal taps, he said.
'Digging in their heels'
After watching helplessly as her son died, those risks seem trivial to Schoelen, and she notes that after her son died, students at his school were tested with mouth swabs, not spinal taps.
She says a risk of a false alarm is better than no warnings at all.
She said she's spoken with several members of her county's health department, including Lucero, and she's frustrated that they won't even consider re-evaluating their policies in response to her son's death.
"Nothing I've seen shows that anything there is going to change," she said. "They're digging in their heels and saying, 'No, we did everything right.' "
Schoelen said that her complaints have been brushed aside, and officials have treated her as if the grief over her son has stolen her good sense.
But Schoelen said she merely wants officials to adopt a set of public information guidelines during disease outbreaks.
Her hope is that in the future officials will announce when they first suspect a disease and not wait until after the outbreak has struck others - or passed entirely - before issuing warnings.
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Proceed, US, on the downward path.
@Bill Lee. I concur!
Empire building or free market capitalism, which shall win out in this economical tug of war?
For five economical powerhouses would benefit greatly from this pipeline, namely, India its final destination, Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran.
You know. I don't like the Iranian or Pakistani govt like I don't like Republicans or Democrats but I wouldn't tell any of them how to make a living. The problem with our govt is they believe that they own the world and they must do what we demand because we pass domestic laws against a foreign country. The rest of the world is changing and don't particularly like being told what to do. Pakistan should tell Nuland go f yourself and fine we will do business with the BRICS at your loss.
Perhaps the BRICS should pitch in and assist Pakistan in paying for it. That would really piss off the US State Department who believes it can dictate to a another government how it should receive it's energy!?!?
Indeed, the world WILL be multipolar within the next two decades. DC will lose it's seat of power as countries are sick of being told what to do – often times against its own interest. My worry is how will Washington deal with this? Will they plunge the whole planet into nuclear war or quietly accept that it will continue to have a PART in the world, not run it.
Problem I have, is they may not like being told "what to do", but the sure don't mind raising he11 when the US threatens to cut off the BILLIONS in aid.


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Friday, August 31, 2012
Conforming to Society but Still Resisting the Cookie Cutter
One type of person is naturally organized and can self-manage easily. Sometimes the lessons are learned after making mistakes in real life and we adapt our behavior easily and quickly after one or a few mistakes.
Some people need monitoring to get into a groove.
Some people seem seriously challenged with self-managment and need to be directly told some things that may seem intuitive or common sense to the rest of us. Put your book in that spot when you are finished. Keep your papers in one place in an organized manner. Know what you did with your homework assignment. Know your schedule. Update your schedule when changes occur.
New systems such as getting used to a new internet platform for an online class can be a big challenge for some people.
I seem to have kids on the opposite side of each spectrum. I am more mature than they are and the way I am today is not the way I was when I was young. I am wiser and more organized and neater now than I was when I was a preteen and a teen. It is hard for me to shift gears from what I know is best (that sometimes borders on perfectionism) and what is reasonable to expect and then to figure out how to deal with each kid to shift gears to teach them these things without sounding like a critical complainer or a nag.
Homeschooling more rigorous academics in the junior high and high school years is a challenge. I thought that outsourcing some of the teaching to others this year would be less of a burden on me but so far it is more work for me! I am happy to report that the classes I selected are rigorous which I wanted, but they are harder than I thought, and this is a both a blessing and a curse. My kids are being pushed to do hard work, (and some busy work in some cases). They are doing some quality learning too, of course. They have to comply with external deadlines, report to an authority who is not me and take quizzes, tests, and get graded by unemotional third party teachers. While this does not seem unreasonable to those who live the school life you need to know that my kids have had an alternative education using unshooling, then Charlotte Mason, then an eclectic largely "learning by doing" experience. All those things were the polar extreme from reading boring textbooks and answering homework questions and memorizing the periodic table and being tested on terms.
I can't say my kids are at a place where they are doing learning for the sheer joy of learning in all of their classes. They are being tested and tried by the rigor. They are both doing a college prep program, one is the classical education model. These are basic courses that will more than fulfill high school graduation requirements. They are learning and they will grow their minds in this process so it is worth it. They are doing these things in order to keep the door open to seek the career of their choice. They are doing these things because they have to if they want to do those careers.
The last thing that remains a challenge for both of my kids is having a full academic load and continuing to play a four season sport plus do Boy Scouts. My older son is also juggling participation in the year-round FIRST Robotics team. I don't want them to not fulfill their passions, to not have a social life, and to not do the sport they love which also has or is getting them into top physical condition.
If my kids had it their way they would narrow their academics to their passion areas and skip doing what they hate. They would avoid history as they think it is meaningless in their lives. My sophomore says he would like to spread his academics over six years (not four) so that he could do the robotics at a high participation level, do Boy Scouts with its leadership roles and for the fun of it, and do the sport at an intense competitive level which he now craves for physical fitness and for the full social life it provides.
But we live in America where high school is supposed to be only four years and where colleges still want (practically demand) that students enroll as freshman at age 18. So we are trying to squeeze our alternative education kids into the cookie cutter as much as we can while still allowing them to have time to do the extracurricular activities that provide them the personal fulfillment they love and which helps make them the unique people they are developing to be.
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- Xa Lynn said...
Where do your kids want to go to college that is still demanding 18 year old freshman?
I told my girls they were welcome to start classes at the local community college, or at State (because we get a partial tuition break, since my husband teaches there) while they were still in high school, or they could wait and start after graduating, or they could take a year off IF they have a job lines up, so they could earn some cash to pay for class...
I hate the cookie cutter educational mold. Can you tell?
Xa Lynn
- Saturday, September 1, 2012 at 7:54:00 PM CDT
- April said...
Have you considered dual-enrollment options for your high schooler? That might actually buy him some time to pursue other interests since some of his current coursework would be doing double duty.
It sounds like you're having a challenging fall semester; we find ourselves in a similar season.
I hope it continues to improve your children's education and character and enriches your family life as well!
- Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 5:18:00 PM CDT
- ChristineMM said...
Xa Lynn,
Not all colleges will accept cc credits for transfer students. Of the ones who will accept transfers, not all majors will take transfers. Most scholarships are for high school graduates entering college as a freshman.
My son also thinks at this point he may do a college sport which is a traditional high school path with NCAA looking over the homeschool transcript then traditional enrollment full time as a freshman for the full four years in college.
- Monday, September 3, 2012 at 6:04:00 PM CDT
- ChristineMM said...
We have begun the cc admissions procedures (in April 2012) but my son refuses to take the required entrance exam. So he is stuck in limbo and unable to register. At our cc you must take 4 hours of testing in English, writing, and math before you can apply to any course.
Oh the joys of homeschooling and parenting a teenage boy.
- Monday, September 3, 2012 at 6:05:00 PM CDT


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No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
|May 20 2013, 04:58 PM
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|May 20 2013, 05:01 PM
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Re: No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
The second time I saw the movie I noticed that Carol said "this fuel cell has been removed" (or replaced or whatever) rather than "the fuel cell..." etc. Given the size of the torpedo versus the cryocannister I'm assuming that the torps each have more than one fuel cell.
That said, this aspect of the plot is rather a mess once you start asking questions.
|May 20 2013, 05:29 PM
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Re: No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
Still, that one is a good question.
|May 20 2013, 06:18 PM
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No Where to be found, but everywhere you are - I'll be there looking for ways to save your life.
|May 20 2013, 06:20 PM
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Re: No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
At first, I thought maybe Marcus was giving Kirk the missiles having put Khan's people in them as a way of getting rid of them after Khan went rogue. But that's too convoluted to make any sense at all. Especially taking care to put them in still frozen and alive.
It turns out, anyway that Khan put them there, himself. So maybe it was a way of getting them onto the Vengeance, where those missiles were probably intended to go in the first place. Seventy-two Trojan horses. Once they were there, Khan would find a way to board the sparesly crewed ship before the missiles were fired and revive his friends (if Scotty could run around the ship undetected, Khan certainly could get aboard and find a way to revive his people). Khan and his people would then take control of the Vengeance. That meddling Kirk getting the missiles was not what Khan believed would happen. There are problems with this premise, too, but it makes some sense.
The final problem is there are exactly 72 missiles. What a convenient number. Wouldn't that raise eyebrows among Marcus's people? Did they coincidentally order 72? What if the initial order was for only 64 missiles? What if there were 84? What if only 50 had been loaded onto the Enterprise?
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|May 20 2013, 06:39 PM
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Re: No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
I think Khan's so good he just modified the uber destruction photon torpedoes to not only hold a human plus all their cryogenic gear plus a fuel cell and uber explosives.
I think Adm. Marcus got possession of these torpedoes, examined them and determined that they could still be used to blow up things even with Khan's crew in them.
Then he instructed Kirk to use all 72 torpedoes to blow up Khan. Not only would this kill Khan but he would also kill Khan's family by using his invention against him. So Marcus would get his vengeance for the destruction of London's Section 31.
I was just wondering how much extra space is in these photon torpedoes anyway to fit a whole human in it and still work.
In TWOK was Spock's coffin placed in a torpedo or was it a torpedo or was it a coffin just shoved into space?
It still went to Genesis so it probably was fueled. If it was a torpedo then I assume the explosive mechanism was removed
|May 20 2013, 07:48 PM
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Re: No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
"Okay, Khan's gone rogue. Thaw out another one."
Anyway, the idea that he would have put all 72 of them aboard the Enterprise does strain credulity. There are easier and far less risky ways of killing them all, if that's what he wanted to do.
|May 20 2013, 07:58 PM
Re: No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
Yeah, that whole aspect of the plot didn't make a lot of sense and really there's no explanation that works well. (If Kirk just went and fired the torpedoes what would have happened? Seemingly he would have killed 72 people and the torpedoes wouldn't have exploded?) It was needlessly convoluted.
I do like the idea that they were Khan's way of getting the augments onto the Vengeance though.
"I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there." - The Eighth Doctor
|May 20 2013, 08:09 PM
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|May 20 2013, 08:56 PM
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|May 20 2013, 09:20 PM
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Re: No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
Smuggling his friends aboard in topedoes with their warheads intact but unarmed like they were Trojan horses would be the the last thing anyone would think (it is a bit insane, after all), but if he gets on board and revives them, there's no doubt they'd take the ship over, and Khan would be on a rampage with the Federation's newest warship and 72 powerful missiles at his disposal.
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|May 20 2013, 09:24 PM
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|May 20 2013, 09:34 PM
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|May 20 2013, 10:51 PM
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Location: Seattle, WA
Re: No Gas in the tank... SPOILERS
There had to be more than 72 missiles initially. Watch the scene leading up to the bombing in London. There's a missile or two in the archive right before the bomb goes off. So, that[those] missile[s] was[were] destroyed. And there were still exactly 72 human-loaded missiles left.
Plus, they had to redesign the Enterprise [somehow, somewhen] to give her 72 launch tubes. She didn't have those in the last movie. How convenient that Enterprise has exactly 72 launch tubes.
All this rewriting and handwaving had to happen just because the writers decided to shoe-horn Khan's backstory into John Harrison's backstory. And TOS "Space Seed" had already established that there were exactly 72 followers of Khan on the Botany Bay.
They could have just not used Khan, and then the 72 number wouldn't have been necessary.
Or they could have added some line about how Khan was only able to save a certain number. You know, something more reasonable, like a dozen, more like the number of followers Khan had left in ST:II.
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- Dictionary of Dangerous Pollutants, Ecology and Environment REF 363.7003 T 1
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- The complete Encyclopedia Britannica with related web links.
4. Resources on the World Wide Web
Finding reliable information on the web can be difficult. Use the ipl2 site www.ipl.org or see recommended websites below.
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- http://www.pewclimate.org/
- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/themes/climatechange/
- Climate Change (U.S. EPA)
- http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
- American Solar Energy Society (ASES)
- http://www.ases.org/
- Renewable Resource Data Center
- http://www.nrel.gov/rredc/
- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
- http://www.eere.energy.gov/
- The California Solar Initiative
- http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Solar/index.htm
- Energy Tutorial
- http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu/EnergyTutorial/
- Green Design/Sustainable Architecture: Resources
- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/GreenAll.html
- Wind & Water Power Program
- http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/
- American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
- http://www.awea.org/
- Alternative Fuels & Advanced Vehicles Data Center
- http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/
- Alternative & Advanced Fuels: Biodiesel
- http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/fuels/biodiesel.html
- Harvesting Clean Energy
- http://www.harvestcleanenergy.org
- Alternative and Renewable Fuel & Vehicle Technology Program
- http://www.energy.ca.gov/altfuels/
- Popular Mechanics: Alternative Fuel
- http://www.popularmechanics.com/drivegreen
- The City Project
- http://www.cityprojectca.org
- Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America
- http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/05_carbon_footprint_sarzynski.asp
- Clean Air-Cool Planet
- http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/
- Wastes (U.S. EPA)
- http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/index.htm
- Water Recycling and Reuse: The Environmental Benefits
- http://www.epa.gov/region09/water/recycling/
- Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Waste?
- http://www.learner.org/interactives/garbage/intro.html
- Carfree.com
- http://www.carfree.com/
- Smart Growth America
- http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/
last updated: 07/15/2011 by S. Coates, P. Johnson revision #7