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May 15, 2013 by Jeff Crider · Leave a Comment
One of the pioneers in providing real-time, online reservations for the campground industry, Leisure Interactive has been shaping the way campgrounds, RV parks and resorts process and manage their reservations since 2003. Originally founded as Friend Communications Inc., the company changed its name to Leisure Interactive three years ago following the redesign of its online reservations software into a cloud-based front desk management system called Hercules. The Orange, Calif.-based company... Read more
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Providing RV insurance to consumers and dealers has always been a specialized niche in the insurance business. But Brown & Brown Inc. of Columbia, Ky., is determined to position itself as a one of the nation's leading providers of specialized insurance coverage for consumers and RV dealers through its Reed Brothers subsidiary. And it greatly enhanced its ability to serve the RV marketplace in December in acquiring Orlando, Fla.-based Gilbert RV Insurance, Inc. and RV America Insurance... Read more
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Russell Baehre hopes the campground real estate market will pick after this month's presidential election. "I think after the election there will be a lot of people actively pursuing properties," he said. Woodall's Campground Management reported that Baehre, who has worked as a Kerrville, Texas-based campground real estate broker for over 25 years, said sales always slow down before a presidential election. And while the recession and tightening credit have slowed the pace of campground... Read more
Wi-Fi Service Rates as a Necessity at RV Parks
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Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from a story authored by Jeff Crider for Woodall's Campground Management examining the demand for Wi-Fi service by modern-day campers. To read the entire article click here. Just over a decade ago, when private parks first began to invest in Wi-Fi systems, wireless Internet service was widely considered to be more of a luxury than a necessity. After all, there weren't that many RVers traveling with laptop computers, and if parks offered Wi-Fi... Read more
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It is $350 and reserve is met.
wow!!! I would say go for it if you're looking to buy!!
these are often on ebay - not sure how much they usually go for though
It varies widely depending on the size and the mood of the buyers. I've seen them go between $260 and $450. It's really just a rebadged fuji. Same components and frame. And by the way, Merckx didn't set the hour record on a Windsor, it was a custom built colnago, and the windsor stickers were put on at the last second, as windsor was a mexican bike manufacturor, and merckx set the record in Mexico City.
They look flimsy. May be a good idea to find a better used ride, no?
sounds like a plug to me...
ditto what danielmolloy said. from http://www.torelli.com/home.html?htt...ddyhour.html&1
"At the last moment Windsor stickers were slapped on Eddy's otherwise unlabeled bike. A distracted Merckx saw this as an acceptable way to thank his Mexican hosts (Windsor is a Mexican bike), but Colnago was infuriated."
looks like the person selling those bikes (may be windsor, maybe not) is trying to capitalize on this little-known piece of history, trying to create a "cycling legacy" for windsor that never existed. i'd say spend an extra $150 or so and get an IRO, fuji, pista, etc.
That Windsor is a Fuji...or perhaps the Fuji is a Windsor...whatever, they are the same bike. Not that it's a bad thing.
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With the advent of new investment products each day, the retail investor now has many choices when looking to invest in an index fund. The most common way to track an index is in the form of a mutual fund or an exchange traded fund. In recent years, there have been an increasing number of both types of offerings in the marketplace.
Most index funds are market capitalization weighted. This means that the percentage of each security is based on each company's market cap. There are also equal weight index funds which allocate an equal percentage of the overall portfolio to each company in the underlying index. Other formulas for indexing include price, dividend, and revenue weighting. There have been numerous studies which illustrate benefits of the various indexing methodologies.
Arguments can be made about which strategy is most effective, but this article will focus on the performance of equal weighted index funds in comparison to traditional market cap weighted funds. First we will take a look at the market cap weighted SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) and the equal weight Rydex S&P Equal Weight (NYSEARCA:RSP). Over the past year, RSP is up 56.8% and SPY is up 39.3% (as of 4/9/10), a difference of 17.5%. Year to date, RSP and SPY are up 10.5% and 7.3% respectively, a difference of 3.2%. As small and mid-sized companies continue to outperform the large caps, more equal weight index opportunities will continue to present themselves.
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The latter figures make a comparison between large cap (SPY), mid cap (NYSEARCA:IJH), and small cap stocks (NYSEARCA:IWM). As you can see, there is a level of outperformance in the small and middle sized companies, especially over the past 3 months.
We see the same results in equal weight indices tracking areas such as financials, healthcare, consumer discretionary, materials, technology, utilities, and energy (RYF, RYH, RCD, RYM, RYU, RYT, and RYE). Every single one of these equal weight ETFs outperformed their market cap weighted counterparts by varying degrees. A quick glance reveals industrials is one of the only equal weight alternatives to underperform the normal market cap index.
Among other factors, investors should consider economic trends, trading volume, and expenses when determining suitability for their portfolios. Although many equal weight ETFs trade at very low volumes, they are still a viable option for many retail investors seeking the benefits of index funds with the added performance of equal weighting.
Over the past year, the case for equal weight indexing is hard to ignore. As long as small and mid cap indices exhibit higher growth than the large cap index, these equal weight funds will continue to show higher returns. Since these trends can last from 5 – 10 years, this method of indexing may be considered for core long-term equity positions.
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Reason For Sudden DUI Epidemic Among Athletes?
Via Rick @ DEADSPIN, Howie Long's kid, Kyle Long, was popped for DUI Sunday morning. Long was cited for driving the wrong way down a one way street and failing a field test.
(For once, Chuck lost a lottery OUTSIDE a casino)
Long also recently left FSU, where he was a top pitching prospect. He remains a prospect though and will no doubt eventually land in pro (uh, he's 6-11 and throws 90+).
Another day, another athlete's DUI. You would think that high profile sports figures would learn. (FYI, Scottsdale police confirmed today Charles Barkley was twice over the legal limit when he was cited New Year's Eve.)
Yeah, we all saw and heard those DUI-deterrent PSAs during the holidays: "YOU WILL GO TO JAIL." So with all that government-sponsored advertising, and other athletes constantly getting caught and ostracized, why do the DUIs from sports celebs keep coming?
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I am curious as to what people consider to be things that aren't luxuries and that you think of as basic necessities, in terms of monthly or yearly expenditures.
These aren't mine specifically but I'm imagining the list would include rent/mortgage/home cost, electric, gas, water, trash for everyone but then there's cell phones vs. landlines, internet, cable, health insurance, life insurance, renters insurance, chiropractor/homeopathic treatments, vitamins, supplements, etc.
I'm sure there are more that I'm just not thinking of. Which of these would you consider to be a basic necessity or a luxury? I'm sure it's going to vary based on where you are and what you do?
(Edited for clarity, I'm more interested in the question of basic necessity in your bills vs. a luxury to you, leaving the question of utilities aside.)
I think of UTILITIES and BASIC NECESITIES as different things;
UTILITIES are anything I pay for and could use in my home – technologies, services, etc. so phone, internet, electricity, cleaning service, etc.
BASIC NECESSITIES for me means those that would vastly change my standard of living in the areas of physical comfort: gas, electricity and water. I don't see phone, internet or others as BASIC to my well being even if they are in my PERSONAL minimum, kwim? Anything above BASIC is a luxury in my eyes, they may be luxuries I'm accustomed to and would have a hard time letting go of, but if my own or family's health were in danger these would be the things that could all be cut (internet included even though I use it for work and school) in times of severe distress.
duh I left rent/mortgage off my BASIC list, oops, I bet heat, water and electricity would not do much good without a place to use/experience them.
When I think of the term 'utilities' I just think of gas/electric and water/sewer. anything else is just a bill, either necessary or not.
You have a good point, I was really more interested in the question of basic necessities vs. luxuries, rather than utilities which I think just confused the issue. I edited my original question a little for clarity.
Here's how I see it:
Basic for survival:
Landline phone
Health ins if in US
Not necessary for survival, but still basic:
insurance - car and home (we live in Canada so health ins is not an issue)
Dental care
Organic foods, supplements
Non necessary treatments - massages, chiro etc
Cell phones
Cleaning service (if only I could have this!)
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Here's what I consider when looking at our budget and why. Sorry this is so long.
Health Insurance - Something I would never willingly cut from our budget to save money especially caring for 3 children and one on the way. I feel that it's just too much risk if something were to happen to one of us. I would scrimp on other things than go without.
Mortgage/real estate taxes/homeowners insurance -all of which is included in our mortgage payment, and needed or we lose our house...lol
Water/Sewer -we have city water/sewer so don't really have a choice, if you own a home, you have to pay this or they put a lein on your home.
Food - Everyone needs food to live, I could make due with a lot less than I eat now though... boy I'd like to lose about 80 lbs! (I do pay more money for local milk in glass bottles and try to buy organic foods for our family, which is somewhat of a luxury, I do feel that buying chips/snacks is a luxury also, but buying healthy fresh fruits/veggies and nutritious foods are a necessity)
Adequate clothing/shoes - having clothes that are functional for the seasons and not torn/ripped.
Trash - Pick-up is free each week but the bags cost $1.50 each, recycling pick-up is free also here our city, so the trash can be reduced if you recycle well, which I do.
Electric - You have to have some sort of light since it's dark here now at 4:30 in the afternoon.
Gas or heat of some sort - in MA you have to have some sort of heating for winter, we also use gas for our hot water/stove since it's cheaper than electric.
land line phone/cell phone - I feel is on the border, you can make due without a phone if need be. We went without many times when I was a kid. Since here you can still dial 911 from a land line even if you don't subscribe to a service, but as far as keeping in contact with dr's, school, family, and other important things I feel having at least 1 means of communication is necessary (be it a land line or cell phone) Sometimes I think you can even get away with having a pre-paid cell phone cheaper than having a monthly land line.
We have 2 vehicles and my husband drives a truck for the company he works for (technically isn't ours). I feel that us owning 1 car of our own that can fit our whole family is a necessity for us. This includes Car insurance, and having it registered in the state, regular maintenance, and gas to drive it. Having the additional car and the work truck is a luxury for us. Though we could rely on public transportation if we didn't have a vehicle at all, plenty of people in our city do, so I guess us even owning one vehicle is a luxury for us by some standard (just not mine...lol)
I think everyone should have basic necessities such as a place to live, food, electricity/gas or some sort of heat, some means of communication and transportation, and access to medical attention if the need arises. Those are all things that I feel are needed to survive.
Our Luxuries are:
Cable -Since you can watch all the basic channels for free (and it HD) if you have an antenna, paying additional for more channels I feel is a luxury. We have a boat load of channels, and some paid channels, I would love to get rid of the cable completely but MIL lives with us and pays rent and she watches way too much tv for me to get rid of it...lol
Cell phone and land line - We have both and I keep going back and fourth on the idea of getting rid of the land line, since the only people that call it are telemarketers and collection agencies for people we don't even know.
Internet - It would really really suck if I had to cut this out I almost feel that it is a necessity for me, but if I had to I could make do without it if it came to having food to eat or surfing the web...lol Unless I had no other means of communication (land line or cell phone) Then I could justify having the internet. We also have the internet on our cell phones which is a total luxury.
Us having more than one vehicle. I feel that is a luxury for us. I could wait until DH was home from work to go shopping or do the things that I do with my car, but having it is nice and makes life easier, luxury.
My husbands gym membership that he never uses! Totally a luxury!!!
Netflix - nice but totally not needed since we have cable tv
I donate items to the kids school for the class room, and give a cash donation for the yearly fundraiser - I like to do these things because they help the school, but they aren't a necessity.
Gifts for holidays, birthdays, and parties - There are plenty of people who don't celebrate these things for religious reasons, we could go without, but they make life fun, luxury.
DD's gymnastics classes - It's fun for her and she enjoys it but it's a luxury to be able to pay for her to do that.
Our pets - if times got really tough and it was a choice of feeding my children or 3 cats, the cats would go. I love them to pieces but not as much as my children even though I've had the cats a lot longer than the kids have been around. Plus the cats are a PITA because I get stuck scooping the poop all the time, so actually, gladly they'd go.
We get fast food/ take-out like once a week or so and DH gets coffee from Dunkin Donuts here and there (he's cut back a lot because I'm sick of him bringing home Styrofoam cups and throwing our money away when we have a working coffee pot at home), I could make a meal at home the times we eat out and save us some money, but it's convenient, luxury.
We don't really do anything extra like getting professional hair cuts (DH does maybe a couple times a year), I don't go to the salon to get my nails done or any other beauty treatments. Having a cleaning service, getting our cars professionally cleaned.... I have a hard time with paying someone else to do something that I can do myself for a lot less money...lol Things like vitamins go in with our food budget and medications go in with our medical expenses so they are necessities for us.
We are paying off credit card bills that we used to buy luxury items, things like our high def tv, wii, play station 3, camera, camcorder, and other fun stuff like that. All of which I now realize that we could do without. We're still in the process of learning how to define needs/wants and using our money wisely. Having luxuries are great if you can afford the luxuries you have, when we put things on credit cards, we obviously couldn't afford the luxury at the time :)
Basic: housing, furnishings and household supplies, heat source, potable water source, food, clothing, health care, transportation and its associated costs.
Things I was really glad to have when my parents were able to afford them: indoor toilet, hot water on tap, clothes that other children didn't mock, books that I owned.
As an adult, I've always had the full array of indoor plumbing and I'm happy to have American social welfare programs support the indoor-plumbing lifestyle. And as an investment in the future American workforce, I'd be thrilled to vote for a massive public-works project that put first-rate interconnectivity (phone/Net/cable) in every home - I think it's good for us as a society to have easy access to information. But the idea that this stuff is a "basic need" is frankly funny to me. Not only is it not necessary to live, it's not even necessary to live happily. Human beings are seriously adaptable creatures. Well-fed, warm, mobile-enough-to-avoid-isolation, clean-enough-to-avoid-waterborne-disease human beings have happiness in their grasp.
This is just what I consider, for ME, not anyone else.
Basic necessities: rent, renters insurance, electricity, water, propane, car insurance, some gas to get to work and grocery store, basic food.
Step up from basic, but not luxury: Phone, internet, extra gas for visiting friends and family, snacks and "fun" food, gifts for immediate family on special occasions.
Luxury: cable or satelite, netflix or other movie package, eating out, hair appointments, entertainment, gifts for non-immediate family.
This is basically the three tiered system our house runs on. The first tier is what gets paid/purchased first. These things HAVE to be paid for in order to live a basic life.
Tier two comes next. We have home phone and internet, and a pay as you go cell. We rarely have enough money for fun food or extra gas, although we always make sure that we have gifts for the kids on special days.
Tier three is last, although I feel like everyone needs SOME special luxury. Ours is netflix. For $10 a month, we can stream all the shows we want onto our Wii, and still get one DVD at a time. We don't have or do any of the other things on tier three.
Basic necessities for life: food, shelter, some clothing, a way to stay warm in winter (since we're in the NE of the country).
Basic necessities that living in this culture requires (to comply with zoning laws and laws about the provision and care for children): food, a house/apt with utilities including heat, electricity, and water, enough clothing to wash on a near daily basis, enough sq footage per person, and depending on where we live, a car (where we are now there is essentially no public transportation), at least a basic phone. I think having a computer and the internet, at least some basic form, is fast becoming a requirement in this culture for communication, especially to research, apply for, and keep jobs, and for children to complete educational requirements.
Luxuries: any tech that goes beyond the basic, liberal rather than conservative use of utilities, air conditioning, TV/cable, food that is beyond the basic requirements for nutrition, snack foods/drinks, brand name anything (food,clothing, toys), any entertainment that must be paid for, in some areas, a car, square footage in the living space that surpasses what is required by law per person living there, etc.
Rent/mortgage (if you have it)
Water (if you have to pay for it)
Waste management
Propane (if needed)
Health insurance
Car insurance
Yearly expenses: property tax, car tag/inspection sticker
Anything else
Phone: We keep cell instead of landline so we can have phone access in an emergency on the go but are about to switch to a prepaid unlimited monthly plan to lower our phone bills. If needed the same phone could be put on a daily rate plan that would only charge us for the days used ($2 daily rate, unlimited usage for the day) to be cheaper, if things were really bad then service could be disconnected but the phone could still be used to make 911 calls in a true emergency.
Car: We generally keep two cars but if needed we could always stop using one to not have to maintain it's expenses or even sell it if needed. We also have a different view on cars then most do. Most people keep new(er) cars to keep down repairs. Luckily I'm married to a capable mechanic so we opt to keep older cars and maintain them ourselves. When a part goes out it is replaced and then is good for quite some time. It's much cheaper than buying a new car plus the older car has cheaper tag/taxes and insurance costs and can be kept on liability only insurance instead of full coverage. It saves us a ton of money in the long run plus keeps monthly costs down.
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- property tax & management fees for flat
- school fees for kids
- electricity
- water
- gas for cooking
- food
- clothes & shoes (minimum)
- transportation (bus fare, at least)
- lap tops & internet access (kids need for school now, required)
- insurance for house
- charitable donations (seems wrong not to put it as a necessity, but there it is...)
- mobile phones
- some pay-TV stations
- car & associated expenses (insurance, registration fees, taxes, petrol)
- trips outside HK
- eating out
- taking taxis
- clothes and shoes beyond the minimum
Another category - Saving & Investments - seems like a necessity, but can be viewed as a luxury
- savings for emergencies
- savings for retirement
-investments for retirement
- savings for kids university education
This is really interesting to see where people took this. I personally wasn't thinking of basic necessities as that which is only necessary to sustain life. I meant something like the basic minimum to sustain life at a very basic functional level in the modern world. We're all on the internet, so obviously to some extent we participate in modern life. For instance, I do actually consider internet to be a basic necessity in our society, not a luxury, I need it for school and increasingly you need it for work, and no, not everywhere you live is there the ability to go to the library or a coffee shop. Of course I would cancel it before my family went without food, but starvation aside, I wouldn't cancel our internet unless I had to. On the other hand, we have netflix, and no we don't have a tv so there is no access to free entertainment, but I do consider that to be a luxury.
Strictly speaking i know the difference in reality between a necessity and a luxury. Necessities are somewhere to live, a means to keep warm, food to eat and drinkable water.
Everything else is a luxury or at least not a basic need.
Having said that i definitely have "wants" on my "needs" list which are "needs" only in the context of maintaining the standard of living we currently enjoy.
So my Needs are:
Council + water Tax (non optional tax one pays here in the UK and which covers things like bin emptying and sewerage)
Car costs (diesel, insurance, tax, running costs like tyres and servicing - only servicing is optional in the UK and to me if i'm taking my kids around in it it needs to be serviced)
Landline and mobile phones
Everything else is a Want, but then a lot of the "needs" could be broken into need and want - we NEED clothing, but i can buy it in thrift stores, it doesn't have to be designer. We "need" food but i can buy the cheapest meat cuts and dry goods in bulk, we don't need to dine out every meal. We "need" phones but i don't have to run up a huge bill, just have access to a working phone. And etc. When i say "leisure" i just mean whether or not we have a ton of money i make sure we all get a little something every month. It might be a magazine, a thrift shop toy, a swimming trip, some old fabric for me to sew with, anything really. In a good month it could be something truly wondrous like a really expensive item of clothing for DP or a meal out to a really nice restaurant. In a lean month it's more likely to be a trip to our favourite pizzeria or even just a coffee in a cafe together. IME when couples fight about money it's because one or other or both feels they aren't "seeing" the fruits of their labour and/or feels the other is (like my parents used to fight because my mother scrimped and saved and thrifted so they had some small savings, my dad bought expensive gadgets because he was under the impression that the savings existed because they had enough money - if mum had TOLD him how hard she worked to create the excess it wouldn't have happened). On top of that DP loves the finer things in life and he can be very "full-on" with activities, and finds it hard to walk away - like Mon-Fri he is at work, even when he's home his head is "in" work. He's aspie, so that's normal for him, but it means it's really valuable and worthwhile for him to relax. For this reason i feel we should enjoy ourselves a little. We have no debt and own everything but our house (no credit) - i always do this WITHIN the budget.
There are things i would consider incredibly useful that we don't have, like a 2nd car, but i can't tell myself it's a need. It just isn't.
This is really interesting to see where people took this. I personally wasn't thinking of basic necessities as that which is only necessary to sustain life. I meant something like the basic minimum to sustain life at a very basic functional level in the modern world. We're all on the internet, so obviously to some extent we participate in modern life. For instance, I do actually consider internet to be a basic necessity in our society, not a luxury, I need it for school and increasingly you need it for work, and no, not everywhere you live is there the ability to go to the library or a coffee shop. Of course I would cancel it before my family went without food, but starvation aside, I wouldn't cancel our internet unless I had to. On the other hand, we have netflix, and no we don't have a tv so there is no access to free entertainment, but I do consider that to be a luxury.
I think there are poeple living very functional lives that don't do things the "regular" way. And I am not talking about the minority that have off grid renewables.
For instance, I WOH and I got to work just fine this morning by walking despite having subzero windchill factor. I didn't mind at all and was actually the tiniest bit sweaty when I got to work. We also don't have trash pick up either. It's actually easier in the winter to keep it in our unheated garage (next to my unused car) until we have a 50 gallon container full and then drop it off at the waste station when running other errands than to pay $15 per month and remember to set it out weekly.
There's a blog I read often where the author only takes cold showers because it conserves the propane in his tank in the RV he lives in. That is something I would never do. I love a good hot shower more than anything, but it works for him.
My folks live rurally and have electricity and water service, but they have septic for waste and use wood for heating their house and hot water.
I think Internet (high speed) and cell phones are a necessity. Not necessarily a fancy smartphone - just a basic phone. I think a landline is actually more of a luxury sometimes.
Health insurance, well see, in America I consider that a necessity BUT I don't have it. Which sucks. It's the one thing I stress about.
We don't have life insurance, we don't do homeopathic treatments or use supplements, etc.
A gym membership is also a luxury - you can get exercise without one.
Pets many people consider luxuries but honestly I don't think "responsible pet ownership" requires all that they brainwash you in America to do. Most other countries don't have expensive groomers/trainers/supplements/yearly checkups/doggie daycamps/Halloween costumes, etc. That can get mad expensive really quickly - but you can have pets without treating the animal as royalty financially. Get them rabies shots and whatever else they NEED and they'll be just as happy as not.
I don't have a lot of time to post, but somewhere upthread someone put chiropractic care into the "luxury" category, and health insurance in the "necessity" category. For me, it's the other way around. Allopathic medicine has, in the past, done nothing for my upper back, neck, and shoulder troubles. The insurance I can get through my job does not cover chiropractic, which actually helps me to stay functional. So my money goes to the chiropractor rather than to the insurance company, and I just try to not get sick.
Me too on the Internet and cell phones. I cannot imagine driving out in the terrible weather we have here in winter without a cell phone in case of emergency, the high is going to be 4F today, and we live in the country, getting stuck or having car trouble could be a problem if you couldn't call for help.. I have a super basic, cheap cell phone plan.
However, I cannot remember the last time we had a land line. I can't imagine what I would need one for.
On the topic of the Internet though, even though I consider it essential for us (we won't pay for trash pick up, but we insist on high speed Internet!) I am surprised how many people I meet who don't use it and do not have a computer. Which is totally cool, just one of those things that surprises me. We use the internet for everything. Banking, research, communication with family, entertainment.
I don't have a lot of time to post, but somewhere upthread someone put chiropractic care into the "luxury" category, and health insurance in the "necessity" category. For me, it's the other way around. Allopathic medicine has, in the past, done nothing for my upper back, neck, and shoulder troubles. The insurance I can get through my job does not cover chiropractic, which actually helps me to stay functional. So my money goes to the chiropractor rather than to the insurance company, and I just try to not get sick.
I agree that Chiro can definitely help some people. But what I was meaning was that you NEED health insurance or something to help you if you get in a bad car wreck, get cancer etc. Chiro won't help you (unfortunately) if you need to be taken to hospital in an ambulance.
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There was only one word for this week's instalment of Ripper Street: grim. While it started off as the 'typical' gay period drama love story, complete with the edges of the screen blurred like a dream sequence, it soon all descended into death, debt, blackmail and gore.
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The singer/songwriter says he made millions for penning Rihanna's hit song.
As one of the most successful songwriters in the music industry, The-Dream is in a pretty comfortable position whenever he sits down at the bargaining table. In an interview with the UK radio host Tim Westwood, the singer, who also produces, said one of his biggest hits netted him a cool $15 million.
Asked about his fee for Rihanna's international smash "Umbrella," The-Dream confessed the $15 million payday for a song he originally wrote for R&B superstar Mary J. Blige.
"That one, I'd say was maybe about 15," he said after Westwood pressed him on the issue. Dream said he charges a fairly high percentage for all of the songs he writes, but is open to negotiation. When it came to penning Justin Bieber's breakthrough smash "Baby" (which he also produced), the singer/songwriter said he only asked Def Jam to pay for his hotel room.
"I said [to the Def Jam A&R], 'Okay. You pay for my hotel room — I was in New York and I stay at the Plaza — and I'll write you a record.' And he said, 'No, we're not going to pay for your hotel room,' and I said, 'Okay, well I'm not gonna write you a record.' So, I guess everybody thought about it, and was like, 'Let's pay for it,'" he said.
At the end of the day, The-Dream claimed he's only trying to keep his bills paid.
"I've got every kinda bill, man," he said. "I've got child support bills, old wives' bills, new wife's bill ... I gotta keep writin'."
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NARS Orgasm-Laguna Blush-Bronzer Duo
281 reviews
79% would repurchase
Package Quality: 4.3
Price: $$$$
Package Quality: 4.3
Price: $$$$
Age: 36-43
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Brown
5 lippies on this one for me.
I only bought his because of all the hype here and must say it was a great call to buy it!
Orgasm IS a lovely blush that gives a healthy warmth to my cheeks -- not too sparkly just some shimmer that helps highlight my cheekbones. I don't recoomend it when doing cool lipstick or gloss though.
Laguna was a great surprise for me.... I worrks great to subtly contour cheek hollow and then I adda pop of blush on the apples. Or using it alone is beautiful too... nice bronzer that gives a sunkissed healthy look. Again it has shimmer but it's not over the top and totally wearable in a conservative office setting.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Medium
Eyes: Brown
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I LOVE this duo! 2 fantastic products in a cute and handy palette. Comes with a HUGE mirror. Packaging can get a bit dirty, made of rubbery material. Both Laguna and Orgasm fit so many different skintones and the lasting power is amazing.
WOULD REPURCHASE (will probably get the full sizes!), WOULD RECOMMEND!
I understand why so many people Luguna. It has a nice lasting power, it isn't too shimmery, but just enough to give a healthy glow. Orgasm is also nice, but I hardly touch it. I'm more into plum-tones, I feel that fits better with my NC20-25, Eurasian complexion.
All in all, a nice product, but I think there are better options out there. Would recommend to others to try it, but I wouldn't repurchase this myself.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
Things I love? That it's a duo of two of the most sought after NARS products. Things I don't? That these colors just don't seem to work on me. I've read many places that Orgasm is a universal color that looks good on just about anyone and have been told by MAs that I need to use peachy colors. Now that I've tried it, I just don't agree. Don't get me wrong � it's a beautiful peachy-gold color but I have a light, olive skin tone (usually NC 25) and I think I need something more pink or reddish to look natural as a blush on my skin. I'm not a fan of how sparkly it is either.
As for the Laguna shade, again a great color but it doesn't seem dark enough for me. I wanted to use it for contouring and it doesn't work for that on my skin. I'm sure it would be fine just as a normal bronzer but keep in mind, both of these products have a gold shimmer so you want to be careful on the amount you use.
So overall, they are pretty colors. Just not for me. Definitely try them out before you jump in believing they can be used on almost anyone.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I've had this product for about 6 months. I normally don't buy high end products but I was talked into it by the ladies at Sephora and overall I've been pretty happy with it. The two colors do complement each other. Orgasm is a gorgeous color that gives me a healthy glow. This is my go to blush.Laguna on the other hand... I never find myself using this... I think its a bit dark and a bit shiny for my fair skin tone. I really wish I had just purchased the full size of the Orgasm blush.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
This is a good product to buy if you want/need a good bronzer and blush combination. The two tones go very well together. I have fairly light/medium toned skin and laguna gives me a nice natural healthy looking glow but doesn't look fake. Orgasm is a nice peachy pink with a subtle bit of shimmer (not so much that it looks ridiculous, but if you're not looking for shimmery blush you should probably go with Nars amour).
I got this at sephora for $37 so its definitely not cheap but considering that buying a full sized Laguna/Orgasm is $25 each its a pretty good deal. The only problem I have with this is that I always run out of Laguna faster than Orgasm.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Black
So convenient! Great way to try two-in-one! Love the colors and the packaging. Great to take on trips... saves room in the makeup bag. I do have to tone Orgasm down a notch with a light dusting of powder as it is very pigmented, but love the effect afterwards, and I cannot say enough about Laguna. I recommend to all who want to try a little of both!
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
This was a great way for me to try out Nars, two of their best-selling products on one place. Laguna gives me the perfect sun-kissed look, and Orgasm is a beautiful blush color. I took this when I went on holiday and it was absolutely perfect, blush and bronzer in one place. On a different note, the packaging is beautiful but gets dirty so easily!
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
Great way to try both of these and carry them all on one case! Laguna is the best bronzer ever!
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
It's a great idea to package these two together. I feel like Laguna is a terrific bronzer that doesn't make me look orange at all, it also doubles up as an eyeshadow. I feel like Orgasm is the perfect color to pick up murky looking skin and make it look brighter. I agree with the comment below about the shimmer preventing Orgasm from looking natural, but the color that is achieved is still beautiful none the less. I definitely recommend this duo if you want to imitate healthier looking skin. It definitely makes me glow and I consider it a staple in my makeup bag.
Age: 44-55
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Curly, Coarse
Eyes: Blue
It was a brilliant idea to package these two together. Love it. Works wonders on my ghostly pale/splotchy brown skin.
Orgasm blush has been heralded as the mother of all blushes. Works for me. The peachy-rose color looks natural on me but the shimmer gives it away (how is gold shimmer natural looking?). Orgasm blush is good, but not the end-all and be-all. I like Sheseido's colors work a hair better on me.
Laguna, however, is a godsend for me. i have extremely uneven skin tone because of melasma, with splotches of brown across my forehead, cheeks and chin; an unflattering contrast to my pale skin. (Thanks a lot, Skin God.) Laguna goes a long way to even out my two-tone skin.
Laguna and Orgasm help to make my skin look rosy and healthy instead of sickly and pale. Go light on the Laguna, though, or your skin will just look dirty.
Another big plus for me is that I can use Laguna to create a lovely brown shadow under my lower lashes, something i haven't been able to get from regular brown pencil or liquid liner or eye shadow. This is a look I've admired on celebrities like Reese Witherspoon, and could not until now, replicate.
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A 19-year-old Newburgh man is due in Town Court on Thursday to answer charges involving vacant-building break-ins, town police said.
William A. Brown faces second- and third-degree burglary charges, felonies, and fourth-degree criminal mischief, a misdemeanor. He is accused of breaking into and damaging buildings on Blue Point Road.
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Dutchess County Comptroller Jim Coughlan is seeking re-election in November with the endorsement of the Republican, Independence and Conservative parties, he announced Monday.
"I am really excited to be supported by so many people and across so many party lines," the unopposed candidate said in a written statement. The Rhinecliff resident is an attorney with about 15 years of leadership and management experience.
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Power and Place: Agency, Ecology, and History in the American Bottom, Illinois
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Is ecology or agency the principal imperative of the formation of complex societies? Using new survey data, the author shows how both interest in the development of the riverside settlement area of the American Bottom and how the different modern histories of the northern (industrial) and the southern (agricultural) American Bottom, have affected the survival of evidence and how this in turn has favoured a different emphasis in interpretation for each.
Keywords: Mississippian, Cahokia, chiefdoms, settlement patterns, historical ecology
The earthen mounds that dot the Eastern Woodlands of North America have fascinated archaeologists and antiquarians since they first began making observations about such features in the late eighteenth century. Early concerns with describing and classifying the mounds have given way to studies that use mounds as a point of departure to flame evolutionary discussions about variation in settlement patterns, hierarchies, and sociopolitical organisation on the one hand and the dynamics of ancient power, influence, leadership, and agency on the other hand.
To bridge the gap between these two archaeological approaches to the past, I present a model of the relationship between settlements, identified from mounds and surface artefact scatters, and the ecological resources available to them in a segment of the Eastern Woodlands of North America called the American Bottom (Figure 1). I then turn to a discussion of the asymmetric nature of archaeological and ecological data between the northern and southern halves of the American Bottom and the impact this imbalance has had on archaeological perceptions of the contemporaneous societies that once existed there. These perceptions range from those based largely on the effects of natural resources and the distribution of sites, to those that emphasise ideology and focus on individual sites. I suggest that both the agency and ecological perspectives are inadequate as applied to the American Bottom, and offer an integrated approach that begins with terrain and ecology, moves on to place as historically created and re-created space, and ends with a consideration of the people and their interactions.
Chiefdoms and the American Bottom
The majority of archaeologists working in the Eastern Woodlands of North America agree that during the millennium before European Contact, from the eleventh to sixteenth centuries, AD, the region was inhabited by diverse cultures that spanned the entire range of variation for middle-range hierarchical societies, from what might be called tribes to chiefdoms (Service 1962), but never made the transition to a state (e.g. Anderson 1994; Blitz 1993; Cobb 2001; Emerson 1997; Hudson 1997; King 2003; Knight & Steponaitis 1998; Milner 1998; Muller 1997; Muller & Stephens 1991; Pauketat 1994; Rountree 1988; Smith 2000; Welch 1991; for contrary views see Conrad 1989; Kehoe 1998:150-171; Gibbon 1991; O'Brien 1991; Sears 1968). One particularly instructive regional example for investigating the dynamic relationships among place, people, history and power is located within the American Bottom, a broad expanse of the central Mississippi River valley. What was arguably the most spectacular of the Mississippian-era (c. AD 1000-1600) Native American societies in eastern North America was located here, centred on the site of Cahokia.
The emergence of chiefdoms in the American Bottom began after AD 600, during the latter half of what is called the Late Woodland period (Figure 2). (The uncalibrated chronology (Bareis & Porter 1984) was used here to facilitate comparison with the southern American Bottom where there is an inadequate quantity of radiocarbon dates to permit calibrating the sequence.) During this time, people in the Mississippi River valley lived in small communities widely scattered across habitable landforms in the floodplain (Bareis & Porter 1984). …


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