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The currently murky legal status of medical and recreational marijuana dispensaries has led Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express to classify dispensaries as illegal businesses, leaving merchants without access to credit card processing for medical marijuana. Until this matter is resolved at the federal level, it appears that the major credit card processors will not provide merchant services for marijuana dispensaries. This policy has forced most marijuana vendors to exclusively accept cash transactions, limiting payment options for dispensaries and turning their customers and their cash-only locations into targets for robbery.
We have listed five providers of marijuana merchant accounts below. Some of them do not clearly explain how they allow medical marijuana dispensaries to accept credit or debit cards. Given the firm stance of the major credit card processors, however, it is reasonable to assume that all of these providers offer point of banking systems as their primary method of card acceptance for marijuana vendors.
Please note that CardPaymentOptions.com has not assessed the legality of the payment methods offered by the following providers. This list also does not constitute an endorsement of any kind by CardPaymentOptions.com, and the order in which these businesses are listed does not imply a ranking of any sort. This list is simply a resource for medical and recreational marijuana vendors who are seeking credit card processors that claim to process sales for the marijuana industry. Merchants are strongly encouraged to research the services offered by these providers before agreeing to process card payments for marijuana through them.
The Transaction Group
The Transaction Group (thetransactiongroup.net) is a Jacksonville Beach, FL-based ISO of PowerPay that claims to have "partners that offer legal marijuana merchant accounts for medical marijuana dispensaries in the United States." Whether or not these partners are PowerPay and its processor is unclear at this time. The company's website stipulates that medical marijuana vendors must be retail locations only (no eCommerce or MOTO transactions allowed) and does not mention point of banking systems. Whether this company offers traditional credit card processing for medical marijuana is currently unknown, so merchants are advised to fully inquire as to the legality of any services they receive. The Transaction Group is currently showing no rating with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and does not have any complaints filed within the last three years.
Best Point of Banking
Best Point of Banking (bestpointofbanking.com) is a Riverside, CA-based merchant account provider that specializes in providing point of banking systems for medical marijuana dispensaries. The company advertises month-to-month contracts, a $12 statement fee, and free paper for merchants. Best Point of Banking appears to also operate under the name MMJ Merchant Accounts. There does not appear to be a BBB page for either of these business names.
The High Risk Guys
The High Risk Guys (marijuana-merchant-account.com) is the high-risk merchant account arm of eMerchantBroker.com specializing in medical marijuana dispensary merchant accounts. The High Risk Guys appear to offer point of banking systems with convenience fees between $0.99 and $2.00. The company also appears to offer mobile solutions for medical marijuana vendors. There is no BBB page for The High Risk Guys specifically, but eMerchantBroker.com currently has a BBB page that is under review like all greater Los Angeles-area businesses. The company has been accredited with the BBB since 2012.
GreenHouse Payment Solutions
GreenHouse Payment Solutions (medicalmarijuanamerchantservices.com) is a Denver, CO-based medical marijuana payment solutions provider that formerly operated under the name Mills Payment Systems. The company specializes in providing point of banking systems and ATMs for marijuana dispensaries. GreenHouse Payment Solutions is a member of the National Cannabis Industry Association and is operated by Chris Mills. The company does not appear to have a BBB page.
420 Card Processing
420 Card Processing (420CardProcessing.com) claims to offer credit card processing options for medical marijuana dispensaries. We were also able to locate information from another website that indicates that 420 Card Processing offers cash advances for marijuana merchants. The company's website does not specifically disclose the services it offers, and there is no BBB page available for 420 Card Processing at this time.
If your business offers merchant accounts and payment solutions to medical marijuana dispensaries, please leave a comment in the comment section below or contact us through our contact page in order to get listed in this article.
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Some marijuana merchant account providers have found workarounds that do not rely on major credit card processors. Marijuana credit card processing is typically made possible by a service called a point of banking system. This system, also known as a "cashless ATM," functions in the store as a PIN-based swiped transaction, but the actual processing of the payment is completely different from traditional credit card processing.
When a customer swipes a credit, debit, or ATM card through a point of banking terminal, the terminal essentially acts as an ATM that the customer might find at his or her bank. The only difference is that no physical cash is ever withdrawn from the customer's account. Instead, the customer must enter a PIN, choose a type of transaction (in this case a withdrawal), and specify the dollar amount being withdrawn. Just as with ATMs, these dollar amounts are in increments of five dollars ($10, $15, $25, etc.). The terminal then prints a receipt for the customer to sign, and the merchant places a copy of that receipt in the register before providing the customer with change to make up the difference. For example, a cashier in a dispensary would hand back $3.20 in cash for a $16.80 purchase made by a customer who selected a $20 withdrawal. This greatly reduces the amount of cash on site, and the swiped payment is deposited in the merchant's bank account usually within three days.
Generally speaking, marijuana merchant services providers encourage merchants to charge a convenience fee (usually about $0.99) on each transaction to cover the cost of the terminal/processing service. This fee comes at the customer's expense, so merchants should weigh a customer's potential irritation with a surcharge against the convenience of offering card payments.


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Mild Intermittent Asthma
- Symptoms occur less than three times a week, and nighttime symptoms occur less than two times per month.
- Lung function tests are greater than 80% of predicted values. Predictions are often made on the basis of age, sex, and height.
- No medications are needed for long-term control.
Mild Persistent Asthma
- Symptoms occur three to six times per week.
- Lung function tests are greater than 80% of predicted values.
- Nighttime symptoms three to four times a month.
Moderate Persistent Asthma
- Symptoms occur daily.
- Nocturnal symptoms greater than five times per month..
- Asthma symptoms affect activity, occur more than two times per week, and may last for days
- There is a reduction in lung function, with a lung function test range of 60% to 80% of predicted values.
Severe Persistent Asthma
- Symptoms occur continuously, with frequent nighttime asthma.
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- Lung function is decreased to less than 60% of predicted values.
How is Asthma Treated?
Asthma can be controlled, but there's no asthma cure. There are, however, certain goals in asthma treatment. If you are unable to achieve all of these goals, it means your asthma is not under control. You should contact your asthma care provider for help with asthma.
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Properly using asthma medication, as prescribed by your doctor, is the basis of good asthma control, in addition to avoiding triggers and monitoring daily asthma symptoms. There are two main types of asthma medications:
- Anti-inflammatories: This is the most important type of medication for most people with asthma. Anti-inflammatory medications, such as inhaled steroids, reduce swelling and mucus production in the airways. As a result, airways are less sensitive and less likely to react to triggers. These medications need to be taken daily, and may need to be taken for several weeks before they begin to control asthma. Anti-inflammatories lead to a reduction in symptoms, better airflow, less sensitive airways, less airway damage, and fewer asthma episodes. If taken every day, they are helpful in controlling or preventing asthma. Oral steroids are taken for acute flares and help increase the efficacy of other medications and help reduce inflammation.
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In a PBS interview June 2, Vice President Joseph Biden predicted 700,000 to 1.4 million jobs would be created by the end of 2010. But at most, that would still be more than 5.2 million jobs shy of matching President Obama's claims about economic stimulus.
Biden forecast job creation "between 100,000 and 200,000 jobs on average all the way through this year" in an interview with Charlie Rose. He also predicted "trouble in paradise" for the GOP.
Left-wing website The Huffington Post reported the prediction calling it "fairly safe" by "recent trends." Sam Stein wrote that, "Biden would not, however, mark a date when he thought the unemployment rate would dip to, say, six percent."
Stein didn't remind readers that Obama said the stimulus package would create more than 4 million jobs by the end of 2010. Once you take out temporary jobs and the 100,000 minimum needed every month to keep up with population growth, the economy would need to create 932,000 new permanent jobs each and every month through the end of 2010.
The Obama administration actually needs to create a grand total of 6,662,000 jobs by the end of the year to fulfill his pledge because over 2.6 million jobs have been lost under his presidency.
The May 7 jobs report of 290,000 new jobs (66,000 temporary) was praised by the mainstream news media. The Associated Press emphasized the good news in its subhead and lead sentence: "Jobs grow by most in 4 years," and described people streaming "back in to the market looking for work."
AP waited until the eighth paragraph to mention that "all told, 15.3 million people were out of work in April."
Under previous administrations (Bush, Reagan) good jobs news was spun negatively. But since Obama took office, many news stories have given him a pass on the employment issue despite his grandiose promises to create millions of jobs.
The Business & Media Institute found that network news reports were extremely negative during President Reagan's administration, when unemployment was often at the same rate as it was in 2009 during Obama's first year. The networks found "good" news for Obama; however, focusing stories on as few as 25 jobs "saved" by the stimulus package.
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Shinseki spelled out some of the dire consequences of a longer-term shutdown in testimony before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. The short-term consequences have meant that disability claims production has slowed by an average of about 1,400 per day since the shutdown began Oct. 1, and that has stalled the department's efforts to reduce the backlog of disability claims pending for longer than 125 days.


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Stock Market and Investment Goods Prices: Implications for Macroeconomics
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October 2003
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Stock market prices, a measure of the marginal cost of installed capital, are procyclical. Yet, prices of investment goods, the main input into new installed capital, are countercyclical. We exploit this information to identify the driving forces of the business cycle and the nature of capital installation costs. In our model installation costs are increasing in the growth of investment, and the business cycle is driven by permanent investment-specific technology shocks and transitory neutral technology shocks. When calibrated to the capital price observations, the model does well at accounting for the main features of asset returns and the business cycle of macroeconomic aggregates. In addition, unlike most other models, our's accounts for sectoral comovement in both output and factor inputs.
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Roosh: Who needs orgasms, anyway?
Pickup gurus write a lot about how to (allegedly) get sex, or how they (allegedly) got sex, but almost nothing about sex itself. It's pretty clear that a lot of PUAs are more interested in the psychological manipulations and power games inherent in "game," or in adding another notch to their score, than they are in the actual sex that sometimes results from all their efforts.
It goes without saying that most PUAs have little interest in their partners' pleasure. In a post with the title It Doesn't Matter If She Orgasms Or Not, pickup guru Roosh explained that once upon a time,
I used to try to last as long as possible in bed. I wanted to make sure the girl got hers before I got mine, and the reason I did that was because I thought she would be attracted to me more and want to see me again.
But, Roosh being the asshole he is, even this minimal level of consideration – which he extended to his partners for his own selfish reasons – turned out to be too much for him to keep up:
Gradually I just stopped caring, and soon everything I did in bed was for my pleasure only. The only reason I'd delay orgasm is to make mine better, and I pretended I don't hear her the first time she told me to drill slower or not to go so deep. I did whatever I wanted because I came to value my orgasm as sacred, and her pleasure as second to mine.
Given that sex with him in was likely not such a great treat to begin with, he found that being completely selfish didn't actually make the girls he was with like him any less.
Girls didn't want to fuck me more, they didn't want to fuck me less. Not caring about their sexual pleasure had no effect on repeat calls and repeat sex.
No wonder PUAs are so obsessed with very young women – they're less likely to have experienced good sex, and more likely to be willing to put up with bad simply because they don't yet realize how good sex can get.
Back in 2008 when he wrote that post, Roosh's main sexual worry was coming too quickly; these days it seems he has trouble coming at all. Now, there are plenty of reasons why guys can't orgasm – health conditions, prescription medicine side effects, everyday anxieties, decreased sensitivity with age, and so on. Guys shouldn't pressure themselves into coming on demand, or feel bad if they can't.
But Roosh actually seems to feel good about his inability to orgasm – because he's learned to use this bit of sexual dysfuction as a handy tool to manipulate his partners further:
Not being able to orgasm is one of the best ways to make a girl feel anxious and insecure. When I'm unable to come, which often happens with condoms (raw dog for life), I simply stop sex and say, "I'm not going to make it." I can almost see her hamster spinning…
Is he not attracted to me anymore?
Is there something wrong with my vagina?
Should I give him a blowjob even though I don't want to?
These are not the sorts of questions any straight man who's not an utter creep wants his partner asking herself.
Roosh continues, gloating that his inability to orgasm
also shapes the power structure of the relationship. She knows that a man who doesn't orgasm is more likely to stray to get that orgasm. As a result, she tests you less and does more things to win your favor.
Or she finds someone else who's not a complete asshole, and moves on.
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I, personally, feel very very insecure about my ability to orgasm from receiving oral sex. I'm a woman, and every woman I've ever talked to goes "RECEIVING ORAL SEX IS THE BEST YOU SHOULD LOVE IT" and pretty much every sex partner I've been with says "I WANNA MAKE YOU ORGASM WITH MY TONGUE" and I just get all stressed out and it's really sensitive for like five seconds and then my clitoris goes dead and they might as well be licking my arm- I mean, pleasurable enough sensation, but I'm never getting anywhere with it.
Also, orgasming during sex was really hard for me. 99% of my sexual fantasies (no access to internet until late college, so no porn option for me) from childhood and young adulthood were non-consensual/rape/impregnation/tied up in a scientific sex facility/monstersex based fantasies. All of these fantasies clashed horribly when I tried to have loving, consensual sex with someone I had happy lovey feelings for.
It was actually easier to be with guys who didn't care about my pleasure or didn't want to give me oral sex, because then I didn't have to deal with the fact that I was horribly insecure about those things too. When a guy was objectifying me, it was easier to believe that he actually found me attractive because the whole Nice Guy passive-aggressive nice-to-get-in-your-pants thing seems to end with the guy eventually letting you know how he actually finds you fat, ugly and thanks for the use of your vagina, now bye. And that idea just broke me far more than having some guy be a boorish lout and paw my body uncomfortably. But then again, when I was younger, I had this weird idea that those were the only two choices. Well, that and masturbation. Which is probably why I had no desire to have sex until I was 18, in a committed relationship with someone who wasn't at all like the two "types" mentioned above, and even then still took a year to orgasm at all during sex or sexual play even though it felt good and I wanted it.
Things we have learned this evening – Om Nom likes to deal with the fact that sex makes him uncomfortable by using the silliest, most childish terms he can think of. Truly, he deserves the company of the kind of woman who would say "fuck my cooter – tee hee!".
PS: I like using the word "panny" to talk about panties. It's probably a leave-over from my childhood because my mom has problems pronouncing "t"s or multi-syllable words (she still pronounces my sister's name like a two syllable word instead of a three syllable word). My daughter is potty training (almost done, woo) and telling her to pull up pannies first just rolls off the tongue better than "underwear" or whatever.
I really hate the word pussy to describe vagina. I would rather use "cunt" to describe what's between my legs, but I'd never use it around anyone other than my husband because people seem to find the word incredibly offensive, even if I'm not using it in an offensive way and only in reference to my genitals. Vagina sounds like a freaking car model or something you'd vacuum the floor with, and "twat" sounds too slangy and un-sexy.
And it took me a long time to desensitize myself to giggling every time I tried to say "cum" or "cock."
Also, boobies. *giggle* I still think that is hilarious.
The more horrible PUA shit I read the more I've come to realize how utterly spot on that one episode of Bob's Burgers was in skewering the entire philosophy:
"When you get into an elevator with a woman, press a higher number than her then make a big deal about it!"
"Push her in a lake"
"Be one of the tallest guys in the bar and brag about how long your buttcrack is!"
"NEVER make her pancakes: Force her to make YOU pancakes, in the middle of the night"
Meh, I have to read all of this second-hand (perhaps happily), as I was perma-banned from Roosh's blog about a year ago for calling him a bearded lothario who refuses to perform oral sex on women (all true, but still).
Nanasha: I hate the word "pussy" too.
After about 50 million events of "hurr hurr pussy means both vagina and cat, so i'm going to refer to a cat as a pussy in really badly constructed innuendo" from other guys (mostly the guy I work with), now I just associate the word with its use by awful sexist people.
"Boobies" is funny though. I always get a giggle out of "penis" too for some reason.😀
I am seconding the preference for 'cunt'. However, I wouldn't use it in bed. This thread made me think about it and I pretty much only use the word 'me' (as in 'inside me' etc.). I use 'cunt' to my good friends, and 'fanny'* to other people. Or vagina if I'm dealing with someone who is being sexist, because it seems to put them on edge. Sometimes I have to channel my inner Maude Lebowski.
When I was very little, my family referred to vaginas as 'tuppences'. This is fairly common where I'm from, but it can also be a term of endearment, although not a common one. Using terms of endearment to strangers is the norm where I'm from (since I've moved away I get funny looks when I call bus drivers 'love' or 'pet'), so 'tuppence' led to some incredibly aghast and indignant stares from TinyNat when I was called it by the family doctor.
In terms of words I can't stand – macarons. Fuck macarons, I won't even eat them because I hate that word so much. I actually get irrationally angry when I hear people say it.
(*the first time I heard my American aunty referring to a 'fanny pack' I nearly spontaneously combusted with laughter)
Butbutbut Mrs Slocombe! (My nana actually says things like that all the bloody time. English isn't her first language though, and I don't have the heart to tell her the other meaning)
For the non-UK based:
Yeaaaahhh, last time a random hookup treated me like that (tbh I don't do it very much specifically because I actually want to get something out of it if I'm gonna sleep with someone, and three minutes of jack rabbit thrusting is not what I'm looking for), I told him exactly how shitty he was in bed. He probably became an MRA after that because I can tell it was a blow to his ego. But let's be real, he had no consideration for my feelings or what I wanted, and completely ignored my direction, so what consideration should I have for his illusion that he's good in bed? It really did come down to the fact that the guy was young (early 20s) and wasn't used to women who have had good sex telling him that what he was doing wasn't working.
And uhh, his "pretending to not hear" thing is bordering on rapist territory. It really puts me off. What else is he pretending not to hear?
I'm not UK-based, but I know Are You Being Served? PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service) shows it to American audiences. This is your tax dollars at work, NWOslave! PBS mistook AYBS for something high-brow and classy because it is British. It's a bit like Ozymandias and wanking.
>would like to add that in German it would be "In die Angelegenheiten des Neigunges, es gibt nicht Streit"
There's actually a fixed phrase for it that goes: "Über Geschmack lässt sich nicht streiten"
Ok, now that I've read the comments, glad I wasn't the only one disturbed by that rapey stuff.
Also, ARE YOU BEING SERVED! We used to watch that like every day as kids.
And I hate the words pussy and panties myself. IDK, they are just the complete opposite of sexy to me. I listen to this podcast a lot where the guy likes to say pussy and just, eww, please stop. It's the biggest annoyance about the podcast.
And relevant
I'm trying to popularise "jilling off" as the female equivalent of "jacking off".
I don't mind "pussy", but I don't prefer it either. I, too, use "cunt" to refer to my genitals. Sometimes I use "ladyparts" because I find it hilarious to say. "Cooter" bugs me, though I'll put up with it. I can't stand "twat", it annoys the hell out of me. Although if anyone uses those terms to insult me, I just end up laughing at them. There's nothing inherently wrong with genitals and most people like them or are neutral toward them.
I do have a female client who says the word "vagina" in such a way that it irritates me. I can't quite figure out why, I think it's the way she emphasizes saying it. *shudder* Those days, I wish I could just hang up on her, but I can't, because it's relevant to my job.
And I do find "panties" to be creepy in reference to women's underwear, only because I think of "panties" as little girl's underwear. I like "undies" or "underwear", and if I'm being silly about it, "unmentionables". My inner 12 year old will always snicker at "boobies" and "knockers".
starterlifesydney: Same here in the UK on both counts, though I suppose it's not surprising that the UK and Australia share slang terms.
As an Englishman, I'll call a man a cunt, but only if he's being a cunt (unlike in certain areas of Scotland, where they'll call any old cunt a cunt, even if he's a nice cunt). But I wouldn't call a woman a cunt, because it seems instinctively misogynist, and I wouldn't call a vagina a cunt, because it seems like kind of an unpleasant word for it.
(Obviously it's not cool to use 'cunt' pejoratively, regardless of gender, and I try not to do it. But these are my instinctive reactions to the word FWIW.)
One of my favorite US-UK culture clash moments involves an American friend of mine trying to warn an English friend against sitting in a puddle on the London Underground. The American, trying to sound a bit precious, screamed at the top of his lungs "Don't sit there! You'll get your fanny wet!"
Neither party was aware that the word meant two different things depending on your side of the Atlantic. Hilarity. It ensued.
Things we have learned this evening – Om Nom likes to deal with the fact that sex makes him uncomfortable by using the silliest, most childish terms he can think of. Truly, he deserves the company of the kind of woman who would say "fuck my cooter – tee hee!".
"Dude, "wank" is at least as unisex as "fap," given that "fap" is onomatopoeiac for male masturbation."
Yeh…I will use wank or masturbate for men or women, but the only term I find sexy (as well as funny!) is 'jerking off', which I also use for men and women. My boyfriend hates it for women and prefers 'fingering yourself' (!!!) which makes me want to vomit.
What exactly is "rapey" about Pick Up Artistry?
I pretended I don't hear her the first time she told me to drill slower or not to go so deep.
There ya go.
I hate nearly all words for vagina…'pussy' is acceptable, but it still sticks when I try and say it! The word I generally use is 'vag', which I am comfy with, but it is very unsexy!
"I, personally, feel very very insecure about my ability to orgasm from receiving oral sex. I'm a woman, and every woman I've ever talked to goes "RECEIVING ORAL SEX IS THE BEST YOU SHOULD LOVE IT" and pretty much every sex partner I've been with says "I WANNA MAKE YOU ORGASM WITH MY TONGUE" and I just get all stressed out and it's really sensitive for like five seconds and then my clitoris goes dead and they might as well be licking my arm- I mean, pleasurable enough sensation, but I'm never getting anywhere with it."
Yes yes yes yes yes! I think I have come from oral sex about twice in my life, after literally half an hour of trying and trying on both our parts, and this pretty much sums up my experience as well.
Things that work:
My own hand
Partner's hand SOMETIMES and only with constant adjustments
Wand vibrator 30 second orgasm way better but not 'real' orgasms like oral sex waaaah o_o
blitzgal and Ozymandias42: You certainly do pick your battles wisely!
Says the guy who's ranting about underwear.
Besides, why the fuck are you people whining about the word "panties"? It is a very sexy word and that's probably why most women use it.
This is silly. It's not a sexy word. It's not even a sexy concept. It's, at best, a sort of neutral word. The idea of "panties" you keep in your head might be sexy, but as a word it's sort of infantile.
It's likely a diminutive formation from either the British pants, or the American underpants. It's not a pattern which has been used with mens' undergarments. I don't hate it, but I find it awkward and inelegant. I find itm because of that aspect of juvenalia, difficult to use; e.g. when a co-worker might care that her underwear has ridden up.
It's not that she's being in any way immodest, but, "your panties are showing" immediately calls to mind reproofs given to children, which seems inappropriate.
'Fanny' is a very childish word in my opinion, like everyone called a vulva a 'fanny' when I was five or six. Or 'mini', which is I think more acceptable… I don't think I ever had a word for it =/ I knew 'penis' but I was never taught a word for vulva or vagina except 'private parts' I guess.
Also 'knickers' can totally mean thong (or 'buttfloss'…urgh…) I love it, it covers male and female style briefs, string underwear and boxers for me😀 'Panties' I just get a visual of some terrifying sex offender saying it, but granted nobody says 'panties' over here so I am only exposed through creepy guys on films etc.
The idea of "panties" you keep in your head might be sexy – pecunium
No, my brain, that's clearly the word "in", not the word "on".
"Panties" as a word for adult women's underwear has made me cringe a little ever since I started hearing it used on tv etc. Panties sounds like something small children wear.
Then again, I'm in the UK and its all knickers and pants here…and knickers is pretty funny word.
Also, PUAs are crap in bed? Oh, is anyone suprised?
I've never heard of mini as a word for vagina before, and I've watched a lot of British television, as I imagine is usual for the commenters here, and even British films, although they may not have used the word back when Britain still made films. Does it imply vaginas are small?
For Russian we have, О вкусах не спорят (which looks a lot like the spanish, para gustos hay colores), though if one wanted to translate it, rather than use the language's own aphorism, one has the closer, на вкус и на цвет товарищей нет "There are no friends in color or taste."
For French I'd say, chacun à son goût
Yesh, ozymandias. I have heard such a phrase. Though I'd be highly impressed if you can translate it into ancient egyptian for me. I wonder why people use the latin translation of it rather than the greek……….:/
why are you such a fucking tryhard?
There is in FATAL, the worst RPG ever.
I'm going to start carrying around a picture of a Silence, so that whenever someone brings up that awful thing, I can look at the picture and instantly forget that the game was brought up.
… Wait, I think there's a problem with this plan, but I can't think what it is….
Speaking of how creepy the word panties is, did you know that one of Piers Anthony's Xanth books is called The Color of Her Panties? I thought I'd either teach you that or dredge up your old memory of it, so that you could all shudder.
I started reading Xanthe when I was 17 or 18, so it wasn't long before my taste developed to the point that I put it down. At the time, he was writing about kids my age dealing with their libidos, so it didn't seem all that creepy to me. It was only later that I started to think, wait, how old is this guy?
And then I found Pratchett…. I've never looked back.
'Mini' is more of a children's word, like 'willy' for penis.
Az ízlés, nem lehet vitás
I read my first Pratchett (Wyrd Sisters) aged about… nine or ten, I think.
A few years later I read it again, and pretty much went as I realised what that running joke about the old duke's great big hairy thing, which I had previously assumed to be minor and inconsequential silliness, was actually talking about.
Good times…
I could translate it into ancient Egyptian, or middle Kemetian, but I don't see any reason to do so for some random internet asshat. And it would be an unpronounceable transliteration mess without the proper hieroglyphic font, anyway.
And does someone seriously use "cooter" referring to their genitals? As in their own?
Speaking of how creepy the word panties is, did you know that one of Piers Anthony's Xanth books is called The Color of Her Panties? I thought I'd either teach you that or dredge up your old memory of it, so that you could all shudder.
When I was about 11, my parents confiscated that book, and I was very indignant and convinced that they were being super-unfair.
By the time I was around 14, I decided maybe they had a point. I think what made the difference was getting to be about the same age as all the nubile, frequently-topless-for-no-adequately-explained-reason underage girls with whom Anthony populates his novels and realizing that he was talking about girls like ME and ew ew ew ew ew ew.
I bought a book by Piers Anthony once, but I never could really get into it. I tried reading it a couple of times, but I never could get past the first twenty or thirty pages before losing interest. Well, I say losing interest, but that's not entirely fair, as it implies there was some sort of interest to lose, and the book never really caught my interest in the first place. I don't know why it didn't interest me. I don't remember particularly disliking anything. (Come to that, I don't even remember the title of the book, let alone what it was about. I only remember that it was by Piers Anthony because I'd heard other people say good things about him as a writer and I was determined to give him a try.)
It could be that the book I bought simply had a slow start. It could be that it simply wasn't one of Anthony's better books. It could be that it was a perfectly good book, but that it just wasn't my thing. I'm not saying based on my experience here that it was necessarily a bad book or that Anthony was a bad writer. But given what so many people here are saying about Piers Anthony's writing, maybe my inability to get into his work was all for the best.
Terry Pratchett, on the other hand, is a completely different story for me. I read The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents when I was ten or eleven and loved it. It quickly became one of my favorite books. So years later, when browsing the library at my high school, I came across The Color of Magic, and read it largely because I recognized the author's name. My school library only had the first two Discworld books, but with a lot of trips to Barnes and Noble, I made my way through all of the Discworld books during my remaining three years in high school. Since then, I've also turned my middle-school-aged brother into a Pratchett fan.
My dad's decision to buy me The Amazing Maurice was one of the best gift decisions he ever made. I probably never would have picked the book up if it hadn't been a Christmas present from him.
I read The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents when I was ten or eleven and loved it. It quickly became one of my favorite books.
Wee lamb.
I read that when it came out. I was 22.
And not to shame anybody for being young or anything, but goddamn where's my cane?
@Nanasha: have you considered that the sexual fantasies you describe could mean you have a sexual kink/fetish? There are guys out there who will role-play for you based on those scenarios if that helps you get off. For more information, look up Dan Savage and his column "Savage Love." That helped and still helps me when it comes to figuring out my own kinks. There's nothing wrong with you or your fantasies, and there are great partners out there who will explore them with you (probably including anyone you're with now), if you talk to them about it.
@Nanasha: I have a similar uninspired reaction to oral sex, and I found this amazing piece by Clarisse Thorne called "A Unified Theory of Orgasm" that helped me a lot. You might find it speaks to you too: http://sexlovejoy.com/a-unifed-theory-of-orgasm-by-clarisse-thorn.html
@MKlein- That's the thing- I'm married and in a relationship who would prefer to be monogamous…and he doesn't really share most of my "things"… but I'm ok with that because most of those "things" are things that I can't really do with a partner without feeling incredibly silly (I'm not going to have my partner pretend to be a tentacle monster, lol). And, true, it may be a kink/fetish, but it's a kink/fetish based in fantasy and probably won't translate very well to partner sex- so I really did have to re-train my sexual response when I started having sex with actual people.
@MollyRen- Thanks for the link- I read Clarisse's blog a lot, and that's a very good article- I guess that maybe it just goes to show how harmful dominant narratives of what should be "sexy fun" can be, even if they're positive (like, "give your female partners oral sex so they will feel good"). I mean, it's EASIER in some situations to be the one who never orgasms or even feels good if you feel that's the "way it's supposed to be" and you have an uncaring partner. But it's certainly not as fun.
(I'm not going to have my partner pretend to be a tentacle monster, lol) – Nanasha
Hah, that's just asking for gigglefits rather than actual sexytimes.😛
I know this is off topic, but how did things turn out with that guy who was trying to discredit you by referencing a comment he saw on a radfem blog?
I just ignored him and he appears to have wandered off.
I think that, for me, the most unsexy word for a part of a woman's anatomy is "tit". A while ago, I was cuddling with a guy who, while trying to be sexy, told me he loved playing with my tits. Completely killed my ladyboner. So we had to stop the sexytiems. 'Twas rather sad.😦
Also, I hear you, everyone who has said that they have trouble orgasming from oral sex. I have had some very pleasurable oral performed on me, and while I get aroused, I have never gotten off.
Oooh, also, before I forget: while we're on the subject of British English vs. American English, here's my favorite "two countries divided by a common language" story:
An American (male) friend of my aunt's was working in London, and was having trouble with his slacks being too loose. He happened to mention this to a British coworker:
Friend: Do you know where I can buy suspenders? I need to get a pair.
Coworker: You need to buy a pair of SUSPENDERS? Why?
Friend: To keep my pants up, of course!
And thus the poor coworker was left with the image of my aunt's friend wearing ladies' underpants and a garter belt.
I'm going to start carrying around a picture of a Silence, so that whenever someone brings up that awful thing, I can look at the picture and instantly forget that the game was brought up.
… Wait, I think there's a problem with this plan, but I can't think what it is….
Oh shit… Well, maybe oh shit…did I have a point here? *wanders off* (I wonder if that'd work, if the "SCP-055 is not" thing could work on the silence? The Doctor does seem to remember info about them, eg they are not a species…)
Lol at suspenders, the Doctor's tend to make me giggle for that reason (wtf do y'all call those over there anyways?)
…I appear to have nothing on topic to say, my apologies.
@ShadetheDruid- Now I'm just thinking about the clip from "Ed Wood" where Bella Legosi is fighting with the paper mache octopus….
I think part of my issue with cooter is that it sounds too much like skeeter, which makes me think of a vagina filled with buzzing insects (there's a COVERED IN BEES joke in there somewhere). Not very sexy, that, unless you have a very specialized fetish.
The reason why a majority of straight guys love the slang term "pussy" is because it brings to mind the animal CAT, and if you link that with the terms GIRL and/or WOMAN, then BOOOM! In case you didn't know, for a majority of straight guys, CATWOMAN in particular and CATGIRLS in general
top the list of all time favorite fetish/fantasy females…
"What exactly is "rapey" about Pick Up Artistry?
I pretended I don't hear her the first time she told me to drill slower or not to go so deep.
There ya go."
And the feminists on this board apparently really are different from other women. Just imagine, women who actually DON'T LIKE CUNNINGLUS nor FAST & DEEP PENETRATION? Then what have Women's Magazines etc. been saying all these many long years? The mind boggles!
"and ew ew ew ew ew ew."
Again, with the rad fems' demonization of heterosexual male sexuality! Oh well, if rad fems didn't demonize straight men, they wouldn't be rad fems in the first place…
I'm trying to figure out why someone would thunk suspenders/a garter belt was being used to keep underwear from falling down.
That not how they work.
As to cooter it's not right, there is a sense of harshness to it, which lacks the earthy punch of cunt, or twat. It's not even got the quaint charm of words like quim, or quiff (but I don't think nomless was right; he was stirring the pot. He's gotten much more trollish in the past few days).
Pants means underwear over here.
Morkai: I know that. But suspenders hold up stockings. They aren't higher than one's pants.
They don't work that way. The belt is at/below the waistband of the underpants.
I can see it as a piece of embarrassment humor in a sitcom, but not in a real conversation, not unless someone has absolute zero familiarity with them,
I like cooter, its cute and its a name for a little turtle.
Off topic, but seeing as I know there's Doctor Who fans here… This was just released the other day.
Sooo stoked!😄
Lol at suspenders, the Doctor's tend to make me giggle for that reason (wtf do y'all call those over there anyways?)
I am not English, but I do believe they called them braces at one point. Tolkien says Bilbo wears them in The Hobbit, in one of the early scenes with Gandalf in the Shire.
I was mightily confused as to how Bilbo was blowing smoke rings with his thumb in his mouth….
@Ponkz: Doctor Who is never off-topic.
Neither is Gandalf. He is on-topic precisely when he means to be.
We also call tooth-adjustment braces braces, just to be confusing.
Ponkz: :O … *Brain asplode*


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In February Microsoft made an announcement that it was striving for more openness in its products and was even promoting data portability. Well, some people didn't buy into this announcement, thinking Microsoft was just appeasing EU regulators.
Today Microsoft announced that it was co-operating with social networks LinkedIn, Facebook, Hi5, Tagged, and Bebo. Users of those networks will be able to import their Windows Messenger address books to the respective networks, while their address books on those networks can also be exported to Microsoft's new site invite2messenger.net. Export and import of address books will be enabled by Microsoft's Windows Live Contacts API.
This announcement has to be applauded for two reasons:
- Microsoft starts to play nice and opens up.
- Facebook opens up as well.
Of course, it was great if a more open protocol like OAuth was used, but the announcement might encourage more social networks and other corporations to pursue similar steps.
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Bit obvious. I'm posting from it. So far, excellent remote capacities and a lot easier to use than the onboard web browser.
Simple app, but it works well.
Best app for moving your files around. I have no idea why Blackberries don't come with something similar installed. Install it and choose the free version.
Handy ebook reader. Had to move the files to its happy location, but aside from that, no complaints.
Very straightforward weather app.
BBSSH – Blackberry Secure Shell
Still in development, but works for me. Handy for working on servers remotely.
Much better than the default browser.


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Let the year go
This time I won't write a brief recap of the year, however, during the last couple of days I've been reflecting on the bunch of things that happened.
Just like every other year, 2011 was packed with a lot of good things: travel, races, mountains, family, new and old friends, work, concerts, training… the list could be long. But it also had some very rough moments: losses, angst, illness, depression…
All of this forced me to practice and try to learn a lot of things, among others: detachment, meditation, tolerance, compassion, forgiveness, humility. This definitely wasn't planned but the way some events happened didn't left room for standing still, actions had to be taken.
There's still plenty to work on for the next year and onwards, but some of the resolutions I've made include: put less or none expectations on people, let go of people who I no longer feel identified with, make peace with different pending subjects, reconnect with my inner self, worry less and enjoy more…
It wouldn't be fair to say that this year was bad because, in fact, it wasn't. It was just really tough, in every possible way, good and bad. I'm grateful with it because it left me with a lot of things to work on and improve, but also because it's gone now. I'm pretty sure this was just the beginning of a better and much saner way of life.
2012, bring it on!


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When you or your client wants to test a completely new element, in cases in which the result may effect sales or conversions, an AB test is usually the best approach. Unfortunately, AB testing needs a lot of visitors to work properly and so often, we end up making decisions based on the results in the first few days. This is, of course, a bad approach as even though the new element might initially perform better, you might eventually find that in the long run, the original delivers more conversions.
You may choose to test anything on a page ranging from single elements (like headings, text content, images, call to actions, offers, colour) to complete layout changes. The aim of these tests can be different:
- Trying to increase ROI by purposely optimizing a page to get more sales
- Trying to increase sign-ups/user interaction by adding new elements to the page
- Making sure you don't negatively effect a page by introducing some brand changes
As you can see from the last one, the aim of a test isn't always to find a winner – Sometimes it is good enough to make sure that the B is not worse than A.
Statistical Significance
There is something called "Statistical Significance" which is basically the point at which your tool can accurately tell you whether one element is definitely better than the other. Also known as the confidence level, the higher its value, the lower the chances are that the test result happened by chance. In other words, if you have a confidence level of 90%, then there is only a 10% chance that the result is random, and not actually because one element is really better than another. To explain this, imagine this scenario:
You have two tables at home. You grab a coin and flip it a 100 times on the first table – 53 heads. You then do the same thing on the second table and get 48 heads. Does this mean that on the first table you are more likely to get a head when flipping a coin? Of course not! It is completely random and will never be statistically significant, even if you had to flip the coins a million times per table.
Similarly, when doing an AB test, we need to keep in mind there is always some randomness to the test. This means that although one of the options might initially seem like it's the best option, you might later find out that the advantage was completely random.
Several big sites like Google, Amazon and Firefox are constantly using AB testing to launch big changes. The bigger the site, the faster the test will reach statistical significance.
How is it calculated?
First off, you will need quite a large sample for tests to become statically valid. The most common confidence level used is 95%. When this value is reached, we can generally assume that the test is now statistically valid.
While there seem to be different ways to calculate it, the simplest way to calculate it (without considering the sample size) is as follows: The difference between the two results must be larger than the square root of the sum of the two results. In other words, if A got 25 conversions, and B got 29, then the total is 54.
The difference between the two values is 4. The square root of 54 is… 7.34846923.
Since this value is higher than the difference (4), then this result is not statistically valid. In reality, this is not enough since you must also consider the size of the sample which can make an enormous difference. There are many formulas that you can use and different companies have different levels at which they can be confident about a change they just tested.
I won't go into the details of the formulas myself, you can have a look at the wikiHow page which does a good job at explaining. You will definitely need the total visitors amount, and the total conversions amount of each item you're testing to measure statistical significance.
I suggest you play around with the following pages to learn more:


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Self-reliance and sustainability in the 21st century.
By Robert Maxwell
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For as long as I can remember, my city relatives have asked the same question whenever they drive to my rural home for a visit:
"What is there to do here?" When I was thirteen, I didn't know how to answer. For a while I even believed what the question implied - that life in the country is a drag. In the eight years since then I've corrected my opinion, and come to realize that rural living involves much more fascination than I could convey in a one sentence answer.
In the summer of 2004, my cousin David travelled with our grandparents from their big city home to my place — a seven hour trip — to visit the Manitoulin Island branch of the family. I'm sure they were glad to get out of the car and stretch their legs, but it wasn't long before David asked me the typical question: "What is there to do around here?" Neither of us knew it at the time, but the week's events would cause my cousin to abandon that question for good.
That first night we slept in a four-person tent my Dad set up in the front yard. This seemed pretty ordinary to me, since I'd done it dozens of times before. For David, it was a totally new experience, and he loved it. The idea of being able to camp on your own land was completely foreign to him, since the poor guy lived on a city lot with hardly enough room to walk, let alone set up a tent. We rose before the sun the next morning, grabbed a couple of hunting knives and a bow and arrows, and headed out to my favourite spot on the property — a small patch of exposed limestone bedrock along one side of a field that I call "Bowcamp". I'd discovered it several days earlier, and couldn't wait to share it with my cousin. We spent the day trying to hunt, then settled for roasting apples we'd picked from nearby trees. Bowcamp certainly wasn't remote, (we were never more than 300 yards from the house), but something about it awoke the wilderness adventurer in my city-dwelling cousin. To this day, whenever Dave and I get together, the conversation always turns to our boyhood adventure at Bowcamp.
For David, our adventure was instrumental in changing his outlook on country living. He went from a guy who couldn't wait to get back to civilization, chow down on some fast food, and hit the nearest movie theatre, to someone who plans to one day build a cabin in the woods, just like his crazy cousin from Manitoulin. But he wasn't the only one whose perspective changed that day. I made some pretty important realizations, too.
I came to understand that there's a host of good answers to the age-old question, what is there to do in the country? Country living encompasses everything from having plenty of space and forests nearby for hunting, fishing, swimming in a natural lakes, and building your own cabin in the woods. I know, because I've grown up doing all these things and more, and that's had a huge impact on who I am today. But even more importantly, that day at Bowcamp was when I decided Manitoulin Island was where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. I realized beyond any doubt that I never wanted to give up the freedom to run through forests and fields, build a campfire close to home, and sleep in a tent outside whenever I want.
Granted, rural life certainly isn't for everyone. If you're a person who depends heavily on fast food franchises, shopping malls and movie theatres, it goes without saying that you're better off in an urban centre. But if you're anything like me, and living with clean air and woods nearby means a lot to you, maybe you were made for the country, too.
All this isn't to say that I'm completely anti-city. I often travel to Toronto to visit relatives, and enjoy the trips greatly. And there's certainly something to be said for the convenience and opportunity of urban centres. But one thing's certain in my mind: when I get the urge to grab a bow and arrows and stalk around outdoors looking for food, I'd rather not be in a place where people will start screaming and fumbling for their cell phones.
Robert Maxwell is a videographer, photographer, web designer and young homesteader who lives in Ontario, Canada. Learn more about Robert's company and projects at www.RobertMaxwell.ca.
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Until this year, Tina Lester had no trouble staying employed. She had run her own in-home cleaning business and worked in housekeeping and custodial jobs. Her vast experience and skills made it easy for her to find employment. But in March, a local hotel laid her off from her housekeeping and laundry position. The layoff turned into a bigger hardship than expected. Her usual course of job hunting yielded nothing. There were no responses to her applications and money was running short. Tina needed help making ends meet and applied for food stamps at the Department of Human Services. It was there that Tina's caseworker told her about the Job Search Center at Goodwill.
Arriving at the Job Search Center, Tina discovered more than a place to hunt down job leads and openings, but a caring and encouraging staff. Tina attended all the classes, absorbed all the information, and put into action what she had learned. She placed more than 100 applications, cold-called potential employers and persisted in her job search. Throughout the process, the Job Search Center staff encouraged her when she felt disheartened and gave her the support she needed. With a lot of persistence, Tina's hard work paid off: She was offered a position as a custodian at DePaul Industries. Tina is thrilled with her new job, and already her employer is discussing with her a move into a supervisory position. Tina feels this is a good job match and that she could not have found it without the helpful staff in the Job Search Center.


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How they got here
The Ravens defense got healthy at the right time with inside linebacker Ray Lewis, outside linebacker Terrell Suggs and strong safety Bernard Pollard all back for the postseason. But it was the offense that overcame the brink of elimination two weeks ago in Denver. With less than 45 seconds left in regulation, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco hit wide receiver Jacoby Jones on a game-tying 70-yard touchdown in Denver. Baltimore won in double-overtime, pushing them to the conference championship game. The defense held New England scoreless in the second half, and Flacco stayed hot to advance the Ravens to the Super Bowl.
What they like to do on offense
New offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell has done a nice job of mixing things up, getting running backs Ray Rice and Bernard Pierce involved behind fullback Vonta Leach, a true lead blocker. With wide receivers Torrey Smith and Jones stretching the field and targets like wide receiver Anquan Boldin and tight end Dennis Pitta working more underneath, this is a dynamic group when Flacco is rolling, as he's been.
What they like to do on defense
It's all about being physical and forcing turnovers. No play was more indicative of that than when Pollard forced a fourth-quarter fumble on Patriots running back Stevan Ridley last week, which ultimately led to a touchdown that made it a two-score game. Baltimore has forced eight turnovers in three postseason games. The 2.7 average leads all playoff teams.
Three players to watch on offense
Joe Flacco, QB: A strong playoff run continued against the Patriots when Flacco outperformed Tom Brady, pushing his totals to eight touchdowns with no interceptions. He's averaged 16.7 yards per completion, the first playoff quarterback to average that many yards while attempting at least 30 passes a game since Doug Flutie averaged 17.1 yards with the 1998 Bills.
Bryant McKinnie, OT: The left tackle will draw 49ers defensive end Justin Smith and outside linebacker Aldon Smith. San Francisco's entire front seven will be a challenge for an offensive line that has done a good job protecting Flacco in the playoffs, allowing only four sacks with five other quarterback hits.
Bernard Pierce, RB: Rice is obviously the workhorse in the backfield, but Pierce has been a successful change of pace. Over the past seven games, the rookie third-round pick from Temple has rushed for the same number of first downs — 17 — as Rice and averaged 6.0 yards per carry. Rice averaged 4.2 yards in that same span.
Three players to watch on defense
Ray Lewis, LB: It's not just imminent retirement that makes the linebacker an obvious watch here. It's the fact the Ravens defense has been on the field an inordinate 271 snaps during these three playoff games, and following a 10-game absence, the 37-year-old has yet to miss one.
Ed Reed, S: There is no question who Colin Kaepernick's favorite target is. Since the 49ers quarterback was named the starter in Week 11, wide receiver Michael Crabtree has been targeted on 84 passes. Tight end Vernon Davis is the closest on the team with 34 targets. Reed will be anticipating action to Crabtree all game.
Pernell McPhee, DE: Quietly, the second-year defensive end is having a strong postseason. He deflected a pair of passes in the conference title game and added three quarterback hurries. He and all of the team's edge players will have to do a good job containing the athleticism of Kaepernick, who can bend a corner if outside containment breaks.
The Ravens can win if they …
Win the turnover battle. Baltimore knows the recipe. It's brought a physicality on defense and efficiency on offense, forcing eight turnovers while committing three. The success has masked some deficiencies elsewhere, like a defense that has failed to consistently get off the field on third down. In two playoff games, the San Francisco offense has a 52.6 percent third-down rate with just two giveaways.
The Ravens will lose if they …
Allow Kaepernick to run wild the way he did against Green Bay in the divisional round. A clearly unprepared Packers defense was scorched for 181 yards and two touchdowns. With two weeks of preparation time, that can't be allowed to happen in New Orleans.
About the Ravens, you oughta know:
Ravens coach John Harbaugh completed his injury report Friday, and 19 players are on it. All 19 are listed as questionable, including Boldin, Lewis, Pitta, Pollard, Reed, Suggs — and on and on it goes. The list means next to nothing. The true injury report won't come out until the Friday before the Super Bowl. Baltimore, scheduled to fly into New Orleans on Monday, isn't revealing much in the meantime.
What they are saying:
Heath Evans, NFL Network: "This offensive line is playing out of their minds. How they pieced this thing together midseason, it's spectacular."
Jamison Hensley, ESPN.com: "In watching Flacco this season, I never got the sense that he was worried about contract talks. The reason being he has nothing to worry about. … The Ravens aren't going to let Flacco go anywhere. He is going to get paid. He was going to get paid even before he guided the Ravens to their first Super Bowl in 12 years."
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- Satisfaction: that his words were considered in need of changing.
- Frustration: that this kind of quiet editing goes on all the time without coming to the attention of every-day members of the LDS Church.
When I was 17 years-old, my father was a mission president. General authorities visited our home at least a couple times a year. During one particular visit, I sat with my family and the visiting general authority in the living room, listening earnestly as he related anecdotes about his interactions with then president of the church, Gordon B. Hinckley.
The general authority mentioned how, in a recent meeting, President Hinckley had wondered aloud why the world wouldn't just "leave us the hell alone." Everyone chuckled, but my stomach dropped. President Hinckley - the man I considered God's chosen spokesperson on earth - swore?
I mean, I had sworn before. In fact, it was a favorite bad habit of mine when I'd been a 4th grader. But by the time I was 12 or 13, I felt enough remorse to confess to my bishop. So as a 17 year-old striving for pure speech, I felt troubled by what seemed a double standard.
I quickly made peace with the cognitive dissonance, reassuring myself that the pressures on President Hinckley were much greater than those I faced. He was God's servant, but not God himself. And in later years, as I became increasingly disillusioned with the principle of "exact obedience" but still maintained my faith, I began to see the anecdote in the same humorous light as had my parents and the general authority. Today, as a nonbeliever, I still have a tremendous amount of respect for Gordon B. Hinckley, and am not bothered if he chose to spice up his dialogue with an occasional hell or damn.
But Gordon, I now understand something that you couldn't. I understand why they (we) can't leave the church alone. Because when the church publicly speaks words of condemnation, only to send a semantically different message in private, we feel disappointed by the lack of integrity.


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What Funds That Bought POT Are Also Buying
Potash (POT) is up a massive 30% today on the heels of a $38.56 billion unsolicited takeover bid from BHP Billiton. POT was listed in my top ten picks for 2010 at the beginning of this year. My quote from that article:
"People need to eat. Potash increases the yield of fertilizer. And in an overpopulated world with people moving into urban areas (less farmers feeding more mouths), demand will spike for whatever can increase that yield. Potash's stock is closely correlated to prices of the product Potash."
Some great value investors have been buying up shares of POT in the past quarter and its worth taking a look at other positions they've been buying:
Mohnish Pabrai, a known hedge fund manager who fashions himself after Warren Buffett (even his fund is structured legally the same way Buffett structured his partnership in the 50s and 60s) bought shares of POT in Q1. In the quarter ended 6/30 Pabrai's biggest added position was to the "Canadian Berkshire," Fairfax Financial (FRFHF).
Renassance Technologies, perhaps the most successful hedge fund ever, owned $44 million of POT stock as of their latest filing. Other holdings they increased this past filing include: Microsoft (MSFT), Medtronic (MDT), and BP (BP).
One fund I've never heard of, Mak Capital, not only added POT as a new position in Q1 but it became quickly their largest position in their $400 million in holdings. They are probably having a party today. Other top positions of Mak Capital include THQ (THQI) and Mosaic (MOS).
When a hedge fund adds to a position like POT, or makes it the top position, you have to assume they've done enormous digging. This, of course, is not always the case, but with successful funds it generally is. That's why its worth checking out what other funds have been buying POT and the stocks they've been accumulating.
James Altucher is a managing partner of Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm, and an author on investment strategies. Unlike Dow Jones reporters, he may have positions in the stocks he writes about.


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Let Florida voters decide the medical marijuana decision
It's almost comical when politicians pretend to be protecting us from ourselves, when in fact all they're trying to do is usurp what the people really want. We saw it when budget bills were withheld from being voted on in the U.S. House and Senate. We're seeing it more up close with Florida's Attorney General Pam Bondi wanting to keep a medical marijuana constitutional amendment from being put before voters. Bondi argued before the Florida Supreme Court last week that they should block such a vote on the amendment. She threw a lot of phony concern around, but the fact is she's the latest to carry water for the GOP Legislature that wouldn't even discuss such a bill in the state House or Senate. Medical marijuana laws are being passed in a lot of states because it's being shown to help a lot of people suffering from serious diseases. More doctors are coming on board as evidence mounts showing the benefits to certain patients regarding pain control, nausea and the ability to eat. Why on earth would Bondi or legislators care if Florida voters decided such things? This is something the people should decide, since these politicians don't have the guts or will to do it themselves. If they or family members needed such treatment, you can bet they would support it, or would they? Special interests seem to trump everything else with them, so maybe not. It's shameful.In Florida, we've seen legislators try their best to overturn ballot measures that the people overwhelmingly supported, such as classroom size. It's unbelievable we let them get away with it. On the medical marijuana issue it seems obvious that they know a strong majority of Floridians are fine with access to it as long as it's controlled. But even if Floridians aren't supportive, they should have a say in the decision. Politicians need to quit listening to what party central has to say and listening to the people they represent. And the people they represent need to send them packing if they aren't doing the common sense will of the people. Step aside, Bondi and any other politicians regarding matters such as this. If the correct number of signatures can be gathered to put in on the ballot, let voters decide.


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Transient Arrested For Exposing Himself To Minors
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San Luis Obispo police arrested a man for exposing himself in the downtown area, Wednesday.
Matthew Gordon, 31, allegedly exposed himself at Chorro and Higuera Streets.
One victim said Gordon, a transient of San Luis Obispo, exposed himself to him and his two 7-year-old daughters.
He was arrested for Annoying or Molesting a Person under 18 years of age.
Gordon is suspected of being the same subject from the earlier exposures.
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When I was a little girl, I dreamed about standing in really long lines to get into a place filled with blaring music and people packed so tightly your ribs felt like they'd never be whole again. That's not true (my dreams involved drinking legally at the annual summer music festival) but then again, I didn't grow up in New York City, where kids these days can fulfill all (or most) of their clubbing dreams at a young age. [More]
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Sandra was trapped. She was trapped in the enchanted prison of the Disney Movie Club. She didn't need someone to cast a spell and set her free, though: what she really needed was to pay off her entire account balance. The problem is that the enchantment robs the Movie Club of the ability to read checks, so they dragged out her departure by logging her $35 check as a $25 one.
Ohio Strip Club Raises Money For Haiti
If you visited the strip club Marilyn's on Monroe in Toledo, Ohio, last weekend and paid the cover charge for their "Lap dances for Haiti" evening, congratulations, you helped the club raise nearly $1,000 for a local charity that's trying to send a container of relief supplies to Haiti. Oddly–as you already know if you attended–there were no actual lap dances because they're illegal in Ohio. The local charity says they need $5,000 to send the supplies, but luckily two other area strip clubs are staging their own fundraisers later this month.
Continental's "General Vibe" Doesn't Include Black People
Laney went out for drinks after work with some co-workers. He changed out of his uniform, but they wore theirs. Soon after the group entered, Laney was asked to leave, ostensibly due to a dress code violation…but it became clear his outfit wasn't the problem.
Washington Sports Clubs Sets Up New Account, Bills Ex-Member $700 More In Fees
I just found out that after I canceled my account with Washington Sports Clubs last year, they created a new account and continued to deduct hundreds of dollars from my account. More than $700, actually. I should have noticed this, but the charges varied each month and didn't say "Washington Sports Club" anywhere — so I missed it. After more than a week of phone haggling and bringing in documents, the club is refunding my money. I would also like them to grovel and send me on a trip to Paris.