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However, the pH may remain at 8.5, which is of little importance since the KH does go down.
My main concern is getting the KH low enough so when I add CO2 the pH drops below 7.
You may find that the GH/KH in your tank ends up a little bit higher than in the test sample after a day or so IF there are items in your tank/filter that have collected "mineral" deposits. With the lower GH/KH, deposits on things (if there are any) could partially dissolve back into the water. However, after a few water changes, this process should stop.
Good luck!
I do use my pH controller, but the only problem would be that the probe would not be deep enough in the tank if I emptied half way, also my reactor is set up so that is stops working after the water goes below 75% full in the tank. I was planning on leaving the CO2 off when I did this change.
I think the pH would not just stick at 8.5 or above because the RO has organics in it (and yes, its KH checks at near 0; traces) which make it acidic (its pH is 6.4) and when you are adding the RO to the water, you are also taking away some of the KH of the tap water, I checked and its KH is near 7, which is still medium, but not near what it used to be... However, the pH may remain at 8.5, which is of little importance since the KH does go down.
My main concern is getting the KH low enough so when I add CO2 the pH drops below 7. At KH 8, the CO2 is 35 ppm when the pH is 6.9 and at KH 7 the CO2 is close to 31 ppm when the pH is again 6.9. Is 35 ppm too much for the fish? I know that 4-6 KH would be ideal, but I want to see how this works. Thanks!
If you test the pH of pure RO, you may find it varies significantly from your current pH. But... if it's good RO water, its buffering capacity should be near zero. The ion balance in the remaining tap water should work to keep the pH at or very near its current level. The concentration (KH) will go down, but the balance between acid/alkaline ions in the mixed tap/RO water (and thus the pH) should not significantly change.
If your pH is 8.5 with pure tap water, which I'm assuming has pretty high GH/KH values, a 50/50 mix will also have a pH very near 8.5 and GH/KH values about 1/2 of what your pure tap water has.
If you're wanting to lower your pH, it will be easier to do with a 50/50 mix. You won't need to add as much acid. If you want to do that, I'd suggest using an acidifier made for Discus tanks. They contain no phosphate. "Amazon Acidifier" or "Discus Buffer" are two examples. They use HCl (hydrochloric acid) to lower the pH and contain no phosphoric acid.
Good luck!
Is your co2 system working with the ph controller ? If it is your controller will keep the PH relatively stable if you add your RO water into the tank slowly and let the Ph stabilize. The nice thing about the controller is that it gives you instant Ph readings. A ph variation of .1-.2 shouldn't make any difference as its getting mixed in with the tank water. I think you can add the RO water over the period of 4-6 hours with no ph shock with your controller regulating co2 to adjust for ph.
I am soon (this weekend) going to start using RO water for the 55 gallon tank. I was thinking about different ways to do this that all end up with the same end result. I am planning on using 1/2 RO water and 1/2 tap water, I really don't have the $ to do all RO water with my water changes...
I was wondering that if I empty my tank half way and then fill it up over a period of 3-5 days, would that be too much of a pH shock for the fish, and is it OK for the tank to run half-filled for a time? I definitely am not going to just replace it with RO in one "fill" since that would be a huge pH shock (my pH out of tap is above 8.5). Also, I am not going to do continuous water changes since it is less effective and I want to get the parameters changed safetly in the tank ASAP.
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I thought "raw" meant "uncooked.
My label says "raw honey" and no one has argued with me about it.
Not to go off topic but what makes "raw milk" raw?
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Also known as tartare.
we are off topic now.
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Honey in raw form is very useful for health because when it is in that form it contain everything that comes naturally from it.So i prefer having it in that form.
There are a number of attempts to get around this. In TN I see "raw milk" offered for $8 a gallon, but with the disclaimer "sold for animal consumption only." I suspect not many people are going to pay $8 a gallon and then not drink it themselves.
There are also "cow share" programs where you pay a nominal fee to become part owner of a cow. Then, since you own part of the cow, it is allegedly already your milk because it was produced by your cow, so it is not being "sold". Of course, there is a processing fee to stable the cow and milk it, usually close to that same $8 per gallon.
Anyone for a "bee share" program? If state law says you can't sell your honey ..... sell a share of the bees instead.
USDA Zone 7A Elevation 1400 ft
I am a part of a "bee share" when I buy bulk honey from another beekeeper. I'm not buying honey I'm buying a share in the bees and honey is my profit.
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> what makes "raw milk" raw?
It's not pasteurized. Raw honey has no official definition, but it is generally held to be honey that is not heated past what it would be in the hive.
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What really raw honey actually do is to sell creamed honey and then they actually add wax cappings to the top and then claim they are beneficial for health? I could go on about this but the news of a raid on their facility is more interesting: http://www.grubstreet.com/2013/07/re...ey-arrest.html
I have actually helped produce and package honey for Really Raw. That's how we did it.
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I did a honey tasting at a local Co-op several weeks (they carry our honey on their shelf). As a means of clarification I typed up a fact sheet to hand out to people who might want to discuss the general terms thrown around for honey.
What Are the Differences Between Raw, Pure & Natural Honey?
Most honey in the United States is purchased off a shelf at a local supermarket or grocer. This honey may be different than the kind you might purchase directly from a local honey farm or beekeeper. The terms used in honey processing and advertising can be misleading to the consumer. The best way to know what you're purchasing is to get to know your local beekeeper.
Honey Regulation
The first thing to understand is that there is very little regulation of nomenclature when it comes to a variety of products in the food industry. The relative uses of the terms "raw," "pure" and "natural" as they pertain to honey sales can mean either a great difference or no difference at all in the United States. The use of these terms varies country by country. Ultimately, it is up to you as a consumer to gather knowledge about the companies that sell the honey. You may find it best to get your honey from a trusted beekeeper whose practices are established.
Raw Honey
Raw honey means the most unadulterated form of honey; honey that comes directly from the bees unheated, unpasteurized and unprocessed. Raw honey technically is the concentrated nectar of flowers that comes straight from the bees who collect it; the result is unheated, unpasteurized, and unprocessed honey. Most honey is not raw because it is heated to high temperatures (pasteurization) then filtered to prevent crystallization. This process kills yeasts and prevents granulation of the honey. This process also destroys nutrients and enzymes found in raw honey which purists claim gives honey it's unique qualities.
The appearance of raw honey is typically cloudier than those found in commercial grocery stores. Raw honey may contain bits of pollen, honeycomb, and propolis.
Natural Honey
You can assume very little about the honey from the "natural" label. This term is not necessarily equivalent to raw or unpasteurized honey. Most commercial honey, including some labeled as natural, are filtered and heated to make the honey more presentable to consumers. Because there is no uniformity in law or regulation regarding labeling, it is difficult to know whether so-called natural honey is heated to low or high temperatures. The latter of these is not considered raw honey, though this does not stop manufacturers from labeling it as such.
Pure Honey
Pure honey is perhaps one of the more potentially misleading and ambiguous terms associated with honey. Pure honey can be taken to mean completely unadulterated raw honey with no additives, or it could simply mean that it contains some proportion of real honey or other additives like sugar, water or coloring.
Organic Honey
Currently there is no USDA certification program for organic honey in the United States. While some countries have established certain standards for organic labeling, we have not adopted such a program. In order for honey to be certified organic, beehives must be placed in isolated locations, miles from dense population, industry, and agricultural areas. Honeybees forage several miles in search of nectar so it is impossible to be certain what sources of nectar have been collected and stored in the hive.
"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay".....Krishnamurti
Forgive me if this is a double post, my internet is wonky tonight.
I wanted to comment on the YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAELXYAthqM) that was posted on behalf of explaining what Raw Honey really is. I particularly enjoyed her comment that went something like "The way agave is produced is much like corn syrup. You should get Raw Honey etc etc . . . We're making rice crispy treats later, so we'll use that"
-Because Rice Crispies aren't over processed and are completely healthy for you…
I wonder where that "Raw Honey" actually came from? Probably not local. I'm wondering if the consumer sheep would buy "Raw Organic Honey" Made in China? Would they notice? I recently read an article of the nutrition benefits of Local Honey to that of Honey purchased from different areas of the country or world and how it may be more harm than good to consume non-local honey.
As a honey consumer, I have 3 things that I look for when I purchase honey:
1. Is it local?
2. Is it heated?
3. Is it overly processed/pasteurized?
If 1 is yes and the rest are no, I'm buying it at the cost on the bottle with little care to how much more expensive it may be than from Wal-Mart China. I want to watch my local sellers thrive on a quality product that I know takes more blood/sweat/tears than factory produced products, and will be around for me to buy for years to come. I don't care if it's black, brown, yellow or white.
As a soon-to-be beekeeper, (two packages and two top bar hives coming soon!!) I'm not going to be in the position nor want to sell any of my extra honey.
So thank you to people like you all who take the time and effort to produce something that is truly raw, natural, and pure. Don't be discouraged, there are some intelligent life forms still in existence that will purchase your product

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Frederick is a very nice and helpful host with lots of knowledge of the area. The house couldn't be better located. Beach to one side, lake to the other. It's also very quiet and relaxing and has everything you could possibly need. Supermarkets, restaurants, shops are also just down the road.
Byen Binz er fantastisk dejlig. Huset var middelmådig. Der var det, der skulle være, men et gammelt og meget koldt hus. Udhuset med støvsuger m.m. Var en kæmpe beskidt rodebutik.
Alt i alt en god oplevelse, men næste gang vil vi satse på en bedre overnatning.
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Frederick was very nice, he waited until pretty late for us at his place. He was very friendly and helping.
Also, the location of the house is perfect and the living room is pretty nice.
But except for this room, we found the house not to be very welcoming and nice. The mattresses in one of the rooms seemed to be rather old and worn. And regarding the price we paid, we didn't like the fact that towels and linen were not included but had to be paid for extra.
Unterkunft entsprach nicht unseren Vorstellung. Altes Haus, verschimmelte Wände, sehr feucht und muffelig riechend. Haustür nur schwer verschließbar, das ganze Haus sehr renovierungsbedürftig und der Preis überhaupt nicht angemessen. Trotz Nebenstraße, viel Autoverkehr, wird wohl als Abkürzung genutzt. Auf dem gleichen Grundstück gibt es ein weiteres Haus, Sicherungskasten im ersten Haus, wobei die Sicherung im zweiten Haus ständig herausspringt (5x in 4 Tagen), so dass man immer wieder dafür sorgen muss (auch wenn unterwegs), dass die Nachbarn Strom haben. Gastgeber Frederick war zuvorkommend und informierte uns über Sehenswürdigkeiten vor Ort. Jedoch macht das die Mängel des Hauses nicht wett.
War eine gute Unterkunft,schön warm was im März wichtig ist. War alles was man braucht da.
Haus in toller Lage,super eingerichtet
mit sehr nettem Vermieter .
Es war ein sehr schönes Wochenende
Beetje verouderd huisje maar alles doet het en is schoon.
Douche boven badkuip was behelpen en matrassen zijn aan vervanging toe.
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Since 1967, The Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction, commonly known as "The Greenbook," has fostered uniform project designs and promoted competitive bidding. The City of San Diego has taken the concept — standardizing codes, regulations, and policies — a step further by developing a supplement with standards specific to its projects.
The Whitebook is a single, comprehensive source that streamlines references for project managers. When The Greenbook doesn't address situations that are unique to the city, they know The Whitebook takes precedence.
Released last September, the 2010 edition specifically addresses solid waste in Section 802. By providing contract language specifying waste reduction measures, potential impacts are considered early in the planning process as part of the project description. This minimizes the time required for review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
An interdepartmental team met for nearly a year and a half to hammer out the details. Solid waste specialists described the measures that should be taken to reduce waste on various types of projects. Project managers identified ways to make the provisions useful over a wide range of projects. Contract managers and environmental specialists provided input that shaped the requirements to the needs of contractors and the environmental review process.
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Reducing the volume of waste entering the Miramar Landfill, which is scheduled to reach capacity by 2022.
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Not only that but there is tons of information to sift through on Google, etc.
Where would you keep and collate this? Is there a tool for this sort of thing? Do you just create a new SQL database every time? do you need to use a keystroke logger on your own machine plus some kind of mitm logger on the network?
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Discussion in 'GM Diesel & DuraMax' started by jczimmermann, Jul 28, 2013.
Latley I have been having to prime the fuel filter to start truck. Is the fuel pump expiring?
Welcome to the club, it's great to have you aboard. Don't know anything about Diesel but if you post your question in the technical section you will get more responses. :glasses:
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I moved your thread to the correct section of our Forum as this will get you more response/opinions related to your topic. Sorry, I do not know the answer to your question but someone should be along soon who can help. Good luck!
I had the same problem with my 05 LLY duramax after I changed my fuel filter I noticed I had left the old O-ring on the drain plug. After I put the new O-ring on I had to prime it for the first 2-4 starts but after that it has started every time no problem. I hope that helps!
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#1 Thu 06 Jan 11 1:38pm
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Malaysia and Asia needs a food revolution
Hello,first to start of my name Ammar Fitri im from Malaysia im quite an active activist going around and giving people advice and methods on proper eating and ways to improve their health.Im 18 and suffered overweight when i was 12 i manage to loose weight and gain a healthy lifestyle when i was 16 i took along time to realise how important healthy and balance diet in eating.I did some research and found statistics of Malaysian diabetic suffers approximately 1.7 million out of 21 million it may seen as a small amount of people suffered.But in 2010 or 2011 the number of diabetic suffers may increased 3 or 4 times.Malaysian are establishing more and more fast-food franchise and im afraid buy time in 5 years or more obesity and diabetic will attack Malaysia by storm.Jamie if could start a food revolution not only in Malaysia but around Asia.It's really hard for me going around at some random people and asking about their diet and giving them advice im kind of young.So if you can do food revolution i would be happy and delighted to help out.I'm still doing my activism with Healthy eating hope to hear from you real soon.
#2 Sat 22 Jan 11 12:21am
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Re: Malaysia and Asia needs a food revolution
Hi Ammar,
I totally agree with you, Asian Ministries of Food would be fantastic! Much needed as so many Asian countries and food cultures are being flooded with Western fast food, junk food and processed foods. I am Australian but have been living in Shanghai for the past 7 years and its been scary to witness the increases in obesity, diabetes, cancer and chronic illness amongst the younger generations.
There you go Jamie you have two people on the ground in Asia on standby, just let us know when you want to start! :-) I know it may seem strange re-teaching the Chinese how to cook and eat but the younger generations really need help, awareness and encouragement. They are also all keen on eating Western food so your recipes translated into Chinese would be a hit!
I am a health coach and nutrition consultant and did marketing and event management previously, this year is going to be the start of Health & Wellness in Shanghai.
#3 Sun 23 Jan 11 2:17pm
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Re: Malaysia and Asia needs a food revolution
Thanks Kimberly
I'm glad there's someone that understand theres a need of change.But i know chinese cook more often and their food are healthy younger generations are less incline of cooking food and depend more on processed food like McD,KFC,Dominos etc.Some of my friends eat this junk,crappy food daily.Kimberly i think u should encourage some of the kids,teenagers or whateverin your nearby area,friends,family to make cooking fun not look upon as a chore.Peace out Kimberly god bless you for helping others.
#4 Mon 21 Feb 11 4:18pm
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Re: Malaysia and Asia needs a food revolution
I'm teaching in Macau with a group of Canadian teachers. We have also observed and I've been doing a lot of research on the food habits of the younger generation, specifically here in Macau. The statistics are not as shocking of something you would find back home, but before we know it the lifestyles of eating out all the time, and relying on white breads will begin to catch up with the society (among other bad habits).
There are many individuals in the community who would be willing to support a food revolution, expats and locals. It's just difficult to know where to start?
#5 Mon 21 Feb 11 11:38pm
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Re: Malaysia and Asia needs a food revolution
Welcome Justineanouk
I hope you find an idea that will get things going there!
Maybe ask the old people? They may have some wonderful insights!
#6 Sat 03 Sep 11 6:09am
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Re: Malaysia and Asia needs a food revolution
Hi Amar! I'm from Malaysia as well! And yes, I totally agree with you, we do need a Food Revo in our region/ country! And yes, though obesity and diabetes is becoming quite a concern, I think it really is the eating habits of our fellow country people, (if you know what I mean ) Have you come up with any ideas? I have a few, which I have been promoting to my friends and those around me.. It's great to know that there are others who are concerned about this matter! Thanks to Jamie for bringing the issue to light! ANd I would love to hear about the efforts done around Asia! Go Food Revo
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On November 21, 2013, Biblioteca Criolla had the opportunity to mix up things and bring something new to their story hours. Rabbi Debra Hachen of Jersey City offered to do special story hour for "our little ones." She read stories that had a multicultural theme and also played her guitar.
Rabbi Hachen pointed out details in the story and illustrations, talking about the ideas presented in the story, engaging the parents, day care workers and of course, the children. When she played her guitar, the children sang and danced along.
Instead of the children's area in Criolla, this story hour was held in the main, big room due to amount of people in attendance. In attendance there were 38 children and 20 adults.
"Rabbi Hachen was ordained at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in 1980 and then served twenty-four years in Massachusetts, where she was the founding rabbi of a Reform congregation that grew to 500 households. When her husband's career brought them to this area, she served several years as rabbi at a Reform congregation in Bergen County before moving to Jersey City to join the Temple Beth-El family." http://www.betheljc.org/aboutus/leadership/
A special THANK YOU goes to Librarian Janice Greenberg of Technical Services for presenting the idea to Rabbi Debra, and to Criolla staff member Beatriz Urrutia for following up and bringing this special story hour together.
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'Through his genius and his mastery of the ancient instrument, the sitar, this soft-spoken musician has opened the ears of the world to the traditional ragas of his native India.' (Karsh)
Ravi Shankar is famed as the person who popularised Indian music in the West. He was called the 'Godfather of World Music' by George Harrison. He studied sitar with Ustad Allauddin Kahn, the founder of modern Hindustani classical music. Shankar has toured Europe and the United States extensively from the mid-1950s; famous appearances include the Monterey Pop Festival (1967), Woodstock (1969) and George Harrison's Concert for Bangla Desh (1971). He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians; for example, giving recitals with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Like Menuhin, he was the founder of schools of music, in Bombay (1962) and in Los Angeles (1967). In 1967 he was cited as 'Musician of the Year' by Billboard Magazine.


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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Dr. Phil's Personality Test
Answers are for who you are now and not who you were in the past.
Have pen or pencil and paper ready.
This is a real test given by the Human Relations Department at many of the major corporations today. It helps them get better insight concerning their employees and in their prospective employees.
It's only 10 Simple questions, so grab a pencil and paper and keep track of your letter answers to each question.
1. When do you feel your best...
A) in the morning
B) during the afternoon and early
C) late at night
2. You usually walk...
A) fairly fast, with long steps
B) fairly fast, with little steps
C) less fast head up, looking the world in the face
D) less fast, head down
E) very slowly
3. When talking to people you...
A) stand with your arms folded
B) have your hands clasped
C) have one or both your hands on your hips
D) touch or push the person to whom you are talking
E) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair
4. When relaxing, you sit with...
A) your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side
B) your legs crossed
C) your legs stretched out or straight
D) one leg curled under you
5. When something really amuses you, you react with....
A) big appreciated laugh
B) a laugh, but not a loud one
C) a quiet chuckle
D) a sheepish smile
6. When you go to a party or social gathering you...
A) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
B) make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know
C) make the quietest entrance, trying to stay unnoticed
7. You're working very hard, concentrating hard, and you're interrupted...
A) welcome the break
B) feel extremely irritated
C) vary between these two extremes
8. Which of the following colors do you like most...
A) Red or orange
B) black
C) yellow or light blue
D) green
E) dark blue or purple
F) white
G) brown or gray
9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before going to sleep you are...
A) stretched out on your back
B) stretched out face down on your stomach
C) on your side, slightly curled
D) with your head on one arm
E) with your head under the covers
10. You often dream that you are...
A) falling
B) fighting or struggling
C) searching for something or somebody
D) flying or floating
E) you usually have dreamless sleep
F) your dreams are always pleasant
1. (a)2 (b)4 (c)6
2. (a)6 (b)4 (c)7 (d)2 (e)1
3. (a)4 (b)2 (c)5 (d)7 (e)6
4. (a)4 (b)6 (c)2 (d)1
5. (a)6 (b)4 (c)3 (d)5 (e)2
6. (a)6 (b)4 (c)2
7. (a)6 (b)2 (c)4
8. (a)6 (b)7 (c)5 (d)4 (e)3 (f)2 (g)1
9. (a)7 (b)6 (c)4 (d)2 (e )1
10 (a)4 (b)2 (c)3 (d)5 (e)6 (f)1
Now add up the total number of points.
Others see you as someone they should 'handle with care'. You're seen as vain, self-centered, and who is extremely dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you, but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.
Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality, a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once, someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate.
Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting, someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding, someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.
Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful & practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know you, realize it takes a lot to shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long time to get
over if that trust is ever broken.
Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from every angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is caused partly by your careful nature.
People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone who needs looking after, who always wants someone else to make the decisions and who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything! They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don't exist. Some people think you're boring. Only those who know you well, know that you aren't.
27 comments :
- Proud Momma of 3 said...
Hey Renee,
I am a 47.
Cool test!!!
Mary Lynn
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 2:58:00 PM MST
- YVETTE said...
Mine is exactly right @ 40points,lol!! Of course if I would've chosen black(which is what I usually wear (shirtwise) I would have been the next up...hmmm
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 3:09:00 PM MST
- God's Rock Angel said...
I got 32!
I'm clever but modest apparently lol
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 3:38:00 PM MST
- MamasHood said...
I got a 45. This was fun. Did you just get it off of Dr. Phil's website?
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 4:25:00 PM MST
- Lyndi said...
I got a 38, and it describes me very accurately.
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 4:29:00 PM MST
I got a 50...I knew we got along for a reason!
Very accurate!
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 4:51:00 PM MST
- Brigitte said...
I got a 50. Very spot on for me, at least I think that is the way people see me. Though we have never met, I would say that it is spot on for you as well!!
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 5:40:00 PM MST
- nicki mcfadden said...
I got a 45 but I feel like I the 31 to 40 catagory better describes me.
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 6:34:00 PM MST
- Brandy said...
I got 44.
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 6:35:00 PM MST
- mom2natnkatncj said...
I was also a 43 ;). I'd say the description suits you pretty well. Not entirely sure if it suits me or not ;).
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 6:41:00 PM MST
- Dawn Hudson said...
I got a 44.
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 6:42:00 PM MST
Make sure you check out my 31 sale flyer...you should've gotten an email...lots of sales (and only a small pdf, lol).
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 7:01:00 PM MST
- Karen said...
I scored a 32. I think that's pretty accurate for me.
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 7:03:00 PM MST
- Courtney said...
I got a 39...or a 41...I can't decide on one of the answers....LOL But when I read both descriptions, and read them to Chris(my husband) we both agree I am the 41-50! Either way...it was a fun test!
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 7:33:00 PM MST
- Holly Aytes said...
I got a 42 and I would say that it describes me perfectly. Since I don't "know" you I can't be 100% certain but I would say from what I do know of you that it does describe you pretty well. Am I right?
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 8:20:00 PM MST
- K and/or K said...
I'm a 35 and this is spot on ME! So funny how Dr. Phil can figure me out via someone's blog!
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 9:10:00 PM MST
- My Three Sons said...
I got a 32 and do have a lot of those qualities. Almost scary, like the quiz really knew me.
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 9:22:00 PM MST
- Jen said...
I'm a 48...I think I agree!
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 10:07:00 PM MST
- Sandy and said...
i got a 37 and it's dead on. that's pretty neat. It was a nice way to procrastinate a little!
- Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 10:09:00 PM MST
- Lynn said...
44 and nope! Not even close...but then some of the questions I didn't like any of the answers.
- Monday, December 8, 2008 at 12:13:00 AM MST
- Andrea said...
I got a 45.
- Monday, December 8, 2008 at 4:55:00 AM MST
- Laura said...
I got a 36, the only difference is a forgive VERY easily...sometimes to fast. But it pretty much it me head on!!!!
- Monday, December 8, 2008 at 7:45:00 AM MST
- Hilary said...
Heehee I got 43 too..sounds almost on track for me :)
- Monday, December 8, 2008 at 9:07:00 AM MST
- Christy said...
42 for me - pretty right on!
- Monday, December 8, 2008 at 9:28:00 AM MST
- Rachel said...
My score was 38 and that is EXACTLY ME!
- Monday, December 8, 2008 at 12:59:00 PM MST
- rickismom said...
I got 36. But some of the questions were a bit "iffy". Like favorite color... favorite color for WHAT? Bedroom walls or dress to wear to a party?
- Monday, December 8, 2008 at 11:13:00 PM MST
- Michelle said...
I got a 42. I'm not entirely sure that really describes me. I do think it describes you though.
- Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 2:35:00 PM MST


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Guest Post: This is a guest post by Venture Capitalist Frank Artale, Partner at Ignition Partners.
The notion of personal business intelligence may seem a bit odd. The fact of the matter is that we all create, consume, view, and bookmark a large body of content each minute of our online and offline lives. Those of us that work for businesses of all sizes (and that means anyone who gets paid or attempts to) face a growing number of content places and types all the time. The network we have to maintain in our brains to remind us of the "what and where" is challenging.
In the "client-server" days we had our inboxes, file shares, internet, and intranet sites. It was fairly easy to create a map of where things were and people only had a few places they could really create content. Line of business applications accepted content from people or systems but in very structured ways and, in general, provided fast access to the content since the applications were specific, single purpose, and generally written by the in house IT staff. Everything else was stored on file servers or e-mail and the external internet was merely a collection of websites one could book mark or throw a search engine against if you forgot something.
A few trends together have changed everything:
· The rise of SaaS as a buy versus build alternative to bespoke line of business applications (Salesforce.com, Workday, Concur versus in house apps)
· The linkage of personal use consumer systems like LinkedIn (social network) or DropBox (sharing) to our business workflows
· Mobile devices and networks as a preferred consumption and convenient publication point
· Adoption of rich collaboration systems (Sharepoint and Box.Net)
The silos are not only in different data centers but are from different vendors and the applications all have different search, retrieve, and share mechanisms. The need to get at everything from a mobile device can be challenging not only due to form factor but also because authentication and security when you come in from the hostile public network is different from what happens on your laptop. Yes I acknowledge the existence of the mobile VPN but can't prefer it. And of course let's not forget that all of these content stores encourage us to create lots and lots of data as we share ideas, opinion, and intelligence in ways that simple file creation, email forwarding, and line of business application data collection didn't. And this is all a good thing.
It is good because organizations comprised of people that document and share information openly are better organizations. Some will say that too much data can cause the proverbial information overload. But on balance, most of the time, more data is better than hidden or missing data. Also and often overlooked is the fact that the best of new silos make their data available via programming interfaces. In house line of business applications never really did that meaningfully so the data was captive until the central IT folks got around to "mining" the database. The strong, behind the scenes structure prevented the free flowing and on the fly sharing that exemplifies the most agile organizations. New applications will go after that data and connect it.
As we continue our march onto the new business software platform (cloud + SaaS + mobile + data enabled everything), the opportunities for efficiency at the individual, group, and company level will leapfrog the state of the art of just a few years ago. I hear too many people talk about how we will drown in data. There is no need to drown. Solutions will embrace the deluge and harness its power. Core technologies like Map-reduce and NoSQL are just the beginning just like the relational database servers that emerged in 1990s to power the client server movement. Elastic storage and compute are the fuel. Fast networking and open data interfaces are the pathways. We're on our way and I'm looking forward to a new wave of innovation over the top of all this. A couple of Ignition companies are working in this space now. Both SnapLogic and stealthy TipBit are leading great innovation and have embraced the trend and we are proud to be investors in them.


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Growth is NOT going to end.
In "Perfect Storm" the head of Research at Tullett Prebon, Dr Tim Morgan predicts the end of Western Growth arguing that the last 250 years were an anomaly of the industrial revolution, which is now over.
To summarise the argument, Morgan identifies four trends which will mean Growth is going to be anaemic or non existent for the long-term, all coming together in the perfect storm. These trends are 1) The benefits of the move away from human muscle as a primary source of power have been largely spent, and there are no further equivalent gains to be had. 2)We are at the end of a credit super-cycle which has been inflating a bubble for the last 30 years. 3) Policy-makers have been blind-sided by rubbish data, and 4) the west is vulnerable to globalisation.
He's not even half right.
Let's look at his trends in detail: First he suggests that the debt bubble is equivalent to the south-sea bubble or the Tulip-mania. The UK and US are enormously endebted. There was not just a vast increase in public debt, but also private debt too over the past 30 years.
Gordon Brown, for example, proclaimed an end to "boom and bust" and gloried in Britain's "growth" despite the way in which debt escalation was making it self-evident that the apparent expansion in the economy was neither more nor less than the simple spending of borrowed money. Between 2001-02 and 2009-10, Britain added £5.40 of private and public debt for each £1 of 'growth'... Asset managers have a very simple term to describe what happened to Britain under Brown – it was a collapse in returns on capital employed. No other major economy got it quite as wrong as Britain under Brown, but much the same was happening across the Western world...While he is, of course right our economies are more indebted than ever before, the damage to the economy (or at least growth) from this has already happened. There was almost no private sector growth during the Labour years. Almost all the growth was due to immigration and increased public spending. Brown's "boom" was merely a public spending spree, masking a recession which was already happening. Much is made of the collapse of investment returns over the period. It's almost as if that huge increase in public debt sucked investment out of the private sector!
That process reversing would explain the no growth, but rather solid employment numbers that we've seen recently. Meanwhile the private and corporate sectors have been busily using the low interest rates to deleverage faster than at any time in history. The good news is the UK and USA are not going to go the way of Japan, because instead of committing to ever more "stimulus" we're all agreed on Austerity. Japanese debt now stands at 250% of GDP and they've enjoyed little growth in the last 20 years as a result. The Anglo-Saxon economies, in contrast have instead purged the bad debt from bank's balance-sheets (incompletely, but better than Japan in the 90's), refinanced, and hit the monetary nuclear button (Quantitative Easing) after 6 months, not 6 years.
Yes there's a 30-year asset bubble to unwind. That's not what drives real wealth. There is capital for innovative technology, so this isn't going to stop the long-term driver of growth: productivity. Yes, we're at the top of a 30-year bond bull-market driven by falling interest rates and falling risk appetites, and yes, interest rates will rise over the next few years. But the overall debt burden (including public, private and corporate) has already started to fall. Let's not forget the South-Sea bubble and Tulip Mania didn't derail western growth because the shape of balance sheets don't ultimately drive long-term growth. Technology does. There's no reason to suppose the credit crunch will do so in the long-run.
Next up, Dr Morgan channels the Socialist Workers' Party by suggesting globalisation is a disaster for the west because it's sucked "production" out of our economies. This is pure "manufacturing is special" wibble. Globalisation has, of course been a boon for Chinese wages, and as a result the phenomenon of offshoring jobs has run its course. Western manufactures now cost about the same, when the extra transport and extended supply-chain of Chinese manufacture is taken into account. Meanwhile, the Chinese, vastly wealthier than they were a decade ago thanks to offshoring, are now clamoring for Jaguars. We've created a market for the high-value manufacturing and services which never existed before. We in the west aren't producing less - the UK is a net exporter of cars for example - we just employ fewer people to make more.
The big problem with globalisation was that Western countries reduced their production without making corresponding reductions in their consumption...Morgan makes the standard pessimist mistake. Making things we can drop on our feet with fewer people means those people not hammering metal in Birmingham car-plants can train to be lawyers, or web-designers instead. We get cars AND websites. We're richer. We don't need to cut our consumption, or at least not as much as Morgan thinks we do.
In the interface between these first two trends Morgan identifies, there is a glimmer of truth. Because much of the growth in the noughties was debt-financed and ephemeral, we simply weren't as rich as we thought we were in 2008. The recession is the process by which we cut our expenditure to meet our income. Great. The economy is healing itself, and has been doing so for the last four years.
Any economic historian could tell you that recoveries from balance-sheet recessions are always slow. The credit crunch was the mother of such, and so the slow growth subsequently is not exactly unexpected, however unwelcome. The enormous private and corporate deleveraging, combined with public sector Austerity should, if the Keyensians are right trigger a depression. The fact that growth is merely flat should be grounds for optimism.
Trend 3) is that the financial statistics used are a grand exercise in self-delusion.
The critical distortion here is clearly inflation, which feeds through into computations showing "growth" even when it is intuitively apparent (and evident on many other benchmarks) that, for a decade or more, the economy has, at best, stagnated, not just in the United States but across much of the Western world. Distorted inflation also tells wage-earners that they have become better off even though such statistics do not accord with their own perceptions. It is arguable, too, that real (inflation-free) interest rates were negative from as long ago as the mid-1990s, a trend which undoubtedly exacerbated an escalating tendency to live on debt.I've long argued the current recession's seriousness is the direct result of Governments' efforts here in the UK and in the USA to use public debt to prevent a recession which should have happened in response to the .com crash in 2000. There has been little private sector growth in the UK from when Gordon Brown turned on the spending taps in 2000, to the crash of 2009. Furthermore, the use of CPI (which doesn't include house-price inflation in the inflation number) and failure to deal with the known problems with RPI, left were handy fictions in the public data. This probably massaged the true figures down, helpful to government, which stealthily cuts people's real incomes. There's more: open abuse of the disability benefits and education system was used to massage the unemployment numbers.
But you're not really surprised that I'm sympathetic to the idea Government and bureaucracy will indulge in self-serving self-delusion, are you? The good news is the Coalition has addressed some of these problems.
Because of this tendency for bureaucracy to indulge in self-serving lies, they pose the biggest risk to western growth. Increases in wealth are, as Morgan correctly observes, all about productivity growth. Where is productivity growth weakest? In the public sector which operates without competitive pressure. And which part of the economy has been growing the most for the last 15 years? That's right: the Public sector. It may take a decade of cuts and austerity for this trend to be reversed, but that's why I'm optimistic. Europe, the USA and UK have all made a start on trimming the burdens a much-derided but absolutely correct policy of Austerity. The EU is imposing Austerity on the nations with the biggest deficits, and the US fiscal headbangers of the Republican party are using the debt ceiling to impose a modicum of sanity on an unwilling president and the coalition is making cuts to services.
Shrinking public sector headcounts may be hurting GDP growth in the short term, but this is bringing the economy back from the debt-financed insanity. It may take a while, but unlike Japan, we seem to be willing to face the reality. Japan's experience shows clearly the party cannot be made indefinite.
It's the final trend: that the growth engine is winding down which is the weakest in the whole piece, yet forms the basis of the conclusion. Morgan suggests the growth which started with the industrial revolution is spent. He's wrong. The heat-engine: Steam and internal combustion power, hasn't even been fully deployed around the globe when a billion people are still using the ox-plough or digging stick. We've not deployed the technology of the 18th century to the world. There's still economic growth from crop-rotation, something which was cutting edge when Europe was recovering from the Black death.
Furthermore Morgan suggests there is no further equivalent growth to come. He's wrong. We're only just scratching the surface of what telephones for example can do for growth, let alone computers. Less than 10% of humanity has access to the internet, and that 10% hasn't yet worked out how to use pocket devices with access to all the world's knowledge available generate money.
The idea there's no growth to come is just laughable. The agricultural revolution and industrial revolution aren't even over. The telecoms revolution has barely started, and the information revolution is just a glint in the milkman's eye. There's two-centuries of growth for humanity right there. And that's before we start harnessing fusion power, driverless cars, abundant solar energy or whatever we come up with next.
Anyone who says "this time it's different" on the way up is wrong. The same is true on the way down.
The only unlimited resource is human ingenuity. That's why I'm an optimist, tempered by cynicism about Government's motives and competence. Simply by applying what we already know to those who don't, we can drag the billions currently in poverty out of it. Even better, when Governments facilitate rather than control the process, we can all get rich doing so. Globalisation isn't a zero-sum game. Innovation is happening. The credit super-cycle is being addressed (everywhere except Japan). The only thing I'll agree with Morgan, is that the public data is rubbish and so too was Gordon Brown.


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If the Internet has come a long way in the past 10 years, so also has America Online. People who know the company only in its present imperial splendor may not realize just how modestly it began. AOL was launched in 1989 as a dial-up service directed exclusively to users of Apple Macintosh computers. (I was a charter subscriber.) The Macintosh community was an attractive niche at the time because other segments of the market were already occupied by better-established services such as CompuServe, The Source, Delphi, GEnie and Dialog.
America Online didn't stay in its niche for long. By carpet-bombing the country with free floppy disks (and later CD-ROMs) they signed up a million members by 1994 and added another million the next year. Their dominance of the dial-up market was unchallenged after 1998, when they acquired what was left of CompuServe, once the strongest of the rivals. The CompuServe name survives ignominiously as AOL's bargain brand.
A bigger question than how AOL overtook its competitors is how it has managed to survive—and thrive—in the era of the Web. Five years ago, if anyone had asked me to predict the fate of America Online, I would have answered with total confidence: Doom and oblivion. (So much for my business acumen. Look elsewhere for your stock tips.) It seemed obvious that none of the proprietary services could hold out against the momentum of the Internet, which opened up a garden of collective riches that no single organization could ever duplicate. America Online offered its subscribers an encyclopedia, but the Internet plugged you into all the world's universities and laboratories.
What I overlooked, of course, was the possibility that AOL could become the Internet. By simply linking its own private servers to the wider network, it offered subscribers both a familiar, protected environment and an opportunity to explore more widely—the encyclopedia plus the university. Nerds may sneer, but AOL has become the largest Internet service provider, with more than 20 million customers, an order of magnitude bigger than its nearest competitor. The merger with Time Warner (itself the product of several mergers) will make the new company a formidable organization by any standard. At the time of the merger announcement, AOL Time Warner was expected to become the fourth-largest corporation in the world, as measured by the total value of outstanding stock.
The idea that an upstart company such as AOL could come to overshadow all the stalwart industrial giants of a century ago—General Motors and AT&T and the remnants of Standard Oil—is disorienting. Seeing AOL become the pre-eminent Internet company gives me an even dizzier sensation of the world turned topsy turvy. I must reach for a literary analogy. In Marcel Proust's vast novel A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, the Verdurin family are introduced as tasteless nouveaux riches so ignorant of Parisian society that they don't even realize they are outcasts, snubbed by such luminaries as the Guermantes family. One of the novel's big jokes—you have to wait 3,000 pages for the punchline—is that Madame Verdurin winds up presiding over the capital's most exclusive salon; and, through the magic of remarriage, she is transformed into Princesse de Guermantes. AOL's trajectory is no less astonishing.
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