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Kath Kelly IT WAS a typical Saturday night and cash-strapped teacher Kath Kelly was drinking in the pub with friends. But instead of relaxing, she was worrying about how she could afford to buy her brother a wedding present.
IT WAS a typical Saturday night and cash-strapped teacher Kath Kelly was drinking in the pub with friends. But instead of relaxing, she was worrying about how she could afford to buy her brother a wedding present.
In a fit of tipsy bravado she decided upon the ideal frugal solution. She bet her friends she could live on just 1 a day for a whole year – coming up with some ingenious ideas to save money for those hit by today's credit crunch in the process.
And so began a year in which she would forage for berries from hedgerows, scour jumble sales for winter boots and become the "queen of the buffet" as she learned to elbow her way to the front of the table.
During this time she fell in love with a man ten years her junior, made friends and found she didn't need "must have" shoes and bags to be happy.
Ms Kelly paid 3,000 in advance to her landlord for rent and utility bills before beginning her experiment in June 2006, and continued working at her job teaching English to foreign students in Bristol.
It was then up to her to stretch her budget to cover transport, food, clothes and socialising.
She said: "My mates all tried to stop me. They thought I was mad. They imagined I'd be living like a nun, never going out, or freeloading off them.
"But it wasn't like that at all. In fact, I was out all the time. I went to the public lectures at Bristol University that had a buffet afterwards, and I went to the library's 100th birthday where they had a buffet as well. I was the queen of the buffet. Every time there was a public event and a crowd was needed, I was there. I dragged my mates out to free events, too.
"I couldn't buy rounds at the pub or anything like that so I'd drag them out to art openings and book launches."
Other "highlights" included finding 117 in loose change dropped in the street – a third of her annual budget – which she didn't allow herself to spend; hitching to the Channel Tunnel and persuading a French woman to give her a lift; and then hitching to Brittany to visit her brother. Ms Kelly added: "On the way back, I travelled on the ferry with a lorry driver, and even had dinner at the drivers' canteen."
She kept up appearances by going into department stores for free makeovers, and to test-spray on her favourite Chanel No 5 perfume as she also tried to spin out her Lancme face cream.
However, Ms Kelly said her experience it gave her an insight into the struggle facing those on low incomes.
"I went to libraries and bookshops a lot and would see the same people all the time," she said. "I knew they would probably be living like that for the rest of their lives, whereas for me it was a passing fad.
"It made me think about how previously I could spend over 25 a week on coffees at work.
"So I became aware I was not taking part in this fully and sometimes I just felt like a poor relation – reduced to a child-like status because I couldn't make decisions based on money."
But the 47-year-old's life changed when she met Bruce Taylor, 38, the estate manager on the organic farm where she was volunteering. She admitted her cash-strapped status meant changes in how she got ready for their first date.
"I couldn't go and buy under-wear or get my hair done which was a first for me," she said.
The couple set up home together in March in Bruton in Somerset, and Ms Kelly has now written a book on her experiences. Having banked her salary, at the end of her frugal year she spent 1,300 on a lifetime membership of the National Trust for her brother's wedding present. "The experience has changed my philosophy on life," she said.
• How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day by Kath Kelly, Redcliffe Press, 6.99, out now.
Kath Kelly's top ten tips for frugal living
1: Collect leaflets, coupons and collect free papers for vouchers. These often include "one person eats free" vouchers for restaurant meals, preview showings of the latest releases at cinemas and entry to events and historic buildings.
2: Scour shop windows and noticeboards for anything given away or "free to collector".
3. Never ignore a market researcher, they often have freebies to give away. Completing a questionnaire could result in goods such as free shampoo or even cash.
4. Buy discount food from delis and shops at the end of the day. Look out for dented tins and "two for one" offers. Learn to "stretch" food – for example, roast a chicken one day, use spare meat for risotto and the carcase for soup. Grow some of your own food – try raising salad leaves in window boxes.
5. Leave notes instead of using a mobile phone and use the internet at the library.
6. Shop at church jumble sales. These tend to be cheaper than charity shops and have fewer customers.
7. Give people gifts such as second-hand books or home-made chocolates you know they will like, because you are relying on their goodwill.
8. Make the most of free food, including mince pies at Christmas, buffets at art and book launches, free samples at farmers' markets and deli counters.
9. Visit department beauty counters for free makeovers and to try perfumes. Get free haircuts, manicures or facials by being a trainee's model at a beauty college or salon.
10. Join your local library for books, DVDs and a range of magazines – you can order books, especially new hardbacks, for as little as 60p.


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As you can probably tell, we're quite the fans of Want Les Essentiels' organic canvas range. We could say it's because we're looking out for the environment but that'd be a lie. We just want those designs at a lower price. It's still not cheap but we all know the mantra about paying for quality. Maybe you should consider saving up some money for it? Delayed gratification can be a great thing sometimes. (Ssense)
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A Look at Gold
As longtime readers know, one of the goals here at oftwominds.com is to present perspectives which might aid the average wage earner/investor in their quest to retain the purchasing power of whatever assets/money they possess.
Owning gold and/or other precious metals have been one successful way to do so, as we have shown via charts of the Dow Jones Industrial Average priced in gold. Priced in gold, the U.S. stock market averages have suffered enormous declines even as they reached "new highs" in nominal prices. So much for "stocks are cheap."
Nonetheless, it is possible to lose money when buying gold and/or gold stocks, a fact I have unfortunately proven repeatedly. To help us understand where the price of gold is in terms of technical analysis, I asked frequent contributor Harun I. for some charts and commentary. I reported to him that I had lost money buying gold in late 2004 when it was under $500, and thus the note on one of these charts referring to that time frame.
At the time, it was extremely frustrating to be losing money, as gold traded sideways for long, grinding months. Yet clearly, holding through that period of congestion certainly paid off later. Still, it would have been a more successful strategy to buy gold at its near-term low rather than buy it high and watch it slide for the better part of a year.
Here are the charts. For greater clarity they are posted in full size (approximately 1600 pixels) which does require some scrolling. We think it's worth the exra effort. Just click on the smaller images below to open the full-sized charts.
Harun made these general comments on the charts and gold. Additional technical comments can be found on the charts.
"Hopefully these charts will help even the most bullish investors understand corrective phases.
My comments in no way constitute advise. This commentary is just one perspective on how charts can help one to time investment/trading decisions.
I did this in a pure price format simply because indicators, in my opinion, should be used to confirm price activity.
As an industrial metal I believe it would be hard to justify gold's price. Whether it is rational or not, people are flocking to gold for a reason. While the public hears Relative Strength and yawns, professionals deeply understand its significance whether they publicly admit it or not. Those who would tell the public that stocks are cheap are not to be trusted. Those who actually believe that stocks are cheap should not be managing other people's money. The government may have demonetized gold but it is evident that it has maintained its psychological and physical linkages to value."
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A Look at Gold
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If you've ever wondered how a rich athlete goes broke, well here's one example. Twenty-four-year-old soon-to-be-broke boxer Adrien Broner is seen in the following video – uploaded by himself – with a huge brick of bills, mostly $100s because he "don't take change back!" That's until the WBC lightweight champion spots a few $20s in his stash. Oh what's a baller to do when a few Jacksons are sullying up your Benjamins? If you're anything like Adrien, flush em down, of course!
Choice quotes:
"I went out last night and I blew about 10, 20…I don't know. We don't count what we spend. But we know we spent a lot!
"I don't take change back cause I don't carry other bills. If ain't Benjamin or Franklin or Benjamin Franklin, I ain't carryin' that!
"My big brother say he 'poppin' straps' so I had to go get some straps and now all I do is pop straps cause my big bro. Shout out to Floyd. Shout out to the Money Team."


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I got this TV as I needed something to go in my bedroom with my new playstation 3 and ideally wanted something that was 1080p and would look pretty good, to cut a long story short this does the job really well especially for the price.
The 1080p picture looks great and setting the TV was a breeze, the TV tuning was really easy and it found all the freeview channels I was expecting it to for my area. Hooking up the playstation was as simple as expected, just plugged it into the HDMI and off I went.
I have also used the TV as a second monitor and it does this really well as well, I plugged in either a VGA cable or another HDMI cable using a switcher with the PS3 and everything worked and ran smoothly.
The speakers on the TV work really well and the sounds comes through crystal clear and it is plenty loud enough for us.
Hanging the TV on the wall was easy using a standard bracket, not much else to say really other than the
remote is fine and the TV still works perfectly a year after purchasing it (its survived a move and a few bumps along the way).
When I moved to a smaller flat (attic conversion) my old 32 inch Sony television was far too large for my new temporary premises. Like a lot of my furniture it was placed in storage and I set about the task of finding a smaller replacement. With the limited space available I was looking for a television between 19 and 22 inches. My first thought was to just but another Sony as I had always done so before. But the spec of the Sony offering was the lowest and it was also £40 more expensive. I decided to break with tradition and go with the LG M227WD at £179.99.
The main reason for this was that the LG had a 22 inch screen size where others in this price range were 19 or 20 inches only. It was also full HD. A lot of these HD ready labelled televisions are not so make sure you check this before making your purchase. In fact the LG was the only one that was and it was also the second lowest price wise. As well as being Full HD the LG M227WD has an abundance of connections at the rear enabling you to connect other devices. You get the all important HDMI socket plus a DVI input as well as a VGA connection. There are two SCART sockets plus a USB and component.
Few similar priced models have this amount of connectivity but one extra HDMI socket would have been a real bonus to help future proof this set. Freeview is built in as well as the traditional analogue stations. The picture and sound quality are excellent and the onscreen menu is very easy to learn and navigate through. The supplied remote control is quite basic looking but is very functional. It does feel a little on the flimsy side when compared to the excellent build quality of the TV itself though. Aesthetically the LG M227WD is very pleasing and has the feel of a much more expensive item than its actual price would suggest.
Since I'm no longer in such cramped conditions I'm now using my LG M227WD as my new monitor. I recently purchased a new PC and the LG performs superbly in its new role. I would advise using the DVI connection instead of the HDMI one when using the LG M227WD as a monitor as this seems to provide a higher quality picture in my experience.
I bought this TV/Monitor to replace my old 22" PC Monitor in which I was using a PC TV card to transform it into a TV. This method was rather crude as I always needed my PC to be turned on and picture quality suffered.
I've had it just under a year now and it has been a great buy. Unlike most 22" TVs this one supprots full 1080p high definition pictures which makes it perfect for use with BlueRay and is more than capable of viewing standard HD TV images.
I don't use the built in Freeview tuner as I have a PVR which is connected via scart socket, even on this none HD source the picture quality is brilliant. It is very sharp with great but natural colour separation.
In PC (DVI) mode the picture quality is also suburb, I can notice defects in Photoshop images I am working on which don't show at all on my other monitors. The resolution is very high so this takes some getting used to but productivity is much higher as I fit so much more into the same screen space.
There are two downsides for me, it can take a couple of seconds to change sources which can be a problem if I need to quickly check my emails during an add break and the sound quality can only be described as awful. It is far too tinny to be of any use however I always use my HIFI for TV sound anyway so this isn't a problem for me but may well be for other people. The problem with modern LCD TVs is there are thin by their very nature which leaves no room for proper speakers like you used to get in the CRT TVs.
Reading the reviews of this TV when we were looking around made us a bit worried about the sound, as almost every review slates the sound quality; however we have had no problems with it! It's not going to win awards for greatest sound quality in the world, but for the price you can't really expect cinema quality sound can you?!
Its a very versatile TV, with just about every connector you can think of on the back, it has HDMI, SCART, component, composite and more, including VGA for connecting to a PC, so it can be used as a monitor instead of just a TV if required.
The screen resolution is 1920 x 1080 making it true HD and not just HD ready, which was one of the main reasons why we bought this TV and it was really very simple to set up and tune. The contrast ratio is 10000:1 and the response time is 5ms.
The picture quality is fantastic, very clear and crisp and when you have the playstation hooked up playing a blue ray, the TV really does come into its own; the 1080p really does look amazing!
The only downside I would say is, that the freeview menu does tend to take a while to load up the program details, but like I said earlier for the price you can't expect the world!
If your looking for a cheap TV, with an excellent quality picture and don't mind the sound being a bit tinny sometimes then this is definitely the TV for you!
Having put up with a 15inch monitor for years I decided that it was time to upgrade! This was bought mainly with the intention of being a monitor, with the TV functions as a nice extra.
Looks wise this is quite smart, the surround at top and sides is a bit less than an inch wide gloss black at the bottom its a bit wider and has the speakers mounted in a curved section below this. All the controls are on the right hand side of the unit along with the connector for external speakers/headphone (your gonna need to use this!).
The remote is functional if uninspiring, and all the controls are pretty much obvious. It runs of 2 AAAs and is quite happy on rechargeables.
For use as a monitor it is bright and sharp when at its native resolution. At other resolutions it suffers from the normal LCD loss of quality due to the scaling of the picture resolution. Unless you have a PC which cant support it I can't see any reason to run it at anything other than its native 1920x1080. With a single light colour over the whole (like the windows login screen) screen one corner (top right) is a little brighter than the others however once you actually put a picture on the screen its not noticeable (at least to me).
As a TV it seem OK, I haven't used as such an awful lot. The picture is normally quite clear and crisp however goes occasionally a little blocky, that may be the signal, or just the fact the when sat at a desk I'm a lot closer to it than I normally am to a TV when I'm watching it.
Sound quality is, as other reviewers have said not great, if you use it a lot as a TV you're going to want to connect set of external speakers. You have 2 options for this. Firstly the jack on the side will drive any normal set of computer speakers, any decent pair of powered speakers will probably be a step up from the internal ones. Alternatively you can drive an amplifier with a optical digital input from the optical output on the back of the set.
There aren't to many bells and whistles o this monitor/tv for example there is no picture in picture so you cant keep an eye on the TV while you write up you weekly sales report! However what there is works well, digital teletext, program guide, program info etc all work as expected.
TV set up was trivial. Plug in an aerial, turn it on, let it scan for channels done. As a monitor plugged it in with DVI cable it simply works.
Overall a nice monitor/tv with plenty of inputs for attaching all you gadgets
After losing my previous television to a short-circuit, i was in desperate of a new set. Having been with a Toshiba for a while, i decided to buy from elsewhere. I was reluctant to buy an LG, as my friends had told me of their experiences with LG's poor sound quality on many of their products. After looking around, i found this and decided to risk it.
For starters, id like to point out how impressed i was with the number of input and output ports on the monitor. i could have my PlayStation 3 and PC plugged in at the same time, and still watch TV with the built in freeview, which comes with all the channels you would expect from any freeview box.
The sound quality was good, but not great. if you set the volume too high, then it starts to sound a bit metallic, but after owning a Toshiba I was very used to this. The image quality more than made up for the sound quality. Capable of high resolutions, and high contrast levels (10000:1). you can be so immersed in the image quality that your mind ignores the metallic sounding audio.
Of course nothing is perfect. I found the controller somewhat random, and there wasnt exactly a large range of features available. The stand that holds the TV is also a bit unstable, but the TV is wall-mountable, so that issue can be easily ignored.
overall this TV is stylish, cheap and excellent value for money
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This is a review on the LG M227WD, it was bought for the three use's (1) for use as a monitor for a pc, (2) for gaming with an Xbox 360 - as it supports 1080p/HDMI connection, and for (3) watching televison, due to the inbuilt DVB-T tuner.
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For the full spec, click the "Technical Details" above (a lot of members forget about this feature of the Dooyoo website, and complain when not all the specifications are included in the review). What I want to say though is that the key features are the amount of connections, with two HDMI ports, VGA, DVI-D, S-video, Scart and it also has Optical Audio Out (This is really useful, because due to the size of the set the speakers are not very powerful - although for the size 22" this tv has better speakers than many in this size/price bracket - and therefore you can plug it into a 5.1 (or 2.1) speaker system to get better audio.
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The LCD TV is easy to use, and the EPG system for the Freeview is a treat to operate, having many advanced features, such as its ability to tell you exactly how much you have progressed in the current show, so if you change channel you can see how much you have missed so far. The screen has amazing clarity, and the contrast is very good (10,000:1). The screen is its best when in 1080p, when playing xbox 360 through the HDMI connection, the clarity is exceptional and the detail you have memorising. As I said earlier this is also used as a PC monitor and it also functions this job very well, at the max resolution of 1920x1080 - that is really good, and you have plenty of space for a word document in half the screen and another application in the other.
This is a fantastic set, and from Amazon and Dixons its only £183 at the moment, a steal for a set like this. The only negatives is that the stand is not completely stable and will rock if you shake it about a lot on the table. Although this model, can be wall mounted. From an aesthetic perspective this looks fantastic against a white wall, and looks very stylish.
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Overachieving Mavs thrive as underdogs
Updated 2:05 am, Thursday, December 1, 2011
Made more for movies than real life, the underdog story rarely actually happens. That's why it gets made into a movie when a team pulls it off.
One area team is making a major turnaround, with a group of inexperienced kids who are figuring things out together in a nicely scripted way. The team has gone from a 1-3 start to the Class 5A Division I state quarterfinals.
The strange thing here is that it's happening at Madison, a school that has long been home to favorites, not underdogs.
It's why coach Jim Streety said this season may be his most satisfying.
For the past few years, Madison has had plenty of star-power and the expectations that come with it.
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In 2009, Madison began the season as the area's top-ranked team, with Texas A&M-bound receiver Nate Askew among its stars. The Mavericks lost their final three games, finishing 6-4.
Last season was top recruit Aaron Green's senior year, but a strong early start ended with a bidistrict loss to Judson as Madison lost three of its last five games.
Streety admits the past few years have been tough. He was also concerned this year might be worse.
There were just two returning starters back on defense. Running backs Marquis Warford and Galen McAllister were unknowns, both spending last season on junior varsity.
One of their few key returnees, offensive lineman Nate Hernandez, got dizzy at the beginning of two-a-days in August. Doctors found a brain aneurysm, and he hasn't played this season.
The Mavericks' 1-3 start was brutal, the worst start in Streety's 38 seasons as a head coach. Two of those losses were 48-7 routs to Judson and Kerrville Tivy.
Even while facing his first losing season since 1974, Streety saw something different with this group.
"They're the type of kids that makes our jobs incredible," Streety said. "We were getting spanked, but they were growing up each week."
Since that start, the Mavericks have won eight of nine games. Warford became the star and has rushed for 1,939 yards. A soft-spoken junior, he's quick to mention that McAllister has also topped 1,000 yards this season.
The team is still young, with the defense led by junior Vincent Taylor.
Taylor, who moved from New Orleans in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina, has 135 tackles, 37 more than any other Madison player.
The youth may be part of the underdog formula. During the rough start, Warford said players didn't get discouraged. He said they just understood they were all growing up.
And it was Hernandez, the kid who hasn't played all season, who was a catalyst. He's remained the team's vocal leader. Quarterback Justin Jones said Hernandez is the one who kept spirits up during those 41-point losses.
The season reached a climax two weeks ago with a rematch against Judson. After losing by 41 just two months before, Madison won 25-24 on a two-point conversion in the final minute.
Now that it's in the state quarterfinals, Madison has overachieved in every aspect imaginable.
The Mavericks (9-4) face Harlingen (13-0) on Friday at Texas A&M-Kingsville, where they'll be the underdogs again.
Streety, 67, said even if that two-point conversion didn't work and Madison's season ended there, he'd still consider this team one of his greatest successes.
While that start was the worst in Streety's 38 seasons, the transformation is enough to make him feel young again.
Well, younger.
"I'm having a lot of fun, but I wouldn't say that I feel like I'm 30," Streety said.
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A wheelchair-bound bandit copped a plea Tuesday to rolling up to unsuspecting women at high-end hotels and restaurants like celebrity hotspot Nobu and swiping their purses.
In all the incidents, Matias Moreno-Boza, 25, wheeled himself up to the victims, snatched their bags then wheeled himself out of sight, cops said.
The disabled thief pleaded guilty to grand larceny, forgery and identity theft before Justice Maxwell Wiley in Manhattan Supreme Court, in exchange for a year in jail.
Moreno-Boza began his purse-snatching spree at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway where he pretended to be a guest last August. He rolled up on a woman checking in at the front desk and plucked her pocketbook, cops said.
The crook was at it again on Aug. 30 at the swanky restaurant Nobu 57 on West 57th Street. He rolled over to a female diner and purloined her leather Coach satchel.
A few days later he struck again, stealing a 40-year-old woman's purse from Havana Central in Hell's Kitchen.
The bandit next hit Chelsea tapas bar Txilkito and pinched a 35-year-old woman's Gucci bag from the back of her chair, cops said.
He used the pilfered plastic to do a little shopping at the Hugo Boss in Columbus Circle.
Moreno-Boza became paralyzed after he was shot in the back in his native Peru. He will be deported to his home country after he serves his sentence, prosecutors said.
He is due back in court March 5 for sentencing.
Additional reporting by Daniel Prendergast


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Liaquat Ahamed: The conventional wisdom is that the euro is in trouble because a bunch of profligate governments have borrowed too much.
Kai Ryssdal: Commentator Liaquat Ahamed.
Ahamed: They are now facing terrible difficulties in rolling over their debts. And so the proposed solution is government austerity.
Unfortunately, the euro's problems however go much deeper. The reason that investors have become so unwilling to continue to lend to countries such as Italy has less to do with the size of their debts and much more to do with their growth prospects. Growing countries, like growing companies, have little problem borrowing. It is when growth slows down to a crawl that creditors take fright.
Why are the future prospects for growth in Southern European counties so bad? Simply put, they have allowed themselves to become severely uncompetitive by allowing their wages to rise to close to German levels without German levels of productivity.
If they are to revitalize growth, while remaining within the euro, they will have to restructure their economies. The crisis has raised the specter that the euro will fall apart and there will be a return in Greece to the drachma or in Italy to the lira. What does that mean? More trouble. If you are an Italian or Greek corporation, why would you keep your euros in a local bank? You don't know what currency you might eventually get back. When you could shift your money to a German bank and be sure that you'll get euros back. Not surprisingly, therefore Greek banks have lost 20 percent of their deposits over the last year. The bank run has now spread to Italy.
So far, the European Central Bank has been willing to act as the lender of last resort by providing hundreds of billions of euros in loans to banks under pressure. Germany will soon have to decide whether it is willing to foot the bill in the event that some of these debts go bad. If this doesn't happen and the European Central Bank is forced to stop its lending, that will be the end of the euro as we know it.
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Discussion in 'Mens Basketball' started by RollsRoyce, Nov 11, 2013.
Tuesday night 9 pm ESPN. Who you got?
Hopefully kansas blows them out, im all for big 12 winning as long as it's not against us.
Tough call. I think I'll take Kansas though. Wayne Selden Jr and Andrew Wiggins are going to be high draft picks this year. Add in their experience from last year + Bill Self coached team and they're going to be yet again down right dangerous. It'll be close though. Hoping Kansas gets the W.
Duke. KU still young and learning. In a month or so KU will be in beast mode.
Duke looked fantastic in their opener. Rodney Hood was a man. They have so many options. I think they have the upper-hand early on the young studs from Kansas. KU will be much, much better come Big 12 time.
I will never root for KU, go Dukie!
Both are on my "strong dislike" list, but I respect the hell out of Coach K.
That and I will never, ever cheer for Kansas. Ever.
Kansas, need Big 12 to be as good as possible with the bottom so bad. Won't bother me if KU wins every game in the non-con and goes 0-18 in conference play.
I'm not rooting for either until i see the point spread.
They are both really young. I think on a neutral court this game is a toss up. The double header Tuesday is great. I'm interested to see how the refs call the games. It has been very uneven so far with some refs calling everything and making the games ugly and other games the refs are doing a good job of calling the new rules but not going crazy.
Other Big 12 teams winning is good for us and our SOS
If it helps Kansas' RPI come March, and therefore looking better on Iowa State's resume come March as we have 2 and possibly 3 wins against a Top 10 RPI from beating Kansas. I have to go with Kansas.
Duke favored by 3.5.
Screw KU.
The smug condescension we received after the Hilton screwjob from their fans put me in the root for anybody over KU category.
Those of you who visited Phog.net after that game know what I mean.
I want KU to win for SOS reasons, but I think Duke wins by around 10-12
Home team by 6. Based on the way the thread is titled, I'd assume that will be Duke.
KU all day.
Any Cyclone fan that roots for KU for SOS or conference homerism reasons needs to reevaluate their life. KU is the enemy. You might as well root for Al Queda, you ******* traitors.
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Sed pattern replacement
Hi, this is my first post, but I have benefited a lot from people who have previously posted on the forum. So thank you people!
I want to replace vowel pairs with the second vowel of the pair whenever the vowel pair occurs before a symble !.
For example:
I want to change the word "meekerpaat!niiyah" to "mekerpat!niiyah".
I have tried
echo meekerpaat!niiyah|sed "[aeiou]\([aeiou]\)\(\!*\)/\1\2/g"
and variations of the code, playing around with the use of nth instances as well as adding another \! in front of the * symbol. The results are varied.
How should I go about it?
Thank you in advance.
There were a couple of typos above, but I think you were saying you had tried:
echo 'meekerpaat!niiyah' | sed 's/[aeiou]\([aeiou]\)\(.*\!\)/\1\2/g'
You can put a loop in the sed command, so that it repeats the replace command until no more are found:
echo 'meekerpaat!niiyah' | sed ':repeat; s/[aeiou]\([aeiou]\)\(.*\!\)/\1\2/; t repeat'
without messy regex
echo 'meekerpaat!niiyah' | awk -vFS= -vOFS= '
$ ./shell.sh
Hey, you guys are awesome. I haven't heard of the 'repeat' command, and could not possibly have done it with such a neat code.
Thank you neonsignal as well. I'll think about the code some day when I go into awk.
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It wasn't too long ago that Broadway audiences were enjoying Horton Foote's portrait of a Texas family's struggles with its history and future in "Dividing the Estate," a production that originated at Primary Stages. The company has continued to examine the subsequently deceased dramatist's writing this season, with "Harrison, TX," a trio of sepia-toned one-acts that turned the clock back to the first half of the 20th century. Now, with "Him," by the great playwright's daughter Daisy Foote, Primary Stages has expanded its commitment to the family's oeuvre. Unfortunately, the younger scribe's labored, sometimes clichéd dramedy suffers when placed alongside her father's gentler, more nuanced work.
Set in Tremont, N.H., in 2003, just as America's housing boom is about to crest, "Him" centers on three siblings raised by a distant and seemingly uncaring father. He now lies dying—offstage—in their home attached to the family store, which is on the brink of closure because of the arrival of big chain stores in the region. The clan's reluctant, resentful head is 50-something Pauline (played by Daisy's sister, Hallie Foote), whose ideas for making the family business competitive have gone ignored. Her embitterment is fed by her foiled dream of being well-heeled and her disappointments, which include a miscarriage in her younger days. Pauline also has to contend with looking after her middle sibling, Farley (Adam LeFevre), who at 51 has the mental capabilities of a small child, and Henry (Tim Hopper), the younger brother, a frustrated, pill-popping gay man who has also been living at home ever since he made a failed stab at college in the 1970s.
The stakes for everyone are unconvincingly raised when a windfall means that all of Pauline's hopes might be realized and when Farley falls in love with Louise (Adina Verson), a similarly challenged new neighbor, whom he's ultimately compelled to marry because of her pregnancy. Interspersed with the action are poetic monologues from the patriarch, which are delivered by the three actors playing his children and give fleeting insight into their characters' pasts and the father's feelings about his family and life.
It doesn't help that it takes a while to understand whose voice is being heard during these flights of otherworldly lyricism. For instance, one early section delivered by Pauline sounds as if it might be an interior monologue from a married man for whom Henry pines. Additionally, despite LeFevre's and Verson's detailed and carefully executed performances, there are times when the playwright's depiction of developmentally disabled adults borders on the condescendingly comic.
Under the direction of Evan Yionoulis, both Hallie Foote and Hopper deliver graceful performances, capturing their characters' determined grit and delicacy, and it is remarkable to watch how each actor transforms into the titular character within a breath. But despite the cast's fine work, "Him" fails intellectually and emotionally, leaving us curiously unmoved at its ironic conclusion.
Presented by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theatres, 59 E. 59th St., NYC. Oct. 9–28. (212) 279-4200, www.ticketcentral.com, or www.primarystages.com. Casting by Stephanie Klapper Casting.
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This weekend we celebrate moms, and for many of us, our mothers were the first ones who introduced romance novels into our lives. Or maybe they would never read those kinds of books, so you found them to see why she wouldn't touch them.
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First up I'll make an apology, this report is going to be pretty downbeat. Four weeks leading into this event I had one of the best training sessions of the year and things were going well, three days later I started to come down with what I thought at the time was just a cold, over the next three weeks it turned into a sinus infection, and a virus that is still lingering up until today.
The week leading up to the event I was a misery to be around, in a pretty pissy mood, and not looking forward to it at all, if I was a pro, or someone with money to burn, I would have definitely dropped out, missing four important weeks of training and still suffering from the tale end of a virus meant taking part was pretty stupid in all honesty.
The plan at the beginning of the year had been to go go under 5 hours 30 minutes, if, and it's a big if, I had been well leading right up to the race I strongly believe I would have hit the goal, and that is why I was so pissed about the whole thing. I don't have much free time to fit training in, like most of us amateur Triathletes, I have a job which involves a lot of anti-social hours, I have a kid I love to spend time with, if it's spending time with my son or training then my son wins every time, I'm not a selfish, self obsessed parent, time is at a premium, to spend that small about of free time I have training and then get ill has been hard to take, then again, on the other hand if that's the only thing I have to complain about then things must be good ;-)
|the old "picture of bikes racked"
Conditions on Saturday looked perfect, the sun was out, I took a quick swim in the lake along the swim course buoys and the water was a perfect temperature for wetsuit swimming, chances were that come race day it would be a mixed bag of sun and rain, and unfortunately that is how it ended up.
|Lake Zuerich, along the swim start, the day before the event
What can be said about a triathlon swim leg that hasn't been said before, normally every blog write up involves the words "washing machine", but really, is a triathlon swim really like being in a washing machine?? How the hell would I know! when was the last time you were in a washing machine? ;-)
Lets keep it simple
Times kicked full in the stomach = 1
Times pushed head first into the lake = 1
Times full mouth of water gulped due to being dunked =1
|Another view of the Lake on Saturday, just because it's amazing!!
For anyone who hasn't taken part in an open water swim before and fears it, let's be clear that the list above is only really going to happen to you if you decide to start at the front of the swim start. I think, and I hope, that in Ironman racing, amongst the age group athletes at least, most participants aren't out purposely trying to kick, punch or flatten other swimmers, there is a lot of bravado about how in the swim "I kick this person, or punch the other" if you're thinking this way have a word with yourself, you're an idiot.
Point is, if you want to go quick, you may have to give a polite reminder to a fellow competitor that you are in a certain space in the water and if they want to get past they will need to find another path, this may involved a few extra kicks of the feet (as an example) but that's as far as it needs to go */steps off soapbox/*
While I'm on the subject, here's how not to treat your fellow competitors....
During my swim I did spend a lot of time next to Mr Orca (for he was wearing an Orca wetsuit) we were for a lot of the distance going at the same pace, bouncing off each other and generally all over the top of each other, it's just one of those things, never take it personally ;-)
If I ever do another race report my swim part will from now on be one sentence, I really can't make a 1.9KM swim sound any more exciting than it is to actually take part in. Hopefully all further swim reports will read something like this…
Felt decent, kept swimming, got out of the water at the end, and that was that.The swim this year was one of the more positive sides of this race, turning in a time of 38:35 minutes (2010's time: 40.10) a nice little 1 minute 35 second best time.
I really took my time in transition 1, between swim and bike, I wasn't in a rush at all, I knew I had to try my best to treat it as a training session, to avoid making myself any more ill than I had been.
The climbs on the Rapperswil course didn't seem so daunting to me as they had in previous years, hopefully that's a big pay off from the mountain bike training I put in this year. I suffered a little on the second loop, and my sciatic nerve flared up in my right leg which meant I had to block out a fair bit of pain for 90 minutes, but considering my fitness I was fairly happy with breaking 3 hours with 2:59:52 (2011's time: 3:03:24)
Here's a few highlights captured on my GoPro..
1. As you head out of T1 and onto the course you turn and are faced with a beautiful view of the lake and the mountains behind...
Here's a few highlights captured on my GoPro..
1. As you head out of T1 and onto the course you turn and are faced with a beautiful view of the lake and the mountains behind...
2. The climb up the Witches Hill passes this nice little church, quaint...isn't it ;-)
3. Here is just one of the causalities I saw walking up the Witches Hill, second loop in..I don't blame them!!
4. This made me laugh at the time, half way up the Witches Hill someone had written LANGSAM (SLOWLY) :-D
5. The start of The Beast, how nice of them to label it just in case you hadn't noticed...
6. The view as you reach the top of "The Beast" at Goldigen, it really is bliss to make it up to here..
Finally, here's my customary video highlights from the bike split...
One thing which I only realised this year, after losing my garmin and having no GPS data last year, is that the Bike course at Rapperswil is around 5KM short, which is fairly shocking in my view.
Here's my data from 2012, 85.1KM in total:
and in 2010, 84.9KM....
Obviously GPS isn't going to be 100% accurate, but 5KM difference, twice, there's has to be some truth in that, and if so it's really shoddy of the organisers to be palming off a 85KM bike course (no matter how great it is to
ride) as a 90.1KM one.
This seems to be a real problem with official Ironman events, short bike course, short run course, and who knows about the swims!! (Just of note, my swim data, using the Garmin in the swimcap method, came up with a swim distance of 2KM). It matters to me, with the cost involved, you'd hope the distances would be near enough spot on and verified. It's a big point for debate, I won't discuss it further here, but if the course is short it really takes the piss, for want of better words.
|The final decent before heading back into T2, an amazing view across the lake.
I really took my time in transition before heading out on the run, I knew from one test run I'd done during the week that something was still not right, with my heart rate all over the place. I sat there cleaning some sand off my feet and pondered if I should speed up and decided I really wasn't that bothered.
|Check out the dude still with his areo helmet on using the urinal...speedy...
I can't actually remember the last time I despised a run as much as this one, I felt crappy, the first 3KM where ok, pace wasn't amazing but I was at least moving, but then the bonking started, I felt unstable on my feet, had to start walking and couldn't stop wrenching, all good stuff.
The strange thing is this happened in the exact same place on the two laps of the course, just after a loop of a graveled path, ringed as the twilight zone in the image below, just after the twilight zone was an aid station and on both occasions I had to grab some water and whatever I could get my hands on and then the next few KM's where spent running/walking. The gels I took around this point must have helped as I was able to start running again, getting around the course without issue.
I never thought I would finishing an Ironman event feeling deflated, disappointed and fairly pissed off, but that's exactly how I felt when I finally finished the line in 5:48:20, funnily enough a 14 second best, enough to say to me that had I been able to train and not be suffering a virus then the 5:30 would have been within my grasp, all ifs and maybes of course,
it's just a shame it's the last event here.
*****UPDATE: Rapperswil-Jona WILL return in 2013***
*****UPDATE: Rapperswil-Jona WILL return in 2013***
|The finishing chute, Saturday afternoon.
So, this week I've still been blowing out thick yellow gunk out of my nose, obviously not a good sign, the last few days have been better, but a run midweek showed a real high heart rate for the pace I was running at. It's four weeks till the full Ironman in Zuerich and I'm starting to wonder if I should think about taking up a cheaper and more sedate hobby like knitting. Let's see how it goes....


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Bill Radke: Yesterday, the Federal Reserve it's not changing its benchmark interest rate. That Federal funds rate is used for short-term loans that banks make to each other -- it helps determine rates like the ones you pay for your home loan, your car loan. That rate's going to stay near zero for a quote "extended period." More newsworthy was what the Fed's policymakers said about the economy. Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman joins us live. Hi, Mitchell.
Mitchell Hartman: Good morning, Bill.
Radke: It's always tricky to parse the Fed's statements, but hat can we glean from their latest words?
Hartman: Well investors read these words very carefully to try to figure out where the economy is doing and what it's likely to do about it. There a few key phrases to try to decipher. First off, on the economic recovery, the Fed said it's quote "proceeding." That's a bit more tepid than the last time the Fed met, which was in April. They declared that the recovery at that point hads "continued to strengthen."
Radke: OK, that's not the same, though, as saying the recovery has stalled.
Hartman: No, no it's not, and the Fed and most economists don't think that's happening. But the Fed is more cautious about the outlook than a few months ago, no doubt about it. So it said consumer spending is still "increasing" but "remains constrained." The job market is improving but only "gradually", and housing is just "depressed."
Radke: And what do the policymakers say about Europe? We've been reporting on how that, you know, the European debt is freaking out the markets. What did the Fed say?
Hartman: Well this time, the Fed cited these problems, saying developments abroad are quote "less supportive of economic growth." Jan Randolph follows sovereign debt at IHS Global Insight in London:
Jan Randolph: We know the U.S. economy is the largest in the world, but the European Union taken together is about equivalent size, roughly $14 trillion worth of GDP. So a very important consumption block part of the global economy. And Europe has problems that's likely to have an impact elsewhere.
And so in terms of the financial system, you know European banks are shaky, that affects the whole global borrowing and lending system. And in terms of importing U.S. goods, we're likely to sell less to Europe now.
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EARTH GARDEN is Australia's original journal of sustainable living for householders seeking a more eco-conscious lifestyle. For more than 40 years the supportive network of Earth Gardeners has been guiding and reflecting the movement away from high- consumption lifestyles.
The Spring issue went on sale on 31 August!
We're crowin'! Here at Earth Garden we've shaken a few tail feathers to get this issue out. The spring issue is on sale! Subscriber copies have been mailed, and newsagents have stock. Tiny houses in the city . . . brilliant DIY pot plant waterers . . . Jackie French's incomparable wisdom . . . Rachel's permaculture pets . . . practical spring chicken advice and so much more. To subscribe CLICK HERE.
Here's a little video welcome to the Spring issue of 'Earth Garden' by EG publishers, Judith and Alan Gray.
Earth Garden began as Australia's quarterly magazine for alternative lifestyles and eco-living in 1972. Its readership grew rapidly throughout the 1970s, and has stayed high ever since. Forty-five years later the magazine is still published on the first day of each new season, and EG 181, our Spring issue, is published on 31 August.
Over the years EG has published numerous other titles in magazine format: 12 volumes of 'Back Yard Farmer', three volumes of 'City Permaculture', three chook volumes, and many, many others.
EG also ran 'The Good Life Book Club' for more than 15 years, twice-annually producing a catalogue of many titles related to the topics EG covers in the magazine. However, in the past three years sales of these other titles have dropped dramatically as people switch to iPads, kindles, ebooks, videos on Youtube, and other digital information sources.
The publishers, Alan and Judith Gray, decided to redesign the magazine and concentrate on creating the most beautiful magazine possible, rather than 'spreading themselves thinly' trying to publish or sell too many titles.
So today, Earth Garden focusses solely on the magazine, and its friends at dromanabooks.com.au now sell many of the recent back copies plus most of the EG books, such as 'Chook Wisdom' 'Back Yard Ovens' and many more.
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"DUNWICH, a parish and seaport, having separate jurisdiction, but locally situated in the hundred of Blything, in the county of Suffolk, 4 miles S.W. of Southwold, and 4 S.E. of Blythburg. Yoxford is its post town. It is situated on the cliffs overlooking the North Sea, and was formerly a market town and borough, returning two members to parliament, but was disfranchised by the passing of the Reform Bill. It is believed to have been a Roman station, and was the Dumoc or Dunmoc of the Saxons, the capital of East Anglia, and a bishop's see. At the Domesday survey it was in possession of the Malets, at which time it contained three churches, and continued to increase in importance till at one time there were within its limits above fifty churches and chapels, a preceptory of Knights Templars, founded in the 13th century, monasteries of black and grey friars, and a hospital for lepers. In the reign of Henry II. there was a mint. King John incorporated the town. It was also a place of considerable trade, and furnished eleven ships of war to Edward I. It is now merely a fishing village, the encroachments of the sea having swept away a large portion of the cliffs, and nearly all the old houses and buildings. A few ruins of a monastery and hospital remain; and the tower and ruins of the ancient church of All Saints are still standing. It is a borough, with a recorder, two bailiffs, aldermen, common councilmen, and two magistrates. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Norwich, value £52, in the patronage of F. Barne, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. James, is a handsome modern structure. The parochial charities produce about £170 per annum, a very small portion of which goes towards the support of the church. There is both a day and Sunday school. Roman antiquities, consisting of coins, urns, &c., have been found. It gives the title of Viscount to the Earl of Stradbroke."
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In the small, English seaside town of Broadchurch, where everybody knows everybody, an unimaginable tragedy has occurred: the body of eleven-year-old Danny Latimer is found on the beach at the base of the steep cliffs. It doesn't take long for the forensic evidence to show that he did not jump, nor was this an accident. He was murdered and the inhabitants of the town begin to look at each other as possible suspects.
Broadchurch is more than a crime show, where evidence is discovered and suspects are interrogated. It is the story of a family and a community torn apart by loss, suspicion, and fear. Watching the community unravel when neighbor turns on neighbor and long-held secrets are revealed is mesmerizing.
The Detective Sergeant involved in the case is warm-hearted native Ellie Miller (love her!), herself the mother of an eleven-year-old boy named Tommy, Danny's best friend. Tommy says he knows nothing, so why does he go to such great lengths to delete messages from Danny off of his phone and emails off of his computer?
Ellie was not pleased when she was passed over for the promotion to Detective Inspector. Her new boss Alec Hardy (with his fantastic Scottish accent) comes with his own baggage, trailing behind a failed investigation where a murderer still walks unidentified and an illness he is trying to keep hidden. Failure is not an option—not again—and his health will just have to take a back seat. Unfortunately, his body doesn't always play by the rules.
The interplay between Ellie and Hardy is a perfect blend of acute differences converging into a sort of grudging respect. She's warm and caring; she knows these people, and wants to treat them with respect during this difficult time. Hardy only wants the truth and will stop at nothing to get at it, even if it ruffles people's feathers, including Ellie's. As he is fond of saying, anyone is capable of killing someone in the right circumstances.
Danny's father Mark does not have an alibi for the night Danny was murdered. His refusal to say where he was puts yet another strain on his marriage, which is already creaking apart in the wake of their son's death. Jodie Whitaker, who plays Danny's mother, is amazing in her portrayal of a mother lost in grief.
The media is unintentionally tipped off (Ellie's nephew is a reporter: everything in this community is intertwined), creating a media circus that gathers enough strength to become a witch hunt, as facts are misunderstood and the innocent are found guilty in the minds of the frightened townspeople.
Through it all, the fact remains that a boy's life was taken much too soon, and if the police don't do something about it, the murderer is going to get away with it. The threads of grief, loss, suspicion, following the trail left by the killer, and the interminable waiting for an answer that may never come are woven together with a cast of characters who all have something to hide and a plot that releases mini bombshells so often that I couldn't stop watching, even when it was way past my bedtime.
The acting is terrific and so are the accents, although I will confess that at times I had trouble understanding what they were saying. If that's the price I must pay for being able to watch such a compelling show from the BBC, so be it. Season 1 is only 8 episodes long and I binge-watched it last week, forsaking sleep and the ability to focus on anything other than how soon I would be able to press "Play" again on my DVD player. The mystery wraps up with a heart-wrenching vengeance at the end of Season 1, but Broadchurch has been renewed for a second season so it will be interesting to see what they do next. Another murder investigation or something different? I just hope the detectives are still around, because they are fantastic.


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The St. Paul Public School District held a commencement ceremony this weekend for more than 100 students who graduated.
The school district started summer graduations three years ago as a way to give students who needed a little more time another opportunity to go through commencement.
Eighteen-year-old Aqueelah Oddie, who attended Gordon Parks High School, had to take health and geometry classes online over the summer.
"I finally get to walk across the stage," Oddie said. "I was supposed to the first time, but something went wrong and now I'm just finally getting to do it after all this hard work and struggling to get credits and stuff, finally get to walk across the stage."
And her diploma comes just in time: Oddie said she will start a nursing assistance program at St. Paul Tech on Monday.
Amina Darling also graduated from Gordon Parks High School.
"It means that I'm starting a whole other life now," she said, "and I need to be successful to be able to do what I want to do in life."
Darling says she hopes to get a job for a few months before starting college in January.
The ceremony was held Saturday on the campus of the University of St. Thomas.


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Finding a good beer for cheap
I don't mind paying good money for good beer. I'll pay $8 for a bomber of something I really want to try without giving it a second thought.
But, it's hard to keep my beer fridge – Beatrice – filled with $8 beers. I need cheap, standby beers, beers where I don't want to sacrifice taste for money.
I'm always on the lookout for cheap beer that is still flavorful, and last night I found a new one – the Hofbrauhaus Wolters Fest-Bier.
This Oktoberfest-style lager from Germany comes in at the low, low price at $6.99 for a six pack. Sure, it's not the top Oktoberfest beer in the world, but it's quite good, and a heck of a bargain for $6.99.
Wolters also has a pilsner, and I'll probably pick that up next week. This has a chance to be a frequent fridge filler, similar to Trader Joe 's beers, and Narragansett seasonals.
What's your cheap fridge-filling beer? Do you have a go to bargain-priced beer? Share it with me so I can find more cheap beer.
August 26, 2011, 6:15 AM
Wonderful, keep it up thanks.
Mark permalinkAugust 26, 2011, 4:57 PM
I like the Belgian Amber Palm (http://www.palm.be/en/default.php?from=Index.php%3F) decent prices for an 8 pack. Speaking of, better get some for the storm…


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We play acoustic vintage swing, bluegrass, and country. People, bombarded by pop and rock from the prevailing media, are appreciative of this seemingly 'lost' music. As the commercial country & rock industry churns out homogenized, formula 'product', it's a revelation to find that other music exists. It's just real hard to find. Our music comes from memories. Snatches of our parent's music heard on old car radios, worn out records, and TV variety shows. Music that was fading with the onslaught of rock, yet was a direct influence on it. Dave Richard- Lead/rhythm guitar and vocals.Our Canadian Alien, now residing in Leominster, MA. He started out playing harmonica, banjo, & fiddle, now settling on acoustic guitar. His style reflects bluegrass, country, rock, and swing influences. Diane Kordas- Acoustic upright bass and vocals.As a child, her family harmonized on bluegrass songs as they washed the dishes. Cross that with the influence of her father's clarinet playing and Benny Goodman records, and you have an appreciation for the precursors to contemporary music. Diane also performs her 'Romper Rythm' program, concerts and puppet shows for children and families. Bob Kordas- Resophonic guitar & banjo.The 60's and 70's came with their prevailing rock influences, but at the same time his older siblings would be playing Pete Seeger, Fats Waller, and Muddy Waters records borrowed from the library. The 80's hit, and he abandoned commercial music to explore bluegrass and the banjo, while always trying to make it fit in with other music.The resophonic guitar, commonly known as the Dobro, is a newer addition, to slide the swing and blues! Review!......... 'Your performance was Exceptional -- very upbeat to sultry, always keeping the excitement vibes buzzing. The audience was totally with you, wherever you wanted to take them. It was truly great the way you captivated all these new listeners (now fans) when they didn't know what to expect.People left satisfied that they heard good music and experienced that thrill that something very human just happened -- kind of like we feel when we get in a good jam session'. -Green Rooster 'Diane Kordas handles the bulk of the lead vocals giving the proceedings a sultry sensation....(the CD) is a pleasant collage of melodies that will set feet to tapping to these infectious rhythms.' Les McIntyre, Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine, April, 2002 A review of a recent concert: 'Late Night Radio plays an amalgam of styles that can best be described as bluegrass swing with major jazz overtones. Their combination of excellent instrumentation and vocals made for very easy listening.' -Hippo Press, June 2001 CD review: 'Midnight Airwaves' is a nice showcase for the groups's versatility....the disc has an easy-going,back porch feel that evokes a laid-back jam among friends. -Worcester Magazine, December 2001.
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Hello, About a year ago I picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560 (ultra portable, came out in '96) to experiment with Linux on. Because it did not have a builtin CDROM, I had to learn a lot about Linux, to get started, but I ended up getting everything to work on it. My advice is to get a laptop with a builtin CDROM, and your life will be a bit easier. John
From: Kent Pirkle <email@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Budget Laptop for Linux? Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:29:30 -0500 I'm looking at buying a low cost laptop to run Debian on. A lot of the big names are making low-end consumer laptops in the $1000-$1400 range like the IBM Thinkpad iSeries, the Compaq K6 laptops, etc. From the Laptops on Linux page, it looks like some folks have had problems getting some of these to work under Linux. I've also seen a lot of refurbished older laptops that were higher end models in the $399-$799 range. Usually P133-233 range, with 32Mb+, 2GB hard drives, etc. A lot of these seem to have more support under Linux because many of the problems have been worked out since they came out. What is the better choice for a Linux laptop? I know Linux can make better use of older hardware, but is that a better way to go than the low end, cheap new hardware? Thanks, Kent Pirkle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to firstname.lastname@example.com a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact email@example.com
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just a quick post because I have charge of the rug rats today, which includes Mr Mom taking them to a (rolled eyes) skating party for 3 hours this afternoon.
This week was awful. I didn't get to see my therapist or go to a meeting. I feel like the Wellbuterin and the Ativan aren't helping. I get to work and burst into tears. And then try to hide my sinking moods for the rest of the day.
I'm in the "mentoring" phase of my job where I have a seasoned agent sitting with me half-days. She's kind of the rough-edged straight talker. She and a co-worker know what is going on re being off the opiates.
My supervisor is an emotional roller-coaster. It seems like she and I switch weeks, who is going to be the more teeter-totter. Yesterday I started losing it over her picking on my TO DO list. I actually said quietly,"You won't have to worry too much more about my To Do Lists," and it slipped out of my mouth. She asked what I meant and I just said that I would someday do everything just right and it just takes time.
Between you and me, I took it about 3 different ways.
She took me into her office and in that delightfully tactless way, basically told me the stress was only going to get worse and she was concerned about my handling things emotionally. I can't tell her what's going on, because admitting a drug addiction yields the same result as popping positive on a drug test. Buh-Bye. She knows I'm using EAP and seeing someone.
I can't deal with these highs and lows (mostly lows). I am exercising and trying to stay busy. But I can not stop the tears.
I know someone said this and I'll agree with them, knowing you more clean/sobers will chime in: I felt better on the Norco.
I came home and told the wife and I said, "I'd rather go back to my old business (I had a housecleaning business which ruined my back) and give my 2 week's notice." Wife said, Send postcards out to your former clients and tell them you're looking to see if there's any business back out there...while you look for something else," and if there's enough to sustain...give your 2 week's notice.
The thing is....I like helping the people (public) that I do. I'm just so sick of fighting with the bureacracy and "No, don't say it like THAT"....I gotta get out of there but I've never been a quitter.
I just love being a crying 44 year old who tries to put on a good front for the kids and wife.
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MSA's Can Be a Windfall for All
No. 157
Friday, November 02, 2001
by Greg Scandlen
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Types of Health Spending Accounts
- A Drumbeat of Criticism
- Are Cost Savings from Raising Deductibles Exaggerated?
- Do MSAs Change Patient Behavior?
- Will MSAs Attract "the Healthy And the Wealthy" at the Expense of Everybody Else?
- Do MSAs Encourage People To Avoid Needed Preventive Care?
- Will MSAs Pull the Best Risks from "the Insurance Pool," Raising Costs for Those Who Remain?
- Can MSAs Help Control Costs over the Deductible, Where the Need Is Greatest?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix
Will MSAs Pull the Best Risks from "the Insurance Pool," Raising Costs for Those Who Remain?
This criticism is closely related to the "healthy and wealthy" argument discussed above in that it makes all the wrong assumptions about who is likely to select which plan. The argument is also based on the false assumption that there is a single insurance pool in the United States.50
The assumption is that if only the healthiest people were attracted to MSAs, they would no longer subsidize the higher costs of the rest of the population. In fact, there are tens of thousands of pools in the country and none subsidizes the other. Every self-funded employer group is its own pool, independent from all others. Every insurance company and every HMO is independent from every other insurance company. Even within a single insurance company, there are separate and independent pools for different states and different blocks of business. The Insurance Commissioner in Iowa will not allow a company to raise its rates in that state to cover losses in California. Similarly, a company's small-group block of business is subject to entirely different rules and rating procedures than is its block of individual, non-group business.
So, if everyone at Joe's Print Shop chose an MSA, and they were all very healthy, there would be no effect whatsoever on the premium costs of Sally's Bakery. Joe's Print Shop pays for the claims experience of its own employees, plus an administrative markup. If they saved money by purchasing an MSA, that would bring down Joe's health care costs, but it would have no effect on Sally's costs.