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Mr. KIA Sir,
I've read that riders switch their steering dampers from bike to bike as they buy new machines. But after moving the damper to my new bike the arm is wearing funny and the damping doesn't seem right. Can you shed any light and truth on the subject?
Mort Steinbaugh
Desert Center, CA
Perhaps if I shine enough light on the damper situation you could use it to read the directions for installation? Modern steering dampers are well sorted and relatively trouble free if installed as they are intended to be. The shaft of the damper must be exactly over the steering stem of the machine. When the two parts are not lined up the pin can run out of slot in the arm. When it runs up against either end of the slot there are crazy, wrong loads on the internal parts of the damper. A second mistake is not paying attention to pin height when the bar mounts are rubber mounted. A small amount of play in the rubber mounts at the bar is a greater amount at the end of the damper arm. If the mounts rock back, and the arm bottoms on the pin, there are damaging loads transferred to the internals. Worst case is a worn body. On a Scotts damper this would only happen on a very early unit. A unit from the last few years is hard anodized to prevent this – even if the unit is installed wrong.
Look at the picture of the two arms. The one hogged out at the end was a case of running out of slot. That means that the mounting kit wasn't correct for the bike. The one with the odd shape worn in the middle of the slot is from improper pin maintenance. If the pin is allowed to corrode and lock up in the mounting tower it will wear out the arm like this. Greasing the pin often will completely avoid this, and recent towers and pins are plated differently, so this doesn't happen. The pin needs to rotate easily in the mount for the damper to work correctly and live. If you have paid attention to the mounting, then the damper should work correctly. Check the directions and make sure you have it right. Unfortunately, if the mounting was wrong for long enough, the internal parts may have been damaged like the ones in the photos. It may not damp correctly until they are replaced.


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Truckers Enjoying Profitable Industry, With Reliable TrucksJuly 5, 2016 6:59 am Leave your thoughts
The trucking business in this country, despite temporary reports of job cuts, is still a booming industry. There are more trucks registered on the road has been climbing. According to reports, the number of registered trucks climbed three percent in a single year, putting it at approximately 11 million.
While that sign of growth is a good thing for the trucking industry, it could also mean that you face more competition for loads. So, you have to be ready to go at a moment's notice. You don't want to miss out on a job possibility because your truck is broken down. Regular maintenance is essential.
Consider the fact that large trucks travel more than a quarter of a billion miles per year. That is a lot of vehicle wear and tear. It can cause small issues to quickly grow into very large, and expensive problems, if they are not caught quickly.
As long as large trucks remain the preferred form of transporting goods – which they undoubtedly are, responsible for the carrying of billions of tons of cargo each year – truckers are going to have a level of job security. However, that security will no longer exist if the driver's truck is unreliable or if the trucker fails to meet roadside inspection requirements.
More than three hundred thousand drivers will be fined for failing roadside inspections. Many, many more will find that their trucks break down while on the road, and nearly half a million will be involved in preventable accidents. All too often, those accidents are related to vehicle component failure which could have been prevented with regular maintenance.
So, if you want to continue to compete in this thriving industry, you have to understand that a visit to the professionals now, for a proper inspection and routine maintenance can result in a much better profit later.
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BOSTON, MA and ATLANTA, GA / ACCESSWIRE / June 25, 2019 / MackeyRMS, the leading provider of next-generation research management software, today announced that it has received a significant equity investment from Resurgens Technology Partners. The partnership makes MackeyRMS the third FinTech investment in Resurgens' $200 million flagship private equity fund, and will enable the Company to accelerate investment in its market-leading software, expand its global presence and enhance the overall customer service experience.
MackeyRMS is a rapidly growing provider of SaaS-based research management software built for today's modern buy-side investment firms, including global asset managers, asset owners, hedge funds, fund-of-funds and private equity funds. The platform unites existing workflows with disparate data sources to streamline research and compliance operations in a modern, automated and mobile-friendly interface. MackeyRMS has users in over thirty countries.
"We are joining forces with Resurgens at an exciting time for the markets we serve. Client demand has shown that sophisticated managers are increasingly recognizing the need for more powerful research platforms," said Chris Mackey, CEO of MackeyRMS. "Given Resurgens' deep global operating experience, we believe they're the ideal partner to help scale our business and arm modern investors with the tools to make more informed investment decisions."
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Nothing like a blinged out wrist? I've always loved stacking whatever I could find and fit onto my wrists – and have gotten quite a few looks here and there, asking me if it was heavy or I crazy – so you can imagine my delight when it became an actual trend under the clever names of "arm party", "arm swag", and "arm candy". \(^0^)/
I think I got a bit of jungle fever putting together this outfit the other day. I'm sure it was a culmination of the excitement over my new top and my newfound obsession over these shorts. I'd been lusting after this A.L.C. Lizzie top for awhile but disagreed with the price, so I've been on the hunt and finally snagged it during a sale. The shorts I actually bought awhile ago, but the confidence to pull them off or wear them was never there…until now. Shorts have never really been my thing (same goes for miniskirts/dresses), but I told myself I had to give them a chance in order to build a more flexible wardrobe. Before anything, though, I needed a tan to get some color…didn't really want the look of tanned arms and "white radish legs" as my mama would call them, ha! Despite the leather being embossed with a reptilian pattern, these shorts are surprisingly versatile. Needless to say, I've been wearing them with just about everything, and the hot weather has been giving me an excuse. :)
One problem: they seem to be stretching a bit. Any tips to get leather to "shrink" back to the original size/shape?
A.L.C. Lizzie Top still available here and here
Maggie Ward leather shorts
Alexander Wang Donna bag available here
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Friendship bracelet – DIY
Wrap bracelet – DIY
2 prayer bead bracelets
Burberry Rosegold Watch
2 Spiked bracelets available at ASOS
Braided gold nugget bracelet – DIY
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Analyse-ability (yep, we stretched the language here) is being able to access data about how your website is being used to help you make good decisions. Search Engines provide website analysis tools that show a wide range of data about your website.
These website analysis tools are very powerful and you should either use them to analyse your website yourself, or have someone who knows what they mean to do it for you.
Website Analysis Tools
The basic analysis should cover
- Speed of your site loading: are there things stopping it for loading quickly?
- The site structure – the layout from the landing page right through to the Blog.
- The number of visitors you get over the analysis period and also what pages do they land on?
- The pages your visitors go to, and also how long do they spend there (dwell time)?
- What percentage of your visitors get to a contact us or buy now page?
- The percentage that actually click on that action, or, how many leave at this point?
- List of search words your visitors use to get to your site, hence you can check your focus-word usage.
- Types of browsers that are used. As a result of this knowledge you can test your site on each of these to see what the visitors are experiencing.
- Which search engines delivered visitors to you, and, which ones do people use more often?
- The track your visitors follow. Lures like "specials" you have placed on your site must work so review this often.
- Rectification of any dead links, or pages that are not accessible.
You are probably busy focussing on all of the other things that need doing in your business.
If you can build a good relationship with your website developer, they can offer a great deal of assistance in this area.
This should not cost very much and they may even have a contract, or plan that provides a given amount of work for a monthly fee.
Consider this, as your website needs to be monitored. You, and we, know that when you get busy, this does not get the priority it needs.
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Artificial neural network for river modelling
Climate change has impacts on water resources which depends on rainfall and on climatic variables[2]. Precipitation is one of the most important weather variables that influence in the hydrological process[3]. In recent years, there were peaks in floods and droughts processes[4]. The reduction of droughts impacts is one of the challenges for agriculture due to their economic and environmental impacts[5]. In the same way, the mitigation of floods can be interesting due to the possible personal and material damages that this phenomenon can generate. To reduce the adverse effects of drought, and floods, are necessary a suitable and effective monitoring system[5]. Nevertheless, the hydrologic response of watersheds presents a complex correlation with climatic, edaphic and geomorphologic characteristics[2]. The typical rainfall-runoff model used to monitor the hydrologic response of watersheds can be classified in three different categories[6][7][8]: i) deterministic models which use physical laws to describe the rainfall-runoff process, ii) conceptual models that use simplified representations of the hydrological process and iii) parametric models which use mathematical transfer functions[7].
In the past decades, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have proven to be a good tool to characterize, model and predict many processes related to the hydrological processes[2]. According to Dawson and Wilby[7], ANNs can be classified as parametric models where the rainfall-runoff process can be considered as a "black box" which does not need a previous detailed knowledge of the hydrological processes characteristics[7]. Due to this great advantage, ANNs have been successfully applied in a huge kind of fields such as i) in Engineering to model, simulate and control of wind and photovoltaic energy systems[9], ii) in Food Science and Technology to model interesting biological properties of food such as the antioxidant capacity of cruciferous sprouts[10] or to characterization and authentication of foods[11][12][13] , iii) in Viticulture and Enology to classify Spanish red wines using enological and mineral content parameters[14], iv) in Aerobiology predicting the pollen content in the atmosphere[15][16][17] or v) in Chemistry estimating physicochemical properties [18][19][20][21], inter alia.
Figure 1: Conceptual scheme to develop an artificial neural network model.
Artificial neural networks are widely used, and in Hydrology, ANNs can be used in various Hydrological inner fields. A good example of neural network application in Hydrology is, as stated earlier, to predict the River´s flow. This is an important topic for the flow regulation and water resources management and is related to different aspects such as flood or drought forecasting/prevention[22]. A good example of this is the research developed by Islam (2010) to study and predict the water level of Dhaka city using five different stations and obtaining a high accuracy with R2 values between 0.97 and 0.70[23]. In the same direction in our laboratory, we have developed different models to predict the average and maximum daily flow, one or two days ahead, of a river in a small forest headwaters with R2 upper to 0.85 that confirming the capacity of developed neural model[2]. In addition to this, our laboratory developed different neural models to predict the discharge of a mountain river, one, two and three days ahead[24]. In this study, time series analysis coupled to ANNs provided useful information to analyze the hydrologic behaviour of the river and allowed to extrapolate the model to a period more than 12 years later[24]. Many flood events are related to heavy precipitation so that it's also important to predict these events. In this sense, Junaida et al.[25] develop neural models coupled with an input variable selection method to find the most significant input variables (skip the trial and error procedure) to determine the best input selection and predict heavy precipitation events[25].
Another example of neural networks application is the study developed by Coppola et al.[26] about the aquifer water level elevations in a semi-confined glacial sand and gravel aquifer 30 d into the future[26]. The neural models developed by Coppola et al.[26] can predict with accuracy the potentiometric surface elevations variations under variable pumping and climate conditions. Besides this, the application of the developed neural model does not require knowledge of the physical properties and conditions of the aquifer system which it is helpful when these data is not available[26]. Another interesting topic in Hydrology is the suspended sediment concentration modelling, specifically in snow and glacier melt due to their impact in the environment and water resources, in this case, in upstream and downstream regions of Himalaya[27]. According to Joshi et al.[27], ANN models have a superior behaviour compared to the conventional sediment rating curve method (SRC) and can conclude that neural models are suitability to simulate and estimate the daily suspended sediment concentration in glacier melt runoff[27]. Besides these topics, neural models can be used to predict mean daily river water temperature due to its importance to the river biological communities and ecosystems process[28]. In this sense, DeWeber and Wagner[28] developed a final model which included different input variables (air temperature, landform attributes, etc.) to predict the mean daily water temperature with a good accuracy around 1.9 ºC (in terms of root mean squared error) in a large area of the East of United State of America[28].
As can be seen, the use of artificial neural networks applied to the Hydrology field is highly widespread and provides an advantage over traditional models due to does not need a previous knowledge of the processes.
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- Gonzalo Astray; J. A. Ferrerio-Lage; P. Araujo; Juan C. Mejuto; J. A. Rodriguez-Suarez; B. Soto; Multilayer perceptron neural network for flow prediction. J. Environ. Monit. 2011, 13, 35-41, 10.1039/c0em00478b.
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- Watts, G. Contemporary hydrology: Towards holistic environmental science ; Watts, G, Eds.; Wiley: Chichester, 1997; pp. 151-193.
- Kerim Karabacak; Numan Cetin; Artificial neural networks for controlling wind–PV power systems: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2014, 29, 804-827, 10.1016/j.rser.2013.08.070.
- Adam Bucinski; Henryk Zieliński; Halina Kozłowska; Artificial neural networks for prediction of antioxidant capacity of cruciferous sprouts. Trends in Food Science & Technology 2004, 15, 161-169, 10.1016/j.tifs.2003.09.015.
- I. Gonzalez-Fernandez; M. Esteki; J. Simal-Gandara; M.A. Iglesias-Otero; O.A. Moldes; J.C. Mejuto; A critical review on the use of artificial neural networks in olive oil production, characterization and authentication. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 2018, 58, 1-14, 10.1080/10408398.2018.1433628.
- O. A. Moldes; Juan C. Mejuto; R. Rial-Otero; Jesus Simal-Gandara; A critical review on the applications of artificial neural networks in winemaking technology. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 2015, 57, 2896-2908, 10.1080/10408398.2015.1078277.
- Gonzalo Astray; J. X. Castillo; J. A. Ferreiro-Lage; J. F. Galvez; Juan C. Mejuto; Artificial neural networks: a promising tool to evaluate the authenticity of wine Redes neuronales: una herramienta prometedora para evaluar la autenticidad del vino. CyTA - Journal of Food 2010, 8, 79-86, 10.1080/19476330903335277.
- Isabel M. Moreno; Angel J. Gutiérrez; Carmen Rubio; A. Gustavo González; Dailos González-Weller; Naouel Bencharki; Arturo Hardisson; Consuelo Revert; Classification of Spanish Red Wines Using Artificial Neural Networks with Enological Parameters and Mineral Content. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 2018, 69, 167-175, 10.5344/ajev.2017.17021.
- F. Javier Rodríguez-Rajo; Gonzalo Astray; J.A. Ferreiro-Lage; M.J. Aira; M.V. Jato-Rodriguez; Juan C. Mejuto; Evaluation of atmospheric Poaceae pollen concentration using a neural network applied to a coastal Atlantic climate region. Neural Networks 2010, 23, 419-425, 10.1016/j.neunet.2009.06.006.
- G. Astray; M. Fernández-González; F.J. Rodríguez-Rajo; D. López; Juan C. Mejuto; Airborne castanea pollen forecasting model for ecological and allergological implementation. Science of The Total Environment 2016, 548, 110-121, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.035.
- M. A. Iglesias-Otero; M. Fernández-González; D. Rodríguez-Caride; G. Astray; Juan C. Mejuto; F. J. Rodriguez-Rajo; A model to forecast the risk periods of Plantago pollen allergy by using the ANN methodology. Aerobiologia 2014, 31, 201-211, 10.1007/s10453-014-9357-z.
- Gonzalo Astray; Manuel A. Iglesias-Otero; Oscar A. Moldes; Juan C. Mejuto; Predicting Critical Micelle Concentration Values of Non-Ionic Surfactants by Using Artificial Neural Networks. Tenside Surfactants Detergents 2013, 50, 118-124, 10.3139/113.110242.
- Gonzalo Astray; Juan F. Gálvez; Juan C. Mejuto; Oscar A. Moldes; Iago Montoya; Esters flash point prediction using artificial neural networks. Journal of Computational Chemistry 2012, 34, 355-359, 10.1002/jcc.23139.
- Gonzalo Astray; P. V. Caderno; J. A. Ferreiro-Lage; J. F. Galvez; Juan C. Mejuto; Prediction of Ethene + Oct-1-ene Copolymerization Ideal Conditions Using Artificial Neuron Networks. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data 2010, 55, 3542-3547, 10.1021/je1001973.
- A. Cid; G. Astray; J. A. Manso; J. C. Mejuto; O. A. Moldes; Artificial Intelligence for Electrical Percolation of AOT-based Microemulsions Prediction. Tenside Surfactants Detergents 2011, 48, 477-483, 10.3139/113.110155.
- Lekkas, D.F.; Onof, C.; Lee, M.J.; Baltas, E.A.; Application of artificial neural networks for flood forecasting.. Global NEST: the international Journal 2004, 6, 205-211, 10.30955/gnj.000305.
- A. S. Islam; Improving flood forecasting in Bangladesh using an artificial neural network. Journal of Hydroinformatics 2010, 12, 351-364, 10.2166/hydro.2009.085.
- G. Astray; B. Soto; D. López; M. A. Iglesias; Juan C. Mejuto; Application of transit data analysis and artificial neural network in the prediction of discharge of Lor River, NW Spain. Water Science and Technology 2016, 73, 1756-1767, 10.2166/wst.2016.002.
- S. Junaida, H. Hirose; A method to predict heavy precipitation using the Artificial Neural Networks with an application. IEEE - Proccedins of 7th International Conference on Computing and Convergence Technology (ICCCT) 2012, 1, INSPEC Accession Number: 13580022, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6530417.
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- Rajesh Joshi; Kireet Kumar; Vijay Pal Singh Adhikari; Modelling suspended sediment concentration using artificial neural networks for Gangotri glacier. Hydrological Processes 2015, 30, 1354-1366, 10.1002/hyp.10723.
- Jefferson Tyrell Deweber; Tyler Wagner; A regional neural network ensemble for predicting mean daily river water temperature. Journal of Hydrology 2014, 517, 187-200, 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.05.035.


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Los Angeles: Portrait of a City
Rise and sprawl: how Los Angeles came to be A pictorial history of the City of Angels From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It traces the city's development from the 1880s' real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood and the urban sprawl of the late 20th century, right up to the present day. With over 500 images, L.A. is shown emerging from a desert wasteland to become a vast palm-studded urban metropolis.Events that made world news—including two Olympics, Bobby Kennedy's assassination, and the Rodney King riots—reveal a city of many dimensions. The entertainment capital of the world, Hollywood, and its celebrities are showcased along with many other notable residents, personalities, architects, artists, and musicians. The city's pop cultural movements, its music, surfing, health food fads, gangs, and hot rods are included, as are its notorious crimes and criminals. This book depicts Los Angeles in all its glory and grit, via hundreds of freshly discovered images including those of Julius Shulman, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton and many other superb photographers, culled from major historical archives, museums, private collectors, and universities. These are given context and resonance through essays by renowned California historian Kevin Starr and Los Angeles literature expert David L. Ulin. Text in English, French, and German
Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018 (Modern Library)
A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some just passing through."Los Angeles is refracted in all its irreducible, unexplainable glory."—Los Angeles Times The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate symbol of the American Dream. David Kipen, a cultural historian and avid scholar of Los Angeles, has scoured libraries, archives, and private estates to assemble a kaleidoscopic view of a truly unique city. From the Spanish missionary expeditions in the early 1500s to the Golden Age of Hollywood to the strange new world of social media, this collection is a slice of life in L.A. through the years. The pieces are arranged by date—January 1st to December 31st—featuring selections from different decades and centuries. What emerges is a vivid tapestry of insights, personal discoveries, and wry observations that together distill the essence of the city. As sprawling and magical as the city itself, Dear Los Angeles is a fascinating, must-have collection for everyone in, from, or touched by Southern California. With excerpts from the writing of Ray Bradbury • Edgar Rice Burroughs • Octavia E. Butler • Italo Calvino • Winston Churchill • Noël Coward • Simone De Beauvoir • James Dean • T. S. Eliot • William Faulkner • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Richard Feynman • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Allen Ginsberg • Dashiell Hammett • Charlton Heston • Zora Neale Hurston • Christopher Isherwood • John Lennon • H. L. Mencken • Anaïs Nin • Sylvia Plath • Ronald Reagan • Joan Rivers • James Thurber • Dalton Trumbo • Evelyn Waugh • Tennessee Williams • P. G. Wodehouse • and many moreAdvance praise for Dear Los Angeles"This book's a brilliant constellation, spread out over a few centuries and five thousand square miles. Each tiny entry pins the reality of the great unreal city of Angels to a moment in human time—moments enthralled, appalled, jubilant, suffering, gossiping or bragging—and it turns out, there's no better way to paint a picture of the place."—Jonathan Lethem"[A] scintillating collection of letters and diary entries . . . an engrossing trove of colorful, witty insights."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Homesick Scented Candle, Los Angeles
There's a feeling that exists within every state, small town or city – an energy all its own. The smell of the air, the sounds of the morning and the memories that reside there can fill us with nostalgia when we return or rifle through mementos. These places exist in our memories, and though life often relocates us, the sentiment for our experience there remains.
The 500 Hidden Secrets of Los Angeles
•Visit Los Angeles in the footsteps of a local and track down the city's best-kept secrets!•Perfect for tourists who want to avoid the usual hotspots, and for locals who want to get to know their city even better•A new edition in Luster's successful, practical, and attractive series of city guides Los Angeles has so much to offer, and this guide helps you to choose where to start when discovering this beautiful city. In The 500 Hidden Secrets of Los Angeles Andrea Richards shares 500 must-know addresses in one of the coolest cities in the United States, such as: - the 5 most laid-back beach cafés - 5 places to buy a dress for the Oscars - the 5 most fun attractions in Griffith Park - 5 private collections open to the public - the 5 most unlikely places to see celebs
111 Places in Los Angeles That You Must Not Miss (111 Places in .... That You Must Not Miss)
Go beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to discover the quirky culture of The City of AngelsPart of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 150 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide"In Los Angeles, everyone is a star." - Denzel WashingtonAdventures beckon!For more than a century, seekers of sun and celebrity from around the world have flocked to this sprawling metropolis on the Pacific, which Dorothy Parker once described as "72 suburbs in search of a city." But beyond the red-carpet reputation and Tinseltown trappings is a west coast wonderland teeming with unexpected cultural opportunities, iconic architecture, gorgeous open spaces, quirky museums, hidden vistas, unconventional art, and obscure stories about the starlets, moguls, personalities, and players who have made Los Angeles their playground.This unusual guidebook explores 111 of the city's most interesting and unknown places and experiences: wander a serpentine path in a spiritual quest of your own making; channel your inner cowboy at a tried and true honky tonk bar; pay homage to the Dude at the bungalow where the big Lebowski lived; turn your car tires into musical instruments on the country's only musical road; sleep with the ghosts of Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin; view a constellation of stars more vivid than anything Hollywood has to offer; hug a redwood tree...in the middle of a Downtown LA restaurant; walk through an ancient forest; and hike to the 100-year-old ruins of a castle in the sky.From the San Gabriel Mountains to the Santa Monica Pier, longtime locals and intrepid visitors alike will fall in love with the real LA.Surprises await. Prepare to be captivated by the City of Angels.
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges—seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world's iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles' meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer, designed the massive aqueduct that would make urban life here possible. D.W. Griffith, who transformed the motion picture from a vaudeville-house novelty into a cornerstone of American culture, gave L.A. its signature industry. And Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic evangelist who founded a religion, cemented the city's identity as a center for spiritual exploration. All were masters of their craft, but also illusionists, of a kind. The images they conjured up—of a blossoming city in the desert, of a factory of celluloid dreamworks, of a community of seekers finding personal salvation under the California sun—were like mirages liable to evaporate on closer inspection. All three would pay a steep price to realize these dreams, in a crescendo of hubris, scandal, and catastrophic failure of design that threatened to topple each of their personal empires. Yet when the dust settled, the mirage that was LA remained.Spanning the years from 1900 to 1930, The Mirage Factory is the enthralling tale of an improbable city and the people who willed it into existence by pushing the limits of human engineering and imagination.
Lost Los Angeles
Astonishing images of vanished Los Angeles, from the landmark Ambassador Hotel to the original life-sustaining Zanja MadreLos Angeles is less than 150 years old, yet in that short time a great deal has been built and torn down. Like most cities it has suffered the loss of classic old cinemas, Victorian hotels, and grand railroad stations, but L.A. has also seen the passing of major industries, film companies, film lots, hills, airfields, piers, and a speedway. Citrus groves have come and gone, oil derricks have sprung up in their place and been replaced by housing tracts. The movie industry moved in from New York and Chicago, expanded, contracted, and then sold off their lots. National radio stations built, then soon vacated, grand art decos studios around Sunset & Vine. Abbot Kinney's vision of a Venetian suburb was largely filled in after the banks eroded. This book displays an extraordinary variety of lost glories from this unique city: Barker Brothers, Beverly Hills Speedway, Bradbury Residence, Casa Don Vincente Lugo, Chaplin Airfield, the community in Chavez Ravine, Church of the Open Door, The City of Los Angeles train, County Records Building, Court Flight, the Egyptian marquee, Eternity Street, Fort Moore Hill, Grand Central Air Terminal, Helms and Van de Kamp bakeries, La Grande Station, the MGM backlots, Mount Lowe Railway, Pan Pacific Stadium, Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace, Richfield Oil Building, Sears, the Temple Block, Theme Building at LAX, and Wrigley Field.


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SEO has been a cornerstone in marketing for over 10 years. Nearly every year there's the talk of the new search engine optimization tactics you need to put into play. But the reality for most businesses is that SEO is an expensive investment, one that there is rarely budget for.
To combat leaving SEO on the back burner for yet another year, here are the 4 simple ways you can incorporate SEO into your daily marketing activities. The best part? Nearly all of these tactics require little to no budget. The only outlay you need to make is time.
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1.Learn how to do basic keyword research
The truth is, everyone should know a little bit of keyword research. At the very least, you should take the time to learn the terminology. Resources like Moz can teach you the basics of keyword research and intent.
Entrepreneurs like Neil Patel have created freemium software like Uber Suggest for users like you. Altogether, there are numerous FREE ways to understand the basics of keyword research.
If you understand a bit of this, you'll be able to make smarter decisions when conducting your research or hiring someone else to do it for you. Which is important. If you ask anyone who's hired an SEO agency in the last few years, they're likely to tell you a horror story of the companies they went to before they found the right one.
Understanding how keywords work and play into your digital marketing strategy will help you hire the right person the first time- instead of adding your name to the list of people who have been burned by their search engine optimization agency.
2.Create a sitemap
Though a sitemap isn't the first element that comes to mind when you think of SEO, it's an important one. Having a sitemap helps search engines crawl your website and understand the structure of it. This is especially important because Google ranks pages, not singular websites.
You can use tools like Yoast to create a sitemap easily. From there, you can set up Google Search Console and submit your sitemap. All you have to do is upload your sitemap to the search console and Google will queue your website for crawl (and use your sitemap to do so).
Consider Google Search Console your liaison between you and the world's biggest search engine. With search console set up, you can monitor the health of this sitemap too. The system will notify you of coverage errors- allowing you to fix problems faster.
3.Look for guest posting opportunities
Think of guest posting as one of the easiest forms of digital PR there is. Consumers and clients alike flock to digital hubs that have a community. Facebook is the world's largest social network for a reason, after all.
To tap into that community and get the word out about your business, look to guest post in communities you want to be apart of in order to start a conversation with your target audience.
Not only does this help you expand your brand portfolio, it allows you to build authority through blogging and SEO. Google likes websites with strong backlinks from communities in the niche that truly know what the niche wants. So do consumers.
The truth is, despite the digital world consuming our day to day lives- we still look to the opinions of our peers to make purchase decisions (and opinions on the world around us).
Guest posting in your niche allows you to contribute to that narrative and make your voice heard. Align yourself with other websites and brands that strengthen your message and increase your authority.
This can start as basic as creating a list of blogs in your industry that you respect and reaching out or as complex as researching contenders in the keyword space and attempting to build a relationship from cold outreach.
4.Optimize your blog posts before you click publish
Nearly everyone has a blog. Even if you're not posting regularly, chances are that you plan to in the future. Blog posts are one of the quickest and easiest ways to up your SEO, after all. That being said, it's not enough to just post. You'll want to optimize your posts for real-life readers and spiders.
This can be as simple as making sure your alt texts and metas are filled out or as complex as using Uber Suggest during the topic ideation to write with key phrases in mind.
You don't have to be an SEO expert to start aiming for keywords. Even if you're unable to rank for those keywords at this point in time, optimizing to the best of your ability is well worth the additional thirty minutes. Not only does it help get you in the mindset of creating blog posts with a purpose, but it also gives an identity to your content and helps Google understand that content.
For WordPress users, tools like Yoast or all in one SEO can help you achieve these optimizations with zero coding knowledge. For Shopify users, meta information is built into the interface. Regardless of what system you're on, there is bound to a module or plugin that will help you edit basic metadata without coding knowledge.
Conclusion: A Little Goes a Long Way
Whether you have an SEO budget or not, incorporating these tactics in your daily marketing activities will allow you to create a foundation for your brand. In fact, doing these small tactics will likely save you money when it comes time to hire an SEO agency.
Often times contracts start with cleaning up a poorly maintained site. With these tactics in play, your clean up period will move faster… or better yet, not be needed at all. Either way, you'll at least do the upkeep is taken to stay consistent and relevant on the web.
What marketing tactics are you putting into play this year? Why? State your case in the comments.
Sam Makad is a business consultant. He helps small & medium enterprises to grow their businesses and overall ROI. You can follow Sam on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin.


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PHILADELPHIA, Pa.- The Centurions traveled to Community College of Philadelphia Tuesday night to face EPAC opponent Delaware County Community College.
Bucks would control the tempo from the start and carry an 11 point lead into the half, 39-28.
Sophomore sensation Somah Slewion (Philadelphia, PA/Swenson Arts) lead the team with 26 points going 10 for 17 from the three point line and adding 5 rebounds and 5 steals.
The Centurions bench would combine for a total of 46 points in the form of Matt Ricketts' (Milford, CT/Wilbur Cross) 22, Nathan Johnston's (New Britain, PA/Central Bucks South) 13 and Ronald Garrison's (Bristol, PA/Bristol) 11.
Bucks would score 47 points in the second half to wrap the game up 86-72 over the Phantoms.
Delaware drops to 2-9 overall, 2-8 in the region and 2-6 in the conference.
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Induction of DNA damage by chemotherapeutics has been the mainstay of cancer therapy irrespective of the origin of the cancer. However, in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) responses to intensive chemotherapy differ greatly, with the success rate ranging very widely from 94% to 17% depending upon the karyotype of the patients.1 In particular, AML patients with normal cytogenetics initially respond to DNA damaging agents but frequently relapse and have a 5-year survival rate of around 30%. The inferior survival in these patients correlates with the presence of internal tandem duplications (ITD) in FLT3, a cytokine receptor with tyrosine kinase activity, found in almost one-third of AML patients. Constitutively active FLT3-ITD contributes to increased proliferation and survival of myeloid progenitor cells. Although FLT3-ITD by itself is not considered a driver of AML, the presence of the mutation at both diagnosis and relapse highlights the importance of FLT3-ITD in resistance of leukemia-initiating cells to therapy. FLT3-ITD can activate all the major signaling pathways, such as Ras/ERK, JAK/STAT5 and PI3K/AKT but we still do not completely understand how these lead to resistance to chemotherapy and whether they create any vulnerabilities that could be exploited. FLT3-ITD activates the NADPH oxidase system through RAC1 to augment the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and a consequent adaptive response involving RAD51-mediated error prone repair and enhanced genomic instability.2 Interestingly, increased ROS production is not associated with the tyrosine kinase domain mutated FLT3, which incidentally is also not associated with poor prognosis. These suggest that increased DNA damage response (DDR) and genomic instability are important for the poor response to therapy in FLT3-ITD-positive (FLT3-ITD+) AML patients. In the current issue of Haematologica, Wu et al.3 provide evidence of involvement of a FLT3-ITD/DOCK2/ RAC1 self-sustaining positive feedback loop leading to upregulation of DDR proteins that contributes to chemotherapy resistance (Figure 1). They provide evidence for the crucial role played by DOCK2 in mediating chemoresistance through regulating the RAC1/STAT5/DDR axis.3 Although expression of FLT3-ITD has been associated with resistance to chemotherapy and it has long been known that inhibition of signaling by kinase inhibitors can sensitize leukemic cells,4 this had not been extensively explored or utilized in the clinic. Only recently, is it becoming evident that midostaurin (PKC412), a multi-kinase inhibitor, is much more effective at inducing sustained remissions when used in combination with chemotherapy than when used as single-agent therapy.5 The results presented by Wu et al.3 further emphasize the role of chemo-sensitization through inhibition of signaling by mutant FLT3 and provide a way forward for improving the clinical outcome in FLT3-ITD+ AML patients.
Activation of RAC1 by FLT3-ITD has been recognized as the major contributor to enhanced DDR but the ubiquitous expression of RAC1 and its involvement in multiple processes makes targeting RAC1 specifically in leukemic cells a challenge.6 DOCK2, an atypical guanine nucleotide exchange factor, has previously been identified as an intermediate between FLT3-ITD and STAT5.7 DOCK2 has much more restricted expression, acts upstream of RAC1 and is required for upregulation of the DDR pathway. Combining loss of DOCK2 with cytarabine produced a similar increase in cytotoxicity as that observed with inhibiting the kinase function of FLT3-ITD (Figure 1).3 The alternative pathways from FLT3-ITD, such as FAK/TIAM1 and DOCK2, culminating in activation of RAC1 and subsequent nuclear translocation of STAT5 provide additional points of vulnerability that could be therapeutically exploited to overcome acquired drug resistance in response to FLT3-specific small molecule inhibitors.7,8 DOCK2 mutations leading to activation of RAC1 have also been identified in gastrointestinal and prostate cancers. It remains to be seen if similar deregulation of the DDR pathway is involved in carcinogenesis across different types of cancers.
The synthetic lethality observed with DOCK2 inhibition upon treatment with cytarabine could be attributed to downregulation of FLT3-ITD and the DDR pathway.3 However, Wu et al.3 did not observe a similar synergism when inhibitors of individual components of the DDR such as CHK1 (MK8776) or WEE1 (MK1775) were used in combination with cytarabine. As expected, the concurrent use of inhibitors of CHK1 and WEE1 with DOCK2 inhibition showed marginal improvements since DOCK2 knockdown significantly reduces both FLT3-ITD and these DDR pathway proteins.3 Functional redundancy between DDR proteins may account for lack of synergism between MK8776 or MK1775 and cytarabine.3 Although targeting DOCK2 appears to be more beneficial; the clinical translation of co-targeting DOCK2 is limited due to non-availability of potent and specific inhibitors. Currently two small molecule inhibitors of DOCK2 are available: the chemically synthesized 4-[3'-(2''-chlorophenyl)-2'-propen-1'-ylidene]-1-phenyl-3,5-pyrazolidinedione (CPYPP)9 and a naturally occurring cholesterol sulfate.10 The effects of these inhibitors of DOCK2 have been evaluated in the immune system and they have been found to block RAC1 activation but a comprehensive evaluation in AML models has not been carried out. The significance of targeting DOCK2 in sensitizing FLT3-ITD+ AML cells to chemotherapy demonstrated by Wu et al.3 may provide the impetus for development of therapeutic strategies to target DOCK2 in combination with standard chemotherapy leading to better prognosis for these AML patients.
While the study by Wu et al.3 focuses only on FLT3-ITD+ AML, similar defects in the DDR are known to be associated with several other AML driver mutations, specifically the epigenetic regulators. Genes such as DNMT3A and TET2, which are very frequently mutated not only in the leukemic cells but also in the pre-leukemic clones, are known to regulate the DDR.11,12 Cells carrying mutations in these genes are known to have an increased propensity to accumulate DNA damage. Interestingly, they are also found in non-random association with FLT3-ITD and their concurrent occurrence is sufficient for AML initiation. Similar to FLT3-ITD these pre-leukemic mutant clones tend to be chemo-resistant and they expand following elimination of leukemic cells by chemotherapy. The pre-leukemic clones are believed to evolve into leukemic cells due to inherent genomic instability and acquisition of additional mutations. The clinical relevance of alterations in the DDR in AML due to genetic mutations is underscored by the increase in survival with induction therapy dose escalation observed in patients carrying mutant DNMT3A but not in their wildtype counterparts.13 With better understanding of the driver mutations in AML and their role in normal cell functions, it is becoming apparent that an altered DDR is a common underlying theme in AML and pre-leukemic mutant cells. The research by Wu et al.3 emphasizes that combinatorial treatment strategies tailored to the specific driver mutation-dependent vulnerability in the DDR need to be explored further. A similar approach of inducing synthetic lethality by using PARP inhibitors in combination with standard chemotherapy in BRCA mutated gynecological cancers has led to improved patients' outcomes in the clinic.14 Interestingly, FLT3-ITD+ leukemic cells can be sensitized to PARP inhibitors when used in combination with AC220, a second-generation FLT3 inhibitor, leading to enhanced survival.15 It is to be hoped that these studies will spur development of rational combinations of inhibitors of FLT3 signaling with DDR inhibitors leading to a broader range of options to improve patients' outcomes and survival.
RP is supported by an award from the Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter Research Trust and Indiana University School of Medicine. RK is supported by research grants from NIH-R01CA173852, R01CA134777, R01HL146137, and R01HL140961 and the Riley Children's Foundation. The content of this editorial is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the views of the funding agencies.
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Active duty transgender troops sue President Trump over military ban
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Then-candidate Trump waves a rainbow flag that reads "LGBT's for Trump" at a rally in Colorado last October. (Photo: Reuters/Carlo Allegri)
Two LGBTQ organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people in the U.S. military.
In Doe v. Trump, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders are arguing on behalf of five transgender service members in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The suit comes after a series of tweets late last month from the president, in which he claimed to have consulted with "Generals and military experts," and ultimately decided that the "United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity." The tweets caught some senior members of the military off guard, and the Pentagon has yet to change any of its policies.
Mr. Trump's announcement came little more than a year after the Pentagon, under former President Obama, lifted a ban on transgender service members. While exact numbers are unknown, the Pentagon estimated in 2016 that there were between 2,500 and 7,000 transgender Americans serving out of 1.3 million active duty service members in the U.S. Armed Forces.
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This collection of short form poems touch on themes of nature, Americana, and the Native American experience, but it covers a lot of ground and is, ultimately, a reflection of Bond's experience and philosophy in poetic form. Among the 80+ poems, there are some as short and sparse as haiku, but most run between a page or two.
In the prologue, Bond takes up the eternal argument of whether free verse is poetry, and the antithesis of whether rhymed and metered poetry is "serious poetry." His view, not dissimilar to my own, is that there is room for the coexistence of these two poetic forms. That said, he overwhelmingly favors free verse in practice – as do most poets in the modern era – though not exclusively so.
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Business Traveller – Wellbeing and Happiness on the Road
Business leisure – adding a few days onto a business trip to see the sights – might some years ago have been seen as unethical or questionable, but now it's the norm. Business travellers seek it, and employers are becoming more savvy to it. "Bleisure", wellness, happiness on the road: how has the approach to business travel changed, how is tech making it easier, and what does it really take to outweigh the stress of life on the road? Quest tasks Isa Soares with finding out, delving into the science, the psychology and the innovations and road testing the tips and theories on an actual news shoot/business trip to the so called "happy capital", Copenhagen.
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Dimension Data, the $5.8 billion global ICT solutions and services provider, and NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Group (NYSE: NTT), today announced the two companies held a community service day on Thursday, May 23 to benefit New York City non-profit organization Harlem Grown. Dimension Data and NTT Com are data, cloud and international communications businesses within the NTT Groupand both companies have their U.S. headquarters in New York City. For the fifth consecutive year, employees helped City Year New York maintain and develop new community gardens that benefit local schools, seniors and other community members. Read More


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text: Vesper Martini Recipe By Karen Frazier Mixologist and BarSmarts Graduate Contributor: Kelly Roper The vesper martini is steeped in the mystique of 007, also known as Bond... James Bond. The vesper martini is a cocktail that was originally conceived by Ian Fleming, author of the spy novel series, for inclusion in the first book, and it became a Bond mainstay. The story that surrounds this drink may actually be more popular than the concoction itself, but nevertheless, every martini aficionado should try this iconic cocktail at least once. How to Make a Vesper Martini While you may find slight variations from one recipe to the next, this is perhaps the most common, modern version of a vesper martini. This recipe calls for Lillet Blanc, a French apéritif, in place of the original Kina Lillet. While Bond likes his vesper "shaken, not stirred," the rules of good cocktail making suggest that cocktails made from pure spirits such as a classic martini or a vesper martini, should be stirred to avoid over-aeration and excessive dilution of the drink. This version follows classic cocktail making technique instead of 007's preferred method. If you want to truly experience the Bond-style cocktail, then feel free to shake away. Related Articles Currant Vodka Martini Sambuca Drink Recipes How to Make the Perfect Vodka Martini Ingredients 3 ounces Gordon's Dry London Gin 1 ounce vodka ½ ounce Lillet Blanc Ice Lemon peel for garnish Directions Chill a cocktail glass. In a mixing glass, combine the gin, vodka, and Lillet Blanc. Add the ice and stir. Strain the mixture into the chilled cocktail glass. Garnish the drink with a strip of lemon peel. Story Behind the Vesper Martini The original recipe for the vesper was included in Fleming's 1953 novel, Casino Royal. In chapter 7 on page 45, Bond gives a bartender very specific directions how to make the drink. At that moment in the story, the drink does not yet have a name. The cocktail is later named after the double agent spy who Bond becomes involved with romantically, the mysterious Vesper Lynd. Original Recipe To paraphrase the original recipe found in the novel, Bond asks for a dry martini to be served in a Champagne goblet. He then specifies: Three measures of Gordon's (gin) One measure of vodka A half measure of Kina Lillet Bond further instructs that the ingredients must be shaken (not stirred) until they are very cold, and the cocktail should be garnished with a thin slice of lemon peel. Kina Lillet No Longer Available Unfortunately, Kina Lillet was reformulated in 1986 and is now largely unavailable unless you run across someone who still has a stash. The less bitter version is now referred to as Lillet Blanc. However, Cocchi Americano is considered by some enthusiasts to be a closer match for the flavor of Kina Lillet, so you can try mixing a Vesper with each of these aperitifs in turn and decide which version you like best. Drink Your Vesper Martini With Caution Any cocktail that includes 4½ ounces of spirits is bound to pack a punch, so be sure to pace yourself. In fact, you might even want to cut the current recipe in half or split it with a friend, which might even be more fun than drinking one alone.


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HMD Global has launched a new feature phone on January 3,2019. The name of this phone is Nokia 106. The company has priced the Nokia 106 phone at just Rs 1,299. Customers can buy Nokia 106 in offline store and Nokia.com. This phone will be available in dark gray color option.
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Right now it's still November 15, but in a few minutes it will be tomorrow, so this will be posted on the 16th even though I'm sharing about my busy day on the 15th. I got some writing done, but not anywhere near what I had hoped that I would. I wanted to get an additional two thousand words in before midnight. Ah well, you win some you lose some.
I did get words written and maybe close to the desired daily count of 1666, but I was hoping to catch up some today as I'm still quite a bit behind.
I did get a lot done, though, and that was nice. Other than getting some writing in, I worked on cleaning my stove top, which gets nasty as it's over sixty years old as is most everything in our house. I did some filing, laundry, dishes and last but not least payroll. Of course I had to play a game or two, but I tried to stay away from that as much as possible.
I try to get over to my mother's weekly to play cards. She lives alone and is legally blind. She gets bored easily. She watches a bit of tv, but has to sit about a foot away to see even the little bit that she can. I'd like to spend more time with her, but since I work the two jobs it makes it a bit difficult to manage.
I was hoping to make it to the gym today when my husband returned from getting his prosthetic adjusted. We were going to go together. It's easier to stay longer if I have someone with me, even if we wouldn't be working on the same type of machines.
I'm going to be even busier until Thanksgiving. Wed and Thursday were my days off this week, and my next day off isn't until the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I'm hoping that we can find folks that will let us clean their windows before Thanksgiving so we can make some money if for no other reason than to pay payroll for the week, but it would be nice to have extra to pay bills.
I may have to plan on getting the remainder of my word count in Black Friday, the next day Saturday and the last week of the month. Even though it will start to get busier as people begin to buy for Christmas gifts, hopefully it won't be quite as busy as it will be this next week.
I'm running out of steam. Hopefully I'll post more later today at a more normal time.
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Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest citizens is one of the largest in the world. Inequality in Brazil is well-known, but its low mobility is not. Until now, few studies have sought to investigate how forms of social exclusion constrain socioeconomic mobility. Why do particular groups remain excluded and trapped in poverty for generations? What do Brazilians themselves think about income inequality and social mobility? This study explores these issues, provides a set of options to redress them, and promotes a national dialogue for action. In addition to reviewing pertinent literature, Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil examines the changing income dynamics among homogeneous groups over a 20-year period. With respect to mobility, it tracks changes in the relative positions of social groups with similar characteristics. The analysis derives factors affecting the probability that certain groups will continue to lack equal access to the economic, cultural, and political resources that would improve their living standards. The current political climate in Brazil offers a unique opportunity to open a new and more informed conversation on the dynamics of exclusion and mobility. This book contributes to that conversation.
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The President in Pennsylvania, the state, instead of Pennsylvania Ave being a leader: "If you're complaining about the price of gas and you're only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know," Obama said laughingly. "You might want to think about a trade-in."
There's that liberal "compassion" and "sensitivity". 🙂
So if you are struggling with inflation in gas prices, food prices and utility costs the best thing you can for yourself is to get a new car that will cost you even more money!!
So what if you can't afford it!
But you'll get better mileage. 🙂
Sounds like an Obama plan. When you are struggling economically, spend even more!! 😦
Before Paul Ryan's 2012 budget released yesterday, the Liberal Establishment was telling us that what was needed was an adult conversation on the budget and entitlements. Now that they have got their adult conversation, they can't handle it.
Evidenced by one of our favourite radical leftists and now head of the DNC (while still a Congressman):
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) comments on Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget proposal for FY 2012.
"Representing a large number of seniors in south Florida, I can tell you that this budget would be devastating for seniors and older Americans. This Republican path to poverty passes like a tornado through America's nursing homes, where millions of America's seniors receive long-term and end of life care," Rep. Wasserman Schultz said.
And good "rich" Billionaire (because he's a socialist): I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control otherwise they might get me into trouble. 'I have always harboured an exaggerated view of my self-importance,' he wrote. 'To put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes, or, even better, like Einstein ("Alchemy of Finance").-George Soros
"'I've come to the conclusion,' Soros told Fortune, 'that one can do a lot more about the issues I care about by changing the government than by pushing the issues.' In short, he has become the world's angriest billionaire." (Mark Gimein, "George Soros Is Mad As Hell," Fortune, 10/27/03).
Sounds a bit like Obama. 🙂
A fundraising appeal from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee warns supporters that "Tea Party Republicans are threatening to shut down the government on Friday unless we surrender to their outrageous demands."
The fundraising email, penned by DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.), went out late Wednesday and asks for small donations to the committee's "GOP Accountability Fund," setting a goal of raising $50,000 by Friday "so we can hold Speaker Boehner and his Tea Party fringe Republicans immediately accountable for shutting down the government."
"The world is watching our next move," Israel wrote. "Will we cave to the Tea Party's disgraceful act of political extortion or will we fight back with the full force of our grassroots strength?"
Never let a Crisis go to waste!! 🙂
"What if the president and your representative saw it coming and could have prevented it from happening?" Ryan said. "What would you think of them if they didn't?" A hush came over the audience at the American Enterprise Institute. It was Ryan's way of saying that the financial meltdown arrived largely without warning, while the impending fiscal crunch is like a runaway freight train. "This is the most predictable crisis in the history of our country," he went on. "We are on our path to a debt crisis" like those we've seen recently in Europe, with the national debt as a percentage of gross domestic product rising, under Barack Obama's budget, past the 90 percent danger point on its way to 800 percent. (townhall.com)
So if it's that predictable, even the Democrats would drop their partisanship and do what is best for the nation and it's people….
Yes, that was cynical chuckle moment.
The Democrats have only 3 plays in their playbook and variations on it.
1. Class Warfare 2. Fear 3. Intimidation
That's it.
And if you disagree with them at any level you are an "extremist" !!!!
Ryan's budget is based on the idea that people are capable of making decisions for themselves.
1961: And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
2011: And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what you can do for the country; ask what the government can do for you.
Karl Rove: In the White House Press Room on Tuesday, President Barack Obama did what comes naturally—scold others, in this case the Congress. Mr. Obama complained that a budget agreement "could have gotten done three months ago."
What he didn't say was that the budget should have "gotten done" six months ago, before the current fiscal year started last Oct. 1. Our government's failure to have a budget in place halfway through the fiscal year is the president's responsibility. He and his party dominated Congress by wide margins when the budget was supposed to be put in place.
Also on Tuesday, at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan did what the president has not. Demonstrating leadership and more than a little courage, Mr. Ryan laid out a thoughtful, ambitious blueprint for the next decade.
The Path to Prosperity would return discretionary spending to its 2008 levels and hold it flat for five years; reduce the federal government's work force by 10%; slash corporate welfare; reform the tax code; and reduce the corporate and top personal rate to 25%. It would repeal ObamaCare, change Medicare so the government helps all seniors pay for an insurance policy they choose, and send states money for each person covered by Medicaid, plus the flexibility to spend that money as they see fit.
The Obama-Ryan budget battle foreshadows what Americans are likely to hear in the 2012 campaign: an unengaged, reactive chief executive versus a bold, reform-minded GOP.
In the short term, it's obvious what Mr. Obama hopes to gain. Having watched his standing as "a strong and decisive leader" drop to 52% in last month's Gallup poll from 60% last year, the president is looking to profit politically from a shutdown of the federal government.
When the government was twice shut down in 1995 and 1996, Congressional Republicans survived the controversy and kept their majorities in the 1996 election. At the same time, the shutdowns boosted Bill Clinton's image. Only 37% viewed him as "a strong leader" in a June 1995 ABC News poll. In a January 1996 CBS News poll after the shutdowns, 53% said Mr. Clinton had "strong qualities of leadership."
The president will instruct his party to demagogue the House Republican budget, labeling it as an assault on the poor and a windfall for the rich that will rip America's social safety net to shreds.
Never mind that these charges are false and irresponsible. Mr. Ryan would have the government spend $40 trillion over the next 10 years, $6.2 trillion less than Mr. Obama's budget plan of $46 trillion. This is an overall reduction in what the government plans to spend, not a cut from what it is spending today.
Under Mr. Ryan's proposal, for example, health-care spending would still rise for both Medicaid, which serves the poor, and Medicare, which serves seniors. The $275 billion spent on Medicaid this year would grow to $305 billion in 2021 while the $563 billion spent on Medicare this year would grow to $953 billion in 2021. Nor would anyone 55 years or older be affected by any Medicare reforms.
Mr. Ryan and his colleagues want to act now to keep entitlement programs solvent. They want to keep Americans from experiencing the pain of the crisis that will come when the public debt has doubled by 2012 (from the level when Mr. Obama came into office) and nearly tripled by 2021, as it would under the president's plan. Already mandatory spending, the part of the budget that's automatic and not subject to approval each year by Congress, eats up all available revenue this year. Medicare goes broke in 2029, and Social Security is bankrupt in 2037.
The White House doesn't care—it perceives a political path to victory in 2012. What makes this strategy doubly reckless and cynical is that the administration knows a debt crisis is coming and that its spending plans cannot continue.
But the Obama administration's adults—Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew, and National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling—are clearly not in charge. The politicos—Senior Adviser David Plouffe (who managed Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign) and Communications Director Daniel Pfeiffer (who had the same title in the 2008 campaign) have their hands on the wheel. The White House is in full re-election mode.
The House GOP budget will not become law this year, but it will smoke the president out on spending and provide a framework for Republicans to discuss the nation's fiscal challenges. The contrast between the GOP's boldness and the president's cowardice is striking. The question is whether the president and his party will pay a political price for their abdication of leadership. We're about to find out.
But rest assured the Liberal Press will be there to ignore it entirely and will tirelessly cheerlead for the Liberal progressive cause.
I'm sad to report today a death of a good friend to all of us…..Journalism, the once esteemed 4th estate of our nation and the protector of our freedoms and a watchdog of our rights has passed away after a long struggle with a crippling and debilitating disease of acute dishonesty aggravated by advanced laziness and the loss of brain function. (Gov. Huckabee 2009)