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The Great Gatsby – Limited Edition Steelbook: Baz Luhrmann's racy adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby gets a 3D blu-ray makeover in this limited edition steelbook out this week. Set in the 1920s, the film's a must-see for any art … continue reading »
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I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. You really get around don't you? I'm dealing with a lot of pain in my back and right hip. Plus I'm in the worst bout of depression I think I've ever dealt with. I'm not making much progress on the storage units. If I feel better and the weather straightens up I hope to empty out one by the end of the month. It's the oldest and has stuff in it i want to keep and use. My internet keeps going off line. Twice this week I've called my Tech Support in the Philippines to get back on line. I better go while it's still on line. Stay Safe i think of you often

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Rotarian Scott Richardson was honored with the prestigious Marston Headley Service Above Self Award on Thursday, April 28, 2011. The following is the text from the award presentation:
The Marston Headley Service above Self Award is given each year to a member of the club who has given of their time and energy to make the club a success and to recognize strong involvement in the community. Started by Rotary International over 30 years ago, the Northfield chapter began to give this award in 1988. About a decade ago, the local award was renamed in honor of Marston Headley, a long-time member, past club president and secretary for many years. Marston served as a city librarian and was known for his many contributions to the Northfield community.
Sometimes recipients are leaders which we see up front on a regular basis, but sometimes the leaders are more in the background but they are always there, consistently doing work week after week until we grow to assume the job to be done, without much thought as to how it happened or what effort it took to make it happen. Such is the case with this years' recipient.
He assumes roles without fanfare, comfortable being a support person and does not need the limelight.
Very important to him that everyone is thriving and the group is functioning well.
Most important thing in life is his wife and kids.
The most fun thing he ever did was shoot a guy out of a cannon over the Cannon River.
He enjoys volunteering and he only volunteers for things he likes to do and that makes it more fun for those around him.
Our nominee is someone that is in the project for the long haul, he does not abandon projects, he stays in place for a long time.
His wife said that he will likely be in Rotary until he is very old and that they will likely live here for all of their lives.
Community is very important to him.
He came to Northfield because he recognized there was community here and was interested in chronicling this communities' journey.
He operates out of and respects the idea of "servant leadership" in his work.
His birth family was also committed to community service; he helped as a teen when his parents were very involved in building the golf course and the pool.
He had good role modeling from his family about community involvement.
His father and Bob Lampe grew up together in Elgin, MN.
He is lots of fun and has a great sense of humor.
He and his wife every Tuesday have lunch at B & L's and he teases the waitresses if they are late by saying "you must have been worried sick".
He is often confused to be Dr. Chris Richardson. Once someone on the street said something to our friends' wife about his new position as superintendent of schools; they were confused as they thought that required special training. Chris Richardson later teased that, no, it did not.
Our recipient is very involved in his church, the UCC. He is the softball team coach at his church and they call themselves the Fighting Apostles.
He is committed to help them develop from being one of teams with most losses to one of the winning-est teams.
Our friend has been involved with the Northfield Chamber of Commerce, Northfield Booster Club, the Defeat of Jesse James Days and the Northfield Historical Society to name a few.
He was the first coordinator of the Healthy Committee Initiative.
And he was the winner of the Joseph Lee Heywood Distinguished Service Award in 2008.
The award is given to a "Northfield citizen who exemplifies the commitment to public service which Joseph Lee Heywood lived and died for."
For all of these good reasons and many more, we bestow upon our fellow Rotarian the Marston Headley Service Above Self Award to the well-deserved Rotarian, Scott Richardson. Thank you, Scott, for your dedication to this community.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post113463052179652897..comments2020-02-10T07:44:52.579-08:00Comments on Junk Food Blog: Potent Food Maca BarSteve Johnsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-26249349545633181322011-02-15T08:47:07.921-08:002011-02-15T08:47:07.921-08:00I'm sorry, the maca tastes like caca and far f...I'm sorry, the maca tastes like caca and far from chocolate. It should say, "vitamin bar" or "energy bar". Calling it chocolate is like saying sawdust tastes like oatmeal. I think I know what cow poop tastes like email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-73358835219231126372010-11-21T06:21:21.301-08:002010-11-21T06:21:21.301-08:00I'm not a Potent Foods employee and have tried...I'm not a Potent Foods employee and have tried the Maca bars. I used to be able to buy them from health food stores but they no longer carry them. I like the bars, they taste good. I ate approx 2 bars a week so I didn't really get the full effects of the bar. I wish the health food stores would carry the bars firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-30989436291320819942010-04-04T05:23:11.367-07:002010-04-04T05:23:11.367-07:008 comments ALL from people who WORK FOR POTENT FOO...8 comments ALL from people who WORK FOR POTENT FOODS! Could you be anymore firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-79138194634856798732010-02-09T13:54:53.645-08:002010-02-09T13:54:53.645-08:00I tried the Maca Bar and bought MACA POWDER and de...I tried the Maca Bar and bought MACA POWDER and deep the bar to it.Wow! The taste is really great!! About an hour ago,I felt something inside of me. It's like a fire burning. It really shocking that the effects of bar deep into maca powder will not takes a day.sweetkelsieannes64http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-19737493552657113272009-08-21T00:34:07.946-07:002009-08-21T00:34:07.946-07:00Even though the raw powder maca does not taste soo...Even though the raw powder maca does not taste sooo good, I prefer it raw. Reason, less processed maca is more nutritional and we get more benefits. I would need to know how maca bars are made before making decision to buy it.

However, I would not mind having few healthy made maca bars in my pocket when on the road!Maca guruhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-32808699197897655032007-07-14T15:36:00.000-07:002007-07-14T15:36:00.000-07:00I actually sell these bars on my website and they ...I actually sell these bars on my website and they are wonderful. Yes they are $2.99 and before they were $3.39 so they have come down in price. They have several other ingredients that are beneficial to your body and it is a nice treat - wonderful taste and still good for you. I will be riding Ragbrai on the Lance Armstrong team this year and I will be taking these along to keep my energy up. Julie - firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-39001006967372886742007-05-22T17:54:00.000-07:002007-05-22T17:54:00.000-07:00Is there anyone other than staff who has tried thi...Is there anyone other than staff who has tried this stuff & is it from the "standardized formulation" & are you really paying $3 for a chocolate bar ? Sounds like you are better off buying "maca" supplement, considerably less expensive if you need the surge & from what I hear it cost less to swallow a email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-21938374601809070722007-02-22T16:52:00.000-08:002007-02-22T16:52:00.000-08:00I've tried the maple chunk and cherry chunk, both ...I've tried the maple chunk and cherry chunk, both are wonderful. They pack an energy punch, 6g of fiber and 8g of protein with a refreshing taste without the sickly sweet processed sugar. They have a good amount of iron, are high in potassium and will stick with you for firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-1151862548901119292006-07-02T10:49:00.000-07:002006-07-02T10:49:00.000-07:00These organic Maca Bars from Potent Food company a...These organic Maca Bars from Potent Food company are great. THey do not have junk food ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, chemical flavors, dyes, etc. I use them as meal replacements or snacks before exercise. Highly recommend email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-1138564221515300612006-01-29T11:50:00.000-08:002006-01-29T11:50:00.000-08:00These are the most "potent" energy bars I've ever ...These are the most "potent" energy bars I've ever eaten. The 5000mg of maca in each bar has an amazing effect on my libido. My wife and I enjoy these maca bars together. They have really helped our relationship! I love the Maple Chunk Fudge. My wife loves the White chocolate bar. She considers it quite delicious and "decadent." We find the bars rich and firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15838830.post-1138220035044506652006-01-25T12:13:00.000-08:002006-01-25T12:13:00.000-08:00have you tried it yet?have you tried it firstname.lastname@example.com


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|Team Building Quotes
What are the Most Effective Methods for Motivating Individual Team Building Members?
Impressions are the powerful link between thought and action. Strong impressions lead to dynamic actions, and are the most influential way to motivate.
Workplace team building quotes are a great way to create impressions leading to enhanced motivation. This motivational messaging technique shifts thinking patterns and habits to bring focus and understanding while reenergizing the individual spirit.
Spending time each day reviewing these quotes will develop the type of impressions that help to achieve great accomplishments.
Workplace Team Building Quotes:
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Gossip, jealousy, suspicion, and resentment are the most destructive ways that we look at each other; such negativity only serves to fracture our personal power.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.
Be as great in act as you hae been in thought.
A bad habit is the result of repetition. Awareness is the key to break the cycle. First become aware of unwanted tendencies, then your awareness can help replace bad habits with good ones.
Make yourself aware of what motivates the leaders of your organization.
As important as what you do is the enthusiasm with which you do it.
Bad habits are your enemy. Starve them the fuel of repetition and they will begin to fade.
Associate with those who have a positive, passionate outlook on life. Their energy is soaked up by those around them.
What you get may be how you make a living, but it's what you give that defines you.
Be aware of your thoughts - you can choose to focus them on the positive.
A positive attitude churns the ether, directs energy, and sets up a self fulfilling prophecy.
If you want something to happen in your life, visualize it happening. Make it your intention. Matter is thought materialized.
The bridge between mediocrity and greatness is determined effort.
Life's events don't produce stress - the thoughts that run through your mind do. Find constuctive thoughts and stress will leave.
Correcting one bad work habit will introduce your mind to the endless possibilities.
Don't participate in conduct today that will weigh heavy on the conscience tomorrow.
Refuse to accept any limiting condition. Your true nature is health, strength, and success, no matter what the current circumstances.
Worry is a slow unnecessary drink of poision.
You will only achieve if you are determined to achieve. Let this be your guiding priciple.
A creative intelligence resides within you. With will power behind it, this intelligence can overcome any problems you may face.
Always maintain a grateful attitude toward your employers. They are providing you with an environment to refine your skills, prove your value, and develop your track record.
The secret of success is a well balanced life weighted toward predetermined goals.
Become aware of why you do what you do. Analyzing your own behavior is the first step toward becoming the person you want to be.
Be determined to persist until you succeed. It's the small extra things, the little repeated attempts, that soon add up to accomplishment.
The habits you acquire have the greatest impact on your success.
Make yourself aware of managements goals. A determination to help make them a reality will make you invaluable.
Sincerity and integrity will elevate your value and enable you to provide the highest levels of service.
When you network with someone, it costs nothing, and creates something of great value.
Think big! Big thoughts are the predesessor to delivering big results.
Combining efforts with others who have similar passion demonstrates collaboration skills to your leadership team.
Most things in life are won or lost first in the mind and then in the physical world.
Most great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Your network is both your foundation and your support. Choose wisely when building it.
Face discipline so you don't have to face disappointment.
You can control your reactions much more than your circumstances. Your reactions can be positive experiences for yourself and those around you.
Setting goals and pushing hard toward accomplishments feeds upon itself, igniting a bond fire of possibilities.
Become an expert at what you do. Your determination will go a long way with your leadership team.
Never do anything you wouldn't want others to know about. Ask yourself if you would publicly defend your act. If not, don't do it.
Don't allow emotions to dictate your reactions. Rise above them by becoming determined to remain calm during all circumstances.
What distinguishes us from another is how well we have developed our goals and our actions toward making them reality.
Make a complete effort even if the odds seem to be against you; there is a direct correlation between your effort and the potential for the odds to turn in your favor.
Communication is the windshield wiper in the rain storm of life.
Patience is essential for success. Practice monitoring how patient you are during circumstances and reward yourself when staying on track.
Think like a leader. Leaders take responsibility for where they are, and then get out in front of the issues by thinking a few moves ahead.
Destiny is a choice. It is something one works toward and achieves.
Your ability to work productively with those around you is a key measure of your effectiveness.
Integrity is at the core of who you are. Who you are determines your opportunities.
Perception becomes belief. If you look for the good, you will find it.
With a strong mind you can conquer all. Your mind is limitless.
Happiness is purpose and a job well done.
There are lessons in every experience in life. Look for what you can learn.
Always take the high road; the benefits may not be immediate, but they are inevitable.
If you feel yourself becoming angry, worried, fearful or depressed - take a deep breath and become calm. You have the power to relocate your mind.
Enthusiasm will win the day, everyday.
Be careful about what you think and say. Both are transmissions with the power to create reality.
Take charge of how you think, what you do and who you associate with. Assume ownership of your personal happiness and success.
Bring positive energy to all your interactions with others. Those around you are always assessing your abilities and a positive attitude will increase your recommendations.
Compliment and encourage talent wherever you find it.
Compliments carry an energy capable of lifting spirits and building bridges.
Refuse to quit. This is the only way your efforts can become fully realized.
Consider the price paid by those caught in corruption; it is our choices that determine our destiny.
Do not fear failure. Successful people use failure as a way to learn and a way to practice. Do not view anything as failure, rather a necessary stepping stone to success.
Don't ignore your health; it's your future. Healthy eating, daily exercise, and peaceful living today, will help ensure you can enjoy tomorrow.
Don't worry about improving others; improve yourself.
Find solace in unselfish acts. These actions bring the highest fulfillment.
If you find yourself depressed, fight back. You will not stay down if you continue to remember what you have to be grateful for.
Live life without fear, anger, or lack of initiative. These maladies are self-created and chosen. Begin to choose what you allow to run through your mind.
No matter what stage in life, don't be afraid to start at the bottom. This is where you build a foundation to do great things.
Believe that what you strive for is possible. Act on what you want and refuse to accept failure; your will is the mechanism to materialize things.
You will change your life by changing your attitude.
Character is defined by putting aside what you have in your head, to give what you have in your hand.
Be sure your decisions are rooted in principles that you know in your heart are sound. Conviction ensures success.
Don't allow negativity from others or group failures to discourage or distract you. Your own destiny must be your focus.
Leadership is living your life knowing that creative accomplishment is possible and within reach.
Setbacks are as common as victories. Success is determined by your ability to remain calm and think clearly through either.
The ability to lead yourself is the best insight as to how well you will lead others.
Focus on how you can help those around you. Great business leaders have relied on the principle: He who serves best, profits most.
Be aware of how you are responding to situations. Are your reactions based upon conditioning or your values?
Set daily goals with reasonable targets. Incrementally raise targets once you see consistent success.
You are the master of your choices; but choose wisely, because you are not the master of what happens after your choices are made.
Believe in what you are doing and love what you are doing and success will find it's way to you.
The seeds that will bring success need the soil, water, and sun of your will power.
Seek out simple solutions first. Complexity often breeds inaction.
It is mostly the power that we give things that allows them to appear as obstacles.
Real leadership is when the leader is no longer present and the will of the team stands strong.


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Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been voted the world's fourth most beautiful woman in a recent poll conducted by online magazine Hollywood Buzz.
Ms Rai ranked fourth on the list of 'Top 30' Most Beautiful Women.
The poll conducted in December 2013 saw more than four million people send in their votes selecting the most intelligent, desirable and successful women in 2013-14.


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Uncleweed and Cosmo sit around the Fishbowl Tavern in Olympia, Washington and talk of political fortitude, Olympia garage rock, and play some groovy tunes, from SubPop and Reap and Sow Records. Ya Dig? Plus anecdotes form SXSW (Billy Bragg, Pasties) and plans for civil liberty edu-tainment.
Get yer own beer for: Clubside Breakfast Time Episode 61 – The Return of Uncleweed
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After an interesting season in 2013 we now line up events for 2014 bringing in newer venues and tracks to the competitors.
So the next Speed Sprint will be held at the romantic and historic city of Agra. Book your calendars for February 09, 2014 to be at this fast and furious competition. The event will be organized jointly with Motorsports Club, Agra. Responding to inputs from Speed Sprint enthusiasts some minor tweaks have been done for this event:
- Registrations would start with new year
- Yes it is all tarmac track
- The exact venue layout will be released only 36 hours before the event as usual
- The track is in Agra
- Forced induction will attract 1.5 multiplier (turbo / supercharger)
- Zip and Zip+ for novice and experienced drivers
- No speed breakers on the track
- 9 handbrake turn opportunities
- 21 direction change elements
- Tight and very challenging track
- Acceleration and handling will be key elements for winning
A new sub-categorization within the ZIP will keep Novice and Pro competing in separate categories thus keeping a level and even field.
Modification are allowed to your hearts content. And whats more there would be couple of performance tuners putting up their desk at the event to help you realize the best from your vehicle.


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June 30 – July 4, 2017
Click on the box above to see who's signed up for which shifts – updated 6/18/17.
Use the 'Contact Us' form or email firstname.lastname@example.com to sign up.
This really is the highlight of our bonsai year, and if you've ever been a docent before then you know that it is a lot of fun. You will get to answer really basic questions about bonsai and meet nice people who are interested in your hobby. It's also a fun time to hang out with fellow members and share bonsai experiences.
The Fair runs from June 30 – July 4 and there are 3 shifts each day. We need for all of them to be fully staffed so we can make sure our trees are safe from curious fingers, well watered, and the public well-informed about the glorious art of bonsai. So check your calendars, confer with significant others, look at the Fair schedule for other events you might want to explore on the same day, and sign up for multiple shifts, if you can possibly manage it. We need all hands on deck at the Fair, and for set up and take down as well. The Fair exhibit is a fund-raiser for the Club and one of our best opportunities to reach out to the public and recruit new members. It's easy. It's fun. Your Club really needs you to help out.
We will have admission tickets for docents and parking passes for those who pull multiple shifts at the June 20 workshop.
Set up is June 28 and we need people from 9:30 AM for a couple of hours. Trees need to arrive no later than 1:30 PM to insure inclusion in the exhibit. If you have trouble getting your trees there in that window please discuss options with Jay.
Here you'll find answers
to the most frequently asked questions
from visitors to our show.
The Marin Bonsai Club has published a club information brochure for distribution. The brochure is loaded with information about our club philosophy, activities and exhibitions, and a brief history. It is intended for public consumption and new members. You will see it as a hand-out at our annual exhibitions and auction & sale. For more information, contact either Candace Key or George Haas.
This is the time of the year the club members really pull together to promote our club in the best possible way through the display of our bonsai. Please prepare your trees to show their best. Sign up for multiple docent shifts if possible. We need as many volunteers as we can muster. The Fair is always so much fun; we get to promote the Marin Bonsai Club, sign up individuals for the beginners' bonsai class and auction following the Fair, all of which attracts new members. Our bonsai exhibit is a big draw among Fair-goers and we need to make this one another standout. I hope everyone will lend their support.
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My Internet connection's very slow and buggy tonight. I'll try to put up more posts tomorrow, if things are better.
To amuse you until then, following last night's video clip of a humpback whale being rescued from a fishing net, here's another humpback - this one darn nearly capsizing a canoe as it surfaces right next to it!
Talk about close encounters . . .


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Volunteer Benefits at BIDMC
Our Volunteer Benefits
As a volunteer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), you have the opportunity to assist our patients and staff in countless ways. Plus, it's a great place to make new friends and have new experiences.
As a part of BIDMC's volunteer program you are eligible to receive:
- A meal voucher for each day you volunteer (4 hours)
- Additional snack voucher for each day you volunteer (6 hours+)
- Free on-site parking during volunteer hours
- Invitation to holiday luncheons
- Invitation to our Annual Volunteer Recognition Reception
- Reference letters to enhance college or work applications
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer at BIDMC, please click here to apply. For questions, contact Shannon Lawson, Volunteer Services Program Manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 617-667-3026.


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The Broncos are in such deep trouble that one Manning can't save them.
In a city desperate for a football hero, is quarterback Eli Manning what Denver needs?
No. The Broncos have 99 problems, and acquiring Manning wouldn't solve even one.
John Elway is the king of the comeback. But if the worst losing streak suffered by Denver in 50 years has been at all beneficial to Elway and everyone else in Broncos Country, it has been to smack us all over the head with the realization it will take more than a Band-Aid to stop the orange-and-blue bleeding.
Once upon a time, after he was unceremoniously dumped by the Indianapolis Colts shortly before his 36th birthday in 2012, Peyton Manning found Elway waiting with a $96 million deal to write a beautiful comeback story in Denver.
So, this week, when the New York Giants unceremoniously benched Eli Manning at age 36, it was natural to dream about another amazing comeback in Denver for the first family of football.
Dream on.
The Broncos got the best Manning, nurtured him back to health and won a Super Bowl with Peyton. Without the excuse of injury, younger brother Eli is on a slow, steady decline. While it was shocking, and perhaps disrespectful, for the Giants to bench him in favor of Geno Smith, it appears Manning is washed up.
Crunch any number you like — yards per pass attempt, completion percentage or quarterback rating — and it would be hard to argue Manning is a significantly better QB at this stage of his career than Denver's own Trevor Siemian.
This seven-game losing streak has been a humbling experience. A year ago at this time, I had the brilliant idea that acquiring veteran quarterback Tony Romo from Dallas could get Denver back to Super Bowl contention. I was wrong. Broncos Country is no place for old men, especially if you're a quarterback that can avoid hazardous duty behind a leaky offensive line by taking a cushy seat in a television booth.
The problems of this football team are too deep and fundamental for one Manning to fix. There are cracks in the foundation. This project might be a total scrape and rebuild. No more taking a flier on the off chance Jamaal Charles might still be the Pro Bowl running back he was back in the day. Manning earned two league championships with the Giants, but he's not leading any NFL team to another one.
So if Elway wants to go get a veteran quarterback, then he should seek one young enough to see this project through until completion. Kirk Cousins is 29 years old. Will Washington let him walk in free agency? And is he really worth more than $25 million per year to the Broncos?
That's only the beginning of the tough questions facing Elway.
Vance Joseph is a coach who inspires players to win for him, but he seems short on meaningful ideas on how to help those loyal players succeed. In that regard, Joseph reminds me much more of Wade Phillips during his brief tenure as the franchise's head coach during the 1990s than the disaster that was Josh McDaniels earlier this decade.
Maybe it wouldn't be fair to fire Joseph after only one season, but if fans vote with empty seats during the two remaining home games on Denver's schedule, the financial reasons to dismiss Joseph would be hard to ignore. In a results-oriented business, it doesn't matter how much players love a coach if they don't win for him.
"It's tough. We're just not doing things as a team consistently right now to string together a win for Vance," running back C.J. Anderson said.
Cutting safety T.J. Ward during training camp was only the beginning of the painful goodbyes. The one-game suspension for cornerback Aqib Talib will give the Broncos a chance to look at their defense without him in 2018. Receiver Demaryius Thomas is due a pay cut. And Anderson? Elway has already given him a not-so-subtle push toward the door, as the team increases the touches for running back Devontae Booker.
Elway has built a legend on doing the impossible. He is capable of returning the Broncos to Super Bowl glory. But this job will require time, patience and difficult choices rather than a shot in the dark on a washed-up NFL quarterback.
Can a Hail Manning save the Broncos?
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Recently I was in England visiting family. The place seems to be ticking along okay. Especially given the Brexit uncertainties, a very weak government, and a hard-left alternative waiting in the wings. Unemployment is low and there are plenty of people out dining and shopping. But there's a dirty great problem underpinning it all. Debt is spiralling out of control. In fact, British borrowers make Americans look positively restrained.
Official unemployment in the UK is 4.5%, which is the same as in the US. In fact, British labour force participation is higher than it was in during the last peak in 1990, and higher than any point since the 1970s.
This tells a very different story to the US participation rate, which has been falling since the late '90s.
Of course the figures are calculated slightly differently in each country. But, notwithstanding that, there's a huge difference in the trends. A higher percentage of adults than ever is working in the UK. The lowest percentage of adults since the late 1970s is working in the US.
On the face of it, given things like the employment figures, you'd think the UK was doing just fine. Although I note that the high levels of employment could be simply a case of more and more people having to work just to make ends meet.
Perhaps families are in an arms race to afford insanely overpriced houses and such like? Maybe one breadwinner simply isn't enough to survive in the UK these days?
Whatever the cause, the trend in ratio of mortgage debts in the UK to borrowers' incomes is particularly disturbing, as shown in the following chart. It runs from the mid-1970s to the present day.
Source: Telegraph
The burden of UK residential mortgage debt has basically doubled in relation to incomes since 1980. Of course interest rates have plummeted in the intervening decades, making debts more immediately affordable. On the other hand mortgage terms have been extended.
I bought my first place in London in the late 1990s. In those days a 25 year mortgage term was typical. Now it's normal to borrow for 30, 35 or even 40 years.
Today's huge mortgage burdens may look affordable to borrowers in terms of monthly cash outlays. But many of the indebted will be enslaved to the lending banks for much longer than in the past.
Also, mortgages with long-term fixed interest rates don't exist in the UK, unlike in the US. So if rates rise a few points (which they will, one day), borrowers will suddenly find they can't make the payments. Many will default, others will slash general consumption as the struggle to keep their homes, the property bubble will burst, and the economy will enter a hard recession.
The UK is one of many countries that's in the midst of a new house price bubble (see here for more). Ten years ago the UK's mortgage lenders got into serious trouble. One, called Northern Rock, was known for lending as much as 125% of the house value to borrowers. It went bust.
Since then, banks and their regulators have become more cautious. According to a recent report in the Telegraph, 5.6% of UK mortgages were for more than 95% of the property value back in 2007. Now it's down to just 0.2%, and such large loans usually require a guarantee from the "Bank of Mum and Dad".
So the lobbyists and squealers are out in force. Vested interests in the mortgage industry want more 100% mortgages again.
Never mind the huge risk this means for young borrowers if prices fall. That would leave them trapped in "negative equity", possibly for many years, and unable to move home.
The lobbyists are also ignoring the real problems. They're the ultra low interest rates and ongoing quantitative easing (printing money to suppress bond yields) that are the main causes of the house price bubble.
The Bank of England's base rate – equivalent to Fed Funds in the US – is just 0.25%. Ten year UK government bonds, known as gilts, trade with a yield of just 1.09%. Ten year index-linked government bonds – similar to US TIPS – trade with a staggering yield of minus 1.85%!
These act to keep down mortgage rates for many. If I'd stayed living in England, then the variable rate mortgage deal I had would now cost me just 0.37% a year, being base rate plus 0.12%. Insane. Obviously that kind of deal isn't available any more. But lots of people are still enjoying the fruits of such past arrangements.
And it's not just mortgages and the real estate market that show signs for concern. In fact, consumer credit as a whole has grown worryingly fast in the UK.
A look at the dark pink line in the chart below suggests total credit has grown at a 10% annual clip for the past couple of years, whereas earnings have grown at just low single digits.
To put that into perspective, US consumer credit grew at 7.1% in 2015, 6.5% in 2016 and less than 5% annualised in the first half of this year, using figures from the Federal Reserve.
In other words, UK credit growth is now twice as fast as in the US. This is the weak foundation upon which the UK economic edifice teeters.
Basically, the Brits are back to the bad old days. A housing bubble means buyers need ever larger mortgages. At the same time other consumer credit expands as people continue to buy things they don't need (new cars, the latest fashions, foreign holidays) with money they don't have.
It can't end well, as interest rates will have to get back to normal one day. By which I mean a sensible margin above rates of price inflation, such that the lender or bond investor can make a real return after tax (and defaults).
In the midst of all this, it's no surprise that average household savings ratios have collapsed in the UK. In fact they're dropping in the US as well, although by comparison remain relatively healthy there.
Despite the high employment levels, there's a really ugly backdrop to the UK economy. It has a housing bubble, an excessive credit boom, a weak government, a crackpot opposition ready to step in, and the ongoing uncertainty of the Brexit negotiations.
There are bound to be exceptions. But, for the most part, I recommend that investors stay away from the UK.
Stay tuned OfWealthers,
Rob Marstrand
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Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry Me Across the Water is the story of a man's turbulent journey, with his family, through the central years of the twentieth century. Young August Kleinman escapes from Nazi Germany to America, where his mother's words—"Take the advice of no one"—fate him to a life of boldness and originality, from the poor streets of New York to the marble mansions of industrial Pittsburgh, from old world Hamburg to the jungle islands of the Pacific. Ultimately, near the end of a long and bountiful life, his resolution of a haunting encounter with a Japanese soldier during World War Two finally illuminates, at the deepest levels, the way authentic lives truly unfold. From the writer hailed as "the most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation" (Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio) comes this "exquisitely modulated short novel" (Los Angeles Times), which "eases its silky-smooth way into a reader's consciousness even as it plumbs the depths" (Newsday).
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Ethan Canin is the author of For Kings and Planets, The Palace Thief, Blue River, and Emperor of Air. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the University of Iowa's Workshop. He lives in California and Iowa.
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There are many myths and legends in English history; one of the strangest is the legend of King Bladud, reputedly the founder of the city of Bath. Ancient manuscripts suggest that he ruled for around 20 years – but nobody is sure whether this was 500 years BC, or 300 years earlier than that. He is believed to have founded Bath after noticing that pigs he was herding were bathing in a black mud bath. Bladud himself began to do the same thing, and soon found that the leprosy he was suffering from was cured. Accordingly he founded the city, which to this day is famed for its hot-water baths. Amazingly, the water that flows into the city's bathhouses today fell as rain on nearby hills some 1,000 years or more before Bladud's existence, filtering through the rocks over four millenia. The legend of Bladud, however, remains just that – there is absolutely no historical evidence that he ever existed, despite his huge importance to the city of Bath.
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I recently purchased a Spyderco Captain. This is my third Spyderco. I purchased this knife from PDQ Blades. Great customer service and fast shipping.
This knife is no longer made by Spyderco, but you can still find it on ebay and other sites.
Here are the details:
- Blade length – 3 1/16"
- Overall length (open) – 7 3/16"
- Overall length (closed) – 4 1/8"
- Weight – 4 3/4 oz.
- Blade thickness – 1/8"
As with other reviews – here, here, here – the I found this knife to be unique and unusual.
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Help us raise funds for our Super Dental Mobile Unit. Through Our Super Dental Mobile, ELF will take preventative dental services out of the dental office and into the community to increase access to preventative care for all children, seniors, the disabled, etc., regardless of social or economic status.


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Listening in an Age of Musical PlentyPosted: July 5, 2016 Filed under: Book Review | Tags: ben ratliff, Book Review, genres, hanslick, listening, listening habits, musical cultures, pierre schaeffer, spotify 2 Comments
There are over 30 million tracks available to stream on Spotify. That's a lot of music to listen to, and most of it you've never heard before. How is one to make sense of all those sounds?
Ben Ratliff has some ideas. In his book, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty (Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), Ratliff sets out to equip us with conceptual tools to deal with the overwhelming abundance and – crucially – diversity of available music. I nod along when I read that we need "reasons for engaging as a listener that can encompass Beethoven and Bach as well as Beyoncé, Hank Williams, John Coltrane, Drake, Björk, Arvo Pärt, Umm Kulthum, and the Beatles." I'm delighted to meet new-to-me artists, and to find many of the tracks compiled on an epic, 15+ hour Spotify playlist.
Every Song Ever is "attempting to respond to a situation of total, overwhelming, glorious plenty" in listening choice. But despite there being much to like about this book, its parting lessons are troubling. This, it seems to me, is because Ratliff has taken aim at the wrong targets. Ratliff and I want similar things – richer experiences of more music – but he's fighting the wrong enemies, and hence leveraging the wrong tactics.
There are three main "bad guys" in Every Song Ever. First up: the algorithms used to generate listener profiles and give musical recommendations. Now, I do find the Spotify surveillance state a bit creepy. I feel its watchful presence as I make listening choices – a presence that comes not only from the company (to be manifested in its conversion of my listening history into new musical recommendations for me), but also from fellow listeners, who might "follow" me – and whom I'm encouraged to surveil in turn. What we are listening to at this moment, or else to what and when we last listened, is information that by default is out there to be seen.
But what does it mean to – as Ratliff calls on us to do – "listen better than we are being listen to?" The symmetry of the statement gives it a compelling poetry. But with our actual listening to music and the metaphorical "listening" of big data to our online behaviors, we are talking about two very different kinds of thing.
Or are we? The conflation of the two helps motivate Ratliff's project: it provides a need to differentiate "us" (sensitive, intelligent humans) from "them" (brute algorithms). And so – since algorithms have gotten good at recommending more of the same – we need playlists so diverse that only a human, not an algorithm, could make sense of them. While likely tenable at the time Ratliff was writing the book, advances in algorithmic recommendation have already dated this view. The problematic premise could have been avoided by recognizing algorithms as human artifacts rather than a static Other. Ratliff's book trains us to hear certain connecting threads through diverse playlists, and so too could an algorithm be trained. There may be good reasons to want to escape Spotify's "listening" to us, but listening more eclectically is not a way out.
Listening more eclectically can have rationales and virtues besides outsmarting algorithms, however. As Ratliff observes, listening today can be a regular "encounter with civilizations other than your own." Hence the need for new strategies of sense-making. Which brings us to Ratliff's second target: the old way of conceiving what it means to listen well. The old way – exemplified for Ratliff by Aaron Copland' What to Listen for in Music (1939) – was (Western classical) composer-centric: it privileged terms and aims valued by composers, and "preconditioned" listeners to hear through their lens. The result was an emphasis on melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color and compositional structure.
Ratliff instead proposes to refine our hearing through terms derived from listening experiences, and from everyday life rather than from a specifically musical domain. He elaborates a new set of features to listen for, features like: repetition, speed, slowness, density, discrepancy, stubbornness, sadness. He discusses each in connection with numerous musical examples, yielding vertiginous musical journeys like the one that begins with Outkast's "Rosa Parks," Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge," and Big Black's "Passing Complexion," and ends with Georg Friedrich Hass's limited approximations, Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" and Black Bananas's "Powder 8 Eeeeeeeeight" (and includes some Miles Davis, Olivier Messiaen, and Chaka Kahn in the middle – all the tracks united by rewarding our listening for "density").
Ratliff is correct that melody, harmony, etc. are the "fundamentals" traditionally taught as a prerequisite for intelligent musical listening, and I am excited to try alternatives. The problem comes in the execution. For a critic thinking way beyond the classical canon, Ratliff finds a surprising ally in Eduard Hanslick, the nineteenth-century Viennese critic who famously declared, "the content of music is tonally moving forms." Ratliff cites Hanslick for the idea that music can mimic the motion of feelings; but more significant is the shared advocacy of a perspective that brackets everything outside the sound as "extramusical" and hence nonessential to musical listening. (Ratliff also cites the views of tape music pioneer Pierre Schaeffer – again for a somewhat different reason, but this thinker too was an influential advocate for a mode of "reduced listening" [Schaeffer's term] that excludes from consciousness sounds' material and cultural origins).
And so Ratliff teaches us to hear his selected features, so rich in potential to connect music to its cultural contexts and social histories, primarily in abstract terms. His chapters are enlivened by artist-biographical and wider contextual details (the "repetition" chapter, for instance, relates changes in track length and musical structure to a history of recording formats; the "memory and historical truth" chapter connects certain production features to senses of place and time). Yet he never goes too long without reminding us that as listeners we needn't bother ourselves with all that ("Do you have to know the context of such a music to at least intuit the density of it? Do you have to know about persecution and history and old practices? I don't think so. I really don't think so").
Interrelated with this stance is Ratliff's third boogieman: genres. Ratliff sees genre as "a construct for the purpose of commerce, not pleasure, and ultimately for the purpose of listening to less." It's hard to see why a construct for increasing music sales would also have listening to less as a goal; Ratliff seems to mean listening to less diversity – he also criticizes genre as a "direct route to the bottomless comfort zone." When it is so easy to skip a track after just a few seconds (and the vast amount of music to sample might make such efficiency seem attractive), Ratliff's 'features to listen for' really can foster interest and curiosity where one might have otherwise quickly rejected a song "based on an external idea of genre or style."
The bigger problem here is the reduction of genre to a corporate invention. Genres are much more – and much messier – than that. Genres are forged when communities form around not only characteristic sounds and structures, but also such facets as performance conventions, the image of the musicians, and underlying values. All of these form a context within which to make informed judgments about whether a particular track is good or bad, conventional or innovative, in keeping with or in violation of a listening community's expectations. That's why Simon Frith talks about "genre worlds" in Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (1996), and Keith Negus about "genre cultures" in Music Genres and Corporate Cultures (1999). As Frith argues, "a new 'genre world'…is first constructed and then articulated through a complex interplay of musicians, listeners, and mediating ideologues, and this process is much more confused than the marketing process that follows, as the wider industry begins to make sense of the new sounds and markets" (88). Genres can be exploited and managed for commercial purposes (as they are by labels and stores), but their commercial usefulness proceeds from their wider relevance to the social processes of creating meaning.
Ratliff knows all this. He observes in his chapter on sadness that "there is a culture around any music, and how you understand that culture influences how you hear." Tellingly, he then proceeds to speak in terms of genre (without apology, for once), explaining the various shades of metal's myriad subgenres. But he concludes: "every band, song by song, album by album, has its agendas, its concepts, its intent. We are not worried about that. We are worried about the larger issue – the message in the music alone."
Ratliff's twenty ways of listening thus add up to a stridently individualistic, even solipsistic mode of musical engagement. The key virtues to hone are a thirst for the inexhaustible supply of music, and an ability to find similarities that defy external categories. All that matters really is how sounds intersect in you. It is the perfect strategy for a solitary listener swimming in an endless sea of recorded music, never needing to come up for air. It makes it ok that "you often don't know what you're hearing."
And so by offering "new ways to find points of connection and intersection with all that inventory," Ratliff teaches us how to find satisfaction with what Spotify and its kin have to offer. But another way to respond to our "situation of total, overwhelming, glorious plenty" in listening choice is to leverage the similarly overwhelming, glorious plenty in ways to learn more about what we are hearing. Reading Ratliff's book can be a step in such a direction. But here's an alternate conclusion: let finding points of connection with all that inventory be enriched by thinking about how all that inventory connects to everything else. Rather than be satisfied by ever expanding playlists, leverage this age of plenty to discover more about when and where a track came from, what it has meant to other people, how it has made a difference in the world. This strategy offers no illusion of mastery over those 30+ million tracks. But it is by listening through the lens of fuller contexts that we can start to hear musical, cultural and social values outside the realm of what we thought imaginable.


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This shoe weighs about 8 oz and has a 9mm heel drop. It has a big velcro strap across the midfoot therefore eliminating hte need for laces, which is a primary criteria for any pair of shoes that Abby buys. Cushioning is achieved through something called the GuideGlide, which is a layer of foam between the midsole and the upper. K-EVA is used as the material for the midsole to provide further cushioning and they exist in the form of angled "blades", which according to K-Swiss, are aligned to the angle of impact that results in a flexible ride. They also have drainage holes in the sole.
What does this all mean? Well, according to Abby. it means you get a soft and squishy feel underfoot that isn't quite so comfortable. She likes cushioining to be on the medium firm side, similar to the NB Minimus Life or Saucony Hattori. There is too much of a heel drop that she feels she's on her tippy toes the entire time she wears them.
The toe box is too narrow and her pinky toes are pushing their way out against the mesh thereby producing a pretty undesirable "Alien" effect. The velcro is good as it provides a quick way of securing the shoes BUT it's a big piece of velcro so inevitably, it snags against socks or other stuff in the gym bag so it ends up disfiguring polyester or fleecy items.
She does like the flexibility of the shoe but there is little else to this shoe outside of that. K-Swiss isn't getting any love here so most of the time, it sits among the pile of shoes that do not get used any more; among them are the Nike Structure Triax and the Asics Kayano.


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Our chapter seeks to maximize a member's potential to be a confident role model by embracing "who you are", which empowers their personal sense of purpose and allows them to be advocates for others.
Each year each Ticktocker class has a variety of different focuses. Beginning in the 7th grade the Ticktockers explore leadership styles and NCL, Inc. core values. In 8th grade they learn to communicate more effectively and lead their grade level meetings. As 9th graders, the girls further develop their listening skills, practice time management tools, and build self-confidence. The 10th graders learn to strengthen conflict resolution skills, prepare for future employment, and engage in public speaking. In 11th grade the Ticktockers establish future goals and identify college opportunities. Lastly, as seniors the Ticktockers mentor the younger grade levels and prepare for graduation.


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Our Busy Weekend & Festive Holiday Adventures
This weekend was super busy and festive! ::::IN SHORT::::A few of the many things we did included: a trip to Decorah for a holiday art show, a trip to McGregor for our first visit to the annual Christmas Tree Festival, shopping, tidying the house, fulfilling client photo orders, trivia night at Dotzy's, and church where we watched the first advent candle lit for the season! Then today (Monday) we woke up, did a few chores, headed to the library for Emmajean and Gima's first ever grandparents day, and then off to run "new house" errands in Dubuque. So it's been fairly busy around here!
Here are some of our festive holiday adventures/highlights from the weekend in photo form! --Thanks for bearing with the camera phone photos for these beauties. ;)
First up, Gima and I made a trip to Decorah to shop the Arthaus holiday show, while Zach stayed home with Emmajean. Of course I missed the little one but it was so nice to have a day out with just us adults. You forget how easy a simple trip to the store is without having a toddler in tow.
When we parked in Decorah we stepped out of the car to this heartwarming sight... "scarves in the park." Here you may take a scarf or hat or gloves if you need one, or leave one if you can. I absolutely love this idea! If this simple display of generosity and care doesn't boost your Christmas spirit, I don't know what will! Thank you, kind souls, for setting this up in Decorah for all to see and share.
Have you ever heard of Rosemåling? This beautiful form of folk art originated in Norway. Many of the folks in our area are from Norwegian ancestry and you'll find the Norwegian heritage celebrated in many of the towns (especially Decorah) with traditional Norwegian foods, rosemaling, nisse (like the NISSE pictured below) and in festivals and parades.
We wrapped up our Decorah trip with a stop to donate some of my things at Goodwill and then headed south, back to Saint Olaf.
When we made it home to Zach and Emmajean, we had a quick dinner and piled in the car to go see the ChristmasTree Festival that is held in McGregor annually on the first weekend in December.
For the festival of trees, 45 gorgeous trees were sponsored and decorated by local businesses and organizations. Then they were auctioned to raise money for three different local charities. If you went through the forest of Christmas trees yourself, you may have noticed The McGregor Marquette Center for the Arts/The Left Bank Shop and Gallery decorated a tree based on the painting "The Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh. It was breathtaking.
I also LOVED "The Greatest Show on Earth" tree by The Old Time Shop.....
There was a lot more to the festival than just the trees. There were different events and contests throughout the two day festival and we made it in time to see/bid on the trees and just in time for some lovely Christmas carolers!
You know Emmajean was in awe by all of the sights and sounds! Gima Dawn had a pretty fun time, too!
Sunday we woke up and headed to church bright and early -- ours starts at 8:45 and has a pretty good crowd! Luckily there are lots of kids so Emmajean isn't the only one you might hear from a few pews away. She is always in the mood to run around when we make our way to church. We remembered to bring our sugar and flour to drop off for the annual fundraiser and enjoyed seeing the tree being decorated for this special season.
Today we celebrated Gima with grandparents day at the library. It is so cute to watch our little one make friends and interact with other kids. They are all so sweet and precious. After the library we headed to Dubuque to run some errands and look at bathroom fixtures for Gima's new house. We picked up some extra non-perishable goods while we were out and headed back home to enjoy dinner with dad.
The past several days have been a whirlwind with lots of festive holiday adventures! Even small ways of giving help put you in the holiday spirit and make for an enchanted holiday weekend! I love this season!
I'm already looking forward to our next holiday adventure... A trip to see The Holiday Train where we will donate canned goods to the local food shelf. The Holiday Train is coming Thursday to McGregor- Marquette, IA!! We can't wait!
Hope you had a wonderful weekend!
PS I didn't get a chance to photograph the few items that I found out shopping, so I'll share those with you soon! Stay Tuned!


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The beginning of the year is the perfect time to start thinking about what kind of year you want to have. Your plans this year might be traveling, school, maybe getting married or more simply, getting out of debt.
Unfortunately, none of the plans or ideas you have for what kind of year it should be can be complete without the financial might to match it. So before you go thinking up any more plans, let's think about how you will see them through without going broke this year.
At the end of a year and beginning of a new one, many of us think out with the old, in with the new without any commensurate execution or implementation to see this become reality. This is the case with many plans and it's even worse when it comes to finances. There are a lot of grandiose financial plans made but by the time the year kicks in and life catches up, most of those plans fall away forgotten. Your main financial goal becomes staying afloat and just making ends meet.
If you would really like to take charge of your finances and make a change this year then you need to figure out the things that might leave you broke this year and take the right steps to change them.
Excessive Entertainment
A major problem for most is excessive indulgence in leisurely pleasures which tend to add up and end up costing a lot even if on the surface, each activity has a small charge. This year, pick up your bank statement or tally your expenses and try to figure out what you spend money on, what is really needed and what is an excess. Take conscious and necessary steps to cut out all the excesses.
Lack Of Savings And Emergency Fund
It is absolutely necessary to build and grow your savings, investment portfolio and an emergency fund. If a big expense or emergency comes up sometime in the year, you might find yourself broke even though it looked like you were doing well. A way to guard against this is ensuring you at least have savings and an emergency fund. You can channel some of the costs cut from your usual entertainment expense.
Living Above Your Means
A trap most fall for is trying to live a lifestyle above their means and income. While you might be partial to having the trendiest and luxury items, your finances might not be at the stage where this is feasible. It is important to assess your financial situation and live comfortably within, or even below your means. It might help you achieve your financial goals if you are proactively frugal.
Misplaced Priorities
Another thing that can put you in a financial mess is having misplaced priorities and spending on the wrong things. Make a list of everything you need and want, then do them in the order of importance. Otherwise, you might find yourself having spent on the unnecessary and still having to spend on the important.
Living On Credit
A killer habit is living on credit, giving you an illusion of what you can afford and doing well while you might be racking up debt and getting into financial trouble. Significantly reduce or completely cut out this habit and you will find yourself in a much better place this year.
If you cut out all of these, you are sure to avoid getting broke this year and it'll bring you closer to your financial goals.


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Renault KADJAR - Life Cycle Assessment
In the end of the LCA, the analysis of each of 5 environmental impacts shows us an improvement on KADJAR compared to SCENIC 3. It means KADJAR has a lower environmental footprint than SCENIC. If we look at particularly repartition of environmental impact of KADJAR along its life cycle, it shows us to in producing phase KADJAR has more acidification potential than other phases (use phase and end of life). And in using phase it has more abiotic depletion potential, global warmig potential, eutrophication potential and photochemical ozone creation potential than other phases. Also, before starting LCA, they determine 2 different recycling scenario. One includes 85 % of re-use and recycling and other includes 95 % of re-use,recycling and recovery. With the second scenario, they examine that they can decrease all of these potential effects.
If we go back at the comparison between SCENIC 3 and KADJAR, the difference between them is comprised for each environmental impact between 14 and 18%. The main difference for each impact concerns the production phase but the use phase has most environmental impact for each of the cars. For the use phase, the production of
fuel is the most significant for all the impact excepting for the global warming which is composed mainly with the driving phase.


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Here's the trailer for Will Smith's upcoming HANCOCK where he plays a cynical, lazy, uncaring, reluctant super "hero". Looks fun, however I liked it much better when I first saw it a decade ago with the short-lived DC comic MAJOR BUMMER.MAJOR BUMMER was fucking hilarious! Bascially too buffoon alien students (who are hilarious themselves) are doing their thesis on Earth Culture. Due to ineptitude on their part, their EEM (Extreme Enhancement Modules)is sent to the wrong person. Instead of the brilliant "Bruce Wayne" type recipient, its delivered to total slacker LOU MARTIN. Now Lou is beefed up like the Hulk with the strength to match. He has the powers but he's still the slacker and wants nothing more than to continue doing absolutely nothing and sit on his ass all day eating junk food and watching TV. Unfortunately for Lou, the EEM also gave him another odd power; he now ATTRACTS super-villains, aliens and any general villainess threat. So his life is now filled with "saving the day" so he can go back to his couch.
A neighborhood "League" of heroes is formed (think loser heroes from the world of The Tick) and they want to bring Lou into their fold. They are (taken from Wikipedia) "Val Andrist, the environmentalist daughter of an Ice Cream magnate who could fly, Francis Dutton, an aromatherapist hippie with a sonic scream, Lauren Isley, an elderly woman who could predict the future (but was so absent-minded she got confused with the past), a cat that became a giant when scared (it opened and ate her owner's EEM by mistake, later adopted by Lauren) and "Gecko", a nerdish man who could stick to walls and took the concept of being a superhero too seriously."
One of my favorite issues is #5 where a giant NAZI DINOSAUR from a parallel universe comes looking for mayhem. His name: "TYRANNOSAURUS REICH". Brilliant.
Unfortunately, the book was cancelled after only 15 issues due to low sales.... and a weak, unstable Comic Market at the time. With hilarious writing by JOHN ARCUDI and kickass art by DOUG MAHNKE, MAJOR BUMMER is one of my favorite comic books. Even T-Rex LOVES this book and will actually spread the word of Major Bummer to other non-comic folk like herself! So contact some comic stores and find those 15 issues! You'll love em!


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Sunday, May 1, 2016
~ Silent Sunday ~
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This would be a good one to print out and frame for a friend who needs a little lift--thank you for sharing, Pat. XO, ChristyReplyDelete
Good Sunday Morning!ReplyDelete
And thanks for the lovely inspiration.
Have a cozy day. : )
Amen sweet lady. Hi Pat, hope you are well and enjoying some nice weather. It is so good to sit outside in the fresh air. Blessings, xoxo, SusieReplyDelete
What an inspirational verse that I must remember, my friend! Thank you for sharing on this beautiful Sunday. xoReplyDelete
Such true, encouraging, and comforting words, sweet friend. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
Happy May Day! Hugs!
Such true words, my friend.ReplyDelete
This is such good news isn't it? No matter the circumstance or situation it is still true!ReplyDelete
It makes my Heart happy to hear from you! Thank you so much for taking the time to say hello. I want to respond to each comment, however, if you are a "no reply blogger" I can't. Would love to have an email address to contact you!


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The Sarah Long Bridge, which connects New Hampshire and Maine over the Piscataqua River, remains closed to vehicles after a tanker ship crashed into it on Monday.
According to WMUR in New Hampshire, the 473-foot ship was somehow disconnected from its home pier and floated down the river before colliding with the bridge. New Hampshire Department of Transportation commissioner Chris Clement told the news source that the structure suffered severe damage in the crash.
Coast guard officials have said that the ship in question, the Harbor Feature, was carrying tallow oil and yellow grease when it was loosed from its housing. The ship had docked at around noon and was awaiting refueling when, for unknown reasons, it began moving.
"Something caused the vessel to get off of the dock a little bit, and with the strong tidal current, pressure on the lines and the lines started to break," director of Ports and Harbor Geno Marconi told the news source.
While cars have been barred from crossing the bridge, other nautical vessels were cleared to pass under the the structure once tug boats had moved the Harbor Feature enough to unblock the passage.
Inspectors were sent in on Monday to make a full assessment of the damage to both the bridge and the vessel. According to the news source, the Harbor Feature's hull was breached above the water line. Fortunately, no water was taken on and no oil was spilled into the river.
This incident is evidence of the types of unexpected threats that exist for cargo companies that use water transportation. The extent of the damage to the ship and the structure will be costly to the parties at fault, which is why it's encouraged for all private and commercial operators to seek out marine insurance for all watercraft, from speedboats to oil tankers.


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Spanish 5 and 10 year bond yields reach critical levels as Euro slumps against pound and dollar
24/Ιούλ/2012 • Currency Updates•
Sterling climbed to a more than 3-1/2 year high against a tumbling euro on Monday as worries over Spain and Greece's debt problems drove investors to the relatively safe haven of the UK currency. Sterling lost 0.8 percent to hit a session low against the dollar in yesterday's trading, the lowest level it has been all week. This has been pulled down by weakness as Spain's borrowing costs jumped to new highs.
The euro slid to a two-year low against the dollar and a near 12-year low against the yen on Monday over concerns Spain will have to seek a full sovereign bailout.
Spanish bond yields soared to their highest levels since the euro was created, despite eurozone finance ministers approving on Friday terms for a loan of up to 100 billion euros for Madrid to recapitalise its banks. Analysts said this was the prime driver of the euro's fall. Murcia became the second Spanish region to request financial assistance from the government, after Valencia, with media reports suggesting six regions could seek aid. At the session lows of yesterday's trading it hit a record low versus the Australian dollar,and a 9-1/2 year low versus the Norwegian crown. Worries in Greece also seemed to darken, adding only to reasons why investors are selling off the euro. The combination of both nations have sparked this broad slide on the euro, which was already weakened by ECB rate cuts earlier this month. Data from the commodity Futures Trading Commission released on Friday showed currency speculators are increasing their bets in favour of the USD and the Euro debt crisis and is impact on global growth deepens.
The euro was further hit by Moody's, who have garnered fresh criticism for ratings agencies after putting the outlook of eurozone AAA-rated economies such as Germany, France, and The Netherlands, from stable to negative. This further signifies how the peripheral sovereign debt crisis is now taking a hold of the core. Today, German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble will meet Spanish counterpart Luis de Guindos in Berlin to discuss the future of Spain.
The dollar rose to a 2 year high against the euro on monday due to the previously mentioned problems in the eurozone encouraged a strong bout of safe haven buying. The dollar index, which measures the US currency against a basket of six other currencies rose to 83.907 from 83.457 on Friday. The dollar has continued to demonstrate itself as the better of many evils, as safe haven demand has continued to drive dollar strength.


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Left Ruby Crystal-Powered Laser Cannon (Sharp Ridges)
Frenzy and Laserbeak were one of two cassette two-packs release in Series 1 to accompany the iconic Soundwave in his quest to stomp the Autobots. Look for chrome on weapons and loose or broken limbs when picking these guys out. Note: Laserbeak looks much the same as the Buzzsaw that came with Soundwave but actually has slightly different chrome weapons and stickers.
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With the goal to make it as easy to create your own online shop as it currently is to create your own website or blog with WordPress, Mr Matt Mullenweg announced that his company, Automattic – the behemoth behind WordPress – bought today the uber-popular WP ecommerce platform WooCommerce, which currently ranks at number 7 in our ecommerce platforms comparison chart.
Mullenweg thinks that WooCommerce has a unique role in the larger ecommerce space, in part because of its open source nature and its broad community of users and developers, but also because it fills a hole for a solution that can be wholly controlled and run by the user.
Quite similar with Automattic, WooCommerce is also created and supported by 55 people in 16 countries. Added to Automattic's 325 people in 37 countries, that's a combined 370-person company across 42 countries — the sun never sets.
Long story short, WooCommerce helps WordPress publishers sell stuff, via a powerful software plugin that turns sites into online stores, and competes with Shopify and Bigcommerce. The company says its software powers more than 600,000 sites. Not bad eh? You may also want to see the full Shopify vs Wocommerce comparison.


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I have a Flickr account, but haven't used it in a couple-three years. Switched to Picasa, which has since been neatly folded into the Google Plus experience.
When I'm sharing something here from my g+ account, before I copy the URL of the image I resize my browser window so that the image appears no wider than this post column. Works for me.
The trouble with trying to share the code in this forum is that ADDITIONAL code is needed to keep it from "working". Since these attempts all too often end up displaying "broken images" instead of the code, I created this 600X600 image:
These instructions should work for images found out there on the web, like this one:
[Source: http://carnewscafe.com/2013/08/car-news-cafe-podcast-episode-11/ ]
I myself have accidentally shared images that were much too large. Right-clicking and opening the image in a new tab should show you its actual size.
Inserting ' width="600" ' will use the exact column width on this site, and resize the height automatically. The HTML required for this site is thus:
<img src="URL" width="600">
URL represents the image location, not the page it is on. Right-click to get that Copy option.
You can override that by adding width="600" But 640 only overlaps the edge slightly, and works fine.
Since the idea is to keep bumping this thread to effectively make it "sticky", might as well use it to practice.
That is better than a boring "bump".
OK. I'll try. Trying to post a picture from this post (http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/8590-Tesla-Supercharger-ne...) at teslamotorsclub.com.
Sweet! It worked. I just tried the same thing in another thread here and it didn't seem to work. I guess I'd better check the thread to be sure.
Educational bump with some Romeo and Juliet.
hmmm... useful bump achieved thanks to spam. I am conflicted...
Well, I have been meaning to test if animated gifs work. The Icky Thump poster reminded me of Mokiki. Perhaps because the couple looked poised to embark on a rousing session of the sloppy swish.
If the animated gif did not work, here is the still version:
Bmup! I like it. Makes you thimk.
Do the bump...
Designed not to bump...
Let the speculation begin...
Is that Model X with google gear on roof?
Lexus RF (450h ? they all look the same. . . )
It IS cool to see the Google self-driving car at Tesla's front door!
Since this thread is about pictures, that brings up a good tip.
You can right-click on any image and either "view image" or "open image", depending on your browser, to see the image full size. If your browser uses tabs, you can also drag the image to a new tab and it will open the image at the original size.
BTW, it is as @rmitchum stated, the Google self-driving car.
Duh, didn't try looking at the original. That's a lot bigger than posted and lexus logo on clearly visible.
Interesting indeed. I have heard rumors that Tesla is building self-driving car, maybe it's in reality Google-Telsa -co-operation. Maybe also SpaceX techs involved.
sticky bump;
Not to be confused with thumpy sticks:
Image not public, I guess.
↑↑ As this is a new page, those are thumping sticks, not sticky bumps.
couldn't resist...
Hah! I've seen house cats doing that but not a steer!
Now that I see that picture on a proper sized screen (aka not my iPhone) I see it's likely photoshopped. Oh well, had me going for a bit there!
I hear you Geek, I was trying to think of some but you'd pretty much covered them all.
Just the idea is hilarious...
- picture you return to you brand new BMW...
- proof that ICEs are more animal friendly
Saw a cat-pic, with kitten on a laptop kb, "If it's not for Sit, why is it made of Warm?"
Haha! Keyboard is in a drawer here but the cat does like to snuggle up next to the monitor!
What do you think of this wheel for my winter tires?
Thought about changing the wheels on this image manipulation, but my eyes got tired...
If and when there is a truck, it should definitely be an extended cab version, something along the lines of this concept I picked up from Teslarati:
Why do I bother with an extensive image manipulation, if someone's just gonna re-re-re-repost that crappy old Garrett Bradford hack job?
I even started with the same picture, on purpose...
That's it on the lower left:
Perhaps we should take this to a pickup truck thread, but I will insert a picture as to stay on topic.
I would like to see what filsmyth's Habanero would look like with bull bar and roll bar, similar to this F-150:
It could be a more streamline version of the bars, just something to protect the nose from rocks/mud, hang a winch, or have extra lights.
By the way, I meant to add that I like the Habanero design as it seems more "truck-like". I am just not sure why, but I like it.
Come on now, we both now that the extended cab GB image I posted underwent the same rendering process as your Habanero and XT/XTX, so let's not cast any aspersions and continue to play nice for the sake of constructive criticism if nothing else.
very useful:)
just a test...


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What Lies Ahead: Couples Drama, Body-Swapping and Taylor Swift in the next episodes!Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Last night's episode of Glee was a doozy, eh? But it was also the perfect setup for the last remaining episodes, which will surely be full of laughs, tears and, obviously, songs.
So now that we are in the home stretch, the stakes are higher and the plotlines are thicker. What can you expect from McKinley High's finest? We got scoop straight from Ryan Murphy and the cast:
Hope for Rachel's Future: "The next episodes after this really deal with the implications and complications," Murphy said during last night's Glee event at the Academy of Arts and Sciences. "The great thing about that character is that she just doesn't give up. That's a wonderful thing to write to, Rachel's tenacity. I think people love that about her, that she has a dream, even now. It's inspirational to a lot of kids to see a scene like that and not get what you want in the moment but to not give up. That's the idea of what the show is about."
Kurt and Blaine Shake-Up? Even though Chris Colfer and Darren Criss both told us that Blaine and Kurt are "pretty solid," that doesn't mean they aren't itching for some drama for the duo. "[I'd like] an occasional shake-up, but they're a pretty solid couple," Criss says. "I don't foresee anything crazy happening to them anytime soon."
His onscreen love echoes the want for conflict. "I love the drama," Colfer gushes to us. "Puppy dog love I can do without, let's get some drama in there!"
Beiste Gets "Mean": Last night's episode was an emotional one for Coach Beiste when it was revealed she was in an abusive relationship with her husband, Cooter. But it sounds like she will eventually start fighting back, at least through song. "I do not proclaim to be any kind of singer," Dot Marie Jones said. "[But] in episode 20 Coach Beiste will sing Tayor Swift's "Mean" with Puck."
Body-Swapping Fun: "Tina falls in a fountain in a mall and wakes up and everybody is someone else and it was the best thing ever," executive producer Ian Brennan previews. "Tina becomes Rachel, Kurt becomes Finn, Puck becomes Blaine, it's the greatest! Naya as Kevin is hilarious, and then Kevin as Naya is hilarious and Harry as Joe Hart…Harry in dreads is literally the funniest thing ever."
Why a fountain fall? Because of YouTube, obviously! "There's YouTube video—because we're always stealing from the internet, where there's a woman and she's just texting in the mall and then falls in the fountain." To her credit, there is no Jenna Ushkowitz stunt double! "I do my own stunts. I was probably in the fountain about ten times," she laughs.
Ready for the final episodes, Gleeks? Learn even more about the next episodes here!


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Building consensus on European consensus : judicial interpretation of human rights in Europe and beyond / edited by Panos Kapotas, Vassilis P. Tzevelekos. - Cambridge ... [et al.] : Cambridge University Press, 2019. - xiv, 487 p. – 24 cm. - ISBN : 9781108473323 (hbk.)
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