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National Geographic: No Scientific Basis for Race
THIS Month's issue of National Geographic is dedicated to debunking the myth of race.
These Twins, One Black and One White, Will Make You Rethink Race
Marcia and Millie Biggs say they've never been subjected to racism—just curiosity and surprise that twins could have such different skin colors.
"It's been used to define and separate people for millennia. But the concept of race is not grounded in genetics."
See National Geographics The Race Issue
Editor explains why an entire issue is devoted to race
Racialising society is not the antidote to racism
IN A FANCIFUL piece on the supposed 'new science of race' published by Business Day, political commentator David Mathews resorts to long discredited theories of scientific racism, in particular social darwinism, in order to rail against non-racialists, who he says are nothing more than delusional pundits of political correctness.
"The politically correct mantra that race is nothing more than a social construct, and that "there is only one race, the human race" says Mathews "is not only not true, but is deliberately misleading. And not only misleading, but also inimical to any understanding of, or solution to, the major social problem of racism." Admittedly, Mathews' scurrilous fudge piece ends by redefining racism, but in order to unpack a pet theory, Mathews must first resort to a strange racist solipsism, a semantic self-induced coma, if you will.
Hurtling off to the dark-side of Darwinism and the survival of the fittest, Mathews says: "There is, as we know, only one human species, but contrary to the politically correct obfuscation above, there are indeed also many human races, when "race" is understood to be what the Oxford dictionary defines as, and Charles Darwin understood to be, "one of the major divisions of mankind having distinct and readily visible physical characteristics, with each group adhering to its own culture, history, language, etcetera".
That a person such as Mathews so readily resorts to the company of Oxford dons, those like RW Johnson, whose self-referential piece equating 'black persons and baboons' in the London Review of Books, and a controversy predating the Penny Sparrow incident, is really indicative of the general problem with the Oxford dictionary project as a whole, and especially its hegemony over language and meaning. The dictionary itself, is less a provider of hard science than a grab-bag of popular linguistics, off-the-cuff definitions, and semantic quibbles, that have resulted in the inclusion of words such as "conniption" (a fit of rage or hysterics) and "fankle" (to tangle or entangle something).
That Mathews is equally guilty of farnarkling the issues at stake here, can be seen in a popular Newsweek article: "There is no such thing as race" by one Robert Sussman. "The notion of race may be real, but the science is not," says Sussman, "We are all the same, with no exceptions."
According to Sussman, who unlike Mathews is not a self-published Amazon author (I admit, to also being one), but rather, the author of a reputable imprint published by Harvard Press, 'The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea', "What many people do not realize is that … racial structure is not based on reality. Anthropologists have shown for many years now that there is no biological reality to human race. There are no major complex behaviors that directly correlate with what might be considered human "racial" characteristics.
Instead of grappling with the science, Mathews offers some ponderous merken of his own: "Why do the apostles of political correctness go out of their way deliberately and pseudo-scientifically to confuse the term "race" with the term "species" in the public mind? Because if people can be deluded into acknowledging that there are no such things as different races, then the concept of race cannot legitimately be introduced when the subject of racism is raised."
In a review of RACE?: Debunking a Scientific Myth by an anthropologist and a geneticist, Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, Jan Sapp a professor in biology at York University, Toronto says: "In biology, a grouping has biological meaning based on principles of common descent—the Darwinian idea that all members of the group share a common ancestry. On this basis, and on the ability to interbreed, all humans are grouped into one species as Homo sapiens, the only surviving member of the various species that the genus comprised. Species are arranged within the "tree of life," a hierarchical classification that situates each species in only one genus, that genus only in one family and so on."
"Nothing confuses that classification more than the exchange of genes between groups. In the bacterial world, for example, gene sharing can occur throughout the most evolutionarily divergent groups. The result is a reticulate evolution—a global net or web of related organisms, and no species. Among humans, reticulation occurs when there is interbreeding within the species—mating among individuals from different geographical populations. The result of such genetic mixing of previously isolated groups—due to migrations, invasions and colonization—is that no clear boundaries can be drawn around the variety of humans, no "races" of us."
In raising the debate about species, Mathews is certainly putting the linguistic cart before the proverbial horse. Just as the term Anti-Semitism, a polite academic phrase used to describe Judenhaas (Jew hatred), is all too often confused, (no it is most certainly not the opposite of Semitism), racism, the popular word for one of humanity's most persistent bugbears, does not require that a science of race exist.
"There is no inherent relationship between intelligence, law-abidingness, or economic practices and race, just as there is no relationship between nose size, height, blood group, or skin color and any set of complex human behaviors," says Sussman.
"However, over the past 500 years, we have been taught by an informal, mutually reinforcing consortium of intellectuals, politicians, statesmen, business and economic leaders and their books that human racial biology is real and that certain races are biologically better than others."
"These teachings have led to major injustices to Jews and non-Christians during the Spanish Inquisition; to blacks, Native Americans, and others during colonial times; to African Americans during slavery and reconstruction; to Jews and other Europeans during the reign of the Nazis in Germany; and to groups from Latin America and the Middle East, among others, during modern political times."
As a recent scientific paper published by the US National Institute of Health cautions:"Races may exist in humans in a cultural sense… Adaptive traits, such as skin color, have frequently been used to define races in humans, but such adaptive traits reflect the underlying environmental factor to which they are adaptive and not overall genetic differentiation, and different adaptive traits define discordant groups. There are no objective criteria for choosing one adaptive trait over another to define race. As a consequence, adaptive traits do not define races in humans."
If race is merely an "informal taxonomy" and not science at all, then race is a fiction, and a bad fiction at that. Best not to racialise society by invoking discredited ideas of Social Darwinism and thus the theories of scientific racism, consistent with earlier epochs of colonialism and genocide, which carried ideas of inferiority and superiority, survival of the fittest and natural selection. Such ideas may once have been prevalent within the field of biology and evolution, but when it comes to politics and human society, they have proven to be nothing more than horrendous justifications for the system known as apartheid.
Race is a bad fiction
THOUGHT I should post some resources for readers after yet another overseas race scandal of Dolezal proportions. (See my earlier post on this here).
First, there is some popular literature on the subject:
Newsweek's There is no such thing as race
The Guardian's Why racism is not backed up by science
Check out some books
Everyone is African – How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (Paperback) by Daniel J Fairbanks
A Dreadful Deceit – The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America (Paperback) by Jacqueline Jones
The Myth of Race – The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea (Hardcover) by Robert Wald Sussman
The Myth of Race (Paperback) by Jefferson M. Fish
All books available via Loot or Amazon.
Or go ahead and read the scientific literature on the subject.
Dolezal: If you identify with the past, present and future of all black people, you black.
APARTHEID never worked, thousands of South Africans were reclassified according to the various race categories created under apartheid. It was enough to have just "one drop of niggers blood" reminds Louis Farrakhan to be considered black.
It was enough to associate with black persons via fraternisation and (Lord forbid) fornication for the authorities to take steps. Families were split down the middle. Much the same way the Rachel Dolezal story is playing itself out. Except here, her Christian Conservative family are apparently denouncing their daughter for being a white turncoat, a traitor to the supposed white race.
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude." – Steven Biko
If Dolezal was passing herself off as blonde, nobody would question her hair colour. If she was a transexual, or became a man ditto, but in an eerie flashback to the scientific racism of apartheid and the race segregation of the American Deep South, the world is now being entertained by the question behind her motives for wanting to be black, or the crass possibility of lucrative contracts.
The Huffington Post's Zeba Blay has gone so far as attacking Dolezal's perm for being "culturally appropriative", and suggests comparisons with transgendered persons are "detrimental to trans and racial progress". In the process reducing blackness (and race oppression) to some weird physiognomy club, that excludes albinos, Asians and anyone who doesn't pass the proverbial "pencil test". The tragic case of Happy Sindane "the boy who tried for white" springs to mind.
The last time I read such an obscene resort to cultural norms, community standards and simple appearances, was during apartheid, when South African ministers routinely trotted out arguments about Christian "good neighbourliness" "own affairs" and "separate but equal."
None of the accusations conveyed by the press are supported by any science or rational argument, for a good reason, there is no science behind race. Nations are not races. The legal fiction of affirmative action is just that, a fiction. And so what if Rachel Dolezol ended up employed by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) for a decade, doing a sterling job fighting to the rights of minorities as a black changeling? Let's read that again: National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, for a minute there, I thought it said: African Americans, as in Africa, the continent, not Coloured as in Mixed Race Identity Syndrome.
The NAACP was founded in 1909, is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization, it advocates for rights for ethnic minorities but also fights for social justice for all Americans. The term "Coloured" is anachronistic and harks back to the days of racial segregation, when being a bastard could result in sterilisation.
Scientific racism along with eugenics and the apartheid heresy is a discredited field of research. There are no objective criteria which hold true for all human beings and proposals for such criteria tend to reinforce the problems with apartheid, which was a race-based system which never worked.(1)
Thousands of South Africans were imprisoned for resisting institutional racism, a system in which millions of people were classified by the state, and often forceably reclassified, or forced by the Immorality Act and Group Areas Act to apply for reclassification merely so that lovers and lifetime acquaintances were not separated by the law. One can only wonder at how the lesson of apartheid appears to have been lost on a Post-Mandela generation brought up on ready-to-eat TV meals.
What is irksome is the bald assertion that Dolezal has lied or committed a fraud. In order to lie, Rachel Dolezol would have to assert something which is not true. Her assertions however, are entirely valid and true, unlike the many Ad Hominem objections being raised in the media. (According to Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker, if she was lying, she was lying about a lie, the lie of race.)
We are surely in dangerous terrain if we deny an individual's right to an identity, to a self-identity, and instead reach out for the jackbooted arsenal of the apartheid-era Population Registration Act (which was abolished in South Africa in 1994), or like so many twitter users, argue for the creation of a new race classification board under some modern schema.
Individual identity or individuation is not reducible to skin colour or even genes. People are exposed to life experiences, and socialisation, (nurture as well as nature). In an interview with Dolezal's parent's, her family appear to have Native American heritage and thus could also be "trying for white". The case also appears to be an abject lesson in what can go right or wrong in interracial adoption, when your "white child" adopts the identity of your "black child". So much for appropriating oppression, this looks more like being faced with oppression head on.
Dolezal's complicated background in which she appears to have either rejected, or has been rejected by her family, makes it even more difficult. According to a recent interview on network television, she "identified as a black person age 5, when she drew a self-portrait with a brown crayon".
Dolazal believes herself to be black, for all we know, she was brought up in a ghetto, and has had a relationship with a black man. It is trite that like her parents, Dolezal "tried for white" in her teens and failed
The laws of gravity apply to all people equally regardless of shape, colour, gender, or sexual orientation. There is no black science or white science, and there should be no legal consequences attached to terms such as black or white.
Any definitions of race are therefore bound to be fictions, and bad fictions at that. Both assertions of whiteness and blackness in regard to Rachel Dolezal are therefore coincidental and also true. The solution is intersectionality, the delineation of race as an oppression, in and of itself, not further racism.
Sadly, as an activist and writer, I face similar accusations by an apartheid-era media company. (This blog has carried my expose of the company and its active involvement in the maintenance of apartheid and also a media cartel covering up the truth)
The ludicrous and incoherent 2010 labour court decision written up by a corrupt labour broker moonlighting as an acting judge of the Labour Court of SA, who I shall call Judge Cheat, states that I am an "absurdity" for referring to myself as a "coloured person".
I further stand accused, variously in papers and court testimony of a) being a Hindu, b) passing myself off as a Jew, or not being a Jew c) not being an Observant Jew d) de facto fraternising with black people at a mixed race nightclub in breach of my supposed religion.
The courtroom inquiry held in Cape Town was anything but a model of fairness and impartiality (The acting justice faces criminal charges lodged with the NPA of corruption and forging of documents) involved obscene questions about my hair and body features, and exactly why did I say: Jou Ma se Robbie Jansen?
I have a history of involvement in the anti-apartheid struggle. I have been sectioned under apartheid laws and subject to prohibitions on intergroup fraternisation. I even have a Jewish Bobba from Maitland, who grew up with both a white card and the card enumerated by persons such as C Vogel and A Abdhuramen, who illustrate the problems of Coloured identity and the race criteria used by legal authorities. Viva District Six.
For some, I have been assimilated into the "coloured" community of Cape Town. For others, I have "multi-race identity syndrome" or worse "protest psychosis" and the black disease outlined by Johnathan M Metzl, who explains how schizophrenia became a black disease associated with runaway slaves and belligerence against colonial masters.
My petition before the Constitutional Court of SA (lodged with the JSC, not the JSE, but who can tell the difference these days?) for instance states amongst other things, that I am considered a Khoisan and a Griqua by the Griqua Nation. So far as the Khoisan are concerned, if you identify with the Earth, you are a Khoisan. Ditto for the Bantu. A Bantu by all accounts from South Africa is nothing less than a human being and arguing otherwise is likely to result in an assagai being thrown in your general direction.
So far as I am concerned, I am nether black nor white, but rather a member of the species homo sapiens sapiens. This is neither a liberal position, nor a solely humanist assertion, but rather, a plain and simple scientific fact.
So like the controversy over Dolezal, the case against me, (not in the Middle Ages, but in the modern era of democracy, the 21st Century), is rather what is absurd here, that I have somehow "passed myself off as a "Coloured Person" during the struggle to advance the cause of the Coloured, and on the basis of this deception, I have gained employment at a "Coloured" newspaper, published by South Press and then also Grassroots." And now that bastion of race profiling and compartmentalised racism, the People's Post. The whole thing stinks.
If people think there is anything to be gained by being a black man or woman, think again. Being niggarised like Jani Allen, or reduced to second class citizenship and labour servitude by white supremacists, isn't what one could call good clean fun, and all this merely in order to be treated as a bone fide member of some or other dinkum race group?
Get out of here. Nobody in their right mind would think like this, unless of course, you just swallowed a load of bull put out by the Ku Klux Klan and their local offshoots, the AWB.
1 Humans have much genetic diversity, but the vast majority of this diversity reflects individual uniqueness and not race.


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Tips On How To Eat Right For Your Blood Type
Nowadays, numerous people are being involved with the problem of losing weight, they are doing their best in order to suit the various ways and methods of diet regimes.
However, if you already have a regular diet plan that can actually benefit different kinds of effects within different kinds of people, it can be difficult to discover the exact way in losing weight in a natural way with an immediate result.
Nevertheless, the blood type of human contains a huge factor when it comes to the manifestation of both their personality and health, in a more proper way of citing. There is an association between the human blood type, as well as the personal behavior or attitude and health.
Due to this reason, a doctor which is known as Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo came up with an amazing idea where he has invented a Blood Type Diet Guide where he based on the personality of a person, as well as its blood type.
He has said, "When we are going to talk about diet, we are not actually talking necessarily about a weight loss plan, that is a side benefit of following this kind of plan. We are actually conversing about diet in the more traditional sense, meaning to say, a way to eat."
Blood Type Diet Guide:
Type A
People who have this type of blood are those people who are in favor of a structured, balanced and peaceful life that was surrounded by a positive, as well as a supportive community. The Doctor has stated that these kinds of people would suffer from too much weight loss if they are going to replace both of meat and vegetables.
Moreover, he has also cited that people with Type A blood should eat fresh, organic and pure types of diets. Most of the people with this kind of blood have usually sensitive immune system and they can potentially discharge the immune system which will eventually lead to the development of threatening diseases.
Type B
Dr. D'Adamo has said that people who have this type of blood would carry the genetic potential for high malleability, as well as the ability to grow well in changeable conditions.
This is the guiding light for this blood type of carrier of B that they are confident in gaining weight because of the consumption of foods that affects their metabolism. For instance, corn, sesame seeds, lentils, chicken, peanuts, wheat, tomatoes, and even buckwheat.
Type AB
Commonly, people with this blood contain an optimum balance in both of life challenge and decision making. They are extremely lovable and they always have the fortune when it comes to love.
The Doctor believes that these people have low stomach acid, but they are fond of eating meat. Nevertheless, their stomach fails to metabolize the meat, and it can also store fats. If the people consume small amount of meat, they will solve these digestive problems.
Type O
Dr. D'Adamo has a contrast that the levels of stomach acid in an individual belongs to this kind of blood are extremely high because they can actually effortlessly digest various meals that are high in fat and protein.
They can consume meat all at once, but they should stay away from simple carbohydrates, particularly grains.
Share this article to both of your friends and family so that you may help them as well.
source : organichealthyfood.org

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Self-confidence can be elusive, especially when you are trying to break into investing, one of the toughest careers to get into. Give yourself credit, though. Just making that career decision alone speaks volumes about you. Remember the moment that you put your foot down on having a hedge fund career? That was already a major vote of confidence in yourself. Yet, why do so many of us doubt ourselves as we dive deeper into the hedge fund job search? Why do we have constant insecurities about whether we have the right background for hedge funds?
This self-doubt is pervasive. It affects everybody who has ever thought about making a transition to asset management. I mean everybody, from the ex-Goldman Harvard Business School grads to the liberal arts college seniors.
The self-doubt comes in an alphabet soup of "if only" thoughts:
- "If only I had gone to ABC ivy league for undergrad…"
- "If only XYZ business school had accepted me…"
- "If only I had done investment banking at a bulge-bracket firm like GS/JPM/MS…"
- "If only McKinsey/Bain/BCG had taken me on as a consultant…"
- "If only I had jumped to private equity at Blackstone/KKR/Carlyle…"
- "If only I had worked in the NY/SF/LA office…"
- "If only I had the CFA designation…"
- "If only I had majored in finance or econ…"
- "If only I had a better personal network…"
The perfect background for hedge funds
There is no perfect background for getting into hedge funds.
No one has the perfect background because there is no "perfect background" for investing.
For every candidate with the Goldman/Blackstone/HBS background, I can give you 10 successful investors whose resumes aren't padded with prestigious brands and accolades.
So where did the intense focus on your credentials for investing come from?
It comes from hedge fund's two neighbors – investment banking, and private equity.
In investment banking and private equity, credentials do matter. Doing company research and financial modeling well matter. But beyond the technical skills, these two industries revolve around completing deal transactions.
To succeed in private equity and investment banking, you need to source potential deals, coordinate financing, and advise company management.
Having a strong personal network is tremendously important to doing these 3 things well. What helps you to develop that network over time? Having a strong set of credentials plays a big part.
In essence, this is why investment banking and private equity care about your credentials. Breaking into investment banking and private equity is hard without a set of blue-chip brand names on your resume.
However, people also tend to project the qualifications needed for investment banking and private equity onto hedge funds.
Having a great network helps in doing company research. But at the end of the day, the hedge fund industry is a knowledge-based profession. Your research skills and investment acumen drives your performance.
The truth is, in the hedge fund interview, very little time is spent on going through your credentials and accolades.
Hedge fund interviewers want to focus on just 2 things: your passion for investing and your investing acumen.
Are you passionate about investing?
How passionate are you about investing? Do you stay up late to read industry and company primers? Do you think about your investment positions in the shower? Do you constantly debate with friends about the markets and businesses?
Having passion means that you care. It means that you'd care so much about doing your job well that investing is on your mind 24/7. It means that you'll make money for your clients to the best of your abilities.
How do you demonstrate your passion for investing to interviewers?
Tell them about the things you've done to improve your investment skills. Name all the companies you own in your personal trading account. Walk them through the books you've read, and make a case for which one is your favorite. Tell them about the courses you've taken on corporate finance, accounting, valuation, and what you enjoyed in those classes.
Do you have investment acumen?
How do you demonstrate your investment acumen?
Develop an investment pitch. Send in an investment pitch along with your resume. Bring the pitch to your interviews.
If you've put in the work to develop a good investment pitch, your passion and technical skills will come through to your interviewers. The pitch would show to your interviewers how much you care.
Having the investment pitch would also give you a tangible investment opportunity to talk about. You can walk through your investment thesis and valuation for the business.
Go through your investment thesis and valuation of the business in detail. Talk about the industry trends that affects the company as well as the business' key drivers. How did you forecast the company's revenues, margins, and cash flows? What are the risks to the growth of these businesses?
Better yet, address all of your interviewers' concerns about this company. Anticipate their questions and prepare your answers ahead of time. Convince your interviewer that you've done the work and that this investment makes sense.
Did you speak with the company's investor relations or sell-side analysts? What due diligence questions did you ask them? Or what would you ask them if you get the chance to meet them?
If you have answers to all the questions the interviewer can throw at you about your pitch, it shows that you've thought deeply about your investment thesis.
The meritocracy of investing
Don't doubt your background and abilities. Investing is the most meritocratic skill there is. It doesn't recognize credentials, accolades, brands, gender, race, or age. If you have what it takes, you'll succeed.
And what does it take? Passion and investment acumen. Demonstrate these two and sooner or later, someone will take a chance on you.
Good luck! Keep me updated on your journey.


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- The efficient among us don't walk over a toy and think: "I'll put that away later". They pick it up, put it in the basket and move on.
- Trust your convictions even when people don't think it's a good idea. If you truly believe it's a good idea, you will make it work. Nothing is impossible with passion and a lot of hard work.
- A little jar of homemade pesto stored in fridge, is the most beautiful gift to your future self, for days filled with unpacking weekend bags and sorting laundry.
- Sometimes leisure comes in the way of passion. STAY FOCUSED. Boil up a large kettle, say goodbye to netflix and GET ON WORKING through the dark, quiet hours of the night. Be grateful for the quiet; come morning, you will regret if you didn't make good use of it.
- When you have more than one kid, the older one has to step up. So while you feed the little one or change his diaper, the older one must find his own shoes and pour his own juice. For every moment you are busy elsewhere, he discovers his own abilities and there is nothing but good in it. No guilt. He knows exactly what it means to wait, to share and to go without. He also know the goodness of sloppy baby kisses, the joy of having a partner for life, and the contentment that comes from guiding, nurturing and loving a younger sibling.
- Not everyone has your best interest at hearts. You should be your best and most harsh judge. Cut people some slack, but never go easy on yourself.
- Most life problems will seem less grim after a cup of strong, comforting tea and a pack of m&ms.
There …. I shared my weekly wisdom with you guys, haha. I just came back from a weekend trip to Madina last night (Alhamdulillah), and I have just about the whole house to sort and purge and pack (be assured that these terms will be making lots of appearances on the blog in the coming days), but all i wanna do is indulge in nesting and write on the blog. The timing couldn't be perfect.
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It's just about back-to-school time again. If you have young children, you might be hustling them to the store for backpacks and binders. But if you fast-forward a few years, you can envision driving your kids a little farther — to their college dorms. And when that day comes, you'll want to be financially prepared. So you'll want to avoid making costly mistakes when preparing for, and paying, those big bills. Here are some of the most common of these errors:
1. Not saving enough. Only half of all families with children younger than 18 save any money for college, according to a recent study by Sallie Mae, the country's largest originator of federally insured student loans. You might find it easier to save for college if you automatically move a set amount each month from your checking or savings account to a college savings vehicle.
And to make matters worse, only half of parents who are saving for college have set a goal amount. If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. Since the average savings totals are only around $15,000 and most public college costs are $20,000 for EACH year, many parents simply are not planning or are drastically under-estimating how much they need to save for college.
2. Not considering vehicles with growth potential. The same Sallie Mae study found more parents use a general savings account than any other method of saving for college. But since most savings accounts these days pay only a minimal rate of return, you will have trouble getting the growth potential you need to achieve your college savings goals.
Consider working toward your college savings goals by investing in a vehicle specifically designed for college, such as a 529 plan or a Coverdell plan. There are differences between these plans, such as contribution limits and tax treatments, but both allow you to invest for growth potential. As with any investment account, there are risks involved, including market risk.
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Philosophical Foundation
This Secret TV Article is still work in progress since I like to present a sort of Manifest. This core article is supposed to outline my personal framework of reality. Since I believe that we are living inside a sophisticated VR game with distinct rules I feel I need to elaborate on such outlandish claims. Anyhow, here you got a kind of beta-version of my Secret TV Manifest. Enjoy anyhow.


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At age 32, I'm celebrating the goodness of this life, it's time to reflect on the past. There are life lessons that could only be learned at this age and probably many of you are journeying with me on the same boat.
I want to share with you life lessons that you might want to experience in a different or same way:
1. Health. Take care of your health. At young age, I was diagnosed with Arithmia or irregular beating of the heart, I don't know how it happened maybe because of my lifestyle. I drink lots of coffee, started drinking at young age and worked very hard at age 17. Now, I minimized those unhealthy stuff and decided to take the challenge of losing weight.
2.Working Hard. I don't recommend to work hard instead work smart. A good example of this is answering emails at a specified time of the day, 8:30 - 9:00 AM and 4:00 - 4:30 PM, it is not good to check emails every 15 minutes, it will not add to your productivity. Focus on the most important tasks of the day.
3. Don't go fast and slow down. Sometimes we are impatience in our career, business, love life, and the feeling of you need to go fast to achieve your goals. I believe that there is a time for everything and good things happen to those who waited patiently.
4. Give and give back. It's better to give than to receive. This is true.When you start giving, you will feel more blessed. I learned this from the start, this might be one reason I never had a shortage in my life. As a gift, I'm giving the lessons in PAM academy free: http://www.pamacademy.net/. Just sign up and send your username at firstname.lastname@example.com .
5. Money is only an instrument. Money can be earn anytime but you should learn how to handle and grow it. I'm thankful that my passive income machines and other investments are working and it's my 2nd year earning from it. This will be my future pension fund http://pamrichfriends.com/70k-passive-income-report-april-2016/ . Grow your money mindset.
6. Continuous learning. Learning should not stop after graduation. You should continuously learn and accumulate knowledge and turn it into power. Build your talents and skills, it will be your key to success in building a career and business. Start reading books.
7. Stay humble. "Mabait ka, kaya mo Yan", I always received this remarks but I keep my feet on the ground. Respect should be given to everyone whatever status you achieved in life.
8. Friendship. Be a good friend. You always need somebody for a help and no man is an island but you can stay away from your negative Friends.Thanks to those who keep believing in me and especially to my household in CFC. Mabuhay po kayo.
9. Family relationship. This is one of my priority and to spend quality time with them. I'm very thankful to have a loving wife and a wonderful baby. Family first, no questions.
10. God. Without the Divine Intervention of God Almighty, I will not be here writing the 10 important life lessons. Anything you do, acknowledge him.
Wishing good health, good life and peace in this world.
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The Classical (Trivium-based) Approach
When we say "classical education," we mean an educational approach rooted in the medieval concept of the Trivium (Latin for "three ways"). Each element of the Trivium–grammar, logic, and rhetoric–is viewed not just as a subject but as a tool for learning. A student who has mastered the tools will be able to think and learn for themselves and thus be able to master any subject they approach.
Dorothy Sayers, a Christian writer and thinker who was a contemporary of C.S. Lewis, explained the Trivium in her essay, The Lost Tools of Learning. She writes that children grow naturally through three stages: the "poll-parrot," "pert" and "poetic." Each stage corresponds to the three elements of the Trivium, Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric so children benefit from the best tools at just the right time.
The elementary years (Sayers's "poll-parrot" stage) correspond to the Grammar stage of the Trivium. In the Grammar stage, students take in the core knowledge of each subject by memorizing the basic facts and fundamental rules related to that subject. In the middle school years (the "pert" stage), children grow into the Logic or Dialectic stage. At this age they are beginning to think abstractly and are able to relate and understand all the facts they have previously accumulated. They are therefore taught sound reasoning and critical thinking skills. The third stage of the Trivium is the Rhetoric stage (the "poetic" stage), which corresponds to high school. This is the age when young people become more concerned about their appearance and how they express themselves. So, correspondingly, students in this stage are taught how to express themselves and communicate their ideas in an effective and eloquent manner, learning to be articulate, persuasive and creative in their written and oral communication.


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Starting Off 2017 … with a Whimper
In the next — official — episode of the podcast we'll play the New Year's resolution game. We'll take a look back and what went well in 2016 with the podcast, where we can improve and talk about some changes coming with the new season. That's not this episode, though; the first episode of 2017 is officially late.
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Sounds good man, I'm cannot wait. Bloodborne's a masterpiece btw and I hope we get to talk about the new Star Wars movie. Hear ya in a couple days


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Decorating my home has always been a very...slow... process. Most home decor is not like fashion where you can find things on super sale and change things up with your mood or the weather. Furniture and home items are often a big investment, and you need to think about their longevity. However, like fashion, you can refresh your home style with a few new accessories. This weekend I gave my apartment a little new year refresh thanks to Marshalls. It's amazing how adding a few small home accessories can completely change or upgrade any room. Check out all the new home pieces I #FabFound at Marshalls.
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Marshalls could not be more perfect. I placed it on one of our nightstands and filled it with all of our ultrasound pictures. I love keeping those images protected and close by.
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Speaking of pillows, I also added two new ones to my couch. Previously, I only had knit black pillows and furry white ones (from Homegoods). I added another white pillow with texture, and then broke up the solid colors with a leopard pattern pillow.
I also added this magnifying glass, another piece picked out for me by Marshalls, to our coffee table. They really know how much I love black and white.
Nursey Additions:
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At Marshalls furniture and home items don't have to be a big investment. Their prices always make it easy to say 'yes'.
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"God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war … We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
First, it ("Shock and Awe") was displayed in Baghdad, and in response it was seen in Madrid and Istanbul; now it has come to London but on a far smaller scale. It seems we live in a world where the Anglo-Saxon civilisation, assumes the right to unleash their military forces on anyone, but expects everyone to howl terrorism, give minutes of silence, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder, when they face retaliation.
As expected everyone is howling and describing it as barbaric, an act of terrorism, attack on humanity etc. because the bombs were detonated in London not in Baghdad or Kabul! Otherwise I would have expected the same response for the 54 people killed in the wedding party in Iraq and many similar incidences throughout Iraq and Afghanistan by trigger happy US pilots and soldiers.
The US could not identify a wedding party of men, women and children despite being equipped with most sophisticated equipment and training. So, they are either trained monkeys short of brain cells or they were high on alcohol and drugs prior to engaging in combat missions, or they are terrorists that deliberately killed civilians. The latter is more likely, given that they have been following a policy of shoot first and ask questions later, so they bombed the civilians from a high altitude, then apologised for their 'mistake'. That gets packaged and marketed by the media terrorists as collateral damage, a small price for the war on terror.
Blair and Bush referred to their noble work of discussing how to relieve poverty in the G8 summit (as if the West had no role in causing the poverty in the first place) contrasting that with the acts of the terrorists in London. Hence, Bush and Blair, both absolutely blameless, poor innocent victims! The G8 summit is actually facilitating the new scramble for Africa, lets face it, Capitalism and altruism does not mix together, they are opposites.
They (Bush and Blair) portray the attacks in London without any cause what so ever. Examining the 'cause' is an uncomfortable topic; it can be self-incriminating. A way to deflect discussing the 'cause' is to say that examining the cause gives some sort of justification to the attackers. Well, do we not need to understand and debate their grievances even if we do not agree with their action?
What is even more perplexing, is that the 'man' who is leading the war on terror from the rear or from his bunkers, George Bush, says: "The war on terror goes on" as if this incident is justification for the war waged in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, the problem is, the incident happened well after the war was waged. So, this is a bit like prodding someone with a knife and then when that person retaliates in self-defence that becomes the reason for the initial prodding.
If anything, the incident in London is the product of the initial aggressions in Iraq and Afghanistan; and rationally it cannot be its cause. Quite often terrorism and state terrorism depict the same cause and effect relationship; state terrorism is usually the cause, terrorism is the effect. Recognising this would go a long way towards brining peace and resolving the conflict.
An example of this cause and effect is the attack in Madrid. Spain was only attacked (terrorism as effect) when it attacked (state terrorism as cause) Iraq without any provocation in the first place. Iraqis did not harm the Spanish, the English or the Americans. When Spain withdrew, no further attack to date has taken place and it is unlikely to happen in the future unless there is a genuine reason once again.
Who did it?
Now the basic question, who did it and why? Of course once you know who then why becomes self-evident.
It could have been the IRA but this does not carry the hallmark the IRA and they have been dormant for a while. The splinter group, the real IRA, do not have the logistical ability to carry out such attacks and since the Omagh bombing have self censured and been muted.
Theoretically, some may point to extreme French nationalists as the likely suspect for loosing the Olympic bid and seeing the Brits recently gloating by celebrating the battle of Trafalgar, not to mention reviving the old wounds of history from Agincourt to Waterloo. But this is unlikely. As Europe has learnt from the two world wars, the price of war can be heavy. Agreed, many might even find this point amusing.
Many of the sceptics, war opponents and many Muslims may point to the CIA and/or Mossad as the likely parties, for carrying out such an operation for various reasons; to discredit their domestic opponents; justify prolonging their aggression upon the Muslims; building a climate to attack Iran, hence we may expect other attacks of the sorts.
The most likely suspects, as already pointed out by the media, are the Muslims –" Why because they have reasons to retaliate. The reason is often not elaborated upon, usually hidden behind the labels of 'terrorism' and 'extremism'. Anyway, the Al-Qaeda network comes to everyone's lips. But nobody is prepared to utter that it could have been carried out by the relatives of those who perished in Fallujah, Ramadi, Anbar, etc. Let us not forget Hilla, where the British forces deliberately dropped cluster bombs on a civilian town maiming many, where there were no Iraqi or resistance forces present even before the war.
Why this was was done (motive)?
Blair referred to the 'terrorists' wanting to destroy their way of life. If that is the case, then why have they chosen to attack after all this time? What is the motivation for wanting to destroy your way of life? How does it benefit them? Is Blair suggesting that they are mindless serial killers like those walking the streets of America, just looking for victims! Hence, Blair is a Bliar, by his own words!
If it was an act of retaliation from the Muslims, then the reasons are obvious. It is partly vengeance and partly to make the citizens of the West feel the reality of what their governments are doing in Iraq daily, so that they might get up and do something about it. Like the Spaniards did to Aznar. Whatever the case, it has nothing to do with British way of life; all the Iraqis are interested in is freedom from occupation and justice for the crimes committed against them. Even Al-Qaeda did not demand from the US and UK to dismantle their way of life only that they want to see their lands free of occupation and oppression.
Condemn or Condone?
To exclusively condemn this atrocity in London in isolation to everything else, is to condone the real and bigger criminals (Bush and Blair) sitting inside the G8 summit! For diplomatic protocol and niceties all the G8 members stood shoulder to shoulder. The Muslims moderates as usual cannot do anything else but to follow their masters or do what is fashionable and acceptable. However, where was that voice speaking out for the unprovoked aggression in Iraq, that has taken the lives of 100,000 plus to date, which, if balance were sought, would take around 2000 more incidents of the kind that took place in London?
If killing innocent people is wrong and heinous for the "terrorists" then surely it is also wrong for these governments to do exactly that, in Iraq and Afghanistan. Which is worse killing innocent civilians without provocation or killing them in retaliation? Surely the former (aggression) is worse than the latter (revenge).
So condemn not the bombers first (terrorism as effect), but Blair who is the cause (state terrorism as cause). I work and live in London, if I fell victim to the acts of retaliation, I would put all the blame squarely on those who have caused this retaliation. After the initial rage diminishes hopefully everyone would see this point of view. Prior to the war like Madrid, London was never a target, nor was it ever targeted by the Muslims assuming they were behind it in the first place. You can be sure that when the British troops are eventually withdrawn the probabilities of another attack will decline but unlike Madrid it will not disappear as Britain has played a greater role in the war. This is why both Muslims and Non Muslims in the UK ought to reflect about the incident in its totality. The remedy should be sought by:
(a). Calling for the removal of the British troops from Iraq.
(b). Impeaching Blair and preferably handing him over to the International Criminal Court to be tried for his war crimes.
(c). Denounce the US and its Ziono-fascist and the neo-cons, who are the real architects behind the war.
(d). Encourage US to remove its troops or isolate US as a rogue state. If necessary, Britain along with Europe should be looking to build stronger ties with Europe, china, Russia and the Islamic world, looking for its long term future interests instead of short term benefits from the US.
(e). Assess war compensation to Iraq, repaying this debt by helping the Iraqis to rebuild their society.
(f). Denouncing state terrorism as well as terrorism of the individuals and groups. Recognise that state terrorism is usually the father of terrorism!


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Thursday, 30 December 2010
The Goddess
When I was talking to this lady (Hannah La Rouge), she was telling me that she loved modelling as she felt like a goddess standing up on the stage, with all eyes on her. She was so passionate and enthusiastic, she almost made me want to go up there with her!
This, despite my always having suffered badly from stage fright, even to the stage of having real trouble recording a message for my phone. So, if you get an automated reply, yes, it probably is me. Sorry.
Although, oddly enough, I do like talking with people one-to-one, so if you see me out and about, please say hi. And ignore me going bright pink . . .
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Labels: Dr Sketchy, oil painting, portrait
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Art Exposure
More paintings at Art Exposure for their christmas show - a total of 6! Wooo - think I'm taking the place over!
The opening was fun, got to talk to my cousin (whom I first bumped into after years of not seeing at the Western's orthopaedics outpatients, of all places, a few weeks ago. She was busy selling christmas decorations that she'd made - so she has enougfht money raised to go climb some big mountain (she did tell me, but I'm not really strong on that kinda stuff). So, go Vanessa!
The painting is of another Jane, Jane Faye, who runs http://www.gaia-noir.co.uk/ and is therefore yet another crafty lady.
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Labels: Art Exposure Gallery, oil painting, portrait
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Been a while
Been very busy with non-painting stuff unfortunately recently, but have still been thinking about life drawing - and have been experimenting with painting during classes instead. This is my second attempt.
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Labels: life drawing, oil painting, portrait, wasps hanson st
Thursday, 14 October 2010
This is from an evening class I've been doing at Maryhill Art School with Cynthia Bowles. It is a new technique for me, based on laying a layer of oil and turps first, then a layer of transparent oil paint (in this case, burnt sienna) and then rubbing out the lights with a cloth. The next week, we went back and put in the darks.
Can't quite see how to develop this further into full colour, but think I will be experimenting with the technique with other colours over the next wee while.
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Monday, 27 September 2010
Wasps Open Weekend
Wasp Studios Open Weekend this weekend coming, so I'll be around Hanson Street Studios most of the time, although I am looking forward to having a wee peek at the Briggait Studios. This drawing, and maybe one of Vendetta Vain, should be on display - it's always useful to see my work hanging with other folks, spurs me on - although last year was the first time I was brave enough to hang something!
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Labels: life drawing, wasps hanson st
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Six paintings on show at the moment, including this one at Art Exposure Gallery, where I had a rather nice night despite being stood up! The Skull is there too (below a Howson!) and there are three at ARTeries Gallery on Douglas Street.
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Labels: Art Exposure Gallery, Bob, oil painting, portrait
Saturday, 21 August 2010
Having been concentrating on faces for a while, I thought it was time to go back to still life, and was searching for something white to paint, when I came across this skull lying around . . . This really lets me explore warm-cool differences, and may become a little series - the next one while be overall much lighter - can't wait to begin!
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Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Stretching Canvas
This is the first painting that I have made the support entirely myself (well, I did buy the stretcher bars . . .) - made the frame, stretched the canvas, gesso (x3)!
Don't think I'll ever go back - was kinda fun, doing all that work (in a kind of mindless way) and the painting just seemed to flow onto the canvas so much easier - there are still niggles that I need to fix, but I could see where I was going right from the start.
(the model is www.dominicjohnson.co.uk/Dominic_Johnson/Introduction.html , who certainly seems to be an curious chap, with plenty to think about).
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Labels: Art Exposure Gallery, male, portrait
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
The opening at Art Exposure was interesting, got to really look at other artists work, including the lovely paintings of Fiona Wilson.
Currently have 3 works at ESSA auction - closing at lunchtme today - so went into Edinburgh on saturday - the Lyon and Turnbull showroom was in a bit of the town I'd never been to before, but it was too wet to really explore . . .
This painting was done as a study in using ultramarine and burnt sienna, along with titanium and flake white. First time I've really understood the advantages of layering.
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Thursday, 3 June 2010
First Show
Taking part in my first commercial show on Friday, at Art Exposure Gallery. Very nervous. This picture was framed by a new framer to me (at East Cambell St), and he did a marvellous job - will try and get a picture of it up in the gallery.
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Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Hmm, not sure if this is my thing, but thought it might be interesting.
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For those who felt that Under the Dome, CBS's adaptation of the Stephen King novel about a town suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world, was already moving at a glacial pace: surprise! CBS plans to drag things out even more by giving the show another season, even though it was originally advertised as a 13-episode miniseries.
The series has been a ratings hit for the network in the dead zone that is summer TV. Therefore, despite other broadcast networks like NBC saying at the Television Critics Tour (currently going on in Los Angeles) that they plan to invest in more miniseries and limited series (which should help save and better define broadcast fare), CBS clearly has no real reason to change, quality be damned. Hit the jump for more.
Under the Dome has not only pulled in a huge numbers in the ratings share in its Monday night slot (averaging 13.84 million viewers a week), but it has also put up decent numbers from DVR and Amazon Prime playbacks as well. According to EW, CBS Chairman Les Moonves told reporters at TCA: "It's the way television should be. It's the way television can be."
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Stephen King's continued involvement with the series could be a good sign, as he is said to be writing the first episode of the second season. Although, that seems to be the same kind of vague hope that has sedated the endangered denizens of Chester's Mill … which so far, has not done them any good.
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Bravo's Flipping Out returns Wednesday, and The Hollywood Reporter has the first look at a clip from the season seven premiere.
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The ACA JLT Cup Team of the Year has been announced this morning, after the players voted on who they considered to be the most valuable of the Australia's one-day domestic competition.
The team was voted on by the wider playing group last week, and represents who the players feel had the biggest impact on the three-week tournament (not inclusive of finals).
George Bailey was named Captain of the team, humbling the Tasmanian skipper.
"I know everyone says it, but it does mean a lot when you're recognised by your peers.
"I think your opposition and teammates have the greatest understanding of how hard you work and the effort that goes into any success you may have.
"It was a disappointing tournament for Tasmania as a team, in which it would have been nice to win a couple more games, but it was nice to have a reasonable tournament individually," Bailey said.
Bailey highlighted that Tasmania, as well as many of the teams, played a significant number of young players this year, who made their mark on the tournament.
"We certainly did play some younger players through the competition, but looking around the teams, I think a huge number of players who haven't played many games suddenly had a big impact," Bailey said.
"It is exciting for them. It's one thing to be training, playing grade cricket and playing second eleven cricket; but that step up to first-class level either gives you great confidence or real clarity on what you need to work at."
Bailey was adamant that domestic matches had to remain on first-class venues, in order for the tournament to continue to improve, after many JLT Cup games were played on club grounds.
"Players appreciate playing on first-class venues, wherever possible, as that's where the international games are played, which is what players are aiming for;" Bailey said.
"And invariably, those venues have the better wickets, which gives you a greater understanding of your skills.
"A couple of the grounds we play on are nice boutique grounds, but are very small and don't really replicate the conditions or skills that are required at an international level.
"Of course, there was that one game that was abandoned, which is disappointing to see that happen in one of our premier domestic games.
"I think it is definitely an area to focus on going forward."
ACA JLT Cup Team of the Year
Nic Maddinson - 398 runs @ 66.33
Daniel Hughes - 379 runs @ 63.17
Usman Khawaja - 380 runs @ 63.33
Shaun Marsh - 380 runs @ 95
George Bailey (c) - 373 runs @ 62.17
Peter Handscomb - 171 runs @ 57.33, 7 catches, 2 stumpings
Michael Neser - 153 runs @ 51, 8 wickets @ 35.5
Sean Abbott - 12 wickets @ 24.75
Jhye Richardson 11 wickets @ 28.09
Joe Mennie - 12 wickets @ 19
Fawad Ahmed - 11 wickets @ 26.54
12th Michael Klinger - 336 runs @ 67.2
In the ACA JLT Team of the Year, every state had at least one representative, with the CA XI being the exception, who registered just one win during the tournament.
New South Wales pair Nic Maddinson and Daniel Hughes were selected at the top of the order, while teammate Sean Abbott filled one of the bowling positions.
Experienced pair Usman Khawaja and Shaun Marsh were named at three and four, while Peter Handscomb was selected as wicketkeeper, after 171 runs and nine dismissals across just four games.
Queensland all-rounder Michael Neser was selected at number seven after an impressive three weeks, which yielded eight wickets and 153 runs, including a blistering 122 against Western Australia.
Jhye Richardson and Joe Mennie rounded out the fast bowling spots, before Victorian leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed was picked at number eleven after a successful tournament.
Western Australian Michael Klinger was picked as the twelfth man after another outstanding tournament at the top of the order for Western Australia.


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The problem with most defaulters is that they suffer from "ostrich syndrome". In other words they bury their heads in the sand and pretend there is no problem out there. E mails, phone calls and SMS's from the banks are ignored. Final demands and statements are thrown away unopened. People think: "If they can't contact me, maybe they will just forget about me". This is completely the wrong way to handle the situation.
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The bank will obtain a court order to repossess your car and the person collecting the car from you will have that document empowering him to take the car away. The car will be moved to a place of safety – all the banks have huge sheds where these cars are kept. The car has to stand there for a specified period of time, during which you are given a final opportunity to make up the shortfall on all the arrear payments plus all administrative and legal costs. This period is usually 30 days.
After that, if the car is till not settled, the car is put up on public auction. Now this is the really bad part and I strongly recommend that anyone who is currently in this situation should be present on the day his car is auctioned to confirm the highest offer. OK, so let's say trade book value on your car is R 100,000 and the highest offer is R 60,000, you are still liable for the shortfall, plus all costs. In other words R 40,000 plus costs.
It would be safe to assume that you are not in a position to cough up R 40,000 plus in cash, so then the bank may attach any or all of your other assets, sufficient to cover the shortfall. This could include you furniture, appliances, other paid up vehicles, caravans, boats, trailers and even your home if the amount is large enough to warrant such action.
Obviously this is a worst case scenario, but it can and does happen frequently all over South Africa. So take a tip, and understand that the very best solution is to put your pride in your pocket and go and visit the bank manager. Be frank and honest and try to be a part of a solution rather than a problem.
Recessions happen in all countries. In South Africa, they seem to happen every 9 to 10 years and their duration is usually 18 months to 24 months depending on what the circumstances are locally and world wide. This recession will also pass, just as all those before it have done.
Sound financial planning does not require you to have a degree or to be super smart. It only takes a little common sense. During the tough times, cut back on some of the luxury items, have shorter holidays, don't go overseas, maintain your car rather than replace it, and talk to those you owe money to – in 99% of the cases they will understand and appreciate your honesty and make a plan to assist you.
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There are Ego keywords and Money keywords…can you tell the difference?
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