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Education of a Wandering Man272
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From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier dramasuch as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desertwith true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.
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About the Author
Our foremost storyteller of the American West, Louis L'Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.
Date of Birth:March 22, 1908
Date of Death:June 10, 1988
Place of Birth:Jamestown, North Dakota
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IT WAS MAY 14. In a few days my class back in Jamestown, North Dakota would be graduating from high school, and I was in Singapore.
The date is one of the few I know from those knockabout years, simply because I had the good sense to write it on the inside cover of a book I bought at the shop of Muhammed Dulfakir on the corner of High Street. The book was Kipling's Departmental Ditties, and my reason for buying it was that I had forgotten a line or two from a poem I liked to recite, "The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House."
During those years I often recited poetry in bunkhouses in mining or lumber camps, and in ship's fo'c'sles. It was usually the verse of Robert W. Service or Rudyard Kipling, but there was a lot of poetry floating around written for, and often by, the kind of men we were, occasionally printed but usually passed from memory to memory.
On that day several of my shipmates had gathered around a table or two in the Maypole Bar, a place no doubt long forgotten. Such men as "Hans, the blue-eyed Dane" of Kipling's poem would have known it, and probably British soldiers stationed in town. It was a nondescript bar, convenient to the waterfront.
This is not the story of how I came to be in Singapore. That will be told elsewhere. This is a story of an adventure in education, pursued not under the best of conditions. The idea of education has been tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. I read on buses, trains, and planes. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long?
Byron's Don Juan I read on an Arab dhow sailing north from Aden up the Red Sea to Port Tewfik on the Suez Canal. Boswell's Life of Samuel Jackson I read while broke and on the beach in San Pedro. In Singapore, I came upon a copy of The Annals and Antiquities of Rajahstan by James Tod. It was in the library of a sort of YMCA for seamen, the name of which I've forgotten but which any British sailor of the time would remember, for the British had established them in many ports, for sailors ashore.
At that time I could no more than skim the James Tod book, reading only a few chapters before I was off to sea again. But a few years ago I located a secondhand copy in a bookstore in Greenwich Village and it now rests on a shelf in my own library, a source for several planned books.
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
My life may not be great to others, but to me it has been one of steady progression, never dull, often exciting, often hungry, tired, and lonely, but always learning. Somewhere back down the years I decided, or my nature decided for me, that I would be a teller of stories.
Decisions had to be made and there was nobody but me to make them. My course altered a number of times but never deviated from the destination I had decided upon. Whether this was altogether a matter of choice I do not know. Perhaps my early reading and the storytelling at home had preconditioned me for the role I adopted.
Somewhere along the line I had fallen in love with learning, and it became a lifelong romance. Early on I discovered it was fun to follow along the byways of history to find those treasures that await any searcher. It may be that all later decisions followed naturally from that first one.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
And there have been many such.
Right here I wish to say that what follows is not an autobiography, although no doubt these materials are a piece of the final picture, which I hope to undertake later.
As can be guessed from the title, this book is about education, but not education in the accepted sense. No man or woman has a greater appreciation for schools than I, although few have spent less time in them. No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.
If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer breadth of view, easy of understanding, tolerance for others, and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction.
Education should provide the tools for a widening and deepening of life, for increased appreciation of all one sees or experiences. It should equip a person to live life well, to understand what is happening about him, for to live life well one must live with awareness.
No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. If it does nothing else, it should provide students with the tools for learning, acquaint them with methods of study and research, methods of pursuing an idea. We can only hope they come upon an idea they wish to pursue.
In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.
Education depends on the quality of the teacher, not the site or beauty of the buildings—nor, I might add, does it depend on the winning record of the football team, and I like football.
It is constantly reiterated that education begins in the home, as indeed it does, but what is often forgotten is that morality begins in the home also.
It also begins in the car seat, where many a budding criminal career is born when the child not only watches his parent repeatedly break traffic laws, but hears him lie about it when caught. The example is not, supposedly, expected to influence the child.
My own education, which is the one I know most about, has been haphazard, a hit-and-miss affair that was and continues to be thoroughly delightful.
I came into the world with two priceless advantages: good health and a love of learning. When I left school at the age of fifteen I was halfway through the tenth grade. I left for two reasons, economic necessity being the first of them. More important was that school was interfering with my education.
Due to circumstances, it was essential that I go to work and try to support myself. This was no sacrifice, for it had been uppermost in my mind for some time. Several factors contributed to my discontent.
My first job was as messenger boy for the Western Union, a good job for a boy in my hometown. I got the job when I was twelve, and it was in the telegraph office that I first began to type. I cannot say that I learned to type–I began with two fingers and work with them still. It has been called the hunt-and-peck system, but over the years my fingers have become so used to the typewriter that I hunt very little and peck a lot.
Also, I was growing rapidly. At twelve I was the size of most other boys; at thirteen and a half I was my present height, which is six feet and one inch. The very effort of growing left me often tired. Through the first six grades my own grades were good, always at the top or close to the top. As a matter of fact, I was usually second, third, or fourth in the class, except in math. In my sixth grade, where we had a teacher who loved math, I several times made an A, or what corresponded to it.
Moving into the seventh grade, I discovered I had several compulsory subjects in which I considered myself qualified, at least to the extent provided by the school text. It was essential that I take a semester of ancient history, and I had already done much reading in the area.
I wished to skip the subject and take modern history, of which I knew very little. I also wished to skip general science and take chemistry. At the time I had helped build several crystal radio sets and had done some electroplating. At the library I had read from books on botany and geology.
Actually, the book on general science I read in the city library was much better, as well as much more interesting, than the school text, but the rules made no provisions for exceptions. I did not look forward to spending time studying subjects already covered.
Ours was a family in which everybody was constantly reading, and where literature, politics, history, and the events of the prize ring were discussed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We grew up with the names of H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, John L. Sullivan, Bob Fitzsimmons, and Jack Dempsey as familiar to us as those of our own family, right along with Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Sitting Bull, and Crazy House.
The Apache wars of which I was to write later occurred far away to the southwest, but the Sioux were close by. They had killed and scalped my own great-grandfather while he was with the Sibley command, pursuing the Santee Sioux out across Dakota in the aftermath of the bloody Little Crow massacre of 1862.
My education in domestic and foreign affairs began at home. My sister Edna was attending Jamestown College, and my two older brothers and a second sister were in school, constantly discussing and arguing about schoolwork, reciting poetry, and talking of books they were reading.
How many books we had in our home I do not remember, and doubt if anyone ever counted. We had collections of Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Emerson, as well as the Stoddard lectures on travel. All of us had library cards, and they were always in use. Reading was as natural to us as breathing.
When I moved on from children's books and fairy tales, one of the first books I read was Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
I had begun reading earlier than most, because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.
What books I read immediately after that, or their progression, I do not remember, but certainly they were for a time the simplest of children's books. I do know that when I was in the fifth grade my father told me he would give me a three-volume History of the World if I would read it. The books had come as a premium with a subscription to Collier's magazine, if I recall correctly. For the next few months, when my father came home I would sit on his knee and tell him what I had read during the day.
The books had a buff binding, a good many pictures, and fairly large print, so they must have been very general indeed.
Other books remembered from those years were Black Beauty, a similar book about a dog called Beautiful Joe (who was not beautiful at all), Little Lord Fauntleroy, Pilgrim's Progress (which I found very dull), John Halifax, Gentleman, and two old favorites, Cudjo's Cave and The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.
My older brothers had left behind a dozen Horatio Alger novels, which I read, but I remember only three titles: Brave and Bold, Do and Dare, and Jed, the Poorhouse Boy.
About the same time, I read at least a dozen novels by G. A. Henty, a British author. The only two recalled offhand were The Lion of the North, about Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and With Clive in India. Aside from teaching much more about aspects of history studied in school, they provided at least a passing familiarity with events our schools did not touch upon. These deepened my interest in history and brought not questions but rather a desire to know more about what actually happened and why.
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. Due to such books, and later reading, I found that no matter what country I visited or whom I met, I knew something of the history or romance of the country, or about a person's homeland.
My father, who was a veterinarian working mostly with horses and cattle, was a great storyteller. In small towns in those days nearly every public official had some other business, and my father was at various times a deputy sheriff, a policeman, a Juvenile Commissioner, and for many years was alderman of the First Ward, the largest in the city. At one time he even ran for mayor but was defeated by a good friend.
He told stories of his boyhood in the lumber woods, of a pet bear and deer he owned, of a Huron Indian boy with whom he played. My mother, too, told stories, usually of her relatives in Minnesota or of her father, a veteran of the Civil and Indian Wars who lived with us when I was very small.
Supposedly I was too young to remember him well, but often when we were alone he drew diagrams on a slate and told me how the great battles of history were fought, and about some of his own wars. I should not have remembered, but years later I could draw a diagram of how the Battle of Cannae was won, and I did not study that until later.


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If you're involved in a new nonprofit, professional association, church, or an older organization that hasn't made the leap to accepting donations online, this post is for you!
We have a series of posts that will help you make a decision on the kind of online donation platform that fits your needs. This first post focuses on the class of options out there for orgs who don't need a lot of bells and whistles when it comes to major fundraising and donor management. This is the "I need a Donate button on my website" kind of organization. Your needs are different from a larger org who may be running multiple campaigns, integrating email marketing, launching peer-to-peer fundraising, etc. We'll get to those in the next post.
You don't have a "donate" button on your website, you can't take CC payments at all, your running a tight budget ... here are a few options to get you started:
PayPal Pro lets you accept credit card payments & PayPal through your website and comes with several nice features. As a well-known brand, your members and donors may already have a PayPal account, which makes it easier to give. While nonprofits can take advantage of PayPal Pro, they position their services more toward small business and e-commerce.
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Best For: Orgs whose donors want to primarily give through PayPal and/or need e-commerce and shopping cart capabilities; technical expertise on staff for integrating.
We found in our research that some folks were really excited about using Google Wallet for nonprofits. That may have been so once upon a time, but as of this publication in 2017 Google Wallet is not available for nonprofits. If you're a sole proprietor, you can use Wallet to accept commercial payments, like rent or payment for services. Corporations and nonprofits cannot receive money through Wallet.
Stripe offers 100+ features right out of the box and a complete commerce toolkit built for developers. They boast they have the "best software platform for running an internet business." So, what can a nonprofit do with Stripe? You can build your own payment checkout flow for web and mobile, but it's not an all-in-one platform or giving portal. There's some setup and work involved creating embeddable forms that you can hook into your website. Checkout flows are available, for a small additional yearly fee.
Features of note:
Pricing & Fees*:
*Stripe offers lower processing fees to qualifying nonprofits, but you have to contact them directly for details.
Strengths: No monthly fee or startup fee; simple, transparent pricing; great for orgs with developers who want to customize and integrate tools with the API/plugins.
Weakness: Not built for nonprofits and churches who focus on giving/donating; need some knowledge on integrating Stripe with current systems and processes.
Best for: Business, e-commerce, or larger nonprofits who want to build custom donation experiences.
This online giving platform is built especially for nonprofits. The basic features make it easy for your members and donors to give more regularly. The Giving Spring was built specifically for nonprofits and churches, with the philosophy that organizations shouldn't have to sacrifice a large portion of their gifts to expensive online services. They offer the lowest fees and rates, with one low monthly pricing plan. You get the features you need, with the ability to make feature requests.
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Strengths: The Giving Spring boasts the lowest fees, plus excellent customer service as a main selling point. You won't get overwhelmed with choices or pay for unnecessary bells and whistles that you'll never use. It was specifically created for nonprofits and churches who want to get started accepting donations online, and they're ready to hold your hand and do all the technical work to get you set up.
Weaknesses: If you're looking for more donor & event management features, then you may need to go to the next level of services out there.
Best for: Nonprofits looking for a hands-on customer service experience to get them started with online donations.
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One key stat that always impresses us every year is the percentage of new hires that voluntarily leave a position within 12 months of hire (excluding pay). In 2015 it was 62% according to our respondents. To us, that's mind boggling. What's more is we hear quite frequently that some organizations don't even know exactly what that percentage is.
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Some sketches from my Tobago trip. The first ones are a couple of hillside houses visible from my porch.
On Friday morning we waited at the Castara bus stop for an hour. I sketched this view down Castara's main street while I waited.
This was my first attempt at sketching Cemetery Hill.
This was a close-up of the tin shack from the drawing two posts ago.
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Some of the best work I've done isn't hanging on a wall; it's sitting in a box in my closet that's full of my old sketch books. I fill up one or two books each year. Some of the sketches end up as a basis of a more formal work, but most don't. They're more important to me as a pictorial diary and also as on-going training; learning to really see and to understand shape, light and color.
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Excitement builds ahead of Norfolk's blues extravaganza
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Pubs, clubs and other venues around Dereham are about to come alive with toe-tapping tunes for what is thought to be one of the biggest festivals of its kind in the UK.
Thousands of music lovers are expected to flock to the mid Norfolk town for the Dereham Blues Festival between the opening concert on Wednesday, July 10 and the final gigs on Sunday, July 14.
Harry Collins, the festival's chairman, said the event was one of a kind.
Mr Collins said: "There are a lot of other blues festivals that take place in big fields or big arenas, but this type of festival is certainly unique and you probably won't find another one like it anywhere else in the country.
"There's free entry and there's all different types of blues going on.
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He said: "He is a young blues musician, which is what we need. He is certainly something different and that's refreshing."
Loomis, who is from the US and mixes blues with soul and rock, said: "I learned long ago that whenever music is coming from you, from deep inside your soul and from the right place, people will feel that on a deeper level and might not even know what's going on inside of themselves."
Other venues hosting gigs include the Mid Norfolk Railway, Lou's Juke Joint, and all town centre pubs including the Bull, the Cherry Tree, and the George.
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Mr Collins added: "During the festival the town is just buzzing. Particularly on the Saturday, you can just feel the energy."
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23/01/2020. Bynamic Review and Daily News from the HYIP Industry
Beware! Bynamic has stopped paying! Do not invest there!
Hi everyone! After what's been a relatively good opening to the year so far, today I want to start the blog update with a program called Bynamic. This is mostly what I would call a perpetual or open-ended program, in other words once you join and make a deposit there is no fixed term. Bynamic will continue to pay you either for how ever long the program manages to survive, or for how ever long you decide to remain a member. Now whether that's going to be a day, a week, a month, or a year I really can't say. But my own first impression is that Bynamic follows a general trend that seems popular with a lot of investors these days, and is run by an admin who knows what he's doing in the industry. There's no iron-clad guarantee this will translate into success but it's a pretty good start. Anyway, let's see what it's all about and whether you like it enough to join or not.
The most important aspect here is of course the investment plans, the basic premise for any online HYIP to be in business. One thing that hasn't changed with Bynamic is the investment term. It's still very much up to the individual investor how they choose to handle this, with Bynamic being a so-called open-ended perpetual style program. There's no expiry date on investments, and likewise there's no compulsion for members to commit to any particular length of time beyond an initial 24 hour lock-in. After that it's entirely up to you how you treat Bynamic, be it short, medium, long term, or just stay with the program for how ever long it runs. It doesn't take long at all to see an initial profit from your investment, albeit a small one, though again it's up to yourself how to proceed as I shall explain with the numbers below. Bynamic operates one single open-ended term plan which pays a fixed rate 0.15% hourly, in turn yielding 3.6% in daily interest. The principal stays locked in the system for the first 24 hours and after that can be withdrawn at any time for a 5% release fee.
How would that work out in practical financial terms then? Let's take a simple example of say a $100 deposit and find out. For that money Bynamic are going to pay you back $0.15 every hour, 24/7 for the foreseeable future. Over the course of a full calendar day that adds up to $3.60. Given that were you to try and leave Bynamic at this point – which would be allowed of course – the $5 exit fee will wipe out your first days profit and still cost you money, so you shouldn't really be thinking about such things just yet. Not until you are well into day two with Bynamic at any rate. Regardless of when you do decide to leave, all you are going to get back for your $100 deposit is $95 in total, so try and factor that into any further calculations.
Payment options for Bynamic are pretty good, with all the important ones covered. PerfectMoney and Payeer are there for you if you prefer third party handlers using dollarss, while the more direct route using cryptocurrencies allows for BitCoin, LiteCoin, Ethereum, BitcoinCash, Dash and DogeCoin. The minimum amount required to invest starts from as low as $10 or 0.001 BTC respectively (refer to the website for the figures on other currencies). Note that the withdrawals can be processed instantly but are really only guaranteed manually within 24 hours. Up to this point I think all my own withdrawal requests were done instantly but please take this into consideration. There are several good reasons why instant payouts need to get switched off from time to time (such as account replenishment for one thing) so there's no reason to panic if yours might potentially go to pending status. In that event a manual payment should follow very soon. Bynamic has a minimum withdrawal policy in place so make sure you've accumulated at least $1 or 0.0005 BTC on your balance, otherwise you won't be able to request your withdrawal.
As for the total earnings you can make from your investment, well that's an all but impossible question to answer. In other words, you'll get 3.6% interest every 24 hours until you decide for your own reasons you don't want to play anymore. Individual strategies are as plentiful of individual investors, you might have a fixed financial target in mind, perhaps a fixed date in the calendar, or in my case as a monitor decide to stay with Bynamic for as long as they stay online. I'm not here to sway readers one way or another, but those who joined the program at the beginning with this last plan in mind are the ones who've scooped the maximum possible amount of cash and passive profit from their deposits. But that's entirely up to you. Also, and I think this is a very important matter to keep in mind, when the time comes that you feel you might like to get your principal back, there's no rules or laws saying that you necessarily have to withdraw everything in full. You're perfectly free to do so if you want, but you may wish to consider a partial withdrawal, leaving the rest in your Bynamic account to continue earning for you. If you're already in profit it's just one strategy to think about.
While still on the subject of maximising your earnings from Bynamic, I should point out that there's more than one way to earn, and it needn't cost you a cent to do so either. The the admin has recently decided to get more competitive by introducing a so-called "bounty program". This is aimed at members looking to earn free Ethereum funds by simply doing some promotional tasks on various social network channels like Twitter, Telegram or Youtube. Info can be found on a weekly basis on the Bynamic website, so watch out for more if interested.
If all of that's clear, how about some information on to get moving. Making deposits and withdrawals is largely self explanatory as you will see if you create an account. What might be less obvious to some readers however is how to leave. So let's talk for a moment about how to release your deposit in Bynamic. From inside your members account area click the button marked "Deposit List". This will show as you can probably guess the deposit you are holding in that particular currency. Underneath that you will then see another button marked "Release Deposit". This won't be activated until the 24 hour lock-in period has expired, but on clicking this you will then be shown the maximum amount, i.e. your principal. You then enter the amount you wish to withdraw, keeping in mind what I just explained above about not being under any obligation to withdraw everything. After that you just click the "Confirm" button and the money gets moved to your balance. Then just withdraw as usual from there. Should you leave anything behind in your Bynamic account it will continue to earn you interest every hour just as before.
The Bynamic website is designed to an acceptable standard, certainly all the important requirements you should expect from any program you join have been, especially those making fast hourly payments. It's running off a licensed GoldCoders script, though might not be recognised immediately due to some modifications which were needed to meet the program's individual requirements. On getting into your members area most regular investors already familiar with its operation will see it's lost none of the trademark user friendliness. One area where it differs somewhat from the usual GoldCoders powered programs is in the initial logging in process to access your account. On signing in you will land on a page with seven possible dashboards, one for each currency used by Bynamic. PerfectMoney and Payeer share a dashboard since they both work with dollars, the other six all indicate the other cryptocurrencies. Just click on the one you want to access first, remembering that if you have funds there via other currencies it's easy enough to toggle through the other dashboards if/when you need to.
Bynamic is hosted on a dedicated server by DDoSGuard with their tech support and protection from malicious attacks. For an extra layer of protection Bynamic also has a superior Green Bar Extended Validation SSL encryption certificate by Sectigo for safer browsing and more secure transactions. Also a welcome addition to the members area is the optional two-step 2FA authenticator. It's up to yourself to turn it on of course but I really can't think of a single good reason why you wouldn't want to. I mean if you've joined Bynamic at all one presumes your reason for doing so was to make money. The extra layer of protection here is free of charge so please use it. The admin didn't cut any corners so neither should you.
Communication between admin and investors is also taken care of. As always though make sure the first thing you look at is the Bynamic FAQ section if anything is unclear to you. Should you need to get in contact if you have any further questions or account related issues by writing directly to the admin at the listed e-mail address. You'll notice a built-in Live Chat widget on the bottom right hand side of the Bynamic website as well. Click on it first to see if an operator is available, it might save everyone a lot of time and effort if you can get your queries dealt with in real time there. Bynamic are also well connected with the most popular social media sites, keeping profiles on the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and a Telegram account. Also added to the list has been YouTube where Bynamic have quite a slick professionally shot video presentation with some nifty graphics and special effects. You can view it there, on the Bynamic website, or also on the MNO monitor where it's been embedded if that's better for you. Finally on the list is the one I'd be most dismissive of, namely the postal address for Bynamic in the UK. This goes hand-in-hand with the program's company registration in that country. Experienced HYIP players won't pay much attention to this, even though it's not without its merits when it comes to attracting newer members and therefore new money.
Other than that, and another way you can make a little extra cash for yourself from Bynamic if you have any skills in that department, is to put your name forward as a regional representative. I'm sure most of the regular players will at least know what this is even if you never actually participated. Basically it's where an online HYIP gathers a group of volunteers willing to have some contact details listed on the program's website. You then act as a sort of promoter and customer representative in exchange for an improved referral commission rate should you be successful in building any kind of downline. If you've ever done this before or are interested in giving it a shot then see the Bynamic website for more information. Bynamic has lots of promotional materials to help you with this, including a high quality PDF presentation and the YouTube video mentioned above.
First impressions would lead me to think that Bynamic has an undoubted amount of potential given on one hand the general popularity of this type of program among investors in recent times, added to my own view that it's an experienced admin who knows how to get the best for everyone out of such programs. But just to tie things up, as for the alleged business activities of Bynamic, it's claimed that they are involved with cryptocurrency and digital asset trading, though as always I'd suggest you not take it too seriously as there's nothing there to actually prove it. And even were this to be true, it still doesn't make it a guaranteed profitable venture. So even if it looks good to start with, remember that the risks are still there so it's essential that you at all times stay within a sensible spending limit, and always try and diversify your portfolios.
So what do you guys think? If you've already come to a decision about whether Bynamic is suitable for you or not then perhaps you wouldn't mind sharing with the other readers and answering the following poll. Remember it's 100% anonymous and untraceable, and will eventually tell us how many people were right to go with their first impressions of the program either for better or worse. It can also indicate what standards people expect from a HYI website before they are prepared to part with their money.
You might notice there was no welcome message from the admin of the above reviewed Bynamic immediately after its official launch. It took him the first few days while his program was already running to do some fine tuning and make further improvements so as to have a better and more complete version ready for a wider audience. So what's new and just added to Bynamic which pays 0.15% hourly to investors while allowing to withdraw the initial deposit anytime after 24 hours for a 5% fee? First off, there is now an active and involved Telegram group where members can share their thoughts and ask any questions they might have for the Bynamic's support team or their fellow investors. Then, there is a professional video presentation on the main page available for viewing which should tell potential investors about Bynamic's main advantages in a more visually pleasing form. And finally, the long-anticipated Bounty program has been finally launched. The essence of this program is to reward people willing to fulfil some simple promotional tasks and spread the word about the program with some free Ethereum funds. If you're interested in participating and earning some extra cash please refer to the latest update reposted below or go to the specifically created for purpose Bounty page to find out more. Both latest newsletters from Bynamic can be seen below, so pay close attention if you're already an active investor of the program or are considering joining it in the future:
"Bynamic is up and running – let's get trading!
It's been a thrilling start to 2020 as we see the new decade in with the successful launch of Bynamic, the world's most exciting cryptoasset trading platform!
We just wanted to thank you for your support right from the start. It brings us such joy to have wonderful members like you on board and our trading team can't wait to keep pushing the profitability of your Bynamic investment plans!
Tap into our Telegram group
You may already know that we run a Telegram group where you can find out many useful things to enhance your Bynamic experience. If you're already over there then we hope you're enjoying the experience!
If not, head there right now – https://t.me/bynamic_community and join up to be the first to hear about Bynamic exclusives, dip into Q&As with our trading team, enter competitions and of course, make new friends with members like you around the world.
– Check out our new Video!
If all this excitement is still a bit new to you, take a short break out of your busy day to check out our informative new Bynamic video right here on our homepage.
We had a fantastic time filming this and hope it explains every complexity of the crypto investment world that some of our more casual investors may not be clued up on.
Feel free to share a link to this new video along with your promotion of your Bynamic referral codes on your favourite social networks – and generate as many successful referrals as possible!
Until next time, wishing you terrific trading!"
"Bynamic Bounty Program officially open!
Calling all Bynamic Bounty Hunters!
We truly hope you are enjoying your Bynamic trading experience as much as we are enjoying providing it. The feedback we have received so far has been excellent and we will continue striving to provide the world's best cryptoasset trading platform.
Play your Part and Profit!
One highly popular way that platforms like ours give back to their most dedicated users is via Bounty Program. So, it is with delight that we announce the Bynamic Bounty Program officially open!
– The Beauty of Bounty
Check out our Bounty Program link above and you will discover six awesome ways that you can contribute to our platform's growth, as well as its functionality, and earn from it! Will you use your skills in security research to detect and report any bugs that you stumble across while using Bynamic? As with any new platform, we are continually working out any bugs in the pursuit of providing a perfectly functional platform.
Enjoy maximum profitability!
Will you dive into our bustling https://t.me/bynamic_community and become an active member, earning ETH with every post that you make? Or will you take to Trustpilot, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube to let the world know exactly how your Bynamic experience is going? Remember, it's also a great way to get your referral link out there and enjoy the juicy tiered commission of our Bynamic Affiliate Programs.
Here's a top tip – why not enjoy maximum profitability and take part in as many of our Bynamic Bounty initiatives as possible?
We do hope you enjoy this new feature and that it increases your satisfaction with Bynamic further."
CoinWallet has been a wonderful program thus far now approaching its third week online with hordes of satisfied customers many of whom have already managed to profit from its only indefinite term plan. For more information on this please check the full review of CoinWallet posted here, but in a nutshell it's 0.15% credited to your account on an hourly basis with the principal return (partially or fully) allowed after the first 24 hours for a 5% fee. That makes it possible to get a small profit on your deposit with CoinWallet already by the second day of your active investment. Of course the full potential of how much you could make in the end is huge and is totally up to your own strategy and expectations. Withdrawals from CoinWallet are mostly instant and you won't be waiting for too long in most of the cases, while otherwise manual withdrawals are processed within 24 hours. There are eight payment processors accepted by CoinWallet and I think every investor will be pleased to hear that all the popular options seem to be covered. The full list includes PerfectMoney, Payeer, BitCoin, LiteCoin, Ethereum, Dash, BitcoinCash and DogeCoin.
As the program moves along there seemed to be some rivals in the area that would hate see it and its members flourish. Just yesterday the CoinWallet website was subject to a DDoS attack which caused a few hours of intermittent access. That nevertheless has been mitigated with the admin upgrading the website's protection to the most secure level, so hopefully we won't have any such issues anymore. Moreover though, that downtime was a perfect test for the program's survivability in harsher conditions and the test has been passed with flying colours. All the instant payouts were back to normal as soon as the CoinWallet website came back and that won the admin some well-deserved praise for his professionalism.
When times passes and CoinWallet becomes more and more popular among online investors it's essential to offer active members some extra perks to encourage them work harder in the promotional field and bring more outside people and their funds into the program. The regional representative program that was recently launched by CoinWallet will actually allow them to stay ahead of the competition and on top of the game while at the same time rewarding those who can help it grow and expand in the long term. If you're interested in the regional representative program for CoinWallet please see more information on the subject below:
"Become our Representative and maximize your earnings!
Hello, You can now become our Regional Representative for free, which means you are not obligated to have an active deposit with us. You will earn 10% from your direct referral investments, 4% from second level referrals and 2% – from third. More about our partnership program you can read here: https://coinwallet.biz/partnership
All you have to do is send your application explaining how do you plan to promote CoinWallet. Reach us at firstname.lastname@example.com or simply by replying to this email, we will check your application within 24 hours and get back to you ASAP.
You just have to provide your referral link to others for joining, which is: https://coinwallet.biz/?ref=mnoblog
Happy promotion and earnings!
Best Regards, The CoinWallet Team".
Here is the list of the programs from my monitor that paid me for the last 72 hours:
From MNO Sticky list: –
From MNO Premium list: CoinWallet, Bynamic.
From MNO Standard list: Titan7.
From MNO Basic list: AgroNutriFarm.
That's about all the news I have to report today, guys. I hope you enjoyed reading it! Remember that MNO is absolutely different from other investment blogs and monitors and due to my long experience in the HYIP industry (my site has been online since 2007) I have developed vast expertise in the area which I am happy share with all my readers in order for them to develop a better understanding of the laws of the business we are in here. The MNO advertising strategy with its very steep prices allows me to put up a definitive protection shield against deliberate fast scams that continue to overwhelm the less stringent or scrupulous monitors nowadays. And if you carefully select the best examples listed on the MNO monitor and apply a smart informed investment strategy I'm pretty sure that you will be able to see a huge difference in your wallet in no time.
As the HYIP industry is off to a very refreshing flying start this year I expect to be busier than usual now that I've finished my four week island hopping vacation in The Philippines. Expect to see more new promising programs and better rewards for active investors this season. However in order to make your experience more profitable don't forget to follow all the latest news and announcements posted as they happen on Telegram, Twitter or Facebook. If you like reading the MNO blog articles and don't want to miss anything important join over 3,000 subscribers to the MNO newsfeed and receive regular updates directly to your email address you may submit on this page. Besides, it's very easy to stay in touch with me whether you're my referral and require my assistance with a program you joined under MNO, an HYIP admin looking to advertise your project on my monitor or just a curious browser you're welcome to either chat with me live on Telegram @mnoblog, write to me directly at email@example.com or submit your enquiry via this contact form and I will try my best to respond within 24 hours. I will be back in a few days with more news and perhaps even some newcomers listed on the MNO monitor. Stay tuned with MNO – For Money Lovers!
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- General International Cyclone diust collector
- Brand: General International | Category: Dust Collection
Used my cyclone dust collector today for the first time and does that sucker ever suck the shavings. I reduced the 6" dust outlet to 4" and had no issues at all except the noise, oh well it does say hearing protection required.
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#1 posted 07-09-2015 12:43 PM
Which model? Looked on their site and didn't see it.
#2 posted 07-09-2015 01:56 PM
Looks like the 810CF based on looking at the specs on the site.
#3 posted 07-09-2015 04:27 PM
Is the motor noisy, or just the extra wind noise after reducing the inlet size?
-- Willie, Washington "If You Choose Not To Decide, You Still Have Made a Choice" - Rush
#4 posted 07-09-2015 10:23 PM
Steve, it looks like a great machine. You have a few options regarding the noise: 1. make a muffler, build a noise reducing closet around it, move it outside your shop or learn to live with it. I have been living with the noise, but I am getting ready to move mine to a different room. Even with NRR 30 ear muffs, mine is still louder than I would like.
-- Art
#5 posted 07-10-2015 01:30 AM
Sorry I guess I should have said which model it is. Model 10-810 2 stage dust collector – 3hp. I don't mind the noise too much, I just use hearing protection, and putting it outside would not be a good thing when in the Winter we get down to -40C. with 6' of snow or more.
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After nearly six years of stalling by the federal authority that oversees elections, a government ethics watchdog has filed a "historic" lawsuit against a right-wing nonprofit aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, alleging that the group has violated campaign finance laws and should be required to register as a political committee, which would mean disclosing its deep-pocketed donors.
"We're committed to open and transparent elections where everyone is following the rules."
—Noah Bookbinder, CREW
With support (pdf) from Ellen L. Weintraub, the sole Democrat on the Federal Election Commission (FEC)—which has neglected to act on a formal complaint filed in 2012—Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW) on Monday sued the American Action Network (AAN) to challenge the group's nonprofit status.
The court told the Federal Election Commission twice to enforce the law. It still hasn't, so we're directly suing the dark money group that broke the law.https://t.co/GsrooDQaWd
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 24, 2018
"We asked the FEC to enforce important laws restricting secret political spending, and because the agency will not act, the only way to address this crucial issue for our democracy is for us to step in ourselves," said CREW executive director Noah Bookbinder. "We're committed to open and transparent elections where everyone is following the rules—even if too many FEC commissioners are not."
Under federal law, 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations such as AAN can engage in political activity—including lobbying lawmakers and launching campaigns to support or oppose candidates for elected office—as long as it is not the group's "primary activity."
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Pointing to the millions of dollars AAN has poured into promoting Republican candidates in recent races, CREW has spent years demanding that the FEC take action—and on March 20, U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued a similar order, giving the commission a 30-day deadline.
On the eve of the FEC's failure to meet that deadline, Weintraub issued a statement urging CREW to utilize a federal provision that she said "has never been fully utilized," but "allows complainants to sue respondents directly when the Federal Election Commission fails to enforce the law itself."
"Fire alarms are sometimes housed in boxes labeled 'Break glass in case of emergency.' The Federal Election Campaign Act has such a box," Weintraub noted last week. "I'm breaking the glass."
While AAN dismissed the lawsuit as "frivilous" in a statement to Politico, Weintraub posited that it "holds real promise of shining a bright light on a significant source of dark money."
"Over a difficult and frustrating decade at the commission, I have seen colleagues with a deep ideological commitment to impeding this country's campaign-finance laws erode the public's right to free, fair, and transparent elections," she added. "It's time to break the glass and let this matter move forward unimpeded by commissioners who have fought every step of the way to keep dark money dark."


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As the Carolina Panthers went into their January 10th playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks, coach Ron Rivera said that his team was "playing with house money". Lifting a phrase from the gambling world, he meant that his team had defied the odds just to be in the playoffs; in a sense they had no stake in the game, and therefore they had nothing to lose.
This can be an incredibly liberating feeling.
Sadly, the Panthers didn't win, but I've been turning that phrase around in my mind ever since. Intellectually I've always known that I came into this world with nothing, and I will certainly take nothing when I go. But it seems as if I've lived my life in a way that would suggest I believe otherwise. I've played the game with the goal of protecting the little pile of chips that I believed was "mine", as if I brought them to the table. As a fifty year old man, it's finally sinking in that God owns ALL the chips and any idea that they belong to me is, well, just foolish. I'm finally realizing that I'm playing with the house's money.
This can be an incredibly liberating feeling.
If I lose money because I am naive and give to a cause or person that really doesn't deserve it, well, those chips aren't mine anyway.
If my reputation takes a hit because I reach for a dream and fail, well, those chips aren't mine anyway.
If I make myself emotionally vulnerable because I tell the people that matter to me that I love them, well, those chips aren't mine anyway.
You get the idea.
I hope to make 2015 my most exciting year ever. I'm going to play a little crazy at the table. I'm going to bet often, big, perhaps a little foolishly sometimes. But after all, what do I really have to lose?
I'm playing with the house's money.


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Posts made in October, 2011
I have some big news to report. As of November 1, I have sold my half of RedStar Creative to my business partner, Betsy Bonnema.
Phew. There. I've said it.
This has been a painstaking and agonizing decision for me, on so many levels. First, Betsy and I have been friends for over 25 years. We were roommates in college, maids-of-honor in each other's wedding, and for the past 17 years, have been like second moms for each other's children. This will never change.
The thing is though, I've been going through a "growth phase" for quite a while now. Several years ago, I bought a print by Brian Andreas called Angels of Mercy. Every day, I sit in my office and stare at this little drawing and I wonder, "What if…?"
Around the same time I bought that print, I read a book by Po Bronson called What Should I Do With My Life? It talked about people who had good, stable, well-paying careers who threw caution to the wind, quit their jobs, and bravely charted new paths, this time doing something they loved.
I admired those people so much for their honesty and their bravery, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how I could possibly quit my career and start over. For one thing, I was already doing what I loved. I owned my own ad agency. When I was a senior in high school, I gave a speech at my graduation commencement. The principal introduced me by saying, "Joy plans to go the University of Minnesota next spring and pursue a degree in journalism. One day, she hopes to own her own advertising agency."
And by God, that's exactly what I did (though it didn't happen exactly the way I intended). After college, I wanted to be an advertising copywriter with a Minneapolis ad agency. I wanted it more than anything, and I worked relentlessly lining up informational interviews with busy, unpleasant creative directors. Unfortunately, there were no jobs to be found. In the spring of 1991, when things were looking pretty bleak, my friend Betsy called and invited me to Spicer for the summer. She enticed me with some freelance copywriting gigs, and the opportunity to spend my lunch breaks waterskiing on Green Lake. Enough said… I was in.
By June, Betsy and I realized we were a great creative team. She offered me an opportunity to buy into the company as a full partner, and I took it. For the next 20 years, we would run our business together, squeezing in marriages, babies, and "Life 101" classes along the way.
At some point though, I realized I wanted more. I wanted to be able to use my gifts of reading and writing to somehow make a difference. But for me, the thought of quitting my job was preposterous and self-indulgent. Who was I to want more when I already had so much?
I made myself miserable trying to figure out how to move on to "the next big thing" while still clinging to my "one sure thing." When Betsy and I decided to take a creative sabbatical earlier this year, I started dabbling with the idea of doing something different. I had always wondered what it would feel like to wake up each morning and be a WRITER… a real one, who wrote for a living.
It felt good. I wrote and I read; I blogged and I journaled. However, as I wrote, it became more and more apparent to me that this is what I was meant to do. At the same time, that realization was extremely frightening. After all, everyone knows that writers are poor. Quitting my job and becoming a writer didn't seem like an upwardly-mobile move for me, or my family.
I was really struggling, trying to cling to my safety net, but knowing I had to make a leap of faith. Then, I remembered something my friend Jane had told me a year earlier. She said, "Leap, and the net will appear."
Leap, and the net will appear.
So, that's what I've decided to do. I'm leaping into the great unknown… a scary, exhilarating place that offers no promises or guarantees. I have no Plan B at this time, but will leap with faith and courage, and hope that the net appears.
A few months ago, I wrote this song at a time I was really struggling for answers. I dedicate it to all the other women out there who are facing this same battle.
By Joy Baker
She sat there
Waiting, wondering
Feeling scared
And all alone.
She was begging for some answers
To this life she'd now outgrown
Is it over? Am I finished?
Is this how the plan will end?
Can you hear me?
Are you listening?
Don't you know how hard it's been?
But I AM here, came the answer.
In the wind. And in the trees.
In the smiling laughing, crying
In the falling of the leaves.
In the then, and in the now.
The beginning and the end.
I am here. Always here.
And I've just one word to send.
You must leap (leap!)
Leap for all you've ever been
You are strongest
After weakness
You are ready to begin.
So just leap (leap!)
I'll be with you
Always near.
Trust me, know me
Travel with me
Take the leap (leap!)
And the net will appear.
Every new beginning
Is the end of something done.
When you think you've lost it all
There's still a battle to be won
So come with me
Live in peace
Hold my hand
And then we'll soar
Higher up, to see new places
Where you haven't gone before.
You must leap (leap!)
Leap for all you've ever been
You are strongest
After weakness
You are ready to begin.
So just leap (leap!)
I'll be with you
Always near.
Trust me, know me
Travel with me
Take the leap (leap!)
And the net will appear.
She stood slowly. Can I do it?
I don't know. I'm happy here..
Am I really? Is it worth it?
Living every day in fear?
I've come through it
Bruised and broken.
I've been down
And almost out.
But I'm back
And I can make it.
Take my hand!
He heard her shout.
Let's go leap (leap!)
Leap for all you've ever been
You are strongest
After weakness
You are ready to begin.
So just leap (leap!)
I'll be with you
Always near.
Trust me, know me
Travel with me
Take the leap (leap!)
And the net will appear.
The old and the new
For 15 years, we've owned an amazing Golden Retriever named Riley. He's been such a good dog… so gentle, happy, loyal, and loving. We bought him from a family in Willmar (the Dols) when our oldest son was just a year and a half old. I think we figured since life was already so crazy, why not add a puppy to the mix?
Jordan and Riley went through potty training at the same time, and all I can really remember from this time of my life is a never ending barrage of urine and feces. (Honestly, what were we thinking?) I'm surprised I managed to fall into bed each night with the child in his crib and the puppy in his kennel, and not vice versa. Thank you, God, for that.
Oh… and one other thing… I was also pregnant with son #2 at the time.
Cole was born in November, 22 months after Jordan, and took an immediate liking to the big orange fuzzy thing we called Riley. On any given evening, we'd find him snuggled up next to the dog, blanket in one hand and a fistful of fur in the other. Riley, bless his heart, just took it all in stride.
Two weeks ago today, Jordan (now 16) said to me, "Mom! Have you seen Riley's foot?" He had a nasty looking bump between two toes that he kept licking and chewing. It didn't look good. I brought Riley to the vet, and he confirmed what I suspected. A tumor. The doctor didn't know if it was benign or malignant, but stated that the only way to remove it and make sure they got all of it would be to remove the entire toe. And at Riley's age, the anesthesia is always a concern. Dr. Dan was very kind; he knew what I was thinking, and he knew where the conversation was heading. He handed me a box of kleenex when my eyes started to well-up. Somehow, I asked the hard questions – how much longer, and what's the process? He talked me through it, explained what would happen when Riley was put to sleep, and handed me more kleenex.
I left the vet's office a complete wreck. Of course, I knew this day was coming. Riley's hips have been bad for a long time. We need to lift him in and out of the car now days, and when things are really bad, he even falls down the stairs. His hearing and eyesight are failing, and his faculties certainly aren't all there. But, he's family… and I love him.
After the appointment, I took him to the public access on Green Lake and let him fetch the stick a few times while I tried to collect myself. He's not much of a swimmer for a Golden Retriever. He loves the water, but something never quite clicked when he was younger. Instead of paddling when the water starts to get over his head, he just stands on his hind legs and walks. Then, when the water gets over his head again, well, he sinks. Of course, he can swim just fine if he has a stick or a duck in his mouth, but without it, he's sunk. Literally.
Suffice it to say, last week was not a good week. I was really down, feeling bad for Riley. Then, last Thursday the boys asked if they could borrow the car and go to the varsity volleyball game in Albany. I said sure.
They came home with a puppy.
And I wanted to kill them.
For about thirty seconds.
Since then, this little black lab puppy they named Zoe has wormed her way into my heart. Once again, it's a constant barrage of urine and feces, but I'd forgotten how much joy a new little life can bring into a household. She's bouncy and curious, and sweet as can be. She's a snuggler and curls right into my lap every chance she can get. She's also a chow hound and eats everything in sight, including Riley's food, the cat's food, my laptop cord, and the living room rug.
Damn, but I love her.
As for Riley? Not so much. But, in his good old boy way, he tolerates her. And when he has enough energy, he even pounces a bit and tosses her around with his nose. But, I know what he's really feeling, and that makes me sad. He's being replaced, by a younger, cuter model, and life will soon go on without him.
Don't be sad, Riley. No one could ever replace you. And when it's your time, we'll be there for you. Just let us know when you get too tired, old buddy. We love you, and we'll be there.Read More


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NewsFebruary 6, 2002 - Updated on January 20, 2016
Daily subjected to prior censorship
In a letter addressed to Interior minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders -RSF) protested against the prior censorship to which the daily Alwan is subjected from now on. "That measure totally contradicts the press freedom and freedom of expression guaranteed by article 25 of the constitution of the Sudanese Republic", stated Robert Ménard, general secretary of the organisation. "We ask you to cancel that decision", he added. According to the information gathered by RSF, the security forces raided into the premises of the daily Alwan on February 2. The officers seized four pages that were to appear in the edition of February 3. From now on, the newspaper is subjected to prior censorship. Already on 2 October 2001 the national press Council had suspended the daily for 24 hours. The reason put forward was the publication of articles regarded as "libellous".