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Mom Suing McDonald's, Objects to Company 'Getting Into My Kids' Heads.'
A California mother -- with the assistance of a Washington, D.C.-based health advocacy group, Center for Science in the Public Interest – is suing McDonald's because she wants the fast food company to stop including toys with their Happy Meals, the Washington Post reported. "I am concerned about the health of my children and feel that McDonald's should be a very limited part of their diet and their childhood experience," she said. "But as other busy, working moms and dads know, we have to say, 'no' to our young children so many times and McDonald's makes it that so much harder to do."
The mother continued, "I object to the fact that McDonald's is getting into my kids' heads without my permission and actually changing what my kids want to eat." (December 2010)

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HIGH POINT, N.C.-When Fatima Yaseen interviewed for a job at one of two Wal-Mart stores in High Point, N.C., she faced stiff competition: At least 56 other people applied for the entry-level position in the town of 100,000. Yaseen didn't get the job.
Finding a job can be difficult in a state with an 8.7 percent unemployment rate, but Yaseen has an added challenge: She's an Iraqi refugee, a mother of nine, and she's lived in the United States for just four months.
Yaseen is one of some 60,000 refugees that the United States admitted last year. Nearly 14,000 of those refugees were from Iraq. The State Department says that it plans to admit at least another 17,000 Iraqi refugees this year.
That's good news for those fleeing abuse, persecution, and death threats in their native countries. But coming to America isn't easy for refugees, especially if they lack English or job skills. And now new refugees face another dynamic: an economic downturn affecting the entire country. As the unemployment rate rises and the number of refugees goes up-especially among Iraqis-settling in America grows more difficult for an already vulnerable group, and the work gets harder for those trying to assist them.
Since the Iraq war began in 2003, some 2 million Iraqis have fled the country, often pouring into neighboring Jordan or Syria, and sometimes resettling as refugees in countries all over the world. U.S. officials facing criticism over the relatively small number of Iraqi refugees admitted to America ("Stalked," Dec. 6, 2008) dramatically increased the number of Iraqi admissions last year: The State Department admitted 13,800, compared with 1,600 the year before.
Ambassador James B. Foley, senior coordinator for Iraqi refugees issues, said the State Department would accept at least 17,000 Iraqi refugees this year and hoped for more: "I think you'll see the U.S. government admitting over the course of fiscal 2009 tens of thousands of Iraqis." (Foley said the United States would also accept an additional 5,000 Iraqis under a special visa program for Iraqis who worked for the U.S. military, government, or contractors.)
Immigration officials say streamlining the refugee application process has helped workers manage more cases. Increased cooperation from other nations helps too: Syria-home to the largest number of Iraqi refugees-has lifted restrictions on U.S. workers interviewing refugees, allowing the process to accelerate. The entire refugee process can take up to two years, but for many Iraqis, it takes as little as a few months.
Suhaib Albu Shamah arrived at JFK International Airport in New York City about one year after leaving Baghdad in July 2007. Shamah remembers well the date he left Baghdad: just after he graduated from medical school. The 26-year-old had studied for six years and was about to begin his medical internship when threats from local militants forced his family to flee. Shamah says a group calling themselves "the Patriotic Resistance of Iraq" demanded $10,000 from each member of his family. The consequences for refusal: "We're going to behead each one of you."
Shamah's father-also a doctor-believed the threats. Militants attempted to kidnap him months before, and murdered a friend. Shamah had also seen local violence firsthand. Working in a Baghdad emergency room, he treated victims of bombings and suicide attacks: "It was like watching the dead everyday." One afternoon was particularly brutal, he said: "They brought in 14 dead bodies of young men from one neighborhood in four hours."
The young doctor's breaking point came when militants murdered a close friend while he was waiting in an hours-long line at a gas station. The reason for the murder isn't clear, but Shamah says: "He didn't do nothing." After killing the 24-year-old man, Shamah says the gunmen took his car and left his body on the street: "And the other cars were just driving around him."
Shamah and his family fled to Jordan, where they applied for refugee status through the UN. Five months ago, they arrived in the United States and eventually settled in High Point, N.C., with the help of World Relief, an evangelical relief agency that assists refugees resettling across the country.
Shamah began looking for a job immediately, but found he can't use his medical skills without completing a long process of tests and certification to practice in the United States. Instead, he took a job at a local foam factory, working in the shipping department. The job lasted three weeks before the plant laid off a large number of workers, including Shamah.
It's hard to find an entry-level job with a medical degree from a foreign country, says Shamah: "You apply for a job, they read your name-it's a foreign name. They read your degree, and think, 'He's an M.D. applying for this?' It doesn't make sense."
Mark Kadel says Shamah's plight is common. Kadel, director of the High Point office of World Relief, says refugees at their field offices around the country face difficulties finding jobs. Rising unemployment has created more competition for blue-collar jobs that used to be widely available for refugees. Other labor-related jobs-like cleaning up construction sites-are suitable for refugees with limited English, but have dried up with the construction industry. When a refugee competes for a job with dozens of Americans, employers often naturally select the candidate with the best English skills and familiarity with the industry. That's usually not a refugee.
World Relief is one of 10 nonprofit agencies contracted by the State Department to help resettle refugees. The government provides funding for some administration costs and a small allowance for each refugee-$425 per individual. Agencies use those funds to procure housing, furniture, food, and other basic items for refugees. They also register children for school and adults for English classes, and help with job searches. The goal, according to Kadel, is self-sufficiency as quickly as possible. The agencies aim for refugees to be self-supporting in the first three to six months (though they are still eligible for some government aid), but the economic climate is making that more difficult.
Robert Carey of the International Rescue Committee, another group resettling refugees, says his organization has seen a 50 percent drop in their job placements, and other agencies report similar declines.
Those declines are discouraging to Ahmad Yaseen, husband of Fatima, the Wal-Mart applicant who faced 56 other applicants for an entry-level job. Yaseen, once a taxi driver in Baghdad, suffered shell injuries in his back and head in Iraq, but the family's worst wound: the loss of their oldest daughter, a 19-year-old girl killed by a mortar that hit the family's kitchen.
World Relief is assisting the Yaseen family (who for fear of attacks on relatives remaining in Baghdad asked that their real names not be used in this story) as both parents look for jobs. From a chilly living room with bare walls in a modest rental home in High Point, Yaseen talks about his job search while Shamah, the young Iraqi doctor, translates. Yaseen says he looks for jobs everywhere: "Anything so I can support my family." World Relief's rental assistance has technically ended, but volunteers helped cover the family's rent in January. Yaseen doesn't know about next month, and says he feels guilty for not being able to provide for his family.
Still, he's grateful for World Relief and for volunteers who help meet his family's needs. "Without them, only God knows," he says. "Probably I would have been sleeping on the street."
Kadel says World Relief depends on volunteers from churches to partner with refugee families: "We look to be the conduit between the government and the church to get the church involved with these vulnerable people groups." Church groups often help families settle into their homes, learn English, and adjust to life in America. Kadel says refugee families-often Muslims-are surprised by Christians helping them with no strings attached: "What an opportunity to show what Christianity is all about."
It's also an opportunity for churches that can't afford expensive mission trips to remain globally minded, says Kadel: "Local churches are beginning to think outside the box and realize that mission work can be done right here on their own doorstep."


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I have a beautiful vintage Panasonic touring bike with 27" wheels that I absolutely love. The problem is that I am 260, and sometimes carry up to 30 lbs in my panniers on my 12 mile commute which has to cover a few poorly maintained roads. With the rear wheel on the bike when I bought it, I was breaking a spoke or two per week. I went to my LBS, and they got me a double walled rim and assured me it was the strongest wheel they could give me for a 27". Since then, for the last two months I have had to have my rear wheel trued at least once a week, sometimes more. The guys at my LBS are great stand-up guys and have trued my wheel for me more than 10 times for free, but it's a major annoyance for me.
So, I'm going to get some bonus money at work, and I can sell the Panasonic and come up with perhaps $600. I am looking for a new commuter with a more modern wheel size that would give me more options. The Panasonic has spoiled me and I don't want to go back to a mountain or hybrid bike. I want road/touring geometry and drops or at least bullhorns. I am really interested in the Redline 925, but I am not sure if I am ready to give up all my gears (the ride is pretty flat, but I do like to go fast).
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Wendy Williams Clears Up Those Comments About NeNe Leakes on DWTS
It looks like the ratings-generating throwdown between Wendy Williams and NeNe Leakes that we were all expecting, isn't going to happen after all.
Wendy recently threw some shade at the Real Housewives of Atlanta star, telling her that her dreams of taking home the highly coveted Dancing With the Stars mirrorball trophy would never come true.
Wendy, a former DWTS vet herself, claimed that NeNe's chances at walking away with reality TV gold were slim, thanks to her partner, Tony Dovolani.
"He's not fun, NeNe," said Wendy. "I wish you well, but you all aren't going to win."
However, hoping to avoid NeNe pulling out her glorious weave in retaliation, Wendy clarified her stance on NeNe's chances on her talk show, explaining that she had little faith in any of this season's contestants.
Wendy, who acknowledged that NeNe "did a great job," said of the alleged dis, "A lot of websites are saying that, 'Wendy Williams slams NeNe Leakes telling her she won't win…' Well, if you're a regular Wendy watcher, I told them all they won't win."
To make sure she got her initial point across (which we think she did a fine job of the first time), Wendy added, "NeNe's not gonna win, but neither is Billy Dee Williams."
Uhh … apology accepted?
What do you think of Wendy's explanation for saying NeNe wouldn't win? Should she have offered a real apology?
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I recently returned from a 7 day bike tour and used my 305 on the entire trip. When I came home I tried to upload everything to both Garmin Training Center and Garmin Connect. The final five days of the trip uploaded fine, however for the first two days it lost all map data. It has the correct distance, time, and speed but has no map data or elevation. This happens both in GTC and Garmin Connect. I've tried uploading directly to Garmin Connect from the device and also exporting the file from GTC and uploading it from there. Does anyone have any idea how to recover this? I'm thinking that if the distance and speed are there the GPS points have to be stored in the device somewhere and should be able to be retrieved.


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Our guest on Inside Nashville Marc Driskill is Vice President and General Manager of ASCAP's Nashville office where he oversees the Nashville Membership team.
Driskill began his career at ASCAP in 1998 as Assistant Vice President, working with songwriter and publisher members on creative and business related issues. After nearly eight years at ASCAP, he took a jump into the music publishing world, heading a publishing company and helping launch a copyright administration division of the company.
Then in 2009, he returned to ASCAP, to focus on supporting the creators of music at every stage of their careers. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Country Music and the Nashville Chapter of the Independent Music Publishers Association. He is also a member of NARAS and a Leadership Music alumnus.
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Granada hosts faculty development workshop
Central College sent a group of 11 Central College faculty to Granada, Spain this summer to participate in a faculty development workshop focused on language learning and culture. A variety of academic disciplines were represented at this workshop including faculty from biology, communication, religion, music and history. This workshop was based on three main goals: helping faculty gain a clearer understanding of their own global interests and competencies, promoting continued language study and creating a broader and stronger base of faculty who are committed to innovative global learning.
Faculty spent the week and a half living with host families, participating in Spanish courses, going on excursions—including the Morocco Exchange program—and enjoying unique Spanish-specific cultural activities. The faculty experienced many of the same things that students experience during a semester abroad.
Dennis Doyle, professor of communication, says, "I would definitely recommend a faculty development workshop to any colleague. Faculty come back with such a better understanding of what students experience and what issues are involved with personally opening up to a cultural difference."
Each faculty member found the workshop to be beneficial for different reasons, but all found that their passion for learning Spanish had been renewed.
"As colleges and universities increasingly emphasize the development of students' global learning and intercultural competencies, the role of faculty in both teaching and advising roles becomes ever more important," says Lyn Isaacson, associate dean for global education. "One approach to increasing faculty capacity to support broad global learning goals across multiple disciplines is short-term study abroad programs with an experiential, interdisciplinary focus."
Before piloting the Granada workshop, Central sponsored workshops in the Yucatan in January 2012 and 2013, with faculty from Doane College and the College of St. Mary joining Central faculty in 2013. Central plans to continue working with cooperating institutions interested in future workshops.
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2009 Kinlon KBR200 from Australia
A few years to go with R&D. Experience required in both riding and mechanical
Battery failed within one week.
Would not idle.
Air fuel adjustment just reverted back to poor setting.
Kick start is not calibrated properly to shaft, and sits proud.
Control switch mounts are loose and cannot be tightened without filing or packing.
Seat is dangerous, as the male fitting nipple only just fits into the female chassis slot by about 1mm.
Front guard has discoloured, and it's been stored in a garage since new?
Fingers hit the handle bar x bar when turning the key.
Accelerator handle has "stripped" and overturns by about mm in rotation.
Condenser packed it in at about 90km.
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Travels well when not about to stall. Have found that starting on choke and running on closed for about 10 minutes, gives sufficient "warm up" to avoid stalls.
Quiet, relatively smooth runner, and is suited well for inner city commuting.
Would probably suit recreational rego in Victoria, ride around the van park on holidays, pickup light supplies etc.
I would not recommend this bike for a learner, as it lacks power to get out of trouble, and is plagued with reliability issues. A stall at an intersection could prove fatal. Very poor re-sale value, even given its low purchase price.
Would you buy another motorcycle from this manufacturer? No
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For a few months now Zimbra support Ubuntu 10.04 too from what I've seen.
I've got an Open source installation of Zimbra under Ubuntu 8.04 running for long time without an issue.
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There will be 24 10'X10' booths available and each booth will be provided with a 6' table and two chairs. Electricity is available to vendors who need it.
Hours for the show will be 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. The Chamber will operate a concessions stand selling food and drink.
"We are looking for vendors with hand made or very unique gift items - things that you won't find in most stores," said Lloyd Grubbs, Chamber President. "Last year we had an excellent variety of vendors and a good crowd. We expect a sell-out so anyone interested in being a vendor should get in touch with our office as soon as possible."
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SNOHOMISH, Wash. (AP) — The King County medical examiner's office says a 51-year-old Washington skydiver has died after a parachuting accident in Snohomish County.
The man was identified as Cal McKibbon of Lynden.
Battalion Chief Craig Heike with Snohomish County Fire District 4 says something went wrong with the man's chute Thursday afternoon and his reserve chute was tangled. He spiraled to the ground in the Snohomish area.
The man was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he died.


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New and Returning Trustees
Kathy Archer
Back on board in 2011
Allen Clark
Returns to board
The Vermont Chapter welcomes new trustee Sarah Muyskens of Burlington and returning trustees Kathy Archer of Shelburne and Allen Clark of Plainfield.
Sarah Muyskens of Burlington has served as a board member and advisor for a number of conservation organizations, including ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, where she was board chair.
Sarah says it was the Vermont and Adirondack Chapters' 2010 report, "Climate Change in the Champlain Basin," which highlighted specific potential impacts, that motivated her to seek a deeper involvement in The Nature Conservancy.
Sarah and her husband Michael Green are longtime Burlington residents with three college-age children who spent many summers at the family's camp in Grand Isle where the kids learned "the importance of being good environmental stewards of the lake," Sarah says.
Governance issues are Sarah's greatest interest and she looks forward to helping the chapter transition into its next half-century of conservation.
Katharine (Kathy) Archer is a former board chair and a resident of Shelburne. She grew up in Haddonfield, NJ, received a BA in political science from Connecticut College and since 1983, she has run her own public relations company, Katharine Archer & Co.
She is particularly interested in The Nature Conservancy's work on connectivity, "looking at the landscape needed to enable creatures, large and small, to access essential habit and a fresh gene pool. I think of small wildlife like fish traveling through waterways and culverts, and of large animals like bobcat and bear requiring large landscape-scale corridors."
As a member of the Shelburne tracking team, Kathy participated in a UVM and Vermont Fish & Wildlife research project studying bobcat corridors in Chittenden County. "We trapped and tagged a bobcat in my back yard. I wonder now what has happened to her. Were there safe corridors for her," she said. "It seems to me today much work of The Nature Conservancy all across Vermont is about the importance of community and connection…for the landscape and all of us who live in it."
Allen V. Clark of Plainfield grew up in the Boston suburbs, graduated from MIT in Food Science and worked for The Coca-Cola Company for 31 years.
After retiring in 1999 and moving to Vermont in 2000, Allen volunteered with the Vermont Chapter on invasive plant detection and removal and preserve boundary marking. He was elected to the board in the summer of 2001 and served nine years – two years as chair.
The aspects of The Nature Conservancy that are most appealing to Allen include its effective programs, both local and global, and its collaborative, science-based approach.
Allen is married to Claudia, an entrepreneur who has served on the Plainfield Selectboard, and he has three children, two stepchildren and seven grandchildren.


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Chait, Maria; Ruff, Christian C; Griffiths, Timothy D; McAlpine, David (2012). Cortical responses to changes in acoustic regularity are differentially modulated by attentional load. NeuroImage, 59(2):1932-1941.
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This study investigates how acoustic change-events are represented in a listener's brain when attention is strongly focused elsewhere. Using magneto-encephalography (MEG) we examine whether cortical responses to different kinds of changes in stimulus statistics are similarly influenced by attentional load, and whether the processing of such acoustic changes in auditory cortex depends on modality-specific or general processing resources. We investigated these issues by examining cortical responses to two basic forms of acoustic transitions: (1) Violations of a simple acoustic pattern and (2) the emergence of a regular pattern from a random one. To simulate a complex sensory environment, these patterns were presented concurrently with streams of auditory and visual decoys. Listeners were required to perform tasks of high- and low-attentional-load in these domains. Results demonstrate that while auditory attentional-load does not influence the cortical representation of simple violations of regularity, it significantly reduces the magnitude of responses to the emergence of a regular acoustic pattern, suggesting a fundamentally skewed representation of the unattended auditory scene. In contrast, visual attentional-load had no effect on either transition response, consistent with the hypothesis that processing resources necessary for change detection are modality-specific.
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NHL general managers recommend misconduct penalty for staged fightsNHL.com @NHL
NAPLES, Fla. - The NHL's general managers are hoping to cut down on staged fights.
The GMs would like to see a 10-minute misconduct penalty assessed to players who drop their gloves right after a faceoff.
Referees would also be able to hand out that penalty in other instances where they believe players have engaged in an appointment fight.
The league says that 21.6 per cent of fights this season have occurred immediately after a faceoff.
Another recommendation from the GMs is that the instigator rule be more strictly enforced, particularly when a player starts a fight after a teammate has been bodychecked legally.
The recommendations were revealed during the annual GM's meeting in Naples, Florida. They are subject to approval by the competition committee and board of governors.


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How to Use Oregano Oil
Is your medicine cabinet overflowing with different kinds of antibiotics, vitamins, and over-the-counter pills? In today's "prescription culture" there's a lot of specialized medicines that are heavily marketed to cure a specific kind of disease. There's a headache pill, and a migraine pill; a syrup for coughs, and another one for allergy-caused sinus problems; a cure for a bad stomach, and another one for an aching back.
However, before all these antibiotics and pills, people used just one herbal remedy for many diseases. Oregano oil has been used for centuries--the first recorded use dates back to the ancient Roman civilization. It was used to cure respiratory ailments, muscle and joint pain, digestive problems and even skin infections. This is because oregano oil contains, two compounds that have been known to have powerful anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-parasitic properties.
Today, they have been used to fight anything from herpes cold sores to skin rashes to an upset stomach!
Oregano oil's versatility makes it an essential part of anyone's medicine cabinet. It is, admittedly, expensive—mainly because it takes 100 pounds of oregano plant (originum vulgare, not to be confused with the kind used to make oregano spice) to make one pound of oregano oil. However, one drop contains 50 different kinds of antimicrobial compounds—and can be used to cure many different kinds of diseases. This makes it more cost-effective than spending thousands of dollars on different kinds of medicines, many of which you will only reach for three or four times a year. Plus, most remedies only use two to three drops of oregano oil—so one bottle goes a long way.
Oregano oil can be applied topically, or directly on the affected area, or ingested. It depends on the condition you want to cure. You may wish to speak to a medical practitioner or herbal practitioner to see the best application for you, but the following tips may help.
When ingesting oregano oil, first mix two drops of oil in about 120 ml of liquid, like water, juice or milk. Take this once or twice a day. Children, of course, must take a lower dose of one drop of oregano oil in 120 ml of liquid. It is also possible to buy oregano oil capsules; follow manufacturer's directions for proper dosage.
If you are applying oregano oil topically, dilute it in vegetable oil, not water. Most people use olive oil since they already have it in their kitchen, but it's also possible to use almond oil. A general ratio would be one teaspoon of oregano oil with two teaspoons of vegetable oil. Mix it very well, and then rub it on the skin.
Oregano oil can be used to treat many different kinds of ailments. For gum infections, rub diluted oil on the affected are once or twice a day.
For warts, boils or athlete's foot (or other fungal infections) apply liberal amounts of the oregano oil mixture on the area. Then, wrap a clean bandage around it. Leave this overnight. The next day, change the dressing. Repeat for several days, as long as it takes for the infection to disappear.
Oregano oil is also a safe, organic way of treating diaper rash. Just use one drop of oregano oil per teaspoon of olive oil to avoid irritating the baby's sensitive skin.


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Skyfall Video Blog Takes James Bond To Turkey
By Eric Eisenberg 2012-09-07 16:06:09 comments
We've seen the production of the upcoming 007 adventure Skyfall take their production to Shanghai and London, but now it's time to take a closer look at the part of the film that shot in Istanbul, Turkey. A brand new video blog has surfaced online, giving fans of James Bond a new opportunity to look at the insane, epic train sequence that they filmed. Check it out!
We here at Cinema Blend actually have a close connection to this part of the production, as our own Katey Rich actually traveled out to Istanbul earlier this year to interview the cast and crew and watch them shoot scenes from the movie. You can read about what she learned on the set HERE and be sure to check out her interviews with Sam Mendes and the new Bond girls, Naomi Harris and Berenice Marlohe.
The third James Bond movie starring Daniel Craig as the legendary spy, the film sees 007's loyalty to M (Dame Judi Dench) tested as a dark secret from her past comes back to haunt her while MI6 under attack. Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, Helen McCrory, Ola Rapace and Ben Whishaw co-star with Javier Bardem playing the central villain. Look for the Skyfall in theaters on November 9th and to see all the trailers and previously released video blogs head over to our Blend Film Database.
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John Hussman relentlessly tells the truth, week after week. He details why we are in the current situation. He also proves that Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have broken the law. Criminals need to be incarcerated, whether they have robbed a liquor store at gunpoint in West Philly or whether they have robbed the American citizens with a computer in Washington DC. By the time this Fourth Turning is finished I hope to see Bernanke in cuffs or better yet being led to the gallows.
Hussman is supportive of the Occupy Wall Street movement and provides them with real talking points and real solutions. There is no one more sober and analytical than John Hussman. He's not a socialist hippie, as the MSM likes to portray the protestors. He knows that Wall Street has screwed the American middle class. He has proved that Wall Street has screwed the middle class. His solutions are reasonable and implementable. They are just unacceptable to the super rich ruling elite and their puppets in Washington DC.
The result will be class war.
Talking Points for the "Occupy Wall Street" Protesters
John P. Hussman, Ph.D.
Just a note – by the end of last week, Greek 1-year yields had surged to 144%. European leaders have shifted from promising to prevent a Greek default to promising instead to ensure that European banks are well capitalized. Here, I would repeat that it is essential for policy makers to make a distinction between liquidity and solvency. Banks that are solvent, and countries that are solvent, should be within the ring-fence, in the sense that it is sensible for policy makers to follow Bagehot's Rule – freely provide liquidity, but only at high rates of interest, and only to the solvent and well-collateralized. Those institutions and countries that are not solvent should not be "saved" by using public funds to make private bondholders whole. The proper policy is to restructure, not bail out, the debt of banks and countries that have no reasonable prospect of paying off those obligations.
It remains in the best interest of Greece to default, and to leave the euro so it can depreciate its currency, but if it is going to default, it would be well-advised to default big. The only way to get new international capital after a default is for Greece to clear out enough of its legacy obligations that investors reasonably expect it to make good on any new funding they might (eventually) provide.
Talking Points for the "Occupy Wall Street" Protesters
We're all for a good peaceful protest. As long-time readers know, I've been an adamant critic of the bailouts of mismanaged financial institutions, as well as various illegal policy actions that have been pursued by the Fed since the financial crisis began in 2008. Undoubtedly, there is good and bad on Wall Street, and we know a lot of smart, well-meaning financial advisors who go to work every day with the goal of improving the financial security of their clients, who do careful research, avoid speculation, and provide a service to others through their profession. A functioning economy needs to allocate capital effectively, and there Wall Street can be essential.
Unfortunately, over the past 15 years or so, the basic function of the financial markets has been corrupted into what I've grown to view as a self-serving carnival of speculation, where many participants are interested in nothing except getting the next rally going at public expense, regardless of how badly market signals are distorted, how recklessly capital is misallocated, or even whether what they do has any positive effect on the economy or the country (some of the sleazier ones even have their own shows on basic cable).
There is no single source of this transformation. Part of it is a remnant of the dot-com and technology bubbles, when market valuations moved to nearly triple the historical norm, and investors began to view perpetual market advances and high returns as a birthright. The subsequent decade of zero overall returns for the stock market largely reflects a reversion to more normal (but still cyclically elevated) valuations.
Another part of this transformation is due to the activist policies of Federal Reserve, which has continually attempted to short-circuit every instance of short-term economic discomfort by distorting the menu of investment returns (e.g. zero interest rate policies) in an effort to provoke investors to accept fresh speculative risk. Ironically, the long-term effect of distorting market signals has been to drive good, potentially productive capital into wholly unproductive uses – the housing bubble being a prime example. As a result, real U.S. gross domestic investment has not grown at all since 1998, and the portion financed by domestic U.S. savings has collapsed, so much of the new capital we've accumulated is owned by foreigners.
Undoubtedly, one of the greatest rhetorical victories of Wall Street has been to successfully plant in the minds of the public the idea that some financial institutions are simply "too big to fail," and that the "failure" of "systemically important" institutions will result in global financial meltdown and Depression. The reality is much different.
So, with the hope of providing the Occupy Wall Street protesters with some talking points, what follows are some perspectives that might be useful in framing the issues that we are facing as an economy.
1) "Failure" only means that corporate bondholders don't get every penny
Background: When Wall Street talks about the "failure" of a bank or other financial institution it means the failure of the company to pay off its own bondholders. It does not mean that depositors, counterparties or other bank customers lose money (See Recession, Recovery, and the Ring-Fence ). A bank is essentially a big portfolio of assets, about 70% which are typically financed by depositors, customers and other liabilities, about 20% by the bank's own bondholders, and about 10% with the capital of the bank's stockholders. In a typical bank "failure," the bank is taken into receivership by regulators, the liabilities to stockholders and bondholders are cut away, the remaining package of assets and liabilities is sold as a single entity to some other firm (or can be reissued to investors as a new company), the old bondholders get the proceeds of that sale, and the stockholders are wiped out. When investors willingly take a risk, and buy the stocks and bonds issued by an institution that goes on to mismanage its business, this is the appropriate outcome. Depositors and customers typically don't lose a penny (See the section on "How to Restructure A Major Bank" in Not Over By A Longshot ).
If public funds are provided during a financial crisis, and it cannot be clearly demonstrated that the institution is solvent, the funds should be provided post-failure, as senior loans to a restructured institution where shareholders and existing bondholders have already been subject to losses. The interest rate should be relatively high, to encourage replacement of public funds with private ones. With few exceptions, when public funds are used to avoid major restructuring and shield private investors from losses, the result is almost inevitably a larger, less transparent, and more recklessly managed institution.
The same is true for government or "sovereign" debt. When Wall Street talks about "failure" of Greece, for example, it means failure of Greece to pay off its own bondholders. In trying to avoid this failure, Greece is instead forced to impose extreme austerity and depression on its citizens. From the standpoint of those citizens, Greece has already failed them painfully. Those are the choices – let bad debt "fail" or force depression on innocent citizens.
Of course, there is a cost to any financial crisis, which is "contagion" where the failure of one institution or government calls others into question. The main way to contain this is to follow the century-old "Bagehot's Rule" – lend freely, at high rates of interest, but only to institutions that are solvent and able to provide collateral for the loans. When policy makers behave as if every institution, solvent or not, is within the ring-fence, or that some institutions are simply "too big to fail," saving these institutions comes at enormous costs, because true economic losses that should properly be taken by private investors are instead forced upon the public.
Keep in mind that money is fungible – not all losses are taken directly by the institution that created them. Many of the losses that should have been borne by banks were instead assumed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This allowed TARP to seem largely successful even while hundreds of billions of public funds are still being spent to bail out Fannie and Freddie. Recent efforts by government overseers of Fannie Mae to claw back these losses from the banking system are appropriate, but they also demonstrate how easy it is for private institutions to transfer their mistakes onto the public balance sheet.
2) The Federal Reserve's purchases of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's debt obligations were illegal
Background: Beginning in 2009, the Federal Reserve began buying nearly $1.5 trillion in obligations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both which were insolvent and in government receivership. The Fed justified these purchases by appealing to Section 14.2 of the Federal Reserve Act, which allows the Fed to purchase securities which are a "direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by, any agency of the United States." Now, Ginnie Mae, the financing arm of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is a bona-fide government agency. So there would have been no legal problem if the Fed had purchased Ginnie Maes. In contrast, however, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not, and are not, U.S. government agencies. Nor are the obligations held by the Fed "fully guaranteed as to principal and interest" by the U.S. government. At best, the obligations of these GSEs have implicit and informal backing, as any member of Congres will tell you, and simply taking a failing institution into conservatorship doesn't confer government backing to its debt. In fact, the stop-gap measure enacted by Congress during the crisis only provides temporary backing for the obligations of Fannie and Freddie maturing by the end of 2012. Very simply, the Fed broke the law by buying Fannie and Freddie's debt.
3) Creating shell companies to buy Wall Street's bad assets is not "discounting," and was therefore also illegal
Background: In 2008, the Federal Reserve created a set of off-balance sheet shell companies called "Maiden Lane" to buy undesirable long-term assets of Bear Stearns and other financial companies, justifying the purchases by appealing to Section 13.3 of the Federal Reserve Act. But if you actually read Section 13, it is clear that under the law, "discounting" means (as it has always meant) providing short-term liquidity by essentially providing a check-cashing service for obligations that are short-dated, well-collateralized, and promptly collectible (See also Outside the Oval / The Case Against the Fed ). The Fed's creation of the Maiden Lane companies to purchase bad assets was, and remains, illegal under the language and intent of the Federal Reserve Act.
Keep in mind that we have only three branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. The Federal Reserve is not an independent fourth branch of government, but operates under the legislation of Congress and therefore cannot be "independent" of Congressional control. While nobody wants monetary policy to be "politicized" in the sense of Congress telling the Fed what policy actions should be taken and before which election, it is quite a different matter to require the Fed to operate within the law. Here, Congress could use some encouragement.
4) The skewed distribution of wealth in the U.S. is worsened by policies that misallocate capital and divert public funds to bail out investments that have already gone bad.
Background: If you think about the "standard of living" in a country, you can roughly define it as the amount of goods and services that individuals are able to consume in return for their work. If you think about the "productivity" of a country, you can roughly define it as the amount of goods and services that individuals are able to produce for their work. Clearly, over the long-term, the productivity and the standard-of-living of a country go hand in hand. The best way to create both, over the long-term, is for an economy to build a stock of productive capital (inventions, new technologies, plants, equipment, public infrastructure, etc), and human capital (labor skills, education).
Still, even a generally productive economy can produce a skewed distribution in the standard of living enjoyed by its citizens. In a competitive and undistorted economy, the distribution of wealth is determined by the ability of each individual to a) provide a useful service, b) distribute the services they provide over a large number of "units", and c) maintain the scarcity of what they provide.
So for example, professional football players earn more than teachers not because playing football has more virtue, but because professional football players are among a very small group, and distribute their "services" over millions and millions of spectators, each which implicitly pays a few cents to each player per game. Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook is able to distribute his services across hundreds of millions of users, each which implicitly pays him a tiny amount by viewing advertising. Bill Gates distributed his services over every computer that ran Windows, while the factory workers who built those computers were each able to distribute their skills over a smaller number of units. Teachers represent a large professional group, but are typically able to distribute their services over a limited number of students, each which implicitly pays a portion of their family's income to the teacher. One-on-one aides tend to earn less, despite often being extremely skilled, because in order for them to earn a high income, their earnings would have to capture much of the income of their single student's family.
The distribution of wealth has become increasingly skewed as trade has become more globalized and technology has allowed the innovations of a single person to be spread across millions of consuming "units." At the same time, the economic emergence of China and India has brought forth literally billions of new workers who dilute the scarcity of the existing labor force. An economy where capital is scarce, protectable, and can easily be distributed over numerous units, while labor is plentiful, homogeneous and can only be applied to a smaller number of units, is an economy that is prone to an enormously skewed distrbution of wealth.
This process takes on a grotesque character when it becomes possible for a company to distribute its impact over a very large number of units, and government policy protects that ability even when the impact of the company reflects not skill but ineptitude. This is essentially what has happened with the "too big to fail" institutions. Despite inflicting massive damage on the economy, they are afforded a protected status that allows them to extract "rents" that don't reflect the cost they have imposed. From that standpoint, the Occupy Wall Street protests are a welcome reflection of public frustration over Washington's slavish coddling of reckless financial institutions.
Policy Responses
The proper way to address the present economic imbalances is pursue policies that encourage the restructuring of bad debt, the allocation of public funds and private savings to productive investment and new research, the accumulation of education and labor skills ("human capital") to allow workers to capture a greater share of their own productivity, and the continuation of social safety nets to ease the economic adjustments that are necessary in a deleveraging economy. In my view (which not everyone will like), this requires:
Again, long-term improvements in living standards require improvements in productivity, through the accumulation of capital, inventions, education and labor skills. The reason that wages are lower in developing countries is primarily because Americans are blessed to have an economy that has a legacy of accumulating productive investment and educating its workers. If we allow those advantages to slide, by misallocating investments, and diverting public funds from research, development, education and infrastructure in order to bail out reckless speculations gone bad, there is no inherent reason why other countries cannot rise to economic dominance. It's our choice. We have far too great a need for productive investment than to use our scarce resources to bail out poor stewards of capital who gambled the nation's savings and look to the government to make them whole.
Market Climate
As of last week, the Market Climate in stocks remained negative, with our economic measures still solidly anticipating an oncoming recession. Strategic Growth and Strategic International remain tightly hedged. Strategic Total Return continues to hold about 18% of assets in precious metals shares, accounting for the majority of day-to-day fluctuations in the Fund, with an average duration of about 1.5 years in Treasury securities, and less than 5% of assets in utility shares and foreign currencies.
As a final note, the chart below updates one of our composite measures of U.S. economic activity, reflecting a broad set of ISM and regional Fed surveys. While the slight uptick in a few of these survey measures has been the basis of a strikingly premature "all clear" attitude taken on by Wall Street analysts, the fluctuation has been entirely negligible, and represents a tiny fraction of typical random month-to-month noise. It is equally important to recognize that the ISM indices tend to lag our Recession Warning Composite and our broader ensemble models (and also lag ECRI's measures) by nearly 13 weeks, while payroll employment demonstrates a slightly greater lag. Given that the earliest signal – the Recession Warning Composite – deteriorated at the beginning of August, the October ISM, and even more likely the November reading, is really the window of concern. Suffice it to say that the recent evidence is generally more confirming than contradictory of recession concerns.


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Sex offender at center of Carlsbad church debate seeks acceptance
SAN MARCOS -- In the past week, Mark Pliska has been revealed in the press as a convicted child molester, lost his job, been evicted from his home and become the center of a debate about how much forgiveness can be expected from society.
In the midst of the controversy, Pliska said he has no intention of moving away or abandoning his desire to attend the church of his choice.
"At some point, you have to make a stand," Pliska said, sitting down at a San Marcos restaurant for an interview. "You can't keep moving on forever. I put my faith in the Lord right now and hope things will turn around for me."
Pliska, 53, was convicted of molesting two boys in 1983 and convicted of indecent exposure in 1998.
"I deeply regret my past behavior," Pliska said. "I have changed."
After moving to Escondido from Santa Cruz in December, he attended four services at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Carlsbad, which operates the preschool Pilgrim Children's Center next door on weekdays.
He has not attended services at Pilgrim church since the Rev. Madison Shockley introduced him to the congregation Jan. 28. Shockley said the church has since formed a committee to create a policy on what to do when a known sex offender wants to attend.
The matter was an internal church issue until Shockley mailed a letter to parents of children in the preschool about three weeks ago, informing them that a convicted child molester wanted to attend the church. Most of those parents do not attend Pilgrim church.
The letter prompted one of those parents, Vista resident Jessica Muehlhausen, who has two children in the preschool, to launch a petition drive March 7 asking the church to bar Pliska from attending services.
Pliska was living at an Escondido home for people attending 12-step programs when news crews covering the petition drive showed up to interview his neighbors March 8. He said he was evicted that night and since has moved to San Marcos.
"They didn't want the publicity," Pliska said about his eviction.
The next day, Pliska said, he went to work and found people were looking at him differently and were not as friendly.
"One of my co-workers said, 'You really are famous,' " he said. "Shortly after, I got called into the office and was told they were letting me go because of poor job performance. I asked the manager if it had to do with what was on TV. He said no, but I didn't believe him."
Early issues
Pliska was born in Sacramento into a military family that moved several times as he was growing up.
"I was raised by a family with an alcoholic parent, and saw quite a bit of dysfunction," he said.
By his teen years, Pliska was dealing with his own problems. He sometimes exposed himself in public.
Other personal issues emerged in his 20s, and in 1983, Pliska was convicted of molesting two neighborhood boys in Mendocino County. He served six months in prison, he said.
Pliska estimated he spent half his income on personal and group therapy in the five years after his release, and he said the analysis revealed his crimes were rooted to unresolved problems in his life. Fear of abandonment had led him to act out by exposing himself, he said the analyst told him, and his psychological denial of his homosexuality had led him to molest children, he said.
While therapy helped him deal with these issues, Pliska said he had a setback after a relationship ended. When the feelings of abandonment re-emerged, so did the compulsion to expose himself, and he did. He was convicted a second time in Monterey County in 1998. This time, he said, he served seven months in prison.


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some one know if an adaptor like this exist :
but for just one mxm type III or HE video card.
i want add a video card in kino motherboard , but she have juste a standart PCIe slot.
if not i am loking for a mini itx with 4go support core2 quad 2 lan AND A MXM slot .. if some one a see some think like this.
i want use a 8800 mobile serie or quadro fx 3600 m ( i dont know if it use a type III or HE)
adapter mxm to PCIe 16 exist ?
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THE GALLERY: A week in Swindon through the lens of Instagram users (From This Is Wiltshire)
THE GALLERY: A week in Swindon through the lens of Instagram users
5:01pm Thursday 7th August 2014 in
IN the first of a new regular series, we introduce THE GALLERY - our pick of the best photographs of Swindon taken during the past week and shared on social networking service Instagram.
To have your picture of our town published in future editions, post your shots on Instagram using the hashtag #Swindon.
Here are 12 of our favourites from the past seven days...
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text: Murs named UK's most-played act of 2013 04 Jun 2014 Singer Olly Murs saw off competition from Bruno Mars, Pink and Rihanna to be named most-played act of 2013 in the UK. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast The Heart Skips a Beat hitmaker topped the list compiled by officials at music royalty body Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL).Mars came in second, Pink was third, and Rihanna was at number four. DJ Calvin Harris rounded out the most-played top five.Murs said: "I'm absolutely delighted I've won this award. "I'd like to thank all the writers and producers on all the records that I've done, they've been incredible, of course the TV channels, the radio stations, the pubs, the clubs, the bingo halls, whoever has played my songs."Pharrell Williams boasts 2013's top two most-played tracks, Get Lucky with Daft Punk and Blurred Lines with Robin Thicke.Other songs which received huge amounts of TV and radio airplay include Mirrors by Justin Timberlake and Mars' Locked Out Of Heaven. © UTV Share Share Share


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From 5.5 to 6.1, 2008:
TransitionGuide(ver 5 to 6).pdf
From 6.1 to 6.2, early 2009:
* Fixed a bug that sometimes scrambled the order of headers in ip files. The variable names will now always match up with the numbers.
* Fixed some bugs involving use of multiple user-defined gases and/or solids.
* Allowed cancellation from an incremental-plot run that gets lost, and added a "rewind from incremental plot" feature so you can click on any point in the graph of an incremental plot and go to that state immediately.
* Improved "schematic" display, even including a phasor display in it.
* Added MIXT** segments, having simultaneous nonzero dTm / dx and dnL / dx (for those who want to do mixture separation in a temperature gradient).
* Allowed better incremental plotting with interlinked models.
* Added a new chapter to the Users Guide, "Good Design Habits."
* Fixed lots of little problems and annoyances that we hope non-Los Alamos users never encountered!
From 6.2 to 6.3, early 2012:
* New state-plot features: magnitude and phase of p1 and U1 phasors, in addition to real and imaginary parts. Similarly, display Z=p1/U1. Also segEndMarks shows ranges for what would otherwise be overlapping numbers. Also log axes.
* Improved MasterPlot (incremental plotting with multiple, linked models).
* Improved Schematic View, including phasors.
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In order to deal with these challenges, we have invested very great resources in strengthening the IDF, such as in Iron Dome and in building the security fence along the Egyptian border. We have also conducted a responsible economic policy. Other countries have economic policies that have led to mass unemployment whereas we have created a record number of 330,000 jobs. In other countries, they have enacted giant cuts whereas we have increased investments in education, health, infrastructures, transportation, etc.
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Early reviews are a bit mixed. NARA lists restaurants based upon your chosen preference, but it does not rate them. Joe Satran at the Huffington Post searched for inexpensive restaurants in his area, and discovered an interesting-looking wine bar in his neighborhood with which he was unfamiliar. Also on the list were the best slice place in town, an awesome kosher deli ... and McDonald's.
Perhaps the advice of a trusted friend is still the best way to find the best spots in town, but that is not always an option for business travelers. If you need to find spots to eat in unfamiliar locales, you may wish to give NARA a try. It seems to be more detailed and specific than a search engine, and certainly avoids the drama of recommendation sites such as Yelp.
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LifeDev, as part of the Make Waves Manifesto "We Believe in Investing in People," will be kicking off this month in March.
One of our core values at iThemes is … learn and grow, then teach and share.
We believe in investing in each of our team members … and say that no one should be plateaued … we should have no "flatliners" on our team … each of us individually should be on an upward path of learning.
LifeDev is about taking the core values, philosophies and best practices we teach and coach internally and pushing that out to our customer community as well. It will be a 10-month program and each month will have a theme to go with it. Through the program we'll be announcing special webinars, blog posts and other resources to help you learn and grow.
Our plan is to offer between 1-2 webinars a month, alongside blog post reviews of books we are reading or have found valuable. We are currently recruiting guest experts to teach on the themes below and will also be hearing from myself and other iThemes team members.
LifeDev doesn't cost you a thing. It's something free we're offering. But it will cost you in time and energy but it will be well worth it!
Participants are asked to commit to …
- Read one book a month (either from our suggested reading list below or otherwise something profitable to their life from your own). We want you to establish a reading habit which reaps rich rewards for your life. (Or improve the one you already have!)
- Share what they are learning in a meaningful way with others. This can be through a blog post, video review, commenting in the Make Waves community, in-person mentoring, or however you decide to do so. But as you are learning and growing we want you to also teach and share it with someone else.
- Participate and report back to us on the LifeDev Blog how you're doing so we can adequately measure the progress we're making in your lives.
Also, we highly suggest you consider getting an Amazon Kindle (they are cheaper than ever before) or install the free Kindle apps on your devices or computer so you can streamline or improve your reading habit. (Here's some information on how to maximize your Kindle.)
Have you signed up for LifeDev?
Here are the monthly Life Dev themes for 2012:
- March: "Know Yourself" — it sounds warm and fuzzy but in order to find lasting happiness and success it's vital to know who you are, what you're good at, what situations you thrive in and more. We'll be talking about Strengths Finder, Myers-Briggs Personalities, StandOut and more that we use at iThemes to help people better understand themselves and what they are uniquely positioned to be successful at.
- April: "Defining and Achieving Success" — we're going to look at your unique definition of success and happiness through creating "Why" statements (kind of a short, memorable personal mission statement, setting SMART goals for achieving them and more.
- UPDATED – May: "Personal Finances" — your perspective on and management of money is absolutely vital to your continued happiness and success. We'll offer ways to ensure your financial life is on par with what you want to achieve in life.
- UPDATED – June: "Syncing Work-Life" — after you've determined what success looks like for you, it's imperative that your job and career path matches and aligns with your strengths, passions, goals and more. We'll talk about making sure you sync the needs and wants of you and your family with your vocation.
- July: "Enhancing Your Communication Skills" — being able to properly communicate with other human beings is an essential skill for life and work. We will offer tips and ways to improve your writing, speaking, and teaching skills.
- August: "Honing Your Personal Brand" — whether you know it or not, you have a personal brand. It's what people think of when they think of you or hear your name. We'll talk about cultivating your "Know, Like, Trust" for maximum benefit in relation to your life goals.
- September: "Leading People" — it's likely we've all suffered under poor leadership at some point in our personal and work lives. In your life you will likely be asked to lead other people to do or achieve something meaningful. Getting a group of diverse people and personalities to work together is a true challenge. We'll be studying some basic leadership principles that will help you approach those leadership roles as they come in a healthy manner that gets results.
- October: "Maintaining Good Physical & Mental Health" — good physical health, nutrition and even ergonomics are well talked about and we have some tips to share … but often overlooked or looked down upon topic is mental health. Hear from experts in these fields talk about good health practices.
- November: "Giving Back" — when you enjoy success, we believe you have an obligation to give back by helping others. In the U.S. we celebrate Thanksgiving Day … and will do so throughout the month as we seek to be thankful for what we have as well as offer our time, talent and treasure to others.
- December: "Planning for Next Year" — December is often a gear down month heading into a new year, so it's a great time to start dreaming, planning and looking ahead for what's next in your life and to look back at what you've accomplished.
It'll be a full year of personal development and growth as we Make Waves in the lives of our customer community.
Come on, have you signed up for LifeDev yet?
Here is a list (in no paritcular order) of recommended reading that coincides with the Life Dev monthly themes and training we're offering this year. We've tried to link the Kindle ebook versions wherever possible.
- Success for Dummies by Zig Ziglar – a great book for putting what success really is in perspective.
- Boundaries by Townsend and Cloud – I wish I had read this book years ago … it would have saved me a lot of unnecessary grief. Setting healthy boundaries in all areas of your life sets you free.
- The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey – I went through Dave's Financial Peace University many years ago and it has profoundly helped me understand the role of money and for how to use it rather than it using me.
- On Writing Well by William Zinssner – learn to write, learn to communicate. The best way to write better is to read great work and this one has that. It's a book you should schedule to read every year.
- The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman – from the founder of LinkedIn, this is a recent addition to my list, but viewing your work-life as an entrepreneur would is amazing advice.
- Start with Why by Simon Sinek — this book was almost solely responsible for us pushing out the Make Waves campaign this year. Start with your why … not the how or what … and work from there. Amazing book for life.
- Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson — I still use the bootstrapped marketing ideas from this great book (and series).
- Content Rules by C.C. Chapman and Ann Handley — THE primer on content marketing for your business with best practices and tips on using various tools to educate your audience.
- Do the Work by Steven Pressfield — too many people die with such amazing talent to contribute to the world. Because of fear or perfection we lock it up inside of you. This book is about fighting the resistance that keeps amazing things from being shared with the world.
- Why Johnny Can't Brand by Bill Schley — a great primer on branding that can be applied to your personal brand.
- The Brand You by Tom Peters — written in a quirky manner but the points and tips and ideas hit home about building your personal brand.
- ProBlogger by Chris Garrett and Darren Rowse — this isn't about making a six-figure income, it's about using blogging and the tips included in it.
- Rework by Jason Fried — a foundational work on the new way to approach business and entrepreneurship.
- Tribes by Seth Godin — build and lead a community with the an amazing perspective and approach to looking at those who either pay you money or support your cause.
- The Janitor by Todd Hopkins — given to me by a minister, it helps me put what life is all about in perspective. It is about the people you love and legacy you leave.
- The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner — foundational book with principles of leading people that I read in college and still seek to apply today. It is a tad dry, but the principles are worth it.
- 12: The Elements of Great Managers by Rodd Wagner — skimming the table contents alone for the 12 elements is worth the read. Learn what people need to not just survive but thrive in their work.
(Do you have more book recommendations to add? Put them in the comments!)
So that's the overview for what's happening with the Life Dev part of our Make Waves Manifestos this year. I hope you'll join us!
If you haven't signed up, or pledged to be a part, be sure to signup for LifeDev today to be on the list for upcoming events and be sure to get the LifeDev Blog Feed!


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How to Do Reverse Crunches
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The reverse crunch strengthens your abdominal muscles while placing less strain on your back and neck than a regular crunch. You lie on your back, bend your knees and lift your feet toward the sky, curling your hips off the ground. Doing this exercise regularly will help you on your quest to getting six-pack abs! See Step 1 to get started.
Part 1
Getting in the Starting Position
1Lie on the floor with your legs straight out in front of you. Stretch out your arms straight on either side of you, like wings, to provide stability during the exercise. If it's more comfortable, you can bend your elbows and lock your fingers behind your head.
2Bend your knees and lift your feet. Your thighs should be perpendicular to the floor, while your lower legs are parallel to the floor. Your legs should create a 90 degree angle. Keep your feet together.
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Performing the Exercise
1Inhale and pull your legs towards your torso. Rock your knees toward your face and tip your feet toward the sky. This should be done as you roll your pelvis backwards to lift your hips up off the floor.
- Tense your abs as you lift your legs. You should feel your abdominal muscles working to move your legs over your torso.
2Exhale and lower your legs back to starting position. Do not drop your legs quickly. Lower them in a controlled manner as you exhale.
3Do 15 to 20 repetitions. Rest, then do another set. Repeat until you've completed 3 to 5 sets.
4Do the exercise often for best results. In order to start seeing/feeling results, aim to do 3 to 5 sets 2 to 3 days a week for 7 weeks. For faster results, increase the number of sets and times per week you do this exercise.
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- The benefits of this exercise are increased strength and flexibility in your lower ab muscles.
- Potential injuries to your back may be incurred if this exercise is performed incorrectly. Make sure never to cheat by arching your back.
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