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Trip highlight: Discovering Langbiang plateau, stay in tree house at Nui Voi Eco Resort, mingle with local hill tribe people, conquer Langbiang mountain, biking along the beautiful French streets past terraced vegetable gardens to Linh Phuoc Pagoda.
Day 1: Saigon – Dalat (-/-/-):
Morning you will transfer from Saigon to airport for the flight to Lien Khuong Airport. Upon arrival, you will be met by our guide and car for a short drive to your hotel in Dalat. In the afternoon, our guide will take you for the orientation work to city center, the market of Dalat and famous XQ embroidery workshop. Overnight in Dalat.
Day 2: Dalat (B,L,D):
Today you can start discovering the city of spring by the tour to Dalat Railway station, the most beautiful one in Vietnam. After that, drive to Robin Hill. From the top of the hill, where we take the chair lift down to Tuyen Lam lake, we can view the grandiose mountainous area of the Langbiang plateau. Then below Truc Lam Monastery appears among the pine trees. You will find this place so colorful with many a flower garden, yet so peaceful. After that you will take the steps down toward the Tuyen Lam lake and collect our boat for a ride on the vast lake. On the other side of the lake is the resort of Da Tien. You will be surprised with the cute rooms in form of the sleeping elephant on the hill side amidst the pine trees. Then our real adventure starts. This may be the most interesting moment when you sit on the back of an elephant wandering in the pine forest, looking over to beautiful Tuyen Lam Lake. Enjoy the romantic time in the beautiful nature, under the shade of pine tree with beautiful barbecue lunch at Da Tien Resort. In the afternoon, our car will take you to Nui Voi Eco Resort. Located in the jungle, 16 km away from Dalat, Nui Voi is area of K'Ho people that you can experience difference identities of their culture. You can climb to Pnhatt mountain with the elevation of 1696m, having the great view of Dalat city from there or wandering around Darahoa village, mingle with local people, have a short hike in the jungle along beautiful stream. Stay overnight in the special house built on the tree, there will be two of you with the nature. Then enjoy the simple but beautiful dinner with Dalat red wine at the resort. Overnight at Nui Voi Eco Resort.
Day 3: Dalat (B/-/-):
This morning, the birds in the jungle will wake you up by their beautiful song in peaceful nature and totally pure and fresh air. After breakfast, our jeep and guide will take you to visit Lat Village of Lach people in Langbiang Mountain. After visiting the wooden church and long house in the village, our jeep will take you to the top of Langbiang with the elevation of 2169 m. From here, you can enjoy the great view of beautiful Dalat city. If you like more adventure, you can do some rock climbing before coming back to Dalat. Back to your familiar and cozy room your hotel in Dalat. There will have bicycles ready for your own use at the hotel till check out time. In the afternoon, you can either relax in the hotel or discover Dalat on the bicycle. Overnight in Dalat.
Day 4: Dalat (B/-/-):
Today you can have the whole day at leisure in Dalat. Dalat is so called a city of flower, that you can see anywhere, even at the simple small corner of the alley. It will be great trip when two of you cycling along Tran Hung Dao Street, that was well known of beautiful French Villas under the shade of hundred year old pine tree. If you have more energy, just take about 7 km riding to Linh Phuoc Pagoda, which you can admire the great scenery of city, vegetable farm along the way. Upon arrival, visit Linh Phuoc Pagoda with famous dragon have been built from 50.000 bear bottles. Just take a little further walk, you can go and visit the local farm with very hospitable farmers right beside the pagoda. Overnight in Dalat.
Day 5: Dalat – Saigon:(B): You will have free time at leisure in Dalat till your departure time to the airport fot the flight back to Saigon. Tour end.
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This is my third post in a series about SEM tactics that lead to greater ROI from search campaigns. (The first focused on online/offline data integration and the second on keyword assist or cross visit participation (CVP).
A report just released from Omniture revealed a major challenge search engine marketers are currently facing: it seems most search marketers struggle with getting to the deeper, more insightful data that will have a bigger impact on revenue. They're making important business decisions based on superficial metrics such as click-through rates and cost-per-click. Those metrics are valid and have an important place in overall marketing analytics, but there are more valuable metrics that marketers are ignoring, at significant cost to their companies.
By looking at cost-of-goods-sold, and getting a true picture of return on investment (as opposed to return on ad spend), SEM marketers can stop leaving money on the table.
Tactic 3: Cost of Goods Sold
Most marketers look at the cost of a search marketing campaign and at revenue returned from the campaign. So when they talk about return on investment (ROI) what they're really looking at is return on ad spend, rather than the return on total investment. That's because a true measure of ROI takes into account the margin and profitability of the company's products.
Say, for example, that a retail site has a big box, $2,000 item that weighs several hundred pounds. Because the cost of getting that to the shop or warehouse, and then shipping it out again (for online orders), is much higher than that of a smaller item, the margins are tighter. Now say that item comes with some accessories. Complementary items may be smaller in value but higher in margin. Selling more of the big-box item may result in more revenue, but at lower margins.
Knowing the margins of the products can help retailers know how much money they can spend on keywords for one item versus another.
This is a simple process with SiteCatalyst, assuming you know the profit margins of each product. (If you don't know the margin on your product, the information on this tactic can drive a discussion internally.) Once you have feed the data into SiteCatalyst, you can begin optimizing for true ROI rather than just for return on ad spend.
You might discover that you were losing money on certain keywords without knowing it. Or you might discover you can affordably spend more money on certain high-performing keywords. Either way, you're certain to improve ROI simply by having the right knowledge at hand.
The next step is even more exciting: layering this solution with the online/offline data integration (also layer with Tactic 2 that I wrote about last month) and you'll get an even truer picture of ROI.
Next time, I'll discuss how you can improve measurement, and ultimately improve ROI, for cross-channel marketing campaigns.
In the meantime, if you're interested in learning more about the challenges marketers face in effectively managing search campaigns, see the Omniture Search Engine Marketing Readiness Survey.

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Q: What's going to happen to the maple syrup season with this crazy weather?
A: That is a question every maple syrup producer would like answered definitively. The key to a successful season is having temperature fall below freezing at night and rise (preferably into the 30's to 40's) during the day for extended periods. Producers are worried that the temperature will not get low enough at night to encourage adequate sap flow.
Some people believe that maple trees produce higher concentrations of sugar in the sap when there has not been adequate moisture the previous fall. Also, snowfall during the tapping season means that the next time the temperature rises above the freezing point, sap tends to flow rapidly and heavily.
We won't know how things will turn out for sure until the 2012 season is over.
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BY Clicking the link below, you can hear my "Pat Political Point" which aired on Sunday, April 15, 2012. Below the link is the transcript of today's rant. Please, leave your comments here on the blog, or you can email me at email@example.com
First Day "Pat Political Point" on Sunday, April 15, 2012–Hilary Rosen/Ann Romney
When I first heard outrage over Democratic strategist and CNN talking head Hillary Rosen's so-called "controversial" statement pertaining to Ann Romney, my first question was: Who's Hilary Rosen?
Seriously, who is she?
In case you've been living under a rock (or, like me, consumed by the start of the NHL Playoffs season), here's the comment that got many of my conservative friends fired-up:
Rosen's comments made it sound like stay-at-home mother's really don't know the value of work. Look, I agree with all the criticism fired at her statement. The point she was trying to make was lazy, sloppy, and sounded a bit out-of-touch. Ms. Rosen eventually apologized to Ann Romney for her comments after many of her liberal allies backpedaled and hid from her as fast as they could.
However, even though her basic argument wasn't formulated in the most artful of ways, the argument was spot-on.
Ms. Rosen is essentially correct.
Bear with me a second.
First-off, I love politics, and I understand the one major battle a politician or political party must do from the get-go is to win The Optics War. You win the perception of the debate, you ultimately win the debate. Perception becomes reality, eventually. That's why the Republicans–with some help with semantics champion Frank Lutz–have been enormously successful at winning battles at both the state and federal level.
On the flip-side, Democrats seem to be winning the perception debate that THEY are the party fighting for women's rights. Polls have shown President Obama with a huge lead with female voters over Ann's husband–former governor Mitt Romney.
The fight over contraception, Planned Parenthood funding, and other women's health issues didn't do the GOP any favors during the early months of 2012. Additionally, Mr. Romney's campaign had a rough time finally coming to the conclusion that they do, in fact, support the The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which allows women to file lawsuits for pay discrimination at their job.
Not only that, but Michigan Republican senatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra called the Ledbetter law "a nuisance."
Or, let's not forget cascade of state laws either passed or proposed that deal with women's issues. My favorite this week came from Iowa. A state senator proposed legislation that would force anyone receiving child support payment to take a drug test–at the request of the person making the payments!!! The proposed law failed, but you have to give that guy high fives for appearing to be an incompetent, cold-hearted dude completely detached from reality.
Awesomeness, indeed in Iowa!
With provocative statements like that, it's not really hard to imagine why Obama and the Democrats are winning the hearts and minds of the majority of women in the U.S.
So, cue Ms. Rosen's comments, and Romney and his many powerful media cohorts caught a break: a symbolic enemy they believed could erase all of those policy fights conservatives had been losing.
You see, according to Romney's people, Rosen wasn't just attacking Ann Romney for being a stay-at-home mother. No, she was attacking ALL stay-at-home mothers.
Hence, the Romney team tried to win the optics war. And, to a certain extent, they did in the short term. Rosen was vilified by not only conservatives, but by her Democratic friends. She later apologized which signaled weakness, and ensured that her overall point that Ann Romney doesn't understand what it's like to be a working mother would be forever lost.
Which is sad because someone should be speaking up for the nearly 80% of working mothers in the country. Rosen's argument is relevant and correct. Does Ann Romney really know what it's like for the average mother in this country? Should Mitt Romney use his wife as guidance when it comes to women's issues when she doesn't truly have an accurate gauge on the daily trials and tribulations a working mother endures each and every day?
That's not taking any away from Mrs. Romney's work as a mother. She's obviously done a fantastic job raising her five children, and has had to endure her own personal hardships like living with Multiple Sclerosis and battling breast cancer. On top of that, she's loves to ride horses, and is reportedly very good at it.
Let's face reality, though. Similar to Rose Kennedy before her, Mrs. Romney did have the benefits many other mothers didn't have. Many Moms out there don't have the luxury of receiving assistance from help staff around the house. That's not putting her down, but it's reality.
To drive this point home, Leslie Bennetts wrote this week in The Daily Beast:
Whether you're a father with a stay-at-home wife, a working mother with a partner, or a single mother on her own, the buck stops with you if you're providing the primary financial support for your family—and that responsibility is often terrifying. We all have our wide-awake-at-3-in-the-morning nights, and no doubt Mrs. Romney has endured her share. But her worries, however grave, have never included the ability to feed her kids or keep a roof over their heads—and those are problems that regularly torture countless American women.
For most of them, working for pay is a necessity, and staying home to raise their children is not an option, despite the constant blather about "choice." Whether or not we want to do so—and many of us do—the majority of us work because we have to, and our children depend on us to bring in a reliable income. No one who has never shouldered that responsibility can ever really know what it's like—how scary it is, how hard it is, and how lonely it can feel.
The issue that should be discussed is how certain policies affect those millions of women who don't have the luxury of staying at home with their kids. For example according to Bloomberg News, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan's budget (passed by the House but later rejected by the Senate) would've levied major cuts affecting women, including food stamps, Medicaid, and Pell Grants.
It would be fantastic if we could discuss how certain policies will or are affecting millions of American women. Instead, we're dealing with the stupid sideshow of the Politics of Perception.
American politics. Gotta love it!
I need a drink.
UPDATE: Via Buzzfeed, a recent Census study reveals stay-at-home motherhood increases for those without a high school degree. So, stay-at-home Moms aren't rich people; or, as conservative writer David Frum notes, stay-at-home motherhood is a class marker rather than a cultural one. It's those who aren't educated enough or can't find work who stay home with their kids. That's also not good.
It's a fascinating subject that leads to so much more discussion and debate. Let's hope Ms. Rosen's statements lead to further discussions on the subject of motherhood in America. It deserves true examination rather than the stupid sideshow we've been treated to during the past week.


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Chicago continues churning out talented emcees, and Rockie Fresh does not deviate from that norm. Electronic Highway is the MMG member's latest offering, and, true to the title, the project is full of dope, high voltage beats like "Ride Slow" that borrows the bassline from Kanye's "Love Lockdown." With an ear for distinct beats and minimal MMG drops, the focus is instead on the young rapper as he takes his listener on an audible trip up the highway.
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Five in field to fill CWC board vacancyFeb 7, 2013 From staff reports
Five people have applied to fill the vacancy left on the Central Wyoming College Board of Trustees after Judy Pedersen resigned in January.
The list of applicants for the Subdistrict 2 seat covering Riverton and Shoshoni includes Gloria Philp, Nicole Schoening, Tim Payne, Phil Christopherson and Robert Heuermann.
Friday is the last day the board will accept completed applications in CWC President Jo Anne McFarland's office, though statements of interest were due Monday.
The candidates are required to attend the board's next meeting, which will begin at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at CWC's Intertribal Education and Community Center.
They will be interviewed separately but publicly during the meeting, and the board plans to select Pedersen's replacement that night.
The successful candidate is expected to take the oath of office and be seated at the board Feb. 20 as well.
Pedersen's replacement will serve on the board through November 2014. At that point, voters will elect someone to fill the remainder of Pedersen's four-year term.
Pedersen submitted her resignation verbally during the board's Jan. 16 meeting, two months after being re-elected.
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Royston, United Kingdom, 2009/04/28 - TTP LabTech has announced a significant 25% increase in total revenue for the last fiscal year.
TTP LabTech has today announced a 25% increase in total revenue for the last fiscal year. Bucking the trend, TTP LabTechs products have sustained continued growth within the last 12 months, generating revenues of £9.1 million compared with £7.3 million from the previous year. Furthermore, this is the first year that the revenue generated by the product business has overtaken that of their custom development business. As a result, there will be a 20% increase in R&D spend for the coming year.
This is a remarkable achievement given the current financial climate and is the third consecutive year that we have achieved double digit figures in revenue growth said Dr Jas Sanghera, Commercial Director of TTP LabTech Ltd. I attribute the success to the companys unique range of products, coupled with the first class customer service that I believe can only be provided by an employee-owned company such as ours. Importantly, TTP LabTechs global presence has expanded over this period to include offices in the UK, US and China, with strong distributor representation in other key markets such as Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Considering the coming year, Dr Sanghera added We have taken orders for a number of instruments in the first quarter of our financial year, and have put into place strategic initiatives that will hopefully allow us to keep this momentum in the current climate. To this end, we have also increased our R&D funding by 20% and we anticipate a new product launch for the drug discovery market within the next year. Furthermore, we intend to add a number of significant product enhancements to our existing portfolio, which demonstrates our continuing long-term commitment to providing superior products and support to our customers.
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Based near Cambridge, UK, TTP LabTech Ltd (ttplabtech.com) is a leading provider of development services to the international life science community. TTP LabTechs development teams combine skills in chemistry, biology, and engineering to provide systems, products, and processes which are both innovative and practical. With offices in the UK, North America, and China the company is able to manage and support custom development projects for client companies in virtually all parts of the world.
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At last bring it inside. Dark corridors and torchlight twist and turn in your nightmares as a deep-sounding voice echoes inside of your throbbing head. Heres your payment Images of a large lizard crawls out of the light and into darkness, then a glimmering gold coin floats out of those shadows and causes blinding light to consume the rest of these images. Look how it glitters! Concentrate on beginning to get very sleepy
FarimKnock, knock, knock. Water droplets fall from the ceiling onto your temple as you awaken, irritating your headache to increase in its throbbing. The cold stone you awaken on is sticky, for you are lying in a patch of mold on the ground.
ThrombYou feel what seems to be incredible pressure on your forehead as you awaken. Your eyes open to find a simple gold piece lying on your forehead. As you pick it off of your face the pressure disappears, but you notice the headache at the back of your skull even more now.
You awaken in a musty room. The floor and three walls are of solid stone, but the fourth is of thick iron bars. Youre in jail!
As you look around you see your five friends also waking up, dressed in raggedy cloth tunics such as yourself. All of the clothing and items you were wearing before are now gone, and your bodies are all scraped up as if you were dragged to your present location.
Outside of the cell you are locked in is a room with a short, skinny table along the wall. This table is bare, save for a whip and a lantern (which is the only light illuminating this room). A thick wooden door looks to be shut tight outside of the jail bars, and the cell door itself appears to be sturdier than the iron bars themselves. The only noises in the room come from the lantern and the grunts of your companions as they regain their feet.
The last thing you all remember is being hit on the head by a couple of ruffians
VondalYou notice you are the only one inside the cell to awaken on a small pile of hay. Formed like a hump, it explains the slight pain in your lower back.
MorrimWhen you look forward, past your friend Vondal, you notice on the wall a list of names etched into the stone. All are carved in different handwritings.
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Char Dham Yatra is one of the most popular Hindu pilgrimages and involves visit four Hindu religious sites in Uttarakhand state of
The tour itinerary is
Chardham Spiritual Tour starts on all Fridays and Sundays in the Month of May and June. Adult double occupancy rate per person in economy package is 19737/-
There is also a special package tour which starts from Haridwar. It is available on Mondays and Saturdays from Haridwar. Adult double occupancy rate per person in this package is 17279.
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"We all have been through so much, and bringing us together was the greatest thing you could have done for us."
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Stuart R. Toledano, M.D.
Medical Advisory Board Chairman, The Sunshine Kids Foundation
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Dr. Stuart Toledano joins The Sunshine Kids Foundation Board of Directors after 15 years of involvement with the organization.
Currently, Toledano is Director of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Toledano received his Bachelors of Science degree in medicine at Brooklyn College and received his medical degree from Buffalo Medical School.
Richard Brown, R.N., C.P.N.P.
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Children's Hospital of Alabama
Birmingham, AL
Richard Brown joins The Sunshine Kids Foundation Medical Advisory Board after several years as a volunteer medical representative.
At Children's Hospital of Alabama, Brown is a pediatric oncology nirse practitioner, a position he has held since 1996. He began his work with the hospital in 1991, working first as a clinical assistant then as a staff nurse. Previously, he worked for the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama.
Brown holds masters and bachelors degrees in nursing from the University of Alabama and a bachelor's degree in Biology /Computer Science from Birmingham-Southern College. He and his wife have two daughters.
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University Medical Center
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Yvonne Escobar joins The Sunshine Kids Medical Advisory Board after two years of travel with The Foundation serving as a medical representative on several National Events. Her first experience with Sunshine Kids began when she chaperoned a group from University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona on the 2006 Sunshine Kids Haunted Halloween Getaway in New Orleans, Louisiana. In addition to chaperoning kids from her home hospital in Tucson she frequently assists the Foundation by serving as the medical representative for other pediatric oncology centers across the United States that are unable to provide their own nursing representative due to staffing issues.
Yvonne has been a pediatric oncology nurse for the past six years and has been working in the pediatric field for nearly 20 years. She holds an Associate Degree in Nursing and a Bachelors Degree of Science in Family Studies and Human Development from The University of Arizona.
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Akara Forsythe began her involvement with The Sunshine Kids when she attended the 1990 Sunshine Kids Winter Games in Aspen, Colorado as a patient participant from Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. "During one of the most difficult times in my life, the Sunshine Kids Foundation brought me a tremendous amount of happiness and peace. And, I still hold many of the memories close to my heart."
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Being that I love all things polka dots and bows, Minnie Mouse is clearly my girl. I even got to spend some time with her on our recent Disney cruise — and let me tell you, her costume changes were fabulous.
And because I'm consumed with the idea that I might one day have a little girl to get dolled up, I frequently browse the girly baby gear — dreaming of the day. This play gym is already on my future wish-list:
Named one of the HOT Holiday Toys of 2012, this play gym has a satin-trimmed mat and plenty of developmental toys — like clackers, teethers, and even a wedge for Tummy Time. But my favorite? That bow-tastic mirror with Minnie ears and colorful lights that can be taken off the mat for separate mirror play.
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Trading volume in models of financial derivatives
This paper develops a subordinated stochastic process model for an asset price, where the directing process is identified as information. Motivated by recent empirical and theoretical work, the paper makes use of the under-used market statistic of transaction count as a suitable proxy for the information flow. An option pricing formula is derived, and comparisons with stochastic volatility models are drawn. Both the asset price and the number of trades are used in parameter estimation. The underlying process is found to be fast mean reverting, and this is exploited to perform an asymptotic expansion. The implied volatility skew is then used to calibrate the model.
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I am 27 years old and make about $27K a year (after taxes). My debt however takes up $1800 a month, so I can understand the struggle to make ends meet. Two years ago I started this budget and it has worked great for me ever since.
I have in my purse 5 envelopes separated out for my expenses over the month. My five categories are Food, Gas, Medical, Pet, and Spending. Yours might be different. Since you don't have a car you might have entertainment or snacks. I've heard people having a gift envelope, home decor or vacation one.
How I figured out a budget was I took my normal monthly bills, Rent, utilities, insurance. Those are set amounts. Then I took my three loans and two Visa's and wrote down just the minimum. And added them up.
For the first month before the envelopes, every time I spent money I wrote it down in a little book (cost and what it was for) and at the end of the month I was surprised. I had spent $210 in fast food! And I even love to cook and am an avid coupon clipper. This little book helped me to accurately estimate how much I would need for each envelope.
Food, that is split in half with my fiancee. We both put in $150 each and any extra left over from saving on coupons is our treat for a nice dinner or a movie. The trick I have learned about grocery shopping is only go once a month for the big shopping...all the meals that you can make for a month. We save about $75 out of the money for the little things that won't last or you run out of, veggies for the stew or milk and bread. We go once a week or every other week for the little things. But I realized when you only go for one or two items, you come out with ten or fifteen, and you don't use any coupons, so you spend more money than you should. A snack here an extra something there...it all ads up.
Gas, I estimated over on this one, I only spend about $35-$45 in gas but I put in $75 a month. This way a little ads up so when I need a tune up or oil and filter change...anything unexpected, I have the money and don't have to squeeze it in. My tabs and insurance are budgeted separately. I don't include them in this envelope.
Same with Medical. the one thing I hate the most is getting sick and having to go to the doctor and worrying about paying for the medicine. I put $25 a month...sometimes only $10. This adds up also if I don't use it for being sick I can use it for my prescription eyeware or the yearly dentist visit.
The trick is to not dip into either of these envelopes when the spending money runs out.
Spending, I only allow myself $120 a month...basically $35 a week...and $7 a day. so if I feel I really need that BLT instead of a nice peanut butter and jelly sandwich at home because I'm on the run...there goes my $7 a day. I take this spending also for entertainment and going out. My fiancee and I try to be really good about only eating out once on a weekend. We both would rather go home and fix something, because there is food there, than spend $25 each time we go out. Only having $150 a month is hard for me. I have a lot of things I would like. Don't need but would like. I look at it as a sacrifice for me...for 8 months I will limit myself just to be able to pay a 20% interest visa card off. Because in 8 months there will be another sweeter out there that I will like and want and I will have the money for it.
Pets I have two cats and a dog and several fish. My pets are important to me, so I keep their money separate even though I buy their food and treats at the grocery store. I put extra in their envelope also for the yearly vet bill and the dog licensing. I also buy their food ( all three have separate brands) in the largest bag possible...it lasts longer, its cheaper and when you add five of the smaller versions up, you spend a lot more.
So with all these expenses, my envelopes and bills I have about $550 a month left over to put towards the higher interest ones and get them paid off a little quicker. I get paid twice a month, the first paycheck is for all my envelopes, it's the first thing I do with it. All the loans and visa are all due at the end of the month by my request, and the utilities are due at the beginning.
I requested the other bills to be due on the 30 because I usually have money left over on the first check to send to one of those bills, so not only am I sending in extra I'm sending it in 20 days before it is due and saving on the interest that way also. Some companies however when you send it in early, hold it until the due date, so if you send it in early make sure you write a note on it telling them to ape it immediately, so you can save interest.
My spending is the hardest one for me, usually spend it in the first two weeks and then the last two I struggle. If I do lose control and dip into the other envelopes, it only puts me farther back next month because I have to take that extra money I 'borrowed' from Gas out of my spending the following month. Then I'm constantly playing catch up and It's not worth the stress.
This budget has been great for me. My life insurance agent started me on this budget, and for the first three months, she said to me to try and not go into any store other than a grocery store, no music store, no craft store no nothing. And if I needed to buy a card or present, they have nice things at a grocery store....it limits your spending and I survived it for 8 weeks.
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Iraqi Air Force officer Lieutenant Ali Kareem aged 21, graduates from Royal Air Force College Cranwell on Friday 13th March 2009, when he will receive his Iraqi Air Force pilot's 'wings' alongside six RAF colleagues.
Lieutenant Kareem will become the first Iraqi student to graduate to the full RAF "Wings" standard as a multi-engine pilot. His new qualification paves the way for him to return to his homeland where the Iraqi Air Force (IAF) will complete his training on a multi-engine conversion unit. He will then take to the air flying military transport aircraft such as the C130 Hercules and King Air.
The security situation in Iraq has improved and stabilised to such an extent that Lieutenant Kareem and his family are very happy to speak with the media. Previously, Iraqi International Defence students undertaking training in the UK have shied away from publicity for fear of reprisals on return to Iraq.
Group Captain Nigel "Wam" Wharmby, the Station Commander at RAF Cranwell and Officer Commanding No.3 Flying Training School, said:
"I am delighted that Lt Ali Kareem has graduated successfully from his multi-engine flying training at RAF Cranwell. The course is complex and extremely demanding, necessarily so, covering all basic flying disciplines in order to prepare students for the challenge of operating any of the diverse fleet of multi-engine aircraft in service.
"Beyond the basic rigours of flying, the course also focuses heavily on captaincy, airmanship and crew resource management - intangible but vital attributes for military aircrew.
"Several inevitably will struggle to make the standard required for graduation and thereby the award of their coveted flying brevet or Wings, whilst others may never achieve that standard. Challenge enough for RAF students, but for Lt Kareem to have achieved the graduation standard, despite the many additional pressures of having to integrate into unfamiliar surroundings, a different culture and the RAF way of life has been very satisfying for the staff and his colleagues on the course to witness.
"The RAF and No.3 Flying Training School are no strangers to training international students in many branches and the exchange of experiences, the enhanced understanding and the bonds forged through such relationships are extremely important.
"In 2004 I was privileged to command Basra Air Station at the moment that it was decided to regenerate the Iraqi Air Force. The first unit of it formed at and operated from Basra whilst under my tenure. I am therefore especially pleased to once again be in a position to host one of their pilots."
"This is a very proud occasion for all the graduates but perhaps especially so for Lt Kareem who has bridged many gaps during his time with us. We all wish him well for what must be a very promising future within the new Iraqi Air Force."
Lt Ali Kareem, said,
"The course has been both challenging and enjoyable, a real mixture of the two.
"Graduation is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I'm really proud of my achievement. I'm now looking forward to going back home and continuing with my training with the Iraqi Air Force."
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Image 1: (Larger size) Iraqi Air Force officer Lieutenant Ali Kareem aged 21, graduates from Royal Air Force College Cranwell on Friday 13th March 2009.


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TAMPA - The phony threatening letters sent to some Florida voters have gotten the FBI's attention. The agency is trying to determine who sent the letters, which are meant to look as though they came from a supervisor of elections office. Election fraud and trying to intimidate voters are federal and state criminal violations, said Dave Couvertier, an FBI spokesman in Tampa. The FBI is working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Florida Division of Elections and the offices of the supervisors of elections in 23 Florida counties, including Hillsborough, where residents have reported receiving it.The formal-looking letter states that records show the recipient is not a U.S. citizen and that noncitizens can't vote. It states that the person should stop by the office of the supervisor of elections if there has been an error or if his or her citizenship status has changed. The Seattle-postmarked envelope has no return address. On the top left corner it says "County Supervisor Division of Elections." Anyone receiving it should contact the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office, (813) 744-5900, or the FBI's Tampa office, (813) 253-1000. Three such letters had been reported in Hillsborough through Tuesday, said Travis Abercrombie, spokesman for Election Supervisor Earl Lennard's office. State Division of Elections spokesman Chris Cate said most of the letters went to registered Republicans. "Now is the time when you're going to see people try to commit elections fraud," Cate said. "It's very important that Floridians be vigilant."
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D.O. – Still In It (Prod. Classified) [Video]
Toronto, ON – Rapper and Northstarr label head D.O. (short for 'Defy the Odds') presents the newly released music video for the single, "Still In It," off his new album, Down Home.
"'Still In It' is the first track on the album, but it's the last song that Classified and I worked on for the project," says D.O.
"We were trying to think of the best way to start it off. Class was playing me about fifty beats. Nothing was clicking. Then he pulled up a rough loop, but only played it for a few seconds before moving on. Instantly I was like 'Yo what was that?!' It was really rough so he made the beat on the spot. While he was working on the beat, I was thinking of the lyrics and flow. Since it's the intro on the album, I wasn't concerned with a hook. I just wanted to go in. I spend a lot of time in Amsterdam, so I thought this one would be cool to shoot while I was over there. People that are familiar with the city will recognize the spots – Central Station and Dam Square. Two of the landmarks of the city."
"Still In It" was directed by Duane Gibson and Preetam Sengupta while editing was handled by Illvibe.
D.O. – Down Home
Down Home is entirely produced by Classified and features guest appearances by Joell Ortiz, Saukrates, Chad Hatcher, Maestro Fresh Wes, Mike Boyd, Spesh K, J-Bru and Jake Boyd. Down Home is out now on iTunes.
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Kirwan: Vick's influence could net Burress
Published: June 14th, 2011 | Tags: Plaxico Burress, Andy Reid, Braylon Edwards, Mark Sanchez, Michael Vick, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Santonio Holmes
For those who think the talk of Plaxico Burress going to the Eagles is unfounded, simply the result of Michael Vick expressing a desire, don't underestimate the impact of those desires. So said NFL.com senior analyst Pat Kirwan during his Tuesday chat.
"Mike Vick is politicking hard for him," Kirwan said of Burress, who was released from prison last week after missing two NFL seasons while serving time for possession of an unlicensed gun. Kirwan added that Vick's politicking will have an effect on coach Andy Reid's outlook. "Andy can see that the rest of his receivers are on the small side and Burress is a good red-zone threat."
Kirwan added that Vick's positive presence both on and off the field since his own incarceration would help empower the Eagles if they did want to sign Burress. "Vick has done very well off the field," Kirwan said, "and this project is a lot easier — Plax will come in and won't say a word. He'd just got to work."
As for other potential landing spots for Burress, Kirwan didn't think the New York Jets were a great fit. One fan asked Kirwan if the Jets re-signed Santonio Holmes, would they be better off re-signing Braylon Edwards or going after Burress.
"I like Braylon Edwards," Kirwan said. "Mark Sanchez knows him and he made big plays for (the Jets) last year. He's no longer dropping the ball like he was in Cleveland, and he's younger than Burress. Plaxico might still have something in the tank, but he hasn't played since 2008."
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Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Real Money at 7:43 a.m. EDT on March 14. To see Jim Cramer's latest commentary as it's published, sign up for a free trial of Real Money.NEW YORK ( Real Money) -- I have been hearing lamentations that perhaps this market isn't that strong because whole groups are being left behind. The steels aren't rallying. Copper's been hideous. The oils aren't keeping pace. The miners are bad news. Aluminum's horrendous. The fertilizers can't get out of their own way. To which I say: good! Have you ever spent time going back and looking at the charts of what led us into the valley of the shadow of the deadly bear market of 2007 -- until, well, perhaps, the present, when the averages just took out those highs? It was a total rogues gallery of leaders -- narrow, dependent upon the kindness and steroids of the Chinese government and in need of hyperinflation in order to maintain growth. Hardly a day goes by when someone doesn't say, "Can we really be in a trustworthy bull market if Freeport-McMoRan ( FCX) can't rally?" First, Freeport, with its recent $9 billion foray into oil-and-gas assets, has done what can only be regarded as its level best to destroy itself. The borrowings alone are hideous, even with money costing so little right now. But, as Freeport is a miner and refiner of mostly foreign copper and gold, I question whether you want it as your leader, as it was during its January-to-June-2008 rally from $33 to $61. Back in that antediluvian moment, Freeport was the most visible of the leaders. Latin American mineral giant Vale ( VALE) spurted from $14 in January of 2007 to $42 in May of 2008. It's now struggling to maintain $17. Peabody ( BTU) put on 50 points between Jan. 2007 and June 2008, rallying as high as $89 as a leader in the great coal bull market of that moment -- impressive, but not as strong as Arch Coal ( ACI), which rolled from $27 to $75 in that same period. Of course, these moves pale in comparison to Cliffs Natural ( CLF), the true leader of the era, which pushed from $24 to $120 from the beginning of 2007 until the middle of 2008. Alcoa's ( AA) been in the Dow kennel for so long that I think its parents forgot about it. We need a PetSmart ( PETM) for aluminum companies. Alcoa rose from $29 to $45 between January and June 2008, a move that defined the halcyon days for the commodity players -- which, despite Alcoa's gigantic efforts to become more proprietary, is still very much the company's lot in life.
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Kumar Gaurav (born 11 July 1960, India) is an Indian film actor and the son of the late actor Rajendra Kumar.
He made his film debut with the film Love Story (1981) produced by his father and directed by Rahul Rawail which was a blockbuster hit.. Many youngsters started emulating "Bunty" (his nickname). His next film, the 1982 release Teri Kasam with actress Poonam Dhillon, another heart-throb of the generation, was a mild success, though his later films proved to be disappointing at the box office.
Yet he received rave reviews for his performance in Mahesh Bhatt's film Janam (1985). His understated performance in this film is still considered his career's best. In the following year he had his second box office hit with Naam (1986), again a Mahesh Bhatt film. which was produced by his father and also starred his brother-in-law Sanjay Dutt in the lead role. Despite the success of Naam, Gaurav's career declined as all of his subsequent films failed to do well at the box office.
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Ondosto was a city in the southern parts of the Forostar on the island of Númenor, on the road that ran westward out of Arandor to Andúnië.[1] It may have been associated with the stone-quarries of Forostar.[2]
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2014 Honda Civic: Mike Schlee, Road Test Editor – "Last fall we compared the 2013 Honda Civic sedan against the all-new 2014 Toyota Corolla and after the Corolla won the comparison, many readers immediately demanded a rematch with the improved 2014 Civic Sedan. Leading the improvements for the Civic is a new continuously variable transmission replacing the dated five-speed automatic. Will this be enough to reverse the finishing order? This week Luke and I are back in the Corolla and Civic to find out." Tweet any questions you have of the new Civic to Mike and he'll certainly get back to you.
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A consistently exciting follow-up to J.J. Abrams' spectacular 2009 reboot of the sci-fi franchise.
Kirk, Spock and the other officers of the starship Enterprise are back for another adventure in "Star Trek Into Darkness", a consistently exciting follow-up to J.J. Abrams' spectacular 2009 reboot of the sci-fi franchise. While the dynamic between Kirk and Spock isn't quite as compelling this time around – they were better as rivals than friends – the sequel gets a considerable boost from Benedict Cumberpatch's performance as one of the series' most formidable villains.
Thanks to the impeccable casting decisions Abrams made for his reboot, the performances remain rock solid, not to mention deeply amusing to those familiar with the franchise. Zackary Quinto is once again a standout as Vulcan first officer Mr. Spock, who favors logic over emotion so heavily that, when he's in danger of being melted by lava in the film's opening scenes, he seems unfazed at the prospect of his own death. Like he did the first time, Chris Pine brings an infectious sense of fun to his performance as starship captain James T. Kirk, who's more hot-tempered and less brainy than Spock but is nevertheless a natural-born leader.
Unfortunately, Zoe Saldana has less to do in this installment as Uhura, Spock's fellow officer and love interest. In one of the movie's more strained plot developments, she's reduced to a pouting secondary character as Uhura begins to doubt Spock's love after he shows so little emotion in the face of death. The hilarious Simon Pegg made the engineer Scotty one of my favorite characters of the 2009 movie. At first, when Scotty failed to board the Enterprise, I was worried Pegg would be underutilized like Saldana is here. Luckily, the filmmakers quickly assuaged those doubts.
The real showstopper is Cumberpatch's fiercely intelligent performance as the mysterious John Harrison. If there was a complaint to be made about the previous movie, it's that Eric Bana's villain was kind of weak. Abrams and company don't make that mistake this time. Harrison is immediately terrifying as he approaches a desperate mother and father and claims he can save their terminally ill daughter. Such an offer comes with a heavy price, and we soon learn that Harrison subscribes to some of the most barbaric tactics of the 21st century, including suicide bombings.
After Harrison blows up a security operations building in London, Captain Kirk meets with other members of the Starfleet Command, and what follows is one of the coolest action scenes of any "Star Trek" movie or TV show. Harrison stages a brazen assault (the scene seems inspired by the helicopter attack in "The Godfather: Part 3"), and before Kirk destroys Harrison's ship, the mystery man beams away in mid-flight to the planet Kronos. The Enterprise tracks him down, and Kirk is ordered by his superior officer to fire torpedoes at the planet, which is bound to start a war with its inhabitants, the Klingons. Thus begins a crisis of conscience and a period of "darkness" for the Enterprise, hence the movie's title.
Even after his true identity is revealed (which I won't give away here), Harrison remains a fascinating character. We're not sure quite what he's up to when he appears to join forces with Kirk and Spock to stop a power-mad Starfleet commander. Some of the magic is missing from Kirk and Spock's relationship this time around; they were so much more fun to watch when they were constantly trying to one-up each other. But, as much as I missed the previous movie's team of rivals, the scenes between Kirk, Spock and Harrison more than made up for it. The film is never better than when Spock and Harrison are trying to outsmart each other.
As terrific as much of "Star Trek Into Darkness" is, we're not seeing anything new here. Abrams excels at repackaging the past in an appealing way, which may explain why Hollywood has entrusted him with some of its biggest franchises: "Mission: Impossible", "Star Trek" and, in 2015, Disney's first "Star Wars" movie. The question is, in trading bold new material for an endless array of cinematic nostalgia trips, have we lost something in the bargain? All I know is that nostalgia trips seem here to stay, so they might as well be brought to us by Abrams, whose last movie, "Super 8", consisted entirely of references to the work of Steven Spielberg. Abrams may not be willing or able to boldly go where no man has gone before, but that doesn't mean I won't follow.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" is playing at the Augusta Historic Theatre, 523 State Street. Show starts at 7:30pm on Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and 2pm on Sunday and Wednesday. Tickets are $6.
Stephen is an AHS graduate who studied film and journalism in college. His favorite movie of the series is "Star Trek: First Contact". He lives in Wichita.