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Baby Boomer Retirement Concerns
Top Baby Boomer Retirement Concerns for 2019
This article will identify the top baby boomer retirement concerns and what you can do to ensure a comfortable retirement.
A major news magazine recently reported that many baby boomers approaching retirement have no choice but to move in with their kids due to a lack of savings;
"….there are now more than 51 million 'multi-generational' households in the U.S." Time magazine
This is probably one of the biggest baby boomer retirement concerns.
Be honest, if you had a choice, would you rather spend time enjoying your retirement or watching Bebe's kids all day?
"Twenty five percent of all middle-class Americans plan to work until they're 80 because they don't have enough money to retire." CNNMoney.com
This is also one of the most talked about baby boomer retirement concerns. I don't know very many people who want to work until they're eighty.
Do you? And even if you WANT to work until you're eighty there aren't very many companies that will keep an employee until he or she is eighty years old (can you say "help I've fallen and I'm going to sue!")?
"Almost half of all upper-class Americans fear that even if they do all the right things they still won't have enough to retire comfortably." CNBC
Are you looking for a back up plan to make sure you'll have enough to retire?
"The average American has less than 10% of what they need to retire in savings." Wells Fargo
Have you figured out how much more you're going to need to take care of you and your loved ones during your retirement years? How long will it take to save that other 93%?
"Three in ten people in their sixties have saved less than $25,000 toward their retirement." Wells Fargo
You're not going to enjoy your retirement very long with just $25,000 in savings.
"The average 401(k) balance of our customers is a mere $71,500." Fidelity
What if your 401(k) gets wiped out…again? What if you don't even have a 401(k) or any type of pension or retirement savings account?
"Attention all baby boomers; if you currently make $100,000 per year you will will need at least $1.46 million to retire comfortably." Retirement expert Aon Hewitt
Based on what you're doing now will you have saved $1.46 million when you retire?
"You can expect to pay a professional financial planner between $150 and $300 per hour to manage your money." CNNMoney
If you have any of the baby boomer retirement concerns in this article, it is very unlikely that you would pay someone to manage your money. But wouldn't be nice if you could afford it or know how to manage it yourself?
In light of all this bad news you might be thinking it's too late to do anything to minimize your baby boomer retirement concerns. But before you tell Bebe that you're moving in, let me share with you the good news…
It is never to late to set a new goal or to envision a brighter future.
One way is to start your own internet business
Did you know that starting your own internet business is one of the the easiest, fastest and cheapest ways to ensure a lifetime of financial stability for you and your family?
You might have trouble accepting this because you've already tried and failed to a find a legitimate opportunity online (maybe multiple times).
You may have given up on starting an online business because of all the money you've spent on scams, empty promises and shabby products online.
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You may have even fallen victim to the myriad of online MLM and Network Marketing schemes.
OK, not all MLM companies are bad, but many are down right EVIL…
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OK, let's shed some light on what you need to start a successful internet business.
The first thing you need to do to achieve online success is to figure out what is preventing you from achieving success.
Is it fear? Are you afraid of failing? Are you afraid of trying something new because you think you won't understand it?
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If it's because of all the scams you've been exposed to then I promise to point you in the direction of legitimate and ethical opportunities on the internet.
There are 3 things that are required to build a successful internet business;
1. You Need a Website. You must have your own website. It is nearly impossible to achieve long term success if the website you're using belongs to someone else. If it doesn't belong to you, you may not own the content you created. For example, I've written hundreds of blogs on the Empower Network and Posterous. I quit EN and Posterous went out of business. All of the blog posts are gone forever (well not really…if you were to click a link that is associated with any of them you'll be directed to an error message or some other broken link message…this is like having an abandoned home or broken down car on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Google doesn't like this and I'm sure if you're a property owner you understand…your website has "equity" and you want the value of that property to go up). If the website owner disappears for some reason then your online business disappears as well. There's no reason for you NOT to have your own website. We make it easy to build a website of your own (you can have your own site running in just a few minutes from now). Best of all it won't cost you a dime.
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Here's an example of someone who was obviously frustrated over a few technical details getting quick help from a one of the friendly and knowledgeable folks in the WA community;
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If you have any of these baby boomer retirement concerns you owe it to yourself and your family to take a look at this incredible opportunity.
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You get all this for free. No credit card required.
You will not find this level of training and support (for free) anywhere.
Thanks for stopping by.
If you have any questions or comments (or any baby boomer retirement concerns that I missed) leave them in the comment section below.
About the Author
P.S. One thing you want to keep in mind is that if you do decide to create a website (and I strongly encourage that you do) you will have to create content that will get traffic. That's the only way to make money on the internet – you have to get traffic! The only way to get traffic is by creating compelling content. Content can be in the form of articles, videos, or static images (think memes). I prefer to use articles and images for my website. If you want to follow that path (and, again, I strongly encourage that you do), I'd like to offer you my FREE 2018 Article Writing Handbook that will help you write articles for your website.
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I need to learn your steps because Im a single mother with six children.
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Vitaliy says:
Hey Roland. I agree with you on pretty much 95% of everything you wrote here. The remaining 5% are there just in case 🙂
But on a serious note, the issue you raise in this article is truly concerning. With monetary value falling, recessions not being close to ending and a host of other problems plaguing future/current retirees, one of the solutions is basically to try online marketing.
However, as the MLM comic pointed out, that is probably one of the worst decisions anyone could make. I am one of the nay sayers when it comes to MLM's because I believe most if not all of them are pyramid schemes.
Either way, the solution you raise isn't guaranteed, but it has all the tools to help anyone start a successful business online and potentially and truly retire!
I agree, placing a bet on Online marketing isn't guaranteed, but the odds of succeeding at it, given that you receive the proper training, are far greater than one can expect from MLM. Thanks for stopping by and leaving such a thought provoking comment.
Sherry B says:
Great advice! I sure don't want to work until I'm 80! I don't want to work now as it is, and I'm not even close to that age, lol. At least not for a job that I don't exactly like much. I've had a few different jobs in my life and really, I didn't like any of them much. I'm not lazy either, I do the best I can when I'm at work, whether I like being there or not. I take pride in a job well done and wouldn't feel like I did the job at all unless I made sure I did everything I'm supposed to and then some.
I guess the thing about working for someone else that really bothers me is when you do your best and work hard at what you do, and get pretty much nothing in return. Everything is going up and the pay is barely enough to get by on in most cases.
There's so much out there online that people get overwhelmed just searching for answers, at least honest ones. I love the fact that Wealthy Affiliate is free to try it out and see for yourself. I've always gone by that motto "try before you buy." If it's free to try, what else have you got to lose?
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the comment Sherry! I agree you should take pride in everything you do–even if you're sweeping street for a living. Your hard work will always eventually pay off (even if it's just the feeling of satisfaction in knowing you have done your best).
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properly add a second (or third) router to an existing LAN that already has a
The general setup of SOHO Router's is similar. While some use a different subnet, every one I've worked with uses a Class C Private IP Addressing Scheme. I'm going to use the basic Class C private for this tutorial (192.168.0.0)
I'm going to give two setup guides:
Version 1 will be for a simple, single
subnet setup
Version 2 will be cover separate subnets
The term "Router1" will refer to the router connected to the internet. Any others (ie: Router2, Router3) will be downstream of Router1
Version 1:
When connecting a second router to an existing LAN it's easiest to connect LAN port to LAN port and configure the LAN side of the downstream router as compared to connecting to the WAN side.
Router1 (LAN Side):
DHCP Enabled = Yes
DHCP Scope: 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199
Router2 (LAN Side):
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1
DHCP Enabled = No
You will note in the above configuration that the LAN IP of Router2 is within the same subnet as Router1 but is outside of the DHCP Scope defined on Router1. This is important. If you use an IP within the scope, the DHCP service may attempt to give that IP to another computer you plug into your network. Using an IP outside of the scope avoids this potential problem. Also, devices like Routers, Servers, network printers should always have a statically assigned IP address so that the IP never changes.
If you have everything configured correctly, any computer plugged into Router2 will get an IP from the DHCP service on Router1 and will have full LAN and internet connectivity.
The DHCP Scope's Default Gateway IP address should point at Router1 (192.168.0.1) as it is the gateway to the internet.
If you need to add another router, or two or three, simply
set the LAN IP on Router3 to 192.168.0.3 and configure all other TCP/IP
settings the same as Router2. Do the
same for any others you may add. I would
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When you wish to have a separate, and secure, LAN attached to your
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Quick. Answer this:
"To be happy and content, my annual income would need to be $___________."
David Krueger M.D. and John David Mann, authors of The Secret Language of Money: How to Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life, say that in "nine out of ten cases, people's answers indicate that their annual income would need to be twice its current level for them to feel happy and free from money worries."
Was that true for you?
It was for me. Actually, it was the first of many surprises in a book that started off about money and ended up being about psychology. It's about the story we create about money (money as power, love, etc.), the twists and turns that lead us away from our true path (debt, emotional and compulsive spending), and how to create a new story to live conscious financially healthy lives.
If you're in debt, are in denial about your spending habits, feel like you've reached a financial brick wall or are curious about money and how your perception of it can affect your life, then you'll want to pick up this book. It's sprinkled with practical tips on everything from communicating effectively with your partner on money issues to creating a financially sound goal for you or your business. They key here is to be conscious and The Secret of Language of Money does that by revealing the brain science and emotional ties behind our confusion with money.
David Krueger is a former psychiatrist, having practiced and taught psychiatry and psychoanalysis for more than 25 years. He's also currently a business coach. So while you can expect him to use his specific experience with clients to give real-life examples of those struggling with money issues, you won't find any magic "make money now" formulas here. What makes this book unique is that it touches on a touchy subject and brings a comprehensive viewpoint to it. There are a lot of books on how to make money, on emotional spending or on money scams, for example, but this one is able to provide quality information on all of the above by tying it to a common theme — our relationship with money. This means you don't have to be a financial whiz or a psychology expert to appreciate any of it. What you do need is the time to take the many quizzes in the book and the ability to be open and honest about your money issues.
What's the secret about money? It's the fact that we keep our views of money a secret. We deny, avoid and rationalize the money we have and the money we spend. It is an intricate web we weave when taking a seemingly benign object (money) and using it to the detriment of our financial health. This is why even financial whizzes and intelligent and wealthy people make costly decisions every day, spending money they don't have and getting scammed. We fall for the lure of money and what we think it represents. And we fall hard!
"We make money mistakes because we use money to accomplish nonfinancial goals. We seek to use money, the thing, to do what no "thing" can: regulate our moods, increase our self-esteem, and control others…We give money meaning."
It is this meaning — whether we perceive money as power, love, security, or happiness — that we unconsciously use to fulfill a purpose. And that's where Krueger believes money becomes a problem.
To analyze our thoughts on money, he has us answer several questions such as:
- What in your life right now are you compromising for money?
- What have been the three most significant experiences with money in your life?
- How fully and honestly do you speak with your spouse or partner about money, finances, spending, goals, savings, and debt?
- Are you unable to fully enjoy what you purchase because you feel bad, guilty, ashamed, or embarrassed about your purchase?
I have to say I tried all of the exercises and quizzes in the books and I was astounded. Every fear, childhood experience and denial I ever had about money came bubbling to the surface.
It was particularly hard to talk with my spouse about it while answering questions from the Money Exercise for Couples section, for example. It was an eye-opening experience and I was grateful for the section, "Seven Guidelines for Effective Money Conversations" on things like communicating with empathy. Why? Because I have to admit it was a tough conversation.
The only quibble I have with it was that the questions began to sound repetitive after awhile. Given that the rest of the book was so filled to the brim with fresh information, it would have been great if he spent more time thinking up creative ways to ask questions on money. This would have made the experience a lot easier for my spouse who after awhile looked at me with tired eyes and asked, "Didn't we answer this already?"
The rest of the book is spot-on in giving advice on everything from dealing with debt to investing. Because Krueger dealt with so many topics, you won't find any one subject covered in-depth here. What you can expect is to awake from the money stupor you might be in. Instead of reacting out of our own childhood stories of money or out of our fear of it, it will snap you out of your old beliefs and perhaps stop you from compulsive spending or from avoiding debt. One thing's for sure, it will definitely force you to look at the way you really perceive money and how it's affecting your financial wealth and ultimately your life.
The Secret Language of Money: How To Make Smarter Financial Decisions and Live a Richer Life
By David Krueger MD and John David Mann
McGraw-Hill: July 2009
Hardcover, 288 pages


text: [[PageOutline]] meek is a [[PluggableTransports|pluggable transport]] that uses HTTP for carrying bytes and TLS for obfuscation. Traffic is relayed through a third-party server that is hard to block, for example a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network CDN]. It uses a trick called "domain fronting" to talk to a Tor relay while appearing to talk to another domain. * [tor-dev] A simple HTTP transport and big ideas\\ https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-January/006159.html * Alpha bundles:\\ https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html#downloads-alpha == Quick start == Download a browser bundle for your platform: * https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html#downloads-alpha Extract and run it, and then configure these settings: 1. '''Configure''' on the first screen. 1. '''No''' to ''Does this computer need to use a proxy to access the Internet?'', unless you know you need to use a proxy. 1. '''No''' to ''Does this computer's Internet connection go through a firewall that only allows connections to certain ports?'' meek uses port 443, which is allowed through most firewalls. 1. '''Yes''' to ''Does your Internet Service Provider (ISP) block or otherwise censor connections to the Tor Network?'' 1. '''Connect with provided bridges''' and select either '''meek-amazon''' or '''meek-google''' from the ''Transport type'' box. They both work about the same; you can pick either one. If one doesn't work, try the other. Then click '''Connect'''. [[Image(conf-0.png)]] [[Image(conf-1.png)]] [[Image(conf-2.png)]] [[Image(conf-3.png)]] [[Image(conf-4.png)]] To build from source: {{{ git clone https://git.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/meek.git cd meek/meek-client export GOPATH=~/go go get go build tor -f torrc }}} FreeBSD port: http://www.freshports.org/security/meek/ == Overview == meek uses a technique called "domain fronting" to send a message to a Tor relay in a way that is hard to block. Domain fronting is the use of different domain names at different communication layers. The meek-client program builds a special HTTPS request and sends it to an intermediate web service with many domains behind it, such as a CDN. What's special about the request is that one domain name (the "front domain") appears on the "outside" of the request—in the DNS query and [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6066#section-3 SNI]—and a different name appears on the "inside"—in the HTTP [http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.23 Host header]. The censor sees the outside name but the CDN sees the inside name, and forwards the request to the meek-server program running on a Tor bridge. meek-server decodes the body of the request and feeds the data into Tor. Domain fronting and meek work when the censor blocks some domains of a web service but not all of them. Some examples of fronting-capable services are Google, CloudFront, and [[#Webservices|others]]. On Google, we communicate with meek-reflect.appspot.com while appearing to communicate with the front domain www.google.com. On CloudFront, we communicate with d2zfqthxsdq309.cloudfront.net while appearing to communicate with the front domain a0.awsstatic.com. [[Image(meek-diagram.png)]] See [[AChildsGardenOfPluggableTransports#meek|A Child's Garden of Pluggable Transports]] for details of how the protocol looks at the byte level, both at the TLS layer (the part visible to a censor), and at the HTTP layer (the invisible layer that carries the data). == Web services == Here are some web services that support domain fronting. === Google App Engine === {{{ $ wget -O - -q https://www.google.com/ --header 'Host: meek-reflect.appspot.com' I'm just a happy little web server. }}} [https://developers.google.com/appengine/ Google App Engine] is web application hosting on Google's infrastructure. This is the one that has been deployed so far. The front domain can be any Google domain, as far as I can tell, from www.google.com to www.youtube.com to www.orkut.com. There are quotas for unpaid apps: * https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas You can pay to get higher quotas: * https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/pricing The cost is $0.12 per gigabyte, with 1 gigabyte free each day. There are other potential ancillary costs, having to do with things like how often your app is reloaded. === Amazon CloudFront === {{{ $ wget -q -O - https://a0.awsstatic.com/ --header 'Host: d2zfqthxsdq309.cloudfront.net' I'm just a happy little web server. }}} [https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ CloudFront] is a CDN. Your files are hosted on a generated domain name that looks like d2k1ftgv7pobq7.cloudfront.net. All these domains [https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/custom-ssl-domains/ support HTTPS] with a wildcard cert for *.cloudfront.net, and they can front for each other. There is a [https://aws.amazon.com/free/ free tier], good for a year, that limits you to 50 GB per month. [https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ Per-request pricing] differs by client country. Per-gigabyte costs go down the more you transfer, with a maximum of $0.19 per gigabyte. Bandwidth costs to the origin server (i.e., the Tor bridge) are lower. There's an additional cost of about $0.01 per 10,000 requests. CloudFront allows you to use your own TLS domain name for an extra charge, but that appears to put you on a certificate with a bunch of shared SANs, which can't front for domains on different certificates. The [https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/faqs/ FAQ] suggests that non-cacheable, dynamic traffic is fine. Q. Does Amazon CloudFront support delivery of dynamic content? Amazon CloudFront supports all files that can be served over HTTP. This includes dynamic web pages, such as HTML or PHP pages, any popular static files that are a part of your web application, such as website images, audio streams, video streams, media files or software downloads. For on-demand media files, you can also choose to stream your content using RTMP delivery. Amazon CloudFront also supports delivery of live media over HTTP. Q. Does Amazon CloudFront cache POST responses? Amazon CloudFront does not cache the responses to POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, and PATCH requests – these requests are proxied back to the origin server. There's a question of what to use as the front domain. Any particular *.cloudfront.net name could be individually blockable. The generic names cloudfront.net and www.cloudfront.net don't resolve. Maybe pick one with a lot of collateral damage? Or a few, and randomly choose between them? Or connect to an IP, rather than a domain (#12208). Alexa has [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cloudfront.net a list of the most popular cloudfront.net domains] ("Where do visitors go on cloudfront.net?"), which starts out: {{{ d3dsacqprgcsqh.cloudfront.net 14.67% deayhd4nq31b0.cloudfront.net 6.06% d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net 2.72% d3v9w2rcr4yc0o.cloudfront.net 2.26% d13yacurqjgara.cloudfront.net 2.09% }}} There's a [https://www.robtex.com/en/advisory/dns/net/cloudfront/d3dsacqprgcsqh/#shared_pa_ma list of CNAMES] that point to an example cloudfront.net subdomain. It appears that GFW blacklists (through DNS poisoning) *.cloudfront.net, but some names are whitelisted including d3dsacqprgcsqh.cloudfront.net and d1y9yo7q4hy8a7.cloudfront.net (9gag). The names [https://www.robtex.com/dns/a0.awsstatic.com.html a0.awsstatic.com], [https://www.robtex.com/dns/a1.awsstatic.com.html a1.awsstatic.com], and [https://www.robtex.com/dns/d0.awsstatic.com.html d0.awsstatic.com] look promising. I found them in the source of https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/. {{{ wget https://a0.awsstatic.com/favicon.ico --header 'Host: d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net' # AWS's favicon wget https://a0.awsstatic.com/favicon.ico --header 'Host: d3dsacqprgcsqh.cloudfront.net' # 9gag's favicon }}} ==== How to set up a CloudFront reflector ==== Read http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/GettingStarted.html. Skip step 2, which is about uploading your files to S3 (all our data comes straight from the Tor relay). For '''Origin Domain Name''', enter "meek.bamsoftware.com", or wherever your meek-server lives. Fill out the HTTP port fields with the port that your meek-server listens on. For '''Allowed HTTP Methods''', choose "GET, HEAD, PUT, POST, PATCH, DELETE, OPTIONS". For '''SSL Certificate''' select "Default CloudFront Certificate". Set the '''Viewer Protocol Policy''' to "HTTPS Only." [[Image(cloudfront-setup.png)]]\\ You will get a domain name like d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net. Wait about 15 minutes for it to start to resolve. Set up torrc like so: {{{ ClientTransportPlugin meek exec ./meek-client --url=http://d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net/ --log meek-client.log }}} You can front with a different *.cloudfront.net domain. For example, in the source code of http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/GettingStarted.html, we see d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net, so give that as the --front option. {{{ ClientTransportPlugin meek exec ./meek-client --url=http://d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net/ --front=d36cz9buwru1tt.cloudfront.net --log meek-client.log }}} === CloudFlare === {{{ $ wget -O - -q https://cloudflare.com/ --header 'Host: news.ycombinator.com' | grep -io '


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Lund Racing nGauge with a Tune for all 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Shelby GT500 Mustangs.
CJ Pony Parts is very proud to offer you the ability to own Lund Racing's nGauge (P/N: LR-nGauge) with a custom tailored Lund Racing tune designed specifically for your 2007-2014 Shelby GT500 Mustang!
The new nGauge from Lund Racing is a digital gauge that will connect directly to your Shelby GT500's OBD2 port, allowing you the ability to view live data with extremely intuitive data-logging, read and clear codes, reprogram your ECU and do several other functions that have never been so easily packed into one device before. When you purchase an nGauge, you will receive a Lund Racing custom tune that is created precisely for your vehicle based upon your exact modifications. This makes Lund Racing's tuning much more than just a typical "canned" tune. This allows them to continue to set the standard in late-model Ford tuning and will continue to do so for many years to come.
Available Tunes:
- Performance Tune (Supports Full Bolt-on Vehicles with a Intake, Headers, Gears, etc…)
- Boost Tune (Contains ALL Options within the Performance Tune with Full Support for Non-OEM Superchargers, Turbochargers, Nitrous, Injectors, Cylinder Head Work and Camshafts)
ATTENTION: The Boost Tune includes a remote tuning session with Lund Racing and is only available for customers located in the USA or Canada. Because of this, we do not offer the Boost Tune for international customers. If you are an international customer and purchase a Boost Tune by mistake, your order will be cancelled and you may be responsible for a restocking fee and return shipping of the nGauge device.
Please Note: All tunes require 91 Octane or higher fuel.
*To successfully purchase an nGauge and receive the correct tune file for your vehicle, you must provide all the required info on the product page, have a valid email address and have access to a computer so that you can load your tune file onto the Lund Racing nGauge using the supplied USB card or through a mini USB cable (NOT included). CJ Pony Parts will NOT load tune files onto your Lund Racing nGauge before shipping. Your tune will be emailed to you directly from Lund Racing within 2-3 weeks of your order shipping from CJ Pony Parts. Expedited shipping options will NOT speed up the process of receiving your tune from Lund Racing.
Lund Racing nGauge Features:
- 2.4" 320 x 240 Color LCD
- Resistive Touch Screen
- 2 Analog Inputs
- 6 Programmable LEDs
- Chrome Bezel with Brushed Aluminum Overlay
- Thin Design to Save Space
- Auto Sleep/Wake with Ignition
- RS232 and CAN Expansion Port
- Support for Zeitronix Wideband
- Light Sensor with Auto Dimming
- 2 High Speed CAN Channels
- Firmware Update Thru USB or MicroSD
*Due to the dimensions and shape of the Lund Racing nGauge, it is NOT compatible with your typical gauge pods or pillar gauge mounts. We offer two different solutions for mounting the nGauge in your Mustang. See part numbers NGVENT and NGSUCTION.
Lund Racing nGauge Benefits:
- User Configurable Digital Gauges
- Display Up To 6 Gauges at a Time
- Pick From Hundreds of Available OBD2 Signals
- Record Log Files Directly to MicroSD Card
- Programmable Warning Lights
- Built in On-Board Diagnostics
- Daisy Chain up to 7 Gauges Together
- Read and Save Stock File
- Load Hundreds of Tunes from Your MicroSD Card
- Auto Save When Data-logging Stops or Power Loss
- No Updater Software Needed
- First Full File Flash Time is Only 4-5 Minutes
- Flash Updates in Under 1 Minute
Included with the Lund Racing nGauge:
- Touch Stylus
- Micro-SD Card
- Dual T-Slot for Pedestal Mounting
- OBD2 Cable
Manufacturer Part Number: LR-nGauge
Please Note: You must register your nGauge with Lund Racing once you receive it so that you can receive direct support and updates from Lund Racing. Please visit https://support.lundracing.com/hc/en-us/articles/206732117-Lund-Racing-Device-Registration immediately to enable these services. You will also be sent your main configuration file when you receive your tune from Lund Racing.
*The Lund Racing nGauge is locked to Lund Racing tuning only. Other calibrators will NOT be able to use this device to tune your vehicle.
Tech Tip: The PCM Code on your 2007-2009 Shelby GT500 is located under the hood on the passenger side. Locate the white sticker that is on a silver box near the fuse box. It is a 4 character code that usually consists of 3 letters and 1 number.
Tech Tip 2: The PCM Code on your 2010-2014 Shelby GT500 is located under the hood on the passenger side. Locate the white sticker that is on a silver bracket next to the fuse box. It is a 4 character code that usually consists of 3 letters and 1 number.
Lund Racing is the go to source for tuning when it comes to anything late-model Mustang. The tuning services that they provide are all determined by the goals that you have for your car. From Custom Mail Order Tuning, Remote Tuning Sessions and Tune Revisions. With the creation of the new nGauge, Lund Racing has the best available tools on the market to safely get the absolute most out of your Mustang.
Order the Lund Racing nGauge with a Tune for your 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 or 2014 Shelby GT500 Mustang from CJ Pony Parts today!
Note: This item is not CARB (California Air Resource Board) exempt and is not legal for sale or use in the state of California.
Installation Difficulty
Novice skill is required for this installation.


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|Hudson, WI - Farmers Bank at Hudson $3 18__ WI-265 G6a. Proof. PCGS Gem New 65PPQ. This is a rare bank known in proof and a few issued notes. The full series proof sheet it is from sold in the first Krause auction sale. It originally came from the 1990 American Banknote Company Archives auction and included the other $3 impression of this type known. We believe that sheet is still intact, making this the only $3 proof available. Printed from a stunning and intricately engraved Danforth, Wright & Co. New York & Philadelphia $1-$2-$3-$5 plate on India paper, and mounted to its original cardstock. A full red lace tint, using the Cyrus Durand patented devices, crosses the note. The bordering is a deeper rust-red, with numerous repeating micro-lettered textual denominations. Across the center to the left is a very wide vignette, showing a panoramic view of a river spanned by a long bridge; rafting scenes are at front and to the left. At the upper right is large "3" counter. Hole Punch Cancelled through the India paper only. Showing superlative style and color, it was created at the absolute height of American security printing art and technology. Additionally, this is a Gem and another wonderful Obsolete proof. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Realized $5,640.00. Newman VI (Heritage Auctions, 4/2015), lot 19398. Description courtesy of Heritage Auctions.
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While Android is still one of the most rapidly growing mobile platforms, Google still has yet to address some of the more serious concerns regarding the security of their offerings. With devices being released and activated at a rate of 850,000 per day, coupled with the ability for users to use tools that allow for one-click rooting, Google has found themselves in one hell of a predicament. Google's "Bouncer" is supposed to reduce the amount of malware present in the Play Store — which surprisingly has already been dissected by Duo Security.
Today, researchers from North Carolina State University have spilled the beans on clickjacking Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In the demo, an application is installed on the phone which allows for redirecting application shortcuts. This means a user can launch an application, but another one is actually called instead — perhaps a malicious application. Instead of the stock Android browser launching, an identical browser launches, but all textbox entries are written out to a log file for later transporting to an attacker.
The demo device is a stock Google Nexus S running the last version of Ice Cream Sandwich available, 4.0.4.
If the name 'Xuxian Jiang' is familiar to you, it's because he is also behind numerous research papers showing off the sad state of affairs with Android. While the chances that this has been fixed in the recently announced Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) is slim, Jiang has a good track record with Google, as he is the founder of the Android Malware Genome Project. For the time being, you should probably put your Android phone in a shoebox and go back to using a Nokia 3310.


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COMPLETELY SOLD OUT AT STEIFF ... BUT ONE LAST ONE AVAILABLE THROUGH US!Second in the Series of Billboard Teddy bears
genuine cotton, fully (5x) jointedlimited edition of 2,007 pieces worldwide with gold-plated "Button in Ear" 30 cm / 12 inches Caution: This product is not a toy and is intended for adult collectors only. UPC: 4001505037191Pop-Art goes Steiff! Even world-famous, exceptional artist and father of Pop-Art, Andy Warhol, would certainly have enjoyed this Teddy bear! The colourful billboard Teddy bear with a strong accent on design pays homage to modern contemporary art as well as to the founder of our company, Margarete Steiff, who, with her creative spirit and handcrafting skills, revolutionised the world of toy enthusiasts and collectors. This lovable pop-art bear follows in the footsteps of the first billboard Teddy bear: the catalogue Teddy bear.The motif covering the bear, a pop-art image of company founder Margarete Steiff, had its premiere at the Steiff stand at the 2005 Nuremberg Toy Fair. Today, the large pop-art portrait of the mother of all Teddy bears adorns the conference room in "Die Welt von Steiff".


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Kent Swig is a President of Swig Equities, LLC, a privately owned real estate investment and development company. Mr. Swig's responsibilities include setting the strategic direction of the company, overseeing acquisitions, development and managing the day to day operations of the firm.
Since 2001, Swig Equities has purchased and/or is in the process of developing more than $3 billion of properties, including holdings in Downtown Manhattan's Financial District (FiDi). This neighborhood comprises the following office buildings: 110 William Street; 80 Broad Street; 90 Broad Street; 44 Wall Street; 48 Wall Street; 5 Hanover Square; 770 Lexington Avenue among others. Swig Equities residential investments include The Sheffield, 322 West 57th Street, a 58-story mixed-use building consisting of 582 residential units, 109,000 square feet of commercial office, 8,840 square feet of retail, and a 372-car parking garage; 58 apartments within the 198 unit residential building located at 401 East 89th Street and others.
Kent Swig's other titles and holdings include:
- Owner and Co-Chairman of Terra Holdings, LLC, the leading Company in luxury residential real estate sales, rentals and property management in New York City, as well as a leader in commercial property services, appraisals, consulting and insurance. Terra Holdings, LLC, is the parent company of Brown Harris Stevens, Halstead Property, as well as Vanderbilt Holdings.
- Owner and President of Helmsley Spear, LLC, commercial real estate firm, focusing on asset and property management, investment sales third party office and retail leasing, as well as capital advisory services.
- Owner of Falcon Pacific Construction, LLC, a company focusing on construction, renovation and repositioning of projects;
- Principal in the Swig Company, a family-owned real estate and hotel company, located in San Francisco.
Kent Swig holds Bachelor of Arts Degree in Chinese History from Brown University. After earning his degree, Kent attended Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, where he was selected for the Law Review.
Mr. Swig resides in Manhattan with his two sons. Read more information about Mr. Swig's social contributions and see Kent's LinkedIn profile.
Charitable Organization Memberships
- Board of Directors of The State of Israel Bonds, 2002 – present.
- Board of Trustees of Central Synagogue, 2005 – present.
- President of The American Friends of the Jaffa Institute, 1990 – present.
- Chairman of the Real Estate and Construction Division of the State of Israel Bonds, 2001 – 2009.
- Board of Directors of Marin Academy High School, in San Rafael, CA, 1984 – 1987.
Civil and Professional Organization Memberships
- Board of Directors of the Alliance for Downtown New York, 2005 – present
- Board of Directors of the Realty Foundation, 1995 – present
- Board of Governors of the Association of Builders and Owners of New York (ABO), 1989 – present
- Board of Directors of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) 1996 – 2001, 2003 – 2010.
- Board of Directors of the Corporate and Congressional Division of The United Nations Associations of the United States of America (UNA-USA), 1989 – 1995.
- Board of Directors of the New York Building Congress, 1998 – 1994.
- Speaker, The Soho Loft, 2013 – Present
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- Honoree of the Association of Real Estate Women (AREW), 2008.
- Hero Award given by the Police Museum of New York, 2007.
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- Israel's Peace Medal given by The State of Israel Bonds, 2003.
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text: Emily Allen is the Digital Engagement Coordinator for the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). She is responsible for creating, updating, and monitoring social media content, graphic, audio, and visual designs, and developing outreach campaigns found on all their social media accounts. She also creates and edits video content for the agency. During the Baltimore Civil Unrest, Emily was able to use social media and geo-location in order to assist law enforcement, the governor's office, and MEMA staff, with situational awareness and public safety.


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Due to some technical and scheduling difficulties, we're not posting the podcast today. Our heartfelt apologies! However, the podcast will appear later this week. Then you'll be able to hear Rick Kennedy and Al Zambone conclude their conversation on Cotton Mather.
And, for once, here's a little advance notice: next week Al will be talking with Megan Kate Nelson about her outstanding book Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War. It's a little environmental history, a little military history, some literary history, some landscape history, all mixed together to make delicious Good History®.
Here are some suggestions of what you can do while waiting:
- Subscribe to Historically Thinking on iTunes, if you haven't already. If you have, why not then give us a review? Our heirs and relicts will appreciate this, one day.
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- After doing one or all of those, go over to the Colonial Williamsburg site and check out their latest summer game Rev Quest: The King's Advance. If your wondering why the focus on games, that might indicate you should listen to Episode 18's conversation with Kellian Adams.


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Central to Their Lives
Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
Edited by Lynne Blackman
Foreword by Sylvia Yount
Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South
Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation." The Virginia native's creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame significant barriers in her quest to make and even see art, including serious vision problems, polio, and paralysis. And then there was her gender. In 1957 Blaine was hailed by Life magazine as someone to watch, profiled alongside four other emerging painters whom the journalist praised "not as notable women artists but as notable artists who happen to be women."
In Central to Their Lives, twenty-six noted art historians offer scholarly insight into the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South. Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early 1960s, this volume examines the complex challenges these artists faced in a traditionally conservative region during a period in which women's social, cultural, and political roles were being redefined and reinterpreted.
The presentation—and its companion exhibition—features artists from all of the Southern states, including Dusti Bongé, Anne Goldthwaite, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Ida Kohlmeyer, Loïs Mailou Jones, Alma Thomas, and Helen Turner. These essays examine how the variables of historical gender norms, educational barriers, race, regionalism, sisterhood, suffrage, and modernism mitigated and motivated these women who were seeking expression on canvas or in clay. Whether working from studio space, in spare rooms at home, or on the world stage, these artists made remarkable contributions to the art world while fostering future generations of artists through instruction, incorporating new aesthetics into the fine arts, and challenging the status quo.
Sylvia Yount, the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a foreword to the volume.
Lynne Blackman is the director of communications for the Johnson Collection.
The Johnson Collection has been hailed by the Magazine Antiques for its work illuminating the rich history and diverse cultures of the American South. With holdings that offer an extensive survey of artistic activity from the late eighteenth century to the present day, the collection advances interest in the dynamic role that the art of the South plays in the larger context of American art and contributes to the canon of art historical study. Located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Johnson Collection is a recipient of the Elizabeth O'Neill Verner Award for the Arts, South Carolina's highest honor in the field.
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In order to tackle the many tasks of regional collaboration, the LEADER region has a full-time team covering a wide range of experiences and professional areas.
Ingeborg Hödl, MA
… has been World Heritage Manager and managing director of the Verein Welterbegemeinden Wachau association and Arbeitskreis Wachau Dunkelsteinerwald Regionalentwicklungs GmbH since the middle of September 2018.
Born and raised in Amstetten, the Lower Austrian graduated with a diploma as an International Assistant Manager at the European Management Academy – EWS Vienna. She subsequently studied History of Art in Vienna and at Pace University in New York. She worked for Christie's auction house and in the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. After 10 years in culture and event management, she advanced her knowledge in the area of the preservation of historical monuments and completed a Master's degree in Heritage Conservation at the University of Bamberg. She has since collaborated as a project manager on investigations of historical buildings in Austria and abroad. She recently worked for the St. Stephen's Cathedral construction site hut within the scope of an EU project (masonry consolidation/nanotechnology).
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Mag. Hannes Seehofer
... is the nature conservation expert in the office. Hannes Seehofer has worked at the Wachau office since 2003. He led the LIFE Wachau nature project from 2003 to 2009. He then managed the LIFE+ project "River Habitats Wachau-Mostviertel" from 2009 to 2014 and the LIFE+ project "Wilderness Wetland Wachau" since 2015. In addition, Hannes Seehofer is responsible as project manager for further nature conservation projects throughout the region.
Hannes Seehofer grew up in St. Pölten and studied Biology at the University of Vienna. He has professional experience of project management in the field of nature conservation (wetland restoration, contractual nature conservation). The part-time vintner and wine tavern owner lives in Furth-Palt.
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DI Elisa Besenbäck, MSc
... came to the region as a project assistant in April 2016 and has supported various regional projects and collaborated on nature conservation projects. In February 2018, she covered for the manager of the LEADER Association of Wachau-Dunkelsteinerwald, who was away on maternity leave.
After gaining a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture, Elisa Besenbäck completed a Master's degree in Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture as well as a Master's degree in Organic Farming at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. During her studies, she completed periods abroad at the universities of Florence, Budapest and Ames (USA). Elisa Besenbäck comes from Kleinnondorf/Rappottenstein in the Waldviertel.
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DI Katharina Sedelmaier
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Katharina Sedelmaier completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. She chose Regional Development as her major subject. Before working for the Wachau-Dunkelsteinerwald region, she was employed in a landscape planning office. Katharina Sedelmaier comes from Schrems and lives in Baumgarten (municipality of Mautern an der Donau).
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Stefanie Dornstauder, MA (maternity leave)
... has been working for the region since April 2010. At the beginning, she was responsible for the Dunkelsteinerwald working group and the model climate and energy region of Wachau-Dunkelsteinerwald. From June 2015 to September 2017, she took over management of the LEADER Association of Wachau-Dunkelsteinerwald. Having returned to work after her maternity leave, Stefanie Dornstauder has worked in project management.
After completing her schooling at the Stiftgymnasium Melk, she studied Product Marketing and Project Management as well as Product Marketing and Innovation Management at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Campus Wieselburg. Stefanie Dornstauder lives in Roggendorf (municipality of Schollach).


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Higher Education
Many of our students go onto higher education. Students receive one to one support from their personal tutor to help them through the whole process. Extra support is also given by Angela Gregory, Nikki Wills & Tony Dann who can all be contacted in Student Services.
Students need to be sure they choose the right course at the right university and at first this may seem bewildering and overwhelming. If they spend time researching carefully and discussing their options through they will be rewarded by the satisfaction of finding what's right for them.
Everything you need to know about University is available via the UCAS dedicated parents site.
Go to www.ucas.com/parents
A new comparison site established by two recent graduates. The site aims to help you make the best choice about university. Compare league tables, entry requirements, description of courses, rent and employments prospects all in one place. Join the forum to find out about the social side of university with hidden gems from past students. Have a look – loads of valuable information and advice to help you decide.


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Shakeouts and Market Crashes
Stock-market crashes tend to follow run-ups in prices. These episodes look like bubbles that gradually inflate and then suddenly burst. We show that such bubbles can form in a Zeira-Rob type of model in which demand size is uncertain. Two conditions are sufficient for this to happen: A declining hazard rate in the prior distribution over market size and a positively sloped supply of capital to the industry. For the period 1971-2001 we fit the model to the Telecom sector.
Published Versions
Alessandro Barbarino & Boyan Jovanovic, 2007. "Shakeouts And Market Crashes," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 48(2), pages 385-420, 05. citation courtesy of


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Moffett Field History
Aerial view of Moffett Field in 1938.
In 1939 the NACA established the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at Moffett Field, located on the border of Sunnyvale and Mountain View, California. Through time, Moffett Field has hosted the Army Air Corps, Navy, NATS, MATS, NASA, and the National Guard. Since 1994 NASA has served as custodian of Moffett Field ("Moffett Federal Airfield").
The NASA Ames Historic Preservation Office coordinates with state and federal agencies on historic preservation issues related to historic places, historic landmarks and historic districts at Moffett Field. See a brief history of Moffett Field prepared by the office titled, "Moffett Field History: 1933 - Today".
The Moffett Field Historical Society and Museum preserves historical artifacts from the Navy and Army at Moffett Field. Its goal is to capture the heritage of Moffett Field and to pass this information on to future generations.
Historic Hangar One was slated to become SpaceWorld Hangar One, a planned interactive space and science center, but polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been found in the building which, due to their toxicity to humans and the environment, must be remediated or contained. The US Navy, in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, Regional Water Quality Control Board, and other community stakeholders, is in the process of determining how best to remove the threat the hangar poses to the public and the environment. At this juncture, the decision to either tear down or clean up Hangar One has not been reached. More information is available from NASA Ames Environmental Services.


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e2v's objective is to be a global leader in the design and supply of specialised components and sub-systems that enable the world's leading systems companies to deliver innovative solutions for medical and science, aerospace and defence, and commercial and industrial markets.
e2v has four divisions:
• High performance electron devices and subsystems for applications including defence electronic countermeasures, radiotherapy cancer treatment, and radar systems
• Advanced imaging sensors and cameras for applications including industrial process control, dental X-ray systems, space science and life sciences
• Specialist semiconductors, including logic, memory and microprocessors for high reliability mission-critical programs in avionics, defence and telecommunications, sensor data acquisition, and high speed data conversion
• A range of professional sensing products for applications including fire, rescue and security thermal imaging, X-ray spectroscopy, and military surveillance, targeting and guidance
For the year ended 31 March 2009, e2v achieved sales of ?233m and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. In October 2008 e2v acquired QP semiconductor, a leading US-based designer and supplier of specialty semiconductor components used in military and aerospace applications, establishing e2v's first US manufacturing base.
The Company is headquartered in the United Kingdom and has approximately 1700 employees in six European and US design, development and manufacturing sites. Sales and technical support are provided by four global sales and support territory offices to a total of more than 50 countries.
e2v continues to be involved in many high-profile programmes, including:
• Airbus A380
• European Space Agency Gaia mission to map our galaxy
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NOTE: Brobro with the camera says the S word at the 0:13 mark.
This is a video of a golden eagle trying to snatch a kid up in a park and fly away with it. I think the kid was too heavy though, because the bird drops it just a couple feet off the ground. For the record, this is NOT where babies come from (those are storks). SPOILER: The video is actually a CGI fake, but don't let that stop you from showing it to your mom and listening to her scream about it. *gasps* "That poor child!"
Hit the jump and remember to keep an eye on the sky if you're out with young children. Unless you're driving. If you're driving then both eyes on the road, please.
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On 21 February 2001, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was made a Cardinal by Pope St. John Paul II. To mark this 17th anniversary, Vatican News presents this exclusive video of that event and other important moments in Pope Francis' life.
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I was married and having an affair with another married man. I became
pregnant. I had the abortion to cover up the affair.
It was very painful. The counselor there told me that I would feel some
discomfort, but it hurt a lot worse than that. [Afterward I was] admitted to the
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This makes UCLH the largest centre in the UK and one of the largest centres in Europe, as well as a centre for complex surgery. This is enabling more men, like patients Jeff (see below) and David (see link here) to live normal, fully functioning lives beyond prostate cancer.
Prostatectomy (the removal of the prostate) is used to treat prostate cancer. Robotic surgery has been a game changer for this procedure, as Prof John Kelly, consultant urology surgeon and clinical lead explained, "Conventional prostatectomy is a major procedure taking three to four hours and involving a two to three night stay in hospital and a lengthy recovery. Although surgery removes the cancerous tumour, patients are left with life changing after effects like incontinence and impotence which can be devastating.
"Robotic surgery has changed that – it gives us the precision to remove the cancerous tumour preserving the tissues and functions around it. It's given men their lives back after prostate cancer". As robotic surgery is minimally invasive, patients can expect to leave hospital the day after their surgery and be back to their day-to-day lives in two weeks.
Establishing a high volume centre means better outcomes for patients – results from surgeons working in centres that treat more patients are very good compared to national averages. Prof Kelly added, "There's good evidence from centres across Europe that very large specialist surgery centres are the way forward - in London it makes sense to have a "super centre" for prostate surgery. Reaching our 500th prostatectomy in a year for the first time is a significant step".
Jeff Melsom from Brentwood in Essex was diagnosed with prostate cancer in May this year at the age of 72. He was advised by his medical team at Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust that a radical prostatectomy to remove his prostate would be the best course of action given the stage of his tumour.
Jeff said: "I had my radical prostatectomy in August at UCLH and my recovery so far has been excellent. My doctors are really pleased with how I am doing and I have been able to get back to my normal routines pretty quickly. I was really pleased to have access to this new robotic surgery at a hospital that has so much expertise in this type of treatment. I found it very reassuring to be treated by experts and didn't mind travelling a little bit further into London for my operation."
More patients like Jeff are able to have robotic surgery after a change in the way some cancer services are provided in north central and east London and parts of Essex in 2015. This reconfiguration, led by the hospitals and clinicians that comprise London Cancer, shares resources and expertise across the region. Patients go to their local hospital for diagnosis, come to UCLH for specialist surgery before returning to their local hospital for follow up treatment. Prof Kelly added, "This re-organisation of services means more patients have access to state-of-the-art robotic surgery and the benefits is brings and has enabled us to expand and improve our service. We are now an internationally renowned centre for robotic surgery and train clinicians from all over the world. Our growing expertise means that we can treat the most complex cases and that outcomes for patients are getting better and better"
See article in Evening Standard, 24 November 2017
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Parents' heartache after teenager falls to his death at Canary Wharf building site
PUBLISHED: 15:00 12 July 2018
The parents of a 19-year-old who fell to his death from an office building site in Canary Wharf have spoken of their heartache.
Student Samuel Clarke left a New Year's Eve party at The O2 Arena last year but ended up getting into the One Bank Street construction site in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Security guards confronted Samuel but he disappeared inside. Guards searched the area after CCTV showed no signs of him leaving, but he went undetected. The police were not called. His body was discovered a day later.
Parents Alan and Charlotte Clarke said: "We were devastated at the news of Sam's death. We could not understand how he gained access to the site, why he was not escorted off and why he had not been discovered until the next day.
"We feel very strongly that Samuel was let down by those in control of the construction site and we miss him very much. We hope that no other family will have to go through our ordeal."
Mr and Mrs Clarke felt the guards never looked for their son properly and alleged they were looking at computer screens instead of looking after Samuel.
St Pancras assistant coroner Sarah Bourke at an inquest in June concluded Samuel's death resulted from an accidental fall "from height" which happened at about 2.30am on New Year's Day.
On Tuesday, senior coroner Mary Hassell issued a prevention of future deaths report over safety concerns.
The report has been sent to Sir George Iacobescu chairman of developer Canary Wharf Group, behind building the 27-storey block.
It reveals Samuel was not killed by the fall's impact and if he was found earlier his life could have been saved.
The coroner noted a 30cm gap at the base of a turnstile entrance was reduced by 5cm after Samuel's death.
Ms Hassell said: "I am concerned that the turnstile is still accessible to unauthorised personnel – including children."
She noted security staff are now told to call police if an intruder is unfound.
But she said there was no plan in place to call in staff familiar with the site to help with a future search.
Matthew Claxson from law firm Moore Blatch, acting for the family at the inquest, said: "The report is a serious step for the coroner to have taken and one can only hope it will help to avoid this happening again."
Canary Wharf Group declined to comment.
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How to Fasten Composite Decking
With most deck applications, deck screws or deck nails are driven directly through the wooden deck boards and into the joists beneath them. With composite decking, fastening down the deck boards requires a completely different system. Except for the first and the last boards, screws will not be driven into the board face, which gives a composite deck a very clean and professional look.
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY Englishwoman Elizabeth Chudleigh was a duchess, countess, bigamist, and exhibitionist. But then Georgians were always ones to talk, weren't they?
I encountered her a few days ago while researching the romantic novel spoof I, Libertine, for which she was artistic inspiration.
Elizabeth's father, who died when she was five or six, was Colonel Thomas Chudleigh, lieutenant governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, a veterans' retirement home founded by Charles II in 1682. Her mother had no great claims to fame, but this didn't suit Elizabeth.
Elizabeth's first run-in with Georgian nobility came in 1743 when, at age 22, she was appointed a Maid of Honour to Augusta, Princess of Wales (one of only four Princesses of Wales who never rose to Queen Consort). Augusta spoke no English; Elizabeth, no German. The latter's English, though, displayed an entertaining combination of being vivacious and witty, yet coarse and vulgar.
You know the type. She also liked flatulence jokes.
In 1744, Elizabeth and young naval officer Augustus John Hervey secretly married, despite the fact that the pair had barely five shillings to rub together. What's more, if we're to believe her later claim, they didn't rub together much at all.
Two days after the wedding, Hervey left for duty in the West Indies. Elizabeth kept the nuptials mum because Maids of Honour, by quaint definition, were supposed to be maids in fact. (Which reminds me of the Abbott and Costello riff: "Did you give the bride away?" "Not me; I kept my mouth shut.")
Whilst Hervey preserved the West Indian slave trade, back home Elizabeth got proposals of marriage left and right. When Hervey returned to England and heard of this, he was shocked, shocked, and they didn't talk for three months. When they finally did, it was reported, "The fruit of this meeting was an addition of a boy to the human race." Alas, the child died after a few months.
Augie and Liz decided to separate. However, what with the wedding having been a secret…. She opted to keep the separation secret as well, and this is when exhibitionism entered her life.
In April 1749, a masquerade ball was held in honor of George II's Jubilee celebrations. Elizabeth attended as Iphigenia of Greek mythology, whom she portrayed perhaps to minimalist excess.
Elizabeth's costume went Perrier's Iphigenia one better. According to a contemporary source, it was "flesh-coloured silk so nicely and closely fitted to her body as to produce a perfect review of the unadorned mother of mankind." The Georgian Gentleman cites at his most entertaining website that a guest at the ball said "she gave the appearance of being 'so naked ye high Priest might easily inspect ye Entrails of ye Victim.' "
King George was impressed, with the costume, no doubt, and asked Elizabeth whether he might touch her breast. According to the Georgian Gentleman, she responded by suggesting "something softer—and promptly placed the King's hand on his head."
You had to be there.
Elizabeth had opportunity to become a royal mistress. However, she knew her English history and also the Hanoverian kings' notorious habit of stiffing people.
Instead, by 1752, Elizabeth and Evelyn Pierrepont, Second Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, became an item. Her marriage to Hervey might have been an impediment, but Elizabeth adopted, indeed possibly invented, the practice that the best defense is a good offense. She petitioned the Ecclesiastical Court for a declaration that she had never been married. And, of course, since the marriage had been secret….
On February 10, 1769, the court pronounced "that the said Elizabeth Chudleigh was and now is a Spinster…." A month later, said spinster, age 48, became Pierrepont's bride and the Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Georgian customs being what they were, it was okay to be someone's mistress, but a bigamist?? Quelle scandale!
Evie and Liz enjoyed the country life for a few years, pretty much shunned by the royal court. She came to share his hobbies of fishing and cricket, even to arranging a Ladies Cricket match. However, the good times didn't last; the duke died in 1773.
When Hervey (remember him?) lost his brother in 1775, he finally inherited the title Earl of Bristol. Elizabeth, at least in one sense, became the Countess of Bristol, and then things got complicated.
A Pierrepont nephew brought a charge of bigamy with hopes of contesting Elizabeth's inheritance. She played the Spinster gambit again, but was tried and found guilty by a jury of her peers, real Peers, what with her being a duchess or maybe a countess.
Elizabeth managed to retain the inheritance, left town, and hit the royal courts of the continent. There, Pope Clement XIV, Catherine the Great, Stefano Zannowich (aka Hanibal), and others overlooked her earlier peccadillos, or maybe simply were entertained by her reminiscences.
The Duchess of Kingston, her preferred title, died, age 67, at her estate in French chateau country on August 26, 1788.
A life well if complexly lived. ds
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Many young men are in a state of limbo because they're confused about when boyhood ends and manhood begins. Our culture has no identifiable rite of passage to announce, affirm, or celebrate this transition.
Many cultures around the world understand the need for such rites of passage. There's an African tribe where, on the day of induction, one of the boy's adult teeth is knocked out. Males who still have that tooth act and are treated like boys. Males who have lost that tooth act and are treated like men. The induction ceremony is often painful and frightening for an adolescent boy. But afterward he flaunts his painful wounds as proud proof of his manhood.
One Native American nation had a similar rite of passage. During the winter of induction, a boy was taken to a frozen lake. A hole was cut in the ice through which the boy dove three times to the bottom of the lake. Each time he brought up a stone from the bottom, which, from that day forward, he carried in a pouch around his neck as tangible proof that he was a man.
Of course, I'm not suggesting the reinstitution of these particular rites of passage! I'm only stating that no appropriate rites of passage exist in our society. I do, however, think we need them. Today's young men usually have no idea when the transition to manhood should take place, leaving them confused, frustrated, and angry as a result.


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Hello coaches. I have been doing these mini episodes over the last couple of weeks on Client Management topics for the series called Smart Mindsets & Habits.
I'm getting some really positive comments about these mini's!
Today's topic is … should you send gifts to your coaching clients?
The first answer is that it's totally up to you and you should always do what you feel is right. I think that every coach deserves the opportunity to try things out and see how they work for them. We're not all the same.
That said, I'll tell you that I have changed my tune about giving gifts to clients over the years.
When I first started my business, I got pretty precious about every aspect of my business. I bought all these beautiful little envelopes and cards and all sorts of paraphernalia with my coaching business logo on it. (That was the old fashioned thing that people said you should do and I bought into it.)
I would also send my clients birthday gifts and Christmas gifts. I put a lot of thought into them.
But over the years, I noticed that I wasn't getting the reception that I really wanted to from giving those gifts. And I think that sometimes gifts are so personal. We all have such different tastes.
Giving a gift to a client can sometimes burden the client and burden the relationship. So my new thought about it is not to give gifts.
If you do give gifts, whether they are for birthdays or Christmas or a similar holiday, I would suggest that you keep them small and relatable and perhaps something that's relatively generic, such as an Amazon gift card. That is unless you know for sure that a specific gift is going to land with your client.
For example, if a client mentions a book they want, just send it to them even if it's not yet their birthday. Then you will have done them a great favor and they'll feel that you listened to them.
I think that gifts that have your logo on it, such as a cup or a pen, come across a bit salesy and they might even do the reverse of what you want them to do.
Now there is a circumstance that I still give gifts that I feel really good about …
When a past client or a colleague refers a new client to me, someone who enrolls in my long term program, I like to respond in a personal way.
Recently one of my colleagues — a fellow trainer at coach Training Alliance, the place where I wrote curriculum — sent me a number of clients who all enrolled!
I called her and thanked her then said: "I want to treat you to something that you don't normally treat yourself to." She loves massage. So, I asked her who her massage therapist is and got his contact information. I called him and said: "I want to gift my friend with a number of sessions with you."
I bought her four massages and sent her an email saying: "You've got four sessions waiting for you with your massage therapist." She loved that gift.
Reward past clients for referrals. They feel special when it's something personal that they really want.
Now, if you have something that you really want to put into the hands of your clients at a special time in their lives, then you should do that
These days, because I have so much expertise in helping coaches build a successful business, I have a lot of guides I've written that are primers. I like to gift those out to my clients throughout my signature program.
And because there's a constant flow of extras coming to them, I think that there isn't any expectation or real desire for any other kind of gift.
I hope you got value out of this mini episode!
The Next Episode is: How to Assess if a Potential Clients is a Good Fit for You


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Google opening Android Nation retail stores across India
Web giant's latest attempt is further aimed at penetrating the Indian market with Android devices, and will see retail stores set up across India starting in New Delhi later this year.
Nitin Puri discusses key mobile communications developments in India, home to one of the world's largest mobile phone population.
Web giant's latest attempt is further aimed at penetrating the Indian market with Android devices, and will see retail stores set up across India starting in New Delhi later this year.
The IT hardware hub will soon feature reportedly the country's first 24/7 electronics store, HOT, or House of Technology. The concept will be welcome by those working odd hours and also be popular for credit top up services.
With the rise of Internet connectivity at home and over mobile, and the success of local online Indian retailers, the local e-tailing market is set grow over a hundred-fold in nine years.
The currency has taken a tumble in the past few months against the U.S. dollar. This could hurt mobile handset makers who already have small margins and rely on volume sales in India.
A common repository has been set up for customizable and configurable applications that can be re-used by various government agencies to speed up development and avoid duplication of efforts and costs.
The manufacturer has become the market leader with a 15 percent local market share, ahead of Micromax and Apple. That's even without factoring in the numbers from its government-backed Aakash budget tablets.
Common sense would prevail, in addition to laws in many jurisdictions around the world, including India, that using a hands-free device while driving can in fact be distracting for the driver and lead to driver error.
Many associate HCL and HCL Infosystems as tech companies specializing in outsourcing. But many may not realize HCL Infosystems has gradually been releasing both smartphones and tablets in the Indian market over the past year.
The Japanese electronics firm, traditionally more active in the laptop space, has launched three new Android tablets to its Excite lineup.
Some developers are tapping into the niche market of mobile app users who prefer to use local Indian languages instead of English, and this presents another huge opportunity for m-education.
Samsung's Galaxy Mega 6.3 phablet and Galaxy Mega 5.8 reinforce how mobile devices are growing larger, and Indian consumers will now have to decide if they buy this design trend or stick with smaller handsets.
Traditional console game companies such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo need to address the growing popularity of mobile games, or face the prospect of being irrelevant like Atari.
Goan native Andrea Colaco, with her co-partner Ahmed Kirmani, wins US$100,000 from MIT to develop their "3dim" gesture-sensing tech with interested mobile manufacturers.
To remain competitive and profitable, Indian mobile operators are gradually increasing tariff rates as lowering prices and growing subscriber base are no longer deemed beneficial tactics. But what does that mean for customers?
The South Korean electronics giant has introduced a 15 percent cashback scheme to make its devices more affordable, following a similar move by Apple recently with its iPhone 5.