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Shelby American has unveiled the 2013 GT350. It features revised styling and several new options.
Shelby American has unveiled the 2013 GT350.
Available as a coupe or convertible, the updated model features Recaro seats, a new rear valance, restyled wheels and an extended color palette. The car can also be equipped with an optional panoramic glass roof.
Power comes from a naturally-aspirated 5.0-liter V8 engine that produces 430 hp (321 kW / 436 PS). If that's not enough, the engine can be equipped with a supercharger that enables it to develop 525 hp (391 kW / 532 PS) or 624 hp (465 kW / 633 PS). A six-speed manual is standard, but a six-speed automatic is optional on cars equipped with the naturally-aspirated V8.
Customers can also order a one-piece driveshaft, a cold air intake, high-performance brakes and a color-coordinated billet aluminum engine cap set.
Production will be limited to 350 units and pricing starts at $26,995 (€21,305 / £17,210) - not including the base price of the Ford Mustang GT.


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Bar pilots brave a treacherous Bay cont.
Manipulating a container ship, one might say, is like coaching a hippo to dance on a dime. Consider that the ship is 300 meters long, 40 meters wide and may have as little as 2 to 5 feet draft between it and the Bay floor. The NYK Atlas is carrying 6,500 20-foot containers. That's a lot of videogames, clothes, computers, building materials and Barbie dolls.
Asked if he's ever touched the Bay floor, Miller shakes his head and shudders, "That's not good."
As the vessel proceeds down the channel between Oakland and Alameda, a sailboat floats in front, seemingly oblivious to the hulking presence towering behind it.
The Atlas captain and the pilot become irritable. This impasse wastes time and they are already facing considerable stress today. They expect the sailboat's skipper to do what's necessary ? get out of the way. Seconds tick by with no diversionary action from the diminutive craft. Finally, the container ship sounds its alarm, deep, low and unmistakable. The sailboat glides to the Alameda side of the channel.
Meanwhile, there is a delay among the three vessels lined up at the port. One is moving later than anticipated.
The Atlas prepares to make its 180-degree turn so it ends up facing the proper direction. The tugboats are crucial in this operation.
"The ship's engine drives us forward and aft while the tugs push us side to side," Miller said.
Although the pilot is giving commands to the tugboats behind the Atlas, he can't see them because the mass of containers stacked up on deck obscure visibility.
The bar pilot and the captain go out on deck to observe the tugs as they pull the ship's stern in an arc with only 20 feet to spare at either end. The maneuver takes 45 minutes.
By the time the ship is turned and looking at the Bay Bridge, the other vessels have departed. Miller steers the ship alongside the dock at the AP Moeller terminal.
'We are right here'
Miller hands Capt. Nikolai a sheaf of papers to sign: the San Francisco Bar Pilots invoice for their services for this move ? $5,000.
Miller thinks the price is well-earned, but cheap for four hours of work.
"The movements go on seven days a week, 365 days a year," Miller said. "When you're cuddling up to your significant other in the evening and discussing how terrible the weather outside is, we are right here. We board 12 miles outside of the pilot station, where it gets really rough. It was not pretty there today. Where we board is extremely dangerous. The pilot boat was going 25 feet up and down."
Since the amalgamation of bar and river pilots in 1984, San Francisco Bar Pilots have maintained a safety record of 99.74 percent of all vessel movements in the Bay without pilot error, according to statistics from the pilots association.
Last year, Miller was the bar pilot who brought in the luxury liner Queen Mary 2, which is 113 feet longer than the original Queen Mary.
"I was very honored," he said.
Asked about Cota, Miller expressed only concern for his former colleague. But the accident has been stressful for Miller.
"While I always knew I had a big responsibility to shoulder, when that happened, I realized, my god, this is really a big, important job," Miller said. "Look at the consequences when something goes wrong. I always knew that, but this event reinforced that."
So far, Miller has had no mishaps in 21 years of service. But he doesn't discount the possibility that it may happen, considering all the challenges of the job. But he doesn't expect to lose his license or livelihood.
In the past, that was the worst that could happen to a bar pilot's career.
Today, the pilot of the Cosco Busan is facing criminal charges under environmental laws.
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If you are trying to use quickbuild, and the DVI viewer does not open, chances are you have an error. If you have an error, it will be visible in the log file / message area, and the summary of the error will be given.
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You know those little tricks of the trade that your mom always had up her sleeve when you were growing up?
There are some products around the house that you could use to keep your body in tip top shape. One of these well-known ingredients is apple cider vinegar. Sounds familiar?
Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is fermented apple cider that can pack a big punch with just a couple of tablespoons. This long lived home remedy can help you in a number of ways.
You may be already using it for these holidays but why not use it for our health too?
Enzymes are critical for your body and ACV is full of enzymes. When taken before meals it helps your body produce more bile, which can support your body's breakdown of food. It can also help with indigestion, heartburn, gas, and bloating.
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text: Careers Leadership The following three innovation exercises were all tested by real Canadian CIOs Shane Schick @ShaneSchick Published: September 28th, 2015Like any other business leaders, CIOs may glaze over during keynote speeches and start looking down at their smartphones during a so-so session, but give them a problem to solve and you'll never see a more engaged group of executives.This was the second year in a row I led a workshop with nearly 30 different IT leaders at our annual CIO Innovation Summit in Muskoka, which was sponsored by Rogers. The participants came from a variety of backgrounds and industry sectors, but they were all interested in figuring out how they could better understand the future of work, and their role in helping to enable it.Last year, I had given them an exercise in which they had to think through a fictitious scenario involving a particular vertical market. This time around, I kicked it up a notch by having different groups take completely different approaches to innovation. They all had about half an hour to have their team discussions and do their homework, appoint a spokesperson and be prepared to present their findings. While they were working, I asked at least one member of various teams to act as "judge" of one of the other groups, and I gave them some questions to think through based on something I'd read about the way Walt Disney conducted brainstorming in the early days of his animation studio.The deck below walks through the basic procedures of the workshop and the three exercises I had them do. They included empathy mapping, 'A day in the life' and 'remember the future.' CanadianCIO Innovation Summit 2015: Workshop Session from CanadianCIO (IT World Canada)As you can see by the slides, I tried to customize these to our event theme and to address them specifically to CIOs, but other than that they were free to run with these as almost any kind of executive might.It would take too long to go through all the results, but one of the things that stood out to me was the focus on data. In almost every presentation, for example, the teams suggested that many of the pain points they identified for the various personae in their exercises could be tackled by looking at the data those individuals had to work with, data they didn't have but needed or data they needed to use in a better way. Although some of the fictional scenarios they used looked at CIOs like themselves (including a CIO whose 'day in the life' came down to "meetings, meetings, meetings") but also heads of HR and marketing VPs.As I explained to participants, the short time they had for their work wasn't really adequate to the challenge but gives enough of a sense of urgency that it tends to galvanize teams to work hard. It would be possible to run some of these as half-day or even full-day events, however, or to give them as homework which would be presented at a meeting later in the week. Having a judge from within the peer group is also useful, because it acts a way of picking up on anything that might have been overlooked. There were no points or prizes here; it was about offering a thoughtful critique of the team's presentation, which they could then refine.As always, I'd encourage CIOs to not only do this themselves but to try it within their IT department or across lines of businesses with whom they hope to better collaborate. That's one real way the future of work could start to take shape.Would you reccomend this article?00 Careers, Leadership CIOs, innovation, Rogers


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Usher's Ex-Wife Fears for Kids, Files Emergency Custody Claim
Tameka Raymond, ex-wife of singer Usher, wants her children back and blames Usher for their young son's pool accident that landed him near death in the ICU.
Raymond -- who lost primary custody of sons Usher Raymond V, 5, and Naviyd Ely, 4, last year -- requested an emergency hearing and filed docs in Atlanta in order to obtain temporary primary custody, reports TMZ.
Tameka's attorney, Angela M. Kinley, told CBS Atlanta News that the incident underscores the "lack of supervision" in the singer's home. "He's not there. That's the problem," said Kinley.
The mother wants decision-making power over the children's education, healthcare, religion and extracurricular activities.
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Taking you all back to our road trip last summer to the Grand Tetons, there is one campground that stays vivid in our minds as one of the most beautiful location we ever came across.
To start, the best part of the trip began when we hit northern Utah. All we had experienced in Utah in the southern part of the state was dry heat so we were looking forward to heading north toward the mountainous part. After driving on what seemed an endless road for 4-5 hours we hit Provo, a town nestled at the edge of the Wasatch National Forest.
From Provo we entered the forest taken over by lush and thick conifers and a home that felt to be a very healthy wild habitat. Highway F030 took us on a path full of lakes, rivers and meadows. It is breathtaking the fresh air that enters your lungs.
An hour we drove through a sunny pass full of beautiful pines, and as we got higher in mountains we hit a fresh summer mini rainstorm. It felt mystical. We finally came across a sign for Ledgefork Campground, located at 8,000 feet in elevation and what would be our campground for one night. (This was mainly only because we wanted to reach the Tetons in Wyoming soon enough so that we have as many days as possible there.)
We highly recommend this campground and its creeks! We camped among a heavy pine forest setting at the edge of a creek where we hear trout fishing is great. The campground had a pleasant sweet smell of flowers, fresh grass and pine. It really felt embracing. As night fell we began hearing cowbells around us and as we looked across the creek from us we saw a group of cows chewing happily on their mouthfuls of grass. They seemed very interested in us and curious at what we were doing across the creek from them. Then slowly they walked away toward what we guessed was the ranch they belonged to.
We remember that night clearly and how taken we were by our surroundings. We didn't feel hungry or tired, we just wanted to sit still or walk through the path among the trees quietly so that we may really listen to the lively nature around us. We went to bed late and woke up early to the sound of cowbells, chewing and heavy breathing by our tent. As we slowly got out of our tent we were shocked to see 15-20 cows all with cowbells grazing peacefully all around our tent. What a great moment that was.
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India tops the list of remittances and China comes second, while as a percentage of gross domestic product, funds inflow is most important for Bangladesh, a Fitch study shows.
The cash sent by workers living abroad has spectacularly risen over the past 10 years, the rating agency has said.
In India, it is to a large extent due to an increased share of the highly skilled among those working abroad, and a shift from using informal money transfers (hawala in Hindi) to formal remittance channels because of regulatory changes and cost.
India and China also host large numbers of migrant workers who send money home; outflows from India were worth $6.4bn and from China $4.4bn in 2013.
On a net basis, remittance inflows into India were $63.5bn and $55.0bn in China. For Bangladesh, it is more than 10% of its GDP, and for Philippines and Sri Lanka, close to but below the 10% mark.
In Bangladesh, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, remittances are particularly strong relative to their economies.
"In these countries, the abundance of cheap unskilled labour is turned into a comparative advantage this way; the inflows support income and consumption, and form an important element of the current account balance," Fitch said.
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The relatively stable nature of remittances, illustrated by resilient inflows during the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, generally strengthens external balances, Fitch said.
However, remittances could still be a risk to the credit profile as a sudden drop in these funds may lead to an external financing problem, the rating agency noted.
"Countries with a large deficit in the current account balance adjusted for remittances like Sri Lanka, for instance, would be vulnerable to anti-immigration sentiment at one or more of their main host countries, and a sudden tightening of visa requirements," according to the Fitch research.
Having a high concentration of remittance inflows from a few sources would exacerbate this risk; for instance, the Middle East accounts for the lion's share of remittance inflows in Sri Lanka (56%) and Bangladesh (59%).
But for Vietnam, it is much less of a risk; that country would still have a narrow current account deficit in case of a sharp drop in such funds.
Anti-immigrant sentiment toward Bangladeshi workers in some Middle Easte countries was in the news earlier this year, and demand for their work temporarily fell, Fitch said.
In recent months, Bangladeshi remittances from the Middle East have recovered. Remittance sources may become more diverse in the years ahead, according to the rating agency.


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Celebrating April 1 with fake news: Do or don't?
On Thursday, it's likely that some college newspaper headlines will catch your eye...
U. to replace professors with nuns. (link!) Let's shot-gun some beers and then pass an ultra-non-binding GUSA Resolution. (link!) Campus Escorts apparently not a booty call service. (link!)
The punchline on all of these stories: April Fools!
For generations, college newspapers have celebrated April 1 with joke issues. And for just as long, satirical stories have offended readers, enraged administrators, made jokes that really aren't funny and, occasionally, landed college papers in court.
So as March rolls to an end, college newspaper editors are faced with a decision: To do a joke issue or not to do a joke issue.
(Want to read some of this year's prank stories? Check out, "Wait, is this an Onion story??")
"We most certainly are doing an April Fools issue," said Annie Ropeik, editor in chief of The Daily Free Press at Boston University. "It's a nice day off from hard news, barring giant stories (which we would put online), and is a fun chance to have the core staff all sit down together and write/layout the paper ourselves from scratch."
This year the newspaper is doing a Harry Potter-themed joke issue that will be called, "The Daily Free Prophet." It will be available only in print, not on the paper's Web site. Ropeik said that while you can get away with almost anything in a gag issue, it's important to "go all-out or people won't recognize what's going on."
The Heights at Boston College prints an annual April Fool's Day edition called The Depths, but doesn't put the stories online.
The joke stories are "in the good spirit of news traditions such as press roasts and the White House Press Corps dinner," said Editor Matt DeLuca. "This sort of satirical practice does not mean that the paper loses any of its sense of professionalism. Satire, like anything else, can be well or poorly written. In fact, the best publications will realize that they can find ways to produce a April Fool's Day edition that everyone can enjoy."
The Daily Collegian at Penn State University is skipping an April Fool's Day issue, especially because student government elections are a day earlier and the April 1 paper will feature the results.
"For newspapers, credibility is key," said Editor in Chief Rossilynne Skena. "Readers come to the Collegian because they know what they're seeing is accurate and credible. We want our readers to feel assurance that they can trust our front page every day, and straying from that even for a one-day April Fool's joke is counter to our mission as journalists."
Columbia Daily Spectator has not published a joke issue in many years, said Editor in Chief Ben Cotton, because it "sets up a whole slew of ethical issues -- trying to toe the line between what's funny and what's an inappropriate comment about a person or subject we purport to cover objectively is asking a lot."
But Cotton said it is still important for college newspapers not to take themselves seriously all the time. So the Spectator tries to have fun on its new blog, Spectrum, which is prominently featured on the Web site.
The Brown Daily Herald usually prints an April Fool's Day issue, but is not doing so this year because the holiday falls over spring break, and editors worried that no one would get the joke by April 5. As the staff decides what to write about, they are often reminded that in 1965 three Daily Herald editors had to resign because they published a hoax story on the front page that people took seriously, said current Editor in Chief George Miller.
"My one piece of advice would be to keep the subject matter light and not to write stories people could take seriously," Miller said. (One of his favorite joke stories, "Simmons: Men are dumb.")
I e-mailed the Student Press Law Center's executive director, Frank D. LoMonte, and asked for his take on joke issues.
LoMonte has personal experience with joke issues: When he was a student at the University of Florida, his student paper spoofed the university's full-page ad of campus announcements on April Fool's Day. "My favorite part, which I still remember to this day, is that the original page always carried the disclaimer, 'The University of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer.' We changed that to: 'The University of Florida Will Hire Just About Anybody,'" he said. "Yep, still funny."
But in all seriousness, LoMonte has some solid tips for college newspapers if they decide to publish a fake edition of the paper on Thursday:
My number one piece of advice to anyone considering any type of "humor" newspaper is this: You've got to lie big. If you're going to say the football coach got his secretary pregnant - and you shouldn't - at least make sure it's his 82-year-old secretary. The humor has to leap off the page and smack you in the face, or else someone's going to take it seriously, and that's when reader complaints - and threats of lawsuits - happen.
The most effective and least risky humor is humor that exaggerates a characteristic of the school and not of a named individual. If the food in the cafeteria is terrible, your headline can be, 'CDC: Tests reveal traces of meat in cafeteria sandwiches,' and that's fine because you're spoofing the food and not a specific person. You just don't want to go a step further and accuse the cafeteria vending company by name of putting poison in the food, or something comparable that would damage the company's business if taken out of context or misinterpreted.
This is especially true now that so many student newspapers are online. Once or twice a year, there's a story about some news agency in Mongolia that doesn't realize "The Onion" isn't a real newspaper and quotes one of their farcical stories as if it's real. So you want to make sure that, even if the story is taken literally, it doesn't make a believable accusation of wrongdoing against a real person or a real company.
I think my final piece of advice would be, don't throw the issue together after $2 pitcher night on Friday. Things that looked hilarious at 1 a.m. on deadline day have a way of looking less hilarious in the calm light of day. You really need to re-read the humor issue - or have some humorless person read it - so you anticipate the risk of misunderstanding.
Is your college paper doing a joke issue? What are your ground rules for doing so? Let me know in the comments section.
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March 30, 2010; 1:50 PM ET
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If the question is "Do or don't?" the answer is "Don't." 99% of the kids who make up the staff of college newspapers are so grimly determined to be the next Bill Keller (or are just resume-padding for their law school applications) that their attempts at humor are largely unreadable. Exhibit A? The Penn State editor, who has apparently confused the campus rag with The Times of London.
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Trip Report: The Organic Coffee Co.
Posted by TheShot on 06 Apr 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Local Brew
Opening just this month, this café was started by The Rogers Family Company (perhaps best known for their 'inorganic' and dirt cheap San Francisco Bay Coffee Co. beans, available at Costco) and other investors. It's heavy on the Fair Trade organic coffees, and that's just where its social causes begin.
They heavily brand their devotion to community, economic, and social development — and they appear to live up to their word in where they buy their beans, how they support farmers, how they contribute to the local community, and even in hiring 'challenged' staff. Even in SF, the list of causes and do-gooderness is so in-your-face, it's honestly a bit too much here — giving the place a cult-like feel. I applaud them for their well-intended causes, but I like to have a good espresso without feeling like I'm marinating in them.
Inside there are five wooden tables, and in addition to espresso they also serve salads and sandwiches. They offer about ten bean blends: Hurricane Espresso being their choice for espresso, and three decaf blends. They serve espresso as double shots only, filling a large shotglass if you ask for it — otherwise it's a small paper cup (they do offer brown Nuova Point cups for larger drinks, such as cappuccinos). They pull shots from a two-group Futurmat F3 with a good amount of even, medium brown crema.
The espresso itself has substance, but it unfortunately runs a bit too bitter and ashy for its otherwise deeper tobacco flavor (oh, the irony in that). They get a lot down here save for the final flavor in the cup — they are almost too busy saving the world to make a great-tasting espresso (it's the one cause they neglect a little). However, the place offers plenty for SF's espresso drinkers with a cause.
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[…] This is the last remains of the NaS Coffee chain that has since folded every other location around town. In fact, their corporate Web site has even skipped town. Chances are this location kept the NaS name out of convenience, despite the chain's failure at corporate expansion. But tasting the coffee, you can't say that their failure is suprising. Newer chains like The Organic Coffee Company are trying to succeed where NaS failed, but good luck to them — they're going to need it. […]
[…] The umlaut in the name might suggest a 1980's metal band (pronounced 'let-TOOOSE'?), but this place is actually an ultra-organic café. It follows the trend of 'preachy' eateries that cross the line from espousing sustainable, organic agriculture to slapping you across the face with it. […]


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Warren Buffett doesn't usually make market predictions, but in an early July letter to shareholders, the legendary investor offered insights to help them through a treacherous stretch for stocks.
"I think you can be quite sure that over the next ten years there are going to be a few years when the general market is plus 20% or 25%, a few when it is minus on the same order, and a majority when it is in between," Buffett wrote. "I haven't any notion as to the sequence in which these will occur, nor do I think it is of any great importance for the long-term investor."
This letter hasn't received much attention lately, for good reason: It's dated July 6, 1962.
Half a century on, Buffett's advice to ignore market gyrations still resonates. Yet many investors have trouble looking ahead 10 days, let alone 10 years. Of course, investors nowadays have justifiable fears about their money and who's minding it. The safe return of capital is paramount, while the idea of losing your shirt in a bid for a meaningful return is paralyzing.
So what's new? Risk aversion is hard-wired in human nature. A greedy market feeds on fear. Otherwise Buffett wouldn't have needed to remind investors to keep a lengthy time horizon.
Investors in 1962 had something to be scared about. The Cuban Missile Crisis wouldn't take the world to the nuclear brink until October, but the Cold War between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union was heating up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Cool under pressure
Through it all Buffett stayed cool. Stock buyers need a long lens, he counseled. "Six months' or even one-year's results are not to be taken too seriously," Buffett said in that July letter to his Buffett Partnership Ltd. investors. He added that "investment performance must be judged over a period of time, with such a period including both advancing and declining markets."
The 1962 letter is online along with other Buffett shareholder communications from the late 1950s and 1960s, including his May 29, 1969 letter informing investors of his intent to dissolve the limited partnerships (and offering them a stake in its Berkshire Hathaway Inc. holding)
Seen with the benefit of 50-year hindsight, Buffett's 1962 letter and another written in January 1963 are relevant for today's investors, who face a global economy on the brink, if not of disaster, then certainly of profound change.
"There are lessons [in the partnership letters] on temperament, value and being a voracious learning machine," said Jeff Auxier, who has long included Berkshire shares in his Auxier Focus Fund
"All of the great investors do it the way Buffett does," he added. You've got to do massive amounts of homework and have the patience to wait for the right price. Anyone dealing with their own money should study that before they invest."
The early 1960s correspondence shows that Buffett, who turns 82 on Aug. 30, hasn't lost the essence of his younger self. Then, as now, he stressed preserving capital in down markets, not chasing the market in runaway years, and focusing on long-term challenges and results.
But what many investors fail to grasp is that the long-term according to Buffett has never been about passive buy-and-hold; it's buy-on-the-cheap, hold and monitor. That goes for the undervalued common stock, opportunistic workout situations, and wholly or majority-owned "control" businesses that are Buffett's hallmarks.
"Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results," Buffett wrote in a January 1963 shareholder letter.
Buffett started his first limited partnership in May 1956, a 25-year-old disciple of pioneering value investor Benjamin Graham with $105,000 from family and friends to invest. By the start of 1963, Buffett's several partnerships controlled $9.4 million — about $70 million in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — including $1.4 million of Buffett's own money.
Buffett's success wasn't hard to fathom: Over the previous five years, the Dow had returned 8.3% on average annually; Buffett's partners had gained 21% a year, after fees.
Buffett wasn't as forthcoming then about investing mistakes as he's been in recent years, but he did repeatedly caution his partners that his deep-value strategies would most likely thrive in flat or down markets and lag in bull markets.
Indeed, in 1962 the Dow shed 10.8%, excluding dividends. Buffett's common stock portfolio didn't make money either. But Buffett's partners gained 11.9% for the year after fees thanks to workouts and control situations that were relatively untouched by the overall market. (The privately held investments would drag down returns in other years.)
Writing in the January 1963 letter, Buffett said that clobbering the Dow by 13 percentage points over five years exceeded his own goal of beating the benchmark by 10 points annually on average over many years, and he encouraged his partners to "mentally modify" their expectations.
Buffett repeated his mantra about performance: "Our job," he wrote, "is to pile up yearly advantages over the performance of the Dow without worrying too much about whether the absolute results in a given year are a plus or a minus." (By late 1967, Buffett, finding fewer bargains, would trim his hoped-for margin of Dow outperformance to 5%.)
'The Ground Rules'
In the 1963 letter, Buffett also laid out seven requirements for his partners, which he called "The Ground Rules." Two are housekeeping-related; five bear repeating:
— "In no sense is any rate of return guaranteed to partners. Partners who withdraw one-half of 1% monthly are doing just that — withdrawing."
— "Whether we do a good job or a poor job is not to be measured by whether we are plus or minus for the year," Buffett wrote. Although Buffett's portfolio differed greatly from the Dow and his investing style hardly matched that of mutual funds, the Dow and several big U.S. funds nonetheless were Buffett's ultimate measures. He noted: "If our record is better than that of these yardsticks, we consider it a good year whether we are plus or minus. If we do poorer, we deserve the tomatoes."
— "While I much prefer a five-year test, I feel three years is an absolute minimum for judging performance. It is a certainty that we will have years when the partnership performance is poorer, perhaps substantially so, than the Dow. If any three-year or longer period produces poor results, we all should start looking around for other places to put our money."
— "I am not in the business of predicting general stock market or business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership."
— "I cannot promise results to partners," Buffett stated. "What I can and do promise is that our investments will be chosen on the basis of value, not popularity; that we will attempt to bring risk of permanent capital loss…to an absolute minimum by obtaining a wide margin of safety in each commitment and a diversity of commitments, and my wife, children and I will have virtually our entire net worth invested in the partnership."
Decades from now, what will still be most striking about Buffett's letters from the early 1960s is their openness. Not in terms of portfolio holdings — Buffett didn't divulge that — but in the honest reveal of an investment philosophy. Investors today, accustomed to marketing materials that rarely divulge a manager's decision-making process, can only marvel at Buffett's bluntness. He treats partners like the adults they are.
That's one reason why Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder letters are required reading among informed investors, and why so many others with fear-and-greed products to peddle want to portray Uncle Warren as doddering and out of touch.
Don't believe it. People will follow Buffett's advice long after today's doom-sellers are forgotten.
As Buffett told partners in his January 1962 letter. "You will not be right simply because a large number of people momentarily agree with you. You will not be right simply because important people agree with you.
"You will be right," he wrote, "over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct."
Buffett early on recognized the secret of successful investing: Any kid can make a buck; grown-ups know how to keep it.
Jonathan Burton owns Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares in a retirement account.


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Except surprise, it totally does! Tara advances on Sookie, growling, while Pam laughs and Lafayette tries to break them apart. Lafayette gets tossed aside, and Tara bites Sookie.
Pam gets Tara away from Sookie, and tells them that she has a job that she can't just skip whenever something stupid happens. "Unlike the sterling employees of Merlotte's," I whispered with a chuckle into my darkened bedroom, stroking my stuffed unicorn pillow. That restaurant is being run by Terry, Arlene, and Holly at this point. I'm honestly surprised there's still a restaurant.
Sookie protests that Pam is Tara's maker, like Pam cares at all. Pam does them the solid of commanding Tara not to bite them and tosses her into the house. Pam fixes Sookie's neck holes, then peaces.
Tara abruptly turns into a tornado of vampire feelings in the most literal way, tearing the house apart while Lafayette and Sookie watch helplessly. She hasn't said anything yet, just screamed and growled, and I began hurling invectives at my stuffed unicorn pillow in an incandescent rage at the thought that Alan Ball might have fucked up the one consistently engaging character in this show by taking her brain away, in addition to everything else that's been taken from her. I don't read the books, but I'm told by my far braver friends that there's a mute melty-brained Elvis vampire in them. I was worried that Tara was going to morph into this character. Thankfully, this is not the case, but we still have to tally up the damage within the next episode or two.
Credits! You are the only thing that has never failed me!
Authority HQ. Eric, Bill, and Nora are frog-marched into a warehouse, where they are greeted by a vampire called Salome. Probably she is the actual Salome, because this show is silly enough for that, and a quick glance at the True Blood wiki mentions that she's famous for her Dance of the Seven Veils. NO SERIOUSLY.
She has a clipped exchange with Nora about the relative usefulness of the Wonder Twins, and it ends with Salome slapping her a little bit. The gang follows her into a biometrically-sealed elevator and down to a bustling lobby for like an hour. Eric, Bill, and Nora are put into cages.
Dinnertime. Alcide refuses to eat Marcus's body, and he gets heckled by one of the wolves. "Why don't you take your loner ways and your sensitive stomach back to Mississippi?" Alcide's like "You think I got this sick body by eating just any old dude's rotting corpse? Nope. Only Level 5 vegans for this guy." He tries to leave, but the dude continues, "Walkin' away don't make you a bigger man! It just makes you a coward." You are correct, sir, the act of moving farther into the distance makes you, visually, a smaller man. The fact that Alcide is an actual woolly mammoth wearing the flesh of a gentleman is what makes him a bigger man.
Martha gets Alcide's attention again and OH MY GOD, writers, I understand you have to fill 54 minutes without any breaks for Valtrex commercials or whatever, but having the exact same "Eat this guy! You're the new packmaster!" "No! And no!" conversation four times in a row (twice already within the last three minutes) is not the fucking answer. Just have Joe Manganiello take his clothes off and growl about building a driftwood headboard for my bed, okay? That would have more bearing on this godforsaken subplot than 200 repetitions of the same ultimately irrelevant request for Alcide to eat Marcus and become the packmaster, NEITHER OF WHICH ARE THINGS HE IS GOING TO DO AT THIS POINT, I guarantee it.
Sorry. This show gives me acid reflux sometimes.
Alcide finally leaves with a "Good luck," and Luna drags Sam away, too.
Arlene wakes up to see Terry standing creepily over the bed, staring into space. She tries to touch him, but he shoves her arm out of the way, muttering that something's going to get them all. She slaps him in a panic, and he snaps out of it, getting back into bed and falling asleep immediately.
Sookie and Lafayette continue to watch helplessly as Tara ruins the kitchen, even knocking down the refrigerator. She ends up on the counter, perched and glaring like a really grouchy parakeet.
Sookie uses this quiet moment to tell Lafayette to "Grab her." Lafayette does not immediately smack Sookie upside the head, which tells me he is really off his game right now. She suggests he use one of the TruBloods, and he shakily tries to hand it to Tara, eventually setting it down near her. She just stares at him, then at Sookie when she says "Tara, sweetie, you gotta eat." Lafayette moves toward the bottle again, and Tara jumps on him, preparing to rip out his throat. She can't do it, and hits herself in the face a couple of times before running off to break more of Sookie's house in half.
Fangtasia! GINGER! Pam comes into the storeroom/back office, not at all in the mood for Ginger's questions about where she was.
Ginger: "Why're you all dirty?"
Pam: "I was in the ground. What's your excuse?"
Ginger: ":("
Ginger leaves. Pam sits at the desk and reapplies her lipstick. THERE IS VISIBLE DIRT ON YOUR FACE, PAM, GO TAKE A SHOWEoh nevermind we're in a flashback now.
San Francisco, 1905! Pam sits at a bar in a burgundy room, eating crab–ew–and looking generally kind of hot and blasé about how soft-focus this flashback is, and also about the olde-tymey jaunty prostitute music playing. A tired-looking, equally blasé young girl appears at her elbow, asking if she's got a boost for a working girl. Pam pops the top of her ring open and gives the girl a bump of cocaine, asking if she's seen Claire. The girl says Claire has been occupied for over an hour, and Pam goes to see what's up.
What's up is the girl is super dead, probably from vampires. Pam is upset. She is also upset back in the present, and leaves a message telling Eric that it's fine if they're not friends anymore and he just wants to hang out with that bitch Bill forever, but they have a science project due on Monday and he HAS to call her back or they will FAIL MISERABLY. Kristin Bauer has lovely blue eyes.
Eric and Bill meet Nigel Beckford, another occupant of the vampire prison. His face is super fucked-up, and we find out he's in there because he was a nurse practitioner, but he kept eating the babies instead of delivering them. You have to deliver them before you can eat them, though, don't you? You can't just stick your whole head up there and chow down, right? And how would he have managed to do that more than, like, once?
A German accent starts German accenting at them from the PA system. That's how you know it's evil! German accent! Good job, True Blood! Push all those boundaries of effective storytelling.
The German accent welcomes them to New Orleans, and laments that the visit was not under better circumstances. Bill tries immediately to get Nora and Eric released, claiming that they were both his prisoners and have done nothing wrong. It's a noble gesture, but it doesn't work. UV lights suddenly flare through the jail cells, and we find out that Nigel's face is so jacked because of repeated burnings.
Luna cleans Sam's wounds on her couch. When she gets up to check on Emma, Martha shows up. Sam lets her in, the first of many boundaries he will overstep this evening. Martha tries to convince Luna to turn Emma over to her, on the basis that Emma might be a werewolf. Luna's like NOPE NOT EVER because a) Emma might be a shifter instead, and b) ew. Luna orders her out of the house. Martha stops to apologize for Sam's injuries.
Sam then starts running off at the mouth about how Emma might need a pack if she's a wolf and blah blah blah. Let me tell you something about single mothers: they do not need you to tell them how to raise their children. That's exactly what Sam proceeds to do, though! He's confused when Luna gets pissed off, and becomes belligerent when she tells him to get the fuck out, calling her a "fucking psycho" as he leaves.
It's truly a masterclass in sympathetic character development, courtesy the True Blood writing staff. Sam hasn't had a spine for the past four seasons, and they thought that this was a dandy place to turn him into a pushy, overbearing douchebag.
Sookie and Lafayette realize they need to get Tara into Eric's cubbyhole from last season before sunrise. They lure her in with Lafayette's blood, and wrangle her into it with a chain around her neck. :(
Squad car confessional time!
Andy: "Stackhouse, I had sex."
Jason: "Hey! Welcome to the club!"
Andy: "It's not the first time, assmunch."
Andy says he's feeling insecure about Holly blowing him off, and Jason's like "No that's totally the best thing ever." He describes it as getting to eat pie without having to buy the cow. I know he's supposed to be humorously mixing up his metaphors, but I can't help wondering if Jason Stackhouse accidentally bought a cow from some girl he was trying to fuck at some point.
Andy asks about Jessica, and Jason lies like, "We're just keeping it casual. Perfect situation." If you listen closely, you can hear his heart eating its feelings.
They come across Debbie Pelt's abandoned vehicle. While Jason makes the connection between Debbie, Alcide, and Sookie, Andy finds a vial of vampire blood in the pocket of the door. He slips it into his pocket, then gives it to Jason, who congratulates him and dumps it onto the ground. If you listen closely, you can hear Andy's heart also eating its feelings.
Sookie goes into an anti-vampire weapons shop, the same one Maxine Fortenberry got her anti-Jessica rifle at a couple of seasons ago, which is owned by a ponytail. I mean, it's ostensibly a dude who has a ponytail, but when I say the guy is a ponytail, you know what I mean. Like when somebody is a neckbeard or a popped collar or an Affliction t-shirt.
Sookie tells him that there's an ancient, pissed-off vampire who wants to get his fangs in her, and Ponytail immediately offers a room spritzer full of colloidal silver as the solution. He does a small one-act play about the effects (it'll burn the shit out of vampires) (but in real life, it turns human people blue with prolonged use, so if you've got a vampire infestation, just light your house on fire while they're sleeping and move to North Dakota) to Sookie's utter disdain. Ponytail asks if she wants a more permanent solution, and when she gingerly agrees, he reaches under the counter for a crossbow, thinking about how he should invite her on a vampire-killing trip with him on the weekend, and maybe she'll fuck him after she strings one of them up. She's like, ew, dickwad, and also murdering is still illegal. Ponytail, suitably chastened, puts the crossbow away and pouts. In the background of this whole scene is a cutout of Steve Newlin holding a rifle, and there's a red smear on his face and his canines are blacked out. It's a nice touch.
Terry cooks bacon in the kitchen, and it lights on green fire, knocking him into a halfassed flashback to THE WAR until Arlene interrupts it and he basically throws her across the kitchen. He apologizes, but she's freaked out and begs him to tell her what's going on. He gets scary, yelling in her face and storming off. Her hair is really distractingly terrible, and it was not this bad in previous seasons. Why are you doing this to Carrie Preston, hair people? She's way too adorable to deserve this.
Sookie installs the Glade room spritzer full of silver on her porch and heads back inside, when she hears Lafayette thinking about staking Tara out of guilt. She runs into Eric's cubby, telling Lafayette that he can't, that it was a totally unselfish thing that they did and they'll make a life for Tara somehow and it'll be awesome when she gets better, like how things are awesome for Jessica now even though it took like a really long time. Lafayette agrees not to stake her. Sookie is dangerous because she has terrible ideas and manages to convince rational people to go along with them. I like Sookie, but she's like the Zach-Galifianakis-in-The–Hangover of friends.
Renard Parish PD. Jason watches Steve Newlin talk on television about how god loves fangs and he is no longer associated with any hate group whatsoever. When the interviewer asks if there's anyone special in Steve's life, he says that there is. Jason watches intently, and looks genuinely sad in his heart when Steve says "She makes me very happy." Say what you want about Jason Stackhouse, but he's always wanted people to just be themselves.
Andy comes in and questions the other deputy, Ellis, about Judge Clements's son's speeding ticket. Ellis, still with scarring on his neck from where a werepanther tore his throat out last season, said the Son Clements almost hit a kid, and flipped Ellis off, too. Andy says the ticket needs to be expunged anyway, and Ellis frowns, but agrees to it. Andy turns the television off despite Jason's complaints.
A kid walks in through the front door, looking for Jason. When Jason introduces himself, the kid punches him in the face, saying that his parents are getting divorced.
Jason: "Well, I'm sorry, but why the hell are you hittin' me? I'm a COP, dude!"
Apparently, Jason had sex with the kid's mom. It takes a picture to jog Jason's memory, and the kid tries to hit him again. Jason, who is holding a juice box, bear-hugs the kid as a defensive manoeuvre. They have to be broken apart by Andy, who takes the kid's side. Jason looks contrite as Andy asks if he's slept with every woman in Bon Temps. He answers in the almost-positive, and Andy gently leads the kid away, warning Jason that if he touches Holly, Andy's going to put him in jail.
Flashback time again! Pam gets stalked through the streets by an olde tymey murderere, and even though she confronts him in a clear and concise manner, he still pulls a knife on her. But then his throat explodes and he falls down, revealing ALEXANDER SKARSGARD IN PERIOD CLOTHING.
He looks awesome in it. He is mildly impressed by her nonchalance in the face of the dead body of the guy who was just going to FUCKING RAPE AND KILL HER. He says most ladies are not so calm. She tells him "If I meet a lady, I'll let her know." He smiles at her, then comments that the dead guy's blood has ruined her dress. He sensually hands her some money to fix it, and she's either in shock or in love or both (an appropriate response to Alexander Skarsgard). He leaves her with another smile, and she cries a little bit after. She then wakes up in the present, perturbed inside her awesome pink coffin.
Dieter Braun (Christopher Heyerdahl from Supernatural, playing against type as a crazy torturer), the German accent from earlier, strolls into a room where Bill is attached to a chair and a giant pumpy thing full of stuff (it's cool, guys, I'm awesome at writing). He tries to be friendly with Bill, even while explaining that the pumpy thing full of stuff is an IV full of "electrolytically refined silver," and I don't know what that is but it sounds itchy.
Oh, god, guys, it gets stupid from here. Stephen Moyer (in a henley!) and Christopher Heyerdahl are trying to make it work, but it's just bad. Apparently there is an OLD OLD TESTAMENT, about how god made LILITH, the FIRST VAMPIRE, who was created in god's image because GOD IS ALSO A VAMPIRE, and now VAMPIRES ARE THE BEST and HUMANS ARE JUST WALKING CAPRI SUNS and ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED AS FOOD but all of this is ignoring that ALL VAMPIRES WERE HUMANS ONCE and this is an example of WHY I HATE VAMPIRES IN GENERAL. I honestly can't tell what Braun's angle is, because he asks if Bill subscribes to a literal interpretation of the text and if he consorts with people who do, and when Bill says no on both counts, Braun hits a button and injects him with silver. I know it's because he wants Bill to confess, but does he want a real confession or a fake one?
Salome interrogates Eric, telling him that if he cooperates, he'll leave there a free man. She says she can't say the same about Nora, and Eric, smirking, says "She won't leave here a free man?" But no, she has met the true death. Nope, I don't think Eric falls for it, either.
I'm sorry, these people are just fucking awful at interrogations. She gets as much out of Eric as Braun gets out of Bill, and silvers Eric, too. Her first question was actually "Did you or Bill kill Nan Flanagan?" and Eric answers with a faux-surprised "Nan Flanagan is dead?" so even if either Bill or Eric were involved with the SANGUINISTA MOVEMENT—ahahahahaaha oh my dracula god this is hilarious—neither of them are sufficiently frightened or pained enough to confess to anything, much less something they didn't do. The show intercuts both interrogations. Braun and Salome both pull the Prisoner's Dilemma on their captives, which is bush-league nonsense that only works on kids. Eventually, when neither Bill nor Eric has confessed to anything, Braun and Salome give up. I think the most important thing we get from this is that Bill and Eric apparently trust each other completely, and may in fact be in love.
Jessica has another house party with the college kids. Her outfit is weird again, like the sartorial equivalent of Arlene's hair. Is it that difficult to dress a tiny five-foot-nine girl? Anyway, she's checking her phone while holding a keg for the blonde Jason wouldn't have sex with. The brunette is about to barf, and Jessica zooms over to her (practically dropping the keg on the blonde), and drags her over to the front door, hissing "Not in the house." Also at the front door is Steve Newlin, who dances his way inside, high-fiving everybody, letting the blonde touch his fangs.
Jessica (whose makeup looks good, however) asks what Steve wants. He just wants to talk to her, so they go into her/Bill's office. Essentially, he's there to buy Jason from her for ten grand. She tells him twenty, and he goes up to fifteen. She talks about his ass and dick, and Steve, overcome with the vapors/a boner, agrees to twenty. Jessica rolls her eyes and tells him to fuck off, saying that Jason's her friend and she doesn't sell her friends. She manhandles him out of her house, then orders all the college kids out, telling them to go back to their human lives before she eats them.
Motel. Patrick is packing up his things to leave when Arlene knocks on the door to finally pick his brain a little. She doesn't get much before Terry shows up and kind of chases her off. Terry and Patrick discuss Geller, who was in the squad with them—he's not dead, just off the grid, and they both seem convinced he's the person behind the fires. They decide to go find out for sure. Roadtrip!
Maxine Fortenberry's house. Hoyt is fixing her sink when Jason shows up. Jason tries to get Hoyt out of Maxine's house, offering to stay at Sookie's if Hoyt will move back into their old place. Hoyt tells him to fuck off, and that's pretty much that. Jason leaves sadly, Maxine hounding him about ruining Hoyt's relationship, but she grabs him before he's gone to thank him for ruining Hoyt's relationship, promising to bake him a pie for his troubles. His dick troubles.
Luna groggily walks to her weird kid's room, wondering why she isn't asleep yet. Then she opens the door.
Sookie and Lafayette clean up the packaging from like 300 of the vampire Glade plugins. Tara comes downstairs and stares at them. Sookie says her name, hopeful, but Tara tells them that she will never forgive either of them, and runs outside. The silver sprays her, which is just shitty icing on the poop cake that is her life, and she disappears into the night. Man, I'm just glad she can still talk at this point.
I don't really know what happens in this next scene in the Authority's basement, because Christopher Meloni and Peter Mensah are in this season, and it's asking too much that I focus on anything past that. So what I can piece together about this is that Christopher Meloni is playing the Guardian, Roman, who is like the boss of the Authority. You can tell because he has a pocket square. He gives a drop of his blood to the other Authority members while reciting a prayer to Lilith in what I can only assume is Draculese.
He turns his attentions to Bill and Eric, basically all "what the fuck" over their whole lives. I enjoy that Roman is basically Elliot Stabler as a vampire politician. He asks them again if they've ever been members of THE SANGUINISTA MOVEMENT oh nosferatu christ that still kills me. Bill doesn't know what it is; Eric claims he's keeping away from politics and religion. Roman turns back to the council, asking what they should do. A redheaded Southern lady wants them dead. Peter Mensah says they should stay alive. This annoying child overacts about wanting them dead also. He looked like he hurt himself, he was so emphatic.
Roman explains to Bill and Eric that it's vital to coexist with humans, mainly because humans outnumber vampires a thousand to one. He takes a stake from Salome, asking if they've got anything to say before he kills them. Bill offers Russell Edgington in exchange for their own lives. This stops Roman for a moment—Nan had assured them Russell was dead. Bill and Eric convince him otherwise, claiming that they're sure they can draw him out. Roman is just flabbergasted that they were stupid enough to leave Russell alive, especially considering Russell hates them both.
Roman flips out when Bill explains that he let his emotions drive their actions, and nearly kills Bill, saying "I want to stake you so fucking much right now." Which is hilarious. But he pulls back, because he knows how to keep his feelings out of these matters. Bill assures him that Roman will be there to give Russell the true death, and that Bill himself expects to die either way. But what about Eric? Eric's the one who killed Russell's husband!
Creepy dungeon warehouse. Parts of dudes are just all over the place. Russell, looking gross but apparently getting better, tongues his newly regrown fangs.


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A friend of mine dragged me into a Yankee Candle store and picked up a candle named "Home for the Holidays." Bringing it to his nose, he took a deep whiff and handed it to me saying,
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Whether you're in recovery or not, the holiday season is often a time of exhaustion, broken routines, eating too much, financial worry, and over-commitment. And if you're one of millions returning home for the holidays, time with family can trigger good memories or unaddressed emotional trauma.
If you're in active recovery, the holidays can be even more challenging. Most gatherings with "normals" will include alcohol and maybe even so-called recreational drugs. The recovering addict—especially those celebrating the holidays for the first time clean and sober—may face a whole new level of temptation to use to avoid standing out or to question "Am I really an alcoholic or drug addict? Maybe I'm not. I should have just one…"
Others in active recovery might find time with family and friends stressful for other reasons. Most people I know in recovery have experienced social anxiety, and many people—even "normals"—often reach for a social lubricant to feel less awkward and more relaxed.
So how do you safeguard against relapse during the season?
1. Plan to Stay Active in Your Recovery
In active addiction, my entire world revolved around scoring my next fix. I planned my day around securing cash, driving into the city, and buying as much dope as I could. That strategy meant that I usually had what I needed when I needed it.
Make staying sober an active plan. Even if you're traveling away from your home group, sponsor, and support network, you can still stay plugged in to recovery.
- Call your sponsor and support network from the road
- Ask those closest to you to help hold you accountable to your sobriety
- Download a free app like Meeting Guide https://meetingguide.org/ so you can find a meeting whenever you travel
If you're staying close to home, attend sober events and festivities. If you must attend an event that you know will be full of triggers, call your sponsor before and after so you aren't going in or out without support. Drive your own car to events (if possible) so you don't have to rely on someone else who might wish to stay longer. And if it's possible, you can always stay away from known people, places, and events that serve as your triggers.
2. Look for Ways to Serve
Do you remember your life in active addiction? I do. It was miserable, I was miserable, and I spread my misery around to others. Active addicts are joy thieves, always taking more than they give in relationships.
Do the opposite this holiday season. Make someone's day every day. Smile. Be courteous, even in traffic and crowded stores. Hold doors open for others. Shovel your neighbor's sidewalk and driveway. Serve a meal at a shelter. Bring food to someone homeless. Visit a shut-in or someone without family nearby. Write a holiday thank-you with a few bucks for your trash collector and mail carrier.
Giving helps others. No doubt. But giving helps the giver even more. Fight any lingering obsessions with alcohol by being out there as a giver of light to someone else.
3. Keep a Full Drink in Your Hand at Gatherings
A gracious host and hostess may work around a party with a bottle of whatever people are drinking so they can top off drinks along the way. You don't have to be unkind or indignant to anyone who offers you a drink. They are trying to serve. But you can most easily avoid having alcohol brought to your face if you keep a full glass in your hand at all times.
4. Rely on More Than Willpower
Willpower wasn't enough to keep me away from my addictions for long. Recently, I learned why. A Harvard psychologist calls willpower a muscle that actually weakens with repeated use. So if you're relying on willpower alone—as opposed to continuing the spiritual work of recovery—don't be surprised if you have strong urges after you've made it through the holidays.
You can prevent that by keeping your recovery routine during the holidays. If you go to a meeting every day in June, go to a meeting a day during the holidays. If you start your mornings on your knees asking your Higher Power for strength and direction, do the same during the holidays.
What are you going to do this holiday season to keep your recovery your priority?


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Freelance writing can be detrimental to your health: "There were deadlines to be met, revisions to be made, clients to be satisfied," explains John Schaidler in the May-June 2008 issue of A View from the Loft (article not available online). "And the only way to do that, as they say, was to apply 'seat of the pants to seat of the chair.' "
After a stern warning from his doctor, however, Schaidler put on the old running shoes—and promptly discovered that exercise can be as beneficial to the creative process as it is to the body. "I turned and ran back home, my brain buzzing with ideas. I shot through the door, went straight to my desk, and wrote for an hour. It was bliss. At least, it was, until I tried to stand and immediately crumpled to the floor, my legs crippled by lactic acid."
Schaidler doesn't claim to be the first creative type to discover the mind-sharpening benefits of sweatin' to the oldies, just an enthusiastic convert. "Evidence says even the most basic exercise program, even walking, will boost your creativity and provide direct benefits to your work," he writes.
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Robert Wright (whose actual name was Robert Wright Boyd) was born in Hamptonburgh, Orange County, New York around September 1841. He was the son of Robert W. Boyd and Margaret Wright. He attended school until at least the age of eighteen and worked as a farmer until the start of the Civil War. On September 6, 1862, at the age of twenty, Robert enlisted for a three-year term of service in the Union army. He enlisted as a Corporal under the name "Robert Wright." Family tradition says that he ran away from home to enlist in the army against the wishes of his father, which may give some indication of why he did not enlist as "Robert Boyd." The 1890 Veterans Schedule of the U. S. census lists Mary Boyd of 40 Perry Street as the widow of Robert Boyd who served with the 150th New York. Service records for the 150th New York record no Robert Boyd, but they do record a Robert Wright from Hamptonburgh. This demonstrates that the Robert Boyd listed on the 1890 Veterans Schedule and the Robert Wright listed in the service records of the 150th New York are almost certainly one and the same.
Robert mustered into Company I of the 150th New York on October 10, 1862. His regimental descriptive book listed his height at five feet ten and a half inches. It also listed that he had a dark complexion, dark eyes, and brown hair. On October 11, 1862, his regiment left New York and performed garrison and guard duty in Baltimore until July 1863, when it was assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps. Under this assignment, the regiment marched to its first major battle: the battle of Gettysburg, where it suffered forty-five casualties.
Sources record that the 150th New York was unable to keep up with other regiments in the brigade because they had never before marched to battle and were not well conditioned. It is reported that many soldiers from the inexperienced regiment threw their packs onto the ground as they rushed to join the battle—something they would certainly regret doing as the battle raged on for two days after their arrival. Perhaps Robert was one of those who threw their packs on the ground; his muster rolls list him as absent from July through October 1863 due to sickness. He spent those months in Finlay General Hospital in Washington, DC and Central Park General Hospital in New York City. It is not known when exactly he became sick, but he was with his regiment until at least the end of June. While recovering from his illness, he received a furlough to travel home to Hamptonburgh from October 30, 1863, until November 7, 1863, after which he returned to service with the 150th New York. Robert remained with the 150th New York through the end of the war, receiving a promotion to the rank of Sergeant on May 30, 1865. (The 1890 Veterans Schedule records that he held the rank of Color Sergeant.) On June 8, 1865, Robert mustered out of the army.
After completing his military service, Robert moved to New York City, where he worked as a carman, which was a horse-and-carriage taxi driver. On September 16, 1874, he married Mary Ann Ballantine in Manhattan. They had three children: William B., Robert Wright, and Virginia T. Robert continued working as a carman until 1879, when he began working as a tobacco importer, locating his office at 168 Water Street. His work required him to take frequent trips to Havana, Cuba. Passenger lists for the Port of New York show Robert arriving from Cuba at least six times between 1879 and 1884. His travel to Cuba was the indirect cause of his death as he contracted yellow fever during an eighteen-day trip beginning just before Christmas in December 1883. On January 13, 1884, just six days after returning from Cuba, Robert died at his home on 40 Perry Street. He was only forty-two years old. Sadly, his wife was just three-months pregnant with their third child when he died.
Robert's death made the New York Times in an article entitled "Yellow Fever in the City," which was published on January 15, 1884, and incorrectly lists his name as "Robert M. Boyd." On the day the article was published, Robert was buried in an unmarked grave in Evergreen Cemetery in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey. His wife, Mary, lived eighteen more years after her husband's death and raised her children with the help of her sister Caroline Dodge. Mary died of chronic nephritis on May 9, 1902, and was buried next to her husband in Evergreen Cemetery three days later.
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This is a spectacular Hua Hin home for sale, less than 10 minutes to town center and directly next to a very popular, high quality development. The home is only 2 years old, and has been lived in full-time since completion. The property has been consistently maintained and many items recently upgraded.
The space is very large at 2,000 sqm of land area and 485 sqm of living space. The living room alone is a huge 10 x 10 meters, yet the proportions are well-balanced, and the home has a cozy and comfortable feel, perfect for a large family or a couple who loves to entertain and host guests.
There is a lovely, formal entrance with a partition to separate the entryway from the main living room. The back wall of the living room is flanked by floor-to-ceiling powder coated aluminum sliding doors (with integrated fly screens), which add a lot of light and bring the terrace and outdoor space inside. The materials are all exceptional quality, including the construction of the house itself. The walls are super thick for great insulation, and the best craftsmen throughout Thailand have been brought to install the kitchen, built-in furniture, floor and wall tiles, bathrooms, and more. The attention to detail is apparent from the lovely, solid wood doors and frames to the impeccable skirting that you rarely see in Thailand.
The kitchen is a beautiful, Walnut finish with black granite countertops. There is a large island, ample storage and preparation areas, top quality appliances throughout, and an additional "Thai style" kitchen behind for Asian style cooking. The double carport leads directly to the kitchen and also to the laundry and storage/pantry room, which is a great, practical design feature.
There are 4 large bedrooms in the main house, all with en-suite bathrooms and generously proportioned to accommodate built-in wardrobes and full furniture sets. The master suite is full of light and has direct access to the swimming pool and terrace. There is an enormous walk-in wardrobe with more than enough storage area for even the most exuberant fashionista. The master bathroom has a generous vanity area with wraparound mirrors and double sinks, plus a bathtub and separate shower. The toilet is partitioned off by an opaque glass door, so every detail really has been considered.
The outdoor living space comprises of a covered terrace with dining for 10 and cozy lounge set. The swimming pool is 12 x 4 meters with a saltwater chlorinator. Just off the pool is an outdoor shower and full bathroom. Opposite this is a nice BBQ area.
Attached to the carport is a beautifully finished office with en-suite bathroom and room to add either built-in wardrobes and/or a small kitchenette. The office is finished to the same high standard as the rest of the house and could easily acommodate live-in staff or an older child or family member who wants more privacy.
Other features of the property include a very long, private driveway; a motorized entrance gate with security cameras and intercom system; an alarm system and electric fencing around the entire perimeter; private 3 phase transformer; and a large storage room with underground water storage tanks.
This property is directly next to a completed, high quality development, though it is not technically part of a development, so there is the benefit of zero communal fees to pay. The home is sold fully furnished (minus artwork and personal items), and can be transferred freehold.


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"WE have to remain relevant," was the message from Mulberry CEO Thierry Andretta this afternoon following the brand's announcement that it is adopting a direct-to-consumer approach. As of September, it will come off the London Fashion Week catwalk schedule for one season and hold appointments with press to show its spring/summer 2018 collection, returning to its usual runway format as of next February to debut the same collection and be "in season" thereafter.
Read more: Mulberry Goes Direct To Consumer
"We were finding that more and more our customer was reaching us from the internet and didn't want to wait for the product and so we are moving to specifically target the digital consumer in a structured way," he said.
The move comes as the model has had mixed reactions in the industry, with some stepping away from it after only two seasons. Many, however, have stuck with it - Burberry and Topshop among them. For Andretta, the shift comes after the British brand has been surveying the scene for some time. It has tested out making capsule collections immediately available after its catwalk shows to success, according to the executive, and has experienced a surge in demand for product worn by influencers and celebrities that it could not fulfil with its existing set-up.
Read more: Tom Ford Stops See-Now, Buy-Now Model
"In February last year we showed a pair of shoes on the catwalk and in May at the Cannes Film Festival Marion Cotillard wore them – not on the red carpet, just out informally," Andretta gave as an example. "The following day, we had hundreds of phone calls asking when they would be available and we had to say they had to wait three to four months. In the end, the return on that product was not positive as they didn't want it any more when it became available."
Read more: Mulberry London Spring/Summer 2017 Ready-To-Wear
The brand is in a strong position to handle the operational changes that shifting to a see-now, buy-now model will bring, he continued, as it has its own infrastructure in the UK with its signature leather goods category. As for the ready-to-wear element that the brand has invested in recently, designed by creative director Johnny Coca, it will work closely with its licensees to make sure the transition is smooth.
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"Ready-to-wear will work exactly the same way as leather goods with drops and deliveries. We will coordinate them together as we have a lifestyle approach and they need to be available at the same time," he explained. "There is a lot of coordination to do by our marketing manager and by Johnny's team, but we are ready to do it now. We only signed the ready-to-wear licenses a year ago, so we needed to give it time and now we know how that works."
Read more: Johnny Be Good
For Coca, it marks the first time he will be able to see the immediate pick-up in the collections he designs, having previously worked at houses where the traditional format was employed - something Andretta believes will be rewarding for the Seville-born designer.
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"Johnny is supporting it. From his point of view, it is frustrating when you see your customer wants the product you have created and you're not able to give it to them," said Andretta. "He validated the decision and is behind it."


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1. Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
2. If you carn't have midnight snack why do we have a light in the fridge?
3. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
4. It doesn't matter what temperature the room is. It's always room-temperature.
5. I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbor said "Are you going to help?" I said, "No, Six should be enough.
6. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
7. I think animal testing is a terrible idea, because they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
8. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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Pavel Kolesnikov was born in Kyrgyzstan and grew up in Kazakhstan in pastors home. After graduating from high school and music college, in 1978 he accepted Christ and was baptized in 1981. Between 1985-1987 Pavel was in the Russian army. A few years later in 1989 Pavel married his wife Lubov. They now have three daughters and one granddaughter.
Pavel was involved in the start of a new church in Moscow in 1989. In 2010 he was called to lead the All-Russia Commonwealth Evangelical Christian organization, where he held the role of chairman. In 2014 he graduated from Theological Institute (TCMI) in Vienna, Austria with his MA. Since 2015 Pavel has served as the co-chairman of the Advisory Council of heads of the Protestant churches in Russia. He also serves as the senior pastor of Zelenograd Baptist Church.


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Area: 25,713 sq km
Landlocked state surrounded by Serbia/Kosovo, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania.
Population: 2,043,360 Annual Growth: 0.08%
Capital: Skopje
Urbanites: 67.9%
HDI Rank: 72 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)
Peoples: 25 (24% unreached) All peoplesUnreached Peoples Prayer Card
Official language: Macedonian, one of the southern Slavic languages Languages: 10 All languages
Largest Religion: Christian
The evangelical witness is small, but growing. Almost every Protestant/Independent expression of faith is active and increasing. Even so, there are fewer than 100 evangelical congregations. Pray for the many challenges of and opportunities for the Church:
a) Opposition. The label of cult persists, but is slowly fading for evangelicals. Obstructive tactics by the government often hold back the church from building the facilities needed to host the growing congregations. Pray for favour from the government and a humble attitude from the Church.
b) Unity. Expressions of oneness in Christ are increasing, including pastors prayer summits and networks, citywide worship events, and even websites focused on the issue. Pray that believers might press into true unity and that Christians love for one another might attract many to Christ.
c) Church planting, evangelism and mission. Macedonian believers punch above their weight in terms of outward-focused ministry. Many congregations look to reproduce and so deliberately move into cities and neighbourhoods previously unevangelized. House churches are a great part of this focus. Pray for a grassroots movement that sees the numbers of Macedonian believers rapidly multiply. Indigenous groups such as Macedonian Mission to the Balkans (reaching all ethnicities in the southern regions of the former Yugoslavia) are impacting Macedonia as well as neighbouring countries.
d) Training and discipleship. The first (non-Orthodox) theological school in the country is being planned Macedonia Bible Seminary is aiming to open by autumn 2010. In the meantime, ministries such as SEND, YWAM and SGA all focus on raising up mature and biblically literate believers. Generally, multiple small congregations increase the need for leaders, yet are a better structure in which to disciple Christians.
The ethnic minorities are numerous, and all are in need of ministry.
a) Albanians represent 25% of Macedonias population, and their numbers are rapidly increasing through birth rates and immigration. Greater tensions between Albanians with their demands for increasing political influence and the majority of Macedonians seem inevitable, but neither group desires the upheaval suffered in neighbouring Kosovo. Almost all Macedonian Albanians are unevangelized Muslims, but there is an openness to loving witness. Thus far, there are no groups of Christians from a Macedonian Albanian background.
b) The Romani population is chronically poor, oppressed, uneducated, unemployed and captive to a blend of Islam and folk superstitions. Sutka, near Skopje, is home to many of Macedonias 80,000 Romani and is one of the largest Romani communities in the world. YWAM, Pioneers, the Methodists, Pentecostals and Baptists are all seeing fruit among the Romani.
c) The Turkish community lives mainly in eastern Macedonia. There are a handful of believers, but no evangelical church among them. A few groups are now engaged in outreach to them.
For an additional 4 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.
The Operation World book, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM provide far more information and fuel for prayer for the people of Macedonia.


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incontestable clause
A stipulation that limits the time the insurer has to dispute the information provided in the policy contract. This clause usually takes effect two or three years after the policy begins. In health insurance, this clause further states that claims cannot be denied due to a preexisting condition, except for those expressly named in the contract. In life insurance, this clause further states that a death benefit cannot be denied due to misrepresentation by the insured of their health condition at the time he or she took the policy out.