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Mizzou and UGA will play on ESPNU Saturday night.
Tigers Set for Braggin' Rights at Busch Stadium
Mizzou and Illinois will play at 6:30 p.m.
Mizzou Splits Doubleheader at Tennessee
Bats come alive in game two as Tigers plate season-high 14 runs.
Ninth Inning Nips Tigers in 8-3 Loss
The game's final frame proved to be the difference as San Francisco tied the series.
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Jace James and Keaton Steele were brilliant on the mound in Missouri's mid-week sweep.
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Hit .143 in nine 15 games with nine starts while scoring six runs while driving in two more.
Three of his five hits on the season went for doubles.
Had a great weekend at Tennessee, going 3-for-8 while scoring three runs with an RBI and two doubles.
Hit .306 in 22 games and emerged as the Tigers' starting designated hitter late in the season as one of the Tigers' most clutch hitters.
Tallied 17 RBI in just 72 at-bats as he hit a blistering .391 with runners in scoring position last season and .417 with two outs.
Was also on fire in seven postseason games, hitting .370 with five RBI and five runs while slugging .519 with a pair of doubles and a triple.
Went 2-for-5 with three RBI in a 10-5 win over Arkansas-Little Rock.
Had three hits and an RBI at Busch Stadium in the Tigers' 5-4 win over Illinois.
Hit his first and only home run of the season against North Dakota in a 21-5 win in which he went 1-for-2 with two runs and an RBI.
Posted his second three-RBI game of the season in the Tigers' run-rule, 12-2, win over Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament as he went 3-for-4 with a double, a run and the three runs driven in.
Also tallied three hits in the Tigers' Big 12 Championship Game win over Oklahoma , going 3-for-5 with a run and an RBI.
Junior College
Attended Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City, La.
Batted .323 with 10 home runs and 43 RBIs.
High School
Had a .515 batting average and collected nine home runs during his senior year at Newnan High School.
Selected to the All Region Baseball and Basketball team all four years of high school.
Member of the All-State Baseball Team in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Team claimed Regional Championship and was state runner-up in 2008 and 2009.
Recognized as a "Texas Scholar" in 2009.
Born on May 23, 1992, in Newnan, GA.
Son of Mike and Renee McGraw.
Had an uncle that played football for Bear Bryant at Alabama and another uncle that played football for Bobby Bowden at FSU.
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Coroner Buddy Bryan has identified the inmate who was allegedly killed by his cell mate as 57-year-old Issac Kendred.
According to Bryan, Kendred died at the Muscogee County Jail, and this death is being investigated as a murder.
Kendred appears to have been beaten to death by his cell mate.
The suspect has been identified as Jeffrey McKinney, who is now charged with murder and aggravated assault, among other charges. McKinney is scheduled for first appearance hearing in municipal court on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
EMS was called to the jail in reference to a body being found in a cell after 11:30 p.m. Nov. 8. The victim was pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m. Nov. 9.
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Kounkaku 1903 – Shimane Prefecture
Most people who visit the beautiful city of Matsue in Shimane Prefecture on the north coast of Japan make sure to check out the famous Matsue Castle. The castle is one of the more beautiful wood and stone castles in Japan and the black building contrasts beautifully with the green of the garden and the blue sky. It also contrasts beautifully with another of Matsue's famous buildings, the splendid white Kounkaku (興雲閣), also knowns by the locals as the Russian Palace when it was built in 1903. Local business worked together to raise money for the building, which in those days cost 13 489 yen, or 10 million yen in today's value which must be exceptionally good value. The hope was to have a building grand enough to welcome the Emperor during his visit to Matsue but unfortunately his visit was stopped due to the outbreak of the war with Russia in 1905. However the locals got nearly the same honor in 1907 when the then Crown Prince Yoshihito visited (the soon to be Emperor Taisho).
The building itself is an important example of the uniquely Japanese style of architecture called Gyofu Architecture, that was common in Japan between 1869 and 1905. It is in essence buildings made by Japanese carpenters to imitate the style of western buildings they had only seen in drawings, plans and photographs. Many of the layouts, details and all the construction techniques are made in pure Japanese style, but in a way that looks foreign. The term Gyofu is today considered very negative and many architects prefer to call it Early Meiji Period Style, not as descriptive but more neutral. For a long time these buildings were considered naive and embarrassing even though they were usually very popular with locals who saw them as a sign of modernity and prosperity. Many government offices, police stations, hospitals and schools were built in this style until the early 20th century when western and western trained architects and engineers started constructing properly western buildings in the western manner. Personally though I love this style of architecture, it is informed, it is local, it is vernacular and a very attractive combination between east and west. Although proper western architecture also has some shining examples in Japan (like the Mitsubishi Ichigokan in Tokyo), these Gyofu buildings have so much more heart. And above all, they are in every case deeply loved by the people who live near them, and that is one of the pillars of an ethical and ecological society. Here is another example of perhaps the most famous Gyoufu building in Japan, the Kaichi Gakkou in Nagano Prefecture's Matsumoto City.
Inside the building there are a few modern pieces of artwork reflecting the history of Matsue City, for example the grand portrait of the Daimyo (lord of a province) Horio Yoshiharu (堀尾吉晴 1542–1611) who was one of the most famous Samurai in Japanese history. You can't tell from the portrait but he had quite a life! As a young man he caught a wild boar with his bare hands and this brought him to the attention of the most powerful lord in Japan who was interested in what the young warrior would become. In battle after battle he proved his strength and cunning both as a warrior and as a leader. In 1599, at just the perfect moment, he switches sides in the great civil war that was raging in Japan at that time, to the side of the eventual winner, Tokuhawa Ieayasu (the first Shogun ruler of Japan). As a reward he was appointed the first head of the noble family that would rule modern day Shimane prefecture.
Taisha Station Interiors – Shimane Prefecture
This is the interior of the wonderful but now disused Taisha Station in Shimane Prefecture on the northern coast of Japan. The constructions is a combination of western post and beam and Japanese finishing details and exterior roofing, giving it a strangely familiar feel. It does not feel like a typical countryside station but more like a proper waiting hall. It is easy to imagine groups of people and families gathering here to pick up relatives coming to visit over the holidays or to see of young people leaving for university or work in the big city! Take a look at the destinations list and you will see that this station was unusually well connected, there are fares to most places in western Japan and all the way to Tokyo on local train routes. It must have been an interesting journey in the time of steam powered locomotives.
Economists might also find the fare table quite interesting, as it shows us a little bit about how much inflation Japan has had in these 24 years since the table was last updated. Practically zero. This corresponds to one of the stupidest foreign language media hoaxes about Japan, the myth of "the lost decades". I am old enough to remember back in the day when inflation was something universally detested and governments won elections on their "promises" to fight inflation. These days it is the complete opposite and governments fight to establish some sort of inflation, and they often point to the example of "the Japanese lost decades". Here is an interesting article debunking the story. Or as my Dutch friend mentioned upon visiting Japan for the first time: "for a country two and a half decades into a recession, there sure seems to be a lot of construction going on". Indeed.
Taisha Station Building – Shimane
In the sleepy little town of Izumo, in western Shimane Prefecture on the north coast of Japan you'll find one the most beautiful examples of train station architecture in Japan. The Taisha station was inaugurated in 1912 as the first stop of the JR Taisha Line. The original station was much humbler and in 1924 the present station building was completed to better reflect the important national status of the town of Izumo and the grand Izumotaisha shrine. It is said that the station was designed by a young man, Mr. Sota who was only 25 years old. The station has three tracks and two platforms that are unusually long for such a minor station, the reason being that the station had to accommodate special long distance trains all the way from Tokyo and even chartered private trains. There was a direct line to Tokyo running regularly in the 1950s, and special direct trains well into the 1980s. It must have been a very interesting, and slow, journey! In the peak of its use, 1960, the station saw about 2000 passengers a day, but it was gradually superseded by other train lines and on the last of March in 1990 the last train pulled into the station. Townspeople and visitors to the shrine shifted over to the 1930 Izumo Taishamae station about a 10 minute walk from the Taisha station (which I blogged about last year).
The station is designed in the style of a shrine and as such does not fit into any contemporary style of architecture, which makes it look absolutely timeless, coming as it did between the Japanese Neoclassical style of the Meiji Period and the Imperial Style of the 1930s. It is no wonder it was declared a national building treasure in 2004 and 2009. The building is ecologically designed using local materials of wood, clay infill, lime, glass and stone, a far cry from the energy intensive modern concrete buildings.
Jozaninarijinja – Shimane Castle
Any foreigner who has spent any time in Japan, and almost all of Japanese school children know of the strange foreigner Lafcadio Hearn (his Japanese name was Koizumi Yakumo, or 小泉八雲), an exceptionally cosmopolitan Irish-Greek intellectual who came to Japan in 1890 as a journalist but quickly had to change career to that of an English language teacher, a fate no doubt shared by many eager young westerners in the present times. His first teaching post in Japan was at a school in Shimane, capital of Shimane Prefecture, which later featured in his famous writings about Japan. Also featured in his writings was this little shrine, the Jozaninarijinja (城山稲荷神社), an Inari shinto shrine at the top of the castle mountain in central Shimane. On his way to school he would often stop and look at the large stone statues of foxed outside the shrine. Hence, it is in my opinion that Lafcadio Hearn generally, and this shrine in particular, could be considered the guardian spirits, or saints, of English teachers in Japan, Japanophiles and even foreign manga lovers! If you consider yourself having ever fitted into one of those categories, take a moment the next time you are in Shimane and throw a coin to the spirits of this shrine!


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On the night she found out that he didn't love her, she first said goodbye to him and then walked out of the Starbucks, mostly dizzy. She then got in her car and sat very still, with the door not all the way shut. She drove home and turned the air conditioning all the way on. As she drove, she didn't really move her focus, rather just stared at the yellow line in the middle of the black. Her headlights didn't blink on until she was on the freeway.
When she got home, she gave her sister the green tea milkshake her boy had half finished and given to her at the coffee shop and walked into her bedroom. She sent a direct quote from the evening to her friend that she kept updated on the affair, and then got very sad, in the dark of her bedroom. She didn't want to listen to music, or people talking, for that matter. And then she got drunk.
This solved the problem, for the most part. She remembered that she was better than a twenty year old who hits his head on cabinets and falls in love with girls that don't see that he is absolute youth and recklessness and magic and energy. She got up and, because she was not broken, brushed her teeth, dropping her toothbrush only once.
She researched tattoos, and tried to convince herself the interest in tattoos was genuine and not just because she know the girl her boy was in love with had flash tattoos and piercings. She looked up quotes about being her ideal form, and then decided to go to the gym tomorrow, her mother's birthday. This did not, ultimately, happen.
She hated him for looking at her breasts, and for not shaving for a couple days, and for smoking while skateboarding, her half-drunk cup of coffee in his hand. She thought about how his hair felt in her fingers, and held her right hand to her cheek.
She hated herself, and what she had done for six months exactly that night, and she hated how the worst things always seem to happen on anniversaries.
At some point, the music was turned on and she wrote some of it down. Then, the girl started to feel very, very old.
It was through observing his lifestyle that she realized the things she thought and was taught were devastating to quality of life actually mean next to nothing in the scheme of things. Tattoos have nothing to do with quality of life. They have to do with independence, and comfort in your own skin, and that has to do with overall happiness. It turns out you're more likely to die of skin cancer than lung cancer, smoke accounted for. He had, only unintentionally, broadened her mind.
The worst part was that she found it increasingly more difficult, over the course of the coming weeks when they would wish each other farewell and she left for school, to remember the good parts about herself without him - who saw her virtues so easily - there to remind her what they were."
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Today in Jurassic Technology
Tackling voice and video transmission didn't start with Skype, Facetime and Google.
Head back in time and we have Edison's imagined Telephonoscope as shown here in Punch's Almanac from 1879 (Transmits light as well as sound!) .
1910 saw another imagined videotelephony display (bottom right) in a look at what 21st century France might be all about (technology changes, fashion remains the same?).
In 1956 AT&T created a prototype for the Picturephone (bottom left) and introduced it to the public at the 1964 World's Fair in New York. In an exhibit, visitors could call and see people at another installation in Disneyland.
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Entry by Foreign Firms in the United States under Exchange Rate Uncertainty
AbstractThis paper tests the effects that real exchange-rate fluctuations had on foreign direct investment into the United States during the 1980s. Using a sample of foreign investments in sixty-one four-digit SIC U.S. wholesale industries, this paper finds exchange-rate volatility to be negatively correlated with the number of foreign investments that occur in these industries. This negative effect is most pronounced for industries where sunk investments in physical and intangible assets are relatively high. Although exchange rate volatility deters investment from all countries, its effect was most significant for investments by Japanese companies. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.
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Ripe with celeb references and some hot lampooning wordplay action, Eminem's new video for We Made You (Rock Star) is quite a hoot. Directed by Joseph Kahn, he takes aim at (among others) Bret Michaels, Amy Winehouse, Sarah Palin, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, Transformers, Star Trek, and even ALF.
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In every political season, the candidates inspire recording artists to record tributes (or try to cash in) to their chosen candidates. We at Songspeak picked 5 at random, and labeled them 'top 5′ totally arbitrarily. 1,000 points for us! Here they are:
# 5: "Barack Obama" – Coco Tea
Back in March, reggae singer Coco Tea recorded this shout-out tribute to Barack Obama. Never did we realize just how catchy singing someone's name repeatedly during the chorus could be.
#4: "Raisin' McCain" – John Rich
John Rich, of popular country band Big & Rich, wrote this McCain rally song. He even performed this song at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
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I can't help but notice the songspeak site has had some banner ads for the McCain/Palin campaign lately. I can only imagine this is because we've had a few McCain and Palin related posts recently, but rest assured that we here at Songspeak in no way, shape, or form support the McCain/Palin ticket.
So it bothers me that ads for them are popping up on the site. Why should it look like we're promoting someone that we don't support, nor agree with? Worse yet, the ad looks like some sort of satire, repeating the "maverick" catchphrase over and over. This whole maverick idea is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen in politics, and reeks of pandering to the lowest common denominator. "Hey, Joe Six-Pack! We're mavericks! We're gonna shoot up Washington with change…YEE-HAAAWWWWWW!" The whole thing seems like one big (sad) joke. But it's for real. Frightening. (Never mind that I don't understand how a candidate like McCain that has served in the senate for 22 years can pretend that he'd be "change").
Everyone knows that the ORIGINAL mavericks are the Ford Maverick, James Garner (who played Maverick in the TV series that ran from 1957 to 1962), Tom Cruise (who played Maverick in the 1986 hit movie Top Gun), and Mel Gibson (who played Maverick in the 1994 movie version of the TV series). And even though one is a car, and two of them are total whackjobs now, I'm confident that ANY of them would make a better Vice President (or President) than Sarah Palin. Especially the car.
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John McCain's campaign has been using the Foo Fighters song, "My Hero" at rallies without the band's permission.
"It's frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property. The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song. We hope that the McCain campaign will do the right thing and stop using our song–and start asking artists' permission in general!"
- Statement from Foo Fighter's public relations firm, Nasty Little Man
This is not the first time this has happened, apparently.
The band Heart noticed that its song "Barracuda" was used for Sarah Palin events without permission.
John Mellencamp's songs, "Our Country" and "Little Pink Houses" were used without permission.
Jackson Browne's song "Running on Empty" was also used by the Republican party without consent. Jackson Browne has even filed suit against the party as well as the campaign, concerned that playing the song at an Ohio event implies his endorsement of McCain.
John Hall, a member of the 1970s group Orleans and now congressman, was unhappy with the campaign's use of the Orleans song "Still The One" without his consent.
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In 1984, long before Sarah Palin was John McCain's vice presidential nominee, she (then Sarah Heath) entered into the Miss Alaska Pageant. She competed in a swimsuit competition of course. But more importantly, she showed off her musical prowess during the talent portion of the competition by playing the flute.
The announcer says: "She is an accomplished flautist who has been performing for ten years. She will be performing "The Homecoming" as written by Nathan Hardy…"
Here's the video:
She didn't win the competition.
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John McCain was supposed to appear as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman last night. However, because of the economic crisis this country is suffering (due to the absolute joke that is the Bush administration), McCain felt it necessary to cancel his appearance at the last minute.
This didn't sit too well with David Letterman, and he railed on John McCain like there was no tomorrow. He chided him for suspending his campaign, he criticized him for not having Sarah Palin take his place while he took care of business in Washington, DC. He even showed live footage of McCain being interviewed by Katie Couric, while he was supposed to be on his way back to Washington. Letterman and Keith Olbermann hammed it up while watching the footage.
Take a look at the tongue lashing Letterman unleashed last night:
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Avast! The week's past is ye a memory. As we hoist our anchors and set sail for days cometh, let's recall the waters of the past. Aye, she's a wiery one. Won't you scrape th'barnacles of our tired rudders, matey?
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And of course our interview with Mr. Andre N. Jones
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Brilliantly played by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, this season of Saturday Night Live opened over this past weekend with a bang. Fey played John McCain's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin. Poehler played Hillary Clinton.
Here's a transcript:
FEY AS PALIN: "Good evening, my fellow Americans. I was so excited when I was told Senator Clinton and I would be addressing you tonight."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And I was told I would be addressing you alone."
FEY AS PALIN: "Now I know it must be a little bit strange for all of you to see the two of us together. What with me being John McCain's running mate."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "And me being a fervent supporter of Senator Barack Obama — as evidenced by this button."
FEY AS PALIN: "But tonight we are crossing party lines to address the now very ugly role that sexism is playing in the campaign."
POEHLER AS CLINTON: "An issue which I am frankly surprised to hear people suddenly care about."
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BRADLEY COUNTY (WRCB) -- Bradley County sheriff's deputies arrested dozens of people in a drug round.
Sheriff Tim Gobble says 35 warrants and indictments handed down by the Bradley County Grand Jury has resulted in 22 arrests for illegal drug activity. The suspects were taken into custody on Tuesday with another 13 arrests pending. Some suspects are already in jail in other areas and will face the charges in Bradley County.
The drug round-up is the result of six-month investigation by the BCSO Criminal Investigations Division (CID), the BCSO Drug Unit and the BCSO Patrol Division.
"I believe the teamwork, smoothness and success of this operation should make drug dealers and others who traffic in drugs aware that if they continue to engage in illegal activity, we will deal with them in a decisive manner," said Capt. Steve Lawson with Bradley County's CID.
"This is another example of our commitment to keeping our streets and neighborhoods drug-free," said Sheriff Gobble. "We will continue working hard to keep our community safe and free from illegal drugs."
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The Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning
Published on - April 23rd, 2009 (by J.D. Roth)
Last week I shared Investing for Your Future, a fantastic 11-week home-study course for beginning investors with small dollar amounts to invest. This week I found a similar resource from UC Irvine, which offers a free online class in the fundamentals of personal financial planning. According to the course introduction:
This course is not intended to replace the professional financial planner, but to help to make the general public better consumers of financial planning advice. The course was created to help those who cannot afford extensive planning assistance better understand how to define and reach their financial goals. It provides basic understanding so informed decisions can be made. The course can also be seen as a reference for individual topics that are part of personal financial planning.
The course is divided into eight discrete modules, each of which contains a number of specific topics. (And each topic is divided into multiple pages.) This approach makes it easy to sit down and read through the information in chunks, whenever you have the spare time. The course modules cover topics like:
- Setting financial goals
- Figuring out where you are
- Taxation
- Preventing bad things from interrupting your goals
- Investment basics
- Funding retirement
- Funding education
- Estate planning
I haven't read the entire course, but from what I've seen, there's a lot of good information here. If you took the time to work through Investing for Your Future and Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning, I believe you'd have an excellent grounding in the basics of saving and investing.
J.D. You post a lot of good links, but there have been a little too many lately. I am not able to catch with all of them.
A friend approached me about this Money Merge Account System. Have you heard about it and what is your view of it? Is it a scam or does it work?
J.D. looks like a great course and the price is right. Thanks for sharing!
I cannot believe folks have to be "taught" how to save. And they pay money to boot, to learn how. Now, that's idiocy.
Saving is not a natural, instinctive behavior for most people (because it really involves consciously delaying gratification) and, therefore, must be "taught."
If there is value in paying to learn how, which there can be, that's not idiocy; it's smart.
Dylan, saving is a natural, instinctive, nature for squirrels. They save their acorns for the winter (trust me, they bury them all over my garden).
Are squirrels smarter than humans?
If you're dumber than a squirrel, then I suppose you should pay to take a "how to save" course.
PS: Once the squirrel saves, it's a different issue as to how the acorn is planted. If planted on the "back forty" where it is unlikely to be harvested, it might grow into a mighty oak, yielding many acorns. If planted in my flower pot, I will no doubt dig it out come Springtime.
JD just some quick advise regarding your links. You also post links in your articles that take readers away from your site. You should direct them to open in a new tab or window. You never want to direct a reader away from your site. Most attention spans will not stay focused enough to return to you.
Great site.
Seamus, it's "advice" not "advise". It's a noun. Not a verb. In any event, the attention span of most blog readers is a nano-second, so it really doesn't matter. I suspect fewer than one in one million got my squirrel metaphor. Assuming (big assumption) even a million bothered to read the post.
Bozo, a little too much free time maybe? It's great that you're perfect but maybe some of the rest of us could use the opportunity to learn something. Sheesh.
Some humans have the natural instinct of squirrels. They "squirrel away" everything from cash to comic books to 20-yr-old newspapers, "just in case". Some are the opposite and can't make a paycheck last the week. Blogs like JD's and classes like the ones he posts are incredibly helpful for those of us seeking some balance.
Keep it up, JD! Thank You!
Think of life as a teeter-totter. If you put too much weight on this end, you tend to tip over the other.
Folks seeking some "balance" might learn from teeter-totters. Those who are "teeter-totter"-challenged might learn about "levers" from the French:
The last I checked, squirrels didn't speak French.
Nor did they ride teeter-totters, but they did "squirrel away" their acorns.
You can pay me for this wisdom.
Or not.
Another option if you don't mind spending a little money is to buy a used personal financial planning textbook on amazon.
I found the one used by a local university in it's CFP curriculum. Covered all the topics in enough detail to be usuable.
By the time I was done with it, I had a budget, balance sheet, and an income & expense sheet. I was also tracking my solvency, liquidity, and debt ratios as well as my savings rate. Beyond that I learned about the rest of the basics, insurance, taxes etc.
One of the best $50 investments I have ever made.
@ bozo This is supposed to be a place for people to intelligently discuss personal finance. If you have nothing positive to add to the discussion please save your troll-ness for less positive sites.
@J.D. Thank you for the wonderful links. Keep up the good work.
Hi JD,
I've been reading for a long time, and I figured the best way to reach you would be through here rather than an email…plus this question is relevant to this post.
I am just beginning learning the fundamentals now because I am about to graduate from grad school. So I have a question because this is a basic budget question that I can't seem to figure out.
My take-home income will be between 5000-5500 a month, and I was wondering if $1900/mo for an apartment is too high? It's about 38%, but the thing is I won't have a car (so no insurance or expenses on that) because I'll be within walking distance of work and all shopping/groceries, and my company covers all medical insurance 100% (including copays and prescriptions). So I won't have any automotive or insurance expenses, and also, utilities are included in that rent amount, so I won't have to worry about a huge heating bill in January.
Does that still seem too high? I guess I just really really like this place and even then my budget still includes me saving 50% of my income (10% to savings/debts and 40% to contributions) so I think I've still got my priorities straight?
BTW I have no credit card debt, my credit card score is 780, and I have about $31k in 5-6% interest federal student loans.
"even then my budget still includes me saving 50% of my income (10% to savings/debts and 40% to contributions)"
Adam, you've got a lot going to Eve, here. 40% is a mighty big apple.
Just my passing thought.
PS: Garden of Eden metaphor, for those slow on the up-take.
Bozo needs a hobby.
Whatever it takes a course or the self discipline– you have to start somewhere . . .
Haha I got your reference, but what's wrong with saving a ton?
J.D., perhaps you've shared it with GRS readers already, but http://www.finance.cch.com/ appears to likely be quite useful. From the Home Page:
This web site is dedicated to you and your financial future. It's free, there's nothing to buy, and it's brought to you by a team of finance and business professionals with decades of experience. Over a thousand pages of essential information and tools to help you manage your personal finances through planning, investing and asset protection strategies.
Adam, congratulations on what appears to be a fabulous financial beginning in your life. iMHO, your priorities are right. You didn't mention where you live. In California, those rates are, unfortunately, pretty average. The fact that you are saving so much and have zero debt mitigates thevprice of your housing somewhat in my mind.
For the rest of us, at least Bozo uses his identifier to make his status clear so we can easily bypass his inane remarks on this extremely useful website.


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The 4-H Program offers youth opportunities outside of the traditional club setting to build leadership, citizenship, and life skills that last a lifetime. These opportunities occur at the county, regional, state, and national levels, and are supported by extension staff, volunteer adult leaders, and members' families.
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We went after lunch and before dinner on Christmas Eve -- 4 or 4:30. No wait at all. It is legacy Chicago pizza. Been here a long time because it's good.
Excellent food, beautiful room, inconsistent service that is friendly but has an air of kids working a second job that are just a little off.
This place was not packed which I loved since I do not like to feel like sardine. They had a variety of small plates that were quite delicious. The views of their surroundings are quite majestic at night as you are among the buildings in the area. They even have an outside area deck to enjoy the views.
C-House advertised that they were serving BOGO hot chocolates for kids and adults after the Fesitval of Lights on Michigan Ave. Here is exactly what it said: "November 17, 2012 Buy one, Get one Hot Chocolate Warm up on the day of the Lights Festival and enjoy a hot chocolate on us! Buy one, get one hot chocolate at C-House...
We stayed at MileNorth Hotel October 10-13 and ate lunch here on the day of our departure. Were we surprised! The special was soup of the day or salad, sandwhich and a mini dessert for 15. The soup was pumpkin. We've eaten a lot of mediocre pumpkin soup. This was outstanding! Expertly spiced and delcious. My wife had a BLT...
loved the dinner roll! Food was excellent! location is great, right on entrance into the hotel. you also have the option to dine in or outside.
Found the bar to be average , but the roof terrace is a nice place to view the sunset and a warm sunny evening
We at ate the roof top bar while staying at the hotel. Food was average, view was fantastic. Service was a little slow but didn't particular matter given the relaxing environment.
Stopped in for a Saturday brunch and was confused if the place was even open as no one was dining and wait-staff seemed busy. We were seated in a comfy cushioned area and had a very good value brunch for Chicago although food/service was nothing out of the ordinary. We were disappointed there were no desserts available since we've heard...
Was given free breakfast from Mile North. It was ok because it was free, but food wasn't very good. Potatoes were bland and warm maybe a little too strong of a word for the temperature. They were out of croissants. Eggs could have been hotter... and the bread was ok. Jam was excellent on the positive side.
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The Apple iMac MB950B all-in-one computer with 4GB Ram, 21.5" screen, 3.06ghz Processor, was my first jump into the world of Apple computers (I already had an early iPod).
I really didn't know what to expect, or how good it would be (or not as the case might be). I'd bought it online direct from Apple, so didn't have the chance to discuss the differences between the Mac OS and Windows, however there's plenty of information online to help anyone with any problems.
The first thing I noticed was just how simple the Mac OS is, compared to Windows and more importantly for the benefit of this review, just how good the iMac was.
I opted for the wireless keyboard and mouse to free up some desk space and get away from a myriad of cables. Initially I did worry that this may be a problem as of course many keys on a full size keyboard (the Apple wireless keyboard does not have a separate number board) seemed to be missing, but once you get used to using the Function, Command, Control and Alt/Option keys, you soon find everything you need.
The mouse worked flawlessly. It uses special sensors to determine whether you're clicking left or right on the mouse, without actually having a left or right button. Cool...
The LCD screen, although not HD really does pop out the colours, however if there is one issue I have, you will get image burn, specifically where the Desktop Icons are, however it's not a massive issue if you keep them minimised
The case is superb. Cast aluminium and solid. Can't say more really.
The processor is fairly slick and does what it needs to do, however chip tech has moved on and it is beginning to struggle a little now.
Overall, well worth the money and great fun...
PC or Mac? Difficult choice but my great preference has always been for PC. I love them. Started with a 120Mhz pentium on a 1.5Gb HDD running Windows 95. Since then have had every incarnation of Windows (some good and some bad) and find that the basic OS is easy to get into 'nuts and bolts' for tweaking performance.
Typically early PC's were horrendous beige boxes which didn't really change in the mainstream until people started to modify their PC's or upgraded components for gaming purposes. I had a couple of performance cases with the cut out designed windows and LED lighting but they never really had a truly stylish appeal. Sure I upgraded a couple into what became monster powerhouses but they were more Corvette than Aston Martin.
Enter Apple. Pretty much the same in the beginning and with a tiny market share for the home user. As some in the industry wrote them off they pulled out the iMac from their hat and people stopped to notice what could be done with some intelligent design and a little boldness. Instantly recognisable it became an iconic figure which really revolutionised computer design.
Since then Apple have continued to inexplicably design and produce tech of natural beauty and others can merely imitate. An argument of style over functionality can be thrown at them from time to time but this is tit for tat. Apple make premium products at premium prices.
The latest incarnation of the popular iMac range is a frankly stunning thing of beauty. Almost too good to be true when you put it side by side with the average PC set up. But true it is. The case is made from a single piece of aluminium as is machined and finished to perfection. The lower part of the front holds only the Apple logo and is dominated by the beautiful LED screen which measure in a 21.5 inches with a 16:9 aspect ratio. The colours are bright and vibrant leaving most displays trailing well behind. Resolution is full HD at 1920*1080 and if you decide to opt for the larger screen the pixel count is well in excess of high definition.
Keyboard and mouse are wireless a standard and are controlled by Bluetooth. In keeping with the uber stylish approach the keyboard has been minimalised to the nth degree and is very small. The main part of the body is only a couple of millimeters thick and a separate numeric pad has been axed leaving only the number keys above the letters.
Similarly the mouse has been slimmed right down and now has intelligent touch sensitivity along the top surface. Scrolling up and down requires a slight swipe of the finger and feels so much more natural than a wheel. Additionally you can sweep two fingers left and right to flick between web pages and photos. Pinch to zoom has not been incorporated into this mouse however for those with iPhones.
The base model uses the familiar Intel Core Duo and is clocked at a healthy 3.06 Ghz and this supported by 4Gb of DDR3 RAM clocked at 1066 Mhz. This is a very good starting point for a 'base model' and provides more than enough power for the average user, in fact most users. Storage is through a 500Gb ATA HDD which runs at 7200rpm. I have to say that the HDD is almost silent and you will notice a distinct lack of noise whatever you are doing. Neighbours excluded. Wifi is 802.11 a/b/g/n and is fast and easy to configure during the initial setup. The 21.5 inch uses nVidia 9400m graphics integrated onto the motherboard and does a fine job of HD playback though I haven't tried any serious gaming on this chipset. A megapixel camera is discreetly located in the upper screen surround and can be used for VoIP with the built in microphone and speakers.
This leaves the optical drive or what Apple like to call 'Superdrive'. It's a multi format writer and supports dual layer disk and can write to DVD at up to 8x speed. A glaring omission here is the lack of support for Blu Ray. Given the absolutely stunning screen quality and HD resolution it would have been the obvious choice for an optical drive. Quite why Apple have gone down this road is a mystery but hey. The discs are slot loaded on the right hand side of the unit just above the SD card reader.
Connectivity is catered for by four USB 2.0 ports and a single Firewire 800 port. In keeping with the minimalist design they are hidden behind the right side of the main display. On the opposite side is the on/off button which is perfectly flush with the case and easily missed.
OS/X 10.6 Snow Leopard is standard and is fairly straight forward and very impressive looking. Not as accessible as Windows but it will do everything you can think of and more.
Fantastic design heritage and stunning looks make the iMac an utterly essential purchase. The high technical specification of even the lowest machine is just the icing on the cake. Perhaps a bit elitist but certainly a joy to use. Expect a heavy hammering on your credit card in the region of £950 but you can upgrade to 1Tb of storage or the larger 27 inch screen if you have platinum status.
The all-new, all-in-one iMac packs a complete, high-performance computer into a beautifully thin design. It includes built-in wireless, Mac OS X, and the iLife '08. So within minutes of opening the box, you'll be doing everything from sharing photos to creating movies and building websites.
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Anthropology is the study of human beings and their origins, and paleontology is the study of prehistoric life. Paleoanthropologists, then, essentially combine the two disciplines to study ancient hominid evidence -- bones, footprints, etc. -- in an effort to understand the evolutionary ascent of man.
The discipline is frequently ascribed the late-19th century for its beginnings, particularly with the discovery of "Neanderthal Man" in Germany and the later publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Both helped sparked the search for man's evolutionary origins, and in that search the sub-discipline of paleoanthropology was born.
Today's paleoanthropologists spend much of their time doing research in the field, excavating finds they hope will be important, and analyzing their findings and data in a laboratory setting. Typically, when finds warrant it, scientists in the field will publish papers on their work. They also spend a great deal of time teaching in college and university settings as well as conferring with colleagues in the field to pore over research, share thoughts and brainstorm new research ideas [source: Becoming Human].
The efforts of paleoanthropologists have led to some truly groundbreaking finds as the 1974. For example, there was the discovery of a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis specimen in Ethiopia -- you might know the ancient hominid by her nickname: "Lucy." In 1891, the so-called "Java Man" was discovered on Indonesia's Java island -- about 700,000 years old. Thirty-eight years later, "Peking Man" was discovered as part of a series of finds beginning in 1929. And in 1984, the nearly complete skeleton of "Turkana Boy" -- probably about 11 to 12 years old -- was found in Kenya. It was the most complete specimen of Homo erectus and was about 1.6 million years old [source: Talk Origins]. Finds such as these help paleoanthropologists piece together the long evolutionary story that culminates with us -- modern man.
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Logger for multiprocesses into one "master"-process? Palic, Darko Fri Dec 17 07:00:55 2010
Hello developers,first of all, many thanks for the log framework which works like we are used under Java. It runs like a charm!
I am not a native speaker, so foregive me if I miss the spelling or the grammar.
Currently I need a logger in a multiprocess-environment which need a log-sink in one master-process. To be more specific: I have at least 20 processes (not threads) which need logging. One process, the master process must collect all logging events of him self and the other 20 processes.
So I checked if we could you the ODBCAppender. This does not fit our needs, due to the fact, that the DB will not always be available. The SocketAppender is a similar thing, the appender needs a open Socket to communicate. Additionally I couldn't find a Socket"Sink" there the serialized LogEvents can be read from the Socket and put into an other Appender like the RollingFileAppender.
And here is my problem and also a wish to enhance log4cxx.1. What is the usage of the SocketAppender? Must I use Chainsaw to get the serialized LogEvents, or is it also possible to collect these LogEvents in an SocketReader, which itself can easily pass the deserialized LogEvents to an other Appender?
hereApp1 => write LogEvent via SocketAppender => SocketTransmission => App2 => read/deserialize LogEvent => pass LogEvent into App2-Appender
2. Is the SocketAppender able to pass the NestedDiagnosticContext so the deserialized LogEvent can use the previous NDC for logging? I do not know the implementation details of the LogEvents and also the NDC
3. The socket for the interprocess logging is too unefficient for our log-usage. So I've implemented a message_queue, which is used as the medium for the communication. I am calling it the MessageQueueAppender (MQA). MQA is used by the 20 processes, which can easily log in log4cxx and the MQA will serialize the LogEvents into the message_queue. But know, what and how to implement a log4cxx-class which will read this message_queue LogEvents and pass it to its own logger? I will call it the MQ-Sink. (reading and deserializing from the message_queue is not the problem this is also already solved)
If I do the stupid way, I will loose the timestamp, the NDC and also the format of the serializedLogEventFromMessageQueue.
LogEvent le = deserializeFromMessageQueue(serializedLogEventFromMessageQueue);
LoggerPtr logger ... logger(le) So could anyone give me hints how to solve my problems?As I said, I am willing to implement an MQA and also the MQ-Sink? But the MQ-Sink seems to be my biggest pain. And of course I am also willing to make the code again open source.
And the last question, but not mission cirtical. Is it possible to interoperate log4cxx with log4j via the message_queue?
bye, Darko
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