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Finding Financial Benchmarks and Milestones
Published on - December 20th, 2010 (by J.D. Roth)
In last Wednesday's link round-up, I pointed to an article over at Gen-Y Wealth in which RJ has listed 20 financial milestones you should reach in your twenties. "I like this list," I wrote, "and I'd actually love to see similar lists for different age ranges. People could use it as a sort of road map to where they ought to be."
What sorts of milestones were on the list? Things like:
- Pay off your student loans.
- Build an emergency fund.
- Learn to negotiate.
- Set a target retirement date.
- Learn to give.
Like me, a lot of GRS readers found RJ's list of financial milestones useful. Often, there's no real way to know if you're doing things "right". How much should you be saving for retirement? How much should you have in your savings account? How soon should you buy a home? Get married? Have children?
Obviously, there's no single right answer to any of these questions. Everyone is different. We all have different strengths and weaknesses, and we all have different goals. Because of that, no single list of milestones is going to be applicable to everyone.
Still, it's helpful to have some sort of road map. A road map lets you gauge your progress, and can help you know when you've lost your way. In fact, I think a lot of folks — including me — would love to be able to compare their financial progress to some sort of standard checklist like the one RJ provided.
One way to do this, I suppose, would be to sort through the economic data collected by agencies like the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Census Bureau. (Every three years, the Fed conducts its survey of consumer finances, which is a gold-mine of info about how Americans spend money.) But this only works if you're resourceful and like digging through data. Besides, you'd have to construct your own benchmarks from the numbers you found.
One useful benchmark
I may have encountered other lists of milestones in the past, but I can't remember them. The one benchmark that's stuck with me — and it's not really a milestone like the kinds RJ describes — comes from The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko [my review].
The authors suggest a simple way to gauge where you should be on your financial journey:
Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.
Some of that sounds like jargon, but it's actually fairly easy to understand. Here's my attempt at a translation:
- Calculate your annual pre-tax household income.
- Divide your age by ten.
- Multiply these two numbers together.
Ignoring inheritance, your expected household net worth is the product of this calculation. So, if you and your spouse are about 35 years old and you make $80,000 a year, your calculation would look like this:
If you're 35 years old and your household income is $80,000 per year, your expected net worth is $280,000.
Prodigious accumulators of wealth
Based on this equation, Stanley and Danko classify folks into three categories:
- A prodigious accumulator of wealth (or PAW) has more than twice the expected net worth for her age. In the above example, her net worth would be over $560,000 instead of $280,000.
- An under accumulator of wealth (or UAW) has less than half the expected net worth for his age. In our example, his net worth would be $140,000 or less.
- And an average accumulator of wealth (or AAW) falls somewhere in the middle.
The interesting thing about this formula is that it adjusts based on life circumstances. Somebody working minimum wage at a coffee shop can still be a prodigious accumulator of wealth if he manages to set aside a large portion of his paycheck. And a highly-paid doctor can still be an under accumulator of wealth if she spends every penny she earns.
When I first read The Millionaire Next Door, I dismissed this formula as silly. "It leaves so much out!" I thought. Part of the problem was that I was an under accumulator of wealth. (I was 35 years old and earned about $50,000 a year. My net worth ought to have been $175,000. It was much, much less.) I didn't want to like any rule of thumb that basically told me, "You suck at saving!" — even if it was true.
In time, though, I've grown to like this benchmark. I think about it often, and I now believe it's a useful barometer for gauging financial health. I wish I could find more useful benchmarks like this one.
Benchmarks vs. Milestones
As I say, Stanley and Danko's forumla isn't really a milestone. It's not an event like buying a house or paying off student loans or starting a Roth IRA. Instead, it's more of a benchmark, a standard you can judge your progress by.
I'd love to find more financial benchmarks like this, and more milestones like those that RJ listed last week. (I'm not really looking for financial rules of thumb, which I consider a different beast entirely.) In fact, I've started a text document to collect these milestones and benchmarks. So far, though, the document contains only a link to RJ's blog post and the quote from The Millionaire Next Door.
Do you have a favorite financial benchmark or milestone? How do you use it? How has it helped you? (Or do you find these sorts of things useless?)
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My wife and I are in our 20s and are newly married. The "Millionaire Next Door" equation didn't seem to work for us. Say we make $70,000/yr. Take that times 25/10. That's $175,000!! Who has $175,000 coming out of college?!
I like the points earlier in this article though. Pay off debts, save up an emergency fund, etc. Those are realistic goals that my wife and I can shoot for.
We are currently digging our way out of debt and should have it paid off in 4 or 5 months! Then I will finally feel like we're on track.
That milestone basically assumes that you save every single extra penny from every raise you ever got. It might make people feel good to be an above-average saver, but I think it is unrealistic for most people.
In Money magazine a couple months ago, they had a retirement section that was helpful. It had recommendations for different age groups. For the 30′s it said you should have 1.5xSalary saved and then save 10%/year to achieve 70% of pre-retirement salary in retirement. It seemed reasonable.
The 'Millionaire Next Door' equation is flawed. Most people won't be able to build any net worth in the first 20 years.
To adjust for this, i would propose:
Net worth = (age-20) / 6 * income
At age 50, the figures are the same.
Heh, I'm 46 and I'm just getting started on that list. Other than getting my degree at 24 and not having any student loans, I've pretty much messed up the rest of it. Trying to catch up though. Working like hell to get rid of 20 years of consumer debt, if nothing unexpected happens it should be gone by February, then I'm starting on my emergency fund.
I have been funding my 401K at 15% for a number of years, but that's totally all I've done for investment. I haven't even kept money in savings, let alone done any actual investing. That's changing this year though.
I too found that this formula did not work very well when I was younger. And not because I wasn't a good saver or good with money. Frankly, we had good salaries and were saving quite a bit of money but we also had just bought a house and owed a large mortgage. Our retirement accounts were not very large even though we were adding to them regularly. Now that I am 41 though, it makes more sense to me. Our retirement funds have had time to gain some traction and grow and we have paid down our mortgage significantly. I think it would be frustrating to look at those numbers in your early 20′s though – especially if you had a fairly high income.
The equation is a little frustrating for me as well. I live in a high income area. I make over $100k at 30. So my net worth should be $300k or so. I'm ok with the number (as I am doing a fair job building up to it) but I guess technically I should take into account my mortgage debt? If you take in to account my mortgage debt then I have a LOOOONG way to go to get to $300k.
I think most net worth calculations should take into account mortgage debt right?
Wow- that equation worked perfectly! We actually times it by two since there are two of us @ 53&60. We used our old salary since we retired last year.
When I ran that equation last year we were AUW… which I thought was pretty good considering we spent our first 6 years out of college living on graduate stipends in an expensive city and had only been making a real salary for 3.
Benchmarks are fun, especially if you are meeting them or have good reasons not to. They're good to think about.
I agree with LifeAndMyFinances. The closer you are from leaving school/collage, the less likely you are to be close to the figure put out in the formula.
What is worse is that raises completely throw it off. At age 25, any raise I get would need to be saved 5 times over to rebalance the number after taking into account losses in the raise due to tax.
Part of the problem with the Millionare next door number is that it doesn't necessarily favor someone young for two reasons. The first is that you haven't likely had time to accumulate enough assets to meet the "average" (e.g. someone 25 years old and three years out of college but earning $40K a year is unlikely to have anywhere near the $100K in net worth assets per the formula) and the second is that hopefully, being more willing to move and take risks, your salary will increase substantially over the first ten years of your working life so the formula is always out of whack. So I think it's a better benchmark after your mid thirties to let you know if you're doing okay or not.
Regardless, it is a good eye opener for what could be, especially if you project it out and use it as something you want to reach down the road. You could think, if I really love this job I'm in, and I don't get much more in the way of raises, when I'm X years old I should have Y in assets. Now how do I get there?
As others have said, it at least gets you thinking.
The benchmark or ratio that I like using is the passive income ratio which is annual passive income (income from investments, bonds, and dividends) divided by annual living expenses. The goal is to get the ratio to at least 100%. This ratio is great because it applies to people from all different backgrounds and it reminds you to work on both sides of the equation: increase passive income and decrease living expenses. Interestingly enough, a monk or nun who has taken a vow of poverty with $0 worth of annual expenses would be infinitely wealthy using this benchmark!
The benchmark in TMND presupposes that building wealth should be a lifelong exercise. In my estimation, this is the antithesis of what is ingrained in the minds of working and middle classes, including myself. I was taught to pursue higher education at all costs even at the expense of my net worth. That dreams and passion will sustain you when the numbers are arguably overwhelming. High school counselors and often parents are ill-equipped to steer children away from schools with exorbitant tuition rates. What I love about the TMND benchmark is that it challenges the conventional wisdom that it's okay to have the assets of a pauper because you're young. Some people never fully recover from their college days, which for a lot of students include mindlessly taking out loans and credit cards. Higher education is a laudable goal, but there is more than one way to achieve it, meaning astronomical debt. Instead of having 5 year olds walking around with mobile phones and buying $400 video games for eight year olds – perhaps a more hefty college fun is in order.
I more useful blog post would have had you actually digging through the census data to come up with real benchmarks. Or perhaps you could ask someone who has actually studied the data and let us know what they think?
I'm disappointed that you chose to present a formula that is basically pulled out of the air. It has the ring of science and statistics (ooooo–it's a formula!) but actually it isn't any better than asking 5 random people on the street what they think. What good is that?
Our household income has more than doubled in the past 2 years, tripled in the past 5 years. This formula doesn't work for fast income increases. We've never had any debt in the past 10 years other than a mortgage and we've always had a 3 month emergency fund (currently we have 12 mos.) in those same 10 years. I'd say we are AAW or better, but not according to this calculation. Apparently I need to save about $500k this year to get up to par – better go get those lottery tickets now
For anyone interested in seeing how much others in your age group actually have saved (which is naturally different from how much one should have saved by a given age), this report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute may be of interest:
(Specifically, the chart on page 3.)
My problem with this formula is I have just now, at age 41, started making a good salary. I was underpaid for a long time, but finally got promoted, and recently switched companies to get another nice raise ($44k to $100k in four years). For someone that has zero debt, I'm still miles away from where this formula says I should be.
I feel a better formula would be one that averages your salary over the past 10 years, and also needs to take into account children. The only people I know who would approach the numbers in this formula are those of my friends who are DINKs (dual income, no kids).
I also have difficulty with the Millionaire Next Door formula. My family is fairly low on that scale, approx half of where we "should" be, despite having not debt and saving as much as we could.
In our early 30s it didn't apply well because my husband and I were wrestling down our grad school loans. In our mid/late 30s we were paying for two kids in child care. Now, in our early 40s we've been hit by the downturn in the economy and in RE values. By the time the economy revives, we'll be in the last push of the college saving mode. But this does give us a target to shoot for.
The formula doesn't work as others have stated if you salary has changed over the years. for example. In the past 10 years I went from being a postdoc for 3 years at 25K, then went to 35k for a year and 1/2 then the 40K for another few years, I now make around 65K but that's only been in the past couple years. However the formula assumes I have been making 65K every year for the past 10 years. An average is closer but still skewed, because it assumes I had the same amount of money to save for retirement every year when that isn't the case.
Well, that was depressing. And I thought I was doing pretty good. The only debt I have is a mortgage and I really thought I was doing quite well in the savings area, too. According to this formula I'm an underachiever, though.
Since this formula is looking at net worth, I can see how it actually *could* fluctuate quite a bit for those of us with real estate in our calculations. If I had a similar benchmark number back before the real estate bubble burst I could have been much closer to that AAW category. But now that the market has adjusted, I've "lost" value in my house. And I'm not even under water like so many others!
I haven't read that book. Maybe the formula applies to people who want to be millionaires when they retire and the rest of us can use a different benchmark.
The only milestones that matter are your own.
Personally, I figured out mine by working backwards. First, I figured out when I wanted to retire. Based on that age I calculated what after tax net worth I would need at that age to retire based on my lifestyle adjusted for inflation over the retirement years. Once I had figured out the desired net worth I would need at retirement age I then calculated my current net worth. Then I figured out what amount each year I would put towards retirement. Between these ongoing yearly contributions and my existing net worth I then calculated the percent return I needed to get to my retirement number. I then adjusted my expectations accordingly (i.e if I thought the necessary investment return was too high I'd add another year or two before retirement or increase the amount I needed to contribute towards retirement each year and re-ran the numbers).
Every year I re-look at it and see if I am on target and adjust accordingly. That's it. I don't pay attention to what anybody else's financial milestones or rules of thumb are as they are irrelevant to me and my financial situation.
J.D., will you have a follow up post discussing why the formula is flawed? Having unrealistic targets, based on what one's net worth 'should' be, merely sets people up for failure. I don't get the impression that the original goal of this site was to set people up for failure.
Consider me joining those who think this formula is, at the very least, not accurate for the young. Maybe it's because I feel that I'm doing well and it calls me an under-accumulator. All I know is, according to the formula, my net worth should be equal to about 130% of my total take-home income since I started post-college work two and a half years ago. It could be higher if I didn't make mistakes (new car with loan), but it would be difficult to get that high.
I'm fine doing what works for me, taking the victories I get and work for instead of comparing myself to some mystical should. I am excited that as of November first of this year I had positive net worth, and as of December first I am a thousandaire. Next step: positive net worth not including 401(k) and paying off the car by July as a 25th birthday present for myself!
JD, that formula is seriously flawed. I switched jobs last year and got a raise of about 40%. If I used the formula a month after I switched, my net worth expected value increases a HUGE amount. Why not an average salary? And for young people, say those under 35, how would we have saved that much of our salary (baring inheritance or lottery win)? I didn't even make any money until after 25 as I was doing a Masters degree? So I was an underperformer all those years I was getting a higher education? I have a LOT of problems with TMND, see Bad Money Advice for a nice scathing review that is intelligent too, but that formula irks me most of all.
"I didn't want to like any rule of thumb that basically told me, "You suck at saving!" — even if it was true."
Shame on you, you're normally much smarter. This is like Trent Hamm posting. You can dislike this formula because it is flawed, you're implying everyone who thinks it's flawed "sucks at saving". No, I dislike it because it doesn't work AT ALL for younger savers.
I find them useful for getting me thinking, which is always a good thing
I believe I read on Dr. Stanley's blog that he admitted it doesn't work as well for younger folks. I think it depresses younger readers (like me). I've studied the formula and think it is dialed in for someone in their mid-40s, which I speculate is the average age of his typical audience.
For example, at 30, I make $80,000. I'm supposed to have 240K saved up but at 35, I only need an additonal 40K to reach 280K. FWIW, I have $200K saved up and think that if everything keeps going well, I'll be a PAW by 35, Shouldn't be too hard to save 80K over five years making $80K. So, why am I only an average accumulator today?
("Current Age" – "Age when graduated school and began working fulltime) * weighted average salary / 10 = what your net worth should be.
Look I'm a scientist, too! Where's my book deal?
Interestingly, the formula likely understates how much money somebody should have saved by retirement age.
For example, by age 65, the formula would say the investor should have saved 6.5 times his/her pre-tax income.
If we assume that the commonly-given advice of a 4% withdrawal rate is appropriate, that means that an investor needs 25-times his/her spending needs saved.
In other words, for TMND's formula to hold true, (6.5 x pre-tax income) must be equal to (25 x annual spending from portfolio).
So the investor's spending from his portfolio must be equal to only 26% of his pre-tax annual income. Suffice to say, most people are planning on spending more than that.
…and this is why people always shy away from posting benchmarks. There's always going to be somebody saying "but it doesn't apply to me!".
Yes, there are exceptions. No, the benchmark isn't perfect. But that's why it's a benchmark. Personally, I prefer a flawed benchmark to the constant refrain of "well, it depends".
I find any "rule of thumb" to be generally worthless. They are so broad that they aren't applicable to anyone.
Milestones seem pretty straight forward. I like RJ's list because it is easy to decide whether they are applicable to you or not.
Benchmarks should really be determined on a personal basis based on your ability, goals, etc. I want to be a millionaire by the time I'm 40, so my benchmarks would just be whatever small steps help me get there.
Hey guys, lay off JD, I think it's a valid point he makes that it's natural to react badly to a rule of thumb that you're not succeeding at. It's not malice, though. He's just a human guy, after all
That said, I agree that the formula is flawed. I consider myself a "prodigious saver" and at 27 have $35K in a 401K, eliminated a $30K student debt, a $6K emergency fund another 10K in savings for personal goals. This, I feel, is pretty good for 3.5 years in the workforce, but nevertheless far short of the $170K I'm supposed to have according to this rule of thumb. I can't fathom having saved any faster, so yes, this is flawed. But it does give me another incentive to keep it kicked into gear. The idea of purchasing a home is too staggering right now, and stuff like this encourages me to do better so I can get into that position.
Yeah, I'm seriously unimpressed by the linearity! The formula implicitly makes some very narrow (and potentially damaging) assumptions about people's career trajectories and associated income. It utterly fails for PhDs and MDs (until maybe age 40 or so) and is likewise lousy for anyone pursuing a 2- or 3-y degree or anyone right out of college.
@honeybee: These aren't personal attacks on J.D., but since this is a finance blog, it seems appropriate to criticize any promulgated advice.
I have a negative net worth currently, due to student loans and one credit card but its so great seeing the number move up in quicken each time we make a debt payment or move money to savings…last week we went from being in the -18000.00 range into the -17000.00 range and it felt good! Seeing the progress of all this hardwork is awesome. This was well into the 20s last year…….i feel like anyone in their 20s that has no debt, and a very signifigant emergency fund is well on their way to seeing a large networth in their 30s & 40s if they stay on a plan! Great post JD!
I have a couple benchmarks/long-term goals for my 40s (or before I turn 50, I'm 35 now):
1) pay off our mortgage
2) cover 1/2 our living expenses with investment income
The amount of freedom those 2 goals would give our family are truly exciting to think about.
I like the millionaire next door benchmark. I'm doing ok, not quite a PAW though.
My milestones
- graduate college
- no consumer debt
- six figure income
- million dollars net worth
- two million net worth.
Plenty of work to do yet.
"Yes, there are exceptions. No, the benchmark isn't perfect. But that's why it's a benchmark. Personally, I prefer a flawed benchmark to the constant refrain of "well, it depends".
How about a benchmark that at least ATTEMPTS to take into account fluctuations in earnings by using an average salary instead of current salary? Or takes into account that people don't start accumulating wealth until they graduate from school? Every benchmark will have it's flaws if you apply it to everyone but surely no benchmark is better than one that is inherently ignorant of basic realities that apply to everyone.
The way I read the formula it should be
(age*pretax income)/10 = net worth.
The article's example showed
pretax income * (age/10) = net worth.
You should get the same result though.
I would guess that 90% of the American public comes in well below "average" based on this formula, which means that it's not even close to being accurate.
The formula's based on nothing at all. I could spend ten minutes and come up with a more accurate formula than this one, and that wouldn't mean it's a useful benchmark for anyone. Unless the author's actually done a real study where he calculated net worth vs. salary/age for a large, representative sample of the population and plotted this formula as a line-of-best-fit (I guess surface-of-best-fit since there are two independent variables) for some real data, then it has no actual significance. It's about as accurate as "an engagement ring should cost two months salary," or how about "an engagement rings should cost (one_months_salary * (age / 10)).
In either formula, the author can make net worth (or engagement rings) sound more important by increasing his multiplier. He can decrease it if he wants to de-emphasize the value of something. In neither case is there any relation to what people actually do, nor what they actually need.
I think it's a good benchmark especially if you are past your 20′s. If you don't think it takes into account recent changes in salary or some natuaral variability in your salary use a five year average not just this year.
I first read The Millionaire Next Door in my mid twenties when I had a negative net worth (big student loan balance) and a small salary. I didn't find it depressing, but it did point out the fact to me that I needed to stop spending all of my take home pay if I ever thought I was going to have money to save or invest.
Using the formula right now DH and I are between average and prodigous (above average
As a young person who's earnings have increased a lot over the past 3 years since graduating university I find the millionaire next door equation to be a little hard to swallow. My gross income increased substantially this year as I took the next step in my career (and of course I increased my savings as well) but this number tells me that I should have more than 3 times my current gross salary saved…which is actually more money than I've even made (net) in the past three years since graduating university!
My thought is that a good rule of thumb would be to average your gross income from the past 5 years, then apply this rule. That way if you are just starting out in your career it gives you a little room to grow. Conversly, if you have been at the same income level for a good amount of time it gives you no excuses.
There should be an exponent in the formula. As written, networth is linear with age and salary. Compounding value in investments requires an exponent.
The linear formula will over-estimate for the young and under-estimate for the older. This seems to mesh with the comments.
I think that the equation should take two things into account: (1) How long have you actually worked? and (2) What is the average wage you earned for that period of time? These two factors eliminate the rapid pay increase issues, and the "I just graduated from college" issues previously stated in the comments. Really what the equation is trying to do is give you a quick and dirty estimate of what your savings should be assuming you saved 10% of you income. There are all sorts of ways to fiddle with the equation to make it more accurate for a give situation.
I'm reading 'Millionaire' right now and I find it makes a lot of suppositions…
My first year working I earned $20,000 when I was 20. According to their formula I should have had $40,000 saved by then! Absurd lol
The problem is the formula is too simplistic. their attempt to keep it from being daunting is it's biggest downfall. Just as the age quotient is on a sliding scale, the salary needs to be adjusted for as well.
Seems to me a lot of people have the "Old JD" mindset when it comes to this formula: It says I'm not doing well so, therefore, the formula is flawed.
Instead of justifying why the formula is bad, why don't you view it as a goal to work towards. If you have read the book, you will see the formula is actually based on REAL millionaires, not opinions by finance journalist who are most likely poor.
I agree with Jan's observation. But, would like to define
Net worth = (age-25) / 5 * income
assuming you start earning at 20′s. You will have study loans and other liabilities when you start earning and it may take 3-5 years to have a real zero net worth. You start accumulating after that.
This equation matches the above 2 equations at 50 and infact crosses them beyond 50.
I'm not sure I'm clear on the difference between a benchmark and a rule of thumb – maybe that a benchmark has some hard numbers attached to it?
I read an article in the New York Times sometime between 2002 and 2006 that said that at age 40, a person should have 2x their salary in retirement savings. If you can achieve that goal (according to this article), you're in good shape.
I certainly noted that and made it a goal. I've got under a year to go and am not going to make it (mostly because I got a promotion & raise this year!) but I'll be close. Perhaps some enterprising researcher can dig around and find that? It was in the Sunday NYT's Money section, I think.
I don't remember if that article had other benchmarks but that particular one has been pretty motivating for me!
JD, that absolutely makes sense.
The board of my company has a dashboard that provides a snapshot of where the company is at any given time. The dashboard is just that, a dashboard, that assesses the company's performance in a number of areas that the board believes is key to our success. It looks at more than just profit.
A person seekign to assess their achievement towards a goal or goals would want to do the same thing. Mine might include net worth, debt, health, and some item that would be a surrogate measure for family happiness.
This benchmark helps those starting out get an idea of where they could be in 20 – 30 years. Play with the numbers a little, do some "what ifs" and see what CAN happen.
I am 57 and have reached MND status. I can verify that spending less than you make is the key. I had student loans, 2 divorces, and a spouse who battled cancer for 7 years before passing. I basically did little to no saving in my 20s, but since then have always lived on less than I earn. When what I earned wasn't enough during some stretches, another job (or 2) did the trick.
The benchmark being debated shows me to be on the above average side of things. Whether or not it is statistically valid in all circumstances is not the point. It helps to give you an aiming point, and as with anything else, YMMV.
I like the idea of benchmarks because it gives you something to shoot for, but the formula doesn't take into account life events like job loss or divorce, which can set you back from being where you should at certain life stages. Also, my daughter, who will be 24 soon, is working as a medical assistant and going to school part-time on her way to becoming a doctor. She barely makes enough to pay rent and buy food let alone have any savings. It's likely she won't begin accomplishing certain financial goals until her 30′s.
The equation is probably a good one. However, it's probably not applicable to anyone who has been in the workforce for less than ten years. That's not necessarily a flaw in the equation or the theory. Rather, a qualifier or minimum age parameter needs to be expressed to make the equation and the theory more effective. Remember: even the social security income projection changes from year to year based on your salary and the assumption that your income will remain steady. This equation likewise is a projection, not of where you will be but where you should be in terms of accumulated wealth based on age and income level.


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You Cheated On MeThis is a tribute to a woman I never met. One of my friends missed school yesterday because she and her mom went to the funeral of a woman who overdosed to commit suicide because her husband cheated on her. Darn him. I wish I could say the other 'D' word, but it's against my principles. Pray for her soul.
You must not have cared.
You shattered my hopes,
Now I'm no longer there.
Are you happy?
I cried all those nights,
I felt so alone.
Why did you do it?
Now I can't come back home.
Are you happy?
I thought that you loved me,
I thought that you cared.
You should have divorced me,
Not kill the love that we shared.
You didn't love me.
My tears fell like rain,
When I found out the truth.
You treated my heart like a target,
Just something to shoot.
Did you hit it?
You promised you'd love me,
You promised you'd try,
To care and to hold me,
'Til the day that I died.
I died alone.
What did that other woman have
I did not?
You threw our bond in the trash,
And left it to rot.
Is the smell gone?
I felt so weak and so helpless,
YOU couldn't see,
You were to busy chasing
Some girl that's not me.
Have you caught her?
What did you need?
Why did you lie?
You should have asked me before,
Now you can't, I have died.
Did you cry for me?
You were there when I laid,
In the fresh-dug-up earth.
Not one tear did you shed,
I'M the one who got hurt.
Are you crying now?
Those small little pills,
Hard to believe that they ended.
The life that I had,
The love you broke couldn't be mended.
Are you with the other one?
I gave you my soul,
I put my life in your hands.
I TRUSTED you,
Helped you to get up and stand.
You forgot me.
I commited suicide,
To get away from pain and lies.
You caused the pain, you told the lies,
And made the tears fall from my eyes.
Are you sorry?
Now I'm waiting to go on up,
To Heaven, I can't wait.
God still loves me, I am blessed,
Even if your love came to late.
That poor woman...
Well, that was it. Please read and rate. I was so sad, that poor woman. No one deserves that. How can someone just throw away love like that? Love is supposed to be true, trusting, binding. I hope that woman is in Heaven.
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Richard Willingham Some of footy's oldest clubs were born and live in Fremantle fan's Melbourne electorate.
Blues top pokies ladder as punters lose $19m
Craig Butt and Richard Willingham Carlton tops the AFL pokies losses ladder with punters losing $19 million at the club's venues.
McGuire to use old family home as Broadmeadows 'base'
Richard Willingham Labor's candidate for the Broadmeadows byelection, Frank McGuire, will not move out of his Brighton home, but plans to juggle his time between the bayside suburb and his parents' home in Broadmeadows.
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My AJC colleague Jeremy Redmon says the GOP primary race for the 4th Congressional District is starting to get a little nasty. He sends this report:
In an interview this week, businessman Greg Pallen pointed to a 16-year-old Chapter 7 bankruptcy filed by his opponent, Chris Vaughn.
"How does he expect the American people to put him in office and manage the financial and fiscal issues that he is going to need to manage when he can't even manage his own fiscal and financial responsibilities?" said Pallen, 43, a businessman from Oxford.
Vaughn said his family has since "rebuilt our life and rebuilt our credit."
"We took a couple of major hits – and a very hard season in our life," he said. "We had a family member who was very sick and [we] made some changes to help them and never could catch up."
Meanwhile, Pallen complained about a postcard that Vaughn's campaign has been distributing. The card aimed at GOP primary voters declares that Vaughn is "the only
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The grenade had rolled perilously close. So David Nugent grabbed the device and lobbed it away from himself and his comrades in Vietnam, saving his own life and the lives of the Marines with him.
Almost 46 years later and thousands of miles away, the Brewster veteran was awarded the Bronze Star.


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FRIDAY, Feb. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Targeted radiation therapy benefits people with advanced tonsil cancer, a new study suggests.
Such a treatment would effectively fight the disease while limiting the body's exposure to harmful side effects.
Researchers looked at outcomes for 46 patients with advanced tonsil cancer who were treated at Washington University in St. Louis between 1997 and 2012. The patients were followed between three months and nearly nine years, with an average follow-up of nearly three years.
Limiting radiation treatment to lymph nodes on one side of the neck led to good local control of cancer and no cancer recurrence on the untreated side, according to the study being presented this week at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Lymph nodes are small structures that work as filters for harmful substances in the body, according to the American Cancer Society.
The new study also found that the location of the original tumor, rather than the amount of cancer in lymph nodes on the side of the neck with the tumor, affected the risk of cancer on the other side of the neck.
"All treatments for cancer -- surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy -- although effective, can cause temporary and/or permanent toxicity which can affect long-term quality of life," study author Dr. Wade Thorstad, chief of head and neck services at Washington University School of Medicine, said in a symposium news release.
"Our research indicates that for appropriately selected patients with tonsil cancer, the volume of radiation therapy necessary to control the cancer can be significantly reduced, therefore reducing the side effects and toxicity of radiation, while maintaining a high rate of tumor control," said Thorstad, who's also an associate professor of radiation oncology.
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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SOURCE: Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, news release, Feb. 20, 2014
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Sheryl Sandberg's Non-Profit Leans Back and Agrees to Pay Interns
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's non-profit organization Lean In describes itself as "a global community dedicated to supporting women leaning in to their ambitions."
We have to admire the organization's stated goals, but we have no doubt that Sandberg's PR team went into overdrive when various news outlets reported that Lean In's top editors didn't plan to pay the ambitious women who applied to work there as interns.
Cue the "lean on interns" headlines.
As the ensuing discussion began to heat up, Lean In wisely chose to take a step back and reconsider its policy on unpaid internships. This Facebook post served as a formal announcement:


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Jonathan Pollock
(Jonny Pollock)
Gender: Male
City: Belfast
Country: United Kingdom
First Game
Rangers v Everton friendly at Ibrox 3-2 to everton love both teams
Favourite Everton Moment
When they signed the "YAK"
Favourite All Time Player
Duncan Ferguson. he was a beast! and dedicated to Everton
Favourite Current Player
Yakubu Ayegbeni. he is jus awesome, a powerhouse
Favourite Manager
David Moyes. because of what he has done with the club
Favourite Game
Beating Liverpool at Goodison 3-0
Favourite Goal
i have 3 ... 1. Duncan Fergusons against Man utd at goodison, diving header to win 1-0 2. James McFaddens against Charlton to score the winner in the last second after a late darren bent equaliser 3. mikel artetas goal against fiorentina at goodison
Favourite Kit
the new 3rd kit 2008-2009
Favourite Chant
feed the "YAK" and he will score


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good way to serve root vegetables. after 50 minutes of cooking, vegetables were a little too cooked for my taste. i think next time i will decrease the boiling time and foil-wrapped time and increase the open roasting time - the marsala needed a little more time to glaze over.
Marsala-Glazed Winter Vegetables
Photography: Karry Hosford
Marsala wine imparts a rich caramel flavor to the vegetables, but you can also use dry sherry. Parboil the vegetables before roasting to soften them so they'll better absorb the flavors of the seasonings. For the best flavor, use freshly grated nutmeg instead of bottled ground.
Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 cup)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 149
- Calories from fat: 28%
- Fat: 4.6g
- Saturated fat: 1.5g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.4g
- Protein: 3.1g
- Carbohydrate: 23.7g
- Fiber: 4.3g
- Cholesterol: 5mg
- Iron: 1.3mg
- Sodium: 256mg
- Calcium: 71mg
- 3 cups (1/2-inch) cubed peeled rutabaga (about 1/2 pound)
- 1 1/3 cups (1/2-inch-thick) slices parsnip (about 1/2 pound)
- 1 1/4 cups pearl onions, peeled (about 1/2 pound)
- 1 cup (1/2-inch-thick) slices carrot (about 1/2 pound)
- 1 1/2 cups trimmed halved Brussels sprouts (about 1/2 pound)
- Cooking spray
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon extravirgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 cup dry Marsala wine
- Preheat oven to 450°.
- Bring 2 quarts water to a boil in a Dutch oven. Add the rutabaga, parsnip, onions, and carrot; cook 4 minutes. Add Brussels sprouts, and cook 1 minute. Drain and place vegetables in a large roasting or jelly roll pan coated with cooking spray. Add butter and the next 5 ingredients (butter through nutmeg), stirring mixture until butter melts. Pour wine over vegetables; cover pan with foil. Bake vegetables at 450° for 30 minutes. Uncover and stir vegetables (do not remove pan from oven). Bake an additional 15 minutes or until vegetables are tender, stirring after 8 minutes.
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- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining
- CUISINE: American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Vegetables
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Cholesterol
- COOKING METHOD: Roast
- OCCASION: Winter
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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Drunk-driving citations by state troopers have jumped by well over a third in the last four years. But it may not be a matter of unemployed commuters trying to wash away their depression.
From Walter Jones and the Morris News Service:
Citations issued by the Georgia State Patrol for drunken driving have increased 37 percent in the four years since the start of the recession….
Tickets for drivers without insurance increased 29 percent in the same period. Seat-belt and child-restraint infractions are also higher. However, speeding tickets are down by 25 percent.
Drivers' behavior might not explain all of it. The tight state budget might.
"We've asked troopers to conserve fuel where they can, and they have been good about doing so," said Gordy Wright, a spokesman for the State Patrol.
Troopers are parking their cars and conducting more stationary roadblocks. The change trimmed the average car's gas bill to $410 per month in the fiscal year that ended in June.
A continuing state budget crisis also means you may have to pay for that walk in the woods. From the Associated Press:
The state Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division is considering charging admission for visitors to some popular natural areas….
A steering committee made up of people across the state interested in conservation and outdoor recreation, recommended the DNR offer individuals a three-day pass for $3 or a yearly pass for $19. Groups of up to 12 people could buy three-day passes for $10 or a yearly pass for $35.
The DNR board would have to vote on approving the fees.
Note to Nathan Deal: Bring galoshes and an extra sweater. The following paragraph from this morning's weather report on ajc.com may provide a clue as to why Sonny Perdue held his inauguration ceremonies safely indoors, rather than on the state Capitol steps:
On Monday, forecasters are predicting a 50 percent of a rain-snow mix, with highs again around 40 degrees. Monday night, the chance of precipitation is 30 percent, with snow possible in the northern suburbs and a rain-snow mix to the south.
In Washington, families were the rule as new members of Congress took their oaths of office. And with kids being kids, some accidental damage resulted.
For instance, 6-year-old Jack Isakson, accompanying his grandfather, broke the U.S. Capitol's cuteness meter. The family has agreed to pay for the wreckage.
The occasion was a re-enactment of U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson's recitation of his oath of office, administered by Vice President Joe Biden. Afterwards, young Jack sought a private audience with the vice president for some personal business:
Jack Isakson to Biden: Um, um, uh. Could you tell some of the construction workers to build a Lego shop here?
Biden: Oh, that's a good idea, man.
Johnny Isakson; He's in charge. He can do that.
Biden: I tell you what. We'll work with Grandpa to see if we can get that done.
Jack Isakson: OK.
Biden: Seriously, that's a great idea. I tell you, we need jobs, Jack. The kid's thinking. He wants to build a Lego shop here. As a matter of fact, we'll put that in the State of the Union.
The exchange was caught by C-SPAN. You can watch it at the 24-minute mark.
State Rep. Al Williams, D-Midway, said he'll use this year's 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War to make another attempt to push an apology for slavery through the Legislature.
But Williams expressed some frustration in this interview with Denis O'Hayer of WABE (90.1FM):
Everybody is sorry about it until they go public. Privately, [they say,] "Oh, it was so bad – it was bad." But publicly, they just can't say, "I'm sorry." I don't understand this.
The following is covered somewhere in the Book of Revelation as a sign of the Apocalypse. From the New York Times:
Looking to further expand his growing media presence, Glenn Beck, the conservative talk-show host, has hired a one-time chief executive of the left-leaning Huffington Post to lead his new Web site, The Blaze.
Betsy Morgan, who ran The Huffington Post for two years, ending in 2009, will become president of The Blaze, a four-month-old site intended to curate news articles and opinion pieces of special interest to Mr. Beck's conservative audience.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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January 6th, 2011
9:33 am
Lego only has one 'g'
January 6th, 2011
9:43 am
You "Leggo my Eggo" and play with Legos.
January 6th, 2011
10:06 am
Welcome back Jim! Hope your time off prepped you for the legislative session to come, although I'm not sure what you could have done to prepare you for the stupidity on much of the action in the Capitol!
As for the apology on slavery, present legislators were not responsible for it occuring nor for its demise. What effect would an apology have? None! Move on to today's real business; transportation, economy, jobs, water,education.
January 6th, 2011
10:47 am
OK, so the semi-tricentennial of the beginning of the Civil War is coming up and someone wants to officially apologize for slavery (even if Delaware, Kentucky and Maryland allowed it also, but I digress). That's all well and good, but will anyone demand an apology for the conscription of poor boys to fight for a wealthy few, or is that too close to certain interests still relevant today?
January 6th, 2011
10:48 am
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jim Galloway. Jim Galloway said: Your morning jolt: Drunk-driving citations up by 37 percent http://bit.ly/giEfgj [...]
January 6th, 2011
11:17 am
The Gov likes the outdoors. Well- except Wilder Outdoors.
January 6th, 2011
11:29 am
There are no less than 100 arrests in Gwinnett County every day and no less than 110 in Dekalb County. Extrapolating these figures for the 18 county Atlanta Metropolitan area, there are probably around 400,000 arrests annually, with a high percentage either alcohol or drug related in some way. This knowledge is NOT news. Nobody seems to notice or care. The fact that our State Troopers might have more arrests is just the tip of the iceberg. Our justice system is creaking under the load, and getting a timely trial is becoming more unlikely, plus there's no place to put habitual nonviolent criminals until they become violent. Our secular leadership doesn't have a clue of how to turn around these trends. The AJC doesn't have a clue of what a solution might be either, other than to desperately try to blame somebody . . . anybody, rather than look at the emptiness of their souls while headlining their clueless desire to publicize some angry rap star.
January 6th, 2011
12:11 pm
Oh, silly me! I forgot! This is the AJC, and this blog doesn't involve some UGA football recruit putting his jock strap on backwards, which would be a story that would have at least 300 replies by now. As if I expected readers here to care about anything else!
January 6th, 2011
12:31 pm
Three off the cuff thoughts about today's blog. 1) The ticket increase is more about revenue than public safety. 2) By expanding what's considered a "walk in the woods" the state could tax us for walking through our yards, or any park. A revenue bonanza! 3) A little quid pro quo would make a slavery apology easier to swallow, for example apologize for bussing our kids to schools miles out of the way for years in the name of promoting "equality".
January 6th, 2011
12:57 pm
OT, you are right as rain but neither the government nor traditional media is interested in solutions for today's problems. And yes, a secular perspective is the only one they seem to have.
I, too, tire of the "angry rap star"-type stories prominent here but the editors must believe their readers care about such things and that they possess a desire for constant titillation.
Regarding Mr. Galloway's observation in line 2: "But it may not be a matter of unemployed commuters trying to wash away their depression."
First, unemployed folks don't commute at least as the word is typically used.
Second, why would you jump to the conclusion that the unemployed are getting drunk and choosing to drive on public thoroughfares? This reminds me of Harry Reid's comment about unemployed people beating their wives–absent evidence.
I don't know about you but I wouldn't want people to think of me and Harry Reid as equals.
January 6th, 2011
7:35 pm
The law in this state today is that any alcohol at all in your blood may be used to prove that you were driving under the influence of alcohol. So, have a beer, one beer, get stopped in a roadblock, test positive on the breathalizer, and you are popped for DUI. No wonder DUI arrests are up.
Besides that let's talk about the ever present speed traps that constantly result in citations for other violations besides speeding.


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Day four of the hike
Kim was awake the next morning before Ron, the pain in her right causing her to wake with a yelp, she looked over at Ron, who seemed to not have the best nights sleep,
'I feel for him,' she thought, her face pouting slightly, 'not only is he not going to make it up the mountain this year, but now, he's got to worry about me, I feel so helpless, there's nothing I can do for him, but be strong.'
Kim tried to get up, but felt a slight pressure on her stomach, she looked down, to find Ron's hand laying protectively across her abdomen, she took Ron's hand into hers, and traced the veins in his prematurely aged, and weatherbeaten hands.
Ron had grown up into quite a man in Kim's mind, he was no longer the skinny boy of years past, he was now a man, standing at more than six foot six, he was among the tallest of all the other boys at school, and he was also the most well built, the muscles that formed from years of climbing Mt. Middleton had given him a rugged kind of look, he seemed to be at home up here, more so than when he was walking the streets of Middleton, she followed the veins in Ron's hand, touching the back of his hand lightly with her fingernail, she could hear him, mumbling something in his sleep, but it made no sense to her, something about, 'No monkey touch.' As she turned his hand over, and placed her hand to his, she could feel the callouses that had been worked onto them, years of mountain climbing, among other things, had taken a toll on Ron's hands, molding them into the calloused, knotted, and veined claws that she was holding onto,
'It's not so bad, though,' she thought to herself, 'I've watched those leathery hands turn to velvet in a touch, if there's one thing about Ron, he knows how to be gentle when it's needed.'
Ron stirred, and awakened with a start,
"Something wrong?" Kim asked, Ron turned to look at her, his eyes wild with some unforseen thing, something they might have overlooked,
"Uh, Kim, does it feel a little . . . cold to you?" Ron asked, looking over at the pretty redhead,
"Yeah, a little, but I'm sure it's nothing." She replied, now looking into Ron's panic-stricken face, and wondering what could cause Ron to wig out so badly,
"What is it?" Kim asked again, but Ron looked at her,
"Did you think about bringing the Kimmunicator?" Ron asked,
"D'oy," Kim said, her expression changing, "it's like an American Express card, I never leave home without it."
"Let me see it." Ron said, extending his hand, as soon as Kim handed it to him, he pushed the call button, the face of a rotund, ten year old African American boy appeared on the screen,
"Hey, Ron, what up?" Wade asked,
"Did we get hit with a snowstorm last night?" Ron asked,
"Understatement of the century, Ron," Wade said, "How about a massive blizzard, dumped about four foot of snow on the tri-city area in about ten hours, everything's been grounded."
"Oh, great, 'cause we got a serious 911 up here, Wade." Ron said,
"What is it?" Wade asked, for an answer, Ron lifted the leg of Kim's snowsuit, followed by the leg of the jeans she was wearing underneath, exposing the stitches that Ron had put in to close the wound,
"And that's not all, Kim's leg is broken, I need to get her off the mountain within the next three days, or Gangrene could set in, then she'll be doing her cheering on a fake leg." Ron said, his voice serious, Kim had obviously not known the danger she was in, her face blanched as Ron mentioned the words 'fake leg,'
"Are you saying, that I could end up losing my leg if I don't get off the mountain in three days?" Kim asked, her face getting whiter and whiter as she spoke, Ron simply nodded, no more words were spoken between the two, but Kim grabbed for the Kimmunicator, and nearly shouted at Wade,
"Get us the hell out of here, Wade!" she screamed,
"Amp down, Kim, the only way down, is via the north face," Wade said, "there's a base camp about five hundred feet down the side of the mountain from your location, they have a medical facility there."
"What about the National Park Service, can't they launch one of their search and rescue choppers here?" Ron asked,
"I told you, Ron," Wade said, "all air traffic is grounded, you're on your own."
"Thanks, Wade," Ron said, now taking the Kimmunicator, "We'll call you when we get to base camp, Ron out."
Ron placed the Kimmunicator into the pocket of his snowsuit that normally housed Rufus, his pet naked mole rat, Rufus had refused to come up the mountain with Ron and Kim, something about being scared of going up the mountain with Ron,
"Well," Ron said, helping Kim to her feet, "let's pack out our trash."
Ron had torn down the campsite in about ten minutes, which was saying something, as they were about ankle deep in snow, being two thousand feet up, they didn't get hit like the valley had, but it was bad enough, everywhere they went, trees had been snapped in two, as if smashed flat by a giant fist, large snow drifts seemed to loom over the horizon, and, as they got closer to them, they realized, they were snow overhangs, one loud noise, and they easily could start an avalanche, that was the last thing they needed.
By mid-afternoon, the pain in Kim's right was almost too much to bear, even for her, so Ron had devised an ingenious way of getting her down the mountain, and to the next base camp, he had made a kind of Native American drag sled, and set Kim in it, when she was comfortable, he tied the sled to his climbing harness, and proceeded to the base camp, which, according to Wade's coordinates, was located about halfway down the mountain on the north face.
At the Possible home, Mrs. Possible was sitting in the kitchen, when the phone rang,
"Hello." She said, the voice on the other end, was Wade,
"Mrs. Possible, I just got word from Kim and Ron," he said, while trying to remain calm himself, "there's been an accident, Kim's got a broken leg, and from the looks of it, Ron tried to patch her up the best he could, but he's still afraid that Gangrene might set in, they're trying for base camp eighteen on the north face of the mountain."
"/GANGRENE?!/" Mrs. Possible screamed, causing Wade to drop the phone on the other end, "But that could only mean."
"Yeah," Wade said, "open fracture."
"How bad?" Mrs. Possible asked,
"Well, it looks like she's not going to be walking on it any time soon." Wade said,
"How's Ron holding out?" Mrs. Possible asked,
"He's a little freaked," Wade replied, "but more about the weather than anything else, he's afraid they won't make it down the mountain in time."
"Yeah, and the weather we had last night might slow them down." Mrs. Possible said,
"Not really, as high up as they were, two thousand feet, you need to take off one degree for every foot past five hundred feet, so it's too cold to produce snow up there." Wade said,
"I only hope you're right Wade." Mrs. Possible said,
"I thought I'd let you know, they said they'd contact me when they made it to the base camp, I'll call you when I get more info, 'bye." Wade said, hanging up the phone,
'Dear God, please give Ron the strength to get them off the mountain, and back home.' Mrs. Possible thought to herself, settling down in a chair at the kitchen table, where she put her face in her hands, and began to cry,
Across town, a young African American boy was praying to himself,
"Please help them, I want to see them again, please guide them off the mountain, Lord, you're their only hope." Wade said, a tear sliding down his face, silently hitting the keyboard on the desk in front of him.
On the mountain, the wind was picking up, it was howling through the trees, and making eerie noises as Ron walked through the wilderness, the sled he had strapped to his back, was making a distinctive footprint in the snow, but neither he, or Kim knew, at this very moment, they were being followed, two men, wearing hunting gear were on the mountain as well, they were looking for Elk, which wouldn't be in season for another couple of weeks, poachers, and if there is one thing that poachers don't like, it's someone in their turf, spying on them.
Kim and Ron made base camp eighteen by early evening, Mike was in the camp, a certified EMT, Mike was indispensable on this side of the mountain,
"Open fracture, huh?" Mike said, looking at the sewn up wound on Kim's right leg,
"Yeah." Ron replied, noting that Mike had a flair for the obvious,
"Well, the only thing I can do for it, is to clean the wound, give her some penicillin, and some pain killers, other than that, there's not much else I can do, except give some advice, get her off this mountain, as fast as you can." Mike said,
"That's my intention." Ron replied,
"Easy, Ron, why don't you pitch a tent, by the time Mike is done, I'm not going to be in much shape to go anywhere, and call Wade like you promised." Kim said, giving Ron a soft look that made him melt,
"You're right, K.P., I'd better call Wade, he's probably waiting for us right now." Ron said, walking out of the cabin, and into the snow, where he pitched the tent, and pulled the Kimmunicator from his pocket,
"We made it to camp eighteen, Wade." Ron said, as soon as Wade's face appeared on the view screen,
"Great, we were getting worried about you two." Wade said, wiping his brow with the back of his hand,
"Yeah, but I have a feeling that we were being followed." Ron said,
"I'll scan the mountainside for any other human life, in the meantime, I think you should get some rest, you look dead on your feet." Wade suggested,
"Thanks, Wade, I'll take it under advisement." Ron said, a bite of sarcasm in his voice.
It took about two hours for Mike to clean the wound, and restitch it with something other than standard thread, when Kim came out of the first aid cabin, she was walking on a pair of crutches, and had her leg tightly bound in a splint,
"How are you feeling, K.P.?" Ron asked,
"Toasted." Kim said, crawling into the tent, and falling asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.
Mr. and Mrs. Possible paced the living room of their home, waiting for Wade to call them back, hopefully, with some good news. When the phone rang, Mr. Possible lunged for it, and pushed the button for the speaker phone, Wade's voice filled the room,
"They made it to camp eighteen, but there's a bit of a problem," Wade said, "Poachers, there's a group of six on the mountainside, in the same location that Kim and Ron are in, if they find out that Kim and Ron are anywhere near them-," he didn't finish the sentence, Mr. Possible cut him off,
"They're as good as dead, especially if the poachers are any good with a rifle." he finished,
"Yeah," Wade replied, "I'll keep you posted if anything happens, 'bye." Wade said, leaving the elder Possible's with their very confused thoughts.
A/N: Day four has come to a close, and, to make matters even worse, Kim and Ron got poachers on their tails. Ooh, this is shaping up to be quite interesting. Stick around, and read on, you might learn something before it's all said and done.


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Did I already reblog this? Not sure, but posting this anyways.
(Source: irish-taco)
Since the latest round of violence erupted in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, many of us in OWS (who have always felt inspired by those so-called "Arab Spring" demonstrators who occupied their public squares in a cry for democracy) have felt saddened and torn. We completely condemn the Hamas rocket attacks on civilians, but we also know that retaliation will only beget further violence. We hold diverse opinions on the ongoing situation there, but from the bottom of our hearts, we feel the utmost solidarity and compassion for those — on all sides of the conflict — who are suffering from terror and wish peace to prevail. It is possible to support those in Israel [link via Occupy Judaism] without supporting the injustices perpetuated by the Israeli state; we stand united against antisemitism and islamophobia alike, and we condemn violence from all sides.
Some Occupiers have been taking part in a recent round of solidarity demonstrations with the people of Gaza. Meanwhile, in Israel, supporters of the #J14 social justice movement and many others have also demonstrated against the military actions of Israel. OWS has always been a nonviolent movement, and as such, we oppose all militarism as robbing the 99% (of money and lives) and strengthening the stranglehold of the 1%. It is clear that these latest acts of aggression, like wars orchestrated by the U.S. government at home and abroad, are just another way of boosting election chances by power-hungry politicians.
This latest Israeli assault takes place among a complex history. Palestinians, like all people, deserve self-determination, the right to return to their homes, to not have their communities demolished, and not forced to live in open-air prisons under military blockade or threat of invasion. But war will not solve this crisis, nor any other; it will only increase extremism, resentment, poverty, and the underlying systemic problems that perpetuate more violence. Collectively punishing an entire population for the actions of a few is not justice. Just as our own government here in U.S. spends trillions on "military defense" while education, infrastructure, and social programs crumble, neither Hamas nor Netanyahu government truly care for the poor and oppressed within their own lands, aside from meager social programs, and would rather spend millions on rockets than create real social justice.
Make no mistake: While we must stand against violence in all forms, this "war" is a one-sided conflict between a military which is one of the largest and best-equipped in the world, the Israeli Defense Forces, who enjoy widespread support from the U.S. military industrial complex, and a people whose lands have been steadily dwindling for decades. Civilian causalities in Gaza, a tiny strip of land that is densely populated and has been under blockade for some time (meaning that no one can leave, there is no where to hide, and medical supplies and other goods cannot enter) far outweigh those in Israel, with its advanced missile defense system. As a result, despair and desire for revenge are on the rise, and politicians on all sides seek to exploit this.
While the 1% of the United States supports and profits from these latest acts of aggression, and U.S. money and arms are used to conduct it, there are those of us within these colonized borders who refuse to let this happen in our name, with our tax dollars. As if it were not enough to merely denounce militarism and hatred for its own sake, to those who would say this is not an economic issue, or that this does not apply to income inequality: How much poverty is one jet, one bomb worth? There can be no social justice or economic equality in a world ruined by war or controlled by colonialism.
The United States, itself built on broken treaties and stolen land, is still the greatest exporter of arms and builder of the largest (and most racially disparate) prison system ever known on Earth. For those incarcerated and targeted by police brutality, for those who are forced to live on impoverished reservations, and those shackled by debt here in the U.S., to the victims of terror in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and across the world, we must continue to build a mass people's movement across divisions of race, religion, and all other borders to oppose tyranny, colonialism, and war in all forms. We all deserve to live in safety in our homes and enjoy the same rights, regardless of religion or race, whether we are immigrants or not. Our leaders would distract us by filling our minds with zealous hatred and send us to kill and die. We say no more.
The best way to end war is to start by overthrowing our regimes at home. Those with power wish to keep it; and war is profitable, politically and economically, for them. As long as the logic of capitalism declares "pursue profit at all cost," regardless of the toll it takes on humanity, and as long as power, land, and resources are concentrated in the hands of the 1%, wars will continue as the rest of us are forced to compete over what is left, what for thousands of generations was shared by all. The capitalist imperative that allows multinational banks to profit by evicting innocent families from their homes is the same logic that justifies taking more and more land in Palestine and the world over. The bombs over Gaza and Tel Aviv are merely the most dramatic example of a global system that seeks to rob us all of our right to live peacefully. Protesting wars abroad is not enough; we must fight the war at home.
This is why the best way to end war is to end capitalism and domination. We must make right the wrongs of the past by building a world in which all have access to the basic means of survival and safety, so that not one more person will die in a fruitless war. Our struggles should not be against one another, but against those who would rob us of our land and send us to fight and die for their own gain.
Our struggle for peace, justice, and reconciliation here in United States is the same struggle of all peoples everywhere. Those who call for and profit from war, regardless of their stated claims, are the enemies of us all. This is why we say Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine! No to war! No to racism everywhere! No to the war machine fueled by greed!
(Source: occupywallst.org)
Let's increase these protests, worldwide, every day
(in chronological order date-wise, and geographical order on the day):
BEIRUT, LEBANON: 10 am – cola bridge, #beirut#GazaAssault#GazaUnderAttack
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT: 12 noon, Qaid Ibrahim
TUNIS, TUNISIA: 11 am, In front of the National Theatre
TUNIS, TUNISIA: 1 pm, In front Sa7et Mohamed Ali
LA, 4pm: 11766 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1600, Los Angeles, California
CHICAGO: 4pm, Obama Headquarters, 130 E. Randolph St., Chicago, IL 60601
NASHVILLE: 4pm, CENTENNIAL PARK, ON THE CORNER OF WEST END AND ELLISTON PLACE
ATLANTA: 4 pm, 1100 Spring St. N.W. Atlanta
SAN DIEGO: 4:30 pm, US Federal building, 880 Front St, San Diego, for further information or to endorse, contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
BOSTON: 4:30 pm, in COPLEY SQUARE
SEATTLE: 4 pm, SEATTLE FEDERAL BLDG. 915 2nd Avenue
NEW YORK: 5pm, outside Israeli consulate, (42nd st and 2nd ave) – Protest Israeli crimes in #Gaza! http://on.fb.me/RXWstl via @facebook#GazaUnderAttack#Rage4Gaza
SAN FRANSISCO: 5:15 pm, Consulate General of Israel 456 Montgomery St Ste 1500, San Francisco
WASHINGTON DC: 6 pm, in front of The State Department, 2201 C Street Northwest Washington, DC **meet at 23rd St and E st NW
MONTREAL: 5pm in front of the Hall Building, Concordia Uni. #Gaza
VANCOUVER: 5 PM at the Art Gallery (Robson Side), Hornby and Robson Sts
TORONTO: 6 pm, Israeli Consulate – 180 Bloor Street (east of St. George TTC)
OXFORD: 4pm, Cornmarket Street, Oxford
BRADFORD, UK: 4:30 pm, Bottom of Sunbridge Road, Bradford
MANCHESTER, UK: 5 pm, Piccadilly Gardens, M60 1HX Manchester UK
BRIGHTON, UK: 5:30 pm, Victoria Gardens
LONDON, UK: 5:30 pm London:2 Palace Green London W8 4QB
DUBLIN, IRELAND: 5:30 pm, Israeli Embassy, 122 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
LIMERICK, IRELAND: 6:15 pm, Thomas Street Limerick UTC
BELFAST: 7 pm, Belfast City Hall
PARIS: 6pm, in front of the Ministry of Justice in Paris (1, rue de la Paix)
West Bank, Cairo, Tel Aviv http://bit.ly/RXVzRA #RageforGaza
OTTAWA: 12 noon, Israeli Embassy (50 O'Connor, between Queen and Albert)
ALBERTA: 3 pm, in front of City Hall
PHILADELPHIA: 12 noon, Israeli Consulate19th and JFK Boulevard
SAN FRANSISCO: 4 pm, Consulate General of Israel 456 Montgomery St Ste 1500, San Francisco
CLEVELAND: 4:30 pm, PUBLIC SUQARE in Downtown, Cleveland. For further information or to endorse, contact: Abbas Hamideh email@example.com
DC: in front of The State Department (2201 C Street Northwest Washington, DC 20520) at 6:00pm and march to the White House in protest of our governments support for Israel brutal aggression against Palestinians in Gaza.
SÃO, PAULO, BRAZIL, 5 pm, Avenida Paulista com Rua Augusta – em frente ao banco Safra (Paulista Avenue, crossing Augusta St. – in front of Safra bank)
MANCHESTER, UK: 5 pm, Picadilly Gardens
SOUTH FLORIDA: 2 pm, for further information or to endorse, contact: Anas Amireh: email@example.com
NORWAY: 3 pm,Israel i Norge Parkveien 35, Oslo
SCOTLAND: 12 noon,Charlotte Square, Edinburgh
SWEDEN: 3-5pm, Israels ambassad Strandvägen 58MONDAY NOV 19:
OSLO, NORWAY: 2pm Yongstorget, Oslo
Updated list. It will continue to be for a while as I find more, or the linked page updates.
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The chief executives of 80 large US corporations have issued a "Deficit Manifesto," calling on the next president to "fix America's debt" by making substantial "changes in the federal budget." The statement was published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Behind the innocuous phrases is the demand by some of the richest individuals in America for the slashing of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and a general offensive against the working class.
The CEOs' letter, signed by a "Who's who" of CEOs at giant US banks, financial firms and industrial corporations, calls on politicians to acknowledge "that our growing debt is a serious threat to the economic well-being and security of the United States." It calls for Washington to adopt "an effective plan [to] stabilize the debt as a share of the economy, and put it on a downward path."
The plan should be enacted now, "but implemented gradually to protect the fragile economic recovery and to give Americans time to prepare for the changes in the federal budget." In other words, their proposals would worsen life for wide layers of the population, who need to "prepare" themselves for a drastic decline in their conditions.
Making no reference to the trillions of dollars made available to the banks during the financial bailout nor the trillions more that go toward imperialist war and the global defense of their economic interests, the company heads insist that the target of a plan to "fix America's debt" should concentrate on the programs that assist tens of millions of working people, the poor and retirees.
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On Thursday 18 October, HMRC staff in Coventry took part in a 15 minute walkout to protest the arrival of cabinet minister Francis Maude. Trade union activists are now calling on civil servants across the country to follow their example, with a day of action on 14 November against plans to roll back terms and conditions.
The government has announced plans to undermine the working conditions of civil servants, already facing a pay freeze and pension cuts. The plans include increased working hours, reduced leave, reduced sick pay and the prospect of forced moves anywhere in the UK. The PCS union has condemned the plans, whilst rank-and-file members and workers are livid and demanding action.
A member who took part in the Coventry walkout said:
Today marks the beginning of the fight against vicious attacks on us all as ordinary hard working people.
To members and activists everywhere: don't wait any longer, call your 15 minute meetings and one by one start walking out all over the country, drive this Government to the negotiating table on our terms. We can't always wait for the ballots and the leaflets and politics at the top of the union.
To the union leaders: take up this fight with no compromises and repay the bravery shown by ordinary members who have taken a risk today on behalf of all of us.
Government departments are due to present their proposals for changes to terms and conditions on 16 November. Two days before, at least four European countries will be taking part in coordinated general strike action. We call on civil servants to join them, and make this day a landmark in our own fight against these vicious attacks.
We urge workers in all government offices, through mass meetings, rank-and-file workplace committees or union branch committees, to support the following action on Wednesday 14 November:
- 15 minute lightning walkouts
- Protest rallies outside your workplace
- A communications blockade* of the office of Francis Maude
We further call on all fellow trades unionists, trades councils and individuals or organisations opposed to austerity to join us in these actions and show the workers your solidarity.
If we do not beat these attacks, it will embolden employers to drive down the working conditions of all workers. The time to stand our ground and fight is now. Join us.
The Facebook event for the day of action can be found here and for the communications blockade here.
*A communications blockade entails mass phone calls, emails and faxes with the aim of jamming up communications.
(via theyoungradical)
People can't seem to stop eulogizing the Occupy Movement.
Since the eviction of the protestors at Freedom Plaza last November, it's become a media cliché to report on the "Death of Occupy." Articles pop up all over the web, blithely reporting on the failed second wind of Occupy, this lackluster "American Spring," and the May Day general strike that didn't quite shut the system down.
It should be no surprise that the mainstream media is eager to report on Occupy's supposed demise. Even ignoring the fact that the corporate-owned media has a strong desire to never see social movements such as Occupy succeed, the media, as a rule, generally needs to put a dramatic narrative to everything it reports. To them, every story ought to have a captivating story arch with a beginning, middle, and an end.
An estimated 15,000 people marched in Chicago yesterday against the NATO warmakers' summit, despite an overwhelming police presence and scare-mongering in the media.The police, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the corporate media are working overtime to…


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Getting to know me...
Five things I plan to do before I die:
Who knows when I might die? It could be within the next five minutes, although I hope I have a little more time than that to prepare. Ok, here are some things I would like to do before the Lord takes me Home.
1. Enjoy each day and live it to the fullest, surrendering my heart to the Lord and his Holy Mother, giving them my best.
2. Learn the true meaning of love -- love those who are lovable and those who are not lovable, but do it for His sake and in union with Him.
3. Draw others closer to the Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary -- to help them realize their authentic potential and to be all that they can be in the army of God.
4. To use all the gifts God has given me to the best of my ability to build up His Kingdom.
5. To be the best wife I can be to my husband Bill and to love him and support him in every way I can.
Five things I can do:
1. Write -- short stories, poems, essays, letters, fiction, non-fiction
2. Sing -- Second Soprano
3. Pray -- with perseverance
4. Love -- people and animals
5. Cook -- creatively, just about anything and everything
Five things I cannot do:
1. Swim
2. Ride a bicycle (I have always had poor balance and never learned.)
3. Solve complex mathematical equations in my head.
4. Fly an airplane
5. Play the piano
5 things that attract me to the opposite sex:
1. A Strong Catholic Spirituality
2. Intelligence
3. Sense of Humor
4. Compassion and kindness
5. The ability to love totally and completely
Five things I say most often:
1. "Praise the Lord!"
2. "You're a beautiful girl!" (to my cat, Jazzy)
3. "See you later, Billy Gator!" ( to my husband)
4. "You idiot!" (When I 'm driving and someone cuts in front of me -- not my most loving self at that time.)
5. "Get down, honey!" (when Jazzy jumps up and sits on top of my mouse -- the one attached to the computer.)
Five Celebrity Crushes:
1. Mel Gibson
2. Jim Caviezel
3. William Hurt
4. Paul Newman
5. Martin Sheen
Five People I want to do this:
1. Thirsty Scribe
2.. Southern Catholic Convert
3. Duc in Altum
4. wicatholicmusings
5. Part-time Pundit
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Glimpses of the change that started since Nitish Kumar took charge
For decades, Bihar epitomised everything shameful about India - corruption, poverty, nepotism, organised crime etc. It was worse than any Indian's worst nightmare - a contemporary antithesis of development. However, a popular mandate brought a Nitish Kumar-lead government to power in 2005 and the unexpected began to realise. As governance improved, development and economic growth followed. The much-visible progress helped Nitish Kumar renew his mandate in 2010 elections.
While Bihar has a long way to go before it is counted among the leading states of India, Nitish Kumar has shown that if politicans rise above narrow vote-bank formulas and calculations and focus on the agenda of development then they can reap healthy electoral dividends. On the eve of polls in various states, a look at an emerging Bihar.
In this photo: A vendor carries bangles for sale as he crosses a road in Patna, the capital of Bihar state January 21, 2012. Reuters