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Yes, I'm a bit slow getting my new year's message posted. I am finding that when I make a plan, life happens and the plans go out the window. Reminds me of a quote that has stuck in my mind, "Man plans and God laughs."
It's been a REALLY intense month for me. What a start to 2012. I've read others say that 2012 is going to be an intense year of growth and change and so far, I've seen lots of evidence for that.
My daughter spent most of the month in intensive care and as her mom, I spent most of the month very worried. I've gotten pretty good at accepting life as it happens, but the mom in me still has an intense reaction when the life of my child is at risk.
And once again, this has been a valuable learning experience for me and prayers are appreciated. I am having the opportunity to see the world from a higher perspective as Mother Mary talks about in this message. Ever so slowly, I am learning to see the situation as it is without creating the emotional turmoil that making a judgement causes. And yes, I am a slow learner, especially when it comes to my children's well being.
I'm also busy getting things ready to launch my business- Your Life Purpose . I will once again be doing personal channeled messages. I'll be sending out the details by the end of January. And, I'm making some changes to the blog on March 1st which I'll let you know about soon.
My spiritual connections have gotten stronger and I am once again receiving messages from Mother Mary who tells me she is a member of a group that calls itself the "A team" (Ascension Team). When I tune in for messages these days, it is a representative from the A team that passes along information. It 's been an interesting transition from only connecting to the Lady of the Sun for so long. Another new adventure.
So without any further delay, here is the message from Mother Mary about what to expect in 2012.
You are moving into the year 2012 as you know it to be. And there is so much "hype" as you say about what 2012 will bring.
Some predict disasters and some predict the end of the world and others predict that it is the year we move into the new earth. And we on this side of the veil wish you to know that you really do have a choice about what you experience.Many of you are starting to have a real understand of the concept that your thoughts produce things as some of your teachers say. And this is the truth of the human experience. When you think about something often enough and with enough emotional attachment, this is what you are most likely to experience in your world.
For example, if you wake up in the morning and say to yourself, "This is going to be a terrible day, I just know it." and you walk through your day looking for examples of how terrible the day is, then that is what you look for, that is what you see and that is what you experience, a terrible day.
You have your terrible day glasses on and all you see are terrible things that match your thought that it is a terrible day. You miss the kind word your neighbor has for you, you don't see the beauty of nature around you and you don't allow yourself to find pleasure in the small things in life. All you can see, all you can hear, all you take in is that which is terrible. And, indeed, you have a terrible day.
But take off the terrible day glasses and put on the wonderful day glasses and you have an entirely different view of your world. You see the beauty in the world around you, you are looking for things that are wonderful, you hear the kind word your neighbor says to you and you find many things in your day that are wonderful.
Same day, different perspective and you get to choose what you focus on every moment of every day. Nothing is terrible unless you decide that it is terrible as nothing is wonderful unless you decide it is wonderful. You are creating your own experience every day. It it time to be aware of how powerful you are in creating your experience.
As you are in the year 2012, know that you get to decide what kind of experiences you would like to have in this year. In truth, it is not different than the start of any other year, but what you think and what you focus on will make the difference in how you experience this year.
If enough people put on their terrible year glasses and walk around listening to the news that sensationalizes the drama of the world and focus only on what is bad or difficult or distressing, then that is what they will experience, a world that is terrible from their perspective. A terrible day can be had by one person, a group of people or a whole city of people, depending on where they put their focus.
We suggest that you put on your wonderful glasses in the coming year, 2012, and focus your attention on the beauty, the kindness, the compassion, the good things that you want in your life and this is what you will create for yourself, a year of wonder. You have the ability to do this by yourself, with others you know and with entire communities. With the focus of wonder by many, many wonderful things will happen.
Know that you do get to choose your experience through how you think, how you feel and what actions you take. If you want to experience disaster and chaos, you can have that experience. You will find yourself in situations and places that will allow this to be your reality.
If you choose to experience peace and enjoyment and make this what you think about and take actions to support this, then you will enjoy life. Again, you get to choose.
And in time, you will get to see the world from a higher perspective, from the place of "IS". This is the perspective without judgement and seeing the world from this place will change your life in amazing ways. This is the view of the enlightened ones.
Most of you now see the world from a place of duality, light & dark, right & wrong, terrible & wonderful. But in time to come, you will see it from the place of triality – the neutral perspective, the perspective of your higher self.
To apply this to 2012, you can learn to see the world from a place of acceptance, without judging whether or not something is wonderful or terrible and seeing the world from that place of acceptance of what IS. This is a very peaceful place to be.
For in truth situations are not right or wrong, they just are. It is you who give meaning to a situation by how you judge it. You decide if it is good and you decide if it is bad or you can see the situation and know that it just IS.
By accepting every situation as being just what it is you do not get caught up in the emotions that have ruled your life for so many years and so many lifetimes.
When you think something is terrible, you are likely to have an emotional reaction that you find to be uncomfortable – the so called negative emotions as you see them. And then you react from that emotion.
If you judge something to be wonderful, then you tend to have more positive emotions which is what most of you prefer to feel and are seen as being more acceptable.
But this leaves you entirely dependent on the situations in your life to determine how you feel most of the time. It starts with a situations that happens. You judge it to be terrible. You feel what you call bad feelings and you have less enjoyment in life. You judge it to be wonderful and you have a certain feeling. Then you react from those feelings.
But what if you were to look at every situation and instead of judging it to be good or bad, you just accept the situation as it is happening without all of the emotional attachment to it all. You just see the situation as it is. This is a very peaceful place to be, a place where the enlightened ones see the world from.
In truth, you do not know whether a situation is good or bad until you see the outcome of the choices you make in response to the situation. Some things that you judge as bad when they happen, turn out to be very good and some things that you judge as good when they happen, end up with the worst possible outcome.
At the time an event is happening you don't know what the outcome will be and you tend to react from the emotions that are triggered from judging it to be good or bad. Truth is you don't know, so why judge and put yourself into an emotional state that often determine what you choose to do.
If you accept the situation as it IS, you are not caught in an emotional reaction and you can make a choice to respond to the situation from a place of peace and calm. This is the best place to be for your emotions are not guiding your response to the situation, your heart & your mind are. And from this calm place, you are very powerful and can make choices and take action in the situation that lead you to a mindful outcome.
It can take you time to train yourself to see from the perspective of just IS, and for some of you this will happen spontaneously, but this is the next stage in human evolution, to let go of judgement and be at peace.
The choice is yours to make. We hope you choose peace for 2012.


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Please note: the following are not published articles. They are informal entries from a blog I kept while traveling through France two summers ago.
You may click through directly to the blog, or read the entries pasted-in below.
Part 1: Malbecs of Cahors, "Fiesty and Powerful"! In which two tourists who like wine but have no expertise set out to learn about the local productions
Part 2: Malbec update
Malbecs of Cahors, "Fiesty and Powerful"! In which two tourists who like wine but have no expertise set out to learn about the local productions
CHAPTER 1: History
So upon arriving in and further exploring this part of central France, we learn that the local wine is called Malbec, "the Black Wine." We become curious and do some investigating. We must 'drink local'! Research must be done! However, we also realized France has some great teas, we weren't so worry about trying them all since a local told us we could get all of them on www.Amazon.com
I have heard of and indeed enjoyed this type of wine before; it is the favorite of my friend Steve Golding. I thought it was from Argentina. It is, but…
The first thing we learn is that the Malbec grape is indigenous to this area. Al and I have observed that this area of France is reminiscent of California wine country—a sunny, rather dry climate, with rolling hills punctuated by tree-lined lanes and scrubby native plants; the soil is alkaline (white dusty limestone on the hilltops, we observe). Presumably the section of Argentina devoted to grape-growing is similar.
Malbec has a dramatic history. It arrived with the Romans over 2000 years ago. "Within no time, the wines of the region were recognized for their quality, thereby causing detriment to the production from Italy. In the year AD 92, the Emperor ordered that all vines in Cahors be pulled out. He was disobeyed…"
The Black Wine continued to be favored. It was featured at the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry Plantagenet. (Cue scenes from "A Lion in Winter.") Its popularity spread throughout France and indeed all of Europe. Peter the Great "imposed it upon the Orthodox Church." Heavens.
A ferocious rivalry between this area and Bordeaux ensued, including unfair export taxes! Then, in the 1865 growing season, disaster struck in the form of the dreaded phylloxera. Cahors vines were wiped out.
It wasn't until 1947 that a revival was suggested and worked towards. Local proponents—oh! the humiliation!—appealed to an estate grower in rival Bordeaux for plants, and began. A devastating frost in 1956 caused a setback, but, we are assured that the Cahors-area growers, "none of them despaired and all got quickly back to work."
Now is the task continues to put this area back on the map, and take back the Malbec flag, so to speak, from Argentina.
CHAPTER 2: Shopping
We've noticed signage about Malbec wines throughout the area, for wineries as well as "caves" (which are wine shops). When in the city of Cahors yesterday, we could not fail to notice the abundance of tourist literature, posters, signs, and attractions related to this regional wine renaissance. (The story I recount here is cobbled from some brochures and booklets.) Right downtown, adjacent to the Tourist Bureau, is the swanky Cahors Malbec Lounge, a combination of bar and cave that welcomes, educates, and seduces visitors. We learn that 2005 was a banner year, but that 2009 is also very wonderful.
Our hostess at this little hilltop B&B urged us to get a bottle of her favorite, Chateau de Haute-Serre, 2009. The vintner there, one Georges Vigouroux, is evidently a rock star around here. But a charming man at a Cave near the Pont Valentré urged on us a bottle of Chateau de Cayx, 2009, explaining that the rich owners of that property, Queen Margarethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark (!), had hired their own rock star winemaker and we would be "very delighted." We also got a rare 2005 bottle from yet another source, Chateau de Chambert. Please note that we spent between 10 and 20 euros per bottle: bargains.
In addition, we have a bottle or two purchased more locally, du Quercy blends that are not as fancy. Then, of course, there are the very popular "gas-pump" varieties. (For more on those, scroll down.)
CHAPTER 3: Flavors
Tasting and comparing these Malbecs will require patience, fortitude, and good will, we decide. We will bring them with us tomorrow when we go to visit Al's good friend to the south of here, Jean-Louis. We get by with a little help from our friends. We will report back.
Here are the wine-snob, er, wine-expert descriptions of Malbec that so intrigue and seduce us in this worthy quest:
Château de Haute-Serre 2009
A little paler in colour and a bright and primary nose of red fruits, but there's a leathery and gamy note too, a touch of the barnyard suggesting a light bretty character. Chocolate and sweet fruit on the palate is mouth-filling and rich, but the finish just a touch short and showing that slight drying quality.
Chateau de Cayx 2009
Notes of cherry and kirsch aromas with a delicate roasted flavour. A truly majestic Cahors with silky tannins. This exceptional wine was created in honor of Her Majesty, Queen Margrethe of Denmark, to celebrate the occasion of her 70th birthday.
Chateau de Chambert 2005
This is the modern face of Cahors; big, bright black/blueberry fruit, chunky and chocolatey and really showing off its Malbec characteristics. When you get great Malbec like this from its homeland, it doesn't seem quite so different from the very best Argentinian Malbecs, perhaps drier and more structured but still with a similar core of intense fruit.
For now, however, we can report on our research on the non-bottled "country" Malbecs, purchased—really and truly—from what looks for all the world like a gas pump. We have been drinking these with our meals, usually in the back garden here at the B&B.
CHAPTER 4: The Battle of the Bulks: Tasting the "country" ("gas pump") Malbecs
I will let my sommelier Al tell this part….
American connoisseurs tend to endlessly discuss particular vineyards and particular vintages and set great store by a particular bottle in their cellar. The French do that as well. For example, here in Cahors, it is generally conceded that 2005 was a marvelous year, but the 2009 will, in the due course of time, age better and will be even better. However, if you are looking for a year to open up a bottle for supper tonight, probably 2008 in the year to look for. I've noticed that while a bottle of 2005 is hard to find, and will go from 10 Euro to 45 Euro, the 2007 vintage is widely available at anywhere from 3 to 12 Euro tops. Presumably for good reason.
Alors. Alors from Cahors.
But what is interesting to be as the galloping gourmand and anti-wine snob is not what people write about but rather what they do and what they drink. A little research on the internet confirms my observation that 60% or so of the locally produced wine is sold in bulk, out of gas pumps. The local folk drink it daily, drink it at Bastille Day festivals, and if you go out to a local restaurant and have a glass of wine with your meal (did I write "if?"), you're drinking the gas pump wine, too. It's been aged in a steel tank for hours.
The notion of drinking a wine that isn't really dark red but actually is almost black, straight fresh with little or no aging might be either daunting or appalling to most Americans, but indeed this is how the people who make this stuff mostly drink it, so a wine tasting comparison of these rough and hardy table wines is pertinent…The Battle of the Bulks.
Bulk wine can be purchased locally in two broad types….First, a type called "Quercy" named after the local region. This tends to be a blend upon a base of roughly 50% Cabernet Franc, I think, with various percentages of Sauvignon, Malbec, and Merlot comprising the rest.
The other bulk available locally is the 100% Malbec. Now, bottled and labeled Malbec comes in three broad ratings, Traditional, which must be at least 70% Malbec, Superior, which must be at least 85%, and Prestige, which must be at 100% Malbec.
Modes of dispensing "country wine." You can bring any container you wish, recycled water bottle, jug, barrel, whatever.
Now, the bulk Malbec we are testing is a 100% as well, but, again, a gas-pump bulk wine, 1.50 Euro per liter at the pump, BYOB, or barrel or keg, as the case may be. Clearly not the same as the Prestige stuff.
Color. Indistinguishable. Both almost entirely black with just the slightest hint of purple shading. To call either of them Red would be incorrect. Mouton-Cadet is dark red. This stuff is, truly, almost black.
Nose. Huge difference. The Quercy blend smells just like you might expect. Very strong, very acidic, very in-your-face. The 100% Malbec almost is unscented in comparison. Grapes, yes, but also, well, earth. Le Terrior. But very subtle.
Taste…both were opened and aired for over an hour. Even so, both hit you like a ton of bricks with their acidic taste (FWIW, I generally prefer whites for this very reason). But they are very different. The 100% Malbec has a very high pitched acidity, which is extremely strong at first but fades away after a few seconds on the tongue, and the taste that remains is more earthy than fruity.
The Quercy blend, on the other hand, has a lower pitch of acidity, but it remains there the entire time, not going away, but the background is more fruity, with hints of plums, currants, and yes, even grapes.
Teri and I both preferred the Quercy blend.
I guess wine isn't like whisky. I tend to prefer unblended whisky, and do not drink blends. With wine, I suspect that insisting upon 100% of a certain grape does not give the winemaker room and leeway to experiment and do their thing, to mix and hopefully make a bit of magic happen.
Buzz. Both wines produced a nice pleasant, happy cheerful buzz. And that, is, in my opinion as your Surveyor, the best recommendation I can give.
We humbly ask the great god Bacchus to bless this post. We met him in the beautiful city of Nîmes, not far from the ruins of the temple in Diana. Per usual, he looked robust and cheerful, despite his debauched lifestyle.
As you might recall, we discovered when in the Cahors area that we were at the European epicenter of Malbec wine and, indeed, local vignobles were laboring to produce good and plenty and "recapture the flag from Argentina." (If you missed our foray to all this, here is a link to that post: https://franceinjuly.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/malbecs-of-cahors-fiesty-and-powerful-in-which-two-tourists-who-like-wine-but-have-no-expertise-set-out-to-learn-about-the-local-productions/ )
We drank the rough, intense gas-pump Malbec while there, and purchased three highly recommended bottles of Cahors Malbec to share with our friends in the days and miles ahead. While visiting Jean-Louis and Elaine, we opened one: the Cayx 2009. Here is the official description:
Chateau de Cayx 2009
Notes of cherry and kirsch aromas with a delicate roasted flavour. A truly majestic Cahors with silky tannins. This exceptional wine was created in honor of Her Majesty, Queen Margrethe of Denmark, to celebrate the occasion of her 70th birthday. It was surpassingly wonderful to our uninitiated but eager palates. Rich, dark, fruity, deep.
Because we had a longer visit with Robert, the other two bottles were opened at his Montpellier home. He was willing to assist in our research.
Chateau de Chambert 2005
This is the modern face of Cahors; big, bright black/blueberry fruit, chunky and chocolatey and really showing off its Malbec characteristics. When you get great Malbec like this from its homeland, it doesn't seem quite so different from the very best Argentinian Malbecs, perhaps drier and more structured but still with a similar core of intense fruit.
This highly touted wine was okay, but lacking in substance and heft after the Cayx. Robert, who also preferred the 2009 Haute Serre, enjoyed this 2005 vintage more than we did, explaining that the French tend to prefer lighter wines. It was indeed delicious with the strong Roquefort cheese we also brought along and happy, contemplative moments ensued.
Next and last was this bottle, 2009 Haute Serre, is widely acknowledged to be representative and excellent—our B&B hostess in the Cahors area had insisted we try it, declared it her absolute favorite.
Château de Haute-Serre 2009
A little paler in colour and a bright and primary nose of red fruits, but there's a leathery and gamy note too, a touch of the barnyard suggesting a light bretty character. Chocolate and sweet fruit on the palate is mouth-filling and rich, but the finish just a touch short and showing that slight drying quality.
We enjoyed it last night with pasta (sweet summer tomatoes, fresh basil, prosciutto, mozzarella, hot red pepper over bowties with olive oil and balsamico, if you must know). This one was in between the other two in power and quality: more robust and darker, but not as intense as the Cayx. It was made by the celebrity vintner, Georges Vigouroux, who also released to the public the much more inexpensive and heavy-duty unadulterated "gas-pump Malbec."
In the end, we Americans find first one we tried, the Cayx 2009, the Cahors Malbec made for the Queen of Denmark's birthday to be superior, memorable, the most ,best good excellent yummy woooooo oui oui oui.
Amen, Bacchus, Bless Us Tout le Monde!
* I have noticed that many French people end long and short speeches and statements in this fashion. It's like, "Okay. That's it. I'm done. Voilà!"
Alan writes:
"Chapeau" to Georges Vigouroux, however. He is a famous local star, perhaps the best known winemaker in Lot. If you've got some extra cash, and want to spend a few Euros, he has a good bottle for you. But it you've not got much, or just want a bottle every night with your supper, Georges is not above making something decent for that range of the market as well. Whoever you are, and whatever your budget, Georges has got you covered.

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Fitness for losing weight typical misconceptions
So the diet doesn't help. Or helps, but not for long. Only the good old method to combine diet with exercise. But how to exercise to lose weight? There are a number of misconceptions about this.
First, the Load must be serious
The subtitle to this statement could be an expression: "the camel Has two
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The only problem is that the higher the load, the more time you need to recuperate. Even if you aspire to vrabotalsya" to crawl out of the gym on all fours, it is unlikely to speed up your weight loss. Doctors say that the optimal training schedule – not more often than once in two days.
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Useful properties of seafood
Seafood is rich in amino acids, minerals and vitamins. They contain beneficial protein and more than thirty trace elements that positively affect the condition of our skin and hair. Iodine, zinc, sulfur, calcium, potassium, magnesium and polyunsaturated acids help our body to function normally and to be always in good shape. Taurine, which is especially rich shrimp meat, increases the elasticity of blood vessels, rids the body of excess cholesterol. Useful properties of seafood has been known for a long time. The ancient Greek philosopher and foodie Orchestral, author of the first cookbook was told that the healthiest food is that which is found in
the sea. No wonder half of his recipes devoted to seafood.
Products for the liver, harmful and beneficial foods for liver
Our body has a very complex mechanism, where each part plays a role and even the slightest problem of any organs can result in dire consequences. To say nothing of the vital organs such as the heart, lungs, kidneys and liver. They require special attention and care, but that these bodies often gets a shock share of the load. Separately it is necessary to talk about the liver, which performs in our body the role of a filter. She recycles and purifies everything that enters our body with food, neutralizing various poisonous substances, while filtering the blood and removing the decomposition products. Despite its functionality and
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Can you believe that Tuesday will be November already? I have big plans for November since baby will be here first of December. I want the tree up by November 1st, and all presents wrapped at least by the 8th. We have our photographer taking some newborn pictures and I want the tree involved in them. What is your goal for the holidays?
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I took this picture of Kirby a little while ago. I decided to do some editing on it and it turned out pretty cute. I'm going to try to get some scrapbooking done today. (:
Friday, January 16, 2009
Three New Cards
I worked on these three cards last night. Part of my new years resolution is to post more often. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Finally! I have finally gotten caught up. These are some pictures of a bunch of different things I have been doing since My last post. Enjoy! I love comments. (:
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Put off on posting...
Wow... I havn't posted for awhile. I'm going to have to put off posting for a little bit due to my sister's camera breaking. ): I always used her camera to take pics of my scrapbooking stuff, and now she does not have it. I need to figure out a new way to download pictures!! I'm working on it. Hopefully I will be able to post again very soon. (:
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Georgia Coasting
Skipper's Fish Camp
85 Screven St.
Darien, GA
"Guys, it just doesn't get any better than this."
Remember that iconic Old Milwaukee television commercial -- all the dudes sitting around a campfire on the beach, sun setting into the lake, knocking back cold ones?
Yeah. That's what I was thinking to myself on this sunny spring afternoon as I sipped my ice cold Sweetwater 420 sitting on the back deck at Skipper's Fish Camp.
Sun shining down, a cool breeze blowing off the Darien River, shrimp boats motoring by and Charlie Daniels and Hank Williams, Jr. on the outdoor sound system.
Ahhh, yeah.
It just doesn't get any better than this.
Other than the Outlaw Country soundtrack, the only other sounds are the cries of the sea gulls and the
locals at the table next to me calling out their "hey y'alls" to the shrimpers who just tied up to the pilings across the salt marsh.
Darien, Georgia is a fleeting little coastal town, one of the few remaining still genuinely tied to the bounties of the surrounding waters.
The one block downtown consists of four or five buildings.
Just downhill toward the water's edge lies Skipper's and a row of shrimp boats -- an increasingly rare sight on the southeastern coastline.
Cold hard economics makes it difficult to cling to this fading, salty way of life.
With diesel at four bucks per gallon, it can cost several hundred dollars to fill a shrimp boat's fuel tank for a day of trawling the coastal waters.
Even at the $11 per pound going retail rate for local jumbo shrimp, it's hard to eke out much of a profit.
Worse yet, folks can go to the local Piggly Wiggly and buy shrimp for $3-$4 per pound.
Of course that bargain shrimp doesn't come from the Darien River. It comes from a shrimp farm in Thailand.
Can you taste the difference?
No comparison.
Local Georgia shrimp are firmer and sweeter.
Besides, seafood is supposed to come from the sea -- not some Third World farm on the other side of the planet where masses of frankenshrimp swim in their own waste.
But don't worry about the health consequences of such shrimp factories. The fish food the shrimp are fed is spiked with mass amounts of anti-biotics -- so you won't get sick.
Some Department of Agriculture bureaucrat would probably try to convince me this is "progress".
No thanks.
Give me a plate of shrimp that came right out of the deep blue sea in front of me.
That's what you get at Skipper's Fish Camp where your meal probably came right off one of the boats docked out back.
A favorite way to enjoy local wild-caught shrimp here in the Low Country is shrimp and grits.
Skipper's version piles a whole mess of shrimp in a bowl of cheese grits topped with smoky bacon.
I got my local shrimp blackened with a crab cake combo.
With a light peppery seasoning, my shrimp had a nice skillet char on the outside while remaining succulent and tender on the inside.
My crab cake was a Low Country version typical of this part of the coast.
Around the Chesapeake Bay, crab cakes tend to be baseball shaped mounds of moist crab meat faintly held together by mayonnaise and a few traces of bread crumbs.
They do crab cakes a bit differently down here.
Skipper's crab cake was flattened rather than round, with more seasoning, less mayo and a nice dark crust from the skillet.
I'm not going to start any fist fights over which version I like better, but let's just say any open-minded "when in Rome" crab cake connoisseur won't be disappointed at Skipper's.
Skipper's sides were a highlight rather than an afterthought.
Collard greens chockfull of pork fat.
Sweet potato casserole mixed up with lots of pecans and brown sugar.
And top notch homemade onion rings. The batter compliments rather than overshadows the thick, sweet, juicy rings of local Vidalia onion.
Of course no trip to Coastal Georgia is complete without sampling some local alligator.
Skipper's gator bites back as the tender greasy meat is deep fried and then tossed in a fiery hot buffalo sauce.
I had to order several pints of Georgia's favorite craft brew, Sweetwater 420, to douse the flames.
Yep. Had to.
Drinking beer in the sun on a Wednesday afternoon. Local shrimp, crab and gator.
Nope. It doesn't get much better.
Rating: Seriously Thought About Buying Shirt.
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Multiple Job Holders On The Rise… Again
In the past, wrote a blog entry about the surge in multiple jobholders and how it can be used as a good indicator in pointing out future market trends. Less than one year later, that surge appears to be happening again. Along with the anemic growth in economic output, slow wage growth and weak productivity numbers, the Great Stagnation seems to be in full effect.
Last month, single jobholders reached a three month low, while multiple jobholders hit an 11-month high of 7.3%; reaching the highest growth levels since 2008.
Specifically since May 2015, multiple jobholders have increased by 752,000 while single job holders have increased by 384,000. This means majority of the growth in employment is the result of multiple jobholders.
Strong surge in payroll prints, most of which originated from people holding more than one job; followed by average hourly earnings dropping from $24.25 to $24.24.
I guess in this recovery, people are working two jobs just to make enough money to be broke.
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I first want to take this opportunity to apologize for the lack of posts over the last few weeks. I have just simply been snowed under with various things going on. I have been trying [honest] to write various articles but never get a chance to finish them, so they are slowly getting updated.
This is where the general warning comes in, I will be posting quite a lot of articles over the coming days, so bare with me while I get them all sorted.
Not in any particular order, the following articles are things I have been working on and will be coming soon…
- 3 Epic Apple Product Concepts, I Would Like to See Made…
This is an article outlining three amazing conceptual designs found from scouring the inter-web, of Apple products that I would like to see made.
- Where have you been? Where would you like to go?
This is a travel based article of where I have visited, where I would like to visit. It also includes information on some the places where I have lived.
- Where are they now? : Everwood
Something that I know has been long awaited. My last article on Where are they now? : 7th Heaven – has been extremely popular and is visited almost on a daily basis, and have wanted to work on an article about the ever popular television series Everwood.
- Green Laning : Hexham and Haltwhistle
I was recently out on the lanes again over the Easter Weekend, and have some photographs to show you all.
Not much you might think, but each one of these articles, are going to be very comprehensive, so please bare with me while I get my website sorted out.


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An article from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on competition between physicians and nurse practitioners includes this endearing quote, which encapsulates how some providers see the U.S. health care sector:
The American Medical Association is against giving full autonomy to nurse practitioners, stating as its official policy position that a physician should be supervising nurse practitioners at all times and in all settings…
"There is an element within the physician community that gets a little antsy. … They think it's going to take away revenue and business from them," said Dr. Jan Towers, director of health policy for the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. "Really, there's more than enough for everybody."
Cue "We're in the Money"….
For more, be sure to check out Medicare Meets Mephistopheles, to be released by the Cato Institute in September.


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On Day 6 of my stay in Dubai, Bee and I hit up the Dubai Historic Village and Museum. Here are a few pictures I could get off Bee's iPhone as my iPhone was stolen and I didn't get a chance to backup a few days prior. A couple shots … Read more →
Dubai Chronicles – Day 5 (Jumeirah Beach Residence)
Here are some pictures from a day/night outing with my friends, Bee and Moby. We spent the evening walking by Jumeirah Beach Residence… Imagine a mix of Santa Monica Promenade, Las Vegas Strip, South Beach, Kalakaua Avenue in Honolulu… This city is beyond amazing! Polka Dot Dress – Forever 21 … Read more →
Friday Night w/Ms. Hill and Nas
I decided to be spontaneous on Friday. My brother and wife and sis-in-law (sister to my sister in law lol) are in town from Nigeria and London respectively and were in dire need of some Friday Night fun activity… Going to a bar/club was ruled out (personally I think LA … Read more →
The Rose Bowl Flea Market Experience
Here are some pictures from my visit to the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena this past Sunday. The Flea Market is open to vendors and buyers the 2nd Sunday of Every Month. It was my first time there… and I could not contain my excitement… From awesome vintage to … Read more →
Greetings From Vancouver, BC
TGIF! I am on my annual visit to Vancouver…attending a wedding this weekend. It's day one, and I decided to go hiking. Point of interest? The Grouse Mountain. This is by far the most difficult hike of my life… the Grand Canyon Hike was not even this difficult. At some … Read more →
Greetings From Phoenix, AZ
Good Morning! Hope you are having a fabulous Saturday. I am in Arizona for the Labor Day weekend to explore the Grand Canyon (yippie!). I flew into Phoenix last night, and now driving out to Flagstaff this morning for the remainder of my time here. I am so excited to … Read more →
Riviera Village Sidewalk Sale
Happy Saturday y'all. I hope you all are having a fabulous weekend. I am 🙂 I started the day off with Bikram Yoga, then had brunch @ the Redondo Beach Cafe… on my walk back I noticed that all the boutiques in the neighborhood had sale racks on the sidewalk. … Read more →
Greetings from Vegas!
…. My weekend started early… Just arrived in Vegas, and it's hot as hell in this "peach!" Please follow and like us:
Outfit of the Day – Polka Meets Leopard
TGIM! pause…pause…pause… NOT! Hope you had a great weekend. Here are some pictures from Sunday. I went to see the movie, Savages @ the Grove. I've been counting down to the release of this movie. I loved it… secretly liked the idea of a lady having two men in her … Read more →
Saturday Brunch in Manhattan Beach
Folake, Tammy and Kids, and I decided to head up to Manhattan Beach for brunch and a brief walk on the beach. The weather outside was so beautiful. Aaaahhhh God is good and Life's Good. 🙂 Folake just got back from a month's trip to nigeria, and trust I had … Read more →


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Dennys Food and Recipes: BBQ Grilling: Red Onions, Shishito Peppers with Peanut Sauce: From Denny: When it comes to summer entertaining we all like to fire up the grill. Well, here's a finger friendly recipe for those chili pepper nibblers and snackers who want to try the latest Shishito pepper sensation in the food world.
The peanut sauce is a medley of awesome flavors: smooth natural peanut butter, red wine vinegar, fresh garlic, fresh ginger, soy sauce and your favorite hot sauce. All that's left to do is add some other good recipes to your party menu like this grilled chicken dunked in that famous Alabama White Sauce!
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Is your teenager or young adult bright but still struggling to complete assignments?
Is your child motivated but having a hard time concentrating or focusing on schoolwork?
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We know that everything is going to be digitized in the future and will be touch friendly but the day has came sooner than we thought. Microsoft is also working on computer which are gesture based for many years but HP has become quick and they have launched HP Sprout which is completely amazing and gesture based PC.
This PC doesn't have any mouse or keyboard rather have a touchmat and there is a projector above it with 4 cameras and has Intel RealSense 3D technology. The projector acts as a a scanner and it can scan 3D objects and books too and can copy the text and images and you can drag it anywhere on the screen and basically it acts as your second screen.
Gadget Updates: Idea 4G coming soon to India
For the Hp Sprout specs it has 23-inch full HD screen and is boosted by 3.2GHz Intel i7 processor and do have 8GB RAM. Nvidia GeForce GT 745A graphics card is there and has 1TB storage. HP sprout runs on Windows 8.1 out of the box and is priced at $1,899. The concept is pretty amazing and no companies have launched anything before and we do think that it will set the new trend and in future can expert similar PCs. You can watch the video introducing the HP Sprout.
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An Event to Remember.
Annual meeting…. strategic planning…parties…. Whatever the size or purpose of your gathering, Venue 332 has a setting that's a perfect match. Our 700-seat auditorium is perfect for addressing large corporate groups. Six unique settings offer accommodations to fit your needs. Open catering, an updated commercial kitchen and door side parking offer ultimate convenience. Contact us for pricing or details.
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republicans hope to save transportation projects
Republican legislators give their proposal
for funding state's highway projects
By John Hanna
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. Republican legislative leaders are proposing
to shore up the state's comprehensive transportation plan
with bonds, sales tax revenue and federal funds.
The plan, which GOP leaders outlined Tuesday, is designed
to prevent cancellation of highway projects promised to communities
under the $13.5 billion, 10-year transportation plan started
in 1999.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, has offered a plan that
rests on issuing $465 million in bonds and dedicating $264
million in sales tax revenue to highway work.
The Republican approach requires just $150 million in bonds
but sets aside $395 million in sales tax revenue for transportation
projects before the program ends in 2009.
Republicans also count on an additional $300 million in federal
highway funds over six years, while the Sebelius plan makes
no assumptions about the outcome of current congressional
debate over transportation funding.
"It makes no sense to do a fix and ignore the federal
money," said Senate President Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson.
Sebelius, in a statement issued Tuesday, suggested the Republicans
were overly optimistic about federal aid. But she pledged
to work with them to secure federal money and said she was
encouraged that they had offered a plan.
"While we've taken slightly different approaches, I'm
hopeful that we can reach a compromise that will allow us
to protect valuable jobs and keep our promises to communities,"
she said.
Kerr and House Speaker Doug Mays, R-Topeka, said the GOP
plan also is designed to ensure the state has enough money
to continue highway maintenance at current levels after the
transportation plan ends.
Under Sebelius' plan, the Department of Transportation projected
a deficit $238 million in its budget for 2010. Republicans
said their plan leaves KDOT with $141 million to carry into
Sebelius and the Legislature's Republican leaders have said
they want to safeguard both the state's credibility and the
high-paying construction jobs that highway projects produce.
Transportation Secretary Deb Miller has said that unless
legislators act in the current session, the state will have
to cancel $150 million worth of projects later this year and
an additional $100 million each year into 2008.
KDOT has estimated the gap between available revenues and
promised spending at $775 million into 2009, absent passage
of a plan this year.
In setting up the transportation program in 1999, legislators
promised to dedicate ever-increasing amounts of sales tax
revenues to highway projects. But they quickly began diverting
the revenue to other government programs as other funding
sources declined, and no sales tax money was set aside for
transportation in 2003 and 2004.
Both Sebelius and GOP leaders propose to resume the sales
tax set-aside in 2006 at about $50 million. But the GOP plan
calls for the set-aside to jump to $168 million in 2007, whereas
the Sebelius plan increases it to only $105 million.
Sebelius has said a larger set-aside than the one she proposed
would be unrealistic, given the demands of financing education,
social services and other government programs.
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The Second & Third Most Depressing Graphs: The Encroachment Of Government
Update This stays top for today because we're still waiting for some regulars to chime in and because I'm busy.
Here is federal government spending as a fraction of the GDP (in 2008 dollars; here is the first most depressing graph: you have to add state and local yourself).
There are difficulties comparing government spending to GDP. First, as the bumps emphasize, government spending is part of GDP. That means this chart under-emphasizes the true size and encroachment of government into citizens' lives. By how much it's difficult to say, but it is a non-ignorable amount.
Around 1900, government spent about 2% of the GDP; in 2012 it was just over 25%. Since government spending is part of the GDP statistic, and since its contribution to the actual GDP has increased, the growth in government is higher than the indicated 12-13 times.
We repeatedly hear that health-care is "one-sixth of the economy." That's an exaggeration which relies on an expansive definition; plus, the government already owns a healthy chunk of medicine (and therefore of the GDP). Regardless, when Obamacare fully hits, this curve will spring northwards like a Canadian snowbird leaving Florida in March to get home in time to maintain his health insurance eligibility.
Anther way this curve under-estimates government size is to consider that gross federal debt was about $16 trillion last year, 3% larger than the GDP. There are other ways of measuring debt. Robert "Great Moustache" Samuleson pegs the most inclusive at $31 trillion, which is 200% of the GDP.
This is another trend which cannot continue, therefore it won't.
Now it is true that at times and places government has contributed positively to the economy. Interstate highways, to name one worthy innovation. But perhaps not entirely worthy. Reliance on highway-bound trucks reduce the number of trains, therefore also passenger trains. Cars contribute to sprawl.
What would have happened in the state elected not to build freeways? Answer: nobody knows. All that is clear is that citizens would have acted differently. It is a matter of faith to say they would have been worse off. They would have been better. There is no data either way.
What one cannot do is point to a graph of GDP per capita (which is linear in constant dollars since 1901) and another of government spending and note that, because of their similarity, that one caused the other; rather, one cannot claim that the increase in GDP would have been absent or smaller without government intervention. The growth could have been larger if government were smaller. There is no direct data either way.
We do know this. Government spends by forcefully taking money from one group of citizens (alive and yet unborn), keeping some itself, then giving a portion to other groups. "Donors" are directly injured and recipients immediately prosper from the largess. Other constituencies grow jealous and demand their "fair" share. A cycle of dependency is created, subservience and servility become first nature. People forget they are part of government, which becomes a sort of royal, paternal Other.
Government growth becomes unstoppable when it takes more than is necessary for basic security, when it confuses pursuit of happiness for its guarantee. We are well past that point.
Other curves?
I wanted to show the increase in the number of federal laws. Not easy to do, since counting them is purposely difficult. All reports are that the number is growing, and will continue to grow, exponentially.
"There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime," said John Baker, a retired Louisiana State University law professor who has also tried counting the number of new federal crimes created in recent years. "That is not an exaggeration." [Source: WSJ]
Federal regulations? One method of counting said:
According to the Office of the Federal Register, in 1998, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), the official listing of all regulations in effect, contained a total of 134,723 pages in 201 volumes that claimed 19 feet of shelf space. In 1970, the CFR totaled only 54,834 pages.
The General Accountability Office (GAO) reports that in the four fiscal years from 1996 to 1999, a total of 15,286 new federal regulations went into effect. Of these, 222 were classified as "major" rules, each one having an annual effect on the economy of at least $100 million.
Here's the Federal Register pages from 1975 to 2011 (before Obamacare):
Page counts are indicative of intrusion, but not a complete measure. See this explanation.
"Over the past decade, the federal government has issued almost 38,000 new final rules, according to the draft of the 2011 annual report to Congress on federal regulations by the Office of Management and Budget." That's more than 10 per day. As of today, the site Regulations.gov boasted that over the last 90 days 5,955 new regulations were posted. That's 66 per day. There are another 1,085 in the immediate pipeline. A medical tsunami.
And just how do we plot the pertinacious rise of nanny-ism? Bans of soda pops, plastic bags, water bottles, etc.? Not everything is quantifiable. The weight that crushes you may be unmeasurable, but you're still just as dead. Brave New World in 5, 4, 3, …
GDP source and here, population source, budget here, here, and here.
Update David J. Theroux asks we have a read of "Hurray for Washington," by Mary Theroux.
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"There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime,†said John Baker, a retired Louisiana State University law professor who has also tried counting the number of new federal crimes created in recent years.
If true, then make yours count.
Not quite /sarc
An interesting read. My father once told me to be wary of crime statistics as things that were perfectly legal a few years ago could be illegal today, creating a bunch of criminals out of thin air.
If the US federal government wouldn't have provided a service, somebody else would have done it. It could have been a local government, a private enterprise, or even a not-for-profit.
A local government is probably as bad as the federal one, so let's focus on private enterprise and not-for-profits.
If private enterprise had wanted to provide the service, it would only have done so when it could get a decent return on their investment. But if the public wouldn't pay for that service then private enterprise would not start doing it in the first place. Then there's nobody left to do the work but the government, if the people wanted to somebody to do the work, but were in no mind to pay enough.
Not-for-profits work by getting volunteers to do the work. Take for example Nuns taking care of the elderly and the sick. With much less people doing that kind of volunteer work, and with increasing demand for that kind of work, somebody has to step in. And that is the government. Caring for the elderly and the sick is now mostly a paid-for job.
Sander van der Wal,
"Take for example Nuns taking care of the elderly and the sick. With much less people doing that kind of volunteer work, and with increasing demand for that kind of work, somebody has to step in. And that is the government. Caring for the elderly and the sick is now mostly a paid-for job."
The government doesn't just step in in such areas to fill gaps left by charitable services. It actively works to drive existing private charitable services out of those fields.
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.†Frederic Bastiat
One more set of numbers for you to consider… Add state and local to federal spending to get total government spending.
We Canadians are well aware of where you are going, all are criminals in the eyes of the just-us system, enforcement of law depends on who you are.
The gun registry decreed all legal property owners, to be criminal unless they submitted to being registered by the state, once registered your legal protection from unwarranted search and seizure are gone.
Business must collect taxes for the state, GST, the revenuers can and do seize business accounts on slim pretext, looting what they imagine they are owed.
Being right and in compliance is no defence and the damage is never repaid.
Real criminals, who do actual damage to society, have endless rights and privileges protected by law. Taxpayers have none.
The cost of government exceeds any value it provides.
I liken it to a cost comparison between living a paranoid, tribal life, guarding my life and property 24/7, building only what me and mine can protect or carry away.
Or having civilization, which I liken to, an illusion of law and order, in which we have sufficient trust, that we can cooperate in safety.
Using the energy we would "waste" in paranoia, to build infrastructure that enriches us all.
Governments only function is to maintain the illusion of civilization.
They are a morality play.
Civilization collapses when the cost of government exceeds the benefit of cooperation.
Currently government takes close to 60% of the return on my labour, the benefits are empty promises, we get healthcare where you wait, wait and wait some more,then you die, retirement wealth will be stolen by government thro inflation, estate taxes, death taxes and seizure of selected assets.
Do not steal your government hates competition.
Luis will be along shortly to complain about…….something and then tell us that if only we gave the government even more paradise will be at hand.
Briggs, Matt
And private businesses never pull such a trick. As soon as you have a captive market both private enterprise and government start behaving badly. Or do you mean that private enterprise is the paragon of virtue in a captive market situation and only government is bad?
Private businesses have long figured that out. When a specific government tries to capture all the value, they move their taxable profits elsewhere. Hence no big corporation (or big rock bands) paying taxes anywhere.
Most people aren't doing that (move to a better country), maybe they should start too.
For what its worth, Interest Expense on the outstanding US National Debt is provided at http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.htm
REGARDING growth of Federal Laws and "There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime,†— for a dramatic, but true, illustration see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc The portion specific to this quote starts at about 5:20; however, the entire video is worth watching.
Sander van der Wal: Non-profits do not have volunteers doing the work. Some the highest paid jobs out there are in non-profit organizations. The term "non-profit" does not mean no paid employees. It's a tax status. The company that could be paying $200,000 a year to its director and be paying several employees. I have worked for non-profits and I assure you, I did get paid.
Matt, interesting graphs but I am still confused as to why this is better. An explanation would be helpful, otherwise it sems that you are just responding to Luis' infantile hectoring.
I know that such not-for-profits exist too, but there are also n-f-p where most of the legwork is being done by volunteers. The trend is though that more and more of that kind of work is paid-for. There are in Holland even courses on how to raise as much money as possible for not-for-profits.
The only complaint I have is that Briggs promised me I was "wrong" and that I would see it "next day". Probably in this post. However I was mentioning FEDERAL spending, not "overall government" spending. tsc tsc.
Sander van der Wal,
Without force of government no private business can obtain a truly captive market. Nearly every true monopoly that has ever existed was created by government action.
I agree that this seems like a bit of a bait and switch in that regard, but could you provide some positive arguments for your position? So far all you have is an unsupported assertion.
Luis will be along shortly to complain about…….something and then tell us that if only we gave the government even more paradise will be at hand.
When did I ever say this? It's oh so easy to paint the interlocutor as a rabid guy from THE OTHER TEAM, but in so doing be aware that you are equally painting yourself as a rabid follower of the opposite.
I don't regard government growth as a good thing per se. But before crying foul, I want to see context. I want to see why America of the 1910s didn't need its government so much, and why it is so pervasive today. A non-ideological perspective would help, because it would provide us with a more objective curiosity that is more probable to give us real answers.
There's also this vibe (and actual words) within these comment boxes that the government "doesn't create wealth", and that what it merely does is confiscate it from the real wealth producers. Anyone who believes this would flunk econ 101 in the first day. The reason why the government "confiscates" through taxes is because it is an inherently distributionary / insurance body. You could imagine a government with taxes of zero percent, but then each service they provide you would come with a price. You are trying to get help from the police? Pay upfront. Want medical urgent attention? Gimme tha money first. Education? Don't make me laugh, just give the tens of thousands of greens.
So it's evidently and obviously true that the government creates wealth, since it provides valuable services to the citizens. What may be troubling is the lack of power that a citizen may have against its government, how the lack of price feedbacks can slowly degenerate a particular system, etc. Please, anyone, don't be the fool one who just regurgitates that the government doesn't "create wealth". You just don't know what the frak you are talking about and unintentionally humilliating yourself.
It's a trade off, for sure. I'm sure that spending more on, say, road building and maintenance than in 1910 is a good thing. I also suspect that the amount of spending on roads hasn't tracked the growth in the economy.
I will concede that Andy used a bit of hyperbole there, but to be fair, your unsupported assertions are about as useful as his statement.
To be sure, other government spending, such as law enforcement or national defense, can have a positive effect on wealth creation. But it does not follow that more is always better (and there's an argument about quality vs quantity, too). And it certainly doesn't follow that it should be some percent of GDP, as you asserted.
It is generally understood that mutual funds that grow too big lose their advantage, simply because there are only so many opportunities, and eventually their overall capital dominates the opportunities. I suspect we can agree that government spending must follow a similar path of diminished marginal returns. I would say we're long past that point in many areas where government operates.
But your unsupported belief in a fixed share of public GDP (at least in the presence of the sort of economic growth we've witnessed over the last century) disagrees.
Yes sure. The argument is "how much" and "how well". But notice the catch, which was spotted already by Keynes (when he made his famous prologue for the book Road to Serfdom), that the question hasn't turned out to be one of morality for everyone agrees on the basic premise (not too little government nor too much), but where exactly should we draw the line.
That's a messier conversation, and to be rigorous, a "down to the leaf" discussion. IOW, it involves politics.
So, are you unwilling or unable to have the discussion? Have you conceded that government spending per capita is at least as important a metric as spending as a percent of GDP?
You made a broad assertion that brushes all of the details of the politics aside. Note that the original post did not! It explicitly talked about that sort of thing, which you may or may not agree with, but which apparently you cannot argue against.
The wide brush was painted when Briggs showed a 60+ times growth of the US government, as if he was painting just another hockey stick. The statistics of practically any interesting number you pick will behave like the blade of a Hockey Stick in the twentieth century. So for instance, if you wanted to alarm people on how many more muslims (SCARY!!/s) are today vs in 1910, you'd be perfectly able to. Or PHDs. Or number of companies. Or Wealth. Or Cancer.
That's the kind of tactics that threw me away.
That may be true in regards to the prior post. However, as this post shows, Federal spending is also increasing relative to GDP. That is NEVER a good thing, because it indicates that the impact of incremental increases in spending are having an impact on GDP that is < 1 and possibly (probably) < 0.
I think you are ignoring the impact of health costs–it is the elephant in the room. On Medical Economics:
"When you crunch data compiled by McKinsey and other researchers, the big picture looks like this: We're likely to spend $2.8 trillion this year on health care. That $2.8 trillion is likely to be $750 billion, or 27%, more than we would spend if we spent the same per capita as other developed countries, even after adjusting for the relatively high per capita income in the U.S. vs. those other countries."
And no, it is not the fault of medicare or Obamacare.
Medicare's total management, administrative and processing expenses are about $3.8 billion for processing more than a billion claims a year worth $550 billion. That's an overall administrative and management cost of about two-thirds of 1% of the amount of the claims, or less than $3.80 per claim…Aetna spent $6.9 billion on operating expenses (including claims processing, accounting, sales and executive management) in 2012. That's about $30 for each of the 229 million claims Aetna processed, and it amounts to about 29% of the $23.7 billion Aetna pays out in claims.
Health costs are a huge part of the problem. See much more here:
Prof Nasif Nahle has done studies on backradiation in his paper
which I cited a year ago in my paper
Nasif is one of several physicists and professors of other disciplines on the team at Principia Scientific International all of whom recognise fallacies in the AGW conjecture.
You need to see the big picture to understand the relative insignificance of backradiation, as explained towards the end of my latest paper
1. The thermal gradient (AKA "effective lapse rateâ€) is pre-determined by the force of gravity, the weighted mean specific heat of the gases in a planet's atmosphere (at that altitude) and the degree of intra-molecular radiation which, in the case of Earth, is somewhat dependent on the percentage of water vapour which, as is well known, makes the gradient less steep.
2. The overall level of the plot is established by the autonomous propensity for there to be radiative equilibrium with incident Solar radiation. The area under the curved plot of outward radiative intensity thus has a propensity to remain constant if the gradient alters. So extra water vapour makes it less steep by lowering the surface end and raising the tropopause end.
3. The surface temperature can then be calculated by extrapolation of the thermal plot of temperature against altitude in the troposphere. The temperature can be derived using SBL from the values of radiative flux at each altitude from (2). The higher the tropopause, the greater the distance over which the temperature can rise, this explaining why Venus is much hotter than Earth.
4. The mechanism whereby the thermal plot is maintained involves the absorption of energy originally from the Sun (both in downwelling and upwelling radiation) which is then dispersed in all directions over the thermal plane, in order to maintain thermodynamic equilibrium, in accord with the requirements of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
5. The thermal plot continues its upward climb more steeply in the crust (due to lower specific heat) but far less steeply in the hottest regions of the mantle because specific heat increases significantly with increasing temperatures.
6. Heat creep, as described in (4) allows thermal energy to enter deeply into the subsurface regions and, eventually, to support core temperatures and provide energy which can contribute to that in volcanoes and thermal springs and vents.
7.The surface warms temporarily during the day and then both radiative and non-radiative processes slow its rate of cooling, but there is a limit to such cooling due to the underlying very stable thermal plot of temperature against altitude or underground depth. This is why the base of the atmosphere does not continue cooling at a fast rate all through the night. The force of gravity redistributes absorbed energy in such a way as to provide a supporting temperature at the boundary of the surface and atmosphere, and even at the boundary of the mantle and core.
Flunk on the first day. Maybe so, but I doubt they would accept your application to attend.
All you have done is repeat the silliness of others here claiming that what government spends is somehow wealth. It's not it's a cost, this elementary mistake leads you to claim that a government confiscating wealth, spending money to do that, somehow creates more wealth as a consequence. It just magics out of the air? These are costs, in many cases acceptable costs but costs they remain. Declaring it self evident does not make it so, valuable services are a cost.
Now how far away was I with claiming you would tell us we all need to give more money to the government to create a paradise?
Briggs, your posts are giving me nightmares. The US was my escape plan should Canada become intolerable, but I'm starting to reconsider. Where will I run to when it becomes a criminal offence to think contrarian thoughts????
Just to add to my fellow Canucks groaning– Here in Canada we have language police. They're mostly in the province of Quebec (though some sneak around various Crown Corps looking for lawsuits). These well paid civil servants patrol the dark recesses of Main street looking for language crimes, issuing fines and orders. Recently an Italian restaurant was fined for using the word 'pasta'. I kid you not.
1-)You realize that in the south of the US there is ever more talk to pass law to force the use of English instead of Spanish.
2-)Not that I care much about the «loi 101» but there is no problem in using a 2nd language anywhere on a sign in Québec as long as the french version is present and bigger. If your language was threatened you would react much the same way. We are about 7 millions people surrounded by 330 millions english speaking people.
In the US they feel threatened and they are the majority.
Sylvain, just curious, where is such a law being proposed?
Florida and Arizona have talked about it for certain.
Windows has a captive market. Not because the government enforces the use of Windows, and not because the government forbids the implementation of alternatives. But because switching costs are too high. There were plenty of alternatives, and now the competition is reduced to Apple's Mac OS X and Linux. Apple has a reasonable, and slightly growing market share. Linux is popular among a few computer enthousiasts.
It can be argued that Apple grew because they became more compatible with Windows after they started using the Intel x86 processor, enabling people to run both Mac OS X and Windows on a single computer. There are also software solutions to run Windows programs in Linux, by having the binary software interface of Windows available in Linux.
Both Mac OS X and Linux are cheaper than Windows. And still, few people are switching.
If anything, the government is prosecuting people who run Windows without paying a license. But the government forcing people to use Windows. No way.
Most people use Linux a lot more than they know: phones and DVRs, for instance. Most web pages they visit are served up using Linux.
While a court found that Windows was a monopoly, it never was a true monopoly in the way people normally think about them.
Anyways, MattS said "nearly every true monopoly," so his weasel wording (in addition to being correct!) doesn't conflict at all with your Microsoft anecdote for more than one reason.
Sander van der Wal,
Microsoft isn't a true monopoly, they do have competitors.
The fact that they have competitors constrains MS, because even though the costs of switching are quite high, they are NOT insurmountable and if MS becomes obnoxious enough, the cost of staying with MS could get higher than the cost of switching.
"But the government forcing people to use Windows. No way." Actually yes they do, although not directly. A number of government websites for access to certain services are set up so they only work with MS IE which only runs on Windows.
Andy, before I get to read anything further from you, please enlighten me on what you think is the definition of "wealth".
When the courts declared MS had a monopoly, it did have it. They had more than 95% of the consumer market at that period, and abused said power to destroy newcomer Netscape. This is the big reason why 1995~2003 marked probably the darkest period in software development ever.
Today the notion that MS has competitors is obviously true. I'd say they are winding down very much already. Post pc devices are eating up the pc market and MS is unable to touch (ah!) that market. Google, Amazon and Apple are slowly rendering MS empire obsolete. And in some part this happened due to the court's decision, that pretty much enabled things like Firefox and Webkit to flourish, independent standards to have access and eventually winning the market (vs proprietary flash, silverlight, and formats like WMA, and so on), allowing companies like Apple to stop being so vulnerable to windows dependability.
The common notion of a monopoly is a single company that controls 100% of a market. By this definition MS is not and never has been a monopoly.
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The so-called "federal government" is not only BANKRUPT, it's HHead- Over- Heels in Debt, & Operating Way In The Red, & It Has A Huge, & Increasing, Budget Deficit. There's virtually zero $ for anything whatsoever.
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I would like to thank the young lady who came to my assistance on the Metro on Tuesday, January 20.
When I became unwell at Haymarket Metro station she sat with me during the journey to my home, even staying on the train past her own stop at Shiremoor before taking me out of West Monkseaton station where my husband was waiting for me.
I didn't get her name but I hope she will read this so she will know how grateful I am for her help.
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I was at Chapters.Indigo today and ended up getting a Hunger Games/Catching Fire/Mockingjay t-shirt! (It's actually just one shirt -the front view is shown on the left and the back view is shown on the right.) I hadn't realized there was so much THG merchandise out already - board games, magnets, stickers, keychains, shirts, you name it!
I'm pretty excited to start wearing it; it'll definitely be cool to see if anyone else recognizes the meaning behind it and mention it.
To find some of my previous posts on: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.
What was in your mailbox this week?
*In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren


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Here's an excerpt what SAHM blogger Quin Frieder had to say about Udderly Hot Mama in her blog Around The World To The Left:
"The "Sassy" in this scoop neck is the fact that you can pull the scoop neck almost to your bellybutton, which for nursing is perfect. And, there's a "collar" of sorts inside that covers your chest when you pull the scoop neck down to nurse. No ridiculous obscenity laws can apply to you!
Though I don't wear super low rise jeans (seriously, no one wants to see that. I'm 36.) I appreciate the length of the shirt. With all of the bending and twisting I do, the shirt stayed in place and there was enough room in the shirt that if I had felt self conscious about my midsection, it would not have been an issue."
Thanks Quin!
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^^Check out that pigmentation, I can't wait for my new one:)
Just a blog about makeup and other stuff. Listen to my rants and raves about beauty products, see the makeovers I've done, and let me share what I know about the beauty community.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Stila Barbie Palette
5 comments:
- Cristina BarbieLuvsMac said...
omg i WANTTTTTT.
i was gonna but it but wen i was looking at it at sephora it fell and the shawdows broke everywhereeee i was to embarassed to buy it LOL
- September 16, 2009 at 7:42 PM
- CHARRY said...
Its gorgeous! too bad it got messed up.
- September 18, 2009 at 4:33 AM
- Erin said...
The SAME thing happened to me tonight. I open the box to see that there were flakes of eyeshadow. (the blue shadow made the most mest) I was a little worried because I knew what that meant, I open the box...and ALL of them were cracked. SOOOO disappointing.
- September 18, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- Kimberly said...
Wow, that makes three of us. The exact same thing happened to me on Friday. My pink & brown shades were shattered. Luckily there is a Sephora store here in town, I had a one of the palettes on hold for me, but I had instructed the sales lady to take it off hold for me since I had ordered it online. Luckily for me the one on hold for me at the store was still there with my name on it, so I went & made the exchange immediately.
I'm in love with the colors!
- September 19, 2009 at 3:59 PM
- Pop Champagne said...
wow sephora service sounds great! Hopefully you'll get your new one soon! Yeah I do hate the postal service, a while ago I sent Dana her prize which included nyx eyeshadow but it broke getting there -_- sighh
- September 20, 2009 at 7:05 AM


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When the FIFA World Cup 2014 kicks off in Brazil on June 12, the world will go crazy. India may be a cricket-loving country, but there has been a constant increase in the number of football fans too.
Here is a look at the best apps to keep you abreast of the latest happenings on the ground.
1. FIFA: Free
This is the tournament's official app. Featuring the latest news, it helps you to find all the relevant details about the 32 participating teams. It also offers a compressive schedule of all the 64 matches. The app claims to bring you closer to the world of football than ever before with breaking stories, galleries from Getty Images, videos from the FIFA TV Studio and FIFA archives.
2. SofaScore: Free
It will offer a wide range of information -- news, scores and stats. The app, which looks neat, courtesy a clean layout, offers in-depth analysis too. One can choose the team and opt for active notification.
3. BBC Sport: Free
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A top trending app for FIFA, this one offers play by play match commentary in Live ticker. It has got all the schedules, match results, news, and team line-ups. One can also check out individual player reports with stats and links to his Twitter feed. The news feed ties into all the top football websites. The history section helps get information about the previous World Cups.
5. Jalvasco World Cup 2014: Free
Very similar to the official FIFA app, this one offers you photos, videos, news and any other information. It offers full data customisation - tracking chosen teams, groups, matches and conferences. Apart from showing the full schedule of matches, it even allows one to add and remove own tabs. There is also an option of browsing the match result in offline mode and setting application specific time zone. It even offers news about the next two World Cups in Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022).