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Keep Your Friends Close
We are put onto Earth for one plain reason, and that is to interact with others to strive for a better tomorrow. I truly believe that in order to achieve this, one must keep his or her friends as close as humanly possible. If someone keeps their friends close, they will make new friends, have many good times, and be able to get out of a few sticky situations.
Everyone sees many unique faces throughout any typical day. Every one of them living their own life and taking advantage of different opportunities. If one person could expand their friends list, they would, in turn, find new opportunities. Having friends helps tremendously. Everybody knows people others may not. Having one friend, that may introduce someone to another friend, would expand that persons list of friends. The more friends one person has, the more ways he or she has to be successful.
Having friends will always produce good times and memories for all. For example, whenever I am with my best friends, we make games, blow things up and get in trouble, or just talk about our days and lives. My life has been great because I have friends to share it with. Honestly, the only reason God put friends on this Earth, was so that people would be happy and not eventually kill themselves. People need friends to have a happy life.
Last, but certainly not least, friends can get us all out of bad situations, assuming they are close anyway. Sooner or later in life, everyone gets in big trouble. A friend is always there to bail us out of jail, provide cover fire, or anything that is really needed. That is the reason why they are so great.
If someone keeps their friends close, they will meet new people, have many great times, and be able to get by when things get tough. That is why every single person on Earth should keep them close.
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How To Choose Between an LED, LCD, or Plasma HDTV for Super Bowl Sunday
If you're preparing to blow a chunk of your paycheck on a Super Bowl party this weekend, be sure you choose the right HDTV between LED, LCD or plasma technology. We walk you through the basic differences and help you make the right decision for the big game.
Apartment Therapy's Jeff Heaton explains the basic differences between LED, LCD and plasma television technology:
Display Technology: LCD, LED, Plasma
LED TVs are actually a type of LCD TV. LEDs, or light emitting diodes, are a more energy efficient method of backlighting the LCD, or liquid crystal display, than the older CCFL, or cold cathode flourecent lighting, method. So all LEDs are LCDs, but not all LCDs are LEDs. plasmas contain phosphors that create the image and light themselves. When HDTVs first came out Plasma was the TV of choice for its rich blacks and display quality. But over the years there has been a transition as LCD quality got better, especially with the addition of LED backlighting. LEDs are generally the best TV when you consider energy efficiency, thickness and picture quality together. However, you will pay the most for them -- often a few hundred more than a CCFL LCD of the same size.
Aside from the technical differences between the technology types, we offer the following practical considerations in making a decision when buying a new HDTV, especially in time for this weekend's Super Bowl.
Purchase Price
It's amazing what you can get for your money these days. No matter the technology type, a 60" flat screen TV for under $1,000 is quite incredible considering the early pricing of flat panel TVs. Not all 60" TVs are under $1,000 though, and you can easily get into the high thousands for a set with different features and technologies. Generally speaking, plasma TVs are the least expensive, then LCDs, and then LEDs. Of course this isn't always the case given brands, quality, features, sales, and such. The highest priced marketed flagship model TV sets are generally LEDs.
Power Consumption
One thing to consider if you're looking at plasma technology is that these TV sets generally use quite a bit more energy than LCDs or LEDs. Plasmas can easily consume several hundred watts of power per hour while a lean LCD or LED often sneaks by with under 100. According to Nielson, the average person spends up to a hard to believe five hours per day camped out in front of their television set. If our power company charges us around $.10 per Kilowatt hour, that power usage difference amounts to quite a difference on our bill. This extra power consumption from plasmas also makes these units put out quite a bit of noticeable heat.
Nowadays you can get any screen size TV in any flavor you want. While TVs are all getting lighter and slimmer, not all TVs are created equal. Plasmas generally weight quite a bit more than LCDs or LEDs and due to the way the technology works are often thicker in depth. So if you want that slimmest of TVs to mount tight against your wall, LED is the way to go - but you'll pay a premium for that slimness.
Picture Quality
Videophiles might wonder why it's taken us so long to get to the main event - the picture quality, all other considerations be damned! But seriously, there are quite a few differences in each of the TV technologies in perceived quality. We'll stay away from a technical discussion on picture quality and discuss practical perceived differences. One of the qualities of plasma technology has historically been its abilities to produce the best black levels. Think of movies with dark shadowy scenes and then consider if you can actually see the details within the lack of light, and if those black images are actually black or kind of brightly grey. Plasmas typically are best at displaying these deep gorgeous black levels but LEDs are quickly catching up, albeit at much higher prices. LCDs and LED-backlit LCDs are generally known to display a much brighter and colorful picture. It's a matter of preference what you prefer, but also consider a practical difference we previously highlighted on Apartment Therapy:
What's your viewing pleasure? Do you prefer super bright, super sharp content? Or do you prefer more subtle moody viewing with clear dark blacks. It used to be a big battle between plasma and LCD (and now LED) technology but the technology gap has closed quite a bit. Plasmas are giving way to LCD, but there's still plenty of case for buying them. For those watching in rooms that are fairly dark, plasmas might not be as bright as their LCD counterparts but they sure do make up for it with extreme black contrast levels. If you're watching television in an extremely bright room with no way of closing the blinds, then an LCD with its superior brightness may be for you. Learn your environment and your preferences and it will help guide you in making an educated choice on more than just bran, pricetag, and size.
While much better than early sets, plasma TVs are unfortunately still susceptible to burn-in. If you're worried about damaging your TV with a stagnant image, we'd shy away from plasma. LCDs and LEDs generally speaking do not experience this problem. plasmatvbuyingguide.com kindly describes burn-in for us.
...burn in, simply put, is a damaged pixel, whose phosphors have been prematurely aged and therefore glow less intensely than those of surrounding pixels on the plasma TV screen. The damaged or "burned in" pixel has developed a "memory" of the color information that was repeatedly fed to it in a static manner over a period of time. And that phosphor color information has actually become seared or etched into the plasma TV glass. Hence the term, "burn-in." Once these phosphors are damaged, they cannot give the same output as the other phosphors around them do. But pixels do not suffer burn-in singly. Burn-in occurs in the shape of a static image that persists on TV screens -- things like network logos, computer icons, Internet browser frames, or an entire image that has been displayed in a static manner etc. Network logos were a problem initially but they have now become sensitive to the problem and have also adapted a motion logo technology which prevents burn in.
So What To Buy?
A lot of the differences depend on your preferences, environment and situation. Plasmas tend to be the budget buy but also in nicer models offer incredible black levels for your dollar. LCDs offer weight, depth, and energy savings as well as a brighter picture in rooms with a lot of light. LEDs often cost more but take the advantages of LCDs to an even higher level. Now that you're armed with all of this info, get out there and go get yourself a new HDTV before the game starts!
• The Buyer's Guide to HDTV Terminology
HDTV Shopping: Navigating Nonsensical Selling Points
• The New HDTV Owner's Gift Guide (2012 Apartment Therapy Tech Gift Guide)
• How Big is Too Big? Finding the Right TV, Not Just Biggest
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Class Reptilia
Order Squamata
Suborder Serpentes
Family Colubridae
As the only named living species of Sonora, presumably all the Wisconsin specimens belong to this species. "Sonora sp." and "Sonora semiannulata are plotted together on the distribution map and not separated out in the sites list.
These are small, arid-land snakes. Van Devender and Worthington (1977) gave the habitat as most communities below woodland.
Fig. 1. Ground Snake from El Paso County, TX. Photograph by Carl S. Lieb.
Late Wisconsin: Desert Almond (Van Devender et al. 1977a); Picacho Peak (Van Devender et al. 1991); U-Bar Cave 15-18 ka (Harris 1989: ?).
Late Wisconsin/Holocene: Fowlkes Cave (Parmley 1990: as sp.); Howell's Ridge Cave (Van Devender and Worthington 1977; New Water Mountains (Van Devender and Mead 1978).
Literature. Harris 1989, 2003; Parmley 1990; Van Devender and Mead 1978; Van Devender and Worthington 1977; Van Devender et al. 1977a; Van Devender et al. 1991.
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A really great thing happened last night. I drank 6 beers and then started my period. I also shoved a small order of tater tots and 3 bites of my husband's burger down my gullet in record time. Lightly dusted with salt and sporting onion breath, I then climbed into bed and snored blissfully for the night.
Armed with one tampon in my arsenal and a bloated belly this morning, I had to make a stop at the drug store before I hit the office supply store. A box of feminine hygiene products, bag of peanut butter M&M's and some Reece's Pieces accompanied me to the check out. I had no shame in plopping down my hormonal survival kit, which would have been better with bottles of vodka and Midol along with a taser, in front of the bored clerk. Bed head, bad skin, no make-up and a lip ring stared at me and then as slowly as possible rang me up. I realized as I stood in front of her, I was just another lamewad, ass face disturbing her moment of nothingness and angst. She mumbled my total in my general direction. I had no idea what she said and I wondered what her job interview must of looked like.
Lip ring: "So I like need a job."
Hiring Manager: "Great, we like need a clerk. Do you speak?"
LR: shrug
HM: "Do you like people?"
LR: half assed shrug - "NO"
HM: "Well you have the unsightly, slightly infected and reddened body piercing requirement that our Depends purchasing patrons will find welcoming and the personality of a dog turd. You're like totally hired."
LR: "mumble."
HM: "Start Monday. It's double coupon day. Smiles are free. "
And I got fired for rolling my eyes at an annoying bitch when I was 19. Where is the justice in the world?
I told her hair brushes were on aisle three and she might look into some Neosporin as I left.
Wishing I really had the balls to say that last part, I tore open the M&M's and cramming them into my face, I took my dehydrated self over to the closest office supply store that claimed on their front door that they are open at 8AM. At 8:04 I walked up to the door and immediately smacked into it like a pigeon. The bitch didn't open. So I stood there like a tool. Some pimply faced, ass nugget walked by, looked at me, grimaced and walked over to scan some tag with his super dork laser gun. I tapped on the glass, right next to the greasy nose impression I had just left, like a pushy bitch, and nothing. He didn't look at me, he didn't flinch. Writing 'fuck you' on the window with the remainder of my nose grease, I left.
Back into the car, still wishing I had the balls to do that last part, I shoved another handful of M&M's in, washed it down with a slug of Diet Coke and silently cussed at my cramps all the way down to the next store. At 8:10 I marched up to the doors. They swished open, I bitch stomped down the aisle. Some guy in an office store bitch golf shirt looked at me and looked away because, and I'm guessing here, I obviously didn't need help finding anything. I got my labels and mousepads and walked up the counter. This time the 105 year old geezer behind the counter sat there on the computer consumed in his geriatric porn and didn't even look up at me. I said "Can I check out here"? He grumbled, got up, asked me an incoherent question, took my card and then threw my sack at me.
I then jumped over the counter and punched him in the nutsack that time forgot and left the store.
Yeah, you know.
I have no point here, except that people suck. And, if you work in the retail industry, try being fucking grateful for your job and, I don't know, maybe take a shower, grab a breath mint and slap on a smile. In case you didn't hear, the whole world smiles with you when you do.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The World Is So Full Of Awesome
A really great thing happened last night. I drank 6 beers and then started my period. I also shoved a small order of tater tots and 3 bites of my husband's burger down my gullet in record time. Lightly dusted with salt and sporting onion breath, I then climbed into bed and snored blissfully for the night.
18 comments:
- Dirty Pirate Hooker said...
Angry baby strikes again...
Doesn't it suck when you think of something good to say, well after the fact?
- October 9, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- Betsey Booms said...
Yes it blows! I'm usually pretty quick, but not this morning, darn it.
- October 9, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- ghost of keywork said...
Angry Baby hired all of these people. To piss you off. To break the hex, you must Angry Baby Message 5 people in the next 5 days.
- October 9, 2008 at 10:42 AM
- Lara said...
These sound like times when you should comment to them, "So... I see you're PMSing too." Yes. Even to the old man.
- October 9, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Stephanie said...
I tell people like those you ran into "If you don't like your job, then quit!" I was a teen once, I had a sucky ass job, but I was always nice, prompt, and did my JOB!
- October 9, 2008 at 11:37 AM
- KaritaG said...
I have a serious, serious problem with that shit...I waited tables. I worked in retail. I had shitty days and I was still nice or at least polite. Yes, it blew. Get over yourself, you know? Sheesh. Your job is NOT THAT HARD.
- October 9, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- J said...
Join the period club. I hate it!! Right now chocolate is my best friend too. I am actually jealous of all the chocolate you have right now!
- October 9, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
That sounds like my kind of day!
- October 9, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
This? This right here? So why I love you and why we it's a shame we don't live near each other.
Tampons. M&M's. Tasers. Junk punching. Gah!! The fun we'd have!!
- October 9, 2008 at 6:12 PM
- Anonymous said...
Makes me glad I had all that female shit yanked out a few years ago. Tampons are no longer on my shopping list--I laugh when I go by that aisle at Publix.
- October 9, 2008 at 6:48 PM
- Captain Steve said...
That, right there, is why I quit retail. My hatred of customers.
- October 10, 2008 at 7:39 AM
- I am Trish Marie said...
The last time I bitched about retail workers acting like it was my fault they hated their jobs, I ended up with hate mail! So I am kind of scared to agree with you. But seriously? What the hell? It isn't our fault they hate their jobs. I mean, we all paid our dues, and I certainly didn't act like that when I worked a shitty job. Or maybe I did. I am kind of bitchy. But still, it pisses me off now.
- October 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- Maggie, Dammit said...
I love you.
- October 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM
- Dirty Pirate Hooker said...
I started my fucking period today...thanks a lot for spreading your love to me.
- October 10, 2008 at 10:38 AM
- Amy W said...
- October 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- ghost of keywork said...
Damnit. I was going to buy some white sheets for next weekend. Dph, we could have made Japanese flags together.
- October 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM
- Kat said...
That sounds like a seriously shitty morning. I'm with you on retail clerks. Sometimes I think they choose people with the lowest possible IQ they can find. JesusHonastick.
- October 12, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- Dirty Pirate Hooker said...
What the hell happened to the zombie post?
- October 14, 2008 at 9:31 AM


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- iarebridezilla
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I think we all like to pretend that motherhood isn't going to change us that much. "I'll still be the same person, just with a baby now!" we say. But then something happens. You slowly become mommier and mommier, until you finally reach peak momness and you catch yourself saying things that are so embarrassingly MOM you hardly recognize yourself.
What are the mommiest things you've caught yourself saying? A fun thread to lighten up this Tuesday 🙂


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Blocked by Republican senators last week, the White House is considering an unusual end run around Congress to install Bill Lann Lee as the assistant attorney general for civil rights.
While it's rarely done, the president can make an interim appointment while Congress is in recess. Such a move would effectively put Mr. Lee in office for two years.
The administration's determination to thwart GOP opposition indicates how strongly President Clinton feels about Lee - and how the once butter-smooth nomination process has deteriorated into partisan politics.
The traditional appointment system, known as "senatorial courtesy," has developed over time between the Senate and America's 42 presidents. It allows the nation's chief executive great leeway in filling appointed positions as long as nominees are not significantly flawed.
But the confrontation over Lee, a California attorney with 20 years of civil rights experience, is yet another indication that the historical cooperation is fading. In the past three years, Senate committee chairmen have scrutinized the records and ideologies of many a nominee. If the current trend continues, some say, it could create an ill will that will carry into future administrations.
What's happening more often is that a judgment is being cast on nominees like Lee, says Norman Ornstein at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank. Senators, he says, are thinking, "Hey, we like him, he's ethical, competent. This guy is sworn to follow the law and the president's policies. But we don't like what he wants to do, and we aren't going to let him in."
The list of high-level rebukes to the president has grown long.
Surgeon general nominee Henry Foster was denied over revelations he had performed abortions. The current nominee, David Satcher, is also in trouble. Alexis Herman had a long wait to become head of the Commerce Department. Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld lost a fight with North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms (R) in the Foreign Relations Committee. And last week, James C. Hormel learned his ambassadorship to Luxembourg is on hold over his openly homosexual status.
White House spokesman Mike McCurry last week chastised Republicans for their handling of the process, arguing the president has the power, under the Constitution, to appoint officials. The Senate's role, he said, is to advise and consent.
In denying the Lee nomination, Senate judiciary chairman Orrin Hatch (R) of Utah suggested Lee would be an advocate for affirmative action as a means to counter discrimination in the marketplace. Lee has said he would not.
SCHOLARS agree a president has a right to name people to carry out his policies. The question is, is it legitimate to deny him so many times?
"The president does not have a right to name anyone he wants. That's why there is a confirmation process," says George Edwards III, director of presidential studies at Texas A&M University in College Station. "But everything in our system depends on good will and balance, and recently there has been much less."
Still, the Constitution does not guarantee good manners. "This is not scandalously savage or historically unprecedented," says William Van Alstyne, a constitutional law expert at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
But Republican concern is growing that the current wave of denials could have negative political implications. Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter (R) warns that failure to vote on Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants who own a New York laundry, may hurt Republicans in the next presidential election cycle.


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Greece holds second missile storm exercise in the Aegean Sea in six months
On November 14, 2012, the Hellenic Air Force conducted the LIVEX (Live Exercise) "Sea Griffin 2/12" at a firing range located near Crete, in the Aegean Sea.
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Two Mirage 2000 from 332Sq./114FW successfully fired two anti-ship missiles AM-39 Exocet Block II against floating target in high risk scenarios.
Then, two F-16 Block 50 from 347Sq./111FW fired AGM-65 Maverick missiles and an attack helicopter fired a AGM-114K Hellfire missile before the target sunk.
This is the second time in few months that HAF helds a "Sea Griffin" drill: on May 31, 2012, several Greek platforms belonging to both the Air Force, Army and Navy were involved in a live firing activity against a target ship.
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Spurred by the accelerated pace of globalization, and the rise and dominance of multinational and state-owned enterprises over the last few decades, scholars around the world researched many key industrial sectors and exposed the human rights consequences of our multi-faceted economic life. Today, we know the human rights consequences of resource extraction, as well as production, distribution, consumption and disposal of goods. We know how cross-border investments and trade facilitate those economic activities, and the human rights consequences to home and host countries and their citizens. We know the role that finance plays in investments and trade and how finance can both violate people's human rights and help them realize their human rights. Several past financial crises, especially the most recent one, invited much scrutiny on the failure of the global financial system to pay attention to human rights consequences of its excesses. So it is none too soon that the United Nations' Environmental Programme's Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (the Inquiry) is asking about the role that human rights play in the design of a sustainable financial system.
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Much of the existing, limited research so far focuses on impacts of finance on human rights – mostly about the negative human rights outcomes on individuals, households and communities from specific monetary or financial policy, products or practices, or from the operations of corporate clients using financial products. But the existing research just scratches the surface on exploring linkages of impacts of finance on human rights and human rights on finance. The IHRB-Inquiry paper will seek to highlight important areas of further research to begin to explore those linkages further. In order to present a fuller picture, we will need additional analysis on how human rights can influence financial sector rulemaking, financial products and practices, and the governance and accountability mechanisms of financial institutions.
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Motoko Aizawa is the Managing Director USA at the IHRB, Margaret Wachenfeld, Director of Legal Affair and Research at IHRB and Mary Dowell-Jones, a partner to IHRB based at the University of New South Wales. Click here to direct comments and suggestions to them.


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Where does this diversification leave consumers who are looking for the best places to buy insurance, start a savings program, apply for a mortgage, trade stocks, embark on financial planning, or open a credit card account? Should they go to a one-stop financial service firm where they can buy everything? Or, like the gourmet cook who goes to one market for fish, another for vegetables, and another for exotic spices, should they spread their money and time among a variety of specialists?
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''For moderate-income people, firms like Sears are probably quite acceptable, '' says James Gipson, president of Pacific Financial Research, a Los Angeles financial planning firm. Customers can walk into places like Sears, Roebuck & Co., Prudential-Bache Securities, Shearson Lehman/American Express, and Merrill Lynch, Mr. Gipson notes, sit down with a broker or customer representative, and get an overall look at many investment options, their risks, and income potential.
In fact, says Perrin Long, a financial analyst at Lipper Analytical Services in New York, this is probably a key to whatever success these financial ''supermarkets'' may have. Mr. Long is skeptical that, in the long run, the concept can succeed over the established system of specialized financial service firms.
''There is nothing in the cards at the moment that says that we'll end up down the road with one-stop financial supermarkets where the customer gets products sold to them at any lower price than what they're paying right now,'' he contends. One reason for this belief, he says, is that since brokerage commission charges were ''unbundled'' on May 1, 1975, permitting firms to set their own rates for transactions, full-service brokerage commissions have gone up about 40 percent.
Second, he says, ''I don't think the supermarket approach will turn out to be a viable concept in the longer term.'' The reason, he says, is that most people are too much in the habit of making financial decisions after talking to someone they know: their spouse or some other relative, a fellow worker, a neighbor, or a golfing buddy. As long as people do this, Mr. Long believes, they will get a variety of recommendations on financial products and the places to obtain them - a sure path to diversity.
If there is a fertile field of potential customers for the supermarket approach, he says, it is the 25-to-35 age group, people who have not yet begun a systematic savings programs, have not yet developed a comprehensive insurance package, have not purchased their first home, and have hardly begun to think about retirement. These people could be introduced to a broad-based company like Sears, perhaps through Coldwell-Banker, its real estate division, and continue working with other Sears divisions, like Allstate for insurance, or Dean Witter for investments, including individual retirement accounts.
There can be good reason to start with a one-stop firm, said Alan Gart, a financial consultant in Philadelphia and author of ''The Insider's Guide to the Financial Services Revolution'' (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, $24.95).
''If the financial planning is free or there's a modest fee, it can pay to go in and get some ideas,'' Mr. Gart says. ''But not just one; go to two or three.''
Getting some ideas seems to describe the direction some of the big players in the financial services game are heading.
At Shearson Lehman/American Express, new customers are asked to spend 30 to 90 minutes with a ''financial consultant,'' says Robert A. Leo, an executive vice-president and director of marketing and sales at Shearson. The consultant, who is not a broker, discusses the customer's financial goals, tax situation, current assets, insurance coverage, and objectives. With over 250 products or services to offer clients, this session helps narrow down the choices.
The financial consultant also tries to look at what kind of risks the client is willing to take. For example, he says, ''the typical profile of most widows doesn't fit in with options trading. But on the other side of it, she may have sufficient assets and wants to do a little of it.''
''This is not a financial plan,'' Mr. Leo says of the service. ''And there is no charge'' for the initial visit.
Even though Shearson/Amex has over 250 offerings, Leo says, ''we cannot be all things to all people.'' For this reason, the firm is going after an ''upscale'' market loosely defined as earning $40,000 or more a year and in the 35-to-65 age bracket, although there is plenty of room to vary this, he says.
Leo urges these people and anyone else having a meeting with a financial services representative to come armed with a lot of questions. For instance: How do I know if I'm an aggressive or conservative investor? How do I establish my financial goals? What guidelines should I follow in allocating my assets? What questions should I ask when someone recommends a stock? How can I use credit to my advantage?
These and other questions are discussed in a free booklet published by the firm, ''The More Serious You Are As an Investor, the More Questions You Should Ask.'' Write: Shearson Lehman/American Express, PO. Box 4801, Huntington Station , N.Y. 11746.
At Prudential-Bache Securities, ''we believe that although people want convenience, there's a limit to how much they value that convenience,'' says Alan Altschuler, senior vice-president. For this reason, he adds, ''we feel the 'financial supermarket' concept is a fairly specious one.'' The concept used in the Pru-Bache ads - ''total financial planning'' - means that the customer is not sent down aisles of financial products to choose one from this shelf and another from that one.
''We have a very specifically structured computer-based system for taking information and getting a financial profile of the person'' who walks into a Pru-Bache office, Mr. Altschuler says. The process starts with a questionnaire and this information is fed into a computer. ''Based on the information that has been given, recommendations for meeting various financial needs will be listed.'' The broker or account executive is then supposed to use his or her own judgment to ask questions, get answers, and make more specific investment or financial planning suggestions, Alschuler says.
Even here, he acknowledges, there are times when someone may want to go elsewhere for specific advice in such areas as tax or estate planning. ''People may want to go to their own accountant or lawyer for this,'' he said.
Merrill Lynch has installed a ''client service representative'' in about a quarter of its offices, Mr. Rabinowitz says. ''That, in effect, becomes the first step.'' After asking the customer about goals, assets, risk tolerance, previous experience, and other areas, this person will try to match the customer with an appropriate broker.
Like the other firms, there is no obligation for the first interviews. You can find out what the firm offers, find a financial expert you feel comfortable with and get some idea of the products offered.
Even though the financial services revolution has resulted in dozens - perhaps hundreds - of products and services that did not exist a decade ago, it need not be daunting. As Mr. Long at Lipper says, ask friends and other people you know.
And as Mr. Gart says, visit at least two of these firms. Ask as many questions as you want (you might even want to take notes on the answers), and make no commitments on the first visit. Whether you are a candidate for the full-service financial supermarket or better off with a specialist will depend on your income, previous experience, and preference for certain kinds of investments.
In most instances, upper-income people are comfortable with the financial service people they are already using. But for the person who knows he has to do something with his money but doesn't know what, a few visits to companies with a full range of savings, investment, real estate, and insurance options are probably a good way to start.


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- Dave Batista posted the following message on his Twitter over the weekend, seemingly hinting at a return to the ring: "Very rewarding long week. #IMissTheDaysWhen I could entertain you live and in person, but #TrustMe, you're going to love what's coming..."
- TV By The Numbers reports that last Friday's episode of SmackDown garnered 2.751 million viewers. PWTorch.com reports that the final cable rating for the show was a 1.96. The numbers were up from the previous week, which scored a 1.92 cable rating with 2.59 million viewers.
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- WWE sent out the following tweet minutes ago hyping the John Cena / Ryback vs. The Shield match on RAW tonight, so it appears that the match is still on despite Cena's injury:
TONIGHT: @theshieldwwe faces @johncena & @ryback22 in a 3-on-2 #HandicapMatch on #RAW LIVE at 8/7 CT @usa_network! twitter.com/WWE/status/328�� WWE (@WWE) April 29, 2013
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- After angle chasing to find angle DEA is 45 degrees extending DE to make a full right isosceles triangle with side lengths of 15 sqrt(2)/2.
- Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the missing side length of AGE. This gives you the base of the triangle DE also,
- Then note AGE is congruent to the halves of CDEs so you also know the altitude.
- Apply the triangle area formula.
But there are other shadier options for solving the problem:
Instead, we can take advantage of patterns in the values of the lengths and the then use knowledge about 3-4-5 triangles (see: http://mymathclub.blogspot.com/2016/10/12-triangles-and-their-link-to.html) to crack the problem.
This actually exposes a bit of structure that was not seen in the first solution. If you didn't think to try the educated initial guess, you could more directly find it by setting up a simple quadratic equation based on the Pythagorean Theorem:
$$ (5\sqrt{5})^2 + (15 - x)^2 = x^2 $$


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Wedding planning has highlighted some qualities about myself, that I knew existed before, but tried to deny. There not necessarily horrible things, just things I have become more aware of during the planning process.
1. I am indecisive.- I would never characterize myself as this, but I really am. I have a hard time making a decision and just leaving it be. I always continue to look and wonder if there is a better option.
2. I am nosy.- I always tell my fiance I hate suprises, but this really isn't true. I really don't like knowing things. For instance, I know nothing about my wedding shower except the date and time. Since I love Mrs. Sewing I have promised her this will remain so and I will not snoop around to find out the details. This has been desperately hard.
3. My family's input and approval is extremely important.- I have firm ideas about what I want (just not always sure the best way to execute them), but I really do want Mama and Papa Austen and Mr. Darcy to love them, also. For example, I really want a square cake. I think they're more modern and simple looking, but Papa Austen really doesn't like them. So when Mama Austen, Grandma Sprinkle, and I head off to our cake appointment tomorrow we will be looking for a round design with ribbon borders and some scroll work.
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Paint Table Saturday 61th edition & first one of 2015
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In the pictures the horses are not glued, will you be painting them first and then gluing them together after?ReplyDeleteReplies
That is the plan or do you think this is not wise? I've made , a few years back , a group of Empire knightly orders and there i first glued them together before painting. But they don't have hanging cloth hindering the painting. I've got the same problem with the High Elves Ellyrian reavers. Paint first or glue first?Delete
If anyone has some advice , all is welcome !
I would certainly try painting first, to see how it works. It should be a lot easier.ReplyDelete
The only thing I can think of, is making sure that the same colours meet together when it is glued. The highlighting and shading on the hanging cloth, I mean. But these can be fixed with some paint when it is glued, if necessary.
I look forward to seeing how it works.
The Bretonnian archers look very cool, with their blue and yellow uniformReplies
Thanks Roy & also thanks for the advise ! I will certainly try to paint them first. But I'm researching to transfer the checker pattern to the cloth of the horse & knight. When I have a descent explanation of that, I will give that a go.Delete
I know what the problem is. I had that with an Elf figure to. I would first put the figure together but not glueing it. Then I would mark the parts that can't be or are difficult to reach with a brush. Then seperate the pieces again and paint the marked places. Then glue and paint the rest! Didn't you have that same problem on the Skaven rats?ReplyDelete
Nice things going on on that table Mario!
Thanks Peter & thanks for the advise ! I don't have any problems to paint the Skaven rats ( they're only 2 pieces ) , I paint the pieces separately & glue at the end.Delete


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Al Jazeera, real journalism
Al Jazeera Shows the Way
Ediitor's Note: The U.S. political/media Establishment has long treated Al Jazeera as an American enemy in the global "information war." During George W. Bush's presidency, U.S. forces shot and jailed Al Jazeera correspondents as part of Bush's brutal campaign to force "free-market democracy" on the Middle East.
But it appears Al Jazeera is emerging victorious from this conflict, with far greater credibility among well-informed people than U.S. propaganda outlets, including much of the timid U.S. news media. And, Al Jazeera is now on the front lines of spreading real democracy in the Middle East.EXCERPT:
Started in 1996 out of a failed BBC experiment, it has grown into a multi-channel mega network with documentary and sports outlets and news channels in Arabic, English, Turkish, Balkan languages and Swahili, so far.
It has a study center, a training center and offers a range of social media platforms. Its Web sites are big and getting bigger.
--Al Jazeera Network has more than 65 bureaus across the globe – the majority rooted in the global South.
--Al Jazeera Network has more than 3,000 staff members across the world, including more than 400 journalists from more than 60 countries.
--Al Jazeera English has more than 1,000 highly experienced staff from more than 50 nationalities, making AJE's newsroom among the most diverse in the world.
I was told that a recent commentary of mine about Bernie Madoff on AlJazeera.net drew a whopping 238,000 page views worldwide.
One of the panels here was focused on discussing how what was once called the "CNN effect" has been displaced by the "Al Jazeera effect." The former was about a cable network that won influence with the men at the top; the latter is about winning credibility and respect from people at the bottom.
I heard a term on the lips of an Al Jazeera executive that I never heard uttered by any American media exec in my years of media watching and working at ABC, CNN and CNBC, among others. The term is "oppression" — as in being a voice for the voiceless, standing up for oppressed people.
Al Jazeera explicitly links its media efforts to the fight for democracy and free speech.
CNN, these days, like Fox and MSNBC, is more about supercharged domestic partisan opinion. Al Jazeera is more about universal human rights, facts and journalism, although when it does offer opinions it always offers more than one.
Its slogan has always been, "the opinion and the other opinion."
Al Jazeera credits its success to being a trusted and vital source of information. It does real reporting and its own investigations.
Their multi-ethnic army of global correspondents comes from the world's leading media outlets while it also taps diverse freelancers. It can compete with and often out-scoop BBC and CNN because top staffers once worked for those outlets and know how to do it.
And it has no sacred cows. Its "Palestinian Papers" exposed the Palestinian Authority's complicity with Israel in negotiations. The PA is now among the channel's detractors even as the audience in the region was glued to its embarrassing findings.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. � Delta Omega Omega Chapter will present a second workshop designed to promote financial fitness among Jefferson County residents.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. � Delta Omega Omega Chapter will present a second workshop designed to promote financial fitness among Jefferson County residents.
This second workshop, Assets Protection and Estate Planning, is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the S.A. Haley Auditorium of the S. J. Parker Cooperative Extension Building, located at the corner of Oliver Road and L.A. �Prexy� Davis Drive on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
The workshop will be presented by Lester Matlock of Matlock and Associates of Little Rock. Matlock is a certified financial planner with Ameriprise Financial Services. The workshop will be beneficial to individuals and families who are planning for retirement, already retired and want to protect their retirement savings, and people who manage the assets of others.
Economic security is one of six major program initiatives of the international sorority. The first workshop, held March 17, in collaboration with the Jefferson County Cooperative Service, was titled Navigating the Financial Journey and focused of budgeting, basic money management and protection from consumer fraud and identity theft.
The public is invited to participate in this opportunity to learn the importance of assets protection and estate planning.
Earsline Turner is chair of the Delta Omega Omega Initiative 4 Program Committee. Committee members are Eula Liddell, Carolyn Blakely, Shirley Denny and Jacquelyn McCray. Terry Jackson is vice president and program chair for the chapter, and Cynthia Bennett is president.


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One has to keep in mind that most every Christian Churches have the Cross, and this is part of their death and resurrection story that they all worship. The Cross is generally part of their altar, and they worship the god Jesus.
He had already been dead for 3 or so hours at that point.
No, that part isn't true. The centurion didn't break Christ's legs because He had already been dead for 3 or so hours at that point.
I don't care about the Essenes.
I myself, even though every Christian in here thinks me wrong, is the Roman Family of Piso wrote the entire thing, made up everything in it, and probably did it for money.
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You blaspheme the Lord and then offer hugs.
Knock it off wildtimes, enough with your new age hippie love BS.
I'm done hearing you disrespect Jesus Christ, take your "he was a good teacher" crap elsewhere.


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It is already the ice age of the human heart and now we will enter another kind of ice age, the kind that changes things on the surface of the planet. It's about to get very cold. How do I know that? I have been writing about this for years but two factors are coming into focus.
First, the sun is at its most diminished rate of activity in 200 years, according to NASA and we are at a solar maximum so it is downhill (only going to get colder) from here. The second extraordinary factor, which is rearing its ugly head in the atmosphere, is global dimming. Scientists are well aware how heavy air traffic blocks some of the sun's rays due to the exhaust pollution from the planes and they know what all of these powerful volcanoes that are going off in many parts of the world will do to world temperatures.
This year will go down on record as seeing the most volcanic eruptions in modern history. As of December 5, 2013, we are already at 83 and hear about new eruptions every week. The number of volcanoes erupting across the planet has been steadily rising from just 55 in 1990 with the average eruptions per year being somewhere between 50 and 60.
This is the latest big one to go off:
After a relatively calm period, a large vulcanian explosion occurred at the volcano this morning (04:30 GMT). VAAC Darwin reports an ash plume to 38,000 ft (12 km) altitude drifting 50 nautical miles to the NW. I guess that puts us at 84 but whose counting?
With violent climate change we find selected parts of humanity lashed against the wheel of life. Trees are being ripped from their roots and the same is happening to peoples' lives who are losing everything. Imagine what will happen to humanity if it gets colder. Certainly the most informed and intelligent people are going to do well when conditions worsen, as this appears inevitable.
It's Cold Out There
Winter is coming on for the folks up north and it is best always to be prepared. The first cold snap killed at least 10 including . 3 in California. On the ground it already feels like the ice age is upon us but it always feels that way in the beginning of a long hard cold winter. So it's a good time to think about the cold and the smart ones have already prepared their houses.
Heavy snow and unseasonable cold is in the forecast for many parts of the States. By Saturday afternoon, the weather-related tally of significant events had included: a record-low temperature of 42 degrees below zero in Jordan. If you have not heard it before hear it again that record low temperatures always means global warming is the cause. I would like to see Al Gore and his friends explain why Antarctica just set record of -135.8 degrees ! On Monday, the coldest U.S. temperature was a relatively balmy 27 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Yellowstone, Wyoming.
According to Ryan Maue, PhD Meteorologist at Weatherbell.com, "overnight, temp anomalies get worse — larger areas of 40-50°F below normal. Sorry folks but these kinds of patterns before we are even officially in winter do not look good for global warming scarecrows.
The U.S. National Solar Observatory, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and astrophysicists across the planet have reported for years that low sunspot activity may result in a sustained cooling period on Earth. No one alive has been around to see solar conditions at such lows.
NASA notes:
Early records of sunspots indicate that the Sun went through a period of inactivity in the late 17th century. Very few sunspots were seen on the Sun from about 1645 to 1715. Although the observations were not as extensive as in later years, the Sun was in fact well observed during this time and this lack of sunspots is well documented. This period of solar inactivity also corresponds to a climatic period called the "Little Ice Age" when rivers that are normally ice-free froze and snow fields remained year-round at lower altitudes. There is evidence that the Sun has had similar periods of inactivity in the more distant past.
During the Maunder Minimum and for periods either side of it, many European rivers which are ice-free today – including the Thames – routinely froze over, allowing ice skating and even for armies to march across them in some cases.
Agence France-Presse reports:
For years, scientists have been predicting the Sun would by around 2012 move into solar maximum, a period of intense flares and sunspot activity, but lately a curious calm has suggested quite the opposite.
According to three studies released in the United States on Tuesday, experts believe the familiar sunspot cycle may be shutting down and heading toward a pattern of inactivity unseen since the 17th century.
Not everyone is so ready to brave the cold like those who train with it as a form of therapy for increasing endurance and strength. The significance of wood heat as an energy resource can be seen during a drive through small towns or down country lanes: The long lines of piled firewood in the yards prove that heating with wood remains a viable option. But what you will not see as you drive is something very interesting to warm your toes in the cold long nights ahead.
Until recently most people did not know that you can now sleep, not inside your far infrared sauna, but on top of it on special devices in the comfort of one's own bed. They are called BioMats, and are approved medical devices that heat you from the inside out with far infrared light. This raises core body temperature making one's immune system considerably stronger and comes in handy when fighting colds, flu and even cancer.
These BioMats treat or help you treat just about every ailment known to mankind. You don't want to have a flu and not have a BioMat but another important point to these devices is that you can turn the heat off in the house at night and just heat your body. It is nothing like sleeping on a heating pad. The BioMat does not get very hot to the touch but when its light interacts with all the water molecules in your body you will feel the encircling warmth.
Treating what ails you, while you are sleeping, with money that was destined to one's heating bill, makes sense. Believe me it's impossible to get cold sleeping on a BioMat! You can even buy a queen and a king sized unit and get the whole family warm. Consenting adults should know that the BioMat is a wonderful place for lovemaking to happen on.
The BioMat is one of the best things I have ever had the pleasure to own and work with though my protocol does not stop here when it comes to employing light frequencies for curing the most difficult diseases. Bioresonance therapy is coming to the world of medicine in a big way. President Putin in Russia uses it and so will most people in the future.
The point though of this essay is the cold winter and preparing for it. In Chinese medicine cold is one of the main causes of disease. Low body temperature, because of insufficient iodine/thyroid function and because of exposure to cold damp conditions, threatens our health with heat being the answer and cure to cold conditions.


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