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Boston Marathon's holy ground and sacred bonds
(RNS) When it comes to running, America often looks like a country divided between apostles and apostates.
For true believers like Olympian Ryan Hall, marathons assume an almost-biblical importance.
"I have heard stories and had personal experiences in my own running when I felt very strongly that God was involved," Hall, an evangelical Christian, has said.
Other Americans -- athletic atheists, you might call them -- roll their eyes and see marathons as a painful waste of a perfectly nice day.
In the Church of Running, I sit somewhere in the back pew.
I've run four marathons, but my training regimen reads like a catalog of the Seven Deadly Sins. I swill beer on the night before long runs (gluttony). I don't stretch (sloth). And I confess to an occasional desire to trip faster runners (envy).
Despite my failings and flat feet, my eyes remain fixed on Mecca. And for me, as for many runners, Mecca is the Boston Marathon.
Most races have an open-door policy, accepting even wretched sinners like me. But Boston has stringent time requirements. You have to earn the right to run down Boylston Street. You have to be worthy. Most runners aren't.
Yet hope is hard to kill. Just as Jews pray to celebrate Passover "next year in Jerusalem" and Muslims pledge to visit Mecca, marathoners want to "run Boston."
Like homebound pilgrims, even those of us who haven't raced in the nation's pre-eminent marathon know the route. Heartbreak Hill. The "scream tunnel." The kissing women of Wellesley College. The finish line at Copley Square.
For runners, Monday's bombing struck on holy ground, testing sacred bonds.
"The Boston Marathon course is sacred to many," writes the Rev. Katie Norris, a Unitarian Universalist minister, "even those of us who have never ran it, because we know what it means to get to that race."
The late George Sheehan, the philosopher-saint of the marathon tribe, put it another way: "The things that make life worth living, like poetry and art, are not rational. And one of them is the Boston Marathon."
As Sheehan and Norris note, the path to Boston is littered with nagging injuries and even more nagging self-doubts. That's the dirty secret of long-distance running: Your spirit wants to quit long before your legs do.
Runners get different kinds of "highs" from pushing through that wall, from hushing the ever-eloquent ego. Some feel a rare sense of freedom. Others, like Sheehan, compare it to a monastery, "a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal."
For me, running is little like a Buddhist lesson. I've learned that it's painful and pointless to focus on the finish line. Better to take it step by step, improve inch by inch, moment by moment. When your spirit flags, focus on the world around you.
A meme that's been circulating since Monday's bombing quotes Kathrine Switzer, who became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967. "If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon," she said.
Many people probably assume that Switzer had runners in mind. But I think she was also talking about marathon spectators and volunteers, the people who wake up early to hand water and jelly beans and orange slices to thousands of runners they've never met.
More than once, my eyes have welled up hearing strangers' cheers. It's almost like they're praying for you. And in my case, prayers were appropriate.
Those volunteers and spectators were among Monday's casualties. Children like Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy there to watch his father cross the finish line. The survivors include men like Carlos Arrendondo, who has lost sons to suicide and war but still cheered on runners and rushed to the site of the bombing.
As much as marathoners talk of Boston as sacred ground, there's also a sacred bond -- both inside and outside of the Church of Running. It connects marathoners and the friends and family and strangers who might not understand the need to race 26.2 miles but nevertheless offer their time and support.
Monday's bombing has tested that bond, but it couldn't break it. Marathoning may look like a solitary journey, but it's a communal one. Like most things in life, you need plenty of people -- and plenty of prayers -- to reach the finish line.


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Typically Galician Tetilla cheese is made from milk from herds of cows in the area, basically Friesians, Alpine Browns and Rubia Gallega.
Its flavour is creamy and slightly salty, its texture is fine and its colour yellowish ivory, although undoubtedly its greatest characteristic is the peculiar breast-like shape that gives it its name (tetilla means small breast). Originally, the master craftsmen modelled the cheeses by hand. It is curdled with animal rennet and its maturing, which lasts between 10 ad 30 days, is carried out in the cool, damp environmental conditions of the Galician climate. Its Designation of Origin has existed since 1992.
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- Origin: It originally began to be made in the central part of Galicia, on the border between La Coruña and Pontevedra, largely around Curtis, Sobrado dos Monxes, Arzúa and Melide. Nowadays, both the milk production and manufacturing areas include all Galicia, in the northeastern corner of the Iberian peninsula.
- To drink with it: Tetilla cheese is delicious accompanied by a dry full-bodied wine, manzanilla or sherry, young and wood-aged whites, especially the Galician whites albariño or ribeiro.
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- Cholesterol: Average
- Comments: Rich in lipids, proteins and calcium.

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Whether you are decorating the table as a part of everyday decor or for a special party, you can use a myriad of things to make table decorations both unique and lovely. Follow these steps for some ideas about how to accomplish just that.
Decide the mood that you want to set within the dining area. Perhaps you want to establish a mood that matches the rest of your home such as Victorian, Art Deco, French Classic, Oriental, Contemporary, or anything else. Perhaps you want the table to reflect the season of the year or maybe it should be set for a special dinner, a party, or event. The mood you want to establish will have much to do with your overall design choices.
Decide what you want to use as your table's focal point. You can choose almost anything that you want, but what you choose may have much to do with the mood that you want to establish. Options include flowers, greenery, fruits and/or vegetables, candles, figurines, crystal, or other knick knacks. It is also possible to use more than one type of item on the table, depending upon its size and the focus of your design.
Use a table cloth, table runner, or fabric to the table. These items not only help to protect the furniture's wood, they also add drama and flair for the base of your table decoration. Table cloths today come in a wide variety of fabrics, colours, and textures. Many are stain free and easy to launder. But if you want to show off the beauty of your table, then you might not care to cover it totally with a cloth. Another option is to use a table runner. These long and relatively thin (about 12 to 20 inches in length) items provide a lovely focal point without covering up the entire table. Like table cloths, they come in a variety of fabrics, colours, and textures. Another option is to just use fabric; perhaps one that matches the padding of your dining room chairs, the curtains of the room, or the dining area's wall paper. The fabric can to puddled into the centre of the table or make a wavy design from end to end. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
For special parties or events you may want to add crystals, coloured rocks, jewels, seashells, or even confetti sprinkled about the table covering (cloth, runner, or fabric). While this isn't something that most people use everyday, it can add a festive mood for special events.
Use fresh flowers and/or greenery from your garden or that you have purchased from a store in a vase, ceramic container, or bowl on the table. Don't be afraid to choose taller flowers for tables that are unusually large. These help to add balance and are a bit more contemporary than the standard floral table decor. Be creative with your container choices. You don't always have to use standard floral bowls or vases. Try putting flowers into beautiful goblets, wine glasses, or martini stemware by placing one at each place setting for a dinner party. For more individual ideas, use water or soda bottles with a single flower stem; placed at each table setting or placed in a pattern around the table. Recycle pretty vegetable or soup cans, which can be used in a myriad of ways. Place individual bud vases of flowers at each place setting. Use baskets with a inner bowl or plastic liner. They can be small, placed around the table or at each place setting, or larger, placed in the centre of the table. Use fruit shells like a cored pineapple or a cleaned out melon. Even potted plants (real or artificial), put into a pretty container, can look lovely on a dining table.
Use silk floral arrangements and/or greenery in any of the same ways listed in Step 5. Even bonsai (miniature) trees, placed in a lovel container, can make a memorable and stunning table decoration on their own. You can also add flowers (either fresh or silk) or other items to their base if you want a bigger "wow" factor.
Use fresh or artificial fruits or vegetables on the table. They can be placed in a large basket or bowl in the centre of the table or scattered throughout the table covering. Use the larger fruit items such as hallowed out watermelons or pineapples as the vase or bowl, arranging other fruit or vegetable items inside them. Use a mini fruit tree as the centre table decoration. If you want, you can add flowers (either fresh or silk) or other items to their base for an even more festive look.
Use candles to set an elegant mood. This can be done with standard candle sticks, pillars, hurricanes, or other candle designs or you can create your own. Place candles of varying sizes on a charger dish or piece of china. Fill small glasses or goblets with crystals, faux jewels, or coloured rocks and top them off with a tea light or votive candle. Place floating candles in martini or shallow wine glasses. Use recycled cans or bottles. Use bud vases full of coloured water, topped off with a matching taper candle. All of these can be used as individual decor or they can be clustered together or around the table in any design that you want. Place floating candles in your favourite crystal bowl or china piece. Arrange tea lights, votives and/or pillars on a platter, plate, or flat crystal item. Be creative, mixing and matching colours, scents, sizes, types, or textures of candles to give the table a definitive design.
Use your favourite figurines on the table. For example, if you collect angels, choose a few of your favourite ones and place them in a pattern on the table. You can then add silk flowers and/or greenery around them if you want a little extra "pop."
Choose a few of your favourite crystal pieces as table decor. Fill them with coloured water or coloured floral gel and float flowers and/or candles in them. Arrange them on the table in whatever design you want.
Use some of your favourite knick knacks as table decor. For example, if you collect Thomas Kinkade lighthouses or a variety of crosses, use them for table decor. They can be placed at individual place settings or arranged around the table in any design of your choice. Accent them with fresh or silk flowers or greenery if you so desire.
For parties, use some of the party theme items as table decor. For example, if the party has a tropical theme, use hula girls, leis, or small palm trees as your table decoration. For a children's party with a racing theme, use miniature cars as your central decor. For a bridal shower, use minitature umbrellas in the brides colours, decorating each umbrella with silk flowers or greenery.
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- Keep your budget in mind as you plan for table decor.
- Make a list of everything that you need in order to complete the table design before heading out to the store.
- Try to use items that you already have on hand in order to prevent spending extra money.
- If you are using fresh flowers, be sure to put them into something that will remain watertight.
- Think about making table decor that your guests can take home with them (for dinner or other types of parties and events).
- Consider changing the table decor with the season.
- Customize the table decor for the dinner, theme, or other party or event.
- If you don't have a lot of money to spend on table decor, choose a single concept that fits within the theme of your house.
- Be creative since your only limitation is your own imagination.
- Keep candles away from anything flammable.
- Always place candles in a candle holder, on a plate, or in some sort of container to avoid wax spillage.
- Be careful of candle scent choices since some can be too heavy or smell offensive.
- Never leave candles lit while no one is in the room.
- Check fresh flowers and greenery as well as fruits and vegetables for freshness before purchasing.
- If you want your tablecloth, runner, or fabric to be reusable, be careful what type of items you sit directly on them.
- Make sure that tablecloths, runners, or fabric choices are washable whenever possible.
- Make certain that your table decoration choices cannot be considered offensive to any of your guests.
- Don't use anything on the table that you are not willing to lose if an accident should happen.
- Place fruit shell arrangements onto a plate or platter before setting them on the table in order to avoid any juice seepage.


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Perhaps one of the more immediately noticeable changes to the 2013 immunization schedules is that the CDC has pared down the total number of schedules released by combining the previously separate child and adolescent schedules into a single 0- to 18-year schedule(5 page PDF).
Overall, the new childhood and adult(4 page PDF) schedules contain more than a dozen changes, but they should be a bit easier to follow than before, said Jamie Loehr, M.D., of Ithaca, N.Y., the AAFP's liaison to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
"While the catch-up schedule has not been merged (with the child/adolescent recommendations), the footnotes for what used to be all three schedules are now combined," Loehr said. "There is a lot of overlap, and the ACIP felt that it was better to have all of the routine vaccines on one page rather than on different, separate pages. They tested that theory and found that the catch-up schedule is different enough that it should be on its own separate page, but the visual advantage of being able to see the whole 18 years at once outweighed the benefits of having two separate (child and adolescent) schedules."
Each of the new schedules, which were developed in conjunction with the AAFP and other groups, contain changes that are especially pertinent to family physicians, said Loehr.
- The CDC has released its 2013 childhood and adult immunization schedules, combining the previously separate child and adolescent schedules into a single 0- to 18-year schedule.
- One change for this year's 0- to 18-year schedule is that infants ages 6 months through 11 months who are traveling anywhere outside the United States, including to other industrialized countries, should receive measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
- Two new tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis vaccine recommendations -- specifically concerning adults 65 and older and pregnant women -- are contained in the 2013 adult schedule.
- Two quadrivalent influenza vaccines will be available for the 2013-14 flu season.
Among those changes is a new recommendation that infants ages 6 months through 11 months who are traveling anywhere outside the United States, including to other industrialized countries, should receive measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. According to Loehr, "If they are going to France, it is just as important to get them immunized as if they are going to Costa Rica, because there is enough measles, mumps and rubella in European countries for us to say, 'Yes, you should go ahead and do it.'"
Tdap Vaccine
Two new tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine recommendations are contained in the 2013 adult schedule, and the ACIP is calling for all adults ages 65 and older to be offered the vaccine. In addition, all pregnant women should receive a dose of Tdap in the late second or early third trimester of each pregnancy, regardless of their Tdap immunization history.
"Based on new data of waning immunity to pertussis, the new recommendation is to give Tdap during every pregnancy between 28 and 32 weeks," Loehr said.
"For people over 65, the ACIP recommends (GlaxoSmithKline's) Boostrix, because it has that indication on the label. However, if Boostrix is unavailable, off-label use of (Sanofi Pasteur's) Adacel is valid, because we do not want people walking out without the vaccination simply because an office doesn't have the right one."
Pneumococcal Vaccines
A new footnote dealing with the administration of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13), which is marketed by Pfizer Inc. as Prevnar 13, has been added. Specifically, the 2013 adult schedule contains changes regarding administration of PCV13 and the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23), which is marketed by Merck and Co. as Pneumovax, in immunocompromised adults age 19 or older, Loehr said.
"For the subset of high-risk people who get both (PCV13 and PPSV23) -- including those with chronic renal failure and nephrotic syndrome, functional or anatomic asplenia, cerebrospinal fluid leaks, or cochlear implants -- there are very specific rules," Loehr said. "If they've had the Pneumovax already, then you give PCV13 a year later. If they haven't had the PPSV23, you give Prevnar 13 first and then the Pneumovax two months later."
Loehr pointed out that, although rare, PCV13 also can cause issues when administered to children who require the Haemophilus influenzae type b-Neisseria meningitidis serogroups C and Y-tetanus toxoid (HibMenCY) vaccine, which is marketed by Sanofi Pasteur as Menactra.
"One specialized footnote that applies to Prevnar 13 is a fairly esoteric one that I have never run into," said Loehr. "You usually don't give Menactra to kids, but if a child has sickle cell disease or anatomic or functional asplenia, you would give (both Menactra) and Prevnar 13. The important thing is that you don't want to give both of them at the same time; you have to separate them by one month."
Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccines
Two quadrivalent influenza vaccines -- one inactivated and one live virus -- will be available for the 2013-14 influenza season. Loehr said the new quadrivalent products compelled the ACIP to change some of the commonly used terminology used in the footnotes.
"It is going to be a transition year, so what we used to call 'TIV' (trivalent influenza vaccine) is now called 'IIV' (injectable influenza vaccine), versus the acronym for live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), which remains unchanged," he said. "With the new quadrivalent vaccines in the system, we are now going to say 'trivalent IIV' or 'quadrivalent IIV' to differentiate between the two."
Tear-out versions of the 2013 immunization schedules will be available in the Feb. 1 issue of American Family Physician.
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Fridays are tricky. Most people tune out and start the weekend early and even plan for it. But not you, you actually see Friday's as a weekly time warp zone where you can plan and create your productivity 1 - 3 weeks in advance. Now, maybe you're not there yet. But you can be. Just listen to today's podcast and you'll be on your way. Need a blueprint? Start here 》www.24hourblueprint.com
April 12, 2019
Day 5: The 5 Time Vampires You Must Kill (Incl. Recap)
Have you ever noticed the small and sometimes not so small time draining activities that leave you asking where did the time go??? These are called Time Vampires and this podcast highlights 5 that come up often to bite you. And there's a bonus time stuck in there as well to watch for. Listen in now and see how this can help. Need a blueprint playbook? Start here 》 www.24hourblueprint.com, Follow me @Buihemadu on Instagram. www.instagram.com/BuiheMadu
April 12, 2019
Day 4: Interruptions and UNPRODUCTIVITY - Here's What to do About Them
Have you ever been on a roll and then wham!!! some life issues come up that suck 6 hours off your schedule? Yeah, well that happened to me. And this is how i handled it and how you can too. Listen in and see if this helps. Need a blueprint playbook? Start here 》 www.24hourblueprint.com
April 10, 2019
Day 3: Breakfast Cereal, Instagram and Meditation - But Not In That Order
Staying Shovel Level, I take you into a moment of my life as I have a late breakfast and confess my social media sins. Interested in going behind the curtain and hearing the strange details? Listen in and hear for yourself. Need a blueprint? Start here: www.24hourblueprint.com
April 9, 2019
How to Learn 1.25 to 3.5X Faster Than the Average Person
Do you want to consume content faster and increase your learning speed? Are you an aspiring high performer that feels like the world around you presents information at an annoyingly slow rate? How about this one: Have you ever felt like you're stuck or feeling like the pace of a video course or audiobook isn't fast enough for you? Last, do think this podcast sometimes is too slow? Well, there's a way to accelerate your learning with a few simple technical adjustments which can be made on the platforms you already use to learn. That's what we get into on this podcast. Follow me on IG www.Instagram.com/buihemadu and www.Youtube.com/BuiheMadu to keep up with other forms of learning that the GRIND Scheme of Things Architect has to offer.
April 8, 2019
FINALLY: 24 Hour Blueprint Secrets Revealed
Want to leverage the 24 Hour Blueprint to produce consistency and reliable breakthroughs and performance? This is the podcast to start with. Use These Resources To Follow Along The 24 Hour Blueprint Playbook, www.24hourblueprint.com The HEROmanity Book, www.heromanity.org
April 8, 2019
Time Investment vs. Time Spending: Secrets to Higher Performance (And Execution)
The Time Investment vs. Time Spending debate constitutes an uncommon conversation that sheds light on how we personally approach time management and WHY. It also is self-revealing in that it helps us see the hidden patterns that keep us from the higher levels of performance and success we want and need in order find fulfillment and joy in daily life. The content that sets the backdrop for this conversation can be found in the resources section below. ***Resources: Get a free copy of the books referenced: HEROmanity: 24 Hours to a HEROic Life www.heromanity.org The 24 Hour Blueprint Playbook - www.24hourbueprint.com Thanks for listening. And share this with the ones you feel would appreciate it.
April 6, 2019
Dangers, Risks and Rewards of Soulmate Mythology
What if EVERYTHING you think about love and soulmates is WRONG??? Yup. Yes Way! Listen to this and get the soulful facts you need to keep relationship issues from destroying your dreams and goals. Resources: Get a free copy of the books referenced: HEROmanity: 24 Hours to a HEROic Life www.heromanity.org The 24 Hour Blueprint Playbook - www.24hourbueprint.com Thanks for listening. And share this with the ones you feel would appreciate it.
March 26, 2019
Listen Now: The Real Battles and Struggle of LYFT Drivers, Their Stories of Victory and Triumph
This *New Series* takes a intimate look and offers perspective on the lives, motivations and aspirations of LYFT Drivers - modern day unsung heroes taking us from A to B and the lessons their lives can teach us. Are you a LYFT Driver? Have you EVER gotten into a LYFT or even an UBER? then you need to hear or listen to this podcast. I recorded it just for you. **** Want or need more inspiration? Good. Help yourself to a complimentary copy of HEROmanity 24 Hour to a HEROIC Life 》 www.heromanity.org Need to take action daily on goals you procrastinate on? Grab a 24 Hour Blueprint 》 www.24hourblueprint.com
March 18, 2019
The Secret to Your Personal Transformation
This series of podcasts and its segments address the deep, dark (and light) secrets of beginning your personal transformation. what's covered are inspired by a personal private journey that's sure to empower you as well in your path to a more meaningful life. FIRST! Transformation is not as S-E-X-Y as people make it out to be. There's an art to it. There's a history and an ancient traditional archetypal path to it. It's not for everyone. But for the awakened - it's an irresistible calling. Don't be fooled. It's NEVER all filtered selfies, IG pics/videos and Facebook posts of people in the gym or dressing better. It's straight up UGLY. And for those who respect and revere the process, transformation is theirs for the taking. If that's you - this podcast is for you. Listen and if you're inspired - share it with others. If you're ready for to start your transformational journey - please use the resources below to begin immediately. Grab a Complimentary Book - HEROmanity: 24 Hours to a HEROic Life, The Ultimate Guide to Getting Out of Your Own Way and Finding Your Voice Now. Go here: www.heromanity.org And also Get the Follow Up ePlaybook, The 24 Hour Blueprint: Secrets to LifeStyle Design and Time Management here > www.24hourblueprint.com Looking for the Blog? Start here: www.buihemadu.com
March 10, 2019
LOVE & PRODUCTIVITY | February in Review
*LOVE - Just like February comes fast and furious with 28 days that blow by and leave wanting a little more time. In this podcast and the subsequent segments, I uncover the hidden relationship between love and productivity and the value of expressing your love to those your work honors and supports. To follow along, below is where all the content I mention in the podcast is located. Videos 》 YouTube.com/c/BuiheMadu Blogs 》 BuiheMadu.com/blog Podcasts 》 You're HERE Already!
March 3, 2019
Get a Better Approach & Mindset For Crushing Weekly/Monthly Goals | *All New* Happy New Week Series
The month is almost done but your goals aren't complete yet. And a new month is coming. How do finish the unfinished business/personal goals of the recent weeks/month AND still be ready for the month ahead? That's what we're addressing in this podcast episode and series and how to use your blueprint to crush your goals. THIS IS THE GRIND SCHEME OF THINGS! LET'S Go! Visit www.24hourblueprint.com to learn about The 24 Hour Blueprint Method.
February 25, 2019
Now Hear This: kNOw Poetry, kNOw Life...How to Start Reviving Your Poetic Soul
Poetry is one of the most underestimated tools we have to communicate, express and even transform ourselves in life and in business. And yet, somehow it gets marginalized as something only "the creative" or "artsy fartsy" people do. What we fail to remember is that our essence as human beings is poetic. Poetry is the language of the soul, its symbolism captured in words is sometimes our best shot at bringing healing to ourselves and those in our lives. If you've lost your poetic strength or have let it atrophy because you've been "really busy"...take a moment and listen to this and be reminded that to kNOw poetry is to kNOw life. Learn more about the the excerpt shared in this episode and visit: https://www.worldtribune.org/article/peace-culture-education-flowering-new-humanismchapter-28-6/ Please note: Accessing the article will require a subscription if you don't have one. For more about Buihe Madu and or his work, visit: www.buihemadu.com, www.24hourblueprint.com or www.heromanity.org
February 19, 2019
How to Find The Love Of YOUR Life | A Review of Bohemian Rhapsody Movie
In this podcast I touch on the highlights and insights gathered from watching the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, and b themes of self love and finding true love. If you're interested in discovering how to find the love of your life and what the formula might be, this is the podcast you should be listening to. For more about the podcast creator, Buihe Madu visit: www.buihemadu.com
February 16, 2019
*All New* Digital Tribalism - Why You Need to Find Or Create Your Tribe NOW!
In this podcast I connect the dots between some work I've been studying via Seth Godin's book, This is Marketing and my own reflections as a American born Nigerian marketer of the Igbo Tribe. In the end, you learn about the power and the value of having a tribe to support you in your growth. And I hope you'll find the 24 Hour Blueprint tribe a worthy tribe or use it while you search to find or invent your own.
February 6, 2019
The 24 Hour Body (Feat. Farai Mash)
This episode features the wisdom of Farai Mash on how to build the perfect this call without fail. Enjoy and learn more about Farai @MashitUp_Fitness on IG
October 5, 2018
*All New* Mindset Monday is Here!
Yup. It's Monday ... AGAIN! But whats going to be different this week? Or this Monday compared to last Monday? How much will you get done or produce? Will you be more secure, confident, bolder, more grounded or determined? Who knows. But one thing you should know is after this audio, no two Mondays will be the same. (listen and enjoy)
October 1, 2018
Get The Fit Out! Yoga at Night??!
August 15, 2018
Get The Fit Out of Here!
The upcoming podcasts are all about simplifying wellness for the entrepreneur or professional on their Grind Scheme. So, if you feel strapped for time or too overwhelmed to find time to make healthy choices and work out, this series is for you. Listen to it now.
August 3, 2018
*All New* Movie Reviews by The Grind Scheme Podcast
This episode and the following segments capture personal insights, inspirations and perspectives from films that I've seen. In the end, the call to action is the same - go see the movie and take the actions it inspires. That's what the grind scheme is all about - taking immediate, inspired, effective action. To take measurable actions recommended in this and other podcasts, download your copy of the 24 Hour Blueprint method or visit buihemadu.com for additional coaching.
July 21, 2018
My Shoe Repair Guy Kicked Me In the Face
Ever have a financial lesson hit you so hard you feel like you got punched or kicked in the face? Well, that's what happened when i was getting my shoes fixed today. You gotta here the full story to see how it all happened.
July 19, 2018
Skipping Leg Day is Just Stupid -Here's Why
People love to do EVERYTHING but Legs! Why? BECAUSE it's not sexy or glamourous. But its the dumbest thing to skip legs simply because it's a foundation for you daily life. And in this podcast leg Day is used as a metaphor for building foundational habits in life. Listen.
July 17, 2018
Birthmonth vs. Birthday? Which is Better? (LIsten and Decide for yourself.)
Happy Birthday to the Geminis and all Zodiacs signs ... In this episode I talk about not just celebrating your birthday but using it To evaluate where your life is headed. In the end i suggest using a tool or our assessment to help you evaluate where you are and where you want to go as you mature powerfully. Enjoy.
June 12, 2018
How to Keep Your Entrepreneurial Ideas from Being Stollen
Ever struggle with who to share your ideas with or how to keep them from being stollen? This podcast might be a good place to start. LISTEN TO IT NOW.
May 28, 2018
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May 2, 2018
Learn My Secret to Hyper Speed Productivity
Most people see Friday as get-ready-to-party day and are totally checked out. Take advantage of this by planning for the week to come while assessing your results from this past week. Learn how. Listen to the Podcast!
April 15, 2018
There's ONLY 1 Type of Donut + 2 Kinds of Happiness!
So, I'm sitting at District Donut, a place that goes by the slogan "Happiness Found". And indeed they offer happiness in their assortment of over 10 gourmet donuts, however, there really one 1 Type of Donut in this world and 2 types of happiness. Find out what they are - Listen in.
April 15, 2018
Mindset: Say Deuces to the B.S.!! Here's Why
Lets look into the furure... 10 years from now...what will you be thankful for that you changed in your life, character and behavior today? Bring that mindset to your grind. #MindsetMonday
April 10, 2018
Take Actions Like a Cannibal and Think Like a Vegan
Do you struggle with taking actions and break your own promises to produce results? You should listen to this.
April 9, 2018
If You're Not Happy GRINDing, You're Not Really GRINDing (Ouch!)
How can your GRIND Bring You Happiness? Listen to this to get the answer.
April 9, 2018
How GRIND Envy Destroys Dreams and What to Do About It
This episode covers the "P" Word That Will Transform and Boost Your Business (or Career). This is a Must Hear Episode.
April 5, 2018
How to LOSE Friends and Influence People
AS humans were are so thirsty for attention we settle for friends that validate us by giving us their attention. This is a setup for Losing ourselves and power. This audio will inspire you to starr losing some friends ton get your influence back.
April 4, 2018
Life and Style Content Explained
Here's the final piece on what to expect regarding content on the Buihemadu.com site in the Life & Style Category.
April 2, 2018
April 2, 2018
April 2, 2018
Happiness (& Feelings) Content Exaplained
New to The Grind Scheme? Here's what you can expect from this category of content - bliss and blueprints for developing your own happiness. Send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com
April 2, 2018
Overview of Society & Culture Content
In this podcast I continue to share about the framework of the GRIND Scheme Content and the Buihe Madu website. Society and culture content covers all things related to the individual and their relationship to society and culture. This category of content also will feature art and music.
April 2, 2018
Mindset - Practical Perspective on How to Start Shifting Your Mindset by Aligning it with Speech
Mindset can be a nebulous bogus concept to inspire yourself to shift. Today, this podcast addresses one of the simple mistakes you might be making that sabotage and keep you from having a mindset that sets you up for success. Practical strategies are presented that will inspire you to change your mindset with ease.
April 2, 2018
Life & Style - Restaurant Review - Fare Well Cafe
If you a veggie conscious eater, or curious about vegan inspired eats, check out the restaurant review of DC's Fare Well Diner Bakery Cafe. It's Awesome.
April 2, 2018
The GRIND Scheme Ideology and Context
Why was the GRIND Scheme (of Things) Podcast Created? Some of the logic and thinking behind it is in this episode. Listen and see why the GRIND Scheme will your new favorite podcast for practical tips on self mastery.
March 31, 2018
Mindset and Sailing
During this episode I talk about mindset and how your mind is like a sail and if you want to go in a particular direction you should probably set your sail up or your mind up to be able to have the winds of ideas support you and getting to your destination.
March 22, 2018
Listen to this Before the Reincarnation Podcast Episode
The is the warning podcast to tell you that the Reincarnation Podcast is very raw and real.and features me, my mom, food, forks, knives and munching. If you're grossed out by real uncut dinner table talk and munching sounds, skip this episode. Thanks.
March 21, 2018
The first podcast
In this podcast I talk about how I stumbled upon Anchor, the podcast platform used by Buihe Madu & Co. Site. Enjoy it and send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix is best known as the villainous Commodus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000), and as country singer Johnny Cash in the movie Walk The Line (2005). The younger brother of actors Rain and River Phoenix, Joaquin got his start in the entertainment business when he was a kid. Like the other kids in his family, Joaquin (who went by the name Leaf for a time) began making commercials and appearing in the movies in the early 1980s. By the late '80s he had sizable roles in the movies SpaceCamp (1986), Russkies (1987) and Ron Howard's Parenthood (1989). After 1990 Joaquin took some time off from acting, but in late 1993 he was in the spotlight once again, this time because he made the emergency phone call the night River died outside a Los Angeles nightclub. Joaquin re-started his movie career with a plum role as Nicole Kidman's vulnerable boy-toy in Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995), and has been gaining star power ever since, with bigger roles in higher-profile Hollywood movies. His films include M. Night Shyamalan's Signs (2002), Ladder 49 (2004, with John Travolta) and The Village (2004, with Sigourney Weaver). In 2006 he was nominated for a best actor Oscar for his performance in Walk the Line (co-starring Reese Witherspoon). Phoenix stunned reporters in October of 2008 by announcing that he was giving up acting to focus on rap music, but by the fall of 2010 the stunt proved to be part of a two-year "performance art" project filmed as I'm Still Here by his brother-in-law, actor Casey Afflect. He returned to acting in the Paul Thomas Anderson feature The Master (2012) and earned an Oscar nomination for best actor.
Joaquin (pronounced "wah-keen") has a prominent scar on his upper lip that he says has been there since birth… He was at one time engaged to be married to Liv Tyler, his co-star in Inventing the Abbots (1997).
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Mastertronic hopes to appeal to wider audience with new Indie label
Mastertronic Group has launched a new label for indie titles called Great Indie Games and the first game to make the cut is World of Goo, slated for a July release. Great Indie Games will bring independent games to retail to gain a wider audience than just through digital distribution, where most indie titles are […]
Amazon now selling download codes for WiiWare games
Amazon has started offering WiiWare games through the site by selling download codes. First one up is World of Goo for $19.99. The online retailer already does the same for Xbox Live titles, and digital downloads for PC games. Wonder how long it will be before PSN titles are offered. Via NeoGAF.
2DBoy to speak at Nordic Game
2DBoy's Kyle Gabler will deliver a speech at Nordic Game titled, "Developing your own game". It's actually part of the show's Career Expo bit, but it'll be a good look at the thinking behind making World of Goo, if nothing else. Nordic Game and it Career Expo will be held on May 19-20 in Malmö, […]
Play an early dev version of World of Goo
2DBoy is posting a seven-part series depicting the beginnings of World of Goo all the way through to the end of development. The first one posted allows you to download and play an early build. Hit the link above to do just that. Thanks, GoNintendo.
World of Goo now on $5 on Steam
World of Goo, the award winning physics based puzzle/construction game is now available on Steam for $4.99. If you don't have it already, go get it if you feel like dropping "living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues." Wow. Thanks, Heitzu.
World of Goo bringing physics-based fun to Japan
The WiiWare version of World of Goo is headed to Japan. Soon, goo balls regurgitated by beastly frogs will be used to build bridges in the East as well. Praise be. Nintendo will be the distributor and Japanese gamers can expect it sometime this spring.
Updated World of Goo Linux and Mac demos released
Haven't played World of Goo yet? Linux or Mac user? You're in luck. Updated demos for both are now available here and here. Not exactly sure what "updated" entails, but it should give you something to do later at any rate.
World of Goo Linux is success for 2D Boy
The Linux version of World of Goo has been a rollicking success for 2D Boy, with the launch seeing over 40 percent more games sold via the company's website in one day than ever before. From here: It's only been 2 days since the release of the Linux version and it already accounts for 4.6% […]
World of Goo publisher files for bankruptcy protection
World of Goo publisher Brighter Minds Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The firm made the move on January 28. Unlike Chapter 7, which means the company's to be liquidated, Chapter 11 is a step to allow the firm involved to remain in control of its assets while it reorganizes. Brighter Minds publishes […]
EA can learn a lot from World of Goo, says Peter Moore
Peter Moore has updated his blog to reveal that he believes a game as simple but as effective as 2D Boy's World of Goo is something EA Sports could learn a lot from. "By every admission, I am more of a sports guy and this isn't my default cup of tea, but there's a ton […]
World of Goo has 90% piracy rate, says 2D Boy
World of Goo designer Ron Carmel has claimed in this RPS thread that World of Goo has a 90 percent piracy rate. Carmel claims he's seen torrent sites with "500 seeders and 300 leechers" and has received emails from people bought the game after downloading it, although that number makes upa "very small percentage." Luckily, […]
World of Goo coming to WiiWare in Europe
2DBoy's confirmed that World of Goo is to launch on WiiWare in Europe, as you can see here. The game's "most likely" to cost 1,500 Wii Points, as it does in the US, and will be exactly the same game that's already been released across the Pond. Plenty of detail through there. Thanks, Tonka!
World of Goo released for Mac
This has to be the ultimate package for office designers with sculpted facial hair and effortless haircuts – 2D Boy's World of Goo's been released for Mac. If this you? Get it here.
World of Goo demo goes live
A World of Goo demo's gone up on FileFront. At a piffling 33Mb, you don't really have much of an excuse. The indie kids are going bonkers over it at the moment, so you could do worse than have a nose. Thanks, RPS.
Embargo passes for Nintendo Media Summit impressions
1up's gone live with a heap of impressions from last week's Nintendo Media Summit in the US. They did it first, so they get the links. Look: LostWinds! FFCC: My Life as a King Guitar Hero: On Tour LostWinds Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Samba de Amigo Boom Blox Update: Here's Eurogamer's stuff. So that's […]
New World of Goo movie released
After the link. The WiiWare game looks like lots of fun, if we're being honest, but there's no release date as yet. Take a look.
Nintendo Media Summit day two live blogged
Want to read some sketchy notes about a really long WiiWare presentation in America? Course you do. IGN live blogged the second day of Nintendo's Media Summit just in case you do. There's stuff in there about Strong Bad, World of Goo and the fact Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Major League Eating were playable […]
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Gifts2me2u necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
We're looking for a stunning design to go with our new motocross website.
Motocross Dirt (motocrossdirt.co.uk)
(Open to suggestions on this)
Desired Color Scheme:
Use your imagination
Accepted File Formats:
.psd or similar alternative
We are currently developing a new motocross site at MotocrossDirt.co.uk and we require both a template and logo for the site.
Open to suggestions on the logo, anything goes basically. We have no set style in mind. However, what I think would be very cool is a cartoon motocross rider as part of the logo, and we would be willing to offer a bit more money for a cartoon style rider to go with the logo.
There are a few sections of the page that must be included in the design, these are:
- Logo/Header Area
- Header Area Menu, this will contain some links such as "Account", "Register", "Forums" etc...
- Navigation Menu, just the general site navigation thats usually on the left of most sites.
- Tool Box, Not always visible. This will be a page specific control box and thus won't be visible on all pages, but it will be used for things such as on the forum it will be the advanced search box, I would generally imagine this to be above the content in the main area of the page, but you can place it anywhere you feel it fits nicely.
- Main Content, this is just the page content, it will sometimes be 1 column and sometimes be 2 columns, for example on the forum it will just be 1 column and take up the whole area, but on the home page it will be 2 columns, news on the left and latest photos on the right.
- Footer, general copyright info etc.
Basically you can lay it out as you see fit, but these areas must be in there somewhere.
We have no set color or style in mind, but motocross is an extreme sport, so clearly something that fits in with the sport itself would be better, maybe a bit wild or different, I don't know, thats why we're putting this up here so we can get as many ideas thrown at us until something great comes up.
Full feedback will be left (I will be checking the entries daily).
The deadline may be extended if requested or if we feel that the entries haven't been good enough or need some tweaking.
The design and logo contest are separate, but obviously if you can come up with both that fit into 1 design then all the better.
Payment by paypal only, I may do escrow.com aswell but any fee's will be your responsibility. If your in the UK then I can write a cheque or send a bank transfer.
If theres any questions then feel free to ask as I'm sure I've probably left some stuff out.
Thanks and Good Luck
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- Web Page Design
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This chapter describes the various components that you must configure in order to use an XML choice object mapping.
This chapter includes the following sections:
For information on how to configure TopLink mappings options common to two or more mapping types, see Chapter 121, "Configuring a Mapping".
For information on how to create TopLink mappings, see Chapter 120, "Creating a Mapping".
Table 68-1 lists the configurable options for an XML choice object mapping.
Table 68-1 lists the configurable options for an XML choice object mapping.
Table 68-1 Configurable Options for XML Choice Object Mapping
|Option to Configure
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Choice element (see Section 54.9, "Configuring the Choice Element")
Method or direct field access (see Section 121.6, "Configuring Method or Direct Field Accessing at the Mapping Level")
Read-only (see Section 121.2, "Configuring Read-Only Mappings")
Comments (see Section 121.8, "Configuring Mapping Comments")
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Hipsters, irony, and lazy cultural critiqueComments
Since I've been cluttering up Erik's facebook page with my thoughts on this dismal exercise in hipster-bashing, I thought I might as well blog it.
It's not that there's nothing to the critique of excessive irony; irony certainly can be a deadening, depoliticizing pose that inhibits a kind of sincere commitment among citizens that democratic politics relies on. And while the two are distinct problems, there's a potential connection between excessive irony and both sides do it-ism, although such a stance can also be arrived at via a certain kind of banal excessive sincerity. Irony can, of course, have democratic value as well, but it's depoliticizing potential isn't an unreasonable target.
What I categorically reject is that this has anything meaningful relationship with the aesthetic preferences of alleged "hipsters." This piece, rather than taking aim at substantive, concrete examples of excessive, depoliticizing irony, chooses focus on the relatively innocuous aesthetic markers of alleged 'hipsterdom'. Perhaps because I spent over a decade of young adulthood in a notoriously 'hipster' city, I know these people, these wearers of trucker hats and lovers of kitsch, as friends and students. And what's obvious to me is that lots of people whose aesthetic tastes, in dress, taste in inexpensive gifts, and facial hair, are every bit as capable of appropriate and necessary sincerity and commitment as anyone else. Indeed, in general the dread "hipster" of essays like this always feel like absurd abstraction to me, drawn more from stereotypical characters from popular culture than actual people. The alleged meaning associated with personal style here diverges so greatly from my lived experience that shines a light on the overreach in the essay, the effort to make a bunch of loosely or unrelated phenomena fit together seamlessly, in a way that serves the author's agenda.
This moment rather nicely captures the absurdity (and, frankly, offensive stereotyping) of the project:
If life has become merely a clutter of kitsch objects, an endless series of sarcastic jokes and pop references, a competition to see who can care the least (or, at minimum, a performance of such a competition), it seems we've made a collective misstep. Could this be the cause of our emptiness and existential malaise? Or a symptom?
If you're wondering how she arrived at the conclusion that an appreciation of kitsch aesthetics and a particular sense of humor means there's nothing else whatsoever to your life, I'm afraid you won't find much guidance in the preceding paragraphs. What she offers here is a sophisticated version of a particularly toxic high school mentality–how other people dress, their aesthetic tastes, their style of humor, and so on offer a deep insight into what's wrong with them.


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|An illuminating history of North America's that explodes the red state-blue
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A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By Colin Woodard
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If you're dreaming of a return to the good old days — San Diego's bubble years of the late 1990s and the early part of this decade — dismiss the idea. Ain't gonna happen. The San Diego economy may do a little bit better in 2011 than it did last year, but you may not even notice the improvement.
The unemployment rate is going to remain around 10 percent, probably higher. There won't be a return to 4 percent for a long, long time. Both employment and population growth will be meager this year. Housing values, which are down 36 percent from their bubble peak of late 2005, may not recover for a couple of decades. Retail sales aren't plummeting as they were in 2008 and 2009, but they will only crawl upward. Tourism is already improving a bit, but a return to the halcyon years is a long way off. Venture capital won't be pouring into high-tech and biotech firms as in the past. The retailing and real estate weaknesses will drag down tax receipts, pushing the City of San Diego deeper into technical insolvency.
At the end of last year, the federal government and the Federal Reserve announced plans to pump trillions of more dollars into the United States economy. Economists rushed to raise their estimate of 2011 national growth from 2.5 percent to 2.6 percent or 3 percent and even above, partly because of strong Christmas retail sales. In San Diego, economists bumped up their forecasts slightly. Liquidity reigns.
But some forecasters urge sobriety: "We are borrowing and will have to pay it back," says Marney Cox, chief economist for the San Diego Association of Governments. "We are robbing future growth. The weak 2011 has been postponed for a year."
San Diego County jobs will grow by only 6000 to 12,000 this year, says Cox. That is puny. Alan Gin, economist at the University of San Diego, sees 10,000 to 15,000 new jobs. Kelly Cunningham, economist for the National University System Institute for Policy Research, sees a mere 10,000 jobs growth in the private sector. He sees job losses in state and local government, which to some extent may be offset by strength in federal jobs, mainly in the military.
Cunningham points out that in the disaster years of 2008 and 2009, San Diego County personal income dropped by 1.1 percent, but that was better than the national decline of 1.8 percent. The major reason was a fat increase in federal payrolls in San Diego. Without those, San Diego's personal-income plunge would have been among the worst in the nation. However, if there is a federal pay freeze this year, San Diego County could get clipped by $190.3 million.
Cunningham believes that direct military/defense spending accounted for 16.2 percent of the San Diego economy last year. That's not as high as it used to be, but it tends to be a predictable, sustainable source of growth.
However, "The San Diego unemployment rate is not likely to come down," says Cunningham. "It will remain in the 10 percent range." His biggest fear is "a huge meltdown" in state government finances, with the federal government not coming to the rescue. Such a calamity could wallop state and municipal government employment.
Cox, Cunningham, and Gin agree that health care will be the strongest area of local jobs growth, followed by business and professional services.
"The biggest jobs problem is in the narrowness," says Cox. When the local economy began recovering from the early 1990s recession, "There was a broad range of growth — information, biotech, manufacturing. High tech came galloping to our rescue between 1995 and 2000." Venture capital poured in. The initial-public-offering market was not just hot; it was insane. Local tech stocks would triple in their first day of trading. Now, venture capital is almost as weak as it has been in more than a decade, and initial public offerings are expected to improve only modestly.
"We will see a loosening up — more venture capital in 2011," says Gin, and that will help tech firms, but he sees no flood. Biotech, software, and the new green technologies should do well, says Cunningham.
Residential real estate is not in for a recovery. There is an industry overhang, mortgage rates are rising (despite the Fed's attempts to pound them down), and foreclosures pile up. Cox thinks home values will drop another 5 to 10 percent. "It could be two decades before we get back to inflation-adjusted levels of the peak," he says, and it will "be three or four years before we see major increases in building permits."
Cunningham is more pessimistic. Inflation-adjusted San Diego County home prices "may never reach previous highs without an unprecedented and unexpected rise of area household incomes," he says. In the bubble years, San Diego's median home price was 7 times median household income. Now it's back to 4.2, but even though half of households can afford a home now, up from a pitiful 7 percent in the bubble years, San Diego homes are still less affordable than in most major markets.
The commercial real estate market remains in the doldrums. "There is too much retail space," says Cox. "Consumers won't be spending as before, not using credit cards as much and not tapping home equity. Marginal shopping centers will have to do something else with their property — it could be something connected to services."
Taxable retail sales, which plunged 8.8 percent in 2008 and 12.8 percent the next year, inched up 0.5 percent in 2010 and will go up 2.5 percent this year, says Cunningham, conceding that the increase is not imposing.
San Diego has another problem: California. "I anticipate state taxes will be going up — if not on consumers, on businesses," says Cunningham. "More taxes and regulation will cause unemployment to rise, businesses to leave. We are discouraging productive people, dampening job prospects."
The county's population will rise by only 30,000 this year, or by less than 1 percent, says Cunningham. "It will mostly be babies," he says. "There are still more people moving away from San Diego than moving in," partly for the same reasons businesses are deserting.
San Diego's tourism this year should be a little better than last year, says Jerry Morrison, La Jolla–based hotel guru. "But there are still too many unemployed, still too many uncertainties about markets." According to Smith Travel Research, hotel occupancy through November averaged 68 percent, up from 64.2 percent in the same period of last year. But five years ago, occupancy was pushing 76 percent. Through November, the average room rate dropped to $123.32 from $126.81. That's a far cry from $138 in the first quarter of 2008. It's supply and demand, says Morrison: San Diego is overbuilt, but visitors aren't streaming in. "Travelers will go where the price is right, irrespective of the [hotel] brand," says Morrison. "They want free breakfasts, free internet, and free parking." A number of San Diego hotels have failed economically, although they are still operating — taken over by the lender or a new buyer who got the facility at a deep discount. Those hotels are likely to continue struggling this year. ■
Great story of a great problem for all of SD!
The only way that housing prices will hit the levels we have seen, is if we have massive inflation, and the US Gov't. is doing everything it can (including printing lots of extra money) to prevent that!
Consider this: No Good Jobs No Good Credit No House Loans No High House Prices
Unless the US Tax laws are changed to allow deductions for additional homes (like several years ago) our increasing housing glut will doom SD's housing market for many years to come...
For me, the bottom line is that the biggest disaster this year would be a return to rapid growth in the U.S. economy. The banks would start lending money and all that money that has been created would turn into inflation. As long as unemployment remains high and the economy weak, it's like gasoline in dry grass -- it won't flare up until somebody lights a match.However, there are two extremely powerful institutions that will try to make sure that the economy doesn't recover strongly and that unemployment stays high: 1. The banks themselves (at least the big ones on Wall Street). They are getting free money from the Fed as long as unemployment remains high. Do you seriously think the big banks want unemployment to improve significantly, and the spigot get cut off? Of course not. They want very slow growth, and they can make it happen by lending very slowly; 2. the U.S. government and Federal Reserve. They created all the liquidity. They know it can turn into disastrous inflation. Both the Treasury and Fed want slow growth. Best, Don Bauder
Bingo-we have a winner.
The creation of good paying manufacturing jobs is the ONLY thing that is going to pull us out of the depression.
Nations that do not manufacture or produce goods is a nation in decline and decay.
The simple way to say it is that the U.S. overconsumes and underproduces. But every strategy offered by economists today encourages more consumption, more risk-taking and less saving. In other words, the poison that got us into this mess is now the medicine expected to get us out. Best, Don Bauder
I see a much leaner America, where those with jobs try to hide their wealth from all those with no jobs and a recent memory of what the good life was all about...
Crime will soar and so will the number of gated Communities.
Drug cartels will increase their hold on California and start openly supporting elected Officials that are friendly...
It will be a long time before drug cartels openly support U.S. political candidates. Best, Don Bauder
By "openly" I meant using their cash to "help" elect the Leaders that make things easier for them to stay in business and maintain the status quo...
If you meant simply using mob money to elect politicians, that's been going on for many decades...more than a century, actually. The dirty money is usually laundered through a front of some kind -- say, a corporation or partnership. Joe Kennedy was inextricably tied to the Boston mob. He funneled enough money to the Democrats that FDR named him ambassador to the UK, and also head of the SEC, despite the fact that Kennedy was a notorious stock market manipulator. Joe Kennedy's son, Jack, kept a mistress in the White House, Judith Exner, who was supplied to him by a Chicago mobster. Best, Don Bauder
Why does this blatant ad keep showing up? Best, Don Bauder
The biggest problem with the national and local economy is low diversity. Too much dependency upon IA (information age) jobs and business is that information is getting cheaper/free and fewer and fewer people/nations need to buy it. Even these jobs have been/are being exported and the Indians and Chinese can produce/consume/sell their own, thank you very much (they gleefully whisper under their breath). First Tricky Dick cracked open the East, Reckless Ronnie threw the steel sector their way, and all the F-offing Kings of the Realm of US followed suit, to a degree that is absurd, but far from unpredictable. This summary is, of course, an inadequate WAG from the gut, but the details would go beyond any sensible attention-span. Yeah, it goes 'way back beyond TD.
A great bulk of the "lost" jobs were fluff jobs anyway, and we're going to have to learn to do without them. The military is mega-fluff, a giant cash-cow that makes the one drawn (by some kinda folks alien to us) on the ceiling at Lascaux look like a fly-speck.
San Diego is just one of many GSSC's (Giant Sucking-Sound Cities)that are largely "sustained" (the latest buzz-word in the pantheon of puffery) by such fluff as the "housing industry" that, together with tanning-salons and t & d expansionaries (what will the Reeder do for ads?) put even LA-la Land to shame (at least they have a sorta "real" port--just watch ours go poof with the Navy withdrawal).
Oh, yeah, "tourism" will keep going as a "stay-cation" or "close-cation" distination for the marginal masses hanging onto a dwindling handful of tech jobs, but that will not support an economy even as big as the one we now enjoy for long, that the prognostications of the pessimoptimists presume.
"Health care," particularly for the jobless elders will make Obama's "death panels" look humane when president SP starts invoking her parasite/varmit-control solution to the burgeoning baby-boom oldsters who look more an more like moose or wolves from the presidential helicopter.
The trickle-down of "venture" capital will not be enough to maintain, much less transform, the patient, and impatience is bound to produce scrapping over the leavings.
McMansion-building will turn to a thin mist of crawl-in closets, and even crumbling existing homes will be for few fragments of the techies working here for Indian and Chinese firms (as the retired will have to flee upon the repeal of Prop 13), and "wired" will return to it's former definition, as the rabble turn to smoking sagebrush since president SP will not "feel their pain." They won't be able to afford the solace of shopping-centers.
With smaller and smaller gaggles of consumers--the Golden Goose of commerce--the middle-men and middle-women will finally feel the pinch, followed by the Kings and Queens, who will live happily ever-after, their troughs running over with willing slaves. I'm optimistic.
Good analysis, but I don't think the bulk of the jobs lost to slave-wage nations were "fluff" jobs. Steel, rubber, auto, machine tool, metal fabrication jobs generally paid American workers well. Now those jobs are gone and the chief executives of the companies that dispatched the jobs overseas enjoy utterly obscene compensation. Ditto for Wall Street, which all along was pushing the offshore movement. The only thing of importance to U.S. companies is profits. So we destroyed our economic base genuflecting on the altar of greed. Best, Don Bauder
U R quite rite, uf course. Genuinely genuflucktuatedly. As you probubly noticed, I busted the Reader's 3K limit for driveling and had to cut my nattering nabobing off at the dramatic finish. Always write so the ed. can cut off the end; at least that's the way it always was at the SDU[T], eh? Did you ever have an editor actually make one of your pieces better or cut something needless in the middle of a paragraph or piece? 'Course not--you're too good. Back to my new bottle of single-malt.
PS: However, I don't think you meant to elastrate my entire point about fluff jobs though, did you? Or did you?
Best, Twisted
The San Diego economy doesn't inspire hope.
While there are a few good paying professions left, many of these jobs can be moved overseas...particularly biotech and IT.
Finance has ballooned in importance in recent decades, but it remains parasitic on real world activities. The same for real estate and land development. They ought to be supporting actors, a result of other activities being successful, rather than an ends in themselves.
What remains is only the work that cannot be done elsewhere, a lot of which is what Don Bauder calls "taking in each other's laundry". Police, fire, and education are more properly seen as (necessary) public expenses rather than investment of productive economic activity.
The same is true of military spending. When you step back and look at it from the proper perspective, it's not promoting the overall economy but a drag on it.
In the end, what does San Diego make? Sunshine and good vibrations to sell to fickle visitors? Shall the San Diego economy rest on hosting others?
We know how this has come to be, and now I wonder how San Diego could dig itself out of this hole.
Just follow the BIG money! But only for answers, not for investment.
I'm telling you the truth Fred (I wish you'd comment more), the young people (20's, 30's, and even 40's) are re-forming, sucking it up, getting the message that living life and getting into acceptance of each other beats the hell out of, of, waal, Wal-Mart.
Honest to God, friendship, common courtesy (not ass-kissing), being as good as your word, hanging out, value, selecting (not just settling for) sufficiency, social integration, some sort of vaguely familiar thang kinda like love, and judging not to unwarranted conclusions. Hell, Fred, it even comes into them like osmosis--they don't even have to prate about it. And don't.
Excellent points. I'll just expand on a couple of them. First, military spending. San Diergo makes weapons. They are used either to destroy something, or they sit on the shelf. They don't add a thing to productivity of the nation. Second, tourism. It's a good business, yes. But most of the hotels are owned by companies outside San Diego, so the profits flow elsewhere. (Many hotels, of course, have been going under of late.) Hotel and restaurant pay is very poor. Finally, finance. The U.S. has gone from product engineering to financial engineering. Much of the activity is just money-changing -- pea and shell games. Some of it does nothing for the economy, and much of it, such as leveraged buyout activity, actually detracts from the economy. Best, Don Bauder
"The U.S. has gone from product engineering to financial engineering. Much of the activity is just money-changing -- pea and shell games. Some of it does nothing for the economy, and much of it, such as leveraged buyout activity, actually detracts from the economy." --Bauder
KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON MAKING THAT POINT. Repitition, repitition, REPITITION! It's the ONLY way to counteract titilation, titilation, TITILATION.
Do not keep makin' the same mistake of thinkin' that educatin' and educatin' and educatin will bring US up frum dummer.
You're right. I've said it before. But with your blessings, I will keep saying it. Best, Don Bauder
We gotta get it onto bumper stickers or maybe post-its and stick 'em up in quantity in all the public restrooms or sumpin!
Bless you, bro!
How about this for a bumper sticker: "Fight potholes. Abolish CCDC." Best, Don Bauder
JC didn't say the money-changers couldn't change money, he just tossed them out of the temple.
As to CCDC, as big a pothole of our credit-cards tho it may be, it is the PRINCIPLE, so well stated by you, that is a the core of all scams. Since this applies to the current blog too, I'm gonna double-post it, if our honorable moderators will kindly permit such a transgression . . .
Keep on repeatin'
The money changers would rather practice their black arts in the temple. It lends respectability. Best, Don Bauder