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Perhaps the most popular excuse: "Riding to work is dangerous." It gets a qualified, "you're right."
We need only look at the crazed motorist in San Francisco who mowed down four cyclists on Thursday, June 3, as evidence. What's more disturbing, and does not surprise me, is the public reaction. Some 54 percent expressed outrage, but 23 percent laughed or were thrilled by the incident, according to an NBC Bay Area web poll.
I'll never forget the time at the Summit Store (off Hwy 17) when some mountain rednecks drove up in their truck and saw us with our bikes. "More victims," one said in a surly voice.
They won't keep me from riding. That said, if you're new to riding, start slowly. Ride every weekend for at least a month. Ride your work route on the weekend so you can familiarize yourself with the road. After that, only ride to work one day a week — say on a Friday — when traffic is usually light in the morning.
Looking at raw numbers, cycling is much less dangerous than driving a car, and only slightly more dangerous than flying a commercial airline, easily the safest form of travel.
|Transport mode
|Fatalities (%) – 2016
|24,436 (67)
|5,987 (16)
|5,286 (14)
|840 (2.3)
|7 (0.00019)
|Commercial/Commuter airline
|8 (0.0002)
However, when you factor in distance traveled, journeys, or hours, it's a different story. Cycling becomes more dangerous than driving a car — from a statistical perspective – but not by a lot. Motorcycles, as we know, lead the way by an order of magnitude.
Fatalities per billion passenger –
|Air 0.05
|Bus/Coach 4.3
|Bus/Coach 11.1
|Bus/Coach 0.4
|Rail 20
|Rail 30
|Rail 0.7
|Van 20
|Air 30.8
|Van 1.2
|Car 40
|Water 50
|Water 2.6
|Foot 40
|Van 60
|Car 3.1
|Water 90
|Car 130
|Pedal cycle 44.6
|Air 117
|Foot 220
|Foot 54.2
|Pedal cycle 170
|Pedal cycle 550
|Motorcycle 108.9
|Motorcycle 1,640
|Motorcycle 4,840
Here's another more recent study using National Safety Council estimates based on data from National Center for Health Statistics—Mortality Data for 2017. This study puts cycling in a better light, but it's still way more dangerous than flying commercial.
Odds of Dying using transportation
Car crash – 1 in 103
Motorcycle – 1 in 858
Bicycle – 1 in 4,047
Airline passenger – 1 in 188,364
Railway passenger – 1 in 243,765
Passenger bus is not mentioned, but it's extremely low, in the range of airline travel.
Close calls
Having ridden some 115,000 miles, I have become accustomed to riding in traffic and the all-too-common "close call" doesn't faze me. With experience, you will learn to anticipate hazards, such as parked cars (doors opening unexpectedly), slippery wet paint lines, and people talking on the phone while driving.
I learned through John Forester's "Effective Cycling" that the safest cycling is for cyclists to act and be treated as drivers of vehicles. In other words, when I want to turn left, I merge into the left-turn lane when it's safe to do so. I obey all traffic laws, including stop signs.
Another tip about riding in traffic: think of the times you see cyclists while driving. It's no big deal to pass a cyclist, unless the road is extremely narrow. Even at night, if the cyclist has a light, it's usually hard to miss a cyclist. In other words, you're not invisible, although thinking that way will help avoid collisions.
As with driving, the drunk or drugged driver is the cyclist's worst road hazard. That's an important reason why I don't like to ride at night.


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Independent editor Eynulla Fatullayev, a CPJ award recipient, spent four years in prison on spurious charges of defamation, terrorism, tax evasion, and drug possession. All were fabricated to prevent him from publishing his searing exposés critical of the Azerbaijani government. On Thursday, after years of intense advocacy by CPJ and others, Fatullayev received a presidential pardon and was freed. "Although it took far too long," said CPJ board member Gwen Ifill, "we are deeply gratified at Fatullayev's release, and look forward to the moment when we can hand him his 2009 press freedom award in person." Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova reached Fatullayev at his Baku home today and talked with him about his experience as a political prisoner and the circumstances surrounding his sudden release.
Q: Yesterday, you were released from prison, after having spent four years behind bars on trumped-up charges. How do you feel?
A: I am still in disbelief. My release was sudden. Of course I hoped for it, but I didn't expect it.
Q: Tell us about your treatment in prison.
A: During these four years, I was subjected to various provocations that were apparently carried out on the political order of the highest level. The government was especially angered after the European Court of Human Rights ordered my immediate release [in March 2010]. In the months after the decision was published, I was sent to solitary confinement multiple times, under different, ridiculous pretexts.
Q: Give us an example.
A: For instance, I was told once that I was smoking on the wrong floor. And for that I received three days in the solitary. This was selective treatment; none of the other inmates would get such severe punishment for such minor violations.
Q: You were sent to several different jails. Why was the penitentiary service moving you around and how did prison administrators explain that?
A: In the beginning of my imprisonment, I spent two months in a Baku pre-trial detention center. Then I was transferred to a prison facility run by the Azerbaijani security service (MNB)--this was a military prison. The conditions there were very strict--for instance, I was banned from communicating with the outside world; I couldn't send or receive any letters; my family was prevented from visiting me; and I couldn't read newspapers. In the nine months I spent there, I was in total isolation. That, as well as the frequent 'trips' to the solitary, were no doubt intended to exhaust me physically and psychologically. After that, I was moved Prison Colony No. 12, then back to a Baku pre-trial detention center, and finally to the Strict Regime Penal Colony No. 1.
Q: Did prison administrators explain why you were being moved around?
A: They were quite candid. They would say, 'You understand, the country is in a pre-election mood, and you are a hazard.' This was the most worrisome part for me--that they weren't even trying to hide behind some pretext. They would directly tell me that they were following orders.
Q: Whose orders?
A: That they wouldn't say. They would just say that those were orders "from above."
Q: At one point, you asked to be put in solitary confinement. Tell us why.
A: This was the most terrible part of my time in jail--my deliberate move to Strict Regime Penal Colony No. 1. This is a place where the most dangerous of criminals are locked up--murderers, heads of organized crime groups, repeat offenders...people who can be bought easily to do someone else's bidding. And they are. The day I was transferred to that prison, I was put in a area next to several criminal authorities. (I was on hunger strike at the time, protesting my continued detention despite the European Court's decision to free me.) My new cell neighbors then told me that I must stop my hunger strike and stop my statements from prison "or else things will end very badly for me."
Then and there I knew that I was in physical danger and I may not get out of there alive. I was forced to ask the warden to move me to solitary confinement for my own protection. At first, the prison administration denied my request but I continued to insist, citing Azerbaijani law that obligated penitentiary officials to ensure the safety of inmates, particularly when they have received threats.
Q: How long were you in the solitary? What were the conditions there?
A: I spent the entire month of March there. The conditions were heavy. It was very cold and the rat population was ample. I would wake up in the middle of the night, invaded by them, and I would have to wrestle my way back to peace. My health also suffered because of that.
Q: Tell us about your health.
A: I didn't want to talk about my health while I was in jail, not even to my lawyers, because I didn't want to worry my parents. But, yes, there were problems. The cold and the unsanitary conditions in the prisons took their toll. I contracted a number of urinary diseases, skin and internal infections... At one point I got an abscess on my leg--the result of an infection--which had to be operated on.
Q: Did you receive medical treatment when you needed it?
A: I did. But I frequently fell ill. At one point, doctors treated a case of what had become a chronic cystitis [inflammation of the urinary bladder] for the duration of nine months before I got better. It was because of the cold. It was always very cold...
Q: Were you hospitalized?
A: No, I refused it. I feared that some provocation against me may be organized there.
Q: Did you ask the president to pardon you?
A: No, I never did.
Q: Who told you that you were free to go. Tell us how it happened.
A: Yesterday, at around 6 p.m., the head warden of Strict Regime Penal Colony No. 1, Gakhraman Bagirov, told me to pick up my things and go with him. Then, just like that, he put me in a car and personally drove me home. He told me the president had just signed a decree to pardon me.
Q: Are there any conditions to your release?
A: None.
Q: Did you feel the support of the international community from behind the prison walls?
A: The fact that I am alive and free today is without any exaggeration due to the relentless campaign of the international community to release me. I am in particular grateful to CPJ because you never got tired of advocating on my behalf, of supporting me and my family when we needed that the most. All your actions, all your statements, your visits to Azerbaijan, to the Azerbaijani Embassy ... all that gave me an enormous morale boost. Your actions kept the public attention on my case. And that, in a sense, gave me immunity. I believe it literally saved my life.
Q: How did you learn about the actions of the international community in your support?
A: My lawyers told me everything. I knew of all your statement, petitions, meetings, etc. And I was impressed by the principled position of CPJ--you were the first organization that declared my imprisonment politically motivated. You cannot realize what if feels like to have that kind of support when you are in isolation. You cannot realize the level at which it matters.
Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: You know, journalism is my calling. Many people have been asking me since my release whether I will continue my work as an editor, whether I will restart publishing my newspapers. My reply to this is such: If the Azerbaijani authorities can guarantee me that I will be able to publish independently, without any attempts to influence my editorial line, then, yes, I will gladly return to journalism.
Right now, though, I am still in the euphoria of being free, of being surrounded by family and friends. I would like to take some time to rest and enjoy.
(Reporting from Moscow)

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Graham Readfearn | September 15, 2011
By Graham Readfearn • Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 09:21
THERE is a publication in Australia where for every one story you read which agrees society should take firm steps to combat climate change, there are four stories suggesting we shouldn't.
When climate change is viewed through the pages of this publication, most of the world's "experts" think it's either not happening, not worth worrying about or not caused by humans.
Advocates for strong action on climate change are variously described as "prophets of doom", "greenhouse hysterics" or "hair-shirted greenhouse penitents".
Sceptics including Bob Carter, Ian Plimer, Christopher Monckton, Richard Lindzen, David Bellamy and John Christy were all given space in The Australian.
In its coverage of climate change, The Australian had failed to acknowledge the distinction between genuine expertise and "contrarians or cranks" and had "threatened the always vulnerable place of reason in public life".
The feeders like Quadrant,
The feeders like Quadrant, the IPA, The Lavarosa group, the Chamber of commerce & other industry groups have a lot to answer for too. There are many of them that not only feed the Australian, but together they act to echo each others propaganda.
Where can one find documents?
Are there documents available to the public that show these groups support the Australian? I like to collect some of the telling memos, tax documents, etc.
I have a few pdfs for ExxonMobil that show clearly donations to Heartland Institute for the purpose of "climate change research". Also, that American Petroleum Institute planning memo to make "Kyoto obsolete" is a classic.
The fossil fuel echo chamber
"Are there documents available to the public that show these groups support the Australian?"
No , unlike say WUWT who actively hide their funding sources despite having direct ties to Fox news, the funding for the groups I mention is well know & a matter of public record.
"I like to collect some of the telling memos, tax documents, etc."
I do too & probably have the same or similar collection to you. One day I will start a visio on the web of denial in Australia & how the right wing echo chamber is tightly intertwined & interlinked. The ones on exxon secrets & source watch are difficult to visualize.
Also, above I had a typo. It's not the Lavarosa group, it's the "Lavoisier Group". I was traveling & the name slipped me.
Proudly displaying a story in the Australian on their site:
It's a who's who of mining execs & fossil fuel execs, who reference the work of Australian denier scientists like Bob Carter, Ian Plimer or William Kinnimoth, David Evans , Jo Nova & Jennifer Marohasy to name a few & who have no peer reviewed papers published in the relevant field, but are frequently asked for their "expert" opinion. They also contribute to stories in the Australian. Most have their own blogs with David Evans & his Wife Jo Evans ( Jo Nova) havingtheir own separate websites.
There are right wing think tanks & lobbying groups who seem to have a cross pollination of membership across these various organizations & who often start up additional front groups, from the front groups themselves. Also part of the feeder streams of information is:
1) The Institute of Public Affairs. Funded by Exxon.
Who have an additional front group called:
With ties to the logging industry.
2) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Centre_for_Independent_Studies
3) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Australian_APEC_Study_Centre
4) Australian Climate Science Coalition :
Then there is right wing publications & blogs that also feed the Australian & who's contributors often write stories for the Australian.
That is part of my list & ties. If you have a look at the members of each of these organizations, you will see that many of them are members of 2 or 3 of these organizations & are also members of American & European denial machines as well, like the SPPI, or the Fraser Institute, or the Heartland Institute etc.
It's truly a web of denial with industry funding & conservative party backing. They then get their fingers into the mainstream press through conservative papers owned by Murdoch which feed 70% of the newspaper market to Australians for consumption. You can do a search of nearly any member of one of the organizations above on the Australian newspapers website & find either a story or opinion piece written by many of them.
The public at large don't know who these organizations are & just see an innocent enough sounding name: "The institute of Public Affairs", the "Australian Environment Foundation", "Centre of Independent studies" .
They are also nutured & refered to by the right wing arm of the Fairfax press here through their commercial AM radio stations.
Holy cow…
Thanks much, I'll have to parse/check this information a bit at a time, but I'll definitely refer back to it.
WUWT & Fox?
>> "No , unlike say WUWT who actively hide their funding sources despite having direct ties to Fox news, the funding for the groups I mention is well know & a matter of public record."
WUWT has ties to Fox News? I recall an interview Watts had with Glenn Beck, but I didn't know there were lasting ties.
"WUWT has ties to Fox News?
"WUWT has ties to Fox News? I recall an interview Watts had with Glenn Beck, but I didn't know there were lasting ties."
Anthony Watts, the owner of WUWT, works for KPAY-AM, a Fox news affiliate.
Personalities & shows on KPAY-AM
Personalities and shows
- Matt Ray, Mike Baca
- Rush Limbaugh
- Sean Hannity
- Lars Larson
- The Savage Nation
- Coast to Coast AM
KPAY showing the Fox logo.
WUWT, is pretty much an avenue where FOX can dedicate their right wing attentions nearly entirely to conservative propganda on AGW.
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Media outlets and websites
Media outlets and websites that are agreeable talking to each other. Its a conspiracy!!
This is just the sort of issue desmog needs to crack open. Maybe they can get some help from climate progress and media matters!
Was wondering when our
Was wondering when our resident right winger was going to weigh in with a red herring.
"This is just the sort of
"This is just the sort of issue desmog needs to crack open. Maybe they can get some help from climate progress and media matters!"
Rick, some of this is covered already in the desmog disinformation database. Some in Exxon secrets & more in source watch & PR Watch, as well as other resources.
The information you are so keen to distract people from is as the desmog database says :
" An extensive database of individuals involved in the global warming denial industry"
People willing to lie, obfuscate, distract, derail, confuse etc on behalf of select corporations & political parties to draw peoples attention away from the consensus & swathes of scientific evidence on AGW.
It's not just about different media outlets agreeing with each other. It's about the fact that there is an industry of deniers & liars for hire, who operate surreptitiously through a complicated web of front groups, for the sole purpose of power & profit.
The warnings from our major scientific institutes across the planet is a call to arms for these folk, as it threatens their profits. They in turn need lobbyists, front groups, media outlets, journalists, scientists, "experts", votes etc to bend the opinion of the greater public to their will.
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Phil - most every website has
Phil - most every website has some pre existing bias. If I was to quote something from Beck or wuwt you would reject it out of hand because of their pre existing bias.
Something called "exxon secrets" is obviously biased
Sourcewatch pretends to be neutral. Newsflash Phil - so does Fox.
So called "fair and balanced" news sources and "watch" sites are never neutral, fair or balanced.
"Phil - most every website
"Phil - most every website has some pre existing bias."
Rick, we are not talking about a blog here. We are talking about a newspaper. A newspaper that is part of an organization that supplies 70% of the print media to Australians. There is no political guage/meter/compass (maybe there should be) that is printed on the front of any paper that shows it's political position on the spectrum.
The general public just assume it's "news", when really, it's "views".
A view of a story through the many filters of their sponsors, shareholders, advertisers & associated political parties.
So if you are an Australian & newspapers are your predominant source of news & you are unaware of the political leanings of the newspaper, then the news is read uncritically.
If it's TV or radio or a blog, it's easy to move between options. With newspapers in Australia, there is virtually no choice. It seems the news now, is less about the actual raw informational facts & more about how it can be covered or not covered at all so as not to step on the toes of sponsors, share holders, advertisers or the readership/viewers/listeners it caters for.
Deniers & Liars for Hire
Here is a small web of denial I created on the exxon secrets site. It's a bit messy & was done more for myself than anyone else, but you get the picture of the size of the web & the inter-connection between denier institutions & it's members or people of interest.
Remember, this is just EXXON's funding &web of front groups. If one were to be done for Chevron, Shell, BP, Texaco, Koch, Conoco, Peabody etc, the web would be gargantuan.


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On Saturday approximately 200 Occupy the PGA protesters marched 2 1/2 miles through Benton Harbor to the golf course. More showed up as the day wore on. The Death March was slow and solemn with an intermittent drum beat. Four pall bearers carried a casket with "Benton Harbor Residents" banners on each side.
Rev. Pinkney called the event a great victory for the people of Benton Harbor. With one caveat: A small number of BH residents, hired to direct traffic, etc., were verbally abused by PGA attendees on at least several occasions – in one incident, people said they did not want "niggers telling them where to park or where to drive." Pinkney believes they must have been from Berrien County.
Of the many international "occupiers," Diego Contreras said, "In Mexico, Whirlpool is doing the same thing." Many marchers held anti-KitchenAid, anti-Whirlpool, anti-PGA, and anti-PA4 (Emergency Managers) signs.
The march ended on the beach with speakers including Rev. Pinkney;
Rev. Floyd Harris from Fresno, CA;
Ralph Poynter from Brooklyn, NY;
Marian Kramer & Maureen Taylor-Michigan Welfare Rights Org., Detroit;
Abayomi Azikiwe-Pan-African Newswire, Detroit;
Sundiata Sadiq, New York;
Jan G., Ohio (was arrested five yrs. ago for protesting the PGA);
Daniel Lee, Los Angeles, CA; and
Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for US president.
On Friday night law enforcement officials attempted to remove Rev. Pinkney and a group he was walking with from public sidewalks. It ended in heated confrontation and may result in a lawsuit Rev. Pinkney will file. http://bhbanco.blogspot.com/2012/05/police-whirlpool-etc-make-public.html
7 minute video report from Free Speech TV:
Corporate Media (some with photos) on Occupy the PGA:
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Assassin's Creed 3 trailer focuses on Desmond
Assassin's Creed 3 has a new trailer available with the focus on Desmond. It's below, but note it's unavailable to view in the US. Assassin's Creed 3 is out at the end of the month on PS3 and Xbox 360 with a November release pegged for Wii U and PC. You can also still play […]
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Rumor - AC: Revelations DLC called Lost Archive, will release February 28
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Report - Upcoming DLC for AC: Revelations is single-player
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The 2010 health care law cut Medicare reimbursements to hospitals and insurers, not benefits for older Americans, by that amount over the coming decade. But repealing the savings, policy analysts say, would hasten the insolvency of Medicare by eight years — to 2016, the final year of the next presidential term, from 2024.
While Republicans have raised legitimate questions about the long-term feasibility of the reimbursement cuts, analysts say, to restore them in the short term would immediately add hundreds of dollars a year to out-of-pocket Medicare expenses for beneficiaries. That would violate Mr. Romney's vow that neither current beneficiaries nor Americans within 10 years of eligibility would be affected by his proposal to shift Medicare to a voucherlike system in which recipients are given a lump sum to buy coverage from competing insurers.
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Marilyn Moon, vice president and director of the health program at the American Institutes for Research, calculated that restoring the $716 billion in Medicare savings would increase premiums and co-payments for beneficiaries by $342 a year on average over the next decade; in 2022, the average increase would be $577.
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"One can only wonder what's going on inside their headquarters in Boston and among their policy people," said John McDonough, the director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at Harvard. "But there are only two explanations: Either they don't understand how the program works, which is hard to imagine, or there is some deliberate misrepresentation here because they know how politically potent this charge is."
The potency of the Republicans' charge was evident in the 2010 midterm elections, when they accused Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats of cutting Medicare by $500 billion to pay for new coverage under the health care law. They went on to recapture control of the House.
Led by Mr. Romney, Republicans revived that line of attack for 2012. But Mr. Romney cited a higher $716 billion in the same week that he announced his selection of Mr. Ryan, who had supported the reductions until joining the Republican ticket. The different dollar figures reflect a shifting time frame: $500 billion represented the projected Medicare savings in the decade after the 2010 health care law was enacted; $716 billion reflects savings from 2013 through 2022.
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"In the real world," he wrote, "the result will be fewer providers accepting Medicare payments and worse care for today's seniors."
Mr. Chen cited recent annual reports from the trustees for the Medicare program and from the chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Richard S. Foster. The trustees and the actuary each said that the law could well lead to significant savings in the delivery of health care, but both also suggested that over time the scheduled cuts to providers' payments could prove unrealistic.
"While the Affordable Care Act makes important changes to the Medicare program and substantially improves its financial outlook, there is a strong likelihood that certain of these changes will not be viable in the long range," Mr. Foster wrote.
He added, "The best available evidence indicates that most health care providers cannot improve their productivity to this degree — or even approach such a level — as a result of the labor-intensive nature of these services."
Mr. Romney has been especially critical of the cuts for insurance companies that provide Medicare Advantage, a popular private-policy alternative to Medicare. "This is the president's plan: $716 billion cut, four million people losing Medicare Advantage and 15 percent of hospitals and nursing homes not accepting Medicare patients," he said in a recent campaign appearance.
But Medicare Advantage, which was created 15 years ago in the hope that private-market competition for beneficiaries would result in lower prices, has consistently cost more than standard Medicare — costs that Medicare beneficiaries must help subsidize through their premiums.
The reductions for Medicare Advantage providers are "a matter of basic fairness because they've been overpaid for years," Ms. Moon said. As for beneficiaries, she added, "they're guaranteed basic Medicare benefits. They may lose some extra benefits they may have been getting, but in effect you're saying some of the windfall benefits may go away."
"The bottom line," said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, which Mr. Ryan leads, "is that Romney is proposing to take more money from seniors in higher premiums and co-pays and hand it over to private insurance companies and other providers in the Medicare system."


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In this volume I consider another young adult novel adaptation about teen girls and magic, an Italian set mystery/romance set amidst the world of high art auctions, an acclaimed Romanian lesbian nun drama, Sofia Coppola's take on LA's celebrity-obsessed kids, a Crowe vs. Wahlberg big city corruption thriller, the much anticipated follow-up to "Before Sunset", the return of Sly Stallone, and a mother-daughter vampire story.
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Even though it won Best Picture honors at Sundance in 2011, Drake Doremus' indie romance drama "Like Crazy" didn't crossover in the way that 2012 winner "Beasts of the Southern Wild" has. With a far more mixed critical reception in general release, and only so-so box-office, the low-budget indie nevertheless heralded Doremus and its star Felicity Jones as hot talents to watch. They are both back for this Sundance entry that was shot back in August 2011 and follows the impact of a recently arrived foreign exchange student (Jones) on both a small upstate New York town, and her host family's relationship dynamics. Guy Pearce, Kyle MacLachlan and Amy Ryan co-star.
Volume 0-9: 2 Guns, 21 and Over, 33 dias, 42, 47 Ronin, 300: Rise of An Empire, 7500
Volume A: The ABC's of Death, About Last Night, About Time, Admission, A.C.O.D., Adult World, After Earth, Afternoon Delight, Aftershock, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, All Is Lost, Anchorman: The Legend Continues, The Angriest Man In Brooklyn, Angry Little God, Are We Officially Dating?, As I Lay Dying, Ass Backwards, At Any Price, August: Osage County, Austenland
Volume B: Backmask, Baggage Claim, Bailout: The Age of Greed, Battle of the Year, Beautiful Creatures, Before Midnight, Belle, The Best Offer, Better Living Through Chemistry, Beyond The Hills, Big Sur, The Big Wedding, Black Dog Red Dog, The Black Marks, Bling Ring, Blood Ties, The Brass Teapot, Breathe In, Broken City, Bullet to the Head, The Butler, Byzantium
Volume C: The Call, Can a Song Save Your Life?, The Canyons, Captain Phillips, Carol, Carrie, A Case of You, Cavalry, CBGB, Chavez, Child of God, Chinese Zodiac, Closed Circuit, Closer to the Moon, Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers, C.O.G., The Colony, Come Out and Play, The Company You Keep, The Congress, Concussion, The Counselor, The Coup, The Croods, Crystal Fairy
Volume D: Dallas Buyers Club, Dark Blood, Dark Skies, Dead Man Down, Decoding Annie Parker, The Deep, Delivery Man, Despicable Me 2, Devil's Knot, The Devil's Rapture, Diana, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His & Hers, Disconnect, Dom Hemingway, Don Jon's Addiction, Dorothy of Oz, The Double, Drift, Drinking Buddies, Driven
Volume E: The East, Eden, Elsa and Fred, Elysium, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, Emperor, Empire State, Empires of the Deep, Ender's Game, The English Teacher, Epic, Errors of the Human Body, Escape From Planet Earth, The Europa Report, Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo, Everything Will Be Fine, Evil Dead
Volume F: Fading Gigolo, Fast Six, Fellini Black and White, Felony, A Field in England, Fill the Void, Filth, Foxcatcher, Foxfire, From Up On Poppy Hill, Frozen, Fruitvale, The Frozen Ground
Volume G: Part 1: Gambit, Gangster Squad, The Gatekeepers, Get a Job, Getaway, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Ginger and Rosa, Girls Against Boys, Girl Most Likely, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Gods Behaving Badly, A Good Day to Die Hard
Volume G: Part 2: Graceland, The Grand Masters, Grand Piano, The Grand Seduction, Grave of the Fireflies, Gravity, The Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, The Green Blade Rises, A Green Story, Greetings from Tim Buckley, Growing Up (and Other Lies), Grown Ups 2
Volume H: The Hangover Part III, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, The Heat, Hell and Back, Hell Baby, Her, Hidden, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Homefront, Horns, The Host, The Host 2, How I Live Now, Hummingbird, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunt
Volume I: I Frankenstein, The Identical, Identity Thief, I'm So Excited, In a World, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, In Fear, Inside Llewyn Davis, Insidious Chapter Two, Interior Leather Bar, The Internship, In the Blood, The Invisible Woman, Iron Man 3
Volume J-K: Jack Ryan, Jack the Giant Slayer, Java Heat, Jayne Mansfield's Car, Jimmy Picard, jOBS, Jurassic Park 3D, Justin and the Knights of Valour, K-11, Kick-Ass 2, Kid Cannabis, Kill Your Darlings, Kiss of the Damned, Kon-Tiki, Knight of Cups
Volume L: Part 1: Labor Day, The Last Days On Mars, The Last Exorcism: Part II, The Last Stand, Last Vegas, Laurence Anyways, Leo the Lion, Leviathan, Le Weekend, Libertador, The Lifeguard, Like Someone in Love, The Little Mermaid 3D, The Loft
Volume L: Part 2: London Project, The Lone Ranger, Lone Survivor, The Longest Week, Long Time Gone, A Long Way Down, The Look of Love, The Lords of Salem, Lore, Love and Honor, Love is All You Need, Lovelace, Lowlife, Lullaby, Luv
Volume M: Part 1: Machete Kills, Magic Magic, Malavita, Mama, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Maniac, Man of Steel, Man of Tai Chi, The Man Who Sold the World, A Many Splintered Thing, Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box, Mary Mother Of Christ, May in the Summer, McCanick, Meet Me In Montenegro, Milo
Volume M: Part 2: Mindscape, Mobius, Mockingbird, Molly Moon: The Incredible Hypnotist, Monsters University, The Monuments Men, Mood Indigo, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, A Most Wanted Man, Mother of George, Movie 43, Mr. Morgan's Last Love, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Much Ado About Nothing, Mud, Mystery Road
Volume N: Nebraska, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, Night Moves, Nina, No, No One Lives, No Place on Earth, Non-Stop, Northern Soul, Not Safe for Work, Now You See Me, The Numbers Station, Nymphomaniac
Volume O-P: Part 1: Oblivion, Oculus, Odd Thomas, Oldboy, Olympus Has Fallen, One Direction Concert Movie, One Square Mile, Only God Forgives, Only Lovers Left Alive, Open Windows, Out of the Furnace, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Pacific Rim, Pain and Gain, The Paradise Trilogy, Paranoia, Parker, Parkland, Passion, The Past, The Patience Stone
Volume P: Part 2: Pawn, Pawn Shop Chronicles, Penthouse North, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Phantom, The Physician, Pieta, The Place Beyond The Pines, Planes, Plastic Jesus, The Playroom, Plush, Post Tenebras Lux, Prince Avalanche, Prisoners, The Prophet, The Purge
Volume Q-R: The Quiet Ones, The Railway Man, The Rambler, Random, Reality, RED 2, Red Light Winter, Red Machine, Red Wing, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Reykjavik, R.I.P.D., Riddick, The Rover, Runner Runner, Rush
Volume S: Part 1: S-V/H/S, The Sacrament, Safe Haven, Saving Mr. Banks, Scary Movie 5, The Scribbler, The Sea, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Serena, The Seventh Son, Side Effects, Sightseers, Simon Killer, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, A Single Shot, Small Apartments, Small Time, The Smurfs 2
Volume S: Part 2: Snitch, Snowpiercer, Someone Marry Barry, Something in the Air, The Sorcerer and the White Snake, Space Warriors, The Spectacular Now, Spring Breakers, Starbuck, Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Wars: Episode II & III 3D, Still Life, Stoker, Stories We Tell, Sweetwater, Syrup
Volume T: Part 1: Tar, Tarzan 3D, A Teacher, Thanks for Sharing, Therese Desqueyroux, Therese, They Came Together, They Die by Dawn, Third Person, This Is The End, Thor: The Dark World, A Thousand Times Good Night, Three Days To Kill, Three Worlds, The To Do List, Tom a la ferme, The Tomb, Tomorrow You're Gone
Volume T: Part 2: To The Wonder, Too Late, Touchy Feely, Toy's House, Tracks, Trance, The Trials of Cate McCall, Trust Me, Turbo, Twelve Years A Slave, Twenty Feet From Stardom, Twice Born, Two Night Stand, The Two Faces of January, Two Mothers, Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Tyler Perry Presents: We The Peeples
Volume U-W: Part 1: Under the Skin, Unforgiven, Untitled David O. Russell Project, Untitled Nicole Holofcener Project, Untitled Terrence Malick Film, Upstream Color, Venus in Fur, Very Good Girls, Virtually Heroes, Wadjda, Walking with Dinosaurs 3D, War Witch, Warm Bodies, The Way Way Back, We Are What We Are, We're the Millers, Welcome to the Jungle, Welcome to the Punch, What Maisie Knew
Volume W: Part 2-Z: White Bird in a Blizzard, White House Down, The Wilderness of James, Winter Rose, Winter's Tale, Wish You Well, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Wolverine, Wolves, Words with Gods, World War Z, The World's End, You Are Here, You Can't Win, You're Next, You're Not You, The Young and Prodigious Spivet, The Zero Theorem


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We get a lot of questions about corporate credit inquiries here at Handango, and because we're one of the only firms in our industry employing these practices, we wanted to shed some light on the practice and why we as a company decided to put it into effect.
Handango has a wide range of products and services, but chances are you know us for our largest service: the Handango application market. This is where app developers meet potential buyers and can utilize an easy-to-use interface to purchase apps, or download free apps that may come with additional features through in-app-purchases.
When you sign up for an account on Handango, you are required to select a payment method. If you opt in to use your credit card as a payment method, rather than PayPal or Bitcoin, among the other cryptocurrencies we are planning on supporting in the future, we make a small inquiry to your bank requesting information about the cardholder to ensure that you are not a fraudulent user and that your credentials given when signing up are in line with what the bank has its records.
This is a simple process and one that is almost instantaneous: it happens behind the scenes and does not require any effort on your part. If our data matches with what the bank has on file, we approve your account and attach your card to your account as a default payment method. This payment method will be marked as verified, because it has gone through our verification process. Any additional cards that are added to your account after the initial user registration are not immediately verified with the issuing bank, but verification can be requested manually via a support ticket if you need to make purchases of more than $250 with the associated card, in which case verification is required.
There are credit inquiries that lenders make to your bank, but this is a different type of credit inquiry. It's simply one that allows our developers the peace of mind to continue publishing apps on our store knowing that they are reaching a genuine audience and that the users paying for their apps and additional features that can be enabled through in app purchases are who they say they are.
The reason that this is done and we are one of the first to implement it is because as of late, there has been quite a lot of controversy and potential regulation upcoming regarding in app purchases, and we want to stay ahead of the curve so that in the event that any regulations do come into place, we do not have to pause services to enable this new requirement.


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"My husband always says I dress up more for my girlfriends than I do for him."
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San Diego After two calamitous years, San Diego's Wireless Facilities boasted to its shareholders that it earned 32 cents a share in 2003. But look at the footnotes in the telecom company's annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under what is increasingly considered a realistic accounting regimen, the company earned 3 cents a share last year, not 32. And rather than losing $1.33 in 2002, it lost $2.03.
Other San Diego companies have grim earnings news tucked away in their footnotes. Biosite, a biotech company, reported that it earned $1.50 a share last year; the footnotes said earnings were less than one third of that. The company reported profits in both 2002 and 2001, but footnotes revealed that the company lost a substantial amount both years.
Telecom giant Qualcomm said it earned $1.01 a share last year. Make that 69 cents. Semiconductor equipment maker Cymer said it made good profits in both 2002 and 2001, but under realistic accounting it lost money both years. Biotech Invitrogen claimed it made $1.17 a share last year; make that 54 cents. Satellite communications specialist ViaSat said it earned 9 cents a share in 2002. Actually, it lost 49 cents a share. Last year it reported a loss of 37 cents a share. Actually, the loss was 86 cents.
Under sensible accounting, the earnings of software maker Websense would have been halved last year. Profits of sleep-disorder equipment maker ResMed would have dropped from $1.33 a share last year to 92 cents.
Are these companies misleading their shareholders and the public? Yes. Are they breaking rules? No. Under current accounting conventions, they are permitted to tout the higher figure when stating their earnings, as long as they draw a true picture in the footnotes.
But this practice is likely to end. The reason for the huge gap in reported and realistic profits is whether or not a company counts the value of stock options it grants to employees as an expense. Now, under standard accounting procedures, companies do not have to report stock-options expense as a cost of doing business.
But that's not likely to last. The Financial Accounting Standards Board, the arbiter on such matters, has proposed that companies be forced to expense the value of options they hand out so promiscuously. The four largest accounting firms agree with the proposal. High-tech and biotech companies -- the ones that abuse current accounting conventions the most -- are screaming. Their lobbyists are descending on Washington, D.C., armed with moolah to thwart the accounting-standards board, just as they did successfully a decade ago. Ron Wangerin, chief financial officer of ViaSat, went with a group of 75 companies that recently flew to Washington to schmooze politicians.
A major proponent of accounting reform is San Diegan Graef "Bud" Crystal, columnist for Bloomberg News and one of the nation's top experts in executive compensation. Along with the legendary Warren Buffett of Omaha's Berkshire Hathaway, Crystal was also prominent in the losing battle of the early 1990s.
"Back then, Silicon Valley howled that the only thing that was keeping the Japanese from crossing the Bayshore Freeway" and wresting high-tech supremacy from the U.S. was American companies' widespread use of stock options, recalls Crystal. The techs argued that if their profits were deflated by stock-options costs, companies would curtail their use, and therefore find it hard to attract engineering and management talent.
Silicon Valley wept that the lowest-paid employees would be wounded. "Liberals such as Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein bought this hook, line, and sinker," recalls Crystal. Some politicians menacingly told the Financial Accounting Standards Board that its usefulness may have come to an end.
The industry won the battle. Thus, phony tech earnings helped inflate the stock-market bubble of the 1990s. Some of the biggest and best-known tech firms were actually losing money in the 1990s, but only investors who read footnotes knew. The non-expensing of options costs was one factor motivating managements to concentrate on jacking up their stock prices instead of focusing on long-term growth. In the 1990s, companies were playing myriad other accounting tricks to create false profits.
The non-expensing of options was one factor in the growing inequality of income and wealth. In the 1960s, corporate chief executives made about 75 times what the average employee made. By the turn of the century, it was 500 to 1000 times. The wild granting of stock options to top executives was a major factor in this runaway greed.
There were other economic distortions. Government tax receipts swelled -- particularly in California, home of the techs and biotechs. But then when the bubble burst, the flow of revenue to government coffers abated. California was clobbered.
Now, the Financial Accounting Standards Board is trying again. "This is like déjà vu all over again," says Crystal. Tech companies are again weeping for wee folk. "They say they will have to lighten the boat and throw the little people in San Diego Bay," says Crystal.
Feinstein and Boxer are still eating it up, but strong politicians such as John McCain are in favor of realistic accounting, "and the corporate governance community is singing out of the same hymnal," says Crystal. For example, the Council of Institutional Investors, representing $3 trillion in state and local government and union pension funds, wants straight accounting.
Crystal and Buffett argue that if a company is compensating its employees with stock, that's an expense. Today, if a company gives somebody a cash bonus, it is expensed and lowers profit. If it pays the person with stock options, that doesn't show up on the earnings statement. Says Buffett, "When a company gives something of value to its employees in return for their services, it is clearly a compensation expense. And if expenses don't belong in the earnings statement, where in the world do they belong?"
Those protesting the change have their own arguments. "If the expensing of stock options becomes mandatory, and earnings are reduced by this noncash expense, we believe it is likely to cause a very negative effect on employee motivation and morale," says Anthony Thornley, Qualcomm president.
John Cajigas, director of finance at Biosite, says there is no good way to put a value on stock options. David Pendarvis, legal vice president of ResMed, says, "The problem with expensing options is valuing them up front without knowing in the end what the actual expense will be."
Wangerin says that 500 companies have begun expensing options, but 10,000 have not. Coca-Cola has begun expensing options. "But Coke has 40,000 employees and only gives options to 400 of them. Some tech companies offer options to 60 to 80 percent of employees."
How can you find out the real earnings of a stock you own? Go to its annual 10-k report to the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the footnotes where it states its earnings, the company must also state what those earnings would have been if the company expensed options. Also, Standard & Poor's has a concept called "core earnings." It not only shaves options expense from a company's stated earnings, but also excludes gains from asset sales, insurance, or litigation from profits. It records pension, corporate restructuring, and merger and acquisition costs that some companies try to ignore. Thus, core earnings eliminate many abuses that have bloated profits for years.
You should be able to get a Standard & Poor's report online or from your broker. If you have questions, ask the investor-relations department of the company about the discrepancy between its reported earnings and core earnings. That is, unless you own stock of Wireless Facilities. Alone among the San Diego companies I contacted, its bean counters said they were not familiar with Standard & Poor's core earnings.


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How A Drone Might Save Your Life
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There is a natural tendency to accentuate the negative when it comes to drones -- concentrating on how these "spies the sky" represent a threat to privacy and civil liberties. But as Techdirt has reported before, there are other applications that many might find not just acceptable but welcome. And that's not surprising: like the Internet, drones are just a neutral tool, and as such can be deployed for both good and bad purposes.
Here, for example, is a fascinating idea: using drones to get medical equipment to people faster than ambulances (found via Chris Anderson):
You create an app that anyone trained in first aid signs up to, creating a mobile community. You then station defibrillator-equipped drones on top of tall buildings across the city, linked by sensors. When someone needs help, they, or someone nearby, sends a request. The nearest first-aider accepts the task, and rushes to the site, and the unmanned vehicle sweeps from the sky, delivering the kit where it's needed.
This could have a big impact on the numbers of deaths from heart attacks. According to the same article in Co.Exist quoted above, 76,000 of the 250,000 deaths caused by cardiac arrest outside US hospitals could have been prevented, had the right equipment arrived soon enough. Now, it may not always be enough to use a drone to deliver a defibrillator to heart attack victims, but it seems likely that many tens of thousands of lives could, in theory, be saved in this way.
And of course the idea extends to many other life-threatening situations -- delivering blood or medicines to places that are otherwise hard to reach in time to save the patient. It's a useful reminder that drones aren't necessarily evil, it's how we use them that counts.
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There has been much speculation surrounding what Randy Couture calls his "resignation" from the Ultimate Fighting Championship and what the company's president, Dana White, refers to as Couture's "retirement."
Through confidential investigation, MMAWeekly has been able to obtain the common language of the typical Zuffa, LLC agreement relating to a fighter's "retirement." (Zuffa is the parent company of the UFC.) It is unclear if this is the exact language in Couture's contract, but sources have confirmed that this is the standard language used:
"If at any time during the Term, Fighter decides to retire from mixed martial arts or other professional fighting competition, then ZUFFA may, at its election, (i) suspend the Term for the period of such retirement; (ii) declare that ZUFFA has satisfied its obligation to promote all future Bouts to be promoted by ZUFFA hereunder, without any compensation due to Fighter therefore; or (iii) elect to provide Fighter with notice of an Acceleration."
Based on White's repeated public statements, it is clear that the UFC is interpreting Couture's statement of resignation as retirement. Taken in the context of the above provision, this explains why White continues to state that the UFC has nine months remaining on Couture's contract as Zuffa has elected to "suspend" or stay the term of his contract.
Further, the use of the term resignation in describing a person's choice to not perform under a contract is unique. Typically, when a person decides to not perform pursuant to the terms of a contract, the person is considered to be in "breach of the contract," not resigning from the contract.
However, when a party allegedly breaches a contract, he/she is able to argue facts that justify and validate why he/she breached the contract, which can/may excuse them from performing under the contract. This may be why Couture is saying he is "resigning" from Zuffa as he is claiming that the UFC failed to perform its obligations by not acting in good faith and for its alleged misrepresentation about his pay scale.
As there are countless treatises on the subjects of personal services agreements, the right to earn a living (Couture fighting elsewhere) and involuntary servitude (the 13th Amendment; Slavery – forcing Couture to fight for the UFC), this is definitely a fight for the attorneys to wrangle about in court.
Before this issue does become a legal wrangling, Couture plans to launch the next salvo in this war of words on Thursday at his Xtreme Couture gym in Las Vegas, where he has scheduled a press conference to respond to White's recent comments and the accusations made by Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports in regards to Couture's alleged payout per fight.
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On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your own productivity?
No matter how productive you may be, there are always opportunities to increase your level of output. As a very results-oriented person, I'm very passionate about increasing my productivity. I'm always experimenting with different methods, different systems to increase my output. For the ones that work, I keep them; for the ones that don't, I'll put them aside. In the end, what I have with me are the best methods that help me work the fastest and producing the best quality at the same time.
This is a list of my recommended strategies and tips to increase your productivity. I coach my clients on some of these strategies too, and their productivity increase tremendously after that. Each tip has its own set of contexts where it works the best in, so apply them accordingly:
- Plan your day the night before: Before you sleep, spend 5 quick minutes to plan the next day. List all the things you want to get done, order them in priority and allocate a rough timing. This way, you can get right down to action when you wake up the next day.
- Get the big rocks in: Big rocks are your quadrant 2 tasks – the important but non-urgent tasks. When big rocks are in place, you can easily get the small rocks, gravel, sand and water into the jar. Much easier than if you tried to do it the other way round, isn't it?
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- Single-task: If you are doing something which requires a high level of brain work, focus on doing it one at a time. Don't try to multi-task and get nothing done in the process. For example, when I'm writing articles, I will focus solely on writing articles, since it requires thinking.
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- Use a to-list. To-do list lets you (1) Capture all tasks that are streaming in. Firefighting activities will always be coming in endlessly, so put them off unless they are both urgent and important. This way, you can concentrate on your task at hand rather than be distracted by other incoming things. (2) It gives you immediate clarity on all the things you need to do and pace yourself accordingly (3) Not run the risk of forgetting anything you need to do. Bonus: Using check boxes in your to-do list gives you the satisfaction of ticking against the item when you are done with it.If you have Live a Better Life in 30 Days Program, read Day 8: Evaluate Your To-Do List, where you learn how to create an effective to-do list marked by 20% high value tasks and 80% low value tasks.
- Use a do-later list. Throughout the day, there will be many things that demand your attention – usually small tasks that don't take much time but aren't majorly important. Put them in the do-later list and do them when you're done with your big rocks.
- Create your productivity system: Earlier, I had a reader ask me the productivity system I use and what to recommend for him to increase his output. I shared there is basically no one system that works for everyone. The key is to experiment and create the system that works best for you. Read more: The Best Productivity System There Is
- Effective->Efficient: Be effective first, then be efficient. Effectiveness refers to doing the tasks that matter. Efficient means delivering higher output in lesser time. There's no point in being efficient doing the non-value added tasks. Read more: Be the Master of Your Time.
- Quit procrastinating: Procrastinating is a huge waster. Think of all the things you could have accomplished if you never procrastinate from this point onwards! I've written a detailed 5-part series on How to Overcome Procrastination which many readers found extremely helpful in overcoming their procrastination habits.
- Use productivity tools: There are tools, both software and hardware, which help us become more productive and you should wholly leverage on them. For example, I bought the Nokia E63 Qwerty phone so I can type articles and check emails even while on the go, since I commute a lot for coaching and meet-ups with people. It has dramatically increased my productivity after that. I also use Evernote and Sticky Notes as a quick way to dump and access information. Gcal is my central calendar and gmail is my holy grail for emails. There's even mindmapping software to make brainstorming easier!
Here's a list of my favorite freeware, with more than half of them being productivity tools. Some examples of hardware which improve productivity are PDAs (personal organizers), 3G mobile phones (check emails, get connected), laptops (to work on the go) and mp3 players (for listening to news/radio/podcasts).
- Meditate. It clears the mind, calms the soul, brings your awareness to your priorities and helps you to focus on whatever you are doing later on. I went to a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat in '09 and felt a big boost in momentum after I returned.
- Get a headstart: Wake up early – Start off your day ahead of others. When doing your tasks, start it 5 or 10 minutes earlier than the time you specify. Because you are an extra step ahead, you will feel especially good about it and be motivated to run fast to keep your lead.
- Practice 80/20 rule. 80/20 rule refers to the phenomenon where 20% of causes lead to 80% of the results. Quit trying to be a perfectionist and focus on the 20% of the things that matter. Read my 3-part series on 80/20 Principlefor more on 80/20 rule and how to implement it in your life.
- Clear your mind. The higher your mental clarity, the more you can focus on your task, and the higher your productivity. I use an exercise I call brain dumping to clear our distracting thoughts and increase my mental clarity. Read more: Increase Your Mental Clarity in 15 Minutes. Another way is to meditate. It clears the mind, calms the soul, brings your awareness to your priorities and helps you to focus on whatever you are doing later on.
- Be organized. Having everything in an organized fashion makes it easier to do your work. Have a good filing system for your documents (both the soft copy and hard copy) so you can retrieve whatever you want easily.
- Delegate. If the work is something that needs to be done but (1) can be better done by someone else (2) isn't part of your scope of work or (3) isn't the best use of your time, delegate it out to the relevant people. Striving to get the maximum out of the time you have involves taking out items which aren't effective uses of your time, such as administrative work.
- Outsource. Same as Delegate, except you pay someone to do it. With the internet being ubiquitous, you can easily hire someone from the developing countries to do work at a very low price. You can also get professional work done, such as design, photography, etc at a reasonable price. Try Odesk and Elance.
- Cut out your distractions / Eliminate time wasters. Distractions exist all around us – MSN, Facebook, Twitter, TV, Radio, your mobile, etc. Remove all of them before you get to work. I used to do my work and MSN at the same time, then realized that I didn't get anything concrete done during the period. Now I just cut them out totally. If you want an ultimate no-distraction period, remove internet access altogether. You will naturally start doing your work in due time with the other modes of distractions are removed.
- Master your skills. To get your work done well and fast, you need to first master your skills. In gaming terms, level up. For example if you are a photographer, you can't be getting ahead on your photography work if you haven't gotten acquainted with the functions of your camera and your graphic software. Read: Skills Development.
- Productivity periods. All of us have times when we are more productive. For me, it's early morning and late at night. Identify these times and schedule the toughest work to be done during then. For the other times, just slot in the menial work or just relax.
- Peak enjoyment. Find the most enjoyable manner to get things done and you will get more work done than using any other method. For example, I get more workout done when I'm enjoying the sport (frisbee/badminton) than when I do something less enjoyable (say, working out at the gym).
- Just do it. Stop finding excuses and just do it. Within 5 minutes into the task, the momentum will start to flow.
- Be well rested. A good sleep perks me up for whatever is next. Note that quality of sleep is the key, not quantity. Before you sleep, try journaling or meditation to clear the clutter in your mind so you can sleep better later.
- Learn from the best. Identify the people who are the best in what you are trying to do. Learn from them, understand the best practices they adopt and model their behaviors. This cuts short your learning curve by a big chunk. Read: Be a Better Me in 30 Days Program, Day 16: Seek Advice From Someone
- Search and reapply. Look at the best practices from other places. Apply them to what you are doing now. Many best practices can actually be cross-applied to different places, also known as the Medici-Effect.
- Improvise. Set a target. Track your performance. If you fall short of your expectations, evaluate how you can improve next time. If you meet your target, see how you can perform even better next time.
- Read productivity materials. Good productivity books include David Allen's Getting Things Done and Timothy Ferriss' Four Hour Work Week. Productivity blogs you can check out are Life Hacker, Life Hack and Getting Things Done. Just bear in mind not to get too caught up with life hacks and miss the bigger picture of what you are trying to do.
- Create your life handbook. An idea I started in 2007, a life handbook like a life manual where you store your purpose, long-term goals, short-term goals, strategies, plans, and many other information on how to live your best life. It gets your priorities in order and keeps you focused. Read: Live a Better Life in 30 Days Program, Day 17: Create Life Handbook
- Bundle/Batch similar tasks. Put the same tasks together to get synergy out of them. For example, if you need to buy groceries from the supermarket, work out the other things you need to get from the mart so you can purchase them all at a go. If you need to work on Project A, finish everything related to Project A in the same session rather than scattering them throughout the day.
- Use the best tools. The tools you use are supposed to make you faster, not slower. Upgrade to the latest versions of software (Lotus Notes, Outlook, Photoshop, MS Office, etc). Use a computer with an optimal processor speed. Make sure your internet connection is not slowing you down.
- Reward yourself. An incentive will perk things up. Tie whatever you do with a nice reward at the end. Besides the sweet feeling of completion, now you have something else to motivate yourself to work faster.
- Learn to say No. If you want to get things done, this means standing up for yourself and saying no to other things. Things you don't want to do, things which are unimportant, and things which are unrelated. You will never make progress in what you want to do if you keep saying yes all the time.
- Quit to win. Sometimes, if things we are doing are heading nowhere, it's time to just cut it off on the spot. There's no point in finishing something for the sake of finishing them – it defeats the purpose.
- Create a conducive environment. Your work environment plays an important role in your attitude toward your work. Make sure you are working in a personal space that motivates you. My bedroom is also my office and I have set it up to be an inspirational environment. Read more: Does Your Room Inspire You?
- Improve your posture. Your posture affects your productivity too. Get into a good posture and your attention span and productivity on your work will increase too.
- Delete limiting thoughts. Worrying about some hypothetical scenario that has not occurred yet? Thinking negative thoughts? Feeling negative feelings? Stop living in your bubble and trash these all out with the [Delete] button. You don't need all these things to hold you back.
- Cut down on commuting time. Commuting time is probably the one thing that eats up people's time. Cut down on your commute by taking shorter routes, taking a cab, hitching a ride in someone's car, working from home, using a car pool, etc. If you can't, then leverage on productivity tools (see tip #11) to make the best of your traveling time.
- Time box. Set aside a fixed time slot to work on your tasks. You must work on that task and only that task during that time slot, no more, no less. (Hence the term, time 'box', since the task is boxed within the time). Most people set aside a time to work on a task and continue working on it till they are done, even if it means exceeding the time. Because of that, they develop the mentality that it's okay not to finish a task within the allotted time slot since there's time later to do it. This decreases their productivity. With time boxing, the non-negotiable cut-off timing makes you more productive.
- Set a target. A target or a goal gives you something to work toward. Better still, make it a challenge that is still achievable at the same time.
- Set a deadline. Put a deadline to the goal you set (Tip #42). A deadline creates speed and action.
- Keep your emails in check. Emails are supposed to make things more effective, not bog you down. Make sure you are managing your emails well – Check out How to Be an Email Master.
- Plan your task. A blueprint is needed to build a building. Similarly, a good plan facilitates your work by quantum leaps. For example, you want to write a 10 page report. Attempting to write it immediately without organizing your thoughts will lead to a jumble of ideas and a lot of eventual rework. Investing some time to develop an outline and clarify your thinking will lead you to a higher quality output with lesser time and effort spent overall.
- Be on time. Be on time for everything on your schedule. This minimizes possibility that your tasks slide off the schedule and affect other things later on. Read: 17 Tips To Be On Time
- Visualization. Imagine you have finished the task. Feel that surge of euphoria. Now, ride on that wave of energy and use that to move your tasks into completion.
- Practice makes perfect. It takes 10,000 hours to become a master at what you do. Make sure you put in the due diligence in your work. The better you are at it, the more you can do in the same amount of time.
- Use overwhelming force: Blast all your energy and get the task nailed down, rather than try to tackle the task with little spurts of energy. If you imagine you have a report which takes 3 hours to finish, channeling all your energy to get it done in one sitting is better than the alternative where you do it for 30 minutes every day, each time having to recollect where you left off previously.
- Get a coach. A coach brings your awareness to your blind spots, pushes you forward and opens you up to new levels of performance you never thought of.
- Time out (Have a break/vacation). If your brain is completely fried or if you are physically too tired, give yourself a time out. No point pushing yourself onward and moving millimeters forward when you can give yourself a good rest and boost yourself after that. Else, you'll just end up in a productivity slump. Having a vacation/full break is also important. I went to a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat in '09 and felt a big boost in momentum after I returned.
Get the manifesto version of this article: [Manifesto] The Productivity Manifesto
This is part of the Maximizing Productivity series. Check out the other articles:
- Become the Master of Your Time
- Put First Things First
- How to Achieve More With Less Using The 80/20 Principle (3-part series)
- Get Your Big Rocks In First
- Law of Diminishing Returns
- Boost Your Productivity in 50 Ways
- The 8 Habits of Highly Productive People
- Busy vs. Productive: 7 Tips to be Productive, Not Busy
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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the " essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.
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I like to keep things simple, that is deal with one mistake at a time. And also I don't correct my students' work; instead I point out to them where the mistake lies and have them correct it themselves (either individually or in pairs).
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An Ohio State University Study stated that "70 percent of older Americans turn to alternative medicines to treat their health problems." (Healthy Alternatives for the Elderly, M. Sottosanti, Associated Content).
What are some of those alternative sources?
A well-known source of alternative medicine is the use of herbs and nutritional supplements. For example, we know that as we age our hearts become weaker and often require a boost from some form of medication for high blood pressure, heart disease, etc. An alternative to these prescribed medications could be the use of omega 3 capsules (fish oil), known to not only aid in the lowering of blood pressure, but also helping build a strong heart and vascular system.
Eastern medicine has offered the West the use of acupuncture – a means of controlling the flow of energy in the body. This treatment is primarily considered non-invasive in nature (even though very thin needles are utilized, it is not a surgical procedure by any stretch of the imagination). Combine this with Chiropractic treatments – the realigning of the body skeletal system through manipulation of those parts which then restores the proper nerve functioning – and you now have yet another non-invasive alternative to surgery.
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In a general sense, many folks are reassessing the method in which they approach their overall health. For example, elders once thought of doctors as god-like in their abilities (not in the literal sense mind you). Today, with the proliferation of publicly known lawsuits and the media reporting every failure discovered that a doctor may have, the elder population is seeking alternatives to Westernized medicine and its doctors.
An area that has come out from under its hiding spot is Naturopathy – the healing process that employs the use of more natural forces; such as air, water, sunshine to treat diseases while rejecting more Western medical practices. And it should also be noted that many people in general, not just the elderly, are turning to these alternative forms of treatment (if we can use that term).
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Once we are able to fully integrate the various options for treatment that are available, we may find our children and our children's children living routinely to 100 years of age and up.
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It sounds like there are questions out there that I may be able to help answer. I am going to start with the question about exercising and shoulder pain.
Obviously, shoulders were not made for the repetitive use and stress that they are put under when your arms are used for mobility. Shoulder pain is exacerbated by muscle imbalances - the primary motions/forces you are going through are pushing down. You push down to propel a wheelchair, you push down to transfer, you push down to do a pressure relief. All this use of the pecs cause them to get stronger and tighter. It brings your shoulder blades around the rib cage, giving a rounded shoulder look. This decreases the space on the front of the shoulder where all the rotator cuff tendons, peripheral nerves, and blood supply to the arms run. This can set up the rotator cuff tendons to rub on the acromion with overhead movement.
What can help? First of all - stretch those pecs!! In a doorway is good (I'm hoping the picture I attach shows up) as long as you are getting your shoulder blade back and down. You could also lay on your back and open your arms up - increased the stretch with a towel roll down your spine. You also want to stretch your biceps because they too get tight when that shoulder blade is stuck in a forward position. For the doorway stretch, just straighten out your arm and turn more. You should feel the stretch down the biceps if you're doing it right.
Stretch every day! Hold each for 20 seconds and do it 3 times.
Exercising is great, but you don't want to work out those muscles that are already overused and tight. You want to work out those muscles that are supposed to hold your shoulder blade back. When those pecs are tight, and the shoulder blades are curved, the muscles in the back are lengthened, and therefore weaker. Exercise them to get them stronger while stretching to get those shoulder blades to stay back where they are supposed to be.
A band is sufficient. Pullies are good too.
1. Rows - holding arms straight out, pull the elbows back
2. Shoulder external rotation - keep your elbow at your side, with a 90 degree angle, and pull the band/pulley away from your stomach
3. Shoulder adduction - with you arm straight out to the side (don't go above the shoulder) pull the band straight down. Keep the elbow straight.
4. This is a tricky one, if you hold your arms straight out in front of you, keeping the elbows straight, you want to push the arms forward so the shoulder blades come around the rib cage. Think of a boxer giving a hook and how the shoulder blade comes around to get a better reach.
I would recommend a light weight that does NOT increase your pain, and doing 2 sets of 15, 3 times a week. If you have shoulder pain, ice your shoulders after the exercises. I know - ice sucks! No one likes it. But it helps! Keep it on for 20 minutes.
Let me know if you have any questions. Hope that is a good start. Feel free to ask about anything you think a PT can help with.