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Twitter is a great tool for business. The instant nature of 'tweeting' (posting micro-blogs of 140 characters or less) appeals to people who want immediate access to up-to-date information. Often, information is purposely posted or leaked on twitter long before it's officially announced in the mainstream media. While individuals use this immediacy to stay informed about friends, celebrities, people and products they admire, business can use the power of Twitter to connect and build deeper relationships with their customers.
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Businesses that tweet have a distinct advantage over their non-tweeting rivals. For instance, consider these examples:
- Business owners can promote their products and services directly to a target audience by focusing their efforts on people likely to be interested. For instance, a store selling BMX bikes can find people in their local area that tweet about BMX bikes by using the 'advanced search' feature.
- Getting instant access to what's being said – this minute – about your company, people, products, or brands enables professional and responsive brand management. Also, monitoring the negative comments about your competitors enables business owners to swoop in the moment unhappy customers are ready to jump ship.
- The ability to quickly connect and network with others in your industry opens up opportunities for collaboration and reciprocation. It can be a good tool to establish relationships with potential suppliers and even potential employees.
- The constant steady stream of ideas, content, resources and links helps you stay informed and enhances your knowledge in your field of expertise.
- You can extend the reach of your thought leadership by sharing your blog posts and other content.
Tips for effective business tweeting
The most common mistake businesses make on twitter is losing the human touch. If your twitter time-line for your business is solely focused on announcing to the world 'BUY OUR PRODUCTS NOW!', you'll quickly be seen as spam and people will avoid you like the plague. Of course, you want people to buy your products, but to do this on Twitter involves building and interacting with a community, rather than non-stop pimping of your stuff.
Commenting on tweets and re-tweeting posts is a great way to get involved with your community. However, in order to build trust with your community, the comments you make must add value to the conversation. Simply saying 'great post' to everything you read adds no value whatsoever. You need to use your area of expertise, whatever it is, to show that you are an expert in your field, or at least a competent participant.
Share links and point to nifty content in your community, even if its your competitors. Remember, its not just about you. If you find something that grabs your attention in your niche, tell your followers and share it. It's far better to be seen as a great source of quality information, rather than a self-absorbed exclude-a-bot (narcissistic robot).
If your website has an RSS feed, you can post it straight to your twitter account using an app called Twitterfeed. This neat app posts tweets about your new web content automatically, saving you the hassle. You can also configure it to post on other social media sites like Facebook and LinkdIn. If you have a blog, this app is an absolute necessity.
To find people in your industry, use a Twitter directory like Twellow. Add a listing for your business if you haven't already. Sometimes following and interacting with people who have a large number of followers can lead to more people following you. If your goal is networking, however, it can often be a good idea to find people who are also just getting started. If your goal is to keep tabs on your industry leaders, then spend more time focusing on finding and interacting with them.
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Finally, consider using the 'promoted products' feature of Twitter. Unlike traditional ads, this feature places your tweets in front of the right people at the right time (people who have already shown an interest in your products or services). You don't pay for simply showing up on someone's page – you pay when they click or interact with your content (see video below).
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Brother Hugh Albright, 82, of Mt. Airy, a retired mathematics professor at La Salle University and former dean of its College of Arts and Sciences, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 24 at Chestnut Hill Hospital.
Brother Albright retired in 1995 after serving on La Salle's faculty for more than three decades. He was dean of Arts and Sciences from 1970 to 1976.
Earlier he had served on the staff of the Christian Brothers Scholasticate in Elkins Park. His first teaching assignment was at St. Francis Vocational School in Eddington.
Brother Albright was born in Jerusalem, the son of a prominent archaeologist father and a mother who was a professor with a Ph.D. in Sanskrit languages. His father, William F. Albright, was head of the Department of Semitic Languages at Johns Hopkins University.
Brother Albright attended a Christian Brothers school in Maryland and entered the religious order at the age of 18. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Catholic University, graduating summa cum laude. He earned a master's degree and doctorate in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.
He played piano and studied Gregorian chants, which he taught to the Student Christian Brothers Choir at La Salle.
Brother Albright is survived by brothers David and Stephen.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated March 1 at the university's De La Salle Chapel. Interment was at the Brothers Cemetery in Beltsville, Md.
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Just downloaded it and took a look over some of the new features, and I am so happy that there's finally a built-in Swing GUI editor!
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We just got a tip from our guy Skiny (above), idea man and Audi Avant road-rallyist. His latest project involves a ragtag group of diesel engineers, celebrities and related cohorts. Their mission is to field a 100% biodiesel team to run the Tecate Baja 1000 in November. Heavyweights Bosch and Gale Banks Engineering are reportedly on board to work up three stock truggies (those are the half truck, half dune buggies Baja types use for their intradesert runs). And there's talk of biodiesel proponent and driver of a veggie El Camino Daryl Hannah, and Hayden "That Anakin Guy" Christensen, being involved in some capacity. More details to come when Skiny decides to spill the whole thing. No word on whether the bio juice will come from corn or cactus hooch.
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Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick
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Beautifully situated on the banks of the river Dahme, the Baroque palace of Köpenick houses treasures from the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts), complementing the museum's main exhibition space at the Kulturforum.
The palace complex, never fully completed, is located on a manmade island on the outskirts of the old town centre of Köpenick. The main building was constructed between 1677 and 1690 on the site of an earlier hunting palace of the Brandenburg electors to designs by architects Rutger van Langervelt and Johann Arnold Nering. It was commissioned by the Hohenzollern prince-elector Friedrich (later Friedrich III Elector of Brandenburg and Friedrich I King of Prussia). The ensemble includes a historical gateway, a chapel and an old utilities building that today houses storage rooms, a conservation studio and a café.
Schloss Köpenick (Köpenick Palace) has been used as an exhibition space by the Kunstgewerbemuseum since 1963. Before the reunification of Germany, artworks located in the east of Berlin were put on display here. The buildings on the island were later fully renovated and since 2004 have housed the permanent exhibition "RoomArt", focussing on the decorative arts of the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo periods. Spread across three floors, the museum presents outstanding masterworks in interior design from the 16th to 18th centuries.
A collection of outstanding quality awaits visitors to the museum, ranging from priceless pieces of furniture to tapestries, wall panelling and wallpaper. Further exhibits include mirrors, clocks, lamps and table centrepieces. Today classed as exceptional artworks, these objects once belonged to the standard decor of living and reception rooms in grand houses and palaces. Among the highlights of the exhibition are the inlaid wainscoting from the palaces Haldenstein and Höllrich from the mid-16th century, the Wiesentheid Chamber of Mirrors from 1724/25 and the Lacquer Room with decorative scenes in the chinoiserie style that was created in 1740/50 for the Palazzo Granieri in Turin. Visitors are able to walk into the rooms and immerse themselves in these impressive interiors. The prestigious Heraldic Room of the palace showcases the table service commissioned by Friedrich II in 1767 from the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM) for the city palace in Breslau. A few rooms further on, visitors can admire the famous silver buffet that once stood in the Knight's Hall of Schloss Berlin.
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In an inexplicable and seemingly endless effort to connect violent first-person shooters with indigestible neon fluids, Monster Energy Drink has upped the ante with the brand-new Modern Warfare 2 Monster Assault Energy Drink. Yes, that's the name. Why a company would sell a consumable product with a word like "Assault" in its name is anyone's guess, but perhaps it's a baby step towards consumer honesty from the energy drink industry. Yeah, we doubt it.
Monster was kind enough to assault our work desks with cases of its nuclear nectar and we can confirm first-hand that it tops Mountain Dew's Halo Gamefuel in nearly every possible category of repugnance. The fruity goop is thick, blood-red, and tastes like Kiefer Sutherland vomited cough syrup in to our mouths like some sort of post-apocalyptic mother bird. But it's the can itself that really exudes the most obnoxious aura. The tall silver bullet of poison is adorned with camo texture, nameless soldiers and the most douchey collection of buzzwords concentrated in one place since Kanye West wrote his own Wikipedia page. In context, the words make no sense whatsoever. But out of context, they make an awesome heavy metal band name generator!
Worse yet is the product blurb on the side of the can, which was seemingly written by a corporate hippie mid-skateboard ollie through his midlife crisis.
So let's see how the two products stack up "nutritionally":
Mmm! Delicious maltodextrin or frothy, tasty glycerol ester of wood rosin? Decisions, decisions. Regardless of choice, do be sure to limit yourself to only three cans a day. So sorry to break the bad news to those of you planning on bathing in this stuff, mainlining it or breastfeeding it to your babies. The reason for including the nutritional facts is to point out the obvious: These drinks will both kill you. They're the worst possible substances on earth to put into your body. Both concoctions are basically combinations of lab-produced chemicals and artificially bright colors that produce a garbage soup for your mouth. We understand that gamers get hungry and thirsty, but these drinks are specifically designed to kill us. So be careful out there, because if you're a gamer you're a high-value target for a marketing douchebag.
Verdict: Halo Gamefuel tastes slightly better and doesn't have the consistency of prop zombie movie liquid, but both should be avoided if you value your life whatsoever. If you don't, they'll certainly hold you over until Combat Crysis Sprite and Killzone Intestinal Resistance Spray are undoubtedly unleashed upon us all.


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Wireless "Park-and-Charge" self-charging system for electric vehicles.
Wireless "Park-and-Charge" self-charging system for electric vehicles.
Lots of threads on this. Low efficiency and max power seems the main problem.
I read somewhere where they have achieved 97% efficiency.
And there will eventually be no need to stop. I've seen them showing on the go charging at up to 200MPH.
I've seen a Japanese project where they want to use the steel belts in tires as pickups.
Even if it can't charge the battery it could have the car running without using the battery.
Car speed is no problem, electricity moves way faster.
97% efficiency is a problem. You need to align coils perfectly and get it very close to each other to get over 90% efficiency, so from distance over 10cm that's not going to happen. You probably remember first number wrong, 87% sounds more like it (from distance more than few centimeters).
Also charging power is problem, you need 15-20kW just to keep car moving at 60mph, and that requires some heavy duty coils to transfer such amount of power.
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Modern electronics are really fast. I read about laser fence made against mosquitoes that was made from computer, old laser printer and digital camera optics. It recognized the species of the mosquitoes and if the target matched the parameters shot it down with a laser. Funny gizmo, but shows what just everyday taken as granted objects could do if made to do something we are not used to think of off the computer screen.
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Hm, wonder how the zapper would do against fire ants, etc. That would be fun to watch!
@Timo: I want one.
Be great for door to door salesmen.
"I read somewhere where they have achieved 97% efficiency."
Hi Mark,
This article illustrasts why the 97% efficiency is dubious for a wireless charging system.
CES 2011: eCoupled Induction Charging for EVs
In the article it shows a proof of concept demonstration of the Fulton eCoupled system using a Tesla Roadster. The graphic compares efficiences for different configurations. Notice that the current direct wired system only has an efficiency of 96% from the wall due to losses through the cabling. The wireless options have cabling losses as well as other losses.
Sorry this is the appropriate graphic.
This sketchy article seems to support a 97% efficiency for a magnetic resonance technique.
Charge your electric car on the move
However, it appears to be a theoretical calculated value, which probably doesn't even consider the cabling losses.
Fan, who presented his work at the Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project Symposium in October, wondered whether magnetic power transfer would be possible at highway speeds, and at levels sufficient for vehicles. Accounting for the metal body and movement of the car, his calculations showed that a set of resonant coils and discs could transfer about 10 kilowatts with a 97 per cent efficiency within 7 microseconds - fast enough for the highway. The system, which the group has yet to build, should be safe because power can only be transferred between two objects whose resonance is very closely attuned.
In reviewing the above calculations it is very hard to take seriously the claim that 10kW of energy could be transferred in just 7 microseconds with a wireless process when it takes hours to do it with directly wired charging.
kW is a measure of power, not energy. If you can transfer 10kW of power, the time doesn't come into it at all. If you can keep it up for an hour, that would be 10kWh of energy, which would be useful. As it is, the amount of energy transferred in those 7 microseconds would be a negligible fraction of a watt-hour, and probably not enough energy to overcome wind resistance to get to the next "object whose resonance is very closely attuned". In other words, the claim is meaningless.
That might mean pulsed 7 microseconds for a time that car is actually above the coil in right position. In 7 microseconds a car that is traveling at 96km/h (60mph) moves 0.187 mm. That might mean just that they can pulse the energy to the car exactly when car is at right position. That's what I said in my reply, car speed is not a problem, electricity moves a lot faster than a car.
Of course you get a lot less efficiency from actual transfer that lasts any length of time. Also I don't believe that "97% efficiency" claim. It could work if the system practically touches the car. I don't think that efficient real life wireless energy transfer has been made even for stationary objects at 10cm or so apart, much less for moving objects that are never that well aligned (cars do not move at rails, you will be off mark from left or right way more than that 10 cm most of the time).
Thanks for the correction.
This undated white paper may be of interest.
Wireless Power Transfer to Moving Vehicles
In it the authors describe two types of simulations. The first is with dilectric discs in which they claim to have an energy transfer efficiency of nearly 100%. The second simulation uses conducting wire loops in which they state "Even without the optimization of the device design, the energy transfer efficiency is shown to be around 85%. The energy exchange time is about 10 microseconds."
As I stated earlier, these efficiencies must refer strictly to the energy transfer and do not consider losses in getting from the receiving coil or disc to the battery and then electric motor.
I still don't quite understand how this has practical applications unless traveling over thousands of transmitting coils provide a cummulative charge that is useful.
(link doesn't work. I'm guessing one-time link based on very weird address).
I still don't quite understand how this has practical applications unless traveling over thousands of transmitting coils provide a cummulative charge that is useful.
I think that is the idea. Entire length of road is one huge wireless charger.
Hi Timo,
In the white paper Prof. Fan states, "In particular, a recent experiment, conducted at MIT, has demonstrated that two resonant
circuits, with their magnetic fields strongly coupled in the near-field regime, allows highly efficient power transfer over a distance of approximately one meter."
According to the paper the MIT experiments demonstrated power transfer of 60W for stationary coils.
famous "two coils, MIT team between them, and 60W lightbulb at other coil light" -picture. :-)
"efficient" is a bit stretched concept here. It's way more efficient than without magnetic resonance coupling, but it still was less than 90%.
Also coils were large. About half a meter in diameter IIRC, for just measly 60W transfer, and they needed to be aligned in same plane (IE. no angle between coils). Design was typical "proof of concept" laboratory-style.
(link doesn't work. I'm guessing one-time link based on very weird address).
Hi Timo,
The link oddly seems to work intermitently.
Just like the power transfer?
Me thinks gas stations should offer electric car charging.
You bet.
Most electric car owners also buy gas. Guess where they'd buy it if their local gas station also offered them free charging?!
Most gas stations sell other products besides gas, like soda pop, candy, coffee, etc......
I bet while charging, electric car owners would make purchases.
It's the right thing to do.
Can you imagine the great positive PR chevron would receive if they provided electric car charging?!
They'll have to do it eventually.
Soon enough there will be no more gas to sell.
And people are buying electric cars NOW in significant numbers.
The McDonald's in Barstow, California has a Tesla charger!
Now that's saying something!
You can bet I will stop there and spend money.
It's time for America to catch up with the rest of the world and establish a first class electric car charging network.
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Good points, but the "no more gas to sell" delusion is no truer now than it ever was. EVs will make it on their own merits, not because gas is scarce.
BTW Frank, is that charger at McDonalds in Barstow 70A?
Although gas stations have some pluses as charging locations -- roadside convenience chief among them -- they're low down on my list of ideal locations. Who likes to hang out at a gas station for even 5 minutes, let alone 40? There's nothing to do, typically only junk food to eat, soda and bad coffee to drink, and nothing else to recommend it.
Far better to get EVSEs installed at places where you choose to spend time, either for pleasure or business, such as supermarkets, cinemas, town centers, malls, and restaurants. Gas stations exist only because they are doling out dangerous biohazards that need separation from other aspects of our lives. Not so with electricity.
Good point. You'll never see, e.g., a filling pump in a hotel underground parking lot. But I can see a whole level of one being dedicated to EVs, with perhaps a $2-5 flat fee for access, and all spots having 240V charging.
Actually, Qualcomm is ALL OVER wireless EV charging:


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Faith 21, the new "plus-size" line from Forever 21, is out.
The bad news: The goods pretty much range from "meh" to "WTF?" (I realize I'm like 20 years older than the target market here, but still: Not a dress, not a dress, not a dress. I would consider buying this AS A SHIRT.)
The good/bad news: It probably won't fit you anyway.
When I first heard about Faith 21, I noted that they only planned to go up to a junior 2X, which is not so much "adding a plus-size line" as "expanding our range of sizes all the way up to roughly a standard XL!" Now, having seen the size chart, I can say it's even worse than I thought:
Are you fucking kidding me? For the record, I often wear the smallest plus size available in actual plus size stores, and I can still wear some straight XLs, at least on top. (My ass is pretty consistently an 18W these days, but in tops and dresses with full skirts, I'm usually a 14W.) And my measurements are 43-38-48. Ergo, I am pretty much sized out of this line. The only other ostensibly plus-size line I know of in which I wear a 3X is Stop Staring, which is well known for running — as Fillyjonk puts it — "criminally small."
As I said before, this is great for true in-betweenies, who often really are screwed when it comes to finding clothes that fit. But it's not so great that this is being heralded as a "plus-size" line when it's anything but. It's bad enough that "junior plus" sizes further confuse the issue of what a "2X" (etc.) is to begin with, but when your junior "2X" is more like a usual junior "1x," which is already like a plain old "X" (edited to fix arithmetic fail), who the fuck are you trying to kid? And what the fuck is the point? You are setting yourself up to fail, when all those girls who wear a Torrid 2X and were stoked to be able to go to (a few) Forever 21 stores with their friends find out that they still can't wear your shit, and even if they could, they'd need to carry all of their weight somewhere other than their thighs in order to pull half of it off. (Unless, of course, they're rocking massive body confidence, which would be fantastic — but I'm thinking that segment of the teenaged fat girl market is pretty damn limited.)
Between designs that are only meant for basically thin girls with bellies, sizing that still excludes a great deal of the junior plus market, and the decision to only offer the line in a handful of bricks-and-mortar stores, I give Faith 21 about 3 months before it folds, the company sends out a press release saying "the market just wasn't there," and Forever 21 once again becomes a Thin Girls Only store. Awesome work, guys. Just terrific.


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Forrest was riding his motorcycle in the parking lot of the San Juan County Fairgrounds when the storm hit. With his mother, Mailee Forrest, watching, a massive lightning bolt struck CJ while he was mounted on the motorcycle. She reports that her son glowed when the bolt struck.
She screamed in horror, thinking her son would be killed. However, he jumped back on the motorcycle and rode back to his grandparent's home just east of the fairgrounds.
While Forrest was aware that he had been struck by lightning, he was unable to communicate for several minutes after being struck.
After it became apparent that he was OK, CJ stayed at his grandparents' home. Later in the afternoon, he went to the San Juan Hospital, where a thorough check revealed he had suffered no permanent injury despite being struck by lightning.
CJ and his family returned home to northern Utah the following day. It will be a Pioneer Day weekend that he and his family will remember for years to come.
CJ is the son of Mailee and Troy Forrest of Tremonton, UT, the grandson of Jimmie and Carol Forrest and the great grandson of Nell Dalton of Monticello.


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Their uncle was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Five years later their father was assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel ballroom during his primary victory celebration.
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But at what cost in lost liberty and dollars? Civil libertarians fear the era of surveillance and circumspection could become permanent.
The United States has spent an additional $400 billion on security plus $1.3 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan before counting interest on the war debt and healthcare for veterans, according to the "Costs of War" research project by Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
The president and police have more power, claiming more authority to snoop into the private lives of citizens with less oversight from the courts. Airport security are much more thorough.
Soon after September 11, the U.S. government resorted to two controversial practices in response to threats from abroad — extraordinary rendition — the illegal transfer of foreign suspects captured abroad to a third country for detention and interrogation — and imprisonment of suspected militants captured abroad at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"Ten years later, if we are still in this emergency mindset, then this is now who we are. This is the new normal," said Susan Herman, president of the American Civil Liberties Union. "At some point if you don't reverse that process you really have moved yourself into an Orwellian state."
For many who remember the mass loss of life on that crisp, clear Tuesday morning 10 years ago, the "new normal" has served the country well.
"To me there's no doubt it's been worth it," said U.S. congressman Peter King, a New York Republican who is chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security.
"Actions like the Patriot Act, inspections at the airports, port security — all of that is certainly better than people being burned to death or having to throw themselves out of 106-story buildings," King said. The Patriot Act, passed in October 2001, expanded the surveillance powers of U.S. law enforcement agencies.
The reaction to September 11 also created a robust security industry that has benefited companies such as OSI Systems Inc, whose Rapiscan unit makes airport screening machines. OSI's annual revenue grew from $111 million to a high of $623 million in 2008. Analysts project revenues in the $700 million range for 2012.
Other companies including L-3 Communications Holdings, Verint Systems Inc, FLIR Systems Inc and American Science and Engineering Inc saw dramatic growth but must adapt to tighter U.S. Department of Homeland Security spending because of Washington's budget crunch.
"There is no growth in U.S. government spending. The big growth for homeland security is going to be international, primarily in the Middle East," said Brian Ruttenber, an equity analyst at Morgan Keegan.
The business is feeling public opposition to intrusive scans at airports and sees more growth potential in machines that inspect cargo containers and tractor trailers.
"You don't have tons of controversy around containers," Ruttenber said.
The airport inspections are tolerated. "If I have the choice between taking off my shoes and having the risk of the plane blowing up, I'd rather take off my shoes," King said.
The invasion of privacy is more unsettling, especially for Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent who face discrimination and have been caught up in the security net.
"It's worse now than it was on September 11, 2002," said Dawud Walid, head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "I don't see things being dramatically different five to seven years from now."
One prominent civil libertarian blames President Barack Obama for expanding the growth of executive power. Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University's law school, called Obama a "nightmare" who betrayed civil libertarians after campaigning against Bush's approach.
"It's very easy to give up civil liberties but it's very difficult to regain them," Turley said. "For civil libertarians, Barack Obama has proven to be a nightmare. He has made all the arguments previously made by Bush and has gone further in some cases. He has shown very little concern for civil liberties in the area of counterterrorism."
King sees those concerns as misplaced and expressed confidence in the courts to protect innocent people who will inevitably be ensnared by police mistakes.
"I don't see any extremes at all," King said. "My concern is that people in government don't take it seriously enough and try to be politically correct."
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There's no shortage of advice on saving for retirement, and an important piece of the puzzle is having a strategy to generate sufficient income when you stop working, as Andrea Coombes recently highlighted. One interesting statistic she cited was a survey showing that 63% of people ages 35 to 75 are concerned that Social Security or pensions won't cover retirement expenses.
Do you think 63% is high? I find it surprisingly low, considering most people don't have pensions and Social Security was designed to supplement other income in retirement.
The three big factors to consider when planning for retirement are income, mortgage financing and a tax-deferred retirement plan, such as a 401(k). Other issues are important too, but if you can get those three right, you'll probably be living well in retirement.
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When planning for retirement, you might focus on the size of your nest egg as the ultimate goal. Some planners put the range at $1 million to $3 million. But that's putting the cart before the horse. It's much better to consider how much income you will need.
For example, a $1 million portfolio of investment-grade bonds in today's low-interest-rate environment may yield 4%, or $40,000 a year. When adding Social Security, could you live off that? That might be enough if your financial house is in order, but if it's not, the writing is on the wall: You need to save more.
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The return on the $1 million bond portfolio may be disheartening, but it serves a purpose. It shows how easy it is to figure out how much money you will need. You can find higher-yielding investments, but you will then have to weigh the additional risk against the reward. In the end, it's wholly possible to sock away a lot of money by controlling expenses.
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What can you afford to spend? And what does it really mean to be able to afford something? That may seem to be a silly question, but there is a common belief that you can afford something if you can make the monthly payment. But what about building up savings? For many working couples, the combination of car loans and rent or mortgage payments is so high, it's almost impossible to avoid living paycheck-to-paycheck.
Next time you finish paying off a car loan, try to resist the temptation of taking on another five-year commitment for a car you don't really don't need. Maybe you can drive that "old car" for another five years. Maybe even 10!
Chances are you're already familiar with the worst excesses of the housing bubble, which included mortgage loans with very low down payments (or none at all), financing with second mortgages or "option payment" loans, which allowed the borrower to make such low payments, the balance actually would increase each month.
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The median price for a new home during March was $290,000. For an existing home, it was $198,500.
Let's take an example of a home that costs $250,000. The down payment for most mortgage loans is 20%, or $50,000 in this case.
At Citigroup Inc.'s C, -1.54% Citi Mortgage, the interest rate for a 15-year conforming mortgage loan on Wednesday was 3.375%, while it was 4.25% for a 30-year loan. Rates can be lowered if you pay points up front, and your annual percentage rate can be a bit higher, but we're keeping things simple in this example. We're also rounding to the nearest dollar.
For the 15-year loan, the monthly payment is $1,418. For the 30-year loan, it's $984. You might go with the sub-$1,000 payment. But consider the savings of a 15-year loan: $99,042. That's the difference between interest payments on a 15-year loan ($55,153) and a 30-year loan ($154,195).
Still, a monthly payment of an additional $434 can be painful. So what can you do? How about holding off on buying a new car, going with the cheapest cable TV package, eating out less? Sniff around for savings.
Consider a smaller or less expensive home. Do you really need all that space? Do you need a showroom-style living room that nobody ever sits in?
One argument in favor of a 30-year loan is that "most people move within 10 years." Sure, but with the 15-year loan, after seven years of payments, the remaining principal is $119,113; with a 30-year loan, it's $173,097. That's a huge difference.
Here's the math: With the 15-year loan, the first payment comprises $563 in interest and $855 in principal. With the 30-year loan, it's $708 and $276, respectively. You're quickly building up equity with the 15-year loan, while the 30-year loan has you treading water early on.
One more word of advice: When buying a house, don't rely on the lender or real estate agent to estimate your annual costs for taxes and insurance. They just want to get the deal done. Make a personal visit to the city or county office to request a tax estimate. Then call an insurance agent for a price quote. Those additional payments can make or break a budget.
I once heard a banker say, "You might as well get used to always having a car payment and always having a mortgage payment." That is terrible advice. If you can afford a 15-year loan, do it. After it's paid off, you may be able to leave behind the world of borrowing.
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It's almost redundant to describe the music given how little it deviates from the Blood Brothers template after that first track; 60% of the line-up is more than enough to keep the songs strong, albeit without reaching the best moments, as yet. Going back to the lyrics then, scattered phrases hint that the BBs had become too much like a business ("Calculate, you calculator! Split my skull with useless facts and figures…" on the title track). In that case, the move to dissolve the band feels tactical ("I want to start all over again" is the last line of 'Skull Lender'). At least we've got twice as many shows to go to now… and twice as many lyrics to parse. After running through the neon shopping mall kingdom of rats for five tracks, Jordan concludes "it's alright / it's just life / it's only life" – as in, at least God's Dead, and there isn't a Hell after this one. Welcome back Blood Brother – more reasons to scream…
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Business magnate Horacio Cartes won Paraguay's presidential election on Sunday, returning his powerful center-right Colorado Party to power after the left's brief spell ended in impeachment last year.
Cartes, a political novice who had never even voted before joining the Colorado Party four years ago, won with 46 percent of votes, 9 percentage points ahead of Efrain Alegre of the ruling Liberal Party.
Thousands of Colorado Party supporters wearing red shirts and scarves honked horns and blasted traditional polka music in the capital Asuncion, celebrating their party's return to power after its 60-year reign was interrupted in 2008.
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Fernando Lugo, a leftist former Roman Catholic bishop, won Paraguay's presidency in 2008 in a vote that inspired hopes of deep reform, but he was impeached last June when the center-right Liberal Party abandoned his ruling coalition and then took over the reins from him.
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One of Paraguay's wealthiest men, Cartes primarily made his fortune in the financial and tobacco industries. Rivals have tried to link him to drug running and money laundering, but he has never been charged with those crimes and denies any wrongdoing.
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The group and others have fomented land conflicts in recent years and clashes occasionally break out between squatters and big landowners.
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Accounting Ethics
- Letto da: Tim Pabon
- Durata: 9 ore e 40 min
- Versione integrale Audiolibro
- Data di pubblicazione: 18/04/2013
- Lingua: Inglese
- Editore: Audible Studios
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The authors systematically explore the new range of ethical issues which have emerged in recent years, including the significant impact on approaches to ethical problems which resulted from the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, the financial crisis of 2008, and the move to replace GAAP with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
The audiobook begins by investigating the nature and purpose of accounting and follows with a brief study of the nature and use of ethical principles in determining accountants' responsibilities; it examines the ethical imperatives that bind professionals and the specific principles and rules that various accounting codes dictate.
Next, the audiobook explores the major types of practices in which accountants engage – auditing, managerial accounting, and tax accounting – and the responsibilities associated with those practices. The new topics are addressed in a section which highlights the debates over the use of fair–value accounting and principles– versus rules–based standards.
Ronald Duska is The Charles Lamont Post Chair of Ethics and the Professions at the American College as well as the Director of the Center for Ethics in Financial Services. He is the author and editor of several books including, Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, Ethics for the Financial Services Professional (with Julie Ragatz, 2008), and Moral Development: From Piaget to Kohlbergm. Brenda Shay Duska MT, CPA, is currently a manager at Del Pizzo & Associates, specializing in taxation. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Society for Financial Service Professionals. She serves on the boards of the non–profit, MusicWorks and the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Financial Service Professionals. Julie Ragatz is Assistant Professor of Ethics at The American College and the Associate Director of The Center for Ethics in Financial Services. She is currently finishing her PhD in philosophy at Temple University where she concentrates on ethical theory and applied ethics.
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Accounting-specific topics plus general ethics
I'm very pleased with this book. I find that the accounting ethics principles fairly well track those in my own specialty, law, but it is enlightening to see where accounting differs. A CPA has the public as a very important constituency, though the subject business (e.g., the subject of an audit by the accountant) pays the accountant's bills. The point of such services as auditing is to assure the public gets accurate material information, and other parties such as potential lenders to the business can see an accurate picture as well, but pressures from the subject company can, I'm sure, be intense (as they can from supervisors in the auditing firm who may have a keen interest in revenues from the subject company). Right away one can sense the sensitive and sometimes tough ethical challenges the accountant faces. The author goes pretty far also into more general, philosophical ethics topics, such as the categorical imperative in Kant's work. Many references are made to Enron, Arthur Anderson's fall, and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, as well as emerging rules and regulators. This might not be good beach reading for many, but it is for me.
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Ride: '04 SRT-4
Location: Pittsburgh
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Watsup Bitch, Watsup Hoe
Watsup Bitch, Watsup Hoe
Watsup Bitch, Watsup Hoe
If you a killer motherfucker, bring your anna to my door
Is this shit you wearing, who am I talking to nobody knows
If you riding with someone you know and they turn up this song
you riding with a motherfucker that think I did 'em wrong. (x2)
[Verse 1]
consequences come to those who chose to fuck with lil wyte
not always physical sometimes mental and emotional right
I'll outsmart you in a fight and come back harder on the mic
there's an inner spiritual demon that possess me to write
now that I made all these moves
my music causing some havoc
this shit is pick me up so wat in the fuck did you expect god dammit?
as long as the beat keep on rollin, my pockets gonna get swollen
I know they hate me, they let me know the first time that I told 'em
I got a mind and it's focused
you got some serious issues
I got family friends, and fans and you ain't got no one to miss you
I bet you'll life gettin hard
you lived your life in a yard
I'm for real I know there's something when you sold both of your cars
you mad at me cause I made it, I'm only havin some fun
see me on mtv yelling out who gives a fuck where you from
you might be tough with your gun but look for fun in saddham
doubt me now ?????????? I told you wyte was gon drop bombs.... [Chorus] - 2X
[DJ Paul]
yeah it's time to speed on up, we finna go into another motherfucker
galaxy nigga, bass check number two, BEEATCH
[Verse 2]
wake up bitch reality creepin around the corner
you so fucked up you couldnt be an organ donor
when I see you, I'm knockin yo head up off of your shoulders
you gon be like ah shit when you feel
these tiny boulders
you fuckin with the wrong one
the HCP cracker main, slap you man, stab you man
even quick to crack your brain
I ain't got no time for hatin faggots on the grind
keep on passin by cause I got something
you'll never fuckin find
this the realest of the real
hope you feelin it and if you don't
extend your arm and grab your remote
and turn down your radio
meanwhile, I'm gon give it raw
and write it as nasty as this shit can be
Its easy when you rappin over the hardest motherfuckin beats
I am not braggin, and I'm not big headed, nor am I conceded
but I'm proud of myself and the way I supposedly succeeded
you want to bring it to my door
or be a bitch and catch me slippin
either way it goes this unit I'm grippin's gonna get you, pimpin
[Chorus] - 2X
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In with the conservatives, out with the pottymouths.
Arizona legislators are considering one bill that would punish college instructors whose speech or actions would violate broadcast obscenity standards and another bill designed to protect conservative faculty members from discrimination in getting hired or tenured.
Many in the higher education community aren't amused.
A University of Arizona physiology professor worries that the obscenity proposal, dubbed the G-rated bill, might affect his ability to discuss sexually transmitted diseases in class. The American Association of University Professors says that both bills would be harmful to higher education.
The "G-rated" bill would require colleges to suspend or fire an instructor who "engages in speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the Federal Communications Commission concerning obscenity, indecency and profanity if that speech were broadcast on television or radio". The first four-letter word would bring at least a one-week suspension without pay. By the third violation, the instructor would have to be terminated.
Introduced by Republican senator Lori Klein, the restrictions apply to any "person who provides classroom instruction" in public institutions from preschools to community colleges and four-year universities. And in its current phrasing, Klein's bill doesn't seem to differentiate between obscenity in the classroom and actions elsewhere.
Multiple attempts to reach Klein on Thursday were unsuccessful, but her bill seems to have momentum. The measure has four Republican co-sponsors, including the Senate's majority leader, and is now in committee.
But John Curtis, director of research and public policy for the AAUP, said the bill is "probably unconstitutional" and "seems fundamentally inconsistent with the whole idea of higher education and academic freedom".
Timothy Secomb, a University of Arizona physiology professor, wonders what might happen when a medical class discusses the reproductive system or sexual behaviour. Those lessons often involve graphic images and discussions that probably wouldn't be allowed during primetime on CBS, but that Secomb argues are essential in training students. "If I was talking about the spread of sexually transmitted disease," he said, "then one has to talk about the ways people have sex. There's no way around that. Basically these rules would interfere with normal and necessary education of our students." Secomb also worries what the bill would mean for classes reading literature that might contain vulgarities or racial slurs.
In Arizona's other chamber, legislators are debating a bill that would ban discrimination based on a public college faculty member's religious or political beliefs. A committee passed the bill on Wednesday by a 7-1 vote with one abstention, with a bipartisan group of seven representatives voting in favour.
Tom Forese, the Republican from Gilbert who introduced the measure, told the Verde News that the bill is designed to protect conservatives who feel that they are discriminated against in the hiring and tenuring process. Forese wasn't aware of anyone in Arizona willing to publicly claim that type of discrimination, telling the Verde News that they fear retribution and must "pretend to think or believe in a different way in order to fit in".
His bill mandates that hiring and tenuring decisions be "on the basis of that faculty member's competence and appropriate knowledge in the field" and asks colleges to assemble their staff "with a view toward fostering a plurality of methodologies and perspectives" in the humanities, social sciences and arts. The protections apply for instructors of all political and religious persuasions.
But while he agrees that conservatives and Christians shouldn't be discriminated against, Curtis of the AAUP said that the bill would add an unnecessary layer of government interference designed to right a non-existent wrong.
"There's no problem," he said, "so there's no need to legislate a solution."
He points to an article by a conservative professor in the AAUP's publication, Academe, that suggests that widespread paranoia about political discrimination is unfounded.
Secomb, the physiology professor, also opposes the bill. He said that religious and political discrimination is a "non-issue" in his experience, and that asking for a variety of perspectives among faculty members could be dangerous.
"In many fields," he said, "there may be a consensus that some methodologies and perspectives are unacceptable."
And almost paradoxically, Curtis said, Forese's bill would make political and religious views a hiring issue by mandating the "plurality" of perspectives. Attempts to contact Forese by phone and email on Thursday failed.
But a lawyer at the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian group working to defend religious freedom in colleges, said that Forese's bill is necessary and that discrimination against Christian academics is real.
"This type of legislation is sorely needed," said ADF senior counsel David Cortman in an email message to Inside Higher Ed. "When you compare the lopsided number of liberal professors to those who are conservative, there certainly is a crisis of one-sided views being taught to the next generation. Public universities are no longer the marketplace of ideas, but rather have become storefronts of indoctrination."


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Houston: Hubcap Grill Can't Quite Match the Hype
Hubcap Grill
1111 Prairie St, Houston TX 77002 (map); 713-223-5885; hubcapgrill.com
Cooking Method: Griddled
Short Order: Fresh chuck burgers on custom buns can't overcome their blandness to be anything other than ordinary
Want Fries with That? Definitely worth trying, but skip the special sauce
Price: Burger, $4.49; double cheeseburger, $6.99; fries, $2
Notes: Mon. - Sat. lunch only; second location offers dinner and bar
One of Houston's most popular burger places, Hubcap Grill is only slightly larger than the car accessory for which it is named. You and other burger enthusiasts will bump elbows, shimmy past each other en route to the bench seating, and pick up snippets of conversation whether you want to or not. On warm, rain-free days, you can even battle your way to a tiny outdoor terrace and sit on each other's laps there. Spare a thought too for the staff: the kitchen is a Liliputian affair that would challenge the dexterity and sanity of even the most jaded short-order cook.
Yet what the Hubcap Grill lacks in size it makes up for in popularity. That tiny kitchen turns out hundreds of burgers each weekday at lunchtime, with pickup orders being phoned in from far and wide. The brave—or uninitiated—gather around the counter in the hope of making their order heard above the din. Seats on these days are scouted with the intensity of New York City parking spots. It's exactly what you'd expect from a place that's won numerous awards both local and national.
Ricky Craig's burger shack, indeed, has a loyal and vocal clientele. The third-pound patties with a range of custom toppings have spawned both a second location out in the suburbs and also a truck to cater to the late-night bar crowd. This, the original location, is very much a lunch counter: It closes early afternoon, it's cash only, and it's casual. To call it unpretentious would be an understatement. In short, it's everything I love about burger culture.
So, naturally I wanted to love the burger itself. Instead I left merely liking it. My double cheeseburger certainly looked the part, with the well-done (by default) patties just thick enough to be substantial without being unwieldy. There was a modest amount of crust, too, and although none of the vegetables would take top prize at the county fair they didn't look actively terrible either, which is nice in February.
The bun, meanwhile, reminded me of the slightly crusty, flour-topped rolls I'd grown up with in Scotland, with the added advantage that these weren't too doughy. They're made in-house by hand, which gives Hubcap Grill extra points for effort. They were also pretty damn good: They held up to even a double patty without collapsing but also without getting in the way.
We were off to a fine start. Sadly, it was only to get worse. That's because the patties were simply bland, made of barely seasoned ground chuck. The crust was the burger equivalent of fools' gold—sure, it offered a bit of bite, but the substance, the flavor, just wasn't there. The lettuce and tomato were fighting a losing battle, the grilled onions would have worked far better on a single than a double, and in the end it was mouthful after mouthful of insipid beef and yellow mustard. It was the kind of mealy, rapidly-cooling sandwich you'd absent-mindedly chew on at a back yard cook-out in between swigs of Bud Light—no more, no less.
Things were slightly better when we got to the side order of fries. Perhaps as the place was about to close for the week the oil needed a clean; the fries were covered in little black marks that were not pepper but rather burnt particles from the fryer. Still, in a dive-y place like this it seemed to fit, and in any case the taste wasn't affected at all. The fries were hot, crisp, and tasty—just as they should be. The 75¢ cup of "special sauce" was a Thousand Island variant rendered edible only via a generous splash of Crystal hot sauce—stick with the ketchup.
Thus I left distinctly underwhelmed—not exactly cheated, but certainly with a feeling of, "Is that it?" People queue out the door in the height of summer for this? It didn't make any sense.
Still, the thousands of happy customers and the legion positive reviews from publications large and small can't all be wrong. There must be something more to the Hubcap Grill. For this reason I plan on trying it again at some point in the future, but only to sample one of their more creative offerings. A burger made with Cheetos topped that list; others include a Muffaletta burger and a Philly cheesesteak burger. My sincere hope is that it's these custom sandwiches that have Houstonians singing the praises of this joint, because a cheeseburger from here is just so average.
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I made a clinic slideshow for this year and we're starting to take pictures for a slideshow next year - just random photos, funny photos, gross photos etc. Anyway here's just a couple random shots:
My boss and his family went out of town for the holidays, for 3 weeks actually to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel. I usually watch his dog Bella and so I have her for 3 weeks. My mom just got home from the hospital so my dogs can't hang out there during the day and I have been bringing them to work. We have a couple of dog runs and rather than take up kennel space I just throw them together. They all get along fine which I totally pride myself, and them, on. However towards the evening when it's getting close to time to leave this is what I have staring at me from the kennel room:
Bella, Seth, Sofie, LiLo
And just for kicks 'cause I get to look cool -
Me giving Sofie her chemo, you can see her cute picture on her cage card:


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Lots to like at American Transplant Foundation's Transplant Heroes Dinner
There were so many things to like about the American Transplant Foundation's inaugural Transplant Hero Awards Dinner. Here are a few:
The location: The Grand Hyatt Denver's Pinnacle Club has just undergone a facelift and it turned out great. The views from this 37th floor venue are amazing, and was a perfect backdrop for the event chaired by Barry and Arlene Hirschfeld. Guests enjoyed cocktails and hors d'oeuvres while watching the sun set behind the magnificent Rocky Mountains.
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The opening act: Denver's first lady, Mary Louise Lee, is a well-known vocalist and she was in fine form when she opened the program by singing the Mariah Carey favorite, "Hero." Definitely a two-hankie moment.


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Newtown police officers to speak at Maine emergency preparedness conference
Hurricane Sandy response to be discussed Wednesday
Two Newtown, Conn., police officers will talk about their response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy at the annual Maine Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference in Augusta on Tuesday.
Lt. Christopher Vanghele and Officer Jeff Silver will discuss the lessons learned in response to the attack that left 26 people, including 20 school children dead.
The goal is to use their insight to help emergency officials in Maine be better prepared if a similar attack happened in the state.
On Wednesday, emergency officials from Maine will talk about the state's response to Hurricane Sandy, and the help provided to New York and New Jersey.
Maine sent three teams to that region to help in the recovery.
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