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Strange Confessions: In Which I May Have Finally Admitted What I Want to be When I Grow Up
Strange Confessions: I am a little bit jealous of my wife, my best friend, for getting a teaching job at the local Christian school.
For years I have not known what I wanted to be when I grow up, and being forty-four years old, I still don't really know. Perhaps, until now.
When I was in elementary school I wanted to be a veterinarian. I was told I had a way with animals and I did like them; I could make friends with any animal that I came in contact with. Slowly, slowly that desire started to fade away. I envy people who see what they want to be at a young age, and then with every intent and purpose they go after it with zeal. There are those who get into college, take a few courses, change majors a few times, and graduate in their chosen field. Sure maybe they didn't have such a pursuant desire as the former, but their goals are achieved nonetheless.
When I got went to college, my chosen field was the Utah State University, Forestry program. I hiked a lot in my latter years of High School and just loved and appreciated all the outdoors had for me. Living in walking distance of the Wasatch Range in the Salt Lake valley sure improved my outlook when I was down. We would occasionally go camping and the rangers would make their rounds in the morning, talking and meeting new people everyday was such a thrilling outlook for me, that, that is what I wanted. Alas, as I have written before, I struggle with some depression, and this time in my life, Fall of 1987 to the Spring of 1988, occurred some of the absolute worst bouts I had against the dreaded lurking blackness. I grew disillusioned with the staff and the students there. More likely what affected me there was my depression. It was the first time away from home, I was poor, I was hungry, I needed a good friend, and most people were only interested in studying or partying at one time or another. I see that now what I really needed then, my strong sense of needing to belong, needing to know people cared had to be fulfilled or I would whither away and perish, which I did metaphorically. I stopped going to classes, started partying too much, isolated myself in my room for longer periods of time. I had a grant that I lost that year because of failing or incomplete grades. That year was I time I would most like to forget, but like most things I see now, it was a part of who I am now, and I should never forget it.
I tried again the next year to go to USU, without classes, without money. My plan was to get the job back I had, a copy dude at one of the many campus copy centers, work hard, stay away from bad influences, and make enough to start classes again. But, the first week there, all the pain and emptiness poured over me and I froze in panic, called my Mom and begged her to come and get me. My Nana had to come and get me. On the ride home, I was defeated. Low and empty I said nothing. It was a bitter disappointment. For me, people or places in which I was with during strong depressive states, I cannot revisit. There was this guy named Carlos I went to High School with. Even now thinking about him causes me anxiety and an inner sadness I find hard to deal with. Well, that is what I learned with the USU campus. We would travel through Logan valley years later and stop at the dairy college to get some ice cream and it would make me feel hollow just looking around. Although I loved driving up Logan Canyon. I remember two specific instances up there that I had a very good time up there, so that is a good place.
I ended up getting a job at Fred Meyer and worked there for several years with a small break in between. My second stint with Fred's introduced me to my future wife and a friend who started working at Kinko's. After a few years of marriage, I too began working at Kinko's and I've been in the printing industry since. Hrrmm, looking at that now, I'm none too proud of my work "choices". For it seems that almost all my jobs were taken out of desperation. Even now, the one I have, which took me several hundred miles from my home of forty years, was taken to get away from things. I am extremely jealous of people who have a job that they enjoy, or that they chose, or that brings them fulfillment, or a good profit. Don't get me wrong, I am very thankful to God for getting me in a position where I can provide for my family. It's just that… I would like to like it. I would like to have chosen it.
Which brings me to this Strange Confession: I have always loved working with younger people. It brings me such a sense of fulfillment and belonging and purpose that I cherish the time I have with them. When I left Salt Lake, the hardest for me was leaving the kids I worked with on Tuesday night at AWANA with my local church. Sure, I was going to miss my family and friends that I had, but those kids were really very special to me. I actually had adults think I was a teacher because of the way I could relate to them. This sparked things in my mind, but I never followed it up. So some people knew about my wife's commitment to Christian education, and thought she may be available for a few hours during the week, and they put her name forward, and through a series of interviews she got the job. I have been a little upset with her lately, easily offended and the like, and never knew what it was until just a few days ago. I am jealous of the position she received. I pictured myself standing in front of kids, bringing thoughts of history, writing, math, doctrine and expanding their minds, revealing more of the world to them, caring for them, talking to them, answering questions. I realized that I was jealous. I want to be a teacher. But how? We aren't in an area where I can get a degree, I don't have the time or money or resources for this. All I see are walls.
But God doesn't see any of that. I see no way , but God does. I believe God has given me this gift to relate to kids and this may be it! In some ways I am so discouraged because it is so late in coming and I just don't see it happening, but God can do whatever He wants with me. And I give Him this. May I bear fruit in this area through Him, and give Him the glory when all is accomplished.
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Hi everyone! Today I wanted to share my path to trying to be healthier. Focusing on my health has been a top priority of mine this year and my journey has been anything but perfect. I figured I'd break down what it has been like for me so far– the good and the bad:
Nine months ago I decided to make a lifestyle change. I knew my eating habits were poor and would rarely get any exercise. I didn't have the intention of losing weight, but instead wanted to have some tone to my muscles and feel stronger and more energized.
I joined a gym and started off going two to three times a week, only doing cardio. It was my second time in my whole life that I had been a member of a gym and the cardio machines were honestly the only ones I knew how to operate. As I mentioned before, I wanted to be stronger but I was terrified of picking up weights. I didn't want to be "bulky" and was scared I would somehow instantly morph into a body builder. (Just want to clarify that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a body builder. I have great respect for anyone who can train that hard and have that much dedication to being the strongest they can be.)
After a few months I settled into a routine of going five times a week and recently cut it back to four—more on that later. I'll dedicate each day to either abs, arms, butt/legs or cardio and do them in a rotation. I'd say it took about four months to really notice any change. I now have some small, but visible arm muscles and other more defined muscles in my body. While I was somewhat scared of these changes before, I actually now love seeing my hard work pay off!
Like I said, before all this began I was eating awful. Kraft Mac and Cheese was my go-to dinner and I was eating chocolate Every. Single. Day. I have a ginormous sweet tooth and could eat chocolate cake as a meal without thinking twice (I've actually done it on multiple occasions). Carbs are also my BFF.
It was tough for me to cut back and it really took awhile to get into a healthier routine. I never wanted to go "cold turkey" with all the bad foods in my life and started small by eating just one healthy meal a day. I'm also an extremely picky eater so finding healthier food I like was and still is challenging. When it came to carbs I knew from the start that going without them completely would never work out for me so I tried to refrain only when it felt necessary.
Where I'm at now
I've also cut back my gym time to four times a week just because I simply felt like I was going to work, to the gym and to bed without much time for anything else in between. I'm happy I did and I really feel like my workouts are even better because of it. I finally knew it was time to cut back when I dreaded going to the gym and while I'm not bursting at the seams to go each time now, I don't feel as much pressure. Just like with my eating habits, I now understand that my workouts will be ever changing as well. There will be times when I'm more motivated than others and my amount of dedication I'm able to give will never be steady. But one thing I know for certain is that I've never felt better or stronger in my life. There is no better feeling than finishing a workout and being able to look back at what you've accomplished.
Whew, I did not mean for this post to be this lengthy but there was a lot for me to say! If you've stuck around this long I hope I've maybe inspired you to give working out a try or even made you think differently about your approach to eating well.

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This show already happened on Monday, September 17, 2018. I'm just trying to catch up.
Major major computer problems today. But that will not keep me from celebrating my 150th "Prime Time Theme Attic" show with Phil Maq from 8PM-10PM EDT!!!
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Girls' Generation's Yuri Brings Audrey Hepburn Look
Girls' Generation's Yuri wore a towel on her head to remind viewers of Audrey Hepburn. The late Hollywood icon wore a towel on her head in a similar fashion to a scene from the classic film "Breakfast at Tiffany's." The photo, taken from the shooting of her drama "Fashion King" in Seoul, attracted many netizens' attention.
The scene was Yuri coming out of the shower and she wrapped a towel over her wet hair. The actors on the scene thought the towel looked good during the rehearsals and left it in. They even fixed it to hold. The shoot took place in a residential complex building in Seoul.
Netizens who saw this reacted with "She's beautiful," "Comparable to Audrey Hepburn," and other such comments.
Yuri plays Choi Anna in "Fashion King," co-starring with Yoo Ah In, Shin Se Kyung and Lee Je Hoon. The drama is set to premiere on SBS on March 19.


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Lauren Jauregui is gearing up to drop a brand new single this Friday called "More Than That." You KNOW it will be on my New Music Friday list, for sure!
But, we NEED to talk about this artwork. Girl is looking SO dang good and I know the single is going to be even better.
PS - Lauren's debut album should be out this year! Towards the end of 2018 she revealed the album will be organic as possible! Who's excited? I sure am!


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For you to Invent
It is common to think you need to be abnormally intelligent and extra crazy as a way to invent, but this isn't true; there are a lot of people that are making money off inventions that are people. There are also many people who invent to keep things interesting and could never even earn an income from that because inventing could be a fun hobby, but it also carries a potential for making huge money. A lot of people don't know about the many why you should invent.
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It's Fun
Do it on the side: Inventing isn't an all day commitment in most cases. It is easy to work on your inventions while still maintaining your employment, actually, I propose keeping your job once you begin because inventing is often more enjoyable should you not depend on it; your job must be much of your income source while beginning. This allows inventing to become respite from your task. Most people dread their job, but inventing will be your break where one can think freely to make money at the same time. You'll be able to invent during the day while working on other things because inventing has a lot to do with those things around you; surveying your surroundings permits you to find problems on earth that you can solve with inventions.
amazing inventions you didn't know existed
Fuss: Unlike most approaches to earn money, inventing is one thing which can be fun since apply your imagination in crazy ways; someone else in charge isn't judging your notions. When we judge your notions, you are less inclined to become successful since you will have concern with failure and public ridicule. When you are inventing, you may use your imagination to create invention ideas that solve issues that you've always aspired to solve, which can be an exilerating and fulfilling thing to accomplish. Additionally it is fun to get crazy inventions that accomplish simple tasks; there isn't any limit for the crazy ideas you'll have.
Apply your thinking: There are a lot of methods to have fun by applying your thinking and driving them to feel more tangible. A terrific way to place your ideas into usage is to produce a prototype of something away from cheap or household materials. There are several videos on the internet of homemade flame throwers and other crazy gadgets or ideas because building a video could be enjoyable and in addition offer you some feedback on your own invention idea. Also, it can be fun to present your opinions to large corporations to view how they react. For instance, should you designed a much better bottle you could present it with a soda company; however, you might obtain a patent or provisional patent before you do that.
It Opens Up Your head
Have something to think about: As opposed to floating using your days, you may be devoted to your surroundings and discovering invention ideas. You may feel as if you're accomplishing something each day because you will be identifying ideas that can cause you to rich. When you're centered on inventing and potentially making money, you will have something to check toward everyday, so it doesn't matter what the day may bring, it's possible to know that you are going to have the ability to focus on your latest invention idea.
It may help you for your job: While i mentioned above, I would not recommend eliminating every day job when you start inventing, but inventing will actually support your task. People appreciate somebody that thinks creatively and it is capable of solve problems, which can be both characteristics of the good inventor. The brand new attitude and skills that you receive from regularly inventing will allow you to get hired, because showing your potential employer a number of your invention ideas may help display you skill to believe creatively that assist you get on his good side. In the event you currently have a career, to be able to add ideas could make you more significant for the company you work for and may greatly help your likelihood of being promoted.
Have a very different perspective on things: Today, lots of things go unappreciated, including all the inventions and innovations that define us. We never really appreciate things until we do them for ourselves and inventing is the same way. Inventing increases your appreciation of products affecting you every day, and you may will analyze items that have not thought twice about. This is the time you will start having your better inventions because investigating previous inventions is a great method to succeed when inventing. Recognizing your surroundings can help you be focused and linked to the proceedings near you, that helps you in other words in whatever you choose to pursue.
It Has a Potential for Being Very Profitable
A number of people generate income: Contrary to popular believe, there are a lot of people trying to sell an invention or patent. Plenty of inventions are only valued inside a specific business, sport, geographical location, etc, so many inventions go unseen by the public. Seeking to about forcing money from an invention is everybody can do it; its not necessary instruction or perhaps a great deal of knowledge to invent something profitable. Inventing requires problem solving and inventive thinking, that may be acquired through practice, so twenty-four hours a day start inventing it doesn't matter how much education you've got. Also, you're in control of your success. With persistence, there exists a high chance of success in inventing, which suggests a higher possiblity to make money.
It could provide residual income: Many people believe inventing is an instant amount of cash, then you don't make money until the following invention, which isn't true. It is extremely common to license your patent to a company who'll then pay out the comission royalties when they make and/or sell your invention. That is income that will come even after you've patented your invention, and will potentially provide enough revenue to compliment you with no employment. This income is great simply because you aren't doing any work, but are still earning money. And with this walk away income, it is rather easy to keep inventing, specifically if you are earning enough cash on royalties to become regular inventor. If you can to pump out lots of potentially good ideas, chances are a number of them will sufficiently good to make a profit.
It's really a Low Pressure Money Maker
It does not be determined by one idea: When you're inventing, you'll probably simply have a number of ideas that make money; however, that doesn't mean you cannot think of a huge number of invention ideas. To be able to have guidelines, you will need to go through hundreds of ideas that aren't up to par. You can have as much invention ideas because you please, because after doing some research, you could possibly decide you dont want to patent your idea, meaning you never throw money away any time you have an idea.
It's only you: Inventing is one area you are doing for yourself, not for a boss. You enter complete power over business energy where there is not a boss to evaluate your thinking. Also, there is not anyone else who depends on your ability to succeed; inventing can be a one man show generally. Inventing is simply you solving problems and often making money from patents. When you are inventing, you choose to work by yourself some time to you could make your own decisions, it is not work. It is simple to keep the employment and invent in your leisure time without worrying high time constraints.
It's not a huge risk: If you consider the profit that will from inventions, the price of inventing is pretty low. Inventing is significantly less than a company, when you do wind up not making the amount of money you hoped for, you can try again. The operation of getting a patent is the main portion of inventing, so each time you glance at the patent process, you obtain experience that makes next time easier. If you're around inventing and patenting enough, it will be possible to eventually apply for a patent by yourself, that will reduce the cost and the overall risk of inventing.


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It's The ATO & The Small Business Situation Part 2: The Taxation Ombudsman is launching an independent review into the Australian Taxation Office's misuse of garnishee notices for raising revenue.
The Story So Far
In our previous blog The ATO & The Small Business Situation, we commented on the joint findings of the ABC's Four Corners and Fairfax Media's sensational report 'A Mongrel Bunch Of Bastards'. Incredibly damning, the scandalous allegations revealed the ATO deliberately targeted small business and individuals to meet revenue goals through the collection and recovery of tax debt, all the while deliberately avoiding the affluent or big businesses with deep pockets more able to take matters to court.
The incriminating articles confirmed what we had been suspecting for some time; that these were "errors and actions by the ATO which led to small businesses and individuals being financially crippled." Allegedly, standard garnishees were being issued on every case possible – a practice the government itself noted should be used only as a last resort but one the ATO clearly saw as a way of raising revenue.
Issuing garnishees goes against the grain of any reasonable use which they had initially been created for. But then again, the government has been creatively looking to fill the coffers the last two budgets, including introductions of Tax Clearance Certificates, the Netflix and Ebay Taxes, and more recently, the crackdown on the Black Economy with a dramatic change to our progressive tax system.
Bowing before such inflexible proof of allegations made by two whistleblowers from within the system, the government announced within days they were launching an investigation. While this announcement may have been met with much scepticism the current government would act at all, Revenue & Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer told the Australian Associated Press a probe headed by Treasury would be launched into the matter.
IGT Launches Investigation
Meanwhile, Inspector-General of Taxation Ali Noroozi has confirmed in a media release he is launching an independent review of his own. "The allegations about the ATO's inappropriate use of garnishee notices is of serious concern and, if not addressed, can affect community confidence in the administration of the tax system," Mr Noroozi stated. "As the Taxation Ombudsman, I have a duty to independently investigate these allegations to restore public confidence," he said.
Garnishee Notices are court orders allowing the ATO to legally recover a debt through the intervention and taking control of a taxpayer's bank account, directing any money to the tax office when the account receives a deposit. And this all occurs without the taxpayer being able to do a thing about it. The expected and disastrous outcome is a clear effect on the cashflow of vulnerable affected businesses and individuals; what the ABC and Fairfax were quick to point out as a 'cash grab' by the ATO.
"Cash flow is the lifeblood of small businesses," Mr Noroozi announced in his release to the media, "and, if inappropriately disrupted, can have an unjustified and devastating effect on them." Mr Noroozi promised his investigation will examine any truth to these allegations alongside the complaints to his office "with the aim of finding improvements where necessary and restoring confidence in the system," he said.
He also specifically made references to the Four Corners' allegations about the ATO inappropriately using garnishee notices as set targets for staff that also evaluated their performance based on the debts collected. Mr Noroozi acknowledged "the ATO has the vital task of collecting Government revenue," but he also noted this had to be done "taking into account the particular circumstances of each taxpayer whilst ensuring a level playing field is maintained," he said.
You're Only As Good As ....
Mr Noroozi noted in 2015, the IGT had released a report with 19 recommendations for improvements in the recovery of tax debt. But he acknowledges in 2017, his office continued to find more than 20% of all complaints centred on the ATO's shocking form of recovering tax debt, with garnishee notices consistently raised as one of the top three issues. In 2018, we can only hope the powers of might combined from the Taxation Ombudsman and the Treasury will result in something positive for small businesses and individual taxpayers. But if by all accounts the ITG report from 2015 hasn't instigated many changes, do we dare hope this one might?
We're certainly living in interesting times when 'issuing garnishee notices' acts as a substitute for 'collecting revenue' with the ATO. It's better known as 'making sales' for transactions between clients and companies in the business world, though Sales Key Performance Indicators would be on a far different scale to the ATO's KPIs focus on tax debt collection and staff performance. Welcome to the brave new world of the Australian Taxation Office, where you're only as good as issuing your last garnishee notice.
The closing date for submissions to Mr Noroozi's review is June 22, with the full release from The Inspector-General of Taxation's media release available >here<.
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Experimental Study Of A Waste Heat Recovery System For Supplemental Heaters
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E. Y. Tanbour, R. Al-Waked & M. F. Alzoubi
Energy conservation in supplemental heaters using a heat recovery heat exchanger is the subject of this paper. A waste-heat-recovery heat exchanger is developed for supplemental heaters (natural gas-fired fireplaces). Using experimental tools, the effectiveness of a condensing heat recovery system on capturing majority of waste heat is studied. The goal is to explore an economically feasible and a manufacturable heat exchanger that recovers waste heat in such supplemental heaters. The research has shown viable compact heat exchanger designs that significantly reduce the fuel consumption by the heater. Keywords: efficient heating, compact heat exchangers, waste heat recovery, supplemental heaters, gas-fired fireplaces. 1 Introduction Energy conservation and management for different applications has been the subject of several studies in the past years and it continues to be an important research topic. This is due to the limited energy resources and energy price from one side and the environmental issues from the other side. Using exhaust flue gas as a heat recovery source is a common approach and it has been an essential part of steam power plants. While its primary purpose is to transfer exhaust gas heat to steam, an important secondary function is to reduce emissions from combustion exhaust [1]. Mihelic-Bodanic and Budin [2] presented an energy optimization for production of a thermoplastic material, using boiler flue gases, which leads to saving about 8% on the fuel consumption. Maksimov et al. [3] studied the possibility of using exhaust gas in power plants to generate steam for oil
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Remembering Tim Conway, advertising funnyman
Legendary funnyman Tim Conway, whose gift for physical comedy—and his ability to make his fellow castmates on the "Carol Burnett Show" break character and dissolve into bellylaughs—has died at the age of 85.
"I've never been comfortable as the star," Conway told the Archive of American Television, according to his NPR obituary. "I don't feature myself as being the head man. I would much rather stand in the background and make small, funny things go, than be up at the head of the class."
But Conway's talent leapt forward in his TV shows and humor sketches as well as a number of TV commercials, where he appeared as himself, or as his character Dorf the Golfer, or most hilariously, with his "Burnett" straightman Harvey Korman.
Here we recall some of Conway's classic commercials.
For Lay's potato chips, Conway set out to prove that you really can eat just one.
The comedian's trademark bumbling is all over this 1978 commercial for banking group Manufacturer's Hanover, in which it's suggested that with his savings, Conway should buy a tape deck. (Note to anyone born after 1990: You can Google what that is.)
Here is Conway advertising the "Dorf Golf Bible" video collection on VHS. (You can look that one up too.)
But Conway was at his best when paired with sidekick Korman, as he is in the spots below, though sadly it looks as if the creative directors didn't allow the pair to go off script.
For Fruit & Fibre, they debate about the name.
Conway plays Johnny Appleseed to his mom (Korman) in a pitch for Hi-C 100.
For pain relief remedy Contac, meet Conway and Korman the newsreaders.
But Conway was always at his side-splitting greatest when he got to riff, so we're cheating by including a couple of Carol Burnett sketches rather than ads. Here's his slow tumble.
And we'll end with a classic, Conway's famed elephant story.


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Decero Amano awarded a trophy at the Argentina Wine Awards for a record breaking third time
February 28, 2014 — Awards, News
On Friday 21st February, 2011 Decero Amano was announced as the winner of the 'Trophy for Best Red Blend >US$50'. This reaffirmed Decero Amano as the dominant wine in this category being the only wine to ever win this trophy three times.
The international judging panel tasted wines from across Argentina in what is an increasingly competitive field of eligible wines. President of Wines of Argentina, Alberto Arizu, commented on the especial significance of the 2014 Argentina Wine Awards due to the 'great level of judges and the high quality of participating wines.'
The supreme pedigree of Decero Amano in the field of red blends has been confirmed with this Trophy being awarded for a record three vintages of the wine since the competition's inception: the 2006, 2009 and 2011 vintages. Winning this trophy amidst wines of 3-4 times its retail price shows the ongoing tremendous value of the wine. Since the inaugural 2006 vintage, Decero Amano has garnered approval of critics around the world, including a history of 94 points and being named amongst the '12 Most Exciting Wines of Argentina' in The Wine Advocate.
Decero Amano is a blend of Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and in some vintages Tannat, sourced exclusively from low yielding vines in Remolinos Vineyard of Finca Decero located at 1050 metres in the highest part of Agrelo in Mendoza. Aromatic complexity and silky elegance is the hallmark of the wine with 20 months in new french oak and bottle age adding further complexity. Decero Amano is made in very small quantites each vintage and is the icon wine of Finca Decero.