I was on a radio show this morning with two other industry experts. The headlines aren't so hot right now and the conversation pretty quickly turned to bankruptcy, foreclosure, horrible credit card rates, predatory lenders, debt and the general idea that the financial services industry really wants to see consumers fail. It was pretty depressing.
Hello everyone! I just wanted to Thank everyone! I have reached 600 readers since March 12 2008! I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate all of you out there who have made my blog what it is! I have also finally made google’s search engine!
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Red Sox fans are very lucky–not every team has a pitcher who, when he steps on the mound, makes you feel there is no way he could lose…The Sox had that in Pedro Martinez, and in Curt Schilling. And once again, the Sox have that elusive TRUE ace–in Josh Beckett. Every time he pitches, I [...]
As the awareness for staying healthy and fit increases day by day, more and more people are looking towards ways to achieve healthy weight loss, and the most important step in doing so is to count your calories and create a deficit or increase to achieve your target healthy weight. No matter how much time you spend at the gym, if you consume more calories than you burn, you'll never lose weight. But as daunting as it may sound, there's a formula to measure how many calories you should eat based on your BMR(Basic Metabolic Rate), and its advisable to choose a good diet and fitness plan based on this figure so that your weight-loss plan is more meaningful and successful. (img credit)What is BMR(Basic Metabolic Rate) and how to Calculate it?BMR is the amount of energy your body needs to funct
1)Illustrate the operation of Counting-Sort on the array A={6,0,2,0,1,3,4,6,1,3,2}2)Illustrate the operation of Radix-Sort on the following list of English words: COW,DOG,SEA,RUG,ROW,MOB,RAT,BAT,BAR,EAR,TAR,DIG,BIG,TEA,NOW,FOX}.3)Illustrate the operation of Bucket Sort on the array A={.81,.09,.13,.61,.43,.23,.98,.60,.75,.41}.4)Explain how to sort n integers in the range 0 to n^2-1 in O(n) time.5)Which of the following sorting algorithms are stable: insertion sort,merge sort,heapsort and quicksort? Give a simple scheme that makes any sorting algorithm stable. How much additional time and space does the scheme take?6)What is the worst-case running time for the bucket-sort algorithm? What simple change to the algorithm preserves its linear expected running time and makes its worst-case runnin
Now that the Chargers have established the roster they will bring into August, it’s time to take a look at which players will actually make it out of training camp. Team expert Michael Lombardo lays out a projected depth chart, which is without one of the team’s draft picks and one current defender who started 16 games last season.
"The Roots" are slated to perform this friday at Radio City Music Hall with guest Erykah Badu. This iconic group which recently released their 10th album called "Rising Down" last tuesday are disgusted with the current state of Hip-hop. Drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is quoted as saying " Hip-hop is like a 34 year old single woman with two children right now". Basically what he is saying is that their is no excitement and there is really noone talking about serious political issues at this time. The Roots are very talented and are politically conscience. I give them lots of praise for being a positive driving force for all these years. Ten albums deep and still going strong. Anyway migente i'm out. 40Master E.G Radio, ExtravaGangsta Radio,
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TALMUD YERUSHALMI BIKKURIM: AGING WITH GOD: COUNTING THE OMER During the season of counting the Omer, the 7 weeks between the end of the first full day of Passover and Shavuot, the sages teach us that we are to take stock of ourselves spiritually. The Talmud Yerushalmi Tractate Bikkurim 2:1 tells us that if one is condemned to Divine excommunication because of various types of sins, he will die at fifty years of age. But what is someone lives beyond 50? The Talmud Yerushalmi gives the following explanation:''As to death at the age of 52, that is the age at which the prophet Samueldied.He who dies at 60 dies in the way the Torah refers to death.Death at the age of 70 is death as an act of lov
I wanted to comment on the last part of my last post Calorie Counting Confusion. Here is what it read:
Calorie counting inspires food disorders. An obsession with numbers is not only time consuming, it also fuels our obsession with food and the scale. This is not a natural relationship with food, and can lead to [...]
The count down is on and I can honestly say what is keeping me the busiest right now besides making lists and digging up stuff for the yard sale is scheduling all our food invites.Last night at Changes in Latitudes was such a good thing. We kicked off with Mango Margarita's then moved onto delicious skewers, salad hot tortillas and fresh made brownies.Today I am off to breakfast with Courtney Ken and Martha at Monkey bites and then we have 2 evening engagements - Quicksilver Dianne is hosting bring an appy and drink night and Ken and Martha are doing a bbq. Good thing they live in the same neighborhood.11:55 amTQ is on her way here and she is due in sometime around one. She will get a good surprise when she arrives as we are on the guest list for 2 food events - yum. DCG thanks for getting
The counting of votes in the London mayoral election has started.The Conservatives are hoping Boris Johnson can crown their May Day local election victories by unseating mayor Ken Livingstone at City Hall.But Labour will be looking to Mr Livingstone to salvage something from a night that saw them slump to third place in the national vote share.The election will also decide the 25 members of the London Assembly, which scrutinises the work of the mayor.The counting began at 0830 BST and is expected to take up to 12 hours.The process is taking place at three venues - Alexandra Palace, Excel and Olympia - and the new mayor will be declared at City Hall on Friday evening.Neck-and-neckOpinion polls had placed Mr Livingstone and Mr Johnson neck-and-neck, with Lib Dem ex-police commander Brian Pad
I got this in the Eat Clean Diet Newsletter and thought it would be a great one to pass on to my readers. If I could have written it this well, I would have! LOL
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Calorie-Counting Confusion
With the ever-expanding library of diet books on the market it’s easy to get caught up in the latest [...]
An Apiary in ShropshireI had the chance a few days ago to visit one of Shropshire's Bee Keepers, Stuart had very kindly agreed to show me around his Apiary. He has 6 hives in total in an orchard in his back garden. Their is plenty of blossom for the bees to feed on in his garden, but if the bees fancy going a bit further he backs onto a wood. Stuart has been keeping bees for around 6 years and has amassed quite a lot of information in that time. 5 of his hives are of the most common type, known as National Hives and he has one traditional type of hive , known as a WBC Hive . The national hive may not be the quintessential type of hive , but it is the most piratical type as it is easy to move around. Here you can see the bees entering and leaving the hive. It was interesting to watch his as
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I had an epiphany this morning as I was scrubbing the toilet at the studio...(how many of you can say you had an epiphany when cleaning the toilet?)It was two years ago today that I left at&t to open my music studio and I haven't worked a day since !!!In no way does it feel like it has been two years. When you love what you do, you don't work any more, you enjoy each day for what it brings!So, with this thought in mind, I wanted to post something about following your dreams that will hopefully inspire some of you to do just that.I had started thinking about opening a teaching studio back in 2004-2005. At that time, it was nothing more than a day dream to which I dared not speak of it out loud. If you knew my wife, you w
“It feels like love, I better get a little of it in me.” How come you’re listening to Sunday on Monday. I knew you were going to ask that, just as you know I was going to say – it’s a wake-up song. Besides, he says, “I don’t believe in Sundays, I don’t believe in anything at all.” Too bad for him. I believe he got me outta bed feeling happy, which is all I need to believe. Bright, energetic, and mind-juices flowing into a dreamy meal of crunchy granola. Up-beat & smiling despite the lyric. I have no idea what the point of the song is, but that doesn’t matter. “Try to remember what you might forget.” Counting Crows
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Do calories matter or do you simply need to eat certain foods and that will guarantee you’ll lose weight? Should you count calories or can you just count “portions?” Is it necessary to keep a food diary? Is it unrealistic to count calories for the rest of your life or [...]
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Do calories matter or do you simply need to eat certain foods and that will guarantee you’ll lose weight? Should you count calories or can you just count “portions?” Is it necessary to keep a food diary? Is it unrealistic to count calories for the rest of your life or [...]
Educational Counting Toys - Chances are you've sung numerous counting songs to your child over the years, counted fingers and toes aloud, and asked (and answered) "How many? How much?" repeatedly. More: continued here Other Review: Whole World (Sing Along With Fred Penner) (Sing Along With Fred Penner) (Hardcover)
Atkins supporters would say that you don't need to worry about the calories you eat — as long as they don't come from carbs. Dietitians and other weight-loss experts know the truth: calories in equal calories out. In other words, if you eat more calories than your body uses, they will be stored as fat. It's true that different energy sources have varying amounts of calories. Here's the breakdown: 1 gram of carbohydrates equals four calories 1 gram of protein equals four calories 1 gram of fat equals nine calories 1 gram of alcohol equals seven calories Though carbs and protein are only half as caloric as fat, you can't eat them with wild abandon. The best plan is to eat a healthy mix of all three energy sources. Approximately 45-60 percent of calories should come from carbohydrates, 15-2
Today was the first day back from this awful head cold, last night I was able to sneak out to the track for a modified version workout with the OC track club. I was able to soak in some good race stories from a fellow runner named Robert J. Baird. He had a wealth of information on Leona and other Ultra Races in California. Robert was able to ease alot of nerves concerning this daunting task. I am looking forward running some portion of the race with him on Saturday.Today I was able to make it to a 6am spin class, my first in months, I was surprised the instructor still noticed me. It was a good class and I was able to maintain my old cadence of 95 :) After spin, I completed a 45min of resistant training...I was pretty much pooped by 8:30am. Tmr is the real test, I plan on running a very ea
I have been battling a head cold for almost 1 week now, I have been forced to rest a blessing to say the least considering how hot it was this past weekend. With local temperatures going into the low 90's I was on active bed rest :) I am now just dealing with the hangover effects of having several shots NyQuil. I plan to test my legs 1 last time before my first 50mile race (Leona Divide) this weekend. My training started back in Mid December, and I have been pretty consistent with my weekly miles averaging about 40-60 per week. I have managed to develop some close personal relationships along the way. It is amazing the range of topics that a person can talk about during a 8hr training run... In preparation for this weekend I have already started to fill my 3 drop bags with my goodies. What
I have two small piggy banks that sit atop my office desk at home. One is a coin bank in the shape of a dog, and the other is shaped like a light blue colored pig that I received as a free giveaway when I opened a new Citibank business checking account not too long [...]
This morning, I read an article from the BBC News that states that there are over 1 million compute viruses, worms, and trojans in circulation. That is an amazing figure! Obviously, the vast majority of viruses are aimed at Microsoft Windows since the marketshare for Windows is well over 90%.
The information on this [...]
Counting Cookies is an educational toy from Learning Resources. Counting Cookies is a learning to count toy consists of a hard plastic cookie jar, appropriately labeled "Cookies" and ten individual cookies. Each cookie in the set has a certain number of chocolate candy pieces on top (1-10) and the appropriate number written on the bottom [...]
The Maroon 5 and Counting Crows presale code has just been become available. This presale password is your key to getting premium tickets. Our site has been serving ticket brokers and concert fans for years now and we are a proven source for accurate codes. Make sure to tell your friends about presale411 when you get great Maroon 5 and Counting Crows tickets.Maroon 5 and Counting Crows with special guest Sara BareillesBlossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OHTue, Aug 26, 2008 07:00 PMTime Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NCTue, Jul 29, 2008 07:30 PMBethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel , NYWed, Aug 13, 2008 06:30 PMPost Gazette Pavilion At Star Lake, Pittsburgh, PAThu, Aug 21, 2008 07:00 PMNew England Dodge Music Center, Hartford, CTFri, Aug 15, 2008 08:00 PMInternet
Four Airlines in the past 2 weeks have announced they are going tits up and shutting down their operations. Aloha Airlines, Skybus and ATA Airlines have all shut down operations in the last two weeks. Champion Air will cease operations on May 31st, 2008. Aloha had 3500 employees and started operations in 1946. Skybus was a low cost airline based in Columbus Ohio which flew to 15 cities with 450 employees. ATA was based in Indianapolis and had been flying for 35 years, employing 2230 people. Champion Air was based in Minnesota and had 550 employees flying 14 old 727's. With oil over $100 a barrel none of these or any other airline had budgeted for these kind of prices. Most of the American public hasn't either. Unfortunately I think this is just the beginning of Airlines going belly up,
If there is any sort of recession at all, the top hedge fund managers don't know it. John Paulson and Phil Falcone of Harbinger each made as much as $2 billion...
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The Counting Crows came of age in the early '90s, during the swan song of smart major-label rock. New album "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings" shows they get the indie kids, as a rowdy A-side from Pixies producer Gil Norton decrescendos movingly into a brooding back half from Brian Deck.[Download free MP3 now]Tech Special One
It was 40 years ago today that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of a Memphis, Tennessee motel. Like so many others---known or unknown---King worked tirelessly for the rights of others, and he was one more who fell unnecessarily to the unforgiving hand of violence.Race still matters in this country, and it touches every person on Earth, and although King's dream is still not fully realized, we all carry the collective responsibility to see it through. From astronomical rates of incarceration for young men of color to predatory lending targeted at communities of color, there is indeed still a long way to go.In memory of Dr. King, may we all still stand for justice.
Tax day is almost upon us. And if you’re like me (and yes, I’ll admit it), your taxes aren’t done yet. And quite possibly, not even started.
Have no fear. taxgirl is here to help you out - with a little help from friends at www.digits.hrblock.com.
I’ve got 40 copies of TaxCut software to [...]
A new UK text service is to be launched which will allow a user to monitor calories in the food you consume while you are on the go announced Orange. Sometime this year Orange will begin their new service call e-diet which allows Orange customers to text in what they are about to consume and [...]
I just got the new Counting Crows CD a few days ago. Nothing beats the old school stuff like "Mr. Jones", but the CD has been ok. Most of my time though is spent listening to the new Rick Ross cd - Trilla. Has Maroon 5 put out anything new lately?Anyway, they're coming to Boston on Saturday August 2nd and will be performing at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield and the presale tickets go on sale tomorrow - Thursday 4/3.Presale starts tomorrow at 10am EDT and ends at 10pm EDT.Click (here) to go to the Livenation site and use the presale password "rock"Know of Any Interesting Boston News or Events That You'd Like to Share?Email me at beantownblog@gmail.com
There are certain games during a NBA season, when one team may not have an overly large lead over their opponent, but they are totally in control the whole game. That was pretty much the story for win number 59 of the 2007-2008 NBA Campaign as the Boston Celtics dominated the Chicago Bulls Tuesday night [...]
A billion here, a billion there: Bloomberg News’ latest tally of total asset write-downs and credit losses at big banks and securities firms over the last 15 months is up to $232 billion.
The total jumped today after European banks UBS and Deutsche Bank announced write-downs of $19 billion and $4 billion, respectively.
To put the number [...]
El nuevo video (new video) de Counting Crows. De su recientemente lanzado album "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings" (2008).Letra (Lyrics):Anything's hard to changeBut hey I got you down on your knees againYou watch the skyIt's a pale parade of passing cloudsThat coverThe bed upon which we laidIn the darkAnd the memories that I madeOf a laughing girlBut you're just my toyAnd I can't stop playing with you, babyIf you think you need to goIf you wanted to be freeThere's one thing you need to knowAnd that's that you can't count on meComing along real goodBut I still can't do most of the things I shouldI watch the sky coming down to bury me andI can't stop this crawling out of my skinI know that you see yourself flying inOut of the skyComing downTo carry meBut I won't come outSo if you think y
Clinton has made her plan for universal health care a centerpiece of her agenda. However, among the debts reported this month by Hillary Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out. Her aides claim it's not unusual for a campaign to fall behind on some bills, yet Politico found out $213,000 of the bill is from LAST YEAR. Hillary hasn't been paying the bills for her staff's health insurance for several months, at the least. Let's see. She can't manage money, and she's a liar who has been busted making stories up out of thin air. She saved Northern Ireland and Bosnia, built a damn in Norway, destroyed a meteor with her x-ray vision. Blah, blah, blah.read more | digg story
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Counting cards. I’d never heard of “counting cards,” hayseed that I am. Not exactly illegal, it’s a mathematical way to beat the house at cards based on probability and a heck of a good memory. The film 21 opened Friday night to a full house if it was like our Monaco tonight (Saturday.) We had assigned [...]
"You Can't Count On Me" è il titolo del primo singolo estratto dal nuovo album ("Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings") della rock band californiana Counting Crows. Un brano pieno di sentimento, che conquista grazie al suo mix di forza e dolcezza. La bella voce del cantante Adam Duritz, che non delude, la delicatezza del piano, e le chitarre che, insieme alla vigorosa batteria, aumentano l'intensità della canzone. Tutti ottimi ingredienti. Più l'ascolto e più mi piace.Eccone il video ufficiale:MySpace: www.myspace.com/countingcrows
No lo pude evitar y a pesar de que no es todavia parte de una Banda Sonora la canción esta muy buena. Felicitaciones a la banda ‘Counting Crows’ por su presentación exitosa en el programa de Howard Stern y el estreno de su nuevo albúm ‘Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornigs’ con el tema ‘Washington Square’
"You Can't Count On Me" es el primer single del quinto álbum titulado Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings de la banda de rock americana Counting Crows. Personalmente recuerdo a esta banda no sólo por el estilo en cómo canta Adam Duritz, sino también lamentablemente cuando él baila con pasos muy extraños en el video musical para el éxito "Mr. Jones", una canción que quizás sea la más popular de Counting Crows.You Can't Count on Me" fue lanzado para las estaciones de radio el 4 de febrero del 2008. El video musical para esta canción ha sido lanzado recientemente y es el primero del nuevo álbum de Counting Crows.
Still counting all the many blessings God has brought into my life. That, and I'm running around like a chicken without my head, trying to catch up on a lot of things and also get my husband and son off for a college visit to Pennsylvania.More later!
The Counting Crows came of age in the early '90s, during the swan song of smart major-label rock. New album "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings" shows they get the indie kids, as a rowdy A-side from Pixies producer Gil Norton decrescendos movingly into a brooding back half from Brian Deck. Download free MP3 now!...
Number 515Counting Crows"Mr Jones"(1993)...Genre:Rockart by canvasproductionsYes! Finally, I have Guitar Hero 3 for the Wii. Let me just say this ..... IT ROCKS! The first night i was as coordinated as Hillary Clinton giving interviews about porkies. The 2nd night ..... 95% with Metallica's "One" on easy level .... ecstatic! 3rd night? .... medium level and the immortal words .. "Uh Oh" Oh well, at least its fun and i can see now whyso many people rave about it, especially if you can't play a guitar like me. Long ago i use to have a Ibanez rocket red electric guitar. I remember when i bought it , went home, plugged it in and this horrendous sound came out of the amp. Couldnt be me, surely. So i took it back to the shop, the assistant looked at me as if i was from another planet and quickly
The new movie 21 is about a shy brilliant MIT student who is recruited to go to Vegas every weekend to turn the odds of blackjack into his favor (and it's based on the true story of Jeff Ma and his blackjack team!). On the 21 movie website you can find a cool link to "Counting Cards". Click on the link and you'll get all sorts of info on the Wild World of Gambling, including using code words, Team Play, BlackJack Strategy, Low/High Card Counting, and Betting Wisely. Another cool part of the 21 movie website is the "Games" section where you'll find a Memory Card game, a 21 Casino Game, and a 21 Blackjack Tournament that you can play online with members of myspace!
Before you leave the movie website, click on the "Mobile" link to get your cellphone wallpaper and ringtones FREE! You c
Since 1989, Trees for the Future has been helping communities around the world plant trees. Through seed distribution, agroforestry training, and our country programs, they have empowered rural groups to restore tree cover to their lands. Planting trees protects the...
The dependably snarky Wonkette turns a comedic (and uncharacteristically understated) eye on Hillary Clinton’s latest self-inflicted injury involving the Tuzlagate imbroglio.
As if the situation weren’t already bad enough, the Senator went on the radio this morning with Pittsburgh’s KDKA morning man Larry Richert, and actually said: “…last week, you know, for the first time in [...]
Earth Hour is fast approaching. I just registered Green in the Face and myself as an individual. As part of Earth Hour I vow to turn off all my lights from 8pm to 9pm on Saturday March 29th.Nearly 200,000 individuals and 11,000 businesses have promised to do the same. Last year they did this in Sydney and saw incredible results. Various reports on the event said that a 10 percent reduction in energy usage occurred for that hour in Sydney last year.Now the movement is global so sign up! You can register as just your self, a company, an organization, and a school. It's really simple and only an hour. You could just take a nap and never know the difference. Sign up here!
Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings - 2008 (88.90 MB)5to disco destudio desta bandita q se forma en 1991 en Berkeley, California. Se hicieron famosos con "Mr Jones" un muy apreciable rock folk-alternativo en 1994. En la voz cuentan con Adam Duritz quien nos dize q este album se separa en 2 partes, "el sabado por la noche es pecador -parte mas rockera- y el domingo temprano es cuando se regresa casa -parte country y folk rock." Disfruten, suenan a Counting Crows, simples y directos.[Tracklist en comentarios]
Has it really been six years since we heard nappy hair Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz croon his way through “American Girls” on the painfully underappreciated Hard Candy?
Yes it has, almost six years since July 30, 2002 to be exact. so we’re expecting just as much from this album as you are. Instead of sharing [...]
This is a 55 second exposure off the deck of my home. The time i took the pic was 8.17pm. It is a cloudy night and not as much light as was in the other pic. The ISO speed was 3200 and F/22. I am getting very close to the look i want. It is just hard to hold the button down as this was in the BULB mode.What is your opinion?Blogroll Me!Subscribe to my Posts...
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I found a Job today…. work has always been a saving grace for me… aside from the money I so desperately need… It will give me structure.. which I need more than the money at this point.. a place to go.. a place to be needed… a place to get this addict out of his [...]
I feel terrible that I haven’t blogged in many days. I have some pretty good excuses (e.g., my day job’s overwhelming, I’ve been working on a new version of the SheltieRescueMall web store, the 2008 ASSA National Sheltie Specialty is coming up fast, blah, blah, blah), but so what…
I thought it might be interesting to [...]
Rockets 83 - Hawks 75
The Rockets 20th straight win was one of their ugliest wins of the season, nevertheless it is still a win. The Rockets had one of their worse first half performances of the season in this one scoring only 32 points in the first half.
Tracy McGrady played like a star in the [...]
Me with my accidental bald head in Fiji
It was one year ago today that I closed on my house and turned over the keys. The days leading up to closing on my house were hectic. I had a giant U-Haul full of crap I had to move to Wisconsin, I had more boxes of [...]
“One Jiggly, wiggly, wobbly worm cobbler” sounded great to Arnold Chipper, the creative and organized teddy bear gardener. However, the zealot chef had trouble convincing his curious but reluctant sister Maria and friend Albert to try his dishes. Not because the recipes were from the garden, but because the ingredients were the dirt, grass, pine needles and other creatures Arnold found outside. Chipper Kids-Counting in the Crazy Garden is a counting by numbers book (one to ten) although it reads more like a story- The book begins on a single page with Arnold Chipper stirring from a bowl of what looks like mud, although the first page is not counted.The counting begins on the first two-page spread with the number One in the top left corner. The page with the number in the corner ha
The disc, titled Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, is a two-part project. The “Saturday Nights” theme deals with losing oneself in the dizzying late-night spiral of booze, smoke and partying – apparently familiar stomping grounds to lead singer Adam Duritz who is the only living person to have hooked up with both Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox
Everything about this pregnancy seems accelerated. I’m already sporting quite the belly, my navel is expanding, and I feel a distinct urge to clean.
Yeah, I want to clean.
It can only be nesting.
I’m anxious to get down in the basement and go through The Poo’s baby things, to sort and organize and wash in Dreft. I [...]
The casualty list in Iraq has been declining over the past seveal months, but the flow of money to pay for fighting continues to rise in ever larger amounts. Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz and co-author Linda Blimes, claim in a new book the total cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan is between $1.7 trillion [...]
We went to this interesting movie at a local cyber cafe last night. They showed "Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics" which was directed by Terre Nash in 1995.
Film Synopsis:
A modest sheep-farmer by trade, Marilyn waring was New Zealand's first female Member of Parliament in the 70s. With irony and intelligence Marilyn Waring demystifies the language of economics by defining it as a value system in which all goods and activities are related only to their monetary value and monetary exchange with the result that unpaid work, usually done by women, is unrecognized and activities that may be environmentally and socially hazardous are regarded as productive. She maps out an alternative economic vision based on the idea of time as the one thing w
In honor of all the Las Vegas posts I'll be doing this week, I thought you'd enjoy this one. And, in the spirit of transparency, this ditty is actually from metacafe.com, not YouTube. Who knew different parts of the world...
There’s some new exciting traffic generation tools ready to help you get 6-digit traffic every month.
Over the past few years, Bishop Anders has invented many different software programs, each of which is designed to help get more traffic to his websites. Using his own programs, he has dominated his niches, and captured top search engine [...]
I don’t think I knew how addicted I was until I quit (and I’m using the word “quit” loosely—you know, the whole “counting chickens” thing).Last weekend I ran out of Diet Coke, and because I refuse to break the Sabbath to purchase my caffeine juice, I went to bed with a migraine starter. Two hours and one bucket o’vomit later I was sound asleep, on the tail-end of a prayer vowing never to drink again (you know, Diet Coke).But that wouldn’t be my last fit of withdrawals. Wednesday morning, a whole 4 days sober, I woke up with yet another head-splitting migraine. I realized that if I was THAT addicted that two detox migraines were necessary, it was time to leave the Diet Coke behind. For good. (loosely speaking, of course)And this morning my body demonstrated just how close
One of my favorite bands, Counting Crows, is set to release their new album, "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings" on March 28, 2008. This is the band's first studio album since "Hard Candy" was released back in 2002. It has been about six years in between albums, but the Counting Crows still have a strong following that all began back when they first released "Mr. Jones" in 1993. Adam Duritz had this to say about the new album, "Saturday night is when you sin and Sunday is when you regret. Sinning is often done very loudly, angrily, bitterly, violently." The album is split up in to two halfs, the Saturday night half and the Sunday morning half.The Counting Crows are allowing fans to get a little preview of the new album. They recently released two of their new songs, "1492" and "When I Drea
Sixty Days and Counting is the final book in the "Science in the Capital" science fiction series. It is a series that deals with a liberal view of the environment and global climate change. To summarize the previous two books (Forty Signs of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below), Frank Vanderwal is scientist at the National Science Foundation, on loan from the University of California at San Diego, who is a quiet but unique character that is similar to many other characters that the author, Kim Stanley Robinson, creates in other books. His characters are usually into hiking, Buddhism, environmentalism, and liberal values. Frank has a chance (seemingly) meeting in a malfunctioning elevator with a complete female stranger, yet they end up making out in the elevator. She becomes a mysterious part of
Peanut woke me up with the following monologue yesterday morning, whispered gutturally at high speed:"TodayisSaturdayandSaturdayisnoschool, andtomorrowisSundayanditis twodaystoChristmas, andthenitisMondayand itisonedaytoChristmas, andthenitis CHRISTMAS!"Boy, that kid can whisper loudly.The last few days have been filled with good cheer, stuff like handing out little tokens of appreciation to teachers and bus drivers and speech therapists. I attended Peanut's preschool party and helped him build his "gingerbread house."I handled the construction parts and he took care of the decorating. I think we make a good team and should probably consider opening up a Mom/Son fake gingerbread house construction business. OK, I did do the pretzel walkway and the spiral of licorice around the tree, but he really had some definite opinions on the placement of gumdrops and candy canes.I enjoyed the sight of all the kids doing the "Reindeer Hokey Pokey," but have to admit to thinking that my little Pean
It has been known for a while that chimps are more evolved than humans - well, their genome has changed more than ours since our common ancestor - but recent studies have shown that chimps have outstanding numeracy abilities that outstrip our own in some cases.Sponsor for this week's show - GotoMeeting: Try GotoMeeting free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcast.This week in the last Mr Science Show for 2007, we take a look at these special chimp abilities. Listen to the show here.You can find more info on Plus and if you are not convinced, take a look at these videos:
Whoa! Go easy on Rudolph there, George-ous!With their chunky knits and chunkier hair George-ous Michael and Andrew Ridgely were on course to top the UK charts in December 1984 as the cherry on the cake to their fab year. And then along came Band Aid. Last Christmas was kept off number 1 and has never bothered the top since. But bloody hell, it's never stopped selling. There's a lot of kerchinging every day when it's played a million times and downloaded like buggery around the world.And the universal obsession doesn't stop there. This brilliant site, called, funnily enough, last-christmas.com has painstakingly and lovingly put together as many cover versions of Wham!'s festive favourite. Think of a genre and it's covered. They've even started a list of artists who HAVEN'T done it.Come Boxing Day, I start listening to the original b-side Everything Thing She Wants.***********************************************************Today's Christmas song comes courtesy of last-christmas.
Measuring carbon footprints is an activity renowned for its double-counting pitfalls. Dieter Helm's recent report (pdf) into Britain's "consumption' emissions falls into one.
The World Resource Institute's GHG Protocol, the benchmark methodology for calculating corporate emissions, divides footprints into three scopes: 1) direct (for example emissions from a company's vehicle fleet or factories), 2) indirect emissions associated with energy purchased from third parties and 3) all other emissions, such as emissions in the supply chain or from how customers use products.
Installations in the EU ETS only have regulatory exposure to their direct (scope 1) emissions, because any indirect emissions in the other two scopes are direct emissions for another party. Including them would be double counting.
The higher emissions identified in the study are, in effect, Britain's scope 3 emissions. The British government does not directly control them. Some companies measure their scop
The world is counting on a breakthrough at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates at the summit, calling the fight against global warming "the moral challenge of our generation".
According to UN Information Center (UNIC) in...
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I had an ultrasound on Friday morning, and the baby is looking chubby, healthy and altogether lovely.
It was the first chance this pregnancy that Beloved has had to come to an ultrasound with me. (You think we’re getting a little bit jaded about this whole pregnancy thing? I would have been scandalized had he missed one of Tristan’s ultrasounds!)
The Player to be Named Later - we really do have to get on with that naming thing - is looking, according to the locquacious ultraound technician, “lovely” and “gorgeous” and “perfect” and even “helpful” in turning just the right way so she could get her measurements.
Since she was in there poking around anyway, I asked her if she could confirm the gender for me. It’s not like I didn’t see it myself the last time, but I just couldn’t quite shake off those “girly” type thoughts. Sure enough, magnified on the screen that couldn’t be more obvious,
Listen to the numbers in ChineseLearning to count and pronounce the numbers correctly is a useful skill for any traveler to a new country. Click the link above to hear the English and Chinese for the numbers 50, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1 million.Hotels in BeijingBuy 2008 Beijing Olympics TicketsBooks on China and BeijingTagsBeijing China Chinese China TravelBook the Capital Hotel Beijing Book the Beijing Downtown Holiday Inn
Pic courtesy of Tesco Chainstore Mascara Yes there are 22 days to go till Christmas and already the indie world's unique take on the traditional christmas songs are flowing onto the World Wide Web. Whilst the world waits with bated breath for the now traditional Filthy Little Angels christsmas compilation the devil brings you this generations 'Fairytale of New York' courtesy of the excellent website magazine Maps.MP3 - And What Will Be Left Of Them? - Have Yourself a Filthy Little ChristmasMaps have really entered the christmas spirit with an advent calendar with free downloads, competitions and other festive related merriment. Join the countdown to the great day at Maps and get introduced to some great bands and music as well.So who are the band responsible for 'Filthy Little Christmas'...And What Will Be Left Of Them?Genre: Pop / Garage / IndieFrom: Worcester, United KingdomWorcester's And What Will Be Left Of Them? come hurtling out of the tracks with an armful of sparkling en
Listen to the numbers in ChineseLearning to count and pronounce the numbers correctly is a useful skill for any traveler to a new country. Click the link above to hear the English and Chinese for the numbers 1-30.Hotels in BeijingBuy 2008 Beijing Olympics TicketsBooks on China and BeijingTagsBeijing China Chinese China TravelBook the Capital Hotel Beijing Book the Beijing Downtown Holiday Inn
Mixtape-Flashback-Friday today. Pretty self-explanatory. Here you go:Dusty Springfield - I Close My Eyes And Count to 10The Clovers - Love Potion No. 9Smith - The W8The Blue Nile - 7 AM (Live)Eloy - Love Over 6 CenturiesMike Oldfield - 5 Miles OutAphrodite's Child - The 4 HorsemanThe Four Aces - 3 Coins In The FountainThe Doors - Love Me 2 TimesABBA - You Owe Me 1Really couldn't find a song with an 8 in it... do you know any?
a smooth start with a good day for joelle, and a good start with a smooth day for me... well, joelle had a smooth start in the loo early morning and we got to take cabby to work. and surprisingly we managed to reach buggis at 8... so we go for a hearty bfast at ya kun and a good day for joelle. i, on the other hand, had a good start with the hearty bfast, followed by a smooth day in office loo... :P hmmm... counting down... not to weekend, cuz this sat got to come back office to work... counting down to 10pm instead, cuz got to go back office to settle the router for gmt... sianz ahhh...got a funny feeling nowadays, keep missing megan whenever i got to work late... oh ya, megan, our baby's name. we choose it even before we know megan's gender... last nite, joelle said megan seems to be sleeping pretty early, cuz she usually kicks at night... i put my hand on joelle's tummy and said "megan, give daddy a kick. please, give daddy a kick and daddy go sleep k?" and right after that, we
Hark the Christmas angels sing!
It’s that time of year again. Almost. When trees are brought inside and decorated with shiny baubles and lights, when Christmas carols are played on repeat, when children leave cake out for Santa, and Christmas gift shopping pushes us to the edge. Oh, and the birth of Jesus the saviour is celebrated!
To help you make the most of the Christmas holiday season, we’ve got everything you’ll need for Christmas:
Christmas gifts - how to shop for the perfect gift, including a top ten of festive pressies.
Christmas trees and decorations - how to bring Christmas cheer to your home.
Christmas carols - how to find a local Christmas carol sing-along, plus some alternative Christmas songs.
Christmas recipes - how to wow your guests with your Christmas baking skills.
Christmas holidays - how to escape the madness of the silly season during the summer holidays.
Christmas parties - how to be the host with the most for your Christmas shindig.
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Gentle reader,
I wanted to share my husband’s thanksgiving thoughts with you:
The following was read on my on my podcast:
Yesterday at work, I began to think about my blessings and realized how much I truly have to be thankful for. So let’s begin.
I’m thankful for a God who gives Grace to me as I seek to follow him day by day. Many times I fail, but he lifts me up. He is gracious and forgiving. He feeds me through His Word and grants me inspiration. He is the giver of all good things and the one to whom thanks ought to be given.
I’m thankful for health. Other than needing more Omega 3’s in my diet and sleep apnea, I’m a fairly healthy guy with no major discomfort.
I’m thankful for my wife. She’s incredibly patient, understanding, and forgiving. She helps me in so many ways. She edits my blog and is there for every podcast. We have our moments like anybody else, but I wouldn’t trade her for anyone in the World.
I’m incredibly b
…Counting our blessings–that is. We will never run out of things to count! I’m thankful for my Savior, my family, my husband, my kids, and this beautiful day–just to name a few…
And hey, by the way, I’m thankful for you-those who blog, who read my blog… I have enjoyed reading so many encouraging, inspiring messages from people like you–in comments you leave, emails you send, and blogs you post. God Bless you all!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
**Feel free to leave a comment about what you’re thankful for!
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**P.S. You may also read some of my other posts on “counting blessings” (below):
Count Your Blessings
I’ll Get The Ball Rolling
By The Way
Why Not Count Our Blessings
What I Didn’t Tell Ya
The Joy of Thankfulness
Thankfulness Begins With…
Speaking of Thanks…
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Word has it that the New York City Health Commissioner wants restaurants such as Burger King and McDonald’s to spell out exactly how fattening their food is, right where people order. I personally like that idea myself. Hopefully it’ll keep me eating healthy when I have to grab and run. However, people are [...]
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Hahn Estates is located inland from Monterey on a hillside looking down to the Salinas Valley. It's beautiful country that produces some very nice wines. We found ourselves at the winery late in the day recently and enjoyed the great view with a few of their wines.Hahn Estates 2005 Pinot Noir: This Central Coast winery believes so strongly in its pinot noir that it has ripped out 400 acres of cabernet sauvignon to expand its pinot plantings. This is a lush pinot noir with nice deep cherry notes. A great value for a California red.Hahn Estates 2005 Chardonnay: A hint of peach in the nose, with a nice citrus and apricot flavor profile.Smith & Hook 2005 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon: Named for the ranches that make up the vineyard, this red has good tannins and dark purple fruit flavors.
My Dad turns 60 today. Which means he has seen 720 moons. Full moons that is. And Roughly. This figure has not been corrected for leap years, cloudy nights or the evenings when my Dad simply did not want to go see the moon. But you get my idea. Anyhoo. In my family, we always say that my Dad arrived from another planet. There is no doubt about that. Some, actually many, say he came from the Planet of Saints or the Planet of Highly Ethical and Moral Beings (this planet is very sparsely populated) or the Federation of the Extremely Patient Souls (I think he was the sole occupant of that one). Are you shaking your heads and are saying, Naah? These planets don’t really exist? Well, they must. Which other person, in his boyhood would brink back veggies for dinner on the way home from school with the few paisa his mother gave him for a treat in the school canteen? Or never break a teacup or volunteer to put his baby brother down for a nap or pacify the said younger brother when he demanded
After a long couple of days, I'm finally back home. And while it will be good to sleep in my own glorious bed -- I'm hoping that it's sometime in the next few minutes -- there are some things about hotels that are really nice. Like the maid service. And the room service.One of the underratedly great things about staying in a hotel is that there's always a pen and paper handy. It's a lovely little retro convenience in today's digital age. Even the hotels that are nothing spectacular still leave a small pad of paper by the phone. This, of course, comes in handy for many reasons. Anyway, last night, despite my attempt at getting to sleep early so that I was bright eyed and bushy tailed for the long day of work plus return flight home, I was awakened on several occasions by a group of conventioneers having some kind of contest to see who can be the loudest, most annoying drunk, out in the common areas. The last disturbance was at about 2 in the morning (3 Eastern), and I foun
