tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69562307318515042712024-02-06T21:40:43.521-08:00World Wide GlobalFinancials, News and Enterteinment.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-7052249324636486702014-05-17T01:07:00.000-07:002014-05-17T01:07:05.667-07:00GTA V: 7 Things We Don't Want7 Things We Don't Want in GTA V, or how GTA V can learn from GTA IV mistakes. Rockstar has announced that GTA V is to be delayed until September. Disappointing, but hopefully it means the game will be even better when it does finally come out. And if Rockstar are having trouble with the whole 'making it better' thing, here are our top 7 suggestions to help them out.<br />
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Recently, I was listening to <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewFerebee" rel="”nofollow”" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.25s ease, margin 0.25s ease; border: 0px; color: #9b9b9b; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s ease, margin 0.25s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Andrew Ferebee">Andrew Ferebee</a>’s “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/knowledge-for-men-andrew-ferebee/id755164884?mt=2" rel="”nofollow”" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.25s ease, margin 0.25s ease; border: 0px; color: #9b9b9b; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.25s ease, margin 0.25s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Knowledge For Men">Knowledge For Men</a>” podcast (which, by the way, I just love), and Ferebee was interviewing Jordan Belfort, the man who the Wolf of Wall Street is based on. I was blown away by something Belfort said regarding goals and vision. In part, Belfot said, “too many people go around setting goals.” [Insert me saying to myself – “that’s me!”.] Further, he said (and now I’m paraphrasing), that people who go around setting goals and accomplishing them without having a vision are usually negative because they hit a goal and then move on to the next one without having a higher purpose, which is demotivating.</div>
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This was an “aha” moment for me. As a huge proponent of intentional living, I’m constantly setting and achieving goals. However, I never thought about a concrete vision for the goals I set (for my life, business, or anything else). After searching around the web, I discovered there isn’t much out there on this topic and felt compelled to write on the distinction between goals and vision to encourage you to create a vision for yourself (life, career, or whatever else) in hopes that it will leave you happier overall. So, here goes – enjoy.</div>
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A goal is a specific target to achieve something. It’s the strategy and tactics you use to move toward your vision. You should set and achieve goals only that promote and are in line with your vision. This is why, if you don’t have a vision, goals alone can be defeating (i.e., without a vision, each goal is just something you’ve completed without a larger “why” in mind).</div>
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Examples of goals:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To save for a down payment on a house</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To run your own company</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To get out of credit card debt</li>
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Vision is your why. Vision gives something direction. It’s your desired future. Your vision includes what you believe in (your core values) and what you want in your future (what you want to be). It’s the powerful reason why you want to do something; your overarching purpose. It’s your passion and keeps you excited and motivated. It’s what inspires you to do whatever it is you want to do.</div>
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For money, business, or career, your vision may be very specific. For your life and relationships, your vision may be broader. In either case, your vision should be clear because it is the foundation on which you build (as shown in the fancy image I created for this post <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://www.thefinancegirl.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /> ).</div>
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To create a vision, begin by identifying your core values, your passions, what you believe to be your purpose, and how you envision your life. From there, be more specific and remember to be clear. Your vision should embody your values and your view of the future without being too generic. Your vision can also change over time. The point is to have one so you know why you’re doing what you do, and you’re happier doing it. The same process applies when you’re creating a vision for any other aspect of your life, such as your career or business.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To provide a happy, loving home for your family in a safe community</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To help people ________ (insert whatever problem your business is aimed at helping solve)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To be free from financial “slavery” and be an example to your children</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nike: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world<br />*if you have a body, you are an athlete</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Amazon: To be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.</li>
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Creating a vision can seem awkward or difficult, but it is definitely worth it. You’ll consider your higher purpose when setting and accomplishing your goals, which will leave you happier overall.</div>
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Money is opportunity. Opportunity is power. Power is freedom. And freedom means responsibility. Without responsibility, eventually there is no freedom, no power, no opportunities, and no money. More importantly, freedom is more than power. Power is more than opportunity. Opportunity is more than money. And money is more than something that just buys stuff. It is simple to understand but hard to remember, but do remember this if nothing else. </blockquote>
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Read the entire post here: <a href="http://earlyretirementextreme.com/manifesto.html" target="_blank">Early Retirement Extreme - Manifesto</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-46180137657616528402014-04-29T09:56:00.000-07:002014-04-29T09:56:11.256-07:00The Ten Golden Rules on Living the Good LifeWhat is good life? What is happiness? What is success? What is pleasure? How should I treat other people? How should I cope with unfortunate events? How can I get rid off unnecessary worry? How should I handle liberty?<br />
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1. Examine life, engage life with vengeance; always search for new pleasures and new destines to reach with your mind. This rule isn’t new. It echoes the verses of ancient Greek philosophers and most notably those of Plato through the voice of his hero, Socrates. Living life is about examining life through reason, nature’s greatest gift to humanity. The importance of reason in sensing and examining life is evident in all phases of life– from the infant who strains to explore its new surroundings to the grandparent who actively reads and assesses the headlines of the daily paper. Reason lets human beings participate in life, to be human is to think, appraise, and explore the world, discovering new sources of material and spiritual pleasure.<br />
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2. Worry only about the things that are in your control, the things that can be influenced and changed by your actions, not about the things that are beyond your capacity to direct or alter. This rule summarizes several important features of ancient Stoic wisdom — features that remain powerfully suggestive for modern times. Most notably the belief in an ultimately rational order operating in the universe reflecting a benign providence that ensures proper outcomes in life. Thinkers such as Epictetus did not simply prescribe “faith” as an abstract philosophical principle; they offered a concrete strategy based on intellectual and spiritual discipline. The key to resisting the hardship and discord that intrude upon every human life, is to cultivate a certain attitude toward adversity based on the critical distinction between those things we are able to control versus those which are beyond our capacity to manage. The misguided investor may not be able to recover his fortune but he can resist the tendency to engage in self-torment. The victims of a natural disaster, a major illness or an accident may not be able to recover and live their lives the way they used to, but they too can save themselves the self-torment. In other words, while we cannot control all of the outcomes we seek in life, we certainly can control our responses to these outcomes and herein lies our potential for a life that is both happy and fulfilled.<br />
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3. Treasure Friendship, the reciprocal attachment that fills the need for affiliation. Friendship cannot be acquired in the market place, but must be nurtured and treasured in relations imbued with trust and amity. According to Greek philosophy, one of the defining characteristics of humanity that distinguishes it from other forms of existence is a deeply engrained social instinct, the need for association and affiliation with others, a need for friendship. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle viewed the formation of society as a reflection of the profound need for human affiliation rather than simply a contractual arrangement between otherwise detached individuals. Gods and animals do not have this kind of need but for humans it is an indispensable aspect of the life worth living because one cannot speak of a completed human identity, or of true happiness, without the associative bonds called “friendship.” No amount of wealth, status, or power can adequately compensate for a life devoid of genuine friends.<br />
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4. Experience True Pleasure. Avoid shallow and transient pleasures. Keep your life simple. Seek calming pleasures that contribute to peace of mind. True pleasure is disciplined and restrained. In its many shapes and forms, pleasure is what every human being is after. It is the chief good of life. Yet not all pleasures are alike. Some pleasures are kinetic—shallow, and transient, fading way as soon as the act that creates the pleasure ends. Often they are succeeded by a feeling of emptiness and psychological pain and suffering. Other pleasures are catastematic—deep, and prolonged, and continue even after the act that creates them ends; and it is these pleasures that secure the well-lived life. That’s the message of the Epicurean philosophers that have been maligned and misunderstood for centuries, particularly in the modern era where their theories of the good life have been confused with doctrines advocating gross hedonism.<br />
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5. Master Yourself. Resist any external force that might delimit thought and action; stop deceiving yourself, believing only what is personally useful and convenient; complete liberty necessitates a struggle within, a battle to subdue negative psychological and spiritual forces that preclude a healthy existence; self mastery requires ruthless cador. One of the more concrete ties between ancient and modern times is the idea that personal freedom is a highly desirable state and one of life’s great blessings. Today, freedom tends to be associated, above all, with political liberty. Therefore, freedom is often perceived as a reward for political struggle, measured in terms of one’s ability to exercise individual “rights.”<br />
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The ancients argued long before Sigmund Freud and the advent of modern psychology that the acquisition of genuine freedom involved a dual battle. First, a battle without, against any external force that might delimit thought and action. Second, a battle within, a struggle to subdue psychological and spiritual forces that preclude a healthy self-reliance. The ancient wisdom clearly recognized that humankind has an infinite capacity for self-deception, to believe what is personally useful and convenient at the expense of truth and reality, all with catastrophic consequences. Individual investors often deceive themselves by holding on to shady stocks, believing what they want to believe. They often end up blaming stock analysts and stockbrokers when the truth of the matter is they are the ones who eventually made the decision to buy them in the first place. Students also deceive themselves believing that they can pass a course without studying, and end up blaming their professors for their eventual failure. Patients also deceive themselves that they can be cured with convenient “alternative medicines,” which do not involve the restrictive lifestyle of conventional methods.<br />
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6. Avoid Excess. Live life in harmony and balance. Avoid excesses. Even good things, pursued or attained without moderation, can become a source of misery and suffering. This rule is echoed in the writings of ancient Greek thinkers who viewed moderation as nothing less than a solution to life’s riddle. The idea of avoiding the many opportunities for excess was a prime ingredient in a life properly lived, as summarized in Solon’s prescription “Nothing in Excess” (6th Century B.C.). The Greeks fully grasped the high costs of passionate excess. They correctly understood that when people violate the limits of a reasonable mean, they pay penalties ranging from countervailing frustrations to utter catastrophe. It is for this reason that they prized ideals such as measure, balance, harmony, and proportion as much as they did, the parameters within which productive living can proceed. If, however, excess is allowed to destroy harmony and balance, then the life worth living becomes impossible to obtain.<br />
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7. Be a Responsible Human Being. Approach yourself with honesty and thoroughness; maintain a kind of spiritual hygiene; stop the blame-shifting for your errors and shortcomings. Be honest with yourself and be prepared to assume responsibility and accept consequences. This rule comes from Pythagoras, the famous mathematician and mystic, and has special relevance for all of us because of the common human tendency to reject responsibility for wrongdoing. Very few individuals are willing to hold themselves accountable for the errors and mishaps that inevitably occur in life. Instead, they tend to foist these situations off on others complaining of circumstances “beyond their control.” There are, of course, situations that occasionally sweep us along, against which we have little or no recourse. But the far more typical tendency is to find ourselves in dilemmas of our own creation — dilemmas for which we refuse to be held accountable. How many times does the average person say something like, “It really wasn’t my fault. If only John or Mary had acted differently then I would not have responded as I did.” Cop-outs like these are the standard reaction for most people. They reflect an infinite human capacity for rationalization, finger-pointing, and denial of responsibility. Unfortunately, this penchant for excuses and self-exemption has negative consequences. People who feed themselves a steady diet of exonerating fiction are in danger of living life in bad faith — more, they risk corrupting their very essence as a human being.<br />
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8. Don’t Be a Prosperous Fool. Prosperity by itself, is not a cure-all against an ill-led life, and may be a source of dangerous foolishness. Money is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the good life, for happiness and wisdom. Prosperity has different meanings to different people. For some, prosperity is about the accumulation of wealth in the form of money, real estate and equities. For others, prosperity is about the accumulation of power and the achievement of status that comes with appointment to business or government positions. In either case, prosperity requires wisdom: the rational use of one’s resources and in the absence of such wisdom, Aeschylus was correct to speak of prosperous fools.<br />
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9. Don’t Do Evil to Others. Evildoing is a dangerous habit, a kind of reflex too quickly resorted to and too easily justified that has a lasting and damaging effect upon the quest for the good life. Harming others claims two victims—the receiver of the harm, and the victimizer, the one who does harm.<br />
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Contemporary society is filled with mixed messages when it comes to the treatment of our fellow human beings. The message of the Judaeo-Christian religious heritage, for instance, is that doing evil to others is a sin, extolling the virtues of mercy, forgiveness, charity, love, and pacifism. Yet, as we all know, in practice these inspiring ideals tend to be in very short supply. Modern society is a competitive, hard-bitten environment strongly inclined to advocate self-advantage at the expense of the “other.” Under these conditions, it is not surprising that people are often prepared to harm their fellow human beings. These activities are frequently justified by invoking premises such as “payback,” “leveling scores,” or “doing unto others, before they can do unto you.” Implicit in all of these phrases is the notion that malice towards others can be justified on either a reciprocal basis or as a pre-emptive gesture in advance of anticipated injury. What is not considered here are the effects these attempts to render evil have upon the person engaging in such attempts. Our culture has naively assumed that “getting even” is an acceptable response to wrongdoing — that one bad-turn deserves another. What we fail to understand is the psychological, emotional, and spiritual impact victimizing others has upon the victimizer.<br />
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10. Kindness towards others tends to be rewarded. Kindness to others is a good habit that supports and reinforces the quest for the good life. Helping others bestows a sense of satisfaction that has two beneficiaries—the beneficiary, the receiver of the help, and the benefactor, the one who provides the help.<br />
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Many of the world’s great religions speak of an obligation to extend kindness to others. But these deeds are often advocated as an investment toward future salvation — as the admission ticket to paradise. That’s not the case for the ancient Greeks, however, who saw kindness through the lens of reason, emphasizing the positive effects acts of kindness have not just on the receiver of kindness but to the giver of kindness as well, not for the salvation of the soul in the afterlife, but in this life. Simply put, kindness tends to return to those who do kind deeds, as Aesop demonstrated in his colourful fable of a little mouse cutting the net to free the big lion. Aesop lived in the 6th century B.C. and acquired a great reputation in antiquity for the instruction he offered in his delightful tales. Despite the passage of many centuries, Aesop’s counsels have stood the test of time because in truth, they are timeless observations on the human condition; as relevant and meaningful today as they were 2,500 years ago.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-12050480268506505502013-07-06T12:52:00.003-07:002013-07-06T12:52:37.832-07:00Boeing 777 by Asiana Airlines crashed in San Francisco Airport July 6 2013 Boeing 777 by Asiana Airlines is crashed in San Francisco Airport. At this moment there is no details about the possible victims.<br />
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South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack, the new president in Seoul warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighter planes.<br />
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North Korea says the region is on the brink of a nuclear war in the wake of United Nations sanctions imposed for its February nuclear test and a series of joint U.S. and South Korean military drills that have included a rare U.S. show of aerial power.<br />
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The North, whose economy is smaller than it was 20 years ago, appeared to move on Monday to addressing its pressing need for investment by appointing a reformer to the country's ceremonial prime minister's job, although the move mostly cemented a power grab by the ruling Kim clan.<br />
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North Korea had said on Saturday it was entering a "state of war" with South Korea in response to what it termed the "hostile" military drills being staged in the South. But there have been no signs of unusual activity in the North's military to suggest an imminent aggression, a South Korean defense ministry official said last week.<br />
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"If there is any provocation against South Korea and its people, there should be a strong response in initial combat without any political considerations," President Park Geun-hye told the defense minister and senior officials at a meeting on Monday.<br />
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The South has changed its rules of engagement to allow local units to respond immediately to attacks, rather than waiting for permission from Seoul.<br />
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Stung by criticism that its response to the shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 was tardy and weak, Seoul has also threatened to target North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and to destroy statues of the ruling Kim dynasty in the event of any new attack, a plan that has outraged Pyongyang.<br />
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Seoul and its ally the United States played down Saturday's statement from the official KCNA news agency as the latest in a stream of tough talk from Pyongyang.<br />
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North Korea stepped up its rhetoric in early March, when U.S. and South Korean forces began annual military drills that involved the flights of U.S. B-2 stealth bombers in a practice run, prompting the North to puts its missile units on standby to fire at U.S. military bases in the South and in the Pacific.<br />
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On its part, North Korea has cancelled an armistice agreement with the United States that ended the Korean War and cut all hotlines with U.S. forces, the United Nations and South Korea.<br />
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS "NOT A BARGAINING CHIP"<br />
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Park's intervention came on the heels of a meeting of the North's ruling Workers Party Central Committee where leader Kim Jong-un rejected the notion that Pyongyang was going to use its nuclear arms development as a bargaining chip.<br />
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"The nuclear weapons of Songun Korea are not goods for getting U.S. dollars and they are ... (not) to be put on the table of negotiations aimed at forcing the (North) to disarm itself," KCNA news agency quoted him as saying.<br />
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At the meeting, Kim appointed a handful of personal confidants to the party's politburo, further consolidating his grip on power in the second full year of his reign.<br />
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The most surprising appointment came on Monday as former prime minister Pak Pong-ju was re-appointed as premier, although the move likely signaled another power struggle in Pyongang staged by the country's leader Kim Jong-un.<br />
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Pak is viewed as a key ally of Jang Song-thaek, the young Kim's uncle and also a protege of Kim's aunt and is viewed as a pawn in a power game that has seen Jang and his wife re-assert power over military leaders.<br />
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Analysts said the move would not likely change Pyongyang's approach to a confrontation that appears to have dragged the two Koreas closer to war.<br />
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Pyongyang's on-off negotiations saw it take part in nuclear disarmament talks for five years aimed at paying it off in return for abandoning its atomic weapons program. Those talks fell apart in 2008. Some experts say the talks gave the North grounds to pursue a highly enriched uranium program that took it closer to owning a working arsenal.<br />
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Songun is the Korean word for the "Military First" policy preached by Kim's father who used it to justify the use of the impoverished state's scare resources to build a 1.2-million strong army and a weapons of mass destruction program.<br />
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White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said North Korea's announcement that it was in a state of war followed a "familiar pattern" of rhetoric.<br />
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China has repeatedly called for restraint on the peninsula.<br />
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However, many in South Korea have regarded the North's willingness to keep open the Kaesong industrial zone, located just a few miles (km) north of the heavily-militarized border and operated jointly by both sides, as a sign that Pyongyang will not risk losing a lucrative source of foreign currency.<br />
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Closure could also trap hundreds of South Korean workers and managers of the more than 100 firms that have factories there.<br />
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A fellow named Bilbo Baggins lives in the Shire--but perhaps you've made his acquaintance <br />
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already? If you're familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the films that Peter Jackson wrought from them, of course you have. And here is Bilbo, played again by Ian Holm, shuffling about his hobbit hole and recalling a grand adventure from his past, when he left the Shire with a wizard and some dwarves and found a certain ring and a very peculiar creature named Gollum. This is The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which Jackson and his LOTR crew have expanded on from Tolkien's 1937 novel. And boy, have they expanded: this 169-minute escapade is merely the first of three separate movies made from that one book, and it gets the young Bilbo (played by Martin Freeman) only a little ways into his grand trek. Many loud, garish battles and chases fill the time, along with some (it pains one to say it) fairly tedious adolescent-level humor. Jackson tends to dally with scenes that might have been more effective in half the time, and the bumptious dwarves are some of the least charming characters in the Tolkieniad. Thank goodness, there's Gollum (played, as before, by the digitally <br />
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The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain, first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.<br />
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Actors: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, Ken Stott<br />
Directors: Peter Jackson<br />
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen<br />
Language: English<br />
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)<br />
Studio: New Line/Eurpac<br />
DVD Release Date: March 19, 2013<br />
Run Time: 169 minutes<br />
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<li>Listening in on someone's recording of a voice message before taking a call (press 2 while answering, * to "pick up")</li>
<li>Blocking calls from specified numbers</li>
<li>Blocking calls from numbers identified by Google as telemarketers</li>
<li>Send, receive, and store SMS online</li>
<li>Answering incoming calls on any configured phone</li>
<li>Call routing. Selection of phones that should ring based on calling number</li>
<li>Voicemail transcripts. Reading of voicemail messages online</li>
<li>Listening to voicemail online or from a phone</li>
<li>Notification of voicemail messages via email or SMS</li>
<li>Personalized greetings based on calling number</li>
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<li>Switching of phones during a call</li>
<li>Viewing the web inbox from a mobile device/phone</li>
<li>Customize preferences for contacts by group</li>
<li>Ability to change your number for a fee</li>
<li>Ability to port your mobile number for a fee</li>
<li>Specifying an existing phone number instead of the Google Voice number on initial setup for use with limited functionality, such as some voicemail functions. and using the voice mail system for the user's phone number (mobile devices only).</li>
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<li>Main LCD<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.8” HD Super AMOLED (1280x720)</li>
<li>Talk Time<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Up to 600 min (3G)</li>
<li>Standby Time<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Up to 500 hours (3G)</li>
<li>Internal Memory<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>16GB</li>
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<li>SAR (head):<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>0.404 W/kg</li>
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Congress passed it. President Obama signed it into law. The Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional. And Obama's re-election virtually ensures the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, will be implemented in full, with the prospects of wholesale repeal all but impossible. In fact, many provisions of the new law are already becoming a reality with major new regulations set to start soon. ObamaCare will affect every single American, but few know what exactly the 2,700 page law actually says. Now, the ObamaCare Survival Guide, written in plain, easy-to-read language, makes the law simple to understand and gives you the tools to navigate ObamaCare.</div>
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Now, the ObamaCare Survival Guide, written in plain, easy-to-read language, makes the law simple to understand. The ObamaCare Survival Guide reveals:</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-31502887380898520502013-03-30T11:12:00.002-07:002013-03-30T11:13:01.906-07:00America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great<h3>
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What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place? In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent from inner-city poverty to international medical and humanitarian acclaim, Carson shares experiential insights that help us understand ... what is good about America ... where we have gone astray ... which fundamental beliefs have guided America from her founding into preeminence among nations Written by a man who has experienced America's best and worst firsthand, America the Beautiful is at once alarming, convicting, and inspiring. You'll gain new perspectives <br />
<a name='more'></a>on our nation's origins, our Judeo-Christian heritage, our educational system, capitalism versus socialism, our moral fabric, healthcare, and much more. An incisive manifesto of the values that shaped America's past and must shape her future, America the Beautiful calls us all to use our God-given talents to improve our lives, our communities, our nation, and our world.<br />
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Dr. Benjamin Carson is a Professor of Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Oncology, and Pediatrics, and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He is also the author of four bestselling books---Gifted Hands, Think Big, The Big Picture, and Take the Risk. He serves on the boards of the Kellogg Company, Costco Wholesale Corp., and the Academy of Achievement, among others, and is an Emeritus Fellow of the Yale Corporation. He and his wife, Candy, cofounded the Carson Scholars Fund (www.carsonscholars.org), a 501(c)3 established to counteract America's crisis in education by identifying and rewarding academic role models in the fourth through eleventh grades, regardless of race, creed, religion and socio-economic status, who also demonstrate humanitarian qualities. There are over 4800 scholars in forty-five states. Ben and Candy are the parents of three grown sons and reside in Baltimore County, Maryland. SPANISH BIO: El Dr. Benjamin Carson es profesor de neurocirugia, cirugia plastica, oncologia y pediatria, y director de neurocirugia pediatrica en las Instituciones Medicas John Hopkins. Tambien es autor de tres libros, exitos de ventas: Gifted Hands. Piense en grande, y The Big Picture. Sirve en las juntas directivas de Kellogg Company , Costo, Wholesale Corp y American Promise, entre otras, y es Miembro Emerito de la Yale Corporacion. El y su esposa Candy son padres de tres hijos adultos y viven en el condado de Baltimore, Maryland.<br />
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Paperback: 224 pages<br />
Publisher: Zondervan (January 22, 2013)<br />
Language: English<br />
ISBN-10: 0310330912<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0310330912<br />
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.1 inches<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-22879896332252406292013-03-30T11:06:00.001-07:002013-03-30T11:13:37.289-07:00The Real Love<br />
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Bringing together Broadway and Hollywood, The Real Love is an original musical inspired by the extraordinary, true story of world-renowned spiritual teacher, humanitarian and artist Supreme Master Ching Hai.<br />
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In the 1970s, a lovely, young Aulacese (Vietnamese) woman named Thanh (West End actress Joanna Ampil) is working at the Munich Red Cross with her materialistic German friend Elsa (Tony winner Cady Huffman). Frequently accompanying refugees to the hospital, Thanh is deeply moved by the world's suffering. She is admired by many doctors, including the hilarious Klaus (Tony nominee Robert Torti). But it is Rolf (Tony nominee Adam Pascal), a gentle physician-and-dentist, who wins her <br />
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With lyrics based on Supreme Master Ching Hai's eloquent poems, and music by Academy and five-time Emmy Award winner Bill Conti, two-time Academy Award winner Al Kasha, Emmy Award nominee Doug Katsaros, Tony and Emmy Award winner Don Pippin and Academy and two-time Grammy Award winner David Shire, this uplifting musical renews the courage and compassion in us all.<br />
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In this volume, readers can enjoy the complete book, lyrics, sheet music and full- color photos of The Real Love - a musical commemorating one of the most fascinating journeys and greatest love stories the world may ever know.<br />
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Hardcover: 269 pages<br />
Publisher: SMCH International Association Publishing Co., Ltd (2012)<br />
Language: English<br />
ISBN-10: 9866895610<br />
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Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.<br />
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Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.<br />
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In Lean In, Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. She recounts her own decisions, mistakes, and daily struggles to make the right choices for herself, her career, and her family. She provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career, urging women to set boundaries and to abandon the myth of “having it all.” She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women in the workplace and at home.<br />
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Written with both humor and wisdom, Sandberg’s book is an inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth. Lean In is destined to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can.<br />
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March 2013: Anyone who's watched Sheryl Sandberg's popular TED Talk, "Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders," is familiar with--and possibly haunted by--the idea of "having it all." "Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase," writes Sandberg in Lean In, which expands on her talk's big idea: that increasing the number of women at the top of their fields will benefit everyone. Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, encourages women to challenge the common workplace assumption that "men still run the world." She asks men to be real partners, sharing in the family work that typically leads to a woman's decision to stay home; she asks women who expect to start a family soon not to check out of work mentally. Sandberg's critics note that her advice may not resonate with the masses: The Harvard-educated exec can afford a veritable army to help raise her children. But Sandberg's point--which affects all of us--is that women who have what it takes to succeed at the highest professional level face many obstacles, both internal and external. Lean In is likely to spur the conversations that must happen for institutional changes to take place at work. --Alexandra Foster<br />
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Praise for Lean In (#1 National Bestseller)<br />
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“Honest and brave . . . The new manifesto for women in the workplace.”<br />
—Oprah Winfrey<br />
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“Lean In is an inauguration more than a last word, and an occasion for celebration . . . Many, many women, young and old, elite and otherwise, will find it prescriptive, refreshing, and perhaps even revolutionary.”<br />
—Anna Holmes, The New Yorker<br />
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“A landmark manifesto . . . Fifty years after The Feminine Mystique . . . Sandberg addresses 21st-century issues that never entered Betty Friedan’s wildest dreams . . . Lean In will be an influential book. It will open the eyes of women who grew up thinking that feminism was ancient history, who recoil at the word but walk heedlessly through the doors it opened. And it will encourage those women to persevere in their professional lives.”<br />
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times<br />
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“Lean In poses a set of ambitious challenges to women: to create the lives we want, to be leaders in our work, to be partners in our homes, and to be champions of other women. Sheryl provides pragmatic advice on how women in the twenty-first century can meet these challenges. I hope women—and men—of my generation will read this book to help us build the lives we want to lead and the world we want to live in.”<br />
—Chelsea Clinton<br />
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“I approached it wearing two hats—one as CEO [and] the other as the parent of a nine-year-old daughter. In both capacities, I feel that Lean In is a must read.”<br />
—Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO, in Fortune<br />
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“Inspirational . . . Sandberg offers concrete suggestions on how to make our work and home life more satisfying and successful.”<br />
—Kare Anderson, Forbes<br />
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“What Sandberg offers is a view that shows 20-somethings that choices and tradeoffs surely exist, but that the ‘old normal’ of blunting ambition so that you can fit in one category or another does not have to be the way it is. And that each of us has a say in what comes next. And that includes men.”<br />
—Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Atlantic<br />
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“Sheryl Sandberg has done a tremendous service with this work. It offers a vital and sharp message, for women and men. We need great leaders in key seats spread throughout all sectors of society, and we simply cannot afford to lose 50 percent of the smartest, most capable people from competing for those seats. Provocative, practical, and inspired!”<br />
—Jim Collins, author of Good to Great<br />
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“Lively, entertaining, urgent, and yes, even courageous . . . Lean In is both a radical read and incredibly accessible . . . While it’s obvious that women have much to gain from reading Sandberg’s book, so do men—perhaps even more so . . . Lean In is the beginning of an important and long-overdue conversation in the United States—but it will only be a national conversation, and one that endures, if men do their part and lean in, too.”<br />
—Michael Cohen, The Guardian<br />
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“Grade: A . . . a rallying cry to working women . . . Lean In is the most cogent piece of writing I’ve encountered that speaks to the internal and institutional forces that can trip up an ambitious woman, whether she has a baby on board or not . . . The wisdom she shares here is a gift that all women (and all partners who support them, in the workplace or at home) should give themselves.”<br />
—Meeta Agrawal, Entertainment Weekly<br />
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“If you loved Sheryl Sandberg’s incredible TEDTalk on why we have too few women leaders, or simply believe as I do that we need equality in the boardroom, then this book is for you. As Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg has firsthand experience of why having more women in leadership roles is good for business as well as society. Lean In is essential reading for anyone interested in righting the injustice of this inequality.”<br />
—Sir Richard Branson, chairman, the Virgin Group<br />
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“Sandberg’s message matters deeply: it has a shot at bringing about a cultural change that would improve the lives of all women.”<br />
—Judith Warner, TIME<br />
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“A muscular manifesto on the gender inequities of the professional world . . . Sandberg is making a disruptive, crucial observation that puts her very much in line with Friedan: All is not just in the gendered world, and we should be talking urgently about how to make it better.”<br />
—Rebecca Traister, Los Angeles Times<br />
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“No one who reads this book will ever doubt that Sandberg herself has the will to lead, not to mention the requisite commitment, intelligence, and ferocious work ethic . . . Sandberg is not just tough, however. She also comes across as compassionate, funny, honest, and likable . . . Most important, she is willing to draw the curtain aside on her own insecurities . . . Lean In is full of gems, slogans that ambitious women would do well to pin up on their wall . . . I nodded in recognition at so much of what Sandberg recounts, page after page.”<br />
—Anne-Marie Slaughter, The New York Times Book Review (cover review)<br />
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“Pivotal . . . It’s probably not an overstatement to say Sandberg is embarking on the most ambitious mission to reboot feminism and reframe discussions of gender since the launch of Ms. magazine in 1971. The thing is, she’s in a pretty good position to pull it off.”<br />
—Belinda Luscombe, TIME<br />
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“Important . . . This is a great moment for all of us—women and men—to acknowledge that the current male-dominated model of success isn’t working for women, and it’s not working for men, either . . . The world needs women to redefine success beyond money and power. We need a third metric, based on our well-being, our health, our ability to unplug and recharge and renew ourselves, and to find joy in both our job and the rest of our life.”<br />
—Arianna Huffington, Forbes<br />
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“I’ll bet most [women] will be thrilled by Lean In. I suspect at least a few men will read this book and think, Oh no, they’re starting to catch on.”<br />
—Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair<br />
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“A lucidly written, well-argued, and unabashedly feminist take on women and work, replete with examples from the author’s life.”<br />
—Julia Klein, USA Today<br />
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“Having read Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, I can testify that it addresses internalized oppression, opposes the external barriers that create it, and urges women to support each other to fight both. It argues not only for women’s equality in the workplace, but men’s equality in home-care and child-rearing. Even its critics are making a deep if inadvertent point: Only in women is success viewed as a barrier to giving advice.”<br />
—Gloria Steinem<br />
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“Lean In has plenty for feminists and all women to applaud—and learn from . . . I’m glad Sandberg is speaking out. I’m glad she’s using her platform to help give women the tools to succeed, and to encourage all of us to go out and get what we want. The real strength of Lean In is in its Rosie the Riveter 2.0 message: ‘You can do it! Here’s how.’ . . . A crucial call to action.”<br />
—Jill Filipovic, The Guardian<br />
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“A call to live fearlessly . . . Lean In is a memoir, a self-help book, a career management guide, and a feminist manifesto . . . Let’s hope this is a book that is read as much as talked about.”<br />
—Marion Winik, Newsday<br />
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“Equality is a project everybody must work on together. For too long, achieving equality has been seen as women’s burden . . . By knowing this story, men will become more sophisticated thinkers and actors when it comes to gender . . . Lean In contains a whole lot for men to think seriously about . . . Men just need to read it.”<br />
—Patrick Thibodeau, CIO Magazine<br />
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“Unapologetic . . . Sandberg is using her power and influence to try and improve the worl...<br />
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Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, she was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google and chief of staff at the U.S. Treasury Department. Sheryl lives in Northern California with her husband and their two children.<br />
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Hardcover: 240 pages<br />
Publisher: Knopf (March 11, 2013)<br />
Language: English<br />
ISBN-10: 0385349947<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0385349949<br />
Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1 x 9.5 inches<br />
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Marriage can be a real killer.<br />
One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed that her work “draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.” Gone Girl’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn.<br />
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On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?<br />
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As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?<br />
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With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-83945328192380028622013-03-06T09:48:00.001-08:002013-03-06T09:48:06.974-08:00How to save money<br />
Saving money is one of those tasks that's so much easier said than done. There's more to it than spending less money (although that part alone can be challenging). How much money will you save, where will you put it, and how can you make sure it stays there? Here's how to set realistic goals, keep your spending in check, and get the most for your money.<br />
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<b>1. Kill your debt first.</b> Simply calculating how much you spend each month on your debts will illustrate that eliminating debt is the fastest way to free up money. Once the money is freed from debt payment, it can easily be re-purposed to savings. Plus, the sooner you pay off debt, the less interest you'll pay, and that money can be saved instead.<br />
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If you choose to start saving before you completely pay off your debt, however, look into consolidating your debts so that you're not paying as much interest. The only money-saving that should take precedence over getting out of debt is to create an emergency fund (setting aside enough money so that if you lose your income, you can survive for 3-6 months). If you don't already have an emergency fund, you should start contributing to one immediately.<br />
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<b>2. Set savings goals.</b> For short-term goals, this is easy. If you want to buy a video game, find out how much it costs; if you want to buy a house, determine how much of a down payment you’ll need. For long-term goals, such as retirement, you’ll need to do a lot more planning (figuring out how much money you’ll need to live comfortably for 20 or 30 years after you stop working), and you’ll also need to figure out how investments will help you achieve your goals.<br />
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<b>3. Establish a time-frame.</b> For example: "I want to be able to buy a house two years from today." Set a particular date for accomplishing shorter-term goals, and make sure the goal is attainable within that time period. If it’s not attainable, you’ll just get discouraged.<br />
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<b>4. Figure out how much you’ll have to save per week, per month, or per paycheck to attain each of your savings goals.</b> Take each thing you want to save for and figure out how much you need to start saving now. For most savings goals, it’s best to save the same amount each period. For example, if you want to put a $20,000 down payment on a home in 36 months (three years), you’ll need to save about $550 per month every month. But if your paychecks amount to $1000, it might not be a realistic goal, so adjust your time-frame until you come up with an approachable amount.<br />
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<b>5. Keep a record of your expenses.</b> What you save falls between two activities and their difference: how much you make and how much you spend. Since you have more control over how much you spend, it's wise to take a critical look at your expenses. Write down everything you spend your money on for a couple weeks or a month. Be as detailed as possible, and try not to leave out small purchases. Assign each purchase or expenditure a category such as: Rent, Car insurance, Car payments, Phone Bill, Cable Bill, Utilities, Gas, Food, Entertainment, etc.<br />
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Keep a small notebook with you at all times. Get in the habit of recording every expense and saving the receipts.<br />
Sit down once a week with your small notebook and receipts. Record your expenses in a larger notebook or a spreadsheet program.<br />
There are also many apps you can download to your phone that will help you keep track of your expenses.<br />
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<b>6. Trim your expenses.</b> Take a good, hard look at your spending records after a month or two have passed. You’ll probably be surprised when you look back at your record of expenses: $30 on ice cream, $10 on parking tickets? You’ll likely see some obvious cuts you can make. Depending on how much you need to save, however, you may need to make some difficult decisions. Think about your priorities, and make cuts you can live with. Calculate how much those cuts will save you per year, and you'll be much more motivated to pinch pennies.<br />
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<li>Can you move to a less expensive apartment or house? Can you refinance your mortgage?</li>
<li>Can you save money on gas, or give up a car altogether? If your family has multiple cars, can you bring it down to one?</li>
<li>Can you get a better price on insurance? Call around and make sure you are getting the best price you can. Consider taking a higher deductible, too.</li>
<li>Shop the discount racks at clothing stores. Items on clearance are marked down considerably and could save you 50% of the price.</li>
<li>Can you drop a land line and either only use your cell phone or save money by calling over the internet for free with services such as Skype?</li>
<li>Can you live without cable or satellite TV?</li>
<li>Can you cut down on your utility bills?</li>
<li>Can you restrict eating out? Buy food in bulk? Start using coupons? Cook more at home? You might be able to save a lot of money when grocery shopping.</li>
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<b>7. Reassess your savings goals.</b> Subtract your expenses (the ones you can't live without) from your take-home income (i.e. after taxes have been taken out). What is the difference? And does it match up with your savings goals? Let's say you've decided you can definitely get by on $150 per month, and your paychecks amount to $230 per month. That leaves you with $80 to save. If there’s absolutely no way you can fit all your savings goals into your budget, take a look at what you’re saving for and cut the less important things or adjust the time-frame. Maybe you need to put off buying a new car for another year, or maybe you don’t really need a big-screen TV that badly.<br />
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<b>8. Make a budget.</b> Once you’ve managed to balance your earnings with your savings goals and spending, write down a budget so you’ll know each month or each paycheck how much you can spend on any given thing or category of things. This is especially important for expenses which tend to fluctuate, or which you know you're going to have a particularly hard time restricting. (E.g. "I will only spend $30 a month on movies/chocolate/coffee/etc.")<br />
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<b>9. Stop using credit cards</b>. Pay for everything with cash or money orders. Don't even use checks. It's easier to overspend when you're pulling from a bank or credit account because you don't know exactly how much is in there. If you have cash, you can see your supply running low. You can even bundle up the predetermined amount of cash allocated for each expense with a label or keep separate jars for each expense (e.g. a bundle/jar for coffee, another for gas, another for miscellaneous). As you pull money from a jar for that particular expense, you'll see how much remains and you'll also be reminded of your limit.<br />
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If you need to have credit cards but you don't want the temptation of having them available to use day-to-day, restrict that section of your wallet with a note or picture reminding you of your savings goals.<br />
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Credit cards are not inherently evil; it's all about your self control. If you use them responsibly (i.e. completely pay them off every month), you can benefit from them. But the reason most credit card companies make money, however, is because people end up spending money that they don't have. Unless you are one of the people who can religiously pay off the balance in full every month, you're better off foregoing the promotions that credit card companies use to lure you in (cash back, introductory APR, airline miles, and so on).<br />
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<b>10. Open an interest-bearing savings account.</b> It’s a lot easier to keep track of your savings if you have them separate from your spending money. You can also usually get better interest on savings accounts than on checking accounts (if you get interest on your checking account at all). Consider higher-interest options such as CDs or money-market accounts for longer savings goals.<br />
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<b>11. Pay yourself first.</b> Savings should be your priority, so don’t just say that you’ll save whatever is left over at the end of the month. Deposit savings into an account (or your piggy-bank) as soon as you get paid. An easy, effective way to start saving is to simply deposit 10% of every check in a savings account. If you get a check or sum of cash, say 710.68, move the decimal point one place to the left and deposit that amount: 71.07. This works well and requires little thought; over several years, you've a tidy sum in savings.<br />
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You can set up an automatic transfer from your checking account to your savings account.<br />
Many employers allow you to deduct savings from your paycheck. The money is directly deposited in your savings account so you never even see it on your paycheck.<br />
You can also have investments for retirement taken directly out of your pay, and the taxes may be deferred with this option. Your employer may offer a 401k matching program for retirement as well making it even more worthwhile to save.<br />
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<b>12. Don't get discouraged and don't give up.</b> You may not think you can become wealthy but to become a millionaire is possible if you set up a aggressive savings plan and stick to it. You may be surprised how much money you can put away for something far more enjoyable than what you could buy with short term savings. Good things often take time and the longer you save the more interest you will be making on your savings as well!<br />
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<li>If you receive unexpected cash, put all or most of it into your savings, but continue to set aside your regularly scheduled amount as well. You’ll reach your savings goals sooner.</li>
<li>Take care of your possessions. In this way, you'll need to replace items less. Also, don't replace items until it's absolutely necessary. For instance, just because a motor in an electric toothbrush breaks doesn't mean it stops functioning as a toothbrush. Continue to use it, and when ready go buy a new one or check the warranty.</li>
<li>Even if you REALLY want something, ask yourself, do you REALLY need this? More than half of the time it will be a big no.</li>
<li>Every time you go to buy something think of the thing you are saving for and the rough percentage of your savings so far that the thing costs and quite often you won't buy it.</li>
<li>Most people can save something regardless of their income. Starting to save a little will help build the habit of saving. Even saving as little as $5 a month will teach you that you don't need as much money as you think.</li>
<li>Always over-estimate your expenses and under-estimate your income.</li>
<li>Have a hobby? Match your funds. One important habit for saving is if you have a hobby, such as model airplanes, scrap-booking, dirt biking, scuba diving, etc., set a hard and fast rule that whatever you allow yourself to spend on your hobby, you match those funds to your savings. For example, if you buy yourself a $45 pair of riding gloves, another $45 goes to your savings. Serious about saving? Try doubling your matched funds! These savings plans will do two things: Save money regularly and quickly, and really show you how much you are spending on your hobby, when it costs you twice as much.</li>
<li>Make purchases with paper money, not exact change, and always save the change. Use a piggy bank or jar for your coins. Coins and change may look insignificant but when accumulated over time they can help you save. Some banks now offer free coin counting machines. When you redeem your coins, ask to be paid by check so you won't be tempted to spend your new found cash.</li>
<li>Use affirmations. For example, repeat this affirmation to yourself until it sinks in: Debt is not an option.</li>
<li>If you get paid about the same amount on a regular basis, it'll get easier to budget your money over time. If you have a variable income, it'll be harder to anticipate your expenses because you won't know when's the next time you'll get paid. List your budget categories in order of importance and fulfill the most important items first. Play it safe; assume it'll be a while before you get money again.</li>
<li>Enjoy the simple pleasures in life. During the Great Depression, people still had fun, just not lavishly expensive fun. Children had soapbox derbies, teenagers had dance contests, and everyone played Monopoly, did puzzles, read, and listened to the radio. Get together to discuss philosophy or pray; play poker or make crazy quilt pillows; play instruments and dance. In those days, it took some imagination and ingenuity, but they had a lot of fun without hanging out at the mall, and you can too. Many of the friendships and alliances formed during the Great Depression on the basis of such activities stood the test of time.</li>
<li>If you can't bring yourself to destroy all your credit cards, at least freeze them. Put them in a container, fill it with water, and stick it in a freezer. That way, if you feel the urge to use credit, you have to wait until the ice melts, and during that time you may come to your senses and realize you don't really need to buy what you wanted to buy.</li>
<li>Try to find at least one penny on the ground everyday. Put the money you find in a jar and see how fast it adds up!</li>
<li>If you can afford to share things you have, from food to living space to appliances, try to do so. What goes around comes around when it's between close friends, soon enough, you'll find your friends doing the same, and everybody benefits.</li>
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Warnings</h3>
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<li>If you do mess up don't beat yourself up about it. Just try to do better the next time you get paid.</li>
<li>Do not go out "window shopping" with any money on you. You will only be tempted to spend money you cannot afford to lose. Only shop with a predetermined shopping list.</li>
<li>Unless you're in truly desperate financial straits (like 10 seconds from eviction and your three children are starving) don't try to cut corners connected to health. Basic preventative care for yourself, your family, and your pets might cost you a $60 office visit or a $30 heart-worm pill today, but the skipping it will contribute to expensive problems and heartache down the road.</li>
<li>After a long week of working, you may want to indulge in some luxury, telling yourself, "I deserve this". Remember that the things you buy are not gifts to yourself; they are trades, products for money. Say, "Of course I deserve this, but can I afford it? If I can't afford it, I'm still a worthy person, and I still deserve to meet my savings goals!"</li>
<li>If you have spendthrifts in your circle of friends, you may need to formulate a list of ready excuses to explain why you can’t go out with them all the time.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-30938960157912590142013-03-06T09:36:00.002-08:002013-03-06T09:36:41.167-08:00Know Your Everyday Fashion Style Through Online <br />
Fashion is a part already of our daily life. We adopt our everyday fashion style or everyday style ideas depend on the weather or seasons occurred. The effect of everyday style ideas in our life gives us the benefit of getting into something new fashion ideas for women.Fashion is a part previously of our everyday life. We accept our fashion style depends on the climate or seasons occurred. The result of fashion in our existence gives us the advantage of getting into amazing new. Through everyday fashion we are re-establish fresh line of our culture. We create new information of redefining ourselves. Fashion impost what we bear whatever is in season. Otherwise, you are not documented if you wear a disagreement clothes that is not suitable in the season. Typically, in fashion, we pursue a certain norms in order to obtain "IN" in the majority method of trends. It's just similar to following some convinced rules of becoming a stylish in a sort of certain season. Mostly on celebrities take position the eye of the world updating on what fashion ideas for women they comprise.<br />
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A result of judging them by the inhabitants of the world on what they wear on certain instance. In this reason, celebrities are come up to have a celebrated designer in order to integrate with them their own intelligence of style. The newest fashion trends are one way of changing the everyday style ideas from the preceding. The newest is dealing to be the best trends by this occasion. There are many dissimilar factors that are concerned in governing the fashion tendency for women. The key constituent is to appreciate the requirements of dissimilar women belonging to diverse backgrounds concerning everyday style ideas.<br />
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Fashion ideas for women trends change from time to time, and it all depends upon some key factors that determine the changing trends based on women's interest. One of the basic factors that influence the fashion trend is the color choice. Women prefer to wear colors according to the weather. For example, it may be seen that during the winter season most women prefer to wear dark colors whereas spring is the time of wearing bright colors. Other than that usually women wear long sleeved and covered dresses during the cold season, and they prefer to accentuate their sexuality during the warm season. So, one will find the fashion statement dresses for winter to be completely different from the summer dresses. Besides that another important factor that influences the everyday fashion trend for women is the female celebrities.<br />
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Another significant thing that influences the style trend for women is their soothe zone. Whether it is an official wear or an informal one everyone wants to wear a dress that makes them appear stunning, but at the similar time it is contented to wear. One may recognize that fashion trends modify speedily over the time but the everyday style ideas to wearing relaxed fashion clothes always leftovers the same. The most significant feature that has a very immense impact on the manner trend for women is the connected cost. It is not essential that every woman would desire to wear amazing economical and cost effectual without concerning how it looks on them. The reason why style statement clothes must be cheap is that so that everyone is capable to buy such clothes effortlessly.<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-24283853053717885292013-03-06T09:33:00.000-08:002013-03-06T09:33:33.008-08:00Land Your Dream JobIn an article published in Forbes Magazine, statistics showed that 46% of employees are dissatisfied with their current jobs. Further, 32% of these disgruntled respondents expressed their desire to find a new job. Some of the major reasons of job dissatisfaction include:<br />
• Low salary<br />
• Terrible supervisor/boss<br />
• Undervalued/unappreciated<br />
• Too much work<br />
• Absence of work-life balance<br />
• No career growth<br />
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With an array of job portals online, many employees go through the job-hunting process without any assistance and there are those who come out successful at the end. However, there are still perks to partnering with an employment agency in London to help you land your dream job.<br />
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Access to a Spectrum of Career Opportunities</h3>
Unless you are currently without a job, jobseekers just don't have the time (or the patience) to stay in front of the computer and browse through all the openings available. By partnering with one of the many competent London job agencies, you will be presented with a shortlist of career opportunities that fit your skills, years of experience and expectations. One of the main advantages of getting the services of an employment agency is having access to job openings that you normally won't have access to on your own. These openings include managerial and executive roles in top companies.<br />
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Helping You Brand Yourself</h3>
If you think branding is only for businesses and consumer good, you're wrong. Oftentimes, highly qualified candidates don't get the job they want because they fail to package themselves in a way that will persuade employers that they are the right candidates for the job. Remember, given all things equal, the ultimate deciding factor is how you present yourself. A professionals London's employment agency will be able to help you brand yourself effectively from how you craft your resume, what to wear during your interviews and how to highlight certain competencies that will make you stand out.<br />
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Proper Profiling</h3>
Let's take the example of an unhappy marketing manager. When he or she does decide to quit his or her current job and venture out to other opportunities, chances are, the day-to-day function of the new role he or she will assume will be almost the same. So, why leave?<br />
This is because majority of employees are unsatisfied with their work because of "intangible reasons." These may include corporate culture, corporate values and workplace dynamic just to name a few. Someone innovative or inventive won't work well in a corporate setting that is built on traditionalist principles.<br />
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With the help of good London's job agencies, you won't only have access to great career opportunities. Even before the hiring process starts, an employment agency London - through different tools and techniques - will already assess whether you will fit in a certain corporate environment or not.<br />
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Of course, landing your dream job depends on several factors that are both within and outside of your control. However, through the professional expertise of London job agencies, your success rate in finding a career that you will love increase significantly.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-82266368251655321492013-03-06T09:28:00.003-08:002013-03-06T09:28:44.897-08:00Keeping it simple<br />
Over the past few months, the concepts of stripping back the superfluous, simplifying and pulling apart the true meaning of integrity have been strong personal themes. For many people, there's a drive to again inspect old patterns that continue to run happily in the background despite years of self-examination. Perhaps under the direction of a new global energy, there's a sense of being able to lovingly let go of those things that have served us all well on one level, yet have offered excuses to stay small on another.<br />
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I came across Don Miguel Ruiz The Four Agreements the other day and it strongly resonated with this desire to pare back; to simplify; to become more real as a participant in this world and begin operating in a more authentic way.<br />
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With these 4 simple tenets, we could literally change the way we as humans operate in this world. How do they resonate with you? Please feel free to share your thoughts, we'd love to hear from you.<br />
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1. Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.<br />
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2. Don't Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.<br />
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3. Don't Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.<br />
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4. Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-11267191405707281702013-03-06T09:24:00.002-08:002013-03-06T09:25:09.241-08:00GMOs - genetically modified organisms<br />
GMOs (genetically modified organisms) were brought into the world by a chemical company, not an agriculture or food group. Monsanto created DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, marketed aspartame, and created bovine growth hormone (rBGH) to infect milking cows that put pus into commercial milk.<br />
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GMOs are created within the seeds of chosen parent crops in laboratories by "splicing" genes from completely unrelated species into those seeds. Normal plant hybrids are cultivated in soil over time by cross pollinating closely related plants.<br />
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So far, GMOs have invaded soy, corn, beets (for beet sugar), cotton, and alfalfa agriculture. Many GMO edibles are contained surreptitiously in a wide variety of processed foods, while GMO corn and soy are used by unnatural factory farm feed lots.<br />
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GMOs damage crops, the environment, and the food chain</h3>
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GMOs are often genetically created artificially to tolerate herbicides, made by Monsanto and others, that kill weeds. The herbicides contain glyphosates. Monsanto's Roundup weed killer is meant for Roundup Ready GMO crop seeds. It's an extremely toxic glyphosate agent.<br />
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Glyphosates greatly harm grazing animals and pollute the wells and groundwater of farm areas where they're used.<br />
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They create sterility and birth defects among animals and humans. Most of the honey bee die-off, or colony collapse, is attributed to glyphosates. If enough pollinating bees disappear, our food chain is endangered further.<br />
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Glophosate's chelating capabilities remove minerals from the soil where they're sprayed. So crops get increasingly worse while increasingly abundant Roundup resistant weeds, or super weeds, force farmers to add more toxic materials to Roundup.<br />
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It's a vicious cycle for farmers who, conned by greater production promises, unwittingly signed on to Monsanto Roundup Ready GMO binding seed contracts. Monsanto uses patent laws to litigate against farmers whose non-GMO fields are contaminated by GMO fields, forcing smaller farms out of business.<br />
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Most farmers fold because they cannot afford the litigation. American farmers are attempting to organize against mostly Monsanto's GMOs. European farmers have managed to resist thus far.<br />
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Why you should be concerned</h3>
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Maybe the reasons summarized above are too abstract. So let's get personal. Contrary to mainstream media's (MSM) outlook, the jury is not out on GMOs. GMOs do destroy human and animal health while endangering non-GMO crops with contamination. That's been discovered by several scientists acting independently.<br />
They jeopardize their careers and even their lives by communicating what they find while the MSM ignores them.<br />
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Agro-ecologist Don Lotter, Ph.D. released an inside scoop when he stated:<br />
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<i>The promoter gene used ... [the] cauliflower mosaic virus, ... [was assumed to be] denatured in our digestive system, but it's not. It has been shown to promote the</i> transfer of transgenes from GM foods to the bacteria within our digestive system, which are responsible for 80 percent of our immune system function.<br />
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This from Wessex Natural Law research papers: The cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV 35S) used for plant genetic engineering is cited as a source of viral recombination as well as a gene silencer and DNA disruptor.<br />
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Forget petitioning the government. It's so corrupted that one of Monsanto's most ruthless executives, Michael Taylor, now serves in the Obama administration as FDA chief adviser, or "Food Czar."<br />
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That's why our only chance is to help California succeed with Proposition 37. GMO labeling may spill over from California making it easier to boycott GMOs.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956230731851504271.post-84582945844328423352013-03-06T08:46:00.003-08:002013-03-06T08:46:48.214-08:00The World's Youngest Billionaires<br />
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There are 1,426 billionaires in the world this year. They are the wealthiest of the wealthy. But only 29 members of this elite list are under 40 years old, with that exciting combination of money and youth.<br />
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Those 29 have a total of $119 billion between them. Ten come from the technology sector, including four from social networking giant Facebook. Eleven come from the United States, the rest from countries abroad. Five are newcomers to the billionaire ranks.<br />
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No. 1: Dustin Moskovitz<br />
Age: 28<br />
Net Worth: $3.8 billion<br />
Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg‘s former roommate, no longer works at Facebook, the social networking giant that he co-founded. A signee of Bill Gates‘ and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, Moskovitz bikes to work, flies commercial, and pitches his own tent at Burning Man.<br />
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No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg<br />
Age: 28<br />
Net Worth: $13.3 billion<br />
Few CEOs of any age are under more media scrutiny than Zuckerberg (who’s only 8 days older than Moskovitz). Since taking Facebook public in May 2012, and getting married days later, the hoodie-wearing founder has seen his net worth rise and fall with every fluctuation of the stock price.<br />
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No. 3: Albert von Thurn und Taxis<br />
Age: 29<br />
Net Worth: $1.5 billion<br />
Albert von Thurn und Taxis first appeared in Forbes’ billionaire rankings at age 8 but officially inherited his fortune in 2001 on his 18th birthday. The eligible bachelor is also a race car driver and tours with a German auto-racing league.<br />
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No. 4: Scott Duncan<br />
Age: 30<br />
Net Worth: $5.1 billion<br />
Duncan is the youngest of the four children who inherited the massive fortune of late energy pipeline entrepreneur Dan Duncan, founder of Enterprise Products Partners. Today the company owns more than 50,000 miles of natural gas, oil, and petrochemical pipelines.<br />
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No. 5: Eduardo Saverin<br />
Age: 30<br />
Net Worth: $2.2 billion<br />
Facebook co-founder Saverin renounced his United States citizenship in 2011, news of which broke days before the company’s IPO and drew accusations of tax evasion. Saverin, immortalized in The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg’s onetime best friend, settled a lengthy legal battle with Facebook, apparently receiving a 5% stake. A Brazilian citizen, he now resides in Singapore and invests in startups.<br />
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No. 6: Huiyan Yang<br />
Age: 31<br />
Net Worth: $5.7 billion<br />
Yang, the daughter of the founder of real estate developer Country Garden Holdings, is once again China’s richest woman. Her father transferred his stake to the Ohio State grad before the company’s IPO in 2007.<br />
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No. 7: Fahd Hariri<br />
Age: 32<br />
Net Worth: $1.35 billion<br />
Hariri is the youngest son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He graduated from the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris in 2004. While still a student, he ran an interior design studio on the outskirts of the city, and sold furniture to clients in Saudi Arabia.<br />
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No. 8: Marie Besnier Beauvalot<br />
Age: 32<br />
Net Worth: $1.5 billion<br />
Marie, along with siblings Emmanuel, 42, and Jean-Michel, 45, inherited French dairy giant Lactalis, producers of popular Président brie among hundreds of other cheese, milk and yogurt brands.<br />
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No. 9: Sean Parker<br />
Age: 33<br />
Net Worth: $2 billion<br />
Parker is revamping his much hyped start-up, Airtime, with the hopes that the video chat site will have the impact of his other Web companies. At 19, Parker skipped college to disrupt the recording industry with music swapping site Napster. He served as Facebook’s first president at age 24.<br />
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No. 10: Ayman Hariri<br />
Age: 34<br />
Net Worth: $1.35 billion<br />
Hariri is the son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He’s involved in running Saudi Oger, one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction companies, and the source of the Hariri family fortune.<br />
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No. 11: Yvonne Bauer<br />
Age: 35<br />
Net Worth: $2.4 billion<br />
Bauer owns 85% of her family’s publishing empire. She is the fifth generation of the family to run the Bauer Media Group, which was founded in 1875. It publishes 570 magazines in 16 countries.<br />
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No. 12: Yoshikazu Tanaka<br />
Age: 36<br />
Net Worth: $1.8 billion<br />
Founder and CEO of social-network game site operator Gree, Tanaka has faced stiff competition this year from archrival DeNA and a game initiative by NTT DoCoMo, the giant cellphone carrier. To get back on track, Tanaka moved to partner with Yahoo Japan and went on a buying spree.<br />
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No. 13: Maxim Nogotkov<br />
Age: 36<br />
Net Worth: $1.3 billion<br />
Nogotkov got his start selling computer programs while in school and later began selling cordless phones. He dropped out of college in order to have more time to focus on building his business. He later founded cell phone retailer Svyaznoy.<br />
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No. 14: Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila<br />
Age: 36<br />
Net Worth: $11.7 billion<br />
A Harvard history grad, Domingo Davila is the eldest son from his jet-setting beer magnate father’s second marriage. Now a managing director at a New York-based investment advisory firm, Alejandro sits on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.<br />
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No. 15: Jack Dorsey<br />
Age: 36<br />
Net Worth: $1.1 billion<br />
Dorsey made a name for himself as a cofounder and leader of 140-character microblogging company Twitter, but most of his fortune is derived from his stake in mobile payment company Square. The New York University dropout is a certified masseur known for his eclectic interests, which include, among other things, punk music and clothes.<br />
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No. 16: Serra Sabanci<br />
Age: 37<br />
Net Worth: $1.3 billion<br />
Sabanci is the daughter of Ozdemir Sabanci who was assassinated in 1996, and a board member of the large conglomerate Sabanci Holding.<br />
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No. 17: Nicholas Woodman<br />
Age: 37<br />
Net Worth: $1.3 billion<br />
GoPro founder and CEO Nick Woodman built the first camera prototypes in his bedroom with his mom’s sewing machine and a drill. GoPro came out with its first camera, a 35-millimeter waterproof film version, in 2004. Today, the camera shoots full video in cinema quality HD, allowing anyone from professional surfer Kelly Slater to amateur snowboarders to capture their adventures.<br />
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No. 18: Chase Coleman<br />
Age: 37<br />
Net Worth: $1.4 billion<br />
The hottest young money manager on the planet, Coleman cooled off a touch in 2012, but his Tiger Global hedge fund extended its impressive winning streak, finishing a third straight year with a net return in excess of 20%.<br />
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No. 19: Ryan Kavanaugh<br />
Age: 38<br />
Net Worth: $1 billion<br />
Ryan Kavanaugh joins the billionaire ranks for the first time this year thanks to his movie studio, Relativity. Kavanaugh is making money by hitting singles and doubles like the recent Safe Haven, which cost $25 million to make and has grossed more than $50 million at the box office.<br />
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No. 20: Andrey Verevskiy<br />
Age: 38<br />
Net Worth: $1 billion<br />
Verevskiy started trading in grain when he was 19 and founded Kernel Holding a decade later, growing it into Ukraine’s largest sunflower oil producer. Last year, Verevskiy was elected to Ukraine’s Parliament.<br />
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No. 21: John Arnold<br />
Age: 38<br />
Net Worth: $2.8 billion<br />
Arnold shocked the hedge fund world in May 2012 when he announced he was calling it a career at age 38. Arnold and his wife Laura, who are signatories of the Giving Pledge, plan to devote much of their time to philanthropy. The couple have already given away more than $1.2 billion.<br />
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No. 22: Gary Fegel<br />
Age: 39<br />
Net Worth: $1 billion<br />
Gary Fegel attained billionaire status in May 2011 in the wake of Glencore’s IPO. After earning his MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Fegel joined the alumina and aluminum department at the commodities titan in 2001.<br />
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No. 23: Kostyantin Zhevago<br />
Age: 39<br />
Net Worth: $1.5 billion<br />
Son of a mining engineer, Kostyantin Zhevago took over Poltava Iron Ore, the largest exporter of pellets in CIS, at the age of twenty two, and in 2007 he took his mining company Ferrexpo public. An avid soccer fan, Zhevago owns FC Vorska football.<br />
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No 24: Dan Gertler<br />
Age: 39<br />
Net Worth: $2.2 billion<br />
An emerging face of irresponsible capitalism in Africa, Dan Gertler took his family’s fortune in diamonds and invested it in mining assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While in his 20s, he became a friend of Joseph Kabila, who then ran the military and is now the DRC’s president.<br />
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No. 25: Ana Luia de Mattos Barretto Villela<br />
Age: 39<br />
Net Worth: $1.15 billion<br />
Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela belongs to one of Brazil’s oldest and most distinguished banking families. She is one of the largest individual shareholders of a holding company that controls Unibanco Holding S.A., one of Brazil’s largest banks.<br />
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No. 26: Lee Seo-Hyun<br />
Age: 39<br />
Net Worth: $1 billion<br />
She is the youngest daughter of Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, she is vice president of the luxury goods and fashion division of Cheil Industries (part of the Samsung Group), as well as a vice president at Cheil Worldwide, Korea’s largest advertising firm.<br />
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No. 27: Fang Wei<br />
Age: 39<br />
Net Worth: $1.5 billion<br />
Fang Wei is best known for buying turnaround situations, especially those in the steel industry. Fangda Group now has more than 30,000 employees across more than 10 provinces in China.<br />
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No. 28: Sergey Brin<br />
Age: 39<br />
Net Worth: $22.8 billion<br />
The Google cofounder is now director of special projects at the Mountain View, Calif. search giant, leaving his counterpart Larry Page to handle most day-to-day operations. Brin oversees the company’s foray into hardware and futuristic endeavors like driverless cars and augmented reality spectacles known as Google Glass.<br />
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No. 29: Larry Page<br />
Age: 39<br />
Net Worth: $23 billion<br />
Google’s cofounder and CEO since April 2011, Page saw the company through the $50 billion revenue milestone in 2012. The stock rose nearly 30% in the past year, adding more than $4 billion to Page’s net worth.<br />
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