Archive for April, 2009
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[?]Submitted by Animal Person
Thanks to Adam at AbolitionistVegans.org for:
Win Free Vegan Products at AbolitionistVegans.org
During the next few weeks, we will be watching activity in the forum and in the comments on the front page to select users as recipients for several vegan products to be shipped out by the vendors for […]
Fat-Burning Bodyweight Leg Exercise Circuit
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[?]Submitted by My Fitness Hut Blog
Burn more leg fat with a bodyweight leg exercise circuit….
Bodyweight leg circuits is a tried and true method to burn more leg fat, increase strength/endurance and improve heart health.
Since this workout is circuit-style, you also get the benefit of a great cardio workout. Do each exercise […]
5-Minute Circuit Weekend Workout
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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
Couple of exciting TT Transformation Contest announcements before we get to 2 awesome (and free!) 5 minute circuit weekend workouts for you today…
1) Congratulations to our Tranformation Motivation Contest Winners
You can read the winning entries on my blog at:
=> Transformation Contest Winners
Our winners get a […]
Transformation Motivation…
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[?]Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
Congratulations to our first winner, Mike from Pressing Towards a Goal, on his Grand Prize winning entry in the Turbulence Training Transformation Motivation Contest.
Mike has a won a Flip Video Camera and 1-Year Platinum TT Membership for his powerful story…
Let’s here how Mike has already transformed and […]
General Motors and Private Investment: Don’t Partner with the Federal Government
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[?]Submitted by Businomics Blog
The General Motors debt for equity deal reveals a genuine danger to private investors. If you are considering investing in some other turnaround, be very careful if Uncle Sam might get involved. An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal presents some estimates of how much different […]
Further progress for initial claims for unemployment insurance
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[?]Submitted by Econbrowser
The Labor Department reported today that initial claims for unemployment insurance fell by 14,000 during the most recent available week. That brings the 4-week average down for the third consecutive week and puts it 3.3% below the peak reached April 9.
Black line: seasonally adjusted new claims for unemployment insurance, […]
Larry Perelman, RIP
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[?]Submitted by unsettling economics
I just returned from my father’s funeral. He died at 98.
When I was young, we were not particularly close. He more than encouraged me to become interested in business and to participate at the Temple. I was totally disinterested in both activities, preferring to play sports. As […]
Unemployment Rate for PhD Economists = 0%
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Economics has long been called the dismal science. The general economic outlook today is indeed dismal, but that doesn’t mean job prospects in the field are. “There is no unemployment among Ph.D.s in economics,” declares John Siegfried, a Vanderbilt University professor.
Just do the math, and you’ll see […]
Green Shoot: Restaurant Activity’s Up For 3 Months
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
(Washington, D.C.) — The outlook for the restaurant industry improved in March, as the National Restaurant Association’s comprehensive index of restaurant activity rose for the third consecutive month. The Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) – a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and outlook for the […]
New Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
NEW YORK, April 30, 2009 – A unique new monthly economic indicator introduced today by Dow Jones offers what could be an early signal that the economy may be lifting off its low point but any recovery remains very tentative.
The Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) edged higher […]
Clarification on Moderating Comments
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
A commenter writes “…..with Mark running nanny patrol with comments….”
Let me clarify:
Carpe Diem has been subject to several major spam attacks recently, where somebody posts comments with advertising links on hundreds of older posts at a time. On several occassions in the last few weeks, I had to […]
Don’t Make America More Like France
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[?]Submitted by CARPE DIEM
HT: Dan Mitchell
Classic Rock Videos
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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Classic Rock Videos
Pink Floyd - Breathe in the Air / On The Run
Expensive Turntables II
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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Yesterday we looked at 6-10 of the top ten most expensive turntables according to www.bornrich.com, today let’s look at 1-5:
5. Continuum Caliburn
Price: $90,000 to $112,000
Vinyl isn’t dead, and the Continuum Caliburn turntable is the thing to prove that. The pricing for the turntable starts at $90,000 […]
Classic New Releases
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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Joan Jett Vinyl Release
Joan Jett and Blackheart Records are releasing her classic record, “I Love Rock N’ Roll,” on vinyl, in May. If you can’t wait for the release, you can find a great copy here:
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New George Harrison Release
Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison is […]
Under the “You’ve Got To Be Kidding” heading:
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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Vinyl record iPod touch app gives you the spins
Vinyl has been on the verge of a big-time comeback for ages now (and for some of us, it never ceased to be the format of choice anyway), so we’re pretty happy to see that even the land […]
Turntables are back in favour
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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
This news from down under:
The turntable has returned to favour with a resurgence of vinyl music, writes Rod Easdown.
THERE are all sorts of theories explaining the return of the turntable: baby boomers with big record collections; young people getting into dance music on vinyl; DJs; DrHouse […]
I’d Help If I Were Closer!
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[?]Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Roger Butler walks down the stairs of his home Wednesday, April 29, 2009. He is being evicted from his South Hill home and is wondering how he will store his massive record collection estimated at more than 100,000 albums.
No spin here: Massive record collection needs […]
Vinod Khosla at Milken Institute: Part I
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[?]Submitted by R-Squared Energy Blog
Thanks to a reader for bringing this to my attention. Vinod Khosla (VK) just did a lengthy interview at the Milken Institute 2009 Global Conference. The interview was conducted by Elizabeth Corcoran (EC) of Forbes. You can see the video of the interview here:
Milken: Khosla on the […]
Umbrella Manifesto
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
They do not realize
that we are really spiders.
Even when they see our webs
with something trapped in them
or our delicate legs
or even our egg clusters.
No matter how sophisticated we appear
lush and romantic
evocative and fragile
or stately and dramatic
our hearts are savage steel springs!
Robert Frost glimpsed the truth of […]
Foremother poet: Winifred Welles 1893 – 1939
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
Written for the “Foremother poet” series on the Women’s Poetry listserv: all poems here are by Winifred Welles.
Climb
My shoes fall on the house-top that is so far beneath me.
I have hung my hat forever on the sharp church spire,
Now what shall seem the hill but a […]
John Koethe cures reading
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
The Constructor
John Koethe
In another life I might have the time and inclination to stand up to Koethe’s daunting allusions, but after attempting , more than once, to overcome the skim, the glance and the cursory read and engage the poems, I became listless and depressed; it was […]
The Stamp Gatherer
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[?]Submitted by Stamp Collecting Round-Up Blog
For the past 20 years Neal Matti, 82, has been gathering stamps from local businesses in the small Wyoming community of Gillette.
According to the Gillette News-Record, workers at dozens of offices gather up old envelopes each week and leave them behind them for the dedicated senior […]
929 - All The World Is Green II
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[?]Submitted by The Daily Photography of Andreas Manessinger Blog
Yesterday it rained most of the time. I used a short pause in the afternoon to make some forest images.
I’d have more but, you know, it’s forest
I used a very expensive B&W polarizer, and as always it turned out to […]
Photography and ArtPosted in April 29th, 2009
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[?]Submitted by My Viewfinder Blog
When I do shows I frequently get people looking at my works and then asking if I’m the photographer. My answer is, “Yes, I am.” But this past weekend I got asked a different question - “Are you the artist?” I think that’s […]
