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Atlus wants you to game more and have less friends. In Dokapon Kingdom you must beat your friends on the battlefield by winning challenges, defeating monsters and unlocking secrets before they do. Think you have what it takes to lose your friends?
The King of Dokapon has offered you his
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littered with challenges, monsters to defeat, and rare secrets to
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Dokapon Kingdom is currently scheduled for release on October 14th, 2008.
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- Innovative board game-RPG crossover – Tired of shallow gameplay in
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- The friendship-destroying game –
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- Never the same game
twice – Tons of battles, magic spells, mini-games, and multiple play
modes add up to endless replayability!
- Easy, intuitive, and
effective combat system – This is no boring game of hack-and-slash.
Players covertly choose their actions in an intuitive battle interface
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Dokapon Kingdom has not yet been rated by the ESRB.
About Dokapon Kingdom
Kingdom of Dokapon is a land of wealth and riches ruled by a
gold-loving King and his daughter Princess Penny. One day, monsters
begin appearing all over the realm, assaulting the towns and stealing
all of the empire's wealth. The King, unable to collect taxes from his
impoverished citizens, calls for heroes from across the land to come
and rid his monarchy of these monsters. The prize for the hero who is
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This space will likely be rather quiet until the new year as I spend time with my family and recover from a particularly stubborn and nasty chest cold.
In the meantime, I want to share my latest experiment with eggplant. This spicy, stuffed and baked dish makes for a most satisfying vegetarian meal, especially when served with a steaming hot bed of rice. It is rather easy to prepare and yet another excuse to warm the kitchen and your body too because it has some extra kick to really highlight the eggplant and vegetables that make up stuffing.
You likely will have more filling than you need, depending on the size of your eggplants. If you do, serve it along side the stuffed eggplant or save it for the next day and serve over a grain of your choice.
|Baked Eggplant Stuffed with Curried Vegetables (Baingan ka Tikka)
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Indian
Published on December 22, 2012
Baked eggplant stuffed with spicy curried vegetables and mushrooms — a great side dish or light dinner
Print this recipe
More eggplant dishes from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen you may enjoy:
Baked Gingered Chickpea Stew with Eggplant and Spinach
Eggplant Quinoa Bites with Pesto
Stuffed Eggplant Poriyal

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The family of a Tarrant County teenager who admitted to drunken driving and killing four people learned how much they will have to pay for his treatment on Friday.
Ethan Couch, 16, was sentenced to 10 years probation and treatment following his admitted guilt in the deadly crash near Burleson last June.
- Teen's Sentence in Fatal DWI Crash Sparks Ire
- Teen Admits Responsibility in Deadly Drunken Driving Crash
- Teen Charged in Death of Youth Pastor, 3 Others
During a short hearing before Judge Jean Boyd, it was revealed Couch is being treated a state run facility. However, that facility's name was not identified during the court hearing. Couch has been there since Feb. 19, just a few weeks after it was confirmed he would go to a Texas facility and not a posh California treatment facility as had been suggested during the criminal trial.
Debbie Spoonts, placement supervisor for Tarrant County Juvenile Services, testified during the hearing that treatment at the facility costs $715 a day. However, the facility recommends the Couch family pay $1,170 a month for Ethan's treatment.
During the hearing, Spoonts testified that the facility has a sliding scale of payment and this is what the facility determined the family will pay. Without any objection by Fred and Tanya Couch's attorney, Lance Evans, or the assistant District Attorney Riley Shaw or Ethan Couch's attorney Reagan Winn, Judge Boyd accepted the payment figure.
During the trial Couch's defense team indicated the family would to pay for the facility in California, costing $450,000 per year.
After the hearing, Shaw declined to comment on what had transpired in court, with Couch family attorney Evans making a single statement.
"The family respects the decision of the facility and the court and will honor the payment system the court has put into place," Evans said.
Also in attendance during the hearing was Kevin McConnell and attorney Greg Coontz. The McConnell family is suing the Couch family for the injuries caused to their son Lucas in the crash. Coontz represents the family of Brian Jennings, who was killed in the crash.
Coontz indicated that he, as a taxpayer, didn't like to hear that the Couch family would pay just a fraction of the actual cost for Ethan's treatment, but that since this is a public facility and not a private facility likely made a difference.
"It's our general understanding that this is a sliding and this is the amount the facility set," Coontz said. "And that this is basically their maximum, no matter what, so that might need to be addressed elsewhere, but it's probably nothing to do with anybody in this case."
McConnell said the decision Friday is completely separate from his family's lawsuit and that it's just another step in the process.
How long Couch must stay in the facility or how long his parents must pay was not a subject of discussion during the hearing. Evans declined to answer that question afterward and Coontz did not know either.


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Get your robots ready, people. Time is running out to register for the 2008 RoboGames! This is a huge and diverse event, and chances are good that if you have a robot, they have a competition for you. To see a complete list of competitions and entry fees, go to the RoboGames event list page. Tons of remote and autonomous combat categories for those of you who like to see the sparks fly, football competitions for wheeled and legged bots, micromouse maze racing, sumo, various autonomous and R/C humanoid competitions, Tetsujin, and more!
|Awesome poster designed by Josh Ellingson
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Here's an article from Nurse.com that talks about a study showing a correlation between mental health and physical health. As a psychiatric nurse, I have always know that my patients have a higher risk of certain physical diseases. It's amazing to me that it has taken so long for others to notice and try to figure it out.
Asthama, diabetes, hypertension, and even strokes are common Axis III diagnoses for inpatient mental health patients of all ages. There has to be a reason for this correlation. Maybe now there will be more studies to try to figure out the connections. I can only hope so.
Please read this excerpt of the article and click over to Nurse.com to read the rest. It's worth your time and effort to do so. While there, check out some of the other articles they have about current nursing issues.
Adults who had a mental illness in the past year have higher rates of certain physical illnesses than those not
experiencing mental illness, according to a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
For example, 21.9% of adults in a SAMHSA national survey who experienced any mental illness (based on
diagnostic criteria specified in DSM-iv) in the past year had hypertension. Meanwhile, 18.3% of those without any
mental illness had hypertension.
And 15.7% of adults who had any mental illness in the past year also had asthma, while 10.6% of those without
mental illness had the condition.
Adults who had a serious mental illness (a mental illness causing serious functional impairment that
substantially interferes with one or more major life activities) in the past year also showed higher rates of
hypertension, asthma, diabetes, heart disease and stroke than did people who did not experience serious mental
Adults experiencing major depressive episodes (periods of depression lasting two weeks or more including
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hypertension (24.1% vs. 19.8%), asthma (17% vs. 11.4%), diabetes (8.9% vs. 7.1%), heart disease (6.5% vs.
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The report also shows significant differences in ED use and hospitalization rates in the past year between adults
with mental illness in the past year and those without. For example, 47.6% of adults with serious mental illness
in the past year used EDs, as opposed to 30.5% of those without past-year serious mental illness. Adults with
past-year serious mental illness were more likely to have been hospitalized than those without (20.4% versus
11.6% respectively).
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A U.S. government agency has released hundreds of illegal immigrants from detention due to budget uncertainties, as the "sequestration" budget cuts begin to bite.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has facilities that can detain up to 34,000 people around the country, released "several hundred" people while their deportation cases proceed, ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said.
Mandatory budget cuts government-wide, known as sequestration, are scheduled to begin on March 1. The government has also been operating on a continuing resolution which funds agencies until March 27.
"As fiscal uncertainty remains over the continuing resolution and possible sequestration, ICE has reviewed its detained population to ensure detention levels stay within ICE's current budget," Christensen said.
The release was criticized by the Republican head of the House Judiciary Committee as a political stunt by President Barack Obama to pressure Congress to put off the sequestration cuts, due to begin on Friday.
"It's abhorrent that President Obama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on sequestration," Bob Goodlatte said in a statement.
ICE spokeswoman Christensen said serious offenders were still being held.
"Priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety," she said.
The released immigrants were put on "methods of supervision less costly than detention."
That could include a scheduled appearance or call-in at an ICE office or electronic monitoring while they wait for their deportation cases to be decided in court, she said.
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Al-Qaeda Mocked After Seeking Suggestions on Twitter
Aug 15, 2013 10:37 AM PT
A recent tweet from Al-Qaeda asking for ideas on the "development of jihadist media" set off a deluge of responses mocking the extremist group.
Terrorism expert J.M. Berger, who has more than 13,000 followers, tweeted about Al-Qaeda's call for ideas along with the Islamic hashtag the group wanted to use. After that, the trolls took over.
Included among the hundreds of facetious tweets were ideas like, "Al-Qaeda, the movie: Dude, where's my car bomb" and "Does this suicide belt make me look fat?"
A Buzzfeed article called "How To Successfully Ruin Al-Qaeda's Day On Twitter" helped fuel the trolling.
Perhaps predictably, Berger has received death threats.
[Source: The Register]
Order to Block Streaming Site Restricts Access to Unrelated Sites
The English Premier League's quest to block sports streaming site First Row Sports, a hub for links to Premier League streams, has unwittingly caused other, nonstreaming sites to be blocked.
The problem arose because First Row Sports -- which the High Court ruled should be blocked because of copyright infringement -- shares an Internet Protocol address with numerous other sites. Thus, if users fail to put "www." before an Internet address with that same IP address (radiotimes.com, for instance, instead of www.radiotimes.com), then the site erroneously falls under the First Row Sports block.
The magazine Radio Times, the science project Notes from Nature and, wouldn't you know it, several major soccer clubs have all been mistakenly blocked.
The way British law is set up, ISPs must rely on rights-holders to identify, correctly, the IP address being used by sites deemed illegitimate. Indeed, ISPs have "no obligation" to verify the veracity of the IP-block request.
People in the UK have voiced concern over the broad powers given to rights-holders seeking to block sites.
[Source: BBC]
NASA to Send 3D Printer to Space
NASA will send a 3D printer to the International Space Station in June as part of the fifth SpaceX supply mission.
A 3D printer could, according to NASA, help ensure that astronauts have a steady supply of parts needed to keep the space station, which is almost old enough to drive, in working order.
NASA will load software for items that the astronauts will need prior to sending it spaceward, but will also be able to upload additional items later.
NASA has tested whether or not a 3D printer can withstand space as well as the rigors of a space launch.
Samsung, BlackBerry Partner in Africa
Samsung and BlackBerry announced a new marketing partnership in Africa.
Samsung will offer BlackBerry Messenger for Android as part of its Galaxy app store, alongside Samsung's own ChatON.
BBM could become the top messaging client in the world, according to BlackBerry's managing director for South and Southern Africa, Alexandra Zagury, and Samsung -- the top Android manufacturer -- will help BBM grow.
"Android is absolutely a key platform for us to grow BBM in the future," she said.
Africa has become a hot spot for smartphones. Earlier this year, Microsoft and China-based Huawei teamed up to launch an Africa-specific smartphone, while Nokia kicked off an Africa push in South Africa.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Women's lacrosse midfielder Stephanie Gore and baseball catcher/first baseman Bruce Maxwell have been named NCAA Division III statistical champions, the organization recently announced.
Gore, a rising senior from Davie, Fla., led the nation during the 2012 season in two categories. She recorded 102 ground balls, averaging to 6.80 per game. The second-ranked player, Teresa Busiek from Regis College, averaged 5.64 per game. Gore also led the nation in caused turnovers with 49 (3.27 per game), followed by Chanci Wright of Hollins University with 2.87 per game. Gore was named First-Team All-Conference for her performance.
Maxwell, who recently became BSC's highest-ever MLB draft pick at 62nd, was the statistical champion in three categories: slugging percentage (.928), walks per game (1.26), and on-base percentage (.619). He and Bridgewater State's Sean Riley also led the nation with 25 doubles, and Maxwell and Marietta's Tim Saunders led with 142 total bases. Maxwell earned a bevy of post-season awards, including ABCA/Rawlings and D3baseball.com National Player of the Year, SCAC Offensive Player-of-the-Year and D3baseball.com South Region Player of the Year. He was also a D3baseball.com First-Team All-America and All-South selection, and First-Team All-SCAC and SCAC All-Tournament.


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In this 147th installment of our little show, we talk about some very cool videos, some friend's websites, some new technology, some SEFF news, and we even answer a listener's question about one of my build techniques. With all of that, we still managed to squeeze in another great "Ask The RCadviser" segment where Carlos explains some common builder mistakes.
This week, two more videos have been posted for our Mini Intern Build-Along series, so if you're building along with me, grab your kit and get started on that fuselage! Also, don't forget to LIKE us on FaceBook and post a picture of you and your favorite RC plane for your chance to WIN a Mini Intern kit, courtesy of our friends over at RadicalRC!
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Suggestion Spell
A Suggestion Spell causes the victim to folow courses of action that he or she might otherwise not choose.
Proposed Canon
The Suggestion Spell is of the Thinkamancy Discipline. It attempts to sway a victim away from a course of action deemed undesirable to the Caster, and towards a choice that is more beneficial. It is not capable of directly forcing action upon the victim, and can be very subtle. It would not force a loyal follower to betray a loved Ruler, but it might cause the victim to choose to attack an enemy Stack that was not dangerous, allowing a dangerous stack to pass and deal serious damage. It can cause the victim to lie about past events or otherwise act immorally.
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Emporia State rings the bell for more successesJuly 30, 2014
For a master's degree candidate in biology, tapping into a research fund supported by the Emporia State University Foundation made the difference in his thesis project this past spring.
To another student, extending a prestigious scholarship for another year helped him decide to continue pursuing his elementary education degree at Emporia State instead of transferring closer to home.
Celebrating record-breaking philanthropy
Those stories are two in a series of successes made possible through gifts to the Emporia State Foundation. For the Foundation, it is the amount of gifts received in fiscal year 2014 that was cause for celebrating Wednesday, July 30.
Emporia State's alumni, friends, parents, faculty, students and corporate partners made gifts to Now & Forever: The Campaign for Emporia State University totaling $15,532,470 during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2014.
That total exceeds the previous year's fund raising — a record amount in itself — by almost $6.5 million.
"I am overwhelmed and humbled by the generosity of our friends in Hornet Nation," said DenaSue Potestio, Foundation President/CEO, applauding the work of Foundation staff, board members, students and volunteers in helping raise the bar even higher than last year's achievement.
"We work hard, and amazing things happen," said Potestio.
Of the $15.5 million given in FY 2014, $8.7 million was deferred gifts and $6.8 million was cash and pledges.
Milestones during the year included gifts that established the Koch Center for Leadership and Ethics in Emporia State's School of Business, which also benefited from an anonymous gift creating a Distinguished Business Scholar program and an advancement fund established by Emporians Dale and Carolyn Davis in honor of Dr. John Rich, a respected School of Business professor.
The Foundation also celebrated George Breidenthal's commitment to the Lady Hornet basketball program, along with an endowed music professorship honoring Rosamond Hirschorn created by Art Piculell in honor of his late wife, Dee.
"You are making the future a brighter place for our students, just as past generations did for us," said Dr. Michael D. Shonrock, Emporia State president, thanking the 4,780 individuals — 4,165 alumni and 615 friends of the university who gave to the Now & Forever campaign.
Emporia State students have played a large part in Now & Forever since its launch. The Emporia State Student Foundation, like Now & Forever, is entering its third year. During FY 2014, nearly 100 new students contributed to the campaign through the student foundation.
Celebrating fundraising efficiency
"We're also making great progress in improving our fundraising efficiency," Potestio noted. Each dollar invested in the Now & Forever campaign returned a $6.21 benefit in FY 2014. The total cost to raise one dollar for fundraising activity in FY 2014 dropped to just 16 cents, well under the industry average of 25 cents per dollar.
Celebrating alumni connections
Along with impressive efforts in raising money for student scholarships and university priorities, Emporia State's Alumni Association has some successes to applaud this year as well.
"More than 10,000 people participated in 2013 Homecoming-related events, creating a local economic impact of over $4.2 million," noted Tyler Curtis, executive director of alumni relations. Emporia State's 2014 Homecoming will be Oct. 17 and 18.
Homecoming was one of 52 events the Alumni Association hosted during the year, building on its mission of connecting, serving and supporting Hornet alumni. Another is Emporia State's presence at the Kansas State Fair each September. Last year, alumni staff, university and alumni volunteers handed out 15,000 promotional bags to fair visitors, and plan to repeat the activity during the fair's Sept. 5-14 run in 2014.
About Now & Forever
Launched in February 2013, Now & Forever: The Campaign for Emporia State University is a five- to seven-year effort with a working goal of $45 million. The campaign supports student scholarships, academic departments and initiatives that advance Emporia State's mission to recruit students, teach and retain them, encourage them to graduate with lower levels of student debt, and ultimately put them on a path to a solid career.
For more information about opportunities to give to the Now & Forever campaign, visit www.nowandforever.org, or contact DenaSue Potestio at 620-341-5440.
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Bethesda United Methodist Church will host a Fall Festival from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday Nov. 3 on the church grounds at the corner of South New Hope and Beaty Roads, Gastonia.
The family event will feature a variety of children's games games , craft displays and vendors, hot food and music.
Children will be able to participate in a number of games and activities, and can get their face painted.
The festival will feature a number of craft vendors from the area that will offer Arbonne Skincare Products, handmade baby gifts, diaper cakes, burp cloths, crayon wreaths, chalkboard greeting signs, Christmas decorations, Adirondack rocker furniture, cornhole games, toy boxes, trash cans, pet accessories, homemade canned goods, homemade breads and muffins, hand made jewelry for purchase.
The United Methodist Men will be providing hamburgers, cheese burgers, hot dogs, corn dogs, and french fries for purchase throughout the entire Fall Festival. The United Methodist Women will offer a variety of baked goods.
The highlight of the event is the music that will play through the day. Hoot and Hollar , a local blue grass and gospel band will play a number of old time favorites.
A Wing and a Prayer, the contemporary praise and worship band from Christ United Methodist Church, will play popular Christian.
Spoken Strings, a new duo will bring lyrics with a poetic twist. The fresh new sound from Pfeiffer University students Nichele Litzsey and Basia Collins features harmonies and an acoustic blend.
�This event has it roots in a music festival we started a couple of years ago,� said Joe Sutton the event's organizer. �I am so glad that we have been able to put together an interesting music tapestry that is faithful to our original fall event. There is something for everyone.�
For more information contact the church at 704-824-1567.
St. John�s Lutheran, NC 150, holds trunk or treating starting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Oct. 31 Features games, treats, hot dogs, and fellowship. The event will be held inside in case of rain.
Middle Cross Baptist, 3474 Crouse School Road, holds its free fall festival from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31 featuring g ames, food, hayrides, cake walk, and door prizes. Call 704-530-4681.
Christ United Methodist, 3415 Union Road, holds a fall festival from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31 featuring food, music, games, cake walk, bingo, and trunk or treating. There will raffles and drawings at 7:30 p.m.
Grace Baptist, 2200 Auten Road, holds a fall festival from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Oct. 31
Maranatha Church of God, 2435 Redbud Drive, holds a free fall festival for children from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday Oct 31 featuring trunk or treating, prizes, games and food.
Pisgah A.R.P., 3600 Linwood Road, holds a fall festival from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31 featuring a hot-dog supper, games, hayride and trick-or-treat street.
Unity Baptist, 482 N. Myrtle School Road, holds trunk or treating from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Oct. 31 in the church parking lot.
Daniels Lutheran, 3290 Reepsville Road, hosts trunk or treating starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Oct. 31 Volunteers will decorate their car trunks and give out candy to trick or treater's in a safe, no-traffic environment. Volunteers are asked to arrive at 6:30 p.m. to decorate and setup. Trunk or treating will occur in the east parking lot between the two churches. Guests are asked to enter and park in the lower, west parking lot.
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Tomorrow night is the first presidential debate. It will undoubtedly be an important moment in the campaign for the highest office in the land. But whose lives will it be important to?
Certainly, there will be a lot for pundits to discuss and dissect. They will analyze phrases and statements and will compare them to polling data and focus groups in swing states. Super PACs will record gaffes by either candidate, ready to turn them into multi-million dollar commercial buys.
But, as a person of faith, what I want to know is: how will the words that are said and the positions that are staked out affect the 46 million people in our country living in poverty? What does it mean for the hardworking families who can't put food on the table? Or the 1 in 5 children for whom poverty is an everyday reality and opportunity seems to be an illusion?
Tonight is the world premiere of a film that puts those questions front and center. The Line is a new documentary film from Emmy award-winning writer and producer, Linda Midgett. It tells the stories of real people struggling to make ends meet but still falling below the poverty line. These are stories far too common in our country today and should be a central topic of this debate.
You can be a part of the premiere event tonight by tuning in at 8 p.m. EDT for the full film and a panel discussion at www.thelinemovie.com. You can submit questions for our panel throughout the event by tweeting @Sojourners.
The movie was made with a simple goal in mind: to create a starting point for our country to talk about poverty. Help make that conversation happen. Join us tonight at 8 p.m. EDT. And then be sure to ask all the candidates in this election what they plan on doing to tackle poverty in our country today. Tweet @newshour to ask the candidates to #TalkPoverty in Wednesday's debate.
This new film from Sojourners was created in partnership with World Vision and supported by Oxfam America, Bread for the World and the Christian Community Development Association with generous contributions from the MacArthur Foundation and the Annie E Casey Foundation.
Jim Wallis is the author of Rediscovering Values: A Guide for Economic and Moral Recovery, and CEO of Sojourners. Follow Jim on Twitter @JimWallis.


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Farmers are "very concerned" about the escalating cost of nitrogen fertilizers and the impact it will have on their continuing operation, says Ford West, president of The Fertilizer Institute, Washington.
In many areas, farmers are getting out of the business, he told members of the Southern Crop Production Association at their annual conference at Orlando, Fla. "In the Pacific Northwest, for the first time we've been seeing wheat land become available for rent and no farmers picked it up because they couldn't pencil it out with their bankers."
The chief culprit in higher fertilizer prices is the skyrocketing cost of natural gas, the primary feedstock for all nitrogen materials.
"We're an industry that has been based on $2 natural gas," West said. "Yesterday, that gas was $13.70, and at that level it's very difficult for us to manufacture our products and be competitive in world markets.
"Our industry has shut 21 nitrogen complexes in the U.S. over the last four years, and the majority of the world's nitrogen manufacturing is now offshore. Fifteen years ago, only 10 percent of U.S. nitrogen was imported; today it's 45 percent, and that figure will only go up as the industry adjusts to increasingly high natural gas prices.
"As we go into the spring season, we need to keep making members of Congress aware of what these high fertilizer prices are doing to U.S. agriculture."
In addition to energy concerns, the fertilizer industry is faced with security, transportation, trade, and regulatory issues, West said.
Since the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, security "has become a major issue," particularly for ammonium nitrate, the material used for that bomb.
"We're advised that since 9/11 the Al Qaeda terrorist organization has been training with bombs made from ammonium nitrate (AN). The bomb in Bali that killed more than 100 people was made from AN.
"For 10 years now, our industry has had a stewardship program for AN. Our dealers and distributors are continually cautioned: Know your customer, and don't sell to anyone you don't know."
Unlike a chemicals which are regulated at the federal level, West noted, fertilizer is governed by state laws — "some good, some not so good. A big issue we're working on now is, what is our responsibility and what is our dealers' responsibility in the use of our products."
For the first time in its history, he said, the industry has asked Congress to enact federal regulations for a fertilizer product. "We decided that as an industry we needed some additional protection, because another incident (like the Oklahoma bombing) could lead to pressures for a ban on AN in the U.S. So, we worked to develop legislation that would require those handling AN to be regulated by the state."
He said Congress has indicated an interest in also addressing the security of chemical/fertilizer sites. "One of the questions is, should we stop shipping ammonia fertilizer and go to safer forms, such as solutions? The railroads are also picking up on this, and it's an issue we have to address."
Transportation issues are ongoing, West said, particularly with the railroads.
"In the minutes of a 1916 meeting of the National Fertilizer Association, No. 1 on their agenda was that railroads need to understand the needs of the fertilizer industry. We're still struggling with that today — we continue to have a love/hate relationship with the railroads.
"And in a nitrogen industry that is predominantly based on imports, any disruption in the supply chain is going to be a problem. Half the urea that's imported into the U.S. comes through the Port of New Orleans, and Hurricane Katrina demonstrated graphically how that process can be disrupted."
In many rural areas, theft of anhydrous ammonia for manufacturing methamphetamine (crystal meth) has been a major problem for farmers and "a public relations nightmare" for the industry, West said.
In the trade arena, he said the industry wants to reduce tariff and non-tariff barriers to fertilizer trade around the world. "While we're the largest phosphate exporter in the world, we've been a net importer of fertilizer for the past 20 years, and our nation's agriculture couldn't exist without these imports."
The industry needs to work together with a cohesive approach, West said. "We can't afford to go to Congress with a mixed message, because when we do, we'll lose. It's hard enough to achieve the legislative and regulatory victories we need in this industry if we're not united."


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Starbucks is getting rid of plastic straws at its locations around the world. The coffee company said Monday, July 9, 2018, that it'll offer a strawless lid or straws made of paper or compostable material instead.
Starbucks is getting rid of plastic straws at its locations around the world. The coffee company said Monday, July 9, 2018, that it'll offer a strawless lid or straws made of paper or compostable material instead.(Kena Betancur / AFP/Getty Images)
Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, the coffee chain announced Monday, becoming the largest food and beverage company to do so as calls for businesses and cities to cut waste grow louder.
While the straws account for a small percentage of the pollution that ends up in the ocean, they've become a flashpoint because they're seen as an easy way to reduce waste.
"There are several of these single-use items the public is realizing, hey, we don't actually need these," said Denise Hardesty, a scientist with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation who studies plastic pollution.
A week after its hometown of Seattle banned plastic drinking straws and utensils, Starbucks said Monday that by 2020, it will use straws made from biodegradable materials such as paper and specially designed lids. The company already offers alternative straws in Seattle.
Other cities, like Fort Myers Beach in Florida, have banned plastic straws, and similar proposals are being considered in New York and San Francisco. The push to ban the straws gained traction after a viral video in 2015 showed rescuers removing a straw from a sea turtle's nose in graphic detail.
The issue of waste more broadly is coming up in company boardrooms.
Also on Monday, Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corp. said plastic straws and drink picks will be available only on request starting Sept. 1 at restaurants and bars in its hotels worldwide. Hyatt will provide eco-friendly options were they're available, the company said in a news release. Hyatt didn't have an estimate of how many straws and picks it goes through in a typical year at its more than 700 properties.
In February, Dunkin' Donuts said it would eliminate polystyrene foam cups from its stores by 2020.
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A University of Michigan doctoral student has logged two pieces of evidence that may support the existence of a planet that could be part of our solar system, beyond Neptune.
It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar ...
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, the farthest recognized-planet from our sun, lies the mysteries population known as the Trans-Neptunian Object (TNOs). For years, astronomers have been discovering bodies and minor planets in ...
Planet Nine—the undiscovered planet at the edge of the Solar System that was predicted by the work of Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016—appears to be responsible for the unusual tilt of the sun, ...
(Phys.org)—Space researchers James Vesper and Paul Mason with New Mexico State University have given a presentation at this year's American Astronomical Science meeting outlining the results of simulations they have been ...
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Using the power and synergy of two space telescopes, astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the universe's expansion rate.
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In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Its main goal is to locate Earth-sized planets and larger "super-Earths" orbiting nearby stars for further study. One of the most powerful tools ...
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Birth Order can have a large impact on your life. At first it may seem abstract and unimaginable, but these birth order personalities can affect your job, family and basically your entire life.
Birth Order patterns are divided into 3 basic types, these are the first child, the last child and the middle child.
The First Born
Strongest Personality – First borns are usually the leaders. They usually have the characteristics and qualities that enable them to make decisions easily. This maybe due to the special attention they receive since they are the first, and parents would be very excited with them.
Family Minded – First borns take the position of their parents when they are not around, making them the decision makers. They would then think of the family as their own, thus they are protective and responsible for their siblings. They are unselfish and caring by nature.
The Middle Child
Peacekeepers – Middle children are peacekeepers by default. They are the mediators between the siblings. They are sometimes associated as "people pleasers" due to their weak personalities, but not all of them have this characteristic.
Attention Getter – By being born at the middle, middle children do not receive much attention. This causes them to get attention whenever they can through any means possible, so often they become the black sheep of the family. Lack of attention can cause a chain reaction making them lose confidence, friends and so on.
The Last Born
Smartest – By being the last, they have seen the rights and wrongs of their siblings, making them the smartest. Often, the youngest will be exposed to matters between their siblings which are older, thus making them a bit mature for their age.
Spoiled – By this time, the parents are tired of their children. Most of their energies in disciplining the children have been used up, thus having none for the youngest. Because of this, the child becomes accustomed to no discipline at all, making them spoiled and hard headed.
Note: There are a lot of cases where the birth order traits are not consistent. Some factors may alter the effect of birth order, like gender, death and other unusual circumstances.


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Title text: It's like they got together and said 'what do we miss most from the internet in 1998? that's right, embedded MIDI!'
Some websites, not long after the page finishes loading, suddenly play a song. It's annoying to the person visiting the site and to others who are nearby, so it will attract a lot of unwanted attention, especially if the song is played at a loud volume. Compounding this would be the possible inappropriateness of the song that is suddenly playing.
The five seconds to stop the music (finding the "pause"/"stop" button, muting the computer audio...) is too long in such an incident.
Since MySpace allows wide customization for members pages, many users have embedded music players that auto-run when the page is visited.
The title text refers to the fact that old pages, back in the late 1990s, used embedded MIDI files. MIDI files may have terrible sound quality (while lossless, it is limited in the amount of sounds that can be reproduced), but, more importantly, MIDI files that are embedded in the page would not only play automatically, but also have no way to stop playing. The viewer would have to leave the website or externally mute the audio.
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It should be noted that MIDI files don't necessarily have terrible sound quality, they are just a lossless wrapper around a music sheet. The player therefore is where the sound quality is the issue. 184.108.40.206 19:23, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Not sure (because this machine has no audio, and I'm accessing an archive of the site) but the Yvette's Bridal Formal site was always an examplar of... well, loads of things, but definitely including music. Bagpipe music one page, IIRC. Anyway, it had disappeared, last time I checked, but I have the link http://web.archive.org/web/20110718150459/http://yvettesbridalformal.com/ (might need to be better URLified with %3A%2F%2F or whatever it needs in there) that at least gives the visual... experience? 18.104.22.168 00:58, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Could this also describe the fact that often only samples of a few seconds (usually more than 5, though) are available? --Chtz (talk) 11:10, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


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Utah should lower its legal drunk driving limit from the current .08 percent blood-alcohol level to .05 or less. That has been the position of this newspaper for 20 years or more.
We are glad Utah lawmakers will receive a presentation on the benefits of such a move when they meet in October interim meetings. Utah has the opportunity to lead out on such a reduction, nudging other states to adopt standards similar to what exist in many foreign countries.
The Sutherland Institute, a Utah-based conservative think tank, has invited James Fell to make this case to lawmakers. Fell is senior research scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Alcohol, Policy and Safety Research Center in Calverton, Md. He is expected to share data that shows how cognitive and visual functions deteriorate when a person has a blood alcohol level of .05 or higher.
As we noted earlier this year, studies shows that concentration levels begin to suffer even at a .03 blood alcohol level. By .06, reasoning begins to be skewed. Drivers have difficulty with depth perception, peripheral vision and the ability to recover when glare is present. In addition, people at those levels begin to lose their inhibitions, which also relates to a loss of judgment and the inability to calculate risks.
A strong argument could be made for reducing the legal limit to .02, which is similar to the limits in many industrialized countries, including Sweden, Norway, the Baltic countries and parts of Australia. That would be a low enough level to account for false positive results, yet also low enough to let people know that they need to find alternative means of transportation if they plan to drink any alcohol at all.
Utah typically has among the lowest rates of DUI deaths in the nation. In 2011, however, 39 people died in alcohol or drug-related auto accidents, which was a sharp increase over the 25 who died the previous year.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration considers an accident to be alcohol-related if anyone involved registers alcohol in the bloodstream above .01 percent. In light of this, it is nothing short of remarkable that DUI fatalities have been roughly cut in half nationwide since 1980. As with cigarette smoking, drinking and driving has become socially unacceptable. Cultural pressures are much more effective at changing behavior than are laws. However, laws can spur cultural pressures when they are backed by sound logic and lead to a desirable result.
Just under 10,000 people died nationwide in alcohol-related accidents in 2011. Fell believes studies show that level would be cut by at least 1,000 more if every state were to adopt a .05 legal level.
Frankly, it's time Utah lawmakers made this move. A lower level presents no downsides, regardless of what beverage companies and restaurant associations may say.
Utah's rising DUI numbers may have been a one-year anomaly. It may be the natural result of a growing population. But it ought to alarm lawmakers. With the rest of the nation trending toward fewer DUI deaths, Utah ought to be leading the way.


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American footballer Jay Cutler proposed to reality Tv star Kristin Cavallari via text message.
The Chicago Bears quarterback originally popped the question to Cavallari in April, 2011, but they called off their engagement three months later. The couple reunited and the wedding was back on in autumn (11), but the former The Hills star reveals her man's proposal was far less romantic the second time around.
The 25 year old tells E! News, "It was so silly. I was in the airport, leaving Chicago (Illinois). We had just spent however many days together and we were texting and somehow it came up, like, 'Oh, shall we get married?' We're like, 'Yeah, Ok.'
"Then he sent my ring in the mail. So I actually had my ring sitting at home for a couple of weeks before I put it on."


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Flights, Airlines and Airport Transfers
Travelling in and out of the UK is easy, with daily flights to and from nearly every major international city. Budget airlines like Easyjet, Monarch, Ryan Air and Thomsonfly, fly to most European countries.
The cheapest flights are usually very early in the morning or late at night, on weekdays, as opposed to at weekends and will tend to be from airports located a little further out from the city's main airport.
Another great way of finding cheap flights is searching in a database. After filling in the date that you would like to travel and the place you would like to visit it will show you the cheapest flights available from different airlines. Booking a flight this way can save you a lot of money.
You can save money by booking flights early and not leaving it until the last minute. The best fares and options can be found about 12 weeks before your travel date, but sometimes airlines will randomly advertise £1 fares (Yes! Only £1!!), where all you do is pay the tax on that ticket.
Be Careful! There are often lots of hidden costs that the cheaper airlines try and get you to pay on top of the headline prices, such as paying for your seat, luggage and onboard drinks.
You can find the best deals on flights to and from the UK using the search bar below:
Airport Transfers
If you are travelling abroad, organise an airport transfer from the airport to your hostel before you leave. Check to see what forms of public transportation will be available to you when you arrive. Do not leave it until the last minute; you may end up with limited and very expensive options. Most airports have excellent connections with public transport, so even if it is far from you, it is still possible to get there.
London Airport Coach Transfers
Specialized bus services offer airport transfers to all Greater London Airports for incredible prices. Pick up areas are available all over London for your convenience.
Gatwick Airport Coach Transfer
When you arrive at Gatwick airport, getting to central London can seem confusing. You can book a National Express coach transfer using their 24-hour coach transfer service to get into London for just £8.
Heathrow Airport Coach Transfer
National Express provide a 24 hour service from Heathrow directly to Victoria in central London in just 50 minutes. Book online now for just £5 and get sent a ticket by email to print off.
Stansted Airport Coach Transfer
Stansted is not as close to London as most people think. To make things as simple as possible for you, be sure to book your journey to and from the airport using National Express's 24 hour coach network for just £10.
London Airport Train Transfers
Although there are several regular train lines that stop at airport terminals, a few train services are dedicated solely to airport transfers. These services are direct and may save you a few extra minutes.
Gatwick Airport Train Transfer
Faster and more convenient than a coach, the Gatwick Express train departs from the airport every 15 minutes and will take you to central London in half an hour. Book in advance and pay just £18.90.
Heathrow Airport Train Transfer
The Heathrow Express train transfer is a little more expensive than a coach but is quicker and will get you into Paddington in 15 minutes. Book online before you arrive for just £18 and get a ticket emailed to you.
Stansted Airport Train Transfer
With trains coming every 15 minutes and the journey into Liverpool Street in central London taking 45 minutes, the Stansted Express transfer is quick and easy. Slightly more expensive than a coach, but much faster.
London Airport Private Transfers
Sometimes, taking the Tube or the train is not an option when you are trying to get to Gatwick or Luton late at night or early in the morning. You can book a Mini-Cab to pick you up at the airport. You will be charged a flat rate, plus parking fees and any waiting time, so be sure to let the Mini-Cab operator know if your flight is running late. If you are travelling in a group, check to see how many cabs will be necessary. Always chose a Mini-Cab company near your destination.
Private Airport Transfers
Avoid the hassle of a train or coach transfer and travel in luxury from any London airport. Your own personal chauffeur will meet you at the airport before driving you straight to your destination of choice.
Top Tips For Plane Travel
- When looking at destination cities, try booking to non-major airports, which can lead to more money in your pocket.
- Do not over pack! Travel light and save money: Most budget airlines now charge for any checked luggage, carry-on luggage and any kilo that exceeds the weight allowance. Be sure to check this with the airline in advance, as this varies from flight to flight.
- It is also a good idea to bring a snack with you on the flight: In-flight service is not free on budget flights and now more recently on most flight between the UK and Europe. Remember, liquids are not allowed through the security checkpoints!
- Check that you have all of your travel documents: You will not be allowed to board your flight if you do not have the proper immigration visa required for your destination country, so be sure to have all your paperwork filled out properly and have your valid passport (must be valid for at least 6 months from date of travel) ready.
- When you travel, take a letter from your university or institution that proves you are studying in the UK with you: If you are here for a short time and you have already booked your flight home, take a copy of that itinerary with you as well, as immigration officials often ask for proof that you intend to leave the country after your studies.


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What's inside? Here are the questions answered in today's reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.
1. GTD for stay-at-home moms
2. Loaning money to parents
3. Prepaying property taxes
4. Emergency fund or debt repayment
5. Starting a Roth IRA
6. Small business encouragement
7. Thinking ahead for college
8. Out of college, no job
9. Apprehensive about mortgage prepayment
10. CFPA thoughts
As I've mentioned before, my wife and I have strongly considered moving to be closer to various family members. What keeps us from doing it? Friends. We have a very wonderful circle of people here and, frankly, neither one of us wants to leave them behind. It really is all about the people for us – we want to move to be near certain people, and we don't want to move because we'd be far from other people.
I enjoyed your GTD review and am trying to implement it in my life. My problem as a stay-at-home mom is how to organize all the repetitive duties that end up taking up so much time that I can't even get to look at my next steps action items.
Do you know of other stay-at-home people following GTD and how it works for them?
i.e. Do I have "clean house" as a project and then add "wash dishes" as a next step after every meal? I'm thinking it only makes sense to add special projects like cleaning out closets on project lists…but then I still don't know how to organize my day to get things done. It seems that the GTD book is more geared toward office life and not home life.
Any ideas?
– Megan
GTD really works when your life is (a) filled with lots of little things that you need to keep track of, (b) appointments, and (c) longer-term projects that can't be finished in one sit-down session.
I can't speak for a stay-at-home mom, but my life is loaded with these things, and GTD really helps with them. The "lots of little things to keep track of" is dealt with by writing everything down that comes to mind, putting them all (and any other items I get, like mail) in an inbox, and processing all of it once a day or so. The "appointments" are handled with a calendar. The "projects" are handled by devoting a folder to each one, defining the steps I need to accomplish, and reviewing them regularly so that I'm always taking the next step on them.
I don't use it for daily routines, though checklists can be helpful for that. The exception is if I'm trying to establish a new one, like practicing the piano or something like that.
It's up to you, really, whether those things will help you – or help you enough to be worth the time.
Is it unethical to charge my parents interest on a loan? I'm 22 and have *very* robust finances, while my parents have been both unlucky and made some poor choices (though they've gotten better in the last few years). My dad recently suggested to me that instead of paying his credit card company interest (~20%, he thinks) on his balance (~$4000), I could lend them the money to pay it off in exchange for something like 10%. If it worked out we'd both be better off. This is money I can afford to lose, and would otherwise be sitting in a money market or bond index fund.
So my question, is it unethical to charge my parents interest, at least more than I'd earn otherwise? While 10% is much lower than their current payment, it's much higher than I'd earn otherwise. If I'm willing to lend them the money at a lower rate, am I ethically obliged to? I'd value your thoughts.
– Mickey
It's not unethical to do it. It's just got a strong likelihood of damaging your relationship with your parents.
Think of it this way. You're now going to have to enforce the regular repayments (likely to make them bristle). If they decide that they don't need to repay you regularly, you're going to bristle up. Neither one is going to be good for your relationship, particularly if the condition continues.
Now, imagine if they default. That's going to strain the relationship for a very long time in both directions.
For me, it's never worth it to loan money to people I care about. If I decide someone needs help, I'll gift them something.
I've followed your blog closely but have not seen any info about getting a discount if we prepay property taxes. I read there is a 10% discount if we do this. Have you heard about this?
– Meena
I have never seen or heard of a discount for prepaying one's property taxes. That's not to say that there isn't a municipality or state that offers such a discount.
Regardless, prepaying your property taxes is usually a good idea if you're not saving ahead for them. That way, you're not stuck with a huge surprise at the end of the year.
In our area, various payment plans are available without fees being charged on the monthly or quarterly plans. We use the monthly one and have it automatically deducted from our account.
I currently have a debt of $32k an overdraft charging around about 0.88% on my total balance. I have savings which are hard to get to – about $27k which i automatically pay $500/mth without fail.
I want to start saving for an emergency fund since between my hubby and myself I am the bread winner. However, I want to get rid of the debt as quickly as possible. Should I close and settle the overdraft using a loan which will charge me 5.5% per year or shud i just settle the debt using my savings?
– Aldie
I would settle most of the debt using your savings, retaining some of it for emergency fund use. I would probably retain two or three months' worth of living expenses and put the rest towards reducing the debt.
Of course, once you've done that, you should channel that $500/month temporarily towards the debt until it's gone. Make that in addition to your normal payment, so if you have a payment of $100, pay $600.
Debt freedom is truly great for one big reason: it vastly increases your monthly cash flow, making it possible for you to make a lot of choices you would have never made otherwise.
I recently changed jobs to one with significantly higher pay. I had a small amount of money (around $1100) in a Roth 401(k) at my old job, with the bulk of my retirement savings in a standard 401(k). I'm in the process of rolling that over, but my new company does not offer a Roth 401(k) option. At the moment, I'm having the Roth portion sent directly to me, and I'll decide what to do with it when I get it.
I believe that this year will be the last year that I'm eligible, due to income limits, to participate in a Roth IRA. I don't have any IRAs open currently. Do you think it would be worth opening one to deposit my Roth money, and then orphan it because I can't contribute at all after this year? I've also considered maxing it out for this year, which I could do without affecting my emergency fund.
– Luke
I would absolutely take advantage of this one year of Roth IRA eligibility. If you're going to be earning that much in future years, having as much of your retirement as possible in a tax-free retirement vehicle will be nice come retirement time, because that money will reduce your tax bill later on.
If you can max it out this year without affecting your emergency fund, I'd absolutely do that.
You'll never wind up regretting having money socked away for retirement. You might, however, end up regretting not having enough socked away.
I wanted to solicit some advice from you directly. I've been working in the real estate industry for a few years now (in the apartment leasing sector), and I really think I'm ready to start my own independent agency. I've done extensive planning, market analysis, and budgeting for the whole endeavor, keeping my costs as low as I can while planning for real explosions in costs in the event of an early-onset catastrophe. After accounting for my own savings to contribute to the start-up costs (and leaving enough padding in my emergency fund), I still need to borrow about $10,000 to really launch. I have a family member from whom I can reliably borrow the money. My question is this: do you think it's a smart idea to be borrowing money for a start-up company in this economic climate? Fortunately everyone needs an apartment (even moreso when the house market is bad), and between my experience and my plan, I'm pretty confident than this will be a success, but I don't want to be missing some obvious consideration that I had overlooked. I know the Simple Dollar philosophy is debt-averse, but the alternative is to wait on this for another year or more to accumulate savings, and doing that could mean missing a current window of opportunity (Illinois real estate agency regulations will be cranked up early next year). So what is your take on starting up a small business? Is it OK to do in a recession?
– Chris
I don't see any problem with launching right now. Many, many successful businesses are launched during economic downturns and take advantage of the full elevator ride of a rebounding economy.
I'd be less sure about borrowing that $10,000 from a family member. Borrowing money means you eventually have to repay it, and if you have difficulty meeting their expectations on repayment, it can create a family problem that you just don't want to have floating around.
Could you sell this person a small portion of the business instead with some sort of buyout arrangement at a future date? Or could you borrow the money from another source?
I am a high school student with no debt. In the preceding years when I go to college, I need a way to pay for my education other than my job, not that I am lazy, but that I cannot pay 4 years of school even with tons of financial aid. Scholarships, even though they are an option, will not pay for enough, seeing as I am not from a minority background, nor any other real attributes that set me apart from the general student population, and where I live, the only jobs available to me are minimum wage. In the long run of my high school career, I may only be able to make a couple thousand dollars to put in a college savings account. I My mother and I live on a very set income, barely enough to pay for bills and food, much less college. I don't want to put her into more debt than she already has. I was considering investing in small stocks in brands such as Coca-Cola or Starbucks, letting it all grow in the next few years, living very cheaply, and then using my stocks to graduate on the side of debt. I know that the stock market is ever fluctuating, however, the economy is coming out the recession, and I hope that by the time I graduate, I might be sitting on enough that I won't have to be in debt. I would like to know what your thoughts are.
– Danielle
I would absolutely not bet on the stock market over the short term, and the six or so years you're describing is short term in terms of the stock market.
It's simply too volatile over that timeframe. You're going to probably have one upswing and one downswing in that timeframe, and it's hard to tell how good the upswing will be and how bad the downswing will be. A small downswing and a big upswing means you'd be in good shape. A small upswing and a big downswing means you'll be in the hurt locker. Plus, the brokerage fees for small amounts will eat a lot of your earnings before you even have the chance.
Your best bet would be to sit on cash, honestly, or to open up a 529 college savings plan. Don't invest in individual stocks over the short term with small amounts of money.
I'm a recent college graduate and not even retail jobs will hire me or even give me an interview. It's not like I've never had a job before but it's impossible to find work anywhere in this economy. If it weren't for my tiny savings I'd be out on the street (I'll likely be there in 2 months if I don't find work soon). I've been applying to any and all jobs I can find–retail, food service, lab assistant jobs related to my major, human resources, etc. but no one will even look at my painstakingly assembled resumes. Furthermore, my parents have expressed that once my college bills are paid, they're not willing to help me. What do I do?
– Michelle
Keep searching. Build skills. Try hard to network with people in your field.
For one, you're probably looking grossly overqualified for many retail positions. They look at your painstakingly assembled resume, see someone who views the job as a temporary thing while they find something better or, alternately, a person who will have too many "ideas" that aren't worth dealing with, and pass you over. If you're applying for minimum wage service and retail, you're better off not handing in the four page detailed resume. Keep it one page and very simple.
You may also want to look in a different area of the country. Here in Iowa, there are definitely people hiring at the retail level – I've seen plenty of "now hiring" signs here and there in the greater Des Moines area.
I have a question regarding mortgage prepayment. Hopefully, you and the readers could offer some advice. Little background: I stumbled upon your blog when mired in debt and utterly careless with money/ future despite having decent jobs. Your blog and book has been immense help for us. Since then, we have paid off all our debt except for the mortgage. All the retirement vehicles are fully funded. We also have a decent emergency fund. We live frugally and save as much as we can. We still have around $1000 left every month. Currently, I'm sending it to ING. Afraid of investing in stocks and bonds beyond the retirement accounts. Now, I understand both the sides of the mortgage prepayment argument- guaranteed return, peace of mind and better cash flow Vs losing opportunity to grow money further by investing in even simplest of mutual fund. My question is what are your thoughts on prepaying during this period of falling home prices especially when your time frame to move/ sell could be anywhere between 1-5 years. By the way, we owe 260K on our home and have a 30-yr FRM @ 4.8%
– Sam
If you're planning to sell that soon, it really doesn't have an impact on prepaying because if you sell, you'll either be making up the shortfall then or making it up in pieces now – or, if the market is going up, you'll either have a big gain then or a little gain then.
The big advantage of prepaying is that it reduces the total amount of interest you pay and it reduces the time until you're fully paid off, which will increase your monthly cash flow significantly. Since you're going to be selling soon and your interest rate is low, it's reasonable to look at other investments. The trick, though, is that over the short term you have, the stock market isn't a reliable investment.
Given everything involved, I would probably just sit on cash because of how liquid it is. Put it in the highest interest savings account you can find and see what happens in the next few years. That way, you can easily deal with whatever may happen in that period (and probably make your next purchase easier).
I was wondering who you think should head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and if you'd be willing to mention it in a reader mailbag? I know you don't normally blog about politics, but this is something that will directly affect personal finance for all of your readers, and I'm sure you've got an interesting viewpoint on it that we'd all like to hear.
I tend to favor Elizabeth Warren (whose name is the only one I've heard for the job so far) because she seems to genuinely care about protecting consumers, and she's from Oklahoma
– Joe
First, a background: the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection is a new government agency signed into law in July as part of the , which has a lot of things going on in it.
Wikipedia's summary:
Established within the Fed, the Bureau is tasked with regulating consumer financial products and services in compliance with federal law.[29] The Bureau is headed by a director who is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of five years.[29] The Bureau is subject to financial audit by the GAO, and must report to the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee bi-annually. The Financial Stability Oversight Council may issue a "stay" to the Bureau with an appealable 2/3 vote. Even though the Bureau is placed within the Fed, it operates independently.[146] The Fed is prohibited from interfering with matters before the Director, directing any employee of the Bureau, modifying the functions and responsibilities of the Bureau or impeding an order of the Bureau.[29]
The Bureau is separated into five units:[29]
* Research
* Community Affairs
* Complaint Tracking and Collection
* Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity – ensuring equitable access to credit
* Office of Financial Literacy – promoting financial literacy among consumers
Within the Bureau, a new Consumer Advisory Board assists the Bureau and informs it of emerging market trends.[29] This Board is appointed by the Director of the Bureau, with at least six members recommended by regional Fed Presidents.[29]
To me, this sounds like something that's going to be heavily defined by the first group of people running it. Elizabeth Warren () seems like a perfectly good choice. She at least has a solid idea of the realities of personal finance and consumer issues, which puts her ahead of many other people who might be competing for such a position.
Got any questions? Email them to me or leave them in the comments and I'll attempt to answer them in a future mailbag. However, I do receive hundreds of questions per week, so I may not necessarily be able to answer yours.


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I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible
by Heiser, Michael S.•
Lexham Press, Bible Study Magazine 2014
If It's Weird, It's Important
The Bible is filled with passages that are so baffling we tend to ignore them. Yet the passages that seem weird might be the most important. This collection of essays from Bible Study Magazine will shock you, intrigue you, and completely change the way you view the Bible. Dr. Michael S. Heiser visits some of the Bible's most obscure passages, unveiling their ancient context to help you interpret them today. Read this book, and you'll never be bored by the Bible again.
- Part One: Old Testament
- The Ancient's Guide to the Galaxy
- Walk Like an Israelite
- Even the Bible Needed Upgrading
- Spellchecking the Bible
- Why Circumcision?
- The Abandoned Child and the Basket Case
- A Tale of Courage We Never Teach
- Counting the Ten Commandments
- Is There Really a Sin Offering?
- There's a Devil in the Details
- Love Potion: Numbers 5
- Is My Bible Right?
- The Most Horrific Bible Story
- Righting a Wrong
- When Giants Walked the Earth
- The Divine Arrow
- Promise Undelivered?
- Sanctified Dirt
- 1003 BC Census: Who Authorized It—God or Satan?
- Cookin' the Book
- Slaying the Sea Monster
- Does God Need a Co-Signer? The Witness in the Clouds
- Who Wrote the Book of Proverbs?
- Immanuel's Mother: Virgin or Not?
- Standing in the Council
- Jeremiah: Double Vision?
- Why the Ark of the Covenant Will Never Be Found
- He, Him, Me, Myself, and I
- Bizarre Visions for the Worst of Times
- Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Answer the Canon Question?
- Part Two: New Testament
- Burying Hell
- My Guardian Angel
- The New Testament Misquotes the Old Testament?
- "I Saw Satan Fall like Lightning": When?
- The Healing Serpent
- Who Took Verse 4 out of My Bible?
- What Walking on Water Really Means
- Born Again . . . and Again and Again?
- Dumbledore Meets Philip & Peter
- Paul's Lost Letters
- Destiny & Destination
- A Female Apostle
- Signed, Sealed, and Delivered—to Satan?
- Treason & Translation
- Charlton Heston Had Company
- When Abraham Met Jesus
- How Many Times Is Jesus Coming Back?
- What's Jesus Waiting For?
- God's Right-Hand Woman? Wisdom in Hebrews 1
- Baptism as Spiritual Warfare
- Jesus Is God: Jude and Peter Tell Me So
- When Angels Do Time
- Tough Love
- Jesus, God, a.k.a., The Name
- 666: What Theories Add Up?
- Perspective Changes Everything
- Constantine, Conspiracy, and the Canon
Product Details
- Title: I Dare You Not to Bore Me with the Bible
- Author: Michael S. Heiser
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2014
- Pages: 218
- Format: Logos Digital, Paperback
- Trim Size: 5x8
About Michael S. Heiser
Michael S. Heiser is a scholar-in-residence for Faithlife Corporation, Bible Study Magazine, and Faithlife Study Bible. He is the coeditor of Old Testament Greek Pseudepigrapha with Morphology and Semitic Inscriptions: Analyzed Texts and English Translations; he is also the Hebrew instructor for "Learn to Use Hebrew for Logos Bible Software." He earned his PhD in Hebrew Bible and Semitic languages and holds and MA in ancient history and Hebrew studies. In addition, he was named the 2007 Pacific Northwest Regional Scholar by the Society of Biblical Literature.


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A panel of three federal judges on Monday granted Gov. Jerry Brown's request for two more years to reduce the population of California's severely overcrowded prisons. The extension wasn't given for good behavior.
The state's record on prison overcrowding is abysmal. California probably didn't deserve what amounts to a political victory for Brown. The governor is banking that his new plan to reduce recidivism will work. It better, given that the judges are adding an officer with the power to take action if the state doesn't follow the court order.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2011 upheld an earlier federal court ruling declaring that conditions in state prisons amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. The courts repeatedly have ordered the state to reduce its prison population to 137.5 percent of capacity, but California still is about 5,000 inmates over that limit.
Brown was facing an April deadline before the delay. The governor argued that the only way he could comply would be to release thousands of dangerous inmates or spend $70 million to house them in out-of-state facilities. In an election year, there is simply no way Brown was going to release any high-risk inmates, especially since California's 65 percent recidivism rate is the highest in the nation. And spending money just to move prisoners around is not a long-term strategy for success.
The judges' ruling means the governor instead can spend about $80 million on rehabilitation programs designed to help inmates find legitimate employment and break the vicious repeat offender cycle.
A better approach would be to adopt Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's more ambitious plan to give counties additional funding to expand mental health and drug programs for criminal offenders in county jails and state prisons. Steinberg believes the money will be well spent if it keeps inmates from becoming repeat offenders.
The state also needs to take a look at the sentencing laws that created this problem, beyond the three-strikes law voters weakened last year. California can't continue to impose such long sentences unless residents are willing to spend the money it takes to house its prisoners.
Brown and the Legislature have until February 2016 to reduce the state's recidivism rate and establish more reasonable sentencing laws. That is plenty of time to impose real reforms that ensure the state meets the minimum requirements for the health and safety of its prisoners.