While I was driving home tonight – and in a hurry…
"What is this… a funeral procession?"
"I bet thats a woman"
"Would you get off the F*&*^ing road dickhead"
"move idiot"
"its green moron"
Yes I should probably calm down but there are so many f&*&wits on the roads.
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Maybe he’s collecting booties and you’re dreaming about backpacking through South America. Or maybe you’re looking enviably into every stroller you pass while he’s window shopping for big-screen TVs. Should you start poking holes in your diaphragm or just call it quits? What happens when one partner wants kids and the other doesn’t? We asked Dr. Scott Haltzman, a psychiatrist and the author of The Secrets of Happy Families, to discuss some of the issues involved and offer some tips on what you can do.
Q: If you want a baby and your partner doesn’t, where can you start? Are those reconcilable positions?
A: It depends on how you define “partner.” If your current partner doesn’t want to have kids, but it’s not the partner you plan on having for life, that can work really well. One might even argue that it’s the best thing. But if it’s a life partner with whom you are working together to form plans about the future, then it is a pivotal issue. Not everybody that wants to have a child ends up having a child. Sometimes it’s just because of someone’s social situation or it’s due to infertility — but the inability to have a child doesn’t keep couples from connecting even if they want a child. But when one person wants a child and the other person doesn’t, it becomes a built-up resentment because one person feels like their partner is preventing them from accomplishing a life dream, or the other partner feels like they’re being forced into something that goes against their wishes.
Q: Can you bring someone around to your point of view, or is it dangerous to even try?
Continue reading When Only One of You Wants a Baby
Vertical Gardens are not new for environmentalists, but a new series of 250-foot-tall trellises planned by Architects and federal officials in Portland is definitely an ambitious project. This huge structure is a part of $135 million project that is expected to begin soon. The entire building accommodates 18 stories along with various green features such as solar arrays, smart lighting system to save energy consumption and elevators to generate electricity. To water the plantation, water harvested on the roof will be utilized.
Bluetooth headsets usually don’t look very exciting, but the Jawbone series is generally a bit more tasteful then a lump of plastic you stick in your ear. Aliph just launched their new ICON line, which adds some extra features to make their headset stand out.
Jawbone ICON is considered to be one of the first of the so called “intelligent” headsets, featuring customization features that you’re not going to find in out products. You can customize the language, access buttons, and other features to access the parts of your phone that you want, rather then just a generic setup. The Jawbone ICON will be available for $99.99 at Verizon stores starting today.
From the press release:
Aliph™ Introduces Jawbone ICON™, The World’s First Truly Intelligent Bluetooth® Headset
“New Icon for Personal Expression” Is Now Accessible to EveryoneSAN FRANCISCO, CA — January 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Aliph — maker of the market-leading Jawbone® Bluetooth headset and inventor of NoiseAssassin®, the world’s first and only military-grade noise-eliminating technology — today unveiled its most sophisticated product yet, Jawbone ICON. Jawbone ICON offers unprecedented ease of use and audio quality as well as an industry-first software platform called MyTALK™ that lets users personalize and update their Jawbones via the web. Jawbone ICON will be available for $99.99 beginning January 18 in six unique design personas.
“In building the next generation of wearable computing, we focused maniacally on creating the world’s best customer experience. We incorporated significant intelligence into the headset and as a result this is the simplest-to-operate Jawbone ever created, with a rich array of design choices to suit any preference or lifestyle. We like to call it a new icon for personal expression,” said Hosain Rahman, Aliph’s CEO.
Industry-first intelligence makes Jawbone ICON easy, convenient and personal
Jawbone ICON offers built-in intelligence and the ability to personalize with the click of a mouse using the all-new MyTALK platform, currently in private beta at mytalk.jawbone.com.
“Each customer is an individual, with unique tastes and preferences. With this in mind, we invented MyTALK as a place where people could go to get a richer in-ear experience. MyTALK is just a hint of the exciting ways people will be able to breathe life into their Jawbones over time,” said Rahman.
“Customers also tell us they don’t want to reach for their phone when their hands and eyes need to be elsewhere, like on the steering wheel and on the road. So Jawbone ICON uses its brains to now whisper important information like caller ID and remaining battery life into the user’s ear,” he added.
New personalization and convenience features include:
* MyTALK AudioApps. Lets users personalize the voice that conveys information into their ear. French, German and Spanish languages are also available.
* MyTALK DialApps. Lets users customize an easy access button linking directly to services of their choice such as free directory assistance, voice-to-SMS and voice dial.
* Simultaneous Multipoint. Lets users switch seamlessly between two calls on different cell phones.
* On/Off slide switch and one-button control. Delivers radical simplicity.
* Visual battery meter. Displays remaining battery life at top of iPhone screen.Six stunning designs and personas deliver rich set of consumer choices
Jawbone ICON is smaller and lighter than its predecessors, and comes in six designs with lush textures and finishes rarely seen in consumer electronics.
“Design and self-expression have been at the core of every generation Jawbone to date, and now we launch an unprecedented suite of choices to match that personal style that makes you who you are,” said Yves Behar, Chief Creative Officer of Aliph.
“Each Jawbone ICON is infused with a unique and exciting look. Like characters in a film, each captures a different fun-to-wear persona,” he added.
New leaps in sound technology sustain Jawbone’s lead in audio quality
Continuing Jawbone’s leadership in sound technology, Jawbone ICON provides improved inbound audio quality as well as upgrades to its battlefield-tested NoiseAssassin technology. Audio advancements include:
* NoiseAssassin 2.5 with wind reduction continues to provide the best noise elimination available.
* Innovative speaker design and signal processing improves inbound audio clarity and volume.
* Set-it-and-forget-it audio eliminates the need to adjust volume from one caller to the next.
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For instance, I have cousins in queensland who have their kids not to eat sugar on every level!! :confused: They even don’t have sugar at all in their tea or coffee. Yet they will buy fish & chips as we know that will send the BG to pluto!! and eat bread till the cows come home. They are into the healthy foods but they don’t relise how much carbohydrates they are eating. 😮
My own sister is the worst. 😡 😡 We will sit down for dinner and she will dish up my plate with just vegetables with enough potatoes to sink a ship with. I would be quite comfortable to eat by my self at home. :confused:
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We hear all of the time about how watching too much television can interfere with your enjoyment of life — but what about interfering with your life, period? A new study, reported by Ron Winslow at the The Wall Street Journal, links the amount of time spent watching television to risk of death — and the more you watch, the greater the risk. Surprisingly, when the study accounted for obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, even fit people who exercised regularly saw their risk of death rise along with the amount of time spent in front of the tube. The biggest problem? Prolonged periods of just sitting in one place. TV watching is a popular pastime, and Americans average more than five hours a day.
The details and information about your own risk of death after the jump.
Continue reading How Watching TV Can Shorten Your Life
iPhone and iPod Touch cases are basically what all the sites talk about about when it comes to accessories – we are no exception. But lets talk about the other few phones out their that have some pretty snazzy cases available for it too. MyBat Accessories offers a wide range of rhinestone cases, skins, and plastic covers for your BlackBerry, Pre, and MyTouch 3G. There are many designs to choose from and if you want to make your Palm Pre look like its worth more than its current depreciated value, the rhinestone cases should definitely add a little bling. The Diamante Protector Covers ( rhinestone covers) for Pre, MyTouch, and BlackBerry retail for $34.99. The plastic phone protector covers with various designs retail for $29.99 and if you must have a new iPhone case, they have those too…
WBBM-TV reports: An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a small white sedan on the tracks in downtown Lemont Monday afternoon. Just moments before the collision, rescuers pulled a woman – a Roman Catholic nun — from that car, which had been disabled on the tracks.
It happened just before 1 p.m. at Main and Stephen streets. The passenger train was roaring into town on its run from San Antonio, Texas to downtown Chicago.
The nun apparently slammed her car into a fireplug and rolled across an embankment and onto the tracks. Witnesses say she sat there, stunned and unmoving.
Brad Grcevic, whose office is nearby, says he saw two men help the nun out of her car, get her belongings together and get her off the tracks.
“We saw the headlights (of the train) down there, coming from that direction. It wasn’t going to be good,” another witness, Brian Brandt, said.
Then the train plowed into the car. “When it hit, it was like an explosion, and that was it.” Brandt said. “It just shot right through there.”
A cell phone video shows the collision.
The nun, whose name has not been released, is with the Sisters of St. Francis- Christ the King in Lemont. Her order says she is “fine” but would not comment further about the incident.
Brandt praised her rescuers.
“These guys were in the right place at the right time and didn’t just stand around,” he said. “They did something and got her out of there.”
Two hours after the crash, after an inspection, the train continued on to downtown Chicago. Amtrak could not tell us how many passengers were on board. The passengers and crew were rattled and delayed on their trip, but none of them were injured.
I’m about to depart to my wedding in a place far far away, and I’m considering my costume for the occasion. I wonder if my vows would sound to menacing if I’m wearing this. [StarWarsBlog via Great White Snark]
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Following its American cousin by just a few short weeks, the Motorola Milestone has now been rooted by a handful of enterprising hackers, opening the door to the usual array of forbidden fruits that Moto never intended you to have: WiFi tethering, wacky Sense ports, fully customized ROMs, and the list goes on. Proceed at your own risk, but seriously — you don’t want to be the one uncool kid on your block with a stock software stack, do you?
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Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett, who committed most of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shares to charity, is speeding the pace at which he reduces his ownership stake with the $26 billion takeover of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
The issuance of Berkshire shares in support of the buyout would reduce Buffett’s stake in his firm stocks to about 24 percent. That compares with stakes of 40 percent in 1996 and 32 percent in 2006, the year he began handing over shares as part of the largest charitable donation in history, according to regulatory filings.
Buffett, who said the rail purchase will produce income for “the next century,” is positioning Berkshire to profit from his investments after his reign as primary shareholder and chairman comes to a close. He’s diluted his stake in the past to aid Berkshire’s growth, most notably with the 1998 stock-funded takeover of insurer General Re. The Burlington deal puts much of the company’s excess cash to work, said investor David Carr.
“The essence of Berkshire now on an ongoing basis is the culture,” said Carr, who manages Berkshire shares as chief investment officer at Oak Value Capital Management Inc. in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Burlington deal “actually strengthens the culture and fortifies it” by adding a business that will prosper when the U.S. economy grows and has a durable long-term advantage, he said.
Berkshire investors will vote tomorrow on a stock split tied to the deal, and Burlington Northern shareholders will be asked to approve the transaction on Feb. 11. Buffett plans to issue about $10 billion of Berkshire stock to fund the transaction. He’s tapping Wells Fargo & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. for an $8 billion loan, with the remaining $8 billion coming from Berkshire’s cash hoard.
New Shareholders
The acquisition will bring new rail investors to Berkshire while diluting the stake of the existing shareholders, who Buffett has praised as the best in the world. His 33 percent holding of Berkshire’s Class A stock is 10 times greater than the next-biggest investor and will allow him to maintain control of the firm even as his stake declines. Including the Class B shares, he reported owning 26 percent of Berkshire on Nov. 13.
Buffett, Berkshire’s chief executive officer, also enjoys the support of top investors such as Vice Chairman Charlie Munger and the charity run by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates. Smaller shareholders respect Buffett, the second-richest American behind Gates, for his investing success. In May, about 35,000 people filled Omaha’s Qwest Center arena and overflow rooms to hear Buffett speak at Berkshire’s annual meeting.
‘The Same Church’
“We belong to the same church,” said Mohnish Pabrai, founder of Irvine, California-based Pabrai Investment Funds, which owns Berkshire shares. “Between Buffett, the Gates Foundation and all the friends of Warren Buffett — like me, for example — we will always vote our shares” the way Buffett wants, he said.
Buffett, 79, built Berkshire over four decades from a failing maker of men’s suit linings into a $150 billion company through successful stock picks and dozens of takeovers. Buffett doesn’t pay dividends or buy back stock, preferring to use Berkshire’s earnings for acquisitions and investments. The company’s Class A stock has surged more than 30-fold since 1987 to $97,500 as of Jan. 15.
Buffett is asking shareholders to approve a 50-for-1 split of the Class B shares tomorrow. The move would reduce the number of partial shares Berkshire would need to issue to Burlington Northern investors. Class B shares ended last week at $3,247 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
Gates Foundation
Buffett owns 350,000 shares — about a third — of Berkshire’s Class A stock, which trades for about 30 times the Class B shares and gives investors 200 times the voting power. He also owned about 1.5 million shares of the Class B stock, or 10 percent, as of November. Buffett didn’t respond to a request for comment left with assistant Debbie Bosanek.
In 2006, Buffett pledged 85 percent of his Berkshire holdings, a commitment valued at about $37 billion at the time, to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and charities of four of his family members. The Gates donation of 10 million Class B shares will be made in annual installments, and continue after Buffett’s death. The charity, established by Gates and his wife, funds projects that combat disease and global poverty.
Buffett has said he’ll convert his Class A stock into Class B as needed to fund the commitment to the Gates Foundation, diluting the voting power of the shares before handing them over. He started with a donation of 500,000 shares and arranged for 5 percent of the remaining commitment to be handed out each year.
Replacing Buffett
Buffett has addressed investor concerns about his eventual departure in his annual letters, saying that he’ll be replaced by at least three people: a CEO from a list he and the board of directors keep, at least one person to manage investments, and his son Howard Buffett, who has been picked to be the next chairman.
“It’s the most important issue there is,” Buffett said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at Berkshire’s headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska last year. “There’s nothing more important. Nobody knows on any given day where I’ll be the next day.”
The purchase of Fort Worth, Texas-based Burlington Northern is an “all-in wager” on the U.S. economy and will produce returns for Berkshire for the next century, Buffett has said. The deal is the biggest of Buffett’s career, and will pay off for shareholders over time, said Frank Betz, partner at Warren, New Jersey-based Carret Zane Capital Management.
The $18 billion all-stock takeover of Stamford, Connecticut-based General Re in 1998 diluted what had been a 40 percent stake two years before. The 26 percent economic interest he reported in November is worth almost $40 billion.
“He’s still got enough,” Betz said.
–Editors: Erik Holm, Dan Reichl
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SEOUL: Warren Buffett wants to buy more shares in Posco, South Korea’s biggest steelmaker said, citing a meeting with the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Buffett “holds about 3.9 million shares to 4 million shares of Posco and will increase the holding,” the Pohang- based steelmaker said today in an e-mailed statement, citing Buffett after a meeting with its Chief Executive Chung Joon Yang in Omaha.
“I should have bought more Posco shares when the stock price declined in the economic crisis last year,” said Buffett, according to Posco’s statement. Berkshire didn’t immediately respond to a message left with Buffett’s assistant Debbie Bosanek.
Buffett’s intention to add Posco shares underscores expectations for a rebound in steel demand from carmakers and builders. Asia’s most profitable steelmaker plans to raise production by 17% this year, and will almost double capital spending to a record to invest in new plants and a mine to expand.
Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire owns 5.2% of Posco, according to its Feb. 28, 2009 annual statement. Buffett called the mill the “best steel company in the world,” according to the Posco statement.
Posco shares rose 1.3% to 606,000 won at 12:38 p.m. in Seoul, outperforming a 0.2% advance in the benchmark Kospi index.
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Proving once again that there are no qualifications needed to be a middle-school vice-principal besides being kind of a dick, a San Diego veepee called the bomb squad to investigate an 11-year-old’s Gatorade-bottle-based science experiment. Stay classy, San Diego.
Apparently the kid, who sounds like a bit of a prodigy, really, brought in a homemade motion detector made of empty Gatorade bottles and “some electronics.” Cool, right? Shows initiative, and it even recycles old bottles! This kid should be rewarded with a blue ribbon, or allowed to star in a remake of Real Genius! But no.
Instead, this alarmist puritan called the bomb squad to investigate and x-ray the kid’s science project, evacuate the entire school, and search the kid’s home. When the project was found to not, in fact, be a Gatorade-bottle-based explosive, the a-hole vice-principal didn’t apologize, or resign, or laugh it off. No! He recommended that the student and his parents seek counseling. For making a project that would totally stump me! And I’m twice his age! Outrageous, I say. Out. Rage. Ous. [SignOn San Diego via Boing Boing]
The commodities most at risk are those with the largest inventory overhangs, such as copper and nickel, according to Citi Investment Research's January 15th 'Commodity Heap'.
Citi's Alan Heap: Historic Precedent —In 2004 commodity markets retreated sharply in the face of monetary tightening. In particular, traders with extensive credit lines were squeezed and forced to liquidate inventory.
'But it’s different this time — The bulk of excess inventory built-up in 2009 (at least base metals) is in the hands of investors, not traders. It is our understanding that these investors are under-geared (although they are exposed to other asset classes especially property).
But what if we’re wrong — However what if inventories are liquidated under the pressure of credit tightening? The impacts are very damaging, especially for copper and nickel where the overhangs are largest.
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Copper sensitivities — We estimate that around 800kt of excess inventory was built in 2009, of which nearly 500kt is held by fabricators and speculators. We expect a proportion of this metal to be consumed in 2010 as apparent consumption slows from 40% to 8%; imports of cathode and scrap fall by 1Mt, and the global market is in deficit of around 150kt. The sensitivities around this are very large: 380kt surplus if all dumped to 700kt deficit if none sold.
Nickel stocks look pretty ugly:
We'll even add aluminum to the mix of most at-risk, given the huge stock level below, note the quadrupling over just a one year period:
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Looks like Lil Wayne and several other artists are making their mark on the headphone world through Live Nation Merchandise. We guess Live Nation got jealous of Monster’s success and are now pumping out their very own line of artist branded high performance in ear buds. It’s also strangely being sold through New Jersey distributor GoStereoNY. There are no details on when exactly they will be available but according to a rep from the company, final details are still being worked on for the Live Nation deal. Shakira, and many other Live Nation artists are expected to have their very own ear buds. We got a chance to test the earphones and I have to say they aren’t half bad. The ear buds come with an extra set of silicone tips, the driver is 10MM, and the earphone cable actually feels and looks like a thin sneaker shoe lace. Obviously the sound quality is nowhere near Monster’s pop culture influenced headphones but from what we where told, they expect to retail for around $20 bucks. That’s an extremely affordable price tag for a pair of celebrity branded earphones and they still sound a whole lot better than those ‘white’ earbuds.
If you want our pair of Lil Wayne In Ear Buds just tweet at us your Fave Lil Wayne song we will pick a winner on Sunday. Once product availability and permanent pricing becomes available, we will be sure to update the post.
