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Common responses to vaccination
Influenza vaccine is generally well tolerated.
Common responses associated with inactivated influenza vaccines in adults and children include pain, redness and/or swelling at the site of injection. Local responses are almost always mild. Systemic events such as headache, muscle aches and fatigue may occur in adults. Fever, irritability and loss of appetite are more likely to occur in children. These are generally mild and usually resolve after a day or so. Systemic events may appear influenza-like. However, the influenza vaccines currently used in New Zealand do not contain live viruses and cannot cause the disease
Serious events associated with influenza vaccine
The most significant serious adverse event associated with influenza vaccination is anaphylaxis, a serious allergic response that usually comes on within minutes of receiving the vaccine. This occurs around once in a million influenza vaccine doses.
With the possible exceptions of Guillain-Barré syndrome (refer below) and that side effects related to some new immune-stimulant cancer treatments could be triggered, other serious adverse events are no more likely to occur in individuals who are vaccinated compared with those who are unvaccinated.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome and influenza vaccination
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) has an annual incidence of around 1–4 cases per 100,000 people worldwide. During a swine influenza vaccination campaign in the United States in the 1970s, an increase in GBS was observed in vaccine recipients (around one case per 100,000 vaccinations) and the vaccination campaign was halted and surveillance of GBS expanded.
Epidemiological studies since then have suggested either no increased risk or a possible slight increase in risk of around one case per million adult influenza vaccinations. A recent meta-analysis of these studies identified a small increase in the risk of GBS following influenza vaccination. However, studies have also identified that the risk of GBS following an episode of influenza-like illness is significantly higher than the risk following influenza vaccination, especially in older adults. This highlights the importance of balancing the potential risks of disease with the potential risks and benefits of influenza vaccination to make an informed decision.
Febrile events following influenza vaccination
Fever is a common adverse event in children after vaccination. Convulsions associated with fever can occur in susceptible children. Around 3–8 children in 100 aged under 7 years will experience a febrile convulsion, most likely when aged between 16 and 30 months. In one study, children aged 6–23 months were two to three times more likely to develop a fever of 38°C–39°C during the first 24 hours after receiving influenza and PCV13 (PREVENAR 13®) vaccines at the same visit compared with children who received the vaccines on separate days.
Parents/guardians whose children are recommended to receive both influenza vaccine and PCV13 should be advised of the possible increase in risk of fever following concurrent administration of these vaccines. Separating administration of these vaccines by two days can be offered, but is not essential.
For the PREVENAR 13® data sheet please refer to the Medsafe website www.medsafe.govt.nz.
Reporting adverse events following influenza vaccination
Healthcare professionals/vaccinators are professionally and ethically responsible for reporting any serious or unexpected adverse events after the administration of all medicines, including the influenza vaccine, regardless of whether or not they consider the event to have been caused by the vaccination.
Information should include:
• vaccinee's details
• the vaccine administered
• vaccine batch number
• date of onset of symptoms
• type and duration of adverse event
• treatment required
• outcome if known but do not delay reporting while waiting outcome information
Some providers are able to report events through their practice management system. Reports can be completed online (nzphvc.otago.ac.nz), or the form can be downloaded and printed using the above link, completed and mailed to:
Freepost 112002
The Medical Assessor
Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring
University of Otago Medical School
PO Box 913, Dunedin 9054
or faxed to: (03) 479 7150


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Continuing with my polytempo inventions, I deviated from prime numbers for this 3-part Invention. Why? Because I had set out to base this on the prime numbers 569:359:137 and, after my preliminary math realized that I was essentially working with 570:360:138, which ultimately led me to 95:60:23, which better facilitates the primitive technology I am working with. I am currently working with a calculator, paper and pencil, and Finale-MIDI, which responds well to tempos in whole numbers. I am also intentionally working in short musical statements in small musical forms. Not to shy away from 569:359:137, but the interest in its "primeness," or complexity of tempo relationship, would best be heard at a fairly slow tempo, in a lengthy composition, and using technology that will render it precisely.


The customer relationship management (CRM) software is a software used for sales and marketing functions by companies. This software allows customers to place orders, make payments and access product catalogues on the web. The CRM software is mainly used across sales, marketing and customer service departments. It manages information about customers and their respective transactions with a company.
CRM software help to design new products based on customer experiences. The sales department use the software to track the sales process from initial contact through the final purchase.
It helps a customer support organization to track ongoing correspondence with customers. Cloud computing – based sales force CRM is the world's most widely used sales force automation solution. This software meets the needs of companies ranging from small organizations to large international enterprise.
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software provides centralized integrated software application to help manage and coordinate the ongoing activities of the functional units of an enterprise. These functional units include sales, marketing, accounting, finance, customer support and human resource units.
ERP softwares are customized to meet all the company's requirements. This software has been a great asset to companies. It integrates information systems across departments by implementing databases. It helps project management and makes customer service better. It also helps to provide better management for the global network of companies.
This provides an integrated system that run in real time without relying on periodic updates. It has a common database which supports all applications. It has a consistent look and feel through each module. The software is installed without elaborate application or data integration by the information technology department.
This is a software responsible for monitoring sales activities, debit and credit accounts. It keeps tab on the goods that have been paid for and those yet to be paid for. It is a useful business tool that helps organizations to monitor efficient customers. It is one of the software modules that make up the Maxton business system. The software works well with a record of about 12,000 customers.
The sales ledger displays the statements of account via email as softcopy. This helps customers to identify the items they have not paid for.
It displays management reports which include outstanding invoice reports, slow payers report, customer transaction analysis, debtor's letters, credit limits and turnovers.
It allows self-audit and status report on the constituency. It holds invoice archive and receipt book archive for any number of years. It holds an optional note page for each customer a well as all the normal contact details. It allows integration with point of sale invoicing, stock control, job-costing, sales order processing, contracts ledger and general ledger.
It displays payment performance reports by customer. This shows payment dates for each customer.
The sales ledger has been very useful to organizations involved in wholesale and retail of different products. It has reduced paper work and made transaction recording faster.
The production function is a software used by organizations to relate the output statistics to the amount of inputs; capital and labour. This is software that helps organizations to maximize profits. The production function is the functional relationship that exists between physical inputs and physical outputs in an organization.
The function is an assumed technological relationship based on the current state of engineering knowledge. This software is designed to address allocation efficiency. This is done by subsequently monitoring production flaws and covering up the loop holes to increase the output of an organization.
The purchase ledger is a software used in accounting departments of firms to record and monitor creditors. The ledger contains information about customers who made purchases on credit. It states a periodic balance of account, showing amount owed by a customer.
This software helps to prevent organizations from being liquidated. Paper work is slower and insecure. The account details will remain inaccessible if the documented records are displaced or destroyed. This will be leverage for the owing customer to deny any debts. A re-occurrence of this can subject an organization to depreciating output. This will eventually lead to the fall of such a business.
This is a software used to evaluate how much stock is used. This system is useful for monitoring raw materials in reserve. It verifies how much more materials will be needed for production. The software helps to identify finished products waiting to be supplied or yet to be ordered for.
This system allows integration with accounting and invoicing systems. Sales order processing and purchase order processing are wired together to ensure that stock balances and statistics are automatically updated as orders are processed. The system triggers orders when the re-order level is signified. It helps to identify the cheapest and fastest supplier of a product.
It works with bar coding systems which speed up processing and recording operations. This is done when the software prints and read bar codes from an integrated database on the computer. The software incorporates a radio frequency identification option which enables individual products to be tracked throughout the supply chain.
The payroll software is accounting software that analyzes and display financial records, employee salaries, wages, bonuses and deductions. It ensures that due benefits are paid to different workers of an organization without mistakes. This software helps to speedup payments and ensures accuracy in disbursing of wages.
The nominal ledger is a record holding an account of current assets, fixed assets, liabilities, revenue & expenses, items, gains and losses in an organization. The general ledger is divided into the debit and credit sections. The left side holds the debit transactions and the right side holds the credit transactions.
The general ledger consists of the balance sheet and the income statement.
The account equation is the mathematical structure of the balance sheet. Auditing accounts takes hours or days to complete due to paper works. Softwares have been designed today to checkmate these flaws. Application accounting software has been developed to secure transaction records and balance accounts faster and accurately. This is operated by incorporating relational database management systems like structural query language and enterprise Java beans.
Some current software that address this issues are Axapta by Microsoft, epicor, oracle financials, people soft, one world and Lawson enterprises 400 software.
A budget is a financial plan that help people and organizations make the best use of their money. It identifies sources of income and assists in planning expenditures. Budgets help organization to set a goal and achieve it within specific time frame.
A budget software helps small and large organizations to control costs effectively. It shows the profits expected from various activities in an organization. It helps them decide which projects are most important.
Budgeting involves estimation of income, estimate of expenditures and keeping financial records.
Budgeting software have been developed to help individuals, organizations and governments manage their resources effectively. It ensures that lists of anticipated projects are monitored closely and funds are disbursed accordingly.


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Roland Continues as Sign and Outdoor Printing Supplier for MotoGP Racing Circuit
Hamamatsu, Japan, June 2, 2006 – Roland DG Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and integrated print/cutters, today announced that, for the second year in a row, it has agreed to be the official sign and outdoor printing supplier for MotoGP's 2006 motorcycle racing season.
"We are honored to continue our partnership with MotoGP as the official supplier for its international racing circuit," said H. Kakiuchi, general manager of Roland DG Corporation. "In 2005, we had the opportunity to demonstrate to MotoGP the strength and versatility of our sign making solutions, which were employed to create a wide variety of high-quality event graphics under very tight deadlines. This is an exciting opportunity and we look forward to the upcoming season."
For the 2006 season, MotoGP will employ Roland's 54"-wide SOLJET SC-545EX high-performance inkjet printer/cutter and CAMM-1 PRO CX-500 professional vinyl cutter to produce a broad range of graphics including event signage, on-track advertisements and vehicle graphics. These and other durable graphics will be on display at each of MotoGP's 17 motorcycle races for viewing by millions racing fans. During the 2005 season, MotoGP events were attended by more than two million live spectators and broadcast to an estimated five million television viewers worldwide.
Roland's Industry-Leading Technology
The SOLJET SC-545EX is part of Roland's award-winning line of wide-format inkjet printers and integrated printer/cutters ranging in size from 30" to 104" in width. Roland inkjets are recognized as the world's top-selling wide-format printers for the durable graphics market and have been acclaimed industry-wide for their superior precision, performance and reliability.
For more than 18 years, the CAMM-1 has been widely recognized as the industry's most reliable and cost-effective professional vinyl cutter.
Recognized as the best-selling wide format inkjets in the durable graphics market worldwide, many top professionals across the sign and vehicle graphics industries rely on Roland sign making technology to create signs, vehicle graphics, banners, pinstriping, labels, decals, retail displays and more. All Roland sign making innovations are designed for ease of use, come complete with software, and are backed by the highest standards for service and support.
With 17 events across the globe each year, MotoGP's racing season showcases the skill of the world's top motorcycle riders in three categories (MotoGP, 250cc and 125cc) and attracts participation from major motorcycle manufacturers.
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The Jack 47 marijuana strain combines the genetics of the two highly-demanded varieties of cannabis: AK-47 and Jack Herer. Created by Sweet Seeds, this hybrid inherited the best properties of its parents. Its captivating smell with hints of lemon and fresh fruit resembles the flavor of Jack Herer, while its high potency was passed on to it by AK-47. Growers like this strain for the high yields of compact and very resinous buds. Covered with countless white trichomes and golden hairs, the buds have minty green nugs with dark olive green leaves. With up to 24% of THC and 2% of CBD, the Jack 47 cannabis can be used for treating conditions like inflammation, seizures, and fatigue. The high begins with a cerebral buzz that makes you happy and elevates your mood. Then the waves of inspiration and creativity urge you to communicate and bring you fresh ideas. When the high comes down to the physical level, your body becomes weightless and couch-locked. The Jack 47's effects work magic for chronic pain and headaches—this strain can provide several painless hours to its users.


Gold Award: The University of Chicago's new Residential Commons is part campus, part community.
The new residential commons building has been designed with the specific purpose of opening up to the surrounding neighborhood. Tom Harris Photography.
The new North Residential Commons on the University of Chicago campus is more than just a place for students to eat and sleep when they aren't in class or studying. The 400,000-sf residence hall offers students a place to live that blurs the lines between a campus and a community.
Plazas, gardens, walkways, and courtyards connect four separate buildings that range from one to 15 floors. A single-story dining hall, equipped with floor-to-ceiling windows for abundant natural light, overlooks a central quad.
Eight "houses" accommodate 800 undergraduate students. Each house has its own hub, a three-story common area where students can gather, study, and relax. Also included are classrooms, music practice rooms, and 10,000 sf of ground-level retail space. A reading room resides on the top floor and offers views of the city and Lake Michigan.
An example of one of the three-story hubs. These hubs can be used by the students for anything ranging from studying to relaxing. Tom Harris Photography.
The Building Team used BIM to simplify the project's complex geometry. Through the use of the model, the team was able to determine that the original knife-shaped edges of the exterior precast panels needed minor adjustments. The edges were susceptible to chipping, so the top edge of the panels was changed to a more blunt-shaped edge.
The building was designed to reflect the university's distinctive housing system, where students of all years live and work together to achieve a higher level of social and academic success.
The project will renovate three buildings and build another from the ground up.
Stantec is designing the project.
The Los Angeles campus is being built at a site in the eastern portion of the Santa Monica Mountains.
A nearly 40-year-old space is opened up and modernized.
The robotics labs at the 71,000-sf John J. Bowen Center for Science and Innovation, on the Providence, R.I., campus of Johnson & Wales University. This STEM building provides teaching labs and support spaces for engineering, biology, physics, chemistry, and organic chemistry. Photo courtesy John Horner.
A giant carbon-fiber orb is a focal point for the Michigan-based school.
The building marks the first purpose built structure for cyber studies based at an academy.


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Contract Negotiation / Headline / MLB Players
Why Josh Hamilton Will Not Get The Deal He Wants
by Darren Heitner · December 5, 2012
The following guest contribution was written by Richard Pallarino (@rpallarino). Richard is a student at CUNY-College of Staten Island and a Constituent Aide at the New York State Senate.
Josh Hamilton was selected first overall in the 1999 Amateur Draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, touted by scouts as one of the most pure talents to step onto the diamond in years. During Hamilton's injury plagued minor league career, he spent more time off the field then on the field. He missed 236 games in three seasons.
During that off time, Josh found the wrong crowd. Getting addicted to drugs and alcohol as well as tattooing his body with 32 images was what Hamilton was doing in his spare time. In February 2004, Hamilton was banned indefinitely from the MLB after testing positive for substance abuse and entered a rehab program. In the summer of 2006, Josh was reinstated after being sober and completing his program successfully.
Josh entered the Rule 5 Draft, which occurs in December on the last day of the Winter Meetings, and was selected by the Cincinnati Reds. He made the 25 man roster and finished his season batting .292, smashing 19 HR's and 47 RBI's.
In December of 2007, Hamilton was traded to the Texas Rangers for Edinson Volquez. Ever since then, Hamilton has been unbelievable, and the trade has undoubtedly favored the Texas Rangers. In five seasons with Texas, Josh's numbers are: .305 AVG, 142 HR's, and 506 RBI's. In those five seasons, Josh has won an MVP in '10 despite missing 29 games.
Hamilton has completed six years of MLB service time, which makes him eligible to be a free agent when his contract expires – this offseason. The only downfall of Josh's professional career statistically is the amount of games he has missed. His durability is a question. Over a six year career, Hamilton averages 122.8 games played per season. That isn't enough to offer even a man of Hamilton's caliber a long-term deal breaking $25M a year.
Josh and his agent, Michael Moye, want a deal within the six, seven, or eight year range, but those offers aren't flowing in. GMs are looking at Hamilton differently than the average baseball fan is. Hamilton is 31 years old and still has a season left in his prime. That isn't the problem, though, because Pujols signed a 10 year deal last offseason at the same age.
I think Moye and Hamilton understand that the GMs just don't like Hamilton's past addictions and feel his body is more susceptible to break down then the average baseball player. If Hamilton was my client I would advise him to look for a four year contract similar to the setup of Rafael Soriano in regards to the player options at the end of each year. This offseason free agent class features a great star, and we are used to seeing that type of player get a huge offer with a team locking up the star up for a while. But this offseason is different, because we will most likely not see Hamilton not be offered a deal over five years in length.
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Darren Heitner is the creator of Sports Agent Blog. He is the owner of the South, Florida-based HEITNER LEGAL, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm that focuses on transactional, intellectual property and litigation work with a heavy emphasis on sports and entertainment issues. He is also the founder of Sports Agent Blog and an author of 2 books published by the American Bar Association -- How to Play the Game: What Every Sports Attorney Needs to Know (1st and 2nd Editions). Heitner contributed to Forbes and Inc. for many years.
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Hi Claudia! interesting read. One quick question… what was your average budget per day per person, without the airplane tickets but including everything else.
Hi Alvaro. It varied, really, depending on the location. Some parts of Cuba are more expensive than others in terms of food and accommodation. Including going out – so visiting places, taxing cabs, etc – I would say anything between $20 USD and $50.
Is that including the accommodation?
I assume it doesnt include the car rental though, right?


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According to local media, most of those killed were electrocuted. The army has stepped in to aid with rescue and relief efforts in the massive city.
At least 23 people have been killed in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, after heavy monsoon rains hit the sprawling metropolis overnight, officials said on Thursday.
The deaths were the latest in a monsoon season that has so far killed more than 1,200 people across the region encompassing India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Karachi's deluge came a day after India's financial centre, Mumbai, was hit with floods that killed 14 people.
Karachi's city administration requested army assistance, including water pumps, after the heavy overnight rains, the military said in a statement.
Pakistan's military was delivering aid to the city where main streets were flooded, cars abandoned and hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes.
The private charity Edhi Foundation, which runs ambulances and medical centres, said it had confirmed 13 people dead and 350-400 houses inundated near the Lyari River.
Countries in the region suffer frequent flooding during the June-September monsoon season, but international aid agencies say things have been worse than normal this year.


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When the weather turns colder, I love to research and catalog family history and stories. I do research and investigations for a living as an attorney and genealogy is right up my alley. I inherited my love for genealogy from my grandmother Irmgard Nagel Krueger. She was a genealogy genius in an age before the internet. Her records are impeccable, and I am so lucky to have them all now.
My ancestors came from Germany. More recent generations made their homes in Wisconsin and Nebraska. My husband Scott's family has been in this country since the earliest European settlers. He has numerous Mayflower ancestors, who eventually settled in New Jersey, Iowa and Texas.
We now make our home in Minnesota. While the Vikings will not win us over, the NFL is always a subject of conversation. I am proud to have passed on my love for the Green Bay Packers to my children. All the views on this site, including my views about the Green Bay Packers, are my own and certainly don't represent the views of my employer or my Dallas-Cowboy-loving husband. #GPG.


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Dripkit Is High-End Pour Overs Made Easy
You're an avid camper, and you've yet to find a seamless way to make the same perfect cup of coffee you do at home while on the road. Sure, you could settle for flavorless instant coffee or a sludgy pour of muck, but why torture yourself when there's Dripkit?Founded by Ilana Kruger and Kara Cohen in 2016, Dripkit is high-end coffee made easy. Together, with the help of a Kickstarter campaign and NYC design studioPrime, Dripkit does all the prep, so all you have to do is pour. "Prime has worked with some of the top direct-to-consumer brands, and collaboratively we went through 500 prototypes to get the brewer where it is today," shares Cohen. "The graphic design, however, was all done in-house.'
Currently, Dripkit is made mostly of paper, but "because of the very thin coating on top, like most coffee cups, it's not recyclable in a practical way," says Kruger.Yet, with bioplastics continuing to make headway in the sustainable packaging market, Dripkit strives to produce a biodegradable solution by 2021. According to Cohen, the journey has already begun as they've developed one compostable sample already.As far as design, it's the David Hockney of coffee with minimalist linework, shapes and muted tones designed by Creative Director Marian Shelley featured on both the packet and brewer. Each kit contains a single-use brewer with 14 grams of coffee with no prep or clean.So, how do you use this no-fuss contraption? Start by holding the brewer with the baby blue tab up, then pull it off. Next, you'll push the dark blue handle and the brown semi-circle together to open your pour over. Place over your mug, add hot water at least twice and, voila, your cup of joe is ready for sipping.
Dripkit switches up their roasts seasonally with La Basa, ethically traded and sourced from a family farm of 11 brothers and sisters in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The coffee is a medium roast with balances notes of dark cherry, brown sugar and a hint of citrus."Coffee is a lot like wine, " begins Cohen. "Carefully grown, picked and processed beans make a huge difference in quality and taste. So we make sure to source from small family-owned farms and co-ops that put care into the production process. Additionally, it's important for us to support the economies of coffee producing countries, but it's not completely altruistic because it's the best coffee."The coffee is then roasted in Bushwick, Brooklyn to maximize flavor. From there, the beans travel down the block to Dripkit's studio, where they're ground and sealed to order.Now, it's all in the consumers' hands. Subscriptions are mailed out monthly in packs of 10 or 20 and arrive at your doorstep with no additional fees. It's the dummy proof way to ensure a perfectly-poured coffee is right there waiting for you every morning, without all the fuss.
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Downtown Summerlin: Live, Work and Play In Your Own Backyard!
Downtown Summerlin sits off highway 215, nestled between West Charleston and West Sahara Avenue, in the foothills of Red Rock National Park. It totals almost 400 acres of shopping & fashion, dining, entertainment, business & fitness centers and luxury apartment living. Downtown Summerlin is the new home of the NHL Vegas Golden Knights practice facility and there is also gaming, movies, a pool and bowling at the nearby Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa. Surrounded by master-planned communities, top-rated valley schools, and a booming business district, Downtown Summerlin is literally just steps away from everything.
The open-air shopping mall in Downtown Summerlin boasts 2 anchor stores, Macy's and Dillards. There are approximately 125 upscale storefronts and restaurants, including over a dozen chains; plus 2 local Las Vegas based restaurants: MTO and Grape Street Cafe and Wine Bar. Here you'll find anything from Bath and Body Works to Sur La Table, Old Navy, Victoria's Secret, It's Sugar and lots more!
Downtown Summerlin is also a lot of fun for the entire family! With a Trader Joe's supermarket plus a live farmers market on Saturday's from 9a-2p, you can get your shopping done while the kids hang out at the luxury Regal movie theater or Dave & Busters game-zone! They have yoga on the lawn, stroller classes for moms and host an entire calendar of events for families and adults throughout the year! Nearby is also Lifetime Fitness with an outdoor pool, climbing rock wall and range of classes from karate to gymnastics!
Shop in Downtown SummerlinDowntown Summerlin has developed into the new community hot-spot! It's surrounded by over a dozen local parks, a 150-mile trail system, nearby Red Rock National Park, breathtaking landscape views of the Vegas valley, local golf courses, excellent schools and easy highway access.
While many locals know that being minutes away from this vibrant desert plaza is a luxury in itself, with the continued addition of new stores, restaurants and entertainment options, Downtown Summerlin also increases nearby property value! That makes Downtown Summerlin a hot choice for investors, business owners, and first-time home buyers! It's the hottest place to live in Las Vegas, especially when all the fun is right in your own backyard!
There is a lot for you to enjoy while living in Summerlin West. Outside of living in one of the prettier areas of the greater Las Vegas area, you're also surrounded by some of the best entertainment and eateries. Red Rock Resort, JW Marriott Resort, Rampart Resort and Casino, the level of entertainment at your disposal is abundant and definitely not disappointing. There's something else, though; something small and quaint that, once you visit it, you'll be hooked. It's not a casino. It's not some giant, fancy eatery. It's actually a collection of shops, small boutiques and eateries that provide you with something completely unique. The Market LV at Tivoli Village is a cute little stretch of stores and food establishments that lets you do some heavy shopping and grab a bite to eat, all within a very close proximity.
What can you expect from a place called The Market? You may be overwhelmed if your initial thought pegs it as a small marketplace where you can grab some pre-prepared meal and be on your merry way. The Market is an expanse of different shops, boutiques offering lingerie, jewelry, fine arts, children's clothing, bridal accessories, and home decor and small eateries and quaint little food shops. This Tivoli Village market is home to B Sweet Candy Boutique, a small storefront candy shop offering homemade, hand crafted morsels of sugar lined up perfectly in cute glass jugs. Matching B Sweet in size and style is Cupkates by Kate, a cute shop that lets you dive into some of the best pastries you'll find in town.
The real treats come with the View Wine Bar & Kitchen and The Crepe. At The Crepe, you'll get a worldwide tour of the light and airy crepe through a variety of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert options. See how Italians handle crepes with cured prosciutto, eggs, Italian cheese, parsley, tomatoes, and a pesto sauce or enjoy the swiss cheese, asparagus, broccoli, egg, carrots, and cheese sauce variety from Switzerland. This diverse menu will have you itching for more of the delicious crepes and you'll be surprised as to just how diverse a crepe can be.
At View Wine Bar & Kitchen, you'll be able to take a load off in this comfortable space. After hours of shopping, your feet will be begging you to take a break, and View Wine Bar & Kitchen is the ideal place to do it. Unique varieties of food like the lobster mac, market oysters, pork belly bites, fried chicken, lobster mashed potatoes, and chicken pot pie nuggets go perfectly with View's large selection of wines.
To have so much diversity in one place is a treat for those that like to try new things. The Market LV is a quaint selection of shops that gives you plenty of reason to keep coming back for more.
The heart of Summerlin, Downtown Summerlin, is about to open and it's going to be a blast! This event has long been awaited by eager shoppers and Summerlin residents. And it is just fitting to have a four day Street Festival to celebrate its grand opening on October 9th.
A lot of activities are lined up to excite attendees on Thursday, but the luxury theater Regal has already started hosting discounted movies with proceeds going to local charitable organizations. For movie schedule and discounted rates, click here.
Downtown Summerlin has already announced that all events will take place on Festival Plaza Drive.
DOWNTOWN SUMMERLIN LIGHT SHOW ON THURSDAY (OCT. 9)What's a street party without an exciting light show and fireworks? Early attendees will get free Xylobands and have the chance to be part of the opening ceremony. The ceremony will start at 8pm followed by music and dancing at 8:30pm.
DANCE UNDER THE STARS WITH SOUND SCAPE ON FRIDAY (OCT. 10)Downtown Summerlin will open by 10am on Friday and will have lots in store for shoppers on its second day. Sound Scape promises to give one of the liveliest street parties of the year with many famous artists joining the fun. There will be multiple stages with the hottest DJ lineup.
Kids will also have their own activities that will begin at 3pm.
STREET STYLE FASHION SHOW AND EAT STREET ON SATURDAY (OCT. 11)The day will start with fun activities for kids and the whole family at 10am. But this day is designed for today's fashion addicts. There will be fashion shows at 12pm followed by fashion makeovers at 4pm, ending with an extreme fashion show at 8pm.
Eat Street will be open at 10am. Have a gastronomic adventure with several food trucks coming in to join in the dancing, shopping and dining celebration.
SUNDAY'S SESSION (OCT. 12)It's not the end; only the beginning. Kiddie activities for the day will include balloon art, face painting, dough doll, and candy making. Live jazz bands will still be playing and Eat Street will be open so visitors will have another chance to experience exotic flavors. It's your taste buds' ticket around the world.
There will also be free gifts valued at $25 for individuals spending $250 and above on the same day.
Click here to see the Festival Guide.


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Omni Crush: Discussing "The Devil and Sherlock Holmes" with David Grann
Lynette Mong on March 25, 2010
One of my favorite television shows as a kid was "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World," a miniseries that managed to awe me and spook me simultaneously. The premise of the show was simple: examine unexplained events and legends from around the world and attempt to draw conclusions about U.F.O. sightings, Bigfoot, lost civilizations, and other unexplained stories that hover somewhere between fiction and reality.
The moments in each episode that made the greatest impression on me were the interviews with the self-proclaimed experts and researchers who had dedicated themselves to discovering the truth about these phenomena. Some had official titles and degrees, but most were scruffy, wild-eyed men who had spent their adult lives hunting for evidence of creatures, cultures, and places that most people think of as legends. They were simply obsessed with discovering the truth (or something like it).
I was reminded of these individuals when I started David Grann's newest book, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. In his first book, a nonfiction account of the hunt for El Dorado, The Lost City of Z, he traced a cast of questionable characters into the Amazon "to record how generations of scientists and adventurers became fatally obsessed" with the hunt for the legendary city. Most never made it back. In The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, Grann focuses on a more eclectic array of obsessive behavior in stories that are truly stranger than fiction. It's a fascinating look at the men and women who dedicate their lives to chasing after truths that may or may not exist.
I recently had the opportunity to meet with David to discuss The Devil and Sherlock Holmes and The Lost City of Z. Read on to find out what David thinks about the "infinitely strange" business of writing nonfiction.
Amazon.com: Have you stayed in touch with any of the individuals you wrote about in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes?
David Grann: In the course of researching the book, I got to know an array of astonishing characters. They include a marine biologist named Steve O'Shea who was trying to be the first person to ever to capture a giant squid and grow it in captivity; sandhogs digging an intricate maze of tunnels hundreds of feet beneath the streets of New York City; a Polish detective investigating whether an author planted clues to an actual murder in his postmodern novel; a fireman who suffered amnesia on 9/11 and is trying to piece together what happened to him on that tragic day; a baseball icon; cold killers; an imposter; and a school teacher, Elizabeth Gilbert, who attempted to prove that a man about to be executed for a deadly fire was really innocent. One of the strange things about reporting is that you spend a lot of time with someone and then resume your separate lives. But I occasionally hear from several of the characters in the stories. Gilbert, who had been paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident, recently called to tell me that after more than five years of rehabilitation she had begun to take steps with the aid of a walker. "I made it eighty yards," she said. "Almost a football field."
Amazon.com: Given the opportunity, are there any stories you would like to revisit in the future?
David Grann: Most of the pieces hopefully capture the essence of a story and don't need elaboration. But as I learned from the strange and unexpected twists in these true tales, there is always a possibility that something new and startling may occur that would draw me back in.
Amazon.com: As a journalist, how does the experience of writing essays differ from writing a longer work like The Lost City of Z?
David Grann: It's very different. With a book, you can follow many different characters and paths. With essays, you have to keep the lens tightly focused. I really believe that some stories need to be told in longer narrative form, and others, like the dozen in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, work ideally as shorter pieces.
Amazon.com: Much of your writing revolves around individuals with unusually strong obsessions. The people you write about have focused their lives on everything from searching for giant squid to disbanding the most powerful gang in the U.S. prison system. Are there any characteristics that these individuals share?
David Grann: Yes, as you mention, many of the characters are compelled by an obsession, even if the object of their obsession is very different. The other thing that many of them share is a curiosity and a hunger to explain, like Sherlock Holmes, the world around them--whether it be the unexplored sea, an underground empire, a secret prison gang, or a mysterious murder.
Amazon.com: Many of these stories are rooted in ambiguous circumstances. Did your initial impressions change during the course of researching these people and events?
David Grann: Definitely. When I began investigating these stories, I knew almost nothing about them. Many originated from little more than a tantalizing hint: a tip from a friend, a reference buried in a news brief. And so I hope that I take the reader on the same kind of journey that I experienced--a journey that often leads to conclusions that I never imagined.
Amazon.com: Many of the stories in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes have a "stranger-than-fiction" quality to them. Have you ever considered trying your hand at fiction, or is the real world strange enough for you?
David Grann: When I first started out as a writer, I had aspirations of becoming a novelist, but I could never invent compelling enough characters or plots. What's wonderful about nonfiction is I get to meet these incredible characters--stick up men, sandhogs, prison escape artists, imposters, squid hunters, mobsters, FBI agents--and they allow me to spend time with them and document their private thoughts. If these dozen stories in the collection taught me anything, it is that life, to borrow a phrase from Sherlock Holmes, "is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
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В Англии Владыка Бесчинства (Lord of Misrule) – известный в Шотландии как Аббат Безрассудства (Abbot of Unreason), а во Франции как Принц шутов (Prince des Sots) – был офицером, выбираемым по жребию во время Святочного Периода для председательства на Празднике дураков. Владыка Бесчинства обычно был крестьянином или иподиаконом, назначаемым для руководства рождественскими пиршествами, часто включавшим в себя пьянство и дикие вечеринки.

Церковь в Англии проводила аналогичный фестиваль с участием мальчика-епископа Этот обычай был отменён Генрихом VIII в 1541 г., а восстановлен католичкой Марией I и вновь отменён протестанткой Елизаветой I, хотя кое-где он и сохранялся в течение ещё некоторого времени. На континенте он был упразднён Базельским собором в 1431 г., однако время от времени ещё возрождался в некоторых местах даже в XVIII в. В эпоху Тюдоров Владыки Бесчинства (иногда называемый Аббатом Бесчинства или Королём Бесчинства) несколько раз упоминается в современных документах, относящихся к пиршествам как при дворе, так и среди простых людей  .

Хотя в основном он известен как британский праздничный обычай, однако ряд фольклористов, например, Джеймс Фрэзер и Михаил Бахтин, утверждали, что назначение Владыки Бесчинства происходило из аналогичного обычая, практиковавшегося во время римских празднований Сатурналий . В Древнем Риме с 17 по 23 декабря (по юлианскому календарю) на праздник Сатурналий назначался человек, выбиравшийся в качестве мнимого царя, в облике римского божества Сатурна. Эта гипотеза была подвергнута резкой критике со стороны Уильяма Уорда Фаулера, утверждавшего, что, несмотря на частоту возникновения христианских традиции непосредственно из переосмысления обычаев древности, рождественский обычай Владыки Бесчинства в христианскую эпоху, а также сатурналиевский обычай древности могут иметь совершенно различное происхождение Однако эти два отдельных обычая можно сравнивать и противопоставлять .

История

Древний Рим
1 января 400 г. н.э. епископ Астерий Амасейский в Понте (современная Амасья, Турция) произнёс проповедь против праздника календ («этого глупого и вредного наслаждения», this foolish and harmful delight), в которой описывается роль потешного царя в эпоху поздней античности. На новогоднем празднике дети подходили к каждому порогу, обменивая подарки на вознаграждение:
Этот фестиваль учит даже маленьких детей, безыскусных и простосердечных, быть жадными, а также ходить от дома к дому и предлагать новые подарки, фрукты, покрытые серебристыми блёстками. За них они получают, в свою очередь, подарки вдвое дороже, и вот так в нежные умы молодёжи впечатываются торговля и низменность.
Астерий. Речь 4: Против празднеств Календ (Adversus Kalendarum Festum)

Это контрастировало с христианским праздником, не случайно проводившимся в следующий день:
Мы празднуем рождение Христа, ибо в это время Бог явил себя во плоти. Мы празднуем Праздник Светов (Богоявление), ибо прощение наших грехов выводит нас из темной тюрьмы нашей прежней жизни в жизнь света и праведности.
— Астерий, "Речь 4".

Примечательно, что для Астерия христианский праздник был явным выходом из тьмы во свет, и хотя никакая безусловно солнечная природа не могла быть выражена в принципе, но именно возобновление света в середине зимы праздновалось среди римских язычников официально со времён Аврелиана в качестве «праздника рождения Непобедимого Солнца». Между тем во всём городе Амасия, хотя вход в храмы и святые места и запрещался указом Феодосия I (391 г.), однако праздник дарения даров, когда происходили «всякий шум и смятение» в «ликовании о новом годе» с поцелуями и дарением монеты, к сильному отвращению и презрению епископа:
Это превратно зовётся праздником, ибо исполнено раздражения; поскольку выходить на улицу обременительно, а оставаться внутри нельзя, чтобы не оказаться растревоженным. Ибо обычные бродяги и сценические фокусники, разделившись на отряды и сборища, ошиваются около каждого дома. Ворота государственных чиновников они осаждают с особой настойчивостью, фактически крича и хлопая в ладоши, пока тот, кто находится в осаде внутри, измучившись, не выбрасывает им все деньги, которые у него только есть, и даже те, что ему не принадлежат. И вот эти нищенствующие, переходящие от двери к двери, следуют один за другим, и до позднего вечера нет никакого облегчения от этой невзгоды. Ибо толпа сменяет толпу, и кричат, кричат, и тратят, тратят.
— Астерий, "Речь 4"

Над честными фермерами, приезжавшими в город, могли посмеяться, отшлёпать или ограбить. Хуже того,
"И даже наши превосходнейшие и бесхитростные пророки, безошибочные представители Бога на земле, которые, когда им ничто не мешает в их труде, являются нашими верными служителями, даже с ними обращаются дерзостно". Что же касается солдат, то они тратят всё их жалованье на бунты и на распутных женщин, возможно, они смотрят пьесы, "потому что они учатся вульгарности и актёрские приблуды". Их военная дисциплина ослаблена. Они издеваются над законами и правительством, хранителями коих они были назначены. Ибо они высмеивают и оскорбляют августейшее правительство. Они восходят на колесницу, словно на сцену; они назначают мнимых ликторов и прилюдно ведут себя как шуты. Это более благородная часть их распутства. Но другие их деяния, как о них упоминать? Разве чемпион, мужчина с львиным сердцем, мужчина, который, будучи вооружен, вызывает восхищение его друзей и ужас врагов, расстёгивает тунику до лодыжек, разве он завязывает пояс на груди, носит женские сандалии, укладывает волосы на голове по-женски, набивает прялку шерстью, а той правой рукой, в которой некогда был трофей, вытягивает нитку и, изменяя тон голоса, произносит слова более резким женским дискантом?"

Однако, по словам антрополога Джеймса Фрэзера, у фестиваля Сатурналий была и более тёмная сторона. В Дуросторуме на Дунае (современная Силистра ) римские солдаты выбирали из своей среды человека, который в течение 30 дней был Владыкой Бесчинства. По истечении этих 30 дней ему перерезали горло на алтаре Сатурна. Также было зарегистрировано и аналогичное происхождение британского Владыки Бесчинства в качестве жертвенного короля («временного короля» (temporary king), как выразился Фрэзер), которого позднее казнили ради всеобщего блага.

Ссылки на точку зрения Фрейзера на эту древнюю жертву были сделаны в фильме 1973 г. «Плетеный человек».

Хотя более поздний римский обычай Владыки Бесчинства как распорядителя пиршеств, фигуры веселья и не более того, наиболее распространён, но, по-видимому, имеется и ряд указаний на более ранний и более неприятный аспект этой фигуры. Фрэзер рассказывает:

Мы вправе предположить, что в более раннюю и варварскую эпоху в Древней Италии, где бы ни преобладало поклонение Сатурну, была распространена практика выбора человека, игравшего роль и пользовавшегося всеми традиционными привилегиями Сатурна в течение сезона, а затем умиравшего, от своей или от чужой руки, будь то от ножа, огня или на дереве, по образу доброго бога, отдавшего свою жизнь за мир.

Англия эпохи Тюдоров

В эпоху Тюдоров Джон Стоу в «Обзоре Лондона» (Survey of London), опубликованном в 1603 г., даёт описание Владыки Бесчинства:[В] праздник Рождества в королевском доме, где бы он ни обитал, был Владыка Бесчинства или Мастер весёлых забав, и тому подобное имелось в доме всякого благородного человека, почётного или достопочтенного, духовным ли он был человеком или светским. Среди них у мэра Лондона и у каждого из шерифов было несколько Владык Бесчинства, каждый из которых начинал ссоры или оскорбления, должен был устраивать самые редкие развлечения ради того чтобы порадовать зрителей. Эти Владыки, начавшие свое правление на Alhollon Eue [Хэллоуин], продолжали то же самое до следующего дня после Праздника Очищения (Feast of Purification), обычно называемого Днём Сретения (Candlemas Day).Владыка Бесчинства упоминается и Филипом Стаббсом в его «Анатомии злоупотреблений» (Anatomie of Abuses, 1585), где он заявляет, что «дикие главы приходов собираются вместе, избирают великого капитана (бесчинства), которого возвеличивают титулом лорда». Затем он описывает, как они красочно одеваются, привязывают к ногам колокольчики и «идут в церковь (хотя бы служитель молился или проповедовал), танцуя и размахивая своими носовыми платками» ("go to the churche (though the minister be at praier or preachyng) dauncying and swingyng their handercheefes").

Упадок обычая в Великобритании

С возникновением пуританской партии в англиканской церкви XVII в. обычай Владыки Бесчинства был объявлен вне закона, поскольку считался «подрывным» (disruptive); даже после Реставрации обычай оставался под запретом и вскоре был позабыт. В начале XIX в. Оксфордское движение в англиканской церкви положило начало «развитию более богатых и более символических форм поклонения, строительству неоготических церквей, а также возрождению и возрастанию центральной роли празднования и самого Рождества как христианского празднества» (the development of richer and more symbolic forms of worship, the building of neo-Gothic churches, and the revival and increasing centrality of the keeping of Christmas itself as a Christian festival), а также «специальные благотворительные акции для бедных» в дополнение к «специальным услугам и музыкальным мероприятиям» (special services and musical events). Чарльз Диккенс и другие писатели помогли в этом возрождении праздника, «изменив представление о Рождестве и его праздновании», поскольку они подчёркивали важность семьи, религии, дарения подарков и социального примирения в отличие от исторического веселья, распространённого в ряде мест.

Примечания

Рождественские персонажи
Рождество во Франции
Рождество в Шотландии
Европейский фольклор
Рождество в Англии

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We all have habits that we do daily or even weekly that cost us money. Most of the time they are really little, like a cup of coffee or eating out for lunch. But just how much do these innocent purchases cost us over time?
Let's take a look into 3 everyday habits that sometimes can turn into much bigger monsters than we could ever imagine.
This is super important. What seems like only a small amount of money at the time, turns into a huge chunk of cash once that small purchase becomes a habit. The problem is that when we only do it once a day or even every other day we don't think about it adding up.
If you don't track your spending it really goes by unnoticed because these small habits are typically only a few dollars at a time.
A lot of people think that when it comes to spending, you really need to focus on the big things and not worry about the little things. I agree with that to a certain extent. If you mess up the big purchases like college tuition, cars, and houses then what you do with the small things isn't going to matter much.
However, I would argue that we still need to pay attention to the small stuff because that's where you can really waste a ton of money without even noticing.
This one is tough and I'll be the first one to admit I love my morning Coffee. But if you're running by Starbucks or that little hippy coffee shop a block from work every single morning, you might as well hook a vacuum up to your wallet.
I mean seriously. You have no idea how much money that daily coffee is actually costing you.
Now I'm gonna get into sum numbers (haha, get it?) Okay, but seriously, I'm gonna go through some math, so just try to bear with me without your eyes glazing over.
My buddy Luke works at the local Starbucks and based on his expert memory skills, claims that about half of the people who come to his Starbucks every day are 5-days-a-week regular Starbucks goers. Now, I'm not sure if that represents most of the population, but I think it's safe to assume that there are a ton of people who just gotta have their cup of Joe every morning on the way to the office.
I have a handful of friends that fall into this category and I'd be willing to bet that you do too.
So how much money does that person spend? Well, $3.25 for the average Starbucks drink may not sound like a lot, but it adds up quick for those everyday visitors. If you spend $3.25 on Coffee 5 days a week that works out to $65 a month. Okay, so maybe that's not too bad until you look at the yearly cost of $780. Now we're talking enough money for 3-5 day beach trip that you spent slurping back your favorite frappuccino.
But what happens if we do this for a few years? After 10 years of having your daily java, you've spent $7,800! Let me say that again. SEVEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS on Coffee. You could've bought a car, but instead wasted it on a morning drink.
Extend this out for your entire working career and 40 years later you've spent $31,200 on Coffee.
Coffee. Let that sink in.
For all those visual learners out there I put together a nice little spreadsheet that really shows the cost of coffee over all those years.
For a $3.25 Coffee 5 days a week, check out this chart to see how much money is spent over the years.
Okay, okay, I know some of you still aren't convinced to quit your daily Starbucks run. But let's talk about what happens if instead of morning coffee you invested that money.
Here's where the numbers start to get really interesting.
Let's take the money you would've spent on coffee and invest that into a nice Total Stock Market Index fund that produces on average 6% per year. Let's say you invest that money monthly, and see what happens.
After 10 years of investing, that money is worth $10,652.16. We're already up almost $3,000 compared to the amount spent after 10 years. If you do this for 20 years that coffee money turns into $30,000.
So, if instead of spending $3.25 a day on Coffee you invested that money you could have an extra $30,000 after 20 years!
Now, what happens if we extend this out for your entire working career?
After 40 years, that daily Coffee would've made $129,446.90!!
That my friends is insane. Check out the chart below that shows the investment return over the years for that daily coffee.
Do you see that? We're talking about enough money to purchase a house! You could buy a house, with the money spent on coffee for a full working career.
Well, let's be honest. I don't expect you to give up coffee altogether and start investing $3.25 every day. (Although that'd be pretty awesome).
Instead why don't you consider making your coffee at home every morning before you head out?
My wife and I both drink a standard 16oz Tervis Tumbler (gotta have that Tervis!) coffee 5 days a week.
We do most of our grocery shopping at the local Sam's Club where everything is bigger and better. The coffee grounds cost us $10.98 for a 48oz jumbo sized Folgers Classic Roast. We get our favorite 64oz (vanilla caramel) creamer for $5.32. And then we get our massive 700 count Brew Rite Coffee filters for $2.98.
We can get 190 Tervis Sized cups of coffee out of the Folgers. We both use 2oz of creamer for each Tervis, getting 32 cups for the 64oz creamer. And we get 700 cups out of the coffee filters (we have to double up the coffee filters because we have a crappy leaky coffee pot :), so 2 cups every morning for 2 coffee filters.
If you plug those numbers into the fancy dancy spreadsheet you can see that my daily cup of joe only costs me $0.23 per cup.
This means that I spend an average $4.60 per month or $55.20 per year for my cup of coffee every morning.
That works out to $12,677 if I invested that $0.23 instead for 40 years. I'll happily pay that compared to the $129,446 from the Starbucks spending.
I'm not telling you to give up your coffee drinking, cause I'm sure not giving up mine. But if you're a coffee house every morning kinda person, I encourage you to re-think that habit.
Maybe you should cut down to once a week splurging on that special Starbucks coffee. And the rest of the time just make a nice cup of Joe at home. That will free up a crazy amount of money that you could save or spend somewhere else that's way more important than a fancy cup of coffee.
Before you think I'm about to slam smokers, I want you to know that I don't think there's anything wrong with smoking cigarettes. I don't think it's very wise, but certainly not morally wrong.
With this article, I plan to focus on the cost of smoking instead of the negative health aspects.
I'm not even going to discuss the fact that 480,000 deaths every year in the U.S. are caused by smoking (about 1 in 5 deaths annually). Or that on average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers. No, I promise I'm just going to discuss the money aspect of smoking. If you would like to read more about the health related issues the CDC has some great information that can be found here.
Let's get to sum numbers (look I did it again; okay I know, not as funny the second time).
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average cost for a pack of cigarettes in 2013 was $5.76 plus an average $2.25 in tax. That's a total $8.01 for an average pack of cigarettes. That was two years ago and no doubt the price has increased but let's just work with those numbers and see what happens.
In 2012, the average smoker went through 1 pack (or 20 cigarettes) per day. If you smoked 1 pack per day at $8.01 a pack, that works out to be $224.28 per month. This quickly turns into $2,691 per year.
And you thought the coffee drinkers were bad.
According to the CDC, every day 3,200 people under the age of 18 smoke their first cigarette. On top of that, every day 2,100 youth and young people who have been occasional smokers turn into daily smokers.
As you can see it's very common for people to start smoking at a young age and then continue the habit throughout the majority of their life. So that $2,691 spent per year on cigarettes turns into $53,827 after 20 years and $107,654 after 40 years.
Again, this analysis wouldn't be complete if we didn't look at what would happen we invested that money instead.
For an 18-year-old who smokes for 40 years until age 58, the money they spent on cigarettes would've been worth $446,651 if invested at 6%.
Did you see that? We're talking about nearly HALF A MILLION DOLLARS spent on cigarettes.
Let me remind you what I just said above. If you smoke for 40 years, it has cost you nearly half a million dollars and yet 3,200 young people smoke their first cigarette every day.
This country clearly has its priorities messed up, and this smoking epidemic needs to come to an end.
Again, for all the visual folks out there, see the chart below for the actual cost of smoking.
If the insane health risks associated with smoking aren't enough to convince you to quit, take a look at the amount of money you're burning every time you light up that cigarette.
You could retire rich if you only quit smoking.
I know it's extremely difficult. I know it's insanely addictive. I know you've tried a hundred times. But for the sake of your life, your family, your wallet, and your future stop smoking.
There are tons of programs out there that can help you quit. But ultimately it's going to have to be a conscious decision that you make. Figure out whatever program works best for you, but you're going to have to make up your mind.
There's no program in the world that can help you quit unless you are actually serious about it.
So make up your mind. Take a stand for your future and put an end to this habit that is literally killing you.
This one is extremely tough, especially if everyone else at work or school loves to go out to eat.
The problem is, just like smoking or coffee, the little bit spent on lunch doesn't seem to be very much at the time. I'm not sure about your friends and coworkers, but some guys in my office go out to eat 4 and 5 days a week. I mean, the occasional lunch out of the office isn't a big deal, but this daily cost can really add up!
Let's assume that you go out to eat for lunch 3 days a week. I'm not sure about how it is where you live, but in Chattanooga it's extremely difficult to each lunch for less than $7. So 3 times a week at $7 each time works out to $21 per week.
Now compare that to your work. How much money do you make an hour? Yet you're spending $21 to each lunch 3 days a week. How much longer do you have to spend at work just to make up for the cost of lunch?
At this rate, you'll spend $84 a month and $1,008 per year. And that's not even getting lunch every day, it's just 3 meals a week!
Once again, if we look at what that money would do if you invested it at 6% you can see from the chart below that after 40 years it turns into $167,285.
I think I've made my point. Do you really want to spend that much money on eating just 3 meals a week with your coworkers?
Maybe you do. And if so, that's okay. Just make sure you've considered how much it costs and work it into your budget.
But for the vast majority of us who go out to eat for lunch out of habit, I think it would do us a lot of good to consider how much it really costs.
Brown bag it. That's right take your lunch from home.
My wife and I take our own lunch every single day. This saves us a ton of money and I can later use that to go out to eat with her.
A typical lunch for me consists of a ham and cheese sandwich, a banana, and a small bag of my favorite wild roots forest berry trail mix. Since we get great deals on groceries at our local Sam's, this works out to be about $2.06 for that meal.
Again, this is way cheaper than eating out.
I would much rather spend that money going out with my wife or friends on the weekend, than burning it on lunch at the office.
What Habits Are Stealing Your Money?
I'm not saying that you should quit doing all of the things you like. The main point I'm trying to get across is that you should really stop and consider how much your habits actually cost.
Often times these habits are sucking more from our wallets than we think.
If you're interested I have made my spreadsheet available for free download.
Simply put in your name and email into the form below and you'll get access to the excel spreadsheet I created to come up with all of the numbers!
It has instructions that come with it so you know exactly how to use it. You can put in your own numbers to see how much your daily habits cost you.
Just go ahead and download it. Then respond in the comments below, or shoot me an email and let me know what you found out about your habits!
Just put in your name and email and I'll send you my free daily habits spreadsheet to help you see how much your habits costs!
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AWESOME post!!! I'm originally from Chatt and now live in NYC. The power of saving money on coffee and lunches, buying in bulk, and Being a MINDFUL saver whenever possible has not only saved me from financial disaster when I was laid off (in NYC no less), but also took me to Europe for 2 weeks last month. Great post, look forward to reading more!!!!
Thanks Taylor! I really appreciate you reading it.
You are absolutely right about being a mindful saver. I'm super glad to hear that it's helped you when you got laid off!
Thanks for reading, and I hope to provide you with more posts you like soon!
Haha, yeah it's a small world! Thanks for checking it out!
Great Post! Another habit I saw when I was working during college at a grocery store that had dry cleaning services is the amount of Laundered Shirts that people were paying to have done each week! Keep in mind this is not dry cleaning but simply washing shirts and ironing them.
Wow. That does seem a bit crazy to pay for washing an ironing. Especially for something that could easily be done elsewhere. Thanks for reading Josh, glad you liked it!
Informative, more than the money part, I would recommend quiting all 3 habits as a trade for good health.
Agreed! There are ways to quit and not only see a monetary increase but also a physical health increase. Thanks for reading Santhosh!
That is powerful, Mr. Nick. Glad I got to meet you at Tribe Conference. I am working through some of this exact stuff right now. Examining the power of compounding and the real cost of my spending habits. Thanks for writing!
Thanks so much Arlen! Glad I got to meet you as well. You're wise to start looking at the REAL cost. That's the key.
Glad you enjoyed the article, keep in touch!
This is one of the best articles I've read on the power and importance of controlling daily habits. I consider myself pretty frugal but my Achilles Heel is definitely buying lunch at work. This easily amounts to $7 a day on weeks that I get lazy and don't cook to pack a lunch. I always considered how much it meant in forgone savings over the month, but I never realized what those savings could turn in to when invested!


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Penalty rate cuts will 'build inequality', not create jobs
byMark Bowling
6 July 2017 - Updated on 1 April 2021
Penalty rates: "Cutting penalty rates will not create jobs but it will build inequality."
FOR Gold Coast retail worker Rachel Spackman, the whole issue of weekend penalty rates has a lot to do with religion.
The 19-year-old Catholic is a full-time student and works casually up to 15 hours a week.
She tries not to work on Sundays.
"It's a juggle because I like to go to 9am Mass," the Merrimac student, who works in a retail store in Pacific Fair Shopping Centre, said.
"So I try to work during the week or on Saturdays, but that is not always possible.
"So I can still attend Saturday Vigil Mass."
Weekend penalty rate cuts introduced on July 1 will mean an incremental cut of income for weekend workers in retail, fast food, pharmacy and hospitality areas, first by five per cent this year, then by greater amounts up until 2020.
Ms Spackman said the cuts would have no immediate effect on her pay packet because she already received time-and-a-half for weekend shifts – not double-time received by many workers.
St Vincent de Paul Society national chief executive officer Dr John Falzon said the pain would be felt by more than 700,000 workers "largely low-paid, award-reliant workers".
"Cutting penalty rates will not create jobs but it will build inequality," Dr Falzon said.
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"In some instances weekend workers will be worse off by up to $77 each week."
Hospitality workers contacted by The Catholic Leader conceded difficult times lay ahead.
One weekend barista said his work for a retail chain meant he was "shielded from any immediate changes".
"But if I was working in a small, independent café I'd be worried. They will be worse off, expected to work longer hours for less pay," he said.
The Australian Labor Party has already vowed to take the weekend penalty rates issue to the next federal election.
Speaking at a rally in Caboolture on July 3, Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said he empathised with the thousands of workers who were working on a Sunday without their penalty rates.
"The fact of the matter is that most of the people … on penalty rates earn anywhere between $30 and $70,000 a year," he said.
"What this out-of-touch, elitist Prime Minister doesn't understand is that when you earn that amount of money, you don't save.
"People who rely on penalty rates spend every dollar they get."
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash said Mr Shorten's policy would harm small businesses, who benefitted from the decision to "level the playing field" with larger businesses who could more afford penalty rates.
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Mark Bowling
Mark is the joint winner of the Australian Variety Club 2000 Heart Award for his radio news reporting in East Timor, and has also won a Walkley award, Australia's most-respected journalism award. Mark is the author of 'Running Amok' that chronicles his time as a foreign correspondent juggling news deadlines and the demands of being a husband and father. Mark is married with four children.
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How Deion Sanders Turned Jackson State Into the Best Story in College Football
On Wednesday, the top-ranked recruit in the country shocked the world by announcing he'll play at Jackson State. The news has flipped college sports on its head—and sheds light on just what's so remarkable about the Coach Prime experience.
By Rodger Sherman Dec 16, 2021, 9:42am EST
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When Jackson State hired Deion Sanders to be its head football coach in September 2020, I thought it was a Tim Tebow plays minor league baseball kind of deal. You know the type: Some team at the lower levels of a sport brings in a famous and questionably qualified former athlete, generates publicity that helps sell a bunch of tickets, and doesn't particularly care about the results. After all, most Division I college football head coaches have coached college football before. Sanders had only previously coached in high school with … unusual results.
A year later, we can safely say that Coach Prime is not Tim Tebow. (For starters, Deion knows how to hit a baseball.) In 2021, Sanders signed the highest-ranked recruiting class that Jackson State or any school remotely like it has ever landed. With a roster full of prized talent, the Tigers went 11-1 and won their conference championship for the first time since 2007. They went undefeated against other teams in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), and they'll take part in Saturday's Celebration Bowl, the de facto national championship game for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Sanders won the Eddie Robinson Award, given to the best coach in the FCS; his son, Shedeur, won the Jerry Rice Award, given to the best freshman in the FCS. Jackson State broke the FCS attendance record by averaging more than 42,000 fans per game.
Then on Wednesday, Sanders pulled off one of the most remarkable recruiting feats in recent college football history. On National Signing Day, he watched as the top-ranked prospect in the Class of 2022 flipped his commitment from Florida State—Sanders's alma mater—to Jackson State. Cornerback Travis Hunter stood on a stage behind a row of hats from major-conference schools—Florida State, Auburn, Georgia—and threw them all into the crowd before committing to play for Jackson State:
THE NATION'S NUMBER ONE RECRUIT TRAVIS HUNTER JUST MADE HISTORY!!!!!!!! JACKSON STATE!!!!!!!!! @DeionSanders @JacksonStateU pic.twitter.com/WOXdqj2auy
— Maria Martin (@Ria_Martin) December 15, 2021
For years, the top high school football talent has been funneled toward the biggest, best-funded programs in the nation. They have the best facilities, the most visibility, and the clearest pathways to a future in the NFL. But in 2021, the NCAA finally allowed players to make money off their name, image, and likeness rights. Sanders swore that he would make sure his players started getting paid at midnight on the day the NIL rule change went into effect. Sure enough, on July 1, Jackson State defensive tackle Antwan Owens became the very first college player to ink an NIL deal. Although Hunter isn't allowed to sign any deals while he's still in high school, rumors are flying about who could pay him.
Fearmongers spent years arguing that allowing college athletes to market themselves would simply consolidate power at the schools that are already powerful. Instead, in the first year the new NIL rules were installed, the best high school player in the country signed with an HBCU. What makes a player more marketable? Doing the same thing everybody else has done for decades? Or forging his own path by playing for someone who may be better at selling himself than anybody in the history of modern sports?
When Jackson State hired Sanders, it brought the school attention. But in college football, attention is never just for attention's sake. Attention brings talent. Talent brings wins. Wins bring more attention. Come Saturday, fans shouldn't watch Jackson State play in the Celebration Bowl simply to gawk at Deion. They should watch Jackson State because the Tigers are good as hell—and they're about to get even better.
When people talk about HBCU football, the first thing they often bring up is the bands. If you don't know what I'm talking about, head to the Southern University Human Jukebox YouTube page and come back in a few hours. When Power Five conference schools schedule games against HBCU teams, they often pay for the bands to come along with them.
Of course, predominantly white institutions brag about their game-day experiences too. The expression goes that Ole Miss has never lost a party—but nobody takes that as a dig at the SEC. It's only when people talk about HBCUs that praising the game-day experience is a sneaky diss at the quality of the actual football. "This is what Black college football has come to in the eyes of the world at-large," wrote HBCU Gameday in 2015, "a high-stepping marching band and a blowout loss."
Black college football is its own self-contained world. It has its own national championship and its own polls. It even had its own video game, with a Guitar Hero–style mini game in which you play music with the band. Sometimes this separation feels like it's done by choice—a move to honor and celebrate the unique experience of HBCU athletics. But other times, it feels as if HBCUs are excluded from the rest of the sports world. In the NCAA men's basketball tournament, HBCUs almost always play in the First Four rather than the main bracket. No HBCU players were taken in the 2021 NFL draft, and no HBCU players have been taken in the NBA draft since 2012. The FCS awards Sanders and his son won this week are named after HBCU greats, Eddie Robinson and Jerry Rice, but Deion is only the second HBCU coach to win the Robinson Award, and Shedeur is the first HBCU player to take home the Rice Award.
HBCU coaches are almost always left off the high-money Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) coaching carousel. The only SWAC coach ever to be hired by a current FBS team is Jay Hopson, who left Alcorn State to take over at Southern Miss in 2015. Hopson was also the only white head coach in SWAC history. To summarize: Zero percent of Black SWAC coaches have been hired by FBS schools, but 100 percent of white ones have.
Once upon a time, some of the greatest players in the history of the sport played at HBCUs. Walter Payton lined up for Jackson State, as did three other Pro Football Hall of Famers (Lem Barney, Jackie Brazile, and Jackie Slater). Jackson State has the 14th-most Hall of Famers of any college program, tied with Florida State, Georgia, Stanford … and fellow HBCUs Grambling and Morgan State. But that era is gone. When ESPN's Bill Connelly ranked the 30 greatest HBCU teams of all time in August, only two teams on his list were from seasons after 2000.
That change has happened for a good reason. The past era of HBCU football mainly existed because white schools in the South refused to have Black men on their football teams. It took until 1972 for SEC football to fully desegregate. Now, per the NCAA's demographic database, 57 percent of football players in that conference are Black.
But when HBCU programs have had to compete against those from big-money college athletics, they haven't had much of a shot. From a financial standpoint, the gap between HBCU and FBS power-conference programs is enormous. In 2019, Jackson State made $6 million from its athletics—less than half of the FCS median of $16 million. And, of course, the FCS median is dwarfed by the totals accrued by SEC programs, which get annual payouts of $45 million from the conference—and that's mostly from media rights deals, and doesn't even factor in money associated with game-day revenue, merchandising, and sponsorships.
HBCUs are not just outmatched from an athletic perspective, either. They are also "chronically underfunded," and that lack of funding prevents Black progress in academia and other fields. In 2019, Jemele Hill wrote in The Atlantic that elite Black athletes can help address that issue by attending HBCUs, proposing that an influx of Black talent to HBCU athletics would boost the revenues and profiles of these institutions. But there seemed to be little hope for this happening. Hill spoke to Kayvon Thibodeaux, the top 2022 NFL draft prospect out of Oregon, who took and enjoyed a visit to Florida A&M. Yet Thibodeaux told Hill that the decision for top prospects is "about money," and that "unless HBCUs upgrade dramatically, I don't know if things will change."
The last Jackson State player taken in the NFL draft was Jaymar Johnson, a sixth-round pick in 2008. The last quarterback drafted from an HBCU was Tarvaris Jackson, a second-round pick in 2006. There was a first-round pick from an HBCU in 2019—Tytus Howard, out of Alabama State—but there was a span of more than a decade in between Howard's selection and the previous HBCU first-rounder, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie in 2008.
For the first 20 years of this century, it seemed that elite football prospects had stopped going to HBCUs. Then along came Deion Sanders.
It still seems unbelievable that Deion Sanders could be a great coach. Great athletes often flop as coaches, from Magic Johnson to Wayne Gretzky. "Play like I did" isn't exactly a great approach to teaching. And Sanders succeeded on the field more effortlessly than basically anyone ever. He might be the last athlete to star in two major sports in the United States; he also might be the last NFL star to play major roles on both offense and defense. He could skip football training camp to play with the Atlanta Braves and still go on to be an All-Pro cornerback; he could skip the final month of the MLB season to play with the Atlanta Falcons and still go on to hit .500 in the World Series.
Sanders has almost always had enough talent to accomplish the things he's tried, and he's had enough charisma to succeed even when he doesn't. Take his music career. Sanders could not sing. He could not rap. It's unclear what his true musical talent was supposed to be. But you've surely heard his song "Must Be the Money"—it's part of his Aflac commercials with Alabama head coach Nick Saban, played by an imitation of an HBCU band. Do you know how much swagger it takes to release a song of yourself mumbling off-key and have it be turned into the hook for a national advertising campaign 30 years later? Infinite. Infinite swagger.
(Incidentally, Sanders and Saban had nearly identical coaching seasons: Their teams both lost one game, won conference titles, and are ranked no. 1 in polls heading into a chance to win a national championship.)
That charisma has carried Sanders through the beginning of his coaching career. He has an undeniable ability to connect with athletes, even those born well after he retired from both football and baseball. Although this is Sanders's first job as a college coach, he has a track record of getting top talent to play for him. In 2012, he founded a high school called Prime Prep Academy. As it turns out, Sanders was not an effective school administrator, and the school folded within a few years amid a flurry of fraud and bankruptcy cases. But Prime Prep did attract a lot of excellent athletes, from future NBA players Terrance Ferguson, Emmanuel Mudiay, and Jordan Mickey to current Baltimore Ravens wide receiver James Proche. Later, Sanders was the offensive coordinator at Trinity Christian School in Cedar Hill, Texas; again, he put together a roster filled with star players, and his team won three state titles before it was kicked out of its league. "They're just head and shoulders above everyone else right now," a rival coach told The Dallas Morning News. "The players they have and the players everyone else has are not on the same level."
At Jackson State, Sanders has once more put together a roster that's so good it seems to have been dropped into the wrong level of the sport. The Tigers have outrecruited all the other HBCUs … and all the other schools in the FCS … and some schools from the largest and most powerful conferences in the FBS. In the 247Sports 2021 composite team rankings, Jackson State ranked 55th, between Indiana and Kansas State, and ahead of schools like Arizona, Purdue, and South Carolina. The next-highest-ranked FCS school was down at 128th. And that ranking included only incoming freshmen and junior college transfers. Sanders also landed 19 transfers from FBS schools, including 13 from Power Five teams.
The result has been brilliant: An FCS team full of FBS-quality talent hitting peak after peak while demonstrating just how good an HBCU program can be. Malachi Wideman, a 6-foot-5 transfer from Tennessee who was once rated as a four-star prospect in both football and basketball, led the SWAC with 12 receiving touchdowns this season. He racked up 169 yards and four touchdowns against Bethune-Cookman on October 23, seeming like the biggest and fastest player on the field. James Houston, a transfer from Florida who switched positions from middle linebacker to defensive end, led the FCS in forced fumbles and finished second in sacks. He demolished opposing quarterbacks, and had a pick-six in the SWAC title game. There are also Sanders's sons: Shedeur, who thrives at quarterback, and Shilo, a transfer from South Carolina who wears his dad's no. 21 and led the team in interceptions while playing cornerback.
In SWAC play, the Tigers outscored opponents by a combined 279-117. Watching them feels like watching a resurrected dinosaur walking around, Jurassic Park–style. We were told that this sort of thing was extinct—but it's here in front of us, and it's glorious.
Following Hunter's surprise decision on Wednesday, the college football world is asking two main questions. The first is how Jackson State would fare against FBS competition. The Tigers' lone 2021 loss came against Louisiana-Monroe, an FBS team that gets 85 allotted scholarship spots compared to FCS schools' 65. But Sanders's squad led the Warhawks heading into the fourth quarter before losing 12-7. If the Tigers had held on, it would've been the first win by a SWAC team over an FBS foe since 1985.
The second question is what comes next for Sanders. He reportedly had an interview with TCU in November; most coaches deny this sort of thing, but Sanders responded to inquiries about the TCU vacancy by explaining how other schools were pursuing him too. Broadcasts once openly speculated how Sanders could be the next coach at USC. And he's routinely been linked to his alma mater, Florida State—talk that grew louder on Wednesday after Sanders flipped Hunter from its recruiting class.
But HBCU teams do not exist to be compared to predominantly white institutions, nor do they exist as a developmental ground for future coaches at big-money schools. The rest of college football has made that clear for decades, shutting these programs out from their world and ignoring the men who coach them. The most interesting thing about what Sanders has done at Jackson State is not what happens next. It's this beautiful and unexpected thing that's happening at an HBCU right now.
This season's interest in Jackson State football has not come out of nowhere: This program was a sleeping giant, and its fans have been waiting for this moment for decades. Even though Jackson State hadn't won a SWAC title since 2007, the Tigers led the FCS in attendance in both 2018 and 2019. With Coach Prime, the fan base has exploded. Jackson State averaged more than 42,000 fans a game this year. Going back to 2003, which is as far back as the NCAA has available data on its website, no other FCS team has even averaged 30,000. More people attended this year's Soul Bowl between Jackson State and Alcorn State (58,892) than the Egg Bowl between Mississippi State and Ole Miss (55,601).
The Coach Prime experience has produced something remarkable: an HBCU team playing to its fullest potential in front of huge crowds in games that are nationally relevant. Appreciate how it looks, how it feels, and how it means so much to so many. There's no way to know whether anyone else can replicate this—but Prime Time was never about the future. And in the present, Sanders and Jackson State are the best story in college football.
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Download, for example, a Porsche 997 Turbo to replace the car in the game called a Phoenix, which uses the files phoenix.dff and a phoenix.txd.
Unfortunately, you have already installed another car in the game that is called the Phoenix. You do not want it, of course, so you need to get rid of it. Here's a possible way to get around this tricky problem.
After downloading the Porscheho 997 turbo - sfiles phoenix.dff and phoenix.txd, rename them to - for example - buffalo.dff and buffalo.txd (this is just an example, you can rename the car as you like) and replace them with the IMG tool and press the Rebuild Archive button.
in vehicles.ide: copy only the last four pieces of information – they are the size of the wheels.
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IMF Chief Lagarde Ordered to Stand Trial in France
Christine Lagarde referred for trial for alleged negligence over a decision she made as finance minister
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde.
Photo: cristobal bouroncle/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
William Horobin
@WHorobin
William.Horobin@wsj.com
Dec. 17, 2015 12:23 pm ET
PARIS—A French judicial commission has ordered International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde to stand trial for alleged negligence over a decision she made as finance minister of France.
Ms. Lagarde is charged with negligence for her role settling a long-running legal dispute known as "L'Affaire Tapie" between French entrepreneur and former politician Bernard Tapie and the state. As finance minister, Ms. Lagarde decided to refer the dispute to an arbitration panel in 2007 that ultimately awarded Mr. Tapie more than €400 million ($437.4 million) in compensation. This month a court ordered Mr. Tapie to reimburse the sum.
The ruling by the judicial commission of France's Cour de Justice de la République—a court that decides on alleged wrongdoings by government ministers while in office—came as a surprise Thursday because prosecutors had recommended in September the investigation of Ms. Lagarde be dropped.
Ms. Lagarde has asked her lawyers to appeal the order for her to stand trial.
"Ms. Lagarde would like to reaffirm that she acted in the best interest of the French State and in full compliance with the law," Ms. Lagarde's legal team said in a statement.