If there's agreement on anything having to do with education policy in Michigan, it is that we aren't getting the results we need.
Too many students are emerging from school with too few skills to make them competitive for jobs, not to mention the intellectual resources to live fulfilled and happy lives.
And our leaders are locked in increasingly bitter debates over what to do about this. Democrats blame conservatives for cutting education budgets and demonizing teachers and their unions. Republicans want to divert funding from traditional public schools and encourage parents to let free enterprise charter schools do the job.
But now there is significant evidence that both sets of arguments miss the real reason many Susies and Johnnies can't read. The problem is that we are focusing on the wrong age group.
According to the work of the one Nobel Prize winning economist studying the issue, we need to vastly increase funding to reach children not only under five, the age they normally start kindergarten, but before age three. After that, it may actually be too late.
Phil Power, the founder of the non-profit Center for Michigan, brought this to my attention with a new column in his online magazine Bridge.
Heckman found that disadvantaged children gain the most from spending very early in their lives. The United States spends less on making sure preschool children are ready to learn than nearly every other developed industrial nation.
What I found most disturbing is that the evidence shows that after age three, it isn't only that our schools are failing reach children who are behind. It is that they apparently no longer can.
He bases this on hundreds of low-birth weight babies, who were tested at ages three, five, eight and 18. There was a dramatic difference in how the three-year-olds did, a difference entirely due to the environments in which they lived.
Those whose mothers had graduated from college scored vastly higher than those whose mothers hadn't finished high school.
Brains need to be stimulated early. There are other international studies that confirm Heckman's diagnosis.
Now the Obama administration has doubled the amount of money being spent on Pell grants, designed to help the poorest students attend college. But it now seems that is way too late. President Obama indicates he agrees with Heckman's analysis, but it has made little or no policy difference.
Fixing this won't be easy. Even if we become willing to spend the needed money, it's not clear how you change the home environments of millions of disadvantaged babies and toddlers.
This would require the equivalent of an education revolution. And that would be hard, expensive and scary.
But it is clear that what we are doing now isn't working. And wouldn't it be something if Michigan somehow had the daring to try to lead the nation on what may well be the most important issue facing our society today?


The concept Fiction television programs represents the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of resources found in McCracken County Public Library.
My hero Academia, Season two, part one.
My hero Academia, Season two, part two.
Paw Patrol (Espanol), ¡Conoce a Everest!
Teletubbies classics, Paws and play!


"The ocean is deep and I am small. The mountains are steep and I am small." One little penguin finds a reason to feel important in this picture book treasure from the ever-popular Emma Dodd. Featuring rhyming texts, delightful artwork and embellished with foiling throughout.


Why Should I Have a New House Inspected?
Many people mistakenly believe that they don't need an inspection on a new house. The misconception is understandable because as consumers we have been conditioned to believe that consumer products of all types will be delivered without defects. Unfortunately this is not true, especially in the new construction market.
Quality control programs in new construction vary widely in the field and many contractors do it by the seat of their pants if at all. They usually get away with this because they have learned from experience what kind of mistakes are going to show up as a problem during the warranty period. As a result there are likely to be hidden defects that will show up later in the life of the house, after the builder warranty has expired.
Homeowners often encounter these problems after the first year or two not knowing they are related to construction error. For instance, brick veneer is installed on about 90% of the new houses built in this area. Most people do not realize that brick is not waterproof. To compensate for this, construction standards, including the building codes, require a drainage plane behind the brick along with flashing and weep holes that will guide any water that penetrates the brick, back to the outside.
What Are The Most Common Construction Defects?
* Electrical wiring not properly secured and protected.
* HVAC ducts loose and blowing conditioned air into the crawl space or attic.
But There Are City/County Code Inspections, Won't This Protect Me?
Unfortunately the protection afford by the official inspection departments is limited. City inspectors are stretched very thin and can only spend a few minutes at a construction site during a few visits at specific phases of construction.
The good news is that builders are required to perform to the code requirements and knowing this can help you get the problems corrected. However, this will only happen if you have an inspector who knows construction and the codes.
When Hiring an Inspector For New Construction, What should I Look For?
You also need an inspector who knows the codes and who is not afraid to use them. Believe it or many home inspectors are afraid to use the codes when documenting problems with new construction. Many are so afraid of the "C" word that they will ignore obvious problems related to code provisions because they are afraid you will hold them to a higher standard. They have been told this by so called experts. When interviewing an inspector ask them if they will report on code violations they may see and give references to the codes. If they say no, keep moving.
What Will a New Construction Inspection Cost?
If you don't care what kind of inspection you get, you can find inspectors who will do just about any job for less than $300. Dig a little deeper and you can probably find an inspector for less than $200.
The inspection industry is covered up with unqualified inspectors who receive bogus "certification" from phony inspector mills and virtual associations. One association will let you take a free online exam, pay a fee and become a "Certified Master Inspector." There are documented cases of Jr. High School kids passing the test!
If you need to save a few bucks on the inspection of one of your biggest investments, just remember, Buyer Beware. If you want a real inspection performed by a knowledgeable professional inspector, you are going to spend between $400 and $600 for most inspections. If your new house is really big, you'll pay even more.
New Construction Report - This link will take you to an inspection report for a home I recently inspected. This house was built in the City of Madison where code enforcement inspections are performed by the city. The builder is a large well known custom builder specializing in larger homes. The only things changed from the original report are the names and addresses to respect the privacy of the buyers.


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Grand Prix of Indianapolis
Mid-Ohio
IndyCar / Laguna Seca / Breaking news
Newgarden admits, "I just can't help myself sometimes!"
David Malsher-Lopez
NTT IndyCar Series championship leader Josef Newgarden has again admitted his error on the final lap at Mid-Ohio and says he's been working on restraining himself during his time with Team Penske-Chevrolet.
The 2017 champion leads the 2019 IndyCar title race by 41 points over Andretti Autosport-Honda's Alexander Rossi and 42 over his own Penske teammate, the 2016 champion Simon Pagenaud.
Given that the Laguna Seca race, like the Indy 500, is worth double points, even were Rossi to score the maximum points possible – 100 for the win, 1 for pole position, 1 for leading a lap, 2 for leading the most laps – a fourth place for Newgarden would see the #2 Penske driver clinch his second title by one point.
Should Newgarden miss out on the crown, however, he may look back on his Mid-Ohio blunder as one of the opportunities that got away. Running fourth heading into the final lap, he made a late lunge on third-placed Ryan Hunter-Reay as they passed the apex of Turn 2's fast hairpin. Newgarden's left-front wheel made contact with Hunter-Reay's right rear, and the Penske looped into a sandtrap on corner exit, and could not be extricated until after the checkered flag when the AMR Safety Team towed him out.
The demotion from fourth place to 14thsaw him take home 17 points rather than 33 that day.
"I've been known to have my moments in the car," said Newgarden in a media conference today. "Mid-Ohio was definitely one of them.
"The problem is I just can't help myself sometimes! My nature is to always go for a higher position. I've had to work on pulling myself back. I think I've learned how to do that in a lot of ways over the last couple years. I've been able to do that. I feel confident that my approach can be good.
"But you can see how quickly decision-making can turn from a potential positive to a really big negative. That's what it's like in the top level of racing. It can go from good to bad really quick. I think that's what makes it entertaining and exciting. That's what makes it thrilling – when you get it right."
With a restrained but respectable recovery drive from 13thon the grid to fifth at IndyCar's last round, at Portland International Raceway, Newgarden was able to restrict third-placed Rossi's points gain over him to just five points, but said the 41 point margin didn't leave him feeling comfortable. Ten days on, the 28-year-old Henderson, TN. native is seeing the more positive side of his advantage.
"The positive thing is, I do feel like we control our own destiny… If you'd asked me if I'd rather be 41 points or 41 points down, you're always going to choose being 41 points up! It's just a much better place to be.
"But having said that, with the double-point situation, it still has to go extremely well because of the way it changes the nature of the finishing positions and the points payouts.
"Certainly I think with Team Chevy, they've given us all the confidence in the world. Every race this year we go to we feel we get what we need from them. The communication has been excellent.
"I feel like we have the right people in our corner. We just need to make sure that we go and execute now."
Saluting race engineers past and present
Gavin Ward, Josef Newgarden's race engineer.
Photo by: Michael L. Levitt / LAT Images
Gavin Ward, ex-Red Bull Racing Formula 1 engineer, learned the IndyCar ropes at Team Penske last season, and this year replaced Brian Campe as Newgarden's engineer, taking up a more raceshop-based role as engineering coordinator. Campe, who had previously engineered Juan Pablo Montoya on the Colombian ace's return to IndyCar racing with Penske, 2014-'16, then engineered Newgarden in 2017 (winning the title) and '18.
Ward has also excelled with Newgarden, scoring four wins together this season – a tally that cannot be beaten, and which only Pagenaud could match by next Sunday evening.
"I feel like I always get to work with the best," said Newgarden. "I've not had a bad engineer, I can tell you that. I work with a lot of really talented people. I've had that from the beginning of my IndyCar career till now.
"Gavin has been a lot of fun to get to know, become friends with, become colleagues with. He's just a tremendously talented and motivated individual. I think he's got a great attitude.
"But not really different than what I had the couple of years before. I had a really good pairing with Brian Campe. I wish we could have continued that, but Brian has a family, priorities on his end that he had to look after. Gavin has just filled the role as beautifully as he could. He's done a great job."
Regarding Ward's F1 experience, Newgarden commented: "I don't think he works vastly different than most open-wheel engineers that I've been with before. But he definitely brings a different perspective having worked on slightly different open-wheel cars.
"At the end of the day you're kind of looking for the same things. I think we've learned his [F1] experience is very similar in a lot of ways to IndyCar. But there's just small perspective differences that he's brought to the team.And vice versa – we've had to teach him some things that he didn't know before either.
"It's just been a really good marriage. I think it's been good for myself and for the team as a whole to try to drive us forward."
Brian Campe, Newgarden's race engineer from 2017 to '18.
Photo by: Scott R LePage / LAT Images
Hunter-Reay to run special DHL livery in season finale
Driver line-ups set for early IndyCar aeroscreen tests
Series IndyCar
Event Laguna Seca
Drivers Josef Newgarden
Teams Team Penske
Author David Malsher-Lopez
Rinus VeeKay Interview on 2020 IndyCar Series
Rinus VeeKay IndyCar Test at Portland
IndyCar aeroscreen makes on-track debut at Indianapolis
Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports: Gateway Recap
Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports: Mid-Ohio Recap
IndyCar 2020 hot topics: Will Ganassi engineering moves pay off?
Brumos Collection opens, includes Porsche 917 from Le Mans movie
Cowdin joins Coyne as rookie Palou's race engineer

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Q: How use bit/bit-operator to control object state? I want to create light object data-package to pass between client and server applications.
It is a so simple task, that I can control with only 1 byte, so
each bit in a byte will have a different meaning,
Using only the bit
0 = False
1 = True

Itens I need now:
1 - Loaded from database
2 - Persisted
3 - Changed
4 - Marked to Delete
5 -
6 -
7 - Null Value
8 - Read Only

1) How do I use bit operators in Delphi to check each bit value?
2) How do I set the bit Values?

Solution
After all help, Ill use the next Set
  TStateType = (
    stLoaded    = 0,   // loaded from persistance
    stNative    = 2,   // value loaded and converted to native type
    stPersisted = 3,   // saved
    stChanged   = 4,   // object or member changed
    stToDelete  = 5,   // marked to delete
    stReadOnly  = 6,   // read only object, will not allow changes
    stNull      = 7    // value is null
  );
  TState = Set of TStateType;

And for stream -> persistance, this will be the record to be used:
  TDataPackage = record
    Data: TBytes;
    TypeInfo: TMetaInfo;
    State: Byte;
    Instance: TBuffer;
  end;

Thank you guys, for all the answers and comments.

A: I'd really use a set for this. However, I see you really want a byte. Use sets everywhere then typecast to a byte in the end.
This solution will require much less typing, has support for standard delphi operators and really carries no performance penalty as Barry Kelly has pointed out.
procedure Test;
type
  TSetValues = (
    TSetValue1   = 0,
    TSetValue2   = 1,
    TSetValue4   = 2,
    TSetValue8   = 3,
    TSetValue16  = 4,
    TSetValue32  = 5,
    TSetValue64  = 6,
    TSetValue128 = 7
  );

  TMySet = set of TSetValues;
var
  myValue: byte;
  mySet: TMySet;
begin
  mySet := [TSetValue2, TSetValue16, TSetValue128];
  myValue := byte(mySet);
  ShowMessage(IntToStr(myValue)); // <-- shows 146
end;

A: I would use a set for this:
type
    TMyDatum = (mdLoaded, mdPersisted, mdChanged, mdMarkedToDelete, ...);
    TMyData = set of TMyDatum;

var
  Foo: TMyData;
begin
  Foo := [mdLoaded, mdChanged];
  if (mdPersisted in Foo) then ...

These are implemented as integers, so you can pass them easily. And I find the code much, much more readable than bitwise operators.

A: This page describes Delphi operators, including bitwise operators.
It sounds like you need to use the and operator.  For example:
const
  LOADED_FROM_DATABASE = 1;
  PERSISTED = 2;
  CHANGED = 4;
  // etc...

//...

if (bitFlags and LOADED_FROM_DATABASE) <> 0 then
begin
  // handle LOADED FROM DATABASE
end;

if (bitFlags and PERSISTED) <> 0 then
begin
  // handle PERSISTED
end;

// etc...

In order to set the flags, you can use OR:
bitFlags := LOADED_FROM_DATABASE or PERSISTED or CHANGED;

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Robert Goldstone, PhD, Indiana University – MIDAS Seminar Series
January 19, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Robert Goldstone, PhD
Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Indiana University, Bloomington
"Baseball Umpire Calls as a Naturally Occurring Data Source for Revealing Principles of Bias and Learning in Perceptual Judgments"
Abstract: The very expertise with which experimental psychologists wield their tools for achieving laboratory control may have had the unwelcome effect of blinding us to the possibilities of discovering principles of behavior not by conducting experiments but rather by analyzing naturally occurring data sets. Uncovering principles of psychology by analyzing naturally occurring data is an exciting endeavor because of 1) the rise of well curated and large data sets involving collections of tagged images, text corpora, Wikipedia edit histories, trends in Twitter tag usage, demographics, consumer product sales, patent use and dependencies, sporting event outcomes, scientific citations, etc., 2) novel analytic methods for inferring causal relations from observational data, 3) the data often come from strongly motivated decisions and life-changing behaviors of social importance, and 4) the data sets allow us to explore the interplay between internal psychological processes and external environments, artifacts, and social institutions.
As a case study of harvesting naturally occurring data to reveal psychological principles, I will describe my collaboration with Brian Mills to study home plate umpire calls of strikes and balls. Major League Baseball home plate umpires have collectively made millions of professional pitch calls, and these calls can be compared to trajectory information recorded since 2008 for each pitch using tracking technology that is accurate to within 1 MPH and 1 inch. Furthermore, pitch, umpire, and game data are publicly available and relatively easily scraped using modern analysis tools. Using this data, we characterize how umpires' perceptual judgments are influenced by situational factors and their own experience making calls. We fit a parametric model to account for variation in judgment policies in terms of a strike zone's horizontal and vertical center, shape, and sharpness, and the umpire's guessing probability and bias.
Bio: Robert Goldstone is Distinguished Professor in the Psychological and Brain Sciences department and Cognitive Science program at Indiana University. His research interests include concept learning and representation, perceptual learning, educational applications of cognitive science, decision making, collective behavior, and computational modeling of human cognition. He won the 2000 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and a 2004 Troland research award from the National Academy of Sciences. He was the executive editor of Cognitive Science from 2001-2005. He has been elected as a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Cognitive Science Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
For more information on MIDAS or the Seminar Series, please contact midas-contact@umich.edu. MIDAS gratefully acknowledges Northrop Grumman Corporation for its generous support of the MIDAS Seminar Series.


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9 x 12 inches 240 pages, ca. 400 four-color and duotone images Hardcover 978-1-59711-094-5 Spring 2009 Designed by Rita Jules, Miko McGinty Inc.
During the 1960s and '70s in Japan, the photobook—through a combination of excellence in design, printing, and materials—overtook prints as a popular mode of artistic dissemination. This process has expanded to an extent where any discussion of Japanese photography now has to include the book. Today, the most famous works—such as Nobuyoshi Araki's Sentimental Journey and Eikoh Hosoe's Man and Woman—continue to inspire artists internationally.
IVAN VARTANIAN (editor and essays) anthologized and translated Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers (Aperture, 2006). He is the founder of his own publishing imprint Golige Books, and lives in Tokyo.


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Farmingdale State Athletics
NCAA Sports
Athlete COVID Screening
Return to Play Plan of Action
Game Calendar
About FSC Athletics
Diversity Hiring Plan
FAR on Campus
Farmingdale Home
Hotels / Visitor Info
Student-Athlete Handbook
Use of Facility Forms
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Policies/Hours
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Coaches Info
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Archives/Records
Feeney Scores Career-High 26 as FSC Holds Off New Paltz
Farmingdale State
New Paltz (1-1) 43 47 90
Farmingdale State (1-0) 50 43 93
Troy Feeney
Pts: Tristan Wissemann - 27
Reb: Isaiah Bien-Aise - 12
Ast: Jake Passaretti - 4
Pts: Feeney, Troy - 26
Reb: 2 Players (#12, #24) - 11
Ast: 4 Players (#00, #12, #15, #24) - 3
Pts off Turnovers
2nd Chance Pts
Bench Pts
Farmingdale State - 93, New Paltz - 90
Farmingdale, N.Y. - Farmingdale State senior guard Troy Feeney (Hewlett, N.Y.) shot 9-for-18 from the field as he scored a career-high 26 points to lead the Farmingdale State men's basketball team to a 93-90 win over New Paltz in their season opener this evening.
Leading 50-43 at the start of the second half, FSC (1-0) extended their lead to 10, 57-47, as they used a 7-4 run capped off by a Feeney jumper.
Still trailing by 10, 61-51 with 14:49 remaining, Hawks' (1-1) junior guard Jake Passaretti (Holbrook, N.Y.) knocked down a jumper before junior forward Richard Altenord (Dix Hills, N.Y.) hit a layup and a free-throw to cut their deficit to five.
After a dunk by Rams' senior forward Jermaine Fraser (Valley Stream, N.Y.), New Paltz scored the game's next seven points to tie the game at 63-63.
On the next possession, FSC senior forward Hunter Schenkel (Sayville, N.Y.) was fouled and hit both free-throws to take a two-point advantage.
Hawks' RJ Meyers-Turner (Uniondale, N.Y.) answered with a three-pointer just 11 seconds later to go in front, 66-65.
Still down by one, 76-75, with 6:31 left to play, FSC sophomore forward De'Shawn Todman (Harlem, N.Y.) hit a layup before Schenkel knocked down a jumper and free-throw to put Farmingdale State ahead, 80-76.
With the Rams leading by six at 87-81, Hawks' senior forward Tristan Wissemann (Shelter Island, N.Y.) scored four straight points before a layup by Passaretti knotted the game at 87-87 with 1:13 on the clock.
With 44 seconds remaining, Todman stole the ball, was fouled and hit the first free-throw. After Todman missed the second, Rams' senior guard Anthony Miller Jr. (Yonkers, N.Y.) pulled down the rebound, got fouled and hit both free-throws to take a three-point advantage.
On the ensuing possession, the Hawks were fouled and went 1-for-2 at the line.
After Miller Jr. knocked down two more free-throws, Wissemann hit a layup to cut the deficit to two, 92-90.
With seven seconds left, Feeney hit one free-throw to give FSC a 93-90 lead. New Paltz missed their final three-point attempt with one second on the clock as the Rams went on for the 93-90 non-conference victory.
Along with his 26 points, Feeney tallied 11 rebounds, three assists and two blocks. Miller Jr. went 11-for-12 at the foul line and finished with 19 points, three rebounds and three assists, while Schenkel recorded 13 points and five boards. Todman registered career-high's with nine points, 11 rebounds, three assists and three steals and Fraser produced eight points, 10 rebounds and a game-high four blocks. Senior forward Can Oztimurlenk (Islip, N.Y.) and freshman guard Corey Powell (Valley Stream, N.Y.) added six points off the bench in the win.
New Paltz was led by Wissemann, who tallied a game-high 27 points.
FSC next travels to play in the Hartwick College Tip-Off Tournament on Friday and Saturday, November 15th and 16th. Hartwick will play CCNY at 5:30 p.m., while the Rams will square off with Plattsburgh on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The consolation and championship games will be played at 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., respectively, on Saturday.
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As we enter the halfway point of the year, we'd like to take some time to touch on the trends that we have noticed in website design thus far. If you haven't enhanced your website yet this year, these trends may inspire you to do so, or at least give you some great things to consider when it is time for a website redesign.
This has been a trend for over a year now, but it is still gaining in popularity. As more and more people explore the web via a mobile device like a tablet or smartphone, responsive web design becomes less of a trend and more of a standard piece in building and designing a website. A responsive web design allows your website to adapt to any device's screen, which will provide your users with a consistent and fantastic user experience. Having a website that looks great on any device is a must.
Lately, websites have used a lot of flat design elements. What is flat design? Think Apple's new iOS 7 and Windows 8. This type of flat user-interface has gained in popularity due to the minimalist and clean look that it can provide. Also, a flat design is typically easier and more straightforward to use. So, a flat design combined with a responsive web design can enhance your user experience a lot.
Today, people of all ages are living fast-paced lives and they have no time for browsing a website that is cluttered and difficult to navigate. Users are looking for websites that are minimalist and clean in design and layout, as well as websites that can be used instinctively–navigating the site should be second nature. Websites should follow the KISS philosophy–Keep It Simple Stupid. Simple design, simple layout, simple navigation, great user experience.
One way to provide simple navigation for your website is by eliminating navigation. Obviously, this won't work for sites with a ton of content, but if you have a minimal amount of content a one-page design might be the way to go. These websites make use of overlays, light boxes, and tiles, that can be simply repositioned and expanded for a variety of content on their websites. A road map with one route on it is easier to follow than a map with 20 routes on it. Make sure your website provides an easy route for users to find the content they are looking for.
In the world of 3D movies and even 3D televisions, why not have 3D websites. For people who want to implement a website that enters the third dimension, building a parallax effect is a great start. Parallax design provides a scrolling technique that helps in creating the illusion of a depth of field for the user. It combines a variety of effects on movement, depth, and 3D illusions bring another dimension to your website–No weird glasses needed!
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The web has become an image centric medium, which means your website needs to be very visually appealing in order to be successful. Images and illustrations in a website are necessity to stimulating engagement. There are several ways to make your images more intriguing too. Experiment with adding overlays and different effects to make them even more appealing and engaging.
Boring web-based fonts are no longer your only option for your website. Your typography's size and styling should incorporate some variety. You can even leverage a responsive typography that will make your website more interactive. However, you should make sure not to overdo the mixing and matching of typography. You do not want your site to look like it uses every font on the web.
More and more websites are beginning to implement videos in place of images and text to convey a specific message to the website visitors. Many websites have even extended the use of videos on their websites by using the video as their background in the hero area of the homepage. With today's technology, videos and images can be incorporated simultaneously into slideshows very easily.


Brady Weller, the girls' court-appointed guardian, begins looking for Wade, and he quickly turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a recent armored car heist, one with a whopping $14.5 million missing. But Brady Weller isn't the only one hunting the desperate father. Robert Pruitt, a shady and mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta, is also determined to find Wade and claim his due.
My thoughts: Having enjoyed A Land More Kind than Home, I excitedly dove into Wiley Cash's second novel. I am a big fan of Cash's writing style and how he weaves together his love for his home state into the prose. This Dark Road to Mercy is told through alternating narrators about the two sisters and their relationship (or lack thereof) with their father, the man who seeks to bring them home, and a man harboring a long time vendetta seeking to get even with the girl's father.
Easter and Ruby are little girls longing for family. Wade is desperately trying to rectify past bad decisions (while continuing to make bad decisions). Despite his past transgressions, I couldn't help but feel like rooting for him. Brady, a man who is troubled over his past relationship with his daughter, attempts to make things right by tracking down Wade, Easter and Ruby.
The story wonderfully demonstrates the need we all have at one time or another for grace, mercy, and forgiveness (from both others and ourselves) when attempting to right old wrongs and doing what we feel is the right thing. This book definitely tugged at my heart strings. I found myself hoping most of the main characters found mercy to forgive themselves. If you loved Cash's first novel, you will likely enjoy this fantastic second novel. I was immediately drawn into this book and devoured the novel in just a few hours. I will absolutely be recommending this book to friends in the future and awaiting other works from Wiley Cash.
In another fun note about author, I noticed he was listed as living in West Virginia, so I turned to Google and discovered he had in the past been a professor at a local university. It's always fun to discover some random local ties to an author.
As with previous reviews, I was provided a copy of this novel from TLCtours and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.


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Jessica Simpson Returns To Music With Powerful New Cover About Addiction
Jessica Simpson is making a powerful return to music.
On Thursday, the 41-year-old singer released a stripped-down cover of Particles by the British rock band Nothing But Thieves, along with an emotional new music video. Surrounded by stained glass and candles, the footage features Simpson sitting in a purple, velvet chair as she belts out into a microphone the lyrics about someone battling addiction who pushes away those close to them. She sings:
"It's been like a year since I've been home / Flirting with an addiction I can't shake off / My mouth is dry, I self medicate / This comedown won't cure itself. It's driving you away / It's driving you away / Piece by piece / Day by day."
The song clearly resonates with Simpson, who has been open about battling addiction. In the description of the video on YouTube, The Dukes of Hazzard star also wrote:
"The whole idea of music heals is a very real statement to me. This song healed a broken piece of me."
Wow. You can take a look at the music video for Particles (below):
Nothing but chills…
Earlier this month, Simpson celebrated four years of sobriety by sharing "an unrecognizable" picture of herself from November 1, 2017, and reflecting on her decision to stop drinking. She previously opened up about the moment in her memoir Open Book, saying how she was practically killing herself "with all the drinking and pills" before hitting rock bottom after a Halloween party. Detailing that day some more, the momma of three expressed on Instagram:
"This person in the early morning of Nov 1, 2017 is an unrecognizable version of myself. I had so much self-discovery to unlock and explore. I knew in this very moment I would allow myself to take back my light, show victory over my internal battle of self-respect, and brave this world with piercing clarity. Personally, to do this I needed to stop drinking alcohol because it kept my mind and heart circling in the same direction and quite honestly I was exhausted."
"There is so much stigma around the word alcoholism or the label of an alcoholic. The real work that needed to be done in my life was to actually accept failure, pain, brokenness, and self-sabotage. The drinking wasn't the issue. I was. I didn't love myself. I didn't respect my own power. Today I do. I have made nice with the fears and I have accepted the parts of my life that are just sad. I own my personal power with soulful courage. I am wildly honest and comfortably open. I am free."
Following the honest post, a close friend of Simpson shared with People that the author had been "moved" to tears by the love and support she received, saying:
"It was very real for her. She spent half the day crying. It meant so much to her to hear from people, hear their stories and know that she helped even one person."
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We have this Method foaming Lavender!! We love it, and have bought other scents, too. OH, sorry, just had to laugh that you hid your uniform for so long. If Mama could have got it right away, it probably would have all been like new.
Ok, thanks for the tips... I like method products too..
My Jay is a messy person. His white uniform is all with stains now. Sigh. Could not get rid of the stain. Headache.
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An Apology is Owed, Part Two
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In the 1950s, the Kuomintang broke up Taiwan's sugar and rice plantations and redistributed the land to smaller farmers.
The redistribution of land and limiting the rents paid by those leasing the land had an unexpected social consequence: It set off a "marriage boom among tenant farmers who suddenly found they had enough money to start families."
"Unexpected" to us, at least. (I don't know what Chang Kai-shek and company did or did not expect.) We think that the decision to marry or not is a matter of personal choice. Thus, "marriage booms" like the one in 1950s Taiwan are the result of enough people deciding that they want to get married.
Unless you believe that thousands of Taiwanese farmers suddenly decided they wanted to get married after previously thinking "meh," this "explanation" is ridiculous.
Likewise, thinking that the precipitous decline of marriage in places like Yamhill, Oregon and places like it happened because white working-class men (and women) decided to pass on marriage is — to put it more charitably – simplistic.
Yamhill is the setting for "Who Killed the Knapp Family?" which told the story of the siblings who rode the school bus with Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. Of the five Knapp siblings, four died from what have been dubbed "deaths of despair."
Kristof's hometown and schoolmates serve as proxies for what's happening in white working-class communities across the country. Referencing "When Work Disappears" by William Julius Wilson, which I discussed in Part I, Kristof writes that Wilson "turned out to be right."
He continued, "When good jobs left white towns like Yamhill a couple of decades [after they left inner cities] . . . the same pathologies unfolded there . . . Men in particular felt the loss not only of income but also of dignity that accompanied a good job. Lonely and troubled, they self-medicated with alcohol or drugs, and they accumulated criminal records that left them less employable and less marriageable. Family structure collapsed."
In 1960, 84 percent of working-class whites and 94 percent of college-educated whites were married. By 2010, while 83 percent of college-educated whites were married, only 48 percent of working-class ones were.
This "collapse" is measured in "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray. In 1970, the out-of-wedlock birth rate for non-college educated and college-educated white women was 6 and 1 percent respectively. By 2008, the rates stood and 44 and 6 percent respectively.
Similarly, in 1960, 84 percent of working-class whites and 94 percent of college-educated whites were married. By 2010, while 83 percent of college-educated whites were married, only 48 percent of working-class ones were.
The obvious question is "Why?" College-educated middle-to-upper-middle-class whites are more socially liberal, including on sexual matters, than non-college educated whites. Yet, if cultural attitudes shape personal behavior the way we say they do, the above numbers should be reversed or at least converge a lot more. That didn't happen.
The "collapse" Kristof and others have written about isn't limited to family structure. As with inner cities in the 1970s, the disappearance of work in white working-class communities was followed by a surge in lethal violence.
In 2017, approximately 47,000 Americans killed themselves. As I have noted elsewhere, 70 percent of all suicides are committed by white men. That's approximately 33,000 deaths. More to the point, white working-class men are as disproportionately represented in the latter figure as white men are in the overall figure.
Suicides are personal and communal tragedies. They are also, especially considering the "preferred" means of suicide in this demographic, every bit the act of lethal violence as inner-city homicides, even if they don't frighten suburban folks nearly as much.
What happened in 1970s inner-city and 2000s "Rust Belt" America were the result of many factors, including changes in cultural attitudes about marriage and family. It also included economic factors and maybe even lead in the air we breathed and in the paint on our walls.
We owe African Americans an apology
In Luke 18, Jesus tells a story about a Pharisee and a tax collector. (You may have read it.) In the parable, the Pharisee "thanks" God that he is "not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector."
In the story I've told in these two columns, we are Pharisees. Instead of, as David French urged, removing the beam from our own eyes, we presumed to pass judgment on the most "hurting and vulnerable" in our society.
We assumed – and that's what it was, an assumption – that what happened in their communities was the result of countless personal failures that coalesced into "a tangle of pathologies," a.k.a. "culture of poverty."
By "we" I mean most of the American intelligentsia. The idea that a "culture of poverty" was to blame for the problems in inner cities was a bipartisan consensus. Moynihan, who coined the phrase "tangle of pathologies," was a Democrat, as was Bill Clinton.
"We" also includes social conservatives, including Christians, who eagerly embraced the idea of a "culture of poverty," especially family decline, being the cause of inner-city problems. After all, it confirmed their narrative about the centrality of culture to the near exclusion of everything else. It also served as a cautionary tale for the rest of society.
As it turned out, the cautionary tale was about the allure and danger of monocausal explanations, especially ones that "confirm" what we already believe.
The world is complicated as are the people who live here. Shoehorning their experiences to fit our preconceived narratives is a sin against both justice and charity. That's what we did to African Americans.
The epigraph to Part I quoted the maxim "First, do no harm." This is as true when it comes to worldview and cultural commentary as it is in medicine or any other endeavor.
The problem isn't sometimes being wrong; that's inescapable. The problem is speaking definitively when you haven't done the reading or even realize that there's reading to be done. Given our tendency to "double down" on our positions even when shown our mistakes, we are unlikely to apologize for them.
Next time, let's do the reading.
Roberto Rivera is a Senior Writer for the Colson Center for Christian Worldview
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Edgar Burcksen (* 13. Mai 1947 in Apeldoorn) ist ein niederländischer Filmeditor, der seit den 1980er Jahren in den Vereinigten Staaten lebt.

Edgar Burcksen war ab Anfang der 1970er Jahre in den Niederlanden als Filmeditor tätig. Für sein Schaffen wurde er 1985 mit dem Goldenen Kalb ausgezeichnet. Ab jenem Jahr wurde er in den USA tätig. Bei den Welterfolgen Jagd auf Roter Oktober und Stirb langsam 2 von 1990 wirkte er als Visual Effects Editor mit. Für den Schnitt der Pilotfolge der Abenteuer des jungen Indiana Jones wurde er 1992 mit einem Primetime Emmy ausgezeichnet.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1979: Ich lieb' dich noch (Uit elkaar)
 1981: Een Vlucht Regenwulpen
 1985: Der Eissalon (De Ijssalon)
 1992–1993: Die Abenteuer des jungen Indiana Jones (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Fernsehserie, 10 Folgen)
 1998: Kalmans Geheimnis (Left Luggage)
 2000: Hallo, ich bin der Weihnachtsmann! (Santa Who?)
 2005: School of Life – Lehrer mit Herz (School of Life)
 2006: Road House 2
 2007: Darfur now
 2014: Last Hijack

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Lagos Takes Delivery of Trains for Red Line Rail System
The Lagos State Government has achieved another major milestone in its determination to deliver the operation of the Red Line Rail System by the first quarter of 2023.
A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, said the TALGO SERIES 8 Trains acquired for the Red Line have finally arrived in Lagos, saying "The 2 Nos. Ten and Eleven Car trains which were bought from Milwaukee are here".
He explained that it was necessary to decouple the train into 21 individual cars for effective transportation to Lagos, adding that the trains will be recoupled with the help of rolling stock Engineers from Talgo, the company that manufactured the trains in the United State of America.
Omotoso said: "The Engineers will also take the opportunity to train our local Engineers whilst they are here to equip our young people with the requisite skills. Once the recoupling is complete, the testing and commissioning will commence followed by full passenger operations in the first quarter of 2023.
"Each train can carry 1500 passengers and is expected to run on the Red Line Rail from Agbado to Oyingbo, with the journey taking less than 30 minutes", the Commissioner stated.
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Would love mind putting this up in my soup linky? I'm looking for new recipes and TIPS!
I also like the bowls, but I think the soup would look even better in my mouth. And when are we gonna see the green milky bowls getting some action?
Julia I have been patiently waiting for a butternut squash soup recipe from you!!! I think you bud Jamie would love to make this. I am not a hazelnut lover so any other suggestions for the topping - ? toasted slivered almonds do you think that would work???
almonds would be equally delicious!
who doesnt love hazelnuts? what a goon my father is.


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An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated
FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework
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Interview FlutterFlow, a third-party visual application builder for the Flutter framework, now has custom functions for the addition of Dart code, but developers may still find it too limiting.
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Controls can be bound to data in order to display query results, including user authentication to manage access to the data. A preview mode shows roughly how the application will work at runtime, though currently without live data, authentication or API calls. A Run mode does a full compilation but takes a few minutes to prepare.
FlutterFlow builds mobile apps for Android and iOS
The main option for connecting to data is Google's Firestore, part of its Firebase platform, though the ability to make API calls, REST GET or POST calls to any endpoint, means that server code could call other sources of the developer's choosing, but outside the FlutterFlow environment.
Once completed, a project can be run in the browser and deployed to the iOS App Store or downloaded as an APK for Android. It is also possible to download code generated by FlutterFlow and import it into another environment for completion, though it is one-way and there is no means of importing modified code back into the FlutterFlow environment.
FlutterFlow was launched in May, but this month brought a significant new feature: custom functions. This lets developers add Dart code (the language used by Flutter) to a project, defining functions which can take arguments derived from the data bound to a control.
Pricing is free for trying things out with browser preview; $30 per month for the additional ability to download code and APKs; and $70 per month to add custom APIs, GitHub integration, which updates a repository when code is modified, iOS deployment, and management of Firebase content. One codebase supports both iOS and Android.
If FlutterFlow seems to have a Google flavour, that is not only because Flutter is a Google project, but also because the co-founders of FlutterFlow are ex-Google engineers, Abel Mengistu and Alex Greaves, though not from the Flutter team.
"We left to start a company, we were going to do an AI recommendation engine for some totally different space," Mengistu tells The Reg. "We felt we did the difficult part and then we tried to build the app in front of it." It was then that they explored Flutter and came to the conclusion that although excellent it was lacking an easy-to-use visual designer.
"Once we got designs from our designer we spent a lot of time just trying to perfect the code so that it matches the design," Mengistu says. "Code did not feel like the quickest way to do that. That was the initial motivation."
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They started talking to potential users and found that many of them had common requirements for flows such as login or other common patterns. "It's the same logic, implemented over and over again. So we thought having an end-to-end experience for these common flows should be easy. Trying to take the abstraction layer higher than programming concepts like conditionals and functions, a flow that you can drag and drop and add to your application."
Although abstraction of common patterns is nice, there is no substitute for the power of custom code alongside. Prior to the introduction of custom functions this month, the main idea for adding code was via a GitHub repository which FlutterFlow keeps updated with the code it generates. "It goes into a separate branch so it doesn't conflict with other code. "They can merge it in, and if you added some code such as for a button press, the git merge handles it fine," Mengistu says.
The FlutterFlow environment is purely for application development, not hosting of custom services. "We don't do hosting because we think Firebase does it really well," Mengistu tells us. There are plans to integrate with other services in future but "right now we're focused on trying to provide the best value we can with these early feature sets."
How can FlutterFlow compete with other low-code offerings from the cloud giants, such as Microsoft's Power Platform, Google AppSheet or Amazon Honeycode? "I think they're more focused on the enterprise space," says Mengistu. "A lot of the users we're getting are not users of those platforms. The existing tools were not working for them."
What then is the exact niche that FlutterFlow fills? "Yearly there are hundreds of thousands of applications developed and pushed to the app stores. Power Apps, for example, with Microsoft is very targeted for internal organizational units. We've seen a lot of users who want to build apps much faster."
What kinds of apps are FlutterFlow users building? "Things like educational apps, we've also had a company that was working on COVID vaccination sites. For non-profits we give free access. We've also seen people build community apps. Apps are extremely expensive to build, the median cost is I believe $100,000. So if you want a local community app it's too expensive to develop, but we can dramatically reduce the cost or increase the productivity," Mengistu reveals.
A big feature, as Microsoft discovered decades ago with Visual Basic, would be the ability for third parties to build components that others can include in applications. Is that planned for FlutterFlow? "That's definitely something we want to enable. It's hard for me to predict exactly when. Already you can build components inside FlutterFlow that you can easily reuse, but to have something that works across app, that unlocks a lot of possibilities."
Features are being added relatively quickly. Since June, the team has added the audio component, visual transitions, a PageView component, phone authentication with Firebase, Search and Google Maps, support for new devices sizes, developer team management, payments via PayPal, Google Pay and Apple Pay, conditional widget visibility, text overflow control, custom code functions and custom code function validation.
Developing a custom function in FlutterFlow
At the same time, it is easy to pick holes in the platform. The code editor for custom functions is crude, for example, and the tie to Firebase is limiting. In an enterprise context, the system would benefit from connectors to key platforms like CRM systems as well as other database managers. FlutterFlow, compared to an IDE like Android Studio, Xcode, Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code, feels limited and constrained, and the Run mode painfully slow. The one-way code export is a major annoyance for those accustomed to tools that let developers switch seamlessly between code and visual development.
The challenge now will be to improve the functionality without losing the ease of use which is FlutterFlow's main appeal. ®
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Mastering our personal finances is not easy – especially without money management knowledge and skills.
The problem with bad money habits is that they are easy to make, but harder to break.
We often don't realize just how bad our habits are until an unfortunate financial situation slaps us so hard across the face that we land in a sticky pile of reality.
I will be the first to admit that I haven't always been good with money.
I had a tendency to spend beyond my means, to use my credit card and realize the repercussions later, to be overly generous with money that I probably shouldn't have been spending, and to not save enough. Admittedly, I am not proud of these bad money habits, but I am grateful to have at least become aware of them. If I hadn't realized the mistakes I was making with my personal finances, I'd be in pretty deep trouble today.
I am embarrassed to say that it wasn't until Sam and I had an investment deal go wrong that I took a step back and realized that I was practically sabotaging myself with my poor personal finance decisions. If I didn't change my ways, I wouldn't be able to help get us out of the deep financial hole that we were in, I would just be making it worse.
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If you want to take control of your personal finances and actually achieve wealth, you have to start with square one: your habits. If you don't address your bad money habits, you will never be financially free, you will never build your wealth, and you will constantly be cleaning up a trail of debt.
The bright side is that once you break one bad habit and gain some momentum, you should experience a ripple effect and break the next one, and then the next.
Money management is the only way to be financially free.
If you don't know how much you are spending each month and on what, how are you supposed to map out your future finances?
Creating and following a budget is the ideal way to begin breaking your poor spending habits. The purpose of a budget is to set a predefined spending cap on various expense categories, based on your income, so you don't live beyond your means, and so you have a strong understanding of where your money is going.
If you are spending at will and have no idea… not even an inkling of how much you spend on food, entertainment, utilities, etc. each week or month (how much of your paycheck goes to X, Y or Z), you need to listen up. This is your reality check now. Be aware of your spending. Stop spending willy-nilly without planning or budgeting.
This is especially an issue for those that believe they are making really good money today. When the dough is rolling in, this is when we are the worst at budgeting.
We think that money will always keep coming in so we don't need to penny pinch and create a large emergency fund. We feel that we can afford anything. That we don't even need to think twice before buying that new iPhone even though our current iPhone is only 6 months old. WRONG! Now is when you should be stashing away as much as you can. Once you have a nice large buffer in the bank, you can then afford to spend less judiciously. You never know when your gravy train may take a turn for the worst.
So, as a precaution, always be prepared. Always follow a budget. This is something we have been doing for some time now. Sam created a personal budget spreadsheet that allows us to keep track of all of our different expenses easily and conveniently.
We are able to log all of our personal income and expenses by category. The purpose is to help us visualize exactly where our money is going so we know where to cut back or make adjustments. This sheet has been so useful to us that we decided to make it available to our readers as well. If you are interested in keeping yourself on a budget and keeping a careful eye on your finances, feel free to check it out below.
Paying the minimum due on your credit card each month may seem like the easiest option, but it will hurt you more than help you. It may feel a bit daunting to watch more of your paycheck go toward your credit card debt than to your checking account but think of it this way: if you continue to pay the minimum, it will cost you way more in the long run.
This is all thanks to INTEREST.
The larger your balance, the more interest you will be charged throughout the year. If you are paying the minimum due, then you are likely putting no less than half of your payment total toward your actual credit card balance, with the rest going toward that interest.
Doesn't add up, does it?
At the end of the day, you really shouldn't be charging what you can't afford to pay off *IN FULL* at the end of each billing cycle. I know that in many scenarios, this can be difficult to avoid. But the more you let that balance build up, the harder it will be to pay it down.
Ever find yourself saying or thinking, "well I earned it, so it's OK this time"? I am willing to bet you have. Then you end up saying "this time" multiple times a week.
If your bank account is suffering and you're still treating yourself to things you can't justify with anything but an "I earned it," you're totally guilty of this bad money habit. It can be a challenge to adjust our spending habits when money is tight; to not allow ourselves certain luxuries, large or small, especially when we're the ones covering it and we worked hard for our money, right?
I am sure you work very hard for your money – and there really is nothing wrong with treating yourself from time to time, but in moderation and when the time is right.
We found ourselves in a bad business deal that landed us in a pile of unexpected debt. This debt forced us to reign in our spending and focus on living very frugally until we could pay it off. We are foodies, we like to go out and have a good time, and there are some elements of our lives where you could say we have expensive taste. We also work very hard, day and night.
But despite working very hard, we didn't "deserve" to go out and spend money in the way that we normally would, on things we couldn't technically justify.
As soon as our financial situation took a turn for the worse, we scaled back. We went from eating out once (sometimes multiple times) a week to once in a very blue moon. In terms of the grocery store, we became particular about the things we would buy, and turned a blind eye to non-essentials. We adopted a very frugal lifestyle. We treated ourselves from time to time, but only when the time was right.
It's no longer considered a "treat" when it's a regular habit, and if you're financially strapped, you have to differentiate what you have "earned" and what is simply a poor choice.
Why does credit matter? Your credit score helps creditors determine how much they can risk loaning you (on credit) based on your income level, your spending habits and how much and how fast you pay them back.
For most, loans are an inevitable part of life. The more solid your credit score and history are, the more you are likely to be given on loan. When you are in the market for a big-ticket item, like a house for example, loan officers will check your credit before determining how much assistance you will be issued.
If you have a bad credit score, you'll pay more interest. If you have a good credit score, creditors will offer you a lower interest rate.
In short, your credit should NOT be ignored as it is an indicator to credit card companies of how likely you are to pay off your loans vs missing payments completely. When you miss payments, this is a sure sign of financial trouble to credit card companies. The more payments are missed, the more likely you may be to eventually declare bankruptcy. This is what credit card companies want to avoid.
Have you ever heard the saying, "pay yourself first"? That doesn't mean pay yourself with the treats you "earned," like we talked about before. It means that you should "pay" your savings account.
The last thing you want to do is near retirement and realize that you don't have a leg to stand on; that you can't really afford to retire because your savings account is basically non-existent.
This doesn't mean that the majority of your paycheck after bills needs to go to savings. Start with a comfortable sum that you won't notice missing from your checking account. Then, as you watch those savings grow (and maybe even realize that you don't need to spend as much as you do), you can increase that number.
You can even factor your savings into your budget so you know just how much you can afford to be putting away each month, rather than simply putting away what's left.
Putting off your financial goals is a surefire way to never reach them. We are creatures of habit, and sometimes that habit means telling ourselves we will take care of something tomorrow/soon/later/by the end of the week, and then we never do.
If you've been telling yourself that you will "get to" starting an emergency fund, you will "get to" saving for retirement, you will "get to" tackling that credit card debt… it's time to actually get to it.
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I am totally guilty of buying things that I use once and forget about for months to come. Whether it was a $150 fitness gadget I SWORE would help me reach my weight-loss goals, or a $6.99/month subscription app that I used once and didn't like as much as I thought I would (but still wanted to keep unless I changed my mind).
Think before you buy, don't buy before you think.
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This is quite possibly the worst of all bad money habits, because it encompasses many of the smaller ones. Living beyond your means is the quickest way to fall into debt, the easiest way to ruin your credit score, a surefire way to break your budget, and a definite way to dwindle your savings.
The thing about living beyond our means is that we have all done it at some point or another. That's what credit cards are for right? Paying for things that we can't afford with cash. However, the problem starts when you rely on that card to cover what you possibly shouldn't be buying.
you count on that little piece of plastic, you're living beyond your means.
your credit card balance is greater than the amount of cash you have readily available, you probably spent beyond your means.
you're swiping that card for things that you can't afford to pay off in the next month, it's time to reconsider your spending habits.
Don't spend what you don't have!
What are your bad money habits? Comment below!
That's great! It's amazing how something as simple as writing down your expenses can make such a big impact on our bottom line! I think sometimes we spend and then forget!
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