It's always
the best time of year when spring produce comes back in earnest.
A lot of us don't have the money we need to properly renovate the rooms in our house, and there's
good times of the year when we can set some cash aside to spruce up our living space, but what about the rest of the time?
For people who do get car title loans,
the best time of the year when they're most likely to repay them is at tax refund season in April.
Not exact matches
Dubbed the
best business book
of the
year last
year by The Financial
Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin
when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85
years closed.
When I ask what he hopes to be doing in three
years time, Mast replies that he wants to continue to make chocolate that is more delicious and
of better quality than what mainstream confectioners sell today.
It means driving the same car for many
years, buying
good quality items that would last a long
time, buying second hand products
when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake
of buying them.
«
When I was 22
years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you
better dig under your couch for a couple
of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four
times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»
It's ugly any
time of the
year, but especially
when everyone is trying to have a
good time.
The company last week generated a ton
of media buzz
when it announced Barbie would come in new shapes for the first
time, as
well as a second
year to make the doll more racially inclusive.
They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces
of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the
well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a
time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 -
year lows.
And what a
Good day for CNN Money to remind us that it's that
time of year again:
when those marshmallowy, sticky, colorful treats start showing up in abundance on store shelves and in Easter baskets.
Over the
years there have been plenty
of times when it seemed to me that everyone else's business was so much
better than mine and not just a little
better, but
better in every way imaginable.
In fact, the last
time a
year's highest - grossing film also took home the
Best Picture Oscar was in 2003,
when the top film was The Lord
of the Rings: The Return
of the King, which raked in more than $ 500 million in adjusted domestic sales.
The accumulation
of expertise and financial wherewithal along the way has allowed Lululemon to shrug off things like the departure
of CEO Robert Meers (the one -
time Reebok International president was replaced by Day, a 20 -
year veteran
of Starbucks and doubtless a
better representative
of the company's core customer) and the seaweed scandal
of 2007,
when clothing touted for its supposedly skin - friendly properties was found to contain none
of the marine ingredient.
Time - refugees from a reactionary, regressive and male - dominated future USA, they wished to journey back to the
good ol' Puritan days
of America
when a
good witch - burning could solve all society's woes — they just missed by 300
years.
And so
when I read Ben Graham, sort
of a light bulb went off just this little article and I started reading everything I could about what he had written, both security analysis and the intelligent investor, and eventually led my way to Warren Buffett and you know, sort
of the rest is history, it's a very
good age, you know I was younger than 21 at the
time you know junior
year of college to recognize that this was what I was going to be doing the rest my life.
The process begins
when Amazon's legions
of recruiters identify thousands
of job prospects each
year, who face extra screening by «bar raisers,» star employees and part -
time interviewers charged with ensuring that only the
best are hired.
This is the
time of year when people naturally open up their wallets and are ready to spend money on the
best deals they can find.
The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain
well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30
years; (II) it has been
well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th
year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the
time for above target inflation
when will that moment ever come?
Apple at that
time had had yet another
good quarter: sales
of the new iPhone 4 were going
well (a record, with phone sales up 94 %
year - on -
year to 14.1 m, and iPad sales too had begun gaining momentum — up from zero
when the iPad went on sale in April 2010, just six months earlier, to 4.2 m for the three months to September.
When I wrote an article detailing the
best reason to own physical gold and silver in coming
years, and in that article, detailed recent strong devaluations
of global fiat currencies, including the crash
of the Russian ruble in recent
times, someone sent us an email, in response to that article, that effectively stated, «I'm Russian, and the ruble never crashed, you idiot.»
Most offices tend to have the air conditioning on blast no matter the
time of year, so it's a
good idea to keep a cozy cardigan at your desk that you can throw on
when you get cold.
Instead, they've run their finances conservatively enough that they can sit on depressed valuations for
years at a
time, knowing that they are still earning a
good rate
of return
when measured as the cash flow that belongs to them relative to the price they paid for their ownership stake.
In my experience, most industries have a
good time of year to mail (
when they get stellar results)... and a bad one (
when you -LSB-...]
Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead
of pasting a bunch
of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really
good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this
year but a lot
of people don't take the
time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead
of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen
when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch
of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method
of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four
times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots
of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds
of thousands
of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top
of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business
The S&P 500 trades today at just 15.6
times average estimated earnings —
well below the average P / E
of 18.6
times earnings during periods
when inflation was at similarly muted levels in the past 57
years...
But
when well run companies share prices are as much as 50 % off the highs they were trading at last
year, it may be
time to look at what is happening outside
of the exchange.
 The Harper government's decision last
year to write off every penny
of the auto aid and thus build it all into last
year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the
time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same
time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically
better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even
when the bottom has fallen out
of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising
good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising
good news» for Ottawa in the
years to come (depending on the ultimate worth
of the public equity share).
I had in my heart and tongue the Name
of Allah
when ever I had fears, troubles or depression
of any kind but from Jan 05 1995
when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the
time I really felt am alone at age
of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word
of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot
of reciting verses
of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult
times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic
of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth
of many beliefs out
of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief
of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at
times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance
of things going to happen A
year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream
good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front
of him and
when was on the top
of the stairs weaver smiling
good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
I am all in favor
of music at a church, but starting out, why do we drop a full -
time salary on a worship pastor salary
when most church plants take a
good year before they hold their first service?
everything is made up
of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables
of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things
when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process
of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions
of years ago i bet the universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over
time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million
years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends
of the scale life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe
well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie
time machine
This
year I understand
better what the Apostle Paul meant
when he wrote, «We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains
of childbirth right up to the present
time.
When I learned of this (2 years later... it was very well hidden), I began questioning prominent members of the church, but when the church minister could not give appropriate responses to my questions, I knew it was time to leave permanen
When I learned
of this (2
years later... it was very
well hidden), I began questioning prominent members
of the church, but
when the church minister could not give appropriate responses to my questions, I knew it was time to leave permanen
when the church minister could not give appropriate responses to my questions, I knew it was
time to leave permanently.
Gods came to set the captive free.God is always in control he calls the shots not Satan he is in control his motives and purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for
good and he always has a plan.It is spiritual lesson from a real life situation.I am jumping way ahead here but at the
time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family
when you read later because
of his testimony the next
time they visit
years later to those towns many people are saved because
of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to God be the glory.brentnz
Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life
of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace
of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the
time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20
years if he had walking in the ways
of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40
years that is the term
of completion.We cut ourselves short
when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences
better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much
of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life
of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life
of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.
I remember in college, many moons ago, thinking that since I was so very opinionated about religion, I really should make sure I was familiar with the Bible... So I read it... cover to cover... I can tell you, I honestly didn't enjoy it... it's NOT a great read... bits are interesting, and
of course very familiar... I took me almost the whole
year, but I got through it... So imagine my surprise some
time later
when I found myself at an after conference gathering, that just so happened to have an inexplicably number
of overtly religious attendants (inexplicable because it was a hi - tech network security conference) and after listening quietly for a while, jumped in with the statement «
well, you've all read the bible cover to cover, as have I»....
(CNN)- It's that
time of year again: the
time when chocolate comes in pastels, cherry blossoms start to bloom and
well - marketed religion exposés are released to the world.
Rick the more i think about it we are to live as overcomers not strugglers since the day i decided to turn away from the sin that was controlling my life i never fell back into old sinful patterns not once, was i tempted many many times.The Lord will work in our lives one area at a
time he needs us to give him full control so if an area is taking control we do need to hand it to him so he can change us.How do we do it immediately we say Lord you know i am weak but in you i am strong i leaned on him and overcame
time and
time again.We all have areas
of weakness that we struggle in so do nt feel bad.Struggling is us trying to do it in our own strength before this process i was so stubborn i refused to let God help me i wanted to do it in my own strength and so it was a roller coaster ride in my christian walk if the day went
well i was on a high if it did nt i would would be down.Not any more now
when things do nt go to plan i still thank the Lord and
when it goes
well i thank the Lord.Because i know that all things work for
good to those who love the Lord.The main area he is wanting is our hearts he wants all our heart not only some until we come to that place we will continue to struggle in our faith.The only reason to tell you this is not to boast because
of what i have done in myself because i have nothing to boast about but if i did i would brag that Christ has empowered me by his holy spirit to be an overcomer just as he would want you to be.As Christians we are all called to be overcomers more than conquerers.Make a decision today to turn all your hearts to the Lord to acknowledge the areas you are holding onto that are controlling your flesh life hand them to the Lord and walk according to the spirit and not the flesh and he will give you the victory.That can be a reality starting today merry christmas everyone and may the new
year be an exciting one as we put all our trust in Christ our Lord and savior.Brentnz
We'll wait until another rain is coming and try to pass them out just before it rains (about 4:00 in the afternoon works
best this
time of year), or
when the rain is just starting (
when we can see who really has no tarp).
It represents the culmination
of his 15
years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the
time just after World War I
when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting
of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury
of being socialist the insult
of having been antiwar as
well.
Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been
times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as
well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because
of that i just said no until my heart is right i am
better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part
of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same
time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before
when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the
time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two
years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really
well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and
when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz
Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state
of Mississippi, north
of Crystal Springs from Chicago
when I was ten
years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty
years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites,
when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had
better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these
years, Mississippi and mainly this small town
of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal,
when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your
time, I still remember
when I was ten
years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,
Thus, there were expected to be few tears shed
when the four bells, whose tolling has marked the march
of time and a funereal adieu for the great and
good at Notre Dame cathedral for 156
years, were taken from their belfry and consigned to the scrapheap.
The first
time I ever thought about this area was
when a friend
of mine
years ago brought up Isaiah 45:7 about the Lord creating both
good and evil.
The
time will come
when time will run out for us too, and once we see that, we see also that for the 18 -
year - old at McDonald's as
well as for the old crock in the retirement - home cafeteria, every one
of our suppers points to the preciousness
of life and also to the certainty
of death, which makes life even more precious still and is precious in itself because under its shadow we tend to search harder and harder for light.
I can confess these transgressions because I can think
of numerous
times during the
year when I have done them, and it is
good to get them off my chest.
Times when Governor Berkeley
of Virginia in 1670 said, «I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred
years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the
best government.
When I started my blog and instagram account last
year I started following way too many people, some because
of their food, some for their lifestyle or creativity, some for the aesthetics... but recently I realized that I spend so much
time scrolling through my feed, comparing, feeling bad about my work, my life or simply not
good enough that I decided to unfollow quite a few
of those accounts, keep only the ones that make me feel
good and positive and to focus more on creating, shooting, baking, styling so basically all those things that make me happy and fulfilled and being the reason why I started doing this in the first place!
Regardless
of the
time of year, cherry tomatoes offer the
best flavor
when cooked only for short periods
of time; too long and the seeds can start to alter the flavor.
Seems it's that
time of year again
when we celebrate dad, so what
better way to honor him than with his favorite meal?