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‘Live Rich’ – A spoken word film about the true meaning of wealth.
‘Live Rich’ is a film about our relationship with money in a world where we are always being sold to, and how the most important things in life can’t be bought.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Written, Performed & Directed by Gary Turk
Original Score by New Desert Blues
Featuring Megan Turk & Jonathan Royston-Claire
Spend less. Live more.
Buy more experiences, fewer things.
(via Films for Action)
A placebo is a simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the recipient.
Sometimes patients given a placebo treatment will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition, a phenomenon commonly called the placebo effect. …
In the opposite effect, a patient who disbelieves in a treatment may experience a worsening of symptoms. This effect, now called by analogy nocebo (Latin nocebo = “I shall harm”) can be measured in the same way as the placebo effect …
Good news. The outbreak is still in decline – New Ebola cases fall most in week since June.
Economist Oct 2014:
IN THE crowded field of Ebola alarmists, Rand Paul of Kentucky stands out. …
Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana says planes must be grounded “to protect our people”. …
Some leaders are more responsible. The Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has tried to keep people calm. Few countries are better equipped than America to keep the public safe, he has assured Texans. He is right. It should not need saying. …
The Ebola alarmists – Stoking panic will not help America fight Ebola
Senator Ted Cruz should be apologizing, as well.
A world pandemic will come, sooner or later. But Ebola is not it.
The ideal music/book player. IF it ever becomes available for sale.
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… I’m worried about battery life in a device so tiny.
(via Gear Junkie – 10 Innovations From CES 2015)
More people are going to school for longer
Access to the internet is increasing
Solar power is getting cheaper
Beer consumption going up ??? 🙂
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details on vox
(via Bill Gates)
For the 3rd year in a row I crashed the New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Adlards in northern Idaho.
For a change, they got a LOT of snow this season.
Their log cabin in the woods looks like one of those Christmas shops. Very festive.
Here’s where Dave works online. 🙂
Dave got a new barbecue for Christmas. Whoop whoop!
Delaney got new snowshoes.
And there’s a new playhouse in the back yard.
The no excuses 10km run went well for me again.
I finished 2nd behind Andy this year, just ahead of Dr. Jeni, my best finish ever.
Andy put on a burst of speed uphill to finish first. Something was motivating him. I can’t imagine what he was thinking about.
Thanks to Dave, Lisa and 5yr-old Delaney for hosting. 🙂
Here’s the good news.
Number of Uninsured Americans Near Historic Low
Just 11.3 percent of Americans were uninsured in the second quarter …
But that progress has come at great cost. Sen. Tom Harkin, one of the co-authors of the Affordable Care Act, now thinks Democrats may have been better off not passing it at all and holding out for a better bill.
It’s a mixed legacy.
I’m sick again in Kathmandu. 😦 Everyone tourist gets sick here, actually.
Catching up on the interwebs.
___ original post from Nov 2009:
I’ve always exalted the mystical, magical capital of Nepal.
Sadly, fact is, it’s a hellhole.
Everyone in the polluted city is sick. Sick with respiratory problems. And worse.
The rivers are trashed. I hear that cremations are being discouraged, but there are still corpses in the water.
Everyone you meet is coughing, horking and spitting. The valley holds air pollution.
Tap water makes people sick. There are electrical brown outs almost every night. Can’t they generate hydro-electricity in the Himalayas?
I studied the trash removal system. There is one, actually. But it’s hopelessly bad.
As in India, best case scenario is to feed your paper to a sacred cow.
The only “progress” I can see over the past 11yrs is that the first KFC / Pizza Hut just opened. Is that progress?
I want to blame the Mayor for not improving this city … but Wikipedia tells me there is no mayor of Kathmandu at the moment.
Why am I not surprised.
Rick McCharles 