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Wednesday, 27. October 2010

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Tuesday, 26. October 2010

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By lauckolf, 09:09
@@@@@ I breathed a sigh of relief"I think they were sort of hoping - or maybe expecting's the word - that in timeon the right birthday, or maybe at ChristmasSo they didn't get anything "I didn't say thatMelinda's boyfriend also bought one of the sketchesWhat's this about? What's wrong with the pictures?" 852 RicDid Melinda and Ric take the sketch with them?" "With all those airplanes, including transatlantic? He asked that it be framed and shippedI don't think she knowsIt was of flowers done in colored pencils "So that one's still at the Scoto "And you're sure nobody else in the family bought paintings She took maybe ten seconds to considerAt last she said, "No You better be, Panda, I thought"But Angel and Helen Slobotnik bought oneMailbox with Flowers, I believe it's called I knew the one she was talking aboutIt was actually titled Mailbox with OxeyesAnd I thought that one was harmless, I thought that one was probably all mine, but still"They didn't take it, did they?" "No, because they were going to Orlando first, fly home from thereThey also asked that it be framed and shipped No questions now, only answersShe sounded younger - like the Pam I had married, the 853 one who'd kept my books back in those pre-Tom days"Your surgeon - can't remember his name-" "Todd Jamieson

Sunday, 24. October 2010

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By lauckolf, 09:09
@@@@@I kept the remaining land as mine for freeMoral of the story: Buy the pie and cut it in piecesMost people look for what they can afford, so they look too smallThey buy only a piece of the pie, so they end up paying more for less Small thinkers don't get the big breaksIf you want to get richer, think bigger firstRetailers love giving volume discounts, simply because most business people love big spenders So even if you're small, you can always think bigWhen my company was in the market for computers, I called several friends and asked them if they were ready to buy alsoWe then went to different dealers and negotiated a great deal because we wanted to buy so manyI have done the same with stocksSmall people remain small because they think small

Saturday, 23. October 2010

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Friday, 22. October 2010

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By lauckolf, 02:55
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Thursday, 21. October 2010

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Wednesday, 20. October 2010

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Tuesday, 19. October 2010

When he came to the roped-off passage in Tunnel...

By lauckolf, 09:59
When he came to the roped-off passage in Tunnel 351, he ducked in and walked along through the dark, feeling his wayHe was pretty sure the door would be locked as usualHis mind was on other thingsHe was thinking of his green worm, which had been behaving 155 oddly, refusing to eat and hanging from the side of its box with its chin tucked inAnd he was thinking about Lina, whom he hadn't seen for several daysHe wondered where she wasWhen he came to the door, he reached absently for the knob, and what he felt startled him so much that he snatched his hand back as if he'd been stungHe felt again, carefullyThere was a key in the lock! For a long moment, Doon stood as omega seamaster fake still as a statueThen he took hold of the doorknob and turned itVery slowly, he pushed on the doorIt swung inward without a sound He opened it only a few inches, just enough to peer around the edgeWhat he saw made him gasp There was no road, or passage, or stairway behind the doorThere was a brightly lit room, whose size he could not guess at because it was so crowded with thingsOn all sides were crates and boxes, sacks and bundles and packagesThere were mounds of cans, heaps of clothes, rows of jars and bottles, stacks of light-bulb packagesPiles rose to the low ceiling and leaned against the walls, blocking all but a small space in the centerIn that small space, a little borse fendi living room had been set upThere was a greenish rug, and on the rug an armchair and a tableOn the table were dishes smeared with the remains of food, and in the armchair facing Doon was a great blob of a person whose head was flopped backward, so that all Doon could see of it 156 was an upthrust chinThe blob stirred and muttered, and Doon, in the second before he stepped back and pulled the door closed, caught a glimpse of a fleshy ear, a slab of gray cheek, and a loose, purplish mouth That day, Lina had more messages to carry than everThere had been five blackouts in a row during the weekThey were all fairly short--the longest was four and a half minutes, Lina had chanel white watches heard--but there had never been so many so close togetherEveryone was nervousPeople who might ordinarily walk to someone's house were sending messages insteadOften they didn't even come out into the street but beckoned to a messenger from their doorway By five o'clock, Lina had carried thirty-nine messagesMost of them were more or less the same: "I'm not coming to the meeting tonight, decided to stay home "I won't be in to work tomorrow "Instead of meeting me in Cloving Square, why don't you come to my house?" The citizens of Ember were hunkering down, burrowing inFewer people stood around talking in groups under the lights in the squaresInstead, they would pause briefly to picasso cartier murmur a few words to each other and then hasten onward Lina was on her way home to MrsMurdo's--she and Poppy had moved in with all their things--when she heard rapid footstepsStartled, she turned and saw Doon racing toward her 157 At first he was so out of breath he couldn't speak "What is it? What is it?" said Lina "The door," he panted Lina's heart leapt"You did?" Doon nodded "Is it the way out?" Lina whispered fiercelyHe glanced behind himClutching Lina's arm, he pulled her into a shadowy spot on the street "It doesn't lead out of Ember," he whispered"It leads to a big room Lina's face fell"A room? What's in there?" "EverythingFood, clothes, boxes, chloe paddington bags ca

Monday, 18. October 2010

Both dads encouraged me to studybut not the same...

By lauckolf, 10:03
Both dads encouraged me to studybut not the same thingsMy highly educated dad recommended that I do what he did"Son, I want you to study hard, get good grades, so you can find a safe, secure job with a big companyAnd make sure it has excellent benefits My rich dad wanted me to learn how money works so I could make it work for meThese lessons I would learn through life with his guidance, not because of a classroomMy rich dad continued my first lesson, "I'm glad you got angry about working for 10 cents an hourIf you had not gotten angry and had dolce and gabbana handbag gladly accepted it, I would have to tell you that I could not teach youYou see, true learning takes energy, passion, a burning desireAnger is a big part of that formula, for passion is anger and love combinedWhen it comes to money, most people want to play it safe and feel secureSo passion does not direct them: Fear does "So is that why they'll take a job with low par?" I asked"Yes," said rich dad"Some people say I exploit people because I don't pay as much as the sugar plantation or the governmentI say the people exploit themselvesIt's their black gucci bags fear, not mine "But don't you feel you should pay them more?" I askedAnd besides, more money will not solve the problemJust look at your dadHe makes a lot of money, and he still can't pay his billsMost people, given more money, only get into more debt "So that's why the 10 cents an hour," I said, smiling"It's a part of the lesson "That's right," smiled rich dad"You see, your dad went to school and got an excellent education, so he could get a high-paying jobBut he still has money problems because he never learned anything about money at schoolOn chloe white top of that, he believes in working for money "And you don't?" I asked"No, not really," said rich dad"If you want to learn to work for money, then stay in schoolThat is a great place to learn to do thatBut if you want to learn how to have money work for you, then I will teach you thatBut only if you want to learn "Wouldn't everyone want to learn that" I asked"Simply because it's easier to learn to work for money, especially if fear is your primary emotion when the subject of money is discussed "I don't understand," I said with a frown"Don't louis vuitton duffle bag worry about that for nowJust know that it's fear that keeps most people working at a jobThe fear of not paying their billsThe fear of being firedThe fear of not having enough moneyThe fear of starting overThat's the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for moneyMost people become a slave to moneyand then get angry at their boss "Learning to have money work for you is a completely different course of study?" I asked"Absolutely," rich dad answered, "absolutely We sat in silence on that beautiful Hawaiian Saturday black chanel handbags morni

Sunday, 17. October 2010

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By lauckolf, 10:00
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Saturday, 16. October 2010

Now he could see only two courses of action:...

By lauckolf, 10:05
Now he could see only two courses of action: he could give up and do nothing, or he could start to work on a different kind of movable light Doon didn't want to give upSo on his day off one Thursday, he went to the Ember Library to look up fire The library occupied an entire building on one side of Bilbollio SquareIts door was at the end of a short passage in the middle of the buildingDoon went down the passage, pushed open the door, and walked inNo one was there except for the librarian, ancient Edward Pocket, who sat behind his desk writing something with a tiny pencil clutched in his gnarled handThe library had two big rooms, one for fiction, which was stories people made up out of their imaginations, and the other for fact, which was information about the real worldThe walls of both rooms were lined with shelves, and on most of the shelves were hundreds replica miu miu of packets of pagesEach packet was held together with stout loops of stringThe packets leaned against each other at angles and lay in untidy stacksSome were thick, and some were so slim that only a clip was needed to hold them togetherThe pages of the oldest packets were yellowed and warped, and their edges were uneven rows of ripples 117 These were the books of Ember, written over the years by its citizensThey contained in their dose written pages much that was imagined and everything that was known Edward Pocket looked up and nodded briefly at Doon, one of his most frequent visitorsHe went into the fact room, to the section of shelves labeled "F The books were arranged by subject, but even so, it wasn't easy to find what you wantedA book about moths, for instance, might be under "M" for moths, or "I" for insects, or "B" for bugsIt might even be omega olympic watch under "F" for flying thingsUsually you had to browse through the entire library to make sure you'd found all the books on one subjectBut since he was looking for "fire," he thought he might as well start with "F Fire was rare in EmberWhen there was a fire, it was because there had been an accident--someone had left a dishtowel too close to an electric burner on a stove, or a cord had frayed and a spark had flown out and ignited curtainsThen the citizens would rush in with buckets of water, and the fire was quickly drownedBut it was, of course, possible to start a fire on purposeYou could hold a sliver of wood to the stove burner until it burst into flame, and then for a moment it would flare brightly, giving off orange light The trick was to find a way to make the light lastIf you had a light that would keep going, you could go 118 out into the tiffany toggle necklace Unknown Regions and see what was thereFinding a way to explore the Unknown Regions was the only thing Doon could think of to do He took down a book from the "F" shelfFungus, it was calledThe next book was called How to Repair FurnitureHe put that back, tooHe went through Foot Diseases, Fun with String, Coping with Failure, and Canned Fruit Recipes before he finally found a book called All About FireHe sat down at one of the library's square tables to read it But the person who had written the book knew no more about fire than DoonMostly the book described the dangers of fireA long section of it was about a building in Winifred Square that had caught fire forty years ago, and how all its doors and all its furniture had burned up and smoke had filled the air for daysAnother part was about what to do if your oven caught on fire Doon closed the book and sighedHe could knock off chanel earrings write a better book than thatHe got up and wandered restlessly around the librarySometimes you could find useful things just by choosing randomly from the shelvesHe had done this many times--just reached out and grabbed something-- in the hope that by accident he might come upon the very piece of information he neededIt would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance, just a sentence 119 or two that would be like a flash of light in Doon's mind, fitting together with things he already knew to make a solution to everything Although he'd often found something interesting in these searches, he'd never found anything importantToday was no differentHe did come across a collection called Mysterious Words from the Past, which he read for a whileIt was about words and phrases so old that their meanings had been coco chanel jewelry forgo

Friday, 15. October 2010

We focus on the word "literacy" and not...

By lauckolf, 10:04
We focus on the word "literacy" and not "financial literacy What defines something to be an asset, or something to be a liability are not wordsIn fact, if you really want to be confused, look up the words "asset" and "liability" in the dictionaryI know the definition may sound good to a trained accountant, but for the average person it makes no senseBut we adults are often too proud to admit that something does not make senseAs young boys, rich dad said, "What defines an asset is not words but numbersAnd if you cannot read the numbers, you cannot tell an asset from a hole in the ground "In accounting," rich dad would say, "it's not the numbers, but what the numbers are telling vintage gucci handbags youIt's just like wordsIt's not the words, but the story the words are telling youMany people read, but do not understand muchIt's called reading comprehensionAnd we all have different abilities when it comes to reading comprehensionFor example, I recently bought a new VCRIt came with an instruction book that explained how to program the VCRAll I wanted to do was record my favorite TV show on Friday nightI nearly went crazy trying to read the manualNothing in my world is more complex than learning how to program my VCRI could read the words, but I understood nothingI get an "A" for recognizing the wordsI get an "F" for comprehensionAnd so it is with financial statements for most people"If replicas de bolsas you want to be rich, you've got to read and understand numbers If I heard that once, I heard it a thousand times from my rich dadAnd I also heard, "The rich acquire assets and the poor and middle class acquire liabilities Here is how to tell the difference between an asset and a liabilityMost accountants and financial professionals do net agree with the definitions, but these simple drawings were the start of strong financial foundations for two young boysTo teach pre?teen boys, rich dad kept everything simple, using as many pictures as possible, as few words as possible, and no numbers for years "This is the Cash Flow pattern of an asset The above box is an Income Statement, second hand chanel often called a Profit and Loss StatementIt measures income and expensesMoney in and money outThe bottom diagram is the Balance SheetIt is called that because it is supposed to balance assets against liabilitiesMany financial novices don't know the relationship between the Income Statement and the Balance SheetThat relationship is vital to understandThe primary cause of financial struggle is simply not knowing the difference between an asset and a liabilityThe cause of the confusion is found in the definition of the two wordsIf you want a lesson in confusion, simply look up the words "asset" and "liability" in the dictionaryNow it may make sense to trained accountants, but to the chanel jumbo flap average person, it may as well be written in MandarinYou read the words in the definition, but true comprehension is difficultSo as I said earlier, my rich dad simply told two young boys that "assets put money in your pocket Nice, simple and usable "This is Cash Flow pattern of a liability Now that assets and liabilities have been defined through pictures, it may be easier to understand my definitions in wordsAn asset is something that puts money in my pocketA liability is something that takes money out of my pocketThis is really all you need to knowIf you want to be rich, simply spend your life buying assetsIf you want to be poor or middle class, spend your life buying vintage chanel jewelry liabilities

Thursday, 14. October 2010

Really one could not--with the world in the...

By lauckolf, 10:10
Really one could not--with the world in the state it was inNot when people all day long wanted your help, fairly clamoured for helpThis wasn't an age for luxuriesAnd he looked at the arm chairs and the paper knives and the well bound books, and shook his head, knowing that he would never have the time, never he was glad to think have the heart, to afford himself such luxuriesThe people here would be shocked if they knew what he paid for his tobacco

Wednesday, 13. October 2010

It once happened that having invited the Buddha...

By lauckolf, 10:01
It once happened that having invited the Buddha to preach in Sravasti, Anathapindika set about trying to find a suitable place for the World-honored One and his company of 1,250 monksDetermining that the estate of Prince Jeta, son of King Prasenajit, with its grassy fields and leafy trees, would be ideal, he approached the prince and offered to buy itThe prince, startled, said in jest, 'I am prepared to sell you as much land as you can cover with gold' Anathapindika remained silent for a moment, at which point the Prince laughed, 'That seems to be too much for you, does it not?' 'Why, no,' replied the merchant, 'I was simply considering which of my storehouses to take the gold from ' The next day, as the prince watched in amazement, bullock cart after bullock cart arrived at his estate, and the workers laid a carpet of gold upon the land, stretching in all directionsThe only patches of ground which could not be covered were those where the trees stoodPrince Jeta, realizing that the Buddha must be an exceptional man, then decided to donate these patches of landIn honor of the two benefactors, the estate was henceforth known as the Garden of Jeta and Anathapindika"Here the Buddha spent nineteen rainy seasonsThis monastery where the Buddha spent the major part of his life was the place where he delivered many of his sermons In Buddhist literature, the name of Anathapindika knock off chanel earrings has become synonymous with selfless, extreme generosity in the cause of the Dharma (supporting the clergy, building temples, printing sutras and commentaries, etc Editor: na PARABLE 075: IMMORTALITY There is a beautiful account of the meeting between the Pure Land Patriarch T'an Luan and the famed translator/monk BodhiruciT'an Luan (488-554), seeking immortality, travelled about China obtaining teachings from various noted sages, including the Taoist master T'ao Hung-ching530) he met with the Indian Buddhist teacher Bodhiruci: "T'an Luan opened the conversation by saying 'Is there anything in the Teaching of the Buddha which is superior to the methods for obtaining immortality found in this country's scriptures on the immortals?' Bodhiruci spat on the ground and said, 'What are you saying? There is no comparison! Where on this earth can you find a method for immortality? Suppose that you can obtain youth in your old age, and never die: even having done that, you would still be rolling around in the Triple World!' So he gave him the Meditation Sutra and said, 'These are the recipes of Amitabha Buddha: if you rely on his practices, you will be liberated from Samsara'" (The Healing Buddha Birnbaum: 241 Note: The Triple World (Triple Realm) is our mundane world and the two worlds superior to it in the merit and virtue of its inhabitantsSamsara is the cycle of Birth and louis vuitton travel bags Death which Buddhist practitioners seek to transcendPARABLE 076: TURN EASTWARD AND LOOK AT THE WESTERN LAND DSuzuki quotes the Zen Patriarch Fa Yen as follows: "The sutras preached by the Buddha during his lifetime are said to amount to five thousand and forty-eight fascicles

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By lauckolf, 01:09
Our city was undergroundWe didn't know it until we came out Ben snorted impatiently, folding his arms across his chest "Who is in charge here?" He looked at the bald man"Is it you?" The bald man shook his head and gestured toward the boy and the girl"They're as in charge as anyone," he said"The mayor of our city is no longer with usThese young people are speaking the truthWe have come out of a city built underground The people around him all nodded and murmured, "Yes" and "It's true "My name is Doon Harrow," said the boy"And this is Una MayfleetWe found the way out of Ember He thinks he's pretty great, dolce purse thought Torren, hearing a note of pride in the boy's voiceHe didn't look so greatHis hair was shaggy, and he was wearing an old jacket that was coming apart at the seams and grimy at the cuffsBut his eyes shone out confidently from under his dark eyebrows "We're hungry," the boy saidWill you help us?" Mary, Ben, and Wilmer stood silent for a momentThen Mary took Ben and Wilmer by the arms and led them aside a few stepsThey whispered to each other, glanced up at the great swarm of strangers, frowned, whispered some moreWhile he waited to hear what they'd say, Torren studied the people who said they came from bolsas prada undergroundThey did in fact look as if they had crawled up out of a holeMost of them were scrawny and pale, like the sprouts you see when you lift up a board that's been lying on the ground, feeble things that have tried to grow in the darkThey huddled together, looking frightenedThey looked exhausted, tooMany of them had sat down on the ground now, and some had their heads in the laps of others The three village leaders turned again to the crowd of strangers"How many of you are there?" Mary Waters asked "About four hundred," said the boy, Doon Mary's dark eyebrows jumped upward Four hundred! In Torren's whole see by chloe bags village, there were only three hundred and twenty-twoHe swept his gaze out over this vast hordeThey filled half the cabbage field and were still coming over the hill, like a swarm of ants The girl with the ratty hair stepped forward and raised a hand, as if she were in school"Excuse me, Madam Mayor," she saidMadam Mayor! Nobody called Mary Waters Madam MayorThey just called her Mary "Madam Mayor," said the girl, "my little sister is very sick She pointed to the baby being held by the sharp-eyed womanIts eyes were half closed, and its mouth hung open"Some others of us are sick, too," the girl went on, "or chanel white bag hurt?Lotty Hoover tripped and hurt her ankle, and Nammy Proggs is exhausted from walking so farShe's nearly eighty years oldIs there a doctor in your town? Is there a place where sick people can lie down and be taken care of?" Mary turned to Ben and Wilmer again, and they spoke to each other in low voicesTorren could catch only a few words of what they said Ben rubbed his beard and scowledWilmer kept glancing at the sick babyAfter a few minutes, they nodded to each otherMary said, "All right Ben and Wilmer bent down and grasped Mary's legsWith a grunt, they lifted her so that she was high enough to see out over the coco chanel designer cr