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The Yankees' latest plan twists in the wind as the marquee free agents ponder a myriad of options. The Bombers believed their big bucks would form a line of hungry job applicants. Think again. CC, A.J. and the other Derek hold all the cards as the Yanks lack of leverage puts them in a familiar place. Any competent agent would advise their client to put the Yanks on hold and play the field. The Yankees don't have a plan B, it's all or nothing. The front office failures have the richest franchise in sports history all dressed up with no where to go.

Yankees' followers are salivating over a possible rotation of: Sabathia, Wang, Burnett/Lowe, Chamberlain and Pettitte. Let's travel to the dark side: Wang--returning from a season lost to injury, Chamberlain-- returning from an injury riddled 100IP 2008 with a limit of 130IP for 2009, Pettitte--a high mileage veteran coming off a poor year, Aceves--a 26 year-old rookie who needs the support of quality defense and whoever. What about the farm? Don't ask.

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Never say never: A common phrase that you hear from time to time that usually goes in one ear and out the there. I remember playing a soccer game in first grade and losing 8-0 at halftime and the whole speech was about never giving up. Noble, yet unrealistic. I had no idea how relevant this phrase is until I said I would never get seasick.
Paul Finelli, Justin Schuver, Ben Fishman, Peter Arrabal, Justin Bostwick and I all set out to go deep sea fishing. If you read the blog before this, you are probably preparing yourself for a heroic story of how I caught the biggest fish of the day. Not so much.
Peter Arrabal is a bit quirky, definitely awkward and 100 percent a creeper. It wasn’t much of a surprise when he showed up with a prescription Scopalamine patch behind his ear and a pack of Bonine pills to help with motion sickness. We are usually pretty brutal to one another, so I had to tell him how dumb he looks and hopefully it was a testosterone patch to help combat his feminine characteristics.
I boasted about how I never get seasick and how I will definitely catch the most fish. If you notice the picture in the 5 a.m. blog, I am the only one without board shorts and sunglasses with those redneck croakies. I would never admit it, but I was maybe a little bit out of my league.
When we got about 15 miles out, Peter had to ask the captain to stop because was “numb. (Editors note: Peter claims he was dehydrated from taking too many seasickness drugs.) He took seasickness to a whole new level, but never threw up. However, when we stopped the boat, I felt every little wave, and suddenly my head didn’t feel too good. I had to lay down, and as soon as I did, Gatorade, chocolate donuts, sunflower seeds and skittles all wanted out of my stomach.
I made it to the side of the boat to let the variety free into the ocean and to maybe attract the fish. Usually when I throw up, I feel like a million dollars after. However, this time it made it a whole lot worse.
We were to be on the boat from 7 a.m. - 1 p.m, and from 8 a.m. -noon, I slept in the front of the ship. I had to man up and at least catch one fish, but had no luck because my head spun so much that I had to lie back down.
The only thing that made me feel a little bit better was the fact that Schuver reacted the same way to the sea. We both threw up at least 15 times a piece, and if we only drank a sip of water, it would be deposited into the ocean.
When I found out we were going to the last spot, I made it a personal mission to catch at least one fish, and I succeeded. Allegedly, it was the smallest fish that we kept that day, but hey, I bet it tastes the best.
About the taste factor: remember how I said Paul isn’t exactly the most detailed oriented person. Well Monday night, I went to check the cooler on the deck, which was full of the beer we were too sick to drink on the boat. Paul refused to freeze the fish, and the cooler was out of ice. So I am pretty sure the fish is ruined. Good thing we didnt use that refrigerator thing we have in the room. This trip ended up being the most expensive nap I ever took, but on the bright side, I got some good color.

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In the past week or so, we have learned more about Alaska than we ever cared to know, including details about tiny Wasilla, where Sarah Palin once served as mayor. But about Mr. Obama's hometown we hear very little. Chicago, let it be said, is a place in decline. In recent years -- and well before the current economic turmoil -- it has lost its two leading banks and thousands of jobs in the futures and commodities markets. Not only does it have the highest retail sales tax in the country, at 10.25%, it is the only city with a head tax on employment. Its public schools are in terrible shape. The city's middle-class population continues to flee. (Chicago lost 63,000 people between 2000 and 2006.) Meanwhile corruption and crime, not to mention machine politics, continue to thrive. In Chicago, it is no big deal to discover that an alderwoman's boyfriend is a member of the Gangster Disciples; this was the same gang that was given voter-registration money by Mayor Richard M. Daley. Chicago's murder rate is three times that of New York.
If there were ever a place in need of "change" and "reform," it is Chicago. And yet, Mr. Freddoso argues, reform for Mr. Obama "is something to discuss during election campaigns, not to be implemented or followed" when it might jeopardize his ambitions. Mr. Freddoso can't find a single example of a cause on which Mr. Obama has risked his political capital. This fact, Mr. Freddoso notes, "does not separate him from most other politicians in either party." It simply means that he is "like most of the others."
Is murder out of control? Are the Chicago schools failing minority children? Is the local economy faltering? These have not been Mr. Obama's concerns. He has been a down-the-line Chicago pol on such matters -- decrying police misconduct, calling for yet higher teacher salaries, and urging new subsidies for the state's industries, such as ethanol and coal. As a state senator, he routinely backed earmarks to reward potential allies. Emile Jones, the president of the Illinois state senate, pushed along Mr. Obama's rise by giving him meaningless ethics bills to shepherd through final approval after other people had done the hard work.
If there is nothing terribly shocking in any of this, it does dull the glow of Mr. Obama's halo; and some of his dodgier Chicago affiliations may remove it. In 1986, Mr. Obama's political mentor, state Sen. Alice Palmer, returned from attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union optimistic about the U.S.S.R.'s future. A decade later she brought Mr. Obama -- already a member of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's black-nationalist church -- together with 1960s terrorist Bill Ayers, who would hold the first fund-raiser for Mr. Obama when he was running to fill Ms. Palmer's state-senate seat. Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked together on the boards of two foundations.

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You rise to a new day, greeted by the warmth of the sunapos;s rays. Though your sleep was wavered and harsh you fight against the urge to go back into the deep subconscious of your own thoughts, afraid of what youapos;ll meet again there. So you force yourself to crawl out of the bed, lazily pulling on a pair of lounge pants as you stumble into the living room. You argue with your own gracefulness to keep from alerting others of your presence before you collapse into a chair.
You neednapos;t have been so cautious in your movements as the world had sat there waiting for you to show any signs you were now alert of it. Standing there like a vulcher awaiting itapos;s meal. Oh yes, the world awaited for your presence again before it began unloading the vile spew all built for your day.
You mutely nod to itapos;s array of bull shit itapos;s laid out for you, wondering when it began to decide your days for you. Swallowing you turn to face your mother sure today would be like any other and sheapos;d have her own expectancies from you also. When her mouth opens and the words begin to formulate sentences and they in turn make paragraphs you lose yourself in some of it as you try to grasp at others.
Again nobody has disappointed you on their demands. They each laid out a clean set that would take you the better part of the day to complete. So you head off to prepare yourself for the same grudging day. When you realize youapos;re not quite so down trodden as you originally had presumed youapos;d be. The vulchers realized it also, which was your mistake for letting it show so animatedly. As you go to pull on real clothes for the day the mother vulcher goes in for the kill.
re going with her to the doctor. You had no original plans of it as your older sister was supposed to take her. Youapos;d heard on several occasions prior that is the one the mother vulcher preferred to go with so why would you need to adjust your schedule to tag along. As if anything you had planned for your own self just wasnapos;t as important. You state your facts of your schedule is already busy with things the world has tossed onto your back then brace yourself for the barrage of comments, complaints and slime. It all comes pouring out so easily youapos;re sure Mother vulcher doesnapos;t even have to think about it. You let her carry on as you go to complete your previous task of dressing for the day.
When youapos;re sure youapos;re as ready to face the onslaught of shit that has become your life as any other time you begin to put things into order. Organizing these demands from others so you can try and maneuver around some time for yourself. The more you shift the more you realize there will be another day of no time for yourself. Answering the door when the bell tones as if making sure to prove the point, maybe some other day.
Then itapos;s off to the races against time. There is no slowing down or turning it back so you can eek out that extra half hour to take a shower for yourself. No, push forward and begin to slowly tick away at lifeapos;s demands of you.
Everything all consuming and manipulating, you lose yourself in it. The constant whines of others around you as they face their own daily habits. How their own lives are so much more important than that of your own, after all, they work. Work, work, work, I hear of this at least once a day.
The thirst to scream right in their face that you work too. That theyapos;re not the only ones that do this vile w word and that they should reevaluate what they say. Your work strains, tries and exhausts you much like theirs does. It bends, twists and consumes your time much as their own. Yet you do it because you have no choice. There is no money at the end of the trail. There is no glory at the bottom of the well. There is just the endless pit of consuming blackness that sucks at your very soul.
Oh you work, you know you do, you feel it every minute of every day. Yet youapos;re the only one that sees the results of this work. Does it make it less important? Not to you, but to the rest of the world you are nothing. So youapos;ll endure in silence as your internal body yells to break free. All while your mind is held in chains not sure where to begin.

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1:57 p.m. Give up trying to tune in the station and instead go to the station's website to listen to it online. When that doesn't work, go back to tuning in radio and finally live with the static.

2:00 p.m. This station said this morning "First pitch at 2 o'clock." Instead, it's a commercial. The two afternoon radio guys get to sit at a bar and talk about baseball and watch the game. That's awesome. Imagine getting paid to talk about baseball and watch it.

2:09 p.m. Realize that I've got the wrong station on; it's still the guys talking. Switch to the right station. I've missed the first batter or two. Bill Hall is up. Bob Uecker keeps calling him "Billy Hall," which is kind of annoying. When Uecker says "Jimmy Rollins" catches the ball, I can't tell if Jimmy is really his name or if it's what Uecker wants to call him.

2:21 p.m. I was reading "Savage Love" online and also doing a little work and I missed the Phillies' at-bat. Fat Prince Fielder is up. I want the Brewers to win, but I want Fat Prince to strike out.

2:25 p.m. I'm not very good at this. I missed what happened to Fat Prince -- weirdly enough, because someone was asking me what had happened in the game. Is that irony?

2:37 p.m. The not-Uecker guy is calling the game. It's eerie how much he sounds like Bob Uecker. Remember Being John Malkovich, when [SPOILER ALERT!] John Malkovich went through the hole and became John Malkovich, and everyone in the world was John Malkovich? This guy sounding so much like Bob Uecker made me think of a world where everyone sounds like Bob Uecker-- not a bad thought, until you think about dating.

2:44 p.m. There was just an error by Rickie Weeks; Not-Bob noted that the infield is wet. Why is baseball played outdoors in October? The season needs to be shorter -- the playoffs should begin September 1. I remember watching the Detroit Tigers in the Series, and it was something like 40 degrees. Also, I'm not sure what the score of the game is. Radio announcers: You cannot possibly say the score often enough.

2:51 p.m. Mike Cameron just dropped a ball and the Phillies scored two runs. When I was talking with The Boy on Sunday, after the Brewers made the postseason, I mentioned that Cameron must be a call-up. The Boy assured me that Cameron was a veteran, and it must be so because Not-Bob said Cameron is a "multiple golden glover." I remember when I used to know the names all the players on teams I liked. Now, I don't even know the names of all the people who work in my office. There are at least two people who work here who I have no idea what their names are. That's bad -- there's only about 27 people who work here.

3:21 p.m. I had to take some phone calls from work -- stupid "job." Now the game's back on. But I didn't hear what the score is, again, because a coworker talked to me, again. Stupid "job." They did say the Brewers are "going to the bullpen." I think it's 3-0 Phillies.

3:47 p.m. How about that-- more phone calls, more actual "work", and I'm totally lost in what's going on in the game. I'm pretty sure it's Real-Uecker calling the game again. The Brewers are in the field, I know that. (Also: "Actual work" is a loose description, since a part of that was a discussion of whether Cindy Crawford and Celine Dion's kids are actually boys -- they are, I say -- or girls.)

3:56 p.m. The Brewers are down 3-0 at about the 7th inning, I think. There was just a commercial for beer in which a guy tried to get his friends to take care of his cat, "Mr. Wiggles," while he's out of town, and all the guys refuse except one, who says sure and then the cat-owner guy says he'll take the friend out for beer when he gets back. This appears to me to be in direct contrast to the year of man-up type beer and deodorant commercials in which men were told that they have to drink beer and wear "Man-suits" to be men. Now, I guess to be a man you have to own a cat named "Mr. Wiggles" or at least take care of one.

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Halloween Pictionary Party Game

Object of the Game: Collect points by drawing pictures and guessing what scary words the pictures stand for.

What You Need: Plastic pumpkin (or other container), chalk board or drawing board, slips of paper.

What You Do: If you are familiar with the game of Pictionary, then you'll know what to do. If not, a short explanation: Pictionary is a game played by two teams of people. One team sends a person up to aboard to draw a word in picture then the team must guess what it is. This is a Halloween version of that game.

Before the party, make slips of paper with Halloween words such as Mummy, Tombstone, Bats, Vampires, Jack-O-Lantern, Spider, Witch, Black Cat, Candy Corn, etc. Place them in a bowl of some kind, (a plastic child's pumpkin for trick or treating works great). Divide the partygoers into two teams. One player from the first team starts by picking a slip of paper from the bowl. Use a chalkboard, erasable marker board, or large pad of drawing paper and pen to draw items related to the word, players can not write the word. Their team tries to guess the word. Set a 2-minute time limit. The other team goes next. Keep rotating until everyone has a chance to draw. You can keep score and have one team win, or just play for the fun of it.

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, 2001.  Do you remember where you were when you heard that an airplane flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center?  Then the South Tower?  Then the Pentagon?  Then into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania? 
I remember where I was.  I was watching Barney on PBS with my almost 2-year-old daughter while my baby boy lie sleeping upstairs in his crib.  My brother called right after the first plane hit and asked if I saw it.  I turned on Fox News just in time to see the second plane hit.  This has to be an accident, I thought, right?  No one would do this one purpose, right?  I could not have been more wrong.  That day I saw evil.
Like the Man-Purse thing, my views on this might be a bit skewed.  My brother-in-law is a firefighter in New York.  His first month on the job?  September, 2001.  Crappy way to start a new job, don’t you think?  Right after the first plane hit, The Yankee called me to tell me that The Brother-In-Law was working in Manhattan that morning – had I heard anything from his family?  We heard nothing all day and The Yankee kept calling to ask and telling me to be prepared – there was no way The Brother-In-Law could have survived.  He was on duty that morning – he had to be dead.  To make things worse?  The Brother-In-Law is married to The Yankee’s baby sister (28 at the time) who was 8 months pregnant with their first child.
Finally, at 7 o’clock that night we heard – The Brother-In-Law was alive.  His firehouse was one of the first on the scene at the World Trade Center, but right after they arrived a call came in that there was another fire in the city, so his truck was sent.  Turns out it was a false alarm.  By the time they got back, both Towers had collapsed – killing thousands.  A month later (almost to the day) their baby girl was born, but she couldn’t be baptized until the following February because every church in the five boroughs was booked with funerals of members of New York’s finest and New York’s bravest.
So forgive me if I get a little pissed off when people forget about or dare to minimize what happened that day and don’t give it the respect it – and those that were brutally murdered that day by terrorists deserves.  Our family still deals with it every day – in the coughing up of blood of The Brother-In-Law and so many more like him caused by exposure to debris at Ground Zero to the friends who were killed that day – for no reason other than the fact that they were American.  They kissed their wives/husbands and kids good-bye that morning never dreaming they’d never come home.
I’m still mad, and I’m still sad.  I watched a documentary on The History Channel last Thursday called, 102 Minutes that Changed America.  I got sick all over again.  I found myself screaming at the firefighters on TV looking up at the North and South Towers in flames, “Don’t go in!  Don’t go in!”  Hopefully they didn’t.  Please – for all of those lost – never forget.

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The Angels have confidently lined John Lackey and Ervin Santana up to start Games 1 and 2 against the Boston Red Sox and Games 4 and 5 if the American League Division Series goes that far.
But neither Lackey nor Santana had an auspicious end to the regular season. Lackey had the worst start of his career Friday (10 runs on 12 hits in 2 2/3 innings) and Santana was only a little better Saturday (eight runs on 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings) with questions about the Rangers stealing signs.
Neither Angels pitching coach Mike Butcher nor manager Mike Scioscia is worried by that.
“I look at the track record of the whole season and the way they’ve pitched,” Butcher said. “I’m not making any excuses. Every time you go out there, you want to be at your best but sometimes it doesn’t happen. As long as their arms are healthy, their velocity is fine, I’m not concerned.
“I’ve never been a believer that you can turn it on and off like a switch. But I know they’ll be ready when it’s time to take the ball in the playoffs.”
Scioscia echoed Butcher’s assessment of the final pre-playoff tune-ups, saying both Lackey’s and Santana’s “stuff still looked good” but they ran up against a Rangers’ lineup that “was not very forgiving” when they made mistakes.
“I think if their velocity was down and they struggled making their pitches, then you’d be concerned,” Scioscia said. “But that wasn’t the case.

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, 2001.  Do you remember where you were when you heard that an airplane flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center?  Then the South Tower?  Then the Pentagon?  Then into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania? 
I remember where I was.  I was watching Barney on PBS with my almost 2-year-old daughter while my baby boy lie sleeping upstairs in his crib.  My brother called right after the first plane hit and asked if I saw it.  I turned on Fox News just in time to see the second plane hit.  This has to be an accident, I thought, right?  No one would do this one purpose, right?  I could not have been more wrong.  That day I saw evil.
Like the Man-Purse thing, my views on this might be a bit skewed.  My brother-in-law is a firefighter in New York.  His first month on the job?  September, 2001.  Crappy way to start a new job, don’t you think?  Right after the first plane hit, The Yankee called me to tell me that The Brother-In-Law was working in Manhattan that morning – had I heard anything from his family?  We heard nothing all day and The Yankee kept calling to ask and telling me to be prepared – there was no way The Brother-In-Law could have survived.  He was on duty that morning – he had to be dead.  To make things worse?  The Brother-In-Law is married to The Yankee’s baby sister (28 at the time) who was 8 months pregnant with their first child.
Finally, at 7 o’clock that night we heard – The Brother-In-Law was alive.  His firehouse was one of the first on the scene at the World Trade Center, but right after they arrived a call came in that there was another fire in the city, so his truck was sent.  Turns out it was a false alarm.  By the time they got back, both Towers had collapsed – killing thousands.  A month later (almost to the day) their baby girl was born, but she couldn’t be baptized until the following February because every church in the five boroughs was booked with funerals of members of New York’s finest and New York’s bravest.
So forgive me if I get a little pissed off when people forget about or dare to minimize what happened that day and don’t give it the respect it – and those that were brutally murdered that day by terrorists deserves.  Our family still deals with it every day – in the coughing up of blood of The Brother-In-Law and so many more like him caused by exposure to debris at Ground Zero to the friends who were killed that day – for no reason other than the fact that they were American.  They kissed their wives/husbands and kids good-bye that morning never dreaming they’d never come home.
I’m still mad, and I’m still sad.  I watched a documentary on The History Channel last Thursday called, 102 Minutes that Changed America.  I got sick all over again.  I found myself screaming at the firefighters on TV looking up at the North and South Towers in flames, “Don’t go in!  Don’t go in!”  Hopefully they didn’t.  Please – for all of those lost – never forget.

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, 2001.  Do you remember where you were when you heard that an airplane flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center?  Then the South Tower?  Then the Pentagon?  Then into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania? 
I remember where I was.  I was watching Barney on PBS with my almost 2-year-old daughter while my baby boy lie sleeping upstairs in his crib.  My brother called right after the first plane hit and asked if I saw it.  I turned on Fox News just in time to see the second plane hit.  This has to be an accident, I thought, right?  No one would do this one purpose, right?  I could not have been more wrong.  That day I saw evil.
Like the Man-Purse thing, my views on this might be a bit skewed.  My brother-in-law is a firefighter in New York.  His first month on the job?  September, 2001.  Crappy way to start a new job, don’t you think?  Right after the first plane hit, The Yankee called me to tell me that The Brother-In-Law was working in Manhattan that morning – had I heard anything from his family?  We heard nothing all day and The Yankee kept calling to ask and telling me to be prepared – there was no way The Brother-In-Law could have survived.  He was on duty that morning – he had to be dead.  To make things worse?  The Brother-In-Law is married to The Yankee’s baby sister (28 at the time) who was 8 months pregnant with their first child.
Finally, at 7 o’clock that night we heard – The Brother-In-Law was alive.  His firehouse was one of the first on the scene at the World Trade Center, but right after they arrived a call came in that there was another fire in the city, so his truck was sent.  Turns out it was a false alarm.  By the time they got back, both Towers had collapsed – killing thousands.  A month later (almost to the day) their baby girl was born, but she couldn’t be baptized until the following February because every church in the five boroughs was booked with funerals of members of New York’s finest and New York’s bravest.
So forgive me if I get a little pissed off when people forget about or dare to minimize what happened that day and don’t give it the respect it – and those that were brutally murdered that day by terrorists deserves.  Our family still deals with it every day – in the coughing up of blood of The Brother-In-Law and so many more like him caused by exposure to debris at Ground Zero to the friends who were killed that day – for no reason other than the fact that they were American.  They kissed their wives/husbands and kids good-bye that morning never dreaming they’d never come home.
I’m still mad, and I’m still sad.  I watched a documentary on The History Channel last Thursday called, 102 Minutes that Changed America.  I got sick all over again.  I found myself screaming at the firefighters on TV looking up at the North and South Towers in flames, “Don’t go in!  Don’t go in!”  Hopefully they didn’t.  Please – for all of those lost – never forget.

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Taming the lions of the stock market - if a man has learned that average results on common stock are better than on fixed - dollar investments, but he fears that exposing himself to the excitement of the wild stock market will cause him to act unwisely. Expert Advice. How can he gain the advantages of owning stock without running too much risk?

The first step is to realize that intelligent selection of stock is a business in itself, requiring considerable information and experience. - an adviser can be an individual or a big corporation operating nationally, or something in between those extremes. An ordinary investor needs expert assistance, which he can obtain either in the form of advice or in letting an expert manage his money. Where an investor can locate an adviser in whom he has full and lasting confidence, and whose fees he is willing to pay, this reduces the emotional problem. One consideration for a cautious investor is to buy shares in one or more stock mutual funds. Mutual Funds.

To be sure, this requires some study, but the sensible selection of a mutual fund is a simple matter compared to trying to choose among all the large number and variety of corporate stock available. - of course, the future is not guaranteed, but a fund' s past performance record furnishes a solid starting point for a restless heart. For a nervous skeptic, a major advantage of a mutual fund is that it publishes tables showing exactly what net results have been obtained by people who bought its shares on past dates. Diversification and Volatility. The advantage of diversification is that results cannot be much hurt by a bad performance on the part of a few of the stocks owned. In choosing among mutual funds, a temperamental buyer might pay extra attention to the following points: (1) How much diversification? Most mutual funds spread their assets among at least fifty companies and a dozen industries, more than is practical for an investor acting independently, unless he is wealthy.

Because the fund has always owned a good many stocks, a good performance record cannot be the result of a lucky choice of just a few stocks. (2) How much volatility? - with broad diversification, a fund' s past performance is a better guide to the future. Judging by the record to date, the market price of common stock will rise and fall, and a nervous investor might as well get set for this. Bonds and Stocks Split Portfolio. Diversification helps, but it by no means eliminates price fluctuation. A" balanced" mutual fund divides its assets among bonds or preferred stocks, as well as, or both common stocks. Also, the type of common stocks owned by a fund affects its volatility.

Naturally its market value per share fluctuates less than that of a fund wholly invested in common stocks. - so if a man gets panicky when the price of his stock drops, he had better look for a balanced fund whose record shows a comparatively stable price trend. Many investors seem to assume that the only proper way to buy or sell stock is to move a lot of capital at one time. Lower Mental Strain with Small - Move Units. When a family buys a house, they must buy the whole building and the land, in one deal. An investor' s mental strain in deciding to buy or sell stock is greatly reduced when he limits each action to a small portion of his capital. But in the stock market, the minimum unit can have a pretty small dollar value.

Most mutual funds offer standard plans for small installments in both buying and selling. - many investors also try to be smart in the timing of their buying and selling of stock. Dollar - cost Averaging. This involves forecasting when prices will rise and fall and is recommended to any investor anxious to develop stomach ulcers. When a man puts in a similar amount of savings, once each three months or more often, regardless of the current price, he is almost sure to end up with a fair average cost per share. A less exciting way to buy stock is to adopt dollar - cost averaging. When a man wants to sell stock, he can use the same idea.

Keeping some capital in fixed - dollar items rather than putting it all into common stock is a good idea for other reasons besides reducing nervous tension. - fixed - dollar reserve balance. When a man must sell some capital to raise extra cash and the price of stock happens to be down, then it is nice to have some bank deposits or similar investments with fixed value. Don rsquo. For more precision, an investor can adopt a standard ratio between the current market value of his stock and his fixed - dollar or reserve capital. T Borrow to Buy Stocks.

But in buying common stock, whose value is apt to fluctuate, an emotional man who borrows money in order to buy is just plain crazy. - borrowing money is usually necessary for a family when buying a house, and it may be wise, because in repaying a mortgage the family can probably meet the moderate monthly payments without undue strain. Calm Down your Wife. Does she understand his plan, so that when he dies she will know what to do? A wife' s nerves are often forgotten when a man is selecting investments. Especially for an elderly man, a sensible rule might be that he owns no investments that will worry his widow. Practicing most of the methods given above would help an investor sleep more soundly at night.

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thorough and convincing research that this doesn't actually work, it sounds like it makes intuitive sense. On the other side of things, collective efficacy holds that the more social cohesion there is in the neighborhood, the less likely people are to commit crimes because they see that everyone is committed to a safe neighborhood and won't tolerate illegal activities.

Now, there are tons of problems with both of these theories (for instance, use either of them to explain Enron to me), but the biggest problem is that they both rest on a highly punitive theory that sees people as rationally calculating actors who will commit crimes if it's more profitable than legal activity and vice-versa. Therefore, we just need to raise the costs of doing crime (longer jail sentences, etc.) and people will stop committing criminal acts.

Of course, such a line of logic completely misses the fact that most property crimes are committed because the person in question has no other choice. It's not like they're weighing the options of a Harvard MBA versus mugging people. They're much more likely to be weighing starvation and homelessness against mugging people.

But an even bigger problem with such logic is that those who spout it know full damn well it doesn't work and are clearly only using it as a way to round up the poor and minorities, providing cheap prison labor, easy scapegoats, a roll-back of the civil rights movement, and a whole host of other disingenuous motives.

And how am I able to make such audacious claims about their motives? Because when the criminals are wealthy elites, suddenly the logic flies right out the window, as the above cartoon illustrates. For the poor we can't have rehabilitation instead of prison, as the conservatives argue, because it will make people dependent on the state and not punish them for their crimes. However, when you purposefully commit illegal acts and create a national financial crisis, you get $700 billion, which of course in no way encourages future criminal action. No, it sends the strong message that white collar crime will not be accepted.

So let that be a message to you, future CEOs of America: if you act criminally and fuck up the entire nation's financial system, we will harshly punish you by giving you hundreds of billions of dollars. So please, walk the straight and narrow.

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Pearl Jams frontman Eddie Vedder.
Eddie is not afraid to show his loyalty to the Chicago Cubs.  His song All the Way has been all the rage the past few weeks.
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Today was my one year doctor appointment - I have finally developed a fear. I have a serious fear of people at the pediatrician's office - these people poke and prod at me, and stick needles in my legs. I am over them! Two shots today. Don't have to revisit that office until I am 15 months old. My stats:

Height: 29 inches (50th percentile)
Weight: 21lbs, 7.5 oz (60th percentile)
Head Circumference: 17.5 inches (25th percentile)

Nothing else new or changed, Dr. R thinks I look great, "keep doing what you are doing"

I have also been working on signing "all done." Watch this video - at the end you will see me sign all done twice. All done in American Sign Language starts with arms crossed in front of your chest then ends with arms uncrossed by your sides. My parents are accepting arms crossed at this point as all done.

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