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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

A Father's Day Gift Idea:  When words aren't enough ... Say it with bacon.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• How the NSA Uses Your Telephone Records. (The Week)
• Hacking Gets Its Own World Series. (Salon)
• IBM's Jeapordy-Winning Watson Re-Purposed as Customer Service Agent. (MIT Tech Review)
• Misery Vital to Mental Health. Negative emotions are good for long-term well-being. (Salon)
• The Exercise Equivalent of a Cheeseburger? Study concludes, "Excessive exercise significantly increases mortality." - WSJ (Wall Street Journal)

 

Trading Links:

• Risk Is Back. America's Big Banks Are Knee-Deep In Derivatives. (Forbes)
• What Can Traders Learn from Playing Poker? (BrooklynInvestor)
• CME Group Single Day Trading Volume Reaches All-Time High. (CMEGroup)
• High Frequency Trading Report from WFE. (DanCollinsReport)
• Why Economists Aren't Worried About a Stock Market Bubble. The stock market is smashing records. That's no reason to panic. (The Week)

Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

You probably heard that Apple avoided $9.2 Billion in U.S. Taxes with its recent debt deal.  Here is one way to try and fix that ...

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Wisdom of Psychopaths? What can you learn from someone without a conscience? (SciAm)
• How Many Friends Can You Realistically Have? The Dunbar Number answers. (Businessweek)
• Nate Silver: What Big Data Can't Predict. (Fortune Tech)
• United States Postal Service Is Losing $25 Million A Day. (HuffingtonPost)
• Where Mail With Illegible Addresses Goes to Be Read. Once at 55 centers, one of two remaining centers will close. (NYTimes)

 

Trading Links:

• Bill Gates is Back to Being the World's Richest Person. Remain calm and carry on ... (SeattlePI)
• World’s Richest Hedge Fund Managers & Traders. (Forbes)
• A New Era for Do-It-Yourself Investing. (Wall Street Journal)
• SEC Plans Tighter Oversight of Computer Trading. (CBS News)
• Startup Valuations Remain Strong, But 'Down Rounds' Increase to 28% of all VC Deals. (Geekwire)

Rare Footage of Helen Keller Speaking

Helen Keller, the American author, political activist and lecturer, learned to talk despite being deaf and blind.

Here she is with her instructor and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan.  In this footage (from 1930) Sullivan shows the way how Helen Keller learned to talk.

 

 

via Smithsonian.

Kind of cool.

 

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

Whether it is time to lose weight or gain some new skill or capability ... stop telling yourself you will 'try'.  Here are your options (according to Yoda).

 

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• The Future According to Google's Larry Page. (Fortune Tech)
• Questions Loom as Robot Technology Advances. The implications of the robot revolution. (MIT)
• Even the Twitter Elite Say It's OK to Hate Twitter Now. (The Atlantic)
• Is Organic Better? Ask a Fruit Fly. (NYTimes)
• Have We Evolved to Be Nasty or Nice?  (Wall Street Journal)

 

Trading Links:

• Bloomberg Jumps on ‘Twitter A-List’ After SEC’s Social Media Decision. (AdvisorOne)
• Gold’s fair value is $800 an ounce. Is its bear market just beginning? (Mark Hulbert)
• What Five Real Economists Think about Bitcoin’s Future. (TechCrunch)
• The 10 Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers in 2012. (BusinessInsider)
• Top Fund Managers Took Home Less Last Year. While the average hedge fund made a 6.4 per cent profit for its investors in 2012. (FT)

This Graphic Lets You Watch How Fast America Got Fat

Fit or Fat?  Data Says ... "Fatter than Ever".

It’s no secret that the US has a weight problem, but did you realize how fast the country got fat?

The U.S. has gone from a relatively thin country to a place where the norm in many areas is to be overweight or even obese.

Look How Fast It Happened.  The chart starts in 1985.

 

via The Atlantic

 

This animated map is jaw-dropping (or belt-busting).  Notice the how the rate of change accelerates when it reaches the 2000s … many states burst from around a 20% obesity level to over 30%.

It is interesting to note that Colorado remains the only state (in blue) with less than 20% obesity.

Meanwhile, Gallop recently released their Well-Being Index of 189 metro areas.  In 2012, obesity rates in all but two areas were above 15%.

Here are the Fittest and Fattest Communities in the U.S.:

 

If you live in Charlottesville VA or Boulder CO, you’re probably looking good.

 

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Dance Like Nobody Is Watching ... But Plan for Bathing Suit Season [video]

Hope you are having a fun week.

It is springtime ... and the gym I go to is starting to get busier.

Reminder: summer is almost here.

The video below shows what happens when you forget that bathing suit season is coming.

 

 

 

On a positive note, the guy on the left is a pretty good dancer.  Love that he plays full-out, dances like no one is watching, and has fun. 

 

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Some Things to Ponder After the First Quarter

Urgent, please read ASAP.

That's what gets done, of course. The urgent.

Not the article you haven't gotten around to writing, the trip to the gym that will pay off in the long run, the planning for your upcoming birthday party, dinner with your parents (who would love to see you), ten minutes to sit quietly, saying thank you to a friend for no real reason... no, we do the urgent first.

The problem, of course, is that the queue of urgent never ends, it merely changes its volume as it gets longer.

Yes, we've heard it said that it's the important, not the urgent, that deserves attention. But it understates just how much we've been manipulated by those that would make their important into our urgent.

via Seth Godin.

We just finished the first quarter of 2013.

It's been three months since New Year's Eve, and most New Year's Resolutions have been forgotten. As you prepare to face the rest of 2013, ask yourself these powerful questions from Greg Bustin:

1. What do I want?
2. What’s holding me back?
3. What’s the impact of not getting what I say I want?

Now get going. It's not just the first day of a new Quarter ... it's the first day of the rest of your life.

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When Sleep Doesn't Help Like It Should ... It Might Be The Position You're In

Front, Back or Side ... What's Your Perfect Sleep Position?

Instead of a good night's sleep, it may be hurting you.

Here is an infographic from the WSJ that lays it out for you.

 

 

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Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

What bothers you most about someone else is often a clue about what you don't like about your own circumstances ... or, a political cartoonist could point it out instead.

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• 10 Billionaire Biographies You Must Read. (Under30CEO)
• Lessons for Data Driven Businesses. (TechCrunch)
• The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. (NYTimes)
• Desmond Tutu and The Dalai Lama's Extraordinary Talk On God and Religion. (HuffingtonPost)
• An Ingenious Way Of Using Google Maps To Tell Where Rich And Poor People Live. (BizInsider)

 

Trading Links:

• Forbes Lists the World's Richest People. The Billionaire List. (Forbes)
• Singapore: The World's Richest City. (WSJ Video)
• Google Passes Apple as Top U.S. Mutual and Hedge Fund Holding. (AppleInsider)
• Yardeni: S&P 500 Could Hit 1665 Mid-Year. (BusinessInsider)
• Sign of the Times: Celebrity Mila Kunis Talked Stocks on CNBC. Is that as an ominous sign for the rally, or just an indication that “dumb-money” is back in the game? (TDB)

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The Countdown of Life - How What You Do Adds Up Over Time

Are you happy how you spend your day?

Do you ever think about how most people choose to spend their time?  

As you might guess, average Americans spend 8 hours at work, maybe half an hour in traffic, a few hours watching TV in the evening.

But what if you looked at it another way - what if you added up all those hours over the course of your whole life? The following infographic shows the tally.

 

 

 

That half an hour in traffic adds up to over a year of your life. And those innocent hours of TV? They add up to 9 years for the average American.

"It's not the years in your life that count ... It's the life in your years."  ~ Abraham Lincoln

Are you giving time to the things you really care about?