If not, now is the time to make one. A budget will tell you what’s coming in and going out each month. It will show you where you are wasting money that would be better spent paying off your credit card balance or investing for your future. Take a look at “Learn how to budget...
Let me offer you a term you might not have hear before, “Velocity of Money.” When I learned this term in grad school, I thought it was great, I imagined money going through the economy getting spent over and over inside of just one year. That’s actually what this phrase means, it...
Flight ELEVEN was coming up, for crying out loud. Still no end in sight. I had noticed early-on that the Flight Test Engineer, Ed Hardesty, manned the base and spent his time copying our entire conversations by hand – legal pad and pencil! Even though some of the control inputs were ...
In considering worth at a single point in time (or time period) rather than comparing it to another point, the conventional technique of inflating or deflating by an annual price index, such as the often-employed CPI, is not applicable. In principle, there can be thousands of ways to measu...
"in the days after the multiple shootings at the southwest philadelphia bar in july, it helped identify potential witnesses and assisted with the recovery of the murder weapon." it shouldn't be surprising: the effort isn't dissimilar to new york city's vaunted compstat program, which displayed...
or flash in my brain when I’m headed for bed. Sometimes, I can’t think of ANYTHING to write about. If it’s Science History, there is no doubt:It’s one of those times…” Oooh, a poem (kinda)! Okay, let’s get going and learn…something! The study of all living organisms...
RATING SCALE: = 0.5- 2.5- EXTREMELY POOR , 3- 5= POOR TO AVERAGE, 5.5- 7.5= GOOD TO VERY GOOD, 8- 9.5= BRILLIANT TO NEAR FLAWLESS (I DON'T BELIEVE IN 10'S)
There’s roughly 60 million Polish people living on the planet, and we come in all shapes and sizes. You could say there are different “levels” of being Polish. Here are those levels the way I see them. Level 1: The Prodigal Pole In the Bible, there’s the story about the Prodigal...
When my husband's aunt, whom I loved as though she were my own, was in her final months I spent a lot of time in her hospice room. I arranged to work on my computer in her room several days per week (there are advantages to being a computer programmer). One da...