2013 Celebrity Death Pool and Other Predictions

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola y’all! Well, it’s 2013 and that means it must be time for another Celebrity Death Pool and Predictions for the New Year. Remember, I’m not saying I WANT these celebrities to die, I’m just saying I think they very well might.<br /><br /><b>Gallagher</b><br /><b>George H.W. Bush</b><br /><b>Fidel Castro</b><br /><b>Nicolas Cage</b> (this one is for me)<br /><b>Betty White</b><br /><b>Daryl Dragon </b><br /><b>Nelson Mandela </b>or as he’s known in this country <b>Morgan Freeman.  </b><br /><b>Kirk Douglas</b> (This will make me very sad as it will them make my impression of him in bad taste.)<br /><b>Roger Ebert</b> (Can’t wait to see all the right-wingers celebrate that. They’ll be the same ones who will be OUTRAGED at any left-wingers who say bad things about GHWB’s death.)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsEW-EE-pfMBLzddnVNOaNHteYpvpddHftJ8qkNW08HKbbsjzE5Tohu0XvE1_iHisczSmI0Bq2gJATeph9H0wpte1MUYQ7PajULO45G_aZMTfVW4qq_jLOO2eTxkFQDyM4nh4D2_CgbI/s1600/Dakota+Fanning+Hot+Legs+Nude+Sexy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsEW-EE-pfMBLzddnVNOaNHteYpvpddHftJ8qkNW08HKbbsjzE5Tohu0XvE1_iHisczSmI0Bq2gJATeph9H0wpte1MUYQ7PajULO45G_aZMTfVW4qq_jLOO2eTxkFQDyM4nh4D2_CgbI/s320/Dakota+Fanning+Hot+Legs+Nude+Sexy.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><b>Dakota Fanning.</b> (I know I say it every year, but it’s true that she’s getting into that “child star grew up too fast got into drugs and partying and OD’d” zone.)<br /><br /><b>Margaret Thatcher</b><br /><b>Hugo Chavez </b><br /><b>Frank Bonner</b> (He never responded to my very heartfelt request that he come on the show. That was probably my biggest disappointment of 2012. And for that, he must die.)<br /><br /><b>Jim Cantore</b> (of course! One of these hurricanes is going to get him eventually. I’m guessing he’ll be impaled by a stop sign.)<br /><br /><b>Billy Graham</b><br /><b>Fred Phelps</b> (And hundreds of gays wearing rainbow tie-dye shirts will protest his funeral by singing “Born This Way.”)<br /><br /><b><i>Okay, how ‘bout a few predictions for 2013 …. </i></b><br /><br />- Taylor Swift will get married in April. Divorced in June. Married in August. Divorced in October. Yet, the media will continue to pretend that she is a pure and innocent snowflake.<br /><br />- A professional athlete will leave the team he plays for and go to another. When he gets to that other team he will declare that “it was never about the money” and then tell everyone that he’s “just happy to be where he’s wanted.”<br /><br />- The San Francisco 49ers will win Super Bowl XLVII and we will all be subjected to the absolute worst people on Earth. San Francisco bandwagon fans who truly the most horrible and ugly people you’ll ever come across.<br /><br />- There will be a “Debt Limit Crisis” in March, then a “Financial Crisis” in May, then a “Gas Price Panic” in June, then another “Debt Limit Crisis” in September followed quickly by another “Fiscal Cliff” in October and the Mother of All “Fiscal Cliff Financial Debt Limit Crisis Panics” in November.<br /><br />- Notre Dame will win the BCS Championship by a score of 9-5. Alabama will have the ball on the Irish one yard line first and goal with 2 minutes left but be unable to get into the end zone after running four consecutive dive plays right into the line. On fourth down there will be a mysterious Personal Foul call on Notre Dame giving Bama a new set of downs. They will run four more dive plays into the line and on the last play of the game will come up just two inches short of the goal line. The dramatic final sequence of plays will take place at 2:30 am as the game runs VERY late into the night because of the 8,391 commercials that ESPN will run.<br /><br />- The San Francisco Giants will win the World Series and those horrible people will be unleashed upon us good, decent folks again.<br /><br />- Someone you know will post “I won’t be around much for a few days as I’ve decided I need to unplug for a bit” on a social media site. That person will then proceed to post regularly or even more often than normal.<br /><br />- Several people you know will announce that they’ve had it and they are deleting ALL social media. Two days later they will be back on every single social media site. Even MySpace.<br /><br />- I’m With Stupid Podcast will again ascend to the top spot of the BTR rankings and this time will NOT give the #1 spot away.<br /><br />Well there you go. Looks like it’s gonna be a big year!<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><br /><br /></div>

2013 Celebrity Death Pool and Other Predictions

Hola y’all! Well, it’s 2013 and that means it must be time for another Celebrity Death Pool and Predictions for the New Year. Remember, I’m ...

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Ice cream!

I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream!<br /><br />This is the Dairy Queen in Key West. It's an old building, probably from the 1950's - you are not allowed lean on the glass because of the age of the building!<br />We do not have Dairy Queen in Ireland so we always go here at least once when we are in town.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43roazBeO8xfv6nzMATPc-uv1WegaF4kr4yW0LaEp8FxVQtTGnSN30XYSs8Dr4EGdFXtsczus3NFyeVkzN-coQ59rqFCXsGKLHf4Ul6nV5Sx1SV41fK9hCh4lQlZjKmFsfnQpMTaOvYNy/s1600/20121231_175359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43roazBeO8xfv6nzMATPc-uv1WegaF4kr4yW0LaEp8FxVQtTGnSN30XYSs8Dr4EGdFXtsczus3NFyeVkzN-coQ59rqFCXsGKLHf4Ul6nV5Sx1SV41fK9hCh4lQlZjKmFsfnQpMTaOvYNy/s400/20121231_175359.jpg" /> </a> </div>Edit after seeing below comment by I wonder who?!! Key Lime Pie is the most famous dessert in the keys - and a slice of frozen pie dipped in chocolate is highly recommended by my friends, however I have yet to taste it. For me the ice cream from Flamingo Crossing at Virginia & Duval is the best. Last night we got ice cream from Mathisons - the mint choc chip tasted like toothpaste. Yuck! PS. We saw the McDonalds in KW for the first time the other day. We didn't eat there......we went to 5 Guys! ;-)<div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ACoOLWKdqoqME-pmRE-iLZ6syjhZDYoOIriXPocKifOPWvg_bZ2gqoTjkZlo7C4ueJvtXKzbp_ozUfpmjLccpOISx05PxNgn1vjiGbMnNt4BMGEovLzSdoyJ-Nv9VNkberS9e6Oe9LoZ/s1600/20130106_152522.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ACoOLWKdqoqME-pmRE-iLZ6syjhZDYoOIriXPocKifOPWvg_bZ2gqoTjkZlo7C4ueJvtXKzbp_ozUfpmjLccpOISx05PxNgn1vjiGbMnNt4BMGEovLzSdoyJ-Nv9VNkberS9e6Oe9LoZ/s400/20130106_152522.jpg" /> </a> </div><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjxI7kzc5SkA-ALf27WZH7OdB53tSCCEebsD0e2h54O2NiZjOhR3_anIU-7q_eTLMrWdhYJRIXqCyvOIslqp8EJzoyLAhoQUdAbyNE1t9kQHbhPuvMEJa9Y_SUz9B4aZbUDmH5Qrlp7bj/s1600/20130106_152536.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjxI7kzc5SkA-ALf27WZH7OdB53tSCCEebsD0e2h54O2NiZjOhR3_anIU-7q_eTLMrWdhYJRIXqCyvOIslqp8EJzoyLAhoQUdAbyNE1t9kQHbhPuvMEJa9Y_SUz9B4aZbUDmH5Qrlp7bj/s400/20130106_152536.jpg" /> </a> </div>

Ice cream!

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Amnesia and the Self That Remains When Memory Is Lost - Daniel Levitin - The Atlantic

<div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Tom was one of those people we all have in our lives -- someone to go out to lunch with in a large group, but not someone I ever spent time with one-on-one. We had some classes together in college and even worked in the same cognitive psychology lab for a while. But I didn't really know him. Even so, when I heard that he had brain cancer that would kill him in four months, it stopped me cold.</span><br></div><p>I was 19 when I first saw him -- in a class taught by a famous neuropsychologist, Karl Pribram. I'd see Tom at the coffee house, the library, and around campus. He seemed perennially enthusiastic, and had an exaggerated way of moving that made him seem unusually focused. I found it uncomfortable to make eye contact with him, not because he seemed threatening, but because his gaze was so intense.</p><blockquote class="pullquote" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 15px !important; padding-right: 10px !important; padding-bottom: 15px !important; padding-left: 10px !important; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 227, 233); border-top-width: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(214, 227, 233); float: left; font-style: italic; width: 230px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"Please forgive me for asking this, but I do this with everybody. Could you tell me your name again and how it is that I know you?"</font></blockquote><p>Once Tom and I were sitting next to each other when Pribram told the class about a colleague of his who had just died a few days earlier. Pribram paused to look out over the classroom and told us that his colleague had been one of the greatest neuropsychologists of all time. Pribram then lowered his head and stared at the floor for such a long time I thought he might have discovered something there. Without lifting his head, he told us that his colleague had been a close friend, and had telephoned a month earlier to say he had just been diagnosed with a brain tumor growing in his temporal lobe. The doctors said that he would gradually lose his memory -- not his ability to form new memories, but his ability to retrieve old ones ... in short, to understand who he was.</p><p>Tom's hand shot up. To my amazement, he suggested that Pribram was overstating the connection between temporal-lobe memory and overall identity. Temporal lobe or not, you still like the same things, Tom argued -- your sensory systems aren't affected. If you're patient and kind, or a jerk, he said, such personality traits aren't governed by the temporal lobes.</p><p>Pribram was unruffled. Many of us don't realize the connection between memory and self, he explained. Who you are is the sum total of all that you've experienced. Where you went to school, who your friends were, all the things you've done or -- just as importantly -- all the things you've always hoped to do. Whether you prefer chocolate ice cream or vanilla, action movies or comedies, is part of the story, but the ability to know those preferences through accumulated memory is what defines you as a person. This seemed right to me. I'm not just someone who likes chocolate ice cream, I'm someone who knows, who remembers that I like chocolate ice cream. And I remember my favorite places to eat it, and the people I've eaten it with.</p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">From a friend, Pribram had learned that his colleague had decided to go to the Caribbean for a vacation with his wife. One day he just walked out into the ocean and never came back. He couldn't swim; he must have gone out with the intention of not coming back -- before the damage from the tumor could take hold, Pribram said.</span>Pribram walked up to the lectern and gripped it with both hands. When they had spoken last, his colleague seemed more sad than frightened. He was worried about the loss of self more than the loss of memory. He'd still have his intelligence, the doctors said, but no memories. "What good is one without the other?" his colleague had asked. That was the last time Pribram spoke to him.</p><p>The room was silent for 10 or 15 seconds -- stone silent. I looked over at Tom's notebook. "Neuropsychologist contemplates losing his mind," Tom had written.</p><p>If he had lived, Pribram's colleague would have experienced what neuroscientists call retrograde amnesia. This is the kind of amnesia that is most often dredged up as a plot element in bad comedies and cheap mystery stories; so-and-so gets hit on the head and then can't remember who he is anymore, wanders around aimlessly, finding himself in zany predicaments, until he gets hit on the head again and his memory remarkably returns. This almost never occurs in real life. Although retrograde amnesia is real, it's usually the result of a tumor, stroke, or other organic brain trauma. It isn't restored by a knock on the head. Because they can still form new memories, patients with retrograde amnesia are acutely aware that they have a cognitive deficit, are painfully knowledgeable about what they are losing.</p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">***</p><p>Tom and I crossed paths years again later when we were both working for a research company. He was part of a team designing virtual musical instruments for non-musicians, like Guitar Hero or Rock Band, seeking to give customers an awesome music-playing experience after zero hours of practice. I saw Tom in the halls from time to time, said hello, saw him at a couple of company jam sessions; he was a really good keyboard player.</p><p>Sometime after I left the research company to begin my first academic job, I ran into a woman from the company who asked if I'd heard the news about Tom.</p><p>"He has an inoperable brain tumor, temporal lobe. The doctors say he has four months to live. I just visited him. You might want to drop by and say hello."</p><p>"Well I ... I don't really know him. I mean, we said hi in the halls and stuff. But, I don't know him ... I don't think we've ever had a conversation longer than two minutes."</p><p>"It doesn't matter," she said. "He doesn't really have anything to do, other than to visit with people. I think he'd really appreciate it." She gave me Tom's number, saying I should phone first, because he has good days and bad.</p><p>I phoned and a caregiver answered. We made an appointment for the following Thursday at 1:00 pm. "He's not so good first thing in the morning. The drugs. And some days aren't good at all. Call first, around 11:00 in the morning, and I'll let you know how he's doing. Apart from that, I should warn you, he doesn't remember very much -- the tumor has wiped out his memories of the past."</p><div>More ...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/amnesia-and-the-self-that-remains-when-memory-is-lost/266662/">http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/amnesia-and-the-self-that-remains-when-memory-is-lost/266662/</a></div>

Amnesia and the Self That Remains When Memory Is Lost - Daniel Levitin - The Atlantic

Tom was one of those people we all have in our lives -- someone to go out to lunch with in a large group, but not someone I ever spent time ...

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TURKEY: ALWAYS A FORCE TO RECKON WITH

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mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPX-y45ZY8IUksSTqEPZa3QKVL4Ooic6p8umSMDGKb2TE5z3I9l1kndkIzwLaxAtewUG8fSAz7N99GEQF02jPDamvh5xy6FtHLjT0D3CV47cLbP513WPKuj6mo4mzRe5bOEb53gGEYU1P/s1600/b608b5e2-add9-4d90-bfed-2782bdc10f35-444x333.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPX-y45ZY8IUksSTqEPZa3QKVL4Ooic6p8umSMDGKb2TE5z3I9l1kndkIzwLaxAtewUG8fSAz7N99GEQF02jPDamvh5xy6FtHLjT0D3CV47cLbP513WPKuj6mo4mzRe5bOEb53gGEYU1P/s320/b608b5e2-add9-4d90-bfed-2782bdc10f35-444x333.jpeg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY TO PAY OFF ITS IMF DEBTS IN 2013</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKISH Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that TURKEY'S debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was 23.5 billion USD in 2002 due to stand-by agreements and that this debt went down to 1.7 billion USD in 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY'S debt to the IMF will be paid completely by April 2013, Erdogan stressed as he addressed the participants of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on EUROPE, the MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA and CENTRAL ASIA taking place under the title "Uniting Regions in Transformation"</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"I am pleased to see the WEF meeting taking place in Istanbul. I am thankful to all those who made the forum possible in Istanbul," Erdogan noted.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"I find the forum in Istanbul, with the heading "Uniting Regions in Transformation", highly well-timed and meaningful," Erdogan stated.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CURBING IN CORRUPTION, THE KEY TO SUCCESS </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Despite all difficulties and problems in a tough geography, TURKEY continues to develop with stability and democracy and protects its identity of being a secure island, Erdogan underlined and added that this kind of things are possible when corruption is curbed.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is clear that any country which runs away from regional cooperation in the CAUCASUS, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA and BALKANS will be deprived of not only prosperity but tranquility, stability and security as well, Erdogan stressed.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ECONOMIC FIGURES</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Historically, from 2000 until 2011, TURKEY Government Debt to GDP averaged 53.1 Percent reaching an all time high of 77.9 Percent in December of 2001 and a record low of 39.4 Percent in December of 2011. <a href="http://www.tradingeconomics.com/turkey/government-debt-to-gdp" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Eurostat now reports</span></a>that debt to GDP ratio to be the loves ever.  </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the past 10 years, the TURKISH economy grew around 5.3 percent annually. Considering the global financial crisis in the past decade, an annual growth of 5.3 percent is an important achievement.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In 2011, TURKEY was the second country in the world after CHINA with its growth figure of 8.5 percent. While TURKEY'S national income was 230 billion USD in 2002, this figure jumped to 772 billion USD in 2011. Income per capita in TURKEY went up to 10,444 USD in 2011. By the end of 2011, TURKEY'S foreign trade volume went up to 376 billion USD from 88 billion USD in 2002. TURKEY'S tourism income was recorded as 23.5 billion USD in 2011. Direct international investments in TURKEY in 2011 were worth 16 billion USD.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While TURKEY'S economic figures may have been negatively affected in 2009 due to the serious global financial crisis, economic figures in TURKEY today are better than they were prior to the crisis.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">TURKEY'S 2013 GROWTH PREDICTIONS ARE POSITIVE</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts TURKEY would grow 3.5 percent in 2013 while predictions about TURKEY'S growth rate by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), World Bank, European Commission global investment bank Goldman Sachs are 4.6 percent, 4 percent, 4.6 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">International establishments' highest growth predictions are being made towards CHINA. IMF predicts CHINESE growth for 2013 as 8.2, OECD as 9.3, World Bank as 8.6, EUROPEAN Commission as 8.2 percent.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On the other hand, between the country groups, the lowest growth expectation is for EUROPEAN Zone. IMF's expectation for Euro zone is 0.2, OECD's 0.9, World Bank's 0.7 and EUROPEAN Commission's 1 percent.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">IMF World Economic Outlook report predicts world growth of IMF in 2013 is expected as 3.6 percent.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

TURKEY: ALWAYS A FORCE TO RECKON WITH

TURKEY TO PAY OFF ITS IMF DEBTS IN 2013 TURKISH Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that TURKEY'S debt to the International Monetary Fu...

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Toot toot! Train is coming to town!

<p>This is the famous Key West Conch Train.  It has been carting tourists around the island since the 1970's!</p><p>It passes by our cottage and I love waving at everyone on board!</p><div class='separator' style='clear: both; text-align: center;'> <a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0RVFpHO5v13K5LyNNF7SsAgH0RTiw4QwkAnirqaQSp_fn0mtc7JcHVFsoB7BLDTcB6_M5oUovwHmRcOvLktlXjr2uW805dbpkZdpJPustV0hkpDVkj9FVQc08eO81ER-5L5ybpPR5soy/s1600/20130101_210012.jpg' imageanchor='1' style='margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;'> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0RVFpHO5v13K5LyNNF7SsAgH0RTiw4QwkAnirqaQSp_fn0mtc7JcHVFsoB7BLDTcB6_M5oUovwHmRcOvLktlXjr2uW805dbpkZdpJPustV0hkpDVkj9FVQc08eO81ER-5L5ybpPR5soy/s400/20130101_210012.jpg" /> </a> </div>

Toot toot! Train is coming to town!

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Vote for 2012 Building of the Year

Part of the work I do with <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/">World-Architects.com</a> involves the <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/reviews/41">Building of the Week</a> feature on the American-Architects page. For 2012 there were 50 such buildings, and now voting is open to determine the <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/voting/41/12">Building of the Year</a>. Below is a peek of the buildings in the running, but head over to American-Architects <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/voting/41/12">to vote</a>. Only one vote is allowed per person, and the deadline is January 28, 2013.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/voting/41/12"><img alt="W-A_2012BOTY.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/W-A_2012BOTY.jpg" title="American-Architects 2012 Building of the Year" /></a>

Vote for 2012 Building of the Year

Part of the work I do with World-Architects.com involves the Building of the Week feature on the American-Architects page. For 2012 there ...

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2013 is here!

<p>What a great NYE celebration we had last night!</p><p>We had a 9.30 dinner reservation at Salute the Beach.  We arrived at about 9.15pm and they were able to seat us immediately.  It was a set menu for the night that was in it.  Looking out on to the beach we sat and sipped a glass of champagne - what an amazing setting.  At 10pm, there was a firework display provided by the Southernmost Hotel.  We had a birdseye view of the fireworks!</p><p>After dinner we moved to the bar to enjoy ambiance and listen to the live music. Come 11.30 or so we cycled home to ring in the New Year alone on our balcony which is what's have done for the past few years.</p><p>Here's to 2013, let's hope it's a good one!!!</p>

2013 is here!

What a great NYE celebration we had last night! We had a 9.30 dinner reservation at Salute the Beach.  We arrived at about 9.15pm and they w...

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/01/2013

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 01/01/2013

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