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This is normal and good. You're losing fat and gaining muscle. Don't worry aobut becoming too Arnold-like -- this process will stop sooner or later and your weight and physique will stabilize. At that point you could decide whether you want to lose more fat/weight, which would require some diet...

If you are an organized person, stoozing is not risky at all. You have a few weeks to make your payments, whether online or by mail, and the ability to easily verify online that the payment credited correctly. It just takes a little organization and can yield a few thousand dollars per year with...

As a part-time personal trainer, I would advise skipping expensive sessions and instead taking some time to educate yourself on the basics of exercise and nutrition. As with investing, it's VERY possible to DIY and get results that match or exceed that of professionals :)

What haha said. If you look at world indices, most of them have been beaten down worse than the US. Taking end of Oct '07 as the peak, they've declined, roughly: Britain: 6700 -> 5700, 15% Germany: 8000 -> 6500, 19% France: 5850 -> 4700, 20% Japan: 16700 -> 12500, 25% Australia: 6800 -> 5400...

Thanks, 2Cor, I'll make sure to read through your FWF thread. I managed around $5K/yr last couple of years but having doubts about this year. Will check out your experience, thanks again

Speaking of stoozing... I just paid back the remaining balances on my last round and deciding whether it's worth doing another one now. From what I read banks are clamping down on 0% offers/LOC transfers and falling interest rates don't help either. Any recent experience/advice? TIA.

I'll chime in too... In addition to other non-fossil fuel technologies already mentioned, solar (especially solar thermal) should be emphasized. Just doing a back of the envelope number crunching using Arizona to become 'Persian Gulf' of solar energy - CNN.com as the example: The $1B solar...

Thanks for the replies. I know there's no one "true" P/E but I guess I expected all sources to use the same TTM data resulting in very similar values for what are essentially equivalent funds. Using "official" index data makes sense. S&P shows 12/31/2007 P/E of 18.68 for S&P 500(...

How do you find out the "true" market or index P/E ? :confused: For example, Yahoo Finance currently shows the following: iShares S&P 500 Index (IVV): 13.62 P/E SPDRs (SPY): 14.28 P/E Vanguard Large Cap ETF (VV): 15.82 P/E To add to confusion, going by ETF's providers websites: iShares S&P 500...

I keep watching it only to diss it the following day discussing with friends. Worst episode ever.

I think they're both assertions in that case. After all, the size of any new discovery is an estimate just like a revision in the size of an existing field is an estimate. I agree that none of these numbers are 100% reliable, but I would go with data from an established authority (USGS) over...

As per USGS "growth of oil reserves in previously discovered fields exceeded new-field discoveries as a source of global additions to reserves of conventional oil by a factor of about 3 to 1" and total world oil reserves grew by 240B barrels between 1996-2003...

Henry and Lola. Two years later they're still happily retired.

I would imagine your local gold/silver exchange business would be a good place. I sold a gold bullion coin (a South African Krugerrand that we happened to have) recently and got almost 99% of the spot price. I would imagine you'd pay similarly low premium when buying. And I was just selling a...

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