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Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come! 2. The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business. 3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services. 4. The Book. You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book. 5. The Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they're always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes. 6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates simply self-destruct. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies." 7. Television. Revenues at the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix. 8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert. 9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7 "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again. All we will have that can't be changed are Memories. |
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Some Really Great Memories in this song
http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm Burma Shave and the Statler Brothers You may need to watch it twice; once to watch the Burma shave signs change and once to catch all the pictures plus listening to the music of the Statler Brothers. Most folks under 50 would have no idea what this is all about... |
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What Was Your Salary Worth 50 Years Ago? It's also fun to look back and see just how much further a dollar seemed to go back then. Undoubtedly you've heard some relative reminiscing about the days when a nickel would buy you four movie tickets and you'd still have some change left. For fun, we thought we'd see what some of today's salaries would translate to in 1958 dollars. We're not saying you would've made that exact amount 50 years ago, because many professions were quite different then and not all salaries increased at the same rate. Also, salary surveys weren't conducted as extensively as they are now, so you can't find some financial data from more than a few decades ago. And keep in mind that many of today's jobs didn't exist 50 years ago. Social media consultants and IT administrators weren't job titles anyone had. Measuring Worth is a Web site that compiles historical salary data from various sources and allows users to calculate different monetary figures such as inflation or purchasing power for specified periods of time. We found today's average salaries and then used Measuring Worth to calculate the monetary equivalent in 1958 based on Consumer Price Index data, which include figures from 1774 to 2008. Here are 25 contemporary jobs and their current salaries* compared with their monetary equivalent 50 years ago**: Accountants Administrative assistants Automotive mechanics Chefs Construction workers Dry cleaners Elementary school teachers Emergency medical technicians Fast-food workers Firefighters Flight attendants Grocery store managers Commercial painters Hospice workers Janitors Newspaper journalists Personal trainers Pianists Plumbers Police officers Public relations representative Registered nurses Sales clerks Surgeons Veterinarians |
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The nasty "A" word is Arthritis! Maybe this story link can help you. Not a cure but maybe some comfort to be found. http://www.lifescript.com/Health/Conditions/Arthritis/Fight%20Arthritis%2010%20Foods%20That%20Help%20and%20Hurt.aspx?utm_campaign=2009-11-01-38744&utm_source=healthy-advantage&utm_medium=email&utm_content=healthy-well-wise_Fight%20Arthritis%2010%20Foo&FromNL=1&sc_date=20091101T000000 |
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The Swinging 60's
Led Zep Chills, Stones Sneer in London Exhibit on Swinging 60s 2009-10-19 23:00:01.4 GMT Review by Mark Beech Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Beatles flee from crowds of The Rolling Stones, with less good grace, sneer through Around them at the National Portrait Gallery, some Anyone expecting surprising revelations, with Singer Marianne Faithfull, wearing white socks, looks There are references to “icons” and “iconic” in the Even the most casual fan will recognize some images, Leaping Beatles It’s more interesting to see the images that didn’t While a few photos on display look little better than It’s often hard, of course, to take a bad picture of a McCartney) and you probably have a memorable image. For my money, the best pictures are those the stars “Beatles to Bowie: The 60s Exposed” is at the National (Mark Beech writes for Bloomberg News and is the |
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The History of 1959
Click above and below to read about what was happening 50 years ago! http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/1959.htm One example: She's here! BARBIE! shhhh... don't tell Ken but she's turned 50! Click the Back Button to Return to the website |
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Christopher Loomis Brown (Very Impressive! I think he made up a lot of this) |
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Tom's Hobby! "For fun I have started writing novels and self-publishing them: they’re on Amazon, books by E. Scott Spencer (my three kids’ names) and at www.escottspencer.com" Click his name - read his Bio Tom's Latest Publication is SHIT : That's Senior Have It Tough- Click the link to find out about it
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Truda has had a Very Productive Life in Every Sense.
Truda Dearie Frekko __________________________________________________________________
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According to this you are still 39, and I know you recently turned 49!!! . Otherwise I'm going to make up my own for you and you might not like it. |
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Once upon a time, you may have done or had the following things while growing up in Mountain Lakes, NJ: You may have been in the GAA Show. You may have hung a large bed sheet out of your window rooting for your GAA Squad. You may have swam in Mountain Lake. You may have worn a badge that indicated that you passed your swim test at the beach. You may have played for the HERD. You may have had Doug Wilkins as your principle. You may have had friends who lived “on the hill” or in “the village” or you lived there yourself. You may have thought that Hess Mart was a place to be worshiped. You may have thought that shaving cream was an integral part of Halloween. You may have attended “Recreation” when you were younger. You may have charged everything imaginable to your parents’ tab at the Mountain Lakes Club. One or both of your parents are either: An attorney, a doctor, or an executive. You may have had a teacher named “Lamps.” You may have been admitted to a good college because you played Lacrosse. You know where the "Esplanade" is. You probably know where the "Frog Pond" is. You definitely know where the "Path" is. You may have drank beers in the woods. You either had a Moped- or rode on the back of your friend's Moped! You may have climbed on the roof of Wildwood. You may have snuck into the gym at Briarcliff and played dodgeball. You may have hung out at "The Market". You were probably born at St. Clare's. You may have taken your Sunfish or Canoe out on Mountain Lake for the 4th of July. You may have been pulled over by Castelluccii. . . . . What's Your Memory? PS. Is it "Drank Beer" or "Drunk Beer" |
