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Balance sheets are the ignored and misunderstood tool of personal finances. However, this recession/depression is being referred to as the balance sheet recession. As a society we were played because of our lack of interest and ignorance of one of our 2 most basic financial tools. The best way I can show how uninterested we are in our balance sheet is that I just did a Google search on "personal budget" and there are 61,300,000 results. For a "personal balance sheet" search there are only 2,530,000 results.

M.A.S.K, for the uninitiated, was a 1980s kids’ cartoon series and best described as a hybrid of Transformers and G.I. Joe. In total 75 episodes were created between 1985 and 1986. The relevance to this list? Rhino – surely one of the finest lorries ever to grace our television sets. This lorry was piloted by Bruce Sato, Alex Sector and Matt Tracker at various points in the show and was armed with anti-gravity cannons, a battering ram, a missile launcher and a separate little car that could slip out of the back.

The typical over the road truck driver can expect to get paid on average .35 cents per mile and run about 2500-3000 miles per week. The miles that a truck driver can expect to run are often limited not by the driver but by load availability . Even the most ambitious driver can expect to legally max out at 3500 miles per week and this is only possible with long hauls that offer few and short load and unload times.

xetaicenter and economist, Paul Pilzer brought to light ‘planned obsolescence’ in his book "God wants You To Be Rich". He speaks of the demise of carburetors to pave the way for fuel injection. Of the demise of the the LP record and the 8-track to give way to the cassette, and then on to the CD.

And of course everyone understands that chocolate will win a girl’s heart. So what about delivering a enjoyment, edible concept to her on her large day with a chocolate bar, personalised with her name?

Speaking of jackets and clothing, one of the bike trail’s most notorious features is "skunking." When you ride through the wet tunnels, the wet, somewhat muddy substance on the trail flings up onto your bottom and back, creating a skunk tail along your backside. Don’t wear good clothing, and think about packing a light jacket for the cooler tunnels if you tend towards a chill on your biking trips.

A concern of the rail support for super hubs is arguably the retail segment. Manufacturing can ‘order out’ the goods and raw materials needed for everyday operations. But retail and most service industries operate on a much tighter schedule of producer to customer. That will be addressed in time when the rail supply system to the super hubs takes foot. For retail marketing follows manufacturing. What happens in manufacturing is mirrored in retail marketing.