I think what your describing is gate keeping.

I've noticed this phenomenon as well I refer to it as working out in the prison yard. Everyone looks super serious and can't smile cause I might get shanked.

One suggestion to add on to what the others have said is find maybe a sport like tennis, racquetball, dodge ball, kickball and join a league. You'll meet people who take things seriously and you'll meet people that are having fun, ignore and lose to the serious people and laugh/learn from the having fun types. Find a buddy that has a similar mentality to exercise and go do goofy things in or out of the gym.

Also try a trampoline park(like Get Air). I work out several times a week lift weights, cardio, etc. Nothing was more sweat inducing than taking my kids to a trampoline park for an hour, I needed days to recover from under used muscles I didn't even know I had.

You could carefully review your local ordinances, if your allowed to make "improvements" to your house. You could theoretically tear down an entire house with the exception of a single internal wall. Then build you to your desire what you wish around this existing wall. Once enclosed, repair or accidentally knock over said wall and continue building. It's not as nice a starting fresh but it gets around a lot of the stifling that happens in regards to building new buildings.

If your just making improvements there is a lot more freedom in refurbishing and most code enforcement municipalities just drive by to check on your work. Your most likely not going to run into trouble.

Let me end with, this was done in another state, not by a lawyer, just some random guy on the internet.

This is very common in California because under this scenario your house is not reassessed for prop 13 property tax purposes. Your cost basis only goes up by the dollar value of the improvements (which you can easily understate). If you do a complete teardown, the county reassesses at current market value. A lot of people leave the chimney up because you get the added benefit of getting grandfathered on the air quality ordinances.

Remodeling down to the studs is what many people do, but we have an empty lot.

This only works if you're in a nice neighborhood or well connected. If you're in a part of town that "the powers that be" see as a stain on the rest of the town it usually doesn't work out.

Since the 1960 the birth rate has been on a downward trend. At the same time the urban population has been increasing.

According to this: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/

FYI it looks like you can purchase one from the New York State Troopers: http://nystbenefitfund.org/index2.html

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Having a 10 year old boy and 7 year old girl. This is great; my daughter always lamented about how her brother was able to more as a cub scout.

She tried girls scouts for a year, then her troop leader left which caused her troop to fold. We could have moved her to another troop, but she didn't want to, she liked the way things were. I would intermittently bring to her different Cub Scout functions. Every time I would she would be included in the activities and encouraged to participate by everyone from leaders to parents.

I wasn't keen on the idea of my son joining a god loving, gay hating, etc. organization. It was his choice, his friends were doing it and I went along to make sure nothing happened. After three years of cub scouting I can say that each troop operates on it's own and does what it's leaders feel is best for the kids. If you don't like how your local troop is run try another one, or just take your kids camping, do weekly exercises on rope tying, building bird houses etc.

In Canada they just have Scouts of Canada the genders are treated equally. My daughter is excited, I'm only saddened she missed out a few years of fun.

There are two charging options regular DC and quick charge which takes about an hour.

Also this is only the beginning of production. "Daimler said it's only planning on producing 500 trucks in the next year, but it intends to start mass-producing the trucks in 2019".

“The company will expand its electric truck production as lower cost, longer-range batteries become available within two to three years,”

These trucks would probably be used for last mile deliveries in urban areas.

I think kind of confusion could be solved with http://what3words.com/

It's a different way to look up locations through the entire world, using three random words you can find any address or location with in 10 feet.

The only downside I see is the three words are all English words. Which could be unfamiliar to non English speaking parts of the world.

Just think about how easy it would be teach your children where they live by memorizing just three words instead of House number, Street name, City, State, Zip code.

A lot of information is coded in just the numeric part of a street address. Even or odd tells you which side of the street it is on, you can tell where an address is relative to other addresses on the street, and there's usually a sign on the building that you can match with the address you have to make sure you're at the right place.

Three random words have none of these properties.

The other downsides are

- It's a proprietary system

- The three words give no clues in relation to other words -- except that similar words are some distance from each other. "59 Main Street" is very often very close to "57 Main Street".

Yeah, basically all the three words give you is "somewhat? memorable unique identifiers". You get jack diddly squat in terms of routing information.

You want a lot of things out of a good address system.

  1.  Unique identifier.  (ie, no duplicates)
  2.  Reasonably simple to remember.  (ie, not lat-longs)
  3.  Simple levels of abstraction.  ("Do you deliver to X?")
  4.  Recursive routing. (Navigating to one layer of the address, then another, should work reasonably well.)
  5.  Decentralized implementation.  (Localities must be able to assign names while following a few reasonable rules.)

#1 and 2 aren't really the hard parts of the problem.

I'm guessing it would be a logical next-step to simply generate place names according to this grid in every known language, ideally using the same word as in English where possible.

edit: they already have that for what looks like at least 13 major languages.