NYMEX.com
The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange and the preeminent trading forum for energy and precious metals.
The Exchange has stood for market integrity and price transparency for more than 130 years.
Transactions executed on the Exchange avoid the risk of counterparty default because the Exchange clearinghouse acts as the counterparty to every trade.
Trading is conducted through two divisions, the NYMEX Division, home to the energy, platinum, and palladium markets; and the COMEX Division, on which all other metals trade.
The Exchange pioneered the development of energy futures and options contracts 26 years ago as means of bringing price transparency and risk management to this vital market.
The Exchange plays a vibrant role in the commercial, civic, and cultural life of New York.
It provides thousands of jobs in the financial services and allied industries and, through the New York Mercantile Exchange Charitable Foundation, supports cultural and social service programs in the downtown community as well as broader charitable endeavors in the metropolitan area.
We invite you to explore our site and learn more about the Exchange, our markets, and other information of public interest.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
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» Bright idea Sky Pedia: - your MINI encyclopedia
» Bright idea Sky Pedia: - your MINI encyclopedia
I will be updating this site frequently in order to provide you with timely information concerning issues and events throughout our constituency.
The web offers the advantage of posting items much more quickly than traditional print methods, and it allows me to convey more detailed information with regards to specific issues.
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Remember that I am here to serve you.
If there is something you would like to see added to the website, or if you have any questions or comments, please contact me.
I would like to thank Mr. Karim Dababneh for his full support in making this website approaching the venture.
Thank you for visiting my website and for your continued support.
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Top Secrets for Overcoming Your Obstacles
Top Secrets for Overcoming Your Obstacles
The entries in this blog are written for Entrepreneurial Women … and our supporters.
Regardless of whether self-employed or employed by others … an Entrepreneurial Woman is a woman who ….(i) knows that professional success depends upon her efforts and upward action;(ii) is business savvy (or tries to be) when making decisions in her company, career and volunteer service;(iii) works to learn new techniques for handling her business (in all aspects of her life) to increase her performance and profitability; and(iv) really believes that preparation + action + effective support systems + faith = success!
Upward Action LLC (UpwardAction) is a professional coaching and organizational development boutique dedicated to helping entrepreneurial women accelerate their career performance and business profitability.
UpwardAction was founded by Coach T.C., esq., an attorney, professional coach and writer who is totally committed to helping women achieve accelerated success and enjoy fulfilling lives. Coach T.C. brings a diverse legal, business and coaching background to UpwardAction’s clients that propels them to both personal and professional success.
She is also a graduate of Hampton University, Columbia Law Schoool and Coach University.
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Upward Action LLCEmail: coaching@upwardactionFax: 866.630.7088Phone: 800.753.6576
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Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Site Content Copyright Protection
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The Nietzsche Family Circus
The Nietzsche Family Circus
The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
Refresh the page to see a new comic and share your favorites by clicking permalink.
RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters
RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters
This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it.
It also includes information on a similar format called Atom.
The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies.
It is not meant to be exhaustive; for more information, see the ‘More Information about RSS’ section.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Freewebs.com - Free website, free hosting, free webpage - Make a web site with photo albums, blogs, videos, forums and more!
Freewebs.com - Free website, free hosting, free webpage -
Make a web site with photo albums, blogs, videos, forums and more!
"Et tu, Brutus?"
"Yes, Caesar!....I have one of the 17 million websites created at Freewebs.com."
Freewebs is a site creation service that lets users make fully functioning sites complete with blogs, forums and chat rooms.
Users start by choosing from over 300 templates and then can go on to add image, photo albums, videos and profiles, all editable with their WYSIWYG page editor.
Freewebs also integrates ratings, comments, widgets, maps, games and an RSS reader.
You can't say that Freewebs skimps on providing site necessities, since they top everything off with a slick Site Manager dashboard.
The Site Manager makes it easy for people to quickly update a page or add a new one.
They have partnered with online photo editor Picnik so users can edit their pictures straight from the site.
Other partners include YouTube, Photobucket, RockYou and MiniClip. Also, if users are interested in ecommerce, Freewebs helps them integrate online payment tools like PayPal into their site.
The company was started by three brothers, $2000 and a single server.
They now claim to have over 17 million websites created using their tools.
Free Online Course Materials | Courses | MIT OpenCourseWare
Free Online Course Materials Courses MIT OpenCourseWare
Mabel: "I studied at Podunk University, Shakira! Where did you get your education?"
Shakira: "Mabel, I am blessed to have taken the greatest courses on the planet from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Mabel: "Ohhhhhhhh!....very....nice."
Real People - Real Portfolios - The New Way to Invest - Cake Financial
Real People - Real Portfolios - The New Way to Invest - Cake Financial
StockDate 1229.07
Balanor
What is the stock market if not the reflection of the shareholders. If you want to know the market, you must know the soul of the market....the holders of the stock. Cake Financial just might the ideal place to tap into that soul!!!!
Cake Financial is a social investment service that lets people safely and securely track all their investment portfolios in one place.
The service allows individual investors to track and analyze their historical performance up to ten years. Users can also view the real-time portfolios and performances of their friends, family and top investors all without disclosing net worths, shares owned, portfolio sizes, etc.
Another great feature they provide users are investment "journals" or blogs that can be commented on.
Users can write about their buys and sells, provide advice and ask for advice.
If their journal entry on a certain position is relevant it will be included on the specific position page.
Cake Financial wants to provide investors with "an equal balance of 'actions' and 'words' on the Cake network.
"Most people are pretty private about their personal finances and investment decisions and Cake Financial has special security features to protect this information.
For instance, users can choose anonymous usernames, so they can compare and share investment performance without disclosing their real name.
Also, they use the same security technologies that companies like Wells Fargo, PayPal, Quicken, BankOne, and Citicorp use, which makes sense since most of their staff came from some of these companies.
Once users have built of trusted networks of friends, family and professional investors they can be alerted of their buys and sells via activity alerts.
If you want to find an individual investor with similar investment style but isn't a friend, family member or top investor, the site has a "Match Me Up" feature for finding similar investors.
The site also has a "Top" section that provides users with updates on the most widely held positions, most watched positions, top members by strategy, etc.
Cake Financial is funded by Alsop Louie Partners and angel investors including Baseline Ventures, Fred M. Gibbons and Geoff Ralston.
Competitors include social stock-picking site Covestor and Social Picks.
Authentic Designer Handbags, Purse Deals and Handbag Reviews
Authentic Designer Handbags, Purse Deals and Handbag Reviews
The Purse Blog provides a delightfully shallow, daily editorial on authentic designer handbags - it is the ultimate blog for shoulder candy enthusiasts.Come in and join up with tens of thousands of equally minded individuals at world's largest handbag forum - the Purse Forum!
THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS
THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS
The Tygrrrr Express is me.
I like Politics, the National Football League, 80s hard rock music, the stock market, and red meat. Blogging is a shameless ploy to get what I really want, which is to impregnate a hot republican Jewish brunette. There will be a ceremony several months beforehand since my parents are NRA members. Society will benefit if my kids end up with her loveliness and my last name.
The only political issue more important than killing taxes is killing terrorists.
I do not sing Kumbaya with Islamofacists or leftists.
Scorched Earth is my approach, with the grace and subtlety of a battering ram.
9/11 fuels my emotions every day.
Civilization must defeat barbarism, and my generation is up the challenge.
We will win the War on Terror, because we are Americans.
Friday, December 28, 2007
BuzzLogic | CrunchBase Company Profile
BuzzLogic
BuzzDate 1228.87
Balanor
Online corporate reputations are a valuable source of information for investors who wish to understand as much as possible about a stock before taking the plunge. Perhaps some of us have that wonderfully strong gift of intuition that will spot dangers and opportunities in the information provided by a company like BuzzLogic.
BuzzLogic is a company that helps corporations manage their online reputations. In essence, BuzzLogic enables its customers to pin-point who is influencing the online dialogue specific to the topics related to the company.“Social Media”, the name given to all the thoughts and media the public exchanges online, has boomed over the past couple of years, largely unbeknownst to corporations these conversations sometimes concern. With technology that goes far beyond a mere popularity ranking or a subjective authority evaluation, BuzzLogic software identifies passionate brand or product advocates; their customers can then make their next direct marketing initiative or focus group more effective. The BuzzLogic dashboard is quite clean and simple, allowing customers to directly focus their attention to important matters. Some features include watch-lists to track the shifting influence of bloggers, social maps to visually depict who is linking to who (the “conversational” landscape), and blogger profiles.
Comics Page: Sylvia
Comics Page
ToonDate 1228.07
Balanor
What is a comic page anyway........if not a reflection of yourself. If a piece of humour does not tickle your ivories, then you have not reached its level or you have gone so far beyond it that it leaves you irritated and wishing for characters and ideas with greater meaning.
You can read, laugh and run as we all do when reading the comic page.
On a slow lazy morning when the world's pressures can't find you, try reflecting on some of those
special cartoons that really stir your happy hormones....and ask yourself why?
Sylvia
Witty and outgoing, Sylvia casts her opinion upon an unsuspecting world via the claw-foot bathtub where she conducts her life as a free-lance writer, director of self-help seminars and administrator of special goddesses.
Rita
More domesticated than her mother will ever be, Rita eats well, is neat and has a job –- keeping her mother, Sylvia, in check (and out of the tub) when she can.
The Lonely Detective
A product of Sylvia's career as a creative writer, this private eye is based on Raymond Chandler’s Lou Archer. He works by himself in a rundown office and has a soft heart for people in trouble.
Bad Girls
These ladies bring up controversial topics from seedy corners of Capitol Hill and discuss them openly, making them very bad girls. Alien Lover He's the perfect guy. He treats his wife to a life filled with every woman’s most elaborate fantasies. Would you like your homemade profiteroles for tomorrow's breakfast with a chocolate or honey lavender sauce?
Hypno-Hotline
If you'd like to be convinced that the government isn’t going to drill in the Arctic, for example, Earl and Gladys will be happy to make your life a little easier through hypnotic therapy (for a small processing fee.)
Cats With Signs
When these cats have something to say, they take over the strip, offering funny quips via their sandwich boards.Special GoddessesDon't spend your afternoon on silly time-sucking activities. In Sylvia, bureaucratic nonsense and red tape are left to the care of your special goddess. A little fantasy all of us hold dear. The Woman Who Does Everything More Beautifully Than You DoDoes your life not quite measure up to some ideal you've forced upon yourself? This woman is so sure of herself it’s sickening, but Hollander reminds us that it's OK not to be perfect. After all, even perfectionists can wind up in front of Senate Sub-Committees.
Clyde
The Free-lance ScientistKeeping up with the most outlandish areas of science, Hollander gives us Clyde. His experiments always have some basis in real-world invention, but he takes them to the realms of the fantastic.
Official Google Blog: Stardate 0817.06
Official Google Blog: Stardate 0817.06
Stardate 1228.07
Balanor
It was summertime in the late sixties....perhaps 1968...when my Uncle Richard stopped by my home to invite me to his jobsite for the day.
Uncle Richard worked at the movie studios in Southern California and I never refused that kind of opportunity.
He left me at the Star Trek set after introducing me to DeForrest Kelly and some gorgeous ladies dressed as scantily clad aliens. The colors and costume designs were eye candy. I'll say nothing about those beautiful actresses with perfect bodies.
The space ship Enterprise in that warehouse consisted of rooms constructed of plywood walls with only the interior decorated as you would see it on the TV for that Classic series.
All those automatic sliding doors that we see on the series were anything but automatic.
They too were plywood. On the non-viewing side of those sliding doors you would find a simple wood construction with wooden handles that were used during scene shooting by gofers or set crews to open and shut the sliding doors manually.....one person for each door and coordinated as best as they could.
If you focus on those sliding doors in the old Classic series, you will occasionally see where that coordination went awry and one sliding door might tilt a little before closing.
Bones' working quarters was very simply built with a rather uncomfortable bed consisting of an inch thick piece of foam covered in glittery fabric.
I sat in the captain's chair and visited each ship compartment. The magic of TV cameras made it look great; but in reality, it was a homely set with absolutely nothing technical about it. I dare not lean against a wall "inside" the ship as that wall might topple over.
Kelley spent a few seconds with me in a distracted fashion as he was very much absorbed in sipping coffee with those beautiful alien ladies. DeForrest looked very old to me, but I was very young at the time.
Apparently, the work for that time only involved Kelly, the alienettes and a very big fellow in alien costume. Captain Kirk and the gang were not there.
I did not have a camera; it is unfortunate as I could have shared some interesting pictures with Trekkies.
Whenever I watch a classic, I can't take my eyes off those sliding doors as I want to catch the set crew fumbling with those very crude panels.
Why Blogging is Like Alcohol @ chrisg.com
http://www.chrisg.com/why-blogging-is-like-alcohol/
Why Blogging is Like Alcohol
Have you seen Jon’s “Drunk on Your Own Words” post at Copyblogger? It’s a good piece, go read it if you haven’t already. After reading it I realized blogging has some things in common with drinking the booze:
Inhibitions - For some of us blogging can strip away inhibitions. This could be in the way people deal with criticism or trolls, lashing out in a way they never would in real life, or it could be just the lack of self censorship. I have seen people say stuff in a blog that they would never say in mixed company in face to face meetings. Everything from details of their sexual encounters to political opinions and bigotry. Is it interesting human interest or “over share”? You decide …
Solution: Don’t post in haste. Write like your mum or boss is reading.
Arrogance - We have all seen at one time a cocky drunk. The “I can take on anyone in the room” guy. Some people seem to take a blog audience as confirmation of their infallibility and fame. Everyone else is there as a potential victim to be torn down. This seems particularly rife in the tech and celebrity sectors. Thankfully in both cases someone usually gives them a reality check eventually.
Solution: Realize you are not perfect yourself and what you put out you get back.
Despair - Just like alcohol can be a mood enhancer for both good and bad moods, blogs can either make you feel more connected or exaggerate your feelings of being unloved and alone. People are often asking me why nobody visits? why will no one comment? why doesn’t anyone like my blog? Just like when the booze alters your judgment, sometimes we find it difficult to be objective about our blogging so continue as we always have while getting more unhappy.
Solution: Make friends in forums, comment on others blogs, chat on IM and email. Other people are usually happy to let you know the truth of the situation or just give support.
Buzz - People drink for the buzz, for that elevation of mood. Blogging can make you happy, and can make you super-friendly. This is great but don’t let it loosen your grip on reality. Being friendly is great but not every visitor wants to be your friend. When drinking hold on to your wallet and keys, when blogging look after your passwords and privacy.
Solution: Post in draft, do not reveal too much, have clear procedures for keeping details safe and not always using the same passwords, keep backups.
Hangover - Inevitably realty sets in and you look at recent events objectively. You have to clean up your mess and feel the sting of shame every time you remember what you said or did.
Solution: Prevention is easier than cure but if you do find yourself having to clear up a mess, be honest and remorseful and hope people forgive and forget!
The answer might be “don’t drink”, but like most things in life, moderation with a clear mind is the key!
Does any of this ring true for you or am I just blog drunk again?
Thursday, December 27, 2007
IHS :: About the Institute for Humanist Studies
IHS :: About the Institute for Humanist Studies:
"The Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) is a think tank whose mission is to promote greater public awareness, understanding, and support for humanism. The Institute specializes in pioneering new technology and methods for the advancement of humanism."
Humanism is a philosophy of life inspired by humanity and guided by reason. It provides the basis for a fulfilling and ethical life without religion.
Humanists make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values.
Humanists see no convincing evidence for gods, the supernatural, or life after death.
Humanists believe that moral values are properly founded on human empathy and scientific understanding.
Humanists believe we must live this life on the basis that it is the only life we'll have -- that, therefore, we must make the most of it for ourselves, each other, and our world.
Humanist philosophies have arisen separately in many different cultures over many thousands of years. Whether or not they use the term humanism, tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people around the world agree with the humanist philosophy of living a happy and productive life based on reason and compassion.
The Association of Religion Data Archives
The Association of Religion Data Archives:
"Providing free access to quality data on religion
The ARDA allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports.
Over 400 data files are available for online preview and most can be downloaded for additional research"
Greek Computer Dictionary, Greek Medical Dictionary, Greek Technical
Greek Computer Dictionary, Greek Medical Dictionary, Greek Technical: "Specialty Greek Dictionaries
Various dictionaries searchable from this page
Computers, Internet, Technology dictionaries
Telephony / Telecommunications dictionaries
Medicine & biology dictionaries
Science & Technical dictionaries
Religion dictionaries
Business, Legal & Finance dictionaries
Slang dictionaries
Sports glossaries
Greek Dialects
Satirical dictionaries
Food & Drink dictionaries
Other dictionaries
General, Monolingual Greek Dictionaries and other links
Monolingual, Multilingual, General Greek Dictionaries
Ancient Greek Dictionaries
Corpora, Machine Translation, Grammars, Spellcheckers, Greeklish converter
Greek Dictionaries on CD-ROM
Downloadable Modern and Ancient Greek Dictionaries Translatum Link Button - incorporate the in.gr dictionary in your browser!
How to download anything | Dew Knight
How to download anything Dew Knight:
"How to download anything
Russ December 13th, 2007
If you’re going to illegally download stuff, please do it right so that you don’t get caught. Don’t use services like Kazaa or Limewire to get your goods. They’re filled with junk and can get you found out and sued by the copyright owners.
If you are going to download music, games, software, movies, anything, use these simple steps."
Darwin Awards: Darwin Awards
Darwin Awards: Darwin Awards:
"The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of
the human genome by honoring those who
accidentally remove themselves from it...
Over 300 Darwin Awards are linked below. You might want to simply hit the 'random' button on each page (top right) or start with these Classic Darwin Awards: Wrong Time, Wrong Place,Ski Theft Backfires, Macho Men, Midnight Special, ESCAPING CONVICTION, Peeper Plummets, Wife Tossing Note: the JATO Rocket Car is an Urban Legend, and Lawnchair Larry is an Honorable Mention"
Derivative Calculator at SolveMyMath.com
Derivative Calculator at SolveMyMath.com:
Online Math Calculator; Calculus; Derivative Calculator
Find out the derivative of any mathematical expression using this powerful differentiation tool.
Input the function you want to differentiate here:
Function f(x) = How to input
The mathematical theory behind this derivative calculator can be found in our online math library at the following links:
Differentiation Rules - The General Rules of Differential Calculus
Table of Derivatives - The Specific Derivatives Formulas for Each Category of Functions
:Simple Functions
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Trigonometric Functions
Hyperbolic Functions
SSRN Author Page for Paul L. Caron
SSRN Author Page for Paul L. Caron
LEGAL SCHOLARS ARE BETTER BLOGGERS!!!!
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
BiblePlaces.com - Photos of Israel from the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands
BiblePlaces.com - Photos of Israel from the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands:
"WELCOME TO BIBLEPLACES.COM!
BiblePlaces.com features photographs and descriptions of sites in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Greece with an emphasis on biblical archaeology, geography and history.
Take a Tour: Why the Pictorial Library is the Best!"
Open Source Free CD 4 PointZero
Open Source Free CD 4 PointZero :
"The Open Source Free CD contains a compilation of high quality Open Source (and some Freeware) software for Windows.
Feel free to use the programs on multiple computers and make copies for your friends. This software is free!
Also included on the cd is a bootable Slax Linux LiveCD."
Programs
Here's a list of all the programs currently on the Open Source Free CD 4 PointZero:
Office: OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
Graphics: Blender 2.41, Inkscape 0.44, The GIMP 2.2.13, Yafray 0.0.9
Internet: eMule 0.47a, FileZilla 2.2.27, Firefox 1.5.0.6, Gaim 1.5.0, NVU 1.0, Thunderbird 1.5.0.5
Multimedia: Audacity 1.3.0b, CDex 1.70 beta 1
Utilities: 7-Zip 4.42 beta, IZArc 3.5 beta 3, Notepad2 1.0.12, Picasa 2, TightVNC 1.3.8, TrueDownloader 0.82
Games: Enigma 0.92, Frozen Bubble 1.0.0, LBreakout2 2.5.1, Secret Maryo Chronicles 0.98, Sokoban Yasc 1.282, SuperTux 0.1.3, TuxPaint 0.9.15-2, TuxType2 1.5.3
Bubblejive.com | Offbeat news with weird, strange, crazy and odd stories
Bubblejive.com Offbeat news with weird, strange, crazy and odd stories:
"Bubblejive.com provides the latest offbeat news as well as weird, strange, crazy and odd stories.
+ Send us Offbeat News here."
Autoquake - sells cars on eBay on behalf of sellers.
Amigo - Amigo is a service that matches advertisers with email newsletters, and vice versa.
Blockhunter - a new way of connecting buyers and sellers of property. Google Maps powered.
blipstar - add an interactive store locator to your website
Extate - the UK property search engine
DropSend - e-mail large files easily
FeeFo - sales-triggered feedback forum for online businesses and their customers
garlik - giving individuals and families more power over their personal information
Fuzzbo - every year consumers in the UK pay estate agents in excess of £3 billion to sell their homes. We know there's a better way
FriendsAbroad.com - the largest online community for people learning languages
Gottabet.com - a social networking site that lets you create your own bets and challenge friends
Boxed Up - Create lists of things you want from any shop or site on the internet
Geograph British Isles - project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the UK.
Indienet - Discover new indie bands and music.
Listal - List the stuff you love
LittleLegends - free service to allow parents to find out what's good in their area, and share their views.
Mydeo - Safe, secure digital video hosting
Reevoo - Share reviews before you buy
Patient Opinion - Enabling patients to share their experiences of health care.
Nestoria - property search engine
OnOneMap - UK property search engine using maps
My Neighbourhoods - Get to know my neighbours and other members.
Supermarket Wine - the easy way to find recommended wine at your supermarket
Moo - Print on demand: cards, notes and stickers.
OnOneMap - Map-based property search.
Touch Local - Local directory services.
Snipperoo - If you use widgets or want to use widgets to add interesting stuff to your site, Snipperoo lets you collect and use them without hacking code.
iSporty - MySpace for sports enthusiasts
Tinderhouse digital publishing - Publish your magazine to the web
Trusted places - Find great places recommended by real people
WeHangHere - location-based social networking with Google Maps integration
welovelocal.com - The smarter way to find the best local businesses by reading reviews and recommendations from people you can trust
Univillage - Uk student social network
viewmy.tv - boradband free online streaming TV
wherejackmetjill - dating website that invites the user to completely customise their own profile
Zoomf.com – London property search engine
YourClients.co.uk - Web based help desk software
Dopplr - Social networking for frequent travellers.
MindCandy - Alternate reality gaming.
Zopa - Peer to peer lending.
Auctioning4u - Handle your Ebay auctions for you. Give them your goods to sell.
Zubka - Recruitment 2.0.
SheKnows.com - Entertainment, dating, recipes, parenting, beauty & more
SheKnows.com -
Entertainment,
dating,
recipes,
parenting,
beauty & more
SheKnows.com, one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, ahas acquired LovingYou.com -- the marriage and relationship site.
LovingYou.com is one of the top 10 online destinations for women ages 18-25 and delivers nearly half a million unique visitors per month with 12 million page views.
The site has been online for over 10 years. Unlike sites focused on dating and finding a mate, LovingYou.com is a leading source for information on how to put the fire back into an existing relationship and features advice and support for staying in love.
Although not considered a dating site, LovingYou.com consistently ranks in the top 10 dating sites on the web.
The acquisition of LovingYou will allow SheKnows users, the opportunity to dive deep into ideas and advice suggesting ways to enhance their relationships.
Last month it acquired soap opera site Soaps.com. LovingYou is said to get half a million uniques per month, with strength in the 18-25 age bracket. Other sites in the SheKnows network include iChef.com and Childfun.com.
The UpDown: A social network for investors. Learn investing with virtual portfolios. Contribute stock analyses and ideas. Earn real $. Investment club tools. Portfolio competitions.
The UpDown: A social network for investors.
Learn investing with virtual portfolios.
Contribute stock analyses and ideas.
Earn real $.
Investment club tools.
Portfolio competitions.
Investing social network The UpDown has taken a slightly different take on investment communities than the likes of Marketocracy, Covestor, and others.
Users invest a simulated portfolio starting with $1 million and are paid based on their ability to consistently out-perform the S&P 500. And users who refer a friend pick up 10% of any earnings that friend rakes in. Since the beta launch in June, members have made thousands of dollars off the site.
But not only is The UpDown a destination for investors to collaborate and compete using virtual portfolios and real-life brokerage simulations, its members also have a chance to make real money derived from their on-site analyses.
By aggregating the trading activity of its members, they compile a community-based investment strategy, which is then used to manage a real-life fund. They believe that the organic competitive analysis is the ultimate hedge to investment risk.
The revenues from this fund are shared with the top members of The UpDown on a weekly and monthly basis. It all comes down to the individual investors - the more qualitative their insight, the higher the fund dividends, and the more money they'll earn.
Joachim Schoss provided the initial $500k in funding to the Harvard Business School startup. The company is currently in talks to close another angel round of $500k and will most likely be looking for a further $2 million in the summer.
My Dog Space : a dog lovers social community network for dogs to share photos, blogs and all dog breed related information.
My Dog Space:
a dog lovers social community network for dogs to share photos, blogs and all dog breed related information.
MyDogSpace.com is a new, interactive, online community for all dogs and dog lovers.
Robert and his doggie co-founder, Hershey, are the creators of MyDogSpace.com. "Before we began MyDogSpace.com, there were forums and websites for pet owners, but no central online community for those who love dogs" says Robert. "It finally occurred to me that dog owners of all ages would enjoy their own online space, a central hub, to connect to other dog owners for advice, sharing stories, friendship and meeting up for doggy play dates."
MyDogSpace.com is filling up fast, as people fill out profiles for their favorite canines. Each profile allows for the dog's personality to shine through, by providing space for them to share their sex, age, breed, size, mating habits, favorite foods, toys and tricks, as well as their pet peeves and a place for them to introduce themselves.
MyDogSpace.com is well constructed, easy to use and fresh in design. The forums are active and the users are already using the extensive profile features such as colored backgrounds.
It was only natural for them to launch MyCatSpace.com, a place for cats and cat lovers to connect.
Story of My Life
Story of My Life
StoryOfMyLife.com offers users a place to create a multi-media personal life story that will be stored forever.
A separate 501(c)(3) non-profit called the Story of My Life Foundation has also been established with the mission of keeping the stories maintained and accessible in perpetuity.
The goal is to get a Story about every single person both living and deceased. They want to create the largest online collection of life Stories in the world, and preserve them - forever.
Stories posted include people’s backgrounds, hopes, dreams, family history and other details. Stories of different family members are linked together so that users will be able to read them for generations without worry of them being lost, destroyed, or erased.
In order to alleviate fears of spilling family secrets, Stories and files can be private or released in the future by placing them in “time capsules“.
Storyofmylife.com users create private networks for families who want to share stories, pictures, videos, and keep in touch; for those to whom leaving their legacy is important; and for boomers who are reaching retirement and becoming interested in genealogy and recording stories.
The site remains free to use so long as there is activity on the account. Once an account has gone six months without activity the system begins attempting to contact the user or guardian that the person has assigned to manage the account.
For $1 per megabyte, the user or guardian can opt to move the story into a permanent archive called “Forever Space.”
The Story of My Life Foundation receives a portion of all Forever Space purchases. These proceeds go into an endowment fund that provides funding to cover storage costs in perpetuity.
StoryOfMyLife.com is certainly one of the strangest websites we have come across.
While i am sure there are some people who would like to record their life and leave it on the internet i wonder whether internet users in general would ever get around to creating their own story.
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WooMe is an exciting dating site. With investment from one of Skype´s founders WooMe aims to woo the dating industry. Frostfire spoke to their founder to learn a little more.
Where did your idea come from?
Stephen was hanging out with his 23 year old sister and her friends who were all complaining about how lame online dating sites were, but how much fun speed dating was. Stephen, who was looking at nascent in-browser voice and video technologies for British Telecom as its youngest VP, put two and two together and created a cutting edge speed introduction platform where people could have fun meeting others without the overhead of lengthy profiles or dating stigma.
What is your elevator pitch?
WooMe is an introduction platform where you can meet five people in five minutes in live video speed sessions.
There are no long forms or lengthy profile descriptions, simply find a session that interests you and meet 5 people in 5 minutes. Or, create your own sessions based on your interests - such as "Tech lovers in San Francisco." -Invite friends or strangers to play with you and immediately decide if you are woo'd by someone. WooMe's cutting edge in-browser video and voice capability delivers a live interactive experience.
How is your proposition different from competitors? Who do you see as your main competition?
1) it is a completely innovative user proposition based on topical speed sessions (vs profiles) that replicates the offline speed dating model (users meet five people in five minutes live) 2) leverages cutting edge in-browser voice and video technology, ie no client downloads or clunky user experience3) users can create their own session topics and leverage viral tools to invite people
Why will you succeed?
We have a great team and a great idea. The technology itself is cutting edge with over 15,000 man hours of optimization that has gone into it.
WooMe takes social networking, online dating and online gaming into new territory bridging the gap between offline and online worlds.
What are your biggest successes so far?
User side - have had over 1000 speed sessions with over 30,000 introductions made within those sessions. of the 30,000 people who have met, over 7000 have mutaully "woo'd" each other (both said they connect with other person).
Technology side - in-browser communication aspects optimized to point that is better than skype quality (to point where Skype founders have invested)
How will/do you make money?
In a session, if both parties select "I was woo'd" vs "no thanks" it is a successful woo and they have the opportunity to pay $1 for the person's contact info.
How do you market your site?
Social media, facebook, PR, targeted campus campaigns, sem.
Have you received funding? If so, how much and from whom?
$2m from Nikkalas Zennstrom (Skype founder), Klaus Hommels (Venture Partner at Benchmark) and Mangrove Capital
Montana State Trooper | Bubblejive.com
Montana State Trooper Bubblejive.com
Cops have a sense of humor, too!!!
RSC-Northwest e-Book Library
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Picable - About Us
Picable - About Us: "Picable is about enjoying photos. Your photos.
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Stats about all US cities - relocation info, maps, race, income, photos, education, crime, weather, houses, etc.
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New! Top 101 City Lists - Rankings in hundreds of categories, such as income, crime, most gay couples, most cars, shortest commute, biggest houses, best educated residents, and many more. Also see our original Top 100 City Lists."
Sunday, December 23, 2007
The American Scholar - About Us
The American Scholar - About Us
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.
Arthur Benjamin's Home Page
Arthur Benjamin's Home Page
Address:
Department of Mathematics
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711
(909) 621-8688
benjamin@hmc.edu
Education:
B.S. with highest honors from Carnegie-Mellon University, Applied Mathematics, 1983.
M.S.E., Johns Hopkins University, Mathematical Sciences, 1985.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Mathematical Sciences, 1989. Dissertation: "Turnpike Structures for Optimal Maneuvers," Advisor: Alan J. Goldman.
Honors and Awards:
Rufus P. Isaacs Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1984.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1985-88.
George E. Nicholson Prize, for the paper "Graphs, Maneuvers and Turnpikes," awarded by the Operations Research Society of America, 1988.
Mayfield High School (Ohio) Alumni Hall of Fame, 1996.
First Place, American Backgammon Tour, 1997. Number 4 on All-time list.
Distinguished Teaching Award, Southern California Section of MAA, 1999.
Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, 2000.
National Teaching Award, (Haimo Prize) , awarded by MAA, 2000.
CHOICE Award, Outstanding Academic Title, for from the American Library Association, 2004.
Designated "America's Best Math Whiz" by Reader's Digest Magazine, Best of America issue, May 2005.
AMS Award for Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department (awarded to HMC Mathematics Department). We were the first recipients of this award, 2006.
Beckenbach Book Prize, for from the Mathematical Association of America, 2006.
MAA Polya Lecturer , 2006-2008.
Work Experience:
Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2000 to present.
Chair, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2002 to 2004.
Associate Chair, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 2001 to 2002.
Extended Graduate Faculty, Claremont Graduate University, 1999 to present.
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 1995 to 2000.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, 1989 to 1995.
Mathematician, Institute for Defense Analyses, Princeton, NJ, Summer 1989.
Discreet Mathematician, National Security Agency, Washington, D.C., Summer 1987.
Senior Staff Member, Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics program, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, Summer 1986.
Mathematician, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD, Summer 1985.
Research Assistant, IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, Summer 1982.
Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1980-83.
Sabbatical appointments:
Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Caltech, 1995-1996.
Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University, Fall 2004.
Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Spring 2005.
Papers (includes 62 research papers, 10 expository papers, 7 book reviews and letters, and 4 books):
Click here to see a list of my papers, preprints, and books.
Research Talks (173 talks, and "counting"):
Click here to see a list of my research talks.
Conferences:I organized the Eighth Annual HMC Mathematics Conference in 2006. The topic was Enumerative Combinatorics and our speakers were George Andrews (Pennyslvania State), Igor Pak (MIT), Carla Savage (North Carolina State), and Doron Zeilberger (Rutgers).
Mathemagics Presentations:
Click here to see a list of my recent performances.
Senior Theses:
Jeremy Billones, Optimal Strategies in Pai-Gow Poker, 1991.
Eric Huggins, Optimal Blackjack Strategies with Lucky Bucks, 1991.
Roderick Lee, Chance and Determinism: What Happens When You Add a Coin to a Nim-Like Game?, 1991.
Greg Levin, A Comparison of Negative Cycle Detection Methods, 1992.
Jeff Vogel, A Brief Introduction to the Theory of Matroids, 1992.
Michael Buksas, Juggling by the Numbers: A Mathematical Model of Juggling, 1993.
Cliff McCarthy, Determinants of the Tournaments, 1994.
Mike Munson, Winning Backgammon, 1994.
Tim Kokesh, Mathematics of Baseball, 1995.
Andrew Ross, Optimal Racing in Backgammon, 1996.
Jessica Sidman, Splitting Numbers, 1997.
Kan Yasuda, Squares of Magic Squares, 1997.
Aaron Archer, Coloring Theorems, 1998.
Andrew Hutchings, Applications of Semi-Definite Programming, 1998.
Matthew Fluet, Searching for Optimal Strategies in Knock 'm Down, 1999.
David Rudel, Solving x^2 + y^2 = z^n, 1999.
Helen Monroe, N-Person Coalitional Games: The Power of More Than One, 2000.
Kylie Bryant, Genetic Algorithms and the Travelling Salesman Problem, 2001.
Greg Preston, A Combinatorial Approach to Harmonic Numbers, 2001
Jeremy Rouse, Combinatorial Proofs of Congruences, 2003.
Alexander Eustis, The Negs and Regs of Continued Fractions, 2006.
Jonathan Azose, A Tiling Interpretation of q-Binomial Coefficients, 2007.
Daniel Walton, A Tiling Approach to Chebyshev Polynomials, 2007.
Editorial Boards:
Math Horizons, co-Editor, 2004 to present.
The UMAP Journal, The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and its Applications, 1990 to present.
Involve, A Journal of Mathematics, 2006 to present.
Mathematics Magazine, 1996 to 2005.
Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library, Mathematical Association of America, 2000 to 2003.
Spectrum Book Series, Mathematical Association of America, 1995 to 2000 (Editor from 1996 to 2000).
Service to the Profession:
Board of Directors, The Fibonacci Association.
MAA National Advisory Committee for Carriage House Conference Center, Washington, DC.
MAA Coordinating Council on Meetings.
MAA Program Committee for Joint Meetings, 2009.
Chair, Carriage House Advisory Board Subcommittee for Opening Ceremony, MAA, Washington, DC.
Advisory Network for Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University.
Advisory Panel for Mathematics Department, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology.
Program Committee, Joint Meetings of AMS/MAA, Washington, DC 2009.
Governor, Southern California-Nevada Section of MAA (2004 to 2007).
Secretary-Treasurer, Southern California-Nevada Section of MAA (1999 to 2004).
MAA Program Chair, Joint Meetings of AMS/MAA, San Diego, CA 2002
MAA Program Chair, MAA MathFest, Boulder, CO 2003
Memberships:
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
The Fibonacci Association (Board of Directors)
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA)
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
The Magic Castle
Referee for these journals and book series:
American Mathematical Monthly
Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library (MAA)
Ars Combinatoria
Applications of Fibonacci Numbers
The College Mathematics Journal
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
The Fibonacci Quarterly
INTEGERS: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory
Journal of Applied Probability
Management Science
Math Horizons
Mathematics Magazine
Naval Research Logistics
Pi Mu Epsilon Journal of Mathematics
Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
SIAM Review
Spectrum Book Series (MAA)
The UMAP Journal
Courses Taught:
Calculus
Linear Algebra (with Discrete Dynamical Systems)
Discrete Mathematics
Intro Probability and Statistics
Combinatorics
Intermediate Probability
Mathematical Statistics
Stochastic Processes
Abstract Algebra
Number Theory
Stochastic Operations Research
Deterministic Operations Research
Mathematics of Games and Gambling
Math Horizons
Math Forum
Mathematics Clinic
Senior Thesis
Hobbies
Conscious Entities
Conscious Entities
These pages are devoted to short discussions of some of the major thinkers and theories about consciousness. The selection of topics is idiosyncratic and there are still some regrettable omissions. The pieces are meant to be brief and lively,and written from a distinct point of view (sometimes more than one point of view), and this naturally makes it difficult at times to do full justice to the views or the people under consideration. But no-one is mentioned here who I do not sincerely respect and admire, however much I may think they are mistaken on some points. Clearly the only way to get a full understanding of what someone is saying is to read their own books, a course I heartily recommend.One possible source of confusion is that some of the discussions here are presented as dialogues between two different characters. One of these, whom I think of as 'Blandula', after the Emperor Hadrian's verse addressed to his own soul, is represented by a sort of cherub, and is suspicious of reductive and materialist ideas: the other, ('Bitbucket', represented by an abacus) takes the opposite view. I hope this helps both sides to benefit from vigorous advocacy, but the two characters are merely figments of my imagination and I cannot supply email addresses for either of them.
Geometry. Triangle Centers. Antonio Gutierrez
Geometry. Triangle Centers. Antonio Gutierrez
A MUST SITE FOR ALL YOU STUDENT GEOMETERS AND TRIGONOMETERS AND ECLECTICIANS.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
Booktagger - Your Online Book Collection
Booktagger - Your Online Book Collection
BookTagger started off like any good journey, with a woman.Rebecca, an avid reader and fellow internet addict, could not find afree and appealing service on the internet where she could storememories of books and share them easily with family and friends.
I took it as a personal challenge to implement what she was looking for.With Rebecca's continued creative input I designed a unique way ofsharing books that functions more like an application and less likethe traditional internet experience. Along the way I also acquired anexcellent mentor and a development partner, who I could not have completedthis journey without. Like any good saga our story is just getting started.
Each BookTagger profile is a graphical representation of your physicalbookshelf on the internet. The bookshelf can then be shared withfriends, family and others searching for the next good read. We hopeyou'll congregate into book clubs and share reading experiences. Ormaybe you'll catalogue all your books and track to whom they've beenlent.
Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial
Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial
MUST SEE THIS: A 2 MINUTE TRIP FROM THE UNIVERSE TO A QUARK.
Exquisite Corpse: A Collaborative Online Literature Project
Exquisite Corpse: A Collaborative Online Literature Project
Exquisite Corpse is an online literature project where you will collaborate with other visitors of the site to create unique and interesting stories.
Drawter.com - DrawAble Markup Language
Drawter.com - DrawAble Markup Language
Drawter Beta 2 is a tool written in JavaScript and based on jQuery library. It provides you the possibility to literally draw your website's code. It runs on every single web-browser which makes it really useful and helpful. Each tag is presented as a layer you have drawn.Currently Drawter is available in Pro version, which means that it is intended for webmasters use only - knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. It also requires at least 256MB RAM and 800Mhz CPU.Drawter is not a tool for laymen, for the time being, but the whole team behind the project is putting every effort to launch a new version called "Amateur". Soon you will be able to draw your websites without any knowledge of HTML or CSS. Launching soon, really soon.Available hotkeys:ctrl+1 - Draw Modectrl+2 - Edit Mode All right reserverd by Damian Wielgosik (ferrante.pl).
Saturday, December 22, 2007
blog index
blog index
Outfitting your computer with the latest software can be expensive. Time and money aren’t things to be wasted. With sky rocketing prices for desktop applications, you need to arm yourself with the right alternatives.
Fortunately, there is a great alternative out there: the Internet. As hard as it is to believe, just by surfing around online, you can access most of the desktop app functionalities you need without shelling out a cent.
To prove it, here’s a list of 25 online alternatives for the most popular desktop applications that you use, want and simply must have when working online.
UNRV History - Roman Empire
UNRV History - Roman Empire
UNRV... United Nations of Roma Victrix represents the all encompassing power of Rome in the ancient world. United and Romanized, through conquest, or absorbed through its culture, Rome still stands today as a legacy to the achievement of mankind, and its failures.
UNRV Roman Empire aims to give visitors a substantial look into what Rome was. We will delve into all aspects of its society and those of her neighbors, and perhaps share a greater understanding of our own world through that of the past.
Through the sharing of archeological news, and in-depth content, we can only hope that just one person will be inspired to dig deeper into history. We hope to provide a forum for those who study Rome in all forms. A place for scholars, students and those who seek to learn, to exchange ideas and gather information. Perhaps just one influenced mind will discover the next Rosetta Stone, or unveil lost secrets of the archaeological world.
Welcome and enjoy,
Augustus and the Success of the Empire
Open Source Living
Open Source Living
Welcome to Open Source Living, a collection of the Web's best Open Source software, applications and references for a zero-cost / top quality digital experience.
Overbooked: a resource for readers
Overbooked: a resource for readers
Overbooked is a web site for ravenous & omnivorous readers.
Overbooked provides information about fiction and readable nonfiction.
Overbooked originals include annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of hard cover US fiction releases.
Established 1994. This site contains large files.
Free Stuff
Free Stuff
Welcome toFree Stuff!
From time to time, things are posted on this page which you may download for free.You may find font files, desktop wallpaper, animations, and screensavers.Most include instructions for use.Have fun and enjoy!
Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors
TOO HOT to ignore!
Major investors in Tesla Motors include Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Mass Extinction Underway | Biodiversity Crisis | Global Species Loss
Mass Extinction Underway Biodiversity Crisis Global Species Loss
UNITED NATIONS: HUMANS CAUSING GREATEST MASS EXTINCTION IN 65 MILLION YEARS (Reuters-- 2006)American Museum of Natural History Official Statement on Current Mass ExtinctionAmerican Museum of Natural History Press Release on Current Mass ExtinctionFastest Mass Extinction in Earth's History (Worldwatch Report)Earth Faces Catastrophic Loss of Species (U.K. Independent-- 2006)SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD FACES MASS EXTINCTION (CNN-- 2002)Earth Faces Sixth Mass Extinction (New Scientist-- 2004)THE SIXTH EXTINCTION by Richard LeakeyThe Sixth Extinction (National Geographic Magazine)The Sixth Extinction (American Museum of Natural History)Wake-Up Call on Extinction Wave (British Royal Society-- 2003)GLOBAL EXTINCTION CRISIS CONFIRMED-- 2000 IUCN Red List ReleasedMass Extinction Pace Quickening: Red List 2000 Released (N.Y. Times)Headlong Drive to Mass Extinction-- 2002 Red List Released (Toronto Globe and Mail)12,000 Threatened Species: "Only Scratching the Surface"-- 2003 Red List Released (U.K. Guardian)15,589 Threatened Species: "Greatly Underestimates True Number"-- 2004 Red List Released (MSNBC)16,119 Threatened Species-- 40% of Evaluated Species Are Threatened-- 2006 Red List (IUCN-- 2006)Life on Earth Disappearing-- Unprecedented Extinction Rate -- 2007 Red List (U.K. Telegraph-- 2007)Global Warming Threatens Extinction of One Million Species (Nature-- 2004)Huge Extinction Risks of Global Warming Confirmed (Reuters-- 2006)By 2050 Global Warming Will Doom A Million Species (National Geographic-- 2004)BRITISH STUDY CONFIRMS WORLDWIDE MASS EXTINCTION (Science-- 2004)Two Thirds of World's Species May Be Threatened (EurekAlert/AAAS-- 2005)1998 Comprehensive Data on Plant Extinction Rate (N.Y. Times)1996 Comprehensive Data on Animal Extinction Rate (IUCN)World's Biodiversity Becoming Extinct (International Botanical Congress)
The Quietest Place on Earth - Orfield Labs [audiojunkies]
The Quietest Place on Earth - Orfield Labs [audiojunkies]
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Bedtime Tunes
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Herbal Supplements and Health Foods towards Nutrition Energy
Herbal Supplements and Health Foods towards Nutrition Energy
Cayenne - The King of HerbsNewsletter: Vol. 5 Issue 2a -
Cayenne pepper delivers healing blood (the river of life) into sick or dying organs better than any other herb or medicine.
Dr. John Christopher, famous natural healer, praised the use of Cayenne throughout the time of his practice. He had this to say in his Newsletter titled "Cayenne", Vol 1, Number 12
"In 35 years of practice, and working with the people and teaching, I have never on house calls lost one heart attack patient and the reason is, whenever I go in--if they are still breathing--I pour down them a cup of cayenne tea (a teaspoon of cayenne in a cup of hot water, and within minutes they are up and around). This is one of the fastest acting aids we could ever give for the heart, because it feeds that heart immediately. Most hearts are suffering from malnutrition because of processed food we are eating, but here it gets a good powerful dose of real food and it's something that has brought people in time after time. This is something that everyone should know how great it is, because a heart attack can come to your friends or loved ones any time. And even yourself. The warm tea is faster working than tablets, capsules, cold tea, because the warm tea opens up the cell structure--makes it expand and accept the cayenne that much faster, and it goes directly to the heart, through the artery system, and feeds it in powerful food.
To show the value of cayenne, and how great it is, and what a wonderful heart food it is, this story has been repeated in a number of publications on doctors in the East who put some live heart tissue into a sterile beaker filled with distilled water, and fed it nothing but cayenne pepper, cleaning off sediments periodically and adding nothing but distilled water from natural evaporation. During the time that they were feeding the heart tissue, they would have to trim it continually every few days because it would grow so rapidly. Having no control glands (pituitary and pineal glands), the tissue just continued to grow rapidly and, because of this, they had to watch it over the years and the doctors and associates kept the heart tissue alive for fifteen years. After the doctor died, his associates kept it alive for two more years before destroying it so they could do more research work on it. This shows the high food value cayenne gives to heart tissue. This is why so many, many amazing instances have come to light, people who have used cayenne when they had heart attacks because, in most cases, your heart attack is a case of malnutrition. The heart hasn't had a decent meal for so long that it is practically starved, and we give it immediately a good meal instead of whipping it with nitroglycerine or digitalis or some other type of drug to force it to beat rapidly to bring more food values to the heart so that it could find a little help to keep going. Here we give the cayenne directly to the system, and it goes into the heart area acting as a good full meal. Many fast responses come from this."
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"Many of the old herbalist claim that in cases of severe cuts, gunshot wounds, etc., cayenne can be taken internally as a tea and the bleeding will stop by the time, in most cases, you can caount to ten. Cayenne goes immediately into the blood stream and adjusts the blood pressure from the top of the ead, to the bottom of the feet, equalizing pressure over the whole body. This takes high pressure, which casues rapid bleeding, away from the wound and clotting starts immediately."
"A person in our audience told how he had cut deeply with a sharp instrument the inside of his hand, fingers and palm. The blood spurted out in streams. He poured a large amount of cayenne pepper into the wound, and within seconds the blood flow slowed down to congealed dripping and the bleeding stopped entirely before many seconds had passed. With a goodly amount of cayenne covering the wound, he then wrapped it. He was so excited about the rapid results he could hardly wait for the regular herb meeting. But, as he said, the "punch line" was lost, because instead of a nasty ragged scar to show how severely he had been hurt, the area was healed and there was no scar."
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Cayenne is a unique herb in that makes everything else it is put with, work so much better. A good analogy might be, "Does one have to step on the accelerator peddle to make the car move? No, one could just put it in gear and go down the road at idle speed. As long as the upward incline was not too steep, the car would continue to go forward. But, if you step on the gas, it goes much faster and has much more power to go up difficult grades. Cayenne is like having an accelerator peddle that works. The more cayenne you use, the further down the accelerator peddle is being pressed and the more powerfully one achieves the health goals desired". This is most quickly seen in cases where the heart is the main target of one's healing program.
When there is blockage, there is starvation, then stagnation and finally disease. Using Cayenne gets circulation where it is needed. Without Cayenne, a cure may come slowly or not at all. Cayenne moves blood to the sick and dying organs and with it nutrients and healing bio-chemicals. At the same time it gets the waste materials carried away.
Bite on a habanero pepper and your head turns red instantly. That's a rush of blood that no pharmaceutical drug/poisons can create.
Taking Cayenne in capsules is not the way to get healing to most effectively happen. Much of Cayenne's healing starts to occur in your mouth. As Cayenne touches your tongue, nerve endings send signals throughout the body, sending along with it waves of resh blood to wherever your body is sick. These surges of fresh blood do not occur when you bypass the mouth by taking capsules.
For best results, Cayenne should be taken with something else rather than all by itself. Eat a meal, take a load of Cayenne along with it to boost the bodies digestive system. Take Cayenne with all of the herbal preparations one uses; both internally, and externally in the form of poultices and ointments.
Taking Ginkgo Biloba is well known to help with memory and other mental functions. However, it is often found to be effective with only 20% of the most serious cases. If the memory (or life) of someone you love is slipping away, 20% is very poor odds. Use Cayenne to surge the Ginkgo up into the brain, and that percentage is increased to 95%, with big time results.
With all diseases, there is blockage of blood flow to the sick area. No blood, no healing. Cayenne is like a fast moving train that rolls through such blockages. All of the best herbal preparations in world can't help you if they cannot reach the sick parts.
When it comes to Cayenne, dosage and "hotness" is everything. The amount you would use for a sore throat is much less than that used for a blood clot or brain hemorrhage. When it is a life or death matter, heavy use of Cayenne is the order of the day, every day. A Cayenne Tea can be easily prepared by using 1/4 teaspoon ( or more) of powder in a cup of distilled water, or ten or more drops of Cayenne Concentrate in a dup of water. Drinking such a beverage with one's meals is an excellent aid to the absorbtion of nutrients.
Google Code Search
Google Code Search
Great code search tool.
Have fun.
Search for code or for odd or unusual coder expressions in the code comments.
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DoseNation.com is a multi-user collaborative "moblog" covering all aspects of modern drug culture - from art, music & literature to breakthroughs in pharmaceutical research; from shamanism and psychotherapy to drug policy around the world; from Ecstasy, cocaine and speed to alcohol, coffee, and benzodiazepines. DoseNation has its eye on all the non-ordinary (and ordinary!) states that psychoactives and other technologies have to offer.
Poetry Foundation: The online home of the Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: The online home of the Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Visual Dictionary Online
Visual Dictionary Online
Welcome to the Visual DictionaryOnline, the dictionary with a newpoint of view.
A quick glance at the index is all it takes toconnect words with images.
Explore the 15 major themes to accessmore than 6,000 images and see wordslike never before
Brain-Juice.com
Brain-Juice.com
Brain-juice is the premier internet site for information about 20th century art, film, history, literature, and music.
Initially, brain-juice’s core content will consist of top quality biographies on the most influential artists, filmmakers, politicians, writers, and musicians of the 20th century.
All biographies are written by students or graduates from the best U.S. universities, with the largest concentration of writers coming from Brown, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
Compared to our competitors, brain-juice will feature slightly longer biographies and a section on each subject’s most notable works or political milestones. In addition, brain-juice will place particular emphasis on contemporary figures almost entirely ignored by similar websites.
Brain-juice will expand our knowledge bank by constantly adding new biographies as well as additional offerings, such as online courses, celebrity chat rooms, and quiz shows.
Thanks for your interest in brain-juice, and we truly hope that you enjoy our site !!!!!
Full-Text Classics - BookSpot.com Feature
Full-Text Classics - BookSpot.com Feature
Bibliophiles can now find their favorite works on the Web -- complete and downloadable.
Angelina Jolie Movie Part 2 Video
Angelina Jolie Movie Part 2 Video
METACAFE........SERVING THE WORLDS BEST VIDEOS
Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.
Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.
Welcome to the Encyclopedia Mythica
Please enter the award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion. Here you will find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya, with plenty in between.
The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Each region has many clearly defined subdivisions that will ease your search.The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and fascinating folktales from many lands.
In addition, we feature special interest areas to enhance and refine your research. A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses.
To bring our entities to life, we have created an image gallery, where you will find hundreds of images of all kinds of deities, heroes, and strange creatures of every description.
The encyclopedia will serve the serious researcher, the student, and the casual reader with equal success.
Come in and enjoy! Think mythology, think EM!
3D Stereograms - eyetricks.com
3D Stereograms - eyetricks.com
Stereograms are 3D images hidden within another picture. In order to view the 3-D images, simply stare at the picture until the image starts to take shape. See our Tips for Viewing Stereograms if you are having trouble seeing any of these images.
Computer Tourettes Prank
Computer Tourettes Prank
So you think you’re better than me? Well, do ya…
If you think you are better than me simply comment in this post with your challenge for all to see. I will answer each challenge in the order that they come. But there are a couple ground rules for challenging:
Rules
1. All challenges must be made on this site. I will not simply go searching for people challenging me on their blogs.
2. Unless your are a truly famous figure ( Tennis players, Opera Singers, Soap Stars etc.. YOU ARE NOT FAMOUS) you must provide a link to a website about your self or list your major qualities. Your Myspace will be prefect if you don’t have a real website.
3. You can challenge me to ANYTHING and I mean Anything.
4. If you respond to my challenge please be kind enough to link back to me in your challege ” I am better than you ” is perfect
5. BRING IT
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.
In 2007, we had over 100,000 participants. More than 15,000 of them crossed the 50k finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.
So, to recap:
What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time.
Who: You! We can't do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let's write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.
Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era's most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.
Still confused? Just visit the How NaNoWriMo Works page!
Poewar.com -- The Writer's Resource Center by John hewitt
Poewar.com -- The Writer's Resource Center by John hewitt
Blogging and WordPress – It has never been easier for writers to find an audience
StumbleUpon — They send me more traffic than anyone but Google. If you aren’t a member, sign up now!
OneNote — Finally, Microsoft released a product that a writer can love
Lulu– It has never been faster or cheaper to put a book into print
PhraseExpress — Put your boilerplate on speed dial
FreelanceSwitch – They write about freelancing so I don’t have to
Indeed – A great place to look for a job
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows — It’s finally over
30 Poems in 30 Days — It brought a lot of new friends to the site
NaNoWriMo – 50,000 words in 30 Days!
The 4-Hour Workweek — The book about business every writer should read
Google Reader — The best place to keep track of all my favorite blogs
Zen Habits — I was at least 4% less angry this year thanks to Leo
ProBlogger – And my blog was at least 4% better thanks to Darren
Blind Date With Cavafy — My favorite book of poetry this year
The Comics Curmudgeon — Comic strips today are just plain lousy, and Josh makes that funny
Pearls Before Swine — Proof that comic strips can still be funny
Superbad– Proof that teen sex comedies can still be well-written
Californication – The best show about a washed-up, immature, sex-obsessed writer since Murder She Wrote
Fresh Air — Every year, Terry Gross keeps getting creative people to talk about process without becoming an SNL parody
Tucson Weekly — The only newspaper left in my home town that is worth reading
Free software — Some things are worth the lack of price
The Well-Fed Self Publisher — Every writer who wants to understand the publishing business should read it
Low-Carb Monster Energy Drink — Without it, half this blog would not get written
The Daily Show / The Colbert Report — This double punch is not only funny, it’s given hundreds of writers exposure they would never have gotten otherwise
Want to Write a Novel Badly? Here’s How! — My most popular article this year
WiFi — 2007 was the year that wireless Internet really came of age and I was finally able to blog from anywhere, which coincidentally is where I am most of the time!
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Law-breaking liquid defies the rules - physicsworld.com
Law-breaking liquid defies the rules - physicsworld.com
Law-breaking liquid defies the rules
Physicists in France have discovered a liquid that "freezes" when it is heated. Marie Plazanet and colleagues at the Université Joseph Fourier and the Institut Laue-Langevin, both in Grenoble, found that a simple solution composed of two organic compounds becomes a solid when it is heated to temperatures between 45 and 75°C, and becomes a liquid when cooled again. The team says that hydrogen bonds are responsible for this novel behaviour (M Plazanet et al. 2004 J. Chem. Phys 121 5031).
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Literature.org - The Online Literature Library
Literature.org - The Online Literature Library
Aesop
Louisa May Alcott
James Matthew Barrie
L. Frank Baum
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lewis Carroll
Willa Cather
Wilkie Collins
Stephen Crane
Charles Darwin
Honore de Balzac
Daniel Defoe
Rene Descartes
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alexandre Dumas
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans
Thomas Hobbes
Marietta Holley
Thomas Hughes
William Kemp
D. H. Lawrence
Jack London
John Milton
Lucy Maud Montgomery
E. Nesbit
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
Jules Verne
Voltaire
New Page 2
Paramita
The ten perfections or qualities leading to Buddhahood
1 Dana: Generosity
Just as a pot full of water when turned upside down lets all the liquid run out and takes none of it back, so the perfection of generosity consists of not having the slightest thought of remorse over what has been given away, even if one sacrifices absolutely everything.
POTENTIAL 2 SUCCESS - Start Meaningful Conversations
POTENTIAL 2 SUCCESS - Start Meaningful Conversations
Have you ever been in a room where you didn’t know anybody and it seemed like everyone knew everyone else? If you look close enough you’d probably notice that there are a few people who may not know anybody else but are somehow making their way around the room and socializing with a number of different people. The ability to start a meaningful conversation is a unique and valuable skill to have. The good news is that anybody can learn and master this skill. The bad news is that most people believe that they can’t learn how to start conversations effectively. Fortunately for you, you’re not one of those people. Even if you are, I’m going to give you some foolproof ways to successfully start a conversation. Whether you are in a networking meeting, café, or just walking down the street, people are everywhere and now it’s time to master how to meet them.
How Things Work - How Things Work Home Page
How Things Work - How Things Work Home Page
How do anti-lock brake systems work?
If you brake your car too rapidly, the force of static friction between the wheels and the ground will become so large that it will exceed its limit and the wheels will begin to skid across the ground. Once skidding occurs, the stopping force becomes sliding friction instead of static friction. The sliding friction force is generally weaker than the maximum static friction force, so the stopping rate drops. But more importantly, you lose steering when the wheels skid. An anti-lock braking system senses when the wheels suddenly stop turning during braking and briefly release the brakes. The wheel can then turn again and static friction can reappear between the wheel and the ground.
Walking the Berkshires: American Civil War
Walking the Berkshires: American Civil War
"Sharp, quirky, and occasionally nettlesome", Walking the Berkshires is my personal blog, an eclectic weaving of human narrative, natural history, and conservation science with the Berkshire and Litchfield Hills as both its backdrop and point of departure. I am interested in how land and people, past and present manifest in the broader landscape and social fabric of our communities. The opinions expressed here are mine alone
Sunday, December 16, 2007
10 Extremely Useful Websites to Stop Big Brother From Snooping on You
10 Extremely Useful Websites to Stop Big Brother From Snooping on You
Webupon > Security
10 Extremely Useful Websites to Stop Big Brother From Snooping on You
by Nelson Doyle, Nov 28, 2007
If you are tired of receiving junk mail, spam and annoying telemarketing phone calls, then this list is for you. If you desire to take steps to stop the snooping from the government, hackers and marketing agencies, then this list will show you the way to privacy freedom.
People probably don't realize, just how often and in how many ways that total strangers are snooping in their lives. Whether the snooping means are video cameras, cell phones or through the Internet there are thousands of businesses, people and governments all up our personal business and lives.
Every time a person fills out a contest entry, sweepstakes form, survey application or joins an online community, then chances are the personal information that is used to complete these things are sold, rented or shared with second and third parties without our knowledge.
Science Frontiers Digest of Scientific Anomalies
Science Frontiers Digest of Scientific Anomalies
Science Frontiers is the bimonthly newsletter providing digests of reports that describe scientific anomalies; that is, those observations and facts that challenge prevailing scientific paradigms. Over 2000 Science Frontiers digests have been published since 1976.
PsiTek - In Tune With The Infinite - FREE
PsiTek - In Tune With The Infinite - FREE
This is a must-read for all who’d like to strengthen their connection to the Infinite Mind in order to enjoy a free-flow of abundance, personal blessings, intuitive knowledge and the strong sense of well-being that results from a solid connection.
Your Eyes Don’t Lie - Reading Thoughts By Eye Movements | Mind Control Techniques, Covert Hypnosis, and Persuasion
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations
Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations:
"The Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations is a project to make available information about representations semi-simple Lie groups over real and p-adic fields. Of particular importance is the problem of the unitary dual: classifying all of the irreducible unitary representations of a given Lie group.
We have computed Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for the split real group E8. Here are some details of the calculation, and David Vogan has written a narrative of the project. There is an introduction to the calculation at AIM."
Friday, December 14, 2007
physics.org | Home
physics.org Home
Welcome to physics.org
Your guide to physics on the web
If you have a burning physics question head straight to Explore to search our database of physics websites.
Audacity: Logiciel d'enregistrement et de montage sonore
Audacity:
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information.
