Saturday, January 31, 2004
THE LAW OF TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS no doubt applies to you .. they say "US nonprofit boards, officers, senior managers, and funddevelopment professionals have enough to contend with without alsoracing to keep pace with the accelerating changes in the multi-faceted law of tax-exempt organizations. ... As with his prior editions, Hopkins has managed to address, within the covers of a single volume well, actually, he added another book to more fully cover private foundations!
This is definitely a must-have book for anyone working for or with US nonprofit organizations, such as board members, officers, senior staff, fund development staff or fund-raising consultants, grantwriters, attorneys and accountants advising tax-exempt organizations, and anyone else requiring a single-volume treatise covering the law of tax-exempt organizations."
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shush.. mysteries 044307593X, 0781728614, 0306448505, 0471268208, [more]
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Astrocytes have nothing to do with Astronomy and little to do with Astronauts .. they may howver have something to do with Neuraonal Plasticity [more]
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What do you think of when you think of cellular morphology? Do you think of Mini-E1A gene and gene products, or Polynucleotides encoding STE20-related protein kinases and methods of use, Compositions and methods for the treatment of viral disorders, or Reversal of cancer phenotype by inhibiting expression of prostate tumor inducing gene, or Sulfoxide and bis-sulfoxide compounds and compositions for cholesterol management and related uses? You might want to. Or you could be thinking of Neuronal Plasticity ... take your pick. Just to think, I was talkin to B about Neuraonal Plasticity about a week ago, and boom this comes up on MesH. (thinl was the typo).
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United States Patent 6,549,915: Storing and recalling information to augment human memories is something to keep track of. Abstract: A system for computer-based storing of information about a current state so that later recall of the information can augment human memories. In particular, when information about a current event of interest is to be stored, a variety of current state information of different types (e.g., video, audio, and textual information) about the environment and about a user can be acquired via sensors and other input devices. The variety of state information can then be associated together as a group and stored for later retrieval. Other information can also be associated with the group, such as one or more recall tags that facilitate later retrieval of the group, or one or more annotations to provide contextual information when the other state information is later retrieved and presented to the user. When information about a past event is to be recalled, one or more identifying recall tags can be received that are used to identify one or more state information groups that match the identifying tags. Some or all of the previously-acquired state information for the identified state information groups can then be presented to the user on appropriate output devices. Other information, such as annotations, can also be presented to the user in order to describe the state information and thus assist the user's recollection of the previous state when the information was stored.
Inventors: Abbott, III; Kenneth H. (Kirkland, WA); Newell; Dan (Seattle, WA); Robarts; James O. (Redmond, WA)
Assignee: Tangis Corporation (Medina, WA)
Appl. No.: 876814
Filed: June 6, 2001 [more]
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Intraocular lenses? Yes it would appear they too need following up. I noticed they appear in the Haptics search so they might require an entry by themselves and so they do ... clearly much concern and innovation is taking place like those seen in
Recent Intraocular lens Patents
6681127: Ocular analyte sensor
6680195: Extracellular matrix-binding proteins from staphylococcus aureus
6679891: IOL insertion apparatus and method for making and using same
6679605: Crystalline polymeric compositions for ophthalmic devices
6674030: Intelligent surgical footpedal with low noise, low resistance vibration feedback
6673886: High refractive index hydrogel compositions for ophthalmic implants
6670397: Methods for transdifferentiation of body tissues [more]
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Airedale Terriers deserve attention ...
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Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants, Free Radicals ... it all matters ... for living organisms!
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The Philosophy of Games or The Game of Philosophy? you decide! We'll just mix a few of these and those and other things here ... only for your convenience amusement and pursuit of happiness. Like Chessmaster 9000, Jeopardy 2003, or Wheel of Fortune 3 and Star Trek Action PackIntroduction To Saint Thomas Aquinas or An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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Just in case you're wondering what's going on in the Methylenetetrahydrofolate world?
Recent Methylenetetrahydrofolate Patents
6673908: Tumor necrosis factor receptor 2
6673538: Methods and compositions for designing vaccines
6670194: Rapid quantitative analysis of proteins or protein function in complex mixtures
6667315: Cardioprotective phosphonates and malonates
6664062: Thymidylate synthase gene sequence variances having utility in determining the treatment of disease
6646013: Nutrient formulations for disease reduction
6642435: Plant folate biosynthetic genes
6635427: Single-labeled oligonucleotide probes for homogeneous nucleic acid sequence analysis
6632935: Genome DNA of bacterial symbiont of aphids
6632636: Nucleic acids encoding 3-ketoacyl-ACP reductase from Moraxella catarrahalis
6605612: Cardioprotective phosohonates and malonates
6603048: Process to separate 1,3-propanediol or glycerol, or a mixture thereof from a biological mixture
6596701: S-adenosyl methionine regulation of metabolic pathways and its use in diagnosis and therapy
6586414: Treatment of cerebrovascular disease
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according to CNN "LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek escaped injury when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his pickup truck and it drifted off a road, sideswiped a string of mailboxes and crashed into a ditch, the California Highway Patrol said". We wish Alex well and the mailboxes a swift resurrection ... hopefully Alex will get better rest and save himself for the viwing world. [more]
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
filed in 1997 ... granted in 2004 -- 7 years ... wow! United States Patent 6,678,822 --- Morar , et al. January 13, 2004: Method and apparatus for securely transporting an information container from a trusted environment to an unrestricted environment Abstract: A method for operating a data processing system of a type that includes a first data processing entity located within a trusted environment and a second data processing entity located within an untrusted environment. The method includes a first step, executed at the first data processing entity, of operating a first software agent for detecting a presence of an information container of interest and for producing a modified information container by automatically identifying and at least one of removing, masking, or replacing at least one predetermined type of restricted or private information in the information container. A second step of the method transports the modified information container from the first data processing entity to the second data processing entity for further processing. The further processing may entail an analysis of the modified information container to locate and/or identify an undesirable software entity, such as a computer virus.
Inventors: Morar; John Frederick (Mahopac, NY); Chess; David Michael (Mohegan Lake, NY); Kephart; Jeffrey Owen (Cortlandt Manor, NY); Swimmer; Morton Gregory (Chappaqua, NY); White; Steve Richard (New York, NY)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Appl. No.: 937864
Filed: September 25, 1997
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Psychopathology Reports and the DSM-IV-TR Venue: yup, its the innovation tree with these recent patents:
6629935: Method and apparatus for diagnosis of a mood disorder or predisposition therefor
6622047: Treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders by near-diaphragmatic nerve stimulation
6622036: Method for classifying and treating physiologic brain imbalances using quantitative EEG
6613763: Use of molindone to treat oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder
6566065: Method of diagnosing schizophrenia by detecting a mutation in the (MTHFR) gene
6528259: Methods for detecting human methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase allelic variants
6509367: Pyrazole cannabinoid agonist and antagonists
there's some really interesting material here ...
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Cluster Analysis like that used for Classification, Data Analysis and Image Recognition, or Text Mining, is intersting too. The cluster analysis of cluster analysis reveals stuff like ... Cluster Analysis Patents
6683455: Methods for spectral analysis and their applications: spectral replacement
6682738: .beta.-expansins as cell wall loosening agents, compositions thereof and methods of use
6680206: Sensor arrays for the measurement and identification of multiple analytes in solutions
6680203: Fourier transform mass spectrometry of complex biological samples
6678619: Method, system, and computer program product for encoding and building products of a virtual combinatorial library
6678048: Information-efficient spectral imaging sensor with TDI
6591007: Method and apparatus for representing colored surfaces via a surface color code book [more]
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So What's New in Data Mining? well Data Mining is totally different from coal mining - but beware of the digital dust. .. lots is new ... the patenteers crank it out with:
6684206: OLAP-based web access analysis method and system
6684177: Computer implemented scalable, incremental and parallel clustering based on weighted divide and conquer
6681309: Method and apparatus for measuring and optimizing spatial segmentation of electronic storage workloads
6681230: Real-time event processing system with service authoring environment
6678822: Method and apparatus for securely transporting an information container from a trusted environment to an unrestricted environment
6678691: Method and system for generating corporate information
6678669: Method for selecting medical and biochemical diagnostic tests using neural network-related applications
lots has been written ... like ..
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JET 708750B/JWBS-18 18" Woodworking Bandsaw with Bearing Guides Trinen says this of the saw "This 18-inch band saw offers high-quality construction and big resawing capacity to serious woodworkers on a tight tool budget. This saw's most prominent benefit is the one-piece, dual tapered column design, which offers superior rigidity and strength, minimizing vibration and keeping cuts clean, smooth, and accurate. Woodworkers in the know will also appreciate the inclusion of roller bearings on both the upper and lower guides, with dual roller bearings on each side of the blade and a single bearing behind the blade for back support. The system greatly reduces the friction inherent in stationary and European guide systems while providing more support. The saw is powered by a totally enclosed, 1-1/2-horsepower, fan-cooled motor with a blade speed of 3,000 sfpm. There's a large cast-iron worktable (19 by 19 inches) that tilts 45 degrees to the right and 10 degrees to the left. This model also comes with a JET rip fence and a good miter gauge. The saw's maximum cutting height is 10-1/4 inches, and the upper blade guide uses a smooth and precise rack-and-pinion adjustment mechanism. This tool's versatility just keeps on going, accommodating 133-inch blades from 1/8 to 1-1/2 inches wide for equally smooth curve cutting or resawing. JET puts the finishing touches on the saw with two locking cabinet doors and the durable powder-coated finish found on all their shop tools. In all, we think serious woodworkers will really appreciate the high quality JET is able to deliver for such a low cost." -- what do you think?
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
These Victorian Fashions are bound to make someone very happy ...
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External Storage is an Internal Kind of thing ... like the Maxtor A01B120 OneTouch USB 7200 RPM 120 GB External Hard Drive or the ... Maxtor A01A250 OneTouch 7200 RPM 250 GB External Hard Drive, or LaCie 300700U 7200 RPM 160 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive (who is Lacie?), and Maxtor B01D300 One Touch Personal Storage 300 GB Hard Drive (four of these and you got yourself more than a terabyte kiddo ... that's pretty scary if you ask me), or LaCie d2 External FireWire 7200 RPM 120 GB Hard Drive, Iomega 32324 Zip 750MB External USB Drive 'I've never heard of this ...
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Are you happy with Haptics? These are the Haptics Information and References
Touch in Virtual Environments: Haptics and the Design of Interactive Systems by Margaret L. McLaughlin
Haptic Human-Computer Interaction by Stephen Brewster
Touching for Knowing: Cognitive Psychology of Haptic Manual Perception by Yvette Hatwell
10th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems: Proceedings Haptics 2002 24-25 March 2002, Orlando, Florida by IEEE
Advances in Robotics, Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces, 1993: Presented at the 1993 Asme Winter An by American Society Of Mechanical Engineers
11th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Deleoperator Systems: Haptics 2003: 22 and 23 March 2003 Los Angeles, U.S.A.: Proceedings by IEEE
Touching for Knowing: Cognitive Psychology of Haptic Manual Perception (Advances in Consciousness Research, 53) by Yvette Hatwell
Touching for Knowing: Cognitive Psychology of Haptic Manual Perception by Yvette Hatwell
Touching for Knowing: Cognitive Psychology of Haptic Manual Perception by Yvette Hatwell
Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (Haptics 2002), 10th International Symposium on by IEEE
So what are the inventors doing? These are their recent Haptics Patents:
6672549: Holder, in particular for an electronic device or an exhibition object
6670962: Surface following interaction method for adaptively sampled distance fields
6666887: Deformable intraocular multi-focus lens
6660036: Collars for lens loops
6660035: Accommodating intraocular lens with suspension structure
6656223: Foldable intraocular lenses with highly flexible optics and rigid fixation members
6653422: Foldable ophthalmic and otorhinolaryngological device materials
6650338: Haptic interaction with video and image data
6647359: System and method for synthesizing music by scanning real or simulated vibrating object
6646773: Digital micro-mirror holographic projection
6645245: Accommodative intraocular lens system
6641589: Ophthalmic surgical lens
6640940: System comprising magnetically actuated motion control device
6638307: Methods of surface treatment for enhancing the performance of a floating phakic refractive lens design
6638306: Accommodating intraocular lens having t-shaped haptics
6634931: Dry polishing of intraocular lenses
6628280: Method for selectively regenerating an adaptively sampled distance field
6626538: Method for determining the power of an intraocular lens used for the treatment of myopia
6622855: Intraocular lens case
6616693: Flexible fixation members for angle-supported anterior chamber intraocular lenses
6616691: Accommodative intraocular lens
6613088: Coated ophthalmic and implantable devices and methods for producing same
6612907: Dry polishing of intraocular lenses
6610398: Haptic materials and process for preparation
6608629: Distance based constraints for adaptively sampled distance fields
6605093: Device and method for use with an ophthalmologic insertor apparatus
6596026: Telescopic intraocular lens
6596025: Narrow profile intraocular lens
6592621: Flexible intra-ocular lens of variable focus
6575814: Dry polishing of intraocular lenses
6569199: Telescopic intraocular lens
6565539: Device for applying a flowable medium, notably a tissue adhesive
6562070: Anterior chamber phakic lens
6558420: Durable flexible attachment components for accommodating intraocular lens
6558419: Intraocular lens
6558395: Intraocular lens implanter
6555030: Method for making an accommodating intraocular lens
6554860: Foldable iris fixated intraocular lenses
6552722: Systems and methods for sculpting virtual objects in a haptic virtual reality environment
6549915: Storing and recalling information to augment human memories
6544193: Noninvasive measurement of chemical substances
6541572: Method of making high refractive index ophthalmic device materials
6537316: Frosted haptic intraocular lens
6537283: Intraocular lens shipping case and injection cartridge
6537281: Corrective intraocular lens system, intraocular lenses, and lens handling and installation devices for use therewith
6533814: Intraocular lens having a design for controlling its axial displacement after implantation
6533813: Intraocular lens that may accommodate automatically
6530592: Gas bag module cover assembly and gas bag module
6528602: Foldable ophthalmic and otorhinolaryngological device materials
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According to traffic records ... Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Microsoft Visual Basic .NET appear to be all time hits here are the tracks:
Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming
Client/Server Survival Guide, 3rd Edition
Learn to Program Visual Basic Databases
Programming Microsoft Windows with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference)
Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET [... they really like this one ... "Ideal for any project manager or developer working in Visual Basic, Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET delivers an admirably lucid and valuable guide to porting legacy VB code to the new .NET framework. This book offers some indispensable advice on making this transition go smoothly.' ...]
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Picking up the line ...its interesting to see what's cookin in Game Control
The Patents:
6682073: Gaming machine with tool feature
6681000: Signal converter server network information system control methods thereof and telephone terminal
6679776: Video game system
6679499: Method for standing a stick between medals in a premium arcade game
6676524: Game enhancements via wireless piconet
6676520: Video game system providing physical sensation
6676517: System and method of data handling for table games
6676512: Gaming machine with mystery nudge symbol
6676510: Electronic gaming device having random reel mapping
6672958: Multi-draw poker game
6666770: Game system, recording medium, and image display method
6666767: Method of playing a game involving forming a matrix display of identifiers and comparing to group of randomly selected identifiers
6663487: Gaming machine with randomly variable pay table
6659871: Wireless game control units
6659870: Game controller
6659867: Gaming machine
6656051: Game progression control method, computer-readable recording medium, and game apparatus
6652138: Semiconductor wire bond machine leadframe thermal map system
6651985: Automated system for playing live casino table games having tabletop changeable playing card displays and play monitoring security features
6648759: Gaming machines with bonusing
6648758: Gaming machine with player choice bonus games
6648755: Pull-tab manufacturing and distribution system and method
6646653: Programmable graphics processor for use in a video game system or the like
6645076: Game apparatus with game player physical strength recognition
6645073: Bonusing apparatus and method for gaming system providing flexibility and interest
6645070: 3D rotating viewpoint game
6642917: Sign perception system, game system, and computer-readable recording medium having game program recorded thereon
6641482: Portable game apparatus with acceleration sensor and information storage medium storing a game program
6641479: Control unit and system utilizing the control unit
6638171: Story generating game system using partial programs with different endings
6638167: Electronic system and method for operating an auxiliary incentive game
6638162: Card game
6634946: Pari-mutuel networks, devices and games
6634944: Audience terminal game machine for playing a self-contained game in a first mode or, in a second mode wagering on a game conducted by a remote game machine
6634941: Gaming machine with secondary game including a special symbol
6634886: Amusement system having type practice function, typing practice system, and computer readable storage medium
6632137: Target-game execution method, game machine, and recording medium
6629887: Game device using game token
6626762: Game device
6623357: Paper token and complementary coupon dispenser
6623010: Method of building a deck of collectible cards
6621851: Priority messaging method for a discrete multitone spread spectrum communications system
6620044: Gaming machine
6620042: Target-game execution method, game machine, and recording medium
6616534: Button control for use in a game controller
6612573: Electronic game apparatus simulating variable launch power and direction of game object
6611917: Game machine having a high-power and low-power batteries both supplying power to drive and control circuits with power management to conserve the low-power batteries
6609976: Method of executing processing for displaying hints to a character, program product and game system for the same
6609975: Electronic system and method for operating an incentive auxiliary game
and that's whre the creaive minds are ... did some one say ... Viva Las Vegas?
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Sometimes you just wake up and wonder ...What's new in Electronics? Well ... hrer are the most Recent Electronics Patents:
6684401: Method and system for independent incoming and outgoing message dispatching in a home audio/video network
6684400: Method and apparatus for providing dynamic pricing services for an interactive information distribution system
6684399: Electronic program guide including live network multimedia broadcast channels
6684390: Multi-processor JAVA subsystem
6684375: Delay distribution calculation method, circuit evaluation method and false path extraction method
6684358: Decompressor/PRPG for applying pseudo-random and deterministic test patterns
6684357: Chip testing apparatus and method
6684345: Flash EEprom system
6684342: Apparatus and method of dynamic and deterministic changes in clock frequency for lower power consumption while maintaining fast interrupt handling
6684340: Measuring instrument having two pairs of lines connected to two indentical pairs of terminals, via which signal current flows through one pair and supply current flows through the other pair
6684338: Apparatus and method for power management of computer system
6684336: Verification by target end system of intended data transfer operation
6684335: Resistance cell architecture
6684326: Method and system for authenticated boot operations in a computer system of a networked computing environment
6684312: Memory managing method used in adding memory and information processing apparatus
6684309: Method for controlling access to data by redirecting modifications of the data
6684304: Method to access memory based on a programmable page limit
6684294: Using an access log for disk drive transactions
6684285: Synchronous integrated circuit device
6684276: Patient encounter electronic medical record system, method, and computer product
6684269: System and method for enabling transactions between a web server and a smart card, telephone, or personal digital assistant over the internet
6684264: Method of simplifying machine operation
6684262: Method and system for controlling peripheral device interface behavior using thread registration
6684240: Method of setting parental lock levels based on example content
6684235: One-dimensional wavelet system and method
6684231: Migration of friendly volumes
6684230: System and method for performing defined actions when grafting the name space of one storage medium into the name space of another storage medium
6684213: Methods and systems for strategic priority order tracking
6684210: File managing system, file management apparatus, file management method, and program storage medium
6684199: METHOD FOR MINIMIZING PIRATING AND/OR UNAUTHORIZED COPYING AND/OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OF/TO DATA ON/FROM DATA MEDIA INCLUDING COMPACT DISCS AND DIGITAL VERSATILE DISCS, AND SYSTEM AND DATA MEDIA FOR SAME
6684182: Integrated spacecraft emulation system and method for operating same
6684181: Ion implantation simulation method
6684169: Facilitating comparisons between simulated and actual behavior of electronic devices
6684165: Apparatus and method for monitoring force, especially force in labor and delivery
6684161: Combinatorial experiment design method and system
6684157: Method and system for interfacing a global positioning system, other navigational equipment and wireless networks with a digital data network
6684114: Efficient adaptive feedforward periodic disturbance compensation
6684107: Wrinkle-reducing system
6684106: Method and electronic components for multi-functional electrical stimulation systems
6684103: Cardiac pacing using adjustable atrio-ventricular delays
6684085: Mobile telephone and antenna therefor
6684078: GPS data controller in mobile communication system and control method thereof
6684076: Communique system with hierarchical communique coverage areas in cellular communication networks
6684074: Switching device in digital unit of multi-sector base station
6684070: TDMA beacon for satellite system synchronization
6684069: Audible notification of called message (ANCM) service implementation method on wireless intelligent network (WIN)
6684065: Variable gain amplifier for low voltage applications
6684062: Wireless game control system
6684058: Universal repeater for communication systems
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Monday, January 26, 2004
What do you do with freedom? ... well if you have too much time on your hands (which you might if your job has just been offshored) you download a lot of binaries ... at least that's what the usenet stats tell us ... here are today's top ten newsgroups:
1 alt.binaries.erotica.pornstars.80s
2 alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica.asian
3 alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.repost
4 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals
5 alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica 8087
6 alt.binaries.cd.image
7 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes
8 alt.binaries.erotica.vcd
9 alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime
10 alt.binaries.pictures.centerfolds.playboy
sort of sad to see what dominates the binary list ... what happened to David, Rafael, and Leonardo?
for those beyond prurience (is that really a word?) there's:
1 nctu.talk
2 newsguy.fifty-plus.friends
3 newsguy.bush_sucks
4 newsguy.cooking
5 newsguy.cellular.sprintpcs
6 newsguy.firearms
7 rec.aviation.military
8 newsguy.cellular.verizon
9 alt.comp.virus
10 rec.arts.sf.fandom
this is really fascinating ... if you were to profile the alfalfa geeks (no no not the alpha geeks, the alfalfa keeks) you might find they probably don't beat around the bush, they got right down to business once they stop reading Jane's Aviation --- they snuggle up with their favorite second ammendment firearm, reading the latest Asimov while dreaming up how to cook that virus crawling out of the cell phone. How's that for postmodern surrealism? - Never mind ... here are some nifty electronics and other doodads ...
Le Creuset 5-1/2-Quart Round French Oven, Cherry Red
Sabatier Provence 10-Piece Stainless-Steel Knife Set with Block
Health & Personal Care: Cosamin DS Joint Health Supplement, Double Strength, Capsules, plus a $10 mail-in rebate 210 ea
Adaptec USB 2.0/1394 Combo Card PCI 3-Port USB 2.0 & 2-Port Firewire MAC/PC (1923200)
Health & Personal Care: Norelco 7885XL Quadra Action Rechargeable Cord/Cordless Men's Shaving System
LaCie d2 External FireWire 7200 RPM 120 GB Hard Drive
Western Digital WDXC2000BBRNN 200GB FireWire/USB 2.0 Combo drive
Health & Personal Care: Mentadent Advanced Whitening Fluoride Toothpaste Refill, 63 Ounces, Case Sale (12 - 5.25 Oz Refills)
JVC MDV60ME10P 10 Pack DV Tape
The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition) (2002)
Starbucks Decaffeinated House Blend Universal Ground Coffee, 6 12-Ounce FlavorLock Bags (72 ounces total)
Maxtor A01A250 OneTouch 7200 RPM 250 GB External Hard Drive
Maxtor A01B120 OneTouch USB 7200 RPM 120 GB External Hard Drive
Health & Personal Care: EAS Myoplex Lite, Nutrition Shake Mix with Sucralose, Variety Pack 42 packets
LaCie 300700U 7200 RPM 160 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive
Seagate ST3160024ARK 160 GB External Hard Drive
WesternDigital 160 GB USB 2.0 EXTERNAL HDD ( WDXU1600BBRNN )
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Sunday, January 25, 2004
Movies making the cut ... the 2004 season -- sets and more: Fantasia (60th Anniversary Special Edition) (1940), Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl, Seabiscuit (2003), Intolerable Cruelty [Bret Fetzer says of this about IC: A sleek George Clooney and a seductive Catherine Zeta-Jones square off magnificently in the divorce comedy Intolerable Cruelty. The plot is simple: Lawyer supreme Miles Massey (Clooney, Out of Sight, Ocean's Eleven) skillfully outmaneuvers gold-digger Marylin Rexroth (Zeta-Jones, Chicago, Traffic) when she divorces her wealthy husband--and she sets out to get revenge. But this movie comes from the creative minds of the Coen Brothers (Fargo, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou?), and so Intolerable Cruelty includes a Scottish wedding chapel in Vegas, an asthmatic hit man, fluffy-dog-stroking European nobility, and a legendarily unbreakable pre-nuptial agreement. ... It's still damn funny, though, with top-notch performances from the leads as well as Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, and Billy Bob Thornton --- worth a look], Lost In Translation ... what do you think?
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In the air ... Economic Growth, Economic Turnaround, Economic Forecasting, Economic Planning, Economic Recovery [more]
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Presidential ... its that season so what can you look for?
Presidential
Presidential Elections
Presidential Primaries
Presidential Libraries
Presidential Records
Presidential Proclamations
Presidential Decisions
Presidential Advisors
Presidential Material
Presidential Meetings
Presidential Projects
Presidential Ambitions
Presidential Candidates
Presidential Summit
Presidential Vacations
Presidential Homes
Presidential Retreats
Presidential Biography
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Helmut Newon ... gone? perhaps ... but his legacy stays ... Autobiography, Helmut Newton: Private Property (Schirmer's Visual Library), PORTRAITS, Helmut Newton (Photofile), Helmut Newton : 47 nudes, White Women, Newton: A Collection of Helmut Newton's Photographs, The Best of Helmut Newton, Portraits: Photographs from Europe and America ... what more can you ask for?
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Saturday, January 24, 2004
In their search for personal happiness ... what are people looking for? ... turns out to be a rather diverse set of interests ... a single snapshot reveals this .... Movie Star Homes: The Famous to the Forgotten, Conquering Chronic Fatigue: Answers to America's Most Misunderstood Epidemic, Larry Wolfe's Official Map of Movie Stars' Homes, New York City: Also Stars of Television, Theatre, Soaps ... Plus Entertainment and Sightseeing Guide, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis, Tattoo, Mozart: Concertos for Flute, Harp, Bassoon & Oboe, Playboy - Staying on Top, Romance with a Double Bass, Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel, Fairies and Elves Tattoos, Analysis of Statically Indeterminate Structures and more ... does this make any sense? Well in the universe's interesting convoluted meanderings towards its destiny ... it probably does. How do conspiracies fit in?
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Monday, January 19, 2004
What is the pursuit of Happiness really all about .... it could be about Space Technology and Microgravity, or it could be about Beautiful Women (watch out ... you could get burned), or it could be about Organic Farming ... who knows ... it could be about ...
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Theology, Hermeneutics, and Imagination : The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity by G. Green ... seems interesting ... [more]
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SPIRULINA AND BEER ... THE SECRET OF IMMORTALITY? ... the claims "... microalgae is 60% all-vegetable protein, rich in beta carotene, iron, vitamin B-12 and the rare essential fatty acid, GLA." ... BIOSPACE SAYS 'German Unveils Anti-Ageing Beer ... It must be every drinker's dream and it has now become a reality, at least if you believe the manufacturer. Keep young and beautiful by drinking beer - that is what Bavarian entrepreneur Helmut Fricher is promising. Anti-ageing beer was presented to the world at a German agricultural fair this week - a drink which the brewer says will bring body and soul into harmony. But the new wonder drink may fall foul of Germany's oldest law, the Beer Purity Regulation. The anti-ageing beer that Mr Fricher presented to the Green Week trade fair in Berlin is supposed to help strengthen the immune system and make you feel good in a way that other beers just do not" ... the claim is mushrooming as a result of Ray Furlong's (BBC correspondent in Berlin) story ... we'll hold till more details unfold, but you can find out ... [more]
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Monday, January 12, 2004
Dollars & Cents of Shopping Centers: 2002: A Study of Receipts and Expenses in Shopping Center Operations (Dollars and Cents of Shopping Centers, 2002) by Geoffrey Booth (Editor), Urban Land Institute looks interesting ... [more]
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Sunday, January 11, 2004
Take a look at Content Critical as well.
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Do you want to make your words count? Do you want lots of web traffic ...well, these folks claim to have mastered the trade in Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy [DOWNLOAD: PDF / ADOBE READER]. [more]
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Saturday, January 10, 2004
Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2004 is worth exploring as is the The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference ... [more]
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The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance is part of the Figurine Story .... [more]
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The Codebreakers : The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn is definitely worth a look ... (from the Book Description - The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage -- updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret.) [more]
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according to the NY Times ... Royal Dutch/Shell said yesterday that it was reducing its proven oil and gas reserves by 20 percent, a surprising announcement that raised questions about the company and about the tabulation of oil and gas reserves throughout the industry If you don't understand what this means .... stay tuned ...
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Just in case you're wondering what its all about ... ... who or what are these Daily Winners ... who as Mike says, "Just do it!" ... their top picks, for reasons we know not why, are choices like: Mozart: Concertos for Flute, Harp, Bassoon & Oboe, Electronic Chemistry Experiments, Cloning and Expression Vectors for Gene Function Analysis, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, Molecular Biology of the Cardiovascular System, Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, The Nightman, Color Atlas & Synopsis of Pediatric Dermatology, Interview with the Vampire : Anniversary edition, Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity, The Little Engine That Could, The Double Bass Mystery: Level 2, Car Care, and some others. If you have a theory ... ket us know ... Maybe the Iowa Primary will shed some light on the mystery ... but perhaps not ...
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What if you just did it?
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First steps towards resolving the Mycenae Conspiracy "Mycenae was an Indo-European city-state of the Achaeans in ancient Greece's northeastern Peloponnesus. Around 1550 BC, Mycenae came to dominate the rest of Greece; this period is called the Mycenaean civilization, which was dominated by the warrior aristocracy. Around 1400 BC, the Mycenaeans conquered the Minoans, adopting their syllabary (now called Linear A) to write their own language (Greek, the new syllabary known as Linear B). ... Lion Gate at Mycenae.Mycenae thrived in the period that scholars believe corresponds to the events in Homer's Iliad. Some believe that Mycenae was the home of King Agamemnon. ... Around 1100 BC, it is thought that the Dorians attacked Greece from the north while the Sea People attacked from the sea. Numerous cities were sacked and the region entered a dark age. During this period the Mycenaeans adopted iron, instead of bronze; adopted cremation; and suffered from decreasing population and literacy rates. ... Around 800 BC, the dark age ended with beginning of Greek civilization." ...(from wikipedia) ... The topic requires further examination as to the disappearance of writing and civilization for over 300 years (some say 500 years) ... possibly a foreshadowing of end results of terrorism. ---
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Global Aging and Financial Markets: Hard Landings Ahead (CSIS Significant Issues Series) by Robert Stowe England, Robert Hormats -- looks to be a serious alert --- "The retirement of the baby boom generation poses a challenge to the world's financial markets. This book examines the prospect that, after 2020, pension funds will have to pay out more in benefits than employers will be contributing, and it considers the extent to which individuals will liquidate equity holdings, or switch to bond holdings, or do both to sustain their living standards. The book examines the possibility that these changes will drive down equity values." take a look ...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2004
Which countries are supplying calcium chloride? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of calcium chloride vary from one country to another? Do exporters serving the world market have similar market shares across the importing countries? Which countries supply the most exports of calcium chloride? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers? did you want to know that? -- apparently The World Market for Calcium Chloride: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective is one of the immediately available, downloadable pdf sources for this information.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Atlantic Tsunami - Now on the watchlist: (see Tsunami) this came up earlier ... apparently a claim was made that "Scientists find undersea cracks which could trigger Atlantic tsunami". Don't know how credible this is, but ... statement made is "The possibility of an East Coast tsunami isn't as remote as many would like to believe, three scientists report in this month's issue of the journal Geology. ... Neal Driscoll of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Jeffrey Weissel of Columbia University and John Goff of the University of Texas at Austin said recently discovered cracks off the coast could mean the continental shelf is unstable. ... The researchers say they discovered the cracks along a 25-mile section of the continental shelf or the part of the continent in shallow seas off the Virginia and North Carolina Coast." -- this topic is being added to the watch list. Gerard Fryer of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology discusses them here. He also reminds us that "Many people are unaware that landslides can generate tsunamis too (a landslide will suck down the sea surface behind it; the hole in the sea surface will oscillate to give a series of waves). There have been several landslide-generated tsunamis in the Atlantic. The most recent was in 1929, when glacial debris dropped at the edge of Georges Bank by the St. Lawrence River collapsed down the continental slope of North America. That tsunami killed twenty six people along the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland."
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Monday, January 5, 2004
.... following up on User Interfaces (as entrypoints to empires of the mind), and the The Tomb of God.... This piece from The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac "I thank God continually that it hath been my lot in life to found an empire in my heart --no cramped and wizened borough wherein one jealous mistress hath exercised her petty tyranny, but an expansive and ever-widening continent divided and subdivided into dominions, jurisdictions, caliphates, chiefdoms, seneschalships, and prefectures, wherein tetrarchs, burgraves, maharajahs, palatines, seigniors, caziques, nabobs, emirs, nizams, and nawabs hold sway, each over his special and particular realm, and all bound together in harmonious cooperation by the conciliating spirit of polybibliophily!" seemed full of interesting terms .... I guess I didn't realize just how important seneschalships could be. Right up there with the caziques, I imagine. GO SPIRIT!
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Sunday, January 4, 2004
YUP! -- its the End of 'the End of' ... well, may be not ... it appears that 1999 was the peak year for 'the end of' with 123 books published (with 'the-end-of' in their titles). Stage 1 analysis is located here. Interestingly, of 1990 titles [there are 1559 distinct title words of length of 4 letters or greater with total Individual Occurrences of 8187 words] the leaders of the end of title word pack are: world which occurs 238(2.91%) of the time, century 229 (2.8%), history 114(1.39%), time 78(0.95%), life 88(0.94%). This will be analyzed more closely later. [if you understand this you probably like Zipf].
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The Spirit has Landed! Congratulations! NASA and JPL have done it again .... MARS ROVER SPIRIT IS ON DECK ... getting ready to scoot around. Wow. Take a look at what it sent home already. TRIPLE AWESOME
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The Beethoven Factor? Is Beethoven Returning? we don't know ... but there appears to be an unusual upspike in interest... the suspects ... why the usual suspects ofcourse ... Mozart, Chopin, Grodin, Mattila, Heppner, Pape, Lloyd, Polenzani, Metropolitan Opera , Rostropovich, Barenboim, Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Yehudi Menuhin, Mendelssohn, Jascha Heifetz, Schubert, Leopold Stokowski, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic ...... wait a sec Ludwig ... does this make ANY sense? [more]
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Dead Sea Scrolls Deserve a lot of attention; the Copper Scroll of Qumran: The Essene Record of the Treasure of Akhenaten - may be something of great interest -- apparently the subject of a huge controversy...and perhaps precursor to the Da Vinci Code Story (take a look here, here, here, and for sure here [Holy Grail, Fisher King, Joseph of Arimathea and the Da Vinci Code - Revisited]) ... well off to the zees. [more]
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Saturday, January 3, 2004
Soft walls ...interesting ABCstory and possible key technology ...."The system, developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, and others, with funding from NASA, is called "Soft Walls." When installed on an aircraft, Soft Walls would prevent pilots from entering restricted "no-fly" zones around critical areas" ... neat
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Fashions and Fashion Design... there can be no doubt that Fashions are the epitome of expression of Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
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Is it time to get ready for Lawn Care and Treatment? [more]
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looking at User Interfaces .... I ran into an interesting technical paper Five Centuries of UI Design by Bill Hill of Microsoft Corporation. Its full of interesting ideas ... the one that caught my eye -- The "Book," when you boil it right down to its essence, is nothing but sooty marks on shredded trees. Yet it can capture our attention and hold it for hours. Not only that, but as we read a book, it disappears. We're no longer aware of "the book" we're holding out there; the "real book" is happening inside our heads. -- [via msdn library]; I guess when we generalize Hill's 'Book', why, almost everything in communication can be viewed that way ... but the book is very elegant and powerful (as are movies).
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If you're wondering about sugar ... ... Its not clear whether it leads to more happiness or less happiness ... time will tell. [more]
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Lysate Tests are becoming important ... here's what's new. [more]
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Friday, January 2, 2004
Starscape Jordan 16 Copy Floor Display is Jordan's next biggest or is it the bext iggest? Why doesn't he cut to the chase and finish writing the Wheel of Time? [more]
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Vampires Beyond Buffy's Reach? are there any? ... What about the vmpires? or wa that Umpires?
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Swimming? ... these are sort of odd? [more]
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Hawaii Retirement; is that for real? [more]
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