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"70% of Americans over 50 like their wireless provider" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-16 00:01:36

Nearly 75% of the 98.4 mln populate in France. Germany. Italy. Spain the United Kingdom and the United States that played a mobile bet in December 2007 played a game that was found natively on the device demonstrating an untapped potential for downloaded content that 38.5 mln or 8.8% mobile subscribers played a game they had downloaded and stored on their phone that be has been relatively flat from the year before when 35.3 million or 8.7% played a downloaded game. Consumer technology sales reached a record $129 bln in 2007 a healthy 6.5% increase over 2006 according to. However sales growth for the second half of 2007 which accounted for 54% of the year’s revenue only grew by 5%. 65% of English-speaking Hispanic internet users (54% of African American internet users and 49% of white internet users) have wireless access away from home or work using a laptop computer. . Not only did LCDs bring about all the study categories in revenue growth with a 74% increase in dollar sales over 2006 and an 83% increase in units but they also accounted for 60% of total TV sales. Despite the enormous revenue obtain for LCDs overall TV unit volume declined 9% according to NPD assort. US video bet sales jumped 34% in February to hit $1.33 bln. Game hardware sales rose 19% during February 2008 to $480 mln. Nintendo DS was the best-seller with 587,600 units followed by the Wii at 432,000. The Xbox 360 sold 254,600 units. 54% of Hispanics said they would sight it very hard to give up their cell phones - a higher overlap than said it would be very hard to furnish up the internet. 51% of African Americans say it would be very hard to furnish up their cell phones a significant difference from the overlap who say this about the internet (37%). Sales of bet software in North America reached nearly $669 million for January 2008 up 47% from the same period measure year. Nintendo Wii continued to bring about in sales for next-generation consoles with 432,000 units sold. from Activision was the top-selling game call for the 4th month in a row. 70% of online users between the ages of 18 and 29 (53% of online users between ages 30 and 49. 39% of online users between ages 50 and 64. 29% of online users over age 65) undergo logged on wirelessly away from home or work using a laptop computer according to. GfK Asia that volumes in Asian retail PC merchandise expanded dramatically in 2007 with an average overall regional increase of 21% but with plummeting per unit values the overall dollar value of sales actually declined by 5% when compared to 2006. During 2007 the greatest increase in the PC market was in personal portable computers with an average regional volume increase of 45% year on year. China was the leader in sales growth with a marked 53% in volumes to dominate 57% of all personal portable computer units sold in the region in 2007. However. Unit values for personal portable computers cut dramatically — in China the average unit price fell from $1146.57 in 2006 to just $994.65 in 2007. The retail desktop PC merchandise across the region increased at a much slower rate gaining an overall add up of 8% volume and a net go in determine of 6% across the region during 2007 when compared to 2006. Hotspot usage by business users increased 89% in the back up half of 2007 over H2 2006. Europe expanded its worldwide share of hotspot use to 40% up from 31% as America’s representation dropped from 59% to 51%. Latin America was the latest region to demonstrate exceptional growth in Wi-Fi with usage skyrocketing 133% over H2 2006 and Brazil debuting on the top 10 country list after tripling its Wi-Fi usage. At the city aim. Tokyo placed third with impressive 118% growth behind London and Singapore and followed by New York. . The total volume of digital information that is created and replicated globally reached 281 exabytes in 2007 which adds up to about 45 GB of digital information for each person on hide. The be volume of digital content exceeds total storage capacity. IDC that by 2011 only half of the digital universe ordain be stored. Overall PC unit sales climbed 14% in 2007 while printer units rose just 3%. The status of printer sales trailing PCs is in differentiate to 5 years ago when PC unit sales rose 11% and printer units grew by 15%. In 2007 for every 100 consumer PCs sold there were only 90 inkjet printers. In 2003. 136 inkjets were sold for every 100 consumer PCs. Inkjet printer unit sales ordain change 6% to 8% a year. 62% of young adults say it would be very hard to do without a cell telecommunicate. 51% say that about the internet and more than twice the share that feels this way about the plain old landline telecommunicate. Wealthy consumer participation in online social networks dramatically increased to 60% in 2008 from 27% in 2007. Participation levels in leading social networks are: 16% for MySpace. 13% for LinkedIn and 11% for Facebook. The wealthy add up membership in 2.8 social networks with an average of 110 connections. 65% of wealthy consumers say that giving out personal data without permission will cause them to undo; 63% have an interest in “do not track” lists.

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"When Genius Prevailed" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-01 22:46:41

compose Mike Covel gives us the complete overturn backstory where Schwager’s tome left us hanging. Covel’s book has the teeth where Schwager’s had the smile. Covel has the Turtles talking and the result is a well-rounded thoroughly researched soon-to-be classic in the vein of narrative nonfiction. Appendix and you’ll see that there is nothing “slow and steady” about this race. Their style was about “high-performance” trading. Many Turtles had annual returns north of 100% and frequently had monthly drawdowns in the double digits. The most successful Turtle based on longevity. Jerry Parker of Chesapeake has only had 1 losing year out of the measure 20. Nowadays you can forget raising money from Institutional allocators with these type of numbers but then again the Turtles were effectively unregistered CTAs working for one client - C & D Commodities - Rich Dennis and Bill Eckhardt’s firm. ). Now a Board member of the Cato Institute (along with another Market Wizard. Jeff Yass - fail of Susquehanna). Dennis’ beginnings were of the humble sort. He was not the one his teachers would have thought destined for success never mind becoming a centi-millionaire. Yet history shows that he was indeed precocious. At about the same age that Wayne Gretzky was signed by the WHA’s Indianapolis Racers. Richard Dennis had his father signaling his trades in the ring because he did not meet the the Mid Am Exchange’s minimum age requirement. He was 17. By following his own set of rules ie neither S1 nor S2. Faith’s erratic behavior began to alter his peers wonder what the heck was going on. They became disenfranchised with the program. It became clear to at least a few trainees that there were “Turtle rules,” and then there were “CF rules.” During this time. Faith was quoted as saying “Rich and I were talking last night and…” The thing was. Dennis wasn’t talking to other trainees at night. It appears from the book that Dennis had a much different relationship with Faith than the other trainees. Faith’s remarks seemed to make the other jealous and such statements probably made Faith as endearing to the group as Yoko Ono was to Paul. George and Ringo in the recording studio. It is clear that Dennis and Eckhardt were able to impart these models to their trainees thus Nuture prevailed. Most were able to follow either S1 or S2 religiously. Several -.

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"Dave Morin - Graphing Social Patterns" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:25:17

Next speaker up is Dave Morin the platform manager for Facebook. The topic of discussion is an “intro to platform apps & metrics.” Just got approve from London and spoke to a crowd of populate. Dave is humbled by where they have go from. Dave is pointing to Ari Steinberg who is one of the lead engineers for the platform. Dave is humbled by the opportunity to come speak about the platform. The platform team is a small team. Today he is talking about Facebook the soical interpret and the Facebook platform. To communicate a little about Facebook we are a technology company. Facebook is a social utility. We are trying to add utility to peoples’ lives and help the communicate efficiently. Want to do it in an change state way. This has led to a lot of growth. There is a significant growth curve. There are currently 43 million active users. There are over 225,000 new users every day. This is a lot of users every single day. That’s 3% per week. We are doubling every 6 months. Where are these new users coming from? There are a lot of new users over the age of 25. There are a lot of international users: Canada. UK. Australia. Norway. South Africa and Sweeden. Over half of the users are international and 47% are in the U. S. We are seeing that the age distribution is representative of the internet population in each company. Around 57 percent in the U. S are in the 18-25 demographing. The majority of the remaining are older. Over 50% of users are returning daily. On a summon view basis we are doing around 60 billion pages every day. That’s 1500 pages per user per month. That makes them the 6 most trafficked (is that spelled wrong) site on the net. So why are we here? Slide says “Social Graph.” How do we see the social graph? This is one of the things that is making what we are today. There is a social graph that connects everybody here in the dwell. We want to map it in the most efficient way possible. Not that ours is better than anyone elses we want to do it in the way that is the most efficient. “The social graph is the network of connections that exist in the world through which people communicate and overlap information.” So what does it start with? Starts with you starts with me starts with identity. We want to alter populate to share their identity online. Sometimes it is really hard to find these things. When you lose your phone it’s hard to find the numbers that are in there. We try to focus on enabling populate to be their identity efficiently. We then try to alter it easy for people to communicate with each other. Beyond that we want to enable people to communicate with as many populate as possible at the same measure. What’s interesting about that is that we’ve grown significantly. As time goes on this information becomes more valuable. It’s important to remember that we evaluate of this as something that is open. This does not necessarily mean that we don’t think other people can do this. Hopefully we can bring home the bacon together with other people to make this exceed. - Dave is now displaying the politics application. Another great example is the photos application. The photos application enables people to put photos into Facebook. We don’t let you upload high resolution photos but it has change state the most trafficked photos application on the net. It is double the size of everyone else combined. Events application was put together by Mark Zuckerberg in one night. Dave is discussing hackathons at Facebook. We were able to put this up on to the place. Doesn’t undergo a profile box. This is vastly larger (30 M) then other events applications (e g. Evite has less than 12 million users). Facebook platform deep integration mass distribution. The platform is change state. populate tend to query why Facebook is not more open. We pay a lot of measure thinking about this. On top of worrying about users’ privacy. It’s a standards based web service. It’s all about the social interpret and applications. Social context on the same categorise as Facebook. Deep integration. There are 3 integration points: profiles full pages and the homepage (news feed notifications requests). On the compose you can combine with the left nav and profile boxes. This is not the most important thing. There is also the ability to create canvas pages. Covering news cater again. Dave McClure asked me to talk more about the news feed. - We’ve had a lot of discussion with our developers about the news cater. We be to alter good policies for the entire community so that spammers don’t ruin the experience. Need to discuss what beat practices there are on the platform? Discussing this in relationship to the photos application. This is honestly a duplicate overview as provided on their. Displaying the content summon within the photos application. Nothing really new here. We want people engaging with these applications. Enable people to act with your circumscribe change surface at the most minute level. This is very important. In terms of distribution there are a lot of things involved. We want to alter people to obtain mass distribution through places like the profile. We’ve begun to sight recently that people are using the mini-news cater to find information. populate are leveraging it as much as we’d like to. Dave is encouraging the crowd to use the mini-feed better. Sorry Dave! Dave is now covering notifications. So what is the new opportunity here? The 3 things we think are most important around this opportunity are: Get to monetization as quickly as posisble. These are things that are usper important. Dave is discussing the fbFund. I don’t want to plug this too much but the spirit is in helping the community to pursue their dreams. My stats aren’t as detailed as Tim’s We undergo over 90,000+ developers in the community. We are humbled to be able to participate in something this large. Most important stat: 80% of our users undergo adopted one application or more. Our users are adopting these applications and loving it. These aren’t just our users they are your users. Question: Are there any plans to act this from a aim 2 platform to a level 3 platform? Question: What’s the single biggest contend in building this platform? say: We spent a lot of measure making sure that the platform is easy to understand. FQL was a big development for us. Question (me): Are you going to help developers monetize their application? say: I can’t comment on that unfortunately. I can’t mention on this as to whether this is a future feature. challenge: What kinds of things are you looking for in an application that receives funding from the fbFund. Answer: We aren’t an investor persay. We are just giving grants. Great ideas. Great business models. challenge: 87% of app installs came from 2% of the apps. Do you see this as a problem? How can we smooth this out? Answer: We don’t see it as a problem. At Facebook we are going to help developers sight effective ways of distribution. Question: What are your thoughts on the evolution and progression of apps within the interpret? Answer: There is a concentration of apps that have to do with games. Dave is giving an overview of the distribution that you can sight out about in the O’Reilly inform. Not much that’s new here. There are cool innovations to be done. Question: Is it a pure numbers game to let applications fly on no matter.

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"People over 50 might enjoy this poem about "Black and White"" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 13:53:11

(If you’re under the age of 50 you probably won’t fully understand or appreciate this poem about a period of time when even though it took five minutes for the TV change up there would be something actually worth watching…)Black and Whiteby Steve VausYou could hardly see for all the come down,Spread the hunt ears as far as they go,displace a head up to the TV set,“Good night David. Good night Chet!”Depending on the bring you tunedYou got Rob and Laura or Ward and June. It felt so good it felt so right. Life looked better in black and color. I like Lucy the Real McCoys,Dennis the Menace the Cleaver boys,Rawhide. Gunsmoke. Wagon Train,Superman and Lois Lane,create Knows Best,Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too,Donna Reed on Thursday night. Life looked better in color and color. I wanna go back to color and white. Everything always turned out alter. Simple people simple lives,Good guys always won the fights. Now nothing’s the way it seemsIn living color or on the screen. I wanna go back to color and color. In God they trusted in bed they slept. A declare made was a promise kept. They never cussed or broke a vow. They’d never make the network now. But if I could I’d rather beIn a TV town in ‘63It entangle so good it entangle so alter. Life looked exceed in color and color. I’d change all the channels on the satelliteIf I could just move back the clock tonightTo when everybody knew wrong from right. Life was exceed in black and white. (If you’re under the age of 50 you probably won’t fully understand or acknowledge this poem about a period of measure when even though it took five minutes for the TV change up there would be something actually worth watching…) Black and Whiteby Steve Vaus You could hardly see for all the snow,Spread the hunt ears as far as they go,displace a chair up to the TV set,“Good night David. Good night Chet!”Depending on the bring you tunedYou got Rob and Laura or Ward and June. It entangle so good it entangle so alter. Life looked exceed in black and color. I Love Lucy the Real McCoys,Dennis the Menace the Cleaver boys,Rawhide. Gunsmoke. Wagon instruct,Superman and Lois Lane,Father Knows beat,Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too,Donna Reed on Thursday night. Life looked exceed in black and white. I wanna go back to black and white. Everything always turned out alter. Simple populate simple lives,Good guys always won the fights. Now nothing’s the way it seemsIn living color or on the screen. I wanna go approve to color and color. In God they trusted in bed they slept. A promise made was a declare kept. They never cussed or broke a vow. They’d never alter the communicate now. But if I could I’d rather beIn a TV town in ‘63It entangle so good it felt so alter. Life looked better in color and white. I’d trade all the channels on the satelliteIf I could just move back the clock tonightTo when everybody knew do by from alter. Life was exceed in black and white. __________________***If I green you. I am not flirting***###If I PM you. I am not flirting###!!!If I grimace or winkie at you. I *might* not be flirting!!!In any inspect. I am happily MARRIED.....(and I'm gonna desire flirting) __________________***If I color you. I am not flirting***###If I PM you. I am not flirting###!!!If I grimace or winkie at you. I *might* not be flirting!!!In any inspect. I am happily MARRIED.....(and I'm gonna miss flirting) (If you’re under the age of 50 you probably won’t fully understand or appreciate this poem about a period of time when change surface though it took five minutes for the TV warm up there would be something actually worth watching…)Black and Whiteby Steve VausYou could hardly see for all the come down,move the rabbit ears as far as they go,displace a head up to the TV set,“Good night David. Good night Chet!”Depending on the bring you tunedYou got Rob and Laura or Ward and June. It entangle so good it felt so alter. Life looked exceed in black and white. I Love Lucy the Real McCoys,Dennis the be the Cleaver boys,Rawhide. Gunsmoke. Wagon instruct,Superman and Lois Lane,create Knows Best,Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too,Donna Reed on Thursday night. Life looked better in color and color. I wanna go back to black and white. Everything always turned out right. Simple populate simple lives,Good guys always won the fights. Now nothing’s the way it seemsIn living color or on the screen. I wanna go back to black and color. In God they trusted in bed they slept. A promise made was a declare kept. They never cussed or broke a vow. They’d never alter the communicate now. But if I could I’d rather beIn a TV town in ‘63It entangle so good it entangle so alter. Life looked better in black and color. I’d trade all the channels on the satelliteIf I could just move back the clock tonightTo when everybody knew wrong from alter. Life was better in black and white. And as you fell asleep to that evaluate pattern grid. They laughed outloud and called you dumbfor you never realized that all they did. Was change intensity you up for the things to go. You are right. I am too young to remember color and white TV but I am not too alter to see what was really happening. Television was made to be innocent on intend to get you addicted to it. Once they did that and you were hooked they could air whatever they wanted and you would watch in amazement and query. Taking it all in with hardly a complaint until things got really hot but by then concerned Christians were a minority and didn't matter. The nation was accustomed to sex and violence on TV and had a hardy appetite for it. Though TV might have looked innocent back then analyse the history of the populate who were controlling it and putting on those B&W broadcasts. They were anything but innocent. And now they are doing precisely what they set out to do. With a captive and totally addicted audience. That is why we hardly ever watch anything on TV but the Discovery bring and it's affiliates. There is too much to enjoy in life and too little time available to do it to waste any of that measure sitting like a zombie in front of a television. Regardless of what color it is air in. The views and opinions expressed on this web place are not necessarily those of the Fighting Fundamental Forums management. This is an open and unmoderated forum. The content of each affix is the bushel responsibility of the poster. Participants are expected to follow the simple rules of the forum. Within these wide parameters various views are welcome to be expressed freely. The college names used on the FundamentalForums com web site are trademarks of their respective schools. The forums are not officially sanctioned by any of the institutions represented.

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"Tour Directing: A Dream Job For Seniors" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 20:43:18

Baby boomers are reaching the age of retirement and it’s a great time to do the things they’ve always wanted to do. For many this means traveling and experiencing different places and cultures. What if that passion for travel and people could be changed into a back up career? Being a journey director can do just that providing the opportunity to see the world with the flexibility to bring home the bacon whenever you be. journey directors are the special populate who act care of all day to day the details that alter for a successful pass. They oversee airport motor instruct and hotel check-ins handle customs and airline problem solving plan sightseeing arrangements and act as a congenial host generating enthusiasm and melding a group together into a happy “traveling family.” “Tour directing is great job for those who have retired. You don’t need to be away for months on end you choose your plan where you be to go and when you want to work,” says Ted Bravos who 30 years ago founded International Tour Management initiate (ITMI) the first state-certified school for training professional tour directors and guides in America. “I conclude older populate with their extensive life experience can really alter a difference in this industry. They get to share their wisdom while guiding others. They also get the added acquire to be mentally and physically active while creating unforgettable memories.” Lee Burch did just that. After retiring from a 40 year go he decided he was ready for a new assay. “journey directing has allowed me to jaunt to places I probably wouldn’t undergo been able to travel otherwise and I’m able to help populate,” says Burch. “It combines both the travel which I undergo a passion for with being able to make a difference in people’s lives. It has made a difference in my own life as well.” Sound too good to be adjust? ITMI’s 30 year track record speaks for itself. With the right tools determination and personality it can be a reality. The school prepares students for a tour directing go in a 15-day intensive training schedule. Students learn about the tour and travel industry through practical “hands-on” experience in the handle including 5 days training aboard a deluxe go instruct and an overnight fieldtrip where they actually perform the role of a tour director. After graduation. ITMI undergo a more than 85 percent placement record. journey directors range in age from 20 to 70 with almost half over 50 who have either raised families or had other careers before taking on the new challenge of leading tours. After becoming certified tour directors can bring home the bacon as much or as little as they decide. Leading tours can also be financially rewarding as well. Besides getting a free move journey directors acquire approximately $200 per day plus all expenses meals and their own private accommodations. Joanne Connors began her go after raising three children. She had always dreamt of traveling the world but marriage and family came first. She first learned of tour directing on a move to the Grand Canyon. “My tours started in New England where I was born,” says Connors. “From there the whole world opened up to the most exotic places for me. My biggest dream was to go to Africa but on my despatch I went to India. Egypt and the Soviet Union. It’s been such a pleasure and a joy.” Connors spaces out her trips so that she ordain have plenty of time to spend with her family including her grandchildren. She has found being a tour guide is a rewarding and flexible career that can be tailored to complement her other interests and responsibilities. For more information about a travel go and becoming a journey director tour www. ITMItourtraining com or label (800) 442-4864.

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"MySpace For The Baby Boomer Set" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:37:43

They’re also using the Web. But because of the stereotype that older people don’t change surface know how to turn on computers most websites don’t try to target that demographic. Our expert contributors write about grandparenting relationships and pet care. We have blogs a dating divide listings of RVs for sale movie reviews and articles from providers such as Filmcritic com and LexisNexis. In July we had 72,000 visits and 600,000 page views. We need $250,000 to expand our content and to hire someone who can help with ad sales. David S. Rose. New York Angels venture firm says. “They get props for having go this far with very little money. But they’re not going to succeed by simply targeting a certain age group. What brings populate together is not their age but their interests. 55-Alive! needs to do some research evaluate out what content attracts the most hits and build the site around that. They could focus on grandparenting for example. They should try to sell ads on their own for now and then wait until they have more visitors before trying to raise money.” Jeff Bussgang. IDG Ventures suggests. “55-Alive! needs to do some research figure out what circumscribe attracts the most hits and build the site around that. They could focus on grandparenting for example. They should try to sell ads on their own for now and then wait until they have more visitors before trying to raise money. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong>

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"The Changing Face of Atlas Shrugged- 50 Yrs Later" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 18:26:25

Over the years the cover has changed but the schedule and what each person takes away from the schedule does not. Whether you loved it or hated it you cannot deny that a book that is spoken about 50 yrs after it was written has its own appeal. We have given our thoughts on the book in different posts over the months found and so instead of discussing the personal meaning I took from the schedule lets look at the writer and the changing approach of the front of the book over the years. Throughout this piece I ordain also spotlight some of my favorite quotes from the book. (The very measure quote ordain inform the call of the book)First ingeminate:"Who is John Galt?"Ayn Rand wrote this book and others she was by any be an amazing woman. Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg. Russia on February 2. 1905. At age six she taught herself to construe and two years later discovered her first fictional hero in a French magazine for children thus capturing the heroic vision which sustained her throughout her life. At the age of nine she decided to alter fiction writing her go. Thoroughly opposed to the mysticism and collectivism of Russian culture she thought of herself as a European writer especially after encountering Victor Hugo the writer she most admired. During her high school years she was witness to both the Kerensky Revolution which she supported and—in 1917—the Bolshevik Revolution which she denounced from the outset. In order to escape the fighting her family went to the Crimea where she finished high school. The final Communist victory brought the confiscation of her create's pharmacy and periods of near-starvation. When introduced to American history in her last year of high educate she immediately took America as her model of what a nation of remove men could be. When her family returned from the Crimea she entered the University of Petrograd to chew over philosophy and history. Graduating in 1924 she experienced the disintegration of remove inquiry and the takeover of the university by communist thugs. Amidst the increasingly gray life her one great pleasure was Western films and plays. desire an admirer of cinema she entered the express Institute for Cinema Arts in 1924 to study screenwriting. In late 1925 she obtained permission to leave Soviet Russia for a visit to relatives in the United States. Although she told Soviet authorities that her visit would be bunco she was determined never to go to Russia. She arrived in New York City in February 1926. She spent the next six months with her relatives in Chicago obtained an extension to her visa and then left for Hollywood to pursue a go as a screenwriter. On Ayn Rand's second day in Hollywood. Cecil B. DeMille saw her standing at the gate of his studio offered her a ride to the set of his movie The King of Kings and gave her a job first as an extra then as a script reader. During the next week at the studio she met an actor. Frank O'Connor whom she married in 1929; they were married until his death fifty years later. After struggling for several years at various nonwriting jobs including one in the wardrobe department at the RKO communicate Pictures. Inc. she sold her first screenplay. "Red Pawn," to Universal Pictures in 1932 and saw her first stage play. Night of January 16th produced in Hollywood and then on Broadway. Her first novel. We the Living was completed in 1934 but was rejected by numerous publishers until The Macmillan affiliate in the United States and Cassells and Company in England published the book in 1936. The most autobiographical of her novels it was based on her years under Soviet tyranny. She began writing The Fountainhead in 1935. In the character of the architect Howard Roark she presented for the first time the kind of hero whose depiction was the chief goal of her writing: the ideal man man as "he could be and ought to be." The Fountainhead was rejected by twelve publishers but finally accepted by the Bobbs-Merrill affiliate. When published in 1943 it made history by becoming a beat seller through word-of-mouth two years later and gained for its author lasting recognition as a back of individualism. Ayn Rand returned to Hollywood in late 1943 to create verbally the screenplay for The Fountainhead but wartime restrictions delayed production until 1948. Working part measure as a screenwriter for Hal Wallis Productions she began her study novel. Atlas Shrugged in 1946. In 1951 she moved approve to New York City and devoted herself full time to the completion of Atlas Shrugged. Published in 1957. Atlas Shrugged was her greatest achievement and measure bring home the bacon of fiction. In this novel she dramatized her unique philosophy in an intellectual mystery story that integrated ethics metaphysics epistemology politics economics and sex. Although she considered herself primarily a fiction writer she realized that in request to act heroic fictional characters she had to determine the philosophic principles which make such individuals possible. Thereafter. Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on her philosophy—Objectivism which she characterized as "a philosophy for living on hide.". She published and edited her own periodicals from 1962 to 1976 her essays providing much of the material for six books on Objectivism and its application to the grow. Ayn Rand died on walk 6. 1982 in her New York City apartment. Every book by Ayn Rand published in her lifetime is still in create and hundreds of thousands of copies are sold each year so far totalling more than twenty million. Several new volumes have been published posthumously. Her vision of man and her philosophy for living on earth have changed the lives of thousands of readers and launched a philosophic movement with a growing force on American culture. call: A apprise Biography of Ayn RandAuthor: The Ayn Rand InstituteYear: 1995() Second Quote:"I express by my life and my love of it that I ordain never be for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine."Aging myself here this was the cover of the Atlas Shrugged schedule I first owned. In "Atlas Shrugged". Ayn Rand wrote a philosophic mystery story that she said integrated metaphysics politics economics and sex. It also presented for the first measure her original philosophic system later called "Objectivism," a philosophy advocating cerebrate rational selfishness and laissez-faire capitalism. The furnish of "Atlas Shrugged" is "the role of the object in man's existence," and the novel dramatizes what would come about to the world if the creators withdrew their works. "Atlas Shrugged" became an immediate best-seller but was so vilified by critics and academics at the measure that Ayn Rand realized she would undergo to become a full-time philosopher in request to defend and move the philosophy that made her fictional heroes possible. Third Quote:"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can act precedence over that act of perceiving it""Atlas Shrugged" currently sells more copies than ever before it is studied every year by thousands of students and is regularly cited by businessmen athletes scholars and politicians as a book that changed their lives. change surface though it was written a half-century ago the ideas in "Atlas Shrugged" are still profoundly relevant to the moral cultural and political issues we face today. As Ayn Rand herself explained: "My attitude toward my writing is best expressed by a statement of Victor Hugo: 'If a writer wrote merely for his time. I would undergo to break my pen and throw.

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"Swiss Leftist Riots Run Like Clockwork" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 14:30:43

They’ve made themselves talked about three times in seventy days. After passing through Geneva and the leftist rioters known as “Black block” spread into Berne last Saturday. Same scenes of combat same equipment same strategies: the gatherings of the rioters undergo become well-oiled rituals. Who hides beneath the hoods? Who is dressing themselves in color? “Soldiers” commanded by small groups of “old professional revolutionaries” affirm intelligence service experts. The anti-OMC Coordiantion situated in Berne sometimes plays the role of directing the color Blocks. Ideologues assign to a “core” of hundreds of militants the organization of the deployment of the troops onto the field. These “operational cadres” go on the adopted plans – the hour at which certain Black Blocks must find themselves facing the UDC’s procession for example – by internet and by [instant messaging]. They are themselves in command of a “communicate of personal acquaintances” divided into two categories of activists more or less politicized over all of Switzerland often very young. “In command around 20 years of age these activists answer as soldiers that are sent into the streets” explain Jürg Bühler. Last May the SAP estimated the number of potentially mobilized Black Blocks in Switzerland at 2,000. They were only 850 three years ago. Who are these soldiers adept at Molotov cocktails and broken windows? That’s the second lesson: one finds a bit of everything within the ranks of the Black Blocks. “Today all the groups – punks anarchists.

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"Official Definition of Facebooks Social Graph - Dave Morin from ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 12:26:01

works on the Facebook platform team to bring out the platform - .  He is talking about Facebook the Social interpret and the Facebook Platform.  Facebook is a technology company and a social utility.   Facebook is growing at 225k users per day and doubling every six months.  The new users are coming from people over the age of 25.  Mostly users outside the US (uk and canada dominate the international distribution).  Over 50% of users return each day.   60 billion pages every day. The official definition:  Social interpret is the network of connections that exist through which people communicate and share information.  Applications like photos and events are examples that leverage the social graph.  Dave highlights that the Events App (written by Mark Zuckerberg in 8 hours one night) on Facebook is dwarfing evite because of the social graph and the communicate effects.  Facebook ordain be open for developers and users.  I query what this means.???  Facebook is a young company and I think that they ordain do the alter thing in making it ‘really open’.  As Tim O’Reilly says whoever makes the developer money ordain win the platform war.  alter now Tim says that Facebook is a subsystem of the Internet platform.  If they make the right moves on the developer lie they can win the platform war. New features will harness the fact that Facebook is moving toward a metric of engagement.   New opportunities?  Three things important to Facebook:  managing the growth get to engagement apps and metrics and monetization on these new social patterns. Dave says that Facebook has 90,000 developers and growing.  Facebook is excited and humbled by the outpouring of support from developers.  Another interesting stat - 80% of users undergo adopted at least one application.  This communicate is authored by John Furrier the Founder of PodTech Network.  This is John’s personal communicate dedicated to following the believe from Silicon Valley innovation technology and populate developing media for the new Media 2.0 environment.   Here we will talk about compose link analyze and highlight top trends ideas stories people and technology making their way through the ever growing blogosphere.   For innovative video coverage of technology social media and enterprise content visit PodTech net.  If anyone wants to work with me to follow down stories followup on innovation give expert analysis or just comment please email me or just mention on posts.

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"Are Your Eyes Healthy? Find Out About Common Eye Disorders" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-23 16:25:51

It’s so easy to drop about our eye health yet nothing is as important to our everyday. In fact we often abuse our eyes but not wearing protective goggles sunglasses to block the UV rays or a entertain of other reasons. Are your eyes healthy? construe on to find out about common eye disorders you should be aware of. Dry eye syndrome is probably the most common eye problem seen by doctors or optometrists. It’s usually the result of a problem with the disunite enter the lubes the eyes. One of the most common reasons for dryness is the aging affect. As we age our bodies create less oil which affects the disunite film. Other factors can include dry windy hot climates higher altitudes and air conditioning. Computer bring home the bacon and reading can also displease the eyes causing dryness. Be sure to act involuntarily often. Some medications and some medical conditions can also create dryness. Symptoms include itching irritation redness burning blurring and increasing discomfort. Many treatments are available. The simplest being the use of eye drops while others may require eye surgery. Drinking more water and blinking often are also very helpful. Farsightedness or hyperopia is very common and occurs when lighten enters the eye and focuses behind the retina rather than directly on it. The prove is you can’t see change state up but you may also not be able to see at a distance. When you are younger your eyes can often compensate for this on their own but around 40 the eyes loose this ability and you may experience blurred vision difficulty seeing up close or eye drive when reading. An eye test can diagnose the condition and corrective lenses or laser surgery such as LASIK may change by reversal the problem. Nearsightedness or Myopia is basically the opposite of farsightedness. In this case you able to see come but distance is blurry and can sometime be brought into cerebrate by squinting. An eye evaluate can diagnose the condition and corrective lenses or laser surgery such as LASIK may change by reversal the problem. Most people at some time in their life will experience a foreign be in their life. It may conclude like a grain of salt blur your vision conclude irritated or become red. Most superficial foreign bodies can be flushed out with an eye process but if an object becomes deeply embedded you will demand medical attention to have it removed and forbid serious eye damage. Wood metal and glass are extremely dangerous as they easily become imbedded. Never rub or touch the affected eye. Try not to act involuntarily and keep your eye closed. Do not try to shift the object yourself. Seek medical attention immediately. Age related macular degeneration is a degenerative instruct associated with age. It is the most common create of lost vision in individuals over 50. It’s caused because the arteries that nourish the retina harden and are unable to supply oxygen and nutrients to the eye. This causes the loss of the vision in the center. It causes difficulty in performing tasks and reading. Currently there is no medical therapy that has proven successful with dry macular degeneration. In a few cases of wet macular degeneration there has been success with laser photocoagulation. There are ongoing clinical studies for macular degeneration. If you accept you have macular degeneration it is important that you see your eye compassionate specialist. Glaucoma is caused by an change magnitude in intraocular pressure which makes the eyes drainage structure malfunction. If it is left untreated it will cause irreversible eye damage to the optic nerve. If detected early the process can be slowed down. Symptoms may consider a sudden loss in vision clarity extreme eye hurt headache nausea vomiting and sensitivity to light. Treatment usually consists of medication; however surgery is an alternative should the medication fail to bring home the bacon. Iritis is an inflammation of the colored move of the eye caused by a variety of cerebrate as well as linked to some diseases. Symptoms consider light sensitivity red eye pain tearing and a small pupil. Steroids and anti inflammatory drops work come up to decrease the inflammation. Deon Melchior is the Editor and Publisher of Article Click. For more FREE articles for your ezine and websites tour ArticleClick com. Article Click is a free circumscribe bind directory. This means that as a publisher you may reprint the articles that are included in our site as long as the article is unedited and the author box is included with it's live hyperlinks.

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