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No More Violence

2009-11-18T19:54:00.000-08:00

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Ophrys abeille (Ophrys apifera) Bee Orchid

2009-11-18T19:53:00.001-08:00

Ophrys abeille (Ophrys apifera) Bee Orchid, originally uploaded by sinkha63.

You May Never Know That People Are SO BUSY

2009-11-18T19:45:00.000-08:00

This photo was taken at Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka. October 17, 2009.

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Precentor's Court Greatest Photo

2009-11-18T19:37:00.000-08:00

About this photo
Processed image based on an original photograph I took back in 2002. The subject is York Minster in my hometown of York, UK.

The processes used to create this image involve a series of photoshop effects including the fractalius plugin and a mix of other secret herbs & spices.

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Night Routine Can Be Helpful

2009-10-25T07:16:00.000-07:00

For some parents, it is every night at bed time, a nightmare. Stories for children, whine, kick, scream and fight attempts to go to bed. Much of this tragedy can be avoided if parents are willing to create a tough routine for their children. Children feel more secure when it is common for this day. You know what to expect, and the lack of surprises help them go easily negotiate the tasks to be fulfilled, or work in the prospect of going to bed.
For parents, even if it may be difficult to determine whether the router is available, the nights a lot easier.

First, the TV goes off at a certain time every night. If possible to do so early enough for you any time you need for normal night, but in an era of television broadcasts have ended. In this way, children learn that at the end of their special show, it's time to go to bed.

The following routine would have the children clean TV now, one of the rooms of the house. In this case, clean means just sat up and putting away toys. You can do this as a family, adults and children. Children are to bring together all the responsibilities on the field. A good rule is that games are not on the floor during the night and blew himself took the cleaning fairy. This keeps the children highly motivated to save games. Of course, parents should be prepared to act on threats, and if you leave toys on the floor, a place for themselves, can be found in a box in your closet, if not the children, which apply for a Day or two, then play part for the night.

Once done, the renovation of rooms, it's time to hit the bathroom. This means that routine cleaning at night, and wash hands and face and brushing teeth. Even if you do not go to the bathroom, you should still be used. This will create good habits for them, or later as they age.

To give them something to look forward to be part of the routine of pleasure. For example, they can find a story every night to read.
This gives you high quality face-to-face time with their children is a very good relationship with your children and gives them some control of how the routine of the night. Note also choose a story. If someone asks another, just tell them that they can recover this history, the next night. Stick to the routine.

At this point, especially for younger children, it's time for lights out. Lights out, does not mean that the parents left. Parents turn off the lights, then back to bed. If faith is important that your family is the ideal time to pray together. Or, if this is not your thing to sing a song for children is always a great way to calm a bit, and also for the connection and relationship with your children, now adults. This will have significant side effects, such as children grow older. When you pray in song, or willing, it is time to Eskimos and butterflies and good night kisses and hugs. A little physical love in the evening, just before sleep, helps to connect, to feel a love of family and helps them feel safe and know that all is well.

Once finished, it's time to leave the room. Do not change your routine. It is difficult to determine, at first, but the younger children, if you do, the better. At some point the race children from above. If you go alone, as if there was no other choice but to follow the routine, eventually fall in line. It is the nature, limits and test drive to see if this routine is mandatory. Once you realize that, to really enjoy and feel better because they know what happens, no surprises happen every night.

When they try to push, you scream and shout and shout and call names and tell you how much you like. All you need to ignore them. After one or two weeks should be clamped to them. If the trade of the night, each routine is more routine. And then use the same set every night, you have chaos.

Parents have control routine. Imagine is a productive and fun, and this will make life easier for the whole family.

Breaking News: Obama Signs Historic Healthcare Legislation

2009-08-14T07:45:00.000-07:00

President Obama made history Wednesday afternoon when he signed into law legislation that guarantees healthcare for all Americans. “A struggle that began nearly one hundred years ago ends today,” said the president in a Rose Garden ceremony. “There is no doubt this is one of America’s finest hours.”

The bill’s co-sponsors were Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and, to the surprise of some, the actor Sean Penn. The Kennedy-Penn bill passed the Senate on a strict party line vote of 60-40.

The legislation calls for the immediate creation of a Healthcare Politburo, which will oversee the national healthcare system and meet in secret once a month inside a windowless concrete building shaped like Vladimir Lenin’s head. The legislation stipulates that members of the Healthcare Politburo must be either homosexual communists or Barbra Streisand. Members will be chosen by Mwai Obama, the president’s 23-year-old Muslim half-brother who deals drugs from the back of an abortion clinic in Nairobi.

Every year on Karl Marx’s birthday, Americans will be required to attend a fitness conference at the Healthcare Politburo’s headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, where teams of rappers will curse white people and smoke crack while administering physical examinations. Afterwards, everyone will sit on the floor across from their government assigned doctor while atheists dressed as Nazis stand in between them issuing health decisions in Ebonics.

To reduce the financial burden on the American people, travel to and from Venezuela will be partially funded by a Cash For Fairytales program, whereby the federal government will give money in exchange for Holy Bibles, which will then be burned inside evangelical megachurches throughout the South. Afterwards, the ashes will be shipped to a factory outside of Moscow, where they will be mixed with the blood of Christians and then sent back and sold as refreshments at National Public Radio affiliates throughout the country. Several names have been floated as possible heads for the Cash For Fairytales program, including former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi and the rapper Bow Wow.

Proponents say the bill’s execution provision will dramatically reduce the rising cost of healthcare. It mandates that the federal government create hundreds of Death Squads which will travel throughout the country in Soviet made tanks and execute anyone 65 year of age or older, unless they can produce a union card or a dildo. The Death Squads will be made up entirely of illegal Mexican immigrants and, because of a last minute provision added to the bill by Senator Barbara Boxer of California, will be required to wear black power t-shirts and backless leather chaps.

Republicans strategists are privately admitting that in the weeks leading up to the vote they were not aggressive enough in publicizing the more controversial aspects of the legislation. “Sure, we had people at the town halls” said one GOP strategist. “But they played it way too nice and didn’t even mention the immigrant death squads or those rapper physicals. And now we’re all paying the price.”

[Salon]

Americans Pay The Most Cellphone Service of $635.85 to Other Countries

2009-08-13T21:46:00.000-07:00

According to a survey done by dslreports Americans pay $635.85 on cell phone service, compared to $131.44 per year in the Netherlands or $137.94 per year in Sweden.

The study highlights how prices have decreased 21% for low-usage (360 calls per year, 390 SMS, 8 MMS) consumers, 28% for medium usage, and by about 32% for high usage (1680 calls per year, 660 SMS)consumers. Still, a medium use customer in the United States (780 calls per year, 600 SMS, and eight MMS) pays $53 a month for service, compared to $11 a month for service in the Netherlands.

Are all of those high cellphone service payment it America bad indicator? The more business to do the more we have to pay so there is no embarrassment with this high bill. I guess the payment will increase more than this next year since now Sprint is trying to increase its wireless network around the country.

New battery could change world, one house at a time

2009-08-13T21:38:00.000-07:00

In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago.

The prize is the culmination of 10 years of research and testing -- a new generation of deep-storage battery that's small enough, and safe enough, to sit in your basement and power your home.

It promises to nudge the world to a paradigm shift as big as the switch from centralized mainframe computers in the 1980s to personal laptops. But this time the mainframe is America's antiquated electrical grid; and the switch is to personal power stations in millions of individual homes.

Former energy secretary Bill Richardson once disparaged the U.S. electrical grid as "third world," and he was painfully close to the mark. It's an inefficient, aging relic of a century-old approach to energy and a weak link in national security in an age of terrorism.

Taking a load off the grid through electricity production and storage at home would extend the life of the system and avoid the expenditure of tens, or even hundreds, of billions to make it "smart."

The battery breakthrough comes from a Salt Lake company called Ceramatec, the R&D arm of CoorsTek, a world leader in advanced materials and electrochemical devices. It promises to reduce dependence on the dinosaur by hooking up with the latest generation of personalized power plants that draw from the sun.

Solar energy has been around, of course, but it's been prohibitively expensive. Now the cost is tumbling, driven by new thin-film chemistry and manufacturing techniques. Leaders in the field include companies like Arizona-based First Solar, which can paint solar cells onto glass; and Konarka, an upstart that purchased a defunct Polaroid film factory in New Bedford, Mass., and now plans to print cells onto rolls of flexible plastic.

The convergence of these two key technologies -- solar power and deep-storage batteries -- has profound implications for oil-strapped America.

"These batteries switch the whole dialogue to renewables," said Daniel Nocera, a noted chemist and professor of energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who sits on Ceramatec's science advisory board. "They will turn us away from dumb technology, circa 1900 -- a 110-year-old approach -- and turn us forward."

Why not just upgrade to a so-called "smart grid" as President Obama has proposed in his economic stimulus package? There are complications, Nocera said.

"First you have to rebuild the grid because the one we have now is a creaky machine from the 1920s, and we keep trying to retrofit it," he said. "Then you're going to have computers trying to manage the energy, which brings up issues like security. You have to make it really secure so you don't have people hacking into things. And then politics. Just wait until you try to run power lines through someone's backyard.

"I can't imagine anything more secure than generating my own energy with the sun at my house, and now I'll have a way to store it. It's the ultimate in security, and the ultimate in control."

With small-scale electrical generation taking place at millions of individual homes -- as opposed to today's large-scale power generation from a handful of giant power plants -- there would be less worry about what's called "point failure" on the grid. That's when a single component gets knocked out and shuts off power to a whole region. California-style rolling blackouts would be history.

The threat of terrorism has heightened the worry. But wide distribution of batteries in homes would virtually eliminate it.

Source: heraldextra

Top 10 Reasons Obamacare Is Wrong for America

2009-08-12T10:35:00.000-07:00

1. Millions Will Lose Their Current Insurance. Period. End of Story: President Obama wants Americans to believe they can keep their insurance if they like, but research from the government, private research firms, and think tanks show this is not the case. Proposed economic incentives, plus a government-run health plan like the one proposed in the House bill, would cause 88.1 million people to see their current employer-sponsored health plan disappear.

2. Your Health Care Coverage Will Probably Change Anyway: Even if you kept your private insurance, eventually most remaining plans--whether employer plans or individual plans--would have to conform to new federal benefit standards. Moreover, the necessary plan "upgrades" will undoubtedly cost you more in premiums.

3. The Umpire Is Also the First Baseman: The main argument for a "public option" is that it would increase competition. However, if the federal government creates a health care plan that it controls and also sets the rules for the private plans, there is little doubt that Washington would put its private sector "competitors" out of business sooner or later.

4. The Fed Picks Your Treatment: President Obama said: "They're going to have to give up paying for things that don't make them healthier. ... If there's a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half for the thing that's going to make you well." Does that sound like a government that will stay out of your health care decisions?

5. Individual Mandate Means Less Liberty and More Taxes: Although he once opposed the idea, President Obama is now open to the imposition of an individual mandate that would require all Americans to have federally approved health insurance. This unprecedented federal directive not only takes away your individual freedom but could cost you as well. Lawmakers are considering a penalty or tax for those who don't buy government-approved health plans.

6. Higher Taxes Than Europe Hurt Small Businesses: A proposed surtax on the wealthy will actually hit hundreds of thousands of small business ownerswho are dealing with a recession. If it is enacted, America's top earners and job creators will carry a larger overall tax burden than France, Italy, Germany, Japan, etc., with a total average tax rate greater than 52%. Is that the right recipe for jobs and wage growth?

7. Who Makes Medical Decisions? What is the right medical treatment and should bureaucrats determine what Americans can or cannot have? While the House and Senate language is vague, amendments offered in House and Senate committees to block government rationing of care were routinely defeated. Cost or a federal health board could be the deciding factors. President Obama himself admitted this when he said, "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller," when asked about an elderly woman who needed a pacemaker.

8. Taxpayer-Funded Abortions?Nineteen Democrats recently asked the President to not sign any bill that doesn't explicitly exclude "abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan" or any bill that allows a federal health board to "recommend abortion services be included under covered benefits or as part of a benefits package." Currently, these provisions do not exist.

9. It's Not Paid For: The CBO says the current House plan would increase the deficit by $239 billion over 10 years. And that number will likely continue to rise over the long term. Similar entitlement bills in the past, including Medicare, have scored much lower than their actual eventual cost.

10. Rushing It, Not Reading It: We've been down this road before--with the failed stimulus package. Back then, we also heard that we were in a crisis and that we needed to pass a 1,000-plus-page bill in a few hours--without reading it--or we would have 8% unemployment. Well, we know what happened. Now, one Congressman has even said it's pointless to read one of the reform bills without two days and two lawyers to make sense of it. Deception is the only reason to rush through a bill nobody truly understands.

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2009-08-10T09:25:00.000-07:00

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Affiliate Marketing Guide - 4 Rules You Need to Understand to Achieve Affiliate Success

2009-08-02T23:59:00.000-07:00

Certain rules are necessary in order to succeed in online businesses like affiliate marketing. These rules must be known, understood and mastered. This is in order to prevent mistakes that would certainly destroy your career.

Merely understanding the rules of affiliate marketing would not suffice. You will have to use your heart to understand so that you can understand it to the fullest. It is only when you understand the matter by heart that you will succeed.

The following are the 4 rules that must be understood:

• Affiliate marketing involves selling, promoting and advertising the products of your chosen affiliate program. You can earn money through profit sharing or better known as commission. Before you choose a program, it is always necessary that you analyze the agreement you make with your partner. If there are points which you don't find favorable to you, talk it out with your partner at an early stage.

• Although there are a number of useful references that deal with affiliate marketing strategies, you still need to personalize them. Your business should have a touch of yourself on order to make it unique from other people.

• The more the number of people you reach, the higher chances of getting a few to respond. Participating in public events or groups would help. There is always a choice to make or organize your own event in order to advertise and promote your business.

• The effort that you exert in your affiliate marketing business would be reflected in the results. The more time and effort you allot in your business, the better the results. Good affiliate marketers never give up. They simply find ways to improve.

Zack Lim is an internet affiliate marketer who owns http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse He has helped hundreds of people to start their own affiliate marketing business.

He has recently developed a free e-course showing you a step by step process for starting your own affiliate marketing business easier. To learn how to start your own affiliate marketing business without wasting your time and money, visit http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse

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How To Download Powerpoint and pdf Presentation from Slideshare

2009-07-29T18:14:00.000-07:00

Slideshare.net is a community that everyone can upload and share their power point, PDF or Flash Player Slides (SWF) for free around the world. Until now there are thousand of presentation under any topic that you can find there.

Of course you can't find any link to download those presentation directly from slideshare.net. Anyway here is the way that you can download from this site.

Visit slideshare.net now

Slidzy.com gives you a free service to download any file from Slideshare.net. The process is very simple. All you need to do is copy the URL of the presentation that you want to download and past it into the box provided on Slidzy.com and click on download.

You will be provided three options to choose for your type of files that you want to download but it depends on the original files but mostly you will see Flash Player Slides SWF).

If you download file in SWF, you may need to have software to run those files offline. You can download the software to play SWF via these link: Windows or MacOSX.

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A Bike That You Can Forget - Wooden Motorbike

2009-07-29T06:59:00.000-07:00

N. Korea Says It’s Open to Dialogue on Its Weapons

2009-07-26T21:50:00.001-07:00

SEOUL — North Korea said Monday it was open to new discussions to help resolve the dispute over its nuclear weapons program, although the North emphasized that it was not interested in resuming six-nation talks on the impasse.

The comment from the North Korean Foreign Ministry was seen as an apparent willingness to engage the United States in bilateral talks, a longstanding North Korean preference.

Over the weekend, Sin Son-ho, the top North Korean diplomat at the United Nations, said his government is “not against a dialogue” with Washington. And the ministry’s statement on Monday alluded to bilateral talks as “a specific and reserved form of dialogue that can address the current situation.”

North Korea’s suggestion brightens the prospects for dialogue between Pyongyang and Washington after months of increasing tensions triggered by a long-range rocket launch by North Korea in April; its second nuclear test, in May; and a series of test-firings of short-range missiles.

But a fundamental rift remains: The Obama administration has indicated it would be willing to engage the North in direct talks only if the North agrees to return to the six-nation talks that involve the United States, China, Japan, Russia and the two Koreas.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated over the weekend that Washington wants the North’s nuclear problem to be handled and resolved through six-party talks.

On Monday the North Korean Foreign Ministry said the multilateral talks were finished when the other five countries agreed to sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council following the May 25 nuclear test. The North said the penalties violated its “sovereignty.”

Before North Korea reluctantly joined the six-party talks in 2003, it had maintained that the nuclear standoff was a matter solely between Pyongyang and Washington — a position that a senior North Korean envoy revived during an Asian security conference in Thailand last week.

North Korea said Monday the six-nation talks aimed to “disarm and incapacitate” it.

“What they want is to make us survive on bread crumbs tossed by them,” it said. “It would be foolish and absurd of them if they expect that we will join or leave a meeting at their bidding.”

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Sharein Officially Launches Web Tool To Share Links To Twitter, Facebook And Email

2009-07-24T19:17:00.001-07:00

SEATTLE, WA (MMD Newswire) July 20, 2009 -- Sharein officially launches a web browser tool that enables users to share links to their friends, family and customers extremely easily. Sharein is fast and simple. Users can save time by sharing links 60% faster via email. Twitter and Facebook sharing is as simple as two clicks.

Most Internet users dread the hassle of copying long web addresses (URL) so they can share interesting articles or videos. Long URLs are not email friendly as the link can be broken when it is re-shared. And long URLs dramatically increase the chance for typographical errors. Sharein addresses this by enabling automatic link sharing within a single click on any webpage.

Sharein saves time by automatically capturing a webpage's address (URL), title, and description. Sharein also creates a thumbnail image so your friends can preview the webpage before clicking on it. Sharein provides a huge convenience by saving your most commonly emailed friends, as well as your Twitter and Facebook profile for instant sharing.

"Discovering good content on the Internet has become an increasingly social activity. You are more likely to read an article that was shared to you from a good friend," says Colin Wong, CEO of Sharein. Before this, Colin worked in Google and was involved in the successful launch of Google's AdSense products.

"Link sharing is only one half of the story. What happens after you've shared a link? What is the impact of your share? How many people did you reach? How many people viewed it? How many people re-shared your link to their friends?" asked Colin. Knowing this information helps you understand how you influence others. Sharein gives social influencers a great tool to help them understand the impact of their shared links. Sharein provides reports and graphs to illustrate reach, clicks and re-shares across email, Facebook and Twitter.

For Sharein, it is about simplicity, easy-of-use and speed. Why share links the hard way when Sharein does all the work for you?

The Only Remedy For Snoring

2009-07-24T09:57:00.000-07:00

I wanted to talk to you about the only remedy for snoring that you should be using. This really isn't that hard to do when you really think about it. The real problem is you and your perception of fixing this problem. Most people have this exaggerated view of what they have to go through to fix this problem. I hear a lot of people talk about surgery and how they'll have to do that. It is true that surgery is an option, but only a few people will ever need that type of treatment. It's actually a lot easier than you think to fix this problem. I want to share with you the only remedy for snoring that you should be using.

When it comes to understanding this problem you have to open your mind up a bit. I think everyone recognizes that the sounds are produced in your throat. Just because the sounds are produced there, doesn't mean that the cause of the problem is related to the throat. Surprisingly it is the position of your jaw that creates the problem. Your jaw becomes unsupported when you sleep; it falls on your throat and creates pressure. It is that pressure that produces the sounds as you breathe.

The only remedy for snoring is a jaw supporter. It is a device that works the very first night that you put it on. It will wrap around your head and hold the jaw up the entire night that you sleep. It is a very easy remedy.

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Google Ad Manager Blog Is Available Now

2009-07-23T23:14:00.000-07:00

Google Ad Manager has been introduced to publisher quite a long time already but seem like the process of applying this service successfully is still in a mist. Now Google has managed to bring us a new blog which is all about Google Ad Manager. New feature and more solution to the existing problem is about to solve.

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Complete Google Survey for a Better Future

2009-07-23T21:11:00.000-07:00

I have found a red link on the top right when I log into my Google Adsense account. I have completed the whole survey and I can feel that Google now is trying to make some more change. Of course with this survey we will expect some more changed in 4 to 6 months in the future. Hope that everything will be better.

Spiderman Mulholland Appears on 21st Century Business Television Series

2009-07-23T20:34:00.000-07:00

GAINESVILLE, Fla., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Spiderman S. Mulholland, Senior Forensic investigator and national consultant with US Building Consultants Inc. and US Building Laboratories Inc., spoke with Jackie Bales, the host for 21(st) Century Business and guest Roger Ballentine, former senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives, now President of Green Strategies Inc.

This segment's topic was forensic investigation of construction issues, including the current problem plaguing the construction industry - defective Chinese drywall.

During the dialogue with Bales and Ballentine, Mulholland discussed the need for forensic investigations, importance of documentation, defective Chinese drywall, services provided by USBCI, diagnosing construction failures, water intrusion, mold, and warranties for homes that had Chinese drywall and have been properly remediated.

The video will be airing in the next couple months and will be available on USBCI's website, www.usbcinc.com.

To learn more about Spiderman Mulholland and USBCI, go online to www.usbcinc.com, or to arrange an interview, contact annie@usbcinc.com.

New Micro Blogging Web Site Rivals Twitter and Facebook

2009-07-23T20:21:00.000-07:00

DALLAS, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- TipDrop.com is a place where people come to give and receive tips on just about anything. In fact, in its first five days the site has had 1,000,000 page views and more than 3,000 tips.

Do you want tips on the best new digital camera to buy? Need tips on how to drive traffic to your Web site? Check out TipDrop.

"Many other micro blogging sites are flooded with useless information about what people had for breakfast or when they walked their dog," Jonathan Leger, creator of TipDrop.com, says. "And, while that's fine for friends and family, most people could care less."

TipDrop takes a fresh approach to how information is shared. People who participate in TipDrop do not want to read inane bits of information; they want credible tips. TipDrop also serves as a platform for people to showcase their personal areas of expertise.

So, how does it work? People post tips that relate to specific topics found in tip sheets. For instance, a user might create a tip sheet with the title, "How to save money in a down economy" and another user might add a tip that advises, "Pack your lunch instead of eating out when at work."

As more users add more tips, the tip sheets become valuable sources of information. And, to keep the best tips on top, users can vote. This raises/lowers the credibility of tips, tip sheets and the users who created them.

The whole system is built around what Leger refers to as a "credibility engine." A user's credibility level determines his or her tips and tip sheet credibility in ranking order. And, as users improve their credibility and ranking, their votes become more powerful.

"All of this works to keep the best on top and the spam and junk out of the system," Leger adds.

Another advantage of TipDrop is that many other micro blogging sites limit characters. For instance, Twitter is limited to 140. TipDrop allows for 255 characters which is typically enough space for a quality tip.

"Ultimately, I took the best of what many social media and informational sites had to offer and created TipDrop.com to build valuable, topic-driven content," Leger explains.

For more information: www.TipDrop.com.

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Pro-Family Leaders From Over 50 Countries Will Come to Amsterdam for World Congress of Families V

2009-07-23T20:16:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Although World Congress of Families V (August 10-12) is almost three weeks away, pro-family leaders, activists, scholars and officials from over 50 countries on five continents, thus far have registered for Amsterdam 2009.

Larry Jacobs, Managing Director of the World Congress of Families, commented: "We're delighted by the way national representation is shaping up at World Congress of Families V. Delegates will be coming from 11 African states, and from as far away as Venezuela, South Africa, Moldova, Pakistan and Australia."

Jacobs continued: "In terms of nations represented, this will truly be a World Congress of Families. And we expect that other countries will add their voices to a rising chorus in the next few weeks."

The countries which will be represented in Amsterdam include (in alphabetical order): Angola, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Canada, Colombia, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Croatia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malawi, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela and Zambia.

Jacobs noted: "The broad national representation at WCF V demonstrates that the issues we'll discuss -- including abortion, marriage, declining birth rates, child-care vs. home care, education (including home-schooling), Internet pornography, the exploitation of women and children, threats to the family from radicals and multi-national organizations, and the role of faith in sustaining families -- are universal, touching families in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. A challenge to the family somewhere is a challenge to families everywhere."

For more information on World Congress of Families V, go to www.worldcongress.org or www.worldcongress.nl. Registrations for the Amsterdam Congress will be accepted online through August 5th. To schedule an interview with Larry Jacobs or another WCF leader, contact Don Feder at 508-405-1337 or dfeder@rcn.com.

Journalists and representatives of the media can register free for WCF V in Amsterdam with press credentials at www.nl.worldcongress.pl/?wl=en.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60 countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois (www.profam.org). To date, there have been four World Congresses of Families -- Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004) and Warsaw, Poland (2007). A fifth World Congress of Families will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 10-12, 2009 (www.worldcongress.nl and www.worldcongress.org).

NASA Student Airborne Research Program Takes Flight

2009-07-23T20:13:00.001-07:00

EDWARDS, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty-nine undergraduate and graduate students are participating in a six-week NASA Airborne Science field experience designed to immerse them in NASA's Earth Science research. The students represent 26 colleges and universities across the U.S. and nine foreign countries.

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NASA's Student Airborne Research program runs from July 6 to Aug. 14 in California. The program began with lectures from university faculty members, research institutions and NASA scientists at the University of California, Irvine. One of the speakers is Sherwood Rowland of the University of California, Irvine, a Nobel Laureate in chemistry, who is a long-time user of NASA's DC-8 airborne capabilities for his research on atmospheric chemistry.

Using the DC-8 flying laboratory based at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif., the students will get a rare behind-the-scenes look at instrument integration, flight planning and payload testing that is the basis of every successful Earth Science airborne campaign carried out by NASA. These airborne research campaigns play a pivotal role in the calibration and validation of NASA's space-borne Earth observations, remote sensing measurements and the high-resolution imagery for Earth system science.

Divided into the investigative groups of atmospheric science, algal blooms and crop classification, students will have the opportunity to fly aboard one of two six-hour DC-8 flights departing from NASA's Palmdale facility. The aircraft will travel north over the San Joaquin Valley for an air-quality investigation, over the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to observe vegetation, and south over Monterey Bay to research algae blooms.

The student program is one of NASA's tools for training future scientists for Earth Science missions that can assist with studies and the development and testing of new instruments and future satellite mission concepts. The program's goal is to stimulate interest in NASA's Earth Science research and aid in recruitment of the next generation of engineers and scientists. Through this and the agency's other college and university programs, NASA is developing critical skills and capabilities needed for the agency's engineering, scientific and technical missions.

The Student Airborne Research Program is managed through the National Suborbital Education and Research Center at the University of North Dakota, with funding and support from NASA's Airborne Science Program. The center was established through a cooperative agreement between the University of North Dakota and NASA.

For additional information about NASA's DC-8, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/aircraft/DC-8/index.html

For more information about NASA's Education programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/education

For additional information about the National Suborbital Education and Research Center at the University of North Dakota, visit:

http://www.nserc.und.edu

Warner Home Video "Wife VS. Secretary" DVD

2009-07-22T21:34:00.000-07:00

Of course Linda Stanhope trusts her husband Van. Their marriage is based on love and respect. Who cares if Van's secretary has the face of an angel and the body of a chorus girl? Who says a blonde bombshell can't type and take dictation? But people are whispering. And when Linda calls Van's hotel room late at night during his solo business trip to Havana, guess who answers. Four Golden Era greats; Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy as the romantic triangle and a lanky newcomer named James Stewart as Harlow's beau, gild this sophisticated comedy-drama that takes a savvy look at men, women and love. Wife vs. Secretary: Guess who wins!

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