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Three Ingredients of Good Life

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:08:53 GMT

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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning

- Christopher Morley

6 web design sites you can’t live without

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:40:43 GMT

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6 web design sites you can’t live without

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Boag World

Paul Boag’s podcast and forum are superb resources for any web designer, whether you’ve got 10 years’ experience or 10 minutes. Really easy to understand.
A List Apart

This is the best web design magazine in the world — bar none.
456 Berea Street

A great site for anybody who want to learn more about coding websites the right way.
CSS Zen Garden

This is where I go when I need some time to breathe deeply and gain inspiration.
SEO Book

If you want people to visit your site, you need to visit this one.
Web Design Book

Well, obviously I’m going to say that, aren’t I ;o)

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Tags: web design, website, design, web development

The Congo story

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:36:22 GMT

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The “ Congo story” Behind the Headlines

But, in fact, the human rights disaster that the people of the world are watching on our TV screens is just the most recent human tragedy in a 25 year struggle for economic and political dominance in Central Africa that has been raging since the decline and eventual collapse of the Soviet influence in Africa in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. A sad fact of the 20th Century is that, even after the end of formal “colonialism” in the mid-20th Century, ruling African elites in virtually every African nation have looked to one or more powerful “sponsors” in the developed world to gain or retain power. And, to grab the personal wealth that goes with political/military power in Africa.

Earth Pic in The Cosmos

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:43:56 GMT

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Powerful words by Carl Sagan

If you look carefully at the NASA photo below, you will see a little white dot. This minute speck is Earth seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it exits the solar system, nearly 4 billion miles away. The photo was taken back in 1990.

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Tags: discovery, images, photo, space, thought-provoking, solar system, earth

"Miracle Cure For Alzheimer's Disease?"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:48:02 GMT

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The new study documents a dramatic and unprecedented therapeutic effect in an Alzheimer's patient: improvement within minutes following delivery of perispinal etanercept, which is etanercept given by injection in the spine. Etanercept (trade name Enbrel) binds and inactivates excess TNF. Etanercept is FDA approved to treat a number of immune-mediated disorders and is used off label in the study.

Griffin and Mark are pioneers in the field of neuroinflammation. Griffin published a landmark study in 1989 describing the association of cytokine overexpression in the brain and Alzheimer's disease.
"It is unprecedented that we can see cognitive and behavioral improvement in a patient with established dementia within minutes of therapeutic intervention," said Griffin. "It is imperative that the medical and scientific communities immediately undertake to further investigate and characterize the physiologic mechanisms involved. This gives all of us in Alzheimer's research a tre

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Miracle Cure For Alzheimer's Disease?

Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study

ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2008) — An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.

This new study highlights the importance of certain soluble proteins, called cytokines, in Alzheimer’s disease. The study focuses on one of these cytokines, tumor necrosis factor-alpha(TNF), a critical component of the brain’s immune system. Normally, TNF finely regulates the transmission of neural impulses in the brain. The authors hypothesized that elevated levels of TNF in Alzheimer’s disease interfere with this regulation. To reduce elevated TNF, the authors gave patients an injection of an anti-TNF therapeutic called etanercept. Excess TNF-alpha has been documented in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer’s.

Top 10 Foods to help you Sleep!

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:32:35 GMT

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What is the secret to getting a solid 7 to 8 hours of sleep? Head for the kitchen and enjoy one or two of these 10 foods. They relax tense muscles, quiet buzzing minds, and/or get calming, sleep-inducing hormones - serotonin and melatonin - flowing. Yawning yet?

Bananas. They're practically a sleeping pill in a peel. In addition to a bit of soothing melatonin and serotonin, bananas contain magnesium, a muscle relaxant.

Chamomile tea. The reason chamomile is such a staple of bedtime tea blends is its mild sedating effect - it's the perfect natural antidote for restless minds/bodies.

Warm milk. It's not a myth. Milk has some tryptophan - an amino acid that has a sedative - like effect - and calcium, which helps the brain use tryptophan. Plus there's the psychological throw-back to infancy, when a warm bottle meant "relax, everything's fine."

Honey. Drizzle a little in your warm milk or herb tea. Lots of sugar is stimulating, but a little glucose tells your brain to turn off orexin, a recently discovered neurotransmitter that's linked to alertness.

Potatoes. A small baked spud won't overwhelm your GI tract, and it clears away acids that can interfere with yawn-inducing tryptophan. To up the soothing effects, mash it with warm milk.

Oatmeal. Oats are a rich source of sleep - inviting melatonin, and a small bowl of warm cereal with a splash of maple syrup is cozy - plus if you've got the munchies, it's filling too.

Almonds. A handful of these heart-healthy nuts can be snooze-inducing, as they contain both tryptophan and a nice dose of muscle-relaxing magnesium.

Flaxseeds. When life goes awry and feeling down is keeping you up, try sprinkling 2 tablespoons of these healthy little seeds on your bedtime oatmeal. They're rich in omega-3 fatty acids, a natural mood lifter.

Whole-wheat bread. A slice of toast with your tea and honey will release insulin, which helps tryptophan get to your brain, where it's converted to serotonin and quietly murmurs "time to sleep."

Turkey.

Tags: sleep, diet, food, science

Google Earth Cool Places

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:42:11 GMT

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Tags: geography, geology, interesting, nature, science

American Football

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:11:34 GMT

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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
- George F. Will

Shrinking Bush

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:03:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

The Incredible Shrinking Bush

By Gabor Steingart in Washington

There is little consensus on whether the G-8 summit can be seen as a success for the climate. What is certain is that US President George W. Bush had little part in the efforts to save the world. He didn’t lead, he only followed -- and the American superpower never before looked as small as it did this week.

His time might have been better spent going for a walk around the White House -- that is, without the company of his spin doctors or any other members of the army of strategists who spend their time trying to relieve the world's most powerful man of his need to do any real thinking.

Eminent Thinkers on Patriotism

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:58:01 GMT

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Eminent thinkers, from Tolstoy to contemporary philosophers like Martha Nussbaum and George Kateb, have denounced patriotism on exactly those grounds: that it's wrong to prefer one's countrymen and -women to people in other lands. Patriotism, in Kateb's words, is illiberal; it "is an attack on the Enlightenment." There's a lot of truth in that. Liberals may love America in part because it aspires to certain ideals, but if they love it only because it aspires to those ideals, then what they really love is the ideals, not America. Conservatives are right. To some degree, patriotism must mean loving your country for the same reason you love your family: simply because it is yours.

Reagan vs John Kennedy on Patriotism

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:48:31 GMT

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If Reagan best evoked conservative patriotism, many liberals still identify their brand with John F. Kennedy, a leader forever associated with unfulfilled promise. If Reagan conjured the past, Kennedy downplayed it, urging Americans to instead grab hold of the future. He liked to cite Goethe, who "tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'" Americans risked a similar fate, Kennedy warned, "if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress ... Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

Unusual, disturbing, and haunting pictures.

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:01:49 GMT

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Some of these are facinating, some are disturbing, all tell a story.

Tanker facing an approaching storm

That picture of the girl trapped in the mud was taken by and copyrighted to Frank Fourier. It depicts Omaira Sánchez, 13, who was trapped with her legs pressed by debris from her own house for three days; she and 23,000 more people died there. It occurred on November 13, 1985 when the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano produced a huge mudslide in Armero, Colombia (South America).

When rescue teams tried to help her, they realized that her legs were trapped. The only feasible option was to pull her out by breaking and ripping her legs off. Omayra remained strong until the last moment of her life. According to people who were by her side during those moments, the little girl wanted to live, saying her only worry was to go back to school.

Tags: natural storms, fascinating, disturbing, haunting pictures, pulitzer prize winning photo by kevin carter

B4 I got married

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:59:22 GMT

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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
- John Wilmot

Beautiful pictures from Iceland

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:11:52 GMT

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Tags: photos

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:52:29 GMT

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Hubble telescope’s top ten greatest space photographs

The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth

The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles

In third place is Nebula NGC 2392, called Eskimo because it looks like a face

face surrounded by a furry hood.

At four is the Cat’s Eye Nebula

The Hourglass Nebula, 8,000 light years away

In sixth place is the Cone Nebula. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in

years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon)

The Perfect Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away

Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting.

The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207

The Trifid Nebula. A ’stellar nursery’, 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born.

Tags: fascinating, art

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Three Ingredients of Good Life

6 web design sites you can’t live without

6 web design sites you can’t live without

Boag World

A List Apart

456 Berea Street

CSS Zen Garden

SEO Book

Web Design Book

The Congo story

Earth Pic in The Cosmos

Powerful words by Carl Sagan

"Miracle Cure For Alzheimer's Disease?"

Miracle Cure For Alzheimer's Disease?

Top 10 Foods to help you Sleep!

Google Earth Cool Places

Categories

Useful links

Cool links

American Football

Shrinking Bush

The Incredible Shrinking Bush

Eminent Thinkers on Patriotism

Reagan vs John Kennedy on Patriotism

Unusual, disturbing, and haunting pictures.

B4 I got married

Beautiful pictures from Iceland

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years

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Three Ingredients of Good Life

6 web design sites you can’t live without

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The Congo story

Earth Pic in The Cosmos

Powerful words by Carl Sagan

"Miracle Cure For Alzheimer's Disease?"

Top 10 Foods to help you Sleep!

Google Earth Cool Places

Categories

Useful links

Cool links

American Football

Shrinking Bush

The Incredible Shrinking Bush

Eminent Thinkers on Patriotism

Reagan vs John Kennedy on Patriotism

Unusual, disturbing, and haunting pictures.

B4 I got married

Beautiful pictures from Iceland

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years