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Easy way of server hosting

Monday, May 31st, 2010

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Digital Camera: Great Living

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

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Learning the basics of business

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Anyone planning to start a new business needs some assurances. These assurances come in the form of flawless infrastructure, substantial financial backing and hiring of a good human resource. A combination of these factors is necessary to ensure a successful business venture. Detailed information on small business solutions is available on choosewhat.com. The website has created an online resource where current and prospective entrepreneurs can learn some basic facts of their trades.

The first thing that prospective entrepreneurs can visit on choosewhat.com is their small buisness tips. This should be their first resource on the website because they will be able to learn some of the latest news, tips and tricks on setting up a new business or improving their old business strategies.

Their small business articles are equally good to read. They offer a great insight into the world of business and help readers in rethinking their strategies and business options. Some of the best information is available in those articles that tackle a particular aspect of business. It is easy to use the features of choosewhat.com to find information about any particular aspect of business. People can also subscribe to monthly newsletters to stay abreast of all the recent happenings in the corporate world.

Healthy Wealthy

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

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Lost’s Season One Finale

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

 

The last episode in season one, entitled ‘The Greater Good’, leaves viewers with some pretty strong questions about the island. As always the writers of Lost leave viewers begging for more answers. By this time most viewers start to realize that while a greater picture is being laid out, the show continues on more of a haphazard style. I usually watch this show on satellite tv because I have the option of recording it on my DVR.

In this episode the survivors start to question the morality of Locke. Many of them believe that he killed Boone and lied about it. Boone, no longer there to defend him, was really the closest character to Locke. Locke seems to continue his obsession with the hatch in the ground but refuses to tell anyone about it. After Shannon asks Sayid to avenge her brother, Sayid starts to interrogate Locke about what happened in the woods. Locke tells him about the plane and Sayid insists Locke take him there. Once there further questions from Sayid convinces Locke to reveal that he was the one to attack Sayid on the mountain and destroy his tracking equipment.

Sayid tries to convince Shannon that Locke is innocent but Shannon decides to take matters into her own hands. She steals the lock box key from Jack and confronts Locke in the jungle with a gun. Sayid tackles Shannon and the bullet barely misses Locke. I am sure that this will start to destroy Shannon and Sayid’s relationship.

On another part of the island Micheal and Jin are preparing the raft. They claim that the second raft (the first one was destroyed in the fire set by Walter) will be ready very soon. This season does not cover the voyage of the raft but I am sure we will see it back again in season two.

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Best Health

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

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Coffee Drinkers – Drink More Coffee.

Do you drink coffee only when the weather outside is “frightful” – or, do you drink coffee on a regular basis no matter what the weather’s like?

Those of us in the food and beverage industry notice a decline in the consumption of coffee when the weather starts to warm up.  After all, coffee is primarily a hot beverage.  (But – with the prolific growth of the chilled coffee market, you can satisfy your coffee junkie urges even during hot weather.)

Well, there’s a study out about coffee (another one!) that seems to imply, among other things, that drinking coffee helps keep a person alert and focused. (Maybe cutting our coffee consumption during the summer is the reason we seem to do more stupid things when its hot outside.)

The study says that drinking caffeinated coffee can temporarily sharpen your focus and memory. (None of that caffeine free stuff – just the premium leaded.)

But there is a catch!  The increased focus and memory association in coffee has not been observed in men.

“The medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, found the effects of coffee may be longer lasting - specifically in women. At the end of this four-year study, researchers found that women age 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee per day (or the caffeine equivalent in tea) had 33% less decline in memory over time than women who drank one cup or less of coffee or tea per day.

This is exciting news for women, though it’s certainly too premature to recommend caffeine as a memory cure-all. And it’s important to point out that this study found no protective effect for true dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.”

The researchers say that the most likely reason for the difference in results in the consumption of coffee for men and women is that men and women metabolize caffeine differently.

So, ladies, if you want to retain your focus and memory longer, you gotta drink at least two cups of caffeinated coffee every day.  As for the men, well, we don’t have anything to focus on – or remember.  Our wives do that for us already.



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monticello motor club

Friday, May 21st, 2010

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Ari Strauss, the president of the Monticello Motor Club (MMC) in upstate New York, has approached Bernie Ecclestone with the idea of bringing Grand Prix racing to the venue, which is the closest motorsports venue to New York City, located just 90 minutes by car from Manhattan. According to a letter addressed to the club members, Strauss and club chairman Bill McMichael met Ecclestone several months ago to talk about hosting a Grand Prix, with an eye toward a long-term, 10-year deal. Hermann Tilke, the architect of F1′s modern venues, has visited MMC and apparently determined that the facility is capable of hosting a Grand Prix, although it will require work. In its current format MMC is 4.1 miles long. It was designed by driver Brian Redman and Bruce Hawkins, a track architect and engineer. Strauss is now working to secure backing for the idea from “local, state, and federal politicians and organizations”.

“Securing F1 is like winning the Olympics,” Strauss wrote. “Competition is fierce, and this is not a done deal. While the prospect of F1 at MMC is exciting, we remain focused on our core business: the club and its members.”

Strauss said that a race “would transform the region into one of the motorsports capitals of the world, bring thousands of jobs to Sullivan County, inject over $100 million each year into the local economy, and place the club in the company of famous racing circuits like Monza and Spa.”

The club opened in the summer of 2008 with the plan being to sign up 125 “founding” members, each paying a membership fee of $125,000 and annual dues of $7,500. The club is aimed at Wall Street executives and members are generall worth more than $20 million. Although the membership list is private, it is believed that NASCAR star Jeff Gordon and comedian Jerry Seinfeld are among them. The track had garaging for its membership’s exotic cars and a helipad to allow easy access from Manhattan. The track is situated on a 175-acre site. The original plan was for the club to have a fleet of exotic for its members to drive, including an F1 car. Monticello members have access to their track a minimum 200 days a year

McMichael was previously a partner in a health care company that was sold in 2006 for $25 million.

So I have not done the research, but my well honed gut tells me that wiener lands in the top search terms in the webosphere. I mean come on, if you do not see the immediate appeal of this tag/search word, then you can give up any hope of becoming VP of Web Analytics at Google, you big untech savvy goof.

So if it is not Wieners, what is it that people are looking for?  So I called my good friends ( well not really) at Google Trends and Google Zeitgeist ( I was going to call Dogpile Searchspy, another trending site, but that really just made me a bit paranoid and itchy) just to get some honest to goodness insight for search.

Mind you, people, this is today. This is the USA, our evil friends have this to a level of granularity, that you need an electron microscope to even see the lowest level.  What di your grandma in Wichita search for last night at 10:30 PM, just before doing two geritol and Absolut shooters?  

Hot TopicsNew! (USA)

1. lohan
2. google tv
3. lance armstrong
4. rand paul
5. civil rights act
6. tour de france
7. new york city
8. kites
9. piramal
10. inter bayern

I just added Lohan to the tag label for this entryWhat a strange mix of hot topics. It is like being in the grocery store for some odds and ends, and wondering what the clerk is thinking when she sees drano, spam, stockings, feminine hygiene products, 5 cases of beer, one curly light bulb, a hairpin, a condom and one lone wiener in your cart.

Are they planting ” google tv” there to manipulate you to checking that out, or is that really a top search?  # 10, Soccer in the USA?  Maybe this year, but next year, who will really give a diving head shot?  What the hell is piramal?  Ah, pharma, Abbott has bought them, to ensure that one day India is a dependent on drugs as we are. Good show.

You know it is not like back in the day one could keep track of what one looked up in the dictionary, encylopedia ( finalizing the last act of my play, Death of An Encylopedia salesman, which is the follow up to Death of a Typewriter Salesman shortly, see Amazon.com for pre-order information) or read in the newspaper.  It all seemed so homey,individualistic, and personal and any community that was behind it was created by your own interest in participating. Book clubs, or schools, church or actually TALKING to people. Today it is one big connected ADD grocery cart that is rammed right up your aisle.

We have to learn to chose more carefully what we consume in every sense.

So the latest, just updated top searches?

1. grey s anatomy season finale
2. bret michaels back in hospital
3. plum island
4. jim thorpe
5. bp oil spill live feed
6. monticello motor club
7. julianna farrait
8. french open
9. jasmine
10. kites movie review
11. kelly bensimon crazy
12. bones season 6
13. tiger tiger burning bright poem
14. jim breuer
15. manheim auto auction
16. synthetic cell
17. shrek forever after
18. corexit
19. ashley greene sobe
20. tesla motors
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Oh hell, I could never work in search analytics. They must have feeds to every TV channel in the universe, every media type, every darned thing some silly President or overhyped boob jobbed actress utters just to attempt a forecast of what may become hot in the next 14.1 milliseconds. That place must be like NASA space control on steroid- 3D – Imax with a bunch of meth addled chimps at the controls. Whew.

” corexit”?  Ah, oil dispersant. It will turn the BP oil spill into a beautiful biodegradable tropical paradise within days. BP personally guarantees that within two weeks of some ” really hard work by some starving fisherman” that they will be bottling the water and serving it alongside Pellegrino in fine restaurants. Furthermore they will open some oil rig side **** dining establishments along 12 planned new US off shore drilling platforms in the next 3 years. And to show their commitment to the environment, they are inviting all Democratic senators to come eat free for the first year, and buy one flaming desert, get one free special for the first lobbyists to sign new (oil) watered down legislation.

So ladies and gentlemen, the top 10 search words for 2009?

1. michael jackson

2. facebook
3. tuenti
4. twitter
5. sanalika
6. new moon
7. lady gaga
8. windows 7
9. dantri.com.vn
10. torpedo gratis

Torpedo gratis, my friends has beaten my beloved Wiener, hands down.  I am broken but clearly I have some research to do.

kelly bensimon crazy

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Kelly Killoren Bensimon Outside Waverly Inn New York City by Christopher Peterson

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The Movie that Changed my Life

Friday, May 21st, 2010

 

I am not a melodramatic kind of person. There are few things that I ever watch that impact my life. I have just never been able to get into the whole idea of dramatization enough to let it affect me. I recently watched a movie that made me think a bit differently about myself. The movie that I watched was The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock.

I have always been a fan of Sandra. She just has a way of making things believable even in situations that definitely aren’t. This movie was no different. She played an uppity lady with plenty of money who finds it in her heart to help a young black man who is very unfortunate in his life. By her doing this act of kindness she ultimately changes this young man’s life.

How I stumbled upon this incredible movie was by complete chance, I had just gotten satellite TV because I saw some directtv specials while surfing the web and shortly after got the service. The Blind Side just happened to be on one of my hundreds of channels and from the second it started I was hooked. When I had finished watching the movie I just sat there on the couch watching the credits roll down the screen. I took a good long hard look at all of the ways in which I was blessed with good fortune. I thought about all of the people who do not even have a bed that they can call their own. Here I sat in a nice home with three bedrooms, three beds, and I only used one of them. What a waste of a good place to sleep! I immediately called the local homeless shelter and informed them that if they needed some extra space for someone to sleep I could provide them with that.

Since watching the movie I have given a resting place to ten different people. I never realized that being able to help someone would feel so good.

Graciously sent in by Avery Turner

grey's anatomy finale

Friday, May 21st, 2010

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The Season Finale of Grey’s Anatomy went out with a bang.  Literally. The show opened with a warning that the episode is violent. Violent and very bloody is a better description.

Meredith Grey opens up the finale with a telling statement:

“For most people a hospital is a scary place.  A hostile place.  A place where bad things happen.  Most people would prefer church or school or home.  But I grew up here.  When my mom was on rounds I learned to read in the OR gallery.  I played in the morgue.  I colored with crayons on old ER charts. The hospital was my church. My school.   My home.  The hospital was my safe place.  My sanctuary.  I love it here.  Correction – loved it here.”

The hospital is chaotic when the husband of a patient that died (in a previous episode), Mr. Clark, is looking for Derek.  He wants revenge on losing his wife. When he can’t find Derek he asks Reid where Dr. Shepherd is and she responds by telling him to find a nurse to help him.  He shoots her in the head.  When Karev walks over he shoots him in the chest.  Karev crawls to the elevator to try and get some help.  It seems like he is laying in the elevator for hours.

Meredith is pregnant. She hasn’t told Derek yet and is waiting for the right moment.

Christina asks Owen straight up if he loves Teddie.  When he doesn’t answer him – she tells him its over.

When Dr. Shepherd finds out about Reid being shot – the hospital is put on lock down.  No one can come in the hospital and no one can leave the hospital.

Mr. Clark gets bold and shoots a nurse in front of a number of people including Lexi and Mark, who run to the elevator only to find Alex in a pool of blood. Lexi and Mark have to do surgery without anesthesia. Painful. Alex needs a transfusion. Lexi leaves the room to get blood. While she is gone Alex tells Mark that he needs to enjoy life more. Eat more bacon and have more sex.

Lexi runs into Mr. Clark when she is in the hallway. Mr. Clark goes to shoot her since she unplugged his wife’s respirator. Lexi is saved when Mr. Clark is shot by the police. When Lexi returns she tells Alex she loves him. Mark witnesses Lexi professing her love.

Alex is delirious and thinks Lexi is Izzie. He tells Izzie to never leave him again and that he loves her.

Dr. Bailey hides under the bed of a patient when she finds out the shooter is on the floor. When the shooter asks Dr. Percy if he is a surgeon and the doctor responds yes – he gets shot. The shooter finds Bailey but when he asks her if she is a surgeon she answers no – saving her life. Dr. Bailey is trying to save Dr. Percy’s life but she needs an OR. She drags his body using a sheet and gets to the elevator only to find the elevator isn’t working. Bailey loses it. There is nothing she can do to save his life. When Charles (Dr. Percy) asks Bailey if he is going to die she is honest and says yes. It’s heartbreaking to watch.

In the midst of the chaos Arizona decides to talk to Callie about their relationship. It’s a conversation that is painful and ends up with the two of them fighting.

The shooter (Mr. Clark) finally finds the person he is looking for – Derek Shepherd. Derek tells Mr. Clark that he became a doctor to save lives not to play god. Derek tells him that he is a human being and he is flawed. He convinces Dr. Clark that he is a good man and Mr. Clark puts the gun down -but only for a moment – when an intern, April Kepner, walks over and interrupts “the moment”. Mr. Clark shoots Derek in the chest. Meredith and Christina witness the shooting.

Derek needs surgery but none of the attending doctors are around. Christina has to step up to the plate to perform the surgery. Christina tells Meredith that she is not welcome in the operating room. Christina realizes the damage is in the aorta or as she says, “the hardest freakin’ repair in the world”. The bullet is lodged right next to the aorta.

Teddie and Owen are walking through the hall with a patient. Teddie is begging for Owen to choose between her and Christina. Owen claims to choose no one. When Teddie and Owen get out of the hospital – Owen realizes that Christina is “the one” and runs back into the hospital to find her.

Mr. Clark finds Christina in the OR and puts a gun to her head demanding she stop operating on Derek. Owen walks in as Mr. Clark has the gun to Christina’s head.

Meredith walks into the operating room and offers to sacrifice herself. But when Owen tries to get Mr. Clark away from Christina – Owen gets shot.
Christina and Avery trick Mr. Clark into thinking that Derek died. Mr. Clark leaves the OR and Christina and Avery continue the surgery.

Christina tells Meredith to go operate on Owen. Just as she starts the surgery she begins to bleed and has a miscarriage.

Dr. Webber snuck back into the hospital and comes face to face with Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark is holding a gun and a flask with one bullet left in his gun. Mr. Clark was going to shoot Dr. Webber and then himself but he only has one bullet left. What is he going to do? Mr. Clark keeps offering the chief a drink but even with all this pressure – he just pours the vodka on the floor and tells Mr. Clark to make his choice. Dr. Webber considers death to be the end of a beautiful journey and for Mr. Clark death would be an after life with his wife. Or jail if he opts to use it on the chief.

As the show comes to a close – Derek goes into defib but is saved by Christina and Callie tells Arizona that she won’t have kids if it means living without her. Arizona tells Callie they can have 10 kids. Dr. Weber is okay. This must mean that Mr. Clark is dead.

The season finale was a bit violent – I prefer “happily ever after”. What did you think??

Grey’s Anatomy Spoilers Season Finale 2010 – I’m sure all you Grey’s Anatomy fans are eagerly waiting for the season finale to air next week so a lot of people are searching for spoilers to feed their appetite. Well, below are the few spoilers I found out for the Grey’s Anatomy season finale.

I believe the last couple of episodes of Grey’s Anatomy season 6 will be titled “Sanctuary” which will be the first hour of the show and “Death And All His Friend” which would follow right after to conclude the two hour season finale. It should air on ABC next week.

ABC seems to be keeping everybody in suspense on the two hour season finale but here is what will definitely take place within the episode:

A shooter will go into the Seattle Grace Hospital and fire at one of the workers. The bullet fired goes through a white jacket so we all know it will be a major character of the show. In addition to that, we know that both the shooter and the victim who is shot will all be familiar faces of the hit drama.

The thing we currently don’t know is who those people actually are.

Basically, the hospital is viewed as one of the safest places but slowly and surely the “safest” place becomes a dangerous zone. That’s what we will see in the first hour and the second half will be about the big choices the main characters will have to pick that will effect their lives.

So, who is going to die? Who is going to leave? What choices and decisions are they going to make?

Anyways, that’s just some of the Grey’s Anatomy spoilers I could find for the season finale.