Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Smoke of Controversy

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This is another brain teaser. A healthy puzzle that needs answer. This is written in first person view point. My purpose is to inject the pains in you – to let you realize how painful is it when we hurt others. Just imagine if my subject can speak directly to you – he/she will kneel before you pleading for his/her life. Analyze the piece, the answer is in two words! Another challenge – a food for thought!

Yes. I cannot hide from you. I know that you know all about me.

I am a seasoned star
Had been the smoke
Of controversy for many years
Cherished by million of my fans around the world
I am so gorgeous with my apparel
Of a white gown that covered
My soft-slender-beautiful body…

One day, my sweet scent wraith
through the place, like a haunting
And my fans grabbed me
Tightly held my neck
they kissed my lips and cheeks
leaving them with luminous spits…

I had complaint, wanting to stop them
though they just ignored my wish
for them I am their asset…

I was yelling for help but nobody came
and in great pains, I cried
then I fell down unconscious…

The hour altered, dusk became dawn
I woke up and screamed so hard
Seeing myself lying in the pool of mud
With those filthy and ugly faces
My own effigy, those sizzling ———!?(Your answer please…)

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What Snakes That Mostly Love to Attack Women

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The title sounds like a million dollar question and will challenge your analysis. To answer it you should read the whole clue starting from summary down to article body. The snake is fangless. Its size is depending on its mood & sub-species. If treated with right respect and love it could become a wonderful pet. What is it?

The snake is usually found in darkened bedrooms but also has been known to appear in the most usual and unusual places such as hotels bedrooms, toilet rooms, bathrooms, parks, malls and other imaginable places. 

The snake attacks mostly on women than men resulting in an inconspicuous bump and then a severe swelling followed by the excruciating pain for many months but the attack are not really fatal. 

There are various types of vaccine available for women. However, if the venom injected into the body only drastic measures will ensure a complete recovery. And there are no antidotes have been found yet for men.

If you were attacked with this snake, do not apply a tourniquet. The venom is too deep in the body. Cutting the wound is also not necessary and not effective since the bleeding will stop after a few days but sucking the wound is the most popular method.

Because the venom has many uses as medicament – you are advice not to kill the snake when you caught it. You can start milking the snake by your left-hand or right-hand. First place your fingers around the neck of the reptile with the thumb in the front. Grip it firmly and then slowly move the hand in an upwards and downwards motion to faster pace. This will result the snake to become highly aggressive and to start spitting. And the snake will become harmless for about 20 minutes to an hour.

The snake although it is very aggressive and active is not necessarily a vermin. If treated with right respect and love it could become a wonderful pet. It is called _____________. Your answer please…  

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Haiku: The Easiest Form of Poetry

Masaoka Shiki, 正岡子規(1867-1902)

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Anyone can master this type of poetry. It is written in three phrases with 5, seven and five syllables or equivalent of 17 syllables only. Others write it with 3, five and three syllables, then a poem is created!

Haiku was previously called Hokku. At the end of the 19th century Masaoka Shiki, who was a Japanese writer was the one who gave its name to Haiku. The main difference of Japanese Haiku with the English Haiku is the subject.

In Japanese traditional Haiku takes aspects of the natural world as their subject matter, while the English Haiku deals with any subject matter. Japanese Haiku is written in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.

(Haiku 1) Nature’s elements:

Animals, trees and mountains

Man, the highest form.

(Haiku 2) Ample oil spills

Pollute the sea and ocean

Death of birds and fish.

(Haiku 3) Illegal logging

Impels a mountain to plunge

And submerge vast land.

(Haiku 4) Filthy air we breathe

Destroys the environment

Too bad for our health.

(Haiku 5) Toxic chemicals:

Carbon, Methane and Ozone

Cause Global Warming.

Haiku is another type of poetry. Anyone can write it. Haiku poetry has no title. It depends on the theme or subject of the poem used by the author.

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26,752,000 Filipinos FB Users are Recipients for Facebook Ban

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Philippines have 26,752,000 Facebook users and still increasing everyday. Philippines garnered the number 8 position in the ranking of all Facebook statistics by country. The number one Facebook user is America. And out of 26,752,000 - 39% belong to Filipinos ages from 18-24 years old and 24% belong to Filipinos ages from 25-34 years old. And out of 26,752,000 Facebook users 48% of them are male users and 52% are female users. These recorded numbers of Facebook users are only from Philippines. There are still more than 10,000,000 Filipinos Facebook users who are presently living in foreign lands including myself. If Mark Zuckerberg is really decided to kick out these Filipino Facebook users from using Facebook, first he has to think twice before finalizing his decision as it is improper to punish everyone for the crime done by one or by some!

Whether it is True or not, the allegedly an online statement of Mark Suckerberg - the CEO of Facebook, which was released on November 16, 2011 at 9PM Pacific Time Zone has generated favorable traffics, views and hundreds of comments at Facebook site and on other blog sites across the Internet. His allegedly statement directly warned the Filipino Facebook users of Philippines to be banned from using Facebook - if they continue uploading pornography (photos, videos and other types) and sharing spam to the site!

Yesterday, the whole day, I used my time on net surfing to look for the original source of the said official statement of Mark Suckerberg. I had used all the possible search engines I knew but I was in vain. No-one of the search engines has guided me to the original source of Mark's statement. All of the published articles regarding the statement were all copied from a copied piece. I even penetrated Yahoo but they were all the same from a copied source. This morning, I visited Facebook hoping to see the original and official statement of Mark Suckerberg but there was no recorded official statement of his found there.

I quoted the allegedly statement of Mark Zuckerberg that says, "The porn attacks originated in the Philippines and are being published by Filipinos all over Facebook, our experts here at Facebook are doing everything they can to stop it from spreading any further (outside the Philippines) and to eliminate the porn and spam threat completely which have been causing other Facebook users ‘a hard time’. Filipinos should also be vigilant and report any spam links and pornographic materials. 41% of Facebook members around the world are aged 12-17 years old, we cannot them be exposed to this kinds of things through Facebook. If this continues and more spam keep being posted, we will have no choice but to ban Philippine users from using Facebook. We at Facebook will not tolerate outlandish behavior and indecency.'' Even if this is true or not - Mark has pointed out all the Filipinos in general.

According to some of Facebook platform policies, I quoted some that said, "You agree that you will not promote, or provide content referencing, facilitating, containing or using, the following:

  • Content that is hateful, threatening, defamatory, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.

However, Mark Zuckerberg's statement is admirable. He shows how he really cares the minor ones and other Facebook users because Pornography is not really for general viewing!

For more details regarding Mark Zuckerberg statements and others you may visit the following links:

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

I Seal Her Lips With a Kiss

Twenty-four days to go, my wife and I will celebrate our first 25th year wedding anniversary. Now I can feel my heart is beating faster for joy for the up-coming celebration to take place though it is also filled with some confusing emotions being far away from her on that day. God knows how much I love my wife and my children - the reason why I decided to leave them and breathe my life in foreign lands with this depressing homesickness.

Guys, this maybe sounds funny but I am honestly asking you for suggestions - What I should do to tell my half-life that my Love, my Breath, my Soul and my Life will be rejoicing with her on the day of our 25th year wedding anniversary, which is to take place on December 9, 2011? I am in Saudi Arabia - a thousand miles away from her. I would be grateful to receive some of your captivating ideas and suggestions.

To marry my wife was really a blessing from the Almighty. All my dreams, my decisions and my life grew with her and I can tell you that from marrying my wife was the best decision I ever made. The love I felt for her was my strength. Now we have three children, all girls ages 22, 20 and 19 and we are now approaching our silver wedding anniversary after 24 days.

Our love story is an open book. The ten peso bill on my wallet on the day of our wedding was not the hindrance! I courted her for six days and on the 7th day, we were married. It happened in 1986. Mrs. Corazon C. Aquino was our new Philippine President. On December 3, 1986, I started courting my wife. I visited her in the morning, lunchtime and in the evening for about six days. On December 8, 1986, I got her approval to marry me. Quickly as lightning, we scheduled our wedding the next day December 9, 1986.

That same day, we brought our plan to her parents and it was approved. Also that same day, we contacted our chosen sponsors and we were advised to see them in the morning the next day at Trece, Martirez City Hall to get the marriage license and other documents needed for the civil wedding.

On December 9, 1986 at around 9AM, all the necessary documents for the wedding were completed with the help of our sponsors. At around 10:30 AM we proceeded to the office of the judge located at the second floor of the Municipal City Hall.

The ceremony was simple and very fast. It only took less than ten minutes after the judge declared, “I pronounce you Paul and you Imelda as husband and wife”. Following his declaration were the wishes of congratulations and the signing of our signatures on the documents with his signature and the signatures of our godparents.

On our way home, I was surprised when my wife directly asked me, “Love was the wedding authentic?” I was speechless... what I did; I just embraced her and sealed her lips with a kiss!

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Monday, November 14, 2011

The Seven Words for a Lung Disease

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If you combined osis, coni, volcano, silico, microscopic, ultra and pneumono into a single word - the result is a name of a lung disease. And from doing it you can also improve the rate of your reading skills after you mastered the seven words.

I was surfing the net when I spotted the word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis accidentally. So I have to look it from dictionaries and encyclopedias available online for its meaning – and the word is defined as a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos. It was originally coined simply to serve as the longest English word but has been used in several sources as an approximation of its originally intended definition. The name generally used to describe this condition is pneumoconiosis, which is much shorter.

The word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis was originated from the seven words that has its own meaning such as:

  • pneumono which is related to lungs (Latin, from Greek)
  • ultra which is beyond (Latin, as in “ultraviolet”)
  • microscopic which is extremely small (Latin/Old English, from Greek mikron, small, and skopos, view)
  • silico which is silica (Latin)
  • volcano which also volcano (Latin)
  • coni which related to dust (Greek: konis, dust) and
  • osis (Greek) which is disease or condition

The plural of this word is equally long – pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses. This 45-letter word, referred to by logologists as, first appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1936, and has also since appeared in the Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Medical Dictionary.

But critics of its designation as the longest word complained that it is a technical term and not worthy of consideration as the longest word in general usage. It was said also that the word was originally intended as a hoax. Researchers discovered that the word was invented in 1935 by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers’ League, at their annual meeting.

The word occurred in a newspaper headline about the meeting, after which it was picked up by an author of puzzle books. Members of the National Puzzlers’ League then campaigned to have it included in major dictionaries, eventually succeeding with the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.

So are you ready to rate your reading speed through this word? The technique is simple – first try to master the seven words and combine them into a single word and then say it from slow to faster pace. 

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Dynamic Views Template Increases Page Views and Page Earnings

Snapshot view According to blogger – Dynamic Views is the newest designed template intended for all blogger users. It is found with the older templates in every dashboard under the Template Designer section. If you decided to apply Dynamic Views, you have to click on the Template tab. In the Template Designer, select a default view for your blog from one of the seven available views. Setting a default view will establish the type of Dynamic View your blog will display when a reader visits it. For more details about Dynamic Views check out the link: Google Support Blogger.

If you are blogger users – you can now configure your blogs to display Dynamic Views and select a default view that best displays the type of posts on your blogs. Dynamic Views make it easier to read your favorite blogs. They make it easy to discover posts written long ago that you and your visitors may not have read.

Blogger assured that if you have customized your blog and wish to experiment with Dynamic Views, you can rest assured that your gadgets and other custom settings used before are preserved and will be restored if you switch back to a traditional template. And if you would like to revert to your previous template with all the layout customizations intact, just click revert to previous template.

However, Dynamic Views will work only on your blog if the following are true:

  • Your blog is public.
  • Your readers do not need to sign in to view your blog.
  • Your blog has feeds fully enabled.

Blogger also assured that Dynamic Views will continue to support any AdSense ads that you have hosted on your blog. Blogger has optimized all the seven views for the leaderboard (header) and skyscraper (sidebar) style ads. But you are also advice to use the latest software technology, blogger requires you to use the latest version of the most popular browsers, such as Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome or Safari.
The seven Dynamic Views that your visitors will enjoy on your blog are as follows:

  • Classic View: A modern twist on a traditional template
  • Flipcard View: Photos tiled across the page
  • Magazine View: A clean, elegant editorial style layout
  • Mosaic View: A mosaic mix of different sized images and text
  • Sidebar View: An email inbox-like view with a reading page for quick scrolling and browsing
  • Snapshot View: An interactive pinboard of your posts
  • Timeslide View: A horizontal view of your posts by time period

What benefits you will get from the latest template application? According to Blogger – if you enable Dynamic Views for your blog, you will notice an increase in pageviews. The reason for this is that Dynamic Views provides more specific information about actions on your blog. Specifically, every click to a post is recorded as a pageview. If a reader clicks on 10 posts, you’ll see those clicks recorded as 10 pageviews. In a traditional Blogger template, if a reader enters your blog once, they can scroll through ten blog posts in a single pageview. So while it may appear that traffic to your blog has increased, it’s more likely that Blogger is simply recording more accurate data about your blog than was possible in the past.

Two weeks ago, I applied this application to one of my blogs health + Wealth = Happiness from Classic View to Timeslide View. My blog daily views increased as well as my blog earnings.

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To Live a Normal Life is Everyone’s Dream

CotIC, Guiuan

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I would remember that summer, when I asked my grandpa about Uncle George. I could see his face blushed and his voice roared, telling me “Forgets your Uncle, to me he is dead!” I was terrified to hear what he had said to me! It had confused me about his attitude. He’s a religious man, who always loved and used to preach people the words of God but he had never loved his son!

Nobody could oppose God conviction, what He had said was final. When He created man, it had been for His love to nourish man’s heart. He had created him according to His will and had taught him to appreciate the beauty to all His creations. Is it fair to see men controlling everything?

Somewhere in 1971, in my home province Samar, Philippines, I would always remember the place where my grandpa and I got used to live in a small village. It was approximately nine to 10 km away from the proper town of Guiuan. To get there, you had to have motors cycles. It would take you 45 minutes to one hour or by a long walk, which was a good exercise.

The folks were friendly and would welcome you with their sweet smiles. Around the village, you could see mountains with green virgin forest – a jump-off point for treks. The villagers were religious people. They had a primary and elementary school where the kids used to love studying. They had a catholic church where there was mass every Sunday. They had avillage hall for parties. They had a play ground for children. I really missed the village, a congenial place to live in and to enjoy.

To see Grandpa was Exciting and Memorable

It was summer, the classes were closed for the children to enjoy the summer. I turned eleven. During that summer, I had always used to visit grandpa’s place, which was 3 km away from our home. Grandpa was a widower. He had two sons. One was my father. My grandpa was 65 years old. He used to live in a hut, built of nipa woven leaves and scraped bamboo poles. It was surrounded by a bamboo fence. Surrounding his nipa hut was a vegetable plantation. At the back of his nipa hut was a big mango tree where he got used to sit with his old rocking chair that was made from narra tree. 

That morning to see grandpa was exciting and memorable. At his age of 65, nobody could tell he was that dirty old man. He was strong and still could lift up a 50kls of rice. He could be strong to rule over the villagers: they called him “captain”. Grandpa was a religious man. He always loved and used to preach the words of God in the village.

Sometimes in that summer, I had mingled with the villagers for my grandpa’s preaching. He had preached that man would always stand in his nature, in his heart and all his control especially in times of troubles. His preaching was well remembered by the villagers. It had taken us couple of hours for meditations and listening to his preaching before we left for home.

Uncle George had Grown Differently

Uncle George was a math’s professor in a private school in Tacloban, a neighboring province of Samar. He was 30 year old at that time, a bachelor and he also had managed a fast food chain business. Uncle George was 5’8” tall, dark skinned and handsome. When you saw him, you could tell he was really a man in nature for a woman to feel, to touch and to enjoy. But he was gay. I was thinking what would be part of the possibility for Uncle George to live according to my grandpa’s preaching. Some feminine feelings and desires drove him.

At fifteen, Uncle George had discovered that he had grown differently. He had thought and believed it was just a part of growing up. The changes that were taking place inside him were strangely confusing and desirable for a while. He had tried to live a normal life but he had fumbled helplessly. The more he tried to change, the more obvious became his femininity. At other times he had challenged the Lord, for creating him that way – a man living the life of a woman! It was maybe the reason why grandpa had abandoned him!

Uncle George is a human. Yeah. He was living differently among others. He would have hearts to love and understanding. Would you ignore this person because of his differences? Would you care for him?

Grandpa Died with Hate in his Heart

My grandpa had died in 1985. He was 79 years old and I had known he was a righteous man especially for the villagers. Yet, he had left me feeling confused about his preaching. He had missed the truth, that God had created man for his love, love that would nourish man’s heart and minds to appreciate all His creations. He had died with hate in his heart. His blessings and forgiveness for Uncle George had been closed and locked. But it had kept me remembering the way he was. I missed my grandpa.

Uncle George already retired. He is still a bachelor. He is happy with his life. He said, “Life is the most precious thing that God bestowed upon us. No matter what you are or who you are you have to appreciate it. Know your limitations and enjoy life as prescribed by heaven – that way you fulfill God’s objective.”

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It is About Time to Meet Your Godfathers and Godmothers

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December is considered as one of the most costly months of the year, those who can afford enjoy the extravagant shopping for the season. Unlike those who are less fortunate, they would have to think twice to buy even the cheaper one!

Our history tells that Christians believed that December 25 was the birth of Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary, the great High Priest, and central figure of the human race. But December 25 also marked the births and deaths of some well-known and historical personalities. 

December 25 was the birth of Sir Isaac Newton in 1642. He was a genius that explained gravity. Isaac Newton’s discoveries were so numerous and varied that many consider him to be the father of modern science – a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge. Newton developed an intense interest in mathematics and the laws of nature which ultimately led to his two most famous works: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica and Opticks.

December 25 also marked the death of some well-known and historical personalities such as, Pope Adrian 1 who died on December 25, 795. He was a Roman, successor of Stephen IV. At Adrian ’s urging, Charlemagne crossed the Alps and defeated the Lombard king, Desiderius, who had annexed papal territory. That defeat marked the end of the Lombard kingdom. Charlemagne, during the siege of Pavia, went to Rome, there confirmed the donation of Pepin to the Papal States , and joined additional provinces to it. Adrian in turn confirmed Charlemagne’s title of patrician of the Romans, thereby acknowledging Charlemagne’s protectorate over all Italy. Adrian supported Empress Irene in her struggle against iconoclasm and he sent legates to the Second Council of Nicaea.

Karel Capek, a Czech, author and inventor of the word robot had died on December 25, 1938. He was a playwright, novelist, and essayist. He was best known as the author of two brilliant satirical plays—R. U. R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots,), which introduced the word robot into the English language, and The Insect Play, written with his brother Josef. He also wrote travel sketches, romances, essays, and short stories. Čapek’s three philosophical novels: Hordubal, Meteor and An Ordinary Life are profound and even mystical in tone. Distinct from his other works, they constitute Čapek’s masterpiece.

December 25 is the 359th day of the year. It is also the 360th day in leap years in Gregorian calendar. And it is the 300th day counting from March 1, every year.

In the Roman year, December is the 10th calendar month. Now, it is the 12th month of the year and it is one of the seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. Astrologically the month begins in Sagittarius and ends in the sign of Capricorn. The December’s flower is the narcissus or holly and its birthstone is turquoise, lapis lazuli, zircon, topaz (blue), or tanzanite.

Old Japan Calendar, December is called Shiwasu. In Finnish it is called Joulukuu (month of Christmas) since about 18 century. Earlier it was called Talvikuu (month of winter). In Irish it is called Mi Na Nollag (the month of Christmas).

The Christmas tree, Christmas ham, Yule log, Holly, mistletoe and the giving of presents are the most familiar traditional practices and symbols of Christmas practiced by most Christians in Western countries and in Asia.

The Philippines is well known for the longest celebration of Christmas season in the world. During this period the children are visiting their godparents, the elderly, close relatives and sing beautiful Christmas songs in exchange of gifts and some amount of money. The Simbang Gabi starts on 16 December ‘til the 24th midnight though Christmas celebration is extended ‘til the day of the Three Kings. But the season starts as far back as September.

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

How to Avoid Flaming in The Net

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Flaming in the net occurs when someone attacked the person, insulted him personally, or criticized the person who authored the article. However, if someone has criticized the ideas injected by the author in his article, it’s not flaming and it is normal.

For the past ten years being a member to some Internet forum groups, I had noticed that flaming or bashing between members is happening. Some of the members are posting deliberately hostile messages without the awareness of other people’s feelings. Now many of forum groups owners and its moderators have agreed and work together to apply some forum rules and policies to be followed by its members. And who ever ignored its rules will be banned from accessing the forum. Some would be banned for few days, weeks, a month or would be kicked off from the forum permanently.

The reason why I liked forum groups is that I can share my articles which are open for critiques. Some of the members are sharing their honest suggestions how to improve my articles. But there are times I received comments not actually criticizing the idea I injected to my works but directly insulting my personality or my credibility as the author. However, I just ignored them and thought that maybe they missed to read the forum rules.

Speaking of forum rules and policies – I noticed that they are common to all of forum groups and other e-groups I have gone through such as:

  • Members are not allowed to post defamatory, obscene, threatening, profane and hateful messages. The Admin or Moderators will ban members or offending posters.
  • Commenting may include grammar correction. It may also focus on form and technicalities. Members should take all these constructively. 
  • All criticisms should be taken constructively believing that there are no good or bad articles and no wrong or right comments. The important thing is that, if the author wished to send his articles to other publishing sites at least they are already polished.
  • Members should justify their criticisms too, explaining their reasons when they note an article’s weaknesses. As much as possible, members should make suggestions on how to improve the article instead of just pointing out its weaknesses. 
  • Members should avoid criticisms which may only offend but do not help the author in improving the article. Example: “This article is rubbish.”
  • Comments which taunt, show contempt, disrespect or personally attack the author are not allowed. Members who make such comments will be penalized accordingly. 
  • Discussions or debates like social issues and current events are allowed but should be done with respect among concerned members. Personal arguments among members are not tolerated and are subject to disciplinary action.

Members are also advice to take note the following:

  • When someone makes a mistake – whether it’s a spelling error or a spelling flame, a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer – be kind about it.
  • If it’s a minor error, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before reacting. Having good manners yourself doesn’t give you license to correct everyone else.
  • If you do decide to inform someone of a mistake, point it out politely and preferably by private email rather than in public.
  • Give people the benefit of the doubt; assume they just don’t know any better. And never be arrogant or self-righteous about it.
  • Just as it’s a law of nature that spelling flames always contain spelling errors, notes pointing out Netiquette violations are often examples of poor Netiquette.

According to Wikipedia Flaming also known as bashing, is hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users. Flaming usually occurs in the social context of an Internet forum, Internet Relay Chat, Usenet, by e-mail, game servers such as Xbox Live or Play station Network, and on video-sharing websites. It is frequently the result of the discussion of heated real-world issues such as politics, religion, and philosophy, or of issues that polarize sub-populations, but can also be provoked by seemingly trivial differences.

If flaming could not be avoided between members, my best and only suggestion is “Say Sorry” because I believe it is the best oil that lubricates any relationships!

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How to Turn Your Blog Into Audio

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In some surveys, it is said that some visitors do not like to read articles published on blog sites instead, they like to listen them through MP3 or an Audio. Not long ago, I found the site that will help bloggers to turn their blogs into Audio. And this is free to sign up.

Before signing up, a blogger will see to it that all articles he published on his blog site are written in English language and he should confirm that he is the legal owner of the blog site. After that he can now proceed to register by telling Odiogo a bit about himself and his blog site by filling out the form with his approval that he is allowing the site to convert his blog site contents to MP3 or to Audio and then submit.

There are only two requirements needed to register with the site – they are:

  • The URL of his blog site
  • His email address

Then next, he has to wait at least one minute and he will receive a reply with instructions that he can now add the Odiogo Widget to his blog site. After he added the Odiogo Widget to his blog site – he can now start to play the audios of some of his articles published on his blog site like what I have done for My Star Articles blog site. Each article has its own Audio.

According to Odiogo history: The idea behind Odiogo came to Patrice its CTO when he was stuck in a New York underground and said to himself, “All this time wasted on the tube… If I only could use that time to read the hundred of news pages waiting for me on my PC…“. Odiogo makes Patrice’s wish come true. Odiogo’s mission is to provide innovative ways to distribute web content for consumption on the go, anytime, anywhere and on any device.

The management team of Odiogo and their short accounts includes:

Marc Kawam

Marc has over 15 years of entrepreneurship, sales, operations, business development, and marketing experience in high technology companies focusing on Content Providers, Telecoms operators, ISPs, broadband carriers and entertainment and media industries. Marc was a founding member of iPIN, leading the development of its European operations, spearheading successful deployments totaling millions of monthly transactions with Europe’s largest operators, including Orange, Wanadoo, Tiscali, T-Online France and Vodafone UK. Prior to iPIN, Marc directed the establishment of Back Web’s European operations. Marc previously was CEO of PF1 Systems, a software distribution and consulting firm he co-founded with the PILAT group in 1989. PF1 was the first distributor for BRM, the Israeli firm that started Check Point.

Patrice Kawam

Patrice holds an MS in Computer Science from the Computer Science and Advanced Technologies School (EPITA) in Paris. He was handpicked by Dr. Bertrand Meyer (creator of the Eiffel language) to join his selective team and spent two years in Santa Barbara. He then founded Pagoo in 1996 in San Francisco where he developed the first full VoIP residential phone service with Cisco. As VP Engineering, he oversaw the development and implementation of Pagoo technologies. Patrice executed the merger of Pagoo with Ring Central for which he worked as Director until November 2005.

David Zvilichovsky

David Zvilichovsky has 20 years of experience in the advanced technology sector with extensive experience in both technology development and financing. Amongst his various responsibilities, David is the Managing Director of Innovent, an investment & consulting boutique with a focus on technology intensive companies and Venture Capital firms. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Alon Technology Fund and Ramdor Technologies Ltd. as well as other private companies. David has professional and executive experience in R&D and product development as well as Corporate Management, Venture Capital and M&A transactions.
David holds a Ph.D. in Economics, and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Tel-Aviv University. He also holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Cum Laude.

Frederik Durant - Linguistic Advisor

Frederik holds degrees in Romance Philology and Computer Science (spec. computational linguistics) from the University of Leuven, Belgium as well as an MBA from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. Frederik speaks five languages and has more than 10 years of experience in the speech, language and Internet technology business. He has held diverse technical and management positions at Siemens Nixdorf, Allmansland, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, Tellme Networks Europe and the University of Antwerp, working in diverse domains such as machine translation, data-driven websites, statistical language models for speech recognition, and biomedical text mining. For the last two years, he has been active as an independent consultant, mainly focusing on speech-driven phone applications.

Derek Fattal - Content Market Advisor

With over a decade of Internet experience at two of Israel’s leading online newspapers, Derek began his career as a lawyer in London, before entering into news media at CNN’s busy Jerusalem bureau. He joined The Jerusalem Post where he headed the company’s news syndication service and also worked as a soccer reporter. He founded The Post’s popular web site JPost.com in 1985 eventually becoming VP of New Media, before moving to Israel’s prestigious Haaretz newspaper to manage online business development at Haaretz.com.

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Left-handed People are Good Leaders Others Apt Musicians

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Out of Seven Billion population of the world, the 10% of them are found left-handed. And these LH people have historically produced an above-average of high achievers. Among them are presidents, prime ministers, noblemen, sportsmen and musicians.

The United States of America has produced remarkable names that helped and made America a great and powerful nation of the world. They became the presidents of the USA like:

The present President Barack Obama – he is the 44th presidents of the United States of America. He is a left-handed person who leads the country and the millions Americans. He was born on August 4, 1961. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he is the first African American to hold the office. He previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.

The former President Bill Clinton – he was born on August 19, 1946. He is a left-handed person – an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War and was the first president of the baby boomer generation. President Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance, while on other issues his stance was center-left.

The former President George H. W. Bush Senior – he was born on June 12, 1924. He is a left-handed person - an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981to 1989, a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.

The former President Reagan was born in Tampico in Whiteside County, Illinois and educated at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later television, appearing in over 50 movie productions. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild and later spokesman for General Electric; his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. He was born on February 6, 1911 – a left-handed and was the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

The former President Gerald Ford – he was born on July 14, 1913 – a left-handed. He was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment after Spiro Agnew had resigned, when he became President upon Richard Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College.

From America, let’s check Costa Rica. This country has also produced a president who is also a left-handed person. She is President Laura Chinchilla. She was born on 28 March 1959 – a Costa Rican politician and the first female President of Costa Rica. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez’s two Vice-Presidents and his administration’s Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for President in the 2010 general election, where she won with 46.76% of the vote. She is the sixth woman to be elected president of a Latin American country and the first woman to become president of Costa Rica. She was sworn as president of Costa Rica on May 8, 2010.

From Costa Rica to Ireland. Former Ireland’s Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, is left-handed. He was born on 10 January 1960 and is a former Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 7 May 2008 to 9 March 2011. He was head of a coalition government led by Fianna Fáil which until 23 January 2011 had the support of the Green Party and independent TDs. Cowen was also leader of Fianna Fáil from 7 May 2008 until 22 January 2011, when he resigned under political pressure after a failed and highly controversial attempt at a cabinet reshuffle.

From Ireland to Israel. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is left-handed. He was born on October 21, 1949 and is the current Prime Minister of Israel. He serves also as the Chairman of the Likud Party, as a Knesset member, as the Health Minister of Israel, as the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and as the Economic Strategy Minister of Israel. Netanyahu is the first and, to date, only Israeli prime minister born in Israel. Netanyahu joined the Israeli Defense Forces in 1967 where he served as a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal Special Forces unit, taking part in many missions including Operation Gift and the hostage rescue mission from the hijacked Sabena Flight 571 in 1972, where he was shot in the shoulder.

Now let’s go to UK. Prince William was born on 21 June 1982 – a left-handed and is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and third eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is second in the line of succession, behind his father, to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Another from England a lefty musician Tom Milsom has released a new single under the persona of “Tommy Firefly”. It is a cover of a David Bowie song with Tom on vocals, ukulele and accordion. Tom is 18 and lives just outside London, England. He has been a talented musician and creative writer since a very early age and has recently completed A Levels including Music and Music Technology. He is currently taking a year off of studying before going to university in England to study Creative Music Technology. In that year, he is bringing together some of his music and lyrics into finished songs that can be distributed to his many followers around the world. He may even sell some to generate some income to pay for University and the instruments and equipment needed to develop his musical career.

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How to Promote Websites, Blog Sites and Articles Free

imautomator_logo A while ago, I spotted IMAutomator. The site sets up a submission schedule for your bookmark to all the supported sites and then quietly submits them on auto-pilot according to the schedule you select.

According to its definition IMAutomator is a suite of tools designed to automate the task of building back links to your websites for the purposes of SEO. At it’s core it contains a number of submission tools, such as the Social Bookmark submitter, which allow you to submit the details of your link to IMAutomator just once, and then their submission engine does the work of submitting that bookmark to each of the supported sites.

IMAutomator puts your link building on auto-pilot – just enter the URL you would like to bookmark, IMAutomator extracts the title, description & tags or you can enter your own, and then submit. However, IMAutomator submissions must be in English. In the past the site has experimented with having foreign sites in the system but they have not been very effective. Now the site changed its policy – only those English speaking sites are considered.

Now the site has implemented a language filter into the submission process. When a submission is made, the text used is checked and if it does not appear to be in English the submitter will receive an error message and be asked to use English. Although it does not mean that all members submitting sites with foreign language content can no longer use IMAutomator – but it means that the submission itself must be made in the English language. If English if not your first language then what the site recommends is to use Google Translate to translate the title and description of your submission into English.

When you submit a link such as a bookmark to the system, the site stores the details of that link in their database. At the same time the site also creates a schedule of submissions to submit that bookmark to each one of their supported sites. You can choose how fast or slow you want the links to be submitted – by default for each bookmark, one individual submission will be made per day. This spreads out the back links slowly over time which is generally considered to look more natural to Google.

The site maintains a large pool of accounts at all of the supported sites and when the site submits your bookmarks, the site uses those accounts to do so. The advantage of this system is that it means that you don’t have to waste time creating accounts at a bunch of sites just to get started. You just submit your link, which takes just a few moments and you’re done. By the way, the site accepts free accounts.  

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