Courageous Service
Fred Thompson - The Courage and Service of John McCain
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Don’t miss the East Nashville Tomato Art Fest!
in Nashville, Tennessee.
Saturday, August 9th.
While there, visit the Art and Invention Gallery
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Facebook has left MySpace in the dust. According to ComScore Inc., a company that measures the digital world, for the first time Facebook has more visitors than MySpace. In May, 2008 Facebook had 123.9 million visitors worldwide while MySpace lagged with 114.6 visitors.
MySpace is still ahead in the United States, but Facebook is [...]
IBM’s supercomputer - Roadrunner - is the fastest supercomputer in the world today. It has over 18,000 processors and sustained (not peaked at) 1.02 petaflops or 1.02 quadrillian calculations per second. A quadrillion is 10 to the power of 15 or one thousand times one trillion! (Reminder: a trillion is [...]
“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty”
Jacob Bronowski.
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Get a Speed Test of your broadband connection at BroadbandReports.com
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FitBrains provides brain exercise that are fun, engaging and personalized.
Fit Brains has created a unique brain fitness experience that makes it easy for people to incorporate brain work-outs into their daily lives.
With Fit Brains’ games, it’s healthy to be addicted!
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The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory…
It is the same in gambling, and the same in the search for truth….
We never seek things for themselves —
WHAT WE SEEK IS THE VERY SEEKING OF THINGS.
–Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
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Blork is a Montreal blogger who talks about, among other things - food.
Check him out at: Blork Blog
or his newest blog,
or at Blork’s Monday Morning Photo blog
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In June 06 I flew in an open cockpit biplane (a Stearman Kaydet) out of Creve-Coeur airport near St. Louis piloted by Al Stix (back seat - that’s me in front seat.) What a thrill.
Take a ride: When in St. Louis, visit the Creve Coeur airfield (only 15 miles from St. Louis) - Rides are [...]
A l l P e o p l e W h o L i v e , D i e . . .
B u t,
N o t A l l P e o p l e W h o [...]
Basic Principles -
That upon which everything else depends. That from which everything else flows.
Understanding basic principles provides an anchor of sanity in a crazy world.
Many people are never made aware of basic principles and are therefore casting about across the face of the ocean of life without a means to derive true [...]
The only constant in life is change. Life flows through time. Time is a test of people and relationships. Life is a continuum of adjustments, usually fairly minor ones, but sometimes major, even once in a lifetime in scope.
Decisions made in the past which seemed right at the time were made at [...]
Watch your thoughts, they become words.Watch your words; they become actions.Watch your actions; they become habits.Watch your habits; they become character.Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy.
AristotleThe Nicomachean Ethics
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Desiderata(frequently spelled Disiderata)
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud [...]
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claimBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that, [...]
8 May 06 - called J.B. Nutter(about a re-fi), at 08:45, got operator (they open at 08:15 central) who was English, and she told the story of her first encounter with American English in Chicago when she went to a gas station and asked the attendant to check under the “bonnet”, he just shook his [...]
A further element that establishes a climate for self-initiated experiential learning is: empathic understanding.
When the teacher has the ability to understand the student’s reactions from the inside, has a sensitive awareness of the way the process of education and learning seems to the student, then the likelihood of significant learning is increased….
[Students feel deeply appreciative] [...]
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“This blog makes public the hallway conversations about social science statistical methods and analysis from the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and related research groups. Expect to see posts on trends in methodological thought, questions and comments, paper and conference announcements, applied problems needing methodological solutions, and methodological techniques seeking applied problems. Also included are [...]
Grandfather:
“I have two wolves living and fighting in my heart.”
“One is vicious and cruel”
“The other is wise and kind”
Grandson: “Which one will win?”
Grandfather: “The one I feed.”
[Native American Story]
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As A Man Thinketh
by
James Allen
We are what we think we are. This not only affects the way we feel, but affects every condition and circumstance in our lives.
“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”
“As the plant springs from, and could not be without, [...]
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A Byte = one alphanumeric character i.e., - “a”
A bit (binary digit) is the smallest possible unit of information on a PC. A single bit can hold only one of two values: 0 or 1.
A byte (short for “binary term”) is capable of storing a single character. On PCs - a byte is equal [...]
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Just put two of Seagate’s new 750 GB hard drives in your current machine to improve both performance and storage capacity (in 1.5 TB.)
A terrabyte (TB) is 1,099,511,627,776 bytes, or 1024 gigabytes (More)
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