Market Efficiency Effective price

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Marginal (or Opportunity) Cost and the Minimum Supply Price
The supply curve (see figure 3.3) represents the quantities of a particular good that producers are willing to supply at various price points. For any particular quantity, the height of the supply curve represents the minimum price that suppliers of a good must get in order to supply the additional unit. That minimum supply price must cover the increase in total costs, or marginal cost, of producing the additional unit. The opportunity cost represents the value of other goods that may have been produced with the resources used. Producers must receive a price at least equal to their opportunity cost.

Producer surplus is defined as the difference between what a producer actually receives (which will be the market price) for a product and the producer's minimum supply price (marginal cost) for that product. If a producer is willing to provide a unit of a good for $3.00, and actually gets $4.00, then the producer would have $1.00 of producer surplus.

Consumer Surplus, Producer surplus, and Equilibrium.
We expect consumers to keep consuming additional units of a good until the marginal benefit no longer exceeds the price, or there is no longer an increase in consumer surplus. Producers will continue to provide additional units of a good up to the point where the market price no longer exceeds their minimum supply price.

The marginal benefit for all people in a society can be described as the marginal social benefit. Similarly the marginal costs for all producers in a society of a good can be described as the marginal social cost. At market equilibrium, the marginal social benefit of consuming an additional unit of a good is just equal to the marginal social cost of producing the additional unit.

In the figure 3.5 below, the triangle defined by the points P2PmQm represents consumer surplus, while the triangle defined by points P1PmQm represents producer surplus.


Figure 3.5: Consumer and Producer Surplus


How Resources Move Toward Their Most Efficient Allocation
Suppose consumer preferences change so that good A is now more desired than good B. We would expect the price of good A to shift higher and the price of good B to shift lower. This in turn will induce the production of additional units of good A and the devotion of more input resources to good A, while similarly decreasing production of B and its associated input resources.

In the real world today we have seen higher oil prices stimulate more drilling for oil and more investment in oil substitutes. The wage rates of mainframe programmers in the United States has decreased over the last several years in comparison to the year 2000, as there less of a need for their services. The lower wage rates have induced more mainframe programmers to retrain themselves with other computer skills, or to leave the field.

Obstacles to achieving efficiency include:

· Price Ceilings/Floors Sometimes governments impose price ceilings, which define a maximum price, or price floors, which define a minimum price. Effective price ceilings or floors prevent normal market equilibrium.

· Public Goods are goods available to everyone, even if they don't pay. Examples include police protection and public parks. One reason competitive markets don't produce the optimum amount of a public good is due to the "free-rider" problem: those who don't pay get a "free ride" with regards to getting the benefit.

· Common Resources are used potentially by everyone and not owned by anyone. Example of inefficiencies here include overfishing and air pollution.

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Externalities
reflect costs and benefits not borne by the person or firm making the economic decision, which are imposed on or granted to others. Runoff from large cattle feedlots can damage nearby farms, and this potential cost may not be considered by feedlots when they look at their supply curve. A landowner who chooses not to develop her land may benefit several other homes for purposes of flood control. The benefit to others may not be taken into account when deciding to develop the land.

· Taxes lead to lower quantities produced, higher prices for buyers and lower effective prices for sellers.

· Subsidies increase the quantity produced, lower prices for buyers and increase seller prices.

· Quotas limit the quantity that can be produced.

· A monopoly means that only one firm can provide a certain good or service. A monopolist will charge a higher price and produce a lower quantity in comparison to a competitive market.

With the exception of the above-mentioned obstacles, a competitive market will use resources efficiently. Goods are produced up to the point where the marginal benefit is equal to the marginal cost, and the sum of consumer and producer surplus is maximized.

The Fairness Principle, Utilitarianism, and the Symmetry Principle
Economists often like to examine the "fairness" of a situation or economic system. Ideas about fairness can be lumped into one of two categories:

· "Results" must be fair.
· "Rules" must be fair.

Utilitarianism
, which is a moral philosophy developed in 18th and 19th century Great Britain, posits that an action is correct if it increases overall happiness for the performer of the act and those affected by the act. Utilitarians argued that income should be transferred from the rich to the poor until complete equality was achieved.

One problem with utilitarianism is the tradeoff between fairness and inefficiency. An effort to transfer wealth by heavily taxing rich people will decrease incentives for people to save money or work hard. This can lead to inefficient uses of capital and labor. Another source of inefficiency is the administrative cost of transferring money from the rich to the poor.

The symmetry principle is based on the intuitive principle that people in similar situations should be treated the same. From an economic perspective, we would like to achieve equality of opportunity. The symmetry principle adheres to the viewpoint that "rules" must be fair.

What is the guys name who plays in Hannah Montana the Movie who falls in love with Miley

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Hannah's cowboy love interest Travis Brody, in the 2009 Hannah Montana Movie is played by 18 year old actor Lucas Till. ChaCha!

Fix "too little virtual memory" in Windows

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Finding the source of the problem

First you need to determine which application is causing the problem.

Hit Control-Alt-Delete to bring up Task Manager (on certain XP Professional configurations you'll need to click the Task Manager button after hitting Control-Alt-Delete). You can also access Task Manager by holding down Control and Shift and pressing Escape.

Go to the Processes tab in Task Manager. Here you will see a list of all the processes (applications or parts thereof) that are running on your system. You will see the memory usage here, but in my experience this very rarely has anything to do with problems running low on virtual memory.

Click View, Select Columns.


Check the Virtual Memory Size box, as circled in the screen shot below and click OK.


Now you have a VM Size column in your Processes tab. Click the top of the VM Size column (as circled below) twice to arrange the processes by their VM Size from largest to smallest.


You'll see in this Task Manager shot that Mozilla Firefox is taking up the most virtual memory at about 237 MB, with Internet Explorer the next biggest at about 81 MB. (the number of KB divided by 1024 equals MB) For both, this is the consequence of leaving them open for more than a week straight. Almost every application will use more memory the longer you keep it open, though some are worse than others. This is one reason that Windows becomes more and more unresponsive the longer you keep it running, and why you end up eeding to restart your computer periodically.

Once you determine which process is using more virtual memory than it should, you need to determine what the process is. Some are pretty obvious, like winword.exe is Microsoft Word, iexplore.exe is Internet Explorer, and so on. Others aren't so obvious. The best way to determine the source of a specific process is to use a search engine to search for the Image Name as shown in Task Manager.

Resolution

Now that you know which application is causing the problem, let's resolve it.

One common thing to try is to uninstall and reinstall the offending application if possible. Searching the Internet, and checking the support site of the software vendor would be the next two steps I would try. Without knowing which application is at fault, it's difficult to recommend a specific solution.

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What grounds does a newspaper, / TV station, have for posting a photo of a juvenile that has commited a crime

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A 15-year-old boy arrested last week in connection with a double-shooting that sent two teenagers to area hospitals was charged today with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm.

The teen is not being named because he was charged as a juvenile. The King County Prosecutor's Office is seeking to have him tried as an adult.

According to Auburn police, the teen shot two brothers who were skateboarding in the 1200 block of 30th Street Southeast on the night of July 6. The older brother, who is 19, told police that the 15-year-old boy walked past him and started shooting his 17-year-old brother in the back, according to court charging papers.

The 19-year-old, identified in court documents as David Garnica, then punched the shooter in the face, charging papers said. When the gun was drawn on Garnica, he covered his face and he was shot in the hand. Garnica's brother was shot in the arm, the face and three times in the back, according to charging papers.

The 17-year-old victim remains at Harborview Medical Center, he has not been identified by police or prosecutors. Garnica has been released from the hospital.

Garnica identified the gunman to police and added that at some point his younger brother had stolen the gunman's girlfriend. Garnica told officers that another one of their brothers used to beat up the gunman, charging papers said.

Auburn police are also investigating an allegation that the 17-year-old victim participated in a shooting in September which left the gunman hurt, court papers said. The gunman belongs to a gang, police said.

Dan Donohoe, spokesman for King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, said that if the 15-year-old boy is convicted in Juvenile Court, he could be 21 before he's released from detention. A conviction in adult court would bring up to 41 years in prison.

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The Simpsons or Futurama

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Futurama is a terrific series that produced great, solid seasons. But it had only four of them.

The Simpsons had a time of greatness that, in my opinion, spanned seasons 1-10, with core at 3-6. The greatness in the core far superceded that of Futurama's run, as one was hard-pressed to find a lesser episode at that time, while Futurama had a couple of weak ones. For the Simpsons now, it was really the Al Jean takeover that spawned the downturn of quality (not blaming Jean himself, but the overall change in humor focus).

And if we look at the place the show has in popular culture, there is simply no argument. As much as The Simpsons has abandoned many of us who were hardcore fans from day one (I was part of and helped run several fan clubs), just looking back at my peak-season DVDs made me remember how perfect that show was.

The Simpsons used to be an amazing show. It probably was the greatest animated show of all time. However, it didn't end when it started going downhill. The show has been on for 10+ seasons, and I can't watch an episode without being frustrated, knowing the hilarity that used to come with the show. At this point, it's been horrible for about eight years.

Futurama, however, has been funny from the get-go. Every episode was funny, even the serious episodes (which were masterpieces in themselves). This show crafted a hilarious year 3001, with funny pop culture references from the past. The show ended, but it ended while it was still funny. Movies are still being released, and even those are hilarious too.

Futurama is better, it didn't have enough time to start sucking.

New Moon

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Wiki Answer:
In astronomical terminology, the phrase new moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon, in its monthly orbital motion around Earth, lies between Earth and the Sun, and is therefore in conjunction with the Sun as seen from Earth. At this time, the dark (unilluminated) portion of the Moon faces almost directly toward Earth, so that the Moon is not visible to the naked eye.

The original meaning of the phrase new moon was the first visible crescent of the Moon, after conjunction with the Sun. This takes place over the western horizon in a brief period between sunset and moonset, and therefore the precise time and even the date of the appearance of the new moon by this definition will be influenced by the geographical location of the observer. The astronomical new moon, sometimes known as the dark moon to avoid confusion, occurs by definition at the moment of conjunction in ecliptic longitude with the Sun, when the Moon is invisible from the Earth. This moment is unique and does not depend on location, and under certain circumstances it may be coincident with a solar eclipse.

The new moon in its original meaning of first crescent marks the beginning of the month in lunar calendars such as the Muslim calendar, and in lunisolar calendars such as the Hebrew calendar, Hindu calendars, and Buddhist calendar. But in the Chinese calendar the beginning of the month is marked by the dark moon.

After animals death

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  • Some people believe pets go to heaven and all I can say is I hope they are there when I get there so I can roll around in green meadows full of flowers with every dog and cat I've ever owned! If you have had a pet pass away at home then you usually would take the pet to your vet or ASPCA (States) or SPCA (in Canada.) I prefer the vets because I get my pets ashes. Some people prefer not to do this. It does cost $175 Canadian. Sometimes people will bury their dog on their property if it's permitted. Pet lovers usually will bury their pet on their property with a little cross or headstone or even plant a pretty bush on top. Others will get the ashes of their beloved pet and on occasion I have heard some people will have their pet stuffed by a taxidermist.

  • There are seven spiritual levels of heaven. There is a level for the souls of little creatures, not of human spirit and that's where they go. It can also be believed by some pet owners that their spirit can stay around their owners after death to continue spiritual healing toward their owner.

  • Pets go to heaven.

  • Their spirits go to heaven, and the body rests in peace in the ground. It depends on what your religious beliefs are. I believe that they go out of their body like a spirit does when the body of a person dies and usually continue on to another life usually in the same type of body as in the previous life time.

  • Animals don't go anywhere and they don't have souls and in humans that spirit is what goes to heaven or hell

  • By Christian belief, animals don't have souls, only humans do, since they are created in God's image. So animals will are not allowed in the kingdom of God, which raises more debate over Christian faith. If God did create these beings, but deny them the rights that we as humans have inherited at birth, then is He really the God of all animals? Maybe there is a God for all other animals except humans. Maybe they go to their own heaven.
  • There is also the possibility that when animals die, they either a.) go into the ground if they are buried , or b.) cease to exist when they are cremated. This is a non religious standpoint.
  • I believe that there are animals in heaven because if god would create something that would just disapire when it died. And the bible says that there will be animals in heaven it says in heaven the lion will lie down with the lamb in Paradise

Oily Hair Care Tips

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A common misconception about oily hair is that it is caused by an oily scalp. The exact opposite is usually true. A dry scalp causes the oil glands in the scalp to produce more oil, and once on the scalp, this excess oil transfers to the hair itself. Therefore, to treat oily hair, one of the best things to do is focus on the dry scalp.

Below, you will find some hints and tips to help manage and care for oily hair:

  • Use a mild shampoo, shampoo for oily hair, shampoo for dry scalp, or a baby shampoo
  • Wash oily hair daily, but concentrate the shampoo on the hair away from the scalp to remove the excess oil from the hair, not on the scalp itself, because this can dry the scalp even more
  • Always rinse your hair thoroughly with cool or lukewarm water, because soap residue can make oily hair worse
  • Use a hot oil treatment directly on the scalp itself, gently massaging the oil into the scalp and then rinsing the oily hair thoroughly afterward
  • If hair is very oily, do not use conditioner at all, or use conditioner only on the tips or ends of the hair
  • Oily hair is likely shiny enough, so avoid using hair gloss gel or shine hair care products on oily hair
  • For extremely oily hair, a vinegar rinse, comprised of one (1) part vinegar to four (4) parts water can help remove oil from your hair, but be sure to avoid using vinegar on the scalp
  • Don’t brush oily hair frequently, because brushing oily hair can actually cause the scalp to produce more oil
  • Don’t rub or scratch your scalp when you have oily hair, because stimulating the scalp like this can produce more oil
  • Diluted lemon juice can provide similar results to the vinegar rinse for oily hair with a much more pleasant scent

Shampoo that contains tea tree oil can work well for alleviating dry scalp, if dry scalp is the primary cause of the oily hair. While diet has little affect on hair itself, eating a healthy diet and drinking plenty of fluids can help with dry skin and scalp too, and since dry scalp causes oil product that can lead to oily hair, diet can affect how much oil your scalp produces. Drinking water is not only good for your oily hair and dry scalp, but it's also great for your skin health too.

The Differences Between Men and Women

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Relationships:

First of all, a man does not call a relationship a relationship - he refers to it as "that time when me and Suzie was doing it on a semi-regular basis". When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But I want you to know there's always a chance for us". This is known as the "I Hate You/I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need; alas, these classes rarely prove effective.

Sex:

Women prefer 30 - 45 minutes of foreplay. Men prefer 30 - 45 seconds of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place as part of the foreplay.

Maturity:

Women mature much faster than men. Most 17-year-old females can function as adults. Most 17-year-old males are still trading baseball cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class. This is why high school romances rarely work.

Hats:

Women look good in hats; men look like dinks.

Comedy:

Let's say a small group of men and women are in a room, watching television, and an episode of "The Three Stooges" comes on. Immediately, the men will get very excited; they will laugh uproariously, and even try to imitate the actions of Curly, man's favorite stooge. The women will roll their eys and groan and wait it out.

Handwriting:

To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just chicken-scratch. Women use scented, colored stationary and they dot their "i's" with circles and hearts. Women use ridiculously large loops in their "p's" and "g's". It is a royal pain to read a note from a woman. Even when she's dumping you, she'll put a smiley face at the end of the note.

Bathrooms:

A man has at most six items in his bathroom - a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn. The average number of items in a typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

Magazines:

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazine also feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Groceries:

A woman makes a list of things she needs and then goes to the store and buys these things. A man waits till the only items left in his fridge are half a lemon and something turning green. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter that the Clampett's car on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from going to the 10-items-or-less lane.

Going out:

When a man says he is ready to go out, it means he is ready to go out. When a woman says she is ready to go out, it means she will be ready to go out, as soon as she finds her other earring, finishes putting on her makeup...

Shoes:

When preparing for work, a woman will put on a Mondi wool suit, and then slip into Reebok sneakers. She wil carry her dress shoes in a plastic bag from Saks. When a woman gets to work, she will put on her dress shoes. Five minutes later, she will kick them off because her feet are under her desk. A man will wear one pair of shoes for the entire day.

Leg warmers:

Leg warmers are sexy. A woman, even if she's walking the dog or doing the dishes, is allowed to wear leg warmers. She can wear them any time she wants.

A man can only wear leg warmers if he is auditioning for the "Gimme the Ball" number in "A Chorus Line".

Cats:

Women love cats. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

Mirrors:

Men are vain; they will check themselves out in the mirror. Women are ridiculous; they will check out their reflections in any shiny surface--mirrors, spoons, store windows, toasters, Joe Garagiola's head.

Garages:

Women use garages to park their cars and to store their lawnmowers. Men use garages for many things. They hang license plates in garages, and they watch TV in garages, and they build useless lopsided benches in garages.

Movies:

For women, their favorite movie scene is when Clark Gable kisses Vivien Leigh for the first time in "Gone With The Wind". For men, it's when Jimmy Cagney shoves a grapefruit in Mae Clark's face in "Public Enemy".

Jewelry:

Women look nice when they wear jewelry. A man can get away with wearing one ring, and that's it. Any more than that, and he will look like a lounge singer named Vic.

Menopause:

When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of complicated emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of the changes varies with the individual. Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction--he buys aviator glasses, a snazzy French cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for a Porsche.

The Telephone:

Men see the telephone as a communications tool. They use the telephone to send short messages to other people. A woman can visit her girlfriend for two weeks, and upon returning home, she will call the same friend and they will talk for three hours.

Low Blows:

Let's say a man and a woman are watching a boxing match on television. One of the fighters is felled by a low blow. The woman says "Oh, gee, that must hurt." The man doubles over and actually feels pain.

Directions:

If a woman is out driving and she finds herself in unfamiliar surroundings, she will stop at a gas station and ask for directions. Men consider this to be a sign of weakness. Men will never stop and ask for directions. Men will drive in a circle for hours, all the while saying things like, "Looks like I've found a new way to get there", and, "I know I'm in the neighborhood. I recognize that White Hen store".

Admitting Mistakes:

Women will sometimes admit making a mistake. The last man who admitted that he was wrong was Gen. George Custer.

Richard Gere:

Women like Richard Gere because he is sexy in a dangerous way. Men hate Richard Gere because he reminds them of that slick guy who works at the health club and dates only married women.

Offspring:

Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

Dressing up:

A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage answer the phone, read a book, get the mail. A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.

Nudity in Movies:

Every actress in the history of movies has had to do a nude scene. This is because every movie in the history of movies has been produced by a man. The only actor who has ever appeared nude in the movies is Richard Gere. This is another reason why men hate him.

David Letterman:

Men think David Letterman is the funniest man on the face of the Earth. Women think he is a mean, semi-dorky guy who always has a bad haircut.

Cameras:

Men take photography very seriously. They'll shell out $4,000 for state-of-the-art equipment, and build darkrooms, and take photography classes. Women purchase Kodak Instamatics. Of course, women always end up taking better pictures.

Politics:

Men love to talk politics, but often they forget to do political things such as voting. Women are very happy that another generation of Kennedys is growing up and getting into politics, because they will be able to campaign for them and cry on election night.

Locker Rooms:

In the locker room, men talk about three things: money, football, and women. They exaggerate about money, they don't know football nearly as well as they think they do, and they fabricate stories about women. Women talk about one thing in the locker room--sex. And not in abstract terms, either. They are extremely graphic and technical, and they never lie.

Laundry:

Women do laundry every couple of days. A man will wear every article of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants that were hip about eight years ago, before he will do the laundry. When he is finally out of clothes, he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the laundromat. Men always expect to meet beautiful women at the laundromat. This is a myth.

Weddings:

When reminiscing about weddings, women talk about "the ceremony". Men talk about "the bachelor party".

Cheerleaders:

Female cheerleaders are cute, sexy, fresh, and all-American. Male cheerleaders are scary.

Socks:

Men wear sensible socks. They wear standard white sweatsocks. Women wear strange socks. They are cut way below the ankles, have pictues of clouds on them, and have a big fuzzy ball on the back.

Toys:

Little girls love to play with toys. Then, when they reach the age of 11 or 12, they lose interest. Men never grow out of their obsession wih toys. As they older, their toys simply become more expensive and impractical. Examples of men's toys: little miniature TV's, car phones, complicated juicers and blenders, graphic equalizers, small robots that serve cocktails on command, video games, anything that blinks, beeps, and requires at least six "D" batteries to operate.

Plants:

A woman asks a man to water her plants while she is on vacation. The man waters the plants. The woman comes home five days later, to an apartment full of dead plants. No one knows why this happens.

Mustaches:

Some men look good with mustaches. Those men are Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds. There are no women who look good with mustaches.

Nicknames:

With the exception of female body-builders, who call each other names like "Ultimate Pecs" and "Big Turk", women eschew the use of nicknames. If Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and Michelle get together for lunch, they will call each other Gloria, Suzanne, Deborah and Michelle. But if Mike, Dave, Rob and Jack go out for a brewsky, they will affectionately refer to each other as Bullet-Head, Godzilla, Peanut Brain and Useless.

Best 15 Tips For Becoming A Better Writer

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Whether you're writing a memo, a letter, an article or a full-length book, there are a few basic rules to keep in mind that will help your message first to be read and then to be better understood and accepted.

1. Never Be Boring
Your reader will forgive almost anything except you being boring. Your reader doesn't have to agree with you, but he or she should at least be intrigued. Make the reader care. Don't be afraid to be "edgy." Look at every sentence and ask yourself, "Why will the reader care about this?"

2. Write in Short Sentences
The reader shouldn't have to work hard to understand what you're saying. If he or she has to go back over a sentence because of poor structure it's not his or her fault, it's yours. Read what you've written aloud or have someone else read it aloud to look for sentences that are too long or convoluted.

3. Write to the Reader
Use "you" often. Look for ways to eliminate or reduce "I" and "me." Present tense, second person is always best. It feels more to readers like you're talking to them.

4. Go Active
Use active verbs as much as possible. They're more engaging. They move the reader along and take fewer words to get your message across. "John loves Mary" is much more powerful than "Mary is loved by John."

5. Keep it Simple
The front page of The Wall Street Journal and all of USA Today is written for the eighth grade reading level. Why should we be any different? People aren't interested in things they don't understand. Make your points quickly and succinctly. Make your words work and use as few of them as possible. Use the right word, not just to show off your vocabulary (or your new thesaurus), but to convey your message clearly.

6. Tell Stories
Facts tell and stories sell. The best writers and speakers of the world have always been good storytellers. Your own stories are the best. What you are sharing is wisdom from your point of view and stories can illustrate this better than anything else.

7. Know Your Subject
Write on things on which you've earned the right to write. The more you know, the more confidence and credibility you'll have.

8. WIFM
This is the radio station that everyone listens to. The call letters stand for "What's in It For Me". People want to know what they'll get out of what you're writing, so appeal to what they want.

9. Write Like You Talk
Often I see people who are good verbal communicators trying to put on a different air in their writing. It doesn't work. It's much better to be conversational.

10. Paint Pictures
We think in pictures and should write in ways that create these pictures in the mind of the reader. Be descriptive. Use examples. Describe the unfamiliar by using some of the familiar. For example: "Jennifer's first day at her new job reminded her of the freshness and unfamiliarity she experienced on her first day of school."

11. Sleep On it
It's a rare individual who can sit down and write something well at the first attempt. Any writing of import should be written and then reviewed later, preferably at least a day later. Some things should be edited several times over an extended period of time in order to properly convey a clear understandable message.

12. Write and Read Extensively
This advice is from Stephen King, a prolific writer. If you want to be a good writer you have to do two things … read a lot and write a lot. Enough said.

13. Break it Down
Where appropriate use bullet points. Use them for summaries or outlines. Think about someone who may only start out by scanning your text. Let your bullet points draw the reader in.

14. Keep Paragraphs to no more than Six Lines
Short paragraphs provide white space to the text. They break up the page and make it appear less formidable to the reader. Like in music, the space between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.

15. Avoid using Capital Letters to make a Point
Capital letters are harder to read than upper and lower case. They also can be perceived as SHOUTING! A little uppercase usage is OK but regular use of words with every letter shown as a capital doesn't work and it looks amateurish.

Writing can be a happy and rewarding experience. If you follow these tips, you will find it easier to convey your written communications to others.

People in Florida get the Tot Mom help for her mental problems

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Police psychic Marlon Michaels-Richter says a nightmarish vision of nationally reviled tot-mom Casey Anthony snuffing the life of 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony with a witch’s brew of homemade chloroform and bug killer “shook me to my soul.”

And in an emotional appeal to prosecutors in Orlando, Florida – where Casey Anthony, 23, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the June 2008 disappearance and subsequent death of baby Caylee - Michaels-Richter says:

“Don’t be fooled by her cold-hearted lies and calculated deceptions … in a chilling vision, I watched tot mom Casey Anthony murder baby Caylee with bug killer and homemade chloroform.

“She soaked a cloth in a bucket of the liquid and then clamped the cloth over the baby’s mouth and nose with the palm of her hand. Caylee struggled and batted with her arms at first, and then she went limp.

“Then Casey wrapped silver duct tape around the baby’s head. I’m not sure what happened next – I was in a deep trance, meditating on the murder in the hope that I could help police solve the crime.

“I remember coming back around as if I were waking from a deep sleep and realizing that I was in my office in New York City. Then, for a few seconds that seemed like hours, I was back in the trance.

“The images were fuzzy in my mind and everything was in slow motion. But I saw someone who looked like Casey Anthony getting out of a car. Her face wasn’t visible to me, but her body shape and hairstyle were just like hers.

“She was lugging a garbagebag into a wooded area, and she was whispering in a sing-song, ‘I’m going to paaaar-ty … I’m going to paaaar-ty.’

“She was laughing, cackling like a crazy person. That’s it. That’s when I regained consciousness. I couldn’t bear to see any more. It was horrifying. It shook me to my soul.”

Cops would neither confirm nor deny that they have in their possession evidence to corroborate the accuracy of Michaels-Richter’s vision, although numerous legal observers have painted similar pictures in unrelenting speculations on cable news shows, notably that of Nancy Grace.

And, in fact, a source close to the case says the psychic “is dead on. Forensic evidence suggests that the chloroform used by the murderer was homemade and just not potent enough to kill Caylee.

“It is believed the killer used pesticide as a kicker.”

Casey Anthony is presumed innocent of any wrongdoing until she is proved guilty in open court and convicted by a jury of her peers. Mitchell-Richter’s vision, though compelling, does not in and of itself prove anything.

Police and prosecutors will present the evidence that accomplishes one of three things:

- Condemns Casey Anthony to a lifetime behind bars.

- Puts her on Death Row to await her execution by lethal injection.

- Sets her free to pick up the pieces of a life that was shattered beyond comprehension the day her daughter went missing and, days or weeks later, became the victim of cold-blooded murder.

10 Quick Tips to Improve Small Business

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Whether you're a one-person operation or 100 employee company, the name of the game is improvement. No business is static. Your business is on an upward track or on its way down. Making improvements to make your business better is a conscious choice. Not only must you balance your time but choose the right area of business that will make the biggest impact. These 10 tips should help you focus on the areas of business offering the biggest gain.
  1. Keep Score: It's amazing how few small businesses have any idea of the daily, weekly, and monthly numbers and financial trends in the organization. Spend the necessary time keeping current cash flow on and if you lack the financial skills then hire an account.

  2. Set Goals: Like keeping score, setting goals and objectives is an essential part of business success.

  3. Use High Impact Marketing: It's easy to waste money on ineffective marketing. Learn how to use low budget high impact marketing to improve your small business.

  4. Master Business Presentations: A powerful business presentation can help improve your small business by leaps and bounds. Learning the essentials of a knockout business presentation can reap many rewards.

  5. Monitor Trends: No business operates in a vacuum. The events and changes in the global landscape have an effect on your business. Stay current on trends and issues.

  6. Sharpen Selling Skills: A high return area for business improvement is the sales function. Whether you're selling to big companies or managing a sales team, never forget to focus on sales improvement.

  7. Find Best Practices: Every industry has its own best practice or ways of doing things that are tried and true. Avoid wasting money and time reinventing the industry is generally a good approach unless you're set on building the next Goggle.

  8. Motivate Staff: Talented and motivated staff members can bring on big improvements in business. Learn what motivates your employees to higher levels of performance.

  9. Know Your Limits: Every successful business owner, even Bill Gates, has a clear idea of their limitations. By knowing your entreprenirual personal type,you can manage your resources and find help in areas of weakness.

  10. Take a Break: Running a small business is hard work. Sometimes the best way to improve your business and re-ignite your passion is to take a vacation.

Business improvement is a way of life for succeeding. Apply these 10 quick tips to fast track your company.

Foods Containing Natural Estrogens

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Estrogens in Food (List)
Now, here is a chart from a Website showing foods high in estrogens and those that block estrogen. Keep in mind the difference between lignans and isoflavones. The use of high estrogen foods- especially those rich in glutamate- should be reconsidered in formulating the ultimate diet for the epileptic or those suffering from excitotoxin-related disorders as we know that estrogens are inflammatory and sensitize neurons to the action of glutamate (e.g. catamenial seizures, PMS).
I posted this chart mainly to help people see that the main "trouble foods"- gluten grains (wheat, barley, rye), dairy, and soy- are all in the estrogen-rich list. As you read more about what researchers are finding concerning the difference between lignans and isoflavones, you will see the war that is going on in our bodies between the good and bad estrogens, paralleling the one raging between good and bad lectins.
Note: Those in bold are also RICH in glutamate.

Alfalfa
Animal flesh
Anise seed
Apples
Baker's yeast
Barley
Beets
Carrots
Cherries
Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
Clover
Cowpeas (black- eyed peas)
Cucumbers

Dairy Foods
Dates
Eggs
Eggplant

Fennel
Flaxseeds
Garlic
Hops

Licorice
Oats
Olive oil
Olives
Papaya
Parsley
Peas
Peppers
Plums
Pomegranates
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Red beans
Red clover
Rhubarb
Rice (relatively high)
Sage
Sesame seeds
Soybean sprouts
Soybeans
Split peas
Sunflower seeds
Tomatoes
Wheat
Yams


Estrogen Inhibiting Foods

If you are suffering from breast cancer, PMS, fibroids, ovarian cysts, and other situations that estrogen might exacerbate, the following estrogen inhibiting foods might be of interest to you.

Berries
Broccoli
Buckwheat
Cabbage
Citrus Foods
Corn
Figs
Fruits (except apples, cherries, dates, pomegranates)
Grapes
Green beans
Melons
Millet
Onions
Pears
Pineapples
Squashes
Tapioca
White rice
White flour Now, this is really cool! Why would wheat be on the list of estrogens rich in estrogens but white flour would be on the list of estrogen blocking foods? Doesn't make sense right? Actually, it DOES and illustrates a VERY important point. What do you get when you add water to white flour? Glue/ paste, right? What have I been saying about gluten again...it is "glue" and it does coat and stick to the villi of the duodenum. In this case, it coats the villi and blocks the absorption of the ESTROGENS in the food. Now, how cool is that?

When I saw this site a couple of years ago, I had another "revelation". Even the bad things have a purpose. In this case, the "glues" in the bad foods (gluten grains, dairy, and soy) don't just block the absorption of essential nutrients (and drugs). They also help block the bad things in these trouble foods, like the estrogens and goitrogens....antinutrients, like those found in soy.

Loose your weight

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I am 6"2 270 pounds, i am 16 and i went to a "weight" doctor (i don't know what they are actually called), but he said to get me down to 220, which is my lowest possible weight without having to reduce muscle mass, i would have to have: 1 fruit seving a day( 1 apple etc.NOT ANY FRUIT JUICES LIKE APPLE JUICE), 250 calorie meals 3 times a day (those low calorie, no trans-fat microwave dinners are good to use as well as soups like chicken noodle soup.) DO NOT EAT MASHED POTATOES, CABBAGE, CARROTS OR CORN UNLESS THEY ARE IN THE MICROWAVABLE MEALS OR THE SOUPS. for a snack you can eat a granola bar. and last but certainly not the least inportant piece of info., walk for 30 mins a day( i would recommend about an hour with slight 2 min jogs in between). IF YOU DO THIS FOR ABOUT 6 MONTHS YOU SHOULD BE UNDER 280 OR EVEN LOWER, JUST DON'T STRAY.

Q: How can i be a Junior Model?

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Junior Model
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unior Model Management represents newborn babies through to teenagers of seventeen years for all Photographic & TV Work; Commercials, Music Videos, Feature Films and Voiceovers as well as Extras and Fashion Shows. Our models are based all over the UK in order to meet the demands of different clients throughout the country.

The founder of Junior Model Management has over eight years of first hand experience within the media industry, launching new magazines and working with major advertisers on some of the UK's leading publications.

The aim of Junior Model Management is to reflect the true diversity of today's society by representing children from newborn to teens regardless of cultural background or ability.

Q: limitations of paint.net software?

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There are no limitations of paint.net software.

Publisher's description of Paint.NET 3.07

Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Version 3.07 enhances the Line/Curve tool, significantly reduces the download size, and fixes some bugs related to opening and saving files in Windows Vista.

Editor's review of Paint.NET 3.07


If you just want to retouch images a bit, Photoshop is overkill. Check out Paint.NET, an open-source freeware editor with all the essential tools, including those for cropping, rotating, resizing, adjusting colors, and creating collages.

Paint.NET supports the most popular image formats--JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others--but not super high resolution ones like RAW. However, you'll find such basic effects as Red Eye Removal, Emboss, Mosaic, and Oil Painting, and a few higher-end features such as Clone Stamp, Lasso Select, and Magic Wand. Like a full-fledged graphics package, Paint.NET even supports layers and an actions manager. The interface is very convenient, and the panels are semitransparent, so you won't need to hide them.

Version 3 fixes many old quibbles. Multiple-image editing is done through a convenient thumbnail manager in the upper-right corner of the app; blurry tool icons have been sharpened as well. Paint.NET is far better than Microsoft Paint, and given its free price, it's a no-brainer for anyone who does a lot of minor graphical tweaking.

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Q: What is the best program to scan and edit pictures?

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Adobe Photoshop, Imageready. This is the best program to scan and edit pictures. If you want to download this, You can download this software from our site.


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