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“Angelina Jolie nude” is one of the most searched for terms on the internet so it is no wonder why hackers decided to exploit this with a newly discovered spyware trojan.

This latest threat is being spread via a spam email message with a clickable link inserted within the message. The message claims to have uncovered some rare adult video footage of her and in many cases the message will also contain a picture of Angelina Jolie nude. But what happens when you click on the link is you are directed to a spyware website and a download is immediately initiated prompting you to download and run the video file which then installs a trojan downloader onto your computer.

What is particularly unnerving is the fact that the programmers of this latest spyware threat have gotten so clever that they mention that the email was sent via an MSN Offers program, thus tricking the user into thinking that the email is legit.

This latest threat is a prime example of why you shouldn’t open up any email attachments or click no any links contained within an email unless it is from someone you know and trust and even then, if the email looks at all suspicious contact the person from which the email came from to verify, preferable by phone.

This is very important and is just one of the steps you can take to protect yourself when online.

Here are 5 additional steps you can take to protect yourself from spammers and spyware:

1. Ensure you have a proven and reputable antivirus and antispyware software running on your computer and I am not talking about the freebies either - they just aren’t very effective.

2. Ensure your computer is kept up to date with the latest security patches - Microsoft Windows users this means turning on Automatic Updates.

3. When downloading any type of file, even from a legitimate source, make sure you save the file first to your computer instead of just running it from the download location. This gives your antispyware and antivirus software a chance to scan it first.

4. Avoid P2P programs like Kazaa and Limewire - these types of sharing networks are inundated with spyware infected files.

5. Stay away from pornographic and gambling related websites. This should be self explanatory.

All of us as Internet users need to be responsible when we’re online or in our inbox so that we can do our part to help limit the spreading of malicious spyware and malware.

And if you get an email claiming you can see a rare adult video of Angelina Jolie nude, report it to your ISP and then delete it or risk having your computer inundated with spyware.

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We all know someone who has every gadget, every book and everything else that we could possibly buy for him or her. Naturally, this makes it very difficult to buy gifts for them, making Christmas shopping a chore rather than a joy.

What are some things you can buy for a friend who has everything? Well, one quick option is to give them something personal, bake for them or construct a unique trinket.

Here are some other ideas:

Pre-Addressed Envelopes: These may seem to be a cheap gift, but in reality, it will save them time and money with addressing envelopes. Also it looks professional so it could work as a gift for a small business owner. A nice byproduct of the gift is that when they send you a thank you letter, it will come in the envelope you bought them.

Offer to do yard work: Unless you are Hank Hill, you do not enjoy doing yard work and neither does the person who has everything. Give them a coupon for five free yard work jobs to be performed when they ask. It is an easy to make gift that is priceless for anyone you give it to.

Put together an album of memories: Doing this will help show the person how much your time together meant to you. Another option is a photo DVD that can be played as everyone opens presents. Many gift stores will be able to put something together for you on DVD.

Magazine or Newspaper subscriptions: Everyone likes to read the paper, whether it is for the news, sports, comics or arts. Give them a subscription to a paper, or magazine, it is a gift that is sure to be a hit with any reader. One point of importance, make sure it is a magazine they will read because there is no sense in wasting your money.

Give the gift of your time: Whoever it is, if they have you as a friend, they want to spend time with you, so give them your time as a gift. Give a coupon that entitles them to one free fishing trip, hiking trip, dinner, or night of bowling. Sometimes your time for a friend can be the best gift you have to give.

Some other options for a gift include buying them gift certificates for their favorite restaurant, paying their phone bill, making them dinner or babysitting their kids. These things are considered invaluable to some and very easy for you to do.

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Ten days is enough to achieve that dramatic result you’ve always wanted for your skin. There are a myriad of available treatments that can help you no matter what your skin type is. Skin usually takes two weeks or more to replenish itself, but helping your skin now can do wonders even before it completely sheds the older, top layer.

Different treatments can be utilized in getting that healthy skin within days. Complied from different experts, these three basic steps are all you need to make your skin healthier in 10 days or less. Religiously following these simple steps can not only rid you of your zits, but also generally improve the overall health and tone of even the most problematic skin.

1) Start with Oral Vitamin Treatments:

Oral treatments have proven to be very effected in improving overall skin condition. To achieve a healthier glow and an even complexion within days, try taking Vitamin A and Niacin supplements. Taking 50,000 units of Vitamin A and 100 mg of Niacin can greatly improve your skin in as little as three days.

For people who suffer from severe acne, these supplements can help a great deal because they are naturally used by our body to fight bacterial infections in our skin, and more importantly, Vitamin A can help our skin in regulating the production of sebum or oil - and we all know that the overproduction of skin oil is the main cause of acne. Niacin can also help in fighting infection so it really helps in keeping your face clean and pimple free.

Treatment Period: supplements should be taken daily for at least a month, then skip one month, and begin another cycle of treatment.

Visible Results in: as little as 3 days. Dermatologists and Acne-prone people swear of its efficacy. By the end of the month-long treatment, once can have immaculate skin, but in as little as three days, people have experienced a general improvement in skin tone and the disappearance of pimples.

2) Find the Right Cleanser for your Skin Type

One of the most important things to consider in achieving a healthier skin is finding the right cleanser for your skin type. People have different kinds of skin: oily, dry, combination, acne-prone, etc - and they all have different needs in cleansing and moisturizing. It is important to find a gentle, oil-free cleanser that can be used as often as needed.

For people with oily skin, experts suggest washing at least 2 times a day and once before bedtime. Harsh soaps may seem to dry pimples faster, but they don’t really help in improving the health of your skin. Harsh cleansers can strip away your skin’s natural moisture barrier that makes it healthy and protects it from debris and bacteria.

Treatment Period: Should be used as often as needed, especially for people with oily skin.

Visible Results in: a week or more. Adjusting to a new cleanser can take some time depending on the skin type. If you’ve previously used a stronger cleanser, switching to a gentler one might make your skin oilier as it was used to compensating for the drying effects or the stronger cleanser by overproducing sebum. Remember that a gentle cleaner is needed to help your skin maintain a healthy and even glow.

3) Watch What You Eat

Changing our diet can produce marvelous effects on our skin. An all-fruit diet is amazingly helpful in clearing acne in a matter or weeks. If the health benefits can’t persuade you to go natural, then consider the recent findings of scientists that vegetarians have shown lesser wrinkles and susceptibility to sagging facial skin compared to people who eat meat.

Eating at least 3 servings or fruit and vegetables a day can help you feel healthier inside out. Fiber, which is found in almost all fruits and vegetables, can help reduce the cholesterol content of our blood, and it is also associated with cleansing our bodies leading to healthier skin complexion. What we eat can really show in our skin, and making the switch ASAP can help you become the more beautiful you.

Treatment Period: forever.

This is a lifestyle change that can help your body and skin cope with stress and the harmful effects of pollution and dirt. Fruits and vegetables are rich in anti-oxidants that help eliminate free-radicals that cause us to age faster. Switching to an all-natural diet can help in as little as ten days but the best thing one can get from it is the overall health benefits and the slowing of the ageing process.

Visible Results in: a week

Vegetables and fruits can greatly help in the elimination of waste products. Eating more everyday can regulate your bowel movement and improve skin texture. Amazing results can be very visible after 3 months on switching to an all-natural diet. Alicia Silverstone, one of the Hollywood celebrities endorsing such a diet swears she feels healthier now and says her skin’s complexion and tone has become unbelievably healthy.

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“Fahrenheit 9/11″ auteur Michael Moore recently fueled the epidemic of hatred for America by denouncing his own country and his own people to the foreign press. The UK’s Mirror printed Mr. Moore’s observation of Americans: “They are the dumbest people on the face of the earth…in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks…We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.” (1)

That’s right. We are. In fact, we’re stupid enough to believe that we have a great country. Why? Let’s look at the facts…

In 2002, the US Census Bureau estimated that 32.5 million people, from places Moore claims our children can’t find on a map (2), lived in the United States, the largest foreign-born population in America since we started keeping records in 1850. (3) Why are all these people risking drowning, hardships, cultural barriers and possible contamination by our laziness, aggression and arrogance, incompetence, shallowness, and sexually explicit media? Why do people such as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger come here, entertain, take advantage of opportunity, and enrich our economy through business and philanthropy?

Shock time: Americans are not nearly as despised as Al-Jazeera would have you believe. In fact, the PEW Global Attitudes Project reports that in its 2004 survey, roughly half the respondents in Russia, Turkey and Morocco say people who have moved to the U.S. have a better life (natives of Germany, France and Britain who responded to the survey disagreed, but that’s hardly a surprise, even though Britain has always been a friend).4

None of the usual pat phrases such as “land of opportunity,” “let freedom ring,” and “democracy, democracy, democracy,” seem to explain why Elian Gonzalez’ mother died to bring him to America.

But perhaps we as Americans are stupid enough to believe that those phrases actually mean something. Perhaps we are the dumbest people on the face of the earth. “Dumb” in this case can mean “naïve,” generally meant as an insult, as in “Don’t be so naïve about why al-Qa’eda hates us so much.”

These days, anyone who doesn’t adopt the de rigueur attitude of boredom and yawning in the face of just about everything is called naïve. But Americans have always been known for innocence and openness.

Beverly West quoted actress Alicia Silverstone in Culinarytherapy. Ms. Silverstone, perhaps channeling President Abraham Lincoln’s optimism, once remarked, “Like when I’m in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper I’m like ‘Wow! That’s toilet paper!’ I don’t know if we appreciate how much we have.” (p. 184)

The idea of anything-therapy and the overuse of “like” appear to the global audience to be authentically American, impressed with our own coolness in one breath and cheerfully mangling the English language in the next, not to mention taking the words of a nubile young Hollywood actress (who starred, interestingly, in a contemporary remake of Jane Austen’s satire on manners Emma) as wisdom. Being excited about toilet paper seems, in this high-tech age, a little backward and disingenuous.

Yet all major religions, particularly the Judeo-Christian tradition on which America as we know it was founded, emphasize gratitude as part of spiritual consciousness. Gratitude for the simplest of things, like toilet paper. The great composer Aaron Copeland based his “Appalachian Spring” symphony on the Shaker song of gratitude, “Simple Gifts.”

“Simple” is often a synonym for “dumb.” Yet if simplicity means stupidity, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were prize idiots. Both of these quintessential American philosophers emphasized simplicity.

In a land of high-speed Internet, 500 channels, strip malls, and coffee companies proliferating like WMD, simplicity seems a foreign concept. Yet in America, we’re “simple” enough to believe that we live in a land of liberty, that (political correctness aside) we can pray, say, or sing whatever we want. We’re simple enough to believe that there still is a personal God, no matter what name we praise; that our kids have the right to attend church, despite the brouhaha over “one nation under God” in the Declaration of Independence; and that (reality shows and a 50 percent divorce rate aside) saying “till death do us part” still means something.

We’re naïve and open enough to believe that, “conniving, thieving, smug” CEOs notwithstanding, we can work hard, start businesses, take care of our families, and create a life that we can be proud of when we leave this world. Even the much-vilified Martha Stewart is admired as a self-made American success story, someone who has used traditional homemaking arts to build a worldwide brand that emphasizes the good life. So much for the idea that Americans are a land of instant macaroni-and-cheese and fast-food eaters. Yes, people sue McDonald’s over getting fat, but the majority of Americans work hard, try to eat well (often together as a family), and pride themselves on playing fair and upholding the law.

Despite celebrity trials, racial prejudices, judicial snafus, serial killers and publicity-hungry lawyers, we still think that “the little guy” still gets a day in court and a fair trial by jury. There is still a sense of personal responsibility for oneself, one’s fellow citizens, and one’s children.

Despite increasing pressures that erode childhood, our kids still have faith in parents to set limits, to be an example, and to lay the foundation for a good life. Certainly many of the young men and women we have seen interviewed in Operation Iraqi Freedom represent the best and the brightest. Our children exhibit the unique dedication to serving others that so many of our leaders, from President Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt to Colin Powell, extol. Ms. Stewart advocated teaching disadvantaged women how to start their own businesses. In America, even some of our high-profile so-called criminals want to improve life for others.

We’re simpleminded enough to believe we can make a difference abroad and in our own communities. We have a strong commitment to preserving the earth for future generations. From Thoreau to Rachel Carson to the eco-friendly celebrity spokesperson of the week, Americans show a love for the natural beauty of the earth, a beauty that we celebrate in our own homeland. Many of our citizens support recycling, controls on pollution, wilderness/rainforest conservation, and wildlife preservation. As the riots at the 1999 WTO Summit in Seattle show, Americans can be quite over-zealous when supporting their causes. In short: Americans care.

This should come as no surprise. Our ancestors banded together to secede from British rule. Even in our fight for liberty, we held opposing views, contrarian views amongst ourselves. The Whigs who supported the Revolution and the Tories who supported England clashed with the fervor of their descendants, demonstrators with opposing views on wars from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

This passion for ideas, this devotion, may seem to undermine the unity we boast of. We’re naïve enough to protect the free expression of ideas, even sometimes seemingly at great cost. You don’t see death squads breaking into antiwar protesters’ homes. For all the controversy over the Patriot Act, people who disagree with the US government do not simply disappear without a trace. Case in point: “Fahrenheit 9/11.” It has made over $1 million (the first documentary to do so), yet people coming out of movie theaters don’t get dragged into unmarked cars and interrogated. You can’t be more critical of the government than Mr. Moore, and yet he won an Oscar for “Bowling For Columbine.” Unlike Soviet artists who criticized Communism, Americans are not forced to flee their homeland–the rest of us won’t stand for it.

Lest we forget, it was recently-deceased and much-praised former President Ronald Reagan who uttered the famous phrase, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” His administration was hardly free of controversy, and yet “the Gipper” maintained a cheerful optimism, an openness to the “Evil Empire,” and yes, a naïve belief that America was “a shining city on a hill.” Reagan was actually dumb enough to believe that America would prosper long after he left office. From this standpoint, “the Gipper” personifies Mr. Moore’s idea of American idiocy.

In that case, the countless mourners, including children too young to have heard of President Reagan, who streamed by the casket in the Capitol Rotunda and at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library all suffer from a collective lobotomy. For that matter, so do the world’s most famous figures, including Mr. Gorbachev and Dame Margaret Thatcher, who all responded to President Reagan’s uniquely American character.

At this rate we’ll be a nation of Forrest Gumps, which wouldn’t be all bad if it meant we could have his decency and kindness (not to mention Tom Hanks’ sense of history).

Oh wait…maybe we do. Perhaps that’s what Mr. Moore means when he calls us “the dumbest people on the face of the earth.” By that standard, we’re an entire nation of “Jeopardy” champions.

So the next time people here or abroad say, “You Americans are the world’s dumbest people,” we can say with pride, “Yes, we are. God Bless America!”

Postscript: Michael Moore’s IMDB.com entry includes this quote: “I like America to some extent. Take the Japanese for instance. They are complicated and tend to be reserved in expressing themselves. Sometimes, it is difficult for me to understand them. Americans are simple and clear. They are charming people. You will understand how good an individual American is. What I am not satisfied with America is that the nation cannot control the government and economy. Only a handful of people have the power to control the country.” He also reportedly liked Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ,” since he has stated in DUDE, WHERE’S MY COUNTRY that the left has a “hoity-toity view of religion”–we give the devil his due.

1 June 26, 2004, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/6/26/103545.shtml
http://www.msnbc.com/news/970612.asp?0cv=CB20&cp1=1

2 Michael Moore pointed to a National Geographic survey of American children, http://geosurvey.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey/. NAEP and Gallup have also reported geography deficiencies. However, it should be noted that in 2003, 84 percent of eighth graders could puzzle out the motivations of a character in a Langston Hughes story, cf. http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/results2003/. Also, there was an overall gain across all grades in mathematical since 1990, cf. http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/mathematics/results2003/

3 http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0073.html

4 http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=206

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“School’s out for the summer.. . school’s out forever!”
- Alice Cooper

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 30 years since we played Alice Cooper’s song over and over again at graduation. It’s amazing to me how it’s still played across the country every year at graduation time.

“No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks.”

So congratulations! You made it through 12-plus years of public
your brains intact. For 12 years they have told you where to be and what to take, with bells to remind you where to go next.

Rarely in life will everything be so neatly laid out for you again. Unless you join the military.

So now what? Some of you may have that all laid out and planned as well. Good for you. Others aren’t so sure.

What you have really accomplished is that you have earned your beginning “ticket” for the rest of your life.

Here’s what I mean.

My family moved to Orlando in 1971, six months before Disney World opened. Back then you didn’t just pay one general admission and ride anything you wanted.

You had to buy a coupon book, with tickets that ranged from A to E. An A ticket would get you on all the little stuff like Dumbo’s Wild Ride or the carousel. You had to use an E ticket to get on things like The Haunted Mansion or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

It’s much the same with education and life. By passing all those courses that you may never use (it’s true), you have gotten your A, maybe even your B ticket for life.

Those who don’t get this far stand a fair chance of spending a good part of their working lives saying “Would you like fries with that, ma’am?” or “Do you prefer paper or plastic, sir?”

What you do next can increase or limit the range of options you have in life. As you consider what your next move might be, think about this quote:

“If you do now what other people are not willing to do, you will be able to do later what other people can’t do.”

And here are a few words for the parents of the graduates. I trust by now you realize that the world they are about to enter is dramatically different than the one we entered 30 or more years ago.

As you prepare to launch your child/young adult into the world, remember the words of Mark Twain: “When I was 17, I thought my old man was the dumbest person in the world. Then when I turned 21, it was amazing how much he had learned in four years.”

They will still have difficulty listening to you. They will make mistakes. Give them room to do both of those things and to find their way back to you when they need you.

And they will.

It’s also time for parents to begin to shift their focus a bit. Instead of concentrating on what you might want to make them do, begin to consider what you are going to do.

In closing, here are a few more tips for the graduate. Although you may have a dress rehearsal for graduation, there is no dress rehearsal for life. This is live and real.

Before you receive that diploma, find someone who invested in your life during these past four years and simply thank them.

You’ll make their day, or more.

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The new town of Milton Keynes (or actually new city, to be more correct) is easy to get to, around 45 miles north west of London and within easy reach of both Oxford and Cambridge.

When the city was designed, it was laid out on a grid system. Which makes navigating your way around the city very easy, if slightly boring compared with the usual road layout in towns across most of the rest of England. The town also boasts green side with a wide network of cycleways - these follow quite leisurely routes, so you could keep fit whilst you explore the city if the mood takes you.

Whether you are visiting Milton Keynes socially or as part of a business trip, there are lots of things to see and do.

Music fans will want to make sure that their trip coincides with a concert at the open air Milton Keynes National Bowl. This former clay pit has been turned into a large amphitheatre which can hold up to 65,000 concert goers. The hall of fame of artists who have played the venue includes David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Placebo and even the heavy metal bands Megadeth and Metallica.

Shoppers will be delighted at the shopping malls that make up part of the centre of the city. Because Milton Keynes has been “zoned” from the outset, you’ll find the facilities are much more logically distributed here than they are in the rest of the UK. This makes finding the particular store you want easy but takes out some of the surprise finds that are associated with many of England’s other towns.

Despite the relatively flat nature of the surrounding landscape, the city boasts its own indoor ski slope complete with real snow rather than the artificial surfaces that most English ski slopes have to make do with. The set of Xscape buildings has a striking design - you’re sure to be able to spot them! If you are more adventurous, the building is also home to an indoor skydiving centre.

Eating and drinking is well catered for. The Theatre District has plenty of places to eat before or after the shows. Or, of course, during them if you prefer not to watch a play.

Many of the city’s restaurants are part of national chains but you can find smaller, independent places to eat in the nearby villages of Stony Stratford, Fenny Stratford and others. These are also home to some of the city’s more lively and crowded pubs. The more traditional drinking establishments can be found in places such as Stony Stratford high street.

As you would expect, there is a wide choice places to stay in Milton Keynes. Although with such a modern city, you may be pleasantly surprised to find that it is still perfectly possible to find smaller bed and breakfasts as well as the more usual large hotels.

Depending on the direction you approach the city from, you may well get to see the famous “concrete cows”. Which are actually not mainly made of concrete - they were primarily assembled from lots of scraps and then encased in concrete that was reinforced with fibre glass. As is to be expected from any modern sculpture, the set of three concrete cows and their three calves attract a mixed reaction and at times have attracted graffiti and vandalism.

Choose from this wide array of Milton Keynes hotels and guest houses.

Edmonton’s drive-thrus contribute 750 tons of Green House Gases into the atmosphere in one month alone. In one year that’s 9000 tons from one city!

Is it possible that the time has come for us to re-evaluate the importance of what we’re actually breathing in here? Should we re-consider the consequences of this unnecessary convenience just to eliminate that simple walk?

This alarming discovery was given immediate attention by CTV news and revealing these startling estimated statistics May 30 2007 the source came from the University of Calgary. Their research was based on daily estimates in the contribution of Green House Gases into the atmosphere. Edmonton’s drive-thrus as of this date are contributing an estimated 25 tons per day.

Over a year, an estimated total would be 9000 tons just from this city alone. Now let’s take this a little further shall we. Using a total of 115 cities with same population, same amount of drive-thru’s the outstanding shocker of the day would reveal a total of I MILLION TONS of Green House Gases to the atmosphere in one year alone.

We can’t even begin to comprehend what that figure would be world-wide over a period of only five years. And the irony of this is the fact that few seem to take note or consider the relevance to what we are doing to ourselves in way of pollution.

Drive-thru mania is spreading like a bad disease across the US and Canada. And there are two main reasons for their increasing popularity, convenience and money. Chains are in frantic competition to offer the best service, while eliminating the cost of the larger restaurant. Offering the smaller restaurants with the drive-thru window, customers and owners alike are happy.

Some Startling Future Plans

CEO Jim Keyes would like to see half of all the new 7-Eleven stores to be built with drive-thru’s. Dunkin Donuts decides 65% of all new restaurants will be built with drive-thru’s. McDonalds has 13,000 restaurants across the US however, 90% of them have drive-thru’s. The number of drive-thru’s has doubled in the last five years. Good to Go fast food location in Houston Texas has fourteen drive-thru lanes to accommodate their customers.

With all this money making excitement building to new heights, owners are battling to reduce idle times in the drive-thru. Sounds like a sincere attempt however, you can only do so much with this idea as humans can only move so fast. Additionally, if all the coffee shops, 7-Eleven stores, Taco Bell’s, along with Wendy’s, Burger King and McDonalds build or renovate new drive-thru windows, this sincere attempt only masks the lack of concern here and contradicts this idea of reducing idle time. Reason being, allowing for new drive-thrus year after year will only increase idle vehicles not decrease.

These drive-thru window services contribute to smog, emissions, noise pollution, air pollution, pollution within the store itself as employees at the window are constantly breathing in exhaust fumes. They add to our obesity problem creating a lazy society. They congest the parking lots creating line ups adding to even more idling vehicles.

Ground Level Ozone

Scientists have estimated that 50,000 to 100,000 deaths per year are associated with air pollution, a disturbing reality. Regarding the ozone layer, 90% of ozone is good ozone however the remaining 10% is regarded as bad ozone and occurs at ground level as a pollutant.

Vehicle exhaust, solvents, industrial emissions and gasoline vapours are some of the major sources of bad ozone. Inhaling ozone at ground level enhances the lungs vulnerability to infections and increases sensitivity to other pollutants. And repeated exposure can cause permanent damage to the respiratory system aggravating heart and lung diseases. It damages plant life interfering with their food production hindering their resistance to insects, disease and polluted air.

And all this is for what, convenience sake, money, success?

Is the human species evolving or are we becoming selfish to our never ending needs, our services rendered mind set? Or is it because we cannot turn back the clock and change the structured society we all love so much?

Maybe we have misled ourselves in regards to the meaning of purpose. Materialistically speaking, is it our destiny or purpose to acquire as much as possible? Is our evolutionary success based on our technologically convenient lifestyle? Or are we here to serve the almighty dollar?

Things can become interesting when viewed from a different perspective and we should seriously re-consider the consequences that may or will arise from our human behavioural habits. That walk from the car is not all that far because regardless of how much money is to be made it is just never enough anyway.

Spread the word and help control the deadly consequences of drive-thru convenience!!

Kellie Hastings Copyright 2007

Research writer of articles pertaining to health, anti aging, pollution, science, public awareness

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In their upper middle class home, with their upper middle class front lawn but with an old BMW car, Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) lives with his wife, Jane Harper (Tea Leoni) & family. Upon becoming the new Vice President of communications at Globadyne, the company folds & he loses his job in the Fun with Dick & Jane movie (2005). What makes it worst is that his wife had recently quit her job; which to make it worst was his idea & both of them are now destined to endure the financial difficulties that approaches them. It is the upper middle class financial nightmare that the couple endures in the remake of the 1977 Fun with Dick & Jane movie.

It seems that Dick Harper has reacted too much & too soon about his job promotion along with his wife, Jane Harper in the Fun with Dick & Jane movie. Little did he know that becoming the Vice President of communications at Globadyne was part of a sinister plot by the company’s scheming CEO, Jack McCallister (Alec Baldwin). Alec does seem to have a knack for playing the bad guy who thinks life is about getting away with a lot of money after ruining people’s lives. He plays the character very well with his suave “I could not care any less” persona. The CEO (Chief Executive Officer) took $400 million siphoned from the now bankrupt company, Globadyne.

The people who suffer most are the employees of Globadyne. They trusted the company with everything they owned, including their savings & retirement bonds. They had no idea that the company that they entrusted embezzling their money. The Fun with Dick & Jane is all about the struggle faced by the previous employees of Globadyne particularly Dick. The beauty of the story is that through thick & thin, from being honest income earners to criminals like Bonnie & Clyde, the beautiful couple held strongly together. As petty thieves, Dick Harper & Jane Harper find out that they are actually good together as a team, performing illicit activities. Tea Leoni is a sexy co star & blends well & complements his antics.

Dick & his wife somehow managed to trick their way to the $400 million of money siphoned by the scheming Globadyne CEO, Jack McCallister. I reckon Dick Harper & Jane Harper deserves to keep a few million dollars for themselves since they did all the hard work. On the other hand, maybe is trying to emulate Jack’s character. It would be a more suitable ending for the scheming Globadyne CEO, Jack McCallister to go to jail. The moral would be to not invest all your money at the company where you work & depend on the uncertain pension plan from a Million Dollar company. It is less likely to be hearing the same bad news from billion dollar companies; well except for the likes of Enron.

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Going into training camp every column I read by knowledgeable, and some semi-stupid, sports writers had the Steelers o-line as the biggest concern for 2008. I pondered on this for a while and when I had half a migraine I decided I’m just not buying it.

The loss of Alan Faneca will impact the run game to a degree but only for the start of the season. By week 4 or 5 Chris Kemoeatu will be, should be, able to gel with the rest of the unit. Although Faneca was a huge presence for the ground game he never excelled in the passing game and like it or not that is the direction the Steelers offense is headed in. In drafting Limas Sweed and Rashard Mendenhall the focus of the offense will shift squarely to the arm of Ben Roethlisberger. Last year Ben set the franchise record for touchdowns in a single season. I believe he can repeat or even exceed those numbers with the return of a healthy Marvel Smith.

Last season Marvel Smith played in a limited number of games due to a piece of broken vertebrae rubbing against his spinal chord. At times throughout the season the bone fragment would pinch the nerves and he would actually lose feeling in his right leg and foot for quarters at a time. Being that Smith plays the left tackle position it’s no wonder Ben’s sack totals went up last year. With the return of Marvel it should be a lock for those totals to go down.

Max Starks is said to be the most impressive lineman in camp. It’s kind of hard to believe being that Max has never really wowed anyone. If Starks beats out Willie Colon for the right tackle spot it makes me wonder if Willie will get a crack at the right guard position. Kendall Simmons is good there so I don’t necessarily see him losing the job, I just think it will be interesting to see if Mike Tomlin will make drastic changes or try to work with what he has.

The most important acquisition the Steelers made in the off-season could be Justin Hartwig. Last year Pittsburgh had virtually no push up the middle and Sean Mahan was the reason. Mahan did not transition well from a guard to a center and the line as a whole suffered for it. With the addition of Hartwig the o-line will immediately improve to some extent but until they have some reps in the regular season and start to move the pile as one unit it’s all just hype and theory.

I can hear them talking about it on NFL Live in the background. It’s kind of funny to me. They make it sound like the line is a wash, but somehow I’m still not worried.

Tim Campbell writes for the Steeler Maniacs fansite at http://www.SteelerManiacs.com

Astrology is a wonderful science of sorts. Unfortunately, the astrology that most people are exposed to is very watered down and inaccurate. I am speaking of the various astrology forecasts published in newspapers and magazines today. The writers of such articles use a method called a sunrise chart to make predictions about the various signs which tries to say something accurate about each sign, which is a group of people all born in a 30-day period of time. These predictions are rarely accurate and if they are accurate at all, it is more of an accident than intentioned. The problem with these published predictions is that they give astrology a bad name. Most people laugh about these things and essentially what was regarded as a sacred science in ancient times is now a ‘gimmick’ or some form of perverse amusement. This is sad when one considers that true astrology, and other sciences such as the Science of the Cards, can give truly amazing predictions and information that can make a big difference in people’s lives.

Your birthday is essentially a blueprint of the life you are leading. A skilled astrologer or card reader can tell you things about yourself that would astound you. I have performed thousands of readings using astrology and the cards together and I have helped these clients with a wide range of challenges they face. The most common and usually most important issue is relationships, usually the intimate relationship with a partner. What some people do not know is that each birthday of the year has a particular relationship pattern associated with it. Some of these patterns are quite distinct and easy to identify. For example, some birthdays of the year are prone to marriage while others are not. Some of what I call these ‘un-marriageable’ birthdays will often get married, but rarely make a lasting success of it. Some birthdays should never get married at all really. But some people of these birthdays will usually try it anyway, often to give in to family pressure or to prove something to themselves. But ultimately these marriages fail. When I do a relationship reading for someone, the first thing I look at is their marriage-potential or commitment potential as it were. It makes the difference and helps frame everything about their love life in the proper context. It is not a curse to be born on a day that doesn’t really like commitment. It is just a choice, like all others, neither positive or negative. Some birthdays are highly sexually oriented while others are very security oriented. Some are creative while others are more practical and organized.

Most of the information I use about relationships and birthdays comes from the Science of the Cards. In this system each day of the year is assigned one of the 53 playing cards (52 plus the Joker). And that card holds the key to their lifetime destiny, just as much or more as one’s astrology sign. It not only reveals information about one’s love life potential and patterns, but identifies key personality traits and patterns of experience that are unique. Often one can even tell what professions would be best and just how one’s life can be expressed in its highest and most satisfying way. Below I give a glimpse of just some of what is offered by this amazing system. You will see a list of birthdays, some of which are the most marriageable and some who are the least. I will also include here, for your enjoyment, the specific Birth Card of each birthday and one or two celebrities who exemplify those qualities mentioned.

The list below is by no means complete. Every birthday has a rating that is highly accurate. This is just a sample. Keep in mind as you read that the Marriage-ability number starts with 0 and goes to 10, where 10 is the most marriageable and 0 the least.

• 1/1=King of Spades; Marriagability Rating–5; Celebrities born on this day–J. Edgar Hoover, Verne Troyer; Comments–The most Powerful card in the deck!

• 1/5=Nine of Spades; Marriagability Rating–8; Celebrities born on this day–Walter Mondale, Robert Duvall; Comments–Giving and highly organized.

• 1/11=Three of Spades; Marriagability Rating–4-5; Celebrities born on this day–Amanda Peet, Mary J. Blige; Comments–Highly creative and artistic.

• 1/16=Jack of Diamonds; Marriagability Rating–5; Celebrities born on this day–Kate Moss, Aaliyah; Comments–Inner conflict between freedom and commitment.

• 2/22=Three of Diamonds; Marriagability Rating–4; Celebrities born on this day–JDrew Barrymore, Michael Chang; Comments–Probably not marriage material.

• 2/25=King of Clubs; Marriagability Rating–9; Celebrities born on this day–Tea Leoni, Carrot Top; Comments–Highly intelligent.

• 2/22=King of Diamonds; Marriagability Rating–9; Celebrities born on this day–JDrew Sharon Stone, Prince Edward; Comments–Strong willed/business minded.

• 3/10=Five of Diamonds; Marriagability Rating–2; Celebrities born on this day–Queen Latifah, Vanessa Williams; Comments–Freedom, freedom, freedom!

• 4/5=Three of Spades; Marriagability Rating–3; Celebrities born on this day–Amanda Mike McCready, Jane Asher; Comments–Artist and travel oriented.

• 4/28=Six of Clubs; Marriagability Rating–9; Celebrities born on this day–Jessica Alba, Jay Leno ; Comments–Love and sex, what else!

•5/7=Queen of Diamonds; Marriagability Rating–3; Celebrities born on this day–Tracy Lords, Amy Heckerling; Comments–Creative and indecisive.

• 6/18=Queen of Clubs; Marriagability Rating–7; Celebrities born on this day–Paul McCartney, Isabella Rossallini; Comments–Psychic and highly intelligent.

• 7/23=Five of Clubs; Marriagability Rating–2; Celebrities born on this day–Paul Woody Harrelson, Stephanie Seymour; Comments–Freedom means everything.

•8/5=Eight of Diamonds; Marriagability Rating–5; Celebrities born on this day–Patrick Ewing, Anastasia Horne; Comments–Multiple marriages very possible.

• 8/22=Four of Clubs; Marriagability Rating–8; Celebrities born on this day–Tori Amos, Layne Staley; Comments–Organized and grounded.

• 9/15=Nine of Clubs; Marriagability Rating–7; Celebrities born on this day–Prince Harry, Dan Marino; Comments–Very sexy and love prone.

• 9/29=Eight of Hearts; Marriagability Rating–7; Celebrities born on this day–Natasha Wagner, Andrew Dice Clay; Comments–Playboy/playgirl.

• 10/12=Ten of Clubs; Marriagability Rating–6; Celebrities born on this day–Kirk Cameron, Hugh Jackman; Comments–Independent and powerful.

• 10/31=Four of Hearts; Marriagability Rating–9; Celebrities born on this day–Durmont Mulroney, Jane Pauley; Comments–Family oriented and powerful.

• 11/1=Six of Diamonds; Marriagability Rating–7; Celebrities born on this day–Jenny McCarthy, Anne Donovan; Comments–Marry a rich guy/lady!

• 11/27=Six of Hearts; Marriagability Rating–8; Celebrities born on this day–Robin Givens, Caroline Kennedy; Comments–Long-lasting relationships.

• 11/1=Ace of Diamonds; Marriagability Rating–1; Celebrities born on this day–Jay-Z, Jeff Bridges; Comments–Should never marry.

• 12/18=King of Hearts; Marriagability Rating–8; Celebrities born on this day–Brad Pitt, Katie Holmes; Comments–Strongly family bent.

• 12/31=Joker; Marriagability Rating–Who Knows?; Celebrities born on this day–Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer; Comments–A mystery unto themselves.

Ginny Heenan is working on the Science of the Cards with Robert Lee Camp. Robert is a professional astrologer and author of Your Birthday Your Card, The Cards of Your Destiny, and Love Cards, all found in most major bookstores. You can find the perfect match for love at his new web site, http://www.lovecardsdating.com