09/26/08
Moscow's Iran Policy A Question Of Balancing Priorities
By Robert Coalson, RFE/RL
Moscow has nixed a proposed meeting in New York this week at which the representatives of the UN Security Council members, plus Germany, were to discuss possible additional sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. "We see no 'fire alarm' that would require us to put off other things in the extremely busy week of the UN General Assembly and hold an emergency meeting on the Iran nuclear problem," a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman stated.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Wensday is here
I have just arrived in Chico again for the last time for entry into the CSU system.
I am look into a larger market and varigates demographics.
I am look into a larger market and varigates demographics.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
environmentally friendly
SILVERADO = Gold + Cutting Edge Fuel !
Peter Degraaf
It is not often that we find an exploration company that has as much going for it as does Silverado Gold Mining Inc.
In addition to owning several very promising gold properties in Alaska, it is also leading the pack in the race for a fuel to solve the problem of US dependence on foreign oil.
Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Silverado Green Fuel Inc., it possesses a formula for converting coal (of which the US has an abundance), into liquid fuel, or 'Green Fuel'. Not only does this fuel replace conventional crude oil, but this 'Green Fuel' is so-called because it is environmentally friendly.
Peter Degraaf
It is not often that we find an exploration company that has as much going for it as does Silverado Gold Mining Inc.
In addition to owning several very promising gold properties in Alaska, it is also leading the pack in the race for a fuel to solve the problem of US dependence on foreign oil.
Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Silverado Green Fuel Inc., it possesses a formula for converting coal (of which the US has an abundance), into liquid fuel, or 'Green Fuel'. Not only does this fuel replace conventional crude oil, but this 'Green Fuel' is so-called because it is environmentally friendly.
higher fuel
RNS Number:7101T Ryanair Holdings PLC 07 November 2005 RYANAIR PROFITS RISE BY 18% TO RECORD Euro237M. TRAFFIC GROWTH OF 29%, NET MARGIN OF 25% Ryanair, Europe's No. 1 low fares airline, today (Monday, 7th November 2005) announced record half year profits of Euro237m. Traffic grew by 29% to 18.0m passengers, yields increased by 3% and as a result total revenues rose by 33% to Euro946.2m. Unit costs increased by 8% (excluding fuel they fell by 7%) as fuel costs rose by 108% to Euro236.9m. As a result of these significantly higher fuel costs, Ryanair's adjusted after tax margin for the half year fell by 3 points to 25% as adjusted net profit increased by 18% to Euro237m. Summary Table of Results (IFRS) - in Euro Half Year Ended Sept 30, Sept 30, % 2004 2005 Increase Passengers 14.0m 18.0m 29% Revenue Euro710.3m Euro946.2m 33% Profit after Tax (note 1) Euro201.2m Euro237.0m 18% Basic EPS (Euro Cents) 26.49 31.00 17% (note1) Note 1:Adjusted profit after tax and EPS during the half year ended 30 September 2005 excludes a receipt, net of tax, of Euro5.2m arising from the settlement of an insurance claim for the scribing of 6 Boeing 737-200 aircraft.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Property Rights Coalition
WEB RELEASE: June 30, 2008
Media Contact:
Lisa Knepper
(703) 682-9320
[First Amendment]
Arlington, Va—Richard Swift and Wayne Wilkinson are developers in Clarksville, Tenn., who are using the power of government to benefit developers—and they sued citizens, demanding $500,000, simply for saying so.
Today, those citizens, members of the Clarksville Property Rights Coalition, a grassroots group formed to fight the abuse of eminent domain in their community, are fighting back with the help of the Institute for Justice. IJ, a non-profit, public interest law firm that defends property rights and First Amendment freedoms nationwide, today filed a motion to dismiss Swift and Wilkinson’s lawsuit.
Media Contact:
Lisa Knepper
(703) 682-9320
[First Amendment]
Arlington, Va—Richard Swift and Wayne Wilkinson are developers in Clarksville, Tenn., who are using the power of government to benefit developers—and they sued citizens, demanding $500,000, simply for saying so.
Today, those citizens, members of the Clarksville Property Rights Coalition, a grassroots group formed to fight the abuse of eminent domain in their community, are fighting back with the help of the Institute for Justice. IJ, a non-profit, public interest law firm that defends property rights and First Amendment freedoms nationwide, today filed a motion to dismiss Swift and Wilkinson’s lawsuit.
Just a little bite
I have been working this Summer of 08 to improve my understanding of logic and psychology.
Both under takings resulted in a successful wild ride in academia.
Will keep you posited.
Very impressed with the Google suit of Internet tools, some free but the possibilities are great here.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
down sizing the device to hands free
An excellent analogy of the internet/phone interface would be to compare the user to upgrade or what age group is using whaat tools..I agree the tool is going hand held and things are getting smaller all the time and soon we will have an embedded system hands free/robotic. More leasure time and recreational opportunities for the general ,asses and a shift of resources to take advantage of the emerging markets in this driven area.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
On and On
Strangers, Strangers in the night her sounds in the dark light, hearing not but the light from screened and figues fimilar to the controls on the key board stroke. That idea coming into mind that a Avitar's name could be Stroke?
Ya, the Second Life (SL) is a advantageous to explore and interact within virtural world game plan. The rules are fair enough and the variations are interesting.
Meeting other players provides for random possibilities to develope new relationship and exchange experience.
It is a pleasure to see the opportunities emerge for getting educated and certified in the virtural 3D envnoment. I will be searching ot the possibilities and keep everyone posted on my progress.
I am ready to transfer into a upper division academic work in either Public Administration or Legal Services and Practices.
Ya, the Second Life (SL) is a advantageous to explore and interact within virtural world game plan. The rules are fair enough and the variations are interesting.
Meeting other players provides for random possibilities to develope new relationship and exchange experience.
It is a pleasure to see the opportunities emerge for getting educated and certified in the virtural 3D envnoment. I will be searching ot the possibilities and keep everyone posted on my progress.
I am ready to transfer into a upper division academic work in either Public Administration or Legal Services and Practices.
House Explores Increased Use of Nuclear Power - The House Science and
Technology Committee held a hearing to explore the potential for nuclear
power as an increased source of electricity in the U.S. Companies over the
last nine months have filed nine license applications with the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build a total of 15 new nuclear reactors in
the U.S. No new reactors have been built in the U.S. in over 20 years,
largely due to high up front costs and uncertainties that deter investments
in such facilities.
New Democrats Look Beyond Trade Fights - Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), chairman of
the Democratic Caucus, is trying to reinvigorate his own New Democrat
faction and is nudging the group toward a pro-business agenda with a
technology focus. Former White House aide Emanuel is a leading member of
the New Democrat Coalition, a group at odds with more-liberal Democrats
and, on the other end of the political spectrum, out of step with the more
conservative Blue Dog Coalition.
NASA Aeronautics Program Faces Challenges to Meet Future Air Travel Demands
- The House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Space and
Aeronautics held a hearing to examine NASA's current aeronautics R&D
program, and discussed the actions necessary to address the nation's
airline woes. For information on the IEEE-USA Committee on Transportation
and Aerospace Policy (CTAP) - chartered to contribute to the formulation of
sound aeronautics and astronautics technology legislation, regulation and
policy in the United States - please visit:
http://ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/ctap/index.html
House Science Subcommittee Approved SBIR Bill - The Subcommittee on
Technology and Innovation approved H.R.5789, the Science and Technology
Innovation Act of 2008. H.R. 5789 reauthorizes the Small Business
Investment Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) programs; both regarded as successful programs for promoting the
growth of cutting-edge, high-tech small business in the United States.
However, because some committee members objected to the expedited process
by which the bill was brought before the Committee, H.R.5789 will not go
before the full Committee, as is customary with regular order. Instead, the
bill will be merged with similar legislation coming out of the House Small
Business Committee before going to the full House for consideration.
Senator Alexander Warns of $750 Million ITER Default - During a hearing of
the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations,
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) warned Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
that the United States might be liable to a $750 million default clause in
the ITER agreement.
Congress Reintroduces ‘Orphan Works' Copyright Measures - Both the House
and Senate reintroduced legislation aimed at updating laws governing
"orphan works." A similar 2006 proposal died after it was incorporated into
a larger package that attempted to streamline digital music licensing.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and House Judiciary Courts,
the Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Howard Berman
(D-Calif.) sponsored the pair of bills, intended to protect those who use
images, music, and video after conducting unsuccessful searches for owners
of the copyrighted material.
The Challenges of E-Waste Disposal - The House Science and Technology
Committee recently explored issues related to the management of waste
electronic equipment (e-waste). Ralph Hall (R-TX) said, "The shear volume
of electronic equipment that ends up the nation's disposal facilities not
only takes up a significant amount of expensive disposal space, it also
contributes to the amount of hazardous pollution found in landfills. When
not properly handled, studies show that the components of some e-waste can
be sources of toxins and carcinogens.
WHITE HOUSE & EXECUTIVE AGENCY WATCH
FERC Proposes Reliability Standards, Adopts Penalty Notice Policy for
Violations
White House Honors Math & Science Teachers - To see a list of names,
visit: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111502&govDel=USNSF_51
REPORTS, SPEECHES & DOCUMENTS OF NOTE
National Science Foundation - The latest results from the National Science
Foundation's (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program show not only
improved proficiency among all elementary and middle school students, but
also a closing of the achievement gaps between both African-American and
Hispanic students and white students in elementary school math, and between
African-American and white students in elementary and middle-school
science.
Kauffman Foundation Study: Education and Tech Entrepreneurship - A new
Kauffman Foundation study punctures some myths about the founders of
technology-based entrepreneurial companies, contradictions the stereotype
of tech firm-founders as young hot-shots who have the energy and the
stamina to survive the grueling start-up days.
US STATES WATCH
Iowa Budget Supports STEM, Continues Investment in Power Fund for
Alternative Energies - The Iowa legislature approved Governor Chet Culver's
proposal to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
fields within the state's higher education system, allocating $4 million
for the Mathematics and Science Education Collaborative Initiative. The
General Assembly also approved the Iowa Power Fund; the second installment
of $25 million in is scheduled for FY 2009. The $100 million fund invests
in private sector renewable and alternative energy industries.
LATEST IEEE-USA & IEEE ACTIVITIES
IEEE-USA Annual Meeting: Texas Engineer Receives IEEE-USA's Highest Honor,
One of 24 IEEE-USA Award Recipients
IEEE-USA's Recent Policy Communications:
25 APR: Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Leaders urging funding of
the NIST Technology Innovation Program as authorized in the American
COMPETES Act.
23 APR: Coalition letter to House and Senate energy appropriators urging
$12 million in FY09 funding for the DOE Nuclear Science Talent Expansion
Program as authorized in the America COMPETES Act.
16 APR: STEM Education Coalition letter to House and Senate Commerce,
Justice and State appropriators supporting the budget request for the
National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership Program and
Noyce Scholarships.
What's New @ IEEE-USA's Eye on Washington highlights important federal
legislative and regulatory developments that affect U.S. engineers and
their careers. In addition to this biweekly newsletter, subscribers receive
legislative bulletins and action alerts on IEEE-USA priority issues,
including: retirement security, employment benefits, research & development
funding, computers and information policy, immigration reform, intellectual
property protection and privacy of health/medical information.
Copyright © 2008, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Inc. Permission granted to copy for personal use or for non-commercial
republication with appropriate attribution.
Technology Committee held a hearing to explore the potential for nuclear
power as an increased source of electricity in the U.S. Companies over the
last nine months have filed nine license applications with the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build a total of 15 new nuclear reactors in
the U.S. No new reactors have been built in the U.S. in over 20 years,
largely due to high up front costs and uncertainties that deter investments
in such facilities.
New Democrats Look Beyond Trade Fights - Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), chairman of
the Democratic Caucus, is trying to reinvigorate his own New Democrat
faction and is nudging the group toward a pro-business agenda with a
technology focus. Former White House aide Emanuel is a leading member of
the New Democrat Coalition, a group at odds with more-liberal Democrats
and, on the other end of the political spectrum, out of step with the more
conservative Blue Dog Coalition.
NASA Aeronautics Program Faces Challenges to Meet Future Air Travel Demands
- The House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Space and
Aeronautics held a hearing to examine NASA's current aeronautics R&D
program, and discussed the actions necessary to address the nation's
airline woes. For information on the IEEE-USA Committee on Transportation
and Aerospace Policy (CTAP) - chartered to contribute to the formulation of
sound aeronautics and astronautics technology legislation, regulation and
policy in the United States - please visit:
http://ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/ctap/index.html
House Science Subcommittee Approved SBIR Bill - The Subcommittee on
Technology and Innovation approved H.R.5789, the Science and Technology
Innovation Act of 2008. H.R. 5789 reauthorizes the Small Business
Investment Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) programs; both regarded as successful programs for promoting the
growth of cutting-edge, high-tech small business in the United States.
However, because some committee members objected to the expedited process
by which the bill was brought before the Committee, H.R.5789 will not go
before the full Committee, as is customary with regular order. Instead, the
bill will be merged with similar legislation coming out of the House Small
Business Committee before going to the full House for consideration.
Senator Alexander Warns of $750 Million ITER Default - During a hearing of
the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations,
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) warned Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
that the United States might be liable to a $750 million default clause in
the ITER agreement.
Congress Reintroduces ‘Orphan Works' Copyright Measures - Both the House
and Senate reintroduced legislation aimed at updating laws governing
"orphan works." A similar 2006 proposal died after it was incorporated into
a larger package that attempted to streamline digital music licensing.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and House Judiciary Courts,
the Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Howard Berman
(D-Calif.) sponsored the pair of bills, intended to protect those who use
images, music, and video after conducting unsuccessful searches for owners
of the copyrighted material.
The Challenges of E-Waste Disposal - The House Science and Technology
Committee recently explored issues related to the management of waste
electronic equipment (e-waste). Ralph Hall (R-TX) said, "The shear volume
of electronic equipment that ends up the nation's disposal facilities not
only takes up a significant amount of expensive disposal space, it also
contributes to the amount of hazardous pollution found in landfills. When
not properly handled, studies show that the components of some e-waste can
be sources of toxins and carcinogens.
WHITE HOUSE & EXECUTIVE AGENCY WATCH
FERC Proposes Reliability Standards, Adopts Penalty Notice Policy for
Violations
White House Honors Math & Science Teachers - To see a list of names,
visit: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111502&govDel=USNSF_51
REPORTS, SPEECHES & DOCUMENTS OF NOTE
National Science Foundation - The latest results from the National Science
Foundation's (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program show not only
improved proficiency among all elementary and middle school students, but
also a closing of the achievement gaps between both African-American and
Hispanic students and white students in elementary school math, and between
African-American and white students in elementary and middle-school
science.
Kauffman Foundation Study: Education and Tech Entrepreneurship - A new
Kauffman Foundation study punctures some myths about the founders of
technology-based entrepreneurial companies, contradictions the stereotype
of tech firm-founders as young hot-shots who have the energy and the
stamina to survive the grueling start-up days.
US STATES WATCH
Iowa Budget Supports STEM, Continues Investment in Power Fund for
Alternative Energies - The Iowa legislature approved Governor Chet Culver's
proposal to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
fields within the state's higher education system, allocating $4 million
for the Mathematics and Science Education Collaborative Initiative. The
General Assembly also approved the Iowa Power Fund; the second installment
of $25 million in is scheduled for FY 2009. The $100 million fund invests
in private sector renewable and alternative energy industries.
LATEST IEEE-USA & IEEE ACTIVITIES
IEEE-USA Annual Meeting: Texas Engineer Receives IEEE-USA's Highest Honor,
One of 24 IEEE-USA Award Recipients
IEEE-USA's Recent Policy Communications:
25 APR: Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Leaders urging funding of
the NIST Technology Innovation Program as authorized in the American
COMPETES Act.
23 APR: Coalition letter to House and Senate energy appropriators urging
$12 million in FY09 funding for the DOE Nuclear Science Talent Expansion
Program as authorized in the America COMPETES Act.
16 APR: STEM Education Coalition letter to House and Senate Commerce,
Justice and State appropriators supporting the budget request for the
National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership Program and
Noyce Scholarships.
What's New @ IEEE-USA's Eye on Washington highlights important federal
legislative and regulatory developments that affect U.S. engineers and
their careers. In addition to this biweekly newsletter, subscribers receive
legislative bulletins and action alerts on IEEE-USA priority issues,
including: retirement security, employment benefits, research & development
funding, computers and information policy, immigration reform, intellectual
property protection and privacy of health/medical information.
Copyright © 2008, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,
Inc. Permission granted to copy for personal use or for non-commercial
republication with appropriate attribution.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The Children
Aloha:"As children, we were taught to appreciate Mt. Fuji and to pass on our experiences and feelings to the future generations. When I've traveled to Shizuoka and viewed this mountain, I have always become inspired. To me, Mt. Fuji represents the solemn and divine.Since the days when Heaven and Earth departed. I am particularly proud of this work of art titled "Crescent Moon over Mt. Fuji." The graphic on canvas is the most beautiful I have ever achieved.Click here: http://www.lahainagalleries.com/?FULLVIEW&pid=161402Hisashi OtsukaP.S. I hope you will consider visiting me during my May appearances at Lahaina Galleries in San Francisco and Newport Beach."Show dates:San FranciscoAt corner of Beach and Hyde(parking underneath the gallery)Friday May 25:30 to 8:30pmRSVP 415.749.1000andNewport Beach, Fashion Island(Located below Cheesecake Factory)Saturday May 3 5:30 to 8:30pmSunday, May 4 12 to 3pmMahalo,Lahaina Galleries, Inc.800.228.2006 Hawaii800.788.5008 San Francisco949.721.9117 Newport Beach541.388.4404 Bend, ORwww.lahainagalleries.com
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The fourth paper in PwC's new 10Minutes thought leadership series focuses on balancing risk and reward in what we are calling the "World Economy 2.0." It is driven by CEO responses to PwC's 11th Annual Global CEO Survey, which clearly point to the fact that the global economy has reached a tipping point - it is no longer dominated by the US and is increasingly shaped by emerging markets.
To help C-suite executives effectively manage through this change, we provide PwC's perspectives on why, as the US goes through an economic slowdown, businesses headquartered here must consider how they can take advantage of opportunities in emerging markets. At the same time, those that operate globally will face greater exposure to risks, such as talent shortages, disparate regulatory regimes, and weak supply chain security.
To seize new opportunities while managing these risks, companies will have to make fundamental strategic, cultural, and operational changes.
Read PwC's 10Minutes on PwC's Global Survey to learn more.
Regards,
CFOdirect Network team
Thursday, April 17, 2008
A proposal for CDES 319 for User Generated Content Spring 2008
International Wealth Management Club L.P.
In Concept Only
Press Release April 19, 2008
Paragon MultiMedia Inc./Horizon Club Doctors Choice
Business Events
New Financial Activity Division “International Wealth Management Club”
Newport Beach California
The Horizon Club has now added the above Division to take positions in the fast growing world wide FOREX Currency market through our new financial activities division.
Other financial arranging projects might include hedging verse the original position and discount insurance with a variety of well rated companies. The FOREX Currencies such the American Dollar, Australian , Euro and Japanese Yen are giving the main investment being given consideration a close tie-in with leading established trading firm has been made.
Meanwhile discussions are proceeding with $130 million plus Orange County based meat and bakery Company. who has promised to review and discuss the initial funding for the Doctors Choice Lite Meats in the next 90 days.
The Horizon Clubs reasons for income diversification now are:
1. Capital raising, especially for the early stage finance
2. Limited dependence on too few financiers
3. Through still speculative steps will be taken Hedging. Stop orders, etc. to work on financial instruments
4. Number of conditions (currency and futures’) both here and overseas makes positive conditions for the additional services plus gain out weigh the negatives.
HORIZON CLUB
Est.1960
INTERNATIONAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT CLUB
PARAGON MULTIMEDIA INC.
LYONSGATE INVESTMENT BANKING
http://peopletime.com
100 million Stage Financing
AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES will be seeking a major capital-raising amount to
expand nationwide from it's initial production base in North Carolina.
These monies, if completed, will come from institutional sources and will
be coupled with a state-by-state and/or regional licensing program of the
DOCTOR'S CHOICE low fat beef we have developed.
Subject to the financing, your limited partnership interests will be either
a: Exchanged for stock in the new corporation, and/or
b: bought out for cash raised from the financing.
The specific purchase and/or exchange will be voted on by the Board of
Directors of HORIZON CLUB, and then presented to you at the appropriate
time. Please SAVE this preliminary information letter.
Thanking you for your continuing support,
To Whom It May Concern:
Please find the following Business Summary for your consideration.
For more information see www.peopletime.com
Sincerely
Roy Combs President
Goal/purpose to raise $100 million to invest in a "package" of
6 to 10 companies that are in related areas to the Agricultural
Industries/Doctor's Choice marketing plan including capital for:
1. Distribution and promotion of the recently AI co-published
Doctor's Choice cooking manual (150 lite and helpful recipes in a
binder for easy updates and a collection mode).
2. Marketing of customized gift baskets featuring lite and
helpful packaged foods, jams, beverages, but could be combined or
stand-alone with richer foods and many non-food items such as
cookbooks, house wares, kitchen wares, sports, business, home,
office and hobby items.
3. Future marketing and licensing of a process that converts
high-fat (15-30%) meats to low-fat (2-4%) beef and pork patties
and will develop special semi-automated or automated
equipment to increase the output dramatically.
4. Planned line of Doctor's Choice accessories, house ware\
kitchen ware.
Because of the need for many outlets to market 1. through 4.
to their maximum potential, AI will consider purchasing interests in
companies that manufacture, wholesale, distribute, market, process,
retail and promote the items mentioned. These could include restaurant
chains, food processors and packers, equipment makers multi-outlet
distributors, chains of gift, house-kitchen ware, florists, party and
greeting card supplies.
access to capital.
6. Coupling new investment with purchase of control of a inactive
("shell") or small publicly-owned company. The acquired company
may have cash or equivalents and/or a tax-loss carry-forward to
make it more attractive to purchase. Having publicly-owned stock
or other securities gives the surviving corporation flexibility in
offering at least partial, non-cash compensation to give initial
and/or future purchases of companies a synergistic (1+1=3 or more)
effect.
_____________________________________________________________________________
What Agricultural Industries, its principal, consultants and
marketing advisors can bring to your company.
1. Current products Reduced Fat Ground Meats (cookbook, gift basket) to add to your lines
both as sales and gift/bonus, client thank you sales awards, and imprint
with your sales message.
2. Future products, the lite and helpful Doctor's Choice beef and
later pork process and products.
3. On 1. amd 2., we could set up or expand a special division to
increase your bottom line markup.
4. Combs and Richter have a 60-year combined history of versatile
corporate and regular finance to add to your fund-raising (expansion,
turnaround) capabilities.
5. Work with your current advisors.
6. Contacts not only in U.S. but worldwide to maximize your
potential.
7. Can bring many strategic alliances, joint ventures, spin-off
possibilities to you.
8. Add excellent media contacts to your promotion and public
relations, plus have event/seminar and tradeshow sponsorship.
9. This is the fastest growing area of co-marketing/capabilities.
Access to the best of new media (interactive teleconferencing,
multi-media, digital computer/radio/satellite links.
10.Networking abilities to make everyone (executive, manager,
employee, staff and outside consultant) more productive.
11.Give you excellent choice of strategies and options.
12.Personalize overall consulting to move your company ahead of its
increasing competition.
PARAGON MULTIMEDIA, INC.
A Division of Horizon Club
An on-line service system for INTERNET
users serving the world.
NEW TELECOMMUNICATIONS/MEDIA ACTIVITIES
INVOLVE COMBINING SIX HORIZON CLUB DIVISIONS
The recent mega-mergers of telecommunications and media giants, Bell
Atlantic-TCI and Time Warner-U.S. West have shown us the way of the
future and the industries that will be the fastest path to future
growth and profits -
worldwide. Note: GT Global Telecommunications Fund (San Francisco,
California) has recently reported that the value of Global
Telecommunications industries securities is $619 billion. This would
place it #4 in the world with only the U.S. total securities market
(4.2 trillion), the Japanese (2.3 trillion) and the British (UK)
markets of $915 billion ahead of it.
"We are doing our small part at HC to accelerate the "electronic
superhighways" of the future," Chairman Combs related by merging
together and concentrating the joint focus of six of our divisions:
1. PERLEC - R&D in electronics systems, products and devices,
acquisition of companies and joint ventures.
2. PERCOM - research development and contract studies in
telecommunications and computers, TC acquisitions, mergers and strategic
alliances.
Acquisitions, mergers and strategic alliances. Acquisition of
computer value - added resellers and VAR franchises.
3. ALL-STAR ENTERTAINMENT - Acquisition, financing and creative
teams network for films, TV and communications properties and script
development.
4. INFORMATION SERVICES - providing research (demographic,
markets, marketing methods and electronic databases). Publishing of
newsletters, desk-top publications, CD-Rom, directories and paperbacks
on telecommunications and other trades.
5. LYONSGATE INVESTMENT - Creative consultants for emerging,
growing companies and active investment groups. Specializes in
spin-offs, raising capital on many U.S. and International exchanges,
also provides inexpensive financial public relations and media services.
6. PRP/INVESTMENT CLUB OF AMERICA - Invests in publicly-owned and
private companies, especially in computer/new media/telecommunications
and other high-growth fields.
"The five key emerging trends that will accelerate the excellent
opportunity to capitalize on growth in worldwide demand for information,
education, entertainment and trade will be."
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT - building basic telephone services
in emerging markets; upgrading services in developed markets.
PRIVATIZATION - turning control of (out of U.S.)
governmental-owned telecommunications computer (at least partly) over
to private ownership.
Even in the U.S., the Amtrack (railroads) combine is a example of
a new communications private delivery system.
DEREGULATION - allowing competition to promote faster growth and
efficiencies. Recent moves by the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission is opening up many more channels and allowing many more
information providers, equipment makers and purveyors of diverse
telecommunications and media services to become serious "players."
· EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - enhancing productivity and reducing
· costs through technological innovations, strategic alliances and
· networks combining voice, video, data and text. Increasing
· compatibility and connectivity between hardware, software peripherals networks and (entertainment-education-information) programming are vital to a "seamless" delivery system.
· The Horizon Club (Information Services) is doing continuing extensive
· research on the specific companies that will be the "doers" in the new
· information age of multi-media, interactive wireless, tele-video
· conferencing etc.
· Bulletins are planned on "How to maximize your trip along the
· electronic superhighway."
· Charter subscribers are invited to call 1-800-233-2464. Six issues =$39.95.
· CAPITAL (FORMATION AND MARKETS) - Unless you have some serious
· CAPITAL and plan and sponsorship, don't even consider being on the
· electronic superhighway. However, whether it's venture capital,
· acquisition, merger, corporate partnering, strategic alliance,
· spin-off or Global connections, our Lyonsgate Investment Banking BUSINESS CONSULTING and MEDIA
· CONSULTING activities and coaching (at reasonable fee costs) can accelerate your WANTS and GOALS.
Write us with your specific needs.
# # #
177-F Riverside Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92663-4018
INVESTORS INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER
JANUARY, 1994
PARAGON MULTIMEDIA OFFERS SERVICES OT ACCELERATE COMPANIES
GROWTH ALONG THE INFORMATION/ELECTRONIC SUPERHIGHWAYS
Newport Beach, California. 1/20/94 ... Chairman, Roy Combs of the
HORIZON CLUB announced today the formation of a new division, PARAGON
MULTIMEDIA,
INC. (PMI).
PARAGON will:
consult with corporations, institutions, associations and
other entities on their wants and needs in accessing the coming
information and electronic superhighways.
connect clients to basic and advanced multimedia, interactive
TV, audio and video conferencing, video-on-demand, private and
public cable, satellite and computer NETWORKS and on-line (consumer
and business) services, etc.
arrange the financing (equity, debt, venture, leasing) of
plant, property equipment and working capital needed to maximize the
clients growth by utilizing advanced communications.
publish reports, surveys and supply/arrange other vital
research and information services.
make available to the client, an outstanding array of
software/programs that DRIVE the hardware, peripherals and services.
review International as well as U.S. vendors and providers of
all of these products, systems and services.
publish a newsletter dedicated to trends and viewpoints along
the information/electronic superhighways. We will have articles
and interviews with leading (established and emerging) people and
companies worldwide; and a What Do They Want column (matching
up opportunities).
hold various seminars and events which will feature PARAGON
clients and others (information providers, communications vendors,
media and marketing professionals).
work with key associations, such as the IEEE, American
Telecommunications, American Electronics Associations and
financiers, of all sizes, to bring our clients the best and most creative
strategies, ideas to grow their businesses.
personalize and customize our services to your specific goals
and needs.
We invite inquiries on our services.
International Wealth Management Club L.P.
In Concept Only
Press Release April 19, 2008
Paragon MultiMedia Inc./Horizon Club Doctors Choice
Business Events
New Financial Activity Division “International Wealth Management Club”
Newport Beach California
The Horizon Club has now added the above Division to take positions in the fast growing world wide FOREX Currency market through our new financial activities division.
Other financial arranging projects might include hedging verse the original position and discount insurance with a variety of well rated companies. The FOREX Currencies such the American Dollar, Australian , Euro and Japanese Yen are giving the main investment being given consideration a close tie-in with leading established trading firm has been made.
Meanwhile discussions are proceeding with $130 million plus Orange County based meat and bakery Company. who has promised to review and discuss the initial funding for the Doctors Choice Lite Meats in the next 90 days.
The Horizon Clubs reasons for income diversification now are:
1. Capital raising, especially for the early stage finance
2. Limited dependence on too few financiers
3. Through still speculative steps will be taken Hedging. Stop orders, etc. to work on financial instruments
4. Number of conditions (currency and futures’) both here and overseas makes positive conditions for the additional services plus gain out weigh the negatives.
HORIZON CLUB
Est.1960
INTERNATIONAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT CLUB
PARAGON MULTIMEDIA INC.
LYONSGATE INVESTMENT BANKING
http://peopletime.com
100 million Stage Financing
AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES will be seeking a major capital-raising amount to
expand nationwide from it's initial production base in North Carolina.
These monies, if completed, will come from institutional sources and will
be coupled with a state-by-state and/or regional licensing program of the
DOCTOR'S CHOICE low fat beef we have developed.
Subject to the financing, your limited partnership interests will be either
a: Exchanged for stock in the new corporation, and/or
b: bought out for cash raised from the financing.
The specific purchase and/or exchange will be voted on by the Board of
Directors of HORIZON CLUB, and then presented to you at the appropriate
time. Please SAVE this preliminary information letter.
Thanking you for your continuing support,
To Whom It May Concern:
Please find the following Business Summary for your consideration.
For more information see www.peopletime.com
Sincerely
Roy Combs President
Goal/purpose to raise $100 million to invest in a "package" of
6 to 10 companies that are in related areas to the Agricultural
Industries/Doctor's Choice marketing plan including capital for:
1. Distribution and promotion of the recently AI co-published
Doctor's Choice cooking manual (150 lite and helpful recipes in a
binder for easy updates and a collection mode).
2. Marketing of customized gift baskets featuring lite and
helpful packaged foods, jams, beverages, but could be combined or
stand-alone with richer foods and many non-food items such as
cookbooks, house wares, kitchen wares, sports, business, home,
office and hobby items.
3. Future marketing and licensing of a process that converts
high-fat (15-30%) meats to low-fat (2-4%) beef and pork patties
and will develop special semi-automated or automated
equipment to increase the output dramatically.
4. Planned line of Doctor's Choice accessories, house ware\
kitchen ware.
Because of the need for many outlets to market 1. through 4.
to their maximum potential, AI will consider purchasing interests in
companies that manufacture, wholesale, distribute, market, process,
retail and promote the items mentioned. These could include restaurant
chains, food processors and packers, equipment makers multi-outlet
distributors, chains of gift, house-kitchen ware, florists, party and
greeting card supplies.
access to capital.
6. Coupling new investment with purchase of control of a inactive
("shell") or small publicly-owned company. The acquired company
may have cash or equivalents and/or a tax-loss carry-forward to
make it more attractive to purchase. Having publicly-owned stock
or other securities gives the surviving corporation flexibility in
offering at least partial, non-cash compensation to give initial
and/or future purchases of companies a synergistic (1+1=3 or more)
effect.
_____________________________________________________________________________
What Agricultural Industries, its principal, consultants and
marketing advisors can bring to your company.
1. Current products Reduced Fat Ground Meats (cookbook, gift basket) to add to your lines
both as sales and gift/bonus, client thank you sales awards, and imprint
with your sales message.
2. Future products, the lite and helpful Doctor's Choice beef and
later pork process and products.
3. On 1. amd 2., we could set up or expand a special division to
increase your bottom line markup.
4. Combs and Richter have a 60-year combined history of versatile
corporate and regular finance to add to your fund-raising (expansion,
turnaround) capabilities.
5. Work with your current advisors.
6. Contacts not only in U.S. but worldwide to maximize your
potential.
7. Can bring many strategic alliances, joint ventures, spin-off
possibilities to you.
8. Add excellent media contacts to your promotion and public
relations, plus have event/seminar and tradeshow sponsorship.
9. This is the fastest growing area of co-marketing/capabilities.
Access to the best of new media (interactive teleconferencing,
multi-media, digital computer/radio/satellite links.
10.Networking abilities to make everyone (executive, manager,
employee, staff and outside consultant) more productive.
11.Give you excellent choice of strategies and options.
12.Personalize overall consulting to move your company ahead of its
increasing competition.
PARAGON MULTIMEDIA, INC.
A Division of Horizon Club
An on-line service system for INTERNET
users serving the world.
NEW TELECOMMUNICATIONS/MEDIA ACTIVITIES
INVOLVE COMBINING SIX HORIZON CLUB DIVISIONS
The recent mega-mergers of telecommunications and media giants, Bell
Atlantic-TCI and Time Warner-U.S. West have shown us the way of the
future and the industries that will be the fastest path to future
growth and profits -
worldwide. Note: GT Global Telecommunications Fund (San Francisco,
California) has recently reported that the value of Global
Telecommunications industries securities is $619 billion. This would
place it #4 in the world with only the U.S. total securities market
(4.2 trillion), the Japanese (2.3 trillion) and the British (UK)
markets of $915 billion ahead of it.
"We are doing our small part at HC to accelerate the "electronic
superhighways" of the future," Chairman Combs related by merging
together and concentrating the joint focus of six of our divisions:
1. PERLEC - R&D in electronics systems, products and devices,
acquisition of companies and joint ventures.
2. PERCOM - research development and contract studies in
telecommunications and computers, TC acquisitions, mergers and strategic
alliances.
Acquisitions, mergers and strategic alliances. Acquisition of
computer value - added resellers and VAR franchises.
3. ALL-STAR ENTERTAINMENT - Acquisition, financing and creative
teams network for films, TV and communications properties and script
development.
4. INFORMATION SERVICES - providing research (demographic,
markets, marketing methods and electronic databases). Publishing of
newsletters, desk-top publications, CD-Rom, directories and paperbacks
on telecommunications and other trades.
5. LYONSGATE INVESTMENT - Creative consultants for emerging,
growing companies and active investment groups. Specializes in
spin-offs, raising capital on many U.S. and International exchanges,
also provides inexpensive financial public relations and media services.
6. PRP/INVESTMENT CLUB OF AMERICA - Invests in publicly-owned and
private companies, especially in computer/new media/telecommunications
and other high-growth fields.
"The five key emerging trends that will accelerate the excellent
opportunity to capitalize on growth in worldwide demand for information,
education, entertainment and trade will be."
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT - building basic telephone services
in emerging markets; upgrading services in developed markets.
PRIVATIZATION - turning control of (out of U.S.)
governmental-owned telecommunications computer (at least partly) over
to private ownership.
Even in the U.S., the Amtrack (railroads) combine is a example of
a new communications private delivery system.
DEREGULATION - allowing competition to promote faster growth and
efficiencies. Recent moves by the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission is opening up many more channels and allowing many more
information providers, equipment makers and purveyors of diverse
telecommunications and media services to become serious "players."
· EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - enhancing productivity and reducing
· costs through technological innovations, strategic alliances and
· networks combining voice, video, data and text. Increasing
· compatibility and connectivity between hardware, software peripherals networks and (entertainment-education-information) programming are vital to a "seamless" delivery system.
· The Horizon Club (Information Services) is doing continuing extensive
· research on the specific companies that will be the "doers" in the new
· information age of multi-media, interactive wireless, tele-video
· conferencing etc.
· Bulletins are planned on "How to maximize your trip along the
· electronic superhighway."
· Charter subscribers are invited to call 1-800-233-2464. Six issues =$39.95.
· CAPITAL (FORMATION AND MARKETS) - Unless you have some serious
· CAPITAL and plan and sponsorship, don't even consider being on the
· electronic superhighway. However, whether it's venture capital,
· acquisition, merger, corporate partnering, strategic alliance,
· spin-off or Global connections, our Lyonsgate Investment Banking BUSINESS CONSULTING and MEDIA
· CONSULTING activities and coaching (at reasonable fee costs) can accelerate your WANTS and GOALS.
Write us with your specific needs.
# # #
177-F Riverside Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92663-4018
INVESTORS INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER
JANUARY, 1994
PARAGON MULTIMEDIA OFFERS SERVICES OT ACCELERATE COMPANIES
GROWTH ALONG THE INFORMATION/ELECTRONIC SUPERHIGHWAYS
Newport Beach, California. 1/20/94 ... Chairman, Roy Combs of the
HORIZON CLUB announced today the formation of a new division, PARAGON
MULTIMEDIA,
INC. (PMI).
PARAGON will:
consult with corporations, institutions, associations and
other entities on their wants and needs in accessing the coming
information and electronic superhighways.
connect clients to basic and advanced multimedia, interactive
TV, audio and video conferencing, video-on-demand, private and
public cable, satellite and computer NETWORKS and on-line (consumer
and business) services, etc.
arrange the financing (equity, debt, venture, leasing) of
plant, property equipment and working capital needed to maximize the
clients growth by utilizing advanced communications.
publish reports, surveys and supply/arrange other vital
research and information services.
make available to the client, an outstanding array of
software/programs that DRIVE the hardware, peripherals and services.
review International as well as U.S. vendors and providers of
all of these products, systems and services.
publish a newsletter dedicated to trends and viewpoints along
the information/electronic superhighways. We will have articles
and interviews with leading (established and emerging) people and
companies worldwide; and a What Do They Want column (matching
up opportunities).
hold various seminars and events which will feature PARAGON
clients and others (information providers, communications vendors,
media and marketing professionals).
work with key associations, such as the IEEE, American
Telecommunications, American Electronics Associations and
financiers, of all sizes, to bring our clients the best and most creative
strategies, ideas to grow their businesses.
personalize and customize our services to your specific goals
and needs.
We invite inquiries on our services.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Feeling for some of the issues working up to...
Foundational Topics
Semantic Web
Ontology Concepts
Business Ontologies
Taxonomies
Semantic Integration
Data Integration and Mashups
Unstructured Information
Semantic Query
Semantic Search
Semantic Case Studies and Web 3.0
Semantic Rules
Developing Semantic Applications
Semantics for Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Semantic SOA (Service Oriented Architectures)
Collaboration and Social Networks
Who Will Attend:
CTOs and Strategists at technology firms
Information Architects and Strategic Technology Planners at Fortune 500 companies
CIOs and Information Technology Managers
Venture Capitalists and Investors
CEOs of software startups
Product Managers from software and hardware companies
Data Analysts from major public and private organizations
Academics and Researchers
Software Developers
Press and Analysts
Technology Consultants
Semantic Technology. We will help you get the most out of the conference by rapidly bringing you up to speed on the technology, terminology and concepts that will be discussed in the remainder of the conference.
• What is Semantics? What does it have to do with information systems? • What is inference? How does it work? • The five key subdomains of Semantics:
o Discipline
o Tools
o Content
o Infrastructure
o Standards
• Description and Examples of Semantic Technology applied in a variety of settings:
o Knowledge Applications
o Smart Search
o Federated Query
o Enterprise Application Integration
o Unstructured Data and Entity Extraction
• OWL and the Semantic Web • Basic OWL Concepts • An Example Ontology
Semantic Web
Ontology Concepts
Business Ontologies
Taxonomies
Semantic Integration
Data Integration and Mashups
Unstructured Information
Semantic Query
Semantic Search
Semantic Case Studies and Web 3.0
Semantic Rules
Developing Semantic Applications
Semantics for Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
Knowledge Engineering and Management
Semantic SOA (Service Oriented Architectures)
Collaboration and Social Networks
Who Will Attend:
CTOs and Strategists at technology firms
Information Architects and Strategic Technology Planners at Fortune 500 companies
CIOs and Information Technology Managers
Venture Capitalists and Investors
CEOs of software startups
Product Managers from software and hardware companies
Data Analysts from major public and private organizations
Academics and Researchers
Software Developers
Press and Analysts
Technology Consultants
Semantic Technology. We will help you get the most out of the conference by rapidly bringing you up to speed on the technology, terminology and concepts that will be discussed in the remainder of the conference.
• What is Semantics? What does it have to do with information systems? • What is inference? How does it work? • The five key subdomains of Semantics:
o Discipline
o Tools
o Content
o Infrastructure
o Standards
• Description and Examples of Semantic Technology applied in a variety of settings:
o Knowledge Applications
o Smart Search
o Federated Query
o Enterprise Application Integration
o Unstructured Data and Entity Extraction
• OWL and the Semantic Web • Basic OWL Concepts • An Example Ontology
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Blog 8 Wk//:)
This is an attempted to gain access to the flow of information from my brain to the ink on the screen or know as scik for short. The instruction in the class seems ample enough as to the amount of content and the form from which to deposit the enlightened material.
I am using MS Word to prepare the information in a user friendly format so that should present any problem.
Here we are already into the eighth Week 8 and focusing in on YouTube seeks a connection in Contemporary Culture that is hidden or overtly explicated interactive and user friendly.
As an Overview of This Week's Activities it was a connection of simulation by having the lecture and the physical tools to produce structure and formal blog’s.
- The lecture this week was as a relevant component to the focus on YouTube and similar sites like Facebook or Photobucket who allows “dissemination videos and information to a mass audience.”(Notes) The ideas that these formats will become popular meeting places and hang outs for the ‘tuned in’ me gen and others who follow the sightings of good ideas in YouTube as it relates and fits into contemporary culture.
- The recommended
The expression of my online activities in my blog this week #8. I have explored my personal views of YouTube and am total a believer that the free space is a small opportunity to interact with a govern set of persons who would be ready to extend a relationship provided there was co-benefits to the time and efforts spent. Some of the benefits of joining and spending time and effort to create and maintained relationships hitting the page driving up the per view advertising fee’s paid to the providers these and other marketing strategies are a business function that generates profits for the provider as in the early days of TV and radio and services like YouTube provide opportunity for those who have the resources to play on the field
Looking at some issues it creates such as those of personal ID theft, fraud and the predatory opportunity for criminals, but what avenue or highway doest’t.
I see infinite possibilities for the uses that would increase better use of the facilities. The potential for medical treatment and delivery of services to the e-services and payment and access of personnel information. The opportunity to manage personnel informal and centralize the important elements of the information pertaining to the financial well being and security of thing like credit and income sources as well as assets.
I begin to think about my next online activity, with YouTube Proposal. I then made a special visit to the assignment link for more information as suggested. I as always, did not limit my activities to the prompts as provided, but rather used my blog space in week #8 to write and reflect this assigned topic of social relevancy to topics that interest me.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Making progress
This 75 dB, 357 mW analog cochlear-implant processor encodes fine-phase-timing spectral information in its asynchronous stimulation outputs, to convey music to deaf patients. This processor features asynchronous interleaved sampling (AIS) and uses a race-to-spike winner-take-all strategy. This strategy ensures that sampling for electrode stimulation occurs on only one channel at a time, thus preventing electrode-smearing interactions. Phase-encoded, high-rate sampling of high-intensity channels, along with lower-rate sampling of low-intensity channels, is typically achievable. This keeps stimulation power low and enables more natural, asynchronous stochastic stimulation of the auditory nerve. Reconstructions of music encoded from this processor’s sampled outputs reveal significantly better fidelity compared with traditional processing schemes, which convey only amplitude information. This processor’s power consumption is more than an order of magnitude lower than traditional A/D-then-DSP cochlear-implant processors. Programmability is achievable because 546 bits can alter 165 spectral and AIS parameters via a serial interface. This article is part of a special issue on implantable electronics.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
I listen for the foot steps
Facebook is a very professional site for general use. The chance to meets lots of people from all over the world is presented with easy to use features. The categorical feature gives user friendly opportunities to work other people with similar interest connecting through similarities. This connection turns into the network and become more humanly responsive and available feed back to others categorically who are seeking to interact.
I am set up and operational on Facebook and am looking forward to experiencing the power of this network.
Myspace is ready to help interaction and has setup a good amount of tools to use. This is a very social logical friendly site that is giving a lot in the way of exchanging and exposure for free, It’s the user content that is at the diving force and time is money to give some thing in order to get something back is good for advertising and promotions.. The consumer is diving this vehicle, and as products are gaining market share the advertiser’s line up for Google set up their banners and Oracle for customer relationships. Myspace is by fare more ad orientated than Facebook which has very little if any at the initial level of entry..
The lecture covered user generated content and the attributes of social connectivity in the network system transferring information on a personnel level revealing personal information. Who is looking for our information and how do we protect our private identity from others. The subject of ownership of information regarding personnel private was reviewed in the class. The class preparation for the speaker and social networking provide a good back drop fro the upcoming speaker.
I have Bolgged at several of the site such as Blogger, Myspace, Facebook and wordpress. I am also working my way into using Feedburner to distribute material article and other information regarding the continued development of the emerging Paragon MultiMedia Corporation in Newport Beach, California.
The following are articles taken from the web that discuss in more depth the various attribute of social networking and a contemporaneous fashion.
The number of comments can also indicate a blog's popularity. The posts of distinguished UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong, for example, regularly receive 40 or more comments. Despite its bland title, "Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal" is one of the heavyweights of the blogosphere. It gets more than 10,000 hits per day, is ranked No. 15 on BlogStreet's list of the 100 most influential blogs, and is regularly given props by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. That's partly because DeLong feeds the beast every few hours with fresh snippets of text about politics, economics, and journalism, from all over, framed by often scathing (and screamingly funny) sarcasm.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/04_blogs.shtml
http://groups.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=7906
“I find it interesting that the demographic is expanding for sites like myspace and facebook… These sites are are being assimilated into American culture and are becoming a symbol of America itself.”
“UGC takes various forms, some of which may seem more reliable, credible, or even worthwhile than others; however, this is subjective. Ultimately, all forms of UGC serve a purpose for their creator.”
“Content from traditional sources isn't guaranteed to be good— How many TV shows are simply terrible, how many movies are near unwatchable, and how much music just sucks?”
Privacy & Security
“People are curious. They want to know what other people are doing, how they do things, what they talk about, what they care about, and how they interact with one another. Humans are natural students of life and that includes the study of other humans.”
The Basics …
What information do you provide in an online profile?
What does the profile site do with that information?
“Chico State doesn't actively search profiles for incriminating materials, but students who post pictures or commentary about illegal activities could face consequences”- Drew Calandrella, VP of Student Affairs.The Orion: 9/2007
What can you do to protect your image and reputation?
Michael Guinn
Michael Guinn
§23 years old
§Attended John Brown University in Arkansas
§Created a Facebook profile
»Posted pictures of himself and friends
»Some pictures depicted him in drag
“Guinn violated the school's community covenant, a biblical standard of principles and values”
Reed College
Reed College, Portland Oregon
§Denied admission to a student over entries in his LiveJournal blog
Lousiana State
§Two swimmers kicked off the team for criticizing their coach in their Facebook profiles
Jefferson, Colorado
§A 16-year-old boy was arrested after police found pictures on his MySpace page of him holding handguns.
§Police subsequently found the same weapons in his home
Costa Mesa, California
§20 students were suspended from TeWinkle Middle School for two days for participating in a MySpace group where one student allegedly threatened to kill another and made anti-Semitic slurs.
§The student accused of making the threat faces criminal charges and expulsion
Do you think universities, police, etc. are justified in acting upon information obtained from online profiles?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain
Digital Dirt
What information is out there about you?
Have you “Googled” yourself lately?
How confident are you that you have a clean online reputation?
•Very confident
•Unsure
•Not confident
•Abstain
How do you control what is published about you?
Where do you show up?
Who is talking about you?
ExecuNet Survey:
§78% of executive recruiters routinely use search engines to find out more about candidates
§35% have eliminated candidates based on what they have found
Not everything about you online is posted by you.
The more you put yourself out there, the more you have to look for where you appear.
Google Bombing
At one time the search terms “miserable failure” in Google resulted in an interesting result.
Cleaning Up Your Online Reputation
#1 Investigate
Search for yourself …
§search.myspace.com
§technorati.com (blog search engine)
§blogsearch.google.com (Google blog search)
§video.google.com (Google video)
§voutube.com
#2 Clean your “Space” and wash your “Face”
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”- Benjamin Franklin
Recommendations
§Take down any pictures that you may be embarassed about later
§Revise or remove any postings where you “bash” professors, employers, or others who may come back some day and remember you
#3Ask for Help
When you’re not in control …
§You may have written a not-so-politically correct editorial published on the newspaper’s web site
§You may have commented in a blog post in which you are perceived in a negative light
§There may be negative information that someone posted about you
Try to eliminate it
§Ask the site editor or owner to remove it.
»Be specific about the page, entry, or story you want removed
§If you cannot get it removed, be prepared to speak about it if it comes up in an interview
§Legal action can also be taken to have defamatory content removed
Become your own agent
§Create and post positive, accurate information about yourself
»Distribute it across multiple sites
»Keep it current
Represent the “professional you”
§Use your blog to its potential
»Instead of bitching about having to keep a blog, demonstrate you can think and write on serious topics
»Add links to industry news, and research in the field you wish to enter
»Keep in mind, some say that “perception is reality”
Represent the “professional you”
§Create an online photo album using Flickr.com
»Instead of pictures of you doing a keg stand, show your experiences backpacking in Europe
»Show your culture, show your experience, show your personality
»Edit pictures … and choose wisely!
Represent the “professional you”
§If you have videos of you winning awards, giving a speech, playing athletics, upload them to YouTube or Google Video
§If you are a media arts or digital media student, you MUST, MUST, MUST develop an online portfolio using these technologies … show that you are current.
Represent the “professional you”
§Create a profile on a site like iKarma.com
»Ask others to write and post positive comments about you
»Request friends, professors, classmates, and others to write good reviews about you or rate you
Represent the “professional you”
§Use MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, etc. to create informational pages about your personal life
»Demonstrate your people networks
»Be careful not to get too personal
Represent the “professional you”
§Add a link to your best site(s) on your resume or cover letter
»Show them you are technology savvy
»Make it easy for them to find good information about you
»Don’t let them go searching for other information
#5Bury your Skeletons
Make sure your “good” pages and content are easy to find
Tips for increasing search engine relevance and positioning:
§Be sure the text on each page is unique to the others.
»Don’t have the same exact content on every profile if you want search engines to find it.
Tips for increasing search engine relevance and positioning:
§If it’s available, purchase your own domain name.
»Search engines like this
»It appears more professional
»It’s easier to find and remember
§Domain name registrars
»godaddy.com, register.com, dotster.com
Politics
“Getting involved in politics is one of the earliest forms of ‘social networking.’Technology just makes theconnections easier.”
2004 some primary candidates did use social networks.
The Kerry/Edwards campaign used Friendster
George W. Bush was no where to be found in social networking (at the time).
Social Networking is making it easier for people to get information, get involved, get motivated.
“Young people now have an opportunity to engage with politics using the same tools they live with in their everyday lives.”Jeff Berman, senior VP of public affairs at MySpace
Do you currently look at any social networking sites for campaign related information?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain
The Background
§Joe Anthony, a paralegal in Southern CA
»Created the first myspace profile for Barack Obama (Nov 2004)
»Spent 2 1/2 years maintaining the profile
»Was an "enthusiastic volunteer" to the campaign
§Obama's campaign started working with Anthony to maintain and update the page (Feb 2005)
Things Got “Interesting”
§The site "exploded in popularity" with over 160,000 "friends"
§The campaign became concerned about an outsider controlling the content and responses going out under Obama's name
The issue:- The campaign asked Anthony to relinquish controlAnthony asked for $29,000 for his "extensive work on the site" plus up to $10,000 for additional fees
The Issue
§The campaign asked Anthony to relinquish control
§Anthony asked for $29,000 for his "extensive work on the site" plus up to $10,000 for additional fees
The Resolution
§MySpace “reluctantly” stepped in to settle the dispute and decided that
»- Obama should have the rights to control the profile page in his name
»- Anthony had the right to take all friends who signed up while he was in control, and that includes the right to tell them how he feels about the Obama campaign
Perspectives
Anthony wrote on his MySpace blog that he was heartbroken that the Obama campaign was "bullying" him out of the page he built.
The campaign's fight drew widespread criticism among leading liberal bloggers who question why they would treat a volunteer like Anthony with such disregard.
The Aftermath
§The Obama campaign had to rebuild his friends network from scratch and was up to more than 20,000 by Wednesday evening after the decision was made.
»Today he has over 313,000 friends.
§Joe Anthony has a new myspace page with over 1800 friends.
Do you think MySpace did the right thing in turning the profile over to Obama?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain
Reminder: Social Network Profile Analysis
By March 13th
Submit your profile URLs via Blackboard Vista
In your blog this week …
• Reflect on topics related to image, professionalism, and privacyOR2) Discuss how you (personally) see social networking impacting the 2008 election
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
I am set up and operational on Facebook and am looking forward to experiencing the power of this network.
Myspace is ready to help interaction and has setup a good amount of tools to use. This is a very social logical friendly site that is giving a lot in the way of exchanging and exposure for free, It’s the user content that is at the diving force and time is money to give some thing in order to get something back is good for advertising and promotions.. The consumer is diving this vehicle, and as products are gaining market share the advertiser’s line up for Google set up their banners and Oracle for customer relationships. Myspace is by fare more ad orientated than Facebook which has very little if any at the initial level of entry..
The lecture covered user generated content and the attributes of social connectivity in the network system transferring information on a personnel level revealing personal information. Who is looking for our information and how do we protect our private identity from others. The subject of ownership of information regarding personnel private was reviewed in the class. The class preparation for the speaker and social networking provide a good back drop fro the upcoming speaker.
I have Bolgged at several of the site such as Blogger, Myspace, Facebook and wordpress. I am also working my way into using Feedburner to distribute material article and other information regarding the continued development of the emerging Paragon MultiMedia Corporation in Newport Beach, California.
The following are articles taken from the web that discuss in more depth the various attribute of social networking and a contemporaneous fashion.
The number of comments can also indicate a blog's popularity. The posts of distinguished UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong, for example, regularly receive 40 or more comments. Despite its bland title, "Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal" is one of the heavyweights of the blogosphere. It gets more than 10,000 hits per day, is ranked No. 15 on BlogStreet's list of the 100 most influential blogs, and is regularly given props by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. That's partly because DeLong feeds the beast every few hours with fresh snippets of text about politics, economics, and journalism, from all over, framed by often scathing (and screamingly funny) sarcasm.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/04_blogs.shtml
http://groups.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=7906
“I find it interesting that the demographic is expanding for sites like myspace and facebook… These sites are are being assimilated into American culture and are becoming a symbol of America itself.”
“UGC takes various forms, some of which may seem more reliable, credible, or even worthwhile than others; however, this is subjective. Ultimately, all forms of UGC serve a purpose for their creator.”
“Content from traditional sources isn't guaranteed to be good— How many TV shows are simply terrible, how many movies are near unwatchable, and how much music just sucks?”
Privacy & Security
“People are curious. They want to know what other people are doing, how they do things, what they talk about, what they care about, and how they interact with one another. Humans are natural students of life and that includes the study of other humans.”
The Basics …
What information do you provide in an online profile?
What does the profile site do with that information?
“Chico State doesn't actively search profiles for incriminating materials, but students who post pictures or commentary about illegal activities could face consequences”- Drew Calandrella, VP of Student Affairs.The Orion: 9/2007
What can you do to protect your image and reputation?
Michael Guinn
Michael Guinn
§23 years old
§Attended John Brown University in Arkansas
§Created a Facebook profile
»Posted pictures of himself and friends
»Some pictures depicted him in drag
“Guinn violated the school's community covenant, a biblical standard of principles and values”
Reed College
Reed College, Portland Oregon
§Denied admission to a student over entries in his LiveJournal blog
Lousiana State
§Two swimmers kicked off the team for criticizing their coach in their Facebook profiles
Jefferson, Colorado
§A 16-year-old boy was arrested after police found pictures on his MySpace page of him holding handguns.
§Police subsequently found the same weapons in his home
Costa Mesa, California
§20 students were suspended from TeWinkle Middle School for two days for participating in a MySpace group where one student allegedly threatened to kill another and made anti-Semitic slurs.
§The student accused of making the threat faces criminal charges and expulsion
Do you think universities, police, etc. are justified in acting upon information obtained from online profiles?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain
Digital Dirt
What information is out there about you?
Have you “Googled” yourself lately?
How confident are you that you have a clean online reputation?
•Very confident
•Unsure
•Not confident
•Abstain
How do you control what is published about you?
Where do you show up?
Who is talking about you?
ExecuNet Survey:
§78% of executive recruiters routinely use search engines to find out more about candidates
§35% have eliminated candidates based on what they have found
Not everything about you online is posted by you.
The more you put yourself out there, the more you have to look for where you appear.
Google Bombing
At one time the search terms “miserable failure” in Google resulted in an interesting result.
Cleaning Up Your Online Reputation
#1 Investigate
Search for yourself …
§search.myspace.com
§technorati.com (blog search engine)
§blogsearch.google.com (Google blog search)
§video.google.com (Google video)
§voutube.com
#2 Clean your “Space” and wash your “Face”
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”- Benjamin Franklin
Recommendations
§Take down any pictures that you may be embarassed about later
§Revise or remove any postings where you “bash” professors, employers, or others who may come back some day and remember you
#3Ask for Help
When you’re not in control …
§You may have written a not-so-politically correct editorial published on the newspaper’s web site
§You may have commented in a blog post in which you are perceived in a negative light
§There may be negative information that someone posted about you
Try to eliminate it
§Ask the site editor or owner to remove it.
»Be specific about the page, entry, or story you want removed
§If you cannot get it removed, be prepared to speak about it if it comes up in an interview
§Legal action can also be taken to have defamatory content removed
Become your own agent
§Create and post positive, accurate information about yourself
»Distribute it across multiple sites
»Keep it current
Represent the “professional you”
§Use your blog to its potential
»Instead of bitching about having to keep a blog, demonstrate you can think and write on serious topics
»Add links to industry news, and research in the field you wish to enter
»Keep in mind, some say that “perception is reality”
Represent the “professional you”
§Create an online photo album using Flickr.com
»Instead of pictures of you doing a keg stand, show your experiences backpacking in Europe
»Show your culture, show your experience, show your personality
»Edit pictures … and choose wisely!
Represent the “professional you”
§If you have videos of you winning awards, giving a speech, playing athletics, upload them to YouTube or Google Video
§If you are a media arts or digital media student, you MUST, MUST, MUST develop an online portfolio using these technologies … show that you are current.
Represent the “professional you”
§Create a profile on a site like iKarma.com
»Ask others to write and post positive comments about you
»Request friends, professors, classmates, and others to write good reviews about you or rate you
Represent the “professional you”
§Use MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, etc. to create informational pages about your personal life
»Demonstrate your people networks
»Be careful not to get too personal
Represent the “professional you”
§Add a link to your best site(s) on your resume or cover letter
»Show them you are technology savvy
»Make it easy for them to find good information about you
»Don’t let them go searching for other information
#5Bury your Skeletons
Make sure your “good” pages and content are easy to find
Tips for increasing search engine relevance and positioning:
§Be sure the text on each page is unique to the others.
»Don’t have the same exact content on every profile if you want search engines to find it.
Tips for increasing search engine relevance and positioning:
§If it’s available, purchase your own domain name.
»Search engines like this
»It appears more professional
»It’s easier to find and remember
§Domain name registrars
»godaddy.com, register.com, dotster.com
Politics
“Getting involved in politics is one of the earliest forms of ‘social networking.’Technology just makes theconnections easier.”
2004 some primary candidates did use social networks.
The Kerry/Edwards campaign used Friendster
George W. Bush was no where to be found in social networking (at the time).
Social Networking is making it easier for people to get information, get involved, get motivated.
“Young people now have an opportunity to engage with politics using the same tools they live with in their everyday lives.”Jeff Berman, senior VP of public affairs at MySpace
Do you currently look at any social networking sites for campaign related information?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain
The Background
§Joe Anthony, a paralegal in Southern CA
»Created the first myspace profile for Barack Obama (Nov 2004)
»Spent 2 1/2 years maintaining the profile
»Was an "enthusiastic volunteer" to the campaign
§Obama's campaign started working with Anthony to maintain and update the page (Feb 2005)
Things Got “Interesting”
§The site "exploded in popularity" with over 160,000 "friends"
§The campaign became concerned about an outsider controlling the content and responses going out under Obama's name
The issue:- The campaign asked Anthony to relinquish controlAnthony asked for $29,000 for his "extensive work on the site" plus up to $10,000 for additional fees
The Issue
§The campaign asked Anthony to relinquish control
§Anthony asked for $29,000 for his "extensive work on the site" plus up to $10,000 for additional fees
The Resolution
§MySpace “reluctantly” stepped in to settle the dispute and decided that
»- Obama should have the rights to control the profile page in his name
»- Anthony had the right to take all friends who signed up while he was in control, and that includes the right to tell them how he feels about the Obama campaign
Perspectives
Anthony wrote on his MySpace blog that he was heartbroken that the Obama campaign was "bullying" him out of the page he built.
The campaign's fight drew widespread criticism among leading liberal bloggers who question why they would treat a volunteer like Anthony with such disregard.
The Aftermath
§The Obama campaign had to rebuild his friends network from scratch and was up to more than 20,000 by Wednesday evening after the decision was made.
»Today he has over 313,000 friends.
§Joe Anthony has a new myspace page with over 1800 friends.
Do you think MySpace did the right thing in turning the profile over to Obama?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain
Reminder: Social Network Profile Analysis
By March 13th
Submit your profile URLs via Blackboard Vista
In your blog this week …
• Reflect on topics related to image, professionalism, and privacyOR2) Discuss how you (personally) see social networking impacting the 2008 election
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The feature articles at this Blog describe the formidable challenges facing 21st-century software engineers: rapid change, uncertainty and emergence, diversity, and interdependence; present preliminary findings from the Impact Project, which aims to provide a rigorous assessment of the impact software engineering research has had on practice; and provide a case study of large-scale parallel scientific code development.computing.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
From The Times
March 22, 2008
Social network goes on the London stump
Martin Waller: City Diary
A bunch of anonymous business types have put together £50,000 of funding that will allow someone - anyone, actually – to stand in the elections for London Mayor on May 1. They have created a website, Londonelectsyou, which allows any member of the public over 18 and a registered London voter to enter a poll. The candidate who gets the most e-mail votes is handed the cash to fund his or her campaign. The site has, inevitably, attracted some deeply weird people, including a poet who is urging his supporters to open as many e-mail accounts as they can and vote early, vote often and is doing rather well.
March 22, 2008
Social network goes on the London stump
Martin Waller: City Diary
A bunch of anonymous business types have put together £50,000 of funding that will allow someone - anyone, actually – to stand in the elections for London Mayor on May 1. They have created a website, Londonelectsyou, which allows any member of the public over 18 and a registered London voter to enter a poll. The candidate who gets the most e-mail votes is handed the cash to fund his or her campaign. The site has, inevitably, attracted some deeply weird people, including a poet who is urging his supporters to open as many e-mail accounts as they can and vote early, vote often and is doing rather well.
Blogger Star
So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?
MARK CUBAN, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a full plate. Besides his basketball team, the busy billionaire also owns part of a media company, and serves as chairman of the TV channel HDNet. He recently competed for five weeks on “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC. How on earth does he find time to blog?
Ann Johansson for The New York Times
Xeni Jardin with one of her postings on BoingBoing.net; she is a freelance journalist with NPR and Wired magazine.
Stephen Morton for The New York Times
Glenn Reynolds, a law professor, with a page from his blog, Instapundit.com.
Yet his site, blogmaverick.com, is one of the top 1,000 Weblogs, according to the search engine Technorati. Thousands read Mr. Cuban’s posts every single day. If he can do it, why can’t you?
“Don’t go into blogging to make a living,” Mr. Cuban warned in an e-mail message. Still, he and other top bloggers with day jobs agree most people could attract a following on the Web. And whether a person blogs to make a little money, to influence opinion or just for sheer ego gratification, amassing a large audience is the goal.
Here’s what a number of successful bloggers with successful nonblogging careers say are the ways to think about getting into the business of blogging.
Don’t expect to get rich. You can easily place automatically served ad banners from Google or AdBriteonto your blog. It is as simple as signing up with an ad service and placing a snippet of HTML code into your blog. Many of the ads will be specific to the topic of your posts and the service will credit your account whenever a reader clicks on one of the ads. You get a check only if the account builds to a set amount, $100 in the case of Google.
But Philip Kaplan, president for products at AdBrite, cautions that only one in six blogs draws even 500 page views a day. At that pace, you would make at most $45 a month, even if the site were decked out with full-page ads. Mr. Kaplan estimates only 3 percent of active sites make more than $1,000 a month from advertising.
“In 3.5 months we made $9.47,” complained one blogger, Ted Dziuba, who yanked the automatic ads off of his site, Uncov.com.
Write about what you want to write about, in your own voice. Mr. Dziuba, a software engineer at Persai, a Web news filtering service, began blogging out of sheer frustration with buggy, overhyped Web 2.0 applications. Uncov.com became a magnet for techies with similar complaints, and unintentionally raised awareness of Persai. Thousands of Uncov readers signed up for a test of Persai’s service. Eventually, even advertisers took notice. “Once I started getting 2,000 to 3,000 page-views per day,” he says, “advertisers started coming to me.” He says advertisers have contacted him directly with offers of $750 for a month of display ads.
Mr. Cuban said: “Blog about your passions. Don’t blog about what you think your audience wants. Post because you have something you are dying to write about.”
Fit blogging into the holes in your schedule. “Deal with the rest of your life first,” advises Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee who posts constantly throughout the day on his site, Instapundit.com. The volume and regularity has helped make his political opinion site one of the most popular on the Internet. “The blog is best handled by inserting it into the small bits of free time that rest among the bigger chunks of your work.” Mr. Reynolds slips in posts between classes, as a break from writing law review articles and during slow time at home.
Just post it already! The hurdle that stops many would-be bloggers is fear of clicking the “Publish” button. Xeni Jardin, who juggles blogging at the quirky alternative-news siteBoingBoing.net with a career as a freelance journalist for NPR, Wired magazine and others, resists the urge to polish her blog prose the way she would a radio script. “Don’t bottle up your ideas forever believing you have to hit the same kind of mature, complete, perfect point as you would with a magazine or newspaper article,” she says. “Blogs are always in progress.” Boing Boing’s bloggers are known for going back to posts to update them, adding new information and striking out factual errors.
Keep a regular rhythm. Bloggers disagree on how often they should post. Mr. Reynolds and Ms. Jardin post several times a day. Mr. Cuban and Mr. Dziuba will go a week without a post. What matters, they agree, is that you establish a reliable rhythm for readers, so they know they can rely on you to have new material for them every so often.
Likewise, there’s no one right length for blog posts, but the most successful sites seem to have their own reliable formats, just like most professional publications. Mr. Reynolds rarely goes beyond two or three lines per post. Boing Boing entries run one to three paragraphs each, always with a photo. Mr. Cuban’s Blog Maverick entries can take up the entire browser window — when the guy’s on a roll, he’s on a roll.
Join the community, such as it is. There’s an unwritten rule — actually, it’s written about a lot on blogs — that you should always link back to bloggers whose ideas you repeat, or from whom you get a cool link to another site. Don’t use other bloggers’ photos or excerpt their writing without a prominent link back to the original. When in doubt, give credit.
More to the point, linking to other bloggers is the best way to get them to link to you. Links from other bloggers increase your readership two ways: they send readers directly from other sites, and they raise your ranking in search engine results. A blogger who posts about a hot topic like Eliot Spitzer’s secret life, but has no inbound links, will lose out to one who already has dozens of inbound links from other sites.
Plug yourself. That’s what all the name-brand bloggers do. It’s not bad form to send a short note to a prominent blogger drawing his or her attention to a really good blog you wrote. Some bloggers place links to their sites in comments they write on more established blogs. (And some bloggers are on to the trick and refuse to allow it.)
A more direct way to draw a crowd is to submit your blog posts to news aggregation sites like Digg, Fark and Boing Boing. Readers vote on how much they like the posts and new readers are drawn to the list of most popular posts. Granted, it helps if your blog post includes a home video of someone being attacked by a cat or really arrogant e-mail messages from a hedge-fund manager. Those get passed around virally in an instant.
Allowing readers to post comments on your blog not only increases readership, it provides a sense of live interaction with the rest of the world. But beware: the insulting comment is an Internet art form. “There’s a big difference between being flamed on someone else’s blog, and having them come do it in your own home,” Ms. Jardin said.
In the end, the biggest threat isn’t that you’ll fail to learn to blog. It’s that if you blog regularly for long enough, and begin to get comments and links from other bloggers, you’ll have trouble doing your day job.
“I can’t stop reloading,” confessed a colleague over IM after a post of hers began to attract dozens of comments. “I should be working, I know,” she added a few seconds later. “I have an unhealthy obsession.” Isn’t that the whole idea?
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Roundtable 2007
The event which my team was assigned ‘Freshman Fears: Bugs, Beer, Bullets, and Belly Bulge’ became a leading the roundtable conversation with Kasee Kinzller, Suzie Nubez, Gib Azevedo, Caitlyn Henderson and Monika Polt who gave an individual session discussion involving all of the students cramed into an over crowed room in 120 at the O’Connell building. These student from English 130 did a very nice presentation using verbal and multi Media techniques. Their subject matter was well researched and many relavent facts were brought into the community for discussion. Each of the presentors used about five minutes to forward the messages and show visuals of the ideas which they were sending to the audence. The audence then began to interact wth personnal experiences and questing concerning the topics. The audeces was reminded that this was an open forum and encouraged partispation for conversation amoung the presentors and attendees. The discussion stayed focused durning th e conversations. M team then scribled down our opinions in a collaborative statement and preceded to the next assignment.
The Act of Persuading
The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action (suasion).
We are forwarding our learning in a message stressing the state of radical environmental rhetorical issues which claim global warming as a critical issue in the U.S. agenda. We feel a collaborative position is needed to define our position and will use doxa and stasis to explore our theme in a classical since of Kairos as well as Carters essay position in the world wide dilemma of global warming. Using optional readings of Kinneavy to support our theses premises of ecological activism and laying the ground work for a supposition this short essay will find critical points which combine to form a purpose of need to take action on important issues. We believe that there are many environmental issues which need to be attended to and need to be fairly addressed.
Some of the effects as seen by Al Gore and others are issues which we will be addressing in the paper in response to the rhetorical methods used in several essay which have lead to this paper number four.
We are forwarding our learning in a message stressing the state of radical environmental rhetorical issues which claim global warming as a critical issue in the U.S. agenda. We feel a collaborative position is needed to define our position and will use doxa and stasis to explore our theme in a classical since of Kairos as well as Carters essay position in the world wide dilemma of global warming. Using optional readings of Kinneavy to support our theses premises of ecological activism and laying the ground work for a supposition this short essay will find critical points which combine to form a purpose of need to take action on important issues. We believe that there are many environmental issues which need to be attended to and need to be fairly addressed.
Some of the effects as seen by Al Gore and others are issues which we will be addressing in the paper in response to the rhetorical methods used in several essay which have lead to this paper number four.
Energy Policy Act 20005
U.S. Energy Policy, an Environmental Essay
Latest Data
This research, survey and report, focus is on the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and to a lesser extent the ‘Hydroelectric Licensing under the Federal Power Act’, by probing the definitions and analyzing its provisions academically contrasting the 500 pages of the Act in such a way as to value of the ecological, environmental and social effect. The terms contained in the Act are what make the laws of the Act a prescription as to their meaning. The implied codes of such an enormous statement as this (500 pages) normally applies to sections and sub section as evidence to the user and parties of interest such as the sovereign Indian Nations. Therefore, the following pages will sort out only a small part of these codes from the Act contained in the pages and to some extent determine the pretense of environmental activism this would engender. As to the intent of Congress, we will discern to some extent what future consequential resulting impact may be. This analyses will forward these findings in context to be viewed as good faith as to the effect of the agenda for this public Act intended; to provide affordable energy for the general public and industrial complex in the U.S..
Latest Data
This research, survey and report, focus is on the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and to a lesser extent the ‘Hydroelectric Licensing under the Federal Power Act’, by probing the definitions and analyzing its provisions academically contrasting the 500 pages of the Act in such a way as to value of the ecological, environmental and social effect. The terms contained in the Act are what make the laws of the Act a prescription as to their meaning. The implied codes of such an enormous statement as this (500 pages) normally applies to sections and sub section as evidence to the user and parties of interest such as the sovereign Indian Nations. Therefore, the following pages will sort out only a small part of these codes from the Act contained in the pages and to some extent determine the pretense of environmental activism this would engender. As to the intent of Congress, we will discern to some extent what future consequential resulting impact may be. This analyses will forward these findings in context to be viewed as good faith as to the effect of the agenda for this public Act intended; to provide affordable energy for the general public and industrial complex in the U.S..
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Have the sites
I have setup shop at the Bloggs, Word press, myspace, facebook and feedburner.
I found that Myspace offered and lot of features and was easey to find the url and setup a webpage.
The Facebook signup was easy enough and the featues offered for free were nice to browse and got the Bloges ready to use and need to generate some content.
Wordpress is simple enough pretty much the same as the others and has offered some software and other encougement for setting up and spewing content, but very exciting to get this far into the subject matter, Jon is a great insructor.
I found that Myspace offered and lot of features and was easey to find the url and setup a webpage.
The Facebook signup was easy enough and the featues offered for free were nice to browse and got the Bloges ready to use and need to generate some content.
Wordpress is simple enough pretty much the same as the others and has offered some software and other encougement for setting up and spewing content, but very exciting to get this far into the subject matter, Jon is a great insructor.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Virgo
back to Forecasts page
Virgo
Analytical Virgo, as the sixth sign of the zodiac, you represent purity, perfection, and practicality. Virgos put things in order to unify the world. Mercury, the planet of mental and intellectual principles, and ruler of Virgo, makes you a methodical and organized worker who brings an analytical, systematic approach to all facets of life. You project a serious image overall, one only strengthened by your problem-solving skills and fastidious refinement. Yours is the second of the earth signs, which makes you a dependable, responsible individual. You are reserved and modest in your behavior, and discriminating in your choices. You connect strongly to Mother Earth, and are therefore extremely health-conscious. As a Virgo, you rule the sixth house of the horoscope, associated with the quality of work. Furthermore, this section of the chart shows how you analyze, deal with, and communicate details. The sixth house also involves health matters in general. Virgo mode is mutable, which means that you are a levelheaded communicator who makes sure that whatever is being discussed is precise and accurate. Your role in a team is that of quality control. Your strengths lie in your sharp mental powers, especially in scientific, or technical areas. You are well spoken and witty, and have a good understanding of other people's problems. Above all, you're a great problem solver, providing clear analysis to complex issues. Your weaknesses are that you tend to be too much of a perfectionist, which can lead you to pedantic, petty, or schoolmasterly behavior. Your critical and sometimes negative outlook on life can be a downer for others, who may describe you as reserved, overly critical, and timid.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Myspace, Facebook, Feedburner and Wordpress
I have been Blogging for number of years starting with my Bulletin (Polynet) Board in 1993 and on into the present day effort.
Myspaces blog has been up since 2006 and should still work with my pass word and I plan to explore is soon. I had to get a update several months ago. The reason is that I have not been using the Blog and some how it got lost or deleted, never the less I can say soon after signing on I started receiving inquiries and invitations. Very socially interactive nice social protocol but I didn't respond nor did I focus on that site and moved on to more of a read only stage of usage swifting through page after page. I can see now how it never worked well in read only for me, nevertheless I kept the pass word etc.
I faced THE sign up on facebook the other day but didn't have time to go with the ID stripping, but need to go back, and use this assignment as an excuse to spend time on face book.
Wow! a lot of back office working's to engage these sites and produce interviews with marketing directors at Myspace, the viddeo was insightful and informative I'm glad I spent the time to view it.
The Google open social software is interesting and I will be exploring this feature for Blogging the open source application developer opening wider social interactions.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
XML Voice
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition)
W3C Recommendation 16 August 2006, edited in place 29 September 2006
This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml
Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-xml-20060614
Editors:
Tim Bray, Textuality and Netscape
Jean Paoli, Microsoft
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C
Eve Maler, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
François Yergeau
Please refer to the errata for this document, which may include some normative corrections.
The previous errata for this document, are also available.
See also translations.
This document is also available in these non-normative formats: XML and XHTML with color-coded revision indicators.
Copyright © 2006 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark and document use rules apply.
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Abstract
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.
W3C Recommendation 16 August 2006, edited in place 29 September 2006
This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml
Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-xml-20060614
Editors:
Tim Bray, Textuality and Netscape
Jean Paoli, Microsoft
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C
Eve Maler, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
François Yergeau
Please refer to the errata for this document, which may include some normative corrections.
The previous errata for this document, are also available.
See also translations.
This document is also available in these non-normative formats: XML and XHTML with color-coded revision indicators.
Copyright © 2006 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark and document use rules apply.
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Abstract
The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Title: Russian Roulette
Shabtai Kalmanovich vanished from London in late 1980's। He resurfacedin Israel to face trial for espionage। He was convicted and spent yearsin an Israeli jail before being repatriated to Russia. He was describedby his captors as a mastermind, in charge of an African KGB station.
In the early 1970's he even served as advisor (on Russian immigration)to Israel's Iron Lady, Golda Meir. He then moved to do flourishingbusiness in Africa, in Botswana and then in Sierra Leone, where hiscompany, LIAT, owned the only bus operator in Freetown. He tradeddiamonds, globetrotted flamboyantly with an entourage of dozens ofAfrican chieftains and their mistresses, and fraternized with thecorrupt elite, President Momoh included. In 1986-7 he even collaboratedwith IPE, a London based outfit, rumored to have been owned by formermembers of the Mossad and other paragons of the Israeli defenseestablishment (including virtually all the Israelis implicated in theill-fated Iran-Contras affair).
Being a KGB officer was always a lucrative and liberating proposition.Access to Western goods, travel to exotic destinations, making new (andinfluential) friends, mastering foreign languages, and doing somebusiness on the side (often with one's official "enemies" andunsupervised slush funds) - were all standard perks even in the 1970'sand 1980's. Thus, when communism was replaced by criminal anarchy, KGBpersonnel (as well as mobsters) were the best suited to act asentrepreneurs in the new environment.
In the early 1970's he even served as advisor (on Russian immigration)to Israel's Iron Lady, Golda Meir. He then moved to do flourishingbusiness in Africa, in Botswana and then in Sierra Leone, where hiscompany, LIAT, owned the only bus operator in Freetown. He tradeddiamonds, globetrotted flamboyantly with an entourage of dozens ofAfrican chieftains and their mistresses, and fraternized with thecorrupt elite, President Momoh included. In 1986-7 he even collaboratedwith IPE, a London based outfit, rumored to have been owned by formermembers of the Mossad and other paragons of the Israeli defenseestablishment (including virtually all the Israelis implicated in theill-fated Iran-Contras affair).
Being a KGB officer was always a lucrative and liberating proposition.Access to Western goods, travel to exotic destinations, making new (andinfluential) friends, mastering foreign languages, and doing somebusiness on the side (often with one's official "enemies" andunsupervised slush funds) - were all standard perks even in the 1970'sand 1980's. Thus, when communism was replaced by criminal anarchy, KGBpersonnel (as well as mobsters) were the best suited to act asentrepreneurs in the new environment.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
National Science Digital Library
February 2008
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National Science Digital Library: Shaping Educations Cyberinfrastructure
David McArthur
GoH Corp.
In summer 2007, the provided access to more than 2.5 million digital educational resources, covering science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from pre-K to postgraduate levels. At that time, the main portal, http://www.nsdl.org/, had been online nearly five years, providing a single entry point to dozens of distributed collections and services, many of which were contributions of the more than 200 small projects that the NSDL program funded through its research tracks.
With this maturity, the is now rethinking NSDL's status as a research program. In one sense, it remains a typical NSF program, operating through the traditional NSF project-award cycle of publishing a solicitation, receiving proposals from R&D teams, and awarding the best among them. In other ways, it is an atypical program because the goal of its projects is not simply to broaden the knowledge base of science education research and practice; it is also to build an integrated enterprise that will persist and be valuable to learners and teachers of all ages.
But whether typical or not, NSDL has reached the point at which it must either change substantially or start winding down. Many NSF programs come and go in less than a decade, often after accomplishing their primary goals and laying a foundation for a new research agenda. As a library, NSDL is becoming mature enough to be an operational center. Because NSF is primarily a research agency, investing further in NSDL would seem to run counter to NSF's policy of not supporting routine science and education operations.
Nonetheless, there are compelling arguments for NSF's continued investment in NSDL—but the nature of that support must change to match NSDL's new purposes. Generally speaking, NSF's policy is to "let a thousand flowers bloom," and to that end, it spawns programs that award distinct projects and that rely on conferences and publications (both traditional and electronic) to foster researcher crosstalk. This is an admirable goal, but I believe that NSDL gives NSF an opportunity to tighten the link among R&D projects: The library is poised to provide a standardized technical infrastructure that encourages—perhaps even requires—a much higher degree of project interaction.
In that mission, I see NSDL growing both as a platform for improving the productivity of educational resource development and transforming education research and also as a tool for creating and managing scientific knowledge about education and learning. More broadly, NSDL could be a key component in building a new cyberinfrastructure for education and education research.
NSF's continued investment in NSDL would have strong implications for how it funds education R&D and how it manages projects to foster effective partnerships among highly diverse and distributed groups of education researchers, developers, and practitioners. Having recently completed a rotator position at NSF, I have been able to acquire an understanding of what NSDL as a library is accomplishing and how NSDL as a program is run. The ideas set forth in this article draw from that dual understanding, but admittedly much of the thinking is speculative and reflects my own views, not necessarily those of the NSF.
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Cover Feature
National Science Digital Library: Shaping Educations Cyberinfrastructure
David McArthur
GoH Corp.
In summer 2007, the provided access to more than 2.5 million digital educational resources, covering science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from pre-K to postgraduate levels. At that time, the main portal, http://www.nsdl.org/, had been online nearly five years, providing a single entry point to dozens of distributed collections and services, many of which were contributions of the more than 200 small projects that the NSDL program funded through its research tracks.
With this maturity, the is now rethinking NSDL's status as a research program. In one sense, it remains a typical NSF program, operating through the traditional NSF project-award cycle of publishing a solicitation, receiving proposals from R&D teams, and awarding the best among them. In other ways, it is an atypical program because the goal of its projects is not simply to broaden the knowledge base of science education research and practice; it is also to build an integrated enterprise that will persist and be valuable to learners and teachers of all ages.
But whether typical or not, NSDL has reached the point at which it must either change substantially or start winding down. Many NSF programs come and go in less than a decade, often after accomplishing their primary goals and laying a foundation for a new research agenda. As a library, NSDL is becoming mature enough to be an operational center. Because NSF is primarily a research agency, investing further in NSDL would seem to run counter to NSF's policy of not supporting routine science and education operations.
Nonetheless, there are compelling arguments for NSF's continued investment in NSDL—but the nature of that support must change to match NSDL's new purposes. Generally speaking, NSF's policy is to "let a thousand flowers bloom," and to that end, it spawns programs that award distinct projects and that rely on conferences and publications (both traditional and electronic) to foster researcher crosstalk. This is an admirable goal, but I believe that NSDL gives NSF an opportunity to tighten the link among R&D projects: The library is poised to provide a standardized technical infrastructure that encourages—perhaps even requires—a much higher degree of project interaction.
In that mission, I see NSDL growing both as a platform for improving the productivity of educational resource development and transforming education research and also as a tool for creating and managing scientific knowledge about education and learning. More broadly, NSDL could be a key component in building a new cyberinfrastructure for education and education research.
NSF's continued investment in NSDL would have strong implications for how it funds education R&D and how it manages projects to foster effective partnerships among highly diverse and distributed groups of education researchers, developers, and practitioners. Having recently completed a rotator position at NSF, I have been able to acquire an understanding of what NSDL as a library is accomplishing and how NSDL as a program is run. The ideas set forth in this article draw from that dual understanding, but admittedly much of the thinking is speculative and reflects my own views, not necessarily those of the NSF.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Logically Speaking
Course Guide for Dr. Smith's Logic and Critical Thinking Class
Glossary
Affirming the Consequent: an invalid conditional argument of the form
A-->B B A
Antecedent: the first part of a conditional claim (If A)
Argument: the purpose of an argument is to persuade others of your reasoning; an argument is a form of persuasion that makes a claim and gives reasons in support of that claim
Claim: a statement that is true or false; remember that your premises and conclusions are all claims
Cogent argument: a good argument; there are three criteria of a cogent argument
Conclusion: the claim that is being argued for
Conditional Arguments: an argument with at least one premise that is a conditional claim; there are 4 main ways of reasoning with conditionals that either affirm or deny one of the conditions: modus ponens, modus tollens, affirming the consequent, and denying the antecedent; there is one other way of reasoning with conditionals: the hypothetical syllogism
Conditional Claim: an if-then claim; a claim in the form of 'if A, then B' ; sometimes called a hypothetical proposition; this is symbolically written as "A-->B"
Consequent: the second part of a conditional claim (then B)
Contingent Claim: a claim whose truth value depends on the evidence
Contradiction: a claim that is necessarily false
Criteria of a Cogent Argument (3): believable premises, all the relevant information has to be considered, and the premises must lead to the conclusion
Deductive Argument: an argument where, if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true; the intent of a deductive argument is, assuming that the premises are true, what can we deduce with 100% certainty from those premises?
Denying the Antecedent: a valid conditional argument of the form
A-->B ~A ~B
Disjunction: an either/or claim; either A is the case, or B is the case, where one or the other must be true; symbolically this is written A v B, where 'v' is called a wedge; the terms of a disjunction are called disjuncts
Disjunctive syllogism: a valid form of reasoning from a disjunction, of the form
A v B ~A B
Evidence: a secondary level of support in an extended argument; it's the support given for the main reasons why we should believe the thesis of an extended argument
Extended Argument: a complex argument with more than one level of support given to an overall conclusion
Fallacious argument: a bad argument, which occurs when one of the three criteria of a cogent argument is not fulfilled
Fallacy: an error in our reasoning; there are both formal and informal fallacies
Formal Fallacy: a error in the form (structure) of the argument
Hypothetical Syllogism: a valid conditional argument of the form
A-->B B-->C A-->C
Indicator words: words in ordinary dialog that give us a clue that either a conclusion or premise is about to be given; conclusion indicators include therefore, thus, so, and it follows that; premise indicators include because, since, and for
Inductive Argument: an argument where, if the premises are true, the conclusion is, at best, probably true; the purpose of an inductive argument is to recognize patterns; this is done by observing evidence, and our conclusions are always less than 100% certain
Informal Fallacy: an error in the content, rather than the structure, of an argument
Modus Ponens: a valid conditional argument of the form
A-->B A B
Modus Tollens: a valid conditional argument of the form
A-->B ~B ~A
Necessary Condition: the condition found in the consequent of a conditional claim (B-term); the condition without which the A-term could not be present; a necessary ingredient, in some cases, of the A-term
Predicate: the part of a sentence that is the description
Premise: a claim that is the reason given in support of a conclusion
Reasons: support given for a conclusion; the main reasons in support of a thesis in an extended argument are called 'reasons'; the support for the 'reasons' in an extended argument we'll call 'evidence'; the support for a conclusion in a simple argument are 'premises'
Reasoning: the purpose of reasoning is to solve problems
Simple Argument: an argument with only one level of support given for the conclusion
Strong argument: an inductive argument is said to be strong when the premises lead to the conclusion (with great likelihood); this is because of the strength of the evidence that leads to the inference
Subject: the part of a sentence that is being described
Sufficient Condition: the condition in the antecedent of a conditional claim (A-term); to be a sufficient condition is to give sufficient reason to believe that all of the necessary conditions are present
Tautology: a claim that is necessarily true
Thesis: the overall conclusion of an extended argument
Truth value: 'true' and 'false' are the two truth values
Valid argument: a deductive argument is called valid when the premises lead to the conclusion
Weak argument: an inductive argument is said to be weak when the premises do not lead to the conclusion with much likelihood, due to a lack of strength of evidence supporting the inference
Course Schedule and Contents
1. SiCKo
2. Reasoning and Arguments subject, predicate, reasoning, argument, deductive argument, inductive argument, claim, tautology, contradiction, contingent claim, truth value, cogent argument, criteria of a cogent argument (3), fallacious argument, fallacy, thesis, reason, evidence
3. Conditional Reasoning conditional claim, antecedent, consequent, sufficient condition, necessary condition, 4 main ways of reasoning with conditionals, modus ponens, modus tollens, affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent, hypothetical syllogism, disjunction, disjunctive syllogism
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