Rocket, weather look good on eve of new space era

Posted on May 20, 2012 by cuanido

The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket stands ready for launch at complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, May 18, 2012. The launch, scheduled for early Saturday morning will mark for the first time, a private company will send its own rocket to the orbiting International Space Station, delivering food and ushering in a new era in America’s space program. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? NASA hasn’t seen this much launch jitters since the space shuttle program ended last summer.

On Saturday, a private company was set to make history by launching a capsule loaded with supplies to the International Space Station. The rocket maker known as SpaceX ? Space Exploration Technologies Corp. ? hopes to join a short list of governments in flying to the orbiting lab.

On the eve of this new commercial era, NASA officials described it as “a seminal moment” and extremely important mission, while SpaceX leaders said they were awe-struck over what they were about to undertake.

“There’s no question this is a historic flight,” SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said at a news conference Friday.

Only Europe, Russia, Japan and the U.S. have sent a spacecraft to the space station, she noted. “So yeah, we really respect having the opportunity to attempt this,” she said.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral at 4:55 a.m. Forecasters put the odds of good weather at 70 percent.

The Dragon capsule atop the rocket contains a half-ton of space station supplies. The capsule will perform practice maneuvers around the space station on Monday before NASA gives a “go” for docking on Tuesday.

The California-based SpaceX ? formed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk ? is the first of several competing companies to actually get this close to launching a vessel to the space station. For now, it’s supplies. Within three or four years, the goal is to have astronauts on board so Americans no longer have to hitch expensive rides on Russian rockets.

Well before Atlantis made the final shuttle flight last July, NASA began handing over space station delivery duties to the private sector. It is more cost-effective that way, said NASA’s director of commercial spaceflight development, Phil McAlister, and enables the space agency “to take our savings and plow them into” other venues such as interplanetary exploration.

SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket just twice before, once with a Dragon capsule that reached orbit. The company has never gotten down to zero and flown on the first try, Shotwell noted, putting the odds of accomplishing that Saturday ? with a scant one-second launch window ? at 50-50 or a bit better.

A Dragon capsule blasted into orbit in December 2010. What was remarkable was the safe recovery of that capsule following its brief solo flight around the world; it splashed into the Pacific.

If all goes well, the newest Dragon also will parachute down off the California coast, returning experiments and equipment two weeks after reaching the space station.

Both NASA and SpaceX stress this is a test flight, with the main objective being to learn.

“Hopefully, we learn a lot and, hopefully, we make a lot of progress,” Shotwell said.

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Online:

SpaceX: http://www.spacex.com

NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/

Associated Press

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What is Network Marketing? | Honest Reviews Online

Posted on May 20, 2012 by cuanido

The basic description of Network Marketing, in my words would be ?Marketing of goods and services through getting, establishing friendship with the lead and introducing the item as an answer he is seeking, through you and your team, who also duplicate the same process?. This does not stop here. Your team will also have their recruits, duplicating the same process.

Internet Marketing is a cash churning theory for the ones who clinch it, learn it, and implement it. A business module which requires as little as a few dollars as the initial investment. That?s why network marketing is the right business model to open your own home based business. Provided you adhere to the Mlm script.

If Internet Marketing was so easy, why large business houses don?t copy this module? Well they do. Take a look at the branding industry. do you think? Do Starwood, Carlson or Lemon Tree, own all resorts that display their name? No, maybe a handful? Rest all are branded where the company get a percentage of their profit as a fee.

So what does Network Marketing or Web Marketing entail? Primarily it is a three move process, first you connect with people, then you present your proposal or opportunity and there after you push them to extort a decision. All this does sound extremely simple.

But people fall short. The net Network Marketing is not As easy like saying one..two and three. It takes elaborate preparation and implimentation. Careful assessment. Applying course adjustments all the time to avoid or bypass rough weather, road blocks or air pockets.

?Multi Leveled? or multi operative blueprint has the chance for multiple income streams. It requires meeting up with people for financial gains.

in easy terms, Network Marketing requires not only Meeting up or connecting with people but developing a connection. You generate trust by displaying a value gain for your clients and offering your proposal,offer in a carefully navigated manner, as the most appropriate solution to their problems. The opportunity should only be offered after they ask for your advice. They seek you advice as they trust you and like you.

In this process the relationship results into a ?purchase? for the person or transaction for you as a win-win scene.

Remember the complete basis of Multi level marketing system is to lead your customer with a value offer,proposal.

One could very well argue why lose your time and investment in a long process, when product could be sold across the counter. The difference is that in face-to-face sale you are strictly creating a business association and not a relationship which stays for a few minutes during the process. In online Multi level marketing, on the other hand you have established a relationship of trust, liking and most probably of dependence.

What you did and what you are likely to gain against the direct sale approach. You have not just won a client, but also a spokes person, a recruit or an addition to your team. You will now watch him buy other products from you. Not only this, he is going to advertize you and your products to his friends, making your second down line and his first. Can you now see how this functions; you see the benefits of multi level marketing or MLM and online Network marketing. Give it six months to a year and you won?t be able to count the steps in your down line. Now here is a caution, ?so long as you do it right?. How do you do this right?

The major question is how you find people or Traffic. If there is no customers,people, there are no leads development. No prospects, and no opportunity to present your proposal, no client and no team. finished.

There is no quick way to gaining knowledge ? Just learn the MY LEAD SYSTEM PRO from MLSP. I am following the same. Remember The net Marketing is here to stay.

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Smartypants Philosopher Intellectual Wants To Make Your Porn …

Posted on May 20, 2012 by cuanido

Let?s talk about your taste in pornography. Is it highbrow enough? Pinkies up, chaps!

Philosopher and How Proust Can Change Your Life?author Alain de Botton?is deeply concerned about this issue. So he plans to take one for the team and meet with ?leaders in porn and the arts,? according to the UK?s Telegraph newspaper, ?to bring about a better kind of pornography.?

I didn?t realize there could be better and worse?pornography, so long as it?s all legal, consensual and no one is wearing frosted lipstick. But the esteemed philosopher disagrees.?

De Botton told the Telegraph

Ideally, porn would excite our lust in contexts which also presented other, elevated sides of human nature ? in which people were being witty, for instance, or showing kindness, or working hard or being clever ? so that our sexual excitement could bleed into, and enhance our respect for these other elements of a good life.

He continued that he wants??a pornography in which sexual desire would be invited to support, rather than permitted to undermine, our higher values.??

I?m not stupid, but I have no fucking idea what this guy is talking about.

Pictures of Michael Fassbender?s penis, please. I?ll need a bowl under my chin for the drool.?

[Telegraph UK]

Contact the author of this post at Jessica@TheFrisky.com. Follow me on Twitter at @JessicaWakeman.

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The Lessons of Real Love | Psychology Today

Posted on May 19, 2012 by cuanido

Some couples find that, while it can be deceptively easy to get their relationships back on track after a normal disagreement, it?s much harder to keep it moving in that direction, especially when unexpected events derail us. It?s important to remember that even the most stable relationships experience turmoil. Difficulties and distractions are part of life, and they can?t help but have an effect on our relationships. Instead of being ignored or argued about, they should be confronted head-on, and with an eye toward the future.

Keeping a relationship balanced is an area where many people make major mistakes. Once couples begin to get back on course romantically, they need to remember that maintaining a satisfying relationship requires regular attention and upkeep in all areas. Truth is that all it really takes is ten minutes a day to ?check in? with your partner. Just as a successful physical fitness program requires a lifelong commitment, when it comes to emotional fitness, it?s impossible to overstate the importance of regular relationship maintenance.

?The ?little? things can make a big difference. Focusing on integrating continuous positive behaviors into your overall lifestyle is paramount to maintaining a good and loving connection. Learning how to cope with major, but common challenges, like finances, kids, and even illness is a necessity. Once you incorporate relationship enhancing techniques like forgiveness, and begin to change the negative behaviors that cause problems in your relationship, your issues become manageable and your connection deeper.

While talking through problems doesn?t always take away the pain, communicating gently and effectively can help couples to avoid pitfalls that cause unnecessary issues from surfacing in the first place. Most successful couples have certain behaviors, skills and practices in common, and the most essential of all is communication. Couples must learn that communication is the most important thing in their relationship. If you don’t take the risk to speak what’s in your heart, it will become to heavy and your true feelings will leak out, and that usually happens in inappropriate ways.

When a couple is experiencing relationship difficulty, the journey toward healing can be so emotionally volatile that a person may lose the ability to identify what he or she is feeling.? Hurt, pain, and anger begin to blend in our minds, but in fact they are very different emotions that need specialized care.

If you hurt each other, talk about it and make the appropriate apologies and adjustments so it doesn’t happen again. Just learning to say “I’m sorry” can be one of the most healing couples can do to reconnect. What most couples don?t know is that hurt, pain and anger are normal, natural and really can be milestones on the path to a healthy relationship.

Learning and practicing loves lessons will help you both be the best partner’s you can. It’s worth the effort because the rewards are a full heart and life.

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Tips And Advice For Dealing With Personal Bankruptcy

Posted on May 19, 2012 by cuanido

A great personal bankruptcy tip is to take care of your monetary problems sooner, rather than later. You can always seek the help of counselors for free if you?re worried about your finances. Dealing with bankruptcy when it?s a bigger problem is not a situation you really want to be in.

Be safe and hire an attorney for help. There are many websites these days that claim to walk you through the process of filing bankruptcy on your own. It is cheaper than using an attorney to get you through this time, but it leaves a lot of room for error. This is not something that you want to take chances on.

Once bankruptcy rears its ugly head, it?s important that you start multi-tasking with your financial matters. You can and should negotiate with your creditors at the same time you begin preparing for bankruptcy. Many bankruptcy attorneys are willing to start your preparations for a very modest fee, and this can make an excellent ?safety net? for you while you negotiate.

Explore all of the options available to you before you file for bankruptcy. Filling for bankruptcy can have some serious future implications. For instance, getting a mortgage application approved when you have previously been bankrupt will be tough to say the least. Therefore, you should thoroughly investigate all of the alternatives to bankruptcy. Perhaps you could borrow money from a family member or consolidate some of your debts.

Find out as much as you can about the individual laws in your state. There is a lot of information about there, but every state has its particular laws that people are subject to. You may have a lawyer, but it is important that you know about this as well so you can make better decisions.

Look into Chapter 12 bankruptcy if you are a family farmer. The purpose of this chapter is to reorganize the farming business so that it can remain operative. Chapter 12 bankruptcy can be filed by single-owner farms or partnerships. Be aware that there is a ceiling on the amount of debt for these filings.

Make certain to hire a local lawyer to help you file your personal bankruptcy. Local lawyers will understand the proper workings of how to file in your area, as well as, details regarding exemptions. Local attorneys will have the contacts to file your paperwork properly and will prove to be better counsel.

After the completion of filing for bankruptcy, get to work reestablishing your credit score. Keep in mind that thirty-five percent of the credit score is calculated using payment history. Keep your payments on time, because you will have to battle the bankruptcy on your report for the next ten years.

If you are planning on filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy, it is important that you hire a lawyer. Working with a lawyer is necessary, because filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy is much, much, more complex than filing for other bankruptcies. A lawyer will make sure that your rights are protected. He can guide you through the bankruptcy process, providing valuable advice.

You should now be better prepared for the time before, during and after bankruptcy. The information that has been provided to you has been known to help many other debtors in the same situation that you are in. Use it to your benefit and make the right choices with such a big life choice.

Charla Cosio writes regarding bankruptcy filing form

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5 ways criminals use Facebook

Posted on May 19, 2012 by cuanido

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Michael B. Sauter, Adam Poltrack and Ashley C. Allen , 24/7 Wall St.

This Friday, Facebook?will go public in one of the most anticipated?IPOs in history. With more than 900 million users, Mark Zuckerberg?s expanding social media empire has become a seemingly irreplaceable part of the online experience. Unfortunately, a byproduct of its success is that millions of Americans are far more exposed to a number of cyber crimes that also teem on the site.

To be sure, cyber crimes have been occurring for some time, but the presence of social media has made many crimes much easier to commit. In social networks people make ?friends? without knowing the person and make personal information easily available. And none of the networks present more opportunity to criminals than Facebook and its hundreds of millions of users. With this in mind, 24/7 Wall St. looked at some of the most common ways criminals use Facebook.

There are the nine ways criminals use Facebook ? here are five. (You can read the rest at 24/7 Wall St.)

1. Hacking accounts
When criminals hack a Facebook account, they typically use one of several available ?brute force? tools, Grayson Milbourne, Webroot?s manager of threat research for North America, told 24/7 Wall St. in an interview. These tools cycle through a common password dictionary, and try commonly used names and dates, opposite hundreds of thousands of different email IDs. Once hacked, an account can be commandeered and used as a platform to deliver spam, or ? more commonly ? sold. Clandestine hacker forums are crawling with ads offering Facebook account IDs and passwords in exchange for money. In the cyber world, information is a valuable thing.

2. Commandeering accounts
A more direct form of identity theft, commandeering occurs when the criminal logs on to an existing user account using an illegally obtained ID and password. Once they are online, they have the victim?s entire friend list at their disposal and a trusted cyber-identity. The impostor can use this identity for a variety of confidence schemes, including the popular London scam in which the fraudster claims to be stranded overseas and in need of money to make it home. The London scam has a far-higher success rate on Facebook ? and specifically on commandeered accounts ? because there is a baseline of trust between the users and those on their friends list.

3. Profile cloning
Profile cloning is the act of using unprotected images and information to create a Facebook account with the same name and details of an existing user. The cloner will then send friend requests to all of the victim?s contacts. These contacts will likely accept the cloner as a friend since the request appears to be from someone they?re familiar with. Once accepted, the crook has access to the target?s personal information, which they can use to clone other profiles or to commit fraud. As Milbourne puts it, ?Exploiting a person?s account and posturing as that person is just another clever mechanism to use to extract information.? Perhaps what?s scariest about this kind of crime is its simplicity. Hacking acumen is unnecessary to clone a profile; the criminal simply needs a registered account.

4. Fake Facebook
A common form of phishing is the fake Facebook scam. The scammers direct users via some sort of clickable enticement, to a spurious Facebook log-in page designed to look like the real thing. When the victims enter their usernames and passwords, they are collected in a database, which the scammer often will sell. Once scammers have purchased a user?s information, they can take advantage of their assumed identity through apps like Facebook Marketplace and buy and sell a laundry list of goods and services. Posing as a reputable user lets the scammer capitalize on the trust that person has earned by selling fake goods and services or promoting brands they have been paid to advertise.

5. Mining unprotected info
Few sites provide an easier source of basic personal information than Facebook. While it is possible to keep all personal information on Facebook private, users frequently reveal their emails, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and other pieces of private data. As security experts and hackers know, this kind of information is often used as passwords or as answers to secret security questions. While the majority of unprotected information is mined for targeted advertising, it can be a means to more pernicious ends such as profile cloning and, ultimately, identity theft.

Read the rest of the story, including four more ways criminals use Facebook, at 24/7 Wall St.

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Grand Veneur from Timeless Wines features absolute beauty

Posted on May 18, 2012 by cuanido

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Posted on May 18, 2012 by cuanido

Sitting on a HK-bound aircraft. One hr after the original take off time, we still haven’t push back slot. Chinese ATC, I hate you. about 1 hour ago via Echofon

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Take good care of your feet

Posted on May 18, 2012 by cuanido

May 16, 2012

May is Foot Health Awareness month. Most of us take somewhere between 1000 to 10000+ steps per day. That adds up to a lot of steps day upon day! If you add to the mix the variety of foot wear we choose (some supportive and ?foot friendly? others not as much) and the amount of weight you carry these daily steps can amount to a lot of wear and tear on your feet! Whether you walk or run, and no matter what your age, having healthy feet is an important part of good health.

Taking good care of your feet is essential year round, but with the nice sunny weather & flip-flop season upon us, now is an even better time of year to make sure your feet are in good shape. Some common conditions & ailments for feet are; athlete?s foot, blisters, calluses and ingrown nails. Most of these conditions can be avoided through good hygiene, which includes washing your feet with soap and water every day; drying your feet carefully, wearing comfortable shoes & keeping your shoes and socks dry. Another way to promote good foot health is to get regular pedicures.

Health Benefits of Pedicures:
While heading to the spa for a pedicure (for both men and women alike) is generally associated with pampering and relaxation, there are some considerable health benefits to getting regular foot care:

Proper Nail Care (cleaning, cutting, clipping, trimming of the nails and cuticles) is important to prevent ingrown nails and can help in the prevention of a variety of nail diseases and disorders.
Exfoliation (removal of dead skin and calluses) is important to prevent the build up of dead skin and the development of corns, calluses, and bunions.
Moisturizing Massage (using lotions and oils) brings moisture to the freshly exfoliated feet and lower legs and can also improve circulation which may be helpful in the reduction of pain associated with tired feet.

This week in comments- share your best tips for relaxing foot treatments at home or share your favourite spa for Pedicures!

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