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I came across these sites. They are legitimate for the most part.

did you know you could make 15-30 even $35/hour being a medical transcriptionist working from home? check it out http://www.mtjobs.com/find_a_job.cfm

Tutors I hear make $10+/hour from tutor.com

and editors make $23+/hour from appingo.com

This is a great site that’ll tell you all about the scams and the legit work at home jobs http://www.ratracerebellion.com/

onlineverdict.com supposedly pays you up to $60/hour for reading cases and then answering questions

If you have a knack for DJing create music mixes on www.Mixaloo.com and they’ll sell’em on myspace facebook and other sites for you!

Carlos do Amaral Freire, a Brazilian linguist, easily translates 60 languages, including Chinese, Portuguese and Sanskrit.

Is he a genius? A freak of nature? Surprisingly, Freire probably isn’t much different from your average bilingual. Known in linguistic circles as hyperpolyglots, people who speak 10, 30 or even 70 languages must work as hard as the rest of us. Freire has been studying nonstop for 40 years. With the same effort and resources, “we’re all potential hyperpolyglots,” says Eva Fernandez, a linguist at the City University of New York.

Another shocker: Sky-high IQ isn’t a prerequisite for extreme multilingualism. In fact, polyglots probably don’t have a “gift,” but a variety of personality traits and life circumstances that favor language-learning, Fernandez says. These include access to foreign tongues, unflagging interest and the willingness to take linguistic risks.

However, all that effort may cause the changes in the brain. In 2003, German neuroscientists examined the postmortem brain of Emil Krebs, an interpreter who understood 100 languages and learned Armenian in nine weeks. They found that the area of Krebs’ brain that governed speech did not have the same asymmetry as most monolingual speakers. Skilled musicians have also been known to have unusual brain wiring in auditory areas. What neuroscientists don’t know is whether language-learning changes the brain—which studies show is likely—or whether some people are born with this quality.

Maybe learning 50 languages is overkill. A study of Russian hyperpolyglots found that while they can speak dozens of languages proficiently, the majority say they speak just seven fluently.

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Personally, I aspire to learn a dozen or so fluently. Namely; Hindi*, Urdu*, French*, Khmer* (Cambodian), Spanish, Sanskrit, Portugese, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, German and perhaps Navajo, Persian, Sign, Punjabi & Gujurati too.
* I’ve already started learning these langauges, & have become literate in their scripts. I am specifically interested in learning the first six & last two languages listed. (Okay, math wasn’t my best talent.)

Note: Article lifted from Psychology Today

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

- Isaac Newton

“The Greatest of faults, I should say, is being concious of none.”

- Thomas Carlyle

“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is not often a good thing to do, but it is always a clever thing to say.”

- Will Durant

“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.”

- Charles Darwin

“Love must Resonate through ones voice, Interpenetrate one’s thought’s & Emanate from ones actions.”
- Victor Lucent

I’ll leave you with an interesting riddle titled; “Never Get Me Back.”

I can run swiftly and silently when you want me to stay still,
I can move slowly and cautiously and am yours to fill.
You look at me often and yet you always forget me,
I am the most feared killer, yet you can’t live without me.
Sometimes you have me for all to spare,
Yet when you need me, I am not there.
You can waste me, or cherish me, you choose the track,
But once you’re done you can never get me back.

What am I?

5. “I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.” —Presidential candidate George W. Bush, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 - Sound clip

4. “They misunderestimated me.” —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

3. Three is a tie between the following two:
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” —Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
&
“My answer is bring them on.” —on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003

2. “Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
This coming from a Harvard Grad.

!. Finally a short dialogue held between Bush and reporter Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times.

President Bush: “Peter. Are you going to ask that question with those shades on?”
Peter: “I can take them off.”
Bush: “I’m interested in the shade look, seriously.”
Wallsten: “All right, I’ll keep them on then.”
Bush: “For the viewers, there’s no sun.”
Wallsten: “I guess it depends on your perspective.”
Bush: “Touché.
—An exchange with legally blind reporter Peter Wallsten, to whom Bush later apologized, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006 (Watch video clip) Pay careful attention to what Bush say’s right before talking to Peter.

Paris Hilton hasn’t eaten meat since meeting Heather Mills McCartney. The blonde star says she converted to vegetarianism after the former model, the estranged wife of Sir Paul McCartney, showed her a shocking video of animal cruelty.

She said: “From that point I’ve never worn fur and I never will.”I also haven’t eaten any meat since. I just survive on pasta and stuff like that. I was grossed out. It was disgusting.”

Paris also claims she is nothing like the ditzy blonde character she says she ‘invented’ for her reality TV show ‘The Simple Life.’ She added in an interview with Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “All reality shows are fake basically. When you have a camera on you, you are not going to act yourself.

“So before I started the show I though I’d make my character like the movies ‘Legally Blonde’ and ‘Clueless’ mixed together, with a rich girl all-in-one. “Even my voice and the way I dress is different from me in real life.”

Paris insists she is much more than just a pretty face and as well as currently launching her debut single, ‘Stars Are Blind’, and album, she is also preparing to open her own chain of hotels and a nightclub in London.

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Hmmm… I suppose anything’s possible.

If you are interested in learning of the cruelty practiced in slaughter houses check out
http://peta.com/ or this video narrated by Alec Baldwin http://www.meat.org/

Note: Article pirated from ChinaDaily.com

After a magnificent day at the beach, I successfully returned the ‘down’ sleeping bag (of death)… Not that the two incidences are related, I just didn’t know correlate them coherently. So anyhow, I traded in the down bag for the Boreal bag, only they didn’t have the -20° in long so they referred me to the EMS in Burlington, and I picked up a couple of 20° bags which were on sale at $99 (again for testing purposes). You see, I love to test out equipment, I critique them. I should probably publish my reviews actually; it may prove to be a lucrative pastime, or part-time profession.

A few things I have reviewed and my thoughts on them:
Sporting goods:
-BOB; Body Opponent Bag:

Bought’im, and love’im. I actually got two as gifts for a very special price (computer foul up).
Average price range: $250-300
Usefulness: You don’t know what it means to have a realistic boxing experience until you’ve met Bob. Literally the best ‘bag’ I have ever trained with. Whether you’re kick boxing, boxing or practicing poison strikes, Bob is your man. With full facial detail (including an ear orifice), and musculature (not including the bones). Bob is composed of a skin made of high strength plastisol (plastic that feels similar to a soft dolphin) & an inner cavity filled with durable urethane foam (it collapses but jumps right back). His height is adjustable from short to tall… just kidding, between 5′6″ & 6′8″ (though not fully stable at his maximum height). Filled with sand he will stand strong and take any beating you give him, but fill him with water and he will try to run away like a Frenchman (which is actually more fun because then he makes you move around a lot to fight face to face or more appropriately visage-à-visage).
Primary muscle(s) involved: Omnium musculi (all muscles), depends upon technique.
Downsides: You may not be use to practicing on a figure with an un-uniform shape. If you are practicing kick boxing or savate, you may not be able to execute knee strikes or low kicks (but perhaps you may on the larger model that includes the shorts). Bob discolors very easily especially when subjected to heat. You may injure your hand if you punch him in the face without gloves on due to the strong/hard facial structure.
In simple: Nothing simulates hitting a person better than BOB. His unique design allows for uppercuts, jabs, and hooks like nothing else.
When able; I will also post how I dressed mine up like a thug to simulate a street fight.

-Mini-Stepper w/ Cables:

Surprisingly an exceptional piece, I first fell in love with the mini-stepper when I found one in the closet of my hotel room in Hong Kong about a year ago.
Average price range: $30-75
Usefulness: If you can’t (don’t wanna’) get outside (because your afraid of rain) and you don’t own a treadmill (for whatever reason), then a Mini-Stepper is just what you need. My favorite features of the mini-stepper are; portability, size (and weight), sweat factor (8) and price. If you find yourself watching TV using weather as an excuse, then get off your ass and get on your mini-stepper. Whether you are fit or overweight, you can work up a sweat, the mini-stepper has an adjustable incline so that the pedals may even be set at 70°. It is possible to give a fit man a moderate-lightly difficult cardio vascular workout!
Primary muscle(s) involved: Draws heavily on the quadriceps A.K.A. front thigh.
Downsides: May induce adult ADD :-). I noticed that due to weak knee support (or my being overweight), I felt pains in the upper part of the knee where my rectus femoris connects.
Final analysis: It works, but only if you use it. I actually returned mine, due to a lack of practicality it fell into desuetude; I have a treadmill w/ built in TV & a dirt road to run on when ever I feel like it.

-Roman Hyper Extension Bench:

Testing, will post review later.
Purchased price: $169

-Total Gym 1700 Club:

Testing, will post review later.
Purchased price: Free… If I told you how I’de hafta kill’ya. Averages between $320-400.

Note: This is the first time I referenced & linked everything thoroughly. I am thinking of continuing in this manner as well as going back & doing it to the previous posts. Please give me some feedback on what you think of that.

On Saturday, I went campin’ with my bro Thea (pronounced Tee-ah) up past The Notch . We set up tent in a little way outside of the little town of Littleton.

I set up my Stealth Instant Bivy Shelter, which I actually bought from Thea a year back for a hundred bucks after he slept in it two nights.


He actually bought it for 136.99 + over night shipping. Which is what it’s still going for on U.S. Cavalry

I also purchased an EMS -40° Sleeping Bag for $399 in Manchester on my way up (with sole intentions of testing it out of course).

I enjoyed the warmth and comfort ability (especially since Thea froze his ass off in 3 bags + all his clothes), but since I found it was made with goose down & I am an environmentalist, it just didn’t sit right with me. As with all commercial poultry, tens of thousands of birds live crammed into a confined area, awaiting a premature death. The birds are then killed by being put into scalding tanks to loosen the feathers, and the feathers removed by a mechanical picker.*
So I’m going to return the evil feather bag of death for a guilt free EMS Boreal -20 bag which also happens to have a much better price tag too! $189

A funny/strange story though is that the **cute girl working at the EMS was trying to convince me to get the -20 degree bag by telling me that she

“once knew a guy that had climbed mount Everst and he even opted for the -20 bag!”, only now when I have visited the EMS website, they have the same detailed story virtually word for word. hah. Bloody inexperienced sales reps can’t even come across with finesse without lying.

*I could quote many sources that verify this little known fact, but but since most people have heavily biased POVs I have pretty much given it up such a practice. If you are really interested in the truth behind the animal industry all you need to do is a little research. Visit PETA.com they may be a bit fanatical, but I think they are also onto something.
**semi-cute

Getting along with the trip, Thea set up his Bug 33 BTW which looks a lot like a Tadpole 23

And then we got a fire going.

… just kidding, I wish I could show you the real photos but my Hitachi 6gb microdrive for my Rebel XT is experiencing some technical difficulties.

TO BE CONTINUED

Keep posted, if I manage to recover the images from the microdrive, I will post them here.

Have any of you seen “Fahrenheit 9/11″ and were moved by it? Well, whether you have or haven’t, were or weren’t I would like to recommend this film I came across. It is of utmost importance that you see it. It exposes the level of corruption in our government, which was not a huge surprise to me, but I bet it will be for you.

This is not a conspiracy film, it simply give the facts. Entitled “Loose Change 2nd Edition,” it is free on Google Video. Here is the link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change

In the early afternoon of the twenty-sixth I vicariously viewed in voluminous visual voluptiuosity the vivacious vision that is “V for Vendetta.” In all veracity I must verily admit that I was initially veering toward vilification, but I now vindicate in full vastitude the film’s full validity & verisimility in these vagrant times.

For any of you that have not seen the film, I would semi-recommend that you do, I give it a 7 or so. But I would highly recommend leaving the children home as I don’t believe it to be a good influence with all of the vāshkin phenomena that unappreciatively took place midway during the film, and snowballed from there. I felt that it twisted the concept of the what it meant to have freedom or I should say, that it directed a sense of justification towards whimsical vāshkinism, which is something I am strongly averted– I absolutely detested that it juxtaposed freedom of politics, speech, & religion with the validation of vāshkinism as I am an advocate of adherence to Nature’s intentions I see vāshkinism as mere mental delusion, certainly not something to be celebrated and accepted as a valid lifestyle.

Au contraire I did enjoy the view rumbustious political rambunctiousness getting far out of hand that signified a possible & plausible future for our government due to recent events. (Don’t kid me; you know what I’m talking about.)

For those of you that have seen the film I would very much like comments on my view. I would also like to post “V’s” verbose V magniloquent grandiloquence:

“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.”

In simpler words: “Behold, at first glance a humble stage actor, cast against his will as both the victim and villain by the design of Fate. This mask, not just a layer of vanity, is a lasting token of the voice of the people, now gone, disappeared, as the once powerful public now honors what it used to denounce. Nevertheless, this brave return of a long-gone annoyance stands reborn, and has promised to overthrow the evil and corrupt who promote greed and protect the violent and total suppression of free will. The only choice is revenge; a committed struggle given as a prayer, not for nothing, that the righteousness of that quest will one day lead the watchful and the righteous to victory. But truly, this thick soup of words is becoming excessive for an introduction, so allow me to say I am most honored to meet you and you may call me V.”

While at first I could not find the Latin locution from the film I wrote in lieu of it by providing you with the following Latin bits of wisdom:

1. Vanitas vanitatvm, omnis vanitas - Vanity of vanities, all is vanity
2. Ventis secundis, tene cursum - Go with the flow
3. Verba movent, exempla trahunt - Words move people, examples draw/compel them. Deeds, not words, give the example
4. Veritas Lux Mea - The truth enlightens me / The truth is my light
5. Vis consili expers mole ruit sua - Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. (Discretion is the better part of valor) (Horace)
6. Vigilando, agendo, bene consulendo, prospera omnia cedunt - By watching, by doing, by consulting well, these things yield all things prosperous. (Sallust)
7. Veritas numquam perit - Truth never perishes. (Seneca) I found this snd interesting due to the similarity to India’s national motto is “Satyameva Jayate” - Truth always Prevails.
8. Venienti occurrite morbo - Meet the misfortune as it comes. (Persius)
9. Veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I conquered. (Julius Caesar)
or better yet

10. Veni, vidi, volo in domum redire - I came, I saw, I want to go home

Finally - Valui ad satanam in computatrum meum invocandum - I succeeded in summoning Satan into my computer

Oh—and my new taunt: Victurus te saluto - He who is about to win salutes you

After some time, I did actually end up finding the quote from the film:
Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici - ”By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.”

Ahhh to contemplate & imbibe such a truth.
- PeaCe

I fear that this Blog space is not being used as frequently as I had originally desired. Since I haven’t posted in a while I would like to briefly herald a brief on the news in the life of Mr. Dave in this gazette:

I broke into light boxing training for a couple of weeks, and following I engaged in my first fight on the 4^th of March. A triumphant victory in which the opposed walked—more appropriately I should say stumbled, from the grounds with an ensanguined face and an enervated gut.

[3/7] My sister has yoked my intellect in the sense that she is now commanding my studies be finished and demanding the results from my tests. High school education is something I have unfortunately put off. I am a literacy hacker; an information junkie, but at the same time somewhat of a slacker when it comes to assigned work.

[3/16] I decided to formalize all of my practices into a more professional perspective, henceforth I will be practicing ping pong thrice a week in one & hour durations. I also decided to learn the art of calligraphy which I will be dedicating fifteen minutes to on every second day, or in other words a little over tri-weekly.

[3/22] Sojourned in Canada to attend a funeral of a late elderly couple held dear. I am left with the following thoughts to share: “Life be celebrated; for it be full, Age be ripe for the Reaper’s picking. Love not be forgotten, for Soul lives on forever; without regards to body.”

[3/23] Noticed a slight throat irritation followed a few hours later by a few paroxysmal coughs.

[3/24] Took rest & vitamins; observed the irritation’s equable perch.

[3/25] Confirmed the irritation as an infection, making it the second this month, which is an undeniable sign of weakness &/or poor habits. In light of the ailment, I departed; embarking on return to the States. I enjoyed voluminous confabulations with paterfamilias during the duration of the drive.

[3/26] Jubilated the eve of my Gramma’s birthday during which we experienced jocularity, jollity, joviality, jocundity, joyousness, joyfulness, jamboree, jubilee & high jinx.

[3/27] Held another vigil followed by billiards.

Live, love, & make peace.