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Help. Pearltrees videos. The free library. Phrase finder. 50 Incredible, Historical Speeches You Should Watch Online. You hope that your professors will be good speakers who can keep your interest for at least the length of a class period, but more often than not, you’ll have a teacher or two each semester who drones on and on and doesn’t make you feel passionate about the subject.
They could take tips from these speakers who have inspired thousands or even millions of people around the world, some even long after they’ve died. Here are 50 incredible, historical speeches you should watch online. Commencement Addresses These commencement speakers include presidents, a professor, political strategist and industry leader. Take note of their communication skills as you listen. John F. Presidential Speeches Presidents are natural and practiced leaders and give some of the most impressive speeches. Barack Obama Election Night Speech: Moments after being elected the first ever African American President of the United States, Obama addresses the nation live from Chicago. Society and Culture War and Peace Politics. Secret-Internet. How to thwart government surveillance and censorship online. The Canadian government recently introduced legislation that would expand its powers to monitor Canadians Internet activity.
Even though the legislation has not yet been passed into law, we already know that governments around the world are monitoring Internet communications. Luckily, there is an abundance of ways to help protect your privacy in cyberspace. The main obstacle to many of these technologies becoming commonplace is a lack of users. For example, it is possible to send encrypted e-mails, but unless the other people within your social network are using the technology, no one will be able to read your messages. If enough people are concerned about protecting their privacy, we may see the critical mass of people necessary to seamlessly integrate some of these technologies into our daily computing experience.
Detailed below are some of the ways to protect yourself on the Internet. Encryption Anonymous web browsing, Anonymous P2P, Darknets Think of Freenet as a parallel Internet. Buying headphones: basics. I’ve thought of writing a thread like this for at least a year, but since I’m home with a cold, and nothing better to do, I thought I’d start it out. It’s meant to provide basic pointers for newbies who might be a little overwhelmed, as many of us were when we first found this site. I tried to think of all the threads I’ve seen and what might be helpful in general terms. You can agree with me on things or not, and that’s fine. These are just my thoughts.
Please forgive the typos I’m sure are rampant. Most of us come to this website with a love of music, a musical background, a background in audio gear, or in nothing at all, but often have very little or no prior knowledge about headphones. Folks on this board are friendly, enthusiastic and helpful, but sometimes that’s the problem: ask one question and get 50 answers, many of them contradicting each other….and who the heck are these people telling me things anyway?
Before buying headphones 1. 2.Portable amps aren’t the answer. 5. Quote: The Secret Law of Page Harmony. “A method to produce the perfect book.” The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfect book. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. And you can still use it. The Secret Canon & Page Harmony Books were once a luxury only the richest could afford and would take months of work to be brought to fruition. And they were harmoniously beautiful. The bookmakers knew the secret to the perfect book. So elegant is this method of producing harmony that a few designers saw to rediscover it. They found the way to design a harmonious page. There’s a dance to all this Let’s look at this dance, shall we? And here it is with them (using the Van de Graaf Canon and Tschichold’s recommended 2:3 page-size ratio, which we’ll get into next).
This is where the harmony is found. How is this dance beautiful? A module is to a grid, as a cell is to a table. The J. SEARCH ENGINES. Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised March 2011. [Note: The accuracy and reliability of data and information published on the Web is subject to continuous verification. It is recommended that you use multiple sources, cross-check data and routinely perform due diligence reviews on sources and publications to which you cite and from which you source data. The Web is a dynamic entity - sites often change URLs, content focus, and ownership. Many sites go offline with little or no notification. This guide is updated bi-annually in an effort to document sources for researchers that have been verified at the time of publication.
This latest version of the guide includes dozens of updated links, deletion of sites that are no longer live, as well as numerous new entries throughout. Selected Search Engines, Web Archives, Open Data Repositories - facilitate locating information, data and analytics via: Web, Blogs, News, Video and specialized alerts. From InfoSpace, a reliable metasearch engine is dogpile. Yahoo! Federated Search Catalog of U.S. Escaping google search. While it may seem paradoxical, there are many occasions where you may want to exclude a website or portion of a site from search engine crawling and indexing. One typical need is to keep duplicate content, such as printer friendly versions, out of a search engine’s index. The same is true for pages available both in HTML and PDF or word processor formats. Other examples include site “service pages” such as user friendly error message and activity confirmation pages.
Special considerations apply for ad campaign landing pages. There are several ways to prevent Google, Yahoo! Just need to review REP directive support? 1. Way back in 1994 members of a robots discussion list voluntary agreed on a method to tell well behaved web robots, such as search engine spiders and crawlers, certain site content is off-limits.
The robots exclusion standard, as articulated in the robots.txt protocol, says that spiders should look for a plain text file called robots.txt in a site’s top (root) directory. 1. Google. Orkut. News. Internet may bcome a human right. Lounge. Beyond Treason - What you don't know about your government could kill you! IFD - Orkut. Vedic resources. Teucer and Friends. Google+ Official Google Blog. Google plus Blog. Gear. Hakia.com. Yippy – Welcome to the Cloud.
School of Thinking » 2011 » May. Dr Hewitt-Gleeson, 31 January, 2011: 30 years ago I had an idea for a network of family thinkers. That idea was to start the CoRT Family Network to train 300,000 ‘teachers of thinking’ around the world.I shared this idea with Edward de Bono who wrote to me saying he thought the idea was “brilliant” and he suggested we call this project the Edward de Bono School of Thinking.
The idea was to train families in the CoRT Thinking skills. We kicked it off in New York on 17 November, 1979.This strategy of training families to be ‘teachers of thinking’ became so successful that it has led to the largest metacognition movement in the world for the teaching of thinking skills. Value of Innovation In business in the 80s, CEOs like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Jack Welch of GE were among the first to see the commercial value of enterprise innovation which could come from harnessing the brainpower of all of the knowledge-workers across the enterprise.
Online Daily Training Feedback. Bitcoin P2P Virtual Currency. Bitcoin. Bitcoin. Decentralized digital currency Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC[a] or XBT[b]; sign: ₿) is a protocol which implements a highly available, public, permanent, and decentralized ledger.
In order to add to the ledger, a user must prove they control an entry in the ledger. The protocol specifies that the entry indicates an amount of a token, bitcoin with a minuscule b. The user can update the ledger, assigning some of their bitcoin to another entry in the ledger. Because the token has characteristics of money, it can be thought of as a digital currency.[10] The Library of Congress reports that, as of November 2021, nine countries have fully banned bitcoin use, and a further forty-two have implicitly banned it.[15] A few governments have used bitcoin in some capacity. Bitcoin has been described as an economic bubble by at least eight recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[17] Design Units and divisibility The unit of account of the bitcoin system is the bitcoin.
Blockchain Mining. Bitcoin Charts / Markets. Username and People Search. WordPress.com — Get a Free Blog Here. Nature Blogs: A-Z. Effective strategies to generate incoming links. Home : Effective strategies to generate incoming links In the introduction, we looked at the different types of links that can exist between websites, and we saw the important role incoming links play in boosting site traffic and improving link popularity and search engine rankings. Now it's time to turn our attention to the specifics of getting useful incoming links from other sites. The two types of incoming link Incoming links can be broken into two types: unsolicited (organic or spontaneous) links, and solicited (or requested) links. An unsolicited incoming link is one you didn't have to go and ask for - somebody saw your site and decided to link to it.
A solicited incoming link is one you "asked" for, one that you had to take some action to obtain. Where do unsolicited links come from, and how can you get more of them? The short answer: unsolicited links are made by other people, based on their interest in your site. Announcing: Open Foresight & The Future of Facebook Project. In a world characterized by increasing complexity and accelerating change, we need tools that help us understand future possibilities in order to make more informed decisions today. The field of Futures Studies, or Strategic Foresight, has already developed many such tools, but they are still not commonly utilized by the general public.
So, I’ve partnered up with a colleague, Alvis Brigis, to help elevate the ‘futures thinking’ meme. We’re developing a process called Open Foresight, which aims to serve as an updated model for harvesting collective insight, generating scenarios, and creating strategic roadmaps into the future. By combining available data, opinions from the experts, and the conventional wisdom of the crowds, we’ll be able to analyze a topic from a wide range of perspectives and viewpoints. We’ll then distill that down into a series of animation-rich videos that summarize these insights.
By @EricaGlasier by @gavinkeech. Free Ebooks. Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Audio Books. Main Page. How to argue with an Islamist. A few days ago I chatted with an Islamist, a young Pakistani man who dreamed of establishing a pan-Islamic caliphate stretching across the Muslim world and based on the ancient laws of Muhammad. This young man voiced ideas that would have shocked me once, but which I have become familiar with over years of online discussions.
A mutual friend, however, was appalled and baffled by his theocratic notions so I decided to put together this list of tips for debating with Islamists. These tips should not be used thoughtlessly. I often see Islamists and other political radicals regurgitating simplistic arguments taken from radical blogs without ever bothering to consider them. Here I encourage readers to introspect and question their own prejudices. For sake of brevity, I will assume your Islamist friend is male and use ‘he’ instead of the more awkward ‘he or she’. 1) Ask for examples Islamism is a radical political ideology. A) He will give real examples like Saudi Arabia or Iran. Refutation VII: Fewer seats for women in Allah's Paradise. Refutation VII: Fewer seats for women in Allah's Paradise User Rating: Created on Friday, 22 October 2010 13:55 Written by Salman Mohammed Hits: 2076 Assalamualaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barkatahu (May Peace, Blessings & Mercy of Allah Be Upon You) Article by Sister Noor-ul-Huda & Brother Asim ul Haq The Article is in reply to series of allegations: 1) Refutation Series I: Muslim Women are Dirty Polluting Creatures 2) Refutation Series II:Women are inferior, slave to men 3) Refutation Series III: Muslim women are sex object for men enjoyment 4) Refutation Series IV: Muslim Men can Capture Infidel Women as Sex Slave 5) Refutation Series V: A Woman’s Testimony is Worth Only Half of a Man’s 6) Refutation Series VI: Brutal Punishment For Women Allegation number 7: Fewer seats for women in Allah's Paradise Islamwatch quoted Fewer seats for women in Allah's Paradise Islamic Scriptures inform us that most Muslim women will go to hell.
The Quran: Response The correct translation is: ﴿وَأَزْوَجُهُمْ﴾ From Hadith: Quran corpus. Wiki Leaks.