How to Improve Your Self-Esteem: 12 Powerful Tips

Franklin's Thirteen Moral Virtues.

Benjamin Franklin - Thirteen Moral Virtues:

1. Temperance - Eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation.
2. Silence - Speak not but what may benefit yourself or others. Avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order - Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.
4. Resolution - Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself. Waste nothing.
6. Industry - Lose no time. Be always employ'd in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity - Use no hurtful deceit. Think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice - Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation - Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness - Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes or habitation.
11. Tranquility - Be not disturbed at trifles or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. Chastity - Rarely use venery but for health or offspring. Never to dullness, weakness or the injury to other or your own peace or reputation.
13. Humility - imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Sarah Says

“So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I’m the idiot?

“President Obama wants to do what, exactly? Punish evil acts in the form of a telegraphed air strike on Syria to serve as a deterrent? If our invasion of Iraq wasn’t enough of a deterrent to stop evil men from using chemical weapons on their own people, why do we think this will be?

“We have no clear mission in Syria…There’s no explanation of what vital American interests are at stake there today amidst yet another centuries-old internal struggle between violent radical Islamists and a murderous dictatorial regime, and we have no business getting involved anywhere without one.

“LET ALLAH SORT IT OUT”

~ Sarah Palin

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On Zachariah's GPS, Zbigniew Brzezinskisaid much the same thing about the Syrian affair, but said Obama's inept statements make it imperative we do strike.

 

Byron Wien’s 20 Rules of Investing & Life

Outstanding list from a man who has accumulated much wisdom over the years:

Lessons Learned in His First 80 Years
1. Concentrate on finding a big idea that will make an impact on the people you want to influence. The Ten Surprises, which I started doing in 1986, has been a defining product. People all over the world are aware of it and identify me with it. What they seem to like about it is that I put myself at risk by going on record with these events which I believe are probable and hold myself accountable at year-end. If you want to be successful and live a long, stimulating life, keep yourself at risk intellectually all the time.
2. Network intensely. Luck plays a big role in life, and there is no better way to increase your luck than by knowing as many people as possible. Nurture your network by sending articles, books and emails to people to show you’re thinking about them. Write op-eds and thought pieces for major publications. Organize discussion groups to bring your thoughtful friends together.
3. When you meet someone new, treat that person as a friend. Assume he or she is a winner and will become a positive force in your life. Most people wait for others to prove their value. Give them the benefit of the doubt from the start. Occasionally you will be disappointed, but your network will broaden rapidly if you follow this path.
4. Read all the time. Don’t just do it because you’re curious about something, read actively. Have a point of view before you start a book or article and see if what you think is confirmed or refuted by the author. If you do that, you will read faster and comprehend more.
5. Get enough sleep. Seven hours will do until you’re sixty, eight from sixty to seventy, nine thereafter, which might include eight hours at night and a one-hour afternoon nap.
6. Evolve. Try to think of your life in phases so you can avoid a burn-out. Do the numbers crunching in the early phase of your career. Try developing concepts later on. Stay at risk throughout the process.
7. Travel extensively. Try to get everywhere before you wear out. Attempt to meet local interesting people where you travel and keep in contact with them throughout your life. See them when you return to a place.
8. When meeting someone new, try to find out what formative experience occurred in their lives before they were seventeen. It is my belief that some important event in everyone’s youth has an influence on everything that occurs afterwards.
9. On philanthropy my approach is to try to relieve pain rather than spread joy. Music, theatre and art museums have many affluent supporters, give the best parties and can add to your social luster in a community. They don’t need you. Social service, hospitals and educational institutions can make the world a better place and help the disadvantaged make their way toward the American dream.
10. Younger people are naturally insecure and tend to overplay their accomplishments. Most people don’t become comfortable with who they are until they’re in their 40’s. By that time they can underplay their achievements and become a nicer, more likeable person. Try to get to that point as soon as you can.
11. Take the time to give those who work for you a pat on the back when they do good work. Most people are so focused on the next challenge that they fail to thank the people who support them. It is important to do this. It motivates and inspires people and encourages them to perform at a higher level.
12. When someone extends a kindness to you write them a handwritten note, not an e-mail. Handwritten notes make an impact and are not quickly forgotten.
13. At the beginning of every year think of ways you can do your job better than you have ever done it before. Write them down and look at what you have set out for yourself when the year is over.
14. The hard way is always the right way. Never take shortcuts, except when driving home from the Hamptons. Short-cuts can be construed as sloppiness, a career killer.
15. Don’t try to be better than your competitors, try to be different. There is always going to be someone smarter than you, but there may not be someone who is more imaginative.
16. When seeking a career as you come out of school or making a job change, always take the job that looks like it will be the most enjoyable. If it pays the most, you’re lucky. If it doesn’t, take it anyway, I took a severe pay cut to take each of the two best jobs I’ve ever had, and they both turned out to be exceptionally rewarding financially.
17. There is a perfect job out there for everyone. Most people never find it. Keep looking. The goal of life is to be a happy person and the right job is essential to that.
18. When your children are grown or if you have no children, always find someone younger to mentor. It is very satisfying to help someone steer through life’s obstacles, and you’ll be surprised at how much you will learn in the process.
19. Every year try doing something you have never done before that is totally out of your comfort zone. It could be running a marathon, attending a conference that interests you on an off-beat subject that will be populated by people very different from your usual circle of associates and friends or traveling to an obscure destination alone. This will add to the essential process of self-discovery.
20. Never retire. If you work forever, you can live forever. I know there is an abundance of biological evidence against this theory, but I’m going with it anyway.

A Short Hystery of Freon

The International Space Station, aka UN “Jockstraps in Space” “Going where no man has gone before,” because it was stupid, is suffering from the bad science of the 70’s. They’re using ammonia for heat transfer. Freon™ would be better, but is banned and has been replaced with inferior, flammable substitutes that make every home refrigerator a time bomb. NASA refuses to use the now legal hydro-chloro-fluorocarbon gases in the International Space Station, because they are dangerous, but they are OK for us! In 1974 for a $60,000 grant UC Irvine Prof. Sheldon Rowland and grad assistant Mario Molina sold their souls to Satan postulating Freon™, the finest industrial chemical ever made, was breaking down in the upper atmosphere of Antarctica to destroy the “ozone shield” they claimed was protecting life on Earth from hard UV, ultraviolet, from the sun. Dupont did not defend Freon(tm) as the patent had expired. They could patent inferior gases and sell them for outrageous prices if Freon(tm) were banned. This a flaw in our system and it can be corrected, but only by honest people in elected places. (Good luck.) Not only is there no “ozone shield,” as gases cannot form surfaces, a fact once taught in junior high schools, but 90% of all Freon is in the northern hemisphere and no ozone breakdown is there seen. The “Horse Latitude Effect” keeps Freon™ in the northern hemisphere. Very little has ever been released south of the equator. And, the reaction they claimed was doing this had never been seen in nature nor could they produce it in the lab. Molina is now at MIT and still trying to get it to work! It never will; the thermo-dyamics, are backwards in his "equation." He is trying to do the molecular equivalent of pushing a big rock up a steep hill. NASA's ammonia attacks soft seals. They use rubber-like materials to absorb vibrations of rocketing into space. Freon is inert; attacks nothing while ammonia combines with many compounds, some of which become explosive like Astrolite, a favorite such potion as the brisance is only exceeded by nukes and it is easy to make. When pushed about no ozone depletion in the north NASA sent six U2’s north with aerial samplers, finding no chlorate traces going directly over the pole where it should be produced. With one flight left they sent it on a circuitous route over Norway and bingo! Chlorate compounds! This rang my bell as I had seen Macrocystis Kelp in the Fjords of Norway when there in 1976. This plant is unique there, while common in the Pacific and thought brought by Japanese ancient mariners circa 6000 BC via the Northwest Passage. It only grows in the Fjords and is never anywhere else in the North Atlantic. This plant has a unique and exciting physiology as it reduces haloids to elements. With genetic engineering it could recover gold by the ton as the colloid, tiny particle, in which marine gold exists has a natural ionic coating and is thus reducible to the element. Every cell of Macrocystis Kelp includes one tiny crystal of iodine in the center of every cell and we know not why. It also produces elemental free chlorine which on contact with ozone makes a chlorate radical, part of a molecule! Bingo! The smoking gun! NASA chiefs knew about this and exactly what they were doing in perpetrating the Freon(tm) fraud on the American people. This begs the question, “Where would be today if we had honest men in high places?” Adrian Vance

A Golden Note

n 1980, because of oil prices, inflation, and apprehension about it all (called malaise at the time), gold rocketed to over $800 per ounce (the graph is adjusted for inflation so one can easily compare it to current prices). After the prices began falling off, advertising for gold purchases went astronomical. It has been the same this time, at least, so far.

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Inverse ETFs

1x Short Funds:

• Direxion Daily Total Market Bear 1x Shares (TOTS) : -100% of the MSCI US Broad Market Index.
• ProShares Short Dow30 ETF (DOG) : -100% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• ProShares Short MidCap 400 ETF (MYY) : -100% of the S&P MidCap 400 Index.
• ProShares Short QQQ ETF (PSQ) : -100% of the Nasdaq 100 Index.
• ProShares Short Russell 2000 ETF (RWM) : -100% of the Russell 2000 small-cap stock index.
• ProShares Short S&P 500 ETF (SH) : -100% of the S&P 500.
• ProShares Short Small Cap 600 (SBB) : -100% of the S&P Small Cap 600.

2x Short Funds:

• ProShares UltraShort Dow 30 ETF (DXD) : -200% of the Dow Jones.
• ProShares UltraShort Mid Cap 400 ETF (MZZ) : -200% of the S&P Mid Cap 400.
• ProShares UltraShort QQQ ETF (QID) : -200% of the Nasdaq 100.
• ProShares UltraShort Russell Mid Cap Value ETF (SJL): -200% of the Russell Mid Cap Value Index.
• ProShares UltraShort Russell Mid Cap Growth ETF (SDK) : -200% of the Russell Mid Cap Growth Index.
• ProShares UltraShort Russell1000 Value ETF (SJF): -200% of the Russell 1000 Value Index.
• ProShares UltraShort Russell1000 Growth ETF (SFK) : -200% of the Russell 1000 Growth Index.
• ProShares UltraShort Russell 2000 ETF (TWM) : -200% of the Russell 2000 Index.
• ProShares UltraShort Russell 2000 Growth ETF (SKK) : -200% of the Russell 2000 Growth Index.
• ProShares UltraShort Russell 2000 Value ETF (SJH) : -200% of the        Russell 2000 Value Index.
• ProShares UltraShort Russell 3000 ETF (TWQ) : -200% of the Russell 3000 Index.
• ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 ETF (SDS) : -200% of the S&P 500.
• ProShares UltraShort Small Cap 600 ETF (SDD) : -200% of the S&P Small Cap 600.

3x Short Funds

• Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bear 3x Shares (SPXS) : -300% of the S&P 500 Index.
• Direxion Daily Mid Cap Bear 3x Shares (MIDZ): -300% of the S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index.
• Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3x Shares (TZA) : -300% of the Russell 2000.
• ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ ETF (SQQQ) : -300% of the Nasdaq 100.
• ProShares UltraPro Short Dow 30 ETF (SDOW) : -300% of the DJIA.
• ProShares UltraPro Short S&P 500 ETF (SPXU) : -300% of the S&P 500.
• ProShares UltraPro Short Mid Cap 400 ETF (SMDD) : -300% of the S&P Mid Cap 400.
• ProShares UltraPro Short Russell 2000 ETF (SRTY) : -300% of the Russell 2000.

The 11 Most Beautiful Mathematical Equations

http://news.yahoo.com/11-most-beautiful-mathematical-equations-144744064.html

Fraud of CO2 and AGW

The Cap and Trade bill is in the Senate and we say it was written on false science. Billions were spent proving anthropogenic global warming, but you can show it is a fraud in any south-facing window sill with $25 worth of equipment and materials. Or, much less if you are a school science teacher and your students should see this.

Get three two-liter clear plastic, colorless, bottles of soda. Three laboratory “stick” thermometers with a zero to 110° Celsius range. Carolina Biological Supply sells thermometers and the Drierite™ dessicant you will also need.

 “Drierite” is anhydrous calcium sulfate fired to remove all water normally bound molecularly. It is about $10 per pound with shipping and for three thermometers add another $15.

After emptying clear cola bottles remove labels, rinse and dry them. Holes for thermometers are made with a hot soldering iron, heated nail, awl tip or Phillips screwdriver. The hot tool must of smaller diameter than thermometers for tight fitting.

Heat the nail, awl or icepick over a gas burner or small torch for a minute and then push it into the top while on the bottle. With the plastic still soft push the thermometer into place. The thermometer will freeze in place, but not be very difficult to remove later; just be gentle.

When all the thermometers are in place seal them by dripping candle wax around insertion areas if there is any doubt of their sealing.

Calibrate thermometers by reading them simultaneously, while lying side-by-side. With one as the standard correlate the other two within 0.2º C you can discern with a magnifying glass.

Put a half cup of dessicant in a pie pan in a 250ºF oven for a few hours to insure the sulfate is absolutely dry. Let the oven cool closed. Pour the material into one bottle with a paper funnel and install a sealed in thermometer cap.

In the next two liter bottle put 100 ml, ½ cup, of water to simulate air over water as is 70% of Earth. The last two liter polycarbonate flask gets 100 ml of “Liquid Plummer™” or similar if the ingredients include only sodium hydroxide and water. Both bottles are sealed with thermometer bearing caps.

The bottles should stand for three days for dessicant and sodium hydroxide to capture water vapor and carbon dioxide respectively. The water in the sodium hydroxide solution saturates enclosed air like water in the third bottle as CO2 is the issue. We sequester it as carbonate in solution.

Finally, we put aluminum foil “hats” on the bottles to shade thermometers from direct sunlight. The demonstration works best behind a glass window as direct sunlight is so strong it mists the two liquid holding bottles and like clouds reflect light to reduce heating. The bottles must be clear for a good trial.

Data show the dry air bottle was one full Celsius degree below that with water or sodium hydroxide aqueous solution. The bottle with sodium hydroxide heated the same as that with water. The removal of carbon dioxide had no detectable effect. It was a true “trace gas,” utterly insignificant while water vapor is responsible for atmospheric heating.. Therefore, anthropogenic global warming is a fraud and this is a $25 proof that should be part of the debate on Cap and Trade in the Senate.

Adrian Vance

The Militia

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." --George Mason, Speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

Old Breed, New Breed

“Old breed? New breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference so long as it’s the Marine breed.” — Lt. Gen. “Chesty” Puller