Drama All For Nothing....

Ok, I have been nice and quiet too long now.....I have been a member of Kaysar's board for almost a year....a lot of us have formed a very strong friendship and bonds...just two months ago, Kaysar told us that when he goes back on Big Brother All Stars, there will be newbies on the board and all us old timers are to treat them right and not have the "cult of exclusivevlty" (mis spelling)......so now Kaysar is back on TV doing Big Brother All Stars and there are newbies on the board and us oldtimers have been nice to them...but hear this....are they nice to "us"....no way Jose....they have been rude and picking on all of us and disrespecting the mods to no end.....now I don't like to be a snitch and go to the mods on this subject even though one of them is a close friend of mine......there is another one I talk to...one of the newbies had the nerve to say that some of us pretend to be Muslim since Kaysar is Muslim...now that is totally a pathectic statement....I sure do not pretend to be Muslim and I am proud of my beliefs and what they are....I am not a Muslim and why should I state to be a Muslim when I am not....I was nice to that chickie though and said "No one here is pretending, the ones who claim it seem to know the Koran and I think they do know the Koran"......I stay out of the Islamic debates anyway since I know nothing of that religion....I was taught at a young age to respect every religion.....

On a more friendly note, I found just the place for reconstructive surgery and treatment and it is the Williams Center that is headed by Dr. Edwin Williams...he has many excellent credentials and he provides excellent consultation using a computer imaging tool to explain all the details to his patients....

One of Dr. Williams' specialties include Otolaryngology meaning the ears, nose and throat with experience in rhinoplasty/nasal reconstruction and teaches advanced rhinoplasty on a national level.

Practically half of Albany Rhinoplasty practice consists of revision or extensive reconstructive nasal surgery.

One of the best features of the clinic is their 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week on-call option. That means one of their surgeons is always available for a client’s immediate need. The clinic also protects the patient’s confidentiality. Office visits and medical records remain confidential unless instructed otherwise by the patient.

Facts About Web Searches

What really interests me about search engines is the results that come up when typing in a topic of my personal choice...yes we keep hearing of the Alexa ranking that goes by popularity of a website meaning the tabulations of the number of visitors everyday....

Now I just typed in flowers in the google search page since I want to read more on flowers...yes I know I keep doind entries on flowers and I have even confirmed that I have a flower garden....so by typing in flowers, the number one result is 1800flowers.com and then the three top results are FTD, ProFlowers, and Dot Flowers.

Now Google has begun beta testing their accessible web search for the visually challenged. this type of search, is available on Google’s experimental software site at http://labs.google.com/ . So on Google Accessible Search, the number one site for "flowers" is tesco.com/flowers. This is a UK site that is very well coded and 1800flowers.com is not even on the first page of results.

Now type in "online marketing" and the number one result is usweb.com and it is the same result on on Google Accessible Search. The reason for this is the company created the USWeb site in Web Standards, and it is in compliance with Web Accessibility guidelines. Now when I do a search for another term “Internet marketing”, I see that strategy pays off even more with a #2 ranking on Google Accessible Search. Also I have noticed Wikipedia pop up very high on the fist page. Interesting, right!!!! You can even see these exact same results just by doing this search.

So I see it does make sense for Google to simply apply this to their current algorithm. Creating this barrier of clean code does weed out a lot of garbage. Also the blogs are often clean code because of the their design. So blogs will start to rank much higher. Another thing I learned is that sites like .gov and .edu sites are Web Accessible compliant by very strict policies.

I think that Google Accessible Search will soon be a major addition to Google’s primary search engine. One way to take advantage of that is to make the website very accessible.

Now I will go back to talking about a popular search engine marketing firm and that would be USWeb that is now an industry leader with a proven track record in search engine optimization. USWeb will optimize websites to ensure that that website achieves and maintains high rankings for certain keywords and is in the Internet's leading search engines and directories that includes Google, Inktomi, Yahoo, AOL, MSN.

How To Make More Dividends

One thing about buying stocks is that one does not have to rely on dividend paying stocks to make dividend like income in the portfolio. The investor can easily make an extra 5%, 10% or more over a one year time period. There are some large companies out there that seem to never pay dividends. Loyal shareholders tend to stay with these stocks while the companies sit on billions of dollars in cash. The truth is that some companies may never pay dividends. They tend to use profits to fund acquisitions, aggressive research programs, or as rainy day reserves. There are investors who don't want to sell their stock but would like to raise some cash. There are hundreds of shares of stock, maybe thousands, that sit in investors' portfolios and those shares could be putting stacks of cash in their owners' pockets.

It is now easier than ever to squeeze dividend-like income from non-dividend paying stocks. What happens is that most stocks offer publicly traded options. One can make these transactions with the broker that is similar to buying and selling stocks. A call option gives another investor the right to buy shares at a price that can be set anytime before a certain date. That way a premium can be collected by selling the call and the investor then gets the premium, in cash, on the day the option is sold.

Options trading is another stategy.

The very heavily-traded stocks include Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOG), and Ebay (EBAY). Option premiums fluctuate but the examples below illustrate returns whatever one might expect over the period shown for every thousand shares of the stock. It is easy to sell options each month, up to 12 times a year, after they expire. It's not unusual to see return rates of 12% over sixty days, which works out to an astounding 72% annual return just on stocks that one has in the portfolio. Of course brokerage commissions and taxes will affect actual returns. Along with a complete suite of educational materials and premium toll-free customer support, PowerOptions provides the essential data needed to invest with stock options. Their patented SmartSearchXL® technology is not available anywhere else. It's the best way to Find, Compare, Analyze, and Make Money On Stock Option Trading.

Ways To Keep The Computer Clean....

This is always a number one concern for all of us since now we all depend on our PCs for a lot of things whether it is fun things or business.

I found a new site where they sell excellent software site where they sell downloads for the System Cleaner that is used for defragging, cleaning, optimizing, removing invalid and error producing entries, and a privacy protector. This is the site to visit and try their products; http://www.pointstone.com .

Yes, you can now buy the registry cleaner and defragger as well as the Internet accelerator where you can have more speed on your web browsing experience. The privacy protector gets rid of unwanted clutter and keeps information secure. Then there is the startup manager that controls which programs are executed at Windows startup. The Internet extension manager manages browser extensions and diagnoses and resolves conflicts by temporarily disabling them. The disk space explorer displays hard disk usage and analyzes which area take most space on the disk.

Other side benefits of this site is the support section as well as a blog where they give updates on what to look for as far as using their products as well as behind the scenes news. The bargains on this site are also excellent.

Trouble In The Garden....

This is my first year gardening since we moved here and I had to have space dug out for garden beds..ok so one would think that is a clean and fresh start although there are always hidden problems....there will always be weeds and then what if a squirrel buries something...

Now half my flower seeds never came up but the ones that did really look beautiful and I have some pictures posted in my garden blog.

Now I find out from the gardening forum that there are unwanted trees in my garden...they just sprouted last month and already they are a waist high and when I posted pics yesterday...several people came forward and stated that those were pecan saplings...so I am wondering how did those get in the garden since I have no pecan trees nor know anyone with those....they told me that a squirrel could have buried the seeds or a neighbor may have dropped one and the squirrel found it and buried it there....

Now I have to trim those down and wait until the season is over so I can pour the poison....another huge headache......

My White Castle Story

I sometimes get hungry late at night so then I decide I want a White Castle. I love their slyders. Two of my favorite slyders are the cheeseburger and the fish with cheese. I love cheeseburgers as it stands and I also love fish sandwiches.

Believe it or not, the slyders are also nutritious as I found out from this following website http://www.whitecastle.com . They are low in carbs and calories which is good for those who want to lose weight. I also have a White Castle conveniently located near me. They have won me as a lifetime customer. I highly recommend this place for sandwiches and to have their slyders.

Downloading Music....

I first started with Napster and then found there were not many songs as some of the other companies have and that I was paying a lot more so I switched to Frostwire and got a much better deal and I have more songs that I can download.

Now the catch to downloading is that one has to have the artist or the song title and as I found out last night, even that was not enough.

Now there was a scene in the movie City By The Sea that had a restaurant scene and the jukebox was playing something from the 1950s and I never knew the name of it, so I just did a soundtrack search for City By The Sea and then found it and when I typed it in my search for the music downloading nothing valid came up. So I had to do some more sleuthing until I could come up with more information and then my search finally proved fruitful.

Now I have to get my iPod.

An Easy Business To Run

If anyone wants an easy and fun business to run as well as with very little investment, ButtonBiz.com is the way to go since all there is to buy is the button making maching along with some designs that one may be interested in putting on their buttons.

Now if I went along with this, I would love to have a few designs like "Save Our Trees", "Stop Global Warming", "Deflate Gas Prices", "Buy American Made Items" and "Say No To Drugs". These are a just a few of the examples I have mentioned. The list can go one. By going to this website, there is a demo of how to use the machine: Button Maker . One gets to see how the buttons are made and there is an online catalog listed there along with the shopping cart feature. Then another useful website just to get ideas would be http://www.prickie.com/ . That website has many designs to choose from and it is easy to get creative with that.

There are no limits as to what type of buttons to make and the possibilities are endless. If one just wants to put graphics on there, that is a big possibility and buttons are also used to convey messages as well. They can be used to sell or just to give away to family and friends.

Another good part about this is it seems like a fun money maker and it looks like a big profit maker as well.

BB Nominations And Veto

The other day James who is the HOH this week nominated Will (the doctor who won back in BB2) and George. Will claimes he wants to go home but who is going to believe him? George was nominated since they think he is sneaky.

They just showed the veto contest and George won the veto so he took himself off the block and now Jase was put on the block. He is not at all happy that he may be going home. He was pretty sneaky his own season and Nakomis got him out that year and so the BB6 people are leary as far as keeping him in the game.

They need to know that Dani and Marcellas are both playing both sides.

Biased Decisions In The Paralympic Committee

Nancy Burpee who is a world class swimmer made an attempt to participate in the 2004 Paralympic Games that was held in Athens, Greece since the United States team was selected at the US Olmpic trials. Ms. Burpee already had world records in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle at the trials held in Minnesota.

Now here is the catch, Ms. Burpee was disqualified by an Australian referee on a procedural techicality. After her disqualification, Ms. Burpee called Mr. Kevin Simmons, who is a partner at Simmons, Jannace, & Stagg and asked the law firm to intercede on her behalf to veto the disqualification. She also asked that the firm take action against the United States Olympic Committee to require that the committee name her to the Olmpic team. The law firm represented Ms. Burpee on a pro bono basis.

The law firm then began arbitration under the United States Olympic Committee Rules and live testimony was taken from swim referees in Canada and Australia. Simmons, Jannace & Stagg stated that the Australian referee showed bias against Ms. Burpee by making various comments meaning that this Australian referee did not want Ms. Burpee competing against an Australian paralympic swimmer. The law firm also stated that the United States Paralympic swim trials were not held in accordance with the paralympic rules.

Unfortunately even with all these efforts, an independent arbitrator ruled against Ms. Burpee and declined to force the United States Olympic Committee to name her to the Paralympic Team. Ms. Burpee has moved on and is continuing with her swimming career and will compete in the World Championships in the upcoming year.

Another Vacation To Plan.....

I know I have mentioned Florida many times and yes I don't ever get it out of my mind since I have always loved going there just to get a break....

Now I love Disney World and I plan to one day see the whole place that can no longer be covered in a whole day like it use to be....

Let me just get my frequent flyer miles and then spend them on flying to Orlando and I can do that the next time they have the poetry convention in Orlando since I am always submitting my poetry to them and they keep sending me these plans....

Now to hit two birds with one stone, I can see Disney World and to save money on lodging, I can instead do without a hotel and stay in one of their rental condos that save quite a bit of money...yes that is me always looking for ways to save and yet have a great time.....these condos have one to three bedroom and you would be paying that same amount for a hotel room...these also have benefits for the whole family....now at http://www.condoexpress.com you will notice they have the Sheraton Vistana Resort that offers special pricing...then at the Liki Tiki Village, they have an onsite water park for the guests...now that is very tempting since I am a water park fan....

New HOH Contest.....

As we know Nakomis got evicted last night and now Diane is there and do I ever know that if she ever wins HOH, she will go after Kaysar and the other S6ers since people never forget that they were nominated....she is also a friend of Nakomis so I know she is not happy that Nak is gone....In my opinion even though Kaysar stated that he though Nak is a good player, she was just being a floater this season and they need to get rid of the floaters....

I mean like play the game or leave....now Kaysar made a deal with chilltown that he won't nominate them if just in case one of them got HOH, they put up the floaters but are they going to do it? No, since Mike and Will know not to win HOH....Will plans to skate this season thinking that is how he will win.....

I say we get rid of chilltown....but since James won the HOH, he may not put them up.....

Restyling Wardrobe Within One's Budget.....

I am fashion crazy whether I look the part or not.....Janelle Pierzina may have a lot more money then a lot of soccer moms but I have seen some very very sharp looking soccer moms.....

Now if I really want to dress like Angelina Jolie, I can draw circles around her and for a lot less money....since I even design my own clothese more than buy them, I can dress better than her LOL!!!

Guess what!!!! Forget that you cannot afford her clothes, you can still dress a lot better than her whether you design your clothes or not...

Just go over to http://www.chicshopatlanta.com and they play very nice music and it is a very easy tour there and you will find that you can get a complete wardrobe revamp for all under $500.00 and that is right...that is the figure they give and you can be guaranteed that you will look better than a lot of your favorite celebs...

You can also get a makeover and there are several testimonials on their website as well as a photo gallery on the before and after.....

Now I know what to do when I have my first $500.00 saved up and then yes I will make a reservation and you can have that done just by providing your email address and what you would like done...

BB 7 Scandal exposed....

Now I have heard this from many sources and I never knew of this name until a couple of days ago since when is there time for me to be a reality TV junkie not that there is nothing with it...in fact, I wish I could see all the reality shows....

Now whoever thought that someone who is not in the BB7 house and never was in the show BB would impact this season's game...that is right and this is coming from joker's update....Toni Ferrari who has been on other reality shows once roomed with Diane Henry and it has been confirmed by both parties that they are no longer friends...so how does Toni Ferrari handle this but call up all the S6ers and tell them that Jase and Diane have the Mr. and Mrs. Smith alliance....

Now let us all remember that Jase showed back in his own season that he had an obsession with Brad Pitt and wanted to be just like him...now the other HGs in this season suspect the secret alliance since they are never seen in the house speaking to one another so they are all suspicious and feel just like what Danielle from BB5 stated "Yes, it is the Mr. and Mrs. Smith Alliance."....Janelle also confirmed she got a phone call from Ms. Ferrari.....

Interesting how all these twist come in this show.....

History Of Aurora and DeKalb

Just the other day, I went to visit DeKalb since I like to go there for nostalgia and I once did live there a while back. I hadn't visited there in a while so I drove there the other day and spent a few hours there. I still think it is a very pretty and quaint little town. Northern Illinois University is located there and it is the barbed wire capitol of the world. There are a lot of old homes there and do I ever wish that I could own them.

What did I end up doing was checking out their real estate listings and and house prices and I saw it costs more to buy a home there than what it costs where I live to own a home and I don't live in a shack. LOL!!!! Now I was not really serious about moving to DeKalb, I just wanted to see how much their houses costs there and what all is available.

Now there is another town close by to DeKalb but it is in other counties (Kane, DuPage, Will, and Kendall all combined) instead of DeKalb county. It is The City Of Aurora that was founded in 1834 and then in 1837 it was incorporated into a city when their Post Office was established. Aurora is also called "The City Of Lights" because it is the first city in the United States to use electric street lights so within 15 miles of each other we see a lot history. Aurora is 45 miles southwest of Chicago and I just mentioned the street lights and then DeKalb is 60 miles west of Chicago and invented the barbed wire. DeKalb was also founded in the mid 1800s and has retained some of their old buildings.

Aurora now has a population of over 157,000 and houses six school districts and has two community colleges; college of DuPage being one of them.

The real estate market for Aurora includes condos, townhouses, single family houses and more. Single family properties have been sold for last year in the price range of $56,100 to $975,000. The condos and townhouses have ranged from $52,000 to $578,000. This is similar to prices with a Chicago Realtor .

Aurora is closest to the Fox Valley Park District. The Park Disrict covers 47 square miles of land and three different towns including Aurora. The Fox Valley Park District has golf courses, an aquatic center and a few fitness centers, plus much more.

Aurora also has a zoo that is open daily with free admission.