The 9/11 Report ( Illustrated Graphic Adaptation ) for Every American !!

Book Description
The 9/11 Report for Every American


Using every skill and storytelling method Jacobson and Colón have learned over the decades, they have produced the most accessible version of the 9/11 Report.

Here is the link to the book (Graphic Adaptation)



Jacobson’s text frequently follows word for word the original report, faithfully captures its investigative thoroughness, and covers its entire scope, even including the Commission’s final report card.

Colón’s stunning artwork powerfully conveys the facts, insights, and urgency of the original.

Published on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States, an event that has left no aspect of American foreign or domestic policy untouched, The 9/11 Report puts at every American’s fingertips the most defining event of the century.


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Can you train to read as fast as the guy in the Guinness Book of Records?

Remember speed-reading? John F. Kennedy, Evelyn Wood, savants sweeping their hands across pages of text and swallowing them whole?





You can read much faster than you already do. Really! But there's a secret. The secret to reading faster is …

Read on at ...... http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=74542


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Julie70

Hybrid cars are making much sense!!

Just last summer, hybrid cars didn't make much financial sense. One year and 35 cents a gallon later, they still might not, but they're getting much closer, according to a recent study from car-buying research Web site Edmunds.com.

"Hybrid shoppers in previous years tended to be more concerned about the environment than they were about saving money," said analyst Alex Rosten. "Now, with gas prices the way they are, people are really looking at hybrids to save money."

And, in some cases, the savings are there for the taking.




With help from a hefty tax credit, consumers driving their vehicle 15,000 miles a year completely recover the premium paid for on the Ford , Escape Hybrid and Toyota Prius within three years.

Read on at ....http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/chybrid_1.html



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By spaceodissey

Make a Survival Kit out of an Altoids Tin

The Pocket Kit
Fitting inside an altoids tin, this kit is easy to keep on hand at all times








This is ideal for anyone who wants to have the essential survival gear along each time they head into the fields.

Everything fits in the Altoids tin. It fulfills all the component groups except for shelter and protection, but add a survival blanket to your pocket and you’ll be covered.


Go to this Link :==> http://www.fieldandstream.com/fieldstream/photogallery/article/0,13355,1225788_0,00.html


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Homebuilder CEOs: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

The lead story on the cover of Wall Street Journal discussed the slumping housing market and a CEO of a major homebuilder as saying,

“It would be difficult to characterize the position of the home builders as other than in a hard landing.”

Some have made the argument that housing must be really bad since even the CEOs of homebuilding companies are so bearish.

Read the complete article on Ticker Sense ...

Hey Ballmer! Why yank the leaked videos ?

Here are some really funny "leaked inside training videos" of Microsoft. I found it HILARIOUS...but it may be because I am in software industry !!

Of course, not every one will find it funny.

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/08/hey_ballmer_why.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2326336,00.html

The latest rumor is that Microsoft has "started an investigation after two supposedly private training videos made for the software company by the comedian appeared on the internet."

This raises the question of just why these two hilarious Faux Training videos were yanked from You Tube in the first place. You cannot blame Microsoft for the content, which is mild compared with even Comedy Central, (forget HBO). And the gentle insults to Bill Gates? They are so soft-handed, it couldn't be that.

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/08/hey_ballmer_why.html

The Science of Getting Rich : Free Book Download

Here I found a Free inspiring book for you to read when you have time. Do read it and post your opinions and comments on the same.

The name is "The Science of getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles








It is a free download. the book is about having a Positive Mental Attitude in Life.
I liked reading the book.

I am copying the preface of the book below:

ABOUT EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO, a man I’d never met sent me a book I’d never heard of by a man who’d been dead nearly 90 years.

That little book changed my entire life. As I put into practice the principles you’ll learn about in this book, the results were astonishing — and they began almost instantly and continue to this day.

When The Science of Getting Rich arrived in the mail that afternoon I immediately ripped open the package, sat down, and read it with an open mind — mostly because the title was just so intriguing.

And even though I must admit I found some of the old-fashioned language and some of the ideas in the first part a bit confusing, there was something about it that compelled me to reread those little confusing bits two or three times until I got it!
Once I did that, I couldn’t stop reading until I’d read the whole thing!
Right away I began to put into practice what the book outlines ... and everything began to change.

“Coincidences" happened — happy ones that led to connections with people ... that led to more connections... that led to money beginning to flow toward me in increasingly larger amounts and from several sources, including new and unexpected ones.
And even though changing your habitual thinking is difficult and I’m still not as good at it as I intend to be, my businesses began to “click,” my income doubled , then tripled, and continues to rise... my cramped city apartment has given way to a spacious waterfront house ... I’ve established rewarding new relationships with many generous, successful, wealthy people ... and opportunities to be, do,have, and give more continue to show up at my doorstep almost daily.
It’s amazing — and wonderful.

Until this book arrived, nothing I had ever read or heard before had explained to me so clearly thatthere are universal laws at work regarding wealth and success and that if we’ll just work with those laws

— go with the tide instead of trying to swim against it (usually unknowingly) — the results we want will begin to come to us. That if we will scientifically reproduce the causes of wealth, we will invariably reproduce the results.

Now, right off the bat author Wallace D. Wattles says that instead of questioning how these principles work, you’ll need simply to accept them and begin to practice them. So I did that, even though as I read I did find myself resisting from time to time and thinking, “Well, I don’t know if I can agree with that.” But I’d already decided just to accept (at least temporarily) each premise as if I did thoroughly
believ it.

By the time I finished the book I understood why he had included that warning. You see, some of what you’ll read or hear will most likely challenge some of your previous thinking. That seems to be the case for most people.

But keep on, and you’ll soon see how Mr. Wattles beautifully builds each chapter on what he presents in the preceding ones. I think you’ll find yourself saying — as I and many others have — “Oh, now I see why he said that. Now I see how it all fits together.” I believe, also, that you’ll find it absolutely refreshing to know that to get rich by the method outlined here, it is essential that you embrace and practice what we all know as the Golden Rule ... that the daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you ... and that

The Science of Getting Rich by accomplishing your financial dreams through this method, everyone with whom you come into contact will also have more.

A far cry from the dog-eat-dog, claw your way to the top, anything for a buck mentality so many believe to be the only way to wealth.
Pay close attention to the message of this book with an open mind.

Get a free copy of the entire printed version (what you’re reading now) at The Science of Getting Rich Network website —
www.scienceofgettingrich.net — and read it. Print it out and give it to your friends. Distribute it on your own website if you like. Join the Network and get the free weekly ezine to share in the insights and amazing experiences of others. Focus constantly on your own personal vision and share that vision with
other like-minded people who are doing the same.
You WILL see results!
You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality. You are a person of infinite worth and unique possibility. Even if you don’t think of yourself as a creative person, and even if you’ve failed before, and even if you think you’ve tried everything, open your mind to this book.

You’ve probably heard the saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” That has certainly held true for me and many, many others, and perhaps you’re ready, too — right now. If you’re not yet where you want to be in terms of income and your own personal success, the problem may not be what you’re doing so much as how you’re doing it. And that begins with how you think.
If you want to change your life, you may just need to change your mind!
—Rebecca Fine
Olympia, WA
November, 1999

Oldest man turns 115 in Puerto Rico

He attributed his longevity to a healthy diet and avoiding alcohol.

"I never damaged my body with liquor," said Mercado, who quit a 76-year smoking habit when he was 90.

Read on....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060822/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/puerto_rico_oldest_person

Giant Swiss Army Knife offers 85 tools

Wenger, the manufacturer of the classic Swiss Army Knife, has revealed a 9-inch long, 2-pound "knife" which carries 85 instruments, or: almost every tool that has ever been on a Swiss Army Knife, ever. The list includes seven different knives, a golf shoe spike wrench, a bike chain rivet setter, and a laser pointer with a 300ft range
Read on ..

http://gadgets.engadget.com/2006/08/24/giant-swiss-army-knife-offers-85-tools/

The man who said CHEESE at every meal !!

WACKY Chris Gillett is the toast of the art world — after snapping everything he ate for a year.

The dad of two, 48, took a digital photo of every breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack he munched in 2005.
Read on more...


http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006390100,00.html