Flipping Outrageous!!! FLip it!!!

I just recently read this article and could only retort a simple question back...

Fla. bans sex offenders from hurricane shelters

Rather than ban them, why not create them a specific shelter?

Humanity is blinded by naivet, stubbornness and lack of positive forces.

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Your Blogging Type is Artistic and Passionate

You see your blog as the ultimate personal expression - and work hard to make it great. One moment you may be working on a new dramatic design for your blog... And the next, you're passionately writing about your pet causes. Your blog is very important - and you're careful about who you share it with.

What's Your Blogging Personality?

Your Element Is Fire

Your passion and emotion are as obvious as the brightest flame. You make sparks fly, and your passion always has the potential to burst out. You are exciting and creative - and completely unpredictable. You sometimes exercise control, and sometimes you let yourself go. Friends describe you as sensitive, spirited, and compulsive. Bright and blazing with intensity, you seem mysterious and moody to many.

What's Your Element?

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It is Flipping Everywhere!!!

I have been speaking of just flipping it. Turning around. It is everywhere.

Here is another example of a woman using the flip, this time from Adults to Children.

Houston Woman Takes Child's Perspective In Parenting Book

I will repeat. Everywhere.

Anyone care to listen? It will take more than one conversation.

Pilf.

Well Well, Can I get an I told You So?

Well, well...

Nothing. Just another skillfully timed release of informatiomn regarding space,at a time when the skeptics have gathered regarding the recent space shuttle mission.

Well I stated this in my post The Whispered 10th Planet and low and behold, look what I find tonight.

Hacker forced new planet discovery out of the closet

10th planet found two years ago

By Nick Farrell: Monday 01 August 2005, 07:39

BOFFINS WHO discovered that there was a 10th planet in our solar system, had been sitting on the news for years until a hacker turned over their servers. Michael Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, announced the discovery over the weekend. But according to the South African Sunday Telegraph, here, the briefing was hastily arranged after Brown received word that his secure website containing the discovery had been hacked. The unnamed hacker was threatening to release the information It transpired that Brown and his friends had been sitting on the information since 2003 when they snapped it with a 122cm telescope at the Palomar Observatory. However they couldn’t confirm much about it until it was analysed again last January. So in the time honoured tradition of boffins everywhere they decided to keep the data from the common people until they knew a bit more.

Brown said that data is still being processed and it will take at least six months before astronomers can determine the planet’s exact size. The planet seems to be about 1.5 times the size of Pluto, which is usually dubbed a planetoid because it is so small.

The find should further stuff up modern astrologers - they still have not got the hang of Uranus.

Which brings me to the ultimate question: "What do we know and what is left untold?"

Here is that Flip again...

And yet again, another flip side.

A drop disturbs the water’s surface, causing ripples to form.

Credit: Art Explosion

Water may be one of the most familiar substances on the planet, but it certainly isn’t ordinary. In fact, water’s unique chemical properties make it so complicated that even after decades of research, scientists still have much to learn about this remarkable and versatile substance.

That’s water, as in the clear, sparkling fluid that covers three quarters of the Earth’s surface—not to mention the basis of life as we know it, and possessor of the world’s most recognizable chemical formula (H2O). Water is everywhere. And yet, scientists are still learning about its properties.

Water simply doesn’t behave like other liquids.

If you drop an ice cube into a glass of water, it loats. This happens because water xpands as it freezes, which makes the solid form less dense than the liquid. But most other liquids do just the opposite; they shrink and become more dense as they freeze, so the solid form sinks. If water behaved that way, ice would accumulate on the bottom of lakes and oceans during the winter, and would have difficulty thawing in the spring. If possible, this would have consequences for aquatic life.

Another surprising characteristic of water is that it boils at a very high mperature—100 degrees Celsius at sea level—compared to similarly sized molecules. If water behaved like other liquids, it would exist as a gas at the temperatures and pressures found on Earth, and life as we know it couldn’t survive.

By Nicole
Mahoney

www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/water/index_low.jsp?id=properties

The Whispered 10th Planet

A few days ago, I stumbled across the headlines "10th Planet Discovered".Immediately my heart started jumping. "What is this all about?" I asked myself,several times within the first few hours of knowing. In the meantime, I was filled with anxiety as I waited for the next report. The drama was imagined with similar anxiety and perked eyes like a few weeks back in regards to London, this day while surfing the net. Waiting for that next release of information, coming soon.

"I know it will be soon."

Nothing. Just another skillfully timed release of informatiomn regarding space, at a time when the skeptics have gathered regarding the recent space shuttle mission. Honestly, I knew some type of profound information was coming. I remember the exact day, I lay on the couch watching the news. The report was in regards to the direct "techno rocket" we had launched directly at a comet heading torwards us.

July 4th was the reported date, thiis precise execution was going to take place. As soon as I heard this precise date, I envisioned some profound discovery coming from the analyzed data from the collision. Keep in mind this was 3 months, maybe 4 prior to estimated impact.

Including the fact, a 10th planet was far from what I had envisioned.My belief was, we had explored the depths of space as far as we could take it.Already knowing that we were not the only solar system. Which means we had explored in thought outside the box, without being close to the window. Mostly affirmed by the so called 10th planet, which happens to be the first the first time an object so big has been found in our solar system since the discovery of Pluto 75 years ago.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered the ninth planet in the solar system on the afternoon of February 18, 1930 while he meticulously examined a pair of deep sky photographs at Lowell Observatory. Tombaugh exposed the photographs on two nights in late January using the Observatory's 13-inch Abbott Lawrence Lowell Telescope. Then, as part of the carefully planned and executed planet search, Tombaugh "blinked" the two exposures using a machine called a comparator,looking for motion of objects captured on film.


"One need only visit Lowell Observatory and view copies of the discovery images through the same eyepiece used by Clyde Tombaugh to appreciate what a remarkable discovery this was," said Bob Millis, Director. "The images are extremely faint and testify to the skill, concentration, and dedication that Clyde Tombaugh brought to his work."


http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16070

You see, space is filled with nothing but space. On top of that everything has an exact opposite. So where we see this massive amount of space and distance, in return we get compacted, solid bundles of substance. Webbed so tight, it created nodes, over nodes over nodes.

primarily for its mathematical characteristics. Each computer was a node, and each link on a Web page was a connection between nodes - a classic graph structure.

www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html

You see, we have all the information here. However we need to free the minds in order to get to the truth. Free the minds of shame and guilt and remorse or regret. It is these exact feelings that has trapped the truth for the most part.

They have released a drawing of the planet. Ths artist's concept, released by NASA, shows the planet catalogued as 2003UB313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our Sun can be seen in the distance. The new planet, which is yet to be formally named, is at least as big as Pluto and about three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto. It is very cold and dark. The planet was discovered by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif.

Years ago, when pluto was discovered, all we could do was imagine and dream. Those dreams got us where we are today, combined with alot more truths.This picture, once again is a concept. As we are at the drawing stages of a beautiful future ahead.

Come together, so we can soar even further. Unite.

Link: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16070

The Birth of Google

The Birth of Google

Larry thought Sergey was
arrogant. Sergey thought Larry was obnoxious. But, their obsession with
backlinks just might be the
start of something big.

By John
Battelle

It began with an argument. When he first met Larry Page in the summer of 1995, Sergey Brin was a second-year grad student in the computer science department at Stanford University. Gregarious by nature, Brin had volunteered as a guide of sorts for potential first-years - students who had been admitted, but were still deciding whether to attend. His duties included showing recruits the campus and leading a tour of nearby San Francisco. Page, an engineering major from the University of Michigan, ended up in Brin's group.

It was hardly love at first sight. Walking up and down the city's hills that day, the two clashed incessantly, debating, among other things, the value of various approaches to urban planning. "Sergey is pretty social; he likes meeting people," Page recalls, contrasting that quality with his own reticence. "I thought he was pretty obnoxious. He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too."

"We both found each other obnoxious," Brin counters when I tell him of Page's response. "But we say it a little bit jokingly. Obviously we spent a lot of time talking to each other, so there was something there. We had a kind of bantering thing going." Page and Brin may have clashed, but they were clearly drawn together - two swords sharpening one another.

When Page showed up at Stanford a few months later, he selected human-computer interaction pioneer Terry Winograd as his adviser. Soon thereafter he began searching for a topic for his doctoral thesis. It was an important decision. As Page had learned from his father, a computer science professor at Michigan State, a dissertation can frame one's entire academic career. He kicked around 10 or so intriguing ideas, but found himself attracted to the burgeoning World Wide Web.

Page didn't start out looking for a better way to search the Web. Despite the fact that Stanford alumni were getting rich founding Internet companies, Page found the Web interesting primarily for its mathematical characteristics. Each computer was a node, and each link on a Web page was a connection between nodes - a classic graph structure. "Computer scientists love graphs," Page tells me. The World Wide Web, Page theorized, may have been the largest graph ever created, and it was growing at a breakneck pace. Many useful insights lurked in its vertices, awaiting discovery by inquiring graduate students. Winograd agreed, and Page set about pondering the link structure of the Web.

Citations and Back Rubs

It proved a productive course of study. Page noticed that while it was trivial to follow links from one page to another, it was nontrivial to discover links back. In other words, when you looked at a Web page, you had no idea what pages were linking back to it. This bothered Page. He thought it would be very useful to know who was linking to whom.

Why? To fully understand the answer to that question, a minor detour into the world of academic publishing is in order. For professors - particularly those in the hard sciences like mathematics and chemistry - nothing is as important as getting published. Except, perhaps, being cited.

Academics build their papers on a carefully constructed foundation of citation: Each paper reaches a conclusion by citing previously published papers as proof points that advance the author's argument. Papers are judged not only on their original thinking, but also on the number of papers they cite, the number of papers that subsequently cite them back, and the perceived importance of each citation. Citations are so important that there's even a branch of science devoted to their study: bibliometrics.

Fair enough. So what's the point? Well, it was Tim Berners-Lee's desire to improve this system that led him to create the World Wide Web. And it was Larry Page and Sergey Brin's attempts to reverse engineer Berners-Lee's World Wide Web that led to Google. The needle that threads these efforts together is citation - the practice of pointing to other people's work in order to build up your own.

Which brings us back to the original research Page did on such backlinks, a project he came to call BackRub.

He reasoned that the entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation - after all, what is a link but a citation? If he could divine a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Page puts it "the Web would become a more valuable place."

At the time Page conceived of BackRub, the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them. The computing resources required to crawl such a beast were well beyond the usual bounds of a student project. Unaware of exactly what he was getting into, Page began building out his crawler.

The idea's complexity and scale lured Brin to the job. A polymath who had jumped from project to project without settling on a thesis topic, he found the premise behind BackRub fascinating. "I talked to lots of research groups" around the school, Brin recalls, "and this was the most exciting project, both because it tackled the Web, which represents human knowledge, and because I liked Larry."

The Audacity of Rank

In March 1996, Page pointed his crawler at just one page - his homepage at Stanford - and let it loose. The crawler worked outward from there.

Crawling the entire Web to discover the sum of its links is a major undertaking, but simple crawling was not where BackRub's true innovation lay. Page was naturally aware of the concept of ranking in academic publishing, and he theorized that the structure of the Web's graph would reveal not just who was linking to whom, but more critically, the importance of who linked to whom, based on various attributes of the site that was doing the linking. Inspired by citation analysis, Page realized that a raw count of links to a page would be a useful guide to that page's rank. He also saw that each link needed its own ranking, based on the link count of its originating page. But such an approach creates a difficult and recursive mathematical challenge - you not only have to count a particular page's links, you also have to count the links attached to the links. The math gets complicated rather quickly.

Fortunately, Page was now working with Brin, whose prodigious gifts in mathematics could be applied to the problem. Brin, the Russian-born son of a NASA scientist and a University of Maryland math professor, emigrated to the US with his family at the age of 6. By the time he was a middle schooler, Brin was a recognized math prodigy. He left high school a year early to go to UM. When he graduated, he immediately enrolled at Stanford, where his talents allowed him to goof off. The weather was so good, he told me, that he loaded up on nonacademic classes - sailing, swimming, scuba diving. He focused his intellectual energies on interesting projects rather than actual course work.

Together, Page and Brin created a ranking system that rewarded links that came from sources that were important and penalized those that did not. For example, many sites link to IBM.com. Those links might range from a business partner in the technology industry to a teenage programmer in suburban Illinois who just got a ThinkPad for Christmas. To a human observer, the business partner is a more important link in terms of IBM's place in the world. But how might an algorithm understand that fact?

Page and Brin's breakthrough was to create an algorithm - dubbed PageRank after Page - that manages to take into account both the number of links into a particular site and the number of links into each of the linking sites. This mirrored the rough approach of academic citation-counting. It worked. In the example above, let's assume that only a few sites linked to the teenager's site. Let's further assume the sites that link to the teenager's are similarly bereft of links. By contrast, thousands of sites link to Intel, and those sites, on average, also have thousands of sites linking to them. PageRank would rank the teen's site as less important than Intel's - at least in relation to IBM.

This is a simplified view, to be sure, and Page and Brin had to correct for any number of mathematical culs-de-sac, but the long and the short of it was this: More popular sites rose to the top of their annotation list, and less popular sites fell toward the bottom.

As they fiddled with the results, Brin and Page realized their data might have implications for Internet search. In fact, the idea of applying BackRub's ranked page results to search was so natural that it didn't even occur to them that they had made the leap. As it was, BackRub already worked like a search engine - you gave it a URL, and it gave you a list of backlinks ranked by importance. "We realized that we had a querying tool," Page recalls. "It gave you a good overall ranking of pages and ordering of follow-up pages."

Page and Brin noticed that BackRub's results were superior to those from existing search engines like AltaVista and Excite, which often returned irrelevant listings. "They were looking only at text and not considering this other signal," Page recalls. That signal is now better known as PageRank. To test whether it worked well in a search application, Brin and Page hacked together a BackRub search tool. It searched only the words in page titles and applied PageRank to sort the results by relevance, but its results were so far superior to the usual search engines - which ranked mostly on keywords - that Page and Brin knew they were onto something big.
Not only was the engine good, but Page and Brin realized it would scale as the Web scaled. Because PageRank worked by analyzing links, the bigger the Web, the better the engine. That fact inspired the founders to name their new engine Google, after googol, the term for the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeroes. They released the first version of Google on the Stanford Web site in August 1996 - one year after they met.

Among a small set of Stanford insiders, Google was a hit. Energized, Brin and Page began improving the service, adding full-text search and more and more pages to the index. They quickly discovered that search engines require an extraordinary amount of computing resources. They didn't have the money to buy new computers, so they begged and borrowed Google into existence - a hard drive from the network lab, an idle CPU from the computer science loading docks.

Using Page's dorm room as a machine lab, they fashioned a computational Frankenstein from spare parts, then jacked the whole thing into Stanford's broadband campus network. After filling Page's room with equipment, they converted Brin's dorm room into an office and programming center.

The project grew into something of a legend within the computer science department and campus network administration offices. At one point, the BackRub crawler consumed nearly half of Stanford's entire network bandwidth, an extraordinary fact considering that Stanford was one of the best-networked institutions on the planet. And in the fall of 1996 the project would regularly bring down Stanford's Internet connection.

"We're lucky there were a lot of forward-looking people at Stanford," Page recalls. "They didn't hassle us too much about the resources we were using."


A Company

As Brin and Page continued experimenting, BackRub and its Google implementation were generating buzz, both on the Stanford campus and within the cloistered world of academic Web research.

One person who had heard of Page and Brin's work was Cornell professor Jon Kleinberg, then researching bibliometrics and search technologies at IBM's Almaden center in San Jose. Kleinberg's hubs-and-authorities approach to ranking the Web is perhaps the second-most-famous approach to search after PageRank. In the summer of 1997, Kleinberg visited Page at Stanford to compare notes. Kleinberg had completed an early draft of his seminal paper, "Authoritative Sources," and Page showed him an early working version of Google. Kleinberg encouraged Page to publish an academic paper on PageRank.

Page told Kleinberg that he was wary of publishing. The reason? "He was concerned that someone might steal his ideas, and with PageRank, Page felt like he had the secret formula," Kleinberg told me. (Page and Brin eventually did publish.)

On the other hand, Page and Brin weren't sure they wanted to go through the travails of starting and running a company. During Page's first year at Stanford, his father died, and friends recall that Page viewed finishing his PhD as something of a tribute to him. Given his own academic upbringing, Brin, too, was reluctant to leave the program.

Brin remembers speaking with his adviser, who told him, "Look, if this Google thing pans out, then great. If not, you can return to graduate school and finish your thesis." He chuckles, then adds: "I said, 'Yeah, OK, why not? I'll just give it a try.'"

From The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, copyright © by John Battelle, to be published in September by Portfolio, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Battelle (battellemedia.com) was one of the founders of Wired.



http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html

Question of the Century

If you were to suddenly be stopped in your tracks, and told in order to proceed in life you must answer this question:

"What have you given back to humanity, in return for the gift
humanities creator gave you, which was life?"

What would your answer be?

From theXperience Network

Welcome: the Xperience of Truth
5/28/2005 Welcome!!! Enjoy theXperience

I speak for myself when I say that everyone is welcome, and it is up to each of you to make that decision on your own. This site will be the temporary location of the beginning of theXperienceNetwork.org. The vision is for willing and able people to communicate their thoughts, on the ideas and solutions to issues that we face today in our own communities. (SOLUTIONS not issues) Most importantly, the vision entails for people to share from Personal Xperience only, as anything else could very well be misinformation.

Diversity, will be the main ingredient, which is on both sides of the equation. It is also essential to Life's beauty. Some see the diversity, as exactly what is hindering the struggle, and others have perceived it as beauty all along. Individualized living skills, communication skills, combined w/ financial planning and management solutions, are the areas of topic, to start. Along with culinary and health habits. The reason behind this, is they represent the modules of living skills for theXperienceHouse, which will be created by theXperienceNetwork.

TheXperienceNetwork will include many generations of ethnic, religious, political and social backgrounds. The sole purpose for the diversity being that collectively we can build a platform. One that will remain financially secure, even though it will always remain a not for profit organization. Our purpose will be designed to give back to Humanity "The Gift".. All the while, respecting and appreciating this "gift" humanities Creator gave us all.

What "Gift" am I speaking?

The Gift of the Truth...The Truth which lies in each and every Xperience. If you have not experienced, you do not know the truth. You may believe you do, but in reality, you do not. Whoever, or whatever we believe our creator is, shall not become an issue. However, by being an active member of the network, you will be blessed with opportunities when someone may ask what your belief system may be.The belief system of theXperienceNetwork is niether religious or spiritual, instead individually and harmoniously together.

Together, our vision is that one of us learns to make their own choices, based on their own belief, through listening to someone else's knowledge and Xperience. Through our interactions of sharing our Xperiences, we shall forever remain focused on the "Good of the Whole", with the hope that someday, someone, will know a deeper meaning of their own personal belief. This kind of communication will give them the freedom they rightfully should own. We will learn to accept each other as who we are, understanding that we are one and the same. However, we must exercise and form habits of an open mind, to all points of views, as it will become valuable to life's full circle. The diversity may result in challenging and difficult situations, but we must never leave any encounter closed minded. We must always be looking for the lesson, in hopes it does not become the lost lesson. The one lost, in that one miniscule moment of self, where our pride and ego was too much to let go..

Our purpose, is for the "good of the whole", focusing on all of society. This will provide an opportunity, to give societies challenged, an environment where they can not only learn to live, but also have a view on life that they honestly can own. Most importantly, a time for the oldest generations still with us, to openly share the most aged and rarest gifts. Without this opportunity, some people might have never had the opportunity to embrace and respect these 3rd and 4th generation Xperiences, never even knowing that they were not alone.

We will do this through an open door policy, where all records and books will be publicly posted. This will not only give faith to each other, that our purpose remains for "The Good of the Whole". It will also bring together a network of real life friends, families and virtual acquaintances, who once were alone and had no one else to turn to. They will be able to come to a virtual site, where the answer may lie, releasing them from the bondage from feeling like they were all alone. This network will communicate honestly and humbly, sharing with each other "FIRST HAND" Xperience only, in hopes someone else will better understand and accept their own Xperience.

Respect, through open-minds and well thought out views, is key to understanding that this is a place to give your true view, in hope that it may free the soul of another.

The only truth in life, is what you have Xperienced....

...Your Xperience is neither right nor wrong, IT IS THE TRUTH!!!

Keep in mind, "The Truth"... just may set someone else free.