من فضلك اقرأ المقال لآخره بعناية فستستفيد ان شاء الله
كيف تصبح ثرياً خلال أسابيع برأس مال قدره 6 دولار عندى الطريقة السهله والناجحة ان شاء الله .
- بدأت مع هذه الطريقة عندما قابلت صديق لى ورأيت معه كمية كبيرة من الدولارات وكانت كلها دولارات مفرده ( كل ورقه بدولار) فسألته كيف امتلك كل هذا المال ، فاجابنى بالأتى : كل ما عليك ان ترسل ( دولار واحد ) لكل عنوان من العناوين الموجوده فى هذه المقالة ، وبعد ذلك تضع اسمك وعنوانك فى المكان السادس من الأسماء ، وتنشر هذه المقاله على الأقل فى 200 مجموعة اخبارية news group او مجموعات المناقشة Discussion groups او مجموعات الدردشة Chat groups أو أى مكان من الممكن أن تنتشر فيه هذه المقالة على الانترنت ( وطبعا هناك الاف من هذه المجموعات على الانترنت ) ، وبعد التفكير قليلا والتحدث مع بعض الأصدقاء الذين قال لى معظمهم أن هذا كله ( نصب ) ، واجتاحنى احساس يمكن ان تكون انت تشعر به الآن وهو ان العملية غير صحيحه ولكنى فى لحظة فكرت وقلت : ماذا سأخسر ؟ كل ما ساتحمله 6 دولارات و 6 طوابع بريديه وبعض الوقت لنشر هذه المقاله على الانترنت .
- ولكن خمن ماذا حدث ( ولك ان تصدق او لا تصدق ) : فى خلال 7 ايام بدأت اتلقى خطابات بها الدولارات ، لقد صعقت أولا وقلت انها ستنتهى فورا ، ولكنها بالعكس بدات تزداد ، فى الاسبوع الاول تلقيت 25 دولار ، فى نهاية الأسبوع الثانى جمعت تقريباً 1000 دولار فى الأسبوع الثالث جمعت ( والحمد لله أولا) ما يقرب من 10000 دولار وما زالت تزداد.
انها والله تستحق ان تدفع فيها 6 دولار .
والآن دعنى اخبرك كيف يعمل هذا البرنامج ؟ والأهم لماذا يعمل ان هذه الطريقة شرعيه legal مائة بالمائة وليس بهل اى شىء غير قانونى ولك ان تسأل فى هذا.
من فضلك لاحظ : - اتبع التعليمات التى سأذكرها هنا بدقه وستجمع ان شاء الله أكثر من 30000 ( ثلاثون ألف دور) فى خلال 20 الى 60 يوم . - هذا البرنامج يظل ناجحا بسبب أمانة وصدق المشاركين فيه .
هذه هى أربع خطوات سهلة لكى تبدأ فى جمع المال ان شاء الله :
- الخطوة الأولى : - احضر 6 ورقات منفصله وأكتب هذه الجملة فى كل ورقه : PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST وتحتها أسمك وعنوانك. واحضر 6 دولارات وضع كل دولار بداخل كل ورقة ( استعمل ورق غامق اللون واثنى كل ورقة وضع بداخلها الدولار حتى لا يظهر فى المظروف ويسرق فى البريد) ، والان ضع كل ورقه بداخل مظروف واغلق المظروف. والأن أكتب على كل مظروف واحداً من العناوين التالية :
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- الخطوة الثانية : بعد ان تكتب الأسماء الستة السابقة على المظاريف امسح الاسم رقم (1) من هذه القائمة ، وحرك الأسماء الباقية كل اسم لأعلى خطوة ( رقم 2 يصبح رقم 1 ورقم 3 يصبح رقم 2 وهكذا) وبذلك يصبح رقم 6 فارغاً ، أكتب فيه اسمك وعنوانك .
- الخطوة الثالثة : - (رجاءا لا تغير شيئاً من هذه المقالة حتى يستفيد منها الناس جميعاً ان شاء الله) ، وبعد ذلك أنشر هذه المقاله على الأقل فى 200 مجموعة مجموعة اخبارية news groups او مجموعات مناقشة discussion groups او مجموعات دردشة chat او اى مكان يمكن ان تنتشر فيه، وتذكر انها كلما تنشرها أكثر كلما تلقيت مالاً أكثر وأسرع . و تذكر يا أخى ان هذا البرنامج يظل ناجحا بفضل أمانة وصدق المشاركين فيه .
- وسيستمر المال يأتى اليك وهكذا وحتى يصبح أسمك رقم (1) فى القائمة ستجد نفسك تتلقى الاف من الدولارات ( من الممكن ان تحتاج الى انشاء صندوق بريدى خاص بك لتتلقى عدد الخطابات الهائل الذى ستتلقاه ) .
كيف تنشر هذه المقالة فى المجموعات الأخبارية ومجموعات الدردشة : انت لا تحتاج لاعادة كتابة هذه المقاله فقط ضع مؤشر الماوس على بداية المقالة واسحب حتى تصل لآخرها ، ثم اختار copy من قائمة edit هذا سوف ينسخ المقاله فى الذاكرة. - افتح برنامج المفكرة note pad او اى برنامج تحرير نصوص وضع المؤشر فى بداية الصفحة ثم اختار paste من قائمة edit . هذا سوف يلصق نسخة من المقالة فى البرنامج ، ثم بعد ذلك يمكنك ان تضع اسمك فى المكان رقم (6) كما شرحنا، ثم احفظ الملف . - استخدم متصفح الانترنت الخاص بك لتبحث search عن مواقع المجموعات الاخبارية news groups او مواقع الدردشة chat او ما يسمى Forums التى يوجد بها مشاركات القراء وابعثها لكل أصدقائك وحفزهم لقرائتها. فى مواقع Forums او الـ messege Boards اختار New messege ثم حدد هذه المقالة من الملف ( بعد تعديل اسمك طبعاً) والصقها واختار لها subject جيدة ، ثم اختار post messege ، وتذكر تذكر تذكر كلما نشرتها أكثر كلما جاءك دولارات $$$ أكثر.
أخى انه الوقت لكى تصنع بعض المال بأسهل طريقة سوف تراها ، وهذا البرنامج اثبت لى اننى كنت خاطئا عندما فكرت بأنه غير حقيقى وأذكرك دائما ان كل ما ستتحمله هو 6 دولارات و 6 طوابع وبعض الوقت لنشر هذه المقالة. تذكر تذكر تذكر :أشترك فى هذا البرنامج بأمانة وصدق وسوف ينجح ولا تحاول ان تخدع أحدا لأنك ان فعلت سيفكر الأخرون فى خداعك
It's just all kinds of wrong When they call the latest kind of television “LED television”. To begin with, everyone knows that those huge sports stadium screens are LED-studded panels. Those are the real LED TVs that people know about. Call the 32-incher at Best Buy an LED TV, and people right away wonder if it's the same technology they've seen in the stadiums, only shrunk to living room size. Now nothing could be farther from the truth. The other reason it's misleading that they call it an LED TV is that it makes you think that it's a kind of television technology quite akin to the way LCD is a kind of television technology. Which it is not. So let's get to the bottom of this – what is the difference between LED and LCD TV?
Let's say that you're sitting in a room at night and you're reading a book. The book itself is not luminous or anything of course (it's a regular paper book, not an iPad), so you need to turn the lights on. You have two kinds of light in the room. One is a regular fluorescent strip light, and the other is one of those expensive new LED lighting fixtures that you got for $50. What if you turned the LED light on, and someone came in and remarked, “Oh, you're reading an LED book!" You'd look at them like they were crazy – what does it matter what kind of light you are reading the book by? That doesn't change the nature of the book you're reading!
And that's exactly the answer to that question about what is the difference between LED and LCD TV. They are both LCDs – exactly the same thing. LCDs, like printed books, need to be lit by a good, strong light if you are to be able to see anything. It can either be a traditional fluorescent strip light, or it can be one of those expensive newfangled LED lights.
What is the difference between LED and LCD TV? In main, there's just one question you need answered – is one kind of light better than the other? Well, in many ways, LED really is better.
You’ve noticed how those LED televisions these days are nearly razor thin, haven't you? Well, even if you've never noticed it, the companies do try their best to bring it to your notice with all their high pressure advertising.
Yes, LED-lit LCD televisions (yes, that would be a far more accurate way to name LED televisions) are 50% lighter and thinner than a regular LCD TVs (ones that are lit by regular fluorescent lighting except that they never say anything above fluorescent lighting in the advertising).
If you don't really care about how much your TV weighs for how thin or fat it is, if you only care about picture quality, you do have to know that LED televisions are brighter, they offer you richer and more vivid colors, and they give you much better contrast.
But all of these are "potential" areas of improvement. Most LED TVs on the market these days, even ones by Sony, are models where they use lights that are just mounted along the edge of the screen (on the inside). In other words, they are just using the LEDs exactly the way they would use fluorescent strip lights. These televisions give you no picture quality-related improvements. They just give you a thinner and lighter television.
If you're really looking for picture quality improvements, you need to go with a panel that they advertise as direct-lit LED or RGB LED. These are quite expensive. These are the ones that give you the real advantages.
To some people, the online world doesn't appear the way it does to the rest of us. They live their online lives not reading websites on Google or Bing, but casting about on Facebook and Twitter. They do this not because they enjoy standing apart from the crowd and being quirky (although there must be some of that to be sure), but because there are some fabulous opportunities available to them when they go about things this way. For instance, what is the best travel website you go to, to buy a round-trip to somewhere or the other? Expedia? Orbitz? Priceline?
As far as these people are concerned, that's almost like saying you use Ask Jeeves or Alta Vista (or some other sad and lost search engine) to look for information. To them, when it comes to travel deals, Twitter is where all the action is. All-in-one, it gives you access to the best flight and hotel prices, when there is a problem, it helps you get attention like nothing else, and it allows you personalized service (and upgrades).
Actually, most Twitter users do know pretty well that there are travel deals to be had. They even know that complaining on Twitter can make businesses jump like few other things can. It's just this personalized service thing that Twitter users don’t usually know enough to take advantage of. And in this way, it’s the best travel website experience ever.
For instance, you know that you’ll be arriving at a city late at night; but you still want something off the lunch menu because at that hotel, tucking into that is the favorite part of your entire stay. Sending a tweet over ahead of your visit asking for a little special consideration will usually get what you need – the lunch menu available at 1 AM in the middle of the night. For those who know their way around Twitter, the social networking and microblogging website provides them with a way of getting personalized service in a world filled with bland mass-produced service.
Twitter can do things for you that the best travel website of the regular kind never could. Need hotel recommendations from friends or self-styled experts around the country whom you've never met? Feel lonely after work in a new city and would like a temporary friend to catch a play with or go to dinner with? What other travel websites could help you achieve these things?
Certainly, travelers can go to Twitter for some extra service. Travel companies – hotels and airlines – love Twitter too though for how it allows them to stay on top of that their customers minds. JetBlue has such an entertaining Twitter feed, it has 1 million followers. In Las Vegas, the MGM Grand casino puts out to the public and classic Vegas fashion – on a large lighted sign on the strip.
Still, not everyone really understands how best to engage Twitter in a way that serves their needs. Companies, to begin with, aren't really doing all they can to entertain their regulars with tips and news bits that will keep them engaged with the company. All they do is to ply their followers with advertising and drive them away. In general, companies need to realize that there are two kinds of followers – those who like advertising and deals, and those who like information. They need to keep separate Twitter accounts for both.
As for travelers, they need to understand how to get into all of this. The first thing you need to do is to get on Twitter and broadcast your travel plans. You can be sure that hotels in the city you're going to will be listening and they will come in with some special offers.
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Workers with 401(k) plans these days do a lot more than to merely leave their plans alone while they work and contribute over the years. These days, there are such a range of products and services that they take advantage of to make the most of their retirement accounts. Roughly one out of three owners of 401(k) accounts use at least one of these services. They use target date funds, managed accounts and they use one of the most popular options around – professional 401(k) advice. So basically, this is what you want to know – is it worth it?
Well, a study put out by two major providers of these services does find strongly in favor of professional 401(k) management. The study finds that on average, you make 3% more on your 401(k) account when you accept professional advice. The belief is that apparently, people left to their own resources often do considerably worse managing risk and earning a return.
And it isn't merely over the long term that they gain the full benefit of the advice. Even those who are a mere five years away from retirement, the study tries to establish, can do far better with 401(k) advice from a professional. One possible reason why this is so, it is noted, is that those who are close to retirement, if let to their own devices, often panic over how far they have left to go, and they make some hasty decisions over how to manage their investments.
With professional 401(k) advice the other hand, they learn to put together a custom-made group of investments to go with how long they have left to work. These days, the younger 401(k) participants as a rule gravitate towards target date funds. This is where they get to put down the date they will retire so that the retirement fund manager will start with a risky (but high profit) investment plan, but will slowly switch to a more conservative one as the retirement day draws close. With people who have perhaps just seven or eight years left to retirement, managed accounts that offer a customized and conservative management policy offer the best value.
But not every provider of professional 401(k) advice charges something substantial. A study by Charles Schwab found that 401(k) participants often reject free professional 401(k) advice that they receive online – advice that could really make a difference. For instance, employers often offer free advice. But only about one in ten employees actually takes the advice.
According to Ms. Charles Schwab, perhaps companies should make their advice look more appealing – by offering them in proper one-on-one settings.
Perhaps the whole premise of the movie Titanic was a little off. Objects of interest from the Titanic can be worth millions of dollars. They didn't have to go after the Heart of the Ocean. A few worthless artifacts would have been just as priceless. An Irish court gathered recently to try to make a decision on what kind of people had the right to salvage objects of interest from the wreck of the Titanic. They had to make a decision because there were people trying to retrieve Captain Smith's bathtub. The court sat and looked at a 3D photo of the deep ghostly interior of the Titanic – of the bathtub sitting there for nearly a century at bottom of the ocean.
The 3D photo today isn't just the province of people with access to deep pockets. If you would just like spectacular 3D photos of your children at the beach or other such heartwarming moments, Lumix makes 3-D camera for about $1,750. But what if you are just the official photographer for your own mud-pie making children and you can think of at least a dozen other places $1750 would be better spent? What if you just want to take wicked 3-D pictures of those mud pies without spending almost any cash at all?
There are all kinds of magical things possible on a little money these days. The new Lytro camera, for instance, for little money, allows you did take pictures that you can set the focus on afterwards in software. Now Kodak has a new system - that they just showed off at the Consumer Electronics Show. It allows you to take regular pictures with any regular camera and then turn them into it 3-D in the software they give you. All you need to do to gain this ability is to spend $100 on their new ESP C310 3-D photo printer.
What is it that the regular 3-D cameras do? They come with two separate lenses; every time you take a picture, you’re actually taking two pictures at different points of view. Each picture is meant for a different eye. Each eye gets to look only at the picture that's intended for it when you look at the picture through 3-D glasses. The genius of the new Kodak system is, that you don't have to have a camera that has two lenses set apart at a set distance. You just have to shoot any picture twice moving the camera a couple of inches for the second one.
You feed both images into the Windows-only software you get, and it turns both images into a single 3D photo that you can view with the supplied paper glasses. The question is though, does it work well when you can get your subjects to hold a pose until you click two pictures?
The 3-D photo that results tends to be viewable and clearly three-dimensional, if not with the kind of spectacular depth and clarity you get on real 3-D cameras. In some ways, this could be a novelty product.
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The first seven months of 2010 have been a whirlwind for Meghan Linsey and Joshua Scott Jones, the duo that comprise Big Machine Records artist Steel Magnolia. The rising stars have broken a decades-long Billboard record and earned a million downloads (Big Champagne) of their Top 5 break-out hit, "Keep On Lovin' You." Steel Magnolia's brand new single, "Just By Being You (Halo and Wings)" is already one of the Top 5 highest-streamed videos on CMT.com.
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The maturation of the Black Keys as record makers and performers has been both subtle and startling. With their 2008 Nonesuch release 'Attack & Release' - the fifth album of their eight-year career which doubled the sales of their previous album and Nonesuch debut 'Magic Potion' - guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney illustrated the durability of their few-frills sound, a mysterious and heavy brew of seventies-vintage rock, classic R&B and timeless, downhearted blues. Producer and pal Danger Mouse, their first outside collaborator, didn't try to reinvent their sound but further isolated its essence with the help of a few carefully chosen guest players and some retro-modern electronic gear. It didn't need to get slicker to get better, or, as the Boston Globe put it, ''Attack & Release' proves that cleaning up the boys still won't stop them from tracking mud all over the house.'
Danger Mouse returned to co-produce 'Tighten Up' on 'Brothers,' but for the most part, the duo was on its own, spending ten days at the legendary Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama and coming up with the an even more intensely focused, deeply soulful set that includes a cover of Jerry Butler's 'Never Gonna Give You Up.' The performances are inventive and impassioned: Auerbach extends his vocal range to falsetto on the lead-off track 'Everlasting Light' and 'The Only One'; 'Howlin' For You' opens with a Gary Glitter-style drum riff and the chorus practically invites singing along. The tunes offer a surprising amount of lyrical candor and more than a little dark humor; the grooves alternate between ballsy swagger and bluesy rumination. The album reflects where Auerbach and Carney have been lately, most recently collaborating with a who's who of New York City MC's, including RZA, Q Tip, Mos Def and Raekwon on the 2009 BlakRoc super-session organized by hip-hop impresario and Black Keys fan Damon Dash. They've also pursued projects on their own, Auerbach with his solo 'Keep It Hid' album and tour, Carney with his band Drummer and its debut disc, 'Feels Good Together.' Their maturation didn't happen just in the studio, though. Carney admits, 'Dan and I grew up a lot as individuals and musicians prior to making this album. Our relationship was tested in many ways but at the end of the day, we're brothers, and I think these songs reflect that.'
'Brothers' was primarily cut in Muscle Shoals, a setting that turned out to have more in common with the Akron, Ohio factories where the Black Keys used to record. The place was desolate, the town depressed, so once again the duo slipped into a world all its own. They did additional recording at Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound System in Akron and The Bunker in Brooklyn. The album was mixed by engineer Tchad Blake, a veteran of sessions with Los Lobos, Pearl Jam and Peter Gabriel. Says Carney, 'The way he approaches mixing is the same way we approach making music. Respecting the past while being in the present.'
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As the 2005 theatrical release of Serenity made clear, Firefly was a science fiction concept that deserved a second chance. Devoted fans (or "Browncoats") knew it all along, and with this well-packaged DVD set, those who missed the show's original broadcasts can see what they missed. Creator Joss Whedon's ambitious science-fiction Western (Whedon's third series after Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel) was canceled after only 11 of these 14 episodes had aired on the Fox network, but history has proven that its demise was woefully premature. Whedon's generic hybrid got off to a shaky start when network executives demanded an action-packed one-hour premiere ("The Train Job"); in hindsight the intended two-hour pilot (also titled "Serenity," and oddly enough, the final episode aired) provides a better introduction to the show's concept and splendid ensemble cast. Obsessive fans can debate the quirky logic of combining spaceships with direct parallels to frontier America (it's 500 years in the future, and embattled humankind has expanded into the galaxy, where undeveloped "outer rim" planets struggle with the equivalent of Old West accommodations), but Whedon and his gifted co-writers and directors make it work, at least well enough to fashion a credible context from the incongruous culture-clashing of past, present, and future technologies, along with a polyglot language (the result of two dominant superpowers) that combines English with an abundance of Chinese slang.
What makes it work is Whedon's delightfully well-chosen cast and their nine well-developed characters--a typically Whedon-esque extended family--each providing a unique perspective on their adventures aboard Serenity, the junky but beloved "Firefly-class" starship they call home. As a veteran of the disadvantaged Independent faction's war against the all-powerful planetary Alliance (think of it as Underdogs vs. Overlords), Serenity captain Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) leads his compact crew on a quest for survival. They're renegades with an amoral agenda, taking any job that pays well, but Firefly's complex tapestry of right and wrong (and peace vs. violence) is richer and deeper than it first appears. Tantalizing clues about Blue Sun (an insidious mega-corporation with a mysteriously evil agenda), its ties to the Alliance, and the traumatizing use of Serenity's resident stowaway (Summer Glau) as a guinea pig in the development of advanced warfare were clear indications Firefly was heading for exciting revelations that were precluded by the series' cancellation. Fortunately, the big-screen Serenity (which can be enjoyed independently of the series) ensured that Whedon's wild extraterrestrial west had not seen its final sunset. Its very existence confirms that these 14 episodes (and enjoyable bonus features) will endure as irrefutable proof Fox made a glaring mistake in canceling the series. --Jeff Shannon
On the Blu-ray discs
Firefly has a picture that's a little softer than most Blu-ray discs (especially in the effects shots), but it is an improvement over the DVDs (even in an upconverting DVD player or Blu-ray player), and the punchy sound (DTS HD 5.1 compared to the DVDs' 2.0 surround) is a definite upgrade. In addition to the original bonus features, there are a couple new ones: a 25-minute conversation among Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Ron Glass, and Alan Tudyk in which they discuss the series and a number of specific episodes (Fillion recalls thinking he was getting fired after the first episode), and a new commentary track by the four fellows on "Our Mrs. Reynolds." And since it's easy to get sucked into watching multiple episodes, it's nice to have a Play All feature on the BDs. --David Horiuchi
Beyond Firefly on Blu-ray
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