Archive for June, 2009
Who Is Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs, born in February 24, 1955, is a college dropout who later on became the co-founder of Apple Computers. In 1976, he (along with Steve Wozniak) started selling assembled computers from his garage. This later on led to the much larger scaled Apple Computers. A multi-millionaire even before he hit 30, Jobs ran into some trouble in the company he started and was later on forced to leave, but later on came back on board after a hiatus, and founding Next Corporation.
Jobs’ return to Apple resulted in many revolutionary new techie products emerging in the market, from Mac Powerbooks to the very famous iPod music player. At present, he is also the CEO of the animation company Pixar, and has actually rescued said company from a near-downhill turn before he entered the picture.
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Who Is Oprah Winfrey?
Oprah Winfrey, born January 29, 1954, is a successful television talk show host of her self-titled program, The Oprah Winfrey Show. Winfrey is one of the wealthiest women in the world, with Forbes Magazine estimating her net worth at $1.5 billion.
Winfrey is far from finished with her projects, however. She has recently opened an academy for girls in Africa, and has taken to coordinating many charity projects. Oprah’s endorsements are said to be worth gold, as most of the products associated to her often strike it rich. Her recurrent advocacies often focuses on women’s issues, health, weight loss, and literature – and has actually even launched her own book club and magazine, entitled, “O.”
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Who Is Larry Ellison?
Larry Ellison is the CEO of the Oracle Corporation. The son of an accountant and a bookkeeper, he is regarded as a visionary in the IT industry. His quick and often accurate forecasting led to Oracle dominating the database market, and Forbes Magazine has actually estimated his net worth at $21.5 billion. Ellison reportedly founded Oracle with $2,000 of his own money, having been inspired by a paper written by Edgar F. Codd entitled, “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.”
He has been divorced three times, and his most recent marriage was to romance novelist Melanie Craft.
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Who Is Warren Buffett?
Warren Buffett is one of the most loved philanthropists in the nation. As a kid, he worked as a newspaper boy, and filed his first tax return at the age of 13 years old. He later on studied under the great investing guru, Benjamin Graham at Columbia University and later became a business magnate, with companies in textile, home furniture, apparel, and utilities. He also holds non-controlling stakes in Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo.
He married his longtime girlfriend, Astrid Menks, at the age of 76. He has also announced that he will donate his fortune to charity posthumously. Recent official news came out that he has, indeed, set $31 billion to be donated to the Gates foundation, the biggest donation ever recorded in history.
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My Black Cat
Making Money Online Without Spending A Dime
It is possible. You can make money online even if you are penniless. Well, not necessarily penniless. You only need a small amount of money to go to the internet cafe if you were really that broke and don’t have a computer or an internet connection.
You can even have your own business via internet. You can sell stuff for goods that others did. This is called being an affiliate. In offline marketing, this is called being a middleman. You will get a substantial amount for selling products made by other people. And the types and number of products to sell are endless.
You can be guided by money making blogs in your journey to making a decent amount of money online. Emulate what others did, ask for tips from the succesful people and you’re set to a life free from monetary problems.
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How To Spot An Online Home Based Business Scam
Because of the desire of people to earn while working in the comfort of their own living room, many of them are resorting to the Internet to find an online home based business they can do. There’s nothing wrong with this as the Internet provides wealth of information and ideas where to find work-at-home jobs or business.
But because scammers know that millions of people are searching for jobs they can do online, scam bags as they are, they took this opportunity to take money from naïve and untrained people.
The first red flag you should watch out for signs of scams is a promise of wealth quick and easy if you just put in a little amount of money. Nothing in this world is offered in a silver platter so that you have to work to get the wealth you dream of. Applying for online jobs is pretty much like applying for an office job. You need to submit your portfolio or submit yourself to the screening process of the company. If you find somebody that offers you job if you could just put a little money into their coffer, that’s the first sign of scam.
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Tags: Business, income, online business, online scam, scam
Protect Your Child From Contracting Juvenile Diabetes
Juvenile diabetes or type 1 diabetes results when the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin to properly regulate the blood sugar level. This condition is called juvenile diabetes because it can occur early on in a child’s life.
The saying “we are what we eat” holds some ground when in comes to contracting diabetes. If the parents of the child have diabetes, then the child is also at risk of developing the disease. Even more so if they are not careful with what they eat. The genetic factors are there so that you have to do everything you can to aggravate it with wrong diet and sedentary lifestyle.
While a definitive medical management and prevention of juvenile diabetes is still being studied by health scientist, being responsible with what your family eat and do is sure to help prevent juvenile diabetes from developing in your children.
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