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POPSProfile Of A Cyber Stalker
Cyberstalkers may research individuals to feed their obsessions and curiosity. Conversely, the acts of cyberstalkers may become more intense, such as repeatedly instant messaging their targets. More commonly they will post defamatory or derogatory statements about their stalking target on web pages, message boards and in guest books designed to get a reaction or response from their victim, thereby initiating contact. In some cases, they have been known to create fake blogs in the name of the victim containing defamatory or pornographic content. When prosecuted, many stalkers have unsuccessfully attempted to justify their behavior based on their use of public forums, as opposed to direct contact. Once they get a reaction from the victim, they will typically attempt to track or follow the victim's internet activity. Classic cyberstalking behavior includes the tracing of the victim's IP address in an attempt to verify their home or place of employment. A 2007 study, led
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POPSReindeer & Caribou Populations Plunge Projects, such as the Canadian Tar Sands heavy oil extraction, are like a knife in the heart of the True North. But is capitalism and greed which plunges the knife in. The result is ecocide.
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POPSLife Thrives at Active Underwater Volcano One shrimp has even adapted special pruning claws to harvest food from its volcanic environment, while another becomes a hunter later in life. "The 'Loihi' shrimp has adapted to grazing the bacterial filaments with tiny claws like garden shears," Tunnicliffe said. "The second shrimp is a new species — they also graze as juveniles, but as they grow to adult stage, their front claws enlarge and they become predators." That predator shrimp takes the opportunity to feed on dying animals that get caught in volcanic bursts of activity. "We saw dying fish, squid, etc., raining down onto the seamount, where they were jumped on by the volcano shrimp
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POPSWhat is Wowzio? Wowzio is one mind blowing service (Yeah, I am too impressed!) that allows you to show RSS feed content is very attractive format...You can customize widget’s color and size. By default auto-fit option is very good - widget takes size of your sidebar column at your blog.
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POPSIndia Travel Agents 1Indiatravel.com, a leading India travel agents and India tour operators offers Inbound travel services for holiday tour India,India trip, Visit India, holiday tour India, India holiday tour, India Travel Tip ,India tourism We are pricipal travel agents in India offering affordable India travel Packages and free India travel advice, India holiday planner and Honeymoon tours, medical tourism, Goa Tours, Kerela tours, Rajasthan tours group travel India and custom tour packages To India. We helps to maka a trip to India, Plan a travel for India. For more information, please visit www.1indiatravel.com
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POPSScrolling Ideas Portfolio Free and Easy No charge! Creating a portfolio is quick and simple. No code knowledge needed. Personal URL A short URL you can use to send visitors to your portfolio. Networking Build a network of industry peers. Share your connections with others Job Alerts New job postings that match your criteria sent via email daily or weekly. RSS feeds of new job listings available as well.
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POPSAssociated Press Jumps the Recessionist Shark A decline in economic activity :⇔ economic contraction. You don't have to use the two quarters of negative GDP growth as your criterion, but you do need to find contraction somehow. The AP helpfully notes you can look for economic declines not only in GDP (i.e. output), but also in income or "other measures." Output and income aren't quite semantic equivalents (though in theory they're equal). It's not clear what they mean by "other measures" but I think it's safe to assume they mean "whatever numbers we need to gin up once we get called out on this steaming load." In suggesting that the economy can fall into recession (and presumably, by their gauge, already has) without ever receding, the AP hasn't just moved the goalposts. They've picked up the ball, declared a new score, and gone home.
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POPSAnti-Jihad 'University': Bringing Insurgents In From The Cold
While I was not permitted to talk privately with detainees, I visited both Camp Cropper, near Baghdad International Airport, and remote Camp Bucca, near Basra in southern Iraq. A major tipping point in the program, say officers, was when detainees began volunteering for the classes being offered. Although al-Qaida detainees and the Takfiris (another group of religious extremists) pressured fellow Iraqis against participating in the very popular religious discussions, over 3,000 detainees have done so. “After Iraqis here learn how to read and write, they can read the Koran themselves for the first time,” says Sheikh Ali, a Sunni who counsels detainees and who, like most of the Iraqis working in the program, declined to have his surname used and must live in an American-guarded compound to avoid reprisals. “I’ve seen detainees break down and cry when they realize that the conduct they thought was sanctioned by God is actually a sin.”
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POPSMost US Economists Confirm Recession <<<Not all economists believe a recession is here. Rich Yamarone, director of economic research at Argus Research Corp. in New York, said the dip in the unemployment rate and an increase in credit card borrowing reported yesterday by the Fed, show the job market and consumers still have some staying power. "Not all the economic data suggest a recession," Yamarone said. But, he conceded, "That's getting harder to defend.">>>
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POPSStagflation - 1970's Déjà vu
As Yogi Berra once said, "This is like deja vu all over again." 1970's economy looms over us once again. Stagflation in the 1970s The term "stagflation" -- an economic condition of both continuing inflation and stagnant business activity, together with an increasing unemployment rate -- described the new economic malaise. Inflation seemed to feed on itself. People began to expect continuous increases in the price of goods, so they bought more. This increased demand pushed up prices, leading to demands for higher wages, which pushed prices higher still in a continuing upward spiral. Labor contracts increasingly came to include automatic cost-of-living clauses, and the government began to peg some payments, such as those for Social Security, to the Consumer Price Index, the best-known gauge of inflation. While these practices helped workers and retirees cope with inflation, they perpetuated inflation. http://economics.about.com/od/useconomichistory/a/stagflation.htm
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POPSWorld poll tolls death knell for global warming denialists I really like my BBC climate change news feed I embedded into my Firefox browser. Love it. For example, coming up for quick air during a hard stint working, I mouseover the feed icon, to catch up on GW headlines of news pieces I may have missed over the last three weeks or so. Seems I missed a sweet moment of poignancy when Howard was hosting his fascist-fence APEC green-bath with Bush, selling us not just a non-solution to global warming, but an irritant. How else do you describe "aspirational goals"? Anyway, it seems the UN was finding out the rest of the world has moved on from the recalcitrance of the fossil-fuel friendly Coalition of the Unwilling:
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POPSResearcher induces out-of-body experiences A Swedish neuroscientist today announced that he has reproduced the out-of-body experience often reported by stroke victims, epileptics, drug users and those who have been through near death experiences. H. Henrik Ehrsson's experiment sheds light on how people are able to experience phantom pains in missing limbs, for example. Link to latest story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6960612.stm The consequences of that disembodiment would be catastrophic. "If the distinction fails, the animal might try to feed on itself and will not be able to plan actions that involve both body parts and external objects," Ehrsson told the BBC several years ago (link here is to that story). Using a virtual reality headset and camera, Ehrsson in his most recent experiment, published by the journal Science, today, caused 12 test subjects to view their own bodies as someone else's.
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POPSMonitor Flickr with a Yahoo! Pipe (esp. for Twitter users) When someone comments on one of my Flickr photos or responds to a comment I made, a new item is posted to this Pipes feed, which I then route through Twitter. Your own comments are filtered out, and inessential text is stripped, so it's ideal for Twitter.
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POPS'Star Trek' scanner spots genetic changes Maybe this will help them pinpoint a cancer cell's genetic and chemical signature. Sometimes cancer is an overproduction of cells that have their self destruct function disabled, they can commandeer the blood supply to feed their own growth at the expense of healthy cells. This seems like it would be able to detect changes early, before something like cancer can gain a foothold. A G.P. may end up with a device like this in their kit bag, with their their tongue depressor, and their stethoscope.
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POPS10 Ways to Maintain Your Brain 7. Connect with others Leisure activities that combine physical, mental and social elements may be most likely to prevent dementia. Be social, converse, volunteer, join. 8. Heads up! Protect your brain Take precautions against injuries. Use your car seat belts; unclutter your house to avoid falls; and wear a helmet when cycling. 9. Use your head Avoid unhealthy habits. Don’t smoke, drink excessive alcohol or use street drugs. 10. Think ahead – start today! You can do something today to protect your tomorrow
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POPSA better online video conversion service? An online video conversion site with a twist: subscribe to your converted clips as a podcast so they are automatically synced to your portable device. Only 10 clips per month with the free plan. Review @ Lifehacker (http://snurl.com/18lba)
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