Gold !RUN! at 28 year high!

On the London Bullion Market, gold prices surged as high as 778.50 dollars per ounce, which was last seen in January 1980. A gold ounce is currently trading at 540.14 euros per ounce and $777.40 per ounce. Krugerrand gold coins are at 800 dollars while the American Gold Eagle Bullion Coins are $804.80 - $874.95 . In early European trade, the euro struck 1.4375 dollars -- the highest level since the single currency's creation in 1999.

What does all this mean? Well the euro is on the rise, the dollar is on the decrease and the price of gold is on the rise. I know nothing so please add input but does this mean oh no... is he actually going to say it... a recession? In 1979 the Gold price doubled in 7 months -- maybe because poeple wanted a sure form of investment?

Question #1 Will the price of gold double again? #2 Will there be a recession in the near future? #3 Are we currently in a recession? #4 Does the global economy and our vast daily investment in communist Chineese products affect this? #5 Will this shape the election in 2008? #6 Will this affect your future? college tuition perhaps? #7 What impact will this plays on American Manufacturing? #8 Will this create a rising superpower out of the European Union? #9 Is Europe now controlled by a central government called the EU? #10 What will have if the price of gold falls drastically? . #11 Has the price of gold ever fallen drastically? #12 What affects will this have on the housing market? #13 Is the stability of the economy totally dependent on the price of gold? #14 Will this affect the stock market? #15 What does Warren Buffet have to say? #16 How will this affect religion? #17 Will Religion affect this first? #18 Will your Aunt Selma still bake chocolate chip cookies? #19 Is this organised by a global intelligence agency? #20 Are they from the US or outside our borders? #21 Will this make Putin resign? #22 What could make Putin resign? #23 Who will replace Putin?

#24 Who will control the man who replaces Putin? #25 Will this affect the government of Columbia? #26 Does anyone care if this affects the government of Columbia? #27 Does anyone care if this affects your next door neighbor? #28 Does anyone care if this affects you? #29 Are you wearing blue socks? #30 Would anyone even think of answering all these questions? #31 How many licks does it take to get to the center of a toosie roll pop? #32 Would you believe 148? #33 You shouldn't. What city will be most affected? #34 What city will be the least affected? #35 Will this impact the car that you drive? #36 Do you even drive a car? #37 What type of car do you drive? #38 Is it made in America? #39 Are you part of the original problem? #40 Is your roommate? #41 Have you met a model? #42 What would you say to her if you had? #43 Is the sun out where you are at? #44 Do you know how to ask questions? #45 Do you find the last question ironic? #46 Do you know how long it took me to write this? #47 Do you think it was worth it? #48 Do you remember the first question? #49 Do you remember the last question? #50 Do you run?

If you take a look at the slope of the gold market its value is increased by a lot.so much in fact that its at a 28 year high. By the way just to go back to the recession thing the price of a barrel of new york crude is at $92. Not sure if that means a recession though if US profits are involved in that. Just something to consider. Please weigh in and let me know what you think all of this means.

Disblief in Ultra Running

My disbelief is in how much I can really run. A lot has happened in the last year running-wise, since I ran the 35 miler. I still have major leg pain which increased, but I consider that to my advantage somewhat. While I am writing this I JUST heard about people who are tying their shoes for the first time to run the BOSTON! The BOSTON MARATHON! Can you imagine running the Boston for your second marathon! One of the five world class master races and also one of the fewer races in which you must qualify for. (This is why Boston can't be the first marathon you run). You really have to be fast to qualify too! 26.2 miles of fast to be exact.
If you hear more about the NOVA marathon special let me know, but probably I'll let you know, so come back soon.



I am in disbelief as to how these men and women who have never run before, train for one of the worlds top races. My disbelief in what I am have been able to accomplish through running has empowered me to strive for a lifetime goal of running the 100 mile Western States, arugubly one of the toughest races in the world. After that I plan to run the 50 mile Comrades Marathon and then the 135 mile Badwater UltraMarathon.

From their own website:
The trail ascends from the Squaw Valley floor (elevation 6,200 feet) to Emigrant Pass (elevation 8,750 feet), a climb of 2,550 vertical feet in the first 4½ miles. From the pass, following the original trails used by the gold and silver miners of the 1850’s, runners travel west, climbing another 15,540 feet and descending 22,970 feet before reaching Auburn.

WSER is one of the key events that have helped Auburn, CA, earn the title of "Endurance Capital of the World."

Most of the trail passes through remote and rugged territory, accessible only to hikers, horses and helicopters.

By the way, I forgot to mention you have to finish the race in less then 1 day to qualify for the belt. 100 miles in one day. Yeah, thats all you get for finishing. A big belt buckle. Dean Karnasas has nine of those buckles. I ran my first half marathon with the incredible runner.

Sign up for '08 Here: http://www.ws100.com/appform.htm

How to Qualify: http://ws100.com/qualifying.htm
Including the 11 hour 50 miler requirement.

Encourage me to have more disbelief when I see you on the starting line along with me. See you soon.

How to Make Millions: Part 2

Doing Drug lit homework right now and I need a break so I thought I would continue to discuss the ways you can become a millionaire. First up to review the last post, the Clay institute is offering 7 million dollars to the first person to solve any one of their seven mathematical problems. One million dollars per problem that you solve. Pretty easy huh? Except for the fact that some of those questions date back over 1500 years, a couple of people have tried to solve them.

Other ideas include the following:

1. Design a really cool site and make people pay you a million bucks to advertise on it. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
2. Marry rich.
3. Get injured and sue.
4. Win the lottery.
5. Inherit wealth.
6. Put 5 dollars a day into bank for 42 years. (with 10% interest, but then where do you find 10% interest)
7. Buy a bank (earn more profit then most fortune 500 companies)
8. Own a pharmaceutical company (even more profit then a bank with about 17% profit revenues)
9. Be an high paid employee or be an employer. Just a thought: when you are in college you pay to get educated, but on the job someone pays YOU to educate YOU.
   

If you try, there is some chance of succeeding.

A famous millionaire has said the following:
Nine out of every 10 businesses fail, so why bother?" Here is another way to look at that -- the chance of success is 10 percent. You start nine businesses that fail and then the tenth one succeeds and you make a million bucks -- those are damn good odds. (Not sure if I agree, I don't want to lose money 9 times first. Would you?) I prefer never to lose money and slowly save it, however I do know that philosophy is stupid when it comes to wanting to become a millionaire. Don't use your money to get rich, use someone else's, like the banks, for instance. For example, borrow 50 grand, make 10 grand off of it, and return the 50 grand. Its a lot better method then just using your own money, because if you decide to use your own money its just too slow, well at least thats my opinion.




Your job is to look at the American economy and all the people in it. Now think to yourself, "What can I do that some of these people need? What can I do that would make their lives better in some way, and they would be willing to pay money for?

All you need to do is figure out a way to snag 0.00001% of the money flowing around in the American economy in one year and you have made a million dollars.

It does not have to be a complicated idea, and it does not even have to be original. For example, let's take the idea of selling pizza. People like pizza -- you know that. If you can start a pizza restaurant, and if you make $1 profit off of each pizza you sell, and if you sell a million pizzas, you have made a million dollars. It has happened before. Ever heard of Domino's? Papa John's? Pizza Hut? Little Caesars? Chuck E Cheese's? Red Baron pizza? Tombstone pizza? DiGiorno's pizza? Freschetta pizza? Lots of people have made a lot of money selling pizza. And it will happen again.

Basically in my book, I believe Earnings are proportional to work and there is no way to get rich without hard work, or awesome luck.You know its just plain unbelievable that I could be a millionaire in ten or fifteen years. Trouble is a lot can happen in fifteen years. I don't really think its a goal of mine to be a millionaire in fifteen years, if it happens it does, and if it doesn't, it doesn't.

What is my plan? Right now its finish school, then work hard so I can pay off my bills and start to earn capital with all the investment I have put into pharmacy school and my career. After I have enough capital, I plan to invest it in what the trillion dollar insurance companies invest in. (they don't seem to lose) and no I'm not going to be selling insurance.

For a totally random aside:If you've never seen the commercials for the Benelli shotgun you should take a look. The guy can shoot upside down over his head, behind his back, under the leg, basically any shot; which is pretty amazing and you should take a look if you get a chance.

How to make a Million Dollars

Just a cool site I found- www.wiki.answers.com
Jump to a random WikiAnswers question

How to earn a million dollars:

In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years.

The Board of Directors of CMI designated a $7 million prize fund for the solution to these problems, with $1 million allocated to each. During the Millennium Meeting held on May 24, 2000 at the Collège de France, Timothy Gowers presented a lecture entitled The Importance of Mathematics, aimed for the general public, while John Tate and Michael Atiyah spoke on the problems. The CMI invited specialists to formulate each problem.
One hundred years earlier, on August 8, 1900, David Hilbert delivered his famous lecture about open mathematical problems at the second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. This influenced our decision to announce the millennium problems as the central theme of a Paris meeting.
The rules for the award of the prize have the endorsement of the CMI Scientific Advisory Board and the approval of the Directors. The members of these boards have the responsibility to preserve the nature, the integrity, and the spirit of this prize.

how to stop a bullet

What is the technology that will make guns a thing of the past? 100 years from now will they still have guns? I mean how do you stop a speeding bullet? Well there a couple of ways: Put a barrier between you and the bullet (a vest) preferablly a light dense material, defer the bullet (a bit harder since you need to move an object that is moving at 700+ mph perhaps 1200+ mph.), Stop the gun from even firing (I would assume this to be extremely hard), something that moves the user once gun is fired, and a weapon that moves faster then a gun, a projectile fired at bullet as it moves.

So we got

• barrier (bullet proof vest)
• deferment (electromagnet possibly)
• stop gun from firing ( no idea)
• move victim once gun fires (no idea )
• faster weapon then gun ( no idea)
• meet projective
  
  America is living beneath the current technology base we have. We should be driving electric hygogen hybrid cars, using genetics to discover how to eliminate certain diseases, and we should be producing more products. If we don't have manufacturing companies that can reap the profits of inventions, how can we encourage the development of new technology?
  
  I don't want the government to give me anything, but I do want them to be able to protect my invention from being stolen my people in other countries. Where are the manufacturing jobs?

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Equity isn’t Always Fair

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Equity isn’t Always Fair
Posted: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 : 11:00AM

I’ve gotten notes from a couple of you about the story in the Saturday Gazette about the Title IX problems at the University of Charleston. The school is shutting down men’s track and cross country, and as in many circumstances across the country, not to create new women’s teams, but just to get the numbers in balance:

“The moves are indirect results of a complaint filed with the Office of Civil Rights. A former UC softball player, Stephanie Kuhn, created a petition over perceived disparities in treatment between the school’s baseball and softball teams. Part of UC’s agreement to resolve the matter was attention to gender equity.

“Now that we are under the scrutiny of the Office of Civil Rights, we must take steps to increase the percentage of our athletes who are female,’’ said Dr. Ed Welch, the school's president.

According to the release, UC’s student population is 59 percent female and 41 percent male. The university sponsors eight female athletic teams, but females make up just 40 percent of the school’s athletes. A factor in that disparity is the football team.”

That can’t be helpful. If girls like sports less than boys, why punish the boys? Oh, that’s right, the cross country team was probably subliminally oppressing you


SOMEBODY TELL ME IF THEY AGREE OR NOT!

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great game that I played

My generation

Here a widely seen but still awesome video

Two more days

Two more days then it comes. The race. Now just any race, the sunburst, the race I've been training for 2 years when I was first introduced to this fine sport. The pain, the agony, the sunburn, the 11 and 12 pm nights when I was running, the time I spent running on the 4th of July and other vacations, IT WILL PAY OFF NOW. I've been training hard for the last year, I've run 35 miles during spring break to enhance my form and condition. I am ready. I am ready to win. Rejoice not against me O my enemy, for when I fall I will arise.

Come celebrate with me. The adventure begins today.

If you can not run a marathon, run a half, if you can't run a half run a 10 k if you can't run a 10 k do a 5k, if you can't run a 5k walk it, You'll be glad you did. I am. Thats how it started for me, a simple 5 k walk (That
I ran). Maybe I always have loved running, but never knew it.

As Sam says "You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may, I say." So it is with running. Warning you might get hooked--- by a bull.





Strategy is everything. Mind versus body. The ultimate test. The marathon.

New York Marathon

Very funny MEN IN COATS

Enjoy the weekend!

So I'm really busy this summer, but I'll try to keep the site interesting and entertaining. Happy memorial Day to all of our troops both at home and abroad. Have to go to work but I thought this cartoon was funny and maybe you'll like it too.

Amazing Acrobatics

Richard Dawkins stumped by creationists' question

Can you say OWNED!!!!

The Ultimate How to Guide

I started a new blog entitled The Ultimate How to Guide. I will answer ANY How do I? question. Free answers to the worlds toughest questions.

To kick it off I will use some of my own random scenarios.
The first four will cover: How to invade planet Earth with a spaceship, a swiss army knife, and a playstation 2; How to cook food in the jungle using magnets; How to fight a bear using only sticks; and How to swim under water indefiantely.

You can visit the site through this link: Ultimate Guide

or through my profile: The Videoist

Sumbitions welcome.


This is the story of why I started it.
It all began when I took a chemistry class where I learned that acetone can dissolve styrofoam. From there I decided that my video blog needed an exciting video promoting it, and something that still would be fun to watch 10 years in the future.
See "http://runalot.blogspot.com/2007/05/styrofoam-versus-wind-wwater-and-fire.html"

So then I realized that information is only one piece of the puzzle. The internet is chock full of information, yet something or someone needs to make it usefull, such as google. The organization of information is the next step to facilitating dramatic change. Next is extrapolation of the data, interperting into something usefull.Most times we do this automatically. For instance when we look up a certain word in google such as fashion and are directed to a more specific site such as forever21 then we say hey that shirt looks spectacular because... using previous information.... I'd certainly look amazing in it, so I'll buy it.

Does the automatic integration of information destroy great ideas? We are limited by what we know. Stoping to review first we have the collection of information, then the organization which enables a precise selection, then integration with other information leading to a decision to combine ideas.

Collect
Eliminate
Integrate
Decide

The last step is where the how-to idea fits in. How do you combine the data? and in what ways? So you want to build a new ultra-efficent engine. What is the first step? The 23rd?

This site will investigate The Mechanics of How-To create a 6 cycle engine that runs on water and gets 40 percent more power. Through this we will understand how the assembling of information takes place. For interest we will also examine another engine that runs on very explosive hydrogen gas (prototypes made), and a thrid engine that runs on pure air. (in testing phase, it invovles cosmic rays being transferred into energy through the absorbtion of radiation.)

The infamous pic

Okay Take a look at this pic. What do you think? How about thinking that is supports underage drinking?



You should know that she is 27. Now what do you think? How about after you find out she wasn't able to graduate from college because she posted this pic on myspace.com?

Now you can fully believe that idiots control the university system. The same system that tries to tell the world who is important and valuable because they have been taught by a professor.

An Education is a great tool, but don't let it ruin your brain. -me 5/12/07

Full story here->
From: The rest of the story

we OWN the internet, goodbye copyright laws

In case you don't know the story behind this. I'll give you a breif synopsis rather then making you work to find it. Which isn't hard. Here are the numbers=

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

It all goes back to digg.com

By using special software, this code disables the encryption in HD-DVD's so they can be played on any machine. The protection known as the Advanced Access Content System (AACS). That code disables "protection", certain people don't like that fact and told digg.com to remove it. So digg.com tried to remove every digg post with those numbers. They found out they couldn't and then decided they wouldn't. Digg.com SUPPORTS FREEDOM! God Bless them! You can't stop the internet. Specifically the transfer of information through the internet. Unless your google that is, but that wouldn't happen right??

Today we win.

Styrofoam Versus Wind, Water and Fire

Awesome job-- Virginia Tech Memorial-There's No Sunset in Virginia