You, dear Scorpio, have the extraordinary destiny of being an Influencer. You have the ability to affect others by your strength, determination, and charisma. The word influence comes from a term meaning to flow. One of Webster’s dictionary definitions of this word states, “the supposed flowing of an ethereal fluid or power from the stars, thought by astrologers to affect the characters and actions of people.” This ability to influence means you have the gift of working closely with power. The decisions you make about what kind of influence you want to be and what kind of affect you want to have on people and the world are part of every Scorpio’s path.
The world has given us plenty of Scorpios who have wielded great influence. Scorpio Bill Gates, computer genius and cofounder of the Microsoft Corporation, has been a pivotal force in the computer industry and in the world of technology. Ted Turner revolutionized the reporting of world news when he introduced 24-hour live news broadcasts through his cable television network CNN. He is now influencing how the world helps countries in need through his $1 billion gift to the United Nations. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a significant figure in the struggle for women’s rights. Her work contributed to the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.
What all of these people have in common is their incredible determination, foresight and ability to influence the tide of history. Clearly, as a Scorpio, you can do just about anything you put your mind to.
Because Scorpios have a powerful presence and the ability to affect others, think about what kind of influence you want to be. You can decide to be a good influence or a bad influence. The choice is yours.
Scorpio is a fixed sign, which means you are blessed with tremendous determination. No one has ever accused you of being easy-going or laid back! There is little you cannot achieve if you set your mind to it because when you make up your mind to do something, you give it your body, heart, and soul. When nineteen-year-old Scorpio Gertrude Ederle, a triple Olympic gold medal winner in swimming, was told to cancel her swim across the English Channel because of storms that had closed the channel to shipping, she answered, “What for?” She went on to swim across in record time and became the first woman to do so. Florence Sabin, an anatomist, led an exceptional life becoming the first woman to be made a full professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1917 and in 1925 was the first woman to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean during a time when many thought the world was flat. Whoopie Goldberg overcame the obstacle of poverty to become a famous actress and comedian. These Scorpios set out to accomplish something and let nothing stand in their way.
Make sure you are setting goals for yourself. Your energy needs a focus and a direction. You are able to overcome obstacles in your path once you have decided to achieve something. A bored, directionless Scorpio is an unhappy Scorpio! Don’t waste your exceptional internal resources of drive and determination.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Influence.....:D
How to make ice cream....
My years of ice cream making experience are at your finger tips. My instructions, tips, and even secret ingredients (not so secret anymore!) will allow you to churn up the best ice cream you’ve ever tasted. Now you have nothing to fear, you can learn how to make homemade ice cream with confidence! 1. If you are completely new to ice cream making. There you'll find a basic introduction on "how to make" ice cream 2. Before you go off to find an ice cream recipe, you’re going need an ice cream maker (can’t make ice cream without an ice cream maker!). The page provides a simple little guide to the types of ice cream makers available and my reviews of a few popular models. 3. Once you have your ice cream maker, you need to decide on what kind of ice cream to make. 4. And finally, if you are lacking in any sort of ice cream supplies. Ice cream books, scoops, makers, and more can be found at store. 
Sunday, May 16, 2010
How to make paper airplane
1. Fold a sheet of paper exactly in half long-ways, and re-open it so you have a crease separating the two halves.
2. On one end of the paper, fold each corner in towards the center to the point where the inside edges are even with the centerline crease.
| 3. Starting at the very tip of the point, fold the paper down on each side so the inside edges line up with the center crease. 4. Turn the paper airplane over and fold it in half along the centerline.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Global Warming
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) between the start and the end of the 20th century. TheIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century was very likely caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity such as fossil fuel burning anddeforestation. The IPCC also concludes that variations in natural phenomena such as solar radiation and volcanic eruptions had a small cooling effect after 1950. These basic conclusions have been endorsed by more than 40 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries. Climate model projections summarized in the latest IPCC report indicate that the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the 21st century. The uncertainty in this estimate arises from the use of models with differing sensitivity to greenhouse gas concentrations and the use of differing estimates of future greenhouse gas emissions. Most studies focus on the period leading up to the year 2100. However, warming is expected to continue beyond 2100 even if emissions stop, because of the large heat capacity of the oceans and the long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. An increase in global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, probably including expansion of subtropical deserts. Warming is expected to be strongest in the Arctic and would be associated with continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely effects include changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions, and changes in agricultural yields. Warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe, though the nature of these regional variations is uncertain. Political and public debate continues regarding global warming, its causes and what actions to take in response. The available options aremitigation to reduce further emissions; adaptation to reduce the damage caused by warming; and, more speculatively, geoengineering to reverse global warming. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Green House Effect
The greenhouse effect is caused by an atmosphere containing gases that absorb and emit infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases trap heat within the surface-troposphere system, causing heating at the surface of the planet or moon. This mechanism is fundamentally different from that of an actual greenhouse, which works by isolating warm air inside the structure so that heat is not lost by convection. The greenhouse effect was discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1824, first reliably experimented on by John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896. The black body temperature of the Earth is 5.5 °C. Since the Earth reflects about 28% of incoming sunlight, in the absence of the greenhouse effect the planet's mean temperature would be far lower - about -18 or -19 °C instead of the much higher current mean temperature, about 14 °C. Global warming, a recent warming of the Earth's surface and lower atmosphere, is believed to be the result of a strengthening of the greenhouse effect mostly due to human-produced increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases.
Story About The Jedi
The Jedi are characters in the Star Wars universe and the series' main protagonists. They use a quasi-telekinetic power, known as the Force, and weapons, known as lightsabers, which emit a controlled energy flow in the shape of a sword, to serve and protect their Republic and the whole galaxy from conflict or government instability. They sometimes moderate peace negotiations betweenplanets and, if necessary, use their formidable fighting skills to quickly end an unrest. The Jedi are led by a Council of 12 members consisting of the most powerful and wise members of the order. The Jedi are bound to a code of morality and justice and are trained in the use of the light side of the force but not the Dark side
Story About the Sith Lord
The Sith are a group of characters in the Star Wars fictional universe. They are the central antagonists of the franchise. Characterized by their single-minded pursuit of power and disdain for sentient life, they are an alliance of warrior mages who use the dark side of the Force and serve as counterparts to the Jedi Knights. The Sith are portrayed in various Star Wars media as individuals who use the dark side to attain power at any cost. The Star Wars prequel films establish that they draw upon strong emotions, both negative and positive, as the source of their power, and care only about themselves. This is in contrast to the Jedi, who are portrayed as forsaking emotional attachment in order to serve others and the galaxy as a whole. In their later history, members of the Brotherhood of Darkness stopped taking the ceremonial title of "Darth". Darth Bane brought back the tradition to use the title "Darth", meaning "Lord" in the Sith language. He claimed this title when he decided to purge the Sith and bring about the "Rule of Two": one master, one apprentice.
History of Facebook
Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Since September 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address can become a Facebook user. Facebook's target audience is more for youths than adults. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include (potentially) any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 400 million active users worldwide. The original concept for Facebook was borrowed from a product produced by Zuckerberg's prep school Phillips Exeter Academy which for decades published and distributed a printed manual of all students and faculty, unofficially called the "face book".
Birth of the computer science
Before the 1920s, computers (sometimes computors) were human clerks that performed computations. They were usually under the lead of a physicist. Many thousands of computers were employed in commerce, government, and research establishments. Most of these computers were women, and they were known to have a degree in calculus. Some performed astronomical calculations for calendars. After the 1920s, the expression computing machine referred to any machine that performed the work of a human computer, especially those in accordance with effective methods of the Church turning thesis. The thesis states that a mathematical method is effective if it could be set out as a list of instructions able to be followed by a human clerk with paper and pencil, for as long as necessary, and without ingenuity or insight. Machines that computed with continuous values became known as the analog kind. They used machinery that represented continuous numeric quantities, like the angle of a shaft rotation or difference in electrical potential. Digital machinery, in contrast to analog, were able to render a state of a numeric value and store each individual digit. Digital machinery used difference engines or relays before the invention of faster memory devices. The phrase computing machine gradually gave away, after the late 1940s, to just computer as the onset of electronic digital machinery became common. These computers were able to perform the calculations that were performed by the previous human clerks. Since the values stored by digital machines were not bound to physical properties like analog devices, a logical computer, based on digital equipment, was able to do anything that could be described "purely mechanical." The theoretical turning machine, created by Alan Turning, is a hypothetical device theorized in order to study the properties of such hardware. From the time when computational processes were performed by human clerks, the study of computability began a science by being able to make evident which was not explicit into ordinary sense more immediate.
