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A Smart for two???why because it has two doors only..The smallest car I have ever seen in real..Three weeks after her wedding day, Joanna called her minister. "Reverend," she wailed, "John and I had a DREADFUL fight!"
"Calm down, my child," said the minister, "it's not half as bad as you think. Every marriage has to have its first fight!"
"I know, I know!" said Joanna. "But what am I going to do with the BODY?"
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CHICAGO (UPI) -- The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered major retailers to pull certain types of Scotts Miracle-Gro products from their shelves.
The EPA ordered Home Depot, Lowe's, Wal-Mart, Ace, Do-It-Best, True Value, Sam's Club, Meijer and K-Mart to stop selling and distributing "illegal, unregistered and misbranded" Miracle-Gro Shake 'n Feed All Purpose Plant Food Plus Weed Preventer and related pesticide products immediately, the agency said Thursday.
The pesticides have an invalid EPA registration number -- 62355-4 -- on the package.
Federal law requires all pesticides to be submitted to EPA for review, evaluation and registration to ensure that they do not pose an unreasonable risk to human health or the environment.
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. said it is initiating steps to strengthen its product registration practices and procedures.
"Over the last several days, we learned that one of our former employees deliberately circumvented company policies, caused invalid product registration forms to be submitted to federal and state regulators and then hid those actions from co-workers and managers," Jim Hagedorn, chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement.
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The United States' three-ship space shuttle fleet faces "significant challenges" in its future orbiter work, the U.S. government has warned.
The Government Accountability Office told Congress that completing construction and continuing operation of the $31 billion International Space Station raised the possibility of severe cutbacks, the Houston Chronicle reported from Washington.
Cristina Chaplain of Congress' watchdog agency told a House of Representatives aeronautics subcommittee that NASA must overcome immense odds to complete assembly of the space station on time. Eight shuttle missions are scheduled before the fleet's retirement in 2010.
edify \ED-uh-fy\ (transitive verb) - To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. --edifying, adjective
"He attended like holiness itself; He attended to edify the people with His example, to teach them His doctrine, and to favor men with His grace." -- José JoaquÃn Fernández de Lizardi, 'The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento'
Edify is from Old French edifier, from Latin aedifico, aedificare, to build.
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says a motor in the robotic arm of its Mars rover Opportunity that began stalling more than two years ago has become more troublesome.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are diagnosing why the motor, one of five in the robotic arm, stalled April 14. NASA said the engineers are also examining whether the motor can be used and assessing the impact on Opportunity's work if the motor is deemed unusable.
The malfunctioning motor controls sideways motion at the shoulder joint of the rover's robotic arm. Other motors provide up-and-down motion at the shoulder and maneuverability at the elbow and wrist. A turret at the end of the robotic arm has four tools that are used to study rock and soil composition and texture.
"Even under the worst-case scenario for this motor, Opportunity still has the capability to do some contact science with the arm," said John Callas, project manager for the twin rovers Opportunity and Spirit.
Opportunity and Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004 to begin a three-month mission. They have continued operating for more than four years.
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have clarified a complex series of biochemical steps involved in abnormal cell proliferation that can lead to cancer.
The Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) Laboratory researchers said they used the adenovirus -- a DNA tumor virus that causes the common cold, but whose genome contains known oncogenes, said William Tansey, who led the study with Professors Scott Lowe and Gregory Hannon.
The team focused on an adenoviral oncogene called E1A, and a protein that it codes for with the same name. Since a DNA virus is little more than a tiny segment of DNA enclosed within a protein shell, the researchers said it must find a way to enter the nucleus of a living cell and hijack the cell's reproductive machinery in order to reproduce.
"It's not adenovirus itself, but the things it does when it enters a cell, that really interest us, Tansey said.
Understanding how a tumor virus like adenovirus promotes cancer can reveal "the most vulnerable pathways and nodes that are linked to tumorigenesis," Hannon added.
The research appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
How's everyone doing today!! Hope you got a great Sunday like what we had today!! We passed by at different places again as we visited my sister in law in the hospital in Neumarkt. After our visit there, we passed by at Parsberg around 5pm to see the Verkauf Offnen Sonntag or Sunday Open Sales in English.
Since almost all shops were already closing, we decided to go walking to Burg (castle) Parsberg. I always go to this town once or thrice a week to go shopping especially for groceries. This is the first time I had been to the castle... here are some photos for some evidence..hehehe!!
at the castle compound!! This castle is now a museum for old/antique things..
that building on the top is the Burg Parsberg..this is the view if you stay downtown!!
view of the castle at the back near the woods
the two towers of the castle in Parsberg..I didn't expect that these towers still exist in this castle as you can't see these if you stay downtown..this castle was also renovated..PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY. i GOT THIS IN MY EMAIL MONTHS AGO AND I ALSO WANT TO SHARE IT TO ALL MY READERS...HOPE IT WILL HELP!!!
Do not charge your mobile phone the whole night and DON'T keep it near
you while charging. IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!
I HOPE YOU'RE NOT DOING THIS!!! Never, ever answer a cell phone while it
is being RECHARGED!! A few days ago, a person was recharging his cell
phone at home. Just at that time, a call came in and he answered it with
the instrument still connected to the outlet. After a few seconds,
electricity flowed into the cell phone unrestrained and the young man
was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud. His parents rushed to the
room only to find him unconscious, with a weak heartbeat and burnt
fingers.
He was rushed to the nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Cell phones are a very useful modern invention. However, we must be aware
that it can also be an instrument! of death.Never use the cell phone
while it is hooked to the electrical outlet!
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galvanic \gal-VAN-ik\ (adjective) - 1 : Of, pertaining to, or producing a direct current of electricity, especially when produced chemically. 2 : Affecting or affected as if by an electric shock; startling; shocking. 3 : Stimulating; energizing.
"I can feel in my face that I have turned either bright red or ghost white, with the same galvanic tingle that would send a polygraph machine off the edge of the paper." -- Edward Allen, 'Mustang Sally'
Galvanic is derived from the name of Luigi Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, whose experiments established the presence of bioelectric forces in animal tissue.
Jerry, Perry, and Cletus get captured and are placed before a firing squad. They are about to be executed when Jerry exclaims, "Look...Hurricane" and points to his left while he gets away.
Perry follows up with, "Look...Tornado," points and gets away.
Finally Cletus tries to do the same thing and says "Fire!"
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prodrug designed for once-daily treatment of adults with ADHD.
Although ADHD -- attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder -- is often thought of as a childhood malady, it's estimated 4.4 percent of U.S. adults ages 18-to-44 suffer from it. The new drug, Vyvanse, has been marketed in the United States since July 2007 for the treatment of ADHD in children 6-12 years of age.
The manufacturer, Shire PLC, a British-headquartered specialty biopharmaceutical company, said Vyvanse is the only once-daily prodrug stimulant approved to treat adults with ADHD. A prodrug is a medication designed to be inactive until it interacts with enzymes in the stomach, thereby making it difficult to be abused, a Shire spokesman said.
In a clinical study with adults, Vyvanse was shown to significantly improve ADHD symptoms, such as an inability to focus attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, within the first week of use, Shire officials said.
The company said Vyvanse is now available in dosage strengths of 30 mg, 50 mg and 70 mg. Additional dosage strengths of 20 mg, 40 mg and 60 mg are expected to become available later this year.
HOUSTON (UPI) -- A U.S. optometrist says he has developed a series of tests designed to replace the standard eye chart to gauge athletes' special visual abilities.
University of Houston Assistant Professor Kevin Gee said athletes need above average vision to engage their special skills. To that end, Gee founded the Sports Vision Performance Center, a facility where athletes work to improve their visual abilities.
"The visual system is more than just 'what's the smallest line on the chart you can see,'" Gee said. "The visual system consists of many things, but specifically for sports, depth perception, color, speed and accuracy of movements and contrast sensitivity -- or the ability to detect an object off a background."
To assess those skills, Gee and his staff use instruments such as a 3-D movie that measures depth perception, a lighted batting test to gauge timing and accuracy, and a DynavisionT board -- a vertical lighted peg board -- that determines reaction time, peripheral awareness and accuracy of movement.
The new center is located on the University of Houston campus.
NORWICH, England (UPI) -- A British scientist says he's developed a mathematical model that suggests the odds of finding life on another Earth-like planet are very low.
University of East Anglia Professor Andrew Watson said an evolutionary limit is the habitability of Earth-like planets that will end as their star brightens.
Scientists say the future life span of Earth will be about another 1 billion years -- a short time compared with the 4 billion years since life first appeared on the planet, he said.
"At present, Earth is the only example we have of a planet with life," said Watson. "If we learned the planet would be habitable for a set period and that we had evolved early in this period, then even with a sample of one, we'd suspect evolution from simple to complex intelligent life was quite likely to occur
"By contrast, we now believe we evolved late in the habitable period and this suggests our evolution is rather unlikely," he added. "In fact, the timing of events is consistent with it being very rare indeed."
The finding, reported in the journal Astrobiology, suggests the chance of intelligent life emerging is less than 0.01 percent over 4 billion years.
stoic \STOH-ik\ (noun) - 1 : (Capitalized). A member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno holding that one should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. 2 : Hence, one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, joy or grief.
(adjective) - 1 : Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines. 2 : Not affected by passion; being or appearing indifferent to pleasure or pain, joy or grief.
"A Stoic never evaded life: he faced it. A Stoic never avoided responsibility: he accepted it. A Stoic not only believed in liberty: he practised it." -- H. J. Duteil, 'The Great American Parade'
Stoic comes from Greek stoikos, literally "of or pertaining to a colonnade or porch," from stoa, "a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his successors taught."
How can you discover a page’s PageRank? You can use the Google toolbar. (I explain in a moment why you can never find out the true PageRank.) You should install the Google toolbar, which is available for download at toolbar.google.com. Each time you open a page in Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, you see the page’s PageRank in a bar. If the bar is all white, the PageRank is 0. If it’s all green, the PageRank is 10.
You can estimate PageRank simply by looking at the position of the green bar, or you can mouse over the bar, and a pop-up appears with the PageRank number. If the PageRank component isn’t on your toolbar, click the Options button to open the Toolbar Options dialog box, select the PageRank checkbox, and click OK.
If you don’t have the Google toolbar, you can still check PageRank. Search for the term pagerank tool to find various sites that allow you to enter a URL and get the PageRank. Mozilla’s FireFox browser also has extensions that display the page rank in the status bar of every page.
Here are a few things to understand about this toolbar:
Sometimes the bar is gray. Sometimes when you look at the bar, it’s grayed out. Some people believe that this means Google is somehow penalizing the site by withholding PageRank. I’ve never seen this happen, though. I believe the bar is simply buggy, and that PageRank is just not being passed to the bar for some reason.
Every time I’ve seen the bar grayed out, I’ve been able to open the Web page in another browser window (you may have to try two or three) and view the PageRank.
Sometimes the toolbar guesses. Sometimes the toolbar guesses a PageRank. You may occasionally find it being reported for a page that isn’t even in the Google index. It seems that Google may be coming up with a PageRank for a page on the fly, based on the PageRank of other pages in the site that have already been indexed.
Also, note that Google has various data centers around the world, and because they’re not all in sync, with data varying among them, it’s possible for one person looking at a page’s PageRank to see one number, while someone else sees another number.
A white bar is not a penalty. Another common PageRank myth is that Google penalizes pages by giving them PageRanks of 0.
That is, if you see a page with a PageRank of 0, something is wrong with the page, and if you link to the page, your Web page may be penalized, too. This is simply not true. Most of the world’s Web pages show a PageRank of 0. That’s not to say that Google won’t take away PageRank if it wants to penalize a page or site for some reason. I’m just saying you can’t know if it’s a penalty or if it’s simply a page with few valuable links pointing in.
Zero is not zero, and ten is not ten. Although commonly referred to as PageRank, and even labeled as such, the number you see in the Google toolbar is not the page’s actual PageRank. It’s simply a number indicating the approximate position of the page on the PageRank range. Therefore, pages never have a PageRank of 0, even though most pages show 0 on the toolbar, and a page with a rank of, say, 2 might actually have a PageRank of 25 or 100.
The true PageRank scale is probably a logarithmic scale. Thus, the distance between PageRank 5 and 6 is much greater than the difference between 2 and 3. The consensus of opinion among people who like to discuss these things is that the PageRank shown on the toolbar is probably on a logarithmic scale with a base of around 5 or 6, or perhaps even lower.
Suppose, for a moment, that the base is actually 5. That means that a page with a PageRank of 0 shown on the toolbar may have an actual PageRank somewhere between a fraction of 1 and just under 5. If the PageRank shown is 1, the page may have a rank between 5 and just under 25; if 2 is shown, the number may be between 25 and just under 125, and so on. A page with a rank of 9 or 10 shown on the toolbar most likely has a true PageRank in the millions.
The maximum possible PageRank, and thus this scale, continually changes as Google recalculates PageRank. As pages are added to the index, the PageRank has to go up. How can you be sure that the numbers on the toolbar are not the true PageRank? The PageRank algorithm simply doesn’t work on a scale of 1 to 10 on a Web that contains billions of Web pages. And, perhaps more practically, it’s not logical to assume that sites such as Yahoo! and Google have PageRanks just slightly above small, privately owned sites.
I have pages with ranks of 6 or 7, for instance, whereas the BBC Web site, the world’s 25th most popular Web site according to Alexa, has a PageRank of 9. It’s not reasonable to assume that its true PageRank is just 50 percent greater than pages on one of my little sites. Here are two important points to remember about the PageRank shown on the Google toolbar:
CLEVELAND (UPI) -- U.S. biologists say a Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle -- thought to be extinct in nature -- has been found in northern Vietnam.
Vietnam researchers, sponsored by the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and the Cleveland Zoological Society, identified the only known specimen living in the wild of the critically endangered giant soft-shell turtle Rafetus swinhoei.
After three years of searching lakes and wetlands along the Red River in northern Vietnam, field biologist Nguyen Xuan Thuan found the turtle at a lake just west of Hanoi. He photographed the turtle as it basked on the lake's surface, allowing scientists to confirm the animal was the extremely rare Swinhoe's turtle.
"This is an incredibly important discovery because the Swinhoe's turtle is one of the most critically endangered species of turtle in the world," said Doug Hendrie, the coordinator of Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Asian Turtle Program.
The largest freshwater turtle in the world, the Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle -- also know as the Shanghai soft-shell turtle or the Yangtze soft-shell turtle -- can weigh up to 300 pounds, with some living more than 100 years.
desideratum \dih-sid-uh-RAY-tum; -RAH-\ (noun) - Something desired or considered necessary. plural desiderata
"I went, had admittance, and offered him my service as a master of the Greek language, which I had been told was a desideratum in this university." -- Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Vicar of Wakefield'
Desideratum is from Latin desideratum, "a thing desired," from desiderare, "to desire."
Addicted to flowers!!!, I believed is very better as addicted to bad things..like drugs maybe!! anyway, I haven't tried any drugs that make one a drug addict or drug dependent..this is really not good!! I rather choose to be a flower addict!! hehehe...
here are some photos I got today as I stayed in my garden while doing some clean-ups..
Have a great Thursday everyone!! hope to visit my co-bloggers next time...just don't have time this past days, as I am really very busy!! thanks for your patience and understanding!!
Visit also Euroangel Graffiti and Simply The Best for more photos 
and some updates!!
It's joke time again!!! huwag po ninyong dibdibin eto...just a little exercise on the muscles of our face!!!I just want to share it with you before I delete it in my mailbox..
I'm still very busy...so please some patience and I will visit you soon!!!!
Subject: Accounting in Pilipino...
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>A bill filed by Sen. Lito Lapid asks that proposed laws should be
>written in Pilipino. Likewise, the official spoken language in the
>Senate should be Pilipino.
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>But I doubt this will bill will see the light of day. Read on to know
>why.
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>Ang Paggamit ng Wikang Pilipino
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>When the proposed bill was presented to the President for signature to
>become the law of the land, it was vetoed. Why?
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>She explained that when the English "business" words are translated in
>Tagalog, they sound very malicious and are "nakaka-hiya at
>nakaka-kilabot!"
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>Here are a few samples accounting terms when translated from English to
>Pilipino:
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>Asset - Ari
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>Fixed asset - Nakatirik na ari
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>Liquid asset - Basang ari
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>Solid asset - Matigas na ari
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>Owned asset - Sariling pag-aari
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>Other asset - Ari ng iba
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>Miscellaneous asset - Iba't-ibang klaseng ari
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>Asset write off - Pinutol na pag-aari
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>Depreciation of asset - Laspag na pag-aari
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>Fully depreciated asset - Laspag na laspag na
>pag-aari
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>Earning asset - Tumutubong pag-aari
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>Working asset - Ganado pa ang ari
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>Non-earning asset - Baldado na ang ari
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>Erroneous entry - Mali ang pagka-pasok
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>Double entry - Dalawang beses ipinasok
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>Multiple entry - Labas pasok nang labas pasok
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>Correcting entry - Itinama ang pagpasok
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>Reversing entry - Baligtad ang pagkakapasok
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>Dead asset - Patay na ang ari
Tulips in my garden!! I will be missing them, when I will be on vacation next week!!! I love plants and flowers too!! Have a great Wednesday to everyone!!
OTTAWA (UPI) -- Canada became the first country to declare the widely used chemical bisphenol A unsuitable for use in baby bottles and set a ban mechanism in motion Friday.
Health Minister Tony Clement and Environment Minister John Baird made the announcement in Ottawa, and said there will 60 days of public consultations before further steps are taken, the Canwest News Service reported.
The chemical also known as BPA used in polycarbonate plastic bottles and to line food cans leaches out and mimics estrogen in the body. Clement said that was particularly alarming in baby bottles.
"Although our science tells us that exposure levels to newborns and infants are below the level that cause effects, we believe that the current safety margin needs to be higher," he said. "We have concluded that it is better to be safe than sorry"
Clement said it was safe for Canadians to continue using hard plastic reusable water bottles and plastic tableware, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. He said in the near future, the Health Canada agency "will be providing some advice on how to use them properly."
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
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MEMPHIS (UPI) -- A U.S. study has revealed the basis of childhood leukemia resistance to the anti-cancer drug methotrexate.
Scientists at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital say their findings provide new insights into the genomic basis of methotrexate resistance and differences in methotrexate response.
The researchers said their study -- the first analysis of the genetic determinants of resistance to methotrexate in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL -- could offer a pathway to predicting such resistance and treatments to overcome it.
Besides its use in ALL, methotrexate is widely used to treat other cancers and some autoimmune diseases. However, until the new study there was no valid test for analyzing the genetic basis of resistance. Although 80 percent of children with the disease can be cured, determining the basis of drug resistance in the other 20 percent would help increase the cure rate.
The researchers, led by Dr. William Evans, report their findings in the journal PLoS Medicine.
MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've made a discovery that might lead to new treatments for central nervous system maladies such as Parkinson's disease.
Researchers led by Karen Mesce and Joshua Puhl of the University of Minnesota discovered it's possible the human nervous system -- within each segment of the spinal cord -- might have its own "unit burst generator" to control rhythmic movements such as walking.
By studying a simpler model of locomotion in the medicinal leech, the researchers discovered each nerve cord segment has a complete unit burst generator. When a neuron fires, it sets off a chain reaction that gives rise to rhythmic movement, they said.
Mesce and her research group targeted the segmented leech for study because they have fewer and larger neurons, thereby making them easier to study.
Mesce said the study found that dopamine -- a common human hormone -- can activate each of the complete generator units.
"Because dopamine affects movement in many different animals, including humans, our studies may help to identify treatments for Parkinson's patients and those with spinal cord injury," Mesce said.
The study is available online in the Journal of Neuroscience.
I just read this very interesting and useful article in Google and decided to post in my page and want to share it to everyone esp. to All bloggers.. please read!! very important!!
Webmaster Guidelines
Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google's partner sites.
When your site is ready:
Design and content guidelines
Technical guidelines
These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites). It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.
If you believe that another site is abusing Google's quality guidelines, please report that site at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport. Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports we receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.
Quality guidelines - basic principles
Quality guidelines - specific guidelines
If you determine that your site doesn't meet these guidelines, you can modify your site so that it does and then submit your site for reconsideration.
I just research this at Google..I really find this very useful esp. to bloggers. All bloggers this is very important...check it out!! so I guess, I will not make any more tags that won't reciprocate each and everyone..All bloggers.....very important ..Please read that's why I am sharing this to all of you!! here is the topic about Link Schemes!!
Link schemes
Your site's ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards your rating. The sites that link to you can provide context about the subject matter of your site, and can indicate its quality and popularity. However, some webmasters engage in link exchange schemes and build partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. This is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact your site's ranking in search results. Examples of link schemes can include:
The best way to get other sites to create relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant content that can quickly gain popularity in the Internet community. The more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content valuable to their readers and link to it. Before making any single decision, you should ask yourself the question: Is this going to be beneficial for my page's visitors?
It is not only the number of links you have pointing to your site that matters, but also the quality and relevance of those links. Creating good content pays off: Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and the buzzing blogger community can be an excellent place to generate interest. In addition, submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites.
Once you've made your changes and are confident that your site no longer violates our guidelines, submit your site for reconsideration.
If you'd like to discuss this with Google, or have ideas for how we can better communicate with you about it, please post in our webmaster discussion forum.
Today was a very beautiful day compared to the past days..It was sunny with blue sky and not so cold..Perfect weather for going around...The past days were cold, very windy and we even got snow last Thursday..Compared to last year's month of April, this year is quite not so good due to bad cold weather always..
Me and my hubby dear decided to go to Berching. We planned to go to Schwandorf but change our minds..We also had a lot of stop-overs to the small towns we passed by like Doellwang, Seubersdorf, Deining, Waldkirchen and a lot more...well forgot the names...German words and names are sometimes very difficult to remember esp. if it sounds new.
Thanks God for this very beautiful Sunday!!! hope you got one too!!
this was written in front of the church in Waldkirchen..it says that this Church was built with God in the year 1889 and was redesigned/rebuilt last 1996-1998 as their Parish Church.
the paintings in the ceiling of the Church!! really very nice..one thing I love about Germany are their churches which have very nice paintings and monuments!!
the altar
the monument remembering the victims/dead of the WW2
the Pfarrkirche or Parish Church of Waldkirchen!!HOUSTON (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests calorie restrictions inhibit some cancers, while obesity fuels development of epithelial cancers.
Epithelial cancers arise in the epithelium -- the tissue that lines the surfaces and cavities of the body's organs -- and comprise 80 percent of all cancers.
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers specifically found a restricted-calorie diet inhibited the development of precancerous growths in a two-step model of skin cancer, reducing the activation of two signaling pathways known to contribute to cancer growth and development.
An obesity-inducing diet, by contrast, activated the pathways, said graduate student Tricia Moore, first author of the study.
"These results, while tested in a mouse model of skin cancer, are broadly applicable to epithelial cancers in other tissues," said senior author John DiGiovanni, director of M.D. Anderson's Science Park Research Division.
The research that also included Steve Carbajal, Anna Jiang, Linda Beltran, and Steve Hursting was reported Monday in San Diego during the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 04/16/2008
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NEW YORK (UPI) -- A U.S. study suggests that women 70 and older benefit from yearly mammograms to help detect breast cancer.
Researchers at Jacobi Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine reviewed the mammographies of 24 cases of breast cancer in 22 patients 70 to 89 and correlated the results to surgically proven histology and lymph node involvement.
"Our initial interest was sparked by the changing mammographic guidelines in the elderly age group and the differences in the guidelines between organizations, including the American Cancer Society and American College of Radiology," lead author Dr. Jason Salsamendi said.
"During our study, we found that five patients never had a prior mammogram. Their breast cancer was detected on a baseline study. These five patients included three cases of infiltrating ductal carcinoma."
The study results encourage clinicians to continue to order screening mammography in elderly patients at yearly intervals, Salsamendi said.
The study is scheduled to be presented as an electronic exhibit during the American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting in Washington this week.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
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You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
When is something risible?Something that is funny, or is able to or inclined to incite laughter, is "risible."
In Iceland, Domino's Pizza has a reindeer sausage pie on its menu.
The area of Greater Tokyo -- meaning the city proper, its port, Yokohama, and the suburban prefectures of Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa -- contains less than 4 percent of Japan’s land area but fully one-fourth of its 123-plus million people.
The poinsettia flower is named after a 19th-century ambassador to Mexico, Joel R. Poinsett, who first brought the poinsettia plant to America.
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inimical \ih-NIM-ih-kul\ (adjective) - 1 : Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable. 2 : Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; adverse.
"The gods did not care -- or rather, were inimical. Beyond question, they were inimical to him." -- Gene Wolfe, 'Litany of the Long Sun'
nimical comes from Late Latin inimicalis, from Latin inimicus, unfriendly, adverse, hostile, from in-, not + amicus, friendly, well-wishing, favorable to, from amare, to love.
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Women working as contractors in Iraq tell a U.S. congressional committee they do not know where to file complaints if they are sexually assaulted.
Three women testified at a Senate hearing Wednesday, The Miami Herald reported. Figures from the Defense Department show that 26 U.S. women working for companies like KBR have made complaints in Iraq, but no one has been prosecuted.
Mary Beth Kineston told the committee she was raped by another truck driver while she was working in Iraq for KBR.
''I'm in a war zone, and I have to worry about my co-workers,'' she said.
A KBR spokeswoman told the Herald that the company does not tolerate sexual harassment and takes action when appropriate. But witnesses described not knowing where to file complaints.
''We've got a problem that justice is breaking down here,'' said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.
Nelson became concerned about the issue after a constituent, a Tampa woman, said that she was raped in 2005 by a colleague who got the key to her apartment out of an unlocked box.
1. Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00 and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.
2. If it's really a rush job, run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps. Even better, hover behind me, and advise me at every keystroke.
3. Always leave without telling anyone where you're going. It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where you are.
4. If my arms are full of papers, boxes, books, or supplies, don't open the door for me. I need to learn how to function as a paraplegic and opening doors with no arms is good training in case I should ever be injured and lose all use of my limbs.
5. If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me which is priority. I am psychic . 6. Do your best to keep me late. I adore this office and really have nowhere to go or anything to do. I have no life beyond work.
7. If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. If that gets out, it could mean a promotion.
8. If you don't like my work, tell everyone. I like my name to be popular in conversations. I was born to be whipped.
9. If you have special instructions for a job, don't write them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done. No use confusing me with useful information.
10. Never introduce me to the people you're with. I have no right to know anything. In the corporate food chain, I am plankton. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them.
11. Be nice to me only when the job I'm doing for you could really change your life and send you straight to manager's hades.
12. Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any and it's nice to know someone is less fortunate. I especially like the story about having to pay so many taxes on the bonus check you received for being such a good manager.
13. Wait until my yearly review and THEN tell me what my goals SHOULD have been. Give me a mediocre performance rating with a cost of living increase. I'm not here for the money anyway.
Q. What is the difference between the suffixes "-or" and "-er"? That is, if one paints, he is a "painter," but, if one acts, he is an "actor." -- Harry R. Wess, Sr., McKeesport, Pa.
A. The choice of "-or" or "-er" has bedeviled many painters and actors, not to mention ALL writers. Standards of spelling, like those of painting and acting, are sometimes a matter of taste.
At the school where I teach, for instance, we've been debating for years whether the teachers who advise our students are "advisors" or "advisers"; for now, we're sticking with "advisors."
I wish I could give you a simple rule to guide your "or/er" choices. I can tell you that, traditionally, words derived from Latin take "-or" endings, while words of Anglo-Saxon origin take "-er" endings.
Thus, "act," the root of "actor," is derived from the Latin "actus," past participle of "agere" (to drive, do). Other Latin-derived "-or" nouns include "investor" (from "investire"), "distributor" (from "tribuere") and "educator" (from "educare").
By contrast, "read/reader," "sit/sitter" and "walk/walker" are derived from the Old English words "raedan," "sittan" and "wealcan" respectively, so they have "-er" endings.
Of course, unless you're a Latin scholar or have time to research the origin of every word you use, this Latin/Anglo-Saxon rule isn't very useful.
To further confuse matters, many Latin-based words have become so thoroughly Anglicized, they've been taken to the "ER" for reconstructive surgery, e.g. "promoter," "digester," "eraser." This also applies to "painter," which, despite its Latin origin ("pingere"), ends in "-er."
Likewise, "arrester" seems to be winning out over "arrestor"; "vender" over "vendor"; "adapter" over "adaptor"; "imposter" over "impostor"; "corrupter" over "corruptor"; "conjurer" over "conjuror"; "adviser" over "advisor," with most dictionaries now listing both spellings of each word.
Just for fun, let's see whether you can choose the correct ending for each of these "er/or" words:
1. eradicator/eradicater
2. idolator/idolater
3. facilitator/facilitater
4. counselor/counseler
5. dispersor/disperser
6. lecturor/lecturer
7. detestor/detester
8. dispensor/dispenser
9. elucidator/elucidater
10. burser/bursor
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Answers:
1. eradicator
2. idolater
3. facilitator
4. counselor
5. disperser
6. lecturer
7. detester
8. dispenser
9. elucidator
10. Trick question! -- it's "bursar"
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- Wireless Dynamics' new memory card turns mobile handsets into an RFID reader, and can also be used to store RFID applications and data, the vendor said Wednesday.
The SDiD 1212 plugs into the Secure Digital (SD) slot built into many mobiles, and is the industry's first card with embedded 512 MB SD memory, according to Wireless Dynamics.
"By inserting the SDiD 1212 into the SD slot of a smartphone or PDA, the integrated device can be used for most low frequency RFID applications such as asset tracking, field services, work-flow control, logistics, pet and livestock animal identification," Wireless Dynamics said, in a statement. "RFID tag data transactions can be processed in real time through mobile connections such as Wi-Fi, CDMA, GSM/GPRS, or UMTS associated with the portable device."
More and more organizations are turning to RFID for a wide variety of requirements including Wal-Mart, Airbus, American Apparel, and the U.S. Department of Defense.
The SDiD 1212 can query most RFID tag formats in the 125 kHz and 134.2 kHz frequency ranges, including TI TIRIS, NXP Hitag, Q5, EM4100 series, and ISO 11784/11785 half-duplex (HDX) and full-duplex (FDX). A software development kit is also available for running apps on PocketPC 2002/2003, Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 5.0, and Windows Mobile 6.0 operating systems, Wireless Dynamics said.
The card comes in three versions: the s512MB with "commercial grade" memory; the i512MB with "industrial grade" memory; and the SDiD 1210 with no memory at all. Pricing starts at $209 per unit, but is volume dependent.
source: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cmp/207400314
I think we've all at one point or another accidentally come across material online our boss wouldn't approve of, but that's part of using the Web at work. Most of you have probably seen those NSFW (not safe for work) tags on blog posts and forums, but not everyone is courteous enough to add one—which can be a bit embarrassing when you're at the office or at school. Parents, on the other hand, may not want their kids to see what their otherwise approved sites might be linking to, so for them there are plug-ins.
If you're a Firefox user, then you know plug-ins are small programs that add more functionality to a browser. I recently spotted two Firefox plug-ins that flag pages containing those NSFW links: one's called Work Safer and the other one is No-NSFW. Both plug-ins basically do the same thing, which is alert you when you're about to click on a page that contains adult material. One of the differences is No-NSFW displays a color-coded (red, yellow) warning on the lower right hand corner, and Work Safer displays a scoring system. Ratings are largely determined by votes gathered from its users, but if users haven't voted on a specific site, the ratings are then based on other things like how many similar URLs are considered NSFW by voters. Both sites are still very new, but I like the warning system, and can't wait to see how well this will work in the future now that NSFW links are everywhere.
source: yahoo technews
I am sharing this to all of you guys esp. to those who are using Windows XP..I am still using till now..I guess this is just a very important info..here it is!!
Users Fight to Save Windows XP
By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer Mon Apr 14, 7:49 AM ET
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it's someone running Windows XP, a version Microsoft wants to retire.
Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently. They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft's latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews.
No matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista, some just can't be wowed. They complain about Vista's hefty hardware requirements, its less-than-peppy performance, occasional incompatibility with other programs and devices and frequent, irritating security pop-up windows.
For them, the impending disappearance of XP computers from retailers, and the phased withdrawal of technical support in coming years, is causing a minor panic.
Take, for instance, Galen Gruman. A longtime technology journalist, Gruman is more accustomed to writing about trends than starting them.
But after talking to Windows users for months, he realized his distaste for Vista and strong attachment to XP were widespread.
"It sort of hit us that, wait a minute, XP will be gone as of June 30. What are we going to do?" he said. "If no one does something, it's going to be gone."
So Gruman started a Save XP Web petition, gathering since January more than 100,000 signatures and thousands of comments, mostly from die-hard XP users who want Microsoft to keep selling it until the next version of Windows is released, currently targeted for 2010.
On the petition site's comments section, some users proclaimed they will downgrade from Vista to XP — an option available in the past to businesses, but now open for the first time to consumers who buy Vista Ultimate or Business editions — if they need to buy a new computer after XP goes off the market.
Others used the comments section to rail against the very idea that Microsoft has the power to enforce the phase-out from a stable, decent product to one that many consider worse, while profiting from the move. Many threatened to leave Windows for Apple or Linux machines.
Microsoft already extended the XP deadline once, but it shows no signs it will do so again. The company has declined to meet with Gruman to consider the petition. Microsoft is aware of the petition, it said in a statement to The Associated Press, and "will continue to be guided by feedback we hear from partners and customers about what makes sense based on their needs."
Gruman said he'd keep pressing for a meeting.
"They really believe if they just close their eyes, people will have no choice," he said.
In fact, most people who get a new computer will end up with Vista. In 2008, 94 percent of new Windows machines for consumers worldwide will run Vista, forecasts industry research group IDC. For businesses, about 75 percent of new PCs will have Vista. (That figure takes into account companies that choose to downgrade to XP.)
Although Microsoft may not budge on selling new copies of XP, it may have to extend support for it.
Al Gillen, an IDC analyst, estimated that at the end of 2008 nearly 60 percent of consumer PCs and almost 70 percent of business PCs worldwide will still run XP. Microsoft plans to end full support — including warranty claims and free help with problems — in April 2009. The company will continue providing a more limited level of service until April 2014.
Gillen said efforts like Gruman's grass-roots petition may not influence the software maker, but business customers' demands should carry more clout.
"You really can't make 69 percent of your installed base unhappy with you," he said.
Some companies — such as Wells Manufacturing Co. in Woodstock, Ill. — are crossing their fingers that he's right. The company, which melts scrap steel and casts iron bars, has 200 PCs that run Windows 2000 or XP. (Windows 2000 is no longer sold on PCs. Mainstream support has ended, but limited support is available through the middle of 2010.)
Wells usually replaces 50 of its PCs every 18 months. In the most recent round of purchases, Chief Information Officer Lou Peterhans said, the company stuck with XP because several of its applications don't run well on Vista.
"There is no strong reason to go to Vista, other than eventually losing support for XP," he said. Peterhans added that the company isn't planning to bring in Vista computers for 18 months to two years. If Microsoft keeps to its current timetable, its next operating system, code-named Windows 7, will be on the market by then.
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source: yahoo news
On the Net:
Save XP Petition: http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/
Microsoft's Windows support timeline: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO - Commonly used incontinence drugs may cause memory problems in some older people, a study has found. "Our message is to be careful when using these medicines," said U.S. Navy neurologist Dr. Jack Tsao, who led the study. "It may be better to use diapers and be able to think clearly than the other way around."Urinary incontinence sometimes can be resolved with non-drug treatments, he added, so patients should ask about alternatives. Exercises, biofeedback and keeping to a schedule of bathroom breaks work for many.
U.S. sales of prescription drugs to treat urinary problems topped $3 billion in 2007, according to IMS Health, which tracks drug sales. Bladder control trouble affects about one in 10 people age 65 and older, according to the National Institute on Aging, which helped fund the study. Women are more likely to be affected than men. Causes include nerve damage, loss of muscle tone or, in men, enlarged prostate.
The research began after Tsao met a 73-year-old patient. Shortly after starting an incontinence drug, she began hallucinating conversations with dead relatives and having memory problems. Her thinking improved when she stopped the drug for several months.
Tsao and his colleagues knew of similar reports. They decided to look at a large group of people to see if they could measure an effect of these and other medications that affect acetylcholine, a chemical messenger that shuttles signals through the brain and the rest of the nervous system. The drugs block some nerve impulses, such as spasms of the bladder.
The findings, released Thursday at a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, come from an analysis of the medication use and cognitive test scores of 870 older Catholic priests, nuns and brothers who participated in the Religious Orders Study at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. The average age was 75.
Researchers tracked them for nearly eight years, testing yearly for cognitive decline. They asked them to recite strings of numbers backward and forward, to name as many different kinds of fruit as they could in one minute and to complete other challenges during the annual testing.
Nearly 80 percent of the study participants took one or more of a class of drugs called anticholinergics, including drugs for high blood pressure, asthma, Parkinson's disease and incontinence drugs such as Detrol and Ditropan.
The people who took the drugs had a 50 percent faster rate of cognitive decline compared to those who didn't take any. The researchers considered other risk factors for memory loss, such as age, and still found the link. The researchers found no increased risk for the memory-robbing disorder Alzheimer's in people taking the drugs.
The incontinence drugs were among the most potent and were the most frequently taken of all the anticholinergics in the study. That's why the researchers believe they are driving the memory problems, Tsao said.
Some experts said the research supports previous observations and is helpful because it measures the size of the effect.
"This paper adds important new data to the picture," said Dr. Elaine Perry of Newcastle University in England, who has done similar research but was not involved in the new study.
More research is needed on the effects of anticholinergic drugs on memory, Tsao said. Doctors should do baseline cognitive testing on patients before prescribing the drugs, he recommended.
A representative of Pfizer Inc., maker of the top-selling Detrol, said patients should always talk to their doctors about problems while taking medication.
"Detrol has been on the market since 1998. It has been prescribed more than 100 million times worldwide," said Ponni Subbiah, Pfizer's vice president of medical affairs, in an e-mail response to questions.
Confusion and memory impairment were added to prescribing information for Detrol in 2006, Subbiah said, after some patients reported the problems. Since the reports weren't part of a medical study, "the frequency of events and the role of Detrol in their causation cannot be reliably determined," he said.
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On the Net:
American Academy of Neurology: http://www.aan.com/
This is quite interesting to share about!! got it in yahoo tech news..bloggers were badly attacked by trojan virus last month, so I believed that these tips are very useful..done some of it last month..it really worked..
here it is!!
Wed Apr 2, 2008 11:46AM EDT
The last time I wrote a piece on how to remove spyware from your computer was in 2006. Time for an update, I think. Here's my perennial "How to Beat Spyware" howto, revised and updated for 2008 (and combined into a single file instead of two parts).
Here's what to do if you suspect an infection on your Windows PC. (Please note these steps apply to both Windows XP and Vista.)
1) Are you sure it's spyware or a virus? Windows pop-ups and alerts can often seem invasive enough to be viruses, especially with Vista. Try searching the web for the exact text you see on the screen to make sure you aren't dealing with an aggressive Windows message. (Many of these can be turned off, so try whatever instructions you find.) On the other hand, some viruses masquerade as Windows alerts, so tread lightly.
2) Boot in safe mode. If you have a virus, first step is to try booting in safe mode. You can get to safe mode (a simplified version of Windows that disables a lot of extra gunk, possibly including some spyware apps) by restarting your PC and tapping F8 during boot. Soon you'll get a menu of options. Select "Safe Mode" (it's at the top of the menu) and wait for the machine to fully boot. The system will look funny (with a black background and larger icons, probably), but don't worry about it. This is only temporary. (Also note that many spyware applications can disable safe mode, so if you find this doesn't work, just boot normally.)
3) Run your antivirus application. This is of course assuming you have an antivirus application. (Need one? Check here.) You're in safe mode now, so run a full scan of your PC at maximum security levels (include the option to scan within compressed files, for example). This will probably take an hour or more, so be patient. Fix any problems the virus scan turns up. Then reboot into safe mode again using the procedure in step 2.
4) Run one or two anti-spyware applications. I used to recommend running multiple anti-spyware apps, but virtually all antivirus apps now do a pretty good job at getting rid of spyware too, so you don't need an army of additional applications just for spyware. Also, I now recommend starting with AdAware (which is free) and moving on to Spyware Doctor (free as part of the Google Pack) if you feel you need additional help. (Please note that recent versions of Spyware Doctor and Norton Antivirus have some trouble with each other.) You can try other apps too, but the once-recommended SpyBot Search & Destroy is no longer very effective, sadly. (Neither is Microsoft's own Windows Defender.) Of course, fix anything and everything these apps find.
5) Reboot normally. (Not in safe mode.) Now take stock. Still got spyware? It's time to move along to my more advanced techniques for removing the nasties.
6) Run HijackThis. HijackThis is a free software tool that scans your computer to find malware that other apps might miss. Scroll down to "Official downloads" to download the tool. Next, simply open the ZIP file you downloaded, extract the application, and run the tool (you don't need to install it). Click the "Do a system scan and save a logfile" button. You'll receive a large text file as well as a dialog box which gives you a list of active software processes, which you can then choose to delete. Unfortunately, this list includes both helpful and unhelpful software, so don't just start deleting items. Continue in step 7 to figure out how to fix your spyware infection.
7) Post your log file online. Visit this page, which offers a list of forums staffed by volunteers who can help you interpret your HijackThis log. The SWI Forums are especially busy, but most of the forums on the list are equally apt. Go to SWI and visit the "Malware Removal" forum which has over 50,000 topics listed: Those are all people like you who are seeking help getting rid of spyware. Register for an account, read the FAQ, then visit that Malware Removal forum, and post a new topic. Paste the content of the text file you created in step 5 into this topic and (politely) ask for help. You will get a response from a volunteer helper, typically within 3 days. You'll be given specific advice on what entries to remove with the HijackThis tool, and you might be pointed to additional software to run to help remove common spyware infections. Follow all the instructions and keep working with the forum helpers until either you or they give up. (And no, don't send your log file to me or post it here. I am not nearly the spyware removal expert that these guys are.)
7a) Alternately: Paste your log file into an automated tool. Don't have three days? Try simply pasting your HijackThis log file into this form. It does a pretty good job at auto-analyzing what's wrong with your machine, with no waiting. As well, if that doesn't work, you can search for the items you find in the HijackThis log by name to see what they are and how to remove them, if they're spyware. This can be quite time consuming, though.
8) Try System Restore. If that doesn't work, you might try running Windows System Restore to roll back your OS to a time before the infection happened. This isn't foolproof: You might not have System Restore turned on, or the spyware might have shut System Restore off, as well. But it's worth a shot. With either XP or Vista, System Restore can be found under Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore.
9) Give up and wipe your hard drive. At this point, you've exhausted all the options I know of. You might try again at steps 6/7 to make sure you've done everything you can to salvage the PC. Forum helpers will often work with you for weeks to help fight a spyware infection, but there are tens of thousands of possible variants out there, with new ones cropping up every day. It's just not possible to clean them all, every time. Sometimes the only thing you can do is call it quits, reformat your hard drive, and reinstall your OS. Again, make sure you have your backups ready and verified. Once you're up and running, reinstall your antivirus and anti-spyware applications, and stay vigilant against infection. Good luck.
source: yahoo tech news
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