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This is an easy to read informative piece for any entrepreneur or founder of a growing business. It deals with one of the typical situations all founders find themselves in eventually as their business grows - how to deal with the soul brothers who haven't been able to migrate with the management responsibilities required to transition to a larger and more mature firm.

From bright ideas to right ideas: capturing the creative spark: thinking in new ways opens the mind to boundless possibilities and creative solutions.(outside the box): An article from: The Futurist
~ Michael Michalko

Like the author's two wonderful books on creativity, this article is very well written.

If you own &/or have read any of Michael Michalko's 'Thinkertoys' &/or 'Cracking Creativity', then I reckon there is no point for you to acquire &/or read this article. The things he talks about in this article can be found in his two books.

My rating of 5 here applies to the author's two books, both of which have already been reviewed by me on amazon website.

to all of u that like to laugh, have an open mind, u should get this book. whenever i think i won't laugh for the day, i go back to Fun Bet...bcuz, well, it's a fun bet...brought a smile to my face, and a rip roar to my laugh. pretty damn kool.

I love Ghettopoly it takes board games to a new level. You get to pimp hoe's buy machines guns. Drugs are in this games. I love building the crack houses and buy stolen goods. Monopoly thinks they can just sue the people who made this game.

Attorney (and Social Worker) Robin Bodiford of Fort Lauderdale has been crucially instrumental in making her home county of Broward the most progressive in the red (or dare we think purple state of Florida.) By way of her efforts, gay citizens in Broward County have greater legal protections than in any other county statewide. This particular article of hers, points out most excellently the atrociousness (more to the harm of needy children than to the gay community,) of the present state of Florida Law. May such efforts as hers, which point out the backwards and cruel effects of southern bigotry, which continue alive and all-too-well in Florida, soon change the tide!

Kids have trouble swallowing pills. They gag on them or end up chewing them and the bitterness of the medication causes them to spit it out. Having a tasty chewable form of Ibuprofen is a great idea for kids, or anyone with swallowing problems.

Ibuprofen is a good over the counter analgesic (pain reliever) that works on mild to moderate pain. Ibuprofen is the generic drug name, and is the active ingredient in Advil and Motrin (which cost much more).

It comes in 200 milligam tablets/capsules. For most mild aches, it can be quite effective. Not only does Ibuprofen relieve pain, but it also is a real good anti-inflammatory medication (it lessens swelling). Thus it is also good for arthritis pain, any joint or muscle sprains or strains, and terrific for toothache pain too.

If two tablets are taken, it is equivalent to the previously by prescription only product, "Motrin". Two tablets, or 400 mg of Ibuprofen is for mild to moderate pain. Three tablets, 600 mg, is for moderate to moderately severe pain. All three doses, 200, 400, and 600 mg can be taken every 4 hours as needed for pain. Four tablets is the highest prescribed dose (800 mg), and should only be taken once every 6 hours. Reserve the four tablet dosaging for your really severe pain. The 800mg dose is equivalent to Tylenol #3 (anetaminophen with codiene), another good pain reliever. (Anything more than 200 mg a dose requires a doctor's prescription.)

Ibuprofen can cause stomach upset and mild stomach bleeding, therefore, always take it with a large cup of water and to minimize gastric upset, eat something with it, like some yogurt, some applesauce, a piece of toast, etc. The extra food will help protect your gut.

LIke any medication, Ibuprofen should not be taken day after day for an extended period of time without a doctor's supervision. Ibuprofen in higher doses or low continuous doses can damage your liver and kidneys. If you are planning to use Ibuprofen for only a few days, you should be able to tolerate 2-3 tablets every 4-6 hours as needed (provided you are a generally healthy adult, are not allergic to Ibuprofen, have no existing liver or kidney disease, and have no stomach ulcers or chronic gut condition like Irritable Bowel Syndrome or Chron's Disease.

How you purchase Ibuprofen is up to you, but there are some real good generic Ibuprofen products that are less than half the cost of the "name brand" products (Advil, Motrin). Both the generic and the name brand are equal in terms of strength and effectiveness. The only thing different about the name brand is fancier packaging and perhaps easier to swallow dose forms.

I buy my Ibuprofen in the generic form; not only do I get it cheaper, I get more tablets too.

Jim "Konedog" Koenig

The young are getting more and more talented... I've read this story... I think we may have a young, burgeoning Jane Austen....

Oh wow! What a great article! The best I've ever read in my life! I would do reading business with this author again! Highly Recommended! A+++++++++++++++++++!!!!!

This article was inspiring.
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This is a fine article by Keith Windschuttle. It begins with a quote from Chomsky, where he says that since a hypocrite is one who refuses to apply to himself the standards he applies to others, the entire commentary of the War on Terror is pure hypocrisy.

Well, that's interesting. Just who is Noam Chomsky?

Chomsky has made some fine contributions to the field of linguistics. He helped restore a rationalistic approach to linguistics that has basically replaced the behavioralist approach of B. F. Skinner.

Chomsky came up with the concept of context-free grammars, and developed many of their properties. He showed the equivalence of regular grammars and finite automata, he showed the equivalence of context-free languages and push-down automata, and he showed the equivalence of grammatically computable functions and Turing-computable functions. He has backed the idea that language acquisition in humans is largely innate, and the evidence for this idea seems to be increasing. He's a very bright person who has made many genuine scholarly contributions to society.

In my opinion, even Chomsky's approach to social issues has had some positive aspects. While many people have addressed national policy issues principally in pragmatic terms, Chomsky has emphasized moral issues. He has wisely advised us to avoid resolving debates on moral issues purely on pragmatic grounds. And he has advised us to be wary of the role of the media in obtaining popular consent for dubious policies.

As Windschuttle explains, Chomsky is not a relativist, but one who advocates pursuit of truth and knowledge about human affairs. Chomsky supports his claims on the basis of evidence. By the way, I'm this way myself: I also advocate pursuit of truth and knowledge about human affairs, I'm not a relativist, and I support my claims on the basis of evidence.

Well, when the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia, Chomsky welcomed it. I myself was very slow to realize the differences between Cambodia and Viet Nam, so I'm not too surprised that Chomsky had some of the same problems. The point that Windschuttle makes, however, is not merely that Chomsky acted as an apologist for the Pol Pot regime but also failed to admit that he'd been wrong and that the Pol Pot regime had been genocidal.

Windschuttle then says that Chomsky's pattern of behavior has continued into the present century, as his response to the events of 9/11/2001 was that no matter how bad the terrorist actions were, the United States had done worse. And Windschuttle also quotes Chomsky as saying that "virtually everything Israel is doing, meaning the United States and Israel are doing, is illegal, in fact a war crime. And many of them they defined as `grave breaches,' that is, serious war crimes. That means that the United States and Israeli leadership should be brought to trial."

Of course, I understand the attitude of wanting outlaws to be brought to trial. I always wanted Arafat to be brought to trial for his many terrible crimes. But I never noticed Chomsky ask for Arafat to be brought to justice! And Windschuttle points out that neither has Chomsky asked for communist leaders of China, Cambodia, or Vietnam to be brought to trial.

Windschuttle concludes that Chomsky has been guilty of hypocrisy. Chomsky has said that it is the responsibility of an intellectual to pursue truth and expose lies. But Chomsky has not hesitated to suppress truth and perpetrate falsehoods on behalf of regimes he has admired. He is "a mandarin who denounces mandarins."

I agree. I recommend this article.