The World Wide Web Addict

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:

• Two pages with the same PageRank shown on the toolbar may actually have very different true PageRanks. One may have a PageRank of a fifth or sixth, or maybe a quarter, of the other.
• It gets progressively harder to push a page to the next PageRank level on the toolbar. Getting a page to 1 or 2 is pretty easy, but to push it to 3 or 4 is much harder (though certainly possible), and to push it to the higher levels is very difficult indeed. To get to 8 or above is rare.

source: http://www.stylishdesign.com/you-can-never-find-out-the-true-pagerank

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.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International
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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!!

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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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This news arrived on: 04/18/2008

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.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

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.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

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!!

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