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1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn’t it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

Now, take a look at this…

101%

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

What Equals 100%?
What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to
GIVE OVER 100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?

What equals 100% in life?

Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help
answer these questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

If:

H-A-R-D-W-O- R- K

8+1+18+4+23+ 15+18+11 = 98%

And:

K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%

But:

A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%

THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:

L-O-V-E-O-F- G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+ 6+7+15+4 = 101%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will
get you there, It’s the Love of God that will put you over the top!

It’s up to you if you share this with your friends & loved ones just
the way I did..

Have a nice day & God bless!

Teller in his youth
At GWU, Teller predicted the Jahn–Teller effect (1937), which distorts molecules in certain situations; this affects the chemical reactions of metals, and in particular the coloration of certain metallic dyes. Teller and Hermann Arthur Jahn analyzed it as a piece of purely mathematical physics. In collaboration with Brunauer and Emmet, Teller also made an important contribution to surface physics and chemistry: the so-called Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) isotherm.[citation needed]
When World War II began, Teller wanted to contribute to the war effort. On the advice of the well-known Caltech aerodynamicist and fellow Hungarian émigré Theodore von Kármán, Teller collaborated with his friend Hans Bethe in developing a theory of shock-wave propagation. In later years, their explanation of the behavior of the gas behind such a wave proved valuable to scientists who were studying missile re-entry.
Manhattan Project

In 1942, Teller was invited to be part of Robert Oppenheimer’s summer planning seminar at the University of California, Berkeley for the origins of the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to develop the first nuclear weapons. A few weeks earlier, Teller had been meeting with his friend and colleague Enrico Fermi about the prospects of atomic warfare, and Fermi had nonchalantly suggested that perhaps a weapon based on nuclear fission could be used to set off an even larger nuclear fusion reaction. Even though he initially explained to Fermi why he thought the idea would not work, Teller was fascinated by the possibility and was quickly bored with the idea of “just” an atomic bomb (even though this was not yet anywhere near completion). At the Berkeley session, Teller diverted discussion from the fission weapon to the possibility of a fusion weapon—what he called the “Super” (an early version of what was later known as a hydrogen bomb).
On December 6, 1941, the United States had begun development of the atomic bomb, under the supervision of Arthur Compton, chairman of the University of Chicago physics department, who coordinated uranium research with Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, and University of California, Berkeley. Eventually Compton transferred the Columbia and Princeton scientists to the Metallurgical Laboratory at Chicago, and Enrico Fermi moved in at the end of April 1942 and the construction of Chicago Pile 1 began. Teller was left behind at first, but then called to Chicago two months later. In early 1943, the Los Alamos laboratory was built to design an atomic bomb under the supervision of Oppenheimer in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Teller moved there in April 1943.

Teller became part of the Theoretical Physics division at the then-secret Los Alamos laboratory during the war, and continued to push his ideas for a fusion weapon even though it had been put on a low priority during the war (as the creation of a fission weapon was proving to be difficult enough by itself). Because of his interest in the H-bomb, and his frustration at having been passed over for director of the theoretical division (the job was instead given to Hans Bethe), Teller refused to engage in the calculations for the implosion mechanism of the fission bomb. This caused tensions with other researchers, as additional scientists had to be employed to do that work—including Klaus Fuchs, who was later revealed to be a Soviet spy.[8] Apparently, Teller managed to also irk his neighbors by playing the piano late in the night. However, Teller made valuable contributions to bomb research, especially in the elucidation of the implosion mechanism.
In 1946, Teller participated in a conference in which the properties of thermonuclear fuels such as deuterium and the possible design of a hydrogen bomb were discussed. It was concluded that Teller’s assessment of a hydrogen bomb had been too favourable, and that both the quantity of deuterium needed, as well as the radiation losses during deuterium burning, would shed doubt on its workability. Addition of expensive tritium to the thermonuclear mixture would likely lower its ignition temperature, but even so, nobody knew at that time how much tritium would be needed, and whether even tritium addition would encourage heat propagation. At the end of the conference, in spite of opposition by some members such as Robert Serber, Teller submitted an unduly optimistic report in which he said that a hydrogen bomb was feasible, and that further work should be encouraged on its development. Fuchs had also participated in this conference, and transmitted this information to Moscow. The model of Teller’s “classical Super” was so uncertain that Oppenheimer would later say that he wished the Russians were building their own hydrogen bomb based on that design, so that it would almost certainly retard their progress on it.
In 1946, Teller left Los Alamos to return to the University of Chicago as a professor and close associate of Enrico Fermi and Maria Mayer. He was now known as the father of the hydrogen bomb.

Hydrogen Bomb

The Teller-Ulam design kept the fission and fusion fuel physically separated from one another, and used radiation from the primary device “reflected” off the surrounding casing to compress the secondary.
Following the Soviet Union’s first test detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949, President Truman announced a crash development program for a hydrogen bomb. Teller returned to Los Alamos in 1950 to work on the project. He insisted on involving more theorists, since he knew that Klaus Fuchs could provide the Soviets with valuable ideas; it was Fuchs who invented compression by means of radiation implosion back in 1946. However many of Teller’s prominent colleagues, like Bethe and Oppenheimer, were sure that the project of the H-bomb was technically infeasible and politically undesirable. None of the available designs were yet workable. However Soviet scientists who had worked on their own hydrogen bomb have claimed that they developed it independently.
In 1950, calculations by the Polish mathematician Stanisław Ulam and his collaborator Cornelius Everett, along with confirmations by Fermi, had shown that not only was Teller’s earlier estimate of the quantity of tritium needed for the H-bomb a low one, but that even with higher amounts of tritium, the energy loss in the fusion process would be too great to enable the fusion reaction to propagate. However, in 1951, in the joint report by Ulam and Teller of March 1951, “Hydrodynamic Lenses and Radiation Mirrors”, an innovative idea emerged, and it was developed into the first workable design for a megaton-range H-bomb. The exact contribution provided respectively from Ulam and Teller to what became known as the Teller–Ulam design is not definitively known in the public domain, and the exact contributions of each and how the final idea was arrived upon has been a point of dispute in both public and classified discussions since the early 1950s.
In an interview with Scientific American from 1999, Teller told the reporter:
“I contributed; Ulam did not. I’m sorry I had to answer it in this abrupt way. Ulam was rightly dissatisfied with an old approach. He came to me with a part of an idea which I already had worked out and difficulty getting people to listen to. He was willing to sign a paper. When it then came to defending that paper and really putting work into it, he refused. He said, ‘I don’t believe in it.’”
The issue is controversial. Bethe considered Teller’s contribution to the invention of the H-bomb a true innovation as early as 1952, and referred to his work as a “stroke of genius” in 1954.[18] In both cases, however, Bethe emphasized Teller’s role as a way of stressing that the development of the H-bomb could not have been hastened by additional support or funding, and Teller greatly disagreed with Bethe’s assessment. Other scientists (antagonistic to Teller, such as J. Carson Mark) have claimed that Teller would have never gotten any closer without the assistance of Ulam and others.[19] Ulam himself claimed that Teller only produced a “more generalized” version of Ulam’s original design.
The breakthrough—the details of which are still classified—was apparently the separation of the fission and fusion components of the weapons, and to use the radiation produced by the fission bomb to first compress the fusion fuel before igniting it. Ulam’s idea seems to have been to use mechanical shock from the primary to encourage fusion in the secondary, while Teller quickly realized that radiation from the primary would do the job much earlier and more efficiently. Some members of the laboratory (J. Carson Mark in particular) later expressed that the idea to use the radiation would have eventually occurred to anyone working on the physical processes involved, and that the obvious reason why Teller thought of radiation right away was because he was already working on the “Greenhouse” tests for the spring of 1951, in which the effect of the energy from a fission bomb on a mixture of deuterium and tritium was going to be investigated
Whatever the actual components of the so-called Teller–Ulam design and the respective contributions of those who worked on it, after it was proposed it was immediately seen by the scientists working on the project as the answer which had been so long sought. Those who previously had doubted whether a fission-fusion bomb would be feasible at all were converted into believing that it was only a matter of time before both the USA and the USSR had developed multi-megaton weapons. Even Oppenheimer, who was originally opposed to the project, called the idea “technically sweet.”

The 10.4 Mt “Ivy Mike” shot of 1952 appeared to vindicate Teller’s long-time advocacy for the hydrogen bomb.
Though he had helped to come up with the design and had been a long-time proponent of the concept, Teller was not chosen to head the development project (his reputation of a thorny personality likely played a role in this). In 1952 he left Los Alamos and joined the newly established Livermore branch of the University of California Radiation Laboratory, which had been created largely through his urging. After the detonation of “Ivy Mike”, the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the Teller–Ulam configuration, on November 1, 1952, Teller became known in the press as the “father of the hydrogen bomb.” Teller himself refrained from attending the test—he claimed not to feel welcome at the Pacific Proving Grounds—and instead saw its results on a seismograph in the basement of a hall in Berkeley.
There was an opinion that by analyzing the fallout from this test, the Soviets (led in their H-bomb work by Andrei Sakharov) could have decipher the new American design. However, this was later denied by the Soviet bomb researchers.[23] Because of official secrecy, little information about the bomb’s development was released by the government, and press reports often attributed the entire weapon’s design and development to Teller and his new Livermore Laboratory (when it was actually developed by Los Alamos).
Many of Teller’s colleagues were irritated that he seemed to enjoy taking full credit for something he had only a part in, and in response, with encouragement from Enrico Fermi, Teller authored an article titled “The Work of Many People,” which appeared in Science magazine in February 1955, emphasizing that he was not alone in the weapon’s development. He would later write in his memoirs that he had told a “white lie” in the 1955 article in order to “soothe ruffled feelings”, and claimed full credit for the invention.
Teller was known for getting engrossed in projects which were theoretically interesting but practically unfeasible (the classic “Super” was one such project.) About his work on the hydrogen bomb, Bethe said:
“Nobody will blame Teller because the calculations of 1946 were wrong, especially because adequate computing machines were not available at Los Alamos. But he was blamed at Los Alamos for leading the laboratory, and indeed the whole country, into an adventurous programme on the basis of calculations, which he himself must have known to have been very incomplete.”[26]
During the Manhattan Project, Teller also advocated the development of a bomb using uranium hydride, which many of his fellow theorists said would be unlikely to work. At Livermore, Teller continued work on the hydride bomb, and the result was a dud. Ulam once wrote to a colleague about an idea he had shared with Teller: “Edward is full of enthusiasm about these possibilities; this is perhaps an indication they will not work.” Fermi once said that Teller was the only monomaniac he knew who had several manias.
Carey Sublette of Nuclear Weapon Archive argues that Ulam came up with the radiation implosion compression design of thermonuclear weapons, but that on the other hand Teller has gotten little credit for being the first to propose fusion boosting in 1945, which is essential for miniaturization and reliability and is used in all of today’s nuclear weapons.

The Drunken Gopher just came back from his drinking vacation and saw this movie. Press the link and see what he had to say about it.

Cheers mates. 1 Beer in your honor

“Reporter: What do you think World War 3 will be like?
Albert Einstein: I really don’t know how that would be, but one thing I know for sure is thar World War 4 will be with sticks and stones.”

United States Department Of Energy thermonuclear hydrogen bomb Operation Castle ROMEO Event:  Bikini-Atoll Marshal Islands 1954.03.27

1. Suez Crisis—Soviet threat (1956)

   During the Suez Crisis of 1956, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin sent a note to British Prime Minister Anthony Eden warning that “if this war is not stopped it carries the danger of turning into a third world war.”

2. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

   The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 is generally thought to be the historical point at which the risk of World War III was closest, and Robert McNamara claimed that if it were not for Vasili Arkhipov, who prevented a nuclear launch on the B-59 Soviet submarine during the heat of the crisis, World War III would have broken out, saying at the Cuban Missile Crisis Havana conference, “A guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world.”

3. Soviet ballistic missile false alarm (1983)

   On 26 September 1983, a Soviet early warning station under the command of Stanislav Petrov falsely detected five inbound intercontinental ballistic missiles. Petrov correctly assessed the situation as a false alarm, and hence did not report his finding to his superiors. Petrov’s action likely averted a nuclear conflict, as the Soviet policy at that time was immediate nuclear response upon discovering inbound ballistic missiles. According to a report by Geoffrey Forden, published for the Cato Institute, the most likely culprit for the false alarm was the Cosmos-1382 satellite belonging to the Oko early warning system.

4. Able Archer 83 (1983)

   During Able Archer 83, a ten-day NATO command post exercise starting on November 2, 1983, the Soviets readied their nuclear forces and placed air units in East Germany and Poland on alert. Some historians believe this exercise was a close call to a start to World War III.

5.  

   Pristina International Airport—NATO and Russian standoff (1999)

   On 12–26 June 1999, Russian and NATO forces had a standoff over the Pristina Airport in Kosovo. NATO forces were tasked with seizing the airport, however the Russians, of which there were approximately 200, beat the NATO task force to the airport and thus gained control of the airfield.
   In response, American NATO commander Wesley Clark demanded that British General Sir Mike Jackson storm the airport with paratroopers, an order that is still debated. Jackson refused, reportedly replying, “I’m not going to start the Third World War for you“.
   Former British solider turned singer-songwriter James Blunt revealed in 2010 he refused an order from General Clark to seize the airport from Russians, a decision which Blunt, like General Jackson, believed could have triggered World War III.

             Five times we were on the brink of total disaster, 5 times we got away. Now, a new turn has appeared in the global conflict. Koreas are prepared to start a new World War, just as the North Korean leader said and nothing could be closer to the truth. Just think a bit what nations are around them:

   1. China – Nuclear Power (North Korea)
   2. India – Nuclear Power
   3. North Korea – Nuclear Power
   4. Russia – Nuclear Power (North Korea)
   5. Israel – Nuclear Power
   6. Iran – Nuclear Power (North Korea)

   And on the other side of the world, USA, France and UK all three Nuclear powers and sustaining the South Korean regime. How far are these 2 countries going to go? How far are their allies going to go with them? These are just the questions for the future. The war, may start as a normal one, with missiles and troops, but let us be serious, only the first Nuke is hard, the rest will follow normally.
   Is this the silent start of a World War between China, Russia, North Korea and Arabs and THE REST OF THE WORLD? The past events say so. Moreover,
   North Korea warned Friday that planned U.S. and South Korean military exercises beginning this weekend bring the Korean Peninsula “closer to the brink of war,” according to state news agency KCNA.
   “The situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching closer to the brink of war due to the reckless plan of those trigger-happy elements to stage again the war exercises targeted against the DPRK,” the report said.
   The warning came as Lee Hee-won, a presidential security aide, has been named South Korea’s new defense minister after the resignation of Kim Tae-young a day earlier, the Defense Ministry’s press office said Friday.
   But confusion between the factions of the Seoul government over the announcement only highlighted the concerns that led to Kim’s resignation.
   A former general, Kim came under heavy criticism after the March sinking of the South Korean war ship Cheonan and again after North Korea struck the South’s Yeonpyeong Island on Tuesday.
   North Korea has been blamed by the South and other nations for the Cheonan incident, in which 46 sailors were killed, but has denied responsibility. North Korea has blamed South Korea and the United States for the Yeonpyeong incident, in which two South Korean marines and two civilians were killed and 15 others injured.
   South Korean lawmakers from both parties alleged that South Korean forces were unprepared for either of the North Korean attacks, and some have insisted that South Korean aircraft should have responded to the Yeonpyeong incident immediately. Lawmakers demanded Kim’s resignation earlier Thursday.
   Kim actually submitted his resignation May 1, after the Cheonan incident, said the Blue House spokesman, but it was not accepted until Thursday because of the Cheonan aftermath and other military-related issues. The Cheonan sinking sparked a public uproar, with many stating that it should not have been possible for North Korea to have damaged South Korea’s military, which is much more high-tech.
   South Korea’s Yonhap news agency first reported Lee’s appointment as defense minister early Friday, citing the presidential Blue House. The Blue House referred CNN to the defense ministry press office, which provided the confirmation. The defense ministry waffled, however, during a second phone call, telling CNN that the announcement must come from the Blue House. And the Blue House said it could not confirm the appointment when CNN called there for a second time.

   The last question remaining to be answered is this:

   HOW MUCH DO WE TRUST OUR LEADERS WITH OUR PLANET, WITH OUR LIFE?

Instructions

Things You’ll Need:

**Take stock of what you have to offer**

If you are a writer, programmer, designer, or photographer, there are oodles of opportunities for you. If you have a speciality of any sort — carpentry, raising kids, planning vacations or weddings, playing Guitar Hero 3 — you can get paid for your expertise.

Even if you think all you can offer is time, there are plenty of opportunities for you as well.

**Scan the available steps**

I’ve listed a lot of options in the steps that follow, all of them legitimate. Pick the one that seems the best fit for you and your skills, and start exploring.

**Freelance Work**

If you have a skill to offer, check out the various freelance sites (sometimes called “personal outsourcing”), like elance.com and guru.com (see the Resources section for the links I mention).

You can post your skills at these sites, so potential customers can check you out, and you can also look around for freelance projects that others have posted.

There are tons of opportunities for freelancers, in very varied fields. Common projects, though, are writing, computer or graphics design work, creating web pages, programming, writing brochures or reports, illustration, photography, and so on.

Pay can be pretty good, especially after you’ve earned a quality rating at one or more of the freelancing sites. At the same time, though, keep in mind that you’re competing with freelancers from around the world.

Take a look at the “How Elance Works” video on their main page to get a quick overview.

**Try Writing Web Content**

There are a quite a number of ways to take your skill as a writer and turn it into cash.

One of them is right here at eHow. Write brief “How to” articles on any topic of your choosing, and get paid for the article. The more popular the article, the more income you can expect. A good article will bring in $50 per year or more. Write 10 top-notch articles, and that’s $500. A hundred articles…you get the picture.

I can’t say enough good things about eHow. To my mind, it is the best income generating opportunity available. Google the term ‘ehow101′ to learn more about how to make it work.

UPDATE: eHow is now run through its parent company, Demand Media Studios (DMS). If you want to apply to write for eHow or other DMS properties, or to be an editor, check out the freelancer’s application at demandmedia.com.

**Write Product Review**

ConsumerSearch.com, a site owned by the N.Y. Times, pays freelance writers a minimum of $350 per article for product reviews. While that sounds like good money (and it is…and you can earn even more than that!), their particular brand of reviews requires good research and writing skills, and takes a lot of work. Check ‘em out at consumersearch.com/jobs.

**More writing opportunities**

–At SoftwareJudge.com, write reviews of select software products…top reviews earn up to $50 each.

–Product Reviews. You may be familiar with epinions.com, but did you know they pay cash for good quality reviews. You won’t get rich, but you can get started.

–Suggest domain names according to site descriptions at Pickydomains.com Get $25 for each name that is chosen.

–At Xomba.com, write anything you feel like, and collect 50% of any advertising income from Adsense clicks on your page.

–Become a fledgling journalist at examiner.com, and cover a special topic area in your neck of the woods…they pay pretty well.

–Other writing sites include associatedcontent.com, firehow.com, helium.com, and Squidoo. In fact, one of my eHow colleagues has put together a very nice Squidoo ‘lens’ with 101 sites where you can get paid to provide content…check it out in the Resources section.

**Check out Q&A Sites**

I earn much of my income as an online researcher, answering folks questions on everything under the sun: investments, market research, divorce law, homework help…you name it. If this sounds like your cup of tea, here are some resources to explore:

–The Association of Independent Information Professionals (aiip.org) can help you build you own Q&A website and business. I’ve built my research business at xooxleanswers.com, and it is a steadily growing source of income for me.

–I also work with Uclue.com Though they are not accepting new researchers right now, it’s worth a look to see how a well-developed Q&A site works.

–Another Q&A site is JustAnswer, and they offer small payments for answers to questions.

**Earn money from your own blog or website**

The key is to generate as much traffic as you can, and to have your visitors click on ads and affiliate links. The more people visiting your site, clicking on ads, and buying affiliate products, the more income you can earn. As good as this sounds, income is generally more a trickle than a flood. But again, steadily building your site (or sites), and building traffic, is the key to generating a steadily growing stream of income.

Google Adsense is the most commonly used service for placing banner and text ads on blogs and websites. As I’ve learned to maximize Adsense income over the years, I’ve come to recognize this as one of the best income-generating opportunities available.

You can also incorporate in-text ads (the colored, underlined text with small pop-up ads). I like InfoLinks.com for this, and Kontera.com is another commonly used service.

Affiliate ads usually pay whenever a sale is made for a product. Amazon.com has one of the most well-known affiliate programs that all you to sell books or other Amazon products on your site or blog, and earn a cut of the sale.

Other good affiliate resources are Commission Junction at cj.com, LinkShare.com, and AssociatePrograms.com.

**Blog With the Best of Them**

If you don’t have a site of your own, starting a blog is pretty easy at sites like Blogger.com, and WordPress.com. Blogs make money through online advertising and affiliate sales, such as through the Amazon.com affiliates program. Blogger makes it very simple to automatically place Google Adsense ads on your blog.

Also, at Orble.com, you can take ownership of an abandoned blog with a specific focus, like Film, or Travel, and collect a portion of the ad revenues. The advantage of this is that the blog is already well-represented in search engines, and can often generate much more traffic than a new blog of your own. See Orble under the Resource links for more information.

**Sell your photos**

At sites like istockphoto.com and shutterpoint.com you can upload still photos or videos for sale, and receive a royalty payment every time someone makes use of your content.

**Take Online Surveys**

I mention survey work with a good deal of trepidation…the surveys are tedious, the pay is meager, and there are many sites that are dubious, or out and out scams.

The most legitimate operation I know is GlobalTestMarket.com. They offer real surveys, and they pay real money. Again…tedious, and earning takes a long, long time.

CashCrate.com also pays users to take online surveys. They strike me as legitimate, but I confess, I don’t have any first-hand experience with it, so approach with caution…

SurveyScout.com is another possibility, but unlike CashCrate, they charge a membership fee before you can get started (Boo!). I’ve also heard some negative feedback from users of this site, so proceed with caution (if you proceed at all!).

**Teaching and Tutoring**

Search on [ Online tutoring ] and you’ll uncover dozens of sites in this booming corner of the internet. Many accept applications for online tutors, with variable rates and topic areas. Two to consider are tutor.com and ehomeworkhelp.com

**Check into online “Jury Duty”**

Here’s an odd one. Lawyers looking for feedback on how a case will play before a jury can make use of online e-jury sites to solicit input from the type of average citizens that show up on juries. Yes, you get paid. Fees for complex cases can run over $50, though $20 is more typical. To serve as an online juror, check out onlineverdict.com, or trialpractice.com.

Be aware, though, that none of the sites I’ve registered at has ever actually contacted me for a jury case, so I’m not sure just how active these services are. If anyone knows more about them, please leave a remark in the Comments.

**Become a virtual office assistant**

At TeamDoubleClick, you can sign on for temporary jobs as an office assistant, handling correspondence, emails, bookkeeping, data entry, and other office jobs. Think of it as an online temp agency for virtual work. Pay is varied, but you are not obliged to take jobs that don’t meet your financial needs.

**Play games**

At moola.com, you can get paid to play.

This is probably the strangest one yet, and I can’t personally vouch for it (I’ve only tinkered with the site), but it looks legitimate. Moola starts you off by giving you a penny, which you can then double, and double again, through a variety of games and activities.

Presumably, they make oodles of money through ads, and are willing to throw some of it your way by participating in their zany set of games and marketing gimmicks. They call themselves a “Massively Multiplayer Rewards Game”. It’s too complicated to explain here, but worth a look.

**Participate in crowdsource design**

“Crowdsourcing” is the buzzword for getting a lot of people to do your work for you. If you’re good at designing things like t-shirts, logos, fancy fonts, and other graphics, take a look at the challenges at 99designs.com and threadless.com.

If your design is chosen, you can collect hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

**More blogging opportunities**

How does $100 a month sound for writing a few blog posts every week? That’s what you can be paid (actual range is $84-140) if you get accepted as a blogger at Creative Weblogging. They are a large blog network, and seem to have mastered the art of monetizing their many sites. All they need are people to write them, and keep the content fresh.

UPDATE: Creative Weblogging has changed hands and is changing how — or if — it pays bloggers. Stay tuned for additional updates.

**Earn with any type of content**

Blogging, articles, photos, video, you name it. Flixya offers 100% of ad revenue to anyone who posts at their website (you need to have your own Google Adsense account to participate). Words, pictures, videos, whatever ya got. Post it, bring in some traffic, and collect some ad clicks. (Haven’t tried it yet myself, but Flixya has a good reputation).

**Just Visit**

Another site that pays for content is mylot.com, but they also promise earnings everytime you use the site!. They also pay for referrals. Haven’t given them a test run yet, so use them with caution, but they seem worth exploring, at least. If you have experience with them, please post a comment, below.

**Listen to music**

At slicethepie.com, you can get paid for listening to music.

Say what!!! Yep, listen to upcoming artists, and review their music. The more reviews you write — and the better you are at spotting new talent — the more you can get paid. Some folks are pulling in several dollars per review.

**Typing and Dictation**

If you have good typing skills, consider Speak-Write.com, an online dictation service.

**Stay focused**

You can participate in online focus groups at 2020research.com, where you review a product you’ve used, or discuss an issue of interest to you. Payment ranges from about $50-150 per session. Participants are typically asked to join a group once or twice a year.

**Work for Google**

Ha, ha…couldn’t resist. But you can earn through Google by posting content at Google Knol.

This online encylopedia-like site is a place where anyone can contribute content, and you can “monetize” your efforts by placing Adsense ads on your article to generate revenue. I wrote a Knol about eHow. You can see it by searching on the term ehow101.

**Review websites for usability**

You can get paid for reviewing websites. Usertesting.com pays $10 per website review, where you provide feedback on quality and usability. It’s not open-ended…you have to be selected to test, based on your demographic profile.

**Earn money reading emails**

Really! Of course, there are ads involved, and you might be asked to click a few things, but it’s not difficult. Expect to get 5-10 emails a day (more, if you register multiple email addresses), and earn a few pennies per email. Check out InboxDollars.com.

**Try a little bit of everything**

Genuinejobs.com is a legitimate work-at-home (telecommuting) site that lists hundreds of jobs, none of which require a fee, and many of which can be done online. Registration is simple…worth checking out.

**Write for the NY Times**

Really! The Times owns two sites that regularly hire writers.

I already mentioned ConsumerSearch.com up above, a site that uses freelance writers to create detailed reviews of common consumer products…minimum pay is $350 per write-up, and they do a lot of hiring.

About.com, another Times property, hires writers as guides. These positions, paying $725/month or more, are tough to get, but worth looking into.

**And don’t forget…**

At the risk of repeating myself, eHow is just about the best opportunity out there. Although getting on board through Demand Media Studios takes more work than at the eHow of old, it’s still worth the effort.

Some years ago, researchers, discovered a mass behind Pluto that obscured view of the space behind. Countless ideas emerged from the minds of scientist. It is a planet, it is a planetoid, it is an asteroid, no body knew and everybody tried to guess. It felt like the ancient man trying to see the “gods in the night sky”.  From Planet-X to Nibiru, to the mayan prophecies  of 2012, aliens coming to get us, countless ideas sprung from the darkness of our minds.

Nowadays, the mystery of the object behind our last planetoid has been resolved.

The story begun in the year 1984 when an astronomer by the name of Dave Green found this object just behind Pluto and classified it as “the remnant of a supernova” and because it was so small, it was thought to be very young – less than 1000 years old.

In 2007, X-ray observations made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed that the object was much larger than the last time it was observed. Immediately, the object was reanalyzed and was thought to be a very young supernova, merely 150 years old because only such kind of objects could expand at this rate – the object was found to be 16% larger than in 1984; the only problem that remained was that no supernova blast had been recorded during the American Civil War when the supernova was thought to have exploded.

The gravitational anomalies in the Oort Cloud suggesting that an object with huge mass was near attracted the attention of some Spanish astronomers. The fact that the object got bigger since its last measuring, was no surprise to them, as they already thought that the object was on an elliptical orbit around our Sun and it was getting closer to Earth.

We are entering a new age, an age of discovery, where the distant future converges with the troubled past. Where will we go from now? Where will everything around us lead to? These are questions for the future to come.