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I don’t know what came into my mind when I search in Google the phrase “How To Be Rich”. Typing those words will surely tell you that I’m deperate. But I did found something that might help us get rich after reading the aritcle From The Sunday Times : If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened it was written by Felix Dennis, a publishing tycoon. It’s not easy but at least we will learn how he aquires his wealth. The bottom line is confidence. We should have confidence to achieve wealth. But there is also some disadvantages of being rich and the author stressed that it won’t make you happy, it will just improve your sex life.

I think everyone knows this vegetable. This is commonly added to a dish called chop suey where it is mixed with vegetables like cauliflower, chinese cabbage, cabbage, bell pepper, sayote, carrots and added with squid and some chicken meat or pork.I guess there is a good income opportunity in producing baby corn because I don’t see it often in the wet market or in a supermarket so there is a possibility that producers were seldom also. So if you want to know something about producing baby corn, below is a guide I found in Bureau of Plant Industry website.

Young cob corn (Zea mays L.), the newly developed corn, has been used by Chinese as vegetable for generations and this practice has spread to other Asian countries. It is used as ingredient in most food preparations. It has nutritive value similar to that of non-legume vegetable such as cauliflower, tomato, cucumber and cabbage (Yodpetch and Bautista, 1983). This vegetable has a great potential for cooking purposes and for processing as a canned product. Canned cob corn export to Thailand, Japan and Europe is increasing and has a good future.

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Preparation Of Potato-Dextrose-Agar (Pda)

Raw Materials

Fresh good quality potatoes 200 g
Dextrose powder 20 g
Agar bar (gulaman) 20 g
Distilled water 1 L

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I guess this post is an off topic but I think this will somehow help those who bang their heads to the wall solving the ADSL problem connection. I don’t know if I have to mention the company where we were subscribed with ( I used the term we because the phone line was named to my sister-in-law but I’m the one paying the monthly bills). Before, I mean when I don’t have a DSL connection, I’m using the internet by dial-up. But it seems that using dial up slows down my work so I decided to upgrade it to their 990 plan where the payment was a flat monthly rate regardless how long you use the internet or the phone. That was a real bargain and I’m impress with their service because it only took a few weeks before the line was upgraded. Customer service is also very responsive and polite.

But since it was my first time using DSL I thought there was a problem on our phone line installation because the speed is just a little faster then a dial-up (when I measure it on a broadband meter, it was only 66kbps) and patiently waited for the technical support to solve the problem after calling them many times regarding the problem. Since I’m not contented, what I did is I made my own troubleshooting by replacing the telephone wires inside our house and sometimes removing the phone to see if the speed will improve but still the problem remains. So again I just contented myself on that speed just for the sake of not wasting my time calling the technical support. Just last month (March), I was surprised because the my DSL speed improved and when I measure it, the speed was 200+ kbps and I thought the problem was solved. But I noticed the downtime is becoming more frequent and It took about 15 minutes for my modem to connect to the DHCP server. Sometimes the connection was good and can connect for 4 to 6 hours strait but often if disconnects and having intermittent connection.

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Sorry to disappoint you folks but this is just a home made movie I saw on Yahoo Video. Not a big deal. Looks like a amateur production playing toy transformers. The title looks intriguing when you happen to visit the page containing the video. Anyway it’s good to know that only human being’s have the capacity of being greedy for money and that does not include robots. Since money is really the main motivator of businessman and entrepreneurs, maybe we should focus more on value that we can share to humanity.

One thing, I also noticed on the video the common misconception about money. The end message says “Money is the root of all evil”. Actually it is not. Money is not evil. It helps us and provides our needs. Even churches need money and ask for donations to propagate the gospel. So the correct sentence should be “The Love of money is the Root of All Evil”. It is clearly written in the Bible.

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