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ULAM [MALAY SALAD] THE SUPERFOOD YOU NEVER KNEW. Try eating these 2-3 times a week, and within a month or so, you will feel the difference. The most visible change is in your complexion, and your friends will notice it and tell you. Other changes include higher energy level, mental alertness, more strength, stamina and faster recovery from exercise, better digestion and sleep.  A serving of Ulam costs $1.00-2.00. So why spend lots of $ on chemically manufactured health supple ments that are not as effective as these grasses and leaves gathered from the wild. Here are the nutritional properties of the labelled photos of Malay salad leaves. For more details of their health benefits “Google” and you will find plenty of documented studies of their medicinal properties, 1. Pegaga [scientific name: centella asiatica] (common name: Pennywort or Gotu Kola]. Gotu kola is used for fatigue, anxiety, depression, psychiatric disorders, Alzheimer's disease, and improving memory and...

100 Pounds Silver pick for Jazz guitar players 5000 Pounds Platinum guitar picks 1700 Pounds 18K Gold guitar pick A selection of picks available from www.timber-tones.com  A luminous pick from Huffschmid WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF BOUTIQUE GUITAR PICKS. Beyond the $1.00 plastic guitar pick is the world of boutique guitar picks. In all shapes and sizes, made of material from wood to carbon fiber to acryclics, stone, metals, or bone, they can cost up to US$75 a pick. Many are just gimmicks, and cater more to pick collectors but a few really do improve your playing and your tone. This list of boutique guitar picks is from my new FB Friend,  Jacob Garcia  whose review of 3 0 picks on YouTube is good introduction to high-end guitar picks. See https://www.youtube.com/playlist… Enjoy! I'm going to get myself a Huffschmid Glow-In-The-Dark! ( www.plectrum.ch ) www.v-picks.com www.gravitypicks.com www.superbitepicks.com www.wegenpic...

WHEN YOUR CHAUFFEUR IS YOUR BROTHER-IN-LAW:NEPOTISM IN CHINESE COMPANIES WHEN YOUR CHAUFFEUR IS YOUR BROTHER-IN-LAW: NEPOTISM IN CHINESE COMPANIES. Many Exchanges make it a legal requirement for listed companies to provide details of employees who are related to top management.. Many Chinese-owned companies employ relatives in their business. See attached. Having in-laws in the company seems to be especially prevalent. This company employs the boss' 3 brother-in-laws (BIL) and 1 sister-in-law. His wife is must be delighted.  1. Having a BIL in charge of the Purchasing Dept keeps a watchful eye out for staff taking kickbacks from suppliers. 2. Having a sex-pot sister-in-law as Customer Service Executive can only be good for the business. 3. Wife as Assistant to CEO: In this company, the CEO had two mistresses and the wife tipped off the authorities on the company's tax evasion, and half-destroyed the company. 4. Brother-in-law as chauffeur: The CEO was kidnapped and rans...

I INDIA TO OVERTAKE CHINA IN ECONOMIC GROWTH - Not useful and slightly misleading information. The IMF's 2015 forecast is that India's GDP growth  will be 7.5 % while China's will drop to 6.8%. And the media has made headlines out of this. If such news is meant to convey the image that India is making great overall progress in its economy, it is misleading. You cannot really compare India with China: 1. 7.5% is from a low base compared to China. India's GDP is about US$ 2 trillion while China has a GDP of US$9 trillion. To grow 7.5 % from a lower base is much easier. South Sudan has GDP growth of 23% while Mongolia grows at 11%. 2. As an economy develops it is natural for growth to slow down. Singapore used to grow at 7-9% and now the new normal is 2-3%. 3. Good infrastructure is required for growth, and India lacks far behind China in roads, ports, railways, airports, telecommunication. Especially power generation infrastructure (electricity). 4. India...

B= Bimbo B: Hi Brainiac, I see that you are doing research on diseases now. Is Kurtosis an infectious tropical disease? Me: Kurtosis is not a disease. but a term used in statistics for describing the shape of the distribution of a collection of data viz the fatness of its tails B: Data has tails? That's nice. B: Oh, I see. Anyway, that part you said about Augmented Dickey-Fuller fascinates me. I love Augmented Dicky. Me: Huh? You know about the Dickey-Fuller test? B: Oh, I thought it was something else. Dicky sounds very friendly Me: You make the Augmented Dickey-Fuller sound pornographic B: Well anyway, research fascinates me. When I was a child I dreamed of becoming a scientist. Me: Well, if you fly me over I will show you my Augmented Dickey-Fuller hahaha

Fender Made-in-Mexico 2011 Road-Worn 60's Stratocaster $100.00 name-engraved hand-made specially-beveled pick  A Fender Custom Shop Relic easily costs $3000.00 now. I bought this used made-in-mexico Fender Road-Worn 60's Stratocaster for $600. The tone is terrific. The big-sky sound of a good Strat. I think its because of the nitro-cellulose thin finish. This really makes a big difference. Glossy finishes strangle the guitar's sound. Second picture shows my name-engraved BlueChip pick from Knoxville Tennessee. Including delivery charges to Singapore this pick cost me $100.00 But its worth it. The specially beveled edges gives attack and yet is noiseless. 

# Thanks to Victor Venema of the University of Bonn for the image depicting an evolutionary search algorithm Current-day so-called Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) are more about Mendelian selective breeding than about Darwinian evolution. Nature has no preconceived objectives. Evolution is open-ended, and is more about adaptation to the ever-evolving environment than about survival of the fittest. Although the “fittest” can be defined as those that have adapted in the best to the changing environment. Using Evolutionary Algorithms such as Genetic Algorithms to find optimal solutions to decision-making is just directing the algorithm to a static goal.  We cannot model the richness, complexity and dynamism of Nature’s meandering adaptive walks. The road of evolution knows not its final destination. It twists and winds its way; the direction of the next step is the net sum of the interaction (actions and reactions) between all participants at that point in time plu...