Day: June 6, 2010

JOBSEARCH: Revising SFYG again for 2010 (June 2010)

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Success for your generation is:

  1. Recognize that you may not work professionally from Age 50 on;
  2. You mush have ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt;
  3. Cultivate an interest in life long interest in learning — education — get a degree cheap — they can’t take it away from you;
  4. Seek a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux;
  5. Develop a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber;
  6. Start one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open;
  7. Create a second business or avocation – under the radar – start small part-time;
  8. Grow a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you;
  9. Buy assets that hold their value over time; and
  10. Emulate the Amish and Mormons for their sense of community, simple thrifty living, and true to core values.

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TECHNOLOGY: Forgery or just a riddle?

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3892674,00.html

Israeli art detectives crack forgery riddle
Sotheby’s discovers Israel Museum owns exact same painting about to go on auction in Amsterdam
Associated Press
Published: 05.26.10, 14:26 / Israel Culture

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Then Elon checked the fabric. The recently discovered painting was painted on cotton. The museum’s was done on linen, a more expensive material far more likely to have been used by a wealthy painter in Europe than by someone working in a poor city like Jerusalem.

The museum’s painting was the real thing, Elon concluded. The new arrival was the fake.

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Hot stuff! Literally.

You have to admire “technology’s” ability to gather “evidence”.

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