tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:50:21 +0000Digital World And PaceHumanBehavior And MoralsNews Current Affairs and PoliticsHealthMoney And FinanceRelationshipsEducationArts and EntertainmentChildrenEnvironment EnrichmentHobbiesHumorScienceFood SecurityHumanitarianSecuritiesSelf ImprovementSex And HealthWomenhttp://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Apogee)Blogger42125en-usnonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-4644927435600031335Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:31:00 +00002009-07-21T16:34:37.437-07:00HealthThe worldwide death toll from swine flu is now at 700, according to the World Health Organization. And the U.S. government is gearing up for a mass vaccination campaign this fall, one not seen since the polio vaccine first became available in the 1950s. Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration approved the 2009-10 seasonal flu vaccine, but it doesn't include protection against the H1N1http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/07/dealing-with-swine-flu-threat-during.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-7228934952195261176Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:39:00 +00002009-06-26T12:45:56.620-07:00Arts and EntertainmentMoney And FinanceNews Current Affairs and PoliticsAlong with a vast musical legacy and legions of adoring fans, pop superstar Michael Jackson leaves behind a mountain of debt and an unfulfilled comeback many hoped would rake in millions and erase his financial troubles.The King of Pop died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 50, after a career spanning 40 years that included the biggest-selling pop album of all time, "Thriller."Despite taking in http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-leaves-hefty-debts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-6815955601747236163Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:55:00 +00002009-06-26T11:23:25.755-07:00ChildrenNews Current Affairs and PoliticsMichael Jackson's three kids are with the singer's mother and "are doing fine," a lawyer for the Jackson family said Friday."They are in the care of a nanny," Brian Oxman told Us Weekly."Mrs. Jackson will care for them and I'm sure there will be all kinds of discussions that will take place about the kids."The three kids - Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael II, 7 - were often hiddenhttp://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/fights-over-michael-jacksons-kids.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-8615710353788584940Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:39:00 +00002009-06-25T13:45:09.395-07:00HumanitarianCause Celeb highlights a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This week, we speak with actress and singer Bernadette Peters and dancer and choreographer Jacques d’Amboise about their involvement with youth participation in the arts. D’Amboise, formerly a principle dancer for the New York City Ballet, founded the National Dance Institute in an effort to connect public school children, http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/celebs-connect-low-income-children-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-7324323682472803036Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:56:00 +00002009-06-25T13:13:25.370-07:00HealthU.S. senators on Thursday moved closer to agreement on a $1 trillion U.S. healthcare overhaul that would provide medical coverage to nearly everyone and could be paid for without adding to huge budget deficits.Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and other panel members cautioned there was no final package yet but said bringing down the cost was a significant step toward reaching an http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-senators-closer-to-1-trillion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-979429627134305527Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:50:00 +00002009-06-25T12:55:52.261-07:00Arts and EntertainmentAction movie "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" pummeled U.S. box offices on its Wednesday debut, raking in $60.6 million in the second biggest single-day gross ever, box office watchers said on Thursday.The effects rich, alien versus robot war movie, came close to eclipsing last year's single-day debut of Batman movie "The Dark Knight," which posthumously starred actor Heath Ledger and took http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/transformers-606-million-debut-topples.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-3036377189231492490Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:26:00 +00002009-06-24T15:35:39.411-07:00Digital World And PaceThe Palm Pre App Catalog has reached 1 million downloads, nearly three weeks after launch of the device, according to data from mobile analytics and advertising firm Medialets.Palm sold about 50,000 Pres and logged 100,000 downloads on launch day for an average of 2 app downloads per device and 5,500 downloads per app. Eighteen days later, Palm has sold 150,000 units and has an average of 6 apps http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/palm-pre-reaches-1-million-apps-mark.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-5038513477037203577Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:22:00 +00002009-06-22T15:27:06.073-07:00HumanBehavior And MoralsWe’d like to thank our special correspondent Captain Obvious for this breaking news over the weekend. Just when all five of you thought Latin superstar Ricky Martin might be all about the ladies, he went right ahead and opened up his options.The Puerto Rican superstar concedes he is now one for the fellas in a new interview with Hispanic magazine TV Aqui. Pressed on his sexuality once again, http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/ricky-martin-might-be-gay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-7627832936773642074Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:02:00 +00002009-06-21T14:09:44.097-07:00Digital World And PaceWith more subscribers than ever flocking to its DVD-by-mail service, Netflix Inc. is one of the few companies to prosper during the worst U.S. recession in 70 years. Yet Netflix CEO Reed Hastings still has something to worry about: an even cheaper DVD rental service run by one of his former lieutenants.Once just an incongruous experiment amid the burgers and fries at McDonald's restaurants, http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/dvd-wars-netflix-warily-eyes-redbox.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-8475626752005981090Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:52:00 +00002009-06-21T13:58:41.586-07:00HealthRelationshipsThe bride wore white — and a face mask. Ilana Jackson and Jeremy Fierstien of Chicago wore surgical masks and latex gloves to their wedding last Sunday after finding out less than 48 hours before that they had swine flu. The couple decided to go ahead with the ceremony after doctors assured them guests wouldn't be put at serious risk.To be sure, they also stayed 10 feet away from guests at all http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/chicago-couple-with-swine-flu-say-i-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-7770304797487708218Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:33:00 +00002009-06-21T13:39:09.486-07:00News Current Affairs and PoliticsU.S. President Barack Obama expressed continued concern about violence and "unjust actions" taken against Iranian demonstrators on Sunday during a meeting with advisers who updated him about developments in the Islamic Republic."At approximately noon today, the President met for more than 30 minutes in the Oval Office with foreign policy advisors to get an update on the current situation and http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-updated-on-iran-concerned-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-3455905631948655581Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:42:00 +00002009-06-20T16:51:21.826-07:00RelationshipsScienceUFO watchers believe that in 1947 a flying saucer with aliens on board landed outside the New Mexico town of Roswell and that an elaborate cover-up by the authorities followed. The BBC's Kevin Connolly went to Roswell in pursuit of the truth about the Roswell incident.There is a lunar quality to the landscape of New Mexico which seems somehow appropriate for a state which is our portal to the http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-really-hapenned-in-roswell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-824391641641480557Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:29:00 +00002009-06-20T16:42:45.672-07:00HumanBehavior And MoralsNew York prosecutors have charged a woman with setting alight her six-year-old daughter in a voodoo rite that left the child with life-threatening burns.Lawyers say Marie Lauradin, 29, sent her daughter to bed after the ritual with serious burns on 25% of her body.The girl was taken to hospital the next day, where doctors put her into a drug-induced coma. She has since been placed in foster http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/us-girl-burnt-in-voodoo-ritual.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-8357365470382341464Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:08:00 +00002009-06-20T16:28:21.222-07:00ChildrenAdults should be banned from smoking in cars when children are passengers, the new head of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has said.In a BBC News website Scrubbing Up column, Professor Terence Stephenson, said children deserved protection."You can't inflict this on your colleagues any more. Why should we treat our children's health as a lower priority?" he said.A Department of http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/call-to-ban-child-in-car-smoking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-1169795341134001941Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:02:00 +00002009-06-17T16:34:45.530-07:00Digital World And PaceHaving already promised to open its retail stores early, Apple now says that all its available stores will start selling the iPhone 3G S even earlier than expected. Also, the Mac maker has released Safari 4.0.1 and Bluetooth Firmware Update 2.0.Not to be outdone by AT&T's 7 a.m. pre-order pickup on the iPhone 3G S launch day, Apple on Wednesday moved its doors-open time to 7 a.m., an hour ahead http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/apple-stores-to-sell-iphone-3g-s-at-7.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-3265387802952346421Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:39:00 +00002009-06-17T16:02:01.287-07:00Digital World And PaceYou'll have seen the suggestions, I suspect, that the remarkable scenes in Tehran and other major Iranian cities are a manifestation of a new phenomenon known as "Twitter power".You'll have seen the suggestions, I suspect, that the remarkable scenes in Tehran and other major Iranian cities are a manifestation of a new phenomenon known as "Twitter power".(Twitter, m'lud, is a method of http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/twitter-power-or-people-power.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-2780484932288965451Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:16:00 +00002009-06-17T15:22:02.841-07:00Digital World And PaceNews Current Affairs and PoliticsSecretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday defended a US request to Twitter to postpone a planned maintenance shutdown as a way to allow Iranians to speak out and organize."The United States believes passionately and strongly in the basic principle of free expression," Clinton told reporters when asked about the State Department's request to the social networking firm Twitter."We promote thehttp://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/clinton-says-twitter-is-important-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-5957940129793172442Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:25:00 +00002009-06-17T13:30:03.947-07:00Environment EnrichmentNews Current Affairs and PoliticsCompanies that run more than half of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors are not saving enough to pay for their dismantling and removal of radioactive materials when they stop operating, according to documents and interviews.The companies that own almost half the nation's nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many may sit idle for decades and pose safety and http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/money-to-shut-nuclear-plants-falls.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-131205078125744082Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:16:00 +00002009-06-17T13:22:16.575-07:00EducationHumanBehavior And MoralsA Maine high school senior says he was denied his diploma because he bowed during graduation and blew a kiss to his mother.Justin Denney was about to receive his Bonny Eagle High School diploma on Friday when he pointed at friends and relatives.Schools Superintendent Suzanne Lukas ordered him back to his seat. She told the Portland Press Herald newspaper she was enforcing behavior rules.Justin's http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/student-who-blew-kiss-to-mom-denied.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-580412164774628617Wed, 20 May 2009 18:55:00 +00002009-05-20T12:14:51.844-07:00HumorAre you feeling run down? You could try laughing more! Some researchers think laughter could be the best medicine, helping you feel better and bringing that spring back into your step.It makes sense that if people can get more laughter in their lives, they are happier and healthier too.Laughter is a wonderful thing - that's why we have all heard the saying "laughter is the best medicine". There http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/effects-of-funny-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-1950992119945480243Wed, 20 May 2009 18:43:00 +00002009-05-20T11:54:54.408-07:00ScienceMost people think that memory lapses are for the hopelessly disorganized. This is because some have systems. For instance, the keys go into the key jar.The point is, compulsive list makers never come home from the supermarket without the items they intend to buy. Imagine their annoyance when eventually they take three trips between two places before they remember why they went from one place to http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/understanding-memory-lapses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-2622337072682479691Fri, 15 May 2009 22:02:00 +00002009-05-15T15:15:14.969-07:00Digital World And PaceIn the end all that seemed to matter was the size of the fine. When it was announced on May 13th it turned out to be the largest ever of its type: euro1.06 billion ($1.44 billion). This is what Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, will have to pay if the European Commission prevails in its view that the firm, which sells about 80 per cent of the microprocessors for PCs, has abused its dominance.http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/billion-euro-question.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-3813521165139327484Sat, 09 May 2009 22:35:00 +00002009-05-09T15:59:17.550-07:00Sex And HealthThere are many different brands of condoms, but the real focus is on what type of condom you should use. To prevent both pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), you need to use eitherlatex or polyurethane condoms.Latex condoms are the most common and affordable. They're durable and usually won't rip if you use them with a water-based lubricant, such as K-Y Jelly or Astroglide. Some http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/latex-or-polyurethane-condoms-what-do.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-1538600220546346580Wed, 06 May 2009 21:00:00 +00002009-05-07T14:09:21.416-07:00WomenThere are thousands of women, men and teens who would like to know how to prevent stretch marks. In the first place, stretch marks are scars that appear on the surface of the skin when the skin is stretched to the limit.There are various causes that play a role in determining whether a person will get stretch marks or not. One of these is genetics. Another is hormonal changes. Pregnancy, weight http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-prevent-stretch-marks-dietary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289569442845940597.post-129612898272818366Wed, 06 May 2009 20:57:00 +00002009-05-07T14:19:52.758-07:00HobbiesPoker is the most popular cards game in the world, known as a celebrated skill game, and sport. Since it's humble origins in the 14th century, The game's jargon has become a part of English and American culture.Poker chips are almost synonymous with the game of poker itself. Early poker players sometimes used jagged gold pieces, gold nuggets, gold dust, or coins as well as "chips" primarily made http://ithinkjournal.blogspot.com/2009/05/useful-suggestions-about-poker-chip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Apogee)0