One of the reasons I love my Kindle is that it has helped me improve a lot on my efficiency and utilize my time. Before I have the Kindle, waiting time like when waiting for friends or waiting for shuttle bus or some thing like that is simply wasted. Now I just need to bring the Kindle 2 along with me, and all my favorite books are inside it. Another thing I like the most is the text-to-speech function, which means I can "read" books without even holding or looking at the Kindle. Now I like to use this function when myself busy on some boring things, say when on the step machine or doing some housework…

I like reading and at the beginning I did miss a bit on the feeling of reading books. But now I love to hold the Kindle, the e-ink seems to work very well, it is really like reading books… Now I often read with the Kindle for several hours but I feel tired… And I now prefer to manage all books inside the Kindle rather than my never big enough bookshelf… And like to do bookmarking, annotation, dictionary lookup without any additional thing but a Kindle.

There are quite a lot of free books, and many Kindle books, magazines and newspapers are cheaper than the actual paper version. I remember I read these reviews about the benefits of the Kindle when I decided to buy it:

Finally, guess you know, Amazon has just put a price slash on the Kindle 2, and it is now selling $100 cheaper than the price I got my Kindle, and it adds in international wireless access… So take the chance if you want it.

Hope it helps

I suggest you to read this review from a top reviewer who is also a book lover, it outlines quite a lot of benefits of the Kindle and also why it is especially at the end of the review:

BTW, there are some website like this one, where you can find more than 20,000 free books for the Kindle. So no need to go to library to borrow them, you can actually own them:

Hope this helps.

It really is difficult to evaluate these schemes. If you go onto Google you will see lots of so called reviews, but they are usually affiliates for those programmes who have probably never even used them and know the first thing about internet marketing. If you want some sound advice, before you spending money, you need to understand how the world wide web works and how to build a web business. This is what I suggest you do.

Grab a cup or glass of your favourite drink, find a place to relax where you be disturbed and watch this set of video tutorials on understanding the web and how to build a business. You see, building a web business is no different to building a high street business. a right way and a wrong way.These videos are FREE to you. There is nothing to pay.

Best wishes and good luck.
Robert

GOsC (General Osteopathic Council) has a number of people sitting on the board in charge of regulating it. 50% are Osteopaths and 50% are lay people with professional status. Some of whom will have no healthcare training at all but it may include conventional medical practitioners also.
The Idea of having a mixed board is so that the board dominated by osteopaths and other people from different walks of life can put in their input.

in 2007 the HPC came into force. All healthcare practitioners who have a government or government backed regulator are supposed to register with this body before practicing any healthcare. This self regulating but directly by the government. Interestingly in the UK this is when Physio-therapy finally became a closed shop.
The criticism of this and the reasons why self regulating professions lobbied to remain self regulated was the council was divided into and there may have been 10 professions under 1 board. consequently rullings would be made to professionals by people who fully understand their profession and it was felt unfair rullings could be made.
The positive side was it would have been much cheeper per member to register. The GOsC had to do a lot of lobbying to convince us to vote against this new system because our registration costs would have droped by more than 50%

Some healthcare providers are still not obliged to register and this is a gap which needs to be closed.

In New Zealand and Australia the Government directly registers Osteopaths and Chiropractors.

What the seems to be suggesting is the medical profession should regulate all practitioners of alternative and conventional medicine.
This is a massive conflict of interest and would get quashed in immediately. The medical profession has tried to pull stunts like this before and have failed.
What business does the medical profession have regulating Osteopaths? Most Doctors got a clue what I actually do.
It would only be fair for medical physicians to regulate Osteopaths if Osteopaths regulated medical physicians. Otherwise there is too much scope for denying regulation in order to stop the competition and dominate the healthcare market.

In regards to RCT evidence before being allowed to practice on the General public if you are going to apply that to us, apply it to the surgeons as well. There are very few randomised controlled trials for surgery.

In regards to safety, no system of established alternative medicine manages to kill or harm as many of its patients as conventional medicine.
If it is to be judged on safety alone really we should be banning conventional medicine and letting altmed continue.

If you are only going to allow treatment protocols that have been fully trialed and passed as safe, we must look at the testing system.
Currently whoever has a product, drug etc designs the experiments, tests it and then releases the results to the regulators who either pass it of fail it.
This is not independant an open to massive abuse and is inherently flawed. It is also reductionist which the scientific model is waking up to as an inadequate testing model.
Firstly the whole testing procedure must be overhauled and made fully independent and then all products and protocols tested before implementing such sweeping changes. New testing Models would need to be developed as well as quite clearly are not appropriate in all cases.

Also am I a product?
Is a tens machine a product?
Are we instead applying a treatment without chemical intervention which would happen if you used, drugs herbs, supplements etc.
How can you regulate us and Physiotherapist or Chiros if there is no product as such?

Should you also legislate against lovers touching each others thighs unless they see a qualified practioner and it has been established it is safe to do so?
Should they do courses on sensual touching and intercourse and not be allowed to do so unless they have completed their training?

Edit:
be a douche,
Rhianna, if you are going to use insults can you at least have the to use the more classy British ones instead of the colonial ones madam.
There is a difference between legislating and regulating for safety and regulating us into a Nanny state.
also trying to illustrate some things would need careful consideration before regulating them. Reiki even involve touching someone so unless you acknowledge something is going on, if theyare doing nothing why should they be regulated?

Maybe feel better if Dr Frank sensually massages your thighs. Lets hope he is deemed safe and competant to do so….

Edit 2:
is of course, no regulation at all, especially in a field where everyone shares the same delusions (and self

So Dave does that mean you are in favour of disbanding the General Medical Council which is a self regulating body and having the regulation of doctors handed over directly to the government?
The Osteopathic profession was given an option. We were told to get our act together and self regulate or the government would do it for us. The government and GOsC were in consultation throughout before implementation of the act and would step in if the system failed or was inadequate.
Something I should also point out is self regulation seperates power from the government and seperates us from a changeable government agenda.
Theoretically the government may want to introduce a measure which is unethical or immoral and force practitioners to implement it. As a seperate body through the we would be in a much better position to challenge it.
Anyone who is regulated will be able to tell you the regulators are a royal pain in the bum (whoever they may be). They there for the practitioners, they are there to protect the public!
Having said that if I were to be judged I would rather it be by people who know what I do (at least some of them) as opposed to people who

Know the cause, thank you kindly sir.

Edit3:
Nice to See Rhianna has altered her post to be more respectful. find do the same. Sorry for the Sexism gary but Rhianna and Dr Franks posts in the past have both declared their love for each other as have their profiles. I looked at them lately.

Gary, in the UK the regulation of medicine, osteopathy and chiropractic is identical. Self regulating.
In New Zealand the government regulates osteopathy. not sure if medicine is self regulating or government here. It makes no odds to me to be perfectly honest. The system we have works reasonably well and the most improtant thing is protection of the public. My first choice is self regulation but in New Zealand I am happy for the Government to do it because we are a small group and the cost of self regulation would be large. The board that regulates us does have an osteopath on it so fine with it.

Different regulators regulate different things because a regulator that is too large can become a monster out of touch with its members.
Although we all provide healthcare we provide it quite differently from the medical profession.

If you want to understand what reductionist is, look it up.
Its a term the Medical profession is with and freely admits to be that.

Edit4:
I asked Dave in a private e-mail if he deregulating the GMC and handing regulation of doctors over to the governement. this was his reply:

Re: Self regulation
Message: If the GMC were shown to promote voodoo and superstition with a health care record lagging behind the rest of the world, then yes,

OK Dave, exactly how does GOsC promote voodoo and superstition and have a healthcare record lagging behind the rest of the world? refrerences and examples please.

And another thing, Your questions are nothing more than a call to arms of your main stream buddies lurking in this section so you guys can pat each other on the back and suck up to each other like a bunch of high school adolescents. And it makes me sick. My wife had GERD and mainstream offered nothing for her relief. Doctors refused to believe that it was lack of stomach acid that was the problem, until she seen a naturalist that pinpointed the problem and was able to relieve my wife of her misery. So get off of your high horses and get out of this section! You guys belong here. Why do you think people come to this section? To get away from people like you.

EDIT: "Lighting" That was AWESOME! Keep up the good work!

Yes, absolutely. If the AltMed industry want to continue making health claims then it should be put on the same evidence base as conventional medicine, this will make the practice safer and maybe less people will be scammed. AltMed is a multi billion dollar industry….the vast majority of it unregulated. Now things like homoeopathy, acupuncture and Reiki would fail at the first hurdle because they are completely implausible and this is one of the reasons why the alties claim such activities should not be subject scientific and clinical evidence.

However, where herbals are concerned, there is an absolute need for tighter regulations as they contain active ingredients and have the ability to cause the same side effects as conventional drugs if taken incorrectly. Putting herbals on evidence base may actually be very beneficial for herbalists because it may help to prove efficacy. Right now, herbals are a bit of a minefield. They are essentially unregulated drugs. When buying herbals in a shop there is no way of knowing the exact quantity of the active ingredient in the drug and some have been found to be contaminated with with various other chemicals.

There is no specific standard of efficacy and safety with most herbal remedies. Most been thoroughly tested for efficacy, drug interactions, toxicity and teratogenicity. In the UK, steps are being taken to make this practice a little more safe. Herbal remedies in the UK are probably quite weak, so some may argue that the risk of toxicity is low, but there is no way to measure this.

It must be remembered that not all herbals will be effective, many conventional drugs are put through testing, only a handful make it. And lets not forget, herbals are better, more effective and safer when they are standardised.

Lightning: I agree with the "nanny state" comment, but where health care is concerned, regulation is as I am sure you can agree.

all for allowing people the freedom to make an informed decision, however if you walk into a shop and pick up a herbal drug, how can you make an informed decision if you know whats in it?

I didnt view the videos but it did come up with results on YOU TUBE.

But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
Arsitotle, The Poetics

You see, your arguments argues for the opposite, that there must be some great and overriding truths that make all the rest secondary or And in fact there are , the Incarnation and the Trinity.

"You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!"

I hope this makes since. never used a poker analogy to try to explain this.

I disagree with you that good players rarely bluff in Poker. Good players rarely bluff at the wrong times in Poker. Like the song goes, you gotta know when to hold and know when to fold (and you gotta know who playing against, such as calling-station donks who call down to the river holding a-high, or the rock who folds if they have the nuts because they assume if they have it, then you must…I love Poker )

For me on r&s, like in Poker, I have my good days where I got the cards, the moves, or both; and my bad days, where I got the cards, and I got the moves. I would suggest the case for a good amount of regulars on here. Trolls are another story, typically the donks of y/a. Like a bad gambler, they are usually the who always have to "reload" (get a new account).

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition [Mark 7:8-9]. McGee comments on this passage as follows: Here was the whole issue. They were substituting traditions of men for the Word of God. A tradition may actually be good and may be established for a very good reason. However, it becomes evil when it is a substitute for the Word of God in later generations. And that is what has happened to these people here. I think this is the reason that so many denominations today have from the Word of God. They first substituted a creed for the Word of God. Then they began to substitute the word of men and the thinking of men and their own little ritual and their own little denomination. Before long, the Word of God went out the window. This has happened again and again. My friend, if you have a religion, I suggest you get rid of it and exchange it for Christ. I personally do not think one can call Christianity a religion. There is no ritual whatsoever given with Christianity. Have you ever stopped to think of that? This is the reason we can have all kinds of churches with different forms of worship — for instance you can sing the Doxology if you want to, but you have to. Christianity was never given a form to follow. Why? Because Christianity is a Person. To be a Christian means that you trust Christ. Religion has never been very helpful to man.

Believers do not meet in one place to worship God today; we meet around One Person and that Person is the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the thing to keep in mind today. The name of your church make the difference. The denomination or lack of denomination of your church make the difference. The question is this: do you meet around the person of Jesus Christ? Now, friends, if you that is idolatry, because then you are meeting around something that is replacing Christ. If you are meeting to socialize or be that is idolatry. The thing that is to draw us together into a oneness is the person of Jesus Christ. How that is!
—J. Vernon Thru The Bible

get me wrong…I also believe it is better to worship and fellowship with Christians than just being by myself. And I love singing old hymns. And there are some really good sermons to be heard. But I pay much attention to dogma.

I also agree with the following

Religion says, if I obey, God will love me.
Gospel says, because God loves me, I can obey.

Religion has good people & bad people.
Gospel has only repentant and unrepentant people.

Religion values a family.
Gospel values a new

Religion depends on what I do.
Gospel depends on what Jesus has done.

Religion claims that sanctification justifies me.
Gospel claims that justification enables sanctification.

Religion has the goal to get from God.
Gospel has the goal to get God.

Religion sees hardships as punishment for sin.
Gospel sees hardship as sanctified affliction.

Religion is about me.
Gospel is about Jesus.

Religion believes appearing as a good person is the key.
Gospel believes that being honest is the key.

Religion has an of standing before God.
Gospel has based upon Jesus’ work.

Religion sees Jesus as the means.
Gospel sees Jesus as the end.

Religion ends in pride or despair.
Gospel ends in humble joy.

**Edit: Sorry I mean Black don't have Blue Curacao

Ace-then-a-face: 1/13 * 4/13 4/169
Face-then-an-ace: 4/13 * 1/13 4/169
Sum of above two: 8/169 4.7%, or about 1 in every 21 times on average.

Why did I assume you draw with replacement? In casinos, they use 6 or 8 decks. As you increase the number of decks, removing a single card has less of an effect. In the limit of "infinite decks", essentially just replacing the last card back in the deck to keep the all 1/13.

For single deck without replacement:
Ace-then-a-face: 4/52 * 16/51 16 / 663
Face-then-an-ace: 16/52 * 4/51 16 / 663
Total: 32 / 663 4.8%

So even with a single deck replacement, only a 0.1% difference. However, that 0.1% difference makes a big difference to casinos, because they play hundreds of thousdands of hands in a day. 0.1% of those hands means about 100 fewer blackjacks.

1) You should create an array of ALL cards
2) get (and remove) two cards from the above array
3) check and display the total/messages
4) ask if the player wants another card
5) initiate a loop if they do (want another card)
6) get (and remove) 1 card from the above array
7) check and display the total/messages
ask if the player wants another card
end loop

P.S. use random to get next card from the array

Here is a link to the basic strategy in a table form that you can look at, print out and keep handy for when you play.

This is what players call the "book"

Good luck at the tables!

free and it just works

So got.. p(B) p(ten, ace) + p(ace, ten)
p(B) (16/52 x 4/51) + (4/52 x 16/52)
p(B) 64/2652 + 64/2652
p(B) 128/2652
p(B) 32/663

I am sure the VP never receives any thanks from the company employees for these types of events. It would probably make his day and get you noticed in a very positive way as well.