Kersasp ('Kersie') Shekhdar

Yahoo Contributor Network •

'The Unknown World'

Video-sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo, and Yidio have pulled off an accidental rescue act that they were never envisaged for: rescuing Hollywood's disappearing Silent Screen Classics, featuring the birth of Special Effects, from oblivion. The word 'disappearing' is no exaggeration; Lon Chaney's 1927 special effects (abbreviated to 'SFX' in the Industry) silent movie London After Midnight is lost forever. However, Chaney's SFX classic The Unknown, also from the same year, is definitely not los
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Private Health Insurance Versus Medicare

"Medicare or Private Health Insurance?," that is the vexing question. Answer it incorrectly and you'll waste a lot of money; answer it incorrectly in another way and you'll endanger your health, well-being, and savings. Not to worry, that vexing question is addressed in this head-to-head contest. Though Australia implemented Universal health care back in 1972, Medicare in its present form was established in 1984 so it is a relatively young service. It is also a public service accessible to all
Yahoo Contributor Network •

What is Private Health Insurance? an Introductory Guide

In Australia, one of a person's most essential needs is as widely available as it is easy to get -- yet difficult to choose. We are, frankly, blessed with an abundance of health insurance choices so that one person can opt to have only the most basic coverage while another may get herself insured from top to toe and everything in between. That 'most basic coverage' is provided by Medicare, the public entitlement. Medicare provides basic coverage universally, i.e. for every Australian. It has co
Commercial / Creative •

Billy-Boy Buys an iPad!

Take a deep breath - Welcome to Skype! Steve: hey dude, guess where I am? Steve: You should of bought that ipad last week. Not often you can buy an ipad for sale at such a great price! Bill: Where are u? i'm undecided about ipad Steve: at a picnic with family. everyone's dozing after lasagna for lunch. Bill: at picnic? how you on Skype then? Steve: with my ipad, man! you're so behind the times. still on your ancient windoze d...
Intrepid Report •

Eliminating Gynicide

“Zakir Hussain Shah slit the throat of his daughter Sabiha, 18, at Bara Kau in June 2002 because she had ‘dishonoured’ her family. But under Pakistan’s notorious qisas law, heirs [of a murder victim] have powers to pardon a murderer. In this case, Sabiha’s mother and brother [as Sabiha’s heirs] ‘pardoned’ the father and he was freed,” wrote Robert Fisk on 10–09–07 in The crimewave that shames the world , one segment of his multi-part feature on gynicide carried by The Independent . The next day,...
Intrepid Report •

Killing Off ‘Honour Killings’

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” Though this phrase may appear to be straight out of George Orwell’s 1984 , it is actually a quotation from Hollywood’s favourite Science Fiction writer, Philip K. Dick (author of the books/short stories behind Blade Runner , Total Recall , and AI ). The unfortunate conjoining of two words that have nothing in common, ‘honour’ a...
Kuakawa •

Cloud Computing 101 -- A Layman’s Primer

Cloud Computing: Faster than ‘Internet Time’ ‘Internet Time’ has become a popular catchphrase to denote rapid technological advancement and corresponding obsoleting of technology with equally fast paradigm shifts in the Computing Industry. Cloud Computing has broken the speed barrier even of Internet Time . Barely known and nearly non-existent a decade ago, and only a buzzword several years back, Cloud Computing is now a well-understood paradigm and an established method of approaching computing...
Motley Fool •

Goldcorp Pulls a Joe Montana

Goldcorp ( NYSE: GG ) has a reputation for being a tightly run player. Unlike other major gold producers like Rio Tinto ( NYSE: RIO ) and BHP Billiton ( NYSE: BHP ) , but similar to Eldorado Gold ( NYSE: EGO ) , Goldcorp has a near-exclusive focus, which is reflected in its name. In any other case, putting all your eggs in virtually one basket might be considered foolhardy. But when that one basket is gold , well, gold is – in more ways than one – the eternal metal. At any time, a stock in a wel...
Wopular •

3d Printed Meat Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

Tue, 10/29/2013 - 9:20am — Kersasp ('Kersie'), Shekhdar, The Motley Fool ASK NEWS: Event: Final Friday - Lawrence.com ... production of unique screen printed products ... up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie ... on Saturday, November 2 from 6-9 pm. And ... 10/22/2013 - 11:20 am | View Link Oakland 3D printing company takes production industry by storm - Kitsap Sun “When they’re coming out with the ... their printed prosthetic off this machine.” The advantages of 3D ... the size of a res...
Daily Finance •

3D Printed Meat Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

Are you in the market for a long-term buy-and-hold stock? One that combines - of all things - food and high-tech? Step aside Syngenta , you're old news! You may have heard of Modern Meadow (though you must have read about the 'Googleburger,' so named because Google 's founder Sergey Brin bankrolled it). Modern Meadow is developing the technology that will someday in the distant future provide the meat counterpart of instant coffee: instant beef! For now, it is focusing on synthetic meat made wit...
Motley Fool •

Pick Mondelez International For a Solid Investment

In June of last year, now-defunct Kraft Foods announced that it would split into two companies, a decision that was approved by the company's board in August. As a result, what was formerly Kraft Foods is now Kraft Foods Group ( NASDAQ: KRFT ) and Mondelez International ( NASDAQ: MDLZ ) . Mondelez International took with it brands that are well-known around 'le monde' and have international market penetration (e.g. Toblerone), while Kraft Foods, concentrating on America, retained big-selling Ame...
Seeking Alpha •

Kraft For The Long Run

By Kersasp Shekhdar The company behind that instantly-recognizable chocolate, Toblerone, Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT) occupies a lonely position in the United States - competitors are few and far between. Kraft competes with Sara Lee in packaged meats and frozen desserts and with Mars in all things chocolate. But both Sara Lee and Mars are privately owned so we do not have the financial data to make any comparisons with (and even if we did, you would not be able to trade their stock). Other major food...
Yahoo Voices •

A Tribute to the Body, Mind and Spirit of Si Jo Derek Jones

Derek Jones is not a name that will ring a bell for most persons. A sizeable number of Martial Arts aficionados, however, will know who he was. As for us here at Body, Mind and Spirit Wushu , Master Derek Jones is a name and a memory that is a pervasive part of our day-to-day lives. Though near the end of his abbreviated life, Jones was considered by many to be "the finest Wing Chun fighter of his day," as Martial Arts Illustrated and Combat editor Bey Logan put it, his origins were quite humble...
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