My granddaughter asked for some of my favorite recipes so it was a good time to put them into a book. Luckily today it can be a "living" book as it can be added to over and over. Maybe you will find something that appeals to you as well.
Mrs. Levy's famous .......
Mrs. Levy's famous..... sayings, thoughts, opinions and sometimes expert advice.
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Saturday, September 11, 2021
Notes from the Gurus about Internet Marketing
Way back in 2007 there was a confluence of internet marketers who did a series of webinars teaching their own methods of marketing, be it copywriting, traffic, advertising, list building, etc.
The purpose of these webinars was because they were all competing for Internet Marketer of the Year 2007 (Yes, way back when the earth was flat!!). However, their methods are still as pertinent today as they were back then, and just as important to any newbie website developer.
A lot of the links that are in this pdf may no longer be live, but please forgive me for not updating them, as a lot of them were an indication of the methods that were used to educate you.
I hope you get a lot of valuable information from this little ebook - Notes from the Gurus
Monday, September 16, 2013
How come a "little" country like Israel can be a giant in a region?
THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN ENGLAND SAYS: " ISRAEL IS NOTHING BUT A SHITTY LITTLE
COUNTRY"
The Middle
East has been growing date palms for centuries. The average tree
is about 18-20 feet tall and yields about 38 pounds of dates a year. Israeli date trees are
now yielding 400 pounds/year and are short enough to be harvested from the
ground or a short ladder .
Israel the 100th
smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can lay
claim to the following: The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis working
in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel .
Most of the Windows NT
and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip
technology was designed in Israel
at Intel.
Both
the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed,
developed and produced in Israel .
The
Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most likely made in Israel .
Voice mail technology
was developed in Israel .
Both
Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel .
The
technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1966 by four
young Israelis.
Israel has the fourth largest
air force in the world (after the U.S, Russia
and China
). In addition to a large variety of other aircraft, Israel 's air force has an aerial
arsenal of over 250 F-16's. This is the largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside
of the U. S.
Israel ’s $100 billion economy
is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
Israel has the highest
percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
According to
industry officials, Israel
designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. US officials
now look (finally) to Israel
for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
Israel
has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel
produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large
margin - 109 per 10,000 people -- as well as one of the highest per capita
rates of patents filed.
In proportion
to its population, Israel
has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute Israel has the largest number of startup
companies than any other country in the world, except the U.S. ! (3,500
companies mostly in hi-tech).
With more than 3,000
high-tech companies and startups, Israel
has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world -- apart from
the Silicon Valley, U.S.A.
Israel is ranked #2 in the
world for venture capital funds right behind the U.S.
Outside the United States and Canada
, Israel
has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
Israel has the highest
average living standards in the Middle East . The
per capita income in Israel in
2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK .
On a per capita basis, Israel
has the largest number of biotech startups.
Twenty-four per cent of Israel’s workforce holds university degrees, ranking
third in the industrialized world ,after the United
States and Holland
and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.
Israel is the only liberal
democracy in the Middle East .
In 984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian
Jews (Operation Solomon and Moses) at Risk in Ethiopia
, to safety in Israel .
When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the
world's second elected female leader in modern times.
When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi , Kenya
was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day -- and
saved three victims from the rubble.
Israel
has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the highest rate among
women and among people over 55 - in the world.
Relative to its population, Israel
is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search
of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity. (Hundreds of
thousands from the former Soviet Union )
Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an
international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
Israel
has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a
net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because, this was
achieved in an area considered mainly desert!
Israel
has more museums per capita than any other country
Medicine... Israel scientists
developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic
instrumentation for breast cancer.
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper
administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical
treatment. Every year in U.
S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from
treatment mistakes.
Israel’s Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it
fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, cancer and digestive disorders .
Researchers in Israel
developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation
with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The new device
is synchronized with the camera helps doctors diagnose heart's mechanical
operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the
workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U. S., over 70 in
Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in
technical professions, Israel
places first in this category as well.
A new acne treatment developed in Israel . the Clear Light device,
produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that
causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without damaging surrounding skin
or tissue.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered
and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern California 's Mojave desert
.
All the above while engaged in regular
wars with an implacable enemy that seeks its destruction, and an economy
continuously under strain by having to spend more per capita on its own
protection than any other county on earth.
The
On a per capita basis,
Twenty-four per cent of Israel’s workforce holds university degrees, ranking third in the industrialized world ,after the
When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of
When the
Relative to its population,
Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because, this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert!
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in
Israel’s Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, cancer and digestive disorders .
Researchers in
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U. S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions,
A new acne treatment developed in
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern
All the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable enemy that seeks its destruction, and an economy continuously under strain by having to spend more per capita on its own protection than any other county on earth.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
What really died at Auschwitz ?
The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15 2011. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world.
THIS WAS IN A SPANISH NEWSPAPER: "EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ" By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
"I walked down the street in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world.
These are the people we burned.
And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe .
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves. Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving in to it.
It is now more than sixty years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians, and nineteen-hundred Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated.' Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.
How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States ? If our Judeo-Christian heritage is offensive to Muslims, they should pack up and move to Iran , Iraq or some other Muslim country.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The adverts have become so invasive it makes one believe that corporate greed is alive and well and living in TV-land. Which brings me to wonder whether directors and producers of shows are told to have only the 14 minute content and make sure that the plot fits in to the time allotted.
Which brings me also to my next pet peeve. Medical advertising! It makes no sense to me to advertise a drug that can only be obtained with a prescription by a doctor. Nobody goes to the pharmacy and asks "Give me 30 Lipitor. I think I'll try those today".
Nobody goes to their doctor and says "Give me some of those blah-blah pills that are advertised". Never mind that most the pills today can kill you!
I think that flighting ads for Cialis and Viagra during prime time TV or sports programs is so inappropriate. I don't want to have to tell my kids about the advantages of taking those pills. The amount of sexual content in shows does nothing to the quality of the show. An example of the worst show is Two and a Half Men. Again, the time slot is totally inappropriate. It should be a midnight show like the German porn shows! Two Broke Girls started off so great, but has dipped into crude and stupid now. My opinion!!
Hey, I love TV. I have no problem with sexual content. But when it knocks you over the head when kids are watching...... it's a problem for me. How about you?
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
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