For Richer Or Poorer ? – May 2012 Closing Remarks

rich

[rich]

adjective
1. having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.

2. abounding in natural resources: a rich territory.

3. having wealth or valuable resources (usually followed by in ): a country rich in traditions.

4. abounding (usually followed by in or with ): a countryside rich in beauty; a design rich with colors.

5. of great value or worth; valuable: a rich harvest.

poor

[poor]

adjective
1. having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.

2. Law . dependent upon charity or public support.

3. (of a country, institution, etc.) meagerly supplied or endowed with resources or funds.

4. characterized by or showing poverty.

5. deficient or lacking in something specified: a region poor in mineral deposits.

Welcome Home.
We will close out the month of Mayo 2012 with something simple yet extremely thought and emotion provoking for those interested in such matters.

The image gallery results from a Bing Decision Engine query of the words “Rich People” is here.
The image gallery results from a Bing Decision Engine query of the words “Poor People”  is here.

The question of the year and perhaps the rest of the century is as to whether or not you believe that

A. The images are reflections of  the actual realities?
or
B. The actual realities are reflections of the images?

Stay tuned for next months installments as we get a head start on the exploration of thoughts and ideas listed in the title of this post and how they and our individual and collective decisions regarding them will directly impact our futures as indicated by the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election candidates in the image above reflecting some different perspectives that we all must consider.

 

The Truth About Energy Vampires? – Ask Honest Abe Lincoln

Twilight Series.

Energy Vampires

The term “energy vampire” is also used metaphorically to refer to people whose influence leaves a person feeling exhausted, unfocused, and depressed, without ascribing the phenomenon to psychic interference.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_vampire

The truth about Energy Vampires?
I truthfully do not have a sufficient and valid answer of my own to offer other than what is listed above from a Wikipedia author, yet I believe the time has come to bring up the subject for thought and discussion as I have heard the term thrown around by people who believe in such things over the past twelve years.

In regards to an educated guess as a writer, I do believe that the emergence of the vampire character concept in popular culture with The Twilight and True Blood scorelines as an example, point to some form of a great cultural interest in the phenomenon to the extent that these stories and the authors that compose them may simply be attempting to convey ideas and scenarios that appear as actual realities yet are not considered as factual due to a lack of scientific evidence and proof.

In closing, as everything does balance out with the process of time, an interesting point of interest is in regards to this new 2012 story twist on the vampire theme featured in the clip below that offers an extremely different perspective to consider in regards to American History and one of its most notable leaders, which is to be released in the upcoming month of June 2012, and which leaves us all to wonder about how much of it (the story) is factual opposed to fictional, and how much it relates to American life and society via The Summer of 2012.

http://www.hulu.com/embed/Q1brlun0MQ5Es9bu9qHiLw

Either way, its on with the show.

 

INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER – Do They Make/Keep You “ITTY-BITTY”?

 

Instagram From An Aerial View Perspective

Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

The phrase “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” is a safety warning that is required to be engraved on passenger side mirrors of motor vehicles in the USA, India, Canada, Korea, and Australia. It is present because while these mirrors’ convexity gives them a useful field of view, it also makes objects appear smaller. Since smaller-appearing objects seem farther away than they actually are, a driver might make a maneuver such as a lane change assuming an adjacent vehicle is a safe distance behind, when in fact it is quite a bit closer. The warning serves as a reminder to the driver of this potential problem.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objects_in_mirror_are_closer_than_they_appear

Real quick.
For those who may wish to entertain the idea, the questions are as follows.

Do Instagram, Twitter, and many of the new the mobile web applications in general make one “itty bitty”, and if one is in fact “itty bitty” from the beginning, do these applications stunt ones own growth potential through a continuous and prolonged focus on the smaller boxes that contain ones own personal images?

A different perspective to consider.

The Women That Like Men Tend To Win!

PH = Everybody Wins!

Women Flocking to Facebook: Female/Male Ratio Hits New High

– via InsideFacebook.com 8/14/2009

Women have always made up a larger share of the Facebook user base than men. But according to the latest Facebook stats, the female/male ratio has just hit an all time high in July since we started tracking last year. US women now outnumber men on Facebook 1.35 to 1 as of today.

Women outnumber men in every age bracket

Let’s take a look at how today’s numbers break down: as you can see, US women outnumber men in every age bracket. But the disparity has become more pronounced amongst users 26-54: women outnumber men by over 2 million in each age bracket in that range.

Source: www.insidefacebook.com/2009/08/04/women-flocking-to-facebook-femalemale-ratio-hits-new-high

Welcome Home.
The last official Tuesday Newsday report for May 2012 comes from the top of the head in the form of inspired thought and subsequent action.

Q: Can a woman who does not like men expect to win in The Game which entails that she be liked by men in order for her to win?

A: We will have to allow for time to decide and then reveal its most likable results.

 

In closing, the name of the game in question is known as LIFE, and due to the fact that this is an online life experience publication and brand, we will simply refer to the above social media gender ratio data along with the fact that such is in similar proportion in the USA for the 21st Century as recorded by the US census bureau listed below.

Q: What is the ratio of women to men in America?

A: According to Census 2000, 281.4 million people were counted in the United States – 143.4 million of whom were female and 138.1 million male. About a 1434/1381 ratio women/men.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_ratio_of_women_to_men_in_America
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A different web surfing approach and perspective to consider.

Plato’s Parable Of The Cave – Let’s Get Philosophical With The Pimpin’

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Parable of the Cave

The Allegory of the Cave—also known as the Analogy of the Cave, Plato’s Cave, or the Parable of the Cave—is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of education” (514a). It is written as a dialogue narrated by Plato’s friend Socrates and Plato’s brother Glaucon at the beginning of Book VII(514a–520a). The Allegory of the Cave is presented after the metaphor of the sun (507b–509c) and the analogy of the divided line (509d–513e). All three are characterized in relation to dialectic at the end of Book VII and VIII (531d–534e).

Plato lets Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato’s Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.

The Allegory may be related to Plato’s Theory of Forms, according to which the “Forms” (or “Ideas”), and not the material world of change known to us through sensation, possess the highest and most fundamental kind of reality. Only knowledge of the Forms constitutes real knowledge. In addition, the Allegory of the Cave is an attempt to explain the philosopher’s place in society: to attempt to enlighten the “prisoners”.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave

So the idea behind this allegory is that the highest form of reality shows to be in the form of the idea itself? That aint such a bad idea at all and is in actuality, an excellent form of a different perspective to consider.

Stay Tuned.

 

 

MACKIN SKILLS – The Reason Why I RESPECT President Barack Obama

"A hug, circa 1992. Twenty years later, she still gives pretty great hugs." Michelle Obama's Latest Facebook Timeline Post - May, 25, 2012

mackin

To make moves on, show your game, try to get with the person.
Source: UrbanDictionary.com

Greetings Earthlings.
With all of the different sides of multiple stories coming to our consciouses simultaneously with each looking to convince us of their correctness and validity, I felt it best to simply open up a blank page and add a story of my own that best serves me and explains my stance in order to share with those who may have an interest in considering this unique perspective.

Keeping it simple, the following video clip is from an Interview with Michelle Obama conducted by CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux in the form of a woman to woman tea party style chat session, and from my own personal experiences, the subject of the current president and his policies at the root can best be ascertained by the initial character traits of the individual himself as told from the perspective of his own wife in the sincere and authentic fashion that a woman to woman discussion entails.

“…and we wound up going to see a movie, and our first movie was Do The Right Thing, by Spike Lee, and it had just come out….”
– Michelle Obama on her first official date with Barack Obama.

In closing, let the record reflect that as issues in a globalized society become increasingly complex, the solutions would more than likely show to be attained with a shift towards simplicity, and simply put, regardless of whatever views and policies an individual may hold, the steps required for an individual to be conceived and born into the world for the purposes of thinking, feeling, and doing, entail that a man as a potential mate first campaign for a vote of confidence from a woman as a potential mate, which through following this course of nature, tends to and has resulted in the rearing of children who will then more than likely repeat this same process creating more individuals who each holds his or her own unique perspective.

A similar and natural order perspective to consider.

ATTENTION – Why Does She Want/Need It?

Solution = Picturing A Way That Works!

 

Attention

Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Attention has also been referred to as the allocation of processing resources.

Examples include listening carefully to what someone is saying while ignoring other conversations in a room (the cocktail party effect) or listening to a cell phone conversation while driving a car. Attention is one of the most intensely studied topics within psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

In 1890, William James, in his textbook Principles of Psychology, remarked:

“ everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has a real opposite in the confused, dazed, scatterbrained state which in French is called distraction, and Zerstreutheit in German.”

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention

Greetings Earthlings and T.G.I.F. (Thank God It’s Freeday)!
As we bring this last full week of May 2012 to a solid ending moving forward into the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the decision has been made to take some time out to focus in on this particular subject as it would seem that the Internet, which is basically some words and pictures on a screen, is at the root, a mechanism for the exchange of the resource known as attention, and with proper management, it can lead to satisfactory results for all parties involved in any and all interaction which involve the exchange of it.

The image above was posted as a working example to concentrate on over the weekend, and although we may not know the technical reasons as to why it works, we may be able to save ourselves some valuable time by simply recognizing that in essence, this method has, does, and will most likely continue to work for eternity so long as humans are available to give and receive attention, and as a result, deciding to pay attention to this matter of attention.

In closing, while searching for a video clip that focuses on both women and money which coincides with the header image representing attention, the clip that is above the paragraph was uploaded to YouTube by an Ice T/Tony Montana enthusiast, and it seems to work well as an indicatior of the facts which prove that there is a growing demand for different and more relevant and authentic life perspectives to consider.

Are Facebook Users Loosing Value Along With The Value Of Facebook?

val·ue

[val-yoo]
noun
1. relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen in chess.

2. monetary or material worth, as in commerce or trade: This piece of land has greatly increased in value.

3. the worth of something in terms of the amount of other things for which it can be exchanged or in terms of some medium of exchange.

4. equivalent worth or return in money, material, services, etc.: to give value for value received.

5. estimated or assigned worth; valuation: a painting with a current value of $500,000.

via WSJ.com

NEW YORK—Facebook Inc. FB +1.25% shares rose 3.2% Wednesday, halting a two-day losing streak, as investors continued to analyze what went wrong with the company’s initial public offering.

Facebook shares gained $1 to finish at $32, gaining back some ground after falling 19% over Monday and Tuesday. The social network, which initially was valued at $104.1 billion, is now valued at about $87.7 billion.

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304840904577421962367180038.html

A different perspective to consider.

THE SSCP – Secret Service Colombian Prostitutes

Solution = Just Put On A Happy Face!

Smiley

A smiley, smiley face, or happy face, 🙂 or 😀 is a stylized representation of a smiling humanoid face, commonly occurring in popular culture. It is commonly represented as a yellow (many other colors are also used) circle (or sphere) with two black dots representing eyes and a black arc representing the mouth. “Smiley” is also sometimes used as a generic term for any emoticon.

The variant spelling “smilie” is not as common, but the plural form “smilies” is commonly used.
Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley

Wellness, between us as friends, the topic of today’s news is one that was at the the top of the today’s list for the U.S. Congress as the Secret Service head honcho was called to offer testimony, yet the reason why it is posted here at Your Friendly Neighborhood PimpHop.com is due to the fact that it sounded somewhat  pimpish and outside the box in regards to a post title and some experimentation was being conducted to learn what the results would be if the title was entered into a Bing search engine query.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Secret Service, in his first public appearance since a Colombian prostitution scandal involving his employees surfaced last month, apologized for the misconduct on Wednesday as lawmakers expressed doubt it was an isolated incident.

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, gray-haired in a blue striped suit and tie, faced the Senate Homeland Security Committee and asserted that the behavior of a dozen employees in Cartagena in April did not reflect the culture of the agency that protects the president.

Source: www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/us-secret-service-chief-apologizes-for-prostitution-scandal_708418.html

The basic news as mentioned above popped up, and in an image search, this particular young lady featured in the header image offered this specific fashion statement which inspired a simple yet utmost effective global economic and health care solution in its own right.

Moral Of The Story –

It’s an agreement with Facebook’s ultimate goal of making the world more open and connected, followed by a more honest and precise execution of the idea which is accomplished by getting creative, allowing our fingers the liberty to stoke the keys as they please, and considering some different and more globalized world views and perspectives.

SHINING PATH – The Truth About Tupac

Tupac Amaru - Shining Path?

Welcome Home!
Today’s discussion topic and perspective to consider begins with a description of the names listed in the title of this post as stated by the Council On Foreign Relations website.

Introduction

The two main Peruvian rebel groups, both leftist, are the Maoist group Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) and the Cuban-inspired Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru). Both organizations operated most forcefully in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Peru’s government fought a costly war against both insurgencies, but disproportionately the Shining Path. The U.S. State Department identifies Shining Path as a terrorist organization, but Tupac Amaru hasn’t been listed as such since 1999. Shining Path had a period of dormancy in the 1990s, but the organization has since resurged, along with the Peruvian cocaine trade. Analysts say the group is small in numbers, but it could gain support in rural areas that have been neglected by the Peruvian government.

Continue Reading Here.

 

Hail Mary?
A different 2012 perspective to consider.