Below is my own quick attempt. I tried to be as granular as possible without spending all day on it. My purpose behind doing this is to point out just how much is going on in that page without even leaving the page or refreshing. This is an excellent example of how interactive a true modern web application can be.

Note that I subscribe to the Wikipedia definition of AJAX.

Feel free to add anything I missed in the comments.


Friends Requests menu
- User profile image
- Name
- Count of mutual friends
- Confirm/Deny buttons
Messages Menu
- User profile image
- User name
- Message snippet
- Message time
Notifications Menu
- User profile image
- User name
- Notification type icon
- Notification time
- Notification icon shows updated notification count
Search
Options Menu
- Count of new notifications for Pages
Live Feed/Contact Bar on the right
- Feed updates realtime
- User image, name, update snippet
- Mouseover a live update provides a popup
- User image
- Name
- Full update content
- Like button
- Make comment
- Timestamp
- Security
- Popup has an options menu
- Comments from friends with timestamp, like link, like count
- Contacts update realtime
- Profile image, name, and online status
- Search
- Options menu items
- Live chat with other user
- Video chat with other user
- Chat menu
- Typing status
- Video and Close buttons have popup with explanation
Left Nav
- Section Headers are links that update page content without refresh
- Edit menu for each navigation item
- Notification count for certain nav items
- Create Group button pops up dialog
- Members list auto-completes as you type
Right Nav
- Current birthdays
- Todays Birthday, popup, that allows you to comment and multiple walls at once without leaving the Feed page
- People You May Know
- Profile image
- Name
- Count of mutual friends
- Menu of mutual friends
- Friend list assignment menu
- Add friend
- Remove friend suggestion, new friend suggestion replaces it
- Sponsored Story
- Like button
- Remove story
- Sponsored Ad
- Some ads can popup in page like video and picture and everything that goes along with that
- Remove ad menu, new ad replaces it
News Feed
- Update status on page
- Who are you with feature
- Location feature
- Security menu
- Add Photo/Video on page
- Ask Question
- Poll options
- Security
- Sort menu
- Sort menu options
- New Stories
- Count of new unseen stories
- Load new unseen stories
- Friend updates
- Update options menu
- User image
- Name
- update content
- like button
- comment inline
- share feature
- timestamp
- location
- security, also has popup explanation
- list of friends who liked
- count of comments, names of friends who commented
- count of shares
- Comments
- commenter image
- commenter name
- commenter comment
- commenter timestamp
- commenter like button
- post a comment inline
- Scrolling to page bottom loads more updates


1/4 tsp cayenne
1/4 tsp ginger
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp hot water

Shake well and serve warm.

Great for colds and coughs. Half the fun is swallowing it down. The faster the better, in my opinion.

“Strep throat will go away in 3 to 7 days with or without treatment.” – WebMD

“Although waiting to treat strep throat may prolong the time you have the illness, delaying treatment for a few days does not increase the risk of rheumatic fever or other complications.” – WebMD

“-Strep throat is self-limiting and resolves within a few days.
-The rationale for antibiotic treatment is prevention of suppurative infection, prevention of rheumatic fever, and reduction of communicability
-The antibiotic of choice is penicillin because no increase in resistance has been seen for the past 50 years
-Despite appropriate antibiotic treatment, chronic strep colonization is common. Children can be chronic “strep” carriers (i.e. strep present on culture without any signs of infection) for up to 1 year after infection, but there is generally no need to treat chronic carriers because they are thought to be at low risk of transmitting disease or developing invasive GABHS (strep) infections.
-In summary, strep throat will go away on its own without antibiotic treatment and we only treat to reduce side effects that don’t occur that much to begin with.” – epmonthly.com

“There have been only two other cases of rheumatic fever ever reported in a pharyngitis study, both in 1961. In fact, despite large, contemporary studies tracking tens of thousands of strep throats in the general community, many of whom received placebos or no treatment, there hasn’t been a case of rheumatic fever reported in a study for nearly fifty years. When the incidence dropped to less than one per million in the general population in 1994, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped tracking rheumatic fever entirely.” – epmonthly.com

In my few years on this planet, I have thus far come to the conclusion that God has given us medicines, and for a good reason. I have also come to the conclusion that medicines are over used and over prescribed. Wellness of a human body is affected by a great many things. Medicine and surgeries have their place, but they are not the answer to every problem, nor should they be. In the same line of thought, herbs and other natural remedies have also been given to us by God, for a good reason. Natural remedies also have their place, but just like medicines and surgeries, they are not the answer to every problem, nor should they be.

It is my belief that true wellness comes from a proactive approach to living and eating. How active we are and what we put into our bodies, in the way of food, both play a great part of how well we feel. The saying, “we are what we eat”, is correct on so many levels. If live a sedentary life, our bodies will atrophy. If we put poor excuses for food into our bodies, our bodies respond poorly. Simple truths.

Medical doctors are not the answer for every illness. Chiropractors are not the answer to every ache. It is my opinion and belief that health practitioners should be more about health and wellness education than they are about symptom treating. As a society, we should seek health advice before we are sick, so that we do not get sick. If our health and wellness practitioners were used to help us be more aware of how to care for our bodies, we would be more healthy. This is already proven if we compare the ignorance of people hundreds of years ago to the little common knowledge that we now have.

I think the best health care system would be to combine EVERY form of health treatment and medicine.

Instead of shunning methodologies that we do not understand or consider to be quackery or witch doctory, we should learn more about them and incorporate them into our health care systems.

As an analogy, let us think of how many tools there are in the world. If your mechanic decided that a hammer was the best tool and decided to use only the hammer to fix things, he may have some success in fixing things, but he would create a lot of collateral damage. If he would learn about and embrace the idea of a wrench, he could be much more efficient.

This is the same for medical doctors and chiropractors. They have certain tools that they have discovered to be useful. Yet by not learning about alternative tools they are limiting their effectiveness to heal while also practicing potentially harmful activities because “that is what is accepted”.

With that in mind, here is a short list of other tools that health practitioners could use to help people be well: Iridology, acupuncture, low-level laser therapy, meditation, aroma therapy, Chinese medicine, dance therapy, music therapy, massage, herbalism, therapeutic touch, yoga, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, and homeopathy. (Wikipedia)

What if that person gets released on good behavior? That person now goes out into society and is a walking time bomb. What do others in society learn from this? They can go to prison, do some time, get free room and board, and then go out to wreak so more havoc. If a death sentence is carried out immediately, the lesson is learned by others in society that if they do something worthy of the death sentence there will be no reprieve.

Give the person a week to get his affairs in order, say goodbye to the world, and ponder his actions. Then send him off. If someone has earned the death sentence, let him have it. Use the space and money for rehabilitating other citizens.

In fact, I think that perhaps the death sentence to be given to far more criminals that it is current given to. Perhaps pedophiles and drunk drivers who kill someone while intoxicated should also be deserving of death.

What are your thoughts on this topic?

When a citizen commits a crime, they do so in trade for some of their rights. In other words, were I to kill someone, I would give up my rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness and depending on the scenario, I could lose my right to life.

This is natural cause and effect. Every action has a consequence. Certain consequences are desirable, others are not. We learn what to do and what not to do based on receiving these consequences. This is a law of the universe. It cannot be changed.


When we do try to change this law of the universe and take away consequences, we damage not only the person to whom those consequences rightly belong, but we also damage our society.

The damage to the person is that they do not learn what they were supposed to.

The damage to society is that the individual will continue to commit crimes because there is no fear of adequate negative consequence. This leads others to see a lack of negative consequence who then are more likely to commit crime as well.

What exactly the adequate consequences are for any particular crime is a topic for another discussion.

The fact that there is are not adequate negative consequences in place for many crimes is obvious by the number of citizens inhabiting prison cells. What we need is to stop thinking that citizens who commit crimes still have all their rights. They commit crime? They lose most of their rights. They commit crime, they owe a great debt to society. A criminal needs reform and they need to be able to make restitution. They need to repay their debt to society.

In other words, we need to bring back work programs to prisons. We need to rip out all the cable and satellite TV from the prisons. We need to make the food less enjoyable and more utilitarian. Nourishment is all the food should provide. College education? Why should a criminal get a college education for free when honest citizens have a hard enough time getting grants and scholarships? The education a criminal should get is through service to the community. Service and hard work is what builds character and is what is missing from society. If they do not learn it in their families or communities, prison must be the next best option for these wayward citizens.

To that end, a friend of mine had an idea. We should put prisoners to work producing electricity. Put a dynamo in every stationary bike and then hook those bikes up to the grid. Every time a prisoner pedals the bike, they produce power. Put them to work pedaling every day. Energy crisis averted!

How about roads? Prisoners used to make roads. Put them back to work making roads!

Jobs that citizens do not want to do? Let the prisoners do them.

Let us put our prisoners to work. Let them repay their debts. Let us not rob them of the valuable negative consequences for their negative actions. Put our prisoners to work! But not for money. Heavens no! Make them work for Restitution.

If negative consequences are adequate, our prisons will stop filling up. Prison used to be a punishment. These days prisons seem to be 5 Star hotels. A prisoner is released and they do whatever they need in order to get back in? Why?! Because prison is not a deterrent! It is a haven!

Please share your comments with me on this topic.

On the topic of “what happens if someone shoots a gun on a plane, even accidentally”, Mythbusters had a great episode on that actually. They pressurized a plane and shot holes through it. Nothing catastrophic. The myth was totally busted. They had to attach a major explosive to the side of the plane to actually affect some catastrophic damage.

What are your thoughts about guns on planes?

3550000000000 / 309000000 = $11,488.67/person/year

That is quite a bit of tax. Although, consider what we pay in taxes across the board in sales, property, gas, income, SS, etc, etc.

I just read some articles that I found interesting.

Tax the Rich!

“1. Poor Americans do pay taxes… including federal payroll taxes. Between gas taxes, sales taxes, utility taxes and other taxes, no one lives tax free in America.”

“[D]uring seven of the eight Bush years, the IRS report on the top 400 taxpayers was labeled a state secret, a policy that the Obama administration overturned almost immediately after his inauguration.”

“Since 1980, when President Reagan won election promising prosperity through tax cuts, the average income of the vast majority—the bottom 90 percent of Americans—has increased a meager $303, or 1 percent. Put another way, for each dollar people in the vast majority made in 1980, in 2008 their income was up to $1.01.”

Tax The Rich? 14 Facts You May Want To Consider

“The ultra-rich simply are not going to be taxed into oblivion. They will do whatever it takes to avoid high tax rates.”

“The truth is that our tax system is completely and totally broken.”

“When you crush small businesses you crush job growth in this country.

“If you wanted to truly ‘tax the rich’, you would need to completely throw out our current tax system and come up with something completely and totally different.

And actually, when you get right down to it, an income tax is not even needed to run our country. Until 1913 the United States did just fine without a federal income tax.”

“[T]he solution is to change the rules of the game so that money and financial power does not become so concentrated in the hands of just a few. Our founding fathers intended for all Americans to be able to start businesses and compete. They never intended for gigantic mega-corporations to dominate everything.”

What are your thoughts on taxes?