What would you say if you received this email from a complete stranger?

July 3rd, 2011

My Dearest,

I know you will be surprise to receive this email, but Before I go further I will like you to understand that, I am writing this mail to you With due respect trust and humanity, I appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business, honestly i am writing this email to you with pains, tears and sorrow from my heart, i will really like to have a good relationship with you and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you, i decided to contact you due to the urgency of my present situation here in the refugee camp. My name is Miss. Mary Kipkalya Kones, 25yrs old female and I from Kenya here in Africa; my father was the former Kenyan road Minister. He and Assistant Minister of Home Affairs Lorna Laboso had been on board the Cessna 210, which was headed to Kericho and crashed in a remote area called Kajong’a, in western Kenya. The plane crashed on Tuesday 10th, June, 2008.

After the burial of my beloved father, my stepmother and uncle conspired and sold all my father’s properties to an Italian Expertrate which they shared the money they sold from the properties among themselves and live nothing for me. Unfortunately to me I fined my father’s briefcase and when I opened it I found a document which my Father used to deposited amount of money in one bank here in Burkina Faso, with my name as the next of kin. I travelled to Burkina Faso here I am, to withdraw the money for a better life so that I can take care of myself and start up a new life and also further my education, when I arrival to the bank, the Bank foreign Operation Department Director whom I meet in person told me that my father instruction to their bank is that the fund would only be release to me when I am married or present a trustee/partner who will help me and invest the fund overseas after the transfer, and the bank ask me to go and look for a foreign partner, that was why am contacting you, which I believe that you are going to be honest and reliable person that will help me and stand as my trustee/partner, so that I can present you to the Bank for the release and transfer of the inherited fund into your bank account in your country.

I have chosen to contact you after my prayers and I believe that you will not betray my trust. But rather take me as your own sister. Though you may wonder why I am so soon revealing myself to you without knowing you, well I will say that my mind convinced me that you will be the true person to help me. Moreover, I will like to disclose much to you if you can help me to relocate to your country because my stepmothers have threatened to assinate me. The fund my Father deposited into the bank, is ($8.5 USD) Million United State Dollars, and I have confirmed from the bank here in Burkina Faso, on my arrival, You will also help me to place the fund in a good profitable business venture in your Country, However you will also help by recommending a nice University in your country so that I can further my education. It is my intention to compensate you with 40% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my capital in your establishment. Now my dear as soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest and wiliness to help me, I will put things into action immediately. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to help me and also handle this transaction sincerely. Awaiting your urgent and positive response. Please my dear I want you to keep this as a top secret only to your self for now until the bank will release and transfer my inherited fund to you as my appointed trustee/partner. I beg you once again not to disclose this to any body until i come over your country because I am afraid of my wreaked stepmother who has threatened to kill me and have my inherited fund alone. I thank you very much and am expecting to hear from you soonest.

Yours Sincerely

Mary Kipkalya Kones.

It’s a phis-hing scam. Or Con ! To get you to send her free money. You are a possible 7-10% of the law of averages [sales] of a 100,000 identical E-mails.

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Where can I find a good forex trading guide?

June 30th, 2011

I am a beginner and I want to start trading forex. There are alot of complicated trading guides. Can you recommend me with a simple forex trading guide?

How about just avoiding Forex altogether? Currency trading is a highly speculative investment not meant for novice investors. The fact that you ask for a trading guide indicates you have little to no trading experience. Put your money into index-based mutual funds and try reading up on the world of investing before choosing one of the riskiest investments around.

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What do you think is a bigger shock to comics fans, the DC Relaunch or the Disney-Marvel merger?

June 27th, 2011

Which one was more of a shock to you, personally? IMO, it was the Disney-Marvel merger.

Well, for me it’s the DC relaunch. When I heard about the Disney-Marvel merger, I figured that it was a shrewd business move for Marvel. The one thing that kept DC going in the 90s, even when the comic book industry was in its "bust years" — when Marvel was so in the red that they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — was the fact that they were a wholly-owned subsidiary of Warner Brothers (and have been since 1969). This didn’t cause any drastic change in DC’s characters or comic books. It just allowed WB to "cherry pick" the best intellectual properties from DC’s stable of characters when it came to movies and TV shows. When I first heard of the Disney/Marvel merger, my thoughts weren’t of Spider-Mouse, the Incredible Duck, or Snow White and the Seven Mutants. It was simply that Marvel had, like DC before it, hitched its wagon to a media giant. The publishing aspect remains largely uninterfered-with, although Marvel would get first crack at publishing adaptations of Disney-related works. It just meant that Disney/Buena Vista gets first dibs on media adaptations of Marvel characters (i.e. Cartoons, TV, and movies).

The DC relaunch seemed to catch me all the more offguard because of the sweeping change it represents line-wide and the lack of a "Crisis-type" event to serve as a "last hurrah" for the existing versions of the characters. Flashpoint, while the prelude to the relaunch, is simply an alternate-reality tale that will lead into the new status quo. Never before has one of the "Big Two" cancelled and relaunched its entire line. Even experiments like "Heroes Reborn" and "Crisis on Infinite Earths" left -some- of the status quo un-tampered-with. The thing that shocks me is just the whole uncertainty around the event. While there are big names linked to the obvious big-name books, the vast majority of the B-C-and-D-list characters seem to be starring in books that are lacking both big-name creative teams and compelling stories. I think the number of people who line up for Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison or Superman #1 with George Perez, or Justice League of America #1 with Geoff Johns and Jim Lee is going to be significantly higher than those who pick up I, Vampire #1, Frankenstein, Agent of Shade #1, or Justice League Dark #1. I seriously think that by this time next year, several of the titles that don’t star one of the "usual suspects" will have gone the way of ‘Mazing Man and Wild Dog.

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How do I get started in FOREX? Any good sites to refer to? How much start up money needed?

June 25th, 2011

I want to get into the FOREX trading. Please explain how to get started in the scene and give me some good sites to refer to. Also, how much money will I need to get started first?

Thank you.

I recommend reading everything you can at your local bookstore about stock trading and Forex trading. That will give you a good introduction. But you’ll still need to develop your own personal trading strategy, and that takes years of study and experience.

You can trade Forex with as little as $1,000, but that has to be $1,000 that you can afford to lose, because most people do lose money in the beginning.

Most all Forex brokers offer free demo accounts, and you should have 3-4 months of demo profits before you risk real money. Even then, be careful when switching to real money that you don’t risk too much.

Best of luck!

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What is the total amount of the dividend that will be paid?

June 23rd, 2011

Cole Company has 289,000 shares of common stock authorized, 253,000 shares issued, and 80,000 shares of treasury stock. The company’s board of directors has declared a dividend of 70 cents per share.

What is the total amount of the dividend that will be paid?

253,000 shares issued – 80,000 shares of treasury stock = 173,000 shares outstanding

173,000 x .70 = $121,100

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What are the bonds between the monomers in a polymer called?

June 20th, 2011

Covalent bonds?
Ionic bonds???
no no no no I might have phrased my qns wrongly.

I meant what are the bonds that joins the different monomers together called?

There is no specific name given to bonds between the monomers. The bond name just describes the nature of the bonds because once the polymer molecule is formed, there are no different characteristics of the bonds from the original monomer and the new ones created from the polymerization process. So yes, they are covalent bonds, as are most carbon to carbon bonds.

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How are chemical bonds sources of stored energy?

June 18th, 2011

If breaking bonds requires energy and forming bonds releases energy.

So, a bond forms and some energy is released (is this available to do work?). Is there now chemical potential energy in the bond? How do you access this energy? It takes energy to break the bond, and no energy is released as far as I know.

This is a common misconception among biology teachers. It is in biology class that you are likely to hear that "chemical bonds store energy", and that breaking the bonds releases energy. Unfortunately, too many people associate a bond with an egg, where breaking the egg will release the contents, i.e. energy. Of course, that is nonsense.

Any chemist will tell you that it takes energy to break a bond, and that energy is released as bonds form. The part that confuses the biologists is that when the bonds reform to make the products of the reaction, the products are at a lower total energy, and so there is a net "giving off" of energy.

"Potential energy" is a bit tricky. There is not some "reservoir" of energy tucked away between the atoms that "contains" potential energy, whatever that is. The potential energy is simply the energy that could be released during a chemical reaction, and is the difference in the energy of the products and reactants.

So what is the energy that molecules have? It’s actually kinetic energy, energy of motion. Molecules have kinetic energy that is proportional to the temperature. But not only do we see the "conventional" types of kinetic energy where molecules are moving in the normal x, y and z axes, we we also see rotational kinetic energy and vibrational kinetic energy. Much of the vibrational energy is associated with bonds. It is the sum of all of the different "kinds" of kinetic energy which contribute to the energy of the molecules.

The potential energy is the difference between the sum of all of the forms of kinetic energy prior to a chemical reaction and after the reaction.

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How do futures contracts work with the margins?

June 13th, 2011

Futures where speculators put up a initial margin are essentially leveraged positions, aren’t they, where the losses are protected with maintenance margins? Do futures exchanges put up the rest of the money with interest payable? Is that how it works?

John always says such dumb stuff in such a pompous manner.

No, John, your broker doesn’t put up margin for you. Imagine paying $8 a round turn and having your broker put up 95% of the notional value of an S&P contract. That would be one cheap loan.

The key is not to think about the notional value of the contract at all. Futures contracts are just risk units and your margin deposit covers the short-term risk of the contract. For some contracts it’s not even clear what the notional size is, e.g., is a Eurodollar contract a $1M notional contract or just the interest on $1M for three months or something in between? If you take delivery under a futures contract you get invoiced for the underlier and your margin account is just to settle price differences.

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Do you think that Chauncey Billups will be back to the Nuggets within a month or two?

June 11th, 2011

Remember he said that he doesn’t want to leave Denver and wants to retire a Nugget so he can be a part of the management. He can do what Big Z did last year and ask for a contract buyout and then return with the Nuggets in 30 days.

No Chanucy Say he doesnt want to Play For The Nets if he was Traded There. and if he was he wanted a Buyout and if Chanucy does want to go back to the Nuggets they Cloud Trade Him for A Good Center and Pg if he goes. so New York cloud basiclly use Billiups for Intreset in other teams if they want to trade him. but Carmelo cloud convice Him To stay in New York with Amare and wait until Chris Paul comes Next Year(Joke) and have a New York Big 4. so Donny Walsh is a smart Gm and would trade Billups only if he wants out Ny for probably 2 good players a Center and another Pg . so This is a good Trade for New York if you Guys look at it. i mean who wouldnt want Billups on their team. if he wants out trade him to another for 2 good players.

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How many shares do i buy to qualify for annual dividend in stock?

June 4th, 2011

Is there a minimum number of shares i have to buy and stay longterm with company in order to get their annual dividend?

When a dividend is announced the company declares when it will be paid, how much they will pay and the date of record for the share holders.
The amount of the cash dividend to be paid is stated in a money amount per share.

Every shareholder will get the dividend whether they own 1 share or 1 million shares (or more)

The length of time a shareholder holds the stock is meaningless, is paid to those that own the shares on the record date the company announces.

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