Emile Manns Smyth took : HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION (HOC), a course offered at Occidental College, while earning her BA in Education. This course, which was a outstanding review of what happened during different time periods as civilization evolved was well remember by her and other OXY alumni who took the same course.Unfortunately, this course is no longer offered by OXY, so I felt it important to document the topics covered in this course, so future students will understand what they missed by not having such a course at OXY or other Universities around the world.Emilie hopes to give copies of this Published Book to her fellow alumni during the June 2012 Alumni celebrations a Occidental College.The HOC course was comprised of Professors giving lectures on relevant topics during the time period of that part of the course. IThe time periods started with the Pre-historic,,,Cretian , Egyptian, Chinese, Roman, Grecian, Biblical, Moslems in Spain, Middle Ages (1500's), Inquisition, ,Crusades, Global Exploration (1992- 1600s), Renaissance, Rise of Cites, Revolutionary Period (1800s), Industrial Revolution, (1800-1900), Modern Civilization (1900-Present)-
Your author decided to write this book about Prostate Cancer when one of his best friends suffered from this disease. He took extensive chemotherapy which extended his life, but made living difficult. His body was saying make me live longer, but his mind was saying I should die, living is too painful to continue. His mind finally won-out and he died. This book used Internet to learn about the symptoms of Prostate Cancer and the latest therapies used to extend the life span of people suffering from this cancer. One promising technology is the use of Nanocells which are injected in the patient's blood stream. These nanocells seek out the cancer cells and destroy them, thus curing the patient. I learned studying Nanotechnology research for another book that people investigating the applications of Nanocells had injected such synthesized cells into mice and the cells had sought out the cancer cells and destroyed them, thus curing the mice. If Bioscience researchers can do the same thing for humans, then there is hope for eradicating Prostate Cancer.
The erratic behavior of the US and World Stock Markets required a change in trading strategy to avoid a loss of trading capital caused by enormous increases and decreases in the OEX and SPX during a trading day. My software program, SelfAdapDTN4, evolved during the last 10 years of tracking a great number of indices and many stocks. It became very complex to use for trading. In July 2010 I decided the complexity needed to be reduced for efficiency for the options trader. I renovated my software to focus on the best weekly options to consider for trading. By sorting thru the indices and stocks tracked by my old software I found there were several weekly options that were worth tracking in today's market. The new software program is SelfAdapJonWeeklyCndrs which emphasizes a simpler user interface. The size of the software was halved. Appendix B is an abbreviated version of the manual for the software .
This is the story of a successful aerospace executive and his family. The family includes the executive, his wife, his 5 children, both parents of the executive and his wife, the 2 brothers of the wife, and the one brother of the executive. The children's spouses are listed, and the 13 grandchildren and spouses are listed. The 3 great grandchildren are listed. Any special awards or trophies awarded to family members are listed in an Appendix. For historical interest famous people with the family name are listed in a second Appendix. Jon Schiller became interested in this family when he met the husband and wife on a trip to Spain. He kept in touch with the key family members when they returned to California in the first few years of the 21st Century.
The US Stock Market collapsed on Thursday, 6 May 2010 when the Dow Jones Index spiked down over 1000 points in a matter of a few minutes. Such a world market sell caused by a true Cyber attack could destroy the wealth of billions of people around the globe. This book will examine what Cyber Attacks could do to the civilized world, which grows more dependent on the Internet functioning properly to perform all of the complex tasks that need to be done every day.
In mid 2011 the US finds it has a huge multitrillion dollar public deficit. This deficit grew to a level approaching the Gross Domestic Product which relatively speaking was challenging the debt reached during WWII when the debt exceeded the GDP. As I attempted to quantify in this book, the huge increase in public debt was caused by two very long wars: the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war, which was the longest war the US has ever waged. In 2008 the US economy entered into the deepest recession it has seen since the depression starting in October 1929 and lasting until WWII (1941). This 21st century recession caused revenues to diminish greatly. Huge bail out programs were necessary to save large US banks and manufacturing companies. Also the USG made expenditures to help that segment of the population most affected by the recession such as the unemployed and Senior citizens needing health care to stay alive. These factors caused the Public Debt to mushroom to the large size the US congress and administration in Washington worked so long to try to reduce. Their perceived lack of problem solving skills caused uncertainty in the financial markets which resulted in huge plunges in the stock market and the downgrading by one credit rating agency (S&P) to reduce the US's rating from AAA to AA+. This event resulted in a huge sell-off in the stock market and a big rise in the cost of Federal Bonds. This book attempts to present the happenings in a logical fashion so the reader can understand the severe strain it placed on the American citizens and financial system. The political struggle over raising the debt limit will intensify as the new 12 man Super Committee takes on the challenge of lowering the public debt. While polls show voters angry over the debt, and politicians support a goal of paying it down, the two principal deficit-reduction plans would merely restrain its growth for the next decade. Congress "would have to enact policies that would produce a surplus," with money left over to begin retiring debt, said Robert Bixby, executive director of the anti-deficit Concord Coalition. The last government surplus was in 2001. For one to occur in the future would require "Republican spending policies and Democratic tax policies," Bixby said, referring to GOP calls for deep program cuts, and Obama's support for higher taxes. "Right now (before the debt crisis) the two parties haven't been able to agree on those kinds of changes." The increase in debt woven into their budgets is not a fact that Obama Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, or any other official chooses to trumpet. The president and most lawmakers generally avoid saying directly that government debt will rise if their budget prevails - although they are careful not to claim it won't, either. Instead, they use similar, vaguely reassuring terms
We are undergoing a period of rapid change in technology. I decided to write this book giving a perspective on where we are today and how we evolved to reach today's level of advanced technology. One example of what I mean is small home and lap top computers with more power than a room sized IBM computer at Caltech when I went there. Another example is Microsoft Word which makes it possible to write this and other books I have published. Excel makes it possible to create sophisticated Options Trading Software without struggling to use program languages such as Basic. PowerPoint allows me to make briefings using eye-catching colored briefing charts with equations and charts copied from Word and Excel. A third example is Internet which allows me do things on my home computer such as get up-to-date financial news of the US and the World. I can get Options quotes free from the CBOE website. I can send files for the books I write to the publisher by uploading on Internet. The last item I will mention is the class of low cost items made possible by nano-electronics such as Cellphones and Tablet Computers
Your author decided to write this book about Dynamics of Chemical Bonding after receiving an email from Caltech sent to alumni interested in various research activities taking place on campus at the California Institute of Technology. This subject caught my attention since I am interested in expanding my knowledge about science topics that could have a large impact on technology of the 21st Century. A technique called electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) is useful for mapping the electronic structural changes that occur as molecules bond with each other. But it isn't fast enough to catch the action as it is happening-on the attosecond (one quintillionth of a second) or femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) timescale. By applying their 4D electron microscopy technique to EELS, Ahmed Zewail and his colleagues have revealed the dynamic structural changes in a sample of graphite as it is compressed to form diamond. The technique, dubbed FEELS, offers resolution 10 orders of magnitude greater than the standard EELS method.
The behavior of the US and World Stock Markets is caused by Fear of the Big Traders on days when the market suffers a loss greater than 2 sigma, by Hope when the market enjoys an increase greater than 2 sigma, and changes very little when the Big Traders are Cautious during a trading day. To Cause Wealth to Grow, we must use Options trading strategies that make profits, and limit or avoid losses when the market makes sudden, erratic movements, as well My software program, SelfAdapJonWeeklyCndrs has evolved during the last 25 years of options trading by your author: Dr. Jon Schiller. Starting with a London Broker Trading FTSE-100 options placing orders by FAX ending with TradeKing Broker placing orders using their trading Automated Website I modified my software during my 25 years of trading to change as the market changed. I started using Naked Index Option spreads which requires $50K in your options account. ; I modified the strategy to use Covered Index Option Spreads, which capital in your options account based on the number of spreads and the strike price spacing. I tried WWI triggered Debit Spreads, I switched to Condors (simultaneous Call and Put 2 sigma spreads, then a few years ago when Weekly Options became available from the CBOE, I switched to 2 sigma weekly options using Condors as the best way to make Wealth Grow. the best weekly options to consider for trading. By sorting thru the indices and stocks tracked by my old software I found there were several weekly options that were worth tracking in today's market. The new software program is SelfAdapJonWeeklyCndrs which Uses the Strategies & Tools described in this book. The Excel Based Software uses CBOE quotes for the Options Data, and Computes the 2 sigma values for the Stocks & Indices tracked in the software, Presents the Option Iron Condors for the same stocks & indices. The main option strategy is to use Weekly Options which become available with market open on Thursday for expiration on Friday a week and one day after the Options become available. The Neural Network Signal Indicator using 6 Signal Indicators to Compute the Market Trends to Show when the market is probable to change direction. Every 3rd Friday of each month, the Monthly options expire. Therefore, on the second Friday of the month, there is only a week left in the trading month, so all stock options become weekly options. So you may select the best of all the stocks for the weekly Condor to open on the Friday or Monday before the 3rd Friday. I should point out that almost every week the SPY condors become best using %Return on Margin as the metric. I use TradeKing as a broker for two reasons: * Their commissions are the lowest of the brokers I know about. * Their website is automated so placing the Condor or other Type Option orders is easy to do. Just select the Strategy to Use, the automated website will appear and enter the Parameters for the Option. If you get your Capital to grow above $50,000 some brokers will allow you place Naked Spread orders in which you sell the 2 sigma Call and 2 sigma Put for a spread. With TradeKing you must place a Pseudo Naked Spread, a strategy I will describe in Chapter 5
The attempts for the Current Administration to get their programs enacted through Congress or by Administrative Directives for items they consider important enough to be enforced when Congress will not approve the item lead to great instability in the Stock Market. It is now simple to see on Internet the Washington DC machinations between the President and the Republican House of Representatives Chairman. I (your author) lived in Spain for 20 years before returning to California. In Spain I leaned to trade Index Options from a NY expert whose strategy was to sell Call Options 2 standard deviations (2sig) above the market and sell Put Options 2 sig below the market. After returning to California I continued Index options trading using Standard & Poor's 500 (SPX) Index and using Condors. Being an Options Trader using the CBOE (Chicago Board of Exchange), I find the inability in Washington to avoid the automatic spending cuts made Wall Street nervous which affected the weekly options prices. As a result I have had to learn to use my Options Trading Software: SelfAdapSPXWeeklyVLTY to make profits during this period of Washington-caused Wall Street nervousness. What does the nervousness do to the Index values? They make either big weekly Jumps or Drops. I use the SPX index for my weekly options trading. I use the Welles-Wilder Index to predict the abnormal market movements as will be explained in this book. So I am able to profit from trading Weekly Index Options even when the machinations of the Washington Politicians cause instability or abnormal movements in the Indices. I have devised tactics to use and in this book I will explain how to use them in my Weekly Options trading software.
Your author became aware of Optogenetics Research when he received a Caltech Associates invitation to attend an evening lecture by Viviana Gradinaru, Professor of Biology at Caltech, on this subject. The description of Optogenetics is given below:Optogenetics is a neuromodulation technique employed in behavioral neuroscience that uses a combination of techniques from optics and genetics to control the activity of individual neurons in living tissue—even within freely-moving animals—and to precisely measure the effects of those manipulations in real-time. It was developed by Karl Deisseroth and his colleagues at Stanford University in 2006. Optogenetics is known for the high spatial and temporal resolutions that it provides, which allow for observation of individual neurons over a time course of milliseconds, but is primarily famous for its ability to precisely alter the activity of specific brain areas without directly affecting a subject's behavior.In 2010 Karl Deisseroth was awarded the inaugural HFSP Nakasone Award "for his pioneering work on the development of optogenetic methods for studying the function of neuronal networks underlying behavior."In 2010, optogenetics was chosen as the Method of the Year across all fields of science and engineering by the interdisciplinary research journal Nature Methods (Primer on Optogenetics, Editorial Commentary). At the same time, optogenetics was highlighted in the article on “Breakthroughs of the Decade” in the scientific research journal Science Breakthrough of the Decade; these journals also referenced recent public-access general-interest video Method of the Year video and textual Scientific American (SciAm) summaries of optogenetics.In 2012 Gero Miesenböck was awarded the InBev-Baillet Latour International Health Prize for "pioneering optogenetic approaches to manipulate neuronal activity and to control animal behavior.
Your author attended an Alumni Seminar day in 2013 at USC (University of Southern California) where he had received his PhD and taught as an adjunct assistant Professor in Computer science. He received two lectures in person, but both lectures could have been sent by internet as part of Global Education. In that way registered students worldwide could have received the same lectures either in realtime or downloaded using encoded files. Both of these USC lectures were of fascinating topics, but such lectures could be made on a large number of subjects spread out over time to satisfy the requirements of the University in which the student is enrolled. The purpose of this book is to describe how the Internet age requires a vast revision of the University Education System on a global basis. The book will give information on things that can be done and how to do these things to achieve Global Education. Global education means the students can live anywhere and can be enrolled in Universities anywhere and be lectured by the best. One could postulate that, for example, the university of the future will have no library because students will carry it in their pockets; and that there will be no classes, as adaptive, interactive, computer-taught sessions will have taken their place. Lectures will be provided, courtesy of distance learning, by a few world-class professors located around the globe. The University of Arizona offers website degrees so you can live anywhere on Earth and earn website degrees with this university. This book also provides information about Website degrees in the US, Asia and Europe. The rating of the University offering the website degree is important in obtaining a job. So it may be easy to use the University of Arizona for an advanced degree, but earning a degree from a higher ranked university may be worth considering.
This book consists of four volumes: Vol 1 OEX Weekly Trading Tips for Profit from 2008 to 2009 Vol 2 Jon Schiller's OEX Options Trading Newsletters from Oct 1999 to Aug 2000 Vol 3 Jon Schiller's OEX Options Trading Newsletters from Sept 2000 to Dec 2000 Vol 4 Jon Schiller's OEX Options Trading Newsletters from Jan 2001 to June 2001
Your author was chief engineer on the Avionics for the F111 fighter aircraft which was the first military aircraft to include GPS for its navigation system. That was before the days of widespread use of NanoTechology in electronics; as a result the F111 GPS was in a box the size of a Personal Computer and cost around half million dollars. I have a Tom-Tom GPS for my auto which is palm sized and cost a few hundred dollars. In 2012 I bought a 4 inch Samsung SIII smartphone which cost less than $200 and which included a free GPS App. I also bought a Toshiba Thrive Tablet for less than $300 which contains a free Google GPS App. GPS can be downloaded free to any Android mobile device. These free Google GPS Apps use Google navigation maps, for which you get charged data usage by your Android mobile server. You can download a more sophisticated GPS program that includes downloaded maps for which you pay a once only price, which avoids the data cost for using the maps which are stored in your mobile device memory. I took a test flight in the Caltech flying club aircraft that included a GPS navigation system with an easy to comprehend display. One of the benefits of this aircraft GPS is it would permit making IFR approaches to airports that lack an FAA ILS approach system, such as the airport here in Lompoc, CA, where I live. This book is intended to provide the status of GPS technology for use in walking, driving, boating and flying in 2013.
Dani Sharon, an Israeli business entrepreneur, is recruited by his governments clandestine LEKEM to mastermind acquiring the components and technology to build a nuclear arsenal. Danis flamboyant character and tactical brilliance make him a natural for the assignment. His only stipulation in accepting the task is that he be allowed to skim a profit off all his transactions to finance his movie ventures. Dani obtains the necessary material and information through extralegal and clandestine methods. He cuts numerous deals with European, South African, and American companies. What he cant buy, he steals in daring capers monitored by the superpowers. Within a short time Israel explodes its first atom bomb. However, soon after this success, Israeli leaders realize radioactive fallout would endanger their own population if the atom bomb were used against hostile Arab neighbors. They conclude a neutron bomb is necessary to protect the Israelis from this danger. Using a movie production company as a cover, Dani begins acquiring the technology for such a bomb and the ballistic missile to deliver it.
This book tells how to Profit from Trading using Sustainable Energy companies making Photonic Materials for Solar Cells, SE Transportation Vehicles, Solar Cells, Solar Electricity Grids, Materials used in SE devices, etc. I attended a two day seminar provided to alumni of Caltech (California Institute of Technology) in September 2011 with lectures by Professors and Research Scientists describing the leading edge research being conducted at Caltech to create materials and strategies for achieving Sustainable Energy such as fuel cells and solar energy conversion. This book provides an Internet survey of Technologies of sustainable energy and of Companies involved in Sustainable Energy that also have Stock Options available (as indicated by CBOE). I have used my experience in Options trading to select the best Options for potential trading. I have available Options trading software for these best 4 Sustainable Energy companies with stock Options. I tried to find companies with weekly options, but I could only find companies that have monthly options expiring the 3rd Friday of each month.
A select group of world-class yachtsmen prepare for the Round-the-World Multihull Race, a test to determine not only the best go-fast design but also who is the world's greatest skipper. The challengers have known each other through years of Grand Prix and Olympic sailing competitions. Ronny Kelly, amiable and clever Californian, Paoli Venuzzi, who secretly cheated Kelly out of the gold at the Barcelona Olympics, and the Frenchman Phillippe Matin, holder of many cross-Atlantic speed records, emerge as the top contenders.Their efforts are bankrolled by a variety of international corporations plus a Mafia backed bank. The Mafia schemes to collect millions in gambling and drug peddling profits by pressuring their skipper to smuggle cocaine and to arrange “accidents” during the race. As the race proceeds, the Mafia become more and more desperate to recoup their gambling losses and their attempts become much more than “accidents.”
We all grow old and retire. Then we must to live on Social Security and Retirement Pensions. Some may want to move from their present home and acquire one more suitable to their retirement situation. It is important to keep your mind active. Studies show Alzheimer's can be avoided by keeping an active brain. Also you need to adopt a daily exercise routine to keep your body active. For example: before breakfast in house exercising such as bend-overs and pushups following the US Air Force exercise routine. After breakfast jog or walk at least a mile per day. After retirement you have time to learn new ways to invest and you have more time to analyze your investment. Your author learned to do weekly options trading which will keep your brain working and generate weekly income. Chapter 12 describes a low cost options trading software from the author. Avoid expensive foods. Your author converted to a vegetarian diet obtaining protein from beans and nuts rather than meat. Studies have shown that vegetarians are healthier and live longer than meat eaters. Another reason for switching from meat to vegetarian is it costs less which helps cope with your retirement income. Participate in travel activities such as local bus tours, visiting friends and family by automobile, attending school alumni gatherings, and budget tour boat trips. Consider personal transportation modes such as electric cars or smaller cars with good mileage.
Your author has based this book on the advice of a Israeli agent on how to avoid terrorist attacks, which is spelled out in Chapter 1. His advice is generated from having lived in Israel for many years where terrorist attacks are a way of life since they have so many enemies who would love to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth. I am especially sensitive to terrorist attacks, since when I was working on a classified project in Iran during the late 1970's, the colleagues with whom I was working were traveling from the Tehran Hilton Hotel to the project site by automobile. All of the people were attacked and killed by terrorists. I feel lucky to be alive since I was not in the car that day.
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