Some Other Sites of Interest
Some of Dr. Taylor's favorite web sites.
Birding Links
These sites have most birding links—
Bird Links to the World
Ornithological Web Library
Sites for rare birds being seen in the ABA area—
Jack Siler's Current Sightings Page
National Association of Rare Bird Alerts (fee required)
Vic Fazio's Ohio Bird Reports Page
Everything about birds and birding mail list—BirdChat Archives
Birding Organizations—
The American Birding Association
National Audubon Society
Some Development Sites
bellsnwhistles.com - Animated GIFS
Associaton of Computer User Groups - find one near you!
Dayton Microcomputer Association
Password Protect and Lock Folders
File privacy for Windows 7, Vista, XP
Investing Links
American Association of Individual Investors has a comprehensive on-line guide to investing to assist individuals in becoming effective managers of their assets with how-to articles and interactive tools to expand and apply investing knowledge.
National Association of Investors Corp. The mission of BetterInvesting is to provide a program of sound investment information, education and support that helps create successful lifetime investors.
Yahoo! Finance gives free stock quotes, up to date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, message boards, and mortgage rates to help investors manage their finances
Stock Charts.com lets an investor create financial charts. Its Scan Engine shows investing opportunities. Their Chart School is full of easy-to-read educational articles. Their Technical Analysts guide investors through the markets.
Securities and Exchange Commission To help support investor education, the SEC offers the public a wealth of educational information on this Internet website, which also includes the EDGAR database of disclosure documents that public companies are required to file with the Commission.
Photography Links
photo.net is an online community with more than 100,000 active members and a lot more casual visitors. It started in 1993 and strives to be the best peer-to-peer educational system for people who wish to become better photographers.
I'm sure there are many other very good resource sites, but I haven't discovered them yet. If you know of sites that I should use and include here, I would be grateful for suggestions.
Smoking Links
A comment about each of the Surgeon Generals' reports on smoking:
1964 - Smoking and Health - Pipe smokers live an average of 2 years longer than non-smokers! (p.85)
2006 - The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke - "...the authors of this Surgeon General’s report used this methodology to summarize the available data when deemed appropriate and useful, even while recognizing that the uncertainty around the meta-analytic estimates may exceed the uncertainty indicated by conventional statistical indices...." (p. 17) Translation: "the statistical method we used is no good, but we could get the results we wanted by doing it this way."
In short, every Surgeon General's Report, every CDC and EPA pronouncement, and every news report about smoking and health is an insane extrapolation from shoddy statistics. If you don't believe me, see Snowdon, Christopher. Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking. Little Dice, 2009 for a good read and a well-researched account of the last 500 years of anti-smoking campaigns, including the current hysteria.
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