R.I.P. - Stay The Course

Keith Olbermann brilliantly eulogizes and honors 'Stay The Course'.



I hear that Keith Olbermann's ratings are up at MSNBC and Bill O'Reilly's ratings at Fox News is sliding down.

Maryland's 3rd congressional district

Below is the map of the Maryland Congressional District 3. Benjamin Cardin is the congressman of this district currently and he has been getting elected in this district for last 10 elections.

Redistricting is gone wild here. Can your district beat this? Click on the map to see the large image.

This district is in the suburbs of Baltimore City.

House of Representatives (Congress) members from Maryland

Here are the current House of Representatives from the state of Maryland. There are total 8 congressional districts in Maryland; Of these 8 districts, 6 have democratic representatives and 2 are republicans.

• District 1 - Wayne T. Gilchrest (Republican)
• District 2 - Dutch Ruppersberger (Democrat)
• District 3 - Benjamin Cardin (Democrat)
• District 4 - Albert Russell Wynn (Democrat)
• District 5 - Steny Hoyer (Democrat)
• District 6 - Roscoe Bartlett (Republican)
• District 7 - Elijah Cummings (Democrat)
• District 8 - Chris Van Hollen (Democrat)

How to do System Restore in Windows XP?

If you want to restore your Windows XP system to earlier time, do following steps:

1. Click Start
2. All Programs
3. Accessories
4. System tools
5. System restore

A wizard will open and it will guide you through the system restore process. This of course will only work if you have system restore setting turned on in the System Properties.

Futures Prediction Markets

The prediction markets are highly reliable in predicting the probability of the certain event happening in the future. This is what the futures prediction markets are saying for the various events today. (October 12, 2006)

1. GOP holds House of Representatives in the 2006 elections - 40.6%
2. GOP holds Senate in the 2006 elections - 73.2%
3. GOP president elected in 2008 - 48.1%
4. McCain GOP nominee in 2008 - 38.3%
5. DEM president elected in 2008 - 48.6%
6. Hillary Clinton DEM nominee in 2008 - 47.1%
7. CT Senator IND in 2006 - 81.5%
8. Super Bowl XLI winner Chicago Bears - 19.7%
9. Detroit Tigers World Series winner - 45.5%
10. NBA championship outright winner 2006/2007 Dallas Mavericks - 16.0%

Source: TradeSports.com

Largest Cities of United States

According to the census estimates below are the 10 largest cities (population) of the United States:

1) New York city - 8,143,197
2) Los Angeles - 3,844,829
3) Chicago - 2,842,518
4) Houston - 2,016,582
5) Philadelphia - 1,463,281
6) Phoenix - 1,461,575
7) San Antonio - 1,256,509
8) San Diego - 1,255,540
9) Dallas city - 1,213,825
10) San Jose - 912,332

Source: US Census Bureau

Nurse Shortages

I know that the one month does not make a trend but as you can see from the chart below where the jobs will be in the future. The chart shows that the nursing and residential care facilities lost workers last month. Nurse shortage will be huge problem when baby-boomers start to retire.

I guess now is a good time to enroll in a nursing school.

Top Selling Cars in US - September 2006

Below is the list of top 10 selling vehicles in United States in September 2006.

1. Ford F-Series pickup - 70,822
2. Chevrolet Silverado pickup - 51,964
3. Toyota Camry - 38,269
4. Toyota Corolla - 32,279
5. Honda Accord - 27,759
6. Honda Civic - 26,331
7. Dodge Ram pickup - 25,081
8. Ford Taurus - 22,811
9. Chevrolet Impala - 21,863
10. Nissan Altima - 19,752

Interesting to note here is that 2 Toyota cars have overtaken the Honda Accord. Both Camry and Corolla are outselling the flagship Honda Sedan. Nissan Altima has gained popularity also and the sales numbers of Altima are quickly approaching that of Ford Taurus and Chevrolet Impala.

Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061003/auto_sales_best_sellers.html