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my favorite times during the Attitude era it would be from 1998 to 1999. In 1999 is when WWE was really on top and hotter during the Monday night wars when WCW was started lose the battle from there to 2001. Can't wait the relive those moments. Seeing as Tyson was practically the launching pad for the Attitude era...makes sense to be on a DVD called "The Attitude Era". The Zamboni incident was fuel to the fire for Austin vs McMahon...why wouldn't it be on?! I can already tell lot of people are going to b******* and moaning about the content being "repeated"...and funny thing is people keep mentioning only RAW moments and matches...just so you guys know there were also PPVs and SD as well. Another added bonus is the "repeated" content will actually be unedited with no blurs...especially matches like HIAC with Foley/Taker which is a definite lock on this set. Jericho and Edge and Christian aren't exactly the first people that come to mind when I think of the Attitude Era. The company was at its most "attitudinal" just before Jericho came in. By the time E&C got their big push, the weekly shows were kind of bland actually. Good wrestling but they had definitely settled in at that point. I'm sure it will be the standard documentary (Mick Foley has stated he was interviewed for this) with matches format. I doubt they'll do any 100 countdown of moments or anything like that. One thing I would | IP | IP DS | 94,687 |
charge in three hours as long as you plug it in to a 240v outlet as soon as the "low charge" indicator comes on. No word on how long it takes to juice up from a totally dead battery. Honda credits the Fit EV's range and efficiency to the car's lightweight design, aerodynamic exterior and "savvy powertrain," which includes a 92 kW electric motor sourced from the FCX Clarity that generates 189 ft-lb or torque. The car also has a fully independent suspension and an electric drive system that's been adapted from the Honda CR-Z. That, says Honda's Environmental Business Development Office VP Steve Center, makes it "an absolute kick to drive." We'll let you know if that's true when we test one out later this month. We'll also give you an idea of our real-world range, and the kind of efficiency we can manage in everyday use. If you're interested in driving one, Honda is releasing the 2013 Fit EV in select markets in California and Oregon this summer, with an East Coast rollout happening early next year. It'll cost you a lot more than a gasoline Fit, though: The car's MSRP is $36,625 with a monthly lease of $399 for three years. | IP | IP | 603,313 |
right-Il n'y a que moi qui a toujours raison." In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, | SP | SP IT | 714,086 |
being all glitchy.. so it's not even basic graphic options being performed, let alone the ones you're going on about. It's certainly not aesthetically pleasing when the screen is tearing itself to shreads. Yes, what you've said is all the matters but in this case, it's not happening and that's also what matters. I personally haven't had any problems with Darksiders 2 on PC. I was disappointed by the lack of video settings but it's still an enjoyable game. Plus, I use an xbox controller when playing most third-person shooters on PC so the controls are fine. So, you run the game on console resolutions while using a console controller... why not just play the damn game on a console? The issue is that a PC version should take advantage of all the advantages a PC has over a console I'm running it on an AMD HD 6880 at 1080p with no issues whatsoever graphically. I haven't encountered any bugs either, and it looks pretty lush at that resolution, with the glaring exception of Death in the menu screen being unbelievably low res/textured. You can play Darksiders 2 at 2560x1440, that in no way is a console resolution. Gamepad doesn't immediately mean console trash, some games just play better on a game pad. You can't partially press WASD keys, therefore, you can only ever run or nothing. Control sticks have this thing called a throttle. DS2 has been running flawlessly in 1080p with no tearing or any bugs (graphical or | OP | OP | 3,321,315 |
hard knock, worried he's not man enough Catered for - the gratuitous tit on the TV screen Big on the all cock and bull routine and serious hard rock, A music that's so well defined Serious chap, not what you'd call not man enough Not man enough the radio lets loose with the news reporters busy themselves and this side of the curtain the burning ear would not miss a word stood to the side of reasonable in the style of some middle class hero party goers could be shot out of date pass holders held grasses cut and caressed for pleasure or profit one thing or another oh, to be the star of something something temporarily topical it could be paid propaganda or provocation, you know, that 'see you in court, comrade' 'I want my kitten and a locked door' doing a good impression of a neighbour selling out next door the television lets loose with the news quasi celebrities busy themselves and this side of the camera the ever watchful eye wouldn't miss a move as part of the majority on a wage creation scheme with a tasty uniform and a hammer for nailing pictures of memorable moments on the wall hum 'first my job' and break in to song gear gone packed and I'm on my way won't be back for a week and a day I don't care what nobody says give me sun my wallet got stretched and that's ok I'll get it thinned out | LY | LY SL | 276,708 |
chance. Share Tags Discuss Apple should be reported for making the claim that says sales are final. They do not have the right to override your entitlement for a refund. There are many stores that attempt this deceptive behaviour and consumers should not stand for it. You have the right to a full refund in the same form as you purchased the item (cash for cash, credit card for credit card etc) if the goods are faulty/not as described. Also, contrary to many store policies, you have the same right to a refund whether or not the goods are returned in the original packaging. I'm not qualified to answer, but I've always read and been told that as long as the final sales statement is agreed to you are stuck. Its no different than walking into a department store and buying something off the shelf maked as "ALL SALES FINAL".. you buy you own you wear the responsibility of your decision. If suddenly you don't like that 'whatchamacallit" you can't walk back into the shop for a refund... unless the product is defective or was sold incomplete etc with a fault. If you didn't read the mind numbingly boring long and dull license agreement when you set up your iTunes account you only have yourself to blame. >Sellers can have signs that state 'No refunds will be given if you have simply >changed your mind'. and don;t have to give a refund >What if I change my mind? Can I | HI | HI HT | 191,815 |
carries with it distinctive views about globalisation, intervention and political development. In Roy's telling, wooly rhetoric about globalisation blurring international boundaries and diffusing threats around the world makes it impossible to establish a hierarchy of threat and relevance. As a result, it becomes impossible to establish any strategic priorities. Roy writes: 'Globalisation of the threat makes any rational strategy impossible and paves the way for a hollow, bombastic rhetoric, which above all serves Western societies' internal debates.' The befuddlement engendered by globalisation waffle is shared by Europe, where strategy and foreign policy collapse into managing social problems. On the one hand, domestic problems of integrating Muslim populations are treated as if they are a global problem of reified 'Western values' and their compatibility with 'Islam'. On the other hand, the Middle East becomes a stage for Europe to project its own vacuous ideas about citizenship and multiculturalism. Perversely, Western governments reinforce Muslims' outsider status by encouraging their migrant populations' to face outwards. Hence French diplomats plead for fatwas from mullahs in Cairo to support French domestic policy, while Danish diplomats are expected to deal with protests by Danish Muslims about the cartoons of the Prophet. In terms of Iraq, Roy points out that the failed adventure there is not simply a 'hare-brained scheme that has fizzled out.' Underpinning the disaster is an influential doctrine of intervention and democratisation shared by all the leading developmental institutions, both intergovernmental and non-governmental. Its assumptions are: 'Distrust of existing governments, encouragement of civil society, | OP | OP RV | 375,613 |
United States v. Mendenhall (1980), a person is seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment only when, by means of physical force or show of authority, his freedom of movement is restrained and, in the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would believe that he was not free to leave. [ 56 ] In Florida v. Bostick (1991), the Court ruled that as long as the police do not convey a message that compliance with their requests is required, the police contact is a "citizen encounter" that falls outside the protections of the Fourth Amendment. [ 58 ] If a person remains free to disregard questioning by the government, there has been no seizure and therefore no intrusion upon the person's privacy under the Fourth Amendment. [ 56 ] When a person is arrested and taken into police custody, he has been seized (i.e., a reasonable person who is handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car would not think they were free to leave). A person subjected to a routine traffic stop on the other hand, has been seized, but is not "arrested" because traffic stops are a relatively brief encounter and are more analogous to a Terry stop than to a formal arrest. [ 59 ] If a person is not under suspicion of illegal behavior, a law enforcement official is not allowed to place an individual under arrest simply because this person does not wish to state his identity, provided specific state regulations | IN | IN EN | 9,992,653 |
and the house is kind of crowded, what with the dukes, Scotsmen, police chiefs, and naughty ladies running around, but my family is very understanding about my imaginary friends. Good thing, since they refuse to leave! (less) "On the contrary, I like men. They are polite and helpful and necessary for dancing. And men are so handsome and different , aren't they?" "Not all of us, clearly, but I'll let that go." -- 7 people liked it "Of course not," she snapped. "I'm only thirsty. Would you play the gallant and find me a glass of lemonade?" "I assume 'lemonade' is code for wine?" -- 4 people liked it | IP | IP DS | 795,181 |
, quite correctly , that in the 1980s. throught to the new century, Australia would experience droughts , such as had never been seen before , some lasting a decade or more .........spot on ..... Also worth noting is that the people of Greenland are SO excited because they can now , once again , grow cabbages , just as their ancestors did , in times past ......NOTHING will stop evolution in all things and to suggest pricing carbon dioxide , is going to control Nature , is arrogance beyond belief .......history will indeed judge ..................... gra gra says: 01:25am | 15/09/11 I have difficulty with those who say that there is no scientific proof that climate change is attributable to pollutants being released into the atmosphere, and because of that lack they will grant no credence to claims that "something needs to be done". The problem arises for me when they then go off to worship some deity that exists only in their imagination. No proof required, no proof available, no proof exists. Even some political leaders do this. I find that situation, in a civilised country, to be passing strange. Don't you all? Jane says: thatmosis says: 07:34am | 15/09/11 I personally think that we should ignore all of Malcomes articles from now on a they always distort the truth to suit the ideology of the Labor Governerment regardles of the lies and spin required. This is a TAX pure and simple and even most rusted on Labor | OP | OP OB | 124,816 |
near Seoul; Canadian troops were stationed in an area close to the Imjin River for the majority of the war] and I see pictures out there, I've got better ones. And they built the rink. So anyway, I guess in January, things not too bad war-wises, a jeep came and picked me up, I think it was my company commander's jeep, his driver took me to the rink. And he took us to about, I don't know, 15 miles sort of behind or along the Imjin River, someplace. And we came across a bit of a hill, looked at, and Jesus, there was the most beautiful ice rink on the Imjin, outside rink. It was like mirror, like a glass, they'd done it up. And there was nets made, they made the nets and there was two or three marquis tents, huge tents, they ended up dressing rooms and they were heated, which was sort of nice. And the other team and the other part of the PPCLI team were arriving from different companies, we were spread all over of course. And we played the brigade [25th Brigade, Canadian brigade in Korea] headquarters. When we left, we heard trucks and that coming and we were so nice and comfortable in that dressing room because it's sort of warm, you know, and we went out with our skates on and we went down a little hill and when I left the tent and my God, there was I'd say, maybe I'm | SP | SP TA | 681,107 |
made and eaten the same evening. 9 comments: I've been searching marksdailyapple.com for an hour and CANNOT find where Philadelphia cream cheese is mentioned as nonprimal. Someone does reference 0% fat Philadelphia in a comment, but my block of this brand lists the ingredients and milk is it's first one. And, here in the states, most honey is not adulterated. What I found was there was a problem with Chinese and Indian honey being banned in Europe, but it was also banned here. Lauri - Thanks for stopping by. Philadelphia contains stabilisers - xanthan gum, carob bean gum or guar gum. These are not primal (nor, do I think they are capitalised Primal, as in Primal Blueprint), but if you're happy with those as part of your primal lifestyle, feel free to use it. Cream cheese, for me, should list its ingredients as: milk. The point about 0% fat is useful, since all the goodness in cream cheese (those vitamins) are fat soluble, meaning ... you need the fat to make them bioavailable. Philly is simply not "real food" for the simple reason of all the other ingredients it contains. I recently came across a danish cream cheese (here in Vancouver) that listed the ingredients as "cream, culture" - that is more like it! However, it is as easy as pie (pun intended) to make your own cream cheese. But some full fat, unflavoured "greek style" yoghurt, the higher the milk fat%, the better. I can buy 11%. open the | HI | HI RE | 3,699,510 |
Joke of the day This is a discussion on Joke of the day within the The Foyer forums, part of the T2W Community category; Sadly, Dave was born without ears. And although he proved to be successful in business, his lack of ears annoyed ... Sadly, Dave was born without ears. And although he proved to be successful in business, his lack of ears annoyed him greatly. One day he needed to hire a new manager for his company, so he set up three interviews. The first guy was great. He knew everything he needed to know and was very interesting. But at the end of the interview, Dave asked "Do you notice anything different about me?" "Why yes, I couldn't help but notice that you have no ears" came the reply. He did not appreciate his candor and threw him out of the office. The second interview was with a woman, and she was even better than the first guy. And he asked her the same question: "Do you notice anything different about me?" "Well," she said, stammerig, "you have no ears." Dave again got upset and chucked her out in a rage. The third and final interviewee was the best of the bunch, he was a young man who had recently earned his MBA. He was smart. He was handsome and he seemed to be a better businessman than the first two put together. Dave was anxious, but went ahead and asked the young man the same question: | ID | ID DF | 3,140,447 |
small block plane to take the sides down and the same for the top and bottom. But care must be taken to plane from one side to the center and not the full length of the wood. Running the plane the full length of the wood can cause splits in the wood. So always plane to the center of the side you are planing...turn the cajon around and then plane up to the center again. This will prevent splits etc. Once the sides, top and bottom are planed the cajon will start to look like the finished article. Next I use a rasp to put a little rounding on all edges and corners. Then finally I use an orbital sander to smooth out any tool marks and and get the wood to feel good. At this point you can put a logo or design on the front of the cajon. Then it is time to oil or varnish. I prefer oil and I use a teak oil on the cajon. But it could be given a few coats of varnish with a light sanding between coats. When that is done and the finish is dry, the last thing to do is fit some feet. I am using rubber feet and I simply fix them on with screws. And that's it. You should now have a completed cajon which is going to be very light to play because of the thin playing surface. It will have a good crisp snare sound | HI | HI HT | 1,480,165 |
from the 2007 budget Figure 12 compares the effect of latest and old grant values on the number of agents not fully-fed in the case with no HIV/AIDS. The simulations were run for a much longer period (i.e. 1500 instead of 800 time steps) as the agents do not die early due to AIDS. Unsurprisingly, the average percentage of agents not being fully-fed is higher throughout the simulation runs for the older grants. The cases in figures 11 and 12 indicate that with an increase in grants, households benefit in terms of coping with the socioeconomic stressors. However, the resulting financial constraints at the state-level can be easily anticipated and will be investigated in our further work. From the above scenarios, it is clear that the households' living depends heavily on both child grants and pensions. Households not being able to receive these grants dissolved very soon given the high cost of migration and considerably reduced village-labour. Simulation outcomes in our model are heavily dependent upon the child grant and old-age pension criteria for the agents. The reason is the unavailability of any other source of income in the case study region. A fully-fledged empirical model of the household economy is out of scope of this work. Even so, the role of grants remains highly significant to the households in the Limpopo Province ( Ziervogel et al. 2005 ). The model does reflect the fact that grants, especially the child grants, are the sole source of income for many households | IN | IN RA | 445,989 |
titles, you will have to edit your Journals term list to insert the new titles. Sometimes you may also need to delete entries, for example when an abbreviated title has found its way into the Full Journals list. To edit the Journals term list: Open your EndNote library Click on Tools>Open Term Lists>Journals Term List Click on the New Term button A dialogue box will open. Enter the full title in the ?Full Journal? window and the Index Medicus abbreviation in the ?Abbreviation 2? window. | HI | HI HT | 288,718 |
I am not going to engage myself in the kinds of things that have been said in recent days, trying to divide indigenous Australians up into neat little columns and descriptors. People are people; people bring with them into the Parliament all sorts of attributes and outlooks on life. I do believe our Parliament is at its best when it represents the nation it's there to serve. That means we do want to see more indigenous Australians, we want to see more women, we want to see more Australians from multicultural backgrounds in our Parliament. JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, should the Royal Commission examine removing the seal of the confessional, so priests have to say what happened in there? PM: When I announced the Royal Commission on Monday, I talked about people averting their eyes. So, not just the incredible wrongdoing by adults who have engaged in these vile acts involving children, but the people who averted their eyes. Adults have got a duty of care towards children and it is not good enough for people to engage in sins of omission and not act when a child is at risk. As for the way that the Royal Commission will take evidence and deal with getting the facts together in this matter, that is going to be a matter for the Royal Commissioner or Commissioners that we appoint. As I have said consistently since I announced it on Monday, we want to take a really careful approach here. That means that | SP | SP IT TA | 614,074 |
NATALE: No, these are facts. I have outlined a series of facts about the behaviour which these companies are engaged in. Mr Burgess : As I mentioned, when we are presented with facts as you have outlined today, we will review them and look at them. So I will take that on notice and come back to you with a comment on those issues. That is what you would expect. There are a lot of opinions about companies. People may have views about the way a company is operating and behaving. The key is to do research. The key is that our managers do research into that. We use a variety of world-class service providers to assess the corporate behaviour of these companies. I will have to take your discussion on those points on notice but we will review that for you and come back to you. Senator DI NATALE: This does not require extensive research. Most of this is actually a matter of public record. What about Philip Morris? If I started talking about the track record of Philip Morris, we would need a few hours, but they are the gold standard when it comes to denying the link between cigarettes and lung cancer. They have a systematic history of covering up evidence. They target young kids in their advertising. There have been very clear links demonstrated between pesticide use from that company and major birth defects. We now have $47 million in Philip Morris, with a 15 per | SP | SP TA | 737,310 |
sure whether they're selling or not but surely that's a decent indicator). But 100 seems like quite a lot of money. At the same time, I don't want to be ripped-off. So I'm looking for advice from someone who has a bit more technical/ebay know-how than I do to give me a suggestion for the sort of offers that would be reasonable. Re: What would you be willing to pay for this laptop (not an advert!)? ( Originally Posted by Rascacielos ) I'm selling my old laptop on ebay as 'for spares or repairs' but I really have no idea what sort of price I should be aiming for (I listed it as 99p... my usual!) as I've had a couple of offers (the latest being 40). It's a Samsung R510 (4 years old - cost over 500 new, I'm sure). It's being sold as 'spares or repairs' because it crashes occasionally (part/whole of the reason for which is that I have an appalling router which has this effect on all 3 computers in my house, 2 of which are much newer); it has minimal scratches but a fair-sized scuff mark where my watch has been rubbing against the paint on the wrist-rest. The two tiny rubber 'feet' on the bottom have dropped off (I doubt this would cost more than 1 to replace!) as has a little icon screen on the front (which tells me whether caps lock is turned on/whether it's charging/whether it's turned on etc). The latter | ID | ID DF | 3,134,299 |
the same recognition, in order to be taken seriously, especially if she happens to be young unfortunately. If You Were Not a Designer, What Would You Be? I have always drawn a lot since I was a kid, so I think that maybe I would have been an artist, who knows. Or maybe a journalist, veterinarian, lawyer, photographer. I have always been undecided regarding my profession, I would have wanted to do everything. I can say that it was not me who chose my current job, it's actually the job that chose me. What is Your Biggest Challenge/Achievement? The project that me and my partner have created: Your Inspiration Web. That's an Italian community dedicated to web design, in Italy it's still an unknown path (we lack a Onextrapixel, a Smashing Magazine, an Italian WebdesignerDepot!) so we are dedicating precious time and hard work in order to succeed in creating a quality blog in our language as well. This is really an exciting challenge for both of us at the moment. Anything to Say to Other Female Designers? To all the women in the world, whether designers or not: Be assertive! Do not allow anyone to tell you what you can't do, every woman has got an immense potential within, all that it takes is to discover it. Sarah Enid-Moule Bio: My name's Sarah and I love art, design, comics, movies and music. I'm a kid from the 80's who loves where I came from and where I'm going. I | SP | SP IT | 3,259,252 |
a leaf. DD1 is v mature has been brought up to discuss emotions etc and she took it completely in her stride as if we were discussing the weather! No big deal no judging just compassion and understanding, ie you must feel v sad to do that. She could have taught a fare few adults about how to be non judgemental I can tell you. I have been acutely unwell twice in last couple of years and I know she has asked DH about whether I am SH again. I also teach about SH to Universities, teachers and medical professionals which she is well aware of. Hope this helps. Hi Samantha, Thank you for your response, it's very helpful Did you have the scars before your children were born? Had your DD1 seen your scars before the time when she asked? Has she ever had a friend ask her about them? Maybe i'm over thinking this and it's sounds like i may have a good few years before my DS may ask me...... Whenever i've been asked by young children or the special needs adults i used to work with, i just say i was in a fight with a Tiger....probably silly i know, but it feels that they're not mature enough to understand and i don't want to have them thinking it's a normal thing to do. I'm just worried about him asking me before he'll be able to comprehend the answer...... I'll stop thinking now lol Thanks again | ID | ID DF | 1,467,158 |
not get a massive amount back but it all adds. Try using the Pension Tracking Service to see if you're missing out. That should be a good starter for anyone looking to boost their pension pot. I'll be back tomorrow with some more money saving tips . | HI | HI HT | 3,036,763 |
Malone is on the double GOLF: The Warren GC champion, Ed Malone, notched a unique double by winning the club matchplay competition, beating Mark Turner on the 35th hole of a 36 hole final. At The Warren Men's agm on Sunday, Ed not only collected the club championship and President's Trophy from new club president, Tony Stanton, but the Matchplay Trophy also. The October Stableford was played in appalling conditions. Division One was won by Paul Rolison with 34 points with Peter Brockbank and Cuthbert Kendall, sharing second place with 33 points. Division Two was won by James Anderson with an outstanding 38 points with Andy Mizen and new club captain, Stuart Simpson, sharing second place with 34 points. | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 184,265 |
give work to Lawyers" and "what are Management Consultants?". Since he's been in the chair the share price has been divided by 4. In my experience management consultants bring nothing and take out a lot. They don't do anything that the existing managers should not be able to do already. Ah yes. Managers. In my experience most are more concerned with maximising their importance, budget and headcount than moving their companies forward. I worked for a large management consultancy at a client that is a very well known company. They had a payments team of around 200, 80 of whom set up new direct debits and another 80 corrected the mistakes the first 80 made. The whole process needed no more than 60-70 people to be done properly. But the "manager" of that team had no interest in sorting that out as his status was dependent on a high headcount. Unsurprisingly he was one of the first out the door. I actually went to work for that company later managing technology strategy and one of my projects involved finding a less manually intensive way of processing payments from small suppliers who couldn't support EDI. The internet was well established then and the obvious and cheap solution was to implement a simple package that would allow them to invoice and receive payment electronically from anyone with a computer, modem, telephone line and browser. However, it was made clear that sending invoices electronically was not in scope as that was a different | HI | HI HT | 4,436 |
games, in riddles, seemingly at random; But superstition, like belief, must die, And what remains when disbelief has gone? Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky, A shape less recognisable each week, A purpose more obscure. I wonder who Will be the last, the very last, to seek This place for what it was; one of the crew That tap and jot and know what rood-lofts were? Some ruin-bibber, randy for antique, Or Christmas-addict, counting on a whiff Of gown-and-bands and organ-pipes and myrrh? Or will he be my representative, Bored, uninformed, knowing the ghostly silt Dispersed, yet tending to this cross of ground Through suburb scrub because it held unspilt So long and equably what since is found Only in separation - marriage, and birth, And death, and thoughts of these - for which was built This special shell? For, though I've no idea What this accoutred frowsty barn is worth, It pleases me to stand in silence here; A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognized, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious, And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in, If only that so many dead lie round. | LY | LY PO | 17,163 |
the religious wars, which ended in France, for instance, with the Edict of Nantes in 1598. Following the horrors of the Holocaust, the norm was widened to include Jews. And with the civil rights movement in the US, this was further extended to black people and other ethnic minorities - legally and theoretically, though not in practice. There is still resistance to the norm's broadening to encompass Muslims, something evident in the controversy over the building of mosques in northern Europe, as well as in the "veil problem" in France, Germany and other countries. Some quasi-liberals continuously ask how we can be tolerant with people who preach intolerance - by whom they mean, of course, Muslims. A better question could be: to what extent are those who profess tolerance really tolerant? About this article Soumaya Ghannoushi: Return of the Muslim other This article appeared on p30 of the Main section section of the Guardian on Tuesday 23 October 2007 . It was published on guardian.co.uk at 19.08 EDT on Tuesday 23 October 2007 . It was last modified at 19.08 EST on Friday 11 January 2008 . It was first published at 05.56 EDT on Wednesday 24 October 2007 . Comments Muslims have been rioting in the 'no-go' zones in Amsterdam every night for the past 10 days, seemingly outraged that an infidel policewoman had the audacity to shoot her Muslim attacker as he was stabbing her. In response, Muslim youths have been burning cars and looting the neighborhoods every | IP | IP | 3,091,413 |
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Every day there are 10,000 new beneficiaries who are hitting up SS for a monthly check. At that rate, over 40 million Boomers will be getting their full monthly checks by the time Ryan's "Red Line" comes into effect. After the first SS check is written, the future payouts can't be reduced. So the Ryan plan creates a carve-out that protects a huge chunk of the Boomers. It does it at the expense of everyone who is today under 55. That's the plan? Protect the age group that is causing the problem? At the expense of the next few generations? None of the 40 odd million Boomers will suffer at all? None of them? Where's the fairness in that plan? What Ryan promised for SS is just a political lie. The fact is that all of the folks who are today 55+ probably liked what they heard Ryan saying. And that is a very big block of voters. The Boomers are the problem. They have to be part of the solution. Any plan that gives the Boomer age cohort a free ride at the expense of the rest of the population is a recipe for disaster. The risk is Age Warfare. ++ Everyone says that Biden is the "smart" debater. Maybe so. His comments on SS were carefully crafted. But if you look through his words, he was just playing politics. Joe went straight to a liberal hot spot on SS. He flat out promised that an Obama/Biden ticket would | OP | OP OB | 663,542 |
those things, since I believe he thinks the judge will go through a list with thousands of entries and make sure that everyone of them is in fact illegal without having to do so by the law. I hold Mr. Abrams in high regard. The same can be said of Mr. Tribe. If Mr. Tribe presented an opinion along the lines of Mr. Abrams I would certainly take note and give it serious consideration. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the submission by the "100 Law Professors", many of whose work I have studied over the years, and none of whom I generally associate with significant expertise in constitutional law. Had they taken the time to engage and traverse Mr. Abrams legal opinion, I would have given their work product fair consideration. Unfortunately, and for reasons unknown, they chose a different path, and it is this failing that leaves those of us who study the law to lend it little credence. Perhaps some time in the future they will cure this glaring defect, but until such time their argument in my opinion carries very little, if any, persuasive force. Re: First, don't use Microsoft Windows. The problem starts and ends with one factor... When the government decides to slander you, articles come out that issue bad PR. Sadly, after they are finished, there is no announcement that the investigation is over or you were cleared of charges. Thus the bad PR remains. Companies like YouTube and MegaVideo will be | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 693,480 |
input signal increases in level, the output remains fixed at a quantising level before suddenly jumping to the next level. Consequently, the transfer curve looks like a staircase instead of a desirably straight line. Analogue tape recording suffers a similar non-linearity problem because the properties of magnetic tape are far from perfect. However, in this case, the problem is overcome by employing an inaudible, very high-frequency signal (called bias) which makes the magnetic properties behave more linearly. Digital audio systems have to resort to a similar tactic to create a linear transfer characteristic using an audible signal called dither . Dither is essentially a very small amount of white noise (equivalent in amplitude to one quantising level -- about 90dB below peak level in a 16-bit system) which is deliberately added to the analogue audio signal as it enters the A-D converter. Thinking back to the transfer plot, this dither noise effectively 'fills in' the steps in the transfer curve so that a straight line can be drawn through the noisy staircase. When correctly dithered in this way, the digital system behaves perfectly linearly, but there is a small amount of noise always present -- the amplitude of which rises and falls as the input signal increases in level through each quantising band (see Figure 4). DIGITAL HEADROOM & METERING In the analogue recording world, we are used to the idea that there is a nominal working level -- say 0VU or +4dBu -- but that it is permissible for | IN | IN DT | 485,655 |
It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King It was a' for our rightfu' king We left fair Scotland's strand; It was a' for our rightfu' king We e'er saw Irish land, my dear, We e'er saw Irish land. Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain: My Love and Native Land fareweel, For I maun cross the main, my dear, For I maun cross the main. He turn'd him right and round about, Upon the Irish shore, And gae his bridle-reins a shake, With, Adieu for evermore, my dear, And Adieu for evermore. The soger frae the wars returns, The sailor frae the main; But I hae parted frae my Love, Never to meet again, my dear, Never to meet again. When day is gane, and night is come, And a' folk bound to sleep; I think on him that's far awa, The lee-land night, and weep, my dear, The lee-lang night, and weep. Listen About this work More about this song The song 'It was a' for out rightfu' king' appeared in James Johnson's Scots Musical Museum in 1796 . It is thought to be Burns's version of a traditional song called 'Mally Stewart' (c.1746). The song is inspired by the failed Jacobite uprising of 1745 , lead by Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720 - 1788 ). The Jacobites sought to restore the deposed Stuart dynasty to the Scottish and English throne. The Jacobites were defeated at the battle of Culloden in 1746, | LY | LY PO SL | 247,643 |
take decades to achieve official TB-free status. We can kill all the badgers in England and we would still have bovine TB, so what would we do then? Remove all the deer, all the boar and all other wildlife? The cull must be halted and the only alternative is the vaccination of both badgers and cattle, as we heard earlier. Vaccination is the only alternative to culling that does not risk making TB worse. An injectable badger vaccine has been available and in use since early 2010 and trials have shown that it is effective in reducing the severity and progression of TB in badgers. It reduced the incidence of positive tests in badgers by 74%. One of the reasons cited for not pursuing a wider vaccination programme is that modelling suggests it will take slightly longer to have an impact on bovine TB than culling. However, given the length of time that it has taken to implement a cull, a wider vaccination programme from 2010 could already be bringing benefits for both badgers and cattle. Although one solution is to vaccinate badgers, the permanent solution must be to vaccinate cattle. The preoccupation with badgers has prevented successive Governments from tackling the real issue but the cattle need protecting and we cannot continue to slaughter wildlife that we deem to be infected. We need to address the real issue -- the source -- and vaccinate our cattle. We will never address bovine TB if we do not stop it at | ID | ID DF | 476,316 |
AM I live in an area notorious for its rain, and this looks very useful indeed, even if it's not available outside the US yet. However, I think the website would benefit from having higher-resolution pictures that show the case's features close-up in greater detail (current ones seem rather small and fuzzy and due to how they're loaded can't be enlarged via browser image zoom function), as well as the accessory bag with the wrist strap mentioned in the FAQ, which I'm now curious about. Additional photos of the case in use (how easy to put on, using keyboard, etc.) would also be helpful. And it would be nice not to have the site navigation for the features rely solely on javascript, but that's a relatively minor annoyance. mike_bike_kite 07-01-2010, 10:02 AM Why is it, though, that marketers insist on such eccentric spelling ... KlearKase! This accessory is meant for reading folk, so why such a childish insult to the intelligence as to replace Cs with Ks? You always want to have a name that people can find on Google, if it was called ClearCase or "Clear Case" then they'd probably appear on page 3 of the Google search screens while page 1 would be filled with items from IBM's ClearCase product. As an example of poor naming I tried looking for the band called "The The" - I figured Google would just ignore words like "the,and,an,of" etc and then be left searching for nothing but oddly enough it found | ID | ID DF | 130,208 |
there Or if she cares It's taken you a long time to see You've got a goldfish memory This song's for you, not for me In misery It's taken you a long time to see In misery And everyone's locked up their door 'Cos they heard me coming And I've been running From what I don't know if she's there Or if she's cares It's taken you a long time to see You've got a goldfish memory This song's for you, not for me In misery You said we went too fast And you said we wouldn't last Now I've put the past behind me And I'm running From what I don't know if she's there Or if she cares It's taken you a long time to see You've got a goldfish memory This song's for you, not for me In misery It's taken you a long time to see In misery Typical Average (Ed Sheeran 2002) Strings on my guitar are rusty Even my best friends don't trust me Everybody thinks I must be crazy 'Cos, I'm your typical average teen If you know what I mean (Typical average teen) 'Cos, I'm your typical average teen If you know what I mean (Typical average teen) Everything's in a haze Yeah, the drink's got me in a daze Everything's blurry Oh, what's happened to me? Say, I'm your typical average teen If you know what I mean (Typical average teen) Now, I'm your typical average teen If you know what | LY | LY SL | 83,871 |
How to Work With Municipalities to Save Community Cats By Rick DuCharme, Founder and Director of First Coast No More Homeless Pets , August 2012 If saving the lives of your community's cats is your goal, you'll probably find yourself having to work with a government agency at some point. It could be the most important relationship you ever invest in. The government is a big part of our lives, whether we like it or not, and in most areas they are a big part of animal welfare. The government is often the most financially invested animal welfare shareholder in a community, either through directly operating animal control or through an animal control contract with a private organization. (I use the term "shareholder" rather than "stakeholder" because the groups we are interested in working with are those that have invested in animal welfare, not just those that are affected by, or have an interest in, animal welfare.) The fact is that if municipal or contracted private animal shelters are where the cats are dying, then you must work with the shelter if you want to save their lives. Relationship Building The relationships that a group builds are assets of that organization to be used in the pursuit of their mission. There are many levels of the government to work with, and each of those levels requires different skills and tactics. In Jacksonville, FL, where I work for First Coast No More Homeless Pets (FCNMHP), we deal with the government on | HI | HI HT | 695,311 |
from Treasury disbursements get drained from the interbank market and stored (sequestered) in tsy's, allowing the Fed to hit its target rate. When the tsy's mature, then they are converted to back to reserves, and the debt is rolled over, further sequestering them. The only way that reserves once created through Treasury disbursement "disappear" is by withdrawing them from the system through taxation. Congress does this though the budget, and the Treasury/Fed carry out this policy, as they do with disbursements, only in the opposite direction. Tom Hickey Reply: August 9th, 2010 at 12:00 am Steve, Warren's point in saying that the cash paid in taxes gets shredded is that after the taxpayers' accounts are credited and their tax liabilities wiped out, then the cash has served it purpose. It does neither gets saved in a vault for future spending nor is it used to pay back debts, as many presume. Government funds itself with currency issuance, not taxes or borrowing, in a fiat system. How do maturing tsy's get paid off? The reserves that were used to purchase the tsy securities just get credited back to a deposit account or bank reserve account, and the debt "just disappears" because it never actually existed as debt. It's just savings being transferred back to a demand deposit. For example, suppose you have some funds at an interest rate that is less than a CD, you can put the money into. You therefore move the funds into the CD. Then when the | IP | IP DS | 266,529 |
during a division, suggesting that some of the rules governing parliamentary procedure are violated, he was required to wear a hat, thereby signalling that he was not engaging in debate. Collapsible top hats were kept in the Chamber just for this purpose. This custom was discontinued in 1998. The outcome of most votes is largely known beforehand, since political parties normally instruct members on how to vote. A party normally entrusts some Members of Parliament, known as whips , with the task of ensuring that all party members vote as desired. Members of Parliament do not tend to vote against such instructions, since those who do so jeopardise promotion, or may be deselected as party candidates for future elections. Ministers, junior ministers and parliamentary private secretaries who vote against the whips' instructions usually resign. Thus, the independence of Members of Parliament tends to be low, although "backbench rebellions" by members discontent with their party's policies do occur. A member is also traditionally allowed some leeway if the particular interests of his constituency are adversely affected. In some circumstances, however, parties announce " free votes ", allowing members to vote as they please. Votes relating to issues of conscience such as abortion and capital punishment are typically free votes. Pairing is an arrangement where a Member from one party agrees with a Member of another party not to vote in a particular division, allowing both MPs the opportunity not to attend. [6] [7] A bisque is permission from the Whips given | IN | IN EN | 1,430,669 |
What are the implications of this mayhem? They are all bad, especially for Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), Credit Default Swaps (CDSes) and other collateralized debt obligation (CDO) derivatives. The band of fools in JPMorgan's Chief Investment Office (CIO) were buying up CDOs at the same time wiser heads in the banking world were avoiding them like proverbial hot potatoes. It is noteworthy that most of these derivatives were purchased after the 2008 credit crisis. In the greedy eyes of the JP Morgan derivatives trading staff, buying this paper after it had taken a 20% haircut appeared to be a bargain . To compound their problems, not only they take on CDS contracts, but they created additional hedges around those derivatives. This is like taking a bet on a bet. What idiots. There is lots of conjecture about what was really going on in Morgan's CIO. Was it all a hedge on inflation that went awry, because deflation lingered longer than expected? It may be weeks before the cognoscenti speak and we learn the full story. But one thing is certain: There is a fine line between hedging and proprietary ("prop") trading, and the CIO appears to have crossed the line. And their hedges were big enough that they shifted the landscape of the entire CDS market. (They have hundreds of billions of dollars in derivative contracts in play at any given time. The counterparty risk is huge .) The world of derivatives is a wilderness of mirrors. There are far | OP | OP OB | 3,270,675 |
first cherries appear and so on!! Well I never knew that! I've always been under the popular misconception regarding Hungarian goulash too! Oh dear poor Delia - her books served me well enough in my early days learning to cook, but her more recent "short cuts" and her overly long lists of ingredients sent her to the back of my cookery bookshelf a while ago. Timea's authentic version looks very tasty, and how wonderful to have someone to cook for you! I wish!! Yes, we feel very fortunate indeed to have someone cook for us. We are really no cooks ourselves and are not particularly interested in food except for eating it, so the idea of having someone to cook for us was something we have always aspired to. Timea is the dream come true. My mom used to make Hungarian Goulash often. Of course, she was Irish and not exactly a gourmet cook, but I did love this dish. Her's was more like a stew, and from what I remember, had beef chunks, onions and carrots, paprika and stock. It was cooked in a pressure cooker and as I write this, I can once again hear the sound of the rattlle and whistle as the steam came seeping out. When it was done, it was poured over egg noodles. It was one of the few meals that she could get me to eat without an argument. Arleen, your mother's Hungarian Goulash sounds very much like the one that Timea | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 3,026,286 |
the nightly news, into the day to day reality of life on the ground as an infantryman, attached to the 1st Division, in the first war of the 21st century. From the adrenaline rush of storming a suspected insurgent's house, to the sheer boredom of down time on the base, to the horror of dead civilians, Hartley examines his role as a man, as a soldier and as an American on foreign soil. His quest to discover the balance between his compassionate side and his baser instincts, results in a searing portrait of today's Army and a remarkable personal narrative written in a fresh and exciting new voice. Just Another Soldier is more than a war story; it delivers an intimate look at a generation of young men and women on the front lines of American policy. Whether you're for or against the war in Iraq, this is essential reading. This is Iraq, where a soldier's first duty is reinforcing his Humvee with sheet metal and sand bags. Or, in the absence of plumbing, burning barrels of human waste. Where any dead dog on the side of the road might be concealing an insurgent's bomb and anyone could be the enemy. At age 17, Jason Christopher Hartley joined the Army National Guard. Thirteen years later, he is called to active duty, to serve in Iraq. Sent to a town called Ad Dujayl, made notorious by Saddam Hussein's 1982 massacre, Hartley is thrust into the center of America's war against terrorism. | IP | IP DS | 4,732 |
Ashton's been blogging under the radar for the past several months, cutting her teeth on the form and piling up some wonderful stories (many of which you can listen to in audio). Help start building this network, and this book. comments (4): I think the whole idea of retirement is changing. Most everyone on the "entitlement plan" - i.e., SS, Medicare and my pension will take care of me are delusional. We will live longer and longer and run out of money. The better plan is some combination of mini-retirements (a la Timothy Ferriss and the 4-hr work week) and my own ideas about learning how to get paid for what you would otherwise do for free. Money then becomes a side effect of your own quality of life. In both cases you get out of the 'defer having a life until some TBD date in the future' trap and live now. Thanks, Mark. Getting paid for what you would otherwise do for free is a far more sensible construct than "follow your passion" -?_ and with considerable overlap, since what we do for free tends to be what we're good at, which tends to be what we're passionate about. I want my project to be useful for ordinary working people (who may not have a "passion" or see it as such) in addition to the artists and business owners who stay on the job for reasons that are intuitively obvious. The octo- and nonanonagenarians I'm meeting are incredibly interesting, | IP | IP DS | 276,529 |
from the Regional Development Agency, I was still very nave when it came to running my own business. "The access I received to key contacts was priceless and my mentor, who was a business entrepreneur in his own right, was so generous and altruistic with his time and insight. Importantly I saw first hand that you don't have to be a genius to run a successful business -- you just need to be focused and apply common sense." Feb 2010 11 Events are a Big Hit on FlyingStart Online The latest FlyingStart poll has revealed that events come out on top as your favourite feature on FlyingStart Online. Events received 35% of the vote, with the mentoring system and funding database closely behind with 25% and 28%. We've kept this in mind when putting together the sechedule of events for February and March and are pleased to bring you a fantastic range of programmes and workshops with great variety! From Start Here! School for Startups with Doug Richard and an ideas workhop with Phlip Taylor (The Apprentice 2009) to STEM workshops and a Women's Programme in Surrey, the next few months are set to be our best EVER! Don't forget to have your say in our next poll - "What would you like to see more of at FlyingStart events?" The poll can be found at the bottom left hand side of our homepage. Feb 2010 10 Do you have the skills to rebuild a piece of history? Channel Four | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 206,420 |
equal to the energy put in. All our research, and our work with other reactors like this, has shown that it's simply a matter of scale. Our machine is now fully devoted to testing design choices for ITER. 'This October, we will shut down the reactor and remove its carbon tiles, to install new beryllium tiles on the wall and tungsten tiles on the floor, where most of the heat escapes from the chamber. If we are able to demonstrate this works, ITER will perhaps begin being built at an earlier stage.' John Parris of HiPER - another European project, which will investigate laser-driven fusion - says: 'This is save-the-world science. Fusion is the only serious answer to future energy demands - this is the energy Holy Grail. The human race has a massive, ravenous demand for power, and there is no other way to provide grid-level energy.' Dr Romanelli's team have already proved man can recreate the centre of the sun on Earth. If their calculations are correct, JET is the seed of an idea that will solve the energy crisis forever, halt global warming and ensure nations never have to battle over energy sources again. The downside? It'll take billions of pounds, and more than three decades, to find out. Watch the JET Fusion Reactor in action POWERING THE FUSION REACTOR A tokamak fusion reactor (the name is a loose transliteration of the Russian phrase 'TOroidal CHAmber with MAgnetic Coils') heats two forms of hydrogen atoms - deuterium | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 599,139 |
get successful back surgery referrals for rowing as PT from one club member MD...) As far as coxing goes we recruit from HS runners and track folks with knee issues and are looking for gymnasts who have command presence and yet can no longer compete ...since the majority of the rowers are masters women the seem to respond best to other women. | HI | HI HT | 3,119,878 |
other methods). If all you're doing is stripping time from a date, then no approach really stands out in my testing. If you're building a date range to pass constants to a query, the one-time convert you do before the query starts is not going to amount to anything in the grand scheme of things. If you're applying the conversion to a column or inside the where clause then it makes more sense to test those scenarios exactly instead of relying on performance tests of independent conversions that have nothing to do with the actual process you're tying to optimize. | HI | HI HT | 3,269,726 |
your supporters friends i.e. I made a picture of all my supporters names and tagged them on facebook, so the picture comes up on their profile thanking them, and all their friends can see it. Make your rewards personal, one of a kind stuff. Perhaps offer immediate rewards like a free track, etc, for people who pledge, even if your campaign fails. If you are generous, love your audience, and genuinely do have a great product, they will love you back. "Do The Leg-work" My main piece of advice when people ask me about Pozible and crowdfunding is this; Setting up your page doesn't mean you don't have to do the leg-work of going around and getting people interested in your project, and inspired enough to invest in it. Pozible provides you with a great platform to demonstrate what you and you project are about, and it makes it easy for them to donate. Pozible creates a great, professional, centralised space, to send people to when you have already got them interested in your project. It is your job to get potential investors/donators to your page. Then keep them interested by being clear, eye catching, and original. And stay in touch with your supporters. Good luck with your creative adventures Ben Mortley 'BRONZER' "Promotion is key!" It is important to make sure you promote your goals and event or product you are raising money for as widely as you possibly can! You should have a video advertisement, have it on | IP | IP DS | 98,388 |
and people everywhere trying to tell us the world is going to end but we really just want to try to live today and not to live for tomorrow or for things that might happen. It's satirical a little bit towards all of those people trying to say what we should do and not do." Sister Sin's new album 'Now and Forever' arrives on Oct. 22, and can be pre-ordered here in various packages. Check out the video for 'End of the Line' below: | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,188,417 |
as a coach unless you do all three. A coach who never has fun with their coaching misses the point. Coaches who never invest in their players will never have any. Coaches who never give are a monkey with their hand in a bottle. Do some of each and, if you have a coaching staff, let them have some slack as soon as there is some. After you get through the Technique Fire step, let your staff function in the areas they can contribute best. Please push that pedal one more time. Switchback if you have to; failure is not an option. Push, push! I promise and the many coaches whom have reached their Finishing Glide of their coaching career promise, at the top of the hill is a glorious ride down. Take that ride with us. | OP | OP OB | 668,941 |
you can use it to transact online. You can link an account to your ANZ Internet Banking in one of three ways: Use the link my accounts function on ANZ Internet Banking - this will take 24-48 hours. Contact the ANZ Internet Banking team on 13 33 50 (International callers: +61 3 9683 8833 ) 24 hours a day, seven days a week - this will be immediate. " Transfer between my accounts " can be used to make a one-off payment to your linked ANZ Credit Card or set up a recurring payment of the same amount to your linked ANZ Credit Card. You may also use the " Pay ANZ Credit Card " to arrange regular payments to your ANZ Credit Card on the due date or at regular intervals from one of your linked accounts. No. " Transfer between my Accounts " can only be used to make a one-off payment to your loan. To organise direct loan payments follow the steps below: Go to the " Account overview " page for your loan account Click on the " Create or Manage Direct Loan Repayments " link The " Direct Loan Payments " page gives details of any direct loan payments that you have set up on the selected loan. It allows you to add a new recurring payment, modify, or delete an existing direct loan payment. As part of the terms and conditions of an E*TRADE account, you are unable to transfer funds from this account | HI | HI FH | 89,402 |
from you then there is no problem with this. The problems come with emailing people you don't know. People use services like MailChimp through a website where people have opted in (twice: once as they enter their email address; and again when they click a confirmation link). When I do these HTML emails it's for clients who have set these email lists up themselves. They are usually quite large companies with quite large lists so I presume they know what they're doing and won't get blacklisted! I had to laugh at the bit, don't pull your hair out, get frustrated, write hate mail blah, blah. That's how I feel sometimes when it comes to doing these templates. So I better go have that cuppa tea now. After swearing at Microshaft, dont try and do your email in 1 big table. Instead create 1 outer table with 100% width and td align center (this will guarantee your email remains centered. Inside (nested) create a table for your header, beneath it a table for your content, and a table for your footer. Try to avoid nesting (apart form your initial nest). Use spacer gif in all empty table cells. Set width of all internal tables to the same I always specify in pixels, usually 600 to 700 px width. If you want to specify exact column widths create a row either above or below and place spacer gif in there and specify the width of the spacer gif to the width of | HI | HI HT | 375,863 |
then produced to happen, I might perhaps be convinced at least of the existence of some superhuman intelligence. I can imagine other evidence of the same sort which might convince me, but so far as I know, no such evidence exists. | IN | IN DT | 1,445,563 |
They? The above is a line that Warren Oates as Benny delivers after one of the villains in suits calls him a loser. It's one of many dialogic gems in this volatile film, which vies with Straw Dogs as Sam Peckinpah's greatest movie of the 1970s. The title is so in your face that you expect a non-stop bloodbath but Peckinpah's after something else here, something that few directors or audiences have had the backbone to deal with. He takes a main character who looks, acts, and dresses like a loser in so many ways, and makes him human, vulnerable, tragic, and somehow moral in a world full of ruthless men corrupted by their almost absolute power. You know from the start that the movie won't end prettily, yet with Peckinpah at the helm, Oates in the male lead and the ravishing Isela Vega his doomed companion, a host of great character actors sinking their teeth into the rotting meat of their roles, and a vision of Mexico conveyed in stark but lyrical images, you have to take the ride with Benny all the way to the bitter end. In quantity of killings, this is not very violent as Peckinpah films go, certainly not close to The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett, or Cross of Iron. But the mood is so somber and bleak that it will test the strongest viewer threshold. There is also the trademark sly Peckinpah humor throughout, whistling through the graveyard with a bottle of tequila in | IP | IP DS | 225,700 |
towers. Under certain circumstances it is conceivable for some of the steel in the wreckage to have melted after the buildings collapsed. Any molten steel in the wreckage was more likely due to the high temperature resulting from long exposure to combustion within the pile than to short exposure to fires or explosions while the buildings were standing." How's that for a non-answer answer? What is the likelihood of molten steel forming in the wreckage due to combustion of office materials? Is it purely coincidental that a by-product of a thermite/thermate reaction is molten iron, more specifically, spherical molten iron if aerosolized? Comment number 91. Even the 'truth' people aren't saying it is definitely material from thermite - let alone proving it. Melted girders are steel, thermite makes iron - not hard to prove, but no evidence is offered. The thermite I personally saw demonstrated in real life remained a glowing liquid for seconds - certainly less than a minute - then scabbed over with a dirty looking crust. It didn't stay there glowing like mount etna for 20 minutes. The picture is described as 'recorded 20 minutes after the collapse of WTC 2' How come this 'thermite' is allegedly a glowing liquid 20 minutes after the collapse? If these are the girders that were sabotaged to CAUSE the collapse, why aren't they under the rubble? How do girders at the bottom of the collapse end up out in the open? This clandestine, controlled demolition by thermite 'fact' is so | IP | IP ED | 1,435,784 |
walked back from a coffee shop. This means he was somewhere in back of the house (where our cars were). Could I have noticed him? Maybe. Perhaps he was inside the drug house? Regardless, lines of sight work both ways, if he could see us, we could have seen him. Let's say I had spotted him standing watching us behind the drug house in the alley as we drove out. He posed no direct threat to us, but he was out of place. I'd be moving my mental state to orange. Driving back around the block and calling the cops in the process giving them his description would likely have sufficed in this case, he had a bench warrant outstanding and wouldn't have stuck around long if the police showed up. With the potential threat gone, I would return back to yellow. While looking for potential threats is a topic that would never be completely covered no matter how much ink is spent on it, there are some key points to remember. First, your situation is unique. Much of situational awareness is intuition and gut feeling. If it feels wrong, don't. It's much better to be wrong and leave a non-threatening situation needlessly than it is to go against your gut and wind up dead. Secondly, if you see someone who doesn't seem to have a reason to be some place, be careful. McCann demonstrates this by using the example of a guy standing in the middle of the parking | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 452,566 |
be very brief. Can I respond to that? Look, the maverick -- let's talk about the maverick John McCain is. And, again, I love him. He's been a maverick on some issues, but he has been no maverick on the things that matter to people's lives. He voted four out of five times for George Bush's budget, which put us a half a trillion dollars in debt this year and over $3 trillion in debt since he's got there. He has not been a maverick in providing health care for people. He has voted against -- he voted including another 3.6 million children in coverage of the existing health care plan, when he voted in the United States Senate. He's not been a maverick when it comes to education. He has not supported tax cuts and significant changes for people being able to send their kids to college. He's not been a maverick on the war. He's not been a maverick on virtually anything that genuinely affects the things that people really talk about around their kitchen table. Can we send -- can we get Mom's MRI? Can we send Mary back to school next semester? We can't -- we can't make it. How are we going to heat the -- heat the house this winter? He voted against even providing for what they call LIHEAP, for assistance to people, with oil prices going through the roof in the winter. So maverick he is not on the important, critical issues | SP | SP TA | 247,603 |
by Thomas Cook so all British Clients this may or may not appeal? Our party was aged between 10 and 60 over 3 generations. We found the apartment very clean maids every day with full change of linen. The staff were very helpful Aziz and the othe resaurant staff were good with children and very accomodating. The entertainment is of a lower key than hotel.The hotel has what I would describe as a more holiday camp entertainment buzz. You can go up to hotel complex if you want. My wife, daughter and gran daughter all had treatments at hotel spa and ejoyed. The hotel is a way out of town centre and water front. Bus stops outside and is 60p into town.Bus runs every 10 mins early till late. We went Oct half term so a few weeks from end of season, however all hotel services were open which is good. We went 1/2 board. The food at Club Cettia is from a menu so no buffet as in the hotel. Fair choice from fish, curries, grills, steaks and pizza / spag bol, if you have children you should be able to find things they like. I have described in a few words what you can expect, you can decide if it is for you. We as a family enjoyed it overall but it may not be for every one. Room Tip: Ask for room overlooking pool 2 balconies with better view we had room 409 so any of these | ID | ID RR | 396,314 |
Qualitative use of the EPS If forecasts starting from these perturbed analyses agree more or less with the forecast from the non-perturbed analysis (the EPS Control forecast), then the atmosphere can be considered to be in a predictable state and any unknown analysis errors would not have a significant impact. In such a case, it would be possible to issue a categorical forecast with great certainty. If, on the other hand, the perturbed forecasts deviate significantly from the Control forecast and from each other, it can be concluded that the atmosphere is in a rather unpredictable state. In this case, it would not be possible to issue a categorical forecast with great certainty. However, the way in which the perturbed forecasts differ from each other may provide valuable indications of which weather patterns are likely to develop or, often equally importantly, not develop. | IN | IN IB | 231,758 |
publisher does at a lower cost and get more of the pie. 40% of ereading still takes place on a personal computer and so PDF is still important. Fine: authors can look to see who are the most prolific reviewers on Amazon and then send copies of books to them. Toughest challenge is finding ways to elevate book. Amazon now gives authors their own "dashboard" where they can add videos, reviews, bios to their author page. Bottom line advice is "write well". Wonder of self-publishing is that you can publish, not to become a best seller, for any reason you want. The cover matters. Even though it's an ebook customers still look at the cover. Impressions: another good panel, even though some last minute substitutions had to be made. I hadn't heard the figures about bookstore numbers before. | OP | OP OB | 3,271,608 |
is over health care insurance! Is health care insurance, is it a right or privilege? Let us check the US Constitution. It is not in there! So we have to refer to the TONE the Constitution was written. The Constitution is written in NEGATIVES. What the government should NOT do! This is the fundamental differences between Liberals and Conservatives! Liz | 7.25.09 @ 5:55PM Ben, you are so intelligent, but this article was not very hard hitting. The problem isn't just Obama. The problem is that we have an ignorant America, who is fat and lazy and doesn't want to put the energy into informing themselves of the issues. As long as we have our ipods, cell phones, and what-not, we're happy campers. While the country we know crumbles under the weight of ingrates and the irresponsible, we're just happy to have our kids out of the house, in public schools where they watch movies much of their time, so we can go and pursue our dreams of being the next American Idol. Until we wake up and rediscover the value of knowing our history and doing everything we can to protect our country and its freedoms and its constitution, we're doomed to fail, no matter who our leader is. The fact that we have a charismatic leader this time around, who mesmerized us with his speeches, is only the beginning of our demise unless those who voted for that "pig in a hole" have gained some wisdom and discernment | IP | IP | 186,900 |
your thing. You might enjoy it, you might not. You might even regret it. There's really no way of knowing at this point. What we do know is that after a certain time the darkness becomes inevitable, like an avalanche of organs or just a really great run of Solitaire. 4. I Can't Believe I Almost Forgot: Taunt the Fuzz, This is Very Important Oh, yeah. Yeah. This part. I love this part. Okay, listen up: you've got to kind of artfully place your, ah, "business card" on the body. You can't just -- what? What's that? You forgot to get them printed in time? You forgot about the increased Halloween demand for serial killer calling cards? Let me guess: you also didn't write letters to the police with the details of your next kill. And you didn't shatter that grandma's teeth with a hammer and then strangle her with her week-old underpants? That's okay, buddy. Maybe you're not that kind of killer and that's okay; a lot of killers aren't that kind of killer. Those guys are weird, just going around doing it the same way every time. Never mixing it up. It's downright uncreative. In an emergency, a liberal smattering of seminal fluid will do the job. You're doing great, slugger. Keep it up. 5. Think About Side Dishes Once you've butchered the meat what are you going to do with it? Oh, I guess I just answered my own question. Ha, ha. Ha. Haa. That cub scout | OP | OP OB | 3,058,286 |
withdraw back my credit card... You can get Refund from Apple, I got $13.99 refund, it was a book, and before they give u refund, you have to give proper reason, the book I purchased was for IOS development KIT for 4.0. it was an old book and IOS 5 was already out for customers. ( It was my mistake, while scrolling I clicked on buy button and it asked me for Password and I give it, I almost all the time I buy from my Iphone, but on that day I was using Itunes on PC, after that i never buy from Itunes, I prefer Iphone for buying.) | HI | HI HT | 191,815 |
to build trust for future talks. Talk about what sex is and what behaviors put teens at risk for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Set a reassuring tone so your teen will feel comfortable and safe coming back to you to talk about things. It's important for teens to know their parents will still love and support them no matter what decisions they make about sex. Leave judgments at the door. Key points to cover include STDs (explain what they are), condoms and birth control options. Abstinence should also be part of the conversation. Read up on all the subjects before you talk about them. More information than ever is available online and in books. Make sure teens know they can still get an STD through behaviors such as oral sex, even if they don't have sexual intercourse. If your teen has a question and you're not sure how to answer it, tell him or her you'll find out and will talk the next day about it. Make sure you follow through. Don't assume your teen is heterosexual. It may become apparent he or she isn't. If you're absolutely not comfortable talking to your teen about sex, find another adult who is, or ask your pediatrician or adolescent doctor for help. Turn to resources for help. Some useful books to guide conversations include The Teenage Body, or Our Bodies, Ourselves . You can also go to the teen section of the AAP's Web site, healthychildren.org . | HI | HI HT | 509,337 |
through the pages of this poetic volume, however, exposes the field's underlying luster. A checkerboard of water droplets, a shard of broken glass or a swatch of plastic fabric reveal themselves as things of colorful, otherworldly beauty. The words are no less remarkable, balancing weighty concepts from the laboratory with a literate tone as light and elegant as a spider's web. A wonderful achievement indeed. -- Corey S. Powell Scientific American Ordinary objects can reveal remarkable patterns under a microscope or hand lens. And even without magnification, they can look like something you've never seen before -- at least, they can once photographer Felice Frankel gets hold of them. No less remarkable are her photos of things you really have never seen before: an elastomeric stamp for microprinting, say, which looks like a rainbow mosaic, or the colorful rectangles that turn out to be diamond electron emitters developed for fancy display screens. Frankel and her collaborator, Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides, scrutinize the simplest and most sophisticated materials, explaining what makes them look the way they do. -- Polly Shulman Discover 19971101 Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides have produced a science book that is unlike any other I've seen...[Frankel] has an eye for framing the beauty of the materials, devices, and physical systems that she photographs. -- James R. Heath Chemical and Engineering News 19980309 Up-close photographs of a wide range of objects and materials result in a spectacular volume of beautiful, often mysterious images. -- H. J. Kirchhoff | OP | OP RV | 475,475 |
now, ain't that so?" "Well," I said, doubtfully enough, "I like to hear you very much: but, you know, some people think a lot of the thrushes and nightingales and so on; you must have heard of that, haven't you? (And then, perhaps -- of course I don't know -- perhaps your style of singing isn't exactly what they think suitable to accompany their dancing, eh?" "I should kindly 'ope not," said the owl, drawing itself up. "Our family's never give in to dancing, nor never won't neither. Why, what ever are you thinkin' of!" it went on with rising temper. "A pretty thing it would be for me to set there hiccuppin' at them" -- it stopped and looked cautiously all round it and up and down and then continued in a louder voice -- "them little ladies and gentlemen. If it ain't sootable for them, I'm very sure it ain't sootable for me. And" (temper rising again) "if they expect me never to say a word just because they're dancin' and carryin' on with their foolishness, they're very much mistook, and so I tell 'em." From what had passed before I was afraid this was an imprudent line to take, and I was right. Hardly had the owl given its last emphatic nod when four small slim forms dropped from a bough above, and in a twinkling some sort of grass rope was thrown round the body of the unhappy bird, and it was borne off through the | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 297,045 |
Blog take care of you Hello August! This months' mantra -- Take Care of YOU! It can feel like time is slipping away... we're well on our way into the second half of the year and well into the second half of the summer. The days have started to get shorter... Time -- Freeze. Stop Now! Oh darn, that didn't work. Nothing will freeze time. No extra hours will get added onto our day to finish things on our 'to do' list. We won't have a magic energy pill that will let us live on 3 hours of sleep. We still need to sleep, eat healthy, exercise, spend time with family, spend time with friends, work hard, accomplish things we've set to do, do laundry, cook 3 meals a day -- yeah right -- how about at least one, read a book, watch a favourite show, go outside, jog, exercise.... oh there's a few more things to add to that 'to do' list! Done! You know what's missing from that list? You! Prioritize You. Take care of YOU! Stop whatever you're doing. Breathe. Slow down. Do less. Here's a few ways you can take care of yourself, open up and surrender to embrace life with more clarity and focus: Tune into your breathing -- slow it down by controlling your breathing and taking deep breaths. Go into nature - go for a walk, a run, a hike, or just grab a blanket and sit down for 20 minutes (at least). | OP | OP AV | 554,889 |
and tactile than words and numbers. I also really like the interaction that takes place with the people I photograph. Photographing may be a way of objectifying, however it is also an effective way of showing how we are all different yet very similar and interconnected. Portraiture is for me a way of seeking out these similarities. To (Un)Veil and Envision. Lene Hald What's the first thing you remember photographing and why did you choose it as your subject? I have always been drawn to photographing people. I am interested in how people present themselves visually and how this is linked to universal as well as personal stories. Most of my projects have been focusing on the sociology of fashion. How people communicate through clothing and how fashion constitute a primary symbol in the construction of our identities. I am genuinely interested in the lived experience of those that I photograph; their narratives, dreams, and longings and I guess that is part of the reason I have been working with ways to integrate statements from those I photograph in my work. I have also been using participatory visual methods, meaning that I have been inviting those that I photograph to supplement my visual work with their own photographs or drawings. How does your photographic process work, where do you start? Is it with a theory or idea, or is it driven by aesthetics or a desire to use a certain technique or piece of equipment? It is quite different depending | SP | SP DP IT | 3,024,202 |
May 19, 2011 Why Are We Still Talking About The Doctor's Wife ? I enjoyed The Doctor's Wife a lot. As a standalone episode of Doctor Who it delivered a satisfying, neat story that also managed to connect with the series lore. It's not often that an episode like that comes along. In fact, I think you'd probably have to go back as far as Dalek (2005) to find something similar. But the episode certainly wasn't without its faults. Amy and Rory's corridor torture in particular felt a bit weak and I'm not certain the episode was all that accessible to more recent followers of the series. So whilst it's definitely fair to praise Neil Gaiman for his episode, the general reaction across the internet seems to raise him up to the level of visionary saviour. He certainly presented a fresh angle (no mean feat for a series approaching its 50s) but was the episode really the very best you've ever seen? Here's a roundup ( spoilers ) of all the big-name reviews across the internet from Kasterborous.com. Do you feel the episode warrants the amount of attention it's been given? Is it really award-worthy? Am I just being too harsh? | OP | OP RV | 1,416,626 |
the bartender a coin ] Han Solo : Sorry about the mess. Share this quote Darth Vader : I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now *I* am the master. Obi-Wan : Only a master of evil, Darth. [ lightsabers clash ] Share this quote General Tagge : Until this battle station is fully operational, we are vulnerable. The Rebel Alliance is too well equipped, they're more dangerous than you realize. Admiral Motti : Dangerous to your starfleet, Commander; not to this battle station. Share this quote C-3PO : Now don't you forget this! Why I should stick my neck out for you is far beyond my capacity! Share this quote C-3PO : Just you reconsider playing that message for him! [ R2 beeps a question ] C-3PO : No, I don't think he likes you at all. [ R2 beeps again ] C-3PO : No, I don't like you either. Share this quote C-3PO : I would much rather have gone with Master Luke than stay here with you. I don't know what all this trouble is about, but I'm sure it must be your fault. [ R2 beeps an angry response ] C-3PO : You watch your language! Share this quote [ C-3PO is tangled up in wires after a run-in with tie fighters ] C-3PO : Help! I think I'm melting! This is all your fault! [ R2-D2 makes | SP | SP TV | 683,820 |
it, comment on it, share it and 'like' it," says Kilmartin. The focus on digital engagement has also led to businesses coming up with new takes on the concept of giveaways. SupersonicAds delivers a service whereby consumers can gain free Facebook credits for watching the duration of online video ads. While digital giveaways might not be for everyone, using online channels to maximise the reach of a promotion is a must for all brands. Cement manufacturer Lafarge successfully exploited digital channels, including mobile and social media, when promoting its Big Boys Toys giveaway -- a B2B campaign offering builders and merchants the chance to win experiences such as bungee jumping or driving a tank. "The potential for using digital and mobile technology, including social media, in the context of promotions is really exciting," says Lafarge marketing manager Mike Lomax. "Normally you would associate this sort of thing with FMCG brands. For a B2B construction industry company, it is uncommon." The online channels used to promote the Big Boys Toys competition were e-mail, banner ads, social media, QR codes on ads, press releases and leaflets. "At the time I thought we might get one or two geeky types using the QR codes and that would be it," says Lomax. "We were amazed when we had 366 people accessing the promotion via a QR code." The e-mail campaign was equally successful, smashing industry benchmarks with a 35 per cent open rate and a click-through rate of 45 per cent. Lomax is now | HI | HI HT | 707,143 |
We reserved on the internet only one night at this hotel for two resons:quite close to the airport(at four o'clock in the morning it took the taxi less then ten minutes to get there) and second,very close to the center of Stone Town.We actually did not sleep overnight because of the early flight.We arrived at the hotel at about 1pm and were greeted by the manager Salim.A guy in his fifties originaly from Canada,he immediatly let us feel as if arriving to his personal house.Like a family.He invited us to a free tea and even free mineral water and even asked if we would like a complementary sandwich.We refused the last one.Than we set down and shortly we discoved his love for the 60s music.Now we realy had something in common sinse I am also in my 50s. He provided us with a map and full explanation of what is going on in the city.In the end,since we told him that we are leaving very early,he offered to prepare a breakfast box for both of us:two mineral water botles,two sandwiches with cheese(our choice) two bananas.Very kind of him. Now about the room:we asked a room on the ground floor not to waste time carring up and down the heavy luggage.The room was very big and modestly furnished.The bed was comfortable for the four hours we had time to sleep on it.The bathroom was not a "wow" but was ok.Because the salty air from the sea all metal handles seemed to | OP | OP RV | 1,484,214 |
shot-stopper. He's made mistakes though and he's very slow off his line (if off it at all). Lloris is so much more than a keeper. Sweeper-keeper is the tag and you'd think he's the perfect fit for AVB's system because Hugo can use his feet and has brilliant distribution. I'm scratching my head with this. Brad admitted in the summer he would probably play second fiddle to someone, so it's no big deal to him at the very least if he's dropped. Who's been Spurs' best signing this season? Not sure we made it. We've not replaced Modric and van der Vaart and I don't think we've signed a player AVB wanted 100%. Lloris is a great signing, hopefully we'll see that soon. However, we need a playmaker and we need a full-fledged 'striker'. Adebayor & the Africa Cup of Nations in the new year means we are shafted if Defoe gets injured. Vertonghen also looks like a brilliant signing, he's fantastic. Defends and is superb at running forward with the ball. Very cultured player. Dembele is also a beast. Shame he won't be available for us when we face you. What would constitute a good season for Spurs? A good season at the moment would be just to have the atmosphere back at White Hart Lane and for all Spurs supporters to unite behind the team. Success and the want for it has skewered expectations for many, hence the black cloud around N17. The way we've shaped up at | SP | SP IT | 3,076,367 |
than the MWP as they are cooler than the Roman WP at that location . And honest description, then, would be that modern temperatures are hotter than the MWP at that location, though the Roman WP was hotter, at that location . Of course, globally, both where probably warmer than the 1950's, but cooler than the last decade. Steve, from another thread - remember that climate changes only with a forcing. The following illustrative image, created by Robert Rohde, helps describe temperature variations since the end of the last glacial stage: The forcings that drove the glacial cycles, and that drove our last deglaciation (~10000 years ago) reached a peak at the Holocene Climate Optimum, about 8,000 years ago. These forces are now operating in reverse, driving a slow trend towards glaciation. Small variations on that slow trend to glaciation have given rise to periods of regional warmth and cooling, popularly known by monikers such as the Roman Warm Perod, the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (in some areas, known as the Medieval Warm Period), and the Little Ice Age. Common causes for these small variations are increased periods of volcanic activity and reduced solar activity. The Little Ice Age was no "Ice Age", but just the latest episode of slightly cooler climate within this overall trend, most noticeable in northern Europe, and associated with both reduced solar activity and increased volcanic activity. When looked at over the whole Holocene, the LIA and MCA are just part of the overall trend towards | IN | IN | 163,058 |
diet. I'll even tell you why dieting doesn't work (hint - if you tell a child they can't have something, what do you think they will crave?) How to improve your health across the board in just 30 minutes per day. I know there are programs out there which say you can get fit in 15 minutes 3 times a week. Sounds great doesn't it? Do you actually believe it though? Neither do I. Sorry, it's going to take a bit of effort to get fit, but the benefits will be worth it AND it will be easier than you thought possible . How to enjoy the buzz from the body's own feel-good chemicals endorphins. Exercising releases these natural products into your blood stream, which is one of the reasons why you feel so good after doing some exercise. Don't believe me? You will when you've tried it! How to reduce the stress created in normal everyday life without drugs. Regular exercise really does help to reduce the stress which builds up in your body caused by 'modern living'. How to get motivated to get fit in the first place. It's easy when you know how. Simple but powerful ways of changing the way that you think about your body and the idea of exercising can make you WANT to do more exercise. Honest! How to get fit if you don't want to go running. Don't worry - you don't have to love running to benefit. The techniques in this | IP | IP DS | 390,980 |
content and make any changes you feel are necessary. 3. Topic and timing, This is another potentially hugely important factor in how much social and other sharing your content gets online. If you don't choose the right topic for your content, then the chances of it 'going viral' are already minimal. Think about it like a surfer treading water, just waiting for the best wave, as a content writer, you have to be closely monitoring you industry, then use your experience to identify the best topics for content. Google Trends can be a valuable tool for seeing what topics are increasing in popularity, or you can simply use your own industry knowledge or see what others are blogging about to help guide you in your quest for the best topic. These are just three simple tips I can recommend, but if you implement them (and get a bit lucky) you will almost certainly increase the likelihood that your content will go viral. If you have any other questions about other forms of SEO Content , or just search engine optimisation in general, please leave a comment and someone from SEO Consult will be sure to get back to you. Virility is one of the foremost aspects of modern SEO, it creates links and builds hype for the most of the best and then the rest are what and are gone to the zoo, isn't it? | IP | IP DS | 3,328,288 |
the hammer, strike."? Edwin Markham I'm not a fan of what our society has become and is becoming, but I'd be real conscious of the large-scale 'what-ifs' of being completely 'outside' as he is. I'd assume his situation means no insurance, for one thing. So 'what if' you get appendicitis or cancer, what if you develop cataracts; things like that. While I"m not a fan of our current 'culture', I'm a fan of backups and options and while our more-complex society is inherently more vulnerable to hiccups, it's also more flexible and more offering of multiple options. __________________ "I don't need a thousand dollar shotgun. I need to know how to run the shotgun I got." - Clint Smith I know people like that. They live in the cabin on the land that is of questionable ownership. They just live there because nobody kicks them out. No power or phone but they do take shower at work. I do not know if they pay taxes but I doubt it. If you live between lines on the map and fall between cracks of society nobody gives a darn about you. I know people like that. They live in the cabin on the land that is of questionable ownership. They just live there because nobody kicks them out. No power or phone but they do take shower at work. I do not know if they pay taxes but I doubt it. If you live between lines on the map and fall between | ID | ID DF | 306,311 |
[Little Axe] NEW ALBUM OUT NOW! - If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog The new Little Axe album If You Want Loyalty Buy A Dog is out now on Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sound label. If You Want Loyalty Buy A Dog is the culmination of a 25 year long musical partnership between producer Adrian Sherwood and musician, Skip 'Little Axe' McDonald. Skip's roots lie in the blues, first taught to him by his father while growing up in Dayton, Ohio. Adrian is considered one of the world's most versatile and prolific dub producers and a sonic visionary. The new album features the legendary drummer, Style Scott, playing with both Dub Syndicate and Roots Radics, drawing on both classic and new On-U Rhythms. From start to finish this is a dynamic and un-compromising meeting of both forms of Roots music. Immaculately played and defined as never before, If You Want Loyalty Buy A Dog is, in the eyes of McDonald and Sherwood, their finest work to date. Everyone gets the blues, says Skip McDonald, who should know. The legendary guitarist gets them -- like, really gets them -- more than most. "The blues are a fact of life," he adds in a Dayton, Ohio twang undiminished by two decades of UK living. "It doesn't matter where you are. The blues have no boundaries." An old school bluesman in the tradition of everyone from, say, Howling Wolf and Leadbelly to Blind Willie Johnson, McDonald channels the past into the future through | IN | IN DP | 388,894 |
well as the Deputy Secretary-General. At the time of the group's dissolution in 2012, the NFSL Executive Committee was led by Secretary-General Ibrahim Abdulaziz Sahad , who was re-elected for his second term during the 5th National Congress held in July 2007 in the United States. [ 13 ] Sahad appointed Mohammed Ali Abdallah as his Deputy. The Permanent Bureau was led by Fawzi al-Tarabulsi, who had previously been elected Vice President of the National Congress and became President upon Dr. Suleiman Abdalla's resignation as President in 2008. The Bureau's leadership also included Vice-President Mohamed Saad and Rapporteur of the Bureau Mohamed Ali Binwasil. | IN | IN EN | 9,995,097 |
there's a whole life entwined with yours and the next, just a space and scattered clues/When I watch old films in which animals appear, I get sad because those animals are certainly dead now - and that certainty prompts my private epitaph and I have to say it out loud : "That dog is dead, that cat is dead, that horse is dead..." CHEMICAL/CHEMICAL (20mgs) (Words - GA Johnson) Don't trust the light in here It's only chemical between you and me Don't trust the light in here It's only chemical between you and me I've lost a lot of friends It's not hard to comprehend that the closer you get, the more you forget your insecurity Don't trust the light in here It's only chemical between you and me Don't trust the light in here It's only chemical between you and me You've got a lot to learn but that's none of my concern 'Cos the closer we get, the more I forget my insecurity Add X to Y and Y to X Scissors shaped like swans CITIES & FACTORIES (Words - GA Johnson) Cities and factories spread across the borrowed map But still I'm lost Cities and factories spread across the furrowed land But still I'm lost And the soil is as cold as the moon And the trees are as dead as a ghost And if I never see you again Well, I was the one who loved you the most And the birds take a bow | LY | LY SL | 21,312 |
third trip. I wanted to go to helmand province in the south on my last trip and had clearance to embed with a great unit there but I didn_Tt do it because to embed with ISAF you need ISAF credentials that can only be obtained in Kabul. So logistically that would have been a nightmare. The taxi takes about an hour and a half from Bagram to Kabul one way. I simply didn_Tt want to add that risk onto my trip when I worked so hard to get a flight straight to Bagram.It seems silly to me to have to go to Kabul to get credentials but that is the way it works. I did it on my first trip while I was in Kabul but those credentials have expired. I am guessing that the Marines will not be at the Forward Operating Base where you are going and if they are you will not be permitted to go on patrols with them if you are embedded with an Army unit. Don_Tt worry though, get to know the people around you and ask about going out and it will happen. Also, up until now I have thought that i need a level IV vest to get on the base. Is this correct? If there is a solid plate in the front and back of the vest then it is more than likely a level 4. The plates look like this: ttp://www.diamondbacktactical.com/Balli\\... -- C45.aspx if the vest is soft it is | OP | OP AV | 3,252,069 |
ALLAH if kids learn at a very young age Masha ALLAH they will avoid many things that will get them into trouble ie example wanting to get married to a mushrik man or woman. Sura:5:19 (Both) The Jews and the Christians say: "We are sons of Allah, and his beloved." Say: "Why then doth He punish you for your sins? Nay, ye are but men,- of the men he hath created: He forgiveth whom He pleaseth, and He punisheth whom He pleaseth: and to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between: and unto Him is the final goal (of all)" Re: I want to get married to non-muslim guy Assalamualaikum sis... pls be aware. It is stated in Surah Imran: O you who believe, do not take as intimate friends as advisers, those outside of ur religion, outside of ur deen, those who are non-muslims, for those spare no efforts to corrupt u, they desire to harm you severly. Hatred appears from their mouths however what their heart conceals is far greater than what is apparent. Indeed in this are signs and evidence for those who understand. Re: I want to get married to non-muslim guy O' you who believe, do not take as intimate friends as advisers, those outside of ur religion, outside of ur deen, those who are non-muslims, for those spare no efforts to corrupt u, they desire to harm you severly. Hatred appears from their mouths however what | ID | ID DF | 171,146 |
partly out of curiosity but mainly with the intent of destroying their so-called normal lives. Take A Look At Me Now is women's fiction with a difference. Anita Notaro has tackled a very delicate and taboo subject, turning it on its head as she lets her readers look at things from the male perspective. By no means is this author condoning prostitution but she is showing both sides. Why exactly do men pay for sex? Or is it something else they're looking for? Pick up a copy and find out! I give this book five stars as it is a page turner and it got me in to reading again.I am reading it very fast as it is great.It shows the relationship between two sisters,it is always very sad when alison passes away and lily now has responsibiles. I enjoyed this book as it was very different from the usual chick lit. It has an interesting plot centred around the secret life of Alison who drowns, leaving her identical twin sister, Lily, as guardian to her three year old son. Lily gradually learns about the life Alison had been leading unknown to herself and the men involved. The book is a very abosribng yet easy read, and I found it difficult to put down. | IP | IP DS | 582,371 |
ways to inform my friends of the perils that are ahead of us. You may like to forward it wherever possible. www.onevote.com.au -- vote for someone with Christian values. Be aware of the Greens anti-christian agenda. Janet Courtney Please note: Your comments are subject to my commenting rules (below left), which you should read carefully before proceeding. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Notify me of new posts by email. About Bill Muehlenberg We live in an age where we see evidence of cultural decline, the erosion of values, the decline of civility, the denial of truth and the elevation of unreason. Many people are asking, "Where is our culture heading?" This website is devoted to exploring the major cultural, social and political issues of the day. It offers reflection and commentary drawing upon the wealth of wisdom found in the Judeo-Christian tradition. It offers reflective and incisive commentary on a wide range of issues, helping to sort through the maze of competing opinions, worldviews, ideologies and value systems. It will discuss critically and soberly where our culture is heading. Happy reading! Commenting Rules Readers are welcome to post comments on the material posted here, but some simple rules apply: I reserve the right to edit or refuse comments. This site is meant to express my point of view. If you are looking for a soapbox to promote your own views, create your own website or blog site. Comments should be brief (preferably under 100 words), polite, constructive | OP | OP OB | 3,312,512 |
Gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis) forest with a grassy understorey (Fig 1). In mid-2008 when the project commenced, the understorey of the forest was virtually entirely dominated by the exotic grass Green Panic ( Megathyrsus maximus var. pubiglumis ) due to past clearing and the sowing of pasture grasses for grazing. However, as there were some native grasses still evident, we wondered whether the site might respond to an assisted natural regeneration approach that has worked on other sites. Out of curiosity, we cleared Green Panic by hand around a patch of native grasses to give them space to expand. In the process we found that, under the cover of the Green Panic, were struggling native grasses, sedges and wisps of herbs (Fig 2). This then became a test patch, which in turn became a stand of Pitted Bluegrass ( Bothriochloa decipiens ). The outstanding results energised us to continue. Fig 2 (a) Much of the site started with very small native germinants which would have been inadvertently killed had the site been sprayed with herbicide. Photo (a) shows how few natives were sometimes initially revealed -- in this case Whisker Sedge ( Cyperus gracilis ), Common Bindweed ( Polymeria calycina ) and native Glycine sp. Our treatments. We further cleared the Green Panic using mattocks. With the weed cover much reduced, rains brought a massive annual weed response. We considered spot spraying but while the seedbank response was still being discovered, every native plant was important, so the enthusiasm was there | IN | IN RA | 642,656 |
How to Stop Sibling Rivalry In this article I want to share one useful tip with you that will help you have a positive impact on how you parent -- in particular we're going to look at sibling rivalry. In almost two decades of raising my own kids, studying child psychology and a whole load of books and other material I've made a few distinctions about what works for parents and what doesn't when it comes to parenting. An issue many parents have to manage is sibling rivalry -- especially those parents who have 3 or more kids. And I'll tell you sibling rivalry can drive you nuts. Going back, was a step-parent to two kids, and had two of my own... so I know what it's like when the older kids get it in for the little one and when the little ones won't leave the big ones alone, and when one complains about the other or makes up stuff just to get them in trouble... You know the score, right? The question is how do you stop it? One way is to plan individual time with each child. Sometimes that might seem easier said than done, but one way I did it was when they came home from school I would sit down with one at a time for 15-20 minutes and just go through their homework and school day with them and read with them a little. At the weekends I take one or two of them | HI | HI HT | 3,093,747 |
only takes a few seconds and alertness. So, for those readers who live in urban areas especially, take some time to reassess your security strategy. Do not let yourselves grow complacent, even if you have a security system. Let our lessons learned the hard way be an example to get you thinking so that something similar doesn't happen to you. Oh, and if your landlord starts leaving keys out, move. About the Author: B.D. lives with his beautiful new bride in St. Louis where they are expecting their first child in May. Dear Mr. Rawles, As a pharmacist of more years than I like to admit, I would like to make a few comments and additions regarding Jason J.'s recent excellent post on "The Core Kit - First Aid and Beyond". First, I must thank Jason for his time, knowledge, and insight, as well as for his service to our country. His sense of humor was well-received as well! My comments are minor, but may clarify/enhance an issue or two. First, as Jason suggests, it is wise to follow "Universal Precautions" whenever you are dealing with the blood or bodily fluids of someone else. In the health care field, these precautions simply mean to protect yourself as if the unknown person has a blood-borne disease, whether you know it to be true or not. However, thankfully, Jason's statement: "Realize that every person has unique blood. This includes pathogens. We all have something in our blood we should not pass around" | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 452,566 |
than 1,000 years. Has Pfister found any period in the past as warm as the 1980s and '90s? CHRISTIAN PFISTER: We had other periods which was also very warm, but it was equivalent to the 20th century prior to 1988. I would say this was a period of warm climate, but I would say it was a period of warm natural climate. With the period between 1988 and 1997, there's absolutely no equivalent as far as I can look back. NARRATOR: But this technique, too, is limited. Only a few areas, like Europe, have long-term records which survive. To get a handle on the global climate, scientists have been forced to go beyond human accounts of the weather. Five hundred miles from the North Pole, a frozen lake will be home to a team of scientists for the next few weeks. It's part of an international effort to try and reconstruct the climates of the past. RAYMOND S. BRADLEY, University of Massachusetts: We are here in the Canadian high Arctic, on Ellsmere Island, about 500 miles from the North Pole. And it might seem strange that we would come to this kind of environment to study the problem of global warming. But what we need to do is try to reconstruct the longer-term history of climate, and we do that by using so-called natural archives of climate, things that in some way retain in their structure a measure of how the climate has varied in the past. NARRATOR: Bradley and | SP | SP IT TA | 233,775 |
to finish was in his mid 40s, overweight and not what you would expect to see in an half ironman athlete...but he had so much heart and determination! He made me so excited to see him cross that finish line with his son arm in arm! Makes me believe that someday i can finish that race too! hopefully in january when i do my first marathon there will be people waiting for me at the finish line..cuz i'll be in the back of the pack...but i will finish! I too love to watch the back of the pack finish. The first runners are exciting to watch-the back of the pack are touching to watch. Their determination is contagious and inspiring. I recently ran my first half marathon and finished in the back third of the runners. I was so thankful for all of the people who waited and cheered me on. I am determined to do the same for every runner who finishes after me. I'm not fast......but I finish! thanks for answering my question! I'm surprised everyone else feels the same as you do because for me, when I finished my 10k at the very back, I felt defeated and embarrassed, not even really proud. I feel like I knew I could finish, I just wanted to finish in a respectful amount of time. and 2nd to last isn't so respectful! maybe I'd feel differently if there had been someone like you there to cheer me on! :) How | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 3,266,046 |
that to be successful in the future, a company must control the hardware, software, and services it offers its customers. For Microsoft, this is a tricky road to travel. Microsoft became a powerhouse off the backs of the PC companies and Intel and AMD, which supported its OS platform. But for Microsoft to truly be competitive, it should design and own the platform itself since it can't always count on its hardware partners for support. Indeed, many of its partners also have Android devices and their loyalty to Microsoft is not as strong as it had been when it was just a WinTel world. The OEMs are already reeling because Microsoft made its own branded Surface tablet/hybrid, and its Windows Phone partners fully expect Microsoft to unveil a smartphone shortly. Personally, I would not be surprised if it announced its own laptop because Redmond feels its partners aren't totally committed given the dynamic changes in the market. Considering the problems of some of its PC vendors, Microsoft may even think that either some consolidation will take place or that some will get out of the PC business altogether, as IBM did in 2005. This is why Microsoft wants to be more like Apple. Apple's formula for success today is also the formula for success in the future. Therefore, it is in Microsoft's best interests to drive down a path where it has full control of its hardware, software, and services. Apple has an 11 year lead on Microsoft, and Amazon | IN | IN IB | 547,195 |
with our own perceptions of ourselves. One key feature (IMO) for a successful sexual relationship is that the woman feels safe to express herself. Another problem that women face, besides the media, is a double standard when it comes to us being sexual. This may come from religion, upbringing, coming from a conservative background, etc. Here's an example: I was raised Roman Catholic. I am not religious and only part of my family is. Religion and being conservative teaches women that sex is dirty, not holy, only for procreation, and you are a bad person if you go around enjoying it. It supresses/makes us feels bad about our bodies and desires. Still today, it's perfectly normal for a man to be sexual- he is even encouraged to do so. For women, if you are- you're a slut or worse. Then we have the flip side- the media. Where we are encouraged to be sexual and beautiful- impossible standards. It's scary that pre-teens are now dressing as if they are 18 or older. Message here- you don't matter or men won't like you if you're not beautiful or sexy. Confusing, no? 47616902 wrote: So it makes total sense that if a woman had a doll, with whom all of the issues of appearance no longer apply, and there is no fear of betrayal, exploitation, or taking for granted, then it would stand to reason that a woman with a doll could enjoy that doll more because it's not an uphill battle | ID | ID DF | 3,334,877 |
permanently disqualified from . . . pretty much everything outside self-employment. I've probably ticked even one or two of you conservatives off with this post. Here is the question I would ask you: Why? Why are you ticked off? If you're a woman, the reason you are ticked off is because you put yourself and your desire to assert your will above the well-being of society in general. I don't feel that way. I would give up my vote in a HEARTBEAT if it meant that right-ordered marriage, family and sexuality was restored to our culture. I would rather that my little female namesakes grow up in a world where they did not have the right to vote, but were treated with dignity and respect, were addressed as "ma'am", had doors held for them, and wherein men stood up when they entered the room. I would rather they be courted properly and then marry men who would never, ever leave them, and would consider it their sacred duty and honor to protect and provide for their wives and their children because he LOVED them. Oh, HELL yes. I'll give up my vote in exchange for that any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Why wouldn't you? For you men who don't like my position, you're just a slave to political correctness. It's the same thing as the rap music. No one will criticize rap music because it is forbidden by the P.C. culture to criticize a non-white cultural | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,178,785 |
I Am Not a Rock Star: A fascinating musical journey, from intro to finale RICK GROEN The Globe and Mail Last updated Friday, Nov. 16 2012, 12:50 PM EST What becomes a documentary most? Time, perhaps, the luxury to study and shoot the subject over a period long enough to transform your film from a snapshot to a moving picture. In the case of I Am Not a Rock Star , that luxury is a necessity, since the focus here -- like Michael Apted's 7 Up series or Nikita Mikhalkov's Anna -- is on the growth and development of a child. Like all children, this girl is unique. Unlike most, she's also uniquely gifted: Marika Bournaki is a piano prodigy. Director Bobbi Jo Hart's camera tracks her through the entirety of teenagedom's turbulent course, from 12 all the way to 20. Yes, classical music abounds -- Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Bach -- and it's an aural delight. No doubt, better educated ears than mine will appreciate the maturing of Marika's technique, her evolution from prodigy to professional, raw talent acquiring its hard-earned polish. But that is not really Hart's purpose here. Instead, she sets herself a much more sensitive task -- weaving the special circumstances of this particular teenage into the common fabric of every teenager. It proves to be fascinating exercise, with stops at approximately two-year intervals. First, then, the self-assured 12-year-old: Marika, in her native Montreal, switching effortlessly from French to English and back again; Marika, in New York, already | OP | OP RV | 219,937 |
Finding the Best of Aluminum Windows For the very best of the aluminum windows you can get for your home , you will need to do research to determine where you should buy and who you should have them install them for you. These are going to be two important aspects of this particular home improvement project. When you are ready to get started with the project, first make sure that you are ready financially to undertake the project. This is going to be very important, as you don't want to spend money on the project that you don't have. This is why developing a budget is very important for any home improvement project. When you are ready to get started, you should first think about the total cost of the windows themselves and the installation. After you have thought about this and have a total, then compare this to the amount of money you have that can be spent on home improvement. If the amount needed is more than the amount you have set aside, it will be better to wait until you have enough. You don't want to get half way in a project and discover that you are spending too much money to finish! Once you have figured out you can safely afford the project, it will be time for the fun part: picking out your new aluminum windows. As you think about which windows you want, always be sure that you are absolutely satisfied with your | HI | HI HT | 3,715,113 |
compete with the internet. For my tastes this involves instruction, innovation and inspiration (that wasn't supposed to come out alliterative...). I don't need another book full of basic recipes, I have google for that. It is far easier and cheaper to google "traditional buttermilk biscuits" and let the search algorithm and reviews pick the best classic. Books like Ratio (hey, didn't you write that?) teach me how to create, not assemble. What happens if I swap out the 2 parts liquid with a mixture of bourbon and water, for example? I'm generalizing, of course. I love 'classic' cookbooks too, they certainly have a place in my kitchen, but the internet has been the biggest influence on the new books that I buy. For me, what makes a cookbook successful is two things: 1) Does it inspire me to cook? 2) Does it teach me something or make something more clear? The Ratio did both. It took the fear of baking bread for me -- a process I'd done for years, but had enough mystery in it that I was afraid to deviate from the recipe at all. (Thank you, Michael!) And it made me want to experiment. There were lots of 1/4 lb cakes while I experimented with techniques for pound and sponge because I just couldn't believe the difference the technique made in the exact same ingredients. (I had more fun in my kitchen after The Ratio came out than I've had in years.) For a normal "recipe" book, | HI | HI HT | 478,414 |
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who is learning to signal when she detects a scent, is supposed to select the vanillin, a training aid that will later be switched to ammonium nitrate used in explosives. If she selects correctly, she'll be rewarded with a treat. She gets the first one right, choosing vanillin, misses the next two, but then got the fourth one right. At that point, she was averaging 50-50, which is not good, but she was still a beginner with time to learn. Biting machine? Though war dogs may be high profile these days -- thanks in part to Cairo , the Belgian Malinois who accompanied Navy Seals on the Osama bin Laden raid -- there were virtually no deployed military bomb dogs working on battlefields when the US invaded Iraq, and hadn't been for decades. After the Vietnam War, the military's working dog programme was handed over to the Air Force, which used them to patrol missile fields in the United States. Those dogs were used to being guided on leashes, living in air-conditioned kennels and working limited shifts: a far cry from a war zone. That quickly changed with the arrival of IEDs and in 2007, 13 dogs -- all Labs -- were deployed with the Marines to Iraq and Afghanistan. When the dogs started finding bombs, Marines asked for more, and today there are some 600 dogs. Whilst successful, they were all essentially prototypes for the next generation of bomb dog. "After we do all this science, we're going to | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,437,112 |
what we want better than we do. Our nation is indeed in decline, and people like him are leading us there. This may be the first time in American history that the next generation of Americans will have a harder time being successful than we did. And we have the government to thank. It is time for new leadership in this country. We need leaders who will step up to the plate and stop blaming others for the circumstances we are in. Blaming others will not solve the problems, and solve them we must. We need true leaders who value the rich and poor alike. Our next President needs to understand that he or she is the President of ALL Americans, not just the poor, or the middle class, but the rich as well. We should celebrate the economic diversity that this nation has produced rather than trying to tear down the successful Americans who pay the vast majority of the taxes collected. Our politicians have made "wealth envy" a national fad. Shame on us as voters for electing these cads. Let's show some good old American Christmas spirit this season. Let's find a rich person and buy them a drink. Tell them how much you appreciate their tax contributions and ask them to keep paying their taxes, keep working hard, and please don't move to China. We need more wealthy people in this country. The richer people get the more they spend. With 70 percent of our economy based | OP | OP OB | 3,179,315 |
spend 3 hours trying to explain to them that we needed shots of the boats from behind and they kept saying, "Why don't you just rotate the boat?" I was contacted to do a branding project for a client who sold fruit juice locally. He came to my office and presented me with a storyboard of how the introduction animation for his website should run: The first few slides show a banana, pineapple, peach and strawberry happily dancing and cheering as they walk around in circles. About three or four slides in, they all jump into a working blender and their juices splatter all over the screen. The last slide is just their logo slowly fading in. He was dead serious. Not long ago, at a gas station in Truro, Nova Scotia (which is to say many degrees removed from the centre of the hip universe), I saw a poster featuring an image of a rat surfing a big wave. The whole thing was done in retro tones and styles, and there was a little tagline/logo in the top corner in '70s travel poster font and colours reading "Tropical Cheddar." It was an ad for a tropical cheddar slush, which does not taste like cheese, I'm told, but is the colour of cheap fast-food "cheddar" and probably tastes at least vaguely like tropical fruit. Asked my adland pal about it, he said, simply: "You are not the target." I find this to be an entirely legitimate complaint. And it reminds | ID | ID DF | 3,254,323 |
I suit the twitness but it's just not for me really. What advice would you give to young fans who'd like to go into acting themselves? Join the National Youth Theatre. Go online tomorrow and join that, it's a great start and a great way into acting. It's an education in performance. Then go to watch plays, see as many stage productions as you can. Obviously watch films as well, just really try and study it from an early age. Speaking of fans, what shows are you a fan of? I love Breaking Bad, I love The Walking Dead, I just love Zombies! I've been watching a lot of Dexter lately, which is cool. He's a cool character. How would you feel about seeing the Doctor turn darker? That's a question for Steven really, I wouldn't want to assume story wise what he would put off. But if you consider the history of the man all the empires and people he's lost along the way. I mean his own race he basically pressed the button. So there's a lot of blood on his hands. Which is why I think ultimately he's so daft and happy! It means so much for fans to meet you but have you had any weird, special or memorable fan encounters yourself? Oh yeah, Loads. When I first started and the majority of the Whovians out there in the world hated me, these people called the 11 th Doctor club sent me this book of letters, | SP | SP IT | 3,118,657 |
Canada. They then compare the two nations using a "health utility index" and the percent of people with pain that limits their activities. For both of these, Canadians do better than Americans, until minorities are subtracted from the population. Finally, they compare the prevalence of chronic condition like diabetes, emphysema and arthritis in the two nations, and the proportion of people with each condition who are getting treatment. They conclude that while slightly more Americans are chronically ill, more of them are getting treatment. But millions of uninsured Americans with chronic illnesses like diabetes or high blood pressure are unaware of their diagnoses because they can't afford the doctors visit or lab test needed to make the diagnosis. Surveys will not identify undiagnosed persons as having chronic disease. Hence, the proportion getting treatment is falsely inflated in the U.S. Moreover, even the differences they cite to favor the U.S. are not statistically significant. Hence, a more accurate depiction of the data would state that among people who know of their diagnoses, rates of care are similar in the two nations. 3-More Americans get cancer screening and the U.S. has more high tech health resources than Canada For mammography, they include all women 40-69 in their calculation of screening rates. But neither the American College of Physicians nor the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommend mammograms for all women 40-50. Mammograms for women in this age group leads to more breast surgery and other cancer treatments, but has not | HI | HI FH | 570,618 |
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