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Debunking a myth: If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear The idea that an individual can live in a surveillance society with nothing to fear so long as they have nothing to hide may, on the face of it, appear attractive. For those of us who think of ourselves as 'honest' - we pay our taxes, don't commit murders and are loyal to our partners - why indeed should we fear surveillance? "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" (NTHNTF) is a myth that is built on certain false assumptions, and these assumptions are never questioned when it is wheeled out as an argument to support whatever draconian surveillance measure is being pushed out in the face of citizen opposition (commercial organisations rarely try such an approach, since it dooms them to failure from the very beginning). These assumptions include: Continuity : When a large data gathering exercise is started, the lifespan of the system will almost always be greater than that of its instigators. The most benign and caring government, authority or private company is inevitably subject to a change of management, and if the new executive does not share their moral stance, then data can be reused for very dangerous purposes. Those who provided data believing they had nothing to fear may find that data is misused in the future. Context: Those who use the NTHNTF argument most commonly use it in the context of government collecting information about individuals. In the information age, the | IP | IP PA | 3,073,589 |
you think they mean.t to kill him. It happened in new zealand. Moodymagic, i wonder if ben has anything to do with his mother? If that were me i'd be pretty pissed off with her. And i certainly wouldn't let her near my child. If she can stand by and watch the boyfriend beat her child to death, and then reward him with marriage, i wouldn't let her look after a dog turd. I hope that ben has a good life and judging by the picture of him and his daughter, i think he's doing ok, and thats lovely to name his little girl after his brother. You know the fact that no one reported the abuse the entire time does not surprise me one bit. I have said before my siblings and I had a pretty shitty stick dealt our way as far as parents go and there were numerous occasions in which because of some sort of physical abuse or neglect resulted in me or my sis's in the hospital or doc and even telling these docs what happened and nothing was done. I remember going to my teacher and begging for her help, I told her we didn't always get food at night, my parents fought violently and drank all night. I cried to her. And NOTHING ever happened. Luckily we weren't as bad off as poor Daniel. He would have been my age.That evil cunt can't blame the "system" for her baby's death.Sorry for that long | IN | IN DP | 3,751,310 |
pueblo de Los Angeles. Not sure why beach volleyball has made it yet surfing and 5 a side footie and rugby sevens haven't. Surfing is too unpredictable, there is already football. Rugby sevens is something though I feel should be there. Tell you what though, you'd almost bet your house on Tiger Woods winning the gold in Golf in four years time. As much as he's been a bit rubbish lately, I reckon a good few would crack under the pressure of playing not only alongside him, but for the competition they can only win once every four years. Normally they only have to contend with the tiger factor which is hard enough. I reckon they could jazz up the fencing by making them do part of it on a staircase with some bonus points available if you get the chandelier on the rope to fall near your opponent. A table piled with goblets and food should be made available for leaping onto as well.. Because the players are some of the richest athletes in the world and the olympics are but a mere sideshow. Basketball is especially farcical because the American's win it almost everytime, simply because no other countries really give two shits about basketball. Dressage Shooting BMX In fact the only events IMO that should be included are: all track and field events, all swimming events, all cycling events and all gymnasitc events. I'm not keen on sports where developing nations obviously have no chance, like dressage | ID | ID DF | 261,425 |
as buying lunch or choosing which clothes to wear). Talk about it the night before when everybody has time and is less likely to be stressed. Try to read school newsletters and check bags for notes the night before. You could also try to prepare clothes, sign school notes, and get schoolbags ready the night before. In the morning Getting up an extra 15-30 minutes earlier might help things run more smoothly. Also try to allow plenty of time to get from home to school. Rushing can really increase stress levels. Good moods can be infectious. Tackle the morning as positively and as optimistically as you can. Mornings are easier if your children can do things for themselves. Once your children are old enough, getting dressed on their own, making their own breakfast, and tidying up after themselves can all make things easier. If your children are young, remind them what they are meant to be doing and when. Simple 'to do' checklists, even with pictures, can help as a reminder. Some children get up more easily if they have an alarm clock . Try to cut down on distractions . Television is one of the culprits that can distract children from getting ready. Consider leaving it off, unless it's a special treat for being ready on time. Focus on the positives. A rule of thumb here is six positives for every negative. Look for good behaviour and try to ensure that positive comments -- praise and encouragement -- outweigh | HI | HI HT | 735,639 |
my Outlook but when use the registry Booster to scan I got more error messages. So apparently these errors from Outlook is mucking up my registry. Anyone has any idea about this problem? Please help. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Helen. Firstly, you certainly do not need any registry boosters to solve Outlook data file issues - was this a recommendation made by someone, or was this suggested to you by an automated pop-up? If its the latter, is there any chance you could be infected by some sort of malware? To solve the Outlook issue, do you know where your Outlook data file is being stored? Can you do a search on your computer for all files with this extension: .pst Post back here with your findings. Also, can you tell us about your current system : what anti-virus software are you using. I'm a bit concerned about this Registry Booster : generally speaking, in most cases you really do not need/want to be mucking with the registry at all. Thank you kindly for your help. I'm afraid I have purchased the software online and used it. It found more than 300 errors fromt the registry and fixed it. After that, I was able to see the latest sent mails from the Sent Items folder again. When I checked with Microsoft support I got a pop up about this Registry Booster. They claimed that they are Microsoft Partner. I thought that they are legit. I'm using Norton | ID | ID DF | 31,910 |
state formation in Asia in the late 19th century. Despite the economic rise of East Asia since the Second World War border disputes remain an enduring legacy of the late 19th century when sharp differences of power existed between countries that understood the ways of the West, such as Russia and Japan, and those, such as China, which were less swift to respond. The fact that Japan had temporarily triumphed over the islands did not necessarily mean that an alternative worldview based on a different vision of legitimacy was completely wiped out. Tensions have subsided, probably briefly, in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of Japan's north-east coast in March. Yet Japan has ongoing border disputes not only with China but also with Russia and Korea. While these were marginal issues during the peak of its postwar economic expansion, since the 1990s gradual shifts in the balance of power in the region have highlighted Japan's vulnerabilities in acute ways. As the discrepancy between the territorial status quo and the political and economic balance of power becomes more glaring in East Asia, the potential for conflict will only increase. | NARRATIVE | NA HA NE | 204,479 |
easy ways to communicate. Nowadays if you feel lonely you can step into an internet cafe and just call home. Sometimes I meet people who spend all their time connecting back home and then I wonder why they're travelling. It does happen that you feel lonely but when you're with likeminded people who are excited about travelling, the excitement will rub off on you too. Maybe you won't be able to share the sunset with that someone special but you'll have 3 or 4 new friends to share it with and to me that is just as good. Any final tips for women travelling solo? It's not a big, bad world out there -- use your common sense just as you would at home. Lock your door at night, don't put yourself in vulnerable situations, just as you would at home. It's about being aware of your surroundings and being sensible just as you would at home. The best advice I can give women is to get out there and just do it. Don't stay at home until the time is right, there'll never be a right time, that time is now. | NARRATIVE | null | 3,092,828 |
I don't think it looks too bad. WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T SHAVE IT ALL! I can't imagine it suiting your face shape and it would look bad. Just leave it and hopefully it will grow back quickly but if not maybe brush it down or something or maybe shave the other side... Source(s): i'm a girl, and I had half my head shaved a while back. I love it, and I honestly think it suits you. seeing as your hair is already quite short, i'm not sure how you can fix this. because I have longer hair, I can cover the shaved side if I really want to. wear a beanie or a hat? then everyone will just see your side swept fringe. I have to shave pretty much every week, the hair grows back so fast! so I reckon you'd only need to wait a couple of months before it grows back. if you really can't stand it, see what the barber can do. maybe you'll have to shave the rest of it off. I actually like it though, but maybe i'm partial to the whole shaved head thing. | ID | ID QA | 388,564 |
alternatives and understood the risks" - On RU486, 6 February 2006. "Even if dispossession is taken to mean that government has a higher responsibility to Aborigines than to other Australians, the production of beautiful art and connectedness to the land does not warrant the maintenance of a way of life also characterised by unemployment, substance abuse and domestic violence. If people choose to live in difficult to service places, that's their business." - From an article published in The Australian, 27 June 2008. "I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons" - Quote from an undergraduate piece he wrote on feminism, featured in this GetUp ad that also highlights other quotes. "You don't have to be a Catholic to be troubled by the current abortion culture" - From Sunday Profile, 12 June 2005. "The Government accepts that some 14 and 15-year-olds might prefer that their parents not know about the medical procedures they have had or the prescription drugs they are on. But children should not be presumed to be the best judges of their own long-term interests and should not have the right to go behind their parents' backs... The real issue here is whether 14 and 15-year-olds can make informed decisions about what is right and wrong for them. And if they don't have that capacity, should they be allowed | OP | OP OB | 635,674 |
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About the poet Allan Ahlberg (b. 1938) is one of Britain's best-loved children's writers. The author of over a hundred books, Allan has been delighting children of all ages for more than thirty years. Classic characters like Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman have become firm favourites with a generation of children who are now reading them to their own offspring. Allan's work - particularly in partnership with his first wife, Janet - has been recognised by many of the top awards in children's books, including The Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), The Children's Book Award (twice) and The Signal Poetry Award. Innovative, funny and moving, his work encompasses storybooks, picture books, easy readers, joke books and novels as well as poems. Allan used to work as a teacher and perhaps this is one of the reasons his writing shows such a sharp insight into the hearts and minds of young children. His poems provide vivid glimpses into the colourful life of school: what exactly is it that's hiding in Harrison's desk? Where does Billy McBone's mind get to? And just what did happen to all those scissors? Although his poems are often amusing, he doesn't ignore the more painful side of school as in the poignant monologue 'Slow Reader' or the memory of 'The Boy Without a Name'. Allan also draws on his own Black Country childhood in poems like 'The Match c. 1950' and 'Cemetery Road'. Football is an abiding passion. His choice of poems from Friendly Matches - | LY | LY PO | 660,504 |
surprisingly not that bad because he uses so little and it balances out a bit with the potassium. He said that it's damn-near impossible to stay under the sodium RDI on 2,500 calories. I agreed - it's very hard, but not impossible. His maintance calories are, indeed, around 3,000 while sedentary. For a shock comparison my calories to maintain would be around 1,600 - if my metabolism were functioning correctly. If we both ate 2,500 calories, I would gain 1kg/2lb a week and he would lose 0.5kg/1lb a week. I'm guessing the scales will be coming back out from hiding, at least sometimes. Mum is trying to 'get back on track' and my brother is looking at his diet for the first time. Either way, weight loss is in the air. I'm certainly not going to say that I'm going to restrict again because my family are dieting. I was planning to lose weight again anyway. I was going to wait another two months or so, but I'm having trouble waiting. Maybe one more week. I need to get plans and lists made and calculations done and make sure I've got a sustainable plan. The only trouble is, I don't know when to stop. I won't stop. 3 comments: Honey... I understand you want to lose weight, like, it's just a part of anorexia (though it's more complex than that), and I won't tell you to EAT like most people would. I struggle with disordered eating as well (something between | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 3,154,666 |
It is true that we are barracking for laundry, but the question is why? Why do we get so worked up and so emotional over this laundry? The predictable answer is tribalism, but I'm not sure this explains it, as most people who support their clubs live out in the burbs, country towns or even different cities, a long way from the spiritual homes of these clubs. If you look at how we start barracking for a particular club -- if not passed down from parents -- it is usually some trivial incident in the school yard, or some eccentric relative who hands us a beanie or scarf. As we grow older, it then becomes a case of identity. Our sense of identity is linked to this club. It's a bit like nationalism or even religion. Thus, I think barracking has more to do with pride, insecurity and fear than anything else. The Club was written in 1977 -- mostly about events at Collingwood in 1974-6 but events at other clubs are also portrayed in the story (e.g. Collingwood did not have a hushed-up sex scandal in the mid seventies but at least two other VFL clubs did) This was really the start of the modern professional period. Football has moved a long way further from the game of suburban loyalties in the intervening 35 years. In 1977, players were zoned and in the case of Melbourne (inc. Geelong) based players they were likely to be playing for the team | OP | OP | 3,317,687 |
that all of these things are total up to him, as though at a whim his will be done shadowing jesus himself. This is not the case and it never will be, as long as the U.S. exists and we follow our current Constitution. Now, now, the strongest power of Presidency really boils down to three things and I think that our interviewee really hit one of them on the head. You hit the other on the head, and one has yet to be mentioned. -(Interviewee's point) Foreign Policy (Not economic) -(Your only good point) Power to appoint (which is not the same as having the positions himself!) -(Unmentioned) Power to veto Congress (which can prevent legislation that he finds undesirable unless his veto is overuled) Now you might disagree. You think that when a president gives a speech or says certain things, promotes certain bills in Congress, that he has a rippling effect on the economy. You might even go so far as to assume that this is a direct control (which it is not). This would not be incorrect but to attempt to quantify his power, or assume the power exists just based on the implications of words that every citizen of our country can interpret in their own fashion and may pay absolutely no attention is simply ludicrious. The powers of the president are not unlimited. Your original argument makes it sound like the President runs the Fed, the Board of Governors, micro-manages his entire cabinant, choses | SP | SP IT | 1,405,999 |
possible for symptoms to come on at 76 years old, earlier, or even later. If you are interested, while there is no existing cure for HD, recent research is suggesting that living a healthy and active lifestyle can protect the brain against HD. For more information click here . I hope this answers your question. All the best. For a while now we know that past generations have died from HD... My question is about my mum (64) and her sister (57). The sister had the test and was negative does this mean my mum won't have it? - Stewart (43) Hi Stewart, Unfornutalely your aunty's gene negative result does not influence your mother's gene status. Because one of their parents had HD they both had/have a 50% chance of inheriting the faulty gene. Regrettably, your mother still has a 50% chance of inheriting HD. If she hasn't shown any symptoms yet that is a really good sign but, again, to be sure she is gene negative she would need to go through the genetic testing process. If you feel the need to get more information you should definitely contact your local HD Association. I hope this helps. All the best. Do both parents have to have the gene HD for their child to get HD or just one of the parents? - Megan (18) Hi Megan, Unfortunately it only takes one parent to have the gene in order for their children to be at risk. If somebody is gene | ID | ID QA | 618,491 |
said "I am a lover not a fighter" i took your word for it that you were not a shyster and then we went for a drink and then you wanted another and so the story goes, you set yourself on fire with heart of gold it did unfold, it did transpire that i'd teamed up with one as mad as a hatter you beamed and then you screamed, "unfolding doesn't matter" yelling "yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i got a top floor to let" some people say you only do things for attention that you're just looking for a liabilities pension I ask myself "is this really worth the care?" I face the facts and then i reckon yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i got a top floor to let and when the peas were burned by my wondering mind a lesson I should have learned for the very next time and still I signed a contract with a friend of mine a blank piece of paper with a dotted line i wrote upon it yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah got a top floor to let once upon a time in the west midlands there lived a man, he wrote a song fought for words as a consequence as if there was any chance of faking his heart or pandering to failing bring on that entrancing girl and watch his heart sink oh god I would not bet against him giving his all, completely genuine and oh lord well | LY | LY SL | 276,708 |
Coming home again To see a girl thats prettier than a diamond shining in the sun Oh what fun! I wonder if she's been naked in her room since I've been gone I wonder if she's said to them as she said to me before However much you use me baby, come on use me more However much you use me baby, come on use me more Getting off the train To see a girl thats sweeter than an apple picked from Adam's tree Oh glory be! And I wonder if she's been pressed against an unfamiliar wall And said to all those men as she said to me before However much you want me, I swear I'll make you want me more However much you want me, I swear I'll make you want me more and more and more and more La-la-la, la la la la Arriving at the door Just to be told that the girl I'm missing has been in London for a while No more northern skies for her They say she's left a letter up the stair for everyone It's pinned against her bedroom door for all the world to see and she says However much I love you, you will always love me more However much I love you, you will always love me more And I guess it's true However much she loves me I will always love her more La-la-la la la la la I'll love you more and more, I'll love | LY | LY SL | 609,859 |
level of competence in social and legal matters (Hedrich, 2004). For example, the survey of clients of 18 German facilities found that 95% were happy or very happy with services, and that 70% were satisfied with the opening hours (despite many German facilities being open only part of the day) (Poschadel et al., 2002). "However, a sample of drug users in Berlin who had never used SISs mentioned a lack of consumer friendliness (e.g., opening hours and regulations) and the high level of social control as the main reasons for non-use (Schu, et al. 2005). When a non-representative survey of clients of 18 SISs across Germany asked why they thought fellow drug users did not use SISs , the following reasons were cited: loss of anonymity; fear of police presence; possible wait times; distance to the facility. Clients of this same survey were also asked what they liked best about SISs (selective mentions, and not necessarily in rank order): hygienic environment (48%); opportunity to use calmly and safely and without fear of the police (47%); available medical care and emergency assistance (36%); less need to use in public (31%); use of ancillary services (22.6%); needle exchange program (22%) (Poschadel, et al. 2002)." A13: Views of local stakeholders and the general public INSITE service Letters in support of the service from the Mayor of Vancouver, the Chief Constable, the Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV /AIDS, the Director of the BC Centre for Disease Control, the Chief Medical | IN | IN FI | 420,115 |
Know your ISP. Ok, so my kid is in grade 2 and today when my wife went to pick him up from school, one of his class mate's dad walked up to the car and started threatening my boy saying that stay away from my child and that he can be very nasty. My wife was trying to reason with him but he just kept going on and on. He said all those things and then went away. My wife then started talking to my son to find out what is going on. He then turned his car and again came to my wife's car and again went on along similar lines. What she could gather from this was that my son did something naughty to his boy. The father of that boy also said that he did not want his son to be in son's class and my son is very naughty. So after this tirade, my wife was bit shook up and she called me. I was at work at that time and asked her to give the boy's number. I called his dad and when I mentioned that you were threatening my wife and kid, he said he did not do it and that my wife must be lying. My son's been going to same school for three years and not once have we had a complain against him. The other boys father was trying to portray my boy as the bad apple of his class. The | ID | ID DF | 505,291 |
the system'. I would love to see some of the methodology in this book applied to some basic business ethics cases - of course, the prerequisite is to get the accurate source data in the first place. But in the meantime I recommend this book to anyone who would like to get a sense of how you move beyond the obvious. If you're not challenging your preconceptions about how things work at least once a month, you're in danger of getting complacent. This is the book I am reading at the moment, and it's absolutely fascinating stuff. The central proposition is that a lot of experts post-rationalise why successful companies have succeeded, or failed, and that these rationalisations although the claim to be based on analysis are flaky at best. In some ways, this plays to my existing beliefs - I have been banging on for years about dodgy arguments made in support of the business case for CSR - anything that pretends you can draw a line of cause and effect between responsible business practice and superior financial results. This book is a much better articulated version - not specific to CSR in any way, but no less directly relevant for that. In other ways, it delights me by challenging my beliefs. I am a great fan, for instance, of the Collins & Porras 'Built to Last' book - which is one of the most influential pieces of research about what makes an enduringly successful company. The assumptions behind | OP | OP | 1,463,802 |
Festina? The fear against speaking out occurs in day to day life, never mind in the mafia-type Omert in professional cycling. What you're being is an UN-healthy cynic. There really are some daft comments on here. David, the events of the past week didn't surprise me at all. The basic bones of the allegations, testimony and circumstantial evidence around Armstrong have been in the public arena for at least 6 years. Even though the Federal investigation had been stopped it was obvious that it wasn't going to just go away. My point here, is that you comparing the massive volume of evidence against Armstrong (which was always going to erupt sooner or later) with weak, guilty-by-association comments about Cavendish is just not valid. I find it very unlikely that Barry told Cav much if anything. Even if he did, he would probably have discussed his past only in confidence. That doesn't make Cavendish a doper, nor complicit in Michael Barry's misdemeanours. Not all cyclists dope. Even in the worst period in the sports history, they didn't all dope. So let's just stick to facts here and not assume they're guilty because they shared a hotel room with someone who used to dope 7 years ago. On the other hand, I share your hope about critical mass. A lot of people wanted to 'move on' from the Lance stuff, but my view is that his 'legacy' still had too strong a grip on the sport. Maybe a few teams and the | OP | OP OB | 3,029,000 |
but hey ho. First I wanted to be a ballet dancer (aged 5), but I was too shy to have people watch me so stopped doing the lessons. Then I wanted to be an author (from about 7 onwards until now) but am too lazy and easily distracted to keep at it. Several books started but never finished due to going off each idea and self-doubt. Then a primary school teacher (from about 11) but due to a number of reasons never followed it up. Did a degree in PR thinking it would be creative and glamorous but realised it wasn't for me. Ended up a secretary and housewife. I have realised that I am all about wasted potential but it's okay. I'll either get down to the writing or I'll continue on in obscurity, but I'm busy raising my son and that's my priority right now. Nope didnt have a clue. I'm now 47 and still don't have a clue. I've gone from job to job with no game plan, just doing it to get money to pay bills. I'm now too old to worry about what job I would like to have, anything descent is beyond me now. IMO wanting to be something or have a particular job when you are a kid is a waste of time. Chances are it's not going to happen unless you are lucky. How many people have been to university to get a particular job and endced up not getting that job | ID | ID DF | 228,202 |
First Bite Lyrics More Than a Thousand The world of the the dead Sings at your door That's why you can't sleep at night You've haunting this city for too long Hiding underneath the london fog You were bitten first on the darkest of nights. Now you'll be living this life forever And no one is ready for this, and no one is ready for this, But i'm not afraid to die ::::Refrao:::: It's in your eyes, under your skin and i don't understand up in the sky, on the blackest night come down and take my hand. Every minute you live someone dies I swear that I have tried Only to find that I am lost again :::::::::::::: Another night, The streets are filled whit filth and shit They smell like blood and cheap wine You live in the depths of forever but i will find you You live in the depths of forever but i will hunt you down You were bitten first on the darkest of nights. Now you'll be living this life forever And no one is ready for this, and no one is ready for this, But i'm not afraid to die It's in your eyes, under your skin and i don't understand up in the sky, on the blackest night come down and take my hand. Every minute you live someone dies I swear that I have tried Only to find that I am lost again Like an anchor, All i do is drag | LY | LY SL | 138,926 |
taking care of male or female but only taking care of interview person. So who has the better skill can join the company without any gender attention. So please stop debate on male and female and talk about the Web design thing. | SP | SP IT | 3,259,252 |
Holden than any other brand; according to the latest Roy Morgan Automotive Currency data. Approximately 3.2 million New Zealanders aged 14+ read their mail in an average 7 day period in the past year, according to the latest Roy Morgan Research findings, collected in the 12 months to Jan 2012. The Roy Morgan State of the Nation Report 11, which includes a focus on rural Australia, has uncovered interesting data on the health of those living in the country. Compared to those living in cities, they are more likely to consume alcohol, smoke cigarettes and be overweight and obese. Roy Morgan Research has released the State of the Nation Report 11, which looks at the latest Australian trends within society, technology, the environment, politics and the economy. The report focuses a spotlight on 'Rural Australia', examining the differences in Australian life between those living in the two regions. Customer Satisfaction among business customers of the banks fell in April for the second month in a row to 65.1%, down from 65.6% in March 2012. Suncorp now leads the major banks at 67.8% satisfaction, marginally ahead of St George (67.5%). These are the latest findings from the Roy Morgan Business Banking Satisfaction Report. Roy Morgan Research has announced the best New Zealand businesses in terms of Customer Satisfaction for February. The Award winners are part of its ongoing tracking of New Zealand customer satisfaction. February's results show changes in finance, travel & tourism and retail categories. Australians who live in regional | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 724,010 |
What If I Posted A Series Of Posts For A Fee? I have been quite impressed with the idea Evan had to post an essay on Amazon and ask a very modest fee for payment. I have also loved and supported Lew's idea for the TV series American Beer Blogger funded through Kickstarter. They've got me thinking. The price point and revenue streams for writing about beer are minefields - ethical and otherwise. General search engine optimization ads on the blog are in decay due to aggregators like Google Reader [Ed.: waving hello to the 15,938 GR followers! ] taking activity away. And direct support from the beer trade for all beer writing just isn't what it used to be - if it ever was. So, I am wonder what the response would be if I posted a series of posts on a certain topic I have in mind and asked for a fee. The plan would be to place a brief summary or introduction on the blog and link to the longer text of each essay which folk could follow if interested through a micro-payment process. Would the following elements of that sort of idea be interesting to you or a turn off? ? The price would be low, say 49 cents if that price point is available. ? The posts would be longer than usual around here and each would be on elements on single even greater theme. ? The theme would be a proposal for a rethinking | OP | OP OB | 758,211 |
the second formatter, first we check if the module popups is active in the system, and then we add our formatter array that makes use of it. 2. Implement hook_theme In hook_theme() you also return an array of arrays, defining the theme_ functions that will take care of rendering the cck field content. 'element' will be the content of the cck field, that will be used as the parameter for our theme function. In the second function , first we put inside the variable $nid the nid of the referenced node, in order to build the id that we'll use on the link ($link_id). We need this so that we can tell popups to only use the js on those specific link. That way we avoid having to scan the whole document for popup links, making our site faster in the front end. Conclusion. Imagine for example, that your module also provides a default view. You can then use this view to pull out information depending on the content of a cck field. Any cck field that is using your formatter. No longer would you have to write complex and hard to maintain code in your template.php. You could just assign your formatter to any new field you create on any content type, reusing the same code. 14 responses to this article. Intimately, the article is really the sweetest on this worthwhile topic. I harmonise with your conclusions and will eagerly look forward to your approaching updates. Just saying thanks | HI | HI HT | 172,554 |
government to either block a strike or end one quickly. The government was working on back-to-work legislation when the airline and CAW reached a deal. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 681,578 |
Van Bemmel, thanks for joining us. How long does it take a new country to form a national identify and who's allowed to make their voices heard in the nation building process? Especially in states that, by force or attraction, have brought together divers ethnic and cultural groups. Where do people, now united by nationality and little else, begin to find cultural common ground? For the people of such patchwork nations, what mythologies have been tried and tossed or kept in the quest to build a national consensus on identity? Brazil is a case in point. Brazilians are the result of the collision of the Portuguese, the West Africans they imported and enslaved and the diverse indigenous Amerindian peoples of this very large chunk of the South American continent. Add to the mix the subsequent waves of immigrants from Europe, the Middle East and Asia.In this episode of Up Close, we ask Latin America Historian, Marshal Eakin, how Brazilians came to see themselves as having something in common with their fellow Brazilians of different culture, racial and class origins. How long did it take to forge a collective sense of being Brazilian? And, something that can be asked of all such nations, how do such national identity, once established, evolve and decline? Marshall Eakin is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University in the United States. He specialises in Brazilian history and has published numerous historical books on business and industry in Brazil, as well as on the process of nation | SP | SP IT | 3,307,935 |
Comment There was praise aplenty last week when Steve Jobs stepped aside as Apple CEO. Jobs was lauded as the saviour of newspapers and the man who halted the "inevitable" trend towards unpaid or low-paid production of free digital media. But like the Marshall Plan aid, the Jobs Plan aid came at a very high price. Newspapers don't need a saviour, for it is perfectly possible for newspapers to save themselves. Nobody forced newspaper publishers to give away their material for free. Or to bow to the now thoroughly discredited idea that premium content must be given away on the internet at marginal cost. The evangelists demanding this, as James Murdoch correctly pointed out, were simply out to build parasitic businesses on their backs, while peddling a utopian vision based on wishful thinking, not economic reality. But similarly, newspapers need not follow terms set out by Apple, and this week one of the most important publishers refused to knuckle under and was ejected from the party. It may be the best thing that ever happened to it. Apple insists on a 30 per cent cut of recurring subscription revenue, from all content companies, not just magazines and newspapers. Apple blocks companies from the Apple App Store if they dare direct potential subscribers around this tollbooth to a more complicated web signup form. Many publishers have complied, but Pearson's Financial Times , which already has a successful online subscription business, objected. Native apps have many advantages over web pages. The reader | IP | IP ED | 513,761 |
As part of our continuing series of "how tos," we thought it'd be interesting to show how you can easily create these same social experiences. We've put together a sample app using the Graph API that searches and presents an ordered list of the movies most liked amongst a user and her friends. To access the set of movies that a user and her friends like, you must first ask the user to authorize your app and request specific permissions : user_likes and friend_likes . The user authorizes your app by logging in to your site using their Facebook account. The simplest way to implement the login button is to use the Login button social plugin along with our JavaScript SDK as indicated below. The user_likes and friend_likes permissions are added as parameters: The end result is a list of movies sorted by the most liked amongst your friends. The full sample app is written entirely in Javascript and HTML. Run the app by clicking here . The sample app code is pasted below, but you can also "view source" on the site to see the entire source code. | HI | HI HT | 719,951 |
prices if the business does not have established relationships. With a franchise, the larger your franchise team becomes, the better pricing the franchisor can negotiate. You continue to stay ahead of the competition with better margins for your business. Ready-Made Branding -- With a sole company, there's marketing and cold calling and building up the business. Forward momentum is like a freight train pulling away from the station -- a slow, strained movement. Franchises have built-in brand and name recognition. Once your franchise is up and running, customers are seeking you out. Lower Risk Potential -- There is a potential for lower risk in a franchise because many of the mistakes have been made and needed changes incorporated into the business. There is a saying "you don't know what you don't know" and you make mistakes as learn along the way. With a franchise, you start with a greater knowledge base and there are much less unknowns for you do deal with, so this should equate to lower risk and a higher chance of success. The key is finding a franchise that has not only learned from their mistakes, but have also gone through the process of improving their franchise business as a result. Established Network -- If you are buying a company, you are pretty much on your own. Of course you can hire advisors and business coaches to improve chances of success, but success or failure is still all with you. In a franchise, you have an established | IP | IP | 3,749,533 |
The Different Types of People There Are on the Internet A comprehensive list of the different types of people there are on the internet, written by writers we love. People Who Are Embarrassing on Facebook These people are generally your mom or extended family, and in rare cases, they can be really good friends that simply don't 'get' the internet. If the embarrassing person is your mom, she'll usually comment on your Facebook wall on a too-regular basis stuff like "How's my baby boy?" and post the denim-themed, terribly humiliating family pictures you felt pressured into last year and tag you in every single one of them. People who are embarrassing on Facebook perhaps don't seem to understand the temporal and widespread aspects of the internet and Facebook i.e. once you comment on someone's wall "come over i miss u lets cuddle," everyone, including your exes and friends and potential love interests, could possibly see it. If that isn't the case -- that they don't understand the temporal and widespread aspects of the internet and Facebook -- the alternative is even more uncanny and disturbing: that they find their comments and mass-tagging and overly revealing actions acceptable, normal, exciting, etc. People Who Are Obscenely Obsessed with Social Networking These people are in their twenties or thirties living in urban areas. They consider the promotion of their personal brand their top priority. Personal philosophies may include: "Didn't Twitpic, didn't happen" or "History is made through Facebook photos." When socializing with technological | IN | IN | 331,271 |
employing an open source JavaScript framework, most of which provide precoded user interface elements and an MVC application model. Examples of open JavaScript frameworks include Ext JS, (now Sencha) JQuery Mobile, and The-M-Project. Using a JavaScript framework is as simple as including the framework's .js file in your JavaScript application and referencing framework functions in your own JavaScript code. Because of this, there is no need to change your IDE, and the learning curve is minimal. Web-based apps can look and feel very close to native apps, if you discount performance. But because users access the app through their onboard Web browser, a network connection is required for most functions, and users will feel network delays. HTML5 includes the ability to access local storage, but the memory capacity on most mobile devices is usually a few hundred megabytes, which limits what you can do in a Web app sans Internet. In contrast to native development's need for big-brained programmers, the only skill required for Web apps are those of the average Web developer: HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and possibly a server-side language such as Java, PHP, or Ruby. Because the entire app lives on the Web, you can update it at will without having to redistribute the app itself. Xpous' $9.99 iGenApps offers a code-free approach to building Web apps for both Android and iOS. Aimed at small businesses with simpler app complexity requirements and a limited budget, iGenApps enables businesses to construct Web-based apps right on a mobile device. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,780,247 |
lady, a gift from Canada. First I bit off her head, allowed the chocolate to melt in my mouth; then I thrust my tongue into the cavity of her body, licked clean her caramel filling and sucked her shell, lingering over the last, cloying mouthful. Now I'm standing at the window, the glass so frosty it's like Toronto in winter. I'm seeing a darkened room: my nipples haloed, your lips glistening in the streetlight falling through the slit of half-opened curtains. Still life When I die, I want to be buried in an eco-pod the colour of the Rothko print on my wall, the hue of love bites, bruises, dried blood. At my funeral I want Maria Callas singing Un Bel Di and Otis Redding's 'Try a Little Tenderness', although on the day I might change my mind and go for Che gelida manina , 'Children of the Revolution', Janis Joplin roaring her heart out in 'Get it While You Can'. Either way, it's tears and laughter I'm after, no stiff upper lips -- stiffness being restricted to the pants of ex-lovers and husbands, | LY | LY PO | 1,423,990 |
enough about depression and mental health illnesses that my road to recovery will not happen overnight but for the first time in a very long time I have a positive view for the future. Over the years I have learnt coping strategies to help deal with the mental health problems that I have faced. Keeping a good circle of friends around me has helped no end, they have been there for me through thick and thin, some of them I've never even met as we correspond via internet and phone but I feel support from them nonetheless. Keeping physically active has also helped, it's such a clichd thing to say to someone with depression but sometimes for me getting out of the house for a good walk with nature has lifted my spirits and put things in perspective, even when I've forced myself into it. The thing that has made the biggest difference is simply confronting and dealing with my gender identity issues, I'm not saying it's a magical 'fix all' but by no longer ignoring the elephant in the room my mind is clearer and I am more able to cope with what life throws at me. 6 comments: rachel said... I think that mental health and making people aware of the struggles we go through is a big issue. I am not LGBT but have always struggled with mental health problems and have self harmed from a young age its a coping mechanism and unfortunately most people who | SP | SP | 3,035,495 |
and lost your wife -- "' I was thinking of Mr. Pitman. [Page 214] "Not at all," he said with emphasis. "It's better to have married and lost than never to have married at all. Every man needs a good woman, and it doesn't matter how old he is. The older he is, the more he needs her. I am nearly sixty." I was rather startled, and I almost dropped the fried potatoes. But the next moment he had got out his note-book and was going over the items again. "Pillow-slip," he said, "knife broken , onyx clock -- wouldn't think so much of the clock if he hadn't been so damnably anxious to hide the key, the discrepancy in time as revealed by the trial -- yes, it is as clear as a bell. Mrs. Pitman, does that Maguire woman next door sleep all day?" "She's up now," I said, looking out the window. He was in the hall in a moment, only to come to the door later, hat in hand. "Is she the only other woman on the street who keeps boarders?" [Page 215] "She's the only woman who doesn't," I snapped. "She'll keep anything that doesn't belong to her -- except boarders." "Ah!" He lighted his corn-cob pipe and stood puffing at it and watching me. He made me uneasy: I thought he was going to continue the subject of every man needing a wife, and I'm afraid I had already decided to take him if | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 302,468 |
other way). A fruitful discussion often takes many unexpected twists and turns that can't be controlled by a rigid forumla. I wonder if this model can pass its own test? In essence it says "This is the ideal way to have a discussion." Well, we need evidence of this (point #3). And "If one of your arguments is shown to be faulty, will you stop using it?" I think one can find many faulty unstated assumptions reflected in this model (some pointed out here). If they are shown to be faulty, it should not be used. guest tineye is a service you can use to find images on the net. I use them to help identify art theft, but it's also useful in locating the original posting of an image in order to credit the owner/creator. Charles Nah, just irrational people. Charles You seem to have missed the part about the person asserting a position -- e.g., god exists -- bearing the onus of demonstrating its truth. Did you sleep through logic class? Charles Yes, irrational people would think these rules suck. Chalksoul Some of the point sonly work if the topic is evidencebased. For example taste in music, philosophy, politics etc are mostly subjective but can still be discussed. Litesp33d It was Carl Sagan who put forward the idea that "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" It sounds great but I take issue with it. Why should an extraordinary claim require extraordinary evidence. Why shouldn't extraordinary claims require just ordinary | HI | HI HT | 93,194 |
For the past year , Google has been sending out link penalty notifications for unnatural links pointing to your web site. Those notifications kicked up a notch earlier this year and since then -- especially with the Penguin update, webmasters and SEOs have been obsessed with link removals . Link Removal Fees: With this, there are many out there trying to capitalize on this fear. A reader sent us an example of a directory with a special landing page specifically designed to collect money from webmasters in order to remove links from their site. The site offers you to pay them and in exchange, they will remove the links they have pointing to your web site from their site. Yes, people are charging others to remove links that they put up. The site reads: We have been getting many requests for removal of links. We will happily do that for you. It is a manual process and we have about 100 directories. * So for $25 we will remove your URL from all our 100 directories. You just need to pay on PayPal below * If you are just after the list of 100 or directories we have then the fee is a token $2 to stop all the freebee hunters. We need to live as well. * Do you want us to search our directories for your link and give you a report then that cost is $10. This is perfect for people with few resources to check themselves. | IN | IN IB | 416,944 |
of a regular business. 15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(4) and (5) (1999). Persons are required to be registered with the SEC or with a state securities regulator, as appropriate, as investment advisers if they are engaged in the business of advising others about securities for compensation. 15 U.S.C. 80b-2(a)(11) (1999). 91 SEC Rule 15c3-1 requires a broker-dealer to maintain at all times its minimum net capital requirement prescribed under the Rule. Under SEC Rule 15c3-1, if a broker-dealer's net capital falls below its prescribed minimum requirement under the Rule, it must cease conducting a securities business. | IN | IN RA | 686,272 |
fine or if it's raining, remember he's in training 'Sit with me at the back' he'll say to you 'It's as soft as a sofa' but you're safer with the chauffeur If you want to get on in Revue.' | LY | LY SL | 163,243 |
of this, often with considerable subtlety. Perhaps the most overt example is at the beginning of the Battle of Pelennor Fields, when the orcs start the siege by catapulting the heads of Gondorian soldiers into the city. Digital Head Swap : One of the techniques used to create the proper scale for the Hobbits. Disney Death : Alongside Frodo's examples from the book that made it into the film, we also have Aragorn's plunge off of the cliff in The Two Towers , alongside Gollum's 'death' right after going through Shelob's tunnel. Disney Villain Death : Alongside examples from the book, we also have a couple unique to the films, those being Saruman's (Uncut version only) and Denethor's deaths. Though it should be noted that unlike most versions of this trope, we actually see the result of Saruman's fall . The Dog Shot First : In the book, Gollum bites the Ring off Frodo's hand, leaves the hobbit writhing in pain, revels madly in his triumph, and falls into the Crack of Doom through his own fault. In the movie, Frodo, apparently still in the Ring's thrall, gets up and starts fighting Gollum for the Ring, knocking them both off the edge where Sam rescues Frodo. Peter Jackson figured it was more satisfying for the audience to see Frodo actually take part in the Ring's destruction, but it lacks the book's irony: Frodo ultimately fails in his quest, but his uncle Bilbo sparing Gollum's life out of pity all those | IN | IN DT | 572,170 |
and to invest in research and development and new low- or zero-emissions capacity. Information on possible projects identified under the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program will also be included in these Plans. Table 1: Support for innovation Program/Measure : Clean Energy Finance Corporation Description The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will be established to invest in the commercialisation and deployment of renewable energy and enabling technologies, energy efficiency and low-emissions technologies. It will also invest in the transformation of existing manufacturing businesses to re-focus on meeting demand for inputs for these sectors.Funding will be divided into two streams: a renewable energy stream which will have one half of the funding allocated; and a general clean energy stream which will have half of the funding allocated and will be able to fund renewable energy projects in addition to the dedicated stream. The CEFC will provide finance for projects through commercial loans, concessional loans, loan guarantees and equity. Capital will be reinvested in the CEFC. The CEFC will have an independent Board, comprised of experts in banking, investment management and clean energy and low-emissions technologies, with its responsibilities to include setting the investment strategy for funds being invested and managing these investments consistent with the investment mandate prescribed by the Government. The CEFC will not invest in Carbon Capture and Storage technologies. The Prime Minister will appoint the Chair of the CEFC Board to report back to the Government by early 2012 on: a proposed investment mandate for the CEFC; the policy on | IN | IN DT | 622,932 |
'em given time you gotta give 'em time Takes one to fuck things up a mistake to live with forever and this stupid thing brings home the truth you are never to sing through happiness its always handy when in need of an excuse a weapon in the darkness a type of thing capable of burning leaving ashes hotter than the fire it's like a suicide, the damage is done the knowledge that you can't be right case proven, apologies never won a stain in the daylight a connection that can never be cut ridiculous(?) song, the lyric is useless when the damage is past repairing a connection that can never be cut eart in the open flaws the stench of those ashes is masked by no perfumes the stale smell of regret it's like a suicide, the damage is done the knowledge that you can't be right case proven, apologies never won a stain the daylight heart in the open flares heart on the line Well, did you hear about the Irish man who opened a tandoori restaurant He did quite well for himself, it was quite a lucrative line of business And he was competent where it counted, Sing well done underdog! And she was OK after all, well done, underdog! She ran a shop and started riots, saying "Here folks, take back your money" To social pleaders with no idea, she said "Give 'em your arms honey" And I for one, I'll struggle on, chewing on my | LY | LY SL | 276,708 |
Did you see that the Orioles' Facebook page posted a photo showing that J.J. Hardy won a Gold Glove? This is an old one, but yes, I had lots of people pointing it out to me while I followed the rules and waited for the announcement on ESPN2. So much for an embargo. Someone obviously jumped the gun. No repercussions, I'm sure. Meanwhile, I would have been strung up on the Dempsey's sign on the warehouse and pelted with media guides. And I'm talking about the spiral bound ones, which really hurt. Why don't the Orioles sign Jeremy Guthrie? That ship has sailed. And I know what you're thinking, but this isn't the S.S. Tejada. The Orioles have no interest in a reunion with Guthrie. They've moved on, and so should you. MLBTradeRumors.com speculates that he'll sign with the Pirates, which would allow the Orioles to exchange pleasantries in Bradenton. What did you do for Halloween? Sat on my front step, sipped a cocktail, smoked a cigar and handed out candy. Yeah, I'm that guy in the neighborhood. Who will take Rick Peterson's place if the Red Sox hire him as pitching coach? I don't even know whether the Orioles would keep Peterson's title of director of pitching development. Duquette won't comment as long as Peterson remains in the organization. It's a specialized role that might exist only for Peterson. Will have to wait. Why is Miguel Gonzalez using Luis Ayala's glove? Man, that's really an old one. I need | SP | SP IT | 3,253,527 |
Arrival Of The New Owner I found two keepers doing their rounds, Leading the pheasants from wood to hill, Their stares as flint as their lurcher hounds: 'And whom be you?' 'I'm walking the bounds Of my land,' I said. And stood stock-still. The elder veteran belched and sighed, Snapping commands to his front and back; With rumbling throats the dogs complied And slumped to the side of the grassy ride As game-birds fluttered across the track. Then each side spoke -- politely enough -- As I folded my map, shook hands and left; The skin of their hands was poacher rough, While the lurchers watched in a wary huff And growled to each other of thieves and theft. And as to that, well, the dogs had cause, For though it was true the land was mine, Paid for, haggled for, clause by clause, Due stamped and deeded by ancient laws -- Yet each of us knew, though we gave no sign, That the land was theirs. And theirs alone. That they owned each hanger and stream and hill, Each wood, each hedge, each meadow and stone -- That I understood what they'd always known: The land was theirs. And remained theirs, still. The meeting is imaginary, but the land is not; nor the truth of what I am trying to say. For six hundred years, the Spernal and Coughton estate was owned by the Throckmorton family of 'Gunpowder Plot' fame. Now a large chunk of those 3,500 acres is | LY | LY PO | 681,331 |
to support a case one way or the other. It is innuendoes, opinions or spin. Could you please provide documented evidence in the future to state your case in the future so as to fully inform us so then in return we may be fully informed to consent on the issues you raise? Migrant : 22 Dec 2010 7:42:04pm I am a migrant -- who isn't , even the Indigenous people are -- of about four decades now. Over these years the changes in the attitude on the subject, I have noticed are: In (GENERAL), there is no problem with numbers of migrants, in descending order as long as: Ist.-They are from Europe and the Developed countries. That is to say of White race mainly; to maintain the Australian way and standards of life. 2nd.-Those arriving by plane or cruse ships are OK to some extent. It is assumed that they will assimilate or at least integrate in the Australian way of life. 3rd.-And--As long as the migrants from other countries than those given above are English speaking, educated, skilled and do not get paid dole money and State housing for a reasonably long period. It is believed that since Refugees commonly do not comply with above requirements, their arrival is causing Population Explosion and other problems here. To any reasonable person, the above should NOT be an unreasonable stance for the majority of "Australians" to take, given the scares information given out to the public. It is a natural | IP | IP ED | 772,075 |
Due to the damage from Hurricane Sandy, members of our New York office are not expected to return to our office space on Wall Street until December 15, 2012. All New York staff are working remotely and are available via phone and email. You may also direct inquiries to our Zephyr Cove, NV office 800-789-5323 or 775-588-0654. last updated at 4:39 p.m. Thursday (PDT) 11/08/2012 Reference Materials Contact us Up and Down Capture The up and down capture is a measure of how well a manager was able to replicate or improve on phases of positive benchmark returns, and how badly the manager was affected by phases of negative benchmark returns. To calculate the up capture , we first form new series from the manager and benchmark series by dropping all time periods where the benchmark return is zero or negative. The up capture is then the quotient of the annualized return of the resulting manager series, divided by the annualized return of the resulting benchmark series. The down capture is calculated analogously. UpCapture = where n p = number of positive benchmark returns s k = k-th positive benchmark return r i = manager return for the same period as the i-th positive benchmark return y = number of years, counting periods of positive benchmark returns only For the down capture, just use the non-positive returns instead of the positive ones. | IN | IN | 221,412 |
album 'Balletesque' from The Young Republic. The Young Republic will be on the tour in the UK October/ November. You can see the full listings on the 'SHOWS' page including a special show at Cargo hosted by End of the Road on 2nd November. We hope to see you there! A special limited edition version of 'Balletesque' with bonus CD is available to pre-order now exclusively from ROUGH TRADE ----------------------------------------\\... WOODPIGEON - NEW TOUR DATES 24/07/09 Woo hoo! Woodpigeon have announced a bunch of new UK and festival tour dates! You can see the full listings on the 'SHOWS' page. We would like to highlight a special End of the Road Records show "Labelled with Love" at the Borderline on 12th August, featuring Woodpigeon, Sons of Noel and Adrian and She Keeps Bees. For more information and tickets, please go to: http://www.clubfandango.co.uk/gig.php?id\\... We hope to see you there! ----------------------------------------\\... THE LOW ANTHEM - CHARLIE DARWIN NEW RELEASE DATE 12/02/09 Unfortunately there will be a slight delay on The Low Anthem - Charlie Darwin release due to problems in the production line. The new release date will be 23/02/09 ----------------------------------------\\... WOODPIGEON - TREASURY LIBRARY CANADA 09/02/09 Today is a very exciting day in the history of End of the Road Records, it's the release date of the second album by one of our artists - Woodpigeon!!! We are so chuffed that we've decided to include a limited edition bonus CD called Houndstooth Europa with the first 500 copies of the album. | IP | IP | 473,177 |
the warning signs. That is not ignorance...that is ultimate stupidity. Debbie Shooter | 12.29.09 @ 12:47PM WASHINGTON -- California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication. Pingback | 9.26.09 @ 7:01AM ...not thought this through, that they are not taking the time needed to plan this out and consider all the alternatives. Baucus has admitted that Congress is flying by the seat of its pants. Many people have wondered why Obama is in such a hurry to get this boondoggle passed? Why are we not taking the time necessary to carefully consider this take over of one sixth of our national economy by a rapacious government?... Pingback | 9.26.09 @ 11:17AM ...not thought this through, that they are not taking the time needed to plan this out and consider all the alternatives. Baucus has admitted that Congress is flying by the seat of its pants. Many people have wondered why Obama is in such a hurry to get this boondoggle passed? Why are we not taking the time necessary to carefully consider this take over of one sixth of our national economy by a rapacious government?... Chris | 10.6.09 @ 11:43AM No, what we actually have in this country is a CORPOCRISY!! Completely evil corrupt money-grubbing pigs in corporations control | IP | IP | 186,900 |
the shock of the bomb to force the emperor's hand and surrender. The notion that the U.S. did not have to drop the bombs is a fundamental anti-American propaganda ceated by the radical, anti-American left. The idea, of course, is to destroy the moral credibility of America so that the followers of the radical, anti-American, anti-capitalist element will turn agaisnt us and help the haters destroy us. I had a very good comment about a friend in Japan who is former kamikaze pilot*...who admits the bombing was necessary. Blogger lost the entire long post I had written....it was a good one. Too bad you missed it. {*former kamikaze pilot in training actually....he is alive today because of the bomb} While you discuss whether Japan was ready to surrender or not before the atomb bomb was dropped, and how many lives were actually "saved" by dropping it on civilian targets, you're missing another point entirely: The future lives that would have been spared from the Vietnam and Korean wars, and perhaps the Indonesian slaughters, had a large scale U.S. military invasion of Asia, and Japanese encirclement taken place instead of the atomic bomb. Ho Chi Minh and Mao were on working terms with the U.S. during W.W.II. It is highly unlikely the U.S. would have handed back the keys to the European colonialist's with our army on the ground, in control, particularly at this time, the founding of the U.N., with all it's noble retoric. It is a situation government (Roosevelt) | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 787,097 |
Danza Mexica Cuauhtmoc of Minnesota Whitney Clark, Friends of the Mississippi River Doug Freeman, Minnesota Arts and Ecology Alliance Susan Gust, GRASS ROUTES of U of M City of Mpls Public Health Advisory Committee Neal Hines, Civil Engineer Dept. of Limnology, Hydrology Seitu Jones, Advisor of Community and Public Spaces Jim Koplin, Researcher, Environmental Activist Satish Kumar, Resurgence Magazine, Schumacher College Ken Meter, Director of Crossroads Research Mark Muller, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Anil Naidoo, Council of Canadians Patrick Nunnally,Mississippi River Initiative Megan O'Hara,MN Arts and Ecology Alliance MaryLynn Pulscher, Minneapolis Parks and Recreation April Rust, Project WET Akhmiri Sekhr-Ra, Powderhorn Phillips Cultural Wellness Center John G. Shepard, Center for Global Environmental Education, Hamline University To dedicate the renewed drinking fountain in our theater's lobby with a day long water festival. Focused on Water quality and our local Water systems. Focused on Water quantity, consumption, and "ownership". ON THE COMMONS Understanding the presence of the commons in our world makes it possible to imagine social change taking place in new ways. We rise together to claim our inheritance -- of nature, culture and community. In so doing; we recognize our responsibility to safeguard this inheritance for future generations. Here in Minnesota, at the headwaters of the Mississippi, the opportunity for leadership in re-defining our relationship to water is ripe and critical. How we share our water today with those who live downstream has ripple effects around the globe. In our collaboration with In the Heart of the Beast, | IP | IP | 221,678 |
business is NOT down. My husband is in the manufactoring industry and his orders dropped the first few months of 2009 but have since rebounded to over what was estimated. My best friend runs the business office at a large car dealership she reports car sales are solid although it's been hard to get people approved for credit the last few months. I honestly wonder how much of the economic "crisis" is exagerated to keep people in fear. the one thing in the media that bugs me and I am really sick of seeing is troups idolized. They chose to go and blow up people why should I be sending them call cards and gifts? __________________ I will believe you, I've been through too much not to. Signs of Interdimensional Interaction Hearing high pitched sounds .....Seeing lights in a dark room .... Feeling invisible pressure on head or body .....Missing time ..... Scars marks appearing overnight... and more I'm in the midwest in the US. I don't watch a lot of main media news if any. I am a litle confused by the reports of things being soooo bad when I am getting first hand reports from people I know that business is NOT down. My husband is in the manufactoring industry and his orders dropped the first few months of 2009 but have since rebounded to over what was estimated. My best friend runs the business office at a large car dealership she reports car sales are solid although | ID | ID DF | 1,445,702 |
Winner of the Rockower Award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism, this blog contains random musings of a journalist, father, husband, son, friend, poodle-owner, Red Sox fan and occasionally-ranting rabbi, taken from Shabbat-O-Grams, columns, speeches, letters, sermons and thin air. "On One Foot," the column, appears regularly in the New York Jewish Week. Thursday, November 1, 2012 On the night Hurricane Sandy roared in, as two giant trees sandwiched my house and pierced the garage roof, it felt like the world itself was crashing down. We were seeing before our eyes an undoing of the primordial act of order. In Genesis, a wind brought about a separation of earthly and heavenly waters, and then a separation of water from dry land. But with Sandy, the waters of the deep appeared to be reclaiming that coastline and undoing that initial act of separation. So now, we ask, what can nature do for an encore? Shaken and unhinged, we have precisely a month to prepare for the next apocalyptic event: the Apocalypse itself -- that is, if the Mayan calendar is to be believed. According to an ancient Mayan prophecy, the world will come to an end on December 21. On the plus side, we'll squeeze in all eight days of Chanukah (sorry, no Christmas). On the minus side, the world will cease to exist. I did some exhaustive research on the Mayan Apocalypse -- OK, I Googled it -- and I discovered something very interesting. The whole thing might just be | OP | OP RS | 3,184,333 |
apply. And that's why the average spectator doesn't understand the game. I have no problem with you not being interested in geometry and watching the game. That's fine. I am not saying that pythagoras is interesting. It's not. But for those who want to understand the details and patterns of the game, I hope you can appreciate my article and have taken something away that they didn't know before. For those 0.01% who are not as thick as two short planks, they are the ones who are the successful ones in football (as coaches). Towser -- 99.9% of football fans are not thick as you describe but it would probably be correct to say that out of that total 90% have no coaching qualifications so have no real interest in picking out patterns, they are in fact "ball watchers".There is nothing derogatory in that description,after all the ball is where most of the action is but if you just refer to our great victory the other night in Korea,we won, but the Koreans were still far ahead of us in first touch control & movement off the ball.Personally I don't expect the normal fan to notice that, for just as a huge crowd roars every time their team wins a corner stats tell us only about 7% of goals come from corner kicks.Let us not lower the fan's excitement by lecturing them on tactics.OK. Cheere jb This is straight out of the Fos book of mantras: You need multiple masters | IN | IN IB | 581,306 |
Testimonials Client Testimonials EmployAbilities has been good to me. It afforded me the opportunity to follow my dreams to one-day get into the field of computers. The instructors here have been great and very supportive -- some of them even have a good sense of humour and we share some laughs. Overall, my experience with EmployAbilities has been all good. To say EmployAbilities changed my life would be an understatement. I came to Alberta from Quebec in 2006 and realized at the age of 53 years old that I had a learning disability. For most of my life I worked as a labourer including working in the laundry department at the Jasper Park Lodge. My life changed when I moved to Edmonton in 2008 and more specifically when I came to EmployAbilities in 2011. The instructors and the support I received at EmployAbilities helped set me on a new and exciting course. I have applied for my Class 1 and Class 3 driving licenses and hope to one day fulfill a lifelong dream to drive a tour bus up to the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Alaska. You're never to old to dream and at the age of 53 EmployAbilities helped me realize that. I came to EmployAbilties because I needed to find a new line of work. I have bad hips and a bad back and now require a career where I can sit while I do my work. EmployAbilities has been a tremendous support to me. I've had more | OP | OP RV | 212,915 |
while the others caught at his words, and repeated them to a kind of Chinese melody; the whole at length uniting their voices into one chant, which, though evidently the outpouring of a jovial spirit, had, from its unvaried tone and constant echo of the same expression, a half-wild, half-melancholy effect upon the ear. ?It had begun with "Yah! yah! here's a full ship for the captain, and a full pannikin for Peytie Pevterson, la? la?lalla?la?leh; but this sentence, after many repetitions, was changed for others of briefer duration and more expressive import, as they coursed after each other with intoxicating rapidity? Fictional whaleship/capstan ("Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean", 1829) - Sailors, when heaving at a windlass, in order that they may heave together, always have one to sing out; which is done in a peculiar, high and long-drawn note, varying with the motion of the windlass - "Cheerily, men!" [CHEERLY] brig PILGRIM/catting anchor - lightening their labors in the boats by their songs, Italians rowing (Dana 1840ff) 1835 - A line was sung by a leader, then all joined in a short chorus; then came another solo line, and another short chorus, followed by a longer chorus, Jacksonville, FL/Blacks rowing (Kennard 1845) 1835, September - "Ho! cheerly" [CHEERLY] US ship PEACOCK, the Gulf of Mazeira [coast of Arabia]/ as they marched round the capstan, or hauled in the hawser by hand (Howland 1840) - The crew was made up of the hardest kind of men; they | ID | ID DF | 3,037,219 |
be 1976? Not 17 or 1876? Precisely what confusion does this prevent? venqax on April 6, 2011 5:51 pm sorry for the ddoouubbllee post. abby on April 6, 2011 8:13 pm venqax: Precisely what confusion does this prevent? Well, not so much the month or day, but the year is critical when it comes to years that can span a century. I'm a medical coder, and the reports came over on software. Some of the procedure codes are age-specific. If a patient is 102, the software thinks she's 2 years old. If a claim goes to the insurance that way, it can be denied if the procedure code is one of those age-specific codes, because the insurance gets a claim for a two-year old with an adult procedure code. I wish that all dates would be switched to the year first, as that is the most important number. When I file things in my computer, I put in the year first, then the month, then the day. That's the only way that they are in a semblance of chronological order. Peter on April 6, 2011 11:04 pm For Americans, the vowels in pot (rhymes hot, not, cot) and in hover (does rhyme with cover, lover) are entirely distinct. I know they're distinct, but it's not the same as the British "pot", etc.; standard American "pot" seems to be the same vowel as "father" (just shorter): /?/ (which makes it sound like "part", to me). I think /?/ is missing in | OP | OP AV | 504,110 |
Yup! 1, 2, 3 As it is plan to see I go by the name of Jermaine Dupri Dope man fresh in the place to be And uh [Chorus] Oh, I think they like me Oh I think they like me I think they, think they like me Oh, I think they like me Oh, I think the like me I think, they, think they like me Oh, I think they like me Oh I think they like me when they heard me on the other one So its only right that I hit you wit another one Oh I think they like me when they heard me on the other one So its only right that I hit you wit another one Yeah these niggas like me Hatas' wanna fight me Yeah these nigga's mad cuz I came up ova night B Yeah I switched it up I got a 9 cuffed tightly So u better do the right thing like Spike Lee Yeah I'm super clean, rock jeans wit a white tee Nigga's round here soft, but my nigga can bite me If you had 6 figures you'd be jus like me Yeah these nigga's mad cause I'm shinin' like a light B Nigga's talkin' bout yup, in they mutha fuckin' throwbacks It ain't real you know dat Muhammeds were they sold dat We steppin' on these nigga's like a mutha fuckin' do' mat When I hit the scene they that pictures call me Kodak These bitches goin' | LY | LY SL | 451,786 |
When combat troops were needed some of the militiamen volunteered for short terms of service, for which they were paid. Following this system in its essentials, the Continental Congress in 1778 recommended that the states draft men from their militias for one year's service in the Continental army; this first national conscription was irregularly applied and failed to fill the Continental ranks. In 1814, President James Madison proposed conscription of 40,000 men for the army, but the War of 1812 ended before Congress took any action. An 1840 proposal for a standing army of 200,000 men included conscription, but it never passed and military service was voluntary before 1862. [ 28 ] Although both North and South resorted to conscription during the Civil War , in neither region did the system work effectively. The Confederate Congress on April 16, 1862, passed an act requiring military service for three years from all males aged eighteen to thirty-five not legally exempt, and it later extended the obligation. The U.S. Congress followed on July 17, 1862, with an act authorizing a militia draft within a state when it could not meet its quota with volunteers. This state-administered system failed in practice and on March 3, 1863, Congress passed the first genuine national conscription law, setting up under the Union army an elaborate machinery for enrolling and drafting men between twenty and forty-five years of age. Quotas were assigned in each state, the deficiencies in volunteers to be met by conscription. But men drafted | IN | IN EN | 9,991,577 |
during your first stay in Congress. Is that the kind of thing that will continue to draw your interest? You seem to have a natural affinity for the quantitative side of economic regulation. B.F.: Given the number of physicists that were involved in the design of structured financial products and so on, I think it's only fair that a physicist should contribute some effort to straightening out the mess. It's only one of the possible areas that I may continue. And that's going to be decided in the coming weeks as I look at the committee assignments open to me. Q: I think that's what I'd intended to ask you. Anything else you'd like to add? B.F.: Yes, it is long past time for more scientists and engineers to get in the business of electoral politics. And that is another thing that I will continue to be working at, trying to recruit more people to take this up. It is not impossible. It is not easy. Success is not certain. But there's nothing more important to the future of science and to our country. | SP | SP IT | 154,982 |
alone, and should not be attributed to Firedoglake. | IP | IP PA | 3,193,025 |
Barca Laboratorio, the Italian yacht packed with scientists conducting experiments on human behaviour, were able to test their own reactions when their rigging went over the side, forcing them to head for Recife in Brazil to make repairs. RollyGo was the next casualty. Around 1,600 miles out of Cape Town, the rigging adjuster failed. FCF Challenger split her mast, Norway's Berge Viking broke the fitting at the top of her forestay, US entry Alaska Eagle broke hull frames and European University Belgium damaged her rigging. Save Venice also had problems with her forestay and United Friendly sprung a serious leak. In all, 21 out of 29 boats reported structural, rigging or equipment failure. Replacement gear was dispatched to various parts of the world and programmes for repair drawn up in Cape Town, though despite the chaos, FCF Challenger's Tim Burrel found time to meet then marry Cape Town secretary Carol Jennings. Five days was all it took. First across the Cape Town finish was Van Rietschoten in Flyer, having sailed an immaculate leg. He also won on handicap, leaving the rest of the fleet in little doubt over his intentions and ambitions. Italian entry Vivanapoli arrived eight days late for the start of leg two after it was boarded by an Angolan gunboat. Officials saw the crew's South African visas and they were all promptly arrested on suspicion of spying. It took the Italian ambassador a week to secure their release. Cape Town to Auckland Amazingly, all the repairs were | NARRATIVE | NA HA SR | 1,793,802 |
following an 80-yard drive which ended with Manning hitting Jacob Tamme from a yard out. Matt Prater then added a field goal shortly after the touchdown to add to the Broncos' lead. Roethlisberger tried his best to get the Steelers back in the game, but ended up throwing an interception to Tracy Porter who returned it for a touchdown to confirm the win for Denver with the score finishing 31-19. The Manning era has begun at the Mile High Stadium. | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 3,136,228 |
I ain't trustin' no body, so I took my money with me Cause last time they got me get me get me [Chorus] [Verse 2] Stay on it by the way, I want it by the way Take it to ya mama's mama house where everybody stay Where everybody sleep, leave everybody sleep Have a baby by who, that's everybody's freak Baby like a drycleaners, done seen everybodys sheets Take 'em straight to the hood, let everybody eat I went down they went down, now everybody cheap Or should I say cheaper maybe even lower Ya'll niggas gettin' missed if ya'll talk any slower Then ya flow a be screwed, now that a be rude I demand my respect, plus I gotta sack Had the Westside crackin' ask about in the map [Chorus] [Verse 3] I turned a brick into a clothing, line a boost commercial And they still talkin' young, so who's commercial Young like Noah I move them birds by the two Daddy need to smoke, the coupe need a pair of shoes I keep my A.I. on still won't cross over I gotta half a box left I think I need more soda Hustlin'' since I was ten still ain't met Sosa I just got this thing in it's too big for a holster They say I'm bipolar so indecisive So muthafuckin' what I know some bitches who like it The real niggas recite it, the real bitches they love it It's just the way that I | LY | LY SL | 468,937 |
It's one of the most hectic, fun-filled, exhausting weekends you'll ever have in your entire life but it's completely worth it just to nerd out on all the cool stuff that's there. Artists Alley, the panels, the coolest cosplays you'll ever see in your life, the people you'll meet and make friends with for life, the sheer scale of the whole thing and of course, the swag! If you only go once, you should go. It will honestly stay in your mind as one of the best experiences of your life. Warning: Trying to get a member ID and a ticket will shave considerable years off your life, so don't say we haven't warned you. If Comic Con really isn't your thing and you're just a die-hard comic collector, then you have to get to Heroes Con in North Carolina. Started 30 years ago by Shelton Drumm, Heroes Con is beloved by comic book fans for being 'legit'. It should absolutely be on your list of 'Cons To See Before I Die. It took place just last weekend so to get you in the mood and ready for next year, make sure you read the following articles. These will get your blood pumping and we promise you, you'll have booked a ticket to North Carolina before the weekend is through! Comics Alliance 's Chris Sims recounts his experience at Heroes Con and gleefully boasts about his considerably impressive haul at this years con. Read it and weep (literally). Sure it | OP | OP | 3,286,418 |
your nose. Don't have a set destination, just go and find yourself! Best thing I ever did years back. Go and see ever part of europe you have heard of. You will find war graves that you never contemplated the number, feel the desolation of prison camps, you will dioscover wonderful people and discover how happy poverty can make people if they want for nothing else. You can see huge cathederals, Wonderful buildings, fantastic views - the wonders of alpine villages, the hustle bustle of big cities - the list is endless. Sorry too here of your plight, my family too are in a similar situation with my son so maybe I can see it from a different perspective. In my opinion children, unless there is good reasons for it are better with both or one of their parents. As you say the process takes forever and the outcome will leave distress no matter who has control of the children. Even with the decision made in favour of the father you will still be given some form of care or visiting rights to your grandchild, so there is no reason why you should lose all contact with your grandson. If you have a good relationship with him now then why should that not continue. Grandparents do have rights in law as do parents. Good luck.... Sorry to hear of your problems. Getting away for a bit sounds exactly what you need. But I would not commit to fulltiming for a | ID | ID DF | 331,710 |
dancing in the backyard to a biscuit-tin beat/I slunk between the notes, posting them off to the night/This is symptomatic of you and me : I have jars full of your breath/I have shelves of your words but you have nothing of me but a space where I would be I DIDN'T GET WHERE I AM TODAY (Words - GA Johnson) I didn't get where I am today/I stayed home, snowed in/I didn't get where I am today/I cried off, I phoned in/Some days the faith eludes you/Some days the reason why is silent on the riverbed/Hangs deathly in the sky/My dreams are tortured silhouettes/My hands are ribbon sliced/The only light's a cigarette/The bed feels cold as ice I HAVE MOVED INTO THE SHADOW (Words - GA Johnson) The night is closing in/The clouds are frozen still/ The birds are feathered down/The churches ring the hour/Where once there was a cheer now stands a sorry crowd/Across the frozen lake/Beneath the tattered flags, a carnival of skates/The scissors scratch their names/Where once I held your hand I cannot bear to stand/This city is a cauldron of blackened snow and strangers/I moved here from the country/I didn't know the danger/I'm haunted by the bottle/I'm haunted by the angels/In letters from my sister, she asks me how I'm feeling/I say that I am better but I lie in every letter/I have moved into the margin/I have moved into the shadow/Move closer to the fire or else you'll meet the ghost/I loved you like | LY | LY SL | 21,312 |
was not, however, academically trained, and his work was attacked by professional philosophers for lack of rigor and critical standards. [ 63 ] The French director Jean Genet 's 1950 fantasy-erotic film Un chant d'amour shows two inmates in solitary cells whose only contact is through a hole in their cell wall, who are spied on by the prison warden. Reviewer James Travers calls the film a, "...visual poem evoking homosexual desire and existentialist suffering," which "... conveys the bleakness of an existence in a godless universe with painful believability"; he calls it "... probably the most effective fusion of existentialist philosophy and cinema." [ 64 ] Stanley Kubrick 's 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory "illustrates, and even illuminates...existentialism" by examining the "necessary absurdity of the human condition" and the "horror of war". [ 65 ] The film tells the story of a fictional World War I French army regiment ordered to attack an impregnable German stronghold; when the attack fails, three soldiers are chosen at random, court-martialed by a "kangaroo court", and executed by firing squad. The film examines existentialist ethics, such as the issue of whether objectivity is possible and the "problem of authenticity". [ 65 ] Neon Genesis Evangelion , commonly referred to as Evangelion or Eva, is a Japanese science-fiction animation series created by the anime studio Gainax and was both directed and written by Hideaki Anno . Existential themes of individuality, consciousness, freedom, choice, and responsibility are heavily relied upon throughout the entire series, | IN | IN EN | 9,992,284 |
Something To Think About Lyrics Willie Nelson You're wondering just what I'll do now that it's over and done Well that's something to think about and I've already begun I suppose that I'll find a way people usually do But it's something to think about I'll be lost without you One thing I would have you do please consider the dawn The dawn of your lonely years when youth and beauty are gone And when you can no longer have any sweetheart you choose Here is something to think about I'll still be thinking of you One thing I would have you do | LY | LY SL | 789,300 |
to CGT being considered? Most people understand that an asset is said to be acquired when you buy it. But the asset is also "acquired" when you inherit it, construct it or receive it as a gift. Similarly, an asset is disposed of when a CGT event occurs - most obviously selling it. However the asset is also said to have been disposed of for tax purposes when you give it away, change ownership off market, or even when it is lost or destroyed. So bear in mind that if you buy XYZ shares for your children and then 10 years later, give the shares to the kids - you have triggered a capital gains tax event and if the shares have gone up in value, YOU will be liable for the tax. A capital gain will usually be disregarded if the CGT asset was acquired before 20 September 1985. So for those holding "pre-85" shares or property, selling these assets can be an excellent way to release tax free capital. Now to calculate your CGT for individuals (not companies or super funds), you can use any of the methods below. The method chosen will affect the way capital losses are dealt with. Full capital gain method for calculating the amount of CGT payable for assets held less than 12 months: 1. Calculate the cost base for each part of the asset: (cost of shares plus brokerage) 2. Calculate the assessable capital gains: Consideration received (proceeds of sale less brokerage) | IN | IN | 715,113 |
any of them, they should all be awake for Dreams!) At least I think Alicia will, she saw a bit of it on youtube and she was all aaaaaah, oooooh But again my husband thinks that some bits may be scary... Your thoughts? no its not scary and I think all the kids will love it . The music and the pictures on the castle immerse you completely. | ID | ID DF | 473,482 |
8.24.2011 DIY Vintage Party I had a lot of fun planing and putting together stuff for my vintage birthday party. There were so many of you that said how much you liked the post about my party a few days back so I thought I would share with you some of the things I did. That way if you ever have an urge to throw a vintage party you can plan one too! Step 1: Print your design out backwards on a piece of paper, or you can just draw your design right on the linoleum (if you do that skip to step 4). Step 2: On the opposite side of the paper, scribble over the design with a pencil to create your own carbon paper. Step 3: Place the paper scribble-side down on the linoleum and trace your design with a pencil. Use a lot of pressure in order for the design to transfer well. Step 4: Now it is time to start cutting. You want to cut away all the linoleum around your design. That way the design is the only thing that gets inked. I like to start with the smallest blade and go all the way around the design. Then I switch to a bigger blade and cut out large portions at a time. Step 5: Once you have cut around your design take a pair of scissors and cut as close to your design as possible. Step 6: Now we need make the journal. Cut | HI | HI HT | 543,012 |
hear your stuff kind of changes things but as far as writing, I don't think it did so much. I think we are who we are and the actual writing process is still the same. More the thought of how to put together the album, maybe is a little different. CONFRONT: And you guys have incorporated a lot of different sounds with all the woodwinds and the brass instruments this time, how was that experience? ANDREW: The first record, we were just really economical on how we recorded it. We did it in a way that was very similar to some of the pop stuff that we do. We try to enter the studio and exit the studio with a complete song every day. In this process, since we knew we were making an album, I was in Sweden for six months straight this time so I don't think we tried to finish the songs immediately or tried to limit the instrumentation of the songs to what was available to us in the studio. We envisioned something happening that involved calling a bunch of other players and we just scheduled the time to make it happen. This was different from the first album where we tried to complete everything with what we had in the room. So there are great things about both, I just think it's cool that this album sounds a bit different than the first album but it still has our musicality. CONFRONT: It's great to have | SP | SP IT | 314,567 |
he did not identify changes made to his first report referring to Mr Tomlinson's liver injuries. He played down signs of bleeding by saying there was "no sign of haematoma" on his liver and also failed to comment on the significance of these changes, which was misleading, the panel said. Also in the second report, Dr Patel wrongly concluded that Mr Tomlinson died of a heart attack, and wrongly concluded that "death could not have been due to haemorrhage" and "the injury to the liver was relatively minor", the panel found. And despite having seen CCTV footage of Mr Tomlinson being hit with a baton by a policeman, Dr Patel also wrongly concluded that "there were no significant marks of violence from assault or forceful restraint". The panel has been sitting in Manchester but is due to relocate to London for three days so that Dr Patel can give evidence in person. Just shiws that it takes a criminal to know one. All police are criminals at heart, the challenge the public have is to get past the police standards departments and the policophilic "I"PCC who care onlyto protect policefrom their own criminal behaviour. Keep 'em coming. Lets use this little slot of the www to keep (some) track of all this. "policophilic " -- LOL. So true. I think the MSCM (MainStream Corporate Media) don't give corrupt cops the attention the deserve. Imagine if every bad cop story made it onto the news... the people would be out in | OP | OP OB | 179,112 |
inclined they could put out a request for pieces of string and then measure them and plot the results, which would give a graph somewhat similar to the type of thing I can guess. It's not easy to express such an answer to the question "how long is a piece of string" as a direct word-based answer, but a good approximation would be: "the length of a piece of string is usually about 4ft +/- 3ft". Of course it's not a perfect answer, and the distribution would have a characteristic which is spread differentially either side of the most likely length. This type of thing is not as uncommon as you might think, for example electronic components are specified as their nominal value +/- 10% or 20%, and colloquial terms such as "faster than a speeding bullet" have an element of expressiveness which often convey more than the statistical figure. Anyone care for a thesis? 1. Collect random pieces of string in a university string donations box. 2. produce a statistical survey. 3. profit? (there's a link in it for you, at least. write in) Meanwhile, question answering here goes quite well. Questions such as how logarithms work , what's the density of mercury , how do you hypnotise a chicken , and how to save money , are answered here. Although I can't promise to answer everyone's questions individually, if you ask a really good question there's a good chance the question and answer will become a page here! | IN | IN IB RA | 618,397 |
is important for high-value, considered-purchase consumer goods and b2b sales where web research may lead to an online or offline sale. Internet Marketing While this was originally an umbrella term for various types of activities similar to online marketing, Marketing Land notes that the term has since become to large extent co-opted by get-rich quick hoaxes, pyramid schemes and other scams. As WPO is all about building online credibility, it's the farthest thing from Internet marketing. All of which means... In the end, the Twitterers' concern about buzzword proliferation isn't misplaced. Buzzwords are often used to obscure, confuse, or spin. But WPO genuinely illuminates the actionable key metrics of online visibility, enabling marketing executives to make smart decisions about coordinating PR, SEO, SEM, social, and content marketing efforts. Cloud Business Apps Interactive Business Guides About Business 2 Community Business 2 Community is an independent online community focused on sharing the latest news surrounding Social Media, Marketing, Branding, Public Relations & much more. Every day we feature the thought leadership of our open community of bloggers and aim to provide a balanced view of the business landscape based on industry news, trends and real-life experiences. | IN | IN IB | 3,229,562 |
One of the things that I am convinced of (with another nod to Thad McIlroy at The Future Of Publishing ) is the need to make it easy for readers to find the exact thing they're looking for, discover something that they think they want but can't exactly name, and become aware of new things that match their preferences, mood, or need even when they aren't actively seeking them out. The common element involved in serving each of those three needs is metadata (i.e., data about data), which in our case means "facts and opinions about books." For my first ever Poetry Friday roundup, I thought I'd apply these ideas in a very simple way and see what happens. Readers: Use the table below to FIND what you want or DISCOVER something new! (And if you've arrived here via search engine or referral, then we'll call that a MARKETING success!) Contributors: Complete the form below for each link that you wish to share. Today's post is a giveaway and a give. By commenting, you will be entered in a drawing for a signed-by-the-illustrator (Bryan Collier!) copy of the picture book of I, TOO, AM AMERICA, a poem by Langston Hughes. You will also find a link where you can join your favorite illustrators in rebuilding classrooms devastated by Hurricane Sandy. I posted five new poems this week along with their corresponding lunchbox doodles. Tops include: a looooong dog, shoes not making the runner, an uninvited bear, a Dolittle cousin, and | LY | LY PO | 3,275,318 |
the member for Curtin: three times runner up -- surely a chance at last! Or there's the member for Cook, a promising weight-for-ager, I reckon, but spooked by foreign horses every time! Or the member for Mackellar, a favourite in 1994, and what a stayer -- she's still here! But my favourite is still the Member for Menzies and get your money on him! (Time expired) | SP | SP TA | 465,617 |
to Rh positive patients. The universal red cell donor has Type O negative blood type. The universal plasma donor has Type AB positive blood type. Blood Types and the Population O positive is the most common blood type. Not all ethnic groups have the same mix of these blood types. Hispanic people, for example, have a relatively high number of O's, while Asian people have a relatively high number of B's. The mix of the different blood types in the U.S. population is: Caucasians African American Hispanic Asian O + 37% 47% 53% 39% O - 8% 4% 4% 1% A + 33% 24% 29% 27% A - 7% 2% 2% 0.5% B + 9% 18% 9% 25% B - 2% 1% 1% 0.4% AB + 3% 4% 2% 7% AB - 1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% Some patients require a closer blood match than that provided by the ABO positive/negative blood typing. For example, sometimes if the donor and recipient are from the same ethnic background the chance of a reaction can be reduced. That's why an African-American blood donation may be the best hope for the needs of patients with sickle cell disease, 98 percent of whom are of African-American descent. How Is My Blood Type Determined? It's inherited. Like eye color, blood type is passed genetically from your parents. Whether your blood group is type A, B, AB or O is based on the blood types of your mother and father. This chart shows the potential blood types | IN | IN | 596,603 |
riding to the tyres and the new fronts should reduce the chatter issue anyway. So that's one excuse gone. And he can't keep blaming the bike. There's clearly nothing wrong with it so he should have adapted by now. At Le Mans chatter was clearly not an issue for anyone. So Ben needed a new excuse. Visor misting? Even though he wasted about 90 seconds pitting he still wasn't near the pace when he came out again. Not looking good for him at all. Not only will Yamaha be getting tired of his excuses, but other teams will be noting it two. So far he's had over twenty starts on a factory bike and only one win. And there's many reckon he wouldn't have had that win if Simoncelli hadn't taken Lorenzo out on lap 1. Not a good record if he's looking for a factory ride for next year. Never mind Ben, I'm sure there's a CRT team who'll have you. | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 491,534 |
a limerick? Definitely not a sonnet? It was going to be seven lines? Tops. I LOVE this song!! It has a kind of gospel/soul type feel, and it's so much fun to sing along to! And if you don't know the words when singing along, the harmonizing parts are easy to pick up, even the first time you hear it. 5/5 The following area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of Loves Me Like A Rock Lyrics. | LY | LY SL | 674,611 |
four events each year: Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. Globally, Trailwalker has raised more than $135 million since 1981 for Oxfam's valuable work around the world. It's easy to get involved: walk, volunteer or donate! Oxfam Australia (ABN: 18 055 208 636) is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient. Donations of $2 or more to the Oxfam Australia Overseas Aid Fund are tax deductible. Oxfam Australia is a member of the international confederation Oxfam . | IN | IN | 273,336 |
Flights a matter of life or death Story Tools IT WAS the first major mission Dr Irfaan Jetha had been sent to since he joined the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter team. A 24-year-old man had lost control of his car in Bilambil and crashed into a fence. What sounded like a routine motor vehicle accident became something much more horrific when Dr Jetha learned the driver had been impaled by a metal fence post. "The pole had gone through the car door, through his leg and out the other side," Dr Jetha remembered. "First I was told they needed a doctor for a roadside amputation. I had done a few amputations in the theatre...but never for somebody whose life was on the line on the roadside. "I remembered when I was in Sydney, they had a bone saw and traumatic amputation tools (in the helicopter) but here we don't have anything like that. "But we went anyway to check it out. "The firefighters had cut off one side of the pole but they had not been able to cut off the other side. They needed a stronger drug to calm him down." The patient then suffered a very rare side effect to a pain killer Dr Jetha gave him - his throat began to spasm and his breathing was restricted. When the patient was finally freed from the wreckage - with the pole through his leg and on an incubator - he began to "bleed out" from his injuries, | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,324,624 |
kind of nostalgic. There's another musician we recently covered on First-On called 'Halls', whose name is also that of a popular throat lozenges brand - any chance of you guys getting in touch for a co-headline tour? I'm sure you wouldn't have any trouble finding certain sponsors... Todd: Only if we can find a band named Ricola to fill out the bill. Speaking of tours, have you played live yet? Todd: We haven't played live yet, but we will be playing some shows within the coming months. What should we expect from you in the near future? Dani: We have some remixes in the works, more videos, more songs and the full-length record. It's going to be a great year and we're really excited about it! | SP | SP IT | 3,137,477 |
Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" ( Originally Posted by AspiringGenius ) Meh I don't like Romney but I'm sure he was talking about having a greater leadership over the US Military rather than conveying an imperialist message to the region. It's more a misphrasing In the same speech he said he wanted to arm the Syrian rebels. I'm pretty sure it was an imperialistic speech. Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" Yeah, the ME want's US leadership like they want to drink a shot of concentrated acid! ( Originally Posted by AspiringGenius ) Meh I don't like Romney but I'm sure he was talking about having a greater leadership over the US Military rather than conveying an imperialist message to the region. It's more a misphrasing You can't really get much more imperialist than having your military occupying territory in a different region. Well, you could install proxy governments and dictatorships... Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" ( Originally Posted by AspiringGenius ) I agree the occupation of territory there is imperialist, I just don't think this was meant to be a war mongering threat. Given Romney's other foreign policy statements regarding Israel-Palestine, China, Russia etc, it's certainly not passive, and I think he literally means the US taking charge and throwing its weight around. His foreign policy at the moment seems | ID | ID DF | 684,125 |
Lyrics to This Calls For Patient Endurance On The Part Of The Saints : Warned Be Warned One day the underground will be the only option War Destruction Comes to the Shores of America. One Day the price you'll pay the Brutal price to pray will be the blood of your firstborn sons. NO what will you do will you remain true to his name though the Antichrist reigns and this nation rolls over bones of believers and they sing "The Saints Are Dead"_ But we'll keep on truckin. Though this nation rolls I say Keep Rollin | LY | LY SL | 562,567 |
Nice boat, friendly skipper and deck hand, bottom fishing gear poor, and a total lack of fish. I know this is always a possibility as the fish can never be guaranteed, but seemed very expensive for just a day out on a boat, with a very average lunch. This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC tim_x_jones Combwich 2 reviews 3 helpful votes "Askaround" Reviewed 16 April 2012 3 eople found this review helpful We went on the Mizu in March 2012. Interesting day out, but bottom fishing gear was poor. Skipper tried hard - and caught biggest fish of about 1.5kg. The next day the boat's adveritising board claimed we had caught a 14lb snapper. About half a kg was nearer the truth. Could have accepted a lack of fish, but that claim left a bad taste. Try and check what is about and what you have a chance of catching before paying out 75 euros - and dont necessarily believe the boards! This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC Dodgyjon Chelmsford, United Kingdom Senior Contributor 33 reviews 4 attraction reviews Reviews in 11 cities 16 helpful votes "CATCH OF THE YEAR" Reviewed 7 April 2012 I have been on both the Sea Fishing boats out of P.C. and have found Mizu the best, Yes they do allocate rods on the outset, I have found if your rod has a hit it is you | OP | OP RV | 597,832 |
to see action. Now, it was a significant day, but it is not the culmination. The Senate now needs to pass this Bill. Now, yesterday, many people would have said this Bill could not pass the House, the government would not have the support to pass it through the House. We did. We saw Independents who'd previously said they'd oppose it vote for it. We saw a Liberal MP indicate he was willing to cross the floor. So these things are important. It is important that the Senate deeply reflects today on what's at stake. What's at stake here is saving people's lives. That's why the government has moved and compromised to get this through. And we do call on every Senator from every party to consider that and to consider acting in the national interest. Kelly: As you said, some MPs who voted for the Rob Oakeshott Bill yesterday voted really against their personal values and beliefs. They'd indicated previously they wouldn't vote for it. They did it to save lives. If this is going to get through the Senate today, it is clear to everybody more compromise is needed and that means it seems the only answer is dropping Malaysia for now. To save lives, will you do that? Bowen: Well, Fran, let's go through what the government has done. We began these negotiations last year, we initiated these negotiations. We then offered to open a detention centre at Nauru, not something that sits particularly well with many | SP | SP IT | 198,464 |
then this clearly must be treated with the same political correctness. In the interests of balance and fair reporting of course! Brad : airy nosed wombat : 09 Feb 2010 3:38:24pm Untimately i feel a little sorry for Barnaby. He is kinda likeable in some respects. He just isn't very bright and lacking in insight. You can get away with being "good ole Barnaby" on the peripheries, but the spotlight is going to be very hard on him. And he is lining up against one of the governments best performers in Lindsay Tanner, whilst simultaneously drowning out one of the oppositions best assets in Joe Hockey. Ultimately, he is going to have to go to open up any chance of attack for the opposition on the government's finances. But i think it will be a bit of a car wreck on the way there. Marilyn : Alice : 09 Feb 2010 3:33:16pm I find it amusing that you use Hawke as a measure for Abbott. A heavy drinker and womaniser. Is there something you are not telling us? Point is Hawke had substance. Abbott's inconsistencies and contradictions make it impossible to know who the real Abbott is. So when you, as a former Liberal advisor attack Rudd's authenticity, and then ignore Abbott's it demonstrates the hypocrisy surrounding your opinion piece.. Wise cracking one liners, playing the fool and acting the part of a 'man's man',is not enough. Barnaby is just a reflection of Abbott's way out there ideas which he | OP | OP OB | 120,751 |
Institutional Investors Insights is a series of research and opinion papers covering a broad range of topical issues related to the financial market. These papers have a strong education focus and are presented by some of AMP Capital?s leading experts. The outlook for global equities markets 25?September?2012 Global equities markets have been plagued by economic weakness and political uncertainty but the current market conditions are offering some profit opportunities for investors who are prepared to weather the short-term volatility. Core direct property - the yield story 5?September?2012 In today?s volatile share markets, investments that produce stable income are more important than ever. Here we look at the long-term performance of core direct property and how it can benefit an investor?s portfolio. | IN | IN | 11,166 |
He was a comedian. His sense of humor was completely intact. Flashbulbs popped, and I thought: "Wow! The Drop the Debt campaign will have the Pope in my glasses on the front page of every newspaper." Assayas : I don't remember seeing that photograph anywhere, though. Bono : Nor did we. It seems his courtiers did not have the same sense of humor. Fair enough. I guess they could see the T-shirts. Later in the conversation: Assayas : I think I am beginning to understand religion because I have started acting and thinking like a father. What do you make of that? Bono : Yes, I think that's normal. It's a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people, but the thing that keeps me on my knees is the difference between Grace and Karma. Assayas : I haven't heard you talk about that. Bono : I really believe we've moved out of the realm of Karma into one of Grace. Assayas : Well, that doesn't make it clearer for me. Bono : You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics; in physical laws every action is met by an equal or an opposite one. It's clear to me that Karma is at the very heart of the universe. I'm absolutely | SP | SP IT | 3,784,214 |
Depression of the 1930s, the New Zealand Labour Party -- like its counterparts around the world -- legislated to rein in speculation, to protect jobs and to protect human rights. Most of New Zealand's great economic assets, such as our farms, our roads and our forests, grew and prospered as a direct result of these policies. As our nation grew more prosperous, the wealth was widely shared. No children needed to starve in the New Zealand I grew up in. However, the 1980s and '90s saw the rise of a philosophy developed by the rich, for the rich. It was called Neo-Liberalism. Neo-Liberalism is based on the idea that it's a dog-eat-dog world. Neo-Liberalism is based on the idea that greed is good, that we're all locked in an economic life-and-death-struggle with each other. Neo-Liberalism says that compassion is for suckers. Neo-Liberalism says that if the world is going to the dogs, it might as well be the top dogs. Indeed, to borrow from Oliver Stone's Wall Street , not only is greed good, "it's legal." [i] When the British Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher was asked about the effects that her Neo-liberal policies would have on society, she replied: " There is no such thing as society... There are individual men and women. " [ii] The amazing thing about the Neo-Liberals is their wilful blindness to how badly their ideas have failed. Not just once, but repeatedly. Neo-Liberal policies directly caused two of the largest financial crashes in history. | SP | SP FS | 3,868,616 |
Far from encouraging men to patronise a local pub to escape from domestic duties, marriage actively reduces their alcohol intake, according to research being presented at the American Sociological Association today. However, the effect on women of walking down the aisle appears to be the opposite. The researchers found that married women generally drink more heavily than single women, widows or divorcees. By contrast, men who are happily married drink less than their bachelor friends and significantly less than divorced men. The reason, the researchers conclude, is that while women can help keep their husbands' drinking habits under control, men are simply a bad influence on their wives. Previous studies have shown that, overall, married people tend to drink less than non-married people, suggesting that a more settled home life can promote good health. But past research has not further separated married and non-married groups by gender. A group of sociologists led by Corinne Reczek, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, reviewed data from a long-running study of behaviour involving thousands of people in Wisconsin. They also looked at a separate set of 120 interviews with married, divorced, widowed and single people about their lifestyles. They found that while, overall, men consistently drink more than women and were more likely to have an alcohol problem, married men tended to drink significantly less than their male counterparts in every other marital status group. They concluded that getting married or divorced had a "dynamic relationship" on drinking habits, but in | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 505,092 |
is a really interesting concept. It's very much about being able to act in a consistent and confident way to provide guidance, support and development for people so they make an effective contribution to the business. That involves a wide range of things, to actually be able to achieve that. I think it is one of those things that is critically important in business but very hard to define. And if you are in the engineering business like ours, people are looking for definite definition and it is really hard to deliver that. Q4. Why did you choose the CLE program? We had a gap in our leadership development programs at Australia Rolled Products for a number of years and some of that was driven by the fact that we have been performing fairly poorly from the financial perspective. We had a new MD appointed and at the same time the Alcoa Corporation Worldwide had introduced a set of competencies that was going to underpin all of our Talent Management and Development practices. So really a number of things came together that said, 'This is an opportunity for us to develop a leadership program that is going to help us to support and to drive the competency requirements that we had of our leaders'. Q5. What was it like to work with DeakinPrime? It's been a really good experience, from the time of engaging Deakin, [then] working together to get a scope and pull the materials together. I think, having | SP | SP IT | 49,774 |
terrified of the law. How funny! I ran across this article while waiting (and waiting) here at jury duty. After reading all the posts I felt that I needed to put my 'two cents' in. I live in Columbus, Ohio. I began my 2 week jury service (that is the minium amount of time in Franklin County that you MUST serve) on Monday. I was 'called' for a trial on Tuesday afternoon. I was juror number 15, so the lawyers on both sides had to interview 12 other jurors before me. After 3 hours of non-stop questioning they released us for the day. Came back on Wednesday, 3 people were dismissed so then came my turn to get 'drilled'. They looked at my question and answer sheet and began firing off questions based upon that. They asked me what I did for a living and I told them that I do unemployment hearings. They asked me if I understood what 'burden of proof' meant/means and I told them, "yes I deal with it everyday." Anyway, after 15 mintues of them hammering away at me (I felt like I was the one on trial) both lawyers met with the judge and quickly dismissed me! What I find a shame is that our wonderful court system seems to not want anyone that has a half a brain and can think for themselves, they want little puppets that they can control and sway. Today is Thursday and I still haven't been called (not | HI | HI HT | 167,513 |
and Mathematics. | HI | HI HT | 717,166 |
that Donatella Della Porta's well written and no less informed article appears to have failed to address. We must avoid being absorbed by the State Paolo Cacciari, a former Rifondazione MP, argues that the left should avoid being 'absorbed' by state institutions, and explains how citizens' associations can work to bring about a new left culture latest from red pepper Gaza War: All about politics? Abby Martin interviews Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, about the current escalation of violence in Gaza | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,118,722 |
do prefer Is a little bit of cucum, I come, you come, a little bit of cucumber. ----------------------------------------\\... Written and composed by T.W. Connor, Copyright 1915 Francis, Day, and Hunter. For more information see Peter Davison's "Songs of the British Music Hall", Oak Publications, 1971. | LY | LY SL | 129,578 |
are women deemed by the angry dude-mob to have so ineptly handled the duties of femininity that they must be shamed, mocked, and of course, fucked in perpetuity. When I arrived on the lawn of Queen's Park for the march, it took about 20 seconds for a sense of discomfort to set in. I looked around and felt profoundly out of place because I saw so few people of colour. To be clear, I attend rallies, protests, marches, lectures, and conferences all the time in Toronto and I can't think of ever having had this feeling before. I am so tired of how little consideration is given to which peoples and which bodies are able to be publicly visible during protests and which are not. There was no talk about how our bodies as women of colour are hyper-sexualized and how that links to gendered, racialized sexual violence! There was no talk about why men of colour (who let's be honest are over represented in mainstream media as perpetrators of violence) would not show up to a march of this sort, even if their politics were deeply rooted in ending violence against women! In reality, capitalism mediates the feminist faade of choice by creating an entire industry that commodifies women's sexuality and links a woman's self-esteem and self-worth to fashion and beauty. Slutwalk itself consistently refuses any connection to feminism and fixates solely around liberal questions of individual choice -- the palatable "I can wear what I want" feminism that | IP | IP | 1,401,966 |
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