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I used to beat him with a turquoise chain, yeah When I was his woman, I pleased him I'd lead him to the tip When I was his mistress, oh oh I gave him cheap thrills When I was his princess, silk and satin and lace I'd wear for him He was a big freak! flim, flam, floozy, fantasy When I was his housewife I'd scrub him, I'd love him, I'd cook his meals When I was his geisha, oh oh I got down and (?) When I was his flower I'd answer to the name of Rosie May He was a big freak! I used to say all kinds of dirty thangs When I was his mother I'd hold him like a baby in my arms When I was his lover Oh, I drive him out of his mind When I was his daydream Ain't no need to tell you what that means I'd tie him up with my turquoise chain I used to tie him up Yeah, he couldn't get enough Nah, he'd be on the floor Oh, begging me for more He was a big freak! I used to say all kinds of dirty thangs He was a big freak! Film, flam, floozy, fantasy He was a big freak! Kept his mind entertained all the time I'd get him off with my turquoise chain I used to whip him I used to beat him Oh, he used to dig it Yeah, he used to really dig it | LY | LY SL | 297,213 |
at The Alternative Wedding Fair on Sunday (first fair ever!) and will be trying to put all of these massively helpful tips into practice -- thanks, Heidi. And Kat, we promise not to shove leaflets in your face if you come say hi: there is free food and drink availble though, so we may just be on the really talkative side of tipsy... I'm just preparing my bits'n'pieces for what will be an AWESOME stall at various wedding fairs over the next few months. Reading this has reassured me that I am getting it right. Phew. I just hope the fairs themselves attract the right people. I definitely should have done more research there. I did one last year and it was a huge success so I am hoping for more of the same. Fingers crossed. Great post. I love wedding fairs as a supplier but I do tend to think they are scary places for the newly engaged. Rabbits caught in headlights comes to mind. But as you say suppliers either thrusting leaflets at them or basically ignoring them sat behind their stand (why pay to be there then ignore people?) I always stand in front and try to chat to as many folk as I can about their whole wedding, not just the flowers. Kerry, good point about the ring, I will try that at the next fair. I do believe people book you because they like you and being remembered after the event is key. I also | HI | HI HT | 608,410 |
Designers Have Advantages Over Their Male Counterparts? Sometimes, because women tend to pay more attention to detail than men do, but by the same token, men seem to have higher confidence levels so it all evens out in the end. What is Your Biggest Challenge/Achievement? My biggest challenge is my own self confidence, showing others what I am worth has always been an issue. As for my biggest achievement, I would say actually finishing a to-do list! Anything to Say to Other Female Designers? Keep on going, it may be a man's world out there but we are slowly making it a lot prettier! Gennah Ne Smith Bio: I'm a mega dork who drinks tea too much and can't stop pranking chumps! I have the attention span of a 5 year old after drinking red soda and I am always hard at work. Portfolio: gennah.com Twitter: @Gennner How Did You Get Into the Web Design Industry? I first learned Web design in a high school Multimedia class, some say it was love at first type and we've been inseparable ever since. After that, I studied my butt off, freelanced and now work for a company as a web designer. Do You Think There is a Lack of Female Web Designers? There is definitely a higher dude to chick ratio in this industry! Maybe lacking a little? Have You Ever Experienced Any Negativity or Sexism Being in This Industry? Not really, but I do get a lot of high 5's when | SP | SP IT | 3,259,252 |
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to be a clear issue on which I hope hon. Members will make up their minds. Reference to the iron and steel Bill has been made continually in this Debate. Many speakers have visualised the possibility of the iron and steel Bill being presented during this Parliament. Despite what the Prime Minister has said, it seems to me quite possible that the iron and steel Bill will not be presented during this Parliament. I, personally, am now very wary of any assurances which we get from the Government Front Bench, because they have a habit of going wrong or of changing. It is for that reason that I do not place a great deal of weight on the Prime Minister's assurance that the iron and steel Bill would be presented in this Parliament. I look upon it as an equal possibility that the iron and steel Bill will not be presented, because if the Minister for Economic Affairs has judged the matter with the ability that I know he has, then in view of his recent utterances on the excellence of the iron and steel industry and the work which it is doing, I cannot 282 believe that there is any case whatsoever for nationalising that industry. I think there may be other motives. Some hon. Members have said that this Bill will not present a constitutional crisis. It is quite possible that the Bill will go through without any particular public attention being drawn to it, but it is | SP | SP IT | 466,997 |
and PRE-KNOWLEDGE of the event. etc etc etc (There's loads of coincidences). It would be oh so easy to explain any or all of this with some simple investigations. Instead we get the NIST WTC7 report which invents new mechanisms for building collapses (never seen before (oh except at WTC1 and 2) or since)! And doesn't even apply high school maths to determine rate of acceleration of the fall! Comment number 58. "Freefall speed: NIST didn't even apply high school maths to show rate of accleration of building collapse really was Free Fall!!! (9.81mss)" Lets just look at that one specific 'fact' 9.8 m/s/s is an object accelerating freely in a vacuum. Not the acceleration of a building collapsing like a pack of cards in an atmosphere. Thats the difference between high school physics (not maths) and real world physics - real world physics has to include multiple factors. This is a lovely example of quality of the 'truth' campaign. They give a fact that 'proves' something (not exactly stated what it proves) then every 'fact' anyone looks at closely crumbles, one by one. Comment number 61. #56 "Can't be explosives because someone would have heard them" - this can be thoroughly debunked. Thermite ignition in any case is practically silent anyway." However the workmen spending weeks smashing down the walls to get to the supporting girders to plant enough thermite to bring down the building would have made just a little noise! You don't just plant the stuff in | IP | IP ED | 1,435,784 |
those three rules for our trade, which I have religiously followed ever since. Have you, L.S, L.H, A.S? The most important rule, of course, is that no carbon shall be emitted when researching, writing and publishing ethical advice. Now I'm afraid, my three (so-called) ethical friends, that if you write for newspapers then you have instantly broken that rule -- in fact, you've broken it, ground it down, spat in it and turned it into toxic sludge. Did you know that the Guardian , for example, which I know that one of you writes for, purchases 114,000 TONNES of paper a year! Do you KNOW how many trees one must bludgeon, fell, imprison and pulp in order to produce that much paper?! No, neither do I -- but I know it is an awful. Probably thousands. Maybe tens of thousands. Maybe trillions. An entire forest, one might say. Twenty forests, perhaps. Are you happy that it takes the sacrifice of TWENTY FORESTS for the communication of your ideas on ethical living? Then there's the newspaper print (chemically produced dyes) -- eerugh. And the carbon emitted in the production of electricity to power printing presses and the thousands of PCs and laptops used by newspaper journalists. And the petrol guzzled up by the delivery vans that drop piles of these dead trees covered in pointless words at various points around the country. L.S, L.H and A.S, you accuse me of 'using electricity' in the production of my ethical advice, as if | ID | ID QA | 92,413 |
and have that as your predominant thought? Or, more likely, you thought of it ages ago and thought this was the perfect opportunity to relay your hilarious observation. Let me start by qualifying what I am about to say by saying that I'm in Chile and have been for three years. I've seen the earthquake and the miner's ordeal. Chileans are a fairly resilient bunch and when the chips are down they huddle together and pull one another through. The media coverage of both the earthquake and the miners was very sensationalized by the English speaking western media. True, the country was shaken by an extremely large earthquake but casualties were minimal and I had full internet access six hours later. True, 33 miners got trapped almost a kilometre underground but they survived . Life for those miners was not any better before the accident than it is now. To portray them as having social, family or financial problems now suggests that they didn't exist before. Being a miner's wife is not a bed of roses. Often these women have to put up with the womanising, gambling and the violent habits of their spouses. This articles is not entirely misleading but it does suggest that the mining incident may be responsible for issues that have long existed in the mining community here in Chile. Also this article was extremely long (and a little dull), I'm sure it was well intentioned. BeatriceD 17 July 2011 3:59AM S you have an accident | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 665,659 |
treated with surgery to remove the abnormal tissue or unblock tubes. Fertility drugs or IVF may also be options. UTERUS PROBLEMS Beside endometriosis, there are other uterine problems that affect fertility. Some women suffer from fibroids (non-malignant tumours inside the uterus) or polyps (small growths in the endometrium). Both conditions can impede a fertilised egg being implanted in the uterus. Treatment options include the use of drugs to shrink the fibroids, or surgical removal. Once the problem is treated it may be possible for you to conceive in the normal way. CERVIX PROBLEMS Your cervix has an opening that allows sperm to pass into your uterus and fallopian tubes. Around the time of ovulation, your cervical mucus increases and is thin and rslippery' so sperm can swim through it - if your cervical mucus remains thick, however, it can stop sperm from getting through. Some women may also have an immune reaction to sperm; it's thought that about 2% of women produce antibodies that kill sperm cells. Besides failing to fall pregnant, you won't show any symptoms of having this reaction. If you suffer from these problems, your treatment may include intrauterine insemination (IUI) or IVF. IDIOPATHIC CAUSES If you don't suffer from any of these conditions and your partner has been given the all-clear in his fertility tests, the infertility may be due to some other factor, or you may be one of the 10% of couples investigated for infertility in which no cause can be found. This is | IN | IN DT | 484,993 |
to drink a full calorie beverage. And they have no connection to obesity because they exercise sufficiently. It's about knowledge. It's about the understanding of energy balance and a lack of understanding of energy balance that creates issues and problems. And therefore, we all have a responsibility to raise awareness of energy balance and raise awareness for the need for effective active lifestyle programs. SARAH GREEN: Finally, on the issue of leadership, we asked Kent how he had to shift gears after taking the top job. MUHTAR KENT: I would say not a huge shift, but one of the things that I've learned when I became CEO is you just have to be much more careful about the words you use, and how you use them, and when you use them. Because an organization sometimes just takes off and follows a word when you absolutely never intended that. So rounding off, speaking certainly not directive, but much in a more sort of general sense is something that I've learned from the first day on. Probably for the first two, three months, I wasn't aware because the language that you use as a CEO or head of international is not taken to be the sort of rule of the land, whereas sometimes the language you use as CEO, whether it's with a bottler, whether it's with town hall meetings, I learned is something that needs to be in a different context. And that's something that I learned the hard way. SARAH | SP | SP IT | 420,490 |
should do is validate the accuracy of the expectations, also known as "re-setting" the expectations. Once the project expectations have been set (or reset) and cost and time baselines have been approved, the project manager must then manage stakeholder expectations to ensure the end-product will still be able to achieve that projected ROI. A good Project Manager utilizes all the tactics in the PM toolkit to help set and manage expectations (e.g., Charters, Work Breakdown Structures, Gantt charts, Risk and Issue Logs, Status Reports, etc.) but the successful Project Manager will be able to articulate why those tactics help support and align to the product strategy and attainment of the ROI. The successful Project Manager knows why these tools are important and is capable of demonstrating how the Gantt Chart and the Risk and Issue Log help to drive the delivery of the project to meet "go to market" stakeholder expectations and support the expected ROI. Step 2: Adopting Lessons Learned A successful project is not only one that meets stated commitments, it's also one that generates value for the sponsoring organization. While there are many reasons why projects succeed, when analyzing how projects successfully deliver on value generation, there are a few key project success factors that go to the top of the list: Customer Involvement is key to determining what problems need to be solved and whether they are being addressed satisfactorily by the solution. Executive Sponsorship means active leadership involvement to ensure project alignment with organizational goals. | HI | HI | 463,970 |
5 Great Reasons to Optimize Your Landing Pages 1. Enhance customer's experience Landing page optimization allows you to improve your user experience. This is important and is great for customer conversions and retention. Visitors will be able to more intuitively navigate and use your site which will work to improve the overall experience. 2. Build trust Trust is a very important element to have on your website. There are literally millions of different websites online and it's difficult to stand out from the others. Optimizing your website allows you to build trust with your visitors and customers. There are a lot of specific ways to build trust which can also help with increasing conversions. This includes adding client testimonials or a "featured in" section. 3. Maximize campaign ROI The difference between a successful and unsuccessful marketing campaign can often come down to the conversion rates of your website. Optimizing your site and landing pages allow you to potentially make more revenue with the same traffic. This allows more budget to be placed into marketing and gives your team more scope to try creative marketing campaigns. 4. Increase your site's usability Site usability is tied in to the customer experience. This involves making your site easy to use. This can be done through intuitive navigation or status bars for form completions. Helping users effectively and quickly use your site is crucial for conversions and website optimization. 5. Increase your conversion rates Finally, the overall goal for landing page optimization is to | IP | IP OE | 287,265 |
you don't see "Interests", click the "More" link at the end of the left column and it should appear.) Hover over the list you want to add to your Favorites until you see the edit icon (pencil) appear. Click on that pencil. Then click on "Add to Favorites." Doing this will bump up your Interest List link to the top of your Home page (see above) so when you login, you can go directly to your list. Bonus: If you want to be super on top of things, hover over your list name again (under Favorite) until you see the pencil icon once more. Click the pencil icon and then click "Rearrange." You'll see three lines appear to the right of the items on your Favorites list. You can drag and drop your Interest List where you want under Favorites, like, just below your News Feed (which has to stay put). I don't know how you could make it any easier to get to. How to create a list and add Pages or Friends on the fly or individually So now let's say you have your list created, but as you are browsing your News Feed or as you are bopping around the internet, you come across a Facebook Page you want to add to your list, or you remember you want to add that new Friend. Simple. (If you have trouble with this, you may have to switch your "Using Facebook as..." options.) How to add a Page to | HI | HI HT | 402,015 |
Later this year (2010) it will be 17 years since Wayne Rainey's career ending crash. We interviewed Wayne back in 2003 on the tenth anniversary of that tragic crash where he reflected on life in a wheelchair and the switch to four-stroke in MotoGP. This is a transcript of that interview. -- It is 10 years today (September 5, 2003) since the crash which ended triple 500cc world champion Wayne Rainey's motorcycle racing career. Q: Wayne, you might just tell us what you are doing these days. A: At the moment I'm kind of doing a Kevin Magee! I'm working on my four wheeler. I think when I went and visited Kevin what was he, the Horsham Hurricane I saw some of the stuff that he rode around in and I was amazed that he could even go racing after riding some of that stuff that he built. I'm out here tiddling away with my four wheeler, just goofing off a bit. Q: Wayne, how have you been since you got out of team management? Have you been keeping busy? A: Oh yeah. I'm having much more fun now. The team management thing was probably the bottom pit as far as Yamaha Racing was concerned. After the accident that was really the last of our success together and then I had these opportunities after the accident to come back and to run the team and I had the opportunity with Marlboro and then Yamaha stepped up and there was a | SP | SP IT | 500,993 |
number keeps climbing. If the company is able to increase monetization for the massive user base, it could provide a major growth catalyst. The current and future outlook: For now, and the next few quarters, Microsoft shares could remain under pressure along with most stocks in the PC industry. It has not helped that a key executive left the company shortly after the Windows 8 launch, and the Surface tablet is likely to face a tough time in gaining traction when the iPad has so much momentum. For this reason, it's probably too early to take a large position in the stock. Two potentially major catalysts for the stock (the Surface and Windows 8 launch) have come and gone and that could mean that the most likely scenario is for the stock to trade a lot like a bond. It has dropped to about $26 per share, and it offers a yield of roughly 3.5% which is right in the range of what bond investors look for in terms of yield. Microsoft has a relatively stable source of revenues, and stability is another desirable attribute for many bonds. It has a fortress-like balance sheet with about $67 billion in cash and just around $12 billion in debt. This horde of cash reduces risks for shareholders and it gives the company plenty of money to spend on development of existing and future products. The bottom line is that Microsoft shares might continue to be brought down as investors seem to continue | IP | IP PA | 1,393,377 |
believe that this is a story at all. Grow up, use common sense, be a better parent by not taking your children out when it is potentially too cold for them, and take responsibility for your own actions rather than blaming someone else. Nobody made you go to the rally! ttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1\\... Akira Bear Are you freaking kidding me? Anacoluthia Wow, you're really stupid. It is your right to leave an event you chose to attend at any time, regardless of whether that event is over. I actually can't wrap my head around how stupid you are. "Common sense" is assuming you will be allowed to leave the premises whenever you choose based on the fact that the USA is a free country. dantes44 Don't know your political leanings, but LOVE your comment. ttp://twitter.com/PovoTatiana Tatiana Povoroznyuk I get what you're saying, but people should have the right to get their frostbitten children back home without pushing through a security guard. When you attend a rally you aren't signing a contract preventing you to leave before it's over. Kvandizzle I agree that if the parents did go against better judgement by taking their children out into potentially cold conditions (If you live in PA you already know that it gets cold quickly. People are acting so naive) they should have been able to leave. I am not disagreeing about that part. You're an idiot So children should never go out if the temperatures are too cold, on the off chance that some | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 336,712 |
friends feeling the Sunday air changed about them, the reason less than an hour off. All that, beyond reach, where he stood shoulder-deep in the shallow hole of a broken lake, climbing the brittle rim only to have it cave-in, dunking him as often as he tried into water colder than he ever imagined water to be, knowing he would faint dead away in it, to sink where he had floated warm in the sun of past summers, alive as any man had ever been. And then, as though in dream, he saw his wife closer than before, a rope in hand, the lake splintering beneath her, risking all she had to risk, her eyes meeting his in prayer, the rope whirring toward him, a neighbor lugging a ladder, gambling his weight and age on the groaning surface, the long pull to shore, the doe left behind for those with boats to axe their way and save her, only to find her needing more than they could give, hauling her past the crowd, to the inner edge of her woods to die -- to take a single slug below the ear, her blood run out too far to claim, the freeze too deep to thaw. He stands, greasing himself for the hardest swim of his life, the jar on a log, its cap fallen upside down in the sand, flicking splinters of sun on the house, all but hidden in the dunes, where his wife, his son, his daughter lie | LY | LY PO | 337,812 |
human rights violations remained in power, where state institutions remained weak, and where those primarily responsible for the violations retained significant power." 19 As mentioned above, this "significant power" of ARENA and its allies would be quickly translated into the legalization of impunity. The 1993 Amnesty Law: The Legalization of Impunity The Amnesty Law was passed by the National Assembly on March 20, 1993 by ARENA and other right wing parties in a 47 to 8 vote (with 13 abstentions) and signed into law by President Cristiani just five days after the Truth Commission on El Salvador issued its report. In effect, the passage of this law was a self-amnesty, not a popular act of forgiveness, because it was passed by the same governing party under which the abuses took place. It met with the immediate opposition of the UCA, some Salvadoran human rights organizations, and the international human rights community. In a country where more than 75,000 non-combatants were killed, largely by the security forces and their allied death squads, the amnesty law continues to deprive survivors of closure and the dead of justice and retribution. Source: Yale Law School By the late 90's, international pressure with regard to resolving the Jesuit case began to intensify. In 1999, the Inter-American Commission ruled that El Salvador's amnesty law violated international law by foreclosing further investigation of the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and two women. 20 This law is still hotly controversial; Amnesty International strongly encouraged the repeal of | IP | IP ED | 3,232,647 |
Extraction Playing LOOM reminds me of watching old silent movies, like Voyage To The Moon. It's this glimpse at a time when the medium was new and nobody knew what worked and what didn't. Early adventure games were made by packs of people making whatever came to mind, and you glimpse all these directions the industry could have gone. There are always lessons to be learned from that. The tape and the physical Book Of Patterns really made the world feel tangible (as did the disk-swapping, in a way), though that'd be hard to do today now that most people use direct download to play games. Taking ideas from unexpected places is another valuable lesson - much of the game's power comes from the gorgeous music of Swan Lake (it meant I got to hum along during Black Swan, so that's a plus), and classical music is royalty-free so you could easily score your game with opera or ballet. Letting your influences expand beyond just games and movies, but ballet and philosophy and paintings... I'd love to see LOOM's central mechanic expanded to a modern, larger game. The feeling that you could point at anything and sing a sequence of notes at it was thrilling, even if, in the end, there weren't too many results. It felt like you were actually casting , instead of clicking a spell in a menu. The mixture of magic and music proved a potent one as well. The indie scene could easily support a | ID | ID DF | 516,538 |
egg yolks into the egg whites and fold them in with the rubber spatula. Make sure not to over-mix. Step 7: Complete the batter Next, we need to introduce the flour and corn starch to the eggs. Start by combining the flour and the corn starch in the sieve and using your hands, slowly sift it into the mixture. Sifting the flour will increase the amount of air in the cake, helping to make it even lighter. Fold it all together remembering again not to over-mix and then add the melted butter to the batter, combining it in briefly. Step 8: Bake Using your rubber spatula, you can now transfer the batter into the lined spring-form pan. Spread the batter evenly with the rubber spatula and give the pan a few good shakes to remove any air pockets that might remain. Now put the cake into the oven and allow it to bake. Step 9: Remove the cake After around 30 minutes, test the cake to see it is ready. Insert a wooden skewer into the centre of the cake. The cake is ready when the skewer comes out free of batter. Now set it aside to cool before removing it from the pan. Once the cake is totally cooled, take a sharp knife and run it around the outside of the cake. Now remove the spring-form pan and there you have it, your sponge cake. Step 10: Serving Suggestions Although sponge cake can be eaten as it is, it | HI | HI RE | 672,948 |
BOQ - Your own Personal Bank Bank of Queensland Limited (BOQ) has announced its intention to raise $200 million through the offer of Convertible Preference Shares (CPS) with the ability to raise more or less (Offer). Read the Prospectus on the Offer website . For a limited time, when you move your existing home loan over $150,000 to BOQ, you'll get $1,000 credited to your nominated BOQ transaction account. You'll also a get a great discount on new home loans from $250,000 to $1,000,000 with the Home Loan Privileges Package. For a limited time you'll get a seriously competitive rate of 5.79%p.a. (includes 0.15% p.a. discount) on our 3 year residential secured fixed Business Term Loan rate as part of the Business First Lending Package. Bank of Queensland Limited (BOQ) has announced its intention to raise $200 million through the offer of Convertible Preference Shares (CPS) with the ability to raise more or less (Offer). Read the Prospectus on the Offer website . At BOQ, we believe every Aussie child deserves a Merry Christmas. That's why throughout November we're helping The Smith Family to collect toys and books for disadvantaged Aussie kids. Please donate a brand new toy or book at any BOQ branch today! In line with guidance provided to the market on 4 October 2012, BOQ confirmed a statutory full year loss after tax of $17.1m for 2012, due to increased provisions and one-off legacy expense items. In announcing the result, BOQ Managing Director and CEO Stuart Grimshaw | IP | IP DS | 153,728 |
it is found, once its accounts have been prepared, that company A has a tax loss of $10,000. It is anticipated that Company B will be in profit and that the amount of the taxable profit will be about $2,000, ie less than the amount of Company A's loss. Company B's accounts, however, have still to be prepared as the accountants are waiting on further information from their clients. That information will be arriving in a few days. There is still time to file an election and the question is whether Company A can now elect to offset some of its loss up to the amount of the profit company's profit by using a formula, which formula will simply be that the amount to be offset will be the amount of Company B's profit. The answer is that this is permissible because: the notice will be given in time; the amount will be subsequently identified as a specific dollar amount; it does not matter that (even if the accounting firm could commit staff to the finalisation of the accounts) the profit cannot be ascertained with finality at the time of the notice; the information will be in the accountants' hands shortly and so the profit will be identifiable at a time close to the notice. It could even be said that the profit is presently identifiable if the information is somewhere within Company B; and the amount to be offset is already fixed in that it is controlled by the | IN | IN | 1,759,251 |
How to make a go of it on the going rate How to Make a Go of It on the "Going Rate" Keep your copyright Keep the copyright of everything you write. If you are a freelancer and you write something, it's yours. It doesn't matter who initiated the work -- if you offer it or an editor commissioned it, and you write it, it belongs to you. There is no copyright in ideas; it is the expression of that idea that is protected by copyright. The only way you can sell (or assign) your copyright is in writing and signed by you or on your behalf. If you decide to assign copyright, make sure you are being paid very well. We recommend that, in general, you don't sign away copyright. Ask how your work will be used Think about copyright issues early and find out how the editor wants to use your work. You can license (i.e. authorise the use of your work) the various rights that make up copyright. For instance, these could be first New Zealand print rights, one-time print rights, web rights etc. You can license them for an indefinite period or for a limited time. In an ideal world, the editor should pay for each separate use, including web rights. If you are planning to try and sell it elsewhere - which we recommend you aim to do - then you may wish to keep the work off the web. You can ask for that | HI | HI HT | 1,750,901 |
"type" of relationship, including both eldercare and care for young children. [14] Situations may arise where discrimination based on pregnancy overlaps with discrimination based on family status. For example, a new mother in the immediate post-natal period will be covered by the grounds of both pregnancy and family status. Pregnancy discrimination and family status discrimination are often based on the same stereotypes and negative attitudes, such as the perception on the part of some employers that mothers are less capable, committed and competent than other employees, or negative attitudes towards children on the part of some landlords. Employers or housing providers sometimes discriminate on the basis of pregnancy in order to avoid dealing with a woman's family status-related needs at a later date. Many women who are pregnant also already have children; they may therefore simultaneously experience discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and family status. 3. Pregnancy and Domestic Abuse There is research indicating that pregnant women may be at greater risk of domestic violence, and that women experiencing domestic violence may be subjected to higher levels of violence during a pregnancy. [15] Women who are facing violence in the home can end up being disciplined, or even losing their jobs because of rigid absenteeism policies. As well, the fact that landlords do discriminate against single mothers with children can place women who are attempting to leave abusive relationships at serious risk. They may end up returning to an abusive relationship because they have literally nowhere else to go. | IN | IN LT | 109,913 |
Honda Fit EV Is the Most Efficient New Car in the US Fresh out of EPA testing, the 2013 Honda Fit EV has earned the title of most efficient car sold in the United States. The electric Honda's 118 MPGe fuel efficiency equivalency rating is the highest ever awarded by the EPA, beating out the 105 MPGe Ford Focus Electric, 112 MPGe Mitsubishi i-MiEV and 99 MPGe Nissan Leaf. The Fit EV consumes just 29 kWh of electricity per 100 miles driven, which will cost the average driver about $500 per year. The EPA's MPGe rating is determined based on the energy present in a gallon of gasoline and converting it from BTUs to kWh -- which comes out to 33.7 kWh of electricity. Otherwise, the simulated highway and city driving dynamometer tests required by the EPA are the same for EVs and cars that run on gasoline or diesel. In addition to its miserliness, the Fit EV's 20 kWh lithium-ion battery pack also gives it a decent total range -- 82 miles, according to the EPA's combined city and highway test cycle. That's nine more miles than the Leaf and a full 20 more miles than the i-MiEV. It's also six more miles than Honda told us the Fit EV would achieve in mixed driving when they unveiled the car at the LA Auto Show last November. With its 6.6 kW charger instead of the 3.3 kW unit that most EVs use, the Fit EV also promises a full | IP | IP | 603,313 |
Family with school age children See our Kids Connection web with activities to help them look forward to the familiy's relocation Early involvement of the whole family helps Younger children who are in school may be understandably reluctant to leave their friends, activities and familiar surroundings to go to a strange new country. Help them understand why you have decided to move and how it will benefit them. Involve them in the planning details, and let them help make small decisions. Share photos and information about the new area and recreational activities available for children or teens their age -- especially activities or sports they currently enjoy. Let them know there will be plenty of fun things for them to do. Older children and teens may enjoy doing their own online research and learning about the most popular spots and activities. Reassure your children that they will make friends quickly, and that they can easily keep in touch with old friends through e-mail, social media and talk live via Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services. We're all in this together It can be helpful for younger children to know that they are not alone in their concerns. Encourage them to ask questions and share their fears. Let them know that you also are wondering what it will be like, that you are a little bit nervous too, but that you will all be together and it will be an adventure. Take advantage of resources available to help find the best | OP | OP AV | 1,442,841 |
an ode to him -- Morris's throat-ripping cry of " THOMAS MIDGLEY? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? " is the exasperated and desperate roar of disbelief, whilst the taunt and scything, see-saw guitars will stay rooted in your brain. It's an exhausting listen; the passion and strain is evident, as is the tense punk-rock nature of the tracks angry and destructive chorus -- hands down their best work to date. ' Terrible Lizards ' celebrates the birth, existence and finally the death of the dinosaurs. This is of course, backed by the kind of strident, metallic, post-hardcore, littered with disjointed time-signatures you would come to expect, as it begins to evolve into something reminiscent of touring buddies Down I Go (also, why no Pete on this track? His Tyrannosaurus impression is brilliant!). Warning, this isn't an easy listen. It's a complex and jarring 61 minutes, yet it's also note perfect in every way -- the guitars are clean (but evil), the drums an apocalyptic barrage and the vocals have a schizophrenic quality laced with such zealous and ardent enthusiasm. ' The Sleep Of Reason ' is a vital, beautiful, terrifying and fanatical album and a worthy final release from the Richter Collective. Take a bow everyone, you've earned it. Buy it y'all. | OP | OP RV | 3,098,391 |
future as one people, as one nation. Here, in Afghanistan, Americans answered the call to defend their fellow citizens and uphold human dignity. Today, we recall the fallen, and those who suffer wounds seen and unseen. But through dark days we have drawn strength from their example, and the ideals that have guided our nation and lit the world: a belief that all people are created equal, and deserve the freedom to determine their destiny. That is the light that guides us still. This time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end. With faith in each other and our eyes fixed on the future, let us finish the work at hand, and forge a just and lasting peace. May God bless our troops. And may God bless the United States of America. | SP | SP TA | 651,872 |
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colleagues. Most people would expect the rater who evaluates honesty and integrity the toughest would be the subject's manager. But in reality, managers tend to give their direct reports higher marks for honesty and integrity than those individuals get from their peers -- and than they give themselves. In other words, managers consistently overrate their direct reports' honesty and integrity. And (as you can see from the graph) the more effective an individual is as a leader, the worse this gets. So just as being honest matters more and more, individuals are given more and more of the benefit of the doubt. In a working culture that is increasingly dependent on honesty and integrity (and where organizations face increasingly high consequences when integrity fails), managers should take several important messages away from this research. Knowing that managers tend to assume greater levels of integrity in their direct reports than the workers do themselves, they should not take honesty as a given. Nor should they assume that effectiveness and honesty go hand-in-glove. They should instead take deliberate care to communicate expectations of honesty. They should put stronger structures in place to require and enforce the level of integrity they want to protect and assume is in place. They should take a good look at their own integrity and honesty standards and consider how well those standards are communicated and made evident to their teams. As leaders move up, the dangers, and their consequences multiply. Many of the checks and balances that | IN | IN | 620,191 |
close database SIG, IX SIG, DNS operations SIG and routing SIG. How many of you agree with this decision made by the SIG chairs and the program committee? Please raise your hands. Thank you. Is there anyone here who does not agree with the decision? I see the consensus, so these listed SIGs will be closed. The archives will be maintained. Subscriptions will be notified of the course of action from this floor. Thank you very much for supporting the APNIC community for all these years and we look forward to your support for the APOPS, APIX and APRICOT peering forum in future. Thank you. APPLAUSE Maemura Akinori: Thank you very much. I would like to extend at this opportunity to appreciate all SIG chairs and co-chairs and contributors for the SIG who have been making the APNIC community rich and more productive. Thank you very much. Also I would like to again express appreciation for the WGs, for their effort and the service received by the Executive Council. Thank you very much. The next part will be APNIC 33, Rajesh. Rajesh Chharia will introduce you to our next meeting, APNIC 33, APRICOT in New Delhi. Rajesh Chharia: Thank you, Mr Akinori. Ladies and gentlemen, these five days have been very educative to me and all of us sitting over here. I wish to thank the host, KISA, Mr Paul Wilson and his admirable team for the entire event. Thanks once again to APIA board, APNIC, SANOG and APTLD organization | SP | SP TA | 457,405 |
What you can do Every act is one of plastic karma -- whether it is supporting initiatives dealing with marine plastics or spreading the word about the issue. Here are several simple things you can do to help: Spread the word * Share this film about Vac from the Sea. * Like Vac from the Sea on Facebook . * E-mail your friends about Vac from the Sea from here . * Decorate your profile or blog with one of the badges above. Click on the badge you want. Share your story Perhaps you own a boat, live by the sea, or enjoy deep ocean diving? Whoever you are, and whatever your story is, we are listening. Content from enthusiasts will regularly be published and promoted as part of the Vac from the Sea-quest. Please send us your story -- a few lines, a picture or a video -- to: electrolux@vacfromthesea.com Support and learn There are thousands of people out there working hard to clean the sea from plastic. There are research teams and organisations, determined to understand the environmental effects of marine plastics and solutions for the future. And there are beach joggers, scuba divers and enthusiasts all over the world, striving to improve the plastic situation. Learn more about, be inspired by, and perhaps support one of the organisations and initiatives below: Disclaimer Certain links on this Web site lead to resources located on servers that are not maintained or controlled by Electrolux. Electrolux are not responsible for | IP | IP | 631,311 |
quails eggs strike the right balance between egg and seasoning, nice with a good quality chilled sherry. As part of a starter I cooked for a lady the other evening, I had a ceviche component. I used Scallops, very thinly sliced almost like sashimi. Given the delicate sweet flavour of scallops, I reccommend reducing the curing/marinating time substantially. 30.60 minutes. I prefer the trio of citrus generally, but on this occasion ommitted the Lime and went with just lemon and orange, so as to lessen the sharpness in compliment to the scallop. I served this with a perfectly cooked (if I do say so myself) seared king scallop to present an interesting mixture between textures, temperatures and flavour. The whole dish combined a deep fried breaded mix of salmon and smoked salmon, with the two scallop components, some minature roasted cauliflower and a lemon aioli. Sounds like it may not all go, but trust me it did. that said my balancing could have been a fluke... I've never eaten conch, sounds interesting although I'm not that keen on snails (I don't eat butter but I've had them in Italy cooked in tomato sauce). Sounds a bit like octopus as in you can either cook it fast or cook it slow, is that correct? Moving off at a tangent I use those baby frozen squid (that come in boxes) and marinade them in a pineapple and chilli salsa (there are other things in there as well but they are the big | HI | HI HT RE | 480,104 |
during World War I, the combat that Wells envisioned here. He even saw 9/11 and the Iraq War, pegging Western European complaceny so accurately that I felt my jaw drop to the floor on a few occasions. Honestly, this H. G. guy was one in a billion. He was utterly, incalculably brilliant. He was also a helluva writer, expressing ideas with flashes of humor, irony, and passion. Wells uses a countryside Englishman as witness to the fall of civilization, and manages to effortlessly switch between the epic canvas of war and the cameo portrait of a normal man seeing everything he ever understood about the world fray apart before his eyes. In a terrific last stroke, Wells writes the final chapter that sums up the possibility that "progess" may be an illusion. This novel deserves to be considered amongst Wells finest, and this new edition with Duncan's insightful introduction, may be the firest step in getting it the wide audience it deserves. First, before anything else, he links us to a character, a man named Bert Smallways, who we will follow and this allows us to see what is happening from the view of a normal man within the book. The first few chapters in fact deal only with Bert, pushing much of the major events into the background, suggested by news headlines that nobody seems to notice. But when wars come it comes with a bam. The Earth's weapons seem to be bomb carrying airships and gun carrying airplanes. | IP | IP DS | 453,607 |
We are entering a new era for online video as the focus increasingly turns to quality, rather than quantity. One consequence of this higher quality is that branded content will become even more engaging and entertaining, as it competes for viewers attention amongst other premium content. Video advertising will prove to be effective, without being intrusive, which is already demonstrated by the popularity of ads in the latest Viral Video Charts. Whilst broadcast television will remain an expensive (but effective) medium for instantly reaching mass audiences, online will become a complimentary medium, integrating with television for a richer experience and enabling a deeper engagement with brands. With such a promising outlook, no wonder billions are being invested in providing the infrastructure to keep up with demand, but with greater opportunity comes the need to improve the narrative of online branded video, moving on from the 30-second TV spot. Steve Davies is a media, venture, and technology advisor and former Partner at KPMG Consulting, as well as being a guest blogger on Econsultancy. You can follow him on Twitter and read more on his blog . Recommended reports The Online Video Best Practice Guide, updated in July 2012, is aimed at marketers and content owners who are using video as a tool for marketing and sales. The 49-page guide covers all you need to know about what's happening in online video, including best practice tips, platforms and techniques. The report is full of real, practical examples and case studies to help | OP | OP | 1,719,409 |
by and watch us frustrate ourselves with Microsoft's very lame attempts to do the impossible. can't anyone just answer a simple question without one, me, having to be an edumicated idiot? how does one stop annoying prompts of google chrome or egis updates on our screens? even when we trustingly install these programs, how are they supposed to be used by one when they're somewhat if at all explained in edumicated idiots language and not normal english? I'm hoping you can help me with a related issue here: I managed to get all the user accounts set as "Standard User" so no one is listed as "Administrative". But, UAC still provides the pop up where you're supposed to enter the admin p/w for any changes. But, in doesn't actually allow me to put IN a p/w... there isn't even an "OK" button to push, only "Cancel". So, I can't turn UAC off, intall or uninstall any programs, etc. Any suggestions? I saw a post like this on Lifehacker but that only delt with Windows vista not windows 7 which is what I have. But I tried the recommended advice on my laptop and it has worked for me. I did this because I some of my web browser and Google Talk would not open when i clicked on them. So I ran the troubleshoot comparability and it fixed the problem. But after that every time i clicked on the programs concerned I would get the message asking if i want | HI | HI HT | 148,826 |
gaming franchise emerge. Tomb Raider and Uncharted are wildly successful game series that were obviously inspired by Lucas and Spielberg's films, why not flip the script and use them as templates (particularly Uncharted -- Tomb Raider is all over the place in terms of quality) to build a successful series for Indy? Games are big business -- and this franchise could live on for a long time in this format because a digital Harrison Ford never ages. Do Nothing At All The final choice is the least appealing for anyone who loves the swashbuckling adventures of Dr. Indiana Jones -- but it may be the one most likely to happen. It's clear that Star Wars was the big acquisition in this deal and that the Indiana Jones property is almost an afterthought at this point. Maybe Disney decides those "encumbrances" with Paramount aren't worth the time and money it would take to make them work. Maybe it decides Ford is too old to do another film and that rebooting the franchise with a new lead is too high risk. Maybe television doesn't feel like the right way to go and games aren't on the menu. Disney could just let this series sit -- stored away in a vault like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark , forgotten and abandoned forever. It would be a shame if that happened -- the world of Indiana Jones is filled with stories that have yet to | OP | OP OB | 1,406,714 |
from home. Dufferin Grove There are two options. Pay $20 and set up a time and date to camp at one of the winter sites. You bring the wood. Rabba Fine Food is a good choice for wood downtown. Everything else is provided. As it is a community campfire, anyone can walk up to whomever is at the site. As someone who is at the camp site, you are taking on a park job. There are two fire sites located in the right spot. They look onto "the main park throughfare" As far as parks go, Dufferin Grove has its own ebb and flow. It really does depend on who is in the park at any given time. Dogs get taken off their leashes, lovers kiss and the campfires bring people closer. Your second option is to do this on a whim. Pick a Saturday or Sunday and see if there are skating or birthday parties. You can join the campfire already in progress. Makin' S'mores An easy treat to create over a campfire, is a S'more. There is a vegan choice as well as the conventional. For both you need tin foil and a "stick." A straightened out wire hanger works well. The conventional way is simple. Its two graham crackers, one marshmallow and one piece of milk chocolate. The only difference is how to "roast" them over the fire. Put one big marshmallow on the end of a stick and watch it burn. The gooey middle will be | HI | HI HT | 60,614 |
Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? Lyrics Prophet took my hand on all saints day He preached the values of deception Changing shadows by a shapeshifter rules Tales are never just for fools The court of concience came before me Presenting me with a heavenly angel You took my hand and ask me, truth aside To his questions I replied Do you want the truth or something beautiful? Just close your eyes and make believe Do you want the truth or something beautiful? I am happy to decieve you He stood as tall as redwood trees Drank tea from a sseamstress thimble Didn't want to speak, the honest truth So I spit out lies that aimed to soothe Do you want the truth or something beautiful? Just close your eyes and make believe Do you want the truth or something beautiful? I am happy to decieve you Secrets, lying, falling veils I can be who you want me to be Sacred, lies in, telling tales I can be who you want me to be But do you want me? Do you want the truth or something beautiful? Just close your eyes and make believe Do you want the truth or something beautiful? I am happy to decieve you Sacred lies in, tellng tales I can be who you wants me to be x2 I can be who you wnats me to be But do u want me? But do u want me? [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/paloma+fait\\... ] | LY | LY SL | 1,463,615 |
This section demonstrates how to create an AccountsXML data model by importing an AccountsXML.xml file. In the XML Instance(s) Import Wizard, you can set properties for the fields associated with a model instead of doing so in the Properties window outside the wizard. After creating the model, you can test its accuracy by parsing a valid XML file through it. Note: This sample data model is based on the AccountsXML.xml file that is supplied within the Getting Started/Samples/B - Creating Data Models/3 - From Other Sources folder of your C24 Integration Objects Getting Started material. Steps Complete the following steps to create your data model: 1. In the Project window of the workbench, ensure that MyProject.iop is opened. If you need to open it, select File > Open Project from the menu bar. i. Accept the default folder From Other Sources as the location where you want the data model to be stored. ii. Notice the Advanced button in the Steps section on the left-hand side of the panel. Alternately clicking the Advanced button displays and hides optional steps in the list of steps. iii. Click Advanced to hide the optional steps. They are not relevant in this demonstration. iv. Click Finish . An AccountsXML.dod file is created and displayed in the Project and Explorer windows of the workbench. A AccountsXML.dod tab is opened in the main window of the workbench. In the Messages window, an Importing XML... tab is opened to indicate that the import has been successful. 5. | HI | HI HT | 210,528 |
by 7am doing 20km to 30km some days. We do weights twice a week and in the afternoon do a shorter row or erg. I was studying but I'm taking a year off to focus on the Olympic build-up. I'm doing a photography course as a hobby. WR: What's coming up for February? JS: The New Zealand National Champs. I'll be racing in the single, double and quad for my Regional Performance Centre. So I'll be competing against Nathan. I usually come off second-best [laughs]. | SP | SP IT | 1,796,268 |
is? A cold call. So is a letter of introduction . The difference is that phoning someone is much more immediate, and stressful. If you prefer, start with an email to your target, and follow up with an actual call. Even if the person hasn't read your email, you have a legitimate reason to call -- you're following up on your earlier email. This method takes some of the anxiety out of cold calls for me. Reward yourself. If I have to choose between the carrot and the stick, I can tell you that the carrot is a lot more powerful (and fun) motivator. Give yourself a treat--a glass of wine, a late afternoon movie, a massage--for making your quota of cold calls, and you may even look forward to doing them. Cold calls may not be favorite part of marketing, but if you don't have enough work, you have no excuse for not making them. Research companies, associations, or other potential clients online. Check their websites for the name of the person who hires or would be in charge of hiring freelancers; if you can't find it, call the company and ask. When you have the person's name and number, pick up the phone. The worst the person can say is "no thanks," or that he's not hiring freelancers. On the other hand, that call may turn into your introduction to a new client. Doesn't that make it worth your while? About Me I've been a fulltime freelance writer | IN | IN IB | 3,684,324 |
the plural pronoun and the depiction of a group of Elohim reaching a consensus and following it up with the necessary action also lose their enigmatic aspects when the Mesopotamian sources are taken into account. The verse, "God said, Let us make men in our image, after our likeness"; reveals not only God in the plural but it also reflects that we humans are genetically connected to the Elohim. So, here we have a bible stating that "God" is plural and He addresses a plural audience, and we also have Sumerian texts which tell us the gods upgraded a primitive creature. Primitive Creature God/Elohim Slave NEANDERTHAL ANUNNAKI HUMAN NEANDERTHAL + ANUNNAKI = HUMAN SLAVE This strange creation story answers the riddle of the of the sudden disappearance of the Neanderthals. It also answers the riddle as to why we see VERY hairy people in the modern world. Ever seen actor/comedian Robin Williams with his shirt off? To many this creation story is off the wall. It doesn't reflect what is taught in the church and it is not taught in government controlled schools and I will ask, "Why?" It is what I believe. It is the only theory I have run across which answers many hard to answer questions. Creationism as taught by the church doesn't account for the pluralness of "God" as depicted in the bible and Sumerian writings. It also doesn't reveal why "God" used the master numbers within human DNA. Nor does it offer an answer for | OP | OP RS | 748,278 |
'Starlet' Review: A Quirky, Prickly Portrait of an Unlikely Friendship You may have never heard of Sean Baker, but he's one of the most astute and least sentimental chroniclers of life on the fringes working in film today. His earlier films "Prince of Broadway" and "Take Out" dealt with immigrants hustling to make a living in a wintry, bustling New York City. With "Starlet," he shows that his aesthetic works just as well in the sun-bleached San Fernando Valley. That's where Florida transplant Jane (Dree Hemingway, daughter of Mariel) lives with her dog, Starlet, and two somewhat unsavory housemates, Melissa (Stella Maeve) and Mikey (James Ransone). At a yard sale, Jane buys an old thermos that turns out to be filled with money; she tries returning it to Sadie (Besedka Johnson), but the cranky old lady rebuffs her with a curt "No refunds!" After just one shopping spree, Jane starts feeling guilty about the cash, so she tries insinuating herself into Sadie's life, first showing up at the grocery store to give her a ride home and then popping into Sadie's weekly church bingo game. "Starlet" lets us know early on that whatever friendship arises between the two isn't going to be some gooey greeting-card commercial of the "Tuesdays with Morrie" school -- that's made clear somewhere around the time when the suspicious Sadie maces Jane -- but both women discover a mutual need for companionship as they begin spending more time together. Both Jane and Sadie are keeping secrets | OP | OP RV | 3,275,252 |
new week to "go to work, do your job, come home after each day" and together "we'll work this through". Moreover, many a war veterans wife or partner has been beside herself in worry and or fear for themselves and the children, and that "someone" receive those disparate phone calls and become the authoritative calming figure. Mark Tronson says that it is to this "personal" area that requires further attention rather hands-off clinical work in a fancy office where appointments is the body language of "distancing by the professional". He says that this is precisely one of the issues that needs attention, that the war veteran feels he/she is not forgotten but an integral part of what was and had been. Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children. | OP | OP RS | 1,415,013 |
Australia -- Glass Working In Canberra #humanbrochure Both Nicole from Bitten By The Travel Bug and I immediately pointed at each other. I must have someone lost (or won) the finger pointing draw, because I was selected to go first. Our instructor, Sui, took one look at me and said "Ok, we have got to do something about that hair." A hair dye was procured, my fro was tied back (flaming hair was not on the agenda today), and I was suited up with safety goggles, gloves, and a heavy duty apron. I had no idea what to expect from our visit to the Canberra glassworks . In facts, I had very little idea about the whole glass making and shaping process full stop. In fact, I had earlier joked that I would probably just make a big glob of glass and call it an abstract paper weight. So I was bemused when I was shown the selection of four items I could choose to make -- three of which were paperweights! But unlike my earlier vision of how my paperweight would turn out, these ones were actually quite pretty! My first question before choosing a design was: "Exactly how much skill do I need to personally bring to the table here?" He answered none, so I happily selected the complicated looking bird design, and the coloured glass pellets that I would make him with. Yellow of course. First we needed to get our blob of glass. The furnace was | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 3,785,366 |
Flurry Blog iOS and Android Adoption Explodes Internationally The rate of iOS and Android device adoption has surpassed that of any consumer technology in history. Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that of the 80s PC revolution, 2X faster than that of 90s Internet Boom and 3X faster than that of recent social network adoption. Five years into the smart device growth curve, expansion of this new technology is rapidly expanding beyond early adopter markets such as such as North America and Western Europe, creating a true worldwide addressable market. Overall, Flurry estimates that there were over 640 million iOS and Android devices in use during the month of July 2012. This report reveals which countries have the largest active smart device installed bases, are experiencing the fastest growth and are most penetrated. We also show how the distribution of app usage is shifting to become increasingly international. For this report, Flurry uses data from more than 200,000 applications that it tracks, running on more than 640 million devices worldwide. With its application coverage, Flurry estimates that it can reliably detect over 90% of all iOS and Android devices active in the world during a given month. Let's start by looking at which countries make up the world's largest app markets. Compared to July 2011, the United States and China continue controlling the top two spots, with China dramatically closing the gap on the United States. Year-over-year, Flurry calculates that net active devices | IN | IN | 3,156,539 |
Studies in New Zealand and Canada show that the growth of private care in parallel to the public system results in lengthening waits. Additionally, allowing the development of a parallel, private system for the wealthy means the creation of a permanent lobby for underfunding public care. Such underfunding increases the demand for private care. What will be covered? All medically necessary care would be funded through the single payer, including doctor visits, hospital care, prescriptions, mental health services, nursing home care, rehab, home care, eye care and dental care. We also advocate a sharp increase in public health funding. What about alternative care, will it be covered? Alternative care that is proven in clinical trials to be effective will be covered. For example, spinal manipulation for some lower back conditions would be covered. Antioxidant vitamins would be covered for people with macular degeneration, but not for the general population (where they appear to be harmful). In general, coverage decisions will be made by the health care planning board or another public body. New kinds of treatments will be added to the benefits package over time as they are shown to be effective, including "alternative" treatments. Similarly, ineffective or harmful care can be removed from the benefits package, such as high dose epo for cancer. Can a business keep private insurance if they choose? Yes and no. Everyone has to be included in the new system for it to be able to control costs, reduce bureaucracy, and cover everyone. In Canada, | HI | HI FH | 570,618 |
There was a hollow sound of many voices "Tha might as well leave it, Walter," said Barker. "It'll do to-morrow, without thee hackin' thy guts out." "I'll lay no b -- finger on this to-morrow, Isr'el!" cried Morel. "Oh, well, if tha wunna, somebody else'll ha'e to," said Israel. Then Morel continued to strike. "Hey-up there -- LOOSE-A'!" cried the men, leaving the next stall. Morel continued to strike. "Tha'll happen catch me up," said Barker, departing. When he had gone, Morel, left alone, felt savage. He had not finished his job. He had overworked himself into a frenzy. Rising, wet with sweat, he threw his tool down, pulled on his coat, blew out his candle, took his lamp, and went. Down the main road the lights of the other men went swinging. There was a hollow sound of many voices. It was a long, heavy tramp underground. He sat at the bottom of the pit, where the great drops of water fell plash. Many colliers were waiting their turns to go up, talking noisily. Morel gave his answers short and disagreeable. "It's rainin', Sorry," said old Giles, who had had the news from the top. Morel found one comfort. He had his old umbrella, which he loved, in the lamp cabin. At last he took his stand on the chair, and was at the top in a moment. Then he handed in his lamp and got his umbrella, which he had bought at an auction for one-and-six. He stood | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 3,231,825 |
cases (e.g., homes on mountains)" >> Sorry, David, but by no stretch of the definition or of the imagination could ever get access to a phone as any sort of 'right'. We don't need more 'ammunition' for the loose cannon social reformers who try to claim that everyone is entitled to a TV. BUt you did identify a key point - population density does make a tremendous difference in costs of internet access. Japan, however, already has extensive gigabit ethernet service and not many Japanese would want the much slower wireless performance in any permanent facility. Mobile operations, however, could well benefit from a wireless blanket, even if it is slow. Join the conversation The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. Click here to review our Terms of Use . Report offensive content: If you believe this comment is offensive or violates the CNET's Site Terms of Use , you can report it below (this will not automatically remove the comment). Once reported, our staff will be notified and the comment will be reviewed. E-mail this comment to a friend. E-mail this to: Note: Your e-mail address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the e-mail and in case of transmission error. Neither your address nor the recipients's address will be used for any other purpose. Add your own personal message: (Optional) Hi, I found this user's comment on CNET and thought you might be interested in reading it. | OP | OP OB | 410,305 |
for morning and evening sung the Salah like a Sufi, singing for Mecca in country Victoria living out of his battered van now, a self printed collection of poetry mostly just giving them away to people who believe the Word is Great The kind of Poet who writes herself notes in pen, on the backs of her hands, and her palms are for private messages The kind of Poet with a cultivated air an elegant lion tamer, of precise attention of command and direction, within the cage but beyond bars a whipped and bewildered lion The kind of Poet who sees evil portents and is undone like flying shoelaces, and stumbling blackbirds who drains half empty glasses, and then witnesses in the empty glass an unbearable symbol of optimism We should run a competition at the end of Overload Maxine. I'll be a judge, since otherwise it's not likely I'd even be on the shortlist. I wouldn't want to go up against Mr Pantaloons. I'm not even kidding. Paul would kick my arse. Community Shopping Cart We're Seeking Muslim Writers Overland 's CAL Connections essays attempt to foster greater cultural diversity in the journal through a series by emerging writers from marginalised backgrounds. This time around, we're looking for Muslim writers. | LY | LY PO | 186,317 |
Guardian News & Media has a reputation for ground breaking journalism and leading edge innovation. We're now looking for a Head of Marketing & Engagement to provide strategic direction to all GNM's marketing & engagement activity and to set the highest standards of creative excellence. The Head of Marketing will provide strategic leadership to GNM's Marketing and Engagement team and drive the delivery of multi-platform, cross channel marketing, ensuring success against business objectives for each product, from mobile to newspaper to brand extensions. They will also be responsible for leading & developing GNM's efforts to increase digital engagement, focussing on driving deeper engagement as well as growth. You'll already have extensive experience in the creative and strategic development of successful digital brands and a successful track record in creating and managing high profile, above the line, digital advertising campaigns. To apply please visit our website via the button below. Deadline for receipt of applications Sunday 18th November 2012 We welcome applications from any individual regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation or age. All applications will be considered on merit Careers with Guardian News & Media is one of the UK's most successful and innovative global media companies, publishing the Guardian and Observer, two of the world's oldest and most highly regarded quality newspapers. You should never need to provide bank account details or any other financial information, or make any form of payment, when applying for a job. If you are ever asked to do this | IN | IN DT | 672,210 |
The user must change his or her USERPASS number as part of the next OFX request. The user must change his or her USERPASS number as part of the next OFX request. This is what I get when I try to do PFM direct connect to mac 2012 QB. US bank told me it's a quickbooks problem...what do i do? It's a 15000 info message from the bank requiring the user to change their password using OFX. if the account has already been setup, then they can go to the DLT window and click on the change password icon to change their password. After changing their password, they should be able to continue downloading. | ID | ID DF QA | 441,813 |
chickens from the ceiling, for all I care." Your readers won't care about the dcor as long as they can navigate the site. 2. Create a Title This is very important. The title must sum up your blog in 4 words or less. It should be intriguing and mysterious as well. Check out 1000 Awesome Things or Stuff White People Like . You can add a tagline for further clarification. I did. My full title is, Dance Diary: An honest account of my life at ballet school . My title is not as intriguing or mysterious as it should be, but I can't change it now. My regular readers would not appreciate that. 3. Start Writing Sit down at your computer and type. Whatever thoughts pop into your head, whatever funny story happened today, WRITE IT DOWN. Write about the dried Portuguese fish you purchased at your discount grocer in order to understand why it is so popular. And stinky. Later you can decide it's crap. (The writing, not the fish.) For now, start writing and see what you come up with. 4. Find Your Voice Once you have written a few pages, see if there are any common threads. For example, listing annoying things people do on the subway is a thread. This can be expanded to annoying things people do in public and -- BAM! You have a niche blog. Slap on a title like Public Disturbances: Annoying things people do and I bet you'll have a book | HI | HI HT | 238,703 |
What the Notables Have Narrated About Not Going To The Rulers Description The author of this treatise is al-Hafidh as-Suyuti. He was pure, kind, righteous, pious and observant of his sustenance. The wealthy leaders would come and visit, him and present wealth to him which he would reject. Towards the end of his life he secluded himself away in his homes and occupied himself with knowledge and authoring until he was afflicted with an illness which ended with his death in 911 AH (1505 CE), may Allah have mercy on him, May Allah reward the editor of this work with the best of rewards and increase him in success in order to produce more of the likes of these valuable treatises from the books of the Sunnah which are a light and blessing for the Muslims. We ask Allah, the Most Blessed, to make this work sincerely for His Noble Countenance and our last supplication is that all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds . | IP | IP DS | 628,341 |
the United States officially relied on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441. Turn back the clock 40 years to the Cuban missile crisis where, again, I think the United States, in adopting the blockade, called a quarantine, and considering the use of air strikes against targets in Cuba, was exercising and considering exercising what would be a preemptive use of force. But it didn't want to make that argument publicly, because that unleashes -- once you start expanding the rules of self-defense, you may open that aperture too far. So again, in the Cuban missile crisis, the United States didn't say we're relying on a new right of preemptive self-defense that's necessary in a nuclear world. It used this argument that the OAS had approved the quarantine. But -- under, I think, a good reading of the U.N. Charter, that doesn't get you there, but it was better than articulating a broad preemptive doctrine that might boomerang and come back to hurt us. But I think the broader point is that, as John suggests, the traditional rules of anticipatory self-defense, which say that you can use self-defense when an enemy attack is imminent, that kind of rule is hard -- which grew out of a world of state versus state, conventional army against conventional army, where you could usually recognize an imminent attack coming. That rule doesn't serve us very well, doesn't meet our security requirements in a world of weapons of mass destruction proliferation, when we don't even have accurate | SP | SP TA | 3,231,326 |
week to see if I can be signed off again I was signed off until 36 weeks with DD, and then at that point its compulsory to start mat leave. (I think its because the company can claim your wages back through smp) Definately speak to another GP. As I still had annual leave to take my lovely manager let me "return" at 36 weeks and use my holidays up, so I could spend more time with dd when she arrived. Worth thinking about if a) you have a good relationship with your manager, and b) The annual leave left. It's only compulsory to begin Ml at 36 weeks if the illness is pregnancy-related. If you break your leg for example, you can go off sick until 39 weeks or the date you originally nominated to go on ML. I heard they can ask you to go on leave early or suggest it (before the 36 week point) but you can say no. I was v pleased to hear this as I went on sick leave for the two weeks before I started my ml. Good luck x | ID | ID DF | 89,913 |
he noted, but this should not have a significant effect on either The Brick or Leon's. Best Buy and Future Shop, with 79 and 149 stores respectively, will remain the biggest players in CE. Although The Brick does somewhat more in CE than Leon's, he mused, CE is a low margin field. Increased buying power for branded appliances and mattresses, and branded furniture made in Canada and the USA, are more important to the two companies. This will become even more the case for furniture made in Asia. While this deal may make for the biggest single furniture retailer in Canada, Gregson was careful to point out that due to fragmentation, the market share attained by combining Leon's and The Brick's will still only be "in the teens." Ikea he cited as a major player in furniture, Sears Canada in appliances, and bedding specialists akin to Sleep Country in mattresses. Another major advantage for the two now intertwined companies will be improved use of advertising budgets. Between the two companies, according to Gregson, $100 million is spent annually on advertising. Neither company was in trouble, Terry Leon emphasized. "It was just the right time to grow." Although Leon's is well known for its purchase of Appliance Canada almost five years ago, it has grown to its current store count of 76 in part through other acquisitions. Likewise, after becoming the dominant player in western Canada in the 1970s, The Brick moved into Ontario in the 1980s with the purchase of | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,374,497 |
Setting up a couple of Dropbox folders to do your bidding I just wanted to put a shout out for the two new features I incorporated on my Dropbox : automatic printing and automatic upload to Evernote . In other blog posts, I talked about these upgrades to my operations. In this post, I want to let you know how great it has been. A couple of weeks back, I set up remote printing with Dropbox . Basically, I created a folder in Dropbox called printqueue and installed a script to check this folder for new updates and print them. It has worked like a champ. By simply copying documents to this folder, they are waiting for me on my printer when I get home. This has been especially useful when I am on the road, and I need to print something for my wife. All she has to do is pick it up off the printer. I also use it when I am doing research for my dissertation. I drop a journal article in the folder, and it is ready for my review when I get home. If you were working on a team or through a central office, you could set up a shared Dropbox folder just for printing. When you dropped something in the folder, it would print at the office computer that was set up to run the script. The other feature I installed was the capability to send documents to Evernote. When I drop a | HI | HI HT | 524,822 |
and we need to ensure we have a strong, vibrant and innovative settlement sector into the future -- one that has successful settlement heavily linked to the positive economic participation and productivity new migrants make to our country. We have world-class settlement services and programs. As part of the independent Australian Multicultural Council, the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) and now the MCA, the Government needs a strong settlement sector and in this respect, an organised, collaborative and representative body with clear direction is critical. SCoA is this body and I thank you for your sustained efforts and commitment. You make a positive difference in people's lives and I know there can be no greater incentive to continuously strive for the best possible results. The Gillard Labor Government and the Australian people value the work you do, and it is an honour to launch your conference report today. | SP | SP FS | 3,320,992 |
Fox had appeared in the first two Transformers films and the roles helped her be named one of the sexiest women in the world. She had been cast in the third film but shortly before production began she gave an interview to the British magazine Wonderland. In it she said Bay wanted to be like Hitler on his sets. Other crew members from the film hit back on a blog comparing Fox's acting to that of a porn star. In an open letter posted on Michael Bay's website the crew member wrote: 'Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. 'He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. 'She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina -- second thought -- she's no Angelina. You see, Angelina is a professional. 'We know this quite intimately because we've had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies.' Co-stars: Fox starred as LaBeouf's love interest in both Transformers and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen The film's screenwriter Ehren Kruger told GQ magazine that Fox didn't seem interested when she arrived for rehearsals for Transformers: Dark of the Moon. He said:'She seemed | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 331,469 |
So You Want To Be Kinky? this series of quarterly interactive workshops is designed for people interested in learning more about fetish culture. This group is ideal for beginners, as many of the workshops are designed for people with little or no experience. The presentations are lively and fun, and feature an interactive component and the chance to ask questions. The event is very social, and a great opportunity to meet like-minded curious and kinky people in a friendly, safe environment. Past sessions have included topics such as puppy play, introductory bondage, mummification for beginners, playing with whips and paddles, among others. Workshop admission is $10.00 and is restricted to those 19 years of age and older. For detailed information about So You Want To Be Kinky, plus the opportunity to network with other people interested in the program, check out the group's Facebook page . | IN | IN DT | 278,931 |
happened to the much vaunted claim of independence and impartiality? ABC ALP: 14 Jun 2012 11:03:05am The ABC has always been and always will be biased through their writings and its readers an offshoot of the ALP. So we need all media so we can get a neutral opinion. Example I write in a lot to these opinions but hardly get a mention but The Yank opinion always gets heavily represented. Alpo: 14 Jun 2012 11:50:04am ABCALP, several of my pro-ALP government posts also remained unpublished. So, I don't think that the axe alwas falls to the right. What I think it may be happening here at The Drum is simply that there may be more people from the left and centre left coming and trying to contribute a post. Why do I say that? Because if you look at the results of the polls published on this website, there is a broad trend for pro-Left results to be supported by 60+ percent of people and those pro-right by 30+ percent. So, my impression is that the ratio of active left-wing to right-wing visitors is a bout 2:1 (we cannot know about the "lurkers"). This may be compensated by greater degree of activity by some individual right-wing bloggers (there are quite a few regulars contributing here). maurie: 14 Jun 2012 11:21:06am I don't doubt that the ABC feels secure, because if our federal opposition had any get up & go our ABC would've had its managers spending most of their | SP | SP FS | 24,011 |
F about Hotel St Moritz Queenstown - MGallery Collection This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC Defined by a warm spirit and distinctive style that embodies the spirit of Queenstown. Blending understated luxury with warmth, and genuine hospitality, Hotel St Moritz is superbly located in town and has panoramic lake and mountain views. Offering traditional Guest Rooms, One or Two Bedroom Alpine Suites, each room cleverly blends timeless classics with modern essentials to ensure refined comfort. Dine in Lombardi - a relaxed ambience, offering an array of dining styles and spaces. ... more less Owners: What's your side of the story? If you own or manage Hotel St Moritz Queenstown - MGallery Collection, register now for free tools to enhance your listing, attract new reviews, and respond to reviewers. | ID | ID | 142,215 |
up with Zoey again to convince her that, one week after their first date, he is finally over Bridget. As she is sceptical, he proves his intentions by signing his divorce papers in front of her. After that, the two start dating again and things seem to be going great. Walden helps Zoey to get her daughter enrolled in a private kindergarten and they even fly to Mexico with Walden's private jet. This idyll is disturbed when Bridget shows up at Walden's house to tell him that she wants him back. The two go upstairs to have sex and, after pretending that he needs to use the bathroom and asking Alan for advice about what to do, Walden rejects her and suggests that she signs the divorce papers so that they can both move on with their lives (because Alan did not want Walden to sell the house and have to move back into Evelyn's). Bridget is furious that Walden waited to tell her until she was half-naked in his bed and storms out. She then proceeds to drive her car into his house. Later, Bridget is shown standing on the deck, stalking Walden and Zoey. Rose shows up unexpectedly and proposes to "teach" her, an offer that she hesitantly accepts. Title quotation from : Walden, in an English accent, while flying to Mexico for dinner with Zoey. Alan spends his first Christmas without Charlie alone. Evelyn is busy engaging in an orgy with two men, and Jake is gone | IN | IN EN | 9,997,952 |
trip to a more exotic land. I had been gathering ideas from long term Saudi colleagues about some of the more interesting places to visit. I had decided to fly to Kenya and Tanzania and possibly climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Plans were proceeding to this end with the assistance of a most obliging travel agent in Jeddah. But the travel agent kept bumping into snags with visas and flight availability. So, just two weeks before my scheduled departure, I heeded the advice of this Indian travel agent and decided to go to Kashmir instead. My family in Canada still expected Africa to be my destination. Little did any of us know what was in store. This was the time when Indira Gandhi was India's leader and the Indian National Army had recently entered and bombed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the most sacred shrine in Sikhdom. To the Sikhs this was sacrilege equivalent to the horror Muslims would feel if the Kabala in Mecca was bombed by radical Christians or the outrage Roman Catholics would suffer if the Vatican was taken over by Muslim extremists. Inside a Houseboat All this was far from my mind as I settled into a houseboat on Nagin Lake in Kashmir. Coincidently, the houseboat which I shared with fellow Canadians Don and Jane Perry was named the 'Canada Houseboat'. Don was also working for Bell Canada International and he and Jane were stationed in Abha, in the mountains in the southwest of Saudi Arabia near the | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 1,722,474 |
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Good manners, or behaving in a way that's socially acceptable and respectful, display respect, care, and consideration for others. Excellent manners can help you to have better relationships with people you know, and those you will meet. Here's how to cultivate them. Basic Etiquette 1 Practice basic courtesy . Say "please" and "thank you," when you need to, even to the person behind the counter at McDonald's. People notice when you're courteous and respectful toward them, and it can count for a lot. Additionally, say "excuse me" whenever you accidentally bump into someone, or if you need to leave a social setting temporarily. 2 Hold open doors for other people . You don't have to be a guy to hold a door open. If someone will be entering the door shortly after you, pause a second and hold it open. Say "After you, sir/ma'am," if the person is a stranger; if not, use his or her name in place of sir or ma'am. If you're unsure about whether or not the other person would appreciate having the door held open, ask politely. Say, "May I get the door for you?" This gives the other person an opportunity to accept or decline. 3 Speak politely . Keep the volume of your voice as low as possible while still allowing people to hear you, and don't use slang or filler words (such as "like," "uh," "so..." and so on). Don't interrupt or override another person when he or she is speaking. Practice | HI | HI HT | 121,420 |
try to replace your heart with hers Could we go back to when, when we we're friends and just begin again and baby ride til the end and stop all the drama stop with the arguin cut with the problems i really wanna said one day you'll see it (oh) said one day you'll feel it (oh) i'm trying find answers to my questions so i can learn from lifes love lessons | LY | LY SL | 1,731,252 |
and not be concerned about earning their livelihood on at least this one day of happiness. After paying the sadaqat al-fitr, the Muslims are required to proceed to an open place where they can offer the Eid prayer collectively. In this way, they are expected to present themselves before their Creator and offer two raka'ahs of this special type of prayer which allows them to receive blessings from Allah and commence their celebration with divine blessings. After the salat also, they are expected to rejoice in a responsible manner, without violating the limits prescribed for them or indulging in any acts prohibited by Allah. Keeping this point in view, we will now discuss specific rules prescribed for observing the day of Eid al-Fitr. The Night Preceding Eid al-Fitr It was the practice of the Prophet, upon him blessings and peace, that he would not sleep on the night preceding the day of Eid al-Fitr. This night has been named in a hadith as the Night of Reward ( Laylat al-Ja'izah ). Allah Almighty bestows his rewards on those who have spent the month of Ramadan abiding by the dictates of the Shari'ah and all their prayers in this night are accepted. Therefore, it is desirable to perform nafl prayers on this night. The Prophet, upon him blessings and peace, is reported to have said: Whoever stands up (in worship) on the nights preceding the two eids expecting rewards from his Lord, his heart will not die when the other hearts | IN | IN DT | 101,237 |
in the habit of taking requests or reviewing books, or even buying many books, I'd still really like to see what you think of it. You're clearly a guy who's thought a lot about Doctor Strange and has some pretty strong ideas about how the character should be used, so I would enjoying seeing your reaction to the book. And yes, those are cliff notes above my comment, because when I'm doing other stuff and don't want to forget what I'm commenting about I like to do a breakdown of what will be in my comment. Usually I delete that part afterwards, today I forgot. i love your doc strange posts. this one, too, is beautifully written. but im not sure how you would make a comic book story based on this. how would you visualize it? an arc (or evena single issue) of people going nots and not/ doing any magic is visually not very interesting. visualizing the concept with spacy astral-plane scenes could work, but kinda robbs this concept of what makes it special, making it just a generic "magical prison which does what the plot demands", no? am i being unimaginative? (or taking this too seriously?) If the Invisible Prison isn't a threat to Doctor Strange, what is it about the Prison that would make the reader believe that he would have any trouble rescuing his apprentice from it? If it's only that he can't physically find his apprentice, then it's just a kidnapping story and the | OP | OP | 3,191,105 |
around 7 years, so we're very familiar with each other's writing and performance style. We also just do a shitload of practice. At the end of the day, that's the only way to get things tight and develop together as a unit. As far as being comfortable goes, I think it has a lot to do with us all feeling like Ashes is the best band we've been a part of to date. There is genuine joy going on every time we hit the stage together. Touring wise, are you playing gigs anytime soon and if so, what can people expect if they come out to one of your live shows? We've just wrapped up a bunch of dates, but there'll be more on the way. My best advice is to follow our social media pages to get the latest on where we're playing. In terms of what you can expect, it's a rock show! We keep the energy high, there's a lot of movement, and we demand the same of the crowd. We've been pushing the EP tracks hard, but are also chucking in new material and the occasional cheeky cover. Rod Stewart's 'Maggie May' goes down a treat! Now we had the chance to see you open for Everclear in Sydney and loved what we saw, enough so to grab your EP, did Art give you any advice after the show that you took on board? I definitely took something away from that show, but it wasn't so | SP | SP IT | 3,298,386 |
Hannah, 21, Music Journalism student . VICE: Hey! Do you live in East London? Hannah: No, I live in Peckham, or I used to. I'm homeless now. I live out of my bag. You're homeless? It's alright really, I'm this kind of party girl, I'm a little crazy. I just got back from Croatia, I've done 12 festivals this summer! I'm going to Barcelona in two days for my birthday. That's great, but what are you doing here if you don't live in East London? Well, I like to be all over the place and I think it'd be cool to have someone on the show that will be almost like a guest star. An outsider that will bring their own ideas to the scene. So, what are the differences between Dalston and Peckham? I think Dalston is more about fashion, and looking stylish now. Peckham is more hip-hop/dubstep. East London has gotten way more international lately, too. Do you have a problem with that? No, all my housemates are internationals. Lynsey Coke, 24, MA Textiles and Technology student. VICE: Hey, how did your audition go? Lynsey: Great. They asked me a bunch of questions and I was really honest. Good for you. What kind of questions did they ask you? Like, how I feel about the East London scene. As I said, I was really honest so I told them that I feel it's really changed in the past couple of years. It seems to be all about people | SP | SP IT | 678,498 |
Scousers All Over The World: Sheffield, United Kingdom Scousers All Over The World is a series of interviews with Reds fans born and bred in Liverpool, and now reside elsewhere for whatever reasons. Today we don't have to fly too far from the nest that is Anfield to meet Liverpool fan Alan Seasman , born in Kirkby and, having traveled around England a fair bit, is settled in Sheffield. Sheffield, United Kindom What's your name, what do you do and where do you live now? I'm Alan Seasman. I work in Regeneration trying to make sure that people live in homes and places that are a bit better than Kirkby. I live in Sheffield, in Nick Clegg's constituency actually, but that's not my fault. How did you end up leaving Liverpool -- and how did you end up where you are now? I left to go to University in Sheffield after A levels at Ruffwood Comprehensive. It was a bit of a culture shock but Sheffield is full of very friendly people who have always made me feel at home. Despite living in Manchester, (hard when you're scouse!) and Birmingham, I settled in Sheffield and married a girl from Wigan! How long have you supported Liverpool, why do you support the Reds and what was your first game at Anfield? Well my Dad was a Liverpool fan, and watched them through the Liddlepool years and on. Although we have our fair share of Everton fans in the familymy Dad made | SP | SP IT | 224,975 |
and the very wealthy. We're not going to support another $4 billion tax cut for ExxonMobil. And what we're not going to also hold up on, Gwen, is we cannot afford to hold up on providing for incentives for new jobs by an energy policy, creating new jobs. We cannot slow up on education, because that's the engine that is going to give us the economic growth and competitiveness that we need. And we are not going to slow up on the whole idea of providing for affordable health care for Americans, none of which, when we get to talk about health care, is as my -- as the governor characterized -- characterized. The bottom line here is that we are going to, in fact, eliminate those wasteful spending that exist in the budget right now, a number of things I don't have time, because the light is blinking, that I won't be able to mention, but one of which is the $100 billion tax dodge that, in fact, allows people to take their post office box off- shore, avoid taxes. I call that unpatriotic. I call that unpatriotic. IFILL : Governor? BIDEN : That's what I'm talking about. IFILL : Governor? PALIN : Well, the nice thing about running with John McCain is I can assure you he doesn't tell one thing to one group and then turns around and tells something else to another group, including his plans that will make this bailout plan, this rescue plan, even | SP | SP TA | 247,603 |
to you for regarding advice. Is it help with interviewing? Is it your ability to multitask? Is it your technical expertise or your ability to troubleshoot someone's iPhone or computer? What do people think of you as sort of an expert in? So that's how you can think about your strengths. I think we're all much better at pinpointing our own weaknesses. We know what we're not good at doing or what we don't like doing. And if something is really painful, if you think about doing it, don't seek out a job that's going to have you building financial models, or cold calling customers, or showing real estate, if the idea that sounds totally unappealing. So yes. Think about your strengths and weaknesses and then absolutely think about your financial needs and goals and how they fit in with those strengths and weaknesses. I think the biggest challenge, obviously, is when your strengths and weaknesses don't jive with your financial goals. So for instance, if you want to make millions of dollars and think Wall Street is the way to get there or becoming an entrepreneur is the way to get there, but you don't have a great appetite for risk or you don't know anything about finance, well those two things probably aren't going to happen then. So be realistic about how much money you want to earn to support you and your lifestyle and/or your family and then realistically about career options that can get you to | SP | SP | 659,111 |
and shade in one's earthly existence is just a surface phenomenon; what really matters is that there be a progress ex umbris in veritatem . | IN | IN | 687,982 |
insist on imposing their own misconceptions on the situation while ignoring the evidence." I disagree. These folks are smart enough to KNOW what the real story is. It is their IDEOLOGY that demands that they misrepresent, lie, and ignore the evidence. Look, during the time and after, of Stalin and Mao, "intellectuals" all across Europe and the USA (the "useful idiots") lied about the nature of these dictatorships and denied, rationalized or simply lied about the mass exterminations these murderers committed. They simply blamed the USA (i.e., capitalism) for all the world's ills. Just to cite two examples Hobsbawm and Chomsky literally jumped through their anuses to JUSTIFY or deny the horrors of any left wing mass murderer.Chomsky in particular had a very soft spot for Pol Pot. Further, you will note that the people who really hate Israel, about 99% of them, are liberals, liberal progressives, socialists or communists. This is NOT a coincidence. Ever since the USSR became pals with Egypt's Nasser, the entire middle east affair became -- due to the very effective propaganda of the USSR and Arabs -- a fable in which exploited, repressed "victims," the fictitious "Palestinians," were being enslaved, murdered, exploited by the evil Israelis. Of course, Israel was, and still is ( I think, thought with Obama you never know) an ally of the imperialistic, root of all evil in the world, capitalistic, exploitative USA. When the middle east mess became a cold war battle zone betwixt the USSR and the USA | IP | IP ED | 3,199,416 |
boarding schools; backing such things as the Clontarf Academy, now 22 of them we fund around the nation, to get kids to school and boost their attendance by providing AFL training. I'm proud of the fact that we're behind a commitment to create 50,000 additional jobs for Indigenous Australians with the private sector, and I'm most proud of the fact that about here, we greeted the stolen generations. As Therese reminded me, that was a big day. What I remember most about it, for those of you who weren't here, was as the stolen generations came in from over there, they were frightened. Our job was to make them welcome. The Apology was unfinished business for our nation. It is the beginning of new business for our nation. What I'm less proud of is the fact that I have now blubbered. I hope I've been able to demonstrate to you that this has been a very busy two and a half years. We have thrown our absolute all at this and I believe when we look back at this these reforms will endure into the future and make Australia, I believe, a fairer and better place than it would otherwise have been. And all that's before I get to the thank yous. First and foremost, I thank the Australian people for putting their trust in me. It is a high honour to be elected as Prime Minister of Australia and to the people of Australia I say thank you. To | SP | SP FS | 95,542 |
Chorus: I'm gonna keep the rocks silent One more day I'm gonna keep the rocks silent Oh, one more day I don't know about you, but I'll keep praising his name, and I'm gonna keep the rocks silent For one more day Verse: Well there's all kinds of trouble weighing me down, I hear the voice of confusion, trying to turn me around, but I'm bound and determine to see this thang through, until the end of my struggle Struggle, here's what I'm gonna do Chorus: Verse: Now I've been fighting a good fight, mile after mile, and my burdens is lifted after just a little while, see I'm bound and determined I made up my mine, I may not know the answer Answer, but in the mean time Chorus: Verse: Now I don't know much of nothing, about the end of my days, but I know a little something, about the power of praise, cause I've been bound and determine, right from the start, to keep a rock in my right hand Right hand, praise in my heart Chorus: Gonna, keep the rocks silent (Repeat) Ad-lib: Hey, yes I am, I'm gonna keep the rocks silent, oh Lord, I don't want no rocks, crying out for me, (One more day), I don't want no rocks, crying out for me, as long as I got a hand to raise, as long as I got a hand to raise, and a voice to praise, as long as I got a song | LY | LY SL | 581,719 |
. Julia: Why don't they want give people a second chance, basically? Daniel: Well, it's a good question, because what they say is, or what I say is there a statistics point to this as well, is that the future is but a reflection of the past. So if you haven't been a good performer in the past, generally, or more than generally, probably 90% of the time, you're not going to be a good performer in the future. Julia: Yes. Daniel: And the banks, when they lend, they're usually taking property as security. And if they're taking property as security for a facility that's probably going to end up in default and the client is going to go out of business eventually, they've got to try and get that money back. If you're trying to sell property to collect out, it's a 12-month process, most of the time, and then at the end of the day you don't know what that property is going to sell for. So the asset you're lending on is not very close to cash. Julia: Okay. All right. So we don't rule out someone if they've had credit issues. Why is that? Daniel: With our type of finance, which is cash flow based finance, we really look at the transactions that we're financing, and they're usually short-term transactions. If you're factoring off financing and invoice, that's usually a 45 day, on average, call it a 45-day debt. So the money is going to be | SP | SP IT | 3,735,670 |
Amazon?s film and TV subscription service with unlimited access to thousands of titles to watch instantly, many in HD at no extra cost. Go to LOVEFiLM for title availability. Enjoy a 30-day free trial and watch across many devices including the Kindle Fire. Learn more at LOVEFiLM.com Firstly, there is no footage of the recent Champions league final. However there is footage from this season, and from the road to the final. I can only assume this was completed before the final took place. This is official FC Barcelona merchandise. This is in the spoken language of Spanish, however you can watch with English subtitles. The first disc is a documentary "Mes Que Un Club" (More than a club) This documentary is fantastic, it takes a look at all the great players in Barcelona history. Everybody from Simitier to Koeman is covered. However this is not just a historical retrospective, it gives a lot of insight into todays squad. Featuring interviews with most of the Barca sqaud. Eto'o, Puyol, Xavi, Deco, Ronaldinho are all interviewed. Not to mention the vast array of backstage people interviewed. Everybody from La Porta through to Rijkaard. Not to mention the number of people interviewed who used to play for Barcelona. Stoichkov etc. It is clear from about 10 minutes in that this DVD had the full support of the Barcelona staff. This doesn't feel like a fan-made documentary. It feels like the real thing, and I think this is important to point out. How | IP | IP DS | 183,026 |
Is Adele Going to Be in the New Bond Movie? Is Adele adding "actress" to her impressive resume with the newest James Bond flick " Skyfall ?" Actually, she may not be whipping out the acting chops just yet, but online reports claim that the chart-topping songstress has recorded an 'ominous' new track for the upcoming film! Word is that the song is called " Let the Sky Fall " and rumored lyrics include lines such as "Let the sky fall/ Let it crumble/ We will stand tall/And face it all/ together." We wonder if Adele is going to set fire to the rain of that falling sky... It seems success only continues to grow for this British babe, but now it's safe to say that the sky's truly the limit for Adele's music! | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,204,431 |
Glimpse of a Vision The plans for the Department of Medicine will be forged in a series of retreats, in which the Faculty will play an active role. In the mean time, here are some of my thoughts about future directions for your consideration. I look forward to your postings. Suggestions and advice are welcome on the Blog. My plans for the Department of Medicine are ambitious but will be done in consultation with the faculty. In working closely with the Division Chiefs, I will strive to better define and enhance the careers of existing faculty, particularly junior faculty who are in the formative stages of their careers. Recruitment is also planned, including clinician scientists, clinician educators, and clinicians. Education and mentorship: I will be working closely with Chris Smith to ensure the excellence of our training program is maintained and enhanced. Together we will foster innovative enhancements to our training program, such as the use of iPads by house staff to enhance patient care. A formal mentorship program for trainees and junior faculty will also be developed. Clinical care: Clinically, I will be working with faculty and administration to enhance patient access and satisfaction with the inpatient and outpatient experience. Our overarching goal will revolve around enhancing the patient experience and shortening waiting lists through the use of physician extenders and single point of entry clinics. Programs of distinction that offer our patients high-tech and complex procedures will be fostered to enhance our provincial and national impact. I will | IN | IN DT | 3,342,887 |
and indeed for life... at least, it feels that way to me. I struggle to bring us to a sensible solution, and as my wish comes close to coming true, you trample on it with yet another pie-in-the-sky idea. Worse, your idea might fit perfectly, but I simply won't see it that way. I will interpret your every new idea as an attempt to prolong the agony, whereas you will interpret my every attempt to choose a solution as an attempt to shut you down. Result? War. Root cause? Cross purposes. Remedy? Alignment. (Surprised?) Two goals, two meetings Consider, instead, having two separate meetings: one to generate proposals, and one to select a proposal. You might find that that helps. In the first meeting, we generate ideas, brainstorm, solicit opinions, run impact studies... whatever we need to do to generate proposals. The people who come to this meeting might or might not care about making the decision. Whatever happens, we can feel certain that whoever shows up wants to lend their ideas to the group, and most importantly, we ignore any attempt at choosing a solution . We agree in advance to ignore them, because we have a different goal in this meeting. We agree not to chastise people for attempting to choose a solution because they form part of our natural impulse to jump to a conclusion. We agree to recognize each other's humanity by allowing each other to compare or rank solutions, but we generally ignore those attempts | OP | OP AV | 673,962 |
living out the rest of your life is the best option (no matter what horror existence may be). 12 Aim to create peace and joy . In whatever situation you find yourself, do no harm to yourself or others; even though sometimes it hurts, it will pass. Find meaning in the simple pleasures of life through your senses. Stop to smell the roses, feel the sunlight, taste the food, see the beauty and listen to your heart calling. You can create your own meaning for yourself and your own life. After all, it is your life, your game, your experiment. Play your game with respect for others, and deal with your circumstances to the best of your ability. To really succeed, respectfully enlist the help of others. 13 Clean whatever room you're in . This will help you clarify your power over the world and give you a few minutes to do some basic problem-solving. Don't just straighten things up, clean . Use a cleaning product. 14 Remember that tomorrow is a new day . It's another opportunity for you to make changes in your life to seek happiness and self-fulfillment. This power is yours -- claim it. Don't refuse to confront a problem because you've heard that life is supposed to be more meaningful when you suffer. Don't do too much thinking after midnight. That never goes well, except for a natural night owl. To someone who never feels good during the day and only functions well at night, | HI | HI HT | 408,684 |
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01 November 2012 The writers of our songs are the true national leaders "Let me write the songs of a nation: I don't care who writes the laws" - Andrew Fletcher, Scottish politician WHEN HE FIRST TOOK OFFICE I used to hear news about Governor Powes Parkop's vision to clean the city and the people's mindsets by the year 2012. With that year coming to an end now, how have we fared? Have we changed? Parkop posed the question to a workshop of certain middle level bureaucrats, "How do we get people to change their mindsets and attitudes?" Indeed: "How?" Mindsets and attitudes cannot be legislated or regulated into being. They exist free of the external things we set up to control society. Conscience is the freest component of a human person. Inserted and guaranteed by God Himself. I could even say that the freedom of conscience is a freedom more precious than liberty itself. Throughout history and even today people have sacrificed their physical freedom and even their lives to keep their consciences free. And the most powerful of people have been those who have been able to permeate people's conscience. Leadership, I heard from Myles Munroe, is the ability to influence human behaviour. Human behaviour is a product of the human conscience. Leadership is therefore the ability to influence the human conscience to such an extent as it affects human behaviour. All these matters considered, I have concluded who the real leaders of this nation are. They are | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 3,284,454 |
was based became a New York Times best-seller and was named by The Washington Post as one of "The Best Books of 2008." It is third in a trilogy by Bamford on the NSA, following The Puzzle Palace (1982) and Body of Secrets (2002), also a New York Times bestseller. Bamford has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley as a distinguished visiting professor and has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Harpers, and many other publications. In 2006, he won the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his piece "The Man Who Sold The War," published in Rolling Stone. ... He published Body of Secrets , (also about the NSA, 2001), and A Pretext for War (2004). Bamford lectures nationally and was a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He also spent nearly a decade as the Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight. In 2006, he received the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the top prize in magazine writing. Most recently, he published his new book The Shadow Factory , once again about the NSA, but about its involvement in the 9/11 investigations and intelligence failures. The PBS show "The Spy Factory" was based on this book.[7] Back to the WBUR interview (from which I extracted the Bamford quote, up above) and the stunning comparisons between the Ferdus' and Holmes' cases. One defendant is charged with the murder of 12 people in Colorado. Another, here in Massachusetts, is charged with | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 678,073 |
you to tell me whatever you want about this new album. Alright, I'll give you something this time. Just 'cause you're the homie. I can't say anything about guests. What I can say is the album is in-depth but it's not over-drawn. Not long. It's snappy. If I had to say something about this album and Section.80 , it'd be that it's more tight-knit than the last one, as far as what I'm talking about. And that's all you're going to give us? Yep. That's it. C an you talk about some albums that influenced how you're putting together good kid, m.A.A.d. City ? I'm looking for the aggression of [2Pac's] Makaveli , the type of content that Ice Cube had on Death Certificate , the melodies that Snoop had on Doggystyle , and the originality and creativity of [Andre 3000's] The Love Below . So you hear songs like "Swimming Pools" and "Cartoons & Cereal." "Cartoons & Cereal" is an aggressive joint but that shit is moody and melodic at the same time. Not to brag and shit but that's one of the most original joints out. I'm not saying that because it's my song either. I really like "Cartoons & Cereal." You must be hearing some buzz about yourself. You're heading into your debut album and people are already starting to bring up your name in the "greatest rapper" discussion. What are your thoughts on that? It lets me know where I need to challenge myself next. These | SP | SP IT | 3,363,682 |
principles be applied through it. Every student is created in God's image (Genesis 1 : 27) and because of this, deserve to be respected and valued. We need to look for good in each student. Through Christian education we aim to prepare students to be active workers in God's Kingdom and therefore need to purposely face students toward God and His Sovereignty over all things. Just as a mirror reflects whatever it is in front of, we need to line our students up with God so their lives can reflect Him. Curriculum in the middle school needs to help students uncover God's intentions for His creation and explore our response in relationship to it. It is in their young adolescent years that students move through a time of "searching faith" -- many displaying actions of doubt and of critical judgement concerning the understanding of faith handed down from their parents. Throughout this time it is important that the middle school helps students in their searching -- used by the Holy Spirit -- to assist students to continue on their faith journey on to a point of "owned faith" where they claim Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives for themselves. MIDDLE SCHOOL GOALS At Torrens Valley Christian School we aim to help students in the Middle School to: Come to know their Place in God's Creation Curriculum in the middle years needs to help reveal to students their place in God's creation -- that they have been fearfully and wonderfully | IN | IN DT FI | 91,972 |
Who Should A Receiver Notify of His or Her Appointment? QUESTION: When I am appointed receiver is there anyone in particular that I need to notify? ANSWER: There are a number of statutes which require a receiver to notify certain agencies of the receiver's appointment. In particular, California Revenue & Taxation Code 18650 requires the receiver to notify the Franchise Tax Board of his or her appointment. Similarly, Internal Revenue Code 6036 and 6903 require a receiver to notify the Internal Revenue Service of his or her appointment; as does California Unemployment Insurance Code 1090. IRS Form 56 may be used to provide such notice. Alternatively, one easy way of providing the notice is to prepare a pleading notifying the agencies of the appointment and the property over which the receiver has been appointed. This has the advantage of containing the caption of the case the receiver was appointed in and the case number. In addition, by treating it as a pleading you can attach a proof of service so you can establish when notice was given and file the pleading in the case so the court and the parties know you have complied with this requirement. | ID | ID QA | 620,086 |
fault, accept responsibility for one's actions, and view yourself through the eyes of your mate are ways to overcome the inner-Witch. Rather than viewing conflict as a personal attack, she needs to listen to what her partner is saying and then address the problem that is brought up. How to Defeat Your Inner-Werewolf: Instead of bottling emotions, the Werewolf needs to be up front and honest with his partner when he feels hurt or upset. Find ways to express yourself, for yourself. Use "I" instead of "you" -- ". Describe what you see happening without judgment or attacking your mate. Keep it simple and focused on the issue, instead of going on and on with a list of complaints against your mate. Arguments often end on the same note that it begins, so if the issue is never resolved, it never really ends. It will continue to appear as regularly as the full moon. How to Defeat Your Inner-Ghost: The Ghost needs to be more assertive. Rather than focusing on stopping the conflict from being talked about, focus on being a part of resolving the conflict. The Ghost needs to speak up and explain their own needs and feelings too. There are two people in a couple relationship for a reason. Both are needed and both need to be heard. By taking these steps, you will defeat your inner-Ghost better than any GhostBuster ever could. How to Defeat Your Inner-Mummy: Sometimes the Mummy may be withdrawing simply because they are | OP | OP AV | 3,264,933 |
Join Phil Sylvester, our Travel Safety Specialist and World Nomad as he sets of on a World Expeditions' community project in North East Arnhem Land, working alongside the indigenous Yolngu Aboriginal rangers to restore sea country by removing ... Read more > WorldNomads.com Founder, Simon Monk and GapAdventures.com founder, Bruce Poon Tip travel to the Quichua community, deep in the heart of Amazonian Ecuador. It's been 20 years since the first Gap Adventures trip was run in the Amazon, when a special ... Read more > Positive Footprints - Vietnam Village Trek - tells the story of how a group of committed healthcare professionals gave their time and expertise to bring medical care to remote villages in the Mai Chau Highlands, Northern Vietnam. Supported by local ... Read more > I was lucky enough to be a volunteer on this World Expeditions community project - repairing a school in Jambha Village, Rajasthan. Having never travelled to India before and being a relatively new Mum, it was a surreal and very rewarding ... Read more > In April 2006, we packed up our documentary producer extraordinaire Trent O'Donnell and shipped him off to Nepal to shoot the first of our 'Positive Footprints' documentary series. Armed with a camera, bags of batteries, some warm clothing and ... Read more > " Kenya, 35 million people, half of which are still in school uniform..15 million under the age of 12...if you aint got any qualifications, you aint got a hope in hell of | IN | IN DT | 287,660 |
The North Face Thunder Jacket On October 8, 2012 What is it? The North Face Thunder Jacket is packed with 800 fill goose down, weighs in at 400 grams, and features a 20 denier nylon shell exterior. It has two hand warmer pockets and an internal chest pocket. One of the hand pockets doubles as a stuff sack and the entire jacket can be packed down into a ciabbatta bun sized package. Initially, I was a little bit apprehensive about buying a down jacket with concerns about moisture: down loses much of it's insulation value when it gets wet and takes longer to dry out then synthetic insulations such as Primaloft . However, I decided to give it a try as, after I did some research, nothing beats the warmth to weight ratio of a high fill power goose down. What's good? It's warm After a cold Canadian winter's use I can now rightfully say I am a down convert. I've used the Thunder Jacket as a skiing layer and it's kept me toasty warm on my winter backpacking trips . The jacket packs up so small and light that you barely even notice it in your pack, however you definitely do notice and appreciate it when you have it on. Cold mornings require warm coats Putting on a down jacket is like wrapping yourself up in a cozy sleeping bag; it's one of the things I look forward to when stopping for breaks as it keeps all that warmth | OP | OP RV | 3,367,705 |
'breath' into the search bar, you'll get all that they have to offer! Another one is what's called 'Body-Scanning'. It's basically a way of coming out of the head (where a lot of us may spend our day, working in an office and so forth), and into the direct felt sense of the body. You will find that there is an inherent quality of calm and relief that comes from this kind of meditation. Try it and see! The websites above will have many to offer as well, all for free. I would also add that the attitude you bring to the cushion will go a long in way in terms of getting meditation going in a way that feels natural and authentic for you. If there is an attitude of real interest -- a real curiosity about what this mind of ours is, and particularly how it departs from the present moment, in favour of ideas of the past, future and parallel universes right now, then we're less likely to kid ourselves. You could call this sincerity. It's a kind of authenticity of intention, I reckon. A heartfelt desire -- no -- need to meditate. It's like when we're hungry: eating isn't just a good idea among other ideas, it's the only appropriate response. Meditation works best if it's coming from a similar place. Kind of like; 'I'm so hungry for peace, for rest, for stillness, for some clarity in the midst of this tangled web I call my | HI | HI HT | 1,765,444 |
giant shoe. The comedy at Sin City Comedy is top notch, as you might suspect. The opening night line-up featured opener David Lucas (great juggling, and, in honor of the vintage burlesque, some vintage jokes as well). David Lucas can definitely add "ability to multi-task" on his resume. Also on the bill were veterans of the cut-up circuit, Kathleen Dunbar (pictured below) and Pat Godwin. To Kathleen Dunbar, there's no such thing as TMI. Pat Godwin (below), in the headliner slot, has appeared on Howard Stern and "Last Comic Standing," and just killed it with his mixture of improv and spot-on banter, buffeted by his guitar-playing, singing and impersonation skills. Pat Godwin has sparred with Howard Stern, so he's got the matter of the drunk couple in the second row handled. Just when this blog thought it had seen and tasted everything in Las Vegas, we discover a whole new cavalcade of deliciousness to drool over. Although we've wandered through Paris Las Vegas on any number of occasions, and have seen Cafe Belle Madeleine (we didn't know it had a name) off the casino's main floor, we hadn't stepped inside until recently. Your taste buds and eyeballs may want to brace themselves for what's in store. Looks like we picked a bad week to start our diet. You might miss this shop if you're not looking for it, but once found, it's likely to end up on your must-taste list for every Las Vegas visit. Several times per visit. We're | NARRATIVE | NA TB | 436,938 |
live on the measly $5/day I get for serving so I am forced to use vacation or sick days to serve. I was once summoned for jury duty. The case involved a liability lawsuit against a company. One woman who was there obviously acted as secretary -- telephone answerer for her husband's business, and since she was not home there was no one to answer calls. It was obvious to everyone that she did not want to be there (due to several responses she had given) but the judge wasn't impressed that she and her husband might be losing income. However, they then got around to asking if any of the jurors might be prejudiced, she raised her hand and said something like this: "Well, my husband has been sued and I personally think most lawsuits against businesses are just people trying to use the system to get rich. So I'd have a very hard time deciding against a company!" To which the judge replied, "Well, I understand that you may have had incidents that affected you personally, but since this case has noting to do with you or your husband's business, couldn't you try to put all that aside and decide the case on its merits?" And she said, "Oh, no, your honor. I felt like the people that sued my husband were just trying to take advantage of us, and there's NO WAY I could find against the company in a lawsuit like this." She was summarily and | HI | HI HT | 167,513 |
To delete all cookies at the end of every session, select it in the privacy settings under Tools > Preferences. Click on Manage cookies to delete specific cookies or cookies from specific domains. To delete all cookies immediately, go to Delete private data on the Tools menu. | HI | HI HT | 698,710 |
British are a proud people and, more than any other country in Europe, they have known how to control their rulers. [ Interruption .] You are our rulers now and we are going to show you that there are limits to your control. Let hon. Members opposite not delude themselves by supposing that by raising this issue they will draw an ancient red herring across the fundamental economic and imperial issues now at stake which involve the life of Britain as a great Power. Why are they devising dodges to keep themselves in office, and to get the last scrunch out of their freak majority and legal term? Is it not ignoble, is it not indeed most imprudent, for these incompetent Ministers, amid all the miseries they have brought upon us, to adopt the attitude, the arrogant attitude, "We have got our majority. We have got our ration of time. Let us exploit them to the utmost. To hell with the will of the people. We will teach them from our superior knowledge what they ought to 214 want." Is it not much better to recur to the simple process of keeping in touch with the people, and of not being afraid to consult them, or even to take dismissal at their hands? Why are the Government so afraid of appealing to the people for what they tell us is their great, democratic, philanthropic policy of Socialistic progress into the brave new world? Why are they so afraid? No one | SP | SP IT | 466,997 |
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