Friday, September 5, 2008, 08:46 PM GMT [Politics]
despite bieng unemployed and getting no benefits or allowances (too much in savings at the moment).
I am getting so disillusioned ...that I fear I am going right wing.
I have always voted Labour all my life...but I have always regarded Tony Blair as a Tory in disguise and all politicians such as MPS MEPS, MSPS etc including councillors and ex-politicians now acting as consultants, as having their snouts in the trough, fat cats and hypocrites like well-paid union leaders. They certainly are not servants but all are careerists.
I find myself liking McCain as much as Obama and Palin much more than Biden. I certainly cannot stand Hillary and would vote for almost anyone but her.
Having said that I WOULD NEVER VOTE Labour if my dad's pension was affected by the chaos.
I love American crime drama and films compared to British ones - apart from ITV's Poirot and the very old Sherlock Holmes movies and would love to own a set of the vintage original Perry Mason series (when he was up against Hamilton Burger).
I believe that Blair is a war criminal (as we recognise the International Court in the Hague unlike the Americans who are smart in this respect) even though I was only against Iraq because I knew our boys and girls would not have all the appropriate equipment .
Estudios recientes sugieren que masticar chicle de menta y libres de azúcar (o goma de mascar) nos pueden ayudar para no visitar tanto al médico, pues no se, de todas maneras aqui está la lista:
Salud dental: Los edulcorantes artificiales en la goma aumentan la producción de saliva, lo que ayuda a combatir las caries y endulzar tu aliento.
Alivio de náuseas: Los componentes de la menta disminuyen las contracciones del estómago, ayudándote a sentirte menos mareado.
Perder peso: Los movimienos repetitivos al masticar te ayudan a quemar calorías, aumentando tu metabolismo hasta en 20% mientras masticas.
Motivación y reducción de la ansiedad: La esencia de menta mejora tu humor y te ayuda a trabajar más duro en el gimnasio.
Mejora de la memoria: El movimiento de la masticación incrementa el flujo de sangre al cerebro, aumentando la memoria hasta en un 35%.
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That No. 58 ..."htm();" onmouseover="ShowNewsLinks('Keith Rivers', link_text[0]);">Keith Rivers Bengals jersey is now a collector's item.
He finally got his number with Friday's uniform switch from 58 to 55. Although it took four months after the NFL Draft and one week after No. 55 Ahmad Brooks was cut.
Rivers, the Bengals' first-round pick, wore the storied No. 55 at USC and had hoped to wear it here.
Monty Montague, the Bengals merchandise manager, said the Bengals Pro Shop should get the new jerseys in a few weeks to replace the stock of No. 58s that are already in stock.
"They will obviously be available at a reduced rate," Montague said. "We're careful with rookies about making a lot of jerseys, so we don't have a lot out there. If there was any time to do it, this is the best time. The earlier, the better."
Me invitan asu parranda las nesesito X q estoy pasado x un mal tiempo!!!!
Aqui estoy disponible para hogar mis Penas!!! pero me invitan!!!!!!!!! para echarnos un botellita de la que me haga olvidar d todo! Bueno menos d como yegar a mi canton!!! Pero si lo d mi corazon!!!!!!!!!! Ya saven me dejan su 411?
Y ya saven como dice Los Tucanes: No x q se muera un chivo la birria se acabara!!!! Neta!!!!!!!!!!!
I need: Water Measuring cups Zip-loc baggies Paper towels Baking soda Tablespoon Vinegar
1. Tear a paper towel into a square that measures about 5 inches by 5 inches. Put 1 1/2 tablespoons of baking soda in the center of the square, then fold the square as shown in the picture, with the baking soda inside. This is your "time-release packet."
2. Pour into your plastic bag: 1/2 cup of vinegar 1/4 cup of warm water
3. Now here's the tricky part. You need to drop the time-release packet into the vinegar and zip the bag closed before the fizzing gets out of control. You can zip the bag halfway closed, then stuff the packet in and zip the bag closed the rest of the way in a hurry. Or you can put the time-release packet into the mouth of the bag and hold it up out of the vinegar by pinching the sides of the bag. Zip the bag closed and then let the packet drop into the vinegar. One way or another, get the packet in the vinegar and zip the bag.
4. Shake the bag a little, put it in the sink or on the ground, and stand back! The bag will puff up dramatically and pop with a bang.
Why does the Bubble Bomb explode?
The bubbles in the Bubble Bomb are filled with carbon dioxide, a gas that forms when the vinegar (an acid) reacts with the baking soda (a base).
If you've ever made a cake or baked a loaf of quick bread (the kind that doesn't use yeast), you've already done some experimenting with the bubbles that come from an acid-base reaction. Most cakes and quick breads rise because of bubbles in their batter. Those bubbles, like the ones in your Bubble Bomb, are created by the chemical reaction of an acid and a base.
Other things to try -
Try using a different size of zipper-lock plastic bag. What do you think might happen? Do you think you'll need to use more baking soda, vinegar, and water to make the bag explode? Try it and see.
In the original experiment, we asked you to use warm water. Try using cold water or hot water. Does changing the temperature change your results? How?
The first time you tried this, you mixed the vinegar with water. Try doing the experiment again with just vinegar. How did this change your experiment?
Instead of using paper towel, make your "time release packet" using a different kind of paper, like toilet paper, tissue paper or notebook paper. What happened?
Here is the site I found this experiement, including pictures. Science Explorer
YO! as our way of saying THANKS FOR A ****IN AWESOME SUMMER, we're givinig away FREE TICKETS to our House Of Blue show on Sept. 13th...thats a Saturday!
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Sometimes it's not which team is better, it's which team is worse.
Sunday, the Baltimore Ravens are worse than the Cincinnati Bengals.
As usual, it should be a good offense vs. good defense and bad offense vs. bad defense. The defense should win both of those battles, with the good offense doing enough to get points on the board.
If the Ravens do get double-digit points on the board via its offense and rookie quarterback, this Bengal squad is worse than I thought. It's not going to be that bad.
Bengals 17, Ravens 9
Dallas at Cleveland: You know what? The Browns aren't as good as everyone wants them to be Derek Anderson is a one-year wonder and the Browns just aren't a complete enough team to deal with the Cowboys. Cowboys 27, Browns 13
Chuck Liddell, the UFC's most popular fighter, returns to action for the first time since Dec 27 in Atlanta tonight, when he faces aspiring, unbeaten light-heavyweight Rashad Evans. Liddell was due to fight Evans in London in June but was forced out with a torn hamstring. Now the fight, UFC:88, is re-scheduled for the Phillips Arena, Atlanta, Georgia, in a contest which Liddell should win, on previous form, hands down.
Liddell turns 39 in a few months' time, yet has said he wants to fight for at least two more years. Liddell lost his title to Rampage Jackson last May and then lost to Keith Jardine but rebounded with a tremendous win over Wanderlei Silva. But the jury is still out as to whether Liddell has another big title reign in him. His last reign was three years ago, a long time in UFC terms.
Some critics wrote him off after he lost those two fights last year, but it is difficult to say Liddell is finished considering he had a dominant win over the dangerous Silva and has only lost to Jackson and Jardine in the last six years.
When Liddell came into the Telegraph office earlier this year - it was a day on which it was self-evident there were many Liddell, or UFC fans in the office - he told me he was caught with a big punch by Rampage after making a schoolboy error early in the fight and against Jardine - in a very close, exciting fight - he claimed he simply had a bad night when he felt 80% rather than 100%.
I suppose great champions must find reasons for the losses, yet the big man has been in the UFC for more than a decade, he competed in kickboxing and karate through his early years, and there is no denying that there is wear and tear on his body.
There's a difference between fighting while carrying injuries when you are in your 20s and in your late 30s, when it's just not viable. And when he pulled out of UFC 85 in June at the 02 Arena, it was a clear signal that it was a very serious injury.
Yet, if Liddell beats Evans, I understand from UFC that he will get a crack at the incumbent champion Forrest Griffin. The light heavyweight division is stacked with talent at present - Lyoto Machida and Thiago Silva, who fight each other in the UK in October, among them.
My concern is that if Evans beats him, many will feel it is time for Liddell to retire. I concur with that view. Two years ago, people would have been saying Evans was made for Liddell, yet few are saying so. Maybe Evans is being underestimated, yet Liddell has shown a great skill in not being taken to the ground in his career, or at least getting out of difficult situations with his skills.
Against that, Evans can punch, but is not a KO artist. He is also unbeaten in 14 fights. An unbeaten fighter is always a dangerous fighter. On balance, if Liddell is fully fit - and hungry - I can't see Evans living with him. Simple as.
Liddell can't afford to lose. Deep down, Evans is simply not in his league, and if he does beat Liddell, the mighty will have fallen. Far too far...
Bossip story about the mayor. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges
at a court hearing Thursday (September 4th), forcing him to resign from
office after defiantly holding onto the job for nearly 10 months after
news of his sex scandal broke. The 38-year-old, sometimes known as "the
hip-hop mayor," read a statement admitting his guilt in court, saying,
"I lied under oath ... I did so with an intent to mislead the court and
jury and to impede and obstruct the fair administration of justice."
Kilpatrick
was ordered to jail for four months and fined $1 million. He will also
be on probation for five years and will not be able to hold any elected
office.
Kilpatrick's resignation takes effect September 18th. Detroit will be managed by City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. until a special election can be held.
The mayor, who is married, and former top aide Christine Beatty
were both charged with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice.
The two are accused of lying under oath about their affair and their
roles in the firing of a deputy police chief.
Beatty will go to trial on September 11th.
Ciara Naked
Singer and actress Ciara is baring it all for her career. The
artist once known as "the Princess Of Crunk 'n' B" is making it clear
that she's all grown up with a nude pose on the cover of the October
issue of Vibe, which also features a photo spread of the stripped-down singer inside.
Ciara is promoting the upcoming release of her ambitious three-part album Fantasy Ride, which still awaits an official release date.
She's previewing the album with the new single "Go Girl" featuring T-Pain.
The singer and actress recently starred in Mama I Want To Sing, which will go direct to DVD in 2009, and recently signed a modeling contract with top agency Wilhelmina.
The artist has always had her eye on a diversified career. Recently she explained: ["One
thing that I always say with my career, and one I think that everybody
should really believe in, is that the sky's the limit. I am definitely
a big believer of that because of what I'm doing now. But totally I
believe that I'm gonna do television and so much more. And one of my
business mentors -- or two of them -- is Oprah and P. Diddy. And the
person that I want to become is Poprah. So those are those two names
together. That is my goal."]
Leslie Russell almost made it to the hospital in time.
Leslie Russell holds her newborn daughter, Claire
Camryn Russell Vincent, at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's
Hospital on Thursday. (John J. Kim/Sun-Times)
She was just outside the University of Chicago's Bernard Mitchell
Hospital when she gave birth to her second child -- in the front
passenger seat of her Toyota Camry.
A University of Chicago pediatrician who happened by delivered the baby right there on Maryland Avenue.
"I was trying really hard not to push," Russell said Thursday. "I
said, 'I can't have a baby in the car!' But apparently you can because
Toyotas are really reliable vehicles. They're good for everything --
including childbirth."
Russell's baby girl was born at 4:07 p.m. Tuesday. She named her Claire Camryn Russell Vincent --Camryn in honor of the car.
Russell, 28, who also has a 2-year-old son, started having
contractions 12 hours earlier but "didn't think anything of it" at
first because they were mild and sporadic.
When the contractions started coming hard and fast about 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Russell, a grad student, had her mom drive her to the
University of Chicago Hospital. Around 59th and Stony Island, Russell's
water broke. Then, Claire's head started pushing out.
"We pulled into Mitchell, and my mom is blowing the horn and waving her hands for help, but nobody moved," Russell said.
Dr. Heather Johnston, a pediatrician, said she saw what was going on
and "climbed in the seat with her and just helped guide the baby out."
The baby was "not moving very much and was a little blue," so
Johnston performed CPR until more help arrived. Johnston said Russell
"clearly had someone smiling down on her. If nobody had been there, it
could have been a lot worse."
Mother and baby were fine and expected to go home soon.
ROME, SEPT. 1, 2008 (Zenit.org).- For historians, who inhabit the remote world of the past, the injustices and sufferings of people are sufficiently distant in time to ever have much emotional impact on them.
Thus, history can serve as a convenient escape from turbulent contemporary issues.
Studying the plague in 1348 or slavery in the South, it's easy to feel complacent about man's progress through the centuries. Abolition and penicillin seem to testify to humanity's ability to overcome illness and degradation.
And then, as if rudely awakened from a deep sleep, some event will reveal the horrific truth that we haven't budged as much as we would like to think from the darkest practices of antiquity. Human traffickers buy and sell women and children for the pleasure and profit of men, while malaria kills more people than the bubonic plague ever did.
A dear friend shocked me out of my academic coma by sending me a video link. It has already been widely circulated among pro-life circles since 2003, but I was unaware of it until, taking a break from Early Christian Architecture, I clicked on the link.
I watched Jill Stanek, a registered nurse, describing how a child dies after surviving a late-term abortion. I profess total ignorance; I did not realize that these abortions often involved inducing early labor and letting the exposed child die because it no longer had the protective home of its mother's womb. Expelled from the mother's body, and left to die alone among the garbage, a living and breathing child was deemed unworthy to live.
Making matters worse, those who sought to provide protection for those infants by sponsoring the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, were opposed by persons who claim that those children who survive abortions should be left out to die.
It seemed as though I had time-traveled back to antiquity where, in Greece and Rome, the civilized veneer of their clever laws, philosophical speculations and brilliant engineering, co-existed with their sadly primitive customs of slavery, blood sport and exposing unwanted infant children.
In books, it seems so easy to look down on the Ancients for doing something so barbaric as leaving a child out to die. But what are we to make of the tolerance of the presence of this same brutal practice in our modern liberal democracies?
In both Greece and Rome, among the majestic temples and sophisticated societies, the harsh utilitarianism of their world began at birth. Children were discarded because of birth defects, single parenthood, economic strain or because they somehow interfered with the well-being of the parents (Oedipus Rex is a famous example of the latter).
The Greek author Plutarch wrote that "the father took his child and brought it to the elders of the tribe. They examined the child, and if it was well formed and strong, ordered it to be raised, but if the child was ill-born and maimed, they discarded it in the so-called Apothetae, a kind of pit, on the grounds that it was not worth the rearing."
Under the Roman law, fathers, called "paterfamilias," had power of life and death over all the members of their family. Romans claimed that "Romulus compelled the citizens to raise every male child and the first-born of the females, and he forbade them to put to death any child under three years of age, unless it was a cripple or a monster from birth. He did not prevent the parents from exposing such children, provided that they had displayed them first to the five nearest neighbors and had secured their approval."
Compared to our age of abortion on demand, the Romans had more rigorous strictures on putting their children to death.
Both in Greece and Rome, the parent exposed his own child. In our world, we make others complicit in our evil. Babies who are born alive after attempted abortions are handed over to nurses to be abandoned. Not only is the child's life destroyed, but forcing nurses, who have pledged to assist and care for people, to stand by as a baby feebly kicks and fights for each dragging breath is to deprive them of their essential humanity.
It is a sad irony that the Ancients come across as more humane than those who oppose the Infants Born Alive Protection Act. By exposing children, they at least left open the possibility of the child being saved whether by a compassionate passerby or the will of the gods. Both Roman and Greek cultures, pious in their own way, left a certain amount of leeway for the gods to act.
Those today who oppose legislation protecting survivors of abortions want to preclude any assistance, any compassion or any recognition of these little lives; their brief experience of the world destined to be cold, lonely, unalleviated suffering.
Two thousand years ago, Christianity came to the rescue of these abandoned children. As early as the first century A.D., they possessed a manual of catechesis, the "Didache." In it the first Christians learned about the ways of life and the way of death. The way of life was a way of love where they were explicitly commanded, "Do not kill a fetus by abortion, or commit infanticide."
Thanks to Christianity, the exposed infants were saved, nurtured and raised. In our post-Christian culture, these children have lost the protection they enjoyed for a while. Sometimes, sadly, history comes full circle.
The well-known biologist, Louis Wolpert is oft-quoted as saying, "The universe is not only stranger than we know, it is stranger than we can know." Perhaps he was right, and perhaps he was wrong - maybe we shall never know or even be able to know. I wonder what it means to be unable to know a thing?
But what is really interesting is that we seem never to have ceased trying to know ; indeed, there are many who still make a handsome living out of it. And it is interesting, too, that we still use the basic yardstick of knowledge which was proposed at least twenty-five centuries ago. Yes, we still use mathematics. We also use words, of course. Some say that there is no fundamental difference between numbers and words.
But puzzles have grown up since those far-off days ; or, rather, they have re-emerged from even more murky and ancient times. For there is a strong tendency now to believe that numbers are the property of nature ; that numbers actually define nature. Some of those old Greeks would have boggled at this notion ; they would have thought it quaint.
Anyhow, here's the puzzle. Where are the numbers in nature? If you can find one, please do take a photo of it (in colour if you like) and enter it for the competition. Note, it must be a real number, and not the picture of the inside of a quirky melon or something of that kind ; and not just a symbol either, such as a '6' written on an oak tree.
Someone might like to ask Kate Day if she would judge the comp.
It barely matters that the downturn in the economy may have a silver lining, as Martin Wolf argues. The state of the economy - with its falling retail sales, dropping advertising revenues, and impending rounds of redundancies - can barely touch the dark satire that's enveloping the heart of the Labour government.
Charles Clarke's intervention telling (in so many words) Brown he should fall on his sword may indicate a government party already determined on an autumn election that it might have won this time last year but which it will almost certainly lose, and lose badly, this year.
Bagehot notes that an every-man-for-himself ethic has taken hold within the Cabinet, and speculates that even Gordon's normally "somniferously discreet" Chancellor may have sparked a crisis in public perception in order to head off a Cabinet re-shuffle:
The purpose of Mr Darling’s detonation becomes clearer in context. Rumour has it that he is destined to be reshuffled out of the Treasury; elsewhere in his Guardian interview, he remarks that lots of people covet his job, and are “actively trying” to do it. Normally somniferously discreet, Mr Darling observes that an early reshuffle would be unwise. Combined with his prognostications of doom, the effect is to defend his shabby chancellorship from critics, rivals and possible ministerial bloodletting.
As the credit crunch bites at its hardest, Martin Wolf argues that now is precisely the moment when government needs to be at its most robust, if an otherwise temporary 'crunch' is not to deepen into a long term crisis:
A weak government is a risk. Any policies it introduces must avoid undermining confidence in the UK’s policy regime and, above all, its commitment to monetary stability and fiscal sustainability. The prime minister knows that, as must the chancellor. They must be seen to keep their heads, even if nobody else does.
The auguries for Labour aren't good. Bagehot again:
...voters always take it out on governments when they feel the pinch. But history suggests the relationship between the economy and politics is more complicated than that: the Tories, for example, won an election during a dip in 1992, then lost one during a recovery. However, the reverse seems to be true of Mr Brown’s government: the political woes of the prime minister and his cabinet are shaping its erratic approach to the economy.
If there is an election in the autumn it will be a one way ticket out of office for Labour. And if they do they will leave behind them an economic mess but not an intractable one.
Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne (aided by a Mr Hilton currently 'resting' in California) clearly have the confidence and the momentum to win any such election.
We must also hope they have the policy tools to ride out the rest of the credit crunch, and bring the economy to a relatively soft landing.
The dark moon is
a good time to do protective magick and to banish things from your
life. Supplies you will need: two black candles, cauldron, paper and
pen.
Place the cauldron in the center of the altar and put the paper
and pen beside it. Cast the circle in a counter clockwise way. when it is
cast, return to the altar and face the North. Light the black
candles. Say: The moon is dark. She hides her face from humans. Only
women can know the true secrets of the Mother of the dark moon . Wise one,
let me feel Your presence and power. I need Your wisdom of releasing and
removing. If punishment be needed by those who work against me, I leave it
within your hands.
Move counterclockwise to the East and say: Remove
all negatives from my thoughts amd mind, Mother of the dark moon . Let them
bear no fruit within my life.
Go to the North and say: Remove all
negatives from my body, Dark Mother.
Let them bear no fruit in my life.
Go to the West and say: Remove
all negatives from my emotions, Dark Mother. Let them bear no fruit in my
life.
Go to the South and say: Remove all negatives from my spiritual
life, Mother of the dark moon . Let them bear no fruit in my
life.
Return to the altar and stand facing North. Say : I accept no
negative thoughts, words, or deeds from others. They are destroyed by the
powers of the Dark Mother.
If these negatives come from within myself, turn them into lessons of good.
Help me to become balanced, a true Goddess-daughter/
son of light and wisdom.
Face the altar now. Write down on the
paper negative things you wished removed from your life
(ie..negative thoughts about yourself, bad habits, negative influences of
people.) Read each one out loud to the Dark Mother to release them to Her.
Light the paper from one of the black candles and drop it into
the cauldron and watch it burn. Say: I release these unto Your keeping.
Show me how to move beyond these negatives into a position of light
and power.
burn the paper until it is reduced to ashes. Raise your
arms in reverence to the Goddess when the paper is finished and say: Dark
Mother, Crone Goddess, Wise and Elder One, teach me Your deep mysteries, the
Ancient Goddess magick known to my fore mothers and fathers. Guide and protect me, Dark
Mother.
Now would be a good time to meditate and see what insight you
may receive from the Mother. Or do a spell of some sort. When finished,
release the circle as usual. Bury the ashes of the paper somewhere off
of your property.
You know when you're not supposed to have something but you have it anyway. Maybe it's a cupcake, or a guy/girl, or maybe it's that extra hour watching TV when you know you should be going to bed because you have to wake up early. Whatever your temptation is, sometimes it's just so hard to say no! Your head tells you don't do it, but your heart says go for it! I usually listen to my heart.
I can go over in my head why something is a bad idea. Maybe it is? Or maybe it isn't? I'd rather go for it, then sit back and wonder what could have happened if I did. Yes sometimes when I do that I end up getting hurt, but I see it as a lesson in life and it only makes me stronger.
When you give into temptation it's because it fascinated you in some way. You're curious to pursue it and see what the outcome can be. I'm not saying GO BE BAD!! I'm just saying life's too short to wonder what could have happened. I believe that everything happens for a reason, and some where down the road you're going to realize why you even had that temptation to begin with.
I am going to be on Bay news 9 on Monday! I will post a link to the story once it goes live and has a live video link to share. I am really excited because it's day four with NO phantom pain at all! I am so excited! THIS mirror therapy IS a CURE for phantom pain and I am so grateful they are working with it now in Pain Management. The reporters were wonderful and I think that they got a great story yesterday when they came to my Physical Therapy Session and I am so excited about all the people this could potentially inspire to go out and get OUT of pain. I mean if it worked for me after suffering for 21 years of pain, it can work for anyone!
The only thing I am a little concerned about is that I am overweight, but you know what? At almost forty I am happy so I don't care what I looked like other then I had makeup on of course, I am content, though seeing this makes me think I should work on myself a bit harder, so I will. If anyone wants to make a big deal about my weight they can bite my stump! The TV and Newspaper stories aren't really even about me, it's about the fact that this awesome Therapy WORKS to CURE phantom pain...Yup I said CURE, nothing else has ever touched it, but this really WORKS!
I will post links on Monday, I just wanted to give a heads up to you guys to look out for a new blog on Monday and something really cool with links to not one but TWO stories on this incredible Mirror Therapy! I hope it makes a lot of amputee have hope again that they can someday live without the painful almost tazer like zaps of phantom pain that up until now there was NO treatment for. It's my hope that they will do coures of Mirror Therapy with ALL Amputees new and old because it can and DOES work!
Well that's all for now, I hope you enjoy the stories when they are posted, it was fun to be treated like a movie star yesterday, it was just awesome! Peace OUT!
I see I'm getting a lot of admirers on this site. While I don't mind them, I want to be sure they know I'm in a relationship. Yes, a serious one and no I don't want to "see how things go" with you.
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Bengals jersey is now a collector's item.
Me invitan asu parranda las nesesito X q estoy pasado x un mal tiempo!!!!
